List of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends characters

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This is a list of characters from the Cartoon Network animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends .

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Main characters

Mac

Mac (voiced by Sean Marquette) is Terrence's younger brother who is a bright, shy, and creative eight-year-old boy and Bloo's creator who visits Foster's every day. [1] Mac is often the voice of reason among his friends when they are making decisions. However, his extremely good nature tends to make him somewhat naive. He is very attached to Bloo and it is shown that his biggest fear is never seeing him again, because Bloo is what keeps him happy and cheerful and vice versa. Mac becomes hyperactive to the point of a rabid mania when he eats sugar. Once in this state, he becomes impossible to control, will often become obsessed with seeking any other source of sugar. He, alongside Bloo, made a cameo appearance in The Powerpuff Girls series finale, "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!".

Bloo

Blooregard "Bloo" Q. Kazoo (voiced by Keith Ferguson) is Mac's best friend and imaginary friend, Bloo is a blue-colored friend who resembles as a dome cylinder not unlike a bollard with two eyes. He is often very immature, happy-go-lucky, self-centered and egotistical as well as having a knack for getting in trouble and prone for doing kid's and children's antics. [1] Despite all this, he still has a good heart and apologizes for his jealousy. Bloo loves paddle-balls and toys even though he cannot make the ball hit the paddle. His full name is Blooregard Q. Kazoo. He, along with Mac, made a cameo appearance in The Powerpuff Girls series finale, "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!".

Wilt

Wilt (voiced by Phil LaMarr) – A kind, extremely tall, red colored, and disabled imaginary friend with only a right arm and crooked left eye-stalk. [1] However, in "Good Wilt Hunting", it is discovered that he was not always this way; he was injured during a basketball game, leaving his left eye crushed and his left arm injured. Wilt exhibits consummate good sportsmanship, which he applies to every part of life he can. He is considered the nicest person at Foster's and is known for being excessively polite and apologetic, saying “I’m sorry” all the time. Wilt has a big heart, is frequently cool and collected, and, only on very rare occasions shows anger at all, at which point, he will express his anger in overdramatic hysterics. His oversized basketball shoes always squeak against the floor/ground, no matter what surface he is walking on. According to the episode "Room with a Feud", among him, Coco and Eduardo, he has been in the house for the longest time. He is named for basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain.

Eduardo

Eduardo (voiced by Tom Kenny) is a big, hairy and purple Spanish-speaking imaginary friend who resembles a mixture of a minotaur and one of the beasts from Maurice Sendak's storybook, Where the Wild Things Are with horns, a snout, a pointy demon-like tail and large teeth. Despite his large size, overwhelming strength, and menacing demeanor, Eduardo is usually docile, timid and has a somewhat overly sensitive nature, crying at minor negative occurrences, and being scared of almost everything. [1] However, he can be ferocious if angered or in the circumstance that danger befalls his friends. Eduardo has a fondness for potatoes, dogs, and his cuddly toys. His creator, Nina Valerosa, created him to protect her in a rough neighborhood and is now a police officer.

Coco

The Coco Bird (voiced by Candi Milo) is a chicken-like imaginary friend with a palm tree for a head, a crooked red beak and an aeroplane-like body who can only say her name at various speeds and different emphases. A talent unique to her is her ability to lay colorful eggs containing a plethora of objects. [1] Mac, Bloo, Eduardo, Frankie, Wilt, and others usually understand her when she speaks, and often translate for her. Despite her appearance and quirky behavior, she can demonstrate a perceived intelligence, principle and kindness. No one knows who her creator is as she was found on a South Pacific island by two scientists named Adam and Douglas.

Frankie Foster

Frankie Foster (voiced by Grey DeLisle) is Madame Foster's redheaded 22-year-old [2] granddaughter, addressed as "Miss Francis" by Mr. Herriman. Her parents are never seen in the series. Frankie is the caregiver at Foster's and helps keep everything in order. [1] In spite of Mr. Herriman's fussiness and fixation with rules and cleanliness, she is usually very friendly, outgoing and laid-back. According to her driver's license in "Bus the Two of Us", she was born on July 25, 1984. Frankie is friends with most of the imaginary friends at Foster's (particularly Wilt, Eduardo, Coco, and Bloo) and can be described as a protective big sister to them, but sometimes gets unsuccessfully annoyed at Bloo, Mac, Cheese, Madame Foster and Mr. Herriman.

Mr. Herriman

Mr. H. Herriman (voiced by Tom Kane) is a gray and white, large, elderly, anthropomorphic, lop-eared and rabbit-like British accented imaginary friend imagined by Madame Foster, in fact, quite similar to Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred Pennyworth. He wears a tailcoat, white gloves and a top hat, as well as a monocle. He is in charge of the house and is extremely strict about the house rules, [1] but he is also seen to put the rules before common sense, as seen in "Destination: Imagination" when he sticks to the rule written on the chained up toy box of never letting the imaginary friend who is trapped in there out despite what would happen to him if he did not. He is often found punishing Bloo for his various misdemeanors. It was revealed in "Busted" that the reason Mr. Herriman is so hard on Bloo is because he feels that, given that he is allowed to stay at Foster's even though he still has an owner, he has already broken one of the main house rules. He is extremely fond of his creator Madame Foster, harboring great respect and loyalty to her, even at her most prominent levels of unabashed pep and energy. He has a fear of dogs (due to the fact that dogs are the natural predators of rabbits) and is easily scared out of his wits whenever he comes across one. He also has a rabbit's stereotypical obsession with carrots and will do anything to have them, as demonstrated in "Crime After Crime".

Madame Foster

Madame F. Foster (voiced by Candi Milo) is the founder of Foster's and grandmother of Frankie. She's an old person but has childlike boundless energy and enjoys herself to the fullest. Her imaginary friend is Mr. Herriman, whom she imagined when she was a child and never gave up, and is the only one who can control him. Like Bloo, Madame Foster occasionally becomes hyperactive and mischievous. However, there are times she is shown to be the wisdom of the house. [1]

Recurring characters

Recurring imaginary friends

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