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The ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' animated television series features an extensive cast of characters. The show's central characters are mostly various forms of anthropomorphic animals, based on Looney Tunes characters from earlier films and shows. In the series, the characters attend a school called Acme Looniversity, set in the cartoon community of Acme Acres.

Main characters

Buster Bunny

Buster Bunny (voiced by Charlie Adler and later John Kassir in the original and Keith Ferguson in the reboot) is a main character of the show. Buster is a young, blue-and-white male 14-year-old rabbit with a red shirt and white gloves, and is Babs's best friend. In the last episode, ''It's a Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas Special'', Babs states that Buster is her boyfriend. Bugs Bunny is Buster's mentor. Adler voiced Buster in the canceled video game '' Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe''. Buster is based on the Chuck Jones version of Bugs Bunny.

Babs Bunny

Barbara Anne "Babs" Bunny (voiced by Tress MacNeille in the original and Ashleigh Crystal Hairston in the reboot) is a main character of the show. Babs likes doing impressions and wearing disguises and dislikes being addressed by her full name. She is a young pink rabbit with a yellow shirt, violet skirt, and violet bows on her ears. Babs is based on the Bob Clampett version of Bugs Bunny.

In ''Looniversity'', according to character designer Leonard Kiraly and showrunner Erin Gibson, she is Buster's fraternal twin, retconning the running gag "no relation".

Plucky Duck

Plucky Duck (voiced by Joe Alaskey in the original and Nathan Ruegger in ''Tiny Toon Adventures'') is a young, 13-year-old green male duck in a white tank top. Plucky is based on Chuck Jones's Daffy Duck. Plucky is friends with Hamton J. Pig and Buster Bunny, despite the fact that they frequently annoy each other. Plucky is quite jealous of Buster and Babs's popularity, similar to Daffy's insane jealousy of Bugs's popularity, and very often tries to undermine it in various sneaky, underhanded ways. Plucky constantly pines for the love of Shirley McLoon, though she has very little patience for him.

Hamton J. Pig

Hamton J. Pig (voiced by Don Messick in the TV series, Billy West in video games)Hamton J. Pig
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from the original on December 2, 2015. is a young, 12-year-old pink male pig who wears blue overalls. Based on Porky Pig, Hamton's role in the series is as a straight man, often against Plucky Duck's antics. The only difference is that unlike his mentor Porky, Hamton never stutters. Hamton is an overeater who is obsessed with cleanliness. Billy West took over the role of Hamton in a few video games after Don Messick's death, including 1999's '' Tiny Toon Adventures: Toonenstein''.

Shirley McLoon

Shirley "The Loon" McLoon (voiced by Gail Matthius) is a loon citizen of Acme Acres. She is based on Daffy Duck's main love interest, Melissa Duck. She speaks with a thick Valley girl accent. Although she seems reasonably intelligent, she is obsessed with superficial New Age paraphernalia. Her name is a pun on fellow New Age aficionado Shirley MacLaine, and she later appeared in an episode of ''Animaniacs'', standing next to MacLaine. Most characters refer to her as "Shirley the Loon" rather than "Shirley McLoon". She appears not to notice the negative connotations of the nickname and often recites "Oh, what a loon I am" while meditating. Shirley is romantically pursued by Plucky Duck and Fowlmouth. Despite her annoyance with Plucky's flirtatious gestures, Shirley does seem to care for him and occasionally dates him. According to writer Andrew Stanton, She is the Girly Girl to Elmyra’s Tomboy because Elmyra is a perky, happy-go-lucky tomboy and Shirley is an intelligent Girly Girl. Shirley often hangs out with Babs and Fifi. She can tell fortunes, obtains psychokinetic powers, and is a skilled ballerina.

Fifi La Fume

Fifi La Fume (voiced by Kath Soucie) is a young, purple and white female skunk with a pink bow in her hair. Based on Pepé Le Pew, she shares his character traits of having a French accent and aggressively seeking romance, only to find the object of her affection is repulsed by her odor and aggressive advances. Unlike Pepé Le Pew, Fifi often takes being rejected to heart and cries over it. Fifi often unsuccessfully attempts to chase boys who have ended up with white stripes painted down their backs, such as Furrball, Calamity Coyote, and Little Beeper. Unlike Pepé Le Pew, Fifi does not mind if boys chase her. Some episodes downplayed her romantic life, and showed her doing random group activities with other characters. She lives in a striped 1959 Cadillac in a wrecking yard.

Elmyra Duff

Elmyra Duff (voiced by Cree Summer)Elmyra Duff
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from the original on June 17, 2016. is a 12-year-old, redheaded girl who wears a blue blouse, white skirt, black Mary Janes over white socks, and a blue bow with a skull at the center. Despite being based on Elmer Fudd – she has a similar face, her red hair has been revealed to be a wig on several occasions, and her last name backwards is a misspelled take on "Fudd" – she is the total opposite of him. Instead of hunting animals, she cares for them to smothering lengths and falls into the stereotype of the "spoiled and piercing-voiced girl." She is one of the few human characters in the series, and she attends Acme Looniversity with the animal characters, where she also serves as the nurse. In two episodes, Elmyra's family is shown, including her mother, inventor father, typical '90s teen sister, younger brother, super-strong baby brother, and a maid.

Elmyra was also featured as a co-protagonist and ally to ''Pinky and the Brain'' in a spin-off, ''Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain''. Though initially claimed by Cree Summer to be removed from the show, ''Tiny Toons Looniversity''.

