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| “ | What's up doc? | „ |
| ~ Bugs Bunny's catchphrase. |
| “ | And remember! Mud spelled backwards, is dum! | „ |
| ~ Bugs Bunny after outsmarting Wile E. Coyote to defeat for the first time in "Operation: Rabbit". |
| “ | Well, like the man says: Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive. *chuckles* | „ |
| ~ Bugs Bunny sharing a wise lesson right after defeating Wile E. Coyote yet again in "Rabbit's Feat". |
Bugs Bunny is the main protagonist of the Looney Tunes classic shorts, and is the mascot of Warner Bros.
What Makes Him A Guile Hero?[]
- He is sly, quick-witted, street-smart, levelheaded, smooth-talking, suave, agile, calculating, witty, intelligent, imaginative and a true master of manipulating his enemies into dismay by working with his element of surprises and is capable in using his astute gifts such as his quick-thinking, creativity, cleverness, sneakiness, craftiness and resourcefulness to his advantage, which has Bugs being able to think on his feet, think ahead, analyze his enemies and quickly come up with plans and ruses that generally helps him besting a large majority of enemies he encounters and catch them off-guard, thus showing incredibly resourceful he really is.
- In Rabbit Fire, when Elmer was looking for rabbits, Daffy Duck used rabbit tracks and distracted Bugs so that Elmer can shoot Bugs, however Bugs stopped Elmer from shooting him and said it's Duck Season, Daffy appeared and said it's Rabbit Season so Bugs repeatedly says Duck Season until for a while, he says Rabbit Season which to the point that Daffy Duck said "I say it's Duck Season and I say fire" and Elmer starts shooting Daffy meaning Bugs has tricked him. When they start again, it's the same thing, however Bugs say Duck Season after saying Rabbit Season two times and Daffy Duck ended up getting shot after that, when Daffy Duck wanted him to start this time, Bugs Bunny said Rabbit while Daffy Duck said "DUCK, FIRE!" When Bugs noticed that Elmer ran out of bullets, they realized it was just one bullet left when Daffy tested the gun on him. Bugs put a sign saying "Duck Season Open" so when Daffy disguised himself as a rabbit, Bugs disguised as a duck and put the sign "Rabbit Season Open" as he tricked Daffy from disguising in that rabbit suit and convinced Elmer to shoot Daffy and not Bugs. Even when Bugs started reading a book of duck food so that he can convince Elmer to eat a duck, however Elmer admits that he only hunts for sports.
- He also tricked Elmer by saying "It's an elephant gun" as the gun only hunts elephants (which made a elephant come out of nowhere and clobber Elmer for even tempting it), he also was able to trick Elmer by disguising as a lady, although it's temporarily as his ear appeared. As when there was a sign saying "Elmer Season", Bugs and Daffy started hunting Elmer, while they did try to kill Elmer, Elmer also deserved it as Elmer tried to kill them many times.
- In Rabbit Seasoning, he was able to trick Elmer by making him look like that Bugs is not a rabbit until Daffy appeared. He also was able to trick Daffy by admittedly saying to him that he doesn't need to get shot which made Daffy say "I demand that you shoot me now!" When Daffy said to do the same thing from earlier, he realized something but then ended up getting shot. He tricked Daffy again by saying "If he was a rabbit, what would you do?" which made Daffy say "Yeah, you're so smart, if I was a rabbit, what would you do?", which causes Daffy to get shot. When Bugs wanted Daffy to check Elmer, he disguised as a lady to trick Elmer, however Daffy stopped Bugs from disguising as a lady and nearly got his chance to get Elmer to shoot Bugs, however Bugs stopped Elmer and get him to shoot Daffy in the end as he tricked both Elmer and Daffy by asking Daffy should he do this at home or not, and thus encouraging Daffy to make the unwise decision of Elmer taking Daffy home to be shot.
