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The following is a list of characters from the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This list also notes the famous cartoon characters who appeared from other studios and weren't made specifically for the movie.

Edward "Eddie" Valiant is a Californian private investigator, the protagonist of the film. He looks like a composite of Peter Falk of the TV series Columbo and film private eye Philip Marlowe, wearing shiny brown suit and beat-up fedora above a craggy face.

In Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Eddie Valiant is a fictional Californian private detective hired by comic-book star Roger Rabbit to investigate the workings of Roger's corrupt employers, the DeGreasey Brothers. When Roger is found dead, and his final words having been censored out, Valiant is soon sent on the case of tracking Rogers' murderers. This first incarnation of Eddie is a heavy smoker, has a beard and is active when the book is set (1981), rather than the later, more accepted incarnation of the character.

The 1988 film gave more insight into the character of Eddie Valiant, who was played by Bob Hoskins. Eddie Valiant and his brother Theodore "Teddy" Valiant were sons of a circus clown (shown by the pictures on their desk), who joined the police force and eventually started their own private investigation service, Valiant and Valiant, in 1934, working largely on Toon cases, such as the kidnapping of Donald Duck's nephews in 1937 or clearing Goofy of accusations of espionage in 1940, both seen as newspaper clippings in Valiant's office. However, when Teddy was killed by the then-unknown toon form of Judge Doom in 1942, Eddie turned to the bottle, and disappeared from the public eye. This is also the explanation of why Eddie shows dislike towards toons. He also doesn't smoke, but is a border-line alcoholic.

In 1947, R. K. Maroon of Maroon Cartoons paid Valiant to photograph Jessica Rabbit, Roger's wife, quite literally "playing pattycake" with Marvin Acme, owner of Toontown and founder of the Acme Corporation. When Acme is murdered and Roger becomes the prime suspect of the case, Valiant teams up with Roger to find the killer, and soon finds not only Acme's murderer, but the murderer of R.K Maroon, and his own brother. After defeating Doom at Acme Warehouse, Eddie then abandoned his vendetta against toons.

In the graphic novel of the film published in 1989 by Marvel Comics, Valiant is the narrator of the story, telling the film through his eyes and in the style of a detective story.

According to Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom, Valiant tends to consume jellybeans quite a bit as he gave up drinking.

In the sub-sequel to the film, Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?, Valiant has vowed to no longer take any toon cases, but is forced to do so when Baby Herman, Roger Rabbit's co-star, is found dead.

Inspiration

Valiant's hard-boiled attitude seems to derive from Dick Tracy or other such detectives. In the 1988 film, Valiant was made to portray the film noir detective character usually found in Humphrey Bogart or Alan Ladd, while maintaining the Dick Tracy attitude.

Although little or nothing is heard about the methods employed by Eddie's brother, the items on Teddy's side of the desk in shots of the Valiant and Valiant office suggest that Teddy was based more on Sherlock Holmes, judging by the tobacco pipe and magnifying glass on his desk.

Roger Rabbit

Roger Rabbit is the titular anthropomorphic rabbit of the film, a frantic over-anxious type who often stutters while screaming. The character first appeared in the book, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf, which was adapted into the 1988 Academy-Award winning film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Mixing both live action and animation to create a believable "toon" universe, Disney studios set up an animation studio in Camden Town, London, whilst the live action was shot at Elstree film studios. Both the animation and live action were then composited by ILM fx studios in LA. In the book, Roger is a sidekick in a popular comic strip called "Baby Herman", his murder is being investigated by a detective named Eddie Valiant and a slowly evaporating stunt doppelganger of himself that he created hours before being shot. In the film version, he is re-envisioned as a 1940's character in animated cartoons and a resident of the fictional Los Angeles enclave, Toontown. He is framed for a murder and seeks out Valiant to help clear his name. In the film, the voice of Roger is performed by comedian Charles Fleischer, who was known for electing to wear an actual rabbit costume on the set to get into the role. One of his famous traits is his voice, "P-b-b-b-b-bleeeease!". He is a white clownish rabbit with a gap between his front teeth, a voice that resonates of Huntz Hall in "The Bowery Boys", a blue Porky Pig-like bowtie with yellow polka dots, a red-haired Bugs Bunny-like head with blue eyes, a pink nose and round-tipped ears, red Oswald-like pants with a green patch behind and yellow Mickey Mouse-like gloves.

