What exactly is Hobbes in the Calvin n Hobbes series?!
Question: Is he a figment of Calvin's imagination? Is he a magical stuff toy that turns real when noones watching? What is he?
I do hope he's real.. hes cute!
Answers: Is he a figment of Calvin's imagination? Is he a magical stuff toy that turns real when noones watching? What is he?
I do hope he's real.. hes cute!
Bill Watterson left it purposefully vague. You can interpret it either way. There are some comics that make more sense if he's real, and others that make more sense if he isn't. You decide.
If I recall correctly, it is Calvin's stuffed tiger that he imagines is real.
One of my five favorite comics of all time.
Hobbes is real to Calvin and to those that believe that he's real.
Hobbes is Calvin's imaginary friend that is based upon his stuffed tiger bear. I think that the tiger does become real when no-one's looking, although it could all be part of Calvin's imagination.
My personal view on Hobbes is that whether he's real or not shouldn't matter, and that's kind of the point of him being there - to challenge the whole "real = good" thing that we take for granted. Similar to how a lot of what he talks about challenges whether civilisation is even civilised, and that kind of thing. As though his ideas and thoughts shouldn't only matter if he's real, and shouldn't be discarded as "oh, it's only imagination" if he isn't. Sort of imagination and introspection being just as important as reality - it's the thought that counts!
I had always hoped he was real but turned into a stuffed toy when other people were around. I know he is only the toy tiger Calvin imagines as real but i just like to think he's real and everyone else just imagines he's a toy!
He's a Calvin's stuffed tiger that, to calvin, is real. Basically, he's Calvins imaginary friend (though Calvin see's him as real rather than imaginary).
To Calvin, Hobbes is real. He's alive, he talks, he has emotions, and he moves. But that's only whenever he's around Calvin and it's just the 2 of them. Whenever Calvin's with Hobbes and somebody else, Hobbes just becomes this ordinary stuffed tiger: he doesn't talk, move, or do anything til he's alone with Calvin yet again. From this you'd infer that Hobbes is not real; just Calvin's imaginary friend. But Bill Watterson does not confirm this hypothesis throughout the series, even though the readers think it's pretty obvious that Hobbes can't be real and he isn't.