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Cartoon
Fangface
Fangface and Fangpuss

Animal
Werewolf

Outfit: backwards cap / full moon / one giant tooth

Tagline: "Who can save the day? Who can wrong the rights, and right the wrongs? None other than Fangface! "

Plot summary: Fangface!  Every 400 years, a baby werewolf is born into the Fangsworth family.  And so when the moon shined on little Sherman Fangsworth, he changed into Fangface, a werewolf.  Only the sun can change him back to normal.  And so little Fangs grew up and teamed up with three daring teenagers: Kim, Biff, and Puggsy.  And together they find danger, excitement, and adventure.

So goes the opening narration for "Fangface," Hanna-Barbera's 1978 answer to "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," and their 999th answer to "Scooby-Doo."  What the narrator doesn't tell you is that Sherman isn't a normal werewolf.  He doesn't just change under the light of a full moon.   No, Sherman was born into a family of retarded werewolves who transform whenever they even see a PICTURE of the moon.  Anything moon related causes the switch.   You try to shake your bare ass at Sherman Fangsworth and BAM, you've got a shark tooth buried sixteen inches into your rectum.  Want to take Sherman on an international vacation?  If you take him to Turkey or Algeria don't let him pause for any national anthems or you'll spend more time cleaning up dismembered torsos than you will doing the hilarious things America has taught me that our world neighbors do, like clog dance or accidentally make out with your sister.

Conversely, any time Fangs would be exposed to sunlight (or, again, even LOOK at anything giving off light) he would change back into his meek alter-ego.  This can't be convenient for crime fighting efforts given that our world contains so many luminous things, so unless you plan on waging war with people in absolute darkness you're going to be seconded by a wimpy teenager.  And do you want to be seconded by a werewolf in absolute darkness?  Even with only one giant tooth he could do as much damage to your and your family as one of those old fashioned can openers.

But what can you expect from a group of teenagers who let Xhibit pimp out Speed Buggy?   If they had enough money and resource to do that they may as well have bought themselves a new luxury car and called it "Fangsworth Bentley." (more)

User Comments: The backwards cap gives Fangface a playful appearance, much like Ken Griffey Jr. on those three days a year when he isn't laying in the outfield in fetal position holding his leg.

User Rating: 6.0/10 (15,666 votes)