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8->''"Some people call me cocky and brash, but actually I am just self-assured. I'm nonchalant, imperturbable, contemplative. I play it cool, but I can get hot under the collar. And above all I'm a very 'aware' character. I'm well aware that I am appearing in an animated cartoon... And sometimes I chomp on my carrot for the same reason that a stand-up comic chomps on his cigar. It saves me from rushing from the last joke to the next one too fast. And I sometimes don't act, I react. And I always treat the contest with my pursuers as 'fun and games'. When momentarily I appear to be cornered or in dire danger and I scream, don't be consoined [sic] -- it's actually a big put-on. Let's face it, Doc. I've read the script and I already know how it turns out."''
9-->-- '''Creator/BobClampett''', writing as Bugs.
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11Bugs Bunny is the modern American trickster and easily the biggest star of the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies]] cartoons and [[Franchise/LooneyTunes their related works]]. The only rival of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, he's inarguably one of ''the'' most famous cartoon characters in the world and an icon of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. This character as a FunnyAnimal is found in many cultures' mythologies, including Literature/ReynardTheFox, Anansi the spider, Native American spirit Coyote, and Bugs' great-grandfather, [[Film/SongOfTheSouth Br'er Rabbit]]. Bugs is specifically a KarmicTrickster: harmless when left alone, but gleefully ready to dish out poetic justice whenever he perceives the need. There is an element of education in his revenge.
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13Like many of his peers, Bugs' origins are unclear. Before him, Creator/TheMarxBrothers were the premier American tricksters, and traces of their influence can be found in many of his best known mannerisms. (In fact, many people [[ParodyDisplacement aren't aware]] that Bugs' saying, "Of course you realize, ''dis'' means ''war!''" originated in films such as ''Film/DuckSoup'' and ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''.)
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15More directly, shy, timid prey unexpectedly turning on the pursuer was a common theme at the Creator/WarnerBros animation studios in the early days -- WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck made his debut in the same way. Director Ben "Bugs" Hardaway introduced the notion of this character as a "scwewy wabbit" in "WesternAnimation/PorkysHareHunt" (1938). His name derives either from Hardaway's -- model sheets were said to have been tagged with "Bugs' Bunny" -- or the contemporary Brooklyn slang "bugs", meaning "crazy". Or both.
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17The proto-Bugs in "Porky's Hare Hunt" was basically WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker as a rabbit. After a few further early appearances where the design and characterization were modified (with the bunny notably gaining grey fur in Hardaway's "Hare-Um Scare-Um" from 1939), it's generally accepted by all parties that the smart, suave, on-the-ball wabbit we know and love today took his full official form in Creator/TexAvery's "WesternAnimation/AWildHare" (1940). Creator/ChuckJones later made him more sympathetic by giving Bugs that iconic attitude of live-and-let-live, right up until he's just that ''one step'' too far, and then it's war -- "at which point [he] retaliates in every way he can imagine, and he is a very imaginative rabbit."
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19The job of any trickster, but especially the American type, is to think the thoughts and do the things that they say can't be thought or done. He's most likely to be found disturbing the complacency of his culture, or deflating the pompousness of its symbols. Since Bugs is also a comedy hero, he has the added advantage of PlotArmor that could stop an armor-piercing round.
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21His influence on modern American culture, like that of all the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes characters, has been far-reaching to the point of ubiquity. For obvious reasons, though, Bugs is the favorite, especially in the theatrical years, getting more shorts than any of his co-stars, with a impressive 168 titles under his belt[[note]] Not counting cameos and the four "proto-Bugs" cartoons[[/note]]. Naturally, he has spawned several imitators over the years, notably direct descendant Buster Bunny of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' and Yakko, Wakko and Dot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' -- although these last three skew more heavily toward ThePrankster.
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23In 2011, Bugs starred in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', having given up his nomadic roots and rabbit holes in favor of an average suburb, shared with co-star WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. In 2015, a new series starring Bugs--''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'', later renamed ''New Looney Tunes''--debuted on Creator/CartoonNetwork. In 2020, a back-to-their-roots series, ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'', debuted on Creator/HBOMax. Bugs' next project was the 2022 EdutainmentShow ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyBuilders'', in which he heads a construction company that serves the city of Looneyburg.
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29[[folder: Filmography]]
30!1938
31* WesternAnimation/PorkysHareHunt (LT, Hardaway): First appearance of the Bugs Bunny prototype. Here, he is a tiny, pudgy white rabbit with a WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}-esque rural accent, who, in Ben Hardaway's words, was "WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck in a rabbit suit." Naturally, this prototype is [[CharacterizationMarchesOn far different]] from the Bugs we all know and love, being a heckler, but with a touch of [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] thrown into the mixing pot. This character at the least provided a foundation for the character of the Bugs we know. This prototype is also very similar to the earliest incarnations of WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker, who Ben Hardaway also helped write for.
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33!1939
34* Prest-O Change-O (MM, Jones): Second sighting of the prototype, who has taken up residence in the house of the magician Sham-Fu, and heckles the poor pups who he encounters for no discernible motive. He has become slightly taller and slimmer at this point. Bugs' trademark ability to have objects come out of nowhere is presented here for the first time, although in the context of him being a magician's rabbit. The prototype is silent here, save for his laugh. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
35* Hare-Um Scare-um (MM, Hardaway/Dalton): Where Bugs is officially named as Bugs' Bunny--note the possessive term, which appeared on the model sheet prepared by Charles Thorson. He is still manic, but has now grown in size and sprouted grey fur and an apricot muzzle, looking closer to the Bugs we know. His HammerSpace ability is revisited, now presented in a non-magical context. He also hams it up with some sarcastic mock-pathos, which would be echoed in ''WesternAnimation/AWildHare'' and ''The Wabbit Who Came To Supper''. This short is also infamous for having a lost ending that was cut out of most original prints, but has been found and included in ''Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Vol. 2''.
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37!1940
38[[index]]
39* WesternAnimation/ElmersCandidCamera (MM, Jones): Debut of Elmer Fudd. Bugs is almost fully realized as a character by this point, with his original ThePrankster traits played down in favor of being more reserved and in control than before, but his character is still very underplayed. That aside, he still has some of his unmotivated heckler self left in him, pestering poor Elmer (who was just taking pictures) to the point where he has a nervous breakdown. Creator/ChuckJones himself was not happy with this short, saying the rabbit was "Bugs with his umbilical cord in his hand looking for a place to plug it in" and that it should only be watched "if you are dying to die of ennui."
40* WesternAnimation/AWildHare (MM, Avery) - Starring Elmer. Official debut of the fully realized Bugs Bunny. This short is a semi-remake of "Elmer's Candid Camera", but improves in what Creator/TexAvery felt was flawed about "Camera"--such as only making Bugs a defensive character who reacts to a threat and plays off of villainous Elmer's stupidity. Oscar nominee.
41[[/index]]
42* Patient Porky (LT, Clampett): A rabbit pops up for a gag in the first couple minutes, looking ''very'' close to Bugs' final design, but still having the manicness and laugh of the proto-Bugs.
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44!1941
45
46* Elmer's Pet Rabbit (MM, Jones): Creator/ChuckJones' first short with Bugs, and the first one to actually give his name. In this short he has an ''extremely'' foul temper and a horrible personality, both of which were hurriedly dropped afterwards. He also had a distinctly different voice in this short, sounding more like a yokel than the New York accent that he would be famous for (and which was previously introduced in "A Wild Hare").
47[[index]]
48* WesternAnimation/TortoiseBeatsHare (MM, Avery): The first of the three "Bugs Vs. Cecil" shorts. Chuck Jones considers this a failure, feeling that Tex had swapped Bugs' in-control, defensive personality in favor of making him the loser ala Elmer Fudd while giving Cecil Turtle Bugs' personality (but technically, it did show us a whole different side of Bugs than before).
49* WesternAnimation/HiawathasRabbitHunt (MM, Freleng): Creator/FrizFreleng's first effort with Bugs. Here, he is presented as rather passive, at least in contrast with the previous shorts. Oscar nominee.
50[[/index]]
51* WesternAnimation/TheHecklingHare (MM, Avery): The cartoon that caused Avery to leave Leon's cartoon studio [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons to make cartoons for MGM]]. With that said, Avery finally managed to nail Bugs' defensive personality again, capturing what made him such a hit in "A Wild Hare".
52[[index]]
53* WesternAnimation/AllThisAndRabbitStew (MM, Avery, uncredited): One of the "WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven" [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
54* WesternAnimation/WabbitTwouble (MM, Cwampett) - Starring the Fat Elmer. Creator/BobClampett's first Bugs Bunny. It is rumored that this cartoon was started by Tex Avery but finished by Clampett, backed up by the fact that Tex and Bob planned it together early on. Here, Bugs goes right back to being a VillainProtagonist, pestering poor Elmer (solely because he set up camp in Bugs' territory). But wheras the earlier Bugs were fairly aggressive in their pestering, Clampett presents Bugs as going about it in a more playful, confident way, as if a nod to that Bugs knows exactly what he's doing, so in a sense, he's certainly not too OutOfCharacter here. Also notable for being the origin of the “Big Chungus” meme.
55[[/index]]
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57!1942
58[[index]]
59* WesternAnimation/TheWabbitWhoCameToSupper (MM, Freleng) - Starring the Fat Elmer. Again, Bugs is more defensive here than usual, but his in-control persona still kicks up, manipulating Elmer into caring for him. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
60[[/index]]
61* WesternAnimation/TheWackyWabbit (MM, Clampett) - Starring the Fat Elmer. Again, Bugs is a VillainProtagonist, but is still very playful. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
62* Hold the Lion, Please (MM, Jones): A very bizarre take on the Bugs Bunny shorts, with Bugs having his vague personality, but little of what made him so popular in previous shorts, a clear testament to that Jones still didn't have a full grasp of his character.
63[[index]]
64* WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyGetsTheBoid (MM, Clampett): Debut of Beaky/Killer the Buzzard. Unlike Clampett's previous shorts, Bugs is back to being a defensive character again.
65[[/index]]
66* WesternAnimation/FreshHare (MM, Freleng) - Starring Elmer. Freleng presents Bugs as a defensive VillainProtagonist, on the run of Mountie Elmer Fudd in the Canadian wilderness. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
67* The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (MM, Freleng) - Starring Elmer. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
68* Case of the Missing Hare (MM, Jones): Jones finally nails Bugs' character here. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
69* Crazy Cruise (MM, Avery/Clampett, both uncredited): Not a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but he does make a cameo in the ending.
70* WesternAnimation/AnyBondsToday? (AKA Bugs Bunny Bond Rally, Clampett): A very brief bumper short made to promote War Bonds. With Elmer and Porky. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
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72!1943
73[[index]]
74* WesternAnimation/ACornyConcerto (MM, Clampett): Technically not a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but he does appear and has a major role in it.[[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
75* WesternAnimation/PorkyPigsFeat (LT, Tashlin): Makes a cameo in the ending. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
76* WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare (MM, Clampett): The second of the "Bugs Vs. Cecil" trilogy. Here, Bugs is at the epitome of his VillainProtagonist phase, presented as a bombastic, egotistical maniac displaying outright malicious tendecies that we rarely see Bugs fall into.
77[[/index]]
78* ''WesternAnimation/{{Super-Rabbit}}'' (MM, Jones): A parody of [[Creator/FleischerStudios Max Fleischer's]] WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons. After the release of Tortoise Wins by a Hare, it's startling to see Bugs revert back to being a defensive character again.
79* Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (MM, Freleng)
80* WesternAnimation/{{Wackiki Wabbit}} (MM, Jones) [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
81* WesternAnimation/FallingHare (MM, Clampett): A famous WartimeCartoon, featuring Bugs and his encounter with a pesky Gremlin. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]]
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83!1944
84
85* Jasper Goes Hunting: Actually a Puppetoons short from Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures, but Bugs makes a cameo in it.
