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Cartoons, or "toons", of this universe are living, sentient, corporeal, animated lifeforms comprised of ink and paint who co-exist with humans in the real world. Originating from Toontown, a walled-off animated metropolis adjacent to Los Angeles, they're mostly known for their amusing and hilarious antics which gets varying human reception as humor is seemingly the sole driving force behind their reason for being. Toons come in a variety of forms and are often anthropomorphic or caricatured versions of humans, animals, plants, machines, clothing, inanimate objects, structures, etc. Treated like second-class citizens during the events of the film, work for them is mostly relegated to "live"-animated film productions. Many of the toons featured in the film include icons from The Golden Age of Animation.

  • Achilles' Heel: The Dip; The Dreaded deadly corrosive acid made of paint thinners and film solvents that dissolves toons on contact.
  • Adorable Abomination: The movie deconstructs the existence of toons in the real world by showing traits commonly associated with Eldritch Abomination. They don't belong to this world, yet the world warps to suit their need (i.e. Toon Physics). They're immortal, ageless, any injury they receive at worst normally results in Amusing Injuries or, at least, searing pain. Most dangerously, although they take no lasting damage from both humans and fellow toons, they can do very real, permanent harm to humans. And the only known way to kill them for real is the dip.
  • The Ageless: It's suggested that they're practically immortal and invincible as the Dip is the only means of permanently killing them — anything less results in Amusing Injuries at worst.
  • Animated Actors: In this world, cartoons are filmed in much the same way as live-action movies or television, but with toons as actors. While some toons are not actors, they do tend to be involved in entertainment in one way or another.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: All over the place; Benny the Cab, the Swinging Sword, some buildings and trees in Toontown, the Fantasia brooms, and the musical chairs at the studio to name a few.
  • Art Evolution: When film studios went invokedover to technicolor, all the black & white toons consequently lost their jobs, and struggled to find work elsewhere.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Downplayed, as, overall, toon morality is more or less along the same lines as human morality, but there are a few places here certain traits are viewed differently, humor, most of all. Roger, for instance, is a cartoon rabbit who is by no means attractive by conventional human standards, but he and Jessica are happily married, and it is implied that his sense of humor makes him attractive to other women of Toontown.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: The nature of a toon albeit to varying degrees, some being relatively sane folks with some eccentric logic, others being odd, but friendly and then some others being completely bonkers.
  • Cursed with Awesome: Toons are nigh-indestructible and, at least to the "come to think of it" idea of their cartoony nature taken as serious powers, might as well or do have the powers of demigods. By now, enough people would imagine they would have either conquered or maybe even wiped out humanity with that kind of potential, but they're actually restrained by a rather ludicrous weakness; the Rule of Funny. A toon's behavior is dictated entirely by whatever entertains people, making them so exploitable that they're stuck in working-class vocations.
  • Fantastic Racism: Though certainly admired to some extent by them, they're not fully respected by humans and are often treated poorly (at least during the time period of this film anyway). They're cordoned off in their own huge metropolis called Toontown, which risks being demolished by the government. In addition, the Ink-and-Paint Club has toon performers and wait staff but no toons in the audience (a reference to the Cotton Club, which was whites-only but sold itself on featuring black performers).
  • Feels No Pain: They can endure any imaginable amount of pain or trauma and shake it off like nothing, also via the Rule of Funny, but it still probably hurts like crazy.
  • For the Funnyz: A toon's whole purpose in life is to make people laugh — humans and fellow toons alike.
  • Interspecies Romance: Several had feelings for humans (and vice versa), either with or without the Rule of Funny in force.
  • Literal Metaphor: As is their nature, they deliberately invoke these as gags whenever they get the chance.
    • When Eddie orders a scotch "on the rocks", the Mary Poppins toon penguin waiters put actual rocks in his drink, much to his consternation.
    • Dumbo will work for actual peanuts.
    • The "cattle call" at Maroon Cartoons is comprised of toon cows.
    • The pie with cow's face on it (as in a "cow pie") that Eddie runs over when he enters Toontown.
  • Love Hurts: They can shake off anything you throw at them, but if you break their hearts, they go to pieces.
  • Medium Awareness: Played with. Not really in the sense that they know they're in a movie, but mostly in that they know they're animated representations of human world phenomena.
    • Porky Pig (and, with him, Tinker Bell) does, however, momentarily Break the Fourth Wall doing his trademark "That's All, Folks!" sign-off right before the end credits roll.
    • Tweety also looks to the camera in his Toontown cameo.
  • Not So Invincible After All: It was thought all toons are immortal, never get tired and are virtually unkillable. Until Judge Doom found a way with his Dip chemical.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Discussed by Roger's sentiment indicating that their outlandish, silly behavior is all a deliberate act just for laughs and that they're ultimately just as smart and sensible as humans.
  • Reality Warper: While not really brought up, it's heavily implied toons are able to literally do almost anything just as long as they find it mildly amusing.
  • Rule of Funny: How everything about their entire universe and lives are oriented. For instance, though they can still feel pain, they suffer minimally from it as long as it was at least a little funny. This applies to both them individually and Toontown itself as a whole, where the Rule of Funny affects real-life humans too. That it why, since it was funny, Eddie was able to survive accidentally falling from the skyscraper. Eddie's brother dying as a result of Doom dropping a piano on Eddie's brother was unprecedented because as far as anyone knew, a toon couldn't kill a human. This is a big hint that the killer was no ordinary toon, as real-world humans can survive collisions that total their cars in Toontown — even another human would have been unable to make that kill.
  • Sapient House: Even some of the buildings in Toontown are alive as anything else.
  • Toon: In this world, they are corporeal, space-occupying entities, though it's never explained how they came into being. Some fans believe they've always been there in some form or another with their own form of reproduction and just haven't been filmed until the 19th century. Others say they're drawn by elusive, "god-like animators" or somehow "made in Toontown". Some also speculate they're created by the humans, magically springing to life upon creation. There are hints that they were all brought to life after being rendered onto cels. Regardless, the topic isn't the most relevant aspect of the story, but, for many, the question still lingers.
  • Toon Physics: Everything from making Impact Silhouettes to not succumbing to gravity until realizing they're in open air. These flexible physics apply to toons wherever they are; a human in or very close to Toontown suffers (or benefits) from the same crazy rules, as seen when Eddie Valiant was flattened into a pancake inside a rapidly ascending, high-g toon elevator without suffering any lasting injuries.
  • Toon Transformation: Toons are implied to be able to somehow do this to non-toon objects like when Roger finds Maroon's gun in Eddie's car and takes it with him inside the Acme factory. After he bursts into the factory out of a manhole, the gun is now animated.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: For all their zaniness and dangerous stunts, they don't ever want to kill humans. Eddie's brother being killed by one was unthinkable, horrifying people and toons alike who heard of the incident.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Toons can die if they laugh too much. Given the purpose of the majority of toons is to elicit laughter from non-toons, it's quite a jarring concept.
    • They're also driven by habit to act in ways that would entertain regardless of how much sense it makes for them. Roger blew his own cover because Judge Doom played the "shave and a haircut" tune without the last two notes. Doom himself had Eddie on the ropes in their two fights but managed to get himself injured and killed respectively because there's no joy in seeing a villain winning. This is presumably why toons haven't supplanted humanity as the apex species.
  • Weirdness Magnet: It overlaps with the Rule of Empathy and Rule of Funny as they are helplessly drawn to (no pun intended) and entertain any humans who are crying and/or suffering with crippling depression.

Cartoon characters who appear or are referenced in the film:

    Roger Rabbit 
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Voiced by: Charles Fleischer, Juan Alfonso Carralero (Latin-American Spanish, speaking), Javier Pontón (Latin-American Spanish, singing), Kōichi Yamadera (Japanese)

"Puh-luh-luh-leeeease!"

The eponymous A-List cartoon star rabbit who gets framed for Marvin Acme's murder because his wife Jessica supposedly had an "affair" with him.

