Jerkass / Looney Tunes

• Michigan J. Frog has been a Jerkass for his entire existence, screwing around with people by singing and dancing, and then making them look crazy by acting like a normal frog when they try to get other people to see it. Later on, his Jerkass tendencies got even stronger in Tiny Toon Adventures, where he taunts (in song) a turtle trying to get away from Elmyra, and as mascot for The WB, where, in early promos, he'd straight up insult the viewers while praising the WB as an escape from their crappy lives. And he's hilarious.
• Daffy Duck, especially after his Flanderization into a Butt-Monkey and Narcissist.
• Foghorn Leghorn can be the very picture of Jerkassery, as a loudmouthed prankster.
• Yosemite Sam. He was created largely to get the audience to root for Bugs.
• Plenty of one/two-shot characters are this, too, such as Ali Bama, Giovanni Jones, Bruno The Bear, and Hercules The Construction Worker, to name a few.
• The mouse in Canned Feud, who spends the entire short tormenting Sylvester unprovoked, with the intention of making the cat starve.
• From the Three Bears shorts, we have Papa Bear. On top of having a volcanic temper, he's highly abusive towards his son, Junyer.
• Shep from Fresh Airedale is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that tricks his owner into giving him extra meals, pins all of his actions on the cat, allows a burglar to break into the house in exchange for a bone (then pretends to have fended him off when it’s the cat that drove him away), and becomes a Villain with Good Publicity Karma Houdini at the end, having a parade thrown for him, much to the cat’s chagrin.
• This interpretation of Peter Rabbit in Country Boy. He’s a brat who disrespects his mother, skips school, steals a farmer's crops, then swipes his lawnmower for a quick getaway, all the while taunting him. He's more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold in My Green Fedora.
• Happy Rabbit, the Bugs Bunny prototype who appeared in four shorts from 1938 to 1940. It's most pronounced in his final short, Elmer's Candid Camera, where he heckles Elmer for no real reason. He even saves Elmer from drowning in a lake... only to kick him back in immediately afterward.

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