Hobbes

Hobbes is a tiger that stands on two legs to Calvin, to others a stuffed animal. He is one of the two main characters in Calvin and Hobbes (the other being Calvin). He is named after philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Watterson may have named Hobbes after this person because Watterson describes Thomas Hobbes as "a dim view of human nature", which Hobbes shares.

Personality
Hobbes seems to be much more rational and aware of events that will happen because of Calvin's stupid ideas, but seldom stops Calvin, besides Hobbes won't get the blame for it, Calvin will. He also seems to be more intelligent then Calvin because he mostly beats Calvin in checkers and likes to read. He's also a talented artist, making a tiger sculpture called "Sympony in Orange, No. 1", which Calvin's Mom prefers to Calvin's stitched heads of 100 popular cartoon heads.

Interestingly, despite his intelligence, Hobbes seems unable to do Calvin's homework, or wants to lead Calvin in the wrong way, because he once wrote a name of a U.S city for a math problem, even telling Calvin 7+3=73. He often explains in a scientific and complicated way, once saying things about imaginary numbers (which exist, but aren't numbers like thirty thirteen and so on), and uses squares and told Calvin to measure the diagonal he drew. Even though the explanations seem real to Calvin, they are wrong although Calvin doesn't seem to be aware of this.

Hobbes has a generally low view of humans (claiming people exist for "Tiger food."). Calvin claims Hobbes once ate a kid named Tommy Chestnut. However, he goes gaga for girls like Susie, even to the point to betray his only friend in a water fight. When Calvin complains he was born a human, Hobbes remarks to not be hurt, and "Humans provide some very important protein".

Relationship with Calvin
Calvin and Hobbes are best friends, though commonly argue and fight. One running gag is that when Calvin gets home, Hobbes leaps out the door and tackles him. This is easy for Hobbes because Calvin always shouts ,"I'M HOME!" when he gets home, making him a easy target. Calvin sometimes realizes this is not a good idea, and will sneak out back and then shout, leading to more trouble. It should be seen that when Calvin dared Susie to shout, "I'M HOME!", Hobbes didn't tackle her. Hobbes's explanation for this is, ''"I always know it's you because of the bad smell." ''.

Along with Calvin, Hobbes is in G.R.O.S.S; his position is first tiger. When Calvin says something, Hobbes usually replies with a rather interesting reply. "Hey Hobbes, I'll give you 20 questions to guess what I have in my hand, OK?" (Calvin)

"OK. Is it loathsome?" (Hobbes)

"Yes!" (Calvin)

"Is it some big centipede with poison pinchers?" (Hobbes)

"Centipedes have poison pinchers?" (Calvin)

"I think so." (Hobbes)

"Man, it's a good thing you guessed it so fast!" (Calvin)

"With you, it's never too difficult." (Hobbes)