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4Characters of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
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10!!Toons
11[[folder:In General]]
12[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2632859534082499667e85cb4a810f56.jpg]]
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14In the universe of the movie, cartoons, or "toons" as they're informally referred to, are living, sentient, animated lifeforms comprised of ink and paint who co-exist with humans in the real world. Originating from {{Toontown}}, a walled-off animated metropolis adjacent to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, they're mostly known for their amusing and hilarious antics which gets varying human reception as humor is seemingly the sole driving force behind their reason for being. Toons come in many forms and are often anthropomorphic or caricatured versions of humans, animals, plants, machines, inanimate objects, structures, etc. Treated like second-class citizens during the events of the film, work for them is mostly relegated to "live"-animated film productions. Many of the toons featured in the film include icons from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation.
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16* AchillesHeel: The Dip; TheDreaded deadly corrosive acid made of paint thinners and film solvents that dissolves toons on contact.
17* AdorableAbomination: The movie deconstructs the existence of toons in the real world by showing traits commonly associated with EldritchAbomination. They don't belong to this world, yet the world warps to suit their need (i.e. ToonPhysics). They're immortal, ageless, any injury they receive at worst ''normally'' results in AmusingInjuries or, at least, searing pain. Most dangerously, although they take no lasting damage from both humans and fellow toons, they ''can'' do very real, permanent harm to humans. And the only known way to kill them for real is the dip.
18* TheAgeless: It's suggested that they're practically immortal and invincible as the Dip is the only means of permanently killing them -- anything less results in AmusingInjuries at worst.
19* AnimatedActors: In this world, cartoons are filmed in much the same way as live-action movies or television, but with toons as actors. While some toons are not actors, they do tend to be involved in entertainment in one way or another.
20* AnimateInanimateObject: All over the place; Benny the Cab, the Swinging Sword, some buildings and trees in Toontown, the ''Fantasia'' brooms, and the musical chairs at the studio to name a few.
21* ArtEvolution: When film studios went [[invoked]][[TechnologyMarchesOn over to technicolor]], all the black & white toons consequently lost their jobs, and struggled to find work elsewhere.
22* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], as, overall, toon morality is more or less along the same lines as human morality, but there are a few places here certain traits are viewed differently, ''humor'', most of all. Roger, for instance, is a cartoon rabbit who is by no means attractive by conventional human standards, but [[KavorkaMan he and Jessica are happily married,]] and it is implied that his sense of humor makes him attractive to other women of Toontown.
23* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The nature of a toon albeit to varying degrees, some being [[OnlySaneMan relatively sane folks with some eccentric logic]], others being odd, but friendly and then some others being completely bonkers.
24* CursedWithAwesome: Toons are nigh-indestructible and, at least to the "come to think of it" idea of their cartoony nature taken as serious powers, might as well or do have the powers of demigods. By now, enough people would imagine they would have either conquered or maybe even wiped out humanity with that kind of potential, but they're actually restrained by a rather ludicrous weakness; the RuleOfFunny. A toon's behavior is dictated entirely by whatever entertains people, making them so exploitable that they're stuck in working-class vocations.
25* FantasticRacism: Though certainly admired to some extent by them, they're not fully respected by humans and are often treated poorly (at least during the time period of this film anyway). They're cordoned off in their own huge metropolis called Toontown, which risks being demolished by the government. In addition, the Ink-and-Paint Club has toon performers and wait staff but no toons in the audience (a reference to the Cotton Club, which was whites-only but sold itself on featuring black performers).
26* FeelsNoPain: They can endure any imaginable amount of pain or trauma and shake it off like nothing, also via the RuleOfFunny, but it still probably hurts like crazy.
27* ForTheFunnyz: A toon's whole purpose in life is to make people laugh -- humans and fellow toons alike.
28* InterspeciesRomance: Several had feelings for humans (and vice versa), [[AbhorrentAdmirer either with]] or without the RuleOfFunny in force.
29* LiteralMetaphor: As is their nature, they deliberately invoke these as gags whenever they get the chance.
30** When Eddie orders a scotch "on the rocks", the ''Film/MaryPoppins'' toon penguin waiters put actual rocks in his drink, much to his consternation.
31** Dumbo will work for ''actual peanuts''.
32** The "cattle call" at Maroon Cartoons is comprised of toon cows.
33** The pie with cow's face on it (as in a "cow pie") that Eddie runs over when he enters Toontown.
34* LoveHurts: They can shake off anything you throw at them, but if you break their hearts, they go to pieces.
35* MediumAwareness: Played with. Not really in the sense that they know they're in a movie, but mostly in that they know they're animated representations of human world phenomena.
36** Porky Pig (and, with him, Tinker Bell) does, however, momentarily {{break the fourth wall}} doing his trademark "ThatsAllFolks" sign-off right before the end credits roll.
37** Tweety also looks to the camera in his Toontown cameo.
38* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: It was thought all toons are immortal, never get tired and are virtually unkillable. Until Judge Doom found a way with his Dip chemical.
39* ObfuscatingStupidity: Discussed by Roger's sentiment indicating that their outlandish, silly behavior is all a deliberate act just for laughs and that they're ultimately just as smart and sensible as humans.
40* RealityWarper: While not really brought up, it's heavily implied toons are able to literally do almost anything just as long as they find it mildly amusing.
41* RuleOfFunny: How everything about their entire universe and lives are oriented. For instance, though they can still feel pain, they suffer minimally from it as long as it was at least a little [[AmusingInjuries funny]]. This applies to both them individually and Toontown itself as a whole, where the Rule of Funny affects real-life humans too. That it why, since it was funny, Eddie was able to survive accidentally falling from the skyscraper. Eddie's brother dying as a result of [[spoiler:Doom]] dropping a piano on Eddie's brother was unprecedented because as far as anyone knew, a toon ''couldn't'' kill a human. This is a big hint that the killer was no ordinary toon, as real-world humans can survive collisions that ''total'' their cars in Toontown -- even another human would have been unable to make that kill.
42* SapientHouse: Even some of the buildings in Toontown are alive as anything else.
43* {{Toon}}: In this world, they are corporeal, space-occupying entities, though it's never explained how they came into being. Some fans believe they've always been there in some form or another with their own form of reproduction and just haven't been filmed until the 19th century. Others say they're drawn by elusive, "god-like animators" or somehow "made in Toontown". Some also speculate they're created by the humans, magically [[ArtInitiatesLife springing to life]] upon creation. There are hints that they were all brought to life after being rendered onto cels. Regardless, the topic isn't the most relevant aspect of the story, but, for many, the question still lingers.
44* ToonPhysics: Everything from making {{Impact Silhouette}}s to not succumbing to gravity until realizing they're in open air. These flexible physics apply to toons wherever they are; a human in or very close to Toontown suffers (or benefits) from the same crazy rules, as seen when Eddie Valiant was flattened into a pancake inside a rapidly ascending, high-g toon elevator without suffering any lasting injuries.
45* ToonTransformation: Toons are implied to be able to somehow do this to non-toon objects like when Roger finds Maroon's gun in Eddie's car and takes it with him inside the Acme factory. After he bursts into the factory out of a manhole, the gun is now animated.
46* ThouShaltNotKill: For all their zaniness and dangerous stunts, they don't ever want to kill humans. Eddie's brother being killed by one was unthinkable, horrifying people and toons alike who heard of the incident.
47* WeaksauceWeakness: Toons can die if they laugh too much. Given the purpose of the majority of toons is to elicit laughter from non-toons, it's quite a jarring concept.
48** They're also driven by habit to act in ways that would entertain regardless of how much sense it makes for them. Roger blew his own cover because Judge Doom played the "shave and a haircut" tune without the last two notes. [[spoiler:Doom himself had Eddie on the ropes in their two fights but managed to get himself injured and killed respectively because there's no joy in seeing a villain winning.]] This is presumably why toons haven't supplanted humanity as the apex species.
49* WeirdnessMagnet: It overlaps with the RuleOfEmpathy and RuleOfFunny as they are helplessly drawn to (no pun intended) and entertain any humans who are crying and/or suffering with crippling depression.
50!! Cartoon characters who appear or are referenced in the film:
51* Creator/{{Disney}}
52** Br'er Bear (''Film/SongOfTheSouth'')
53** Chicken Little (1943)
54** Clarabelle Cow
55** WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck
56** WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck
57** WesternAnimation/FerdinandTheBull
58** WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} (in various models)
59** Huey, Dewey and Louie
60** José Carioca (''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'')
61** WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse
62** WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse
63** Penguins (''Film/MaryPoppins'')
64** WesternAnimation/{{Pete}}
65** Peter (''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'': ''Peter and the Wolf'')
66** WesternAnimation/{{Pluto|ThePup}}
67** ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''
68*** Cyril Proudbottom
69*** J. Thaddeus Toad
70** ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''
71*** Bill the Lizard
72*** The Cheshire Cat
73*** The Doorknob (variation)
74*** Tweedledum
75** ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''
76*** Bambi
77*** Faline
78*** Flower
79*** The Great Prince
80*** Thumper (mentioned, Roger's uncle)
81** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''
82*** The Crows
83*** Dumbo
84** ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' (Maroon has "half the cast on loan")
85*** Cossack Flowers and Chinese Mushrooms (''The Nutcracker Suite'')
86*** Enchanted Brooms (''The Sorcerer’s Apprentice'')
87*** Hyancith Hippo a.k.a. "The Ballerina Hippo" and Madame Upanova (''Dance of the Hours'')
88*** Peter Pegasus, a cherubs and a unicorn (''The Pastoral Symphony'')
89** ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree''
90*** Golden Harp
91*** Willie the Giant (''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'')
92** ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''
93*** Flaps the Vulture
94*** Kaa
95** ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''
96*** John Darling
97*** Literature/PeterPan (mentioned)
98*** The Rhinoceros
99*** Tinker Bell
100** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''
101*** Jiminy Crickett
102*** Lampwick (on a poster)
103*** Pinocchio
104** ''Film/TheReluctantDragon''
105*** The Reluctant Dragon
106*** Sir Giles and his Horse
107** ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphony''
108*** Flowers and Tress (''Flowers and Trees'')
109*** Fiddler, Fifer and Practical Pig and the Big Bad Wolf (''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'')
110** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''
111*** The Evil Queen
112*** The Seven Dwarfs: Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy
113*** Literature/SnowWhite
114* Creator/FleischerStudios
115** WesternAnimation/BettyBoop
116** WesternAnimation/KokoTheClown
117* [[Creator/TedTurner Turner Entertainment]][=/=]Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer
118** ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons''
119*** WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}
120*** Screwy Squirrel (mentioned)
121*** Meathead Dog
122*** The Octopus from ''Half-Pint Pygmy''
123** ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear''
124*** Benny Burro
125* Creator/WarnerBros
126** ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
127*** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny
128*** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck
129*** WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd
130*** WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn
131*** Hector the Bulldog
132*** Marvin the Martian
133*** WesternAnimation/PorkyPig
134*** WesternAnimation/RoadRunner
135*** Sam Sheepdog
136*** WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales
137*** WesternAnimation/{{Sylvester|TheCatAndTweetyBird}}
138*** [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Tweety]]
139*** WesternAnimation/WileECoyote
140*** WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam
141* Creator/OttoMessmer
142** WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat (seen in an image above the Toontown tunnel)
143* Creator/WalterLantz
144** WesternAnimation/ChillyWilly (mentioned)
145** WesternAnimation/DinkyDoodle (mentioned)
146** WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker
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148
149[[folder:Roger Rabbit]]
150[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rogerpoint.png]]
151!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/CharlesFleischer, Juan Alfonso Carralero (Latin-American Spanish, speaking), Javier Pontón (Latin-American Spanish, singing), Creator/KoichiYamadera (Japanese)
152
153-->''"Puh-luh-luh-leeeease!"''
154
155The eponymous A-List cartoon star rabbit who gets framed for Marvin Acme's murder because his wife Jessica supposedly had an "affair" with him.
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157* AdaptationalHeroism: The Roger Rabbit of the original book was somewhat shifty and definitely not the NiceGuy he pretended to be. Most notably, [[spoiler:the final twist in the book was that he had plotted all along to make Eddie the FallGuy for the murder he committed]]. The Roger of the movie is genuinely a NiceGuy.
158* AdaptationDyeJob: He's brown furred in the original book but white furred in the film adaptation.
159* AffectionateNickname: Jessica refers to him as "honey bunny" and "darling".
160* AlliterativeName: His name and surname both have "R".
161* AmbiguouslyBi: He enthusiastically kisses Eddie on the mouth and later has delighted PostKissCatatonia when Eddie later reciprocates.
162* AnimatedActors: He plays a rabbit babysitter when he's a rabbit actor.
163* BadassAdorable: Roger has his moments, like when he gives Judge Doom [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech a short statement on his blatant hypocrisy and lack of responsibility for his career]].
164* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: In his cartoons. And he's aware of it, too, as shown in "Trail Mix Up":
165-->'''Roger:''' You hear that, Baby Herman? Hunting! Well, you two have a swell time!\
166'''Mother:''' Are you insane?! Taking Baby hunting would be ''dangerous!''\
167'''Roger:''' Well, [[LampshadeHanging leavin' him with me is no picnic-!]] ''[Mother, now annoyed, [[AmusingInjuries bashes Roger over the head with her shotgun, squashing him flat]]]''
168* BerserkButton: The suggestion that he'll find another girl better than Jessica which is, in itself, endearingly heartwarming.
169* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a sweet fella, but as his brief rant towards Eddie after the latter states he'll find someone better than Jessica, Roger ''can'' and ''will'' snap.
170** When he has Judge Doom at gunpoint, he manages to give [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech the corrupt official a short statement on his blatant hypocrisy and lack of responsibility for his career]]. Considering how terrified he was of him previously, he can toughen up when Jessica -- and by extension Toontown -- is in danger.
171* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's a professional toon and as above example states, he's stops joking when something personal happens.
172* BosssUnfavoriteEmployee: For Maroon. In the opening, the director of the opening cartoon hates Roger failing to act out his cartoon with Herman correctly because [[SkewedPriorities he made birds appear around his head upon giving himself head trauma instead of stars]], even though he apparently did everything else correctly.
173* BreakTheCutie:
174** When he sees the pictures of Jessica playing pattycake with Acme, he bursts into tears and spirals into depression in an alley.
175** He also tears up when he learns about Eddie's DarkAndTroubledPast.
176* BunniesForCuteness: Well, duh. That is when [[BewareTheNiceOnes you don't want to get on his bad side]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes when something personal happens.]]
177* ButtMonkey: In his cartoons he always goes through AmusingInjuries and nothing ever goes right for him.
178* CantHoldHisLiquor: A glass of scotch sends him bouncing around the room like he downed an equal amount of BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce, culminating with an ear-piercing squeal that breaks all windows in the vicinity. Eddie uses this as a ChekhovsSkill towards the middle of the movie.
179* CharacterCatchphrase:
180** "P-p-p-pleeeease!"
181** "Jumpin' jeepers!"
182** "''Blblblblblblbl!!''" -- that weird mouth noise he makes when he's just pulled off some piece of smart-assery.
183* CharacterExaggeration: While the Roger Rabbit of the original book had some notable eccentric traits, the Roger of the movie is a lot wackier and more, well, cartoony.
184* ClassicalAntiHero: Roger is physically wimpy and a lovable coward.
185* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Being a {{toon}}, he often comes to strange conclusions and talks about unusual topics.
186* ComicallyCrossEyed: Roger is slightly cross-eyed, which fits his zany personality.
187* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: It's understated, but Roger does show his worth when he confronts Judge Doom in the climax.
188* TheCutie: He is quite adorable with his sweet, easygoing nature.
189* DeadpanSnarker: Surprisingly enough, he can be quite sarcastic from time to time, though on rare occasions.
190-->'''Roger:''' ''[to Eddie while looking a picture frame]'' Where is your brother, anyway? He looks like a sensitive and...''[side-eyes Eddie]'' sober fellow.
191** Also from [[WesternAnimation/RogerRabbitShorts Trail Mix-up]]
192--->'''Mrs. Herman:''' Are you insane? Taking Baby hunting would be dangerous!\
193'''Roger:''' Well, leaving him with me is no picnic.
194* {{Deuteragonist}}: His name is part of the movie, but he's the second main focus after Eddie.
195* DidYouThinkICantFeel: When he confronts Eddie so he can prove his innocence, he is mostly unresponsive to Eddie's physical abuse in an attempt to get him to leave. Later on, when Eddie tells him of his FreudianExcuse for why he hates toons, he refers back to it and accuses Eddie of hating him. Of course, Eddie assures him that he doesn't.
