Homer Simpson | |
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Year/Event debuted |
2007 SCAW Tournament match 8 |
Championships earned |
SCAW Internet Championship |
Other achievements |
2008 SCAW Tournament winner |
Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip Life in Hell but instead decided to create a new set of characters. He named the character after his father, Homer Groening. After appearing for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, the Simpson family got their own series on Fox that debuted December 17, 1989.
As the patriarch of the eponymous family, Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa and Maggie. As the family's provider, he works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant as safety inspector. Homer embodies many American working class stereotypes: he is crude, obese, incompetent, lazy, clumsy, dim-witted, hot-tempered, childish and addicted to alcohol, junk food and watching television. However, he often does his best to be a decent man and is fiercely devoted to his family, especially when his wife and children need him the most. Despite the suburban blue-collar routine of his life, he has had a number of remarkable experiences, including going to space, climbing the tallest mountain in Springfield by himself, fighting former President George H. W. Bush and winning a Grammy Award as a member of a barbershop quartet.
In the shorts and earlier episodes, Castellaneta voiced Homer with a loose impression of Walter Matthau; however, during the second and third seasons of the half-hour show, Homer's voice evolved to become more robust, to allow the expression of a fuller range of emotions. He has appeared in other media relating to The Simpsons—including video games, The Simpsons Movie, The Simpsons Ride, commercials, and comic books—and inspired an entire line of merchandise. His signature catchphrase, the annoyed grunt "D'oh!", has been included in The New Oxford Dictionary of English since 1998 and the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001.
Homer is one of the most influential characters in the history of television, and is widely considered to be an American cultural icon. The British newspaper The Sunday Times described him as "the greatest comic creation of [modern] time". He was named the greatest character "of the last 20 years" in 2010 by Entertainment Weekly, was ranked the second-greatest cartoon character by TV Guide, behind Bugs Bunny, and was voted the greatest television character of all time by Channel 4 viewers. For voicing Homer, Castellaneta has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and a special-achievement Annie Award. In 2000, Homer and his family were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Championships
Championships | Event | Date | Notes | Days held |
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2007 | ||||
SCAW Internet Championship | SCAW Superstar Clash 2 | August 30, 2007 | defeated Ichigo Kurosaki | 76 |
2008 | ||||
SCAW Championship | Blood, Sweat & Tears II | August 29, 2008 | defeated Spider-Man | 182 |
2009 | ||||
SCAW Championship | SCAW Superstar Clash 41 | July 30, 2009 | defeated Guile, Santa Claus, Ghost Rider, M. Bison and Iron Man in an Elimination Chamber Match | 7 |
2011 | ||||
SCAW Championship | The Great American Smash 2011 | July 8, 2011 | defeated Spider-Man | 0 |
2013 | ||||
SCAW Championship | Ascendance 2013 | November 19, 2013 | defeated Santa Claus and The Prince of Persia in a Triple Threat Match | 12 |
2014 | ||||
SCAW Tag Team Championship | Blood, Sweat & Tears VII | January 12, 2014 | (with Spider-Man) defeated M. Bison & Magneto in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs Match |
216 |
2015 | ||||
SCAW Legends Championship | Autumn Anarchy 2015 | October 10, 2015 | defeated Spider-Man, The Prince of Persia and Edward Elric in a Fatal 4-Way Match | 118 |
SCAW Tag Team Championship | Halloween Manik 2015 | November 18, 2015 | (with Spider-Man) defeated Mr. Clean & Jack Sparrow |
103 |
2022 | ||||
SCAW Legends Championship | E-Extravaganza 2022 | February 25, 2022 | defeated Superman, Ryu Hayabusa, William Wallace, Inuyasha and Gladiator in an Elimination Chamber Match | 0 |
Other achievements
Achievement | Event | Date |
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2008 SCAW Tournament Winner | No Guts No Glory 2008 | July 16, 2008 |
Match Of Destiny Winner | Day of Destiny 2013 | August 11, 2013 |