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Porky Pig
"Th-th-th-Thats all folks!"
The Everyman and Straight Man to the rest of the cast, known for his ridiculously thick stutter. Often played a Deadpan Snarker or Butt-Monkey, usually when paired with Daffy (either role depending on the latter's interpretation).
Debut: I Haven't Got A Hat (1935), Friz Freleng
Voiced By: Joe Dougherty, Mel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Noel Blanc, Rob Paulsen, Joe Alaskey, Greg Burson, Eric Goldberg, Billy West, Bob Bergen, Eric Bauza
Tropes related to Porky Pig:
- See Porky Pig.
Daffy Duck
"You're despicable!"/"WOO HOO, HOO HOO!!!"
Was originally the Screwball/Cloudcuckoolander, later Flanderized by Chuck Jones (and Friz Freleng) into a jerkass Small Name, Big Ego, most famously paired with Bugs as the Odd Couple. In this incarnation, used either as a foil for Bugs or to parody action-adventure heroes. Meanwhile, Robert McKimson combined the two interpretations and made Daffy into a Loveable Rogue. Later also joined Sylvester on the hunt for Speedy Gonzales.
Debut: "Porky's Duck Hunt" (1937), Tex Avery
Voiced By:: Mel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey, Maurice LaMarche, Greg Burson, Frank Gorshin, Dee Bradley Baker, Samuel Vincent, Jeff Bennett, Eric Bauza
Tropes related to Daffy Duck:
- See Daffy Duck.
Elmer Fudd
"Be vewwy, vewwy quiet! I'm hunting wabbits!"
One of only three humans in the regular cast (the others being Yosemite Sam & Tweety's owner Granny). The Butt-Monkey, often Too Dumb to Live. An avid hunter, thus Jones' favorite adversary for both Bugs & Daffy, reaching a peak in the iconic Rabbit Season trilogy. Less popular with the other directors, who found him too wimpy. On a side note, he had an earlier, less distinctive prototype named Egghead, who was sometimes referred to as Elmer.
Debut: "Elmer's Candid Camera" (1940), Chuck Jones.
Voiced By: Danny Webb or Cliff Narazzo (Egghead era), Arthur Q. Bryan, Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Hal Smith, Mark Kausler, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Joe Alaskey, Tom Kenny, Frank Welker, Noel Blanc, Billy West, Eric Bauza
Tropes related to Elmer Fudd:
- See Elmer Fudd.
Bugs Bunny
"Eehhh... What's up, Doc?"
Debut: "A Wild Hare" (1940), various, notably Tex Avery
Voiced By:: Mel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Billy West, Joe Alaskey, Eric Bauza
Tropes related to Bugs Bunny:
- See Bugs Bunny.
Tweety Bird
"I tawt I taw a puddy tat!"
In Clampett's hands, Tweety was a pink, sadistic trickster who used his wits to lure cats away from him. Later on, under Freleng, Tweety became yellow (the Hays Office balked because the pink made him look naked), found a recurring adversary in Sylvester, and often depended on an umbrella-wielding Granny or an angry bulldog to drive him off. Time has made modern generations mistake him for a female. See also Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird.
Debut: "A Tale of Two Kitties" (1942), Bob Clampett.
Voiced By: Mel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Joe Alaskey, Eric Goldberg, Samuel Vincent, Billy West, Bob Bergen, Eric Bauza
Tropes related to Tweety Bird:
- Arch-Enemy: To Sylvester. Tweety and Sylvester are always after each other, much like Tom and Jerry.
- Baby Talk: He talks like a baby because he is supposed to be a baby bird. Which often makes his tune pretentiously innocent.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Space Jam even demonstrated that he can still slip into this time and time again.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Tweety makes a good show of being an innocent and sweet little bird, however, this is an act which hides an arrogant and sadistic trickster (though as time progressed, his innocence seemed to become more genuine.)
- Character Catchphrase:
- "Dat bad old puttytat!"
- "I tawt I taw a puttytat!"
- "I did, I did! I did saw a puttytat!"
- Characterization Marches On: In the Clampett shorts he was a very aggressive character who tries anything to foil his foe, even kicking his enemy when he is down. Although Freleng retained that same flavor in his first few shorts with the character, he gradually turned him into a cutesy bird who often depended on Granny to be saved from Sylvester, with his aggression being much more subtle.
- Distressed Dude: At his worst. At times he can be clever enough to trick Sylvester by himself, but other times he's helpless, like in Tom Tom Tomcat ("Granny! Help!") or other shorts where he needs to be saved by Granny or Hector.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's a guy, but the high-pitched voice and eyelashes make him sound and look feminine, and in foreign dubs, he is often voiced by a woman (while in English his voice was provided by a man, Mel Blanc). The name of a short called Ain't She Tweet probably doesn't help any.
- The Fake Cutie: "Aw, da poor puddy tat. He faw down an' go Boom!" This, after carefully arranging poor Sylvester's defeat. His phony naivete and pity is actually dripping with sarcasm if the self-satisfied smile doesn't clue the viewer in.
- Hero Antagonist: In his shorts with Sylvester, he's a defensive character, and the focus is on Sylvester, who tries to eat him. While he occasionally uses hammers, saws and dynamites he is just as often a living trophy for Sylvester without much of a role outside staying in his cage.
- Hidden Depths: Despite Tweety becoming softer, fans do notice that on the inside, he's still a sadistic being who takes pleasure in seeing Sylvester get hurt.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: In his early (pink) appearance his eyes were not blue and he wasn't innocent at all. He later becomes a (seemingly) innocent and naive bird with blue eyes.
- Invincible Hero: Though he had a slightly more vulnerable streak than most other Looney Tunes protagonists, he was one of very few to come out the victor in every appearance he made.
- Jerkass: Originally out-of-the-cage. In Clampett's cartoons (where he's pink) and even in the first few of Freleng's (like Tweetie Pie and I Taw a Putty Tat), he's sadistic and often violent towards his aggressors, including Sylvester. Then he became a somewhat more naive Distressed Dude who only occasionally does anything to defend himself (Sylvester will usually screw up due to his own foolishness or the interference of other characters).
- Killer Rabbit: In his first cartoons, where he was as cute as violent and sadistic, bordering on Cute Is Evil, if mostly in the Pay Evil unto Evil sort of way.
