History Characters / LooneyTunes

* TeamRocketWins: [[spoiler: Actually got his revenge on "that wascawy wabbit" in ''Rabbit Rampage" and Hare Brush".]]

* TeamRocketWins: [[spoiler: Seemingly achieves his goal of detonating the earth in the original full-version of ''Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24th and a Half Century''. With Dodgers distracted from his duties and earth's destruction almost certain, Marvin is left with no choice but to ensure the viewers "it's only a cartoon".]]

* TeamRocketWins: [[spoiler: In ''Soup or Sonic'', Wile E. Coyote is indeed successful in capturing the Roadrunner. Of course, thanks to RuleOfFunny, the Coyote is much...''much'' smaller than the Roadrunner when the former captures the latter causing Wile E. to be absolutely baffled as to what to do with the Roadrunner upon capturing him.]]

* TheCatCameBack

* DoggedNiceGuy: [[IncrediblyLamePun A non-romantic example.]]

** Not to mention is almost a DistaffCounterpart for Sylvester physically (and, considering their equal neuroses and [[LoveableCoward fearful personalties]], partially in personality). In fact she is near identical to Mrs Sylvester used in "A Mouse Divided" [[AdaptationDyeJob fur color aside]].

* AllThereInTheManual: Penelope's name (while refered to in "The Cat's Bah") was inconsistant until promotional art for "Carrotsablanca" confirmed it.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Because of how formulaic the shorts are (though these aren't as formulaic as, say, the Wile E. Coyote cartoons), the fact that the shorts revel in verbal humor more than physical comedy, and the BoringInvincibleHero (most of the time), a lot of Looney Tunes fans don't really like the Pepe Le Pew cartoons. Those who do are usually the ones who are opposed of the modern, PC idea that the Pepe cartoons encourage/condone/make light of sexual harrassment (and even then, the only cartoon they'll admit to liking is "For Scentimental Reasons" and maybe "Wild Over You" after reading into the masochism implications).

* RapeAsComedy: [[YourMileageMayVary If]] ValuesDissonance [[YourMileageMayVary is to be believed]] (otherwise, it's just RomanticComedy, albeit a parody of one that now carries UnfortunateImplications thanks to PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad). Dave Chappelle does see the Pepe cartoons like this according to the comedy special, "Killing 'Em Softly."

* RapeAsComedy: If [[strike:PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad]] [[strike:common sense]] [[YourMilageMayVary YMMV]] and ValuesDissonance are to be believed (otherwise, it's just RomanticComedy, albeit a parody of one that now carries UnfortunateImplications thanks to our changing times). Dave Chappelle does see the Pepe cartoons like this according to the comedy special, "Killing 'Em Softly."

* HiddenDepths: Who would have guessed that the same Elmer Fudd that seemingly can't tell the difference between an actual woman and Bugs Bunny in a dress [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auI6Uz3D8I was an expert in economics]]?

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: This is pretty much Elmer Fudd's reaction whenever he thinks he's finally killed Bugs. No matter how hard he's been trying throughout the episode to shoot Bugs he always breaks down in tears when he thinks he's finally done it, calling himself a murderer. Which calls into question why he's a hunter in the first place.

* LargeHam

* RapeAsComedy: If PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and ValuesDissonance are to be believed (otherwise, it's just RomanticComedy, albeit a parody of one that now carries UnfortunateImplications thanks to our changing times). Dave Chappelle does see the Pepe cartoons like this according to the comedy special, "Killing 'Em Softly."

* BaseBreaker: Tends to be treated as one due to his shorts' usually "politically incorrect" tone and becoming a mainstream character just as the series was [[DorkAge beginning to decrease in quality]]. Then again he is [[FridgeLogic actually popular with the latino fanbase]] and there was uproar when his shorts were taken off the air.

* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood

* EthnicScrappy: Averted. Mexican fans actually ''like'' him, and will protest nearly every time someone tries to censor him as a stereotype.

* See [[Characters/BugsBunny Characters/Bugs Bunny]] and KarmicTrickster.

* BadassDecay: Relied more on [[NeverMessWithGranny umbrella-wielding Grannies]] and {{AngryGuardDog}}s in later shorts.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: For Daffy in many of their later Chuck Jones shorts.

* CharacterAlignment: NeutralEvil

* CharacterAlignment: NeutralEvil

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Bugs once scared him off by making him realize that [[ParanoiaFuel he was currently being watched by possibly thousands of people this entire time]]. He proceeded to run screaming to get away. Through several walls.

'''Debut:''' Feed The Kitty (1955)

* TheChewToy: ''[[XJustX Ralph]]''.

* TheWoobie: He pretty much plays the same role as Sylvester[[hottip:*:cat who gets beaten up a lot]], SoYeah.

