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Judge Doom

^{Click here to see his Toon eyes}

Portrayed by: Christopher Lloyd

Voiced by: Pierre Hatet (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... Just! Like! THIS!!!"

The 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 Lost in Character. 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.

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• Adaptational Sympathy: 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.
• Ambiguously Human: Even though he's technically a toon himself, we never see what's behind the rubber mask aside from his deranged red iris eyes and golden hands capable of turning into various weapons. The graphic novel does reveal a glimpse◊ of his true toon form, which looks like a cartoonishly exaggerated version of his disguised self with his true red eyes.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • 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.
    • On closer inspection, Pistol Packin' Possum has 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 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.
• Ambition Is Evil: His ambition is to wipe Toontown, a town of his own race, off the face of the Earth for 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.
• Animal Motif: In the DVD commentary Zemeckis said he was supposed to resemble a vulture. He kinda looks like one.
• Any Last Words?: 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.
• Arch-Enemy: 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.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: He's a judge who's not afraid to go toe-to-toe with anyone who goes against him.
• Ax-Crazy: While disguised as a human, a (for the most part) calm, cool, and collected version. But after his One-Winged Angel reveal, he promptly goes bat-shit insane, with eyes to match.
• Badass Boast: He tells Eddie about how he killed Teddy once he goes One-Winged Angel. It's both frightening and amazing as the same time.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Wearing all black (fedora and trench coat), and don't forget the cane which has a sword hidden inside it.
• Badass Longcoat: A long black trenchcoat.
• Bad Boss: He generally slaps the Weasels around and doesn't show care for them whey they died.
• Bald of Evil: Definitely has the look of one - but he has a small tuft of wild blonde hair hidden under his hat.
• Beware the Silly Ones: 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 becomes far more dangerous, deadly, and terrifying, as the entire movie had been him holding back.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of the film. Not that the 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.
• Bigotry Exception: He despises all toons, except for the Toon Patrol. That might be because they're as Ax-Crazy as he is.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed severely. He is Obviously Evil 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.
• Black Comedy: 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 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.
• Bling-Bling-BANG!: 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.")
• Bond Villain Stupidity: 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. 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 Achilles' Heel 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.
• Boomerang Bigot: 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.
• Bright Is Not Good:
  • In his true toon nature, he has bright golden shapeshifting limbs and glaring red iris eyes.
  • Additionally, before the reveal, his glasses glow completely white during his Evil Gloating to Eddie and when he pushed the magnetic electricity back at Eddie.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Scarily subverted. He remembers well having killed Eddie's brother and given his Evil Gloating to Eddie he must have enjoyed doing it.
• The Caligula: The ruler of all law in Toontown and also Hated by All of the people under his jurisdiction because of how utterly ruthless (and illegitimate) he is.
• Canon Foreigner: He was not present in the original book, as in there Roger really was the murderer.
• The Chessmaster: 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.
• Classic Villain: Ambition, greed, sadism and lack of scruples are his main personality traits.
• Classy Cane: Judge Doom has one of these which doubles as a Sword Cane.
• Cold Ham: Though Christopher Lloyd is in prime Large Ham mode, Doom still acts fairly restrained and reserved.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: His entirely gloomy black wardrobe is not the best way to hide his evil nature.
• Combat Pragmatist: 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.
• Community-Threatening Construction: 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.
• Composite Character: Doom himself is based on three characters from 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 Ax-Crazy toon who killed three major characters, who is melted away by being exposed to a liquid).
• Connected All Along: 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.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat: He wears a black trench coat over his uniform.
• Contrived Coincidence: The man attempting to wipe out Toontown and the toon who killed Eddie's brother just so happen to be one in the same.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: 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.
• Crazy-Prepared: 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.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: His voice turns squeaky when he is revealed to be a psychopathic toon in disguise. Due to his nightmare-inducing transformation and 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.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: 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 the truth that he is indeed a Toon.
  • His Establishing Character Moment 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.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: 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.
• Dark Is Evil: Wears all black and is not a nice guy.
