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-->'''Jessica: Roger, darling. I want you to know I love you. I've loved you more than any woman's ever loved a rabbit.

!! Judge Doom
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!!!'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ChristopherLloyd\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/PierreHatet (European French), Hector Pedrini (Latin-American Spanish), Tamio Oki (Japanese), Carlos Campanile (Brazilian Portuguese, original), Francisco José (Brazilian Portuguese, redub)

-->''"Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother? I talked... [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Just! Like! THIS!!!]]"''

The [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor humorless]] Justice of {{Toontown}}. He became known for "dipping" errant toons in a concoction which dissolves them. He spearheads the manhunt for Roger, having made it his mission to make Toons respect the law. Doom is also the silent partner of Cloverleaf Industries, the construction company which dismantled public transit in Los Angeles, and is preparing to demolish Toontown to make way for a state-of-art freeway.\\\
In truth, he's a toon himself. Originally a toon actor called Baron Von Rotten, he played cartoon heavies until an on-set accident left him LostInCharacter. Doom's first act of villainy was to murder Teddy Valiant during a bank heist, sending Eddie spiraling downward into depression. He eventually used his ill-gotten gains to bribe city officials and become a jurist.

* AdaptationalSympathy: Sort of. While in the movie his past is left up in the air, in the non-canonical graphic novel ''Resurrection of Doom'' it's revealed that the reason why Doom became such a cruel monster was because he was a Toon actor known for playing villains that turned into a real villain after an on-set accident scarred his mind.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Even though he's technically a {{toon}} himself, we never see what's behind the rubber mask aside from his [[RedEyesTakeWarning deranged red iris eyes]] and [[SwissArmyAppendage golden hands capable of turning into various weapons]]. The graphic novel does reveal [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120609162551/disney/images/d/d2/Resurrection_of_doom3a.png a glimpse]] of his true toon form, which looks like a cartoonishly exaggerated version of his disguised self with his true red eyes.
* AmbiguousSituation:
** Whether or not Judge Doom and Pistol Packin' Possum, a notable {{toon}} on Maroon's wall amongst the Roger Rabbit posters on Maroon's wall, were one and the same- with the former actually being the latter in disguise with several possible hints to support this.[[note]]The comic sequel explains Doom was once a toon actor who was able to alter his form into almost anything; one of which could've very well been the Pistol Packin' Possum.[[/note]]
*** On closer inspection, Pistol Packin' Possum has [[RedEyesTakeWarning red iris eyes]] like Doom's true eyes. He also uses a very similar model of gun to Doom as observed when the poster of Pistol Packin' Possum manages to perfectly overlap with Doom's before the latter kills Maroon.
** His relationship with the Toon Patrol, specifically on the subject of his true identity: Did he approach them under the disguise of a human to get them to do his dirty work [[TranshumanTreachery to avoid the potential fate of Toontown as well as indulge in their own sadism?]] Or did the Weasels know Doom was really a toon all along and helped to keep up his disguise? The Marvel comic and its sequel imply the latter while the film hints towards the former.
* AmbitionIsEvil: His ambition is to wipe Toontown, a town of his own race, off the face of the Earth for [[{{Greed}} the money that would come from being the sole stock holder of the Cloverleaf freeway production with the funds of motels and restaurants going directly to him]].
* AnimalMotif: In the DVD commentary Zemeckis said he was supposed to resemble a vulture. He kinda looks like one.
* AnyLastWords: He asks Roger if he has anything to say before being sentenced to death. Roger is about to say something before Doom interrupts him by strangling his neck.
* ArchEnemy: To Eddie after he reveals himself to be the same toon who killed his brother and causing his prejudice towards toons.
** He's also this for Toons as a whole- planning to slaughter them all for the sake of his heinous ambitions.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's a judge who's not afraid to go toe-to-toe with anyone who goes against him.
* AxCrazy: While disguised as a human, a (for the most part) calm, cool, and collected version. But after his OneWingedAngel reveal, he promptly goes bat-shit insane, with [[HellishPupils eyes]] to match.
* BadassBoast: He tells Eddie about how he killed Teddy once he goes OneWingedAngel. It's both frightening and amazing as the same time.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Wearing all black (fedora and trench coat), and don't forget the cane which has a sword hidden inside it.
* BadassLongcoat: A long black trenchcoat.
* BadBoss: He generally slaps the Weasels around and doesn't show care for them whey they died.
* BaldOfEvil: Definitely has the look of one - but he has a small tuft of wild blonde hair hidden under his hat.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He drops his cold, serious demeanor when he reveals his true nature as a toon, and starts acting like one...but this is also the point he [[OneWingedAngel becomes far more dangerous, deadly, and terrifying]], as the entire movie had been him holding back.
* BigBad: The main antagonist of the film. Not that the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast name]] is a huge tip-off or anything, but his murder of Eddie's brother and Acme's death have made both Eddie and Roger's lives change significantly. And that's not counting his plan to destroy Toontown.
* BigotryException: He despises all toons, except for [[TheDragon the Toon Patrol]]. That might be because they're as AxCrazy as ''he'' is.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed ''severely''. He is ObviouslyEvil and it's quite obvious that he is the one behind everything going wrong in the plot (and is the one driving the conflict in the first place), but he still pretends he's the righteous eye of the law and hides his crimes by any means at his disposal (including Acme's murder which he's personally framing Roger for). He is not righteous. Nothing he claims about being "righteous" and "for justice" is ever the truth; all he wants is power, and will do anything to get it, including murder and ''incredibly'' unlawful execution.
* BlackComedy: His default method of fighting. As a toon, he's mostly bound to the standard toon mindset of turning anything into a joke. However, he [[LoopholeAbuse manipulates the definition]] of what most people would find "funny" by specializing in deadly versions of cartoonish weapons and fighting styles. Dropping a piano on someone's head and killing them wouldn't be funny to the person who died, but it would be funny to the person dropping the piano.
* BlingBlingBang: The Judge is a wealthy man, but his pockets aren't the only things lined with gold. There are hints that the real Doom is gold or metallic in nature, as he sprouts an anvil, a buzzsaw, and spring shoes -- each of them yellow. Also, knives with gold handles shoot out of his eyes when he begins to chase Eddie. (A pun on "shooting daggers.")
* BondVillainStupidity: Judge Doom could've killed Roger halfway through the film if he just put him in the dip instead of letting Eddie give him a last drink. He falls into the same trap again, tying up Roger and Jessica to let the dip spray them slowly instead of just killing them immediately. The reveal that he's a toon probably justifies this, as he's falling into the same habits of other toons, only doing things because they're funny. [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor To him at least.]]
** With Eddie, he could've had him killed several times over the course of the film, but initially, he leaves his care to his minions whose weaknesses are immediately exploited by Eddie due to Doom himself blabbering about their AchillesHeel to laugher (twice in the Deleted Scene by having them torment him in Toontown to get him off the case- rather than off him then and there).
*** When he faces Eddie himself in the initial round, he opts against using simpler means of killing him while he's incapacitated and using very impractical methods instead- which both immediately backfire. The first, deciding to use a steam roller to run Eddie over instead of using his sword while Eddie was trapped against his magnet used against him and barrel- leading to Eddie using the hole prop to escape and later use a glue prop that Doom punches into, leading to Doom being run over by his own vehicle for his trouble.
*** And lastly, once his true {{toon}} nature is exposed, he decides it would be more amusing to slowly saw Eddie in half with his hand elongated into a buzzsaw than simply bludgeon Eddie with the anvil hand. The result leads to having a weapon whose reach is quickly evaded and its impracticality leads to Eddie unleashing a valve to pour all of the Dip onto Doom himself.
* BoomerangBigot: Judge Doom seems to cater to this. Once you find out his true identity, all the stuff he's been spouting about toons earlier in the film becomes even more disturbing due to being one of them all along.
* BrightIsNotGood:
** In his true {{toon}} nature, he has bright golden [[SwissArmyWeapon shapeshifting limbs]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning glaring red iris eyes]].
** Additionally, before the reveal, his glasses glow completely white during his EvilGloating to Eddie and when he pushed the magnetic electricity back at Eddie.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Scarily subverted. He remembers well having killed Eddie's brother and given his EvilGloating to Eddie he must have enjoyed doing it.
* TheCaligula: The ruler of all law in Toontown and also HatedByAll of the people under his jurisdiction because of how utterly ruthless (and illegitimate) he is.
* CanonForeigner: He was not present in the original book, as in there [[spoiler:Roger really was the murderer.]]
* TheChessmaster: He's the mastermind behind every single scheme; from Teddy, Acme and Maroon's murders and Roger being framed for the Acme's murder to plotting to destroy {{Toontown}}.
* ClassicVillain: Ambition, greed, sadism and lack of scruples are his main personality traits.
* ClassyCane: Judge Doom has one of these which doubles as a SwordCane.
* ColdHam: Though Christopher Lloyd is in prime LargeHam mode, Doom still acts fairly restrained and reserved.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: His entirely gloomy black wardrobe is not the best way to hide his evil nature.
* CombatPragmatist: Like his underlings, he has no issues using dirty tricks to lure out suspects, like he does with his "Shave and a Haircut" trick at the bar to make Roger reveal himself. Unfortunately for Roger, this trick works.
* CommunityThreateningConstruction: His freeway plan is a particularly dark variant as he fully intends on literally wiping the entire population along with the town itself to make way for the project. Made all the more heinous due to being a fellow Toon himself.
* CompositeCharacter: Doom himself is based on three characters from [[Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit the original book]]: the [=DeGreasy=] Brothers ({{toon}} disguised as human), toon cop Captain Cleaver (a law enforcer who tries to apprehend one of the Rabbits -- in the book's case, Jessica), and the Genie (an AxCrazy toon who killed three major characters, who is melted away by being exposed to a liquid).
* ConnectedAllAlong: Initially assumed to be just a corrupt official Eddie needed to beat in order to stop him from getting rid of Toontown and solve the murders of Acme and Maroon. It's then revealed that he's actually the same {{Toon}} from Eddie's exposition to Roger on why he hates toons – making the final confrontation much more personal.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: He wears a black trench coat over his uniform.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The man attempting to wipe out Toontown and the toon who killed Eddie's brother just so happen to be one in the same.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: It turns out that Doom is the sole stockholder of Cloverleaf Industries, and everything that happens in the plot is part of his plan to destroy Toontown and pave it over with a freeway where he can make money by funding the materials required to build it, including various stereotypical American features like gas stations, tire salons, fast food restaurants, and billboards.
