Looney Tunes (Verse)

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==Summary==
Looney Tunes is a multi-media cartoon series by Warner Bros, running with the partner series Merrie Melodies, in the Golden Age of Cartoons, dedicated primarily to releasing comedic theatrical shorts featuring the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.
Production began on the series as early as 1930, with characters like Bosko, Buddy, and Goopy Gear being some of the less famous, but influential personalities featured in shorts before eventually finding fan-favorites such as Elmer Fudd, previously referred to as Egghead, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and the most famous of them all, Bugs Bunny. The series would expand with a multitude of different characters, acting as an anthology series with multiple callbacks to past shorts until the year of 1969, when production would end.
However, this was not the end for the franchise as it would begin to branch off into multiple media outlets, such as film, video games, comic books, several other television series and spin-offs, as well as a return to theatrical shorts from time to time. The most noticeable of these was an unprecedented success with television shows produced by Steven Spielberg, which would go on to expand the lore of the franchise, such as Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. And during the late 90's to 2000's, Looney Tunes would become notable for films such as Space Jam and Looney Tunes: Back in Action. The series has gone on to create multiple spin-offs of it's characters in several different genres. Sci-fi for the Duck Dodgers series, mystery for The Sylvester and Tweety Bird Mysteries, and even a sitcom-esque style for The Looney Tunes Show, although heralding back to it's slapstick roots for shows like Wabbit and Looney Tunes Cartoons as late as the 2010's and 2020's respectively.
Looney Tunes is still well-regarded as one of the most influential and massive cartoon franchises of all time.
==Power of the Verse==
Looney Tunes is a verse where most every character operates under cartoon physics. As such, its massive amount of characters are able to unexpectedly take an absurd amount of punishment to sometimes universal proportions while also using this same power to damage those who rely on it.
In terms of Attack Potency, many characters scale around High 3-A, thanks to various feats of their "universe" being destroyed and the Toons shrugging off such a consequence with no problem. With preparation, various characters like The Brain are able to scale above this to Low 2-C for their inventions, becoming a threat to the time-space continuum as a whole. Toons with a Looniness strong enough to be considered one of High Tiers of the verse are able to reach up to Low 1-C with dimensional hax and even exit the boundaries of their cartoon to become an animator themselves. Most are able to evade and react to the attacks of the animator, scaling them and those that can keep up with them to Immeasurable speeds. Some of the weakest characters of the verse like Plucky Duck are able to lift and spread an infinite universe with its highest tiers being able to drag and restrain 5-D constructs and characters that can drag around their reality casually, putting their Lifting Strength at Infinite to Immeasurable. Thanks to their nature as Toons, they are able to regenerate from most anything at all. From puddles, to ashes, to soundwaves, death itself, complete erasure, destruction of the soul, and being deleted. Toons are notoriously hard to permanently put down for good.
===The Looneyverse Cosmology===
The Looneyverse is a place that is continuously portrayed as a cosmology based upon meta. Toons are drawn upon a 2-D page where they begin their journey of life, and then leap off the page into a 3-D environment alongside humans. This world mirrors our own, retaining celebrities, cartoon history, and current topical events with which to parody. It is said that the universe where this environment is set in is infinite, making it a High 3-A structure, with the verse also subscribing to such theories as the Butterfly Effect, where one change in history can create multiple parallel realities, the most of which has been calculated to be at the very least over 200 to 29,420 thanks to the efforts of Pinky and The Brain, making their multiverse as a whole 2-B.
The Looney Tunes reality is treated as one of many fictional entities in an expanding conglomerate called the Serververse, alongside multiple media franchises such as DC Comics, Harry Potter, and The Matrix, although none of them are truly canonical to each other, only the fictionalized versions presented, although frequent crossovers with their versions of classic DC characters occur. This Serververse exists within the fictional Warner Bros. database where they are treated in the higher world as mere pieces of fiction comprised of data.
This higher world is a place where the true Warner Bros. company exists. As early as Bosko shorts in the 1930's, toons have shown a meta-relationship with their creators, with their animators having godlike control over the fate and reality of the characters, leaving many of them helpless to their desires. The most notable examples of this are the shorts Duck Amuck and Rabbit Rampage in which Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd exit their cartoons to torment their adversaries in the place of the animator themselves. When the jump to hand-drawn to digital was made, this trend continued in examples such as Wabbit's One Carroter in Search of an Artist and Animaniacs' Yakko Amakko, in which in place of a paintbrush being used to manipulate the environment, a computer is used instead, demonstrating how the higher world can use anything from a paper and paintbrush to a computer to interact with and manipulate the lower world and the time-space continuum within. Space Jam: A New Legacy takes this a step further by introducing the idea that the Looneyverse takes place inside the Warner Bros database, tying the cosmology together, and making this higher world a 5-D Low 1-C setting.
