History WesternAnimation / ElmerFudd

* EvilVegetarian: He mentions he's a vegetarian when hunting more than one prey in ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'' and ''WesternAnimation/RabbitSeasoning''. It makes his hobby even less forgivable since nourishment isn't even part of his reasoning... and [[DependingOnTheWriter conveniently]] one escape route less for Bugs and Daffy.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though later shorts established him as a vegetarian, shorts like "Hare Tonic" and "Easter Yeggs" featured him attempting to cook Bugs into a stew.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: This is pretty much Elmer Fudd's reaction whenever he thinks he's finally killed Bugs. No matter how hard he's been trying throughout the episode to shoot Bugs he always breaks down in tears when he thinks he's finally done it, calling himself a murderer, which calls into question why he's a hunter in the first place. It doesn't help that in "Rabbit Fire," it was established that Elmer is a vegetarian and he just hunts for the sport of it, though, granted, Elmer's usual "kill" amounts to shooting Daffy's bill off, or blowing all the feathers off his body, his victim usually unharmed outside being somewhat annoyed.

* AffablyEvil: Generally nice guy when not trying to blast (not-so-) innocent animals with his shotgun.
* AntiVillain: Sure, he's trying to kill Bugs on a regular basis, but he's just a hunter practicing his sport and at worst a pitiful fool--it would be a huge stretch to call him evil. Creator/FrizFreleng cited this as a reason why he disliked using the character, feeling he was too pitiful to be a real threat to Bugs compared to Yosemite Sam.

-->'''Daffy''': Smartypants.

* Hare-um Scare-um (1939): Egghead's last classic appearance, as "John Sourpuss".

* WesternAnimation/ElmersCandidCamera: Elmer's official debut.

* WesternAnimation/AWildHare: Debut of Bugs Bunny.

* Elmer's Pet Rabbit

* To Duck or Not To Duck (LT) First pairing of Daffy and Elmer.

* ArtEvolution: His early Egghead look, plus his very brief change into a very obese design, before they settled into his standard look.

* DumbBlonde: According to ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' he is a blonde, though as an adult he is completely bald. He's more "foolish" than outright ignorant.

Elmer Fudd was one of very few character in the classic Looney Tunes era that was not voiced by the immortal Creator/MelBlanc. There were a few scattered exceptions, but for almost all of the character's appearances, he was voiced by an actor named Arthur Q. Bryan. After Bryan died in 1959, Creator/HalSmith voiced Elmer in two shorts, but the character was soon retired. Mel Blanc did voice Elmer for a few later appearances after the Warner Brothers animation studio closed in 1969, but Blanc himself said he never got the voice right.

** Since Blanc's death, other actors who have taken up the mantle as the dim-witted "wabbit" hunter over the years include Creator/JeffBergman, Creator/TomKenny, Creator/JoeAlaskey, Creator/EricBauza, and most notably, Creator/BillyWest.

* WesternAnimation/DuckRabbitDuck - Starring Daffy

* Heir-Conditioned -Starring Sylvester (LT)

* Bugs' Bonnets (MM)
* A Star is Bored -Starring Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Yosemite Sam (LT)

* Don't Axe Me -Starring Daffy (MM)
* Pre-Hysterical Hare -voiced by Dave Barry (LT)

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!!'''Tropes related to Elmer Fudd:'''

[[caption-width-right:350: "''Shhhh! Be vewwy, vewwy quiet! I'm hunting wabbits!''"]]

* HiddenDepths: Who would have guessed that the same Elmer Fudd that seemingly can't tell the difference between an actual woman and Bugs Bunny in a dress [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auI6Uz3D8I was an expert in economics]]? [[note]]At least, when ExecutiveMeddling brought on by RedScare forced him to be.[[/note]] In ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', outside of being a teacher at Acme Looniversity he also shows up in a several episodes as MrExposition including, in one case, an expert in seismology.

* WealthyYachtOwner: In the episode "Hare Brush" he's is a millionaire who "owns a mansion and a yacht". This becomes a hypnotic mantra a psychologist has him repeat after he has a mental breakdown and thinks he's a rabbit.

* AntiVillain: Sure, he's trying to kill Bugs on a regular basis, but he's just a hunter practicing his sport and at worst a pitiful fool--it would be a huge stretch to call him evil. Creator/FrizFreleng cited this as a reason why he disliked using the character, feeling he was too wimpy to be a real threat to Bugs.
-->"He was naïve and childish and Bugs outwitted him. It didn't take much brains to outwit Elmer. Sometimes you felt sorry for Elmer. He'd break down and cry. But that's why I didn't quite feel that Elmer filled the bill."

-->"Elmer was just too dumb. He was naïve and childish and Bugs outwitted him. It didn't take much brains to outwit Elmer. Sometimes you felt sorry for Elmer. He'd break down and cry. But that's why I didn't quite feel that Elmer filled the bill. He wasn't really a villain. He was a pitiful character. He had a duty to perform as a hunter. He had to go shoot a rabbit. But there wasn't a mean streak. He didn't really like to shoot the rabbit. You wondered why you didn't hate Bugs for doing what he did to him. It took a little more sharpness to outsmart Yosemite Sam than a chicken-brained Elmer Fudd."

* {{Adorkable}}: Sometimes has shades of this, especially when he falls for Bugs [[DisguisedInDrag in drag.]]

* CharlieBrownBaldness

* A Feud There Was (1938)

* The Wacky Wabbit
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* WesternAnimation/NuttyNews (only voice is heard, never seen)
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* {{Adorkable}}: Sometimes has shades of this, especially when [[FoeYay he falls for Bugs]] [[DisguisedInDrag in drag.]]

* The Stupid Cupid (LT)-Co-starring Daffy Duck