* CrazyPrepared: When Eddie explains how people can take the Red Car at prices far cheaper than what his planned freeway would profit from, Judge Doom reveals that he bought the Red Car for the sole purpose of dismantling it, thus forcing people to drive his freeway.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: His voice turns squeaky when he is revealed to be a psychopathic toon in disguise. Due to his [[OneWingedAngel nightmare-inducing transformation]] and [[EvilIsHammy extra-hammy behavior]], it's absolutely ''terrifying''. Justified because he had just inhaled helium in order to re-inflate his flattened body, along with the fact that he is intentionally trying to scare Eddie Valiant.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He dies burnt and melted away by his own creation. Horrible, yes, but quite fitting considering he wanted to do the same thing to his whole own race.
** Subverted with his assumed death, where he is slowly flattened by his own steamroller intended to run over Eddie. He gets up while still flattened and lacking the gory violence of what would normally cause a human death- leading into [[TheReveal the truth that he is indeed a Toon]].
** His EstablishingCharacterMoment is also him subjecting a toon to this by dipping a toon shoe and it's ''not'' pretty to watch; the toon shoe can only do nothing but wither and squeak in pain in pain as Doom slowly lowers them to their demise inside the vat.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Considering he possess some scientific and mechanical knowledge, since he invented both the Dip and the Dip Truck, he could have made money more honestly by selliing his services to the American Government and being content with it instead of plannig his own species' genocide. Apparently it wasn't enough for him.
* DarkIsEvil: Wears all black and is not a nice guy.
* DastardlyWhiplash: Though he's clean-shaven, he's got the build and the fashion down pat. He also has the personality traits of one when not trying to repress them- including [[SmugSnake overtly assured of his success]] and [[BadBoss tendency to be take out his anger on his minions]].
** The comics imply that this is a holdover from his acting days, as two of his roles shown in his biography fit the archetype perfectly.
* DeadpanSnarker: He shows some humor sometimes. However this only makes him more sinister.
-->'''Doom:''' ''[To Eddie, who is blocked between a magnet and a barrel]'': Don't move.
** There's also the scene where he watches Eddie, Jessica and Benny crushing into a Lamppost after the latter's tires have been dipped.
-->'''Doom:''' What an unfortunate accident. Nothing more treacherous than a slippery road, especially when driving in a maniacal toon vehicle.
* DealWithTheDevil: It's implied he did with R.K. Maroon via Clover Leaf as an in-between. It is hinted that the setup of the affair between Jessica and Acme was a means to blackmail the latter into giving up his ownership to R.K., who would sell it to Clover Leaf, whom Judge Doom was the sole stockholder who would then use to fund his project to erase {{Toontown}} without any opposition without the will to prove otherwise. In a manner expected of this deal, R.K. realizes too late on what the dealer's heinous end goal actually was and how terribly he messed in making such a deal in the first place- leading to his demise.
* DeathByIrony: Using the dip for his plan later proves to be his own undoing when Eddie opens the valve to empty out his machine's dip.
* DevilInPlainSight: We can say he's definitely not a good guy by the first time we meet him. He's dressed in pitch black, his skin is sinisterly pale and even his voice sounds evil. The only surprise is probably that he's a toon and precisely the one who killed Teddy Valiant.
* DiabolicalMastermind: He wants to melt {{Toontown}} down to make room for an eight-lane freeway to profit off it, made more disturbing since he's also a {{toon}}.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: His death in the NES game is mostly the same as it was in the movie, but executed differently. In the movie, Doom dies after Eddie uses a cartoon hammer to hit the lever on the Dip Machine to empty out the liquid from the back, which sprays all over Doom to his death. In the game, Eddie punches him a lot of times until he falls over. Eddie stops the Dip Machine and takes the spray from it, but not before Doom gets up and Eddie just sprays him with it.
* DirtyCop: He's a law enforcement officer who is also a conniving criminal, and he illegally achieved his position through bribery. Despite this, he still considers himself the representative of the law in Toontown, when he's anything but.
* DirtyCoward: It's not obvious at first due to his reserved and imposing demeanor, but Judge Doom will take pleasure in killing those unable to fight back due to being detained or too weak to fight back, often in needlessly sadistic and unfair methods. Whenever he's put in danger near the Dip, he will scamper away from or use protection against it. His final death is him pathetically screaming away his fear of death, [[{{Hypocrite}} in spite of gleefully inflicting it on others]].
* DissonantSerenity: He's always shown in a disturbingly satisfied and happy mood whenever he hurts and/or kill someone. As a toon this is of course up a notch.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: His name has Doom in it, [[OnlyOneName which outside of his occupation has no surname]], which [[TheReveal makes the revelation of being him a toon that usually only have one name outside of a additional title such as species or occupation more apparent]].
** It also doubles as a MeaningfulName is various ways as seen below.
* DramaticWind: His coat is near-permanently billowing, even indoors.
* DramaticUnmask: Doom is a weird case in that both circumstances and his own admission reveal his true nature.
** In the case of the former, after being [[SquashedFlat flattened by the steam roller]], he stands up in a flattened thin figure form showing that he had survived a death that would kill a human but a toon would shrug off, so he doesn't bother with the lie of being human anymore and admits to being a toon.
** In the case of the latter, after admitting it, he re-inflates himself with a helium canister, causing his hat and false eyes to pop out, as he does a FaceRevealingTurn to show his tuft of hair and more importantly his red, deranged eyes. Downplayed as he's still wearing what is now shown to be a human mask to hide his truest form, but the eyes and voice are enough of an indicator that he's the toon who murdered Teddy masquerading in a human disguise.
* TheDreaded: He's genuinely despised and feared by toons ''and'' humans alike.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: He's usually restrained and composed, but once his true toon identity is revealed, he has no more reason for subtlety. He shows hammy enjoyment in taunting Eddie about his brother's death and taking obviously fiendish pleasure in brutally beating him and trying to kill him. There's also his speech about the freeway to Eddie and Jessica. He sounds very bombastic and excited when he does it.
* EnhancedPunch: He gives Eddie a devastating punch by turning his fist into an anvil.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He makes it clear from the get-go the sort of person he is by casually dipping a toon shoe just for nudging his foot. This also foreshadows his EvilPlan.
* EstablishingCharacterMusic: He's introduced with an [[ForDoomTheBellTolls ominous bell tone]] and menacing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9t7b_lRHw bassoons, cellos and basses]].
* EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: He has a set of perfectly white teeth, hinting at his true identity.
* EvilCounterpart:
** While it's not explicitly stated, he is this to Jessica due to their similarities. They're both "human" cartoons who don't fully fit in among silly, zany, wacky toons (since toons are ''supposed'' to "make people laugh"), but since they're toons they'll never completely fit in among humans. As such, they're forced to make a living among humans; Jessica uses her sultry looks to sing at a human nightclub, while [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Doom tries to "pass" as fully human]]. However, while Jessica is brave, selfless, and will do anything to protect the toon she loves, Doom is a sadistic sociopath who is only out for number one, and attempts [[GenocideFromTheInside to wipe out his fellow toons]] to further his own soulless, consumerist agenda. However, both Doom and Jessica do show some loony tendencies. Doom's complete loathing of wacky toons is made all the more unsettling when it's revealed he can be just as silly as them. The comics even increase the similarities by revealing Doom's true form to be a toon-human and giving him red hair.
** He's also a {{Foil}} to Eddie Valiant as they're both people who operate within the law and dislike {{toon}}s vehemently. However, Eddie's grudge comes from a FreudianExcuse that jaded him, and is a genuinely competent detective in spite of his flaws. He even still had an appreciation for certain {{toon}} individuals before he [[TookALevelInKindness became more toon-loving again]]. Doom, on the other hand, has [[IrrationalHatred a loathing of toons for no explainable reason other than sheer bigotry and intolerance with no excuse]], not to mention he's the very {{toon}} that caused Eddie's FreudianExcuse in the first place-[[{{Hypocrite}} making him no better, if not worse than the ones he regularly calls insane and lawless]], and only became a HangingJudge for money and [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] to enact his desire to hurt others. They also have PretendPrejudice, but on polar opposite implications. Eddie having a soft spot for some Toons while he was still in his prejudiced stage like Betty Boop. Doom once he exposes himself as a {{toon}}, not only gleefully gloating over being a toon, but a certain toon that killed Eddie's brother- hinting for all his greed, oppressive laws, and discrimination- the sole reason he hurts his fellow toons is ForTheEvulz.
** Additionally, he's this to Roger Rabbit, being characters with tufts of hair and on opposite sides of the spectrum when it concerns their nature. While the rabbit embraces his toon nature, is a kind-hearted person in spite of his many flaws, which he also takes in stride, and has InnocentBlueEyes. Doom [[YouAreWhatYouHate despises his nature to the point he disguises as a Human]], is a truly monstrous individual who takes any perceived failure or mockery with extreme prejudice beneath [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist his facade as a rational judge trying to bring sanity to Toontown]] and actually has [[RedEyesTakeWarning hellish red eyes that showcase his insanity.]]
* EvilGenius: He has apparently been meticulously planning the destruction of Toontown for ''years''. From the robbing of Toontown Bank (and his casual murder of Teddy Valiant), which he used to buy his election as a judge, the frame of Roger Rabbit for Acme's murder, and the acquisition of the Pacific Electric Railway in order to dismantle it, it's clear that he's extremely cunning, albeit of the malicious psychopathic kind.
* EvilGloating: As seen in the page quote, he gloats on how he killed Eddie's brother while speaking in a high-pitched voice. Unlike most examples, it is utterly horrifying; other times, it comes off as grand and overconfident.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The reveal he's a toon, a being known to personify doing things for purely hilarious reasons, recontextualizes that perhaps everything he does isn't for some grand plan or profit; he's doing it '''because he finds it fun'''. He clearly relishes in killing other toons and terrorizing humans with his powerset, further proving him a sadist through and through.
