Johnny Fartpants
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Johnny Fartpants was arguably the first character in VIZ magazine to achieve UK-wide notoriety, and was certainly on a lot of teenagers' T-shirts in the late 1980s. He is, on the face of it, an ordinary boy; except he suffers from extreme, excessive flatulence that is not only offensive to the nose and ears, but destructive to those around him. His gaseous emissions have been known to destroy houses and other hard-surfaced articles, as well as injure people. He is always apologetic and constantly reminds people that his colonic expulsions are beyond his control.
A similar device was used in the cartoon strip "Little Sammy Sneeze", where the disruption is caused by the character's sudden explosive sneeze rather than flatulence, by cartoonist Winsor McCay back in 1904.