History Main / EasterBunny

* ''WesternAnimation/RabbitAcademy'' is about a rabbit who gets accepted to a school that trains Easter Bunnies, and must defend the holiday from foxes who want to take over, and a former pupil who wants to abolish Easter altogether.

** [[spoiler:Hockney, a wild boar piglet who's in the same class as Wendell. Became a "cover story" Easter bunny when their classmate Lin caught him replacing the eggs with rocks and misunderstood, later insisted on taking the job for real because he thought Lin was attracted to him as a result.]]

** Of note is that Lindesfarne tried to audition to be the Easter Bunny herself, but they refused to even consider her because she was a hedgehog, with one judge declaring that the Easter Bunny will 'never, never, never, never, never be anything but a ''rabbit'''. Lindesfarne notes the irony, considering all the wolves and Fiona above.

** Wendell: Kevin's nephew. Always dreamed of becoming the Easter Bunny, was offered an apprenticeship after saving rabbit pheromone-dowsed Rudy and Fiona from wolves. Is now being trained by Dorothy as he is too young, too inexperienced, and too immature to go solo.

* In at least the original special of ''Santa vs. the Snowman'', Santa is locked in prison, and says that the Easter Bunny is never going to let him live it down.

A legendary figure about the holiday Easter. In popular culture, it's a [[WhiteBunny rabbit]] that hides Easter eggs (as in eggs dyed for Easter, not the video game EasterEgg), and children have to find them.

Its origins are a bit more complex. It's popularly believed that missionaries found that adding Christian elements to pagan celebrations made conversions a bit easier. So they combined the Christian celebration of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}'s [[BackFromTheDead resurrection]] with fertility rites around that time of year, and rabbits and eggs being signs of those, they became symbols of Easter as well. It helped that the resurrection theme went along well with the renewal theme that it seems likely most pre-Christian spring festivals had. Unfortunately, there is no contemporary record of these festivals beyond a single reference to the goddess Eostre by the Venerable Bede.

In many places where Easter is celebrated today, things about [[SexTropes sex]] and coming back from the dead aren't considered appropriate things to teach children, so the elements got fiddled around with until Easter became a case of SantaClausmas for many people, with the Easter Bunny being the most prominent figure instead of Jesus.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians', one of the titular Guardians is Bunnymund, Guardian of Hope. He's a unique take as he's actually a tall, human-sized rabbit who wields a boomerang. However, when [[BigBad Pitch]]'s plan [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve to weaken the Guardians by robbing them of children's belief]] comes to fruition, Bunnymund ends up getting reduced to a normal-looking rabbit.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians', one of the titular Guardians is Bunnymund, Guardian of Hope. He's a unique take as he's actually a tall, human-sized rabbit who wields a boomerang. However, when Pitch's plan [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve to weaken the Guardians by robbing them of children's belief]] comes to fruition, Bunnymund ends up getting reduced to a normal-looking rabbit.

* One of the titular Guardians in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians''.