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{{quote|"''Be vewwy, vewwy quiet! I'm hunting wabbits!''"}}
 
One of only three humans in the regular cast (the others being Yosemite Sam & Tweety's owner Granny). The [[Butt Monkey]], often [[Too Dumb to Live]]. An avid hunter, thus Jones' favorite adversary for both Bugs & Daffy, reaching a peak in the iconic Rabbit[[The SeasonHunting trilogyTrilogy|Hunting Trilogy]]. Less popular with the other directors, who found him too wimpy. On a side note, he had an earlier, [[Flat Character|less distinctive prototype]] named Egghead, who was sometimes referred to as elmerElmer.
 
On a side note, [[Popcultural Osmosis|he didn't appear as often as most people think]]--; in fact, he only appeared in about 36 of the original Bugs Bunny cartoons (although he did star in some of his own shorts, as well as other star characters cartoons).
 
'''Debut:''' "Elmer's Candid Camera" (1940), Jones.
 
'''Tropes related to Elmer Fudd:'''
* [[Affably Evil]]: Generally nice guy when not trying to blast (not-so-) innocent animals with his shotgun.
* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Arch Enemy]]: [[Bugs Bunny]]
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Always seems to fall for Bugs' crossing dressing antics, no matter how paper-thin they may be.
* [[Harmless Villain]]
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Who would have guessed that the same Elmer Fudd that seemingly can't tell the difference between an actual woman and Bugs Bunny in a dress [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auI6Uz3D8I was an expert in economics]? <ref> At least, when [[Executive Meddling]] brought on by the [[Red Scare]] forced him to be.</ref>
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: But of course.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: This is pretty much Elmer Fudd's reaction whenever he thinks he's finally killed Bugs. No matter how hard he's been trying throughout the episode to shoot Bugs he always breaks down in tears when he thinks he's finally done it, calling himself a murderer. [[Fridge Logic|Which calls into question why he's a hunter in the first place]].
** About Elmer being a hunter despite feeling sorry for the animals he killed: in "Rabbit Fire," it was established that Elmer is a vegetarian and he hunts for the sport of it.
*** Granted Elmer's usual "kill" amounts to shooting Daffy's bill off, his victim usually unharmed outside being somewhat annoyed.
* [[Team Rocket Wins]]: {{spoiler|Actually got his revenge on "that wascawy wabbit" in ''"Rabbit Rampage''" and ''"Hare Brush''". And then there's ''"[[What's Opera, Doc?'']]", wherein he [[Only Mostly Dead|seemingly]] ''kills'' Bugs.}}
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]
 
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