Bugs Bunny

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" “ Some people call me cocky and brash, but actually I am just self-assured. I'm nonchalant, im­perturbable, contemplative. I play it cool, but I can get hot under the collar. And above all I'm a very 'aware' character. I'm well aware that I am appearing in an animated car­toon....And sometimes I chomp on my carrot for the same reason that a stand-up comic chomps on his cigar. It saves me from rushing from the last joke to the next one too fast. And I sometimes don't act, I react. And I always treat the contest with my pursuers as 'fun and games.' When momentarily I appear to be cornered or in dire danger and I scream, don't be consoined – it's actually a big put-on. Let's face it, Doc. I've read the script and I al­ready know how it turns out.' ” ― Bob Clampett on Bugs Bunny, written in first person."

Bugs Bunny is the official mascot of the Warner Bros. company, and the overall main protagonist in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies franchise. Bugs is an anthropomorphic grey hare famous for his relaxed, passive personality, his pronounced Mid-Atlantic accent which Mel Blanc described as being a mixture of Brooklyn and Bronx accents, his depiction as a mischievous trickster, and his catchphrase "Eh, what's up, doc?" usually said while chewing a carrot.

Why He Ain't A Stinker

 * 1) He is one of the most iconic cartoon characters ever created apart from characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Homer Simpson. He is also possibly one of the most famous fictional characters out there. He is even popular enough to rival Mickey Mouse and in terms of popularity and surpassed the popularity of every other classic cartoon character produced in the 1940s and 1950s.
 * 2) He is a comedic karmic trickster who usually has a specific revenge term and doesn't try to push things too far when he ridicules his tormentors (unlike a certain brown mouse who has).
 * 3) Speaking of which, he may seem incredibly lucky and flawless on the surface, but he has had his moments of showing how comically flawed or at times vulnerable to the point viewers find him likable and interesting enough to be someone the audience should root for or just enough for the viewers to sympathize with him as well.
 * 4) His famous catchphrases such as "What's up, doc?", "Ain't I a stinker?" and "Of course you realize, this means war" never get old, and are one-liners that are considered to be classic favourites.
 * 5) He can easily entertain viewers with his cartoon antics and fourth-wall awareness, but then again, it's a typical cartoon thing.
 * 6) He is greatly voiced by Mel Blanc and many more.
 * 7) * Not only that, but he hilariously speaks with a very thick Brooklyn accent.
 * 8) He even has his own shows; The Bugs Bunny Show and Wabbit (a.k.a. New Looney Tunes (Season 1))
 * 9) He became the spokesperson for many products such as Kool-Aid, Post Cereal, and Tang.
 * 10) His design is drawn smoothly with nice outlines.
 * 11) Similar to how Mickey Mouse is the face and mascot Disney, he is even the face and mascot of Warner Bros. Entertainment, having appeared regularly on the Warner Bros. company logos multiple times.
 * 12) He is so amazing that he even shared an iconic and famous crossover scene with Mickey Mouse in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Don't believe us, check it out for yourself