Roger also starred in a comic book series from April 1990 to September 1991 and a spin-off series called Roger Rabbit's Toontown, published from June to October 1991, which featured Roger in the first story and supporting characters like Jessica Rabbit (Roger's voluptuous humanoid wife), Baby Herman (his co-star in Maroon Cartoons), Benny the Cab (Roger's taxicab friend), and The Weasels (Roger's enemies).

In a 1989 ABC special, Mickey Mouse is punished by a sorcerer for his conceited, "everybody loves me" attitude with a curse which results in no-one knowing who he is. Mickey must now wander the real world as an unknown, until he finally learns humility. After the curse is lifted, Roger Rabbit rediscovers Mickey, and is hailed as a hero.

Disney and Amblin Entertainment attempted to resurrect Roger for a sequel. However, a preliminary budget was deemed too large and the film never got past the script stage. Several 3D CGI tests and a 3D CGI rendering of Roger were completed, however, despite the fact that no actual footage was actually shot or completed. However, Frank Marshall, the producer of the first film, told MTV in late 2007 that he would be open to any plans to bring the Roger sequel back in the works[citation needed].

Roger Rabbit was originally going to be the star of the animated series now known as Bonkers. However, because of copyright conflicts between Amblin and Disney, the show was forced to create original characters.

Legacy

Roger Rabbit made his footprints and handprints with his signature phrase "P-p-p-p-lease" (pucker and bubble bottom lip) in front of the Chinese theatre at Disney's Hollywood Studios on its opening day along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy.

Roger is also the inspiration for a popular dance move in the early 1990s, called "the Roger Rabbit" due to the floppy movements of the character.

Roger Rabbit is a popular character at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, both of which contain identical versions of the Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin attraction, which opened in 1994 in a new Toon Town section of the park, inspired by the Who Framed Roger Rabbit film and included shops, character houses, and rides. As part of the ride queue, passengers walk through the dark streets of Toon Town and see the shadows of Jessica and the Weasels walk by windows and hear their plot to kidnap her. On this entirely dark-light ride, you board Lenny the Cab, Benny’s cousin, and race through streets, back alleys, and buildings. Roger still appears at Tokyo Disneyland as a meetable character as well.

However, he's hardly heard of at Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland.

Jessica Rabbit

Jessica Rabbit is Roger's wife in the book and movie. In the book, she was an amoral, up-and-coming star and former comic character, over whom her estranged husband, comic strip star Roger Rabbit, obsessed. She is re-imagined in the film as a sultry, but moral, cartoon singer at a Los Angeles supper club called The Ink and Paint Club. Here, she is one of several suspects in the framing of her husband, who is a famous cartoon star. She is voiced by Kathleen Turner. Amy Irving was cast to sing Peggy Lee's "Why Don't You Do Right" for Jessica's first scene in the movie.

Jessica was based on Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946), and Veronica Lake (noted for her famous "Peek-A-Boo" hairstyle). She is one of the most famous sex symbols on animated screen.[1] She claims to Eddie Valiant, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." She deeply loves her husband Roger, claiming that he makes her laugh.

It was said by her animators, that Jessica is so "exhuberant", because they wondered how far they could take her behavior without comments from Disney Studios.

After the film, Jessica also appeared in the Roger Rabbit/Baby Herman shorts Tummy Trouble as a nurse, Roller Coaster Rabbit as a damsel in distress, and Trail Mix-Up as a park ranger. In Tummy Trouble and Roller Coaster Rabbit she made no impression, but in Trail Mix-Up Roger fantasizes over her, calling her a 'babe in the woods' and panting like a dog. She also appeared frequently in the Roger Rabbit comic book series, and she had her own feature in most issues of Roger Rabbit's Toontown such as "Beauty Parlor Bedlam," where she comes face to face with female weasel counterpart, Winnie.