- Lack of Empathy: His response when Daffy was suffocating in "Etiquette Shmetiquette"? Ignoring him.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He often seems like The Fool who only wins by dumb luck, but a good part of his naivety is definitely just an act, seeing how he can easily outwit Sylvester.
- Ping Pong Naïveté: You could never tell whether he defeated Sylvester by Obfuscating Stupidity or inadvertently through genuine child-like naïveté and dumb luck.
- Pint Sized Power House: Known as the smallest Looney Tunes character and in his earlier cartoons he is also very strong.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Because of his “cute” appeal that makes him popular with girls and young women, he's perhaps the most heavily merchandised LT character.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He's far less outwardly sadistic in later shorts, though Depending on the Writer he somewhat keeps his malicious streak.
Pepé Le Pew
A Funny Foreigner and Handsome Lech said to be the most foul smelling skunk in the world - or to his own kind, the best smelling - completely oblivious to his body odor problem... and thus to why all the beautiful 'young ladies' keep running from him in disgust.
Debut: "Odor Able Kitty" (1945), Chuck Jones.
His official pairing is now known as Penelope Pussycat, and she often has the misfortune of having a white stripe painted down her back, making Pepé go quite wild for her. It also seems that when he douses his foul scent and covers his white stripe (or accidentally paints himself blue), she can go quite wild over him, making him quite the Chick Magnet.
Debut: "Odor Able Kitty" (1945), Chuck Jones.
Voiced By: Mel Blanc, Greg Burson, Maurice LaMarche, Joe Alaskey, Billy West, Bruce Lanoil, Jeff Bennett, René Auberjonois, Jeff Bergman, Eric Bauza
Tropes related to Pepé Le Pew:
- See Pepé Le Pew
Sylvester J. Pussycat
"Sufferin' succotash!"
A cat with a speech impediment who usually tries to eat Tweety or Speedy Gonzales, with little success. One of the most versatile of the ensemble, prone to neuroses and usually the star of the comic melodramas. Although Freleng's take on Sylvester is the one everybody remembers, other directors also made great use of the character. In Robert McKimson's hands, for example, slobby Sylvester has a hyper-articulate son named Sylvester Jr., whom Dad tries to impress by chasing what turns out to be a baby kangaroo into another room; when he retreats gibbering at the 'giant mouse!' Junior is mortified. Sylvester also starred in Kitty Kornered, one of Bob Clampett's last cartoons for Warners, and in three Chuck Jones-directed cartoons, all opposite Porky Pig. See also Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird.
Debut: "Life with Feathers" (1945), Friz Freleng
Voiced By: Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Jeff Bergman, Bill Farmer, Terry Klassen, Jeff Bennett
Tropes related to Sylvester J. Pussycat:
- Animals Hate Him: Played for Laughs (this is a slapstick cartoon), though other animals often love tormenting him regardless if he's done anything wrong.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: One-time example in "The Scarlet Pumper Nickel"; Sylvester as the Grand Duke is a full-blown Funny Animal.
- Anti-Villain: Beside his personal vendetta against his foes (especially Tweety), he's a nice fellow and is portrayed as even a good guy in a few cartoons.
- Arch-Enemy: To Tweety. Tweety and Sylvester are always after each other, much like Tom and Jerry. (Okay, Sylvester is always after Tweety.) He was also Speedy Gonzales' main enemy before Daffy took his place, although it's not so frequent as his feuds with Tweety.
- The Bad Guy Wins: In "Twick or Tweety", where he ate Tweety Bird for the first time.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Sylvester was often fond of yelling "AHHHHH SHADDUP!" when other characters tried his patience too much, one big example being Foghorn Leghorn, who ended up clobbered.
- Buffoonish Tomcat: He's a cat and his usual characterization is that of a slapstick punching bag.
- Bumbling Dad: He means well, but his general clumsiness and ineptitude is the cause of Sylvester Jr.'s embarrassment.
- Butt-Monkey: Claimed fewer victories than even Elmer or post-Flanderized Daffy. He lampshades his poor luck in "Everything Is Going My Way".
- Card-Carrying Villain: As he puts it in his Villain Song, he is "that great big bad old cat".
- Cats Are Mean: Though granted that his meanness rarely went outside a cat's natural instincts for food, and it doesn't stop sadistic birds, mice and dogs abusing him beyond (or sometimes even without) provocation (eg. Canned Feud).
- Character Catchphrase: "Sufferin' succotash."
- Characterization Marches On:
- Several of his earlier cartoons saw him as a lot more mischievous and hyperactive, with shorts like Doggone Cats and Back Alley Oproar even playing him as The Trickster, similar to Bugs and Daffy in their earlier days.
- Another early short, Catch as Cats Can, depicts him as practically Too Dumb to Live (complete with a different, "dopey" sounding voice).
- Chaste Toons: Double-subverted; while Sylvester Jr. is expressly depicted as his son (as opposed to the industry standard Nephewism), we never see the mother.
- The Chew Toy: More often than not he's subjected to Amusing Injuries.
- Cool Cat: He occasionally plays with this, particularly in cartoons where Tweety, Speedy Gonzales or Hippety Hopper aren’t involved.
- Deadpan Snarker: His angry quips and abrasive outbursts are a trademark of his and are most often directed at Tweety by calling him some variation of meal, like "little yellow morsel".
- Determinator: Just like all the Looney Tunes losers, Sylvester shows much pride and he also never gives up.
- Dirty Coward: He can be quite the tough and wise guy against his prey and enemies who can't reach him. When the enemies do reach him though he displays his true colors which are mostly yellow. One shining example is in “Cat’s Paw”, where he wants to go after a small bird because he doesn’t want to tangle with a vulture — and when he tangles with a dwarf eagle that kicks his ass, he wants to go after the big birds because he earlier claimed that they were lethargic, ultimately settling for butterflies which proceed to kick his ass too!
- Drama Queen: One of the most verbally expressive and overreacting characters of the cast, whether he expresses fear of being hurt, scoffing at his opponent's weakness or slobbering over the possible recipes that he can cook his victim. It’s his mental breakdowns often caused by his inner turmoil and his huge potential in Bathos that do it.
