Top 32 Most Popular Goth Cartoon Characters

Adventure Time was an animated series that was made by Cartoon Network and ran on the channel from 2010-2018. On the show, we saw Finn the Human and his adoptive brother Jake the Dog having daily fantasy adventures in the Land of Ooo.

During their adventures, they were seen interacting with other figures in the kingdom including Princess Bubblegum, the Ice King, and Marceline the Vampire Queen. Marceline was a half-human, half-demon-vampire who liked nothing more than to enjoy playing her axe bass guitar; something which allowed her to express her thoughts and feelings through music. Interestingly, her name was borrowed from a childhood friend of creator Pendleton Ward, Marie, whose middle name is Marceline and who liked the horror movie Psycho.

Eeyore was first seen making an appearance in 1926's Winnie-the-Pooh. This much-liked character has a reputation as an emo cartoon character due to his perpetual melancholy and pessimistic attitude towards life.

He is a donkey who seems to be constantly experiencing bad luck and feelings of sadness. Moreover, he doesn't do a lot to alleviate his gloomy demeanour. That's probably why he gets negative thoughts and speaks in a monotone voice.

Even though he may have a glum outlook, Eeyore has been a fan favourite since many viewers see his struggles with sorrow and low self-esteem as a reflection of real-life experiences.

Dylan Beekler from Golan the Insatiable summoned the dark warlord, Golan the Insatiable, from the realm of Gkruool after having read a few passages from a mysterious tome. Sooner rather than later, she proved herself worthy enough of being his loyal follower.

They joined hands in not only spreading demonic pandemonium around town but also enacting vengeance upon her bullies and apathetic family. If that wasn't enough to startle you, make peace with the fact that she looked down on people and was more fervent with Medieval warfare and torture than Golan.

Aside from being an anti-social and perpetually furious goth, Beekler was also lonely as a child, which perhaps explains her special bond with Golan.

Referred to as "spooky" by her siblings, the enigmatic and cynical Lucy L. Loud was the fifth-youngest of Lincoln's ten sisters and one of the main characters in The Loud House.

The gloomy goth girl had an interest in Gothic poetry and was the co-president of Royal Woods Elementary's Morticians Club. Even though one could sense that she was gloomy, she was also very sensitive at heart and didn't like people being mean to her.

Besides her gothic appearance, she is perhaps best remembered for her uncanny ability to suddenly appear in places, often frightening people around her. While she can be seen sporting a stoic frown, what made her cover half her face through her hair was that her parents were creeped out by her blank stares.

Fans of The Simpsons would agree that, technically, Ravencrow Neversmiles is the alias of Lisa Simpson. While the character may not be remembered as much today, we still find her impactful enough to make it to our story.

In episode 13 of season 15, Lisa decides to become a goth after it's revealed that Maggie has a higher IQ than her. Even though her appearance in the episode is brief, her new style isn't the one that ardent fans of the show can forget easily.

This psychic-type Pokémon was first seen making an appearance on the 21st episode of Pokémon: Black and White in 2011. They were introduced in Generation V and it evolves from Gothorita and Gothita.

Gothitelle was blessed not only with the ability to distort the space around it but also to show visions of past events to those around it. In addition, he could also predict the future.

Ruby Gloom was a cartoon show that aimed to tell the story of its curiously cheerful titular character who lived in a gothic mansion along with her best pals Skull Boy, Iris, Misery, Frank & Len, Poe, Boo Boo and Doom Kitty.

Known for her spirited attitude and for being the voice of reason, she could be seen with her red hair, short-sleeve black dress, yellow/red-striped stockings, and short black Mary Jane shoes.

Ruby, who took pleasure in knitting, baking, fresh laundry, and writing in her diary, had a pet cat named Doom Kitty. In fact, she was the only one who could comprehend what the cat was trying to say.

The Venture Bros. is an adult animated action comedy television series that has aired on Adult Swim since 2004. It follows the many amusing escapades of teenage twin brothers Hank and Dean Venture, who belong to a clan of competent superheroes.

Triana Orpheus is the beloved daughter of Dr Byron Orpheus, who is a necromancer who takes inspiration from Dr Strange. Even though Dean Venture is shown to be crushing on her throughout the show, she is written out of the plot in the fourth season for some reason.

Those who have seen Fillmore! would know that the show ran on ABC and then later on Toon Disney from 2002-2004. It aimed to shed light on former juvenile delinquent Cornelius Fillmore, who goes on to become a member of the Safety Patrol at his middle school.

His partner in crime is Ingrid Third; a smart girl who was sent to reform school in Nepal where she ended up becoming popular courtesy of her photographic memory. What's interesting about this character is that she's been voiced by actress Tara Strong, who also voiced Raven from Teen Titans.