86[[index]]
87* WesternAnimation/LittleRedRidingRabbit (MM, Freleng)
88[[/index]]
89* WesternAnimation/WhatsCookinDoc (MM, Clampett). Bugsy is presented as a very showboaty ham in this short. Clampett alledgedly make this short to make fun of Creator/FrizFreleng, possibly for his previous effort "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt", being snubbed for an Oscar. Features large usage of StockFootage from "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt", although it's in the context of the story and not a mere corner cut move.
90* WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyAndTheThreeBears (MM, Jones): The debut of Jones' Three Bears characters.
91[[index]]
92* WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyNipsTheNips (MM, Freleng): An infamous WartimeCartoon featuring Bugs encountering an [[YellowPeril Asian Platoon]] on a deserted isle. Never screened on TV due to racist content.
93[[/index]]
94* WesternAnimation/HareRibbin (MM, Clampett): Clampett once again presents Bugs as a defensive character here. The short is notable for having an infamous alternate ending, in which Bugs himself ''guns down the dog that was chasing him!'' This "Directors Cut" can be found on the fifth Looney Tunes Golden Collection. This short also features StockFootage from "The Heckling Hare" and "A Wild Hare".
95* Hare Force (MM, Freleng)
96[[index]]
97* WesternAnimation/BuckarooBugs (LT, Clampett): One of the only Bugs cartoons where he is explicitly called and recognized as a straight up villain in-universe. Also the first Bugs cartoon released under the ''Looney Tunes'' label; discounting his cameo in ''Porky Pig's Feat'', all of his previous shorts were ''Merrie Melodies''.
98* WesternAnimation/TheOldGreyHare (MM, Clampett) - Starring Elmer. This is a bizarre cartoon that delves into the chemistry between Bugs and Elmer.
99* Stage Door Cartoon (MM, Freleng) - Starring Elmer.
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101!1945
102
103* Odor-Able Kitty (LT, Jones): Bugs himself does not appear, but the cat disguises himself in a Bugs Bunny outfit.
104* WesternAnimation/HerrMeetsHare (MM, Freleng): A WartimeCartoon. Notable for having a gag that would be recycled for ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc''. Also notable for being the first time Bugs is seen tunneling underground as a mode of transportation (and the first time he makes that WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque).
105* WesternAnimation/TheUnrulyHare (MM, Tashlin) - Starring Elmer. First of two Bugs shorts directed by Creator/FrankTashlin.
106* Hare Trigger (MM, Freleng) - Debut of Yosemite Sam.
107* WesternAnimation/HareConditioned (LT, Jones)
108* WesternAnimation/HareTonic (LT, Jones) - Starring Elmer.
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110!1946
111* "WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs" (LT, Freleng)
112* "WesternAnimation/HareRemover" (MM, Tashlin, uncredited) - Starring Elmer. Second of two Frank Tashlin directed shorts.
113* WesternAnimation/HairRaisingHare (MM, Jones)
114* "WesternAnimation/AcrobattyBunny" (LT, [=McKimson=]): Creator/RobertMcKimson's first Bugs short.
115* WesternAnimation/RacketeerRabbit (LT, Freleng) - Starring Rocky and Hugo (cariacture of Creator/EdwardGRobinson and Creator/PeterLorre).
116[[index]]
117* WesternAnimation/TheBigSnooze (LT, Clampett) - Starring Elmer. Last Bugs cartoon that Clampett directed, and the last of his cartoons that was released.
118* WesternAnimation/RhapsodyRabbit (MM, Freleng): Infamous for its conspicuous similarity to the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry short WesternAnimation/TheCatConcerto, although Freleng insisted that it was a complete coincidence. Also the ''very'' first cartoon to air on Creator/CartoonNetwork.
119[[/index]]
120
121!1947
122
123* The Goofy Gophers (LT, Davis) Bugs cameos in it.[[index]]
124* WesternAnimation/RabbitTransit (LT, Freleng) - Starring Cecil Turtle. Third of the "Bugs Vs. Cecil" trilogy.
125* WesternAnimation/AHareGrowsInManhattan (MM, Freleng)
126* WesternAnimation/EasterYeggs (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer.
127* WesternAnimation/SlickHare (MM, Freleng) - Starring Elmer.
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129!1948
130* WesternAnimation/GorillaMyDreams (LT, [=McKimson=])
131* A Feather in His Hare (LT, Jones) - No longer shown on TV.
132* WesternAnimation/RabbitPunch (MM, Jones)
133* WesternAnimation/BuccaneerBunny (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam. The first of three cartoons with Yosemite Sam as a pirate.
134* WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyRidesAgain (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
135* WesternAnimation/HaredevilHare (LT, Jones) - Debut of Marvin the Martian.
136* WesternAnimation/HotCrossBunny (MM, [=McKimson=])
137* Hare Splitter (MM, Freleng)
138* WesternAnimation/ALadInHisLamp (LT, [=McKimson=]) - with Smokey the Genie (voice of Jim Backus).
139* WesternAnimation/MyBunnyLiesOverTheSea (MM, Jones)
140[[/index]]
141
142!1949
143[[index]]
144* Hare Do (MM, Freleng) - Starring Elmer.
145* WesternAnimation/MississippiHare (LT, Jones) - Staring Colonel Shuffle.
146* "WesternAnimation/RebelRabbit" (MM, [=McKimson=]) - The one where Bugs, discovering that rabbits only get two cents on any hunting bounty, goes on a massive RoaringRampageOfRevenge to prove how dangerous rabbits can get. Includes the bit where Bugs saws off the state of UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}[[note]]it's become a go-to GIF for anyone pointing out [[OnlyInFlorida crazy Florida-themed news]][[/note]] and ships it off to South America. Of course, Bugs gets [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor his wish when Congress]] puts a million-dollar bounty on his head... and [[OhCrap sends the entire military after him]].
147* WesternAnimation/HighDivingHare (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
148* Bowery Bugs (MM, Davis) - the only Bugs cartoon Arthur Davis has ever made.
149* WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare (LT, Jones)
150* Knights Must Fall (MM, Freleng)
151* The Grey Hounded Hare (LT, [=McKimson=])
152* "WesternAnimation/TheWindblownHare" (LT, [=McKimson=])
153* WesternAnimation/FrigidHare (MM, Jones) - First of two shorts to star Playboy Penguin.
154* Which Is Witch (LT, Freleng) - Rarely screened on TV [[HollywoodNatives due to racial content]].
155* WesternAnimation/RabbitHood (MM, Jones)
156[[/index]]
157
158!1950
159[[index]]
160* The Lion's Busy (MM, Freleng) - Cameo; a Beaky Buzzard cartoon.
161* Hurdy-Gurdy Hare (MM, [=McKimson=])
162* Mutiny on the Bunny (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam. The second of three cartoons featuring Sam as a pirate.
163* Homeless Hare (MM, Jones)
164* WesternAnimation/BigHouseBunny (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
165* [[WesternAnimation/WhatsUpDoc What's Up Doc?]] (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer. With caricatures of Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Al Jolson and Bing Crosby.
166* [[WesternAnimation/EightBallBunny 8 Ball Bunny]] (LT, Jones) - Second and last appearance of Playboy Penguin, and features a caricature of Creator/HumphreyBogart. One of the rare times where Bugs becomes something of a ButtMonkey.
167* WesternAnimation/HillbillyHare (MM, [=McKimson=])
168* WesternAnimation/BunkerHillBunny (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
169* Bushy Hare (LT, [=McKimson=])
170* WesternAnimation/RabbitOfSeville (LT, Jones) - Starring Elmer.
171[[/index]]
172
173!1951
174[[index]]
175* WesternAnimation/HareWeGo (MM, [=McKimson=]) - with an rather unreasonable facsimile of UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus.
176[[/index]]
177* WesternAnimation/RabbitEveryMonday (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
178* WesternAnimation/BunnyHugged (MM, Jones)
179* The Fair-Haired Hare (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
180[[index]]
181* WesternAnimation/RabbitFire (LT, Jones) - Starring Elmer and Daffy. First of the "DuckSeasonRabbitSeason" trilogy.
182[[/index]]
183* French Rarebit (MM, [=McKimson=])
184* His Hare-Raising Tale (LT, Freleng) - with clips from "Stage Door Cartoon," "Baseball Bugs" and "Haredevil Hare."
185[[index]]
186* WesternAnimation/BallotBoxBunny (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
187* Big Top Bunny (MM, [=McKimson=])
188
189!1952
190* WesternAnimation/OperationRabbit (LT, Jones) - Starring [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote.]]
191* Foxy by Proxy (MM, Freleng)
192* 14 Carrot Rabbit (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
193* WesternAnimation/WaterWaterEveryHare (LT, Jones)
194* The Hasty Hare (LT, Jones) - Starring Marvin. Features a caricature of Friz Freleng as an astronomer.
195* Oily Hare (MM, [=McKimson=])
196* WesternAnimation/RabbitSeasoning (MM, Jones) - Starring Elmer and Daffy. Second of the "DuckSeasonRabbitSeason" trilogy.
197* WesternAnimation/RabbitsKin (MM, [=McKimson=]) - with Pete Puma (voice of Stan Freberg).
198* WesternAnimation/HareLift (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
199[[/index]]
200
201!1953
202[[index]]
203* WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck (MM, Jones) - A WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon, but [[spoiler:ol' Bugsy is the driving force behind the events of it.]]
204[[/index]]
205* WesternAnimation/ForwardMarchHare (LT, Jones)
206* Upswept Hare (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer.
207* Southern Fried Rabbit (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
208* WesternAnimation/HareTrimmed (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam and Granny from the Tweety and Sylvester series.
209[[index]]
210* WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs (LT, Jones) - The cartoon Jones created to spite against Edward Selzer because the latter told the former not to.
211[[/index]]
212* WesternAnimation/DuckRabbitDuck (MM, Jones) - Starring Elmer and Daffy. Third of the "DuckSeasonRabbitSeason" trilogy.
213* Robot Rabbit (LT, Freleng) - Starring Elmer.
214
215!1954
216
217* WesternAnimation/CaptainHareblower (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam. The last of three cartoons to feature Yosemite Sam as a pirate.
218* WesternAnimation/BugsAndThugs (LT, Freleng) - Starring Rocky and Mugsy.
219* No Parking Hare (LT, [=McKimson=])
220* WesternAnimation/DevilMayHare (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Taz.
221* Bewitched Bunny (LT, Jones) - Starring Hazel.
222* Yankee Doodle Bugs (LT, Freleng)
223* WesternAnimation/LumberJackRabbit (LT, Jones) - the only 3-D cartoon from the studio.
224* Baby Buggy Bunny (MM, Jones)
225
226!1955
227
228* Beanstalk Bunny (MM, Jones) - Starring Elmer and Daffy.
229* WesternAnimation/SaharaHare (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
230* WesternAnimation/HareBrush (MM, Freleng) - Starring Elmer.
231[[index]]
232* WesternAnimation/RabbitRampage (LT, Jones) - Cameo by Elmer. A sequel to "WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck".
233* This Is a Life? (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam, Elmer, and Daffy. With clips from "Hare Do" and "Buccaneer Bunny."
234* Hyde and Hare (LT, Freleng)
235* Knight-mare Hare (MM, Jones)
236* WesternAnimation/RomanLegionHare (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
237
238!1956
239
240* WesternAnimation/BugsBonnets (MM, Jones) - Starring Elmer.
241* WesternAnimation/BroomStickBunny (LT, Jones) - Starring Hazel.
