History Main / EasterBunny

* In ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'', one version of the Easter Bunny is an alien, who created the [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai moai]] on Easter Bunny Island and used Earth to dispose of dangerous mutant eggs from his homeworld.

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* Then there was the scene toward the end of ''Film/HomeAlone'', where an actor playing Santa Claus gets served with a parking ticket on Christmas Eve. "What's next?" he grouses. "Rabies shots for the Easter bunny?"

* When ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' told Suzy the Tooth Fairy wasn't real, she was sad and told she already knew about the Easter Bunny not being real but didn't expect the fairy to be another fake. Johnny was sorry for [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone destroying her dreams]] and, once what she said about the bunny clicked in, gave a BigNo. Johnny spent most of the episode trying to restore her belief in the Tooth Fairy and, as the episode ended, she met the real Tooth Fairy ''and'' the real [[BrickJoke Easter Bunny]].

** Fiona: Rudy's girlfriend, a fox. Tag teamed with Rudy to help deliver eggs, and later split the scholarship with him after she lost her fortune.

** [[spoiler:Miranda Hutch: A friend and teammate of Rudy's and Fiona's. She's the Easter Bunny for the area surrounding Beige University. Her fathers secretly got her the job to give her an outlet for her recklessness that also gave her a bodyguard. Usually the bodyguard is her friend Carl, but after Fiona figured out she was the Easter Bunny, Fiona replaced Carl as her bodyguard. When she began openly dating Edgar, a lion, he took over.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RabbitAcademy'' is about a rabbit who gets accepted to a school that trains Easter Bunnies.

** [[spoiler:Miranda Hutch: A friend and teammate of Rudy's and Fiona's. She's the Easter Bunny for the area surrounding Beige University. Her fathers secretly got her the job to give her an outlet for her recklessness that also gave her a bodyguard. Usually the bodyguard is her friend Carl, but after Fiona figured out she was the Easter Bunny, Fiona replaced Carl as her bodyguard.]]

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* One of the titular Guardians in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Lock, Shock and Barrel were sent to retrieve Santa Claus but instead returned with the Easter Bunny. The poor Bunny is absolutely terrified of Halloweentown and Jack Skellington offers him a genuine apology before ordering the trio to take him home.

* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'': Super Chicken once battled a rogue Easter Bunny who was robbing banks in order to dye the money pretty colors like Easter eggs. [[spoiler:It turns out that the robber was a guy named "Louie the Lapin" in disguise. Near the end of the episode, the real Easter Bunny does a [[IncrediblyLamePun hop-on]] to wave at the Super Coop passing overhead.]]

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* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ooZYjF0mI Lobo's Paramilitary Christmas Special]]'', the Easter Bunny hires Lobo to kill Santa Claus as he is sick of the jolly fat man hogging all of the holiday glory.

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* The Easter Bunny appears briefly in ''Merry-Go-Round in Oz,'' the last of the forty canonical Oz books. He is revealed to live in the land of Oz, with a number of bunny assistants who produce Easter eggs, and invites Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion in for jelly beans and [[StockAnimalDiet carrot tea.]] The Cowardly Lion is not thrilled with the choice of beverage, but the Easter Bunny quite misses his subtle hints and hospitably keeps offering him more.

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* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/HolidayWars'', the Easter Bunny kills Santa Claus and declares war on all the other holidays.

** Rudy: Kell's son and Kevin's stepson, also a wolf. filled in for Kevin one year after a cave in buried the Hare Link headquarters in dirt. Was accidentally caught after stumbling on a sunrise Easter service. After a rabbit version of his image started being used in marketing, the Rabbit Council offered him a permanent position, with a scholarship to the college of his choice. He served a few more years until he was outed as a result of a scent-based masquerade. [[spoiler: His scent 'mask' was a rabbit, and an artist had sketched what everyone looked like based on their scents. The media realized the similarities between the 'accepted' image of the Easter Bunny and rabbit! Rudy, and combined with the circumstantial evidence that accumulated, outed Rudy.]]

** Dorothy: Kevin's mother. Was the first female Easter Bunny. [[spoiler: Had to give up a prospective marriage with a pig (who's now Rudy's coach in the gardening team) because the Council threatened to fire her if she married outside the species.]]

** [[spoiler: Miranda Hutch: A friend and teammate of Rudy's and Fiona's. She's the Easter Bunny for the area surrounding Beige University. Her fathers secretly got her the job to give her an outlet for her recklessness that also gave her a bodyguard. Usually the bodyguard is her friend Carl, but after Fiona figured out she was the Easter Bunny, Fiona replaced Carl as her bodyguard.]]
** [[spoiler: Hockney, a wild boar piglet who's in the same class as Wendell. Became a "cover story" Easter bunny when their classmate Lin caught him replacing the eggs with rocks and misunderstood, later insisted on taking the job for real because he thought Lin was attracted to him as a result.]]

* There is the French EasterBunny from ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' who is actually [[spoiler:a {{Wendigo}} in a costume.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And from Canada.]]

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* [[Creator/RankinBassProductions Rankin/Bass]] did at least '''three''' [[EasterSpecial Easter Bunny specials]]: ''WesternAnimation/HereComesPeterCottontail'' (1971); ''The First Easter Rabbit'' (1976), which was based on the children's story ''The Velveteen Rabbit'', and ''The Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town'' (1977). They sure liked that rabbit.

* There was a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, "WesternAnimation/EasterYeggs", in which Bugs Bunny meets the Easter Bunny -- who tries to foist his egg-hiding chores off on Bugs because he's lazy.

* ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' once helped the Easter Bunny.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle Super Chicken]]'' once battled a rogue Easter Bunny who was robbing banks in order to dye the money pretty colors like Easter eggs. [[spoiler:It turns out that the robber was a guy named "Louie the Lapin" in disguise. Near the end of the episode, the real Easter Bunny does a [[IncrediblyLamePun hop-on]] to wave at the Super Coop passing overhead.]]

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* The Easter Bunny appears briefly in ''Merry-Go-Round in Oz,'' the last of the forty canonical Oz books. He is revealed to live in the land of Oz, with a number of bunny assistants who produce Easter eggs, and invites Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion in for jelly beans [[StockAnimalDiet carrot tea.]] The Cowardly Lion is not thrilled with the choice of beverage, but the Easter Bunny quite misses his subtle hints and hospitably keeps offering him more.

Compare SantaClaus and the ToothFairy. In some more adult-oriented works, the Easter Bunny may be a woman wearing a PlayboyBunny outfit.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Lock, Shock and Barrel were sent to retrieve Santa Claus but instead returned with the Easter Bunny.

Its origins are a bit more complex. It's popularly believed that missionaries found that adding Christian elements to pagan celebrations made conversions a bit easier. So they combined the Christian celebration of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}'s [[BackFromTheDead resurrection]] with fertility rites around that time of year, and rabbits and eggs being signs of those, they became symbols of Easter as well. It helped that the resurrection theme went along well with the renewal theme that it seems likely most pre-Christian spring festivals had. Unfortunately, there is no contremporary record of these festivals beyond a single reference to the goddess Eostre by the Venerable Bede.

Its origins are a bit more complex. Missionaries found that adding Christian elements to pagan celebrations made conversions a bit easier. So they combined the Christian celebration of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}'s [[BackFromTheDead resurrection]] with fertility rites around that time of year, and rabbits and eggs being signs of those, they became symbols of Easter as well. It helped that the resurrection theme went along well with the renewal theme of most pre-Christian spring festivals.

* In ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'' EasterSpecial, Geraldine learned that the village of Dibley has a tradition of an Easter bunny, which is secretly one of the villagers, although the kids (and [[TheDitz Alice]]) think its real. When Mrs Cropley died, she told Geri that she'd been the Easter bunny, and now she was passing it on to her. When Geraldine meets David Horton also dressed as a bunny, they realise that Mrs Cropley must have forgotten she'd already passed the tradition on. And then they turn the corner and find the entire parish council in rabbit ears.

* The Easter Bunny in the Deep 7 game ''Santa's Soldiers'' is in a cold war type situation with Santa Claus. Her [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny "peeples army"]] will work with or against the elves, depsnding on what suits her agenda at the time.

** Rudy: Kell's son and Kevin's stepson, also a wolf. filled in for Kevin one year after a cave in buried the Hare Link headquarters in dirt. Was accidentally caught after stumbling on a sunrise Easter service. After a rabbit version of his image started being used in marketing, the Rabbit Council offered him a permanent position, with a scholarship to the college of his choice. He served a few more years until he was outed as a result of a scent-based masquerade. [[spoiler: His scent 'mask' was a rabbit, and an artist had sketched what everyone looked like based on their scents. The media realized the similarities between the 'accepted' image of the Easter Bunny and rabbit!Rudy, and combined with the circumstantial evidence that accumulated, outed Rudy.]]

* Artist Penny Parker has done a few artwork featuring a [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/00/63/d10063b58ee599fa76c92874a3ed449b.jpg cute bunny set around easter]] who are the easter bunny.
* Music/{{Tsukiuta}} has an Easter Bunny illustration set, of course, because their mascot is a rabbit, so they'll take any excuse to get these boys in bunny ears. It features Hajime managing to still look kingly in that many shades of pastel, and Haru ''suggestively holding an easter egg near his mouth''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Spring Break Special'', Elmyra tries to capture Buster Bunny because she thinks he is the Easter Bunny [[spoiler: and in TheStinger, she's right]].

* In the {{Claymation}} special "Follow That Bunny'', a thief steals the magic egg that the Easter Rabbit (as he's known in this special) has to paint in order to make spring come, prompting a RagTagBunchOfMisfits to go after it.

* Early in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Bun-Bun accidentally kills the Easter Bunny with a giant robot. Turns out [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt if you kill the Easter Bunny, you become the Easter Bunny.]] Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.

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* The TV EasterSpecial of ''Franchise/IceAge'' tells the story of the ''first'' Easter Bunny. [[spoiler:As repayment for helping them recover the eggs stolen by ex-pirate bunny Squint, Sid offers Squint's brother Clint the job of painting eggs and hiding them every Easter.]]

Compare SantaClaus. In some more adult-oriented works, the Easter Bunny may be a woman wearing a PlayboyBunny outfit.

* In ''The Dumb Bunnies'', the Easter Bunny rides in a shiny red minivan pulled by eight flying Pilgrims every Christmas to drop a bunch of eggs down the chimney.

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* ''Webcomic/DoctorFun'' once posited that [[http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9804/df980410.jpg Easter Bunnies are eusocial.]]

* [[Creator/RankinBassProductions Rankin/Bass]] did at least '''3''' [[EasterSpecial Easter Bunny specials]]: ''WesternAnimation/HereComesPeterCottontail'' (1971); ''The First Easter Rabbit'' (1976) which was based on the children's story, ''The Velveteen Rabbit''; and ''The Easter Bunny is Comin' To Town'' (1977). They sure liked that rabbit.
* In at least the original special of ''Santa Vs The Snowman'', Santa is locked in prison, and says that the Easter Bunny is never going to let him live it down.