- Evil Gloating: His biggest flaw is that he is quick to brag at his antagonist's face when things seem to turn in his favour: smirking, poking his tongue, insulting them and throwing things on their head is all part of the course for him before the main course. Of course fate doesn't need a lot to be tempted by him.
- Freudian Excuse: Implied a couple times.
- In "Happy Bath Day to You", it is shown that Tweety was given to Sylvester by Granny as a playmate for his first birthday when he was a kitten. He tried to eat Tweety only to get reprimanded by Granny, who told him he'd never get any more birthdays until he and Tweety played nice. It's implied this is why Sylvester wants to eat Tweety so bad.
- When Tweety gives him a present in "Holiday Purrchase", Sylvester mentions he's never received a gift from anyone in his entire "miserable life" and actually cries.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: More than any other LT, this cat is the character to go for emotionally conflicted and one who alternates between wanting to eat his quarry and deciding to spare and save it. And then wanting to devour it once again.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He's not much of a threat. Much like Elmer, Wile E. Coyote, and pretty much all the villains in the series, he's usually depicted as a hopeless Butt-Monkey as likely to fall by his own bumbling (or bad luck) as by the actions of the protagonists themselves.
- Iron Butt Monkey: He suffers so many Amusing Injuries that, if it weren't for the franchise's nature, it'd be a wonder how he can still walk.
- Karmic Trickster: Got the rare chance to play one against Elmer Fudd in Back Alley Oproar.
- Laser-Guided Karma: While hopeless at catching prey like Tweety, Speedy and Hippety Hopper, there are odd cases where Sylvester is forced to protect his potential prey, at which point he is often quite competent (eg. A Mouse Divided, Father of the Bird). He is still usually robbed of a full victory at the end of it though.
- Nervous Wreck: Sylvester often starts off serene enough, but thanks to either personal obsession or him getting threatened, will eventually start suffering from panic attacks and become increasingly high-strung. By the end of the short the only thing that usually ends up consumed is him by paranoia.
- Noble Demon: A vicious predator, but a loving father to Sylvester Jr., and with often the same on-off friendly banter towards his prey as the rest of the Rogues Gallery. He also occasionally goes through the same pangs of conscience as Elmer when he thinks he has succeeded in killing them.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted; prior to his introduction, his first name ("Sylvester") was used for a dog antagonist in the Bugs Bunny short Hare Force.
- Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: In Bell Hoppy he never gets dissuaded by the fact that the villainous cats of the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club that he worships treat him like dirt and is thrilled at the prospect of being accepted by swell characters which is why he foolishly goes along with their plans, which aren't too bright either. These also includes his team up with Wile E. Coyote which meant that he went along for the ride (aka the trap setting going horribly wrong and blowing up in their faces). Although he gets hungry in an evil way on his own most of the time.
- Pragmatic Villainy: A couple of instances have him save Tweety to try to benefit himself in some way. For example, he protects him from being eaten by another cat in "Tweet and Sour"... because Granny threatened to turn him into violin strings should anything bad happen to the bird.
- Slave to PR: When he gets upset with himself over sparing a bird as he fears the boys at the lodge, that he is apparently a member of, hearing about this.
- Smug Snake: Sneaky, disdainful, and not as intelligent as he thinks he is (despite actually being fairly clever). Additionally, he's prone to underestimating his opponent's ability to fight back and pays the price for it.
- Species Surname: His name is Sylvester J. Pussycat and he's a cat.
- Speech Impediment: "Thufferin' Thuccotatch!"
- Suddenly Voiced:
- Inverted. He could usually speak (albeit with his famous speech impediment), but a few Chuck Jones-directed cartoons cast him as Porky's pet, and in these he was a Heroic Mime.
- His speaking role seemed to depend on character; since he was classified as a pet, he usually did not communicate with owners or humans but could make conversations with fellow pet-classified animals like Tweety. For other animals with more human roles like Daffy and Porky it was free-game and Depending on the Writer (though mute in Scaredy Cat and its followups, Sylvester spoke normally to Porky in Kitty Cornered and The Scarlet Pumpernickel, for example). Possibly the only human he's actually spoken with is Elmer Fudd, in such shorts as Back Alley Oproar and Heir-Conditioned.
- Sudden Name Change: In his first short with Tweety (Tweetie Pie), he was called Thomas.
- Super-Persistent Predator: One of the clip shows and a movie show Sylvester has chased Tweety through the entire world in attempt to eat the bird.
- Sycophantic Servant: When seen with other antagonists whom he doesn't perceive as rivals for his quarry, he becomes a toady who tries to earn their approval. He acted as Yosemite Sam's spy in the Christmas Special and as Wile E. Coyote's stooge who followed on with each of Coyote's plans to capture the Roadrunner hoping that he would get him Speedy too.
- Team Rocket Wins: Rarely as a villain and never against Tweety. Until the web-cartoons.
- With some assistance from Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester chalks up a win in "A Message to Gracias."
- He successfully eats an Asshole Victim parrot in "Catch As Cats Can" and holds ground in Porky's house in "Kitty Cornered". He also gets the last laugh in "Back Alley Oproar" and "Mouse Mazurka" (even if he literally has to kill himself in the process).
- Villainous Underdog: While Sylvester certainly isn't weaker than Tweety, he's no match for Granny or Hector and has to find ways to sneak past them in order to get at the bird. That's without getting into his fights with Speedy Gonzales or Hippity Hopper.
- Villain Protagonist: In his shorts with Tweety, Hippity Hopper and Speedy.
- Villain Song: His parts of "I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat
" mainly have him sing about the fact he wants to eat Tweety. They also double as a variant of "The Hero Sucks" Song since he mocks the bird's Baby Talk. - "Well Done, Dad!" Guy: Most of the episodes that featured Sylvester Jr. were focused around Sylvester trying to earn his son's respect with very little success.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Despite being afraid of dogs, in at least one short he's also afraid to be sent to the violin factory.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: He's a sneaky predator and some adaptations give him yellow sclera (which is part of the eye).
Yosemite Sam
"OOOOOHHHH, AHHH HATES RABBITS!!!"
A brash little outlaw with handlebar mustachios and a severe temper problem, introduced as 'a more Worthy Opponent' for Bugs than the meek Elmer. Said to be a caricature of his (short, brash, redheaded) creator, Fritz Freling. Introduced as a cowboy bandit, he eventually became the stock blowhard villain character: Civil War general, Viking, Pirate, The Black Knight (no Python references please), politician, an Arab sheik, etc. Oddly enough, he wears his bandit mask no matter what role he plays and normally lets out a burst of irate Angrish.
