Girly Girl: Betty embraces everything feminine in her era.Friend to All Living Things: And pretty much everything in her world is living.The Flapper: She was born as a caricature of this.She also originally had red hair according to her only colored classic cartoon (Cinderella) but all later appearances give her black hair. Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Betty was originally a dog however, later her species was changed to a human. Breakout Character: She was a secondary character in the old Bimbo cartoons, however she was so popular that she became the main character where's Bimbo would end up being Demoted to Extra.Anthropomorphic Shift: Originally appeared as a cartoon poodle, but gradually morphed into a cartoon human.Ambiguously Jewish: Hinted at in "Minnie the Moocher".Action Girl: In The Bum Bandit as the "Dangerous Nan McGrew", she was portrayed as a tough cowgirl.This is probably why she prefers to live with her Grampy instead. Abusive Parents: The short "Minnie the Moocher" has her being yelled at by her overbearing parents, who are demanding she eat an extremely unpleasant meal that they have put on the table-it's so nasty that when the flower who was trying to coax her to just take a bite tries the spoonful, it dies.Was gradually toned down post-1933, but is still remembered today as the peppy, cute youth of her early days.
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