Montana Max

Montana Max (voiced by Danny Cooksey), nicknamed "Monty", is a young, brown-haired 12-year-old boy and the main antagonist. Based on Yosemite Sam, he is an evil, loud-mouthed, and money-hungry tycoon. Monty has an American location in his name and is often an enemy to Buster Bunny, much like Yosemite Sam is to Bugs Bunny. Like Elmyra, Monty is a human and attends Acme Looniversity. He is portrayed as a very wealthy and stubborn boy who lives in a mansion and doesn't have any siblings or friends. However, he does have a (rarely shown) sweet side and has been shown to have a good imagination. Elmyra likes Monty a lot, though he usually feels nothing but annoyance towards her. He was the very first villain of the series, as seen in the pilot episode.

Recurring characters

Gogo Dodo

Gogo Dodo (voiced by Frank Welker) is a young, green male dodo with blue shoes and a pink and purple umbrella sticking out from the top of his head. Gogo performs various bizarre sight gags and stunts. Unlike the other characters who attend Acme Looniversity, Gogo makes his home in the Daliesque realm known as Wackyland, a surreal place with constantly changing backgrounds. It is on the outskirts of the city of Acme Acres, which is the usual setting of ''Tiny Toon Adventures''. Gogo is the only student related to one of the ''Looney Tunes'' characters—he is a relative of ''Porky in Wackyland'', who was retroactively named Yoyo Dodo). Gogo's catchphrase is "It's been surreal!"

Furrball

Furrball (vocal effects provided by Frank Welker; Rob Paulsen provides his voice in "Cinemaniacs" and "Buster and the Wolverine" episodes) is a young, blue male cat with a hole in his right ear and a bandage on his tail. Furrball is usually depicted as living in a cardboard box in an alleyway, although sometimes he is shown as one of Elmyra's pets and briefly had a home with Mary Melody. He is a peaceful and innocent character, but he is also one of the most unfortunate characters in the show, since he is almost always chased, abused, or bullied, often by being squashed. For example, during the intro credits, he gets flattened by a falling upright piano to the lyric of "Furrball is unlucky", while peacefully sniffing a flower. He is less anthropomorphic in nature than the other animal characters, generally walking on all fours and almost always mute, except for making typical cat sounds; he is known to be mentored by Sylvester the Cat. Furrball is based on Penelope Pussycat and the Chuck Jones version of Sylvester, both of whom are silent.Andy Meisler,
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" ''The New York Times'' (July 8, 1990) Furrball often chases Sweetie Pie, who is based on Tweety. In one speaking role ("Cinemaniacs"), he was voiced by Rob Paulsen in a mockup of Leonard McCoy from ''Star Trek''. He also has another very brief speaking role in the episode "Buster and the Wolverine."

Sweetie Bird

Sweetie Bird (or Sweetie Pie) (voiced by Candi Milo, then Tessa Netting in the reboot) is a young, pink female canary with a light blue ribbon bow in her plumage. She is based on the Bob Clampett version of Tweety Pie. Like her predecessor, she is colored pink and is devious around feline enemies like Furrball. Sweetie chases Bookworm (based on a nameless bookworm character in Chuck Jones's Sniffles the Mouse cartoons) with about the same success as Furrball. Though it is only seen in one episode, Sweetie, like Plucky, is also quite jealous of Buster and Babs's popularity and is the only character other than Plucky to openly speak up about it. In one scene, she was cared for by an eagle until he realized that she was too crazy and dangerous to be around. She sometimes switches from her babyish voice to a louder, more obnoxious voice.

Dizzy Devil

Dizzy Devil (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is a young and lavender male Tasmanian devil with a yellow propeller cap, as well as one pink eye and one green eye, and is also crosseyed. He is based on the Tasmanian Devil, and he spins around in circles and eats constantly like him. Also like Taz, his speech is generally monosyllabic or composed of random noises. Unlike Taz, he has no ears, horns, or tail. Dizzy is adored and sometimes accompanied by a trio of young ladies, who often make the other guys like Montana Max go crazy. Dizzy meets them in an episode where he fell in love with a little tornado, thinking that it is another Tasmanian Devil. When the tornado leaves the city, Dizzy becomes depressed, so the trio of young ladies take pity on him and decide to pet him.

Calamity Coyote

Calamity Coyote (voiced by Frank Welker) is a young, gray male coyote with pink sneakers; he is based on Wile E. Coyote. Calamity never speaks, instead communicating through noises and signs that he pulls out from behind his back. Calamity is also shown to be scientifically proficient, constructing random devices for the other characters. He pursues Little Beeper unsuccessfully. Like Wile E., Calamity's devices frequently malfunction. Calamity is less antagonistic than Wile E., preferring to work on his various inventions rather than chase Little Beeper.

Little Beeper

Little Beeper (voiced by Frank Welker) is a young roadrunner with red and orange feathers and blue sneakers. Much like his ''Looney Tunes'' counterpart, the Road Runner, Beeper spends most of his time outrunning and avoiding capture by Calamity Coyote. Unlike the Road Runner, Beeper can laugh and make other sounds, but he does not speak.

Supporting characters

Li'l Sneezer

Li'l Sneezer (voiced by Kath Soucie), is based on the classic animated mouse Sniffles from the ''Looney Tunes'' shorts. However, his extremely talkative personality is based on Little Blabbermouse. He is a young, gray male mouse who wears a diaper. He is shown to be allergic to many things. His allergies trigger exaggerated, explosive, gale

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