Debut: "Hare Trigger" (1945), Friz Freleng
Voiced By: Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Jeff Bergman, Charlie Adler, Greg Burson, Frank Gorshin, Maurice LaMarche, Jim Cummings, Bill Farmer, Jeff Bennett, Fred Tatasciore
Tropes related to Yosemite Sam:
- See Yosemite Sam.
Foghorn Leghorn
"What in tha- I say, what in the Sam Hill is goin' on here?"
A loud, obnoxious rooster with a Southern accent, based on Fred Allen's 'Senator Claghorn' radio character. Considers himself the life of the party; demonstrates by tricking baby chickenhawks out of capturing him, abusing Mandrake the barnyard dog by whomping his ass with a wooden board, or babysitting a genius chick named Eggbert in order to cozy up to his widow hen mother.
Debut: "Walky Talky Hawky" (1946), Robert McKimson
Voiced By: Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Bill Farmer, Frank Gorshin, Billy West, Jeff Bennett, Scott Innes, Eric Bauza
Tropes Related to Foggy:
- See Foghorn Leghorn.
Gossamer
Debut: "Hair-Raising Hare" (1946), Jones.
Tropes:
- Breakout Character: Has become one of the most recognizable characters in the Looney Tunes franchise.
- Dumb Muscle: His imposing physique is only matched by the length of his hair and his lack of a complex thought pattern.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: That one time when he gets shaved into oblivion, leaving only his sneakers.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Bugs once scared him off by making him realize that he was currently being watched by possibly thousands of people this entire time (read: the viewers). He immediately runs off screaming to get away. Through literally several walls.
- Ironic Name: This big, lumbering red monster is called Gossamer, which is usually used to refer to thin, fragile or transparent material. Chuck Jones explicitly named him as such "because he's the opposite looking of gossamer. He's a big, hairy thing."
- One-Track-Minded Hunger: Despite being a monstrous enforcer of mad scientists his motivation is always as simple as earning himself a meal be it Bugs Bunny himself or spider ghoulash.
Marvin the Martian
"I claim this planet in the name of Mars! Isn't that lovely? Hmmm?"
An Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who wants to see an Earth-Shattering Kaboom, and is the Trope Namer thereof (albeit invariably foiled by Bugs).
Debut: "Haredevil Hare" (1948), Jones.
Voiced By: Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Bob Bergen, Eric Goldberg, Jeff Bergman, Billy West, Neil Ross, Keith Scott, Samuel Vincent, Damon Jones, Eric Bauza, Kevin Shinick
Tropes related to Marvin the Martian:
- Adaptational Badass: The video game Looney Tunes Collector: Martian Alert! and its sequel Martian's Revenge actually depicted Marvin as much more competent and fearsome character.
- Adaptational Heroism: In The Looney Tunes Show he is far nicer than his original counterpart as he's actually a friend of Bugs, Daffy and Porky and despite claiming he wants to blow up the Earth he is never shown attempting it.
- In Baby Looney Tunes he is a helpful and kind kid who is simply shy.
- More so Adaptational Less Villainy in Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production where his first appearance is him trying to conquer the Earth rather than destroy it.
- Affably Evil:
- Marvin was conceived as the opposite of Yosemite Sam, so he's always been a quiet, reserved, polite character who can still pose a threat.
- In The Looney Tunes Show he believes in being polite and states if you aren't he'll shoot you with his laser gun. However, this is only in a merry melody and other than that, the evil part is absent, unlike the affable part.
- Aliens Are Bastards: He was willing to kill billions of humans just because the Earth was blocking his view of Venus.
- Alliterative Name: Marvin the Martian.
- The Bad Guy Wins: see "Team Rocket Wins" below
- Being Evil Sucks: At the end of Looney Tunes: Back in Action when he ends up trapped in a bubble in space he can only scream, "Darn dark side!".
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Wants to blow up Earth because it's blocking his view of Venus. Ignoring the obvious joke about gender differences, destroying planets because they obstruct astronomic observation is presumably okay in Martian society.
- Breakout Character: Like Taz, he only appears in five of the original shorts (four with Bugs and one with Daffy, exactly like Taz), and gets a prominent role in a later spin-off. These days, he's still among the most popular characters in the series.
- Character Catchphrase:
- "This makes me very angry! Very angry indeed!"
- "Isn't that lovely? Hmmm?"
- "Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-Shattering Kaboom!"
- A Day in the Limelight: Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension. While it's still a Daffy centric short, it's the one theatrical cartoon where Marvin gets title billing and is mostly played from his Sympathetic P.O.V. due to dealing with Daffy's Lethal Stupidity.
- Determinator: Calling him impertubable would be very accurate seeing as he never deviates from his original goal. For him getting his weapon of mass-destruction stolen is just a delay.
- Disproportionate Retribution: If you insult, defy or in general go against him, his response is just as straightforward and swift as the ray with which he is gonna turn you into ashes.
- Evil Brit: He started out with a nasally American voice, but then was given a snooty, sort-of upper-class English accent. This trope is so naughty, he could just pinch it!
- Evil Is Petty: His whole motivation for wanting to destroy Earth is because it obstructs his view of Venus.
- Faux Affably Evil: Sometimes portrayed as this, especially when his goals are more malevolent. He maintains his polite demeanor even as he tries to blow up the Earth.
- Foil: He was deliberately created as a contrast to Yosemite Sam; while Sam is loud and angry but still ultimately harmless, Marvin is calm and soft-spoken but capable of massive acts of destruction.
- For the Evulz: He said himself that he enjoys spending his spare time pursuing, blasting and destroying small little creatures.
- Game Show Host: In Mysterious Phenomena of the Unexplained, he is the host of Who Wants To Be A Martianaire.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Downplayed from both Elmer and Sam, but still, being a foil for Bugs, he inevitably fails miserably.
- Insectoid Aliens: Very downplayed, but the basis of the Martian design is meant to look ant-like, according to Chuck Jones.
- Inexplicable Cultural Ties: The fact that he speaks completely intelligible English aside, his helmet and skirt are reminiscent of a Greco-Roman style. This is certainly a reference to the namesake of the planet of Mars, the Roman War God Mars.