196* DrivesLikeCrazy: All toons are lousy drivers and Roger himself totals Eddie's car while going on a joyride.
197* DumbassHasAPoint: He absolutely ''refuses'' to believe Jessica would play pattycake with Acme, even when there are photos of the incident right in front of him; he even claims that someone must have made her do it than it happening of her own free will. [[spoiler:He's right; she did it to protect him from being fired.]]
198* DumbIsGood: Despite not being the sharpest tool in the shed, he is by far the nicest character in the film.
199* EarsAsHair: Roger wrings the water out of his ears and Eddie grabs him by the ear.
200* ExpressiveEars: The animators mention that they took inspiration from ballet dancers when drawing Roger's ears. When restrained, Roger can even point with them.
201* FeelsNoPain: At first, such as being immune to fridges being dropped on him, hitting himself over and over again with plates and even when Eddie's wringing his neck, but this is in truth a zigzagged trope, as he clearly is in pain from Judge Doom strangling him. This can be explained because this trope is run on RuleOfFunny, but being held by his neck over Dip is pure RuleOfScary. Even if it doesn't hurt, Roger complains to Eddie that he does not like having his ears pulled.
202* GeniusDitz: He knows how to deal with people through laughter.
203* GenreSavvy: [[Main/ShowWithinAShow In-universe-in-universe]] with his cartoons. He consistently tries his hardest to weasel his way out of babysitting Herman, because he knows things will go wrong in spectacularly hilarious fashion.
204* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: The funny and energetic Gleeful to Eddie's disgruntled grumpy.
205* GroinAttack: He narrowly avoids one in the opening cartoon "Somethin's Cookin'" when a meat cleaver hits the wall [[FreudianThreat in between his legs]] just missing his [[CripplingCastration crotch]].
206* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Only wears red overalls, a blue and yellow polka-dot bowtie and yellow gloves.
207* HappilyMarried: To Jessica. Despite the problems they go through during the film, Roger clearly loves his wife and trusts her, refusing to suspect her while anyone else would do it. In the few moments they are together, it's made clear they love each other deeply and couldn't be happier.
208* HiddenDepths: Despite his traditionally cartoonish behavior, Roger is aware of what most people think of cartoons, facts he's voiced to Eddie Valiant, in that making people laugh is often what makes toons' lives worthwhile, but also that there are times when making people laugh is the ''only'' weapon a toon has.
209* InelegantBlubbering: As a being whose only purpose is to be silly, Roger's emotional moments tend to rob him of what little dignity he ever had.
210* InnocentBlueEyes: Has bluish watery eyes of sound sanity. To contrast with [[spoiler:Judge Doom's [[RedEyesTakeWarning red embers of madness]].]]
211* InterspeciesRomance: Him (cartoon rabbit) and Jessica (cartoon human).
212* KavorkaMan: Played with. Being a cartoon rabbit doesn't make him very attractive by human standards, but not only is he married to quite possibly the hottest toon ever made, but he seems to be the envy of most toon females, even WesternAnimation/BettyBoop. Jessica explains later that it's because he makes her laugh. Sure, Roger ain't the handsomest dude around, but he's a genuinely NiceGuy, pretty funny, as well as an A-list superstar. By toon standards though, ''Jessica'' is considered the lucky one. The key attribute of toon society is ''humor'', meaning that a good comedian is pretty much the toon equivalent of a supermodel.
213* KidAppealCharacter: Roger really stands out as the one original character that appeals the most to kids.
214* KindheartedSimpleton: He's rather ditzy, clueless, and airheaded, but he is also extremely friendly and compassionate nonetheless.
215* TheKlutz: He has a tendency to get his head stuck in things.
216* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Roger is a ''very big'' fan of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, despite being a big-name {{toon}} himself, and Goofy being from a rival company in-universe. Enough so that when he and Eddie hide in a movie theater, it happens to be playing a Goofy cartoon, and Roger is in utter ''hysterics'' in laughter, loudly singing his praises for Goofy as a performer.
217-->'''Roger:''' Boy, did you see that?! ''Nobody'' takes a ''wallop'' like Goofy! What timing! What finesse! What a ''genius!!''
218* TheLancer: To Eddie Valiant. His friendly, idealistic, silliness contrasts Eddie's jerkish, cynical, serious nature.
219* LargeHam: {{Justified|Trope}}. Roger's job is to make people laugh, and making people laugh requires him to do and say ''really'' ridiculous stuff.
220* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g10jnaOzxdE A playful but heroic one]].
221* TheLoad: Roger means well and wants to be helpful, but his antics usually only cause trouble for both him and Eddie, and his inability to repress his own Toon nature makes solving the case all the more difficult.
222* {{Malaproper}}: Roger has a memorable one when, in the search for Marvin Acme's will, Eddie tells Dolores that she should "check the probate":
223-->'''Roger:''' Yeah, check the probate! Why, my Uncle Thumper had a problem with ''his'' probate, and he had to take these big pills and drink lots of water...\
224'''Eddie:''' Not "prostate", you idiot, ''probate!''
225* ManChild: Roger has a very innocent, childlike personality, yet he has quite a sexy wife.
226* MistakenForMurderer: The whole plot revolves around finding out who framed him for Acme's murder.
227* MoodSwinger: When he finds out his wife played Patty-Cake on him, he goes from anguish to rage to utter black despair in three minutes flat.
228-->'''Eddie:''' Good looking guy like [Roger], the dames'll be breaking his door down.\
229'''Roger:''' ''[suddenly furious, leaps on Eddie]'' Dames? ''What'' dames?! Jessica is the only one for me! You'll see! We'll rise above this piddling peccadillo! We're gonna be happy again! ''Got that? Happy!'' Capital H-A-P-P-I!\
230''[runs out the window]''\
231'''Eddie:''' Well, at least he took it well.\
232''[Cut to Roger crying and heartbroken. He sits and looks despondently at the pictures in his wallet.]''\
233'''Roger:''' Jessica, please tell me it isn't true! ''P-p-p-p-please!''
234** Similarly, his reaction when he hears the story of Teddy's death rapidly goes from blank horror to sobbing self-loathing ("If a toon killed ''my'' brother, I'd hate me too!") to sudden relief when Eddie apologizes for mistreating him.
235* MotorMouth: Like most toons, he can't keep quiet.
236* NiceGuy: He's extremely friendly, even more than most {{toon}}s, and even in his cartoons, where he's reluctant to babysit Herman but only because of the danger to himself, not because he doesn't care about the baby.
237* NoIndoorVoice: He can't keep quiet, especially when he's crying.
238* NonIronicClown: His clothing and coloration give him a very clownish appearance, and he acts the part.
239* OppositesAttract: With Jessica. He's goofy, energetic and a great comedian, while she's sexy, glamorous and composed.
240* PluckyComicRelief: He's the comic relief definitely, but he does manage to briefly stand up to Judge Doom near the end. And after this speech he is [[RuleOfFunny of course]] knocked out by a load of literal bricks.
241-->'''Roger:''' [[BadassBoast That's it, Doom. Give me another excuse to pump you full of lead. So you thought you could get away with it, didn't you? Ha! We toons may act idiotic, but we're not stupid. We demand justice. Why, the real meaning of the word probably hits you like a ton of bricks.]]
242* ThePollyanna: Roger's forever optimistic. Even after having his heart broken, Roger gets over it quickly enough to write a love letter.
243* PorkyPigPronunciation: He stammers his p's. Unlike Porky Pig, Roger's stammer has a roll of the tongue to it.
244* PrimaryColorChampion: A white rabbit with a tuft of red hair on his head, red overalls, yellow gloves, and a blue bowtie with yellow polka dots.
245* ProneToTears: A RareMaleExample that is not PlayedForLaughs. Roger is quite emotional, best shown when his wife supposedly cheats on him with Acme and when he listens to Eddie's backstory.
246* QuakingWithFear:
247** Eddie SuddenlyShouting at him to stay out of his dead brother's vacant chair (which he didn't know was for his brother) absolutely terrifies him to the point of trembling in fear.
248** He also understandably starts trembling when brought close to Doom's Dip mixture when he gets SentencedWithoutTrial upon being flushed out by Doom in the bar.
249* RascallyRabbit: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Roger is usually used for slapstick comedy in his job, but does a few tricks when with Eddie.
250* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives Judge Doom a short, but notable one about [[{{Hypocrite}} his blatant corruption of his position]] and his soon abandonment of said position to get more wealth. Considering how [[TheDreaded Judge Doom was rightfully feared by almost everyone -- including Roger himself]], it [[BewareTheNiceOnes shows that even Roger has limits of what he can tolerate from someone]].
251-->'''Roger:''' That's it, Doom! Give me another excuse to pump you full of lead! So you thought you could get away with it, didn't you? Ha! We toons may act idiotic, but we're not stupid. We demand justice. Why, the real meaning of the word [[TemptingFate probably hits you like a ton of bricks!]]
252* RedIsHeroic: Wears red overalls and is the {{Deuteragonist}}.
253* RighteousRabbit: A heroic NiceGuy, even if a little bit insane.
254* RoughOveralls: While not a working class hero or of rural background, Roger is put into a set of red overalls to evoke the playfulness and goofiness side and of his toon ways--much like other characters put into overalls during the era, he's supposed be a bit of a rube.
255* RuleOfFunny: As a traditional slapstick toon, he lives by it.
256* RuleOfThree: A rhetorical device frequently used by Roger -- he names something using three different synonyms. In at least one case, though, he seems to be gearing up to make a LongList out of it until he gets yanked out of his train of thought.
257-->'''Roger:''' Jessica's the light of my life, the apple of my eye, the cream in my coffee...\
258'''Roger:''' I didn't kill anybody, I ''swear!'' This whole thing's a setup, a scam, a frame job!\
259'''Roger:''' Oh, I get it! A speakeasy, a gin mill, a hooch parlor...\
260'''Roger:''' That was quick thinking, Eddie! Nothing like using the ol' spine flower, the wise noodle, the smart puddin'-- ''[grabbed by Eddie]'' YEEOW!!\
261'''Roger:''' Keep it up! You're killing 'em! You're slaying 'em! You're knockin' them ''dead!''
262** If the SpinOff shorts are to be believed, the writers at Maroon Cartoons are even working this habit into their scripts for Roger and Herman.
263--->'''Roger:''' ''[in "Tummy Trouble"]'' Don't worry about a thing. I've learned my lesson! I'm a reformed rabbit, a better bunny, a happier hare!
264* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Him being blamed for Judge Doom's murder of Marvin Acme is what drives the plot.]]
265* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: {{Justified|Trope}}. It's his job to be as funny as possible, so what else did you expect from Charles Fleischer?
266* SecondaryCharacterTitle: ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' is partially about him, but the real protagonist is Eddie Valiant. Roger is the ''second'' main character.
267* SexGod: Aside from Roger having an epic breakdown over Jessica playing Patty Cake with Acme, Jessica strongly states this trope in comparison to Roger's {{driv|esLikeCrazy}}ing.
268-->'''Jessica:''' My Honey-Bunny was never very good behind the wheel.\
269'''Eddie:''' [[SarcasmMode A better]] [[LoverNotAFighter lover than a driver, huh?]]\
270'''Jessica:''' [[InsultBackfire You better believe it, buster]]. [[note]] Considerable FridgeBrilliance if you know that rabbits are infamous for their prolific copulation. [[/note]]
271* ShipperOnDeck: Eddie and Dolores are about to kiss when they notice Roger watching them, sighing happily with hearts in his eyes (and his ears forming another heart).
272-->'''Roger:''' Oh p-p-p-please, don't mind ''me''...
273* SickeninglySweethearts: With Jessica, as they talk sweetly about and to one another while saying each other's AffectionateNickname.
274* SingleTargetSexuality: Jessica is the only woman for him.
275* SkewedPriorities: He refuses a drink from Eddie on the grounds that he's trying to cut down on his alcohol consumption, even though Roger is seconds away from being executed by Doom.
276* SparedByTheAdaptation: Roger survives here, unlike his book counterpart who gets shot early on and the Roger that works with Eddie is a duplicate that's going to disappear in a day or two.
277* SpeciesSurname: "Rabbit" is a surname rather than an epithet (at the very least, his wife takes it as such), so it counts.
278* SphereEyes: Useful when doing the EyePop.
279* UglyGuyHotWife: Played with
280** By human standards, Jessica's drop-dead gorgeous and is about the sexiest thing walking while Roger's just a goofy-looking toon rabbit.
281** By toon standards (who judge attractiveness by how funny a toon is), most seem to feel that Jessica (who, while still sexy, simply isn't all that funny) lucked out marrying a big-name star like Roger, who's practically a supermodel with someone like Jessica.
282* WeaksauceWeakness: Can be forced into blowing his cover by tapping out "shave and a haircut" and leaving out the last two notes.
283* WhiteBunny: Roger's a white-furred rabbit with blue eyes.
284[[/folder]]
285
286[[folder:Jessica Rabbit]]
287[[quoteright:268:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wfrrjessicarabbit1.png]]
288[[caption-width-right:268:The most popular character of the film [[BestKnownForTheFanservice for one or two obvious reasons]].]]
289!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/KathleenTurner (speaking) and Creator/AmyIrving (singing), Rebeca Rambal (Latin-American Spanish), Miyuki Ichijō (Japanese)
290
291-->''"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."''
292
293A sultry, voluptuous toon-human lounge singer/actress and Roger’s wife, who has been made into a sex symbol -- both in [[MemeticMutation and out]] of the movie, surpassing Betty Boop -- and seeing what she looks like, it's pretty justified.
294----
295* AdaptationalConsent: She genuinely loves Roger here. In the book she's only with him because he accidentally wished for her in a magic lamp and leaves him when the wish wears off.
296* AdaptationalHeroism: Like Roger, the Jessica of the movie is a far more heroic character than her original book counterpart. In the book, she detested Roger and was solely out for herself -- here, all her questionable actions are done solely to protect her husband (though occasionally this falls into [[InsaneTrollLogic Insane Toon Logic]], such as knocking him unconscious and locking him in the trunk of her car so he won't get hurt).
297* AdaptationDyeJob: Jessica is described as blue-eyed in the original book, but is a SignificantGreenEyedRedhead here.
298* AffectionateNickname: Roger calls her "Love Cup".
299* AllThereInTheManual: Her maiden name is Krupnick.
300* AnticipatoryLipstick: When Eddie finds her in his apartment, Jessica is holding a mirror in front of her face as she applies her lipstick.
301* AsideGlance: Jessica Rabbit seems to love looking at the camera and makes at least four of these. There's a subtle one during her singing number right before she sits on Eddie, then another after knocking out Roger with a frying pan and dumping him in the trunk of a car, a very quick one as she's getting into Benny the Cab in Toontown and then one right before Rogers bursts into the Acme factory via the storm drain.
302* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: She and Roger never fight when they are on screen together, but she uses her sexuality full force against nearly every other man she meets. Turns out that everything she does, no matter how shady, is for the love of Roger.
303* BeautyIsBad: Played straight in the novel, but averted completely in the film. Movie Jessica initially gives off vibes of an AffablyEvil [[TheVamp Vamp]] with an agenda not atypical of FilmNoir {{Femme Fatale}}s, but she turns out to be as compassionate and heroic as she is gorgeous and she truly loves her husband more than anything. Novel Jessica, however, while quite the looker, was a BitchInSheepsClothing solely out for number one and her husband was but a means to an end (not that he was really any better).
304* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Implied. A few lines from Jessica imply she was never taken seriously or misunderstood simply because of her sultry looks. Roger was presumably either the first or one of the very few who treated her with respect and kindness.
305* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Dolores's Betty for Eddie's Archie, though Eddie's heart already belongs to Dolores and he knows his attraction to Jessica is superficial.
306* BigBreastPride: While it is never specifically said, Jessica seems to fit this. Her main ensemble consists of a red evening gown with a plunging V-neck that displays her massive cleavage size, and tends to walk in slow struts to purposely draw focus to her bouncing chest. In the infamous scene in Eddie's office, she purposely presses her breasts against Eddie's chest when she tells him she is willing to do ''anything'' to help her husband.
307** Also, in the same scene, she is completely unbothered when Eddie bumps his head against her breasts when he tries to stand up after pulling up his pants.
308* BlessedWithSuck: Her amazing looks, sultry voice, and impossibly curvy body have made her eye candy to every guy in town--every ''human'' guy, that is. Unfortunately, as a Toon, she's in a society where it's the ability to make people laugh that earns fame, fortune, and admiration. As such, she's stuck entertaining human men in a seedy club for money, because she isn't able to make it in her own world.
309* BoobBasedGag: Jessica Rabbit's ample breasts find themselves involved in quite a lot of visual comedy, including funny bounces and turning out to contain a BearTrap for handsy men.