* EvilIsBigger: He's the tallest character in the movie alongside Jessica Rabbit (Chris Lloyd is 5 feet 11 inches (1.81 m)) and a truly wicked man.
* EvilIsHammy: He has a boisterous personality and is villainous to boot.
* EvilIsPetty: In addition to being a multi-homicide murderer, Doom is also just an asshole who bullies people for no reason. He forces a dwarf onto his knees while describing Roger's heights, uses the sleeve of an army vet who's lost an arm to wipe clean a chalkboard, and deliberately makes screeching sounds on the chalkboard to annoy everyone he's interrogating in the bar. His EstablishingCharacterMoment even shows him casually dipping a Toon shoe just for nuzzling his boot. When he asks Roger if he has AnyLastWords, Doom doesn't even let him say them and just callously chokes his throat shut.
* EvilPlan: He has a plan to melt Toontown with his Dip cannon and put a freeway in. Presumably, his "excuse" for doing this is to accept kickbacks from the presumably wealthy developers of the gas stations, motels, cheap restaurants, and billboards that would build up alongside the freeway, but his real motivation seems to simply be ForTheEvulz.
* EvilRedhead: In the comics he has a tuft of red hair.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He both plays it straight and disturbingly inverts it by the end of the film. For the majority, He has a deep and foreboding voice courtesy of Creator/ChristopherLloyd until he reveals his true nature – at which point, his voice drastically rises in pitch.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Courtesy of Creator/ChristopherLloyd until he reveals himself as a toon.
* EvilWearsBlack: He's dressed in gloomy black clothes. An appropriate outfit for the deranged and unscrupulous criminal he is.
* {{Expy}}: Creator/ChristopherLloyd himself admitted that with the black outfit, dark glasses, and bald head he felt like his character was similar to the black-dressed spy from ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy''.
* EyePop: Once revealed as a {{toon}}, his eyes briefly bulge in and out while his pupils shrink and expand in a disturbing way. Does a traditional one in his OhCrap moment.
* EyeTake: When he reveals himself as being the toon who killed Teddy, his eyes explode into daggers with his irises as the tips.
* FaceHeelTurn: After suffering an on-set accident, Doom turned to villainy for real.
* FaceRevealingTurn: To reveal his red toon eyes and tuft of hair.
* FantasticRacism: He is a racist towards all toons, even his henchmen to the point he wants to erase them all in order to profit from their demise and be rid of them out of a sense of [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and bigotry. All the more disturbing as he's actually a {{toon}} himself.
* FashionDissonance: Not brought up in the film itself, but subtly observed- Doom constantly wears attire that's more in line with styles of the early 1900s and 1800s, clashing with the 1940s style, and looking more like a DastardlyWhiplash-esque character even before his reveal as a {{toon}}.
* FauxAffablyEvil: At first he appears as a charismatic and sophisticated man. Of course this trait vanishes almost immediately as he reveals the insane and cruel monster he is inside.
** Additionally, he's the only person in the film to refer to Eddie as Mr. Valiant, normally a polite honorific, but it's ultimately a hollow gesture as he caused the trauma the detective suffered by killing his brother, abandoning the pretense all together to call him Eddie mockingly once he's exposed as a {{toon}}.
* FedoraOfAsskicking: Even if it's the 40s and everyone wears hats, his status as an imposing figure is clear by the black fedora, which covers his tuft of blonde hair.
* FightLikeANormal: Judge Doom initially fights via a sword, gun, a steamroller, etc. to keep up the facade he's a human being, not of personal pride or arrogance as a fighter, but a combination of self-loathing and wanting his secret hidden from those who might expose him. Once it's revealed he's a {{toon}}, he abandons all pretenses and utilizes all of his [[ToonPhysics cartoonish powers]] to trounce Eddie.
* FinalBoss: He's the last antagonist Eddie has to fight in the film.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When he's been crushed by the steamroller even before TheReveal, after Eddie turns his head horrorified, you can see that there's no blood or gore under the vehicle and Doom's body is just flattened with no further damage.
* FloweryInsults: Purely out of fear and a sense of self-preservation, he calls Roger a "buck-toothed fool!" when he confronts him and the Toon Patrol at the factory in the climax.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In his first scene Doom says ''"A human has been murdered by a toon. Don't you appreciate the magnitude of that?"'', all the while staring straight into Eddie's soul. There's no indication that Eddie was particularly vocal about what happened to his brother or why he's so bitter towards toons, so the fact that Doom would direct a statement that intense towards Eddie hints that he might know more than Eddie wants him to know.
** When Doom shoots R.K. Maroon, his pistol can be seen reflected in a framed poster depicting a toon with malicious red eyes holding an identical model of gun, hinting at Doom's true identity.
** Whenever his eyes are given focus, they have an [[TheUnblinking unnatural stare that lacks blinking]] and when he accidentally trips on some prop eyes, he slips hits his face, covering one of his eyes in spite of wearing glasses. This hints that these eyes might be prop eyes hiding his true toon eyes that blink the moment they reveal themselves.
** Doom's stiff/jerky movements, tendency to have his coat blow with wind even indoors, unnaturally white teeth, and paler than normal skin hint that Doom is a toon wearing a human guise and trying his best to pass as naturally human as his toon nature allows in spite of repressing the latter.
** Doom is [[ColdHam noticeably more theatrical]] than the more realistic performances of the human cast even at his most subtle- hinting that he's a normally hammy toon pretending to be human, but barely succeeding.
** Doom's aversion to the Dip- including wearing a rubber glove over his normal glove without removing the latter and the two times he quickly steps away from the concoction hint that it would effect him as well being actually a toon.
* ForTheEvulz: Implied to be the actual reason for dipping the poor toon shoe for no real reason other than being a demonstration. It's also heavily implied that it's the true reason as to why he wants Toontown erased beneath the pretenses of {{greed}} and [[FantasticRacism bigotry]].
* FourEyesZeroSoul: For the most part, it seems behind his shiny glasses, he is a horrible racist human being. At least, initially before his [[RedEyesTakeWarning his real red iris eyes are exposed]], revealing that he's not a human being in ''any'' sense of the word.
* GameFace: His infamous maniacal toon face pictured above.
* GenocideFromTheInside: He's a toon who wants to wipe Toontown off the map, killing all of its inhabitants.
* GigglingVillain: After he gets flattened by the steamroller he gets up wobbling around and giggling in a quite eerie way.
* {{Greed}}: He wants to destroy Toontown so he can build a freeway in its place and enrich himself from all the profits that would come from the funding of billboards, restaurants, gas stations, and motels.
* HangingJudge: A [[TheDreaded downright frightening]] one who executes {{toon}}s [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem for any reason he sees fit]].
* HatedByAll: Despised by virtually any toon (apart from maybe the weasels) or human he encounters and it's not like he ''doesn't'' do everything in his power to make you loathe him to his very core.
* TheHeavy: His plan to destroy Toontown as well as the murders he commits are the center of the plot.
* HeliumSpeech: After re-inflating himself with a helium tank, his voice [[CreepyHighPitchedVoice goes up in pitch to a high shrill]]. It's heavily implied that his deeper voice is a result of reducing the pitch of his voice to sound more natural and raise less suspicion.
* HellIsThatNoise: His [[CreepyHighPitchedVoice high shrill of a voice]] as a {{toon}} is ''very'' scary.
* HellishPupils: His devilish red eyes. Very glaring and uncanny who scream "pure evil madness".
* HeroKiller:
** He's the toon who murdered Teddy Valiant by dropping a piano on him, after all -- and he clearly attempts to do in Teddy's brother at the climax of the film, too, with a disturbing amount of glee once his disguise falls apart.
** Marvin Acme, the toon shoe and Maroon died horribly because of him.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: We never see what he really looks like under his rubber mask.
* HijackedByGanon: Initially, he seemed to be an unrelated case that needed to be beaten to save Toontown as well as rebuild Eddie's love of toons. It then turns out that he is the same toon who killed Valiant's brother in Eddie's exposition to Roger- connecting the seemingly unrelated previous case into the current plot.
* HitlerCam: Most notably during his NewEraSpeech about the freeway.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Created "Dip", a concoction of turpentine that could actually kill toons at the slightest touch. At the climax, he gets [[KarmicDeath sprayed with it and melted into nothing]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Revealed to be one once his {{toon}} identity is exposed. He has perpetually changing red eyes, golden hands that turn into weapons, and a high-pitched shrilly voice. And everything else is a mystery, as it is all covered by his coat and a pale rubber mask.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Initially played straight. In a society where toons and humans live together, Doom is a xenophobic, corrupt, and wicked human oppressor of toons and a pure evil mass murderer. Subverted when we find out he's actually a toon himself although apparently with a very deranged human-like mentality.
* HumanDisguise: Doom is revealed to be a {{toon}} that's hiding his unseen true form in a human costume. TheReveal of this nature is very effective due to being portrayed as the live action actor, enough that it's initially assumed that he was a human for the majority of the film with only the slightest hints of his true nature. Downplayed as the entire disguise doesn't come off, but the revelation of the toon eyes are enough of an indicator that his human face is a mask to whatever Doom truly is.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** For a toon who claims they are crazy, he ''is'' a legitimately crazy toon. In addition, he's acting for the majority of the film, as KnightTemplar [[NoSenseOfHumor who despises all humor]], but is really a SerialKiller using the law to kill his fellow {{toon}}s for the fun of it, [[BankRobbery a former bank robber]] motivated by {{Greed}} and [[{{Sadist}} sadism]]. And having [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor a sadistic sense of humor]] with a penchant of BlackComedy type murders.
** He spends the entire film hunting Roger down for a crime he himself committed, seemingly only getting Eddie involved because of Acme's will. The entire reason he's an antagonist in the first place is because he's faking his conviction that Roger is guilty.
* InASingleBound: In the climax, he transforms the undersides of his feet into springs in order to catch up with a fleeing Eddie.
* ImMelting: Said word-for-word when he gets hit by his own Dip.
* InhumanEyeConcealers: On top of wearing dark glasses, Judge Doom wears glass eyes to conceal the fact that he's a toon and has the shapeshifting eyes to prove it. If that wasn't creepy enough, those glass eyes are the only part of his disguise to come off during the final battle, leaving the rest of his appearance up to the viewer's imagination.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Judge Doom is immensely egocentric since he really doesn't care about anything except pursuing his own goals and manipulates others solely for his own gain. Even when the Toon Patrol is killed by Eddie making them literally laugh themselves to death, he doesn't care in the slightest and moves onto personally attacking Eddie for himself.
