No Sense Of Personal Space / Western Animation

Those with No Sense of Personal Space in Western Animation.

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• Amphibia: In "The Core and the King", the Core gets right up in the young Andrias' personal space to get a closer look at him, making him visibly uncomfortable.
• Courtney would occasionally get a little too touchy with Ginger in As Told by Ginger.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Ty Lee is really into big hugs.
• Batman: The Animated Series: Poison Ivy obviously has none as far as her male victims are concerned. In her debut episode we see Ivy glide behind a giant flytrap ensnared Batman, lean in and flirtatiously trace along his shoulders with her index fingers.
• Winton in Bluey is called a "space invader" by his friends due to his tendency to stand too close to people, which in turn causes people to run away from him. This actually comes in handy in the very episode it's mentioned.
• Danny Phantom:
  • Jazz already had a problem invading everyone's own personal privacy (due to being a psychologist-in-training), but when she becomes part of "Team Phantom", she takes it to epic levels. Danny is none too pleased. She later learns to keep a lower profile.
  • Vlad is also like this around Danny. Comes with his obsession with wanting to make Danny his son. And there's also whenever he gets his chance to spend time with Maddie...
  • In the episode, "Fanning the Flames", we have Klemper, a hulking, bucktoothed, blond-haired ghost who wants to be friends with everyone. Within the first second, we see Klemper invading Danny's personal space in the most hilarious way possible.
• Storkules in DuckTales (2017) sees Donald Duck as his best friend and always greets him with a big Bear Hug. Donald, however, is clearly not comfortable with any of this, especially since he only sees Storkules as an acquaintance rather than a friend. When Storkules ends up renting a room on Donald's boat, Donald has to go over with him the concept of personal boundaries.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • The Kanker sisters, much to the horror of the title characters.
  • Eddy, despite his "are you touching my face" moments, seems to do this a lot to people himself.
  • Being a major Cloudcuckoolander, and just really really friendly and exuberant, Ed was like this with everyone.
• Family Guy: Meg in "Barely Legal" when she was Yandere for Brian.
• Fanboy and Chum Chum invoke this on each other all the time, so it's not all that noticeable. However, when they get this way with Kyle, his displeased expression is usually enough to see this trope occurring.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
  • Cheese, during his first appearance, wouldn't give Bloo any elbow room.
  • Neither would Berry.
• Gravity Falls: Mabel Pines has a habit of playfully punching, poking, bear hugging, and tackle hugging people she is especially fond of. Dipper, Stan, and occasionally Soos are usually on the receiving end of these.
  • In "Gideon Rises", she couldn't resist touching Soos' Abuelita's face.
    Mabel: Oh, Soos, your grandma is so adorable! And her skin is old lady soft. [touches Abuelita's skin with one hand, then both] Haaahhh!
• Corey Riffin from Grojband has a habit of getting right up in others' faces as he talks to them, especially if that other is Laney (although she doesn't usually mind due to her huge crush on him).
• Hey Arnold!:
  • Olga, Helga's older sister, is a bit too huggy around her younger sister, much to Helga's annoyance.
  • Another episode has Lulu, who is a different version of Lila, do such things to newcomer Arnold like rubbing his leg with her own, pretending to fall asleep on him, forcing a kiss on him, and suggesting a late-night swim together. Arnold is noticeably unhappy with all this.
  • It is also a Running Gag for Brainy to announce his presence by standing so close to Helga that she can hear him breathing. She often responds by punching him in the face. Another instance has him randomly lay his head in her lap.
• Invader Zim's very own GIR. "I'M. GONNA. HUG. YOU!"
  "Get off my head, GIR."
• The eponymous Jimmy Two-Shoes. "Friends watch friends sleep."^note Made even funnier by the fact he was talking to Lucius.
  • There have also been two episodes in the show dealing with characters with even less sense of it. The first was "Bus Driving BFF", where Jimmy becomes friends with Recurring Extra Chuck the Bus Driver, whose unhealthy obsession with their friendship proceeds to irritate Jimmy. The second was "My Best Friend is a Weavil", in which Beezy tricks Lucius into thinking a weavil is his best friend (Beezy and Lucius both hate weavils). The weavil, unaware Beezy is just pranking Lucius, proceeds to go Yandere on Beezy.
• Kaeloo: Kaeloo is like this towards everyone, especially Mr. Cat (who unfortunately Hates Being Touched).
• Shego towards the eponymous Kim Possible, most obviously in "Stop Team Go".
• Looney Tunes:
  • Pepe Le Pew.
  • Daffy Duck, only in the pilot episode of The Looney Tunes Show "Best Friends".
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Discord has a tendency to get touchy-feely with others, especially Twilight Sparkle, for some reason. This is very likely another allusion to Q, who, as mentioned in the Live-Action TV folder, enjoys invading personal space to the point of appearing in bed with Picard, or in a bathtub with Janeway.
  • Queen Chrysalis demonstrates a similar tendency in "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2", directed at the magically hypnotized Shining Armor, when giving her evil monologue. The fact that she is essentially a G-rated succubus might have something to do with it. She also once unexpectedly caresses Twilight Sparkle's mane just before attacking her, and later, while bragging about how Twilight suspected her the whole time but nobody believed her, she puts her hoof under Twilight's chin in mock affection before Twilight slaps it away.
  • Pinkie Pie often gets this way when she is excited (especially around Rainbow Dash), and in "Bridle Gossip", she admits to never having heard of personal space, to absolutely nopony's surprise. At one point she managed to give an excited bear-hug to Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Applejack... all at the same time. She takes it to the logical extreme in "A Friend in Deed", in which she practically stalks Cranky Doodle and invades his home, although she finally learns a much-needed lesson in the end. In a later episode, while going through the Elements of Harmony the Mane Six each represent to the Pillars of Equestria, she randomly hugs Applejack's flank when calling her "Honesty", with Applejack just gives an annoyed glare in response.