  • Adaptational Heroism: The Roger Rabbit of the original book was somewhat shifty and definitely not the Nice Guy he pretended to be. Most notably, the final twist in the book was that he had plotted all along to make Eddie the Fall Guy for the murder he committed. The Roger of the movie is genuinely a Nice Guy.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: He's brown furred in the original book but white furred in the film adaptation.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Jessica refers to him as "honey bunny" and "darling".
  • Alliterative Name: His name and surname both have "R".
  • Ambiguously Bi: He enthusiastically kisses Eddie on the mouth and later has delighted Post-Kiss Catatonia when Eddie later reciprocates.
  • Animated Actors: He plays a rabbit babysitter when he's a rabbit actor.
  • Badass Adorable: Roger has his moments, like when he gives Judge Doom a short statement on his blatant hypocrisy and lack of responsibility for his career.
  • Badly Battered Babysitter: In his cartoons. And he's aware of it, too, as shown in "Trail Mix Up":
    Roger: You hear that, Baby Herman? Hunting! Well, you two have a swell time!
    Mother: Are you insane?! Taking Baby hunting would be dangerous!
    Roger: Well, leavin' him with me is no picnic-! [Mother, now annoyed, bashes Roger over the head with her shotgun, squashing him flat]
  • Berserk Button: The suggestion that he'll find another girl better than Jessica which is, in itself, endearingly heartwarming.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's a sweet fella, but as his brief rant towards Eddie after the latter states he'll find someone better than Jessica, Roger can and will snap.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He's a professional toon and as above example states, he's stops joking when something personal happens.
  • Boss's Unfavorite Employee: For Maroon. In the opening, the director of the opening cartoon hates Roger failing to act out his cartoon with Herman correctly because he made birds appear around his head upon giving himself head trauma instead of stars, even though he apparently did everything else correctly.
  • Break the Cutie:
    • When he sees the pictures of Jessica playing pattycake with Acme, he bursts into tears and spirals into depression in an alley.
    • He also tears up when he learns about Eddie's Dark and Troubled Past.
  • Bunnies for Cuteness: Well, duh. That is when you don't want to get on his bad side when something personal happens.
  • Butt-Monkey: In his cartoons he always goes through Amusing Injuries and nothing ever goes right for him.
  • Can't Hold His Liquor: A glass of scotch sends him bouncing around the room like he downed an equal amount of Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce, culminating with an ear-piercing squeal that breaks all windows in the vicinity. Eddie uses this as a Chekhov's Skill towards the middle of the movie.
  • Character Catchphrase:
    • "P-p-p-pleeeease!"
    • "Jumpin' jeepers!"
    • "Blblblblblblbl!!" — that weird mouth noise he makes when he's just pulled off some piece of smart-assery.
  • Character Exaggeration: While the Roger Rabbit of the original book had some notable eccentric traits, the Roger of the movie is a lot wackier and more, well, cartoony.
  • Classical Anti-Hero: Roger is physically wimpy and a lovable coward.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Being a toon, he often comes to strange conclusions and talks about unusual topics.
  • Comically Cross-Eyed: Roger is slightly cross-eyed, which fits his zany personality.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It's understated, but Roger does show his worth when he confronts Judge Doom in the climax.
  • The Cutie: He is quite adorable with his sweet, easygoing nature.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Surprisingly enough, he can be quite sarcastic from time to time, though on rare occasions.
    Roger: [to Eddie while looking a picture frame] Where is your brother, anyway? He looks like a sensitive and...[side-eyes Eddie] sober fellow.
    • Also from Trail Mix-up
      Mrs. Herman: Are you insane? Taking Baby hunting would be dangerous!
      Roger: Well, leaving him with me is no picnic.
  • Deuteragonist: His name is part of the movie, but he's the second main focus after Eddie.
  • Did You Think I Can't Feel?: When he confronts Eddie so he can prove his innocence, he is mostly unresponsive to Eddie's physical abuse in an attempt to get him to leave. Later on, when Eddie tells him of his Freudian Excuse for why he hates toons, he refers back to it and accuses Eddie of hating him. Of course, Eddie assures him that he doesn't.
  • Drives Like Crazy: All toons are lousy drivers and Roger himself totals Eddie's car while going on a joyride.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: He absolutely refuses to believe Jessica would play pattycake with Acme, even when there are photos of the incident right in front of him; he even claims that someone must have made her do it than it happening of her own free will. He's right; she did it to protect him from being fired.
  • Dumb Is Good: Despite not being the sharpest tool in the shed, he is by far the nicest character in the film.
  • Ears as Hair: Roger wrings the water out of his ears and Eddie grabs him by the ear.
  • Expressive Ears: The animators mention that they took inspiration from ballet dancers when drawing Roger's ears. When restrained, Roger can even point with them.
  • Feels No Pain: At first, such as being immune to fridges being dropped on him, hitting himself over and over again with plates and even when Eddie's wringing his neck, but this is in truth a zigzagged trope, as he clearly is in pain from Judge Doom strangling him. This can be explained because this trope is run on Rule of Funny, but being held by his neck over Dip is pure Rule of Scary. Even if it doesn't hurt, Roger complains to Eddie that he does not like having his ears pulled.
  • Genius Ditz: He knows how to deal with people through laughter.
  • Genre Savvy: In-universe-in-universe with his cartoons. He consistently tries his hardest to weasel his way out of babysitting Herman, because he knows things will go wrong in spectacularly hilarious fashion.
  • Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: The funny and energetic Gleeful to Eddie's disgruntled grumpy.
  • Groin Attack: He narrowly avoids one in the opening cartoon "Somethin's Cookin'" when a meat cleaver hits the wall in between his legs just missing his crotch.
  • Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Only wears red overalls, a blue and yellow polka-dot bowtie and yellow gloves.
  • Happily Married: To Jessica. Despite the problems they go through during the film, Roger clearly loves his wife and trusts her, refusing to suspect her while anyone else would do it. In the few moments they are together, it's made clear they love each other deeply and couldn't be happier.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite his traditionally cartoonish behavior, Roger is aware of what most people think of cartoons, facts he's voiced to Eddie Valiant, in that making people laugh is often what makes toons' lives worthwhile, but also that there are times when making people laugh is the only weapon a toon has.
  • Inelegant Blubbering: As a being whose only purpose is to be silly, Roger's emotional moments tend to rob him of what little dignity he ever had.
  • Innocent Blue Eyes: Has bluish watery eyes of sound sanity. To contrast with Judge Doom's red embers of madness.
  • Interspecies Romance: Him (cartoon rabbit) and Jessica (cartoon human).
  • Kavorka Man: Played with. Being a cartoon rabbit doesn't make him very attractive by human standards, but not only is he married to quite possibly the hottest toon ever made, but he seems to be the envy of most toon females, even Betty Boop. Jessica explains later that it's because he makes her laugh. Sure, Roger ain't the handsomest dude around, but he's a genuinely Nice Guy, pretty funny, as well as an A-list superstar. By toon standards though, Jessica is considered the lucky one. The key attribute of toon society is humor, meaning that a good comedian is pretty much the toon equivalent of a supermodel.
  • Kid-Appeal Character: Roger really stands out as the one original character that appeals the most to kids.
  • Kindhearted Simpleton: He's rather ditzy, clueless, and airheaded, but he is also extremely friendly and compassionate nonetheless.
  • The Klutz: He has a tendency to get his head stuck in things.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Roger is a very big fan of Goofy, despite being a big-name toon himself, and Goofy being from a rival company in-universe. Enough so that when he and Eddie hide in a movie theater, it happens to be playing a Goofy cartoon, and Roger is in utter hysterics in laughter, loudly singing his praises for Goofy as a performer.
    Roger: Boy, did you see that?! Nobody takes a wallop like Goofy! What timing! What finesse! What a genius!!
  • The Lancer: To Eddie Valiant. His friendly, idealistic, silliness contrasts Eddie's jerkish, cynical, serious nature.
  • Large Ham: Justified. Roger's job is to make people laugh, and making people laugh requires him to do and say really ridiculous stuff.
  • Leitmotif: A playful but heroic one.
  • The Load: Roger means well and wants to be helpful, but his antics usually only cause trouble for both him and Eddie, and his inability to repress his own Toon nature makes solving the case all the more difficult.
  • Malaproper: Roger has a memorable one when, in the search for Marvin Acme's will, Eddie tells Dolores that she should "check the probate":
    Roger: Yeah, check the probate! Why, my Uncle Thumper had a problem with his probate, and he had to take these big pills and drink lots of water...
    Eddie: Not "prostate", you idiot, probate!
  • Manchild: Roger has a very innocent, childlike personality, yet he has quite a sexy wife.
  • Mistaken for Murderer: The whole plot revolves around finding out who framed him for Acme's murder.
  • Mood-Swinger: When he finds out his wife played Patty-Cake on him, he goes from anguish to rage to utter black despair in three minutes flat.
    Eddie: Good looking guy like [Roger], the dames'll be breaking his door down.
    Roger: [suddenly furious, leaps on Eddie] Dames? What dames?! Jessica is the only one for me! You'll see! We'll rise above this piddling peccadillo! We're gonna be happy again! Got that? Happy! Capital H-A-P-P-I!
    [runs out the window]
    Eddie: Well, at least he took it well.
    [Cut to Roger crying and heartbroken. He sits and looks despondently at the pictures in his wallet.]
    Roger: Jessica, please tell me it isn't true! P-p-p-p-please!
    • Similarly, his reaction when he hears the story of Teddy's death rapidly goes from blank horror to sobbing self-loathing ("If a toon killed my brother, I'd hate me too!") to sudden relief when Eddie apologizes for mistreating him.
  • Motor Mouth: Like most toons, he can't keep quiet.
  • Nice Guy: He's extremely friendly, even more than most toons, and even in his cartoons, where he's reluctant to babysit Herman but only because of the danger to himself, not because he doesn't care about the baby.
  • No Indoor Voice: He can't keep quiet, especially when he's crying.
  • Non-Ironic Clown: His clothing and coloration give him a very clownish appearance, and he acts the part.
  • Opposites Attract: With Jessica. He's goofy, energetic and a great comedian, while she's sexy, glamorous and composed.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: He's the comic relief definitely, but he does manage to briefly stand up to Judge Doom near the end. And after this speech he is of course knocked out by a load of literal bricks.
    Roger: That's it, Doom. Give me another excuse to pump you full of lead. So you thought you could get away with it, didn't you? Ha! We toons may act idiotic, but we're not stupid. We demand justice. Why, the real meaning of the word probably hits you like a ton of bricks.
  • The Pollyanna: Roger's forever optimistic. Even after having his heart broken, Roger gets over it quickly enough to write a love letter.
  • Porky Pig Pronunciation: He stammers his p's. Unlike Porky Pig, Roger's stammer has a roll of the tongue to it.
  • Primary-Color Champion: A white rabbit with a tuft of red hair on his head, red overalls, yellow gloves, and a blue bowtie with yellow polka dots.
  • Prone to Tears: A Rare Male Example that is not Played for Laughs. Roger is quite emotional, best shown when his wife supposedly cheats on him with Acme and when he listens to Eddie's backstory.
  • Quaking with Fear:
    • Eddie Suddenly Shouting at him to stay out of his dead brother's vacant chair (which he didn't know was for his brother) absolutely terrifies him to the point of trembling in fear.
    • He also understandably starts trembling when brought close to Doom's Dip mixture when he gets Sentenced Without Trial upon being flushed out by Doom in the bar.
  • Rascally Rabbit: Downplayed. Roger is usually used for slapstick comedy in his job, but does a few tricks when with Eddie.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives Judge Doom a short, but notable one about his blatant corruption of his position and his soon abandonment of said position to get more wealth. Considering how Judge Doom was rightfully feared by almost everyone -- including Roger himself, it shows that even Roger has limits of what he can tolerate from someone.
    Roger: That's it, Doom! Give me another excuse to pump you full of lead! So you thought you could get away with it, didn't you? Ha! We toons may act idiotic, but we're not stupid. We demand justice. Why, the real meaning of the word probably hits you like a ton of bricks!
  • Red Is Heroic: Wears red overalls and is the Deuteragonist.
  • Righteous Rabbit: A heroic Nice Guy, even if a little bit insane.
  • Rough Overalls: While not a working class hero or of rural background, Roger is put into a set of red overalls to evoke the playfulness and goofiness side and of his toon ways—much like other characters put into overalls during the era, he's supposed be a bit of a rube.
  • Rule of Funny: As a traditional slapstick toon, he lives by it.
  • Rule of Three: A rhetorical device frequently used by Roger — he names something using three different synonyms. In at least one case, though, he seems to be gearing up to make a Long List out of it until he gets yanked out of his train of thought.
    Roger: Jessica's the light of my life, the apple of my eye, the cream in my coffee...
    Roger: I didn't kill anybody, I swear! This whole thing's a setup, a scam, a frame job!
    Roger: Oh, I get it! A speakeasy, a gin mill, a hooch parlor...
    Roger: That was quick thinking, Eddie! Nothing like using the ol' spine flower, the wise noodle, the smart puddin'— [grabbed by Eddie] YEEOW!!
    Roger: Keep it up! You're killing 'em! You're slaying 'em! You're knockin' them dead!
    • If the Spin-Off shorts are to be believed, the writers at Maroon Cartoons are even working this habit into their scripts for Roger and Herman.
      Roger: [in "Tummy Trouble"] Don't worry about a thing. I've learned my lesson! I'm a reformed rabbit, a better bunny, a happier hare!
  • The Scapegoat: Him being blamed for Judge Doom's murder of Marvin Acme is what drives the plot.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: Justified. It's his job to be as funny as possible, so what else did you expect from Charles Fleischer?
  • Secondary Character Title: Who Framed Roger Rabbit is partially about him, but the real protagonist is Eddie Valiant. Roger is the second main character.
  • Sex God: Aside from Roger having an epic breakdown over Jessica playing Patty Cake with Acme, Jessica strongly states this trope in comparison to Roger's driving.
    Jessica: My Honey-Bunny was never very good behind the wheel.
    Eddie: A better lover than a driver, huh?
    Jessica: You better believe it, buster. note 
  • Shipper on Deck: Eddie and Dolores are about to kiss when they notice Roger watching them, sighing happily with hearts in his eyes (and his ears forming another heart).
    Roger: Oh p-p-p-please, don't mind me...
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Jessica, as they talk sweetly about and to one another while saying each other's Affectionate Nickname.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: Jessica is the only woman for him.
  • Skewed Priorities: He refuses a drink from Eddie on the grounds that he's trying to cut down on his alcohol consumption, even though Roger is seconds away from being executed by Doom.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Roger survives here, unlike his book counterpart who gets shot early on and the Roger that works with Eddie is a duplicate that's going to disappear in a day or two.
  • Species Surname: "Rabbit" is a surname rather than an epithet (at the very least, his wife takes it as such), so it counts.
  • Sphere Eyes: Useful when doing the Eye Pop.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Played with
    • By human standards, Jessica's drop-dead gorgeous and is about the sexiest thing walking while Roger's just a goofy-looking toon rabbit.
    • By toon standards (who judge attractiveness by how funny a toon is), most seem to feel that Jessica (who, while still sexy, simply isn't all that funny) lucked out marrying a big-name star like Roger, who's practically a supermodel with someone like Jessica.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Can be forced into blowing his cover by tapping out "shave and a haircut" and leaving out the last two notes.
  • White Bunny: Roger's a white-furred rabbit with blue eyes.

    Jessica Rabbit 
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The most popular character of the film for one or two obvious reasons.

Voiced by: Kathleen Turner (speaking) and Amy Irving (singing), Rebeca Rambal (Latin-American Spanish), Miyuki Ichijō (Japanese)

"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."

A sultry, voluptuous toon-human lounge singer/actress and Roger’s wife, who has been made into a sex symbol — both in and out of the movie, surpassing Betty Boop — and seeing what she looks like, it's pretty justified.

