Cartoons are a pivotal part of most of our childhoods, so important that many of our first crushes were characters from our favorite animated TV shows or movies.
So when comic book writer Gail Simone—who's best known for writing DC's Birds of Prey—started the conversation using the soon-to-be-viral hashtag #1stCartoonCrush, we had to ask ourselves: why hadn’t someone thought of this sooner?
From Jessica Rabbit to Gadget to Danny Phantom, take a look at some Twitter users’ first cartoon crushes below.