* ItsPersonal: Retrospectively, this is implied to be the reason why he tries to kill Eddie in convoluted means rather than pragmatic like his other kills. He managed to kill Teddy, a famous solver of toon cases with an over-the-top {{toon}} gimmick, with the underling hint that he intended with his brother with the same methods as well. Unfortunately, he lacked the element of surprise this time around and his prolonging of the kill leads to him being defeated twice in a manner of minutes- the second leading to his actual death.
* {{Jerkass}}: Alongside being a genocidal, mass-murdering maniac, Doom is just generally an asshole to everyone he meets, though especially the titular Roger himself as the main one chasing him down.
* KarmicDeath: He's killed by the same Dip he created and planned to use to kill off his entire race.
* KickTheDog:
** In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he mocks Eddie Valiant for being TheAlcoholic because he can "smell the booze on him" solely ForTheEvulz. That is, despite the fact that [[{{Hypocrite}} Judge Doom made him that way in the first place]] by killing his brother and turning him into the pragmatist he's known as.
** He melts the toon shoe simply to show the Dip's effects (and probably for pure sadism as well). His taunt to Eddie about his brother's death was also quite nasty.
* KnightOfCerebus: The movie always gets a darker tone when he's around, especially once he's revealed to be the same toon who killed Eddie's brother.
* KnightTemplar: He believes he gives out justice when he pursues Roger on his ruthless chase, but in reality is a psychopath who wants to kill all the toons in Toontown ForTheEvulz and hasn't the slightest clue what "justice" is.
* LackOfEmpathy: In his establishing scene, he boils alive a {{toon}} shoe just for '''cuddling by his feet'''! [[BadBoss He mistreats his weasel subordinates when they laugh]] -- [[PragmaticVillainy though this has some roots due to laughter being a weakness of theirs]]; plans to erase Toontown -- filled with members of his own race -- while being more concerned about the benefits of the freeway and lastly, his EvilGloating to Eddie about killing his brother with no remorse.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's the leader of the Toon Patrol, who are all short weasels, but is also a head taller than all of the humans as well as being the implied leader of {{Toontown}} in all, but legal name- something he intends to do by removing the will to invalidate this. Additionally, he is able to overpower Eddie both before and after his {{toon}} reveal, forcing the latter to use guile to defeat him.
* LargeHam: Used for Foreshadowing. While humans are largely downplayed and realistic in their performances, especially in regards to the toons, Judge Doom's very over-the-top in his role as a villain. The bizarre movements, all-black clothing, shiny-white teeth, and a cape that's always flapping in the breeze (even indoors) are all indicators that he's a cartoon.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Not only is Doom vanquished by his own Dip, but his right hand was uncovered when he got sprayed, meaning it was the first bodypart to go. Said right hand was used to dip the innocent toon shoe when he first appeared.
* LatexPerfection: His pale skin is actually a rubber mask to hide his real {{toon}} face, made all the more disturbing in that it's only partially revealed with his deranged eyes showing behind his mask (which is portrayed with the live action actor), hinting something worse behind it.
* LeanAndMean: Quite skinny and very evil.
* {{Leitmotif}}: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9t7b_lRHw dramatic little piece]] composed by Alan Silvestri, complete with a ForDoomTheBellTolls for his disguised self for most of the film.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edmxrAF-828 His true leitmotif]], once his true [[AmbitionIsEvil plan]] and his {{toon}} self is exposed, invoke a [[CreepyCircusMusic carnivalesque piece]] [[DissonantSerenity that sounds eerie and subtly off]]- invoke the [[HumanoidAbomination unnatural aspect of his true form]]
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Before becoming Judge Doom, the toon had robbed a bank and made off with "A zillion simoleons" before fleeing into Toontown; money that he had later used to buy the election in order to become the Judge of Toontown to try preventing other toon-based crimes like that from happening.
* LightIsNotGood: In his true form, he has bright red eyes and golden [[SwissArmyWeapon shapeshifting limbs that become lethal weapons]] usually hidden under his DarkIsEvil attire.
* LooksLikeCesare: Doom has unnaturally smooth and whitish pale skin, something that becomes more apparent during the brief scene outside the entrance of {{Toontown}} where he's much ghostly white than his usual pale skin.
* LooksLikeOrlok: He's very pale and cadaverous looking. His entirely black attire completes his ghoulish appearance.
* MadScientist: He invented the Dip, and you don't want to know how he came to know it works on toons. He also created the Dip Machine to destroy Toontown implying he has some scientific knowledge.
* ManipulativeBastard: While he is also [[TheChessmaster an incredible manipulator of events]], he's also capable of manipulating people in the process, such as when he's [[ObviouslyEvil (needlessly)]] feigning innocence to others despite being the one truly guilty for every single crime in the story.
* MaskOfSanity: Despite looking at first a reserved, stern and relatively sane man, albeit a little eccentric, he's actually a greedy, cruel, sadistic and psychopathic fiend with homicidal tendencies. He also literally wears a rubber human mask to conceal his true toon identity and when exposed, his previous stagnant eyes are replaced by [[OffModel constantly]] [[DerangedAnimation transforming eyes]] that alter within seconds, visually demonstrating the madness repressed by the mask until that moment.
* MeaningfulAppearance: His overall look with a stark black and white contrast make him look like a kind-of FilmNoir GrimReaper. Adding to this are his cane handle shaped like a human skull wrapped by a serpent, the tiny gust of wind that accompanies him whenever he's onscreen, and his ominous ForDoomTheBellTolls {{leitmotif}}. Indeed, all he does throughout the film is satiate his sick desire to deprive both toons and humans of life. Plus, it's to leave the audience no mystery as to who the BigBad is no doubt given a toon's disregard of subtlety.
* MeaningfulName: Doom's name means several things at once. [[TheDreaded The fact he subjects toons to an inescapable, graphically cruel implied eraser of existence which makes everyone toon and human alike to fear him]]. [[FinalSolution The fact that he intends to cause the deaths of toons on a mass-genocidal scale with the erasure of their town along with them]]. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard His tendency to seal his own fate by dying in means he intends for others]]. And lastly, it's quite a loony-sounding moniker too on-the-nose even for a HangingJudge befitting of a toon.
** It also has a subtle biblical meaning as he [[StoryboardingTheApocalypse plans to cause the apocalyptic extinction of the toon race for his new world of the freeway]].
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Anyone who poses a threat to his schemes is viciously killed.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: He's very thin and not very muscular-looking (he's still quite big, though). Yet, at the climax he gets the better of Eddie quite well showing to be quite a competent fighter.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Being called Judge {{Doom|yDoomsOfDoom}} discourages anyone from screwing with him.
* {{Narcissist}}: The only things that Doom cares about are himself and his own gains. He'll even erase his own toon kind from the world just for profit. When Eddie mentions that "the lamb-brain freeway idea" could only be schemed by a toon, he replied "Not just any toon" showing that he has a quite massive ego.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: His costume design and goals are very Nazi-esque. It's even said that Doom's look and character was said to have been inspired by RealLife Nazi judge, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Freisler Roland Freisler]]. In the original script the Dip was even called "The Final Solution." The comics imply that this is because of a concussion he suffered while filming a propaganda cartoon called "Mother Goose Step".
* NeverMyFault: Responsibility is not in Doom's M.O. considering he blames ''everything'' on his victims and also thinks that every toon [[{{Hypocrite}} except himself]] is crazy -- despite being the most disturbingly crazy out of all of them, because he's a toon too.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Inadvertently gives Eddie the idea to dispose of the weasels.
-->'''Doom:''' One of these days, you idiots are going to laugh yourselves to death!
** On a more general level, [[BondVillainStupidity his decisions to kill his enemies in needlessly cruel and over the top methods]] [[PragmaticVillainy instead of more sensible solutions]], gets him exposed as a {{toon}} and killed shortly after for his measure.
* NightmareFace: He shows a very blood-chilling one to Eddie after re-inflating himself with his [[UhOhEyes red iris exaggerated large eyes that are hyper-realistic]] to contrast his live-action human like mask, giving a surreal sense of horror, [[NothingIsScarier with something even worse being implied to be underneath it]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/ChristopherLloyd claimed that his character reminded him a little Creator/BorisKarloff.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He bears a resemblance to Roland Freisler, a notoriously corrupt Nazi lawyer and judge during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: His "fight" with Eddie after his reveal as a toon. As Eddie runs away, Doom jumps from a distance to grab him, tosses him to the floor while turning on the previously deactivated Dip Machine that would kill Roger and Jessica, and finally punches him across the room with an ''anvil'' that he had turned his hand into. He had planned to saw Eddie in half, but then decided to [[VillainBall approach him slowly]] which gave Eddie the chance to use the Dip against him.
* NoIndoorVoice: As described by [[TheHero Eddie Valiant]], the voice of Toon Doom is high and squeaky. It can even go into a [[CreepyHighPitchedVoice loud and shrill scream]]!
* NoNameGiven: Judge Doom was only referred to by his alias until his real name was revealed in the non-canonical graphic novel ''The Resurrection of Doom''.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: In order to preserve the UncannyValley effect he had in the movie, Doom isn't drawn like ''either'' a standard toon or a human in the comics. Though his bodily proportions are realistic, his skin is hot pink and he's shaded much more simplistically than any other human character (though still more so than a toon), making him look like a character straight out of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks or a Creator/HannaBarbera action-adventure cartoon while all other {{toon}}s take after UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation.