With the success of the film and upon the opening of Disney's MGM Studios on May 1, 1989,[2] the film's characters featured prominently in the company. After taking the Backlot Tram Tour, various props decorated the streets including two different photo opportunities with Jessica: a glittery cardboard cutout and "The Loony Bin" photo shop which allowed you to take pictures in costume standing next to an actual cartoon drawing of characters from the film. There was also a plethora of merchandise including Jessica Rabbit rub-on stickers called "pressers".[citation needed]

Disagreements between the Disney Company, Amblin Entertainment and Gary Wolf (jointly owning rights to the characters) made it difficult for any merchandise or projects to get off the ground and caused the halt of the short film, Hare in My Soup, and the next film Who Discovered Roger Rabbit.[3] In this prequel, Roger meets his bride-to-be, Jessica Krupnick. A completed score by Alan Silvestri is said to exist as well as test footage and computer generated versions of the characters. Also cancelled was an animated TV series, which was replaced by a show called Bonkers about a feline cop. Many park attractions never got out of development, such as Roger Rabbit's Hollywood.[4]

In 2000, Disney - MGM Studios stopped using any character memorabilia in the park, though some props are still present. These include a Maroon Cartoon billboard featuring Roger, Jessica, and Baby Herman across from the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show, Eddie Valiant's office and a cut-out of Roger on the blinds of a neighboring window near the 50's Prime Time Cafe, and the "ton o' bricks" hanging near the “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” Movie Set Adventure.[citation needed]

In March, 2009, a UK newspaper voted Jessica Rabbit the sexiest cartoon character of all time, with Betty Boop in second place and the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny in third.[5]

Jessica Rabbit Store

The Jessica Rabbit Store, entitled Jessica's, was once part of Pleasure Island, Disney’s nightclub attraction and shopping area. The store featured nothing but Jessica Rabbit merchandise, from her own signature nightgowns and jewelry to shower curtains and beach towels. A giant two-sided neon Jessica sign with sequined dress and swinging leg sat atop the light purple colored building. A floor to ceiling windowed corner of the store allowed light to shine in during the day. Another corner of the store had a large stage door with Jessica’s name on it. The inside was art deco in style and was very similar to designs used in the film's Ink and Paint Club scene. There was a cardboard cutout of Jessica reclining above the cash register area and another of Jessica, Roger, and Benny the Cab. Cast members wore regular uniforms, and there were no special shopping bags or print material for the store other than mention in the Pleasure Island guide map where they invited people to visit. The store was abruptly closed some time in 1992. The large neon Jessica sign was relocated to another area of the park alongside a Pleasure Island Tonight! sign where it stayed for many years until it was removed in June 2006. Tomart's Disneyania Magazine #66 featured a special article about the store complete with merchandise pictures and interior photos.

Jessica's appearance on the Car Toon Spin ride

Jessica can first be seen in the queue of the attraction as a silhouette image in a window. Then in the beginning of the actual ride-through portion, she can be seen tied up in the trunk of Smart Ass Weasel's car and then later with a giant mallet making her escape at the ride's end.

Judge Doom

Judge Doom is the main villain played by Christopher Lloyd in the film. He is the much-feared Judge of Toontown. Despite presiding over a city of Toons, Doom is totally without mirth and passes capital punishment on Toons who break the law, placing them in a chemical vat of turpentine, acetone and benzene (essentially oil, paint thinner, and film dissolver) which he dubs "The Dip". This concoction will dissolve Toons, permanently killing them. The Judge employs Toon henchmen (the "Toon Patrol") to assist him in hunting down Roger for the murder of Marvin Acme.

Doom wears a black ensemble which includes a trenchcoat, a fedora, gloves, and rimless yellow-tinted glasses; he also carries a pocketwatch. Doom appears to bear some resemblance to Roland Freisler, the notorious Nazi figure who was also a ruthless judge.

