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6	->''A note to my clients:''
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8	->''Roger Rabbit and his screwball buddies play fast and loose with historical accuracy. That's the way things happen in Toontown. Take it from a guy who's been there. Relax, hang on, and enjoy the ride.''
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10	-->''Eddie Valiant''\
11	''Private Eye''\
12	''Los Angeles, California''
13	-->''1947, more or less''
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15	An {{urban fantasy}} novel by [[Creator/GaryWolf Gary K. Wolf]], originally published in 1981.
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17	Eddie Valiant is a private detective in a world where cartoon characters--called "Toons"--are real, living beings who coexist with humans. Although he [[FantasticRacism strongly dislikes Toons]], Eddie accepts a case from a Toon rabbit named Roger, a small-time cartoon actor, who wants to know why his boss, Rocco [=DeGreasy=], won't sell his contract to a mystery buyer who promises to make him a star.
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19	As Eddie investigates the case, Roger is unexpectedly shot dead and robbed of a seemingly worthless tea kettle. Eddie is then met with Roger's "doppelganger"--a kind of ghostly double that Toons are able to manifest to help with their more difficult stunts (such as being flattened by an anvil or blown up by a stick of dynamite)--who implores him to find his killer before he crumbles to dust. Meanwhile, [=DeGreasy=] and Roger's estranged wife Jessica independently approach Eddie, offering handsome rewards in exchange for the missing kettle.
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21	The novel is an affectionate parody of both Chandleresque [[HardBoiledDetective hard-boiled detective]] fiction and classic comic strips and cartoons, frequently highlighting the former's cheesiness (especially via Eddie's over-the-top gumshoe patois) and the latter's gruesomeness and violence. Its more famous film adaptation, ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', made several radical changes to the story, making it much {{lighter and softer}}.
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23	It has two sequels, ''Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?'' and ''Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?'' Curiously, they're both sequels to the movie, not the original novel, even though both were written by Wolf himself. They're also [[NegativeContinuity mutually exclusive]], to mimic the loose continuity of the classic cartoons that inspired it.
24	The prequel, ''Jessica Rabbit: Xerious Business'' has even less continuity.
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27	!!This series contains examples of:
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29	* AffectionateParody: of {{Comics}}, WesternAnimation, and FilmNoir
30	* TheAlcoholic: Unlike the film, Eddie doesn't cure himself of it, nor does he feel he needs to, either.
31	* TheAlibi: [[spoiler:Roger's doppel was sent out to buy suspenders in the middle of the night with a high denomination bill]] to give his original one for the time of the murder.
32	* AllJustADream: The entire plot of the (no-longer-canon) first book is {{retcon}}ned into Jessica's dream in the second book.
33	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Crossovers, Toons that can pass for human.
34	* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The ending of the second book.]]
35	* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Well, it's technically Roger's doppleganger who attends disguised as his aunt, but still.
36	* AuthorAvatar: That's Mr. Wolf portraying Eddie on the cover.
37	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
38	** [[spoiler: The genie will grant you your wishes, in a technical sense. Roger wanted to be famous - fine, but he'll always be a second banana. He also wanted Jessica to love him - he gets it, but for only a year.]]
39	** [[spoiler: The genie also did this to Rocco and Dominick, who both wished to become humans and then to become rich and successful; when their fortune inevitably started running out, they began searching for the kettle again so that they could use their respective third wishes to fix all the reversals.]]
40	* BelligerentSexualTension: Eddie and Carol in the first book. She and Eddie have the same cynical potboiler attitudes, and seem like a match. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she ends up on the lam due to an unraveling forgery scheme.]]
41	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Carol. Eddie initially scoffs at the idea of her being a murderess, until he remembers her jungle cat personality and eyes.
42	* BittersweetEnding: The first book.
43	-->[[spoiler: I looked up at the sky. It was one of those rare days when the Earth revolves a little faster and shoos away the smog. You could see a long way, but not half as far as Roger had gone.]]
44	* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: When Roger's doppel finally starts disintegrating.]]
45	* ByTheBookCop: Toon police Captain "Clever" Cleaver.
46	* CanonDiscontinuity: As mentioned above, the sequels are sequels to the film adaptation.
47	* CanonImmigrant: [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Dolores and Benny the Cab]] make cameo appearances in the second book, and Teddy Valiant is also mentioned.