• Dastardly Whiplash: 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 overtly assured of his success and 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: 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.
• Deal with the Devil: 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.
• Death by Irony: 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.
• Devil in Plain Sight: 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.
• Diabolical Mastermind: 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.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: 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.
• Dirty Cop: 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.
• Dirty Coward: 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, in spite of gleefully inflicting it on others.
• Dissonant Serenity: 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.
• Doomy Dooms of Doom: His name has Doom in it, which outside of his occupation has no surname, which makes the revelation of being him a toon that usually only have one name outside of an additional title such as species or occupation more apparent.
  • It also doubles as a Meaningful Name is various ways as seen below.
• Dramatic Wind: His coat is near-permanently billowing, even indoors.
• Dramatic Unmask: 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 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 Face-Revealing Turn 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.
• The Dreaded: He's genuinely despised and feared by toons and humans alike.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: 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.
• Enhanced Punch: He gives Eddie a devastating punch by turning his fist into an anvil.
• Establishing Character Moment: 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 Evil Plan.
• Establishing Character Music: He's introduced with an ominous bell tone and menacing bassoons, cellos and basses.
• Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: He has a set of perfectly white teeth, hinting at his true identity.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • 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 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 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 toons vehemently. However, Eddie's grudge comes from a Freudian Excuse 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 became more toon-loving again. Doom, on the other hand, has 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 Freudian Excuse in the first place-making him no better, if not worse than the ones he regularly calls insane and lawless, and only became a Hanging Judge for money and sadism to enact his desire to hurt others. They also have Pretend Prejudice, 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 For the Evulz.
  • 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 Innocent Blue Eyes. Doom 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 his facade as a rational judge trying to bring sanity to Toontown and actually has hellish red eyes that showcase his insanity.
• Evil Genius: 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.
• Evil Gloating: 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.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: 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.
• Evil Is Bigger: 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.
• Evil Is Hammy: He has a boisterous personality and is villainous to boot.
• Evil Is Petty: 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 Establishing Character Moment even shows him casually dipping a Toon shoe just for nuzzling his boot. When he asks Roger if he has Any Last Words?, Doom doesn't even let him say them and just callously chokes his throat shut.
• Evil Plan: 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 For the Evulz.
• Evil Redhead: In the comics he has a tuft of red hair.
• Evil Sounds Deep: 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 Christopher Lloyd until he reveals his true nature – at which point, his voice drastically rises in pitch.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Courtesy of Christopher Lloyd until he reveals himself as a toon.
• Evil Wears Black: He's dressed in gloomy black clothes. An appropriate outfit for the deranged and unscrupulous criminal he is.
• Expy: Christopher Lloyd 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 Spy vs. Spy.
• Eye Pop: 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 Oh, Crap! moment.
• Eye Take: When he reveals himself as being the toon who killed Teddy, his eyes explode into daggers with his irises as the tips.
• Face–Heel Turn: After suffering an on-set accident, Doom turned to villainy for real.
• Face-Revealing Turn: To reveal his red toon eyes and tuft of hair.
• Fantastic Racism: 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 sadism and bigotry. All the more disturbing as he's actually a toon himself.
• Fashion Dissonance: 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 Dastardly Whiplash-esque character even before his reveal as a toon.
• Faux Affably Evil: 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.
• Fedora of Asskicking: 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.
• Fight Like a Normal: 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 cartoonish powers to trounce Eddie.
• Final Boss: He's the last antagonist Eddie has to fight in the film.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: When he's been crushed by the steamroller even before The Reveal, 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.
• Flowery Insults: 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 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 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.
• For the Evulz: 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 bigotry.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: For the most part, it seems behind his shiny glasses, he is a horrible racist human being. At least, initially before his his real red iris eyes are exposed, revealing that he's not a human being in any sense of the word.