242* WesternAnimation/RabbitsonCrusoe (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
243* Napoleon Bunny-Part (MM, Freleng)
244* [[WesternAnimation/BarbaryCoastBunny Barbary Coast Bunny]] (LT, Jones) - Only Bugs and Nasty Canasta cartoon.
245* Half-Fare Hare (MM, [=McKimson=]) - with caricatures of Jackie Gleason and Art Carney as Ralph Cramden and Ed Norton.
246* WesternAnimation/AStarIsBored (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam, Elmer, and Daffy.
247* Wideo Wabbit (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer.
248* WesternAnimation/ToHareIsHuman (MM, Jones) - Starring Wile E.
249
250!1957
251* WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny (MM, Jones) - Starring Daffy.
252* Bedevilled Rabbit (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Taz.
253* Piker's Peak (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
254* WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc (MM, Jones) - Starring Elmer. Widely considered to be one of the best Looney Tunes shorts of all time, spoofing much of Wagner’s works.
255* WesternAnimation/BugsyAndMugsy (LT, Freleng) - Starring Rocky and Mugsy.
256* WesternAnimation/ShowBizBugs (LT, Freleng) - Starring Daffy.
257* Rabbit Romeo (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer.
258
259!1958
260* Hare-Less Wolf (MM, Freleng)
261* WesternAnimation/HareWayToTheStars (LT, Jones) - Starring Marvin.
262* Now Hare This (LT, [=McKimson=])
263* WesternAnimation/KnightyKnightBugs (LT, Freleng) - UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winner for Best Animated Short Film, starring Sam. Surprisingly, this is the ONLY Bugs cartoon to have won an oscar!
264* WesternAnimation/PreHystericalHare (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer. One of six Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts to use a stock music soundtrack (due to a then-ongoing musician's strike), and the only classic Bugs Bunny short to have Elmer Fudd voiced by someone other than Arthur Q. Bryan, with Dave Barry instead voicing him.
265
266!1959
267* Baton Bunny (LT, Jones/Levitow)
268* Hare-Abian Nights (MM, Harris) - Starring Sam.
269* Apes of Wrath (MM, Freleng) - Cameo by Daffy.
270* Backwoods Bunny (MM, [=McKimson=])
271* WesternAnimation/WildAndWoollyHare (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
272* WesternAnimation/BonanzaBunny (MM, [=McKimson=])
273* A Witch's Tangled Hare (LT, Levitow) - Starring Hazel.
274* People Are Bunny (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Daffy and caricature of Art Linkletter.
275[[/index]]
276!1960
277
278* Horse Hare (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam. Hasn't been seen on TV since the shorts were shown on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} due to Indian stereotyping.
279* WesternAnimation/PersonToBunny (MM, Freleng) - Starring Elmer and Daffy. Final short in which Arthur Q. Bryan voices Elmer. Creator/DawsButler did Elmer's remaining lines after Bryan's death.
280* WesternAnimation/RabbitsFeat (LT, Jones) - Starring Wile E. Coyote.
281* WesternAnimation/FromHareToHeir (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
282* WesternAnimation/LighterThanHare (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
283
284!1961
285
286* The Abominable Snow Rabbit (LT, Jones; co-dir.: Noble) - Starring Daffy.
287* WesternAnimation/CompressedHare (MM, Jones; co-dir.: Noble) - Starring Wile E.
288* Prince Violent (LT, Freleng; co-dir.: Pratt) - Later renamed Prince Varmint for television broadcasts. Starring Sam.
289
290!1962
291* WesternAnimation/WetHare (LT, [=McKimson=])
292* Bill of Hare (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Taz.
293* Shishkabugs (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam.
294
295!1963
296[[index]]
297* Devil's Feud Cake (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam. With clips from "Hare Lift," "Roman Legion Hare" and "Sahara Hare."
298* WesternAnimation/TheMillionHare (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Daffy.
299* WesternAnimation/HareBreadthHurry (LT, Jones; co-dir.: Noble) - Starring Wile E.; actually a Road Runner cartoon, but Bugs fills in after RR "sprained a giblet making a sharp curve."
300* WesternAnimation/TheUnmentionables (MM, Freleng) - Starring Rocky and Mugsy.
301* Mad as a Mars Hare (MM, Jones; co-dir.: Noble) - Starring Marvin.
302* WesternAnimation/Transylvania65000 (MM, Jones; co-dir.: Noble)
303[[/index]]
304!1964
305
306* WesternAnimation/DumbPatrol (LT, Chiniquy) - Starring Porky and Sam.
307* Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Taz.
308* WesternAnimation/TheIcemanDucketh (LT, Monroe) - Starring Daffy. Thought to have been started by Chuck Jones, but was finished by Phil Monroe after Jones was fired due to breach of contract.
309* WesternAnimation/FalseHare (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Cameo by WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn; Last of the original theatrical Bugs Bunny cartoons.
310
311!Post-1964
312[[index]]
313* Box Office Bunny (1991, Van Citters) - 50th anniversary short starring Elmer and Daffy. First short to feature Creator/JeffBergman as the voice of all three characters following Creator/MelBlanc's passing in 1989.
314* WesternAnimation/InvasionOfTheBunnySnatchers (1992, Lennon/Ford) - Starring Daffy, Elmer, and Sam.
315* WesternAnimation/{{Carrotblanca}} (1995, [=McCarthy=]) - Parody of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
316* From Hare to Eternity (1996, Jones) - Starring Sam. Only time Sam appears in a Chuck Jones short, this was Jones' tribute to Friz Freleng, who had then recently died.
317* WesternAnimation/BlooperBunny (1997, Lennon/Ford) - Starring Daffy, Elmer, and Sam. Produced in 1991, but not released until 6 years later.
318* WebAnimation/TheMatwix (2001) - Parody of ''Film/TheMatrix'' and starring Elmer. First short with Billy West voicing Bugs.
319* WebAnimation/TheIslandOfDrMoron (2002) - Starring Gossamer, Dr. Moron and the Carrot Monster.
320* WebAnimation/SatelliteSam (2002) - Starring Sam.
321* WesternAnimation/HareAndLoathingInLasVegas (2003, Kopp/Shin) - Starring Sam.
322* WebAnimation/BunkBedlam (2004) - Starring Sylvester, Sylvester Jr. and Clyde Bunny.
323* WebAnimation/FastFeud (2005) - Starring Daffy.
324[[/index]]
325!Television specials with original material
326[[index]]
327* ''Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals'' (Jones, 1976) - A combination live-action/animation 23-minute special, featuring interpretations of Creator/OgdenNash poems set to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns. Bugs's first appearance in original material since 1964.
328* ''Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales'' (1979)
329** Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (Freleng) - Starring Sam and Porky.
330** The Fright Before Christmas (Freleng) - Starring Clyde and Taz.
331* ''Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over'' (1980)
332** WesternAnimation/PortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungBunny (Jones/Monroe) - Starring Elmer.
333** Spaced Out Bunny (Jones/Monroe) - Starring Marvin and Hugo. Last short with Mel Blanc voicing Bugs.
334* ''WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' (1990) - This Main/{{Crossover}} special marked the first time Bugs was voiced by someone other than Mel Blanc (in this case, Jeff Bergman).
335[[/index]]
336
337!Television shows
338[[index]]
339* ''WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerShow'' (1960-2000) - Renamed several times over the years, but was fundamentally the same show the whole way through.
340* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' (1990-93) - Bugs made several appearances, as the principal of "Acme Looniversity".
341* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' (1991-94)
342* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' (1993-98) - Bugs made several cameos.
343* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' (1998-2000) - Bugs made a few cameos.
344* ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' (2001-2006)
345* ''WebAnimation/ToonMarooned'' (2001)
346* ''WebAnimation/MysteriousPhenomenaOfTheUnexplained'' (2001-2003)
347* ''WebAnimation/TheJunkyardRun'' (2001)
348* ''WebAnimation/PlanetOfTheTaz'' (2001) - Clones of him appear at the very end.
349* ''WebAnimation/TheRoyalMallard'' (2002)
350* ''WebAnimation/AluminumChef'' (2003)
351* ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' (more or less) (2005-2007)
352* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' (2011-2014)
353* ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'' (2015-2019)
354* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' (2019-present)
355* ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyBuilders'' (2022-present)
356* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsLooniversity'' (2023-present)
357[[/index]]
358
359!Movies
360[[index]]
361* ''Film/TwoGuysFromTexas'' (1948) - Bugs makes a cameo in what is probably the most memorable sequence of the film.
362* ''MyDreamIsYours'' (1949) - Ditto.
363* ''Bugs Bunny Superstar'' (1975) - A combined compilation film and documentary, narrated by Creator/OrsonWelles, about the character and the history of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', with nine pre-1948 shorts (six of them starring Bugs), Creator/BobClampett acting as an onscreen host, plus interviews with Creator/TexAvery and Creator/FrizFreleng.
364* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerMovie The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie]]'' (1979) - Compilation of Creator/ChuckJones shorts.
365* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyLooneyLooneyBugsBunnyMovie Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie]]'' (1981) - Compilation of Creator/FrizFreleng shorts.
366* ''[[WesternAnimation/BugsBunnysThirdMovie1001RabbitTales Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales]]'' (1983)
367* ''[[WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksFantasticIsland Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island]]'' (1984)
368* ''[[WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters Daffy Duck's Quackbusters]]'' (1988)
369* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' (1988) - Bugs makes a cameo where it is shown that he and WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse get along surprisingly well.
370* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' (1990) - Bugs and Daffy make a cameo in the opening scene.
371* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'' (1992) - Bugs makes silent cameos in the movie's opening and closing songs.
372* ''Film/SpaceJam'' (1996)
373* ''Tweety's High-Flying Adventure'' (2000) - Bugs makes a cameo in one scene.
374* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' (2003)
375* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha: The Return of El Malefico'' (2004) - Bugs makes a cameo during Rikochet's party.
376* ''Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas'' (2006) - YetAnotherChristmasCarol, featuring Daffy as Scrooge.
377* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesRabbitsRun'' (2015) - This comic adventure is a StealthSequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''.
378* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' (2021)
379[[/index]]
380
381!Comic-Books
382[[index]]
383* ''ComicBook/LooneyTunes'': In 1943, Bugs Bunny received his own spotlight in Dell Comics' ''Four Color''.
384* ''Bugs Bunny'': 1952–1962. Bugs' first comic-book series, published by Dell Comics.
385* ''Bugs Bunny'': 1962–1984. Second solo book, published by Western Publishing.
386* ''Looney Tunes Magazine'': Quarterly magazine launched by DC Comics in 1989. It was licensed out to Welsh Publishing beginning with issue 7 and was renamed to ''Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes Magazine''. It ended after issue 21 in 1995.
387* ''Looney Tunes'': Launched by DC in 1994, still ongoing.
388* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroesBugsBunnySpecial'' (August, 2017}: Comic crossover between Bugs and DC's ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.
389[[/index]]
390
391!Comic-Strips
392* ''Bugs Bunny'': Bugs' own newspaper comic-strip ran from 1944 to 1990.
393
394!Video Games
395[[index]]
396* ''VideoGame/TheBugsBunnyCrazyCastle'' (1989-2000, Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem, Platform/GameBoy, Platform/GameBoyColor)
397* ''VideoGame/TheBugsBunnyBirthdayBlowout'' (1990, Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem)
398* ''VideoGame/BugsBunnyRabbitRampage'' (1993, Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem)
399* ''VideoGame/BugsBunnyInDoubleTrouble'' (1996, Platform/SegaGenesis, Platform/GameGear)
400* ''VideoGame/BugsBunnyLostInTime'' (1999, Platform/PlayStation, PC)
401* ''VideoGame/BugsBunnyAndTazTimeBusters'' (2000, Platform/PlayStation, PC)
402[[/index]]
403[[/folder]]
404
405----
406!!"Of course you realize this means tropes!":
407
408[[folder:A-M]]
409* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: In "Southern Fried Rabbit", Bugs Bunny encounters Yosemite Sam as a Confederate soldier guarding the Mason-Dixon line eighty odd years after the end of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. When informed of this fact, Sam replies "I ain't no clockwatcher!"
410* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: His default "outfit" is a pair of gloves, and nothing else.
411* TheAce: Bugs in his more modern depictions, to the point of finally getting revenge against Cecil in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. While Bugs mellowed down in the show, Cecil just became even more of a {{Jerkass}}.
412* AcmeProducts: Bugs has made use of their services, with better results than Wile E. Coyote.
413* AlliterativeName: '''B'''ugs '''B'''unny.
414* AlternateCatchphraseInflection: Bugs's catchphrase is "What's up, doc?" usually said in a cheeky, casual voice but not always.
415** In "Hare Ribbin", he says it in an annoyed tone when a dog sniffs him.
416** In "Hasty Hare", he says it in a frightened tone and with a stammer when he realises that what he thought was a kid dressed up for Halloween was actually Marvin the Martian.
417* AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
418** During the theatrical shorts, Bugs Bunny could outsmart anybody except Cecil Turtle and the gremlin in "Falling Hare". In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', Bugs would often come out the victor even against Cecil.
419** He plays the opposite end of the role perfectly to the envious WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck however; Creator/ChuckJones has even stated that Bugs is meant to be everything Daffy isn't.
420* AmbiguouslyJewish: The Brooklyn accent, among other things, but also subtle things, like when he mentions having grown up playing Pisha-Paysha after being challenged to a game of blackjack (by Blacque Jacques Shellacque in ''Bonanza Bunny''). The fact that [[Creator/MelBlanc his actor]] was a Jew might have had something to do with it.
421* AmericaSavesTheDay: The World War II propaganda chapters used this by having Bugs, as America, constantly foil UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler or the Nazis.
422* AndCallHimGeorge: Bugs is nearly smothered (literally) with adoration by an [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Abominable Snowman]]. The TropeNamer.
423* {{Angrish}}: Bugs just can't seem to put the hatred he feels for Cecil into words in ''Tortoise Beats the Hare''.
424-->'''Bugs:''' You! You blankety blank blank turtle!
425* AntiHero: He may be the first fully-realized antihero in animation, coming right around the time {{Ideal Hero}}es like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse were falling out of favor. He goes from being a HeroicComedicSociopath to KarmicTrickster.
426* AnimatedActors: What he is on-screen. He's usually a FourthWallObserver if a cartoon doesn't already include one, and he's characterized as someone who is always in control. Ostensibly, it's because he read the script.
427* AnvilOnHead: Bugs may not have pioneered this cartoon trope, but he used it and all its variations extensively throughout his career.
428* ArchEnemy:
429** Of all the characters Bugs goes up against, Elmer Fudd is probably the most frequent. As a hunter, Elmer hunts Bugs for the sport of it, as if Bugs is a WorthyOpponent. Bugs, however, frequently sees Elmer as an annoyance.
430** Yosemite Sam also has a knack for constantly trying to kill Bugs, but for more personal reasons. Sam has a HairTriggerTemper at the best of times, and Bugs setting off Sam even slightly causes the outlaw to fly into a murderous rage.
431** Cecil Turtle is not only 3-0 against Bugs, he beat Bugs at his own game.
432* ArtEvolution: Very literal evolution -- in the earliest shorts, Bugs looks like a rabbit that walks upright, compared to his modern appearance where he's essentially a human with bunny ears.
433* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In real life, rabbits ''do not eat carrots'' (in the wild at least--they're okay as a very occasional treat for pets, but are too sugary for regular consumption). Bugs is a large part of the reason humans think they do now.
434* AshFace: Of course, occasions where he himself is a victim of this are quite rare. His antagonists on the other hand never fare as well.
435* AttentionWhore: Definitely has moments of this, especially in "What's Cookin', Doc?" [[DependingOnTheWriter It's most prominent]] under Creator/RobertMcKimson.
436* AttractiveBentGender: One of Bugs' favorite ways to escape Elmer Fudd, and it [[FoeRomanceSubtext always works]]. The ears or tail usually give him away, though. Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', in which calling Bugs an ugly woman in drag is a RunningGag.
437* TheBadGuyWins:
438** In "Hare Brush", Elmer J. Fudd, who is an eccentric millionaire, has been committed to a sanitarium because he thinks he's a wabbit. Elmer lures Bugs into taking his place for a carrot, where he is examined by a psychiatrist who convinces Bugs that he is Elmer J. Fudd, millioniare who owns a mansion and a yacht. Bugs decides to go "wabbit hunting", only for Elmer in a Bugs Bunny suit to use his own tricks against him. An I.R.S. agent asks him, "Are you Elmer J. Fudd?" and after a hypnotized Bugs answers that he is, they take him away for income tax evasion, and Elmer (as Bugs) says [[ObfuscatingInsanity "I may be a scwewy wabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatwaz!"]]
439** After Daffy goes through a bunch of fast-changing scenery and crazy re-drawing jobs in "Duck Amuck" where Bugs is revealed to be the artist, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Bugs ends up on the receiving end of his own gags]] in "Rabbit Rampage", where the artist is revealed to be Elmer Fudd.
440* BadassAdorable: Despite being an anthropomorphic rabbit, Bugs is so cute that he almost outsmarted every enemy he stumbles upon! He even does a [[PuppyDogEyes puppy eyes face]] when he was about to be killed by Witch Hazel in ''Broom-Stick Bunny''.
441* BagOfKidnapping: In "To Hare Is Human" Wile E. Coyote captured Bugs by forcing Bugs into a sack.
442%%* BadassNormal: See above.
443* BaitAndSwitch: A recurring gag is that Bugs will set the villain of the week up to fall for one of his tricks (typically literally), only to decide that what he's doing is just cruel and put down a mattress or something to keep it from hurting as much.
444-->'''Bugs:''' Y'know, my conscience kinda bothers me sometimes... [[SubvertedTrope but not dis time!]] ''(yanks the mattress away)''
445* BatmanGambit: Bugs often likes to take advantage of his foes' predilections. In "Ballot Box Bunny" for example he tries to offer voters free (but exploding) cigars, knowing Yosemite Sam would co-opt them, which he does, earning the ire of a big muscular voter.
446* BearyFunny: "[[FracturedFairyTale Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears]]".
447* BeastlyBloodsports: "Bully for Bugs" has him facing off against a strong, fast and smart bull in a rather unconventional bullfight.
448* BewareTheNiceOnes: Most of the time, he's very cheerful and friendly, but if pushed far enough (usually by people who keep bullying, cheating or threatening him or others), he's more than happy to retaliate and ''no amount of carrots will save you when he does!''
449* BigBallOfViolence (i.e.: Case of the Missing Hare")
450* BigBrotherMentor: He was officially Buster Bunny's mentor in [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Tiny Toons]], but he's often filled the role of mentor to the rest of the Tiny Toons as well.
451* BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame: WesternAnimation/MyBunnyLiesOverTheSea, in which Bugs competes with a Scotsman in a game of golf. Needless to say, the rabbit fudges the rules a bit, like digging a trench to lead the ball into the hole, for instance.
452* BlackAndGrayMorality: Yosemite Sam was created to push Bugs into one. While Bugs was usually a defensive character, earlier on he picked on blatantly unthreatening antagonists and often had no issues against taking it [[DisproportionateRetribution above the line of self-defense]] or sometimes even skipping the mentality altogether ForTheLulz. Sam was a more malicious and challenging foe to Bugs, and also had the habit of [[KickTheDog picking on other characters]], allowing Bugs to look more outright heroic in his trickery.
453* BookDumb: While he's very clever and StreetSmart, he has trouble reading ("diabolical sabotage" becomes "dy-a-bo-likkle...sab-o-tay-gee") and he [[GlobalIgnorance doesn't know geography]] very well. In "The Abominable Snow Rabbit", he ends up in the Himalayas, while trying to reach Palm Springs:
454-->'''Daffy:''' You and your shortcuts. I told you to turn west at East St. Louis.\
455'''Bugs:''' Yeah, I know. ''(looks at map)'' The way I figure it, we're somewhere in the Hi-may-lay-us mountains.\
456'''Daffy:''' That's pronounced "Himalayas"... ''Himalayas?'' Why, you four-legged Marco Polo! That's in Asia!
457* BornInTheTheatre: Like all Looney Tunes shorts, it's very obvious in his pre-50s cartoons that Bugs' shorts were originally aired in cinemas and not on television.
458* {{Bowdlerise}}: Like all the Warners' animated output -- indeed, that of all the major American studios during and just post-WWII -- some of Bugs' shorts are not very politically correct. At the height of the Pacific campaign during the war, he starred in a blatant bit of propaganda called "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips". He also appeared in BlackFace on more than one occasion, including a short parody of Al Jolson's ''The Jazz Singer''.
459* TheBoxingEpisode: "Rabbit Punch".
460* BrattyHalfPint:
461** "I want an Easter egg! I want an Easter egg! I want an Easter egg! I want an Easter egg!"
462** Baby Face Finster. Not really a baby, just a midget bank robber in disguise.
463* BreakoutCharacter: Much like WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck before him, Bugs' popularity ended up eclipsing his predecessors, Porky and Daffy. The difference however is that Bugs eventually became the face of the company and remained so to this day.
464* BringTheAnchorAlong: "Buccaneer Bunny" has Bugs Bunny hornswoggled into rowing Shanghai Sam's ship across the sea, with the rabbit affixed to his post with an ankle shackle attached to a heavy iron ball. Nonetheless, Bugs is able to carry it to the Captain, demanding that he rid the rabbit of this device. Shanghai Sam complies by throwing the ball overboard ... taking the rabbit with it.
465* BrokenAce: While Bugs is usually the cunning protagonist, writers took care to balance this with the odd fall-guy role so as not to lose audience sympathy. In keeping with the character's cockiness, though, when Bugs was a loser he was often a very sore one.
466* BrooklynRage: '''Do not make Bugs angry.'''
467* BulletDancing: Subverted in "Bugs Bunny Rides Again," where Bugs breaks into a full-bore softshoe routine when Yosemite Sam tries this trope on him. Then Bugs yells "Take it, Sam!" and Sam does -- straight into an open mine shaft.
468%%* ButtMonkey: On rare occasions, such as the Cecil Turtle shorts, "Falling Hare", "Rabbit Rampage", etc. More so in shows such as ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' and occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction''.
469* {{Crossover}}: Including Paramount's "Jasper Goes Hunting," Odradek's "Political Cartoon," ''WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' and ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
470* CanadaEh: One of Bugs' lesser-known nemeses, Blacque Jacque Shellacque, who was basically a French-Canadian Yosemite Sam.
471* CardCarryingJerkass:
472** In his earliest incarnations, he really ''was'' a Card-Carrying Jerkass, and he would torment whoever his nemesis was for ''virtually no reason'', as in ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit''. Before long, though, his personality was toned down into a much more likable (and marketable) character. [[note]]DependingOnTheWriter, at least. He was rather nasty in his trilogy of shorts with Cecil Turtle, though Cecil wasn't really any better.[[/note]]
473** Even in later cartoons, Bugs sometimes invokes this by wryly saying "Ain't I a stinker?". In most cases, however, his jerkassery is usually provoked by the [[LaserGuidedKarma antagonist's attempts to]] ''[[LaserGuidedKarma kill]]'' [[LaserGuidedKarma him]].
474* CargoConcealmentCaper: Many cartoons start with Bugs inside a crate of carrots, which takes him to whatever location the story takes place in.
