History WesternAnimation / BugsBunny

* WesternAnimation/HareLift (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.

* WesternAnimation/RabbitsKin (MM, [=McKimson=]) - with Pete Puma (voice of Stan Freberg).

* Rabbit's Kin (MM, [=McKimson=]) - with Pete Puma (voice of Stan Freberg).

* WesternAnimation/{{Super-Rabbit}} (MM, Jones): A parody of [[Creator/FleischerStudios Max Fleischer's]] WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons. After the release of Tortoise Wins by a Hare, it's startling to see Bugs revert back to being a defensive character again.

* Broom-Stick Bunny (LT, Jones) - Starring Hazel.

'''''[[TropeCodifier The]]'' ([[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse other]]) cartoon character.'''

* WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc (MM, Jones) - Starring Elmer.

* WesternAnimation/WabbitTwouble (MM, Cwampett) - Starring the Fat Elmer. Creator/BobClampett's first Bugs Bunny. It is rumored that this cartoon was started by Tex Avery but finished by Clampett, backed up by the fact that Tex and Bob planned it together early on. Here, Bugs goes right back to being a VillainProtagonist, pestering poor Elmer (solely because he set up camp in Bugs' territory). But wheras the earlier Bugs were fairly aggressive in their pestering, Clampett presents Bugs as going about it in a more playful, confident way, as if a nod to that Bugs knows exactly what he's doing, so in a sense, he's certainly not too OutOfCharacter here.

* Pre-Hysterical Hare (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer. One of six Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts to use a stock music soundtrack (due to a then-ongoing musician's strike), and the only classic Bugs Bunny short to have Elmer Fudd voiced by someone other than Arthur Q. Bryan, with Dave Barry instead voicing him.

* GoKartingWithBowser : Taken to extremes. Bugs often had a very forgiving demeanor to the many individuals that tried to con, maim or even kill him so often. Justified as it's all part of the show.

'''''[[TropeCodifier The]]'' (other) cartoon character.'''

* Bugs Bunny Rides Again (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam.

* The Heckling Hare (MM, Avery): The cartoon that caused Avery to leave Leon's cartoon studio [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons to make cartoons for MGM]]. With that said, Avery finally managed to nail Bugs' defensive personality again, capturing what made him such a hit in "A Wild Hare".

->''"Some people call me cocky and brash, but actually I am just self-assured. I'm nonchalant, im­perturbable, contemplative. I play it cool, but I can get hot under the collar. And above all I'm a very 'aware' character. I'm well aware that I am appearing in an animated car­toon....And sometimes I chomp on my carrot for the same reason that a stand-up comic chomps on his cigar. It saves me from rushing from the last joke to the next one too fast. And I sometimes don't act, I react. And I always treat the contest with my pursuers as 'fun and games.' When momentarily I appear to be cornered or in dire danger and I scream, don't be consoined [sic] – it's actually a big put-on. Let's face it Doc. I've read the script and I al­ready know how it turns out."''

[[caption-width-right:350:[[CharacterCatchphrase Eh... What's up, Doc?]]]]

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* BagofKidnapping: In "To Hare Is Human" Wile E. Coyote captured Bugs by forcing Bugs into a sack.

'''''[[TropeCodifier The]]'' ([[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse other]]) cartoon character.'''

'''''[[TropeCodifier The]]'' cartoon character.'''

* CatchPhrase:

* CavalierConsumption: Bugs often does this, as a possible holdover from his days as a prankster. When asking "Eh... What's up, Doc?", he's often feigning caring, and is even asking and talking while chewing.
* CementShoes: Mobsters Mugsy and Rocky try this on Bugs in "The Unmentionables".
* ChainedToARailway: Including one notable instance in which Elmer Fudd is tied to the tracks, and the "Super Chief" (namechecking a famous passenger train of the time) runs right over him -- a long line of little bunnies following Bugs, who's wearing a feathered headdress.

** Bugs Gunny is fond of odd pronunciations. "Maroon" for 'moron' is perhaps the best known. Part of it is his accent, but much of it seems to be affectation. Bugs does use "moron" in "Tortoise Beats Hare". He was also known to mangle the word 'imbecile' (which he pronounces as "im-BES-sel").

* WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck (MM, Jones) - A WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon, but [[spoiler: ol' Bugsy is the driving force behind the events of it.]]

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