48	* CargoEnvy: Jessica's cigarettes tend to inspire this.
49	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Roger Rabbit, in all but his first-book incarnation, and even then, he's seeing a psychiatrist and acts nutty around Eddie. When Eddie tells Carol that Roger is a bit unhinged, she explodes back, "Of ''course'' he is! He's a ''cartoon bunny''!"
50	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The [=DeGreasy=] Brothers, and millionaire Hollywood exec "Big Bull" Topman.
51	* CrazySane: Inverted. Though there's plenty of Toons that seem reasonable, like Jessica or Willy Prosciutto, many are wacky and require therapy - a mentally unstable toon behaves normally and rationally.
52	* CreepyCrossdresser: Sid Sleaze. He claims it's only a disguise to avoid protesters, but his not-so-subtle flirting with Eddie undermines that claim.
53	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Eddie.
54	* DeconstructionCrossover: Quite possibly, the UrExample.
55	* DetectivePatsy: [[spoiler:Roger]] tries to do this to Eddie in the first book. In the final chapter, Eddie admits that the plan would have worked were it not for two things that [[spoiler:Roger]] had no way of seeing coming - [[spoiler:an unraveling art forgery scam causing unexpected witnesses to be present at the murder scene, and Roger's teapot containing a homicidal genie.]]
56	* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: In the second book, Roger wakes Eddie up when he summons a few Disneyesque birds to sing outside the bedroom window. Eddie isn't amused.
57	* DisposableDecoyDoppelganger: Toons in this novel lack ToonPhysics and instead have the ability to clone themselves as a Dopple to take physical punishment their original selves couldn't, with the Dopple dying a few hours later. [[spoiler:Roger uses this ability to create a Dopple with enough energy to perfectly mimic him for 48 hours, providing him a perfect alibi when he kills his boss Rocco [=DeGreasy=]. However, things go awry when the original Roger is killed, leaving the Dopple to "help" Eddie solve Rocco's murder, though Eddie does figure out the original Roger was the killer.]]
58	* ADogNamedDog: In the third book Eddie gets a cute Toon puppy, which he names "Mutt" because it's clearly not pedigree.
59	* DrowningMySorrows: Eddie's response to pretty much any problem that comes up. (Admittedly, he drinks a lot anyway.) In the second book, Roger tries it after [[spoiler:he finds out that Jessica is philandering]], and Eddie notes that there are whole bars meant just for catering to this kind of difficulty.
60	* DyingClue:
61	** Toons create word balloons when they speak (unless they consciously choose not to). A word balloon containing Roger's final words is found at the scene of the crime, but it's ambiguous without knowing the way the words were said.
62	** In the sequel, the same thing happens when [[spoiler:Enigman]] dies.
63	* TheEighties: The first book seems to take place in TheEighties, with several references to it.
64	* EvilPlan: Well, this ''is'' a parody of detective stories...
65	* EvilTwin: Dodger Rabbit.
66	* ExpospeakGag: Delancey Duck gets one in the second book.
67	* {{Expy}}:
68	** [[spoiler: The magic lamp/teakettle from the first book is one for ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon\|1941}}'', a MacGuffin that is literally the stuff dreams are made of.]]
69	** Poopdeck the Pirate, an incidental toon character. He is described as having "ape-arms," getting his strength from spinach, and playing jolly sea shanties on his corncob pipe. Hmm... [[Franchise/{{Popeye}} sounds awfully familiar.]] However, 'Poopdeck' Pappy is also Popeye's real father, so maybe more of a LawyerFriendlyCameo?
70	** Roger himself is an {{Expy}} for Bugs Bunny.
71	** In ''Who Wacked Roger Rabbit,'' the Disney-exclusive characters from the movie have been replaced by Expies in order to avoid legal problems -- such as Charlie Cycle, the tough-talking motorcycle, who's an obvious stand in for Benny the Cab.
72	* FallGuy: [[spoiler: Eddie, if Roger's plan succeeded.]]
73	* FamilyThemeNaming: In the second book, Eddie's siblings are named Teddy, Freddy and Heddy. Heddy, said to have taken after her mother as far as theme-naming goes, named ''all three'' of her sons after their dad.
74	* FantasticNoir: Possibly the {{Trope Maker\|s}}.
