List of Who Framed Roger Rabbit characters

The following is a list of characters used in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, including cartoon characters from other studios.

Eddie Valiant

Eddie Valiant
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First appearance	Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Portrayed by	Bob Hoskins
In-universe information
Species	Human

Edward "Eddie" Valiant is a Californian private investigator, one of the protagonists. 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 the original novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Eddie Valiant is a fictional modern-day 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 original incarnation of Eddie is a heavy smoker and has a beard.

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, disappeared from the public eye, and refuses to take any more Toon cases (although he is slow to find work as a regular private eye). He also doesn't smoke, but is a borderline 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 finally avenged his brother's death and abandoned his prejudice 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 novel, Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?, Valiant has once again 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.

Roger Rabbit

"Roger Rabbit" redirects here. For other uses, see Roger Rabbit (disambiguation).

Roger Rabbit
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First appearance	Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Voiced by	Charles Fleischer
In-universe information
Species	Anthropomorphic Rabbit
Gender	Male
Spouse	Jessica Rabbit

Roger Rabbit is the titular anthropomorphic rabbit and one of the protagonists 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 "toon" universe, the Walt Disney Animation Studios set up an animation studio in Camden Town, London, while 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 bucktooth, 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 overalls with a green patch behind and yellow Mickey Mouse-like gloves.

Roger has been known to become very loud when he drinks alcoholic beverages, making a piercing steam-whistle noise that is loud enough to shatter any glass objects nearby. He also jumps uncontrollably. Afterward, his mood swings violently.

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 the 1989 NBC special, Mickey's 60th Birthday, Mickey Mouse is punished by a sorcerer for trying to use his hat to both fix a mess made by Roger and entertain the audience 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 to rely on his gifts to bring his own "magic" to others. 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.

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 Great Movie Ride facade at Disney-MGM 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's queue area, passengers walk through the dark streets of Toontown 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 twin cousin) and race through streets, alleys and buildings.

Roger also appeared at other Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (where Roger Rabbit attractions were non-existent) as a meetable character during the early years of his career. Until 1999, Roger could be seen at Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and at the Magic Kingdom as the music conductor in the park's nighttime parade, SpectroMagic. Currently, Roger occasionally continues to appear at all the Disney parks as a meetable character.

If looked closely in one scene of the film Back to the Future II, there is a Roger Rabbit doll sitting in the counter in the right hand corner of a futuristic shop.

However, (with the exceptions of rare, infrequent appearances, including at Disney's Pop Century Resort and merchandising items) he's hardly heard of at Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland.

Also, Roger Rabbit appears in the Disneyland Fun sing-along video and in other 1990s Disney television specials.

Jessica Rabbit

Jessica Rabbit
First appearance	Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Voiced by	Kathleen Turner Amy Irving (songs)
In-universe information
Species	Cartoon
Gender	Female
Spouse	Roger Rabbit

"Jessica Rabbit" redirects here. For other uses, see Jessica Rabbit (disambiguation).

Jessica Rabbit is Roger's human buxom wife in the book and movie. In the book, she was an immoral, 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. 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 "Why Don't You Do Right?" (a blues song made famous by Peggy Lee) for Jessica's first scene in the movie.

Writer Gary K. Wolf had based Jessica primarily on the cartoon character Red of Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood. According to animation director Richard Williams, other inspirations are Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946), and Veronica Lake (noted for her famous "Peek-A-Boo" hairstyle). Jessica is one of the most famous sex symbols on the animated screen. She claims to Eddie Valiant, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way," which has become a popular quote. She deeply loves her husband Roger, claiming that he makes her laugh and that he makes a more fitting husband than Goofy. She is shown to have few of the comedic cartoon antics typical of other toons. One such example was her cleavage having a hammerspace ability as one of the weasels searched her (with obvious perverted intent) for Marvin Acme's last will and testament, only to comically get his hand caught in a bear trap and Valiant commenting on the event with a clever pun ("Nice booby trap"). Another could be her mild wild take seeing Judge Doom's scheme involving the Dip, while a subtle effect was added by animator Russell Hall: The bounce of Jessica's bosom was reversed from that of a real woman so that it would bounce up when a real woman's breasts bounce down and vice versa.

