Wilt

Wilt
Nickname(s)	The Wilt Man
Character information
Species	Imaginary Friend
Gender	Male ♂
Age	31
Personal Status
Creator(s)	Jordan Michaels

Wilt Michaels (b. September 20, 1975) is an imaginary friend created by Jordan Michaels, and one of the main characters in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. He is voiced by veteran comic/actor Phil LaMarr. Likes Basketball.

Personality

Wilt is a 10 feet tall (3 meters) 130 pound red basketball-playing creature who is overly friendly and helpful; almost to a fault. He is an optimistic imaginary friend who was created by a kid named Jordan Michaels (a play on the famous basketball player Michael Jordan) who is now a famous basketball player. Wilt was named after the legendary basketball player Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt was created to teach Jordan how to play basketball, who was extremely short for his age and constantly lost to his older brother (as a youngster, Michael Jordan constantly lost to his brother, Larry Jordan). He wears old school styled basketball sneakers - which make his footsteps squeak like he's on a basketball court when he walks around - a red, white and blue sweatband on his wrist, and the number one on his chest like on a basketball jersey. Wilt is also known for his habit of almost constantly apologizing for no good reason (usually before he speaks, he says "I'm sorry but," and sometimes asks "Is that okay?" at the end).

Physical appearance

Pre-accident Wilt

He has massive scars on the side of his head. Only his right arm is usable in a normal manner. He has a purely vestigial left arm, but can be used to hold small things, as we see in Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way, when he holds a bowl of chips with his left arm. His eyes are on stalks protruding from his head; the left eye is severely damaged and the retina is detached, so it rattles when it moves and the eyelid doesn't open and close at all some of the time. But strangely in the Halloween episode of this show, Wilt is a werewolf in the flashback and in the movie Bloo made people think that he got his scars from some type of werewolf imaginary friend. Bloo is also getting people to think that in the same flashback, when a lamp fell on his right eye, it didn't break like the left one which doesn't seem to make any sense. According to his Coco Card, he is the tallest of the imaginary friends (although this may not be true since the Big Baby, the New Guy, Extremeasaurus, Foul Larry and many others seem to be bigger and stronger) at ten feet tall and 130 pounds of lean muscle (as he said in Room with a Feud-- "I'm a lean, mean muscle machine!"), and strong enough to lift Eduardo, if only for a few seconds.

His usual outfit seen wearing is tube socks, single wrist sweatband and large black tennis shoes with 72 inch laces (as stated in the FHFIF comic "Wash Out") or high-tops shoes (which he stated in the episode "Bad Dare Day".) Either way, they always cause a squeaky sound whenever Wilt walks on a surface of any sort. He can wear clothes, such as suits and t-shirts in various episodes, but normally does not. Although he is never seen wearing them, he owns blue striped pajamas, along with reading glasses, which is seen in the episode "Foster's Goes to Europe".

Traits

Wilt emceeing a talent show, before messing up his lines.

Wilt prides himself on finding abandoned imaginary friends, making him a "helper friend," and is kind-hearted to a fault, sometimes apologizing a lot even when it is unnecessary; he just can't say "no," especially when someone asks him to do something, even if it's incredibly inconvenient. For example, in Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way, he missed the entire basketball game doing favors for everyone who saw him (including thugs). Though he has not been able to say "no" in that episode, he said it twice before admitting he couldn't say it and has also said it numerous times in other episodes, even ones made before Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way. Bloo's laziness sometimes makes him take advantage of Wilt's niceness by pretending to be sad or hurt. In Partying Is Such Sweet Soirée, we also learn that he's an excellent dancer, but tends to get nervous in front of large gatherings as seen at the County Imaginary Friends Talent Show Pageant in Hiccy Burp, resulting in him flubbing his lines, and becoming too frozen with stage fright to continue afterwards. Wilt also hosted the contest the previous year, apparently forgetting his lines and causing something horrible (which was frequently mentioned but never explained), but after messing up a second time Madame Foster says "That was much better than last year."

