Bugs Bunny: The Super-Rabbit. The rabbit of tomorrow!
A 1943 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and starring Bugs Bunny.
Bugs Bunny gets superpowers thanks to eating a scientist's super carrot and uses his newfound powers to go up against a rabbit hunter in Texas.
For the The Looney Tunes Show episode of the same name go here.
Tropes:
- Binomium ridiculus: The box that Bugs was in at the science lab reads: "Rabbitus Idiotus Americanus"
- Clark Kenting: Bugs disguises himself as a mild-mannered forest creature by putting on glasses and a Manhattan fedora.
- Fantastic Racism: Cottontail Smith really hates rabbits.Cottontail Smith: If there's anything I hate more than a rabbit, it's two rabbits.
- Foreboding Fleeing Flock: When Bugs first arrives in Texas, he comes across a bunch of other rabbits running past him, with one stopping long enough to warn him to run away from Cottontail Smith.
- Hypocritical Humor: While Bugs is flying, he passes by a horse that's walking in the sky. The Horse sees Bugs and exclaims, "A rabbit? Up here!?"
- Immune to Bullets: Cottontail Smith shoots Bugs' entire front body, only for the bullets to harmlessly fall to the ground.
- In a Single Bound: In the opening, Bugs leaps over a building, but trips over the very tip of it and falls a long way down.
- Phone Booth Changing Room: Bugs uses them throughout to change costumes, the strange part is why there's a telephone booth in a science lab and the middle of a Texas plain.
- Power-Up Food: Bugs' superpowers come from a scientist's super carrots, though Bugs has to recharge every now and again by eating another carrot.
- The Real Heroes: According to the ending, it's the Marines fighting in World War II.
- Semper Fi: At the end, Bugs states that this is a job for a real Superman, so he dons a Marine uniform and heads off to fight in World War II. The Marines were so thrilled by this, they made Bugs Bunny an honorary Marine private. The character was regularly promoted until Bugs was officially "discharged" at the end of World War II as a Master Sergeant.
- Superman Substitute: Bugs as Super-Rabbit, naturally.
- Wartime Cartoon: The ending.