475* CartoonConductor: In "Long-Haired Hare" and "Baton Bunny".
476* CarnivoreConfusion: In spite of being almost fully anthropomorphic, large chunks (perhaps even the majority) of Bugs' filmography are about hunters and other predators trying to kill him.
477* CasualDangerDialogue:
478** A trademark. His catch phrase even emerged as this, given Bugs' reaction to Elmer shoving a gun to his face was "What's up, Doc?"
479** In "Hair-Raising Hare", Bugs is barricading a door with a monster on the other side and shouts frantically to the audience [[IsThereADoctorInTheHouse "Is there a doctor in the house?!"]] When one stands up [[NoFourthWall in the audience]], Bugs coolly enquires "Ehhh, what's up, Doc?"
480* CavalierConsumption: Bugs often does this, as a possible holdover from his days as a prankster. When asking "Eh... What's up, Doc?", he's often feigning caring, and is even asking and talking while chewing.
481* CementShoes: Mobsters Mugsy and Rocky try this on Bugs in "The Unmentionables".
482* ChainedToARailway: Including one notable instance in which Elmer Fudd is tied to the tracks, and the "Super Chief" (namechecking a famous passenger train of the time) runs right over him -- a long line of little bunnies following Bugs, who's wearing a feathered headdress.
483* CharacterCatchphrase:
484** "What's up, Doc?" He tends to say variations of this catch phrase: "What's up, Doctress?", "What's up, Duke?", "What's up, Duck?" (when talking to Daffy), etc.
485** "Of course you realize, ThisMeansWar"
486** "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}}..." (pronounced "Alba-coy-key")
487** "What's cooking?"
488** "Ain't I a stinka?"
489** "What a maroon."
490* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The early shorts are very strange to watch if you're familiar with the Bugs from the late 40's and onward--for one thing, Bugs is sometimes the butt of the joke, filling a role similar to what Daffy Duck would later evolve into. One must understand that in his infant years, the directors stumbled across Bugs entirely by accident in ''WesternAnimation/AWildHare'', and didn't quite "get" what made Bugs such a hit at first. and this is supported by the early batch of post-Wild Hare shorts like "Elmer's Pet Rabbit", "Tortoise Beats Hare" and "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt". It wasn't until "The Heckling Hare" and "All This and Rabbit Stew" when they started to get a clue as to what Bugs was about, and even then Creator/ChuckJones still took a while to fully understand Bugs' character.
491** Friz Freleng reflected on Bugs's evolving characterization in a 1990 interview:
492--->'''Friz:''' We used to go into meetings every once in a while and say, "Look, we're losing Bugs. He's not bright and mischievous as he was." And we'd look at some of the new pictures, then look at some of the old pictures and say, "He's slowed down. He's getting to be an old man. Let's bring the kid back." As we were getting older, Bugs was getting older without our realizing it. We had to remind ourselves to snap him up and get him a little peppier and brighter. We were continuously reminding ourselves we could lose the character very easily.
493* CircusEpisode: "Big Top Bunny" has Bugs join a circus, with Bruno the Magnificent, a Russian circus bear, [[BearsAreBadNews trying to get rid of him]].
494** "Acrobatty Bunny" finds Bugs having to outwit Nero the lion after a circus crew completes their job setting up the big top.
495* CivilizedAnimal: Although his behavior is entirely human, he still lives in a burrow and has to worry about being hunted or eaten. There was an odd situation in the cartoon "Hare Splitter" where Bugs and his rival live in furnished burrows and wear only their fur, while their contested girlfriend lives in a frame house and is fully dressed.
496* ClipShow: "His Hare-Raising Tale", "Devil's Feud Cake", "Hare-abian Nights" Not to mention a whole bunch of TV specials and feature films.
497* CloseCallHaircut:
498** Played with, along with every other gun cliche known to man, in most of the Yosemite Sam shorts. Bugs once used a trick shot on Sam that not only parted Sam's hair, but split his hat as well.
499** Elmer once did this to Bugs' ''ears''.
500* ClosetShuffle: Bugs does this in "Racketeer Rabbit." Virtually duplicated in "Bugs and Thugs" with Rocky and Muggsy, once as a prank and once for real.
501* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: While Bugs was almost always more intelligent than his foes, he was far from lucid in most of his early appearances. This was tamed as his character evolved, though still makes the odd showing here and there.
502* CoinTargetingTrickshot: In one cartoon, Yosemite Sam throws a nickel in the air and shoots it. It come down with a perfect hole through its center. Then Bugs throw a nickel in the air and shoots it. Five pennies come down.
503* ComedicSociopathy: He occasionally tips over into this.
504* CommunityThreateningConstruction:
505** In the cartoon "No Parking Hare", Bugs has to battle a construction foreman building a freeway where his burrow is. In the end, the freeway is built around Bugs' home.
506** "Homeless Hare" has a similar plot, this one involving a skyscraper.
507* ConcussionsGetYouHigh: Bugs staggers about drunkenly after getting hit in the face with a girder in "Homeless Hare".
508* CorneredRattlesnake: Made an increasingly pivotal part of his character, particularly in the Chuck Jones shorts. Bugs was not allowed to heckle opponents unless they provoked or harassed him, then it was war.
509* CrashingThroughTheHarem: Happens in the ''Bugs Bunny'' episode "A-Lad-In His Lamp".
510-->'''Bugs:''' ''(rushes into a room, screams are heard, he rushes out and closes the door)'' Err, um... a Hare-em, I think.\
511'''Genie:''' ''(opens the door and looks in, to more screams)'' Oh, that was a harem all right. I know a harem when I see one.
512* CryLaughing: In the short "Knighty Knight Bugs", Bugs does this after the king tells him to retrieve the singing sword from Sam or else he [the king] will have to cut off Bugs' head.
513* TheDarknessBeforeDeath: He would [[LargeHam ham up]] a ''"Oooh, I'm dying! Everything's getting dark..."'' speech to make Elmer Fudd or someone think he's been shot, poisoned, etc. -- just before "miraculously recovering" to give his foe a swift kick in the ass!
514* DavidVersusGoliath: Especially true of Chuck Jones' Bugs, who has taken on bulls ("Bully for Bugs") and professional wrestlers ("Bunny Hugged").
515* DeadpanSnarker: Arguably the most famous and iconic Deadpan Snarker in western animation.
516* DependingOnTheArtist: In the late forties it was easy to tell who had directed which Bugs cartoon just by looking at Bugs's design. Friz Freleng used the design which we all know and love today (although initially, he used a more odd rubbberhose design for him prior to the mid to late 40s), Chuck Jones had a slightly different version with larger eyes, larger cheeks and more pointy teeth (having initially drawn him more round), and Robert [=McKimson=] (plus, for his sole Bugs Bunny outing, Arthur Davis) had a majorly different version with stubbier legs, a slight pot belly, more slanted eyes, long teeth, and a ''huge'' mouth that flapped around like a windsock whenever he talked. And Creator/BobClampett had an incredible variety of ways to draw Bugs, since he gave his animators more leeway in deviating from the model sheets. At the end of the decade, the differences became a lot less pronounced. Some artists would even play this up for comedic effect. Picking out Rod Scribner's and [=Robert McKimson=]'s animation of Bugs in a Bob Clampett cartoon is considered almost the entry level for identifying Golden Age artists' styles. "WesternAnimation/BuckarooBugs" is probably the easiest instance to distinguish Scribner and [=McKimson=]'s styles, because there's a scene late in the film where Scribner's animation abruptly switches to [=McKimson=]'s animation in the middle of chewing a carrot!
517* DeusExMachina: In "Rabbit Punch", [[OpposingSportsTeam the]] [[StoutStrength Crusher]] has [[ChainedToARailway tied Bugs to a train track]] -- ''[[RuleOfFunny in a boxing ring]]'', mind you -- then boards a locomotive and proceeds to speed towards Bugs. The scene makes it clear it's passed the DespairEventHorizon, with The Crusher's SlasherSmile and Bugs' genuinely worried expressions. What could possibly save him? Cue the [[NoFourthWall film strip of the cartoon eventually breaking]], showing Bugs in a WhiteVoidRoom, revealing that he ''[[MediumAwareness cut the film with scissors]]'', thereby ending (or, rather, [[NoEnding non-ending]]) the cartoon. %%"Hare Trigger" ends in this manner as well.
518* DisproportionateRetribution: The episode where Bugs has his piano concert has a man who kept coughing before he could get started. He responds to this by ''pulling out a gun and shooting him.''
519* DoorstopBaby: "Baby Face" Finster invokes this as a ploy to use Bugs' rabbit hole as a hideout.
520* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: His signature expression, often pulled to show smug confidence when outsmarting or seducing his enemies.
521* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Co-TropeNamer; refers to a series of cartoons in which Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck argue over what hunting season it is.
522* TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: Often to show his laid back nature, Bugs would try placating his foes first. When they kept biting however, the gloves were off.
523* ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: In ''Acrobatty Bunny'', Nero the lion tries using an elephant to break down the iron bars keeping him from eating Bugs. Bugs retaliates by unleashing a wind-up toy mouse, which gets the elephant so scared that it starts [[GrievousHarmWithABody using Nero as a club]] on the fake rodent.
524* EnemiesWithDeath: According to "Devil's Feud Cake", the devil himself has been after Bugs for years.
525* EveryoneHasStandards: Bugs is often not above teasing and trolling friend and foe alike, but in one Tiny Toons episode, he seemed genuinely disgusted and disappointed when several of Dizzy Devil's classmates were mocking the former for his inability to read.
526* ExpressiveEars: His ears occasionally change position to suit his mood.
527* EyebrowWaggle: One of his signature gestures, meant as a ShoutOut to [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] and often accompanied by an AsideGlance.
528* FakeFaint: In "Rabbit Punch", Bugs is in a boxing match. He says to the audience that he'll feint the Champ out of position; he walks over to the Champ, then pretends to [[{{Pun}} faint]], and when the Champ looks down to see if he's okay, Bugs punches him with both fists.
529%%* FastTunnelling: One of Bugs Bunny's skills.
530* FinalSpeech: Averted so deliciously, as Bugs would utter the "Oooh, I'm dying! Everything's getting dark ... " speech to make Elmer Fudd or someone think he's been shot, poisoned, etc. ... just before "miraculously recovering" to give his foe a swift kick in the ass!
531* FingerExtinguisher: When Yosemite Sam tries to blow up his fort, Bugs puts the flame out with his bare hands.
532* FiveAcesCheater: It's not uncommon for Bugs to respond to an opponent blatantly cheating by cheating in an even more ridiculous fashion. The classic example being "Bonanza Bunny", where he beat his blackjack opponent's two 10 of Spades with a 21 of Hearts.
533* {{Flanderization}}:
534** Bugs was initially a far wackier and egotistical protagonist, however his suave cunning demenor was exaggerated to such a point he is regarded as one of animation's prime {{Invincible Hero}}es. As Chuck Jones once emphasized, [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Bugs is meant to be everything]] [[StrawLoser Daffy Duck isn't]].
535** Yosemite Sam was actually created to combat this. After a few cartoons, it rapidly became apparent that Bugs Bunny could think circles around Elmer Fudd so thoroughly that, even when Elmer was clearly the antagonist, Bugs ''still'' looked like the bully. So they created Sam to give Bugs an opponent who was smart enough (or at least belligerent enough) to give Bugs a challenge and keep him from {{Flanderiz|ation}}ing into a villain. After a while, even Sam had become ineffective, and so both Marvin The Martian and the Tazmanian Devil were introduced to bring in a fresh new threat (proving ''slightly'' more effective).
536* FoeRomanceSubtext: Bugs shows some degree of this with most of his antagonists.
