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* In ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'', Daddy Warbucks became a general and Annie, at one point, blew up a Nazi sub. She also led the war effort on the home front with her "Junior Commandos", which were [[{{Defictionalization}} imitated in real life]].
* The [[BritishComics British]] AnthologyComic ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' and ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' had obvious wartime propaganda issues, such as the strips "[[UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini Musso]] the Wop" from ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' and "[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Addie]] and Hermy" in ''ComicBook/TheDandy''. There weren't just comic strips mocking the Axis leadership - characters which had existed before the war, such as Desperate Dan, Lord Snooty and Pansy Potter, occasionally fought the Nazis during the war.

* As North Korea and USA are still fighting for decades, an North Korean educational anti-American propaganda animation ''Pencil Cannonball'' ('''Korean:''' 연필포탄) is as weird as it is interesting. It's about a boy who dislikes studying mathematics, and one day when he's doing homework he falls asleep and dreams that {{UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica}}n submarines are attacking, and that he's a general leading a few ChildSoldiers who use pencil cannonballs to blast them away Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to use a protractor, so he's unable to hit them. In the end it's AllJustADream, though. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8tbzxIgxFs You can see it yourself.]]

** "I'm a Little Bit Country", which looks at protest over the war in Iraq. Turns out the answer is to go to war and ''then'' protest against it.

** The pre-9/11 episode "Road to Rhode Island" has Stewie distracting the guards at an airport security check by singing and dancing so that his bag (full of weapons) goes through the x-ray undetected. Upon picking it up, he says "Let's hope Osama Bin Laden doesn't know showtunes!" As he walks away, Osama shows up using the same technique. The Osama scene is cut from the later airings and the Volume 1 DVD, but is intact on the "Freakin' Sweet Collection" DVD.

* 1943's ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'': It follows the life of a German boy called Hans from birth (where his parents prove to a judge they're of Aryan pedigree), through being told distorted fairy tales glorifying Hitler as a toddler, being taught to hate a bunny being eaten by a fox (since "the strong shall rule the weak"), participating in BookBurning, and after the next few years spent "marching and heiling, heiling and marching" he, now in his teens, has become a "good Nazi" who says, thinks, and does only what he's told to. In the end, he and others march off to war, their figures fading into rows of graves with swastikas on them. It's up to the audience if the dramatic depiction, or the fact that RealLife Nazism operated similarly, is more chilling. All things considered, it does show that not all Germans accepted National Socialism of free will, but rather were forced and indoctrinated into it from a young age. It further portrays Hans' mother to be deeply afraid of it all.

* ''Nimbus Libéré'', a cartoon produced under German pressure in Vichy France, in which a French family is killed during an Allied bombing raid. What makes the cartoon really weird is that the bomber pilots are Western cartoon heroes--Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck etc. It capitalized on Allied bombings over France in an attempt to win popular support, and also threw in an anti-Semitic caricature. However, the cartoon [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible looks and sounds so bad]] [[SpringtimeForHitler that it probably drove those who saw it]] [[RootingForTheEmpire to support the Allies instead]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2krcuzEM-k Watch it at your own risk]].

* In "WesternAnimation/AnItchInTime" features a tiny flea pestering Elmer Fudd's pet dog. Released at the height of the war in 1943, it is predictably rife with food rationing jokes. The flea carries a tiny set of ration stamps, and diligently tears them off before biting, and at the end of the cartoon, he carries both Elmer and the dog away on a plate marked "Blue Plate Special, no points" while singing "No more meatless Tuesdays for me!" Said flea also takes refuge in a "[[IncrediblyLamePun Hair Raid]] Shelter"

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2FfVWuj2NA Yankee Doodle Donkey]]'': Spunky the Donkey enlists in the Wags, an Army division for dogs (that promises to "hound the Axis"). Being a completely different species, Spunky is rejected by his commanding officer, a DrillSergeantNasty [[BullyBulldog bulldog]], but comes in handy when an invading flea army that detests horse meat attacks the troops.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2FfVWuj2NA Yankee Doodle Donkey]]'': Spunky the Donkey enlists in the Wags, an Army division for dogs (that promises to "hound the Axis"). Being a completely different species, Spunky is rejected by commanding officer, a DrillSergeantNasty [[BullyBulldog bulldog]], but comes in handy when an invading flea army that detests horse meat attacks the troops.

[[folder:Non-WWII propaganda cartoons]]

* The North Korean animated series ''Animation/SquirrelAndHedgehog'', which is an allegory for UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. Propaganda surely knows no country.

* Interestingly, the only cartoon that actually featured Bugs Bunny directly in the Army didn't debut until after WWII — 1952's ''WesternAnimation/ForwardMarchHare'' wherein Bugs mistakenly gets a conscription letter meant for his neighbor.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HareConditioned'', Bugs is being chased though a department store by the manager, and at one point, disguises himself as the elevator operator. As they are going up in the elevator, Bugs calls out the next floor as having items such as "Rubber tires, nylon hose, sugar, bourbon, butter...and other picture postcards." FridgeBrilliance is that these were items rationed during the war and weren't available to the public in any meaningful quantity, the rest of the cartoon didn't even reference the war.

* 1943's ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'': It follows the life of a German boy called Hans from birth (where his parents prove to a judge they're of Aryan pedigree), through being told distorted fairy tales glorifying Hitler as a toddler, being taught to hate a bunny being eaten by a fox (since "the strong shall rule the weak"), participating in BookBurning, and after the next few years spent "marching and heiling, heiling and marching" he, now in his teens, has become a "good Nazi" who says, thinks, and does only what he's told to. In the end, he and others march off to war, their figures fading into rows of graves. It's up to the audience if the dramatic depiction, or the fact that RealLife Nazism operated similarly, is more chilling. All things considered, it does show that not all Germans accepted National Socialism of free will, but rather were forced and indoctrinated into it from a young age. It further portrays Hans' mother to be deeply afraid of it all.

* In 1942's ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyWabbit'', Elmer Fudd goes looking for gold to help the war effort.