History WesternAnimation / SpeedyGonzales

* Daffy Rents (LT)

* A-Haunting we will Go (LT)-featuring Witch Hazel.

* The Wild Chase (MM)—The only Speedy cartoon to feature Tweety and the Road Runner. Also co-stars Sylvester.

''Speedy Gonzales'' is a recurring character of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' franchises, starring in 46 short cartoons. He is a Mexican mouse endowed with SuperSpeed. Initially he got into escapades with [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]], later getting into less popular conflicts with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. He was the last of the "classic" Looney Tunes characters to be created, not making his debut until 1955. He shares with Daffy the distinction of starring in the last thatrical Looney Tunes short to feature any of the classic characters, which was 1968's ''See You Later, Gladiator''.

* ArchEnemy: Sylvester is this to him, but it doesn't work both ways (Sylvester's ArchEnemy being Tweety Pie)

* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: The De Patie Freleng shorts made Speedy slightly more fallible, even losing a couple of times. In "Muchos Locos" and "Chilli Con Corny" Daffy gets the last laugh.

* {{Crossover}}: "The Wild Chase" has Speedy competing in a race against the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndRoadrunner Roadrunner]] with Sylvester and Wile E. trying to catch their respective foes.

* {{Catchphrase}}s: "¡Ándale, ándale!" (Come on, come on!) and "¡Arriba, arriba!" ("Get up, get up!") usually shouted vigorously as he ran about.

''Speedy Gonzales'' is a recurring character of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' franchises, starring in 46 short cartoons. He is a Mexican mouse endowed with SuperSpeed. Initially he got into escapades with [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]], later getting into less popular conflicts with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. He was the last of the "classic" Looney Tunes characters to be created, not making his debut until 1955.

* NiceHat: Other than his first appearance (which was sort of a prototype of the character) he always wears a sombrero.

* NiceGuy: Especially during the De Patie Freleng era shorts.

While his shorts are fairly popular, the series has come under fire for accusations of ethnic stereotyping--not Speedy himself, mind you, but rather his many acquaintances, who are portrayed as lazy, pejorative stereotypes of Mexican culture. As such, the shorts were not aired on American TV from 1985-2002, including the duration of ''The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show's run on ABC. Fortunately, thanks to Speedy's [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales large Mexican fanbase]] (who perceive him as a good role model) petitions persuaded Creator/WarnerBros to put the cartoons back on the air.

''Speedy Gonzales'' is a recurring character of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' franchises, starring in 46 short cartoons. He is a Mexican mouse endowed with SuperSpeed. Initially he got into escapades with [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]], later getting into conflicts with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. He was the last of the "classic" Looney Tunes characters to be created, not making his debut until 1955.

While his shorts are fairly popular, the series has come under fire for accusations of ethnic stereotyping--not Speedy himself, mind you, but rather his many acquaintances, who are portrayed as lazy, pejorative stereotypes of Mexican culture. As such, the shorts were banned from TV for several years--fortunately, thanks to Speedy's [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales large Mexican fanbase]] (who perceive him as a good role model) petitions persuaded Creator/WarnerBros to put the cartoons back on the air.

* OutOfFocus: In modern adaptations, he gets this more than all the other major ''Looney Tunes'' characters. If not outright AdaptedOut (see above), he's DemotedToExtra, like in ''Film/SpaceJam''and ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' where he only makes cameo appearances (and he has no lines in the former). This is averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' where he's a recurring character but played straight again in ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction''. Guess who is the only character who is not [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=higSMrBYzpE in the opening?]]

Speedy is currently making appearances in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', taking up residence in the house of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Speedy's early design (in which Speedy wore a pink shirt, had no pants, had a gold front tooth, and looked stereotypically Mexican with his mop of greasy black hair and broken Spanish [[note]]the latter of which stayed when the character was changed into the way he is seen now[[/note]]) looks ''nothing'' like his current self.

* FunnyForeigner

* InvincibleHero:
** The amount of times a villain actually defeated Speedy can be counted on one hand. The amount of times a villain so much as challenged him actually aren't much larger than that. Daffy could make Speedy sweat a ''little'' at times, but still usually proved out of his league.

** Some of the Depatie-Freleng era Daffy/Speedy cartoons would have incidental characters that conned Daffy into chasing Speedy but got away with it at the end. Examples include Mayor Katt in ''Feather Finger'' and El Supremo in ''Daffy's Diner''. The Loco Crow in ''Chili Corn Corny'' got away with screwing over both Daffy ''and'' Speedy.
*** One should note in "Daffy's Diner" that Daffy was trying to cheat El Supremo by advertising a mouse burger but placing a foam rubber mouse in the burger. El Supremo ''hated'' being cheated, and threatened Daffy as a result! Had Daffy not tried to cheat El Supremo, the whole thing might have been avoided.

-->The fastest mouse in all of Mexico.

* The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (LT) -- Co-starring Sylvester. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

* Tabasco Road (LT). Nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

''Speedy Gonzales'' is a recurring character of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' franchises, starring in 46 short cartoons. He is a Mexican mouse endowed with SuperSpeed. Initially he got into escapades with [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]], later getting into conflicts with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: In the original shorts, Speedy's general solution against all the villains that opposed him was...[[SuperSpeed running fast]]. [[NighInvulnerability And it worked]]. On more than one occasion Sylvester successfully ate Speedy, but it did nothing to slow him down since Speedy could run with enough force to just ''burst through the other end''. The De Patie Freleng era shorts toyed more with antagonists being able to overpower Speedy, forcing him to utilise KarmicTrickster tactics against them.

* Speedy Gonzales (MM) -- Co-starring Sylvester. Won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

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!!Speedy Gonzales cartoons with their own pages:

* ''[[WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales1955 Speedy Gonzales]]'' (1955)