List of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters
The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated shorts released by Warner Bros. feature a range of characters which are listed and briefly detailed here. Major characters from the franchise include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Pepe le Pew, Sylvester the Cat, the Tasmanian Devil, Tweety, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, and Yosemite Sam. This list does not include characters from Looney Tunes-related television series, like Tiny Toon Adventures characters, Animaniacs characters, or Duck Dodgers characters, as they have their own list.
Character table
| Character | Theatrical shorts | Feature films | Television series | Other media |
| Angus MacRory | ||||
| Barnyard Dawg | ||||
| Beaky Buzzard | ||||
| Bosko | ||||
| Buddy | ||||
| Bugs Bunny | ||||
| Bunny & Claude | ||||
| Blacque Jacque Shellacque | ||||
| Cecil Turtle | ||||
| Charlie Dog | ||||
| Claude Cat | ||||
| Colonel Rimfire | ||||
| Colonel Shuffle | ||||
| Cool Cat | ||||
| Daffy Duck | ||||
| Elmer Fudd | ||||
| Foghorn Leghorn | ||||
| Foxy | ||||
| Gabby Goat | ||||
| Goofy Gophers | ||||
| Gossamer | ||||
| Granny | ||||
| Hatta Mari | ||||
| Hector the Bulldog | ||||
| Henery Hawk | ||||
| Hubie and Bertie | ||||
| Hugo the Abominable Snowman | ||||
| K-9 | ||||
| Lola Bunny | ||||
| Marc Antony and Pussyfoot | ||||
| Marvin the Martian | ||||
| Melissa Duck | ||||
| Merlin the Magic Mouse | ||||
| Michigan J. Frog | ||||
| Miss Prissy | ||||
| Nasty Canasta | ||||
| Penelope Pussycat | ||||
| Pepé Le Pew | ||||
| Pete Puma | ||||
| Petunia Pig | ||||
| Piggy | ||||
| Playboy Penguin | ||||
| Porky Pig | ||||
| Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog | ||||
| Rocky and Mugsy | ||||
| Slowpoke Rodriguez | ||||
| Sniffles | ||||
| Speedy Gonzales | ||||
| Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier | ||||
| Sylvester the Cat | ||||
| Tasmanian Devil | ||||
| The Three Bears | ||||
| Tweety | ||||
| Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner | ||||
| Witch Hazel | ||||
| Yosemite Sam |
Recurring minor characters
The following is a list of recurring Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters without their own article:Blacque Jacque Shellacque
Blacque Jacque Shellacque is a fictional cartoon character in the Looney Tunes cartoons. He was created by Robert McKimson and Tedd Pierce, and first appeared in the 1959 Merrie Melodies short Bonanza Bunny set in the Klondike of 1896. Maurice LaMarche voiced the character from 2011 to 2014 in The Looney Tunes Show. The character was the inspiration for a specific version of five card draw poker mixed with blackjack named "Blacque Jacque Shellacque" in which the pot is divided between the winning poker hand and the winning blackjack hand. If everyone loses in blackjack, the winning poker hand takes all.While similar in many ways to Yosemite Sam—both are short in stature and temper—Blacque Jacque possesses his own unique characteristics, not the least of which is his comically thick French Canadian accent, performed by Mel Blanc. Also, like Yosemite Sam and many other villains, Blacque Jacque Shellacque does not have a high level of intelligence, preferring to use force instead of strategy to fight Bugs. His usual swear word is Sacrebleu; and he is often portrayed as a thief.
Bunny and Claude
Bunny and Claude are two fictional cartoon characters in the Looney Tunes series by Warner Bros. Cartoons which debuted in 1968. They are based on the real-life Bonnie and Clyde and the then-recent film about the pair's life that had been released by Warner Bros.They are depicted as a romantically involved pair of well-dressed rabbits who pull off carrot heists, and their catchphrase is "We rob carrot patches", based on the film Bonnie and Clyde's "We rob banks". Bunny was voiced by Pat Woodell and Claude was voiced by veteran Looney Tunes voice actor Mel Blanc. They both speak with pronounced Southern accents. Bunny and Claude are pursued by a stereotypical Southern sheriff.
