Icon-o-clash 3: The "Real-World" Edition

Demented vs Scented

Rainbow Brite: Wielder of the Colour Belt, leader of the Colour Kids and their sprites, who keep her in a steady supply of Star Sprinkles, so she can manage all the colour in the universe. Seriously. Remember last week when you girls thought the Transformers and Voltron sounded weird?

Strawberry Shortcake: A doll that smelled like fruit. A simple enough concept but one that turned into a marketing juggernaut in the 80's that is still going on today. As time went on, more and more bizarre scents were being personified and you knew it was only a matter of time before they debuted "Beef Wellington" with his pet "Porkchop" the pig, or "Aspara-Gus" with "Garlic" the bat

The Duel for fuel!

Herbie: The reason why VW bugs were cool in the 70's. Also contained an accurate sub-text about the social role that a car could play when it came to young love. For those of us old enough to remember the Sunday night Disney show, we all know how happy you were to find a "Herbie" feature as opposed to "The Space-Donkey that Played Basketball", or some other nonsense.

Speed Buggy: The Scooby-inspired mystery solving car, who had the coolest victory dance of any sentient anthropomorphic car ever. Loved the scenes where he would drive through caves, inside houses, etc. (sentient or not, no car is going to be tooling around my haunted mansion, marking up my carpet and leaving oil everywhere).

Detective Half-Wit vs. Suspected Bong-Hit
Inspector Gadget: You have to give props to Gadget as a cyborg character who has never resorted to the "gun for an arm" gimmick. Where did the rest of the mini-van go when it turned into the sports car? Also: BEST. THEME SONG. EVER.
Shaggy: Most kids' introduction to drug culture (though we never knew it at the time). Were there really any monsters at all, or were they just hallucinations? Apparently responsible for most rock star hairstyles of the last ten years.

"The cute little monkey that sucks his digit" vs. "The big purple ape that ain't no midget"

Monchichi: The doe-eyed, thumb-sucking, "monkeyesque" doll that provided security and companionship to many a pre-schooler in the 70's and 80's
The Great Grape Ape: Think Littlest Hobo meets King Kong. Face it, you've got to be a bad-ass to get away with that outfit.

	An overwhelming amount of support (including my new favourite Peruvian rock band, The Emergency Blanket) makes the Trix Rabbit the clear winner over the Nestle Quik Bunny.
	Another fairly one-sided affair, though a surprising amount of apathy for what may be the only representatives from the "Giant Robot" category. Because let's face it, if we had let a lot of giant robots into the tournament, it's would really be all over for the other competitors. Giant robots rule, and in this case Voltron was squishing up his baby Bumblebee, (ooo eee it's all over me).
	Barbapapa also moves onto the second round with relative ease, (though we all learned a lot more about the Shmoo than we will probably ever need to know, didn't we?) . Hint: Patience, chuckt, your fave will get his day soon enough...
	In the most contentious match of the week, and by the closest of margins, Keyop tripped up the cereal mascot with his bola and moved one step closer to icon immortality. In the early stages it seemed Frankenberry would prevail, but as time went on, the G-Force supporters made a rally with some passionate pleas that simply could not be denied.