  • Adaptational Consent: She genuinely loves Roger here. In the book she's only with him because he accidentally wished for her in a magic lamp and leaves him when the wish wears off.
  • Adaptational Heroism: Like Roger, the Jessica of the movie is a far more heroic character than her original book counterpart. In the book, she detested Roger and was solely out for herself — here, all her questionable actions are done solely to protect her husband (though occasionally this falls into Insane Toon Logic, such as knocking him unconscious and locking him in the trunk of her car so he won't get hurt).
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Jessica is described as blue-eyed in the original book, but is a Significant Green-Eyed Redhead here.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Roger calls her "Love Cup".
  • All There in the Manual: Her maiden name is Krupnick.
  • Anticipatory Lipstick: When Eddie finds her in his apartment, Jessica is holding a mirror in front of her face as she applies her lipstick.
  • Aside Glance: Jessica Rabbit seems to love looking at the camera and makes at least four of these. There's a subtle one during her singing number right before she sits on Eddie, then another after knocking out Roger with a frying pan and dumping him in the trunk of a car, a very quick one as she's getting into Benny the Cab in Toontown and then one right before Rogers bursts into the Acme factory via the storm drain.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: She and Roger never fight when they are on screen together, but she uses her sexuality full force against nearly every other man she meets. Turns out that everything she does, no matter how shady, is for the love of Roger.
  • Beauty Is Bad: Played straight in the novel, but averted completely in the film. Movie Jessica initially gives off vibes of an Affably Evil Vamp with an agenda not atypical of Film Noir Femme Fatales, but she turns out to be as compassionate and heroic as she is gorgeous and she truly loves her husband more than anything. Novel Jessica, however, while quite the looker, was a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing solely out for number one and her husband was but a means to an end (not that he was really any better).
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Implied. A few lines from Jessica imply she was never taken seriously or misunderstood simply because of her sultry looks. Roger was presumably either the first or one of the very few who treated her with respect and kindness.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Dolores's Betty for Eddie's Archie, though Eddie's heart already belongs to Dolores and he knows his attraction to Jessica is superficial.
  • Big-Breast Pride: While it is never specifically said, Jessica seems to fit this. Her main ensemble consists of a red evening gown with a plunging V-neck that displays her massive cleavage size, and tends to walk in slow struts to purposely draw focus to her bouncing chest. In the infamous scene in Eddie's office, she purposely presses her breasts against Eddie's chest when she tells him she is willing to do anything to help her husband.
    • Also, in the same scene, she is completely unbothered when Eddie bumps his head against her breasts when he tries to stand up after pulling up his pants.
  • Blessed with Suck: Her amazing looks, sultry voice, and impossibly curvy body have made her eye candy to every guy in town—every human guy, that is. Unfortunately, as a Toon, she's in a society where it's the ability to make people laugh that earns fame, fortune, and admiration. As such, she's stuck entertaining human men in a seedy club for money, because she isn't able to make it in her own world.
  • Boob-Based Gag: Jessica Rabbit's ample breasts find themselves involved in quite a lot of visual comedy, including funny bounces and turning out to contain a Bear Trap for handsy men.
    Eddie: Nice booby trap
  • Boobs-and-Butt Pose: Naturally, there are many shots of Jessica that put a lot of focus specifically on her ample boobs and ass.
  • Break His Heart to Save Him: Ultimately why she played patty-cake with Acme. She knew it would hurt Roger, but Maroon threatened to fire and blacklist her husband if she didn't, which is the only reason she went through with it.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: She is quite well-endowed and it's one of the reasons she's such a Dude Magnet. They are also heavily emphasized by the animation, as her breasts are purposely drawn to bounce in the opposite rhythm of a normal female's chest while walking; she bounces down when a real person would bounce up, and vice versa. And they even go "boing" when she presses them up against something. There's also Greasy's eagerness to "frisk" her cleavage which leads to a Boob-Based Gag when he gets his hand on her Victoria's Secret Compartment and gets caught in a Bear Trap, causing Valiant to snark "Nice booby-trap".
  • Cassandra Truth: Eddie and most other humans don't believe her many professions of love for her husband because her voice is almost always locked in a constant breathy half-whisper, making it seem like she's saying everything sarcastically. It's entirely possible Roger is one of the few people who can actually tell when she's being genuine.
  • The Chanteuse: Jessica Rabbit is introduced this way, working as a singer in the Ink & Paint Club. The entire (male) crowd is gobsmacked by her beauty and sensuality, and Eddie Valiant openly asks Betty Boop how that woman wound up married to a comedian like Roger.
  • Chewing the Scenery: Jessica, cool as ice most of the film, completely loses it when she realizes what Doom has planned—complete with a Wild Take.
    Jessica: OH MY GOD, IT'S DIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!!!
  • Cleavage Window: Her red evening gown has a low neckline that shows off a wonderful display of her cleavage.
  • Contrapposto Pose: Basically Jessica’s default stance. Anyone cosplaying her tends to spend a lot of time pulling this pose if only because a real human being needs all the help she can get to approximate Jessica’s waist/hip ratio.
  • Covered in Kisses: After Doom's defeat and being let down by Eddie, Jessica picks up Roger up in her arms before smothering his face with kisses, commending him for his bravery.
    • Downplayed in the scene in Eddie's office. Before she leaves, she tells Eddie to think about her offer before blowing a kiss that flies across the room before landing sharply on Eddie's cheek.
  • Crazy-Prepared: She keeps a Bear Trap in her cleavage in case some tries to search through her, or probably even tries to molest her.
  • Damsel in Distress: In the Roger Rabbit cartoon "Rollercoaster Rabbit".
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Jessica slowly warms up to Eddie through the film.
  • Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Of the "seductive" variety. The only time she opens them entirely is for a Wild Take at the Dip.
  • Dude Magnet: Her husband, Roger, is madly in love with her, while every other man is just merely besotted. Judge Doom is the only male character who shows no interest in her.
  • Dying Declaration of Love: Jessica reaffirms her love for Roger while both are tied together at a time when the situation looks hopeless.
    Jessica: Roger, darling. I want you to know I love you. I've loved you more than any woman's ever loved a rabbit.
  • Easily Forgiven: Roger doesn't hold her infidelity against her, choosing to write a love letter to Jessica in a fit of jealous rage rather than angrily confront her or Acme about it, and believing her to be an innocent victim of circumstance the whole time. Downplayed in that he is proven correct, though he still never learns the reasons why she played patty-cake with Acme.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Her introductory performance makes it clear she's the ultimate in cartoon sex appeal, but the song she sings encourages her man to go out and make something of himself. Jessica is the sexiest toon around, but she's also a good woman whose first concern is her husband.
  • Everything's Better with Sparkles: Jessica's dress on stage when she performs her musical number. note 
  • Expy: Jessica Rabbit's design and career is a more vampish version of Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood
  • Eye Take: Does a massive one◊ when Doom reveals the vat of Dip to her.
  • Face of a Thug: Played With. While she doesn't have a traditionally menacing or threatening appearance, she looks like a very suspicious and untrustworthy character due to her design being based on the Femme Fatale character archetype, but she doesn't even have a shred of evil or malice in her heart and is genuinely a good person who cares a whole lot about her husband Roger.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: Jessica's hair hangs over the right side of her face, often obscuring her eye to make her look mysterious and alluring.
  • Femme Fatale: She's a toon clearly created by some artist to be the perfect example from her dangerous good looks and sultry voice to the slinky way she moves. Even her smile is suspicious. But in the end, it's Subverted; her intentions are pure, as she only wants to protect her husband. She really isn't bad! Just drawn that way.
  • Flirty Voice Ploy: Even when she is being serious, her voice is so husky and seductive.
  • Frying Pan of Doom: At one point, Jessica knocks Roger cold with a frying pan... but only because she didn't want him to get hurt. Bonus points for her putting it inside her tiny handbag afterwards.
  • Going Commando: In the original version of the scene where she gets ejected out of Benny the cab, there were a few frames that made it appear that Jessica might not be wearing underwear. All home video releases starting from the AC3 Laserdisc edit the scene by either making her dress digitally longer to cover her or recoloring part of the frame to give her panties.
  • Good All Along: Jessica spends most of the movie looking shady and self-interested. It turns out pretty much all of her seemingly suspicious actions either had good intentions or were not her fault, and she genuinely is devoted to Roger.
  • Good Bad Girl: "I'm not bad... I'm just drawn that way."
  • Happily Married: To Roger. Despite what others think of her, Jessica loves her husband very deeply and would do anything for him.
  • Head-and-Hip Pose: While confiding to detective Eddie Valiant, Jessica Rabbit does a variant by walking with both hands on her wide, wiggly hips. Jessica's hairstyle, a la Veronica Lake, makes the hand-to-head gesture unnecessary.
  • Head-Turning Beauty: Even humans lust after her. Given she's as human as a toon can get, it's understandable.
  • ""Hey, You!" Haymaker: Jessica does it to Eddie while at the site of Acme's murder.
    ''' Jessica: Mr. Valiant? [Eddie turns around; Jessica slaps him across the face] I hope you're proud of yourself, and those pictures you took!
  • Hidden Depths: Especially if you've only seen the posters and/or her pictures. Despite her looks and behavior (and the fact that she's clearly out of Roger's league appearance-wise), she really loves her husband. Jessica is also clearly one of the most intelligent and proactive characters in the film.
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: Jessica's a devoted wife who just happens to have the voice, appearance, and mannerisms of a scheming vixen.
  • High-Class Gloves: Jessica wears long, over-the-elbow, purple gloves.
  • Hospital Hottie: Jessica plays a nurse in the Disney short-film "Tummy Trouble" featuring Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman.
  • Impossible Hourglass Figure: One of the more famous and extreme cases of this trope. She was originally designed with more (relatively speaking) realistic proportions, but the creators decided that they wanted an unrealistic quality about her sexiness. She's a toon, after all. According to this Quora post, Jessica stands six feet in her heels (she's 5'9'' without them) and has "a 19.5 inch waist, 40FF breasts, 38 inch hips, a hip-to-waist ratio of 0.53, and weight 160 pounds—50 of those alone being just her breasts!"
  • Impossibly-Low Neckline: It's okay for her, firstly because she's an animated character, and secondly because she's not really meant to be all that realistic anyway.
  • Indignant Slap: She gives a harsh one to Eddie as mentioned above.
  • Interspecies Romance: Her (cartoon human) and Roger (cartoon rabbit).
  • Lady in Red: A truly exaggerated example; Jessica's dress in not only solid red but it sparkles. Meanwhile, everything she says and does comes off as seductive.
  • Leitmotif: Jessica's Theme
  • Madonna-Whore Complex: On the receiving end of this mentality, since her sultry good looks and implied sexual history leads everyone to assume she's a Femme Fatale Gold Digger, and Roger a naive idiot for thinking she would be faithful to him just because they're married. Turns out Roger was right, Jessica really is devoted to him, and she was forced against her will to pose for those patty-cake pictures (to save her husband from getting fired and blacklisted by his boss)... which might explain why Jessica loves Roger so much.
    R.K. Maroon: [regarding Roger] His wife's poison, but he thinks she's Betty Crocker.
  • Mistaken for Cheating: Downplayed. She did play "Patty Cake" with Acme but only to save Roger's job rather than out of any desire on her part. Roger never learns this but either way, her faithfulness is never in question as far as he's concerned.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Possibly the best example in Western Animation (You see her picture on the trope page!). She is integral to the plot, but her fanservice features are taken up a notch. She is a gorgeous Lady in Red, her bustline is as big as her torso, her neckline is impossibly low, she's got super long legs, there were some racy panty shots, and the like. No wonder every man and every cartoon is Distracted by the Sexy and enjoys Eating the Eye Candy when she's present. In fact, she's Ms. Fanservice for the film, the world of the film, and the cartoons she appears in within that world! However, this trope is somewhat deconstructed, as toons in this world are successful when they're making people laugh, while most of Jessica's services are... y'know. While she can't succeed as most toons do, she manages to use her sexual appeal to her advantage to get somewhere in seedy clubs entertaining men.
  • Naughty Nurse Outfit: Wears one in her role in the "Tummy Trouble" Roger cartoon.
  • Nice Girl: She attests to Eddie Valiant that "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Indeed, she proves herself to be selfless and compassionate throughout the movie.
  • Non-Indicative Name: When he first hears her name, Eddie (quite logically) assumes that Jessica's a rabbit like her husband is—but then he discovers that not only is "Rabbit" technically Jessica's married name, she's not even a rabbit. Oh no.
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: At first glance, she appears to be morally ambiguous and devious as one might expect from a Femme Fatale, but she's not like that in any way. She's a good girl who just also happens to be incredibly sultry and loves her husband more than anything.
    Jessica: I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
  • Not Helping Your Case: Jessica really wants to help her husband escape Judge Doom. Yet she spends her screentime seemingly flirting with Eddie when begging him to save Roger, knocking out the rabbit as he goes with Eddie to confront R.K. Maroon, and fleeing after someone shoots Maroon. Valiant lampshades it, naturally.
  • Not So Above It All: You might think because of her more in-control Femme Fatale personality and the fact that she's more of a "mature" toon that Jessica isn't quite as loony as the others. The movie sets her up like that, and then wittily breaks down the assumption. The fact that she married a goofball toon like Roger kind of already says this trope.
    Jessica: Oh, no. Where's Roger?!
    Eddie: Roger? He chickened out on me back at the studio.
    Jessica: No, he didn't. I hit him in the head with a frying pan and put him in the trunk so he wouldn't get hurt.
    Eddie: ...Makes perfect sense.
    • Her reactions to the Dip and her brief scene in the short, Rollercoaster Rabbit show off her more expressive side.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Face (and voice) like Lauren Bacall, hair like Veronica Lake, dressed like Rita Hayworth in Gilda.
  • Not So Stoic: While her default appearance is that of no-nonsense sex icon, she occasionally bursts into moments of over-the-top goofiness (most notably when she learns that Doom plans to Dip her and all of Toontown). Considering Roger's remark that all Toons by their nature want nothing more than to make people laugh, it's highly possible her lack of expression is less her own choice and more imposed on her by whoever created her to be a vain sex symbol.
  • Only Sane Woman: She's probably the sanest toon of all the toons.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Though she's a toon, she's generally calm and composed... but when she sees just what Doom has planned, she screams in horror.
  • Opposites Attract: With Roger. She's sexy, glamorous, and composed, while he's goofy, energetic, and a great comedian. It's implied Jessica loves Roger because he has the fun and energy she lacks.
  • Parent Service: The movie wasn't made just for children and Jessica was designed to be the most fanservice-y character. Fathers drooled over her while mothers cosplayed as her.
  • Percussive Prevention: Jessica Rabbit hits her husband Roger with a frying pan to keep him out of harm's way. It does make perfect sense in Roger's case; as he's a Toon, physical violence will only temporarily incapacitate him. The villains, however, are using Dip, which can kill him.
  • Perverse Sexual Lust: Almost every single aspect of her character was designed to inspire this, which helps to contrast with her actual personality. Referenced in an episode of Friends by Chandler, among other places.
  • Pervy Patdown: When Judge Doom tells the weasels to frisk Jessica for Acme's will, Greasy eagerly reaches down her ample cleavage to do so and to cop a feel (seriously, his tongue droops out his mouth in excitement), but all he gets is his hand caught in a Bear Trap.
  • Pink Is Erotic: She wears a sparkling pink version of her dress during her performances at the Ink Club.
  • Projectile Kiss: Jessica Rabbit blows a kiss at Eddie Valiant. Since she's a toon, her kiss flies on Eddie's face like a red butterfly before sharply landing on his cheek.
  • Promoted to Love Interest: Unlike her book counterpart, Jessica is genuinely in love with her husband Roger.
  • Redheads Are Ravishing: Jessica is a glamorous Ms. Fanservice redhead with an extremely sexy body that is unusual for a toon. She's designed to look like a Femme Fatale, but she's really devoted to her husband Roger and both are madly in love with each other.
  • Red Is Heroic: Jessica wears a sparkly, red dress and is a heroic person.
  • Sex for Services: She seems like she's on the verge of offering Eddie this in exchange for helping her find her husband, before Dolores walks in on them. She also only agreed to play Patty-Cake with Marvin Acme to keep R.K. Maroon from firing and blacklisting her husband.
  • Sexy Backless Outfit: Jessica Rabbit wears a slinky strapless, backless, sequined red evening gown slit up the thigh to here.
  • Sexy Silhouette: Makes one when she visits Valiant's office and when she's running to her car. Hell, her shadow, whatever the pose, would be one.
  • Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: While she's a lot sexier than she is cutesy, many suspect her of being a two-timing Gold Digger because humans don't understand how toons rate attractiveness by humor-quotient rather than physical appearance. She turns out to be so devoted to Roger that she let herself be blackmailed just to spare his career.
  • Shout-Out: She looks a lot like Red Hot Riding Hood.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Roger, as they talk sweetly about and to one another while saying each other's Affectionate Nickname.
  • Side Boob: Thanks to her design, we get more than one shot of her cleavage.
  • Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: It's easy to miss, as few people are looking at her eyes. Nonetheless, she's a redhead with green eyes and is important to most of the plot.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: She makes it clear that despite what others think of her, she only has eyes for Roger and would do anything for his sake.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Why does Jessica Rabbit love Roger as a husband? He makes her laugh.
  • Sliding Scale of Beauty: Level 3 almost bordering on Level 2.
  • So Beautiful, It's a Curse: She provides the page quote. And true to her word, many men throughout the film have done and/or said inappropriate things to her because of her beauty.
  • Species Surname: Subverted. She's not a cartoon rabbit like her husband Roger Rabbit, she just took on his last name.
  • Statuesque Stunner: No exact height given, but she seems to be just a bit shy of 6 feet tall. Of course, being juxtaposed with the unusually short Eddie Valiant makes her look taller in comparison.
  • Stealth Parody: Of Detective Movie Femme Fatales once you start to see a somewhat looney side of her.
  • The Stoic: She's very composed for a toon. That is until she sees the Dip and freaks out in a typical cartoon fashion.
    Jessica: Oh MY GOD!!! IT'S DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!!!!
  • Stop Being Stereotypical: Jessica has this complaint about herself. She is ashamed of how she was created to be a well-endowed Femme Fatale-type character who constantly speaks in a breathy voice unless she's really forcing herself not to. Half the reason she loves Roger so much is that he's one of the few people who cares for her solely for her personality rather than her looks.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Although she seems cool and distant, she has a soft spot for Roger, whom she married because he "makes her laugh", is a better lover than a driver, and that he's magnificent and "better than Goofy".
  • Sultry Bangs: As an explicit Shout-Out to Veronica Lake. She is the film's Femme Fatale and Ms. Fanservice. She is introduced putting on a sexually-charged performance at the Ink and Paint Club where she works as a lounge singer, and the film makes no bones about how she has every man there enthralled. Her design perfectly reflects her sultry nature, including a red dress and side-bangs that usually cover her right eye.
  • Supermodel Strut: She is always strutting in a suggestive way in general, implying that it just comes naturally to her. But this is still best demonstrated during her stage performance in the Ink and Paint Club, where she's deliberately and skilfully swiveling her legs and hips from side to side in front of a mesmerized audience.
  • The Tease: Her stage routine is made of this. She acts this way towards Eddie Valiant as well. Ends up being a subversion in that it's all an act to protect Roger, and notably, it's no more than a tease, keeping her faithful. Though she was insistent that she would do anything for Roger and she did play patty cake behind Roger's back because she needed to protect him.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The Huge Girl to Roger's Tiny Guy.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Played With:
    • By human standards, Jessica's drop-dead gorgeous and is about the sexiest thing walking while Roger's just a goofy-looking toon rabbit.
    • By toon standards (who judge attractiveness by how funny a toon is), most seem to feel that Jessica (who, while still sexy, simply isn't all that funny) lucked out marrying a big-name star like Roger, who's practically a supermodel by toon standards.
  • Vapor Wear: She was given panties in the DVD release, though she's still obviously going bra-less.
  • Victoria's Secret Compartment: When Judge Doom tells his henchmen to frisk Jessica for Marvin Acme's will, Greasy reaches down her ample cleavage to do it (and in order to cop a feel), but all he gets is his hand caught in a Bear Trap.
  • What Does She See in Him?: Eddie's reaction to Jessica Rabbit being married to Roger. On the other hand, Betty Boop thinks Jessica is the lucky one. As for the reason why Jessica loves Roger?
    Jessica: He makes me laugh.
  • Wild Take: Jessica does a minor one when she sees the Dip: her eyes grow much larger and her face is an exaggerated mask of fear—in a reminder that she, despite her near-human appearance, is still a toon.

    Baby Herman 
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He acts much older off-screen.

Voiced by: Lou Hirsch, Alejandro Abdalah (Latin-American Spanish), Takkō Ishimori (Japanese), Richard Darbois (French)

"My problem is I got a fifty-year-old lust and a three-year-old dinky."

A rude, crass toon-human baby... who has been a baby for 53 years, as well as Roger’s friend and co-worker in the movie business.

  • Adaptational Attractiveness: He's described as dopey looking and overweight in the original book. However, this could just be Roger not liking Baby Herman, as Herman is popular for his "baby cute" looks nevertheless.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: In the book he's described as having "one dark hair". In the film, he's blond.
  • Age Lift: In the novel, he's 36 but still a baby. The film ages him up to 53.
  • Cigar Chomper: Always has a smoke on hand or in his mouth whenever he's not in character.
  • Dawson Casting: Parodied in-universe. A 53-year-old man who looks like an infant.
  • Dirty Old Man: Granted, he could be mistaken as a Dirty Kid.
  • The Fool: His role in the cartoons. His character gets into all sorts of trouble, and comes out no worse for wear either by luck or because Roger takes all the blows.
  • Grumpy Old Man: Having the literal body of a baby for over five decades really doesn't agree with him.
  • Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: He himself admits he loves the fame but hates being a 53-year-old man in an infant's body.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: At the end of the film, he pointed out Acme's will is still missing, which without it Toontown is just waiting for "another developer's wrecking ball".
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It may not look like it at first, but he cares about Roger. Despite being very grouchy when not in character and showing frustration with Roger on set, he's the first person to vouch for Roger's innocence and tries to hire Eddie to clear his name.
  • The Napoleon: Justified. Herman is actually quite old, but because he's a cartoon character, he doesn't visibly age. That means he will stay the same toddler size forever.
  • Nice Character, Mean Actor: A zig-zagged example. The character he portrays causes a lot of trouble for Roger, though this is somewhat justified since he's just an infant. But as soon as the cameras stop rolling, he shows himself to be fairly grouchy and annoying. At the same time, even though he acts like an asshole he still professes to Roger's innocence and attempts to hire Eddie to help clear his name, showing he does consider him a friend.
  • Not Growing Up Sucks: Baby Herman smokes humongous cigars and has "a fifty-year lust and a three-year-old dinky" concerning his nurse. That's not his only problem, as seen in the comics.
  • Older Than They Look: He is actually fifty-three years old... despite resembling and portraying a baby.
  • Professional Voice Dissonance: When he's acting as a baby, he has a very high-pitched, innocent voice. When he's off-camera, he has a very deep, gravelly voice, more representative of his actual age and his smoking habit.
  • Straying Baby: His role in the opening short.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: He is a baby who enjoys smoking. Subverted, in that chronologically speaking, he passed the legal age of smoking a long time ago, and he acts his real age in most other respects (except for wearing diapers and riding around in strollers).
  • Vocal Dissonance: He looks like a baby but has a VERY raspy voice.

    Benny the Cab 
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The official transport of Toontown himself.

Voiced by: Charles Fleischer, Hirotaka Suzuoki (Japanese), Juan Alfonso Carralero (Latin-American Spanish)

"I'll drive. I'm the cab."

A foul-mouthed, super-fast cartoon taxi cab that is friends with Roger. He apparently has a history of run-ins with the law due to his rather chaotic driving skills and has the supernatural ability to appear whenever someone sticks out their thumb.

    The Toon Patrol 
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Smart Ass voiced by: David Lander, Issei Futamata (Japanese), Philippe Peythieu (French)
Stupid voiced by: Fred Newman
Wheezy voiced by: June Foray
Greasy voiced by: Charles Fleischer, Katsumi Suzuki (Japanese)
Psycho voiced by: Charles Fleischer, Rokuro Naya (Japanese)

Eddie Valiant: Weasels!
Judge Doom: Yes, I find they have a special gift for the work.

A.k.a. "The Weasels". The Quirky Miniboss Squad comprised of toon weasels that Judge Doom hired to catch Roger Rabbit who bear a strong resemblance to the weasels from Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Their names are Smart Ass, Greasy, Wheezy, Psycho and Stupid, but you'd only know that if you read the credits and scripts.

  • Achilles' Heel: Constant laughter, of all things.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: As Wheezy dies, he tries to get back his soul in a panic and desperate way showing he's obviously afraid to die. As evil as he might have been you can't help but feel kind of sorry for him.
  • All There in the Script: None of their names are spoken in the movie, although after seeing the names in the credits it's easy to work out which one is which.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: Wheezy's fur is blue for unknown reasons.
  • Ambiguously Brown: Greasy, of all the gang, has darkest brown fur. Another subtle hint that he's Latino and perhaps the Toon Patrol's Token Minority.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's not made clear if the Weasels knew Doom was actually a toon — helping with his disguise in their shared goal to take down Toontown. Or they were hired under the assumption that Doom was human and joined on his plan in order to be spared the same fate as the other toons. The comic adaptation and its sequel imply the former.
  • Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Presumably the ghosts of Wheezy, Greasy, Stupid and Psycho. Averted with Smart Ass, who doesn't give up a ghost after being dipped.
  • Ax-Crazy: All of them, but four of them manage to hide it through snarky professionalism or being dopey like Stupid, but Psycho is the most blatantly open about his insanity with his spiral swirl eyes and wearing a straightjacket. They also tend to find anything funny including the suffering or deaths of their own kind via the intended Toontown massacre or their own members hilarious.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: Smart Ass and Greasy.
  • Badass Longcoat: Greasy wears one as part of his zoot suit (see Ambiguously Brown above).
  • Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Played straight with Wheezy and Psycho and subverted with Smart Ass, who wears spats. Averted with Stupid and Greasy.
  • Batter Up!: Stupid's main weapon is a nailed baseball bat.
  • BFG: Wheezy uses a tommy-gun instead of the pistols the other weasels use. Typical of gangsters, he conceals it in a violin case, as seen when they are about to investigate Eddie's apartment.
  • Bilingual Bonus: Greasy is Puerto Rican (at least that's his accent) but he curses twice in the movie in Spanish.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In contrast with the meaner weasels, Stupid comes off as happy-go-lucky due in large part to his dimness. At the same time, he's just as bad as them for taking part in a genocidal plan.
  • Boomerang Bigot: They seem to hate other toons, or at least delight in making them suffer, despite being toons themselves. They also have zero compunctions about going along with Doom's genocidal plans for Toontown.
  • Bloody Hilarious: Smart Ass getting kicked in the groin and flying to his death by landing in the Dip was apparently so funny that it triggered Greasy's death.
  • Bowdlerize: See that image to the right? It bowdlerized Smart Ass' name to Smart Guy. Other tie-in media have named him "Smarty."
  • Breakout Villain: Within the film itself, they're a Quirky Mini Boss Squad that's dealt with before the confrontation with Judge Doom. They managed to get enough collective popularity that they become the main villains of the dark ride attraction in Disneyland's Toontown.
  • Brooklyn Rage: Smart Ass has a Brooklyn accent (and his voice actor, David Lander, is actually from Brooklyn) and a predisposition toward violence.
  • Category Traitor: The Toon Patrol participates in helping a human or so it seemed at first, commit near-toon genocide despite being toons themselves.
  • Character Death: Stupid, Wheezy, Greasy, and Psycho Die Laughing and Smart Ass is kicked into a vat of Dip.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Psycho, unlike the others who have some grounded logic, Psycho tends to think very differently than the others.
  • Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Smart Ass has a low voice, but the others' voices are higher, especially Psycho.
  • Dark Is Evil: Greasy has the darkest of the brown-shaded furs and the darkest clothes while Wheezy has the grayest.
  • Deader than Dead: Smart-Ass gets killed by being kicked into a vat of Dip. He doesn't even get a ghost.
  • Deadpan Snarker: As if a name like Smart Ass couldn't spell it out for you.
  • Decapitated Army: Downplayed as Greasy and Psycho die immediately afterwards, but it's still noticeable that Smart Ass, their leader and most competent member is killed before them. In fact, his death is what causes those two to laugh enough that they themselves die.
  • Determinator: Wheezy is the only weasel who tries to stop his ghost from leaving his body.
  • Die Laughing: How they die at the end, except for Smart Ass who gets dipped.
  • Dirty Cop: They are stated to be the primary law enforcement of Toontown, but behave more like gangsters than police.
  • The Ditz: Stupid, and to a lesser extent, Psycho.
  • The Dragon: Smart Ass serves as Judge Doom's right-hand man and the most personal enemy to Eddie out of the five. Greasy is also this to Smart Ass when the latter is in charge.
  • The Dreaded: That explains why Roger Rabbit screams in terror when he sees 'em coming in Eddie Valiant's office before saying "It's the Toon Patrol!!!"
  • Dumb Muscle: Stupid, one notable example is when he smacks his head with his own bat while laughing at Eddie's jokes.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Greasy has a quite deep voice and Wheezy as well judging by his only one line.
  • Evil Sounds Raspy: Smart Ass and Greasy talk in a squeaky and gruff voice.
  • Fat Idiot: Stupid. He's got a big round belly and he earned his name by being not bright.
  • Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Greasy is the only one weasel who's fully dressed unlike the the rest of the gang.
  • Furry Female Mane: Greasy is a male example as he's shown to be the only one sporting hair unlike the others (with Psycho's fur being spiky on his head).
  • Giggling Villain: Psycho, when he's not acting like The Hyena.
  • Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Wheezy is an evil smoker who usually has at least three or four cigarettes in his mouth and is shown suffering negative side effects such as bloodshot eyes, yellow teeth, sickly shade of fur, and constantly wheezing.
  • Green and Mean: Greasy is all dressed in green and he's obviously evil like the rest of the gang.
  • Groin Attack: Smart Ass thinks nothing of fighting dirty, as Eddie finds out when they brawl at the bar. Eddie gets payback when he delivers one of his own to Smart Ass that leads to his death.
  • Grotesque Cute: They have a certain appeal despite their behavior, particularly Psycho.
  • Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wheezy, Smart Ass and Stupid wear only shirts, and Psycho only an untied straitjacket. Greasy is the only one who's fully clothed.
  • The Hyena: All of them to varying degrees. Doom warns them that one day they're going to die laughing, like their idiot hyena cousins which except Smart Ass, they all do.
  • Hypocrite: The first time we see them laughing, Smart Ass reams them out and beats them up. While more subdued, he joins his cronies in all of their later laughing fits. This initial objection is clearly due to them laughing at his expense, with him having a problem laughing at the suffering of those on his team.
  • Informed Species: They look more like dachshunds than weasels.
  • Jerkass: Like their boss, the Toon Patrol are corrupt enforcers who have no idea what true justice is. Unlike their boss, they are openly antagonistic towards everyone and don't hide behind a friendly façade.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: Smart Ass has soap shoved into his mouth, gets whacked hard by Doom's right hand and into a table set during a laughing fit, has a wine bottle smashed on his face during the bar brawl, crashes into a duo of cops while trying to ram Eddie and Roger during the first chase scene, and is kicked hard in the groin by Eddie and into the vat of Dip that Doom created, ceasing to exist completely. He deserves every second of it, though.
  • Larynx Dissonance: June Foray voiced Wheezy.
  • Laughing Mad: Psycho, who has a very high-pitched giggle, is heard during the car chase scene and at the end.
  • Leitmotif: A delightfully quirky one.
  • Lean and Mean: Except Stupid.
  • Light Is Not Good: Psycho's ghost take the form of a smiling angel playing an harp...who still tries to kill Roger and Jessica by pointing the truck's cannon at them.
  • Malaproper: Smart Ass commits these several times over the course of the movie.
    Smart Ass: Say, boss, you want we should disresemble the place?
    Doom: No, sergeant, disassembling the place won't be necessary.
  • Manchild: Stupid, given his mannerisms and fashion sense of a young adolescent boy.
  • Maniac Tongue: Psycho is usually shown with his tongue dangling from his mouth making his insane nature even more clear.
  • Meaningful Name: Their names reflect their definitive personality traits.
  • Mooks: They serve as Doom's enforcers, being the only beings depraved enough to work alongside the brutal Hanging Judge and his plan to erase Toontown from the face of the earth for the sake of a freeway.
  • More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Big mouths full of very, very sharp, yellow teeth.
  • Must Have Nicotine: Wheezy, of course, to the point where his over-the-top chain-smoking has given him nicotine-stained fingers. Also, Smart Ass is rarely seen without a thick cigar.
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: Not them personally, but their relations apparently include hyenas.
  • Not So Above It All:
    • Despite being mean and ruthless at their core, they're not immune to silly, cartoonish antics every now and again.
    • When they break into Eddie's apartment looking for Roger, Smart-Ass rants at all the others for laughing. He laughs along with them in every other scene, and it's Doom who does the ranting.
    • Smart Ass in particular tries to keep the illusion of professionalism up, but Eddie starting a song and dance and getting himself hurt in slapstick gets even him start watching and laughing instead of shooting him dead. It comes to bite him in the ass when he lets his guard down for long enough.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: They act like the typical incompetent villain-sidekick. However it's clear they are sociopathic and evil just like their boss Judge Doom since they cooperate with him in his genocidal plan to wipe out Toontown and the toon race, which they are a part of. Additionally, it's Psycho (or rather, his disembodied spirit) that ends up setting up the intense climax of the plot by turning the level on the Dip Machine towards Jessica and Roger — leading to Eddie trying to stop the machine while Doom acts as the imposing obstacle to stop it.
  • Obviously Evil: Between the gangster suits, sharp teeth and weapons, it's pretty obvious that they're not by the book law enforcements and this long before it's revealed they're in on the plan to erase Toontown.
  • Paper Tiger: Throughout the story, Smart Ass acts like a complete jerk to both Eddie and Roger and doesn't hide the fact that he just wants to kill them outright the moment he finds Roger in his midst. When Roger threatens to shoot him in the climax as payback, he willingly drops his gun (the same one he's been holding the entire film) without hesitation, proving him to be no more than a coward.
  • Psycho for Hire: They're the psychopathic toon henchman of the evil Judge Doom. Which is ironic considering that Doom himself is a toon who is crazy and evil like them if not more so.
  • Psycho Knife Nut: Very literal with Psycho, who is often seen wielding a razor. Smart Ass and Greasy also have switchblade knives.
  • The Quiet One: Unlike Smart Ass and to a lesser extent Greasy, the other three weasels, except laughing, don't have much dialogue aside from a sparse few lines or just one.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: Smart Ass, The Leader of the Toon Patrol, is the only weasel who puts up a decent fight against Eddie in the bar.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: As cruel and snarky as he is, Smart Ass wears a light pink zoot suit and fedora accompanied by a hot pink bejeweled tie that matches the color of his hatband. Greasy is a lesser example, as he is wearing a pink tie.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Downplayed. Wheezy can be seen having bloodshot eyes from all the chain-smoking.
  • Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: Greasy is heavily implied to be Latino and no less evil than the rest of the gang. Especially when he swears in Spanish after falling for Jessica's literal Booby Trap.
  • Sadist: They laugh hysterically whenever they see someone get hurt. Psycho and Greasy even laugh after witnessing Smart Ass die from falling in dip which leads to their death.
  • Scary Black Weasel: Greasy has the darkest fur of all the gang and he's a murderous pervert carrying a switchblade.
  • Simpleton Voice: Stupid. Obviously.
  • Stealth Parody: Possibly of the Seven Dwarfs; their names at least, describing their personalities — visually represented by their attire and physical traits. invokedThere were even plans to include two more to make the group seven before dropping it to five in earlier stages of production.
  • Sword and Gun: Smart Ass and Greasy carry handguns and switchblades, with the latter's occasionally colored green like his clothes.
  • Taking You with Me: Psycho's ghost, before presumably flying to the other world, redirects the Dip Machine's cannon towards Roger and Jessica saying "Bye bye".
  • Token Evil Teammate: They're collectively the only shown toons that are portrayed as sadistic, murderous and sociopathic, willing to go along with his plan to commit genocide on their own race by wiping Toontown from the face of the earth by working with a racist human. This gets downplayed as Doom himself is later revealed as a toon himself, proving to be far more murderously insane and evil than they were.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Judge Doom. It's very telling that they don't ever exhibit visible frustration for his treatment of them, let alone plan to ditch him when the situation turns sour or get back at him. Nor due they show any fear of him, unlike everyone else except Jessica or Eddie — at least until Doom reveals his true identity -- resulting Eddie briefly being terrified as well for very different reasons, mainly to do with his past.
  • Vengeful Ghost: After Eddie causes him to Die Laughing, Psycho's ghost's last action before ascending to the next life is to redirect the Dip Machine toward Roger and Jessica, forcing Eddie to have to watch them die if he can't fight his way past Doom and shut it down.
  • Villain Has a Point: When the Toon Patrol arrested Benny, he explains he drove a couple of miles straight down the sidewalk, and we see that he Drives Like Crazy and ignores traffic regulations. The Toon Patrol had a damn good reason to arrest him. It's possibly the only time they did something lawfully correct.
  • Weapon Specialization: Smart Ass and Greasy both pack handguns and switchblades, Psycho carries a straight razor in his mouth, Stupid holds a baseball bat with a nail protruding at its tip, and Wheezy's shown at one point wielding a Tommy gun.
  • Wicked Weasel: They formerly provided the Trope image.
  • Wingding Eyes: Psycho's eyes are perpetually spinning yellow and mauve spirals. Those who laugh themselves to death get Xs over their eyes when they kick the bucket.
  • Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: Their demise from finally laughing themselves to death has their angelic ghosts rise from their bodies and into the sweet hereafter. All except Smart Ass anyways, who got thrown into a vat of Dip and got Killed Off for Real, while the others presumably move onto the next life or continue their cartoony antics as spirits.