"Stinker" Qualities

 * 1) He was kind of racist in some earlier 1940s shorts, like "All This and Rabbit Stew" and "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips", mainly due to his antagonists being depicted as racial stereotypes.
 * 2) And like other characters, he has also suffered from mild flanderization like they usually have.
 * 3) He kind of acted like a bully to Elmer Fudd on some early cartoons like Wabbit Twouble, Elmer's Pet Rabbit, The Wabbit Who Came to Supper and The Wacky Wabbit but fortunately, Chuck Jones improved his character on Hold the Lion, Please where he made a rule that Bugs Bunny should only fight against characters who are mean to him or start the conflict.
 * 4) * Speaking of which, in Tortoise Beats Hare (his first pairing with Cecil Turtle), he kind of acted like a bully to Cecil Turtle and arrogantly challenges him to a race under a $10 bet, all because of this petty reason that he got enraged over the "Tortoise Beats Hare" title card, but at least he got what's coming to him when he lost the race and the $10 bet to Cecil Turtle despite the turtle cheating in the race with his lookalike cousins. Thankfully this was fixed in subsequent Bugs vs Cecil pairings produced since Chuck Jones' Hold the Lion, Please by making Bugs' rivalry with Cecil more sympathetic (albeit at the cost of making Cecil a despicable cheater and Bugs coming off as a Butt-Monkey who always loses unfairly to Cecil in the end).
 * 5) * In Buckaroo Bugs, he is seriously miscast as a villainous carrot-stealing bandit, almost as bad as Daffy Duck's infamous miscasting as a Yosemite Sam-esque villain in the mid-to-late-1960s Looney Tunes cartoons, where he not only who robs carrots from victory gardens, yet he bullies and torments the dim-witted heroic cowboy Red Hot Ryder who attempts to bring him to justice. Thankfully, this is fixed in subsequent Western-themed Bugs Bunny cartoons since Hare Trigger where the roles are reversed with Bugs as the heroic cowboy and Yosemite Sam as the villainous bandit.
 * 6) * In Shishkabugs, while nowhere near as bad as the Spoiled King in this episode, he comes off as bland on this cartoon and keeps attempting to get Yosemite Sam executed for his failure to cook hasenheffer out of him. In fact, when Bugs first appears in this cartoon, it is revealed that he's practically a moocher who keeps "borrowing" cups of carrots from the kitchen Yosemite Sam works in, which isn't a good first impression for Bugs in this cartoon.
 * 7) * In Hare-Breadth Hurry, he comes off as a sadistic jerk towards Wile E. Coyote when he stands in for the Road Runner due to him constantly breaking the Road Runner cartoons' number one rule of the Road Runner not allowed to harm Wile E. Coyote aside from beeping at him, so much that it can even makes the Road Runner's flanderized persona from "The Larriva Eleven" look like a saint in comparison.
 * 8) * In The Iceman Ducketh, while nowhere as bad as Daffy in that episode, he comes across as bland and keeps humiliating Daffy in numerous scenes, though justified because of Daffy wanting to kill Bugs for fur.
 * 9) * Excluding the above-mentioned cartoons, even after Chuck Jones made him more sympathetic beginning with Hold the Lion, Please, he can sometimes have too much fun outwitting his antagonists to the point of being somewhat sadistic, especially in the 1940s cartoons (particularly in the World War II-themed cartoons such as "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" and the Bob Clampett-directed ones such as "Hare Ribbin" and "The Old Grey Hare" for example) as well as in some of the later adaptations such as New Looney Tunes and Looney Tunes Cartoons.
 * 10) * In October 2018, Bugs Bunny was replaced with Mr. Whiskers to look more natural due to one of Paramount's films PAW Patrol: The Movie, showing the clouds above the mountain disappearing when the ViacomCBS byline fades in their logo due to the film using logical extreme animation. However, unlike the other two CNTwo Shows (The Loud House and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy), Phineas and Ferb uses the regular extreme animation used in Brandy & Mr. Whiskers and New Looney Tunes. However, according to IMDB, some regular extreme animation shows like Wayside and The Powerpuff Girls have the colours from the animation enhanced.

Legacy
Bugs Bunny is considered one of the greatest, most iconic and popular cartoon characters of all time. He is ranked No.1 on The 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time list from 2002 TV guide, followed by Homer Simpson, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Beavis and Butt-head, The Grinch, and many others. He has been described by many as having a beautiful design, recognisable voice, and skilled entertainment. He starred in the most Merrie Melodies shorts during the Golden Age of American Animation, and has received 2 Academy Award Nominations, and only 1 of them won (Knighty Knight Bugs). During WW2, he received special star billing in his cartoons by 1943, and the Marine Corps made Bugs an honorary Marine master sergeant. During 1943-1946, Bugs Bunny was also the Mascot of Kingman Army Airfield, Kingman Arizona, where thousands of aerial gunners trained. He has even had his own closing on "That's all Folks", check it out.

Trivia

 * He was the second cartoon character to win a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, after Mickey Mouse (the 1818th star, who was added on December 10, 1985). Everyone loves his short films especially Looney Tunes, and he has been entertaining audiences since the '30s and he is still iconic to this day!
 * He was created by Ben Hardaway (the man behind Woody Woodpecker) in 1938 for "Porky's Hare Hunt" and "Hare-Um Scare-Um" and was named after his middle name, Bugs. But it wouldn’t be until Tex Avery made me who he is today in 1940 on the Academy Award nominated short "A Wild Hare", and directors such as Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and Friz Freleng helped develop his personality.
 * He has spawned several memes such as Big Chungus and King Bugs.
 * Not only that, but his most popular meme Big Chungus proudly received an official trademark from Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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