History WesternAnimation / SpeedyGonzales

* HatDamage: In ''Speedy Gonzales'', Speedy is working as a living target in a shooting gallery when he gets a bullet through his hat.

* WeHaveReserves: In ''A Message to Gracias'', El Supremo doesn't care that he got ten of his men killed trying to deliver a dispatch to General Gracias before his surviving couriers convinced him to send Speedy to do it instead. And after Speedy got past the blockade and delivered the dispatch, it turned out to be of utterly trivial importance - a birthday card!

->The fastest mouse in all of Mexico.

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[[caption-width-right:156:"¡Ándale! ¡Ándale!"]]

''Speedy Gonzales'' is a recurring character of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' franchises, starring in 46 short cartoons. He is a Mexican mouse endowed with SuperSpeed. He was the antepenultimate of the "classic" Looney Tunes characters to be created[[note]]behind the Tasmanian Devil and Witch Hazel[[/note]], not making his debut until 1953's “Cat-Tails for Two” by Creator/RobertMcKimson, where he looked much different from the more familiar Speedy by Creator/FrizFreleng and Hawley Pratt two years later. Initially being the nemesis of two cats based on [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen George and Lennie]], he eventually got into escapades with [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] followed by less popular conflicts with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. He shares with Daffy the distinction of starring in the last Golden Age theatrical Looney Tunes short to feature any of the classic characters, which was 1968's ''See You Later, Gladiator''.

* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: "Fiesta Fiasco" is one for Daffy.
* AllLovingHero: Even after all the times Daffy turned on him, Speedy still eagerly set up a surprise party for him in "Fiesta Fiasco". Being the staple NoRespectGuy of the ''Looney Tunes'' universe, [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Daffy is sincerely touched]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: "Rodent To Stardom", a pseudo remake of "WesternAnimation/AStarIsBored" where Speedy replaces Bugs as the rival of jealous Daffy.

* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: At one point in "Road To Anadaly", Sylvester sics Malcolm Falcon on Speedy, but the falcon, clinging to Sylvester's gloved hand, carries the cat aloft as he flies into the air. Sylvester yells for Malcolm to let go. Malcolm obliges, removing his talons from Sylvester's gloves, only for the cat to discover that [[GravityIsAHarshMistress he is several feet in the air]]. As he falls, Sylvester yells for Malcolm to grab him again.

* {{Bandito}}: Pancho Vanilla (a thinly disguised WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam) in "Pancho's Hideaway".

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The plot of “A Message to Gracias” has Speedy tasked by a general mouse named El Supremo to deliver a message to General Gracias. Naturally, Speedy outruns and outwits Sylvester, but when he delivers the message, not only does he learn that it’s a birthday card, El Supremo had taken a shortcut to surprise Gracias with a birthday cake! Speedy is so miffed that he actually frees Sylvester from a tree that he’d tied the cat up to earlier and sics Sylvester on the general mice! It’s surprising considering how helpful Speedy usually is to his fellow mice, though it might have something to do with the fact that ten other mice died trying to deliver that birthday card, and Speedy might have been expressing his displeasure of El Supremo's WeHaveReserves attitude towards his men.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: In "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" one of the mice carries a "Loco El Gato" sign. This is a wrong translation of "Crazy Cat", reading "Crazy The Cat" ([[ComicStrip/KrazyKat O rly?]]). It should have said "El gato loco", or, even better "¡El gato está loco!" ("the cat is crazy!") or "¡Qué gato tan loco!" ("what a crazy cat!").
* BumblingSidekick: Oddly enough plays this role for Daffy in ''Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island''.
* {{Catchphrase}}s: "¡Ándale, ándale!" (Come on, come on!) and "¡Arriba, arriba!" ("Get up, get up!") usually shouted vigorously as he ran about. Also "Yeehaw !" when he gives a JumpScare in the back of his adversaries.
* CatsAreMean: Sure, El Supremo's anger towards Daffy in "Daffy's Diner" for serving him a piece of fake food is understandable. However, his actions afterward easily fall under DisproportionateRetribution; he threatens to ''murder'' him if he didn't catch one mouse for a mouseburger. Moreover, his CardCarryingVillain-esque speech heavily implies Daffy is ''not'' his only victim.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In one cartoon, Daffy calls a Roman Centurion a "Fathead", but regrets it when the guy, who takes offense to it, comes to confront them. Daffy tries to save face by saying the insult was directed at Speedy, but Speedy gets them in even ''more'' trouble by being a little too honest about it...
* {{Crossover}}: "The Wild Chase" has Speedy competing in a race against the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Road Runner]] with Sylvester and Wile E. trying to catch their respective foes.

