Looney Tunes / Tropes V To Y

• Valentine's Day Episode: "Don't Look Now" (Avery, 1936).
• Verbal Tic: Fog- ah say, Foghorn Leghorn. Leghorn, that is.
  • Also Bugs Bunny's habit of calling everyone either "Doc" or "Mac"
• Victory by Endurance: In "Gorilla My Dreams", Bugs Bunny is being chased by a gorilla. Just when things seem hopeless for Bugs, he finds that by the time the gorilla has caught him he was too tired to beat him up and falls over exhausted.
• Villain Protagonist: Bugs in the early shorts. He was a completely unsympathetic character that would pick on people for the heck of it. He became more good natured later on, though due to the harmlessness of most of his foils, he was still a master of Disproportionate Retribution.
  • Daffy Duck is the resident villain protagonist of the Looney Tunes, as he is usually the focus of the shorts he's in, and post Flanderization, he is a frequent antagonist.
• Villainous Breakdown: Daffy suffers one in "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!" after being shot by Elmer one too many times.
  Daffy: (raving) Shoot me again! I enjoy it! I love the smell of burnt feathers! And gunpowder! And cordite! I'm an elk — shoot me! Go on, it's elk season! I'm a fiddler crab — why don'tcha shoot me?! It's fiddler crab season!
  • Elmer breaks down in this way in What's Opera, Doc? after being duped by Bugs disguised as Brunhilde. He then unleashes his fury and the elements on Bugs:
    Elmer: I'LL KILL THE WABBIT!! AWISE, STORM! NORTH WINDS, BWOW! SOUTH WINDS, BWOW! TYPHOONS! HUWWICANES! EARTHQUAKES! '''SMOG!!!'''
• Visual Pun: A staple. Usually in the form of a character turning into a lollipop with the word "Sucker" emblazoned across it, a donkey with the word "Jackass" on it, or a heel with the words "First Class Heel" on it (in those days, a "heel" is what we would call these days a "jerk," "bastard," "asshole," or "douchebag").
• Vomit Discretion Shot: Despite being seasick many times in "Tweety's S.O.S.", we never actually see Sylvester vomit.
• Vocal Evolution: There are many examples, but the one that stands out the most is how Mel Blanc portrays Bugs from proto-Bugs Bunny to the voice we all know and love.
  • Marvin the Martian's first voice in "Haredevil Hare" is higher pitched. Mel Blanc deepened it in the next cartoon, "The Hasty Hare", and kept it that way for the remaining cartoons.
• Wartime Cartoon: Actually helped to set the zany, fast-paced tone of the rest of the series. Well known examples are The Ducktators, Any Bonds Today?, Tokio Jokio, Russian Rhapsody, Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, Herr Meets Hare, Plane Daffy and Daffy the Commando.
• Watch Out for That Tree!: In Robin Hood Daffy, to prove that he is Robin Hood, Daffy tries to rob a passersby of his gold by swinging at him from a tree, only to crash into another tree. This also becomes an Overly Long Gag, as the duck keeps crashing into tree after tree, effectively alternating between hilarious and painful to watch.
  YOINKS... AND AWAAAY! (wham!)
• Weapon Jr.: In "The Old Gray Hare", there's a flashback where Baby Elmer has a pop-gun which he fires at Baby Bugs. The episode also begins with an elderly Elmer obtaining a Ray Gun.
• Weird Crossover: Even before Warner Bros.. absorbed DC Comics, DC had the license to print Looney Tunes comics. In 2000, DC launched the four-issue series Superman and Bugs Bunny wherein the wacky Dodo bird (from Porky in Wackyland) meets Mr. Mxyzptlk, and they form a partnership to wreak havoc on both universes.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Inverted. It's usually Sylvester trying to gain the approval of his son, Sylvester Jr.
• Wet Cement Gag:
  • One short had Hippety Hopper jumping into wet cement, to the anger of the worker paving the sidewalk.
  • On the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Homeless Hare", a construction foreman falls into wet cement, completely submerged except for his cigar. The worker smoothing down the cement doesn't notice when he falls, and simply keeps smoothing, plucking out the cigar to smoke it.
  • One Chuck Jones cartoon involving Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner has the coyote smooth a large square of fresh concrete across a roadway, aiming to bog down the bird in the stuff. Instead, it's subverted when the Road Runner's insane speed parts the concrete down the middle, splashing the nearby coyote with the stuff. The poor coyote takes about six steps away in defeat when the concrete hardens around him, turning him into a Living Statue.
• We Sell Everything: Considering the company ACME stands for A Company that Makes Everything, and their label is on many of the things used by the characters, it's a case of this trope.
  • The Acme Company is seen for the first time: in live-action form, curiously enough in Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Since the head of the company is evil in this movie, Bugs and Daffy get everything they need from a conveniently placed Walmart instead.
• Whammy: Every time the cat in Robert McKimson's Early To Bet loses to the bulldog at gin rummy, he has to spin a "penalty wheel" and suffer whatever physical punishment it lands on (from a cabinet file corresponding to the wheel number).
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Or in this case, the monkey. In the Sylvester and Tweety cartoon, "Canary Row," Sylvester lures an organ grinder's monkey away with a banana before clubbing him in the head off-screen and stealing his clothes. You'd think there should be a scene where after Sylvester's latest attempt at catching Tweety fails, the organ grinder and the still-injured monkey return to exact their revenge on Sylvester. That never happened.
• Whole Episode Flashback: "Wild Wife", which concerns a frazzled housewife describing her hectic day to her skeptical husband.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Bugs
• Wicked Witch: Witch Hazel
• Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: A frequently conclusion.
• The Worst Seat in the House: "Porky's Baseball Broadcast"
  • Tex Avery's "Screwball Football" has a doozy. The gunshot everyone thinks means the end of the game turns out to be from a toddler who guns down the man next to him who has been sneaking licks of his ice cream cone.
• Xylophone Gag: And they always fall for it.
  • And the song is always "Those Endearing Young Charms."
• Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Daffy, a male duck, somehow manages to actually lay a golden egg in Golden Yeggs!

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