75	* FantasticRacism:
76	** Toons are heavily discriminated against; one scene in the first book has Eddie and Roger having difficulties finding a good meeting spot, since bars are either human-only or toon-only, resulting in a {{Deconstruction}}. It is also revealed that in this world, toons have fulfilled the roles that certain non-white minorities have fallen into in ours, such as building the railroads. Captain Cleaver is a Toon police detective, but still has to defer to his human counterparts, despite having the same rank.
77	** The film adaptation either glosses over or outright retcons the institutional racism in the first book. For example, Toontown is not some happy, cheerful cartoon world, but a down-ridden slum that receives no support from Los Angeles.
78	** Toons themselves are divided into humanoid Toons and "barnyards". Humanoid Toons almost exclusively date other Humanoids, and even date humans. Barnyards are treated as an underclass in Toon society.
79	* FemmeFatale: Jessica Rabbit.
80	* FourFingeredHands: {{Justified\|Trope}} in the second book; apparently, it's more common than not for Toons to lose fingers in dynamite accidents.
81	* GenderEqualsBreed: At the end of Book 2 Jessica ends up having a baby boy bunny, a humanoid toon girl, and a baby boy that looks suspiciously like Baby Herman (or might be Herman playing a prank on Eddie). This is, of course, totally ignored in Book 3.
82	* GoodIsNotNice: Eddie. He's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, despite his insistence he's a plain {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler: It's his IncorruptiblePurePureness that allows him to resist the genie's magic.]]
83	* GoshDangItToHeck:
84	** Ferd, Eddie's brother-in-law in the second book, constantly delivers speeches that would qualify as [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F-Bombs]] if he didn't replace said F-bombs with ''really weird'' nonsense words ''beginning'' with "f". Not surprising, since he ''is'' a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Toon]].
85	** In the first book, Roger blurts out an obscenity, but crosses it out in his word balloon and replaces it with "Widdle". He does it because of his instinctive FamilyFriendly Filter.
86	* GrowingTheBeard: [[invoked]] Roger's doppel becomes quite the PI under Eddie's tutelage. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, not only was Roger the murderer, but his doppel disintegrated after 48 hours.]]
87	* HalfHumanHybrid: Played with. [[spoiler:Little Rock is human, because his Toon father was magically human when he was conceived.]]
88	* HandshakeRefusal: At one point Eddie declines to shake hands with a beetle-like Toon, though this is less out of rudeness and more because the beetle is offering him four hands at once.
89	* HardboiledDetective: Eddie Valiant.
90	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Any of the movie stars appearing in the second book. Third book featured Gary Cooper as the major supporting protagonist.
91	* HonorBeforeReason: Eddie had every right to drop Roger's case, especially after he's killed, but resolves to see it through because he feels it was ''his'' fault that Roger got offed.
92	* HumanityEnsues: A major plot point in the second book is a substance called "[[AppliedPhlebotinum Toon Tonic]]", which can [[spoiler:transform humans into Toons and vice-versa. Roger brews himself some and becomes a red-haired, pale-skinned, large-eared man, adjusting rather awkwardly to changes such as [[FourFingeredHands the fact that he now has five fingers]] and no longer produces speech balloons]]; this can be considered a weird sort of InkSuitActor example, since that describes Creator/CharlesFleischer.
93	* HurricaneOfPuns: Plenty. For instance, in "Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?", the narration of the scene in which Eddie Valiant visits Delancey Duck's office is overflowing with duck puns. A few examples:
94	** Delancey got his degree at Drake.
95	** When Delancey gets up, he "duck-walks" around the room.
96	** Eddie accuses Delancey's protégé of "following in the foot webs of the master," and asks her why Delancey "took her under [his] wing."
97	** When Delancey spreads his tail feathers, he becomes "a dead ringer for the centerpiece at the signing of the Declaration Of Independence."
98	* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Jocellyn, Jessica's identical twin, looks exactly the same as her... [[spoiler: except she's only 6 inches tall]]. Eddie even reluctantly gets into a platonic relationship with Jo.
99	* ILied: The rare ''heroic'' version, by Eddie [[spoiler: when he dunks the genie in a salt water fish tank, which is lethal to it, ''after'' the genie conjured up a false but realistic confession note by one of the [=DeGreasy=] brothers claiming he'd killed Roger.]]
