The ''

Looney Tunes ''Looney Tunes'' is an American animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. starting from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with its partner series '' Merrie Melodies'', during the golden age of American animation. ...

'' and ''

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'' series of animated shorts released by Warner Bros. feature a range of characters which are listed and briefly detailed here. Major characters from the franchise include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Granny, Lola Bunny, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew,

Porky Pig Porky Pig is an animated character in the Warner Bros. '' Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many crit ...

Speedy Gonzales Speedy Gonzales is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast ...

Sylvester the Cat Sylvester Pussycat, Sr. is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic tuxedo cat in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. Most of his appearances have him often chasing Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper. He ...

, the Tasmanian Devil (Taz),

Tweety Tweety is a yellow canary in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of animated cartoons. The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being an English onomatopoeia fo ...

, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, and

Yosemite Sam Yosemite Sam ( /joʊˈsɛmɪti/ ''yoh-SEM-ih-tee'') is a cartoon character in the ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of short films produced by Warner Bros. His name is taken from Yosemite National Park. He is an adversary of Bu ...

. This list does not include ''

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'' characters or ''

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'' characters. This is a list of ''

'' and ''

'' characters.

Recurring characters

The following is a list of characters who appear in at least 2 different types of ''Looney Tunes'' media. Cameos are not included.

List

Blacque Jacque Shellacque

Blacque Jacque Shellacque is a fictional cartoon character in the ''

'' cartoons. He was created by Robert McKimson and Tedd Pierce, and first appeared in the 1959 ''

'' short '' Bonanza Bunny'' set in the Klondike of 1896.

Maurice LaMarche Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor, comedian, and impressionist. He has voiced the Brain in ''Animaniacs'' as well as its spin-off ''Pinky and the Brain'', Big Bob in '' Hey Arnold!'' (1996–2004), and a variety of ...

voiced the character from 2011 to 2014 in '' The Looney Tunes Show''. The character was the inspiration for a specific version of five card draw

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mixed with blackjack named "Blacque Jacque Shellacque" in which the pot is divided between the winning poker hand and the winning blackjack hand. If everyone loses in blackjack, the winning poker hand takes all. While similar in many ways to

—both are short in stature and temper—Blacque Jacque possesses his own unique characteristics, not the least of which is his comically thick French Canadian accent, performed by

Mel Blanc Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy ra ...

. Also, like Yosemite Sam and many other villains, Blacque Jacque Shellacque does not have a high level of intelligence, preferring to use force instead of strategy to fight Bugs. His usual swear word is ''Sacrebleu''; and he is often portrayed as a thief.

Bunny and Claude

Bunny and Claude are two fictional cartoon characters in the ''

'' series by

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which debuted in 1968. They are based on the real-life Bonnie and Clyde and the then-recent film about the pair's life that had been released by Warner Bros. They are depicted as a romantically involved pair of well-dressed rabbits who pull off carrot heists, and their catchphrase is "We rob carrot patches", based on the film Bonnie and Clyde's "We rob banks". Bunny was voiced by

Pat Woodell Patricia Joy Woodell (July 12, 1944 – September 29, 2015) was an American actress and singer, best known for her television role as Bobbie Jo Bradley from 1963 to 1965 on '' Petticoat Junction''. Career Woodell was born July 12, 1944, in Wi ...

and Claude was voiced by veteran ''Looney Tunes'' voice actor

. They both speak with pronounced Southern accents. Bunny and Claude are pursued by a stereotypical Southern

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(also voiced by Blanc in a fashion similar to his other characters, Foghorn Leghorn and

). They appeared in two cartoons produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation, '' Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches)'', released in 1968, and ''

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'', released in 1969. Both films were directed by Robert McKimson, and were his first two cartoons he directed in his comeback to Termite Terrace.

Gabby Goat

Gabby Goat is an

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in the Warner Bros. ''

'' series of cartoons.

Bob Clampett Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer. He was best known for his work on the ''Looney Tunes'' animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows '' T ...

created Gabby, a loud and temperamental cynic, to be a sidekick for

in the 1937 short '' Porky and Gabby'', directed by Ub Iwerks, who briefly subcontracted to Leon Schlesinger Productions, producers of the ''Looney Tunes'' shorts. The cartoon focuses on the title characters' camping trip, which is foiled by car trouble. Gabby made only two other golden-age animated appearances in '' Get Rich Quick Porky'' and ''

Porky's Badtime Story ''Porky's Badtime Story'' is a 1937 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Robert Clampett (his first short as director) and an uncredited Chuck Jones. The short was released on July 24, 1937, and stars Porky Pig and Gabby Goat. The s ...

'', although he did briefly appear in early merchandise as well. The series '' New Looney Tunes'' revived the character of Gabby.

Melissa Duck

Melissa Duck is a blonde female mallard duck, and girlfriend to Daffy Duck; and was created by Frank Tashlin and

Chuck Jones Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, director, and painter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the '' Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of shorts. He wrote, pro ...

. She is featured in several cartoon shorts, but is only referred to as Melissa in one, '' The Scarlet Pumpernickel'', where she is voiced by Marian Richman. A baby version appeared in '' Baby Looney Tunes''.

