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While Gertie only appeared in one short, there is also the high possibility of other female characters, who predated Betty Boop, who had their own cartoon series but either lacked or lost the popularity as time went on and/or their cartoons became completely lost to time. Despite often being incorrectly called, and sometimes even known for, being the “first ever female main character of a cartoon” that title goes to Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay.Among those at Fleischer Studios, many staff members found dog Betty to be ugly and even more uncanny the more she looked human over time and thus made her human and never wanted to go back to her dog self again.Other fans may prefer dog Betty feeling it was more interesting and that her becoming human was more boring. The dog version also has a mixed reaction by fans with some preferring the human version of Betty as, aside from being more used to her, she is a fully developed character with an actual personality while the dog was just an underdeveloped prototype of what she would become that didn’t have a fully realized character or personality yet.

Betty Boop’s character as a dog often gets called “prototype Betty Boop” or “Proto-Betty Boop” by fans.Grim Natwick also designed Disney’s Snow White and based her look off of Betty Boop.While Max Fleischer may have developed Betty Boop into human Betty Boop and gave her several characteristics, along with some other animators developing her as well, it was Grim Natwick who is the true creator of Betty Boop and he was always consistent on how he came up with her.However the character became popular and her popularity is the reason why she became a recurring character. Betty Boop was originally just a simple parody and caricature of Helen Kane that was only meant to appear in a few shorts making a very limited appearance.It seems that the person she was originally a parody of, Helen Kane, was considered to be “plump.” Betty Boop’s exact weight and body type varies from chubby to skinny depending on the artist or animator with the only remaining consistency typically being that she is curvy.

She has had alternate depictions as a Native American, in one short when she was still a dog, and Samoan, which only appeared very little times but first appeared in a short that featured a musical group called the Royal Samoans and Betty’s animations were based on movements and rotoscoped from a female member called Lotamuru.