Gwen, who was a camper and one of the finalists of Total Drama Island, returned as a cast member on Total Drama Action and served as the skipper of the Screaming Gaffers.

While she returned for Total Drama World Tour as a member of Team Amazon, she was seen with the original contestants on a yacht in the first episode of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island as well.

This goth girl was a loner who used to fancy art and astronomy. She was smart, independent, kind-hearted, and level-headed, but her finest quality was that she never allowed herself to get excited over tiny things.

To many, she may have come off as harsh and sarcastic, but she was only just being cautious of whom she lets into her life. If one truly got to know her, one would realize that beneath her tough exterior, there is a kind heart that tries to trust those in its vicinity.

Yes, we know that this Mattel franchise features fairy tale figures and lots of frilly dresses, but the heroine here was the daughter of the Evil Queen from Snow White.

Raven, who went on to renounce her inherited storybook legacy as the wrongdoer, started motivating other students to embrace their personalities and create their chapters. That is precisely why they were called "rebels".

She was mostly seen wearing black, purple and plumes, and was far more approachable and compassionate than most people would have been able to guess. Unsurprisingly, she was also in possession of dark magical abilities.

Creepella "Creepie" Creecher was a goth girl and the main character of Growing Up Creepie. She was raised by the Creecher family in Dweezwold Mansion. The show aimed to teach young adults and kids more about the wonderful and lesser-known world of insects.

While her father was a vegan vampire-like mosquito, her mother was a Morticia Addams-like praying mantis. Creepie was able to converse with them but she kept her personal life a secret because Middlington was a town of necrophobic people.

That said, besides her entomological talents, she also liked reciting poetry and clicking photos of the decayed.

This animated short film is reportedly based on the comic book character Death, who was created by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg for The Sandman. In the comics, Death can be seen helping escort the recently deceased to the afterlife and visiting people when they are born.

However, what makes the character stand out here is that unlike most traditional depictions of Death in popular culture, she's a young, perky, and beautiful goth woman. To sum it up, it's been said that the character was inspired by Dringenberg's close friend Cinnamon Hadley.

Created by American cartoonist Charles Addams, the Addams Family is an eccentric old-money clan who delight in the macabre and the grotesque. Its members originally appeared in a series of 150 standalone single-panel comics, about half of which were published in The New Yorker between 1938 and their creator’s death in 1988.

Gomez and Morticia Addams head the household, which also includes their children Wednesday and Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandmama, the butler Lurch and Pugsley’s pet octopus Aristotle. All of them seem unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening. That view of their family life and interests as normal was a basis for the satire and comedy.

Raven, whose civilian name is Rachel Roth, is a human-demon hybrid from the parallel dimension of Azarath and one of the five founding members of the Teen Titans. Her mother, Arella, was chosen to become the bride of the demonic Trigon, who later abandoned her. Under the tutelage of Azar, the spiritual leader of Temple Azarath, Raven learned pacifism, meditation and the submergence of her emotions to resist Trigon’s influence.

In costume, Raven appears as a mysterious and shadowy figure, and underneath it she has very palish skin, a mix of ghostly grey and white tones. Azar also helped her perfect her powers of teleportation, astral projection and empathic healing. When she turned sixteen, she sensed Trigon’s power returning and fled to Earth, where she became part of the original Teen Titans.

Thorn, also known as Sally McKnight, is a member of the Hex Girls, an eco-goth rock band she shares with Dusk and Luna. The band first appeared in Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost, where its members are seen as suspects of the mystery going on in their hometown of Oakhaven.

Voiced by Jennifer Hale, Thorn and her bandmates later become the gang’s friends and reappear in Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, where they are the artists set to open the Vampire Rock Musical Festival. The Hex Girls also appear in the What’s New, Scooby-Doo? episode The Vampire Strikes Back, where the gang must help them capture a vampire that has been trying to scare them away from a castle in Transylvania.

Daria Morgendorffer was initially designed and created by Beavis and Butt-Head staff writer David Felton as a supporting character, serving as an intelligent foil to Beavis and Butt-Head. When MTV sought to make an animated show catered more to female viewers, Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn co-developed Daria, the American adult animated series that ran from 1997 to 2002 with her as its title character.

Tracy Grandstaff voices the character, who is most consistently depicted from Season 4 onward in a black jacket over a white shirt, a red skirt, black leggings and dark red boots, along with her round glasses. This look replaced the yellow jacket and orange skirt she wore in Seasons 2 and 3. The character received a positive response, ranking No. 41 on the TV Guide list of the Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time and No. 68 on AOL’s list of the 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters.

Dr. Seuss created the Grinch for his 1957 children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, where the character serves as the villainous protagonist. He is also the main character in the 1966 animated adaptation, the 2000 live-action adaptation and the 2018 animated movie adaptation. Considered a Christmas standard, the Grinch has lent his name to a term that is synonymous with grouch outside Christmas.

