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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead I'm not crazy, I just don't give a darn]]! [[SignatureLaugh WOO-HOO! WOO-HOO-HOO-HOO!]]"'']] |
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| 7 | ->''"[[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Bugs]] is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are."'' |
| 8 | -->-- '''Creator/ChuckJones''' |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Daffy Duck is a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character created by Creator/TexAvery (although Creator/BobClampett contributed to Daffy's personality) in 1937. He was the first of the new breed of "screwball" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig. Was originally The Screwball [=/=]{{Cloudcuckoolander}}, later developed by Creator/ChuckJones (and Creator/FrizFreleng, even more so) into a {{Jerkass}} SmallNameBigEgo, most famously paired with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny as the OddCouple, but is also frequently set up against Porky Pig, who works as TheComicallySerious and DeadpanSnarker to Daffy's hijinks. In this incarnation, used either as a foil for Bugs or to parody action-adventure heroes. Meanwhile Robert [=McKimson=] [[CompositeCharacter combined the two interpretations]] and made Daffy into a LoveableRogue. Later also joined Sylvester on the hunt for WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales. Debut: ''[[WesternAnimation/PorkysDuckHunt Porky's Duck Hunt]]'' (1937), Tex Avery. |
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| 12 | Daffy has had the third largest amount of appearances in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' history, next to WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, starring in 129 theatrical cartoons. He, along with WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales, has the distinction of starring in the final classic theatrical ''Looney Tunes'' short, which was ''WesternAnimation/SeeYaLaterGladiator''. |
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| 14 | Many of the cartoons in which Daffy has starred have been [[AffectionateParody parodies]] of movies and radio serials, such as ''Duck Dodgers'', ''Duck Twacy'' (in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery''), and ''WesternAnimation/RobinHoodDaffy''. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | [[folder:Filmography]] |
| 17 | |
| 18 | !1937 |
| 19 | |
| 20 | [[index]] |
| 21 | * WesternAnimation/PorkysDuckHunt (LT, Avery) - Daffy's first appearance, in a Porky Pig cartoon. Redrawn in color, 1967. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | !1938 |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead (MM, Avery) - First entry in the "Daffy Duck" series. |
| 26 | * WesternAnimation/WhatPricePorky (LT, Clampett) - In a Porky Pig cartoon. |
| 27 | * WesternAnimation/PorkyAndDaffy (LT, Clampett) - In a Porky Pig cartoon. Redrawn in color, 1967. |
| 28 | * WesternAnimation/TheDaffyDoc (LT, Clampett) - Redrawn in color, 1967. |
| 29 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckInHollywood (MM, Avery) - Last Daffy cartoon directed by Avery. A scene at the end of the cartoon is considered to be the Ur YouTubePoop, decades before it became a thing. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | !1939 |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [[/index]] |
| 34 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndTheDinosaur (MM, Jones) - The first Creator/ChuckJones short to use the character. We also start to see a hint of what Daffy would later become, as he is presented as more thoughtful and calculating than he usually was in his early appearances. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 35 | * Scalp Trouble (LT, Clampett) - In a Porky Pig cartoon. Remade as "Slightly Daffy" in 1944; redrawn in color 1967. |
| 36 | * Wise Quacks (LT, Clampett) - In a Porky Pig cartoon. |
| 37 | * Naughty Neighbors (LT, Clampett) - In a Porky Pig cartoon, cameo. - Redrawn in color, 1967. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | !1940 (All cartoons co-star Porky Pig.) |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[index]] |
| 42 | * Porky's Last Stand (LT, Clampett) |
| 43 | * Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures (LT, Freleng) |
| 44 | |
| 45 | !1941 (All cartoons star Porky Pig.) |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[/index]] |
| 48 | * WesternAnimation/ACoyDecoy (LT, Clampett) - Redrawn in color, 1967. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 49 | * The Henpecked Duck (LT, Clampett) - Redrawn in color, 1967. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | !1942 |
| 52 | |
| 53 | * Conrad the Sailor (MM, Jones) - Co-stars with Conrad the Cat. |
| 54 | * WesternAnimation/DaffysSouthernExposure (LT, [=McCabe=]) - Redrawn in color, 1967. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 55 | * The Impatient Patient (LT, [=McCabe=]) - Redrawn in color, 1967. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 56 | * The Daffy Duckaroo (LT, [=McCabe=]) - Redrawn in color, 1967. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 57 | * My Favorite Duck (LT, Jones)- In a Porky Pig cartoon. Reissued as a Merrie Melodies film. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | !1943 |
| 60 | |
| 61 | * To Duck or Not to Duck (LT, Jones) - First Daffy/Elmer pairing. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 62 | * The Wise Quacking Duck (LT, Clampett) |
| 63 | * Yankee Doodle Daffy (LT, Freleng)- In a Porky Pig cartoon. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 64 | [[index]] |
| 65 | * WesternAnimation/PorkyPigsFeat (LT, Tashlin) - In a Porky Pig cartoon, Bugs Bunny cameo marks first joint on-screen appearance with Daffy. Redrawn in color, 1967. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 66 | * WesternAnimation/ScrapHappyDaffy (LT, Tashlin) [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain]]. |
| 67 | * WesternAnimation/ACornyConcerto (MM, Clampett) - ''Possible'' appearance as a baby duckling. [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 68 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyTheCommando (LT, Freleng) [[PublicDomainAnimation Public Domain.]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | |
| 71 | !1944 |
| 72 | |
| 73 | * Tom Turk and Daffy (LT, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 74 | * Tick Tock Tuckered (LT, Clampett) - Starring Porky Pig. Remake of ''WesternAnimation/PorkysBadtimeStory''. |
| 75 | * WesternAnimation/DuckSoupToNuts (LT, Freleng) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 76 | * Slightly Daffy (MM, Freleng) - Starring Porky Pig. Remake of ''Scalp Trouble''. |
| 77 | * WesternAnimation/PlaneDaffy (LT, Tashlin) |
| 78 | * WesternAnimation/TheStupidCupid (LT, Tashlin) - Starring Elmer Fudd. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | !1945 |
| 81 | |
| 82 | * WesternAnimation/DrafteeDaffy (LT, Clampett) |
| 83 | * Ain't That Ducky (LT, Freleng) |
| 84 | * WesternAnimation/NastyQuacks (MM, Tashlin) |
| 85 | |
| 86 | !1946 |
| 87 | |
| 88 | * WesternAnimation/BookRevue (LT, Clampett) |
| 89 | * WesternAnimation/BabyBottleneck (LT, Clampett) - Starring Porky Pig |
| 90 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyDoodles (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 91 | * Hollywood Daffy (MM, Freleng) |
| 92 | * WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery (LT, Clampett) - One of the first cartoons to air on Creator/CartoonNetwork. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | !1947 |
| 95 | |
| 96 | * Birth of a Notion (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Re-issued as a Merrie Melodies film. |
| 97 | * WesternAnimation/AlongCameDaffy (LT, Freleng) - Starring Yosemite Sam. Re-issued as a Merrie Melodies film. |
| 98 | * WesternAnimation/APestInTheHouse (LT, Jones) - Starring Elmer Fudd. |
| 99 | * Mexican Joyride (LT, Davis) |
| 100 | |
| 101 | !1948 |
| 102 | |
| 103 | * WesternAnimation/WhatMakesDaffyDuck (LT, Davis) - Starring Elmer Fudd. |
| 104 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckSleptHere (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 105 | * The Up-Standing Sitter (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 106 | * You Were Never Duckier (MM, Jones) - Starring Henery Hawk. |
| 107 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyDilly (MM, Jones) |
| 108 | * WesternAnimation/TheStuporSalesman (LT, Davis) |
| 109 | * Riff Raffy Daffy (LT, Davis) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | !1949 |
| 112 | |
| 113 | * Wise Quackers (LT, Freleng) - Starring Elmer Fudd. |
| 114 | * WesternAnimation/HolidayForDrumsticks (MM, Davis) |
| 115 | * Daffy Duck Hunt (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 116 | |
| 117 | !1950 |
| 118 | |
| 119 | * WesternAnimation/BoobsInTheWoods (LT, [=McKimson=])-Starring Porky Pig. |
| 120 | * WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel (LT, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Henery Hawk, Sylvester, and others. |
| 121 | * WesternAnimation/HisBitterHalf (MM, Freleng) |
| 122 | * Golden Yeggs (MM, Freleng) - Starring Porky Pig and Rocky. |
| 123 | * WesternAnimation/TheDucksters (LT, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 124 | |
| 125 | !1951 |
| 126 | |
| 127 | * WesternAnimation/RabbitFire (LT, Jones) - Starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd. |
| 128 | * WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy (MM, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 129 | * The Prize Pest (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | !1952 |
| 132 | |
| 133 | * Thumb Fun (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 134 | * Cracked Quack (MM, Freleng) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 135 | * WesternAnimation/RabbitSeasoning (MM, Jones) - Starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd. |
| 136 | * The Super Snooper (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 137 | * Fool Coverage (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | !1953 |
| 140 | |
| 141 | * WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck (MM, Jones) - Cameo by Bugs Bunny. |
| 142 | * WesternAnimation/MuscleTussle (MM, [=McKimson=]) |
| 143 | * WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury (MM, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian. |
| 144 | * WesternAnimation/DuckRabbitDuck (MM, Jones) - Starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd. |
| 145 | |
| 146 | !1954 |
| 147 | |
| 148 | * WesternAnimation/DesignForLeaving (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer Fudd. |
| 149 | * Quack Shot (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer Fudd. |
| 150 | * My Little Duckaroo (LT, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | !1955 |
| 153 | |
| 154 | * Beanstalk Bunny (MM, Jones) - Starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd. |
| 155 | * Stork Naked (MM, Freleng) |
| 156 | * This Is a Life? (MM, Freleng) - Starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Granny. |
| 157 | * WesternAnimation/DimeToRetire (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 158 | * Sahara Hare (LT, Freleng) - In a Bugs Bunny cartoon, cameo |
| 159 | |
| 160 | !1956 |
| 161 | |
| 162 | * The High and the Flighty (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Foghorn Leghorn. |
| 163 | * WesternAnimation/RocketSquad (LT, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 164 | * WesternAnimation/StuporDuck (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 165 | * WesternAnimation/AStarIsBored (LT, Freleng) - Starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam. |
| 166 | * WesternAnimation/DeduceYouSay (LT, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 167 | |
| 168 | !1957 |
| 169 | |
| 170 | * WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny (MM, Jones) - Starring Bugs Bunny. |
| 171 | * WesternAnimation/BostonQuackie (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 172 | * WesternAnimation/DuckingTheDevil (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Taz. |
| 173 | * ''WesternAnimation/ShowBizBugs'' (LT, Freleng) - Starring Bugs Bunny. |
| 174 | |
| 175 | !1958 |
| 176 | |
| 177 | * Don't Axe Me (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Elmer Fudd. |
| 178 | * WesternAnimation/RobinHoodDaffy (MM, Jones) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 179 | |