It was said by her animators, that Jessica is so "exuberant", because they wondered how far they could take her behavior without comments from the Walt 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, the film's characters featured prominently in the company. After taking the Studio Backlot 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".

Disagreements between the Walt Disney Company, Amblin Entertainment (Spielberg) 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. In this prequel, Roger meets his bride-to-be, Jessica. 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 television 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.

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 Epic 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.

In 2008, Jessica Rabbit was selected by Empire Magazine as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. 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.

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 (named Wiseguy on the ride) Weasel's car and then later with a giant mallet making her escape at the ride's end.

Judge Doom

Judge Doom
First appearance	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Portrayed by	Christopher Lloyd
In-universe information
Species	Toon/Human

Judge Doom is the main antagonist, 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 (Paint thinner) which he dubs "the Dip" AKA "Toon Acid". This concoction will dissolve Toons, permanently killing them when submerged. 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 and a swordstick that also serves as a walking stick.

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: Literally 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" (a variant on the name of 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 escapes and defeats the weasels then attempts to rescue Roger and Jessica when he is interrupted by Doom. The two men then square off, duelling with various ACME props. During the fight, Judge Doom is run over by a steamroller. He survives; revealed as a Toon, with bulging red eyes and a high-pitched shriek, the same Toon that killed Eddie's brother. Doom taunts Eddie and exhibits his hidden Toon powers, leaping after Eddie with springs in his shoes, changing his right hand into a massive anvil and a circular saw. After Eddie breaks open a vat of Dip with a boxing glove hammer, Doom is doused in his own Dip. He dissolves to his death, shrieking the familiar "melting" lines of the Wicked Witch of the West. Following Doom's death, his scheme is finally exposed and all charges against Roger are dropped.

Wizard Magazine rated him the 60th greatest villain of all time.

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 animated movies, until a filming accident in which he suffered 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 Teddy Valiant by dropping a piano on his head from 15 stories, 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. He is Roger's best friend. 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 personally 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 looney.

In the original story, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Benny was a thug 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 made an appearance as a guest on House of Mouse in the episodes "Max's New Car" and "Mickey vs. Shelby".

At the Disneyland Resort, the attraction Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin has guests ride spinning cabs named Lenny, said to be Benny's cousin.

Toon Patrol

Toon Patrol
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First appearance	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
In-universe information
Species	Anthropomorphic Weasels
Gender	Male

The Toon Patrol is a group of five anthropomorphic animated tailless weasels that serve as henchmen to Judge Doom, and the supporting antagonists of the film.

In the film, the Toon Patrol are the law officers of Toontown, but they behave more like vigilantes and mercenaries. Judge Doom has hired them to arrest Roger Rabbit for the murder of Marvin Acme. The Toon Patrol drive around in a black Dodge Humpback paddy wagon.

The weasels enjoy laughing at the misery of others, including each other. Like all the other Toons in the movie, they are invincible to physical body harm (except the Dip); however, prolonged laughter is shown to be lethal to them. Eddie Valiant jokes around in front of them during the climax of the movie, causing all but Smarty and Psycho to "die" from laughing at him, after which their toon souls rise to heaven in angel forms. According to Judge Doom, they once had hyena cousins who died in the same manner.

While being designed, the weasels and their fondness of weapons were modeled after the weasels in the 1949 Disney cartoon The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The weasels make an appearance in the Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin ride at Disneyland Resort.

• Smarty (Wise Guy in Car Toon Spin), voiced by David Lander, is the smart, wisecracking 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, bejewelled tie, a matching pink zoot hat with a darker pink band, 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. He is a frequent committer of malaprops. Smarty proves to be the most disciplined of the weasels, as he has more control over his laughter and tries to get his cohorts to follow suit. He is the third weasel to die in the film, but not by losing control of his laughter. After he disagrees with a lyric Eddie "entertains" the weasels with, Eddie kicks him in the crotch, sending him into the reservoir of Judge Doom's Dip sprayer. Unlike the others, his angel does not appear after his death (presumably the Dip dissolved that too).