The - well, the Bugs Bunny. No description needed. Debut: "AWildHare" (1940), various, notably TexAvery.

*See [[Characters/BugsBunny Characters/Bugs Bunny]] and KarmicTrickster.

Was originally [[ScrewySquirrel The Screwball]]/{{CloudCuckooLander}}, later {{Flanderized}} by Jones (and Freleng) into a {{jerkass}} TedBaxter, most famously paired with Bugs as the OddCouple. In this incarnation, used either as a foil for Bugs or to parody action-adventure heroes. Meanwhile [=McKimson=] [[CompositeCharacter combined the two interpretations]] and made Daffy into a {{Loveable Rogue}}. Later also joined Sylvester on the hunt for Speedy Gonzales. Debut: "Porky's Duck Hunt" (1937), Clampett.

*See DaffyDuck.

TheEveryman and StraightMan to the rest of the cast, known for his [[PorkyPigPronunciation ridiculously thick stutter]]. Often played a DeadpanSnarker or ButtMonkey, usually when paired with Daffy (either role [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on the latter's interpretation]]. Debut: "I Haven't Got a Hat" (1935), Clampett.

One of only three humans in the regular cast (the others being Yosemite Sam & Tweety's owner Granny). The ButtMonkey, often TooDumbToLive. An avid hunter, thus Jones' favorite adversary for both Bugs & Daffy, reaching a peak in the iconic Rabbit Season trilogy. Less popular with the other directors, who found him too wimpy. Debut: "Elmer's Candid Camera" (1940), Jones.

In Clampett's hands, Tweety was a pink, sadistic trickster who used his wits to get rid of cats. Later, under Freleng, Tweety became yellow (the Hays Office balked because the pink made him look naked), found a recurring adversary in Sylvester, and often depended on an umbrella-wielding Granny or an angry bulldog to get rid of him. Time has made modern generations mistake him for a female. Debut: "A Tale of Two Kitties" (1942), Clampett.

A FunnyForeigner and HandsomeLech, completely oblivious to his body odor problem... and thus to why all the pretty 'young ladies keep running from him in disgust. Of course, the fact that they're nearly all actually cats, unaware that they've had white stripes painted on their backs, doesn't help either. Turns out to be quite the {{Chick Magnet}} when his smell is somehow neutralized or his white stripe is covered by black paint, both of which make the female cats go wild for ''him'', much to his horror. Debut: "Odor-Able Kitty" (1945), Jones.

**Pepe doesn't always go after anything painted black and white or dressed in skunk fur, but he does go after cats (which, when you think about it, becomes a very dirty StealthPun on "going after pussy[cats]"). Take "Past Perfumance." When the nameless cat jumps into a barrel of water, her stripe runs off. Pepe discovers that the cat he's been chasing all this time isn't a skunk, but does that deter him? Hell, no -- [[spoiler: Pepe paints over his own stripe and continues the chase anyway]]. It should be noted, however, that Pepe Le Pew does fit this trope in the Looney Tunes comic books published by D.C. Comics, as a result of {{Flanderization}}.
*BrotherChuck: In Pepe's first cartoon, "Odorable Kitty," it's revealed in the end that [[spoiler: Pepe is actually named Henry, has a wife and kids, and doesn't speak in a French accent]]. [[spoiler: Pepe's wife and kids]] were never seen again after that.
*ChainedHeat: The end of "The Cat's Bah" where [[spoiler: Pepe somehow caught Penelope and chained her to his ankle]].

*DepravedBisexual: At best, Pepe fits this trope (at worst, he's a StalkerWithACrush who goes after AnythingThatMoves as long as it's black and white striped. The D.C. Comics have him as either/or, depending on writer). In 1951's "Scentimental Romeo" had Pepe make out with a human man inside a Tunnel of Love ride. The man is so traumatized that he signs up for the French Foreign Legion and passes out. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Yeah, I don't get it either]].
*DidNotGetTheGirl: Believe it or not, there ''was'' a Pepe cartoon were Penelope runs off and Pepe doesn't continue the chase. That cartoon was 1951's "Scentimental Romeo" and the chase is interrupted when [[spoiler: the zookeeper takes Pepe back to the zoo and Pepe bids a tearful farewell to Penelope]].

**In most (if not all) of the Pepe cartoons, Pepe's making love to the cat outdoors and/or from high places, often while wearing a PaperThinDisguise.
**Then, there are others where the cat is trapped in an enclosed space and the cartoon ends with Pepe moving in for the kill ("Heaven Scent," "Scent of the Matterhorn," and the final Golden Age Pepe cartoon "Louvre, Come Back to Me").
***"Scent of the Matterhorn" also had Pepe visibly excited when he mistakes the reflections of the cat in the ice cave as a harem of female "skunks" waiting for him.
**Then, there's "Wild Over You," where a wildcat escaping from the zoo paints herself as a skunk and, as usual, Pepe makes out with her. The twist is that the wildcat claws him half to death -- and Pepe explictly states in that cartoon that he likes it.
**Then, there's the end of 1954's "The Cat's Bah" where [[spoiler: Pepe has the female cat chained to his ankle and the female cat tries to get out with a nail file]].
**And lest we forget about the three cartoons (the Academy-award winning "For Scentimental Reasons," "Little Beau Pepe," and "Really Scent") where the female cat ends up chasing Pepe and Pepe freaks out and runs.
**And to say nothing of the fact that Pepe goes for anything painted up as a skunk.
*FrenchJerk: I mean, really. He goes after a female cat (whom he thinks is a skunk) and just smothers her with affection without any regard for ''her'' feelings. This can be excused as it's all unintentional.
*GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Why didn't the Hayes Office go after Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese for "Wild Over You," where an escaped wildcat from the zoo becomes Pepe's unknowing (and unwilling) object of desire and the wildcat fights back, only to have Pepe comment on how he likes it? I thought sexual perversion (in this case, masochism) in movies was considered taboo in those days.

*HypocriticalHumor: Pepe begging Penelope to control herself when she goes after him on "For Scentimental Reasons" and "Little Beau Pepe."

*LoveItOrHateIt: Because of how formulaic the shorts are (though these aren't as formulaic as, say, the Wile E. Coyote cartoons), the fact that the shorts revel in verbal humor more than physical comedy, and the BoringInvincibleHero (most of the time), a lot of Looney Tunes fans don't really like the Pepe Le Pew cartoons. Those who do are usually the ones who are opposed of the modern, PC idea that the Pepe cartoons encourage/condone/make light of sexual harrassment (and even then, the only cartoon they'll admit to liking is "For Scentimental Reasons" and maybe "Wild Over You" after reading into the masochism implications).

*RapeAsComedy: If PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and ValuesDissonance are to be believed (otherwise, it's just RomanticComedy, albeit a parody of one that now carries UnfortunateImplications thanks to our changing times). Dave Chappelle does see the Pepe cartoons like this according to the comedy special, "Killing 'Em Softly."
*SpiritualSuccessor and DistaffCounterpart: On ''TinyToonAdventures'', there's Fifi La Fume, who acts just like Pepe (except that she likes it when men go after her), right down to mistaking black and white striped animals for male skunks (though it was revealed that she has a crush on Pepe Le Pew on an episode where Elmyra thinks Fifi is a kitty).
*StalkerWithACrush: So. Very. Much.
*TooKinkyToTorture: A lot of the Pepe cartoons have Pepe brushing off the cat's violent attempts at deterring him as "flirting." 1953's "Wild Over You" is the definitive cartoon for proof of this trope.
*WriteWhoYouKnow: In one of Chuck Jones's autobiographies (Chuck Jones is the guy who created Pepe Le Pew, in case anyone didn't know), he states that animation writer Tedd Pierce was this LeisureSuitLarry type guy who would always hit on women and chalk up their rejection of him as "She's flirting" or "She's playing hard to get." This, coupled with exaggerating the stereotype of "zee great French lovair" and Chuck Jones's own insecurities about picking up women, is the basis of Pepe's persona.

A cat with a speech impediment who usually tries to eat Tweety or Speedy Gonzales, with little success. One of the most versatile of the ensemble, prone to neuroses and usually the star of the comic melodramas. In Robert [=McKimson's=] hands, slobby Sylvester has a hyper-articulate son named Sylvester Jr., whom Dad tries to impress by chasing what turns out to be a baby kangaroo into another room; when he retreats gibbering at the 'giant mouse!' Junior is mortified. Debut: "Life With Feathers" (1945), Freleng.

A brash little outlaw with handlebar mustachios and a severe temper problem, introduced as 'a more {{worthy adversary}}' for Bugs than the meek Elmer. Said to be a caricature of his (short, brash, redheaded) creator. Introduced as a cowboy bandit, he eventually became the stock blowhard villain character: Civil War general, Viking, Pirate, The Black Knight (no Python references please), politician, an Arab sheik, etc. Oddly enough, he wears his bandit mask no matter what role he plays. Debut: "Hare Trigger" (1945), Freleng.

A loud, obnoxious rooster with a Southern accent, based on Fred Allen's 'Senator Claghorn' radio character. Considers himself the life of the party; demonstrates by tricking baby chickenhawks out of capturing him, abusing the barnyard dog by whomping his ass with a wooden board and painting his tongue green, or babysitting a genius chick named Eggbert in order to cozy up to his widow hen mother. Debut: "Walky Talky Hawky" (1946), [=McKimson=].