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• Game Face: His infamous maniacal toon face pictured above.
• Genius Bruiser: He's tall, imposing and a criminal genius who appears to be quite expert in chemistry and mechanics. At the climax we see that he's quite a good fighter too as he gives Eddie quite a hard time.
• Genocide from the Inside: He's a toon who wants to wipe Toontown off the map, killing all of its inhabitants.
• Giggling Villain: 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.
• Hand Cannon: Doom carries a Colt Buntline Special with a 12-inch barrel, which he uses to murder R.K. Maroon.
• Hanging Judge: A downright frightening one who executes toons for any reason he sees fit.
• Hated by All: 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.
• The Heavy: His plan to destroy Toontown as well as the murders he commits are the center of the plot.
• Helium Speech: After re-inflating himself with a helium tank, his voice 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.
• Hell Is That Noise: His high shrill of a voice as a toon is very scary.
• Hellish Pupils: His devilish red eyes. Very glaring and uncanny who scream "pure evil madness".
• Hero Killer:
  • 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.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: We never see what he really looks like under his rubber mask.
• Hijacked by Ganon: 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.
• Hitler Cam: Most notably during his New Era Speech about the freeway.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Created "Dip", a concoction of turpentine that could actually kill toons at the slightest touch. At the climax, he gets sprayed with it and melted into nothing.
• Humanoid Abomination: 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.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: 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.
• Human Disguise: Doom is revealed to be a toon that's hiding his unseen true form in a human costume. The Reveal 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 Knight Templar who despises all humor, but is really a Serial Killer using the law to kill his fellow toons for the fun of it, a former bank robber motivated by Greed and sadism. And having a sadistic sense of humor with a penchant of Black Comedy 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.
• In a Single Bound: In the climax, he transforms the undersides of his feet into springs in order to catch up with a fleeing Eddie.
• I'm Melting!: Said word-for-word when he gets hit by his own Dip.
• Inhuman Eye Concealers: 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.
• It's All About Me: 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.
• It's Personal: 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.
• Karmic Death: He's killed by the same Dip he created and planned to use to kill off his entire race.
• Kick the Dog:
  • In his Establishing Character Moment, he mocks Eddie Valiant for being The Alcoholic because he can "smell the booze on him" solely For the Evulz. That is, despite the fact that 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.
• Knight of Cerebus: 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.
• Knight Templar: 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 For the Evulz and hasn't the slightest clue what "justice" is.
• Lack of Empathy: In his establishing scene, he boils alive a toon shoe just for cuddling by his feet! He mistreats his weasel subordinates when they laugh — 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 Evil Gloating to Eddie about killing his brother with no remorse.
• Large and in Charge: 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.
• Large Ham: 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.
• Laser-Guided Karma: 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.
• Latex Perfection: 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.
• Lean and Mean: Quite skinny and very evil.
• Leitmotif: A dramatic little piece composed by Alan Silvestri, complete with a For Doom the Bell Tolls for his disguised self for most of the film.
  • His true leitmotif, once his true plan and his toon self is exposed, invoke a carnivalesque piece that sounds eerie and subtly off- invoke the unnatural aspect of his true form
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: 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.
• Light Is Not Good: In his true form, he has bright red eyes and golden shapeshifting limbs that become lethal weapons usually hidden under his Dark Is Evil attire.
• Looks Like Cesare: 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.
• Looks Like Orlok: He's very pale and cadaverous looking. His entirely black attire completes his ghoulish appearance.
• Mad Scientist: 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.
• Manipulative Bastard: While he is also an incredible manipulator of events, he's also capable of manipulating people in the process, such as when he's (needlessly) feigning innocence to others despite being the one truly guilty for every single crime in the story.
• Mask of Sanity: 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 constantly transforming eyes that alter within seconds, visually demonstrating the madness repressed by the mask until that moment.
• Meaningful Appearance: His overall look with a stark black and white contrast make him look like a kind-of Film Noir Grim Reaper. 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 For Doom the Bell Tolls 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 Big Bad is no doubt given a toon's disregard of subtlety.
• Meaningful Name: Doom's name means several things at once. The fact he subjects toons to an inescapable, graphically cruel implied eraser of existence which makes everyone toon and human alike to fear him. 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. 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 Hanging Judge befitting of a toon.
  • It also has a subtle biblical meaning as he plans to cause the apocalyptic extinction of the toon race for his new world of the freeway.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Anyone who poses a threat to his schemes is viciously killed.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: 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.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Being called Judge Doom 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.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: 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 Real Life Nazi judge, 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".
• Never My Fault: Responsibility is not in Doom's M.O. considering he blames everything on his victims and also thinks that every toon except himself is crazy — despite being the most disturbingly crazy out of all of them, because he's a toon too.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: 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, his decisions to kill his enemies in needlessly cruel and over the top methods instead of more sensible solutions, gets him exposed as a toon and killed shortly after for his measure.
• Nightmare Face: He shows a very blood-chilling one to Eddie after re-inflating himself with his red iris exaggerated large eyes that are hyper-realistic to contrast his live-action human like mask, giving a surreal sense of horror, with something even worse being implied to be underneath it.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Christopher Lloyd claimed that his character reminded him a little Boris Karloff.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: He bears a resemblance to Roland Freisler, a notoriously corrupt Nazi lawyer and judge during World War II.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: 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 approach him slowly which gave Eddie the chance to use the Dip against him.
• No Indoor Voice: As described by Eddie Valiant, the voice of Toon Doom is high and squeaky. It can even go into a loud and shrill scream!
• No Name Given: 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.
• Nonstandard Character Design: In order to preserve the Uncanny Valley 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 The Golden Age of Comic Books or a Hanna-Barbera action-adventure cartoon while all other toons take after The Golden Age of Animation.
  • Even within the film itself, once his true form is revealed, his facial features, hair tuft, and toon eyes are consistently warping in an off 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.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: 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.
• Not Even Human: 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.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Played With. While Judge Doom's ruthlessness in killing any toon on a whim makes him The Dreaded 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- 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. 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 Toon Physics to deadly degrees and Eddie finally treating him with fear, albeit due to the emotional trauma of their shared past.
• Not So Stoic: He's shown losing his cool when Roger arrives to the rescue, especially when Roger confronts and 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 The Reveal, Doom abandons his stoicism and becomes completely Ax-Crazy with deranged morphing eyes and a Slasher Smile.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: 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 bigotry and 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 desire for wealth, extreme views on law, and bigotry against toons, his actual motivation is being able to kill people for the sake of killing others and being able to get away with it with everything else just window-dressing.
• Nothing Is Scarier: All that is shown through Doom's Latex Perfection is his crazed eyes and shapeshifting left hand, which adds more to the fear that this character exudes.

