Adam West

Adam West	;
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Gender:	Male
Species:	Human
Age:	88 (probably younger in the Fairly Odd Parents universe)
Birthday:	September 19, 1928; Death Date: June 9, 2017 (aged 88)
	Personal Information
	Occupation:
	Actor
	Residence:
	Stately West Manor; Dimmsdale, California
	Homeworld:
	Earth
	Aliases:
	Catman
	Friends:
	Timmy Turner
	Enemies:
	Vicky
	Production Information
	First Appearance:
	Miss Dimmsdale
	Last Appearance:
	Birthday Bashed! (while outside the Catman suit); Knitwits (while inside the Catman suit)
	Voiced by:
	Himself(Seasons 4-6); Jeff Bennett (Seasons 9-10)

Character

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Adam West, until season 9, voiced a caricature of himself in The Fairly OddParents. Usually, he is seen as the Batman parody alter-ego "Catman", although he has appeared sometimes as a normal person animated in the style of the Fairly OddParents.

Description

Adam West is a famous actor, although his long time in Hollywood since childhood has left him relatively divorced from reality. West tends to treat all of life like a movie set, apparently unable to tell the difference between fantasty and an actual life or death situation. Although this often causes trouble for those around him, it has also imbued West with a surprisingly larger than life physicality, including getting around via Grappling Hooks and surviving encounters with actual supervillains. West's questionable grip on reality does not go unnoticed by others, which either causes people to disregard him or consider him a derranged lunatic.

Alter Ego

Catman

Catman is the superhero alter-ego of Adam West. He lived at his Stately Manor, but currently lives at "It's a Wrap" Retirement Community, both in Dimmsdale. He is a good friend (as well as a legal guardian) of Timmy Turner. He is a parody of the 1960s Batman who was portrayed in live-action by the great Adam West and of course directly based after Catman, another hero made by DC comics but had become a less prominent superhero and hardly known nowadays to the people of Dimmsdale. Despite knowing he had simply played the role of Catman in his youth, West truly believes himself to be a superhero, and is unable to recognize the efforts of those who try to convince him otherwise. On his own he is a fairly ineffectual hero, but often times proves more capable with the unknowing aid of Timmy and his Fairies.

Trivia

There appear to be two separate versions of Adam West featured on the show. The "Catman" version of the character was the first to appear, and was acknowledged as an aging actor convinced he was an actual crime-fighting hero and actually half cat. This version of West never appeared out of his Catman costume, and references to him actually being Adam West were eventually dropped in favor of simply acknowledging him as "Catman". The second version is portrayed as the actual Adam West without the Catman identity, focusing soley on his profession as an actor, though still portrays the physical tendencies associated with his role as the 1960s Batman. This version of West was more highly revered than the Catman version, who was seen as a senile lunatic. There two versions of Adam West were never directly linked with one another however.
West is the first person to guest star as himself in the show, The second one is Jay Leno.
West has brown hair on the show, but at the time in real life had entirely grayed hair due to his advanced age.
He has also played a fictionalized version of himself in shows Johnny Bravo (which Butch Hartman worked on prior to creating The Fairly Oddparents), The Simpsons, and was a recurring parody of himself on Family Guy up until his death.
He along with Florence Henderson and Stephen Hawking are unfortunately one of the real-life celebrities who have already passed away.
West died from leukemia on June 9th, 2017 at the age of 88 shortly before his final film, Batman vs. Two-Face.
In later episodes, he is replaced by Jeff Bennett voicing Cat-Man.

Real life

For more information on the real life Adam West, visit his wikipedia page.

Character Guide

Adam West