- In Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, he was able to trick Elmer multiple times by saying he's a Fricassee Rabbit meaning Elmer is not allowed to hunt Fricassee Rabbits unless he has a license, he also tricked Daffy as when Daffy couldn't spell Fricassee by adding the words "Daffy" while Daffy was writing a license for Elmer. When Daffy is checking the license, he admittedly said he is the goat so Bugs showed the sign saying "Goat Season", Daffy said Bugs is a dirty dog, Bugs said he is a dirty skunk and showed the sign "Dirty Skunk Season", Daffy said he is a pigeon and Bugs showed the sign "Pigeon Season", when Daffy is making a plan for Elmer, he gets Elmer to shoot Bugs, however Bugs tricked Elmer by making a snowman rabbit and dress up as an angel. When Daffy said he is a mongoose, Bugs showed the sign saying "Mongoose Season", Daffy made another plan with Elmer, however Bugs tricked Daffy by getting him to say "SHOOT THE DUCK! SHOOT THE DUCK!", which Daffy insane, and Bugs also tricked Elmer by disguising as a game warden and get him to shoot a baseball. He was able to shoot Daffy in the end by getting a lot of hunters to do the work for him by asking Daffy which season is it really, but to then have Daffy say it's "duck season" while acting like he knew better but really didn't.
- Even though Daffy was one of the many enemies of Bugs who was able to see through Bugs' well-timed wordplay tricks and silly disguises he uses to trick the dimwitted Elmer, Bugs still remains astute the whole time since Daffy, despite not being a bit keen, can also easily tricked by Bugs since Bugs uses Daffy's egotism against him multiple times and sometimes Daffy was also a dimwit as well, thus making Bugs much more of a strategic trickster who can one-up anyone than Daffy thinks, which also goes to show that Bugs is more than capable at outsmarting many characters, no matter how smart or dumb they are.
- This goes to show that he, on his own, can use his skills in trickery to stop multiple villains and enemies that antagonized him in the series besides Daffy and Yosemite Sam, such as his archenemy Elmer Fudd, Willoughby, Beaky Buzzard, Witch Hazel, The Crusher, Count Bloodcount, Gossamer, a muscular wrestler named Ravishing Ronald, and many others to list.
- Speaking of which, he has managed to continually outsmart Wile E. Coyote, one of the most intelligent characters in the whole Looney Tunes franchise, more than twice in ways that have to be seen to be believed, in episodes like:
- "Operation: Rabbit" (where his best gambits here were designing a robotic coyote doll to distract him off his robotic blowup bunny doll plan as well as making Wile E. fall in love with it so he could blow up Wile E.; which also got the bunny doll to explode in his face when Wile tried throwing it out of the window, and disguising himself as a rooster to distract the flying saucer and write "Coyote" with a red pin and turning the hour hand on the saucer to make it head to Wile E. and blow him up).
- "To Hare Is Human" (where his best gambits include making an elaborate plan to get a banana peel he deliberately designed for Wile E. in case he broke into his rabbit hole, which he had so he can get him to sip on said banana peel to land into a garbage shoot titled "Coyote Disposal" and fall out of a vent to make Wile plummet down to the ground, and also faking obliviousness as a gardener to foil his bait trap).
- "Rabbit's Feat" (where his best gambits include twisting the barrel of the rifle Wile E. Coyote was holding to shoot Bugs and even taking the tab of the rifle off of it to make Wile E. tries guess the end of the barrel and even placing it back on while escaping, which gets Wile. E to repeatedly shoot himself by mistake and jump scaring him by sneaking underneath him and shouting "YAAAHHH!!!" to make Wile jump high up into the air and then plummet into the rabbit hole that Wile tried to plant the bomb into and covering the hole with his body, not realizing Bugs Bunny can pop out of other holes also).
- "Compressed Hare" (where his best gambits include pretending to eat a metallic carrot that Wile E. dropped into his rabbit hole to make Wile think he ate the carrot, and then sending it back to magnetize lots of metallic items, property and vehicles head to Wile E. Coyote's lair and even get a rocket to blow him up as well as the lair at the end of the episode, and managing to think so fast he quickly created a pipe trail so he could get Wile E's cannonball to redirect back to him through his pipe and land on his head, much to Wile's disbelief and confusion). It's not helping that Wile admits that he saw how Bugs had talent with devising traps as counterattacks when Bugs made bombs that is shaped like a rabbit when Wile thought he caught Bugs with a vacuum before the bombs Wile E. was holding, ended up blowing him up in his lair.
