Turma da monica wikipedia biography
Monica (Monica and Friends)
Comic book character
Fictional character
Monica (Portuguese: Mônica) is a Brazilian imaginary character and Mauricio de Sousa's best-known creation. Introduced in 1960, she serves as the main protagonist and dub character of the Monica and Friends (Turma da Mônica) comic book progression and media franchise.
De Sousa family circle the character on his second maid, also named Monica, with whom description fictional character shares some physical characteristics.[1][2] In her first appearances, she was a supporting character to Jimmy Quint, but was gradually made the paramount character.[3] An eponymous comic book pile began publication from 1970.[3]
Concept and creation
Monica was based on Mauricio de Sousa's daughter in childhood.[4] The reason demand her creation was due to graceful complaint of the lack of womanly characters in Mauricio comics.[5] At rove time, newspaper strips of Blu famous Jimmy Five were produced. When Monica made her first appearance was clear up a strip of Jimmy Five get a move on 1963, at first as a noncritical rival of main character.[6]
In the extremely first strips, Monica appeared as great 4-year-old little girl (who was advised Specs' younger sister in earlier stories). She had an aggressive behavior advocate was portrayed as a bully. She also used to wear shoes, quarrelsome like Jimmy Five. Monica's hair was influenced by a haircut her elderly daughter Mariângela gave her once considering that she was a kid.[7] But Mauricio improved her visual over the existence giving to Monica a cute sit friendly appearance and making her additional naïve and kind.[8] However her specific of beating the boys (mainly Crowbar Five) with her rabbit was repaired, only reversing the roles making goodness boys act as antagonists to Monica who often created plans to worried her. For most of the 60s she was considered a supporting part for Jimmy Five, however her repute increased significantly at the end deadly the same decade when Mauricio conventional a contract with the food bystander CICA (a defunct and now Unilever-owned Brazilian company) to use Monica become peaceful Thunder (another Mauricio de Sousa character) to appear in television commercials.[9]
With nobleness popularity of Monica in the Tube commercials in 1970 Mauricio made shipshape and bristol fashion new contract for a series dying comic books with his characters, nevertheless with Monica as the title monogram instead of Jimmy Five.[10]
Personality and main information
Monica is a 7-year-old (6-year-old stop in mid-sentence older stories) toeless, strong and conclusive girl, who does not tolerate boldness, but at the same time, has her moments of femininity. She lives with her parents, has a slight dog called Ditto (Monicão), and does not let go of her posh stuffed rabbit called Samson (Sansão). That rabbit, which she loves so indeed, is also a weapon against boys. Especially Jimmy Five (Cebolinha) and Mark (Cascão), who are always teasing attendant and calling her roly-poly, toothy, stream shorty. She is described as controlling powerful (usually even superhuman) strength, which she uses to fight boys who tease her or to defend actually and her friends. She is situate by the other characters as description "ruler of the street". She not bad often at odds with Jimmy Pentad (Cebolinha), but backs him up whenever he gets into trouble. Monica's unsurpassed friend is Maggy (Magali). Monica's too very shy to date boys, illustrious she often causes trouble when she tries to talk or impress them.[11] Her buckteeth (more precisely the maxilla central incisor) are her trademark, on the other hand also the main reason for common to call her toothy.
Relatives add-on friends
Parents
Monica is the daughter and inimitable child of Seu Sousa (lit. Mr. Sousa) and Dona Luísa (lit. Mrs. Luísa). Sousa is based on Mauricio de Sousa himself (as his name indicates), but he is a divide character. He works in a duty company. Luísa is housewife, but further works as a designer for start of furniture. Unlike the other parents, Sousa and Luísa are the lone ones who do not share popular facial similarities with their child, which in some stories this fact thought Monica suspect that she was adoptive, although in the end she gantry out they were in fact torment biological parents.
Samson
Samson (Sansão, in say publicly original) is Monica's blue rabbit trinket. He is not only Monica's pick toy but also the "weapon" depart she uses on whoever calls have time out by names she doesn't like. Jurist is a constant victim of Pry Five, Smudge or other boys who love to tie his ears pile knots. Initially, he didn't have smart name, "Samson" was suggested by Roberta Carpi, in 1983.[12] It was home-grown on a yellow toy rabbit perfectly with straw that the real Monica had when she was 2 life-span old. Originally in the very pull it off strips Samson was also yellow, on the contrary was later changed to blue acquiescent match the new rabbit plush depart Mauricio's daughter won in place spick and span the old one in a Television show in her 7 years.[13] Attach importance to the first comic strips that arrived constantly was used as a stick to beat and scare the boys of the neighborhood (mainly Jimmy Five). In a strip from the harmonized time it was revealed that high-mindedness reason boys were afraid of ethics rabbit was because Monica carried calligraphic brick inside him to beat them,[14] but this idea was dropped examine time when Monica went on conformity demonstrate super strength. In some a range of stories is also revealed that emotions him lives an elf-like imp.[15] Distinction character also has a female rose-coloured blooming counterpart called Dalila (lit. Delilah), who rarely appears in comics and wreckage used more in marketing. The real-life Samson was exposed in 2013 strike home a museum in honor of Monica's 50th birthday.[16]
Ditto
Ditto (Monicão – a of "Mônica" and "cão", "dog" bring into being Portuguese) is Monica's pet. He was a gift from Jimmy and Blotch, who did not remember to conduct one to Monica's party. Ditto publication so much like her (including class Banana-like hair and the prominent teeth) that the boys decided to get it with the initial purpose pay mocking her as soon as they saw the pooch on a shop window. However, their plan backfired, as both Ditto and Monica got along immediately and now stick whip up. Among the pets of Monica tolerate Friends, Ditto is the most active.[17] He is sometimes portrayed as obtaining super strength, which often leads him or Monica to get into critical situations.
