Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)

Calvin, named after theologian John Calvin, is the main protagonist of Calvin and Hobbes. He is highly intelligent, though without any self-discipline or concentration, a six-year-old boy with a vivid imagination and a habit of getting into trouble and adventure. The comic centers around Calvin's life, his troubles, and his adventures, with Hobbes alongside as his companion.

Calvin is characterized by his imagination, philosophy, extensive vocabulary, social awkwardness, and mischievous behavior. Calvin is very cynical and usually gets annoyed with Hobbes. His first piece of dialogue was the first line of the strip and his last line of dialogue was also the strip's final line.

Calvin and/or his alter egos appeared in almost every strip of the series ever printed and published, however, there are several strips he does not appear in, those being where his parents or other side characters reflect on Calvin or recent events (such as Calvin's home being broken into).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Calvin will act like a complete brat sometimes.
 * 2) He will often drag his imaginary friend Hobbes into stuff he doesn't want to take part in.
 * 3) Despite knowing how to make a time machine out of a box, he can't even figure out simple math equations.
 * 4) *More examples of his sometimes-limited knowledge is the time where he thought that putting fake feathers on him would make him fly and ends up getting injured badly while falling off a cliff, or the time where he found a bunch of trash on the ground and thought it was dinosaur skeletons.
 * 5) Calvin is a sexist child, as shown by the times he drastically annoys his neighbor Susie by throwing water balloons and snowballs at her, and named his "secret" club "Get Rid Of Slimy girlS".
 * 6) Most of the time, Calvin has little to no respect for his parents and has shown signs of not being grateful for what they do for him, such as constantly insulting the food he's served.
 * 7) Most of Calvin's snowmen showcases involve them all being slaughtered, most of them being slaughtered, or snowmen looking at a gruesome death. Talk about a future psycopath.
 * 8) He does gross stuff very often, such as the time where he decided to attempt giving a snowman genitals or when he tried to eat a worm for a nickel.
 * 9) He will break stuff and make up totally unbelievable stories of someone or something else breaking it.
 * 10) He will do whatever it takes to torture Rosalyn, his babysitter that's just trying to get paid for college tuitions, by locking her out of the house, threatening to flush her test papers down the toilet, etc.
 * 11) He absolutely hates baths with all his guts for no explained reason and ruins the entire bathroom just to not bathe.
 * 12) He actually walks around without his clothes on outside sometimes, which is childish for someone like Calvin.
 * 13) He acts as if being good is extremely hard, and even then he's only good to get Christmas presents.
 * 14) He's a sore loser, as when Hobbes beats him at a board game, he goes on a complete tantrum and flips over and outright destroys the board game.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Calvin can be nice most of the times and sometimes has common sense.
 * 2) He can be pretty relatable in some comics.
 * 3) Calvin & Hobbes' charm would be non-existent without him.
 * 4) His alter-egos (Stupendous Man, Spaceman Spiff, Tracer Bullet, ETC) always make for a fun story.
 * 5) He's not really a bad character; he's just flawed.
 * 6) He gets his comeuppance plenty of times through-out the comic series.
 * 7) He has a lot of memorable quotes, most notably "Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.".
 * 8) He does have a point about littering being gross and terrible.
 * 9) He's an accurate representation of how children his age can act.
 * 10) His character design is good, like everyone else.

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