- Martians: It's in his name, after all.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Marvin is often portrayed as either ignorant of or uncaring towards the legitimate consequences of destroying the Earth.
- No Name Given: He was unnamed in the original cartoons (the model sheets only giving him the moniker of "The Martian") but was officially named Marvin when they started making merchandise of him.
- No Mouth: His head is basically a black ball with eyes. Duck Dodgers reveals that while all the males of his species look like that, the females (such as the Queen) are somewhat more anthropomorphic, possessing noses, chins, eyebrows... but still no mouths.
- Puny Earthlings: Seems to have a subtle disdain towards Earthlings in general and will sometimes mock or condescend regarding our primitive nature.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: While he's tangled with Bugs, he tends to frequently do battle with Daffy, usually within the shorts related to Duck Dodgers.
- The Sociopath: Utterly remorseless and shameless about what he does—to him, blowing up a planet is given the regard of taking out the garbage.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: To contrast with Yosemite Sam's bluster and self-important, scene-stealing attitude, he is very blase about all the horrible things that he wants to do, treating them as insignificant and mundane. It says a lot about his character that it takes Bugs an (unusually long) while to fully comprehend the meaning of his words thanks to the off-handed way that he mentioned them.
- The Stoic: Whenever he loses his cool, it is something so noteworthy for him that he needs to state it, even though his tone hardly suggests that he really lost it. "This makes me VERY angry."
- Team Rocket Wins: Seemingly achieves his goal of detonating the Earth in the original full-version of Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24th and a Half Century. With Dodgers distracted from his duties and Earth's destruction almost certain, Marvin is left with no choice but to assure the viewers "it's only a cartoon".
- Token Evil Teammate: Not really evil as we never see him attempt it but despite claiming he wants to destroy the Earth he's a friend of Bugs, Daffy and Porky in The Looney Tunes Show.
- Tranquil Fury: Which goes with his Affably Evil and Soft-Spoken Sadist persona, he declares emotions in detail that he doesn't really express, apart from his very heavy breathing.
- That Makes Me Feel Angry: Subverted; he has a wide range of facial expressions for someone with No Mouth and no nose, despite repeatedly saying this trope word-for-word. Still somewhat used with his voice which he very rarely raises, even when he is delivering death threats.
- Viler New Villain: Was intended to become this after Yosemite Sam became less of a threat to Bugs Bunny. He still loses every time, but his plans to blow up the entire Earth manage to terrify Bugs in a way his other enemies are incapable of, especially because of his motive: Earth obstructs his view of Venus.
- Vocal Evolution: Mel Blanc gave him a notably different voice in his first appearance.
- Worthy Opponent: After Yosemite Sam failed to effectively challenge Bugs. Though still a hapless villain, he was slightly more formidable in that he has genuinely scared Bugs on occasion with his sheer casual destructiveness.
Wile E. Coyote
Debut: "Fast and Furry-ous" (1949), Jones.
Voiced By:: Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Maurice LaMarche, Dee Bradley Baker, JP Karliak, Eric Bauza
Tropes related to Wile E. Coyote:
- Arch-Enemy: To the Road Runner, although a very hapless one. He's always trying to catch that bird.
- Badass Adorable: Inverted with Wile E., as he is neither as threatening, nor as cute, as real-life coyotes (though he did fit the latter to some degree when he was a kid, as shown in "Little Go Beep").
- Big Bad: Whenever he shows up in an eponymous show, he's always the only threat to Roadrunner, even if his attempts to catch him never end well.
- Brainy Brunette: A downplayed, male example of sorts; the Coyote is brown-furred and he's a Ditzy Genius.
- Break the Haughty: Especially in shorts where he faces off against Bugs Bunny. Each time he proudly announces at the beginning that he is a "Super-Genius." Always gets his comeuppance by the end, in one short declaring that "My name is Mud" and promptly keeling over unconscious.
- Bullfight Boss: Of sorts. During one of his boss fights in Road Runner's Death Valley Rally, he attacks by constantly trying to ram into the Road Runner, with a mech.
- Bungling Inventor: All his gadgets and inventions backfire on him.
- Butt-Monkey: The Coyote has the worst luck out of all the Looney Tunes characters, which is really saying something. Indeed, he never had a chance to be anything butt.
- Character Catchphrase: Anything having to do with the word "Genius!" in his shorts with Bugs.
- The Chew Toy: The primary example of the type in Western animation.
- Cosmic Plaything: Several of his traps have failed in ways that clearly defy all physics and in some cases, if they actually worked in a logical way, he might've caught the Roadrunner by now. But what fun would that be for us? Naturally, this contributes to his status as a Butt-Monkey.
- Determinator: Although the entire universe and even the laws of physics are working against him, he never gives up. Never.
- Ditzy Genius: A genius capable of building roadrunner traps, but, if you think about it, wouldn't it be much easier if he just ordered food instead of ordering a bunch of supplies from ACME?
- Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Sometimes Coyote's traps will simply fail to do anything instead of backfiring on him. They only backfire when Coyote either forcibly tries to trigger them or otherwise figure out what happened. Lampshaded in one cartoon when Coyote's falling rock trap doesn't trigger and he tries to set it off while standing right underneath it. Coyote suddenly realizes what's happening, and holds up a sign saying "In heaven's name, what am I doing?" and opens up a little umbrella right before the rocks fall on him.
- Egomaniac Hunter: Chuck Jones has stated that Wile E. could stop chasing the Roadrunner at any time, except for the fact that he is a fanatic about it. In describing Wile E., Chuck Jones would frequently quote Santayana: "A fanatic is one who redoubles his efforts while forgetting his aim."
- Embarrassing Middle Name: The "E" stands for Ethelbert. No wonder we just call him "Wile E."
- Epic Fail: Basically everything Coyote does ends in this.
- Establishing Character Moment: When we first see the Coyote, he's licking his lips while watching the Road Runner. If it wasn't already obvious he wants to eat him, he also puts a napkin around his neck and grabs utensils, then runs after the bird...only to fail to capture him.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Bugs refuses his offer to get eaten, Wile E. wonders why he wants to do it the hard way.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Unless if you count "Soup or Sonic" as an exception, he has never having gotten a single victory, and the closest he ever came was a Yank the Dog's Chain.
