Respect Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)

[u/doctorgecko]

"I've got a good home and a best friend. What more could a tiger want?"

Hobbes

Hobbes is a tiger, and the best friend of six year old boy Calvin. He is extremely prideful of his animal nature and can be rather cynical and dismissive when it comes to humans, but he Calvin are nonetheless extremely close (to the point Hobbes will happily pounce on Calvin whenever he gets home from school). One interesting thing to note however is that while Calvin views Hobbes as a living tiger, everyone else sees him as a stuffed animal, and Bill Watterson is intentionally vague on which is his true nature.

For the purposes of this thread I will be treating Hobbes as a living tiger... who sometimes takes the form of a stuffed animal.

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Strength

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• Tackles Calvin hard enough to dig a ditch in the ground, and knock him far enough back that he claims "it would take four downs to get back to the field"

• Tackles Calvin from the front door, digging a large ditch into the ground

• Tackles Calvin, sending both of them tumbling back a long distance through the snow

• Tackles Calvin hard enough to knock him out of almost all of his clothes

• Knocks Calvin out of his jacket and shoes

• Topples a dresser by tackling Calvin near it

• Sends Calvin as well as all of the water flying out of a tub with a cannonball

• Leaps on a ramp as Calvin is going up it, sending him flying

• Seems to shake the ground running to Calvin

• Explicitly knocks Calvin back several feet with a thrown snowball

• Knocks Calvin out of his shoes, gloves, and hat with a thrown snowball Another example

• Completely flips Calvin over by throwing a snowball at him

• Tags Calvin with a snowball while he's riding on a sled and launches him off of it

• Sends a chair flying by leaping out from under it

• Hits a baseball hard enough that he's able to casually stroll around the bases while Calvin rushes at full speed to recover the ball

• Alongside Calvin chucks a large rock into a lake

• Beats Calvin and steals his lunch

• By swinging him around sends Calvin flying into a tree

• Pins Calvin to a wall with a sticky arrow

• Casually carries Calvin with his mouth

• Easily holds a fishing rod lifting Calvin

• Grabs Calvin and rolls him into a large snowball

• Holds back Calvin with one arm. While Calvin is usually portrayed as not very strong, he can pretty consistently launch someone airborne with a thrown snowball, something that is actually fairly consistent for the series

• Calvin can't budge him an inch. His attempts to tackle him are similarly futile

• Walks to the end zone despite Calvin hanging onto him and trying to bring him down

• Leaves Calvin half embeded in the ground

• Casually holds a stick that is supporting the weight of Calvin spinning around it

• Flips over a rock larger than Calvin is

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Speed

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• Goes from sleeping to pouncing on Calvin in the second his bubblegum pops

• Bends a potted tree by running past it

• Blitzes Calvin from a good distance away when he was only ten yards away from the endzone. Implies he could do this if Calvin was two yards away

• Outruns a football he himself threw, then turns around and blitzes Calvin

• Blitzes Calvin and comments on how bad his reflexes are

• Calvin can only turn halfway around before Hobbes hits him

• Goes from flying out a door to turn around and pouncing on Calvin in .8 seconds

• Seems to run like a blur

• Easily chases and catches up to Calvin

• Maneuvers through a house while avoiding being tackled by Calvin

• Bails out of a wagon before it can go off a cliff

• Escapes from a wagon as it goes over a cliff

• Overwhelms Calvin with rapid thrown snowballs

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Durability

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• Repeatedly hit by a baseball bat, and doesn't seem to be at all injured

• Slams head first into a door at full speed

• Barely even reacts to Calvin trying to pounce on him

• Doesn't even slow down when Calvin tackles him. In fact Calvin seems to hurt himself doing so

• Calvin stomps on his tail, and he's mostly just pissed

• Calvin falls on him

• Calvin slams into him with a baseball at high speed

• Gets in a lot of physical fights with Calvin

  • At least one of these fights seems to involve the use of golf clubs

• Gets in several sled accidents

  • The sled hits a tree hard enough to crack it
  • Gets in an accident where the sled catches fire

• Similarly gets in several wagon accidents

  • Falls a long distance
  • Lands hard enough to embed in the ground and completely destroy the wagon

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Stealth

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• Sneaks up right behind Calvin without the latter noticing until he's a few inches away