  • Most of the time, Rarity has a pretty good grasp on this, but when she is excited or agitated, she can get rather close to the person she is talking to. This is seen best with her behavior around Twilight in very early episodes, such as "The Ticket Master" (she pokes Twilight with her horn to spur her to help out Rainbow Dash), but it crops up again when she is grilling Fluttershy about how to improve her dress. Played for laughs in the first episode. Moments after Twilight properly introduces herself to Rarity (who was previously treating her as a potential customer), an excited Rarity touches her affectionately and declares "We are gonna be the best of friends, you and I". Twilight quickly runs away from her.
    Rarity: We are [rubs her face against Twilight's] the best of friends, are we not?
  • The Cutie Mark Crusaders in "One Bad Apple". Enthusiastic to meet Babs Seed, the trio rushes to greet her as soon as she steps off the train. The camera moves to Babs's point-of-view as Apple Bloom introduces herself and her friends while standing much too close. Then pans to Sweetie Belle, who's standing much closer, and finally to Scootaloo, who's standing even closer. The upper part of Scootaloo's face takes up about 90% of the frame in the last shot. Later, at the Crusaders' clubhouse, there's a moment where Scootaloo actually rubs her flank against Babs's, with the latter looking noticeably uncomfortable.
  • In "Daring Don't", Rainbow Dash is this around her hero Daring Do, constantly invading her privacy until Twilight Sparkle calls her out on it, and even then, she still gets way too close all the time, at one point hugging her tight until Daring has to push her away.
  • In "Power Ponies", the Mane-iac laughs in Spike's face when he thinks she is about to paralyze him and begs her not to spray him, and briefly tickles him under the chin with her mane while telling him how "pointless" that would be.
  • "Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3" has Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash both qualify for this trope. There are shots where they are right in each other's faces. Especially Twilight when she's trying to get Rainbow Dash to study.
  • In "Flutter Brutter", Fluttershy's brother Zephyr Breeze is shown to have little respect for boundaries. He frequently gives Fluttershy an Affectionate Gesture to the Head, hugs both his parents without prompting, and even tries to get touchy-feely with Rainbow Dash, who couldn't care less for his advances and frequently has to push him away.
• The Owl House: Hooty, full stop. He has the tendency to butt into other people’s conversations and often gets a little too close to them. It’s part of the reason why not many people seem to stand him.
• Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life, most notoriously when he briefly became Rocko's roomie.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
  • Catra near-constantly invades Adora's personal space when they're not fighting, which really doesn't reduce the Foe Romance Subtext. Ironically enough, Catra is, herself, extremely protective of her personal space.
  • Scorpia defaults to "hug" as her means of interaction with people, causing enough friction that Catra eventually orders her to stay ten feet away at all times.
  • Shadow Weaver tends to faux-affectionately touch the cheek of whoever she's manipulating at that point — she does it to Adora, Catra, Micah, and Glimmer at different points.
  • Entrapta frequently touches people with her Prehensile Hair. Notable examples are when she squishes Catra's cheeks with her hair in "The Price of Power" and manhandles Hordak in order to create a new cybernetic exoskeleton for him in "Huntara".
  • The show's most disturbing example is Horde Prime. In "Destiny, Part 4", he gropes Hordak's face and runs his hand over Hordak's armor during a frightening Mind Probe. He also touches Glimmer's face and hand in a manner that feels predatory.
• The Smurfs (1981): In the episode "A Hug for Grouchy", the Smurfs themselves exhibit this when they practically assault Grouchy with a hug.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob himself. Especially around Squidward. Squidward puts it like this in one episode:
  Squidward: SpongeBob? Do you remember that little talk we had about personal space?
  • This quote sums it up nicely...
    SpongeBob: We're like brothers, only closer!
• Star Wars Rebels:
  • The show keeps up the venerable Star Wars tradition of having Imperials who get uncomfortably close to the heroes while interrogating them, exhibit A being Grand Admiral Thrawn to Hera in "Hera's Heroes".
  • "Double Agent Droid" reveals that fussy ex-Imperial protocol droid AP-5 has absolutely no problems walking in on people using the refresher if he really needs to tell them something. He does it to Wedge on-screen, and it's mentioned that Zeb was a past recipient of this treatment.
• Teen Titans (2003):
  • Starfire is ALWAYS eager to initiate "The Group Hug". Or an overly-enthusiastic individual hug. Unfortunately, few people are willing to reciprocate, perhaps fearing broken ribs and bruising. The fact that she can learn any language by kissing is an unfortunate coincidence that does not help.
  • Slade tends to get uncomfortably close to Robin whenever they encounter each other, not to mention his apparent fondness for restraining him from behind while whispering into his ear or manhandling him to the ground. The entire episode "Birthmark" has Slade acting in such a manner in regard to Raven. He also likes to act in such a way with Terra. In the case of Terra, this is a pretty Squicky Mythology Gag to their relationship in the comics, in which Slade and Terra have a sexual relationship.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • Pepe's pupil Fifi La Fume toward her love interests.
  • Oh, and Elmyra "Take Him Home And Call Him "George"" Duff.
• Total Drama
  • Katie and Sadie towards Trent. In the first cast's cameo in the first episode of Revenge of the Island, both Katie and Sadie make a Trent sandwich.
  • Sierra in World Tour. Although it's usually Cody that has to deal with this, she's managed to creep out Heather, Noah, and Chris by it too.

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