History

In the 1945 cartoon '' Nasty Quacks'', Daffy's owner, a young girl, also becomes the besotted owner of a small, yellow duckling. When a jealous Daffy feeds the duckling growth pills, he is surprised to see it age into a white, female duck with blonde hair. By the end of the cartoon, the two have fallen in love and given birth to roughly ten black, white, and yellow ducklings of their own. The blonde duck in this cartoon bears visual similarities to Daffy's girlfriend from 1953's ''Muscle Tussle'' and may represent the "origin" of the Melissa Duck character.^p. 163 Melissa Duck first officially appeared by name in adult form in the 1950 short '' The Scarlet Pumpernickel'' which was, in 1994, voted number 31 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In the cartoon, she appears as a blonde damsel-in-distress and Daffy's love interest. The plot followed Daffy attempting to save "the Fair Lady Melissa" from having to marry the evil Grand Duke

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with whom she is not in love.^{p. 208–209} Femme Fatale (aka "The Body", also referred to as Fowl Fatale or Shapely Lady Duck), from the 1952 Daffy Duck cartoon ''

The Super Snooper ''The Super Snooper'' is a 1952 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on November 1, 1952, and stars Daffy Duck as a detective. Plot Daffy Duck is Duck Drake, a "Private Eye, Ear, Nose, and Th ...

'', was a tall voluptuous bright blue-eyed, redheaded duck wearing red lipstick who bears a strong resemblance to Melissa Duck.^{p. 241–242} Later in Robert McKimson's '' Muscle Tussle'' (1953), Daffy Duck's girlfriend appears with him on a visit to the beach.^{p. 247–248} Melissa appeared again as a possessed client of Daffy's paranormal investigations business in ''The Duxorcist'', originally released as part of '' Daffy Duck's Quackbusters'' in 1988. Melissa Duck's most notable role is from the series '' Baby Looney Tunes'' which debuted in 2001 and casts the adult characters from the original ''Looney Tunes'' theatrical shorts as their infant selves, and displays Melissa's crush on Daffy Duck when she was an infant. In 2011 '' The Looney Tunes Show'' introduced a new female duck character, Tina Russo, based on Melissa Duck. In 2021, Melissa Duck reappeared as a playable character in the mobile game ''Looney Tunes World of Mayhem'' titled the "Fair Lady Melissa," "Maid Melissa" and "Possessed Melissa."

Pete Puma

Pete Puma is a

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, originally voiced by

Stan Freberg Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg; August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American actor, author, comedian, musician, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director. His best-known works include "St. George and the Dragonet", ...

. He was created by Robert McKimson, and debuted in the November 15, 1952 short film '' Rabbit's Kin''. Although Pete Puma was a one-shot character in ''Rabbit's Kin'', he is often vividly remembered by cartoon fans, especially for his bizarre, inhaled, almost choking laugh (based on comedian Frank Fontaine's "Crazy Guggenheim" and "John L.C. Silvoney" characters). In ''Rabbit's Kin'', Pete is chasing a young rabbit called "Shorty" who asks Bugs Bunny for help. Bugs is eager to oblige and subjects Pete to some of his trademark pranks.

Appearances

Pete Puma has made occasional appearances on ''

'' (as the Acme Looniversity janitor), some episodes of '' The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries'', co-starred with Foghorn Leghorn in ''

Pullet Surprise ''Pullet Surprise'' is a 1997 7-minute ''Looney Tunes'' short released in theaters with ''Cats Don't Dance''. It was produced by Chuck Jones Film Productions.

'' (voiced again by Freberg in all of these appearances), made a cameo appearance in the crowd scenes of ''

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'', '' Carrotblanca'' (as a waiter), '' Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas'' (working as a janitor again), and is a supporting character in the ''

'' comic books. His most recent appearances were in the '' Looney Tunes Cartoons'' shorts "Puma Problems" and "Bottoms Up", where he is voiced by Stephen Stanton.

Rocky and Mugsy

Rocky and Mugsy are

cartoon characters in the Warner Bros. ''

'' and ''

'' series of cartoons. They were created by

Friz Freleng Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1905May 26, 1995), credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons on the ''Looney Tunes'' and ' ...

Biography

As an animator, Friz Freleng enjoyed creating new adversaries for Warners' star Bugs Bunny, since he felt that Bugs' other nemeses, such as Beaky Buzzard and Elmer Fudd (who actually appeared in many more Freleng shorts than is commonly realized), were too stupid to give the rabbit any real challenge. Considered revolutionary for almost all of the late 1940s though he might have been, Freleng's own

had not yet been proven capable of fully fulfilling his creator's intentions. Freleng introduced two of these more formidable opponents as a pair of

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s in the 1946 film '' Racketeer Rabbit'', written by

Michael Maltese Michael Maltese (February 6, 1908 – February 22, 1981) was an American story man for classic animated cartoon shorts. He is best known for working in the 1950s on a series of '' Merrie Melodies'' cartoons with director Chuck Jones, notably " ...