An unpleasant, surly, cold and Who-hating grouch, the Grinch has a wicked temper, a sour attitude and a heart about two sizes too small, and he is always out to ruin something. Seuss also wrote Halloween Is Grinch Night, a 1977 special that aired on CBS, in which the Grinch comes down to Whoville to waltz around on Halloween night, which there is called Grinch Night and signals all the Whos to lock down their homes. In 2002, the Grinch was voted No. 5 in TV Guide’s Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters.

Mostly referred to as a goth girl, Lydia Deetz is the daughter of Charles Deetz and the stepdaughter of Delia Deetz. The 15-year-old from New York City moves with her family to Winter River, Connecticut, after her father decides to take a break from his real estate business. She serves as the deuteragonist of the first Beetlejuice movie and one of two protagonists, along with Beetlejuice, of the animated series.

Lydia takes a liking to the new house and disapproves of Delia changing it into a gothic piece of art. On moving day, she quickly notices the Maitlands in the attic window, which she attributes to being a "strange and unusual" person who, unlike most people, does not ignore strange and unusual things. Inside the attic, she also finds the Handbook for the Recently Deceased and is able to understand it.

Directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton, Corpse Bride is a 2005 stop-motion animated musical romantic fantasy film set in an English village. Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily, the title character, who was a beauty known for miles around when she was alive.

After her death, her long wavy hair and once pale skin turned blue, and her only colorful features are her purple lips. A hole in her left cheek reveals her white teeth, her left arm is only bone and her right leg is almost completely bone. Emily still wears the strapless, dirt-stained white wedding dress that belonged to her mother, and even as a corpse, she remains graceful.

Dark, brooding and gloomy, Mai of Avatar: The Last Airbender was usually bored by her circumstances and took little interest in anything around her. Such seeming apathy tended to irritate others, so much so that Zuko once described her as "just a big blah", while Ty Lee called her aura "dingy and gray".

Her stoic exterior was often mistaken for a lack of emotion, but it really reflected self-control and a great sense of discipline shaped by her politically motivated father and her mother. Mai disliked the manipulations and callous disregard for others shown by Azula, the princess, and she opposed needless killing, often disabling foes by pinning their sleeves to a vertical surface. Not easily intimidated, she was one of the few people who did not openly show fear of Azula.

A former villain and now an Honorary Titan, Jinx was once a top student of the H.I.V.E. Academy and the leader of the H.I.V.E. Five. Her first mission with classmates Gizmo and Mammoth was to destroy the Teen Titans. When Cyborg later infiltrated the academy posing as a student named Stone, his presence made Jinx begin to question her commitment to being a super-villain.

Jinx has pale grey-white skin, pink blush marks on her cheeks and pink eyes with cat-like pupils. Metallic black bands section off her pink, horseshoe-shaped hair, and she wears a short, black, long-sleeved dress with a jagged trim. She is also the girlfriend of Kid Flash, the teenage superhero who foiled one of her group’s museum raids.

Exiled from the Fire Nation, Prince Zuko set out to restore his lost honor by capturing Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender. More than anything, he wanted his place as heir to the Fire Nation throne and his father’s love, and he convinced himself that capturing the Avatar would make these wishes come true.

During his exile, Zuko became a bitter, impatient and complex young man, akin to a tragic villain. He believed he was marked unlucky and that the world was against him, and he met that perception with iron-willed defiance. Clever yet hot-headed, he often let his temper get the best of him, though he was averse to harming others without any motive or benefit.

Yumi Ishiyama is one of the two secondary tritagonists of Code Lyoko, a student at Kadic Academy and a highly valued member of the Lyoko Warriors. A native of Kyoto, Japan, she moved to France with her family when she was young, and her parents raised her under traditional Japanese values. She is one of the most serious and mature members of the group.

Her instant trademark is a preference for black clothes, and her primary outfit consists of a black sweater, black skintight jeans and black boots. In episodes such as Teddygodzilla and Missing Link, she is seen owning clothing associated with alternative fashion subcultures such as goth, punk and emo. Pale skin and black chin-length hair complete her look.

Clone High, an American animated sitcom created by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Bill Lawrence for MTV, is set in a fictional high school populated by the clones of well-known historical figures. Joan of Arc belongs to its central cast, alongside adolescent depictions of Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Cleopatra and JFK. The series also serves as a parody of teen dramas, and every episode is introduced as a "very special episode".

Her outfit consists of a tight black long-sleeved crop top, green cargo pants and black boots. She has pale skin and dark red hair, along with black eyeliner, purple lipstick, a black choker and an orthodontic retainer. In her original design, she had black hair and appeared to be more religious.