** Even within the film itself, once his true form is revealed, his facial features, hair tuft, and {{toon}} eyes are consistently warping in an [[OffModel off]] [[DerangedAnimation model]] manner that's more reminiscent of 30s type cartoons than the 40s era the movie takes place in.
*** Additionally in a rare live-action take, while every human for the most part, dress realistically for the time period and with muted colors, Judge Doom wears stark black and white attire more accustomed to the early 20th/mid 1800s, with very pale skin and very white teeth- looking more like a caricature come to life.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Noticeably he's the only male character in the whole movie who is not visibly attracted to Jessica's sex appeal. In fact he plans to kill her along with the rest of the toons.
* NotEvenHuman: For the majority of the film, Judge Doom is assumed to be human with only the subtlest hints of his true nature, which then are revealed in full in the climax as he's revealed to be a particularly deranged and powerful {{toon}} disguised as a human, which made the initial plan to arrest him for his involvement in the murders not an option and necessitated killing him as he was too dangerous to allowed to live at this point. This retroactively makes his prior execution of any {{toon}} more monstrous as he committed his genocidal plan with the intent of wiping out his own race than if he was merely an extremely prejudiced human.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Played With. While Judge Doom's ruthlessness in killing any {{toon}} on a whim makes him TheDreaded to most humans and toons understandably, Eddie sees him more of an unpleasant weirdo who's only a threat to the toons he's come to dislike- [[EveryoneHasStandards while being horrified of the extremes he goes to]], making quips and sarcastic remarks to Doom's detriment- and even managing to outwit the corrupt judge to allow Roger to escape. He then covertly assassinates R.K. Maroon and plans to genocide Toontown- establishing just how murderous and ambitious he actually is- though in his fight later, he seems to be just a dangerous, but skilled human. Even then Eddie still finds time to insult him. [[TheReveal right up until he reveals himself to be the same toon who killed Teddy]]. From this point, the judge is established to truly dangerous in both murderous intent as well as power to back it up, with the ability to use ToonPhysics to deadly degrees and Eddie finally treating him with fear, albeit due to the emotional trauma of their shared past.
* NotSoStoic: He's shown losing his cool when Roger arrives to the rescue, especially when Roger confronts and [[ShutUpHannibal tells off Doom]].
-->'''Doom:''' ''[shaking in anger]'' Put the gun down you buck-toothed fool!\\
'''Roger:''' That's it, Doom! ''[pulls his gun at a still-fuming Doom]'' Give me another excuse and I'll pump you full of lead!
** Any time the Toon Patrol are laughing, which causes him to shout angrily at them for doing so, thwack them for doing so, or both.
** After TheReveal, Doom abandons his stoicism and becomes completely AxCrazy with [[WingdingEyes deranged morphing eyes]] and a SlasherSmile.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: The first time we meet him he says that his way of keeping toons under iron fist by condemning them to the Dip is his way to force them to obey the law and prevent crimes. But given that he melts an absolutely innocent sentient shoe for no valid reason than a demonstration and the fact that he shows fiendish glee in the act it's obvious that he's a vicious oppressor who frequently melts toons out of [[FantasticRacism bigotry]] and [[ForTheEvulz amusement]]. There's also his plan to build a freeway after dipping whole Toontown. Seems he genuine thinks it's the better idea for the century. But then again since all the profits will go straight to him as he's the Cloverleaf's only stockholder he just wants to get rich.
** Additionally, it's heavily implied that behind the [[{{Greed}} desire for wealth]], [[KnightTemplar extreme views on law]], and [[FantasticRacism bigotry against toons]], his ''actual'' motivation is [[{{Sadist}} being able to kill people for the sake of killing others]] and being [[KarmaHoudini able to get away with it]] with everything else just window-dressing.
* NothingIsScarier: All that is shown through Doom's LatexPerfection is his crazed eyes and shapeshifting left hand, which adds more to the fear that this character exudes.
* ObviouslyEvil: From a visual standpoint alone, Doom [[DarkIsEvil wears almost completely black clothing]] and [[ScaryShinyGlasses a pair of glasses that sometimes completely obscure his eyes]], [[ClassyCane holds a cane with a skull on it]], and has eerie ghost-white skin. This is before it's revealed in his {{toon}} form, that his [[RedEyesTakeWarning actual eyes have bright red irises]].
* OhCrap: Probably the only legit funny moment he has after TheReveal is his reaction to seeing that he's about to get dipped.
* OneWingedAngel: Of the "behold my true form" version. Once he's flattened by the steamroller, he reveals himself as a toon, complete with [[RedEyesTakeWarning horrifying red iris eyes]] before he re-inflates himself and makes use of his toon body to beat the tar out of Eddie.
* OutdatedOutfit: Not directly stated in the film itself, but Doom's early 19th century to 1900s attire clashes with the 40s style of the rest of the film, which hint of Doom's true nature as a classic {{toon}} villain archetype.
* OutsideContextProblem: In the context of the movie, {{toon}} characters, even in Toontown where the laws of physics are more lax, they primarily used guns or punches- normal combat like regular humans- limiting their ToonPhysics to extreme reactions and escaping situations, helping to ground the toons in the more realistic and low-key environment with Doom initially assumed to be just a cunning schemer skilled with sword, gun, and using other weapons to his advantage. This makes Doom's reveal as a powerful toon capable of using ToonPhysics for combat, turning his body into notably weapons all the more shocking in what had been a grounded detective story with {{toon}}s.
* PerpetuallyProtean: Once he's revealed as a {{toon}}, Judge Doom is heavily implied to be this sort of being with his eye designs rapidly altering within one extended take alone with several transition shots subtly being different. This extends to his limbs that are able to change into an anvil and chainsaw respectively.
* PetTheDog: {{Subverted}}. At Eddie's request, he takes a break from trying to kill Roger and allows him to have a final drink. However, he only does so because he doesn't mind prolonging Roger's execution.
* PretendPrejudice: Horrifically implied once he's revealed to be a {{toon}}. He discards his FantasticRacism schtick and gloats about being a certain toon, hinting all of the murders on his fellow toons were [[ForTheEvulz sadism]].
* PianoDrop: He killed Teddy by having a piano dropped on his head.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Eddie is irritable, [[TragicBigot initially racist due to trauma until he improved emotionally]], and a bitter alcoholic. Judge Doom is a [[FauxAffablyEvil polite, reserved, and calculated individual in spite of his innate sadism seeping out]]. At least until his {{toon}} nature is exposed, and he abandons the pretense to act in his true mocking, childish, and psychotic nature.
* PracticallyJoker: As a toon expecially he's a psychopatic and sadistic criminal mastermind, a regular mass murderer, he's elegantly dressed and very fond of [[SlasherSmile smiling evilly]] once his true nature is exposed. Coincidentally Creator/PierreHatet who voices him in the French version also voiced Joker in [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman - TAS]].
* PsychoKnifeNut: While he's not against using a gun if it was necessary, the climax suggests that he prefers using melee weapon like his SwordCane or his hand-turned-buzzsaw.
* PsychopathicManchild: While acting like a diabolical and evilly intelligent older man, in reality, he's still childish and loony like a great part of the toons, but it's PlayedForHorror in his case. He also shows immature sadism in beating Eddie before attempting to kill him.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When Doom re-inflates himself with helium and exposes his red eyes, he taunts Eddie with TheReveal.
-->'''Doom:''' Remember me, Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked! ''JUST! LIKE! '''THIS!'''''
* PsychoticSmirk: He has this when he melts the poor toon shoe in the Dip. The thing is doing it intentionally to show how cruel and sadistic he and his Weasels are.
* TheQuietOne: After he reveals his true identity to Eddie he doesn't say anything else until his demise.
* RailroadPlot: Mixed with VillainousGentrification, is Doom's ultimate goal, wiping out Toontown [[FinalSolution from the sentient buildings to its last toon resident]] for the sake of a freeway in order to profit from the additional developments that compliment the project as well as fulfilling his sadistic bigotry. A plan made all the more sinister with [[TheReveal the revelation that Doom himself is a toon passing himself as human]]. [[CategoryTraitor planning gentrification with the intent of genocide on his own race]].
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Red eyes ([[AdaptationDyeJob and hair in the comics]]) and an all-black outfit.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His real eyes. Not only are the irises pure red, but they briefly turn into daggers, then bulge out and swirl. According to ''The Resurrection of Doom'', he gained his red eyes after the accident that permanently scarred his mind.
* TheReveal: Not only is he the real villain behind all the murders, but he's also the toon who killed Eddie's brother and not a human as initially assumed!
* {{Sadist}}: His enjoyment in doing evil to people is quite like a child having fun while playing with his toys. He first orders Smart Ass to forced Eddie to watch Roger and Jessica being dipped and then to shoot him when he could have just had him killed right then and there. Again, during the final confrontation, after taunting Eddie about his brother's death, taking obviously joy in the latter's terror, he starts the Dipmobile on in order to dip Roger and Jessica with a deranged smile simply to hurt Eddie, he saws a chain to show Eddie how powerful he is and what is going to happen to him. Also, his plan to destroy Toontown appears to be more ForTheEvulz than for greed. This is ironically proved to be his downfall. [[VillainBall Doom had several opportunities to kill Eddie, but his desire to prolong the suffering and make it as painful as possible instead of killing him quickly.]]
** Best showed when he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard caused Eddie's toon magnet to reverse onto a trash can]] and having the detective at his mercy with his sword with no way for the latter to escape in time. Doom sheathes his sword and gets the slower and more impractical steam roller because it would lead to a messier death for his own amusement. Eddie then escapes and through trickery, [[KarmicDeath Eddie manages to get Doom stuck to the weapon he intended for his enemy and gets exposed as Toon after being flattened- dying shortly after.]]
* SatanicArchetype: Subtly and thematically. Judge Doom is a {{toon}} who disguises himself as a human in order to bring forth genocide on his own kind- a FallenAngel attempting the apocalypse on a smaller scale with his Toon Patrol acting as his HorsemenOfTheApocalypse. His deals with R.K. Maroon and Cloverleaf are presented as a DealWithTheDevil contextually- offering a financial future while withholding the actual cost to the unsuspecting dealt part- being that of the lives of Toon Town and being snuffed out for knowing too much. His true form invokes the LightIsNotGood and BrightIsNotGood motifs of the devil- with golden limbs and bright red eyes.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: A very rare live-action version, occurs multiple times in the last third of the movie.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: It's made a point that Doom bought the judicial election. It's implied he used the money he stole from the bank.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: It's never specified what makes a {{toon}} deserving of the Dip; as seen with the innocent shoe foreshadowing, he merely kills [[ItAmusedMe for the thrills]].
* ShoutOut: Realizing that he's dying, he decides to go out [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch style,]] dying words and all.
* SinisterSchnoz: His nose is quite recurved.
* SkeletonMotif: His cane has a skull-shaped headpiece with a snake coiling down from its chin. He himself looks very skeletal.
* SlasherSmile: At first he only tends to normally smile evilly, then after revealing his true identity and his real psychopathic nature, he finally sports a horrendous one, probably thinking of the fun he'll have beating and then killing Eddie.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: An interesting case. Doom is a constant presence, but Toon Doom is onscreen for less than three minutes. And is completely unforgettable.
* TheSociopath: The only time he isn't creepily devoid of emotion is after he's hurt something. He plans to exterminate his own species simply for profit finding no shame in this. He loves killing both toons and humans in the most vicious way possible and once he revealed himself to Eddie he taunts him about his brother's death in a creepy childish manner.