• Greasy, voiced by Charles Fleischer, is Mexican, and has long greasy black hair and dark brown fur. He wears a green zoot suit styled trench coat and trousers hiked up all the way to his chest, a partially obscured pink tie and white dress shirt, as well as a tall green zoot hat and spectator shoes, and is overweight. His weapon of choice is a switchblade knife, although at one one point in Eddie Valiant's apartment, he is seen wielding a revolver. He is mostly shown speaking English with a heavy accent, and curses in Spanish when Roger shoots into the Acme Factory via a storm drain, propelling Greasy and himself up towards the ceiling, and when he springs a bear trap hidden in the top of Jessica Rabbit's dress. He also appears perverted, as he quickly takes Judge Doom's orders to search Jessica for Acme's will as an opportunity to feel her. He is the fourth weasel to die after losing control of his laughter, and drops dead out of the cab of the Dip Machine, putting in gear as he does so.

• Wheezy, voiced by June Foray, is a heavy smoker. Unlike his compatriots, who all have brown fur, his fur is smoky blue and has long, nicotine-stained fingers. He is dressed in a wrinkled dress shirt, black vest, pork pie hat with cigarettes stuffed into the band, and loose black tie, all of which are stained to some degree from nicotine. His weapon of choice is a 1940's Tommy gun, though he only uses it once, when he was searching Eddie Valiant's office. When he has cigarettes in his mouth, he has a harsh, raspy voice and when he doesn't, he has a deep voice, as shown when he says "Let's go!" after Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit free Benny the Cab. Wheezy is the second weasel to die, as his soul escapes while he is hanging from a ladder; he tries to pull it back but to no avail. Wheezy was at once though to be female, since he was voiced by a woman.

• Psycho, voiced by Charles Fleischer, is the most mentally unstable of the group of weasels. He has a shrilling laugh and high-pitched voice. Psycho wears an unbuckled straitjacket, has a lighter, tanner muzzle, blue eyes with yellow and white swirls characterizing his insanity, and unkempt fur by the hairline, giving it a spiky appearance. His weapon of choice is a barbershop straight razor. He is the last weasel to die, laughing hard enough to lose his balance and fall into the machinery of the Dip sprayer. As his soul rises to heaven, it throws a lever on the machine before the sleeves of his straitjacket buckle themselves together, showing that even after his death, he was still dangerous.

• Stupid, voiced by Fred Newman, is the dumbest of the weasels, though he appears to be more childish than unintelligent. He wears a horizontally striped blue and white t-shirt, a red beanie with a yellow 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 in it. He is also very fat. Stupid has only one line in the film "Ehh, Toontown's right on the other side of the wall, boss!". He is the first weasel to die after losing control of his laughter, knocking himself over the head several times before keeling over and his hands were seen clutching a lily.

Other weasel names considered but dropped during production were Slimy and Flasher (who were designed), as well as Crazy, Sleazy, Scummy and Twitchy (who were not).

Dolores

Dolores is Eddie Valiant's girlfriend who works as a waitress in a bar played by Joanna Cassidy. She was involved in helping Eddie solve the case against Judge Doom.

R. K. Maroon

R. K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) was the owner of Maroon Cartoons. He paid Eddie $100 to photograph Jessica and Marvin Acme, which eventually led to Acme's murder. Maroon later revealed that he was trying to blackmail Acme into selling Toontown to Cloverleaf Industries so that he could sell his studio as well, since Cloverleaf wanted both properties. Before he could reveal who was behind the plot, he was shot and killed.

Marvin Acme

Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye) is the owner of Acme Products and Toontown. He is known around Hollywood as "the gag king" for the prank items he makes his living selling. Among his top sellers are Disappearing/Reappearing Ink and a hand buzzer. In a blackmail scheme by close friend R.K. Maroon, he has an "affair" with Toon Jessica Rabbit, which Eddie Valiant, who briefly meets Acme, photographs. Acme is murdered later that night by Judge Doom, who drops a safe on his head and frames Jessica's husband, Roger.