| 180 | !1959 |
| 181 | |
| 182 | * WesternAnimation/ChinaJones (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 183 | * People Are Bunny (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Bugs Bunny. |
| 184 | * Apes of Wrath (MM, Freleng) - In a Bugs Bunny cartoon, cameo |
| 185 | |
| 186 | !1960 |
| 187 | |
| 188 | * WesternAnimation/PersonToBunny (MM, Freleng) - Starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd. |
| 189 | |
| 190 | !1961 |
| 191 | |
| 192 | * The Abominable Snow Rabbit (LT, Jones; co-dir: Noble) - Starring Bugs Bunny. |
| 193 | * WesternAnimation/DaffysInnTrouble (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Porky Pig. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | !1962 |
| 196 | |
| 197 | * Quackodile Tears (MM, Davis) |
| 198 | * WesternAnimation/GoodNoose (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 199 | |
| 200 | !1963 |
| 201 | |
| 202 | * Fast Buck Duck (MM, [=McKimson=]; co-dir.: Bonnicksen) |
| 203 | * WesternAnimation/TheMillionHare (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Bugs Bunny |
| 204 | * Aqua Duck (MM, [=McKimson=]) |
| 205 | |
| 206 | !1964 |
| 207 | |
| 208 | * WesternAnimation/TheIcemanDucketh (LT, Monroe) - Starring Bugs Bunny. Last appearance with Bugs in the original theatrical cartoons. |
| 209 | |
| 210 | !1965 |
| 211 | |
| 212 | * It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (LT, Pratt) - Starring Sylvester, Granny, Speedy. First pairing of Daffy and Speedy. |
| 213 | * Moby Duck (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Speedy. |
| 214 | * WesternAnimation/AssaultAndPeppered (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Speedy. |
| 215 | * WesternAnimation/WellWornDaffy (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Speedy. |
| 216 | * Suppressed Duck (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 217 | * WesternAnimation/CornOnTheCop (MM, Spector) - Starring Granny, Porky Pig. Final pairing of Daffy and Porky. |
| 218 | * Tease for Two (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring the Goofy Gophers. |
| 219 | * Chili Corn Corny (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Speedy. |
| 220 | * Go Go Amigo (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Speedy. |
| 221 | |
| 222 | !1966 (All cartoons co-star Daffy and Speedy.) |
| 223 | |
| 224 | * WesternAnimation/TheAstroduck (or Astro Duck) (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 225 | * Mucho Locos (MM, [=McKimson=]) - Clips from "WesternAnimation/DeduceYouSay," "WesternAnimation/RobinHoodDaffy" and "WesternAnimation/ChinaJones" used. |
| 226 | * Mexican Mousepiece (MM, [=McKimson=]) |
| 227 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyRents (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 228 | * WesternAnimation/AHauntingWeWillGo (LT, [=McKimson=]) - Starring Witch Hazel. Clips from "Bewitched Bunny" incorporated. |
| 229 | * Snow Excuse (MM, [=McKimson=]) |
| 230 | * A Squeak in the Deep (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 231 | * Feather Finger (MM, [=McKimson=]) |
| 232 | * Swing Ding Amigo (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 233 | * A Taste of Catnip (MM, [=McKimson=]) |
| 234 | |
| 235 | !1967 (All cartoons co-star Daffy and Speedy.) |
| 236 | |
| 237 | * [[WesternAnimation/DaffysDiner Daffy's Diner]] (MM, [=McKimson=]) |
| 238 | * Quacker Tracker (LT, [=McKimson=]) |
| 239 | * The Music Mice-Tro (MM, [=McKimson=]) |
| 240 | * The Spy Swatter (LT, Larriva) |
| 241 | * Speedy Ghost to Town (MM, Lovy) |
| 242 | * Rodent to Stardom (LT, Lovy) |
| 243 | * Go Away Stowaway (MM, Lovy) |
| 244 | [[/index]] |
| 245 | * Fiesta Fiasco (LT, Lovy) BirthdayEpisode made to mark Daffy's 30th anniversary. |
| 246 | [[index]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | !1968 (All cartoons co-star Daffy and Speedy.) |
| 249 | |
| 250 | * Skyscraper Caper (LT, Lovy) |
| 251 | * WesternAnimation/SeeYaLaterGladiator (LT, Lovy) - Final theatrical Daffy Duck cartoon until 1980.(LT) |
| 252 | |
| 253 | !1972 |
| 254 | |
| 255 | * The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndPorkyPigMeetTheGroovieGoolies" |
| 256 | |
| 257 | !1976 |
| 258 | |
| 259 | * "Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals"(Jones) Aired on CBS. Co-starring Bugs Bunny, cameo by Porky Pig. Based on "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | !1980 |
| 262 | |
| 263 | * The Yolk's on You (originally part of ''Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement'') |
| 264 | * The Chocolate Chase (originally part of ''Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement'') |
| 265 | * Daffy Flies North (originally part of ''Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement'') |
| 266 | * Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century - First theatrical "Daffy Duck" cartoon since 1968. |
| 267 | |
| 268 | !1983 |
| 269 | |
| 270 | * ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksFantasticIsland'' |
| 271 | |
| 272 | !1987 |
| 273 | |
| 274 | * The Duxorcist (MM, Ford/Lennnon) |
| 275 | |
| 276 | !1988 |
| 277 | |
| 278 | * The Night of the Living Duck (MM, Ford/Lennon) - Final cartoon where Daffy is voiced by Mel Blanc. |
| 279 | * Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit - Short cameo in the "dueling piano" sequence against WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. Voiced by Mel Blanc and animated by Creator/ChuckJones. |
| 280 | * WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters - a compilation film. |
| 281 | |
| 282 | !1990 |
| 283 | |
| 284 | * Box-Office Bunny (Van Citters) - In a "Bugs Bunny" cartoon, voiced by Creator/JeffBergman |
| 285 | * ''WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' (1990) - This Main/{{Crossover}} special marked the first time Daffy was voiced by someone other than Mel Blanc (in this case, Jeff Bergman). |
| 286 | * ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' (1990) - Bugs and Daffy make a cameo in the opening scene. Daffy later reappears during the end credits where he leaves snarky comments to the viewer. |
| 287 | * WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures - Daffy makes several guest appearances, voiced by Creator/JeffBergman and later by Creator/GregBurson |
| 288 | |
| 289 | !1991 |
| 290 | |
| 291 | * WesternAnimation/BlooperBunny (Ford/Lennon) - In a Bugs Bunny cartoon, voiced by Creator/JeffBergman |
| 292 | |
| 293 | !1992 |
| 294 | |
| 295 | * WesternAnimation/InvasionOfTheBunnySnatchers (Ford/Lennon) - In a Bugs Bunny cartoon, voiced by Creator/JeffBergman |
| 296 | |
| 297 | !1993 |
| 298 | |
| 299 | * WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} - Daffy made several cameos, voiced by Creator/GregBurson |
| 300 | |
| 301 | !1995 |
| 302 | |
| 303 | * Carrotblanca - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 304 | |
| 305 | !1996 |
| 306 | |
| 307 | * Superior Duck - voiced by Creator/FrankGorshin |
| 308 | * Film/SpaceJam - voiced by Creator/DeeBradleyBaker |
| 309 | |
| 310 | !1998 |
| 311 | |
| 312 | * Series/TheDrewCareyShow - Daffy made a guest appearance in the season finale "My Best Friend's Wedding", voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 313 | * WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}} - Makes several cameos, voiced by Billy West |
| 314 | |
| 315 | !2001 |
| 316 | * WebAnimation/ToonMarooned - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 317 | * WebAnimation/JudgeGranny - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 318 | * WebAnimation/MysteriousPhenomenaOfTheUnexplained - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 319 | * WebAnimation/TheJunkyardRun - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 320 | * WebAnimation/PlanetOfTheTaz - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 321 | |
| 322 | !2002 |
| 323 | * WebAnimation/TheRoyalMallard - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 324 | * WebAnimation/TechSuppork - Cameo |
| 325 | |
| 326 | !2003 |
| 327 | * WebAnimation/SportsBlab - Cameo |
| 328 | * WebAnimation/AluminumChef - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 329 | * WebAnimation/TearFactor - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 330 | * WesternAnimation/AttackOfTheDrones, voiced by Jeff Bennett |
| 331 | * WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers TV series, voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 332 | * Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 333 | |
| 334 | !2004 |
| 335 | |
| 336 | * Daffy Duck for President -voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 337 | * WebAnimation/WileECoyoteUgly - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 338 | |
| 339 | !2005 |
| 340 | |
| 341 | * WebAnimation/FastFeud - voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 342 | |
| 343 | !2006 |
| 344 | |
| 345 | * Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, voiced by Joe Alaskey |
| 346 | |
| 347 | !2011 |
| 348 | |
| 349 | * WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow, TV series, voiced by Creator/JeffBergman |
| 350 | |
| 351 | !2012 |
| 352 | |
| 353 | * Daffy's Rhapsody, a completely musical short using Creator/MelBlanc's earlier recording. Coincidentally was released two months before Daffy's 75th anniversary. |
| 354 | |
| 355 | !2015 |
| 356 | |
| 357 | * WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction, voiced by Creator/DeeBradleyBaker |
| 358 | |
| 359 | !2020 |
| 360 | |
| 361 | * WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons, voiced by Creator/EricBauza |
| 362 | |
| 363 | !2021 |
| 364 | |
| 365 | * ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'', voiced by Creator/EricBauza |
| 366 | |
| 367 | !2022 |
| 368 | |
| 369 | * ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyBuilders'', voiced by Creator/EricBauza |
| 370 | |
| 371 | !2023 |
| 372 | |
| 373 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsLooniversity'' |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[/index]] |
| 376 | [[/folder]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | ---- |
| 379 | !!"Anyone for tropes?": |
| 380 | |
| 381 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: His white collar, revealed to be his grandmother's pearl necklace in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. He claims it's for medical reasons. |
| 382 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: Some applied ToonPhysics in "Porky and Daffy": |
| 383 | -->'''Daffy:''' "[[MadHatter I'm so crazy]], I don't know that this is impossible!" |
| 384 | * AcmeProducts: Daffy has been known to use these a few times. |
| 385 | * AlliterativeName: '''D'''affy '''D'''uck |
| 386 | * AlwaysSecondBest: |
| 387 | ** He's not just liked second to Bugs, he gets nothing except only cricket chirps and tomatoes in the face. Not to mention if there's another character around for comparison, they'll usually prove more popular as well (at least InUniverse), sometimes even a similar ButtMonkey [[StrawLoser just to add insult to injury]]. |
| 388 | ** Deconstructed in his appearance in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', after Daffy's fanbase is deemed "limited to [[BasementDweller angry fat guys in basements]]", WB considers him expendable and kick him out, only to find out the cartoons don't work nearly as well without his contribution. Daffy is underappreciated, but the audience ''[[TheChewToy loves]]'' [[TheChewToy to underappreciate him]]. |
| 389 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: In the subtitles of Hitler's rant in ''Scrap Happy Daffy'', he refers to Daffy as a "Non Aryan Duck". This fits in with filmmaker Greg Ford's account that actor Mel Blanc confided that Daffy is supposed to sound "Jewish" as opposed to Sylvester's "Gentile" voice. |
| 390 | %%* AmericaWonWorldWarII: The early UsefulNotes/WW2 cartoons used this. |
| 391 | %%* AmusingInjuries: |
| 392 | * AntiHero: Sways between UnscrupulousHero and NominalHero depending on the cartoon in question. |
| 393 | * AntiVillain: Unlike [[ItsAllAboutMe most of his appearances]] with Speedy, his motive in "Mexican Mousepiece" for sending mice away is to feed foreign cats who are starving to death. |
| 394 | * ArchEnemy: He eventually replaces Sylvester as Speedy's main enemy and spends most of his other appearances in the 1960s fighting the rodent. |
| 395 | * AshFace: Most infamously in the short ''Rabbit Fire''. |
| 396 | * AtLeastIAdmitIt: Daffy confesses on more than one occasion to be a coward and/or greedy. |