- "Hare-Breadth Hurry" (where his best gambits include pretending to take the carrot bait that Wile tried to trick Bugs into getting to drop an anvil on him and surprising Wile by suddenly appearing right behind him with the bullseye rug to place the rug over his head to make the anvil immediately plummet onto Wile's head to make him fall with the edge of the cliff to make him fall into the ground; thus foiling his anvil scheme, and stepping up a tar of ACME glue to make Wile E. slide into it when he was running too fast to slow down; which got Bugs to answer a phone from a phonebooth and getting Wile to hold onto the phone; thus sending him flying into a wall of a mountain and while he was hanging with the phone line, Bugs impersonating a telephone provider from a company and saying he has to cut him with no other choice, which allowed Bugs to use scissors to literally cut the phone line Wile was hanging onto and making him plummet to the ground).
- Speaking of which, he has managed to continually outsmart Wile E. Coyote, one of the most intelligent characters in the whole Looney Tunes franchise, more than twice in ways that have to be seen to be believed, in episodes like:
- As seen in the following episodes "Ballot-Box Bunny" (1950) and "Showbiz Bugs" (1957), it's shown how Bugs Bunny seems to have deliberately play the wrong notes to the song Endearing Young Charms, and he did this to foil the plans of Yosemite disguising a piano and Daffy Duck's disguising a xylophone, both with a bomb put in the piano for playing the right notes, and knowing that this is Bugs Bunny we're talking about (someone who knows how to outplay and outfox people at every turn), it's shown that he very likely faked being amateurish to foil their plots and (literally) have their plans blow up in their faces.
- This theory has also proven to be true because as seen in the episode "False Hare" (1964), it is shown that Bugs Bunny was intendedly pretending to be stupid and clueless to inconvenience the villainous Big Bad Wolf and has been repeatedly tricking him throughout the episode into falling for his own booby traps he devised to kill Bugs, at one point tricking the wolf into wanting to demonstrate how Bugs should fall into the iron maiden device without doing silly poses, and getting the wolf to fall into his own deadly trap as the Wolf intended all while Bugs pretended to be slow-minded even when the wolf was now about to be put in the maiden, and Bugs even relished in the Wolf's defeat behind his back once he saw the wolf cub see the Big Bad Wolf get caught into his own trap and telling the kid to see "what develops" as he walks out of the scene unscathed.
- He got Yosemite Sam into falling into his own mishaps like tricking him twice to play a game of drawing straws to see who'd get the parachutes to leave a falling plane, the following episodes "Hare Lift" and "Devil's Feud Cake" has Bugs setting him up for disaster twice in the exact same way, the former episode "Hare Lift" having him getting Sam into thinking he was going to gleefully escape the scene with the stolen money (just to fall into a police car since they saw him parachuting as a wanted criminal), and the latter episode "Devil's Feud Cake" getting Sam into thinking he came prepared this time (just to come out short since his parachute had nothing but kitchen supplies, which made him plummet hard into the ground and end up in hell as a result of his arrogance and stupidity), and Bugs still had single-handedly prevented two plane crashes from happening with the exact same plane thanks to using its air brakes.
- Even when Bugs had his fair share of some slip ups and vulnerabilities when it comes to him needing to trick his not so easily deceived enemies here and there (ex. a big brutish ape sometimes getting back at him, Yosemite Sam at times not falling for his tricks, and sometimes Daffy Duck being aware of Bugs' hoaxes compared to Elmer Fudd. Especially when only two of his most undefeatable/omnipresent foes such as Cecil Turtle and The Gremlin from Falling Hare both being two of Bugs' worst enemies in Bugs' entire rogue gallery due to them being more selfish, chaotic and deceitful with their trickery than Bugs ever is), nevertheless it doesn't take away at the fact that he always bounces back at the end and comes back as a unharmed character in all of his adventures, as he is the only leading main character in the franchise who does not come across as incompetent or foolish compared to several Looney Tunes characters in vast comparison, and he still remains resourceful and successful in his adventures, no matter how unusual or unpleasant the situation can get.