An IneffectualSympatheticVillain who wants to see an EarthShatteringKaboom, and is the TropeNamer thereof (albeit invariably foiled by Bugs). Debut: "Haredevil Hare" (1948), Jones.

A speedy bird and the coyote who uses a variety of backfiring Acme Company traps and mail-order gadgets to try to catch him — 'try' being the operative word. The coyote was named when he had some cartoons facing off against Bugs instead of Roadrunner, where he became "Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"- the Road Runner remains mute to this day (meep-meep!) as he is now the mascot for Time Warner Cable. Debut: "Fast and Furry-ous" (1949), Jones.

Another FunnyForeigner and good-natured {{Trickster}} who moves at SuperSpeed to help his poor Mexican mouse friends get cheese from "el gringo pussygato" (usually Sylvester). Has a lethargic cousin named (inevitably) "Slowpoke Rodriguez" who uses a gun to incapacitate cats instead. [[DorkAge For obvious reasons]], the Speedy shorts — particularly the late 1960s ones with Daffy as his antagonist — tend not to be received well by animation fans and historians. Debut: "Cat-Tails for Two" (1953), [=McKimson=].

The destructive, hurricane-spinning, feral, ExtremeOmnivore who talks in HulkSpeak, when he talks at all. Debut: "Devil May Hare" (1954), [=McKimson.=]

A frog from TheGayNineties is discovered by a man in modern times. Unfortunately, the frog acts as his NotSoImaginaryFriend. Listed here as an honorable mention, as he only ever appeared in one cartoon, which he didn't share with any other iconic characters, and was never really iconic himself until he became the mascot for TheWB Network in the 90's. Debut: "One Froggy Evening" (1955), Jones.

*AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Normal animal with an EXTREME {{Verbal Tic}} he is unconscious of doing or a {{Screwy Squirrel}}/{{Karmic Trickster}} punishing a being exploiting him for his greedy ambitions. ''Another Froggy Evening'' however seems to explain the interpretation somewhat.

*NotSoImaginaryFriend: More a trait than the character itself, everyone sees the frog, only one person sees it's singing talent.
*OneShotCharacter: Well, at least until ''Another Froggy Evening'', decades later.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Has survived in a box for several years since the age of cavemen.
*[[YouDidntAsk You Didn't Ask]]: Seems to be implied in ''Another Froggy Evening'' when met by Marvin the Martian, who can speak "Frog"/"Martian" and thus can just ask him to sing for him.

!!BoskoTheTalkInkKid

* UncleTomfoolery: His shorts are often not shown because of ValuesDissonance.

!!Debut: Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (1931)

*CaptainErsatz
*EarWorm: [[OlderThanTheyThink Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!]]

*TheEveryman: Foxy was a gallopin', beer guzzling gaucho in his first short, a trolley driver in the next (although that was AllJustADream) and a traffic cop in his final short.
*{{Retraux}}: The episode of Tiny Toons he appeared in, along with his girlfriend Roxy, served as a throwback to cartoons from TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, right down to everything being in black & white.

!!Debut: Goopy Geer (1932)

!!Debut: Buddy's Day Out (1933)

*FlatCharacter

Early creation of Chuck Jones, a ridiculously cute, naive little mouse that often obliviously wandered into danger's way. As the shorts transitioned into zanier humor, attempts were made to evolve Sniffles accordingly, Flanderizing him into a KarmicTrickster with a MotorMouth, though the character was ultimately phased out (though still had a healthy run in the comics.) His motor mouth version made a brief speaking appearance in SpaceJam. Debut: "Naughty But Mice" (1939), Jones.

* TheRival: To Bugs

!!Mac 'n Tosh, the Goofy Gophers

!!Debut: Feed The Kitty (1955)
A large dog that is endeared by a little [[EverythingsCuterWithKittens kitten]]. [[PapaWolf The former is very protective of the latter]].

* CatsAreMean: Averted. Pussyfoot ''does'' get Marc Antony in trouble but [[ChildrenAreInnocent she doesn't seem to do it on purpose]].

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Pussyfoot is in fact referred to as male in early appearances.

The (Collective?) name for the poor kitty who finds herself the object of Pepe's affections. Debut: "For Scentimental Reasons" (1949), Jones.

* PunchclockHero[=/=]PunchclockVillain: Literally.

*RapeAsComedy: If PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and ValuesDissonance are to be believed (otherwise, it's just RomanticComedy, albeit a subversion of one). Dave Chappelle does see the Pepe cartoons like this according to the comedy special, "Killing 'Em Softly."