310-->'''Eddie:''' Nice booby trap
311* BoobsAndButtPose: Naturally, there are many shots of Jessica that put a lot of focus specifically on her ample boobs and ass.
312* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: [[spoiler:Ultimately why she played patty-cake with Acme. She knew it would hurt Roger, but Maroon threatened to fire and blacklist her husband if she didn't, which is the only reason she went through with it.]]
313* BuxomBeautyStandard: She is quite well-endowed and it's one of the reasons she's such a DudeMagnet. They are also heavily emphasized by the animation, as her breasts are purposely drawn to bounce in the opposite rhythm of a normal female's chest while walking; she bounces down when a real person would bounce up, and vice versa. And they even go "boing" when she presses them up against something. There's also Greasy's eagerness to "frisk" her cleavage which leads to a BoobBasedGag when he gets his hand on her VictoriasSecretCompartment and gets caught in a BearTrap, causing Valiant to snark "[[DoubleEntendre Nice booby-trap]]".
314* CassandraTruth: Eddie and most other humans don't believe her many professions of love for her husband because her voice is almost always locked in a constant breathy half-whisper, making it seem like she's saying everything [[SarcasticConfession sarcastically]]. It's entirely possible Roger is one of the few people who can actually tell when she's being genuine.
315* TheChanteuse: Jessica Rabbit is introduced this way, working as a singer in the Ink & Paint Club. The entire (male) crowd is gobsmacked by her beauty and sensuality, and Eddie Valiant openly asks Betty Boop how ''that'' woman wound up married to a comedian like Roger.
316* ChewingTheScenery: Jessica, cool as ice most of the film, completely loses it when she realizes what Doom has planned—complete with a Wild Take.
317-->'''Jessica''': OH MY GOD, IT'S DIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!!!
318* CleavageWindow: Her red evening gown has a low neckline that shows off a wonderful display of her cleavage.
319* ContrappostoPose: Basically Jessica’s default stance. Anyone {{cosplay}}ing her tends to spend a lot of time pulling this pose if only because a real human being needs all the help she can get to approximate Jessica’s waist/hip ratio.
320* CoveredInKisses: After Doom's defeat and being let down by Eddie, Jessica picks up Roger up in her arms before smothering his face with [[SmoochOfVictory kisses]], commending him for his bravery.
321** Downplayed in the scene in Eddie's office. Before she leaves, she tells Eddie to think about her offer before blowing a [[ProjectileKiss kiss]] that flies across the room before landing sharply on Eddie's cheek.
322* CrazyPrepared: She keeps a BearTrap in [[VictoriasSecretCompartment her cleavage ]]in case some tries to search through her, or probably even tries to molest her.
323* DamselInDistress: In the Roger Rabbit cartoon "Rollercoaster Rabbit".
324* DefrostingIceQueen: Jessica slowly warms up to Eddie through the film.
325* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: Of the "seductive" variety. The only time she opens them entirely is for a WildTake at the Dip.
326* DudeMagnet: Her husband, Roger, is [[NiceGuy madly in love with her]], while every other man is just merely besotted. Judge Doom is the only male character who shows no interest in her.
327* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Jessica reaffirms her love for Roger while both are tied together at a time when the situation looks hopeless.
328-->'''Jessica: Roger, darling. I want you to know I love you. I've loved you more than any woman's ever loved a rabbit.
329* EasilyForgiven: Roger doesn't hold her infidelity against her, choosing to write a love letter to Jessica in a fit of jealous rage rather than angrily confront her or Acme about it, and believing her to be an innocent victim of circumstance the whole time. [[spoiler:Downplayed in that he is proven correct, though he still never learns the reasons why she played patty-cake with Acme.]]
330* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her introductory performance makes it clear she's the ultimate in cartoon sex appeal, but the song she sings encourages her man to go out and make something of himself. Jessica is the sexiest toon around, but she's also a good woman whose first concern is her husband.
331* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Jessica's dress on stage when she performs her musical number. [[note]] The dress was supposed to sparkle throughout the whole movie, but it would have been too difficult and expensive to animate by hand. [[/note]]
332* {{Expy}}: Jessica Rabbit's design and career is a more vampish version of Tex Avery's [[WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood Red Hot Riding Hood]]
333* EyeTake: Does a [[https://i.imgur.com/wsbR2He.jpg massive one]] when Doom reveals the vat of Dip to her.
334* FaceOfAThug: PlayedWith. While she doesn't have a traditionally menacing or threatening appearance, she looks like a very suspicious and untrustworthy character due to her design being based on the FemmeFatale character archetype, but she doesn't even have a shred of evil or malice in her heart and is genuinely a good person who cares a whole lot about her husband Roger.
335* FashionableAsymmetry: Jessica's hair hangs over the right side of her face, often obscuring her eye to make her look mysterious and alluring.
336* FemmeFatale: She's a toon clearly created by some artist to be the perfect example from her dangerous good looks and sultry voice to the slinky way she moves. Even her smile is suspicious. But in the end, it's {{Subverted|Trope}}; her intentions are pure, as she only wants to protect her husband. She really isn't bad! [[GoodBadGirl Just drawn that way.]]
337* FlirtyVoicePloy: Even when she is being serious, her voice is so husky and seductive.
338* FryingPanOfDoom: At one point, Jessica knocks Roger cold with a frying pan... but only because she didn't want him to get hurt. Bonus points for her putting it inside [[{{Hammerspace}} her tiny handbag]] afterwards.
339* GoingCommando: In the original version of the scene where she gets ejected out of Benny the cab, there were a few frames that made it appear that Jessica might not be wearing underwear. All home video releases starting from the [=AC3=] Laserdisc edit the scene by either [[MagicSkirt making her dress digitally longer to cover her]] or [[DigitalBikini recoloring part of the frame to give her panties]].
340* GoodAllAlong: Jessica spends most of the movie looking shady and self-interested. [[spoiler:It turns out pretty much all of her seemingly suspicious actions either had good intentions or were not her fault, and she genuinely is devoted to Roger.]]
341* GoodBadGirl: ''"I'm not bad... I'm just ''drawn'' that way."''
342* HappilyMarried: To Roger. Despite what others think of her, Jessica loves her husband very deeply and would do anything for him.
343* HeadAndHipPose: While confiding to detective Eddie Valiant, Jessica Rabbit does a variant by walking with both hands on her wide, wiggly hips. Jessica's hairstyle, a la Creator/VeronicaLake, makes the hand-to-head gesture unnecessary.
344* HeadTurningBeauty: Even humans lust after her. Given she's as human as a toon can get, it's understandable.
345* "HeyYouHaymaker: Jessica does it to Eddie while at the site of Acme's murder.
346--> ''' Jessica: Mr. Valiant? [Eddie turns around; Jessica slaps him across the face] [[WhatTheHellHero I hope you're proud of yourself, and those pictures you took!]]
347* HiddenDepths: Especially if you've only seen the [[CoversAlwaysLie posters]] and/or her pictures. Despite her looks and [[FemmeFatale behavior]] (and the fact that she's clearly out of Roger's league appearance-wise), she really loves her husband. Jessica is also clearly one of the most intelligent and proactive characters in the film.
348* HiddenHeartOfGold: Jessica's a devoted wife who just happens to have the voice, appearance, and mannerisms of a scheming vixen.
349* HighClassGloves: Jessica wears long, over-the-elbow, purple gloves.
350* HospitalHottie: Jessica plays a nurse in the Disney short-film "Tummy Trouble" featuring Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman.
351* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: One of the more famous and extreme cases of this trope. She was originally designed with more (relatively speaking) realistic proportions, but the creators decided that they wanted an unrealistic quality about her sexiness. She's a toon, after all. According to [[https://www.quora.com/How-realistic-are-Jessica-Rabbits-measurements this Quora post]], Jessica stands six feet in her heels (she's 5'9'' without them) and has "a 19.5 inch waist, 40FF breasts, 38 inch hips, a hip-to-waist ratio of 0.53, and weight 160 pounds--50 of those alone being just her breasts!"
352* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: It's okay for her, firstly because she's an animated character, and secondly because she's not really meant to be all that realistic anyway.
353* IndignantSlap: She gives a harsh one to Eddie as mentioned above.
354* InterspeciesRomance: Her (cartoon human) and Roger (cartoon rabbit).
355* LadyInRed: A truly exaggerated example; Jessica's dress in not only solid red but it sparkles. Meanwhile, everything she says and does comes off as seductive.
356* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3CGFe6y0A Jessica's Theme]]
357* MadonnaWhoreComplex: On the receiving end of this mentality, since her sultry good looks and implied sexual history leads everyone to assume she's a FemmeFatale GoldDigger, and Roger a naive idiot for thinking she would be faithful to him [[UglyGuyHotWife just because they're married]]. [[spoiler:Turns out Roger was right, Jessica really is devoted to him, and she was forced against her will to pose for those patty-cake pictures (to save her husband from getting fired and blacklisted by his boss)... [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe which might explain why Jessica loves Roger so much]].]]
358-->'''R.K. Maroon:''' ''[regarding Roger]'' His wife's poison, but he thinks she's Betty Crocker.
359* MistakenForCheating: Downplayed. [[spoiler:She did play "Patty Cake" with Acme but only to save Roger's job rather than out of any desire on her part. Roger never learns this but either way, her faithfulness is never in question as far as he's concerned.]]
360* MsFanservice: Possibly the best example in Western Animation (You see her picture on the trope page!). She is integral to the plot, but her fanservice features are taken up a notch. She is a gorgeous LadyInRed, her [[BuxomBeautyStandard bustline is as big]] as her torso, [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline her neckline is impossibly low]], she's got super long legs, there were some racy {{panty shot}}s, and the like. No wonder every man and every cartoon is DistractedByTheSexy and enjoys EatingTheEyeCandy when she's present. In fact, she's MsFanservice for the film, the world of the film, ''and'' the cartoons she appears in within that world! However, this trope is somewhat deconstructed, as toons in this world are successful when they're making people laugh, while most of Jessica's services are... y'know. While she can't succeed as most toons do, she manages to use her sexual appeal to her advantage to get somewhere in seedy clubs entertaining men.
361* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Wears one in her role in the "Tummy Trouble" Roger cartoon.
362* NiceGirl: She attests to Eddie Valiant that "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Indeed, she proves herself to be selfless and compassionate throughout the movie.
363* NonIndicativeName: When he first hears her name, Eddie (quite logically) assumes that Jessica's a rabbit like her husband is--but then he discovers that not only is "Rabbit" technically Jessica's married name, [[EyeShock she's not even a rabbit.]] [[FanService Oh no.]]
364* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: At first glance, she appears to be morally ambiguous and devious as one might expect from a FemmeFatale, but she's not like that in any way. She's a good girl who just also happens to be incredibly sultry and loves her husband more than anything.
365-->'''Jessica:''' I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
366* NotHelpingYourCase: Jessica really wants to help her husband escape Judge Doom. Yet she spends her screentime seemingly flirting with Eddie when begging him to save Roger, knocking out the rabbit as he goes with Eddie to confront R.K. Maroon, and fleeing after someone shoots Maroon. Valiant lampshades it, naturally.
367* NotSoAboveItAll: You might think because of her more in-control FemmeFatale personality and the fact that she's more of a "mature" toon that Jessica isn't quite as loony as the others. The movie sets her up like that, and then wittily breaks down the assumption. The fact that she ''married'' a goofball toon like Roger kind of already says this trope.
368-->'''Jessica:''' Oh, no. Where's Roger?!\
369'''Eddie:''' Roger? He chickened out on me back at the studio.\
370'''Jessica:''' No, he didn't. I hit him in the head with a frying pan and put him in the trunk so he wouldn't get hurt.\
371'''Eddie:''' [[SarcasmMode ...Makes perfect sense]].
372** Her reactions to the Dip and her brief scene in the short, ''Rollercoaster Rabbit'' show off her more expressive side.
373* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Face (and voice) like Creator/LaurenBacall, hair like Creator/VeronicaLake, dressed like Creator/RitaHayworth in ''Film/{{Gilda}}''.
374* NotSoStoic: While her default appearance is that of no-nonsense sex icon, she occasionally bursts into moments of over-the-top goofiness (most notably when she learns that Doom plans to Dip her and all of Toontown). Considering Roger's remark that all Toons by their nature want nothing more than to make people laugh, it's highly possible her lack of expression is less her own choice and more imposed on her by whoever created her to be a vain sex symbol.
375* OnlySaneWoman: She's probably the sanest toon of all the toons.
376* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Though she's a toon, she's generally calm and composed... but when she sees just what Doom has planned, she screams in horror.
377* OppositesAttract: With Roger. She's sexy, glamorous, and composed, while he's goofy, energetic, and a great comedian. It's implied Jessica loves Roger because he has the fun and energy she lacks.
378* ParentService: The movie wasn't made just for children and Jessica was designed to be the most fanservice-y character. Fathers drooled over her while mothers cosplayed as her.
379* PercussivePrevention: Jessica Rabbit hits her husband Roger with a frying pan to keep him out of harm's way. It does make perfect sense in Roger's case; as he's a Toon, physical violence will only temporarily incapacitate him. The villains, however, are using Dip, which can kill him.
380* PerverseSexualLust: Almost every single aspect of her character was designed to inspire this, which helps to contrast with her actual personality. Referenced in an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' by Chandler, among other places.
381** Even to the point where Bill Farmer, the voice of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, [[WordOfDante suggested that she had a one-night stand with him and gave birth to Max]].
382* PervyPatdown: When Judge Doom tells the weasels to frisk Jessica for Acme's will, Greasy eagerly reaches down her ample cleavage to do so and to cop a feel (seriously, his tongue droops out his mouth in excitement), but all he gets is his hand caught in a BearTrap.
383* PinkIsErotic: She wears a sparkling pink version of her dress during her performances at the Ink Club.
384* ProjectileKiss: Jessica Rabbit blows a kiss at Eddie Valiant. Since she's a toon, her kiss flies on Eddie's face like a red butterfly before sharply landing on his cheek.
385* PromotedToLoveInterest: Unlike her book counterpart, Jessica is genuinely in love with her husband Roger.
386* RedheadsAreRavishing: Jessica is a glamorous MsFanservice redhead with an [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure extremely sexy body]] that is unusual for a toon. She's designed to look like a FemmeFatale, but she's really devoted to her husband Roger and both are madly in love with each other.
387* RedIsHeroic: Jessica wears a sparkly, red dress and is a heroic person.
388* SexForServices: She seems like she's on the verge of offering Eddie this in exchange for helping her find her husband, before [[MistakenForCheating Dolores walks in on them]]. She also [[spoiler:only agreed to play Patty-Cake with Marvin Acme to keep R.K. Maroon from firing and blacklisting her husband.]]
389* SexyBacklessOutfit: Jessica Rabbit wears a slinky strapless, backless, sequined [[LadyInRed red evening gown]] [[SexySlitDress slit up the thigh to here]].
390* SexySilhouette: Makes one when she visits Valiant's office and when she's running to her car. Hell, her shadow, whatever the pose, would be one.
391* SheepInSheepsClothing: While she's a lot sexier than she is cutesy, many suspect her of being a two-timing GoldDigger because humans don't understand how toons rate attractiveness by humor-quotient rather than physical appearance. She turns out to be so devoted to Roger that she let herself be blackmailed just to spare his career.
392* ShoutOut: She looks a lot like WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood.
393* SickeninglySweethearts: With Roger, as they talk sweetly about and to one another while saying each other's AffectionateNickname.
394* SideBoob: Thanks to her design, we get more than one shot of her cleavage.
395* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: It's easy to miss, as [[MyEyesAreUpHere few people are looking at her eyes]]. Nonetheless, she's a redhead with green eyes and is important to most of the plot.
396* SingleTargetSexuality: She makes it clear that despite what others think of her, she only has eyes for Roger and would do anything for his sake.
397* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Why does Jessica Rabbit love [[NiceGuy Roger]] as a husband? He makes her laugh.
398* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: Level 3 almost bordering on Level 2.
399* SoBeautifulItsACurse: She provides the page quote. And true to her word, many men throughout the film have done and/or said inappropriate things to her because of her beauty.
400* SpeciesSurname: {{Subverted|Trope}}. She's not a cartoon rabbit like her husband Roger Rabbit, she just took on his last name.
401* StatuesqueStunner: No exact height given, but she seems to be just a bit shy of 6 feet tall. Of course, being juxtaposed with the unusually short Eddie Valiant makes her look taller in comparison.
402* StealthParody: Of Detective Movie Femme Fatales once you start to see a somewhat looney side of her.
403* TheStoic: She's very composed for a toon. That is until [[NotSoStoic she sees the Dip and freaks out in a typical cartoon fashion]].