The sole female member of South Park’s Goth Kids, Henrietta Biggle is a 4th grader who first appears in the Season Seven episode Raisins. Henrietta was the first goth to have her name revealed, and her bedroom is one of the Goth Kids’ main hang-out spots.

A black dress with bat wing-like edges, a sleeveless fishnet top, purple lipstick and black pointed nails make up her look. During Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers, her parents send her to a camp to improve her attitude, and she returns home two weeks later as an emo before going back to her old gothic self. Poetry is another part of her life, as she specializes in poems about pain and how miserable life is, and she also plays the keyboard in the Goth Kids’ band.

Entranced by the "weird and supernatural", Sam Manson is a goth girl and one of the best friends of Danny Fenton, the half-ghost superhero of Danny Phantom. Together with self-proclaimed techno-geek Tucker Foley, she is one of his companions in the town of Amity Park as he deals with ghosts.

Sam’s usual attire consists of a black choker, a black cropped tank top, thick black bracelets, purple tights under a black skirt and large black biker boots, finished with deep-violet lipstick. She has also been seen in outfits ranging from a pink princess dress with hearts to an orange Fenton Works jumpsuit. In Beauty Marked, she wore fake vampire fangs.

Born in 1894 to Count Dracula and Martha in Transylvania, Mavis Dracula was moved by her father into the newly constructed Hotel Transylvania to keep her safe from the outside world. Over time, she grew tired of living in the hotel and desired to see the world, even wanting to meet humans.

While her father prepared for her 118th birthday, Mavis practiced what to say to him in her mirror, despite not casting a reflection. Her closet is mostly filled with the same attire she wears, and she can shrink into bat form. Bored of the same parties every year, she wanted to travel to Paradise, where her parents first met, and maybe meet someone her age.

Kim Possible, created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle for Disney Channel, follows its titular protagonist, a teenage girl tasked with saving the world on a regular basis while coping with everyday issues of adolescence. Most missions for Kim and her clumsy best friend, Ron Stoppable, require them to thwart the evil plans of the mad scientist–supervillain duo Dr. Drakken and his sidekick Shego.

Shego is a tall woman with long, hip-length black hair, piercing forest-green eyes, faded light green skin and black lips. Always seen in a green-black color scheme, she wears a signature tight-fitting, high-collared catsuit with an asymmetrical harlequin pattern in black and bright light green. One glove and one boot of each color complete the look.

Growing up as the son of a demon is rarely easy, and Nergal Adam Nergalton Jr., also known as Two or Junior, carries that burden throughout The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. The troubled only child of Nergal and Sis, he is also Billy’s paternal first cousin, and the monstrous abilities he inherits from his father earn him the unkind name "Freak." He is known for his introverted personality and gothic demeanor.

Junior first appears in "Son of Nergal," where he attends the ill-conceived winter camp cooked up by Harold and Grim. Ashamed of his monstrous form, he assumes the appearance of one camper after another in an attempt to feel accepted. His look matches his mood, as he is pale and thin with black hair, lime green eyes, and sharp teeth, and he wears a black coat, black ski pants, and black boots with a red scarf and mittens.

Like his father, he craves acceptance but is easily jealous and possessive, and he will not put up with abuse directed at him or the people he cares about. After enrolling at Endsville Elementary School, where he quickly falls victim to Sperg, he gradually overcomes some of his shyness and in time embraces his identity and powers. Lonely yet quick to lend a hand when asked, Junior remains something of an outsider.

For a mutant who can drain the abilities of others, a simple pair of gloves becomes far more than a fashion choice. Rogue of X-Men: Evolution possesses the ability to drain the abilities of others, and that gift comes with a serious catch. She cannot control her powers, so she wears gloves to block them.

Her family background is just as tangled as her abilities. Rogue is the adoptive daughter of Mystique, yet it is Irene Adler who raised her in Mississippi. Meghan Black gives the character her voice throughout the series.

Rogue makes it to our story because of that covered-up, guarded presence, a young woman kept at arm’s length from others by a power she cannot rein in.

Kevin Levin first appears in the original Ben 10 as an 11-year-old boy and one of Ben’s enemies, initially depicted as an Osmosian who can absorb matter, energy and DNA. Believing his stepfather, Harvey Hackett, convinced his mother to abandon him after he accidentally destroyed the family house when his powers first manifested, he ran away and ended up living in the subway of New York City.

There he met Ben and used him to siphon the energies of the Omnitrix to get back at those who demonized him. Infused with the DNA of the aliens Ben had access to at the time, Kevin became a chimeric hybrid of the alien forms, which rendered him psychotic and unstable. In Omniverse, it is revealed that he is actually a human who derived his powers from a genetic mutation.