100	* InterspeciesRomance: Of course, Roger's and Jessica's romance only ''looks'' like one; Toons take radically different shapes, but they're a species unto themselves. A more straight example would be Jessica's affairs and flirtations with various human characters. Humans and toons can't conceive, however. [[spoiler: Rocco [=DeGreasey=] had a boy, Little Rock, with a human woman, though at the time, he was turned human by a genie for a year. In the second book, [[CanonDiscontinuity Eddie's sister Heddy is married to a Toon and they have three children]]]].
101	* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler: After Eddie reveals that he ''knew'' Roger was the murderer and still helped him out, Roger's doppel replies:]]
102	-->[[spoiler: "So, while I played dumb with you, you played the sap for me." The rabbit uncorked a smile, but I'd seen better on a dead dog. "You're a decent human being, Eddie. What is it you private eyes call it? A standup guy."]]
103	* JackassGenie: [[spoiler:Roger found one, and it ultimately causes his death.]]
104	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eddie Valiant and Baby Herman.
105	* KickTheDog: Done ''literally'', and as an EstablishingCharacterMoment, by Louie Louie Louse in the third book.
106	* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Roger.]] Unfortunately for Jessica, whom everyone believes killed him because he died saying her name.
107	* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Several famous cartoon characters, such as Bugs Bunny, are mentioned throughout the first novel.
108	* LivingOnBorrowedTime / YourDaysAreNumbered: Roger's doppelganger can only last 72 hours, at most. [[spoiler: Ironically, his death is a TearJerker even after we learn he was a murderer and trying to frame Eddie for it.]]
109	* LighterAndSofter: The sequels are both this and DenserAndWackier to the original book.
110	* MacGuffin: Roger's teakettle, which everyone is after. According to Jessica, it is actually an ancient Templar relic made of pure gold with precious stones. [[spoiler: It is a lie; in reality, the teakettle is a magic lamp with a JackassGenie.]]
111	* ManipulativeBitch / IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Jessica, in full FemmeFatale form.
112	* MeaningfulName: Frequently.
113	* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover:
114	** Many luminaries of both live-action and animated film make appearances in the series. Some notable examples include [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Clark Gable, David O. Selznick, Vivien Leigh]], Carole Lombard, Alfred Hitchcock, [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse]], ComicStrip/DickTracy, Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible, [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner]] . In the third book, Roger lives in WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's old home in Toontown, sub-leasing the place after Bugs got "a much deeper hole" on the Warner Brothers lot.
115	** The first book also gets into the act, with ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible (and his "photographer" Dik Browne) and ComicStrip/DickTracy, as well as mentions of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny becoming a big star after winning an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward (referring to the sole short won by Bugs, ''Knighty Knight Bugs''.)
116	* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Roger's BerserkButton. Unfortunately, not only is Jessica Rabbit a porn star [[spoiler: when not enchanted by a genie to love him and be a good wife]], but she ''loves'' doing porn.
117	** The sequels to the movie mostly rectify that... but while Jess genuinely loves Roger in them, she remains a flirt and she offers SuspiciouslySpecificDenials about her relationship with various celebs.
118	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Eddie suffers a bout of serious regret when he realizes that because he didn't take the rabbit's claims someone was trying to murder him seriously, Roger got killed. [[spoiler:This actually turns out to be unjustified, as Eddie's initial conclusion that the murder attempts were faked was in fact correct - the actual killer was someone neither he nor Roger even knew existed until the murder happened, and did it for reasons only tangentially related to the case.]]
119	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The founders of the ''Toontown Telltale'': Sleazy, Slimy, Dreck and Profane. Then you have [=DeGreasey=] Brothers in the first book.
120	* NobleBigotWithABadge: Well, Eddie's ''not'' a policeman, but he really doesn't like Toons at all. He grows to like Roger [[spoiler: even after figuring out Roger was trying to set him up for the fall.]]
121	* NotGrowingUpSucks: Some Toons age normally, but others can't--Baby Herman, for example.