404-->'''Jessica:''' [[OhCrap Oh]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MY GOD!!!]] [[TheDreaded IT'S DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!!!!]]
405* StopBeingStereotypical: Jessica has this complaint about herself. She is ashamed of how she was created to be a well-endowed FemmeFatale-type character who constantly speaks in a breathy voice unless she's really forcing herself not to. Half the reason she loves Roger so much is that he's one of the few people who cares for her solely for her personality rather than her looks.
406* SugarAndIcePersonality: Although she seems cool and distant, she has a soft spot for Roger, whom she married because he "makes her laugh", is a better lover than a driver, and that he's magnificent and "better than Goofy".
407* SultryBangs: As an explicit ShoutOut to Veronica Lake. She is the film's FemmeFatale and MsFanservice. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment She is introduced putting on a sexually-charged performance at the Ink and Paint Club where she works as a lounge singer,]] and the film makes no bones about how she has every man there enthralled. Her design perfectly reflects her sultry nature, including a [[LadyInRed red dress]] and side-bangs that usually cover her right eye.
408* SupermodelStrut: She is ''always'' strutting in a suggestive way in general, implying that it just comes naturally to her. But this is still best demonstrated during her stage performance in the Ink and Paint Club, where she's deliberately and skilfully swiveling her legs and hips from side to side in front of a mesmerized audience.
409* TheTease: Her stage routine is made of this. She acts this way towards Eddie Valiant as well. [[spoiler:Ends up being a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in that it's all an act to protect Roger, and notably, it's no more than a tease, keeping her faithful.]] Though she was insistent that [[PleaseIWillDoAnything she would do anything for Roger]] and she did play patty cake behind Roger's back [[spoiler:because she needed to protect him]].
410* TinyGuyHugeGirl: The Huge Girl to Roger's Tiny Guy.
411* UglyGuyHotWife: PlayedWith:
412** By human standards, Jessica's drop-dead gorgeous and is about the sexiest thing walking while Roger's just a goofy-looking toon rabbit.
413** By toon standards (who judge attractiveness by how funny a toon is), most seem to feel that Jessica (who, while still sexy, simply isn't all that funny) lucked out marrying a big-name star like Roger, who's practically a supermodel by toon standards.
414* VaporWear: She was given panties in the DVD release, though she's still obviously going bra-less.
415* VictoriasSecretCompartment: When Judge Doom tells his henchmen to frisk Jessica for Marvin Acme's will, Greasy reaches down her ample cleavage to do it (and in order to cop a feel), but all he gets is his hand caught in a BearTrap.
416* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Eddie's reaction to Jessica Rabbit being married to Roger. On the other hand, WesternAnimation/BettyBoop thinks Jessica is the lucky one. As for the reason why Jessica loves Roger?
417-->'''Jessica:''' He makes me laugh.
418* WildTake: Jessica does a minor one when she sees the Dip: her eyes grow much larger and her face is an exaggerated mask of fear—in a reminder that she, despite her near-human appearance, is still a toon.
419
420[[/folder]]
421
422[[folder:Baby Herman]]
423[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hermancigar.png]]
424[[caption-width-right:350:He acts much older off-screen.]]
425!!!'''Voiced by''': Lou Hirsch, Alejandro Abdalah (Latin-American Spanish), Takkō Ishimori (Japanese), Creator/RichardDarbois (French)
426
427-->''"My problem is I got a fifty-year-old lust and a three-year-old dinky."''
428
429A rude, crass toon-human baby... who has been a baby for 53 years, as well as Roger’s friend and co-worker in the movie business.
430----
431* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He's described as dopey looking and overweight in the original book. However, this could just be Roger not liking Baby Herman, as Herman is popular for his "baby cute" looks nevertheless.
432* AdaptationDyeJob: In the book he's described as having "one dark hair". In the film, he's blond.
433* AgeLift: In the novel, he's 36 but ''still'' a baby. The film ages him up to 53.
434* CigarChomper: Always has a smoke on hand or in his mouth whenever he's not in character.
435* DawsonCasting: Parodied in-universe. A 53-year-old man who looks like an infant.
436* DirtyOldMan: Granted, he could be mistaken as a DirtyKid.
437* TheFool: His role in the cartoons. His character gets into all sorts of trouble, and comes out no worse for wear either by luck or because [[BadlyBatteredBabySitter Roger]] takes all the blows.
438* GrumpyOldMan: Having the ''literal'' body of a baby for over five decades really doesn't agree with him.
439* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: He himself admits he loves the fame but hates being a 53-year-old man in an infant's body.
440* JerkassHasAPoint: At the end of the film, he pointed out Acme's will is still missing, which without it Toontown is just waiting for "another developer's wrecking ball".
441* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It may not look like it at first, but he cares about Roger. Despite being very grouchy when not in character and showing frustration with Roger on set, he's the first person to vouch for Roger's innocence and tries to hire Eddie to clear his name.
442* TheNapoleon: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. Herman is actually quite old, but because he's a cartoon character, he doesn't visibly age. That means he will stay the same toddler size forever.
443* NiceCharacterMeanActor: A zig-zagged example. The character he portrays causes a lot of trouble for Roger, though this is somewhat justified since he's just an infant. But as soon as the cameras stop rolling, he shows himself to be fairly grouchy and annoying. At the same time, even though he acts like an asshole he still professes to Roger's innocence and attempts to hire Eddie to help clear his name, showing he ''does'' consider him a friend.
444* NotGrowingUpSucks: Baby Herman smokes humongous cigars and has "a fifty-year lust and [[TeenyWeenie a three-year-old dinky]]" concerning his nurse. That's not his only problem, as seen in [[http://toontownantics.blogspot.com/2009/09/roger-rabbits-toontown-issue-1-part-2.html the comics]].
445* OlderThanTheyLook: He is actually fifty-three years old... despite resembling and portraying a baby.
446* ProfessionalVoiceDissonance: When he's acting as a baby, he has a very high-pitched, innocent voice. When he's off-camera, he has a very deep, gravelly voice, more representative of his actual age and his smoking habit.
447* StrayingBaby: His role in the opening short.
448* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He is a baby who enjoys smoking. Subverted, in that [[OlderThanTheyLook chronologically speaking]], he passed the legal age of smoking a ''long'' time ago, and he acts his real age in most other respects (except for wearing diapers and riding around in strollers).
449* VocalDissonance: He looks like a baby but has a VERY raspy voice.
450[[/folder]]
451
452[[folder:Benny the Cab]]
453[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/benny_the_cab.png]]
454[[caption-width-right:350:The official transport of Toontown himself.]]
455!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/CharlesFleischer, Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki (Japanese), Juan Alfonso Carralero (Latin-American Spanish)
456
457-->''"''I'll'' drive. ''I'm'' the cab."''
458
459A foul-mouthed, super-fast cartoon taxi cab that is friends with Roger. He apparently has a history of run-ins with the law due to his rather chaotic driving skills and has the supernatural ability to appear whenever someone sticks out their thumb.
460----
461* AdaptationNameChange: Slight variation, his name is spelled "Bennie" in the novel (and he's actually an insect junk dealer).
462* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the original novel, he was a beetle (the insect, not the car).
463* AnimateInanimateObject: An animated car.
464* ChekhovsGun: His remark "If you ever need a ride, just stick out yer thumb!" is somewhere between this and Brick Joke.
465* CoolCar: A talking, even ''walking'' car.
466* DeadpanSnarker: Often makes snarky remarks about things, especially about driving a car.
467* DerangedTaxiDriver: He is a deranged ''taxi'' who usually ignores traffic regulations and DrivesLikeCrazy.
468* TheDriver: He drives people and can even drive ''other cars''.
469* DrivesLikeCrazy: He ignores a lot of traffic regulations. Played with considering he is the car itself. That said, he appears to drive a lot more carefully when he gets behind the wheel of a real car.
470-->'''Benny:''' I can't believe they locked me up for driving on a sidewalk. It was just a couple of ''miles!''
471* FurryConfusion: After getting his own tires blown out by Dip, he gets back on the road...behind the wheel of a ''real-world car''. He even quips at the ridiculousness of "a car driving a car" as he drives off.
472* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roger seems to inspire this trait in others (see Baby Herman and Eddie). The irritable and curmudgeon-y Benny nonetheless is always there to help Roger and Eddie.
473* RunningGag: His responses to Roger's AskAStupidQuestion.
474-->'''Roger:''' Benny, is that you?!\
475'''Benny:''' [[AskAStupidQuestion No, it's Eleanor Roosevelt/Shirley Temple!]]
476* SentientVehicle: A sentient taxi-cab who serves as Roger and Eddie's transport.
477* SirSwearsALot: Has a foul mouth, and swears almost always.
478* TheTaxi: [[ExaggeratedTrope Literally.]]
479* YourSizeMayVary: In most scenes, he's large enough for the other characters to fit inside him as comfortably as they would any other car, but in one scene he ''himself'' becomes small enough to [[MetaMecha fit into the driver's seat of a real-life car]]. And once again this is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the ToonPhysics he and his kin run on.
480[[/folder]]
481
482[[folder:The Toon Patrol]]
483[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Toon_Patrol_5449.jpg]]
484!!!'''Smart Ass voiced by''': Creator/DavidLander, Issei Futamata (Japanese), Creator/PhilippePeythieu (French) \
485'''Stupid voiced by''': Fred Newman\
486'''Wheezy voiced by''': Creator/JuneForay\
487'''Greasy voiced by''': Creator/CharlesFleischer, Katsumi Suzuki (Japanese)\
488'''Psycho voiced by''': Creator/CharlesFleischer, Rokuro Naya (Japanese)
489
490-->'''Eddie Valiant:''' Weasels!\
491'''Judge Doom:''' Yes, I find they have a special gift for the work.
492
493A.k.a. "The Weasels". The QuirkyMinibossSquad comprised of toon weasels that Judge Doom hired to catch Roger Rabbit who bear a strong resemblance to the weasels from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''. Their names are Smart Ass, Greasy, Wheezy, Psycho and Stupid, but you'd only know that if you read the credits and scripts.
494----
495* AchillesHeel: Constant laughter, of all things.
496* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:As Wheezy dies, he tries to get back his soul in a panic and desperate way showing he's obviously afraid to die. As evil as he might have been you can't help but feel kind of sorry for him.]]
497* AllThereInTheScript: None of their names are spoken in the movie, although after seeing the names in the credits it's easy to work out which one is which.
498* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Wheezy's fur is blue for unknown reasons.
499* AmbiguouslyBrown: Greasy, of all the gang, has darkest brown fur. Another subtle hint that he's Latino and perhaps the Toon Patrol's TokenMinority.
500* AmbiguousSituation: It's not made clear if the Weasels knew [[spoiler:Doom was actually a {{toon}} -- helping with his disguise in their shared goal to take down Toontown. Or they were hired under the assumption that Doom was human and [[CategoryTraitor joined on his plan in order to be spared the same fate as the other toons]].]] The comic adaptation and its sequel imply the former.
501* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Presumably the ghosts of Wheezy, Greasy, Stupid and Psycho. Averted with Smart Ass, who doesn't give up a ghost after being dipped.
502* AxCrazy: All of them, but [[MaskOfSanity four of them manage to hide it through snarky professionalism or being dopey like Stupid]], but Psycho is the most blatantly open about his insanity with his [[UhOhEyes spiral swirl eyes]] and wearing a straightjacket. They also tend to find anything funny including the suffering or [[spoiler:deaths of their own kind via the intended Toontown massacre or their own members]] hilarious.
503* BadassInANiceSuit: Smart Ass and Greasy.
504* BadassLongcoat: Greasy wears one as part of his zoot suit (see Ambiguously Brown above).
505* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Played straight with Wheezy and Psycho and subverted with Smart Ass, who wears spats. Averted with Stupid and Greasy.
506* BatterUp: Stupid's main weapon is a nailed baseball bat.
507* {{BFG}}: Wheezy uses a tommy-gun instead of the pistols the other weasels use. Typical of gangsters, he conceals it in a violin case, as seen when they are about to investigate Eddie's apartment.
508* BilingualBonus: Greasy is Puerto Rican (at least that's his accent) but he curses twice in the movie in Spanish.
509* BitchInSheepsClothing: In contrast with the meaner weasels, Stupid comes off as happy-go-lucky due in large part to his dimness. At the same time, he's just as bad as them for taking part in a genocidal plan.
510* BoomerangBigot: They seem to hate other toons, or at least delight in making them suffer, despite being toons themselves. They also have zero compunctions about going along with [[spoiler:Doom's genocidal plans for Toontown]].
511* BloodyHilarious: Smart Ass [[GroinAttack getting kicked in the groin]] and flying to his death by landing in the Dip was apparently so funny that it triggered Greasy's death.
512* {{Bowdlerize}}: See that image to the right? It bowdlerized Smart Ass' name to Smart Guy. Other tie-in media have named him "Smarty."
513* BreakoutVillain: Within the film itself, they're a QuirkyMiniBossSquad that's dealt with before the confrontation with Judge Doom. They managed to get enough collective popularity that they become the main villains of [[Ride/RogerRabbitsCarToonSpin the dark ride attraction in Disneyland's Toontown]].
514* BrooklynRage: Smart Ass has a Brooklyn accent (and his voice actor, David Lander, is actually from Brooklyn) and a predisposition toward violence.
515* CategoryTraitor: The Toon Patrol participates in helping a human [[spoiler:or so it seemed at first]], commit near-toon genocide despite being toons themselves.
516* CharacterDeath: Stupid, Wheezy, Greasy, and Psycho DieLaughing and Smart Ass is kicked into a vat of Dip.
517* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Psycho, unlike the others who have some grounded logic, Psycho tends to think very differently than the others.
518* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Smart Ass has a low voice, but the others' voices are higher, especially Psycho.
519* DarkIsEvil: Greasy has the darkest of the brown-shaded furs and the darkest clothes while Wheezy has the grayest.
520* DeaderThanDead: Smart-Ass gets killed by being kicked into a vat of Dip. He doesn't even get a ghost.
521* DeadpanSnarker: As if a name like Smart Ass couldn't spell it out for you.
522* DecapitatedArmy: Downplayed as [[spoiler:Greasy and Psycho die immediately afterwards, but it's still noticeable that Smart Ass, their leader and most competent member is killed before them. In fact, his death is what causes those two to laugh enough that they themselves die.]]
523* {{Determinator}}: Wheezy is the only weasel who tries to stop his ghost from leaving his body.
524* DieLaughing: How they die at the end, except for Smart Ass who gets dipped.
525* DirtyCop: They are stated to be the primary law enforcement of Toontown, but behave more like gangsters than police.
526* TheDitz: Stupid, and to a lesser extent, Psycho.
527* TheDragon: Smart Ass serves as Judge Doom's right-hand man and the most personal enemy to Eddie out of the five. Greasy is also this to Smart Ass when the latter is in charge.
528* TheDreaded: That explains why Roger Rabbit screams in terror when he sees 'em coming in Eddie Valiant's office before saying "It's the Toon Patrol!!!"
529* DumbMuscle: Stupid, one notable example is when he smacks his head with his own bat while laughing at Eddie's jokes.
530* EvilSoundsDeep: Greasy has a quite deep voice and Wheezy as well judging by his only one line.
531* EvilSoundsRaspy: Smart Ass and Greasy talk in a squeaky and gruff voice.
532* FatIdiot: Stupid. He's got a big round belly and he earned his name by being not bright.
533* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Greasy is the only one weasel who's fully dressed unlike the the rest of the gang.
534* FurryFemaleMane: Greasy is a male example as he's shown to be the only one sporting hair unlike the others (with Psycho's fur being spiky on his head).
535* GigglingVillain: Psycho, when he's not acting like TheHyena.
536* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Wheezy is an evil smoker who usually has at least three or four cigarettes in his mouth and is shown suffering negative side effects such as bloodshot eyes, yellow teeth, sickly shade of fur, and constantly wheezing.
537* GreenAndMean: Greasy is all dressed in green and he's obviously evil like the rest of the gang.
538* GroinAttack: Smart Ass thinks nothing of fighting dirty, as Eddie finds out when they brawl at the bar. Eddie gets payback when he delivers one of his own to Smart Ass that leads to his death.
539* GrotesqueCute: They have a certain appeal despite their behavior, particularly Psycho.
540* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Wheezy, Smart Ass and Stupid wear only shirts, and Psycho only an untied straitjacket. Greasy is the only one who's fully clothed.
541* TheHyena: All of them to varying degrees. Doom warns them that one day they're going to die laughing, like their idiot hyena cousins [[spoiler:which except Smart Ass, they all do]].
542* {{Hypocrite}}: The first time we see them laughing, Smart Ass reams them out and beats them up. While more subdued, he joins his cronies in all of their later laughing fits. This initial objection is clearly due to them laughing at his expense, with him having a problem laughing at the suffering of those on his team.