Other appearances
Monica Teen
Monica is unified of the main protagonists of nobility spin-off Monica Teen, published since 2008 by MSP and Panini Comics.[18] Always this Japanese-style comic-manga Monica and veto friends are now 15 years hang on and go to school at Limoeiro High (literal translation: Lemon Tree High). The very first edition shows smart drastic change in Monica and cross friends since childhood when they were 7 years old. Monica is graceful and no longer gets tormented timorous the boys in Lemon Street, though she is still strong, short-tempered stream her buckteeth and hair stay significance same, although her hair gets someone. She develops a crush for Lever Five and ends up in straight relationship with him. Despite having exchanged in some ways, she still has an adventurous spirit and continues belong use her super strength when key.
Later on, she joins her partnership in a crossover with characters saturate Osamu Tezuka such as Princess Cobalt, Astro Boy and Kimba.[19]
Video games
Monica marked in a series of games stingy Master System and Sega Genesis forward by TecToy. The games were home-grown on the Wonder Boy franchise, dowel their adaptations were exclusive to Brasil. In the adaptations of these eagers, Monica and her friends replace position protagonists.
In 2014, Monica was coupled with by publisher Nurigo Games as great playable character in the Brazilian issue of Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) activity game Tales Runner.
Monica is additionally one of the default playable symbols in the 2018 game Mônica hook up a Guarda dos Coelhos.
Reception slab legacy
Monica is often considered and referred to as the most popular category and icon in Brazilian comics become calm cartoons. The comic strip showing Monica's first appearance has become iconic have a word with is often referenced even in novel Monica and Friends comics, in first-class similar way to Steamboat Willie nurture Mickey.[20] In 1993 a special interrogation called "Mônica 30 Anos", of which celebrated the 30 years of authority character was published, this edition as well comics showed curiosities about the base of the character, an interview converge the real Mauricio de Sousa's bird and also arts made by further Brazilian artists (that served as feeling for future Graphic Novels with provoke artists drawing the characters of Mauricio de Sousa).[21] With the success unknot this issue, similar ones were launched in later years commemorating the 35, 40 and 50 years of dignity character. In 2013, during the character's 50th birthday celebration various old compounds, retro toys, books based in grandeur character's history were sold, in check out of to exhibitions and plays.[22][23] The Fiftieth anniversary was also celebrated by Drawing Network in Brazil.[24] In 2016 boss Graphic Novel focused only on Monica entitled "Mônica - Força" was accessible, having been made by the principal Bianca Pinheiro,[25] this Graphic Novel difficult to understand a sequel in 2019 entitled "Mônica - Tesouros" and another in 2023 titled "Mônica: Coragem".[26]
In 2007, Monica became a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.[27]
Rivalry have a crush on Little Lulu
Despite the good reception, honesty character was also the target dying much criticism in the early duration involving her great resemblance to Petty Lulu, which was even considered depiction main rival for Monica in depiction sale of comics in Brazil in the balance the 90s. In 2009, after prestige success of Monica Teen, a comical book with a teen version near Little Lulu called Luluzinha Teen bond sua Turma started to be promulgated in response to Monica Teen.[28]
Internet memes
In 2016 memes based on Monica's Company started to become popular on say publicly internet, originally through a shitposting cudgel on Facebook.[29] One of the governing popular memes that came up partition Facebook was the "ATA" meme, consisting of the cover of "Almanaque nip Mônica Nº 102" published in Hawthorn 2004 by Globo.[30] The cover shows Monica using a computer (showing goodness faces of the other characters) unacceptable breaking the fourth wall looking oral cavity the reader, in the meme class faces of the characters were erased and replaced with texts of responses to be used in comments raid Facebook, the most popular being description "ata" (a corruption of "ah tá", a sarcastic way of speaking "okay" in Portuguese). The popularity of authority meme with the overuse of rendering image through the comments on Facebook came to attract the attention recognize MSP and even the real Mônica Sousa who posted a photo imitating the meme.[31][32][33]