Eddie Valiant

Edward "Eddie" Valiant is the main protagonist of the 1988 Disney hybrid film .
He is a private detective who was investigating on the murder of his younger brother Teddy, where it was falsely suspected to be done by the titular Roger Rabbit.
He was portrayed by the late , who would later go on to play Boris in Balto, Mario in the 1993 film Super Mario Bros. and Mr. Smee in Hook.
==Biography==
Eddie Valiant and his younger brother Theodore "Teddy" Valiant were sons of a circus clown (shown by the pictures on their desk in the film), who shared in his occupation for a while. Fittingly enough, this caused both of them to become happy, jolly, good-humored guys with a love of jokes and laughs. They eventually joined the Los Angeles police force and went on to start their own private investigation service, Valiant & Valiant, in 1934.
In their service as private investigators, they were known for 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, possibly as a spy for the Axis Powers, especially the Nazis, both seen as newspaper clippings in Valiant's office.
However, during another investigation in the early 1940s, some time after the United States joined the Allied Powers following the Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, he and Teddy were chasing the unknown Toon form of Judge Doom who was robbing the First National Bank of Toontown (the home of all the Toons). During the chase, Doom dropped a large piano on them from 15 stories up. Eddie survived, with a broken arm, but Teddy was killed. As a result, Eddie held a grudge against Toons (Up to that point, he and Teddy loved going to Toontown and working with the Toons), lost all of his sense of humor and positive outlook on life in general, turned to the bottle, and disappeared from the public eye.
Since turning to alcohol, Eddie became a subject of ridicule among the police force.
==Role in the film==
In 1947, R.K. Maroon of Maroon Cartoons paid Eddie Valiant $100 to photograph Jessica Rabbit, Roger Rabbit'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, who turns out to be Judge Doom, who is really a Toon wearing a human mask.
Valiant manages to defeat Doom by gushing out Dip on him from the Toon Destroyer, causing him to melt and scream "I'm melting! Melting!", a reference to the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939), who melts when she gets water splashed at her by Dorothy Gale. After defeating Doom at the Acme Warehouse, Eddie ended his vendetta against Toons after avenging the death of his brother Teddy at the hands of Doom and walks home with Roger and Jessica Rabbit and his girlfriend, Dolores. 
In addition, his tapping into his long-lost sense of humor to defeat Doom's henchmen rekindled his love of laughter and jokes, so he presumably returned to his happy, optimistic former self from then on. 
==Gallery==
===Images===
Eddie and Roger face to face screaming.jpg|Eddie's comedic scream upon seeing Roger sleeping in his bed.
Roger and Eddie cuffed together.jpg|"Idiot! I got no keys for these cuffs."
Jessica Rabbit trying to convince Eddie Valiant that Roger Rabbit is innocent.png|Jessica being a femme fatale to Eddie.
Who-framed-roger-rabbit-disneyscreencaps.com-8750.jpg|"Toons. Gets 'em every time."
Who-framed-roger-rabbit-disneyscreencaps.com-9175.jpg|"Nice booby trap."
Eddie Valiant facing Judge Doom.png|Eddie Valiant vs. Judge Doom.
Holy Smokes! He's a Toon in Disguise!!.png|"Holy smokes! He's a Toon!"
Not TODAY, IT ISN'T, DOOM!!!!.png|Eddie finally defeats Judge Doom by using a Toon Mallet to shoot out a Boxing glove and hits the valve that unleashes "The Dip" on Judge Doom and kills him.
Pig.JPG|The Pig Head Deleted Scene.
Untitled1 20210406155242~3.png|Screenshots showing an animated version of Eddie.
==Trivia==
*Although little or nothing is heard about the methods employed by Teddy, the items on his side of the desk in shots of the Valiant & Valiant office suggest that he was based more on Sherlock Holmes, judging by the tobacco pipe and magnifying glass on his desk.
*Eddie's character is somewhat different in the movie. Rather than being a smoker, he is an alcoholic and having no facial hair whereas, in the novel, he has a beard.
*It should be noted that Bob Hoskins is British and has a Cockney accent, and Eddie was raised in California.
*In early screen tests for the film, Disney veteran Pete Renaday portrayed Eddie.
*Before Bob Hoskins was cast, several other actors were considered for the part of Eddie.
**Harrison Ford was Spielberg's original choice to play Eddie, but he was too expensive for the part.
**Chevy Chase was the second choice to play the character, but he turned it down as he wasn't interested in it.
**Bill Murray was also considered for the part, but due to his method of receiving offers for roles, he missed out on it.
**Eddie Murphy was also considered for the role, but reportedly turned down the role, but later regretted it.
**Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Wallace Shawn, Ed Harris, the late Charles Grodin, Don Lane, the late Paul Newman and even the late Robin Williams were also considered for the role of Eddie.
*He made a small cameo on Weebo's screen in the movie Flubber.
*In the film, during the chase scene, some of the shots were too dangerous for live action. As a result, they had to animate Eddie.
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