* GracefulLoser: While he didn't lose a whole lot, he tended to take it rather peacefully (in great contrast to Bugs who often [[SoreLoser couldn't take what he dished out]]). In "Moby Duck" and "Assault and Peppered", he is actually willing to back down to Daffy out of sheer pity (though LaserGuidedKarma makes sure it is a moral victory for Speedy).

* GuileHero: When his SuperSpeed fails, Speedy can often outsmart his foes as easily. Especially apparent in the De Patie Freleng era.
* HatDamage: In "Speedy Gonzales", Speedy is working as a living target in a shooting gallery when he gets a bullet through his hat.

* JerkassBall: He’s usually heroic, but ''Go Away Stowaway'' is a major exception. All Daffy wants in this cartoon is for Speedy to stop singing “La Cucaracha” while playing his guitar, but Speedy tricks him into trying to take a vacation and then stows away inside Daffy’s suitcase for no good reason! ''The Music Mice-Tro'' is a downplayed version, since Speedy and his band harass Daffy (a film star here) in hopes that he will get them into motion pictures but Daffy’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown and just wants peace and quiet.

** Some of the Depatie-Freleng era Daffy/Speedy cartoons would have incidental characters that conned Daffy into chasing Speedy but got away with it at the end. Examples include Mayor Katt in ''Feather Finger'' and El Supremo in ''[[WesternAnimation/DaffysDiner Daffy's Diner]]''. The Loco Crow in ''Chili Corn Corny'' got away with screwing over both Daffy ''and'' Speedy. One should note in "Daffy's Diner" that Daffy was trying to cheat El Supremo by advertising a mouse burger but placing a foam rubber mouse in the burger. El Supremo ''loathed'' being cheated, and threatened Daffy as a result! Had Daffy not tried to cheat El Supremo, the whole thing might have been avoided.
** While usually benevolent, ''Speedy'' is this in "Gonzales Tomales", oddly portrayed as a homewrecker stealing the rest of the town's girlfriends. The vengeful mice sic Sylvester onto him by pretending Speedy challenged him for a fight. Since neither discover the other mice's plot, and Speedy [[CurbstompBattle blatantly outmatches Sylvester]], only the cat gets punished.

%%* NiceGuy: Especially during the De Patie Freleng era shorts.

* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: The De Patie Freleng shorts made Speedy slightly more fallible, even losing a couple of times. In "Muchos Locos" and (to some extent) "Chilli Con Corny" Daffy gets the last laugh.

* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: Along with Tweety Bird, Speedy serves as the Road Runner to Sylvester's Coyote, which should come as no surprise, since his franchise also features [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner the trope namers themselves]]. In "WesternAnimation/TheWildChase", [[VillainTeamUp Sylvester and Wile E. Coyote team up]] to catch both Speedy and the Road Runner during a race they have.

* StockAnimalDiet: The most common Speedy plot was the starving mice of Mexico asking him for help to get food that is guarded by Sylvester or Daffy. Usually the food in question is cheese (though "The Chocolate Chase" had him going for Easter candies instead).