Wilt is generally a pushover, although he does have his dignity and will stand up for himself past a certain point. In Room With A Feud , a new bedroom was available and he was quite insistent that he deserved it being that the room was very large with basketball wallpaper and two basketball hoops and even a scoreboard. Bloo attempted to fake sadness, in an attempt to coax Wilt into giving Bloo the room, stating: "But Wilt, you'll hurt my feeeeewiiiings!" Wilt responds with: "You know, I thought about that. And, the thing is... I really don't care." In another episode, Beat With a Schtick , he refused to help Bloo after he discovered he was making fun of tall people. In Bus the Two of Us, Mac and Bloo ask Wilt to distract Frankie while they are out on the Foster's bus taking a joyride. After several attempts to keep Frankie in the house, Wilt screams into the phone, "Two minutes! You have two minutes before Frankie leaves the house and there's nothing I can do to stop her, Mac! I am trapped in a tangled web of lies and I can't do it anymore! I tried, I really tried, but it's too much okay?! It's too much! The Wilt man is signing off. You are on your own, Mister!" He then slams down the phone, then picks it up to say, "Sorry." In Squeeze the Day he apparently got all of Foster's banned from the beach after some unknown accident involving homeless jellyfish and lots of sand.

Although Wilt is kind-hearted, he does have a "dark side," as seen in Pranks for Nothing . Apparently, he was the real culprit behind the all of the pranks, which we found out when blue was demanding who was behind all of the pranks, since CoCo wasn't. When Bloo (selfishly) shouted, "Who. Was. It?!?!", Wilt smiled at every word.

Wilt is one of the oldest friends at Foster's, and the third oldest of the imaginary main characters (with Duchess and Herriman as second and first, respectively) as shown in the episode The Big Picture where he is seen in all but the first of the annual house photos.

It has never truly been seen but Wilt has allergy medicine, which was seen when he was taking things out of bag in the episode Foster's Goes To Europe.

History

Wilt before the unfortunate game against Foul Larry three decades earlier.

In "Good Wilt Hunting," his history is revealed. His creator, Jordan Michaels (a spoonerism of Michael Jordan, a famous star basketball player), wasn't very good at basketball, so he created Wilt, who, when created, had a left arm and eye exactly like his current good ones. With Wilt's help, Jordan became unbeatable. For a whole year, they were unstoppable. However, a jealous boy created Foul Larry (a double pun on former Boston Celtics star Larry Bird, and the penalty known as a "foul" in basketball) a giant with a basketball head. Jordan and Wilt faced off against them, and they were ahead 48-47 until Larry went in for a final shot. Wilt was ready to defend, but Jordan was right under Larry when he jumped. Wilt, setting aside the victory, rushed in and pushed Jordan out of the way just as Larry came down, saving Jordan's life, but crushing Wilt's left arm, leaving it the length it is now. The ball went through the basket and knocked his left eye, bending it into its current shape. (It is still unknown how he got his scars, but they may have been acquired on his journey for a place to stay which was Fosters.) Jordan was so upset about the loss, that Wilt, distraught, ran away. It wasn't until Stats, the score keeper, told Jordan what happened that he went to look for Wilt, but all he found was the wristband from Wilt's broken arm. Jordan went on to become a professional basketball star, and while filming an ad in Japan was found by Mac, Bloo, Frankie, Coco, Eduardo, Nina Valerosa, and the scientists who researched Coco (Douglas and Adam) who looked for him after Wilt left to take on Foul Larry. The two were reunited, and Wilt promised to visit Jordan whenever he wanted. Wilt, however could still be adopted.

Trivia

• Besides Wilt, Coco also had a starring episode.
• It was revealed in Good Wilt Hunting who his creator really is (and where he is now).
• Wilt's name is a homage to NBA all star Wilt Chamberlain.

Episode appearances

Wilt appears in all the episodes except for "Frankie My Dear " and "Affair Weather Friends ," although he was mentioned in "Frankie My Dear."

Wilt Fusion