| 397 | ** He particularly confesses to both in "Ducking the Devil". He confesses cowardice when he first sees the Tasmanian Devil and runs for his life ("I am a coward, a craven, little, scared-to-death coward!"). And when he hears of a $5,000 reward for the capture of the Tasmanian Devil, he happily accepts the challenge of bringing the beast in and getting paid for it because "I may be a craven, little coward, but I'm a ''greeeedy'', craven, little coward." |
| 398 | ** His very first line in "WesternAnimation/PorkysDuckHunt" has him owning up to being "a crazy darn-fool duck". |
| 399 | * AttentionWhore: While the motivation of this trait has changed over the years, this has always been a consistent aspect of the character. |
| 400 | * AxCrazy: While his over-the-top insanity was [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} usually fairly harmless]], he certainly [[BewareTheSillyOnes had his moments in which it becomes violent]]. It's especially when he tries to saw a kidnapped Porky open in ''WesternAnimation/TheDaffyDoc''. |
| 401 | * BadBoss: Anyone unlucky enough to work under him in ''WesternAnimation/BahHumduckALooneyTunesChristmas'' will get treated like dirt. For instance, he demotes Porky for politely suggesting he could see a speech specialist about his [[SpeechImpediment lisp]]. He seems to [[TookALevelInKindness have gotten over this later]], however. |
| 402 | -->'''Daffy:''' ''[to Sylvester]'' Wait a minute, this is some kind of trick. Who put you up to this? Was it [[KarmicTrickster the rabbit]]? Or [[LampshadeHanging did my subordinates hire you to scare me into treating them with some dignity]]? |
| 403 | * BadlyBatteredBabysitter |
| 404 | ** ''The Up-Standing Sitter'' |
| 405 | ** Any time he has to watch his own kids (''Wise Quacks'') or his eggs (''Quackodile Tears''). |
| 406 | * BaitAndSwitchCompassion: Daffy Duck's reaction when he sees a dog making sad faces at him through a window. Currently the trope's page image. |
| 407 | -->'''Daffy:''' Aw, shucks. I can't stand to see a dumb animal suffer. So... ''[Closes the window blinds. Walks away.]'' |
| 408 | * BeastlyBloodsports: In "Mexican Joyride", Daffy goes to a bullfight ring to observe the spectacle. When Daffy jeers at the bull, the horned beast removes the clothes from the human matador and puts them on Daffy as a challenge to the duck to fight the bull in the ring. |
| 409 | * BerserkButton: Do not ''ever'' steal money from Daffy, EVER! Especially money that he actually ''earned''. The Tasmanian Devil [[CurbStompBattle learned this the hard way.]] |
| 410 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: In his screwball depictions, he's exaggeratedly goofy and zany. However, these characteristics do '''not''' mean he's a pushover. |
| 411 | * BigEater: Not so much in the cartoons, aside from "BBQ Bandit" which shows us he can eat loads of barbecue. However, in the licensed Dell comics, this became a big part of his character. In the comics, Daffy was always hungry and many of his schemes revolved around tricking people into giving him free food. Elmer was his favorite target, to the point where Elmer could barely go grocery shopping or picnicking without Daffy showing up and trying to mooch off him. |
| 412 | -->'''Daffy:''' ''[to a boy]'' I'm going to be your new pet duck! ''[...]'' And all you have to do is feed me, keep me warm, feed me, feed me, and give me a snack from time to time! |
| 413 | * BirthdayEpisode: ''Fiesta Fiasco'', in which Daffy attempts to crash Speedy's party, only to find out it's for him (Daffy, somewhat uncharacteristically, forgot his own birthday). The short was made to mark the 30th anniversary of "Porky's Duck Hunt". |
| 414 | * {{BFS}}: Subverted in "Scalp Trouble". General Daffy carries a ridiculously large sheath with him when he first appears, but it turns out it only contains a dagger. |
| 415 | * BreakoutCharacter: Intended as a one-shot foil for Porky in Avery's "Porky's Duck Hunt". Audiences became fascinated by the character's wacky, abrasive personality, leading WB to place him in more shorts. These days he stands as the most prominent ''Looney Tunes'' star outside or even equal to fellow BreakoutCharacter Bugs Bunny. |
| 416 | * BulletSeed: In ''Muscle Tussle'' Daffy faces a rival for his gal's affections. At one point his rival bites a chain, chews, and spits out a bunch of nails. Not to be outdone Daffy bites a chain, chews, and spits out his teeth. |
| 417 | * ButtMonkey: Most later interpretations, especially Chuck Jones' version, to the point of playing the StrawLoser in the series. It gets {{Deconstructed}} however, in ''Back in Action''. |
| 418 | * CaptainErsatz: The Creator/WalterLantz cartoon star WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker was, shall we way, "inspired" by Daffy's early screwball incarnation. He was even voiced by Creator/MelBlanc in his first few appearances, and his debut cartoon "Knock Knock" ended in ''the exact same way'' as ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead''. |
| 419 | * CardCarryingJerkass: Much like his counterpart WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, Daffy started off as a rather extreme hyperactive CloudCuckoolander with a cruel streak. While his obnoxiousness and cruelty were likewise toned down over time, unlike Bugs, he never completely lost his tendency towards being selfish and mean; in fact, today he's most famous for being Bugs's openly conniving (if generally ineffective) {{Foil}}. In one of the licensed Dell comics, he even shamelessly calls himself a "scoundrel" while tricking Elmer. |
| 420 | * CarnivoreConfusion: The Warner Bros. standard. This gets really bizarre in later cartoons like "Duck Soup to Nuts" and "Daffy Duck Hunt", where Daffy is almost as anthropomorphized as Porky. |
| 421 | * CatchphraseInsult: It's PlayedForLaughs, though one of his ways of showing contempt for someone (especially in his jerkish portrayals) is also one of his catchphrases, namely "You're [[SpeechImpediment desthpicable]]!" |
| 422 | * CharacterCatchphrase: He has several catchphrases unique to him. |
| 423 | ** "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century!" |
| 424 | ** "It'sh MINE, understand? MINE!" |
| 425 | ** "I'm rich! I'm wealthy! Yahoo!! I'm comfortably well-off." However, in WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny, a variation of this catchphrase was shown (i.e. "I'm rich! I'm wealthy! I'm independent! I'm socially secure!"). |
| 426 | ** "Sufferin' succotash!" (pronounced [[SpeechImpediment "Thufferin' thuccotash!"]]) quite often in earlier shorts. However, it later was given to the similarly-voiced Sylvester the cat. |
| 427 | ** "[[OhCrap Mother!]]" (when something really bad is about to happen to him) |
| 428 | ** "What a revolting development this is!" |
| 429 | ** "Anyone for tennis?" |
| 430 | ** "It's not the principle of the thing, it's the money!" ([[{{Greed}} when he eagerly accepts a task that involves a huge monetary reward]]) |
| 431 | ** "You're CORRECT! Absolutely CORRECT!" (usually followed by Daffy biting a character's nose), mostly in the early shorts. |
| 432 | ** "It isn't as though [X], goodness knows." |
| 433 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: One of the most notable examples in the franchise (if not the animated scene as a whole), evolving from a bombastic {{Cloudcuckoolander}} to a luckless and conniving SmallNameBigEgo. Starting with ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'', his original personality of being a mischievous {{Cloudcuckoolander}} is reintroduced. |
| 434 | * TheChewToy: Especially in stories co-starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. The earlier, more ScrewballSquirrel-like Daffy was less of a Chew Toy; it seems that Chuck Jones' recasting Daffy as a foil to Bugs' [[TheTrickster Heroic Trickster]] spurred the move. He also tends to be this in stories co-starring WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales, especially “Moby Duck”, as it’s very hard to feel sorry for his difficulty in opening canned food when he refused to give Speedy some of the food in exchange for the can opener. |
| 435 | * ChickMagnet: |
| 436 | ** Not an aspect that is always stressed but Daffy has had plenty of women fall for him. The gorgeous red headed duck FemmeFatale from "The Super Snooper" fell for him at first sight, lavished him with kisses and wanted to marry him right away. Another female in "The Duxorcist" allowed him to kiss her only moments after they met. Even the blonde bombshell German FemmeFataleSpy pigeon Hatta Mari in WesternAnimation/PlaneDaffy, who attempted to seduce him got turned on the second time they kissed. The Martian Queen Ty'ranee in Duck Dodgers loved him as well. ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' pairs him with Tina. Not only that but there have been many times Daffy has been shown to be married to different female ducks with lots of kids. He is easily the most sexually active character out of the entire Looney Tunes crew. |
| 437 | ** Possibly lampshaded in an old Gold Key comic story ("The Charming Chump") after he gets a talkative AbhorrentAdmirer in the form of Debbie Duck: |
| 438 | -->'''Daffy:''' "Why am I so irresistible?" |
| 439 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: There's a fairly long list of characters that Daffy has betrayed. He turns traitor on Bugs in several shorts and attempts to backstab Speedy in "WesternAnimation/SeeYaLaterGladiator". He throws Sylvester under the bus in "The Yolk's on You" and does the same to Porky in [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow "The Float"]]. Not only does be betray [[spoiler:Granny]] in "WebAnimation/ToonMarooned", he starts an alliance with several other characters then reveals to the audience he'll eventually backstab them. [[spoiler:Moreover, he even later eliminates several of them. In [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons "Mallard Practice"]], he agrees to be Elmer's lawyer and win his case for him. He then frames him and accuses him of several crimes so he'd be sentenced to death]]. In one episode, Yosemite Sam even calls him "double-crossing". |
| 440 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Most notably in his wackier personality, even though the later more ambitious versions aren't all that stable at times either. However, according to Daffy in his earlier shorts: "I'm not crazy, ''I just don't give a darn!''" |
| 441 | * ComicallyCrossEyed: In his screwball persona, Daffy would occasionally gain cross eyes as gags. |
| 442 | * ConsolationBackfire: At the end of ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters'' Daffy is completely bankrupt and can't pay his rent, and a repo crew come in to take all his stuff. Daffy then says "One thing's for sure, I've got nowhere else to go but up!", then a wrecking ball crashes in his office. |
| 443 | %%* ControlFreak: |
| 444 | * CrazySurvivalist: In the "Hunting Trilogy". |
| 445 | -->'''Daffy:''' "Survival of the fittest. And besides, it's fun!" |
| 446 | -->"Awfully unsporting of me, I know, but what the hey, I gotta have some fun!" |
| 447 | -->"I am a duck bent on self-preservation." |
| 448 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: |
| 449 | ** His attempts to prove his superiority over Bugs and look like a suave hero nearly always fall flat, but when a true push comes to a shove, he can prove rather cunning and formidable. Even excluding earlier shorts, this is the same guy that beat the crap out of ''the Tazmanian Devil'' for stealing one dollar from him, oh and he has beaten Bugs at least once... |
| 450 | ** As Duck Dodgers, he certainly has his moments. |
| 451 | * {{Cuckoosnarker}}: Some adaptations [[CompositeCharacter combine his goofy, hyperactive personality from Bob Clampett's era and his heavy sarcasm from Chuck Jones's era]], resulting in this trope. Examples are the first ''Film/SpaceJam'', ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', and even his brief appearance in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. |
| 452 | * CurbStompBattle: Under Jones' retooling, Daffy's shtick was to arrogantly go up against opponents he was hopelessly outclassed by, most prominently Bugs, though even ''Elmer'' ran rings around him at times. |
| 453 | * CurbstompCushion: |
| 454 | ** Oddly enough, he was slightly more formidable against Speedy. He even ''won'' a couple odd times. |
| 455 | ** While he never defeated Bugs, Daffy ''was'' able to actually get in some hits at him from time to time, which is rare for a Bugs Bunny antagonist. |