* TheSpook: After being revealed to be a toon, no one is sure what he really looked like.
* SquashedFlat: He gets flattened by his own steamroller and survives just fine, which is what reveals him to be a toon.
* TheStoic: Aside from an occasional PsychoticSmirk and SlasherSmile, Doom himself carries himself with a no-nonsense, cold and emotionless demeanor. All of which, make Doom's turn to becoming gleefully AxCrazy all the more horrific.
* StrongerThanYouLook: He doesn't look particularly muscular due to his [[LeanAndMean lean figure]], but that doesn't mean he's weak. He's capable of strangling Roger to the point of near-asphyxiation and holding his whole body up with just one hand. He also seems to hold himself up just fine during his final fight with Eddie.
* StupidEvil:
** He kills Maroon [[HeKnowsTooMuch to tie up loose ends]] ''while Eddie is [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogating]] him'', which would end up being a mistake on his part since it would lead Eddie right to him. Though it was covert, it was the evidence Eddie needed to track him down. Jessica taking eyewitness of the moment it happened does not help matters.
** In spite of covertly killing Maroon and assassinating Marvin Acme unawares, Doom decides to be as needlessly sadistic and impractical when killing Roger, but especially Eddie. In the case of the latter, his decisions to use over-the-top methods leads to his undignified death.
* SunglassesAtNight : He wears his dark glasses even at night time. The first sign he's hiding something.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Whenever the Toon Patrol get into a laughing fit.
* SwordCane: He uses a sword hidden in a cane as a weapon.
* TemptingFate: He prematurely declares his win to Eddie when preparing to kill Roger and Jessica [[StupidEvil (through very complicated means)]] to cover up his crimes in the climax. That is, before he slips up on Acme Eyeballs and causes the Toon Patrol to laugh maniacally, at which point everything comes crashing down when he leaves the scene after one of his own fake eyeballs pop out and Eddie takes advantage of their laughter to kill them. This undignified display also serves as FiveSecondForeshadowing that he is a toon and not a human.
* TermsOfEndangerment:
** He calls Jessica "my dear" before revealing his genocidal plan.
** Retroactively, him calling Eddie "Mr. Valiant" seems more respectful than the other officers, but it's followed up by [[StealthInsult subtle insults]] or setting him up to be killed. When he drops the suave pretenses to reveal his {{toon}} nature, he calls Eddie by his first name like any other toon before attempting to brutally kill him in the most sadistic manner possible.
* TheseGlovesAreMadeForKillin: He wears a black rubber glove everytime is about to dip any innocent Toon he feels like. At first it's justified as it seems he wants to prevent his fancy clothes to get dirty, but since he's actually a toon himself he actually does it for his own security.
* TheyLookLikeUsNow: Doom for the majority of the film, posed as a human for a mixture of reasons- in order to be treated with more respect, it being more practical to go without suspicion of his true identity, and self-loathing of his true nature. It's particularly effective as it made it seem Doom was indeed human aside from some subtle clues of his true identity until he came back from being flattened.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While the Toon Patrol are also psychotic and sociopathic as he is; [[EvilerThanThou Doom with his true nature exposed, proves to be far more insane, murderous, and sadistic than they are]]. He and his Toon Patrol, but especially himself is this to the entire race due to being capable of gleeful murder and attempt at genocide.
* TooCleverByHalf: While he's genuinely intelligent enough to lure out victims, orchestrates his schemes covertly, plan long term, and invent new technology to suit his goals; he's hampered by both his need to be as dramatic and sadistic as possible rather than use more pragmatic means. This leads to both his deaths- his assumed one by his own steamroller rather of a sword to stab Eddie to death- something that the detective uses to escape as well as use his own props to trap Doom- and later his true death by his own Dip when his sadism provides an opportunity for Eddie to exploit.
* TooGruesomeForCartoonPhysics: He is unique among toons in that he can inflict this among people, as he did when he killed Eddy's brother by dropping a piano on him. The comics imply that [[LogicalWeakness he can also be on the receiving end]] since he became who he was because of an accident while filming a WartimeCartoon that hospitalized him for a extended period of time and inflicted lasting psychological damage.
* {{Toon}}: A rather dark and disturbing take on this idea. As Judge Doom, he's portrayed for most of the film as an extremely anti-toon human judge with over-the-top villainy and ambitions. While one could call him eccentric, something seems to be very "wrong" as he has pearly white teeth, stiff movements, completely dark glasses and a black outfit that covers the entirety of his body that he seems all too desperate to hide. Underneath all that, he has the usual cartoonish childishness but channeled into psychopathy and sadism. He also has mastered the use of ToonPhysics to make his body itself into a very versatile lethal weapon.
* WouldHitAGirl: The first toons he plans to kill are Roger and Jessica.
* TheUnblinking: Judge Doom's eyes, usually obscured by his dark glasses that [[ScaryShinyGlasses shine pure white at times]], usually distract from the fact that they never blink, creating a perpetual, dull, and unnatural stare. [[InhumanEyeConcealers This hides the fact in addition to his glasses, his eyes are artificial props that hide his true eyes that are shown to blink the moment the false ones are removed]].
* UncannyValley: Christopher Lloyd was given very pale make-up and unnaturally white false teeth, was never shown to blink on camera, and has very stiff movements, with the IntendedAudienceReaction to be that he comes off as unnerving and gives the impression something is wrong with him. Because of course, he's a toon trying to pass himself off as a human.
* UndignifiedDeath: Twice. First, his assumed death of screaming gibberish as he futilely attempts to not get squashed by his own steamroller before revealing himself to be a toon. And then, his actual death, screaming for his life and shaking uncontrollably as he melts into nothing. A complete turnaround from the rather composed and menacing judge he had been until that point.
* TheUnfettered: His cruelty knows no limits to put it lightly. Not even the attempting genocide of his own species or the brutal killings of anyone who's an obstacle. Jessica also mentions that Acme confided in her that Doom would have stopped at nothing in order to get the hands on Toontown.
* TheUnreveal: While we learn that Doom is a toon (and the one who killed Teddy), we never find out what ''kind'' of toon he was, since he gets Dipped while still in full mask and costume. The other Toontown residents even speculate on what kind of toon he was (or rather, what he wasn't) afterward, and it's treated as a mystery that will never be solved.
-->'''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse:''' Gosh! I wonder what he ''really'' was.\\
'''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny:''' I tell ya ''one'' t'ing, Doc. He weren't no rabbit.\\
'''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck:''' Or a duck.\\
'''WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}:''' Or a dog.\\
'''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}:''' Or a little wooden boy.\\
'''[[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs The Big Bad Wolf]]:''' Or a sheep.\\
'''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker:''' Or a woodpecker.\\
'''[[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]]:''' Or a pussy.\\
'''Woody Woodpecker:''' [[HehHehYouSaidX Ha ha ha ha HA!]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: For a villain of an 80s family movie filled with a lot of real humans and animated toons, he's quite threatening, disturbing and intimidating, even as a {{Toon}} himself due to his heinous plan a large-scale genocide of his own race for [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and getting money on top of being a [[HumanoidAbomination a truly nightmarish take of what a toon can be]] and being a SerialKiller with at least three known human victims and countless {{Toon}} victims.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the climax of the film, he reveals his toon nature and goes from composed to AxCrazy to screaming for his life when he's melting.
* VillainousGentrification: His freeway plan aside from the profiteering of wealth gained from all of the developments that compliment the project, is to wipe out the entire {{toon}} populace living there out [[FantasticRacism bigotry]] and [[ForTheEvulz sadism]]. A plan made all the more appalling [[TheReveal that Judge Doom himself is a toon himself in disguise]] [[GenocideFromTheInside willing to do it to his own kind for petty reasons]].
* VillainsWantMercy: He spends his last moments begging to be freed from his own Dip as he melts in it. Eddie simply leaves him to die, of course.
* VisionaryVillain: He wanted to erase Toontown to create a freeway and goes to make an epic speech about it.
-->'''Eddie:''' That's why you killed Acme and Maroon? For this freeway? I don't get it.\\
'''Doom:''' Of course not. You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on, all day, all night. Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food, tire salons, automobile dealerships, and wonderful, wonderful billboards as far as the eye can see! My God, it'll be beautiful!
* VisualPun: During TheReveal where he tells Eddie that he killed his brother, his eyes pop out of his head and make knife shapes. [[DontExplainTheJoke He's staring daggers at him.]]
* VocalDissonance: He just inhaled helium to get back into shape after being SquashedFlat, but if anything it makes his shrill screeching as he approaches Eddie all the more freaky during TheReveal, still in full Judge Doom attire- which is a very tall and imposing man with a normally deep voice, making the contrast even more striking.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: A horrific variant. Since he's a toon who [[NothingIsScarier stays in full mask and costume throughout the movie, what little we see of his toon body]] -- his {{red eyes|TakeWarning}} and [[RedRightHand right hand]] -- can change into deadly weapons. His eyes morph into the shape of daggers at one point, and he changes his ungloved right hand into various weapons that he uses to try to ''murder'' Eddie with.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard not to talk about the character without mentioning a huge plot twist towards the end of the film, much less of his WhamLine about who he is and what he did.
* WillfullyWeak: He spends most of the movie pretending to be human, and thus never does anything a human couldn't. Once the façade had served its purpose, he reveals his true nature and starts weaponizing ToonPhysics.
* WhiteGloves: The graphic novel adaptation of the story trades Doom's black gloves for white ones, which retroactively makes the foreshadowing of his true identity as a {{toon}} all the more clearer.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's a horrible, murderous and genocidal madman with a small tuft of white hair.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He apparently has the knowledge of how to evade being incriminated for his crimes and knows how to negotiate with others to make achievements in extremely expensive conspiracies, indicating that he thinks he's in a drama story to go to such lengths. However, he does not account for the fact that his end goal of [[RailroadPlot building a freeway in place of Toontown]] would take ''years'' to complete, and that making it "smooth, safe, fast" would take even longer than actually building the thing; so he'd essentially be destroying Toontown for nothing.
* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Taunts Eddie about the fact that he's the one who killed his brother.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Wants to kill toons because he thinks they're insane, but he's crazier than all of them.
!! Comic-Only Characters