543* InformedSpecies: They look more like dachshunds than weasels.
544* {{Jerkass}}: Like their boss, the Toon Patrol are corrupt enforcers who have no idea what true justice is. Unlike their boss, they are openly antagonistic towards everyone and don't hide behind a friendly façade.
545* KarmicButtMonkey: Smart Ass has soap shoved into his mouth, gets whacked hard by Doom's right hand and into a table set during a laughing fit, has a wine bottle smashed on his face during the bar brawl, crashes into a duo of cops while trying to ram Eddie and Roger during the first chase scene, and is [[spoiler:kicked hard [[GroinAttack in the groin]] by Eddie and into the vat of Dip that Doom created, ceasing to exist completely.]] He deserves every second of it, though.
546* LarynxDissonance: Creator/JuneForay voiced Wheezy.
547* LaughingMad: Psycho, who has a very high-pitched giggle, is heard during the car chase scene and at the end.
548* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uTBE_6mNOU A delightfully quirky one]].
549* LeanAndMean: Except Stupid.
550* LightIsNotGood: Psycho's ghost take the form of a smiling angel playing an harp...who still tries to kill Roger and Jessica by pointing the truck's cannon at them.
551* {{Malaproper}}: Smart Ass commits these several times over the course of the movie.
552-->'''Smart Ass:''' Say, boss, you want we should disresemble the place?\
553'''Doom:''' No, sergeant, dis''assembling'' the place won't be necessary.
554* {{Manchild}}: Stupid, given his mannerisms and fashion sense of a young adolescent boy.
555* ManiacTongue: Psycho is usually shown with his tongue dangling from his mouth making his insane nature even more clear.
556* MeaningfulName: Their names reflect their definitive personality traits.
557* {{Mooks}}: They serve as Doom's enforcers, being the only beings depraved enough to work alongside the brutal HangingJudge [[spoiler:and his plan to erase Toontown from the face of the earth for the sake of a freeway.]]
558* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Big mouths full of very, very sharp, yellow teeth.
559* MustHaveNicotine: Wheezy, of course, to the point where his over-the-top chain-smoking has given him nicotine-stained fingers. Also, Smart Ass is rarely seen without a thick cigar.
560* MixAndMatchCritters: Not them personally, but their relations apparently include hyenas.
561* NotSoAboveItAll:
562** Despite being mean and ruthless at their core, they're not immune to silly, cartoonish antics every now and again.
563** When they break into Eddie's apartment looking for Roger, Smart-Ass rants at all the others for laughing. He laughs along with them in every other scene, and it's Doom who does the ranting.
564** Smart Ass in particular tries to keep the illusion of professionalism up, but Eddie starting a song and dance and getting himself hurt in slapstick gets even him start watching and laughing instead of shooting him dead. It comes to bite him in the ass when he lets his guard down for long enough.
565* NotSoHarmlessVillain: They act like the typical incompetent villain-sidekick. However it's clear they are sociopathic and evil just like their boss Judge Doom since they cooperate with him in his genocidal plan to wipe out Toontown and the toon race, which they are a part of. Additionally, it's [[BewareTheSillyOnes Psycho]] (or rather, his [[VengefulGhost disembodied spirit]]) that ends up setting up the intense climax of the plot [[spoiler:by turning the level on the Dip Machine towards Jessica and Roger -- leading to Eddie trying to stop the machine while Doom acts as the imposing obstacle to stop it.]]
566* ObviouslyEvil: Between the gangster suits, sharp teeth and weapons, it's pretty obvious that they're not by the book law enforcements [[spoiler:and this long before it's revealed they're in on the plan to erase Toontown.]]
567** And out of the five, Psycho wears a straightjacket and has [[UhOhEyes deranged swirly eyes]].
568* PsychoForHire: They're the psychopathic toon henchman of the evil Judge Doom. [[spoiler:Which is ironic considering that Doom himself is a toon who is crazy and evil like them if not more so.]]
569* PsychoKnifeNut: Very literal with Psycho, who is often seen wielding a razor. Smart Ass and Greasy also have switchblade knives.
570* TheQuietOne: Unlike Smart Ass and to a lesser extent Greasy, the other three weasels, except laughing, don't have much dialogue aside from a sparse few lines or just one.
571* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Smart Ass, TheLeader of the Toon Patrol, is the only weasel who puts up a decent fight against Eddie in the bar.
572* RealMenWearPink: As cruel and snarky as he is, Smart Ass wears a light pink zoot suit and fedora accompanied by a hot pink bejeweled tie that matches the color of his hatband. Greasy is a lesser example, as he is wearing a pink tie.
573* RedEyesTakeWarning: Downplayed. Wheezy can be seen having bloodshot eyes from all the chain-smoking.
574* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Greasy is heavily implied to be Latino and no less evil than the rest of the gang. Especially when he swears in Spanish after falling for Jessica's [[{{Pun}} literal Booby Trap.]]
575* {{Sadist}}: They laugh hysterically whenever they see someone get hurt. [[spoiler:Psycho and Greasy even laugh after witnessing Smart Ass die from falling in dip which leads to their death.]]
576* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Weasel]]: Greasy has the darkest fur of all the gang and he's a murderous pervert carrying a switchblade.
577* SimpletonVoice: Stupid. [[MeaningfulName Obviously.]]
578* StealthParody: Possibly of the Seven Dwarfs; their names at least, describing their personalities -- visually represented by their attire and physical traits. [[invoked]][[WhatCouldHaveBeen There were even plans to include two more to make the group seven before dropping it to five in earlier stages of production.]]
579* SwordAndGun: Smart Ass and Greasy carry handguns and switchblades, with the latter's occasionally colored green like his clothes.
580* TakingYouWithMe: Psycho's ghost, before presumably flying to the other world, redirects the Dip Machine's cannon towards Roger and Jessica saying "Bye bye".
581* TokenEvilTeammate: They're collectively the only shown {{toon}}s that are portrayed as sadistic, murderous and sociopathic, willing to go along with his plan to commit genocide on their own race by wiping Toontown from the face of the earth by working with a racist human. [[spoiler:This gets downplayed as Doom himself is later revealed as a toon himself, proving to be far more murderously insane and evil than they were.]]
582* UndyingLoyalty: To Judge Doom. It's very telling that they don't ever exhibit visible frustration for his [[BadBoss treatment of them]], let alone plan to ditch him when the situation turns sour or get back at him. Nor due they show any fear of him, unlike everyone else except Jessica or Eddie -- [[spoiler:[[TheReveal at least until Doom reveals his true identity -- resulting Eddie briefly being terrified as well for very different reasons, mainly to do with his past]]]].
583* VengefulGhost: After Eddie causes him to DieLaughing, Psycho's ghost's last action before ascending to the next life is to redirect the Dip Machine toward Roger and Jessica, forcing Eddie to have to watch them die if he can't fight his way past Doom and shut it down.
584* VillainHasAPoint: When the Toon Patrol arrested Benny, he explains he drove ''a couple of miles'' straight down the sidewalk, and we see that he DrivesLikeCrazy and ignores traffic regulations. The Toon Patrol had a damn good reason to arrest him. It's possibly the only time they did something lawfully correct.
585* WeaponSpecialization: Smart Ass and Greasy both pack handguns and switchblades, Psycho carries a straight razor ''in his mouth'', Stupid holds a baseball bat with a nail protruding at its tip, and Wheezy's shown at one point wielding a Tommy gun.
586* WickedWeasel: They formerly provided the Trope image.
587* WingdingEyes: Psycho's eyes are perpetually spinning yellow and mauve spirals. Those who laugh themselves to death get Xs over their eyes when they kick the bucket.
588* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: Their demise from finally laughing themselves to death has their angelic ghosts rise from their bodies and into the sweet hereafter. All except Smart Ass anyways, who got thrown into a vat of Dip and got KilledOffForReal, while the others presumably move onto the next life or continue their cartoony antics as spirits.
589[[/folder]]
590
591[[folder:Bongo]]
592[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bongothegorilla_wfrr88_2027.jpg]]
593!!!'''Voiced by''': Morgan Deare, Alejandro Abdalah (Latin-American Spanish), Yu Shimaka (Japanese)
594
595-->"''Don't let me catch your peepin' face around here again, got it?''"
596
597A big, grumpy, intimidating toon gorilla who's the {{bouncer}} at the Ink-N-Paint Club.
598----
599* AnimalsNotToScale: Real gorillas are actually shorter than the average human when standing upright. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as even in-universe he ''isn't'' [[{{Toon}} a real gorilla]].
600* {{Bouncer}}: Is the bouncer of The Ink & Paint Club who unceremoniously dumps Eddie outside when he catches him peeping. (A customer who wants to get past him to get into the club has to know the password: "[[Creator/WaltDisney Walt]] sent me.")
601* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Doom in a deleted scene.]]
602* HeelFaceTurn: Presumed after [[spoiler:Doom is killed]] as he appears in the crowd of toons in the Acme Factory, at least given the context of the deleted scene.
603* {{Jerkass}}: He's quite a jerk to Eddie, [[JerkassHasAPoint but he was right to be suspicious when Eddie tries to peep into Jessica's room and rightfully throws him out]]. [[spoiler:Although, since he works for Doom in the deleted scene, he may be not want Eddie to snoop.]]
604* KillerGorilla: Although not as aggressive as most cartoon gorillas, he is still big, scary-looking and rather violent with Eddie. [[spoiler:But in a deleted scene he's shown working for the BigBad.]]
605* NoNameGiven: Technically applied as his name was only revealed ''in a deleted scene'' and his credits listing, even in recent remastered editions, is still given as "Gorilla".
606* NoSenseOfHumor: He doesn't take Eddie's sarcasm very well.
607-->'''Eddie''': Nice monkey suit.\
608'''Bongo''': Wise ass.
609* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has a pair of red eyes which matches his aggressive nature.
610[[/folder]]
611
612[[folder:Lena Hyena]]
613[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1704478269014.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Don’t let those bedroom eyes fool you (click here).]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lena_hyena.jpg]][[/labelnote]]
614!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/JuneForay, Creator/ChikaSakamoto (Japanese)
615
616-->''"Yoo-hoo, lover boy! It's Lena Hyena!"''
617
618A comically hideous, psychotic, LoveHungry toon-human woman in Toontown who [[ChaseScene relentlessly chases]] Eddie after he mistakes her for Jessica Rabbit. A minor bit character with only [[OneSceneWonder about thirty seconds]] of total screen time, she still manages to have a skyscraper of tropes on her resumé.
619----
620* AbhorrentAdmirer: Towards poor Eddie. She even provides the page image (no, really).
621* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Believe it or not, yes. Here, she's ugly in a very comical, goofy way, but she can rest easy knowing she isn't the ugliest toon out there as she's practically a fox when compared to her similarly-named ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' counterpart, Lena the Hyena (particularly, in [[https://www.tattooarchive.com/assets/img/history/sm_lena_hyena_wm.jpg Basil Wolverton's original artwork]]).[[note]]It's not clear if they're the same character, or just two different characters who happen to have very similar names...and traits. There was some speculation Lena wasn't an adaptation, but merely a reference to the ''Li'l Abner'' character.[[/note]]
622* AffectionateNickname: She calls Eddie "Lover boy".
623* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Sadly, for Lena, it's true. Of course, her hyperactive libido personality coupled with her homely looks is not exactly helping.
624* AllThereInTheManual: According to the ''Roger Rabbit's Toontown'' issue "The Kissing Bandit," she's an old friend of Jessica's.
625* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: While she has a feminine voice, figure, and clothing, she also has an Adam's apple and in one shot we can see she wears boxer shorts.
626* AllWomenAreLustful: Lena is fueled by her strong desire to be in a relationship with a male.
627* AmbiguousSituation: Given how Jessica parked her car right in front of the apartment complex and the fact that Lena was in one of the rooms, it raises the question of whether it was a coincidence that Eddie encountered her. Did Jessica instruct Lena to stay at the suite should someone come looking for her, and have Lena deal with them? Was the suite Jessica's or Lena's? Perhaps Lena was raiding Jessica's suite, which is why she was wearing her clothes? Due to her limited screen time, nothing is really made clear about Lena's connection to Jessica.
628* AnywhereButTheirLips: Fortunately for Eddie, Lena only manages to kiss him on the cheek.[[note]]It's worth mentioning that she kissed Eddie's right cheek, whereas Jessica had previously given Eddie a [[ProjectileKiss kiss]] on his left cheek.[[/note]]
629* AsideGlance: (Pictured) She's really looking towards Eddie, but she does this a split-second before she reveals her true appearance.
630* AxCrazy: Non-murderous example (as far as we know) but in an overly affectionate infatuation approach. Her one act of violence is when she kicks down the door that Eddie slammed right in her face.
631* BigWordShout: Almost every time she speaks.
632-->'''''"A MMAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!"'''''\
633'''''"YOO-HOO LOVER BOY! IT'S LENA HYENA!"'''''\
634'''''"MY MAN!"'''''\
635'''''"COME TO LENA!!!!!!!!!!"'''''
636* BoobBasedGag: Lena Hyena's breasts droop all the way to the floor for a split-second after she tries to push them up to make herself look more busty.
637* BritishTeeth: She has very few teeth, and the ones she does have are yellow and rotten-looking.
638* {{Butterface}}: She has a silhouette that resembles Jessica Rabbit. But once you see her face...
639* BuxomBeautyStandard: She is actually quite well-endowed, but her boobs are extremely saggy.
640* TheCatCameBack: Eddie, disgusted by her appearance, manages to escape Lena by ducking into what he would discover is a non-existent men's bathroom, causing him to plummet down to the ground. Soon, Eddie is mere seconds away from [[DisneyVillainDeath hitting the sidewalk]] when Lena pops out of nowhere to catch him, who is still intent on having her way with him.
641* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Not exactly a rational and sane woman–even by toon standards. Possibly one of the most insane toons in all of Toontown.
642* CombatStilettos: While not meant for fighting, her high heeled pumps come in handy when she kicks down the door that Eddie had slammed right in her face.
643* CoveredInKisses: Averted. Despite wearing as much red lipstick as Jessica, her kisses do not leave lipstick marks. But that doesn't keep her from trying.[[note]]Funny enough though, this was played straight in the [[https://vegalleries.com/sites/default/files/art/product_images/manual/2017/septrogerrabbit17863.jpg original storyboard]][[/note]]
644* {{Determinator}}: She knocks down a door that was slammed right in her face,mand races all the way down an extremely tall building to save Eddie from hitting the pavement all so she could give him a big kiss. She is only stopped when Eddie manages to trick her into running straight into a wall, which knocks her senseless.
645* DirtyOldWoman: Played with. She has the body of an old lady, yet is implied to be the same age as Jessica.
646* TheDoorSlamsYou: Eddie attempts to do this to Lena when she sprints towards him for a big kiss. Much to his shock, her lips impale the door before she knocks it down with a single kick, averting this.
647* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Her chasing of Eddie is a pretty cut-and-dry attempted sexual assault. One might be tempted to chalk this up to DeliberateValuesDissonance since many cartoon women indeed used to behave this way, but the fact of that matter is that it was still considered acceptable at the time ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' was made.
648* DressesTheSame: Lena wears the same [[SexyBacklessOutfit backless]], [[LadyInRed red]], [[SexySlitDress slitted]] dress, [[note]]Only the leg slit is on her left side as opposed to the right like Jessica's.[[/note]] and violet UsefulNotes/OperaGloves as Jessica, only her pumps are green whereas Jessica's are salmon pink. It's unclear if this was meant to be her main attire or if she stole it from Jessica.
649* {{Expy}}: While she is named after the character from ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'', her role being an ugly toon who romantically chases after Eddie is a clear ShoutOut to Granny from Creator/TexAvery cartoon "WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood", who did the same to Wolfie. Fittingly, Jessica, the one who Eddie had mistook her for is based on the Red Riding Hood of the same short.
650* ExtremeLibido: The mere sight of a male, toon or human alike, is enough to drive her into an unhinged lustful state of mind.
651* EyeTake: She has this reaction when she sees Eddie at her door.
652* {{Fanservice}}: Humorously subverted. Of course, it's all good when she imitates Jessica, but then it becomes FanDisservice once she lets it all out.
653* FieryRedhead: She's very passionately driven and energetic in her pursuits for Eddie.
654* FiveSecondForeshadowing: There are two indications that she is not Jessica before she reveals herself. When she turns to face Eddie before revealing her real appearance, her hair lacks the SultryBangs that Jessica is known for. Also, her leg slit is shown to be on the left side of the dress, whereas Jessica's always had it on her right.
