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** A lot of people feel that the Roadrunner and Tweety deserve this title too, though they also have their fans.
** Also Pepe Le Pew due to how formulaic his shorts are.
** Heck, even BUGS BUNNY was one in his earlier years as Proto-Bugs. Audiences didn't sympathize with the guy because of his tendency to screw characters over [[For the Evulz|for no reason]]. Allegedly, the audience [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|applauded when he was Falcon Punched by his latest victim in "Presto Chango!"]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|His laugh was found annoying, too.]] Obviously, Bugs is now one of the most well-recognized characters ever, and most people don't remember that he was a Scrappy.
** Also an example of [[Rooting for The Empire]], but more and more people ended up supporting Wile E Coyote and Sylvester over [[Boring Invincible Hero|Roadrunner and Tweety]].
** Cecil Turtle, mainly because he's the ''only one'' who can outwit Bugs time and time again.
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* [[Weird Al Effect]]: A lot of the characters (particularly Pepe Le Pew and Foghorn Leghorn) are based on near-obscure celebrities that people these days wouldn't recognize without thinking of the Looney Tunes. Pepe Le Pew is based on French actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boyer Charles Boyer], while Foghorn Leghorn is based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn Fred Allen's "Senator Claghorn" character].
* [[Were Still Relevant Dammit]]: Much of WB's use of the characters since the '80s can be seen as a form of this.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: It's a wonder Private Snafu wasn't declared 4F due to mental incompetence.
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not for Kids?]]: A lot of people (particularly the ones who grew up seeing the [[Edited for Syndication]] broadcasts of the Looney Tunes on Saturday morning TV, after school on weekdays, or on Cartoon Network before 2004 and have never seen the cartoons made before 1948, including the World War II-era shorts and the Private Snafu cartoons) will be surprised to discover that the Looney Tunes has a lot of humor that is either not appropriate for children or will fly over the heads of children and those who know nothing of the pop culture or history at the time. In that regard, the Looney Tunes can be seen as ''The Simpsons'' or ''[[Family Guy]]'' if either show was a 5-7 minute short shown exclusively in theaters before a feature film, right down to the fact that all three are or have been shown on TV [[Edited for Syndication|with jokes and scenes cut for time and/or content]] and are readily available on DVD or online with these "offending" scenes intact.
** In interviews with each of the main directors when asked this question they reply that they never had kids in mind when making their cartoons.
*** The shorts originally played before anything in the WB library (which could include gritty crime dramas aimed at older audiences), so yeah, they weren't for kids. It's just that due to edgier material that has come out since its heydey (as well as the aforementioned airings on Saturday mornings), a lot of the content seems tame today.
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