Lt. Santino

Lt. Santino is the police lieutenant, and friend of Eddie. He takes Eddie to the Acme factory, where Marvin Acme has been murdered and everyone suspects Roger, and there presented to Judge Doom and explains the ingredients of the Dip. Later present when Eddie discovers that was Doom who killed Acme.

Teddy Valiant

Theodore "Teddy" J. Valiant is the deceased brother of Eddie. Teddy was killed by a piano dropped onto him by a Toon later revealed to be Judge Doom while investigating a robbery in Toontown. Due to his brother's death Eddie, with whom Teddy had cracked many a case and helped Toons who were in trouble, vowed never to work for a Toon again and wouldn't for many years. To honor his brother, Eddie left Teddy's desk the way it was the day he died and refuses to allow anyone to sit at it. Eddie avenged his brother's death when he destroyed Doom with his own Dip.

Angelo

Angelo is a client of Dolores's bar. Eddie is not particularly fond of Angelo, as he makes fun of Eddie for his detective work. Eddie regards Angelo as the kind of guy who would rat on you for a nickel and tells Roger that, but since Roger made Angelo laugh he returned the favor and helped him avoid Judge Doom's search. Questioned by the judge about the rabbit, Angelo made fun of him by saying that he has seen one, but an invisible one named Harvey (a reference to a 1944 play by Mary Coyle Chase).

Bongo the Gorilla

Bongo (voiced by Morgan Deare) is a cartoon ape bouncer of The Ink and Paint Club. The password Eddie used to get in was, "Walt sent me." and the gorilla let him in. He also threw Eddie out of the club for taking the pictures of Jessica and Marvin playing pattycake. He is seen again in the deleted pig head scene where he knocks Eddie out cold for sneaking back into Marvin's office. He was supposedly a henchman of Doom by the time, until the final scene, where he was seen with the other toons. It could have been possible after Doom's death that Bongo reformed and is now good.

Hyenas

The Toon Patrol's cousins (implying the weasels are all brothers) who supposedly "died laughing" as mentioned by Judge Doom.

Cartoon characters that make cameo appearances

These characters had all appeared in either film, comics or cartoon shorts made by various studios. All non-Disney characters had to be used only by special permission from their respective studios.

Walt Disney

• Mickey Mouse (voiced by Wayne Allwine)
• Minnie Mouse (voiced by Russi Taylor)
• Donald Duck (voiced by Tony Anselmo)
• Daisy Duck
• Goofy (voiced by Tony Pope)
• Pluto
• Pete
• Horace Horsecollar
• Clarabelle Cow
• Huey, Dewey, and Louie
• Clara Cluck
• José Carioca
• Peter Pig
• Bucky Bug
• Gus Goose
• The Merry Dwarfs from The Merry Dwarfs
• The trees and flowers from Flowers and Trees
• The gnomes from Babes in the Woods
• The sun from Father Noah's Ark
• The Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf (voiced by Tony Pope), 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
• Elmer Elephant and Joe Giraffe from Elmer Elephant
• Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs, Evil Queen (appearing as the Witch), and the forest animals from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Ferdinand The Bull from Ferdinand The Bull
• Pinocchio (voiced by Peter Westy), Jiminy Cricket, and Lampwick from Pinocchio
• Various Fantasia characters: broomsticks from The Sorcerer's Apprentice; Hyacinth Hippo (voiced by Mary T. Radford) and Madame Upanova from Dance of the Hours; Baby 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 one of the clowns from Dumbo
• Bambi, The Great Prince, Faline, Thumper and Flower from Bambi
• Pedro the plane from Saludos Amigos
• Ben Buzzard from The Flying Jalopy
• Emotion from Reason and Emotion
• Chicken Little from Chicken Little
• Monte the pelican from The Pelican and the Snipe
• Peter from Peter and the Wolf
• Br'er Bear, the hummingbirds (voiced by Russi Taylor), the Tar Baby, and the Sis Moles from Song of the South
• Willie the Giant and the Golden Harp from Mickey and the Beanstalk
• The animals from Johnny Appleseed*
• Danny from So Dear to My Heart*
• J. Thaddeus Toad (voiced by Les Perkins) and Cyril Proudbottom from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad*
• Mr. Walker from Motor Mania*
• Alice (mentioned), Bill the lizard, either Tweedledee or Tweedledum, Cheshire Cat, the doorknob, and a bulb horn bird from Alice in Wonderland*
• The apartments and skyscrapers from The Little House*
• Peter Pan (mentioned), Tinker Bell, John Darling, and the rhinoceros from Peter Pan*
• Babe the Blue Ox from Paul Bunyan*
• Maleficent's goons and the bluebirds from Sleeping Beauty*
• The silhouette of Mary Poppins and the penguin waiters from Mary Poppins*
• Kaa the python and Flaps the vulture from The Jungle Book*
• Piglet from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh*

