List of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters
The
Character table
Character | Theatrical shorts | Feature films[a] | Television series | other media |
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Angus MacRory | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Bosko & Honey | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Barnyard Dawg | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Beaky Buzzard | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Buddy | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Bugs Bunny | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Blacque Jacque Shellacque | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Cecil Turtle | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Charlie Dog | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Claude Cat | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Colonel Shuffle | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Daffy Duck | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Elmer Fudd | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Foghorn Leghorn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Foxy | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Piggy | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Gabby Goat | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Goofy Gophers | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Gossamer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Granny | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hector the Bulldog | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Henery Hawk | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Hubie and Bertie | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hugo the Abominable Snowman | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
K-9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Lola Bunny | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Marc Antony and Pussyfoot | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Marvin the Martian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Melissa Duck | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Michigan J. Frog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Nasty Canasta | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Playboy Penguin | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Penelope Pussycat | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Pepé Le Pew | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Pete Puma | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Petunia Pig | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Porky Pig | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Rocky and Mugsy | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Slowpoke Rodriguez | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Sniffles | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Speedy Gonzales | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sylvester the Cat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Tasmanian Devil | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Three Bears | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Tweety | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Witch Hazel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Yosemite Sam | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Main Looney Tunes characters
Bugs Bunny
Daffy Duck
Elmer Fudd
Foghorn Leghorn
Granny
Lola Bunny
Marvin the Martian
Pepé Le Pew
Porky Pig
Speedy Gonzales
Sylvester the Cat
Tasmanian Devil
Tweety
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
Yosemite Sam
Secondary Looney Tunes characters
This section lists the secondary Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters:
Babbit and Catstello
Barnyard Dawg
Beaky Buzzard
Beans
Bosko
Cecil Turtle
Charlie Dog
Claude Cat
Clyde Bunny
Colonel Shuffle
Conrad the Cat
Cool Cat
Egghead Jr.
Foxy
Goofy Gophers
Goopy Geer
Gossamer
Henery Hawk
Hippety Hopper
Hubie and Bertie
Hugo the Abominable Snowman
Inki
Marc Antony and Pussyfoot
Merlin the Magic Mouse
Michigan J. Frog
Miss Prissy
Nasty Canasta
Penelope Pussycat
Petunia Pig
Piggy
Playboy Penguin
Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit
Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog
Slowpoke Rodriguez
Sniffles
Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier
Sylvester Jr.
The Three Bears
Willoughby
Witch Hazel
Recurring Looney Tunes characters
The following is a list of recurring Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters without their own article:
Blacque Jacque Shellacque
Blacque Jacque Shellacque | |
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Canadian |
Blacque Jacque Shellacque is a fictional cartoon character in the Looney Tunes cartoons. He was created by Robert McKimson and Tedd Pierce, and first appeared in the 1959 Merrie Melodies short Bonanza Bunny set in the Klondike of 1896.[1] Maurice LaMarche voiced the character from 2011 to 2014 in The Looney Tunes Show.[2] The character was the inspiration for a specific version of five card draw poker 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.[3]
While similar in many ways to
Bunny and Claude
Bunny and Claude | |
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Looney Tunes character | |
First appearance | Bunny and Claude: We Rob Carrot Patches, 1968 |
Created by | Robert McKimson |
Voiced by | Mel Blanc (Claude) Pat Woodell (Bunny) |
In-universe information | |
Family | Buster Bunny (nephew; Tiny Toons Looniversity) Babs Bunny (niece; Tiny Toons Looniversity) |
Bunny and Claude are two fictional cartoon characters in the Looney Tunes series by Warner Bros. Cartoons 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 and Claude was voiced by veteran Looney Tunes voice actor Mel Blanc. They both speak with pronounced Southern accents. Bunny and Claude are pursued by a stereotypical Southern sheriff (also voiced by Blanc in a fashion similar to his other characters, Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam).
They appeared in two cartoons produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation, Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches), released in 1968, and The Great Carrot Train Robbery, released in 1969. Both films were directed by Robert McKimson, and were his first two cartoons he directed in his comeback to Termite Terrace.
A picture of Bunny and Claude is shown in the first Tiny Toons Looniversity special "Spring Beak", in which they are revealed to be Buster and Babs Bunny's aunt and uncle.
Gabby Goat
Gabby Goat | |
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Looney Tunes character | |
First appearance |
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Created by | Bob Clampett |
Voiced by | Mel Blanc (1937) Cal Howard (Get Rich Quick Porky) Bob Bergen (2018–2019) |
In-universe information | |
Species | Goat |
Gender | Male |
Family | Granny (Owner) |
Gabby Goat is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.
Bob Clampett created Gabby, a loud and temperamental cynic, to be a sidekick for Porky Pig 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.[5][6]
Gabby made only two other golden-age animated appearances in Get Rich Quick Porky and Porky's Badtime Story, although he did briefly appear in early merchandise as well.
The series New Looney Tunes revived the character of Gabby.
Gossamer
Hector the Bulldog
Hector the Bulldog | |
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English Bulldog) | |
Gender | Male |
Family | Granny (owner) Tweety (owner pet's) |
Nationality | American |
Hector the Bulldog is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Hector is a muscle-bound bulldog with gray fur (except in A Street Cat Named Sylvester and Greedy for Tweety, where his fur is yellowish) and walks pigeon-toed. His face bears a perpetual scowl between two immense jowls. He usually wears a black collar with silver studs.