537** Elmer is ''always'' smitten by Bugs' cross-dressing antics. It says something when at least two cartoons end with Bugs ''marrying'' Elmer. The icing on the cake is that Bugs doesn't seem to mind at all to kiss him or be held by him, in fact, he seems to ''enjoy'' it. Then again, he is a savvy, [[KarmicTrickster iconic trickster]] to boot...
538** Bugs in "Rabbit's Feet" comes off as shamelessly flirting with Wile E. Coyote with all of the kissing, cuddling and idle chit-chatting he does.
539** There's also Bugs' friendship-slash-rivalry with Daffy. As much as Bugs revels in observing and/or causing Daffy's suffering, the two are frequently shown hanging out together, and in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' he's willing to go to great lengths to get Daffy re-"hired" by Warner Brothers. After all, without Daffy, who is he going to play DuckSeasonRabbitSeason with?
540* TheFool: Even when he isn't using sheer wit to defeat an adversary, he seems to have lady luck (and the villains' bumbling) on his side. Lampshaded in "Hare and Loathing Las Vegas"; he has his own pair of lucky rabbit's feet.
541* FourFingeredHands: Bugs Bunny’s hands.
542* FriendlyEnemy: Whenever they aren't after his blood in some manner, Bugs tends to be rather easy going and sometimes out and out charitable to his foes. Granted the fact they are often AnimatedActors plays a lot into this.
543* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Despite being TheAce and an InvincibleHero (or rather, ''because'' of it), he's disliked by most characters in the Looney Tunes cast. Daffy, Elmer, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Marvin the Martian, Taz, Gossamer, and many minor characters can't stand him. Of course, it's not a problem at all for Bugs, who can win against all of them.
544* FriendToAllChildren: Not too surprising given his NiceGuy behavior but Bugs does show himself as friendly and helpful to the young in age, a good way to get him after you being to threaten them. And in the very rare instances that he has a child as an antagonist (or believes such to be the case) he will opt for thwarting them and escaping, rather than retaliate as normal.
545%%* FreudianTrio
546%%* FunnyAnimal
547* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: He has fallen onto both sides of this trope;
548** Whenever he's paired with Daffy Duck or Yosemite Sam, he's the Gleeful to their Grumpy. He's a carefree and easygoing trickster, while Daffy is a bitterly sarcastic and frustrated loser who hates him, and Sam has a HairTriggerTemper.
549** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', he's the Grumpy to Lola's Gleeful. Lola is cheerful and hyperactive, while he is her reluctant boyfriend who finds her annoying.
550* GoKartingWithBowser : Taken to extremes. Bugs often had a very forgiving demeanor to the many individuals that tried to con, maim or even kill him so often. Justified as it's all part of the show. In the ''VideoGame/LooneyTunesBBall'' video game, he plays a game of basketball against several members of his RoguesGallery; Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Taz the Tasmanian Devil, and Marvin the Martian.[[note]]Sylvester is the notable exception, as while he is still often depicted as an antagonist in the ''Looney Tunes'' universe, Bugs isn't one of his targets.[[/note]]
551* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Rebel Rabbit", Bugs is offended that rabbits have a bounty of only 2 cents while foxes and bears are worth $50 and $75, respectively, on the grounds that rabbits are "perfectly harmless" compared to them, and vows to prove that rabbits can be just as bad. In doing so, he becomes a PersonOfMassDestruction by, in this order, attacking a guard with his own billy club, renaming Barney Baruch's private bench as "Bugs Bunny", painting barbershop-pole stripes on the Washington Monument, rewiring the lights in Times Square to read "Bugs Bunny Wuz Here", shutting down the Niagara Falls, selling Manhattan Island back to the Indians, sawing Florida off from the rest of the country, swiping the locks off of the Panama Canal, filling up the Grand Canyon, and literally tying up the railroad tracks. Bugs does indeed prove that rabbits are just as bad as bears and foxes and earns a $1 million bounty... and for his efforts, he's hunted down by the entire US Army and imprisoned in [[TheAlcatraz Alcatraz]].
552-->'''Bugs:''' ''(as he surrounded by artillery shells in a foxhole)'' Could it be that I carried this thing too far? ''(the shells explode; cut to Bugs in a cell in Alcatraz)'' Ehhh, ''could'' be.
553* GoofyBuckteeth: He is a fun-loving KarmicTrickster with buckteeth, as befitting a rabbit.
554* GravityIsAHarshMistress:
555** A WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes staple that was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in "High-Diving Hare", wherein Yosemite Sam ties him up, quick-marches him up onto a high-diving platform and out to the end of the board, then ''saws off'' the board in order to force Bugs to go through with his diving act... only for the diving platform to suddenly collapse and bring Sam down with it, while the diving board itself hangs in midair. "I know this defies the law of gravity... but I never studied law!"
556** Also done in "A Star is Born", when Daffy saws off the limb of a fake tree trunk. Bugs was sitting on said limb. Unfortunately for Daffy, the only part being held by invisible strings is said limb. The tree instantly falls over.
557** Let's not forget "The Heckling Hare", which has Bugs and his antagonist Willoughby the dog falling off a cliff for a [[IFellForHours very long time]]. Averted at the end when they skid to a stop before hitting the ground.
558** In "Falling Hare", the bomber that Bugs and the gremlin are in goes into a steep dive, during which the wings tear off, but it stops in midair right before hitting the ground:
559--->'''Gremlin:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall Sorry, folks!]] We ran out of gas!\
560'''Bugs:''' [[LampshadeHanging Yeah...You know how it is]] with these [[HistoricalInJoke 'A'-cards!]][[note]]AKA a fuel ration card, used during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII; 'A' was the lowest rank.[[/note]]
561** This is revisited in "Hare Lift": when the huge plane goes into a dive (after Bugs pulls out the control column and throws it out the window) and Yosemite Sam bails out with the only parachute available (not forgetting to shout at the rabbit, "[[SoLongSuckers So long, sucker!]]", leaving Bugs on the plane, the rabbit pulls a lever on the plane. The plane screeches to a halt in midair.
562---->'''Bugs:''' Lucky for me this thing had "air brakes"!
563** In "A Star is Bored", Bugs puts a jet into a steep dive as part of a movie stunt, but halts it mere feet above the ground. He then swaps positions with his stunt double ([[ButtMonkey Daffy]] in a rabbit suit) who crashes into a heap when the cameras roll again.
564** Referenced in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', where this works until the female protagonist points out that this shouldn't work, upon which gravity kicks back in again and they land in a crumpled heap.
565* GuileHero: He uses trickery instead of [[ActionHero force]] or [[ScienceHero Science]] as his key to victory.
566* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: He's worn plenty of skirts and dresses, though.
567* {{Hammerspace}}: His tendency to pull things out of nowhere for an advantage.
568* HappyHarlequinHat: Wears one in "Knighty Knight Bugs."
569* HeliCritter: "Lighter Than Hare."
570* HeroAntagonist: Some of his later shorts tended to focus more on his enemies (like Daffy) plotting ways to get back at him, to the point his iconic logo at the start of each short can be [[OutOfFocus rather misleading to who you'll be watching for the next five minutes]].
571* HisAndHers: In ''Hare-Way to the Stars'', Bugs has a pair of towels labeled "His" and "[[{{Pun}} Hares]]".
572* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears" Bugs sweet talks Mama Bear to avoid getting eaten by the bears. He succeeds in getting the other two to leave him be but then has to deal with an AbhorrentAdmirer in Mama Bear.
573-->'''Mama Bear:''' Tell me more about my eyes...!
574* HumanMail: Bugs once mailed himself to Washington, DC.
575* HypocriticalHumor:
576** [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness In one of his earliest appearances in "Elmer's Pet Rabbit"]], Bugs, as the titular pet rabbit, complains about having to eat vegetables -- including carrots -- all while he does eat them without trouble.
577** "What a maroon! What an ignoranimus!"
578* IAmSong: "I'm Glad That I'm Bugs Bunny", recorded by Creator/MelBlanc for Creator/CapitolRecords in 1950 (and co-written by ''Looney Tunes'' writers Warren Foster and Michael Maltese), where Bugs runs down a long list of animals that he's glad to not be.
579* IconicSequelCharacter: He didn't appear until almost a decade into the Looney Tunes series run.
580* IllnessBlanket: In one comic story, Bugs is dropped off at the North Pole as part of an experiment to see how rabbits adapt to the cold. By the time Porky comes to rescue him, he's so cold that he has to be wrapped in a blanket for the return trip.
581* IncessantMusicMadness: "Long-Haired Hare" begins with Bugs playing various instruments (a banjo, a harp and a tuba) and singing while an opera singer is trying to rehearse, leading the opera singer to demolish Bugs' instruments and beat him up.
582* InexplicablyAwesome: How did a seemingly unremarkable rabbit like Bugs become a master of trickery and a powerful RealityWarper able to defeat all manner of monsters and villains with comical ease? No explanation is ever given in the shorts.
583* InformedSpecies: Not as extreme an example as some, but he is a lanky humanoid who walks instead of hopping.
584* InvincibleHero: Leaned into this more and more in later shorts (though granted most of the RoguesGallery [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain didn't exactly pose much of a challenge anyway]]). Arguably balanced by the occasional loss here and there, with Bugs even playing the ButtMonkey at times (he actually did lose much more frequently compared the other WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes protagonists such as Tweety Pie or Speedy Gonzales).
585* IronMaiden: The short "WesternAnimation/FalseHare" had a wolf trying several ways to kill Bugs, including shutting an Iron Maiden's door on him. The wolf's nephew takes a peek inside once the wolf inevitably falls victim to HoistByHisOwnPetard, and apparently [[TakeOurWordForIt doesn't like the result]].
586* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In "WesternAnimation/WhatsUpDoc", Bugs turns down dozens of scripts, including one entitled ''Theatre/LifeWithFather''. Bugs predicts: "Ehhh...this will never be a hit." It actually ran for 3,224 performances (1939-1947) on Broadway, making it the longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history.
587* JerkassBall:
588** Bugs is a huge {{jerkass}} in the shorts featuring [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Cecil Turtle]] and this causes him to lose KarmicProtection.
589** The odd time Bugs' winning streak ended was [[LaserGuidedKarma karmically provoked]] by an unusual bout of callousness from the usually easy going rabbit.
590** In a few of his earlier shorts, he played the {{Jerkass}} trope straighter than elsewhere.
591* KarmaHoudini:
592** In ''WesternAnimation/BuckarooBugs'', Bugs is the villain of the piece, a western outlaw named "The Masked Marauder", who steals carrots and humiliates the wimp of a cowboy sent to bring him in. While Bugs was the antagonist once or twice, he never again "got away with it" like he does here.
593** Cecil Turtle in ''Rabbit Transit''. He cheated and still won. More accurately, he cheated until the home stretch, when he stopped using his rocket-powered shell. He let Bugs go by, who was [[BatmanGambit running over the speed limit since he was aware Cecil was rocket-propelled]]. After he "won", he was promptly arrested. Both of these examples are particularly strange, as they were made during a time when UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode banned {{Karma Houdini}}s in the film industry.
594* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Bugs also took the role of the sadistic animator in ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'', one of the only roles that he tormented Daffy just for fun. While Daffy is powerless to stop him in the cartoon, in ''Rabbit Rampage'', he ends up paid back in his own coin by Elmer Fudd. Fittingly, Bugs had a history of heckling Elmer unprovoked and getting off scot free in earlier cartoons as well (eg. "WesternAnimation/WabbitTwouble").