- Faux Affably Evil: Well, mostly in cartoons where he has a speaking part; while he generally talks in a polite and conversational tone, what he says is almost invariably extremely condescending and/or some kind of death threat.
- Final Boss: He is the final obstacle faced towards the end of Road Runner's Death Valley Rally.
- Furry Reminder: In "Highway Runnery", he lets out an actual coyote's howl when he gets a Pain-Powered Leap courtesy of a cactus to the behind.
- Gadgeteer Genius: if not for the fact that all of his constructions inevitably fail.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: All his gadgets and tricks always turn against him.
- Humiliation Conga: Nothing ever goes right for this guy, not even the laws of physics.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Everything about his design was inspired by the Coyote of the book Roughing It, in which author Mark Twain quoted in a long description that called the Coyote a long, sick, slim, sorry-looking skeleton, that is a living, breathing allegory of Want, always hungry, always poor, out of luck and friendless. All that should probably give an idea and as seen in action any image of the aftermath is worth all those words and more.
- Insufferable Genius: He acts as one in the shorts where he speaks and/or goes after Bugs Bunny. Wile E. Coyote shows off his business card where his profession is labeled as "Genius"◊, and he introduces himself to Bugs as a "super genius". All the while, the coyote is claiming how intelligent he is, and how everyone else is beneath his notice or his concern. In practice, he's more of a Small Name, Big Ego. Wile E. Coyote has as much success outsmarting Karmic Trickster Bugs Bunny as he does at catching the Road Runner — which is to say, no luck at all. Every one of his inventions or tricks is always going to backfire on him, with Bugs or the Road Runner always coming away with the last laugh.
- Iron Butt Monkey: Trope Codifier and page image. He's been crushed, blown up, fallen hundreds of feet, been knocked all the way through earth and back, and that's just the tip of a long list of abuses. He not only survives, but is right back at the same thing again.
- Loser Protagonist: It's one of the rules of the shorts that the audience always wants the coyote to win. Not because he's a good person or because he deserves it, but just because of how thoroughly and utterly the universe refuses to ever let him win.
- Mad Bomber: In one game, he attacks the Road Runner via hurling bombs at him.
- Oh, Crap!: This is how he reacts whenever his schemes fail, but since that happens all the time, it practically becomes his default facial expression.
- Predators Are Mean: He's a predatory canine, after all; though the "Mean" part is played for laughs even if he's still the Big Bad of the shorts.
- Punny Name: Wile E. (i.e., "wily") Coyote. Wile can also refer to "vile" however. He's also a scheming villain.
- The Quiet One: A small number of cartoons, including most of his appearances against Bugs Bunny and at least one Road Runner short, show that Wile E. Coyote is in fact able to talk, but seemingly prefers not to. When he does talk, it's usually in a deep, refined British accent.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: While the majority of his cartoon appearances see him up against the Road Runner, he also was set up against Bugs Bunny in a handful of shorts.
- Silent Antagonist: In most of his cartoons with the Road Runner. He only speaks during four of his five appearances with Bugs Bunny and very occasionally in the Road Runner shorts.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He likes to call himself "Wile E. Coyote: Genius" in the cartoons where he's up against Bugs.
- Smug Snake: More often than not, his ego is the reason why his plans always fail. He provides the trope image. It is much more obvious when he starts speaking in a pseudo-intellectual, pretentious, self-satisfied and self-assured New England accent.
- Species Surname: Wile E. Coyote
- Suddenly Voiced: When teamed up with Bugs Bunny (except Hare Breadth Hurry, which otherwise plays like a traditional Road Runner short).
- Super-Persistent Predator: In one short, he actually takes some time out to tell the audience why this is. Apparently, roadrunners are super-delicious, with the various parts of their bodies having flavors such as sponge cake, chop suey, and candied yam.
- Talking with Signs: Both him and the Road Runner have communicated with signs.
- Team Rocket Wins: Yes, the Coyote catches the Road Runner at one point (specifically, at the end of "Soup or Sonic")... but he's too small at that point to even eat the bird. He even lampshades it by asking the audience what he should do now. In fact, there have been a couple of (temporary) successes as listed here.
- Villainous Underdog: The cartoons are built around this concept, with the smart, but horribly unlucky coyote being thoroughly overmatched by the super fast, equally smart, and and ungodly fortunate Road Runner. Physics itself was always on the Road Runner's side, meaning Wile E's schemes were doomed from the start. A large part of this was, of course, because in the words of Chuck Jones "The audience's sympathy must always remain with the coyote."
- Villain Protagonist: Wile E. Coyote is trying to eat the Road Runner, and is therefore ostensibly the bad guy. Not to help that some interpretations tend to make him the main antagonist instead. But he's just so adorably persistent in how he goes about it that you can't help but root for him.
- Villains Want Mercy: Towards the end of Road Runner's Death Valley Rally, which he's the villain of, the Coyote tries to get the player to end the game before he finishes plummeting to The Earth. It failed.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: While Wile E.'s motivation for chasing the Road Runner is usually depicted as wanting to eat him (made most prominent in shorts such as "Stop! Look! And Hasten!", "Guided Muscle" and "There They Go-Go-Go!"), "Little Go Beep", which shows both of them as infants, contradicts that by showing that all of his schemes to catch the Road Runner are to make his father Cage E. proud of him.
Road Runner
The fastest bird on Earth who is always one step ahead of Wile E. Coyote. The Road Runner remains mute to this day (meep-meep!). He later served as the mascot for former Warner Bros. sister company Time Warner Cable's Road Runner high-speed ISP service (before that company was spun off and then bought out by Charter Communications, who dropped the brand). See also Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner.
Debut: "Fast and Furry-ous" (1949), Jones.
"Voiced" by:: Paul Julian, Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Dee Bradley Baker
Tropes related to the Road Runner:
- Acrophobic Bird: Like real roadrunners.
- Alliterative Name: Road Runner.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He's blue, rather than brown like real roadrunners.
- Arch-Enemy: To Wile E. Coyote, a Super-Persistent Predator who is always trying to catch him.
- Character Catchphrase: "Beep beep!", which is also pretty much the only ever thing he can say.
- A Dog Named "Dog": A roadrunner named "Road Runner".