Hector's first appearance was in 1945's Peck Up Your Troubles, where he foils Sylvester's attempts to get a woodpecker.[7] He made a second appearance in A Hare Grows in Manhattan, leading a street gang composed of dogs in a Friz Freleng-directed short; this is also the only short where the dog has numerous speaking lines.[8] Besides these starring roles, Hector is a minor player in several Tweety and Sylvester cartoons directed by Freleng in 1948 and throughout the 1950s. His usual role is to protect Tweety from Sylvester, usually at Granny's request. He typically does this through brute strength alone, but some cartoons have him outsmart the cat, such as 1954's Satan's Waitin', wherein Hector (as Satan) convinces Sylvester to use up his nine lives by pursuing Tweety through a series of extremely dangerous situations.[9] In most of his appearances, the bulldog is nameless, though he is sometimes referred to as Spike, not to be confused with Freleng's other creation Spike who is often paired with Chester the Terrier.
From 1979 to 1983, when Sylvester was the mascot for 9Lives' line of dry cat food, Hector appeared in most TV commercials with the feline, whose plots typically involved Sylvester attempting to distract him to get the bowl of 9Lives, only for the cat to once again end up in danger by the end, with Sylvester proclaiming the brand as "worth riskin' your life for!".
Hector’s most prominent role was as a regular cast member in the
Hector also appears in the video game
He is a member of the studio audience in
K-9
K-9 | |
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Martian dog | |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Marvin's pet |
Family | Marvin the Martian (Owner, boss) |
Nationality | Mars |
K-9 is Marvin the Martian's pet alien dog. He is a dog with green fur, and like his owner, he wears a helmet, skirt, and four slippers. K-9 debuts in Haredevil Hare (1948), where he and his owner Marvin tried to defeat Bugs Bunny. He returns in The Hasty Hare (1952), serving the same purpose. After that, he did not appear in another short film until Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension (1996), where he and Marvin confront Daffy Duck.
In the television series
K-9 makes a cameo appearance in the film Space Jam, as part of the audience during the basketball game. He has a minor but most notable appearance in the film Space Jam: A New Legacy, where after Bugs claims Tune World in the name of the Earth, he appears alongside Marvin, who arrives to claim Tune World in the name of Mars.
K-9 also appears as a playable character in the mobile game Looney Tunes World of Mayhem.
Melissa Duck
Melissa Duck | |
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B.J. Ward (1987-1988) Janyse Jaud (Baby Looney Tunes; 2002-2005) Amber Lee Connors (Tiny Toons Looniversity; 2023-present) Tina Russo Jennifer Esposito (2011–2012) Annie Mumolo (2012–2014) | |
In-universe information | |
Species | Mallard |
Gender | Female |
Significant others | Daffy Duck |
Melissa Duck is a blonde female duck who is the dapper girlfriend to and occasional female counterpart of Daffy Duck. She was created by Frank Tashlin and Chuck Jones. 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.[11] A baby version appeared in Baby Looney Tunes as part of the main cast.
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.[11]
Melissa Duck first officially appeared by name in adult form in the 1950 short
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.[13] In 2011 The Looney Tunes Show introduced a new female duck character, Tina Russo, based on Melissa Duck, although she had a more tomboy personality and appearance.
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", "Possessed Melissa", and "Shapeshifter Melissa".
Pete Puma
Pete Puma | |
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Looney Tunes character | |
First appearance | Rabbit's Kin (1952) |
Created by | Robert McKimson |
Voiced by | Stan Freberg (1952–2000) Joe Alaskey (1990–1991) John Kassir (2011–2020) Jess Harnell (2015, 2023–present) Stephen Stanton (2021–present) |
In-universe information | |
Species | Puma |
Relatives | Peter Puma (father) Pat Puma (mother) Penelope Puma (sister) Paul Puma (cousin) |
Pete Puma is a puma, originally voiced by Stan Freberg. 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).[14] 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.
Pete Puma has made occasional appearances on
Rocky and Mugsy
Rocky and Mugsy | |
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Looney Tunes character | |
First appearance |
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Created by | Friz Freleng |
Voiced by |
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In-universe information | |
Species | Humans |
Gender | Both males |
Rocky and Mugsy are characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. They were created by Friz Freleng.[19]
Biography
As an
Appearances
Freleng liked the mobster idea, and he used the concept again in the 1950 short Golden Yeggs. This time, it is Porky Pig and Daffy Duck who run afoul of the mob, only this time Rocky has not only one sidekick, but an entire gang. Freleng also redesigned Rocky for this short, making him a more generalized caricature of the "tough guy" gangster rather than Robinson in particular.[22] 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, Sylvester and Tweety Bird. 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.[23]
The duo reappear in 1954's
Rocky and Mugsy have also appeared in various Looney Tunes-related merchandise. They are semi-regular characters in Looney Tunes
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, an angry bride, a female cannibal, a grizzly bear, and Toro the Bull.[citation needed]
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.[25]
Shorts
- Racketeer Rabbit (1946) – Features a prototype of Rocky.
- Golden Yeggs (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.
- Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)
- The Unmentionables (1963) – Final appearance of Rocky and Mugsy.
Parodies
In the television series
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 "Up the Down Steroid". 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.[26]
Notes
- ^ not including compilation films
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- ^ @Stephen_Stanton (January 23, 2022). "Happy to have voiced #PetePuma again in "Bottoms Up", part of the latest batch of New #LooneyTunes #cartoons on @hbomax!" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 March 2022 – via Twitter.
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- ^ @JAdomian (January 21, 2021). "Got to play the classic gangster Rocky in the new @WBLooneyTunes episodes out today on @hbomax - alongside @FredTatasciore as Mugsy, and @bauzilla as Bugs!!!!" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 March 2022 – via Twitter.
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