==The Mainline Canon==
While Looney Tunes may seem like an average anthology series with no pieces truly tying it together, there is actually much more to it than that. While initially played off as a joke in a good number of shorts, where characters frequently break the fourth wall and are portrayed as actors with their cartoons being their films, this is shown in later entries such as Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs to be a fundamental aspect of their world. The premise of the former is that younger, more inexperienced toons, are becoming educated in order to become famous cartoon stars like their mentors, the classic Looney Tunes, like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Wile E. Coyote, which consistently treats their film repertoire as past works that the toons have worked in as actors.
It is important to note that while toons are actors, they have a tendency to go off-script and sometimes are not even aware that they are acting while other, wiser toons, like Bugs Bunny, do. This is also to take into account that the stunts and abilities these toons perform are the real deal with no special effects of any kind manipulated to make it work. Animaniacs takes it a step further and makes a major setting of the show take place outside of the cartoons, directly in the Warner Bros. Movie Lot, where the Warner Siblings, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot torment the staff directly, and multiple toons like Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny are presented the very same as they are in Tiny Toons, as celebrity actors at the top of their game. Staff, such as the creative team of Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem, subscribe to the theory of a Looney Tunes "canon" and do go out of their way to exclude certain properties that wouldn't fit, with consultants at Warner Bros backing up this decision. It can then be assumed that a vast majority of Looney Tunes media that addresses this fundamental aspect of the world, and not as its own individual series, is a part of the main canon, with supporting evidence being references to past events and cartoons.
This would mean the following would fit into that category:
*Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies
*Tiny Toon Adventures
*Animaniacs
*Pinky & The Brain
*Freakazoid
*Taz-Mania
*The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
*Looney Tunes: Back In Action
*Duck Dodgers
*Looney Tunes: ACME Arsenal
*Looney Tunes Webtoons
*Looney Tunes Comics (DC Run)
*Looney Tunes: Rabbit's Run
*New Looney Tunes/Wabbit
*Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020)
*Animaniacs (2020)
*Space Jam: A New Legacy
*Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem
There are also properties that are presented in-verse as movies or shows that characters refer to as such. For example, in The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Pinky & The Brain, and even its sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy, the original Space Jam is referred to as a film. While this does keep it canon as it works within the actors' reality, it only does under the pretense that anything regarding the origins of the toons or integral world-building such as the toons living in a hole in the center of the Earth is made-up and not real. The following would go under this category:
*Space Jam
*Loonatics Unleashed
And finally, there are properties that do not fit anywhere within the canon and should be treated as Alternative Canon:
*Baby Looney Tunes
*The Looney Tunes Show
*Bugs Bunny Builders
*Multiple Video Games
==Supporters/Opponents/Neutral==
===Supporters===
*DimeUhDozen
*Tonygameman
*GoCommitDi
*Flashlight237
*Apex Predator GX
*The Element Kirbies
*Accelerated Evolution
===Opponents===
===Neutral===
==Characters==
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|-|Classics=
===Leads===
* Bugs Bunny
* Daffy Duck
* Porky Pig
* Tweety Bird
* Hector the Bulldog
* Granny
* Speedy Gonzales
* The Road Runner
* Pepe Le Pew 
* Foghorn Leghorn
* Sam Sheepdog
* Goofy Golphers
* Cool Cat
* Bosko
===Villains===
* Elmer Fudd 
* Yosemite Sam
* Marvin the Martian
* K-9
* Wile E. Coyote
* Gossamer
* Tasmanian Devil
* Sylvester the Cat
* Witch Hazel
* Henery Hawk
* Ralph Wolf
* Cecil Turtle
* Beaky Buzzard
|-|Spielberg Extended Canon=
===Tiny Toon Adventures===
* Buster Bunny
* Plucky Duck
* Babs Bunny
* Hamton J. Pig
* Dizzy Devil
* Fifi La Fume
* Shirley McLoon
* Little Beeper
* Calamity Coyote
* Sweetie Bird
===Villains===
* Montana Max
* Elmyra Duff
===Animaniacs===
* Yakko Warner
* Dot Warner
* Wakko Warner
* Ralph
* Dr. Scrachansniff
* Hello Nurse
* Pinky
* The Brain
* Goodfeathers
* Slappy Squirrel
* Rita
* Runt
* Buttons
* Mindy
* Katie Ka-Boom
* Minerva Mink
* Flavio
* Marita
* Chicken Boo
* The Animator
===Freakazoid===
* Freakazoid
|-|Miscellaneous=
===Film Characters===
* The Nerdlucks/Monstars
* Michael Jordan (Space Jam)
* Lola Bunny
* Al-G Rhythm
* LeBron James (Space Jam)
* The Goon Squad
* DJ Drake
* Luther J. Chairman
===Duck Dodgers (2003)===
* Queen Tyr'ahnee
===World of Mayhem===
* Zoot Suit Daffy
* Big Chungus
|-|Non-Canon=
===The Looney Tunes Show===
* Bugs Bunny (The Looney Tunes Show)
* Daffy Duck (The Looney Tunes Show)
* Porky Pig (The Looney Tunes Show)
* Lola Bunny (The Looney Tunes Show)
* Yosemite Sam (The Looney Tunes Show)
</tabber>
==Civilizations==
* ACME
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