| 456 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: The reason why Daffy is rude, greedy & selfish, because when he was a duckling, he didn't spend time with his family for every Christmas, which was revealed in ''WesternAnimation/BahHumduckALooneyTunesChristmas''. |
| 457 | * DeadpanSnarker: Not so much in his early {{Cloudcuckoolander}} days, but he has quite a sarcastic streak in later cartoons. |
| 458 | * DependingOnTheWriter: One of the most notable examples in the series, nearly every director had a unique take on Daffy, some bearing little resemblance to others (though this is partially due to the character's Flanderization). Nowadays, his portrayal tends to swing around between either his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} persona and the more lucid, pompous ButtMonkey one depending on the work. |
| 459 | * {{Determinator}}: Like most WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes characters he'll do whatever it takes to upstage his rival. |
| 460 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes franchise. |
| 461 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: In the 2004 short "Daffy Duck for President", the titular duck discovers that the courts have the power to interpret new U.S. laws, so he tells Bugs Bunny that their DuckSeasonRabbitSeason feud is going to the steps of the Supreme Court (and also states he'll try to make the court rule in his favor)...except, according to Bugs, that would be a violation of the fourth amendment to the Constitution, which protects people from illegal searches and seizures. |
| 462 | * DirtyCoward: |
| 463 | ** Daffy is a self-confessed "craven little coward". Though he will occasionally defy his fears, [[BerserkButton if promises of fame and fortune are brought into the situation]]. |
| 464 | --->'''Daffy:''' Like I said, I'm a coward, but I'm a ''greeeedy'' little coward. |
| 465 | ** When he gets the AbominableSnowman to focus on Bugs instead of him, giving him time to sneak away... |
| 466 | --->'''Daffy:''' [[NoFourthWall Oh sure, I know I'm a louse]]. But I'm a ''[[KnowWhenToFoldEm live]]'' [[KnowWhenToFoldEm louse]]. |
| 467 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny'', he abuses Bugs at the drop of a hat for supposedly trying to steal "his" treasure, and then just as quickly runs to his "pal" for protection as soon as the Sultan's guard comes after him. |
| 468 | --->'''Bugs:''' What's with you, anyway? |
| 469 | --->'''Daffy:''' I can't help it! I'm a greedy slob! It's my hobby! SAVE ME! |
| 470 | * TheDitz: In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', he's pretty much [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] and [[Series/{{Friends}} Joey Tribbiani]] in terms of intelligence, and [[InsufferableImbecile not in a good way]]. Averted in many other productions, where he was just egotistical and, even earlier, crazy. |
| 471 | * DownerEnding: Even in his pre-ButtMonkey days, Daffy very commonly suffered for his hubris and mischief by the end of the cartoon. Both his compilation movies "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" and "Daffy Duck's Movie Fantastic Island" end with him having the short end of the stick. Every now and then however, Daffy would get thrown a bone. |
| 472 | * DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Co-TropeNamer. Interestingly, while this was used against Daffy in the TropeNamer "WesternAnimation/RabbitFire", Daffy's used this against Porky in "Duck Soup to Nuts" and a bull in "Mexican Joyride". |
| 473 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Daffy was originally a mindless heckler who went about his antics for no clear motivation, and was adorned with a pudgy, tiny design. Clampett began fleshing out Daffy's character later on, before Jones, Freleng and [=McKimson=] settled into their own interpretations of the waterfowl. |
| 474 | * EggLayingMale: In "Golden Yeggs", a gold egg is laid at [[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig Porky]]'s farm, and he asks who did it. The one who did it is a goose with a male voice, but since she doesn't want to end up dead like in the story of the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, she pins it on WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck instead. Mobster Rocky kidnaps Daffy and orders him to lay a gold egg, but after trying to escape, he is shot at and the shock somehow makes him actually lay a gold egg. Never in the cartoon is it questioned whether male birds should be expected to lay eggs, let alone gold ones, but nonetheless, Daffy tries to leave after (seemingly) making good on Rocky's demand ... only to have a gun shoved in his face and be escored to a warehouse full of egg cartons – possibly tens or hundreds of thousands, if not multiple millions – and ordered to "Fill 'em up!" ... to which Daffy faints dead away. |
| 475 | * EmbarrassingMiddleName: Daffy's had several middle names, though none of them official. |
| 476 | ** "Good To His Mother" in "To Duck or Not To Duck". |
| 477 | ** "Dumas" in "The Scarlet Pumpernickel." |
| 478 | ** "Daffy Horatio Tiberius Duck" in ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes''. |
| 479 | ** "Sheldon" in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. |
| 480 | * EmbarrassingNickname: "Idiot Eyes" in the "Planet of the Taz" trilogy, judged by his "stupid look". |
| 481 | * EnemyMine: With Bugs in "Rabbit Fire", and Speedy in "See Ya Later Gladiator". |
| 482 | * EntitledBastard: Several instances have him be cruel to another character, which doesn't stop him from expecting whoever he wronged to help him when his actions backfire on him. For instance, he clearly expects Speedy to give him a can opener to open the stash of canned food he found in "Moby Duck". Before this however, he made it no secret he's [[ItsAllAboutMe going to keep it all for himself]] and he threw several rocks at the mouse. It's even more JustForFun/{{egregious}} considering the two are on a deserted island. |
| 483 | * EraSpecificPersonality |
| 484 | ** Avery and Clampett developed the "screwball" version of the early period. Jones' version is usually considered the contemporary rendition, a CompositeCharacter is used on occasion however usually in the shorts by Bob [=McKimson=] and Frank Tashlin. The adaptations from The80s until the [[TheNewTens mid-2010s]] usually showcased the Jones Daffy with only a touch of Screwball Daffy. Starting with ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'', though, his screwball persona is reintroduced. |
| 485 | ** This even got a LampshadeHanging in "Pronoun Trouble", a ''Looney Tunes'' comic book story by animation historian Earl Kress: |
| 486 | ---> '''Daffy:''' I'm not a bad sort. Why does [[AmusingInjuries this]] keep happening to me? Oh, sure, I was kind of goofy when I was younger and then went through an [[SmugSnake egotistical]], {{greed}}y phase, but I don't deserve this... |
| 487 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: "Nasty Quacks" (1945) has Daffy planning to kill a baby duck that had replaced him as his owner's pet but can't bring himself to do that to an infant. He [[LoopholeAbuse gets around that moral hang up]] by feeding the baby duck growth pills. Of course, he drops the idea once it turns out the duckling is ''female''-- and [[SheIsAllGrownUp pretty hot as an adult!]] |
| 488 | * EveryoneHasStandards: In "His Bitter Half." Daffy may be greedy, but after marrying a shrewish woman and suffering torment from his bratty stepson Wentworth, Daddy decides that no amount of money is worth being a HenpeckedHusband and walks out on the family without looking back. |
| 489 | * EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Occasionally goes into full-blown WesternAnimation/PepeLePew mode ("A Coy Decoy", "Duck Soup to Nuts", "The Prize Pest"). He invokes the trope in "The Duxorcist": |
| 490 | -->'''Daffy:''' "And I thought French was a romantic language!" |
| 491 | * EvilLaugh: He makes an evil-sounding laugh during his scheme in "WesternAnimation/TheDucksters". |
| 492 | * ExactWords: In one story, the Mayor of a Western town promises to pay Daffy fifteen dollars a week if Daffy catches WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales. After Daffy upholds his side of the agreement, the Mayor pays him for the time it takes Daffy to do so (not enough to complete ''one'' dollar) and [[UngratefulBastard tells Daffy to leave]]. |
| 493 | * {{Expy}} |
| 494 | ** Not long after his conception, director Ben "Bugs" Hardaway took the character of Daffy and made him into a rabbit character called Bugs' Bunny (note the possessive term). This character was ultimately a failure, however, as he was even more obnoxious than Daffy ever was, to the point where the audience was rooting more for the ''victims'' rather than the rabbit. |
| 495 | ** Following this "Bugs' Bunny" would supposedly provide inspiration for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, who maintained a similar ([[KarmicTrickster if somewhat toned down]]) abrasiveness as Daffy. In this case the Expy would become an even bigger hit than Daffy himself and continues being one of the most notable cartoon characters to date. |
| 496 | * FaceDoodling: "Daffy Doodles", where he plays the role of a vandal who paints mustaches on billboards. |
| 497 | * FailureHero: With the [[ThrowTheDogABone odd spaced exception.]] |
| 498 | * FastTunnelling: Perhaps he learned it from Bugs. In at least one episode he was shown to be tunneling someplace by himself. |
| 499 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 500 | ** In his {{Jerkass}} persona, Daffy's [[HairTriggerTemper temper]] is this. He will mouth off and antagonize others that he has no chance against just because of a stray word from them that may not even be directed at him. Best shown any time he's antagonistic towards Bugs, where Daffy could easily walk away none the worse but will resort to spiteful malice in an effort to see the rabbit suffer for once. |
| 501 | ** {{Greed}} is his other, most notably in ''WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny''. He lampshades it himself in "Superior Duck". |
| 502 | --->'''Tiny Daffy:''' ''(clutching a pearl)'' I'm rich! I'm a happy miser! |
| 503 | ** His attempts at StealingTheCredit for being TheHero oftentimes has him [[PoorCommunicationKills exaggeratedly claiming]] he deserves credit for ''everything that transpired'', which has him taken away by authorities under the assumption that he was confessing for starting the mess to begin with. |
| 504 | --->'''Daffy:''' ''I'' did this! It was ''me''! ''I masterminded this entire operation!'' '''It was me!!''' |
| 505 | * FeatherFingers: And interestingly enough, he can actually fly with them, though he doesn't always remember to do so. |
| 506 | * FeedbackRule: In the 1938 short "Daffy Duck in Hollywood", Daffy purposefully whistles loudly into a microphone on a movie soundstage and causes ear-splitting pain to a headphone-wearing technician on the receiving end. |
| 507 | * FemmeFataleSpy: Hatta Mari of ''WesternAnimation/PlaneDaffy'' and the unnamed duck suspect in ''The Super Snooper'' are both parodies of the type. [[spoiler:It turns out that the latter hasn't actually done anything wrong, but she still acts the part]]. |
| 508 | * {{Foil}}: To WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. |
| 509 | * ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: Even after Creator/ChuckJones recreated Daffy as a pompous loser, there were a fair few references to his crazy trickster persona. This is particularly evident in Robert [=McKimson's=] work, who even after giving Daffy his later more lucid personality, had him snap back to his heckler persona on several occasions. Even some modern works such as ''Film/SpaceJam'' or ''Daffy Duck's Rhapsody'' blatantly hark back to the original Daffy. |
| 510 | * ForgotICouldFly: A running gag for Daffy, the earliest occurrence being the short "The Million Hare". |
| 511 | * FoulWaterfowl: Daffy is portrayed as a [[{{Greed}} greedy]] and [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] duck who relishes in messing with the likes of Elmer Fudd or Bugs Bunny for the hell of it, or to get something he wants, though Porky Pig was a more frequent target of his shenanigans. However, as he is the one that usually starts the cartoon's conflict, he often had some sort of [[LaserGuidedKarma karma]] handed to him by the end. His vices were especially brought to the forefront from "WesternAnimation/RabbitFire" onward, emphasizing his callous vanity to make him a better {{foil}} to Bugs, not returning to his earlier screwball personality until ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction''. |