O-T

• Obviously Evil: From a visual standpoint alone, Doom wears almost completely black clothing and a pair of glasses that sometimes completely obscure his eyes, 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 actual eyes have bright red irises.
• Oh, Crap!: Probably the only legit funny moment he has after The Reveal is his reaction to seeing that he's about to get dipped.
• One-Winged Angel: Of the "behold my true form" version. Once he's flattened by the steamroller, he reveals himself as a toon, complete with horrifying red iris eyes before he re-inflates himself and makes use of his toon body to beat the tar out of Eddie.
• Outdated Outfit: 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.
• Outside-Context Problem: 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 Toon Physics 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 Toon Physics for combat, turning his body into notably weapons all the more shocking in what had been a grounded detective story with toons.
• Perpetually Protean: 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.
• Pet the Dog: 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.
• Pretend Prejudice: Horrifically implied once he's revealed to be a toon. He discards his Fantastic Racism schtick and gloats about being a certain toon, hinting all of the murders on his fellow toons were sadism.
• Piano Drop: He killed Teddy by having a piano dropped on his head.
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: Eddie is irritable, initially racist due to trauma until he improved emotionally, and a bitter alcoholic. Judge Doom is a 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.
• Practically Joker: As a toon expecially he's a psychopatic and sadistic criminal mastermind, a regular mass murderer, he's elegantly dressed and very fond of smiling evilly once his true nature is exposed. Coincidentally Pierre Hatet who voices him in the French version also voiced Joker in Batman - TAS.
• Psycho Knife Nut: While he's not against using a gun if it was necessary, the climax suggests that he prefers using melee weapon like his Sword Cane or his hand-turned-buzzsaw.
• Psychopathic Manchild: 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 Played for Horror in his case. He also shows immature sadism in beating Eddie before attempting to kill him.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When Doom re-inflates himself with helium and exposes his red eyes, he taunts Eddie with The Reveal.
  Doom: Remember me, Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked! JUST! LIKE! THIS!
• Psychotic Smirk: 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.
• The Quiet One: After he reveals his true identity to Eddie he doesn't say anything else until his demise.
• Railroad Plot: Mixed with Villainous Gentrification, is Doom's ultimate goal, wiping out Toontown 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 the revelation that Doom himself is a toon passing himself as human. planning gentrification with the intent of genocide on his own race.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Red eyes (and hair in the comics) and an all-black outfit.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: 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.
• The Reveal: 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 For the Evulz than for greed. This is ironically proved to be his downfall. 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 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, 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.
• Satanic Archetype: 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 Fallen Angel attempting the apocalypse on a smaller scale with his Toon Patrol acting as his Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His deals with R.K. Maroon and Cloverleaf are presented as a Deal with the Devil 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 Light Is Not Good and Bright Is Not Good motifs of the devil- with golden limbs and bright red eyes.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: A very rare live-action version, occurs multiple times in the last third of the movie.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: It's made a point that Doom bought the judicial election. It's implied he used the money he stole from the bank.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: It's never specified what makes a toon deserving of the Dip; as seen with the innocent shoe foreshadowing, he merely kills for the thrills.
• Shout-Out: Realizing that he's dying, he decides to go out Wicked Witch style, dying words and all.
• Sinister Schnoz: His nose is quite recurved.
• Skeleton Motif: His cane has a skull-shaped headpiece with a snake coiling down from its chin. He himself looks very skeletal.
• Slasher Smile: 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.
• Small Role, Big Impact: An interesting case. Doom is a constant presence, but Toon Doom is onscreen for less than three minutes. And is completely unforgettable.
• The Sociopath: 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.
• The Spook: After being revealed to be a toon, no one is sure what he really looked like.
• Squashed Flat: He gets flattened by his own steamroller and survives just fine, which is what reveals him to be a toon.
• The Stoic: Aside from an occasional Psychotic Smirk and Slasher Smile, Doom himself carries himself with a no-nonsense, cold and emotionless demeanor. All of which, make Doom's turn to becoming gleefully Ax-Crazy all the more horrific.
• Stronger Than You Look: He doesn't look particularly muscular due to his 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.
• Stupid Evil:
  • He kills Maroon to tie up loose ends while Eddie is 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.
• Sunglasses at Night : He wears his dark glasses even at night time. The first sign he's hiding something.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Whenever the Toon Patrol get into a laughing fit.
• Sword Cane: He uses a sword hidden in a cane as a weapon.
• Tempting Fate: He prematurely declares his win to Eddie when preparing to kill Roger and Jessica (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 Five-Second Foreshadowing that he is a toon and not a human.
• Terms of Endangerment:
  • 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 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.
• These Gloves Are Made for Killin': 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.
• They Look Like Us Now: 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.
• Token Evil Teammate: While the Toon Patrol are also psychotic and sociopathic as he is; 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.
• Too Clever by Half: 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.
• Too Gruesome for Cartoon Physics: 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 he can also be on the receiving end since he became who he was because of an accident while filming a Wartime Cartoon 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 Toon Physics to make his body itself into a very versatile lethal weapon.
• Would Hit a Girl: The first toons he plans to kill are Roger and Jessica.