- Dub Species Change:
- A few early Italian dubs of his shorts refer to him as either an ostrich or a fictional species of bird called the Beep Beep.
- Similarly, in Polish he is officially known as "Struś Pędziwiatr" ("Ostrich Run-like-the-wind").
- Exorcist Head: At the beginning of "Ready, Set, Zoom!", he is seen rotating his head a full 360 degrees as he looks around his surroundings. He does it again after Wile E. lays his attention on him.
- Feathered Fiend: Downplayed for the most part, as he often mocks the Coyote and scares him off of cliffs, but is otherwise a really nice guy.
- Flat Character: Being a Living Prop and a
Vanilla Protagonist, is nondescript in personality, never serving any purpose outside of being Wile E's prey. Apart from certain cartoons, most of the time viewers have trouble in seeing him as anything more than a normal animal. - The Gadfly: He can mess with the Coyote for fun.
- Hero Antagonist: The Road Runner can be considered the heroic protagonist of his shorts, being hunted after by a hungry predator.
- Informed Species: Yes, this long-necked, purple-crested, cassowary-sized bird is a greater roadrunner, and this◊ is what the real-life animal looks like.
- Invincible Hero: He always wins. Always.
- Jump Scare: If he's standing behind the Coyote at the edge of a cliff, this is usually how he'll make him leap off; he's also done it to Sylvester, of all characters.
- Karmic Trickster: Whenever he becomes anything more than a moving prop, he turns out to be behind some seemingly coincidental obstacles that the Coyote encounters.
- No Name Given: Only known as the Road Runner. In some foreign countries, his name is changed to Beep Beep or Bip Bip.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In a story from the Beep Beep the Road Runner comic books titled "Papa's Surprise", he actually angrily confronts Wile E. and even physically attacks him with a stick when he assumes that the Coyote has kidnapped his children.
- Painted Tunnel, Real Train: He loves this trope.
- Papa Wolf: What does he do when he thinks the Coyote kidnapped his kids? He angrily attacks him with a stick!
- Perpetual Smiler: While he has frowned every now and then in the Beep Beep the Road Runner comic books by Gold Key Comics, his smile rarely fades in animation. He frowns for the first time at the end of "Hook, Line and Stinker", as he watches the cannonball fall directly on Wile E. Another time he changes from this is when he sees the eponymous giant robot from "The Solid Tin Coyote". The rest of the time nothing can spoil his mood. The much later Looney Tunes Cartoons short "Cactus If You Can" has Road Runner visibly looking concerned and struggling to escape when Wile E. attempts to suck him in with a giant vacuum cleaner.
- Pokémon Speak: His Dub Name Change is "Bip Bip" in French and "Beep Beep" in Italian. The entire species is called that.
- Rhymes on a Dime: How he speaks in the Beep Beep the Road Runner series of comic books.
- Silly Animal Sound: "Beep beep!" Real roadrunners don't sound like that.
- Smarter Than You Look: Road Runner mostly looks and acts like a doofy bird, but a later cartoon establishes that ACME is "A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Of Roadrunner Corporation", suggesting that he is profiting off of the coyote and is deliberately sending him defective products to sabotage his efforts to eat him.
- Spell My Name with a "The": More often than not, he is referred to as the Road Runner.
- Super-Speed: The Road Runner (accelerati incredibilus) is a famous super-speeder...
- Talking with Signs: On at least two occasions, he holds up a sign that reads "Road runners can't read", which only makes sense if he is just messing with the Coyote.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Whenever Wile E. lays out some bird seed to distract him, he stops to peck at the seeds.
- Vegetarian Carnivore: Real roadrunners subsist mostly on invertebrates, rodents and small reptiles. This roadrunner is only ever shown eating birdseed. Downplayed in that real roadrunners have been known to eat seeds on occasion.
Granny
"Ah-ha! Thought you could fool old Granny, eh? Well, I was hep to ya from the start!"
A seemingly harmless elderly woman; owner of Tweety and occasionally Sylvester (or whatever other animal the cartoon calls for).
Debut: "Canary Row" (1950), Freleng
Voiced By: Bea Benaderet, June Foray, Joan Gerber, Ge Ge Pearson, Mel Blancnote , Stephanie Courtney, Candi Milo
Tropes:
- Breakout Character: Is arguably more the lead protagonist of The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries than the title pair whose shenanigans are there more to accompany her plot-relevant detective work.
- Cool Old Lady: Granny is cool in nearly all of her appearances and incarnations. In Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries she works as a detective and in The Looney Tunes Show she's a former spy.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Granny is seemlingly harmless, but is much smarter and stronger than she looks.
- Granny Classic: A kind old lady who is protective of Tweety.
- Leitmotif: Her appearance is often marked with Mozart's "Piano Sonata No. 16".
- Mama Bear: Do not mess with her pets. Even if you are one of them.
- Never Mess with Granny: She isn't the Trope Namer but she might as well be. Attempt to hurt Tweety and you'll be in for an umbrella of hurt.
- Non-Indicative Name: She isn't actually portrayed as anyone's grandmother.
- Ping Pong Naïveté: Depending on the short, Granny can be extremely wily and perceptive in foiling Sylvester, or completely oblivious that her beloved cat is anything but best friends with Tweety.
- Really 700 Years Old: By the mid-1950s, she was making veiled references to being young during the Revolutionary War!
- The Reveal: In "Hare Trimmed", Yosemite Sam calls her Emmy, a diminutive form of Emma. In "Corn on the Cop", an officer addresses her as Mrs. Webster.
- The Smurfette Principle: Until Lola Bunny made her appearance in 1996, she was the only major female character.
- Team Mom: In Baby Looney Tunes.
Speedy Gonzales
"¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Ándale! ¡Ándale!"
Another Funny Foreigner and good-natured Trickster who moves at Super-Speed to help his poor Mexican mouse friends get cheese from "el gringo pussygato" (usually Sylvester). Has a lethargic cousin named (inevitably) "Slowpoke Rodriguez" who uses a gun to incapacitate cats instead. His mid-to-late 1960s shorts with Daffy as his antagonist tend not to be received well by animation fans and historians, being seen as the epitome of that Audience-Alienating Era.
Debut: "Cat Tails For Two" (1953), McKimson.