| 512 | * FourFingeredHands: Like all of the FunnyAnimal members of the Looney Tunes cast. |
| 513 | * FreudianExcuse: |
| 514 | ** According to ''Daffy's Rhapsody'', the reason Daffy is so ''daffy'' and self-preservative is because he's been driven insane by years of being brutally hunted by game hunters like Elmer Fudd. After years of being shot at and attacked in all sorts of ways, he eventually snapped. |
| 515 | ** ''Bah, Humduck!'' shows that the reason for his greed, selfishness, and cruelty is due to growing up as an orphan, never being adopted and having [[FriendlessBackground no friends]] or family while he grew up. Thus, he decided that being nice was for chumps, and that if generosity and kindness couldn’t help him, than selfishness and greed would. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Tweety. |
| 516 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' has his many, many personality flaws be the result of a terrible childhood, having grown up in a DysfunctionalFamily and been subject to constant bullying. The trauma from this was so bad that he’s implied to have repressed several of his memories. |
| 517 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: According to a [[WesternAnimation/BahHumduckALooneyTunesChristmas direct-to-video film]], Daffy's worst traits are the result of a DarkAndTroubledPast; he grew up without any family in an orphanage and thus could never celebrate the holidays with anyone, with it also being suggested he [[FriendlessBackground never had any friends]]. While this explains why he hates the holidays and believes he needs to be as selfish as possible to survive, it doesn't justify his mistreatment of others. Granny calls him out on this. |
| 518 | %%* FreudianTrio: |
| 519 | * FunnyAnimal: He's a Looney Tunes character, what do you expect? |
| 520 | * FurIsClothing: In "The Wise-Quacking Duck", confronted with the oven, he distracts his antagonist by performing a strip-tease routine with his feathers. |
| 521 | * GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: He has fallen onto both sides of this trope; |
| 522 | ** In the earlier shorts, where he's paired with Porky Pig, he's the gleeful screwball who always laughs, while Porky is the NervousWreck who has to put up with him. |
| 523 | ** In the later shorts, where he's paired with Bugs Bunny, he's a bitterly sarcastic and frustrated loser who hates Bugs, a carefree and easygoing trickster. |
| 524 | * GracefulLoser: For as much {{smug|snake}}ness, [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] and villainy that he's capable of, a few times Daffy does take his defeats well. In "The Chocolate Chase", for instance, all his attempts to thwart Speedy fail and the village he conned laughs at him. He also shows no signs of a VillainousBreakdown, is clearly happy, and decides to join in on the festivities. Speedy speculates he only became nicer due to being [[ItMakesSenseInContext dipped in chocolate]], though. |
| 525 | * GRatedMentalIllness: Early on. In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', this gets upgraded to ambiguous disorder status. |
| 526 | * GravityIsAHarshMistress: The counterintuitive form in "A Star Is Bored." |
| 527 | * {{Greed}}: Becomes one of his defining traits later on, often to the extent that GreedMakesYouDumb, getting owned when he challenges much stronger beings for their baubles. Daffy desires material wealth as much as he desires the [[GloryHound cheering and worshipping of others]]. Whenever he sees something shiny he goes completely, hysterically ballistic and doesn't pay any attention to whether the other person in the same vicinity has noticed it or cares about it, for him it is taken for granted that they 'll want to claim ''his'' gold. In "Superior Duck", he even lampshades it. |
| 528 | -->'''Daffy:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny It's MINE, you understand!? Mine, all mine! Get back in there! Down! Down! Down! Go! Go! Go! Mine! Mine! Mine!]]'' |
| 529 | * HairTriggerTemper: One of Daffy's major failings is his tendency to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation. |
| 530 | * HandyFeet: One of the Dell comics shows he [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/WSlzSeCl9FfuDrwjV7nYkaCzoGDnw_7JHMiwDe4bsJNZdCPDUq-c6QsOEcijCSpXc6mFlYFIko0NhIm-gU62fIe6j135jiERRNDxnqXyyEuDFXNhnKmo_loEEtwnsUJrNoZiYRvgAQ=s0 can use his feet to open a banana]]. |
| 531 | * HardModeMook: The UsefulNotes/GameBoy version of ''Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions'' has a special series of hard levels that you can play though if you beat the first screen on a SpeedRun. These levels feature a few enemies that don't appear in a normal playthrough. |
| 532 | * HarmlessVillain: In most of his antagonist moments with Bugs and Speedy. |
| 533 | * HatesBaths: PlayedForLaughs. Despite being a waterfowl, at least in "Bathy Daffy", he '''hates''' bathing because a [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext bath stole his lunch money and beat him up]] when he was a duckling. |
| 534 | * HeadlessHorseman: One appears in the audience of Daffy's nightclub act in ''The Night of the Living Duck''. |
| 535 | * HeliumSpeech: Downplayed example. WordOfGod stated Mel Blanc's voice for Daffy was basically just Sylvester pitch shifted slightly. |
| 536 | * HenpeckedHusband |
| 537 | ** In ''The Henpecked Duck'' and ''His Bitter Half''. |
| 538 | ** He also refers to himself as "a henpecked duck!" in "The Stupid Cupid", probably in reference to the aforementioned cartoon. Pretty much ''any'' time he's shown married, he's this. In "The Super Snooper", [[spoiler:he actively refuses to get involved with the gorgeous FemmeFatale, even after she proves her innocence, for fear of letting it happen again: "She's got that ol' ball-and-chain look in her eyes!"]] |
| 539 | * HeroicSecondWind: "Scrap Happy Daffy." |
| 540 | * HeroicWannabe: As Duck Twacy, Drip-Along Daffy, The Masked Avenger, Duck Drake, Stupor Duck, China Jones, Boston Quackie, Joe Monday, Doorlock Holmes, Robin Hood, Duck Dodgers, etc. |
| 541 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: From a victim of being hunted to, in several [=DePatie=]-Freleng shorts, a hunter himself. It's most egregious in "WesternAnimation/TheIcemanDucketh" because his attempts to hunt Bugs (a rabbit) for his fur count as ''poaching'' since it isn't rabbit season. |
| 542 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: After his shift to a more directly JerkAss characterization, this became the primary source of Daffy's humor - his tendency to get himself injured through acts of impulsiveness, ego or straight-up stupidity. One perfect example is "The Super Snooper", where he repeatedly gets himself injured forcing the FemmeFatale to re-enact what he thinks she did to [[BlackWidow bump off her husband]]... only to finally give her a chance at the episode's end to tell him both that she's unmarried and that this is ''the wrong address''. |
| 543 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He says under his breath in "Moby Duck" that Speedy is "such a selfish mouse", which he says while trying to [[ItsAllAboutMe keep tons of canned food to himself on a deserted island]]. |
| 544 | * HypocriticalHumor: Really hates working with his Disney counterpart Donald Duck. The reason? His annoying speech impediment.[[note]]Admittedly, Daffy's lisp is far less irritating and easier to understand than Donald's warbling voice, which makes the latter TheUnintelligible.[[/note]] |
| 545 | * IAmSong: Several. |
| 546 | ** His versions of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead'' and ''Boobs in the Woods''. |
| 547 | ** The song he sings to set up his characterization as a BadlyBatteredBabysitter in "The Up-Standing Sitter". |
| 548 | ** "Daffy Duck's Rhapsody" begins as this and then segues into an IWantSong. |
| 549 | * IdiotHoudini: "A Pest In The House". As the Golden Collection commentary notes, Daffy for once isn't actively malicious in this short, and is even trying to do his job as bellhop with diligence, his looney nature still manages to be the constant bane of the hotel guest however, who constantly punts ''Elmer'' for being disturbed. Notably this is the only Creator/ChuckJones short aside from "Rabbit Fire" where Daffy comes out the victor. |
| 550 | * IHaveAFamily: Used twice as a ploy to get away from Porky. In "Duck Soup to Nuts" he calls out his sobbing "family" to say goodbye to him before Porky shoots him; Porky feels guilty and lets him off the hook, at which point the wife and kids remove their disguises and reveal themselves to be a few of Daffy's duck friends who were paid to get him out of trouble (a furious Porky overhears and opens fire on all of them). In "Riff Raffy Daffy", he uses a pair of wind-up toys as his "children". (In the cartoons where he actually ''did'' have a family, he only used the trope in "The Stupid Cupid, in order to stop the rooster from beating him up".) |
| 551 | * ImageSong: "Daffy Duck's Rhapsody", performed by Mel Blanc; later turned into a 3D short film. |
| 552 | * IncomingHam: "It's ''me'' again!" |
| 553 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Took this role more later on. |
| 554 | * InSeriesNickname: Idiot Eyes, from the 2001 miniseries of Planet of the Taz webtoons. |
| 555 | * InsufferableImbecile: Especially in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', where he TookALevelInDumbass, fitting literally the word "imbecile", and he tends to be sociopathic at times. However, this was [[AvertedTrope averted]] in some of the aforementioned show's episodes (''Semper Lie'', anyone?). |
| 556 | * IronButtMonkey: More-so in his greedy heydays, especially his rivalry with Bugs, in which it's a miracle the [[AmusingInjuries slapstick]] he sustains doesn't cripple him. |
| 557 | * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Happens at least twice. |
| 558 | ** First in the 1948 short ''Daffy Duck Slept Here''. |
| 559 | -->'''Porky Pig:''' T-T-That does it! You web-footed, n-n-no good, two-timing, d-d-double-crossing, d-d-double-dealing, unsanitary old snake in the grass!\ |
| 560 | '''Daffy:''' ''Unsanitary!?'' |
| 561 | ** Second, in the 1953 short ''Muscle Tussle'', after Daffy's girlfriend dumps him for a bodybuilder. |
| 562 | --->'''Daffy's girlfriend:''' Goodbye, you scrawny little nine-pound weakling.\ |
| 563 | '''Daffy:''' How do you like that? Calling me a scrawny little nine-pound weakling, when it's perfectly obvious I'm a scrawny little ''ten''-pound weakling. Hmph. |
| 564 | * ItsAllAboutMe: "I'm not like other people. I can't stand pain. It ''hurts'' me." |
| 565 | * ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing: Daffy inverts this phrase in "My Little Duckaroo" and "The Million-Hare", when he learns of a huge amount of money to be paid and, being the greedy character that he is, decides to claim it. |
| 566 | -->"After all, it isn't the principle of the thing, it's the money." |
| 567 | * ItAmusedMe: Rather consistently in his earlier ScrewballSquirrel-esque years. He became more ambitious and "self [[SpeechImpediment prethervational]]" in his callousness in later shorts (though that doesn't mean he doesn't still enjoy it). |
| 568 | -->'''Daffy:''' [[SocialDarwinist Survival of the fittest]]--and besides, it's ''[[FortheEvulz fun]]''. |
| 569 | * ItWorksBetterWithBullets: In "Daffy Duck Hunting", Daffy empties the buckshot out of WesternAnimation/PorkyPig's shotgun shells, then allows Porky to blast away at him to no effect. |
| 570 | * IWantSong: |
| 571 | ** "Daffy Duck's Rhapsody" was partially this: |
| 572 | --->'''Daffy:''' ''I would read the latest book''\ |
| 573 | ''Go swimming in the babbling brook''\ |
| 574 | ''I'd like to fly the seven seas''\ |
| 575 | ''Play hide and seek among the trees''\ |
| 576 | ''I'd play hop scotch and double dutch''\ |
| 577 | ''And this and that and things and such...'' |
| 578 | ** The song he sings in "Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures". |
| 579 | * {{Jerkass}}: More and more so as time progressed, Chuck Jones actually revolved his interpretation around the term "selfish". |