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Daffy. In some of their latest cartoons (like "Fiesta Fiasco" and "Skyscraper Caper") they appear to be somewhat friends.
* WeHaveReserves: In "A Message To Gracias", El Supremo doesn't care that he got ten of his men killed trying to deliver a dispatch to General Gracias before his surviving couriers convinced him to send Speedy to do it instead. And after Speedy got past the blockade and delivered the dispatch, it turned out to be of utterly trivial importance - a birthday card!
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: In the original shorts, Speedy's general solution against all the villains that opposed him was...[[SuperSpeed running fast]]. [[TheAllSolvingHammer And it worked]]. On more than one occasion Sylvester successfully ate Speedy, but it did nothing to slow him down since Speedy could run with enough force to just ''burst through the other end''. The De Patie Freleng era shorts toyed more with antagonists being able to overpower Speedy, forcing him to utilise KarmicTrickster tactics against them.
* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: In the cartoon “Quacker Tracker”, the head of the Tooth and Nail Hunters Society announced that whoever captured Speedy would receive a lifetime membership. One heavily-bandaged guy, presumably one of the many who tried and failed to bag Speedy, said that [[TemptingFate only a “stupid, idiotic, foolhardy ignoramus” would go after Speedy.]] Naturally, Daffy volunteered and failed spectacularly.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The plot of “A Message to Gracias” has Speedy tasked by a general mouse named El Supremo to deliver a message to General Gracias. Naturally, Speedy outruns and outwits Sylvester, but when he delivers the message, not only does he learn that it’s a birthday card, El Supremo had taken a shortcut to surprise Gracias with a birthday cake! Speedy is so miffed that he actually frees Sylvester from a tree that he’d tied the cat up to earlier and sics Sylvester on the general mice! It’s surprising considering how helpful Speedy usually is to his fellow mice,
though it might have to do with the fact that ten other mice died trying to deliver that birthday card, and Speedy might have been expressing his displeasure of El Supremo's WeHaveReserves attitude towards his men.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The plot of “A Message to Gracias” has Speedy tasked by a general mouse named El Supremo to deliver a message to General Gracias. Naturally, Speedy outruns and outwits Sylvester, but when he delivers the message, not only does he learn that it’s a birthday card, El Supremo had taken a shortcut to surprise Gracias with a birthday cake! Speedy is so miffed that he actually frees Sylvester from a tree that he’d tied the cat up to earlier and sics Sylvester on the general mice! It’s surprising considering how helpful Speedy usually is to his fellow mice.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: In "The Pied Piper Guadalupe" one of the mice carries a "Loco El Gato" sign. This is a wrong translation of "Crazy Cat", reading "Crazy The Cat" ([[ComicStrip/KrazyKat O rly?]]). It should have said "El gato loco", or, even better "¡El gato está loco!" ("the cat is crazy!") or "¡Qué gato tan loco!" ("what a crazy cat!").

* The Astroduck (LT)

* Cats and Bruises (MM)--Co-starring Sylvester.

* Moby Duck (LT)--Co-starring Daffy.

* Assault and Peppered (MM)--Co-starring Daffy.

** Some of the Depatie-Freleng era Daffy/Speedy cartoons would have incidental characters that conned Daffy into chasing Speedy but got away with it at the end. Examples include Mayor Katt in ''Feather Finger'' and El Supremo in ''[[WesternAnimation/DaffysDiner Daffy's Diner]]''. The Loco Crow in ''Chili Corn Corny'' got away with screwing over both Daffy ''and'' Speedy. One should note in "Daffy's Diner" that Daffy was trying to cheat El Supremo by advertising a mouse burger but placing a foam rubber mouse in the burger. El Supremo ''hated'' being cheated, and threatened Daffy as a result! Had Daffy not tried to cheat El Supremo, the whole thing might have been avoided.
** While usually benevolent, ''Speedy'' is this in "Gonzales Tomales", depicted as a home wrecker stealing the rest of the town's girlfriends. The vengeful mice sic Sylvester onto him by pretending Speedy challenged him for a fight. Since neither discover the other mice's plot, and Speedy [[CurbstompBattle blatantly outmatches Sylvester]], only the cat gets punished.

* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: In the cartoon “Quacker Tracker”, the head of the Tooth and Nail Hunters Society announced that whoever captured Speedy would receive a lifetime membership. One heavily-bandaged guy, presumably one of the many who tried and failed to bag Speedy, said that [[TemptingFate only a “stupid, idiotic, foolhardy ignoramus” would go after Speedy.]] Naturally, Daffy volunteered and failed.

* CatsAreMean: El Supremo in "Daffy’s Diner" is a justified example of the trope, being mean only because he was conned by Daffy.

* SignatureHeadgear: Other than his first appearance (which was sort of a prototype of the character) he always wears a sombrero as fitting his role as a Mexican stereotype.

* NiceHat: Other than his first appearance (which was sort of a prototype of the character) he always wears a sombrero.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Made even funnier by the fact that ''real'' Mexicans loved it (the cartoons had a Mexican making his Gringo foes look like idiots, after all.)

''Speedy Gonzales'' is a recurring character of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' franchises, starring in 46 short cartoons. He is a Mexican mouse endowed with SuperSpeed. He was the third-to-last of the "classic" Looney Tunes characters to be created[[note]]behind the Tasmanian Devil and Witch Hazel[[/note]], not making his debut until 1953's “Cat-Tails for Two” by Creator/RobertMcKimson, where he looked much different from the more familiar Speedy by Creator/FrizFreleng and Hawley Pratt two years later. Initially being the nemesis of two cats based on [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen George and Lennie]], he eventually got into escapades with [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] followed by less popular conflicts with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. He shares with Daffy the distinction of starring in the last Golden Age theatrical Looney Tunes short to feature any of the classic characters, which was 1968's ''See You Later, Gladiator''.

* OutOfFocus: In modern adaptations, he gets this more than all the other major ''Looney Tunes'' characters. If not outright AdaptedOut (see above), he's DemotedToExtra, like in ''Film/SpaceJam'' and ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' where he only makes cameo appearances (and he has no lines in the former). This is averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' where he's a recurring character but played straight again in ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction''. Guess who is the only character who is not [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=higSMrBYzpE in the opening?]] As of right now, the only episode of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' that Speedy appears in is the "Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny!" short.

''Speedy Gonzales'' is a recurring character of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' franchises, starring in 46 short cartoons. He is a Mexican mouse endowed with SuperSpeed. He was the third-to-last of the "classic" Looney Tunes characters to be created[[note]]behind the Tasmanian Devil and Witch Hazel[[/note]], not making his debut until 1953's “Cat-Tails for Two” by Creator/RobertMcKimson, where he looked much different from the more familiar Speedy by Creator/FrizFreleng and Hawley Pratt two years later. Initially being the nemesis of two cats based on [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen George and Lennie]], he eventually got into escapades with [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] followed by less popular conflicts with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. He shares with Daffy the distinction of starring in the last theatrical Looney Tunes short to feature any of the classic characters, which was 1968's ''See You Later, Gladiator''.

While his shorts are fairly popular, the series has come under fire for accusations of ethnic stereotyping--not Speedy himself, mind you, but rather his many acquaintances, who are portrayed as lazy, pejorative stereotypes of Mexican culture. As such, the shorts were not aired on American TV from 1985-2002, including the duration of ''The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show'''s run on ABC. Fortunately, thanks to Speedy's [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales large Mexican fanbase]] (who perceive him as a good role model) petitions persuaded Creator/WarnerBros to put the cartoons back on the air.

* NiceGuy: Especially during the De Patie Freleng era shorts.

%%* NiceGuy: Especially during the De Patie Freleng era shorts.

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* JerkassBall: He’s usually heroic, but ''Go Away Stowaway'' is a major exception. All Daffy wants in this cartoon is for Speedy to stop singing “La Cucaracha” while playing his guitar, but Speedy tricks him into trying to take a vacation and then stows away inside Daffy’s suitcase for no good reason! ''The Music Mice-Tro'' is a downplayed version, since Speedy and his band harass Daffy (a film star here)in hopes that he will get them into motion pictures but Daffy’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown and just wants peace and quiet.