122	* ObfuscatingInsanity: [[spoiler:Roger in the first book. When Eddie finally reveals he knew Roger was lying the entire time about being a murderer, the tone in Roger's voice changes, and you can ''feel'' the TranquilFury about wanting Rocco dead, and how his plans for framing Eddie fell apart. When asked by Eddie if the detective deserved to be an innocent dupe and FallGuy, Roger darkly sighs, "Oh, how you ''tire'' me." All of Roger's lunacy had partly been a put on by a guy (even if a bunny) pushed to his limits by Rocco and the world as created by the genie.]]
123	* OccamsRazor: In the first book, Eddie invokes the Duck Test ("if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck") [[spoiler:at Roger. Three witnesses put him at the scene of the crime holding the murder weapon, he was ID'ed by the gun seller, he publicly threatened to kill the victim, the gun was found in his bedroom and had his fingerprints on it, and his doppelganger lasted far longer than the usual hour or two. There was no elaborate frame-up, which is why Roger didn't pursue clues with any diligence in the [=DeGreasy=] case -- they'd lead back to him.]]
124	* OddCouple: Roger (cheery, silly, and naive) and Eddie (serious, no-nonsense, and street-smart), in the second and third book and the movie.
125	* OlderThanTheyLook: Baby Herman, who resembles an infant but is, in fact, thirty-six years old.
126	* OnlySaneMan: Tadbitty Stifles, a hapless human dramatic actor and part-time bodyguard to Big Bull Topman's wayward son.
127	%%* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: See [[spoiler: Obfuscating Insanity.]]
128	* OurFounder: the founders of the ''Toontown Telltale'', a gossip tabloid.
129	* PassFail: [[spoiler: The [=DeGreasys=].]]
130	* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Characters like Rocco and Jessica both claim Roger has no talent at all, and since we never see any of his work save a brief appearance in a Baby Herman strip, it's easy to take them at their word. However, near the end of the book, Little Rock (Rocco's son) and Sid Sleaze both gush about how talented Roger is, the latter doing it front of Roger's doppel, so at least he dies knowing that he was right that people wanted him to star in his own strip, and that he really did have the stuff to be a lead.]]
131	* PhonyDegree: Well, Phony Detective Licence in Eddie Valiant's case. While the first two books and the movie establish him as a legit experienced detective, in the third book he claims that his badge is fake and he essentially got his license for sending a drawing to a 'correspondence course'.
132	* PorkyPigPronunciation:
133	** Averted in the first book. In the film-inspired sequels, Roger Rabbit stammers his p's, a quality given to him in [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit the film adaptation]] so he would be more like the characters from the golden age of animation. After this, the author carried over the quality onto his subsequent written work, as well as some of his more {{Cloudcuckoolander}}-ish tendencies. (He was originally written as paranoid and neurotic, but still very sharp-minded.)
134	** Roger's [[EvilTwin cousin]] Dodger stammers his D's instead. This is the only distinguishing quality between them, other than the fact that Dodger combs his hair to the side, which according to Roger makes them totally different.
135	* PurpleProse: The first novel was a parody of 1940's potboilers, [[http://www.avclub.com/article/book-vs-film-iwho-framed-roger-rabbiti-8568 so it's filled to the gill with cheesy metaphors.]]
136	* RaceLift: Roger is a ''brown'' bunny in the first book (even calling himself "The Great Brown Hope" at one point.) The movie and sequels turn him white.
137	%%* ReallyGetsAround: Jessica.
138	* RunForTheBorder: [[spoiler:Carol]] is fleeing town because of her involvement with the art forgery scheme. She flirts with Eddie briefly, telling him if he's such a good detective, he could use his skills to find her address without her help. Eddie grins in response.
139	* ShipTease: Eddie and Carol do a healthy bit of flirting, and it seems like if the Roger Rabbit case didn't exist, they'd be a twosome.
140	* ShortLivedOrganism: The lifespan of a Toon's doppel is dependent on how much effort they put into creating one. Since Toons usually use them as stunt doubles in dangerous shoots, it's unusual for one to last more than an hour or so. [[spoiler:The fact that Roger's doppel is still around, if in bad shape, two days after Roger's death suggests that he was created for something far more important than a late-night shopping run as originally claimed.]]
141	* ShoutOutToShakespeare: [[spoiler:The Genie claims he's rather proud of the cursed wish he gave to Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet.]] Interestingly, it implies that the couple were Toons.
142	* {{Sidekick}}: Roger isn't sure if he's Eddie's sidekick or if Eddie is ''his'' sidekick. (He seems to use "sidekick" merely as a term of endearment.)