| 580 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Depending on the portrayal. In his later shorts he's portrayed as a greedy jerk, but most adaptations show his HiddenHeartOfGold while still keeping his usual jerkish traits. |
| 581 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: After he [[TookALevelInJerkass takes a level in jerkass]], he has a couple moments in which he seems like he's going to {{pet the dog}}. However, he soon reveals that isn't the case. |
| 582 | ** He seems sad to see Rover left out in the cold and miserable in "Cracked Quack". However, when he seems like he's preparing to open the window to let him back inside, he pulls down the roller shades and walks away happily. Granted, it is PlayedForLaughs and Rover is a threat to his ruse. |
| 583 | ** In "Snow Excuse", at least to Speedy (who's freezing to death), Daffy seems like he's leaving out some wood for him. However, not only is it revealed to be part of a trick, it's also revealed that the wood is actually chocolate-covered ice. |
| 584 | * JingleTheCoins: "Robin Hood Daffy" has a wealthy nobleman ride his tiny burro along a road, with his coin pouch a-jingling the whole way. So inept is Robin Hood that the nobleman goes completely unaware of the many attempts to rob him of his coin purse. |
| 585 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 586 | ** Limey Louie in "China Jones" receives no comeuppance for being an established hardened criminal and the antagonist of the short; Daffy attempts to get Porky Pig to arrest him, but he's more interested in Daffy's unpaid laundry bills... |
| 587 | -->'''Porky Pig:''' Better to press shirt than to press luck. |
| 588 | ** Daffy fails spectacularly to bring in outlaw Nasty Canasta in "My Little Duckaroo" and earns a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for his troubles. |
| 589 | ** Daffy himself had moments of this, while his most malicious screwy antics were usually met with a comeuppance, there were times Daffy managed to squirm out of it. |
| 590 | * KarmicButtMonkey: |
| 591 | ** How much Daffy suffers is often tied directly to how mean he's been acting during the cartoon. Best shown in his feuds with Bugs, where he could come out on top by simply walking away but suffers to the point of mental breakdowns because he goes out of his way to set the rabbit up for pain and misery for no other reason than [[ForTheLulz his own amusement]]. |
| 592 | ** He even got it as far back as his early days. Unlike [[KarmicTrickster Bugs]], who was usually genuinely acting in defense against aggressors (after early shorts where he was an equally unprovoked jerkass heckler), Daffy was a screwball who would antagonize anyone that had the bad luck of stumbling into him and would either wind up losing or still stuck in the exact same mess by the end. Daffy ''would'' win if he was acting more altruistically, though, like in genuine self-defense or while helping others. |
| 593 | * {{Keet}}: Creator/BobClampett's Daffy is especially famous for being a hyperactive LargeHam. Even after his character [[CharacterizationMarchesOn becomes more bitter and snarky]], he still retains quite a bit of his energetic nature, particularly when he's happy. |
| 594 | * KickTheDog: His specialty in several 1960s cartoons. In "Well Worn Daffy", for instance, he takes a shower in a mostly barren desert to spite Speedy and his friends who were ''dying of thirst''. |
| 595 | * KindnessBall: He's an [[ItsAllAboutMe egocentric]], [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] villain during much of the 1960s... aside from "Skyscraper Caper" in which he is not up to anything mean-spirited. Moreover, he's genuinely nice to [[ArchEnemy Speedy]] instead of being openly antagonistic to him like usual. |
| 596 | * LackOfEmpathy: Particularly during most of the shorts in which he faces off with Speedy. For starters, he once whipped some impoverished mice for ''starving on his property''. |
| 597 | * TheLancer: Usually to Bugs Bunny or Porky Pig, for various OddCouple combinations (obviously in later cartoons Porky becomes this to him). |
| 598 | * LargeHam: Part of what made Daffy so distinct from his partners was just how over-the-top he was, compared to the relatively down-to-earth Bugs and Porky. |
| 599 | * LaughingMad: He breaks into laughter as part of his SanitySlippage in "Speedy Ghost to Town". |
| 600 | * LimitedAnimation: The Daffy/Speedy shorts produced from 1965-1968 at Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises and WB-Seven Arts (especially the latter) suffer from this due to very low budgets. In particular, the three shorts subcontracted to Format Films ("Quacker Tracker", "The Spy Swatter", "Music Mice-tro") fit this to a T; because that company normally worked on made-for-TV cartoons, they're hardly above a typical Hanna Barbera TV series of the time. |
| 601 | %%* LordErrorProne: In several Creator/ChuckJones parody shorts. |
| 602 | * LovableCoward: Even before the Chuck Jones' retooling, Daffy became one of these starting with WesternAnimation/DrafteeDaffy. |
| 603 | * LoserProtagonist: While in his best known roles he played the StrawLoser antagonist to Bugs Bunny, he's every bit as much of a loser in many shorts featuring him as the protagonist. |
| 604 | * LoveableRogue: In a lot of his "transitional" shorts, Robert [=McKimson=] played this role with Daffy for the majority of his original run (he could on occasion lean into not-so-lovable {{Schemer}} territory though). |
| 605 | * MadHatter: Especially early on, when he'd frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the fact that he was crazy. [[MeaningfulName His name was Daffy]], after all. |
| 606 | * MadnessMantra |
| 607 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheDaffyDoc'': "Where's a patient? Where's a patient? I gotta find a patient. I ''gotta'' find a patient." |
| 608 | ** ''[[HenpeckedHusband The Henpecked Duck]]'': "Yes, m'love. Yes, m'love. YES, M'LOVE. ''YEEEEESSSSS'', M'LOVE!" |
| 609 | * MeanBoss: Along with being [[BadBoss abusive]] to his employees in ''WesternAnimation/BahHumduckALooneyTunesChristmas'', Daffy has no issue yelling at them or otherwise being rude to them. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this himself when Sylvester tries to convince him to change his ways. Granted, he [[TookALevelInKindness gets better later]]. |
| 610 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 611 | ** In his early years, he definitely was Daffy and a playful trickster. This aspect of him was either toned down or dropped altogether in later cartoons, making his name a NonIndicativeName instead. |
| 612 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', after becoming a victim of Daffy's antics, Bugs responds with something to the effect of "no wonder your name is Daffy". When asked what that means, Bugs tells him to look it up. Which he does. |
| 613 | * MetaphoricMetamorphosis: In "The Million Hare" from 1963, Bugs and Daffy are watching a TV game show called "Beat Your Buddy" in which the host challenges two random friends to race to the TV studio, with the first one winning "a million bucks". HilarityEnsues as Bugs and Daffy proceed to do so, with Daffy just pipping Bugs, the two of them having acquired AmusingInjuries along the way. The host then reveals that the prize is "a million box": a giant box containing a million smaller boxes. Deciding it's worthless, Daffy says he will give the prize to Bugs. The host comments that this is kind of him, since each of the smaller boxes contains a dollar bill. Daffy and Bugs' expressions don't change, but Daffy's head turns into that of a donkey and he brays mournfully. |
| 614 | * MoneyFetish: Would do just about anything to get money. |
| 615 | * MoralMyopia: |
| 616 | ** It's shown in "The Yolk's on You" that, in his mind, it's fine if he steals from you. However, if you do the same to him, then you are a {{Jerkass}} who committed a crime. |
| 617 | ** "Box Office Bunny" shows that, if you sneak into a theater, then you're a criminal in Daffy's book (or at least if your name is Bugs Bunny). Nevertheless, if he does the same thing, then it's perfectly fine. |
| 618 | * MotiveDecay: Whenever he's pitted against Elmer and Bugs during Elmer's hunting trips. Within only a few minutes of the short, he goes from just steering Elmer towards Bugs out of self-preservation to actively trying to see Bugs get blasted. |
| 619 | * MuscleAngst: Happens to Daffy in ''Muscle Tussle'', when he takes his girlfriend to the beach and she immediately falls for a musclebound hunk. |
| 620 | * NegativeContinuity: Like all the other Looney Tunes, Daffy's cartoons have absolutely no continuity between them. It says a lot that he can star in both a cartoon where he's willingly fighting on the front lines of war in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyTheCommando'' (1943), and then is depicted as a patriot-turned-draft dodging coward in "Draftee Daffy" (1945). |
| 621 | * [[NeverBareHeaded Never Bare Necked]]: Has ''always'' kept his [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow pearl necklace]] on except for in "Quackodile Tears", a few moments on "The Bugs Bunny Show", the episode "Black Widow", and WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes. |
| 622 | * NobodyCallsMeChicken: His reaction to Speedy calling him a "chicken" for not chasing him? Saying something like this[[note]]"Ohhh, nobody's gonna call this duck chicken."[[/note]] then running after him. |
| 623 | * NoisyDuck: He could be considered the TropeCodifier along with WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. He is a hyperactive screwball as well as a selfish jerk, and he is also very loud (especially with his {{speech impediment}}).[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gk5SxFWKaM He isn't above hamming it up]] in a library, for instance. |
| 624 | * NonSequiturThud: Most notably ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck''. |
| 625 | * NoRespectGuy: Depending on the short. Sometimes he's an incompetent {{Jerkass}} who deserves to be a ButtMonkey, but at least once he becomes this trope when he's picked on just because he's not Bugs Bunny. In ''Show Biz Bugs'' specifically, he's shown to be as talented as Bugs but the audience ignores him, while Bugs is the only one who gets all the cheering and applause. Which is changed for the inclusion of the short in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyLooneyLooneyBugsBunnyMovie'' which has Daffy go out of his way to heckle and offend nearly every member of the audience, making the whole concept of respect seem out of place. |
| 626 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: Half the humor of ''The Super Snooper'' is how Daffy refuses to pay attention to the FemmeFatale and her blatant flirting with him, up until she reveals he's at the wrong address. The other half of the humor is how he keeps getting himself injured. |
| 627 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He could strive to be semi competent against Speedy at times. |
| 628 | * ObfuscatingInsanity: Faked a bad case of FunnySchizophrenia to get the best of Porky in "The Prize Pest". |
| 629 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Pretends to be a clueless, pushy salesdrake in "The Stupor Salesman" in order to rid the bandit of his hideout. |
| 630 | * OfficialCouple: He has a girlfriend named Melissa Duck. |
| 631 | * OldTimeyBathingSuit: In "Muscle Tussle", Daffy is shown up at the beach by a [[FanDisservice Speedo-wearing muscle-builder duck]]. As the designated nine-pound weakling, Daffy wears an old-timey striped suit and straw boater hat---made out to be ImpossiblyTackyClothes, although when Bugs wears the same kind of bathing suit, it's fine. |
| 632 | * OhNoNotAgain: In "The [[Film/TheExorcist Duxorcist]]": |
| 633 | -->'''Daffy:''' "Oh brother! Not ''another'' [[FunnySchizophrenia schizophrenic]] dame!" |
| 634 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Daffy [[InvokedTrope uses this to his advantage]] in "What Makes Daffy Duck?" by pitting two of his antagonists (Elmer Fudd and a fox) against each other. |
| 635 | * PetTheDog: After his jerkish personality takes root, he has a few nicer moments to show he has a heart deep down. |
| 636 | ** Daffy becomes openly angry with Elmer for shooting a smaller duck in "Quack Shot". After covering the bird in bandages, he angrily threatens Elmer he'll "be in trouble" if he shoots another duck. |
| 637 | ** He's sad in "Mexican Mousepiece" when he learns many overseas cats are starving to death. He also lets one of the mice he plans on sending away do something before sending him off, though it's unclear exactly what it was. |