- In "Bugs and Thugs", after he's been pulling many tricks and pranks on Rocky and Mugsy throughout the whole episode; Bugs at one point shows impressive acting skills and keen premeditation to defeat them by pretending to be the policeman that was after Rocky and Mugsy, and he manages to easily outwit the both of them twice by making car sounds to make them worried of the cops, then running through the door where Rocky was to get them thinking they arrived, then got them to hide in a stove and Bugs tells them to not leave twice unless he said so, he said so Bugs could play the role of himself and the policeman so he could secretly turn on the stove gas and throw a lighted match to make it explode so he could humiliate them before telling them to get out of the stove, tricking them into thinking they fled the scene. When the actual policemen arrive as Bugs anticipated and mimicked how they'd be, Bugs was about to inflict the same practical joke on them due to telling them to go back inside the same stove for the second time, which eventually drove Rocky and Mugsy crazy to the point of turning themselves in. This actually got Bugs to become a private-eye detective as a result.
- Heck, Bugs even gets them arrested again when Bugs spotted them hiding from the police in an apartment and wanted to teach them a lesson about crime never paying in the episode "Bugsy and Mugsy", he does this by manipulating and tricking them into attacking each other such as using phone calls on Rocky, then making it look like Mugsy is plotting against Rocky maliciously with Mugsy holding an axe while asleep despite Mugsy being too much of a complete idiot to do such a thing about it, taking screws off the chandelier to make Mugsy get a screwdriver at a late time (which made Rocky believe Mugsy was the one doing it). Bugs even replaces Rocky's cigar with a dynamite and tells Mugsy to give him a "lighter" while using his acting skills yet again to fool him into Mugsy lighting up a dynamite to blow up on Rocky's face (which got Mugsy getting beat up and tied up by Rocky). Bugs then uses a chainsaw to saw a circle around the chair where Rocky was and then go to the room Mugsy was tied up and make it look like he somehow used a chainsaw while tied up, fooling Rocky into that lie to the point of beating up Mugsy after saying "I don't know how yas done BUT I KNOW YAS DONE IT!!!". Even when Rocky stayed awake this time, Bugs then attached some skates to Mugsy's shoes secretly before going under the ground to use a magnet so Mugsy could unintentionally get himself up to then circle around and then repeatedly slam himself into Rocky several times after the latter told Mugsy to get off the skates and Rocky thought Mugsy wanted a fight and showdown until the policemen showed up. Lastly, the way Bugs got the police to signal their presence (without Rocky and Mugsy knowing how that happened) was revealed that Bugs secretly putted up a flashy theatre billboard that said "Rocky's Hideaway" with some wire and a few electric bulbs.
- In "No Parking Hare", he had to prevent his own house from being taken down and wrecked by an inconsiderate construction worker. Which he outsmarts and inconvenienced his enemy by making his own hole for a house impossible to take down (one of his methods being making him electrocute himself while reading a book), getting said worker to fall into a bucket of pavement, using a disguise to trick said worker into crushing himself, cause said worker to fall from trying to put bombs in pipes, and even wins by using a pavement-proof umbrella to get his own hole for a house paved and now with a mailbox and a hatch door (which is how he defeated the worker and now his house is next to a traffic freeway (which got Bugs on the paper for compromising with him).
- In "Baby Buggy Bunny", Bugs manages to discover more about Ant Hill Harry (alias Baby Face Finster); a threatening thirty-five-year-old man who did committed robbery of the Last National Bank disguised with stilts and dark clothes and disguised himself as a baby with a carriage and baby clothing and finds out about this on a news broadcast. Once he got the idea that it's not just a violent baby he's taking care of, he sees through the baby facade Ant Hill Harry was pulling off, and Bugs messes with him to get payback for violently torturing Bugs while in his infant persona, and he even gets him arrested at the end.
External Links[]
- Bugs Bunny on the Heroes Wiki
- Bugs Bunny on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Bugs Bunny on the Shonen Rivals Wiki
- Bugs Bunny on the Shonen Heroes Wiki
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