• Hides completely under Calvin's chair

• Somehow hides behind a thin lamp

• Hits Calvin with a snowball and then runs into the house without him noticing

• Drops down on Calvin from the ceiling

• Drops down on a sandbox

• Pounces on Calvin from a dresser

• Sneaks up on Calvin and throws a water balloon at him

• Ambushes Calvin at night

• Ambushes Calvin when he leaves his room to get a drink

• Drops onto Calvin from a tree

• Ambushes Calvin from a tree, and then when he tries to enter the house

• Ambushes Calvin entering the house, and then trying to enter his room

• Sneaks up on Calvin when the latter is trying to sneak up on him

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Tiger Physiology

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• Ate one of Calvin's classmates

• Has claws at the end of all four of his limbs as well as sharp teeth. These claws are retractable

• Pokes Calvin from a few inches away with a retractable claw

• Fits Calvin's entire head in his mouth

• Pounces on Calvin despite being asleep moments before

• Climbs up a tree

• Identifies Calvin by his smell and tracks him as well

• Pounces on Calvin the moment he makes a small noise

• Hears Calvin moving near him while asleep

• Very perceptive to the sound of an opening can even if he can't tell what type of can it is

• Not too bothered by cold weather

• His eyes glow in the dark

• His spinal column is like a spring

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Stuffed Animal Physiology

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• Has no issues going through the washing machine, viewing it as akin to taking a bath

• Similarly has no issues going through a clothes dryer apart from being somewhat dizzy

• Carries away by a big dog, and doesn't seem to be in too bad a shape when next seen

• Calvin's mom is capable of stitching up any wounds. Potentially qualifies as a pain tolerance feat given that he claims she doesn't use anesthetic

• Views other stuffed animals as living creatures

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Fantasy Feats

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These are feats that occur in what appear to be Calvin's fantasies. While Hobbes is potentially already a part of Calvin's imagination, I felt it best to separate them anyways.

• Runs away from an Allosaurus

• Unharmed traveling through the vacuum of space and on Mars without any protective equipment

• Comes up with a way to trick and get rid of Calvin's duplicates

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Intelligence

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• Uses a tripwire to stop Calvin and the football

• Creates a lever to launch a massive snowball at Calvin

• He and Calvin create a system to lift a large number of water balloons to their tree fort

• Comes up with a way for Calvin to disable his killer bike

• Quickly turns around the situation of Calvin having a water balloon

• One step ahead of Calvin in a water balloon war

• Easily outwits Calvin armed with multiple water balloons

• Beats Calvin despite having a less aerodynamic water balloon

• Notices Calvin sneaking up on him while seemingly napping

• Sees right through Calvin's decoy though other decoys have been more succesful

• Ties together Calvin's laces without him noticing

• Fights dirty when it comes to the covers

• Sends Calvin fake letters, and when the latter finds out convinces him to not be mad

• Uses being kidnapped by Susie as a chance to take a look at her diary

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Misc

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• His mere presence scares a way a presumably horrific monster

• Claims to be knowledgable on academic subjects to the point of having given a dissertation, though he very well could be lying

• Is a very skilled artist

• Also a good writer

• Much better than Calvin at checkers

• Calvin's uncle says he has a killer's eye

• Somewhat territorial

• His spit ball is strong enough to stick to a baseball bat

• Has words for smells

• Imitates a ghost to scare Calvin

• Buries Calvin with a bucket of snowballs

• Very aware of what's cool

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Weaknesses

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• Will do anything for a tuna fish sandwhich

• Possibly willing to betray Calvin for some salmon

• Beguiled by feminine charms

• Easily wiled by a woman in a swimsuit

• Not very skilled at disguise though at times he has been more effective

• Calvin claims he'd suffocate in a locker, though this could be a lie. Also he's not very good at math despite claims to the contrary

• Doesn't have a good poker face tail

• Can't catch his tail

• Can't turn around quickly on floorboards

• Sometimes chuckles to himself when sneaking up on someone

• Gets hay fever

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And that's all

[u/8fenristhewolf8]

Great stuff. Tricky with the whole imagination thing, but really well organized

[u/doctorgecko → u/8fenristhewolf8]

Honestly Hobbes isn't too bad, actually fairly consistent if you assume him to be a living thing.

Calvin on the other hand... I have a few idea about how one might do that, but nothing I'm going to act on anytime really soon.