| 638 | ** Towards the end of "Fiesta Fiasco", he's [[spoiler:grateful upon learning Speedy and other Mexican mice set up a surprise birthday party for him]]. |
| 639 | ** Yes and no in [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=darQpY6P3sw "Dux's Tux's"]] when he saves Porky and Petunia's wedding via using an X-ray to reveal Porky did have the wedding ring and giving him a thumbs up. However, it's all but stated he's going to charge Porky since Petunia broke said X-ray machine. Granted, he implies it was expensive]]. |
| 640 | * PhraseCatcher: In the older shorts, someone would always have to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] "that duck's" insanity in some way, at which point Daffy would pop up and [[MadHatter tell them that they were right]]. |
| 641 | %%* PluckyComicRelief: |
| 642 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: |
| 643 | ** At least in the 1960s. Not only is he evil enough to try to destroy a well in an otherwise ''barren desert'', he also shows shades of being racist. During a disagreement with Speedy (who is Mexican) in "Go Go Amigo", he makes fun of his accent. Moreover, in "Moby Duck", he insults him via saying he "can't even speak good English". In "Tease for Two", he even mocks Mac and Tosh's UsefulNotes/{{British accents}}. Unfortunately, these shorts ''were'' produced in an era notorious for racism. |
| 644 | ** It's [[DiscussedTrope mentioned]] and soon outright shown in "Assault and Peppered" that Daffy does '''not''' like poor people. After finding some impoverished mice on his plantation, he is openly angry at them for "starving on [his] property" and commands them to stop. Also, his wording heavily implies this isn't the first time this has happened. He even ''whips'' several of them and only stopped because Speedy interrupted him. He told the mice that they "force[d]" him to "declare war on poverty". |
| 645 | * PooledFunds: Any time he got his hands on some cash. |
| 646 | * ThePrimaDonna: A self-centered AnimatedActor who is always trying to upstage his co-star Bugs Bunny. |
| 647 | * PronounTrouble: TropeNamer; this trope was named after a gag in the Daffy/Bugs/Elmer short ''WesternAnimation/RabbitSeasoning''. Also doubles as an UnbuiltTrope. |
| 648 | * PunchClockHero: This is one duck whose life purpose is the search for money and glory. Therefore it should come as no surprise that he is willing to (at least try to) be the hero a number of times with a dubious amount of success. When Daffy goes to Hollywood in the Sega Genesis game he doesn't literally bring the house down unlike the similarly named cartoon, but as a detective trying to find Yosemite Sam's priceless films that have been stolen. |
| 649 | * QuackingUp: He started out as a wacky and hyperactive screwball but later became a selfish and greedy jerk, especially when paired up with Bugs Bunny. |
| 650 | * RageAgainstTheAuthor |
| 651 | ** ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' |
| 652 | ** The end of ''A Star Is Bored'', where he stars in his own movie, in which he finds out the hard way where all the hunters are -- right around him with their guns which they all promptly unloaded on him. |
| 653 | --> '''Daffy:''' I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO WROTE THIS SCRIPT!!!\ |
| 654 | '''Bugs:''' I'd like to tell him, but, uh... ''(chuckles coyly)'' modesty forbids. |
| 655 | * RedOniBlueOni: The red to Bugs's and Porky's blue. |
| 656 | * TheResenter: Whenever paired with Bugs Bunny in a short, Daffy becomes this. It does make sense, considering Bugs turned up three years after his debut and pretty much stole his act. |
| 657 | -->'''Daffy:''' ''[to Bugs]'' [[Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction What am I talking to you for? All you gotta do is munch on a carrot and people LOVE you.]] |
| 658 | * RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: In ''Hollywood Daffy'', Daffy impersonating a studio director fooling the oh-so-fay Joe Besser-type gate cop into thinking he'll make him a star. Daffy examines him and asks "What's Errol Flynn got that you haven't got?" before quickly interjecting, "Don't answer that!" |
| 659 | * RogerRabbitEffect |
| 660 | ** As seen in the [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit trope namer]], ''Film/SpaceJam'' and ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' |
| 661 | ** And even earlier in Creator/FrizFreleng's ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures''. |
| 662 | ** Also in a cameo a ColdOpening for ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow''. |
| 663 | * SanitySlippage: Doubles as a VillainousBreakdown in "Speedy Ghost to Town", though it's PlayedForLaughs. Upon learning his efforts to [[{{Greed}} find gold]] were [[ShaggyDogStory all for naught]], he loses it and starts acting like his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} screwball]] self, complete with him LaughingMad. |
| 664 | * ScrewballSquirrel: Pre-{{Flanderization}} Daffy, though he still retains it as another part of his personality, also an UrExample of the entire trope. It's especially prominent in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead''. |
| 665 | * TheScrooge: Plays a modern variant in ''Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas Carol''. |
| 666 | * SeenItAllSuicide: ''WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel'' |
| 667 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to Porky's Sensitive Guy. |
| 668 | * SerialSpouse: Daffy has been married to ''seven'' different female ducks throughout his various shorts, although of course NegativeContinuity is used to justify this. In this field, he's hands-down beaten his rival Bugs, who has never been shown as wed. |
| 669 | ** Three different nameless female ducks in the shorts ''Nasty Quacks'', ''The Stupid Cupid'' and ''His Bitter Half''. |
| 670 | ** Mrs. Daffy in ''Wise Quacks''. |
| 671 | ** A female duck known only as "Muh Love" in ''The Henpecked Duck''. |
| 672 | ** Daphne in ''Stork Naked''. |
| 673 | ** Honey Bunch in ''Quackodile Tears''. |
| 674 | * ShaggyDogStory: For all his efforts in "Speedy Ghost to Town" to steal Speedy's treasure map so he could [[{{Greed}} find gold]]... the treasure was actually cheese. |
| 675 | * ShesAManInJapan: The earliest German dubs made Daffy into a female character named "Elvira Ente". This was corrected in future dubs. |
| 676 | * ShoeShineMister: He runs a shoeshine stand in "Shoe Shine-nanigans", though the only customer we see him tend to is Elmer. |
| 677 | * ShowSomeLeg: Both [[UsefulNotes/MataHari Hatta Mari]] and the FemmeFatale in ''The Super Snooper'' try this, although the former is more successful. |
| 678 | * ShotgunWedding: In "The Stupid Cupid" Daffy's previous marriage was literally one of these. Daffy shows cupid Elmer a photo album of the results of being shot last year. One photo has an overbearing female duck in a bridal gown clutching Daffy by the neck as her father holds a shotgun to his head. |
| 679 | * SignatureLaugh: His unique laugh is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4BXyC3kHSU Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!]]". Especially in his screwball persona, he also does it while bouncing around. |
| 680 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Especially in his jerkish portrayals, in which he thinks he's a competent genius. However, it's made clear he's not as smart or [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain competent]] as he believes he is. |
| 681 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Despite constantly losing against pretty much any foe he fights it must be noted that Daffy is '''not''' stupid. He is notable for being among the few characters that ''can'' actually see through Bugs' GuileHero actions and has proven extremely competent against Speedy. Most of his losses come from his being greedy, petty and spiteful rather than being outwitted by his opponents. This is averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' though, where [[TookALevelInDumbass he is actually very stupid.]] |
| 682 | * SmugSnake: While he's fairly smart and manipulative, he's also prone to overconfidence and isn't as cunning or brilliant as he thinks he is, which has bitten him in the [[{{Pun}} tail]]. |
| 683 | * SnakeCharmer: Parodied in "Plumber's Quack" when he plays a wrench like a flute to control his "camera-snake" while trying to fix Elmer's leaking sink. |
| 684 | * SoreLoser: He can't stand losing to Bugs, at certain points even willing to kill the rabbit just to dispose of the competition. |
| 685 | * SpeciesSurname: All three of the iconic Looney Tunes stars share this trait; Daffy ''Duck'', Bugs ''Bunny'', and Porky ''Pig''. |
| 686 | * SpeechImpediment: His trademark lisp ("You're dethpicable!"), though it was not nearly as pronounced in the early years. In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Daffy rather [[HypocriticalHumor hypocritically]] complains about WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. "This is the latht time I work with thomebody with a thpeech impediment!" |
| 687 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: |
| 688 | ** His usual dynamic with Porky Pig in all their shorts together, with Porky being an unassuming StraightMan to Daffy's kookier Wise Guy antics. |
| 689 | ** Bugs Bunny, of all people, will occasionally play the Straight Man to Daffy's Wise Guy, (especially in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''); 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 | * StrawLoser: Chuck Jones's version, lost miserably to [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain villains Bugs usually defeated without trying]] and had [[TheChewToy Porky Pig]] of all people as his HyperCompetentSidekick. Other directors portrayed Daffy as a ButtMonkey at this point, though it depended on the scenario whether he was quite as pathetic as the others. |
| 691 | * StrictlyFormula: Defied at first. Being an ever unpredictable CloudCuckooLander, for most of The40s Daffy was the one ''Looney Tunes'' star who would be billed in almost ''any'' role without feeling out-of-character. While he often adhered to heckler or KarmicTrickster cartoons like Bugs Bunny, he was never exclusive to them. After Jones began to redefine Daffy into an antagonistic fall-guy however, his shorts from [[The50s]] tended to follow a more uniform structure. There were still several shorts that broke the trend or called back to his earlier self (especially ones directly by Robert Mckimson). |
| 692 | * StupidEvil: A lot of his antagonistic bouts against Speedy seemed to lean into this. Most of his constant abuse is self-inflicted rather than performed by Speedy. It could usually be prevented if he wasn't so insistent on [[XMustNotWin spiting the little rodent]], who offers a truce nearly every minute or so. |
| 693 | * TeamRocketWins: Even following his Flanderization into a ButtMonkey, Daffy seemed to score more victories than most other fall-guys in the series, [[spoiler: knocking out Taz in a CurbstompBattle in ''Ducking the Devil'', being the first foe to defeat Speedy Gonzales in ''Mucho Locos'' to name a few. Counting an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RIvO74ZC5c obscure Tang endorsement from ''The Bugs Bunny Show'']] and Creator/CartoonNetwork's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO7lR1Fzw48 Big Game from 2001]], he has also defeated Bugs twice as well, and even in shorts where he didn't defeat Bugs, he was able to get an occasional hit on the rabbit.]] Also, perhaps due to being created by fans of the shorts and the character, some later features tend to [[ThrowTheDogABone throw Daffy a bone]] a few times as well, including the very end of ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction''. |
| 694 | * TheCameo: Daffy's head [[http://clxcool.deviantart.com/#/d4zdr3b can be seen]] on a building in the movie ''Film/CoolWorld''. |
| 695 | * ThisLoserIsYou: Creator/ChuckJones described WesternAnimation/BugsBunny as the person we all aspire to be, and Daffy as the person most of us actually are. |
| 696 | * ThrowTheDogABone: In episode 15 of ''The Bugs Bunny Show'', he finally gets the limelight all to himself as Bugs Bunny shows only cartoons starring the original crazy darnfool duck. |
| 697 | * ThrowThePin: ''Speedy Ghost to Town'' |
