- Valentine's Day Episode: "Don't Look Now" (Avery, 1936).
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Vanilla Protagonist: Porky Pig, being The Everyman for the rest of the regular cast (but especially Daffy Duck). It's worth noting that Porky always was very vanilla, especially in the 1930s, with most of the shorts past an initial batch directed by Tex Avery revolving around a very similar premise of Porky somehow interacting with his enviroments (how would he interact heavily depended who directed the short - for example Frank Tashlin put him in a variety of mostly everyday occurences while Bob Clampett always made the bizarre settings the star, with Porky being an Audience Surrogate). - 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.
- Vile Vulture: Beaky Buzzard is typically an inversion of this trope, as he mostly fails at being vile, no matter how hard he tries. The one time where he does is in his last appearance in the classic shorts, "The Lion's Busy", where he hangs around an old lion waiting for him to die of old age. The lion tries to get away from Beaky, but he always appears wherever he goes, even to the moon.
- 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.
- 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!
- Visual Pun: A staple type of gag. 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, "heel" meant roughly what we would call these days a "jerk," "bastard," "asshole," or "douchebag").
- 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.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: Despite being seasick many times in "Tweety's S.O.S.", we never actually see Sylvester vomit.
- Wacky Racing: "Porky's Road Race" from 1937 features Porky competing against several celebrity caricatures in such a road race, as Hilarity Ensues.
- Hippydrome Tiger from 1968 has Cool Cat partake in a cross-country road race in Paris, and his nemesis Colonel Rimfire and his mechanical elephant pursue him throughout the race with Cool Cat coming up with ways to lose them.
- "Bunny and Claude" from 1968, while not actually an auto race, has this type of feel as the redneck Sheriff pursues carrot thieves Bunny and Claude through the countryside. The fact that it feels somewhat like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon at times helps add to the resemblance to Wacky Races.
- Wacky Sound Effect: Treg Brown was fond of doing this in the classic cartoons, like a gunshot sound for a slamming door, for instance. A good example happens with the harpoon gag in the Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner short Zoom and Bored.
- Warning Mistaken for Threat: In "Fox Pop", a fox overhears a radio commercial about how women love silver foxes (not realizing it was about fox furs), so he paints himself silver and gets himself trapped and sent to a fox farm. While there, one of the other foxes, acting like a tough prison inmate, informs him of a breakout and gives him a Throat-Slitting Gesture to indicate what will happen if he doesn't escape with them. The fox takes that as a threat and stays behind, thinking he will be safe there; but he realizes almost too late that it was a warning, not a threat, when the furrier approaches with an axe.
- 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.
- Wearing It All Wrong: In the Charlie Dog cartoon "A Hound for Trouble", Charlie is running an Italian restaurant while his new "master" is away, and serves a customer some freshly made wine that he just stomped the grapes for in front of him. The customer is so distraught and disgusted that when he leaves, he puts his coat on his head and puts his arms through his hat.
- 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 starts to trudge away in defeat, but only gets about six steps before 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.
- Who Will Bell the Cat?: "Bell Hoppy" has a big twist.
- Whole Episode Flashback: "Wild Wife", which concerns a frazzled housewife describing her hectic day to her skeptical husband. Complete with rolling pin.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Bugs, mostly.
- Wicked Witch: Witch Hazel plays this role in numerous cartoons, usually opposite Bugs Bunny.
- Wild Take: Honed to an art form, especially by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett. Perhaps the wildest of all is Daffy's take in "Book Revue"note later dubbed the "Clampett Corneal Catastrophe" in Tiny Toon Adventures, in which he turns into a giant eyeball.
Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: This happens to the
Vile Vulture at the end of the "Blue Danube" segment of "A Corny Concerto".
- Worm in an Apple:
- In "A Tale of Two Kitties", Tweety steals an apple Catstello was enjoying to eat the worm hidden inside. He swallows it whole and throws away the apple before Catstello realizes he's been robbed.
- A worm is minding its own business inside a discarded apple in "Billboard Frolics" when a chick jumps out of a billboard to eat the worm. The worm uses its own body to roll the apple into the chick's face, which buys enough time for the worm to hide in a nearby pile of trash.
- The theme of "Fair and Worm-er" is a hunting chain that goes apple-worm-crow-cat-dog-dogcatcher-(dogcatcher's wife-mouse). Starting with the worm who wants to get the apple, a relentless chase ensues between all participants in which the worm tries to get to the apple, to avoid the crow, and to keep the cat safe because it'll go after the crow. In the end, a Smelly Skunk scares off everyone except the worm, who has a gas mask ready. It turns out that, despite the worm showing up with cutlery at the start of the short, it doesn't want to eat the apple but to live in it, as it's the last furnished apartment in town.
- Two segments of "Pop Goes Your Heart" feature worms in apples. In the first segment, two spiders are playing their web like a harp. The music appeals to the worms munching on the apples below and they crawl out four per apple far enough to serve as limbs to the apple body for a bit of dancing. In the second segment, a chick tries to pull a worm from an apple, but it uses its own body to whip-spank its attacker into leaving.
- "September in the Rain" reuses concepts from various earlier shorts, one such short being "Billboard Frolics". This time, the apple the worm crawls out of is part of a store's stock. Five chicks jump out of the packaging art to eat the worm, but the worm safely reaches another apple.
- A crow is looking for a worm to feed on in "The Wacky Worm". He finds one chilling in an apple tree, but the worm escapes him and twice hides in an apple among many other apples. The first time, the crow can't find the correct apple until the worm accidentally breaks it open. The second time, the crow plans to eat his way through the apples to find the worm. He gets sick to the point of giving up after consuming about half the apples.
- 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: Used several times, always with the tune "Those Endearing Young Charms." And they always fall for it.
- Yes-Man: There's a group of them for the director in "Daffy Duck in Hollywood", who always say "Yes sir, yes sir, yeeeeesssss SIR!"
- The silent film director in "Past Perfumance" has a group of these as well. In an amusing twist, because they're French, they follow him going "Oui! Oui! Oui! Oui!"
- You No Take Candle: From "China Jones": "Is answer question?"
- Your Mom: In "Bewitched Bunny", after Bugs warns them that Witch Hazel intends to eat them, Hansel and Gretel run away, but not before stopping to tell Hazel, "Your mother rides a vacuum cleaner!"
- Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Daffy, a male duck, somehow manages to actually lay a golden egg in Golden Yeggs!
- Zany Cartoon: The original ones, no less, thanks to the efforts of Tex Avery and Bob Clampett in the late 1930s to move away from aping Disney's increasingly stilted style of humor. The new direction proved so popular that the Tunes were actively giving Disney shorts a run for their money, and in 1941 they outright overtook them.