    Bongo 
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Voiced by: Morgan Deare, Alejandro Abdalah (Latin-American Spanish), Yu Shimaka (Japanese)

"Don't let me catch your peepin' face around here again, got it?"

A big, grumpy, intimidating toon gorilla who's the bouncer at the Ink-N-Paint Club.

  • Animals Not to Scale: Real gorillas are actually shorter than the average human when standing upright. Justified as even in-universe he isn't a real gorilla.
  • Bouncer: Is the bouncer of The Ink & Paint Club who unceremoniously dumps Eddie outside when he catches him peeping. (A customer who wants to get past him to get into the club has to know the password: "Walt sent me.")
  • The Dragon: To Doom in a deleted scene.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Presumed after Doom is killed as he appears in the crowd of toons in the Acme Factory, at least given the context of the deleted scene.
  • Jerkass: He's quite a jerk to Eddie, but he was right to be suspicious when Eddie tries to peep into Jessica's room and rightfully throws him out. Although, since he works for Doom in the deleted scene, he may be not want Eddie to snoop.
  • Killer Gorilla: Although not as aggressive as most cartoon gorillas, he is still big, scary-looking and rather violent with Eddie. But in a deleted scene he's shown working for the Big Bad.
  • No Name Given: Technically applied as his name was only revealed in a deleted scene and his credits listing, even in recent remastered editions, is still given as "Gorilla".
  • No Sense of Humor: He doesn't take Eddie's sarcasm very well.
    Eddie: Nice monkey suit.
    Bongo: Wise ass.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has a pair of red eyes which matches his aggressive nature.

    Lena Hyena 
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Don’t let those bedroom eyes fool you (click here).

Voiced by: June Foray, Chika Sakamoto (Japanese)

"Yoo-hoo, lover boy! It's Lena Hyena!"

A comically hideous, psychotic, Love Hungry toon-human woman in Toontown who relentlessly chases Eddie after he mistakes her for Jessica Rabbit. A minor bit character with only about thirty seconds of total screen time, she still manages to have a skyscraper of tropes on her resumé.

  • Abhorrent Admirer: Towards poor Eddie. She even provides the page image (no, really).
  • Adaptational Attractiveness: Believe it or not, yes. Here, she's ugly in a very comical, goofy way, but she can rest easy knowing she isn't the ugliest toon out there as she's practically a fox when compared to her similarly-named Li'l Abner counterpart, Lena the Hyena (particularly, in Basil Wolverton's original artwork◊).note 
  • Affectionate Nickname: She calls Eddie "Lover boy".
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Sadly, for Lena, it's true. Of course, her hyperactive libido personality coupled with her homely looks is not exactly helping.
  • All There in the Manual: According to the Roger Rabbit's Toontown issue "The Kissing Bandit," she's an old friend of Jessica's.
  • Ambiguous Gender Identity: While she has a feminine voice, figure, and clothing, she also has an Adam's apple and in one shot we can see she wears boxer shorts.
  • All Women Are Lustful: Lena is fueled by her strong desire to be in a relationship with a male.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Given how Jessica parked her car right in front of the apartment complex and the fact that Lena was in one of the rooms, it raises the question of whether it was a coincidence that Eddie encountered her. Did Jessica instruct Lena to stay at the suite should someone come looking for her, and have Lena deal with them? Was the suite Jessica's or Lena's? Perhaps Lena was raiding Jessica's suite, which is why she was wearing her clothes? Due to her limited screen time, nothing is really made clear about Lena's connection to Jessica.
  • Anywhere but Their Lips: Fortunately for Eddie, Lena only manages to kiss him on the cheek.note 
  • Aside Glance: (Pictured) She's really looking towards Eddie, but she does this a split-second before she reveals her true appearance.
  • Ax-Crazy: Non-murderous example (as far as we know) but in an overly affectionate infatuation approach. Her one act of violence is when she kicks down the door that Eddie slammed right in her face.
  • Big Word Shout: Almost every time she speaks.
    "A MMAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!"
    "YOO-HOO LOVER BOY! IT'S LENA HYENA!"
    "MY MAN!"
    "COME TO LENA!!!!!!!!!!"
  • Boob-Based Gag: Lena Hyena's breasts droop all the way to the floor for a split-second after she tries to push them up to make herself look more busty.
  • British Teeth: She has very few teeth, and the ones she does have are yellow and rotten-looking.
  • Butterface: She has a silhouette that resembles Jessica Rabbit. But once you see her face...
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: She is actually quite well-endowed, but her boobs are extremely saggy.
  • The Cat Came Back: Eddie, disgusted by her appearance, manages to escape Lena by ducking into what he would discover is a non-existent men's bathroom, causing him to plummet down to the ground. Soon, Eddie is mere seconds away from hitting the sidewalk when Lena pops out of nowhere to catch him, who is still intent on having her way with him.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Not exactly a rational and sane woman–even by toon standards. Possibly one of the most insane toons in all of Toontown.
  • Combat Stilettos: While not meant for fighting, her high heeled pumps come in handy when she kicks down the door that Eddie had slammed right in her face.
  • Covered in Kisses: Averted. Despite wearing as much red lipstick as Jessica, her kisses do not leave lipstick marks. But that doesn't keep her from trying.note 
  • Determinator: She knocks down a door that was slammed right in her face,mand races all the way down an extremely tall building to save Eddie from hitting the pavement all so she could give him a big kiss. She is only stopped when Eddie manages to trick her into running straight into a wall, which knocks her senseless.
  • Dirty Old Woman: Played with. She has the body of an old lady, yet is implied to be the same age as Jessica.
  • The Door Slams You: Eddie attempts to do this to Lena when she sprints towards him for a big kiss. Much to his shock, her lips impale the door before she knocks it down with a single kick, averting this.
  • Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Her chasing of Eddie is a pretty cut-and-dry attempted sexual assault. One might be tempted to chalk this up to Deliberate Values Dissonance since many cartoon women indeed used to behave this way, but the fact of that matter is that it was still considered acceptable at the time Who Framed Roger Rabbit was made.
  • Dresses the Same: Lena wears the same backless, red, slitted dress, note  and violet Opera Gloves as Jessica, only her pumps are green whereas Jessica's are salmon pink. It's unclear if this was meant to be her main attire or if she stole it from Jessica.
  • Expy: While she is named after the character from Li'l Abner, her role being an ugly toon who romantically chases after Eddie is a clear Shout-Out to Granny from Tex Avery cartoon "Red Hot Riding Hood", who did the same to Wolfie. Fittingly, Jessica, the one who Eddie had mistook her for is based on the Red Riding Hood of the same short.
  • Extreme Libido: The mere sight of a male, toon or human alike, is enough to drive her into an unhinged lustful state of mind.
  • Eye Take: She has this reaction when she sees Eddie at her door.
  • Fanservice: Humorously subverted. Of course, it's all good when she imitates Jessica, but then it becomes Fan Disservice once she lets it all out.
  • Fiery Redhead: She's very passionately driven and energetic in her pursuits for Eddie.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing: There are two indications that she is not Jessica before she reveals herself. When she turns to face Eddie before revealing her real appearance, her hair lacks the Sultry Bangs that Jessica is known for. Also, her leg slit is shown to be on the left side of the dress, whereas Jessica's always had it on her right.
  • Flat Character: Due to her limited screentime, she can come across as this.
  • Forceful Kiss: After catching sight of Eddie, Lena becomes immediately smitten, clearly thinking he had come to her out of romantic interest. Ignoring his clear disgust of her, she sprints towards him, puckering her lips repeatedly for a kiss, which leads to a chase. After finally catching him, she wastes no time in giving Eddie a big, wet kiss on his cheek with her big red lips, much to his chagrin. The recoil from her kiss sends Eddie flying down the street, and she chases after him once more, clearly intending to smooch him up even more.
  • Gag Lips: She has very plump lips and wears a thick layer of red lipstick, which invoke a few gags. Upon kissing Eddie, her lips take up about half of his cheek. Thry are strong enough to impale a door, and can send someone flying yards away in recoil from a kiss.
  • Gag Nose: She has a long pointed nose. In the original storyboards it was even longer.
  • Gonk: Not a beauty contest winner anytime soon.
  • Goofy Print Underwear: The last shot of her reveals that she wears white bloomers with red hearts prints.
  • Gross-Up Close-Up: The first time she reveals herself, aside from her Butterface we can also see her yellow rotten teeth, with a few missing.
  • Hairy Girl: Downplayed: Her legs are noticeably unshaven.
  • High-Class Gloves: Like Jessica, she wears long, over-the-elbow, purple gloves.
  • Homage: To Grandma from Red Hot Riding Hood.
  • Hopeless Suitor: To Eddie and basically to any other male she becomes attracted to.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: At the end of the day, she just wants a man to reciprocate her affections. Unfortunately, her ugly appearance and hypersexual behavior ends up driving away any potential suitors.
  • I Just Want to Be You: Lena might feel this way about Jessica, considering that she dresses up like her.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Upon seeing him enter her room, Lena instantly comes to the conclusion that Eddie has come to her out of romantic intent, when he has done nothing to suggest that he is a suitor. Nevertheless, her method of starting a romantic relationship with someone is to shower him with unwanted physical displays of affection.
  • Impossibly-Low Neckline: Like Jessica, her dress has a low neckline that shows off her bust, but this acts as a Fan Disservice due to how her droopy her chest is comparison to Jessica's.
  • Interspecies Romance: She is a toon that becomes infatuated with Eddie who is a human. Granted, she is a human toon like Jessica.
  • Kissing Warm-Up: As she sprints toward Eddie, Lena puckers her lips in anticipation to kiss him.
  • Lack of Empathy: She doesn't seem to understand that a romantic relationship needs to be a mutual and consensual understanding between two parties. She doesn't even give Eddie a chance to talk before she concludes that he has come to her for romantic intentions. She spends her entire screentime chasing Eddie with the intent of kissing him, when she should have realized by his reactions that he doesn't even want to be touched by her.
  • Lady in Red: Subverted. She copies Jessica's general look, dress included, but the way she acts is unappealing rather than seductive. It's also not helped by the fact that she lacks Jessica's body type.
  • Large Ham: Not an uncommon thing around toons, but she's definitely over the top than the rest of 'em. Even Roger is a bit subtle compared to her and Judge Doom at least can conceal his psychopathic nature under a Mask of Sanity.
  • Likes Older Men: Averted. It's clear that Lena's standards for a romantic relationship is so low, she will go after any male that gives her the slightest attention, regardless of their age.
  • Love Hungry: It appears that Lena is desperately seeking a romantic relationship. Because of this, she will become instantly smitten with the first male that approaches her, regardless if they're a toon or a human. And based on how she spends her entire screentime chasing Eddie for the purpose of showering him with unwanted kisses, it's clear that she is more interested in the physical parts of a romantic relationship.
  • Love at First Sight: Played with. Upon laying her eyes on Eddie, she becomes immediately smitten with him, Wing Ding Eyes and all. However, the fact that she dedicates her screentime trying to kiss Eddie against his will, it is clear that she is more interested in having the chance to get physical with a male rather than pursuing a consensual romantic relationship.
  • Love Can Make You Gonk: Lena is able to almost perfectly imitate Jessica's appearance, down to her stoic movements and body shape. When she catches a glimpse of Eddie at her door, her inability to contain her lustful excitement at the thought of a male suitor coming to see causes her to revert to her true unattractive appearance.
  • Love Makes You Crazy: The mere sight of a male will reduce to her an unhinged and lustful woman who is determined to shower him with affection, regardless of the harm she causes in her wake.
  • Maniac Tongue: Her tongue is seen dangling from her mouth in a grossly lustful way.
  • Messy Hair: When she imitates Jessica, Lena's hair is carefully combed and straight. Once she reveals herself, it instantly becomes unkempt and wild.
  • Nausea Fuel: In-universe. Eddie is visibly abhorred by her and even more so when he gets kissed by her on the cheek.
  • No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Lena doesn’t seem to take the hint that Eddie isn’t interested in her, even when he slams the door in her face and hides in a bathroom. Of course, it’s more that he doesn’t want to be romantically mauled by an ugly toon.
  • No Indoor Voice: She pretty much shouts everything she says.
  • Non-Indicative Name: She's a human toon, not a hyena. The rhyming makes something of a Punny Name.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: She immediately tries to hug and kiss Eddie without even bothering to ask for his consent.
  • Not So Stoic: She initially tries to imitate Jessica's sensuous stoicism, to the point that Eddie believes that she actually is Jessica from a distance. Once she sees Eddie enter her room, her instant infatuation with him causes her to revert to her wild and lustful self,
  • Property of Love: Not herself, but she calls Eddie "My Man!", making clear that she wants him all to herself.
  • Rescue Romance: Played with. Upon laying her eyes upon him, Lena disturbs Eddie with her ugly appearance. Desperate to get a kiss, she chases Eddie into a non existent bathroom, resulting in him plummeting miles below. Lena races down to the ground floor and catches him at the last second. However, she proceeds to force herself on poor Eddie, averting this rescue.
  • Running on the Spot: She does this briefly before sprinting towards Eddie for a kiss.
  • Satellite Character: She plays absolutely no part in the film's main plot, with nothing really explored about her character.
  • Sexy Silhouette: Two of them (well, one and a half). She makes half of one in her hotel room window that resembles Jessica doing a Hair Flip, which causes Eddie to mistake her for Jessica. She then makes another when Eddie is looking through her keyhole, catching a glimpse of her seductively pulling out a pink negligee from her suitcase.
  • Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Like Jessica, she has red hair and green eyes.
  • Smooch of Victory: Averted: After saving him from a Disney Villain Death (that she put him into), Lena immediately gets hers by forcing a big kiss on Eddie's cheek, much to his disgust.
  • Squashed Flat: After crushing herself against a brick wall.
  • Stalker with a Crush: As soon as she notices Eddie, she immediately chases him down to smother him with unwanted kisses. Fortunately, Eddie manages to escape her before she is able to do anything else to him.
  • Suddenly Shouting: When she speaks for the first time, it’s all just shouting.
  • Super-Speed: Once Eddie escapes into the non-existent bathroom only to fall down the building. Lena somehow manages to get down to the street below just in time to save him.
  • What Does She See in Him?: It's clear that Lena's type is a man, regardless their age or species.
  • Wingding Eyes: Her eyes glow with red hearts when first sees Eddie.
  • Womanchild: She has the look of an elderly woman but she acts like an insane and lustful teenager. Most of her words are also spoken in a very childish tone.
  • Youthful Freckles: She has some freckles around her face, though she is definitely not youthful.