| 698 | * TookALevelInDumbass: Modern adaptations like ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' tend to portray him as a total idiot, instead of just a bitter (and occasionally gullible) loser who is often defeated due to his impatience and selfishness. |
| 699 | * TookALevelInJerkass: |
| 700 | ** Under Chuck Jones's direction in the early fifties, making him neurotic, more self-centered, and ''incredibly'' narcissistic (this is keeping in mind Daffy [[ScrewballSquirrel was never truly kind or thoughtful]] to begin with). Other directors eventually took his redesign and made him even worse. By the DePatie-Freleng era, he's often depicted as a [[KickTheDog puppy-punting]] villain with his LackOfEmpathy and aforementioned [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]] greatly dialed up. Later productions go in and out with this, though for the most part refer to Jones's selfish egotist Daffy. |
| 701 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BahHumduckALooneyTunesChristmas'' suggests he was originally a friendly duckling, but shows he grew up to be a greedy and callous duck who [[BadBoss has no issue mistreating his employees]]. He [[TookALevelInKindness becomes kinder]] later on, though. |
| 702 | * TookALevelInKindness: |
| 703 | ** The DePatie-Freleng era takes Daffy's malicious habits so far outright that the only way to go was up. Compared to his persistent hatred for Speedy in the earlier cartoons, he becomes more of a FriendlyEnemy by the time the studio switches to Seven Arts, needing motivation such as money or Speedy clutching the IdiotBall to set him onto the latter. In their final pairing by the original creative team ''Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island'', they are {{Vitriolic Best Buds}}. |
| 704 | ** In ''Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas'' in accordance with [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol nearly all variations of the story]]. Also in ''Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court'', despite taking the role of a greedy king, Daffy is noticeably tamer and bored with his role, passively helping Bugs and even willingly giving him his crown by the end of the film. |
| 705 | -->'''Daffy:''' Who ever heard of a duck being king anyway? |
| 706 | * ToothyBird: Sometimes, although Chuck Jones joked in a few of his "dental" art prints about Daffy being toothless: |
| 707 | --> '''Bugs:''' But, sir, how can you have a toothache--when you haven't any teeth? |
| 708 | --> '''Daffy:''' Just lucky, I guess. |
| 709 | ** Oddly invoked in "The Prize Pest" (1951) where he bullies Porky by claiming he turns into a monster when [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry upset]]-- he messes up his headfeathers and ''wears false fangy teeth''. |
| 710 | * ToughRoom: The endless victim to one. His complex tap dance in ''Show Biz Bugs'' earns him nothing but cricket chirps. |
| 711 | -->'''Daffy:''' Ingrates! |
| 712 | * TravelingSalesman: In several shorts. |
| 713 | * UngratefulBastard: His reaction when Porky gives him a gift in "Daffy's Inn Trouble"? Dismissing it and walking out on him. Granted, it's at least slightly {{justified|Trope}} since the gift was a... broom. |
| 714 | * UniformityException: A couple of cartoons start with Daffy along with a flock of ducks migrating or paddling in a lake. All the other ducks look more or less realistic, whereas Daffy looks like Daffy. |
| 715 | -->"Kind of stick out in a crowd, don't I?" |
| 716 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Has his moments because he is very selfish, greedy, and manipulative. He's also one of the franchise's main characters and, especially in his jerkish persona, bad luck is often on his tailfeathers. |
| 717 | * VilerNewVillain: In later Speedy shorts, Daffy took over from Sylvester as his new main antagonist, and without a natural reason to pursue the rodent, Daffy was made more outwardly nasty and vindictive to set off feuds, and was often conveyed as relatively less pathetic and outclassed against Speedy compared to Sylvester. |
| 718 | * VillainBall: |
| 719 | ** During the Duck Season-Rabbit Season trilogy. From the very beginning of each short, Daffy has already succeeded in escaping Elmer, with him believing it is Rabbit Season and Bugs being more than willing to start his usual back and forth with the hunter. Nevertheless, he still breaks from his hiding spot, attempting to coach Elmer for not getting the job done. It's not enough for Daffy to have escaped getting his head blown off; Bugs ''has'' to get blasted by Elmer in his place, and Daffy ''has'' to see it happen with his own eyes. Needless to say, it always blows up in Daffy's face... [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter literally]]. |
| 720 | ** He clutched onto this near perpetually in his bouts with Speedy. No matter how much of his abuse could be avoided otherwise, Daffy could never resist going out of his way to spite the little rodent. He loses both his water well in ''Well Worn Daffy'' and his stash of canned goods in ''Moby Duck'' as a direct result of this. |
| 721 | ** In ''People Are Bunny'', Daffy forces Bugs to come with him to a television studio after hearing that a hunting show is offering $5,000 to whoever brings in the first rabbit. However, when he sees the various prizes offered on the studios game shows, Daffy locks Bugs into a telephone booth so he can go on the game shows and win the prizes. Considering the fact that the show will give cash money to whoever brings in the first rabbit, locking Bugs in there not only allows time that he could escape but also the possibility that somebody could bring in a rabbit before Daffy does. [[spoiler: Bugs ends up tricking Daffy into wearing a rabbit disguise so that Daffy would be the first rabbit and Bugs, in disguise, gets the money instead, so technically nobody beat them to the punch, though when Daffy reveals that he's not a rabbit, the hunting season immediately switches from rabbit to duck.]] |
| 722 | * VillainProtagonist |
| 723 | ** While Daffy was on the receiving end of trouble in WesternAnimation/PorkysDuckHunt and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead, Creator/TexAvery's third and last Daffy Duck, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckInHollywood, puts him into a heckler role where he knowingly sabotages a Hollywood movie production just for the heck of it, much to the chagrin of the films director. |
| 724 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheDaffyDoc'', he kidnaps Porky Pig just so he can have a patient and even tries to saw him open! Of course, he's [[CloudCuckoolander completely bonkers]] in the cartoon, so he really doesn't know any better. |
| 725 | ** After having TookALevelInJerkass, he arguably leaned even further into this trope. In some of his bouts against Speedy and Bugs, he is an outright genuine villain (in comparison to the more playful ScrewballSquirrel he usually was in the above examples), but still usually the primary focus. |
| 726 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Porky, and Bugs, and Speedy... Usually the very people Daffy is trying to victimize in some manner are actually the closest he has to actual friends. |
| 727 | * WildCard: A self proclaimed self preservationist, and a tall order ScrewballSquirrel on top, Daffy has no allegiance but his own. |
| 728 | * WilliamTelling: ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead'' (1938) has Daffy placing an apple on his head so Egghead can shoot it. But he misses each time, no matter how close Daffy gets to him. Daffy chucks the apple, gives Eggead a tin cup of pencils, a pair of sunglasses and a "Blind" sign around his neck. |
| 729 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Again with all of the aforementioned three. |
| 730 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: You'd [[AxCrazy have a screw loose]] too if you spent many years getting hunted in various ways by numerous hunters. |
| 731 | * WordSaladLyrics: His TalkativeLoon version of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" in ''Boobs in the Woods''. (It's basically a rewrite of a similar song sung by the Bugs Bunny prototype character in ''Hare-Um Scare-Um''.) |
| 732 | -->'''Daffy:''' ''Oh, when they say I'm nutsy, it sure gives me a pain!''\ |
| 733 | ''Please pass the ketchup, I think it's going to rain!''\ |
| 734 | ''Oh, you can't bounce a meatball, though try with all your might,''\ |
| 735 | ''Turn on the radio, I want to fly a kite!'' |
| 736 | * WordSchmord: "[[WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny Consequences, schmonsequences]]--[[MoneyFetish as long as I'm rich]]." |
| 737 | * WorkOffTheDebt: ''China Jones'' ends with Daffy being threatened by WesternAnimation/PorkyPig into working off his debt at a Chinese laundry. |
| 738 | -->'''Daffy:''' Well, Confucius says "Can't squeeze blood from turnip."\ |
| 739 | '''Porky:''' (''produces heavy club'') Confucius also says "Is better to press shirts than press luck." |
| 740 | * WorthyOpponent: Subverted against Bugs, where he was even more {{Harmless|Villain}} than Elmer. Oddly enough played more straight against Speedy, though still bumbling, existing as the sole villain to actually defeat, or even so much as invoke fear into the rodent. Even plays the trope's traditional chemistry, with Daffy, in almost a rare case of continuity, gaining a softer spot for Speedy in later shorts. |
| 741 | * WomenPreferStrongMen: In the short ''Muscle Tussle'', Daffy's girlfriend is swept off her feet by a muscular beach hunk. |
| 742 | * WouldHurtAChild: |
| 743 | ** ''The Impatient Patient'' ends with Daffy turning the villain into a baby. When the baby makes it clear he's still dangerous, Daffy takes the kid off-screen to give him his "punishment". |
| 744 | --> *Wham* "OOOH! Oh, You bwoke my widdle head! Oh, You bwoke my widdle spine! OOOH!" |
| 745 | ** [[DependingOnTheWriter By contrast]], in ''Nasty Quacks'' he's [[WouldntHurtAChild unable to take an axe to the adorable duckling who has replaced him]] and decides to grow it to adult size first by feeding it vitamins. |
| 746 | * WrongInsultOffence: In ''Muscle Tussle'', Daffy takes offense at his girlfriend calling him a "scrawny little nine pound weakling", because he's "obviously a scrawny little ''ten'' pound weakling." |
| 747 | * XMustNotWin: The "Hunting Trilogy" generally conveys him as this towards Bugs. While touting himself as a self preservationist, Daffy takes increasingly stubborn lengths to make sure Bugs gets shot by Elmer instead of him, to the point of even berating and directing Elmer, the very guy he's trying to avoid, to shoot Bugs (which always end up backfiring onto him). In both ''Rabbit Seasoning'' and ''Duck Rabbit Duck'' Daffy's downfall stems from coming out of his hiding place at the start of the cartoon when Bugs is already outsmarting Elmer, not satisfied with coming out safe but Bugs not getting shot. |
| 748 | * YankTheDogsChain: In cases where he ''does win'' over Bugs or others as the VillainProtagonist, it's almost always a PyrrhicVictory at best and turned around him to be AllForNothing at worst. Like [[WesternAnimation/TheMillionHare the time]] he raced the rabbit for "a million bucks" and cleared the finish line, only to realize he had mis-heard the phrase and it was a million little boxes. He ends up trying to do a slight politeness and give them to Bugs to seem better than he really is -- only for the game show host to reveal a dollar bill is inside every single box, meaning Daffy just sunk his own victory altogether. |
| 749 | * YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Filled the Scrooge role in ''Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas''. |
| 750 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: A minor one but during a small selection of cartoons[[note]]''Wise Quacks'' and ''Porky's Last Stand''[[/note]] Clampett redesigned Daffy's colour scheme slightly with light coloured rings around his eyes. It didn't take. |
| 751 | * YoureInsane: Sorta. Speedy calls him "[[GratuitousSpanish loco]][[note]]UsefulNotes/{{Spanish|Language}} for crazy or insane[[/note]] duck" during the era in which he's at the height of his villainy. |
| 752 | * YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: |
| 753 | ** He pejoratively calls Leopold's owner a "little monster" when he learns he needs a duck's wishbone in "Birth of a Notion". |
| 754 | ** In "Moby Duck", he insults [[ArchEnemy Speedy]] via calling him a "little thief" and "you dirty little rodent". |
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