When the film first introduces Judge Doom, Lt. Santino confides to Eddie Valiant that Doom bought the election. Later, at the Terminal Bar, Doom uses the "Shave and a Haircut" trick to lure Roger out, then prepares to execute him. After a brief scuffle inside the bar, the Judge orders the weasels to capture Roger and Eddie Valiant. Roger realizes he's in trouble with Doom after him, and begs Eddie to hide him. When Eddie learns that studio head R.K. Maroon is connected to the plot to frame Roger, Eddie interrogates him, but Maroon pleads that he is "a dead man" if he confesses. Just as Maroon is about to spill everything, he is killed by an unseen gunman who nearly shoots Eddie as well.

Upon chasing the killer to Toontown, Eddie catches Jessica Rabbit, thinking she's the murderer, but Jessica reveals that Judge Doom was the one who killed Acme and Maroon. At the film's climax, Doom traps Eddie, Jessica, and Roger in the Acme Factory to explain his scheme: Erase Toontown from the map using a giant, mobile vat of dip linked to a high-pressure water cannon, and then build a freeway over it. Doom then plans to retire from being a judge and control all the profits from the new road system. Doom also reveals that he is the sole stockholder of Cloverleaf Industries, and explains that he bought the "red car" (the Pacific Electric Railway) for the sole purpose of putting it out of commission. He then orders Jessica and Roger Rabbit to be tied up and raised into the air via skyhook to be sprayed by the dip cannon.

Valiant distracts the weasels using hilarious antics (partly while singing The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down to the accompaniment of an orchestrion-like instrument playing the tune) to make them literally laugh themselves to death, then attempts to rescue Roger and Jessica when he is interrupted by Doom. The two men then square off, dueling with various ACME props. During the fight, Judge Doom is run over by a steamroller, but does not die as expected. As the steamroller crushes him, Doom's body is flattened into a flimsy paper-thin shape, revealing himself to be a Toon wearing an assortment of fake, but live props such as fake eyeballs, false teeth and a rubber mask in order to disguise his Toon body. After he reinflates with an oxygen tank, he shows his red toon eyes and talks in a high squeaky voice, and Eddie recognizes Doom as the bank robber in Toontown long ago who murdered his brother, Teddy Valiant, thus triggering his hatred towards Toons and explaining how Doom managed to buy the judicial election and the trolley car company.

Being a Toon, Doom turns out to be capable of sprouting an anvil and an extendable buzzsaw from his hand, with which he attempts to kill Eddie. In the end, Eddie proves to be too clever, using his own dip concoction to dissolve him, leaving behind his human disguise. Doom melts and burns away screaming before he dies. A crowd of various Toons then surround his burned empty suit and melted face and wonder what kind of Toon he was. It hasn't been revealed what type of Toon he was, or if he was one specific type of Toon at all, but the Toons seem to agree that they don't need to know, and decide to live happily ever after when the will of Marvin Acme suddenly appears in Roger's possession, granting full ownership to the citizens of Toontown.

Graphic novel version

In the graphic novel Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom, it is explained that Doom was originally a Toon named Baron von Rotten, who took up the role of playing the antagonist in movies, until an accident in which Von Rotten suffers a concussion, and awakens believing he is a real villain. Von Rotten thus begins his crime career, robbing the First National Bank of Toontown, then killing Theodore 'Teddy' Valiant by dropping a piano on his head, and spreading the stolen money all over the town in order to buy the election for Judge of Toontown, assuming the new name of Judge Doom.

Powers and abilities

In his human guise, Doom uses his skull-headed swordstick and ACME products to fight Valiant. While in his toon form, he has evil red eyes and a squeaky voice, and is able to produce an arsenal of tools from his body which he can employ as weapons, including a buzzsaw and an anvil. He uses springs in his feet to jump far distances, and (like most toons) can survive anything but his own dip, which dissolves him to his death.

Baby Herman

Baby Herman is Roger's major co-star in the animated shorts in which they appear. Baby Herman's "mother", Mrs. Herman (voiced by April Winchell) makes an appearance at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its spin-off short films, but she is only shown from the waist down, her arms expressing her emotions. However, Mrs. Herman's legs and the lower part of her dress (without any top) can be seen among the props for "Something's Cooking," meaning that she herself is only a prop.