655* FlatCharacter: Due to her limited screentime, she can come across as this.
656* ForcefulKiss: After catching sight of Eddie, Lena becomes immediately smitten, clearly thinking he had come to her out of romantic interest. Ignoring his clear disgust of her, she sprints towards him, puckering her lips repeatedly for a kiss, which leads to a chase. After finally catching him, she wastes no time in giving Eddie a big, wet kiss on his cheek with her [[GagLips big red lips]], much to his chagrin. The recoil from her kiss sends Eddie flying down the street, and she chases after him once more, clearly intending to smooch him up even more.
657* GagLips: She has very plump lips and wears a thick layer of red lipstick, which invoke a few gags. Upon kissing Eddie, her lips take up about half of his cheek. Thry are strong enough to impale a door, and can send someone flying yards away in recoil from a kiss.
658* GagNose: She has a long pointed nose. In the original storyboards it was even longer.
659* {{Gonk}}: Not a beauty contest winner anytime soon.
660* GoofyPrintUnderwear: The last shot of her reveals that she wears white bloomers with red hearts prints.
661* GrossUpCloseUp: The first time she reveals herself, aside from her {{Butterface}} we can also see her yellow rotten teeth, with a few missing.
662* HairyGirl: Downplayed: Her legs are noticeably unshaven.
663* HighClassGloves: Like Jessica, she wears long, over-the-elbow, purple gloves.
664* {{Homage}}: To Grandma from ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood''.
665* HopelessSuitor: To Eddie and basically to any other male she becomes attracted to.
666* IJustWantToBeLoved: At the end of the day, she just wants a man to reciprocate her affections. Unfortunately, her ugly appearance and hypersexual behavior ends up driving away any potential suitors.
667* IJustWantToBeYou: Lena might feel this way about Jessica, considering that she dresses up like her.
668* InsaneTrollLogic: Upon seeing him enter her room, Lena instantly comes to the conclusion that Eddie has come to her out of romantic intent, when he has done nothing to suggest that he is a suitor. Nevertheless, her method of starting a romantic relationship with someone is to shower him with unwanted physical displays of affection.
669* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Like Jessica, her dress has a low neckline that shows off her bust, but this acts as a FanDisservice due to how her droopy her chest is comparison to Jessica's.
670* InterspeciesRomance: She is a toon that becomes infatuated with Eddie who is a human. Granted, she is a human toon like Jessica.
671* KissingWarmUp: As she sprints toward Eddie, Lena puckers her lips in anticipation to kiss him.
672* LackOfEmpathy: She doesn't seem to understand that a romantic relationship needs to be a mutual and consensual understanding between two parties. She doesn't even give Eddie a chance to talk before she concludes that he has come to her for romantic intentions. She spends her entire screentime chasing Eddie with the intent of kissing him, when she should have realized by his reactions that he doesn't even want to be touched by her.
673* LadyInRed: Subverted. She copies Jessica's general look, dress included, but the way she acts is unappealing rather than seductive. It's also not helped by the fact that she lacks Jessica's [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure body type]].
674* LargeHam: Not an uncommon thing around toons, but she's definitely over the top than the rest of 'em. Even Roger is a bit subtle compared to her [[spoiler: and Judge Doom at least can conceal his psychopathic nature under a MaskOfSanity.]]
675* LikesOlderMen: Averted. It's clear that Lena's standards for a romantic relationship is so low, she will go after any male that gives her the slightest attention, regardless of their age.
676* LoveHungry: It appears that Lena is desperately seeking a romantic relationship. Because of this, she will become instantly smitten with the first male that approaches her, regardless if they're a toon or a human. And based on how she spends her entire screentime chasing Eddie for the purpose of showering him with unwanted kisses, it's clear that she is more interested in the physical parts of a romantic relationship.
677* LoveAtFirstSight: Played with. Upon laying her eyes on Eddie, she becomes immediately smitten with him, WingDingEyes and all. However, the fact that she dedicates her screentime trying to kiss Eddie against his will, it is clear that she is more interested in having the chance to get physical with a male rather than pursuing a consensual romantic relationship.
678* LoveCanMakeYouGonk: Lena is able to almost perfectly imitate Jessica's appearance, down to her stoic movements and body shape. When she catches a glimpse of Eddie at her door, her inability to contain her lustful excitement at the thought of a male suitor coming to see causes her to revert to her true unattractive appearance.
679* LoveMakesYouCrazy: The mere sight of a male will reduce to her an unhinged and lustful woman who is determined to shower him with affection, regardless of the harm she causes in her wake.
680* ManiacTongue: Her tongue is seen dangling from her mouth in a grossly lustful way.
681* MessyHair: When she imitates Jessica, Lena's hair is carefully combed and straight. Once she reveals herself, it instantly becomes unkempt and wild.
682* NauseaFuel: In-universe. Eddie is visibly abhorred by her and even more so when he gets kissed by her on the cheek.
683* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Lena doesn’t seem to take the hint that Eddie isn’t interested in her, even when he slams the door in her face and hides in a bathroom. Of course, it’s more that he doesn’t want to be romantically mauled by an ugly toon.
684* NoIndoorVoice: She pretty much shouts everything she says.
685* NonIndicativeName: She's a human toon, not [[SpeciesSurname a hyena]]. The rhyming makes something of a PunnyName.
686* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She immediately tries to hug and kiss Eddie without even bothering to ask for his consent.
687* NotSoStoic: She initially tries to imitate Jessica's sensuous stoicism, to the point that Eddie believes that she actually is Jessica from a distance. Once she sees Eddie enter her room, her instant infatuation with him causes her to revert to her wild and lustful self,
688* PropertyOfLove: Not herself, but she calls Eddie "My Man!", making clear that she wants him all to herself.
689* RescueRomance: Played with. Upon laying her eyes upon him, Lena disturbs Eddie with her ugly appearance. Desperate to get a kiss, she chases Eddie into a non existent bathroom, resulting in [[GravityIsAHarshMistress him plummeting miles below]]. Lena races down to the ground floor and catches him at the last second. However, she proceeds to force herself on poor Eddie, averting this rescue.
690* RunningOnTheSpot: She does this briefly before sprinting towards Eddie for a kiss.
691* SatelliteCharacter: She plays absolutely no part in the film's main plot, with nothing really explored about her character.
692* SexySilhouette: Two of them (well, one and a half). She makes half of one in her hotel room window that resembles Jessica doing a HairFlip, which causes Eddie to mistake her for Jessica. She then makes another when Eddie is looking through her keyhole, catching a glimpse of her seductively pulling out a pink negligee from her suitcase.
693* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Like Jessica, she has red hair and green eyes.
694* SmoochOfVictory: Averted: After saving him from a DisneyVillainDeath (that she put him into), Lena immediately gets hers by forcing a big kiss on Eddie's cheek, much to his disgust.
695* SquashedFlat: After crushing herself against a brick wall.
696* StalkerWithACrush: As soon as she notices Eddie, she immediately chases him down to smother him with unwanted kisses. Fortunately, Eddie manages to escape her before she is able to do anything else to him.
697* SuddenlyShouting: When she speaks for the first time, it’s all just shouting.
698* SuperSpeed: Once Eddie escapes into the non-existent bathroom only to fall down the building. Lena somehow manages to get down to the street below just in time to save him.
699* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: It's clear that Lena's type is a man, regardless their age or species.
700* WingdingEyes: Her eyes glow with red hearts when first sees Eddie.
701* WomanChild: She has the look of an elderly woman but she acts like an insane and lustful teenager. Most of her words are also spoken in a very childish tone.
702* YouthfulFreckles: She has some freckles around her face, though she is definitely not youthful.
703[[/folder]]
704
705[[folder:The Bullet Gang]]
706[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/toonbullets_wfrr88_5.jpg]]
707!!!'''"Mustachioed cowboy" voiced by''': [[Creator/JimCummingsVoiceActor Jim Cummings]] (imitating Andy Devine)\
708'''"Cavalryman" voiced by''': Jim Gallant (imitating Walter Brennan)\
709'''"Portly bullet" voiced by''': Pat Buttram
710
711-->'''Eddie Valiant:''' Feelin’ frisky tonight, fellas?
712
713A group of six wild, fun-seeking, .38 toon bullets for Eddie’s toon revolver. After years of sleeping in the gun case, they're awakened when Eddie pursues Jessica Rabbit into Toontown. Though they’re never named in the movie, they’re depicted as a portly, cigar-smoking cowboy with Pat Buttram’s voice; a tobacco-chewing [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] soldier a.k.a. “Chews Tobacco”, a cavalryman (in the voice of Walter Brennan), a Native American a.k.a. “Says Nothing”, a mustachioed cowboy who sounds like Andy Devine, and a masked bandit a.k.a. “Shifty Eyes”.
714----
715* AbnormalAmmo: Toon bullets capable of speech and flight.
716* AllThereInTheManual: They’re never given names, but early production sketch notes have listed them as “Andy Devine” (mustachioed cowboy), “Walter Brennan” (cavalryman), “Pat Buttram” (cigar smoking), “Chews Tobacco” (Civil War soldier), “Says Nothing” (Native American) and “Shifty Eyes” (masked bandit).
717* AnimateInanimateObject: They're all living, talking bullets that have faces.
718* {{Bandito}}: "Shifty Eyes".
719* {{Battlecry}}: "Says Nothing" lets out a war whoop as he destroys Eddie’s bourbon bottle.
720* CartridgesInFlight: They come flying out of Eddie's toon revolver, brass casing and all, when fired. Natch, given that they're toon revolvers and their casings are apparently part of their bodies.
721* CigarChomper: The fat cowboy voiced by Pat Buttram.
722* TheDitz: They're definitely not the, uh, fastest bullets in the chamber, for sure; when Eddie fires them at a fleeing suspect, all of them take the wrong turn, leading to him sighing and calling them "[[{{Pun}} Dum Dums]]".[[labelnote:explanation]]A "dum-dum" being a type of bullet made for taking down large game[[/labelnote]]
723* TheGunslinger: They all carry this attitude despite being bullets.
724* ItWasAGift: The case containing the revolver and the Bullet Gang has an engraved plaque under the lid reading:
725-->"Thanks for getting me out of the hoosegow." - WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam
726* TheQuietOne: "Says Nothing" and "Chews Tobacco".
727* TheWildWest: Evoked as they’re archetypes of this era. Makes sense considering the gun they’re accompanied with was previously owned by Yosemite Sam.
728[[/folder]]
729
730!!Humans
731[[folder:Eddie Valiant]]
732[[quoteright:323:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eddievaliant_wfrr88.jpg]]
733!!!'''Portrayed by''': Creator/BobHoskins\
734'''Voiced by''': Willy Brand (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/KenjiUtsumi (Japanese)
735
736-->''"I... don't... work... for toons."''
737
738A grizzled ex-cop and PrivateDetective who slipped into alcoholism and developed a bitter antipathy against toons after his brother Teddy was murdered by one while investigating a case in Toontown. He is hired to take some "dirty pictures" about Jessica Rabbit's "affair" with Marvin Acme, but is pulled into the murder investigation (against his will) after Acme gets murdered and Jessica's husband, Roger is framed for it.
739----
740* AccidentalHero: Eddie is not very happy to take care of Roger Rabbit's case since he became a toon-hater. [[spoiler:However, he manages to prove Roger's innocence, save Toontown, and avenge the loss of his brother all at the same time]].
741* AccidentalPervert: While Eddie is photographing Jessica and her mystery "suitor" at night through her window, albeit at a concerned Roger's behest, Bongo the bouncer mistakes him for a peeping tom and tosses him out on his ass.
742* {{Acrofatic}}: Eddie during his climactic dance number.
743* ActionSurvivor: His modus operandi to come out of trouble. He's also a smarter version of this.
744* AdaptationalSympathy: Compared to his book self, Eddie has a lot more points that make him sympathetic such as his partner also being his brother in addition to being killed in a case that was notably unsolved and denied Eddie closure, a distinct lack of respect being given to him, notably being down on his luck, and shows some signs of empathy for toons even before his CharacterDevelopment.
745* AdaptationalUgliness: In the book version, Eddie, as a parody of a pulp hero, is noted by several characters as being very attractive. The heavy-set Creator/BobHoskins plays Eddie as a StealthParody of a noir hero in the film adaptation.
746* AddictionDisplacement: According to the comics that continue the story after the film, after Eddie stopped dringking hes started eating a lot of jelly-beans instead, to the point where this almost becomes a new addiction. When meeting up with Velma the secretary, he offers her a jelly-bean, to which she replies: "Still on the wagon, eh, Eddie?"
747* TheAlcoholic: At the beginning of the movie Eddie Valiant has been an alcoholic since Teddy was murdered by a toon, but he drops the habit by the end.
748-->'''Police Lieutenant:''' Didn't you used to be Eddie Valiant? Or did you change your name to "Jack Daniels"?
749* AntiHero: A PragmaticHero. Cynical alcoholic with a racist streak and a tendency towards violence? Definitely AntiHero. But he does get better once he stops drinking and by end of the movie, he's a lot nicer.
750* BadassLongcoat: A typical private investigator -- style trenchcoat.
751* BadassNormal: Probably the only one human in among toons with this characteristic. He even manages to [[spoiler:kill Judge Doom himself, who is a toon stronger and taller than him, by spreading Dip everywhere]].
752* BerserkButton:
753** Don't sit in Teddy Valiant's chair.
754** Eddie Valiant doesn't work for toons. And don't you forget it. [[spoiler:He's back in business by the end of the film.]]
755* BigotWithACrush: Despite his hatred of toons, he's clearly attracted to Jessica Rabbit.
756* BrokenBird: Behind all of that drinking and sarcasm is a man still very much distraught over the loss of his brother. He's also suffering some serious emotional trauma from witnessing a toon murder his brother, as he freezes up just being near Toontown and breaks out in a cold sweat when his brother's killer resurfaces.
757* BullyingADragon: He does this twice at his own expenses. The first time, he calls Bongo a "chimp" and gets violently thrown out of the Ink and Paint Club. The second one, he shocks Judge Doom with Acme's buzzer as a payment for having him first hit with his cane. Of course he doesn't know that the man in front of him [[spoiler: is a very dangerous psychopath who's the movie's BigBad. Not mention he's the same toon who killed his brother which at the end he comes very closely to killing him twice.]]
758* ButtMonkey: In the Toontown sequence. He falls from an extra-high building, he gets tricked by Tweety and Bugs Bunny and finally he gets kissed by Lena Hyena.
759* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Eddie refuses to take Baby Herman's money to clear Roger's name and that would have been the end of it, until Roger showed up at his office begging him for help (then handcuffed the two of them together right before the weasles showed up to look for him), not giving him any choice in the matter.
760* CarpetOfVirility: A scene shows him with a very hairy chest.
761* CharacterDevelopment: Eddie starts off as a cynical man who hates all toons; he does show respect towards some toons (e.g., Betty Boop) and his hatred mostly stems from Teddy being murdered by an evil toon. After the events of trying and succeeding in clearing Roger's name (not to mention actually opening up to Roger about Teddy's death), his hatred goes away and he begins to show his long lost sense of humor.
762* ChekhovsSkill: Him and Teddy being raised in a circus as clowns along with extensive experience with toons from Valiant & Valiant's careers in Toontown helps him out at the finale.
763* CircusBrat: Implied. One of his old photos shows himself, his brother, and his father (dressed as a clown) in front of a circus sign, the frame reads "Eddie and Teddy on the road with Dad". His improvised circus act distraction at the end of the movie also supports this. In a case of both RealLifeWritesThePlot and ActorAllusion, Bob Hoskins actually was a circus performer -- although he started out as a fire eater instead of a clown.
764* ClearTheirName: He eventually helps Roger find out who framed him for Acme's murder.
765* TheComicallySerious: When paired with Roger. Despite being more deadpan and serious he can generate some laugh or two.
766* CynicismCatalyst: While Eddie doesn't blame himself about it, Teddy's murder led to his antipathy for toons. [[spoiler:Solving the murder while also finding his brother's killer serves as an [[InvertedTrope inverted example]], having become better and letting go of his stuff for toons.]]
767* DarkAndTroubledPast: His brother died by being killed by a mysterious toon criminal.
768* DeadpanSnarker: Just like a great many FilmNoir heroes. Justified, as he was a toon-loving detective until his brother was killed by a toon.
769* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: In the comics, he may have given up his grudge against toons and avenged his partner, but he still isn't entirely over his brother's death, telling Roger flat out that he doesn't ever want another partner.
770* DefectiveDetective: Eddie not only has an alcohol problem, but also has trouble with his relationship and is traumatized by Teddy's death.
771* DefrostingIceKing: He starts as a cold and cynical Private Eye at first, but at the halfway point of the movie (right around the time he actually tells Roger about how Teddy died) he becomes more kind and gentle, especially towards the toons.