They appeared in two cartoons produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation, Bunny and Claude , released in 1968, and The Great Carrot Train Robbery, released in 1969. Both films were directed by Robert McKimson, and were his first two cartoons he directed in his comeback to Termite Terrace.
A picture of Bunny and Claude is shown in the first Tiny Toons Looniversity special "Spring Beak", in which they are revealed to be Buster and Babs Bunny's aunt and uncle.
Colonel Shuffle
Colonel Shuffle is a stereotypical "gentleman" of the Southern United States. He has been shown as fiercely loyal to this region and deeply offended by anything that he feels reminds him of the Northern United States.Appearances in theatrical shorts
He referred to himself specifically by name in Mississippi Hare, following a game of poker in which he lost and proceeded to let off a barrage of gunfire. Sometimes, he is shown playing a banjo in classic Dixieland style.In Dog Gone South, Colonel Shuffle had an encounter with Charlie Dog.
Later appearances
A Colonel Shuffle-lookalike appears in the Tiny Toon Adventures episodes "Gang Busters" and "Fairy Tales for the 90's", voiced by Joe Alaskey and Frank Welker. In the first he's a prison warden of the prison in which Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are incarcerated, and in the second he's a toy company CEO who wants to possess ownership on Buster Bunny to market toys in his image.Shuffle made his last animated appearance in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "The Cat Who Knew Too Much", under the name of Colonel Louie Z. Anna, an old rival of Granny's turned villain who tried to kidnap Tweety.
Gabby Goat
Gabby Goat is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.Bob Clampett created Gabby, a loud and temperamental cynic, to be a sidekick for Porky Pig in the 1937 short Porky and Gabby, directed by Ub Iwerks, who briefly subcontracted to Leon Schlesinger Productions, producers of the Looney Tunes shorts. The cartoon focuses on the title characters' camping trip, which is foiled by car trouble.
Gabby made only two other golden-age animated appearances in Porky's Badtime Story and Get Rich Quick Porky, although he did briefly appear in early merchandise as well.
The series New Looney Tunes revived the character of Gabby.
Hector the Bulldog
Hector the Bulldog is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Hector is a muscle-bound bulldog with gray fur and walks pigeon-toed. His face bears a perpetual scowl between two immense jowls. He usually wears a black collar with silver studs.Hector's first appearance was in 1945's Peck Up Your Troubles, where he foils Sylvester's attempts to get a woodpecker. He made a second appearance in A Hare Grows in Manhattan, leading a street gang composed of dogs in a Friz Freleng-directed short; this is also the only short where the dog has numerous speaking lines. Besides these starring roles, Hector is a minor player in several Tweety and Sylvester cartoons directed by Freleng in 1948 and throughout the 1950s. His usual role is to protect Tweety from Sylvester, usually at Granny's request. He typically does this through brute strength alone, but some cartoons have him outsmart the cat, such as 1954's Satan's Waitin', wherein Hector convinces Sylvester to use up his nine lives by pursuing Tweety through a series of extremely dangerous situations. In most of his appearances, the bulldog is nameless, though he is sometimes referred to as Spike, not to be confused with Freleng's other creation Spike who is often paired with Chester the Terrier.
From 1979 to 1983, when Sylvester was the mascot for 9Lives' line of dry cat food, Hector appeared in most TV commercials with the feline, whose plots typically involved Sylvester attempting to distract him to get the bowl of 9Lives, only for the cat to once again end up in danger by the end, with Sylvester proclaiming the brand as "worth riskin' your life for!".
Hector's most prominent role was as a regular cast member in the animated series The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries. In the cartoon, he plays Granny's loyal guardian. The show makes Hector's low intelligence his Achilles heel as Sylvester is constantly outwitting him.
Hector also appears in the video game Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters where he guards one of the time gears in Granwich. He also appears as an enemy in the game Looney Tunes: Twouble!, in which he can be distracted by giving him a bone.
He is a member of the studio audience in the video game Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf.