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{{trope}}
{{quote|''[[Memetic Mutation|Hmmm-hmmm]], it's time for me to eat.
''Catching a pig is quite a feat!''
|'''The [[Big Bad]] Wolf''', [[Richard Scarry]]'s version of ''The [[Three Little Pigs]]''}}
A plot where the antagonist tries several times to capture, kill, or otherwise defeat the protagonist, and keeps failing spectacularly, either because the target is too smart, or because the antagonist is just really unlucky. Often this plot will climax with a plan that looks actually serious, but will fail just as surely as the others.
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* ''[[Nu Pogodi]]'' is pretty mcuh the Russian answer to Road Runner and Coyote.
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== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[The Villain]]'' is a Western example wherein the titular bank robber is trying to capture The Handsome Stranger (no really, that's his name) and Charmin'. Every scheme is right out of a Roadrunner cartoon, including painting a tunnel on the side of a rock and getting stuck in his own glue trap.
== [[Live
* The ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Bounty".{{context}}
* ''[[Farscape]]'': "Revenging Angel" - the protagonist's hallucination was a direct [[Homage]] to the Chuck Jones cartoon
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Bun-Bun's repeated attempts to kill Santa Claus in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. He finally succeeds during the "[
* Ralph in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' used to try to eat Kevin almost every time we saw him. He hasn't tried in years, arguably due to a [[Heel Face Turn]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Cartoons from many companies have been doing it for years.
** ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', particularly [[Bugs Bunny]], [[Daffy Duck]] (the
** Daffy and Sylvester also seem to take turns going after [[Speedy Gonzales]], though in that case they're usually working for someone else.
** Some [[Classic Disney Shorts|Disney]] shorts (particularly the ones involving [[Donald Duck]]) had this, but not quite to the degree of the Warner shorts.
** [[Tom and Jerry]] (oddly enough, [[The Itchy and Scratchy Show|Itchy and Scratchy]] almost never actually did this, despite being a parody).
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