595* KarmicTrickster: The writers actually had a set of rules they always followed when writing Bugs Bunny cartoons to make sure Bugs didn't become an out-and-out bully. For starters, Bugs himself never started fights; he could retaliate all he wanted, but he never antagonized. On occasions when he did dole out punishments his victim didn't deserve, things would start going wrong for him. Best example would be "Rebel Rabbit" where Bugs is incensed that the bounty on rabbits is mere pennies, and sets out to prove that Rabbits aren't harmless by wrecking the country in funny ways. (Sawing off the state of Florida, filling in the Grand Canyon, literally tying up the railroads) In the end, he's hunted down by the ''armed forces'' and put in [[TheAlcatraz Alcatraz Prison]], where he concludes that maybe he "[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone went a little too far]]".
596* KickTheDog: His prototype literally does this in "Prest-O Change-O", using his magic tricks to torment a couple of puppies. Eventually the enraged larger puppy overpowers him and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom clocks him hard across the room]].
597* KnightOfCerebus: Many Warner directors, particularly Friz Freleng, were bent on making a more challenging RoguesGallery for Bugs, fearing that earlier, more docile foes such as Elmer Fudd failed to provoke him and leaned his characterization more into that of a smarmy bully. Yosemite Sam was the first attempt at this, being ineffectual, but far more violent, relentless and conniving than Elmer, and often playing on Bugs' more altruistic image. When Sam started to lose his edge, Chuck Jones created Marvin the Martian, contrasting Sam by being affable and polite, but actually competent and dangerous enough to evoke fear from Bugs.
598* LargeHamTitle: In the ''Bugs Bunny'' shorts (though not in ''[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Roadrunner]]''), Wile E. Coyote introduces himself as; "Wile E. Coyote, super genius!"
599* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9vTgjCyCU What's up Doc?]] which he has been known to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=silJoHrXsIc sing himself]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0xKkzgREvg The Warner Bros. Jingle]]
600* LetsGetDangerous: When Bugs says, "Of course you realize [[ThisMeansWar this means war!]]", you can be sure that whoever provoked him this way will soon be entering a world of hurt.
601* LookBehindYou: In ''Frigid Hare'', Bugs distracts Playboy Penguin by shouting "Look! A four-legged airy-plane!" and pointing up. When Playboy looks up, Bugs kicks him off the ice shelf.
602* LostInImitation: Bugs' carrot-eating was intended as a ShoutOut to Creator/ClarkGable in ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight''. However, carrots became the [[StockAnimalDiet default food]] of all rabbits, fictional and real, with real-life consequences (carrots are sometimes lethal to real-life rabbits in large amounts).
603* LuckyRabbitsFoot: Referenced several times. He's naturally got two of them, so he pretty much always wins where luck is involved.
604* MagicPokerEquation:
605** Most humorously in "Barbary Coast Bunny" where Bugs walks into a crooked casino where all the games are rigged, and ''still'' cleans the place out.
606** Also in "Bonanza Bunny," where he plays 21 with Blacque Jacques Shellaque and holds on only one card. Blacque Jacques draws [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat two tens of Spades]] for a 20, but Bugs' single card is a '21' of Hearts.
607** Bugs does something similar to this in "Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas", where when playing blackjack against Yosemite Sam, Sam as dealer gets a twenty with two cards and Bugs reveals that he has 21 aces. In fact the whole short seems to be based on this trope.
608* {{Malaproper}}: Sometimes combined with DelusionsOfEloquence.
609* MeaningfulName:
610** He's named after his creator Ben "Bugs" Hardaway.
611** He frequently ''bugs'' other people. Most characters who meet the rabbit think he's extremely annoying.
612* MellowFellow: Bugs gradually evolves into a relaxed, laid-back fellow, especially under Creator/ChuckJones's pen. In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', he can be this or TheSourSupporter depending on the episode.
613* MediumShiftGag:
614** The punchline of "Rabbit Hood" is that Robin Hood has been MIA for most of the film, and when he finally appears, it's live-action footage of Errol Flynn from ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood''. A dumbfounded Bugs comments, "That's silly, it couldn't be him!"
615** "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" uses this to a disturbing effect.
616* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: One later drawing of Bugs by Creator/ChuckJones (which can be found in one of his biographies) has Bugs reacting in horror at the sight of a picture of "Bugs' Bunny", his alleged prototype, from "Hare-Um Scare-Um".
617* MenaceDecay: Bugs was always a KarmicTrickster, but in the early shorts he was much more hyperactive and relentless about it, and didn't mind taking things [[DisproportionateRetribution above and beyond self-defense]] either. As the creative team felt a greater need to make Bugs look more heroic, he became tamer and laid back, rarely that proactive unless a foe was antagonising him at that very moment.
618* MultipleChoicePast: Variously described as being from Manhattan (in shorts like "A Hare Grows in Manhattan") and Brooklyn, though his accent is a Flatbush accent.
619* MyInstinctsAreShowing: One of the things that can outsmart Bugs (at least in the short term) is luring him with carrots. See "Mad as a Mars Hare":
620-->'''Bugs:''' Darn it. Betrayed by my baser reflexes again.
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624* NameDrop: Bugs has dropped the names of numerous celebrities of the day, but in particular in "French Rarebit" he mentions the restaurant Antoine's of New Orleans. It actually exists in New Orleans (on Rue de St. Louis) and has been in operation since 1860.
625* NegativeContinuity: As with all the other Looney Tunes, each Bugs short starts off fresh. The sole exception to this, and probably all the old shorts in general, is WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare, which directly references its predecessor, "Tortoise Beats Hare", by having Bugs watch the actual cartoon on a home movie projector, but due to some plot details being ignored (such as that Cecil blatantly cheated in the first race, something Bugs has seemingly forgotten) it probably falls under BroadStrokes as well.
626* NiceGuy: He was originally an abrasive troll and [[invoked]]DesignatedHero, but over the years gradually becomes more laid back and one of the nicest characters in the series, being usually a friendly guy to anyone who doesn't cause him trouble (even having a FriendlyEnemy attitude towards Daffy, despite the latter's antagonism).
627* NoFourthWall: Bugs often spoke directly to the audience, usually to make a smart-aleck comment about whatever was happening at that moment.
628* NoSenseOfDirection: He ''always'' misses that left turn in Alburquerque.
629* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: The writers had a field day with these. While usually making it through each short with hardly a hair out of place, every now and then Bugs' luck would run out and he would be made the ButtMonkey to another, usually underestimated foe. In the earliest shorts, this role usually fell to the character of Cecil Turtle, but even Bugs' most hapless nemeses could occasionally score a victory on him: one of the classic examples being ''WesternAnimation/RabbitRampage'' -- itself a successor to ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' in which Bugs replaces Daffy as the victim of a tormenting animator, who turns out to be Elmer Fudd.
630* OfficialCouple: Since the 90's, Bugs has often been paired up with WesternAnimation/LolaBunny. Their relationship has varied from medium to medium, but they usually end up together at one point or another.
631* OffingTheAnnoyance: During his ''WesternAnimation/RhapsodyRabbit'' concerto he has to deal with a spectator's cough, for which Bugs has his own cure, a shot from his hidden gun that puts an end to it.
632* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In an old comic, he reveals that his real name is [[spoiler:George Washington Bunny]].
633* OperationBlank: "WesternAnimation/OperationRabbit"
634* OutdatedName: "Bugs" or "Bugsy" was a reasonably common nickname in the '30s for someone known to be a little crazy, especially if their given name started with B. The slang fell out of usage and now the cartoon rabbit is just about the only well-known Bugs in popular culture, subjecting the name to JustForFun/OneMarioLimit.
635* OutOfFocus: Despite being Warner Bros.' biggest star, Bugs vanished after 1964's "False Hare". That is, until he returned in 1979's "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol". Since then, he's appeared in several of the sporadically released post-1969 shorts.
636* PackedHero: Used multiple times; see the trope page for details.
637* PaperThinDisguise: His enemies will only realize it's him when they see his tail or ears, having not noticed Bugs' fur or little bunny nose.
638* ParodyMagicSpell: Used in "Transylvania 6-5000". Bugs starts reading a book about magic words that contain the words "Abracadabra" and "Hocus Pocus." Unbeknownst to him (at first, anyway), "Abracadabra" turns the vampire into a bat, and "Hocus Pocus" turns him back into a person. He starts singing the words in a song, transforming the vampire back and forth (Hilarity Ensues)... then starts mixing them up in the song, "Abraca-Pocus" and "Hocus-cadabra", making half the vampire transform, i.e. a human body with a bat's head, then a bat's body and human head. Then he throws out, "Newport News!" which changes the vampire into an ugly witch, and finally, "Walla Walla Washington!" which turns him into a two-headed vulture.
639* PetTheDog: In "Which is Witch", after Bugs and the WitchDoctor I.C. Spots fall into a river together, a crocodile surfaces next to Bugs, who, upon finding out that the croc ate the medicine man, immediately demands the reptile spit him back out. When the crocodile refuses, Bugs grabs a club and attacks the croc trying to save his former adversary's life, then expresses remorse when, despite having made a handbag out of his opponent, he seems to have failed.
640* PlungerDetonator: "The Windblown Hare". When TheBigBadWolf huffs and puff and blows at Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs' house of straw, the house ''explodes''. The camera pans right and show Bugs standing next to a plunger detonator. Bugs used it to blow up the house while he was offscreen.
641* PointThatSomewhereElse: Bugs often does this in his encounters with Elmer.
642* PolkaDotPaint: In "Easter Yeggs", Bugs paints Elmer's head blue with yellow polka dots in two strokes.
643* PopCulturalOsmosis: Some people would be surprised to know that Bugs and Elmer only shared 35 pictures out of Bugs' 168 shorts.
644* ProudPapaPassesOutTheCigars:
645** Parodied in "Apes of Wrath", where after the drunken DeliveryStork delivers Bugs as a substitute for a gorilla baby, the excited father gorilla gives out ''bananas'' to all his friends.
646** In "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", Bugs trick Tasmanian Devil into thinking he's the father to a newborn baby, to which Taz gives him a cigar. It then turns out that Taz's "baby" is actually [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb a bomb]], but it turns out Taz had played a trick of his own when Bugs finds out the cigar is of the explosive variety.
647--->'''Bugs:''' I just wonder if he's as dumb as he looks.
648* ProjectileToast: Bugs himself {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this in "To Hare is Human" (when [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] attempted to replace the carrots in his toaster with grenades): "One of these days, I'm gonna hafta have that spring fixed."
649* ProWrestlingEpisode: "Bunny Hugged"
650* TheProtagonist: The iconic main star of the Looney Tunes franchise.
651* PublicDomainAnimation: A handful of his cartoons have slipped into the PublicDomain.
652* PunBasedTitle: The writers for WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes must have used every 'hare' pun possible while thinking up titles for Bugs Bunny shorts.
653* PungeonMaster: Bugs is ''really'' fond of puns and wordplay. Often "hare"-related puns, but they're by no means the only puns he does... when he makes a snarky remark to himself he's fairly likely to throw in a pun. Some... a little more forced than others.
654-->"Wotta gully-''bull.'' Wotta nin-''cow''-poop."
655* RascallyRabbit: 'Scuse us, that's "Wascawwy Wabbit!" Bugs constantly uses his trickster tactics to outwit and harass everyone. In the early days he was something of a prankster and would just prank others for his own amusement. Over the years he became more of a KarmicTrickster and only went after those who struck first.
656%%* ReachingBetweenTheLines: One of Bugs Bunny's abilities.
657* RealAwardFictionalCharacter:
658** In the 1944 short "What's Cookin' Doc?", Bugs believes he's a shoo-in for Best Actor at the Oscars, but Creator/JamesCagney wins it instead, causing Bugs to have a meltdown. He ends up getting a BoobyPrize Oscar, shaped like him.
659** Bugs is awarded a Nobel Prize in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "The Shelf". Subverted when this genius bunny succeeds in demolishing his entire house while building a shelf to display his award.