Warner Bros.

• Bugs Bunny (voiced by Mel Blanc)
• Daffy Duck (voiced by Mel Blanc)
• Elmer Fudd
• Porky Pig (voiced by Mel Blanc)
• Yosemite Sam (voiced by Joe Alaskey)
• Tweety (voiced by Mel Blanc)
• Mama Bear
• Sylvester (voiced by Mel Blanc)
• Foghorn Leghorn
• The Road Runner*
• Wile E. Coyote*
• Speedy Gonzales*
• Marvin the Martian*
• Marc Antony*
• Sam Sheepdog*
• Bugs Bunny Prototype
• Yoyo Dodo from Porky in Wackyland and Dough for the Do-Do
• George the fox from Of Fox and Hounds
• Gracie the Fightin' Kangaroo from Pop 'Im Pop!*
• Toro the Bull from Bully for Bugs*

MGM

• Droopy (voiced by Richard Williams)
• Spike
• George
• Screwy Squirrel (mentioned)
• Meathead the dog
• The octopus from Half-Pint Pygmy*
• The witch from The Flying Sorceress* (deleted scene)
• Tom and Jerry - originally supposed to appear in a scene comforting each other in Marvin Acme's funeral.
• The wolf from Red Hot Riding Hood - originally supposed to appear in the nightclub scene howling at Jessica Rabbit.

Paramount Pictures/Fleischer/Famous Studios

• Betty Boop (voiced by Mae Questel)
• Koko the Clown
• Joker (the harlequin jack-in-the-box logo for Noveltoons)
• Wiffle Piffle from The Hot Air Salesman and Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
• Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl - originally supposed to appear in a scene in Marvin Acme's funeral.
• Little Lulu - originally supposed to appear in a scene in Marvin Acme's funeral.
• Casper the Friendly Ghost - originally supposed to appear in a scene in Marvin Acme's funeral.
• Superman - originally storyboarded to appear in a scene cut from the film, comforting a sobbing Mighty Mouse at Marvin Acme’s funeral.

Universal Studios/Walter Lantz

• Woody Woodpecker (voiced by Cherry Davis)
• Papa Panda
• Wally Walrus
• Homer Pigeon
• Chilly Willy (mentioned)
• Dinky Doodle (mentioned)

20th Century Fox/Terrytoons

• Mighty Mouse - originally storyboarded to appear in a scene cut from the film, being comforted by the Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios Superman at Marvin Acme’s funeral.
• Heckle and Jeckle - originally supposed to appear in a scene in Marvin Acme's funeral.
• The lion from The Temperamental Lion

King Features Syndicate/Pat Sullivan

• Felix the Cat

United Feature Syndicate/Al Capp

• Lena Hyena (voiced by June Foray) from Li'l Abner

Note: * denotes anachronisms; these characters (or, in the cases of characters such as Tinker Bell and Marvin the Martian, the animated versions of them that appear in the film) were created and/or appeared after 1947. But as screenplay writer Peter S. Seaman said, "The aim was entertainment, not animation history." There were a few notable Golden Age characters such as Popeye and Tom and Jerry missing from the movie due to legal copyright issues.