143	* SmugSnake: Hiram Toner, the art fence, who doesn't care if Eddie rats him out to the police, presumably because he has the police in his pocket.
144	* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Carol turns out to be the person who removed the teakettle from Roger's house after his murder, having no knowledge of its significance, and ended up inadvertently foiling multiple other characters' attempts to steal it back; this also gets the teakettle into Eddie's hands before any of the others searching for it figure out where it is.]]
145	* SpeciesSurname:
146	** Before meeting Jessica Rabbit, Eddie assumes that she's a Toon rabbit. Turns out that "Rabbit" is her married name via Roger Rabbit and she's a humanoid Toon. The trope is also frequently used for background characters --Dodger Rabbit, Carbuncle Chameleon, Delancey Duck, etc. --in the tradition of Golden Age cartoons.
147	** Eddie thinks Sid Sleaze is a Toon because of his name. Roger dismisses that and tells him that his real name is Sid Baumgartner; "Sleaze" is just an industry name.
148	* SpeechBubbles: They literally appear above the toons as physical objects. One bubble becomes a piece of evidence in Roger's murder.
149	* SuperDrowningSkills: Delancey Duck can't even remotely swim. He mentions that just because WesternAnimation/{{Donald\|Duck}} and WesternAnimation/{{Daffy\|Duck}} can do it doesn't mean all ducks can.
150	* SupremeChef: Roger in the first book. He casually makes ratatoille that Eddie can't help but eat three servings of, and tops it off with perfect coffee and homemade Boston creme pie.
151	* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler: Roger, in the first book.]]
152	* TalksLikeASimile: Eddie Valiant.
153	* TheyWalkAmongUs: The Toons.
154	* ToonTown: The titular district, home to the Toon community. Offhandedly mentioned in the first book, a key setting in the second. In the third book most action takes place there - but while it was implied to simply be a ghetto, in the third book it's more like a toon world.
155	* ToothyBird: Delancey Duck in the second book.
156	* UglyGuyHotWife: Roger and Jessica.
157	* UndyingLoyalty: Carol Masters is the only one to stick up for Roger, through thick and thin. She even admits when she thought Roger was the murderer, she'd continue to help him in any way, even illegally. It's mentioned that she's an activist for Toon rights in general.
158	* UngratefulBitch: Jessica, even when Eddie tells her Roger asked him to take her on as a client to prevent her from being jailed. Part of it is that she is prejudiced against "barnyard" toons, but also [[spoiler:she was forced to marry him and act like the good wife by a magical spell, [[AndIMustScream and could do nothing about it]].]]
159	* UnusualEars: Subverted. Roger has typical rabbit ears because, well, he's a rabbit. However, Eddie notes Roger is 6 foot tall -- if you count for his 18" ears.
160	%% * UnusualEuphemism
161	%% * UrbanFantasy
162	* VerbalTic: Eddie's sister Heddy says "Hi-de-ho-ho-ho" a lot (and, it turns out, his brother Freddy as well).
163	* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Roger was the original murderer, and had intended to frame Eddie Valiant. Unfortunately, a genie killed Roger before he could finish his plan.]]
164	* VitriolicBestBuds: Eddie and Roger. Especially noticeable in the third book, where Roger enthusiastically calls Eddie his best friend, while Eddie makes no secret that he ''really'' doesn't like Roger.
165	* WhodunnitToMe: The first book, ''and HOW.''
166	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Sid Baumgartner thinks of himself this way. In truth, he a duplicitous porn producer who flirts with Eddie while in drag.
167	* WorldOfPun: Toontown becomes this in Book 3. Eddie knows that Toon criminals literally launder money - because in Toontown everything can talk, including bills. Therefore gangsters soak the money in booze so that if forgets that it has been stolen - then give it a literal washing to get rid of the smell. Eddie is frustrated whenever he understands how Toontown works, because it means that he is now thinking like a Toon.
168	* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Eddie gives Jessica a "love tap" that knocks her out when she's too clingy to the magic lantern / teakettle. At that point, she deserved it.]]
169	* YeOldeButcheredEnglish: [[spoiler:How the Genie speaks, despite being Arabic. Justified, in that he has to speak with English speakers.]]
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