660** Bugs argues with the humorless Kate Houghton during ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' about rehiring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, and bolsters his argument with four Oscar statuettes and a chunk of granite with his Walk of Fame star on it. For the record, four Warner Bros. cartoons have won an Oscar, but only one went to a Bugs Bunny cartoon: "Knighty Knight Bugs". Bugs Bunny also has an actual star on the Walk of Fame.
661** In the short "Super-Rabbit", Bugs becomes a Marine at the end. In real life, the U.S. Marine Corps were so thrilled by that ending that they actually inducted Bugs into the force as a private, complete with dogtags; he was regularly promoted until the end of World War II, where he was officially "discharged" with the rank of Master Sergeant.
662** On the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E50WhoBoppedBugsBunny Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?]]", Bugs' Shloscar is treated as the actual Oscar that "Knighty Knight Bugs" won.
663* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Daffy's red.
664* RhymingTitle: The short "Bugs and Thugs".
665* RighteousRabbit: Many of his cartoons had Bugs in a heroic role where he (in Joe Adamson's words) "fought Yosemite Sam because it was the right thing to do." Of course, he'd use [[GuileHero his wiles]] and sense of being a KarmicTrickster in his battles.
666* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: In the shorts where he's pitted against the TropeNamer himself, Wile E. Coyote, he serves as the Road Runner to Wile E.'s Coyote. In the case of "Hare-Breadth Hurry", he literally substitutes for the Road Runner due to the latter having sprained a giblet.
667* RogerRabbitEffect: His appearances in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dream_Is_Yours My Dream Is Yours]]'', ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', ''Film/SpaceJam'' and ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction''
668* RoguesGallery: Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Tasmanian Devil, Gossamer, Witch Hazel, Rocky and Mugsy and occasionally Marvin the Martian, and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck ([[WithFriendsLikeThese depending on the mood]]).
669* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Bugs has often dealt with villains from other Warner Bros. cartoons, most famously with Roadrunner's Wile E. Coyote.
670* RuleOfThree: Generally, to keep Bugs from appearing like a bully, he only reacts after the antagonist does ''three'' knocks against him. After that, "of course you realize, ThisMeansWar!"
671* RunningGag: Bugs going on vacations by digging a shallow track in the ground, invariably [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque getting lost]], often with Daffy in tow, to the latter's frustration.
672* RunningGagged: Bugs doesn't do his trademark crossdressing shtick much, if at all, anymore. The last major instance of Bugs doing it was in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', which was specifically done to call to attention how dated and questionable the gag is now.
673* SaveTheVillain: In "Which is Witch" Bugs chooses to save the witch doctor, who Bugs believes to be a child, that's been troubling him through the short after he gets eaten by a crocodile.
674* SemperFi: Bugs served in the Corps from 1943-1945. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Rabbit#Reception No, really.]]
675* ShipOutOfWater: At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "14 Carrot Rabbit", Bugs inexplicably boards an ocean liner on land in front of Fort Knox.
676* ShutUpScaryThing: Director, Bob [=McKimson=], once claimed Bugs as the type of person where if a lion roared at him, he would simply walk over and slap it across the face. He displays this in ''WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs'' when a bull keeps snorting on his tail, and Bugs slaps him exclaiming, "Stop steamin' up my tail! Whaddaya tryin' to do? Wrinkle it?!"
677* SiegeEngines: In "Knighty Knight Bugs", the Black Knight (Yosemite Sam) uses a catapult to try to launch himself into a castle window.
678* {{Slapstick}}: Usually one of Bugs Bunny’s tricks. However, he's rather intelligent about being on the giving end instead of the receiving end, most of the time. When Bugs was about to hit a bomb with a giant sledgehammer (ostensibly to blow it up for a tiny imp that wanted to see a "blockbuster bomb" explode), Bugs dropped the hammer and screamed "WHAT AM I DOING?!" before he hit the bomb.
679* [[{{Somethingitis}} Something-itis]]: In "Hare Tonic", Bugs convinces Elmer that he has "the dread disease, rabbit-itis".
680* SoreLoser: The lesser-seen aspect of his personality; during the rare moments where Bugs is on the losing side of things, he does ''not'' take it well. The trilogy of his shorts with Cecil Turtle, and ''Rabbit Rampage'', all see Bugs coming out on the losing end. When he does, Bugs shows that he can be pretty vindictive and spiteful when he loses, spewing out insults and resorting to cheap tactics in order to win. And when even that doesn't work, Bugs will insist that he deserves to win anyways.
681* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Bugs' RoguesGallery follows this, with each main enemy that he encounters being progessively more dangerous or belligerent.
682** Bugs' first main enemy was Elmer Fudd. Elmer was generally malicious, typically having end goals that were explicitly harmful to Bugs but was dull witted, soft mannered, and mild tempered to the point that even when he was a clear cut antagonist the creators still felt like Bugs was bullying him.
683** The creators endeavored to create a new foe to counteract how ineffectual Elmer was and made Yosemite Sam. Sam wasn't necessarily smarter than Elmer but was much more aggressive and violent, typically having several moments during his appearances that showcased how much of a villain he was.
684** Sam was followed up with Marvin the Martian. Marvin was AffablyEvil, being softspoken but completely at ease with doing downright deranged actions. (His debut had him planning to blow up the Earth for petty reasons) He also had resources and know-how to be a legitimate threat.
685** Following Marvin was the Tazmanian Devil. Taz was very much TheBerserker who required no prodding at all to go after Bugs with the stated intention of eating him. Not only was Taz very much a physical threat but he also proved smart enough to see through a few of Bugs' tricks, so it's not too shocking that meetings between the two gave Bugs a few OhCrap moments.
686** Topping them all was Witch Hazel. The witch was unpredictable and AxCrazy to the point that Bugs was usually terrified of her and often managed to elude her more by luck than anything.
687* SpeciesSurname: Bugs is a bunny rabbit.
688* StraightMan: Becomes this to WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''.
689* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Bugs Bunny, of all people, will occasionally play the Straight Man to Daffy's Wise Guy. While the latter lets his inner demons get the best of him and gets himself into hot water almost all the time, Bugs keeps his cool and just tries to relax or get to somewhere he can relax until Daffy's antics become his problem.
690* StreetSmart: Bugs Bunny is very street smart and clever, it’s how he lasted so long.
691* StrippingSnag:
692** In "Mississippi Hare", Bugs dresses as a SouthernBelle to escape Colonel Shuffle, and tricks another man into tossing the Colonel off the steamboat. Bugs' skirt then gets snagged on a gate, stripping off the back half. The man takes one look at the "lady's" exposed cottontail, throws a fit and jumps ship. "Aw, well. We almost had a romantic ending."
693** The same gag is used in "Hare Trimmed", with Bugs pretending to be a widow that WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam wants to marry. They are halfway to the alter when Bug's train gets caught in a nail, and Sam notices just as he's about to say "I do." It's TheLastStraw for Sam and he runs out having a meltdown.
694* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Bugs can apparently breathe underwater, since almost all of "Hare Ribbin'" (save the opening) is set underwater!
695* TakeThatKiss: One of his trademarks, especially towards Elmer.
696* TalkingAnimal: "Eh... What's up doc?"
697* TemporarilyAVillain: Whenever he's a VillainProtagonist.
698* ThisMeansWar: While not always explicitly said, it gradually became a key facet of his character (at least in the later shorts he starred in) that if you left him alone he'd leave you alone, but if you started a fight the gloves would come off. Many of the cartoons he appears in start with him just going about his usual business when someone else provokes him, leading to the usual antics. Less of the case when he's a VillainProtagonist, however.
699* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: Notably in "Falling Hare."
700* TimTaylorTechnology: Wile E.'s massive computer in "To Hare Is Human" has all the answers for catching a rabbit, but none of them work. Except for the last when the boulder end of a booby trap is descending upon him:
701-->'''Wile E.:''' ''(panickly pressing buttons)'' Rock... falling... what'll... I... do??\
702'''Computer read-out:''' Go back and take your medicine. ''(Wile E. goes back and lets the boulder fall on him)''
703** And that's because Bugs was inside the machine every time.
704--->'''Bugs:''' Of course, the real beauty of this machine is that it has only one moving part.
705* TollBoothAntics: In "Rabbit Transit", Bugs, in the middle of a cross-country race, approaches a toll bridge, but jumps into the river and swims across instead.
706* TookALevelInKindness: Bugs becomes a lot softer in the later cartoons, evolving further away from an abrasive {{Troll}} and more a laid back FriendlyEnemy.
707* {{Troll}}: In several early shorts, Bugs would harass outmatched opponents for the sheer fun of it. The creative team soon eased him out of it by making his opponents this, though were fearful pitiful adversaries such as WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd weren't provocative enough and were still leaning him dangerously into this trope.
708* TunnelKing: Bugs is able to travel anywhere in the world by tunneling, usually in a matter of hours (or sometimes minutes).
709* UnexpectedlyRealMagic: In the cartoon "Transylvania 6-5000", Bugs spends the night at the castle of Count Bloodcount, a vampire wanting to sink his fangs on our hero. Unable to sleep, Bugs picks up a book on magic spells and reads out loud about the words Abracadabra and Hocus Pocus. Unbeknownst to him (at first, anyway), those words cause the Count to turn into a bat and back again, respectively. As Bugs makes up a song about them, the Count keeps changing at the most inopportune times.
710* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Sadly, Bugs has been known to sink to this level on occasion. His foes became more and more arrogant themselves to circumvent this (though of course in their case it is just TemptingFate).
711* VillainProtagonist: Bugs was generally a defensive character, but there have been several episodes where he became this, especially in his early years. But barring a handful of exceptions, Bugs was ''never'' portrayed as malicious, but as a practical joker who knows its all an act, and is just rolling along with the situation.
712* VitriolicBestBuds: Bugs and Daffy.
713* VocalEvolution: His voice is lower and his accent is thicker in his earliest shorts.
714* WartimeCartoon: Several, some good, some politically incorrect, some forgettable propaganda.
715* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Bugs speaks with a peculiar mixture of a Brooklyn/Bronx accent. (Mel Blanc also said his inspiration was Frank [=McHugh=], who spoke in a New York Irish accent).
716%%* WhiteGloves: Bugs Bunny’s hands.
717* WholesomeCrossdresser: Many, many times. And his enemies always develop a crush on him.
718* WithFriendsLikeThese: With Daffy. In some shorts he outright ascends to a villain for Bugs.
719* WormSign: It often happens when he travels under ground.
720* WritersCannotDoMath: In ''WesternAnimation/TheWabbitWhoCameToSupper", going by the deductions as listed in the special delivery letter, Elmer is actually left with a final balance of $902,934.04, rather than owing them $1.98.
721* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: The TropeNamer. This was used as a setup gag in a number of episodes to explain why Bugs was in a weird place.
722* YouSayTomato:
723** Bugs Bunny is fond of odd pronunciations. "Maroon" for 'moron' is perhaps the best known. Part of it is his accent, but much of it seems to be affectation. Bugs does use "moron" in "Tortoise Beats Hare". He was also known to mangle the word 'imbecile' (which he pronounces as "im-BES-sel").
724** Bugs says "nave" instead of "naïve" at least once, but also says "naïve", so at least this one is likely intentional.
725** Bugs also has trouble saying Aluminum, either calling it Alu-mini-um or extending it to Aluminumminumminum.
726* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses:
727%%** In "Hare Splitter".
728** And "Transylvania 6-5000":
729--->'''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Count Bloodcount (as a bat)]]:''' You wouldn't hit a bat with glasses on, would you?\
730'''Bugs ([[BatterUp as a bat]]):''' [[SubvertedTrope WHACK!]]
731[[/folder]]
732----
733->"''[[ThatsAllFolks An' that's the end!]]''"

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