Speedy Gonzales

Speedy Gonzales is a character from the Looney Tunes animated franchise. While a prototype of Seepdy appeared in the 1953 short Cat-Tails for Two, his first true appearance was in the 1955 short Speedy Gonzales, which won an Academy Award. He is a quick-witted and heroic Mexican mouse who has the ability to run extremely fast and defends the town from his enemies, mainly Sylvester and Daffy Duck.

Why he is the Fastest Mouse in all Mexico

 * 1) He is a mouse who defends his town against enemies and always wins by using his wits and cunning to defeat his enemies.
 * 2) He is a brave hero who protects the rest of the mice from external threats like "El Gringo Pussygato".
 * 3) * On a similar topic, his role as a brave hero who protects the rest of the mice from external threats is basically similar to Herman from Herman and Katnip except if Herman was well-written as a well-intentioned hero.
 * 4) He is also a good-hearted guy and helps his friends, apart from being intelligent.
 * 5) Despite being framed by the Moral Guardians for being an offensive stereotype, real-life Mexicans LOVE Speedy, seeing him as an honorable warrior who defends his people from villains, as well as being quick-witted and cunning as already mentioned in the previous points. Other than that, Speedy was one of the first positive representations of Mexicans in the US media, something that was very rare at the time.
 * 6) *For example, when Cartoon Network stopped airing Speedy's shorts because it was considered an "ethnic stereotype", the League of United Latin American Citizens called Speedy as a cultural icon and began a campaign to get Speedy's shorts back on the air. That would finally happen in 2002.
 * 7) *This short-lived ban thankfully didn't affect outside Cartoon Network and Boomerang USA, as his shorts were still shown on a regular basis on various international Cartoon Network and Boomerang feeds (including in Latin America, where he is the most popular over there), as well as currently on MeTV in the United States since 2021.
 * 8) He has the ability to run very fast.
 * 9) He's quite funny and has great moments, especially when he makes fun of his enemies.
 * 10) * His expression "¡Epe! ¡Epe! ¡Epe!" is quite funny!
 * 11) His design, although stereotypical, is quite good and distinctive, apart from the fact that in some cartoons he looks cute.
 * 12) Overall, his character is basically a mouse version of Chuck Jones' Road Runner, albeit with a more well-written personality.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) His prototype design in Cat-Tails for Two is pretty ugly.
 * 2) Despite his good qualities, he has some flaws, such as sometimes being a womanizer.
 * 3) *Speaking of which, in two particular cartoons, "Mexican Cat Dance" and "The Music Mice-Tro" he is heavily flanderized into a flat-out sadistic jerk who enjoys tormenting both Sylvester and Daffy Duck respectively without any provocation which fits more in line with Gene Deitch's flanderized persona from Jerry Mouse, which completely goes against his character as the lovable heroic "Fastest Mouse of All Mexico" personality he is well-known for. Thankfully, outside these two cartoons, he remains his old likable self again.
 * 4) *Just like Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Jerry Mouse, and Kevin MaCallister, he can sometimes have too much fun outsmarting his enemies (especially his feline foe Sylvester) to the point of being somewhat sadistic, especially in the shorts "Gonzales Tamales", "It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House" and the Seven-Arts era cartoons of the late-1960s.
 * 5) Perhaps his only really racially-offensive aspect may be his broken English, terrible Spanish and his Spanglish (English-Spanish language hybrid) language usage, although luckily for Spanish speakers this is not present in the dubs.

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