[[folder:Baron von Rotten]]
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The toon who would originally become Judge Doom was originally a benevolent performer whose specialty was playing villains. After an onset accident, Baron von Rotten had his brains scrambled and started to believe he really was a villain.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: One of his more famous roles was as the hunter from ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''.
* ContinuitySnarl: The movie established that a toon can take any kind of physical abuse and recover instantly. Baron von Rotten doesn't seem to have this durability, as he was rushed to hospital for an extended period of time and suffered long-term psychological damage.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: The documentary on von Rotten's downward spiral shows that he used to have a much more cutesy look when he first came to Hollywood. Once he hit his stride playing villains, his character design took on a tone that was more dastardly but still inherently whimsical. Then after he suffered brain damage and got lost in character, von Rotten started to look exactly like Judge Doom.
* LostInCharacter: ''The Resurrection of Doom'' reveals that the accident that led to Baron Von Rotten becoming Judge Doom caused him to stay in character long after his films were completed.
* ManOfAThousandFaces: As Baron Von Rotten, he got a reputation as the "Toon Of A Thousand Faces" for taking on a wide variety of roles ranging from minotaurs and snowmen to [[CreepyCrossdresser witches]] and [[YellowFace Japanese hunchbacks]].
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: He originally started off as a friendly performer toon who loved playing the role of villains. Unfortunately, an accident resulted in his brains being scrambled, resulting in him to believe he really was a villain like the ones he used to play.
* RedRightHand: His red eyes were the defining characteristic that made him different from the other monochromatic toons of his time, which signaled his descent into true evil. Additionally, his golden limbs, which were identifiers for the crime of killing Acme as well as [[SwissArmyWeapon being able to change into anything.]]
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: A guy who just happens to have the word "''Rotten''" in his very name had a knack for playing villainous roles and eventually became a real villain himself.
* TragicVillain: Doom wasn't always the murderous sociopath he is in the movie; according to his backstory, he used to be a regular toon who [[MeanCharacterNiceActor enjoyed playing villains in movies but was otherwise just as friendly as any other toon]] until an accident caused him to [[DeathOfPersonality lose his mind and believe himself to be an actual villain]], twisting him into a monster.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: He was once an innocent actor toon who enjoyed playing the role of many villains and was praised for his work as the "Toon of a Thousand Faces" until the on-set accident which put him in a coma and permanently scarred his mind.
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[[folder:Rick Flint]]