Voiced By: Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Eric Goldberg, Billy West, Bob Bergen, Fred Armisen, Tim Dadabo, Eric Bauza, Dino Andrade, Gabriel Iglesias
Tropes related to Speedy Gonzales:
- See Speedy Gonzales.
The Tasmanian Devil (Taz)
The destructive, hurricane-spinning, feral, Extreme Omnivore who talks in Hulk Speak, when he talks at all. He'll eat anything, buzzsaw through anything, and moves at whirlwind speed.
Debut: "Devil May Hare" (1954), McKimson.
Voiced By: Mel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Noel Blanc, Maurice LaMarche, Jim Cummings, Greg Burson, Dee Bradley Baker, Frank Welker, Ian James Corlett, Brendan Fraser, Joe Alaskey, Fred Tatasciore
Tropes related to Tasmanian Devil:
- Adaptational Heroism: In the original shorts, he always played an antagonistic role. However, most of the modern Looney Tunes media tend to portray him as one of the good guys.
- Angrish: When Mel Blanc asked "What does he sound like?" when he first voiced the character and was told, "Nobody has ever heard one." Because of this, he was compelled to
ad-lib some kind of glottal-guttural gravelly gargle (which, coincidentally, sounds somewhat like a real tasmanian devil), now happily stated as "Taz-speak." - Ax-Crazy: He somewhat qualifies considering his maniacal and gluttonous demeanor which combined with his low intelligence make him come across as an impenetrable force of nature.
- Bad Santa: Not intentionally, but one short has him steal Santa’s clothes and end up at Bugs’ house.
- Big Eater: Taz can and will eat anything he comes across. Among his mentioned prey include elephants, giraffes, lions and octopuses. However, his first two appearances have his favorite food be rabbits (probably to justify his desire to eat Bugs Bunny).
- Big Ol' Unibrow: A somewhat Funny Animal with a uni-brow.
- Breakout Character: Despite only appearing in five of the original shorts, he became immensely popular in the 90s due to Taz-Mania and merchandising, which led to him being promoted to the main Tunes cast in later spin-offs. He also proved to be quite popular in the classic era; producer Eddie Selzer did not like Taz initially after his debut cartoon, until fan mail began pouring in, requesting to see more of Taz. Today, Taz is considered one of the most popular characters in the Looney Tunes ensemble, with more merchandise than, probably, even Bugs Bunny.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Considers being called "...a mean, vicious, nasty, no-good, baggy-eyed, marble-headed ignoramorous" quite flattering,...but not enough to spare Bugs.
- Characterization Marches On: Those more familiar with his speech style in Taz-Mania and Space Jam would probably find his first theatrical appearance odd, as he speaks in complete sentences a few times.Taz: Flattery'll get ya nowhere. And ya can't fool me again.
- Conjoined Eyes: Zigzagged. It depends on the artist and not just during a Wild Take either.
- The Dreaded: Several of his cartoons begin by establishing that he's one of the most feared animals in the world, with all other animals running in dread from him. He's apparently this in The Looney Tunes Show as well; in his first appearance, Daffy exposes "Poochie" not as a dog, but the Tasmanian devil, which he calls "a wild beast, whose insatiable hunger for violence and destruction, combined with his sharp teeth and claws, make him a perfect KILLING MACHINE!!!" As to be expected, the audience at a dog show flees the arena.
- Extreme Omnivore: It's pretty extreme that Taz can eat dynamite without it killing him.
- Flanderization: His role as The Unintelligible got more and more prominent after every appearance.
- Fluffy the Terrible: The Devil surname doesn't downplay the threat that he poses (quite the opposite actually) but his nickname Taz surely doesn't do an omnivorous beast justice.
- Gasshole: Started turning into one during the late 90's/early to mid-2000's, where he was the one who brought most of the burp jokes. As time went on, it was toned down starting around the 2010's.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Taz is an ill-tempered and aggressive predator, which is what makes him so dangerous. The only reliable way of calming him down is music, as Daffy found out.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Against Bugs, anyway. He's shown as much more dangerous when he's faced with more minor characters, and though Daffy also beats him in their single short together, he has a much harder time accomplishing this.
- Informed Species: He and his She-Devil mate look absolutely nothing like real Tasmanian devils, which are black-furred for a starter. The differences only get bigger from there. He does sound rather like one, though. The Looney Tunes Show depicts him as quadrupedal for the most part, which makes him marginally look more like a real Tasmanian devil.
- Music Soothes the Savage Beast: His weakness.
- One-Track-Minded Hunger: Among the many anthropomorphic animals he is easily the most animalistic one with everything revolving (or spinning) around his never-ending appetite.
- Pun-Based Creature: His hair resembles devil horns. He spins like a whirlwind, which is also called a "dust devil".
- Silly Animal Sound: Averted; despite all the Artistic License that was taken with him, his growls and hisses sound a lot like a real Tasmanian devil.
- Smarter Than You Look: Taz is no genius, but at least early on, he's shown he's not a stupid as he seems either and can be rather preceptive and surprisingly intelligent at times.
- Spectacular Spinning: His main means of getting around is his own personal tornado.
- Spin-Off: During the 90s, he was given his own show, Taz-Mania, which cast him with a sitcom-like family and a bevy of other characters native to his homeland.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: While never bright, he was at least able to see through a few of Bugs's tricks and speak in coherent sentences in his first short. After that, he's gotten a lot dumber.
- Tranquil Fury: Whenever he calmly says his "What/Why for you..." Mad Libs Catch Phrase, prepare for a mauling.
- The Unintelligible: Most often his speech is simply comprised of snarls, yammering, and raspberries.
- Villainous Glutton: He will eat any species of animal and can devour large quantities of food (and other things) with ease. When he starts spinning, he always sends crowds running away.
- Volatile Tasmanian Devil: Easily the Trope Maker and Trope Codifier, with his Angrish and spinning on full display.
- You No Take Candle: In his first appearance, Taz could speak, albeit in somewhat-broken English.
Lola Bunny
"Don't ever call me...doll!"
Debut: Space Jam (1996)
Voiced By: Kath Soucie, Britt McKillip, Kristen Wiig, Rachel Ramras, Zendaya, Kari Wahlgren
Bugs' current girlfriend, and a character in almost every Looney Tunes project since her introduction.
Tropes Related to Lola Bunny:
- See Lola Bunny.