Herman and Roger Rabbit comprised an Abbott and Costello-like comedy team for the (equally fictitious) Maroon Cartoons studio in the 1940s. A typical Roger/Baby Herman cartoon consists of Roger being given responsibility for Baby Herman's well-being; Herman immediately begins crawling through a number of dangerous situations from which Roger must rescue him. In the process, Roger suffers extravagant injuries and humiliations reminiscent of those in classic Tex Avery cartoons while Baby Herman remains unscathed. For both book adaptations, Baby Herman was murdered, leaving behind a doppelganger for Eddie Valiant to help solve the crime.

In the film, Baby Herman's role was significantly downplayed. In one scene, he is tipping off Eddie about the whereabouts of Marvin Acme's will, saying that Roger didn't murder Acme, and is the first toon on the scene at the Acme Factory after Valiant's battle with Judge Doom.

Despite his name and appearance, "Baby Herman" is actually a middle-aged, cigar-smoking Toon who happens to look like an infant. While filming "in character", he speaks baby talk in a typical baby boy's voice provided by April Winchell; off-camera, he has a loud, gravelly voice provided by Lou Hirsch. Animation director Richard Williams loved the character of "adult" Baby Herman so much that he animated all of the scenes of the character in the film. It should be noted that when he loses his cigar and finds himself unable to reach it, he actually starts crying like a baby (albeit with his voice still sounding like a middle-aged man).

Benny the Cab

Benny the Cab is a cab that services the Los Angeles of the film. He is voiced in all appearances by Charles Fleischer with a deep rumbling voice somewhere between Lord Buckley and Barry White. His license plate reads BENNY.

In the original story, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Benny was a Beetle and had a minor role as a trader in second-hand items. The character Nails from the 1992 film Cool World bears some resemblance to the description of this version of Benny.

The Walt Disney Company and Amblin Entertainment improved and expanded on Benny for the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In the movie, Benny is an anthropomorphized colorful yellow Volkswagen Beetle-style taxi cab that takes Roger where he needs to go. Unlike most of the prominent supporting characters in the movie, Benny doesn't appear in the cartoon shorts (although an anthropomorphic ambulance that appears briefly in the Tummy Trouble short does have some resemblance to Benny). He does appear in the Roger Rabbit comic book and had his own feature once in the second issue of Roger Rabbit's Toontown. Benny also has made occasional appearances on the newer House of Mouse series as a guest.

At the Disneyland Resort, the attraction Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin has guests ride spinning cabs, each resembling Benny.

Toon Patrol

The Toon Patrol is a group of anthropomorphic animated weasels that serve as henchmen to Judge Doom.

In the film, the Toon Patrol are the law officers of Toontown, whom Judge Doom has hired to arrest Roger Rabbit for murdering Acme. The Toon Patrol drive around in a paddy wagon that is a Dodge Humpback.

The weasels enjoy laughing at the misery of others, including each other, and are fond of grim, dark concepts. Like all the other Toons in the movie, they are invincible to physical body harm; therefore they are able to go without suffering any long-term physical damage. However, it is shown that prolonged laughter is lethal to them, as while Eddie Valiant jokes around in front of them during the climax of the movie, they all (minus Smart Ass) "die" from laughing at him, after which their Toon souls rise to heaven.

While being designed, the weasels and their switchblades were modeled after the weasels in the 1949 Disney cartoon The Wind in the Willows.[citation needed] The weasels make an appearance in the Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin ride at Disneyland Resort.

• Smart Ass (Wise Guy in the ride), voiced by David Lander, is the leader of the weasels, and ranked a sergeant by Judge Doom. He has brown fur and wears a light pink double breasted zoot suit coat with a gold chain in the left pocket, a white dress shirt with a reddish pink, bedjewelled tie, a light pink zoot hat and a darker pink rimband and spats on his feet. His weapon of choice is a revolver, though in the bar scene he is shown threatening Eddie Valiant with a switchblade. Though very sarcastic, Smart Ass is the straight-man of the group, possessing the most self control and the least "Toonish" attitude. However, he still enjoys a good laugh like his fellow weasels. He commits a malapropism almost every time he speaks, such as when he says that a tip on Roger's whereabouts has been "corrugated" (corroborated) by several sources. Smart Ass is the third weasel to die at the end of the film, though not by losing control of his laughter. Instead, after disagreeing with a song lyric, he is kicked in the groin by Valiant, and sent flying into the mixer on the Dip machine, where he, being a Toon, dissolves and dies.

