It can also be considered a breath of fresh air from typically ruthless and brash villains. While he may be greedy, thrill-seeking, and self-serving, these traits are presented in a really entertaining manner, which sometimes makes him easy to root for despite being a hunter of the woods.Even outside his antagonistic roles, his role as a Butt-Monkey makes him funny and somewhat sympathetic.Throughout the short, Elmer gets injuring it on the grounds that it's already dead and stuffed, but at the end, after Elmer gets a phone call and reveals that hunting season is over, the lion - along with all other animals that had posed as animal heads as well - leaves the lodge, only for Elmer to reveal that he knew all along and set a new record, with it taking only three hours to get all those animals out of there. The episode What's My Lion? where a Lion hides in Elmer's lodge during the hunting season, putting his head through the wall to pretend to be a trophy.The cartoon ends with Bugs-as-Elmer being arrested for tax evasion, and Elmer says to the audience, "I may be a scwewy wabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatwaz!" He lures Bugs into taking his place, who is put in hypnotherapy and starts to think he's Elmer. The episode Hare Brush where Elmer, the millionaire head of a major corporation, is in a mental hospital because he thinks he's a rabbit.There were times when he faked insanity and stupidity to get what he wants.Heck, in "Quack Shot", he was actually on top of his game against nearly everything Daffy threw at him. Despite being very incompetent and much more of a goofball compared to most villains, he has had occasional moments that took even Bugs by surprise.There were many shorts that have shown him to be a polite everyman when he's living at home, minding his own business and wanting peace & quiet despite sometimes resorting to harsh methods in doing so. Despite him literally being created to serve as the show's go-to incompetent hunter to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (especially when he chases after them in Looney Tunes: Back in Action), he has shown to become his own person and built his own life outside of antagonizing Bugs and Daffy.As he puts W's in his speech whewe he wealwy shouldn't, makes it all the more memorable. Much like Porky Pig, Sylvester, and Tweety, he has a unique vocal speaking that is always great to hear.
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