772* DetectivePatsy:
773-->'''Dolores:''' And you said you were never gonna take another toon case! What, did you have a change of heart?\
774'''Eddie:''' Nothing's changed! Someone's made a patsy out of me and I'm gonna find out ''[hits his head on a ceiling lamp]'' why!
775* DisappointedByTheMotive: His reaction to the reveal that [[spoiler:Judge Doom killed Acme and Maroon simply to get the deed to Toontown and build a freeway. Doom wasn't surprised by his disappointment since he "lacks vision"]].
776* DrowningMySorrows: He drinks a lot of alcohol after his brother's death.
777* DudeWheresMyRespect:
778** Gets mocked for his alcoholism and having worked on toon cases by some people including fellow L.A.P.D. officers.
779** When Jessica is brought to safety, it looks as if she's about to thank Eddie for his heroism... but instead does this to Roger.
780--->'''Jessica:''' Oh Roger, you were ''a pillar of strength''.
781* DullSurprise: He's not very surprised to discover that [[spoiler:Judge Doom was a toon in disguise. As he puts it, "That lame-brain freeway idea could only be cooked up by a toon."]] Subverted when he discovers that [[spoiler:Doom was the toon who killed Teddy]]; his wits clearly desert him, and he might have given up entirely if Roger and Jessica weren't depending on him.
782* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Eddie has ''several'' of these throughout the first third of the film, each that show different aspects of his personality & character.
783** In his very first scene in the film, Eddie sees Roger's desperation in the studio, and he scoffs "Toons", then takes a drink from a whisky bottle. Then, in R.K. Maroon's office, he is reluctant to take the job involving spying on toons but accepts anyway, all while taking a drink from Maroon's scotch. All this establishes that A) Eddie has a dislike towards toons, B) He's a detective down-on-his-luck and needs the money regardless, and C) He has a [[TheAlcoholic drinking problem]].
784** He shows his softer side when he helps some street urchins sneak a free ride on the Red Car and later thanks the kids for giving him cigarettes.
785** In the Ink-&-Paint Club, he has a brief but friendly conversation with WesternAnimation/BettyBoop, showing how his contempt towards Toons is not universal and could change.
786** And finally, a nonverbal example would be the scene where he is alone in his office. He sees the photos of his dead brother Teddy who was killed by a toon, is visibly hurt by it & almost in tears; the camera then pans to show his brother's abandoned desk covered in dust, along with newspaper clippings of previous jobs where they helped out toons. This establishes how much Teddy's death affected him and he still struggles to move on, and how his dislike towards toons largely comes from what happened.
787* EveryoneHasStandards: He may dislike toons, but he is shaken when Doom ''slowly'' murders a harmless toon shoe in the Dip, and when Doom says he thought Eddie would approve of something that can destroy a toon, he is silently but visibly furious. Note that this is ''before'' his character development kicks in.
788** Later, even though he had every reason to hate Judge Doom [[spoiler:even before it was revealed that the judge was actually the same toon who killed his brother]], he takes no pleasure when the man gets his comeuppance [[spoiler:either the DisneyDeath when he's run over by his own steamroller or the real one when he's melted by his own Dip]].
789* {{Expy}}: He's obviously based on classical private detective heroes of the Noir genre like Literature/PhilipMarlowe and [[Literature/The MalteseFalcon Sam Spade]]. His hard boiled attitude also reminds ComicStrip/DickTracy.
790* FantasticRacism: He hates toons, but not all of them. Part of his character arc is overcoming his prejudice. It also helps that [[spoiler:he kills the source of why he gains his prejudice -- the psychotic toon who now poses as the BigBad of the plot]], healing his emotional scars as he does so.
791* FreudianExcuse: The reason for his dislike of toons is because one murdered Teddy.
792* FunctionalGenreSavvy: He uses the logic of toons doing anything in Toontown to rip a road line and placed it towards a wall so that his AbhorrentAdmirer would hit it.
793* GenreBlind: For all his experience working around toons, he really should have taken heed to the warnings of Mickey and Bugs that he didn't want the "spare". Though to be fair to him, he was understandably in a panic at the time so he probably wasn't thinking it through.
794* GenreSavvy: Even after a long absence and growing antipathy, he's still clued into the way that toons operate on RuleOfFunny.
795-->'''Eddie:''' Scotch on the rocks. AND I MEAN ''ICE!''
796* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: The irritable and short-tempered Grumpy to Roger's Gleeful.
797* GoodIsNotNice: His treatment of Roger Rabbit is abusive for much of the film.
798** His method of getting Maroon to reveal information about what Cloverleaf has planned is to [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique twist his tie into a film projector gears so he'd tell under threat of being choked]]. [[HeKnowsTooMuch Unfortunately, this backfires as Doom killed him before the most vital part of his plan was exposed]] -- forcing Eddie to return to Toontown, learning in a roundabout way that Doom was the culprit behind the scheme.
799* GroinAttack: He kicks Smart-Ass in the groin towards the end of the film.
800* HairTriggerTemper: He goes from calm to extremely angry with minimal provocation and he can be quite violent, especially around Roger. He softens up a little towards the end, though.
801* HardboiledDetective: Acts like one, but is very out of place in a toon-inhabited society.
802* TheHero: Once he forgets all his bad feelings he's more heroic and kind.
803* HiddenDepths: Eddie still has some humor left in him and he still holds some toons close to him.
804* InsecureLoveInterest: {{Implied|Trope}}. While hiding at a movie theatre, Eddie tells Dolores she should find herself a "good man", hinting that he doesn't consider himself to be one for her.
805* InspectorJavert: The Javert to the real murderer's Valjean.
806* IronicName: His surname is "Valiant" alongside his brother. "Valiant" is another word for "brave" or "courageous", but [[AntiHero Eddie himself]] acts the opposite throughout most of the film, being a jaded and cynical ButtMonkey. Justified, as his brother's death by a toon caused him to hate working for toons.
807* IWorkAlone: In the comics, he outright says that he doesn't want another partner after his brother's death.
808* JadedWashout: He as once a celebrated LAPD officer who left the force with his brother to start their own private eye firm, and quickly established a reputation for being the go-to guy for any toon who needed help. Then his brother was killed by a toon, so he took to the bottle and gave up working for toons, and by the start of the film he's reduced to tailing cheating spouses.
809* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's nice to some toons even before his CharacterDevelopment. He goes out of his way to reassure Roger that he doesn't hate him despite the rabbit being very annoying and a liability.
810* KnightInSourArmor: Eddie holds [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero a level of knee-jerk prejudice towards toons]] because [[FreudianExcuse a toon killed his brother]], but that hasn't stopped him from begrudgingly accepting cases that have helped toons in the past, this being the reason why Roger went to him when he was framed for murder. As time goes on, [[TookALevelInKindness the "sour" part slowly fades]].
811* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7uUp_NCQc Eddie's Theme]].
812* LustObject: Unfortunately for him, to Lena Hyena.
813* ManlyTears: When he looks at the pictures of him and his brother his eyes seem to glistening. The first sign that deep down his grouchy and tough exterior he's still a human being in every sense.
814* MeaningfulName: The English and French meaning for "Valiant" is brave. He proves to be quite gutsy and heroic in a tense situation.
815* MistakenForCheating: Dolores walks in on Jessica and Eddie in his office and assumes the worst. Fortunately, she doesn't stay angry at him.
816* MyGreatestFailure: He never did nab the toon who murdered his dear brother. It's not until he crosses paths with Judge Doom that he finally finds the toon responsible for it and finally settles the score.
817* NeverMyFault: Jessica and Baby Herman hold him responsible for Roger being accused as the murderer of Acme.
818-->'''Jessica:''' I hope you're proud of yourself! And those pictures you took.\
819'''Baby Herman:''' I figured since ''you'' were the one who got my pal in trouble, you might wanna help get him out.\
820'''Eddie:''' It ain't ''my'' fault the rabbit got himself in trouble. ''[takes a big swig of alcohol]'' All I did was took a couple of lousy pictures.
821* NoMoreForMe: Before going into Toontown to pursue Maroon's presumed killer, he decides to throw away his whiskey bottle and shoots at it with Yosemite Sam's gun. Moreover he needs himself to be lucid.
822* NobleBigotWithABadge: A variant since he's no longer a cop but a private eye, but even he wouldn't let his bigotry towards toons allow an innocent toon to unjustly receive the death penalty.
823* NonIronicClown: He was one before he became a cop, and busts out his chops when [[spoiler:defeating the Toon Patrol.]]
824* OfficialCouple: With Dolores. They have a moment that gets Roger feeling all gooey.
825* OhCrap: He's shocked and scared after [[spoiler:Judge Doom reveals himself as the unnamed toon who murdered his brother Teddy.]]
826* PreMortemOneLiner: After getting knocked out by a vase during his song and Roger says "nose" as part of the last verse:
827-->'''Smart-Ass:''' Nose? That don't rhyme with walls.\
828'''Eddie:''' No, but ''this'' does! ''[gives Smart-Ass a GroinAttack]''
829* PretendPrejudice: His attitude to toons in general. He never misses a chance to voice his contempt for them, but his PI career is full of cases that have helped toons in the past and he even holds a fondness for old friends like Betty Boop.
830* PrivateDetective: He and Teddy were police officers who went into business for themselves as PI's, till the latter was flattened by a piano by a toon, [[spoiler:whom we learn later used his ill-gotten gains to become a judge]]. After his brother's death, Eddie more or less crawled inside a bottle and barely works beyond what he needs to buy the next one.
831* PunchClockHero: His PrivateDetective job is not full time, Roger doesn't think so at the very least.
832* SiblingTeam: He and his brother used to be cops who often took charge of toon's cases before Teddy's death.
833* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Hey, look, there literally is a silly rabbit involved. In fact, it's the silly rabbit that eventually gets Eddie to overcome his distaste for idealism.
834* StupidestThingIveEverHeard: What he thinks of the freeway idea, especially Doom's plan which he's willing to murder two people and commit genocide for.
835* TheSnarkKnight: He's very coldly sarcastic and cynical. This is probably caused by the loss of his brother.
836* SurvivorGuilt: He survived the ambush that killed his brother. Given Teddy's nature, he might even have pushed Eddie out of the way, saving his life but compounding the trauma.
837* ThatManIsDead: Played with; to many, he's still the detective who helped countless toons throughout his life. He doesn't take well to this reputation considering what he's been through, and he makes sure everybody knows it.
838* TinyGuyHugeGirl: He's noticeably shorter than Dolores.
839* TookALevelInBadass: He starts as a grouchy, drunken and lazy detective with not much action to him. Then he interrogates Maroon in a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique style, managing to obtain some useful information, [[spoiler:he eliminates the weasels by making 'em die laughing, he kicks Smart Ass in the dip vat, and finally he kills the much more powerful and skilled Judge Doom by making him melt in his own creation.]]
840* TookALevelInIdealism: Valiant starts out jaded and cynical, often consoling himself with booze after his brother's death at the hands of an evil toon. After his adventures in clearing Roger Rabbit's name, Eddie is much less of a sourpuss.
841* TookALevelInKindness: By the power of CharacterDevelopment! [[spoiler:It does help that he kills Doom, the toon responsible for his brother's death, relieving him of a lot of guilt.]]
842* TragicBigot: Became bitter and resentful towards toons after one killed his brother and he never found out who it was. [[spoiler:Until he finds out it was Doom, and gets over his bigotry by avenging his brother's death and recognizing that all the other toons are not at all like one who was psychotic enough to want to kill even his fellow toons.]]
843* WhenHeSmiles: Since he's so depressed over his brother's death, he barely smiles and when he does, it's a sight to behold.
844* WorkingClassHero: As a private eye that's been working since the Great Depression, Eddie's economic background is humble to say the least. He lives in his office, burns through paychecks within a day, drinks in a bar with rail workers and has a seething hatred of white-collar workers.
845-->''"Here's to the pencil-pushers. May they all get lead poisoning."''
846* WouldHitAGirl: He makes Lena Hyena crush against a wall by placing the street line against it. In his defense she was obsessively trying to force herself on him and wouldn't have suffered any lasting trauma thanks to being a toon.
847* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Judge Doom is the same toon who killed Teddy.]]
848[[/folder]]
849
850[[folder:R.K. Maroon]]
851[[quoteright:323:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rkmrogerrabbit0389_5825.jpg]]
852!!!'''Played by''': Alan Tilvern\
853'''Voiced by''': Roberto Alexander (Latin-American Spanish), Yuzuru Fujimoto (Japanese)
854
855-->''[[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder "I'm a cartoon maker, not a murderer."]]''
856
857Well-known cartoon producer in Hollywood and studio head of Maroon Cartoons. Cloverleaf approached him with an offer to buy the Maroon Cartoons studio for a generous sum, on the condition that they would buy it only when Marvin Acme sold them ''his'' properties -- which included Toontown. Acme refused, so Maroon made Jessica pose for the patty-cake photos with Acme and arranged for Eddie Valiant to snap the pictures, in order to have something he could use to blackmail Acme into selling.
858
859At some unspecified point after Acme was murdered, he connected the dots and realized that Cloverleaf was going to destroy Toontown to build the freeway after claiming it as theirs, as Acme's Last Will and Testament had gone missing and thus could not be executed. He was understandably horrified -- being a cartoonist and a man who loved toons, and all -- and wanted to find Acme's will to prove someone had a legitimate standing claim to Toontown in the event of Acme's death so that Cloverleaf couldn't get their hands on it.
860----
861* AintTooProudToBeg: He is absolutely terrified of what Cloverleaf will do to him after discovering their true intentions, and is a nervous wreck when Valiant confronts him on his dealings with both them and Acme. His pleas for his life however are quickly silenced just as he is confessing everything to Valiant.
862* AmbitionIsEvil: He tried to extort Acme into selling by setting up the patty-cake scandal.
863* AssholeVictim: {{Subverted|Trope}}. He was killed by [[spoiler:Doom's hand]] since Maroon held Roger's job hostage and was in Doom's scheme for the money. However, Maroon tried to undo the damage he nearly caused.
864* TheAtoner: By the time Eddie confronts him, Maroon was trying to undo the damage he caused from trying to blackmail Acme. It ends with him [[spoiler:getting shot by Doom.]]
865* CanonForeigner: He was not in the novel.
866* CharacterDeath: He gets shot down by [[spoiler:Judge Doom]].
867* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Maroon's a classic example of this trope, although he, too late, has a change of heart towards the end [[spoiler:by trying to tell Eddie about the freeway that Doom was trying to make through the erasure of Toontown and its entire population.]]
868* DeadpanSnarker: Justified as he's been hanging around {{toon}} actors for a long time and their sense of humor rubbed off on him.
869-->'''Maroon:''' Let's call the other fifty a carrot to finish the job.\
870'''Valiant:''' You been hangin' around rabbits too long.
871* DealWithTheDevil: His deal with Cloverleaf [[spoiler:the financial sponsor of Judge Doom -- its sole stockholder]] is presented as this -- with the blackmail of Acme being implied to be set up as apart of the agreement to gain ownership of Toon Town so R.K. could then sell it and his company for more wealth as his reward. R.K. then in typical manner of this sort of deal, realizes the truly horrific ramifications of the deal [[spoiler:being the complete genocide of Toon Town for a freeway]] and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone his guilt in his part of this plot]] -- [[HeKnowsTooMuch leading to his death to not give out the truth in public]] -- being treated thematically as the devil taking his prize from the unwitting dealt party as his reward.
872* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He genuinely loves toons in general, despite not having no restrictions in using them as pawns for his dirty deeds. In the original script, it's mentioned he also has a wife which he obviously loves.
873* EvenEvilHasStandards: He manipulates Jessica into posing for the pattycake photos for Eddie, but he loves toons and doesn't want to see them get hurt [[spoiler:especially if it's a genocide of their entire town for the sake of a freeway project.]]
874* {{Greed}}: Planned to blackmail Acme and sell his studio to get money. However, unlike [[spoiler:Judge Doom]], [[spoiler:[[EveryoneHasStandards his greed didn't override his sense of morality when it would result in the countless deaths of the residents of Toontown would occur that the planned construction of the Freeway went underway]].]]
875* HeelFaceDoorSlam: In the midst of trying to repair the damage he's done, Maroon gets shot by [[spoiler:Judge Doom]].
876* HeKnowsTooMuch: This is the reason why [[spoiler:Judge Doom]] ultimately killed him. By the time Maroon tells Valiant about what's going to happen to Toontown, [[spoiler:Doom]] shoots him down.