• Greasy, voiced by Charles Fleischer, is allegedly the runner-up for leader of the weasels. He is Puerto-Rican, and has long greasy black hair and dark brown fur. Wearing a green zoot suit styled trench coat along with spectator shoes, green Zoot pants hiked up all the way to his chest and partially obscuring a pink tie and white dress shirt, as well as a tall green zoot hat, he appropriately resembles a zoot suit gangster from the L.A. Zoot Suit Riots of the 1940s. Of all the weasels in the film, Greasy is most eager to fight, and wields a switchblade as his weapon of choice, though he is also seen with a semi-automatic pistol while investigating Eddie's office. He is mostly shown speaking English with a strong Spanish accent, but he curses in Spanish when Roger shoots into the Acme Factory via storm drain, propelling Greasy and himself up towards the ceiling, and when he springs a bear trap in the top of Jessica Rabbit's dress. He seems somewhat perverted, as he is more than willing to search Jessica for Acme's will, beginning with her breasts. He is the fourth weasel to die after losing control of his laughter, and drops dead out of the cab of the Dip Machine.

• Psycho, voiced by Charles Fleischer, is the most insane and mentally unstable of the group of weasels. He has a shrilling laugh and high-pitched voice. Psycho wears an unbuckled "Canadian Long Jacket" straitjacket. His muzzle is unnaturally white, suggesting that he has a pale complexion. He has blue eyes with yellow and white swirls characterizing his psychoticness, and unkempt fur by the hairline, which gives it a spiky appearance. His weapon of choice is a barbershop straight razor. He is the last weasel to die as a result of laughing to the point of losing his footing, and falls into the giant rotating brush of the Dip Machine. He has few lines in the film, but he laughs quite a lot, apparently making him resist more time laughing without dying. Even after he's dead, he still proves a threat, as his rising soul turns the already activated Dip Cannon back towards Roger and Jessica.

• Wheezy, voiced by June Foray, is the smoking weasel. Unlike his compatriots, who all have brown fur, his fur is blue. He is dressed in a wrinkled dress shirt, black vest, greyish-white bowler cap littered with cigars and cigarettes, loose black tie, and has long, nicotine stained fingernails. The cigars and cigarettes in his hat suggest that he is a chain-smoker. However, he is not the only smoker in the group, as Smart Ass can be seen puffing on cigars during the first on-screen appearance of the group inside the Acme Factory. With his weapon of choice being a Tommy gun, he seems to bear the most resemblance to the typical mobster. He is the second weasel to die, by a combination of laughter and too much smoking; the latter made evident by the voluminous amounts of smoke he coughs up. He also appears reluctant to give up his soul, as he struggles to pull it back into his body, but to no avail.

• Stupid, voiced by Fred Newman is the dumbest of the weasels. He wears a horizontally striped blue and white t-shirt, a red beanie with a propeller on top, and white tennis shoes that are constantly untied. He has a pigeon-toed stance, and his weapon of choice is a baseball bat with a nail through the top. Stupid is also the strongest of the weasels, and is used mainly for heavy lifting and hard labor. However, he is overweight, while the other weasels are slim. Even though he possesses below-average intelligence, he is not incapable of speech, as he manages without effort one on-screen line. He is the first weasel to die as a result of losing control over his laughter.

• Slimy & Flasher, for whom no voicework was completed, are two weasels that were eliminated from the final cut of the film, due to the producers consenting to the idea that they would not be suitable for younger audiences. Slimy was a black weasel who vomits out slime and carried a blackjack as a weapon. Flasher wore a dirty trenchcoat as his name implies, but did not carry a visible weapon. Both conceptual arts can be viewed on the second disk of the 15th anniversary DVD edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

R. K. Maroon

R. K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) was the creator of Maroon Cartoons. He paid Eddie $100 to photograph Jessica and Marvin Acme, which eventually led to Acme's murder. R. K. Maroon is murdered himself when Judge Doom shoots him when he tries to explain to Eddie that if the will isn't found by midnight tonight, Judge Doom will receive ownership over Toontown.