U-Z

• The Unblinking: Judge Doom's eyes, usually obscured by his dark glasses that shine pure white at times, usually distract from the fact that they never blink, creating a perpetual, dull, and unnatural stare. 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.
• Uncanny Valley: 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 Intended Audience Reaction 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.
• Undignified Death: 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.
• The Unfettered: 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.
• The Unreveal: 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.
  Mickey Mouse: Gosh! I wonder what he really was.
  Bugs Bunny: I tell ya one t'ing, Doc. He weren't no rabbit.
  Daffy Duck: Or a duck.
  Goofy: Or a dog.
  Pinocchio: Or a little wooden boy.
  The Big Bad Wolf: Or a sheep.
  Woody Woodpecker: Or a woodpecker.
  Sylvester: Or a pussy.
  Woody Woodpecker: Ha ha ha ha HA!
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: 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 sadism and getting money on top of being a a truly nightmarish take of what a toon can be and being a Serial Killer with at least three known human victims and countless Toon victims.
• Villainous Breakdown: At the climax of the film, he reveals his toon nature and goes from composed to Ax-Crazy to screaming for his life when he's melting.
• Villainous Gentrification: 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 bigotry and sadism. A plan made all the more appalling that Judge Doom himself is a toon himself in disguise willing to do it to his own kind for petty reasons.
• Villains Want Mercy: 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.
• Visionary Villain: 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!
• Visual Pun: During The Reveal where he tells Eddie that he killed his brother, his eyes pop out of his head and make knife shapes. He's staring daggers at him.
• Vocal Dissonance: He just inhaled helium to get back into shape after being Squashed Flat, but if anything it makes his shrill screeching as he approaches Eddie all the more freaky during The Reveal, 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.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: A horrific variant. Since he's a toon who stays in full mask and costume throughout the movie, what little we see of his toon body — his red eyes and 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.
• Walking Spoiler: 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 Wham Line about who he is and what he did.
• Willfully Weak: 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 Toon Physics.
• White Gloves: 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.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He's a horrible, murderous and genocidal madman with a small tuft of white hair.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: 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 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.
• Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Taunts Eddie about the fact that he's the one who killed his brother.
• You Are What You Hate: Wants to kill toons because he thinks they're insane, but he's crazier than all of them.

Baron von Rotten

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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• Been There, Shaped History: One of his more famous roles was as the hunter from Bambi.
• Continuity Snarl: 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.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: 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.
• Lost in Character: 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.
• Man of a Thousand Faces: 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 witches and Japanese hunchbacks.
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: 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.
• Red Right Hand: 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 being able to change into anything.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: 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.
• Tragic Villain: Doom wasn't always the murderous sociopath he is in the movie; according to his backstory, he used to be a regular toon who enjoyed playing villains in movies but was otherwise just as friendly as any other toon until an accident caused him to lose his mind and believe himself to be an actual villain, twisting him into a monster.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: 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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