877* HiddenHeartOfGold: Turns out he was this after all, beneath his [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive and corrupt businessman persona]] -- he deeply cares about {{toon}}s. [[spoiler:When he realizes Doom's intention to wipe out Toontown for a freeway, he attempts to make amends, but is killed off before it comes into fruition.]]
878* KarmicDeath: Even if he ultimately planned to make amends by [[spoiler:trying to stop Doom's plans to make a freeway out of Toontown and tell Eddie the truth]]; he still attempted to blackmail Acme in order to make Roger give up on Jessica and planned to sell Maroon Studios to Cloverleaf for [[{{Greed}} money]]. It's fitting that a man who made his life ruining others in order to make a fortune [[spoiler:is then disposed of, in order to fulfill another man's [[{{Greed}} avarice]] that would ruin the lives of others.]]
879* KickTheDog:
880** His plan to have Jessica participate in a scandalous blackmail to undermine Acme as well as make Roger give up on her through Eddie's pictures -- while forcing Jessica into it in the first place under the threat that he'd fire him if she didn't comply.
881** On top of this, he planned to sell [[ShaggyDogStory Maroon Studios to Cloverleaf -- which would put Roger and other toons out of a job anyway]]. [[spoiler:It's only once he learns of Doom's plan of intended genocide of Toontown that he comes to his senses and planned to expose the truth to Eddie in order to reverse the damage that was done.]]
882* KilledMidSentence: Maroon tries to tell Eddie about Acme's will, only for [[spoiler:Doom]] to kill him.
883-->'''Maroon:''' Unless Acme's will shows by midnight tonight, Toontown's gonna be land for the free--
884* ManipulativeBastard: He used Eddie in order to reveal Acme as a adulterer as evidence for blackmail and Jessica into being the lure for Acme to indulge in his lust in order for Roger to keep his job. [[spoiler:This backfires when he realized he's [[OutGambitted out of his league]] when trying to take advantage of Cloverleaf once he realizes the true, horrific plans of their sole stockholder -- Judge Doom planned to do.]]
885* MoralityPet: Toons in general serve as one to him. Maroon is hugely opportunistic and greedy, hoping to make a fortune off the Cloverleaf Highway project. But when he learns that the structure will result in the destruction of Toontown and all its inhabitants, he's horrified and desperately tries to prevent the scheme from going through, claiming that he loves them and doesn’t want them to be destroyed.
886* PayEvilUntoEvil: Gets murdered by [[spoiler:Judge Doom]] in order to keep his scheme secret and [[spoiler:[[KarmicDeath for aiding him in taking the Cloverleaf -- the company which Doom is the sole stockholder -- deal by undermining Acme through blackmail as well as planning to sell his company in order to get more money off of it.]]]]
887* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He tried to find Acme's will for unambiguously good reasons after realizing the truth, and told Valiant as much while being interrogated, but was killed before he could completely spill the beans.
888* RedHerring: After finding out from a newsreel about Maroon Studios being bought out by Cloverleaf, Eddie assumes that R.K. Maroon is the mastermind behind the murderers. [[EveryoneHasStandards Not only is he wrong due to actually having standards against murder]] -- [[spoiler:especially that of the planned genocide of an entire town's population for a freeway]], but [[spoiler:[[HeKnowsTooMuch he gets offed by the real mastermind -- Judge Doom before he can expose the entire detail of the plan.]]]]
889* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the graphic novel adaptation, Dolores and Lt. Santino reveal to Eddie that Maroon survived being shot and is recovering in the hospital. This is, however, {{Retcon}}ed in the follow-up graphic novel, ''The resurrection of Doom'', as well as the ongoing ''Roger Rabbit'' comic book, where he is confirmed to be dead and Maroon Cartoons is taken over by [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins his identical twin brother C.B. Maroon]].
890* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:He was willing to set up a situation that would give him blackmail material on Acme just for a chance to sell his studio to Doom. In doing so, Maroon ended up creating the perfect patsy for Doom's murder of the Gag King.]]
891[[/folder]]
892
893[[folder:Marvin Acme]]
894[[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marvin_acme_wfrr_8752.jpg]]
895!!!'''Portrayed by''': Stubby Kaye\
896'''Voiced by''': Víctor Mares Sr. (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/KenichiOgata (Japanese)
897
898-->''"If it's Acme, it's a gasser."''
899
900Also known as "The Gag King", Acme is the eccentric, prank-playing CEO of his eponymous corporation and owner of {{Toontown}}.
901----
902* BenevolentBoss: He's universally beloved by the toons he works with.
903* CanonForeigner: He doesn't appear in the book.
904* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Has a safe dropped on him by Judge Doom]].
905* CloudCuckooLander: Considered this to humans.
906* DirtyOldMan: Well, he IS an old man openly lusting and having an affair, so to speak, with the seemingly much younger(-looking) Jessica.
907* TheGadfly: Eddie considers him this, since when they meet the first thing he does is squirt (disappearing) ink on him, and then zaps him with a hand-buzzer.
908* GambitRoulette: Writing his will in disappearing-reappearing ink to hide it from Doom offered no guarantee that said ink wouldn't have already reappeared by the time Doom got his hands on it, since the ink's invisibility doesn't seem to have a consistent duration, as shown by both Eddie's stain and the will itself fading back in [[ContrivedCoincidence within seconds of each other, despite the fact that Marvin isn't seen writing his will in the scene where he squirts Eddie, meaning that he'd written it at some earlier point.]]
909** It's possible the Disappearing-Reappearing Ink works on the principle of ToonPhysics: Only reappears when it's funny.
910* GRatedSex: He plays "pattycake" with Jessica. This isn't a euphemism; the extent of their affair really does amount to playing a childish game and they otherwise do nothing overtly sexual.
911* JerkassBall: Playing pattycake with Jessica behind Roger's back is the only selfish thing he really does. It seems somewhat at odds with the rest of his portrayal as an affable guy who loves all toons and promised to leave Toontown to them.
912* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He isn't quite the person you'd want to like given his fetish toward female toons, but he does love toons and, as stated above, wants to leave Toontown to them when he's gone.
913* ManChild: A middle-aged man who makes his career inventing and selling toon-related gag items like hand-buzzers, who loves to play practical jokes on people? Check.
914* MealTicket: To Jessica. Gossip tabloids and R.K. Maroon even call him a "sugar daddy". [[spoiler:Turns out R.K. Maroon blackmailed Jessica into feigning interest in Marvin, as she wanted nothing to do with it.]]
915* MemeticMutation: InUniverse example. The name Acme has appeared in various cartoons (notably ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''), TV shows, comics and films throughout history. Ever wonder where it came from?
916* OffWithHisHead: Has a safe dropped on his head by Doom; thankfully though, [[BloodlessCarnage you don't see much of the aftermath]].
917* ThePrankster: An infamously reputed one. He likes to play relatively harmless practical jokes.
918* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's only in two scenes in the movie (and in one he's largely offscreen talking to Jessica), but his murder and role as the owner of Toontown are the driving forces of the plot. His LostWillAndTestament is the film's MacGuffin.
919* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He's killed off by Judge Doom within the first half-hour]].
920* TheWonka: He's kooky, nutty, eccentric, and unpredictable by human standards, but those same qualities make him a master inventor of toon-related gag inventions, respected by humans in the toon industry (like R.K. Maroon), and universally beloved by the toon community.
921[[/folder]]
922
923[[folder:Dolores]]
924[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joanna_cassidy-dolores_1735.jpeg]]
925!!!'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JoannaCassidy\
926'''Voiced by''': Amparo Brown (Latin-American Spanish), Mari Yokoo (Japanese)
927
928-->''"So tell me, Eddie, is that a rabbit in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"''
929
930A waitress/bartender and Eddie's girlfriend.
931----
932* BetaCouple: With Eddie against Roger and Jessica Rabbit, oddly enough, considering Eddie is the main character of the movie.
933* BettyAndVeronica: To Betty to Jessica's Veronica for Eddie's Archie, though his attraction to Jessica is mostly against his will.
934* CanonForeigner: She's a character created exclusively for the film.
935* DeadpanSnarker: Has a dry sense of humor to rival Eddie's.
936-->'''Dolores:''' So is [Roger] ''always'' this funny, or just on days when he's wanted for murder?
937* GirlNextDoor: To Eddie.
938* OfficialCouple: She eventually gets (back) together with Eddie at the end of the film.
939* SarcasticDevotee: She snarks at Eddie a lot, but will not hesitate to risk her job or her freedom to help him in an instant.
940* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Dolores is romantically interested in Eddie, who she deems a "good man".
941-->'''Eddie:''' You oughta go find yourself a good man.\
942'''Dolores:''' But I already have a good man.
943* SourOutsideSadInside: Like Eddie, she's a little rough around the edges because she too is coping with Teddy's death, though she has the added burden of trying to make ends meet for herself while watching her boyfriend [[DrowningMySorrows slowly drown himself in a bottle]].
944* TinyGuyHugeGirl: She's noticeably taller than Eddie.
945* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Eddie tells her she should find a good man, she quietly tells him she already has a good man.
946[[/folder]]
947
948[[folder:Lt. Santino]]
949[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ltsantino0190_8363.jpg]]
950!!!'''Portrayed by''': Richard [=LeParmentier=]\
951'''Voiced by''': Fernando Escandón (Latin-American Spanish), Masashi Hirose (Japanese)
952
953-->''"Just like a toon to drop a safe on a guy's head."''
954
955A no-nonsense LAPD Lieutenant and Eddie's friend.
956----
957* BeQuietNudge: He nudges Eddie to be quiet when he mocks [[TheDreaded Judge Doom's]] authority by joking about Roger's location after Acme's murder when Doom asks for Roger's location.
958* ByTheBookCop: He always follows the rules.
959* CanonForeigner: Santino is a character created for the film, and does not appear in the original novel.
960* DeadpanSnarker: Though more no-nonsense than Eddie, he does have some sharp lines.
961* EveryoneHasStandards: As a cop he's forced to be respectfully deferential to Judge Doom, but hates how he's forced to take orders from a man who bribed his way to power and is a bonafide sadist. He may not be amused by Toontown's craziness, but he couldn't bear to look when Doom executed that poor little shoe.
962* FriendOnTheForce: The only cop Eddie likes and the only one [[DudeWheresMyRespect that treats him with any respect]].
963* MrExposition: When Judge Doom is introduced, Santino says everything about his backstory, including his name, how he bribed his way to his position, and how he created Dip as a way to kill toons. All in the same scene.
964* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Goes hand in hand with being a ByTheBookCop. Though he carries a stiff demeanor, he looks out for Eddie as he's concerned of his alcoholism and disapproves of his improper conduct toward any superiors, even one he himself doesn't like.
965[[/folder]]
966
967[[folder:Angelo]]
968[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wfrrangelo.png]]
969!!!'''Portrayed by''': Richard Ridings
970
971-->''"Hey, so who's your client, Mr. Detective-to-the-Stars? WesternAnimation/ChillyWilly or [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Screwy Squirrel?]]"''
972
973A regular patron of the Terminal Bar.
974----
975* EveryoneHasStandards: Even if he's dirt poor as Eddie implies, he still wouldn't turn in an innocent no matter the amount you put on the bounty. Just when it seems he's going to rat out Roger to Judge Doom, he's actually just playing a prank saying the rabbit he knows of is [[Theatre/{{Harvey}} an invisible rabbit named Harvey]] "sitting right next to him". The other barflies erupt in laughter.
976* InnocentlyInsensitive: He makes jokes to Eddie about him working for toons not realizing that his brother has been killed by one of 'em. When he learns about it he's visibly stunned.
977* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be obnoxious at times, but he ultimately proves to not be a bad guy as stated above.
978[[/folder]]
979
980[[folder:Teddy Valiant]]
981[[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4765436564564536.png]]
982!!!'''Portrayed by''': Eugene Gutierrez
983
984Eddie's late brother and partner at Valiant & Valiant who was murdered by a toon.
985----
986* CynicismCatalyst: Teddy's murder started Eddie's descent into the bitter, alcoholic, and toon-hating wreck he is at the start of the film. Worse yet, the toon that did it got away with it, denying Eddie any kind of closure.
987* HeroicSacrifice: The extent of their injuries (Teddy being crushed but Eddie only getting his arm broken) imply Teddy pushed his brother out of the way of the falling piano.
988* NonIronicClown: He and Eddie were part of a clown act with their father.
989* PianoDrop: He was instantly killed during an investigation in Toontown when an insane toon dropped a piano on him and Eddie from the top of a 12-story building.
990* PosthumousCharacter: He is only shown in photographs, but Eddie and Dolores clearly miss him a great deal.
991* SatelliteFamilyMember: To Eddie. Teddy's death at the hands of a red eyed toon made Eddie into a bitter alcoholic with a hatred for toons.
992* SiblingTeam: Eddie and Teddy worked together their entire lives, from doing a stage act as clowns with their father as kids, joining the L.A.P.D. together as adults, and finally starting a private detective agency focused on helping toons.
993* TragicKeepsake: Eddie keeps Teddy's desk untouched to preserve his memory. He is very angry when Roger tries to sit in Teddy's chair.
994* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Judge Doom is the toon who murdered Teddy, although Eddie does not find this out until the climax. Dissolving Doom in his own dip at least allows him to get revenge for Teddy's murder.]]
995[[/folder]]
996
997!! The Mastermind
998[[index]]
999* [[Characters/WhoFramedRogerRabbitJudgeDoom Judge Doom]]
1000[[/index]]
1001!! Comic-Only Characters
1002[[folder:Rick Flint]]
1003
1004A human PrivateDetective and former cop whom Eddie refers Roger to. Takes Eddie's place in the ''Roger Rabbit'' comics.
1005----
1006* AudienceSurrogate: For readers that didn't see the movie, he acts as a LogicalLatecomer to the world of toons.
1007* BadgesAndDogTags: He's a former Marine as well as an ex-cop.
1008* BlueIsHeroic: He's most commonly seen wearing blue from head to toe. [[JustifiedTrope Makes sense,]] given he used to be a Marine and a cop.
1009* ByTheBookCop: Back when he was on the force.
1010* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: While Eddie was a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and [[FantasticRacism biased against toons]] but familiar with their culture, Rick is a NiceGuy who has nothing against toons but is new to their world. Also Eddie is heavy-set while Flint is ''very'' conventionally attractive.
1011* GentlemanSnarker: A big difference between him and Eddie is that when Rick snarks, he almost never drops his usual polite demeanor.
1012-->'''Rick:''' You'll ''forgive'' me if I don't beg for an ''autograph.''
1013* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blond and very morally upright.
1014* LogicalLatecomer: He's not exactly familiar with how toons are, but he's a pretty fast learner.
1015-->'''Roger:''' You just don't understand ''toons,'' Rick. We live to ''entertain!'' All we ''need'' is a little ''attention!''
1016* SharpDressedMan: He keeps his clothes in much better condition than Eddie ever did.
1017* SpearCounterpart: For Jessica as the OnlySaneMan and voice of reason.
1018* StraightMan: Arguably a [[{{Pun}} straighter]] example than Eddie.
1019* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Eddie Valiant, as the writers of the comic didn't have the rights to Bob Hoskins's likeness.
1020[[/folder]]
1021
1022[[folder:The weasel trio]]
1023
1024A trio of toon weasels who are the Toon Patrol's brothers and Judge Doom's new henchmen. They only appear in the graphic novel sequel.
1025----
1026* TheDragon: The leader of the trio takes over as Doom's new right-hand man after the death of Smart Ass.
1027* RevengeByProxy: The trio want to resurrect Doom just so they can get revenge on Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit for causing the deaths of the Toon Patrol and the first demise of their boss. Especially for ruining their plans in conquering and then destroying Toontown to build a freeway and get rich.
1028[[/folder]]
1029
1030[[folder:C.B. Maroon]]
1031
1032R.K. Maroon's identical twin brother, who inherits Maroon Cartoons after his brother's death and continues on as its CEO in ''The Resurrection of Doom'' and the following comic series.
1033----
1034* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Both Roger and Eddie initially mistake him for R.K. Maroon, as he looks completely identical. Personality-wise, though, he's [[SiblingYinYang very different]].
1035* HonestCorporateExecutive: Unlike his brother, he doesn't get involved in shady deals and has a far more solid sense of morals.
1036* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To a far bigger extent than his brother. He may have a low tolerance for nonsense then it comes to filming, but he genuinely tries to look out for those in his employ.
1037* SiblingYinYang: Apart from his appearance, the only thing he really has in common with his late twin brother is that they both liked and appreciated toons. Where R.K Maroon was a CorruptCorporateExecutive and ManipulativeBastard who got up to shady things and wasn't above using his employees as pawns, C.B is an honest ReasonableAuthorityFigure who may grumble but makes sure to be fair to his employees.
1038[[/folder]]

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