Gossamer

Gossamer, originally called Rudolph or simply just Monster, is a character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.
== About Gossamer ==
The character is often a hairy, red monster, although in The Looney Tunes Show, he was more of an orange tone. He wears tennis sneakers on his giant feet, and his face is composed of only two oval-shaped eyes and a wide mouth. He has two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. The monster's main trait, however, is his red hair. In fact, a gag in the 1980 short "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century" lampoons this by revealing that Gossamer is, in fact, composed entirely of hair.
The director Chuck Jones introduced the monster character in the 1946 short "Hair-Raising Hare". In it, Bugs Bunny is lured to the lair of Dr. Lorre, an evil scientist who wants to use the rabbit for his experiments. The monster serves as the scientist's henchman, trying desperately to capture Bugs. This plot was then repeated in the 1952 Jones short "Water, Water Every Hare" (here called "Rudolph").
The monster would remain dormant for many decades until Jones used the character once more in "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century" in 1980. This is the cartoon which canonized the character's name as "Gossamer."
He was in a 1990 episode of Tiny Toon Adventures ("Duck Trek"), and he appears briefly in the 1996 movie Space Jam. He is also featured in a number of episodes of The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, most notably "A Game of Cat and Monster!", where he was revealed to be a transformed Colonel Rimfire.
Gossamer's image is available on all sorts of Warners merchandise, from T-shirts to ball caps to plush toys. 
A clip in the deleted scenes featurette on the Looney Tunes Back in Action DVD features Gossamer being harassed by Kate Houghton, suggesting that Gossamer was planned to make an appearance in the film, but it was deleted. However, a full look at this scene is not shown in the full deleted scenes clips on the DVD-ROM.
He starred in the series The Looney Tunes Show, voiced by Kwesi Boakye, where he is the young son of Witch Lezah.
Gossamer appeared as part of the Tune Squad lineup in Space Jam A New Legacy, even absorbing Wet-Fire with his mass of hair and later being wrung out by Foghorn. 
Gossamer appears in Bugs Bunny Builders as a friend of the Looney Builders.
Gossamer will appear in Tiny Toons Looniversity.
== Filmography ==
The classic shorts:
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The Tiny Toon Adventures episodes:
* S01E19. "Cinemaniacs!"
* S03E82. "What Makes Toons Tick" (cameo)
* Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery (1995)
Animaniacs
*"Suffragette Song" (cameo)
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episodes:
* "It's a Plaid, Plaid, Plaid, Plaid World"
* "A Game of Cat and Monster!" (as Colonel Rimfire)
The Pinky and the Brain episode:
* "Star Warners" (cameo)
The films:
* Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) 
* Space Jam (1996) (cameo)
* Looney Tunes Back in Action (2003) (deleted scene)
* Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)
* Space Jam A New Legacy (2021)
The Webtoons:
* "The Island of Dr. Moron"
* "Fast Feud"
* "Tech Suppork"
The Looney Tunes Show episodes:
* S1E05 "Monster Talent"
* S1E14 "Newspaper Thief"
* S1E17 "Sunday Night Slice" (cameo)
* S1E25 "Muh-Muh-Muh-Murder" (cameo)
* S2E01 "Bobcats on Three"
* S2E02 "You've Got Hate Mail" (cameo)
* S2E03 "Itsy Bitsy Gopher"
* S2E08 "The Stud, The Nerd, The Average Joe, & The Saint"
* S2E09 "It's a Handbag" (cameo in photo)
* S2E10 "A Christmas Carol"
* S2E11 "We're in Big Truffle"
* S2E13 "Daffy Duck, Esquire" (only mentioned)
* S2E15 "The Black Widow"
* S2E17 "Gribbler's Quest" (cameo and Merrie Melodies)
* S2E22 "Gossamer is Awesomer"
Wabbit/New Looney Tunes short:
* S2E11b "Superscooter 3000"
Looney Tunes Cartoons shorts:
* S1E02a "Big League Beast"
* "Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny!" (cameo)
* S5E06a "Pain Rent"
Bugs Bunny Builders
* S1E14 "Big Feet"
* "Haunted Garage!"
Tiny Toons Looniversity
== Notes ==
* Despite being named Rudolph in "Water, Water Every Hare", he was widely known as The Tennis-Shoe Monster until being renamed Gossamer in 1980.
* In Loonatics Unleashed, Gossamer has a planet named after him, where his descendant Gorlop resides.
== Gallery ==
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Gossamer Elmyra.JPG|Gossamer threatening Elmyra in Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery
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Looney Tunes 016nm.jpg|Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal"
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Screenshot 20210720-031341.png|Gossamer shrugs 1.
Screenshot 20210630-090038.png|Gossamer shrugs 2.
Screenshot 20210409-223243.png|Gossamer roaring angrily at Bugs.
Screenshot 20210817-221004.png|Gossamer angrily chases after Bugs 1.
Screenshot 20210817-222654.png|Gossamer angrily chasing after Bugs 2.
Screenshot 20210817-224428.png|Gossamer shaped as a trash can after being thrown out by Bugs.
Screenshot 20210817-221549.png|Gossamer chases Bugs 1.
Screenshot 20210817-223625.png|Gossamer chases Bugs 2.
Screenshot 20210817-224509.png|Gossamer with his hair twisted.
Screenshot 20210817-221443.png|Gossamer shocked 1.
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Screenshot 20210817-231924.png|Gossamer confused 1.
Screenshot 20210817-222348.png|Gossamer confused 2.
Screenshot 20210817-223843.png|Gossamer confused 3.
Screenshot 20210817-232048.png|Gossamer dazed.
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Spacejam gasp.png|Gossamer and everyone else shocked.
Jam8.jpg|Gossamer in “Space Jam”.
Gossamer space jam a new legacy 2d.jpg|2D version of Gossamer from Space Jam A New Legacy
Gossamer Space Jam A New Legacy CG.jpg|The CGI version of Gossamer from Space Jam A New Legacy.
GR AC 2020.png|Gossamer in Animaniacs (2020).
1baf309d-af6e-4dad-9cf1-9ea0e31646ce-400x400.png|Gossamer’s Funko POP.
Space-Jam-Gossamer-Funko-Pop-Vinyl-Figure-PIAB-Zavvi-Exclusive.webp|Space Jam Gossamer Funko-POP Vinyl Figure.
Acme arsenal.jpg|Gossamer’s ACME arsenal.
GossamerTurnaround.png|Gossamer in Looney Tunes Cartoons.
File:Gossamer.gif|Gossamer roaring.
File:Gossamer render 1.png|Gossamer render 1.
File:Gossamer rage render.png|Gossamer’s enraged render.
File:Gossamer render 2.png|Gossamer render 2.
Gossamer LTWOM.png|Gossamer in the Looney Tunes World of Mayhem.
File:Gossamer Icon.png|Gossamer On A ???
File:Lola and Gossamer.jpg|Gossamer On A Comic Page
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