A human PrivateDetective and former cop whom Eddie refers Roger to. Takes Eddie's place in the ''Roger Rabbit'' comics.
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* [[Characters/WhoFramedRogerRabbitJudgeDoom Judge Doom]]
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!! Comic-Only Characters
[[folder:Rick Flint]]

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

In the universe of the movie, cartoons, or "toons" as they're informally referred to, are living, sentient, 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 UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, 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 many forms and are often anthropomorphic or caricatured versions of humans, animals, plants, machines, 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 UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation.

* BullyingADragon: 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 [[spoiler: is a very dangerous psychopath who's the movie's BigBad. Not mention he's the same toon who killed his brother which at the end he comes very closely to killing him twice.]]

* {{Expy}}: He's obviously based on classical private detective heroes of the Noir genre like Literature/PhilipMarlowe and [[Literature/The MalteseFalcon Sam Spade]]. His hard boiled attitude also reminds ComicStrip/DickTracy.

* ButtMonkey: 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, exepct Lieutenant Santino, makes fun of him cause his drinking problems.

* ButtMonkey: 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.

* TheHero: Once he forgets all his bad feelings he's more heroic and kind.

* ScreamingWarrior: "Says Nothing" shouts a war cry before destroying the bourbon bottle with a tomahawk.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Though it's not furtherly explored, it's implied that "Shifty Eyes" is this as he's a {{Bandito}}.

* Badass Bandolier: "Shifty Eyes" wears one.

* BullyingADragon: He does this twice at his own expences. The first time he calls Bongo chump 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 [[spoiler. is a very dangerous psychopath who's the movie's BigBad. Not mention he's the same toon who killed his brother which at the end he comes very closely to killing him twice.]]

* KarmicButtMonkey: Smart Ass has soap shoved into his mouth, gets whacked hard by Doom's right hand and into a table set during a laughing fithas 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 [[spoiler:kicked hard [[GroinAttack 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.

* KarmicButtMonkey: Smart Ass has soap shoved into his mouth, gets whacked hard by Doom's ClassyCane during a laughing fit, has a wine bottle smashed on his face during the bar brawl, and is [[spoiler:kicked hard [[GroinAttack 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.

* KarmicButtMonkey: Smart Ass has soap shoved into his mouth, has a wine bottle smashed on his face during the bar brawl, and is [[spoiler:kicked hard [[GroinAttack 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.