Cartoon characters that make cameo appearances

These characters had all appeared in either film or cartoon shorts made by various studios.

Disney

• Mickey Mouse
• Minnie Mouse
• Donald Duck
• Daisy Duck
• Goofy
• Pluto
• Pete
• Horace Horsecollar
• Clarabelle Cow
• Huey, Dewey, and Louie
• Chip 'n Dale
• Clara Cluck
• Jose Carioca
• Peter Pig
• Bucky Bug
• The merry dwarves from The Merry Dwarves
• The trees and flowers from Flowers and Trees
• Zeke the Wolf, Fiddler Pig, Fifer Pig, Practical Pig and Little Red Riding Hood
• The orphans from Orphan's Benefit
• Toby Tortoise, the girl bunnies, and the animal pedestrians from The Tortoise and the Hare
• The Water Babies from Water Babies
• Jenny Wren from Who Killed Cock Robin
• Cock O' the Walk from Cock O' the Walk
• Elmer Elephant, Joey Hippo, and Joe Giraffe from Elmer Elephant
• Snow White, The Seven Dwarfs, Queen Grimhilde (appearing as the Witch), and the forest animals from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod from Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
• Ferdinand The Bull from Ferdinand The Bull
• Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, and Lampwick from Pinocchio
• Various Fantasia characters: broomsticks from The Sorcerer's Apprentice; Hyacinth Hippo and Madame Upanova from Dance of the Hours; Pegasus, a unicorn, and the cupids from The Pastoral Symphony; and the Chinese mushrooms and Russian thistles from The Nutcracker Suite
• The Reluctant Dragon and Sir Giles from The Reluctant Dragon
• Dumbo, the crows, Mrs. Jumbo, Casey Junior, and The Pink Elephants from Dumbo
• Bambi, Faline, and Thumper from Bambi
• Pedro the plane from Saludos Amigos
• Ben Buzzard from The Flying Jalopy
• Emotion from Reason and Emotion
• Chicken Little and Foxy Loxy from Chicken Little
• Monte the pelican from The Pelican and the Snipe
• Peter from Make Mine Music
• Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Bear, the hummingbirds, the Tar Baby, and the Sis Moles from Song of the South
• Willie the Giant and the Singing Harp from Fun and Fancy Free
• The animals from Melody Time*
• Danny from So Dear to My Heart*
• J. Thaddeus Toad and Cyril Proudbottom from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad*
• Mr. Walker from Motormania*
• Bill the Lizard, Tweedledum, Cheshire Cat, the doorknob, and one of the bulb-horn birds from Alice in Wonderland*
• Tinker Bell and John Darling from Peter Pan*
• Maleficent's goons from Sleeping Beauty*
• The penguin waiters from Mary Poppins*
• Flaps the Vulture from The Jungle Book*
• Piglet from The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh*

Warner Bros.

• Bugs Bunny
• Daffy Duck
• Elmer Fudd
• Porky Pig
• Yosemite Sam
• Tweety Bird
• Sylvester
• Foghorn Leghorn
• The Road Runner*
• Wile E. Coyote*
• Speedy Gonzales*
• Marvin the Martian*
• Michigan J. Frog*
• Hector the Bulldog*
• Sam Sheepdog*
• Hippety Hopper*
• The Bugs Bunny Prototype
• The Dodo Bird from Porky in Wackyland
• Punkin'head Martin from Hillbilly Hare*
• Toro the Bull from Bully for Bugs*

MGM

• Droopy Dog
• Spike
• Screwy Squirrel
• Meathead dog
• The Lion from Slap Happy Lion

Paramount Pictures/Fleischer/Famous Studios

• Betty Boop
• Koko the Clown
• Joker (the harlequin jack-in-the-box logo for Noveltoons)

Universal Studios/Walter Lantz

• Woody Woodpecker
• Andy Panda

20th Century Fox/Terrytoons

• Heckle and Jeckle

King Features Syndicate/Pat Sullivan

• Felix the Cat

Al Capp

• Lena Hyena from Li'l Abner

Characters Never Used in Final Film

Many additional characters were planned, or at least considered, for inclusion in the film but ultimately omitted due to legal issues and/or production limitations:

• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
• A skeleton dancer from The Skeleton Dance
• Popeye, Bluto, Olive Oyl, and Swee'Pea
• One of the vultures from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Ben Ali Gator and a centaurette from Fantasia
• Tom and Jerry
• The Fox and the Crow
• Superman
• The wolf from Red Hot Riding Hood
• Little Lulu
• Mighty Mouse
• Casper the Friendly Ghost
• Pepé Le Pew
• Chilly Willy*
• Witch Hazel* (appearing during the deleted "pig head" scene)
• Yakky Doodle*
• The silhouette of Mary Poppins from Mary Poppins*

Note: *denotes anachronisms; these characters (or, in the cases of characters such as Tinker Bell, the animated versions of them that appear in the film) were created after 1947. But as screenplay writer Peter S. Seaman said, "The aim was entertainment, not animation history."

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The world needs more Moores!

As a prototypical youngest child I have an affinity for
feather-ruffling and rabble-rousing. As such, I love these types of
movies hence the 8-star rating. Still, this film bothered me in a few
ways; the primary one is the basic question of exactly what do
corporations owe their employees? Tastes change, technology changes,
and not surprisingly business tactics change. I am not sure if Moore or
the employees stated this, but what exactly did they want/expect? Of
course they wanted to retain their jobs but as I understand it the
owners of corporations are looking for increased profits. Cutting costs
are one way to do that. One way GM found to cut costs was to
manufacture abroad. So, why wouldn't GM do that? Due to employee
loyalty? I'm not sure a corporation can exist if employee loyalty comes
before profits. I think Moore should have also gone after primary
stockholders/owners as well.As I watched, I had a similar thought that I had to consider the source
and remember that Moore is a business man and being controversial sells
tickets. I had that same feeling watching Sicko. It's like Moore's
documentaries outcomes are predefined and he will see to it that it
turns out that way. I thought Moore's asking those presumably rich
people(and Miss Mich) their impromptu thoughts on the situation was
unfair. I would welcome more intelligent debate where both sides are
given some time to prepare. Why Roger didn't talk to Moore surprised me
maybe Moore liked it that way. After all, did Moore truly do all he
could to get an interview? I will bet you this. If on hiring day, every
employee was informed that in the future GM may adopt tactics that
would result in job losses, but that if this occurred laid-off
employees might receive a severance package, the vast majority would
still have taken the job regardless of these known pitfalls.To me, going to work for a corporation is a buyer-beware situation. As
employees we need to maximize our time there. Take your vacations, max
out your 401K, take advantage of tuition assistance, get physicals, and
watch the behaviors of those successful counterparts who always seem to
be in the right place at the right time. Also, if corporations worry
you, don't work for them, go to work for a private firm but don't get
there and complain about all the benefits your buddies at Verizon (or
wherever) are getting.On a side note (perhaps somewhat relevant considering all the layoffs
we're experiencing), we Americans need to start living more
practically. If you make $50K/year live like you make $43K. If you
participate in a 401K plan remember that a 401K is not a rainy-day
account, it is a retirement plan. If you do not need a 2000sqft home,
don't buy one. Cars and kids don't need their own bedrooms. Smaller
homes encourage us to get out of the house which is not a bad thing.
While having your own bathroom is convenient, it is so for about 30
minutes/day: SHARE them.Gas prices fluctuate. If you find yourself stressing about that, buy a
smaller car and drive less….it can be done. Instead of packing up the
bikes and kids and driving them to a bike trail, ride your bikes to the
store, bank, video store, zoo, etc…. Also, smaller cars get you from
point A to point B exactly like big cars do…only cheaper. While
driving smaller, efficient vehicles is not considered cool is beyond
me, this means the driver is smart and may have more money to
spend…on you. This is not to say that you shouldn't have a comfy
car….the problem is when people pull out food-stamps then hop into a
brand new Maxima or Escalade.

chf_2258 from United States - 30 January 2009

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