    The Bullet Gang 
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"Mustachioed cowboy" voiced by: Jim Cummings (imitating Andy Devine)
"Cavalryman" voiced by: Jim Gallant (imitating Walter Brennan)
"Portly bullet" voiced by: Pat Buttram

Eddie Valiant: Feelin’ frisky tonight, fellas?

A group of six wild, fun-seeking, .38 toon bullets for Eddie’s toon revolver. After years of sleeping in the gun case, they're awakened when Eddie pursues Jessica Rabbit into Toontown. Though they’re never named in the movie, they’re depicted as a portly, cigar-smoking cowboy with Pat Buttram’s voice; a tobacco-chewing Civil War soldier a.k.a. “Chews Tobacco”, a cavalryman (in the voice of Walter Brennan), a Native American a.k.a. “Says Nothing”, a mustachioed cowboy who sounds like Andy Devine, and a masked bandit a.k.a. “Shifty Eyes”.

  • Abnormal Ammo: Toon bullets capable of speech and flight.
  • All There in the Manual: They’re never given names, but early production sketch notes have listed them as “Andy Devine” (mustachioed cowboy), “Walter Brennan” (cavalryman), “Pat Buttram” (cigar smoking), “Chews Tobacco” (Civil War soldier), “Says Nothing” (Native American) and “Shifty Eyes” (masked bandit).
  • Animate Inanimate Object: They're all living, talking bullets that have faces.
  • Badass Bandolier: "Shifty Eyes" wears one.
  • Bandito: "Shifty Eyes".
  • Battle Cry: "Says Nothing" lets out a war whoop as he destroys Eddie’s bourbon bottle.
  • Cartridges in Flight: They come flying out of Eddie's toon revolver, brass casing and all, when fired. Natch, given that they're toon revolvers and their casings are apparently part of their bodies.
  • Cigar Chomper: The fat cowboy voiced by Pat Buttram.
  • The Ditz: They're definitely not the, uh, fastest bullets in the chamber, for sure; when Eddie fires them at a fleeing suspect, all of them take the wrong turn, leading to him sighing and calling them "Dum Dums".explanation
  • The Faceless:"Shifty Eyes"'s face is never shown.
  • The Gunslinger: They all carry this attitude despite being bullets.
  • It Was a Gift: The case containing the revolver and the Bullet Gang has an engraved plaque under the lid reading:
    "Thanks for getting me out of the hoosegow." - Yosemite Sam
  • Screaming Warrior: "Says Nothing" shouts out a war cry before destroying the bourbon bottle with a tomahawk.
  • The Quiet One: "Says Nothing" and "Chews Tobacco".
  • Token Evil Teammate: Though it's not furtherly explored, it's implied that "Shifty Eyes" is this as he's a Bandito with a devious look on his face unlike the other happy-looking bullets.
  • The Voiceless: "Shifty Eyes" is never heard uttering a word.
  • The Wild West: Evoked as they’re archetypes of this era. Makes sense considering the gun they’re accompanied with was previously owned by Yosemite Sam.

Humans

    Eddie Valiant 
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Portrayed by: Bob Hoskins
Voiced by: Willy Brand (Latin-American Spanish), Kenji Utsumi (Japanese)

"I... don't... work... for toons."

A grizzled ex-cop and Private Detective who slipped into alcoholism and developed a bitter antipathy against toons after his brother Teddy was murdered by one while investigating a case in Toontown. He is hired to take some "dirty pictures" about Jessica Rabbit's "affair" with Marvin Acme, but is pulled into the murder investigation (against his will) after Acme gets murdered and Jessica's husband, Roger is framed for it.

  • Accidental Hero: Eddie is not very happy to take care of Roger Rabbit's case since he became a toon-hater. However, he manages to prove Roger's innocence, save Toontown, and avenge the loss of his brother all at the same time.
  • Accidental Pervert: While Eddie is photographing Jessica and her mystery "suitor" at night through her window, albeit at a concerned Roger's behest, Bongo the bouncer mistakes him for a peeping tom and tosses him out on his ass.
  • Acrofatic: Eddie during his climactic dance number.
  • Action Survivor: His modus operandi to come out of trouble. He's also a smarter version of this.
  • Adaptational Sympathy: Compared to his book self, Eddie has a lot more points that make him sympathetic such as his partner also being his brother in addition to being killed in a case that was notably unsolved and denied Eddie closure, a distinct lack of respect being given to him, notably being down on his luck, and shows some signs of empathy for toons even before his Character Development.
  • Adaptational Ugliness: In the book version, Eddie, as a parody of a pulp hero, is noted by several characters as being very attractive. The heavy-set Bob Hoskins plays Eddie as a Stealth Parody of a noir hero in the film adaptation.
  • Addiction Displacement: According to the comics that continue the story after the film, after Eddie stopped dringking hes started eating a lot of jelly-beans instead, to the point where this almost becomes a new addiction. When meeting up with Velma the secretary, he offers her a jelly-bean, to which she replies: "Still on the wagon, eh, Eddie?"
  • The Alcoholic: At the beginning of the movie Eddie Valiant has been an alcoholic since Teddy was murdered by a toon, but he drops the habit by the end.
    Police Lieutenant: Didn't you used to be Eddie Valiant? Or did you change your name to "Jack Daniels"?
  • Anti-Hero: A Pragmatic Hero. Cynical alcoholic with a racist streak and a tendency towards violence? Definitely Anti-Hero. But he does get better once he stops drinking and by end of the movie, he's a lot nicer.
  • Badass Longcoat: A typical private investigator — style trenchcoat.
  • Badass Normal: Probably the only one human in among toons with this characteristic. He even manages to kill Judge Doom himself, who is a toon stronger and taller than him, by spreading Dip everywhere.
  • Berserk Button:
    • Don't sit in Teddy Valiant's chair.
    • Eddie Valiant doesn't work for toons. And don't you forget it. He's back in business by the end of the film.
  • Bigot with a Crush: Despite his hatred of toons, he's clearly attracted to Jessica Rabbit.
  • Broken Bird: Behind all of that drinking and sarcasm is a man still very much distraught over the loss of his brother. He's also suffering some serious emotional trauma from witnessing a toon murder his brother, as he freezes up just being near Toontown and breaks out in a cold sweat when his brother's killer resurfaces.
  • Bullying a Dragon: He does this twice at his own expenses. The first time, he calls Bongo a "chimp" and gets violently thrown out of the Ink and Paint Club. The second one, he shocks Judge Doom with Acme's buzzer as a payment for having him first hit with his cane. Of course he doesn't know that the man in front of him is a very dangerous psychopath who's the movie's Big Bad. Not mention he's the same toon who killed his brother which at the end he comes very close to kill him twice.
  • Butt-Monkey: In the Toontown sequence. He falls from an extra-high building, he gets tricked by Tweety and Bugs Bunny and finally he gets kissed by Lena Hyena. Before that the entire police force, except Lieutenant Santino, makes fun of him cause his drinking attitude.
  • The Call Knows Where You Live: Eddie refuses to take Baby Herman's money to clear Roger's name and that would have been the end of it, until Roger showed up at his office begging him for help (then handcuffed the two of them together right before the weasles showed up to look for him), not giving him any choice in the matter.
  • Carpet of Virility: A scene shows him with a very hairy chest.
  • Character Development: Eddie starts off as a cynical man who hates all toons; he does show respect towards some toons (e.g., Betty Boop) and his hatred mostly stems from Teddy being murdered by an evil toon. After the events of trying and succeeding in clearing Roger's name (not to mention actually opening up to Roger about Teddy's death), his hatred goes away and he begins to show his long lost sense of humor.
  • Chekhov's Skill: Him and Teddy being raised in a circus as clowns along with extensive experience with toons from Valiant & Valiant's careers in Toontown helps him out at the finale.
  • Circus Brat: Implied. One of his old photos shows himself, his brother, and his father (dressed as a clown) in front of a circus sign, the frame reads "Eddie and Teddy on the road with Dad". His improvised circus act distraction at the end of the movie also supports this. In a case of both Real Life Writes the Plot and Actor Allusion, Bob Hoskins actually was a circus performer — although he started out as a fire eater instead of a clown.
  • Clear Their Name: He eventually helps Roger find out who framed him for Acme's murder.
  • The Comically Serious: When paired with Roger. Despite being more deadpan and serious he can generate some laugh or two.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: While Eddie doesn't blame himself about it, Teddy's murder led to his antipathy for toons. Solving the murder while also finding his brother's killer serves as an inverted example, having become better and letting go of his stuff for toons.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: His brother died by being killed by a mysterious toon criminal.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Just like a great many Film Noir heroes. Justified, as he was a toon-loving detective until his brother was killed by a toon.
  • Deconstructed Character Archetype: In the comics, he may have given up his grudge against toons and avenged his partner, but he still isn't entirely over his brother's death, telling Roger flat out that he doesn't ever want another partner.
  • Defective Detective: Eddie not only has an alcohol problem, but also has trouble with his relationship and is traumatized by Teddy's death.
  • Defrosting Ice King: He starts as a cold and cynical Private Eye at first, but at the halfway point of the movie (right around the time he actually tells Roger about how Teddy died) he becomes more kind and gentle, especially towards the toons.
  • Detective Patsy:
    Dolores: And you said you were never gonna take another toon case! What, did you have a change of heart?
    Eddie: Nothing's changed! Someone's made a patsy out of me and I'm gonna find out [hits his head on a ceiling lamp] why!
  • Disappointed by the Motive: His reaction to the reveal that Judge Doom killed Acme and Maroon simply to get the deed to Toontown and build a freeway. Doom wasn't surprised by his disappointment since he "lacks vision".
  • Drowning My Sorrows: He drinks a lot of alcohol after his brother's death.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?:
    • Gets mocked for his alcoholism and having worked on toon cases by some people including fellow L.A.P.D. officers.
    • When Jessica is brought to safety, it looks as if she's about to thank Eddie for his heroism... but instead does this to Roger.
      Jessica: Oh Roger, you were a pillar of strength.
  • Dull Surprise: He's not very surprised to discover that Judge Doom was a toon in disguise. As he puts it, "That lame-brain freeway idea could only be cooked up by a toon." Subverted when he discovers that Doom was the toon who killed Teddy; his wits clearly desert him, and he might have given up entirely if Roger and Jessica weren't depending on him.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Eddie has several of these throughout the first third of the film, each that show different aspects of his personality & character.
    • In his very first scene in the film, Eddie sees Roger's desperation in the studio, and he scoffs "Toons", then takes a drink from a whisky bottle. Then, in R.K. Maroon's office, he is reluctant to take the job involving spying on toons but accepts anyway, all while taking a drink from Maroon's scotch. All this establishes that A) Eddie has a dislike towards toons, B) He's a detective down-on-his-luck and needs the money regardless, and C) He has a drinking problem.
    • He shows his softer side when he helps some street urchins sneak a free ride on the Red Car and later thanks the kids for giving him cigarettes.
    • In the Ink-&-Paint Club, he has a brief but friendly conversation with Betty Boop, showing how his contempt towards Toons is not universal and could change.
    • And finally, a nonverbal example would be the scene where he is alone in his office. He sees the photos of his dead brother Teddy who was killed by a toon, is visibly hurt by it & almost in tears; the camera then pans to show his brother's abandoned desk covered in dust, along with newspaper clippings of previous jobs where they helped out toons. This establishes how much Teddy's death affected him and he still struggles to move on, and how his dislike towards toons largely comes from what happened.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He may dislike toons, but he is shaken when Doom slowly murders a harmless toon shoe in the Dip, and when Doom says he thought Eddie would approve of something that can destroy a toon, he is silently but visibly furious. Note that this is before his character development kicks in.
    • Later, even though he had every reason to hate Judge Doom even before it was revealed that the judge was actually the same toon who killed his brother, he takes no pleasure when the man gets his comeuppance either the Disney Death when he's run over by his own steamroller or the real one when he's melted by his own Dip.
  • Expy: He's obviously based on classical private detective heroes of the Noir genre like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. His hard boiled attitude also reminds Dick Tracy.
  • Fantastic Racism: He hates toons, but not all of them. Part of his character arc is overcoming his prejudice. It also helps that he kills the source of why he gains his prejudice — the psychotic toon who now poses as the Big Bad of the plot, healing his emotional scars as he does so.
  • Freudian Excuse: The reason for his dislike of toons is because one murdered Teddy.
  • Friend to All Children: In his first introduction he seems to get along with kids quite well as he helps one to hijack a ride on a trolley and he later thanks a group of'em for giving him some cigarettes.
  • Functional Genre Savvy: He uses the logic of toons doing anything in Toontown to rip a road line and placed it towards a wall so that his Abhorrent Admirer would hit it.
  • Genre Blind: For all his experience working around toons, he really should have taken heed to the warnings of Mickey and Bugs that he didn't want the "spare". Though to be fair to him, he was understandably in a panic at the time so he probably wasn't thinking it through.
  • Genre Savvy: Even after a long absence and growing antipathy, he's still clued into the way that toons operate on Rule of Funny.
    Eddie: Scotch on the rocks. AND I MEAN ICE!
  • Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: The irritable and short-tempered Grumpy to Roger's Gleeful.
  • Good Is Not Nice: His treatment of Roger Rabbit is abusive for much of the film.
  • Groin Attack: He kicks Smart-Ass in the groin towards the end of the film.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He goes from calm to extremely angry with minimal provocation and he can be quite violent, especially around Roger. He softens up a little towards the end, though.
  • Hardboiled Detective: Acts like one, but is very out of place in a toon-inhabited society.
  • The Hero: He's actually the true main protagonist of the movie despite the title and the one who saves the day at the end.
  • Hidden Depths: Eddie still has some humor left in him and he still holds some toons close to him.
  • Insecure Love Interest: Implied. While hiding at a movie theatre, Eddie tells Dolores she should find herself a "good man", hinting that he doesn't consider himself to be one for her.
  • Inspector Javert: The Javert to the real murderer's Valjean.
  • Ironic Name: His surname is "Valiant" alongside his brother. "Valiant" is another word for "brave" or "courageous", but Eddie himself acts the opposite throughout most of the film, being a jaded and cynical Butt-Monkey. Justified, as his brother's death by a toon caused him to hate working for toons.
  • I Work Alone: In the comics, he outright says that he doesn't want another partner after his brother's death.
  • Jaded Washout: He as once a celebrated LAPD officer who left the force with his brother to start their own private eye firm, and quickly established a reputation for being the go-to guy for any toon who needed help. Then his brother was killed by a toon, so he took to the bottle and gave up working for toons, and by the start of the film he's reduced to tailing cheating spouses.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's nice to some toons even before his Character Development. He goes out of his way to reassure Roger that he doesn't hate him despite the rabbit being very annoying and a liability.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: Eddie holds a level of knee-jerk prejudice towards toons because a toon killed his brother, but that hasn't stopped him from begrudgingly accepting cases that have helped toons in the past, this being the reason why Roger went to him when he was framed for murder. As time goes on, the "sour" part slowly fades.
  • Leitmotif: Eddie's Theme.
  • Lust Object: Unfortunately for him, to Lena Hyena.
  • Manly Tears: When he looks at the pictures of him and his brother his eyes seem to glistening. The first sign that deep down his grouchy and tough exterior he's still a human being in every sense.
  • Meaningful Name: The English and French meaning for "Valiant" is brave. He proves to be quite gutsy and heroic in a tense situation.
  • Mistaken for Cheating: Dolores walks in on Jessica and Eddie in his office and assumes the worst. Fortunately, she doesn't stay angry at him.
  • My Greatest Failure: He never did nab the toon who murdered his dear brother. It's not until he crosses paths with Judge Doom that he finally finds the toon responsible for it and finally settles the score.
  • Never My Fault: Jessica and Baby Herman hold him responsible for Roger being accused as the murderer of Acme.
    Jessica: I hope you're proud of yourself! And those pictures you took.
    Baby Herman: I figured since you were the one who got my pal in trouble, you might wanna help get him out.
    Eddie: It ain't my fault the rabbit got himself in trouble. [takes a big swig of alcohol] All I did was took a couple of lousy pictures.
  • No More for Me: Before going into Toontown to pursue Maroon's presumed killer, he decides to throw away his whiskey bottle and shoots at it with Yosemite Sam's gun. Moreover he needs himself to be lucid.
  • Noble Bigot with a Badge: A variant since he's no longer a cop but a private eye, but even he wouldn't let his bigotry towards toons allow an innocent toon to unjustly receive the death penalty.
  • Non-Ironic Clown: He was one before he became a cop, and busts out his chops when defeating the Toon Patrol.
  • Official Couple: With Dolores. They have a moment that gets Roger feeling all gooey.
  • Oh, Crap!: He's shocked and scared after Judge Doom reveals himself as the unnamed toon who murdered his brother Teddy.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: After getting knocked out by a vase during his song and Roger says "nose" as part of the last verse:
    Smart-Ass: Nose? That don't rhyme with walls.
    Eddie: No, but this does! [gives Smart-Ass a Groin Attack]
  • Pretend Prejudice: His attitude to toons in general. He never misses a chance to voice his contempt for them, but his PI career is full of cases that have helped toons in the past and he even holds a fondness for old friends like Betty Boop.
  • Private Detective: He and Teddy were police officers who went into business for themselves as PI's, till the latter was flattened by a piano by a toon, whom we learn later used his ill-gotten gains to become a judge. After his brother's death, Eddie more or less crawled inside a bottle and barely works beyond what he needs to buy the next one.
  • Punch-Clock Hero: His Private Detective job is not full time, Roger doesn't think so at the very least.
  • Sibling Team: He and his brother used to be cops who often took charge of toon's cases before Teddy's death.
  • Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Hey, look, there literally is a silly rabbit involved. In fact, it's the silly rabbit that eventually gets Eddie to overcome his distaste for idealism.
  • Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: What he thinks of the freeway idea, especially Doom's plan which he's willing to murder two people and commit genocide for.
  • The Snark Knight: He's very coldly sarcastic and cynical. This is probably caused by the loss of his brother.
  • Survivor Guilt: He survived the ambush that killed his brother. Given Teddy's nature, he might even have pushed Eddie out of the way, saving his life but compounding the trauma.
  • That Man Is Dead: Played with; to many, he's still the detective who helped countless toons throughout his life. He doesn't take well to this reputation considering what he's been through, and he makes sure everybody knows it.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: He's noticeably shorter than Dolores.
  • Took a Level in Badass: He starts as a grouchy, drunken and lazy detective with not much action to him. Then he interrogates Maroon in a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique style, managing to obtain some useful information, he eliminates the weasels by making 'em die laughing, he kicks Smart Ass in the dip vat, and finally he kills the much more powerful and skilled Judge Doom by making him melt in his own creation.
  • Took a Level in Idealism: Valiant starts out jaded and cynical, often consoling himself with booze after his brother's death at the hands of an evil toon. After his adventures in clearing Roger Rabbit's name, Eddie is much less of a sourpuss.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: By the power of Character Development! It does help that he kills Doom, the toon responsible for his brother's death, relieving him of a lot of guilt.
  • Tragic Bigot: Became bitter and resentful towards toons after one killed his brother and he never found out who it was. Until he finds out it was Doom, and gets over his bigotry by avenging his brother's death and recognizing that all the other toons are not at all like one who was psychotic enough to want to kill even his fellow toons.
  • When He Smiles: Since he's so depressed over his brother's death, he barely smiles and when he does, it's a sight to behold.
  • Working-Class Hero: As a private eye that's been working since the Great Depression, Eddie's economic background is humble to say the least. He lives in his office, burns through paychecks within a day, drinks in a bar with rail workers and has a seething hatred of white-collar workers.
    "Here's to the pencil-pushers. May they all get lead poisoning."
  • Would Hit a Girl: He makes Lena Hyena crush against a wall by placing the street line against it. In his defense she was obsessively trying to force herself on him and wouldn't have suffered any lasting trauma thanks to being a toon.
  • You Killed My Father: Judge Doom is the same toon who killed Teddy.

    R.K. Maroon 
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Played by: Alan Tilvern
Voiced by: Roberto Alexander (Latin-American Spanish), Yuzuru Fujimoto (Japanese)

"I'm a cartoon maker, not a murderer."

Well-known cartoon producer in Hollywood and studio head of Maroon Cartoons. Cloverleaf approached him with an offer to buy the Maroon Cartoons studio for a generous sum, on the condition that they would buy it only when Marvin Acme sold them his properties — which included Toontown. Acme refused, so Maroon made Jessica pose for the patty-cake photos with Acme and arranged for Eddie Valiant to snap the pictures, in order to have something he could use to blackmail Acme into selling.

At some unspecified point after Acme was murdered, he connected the dots and realized that Cloverleaf was going to destroy Toontown to build the freeway after claiming it as theirs, as Acme's Last Will and Testament had gone missing and thus could not be executed. He was understandably horrified — being a cartoonist and a man who loved toons, and all — and wanted to find Acme's will to prove someone had a legitimate standing claim to Toontown in the event of Acme's death so that Cloverleaf couldn't get their hands on it.

  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He is absolutely terrified of what Cloverleaf will do to him after discovering their true intentions, and is a nervous wreck when Valiant confronts him on his dealings with both them and Acme. His pleas for his life however are quickly silenced just as he is confessing everything to Valiant.
  • Ambition Is Evil: He tried to extort Acme into selling by setting up the patty-cake scandal.
  • Asshole Victim: Subverted. He was killed by Doom's hand since Maroon held Roger's job hostage and was in Doom's scheme for the money. However, Maroon tried to undo the damage he nearly caused.
  • The Atoner: By the time Eddie confronts him, Maroon was trying to undo the damage he caused from trying to blackmail Acme. It ends with him getting shot by Doom.
  • Canon Foreigner: He was not in the novel.
  • Character Death: He gets shot down by Judge Doom.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: Maroon's a classic example of this trope, although he, too late, has a change of heart towards the end by trying to tell Eddie about the freeway that Doom was trying to make through the erasure of Toontown and its entire population.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Justified as he's been hanging around toon actors for a long time and their sense of humor rubbed off on him.
    Maroon: Let's call the other fifty a carrot to finish the job.
    Valiant: You been hangin' around rabbits too long.
  • Deal with the Devil: His deal with Cloverleaf the financial sponsor of Judge Doom — its sole stockholder is presented as this — with the blackmail of Acme being implied to be set up as apart of the agreement to gain ownership of Toon Town so R.K. could then sell it and his company for more wealth as his reward. R.K. then in typical manner of this sort of deal, realizes the truly horrific ramifications of the deal being the complete genocide of Toon Town for a freeway and his guilt in his part of this plot — leading to his death to not give out the truth in public — being treated thematically as the devil taking his prize from the unwitting dealt party as his reward.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He genuinely loves toons in general, despite not having no restrictions in using them as pawns for his dirty deeds. In the original script, it's mentioned he also has a wife which he obviously loves.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: He manipulates Jessica into posing for the pattycake photos for Eddie, but he loves toons and doesn't want to see them get hurt especially if it's a genocide of their entire town for the sake of a freeway project.
  • Greed: Planned to blackmail Acme and sell his studio to get money. However, unlike Judge Doom, his greed didn't override his sense of morality when it would result in the countless deaths of the residents of Toontown would occur that the planned construction of the Freeway went underway.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: In the midst of trying to repair the damage he's done, Maroon gets shot by Judge Doom.
  • He Knows Too Much: This is the reason why Judge Doom ultimately killed him. By the time Maroon tells Valiant about what's going to happen to Toontown, Doom shoots him down.
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: Turns out he was this after all, beneath his manipulative and corrupt businessman persona — he deeply cares about toons. When he realizes Doom's intention to wipe out Toontown for a freeway, he attempts to make amends, but is killed off before it comes into fruition.
  • Karmic Death: Even if he ultimately planned to make amends by trying to stop Doom's plans to make a freeway out of Toontown and tell Eddie the truth; he still attempted to blackmail Acme in order to make Roger give up on Jessica and planned to sell Maroon Studios to Cloverleaf for money. It's fitting that a man who made his life ruining others in order to make a fortune is then disposed of, in order to fulfill another man's avarice that would ruin the lives of others.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • His plan to have Jessica participate in a scandalous blackmail to undermine Acme as well as make Roger give up on her through Eddie's pictures — while forcing Jessica into it in the first place under the threat that he'd fire him if she didn't comply.
    • On top of this, he planned to sell Maroon Studios to Cloverleaf -- which would put Roger and other toons out of a job anyway. It's only once he learns of Doom's plan of intended genocide of Toontown that he comes to his senses and planned to expose the truth to Eddie in order to reverse the damage that was done.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: Maroon tries to tell Eddie about Acme's will, only for Doom to kill him.
    Maroon: Unless Acme's will shows by midnight tonight, Toontown's gonna be land for the free—
  • Manipulative Bastard: He used Eddie in order to reveal Acme as a adulterer as evidence for blackmail and Jessica into being the lure for Acme to indulge in his lust in order for Roger to keep his job. This backfires when he realized he's out of his league when trying to take advantage of Cloverleaf once he realizes the true, horrific plans of their sole stockholder — Judge Doom planned to do.
  • Morality Pet: Toons in general serve as one to him. Maroon is hugely opportunistic and greedy, hoping to make a fortune off the Cloverleaf Highway project. But when he learns that the structure will result in the destruction of Toontown and all its inhabitants, he's horrified and desperately tries to prevent the scheme from going through, claiming that he loves them and doesn’t want them to be destroyed.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: Gets murdered by Judge Doom in order to keep his scheme secret and for aiding him in taking the Cloverleaf -- the company which Doom is the sole stockholder -- deal by undermining Acme through blackmail as well as planning to sell his company in order to get more money off of it.
  • Redemption Equals Death: He tried to find Acme's will for unambiguously good reasons after realizing the truth, and told Valiant as much while being interrogated, but was killed before he could completely spill the beans.
  • Red Herring: After finding out from a newsreel about Maroon Studios being bought out by Cloverleaf, Eddie assumes that R.K. Maroon is the mastermind behind the murderers. Not only is he wrong due to actually having standards against murder — especially that of the planned genocide of an entire town's population for a freeway, but he gets offed by the real mastermind -- Judge Doom before he can expose the entire detail of the plan.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: In the graphic novel adaptation, Dolores and Lt. Santino reveal to Eddie that Maroon survived being shot and is recovering in the hospital. This is, however, Retconed in the follow-up graphic novel, The resurrection of Doom, as well as the ongoing Roger Rabbit comic book, where he is confirmed to be dead and Maroon Cartoons is taken over by his identical twin brother C.B. Maroon.
  • Unwitting Pawn: He was willing to set up a situation that would give him blackmail material on Acme just for a chance to sell his studio to Doom. In doing so, Maroon ended up creating the perfect patsy for Doom's murder of the Gag King.

    Marvin Acme 
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Portrayed by: Stubby Kaye
Voiced by: Víctor Mares Sr. (Latin-American Spanish), Kenichi Ogata (Japanese)

"If it's Acme, it's a gasser."

Also known as "The Gag King", Acme is the eccentric, prank-playing CEO of his eponymous corporation and owner of Toontown.

  • Benevolent Boss: He's universally beloved by the toons he works with.
  • Canon Foreigner: He doesn't appear in the book.
  • Character Death: Has a safe dropped on him by Judge Doom.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Considered this to humans.
  • Dirty Old Man: Well, he IS an old man openly lusting and having an affair, so to speak, with the seemingly much younger(-looking) Jessica.
  • The Gadfly: Eddie considers him this, since when they meet the first thing he does is squirt (disappearing) ink on him, and then zaps him with a hand-buzzer.
  • Gambit Roulette: Writing his will in disappearing-reappearing ink to hide it from Doom offered no guarantee that said ink wouldn't have already reappeared by the time Doom got his hands on it, since the ink's invisibility doesn't seem to have a consistent duration, as shown by both Eddie's stain and the will itself fading back in within seconds of each other, despite the fact that Marvin isn't seen writing his will in the scene where he squirts Eddie, meaning that he'd written it at some earlier point.
    • It's possible the Disappearing-Reappearing Ink works on the principle of Toon Physics: Only reappears when it's funny.
  • G-Rated Sex: He plays "pattycake" with Jessica. This isn't a euphemism; the extent of their affair really does amount to playing a childish game and they otherwise do nothing overtly sexual.
  • Jerkass Ball: Playing pattycake with Jessica behind Roger's back is the only selfish thing he really does. It seems somewhat at odds with the rest of his portrayal as an affable guy who loves all toons and promised to leave Toontown to them.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He isn't quite the person you'd want to like given his fetish toward female toons, but he does love toons and, as stated above, wants to leave Toontown to them when he's gone.
  • Manchild: A middle-aged man who makes his career inventing and selling toon-related gag items like hand-buzzers, who loves to play practical jokes on people? Check.
  • Meal Ticket: To Jessica. Gossip tabloids and R.K. Maroon even call him a "sugar daddy". Turns out R.K. Maroon blackmailed Jessica into feigning interest in Marvin, as she wanted nothing to do with it.
  • Memetic Mutation: In-Universe example. The name Acme has appeared in various cartoons (notably Looney Tunes), TV shows, comics and films throughout history. Ever wonder where it came from?
  • Off with His Head!: Has a safe dropped on his head by Doom; thankfully though, you don't see much of the aftermath.
  • The Prankster: An infamously reputed one. He likes to play relatively harmless practical jokes.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: He's only in two scenes in the movie (and in one he's largely offscreen talking to Jessica), but his murder and role as the owner of Toontown are the driving forces of the plot. His Lost Will and Testament is the film's MacGuffin.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed off by Judge Doom within the first half-hour.
  • The Wonka: He's kooky, nutty, eccentric, and unpredictable by human standards, but those same qualities make him a master inventor of toon-related gag inventions, respected by humans in the toon industry (like R.K. Maroon), and universally beloved by the toon community.

    Dolores 
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Portrayed by: Joanna Cassidy
Voiced by: Amparo Brown (Latin-American Spanish), Mari Yokoo (Japanese)

"So tell me, Eddie, is that a rabbit in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

A waitress/bartender and Eddie's girlfriend.

  • Beta Couple: With Eddie against Roger and Jessica Rabbit, oddly enough, considering Eddie is the main character of the movie.
  • Betty and Veronica: To Betty to Jessica's Veronica for Eddie's Archie, though his attraction to Jessica is mostly against his will.
  • Canon Foreigner: She's a character created exclusively for the film.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Has a dry sense of humor to rival Eddie's.
    Dolores: So is [Roger] always this funny, or just on days when he's wanted for murder?
  • Girl Next Door: To Eddie.
  • Official Couple: She eventually gets (back) together with Eddie at the end of the film.
  • Sarcastic Devotee: She snarks at Eddie a lot, but will not hesitate to risk her job or her freedom to help him in an instant.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Dolores is romantically interested in Eddie, who she deems a "good man".
    Eddie: You oughta go find yourself a good man.
    Dolores: But I already have a good man.
  • Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Like Eddie, she's a little rough around the edges because she too is coping with Teddy's death, though she has the added burden of trying to make ends meet for herself while watching her boyfriend slowly drown himself in a bottle.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She's noticeably taller than Eddie.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Eddie tells her she should find a good man, she quietly tells him she already has a good man.

    Lt. Santino 
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Portrayed by: Richard LeParmentier
Voiced by: Fernando Escandón (Latin-American Spanish), Masashi Hirose (Japanese)

"Just like a toon to drop a safe on a guy's head."

A no-nonsense LAPD Lieutenant and Eddie's friend.

  • "Be Quiet!" Nudge: He nudges Eddie to be quiet when he mocks Judge Doom's authority by joking about Roger's location after Acme's murder when Doom asks for Roger's location.
  • By-the-Book Cop: He always follows the rules.
  • Canon Foreigner: Santino is a character created for the film, and does not appear in the original novel.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Though more no-nonsense than Eddie, he does have some sharp lines.
  • Everyone Has Standards: As a cop he's forced to be respectfully deferential to Judge Doom, but hates how he's forced to take orders from a man who bribed his way to power and is a bonafide sadist. He may not be amused by Toontown's craziness, but he couldn't bear to look when Doom executed that poor little shoe.
  • Friend on the Force: The only cop Eddie likes and the only one that treats him with any respect.
  • Mr. Exposition: When Judge Doom is introduced, Santino says everything about his backstory, including his name, how he bribed his way to his position, and how he created Dip as a way to kill toons. All in the same scene.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Goes hand in hand with being a By-the-Book Cop. Though he carries a stiff demeanor, he looks out for Eddie as he's concerned of his alcoholism and disapproves of his improper conduct toward any superiors, even one he himself doesn't like.

    Angelo 
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Portrayed by: Richard Ridings

"Hey, so who's your client, Mr. Detective-to-the-Stars? Chilly Willy or Screwy Squirrel?"

A regular patron of the Terminal Bar.

  • Everyone Has Standards: Even if he's dirt poor as Eddie implies, he still wouldn't turn in an innocent no matter the amount you put on the bounty. Just when it seems he's going to rat out Roger to Judge Doom, he's actually just playing a prank saying the rabbit he knows of is an invisible rabbit named Harvey "sitting right next to him". The other barflies erupt in laughter.
  • Innocently Insensitive: He makes jokes to Eddie about him working for toons not realizing that his brother has been killed by one of 'em. When he learns about it he's visibly stunned.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be obnoxious at times, but he ultimately proves to not be a bad guy as stated above.

    Teddy Valiant 
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Portrayed by: Eugene Gutierrez

Eddie's late brother and partner at Valiant & Valiant who was murdered by a toon.

  • Cynicism Catalyst: Teddy's murder started Eddie's descent into the bitter, alcoholic, and toon-hating wreck he is at the start of the film. Worse yet, the toon that did it got away with it, denying Eddie any kind of closure.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: The extent of their injuries (Teddy being crushed but Eddie only getting his arm broken) imply Teddy pushed his brother out of the way of the falling piano.
  • Non-Ironic Clown: He and Eddie were part of a clown act with their father.
  • Piano Drop: He was instantly killed during an investigation in Toontown when an insane toon dropped a piano on him and Eddie from the top of a 12-story building.
  • Posthumous Character: He is only shown in photographs, but Eddie and Dolores clearly miss him a great deal.
  • Satellite Family Member: To Eddie. Teddy's death at the hands of a red eyed toon made Eddie into a bitter alcoholic with a hatred for toons.
  • Sibling Team: Eddie and Teddy worked together their entire lives, from doing a stage act as clowns with their father as kids, joining the L.A.P.D. together as adults, and finally starting a private detective agency focused on helping toons.
  • Tragic Keepsake: Eddie keeps Teddy's desk untouched to preserve his memory. He is very angry when Roger tries to sit in Teddy's chair.
  • You Killed My Father: Judge Doom is the toon who murdered Teddy, although Eddie does not find this out until the climax. Dissolving Doom in his own dip at least allows him to get revenge for Teddy's murder.

The Mastermind

Comic-Only Characters

    Rick Flint 

A human Private Detective and former cop whom Eddie refers Roger to. Takes Eddie's place in the Roger Rabbit comics.

    The weasel trio 

A trio of toon weasels who are the Toon Patrol's brothers and Judge Doom's new henchmen. They only appear in the graphic novel sequel.

  • The Dragon: The leader of the trio takes over as Doom's new right-hand man after the death of Smart Ass.
  • Revenge by Proxy: The trio want to resurrect Doom just so they can get revenge on Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit for causing the deaths of the Toon Patrol and the first demise of their boss. Especially for ruining their plans in conquering and then destroying Toontown to build a freeway and get rich.

    C.B. Maroon 

R.K. Maroon's identical twin brother, who inherits Maroon Cartoons after his brother's death and continues on as its CEO in The Resurrection of Doom and the following comic series.

  • Always Identical Twins: Both Roger and Eddie initially mistake him for R.K. Maroon, as he looks completely identical. Personality-wise, though, he's very different.
  • Honest Corporate Executive: Unlike his brother, he doesn't get involved in shady deals and has a far more solid sense of morals.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: To a far bigger extent than his brother. He may have a low tolerance for nonsense then it comes to filming, but he genuinely tries to look out for those in his employ.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: Apart from his appearance, the only thing he really has in common with his late twin brother is that they both liked and appreciated toons. Where R.K Maroon was a Corrupt Corporate Executive and Manipulative Bastard who got up to shady things and wasn't above using his employees as pawns, C.B is an honest Reasonable Authority Figure who may grumble but makes sure to be fair to his employees.

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