. In the film, Bugs decides to find himself a new home, but the one he chooses is unfortunately occupied by a duo of bank robbers. The characters here are called "Rocky" (drawn like movie gangster

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) and "Hugo" (a

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d Peter Lorre). Both gangsters are performed by the Warner studio's longtime chief

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Appearances

Freleng liked the

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idea, and he used the concept again in the 1950 short ''

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''. This time, it is

and Daffy Duck who run afoul of the mob, only this time Rocky has not only one sidekick, but an entire

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. Freleng also redesigned Rocky for this short, making him a more generalized caricature of the "tough guy" gangster rather than Robinson in particular. Freleng used several of the same techniques that would make Sam, his other Bugs villain, such a humorous character: despite Rocky's tough-guy demeanor, everlasting cigar (or cigarette) and foppish gangster dress, he really is little more than a dwarf in a much-too-large hat. In 1953's '' Catty Cornered'', Freleng set the mob against another of his comic duos,

and

Tweety Bird Tweety is a yellow canary in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of animated cartoons. The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being an English onomatopoeia for ...

. Gang leader Rocky, this time aided and abetted by a hulking simpleton named "Nick", kidnaps Tweety Bird, and when Sylvester's bumbling predations accidentally free the bird, the poor puss is hailed as a hero. The duo reappear in 1954's '' Bugs and Thugs'', this time in the form that Freleng would keep them in for the rest of their run. Rocky is aided by a new thug, "Mugsy". Although his body type is similar to that of Nick's, he has less hair and is even less intelligent. Before the Warner studio closed for good in 1963, Rocky and Mugsy would appear in two more Freleng cartoons: ''

Bugsy and Mugsy ''Bugsy and Mugsy'' is a 1957 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on August 31, 1957, and stars Bugs Bunny, with Rocky and Mugsy. Bugs discovers that two robbers are hiding out on the floor abo ...

'' (1957) and '' The Unmentionables'' (1963). Mugsy also appears without his boss in a cameo as one of

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's guards in the 1956 Freleng short '' Napoleon Bunny-Part'' and also appeared as a bank robber in '' Satan's Waitin'''. Rocky and Mugsy have also appeared in various ''Looney Tunes''-related merchandise. They are semi-regular characters in ''Looney Tunes''

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s, for example. They also play the villains in the 2002

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'' Loons: The Fight for Fame'', a vs. fighting game in which the no-good gangsters attempt to run a film studio into the ground so that they can buy up the

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for next to nothing. Also, in '' Bugs Bunny Lost in Time'', the pair are bosses of the 1930s era. They also appeared in episodes of '' The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries'' and ''

'', as well as various cameo appearances in the movie ''

''. In the movie, they are spotted wearing rabbit's ears and are shown shocked and terrified when Bugs gets crushed by a Monstar named Pound who was meant to crush Lola. Rocky and Mugsy both made a cameo appearance in the sequel '' Space Jam: A New Legacy'' were they are seen in line with the other Tunes leaving Tune World in Bugs Bunny's flashback. Rocky and Mugsy made cameos in '' The Looney Tunes Show''. In "It's a Handbag", Rocky and Mugsy's pictures were seen in the police's notebook. They were also seen in the Merrie Melodies segment "Stick to My Guns", sung by Yosemite Sam in the episode "Mrs. Porkbunny's" where Yosemite Sam mentions how he declared his vendetta on the Mafia when Sam threw a garbage can into their house. Around the end of the song, Rocky and Mugsy joined in on the final verse with

Nasty Canasta Nasty Canasta is a cartoon character and antagonist of the ''Merrie Melodies'' and ''Looney Tunes'' series who made appearances in three cartoons. Created by animator Chuck Jones, Canasta is depicted as a tough, hulking, and brutish-looking outla ...

, an angry bride, a female cannibal, a grizzly bear, and Toro the Bull. Rocky and Mugsy appear in the '' Looney Tunes Cartoons'' shorts "Chain Gang(sters)" and "Hideout Hare" with Rocky voiced by James Adomian and Mugsy voiced by Fred Tatasciore.

Shorts

* '' Racketeer Rabbit'' (1946) – Features a prototype of Rocky. * ''

'' (1950) – Rocky's first cartoon, only cartoon paired with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. * '' Catty Cornered'' (1953) – Only pairing with Sylvester and Tweety. * '' Bugs and Thugs'' (1954) – Mugsy's first cartoon. * '' Napoleon Bunny-Part'' (1956) – Mugsy cameos as a guard. * ''

'' (1957) * '' The Unmentionables'' (1963) – Final appearance of Rocky and Mugsy.

Parodies

Rocky and Mugsy are parodied as the '' South Park'' characters Nathan and Mimsy in the episode " Crippled Summer", Nathan having been introduced in the earlier episode "

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". Throughout the episode's storylines, with various campers being parodies of other ''Looney Tunes'' characters, Nathan (Rocky) attempts to arrange fatal accidents for Jimmy Valmer (a counterpart to Bugs Bunny) which get ruined by Mimsy (Mugsy)'s stupidity. Nathan and Mimsy become reoccurring characters following their return appearance in the episode " Handicar". A poster depicting Rocky and Mugsy can be seen on the wall of Nathan's room.

Notes

References

External links

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