Though the coyote is the basis for the character of Wile E. Coyote in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons, especially about the Road Runner, coyotes have not been known as yet to attack greater roadrunners for prey.

It is seen as an important attractor of tourists to Tasmania and has come to worldwide attention through the Looney Tunes character of the same name.

Harman and Ising introduced their character Bosko in the first Looney Tunes cartoon, Sinkin ' in the Bathtub, and created a sister series, Merrie Melodies, in 1931.

* March 9 – Porky Pig makes his debut as the first major Looney Tunes character in I Haven't Got a Hat.

* Looney Tunes included the cartoon character Marvin the Martian ( 1948 ), a comic foil to Warner Bros. mainstays Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in several animated shorts.

Bosko was Looney Tunes first major lead character, debuting in the short Bosko, The Talk-Ink Kid in 1929.

A new character called Buddy became the only star of the Looney Tunes series for a couple of years.

The film also introduced the character Lola Bunny, who subsequently became another recurring member of the Looney Tunes, usually as a love interest for Bugs.

Daffy starred in 133 shorts in the Golden Age, making him the third-most frequent character in the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoons, behind Bugs Bunny's 166 appearances and Porky Pig's 159 appearances.

Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.

He is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes character.

Since Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising had left the studio in 1933, taking the studio's star character Bosko with them, Looney Tunes had been kept afloat by cartoons featuring the bland Buddy.

The Looney Tunes cartoon character Cool Cat is often portrayed as a beatnik, as is the banty rooster in the 1963 Foghorn Leghorn short Banty Raids.

* Road Runner: New segments of the Looney Tunes character and his pursuer, Wile E. Coyote, produced and directed by Chuck Jones.

In issue # 94 of the Looney Tunes comic, Bugs Bunny gets his back at Daffy Duck by making him the victim, in switching various movie roles, from Duck Twacy in Who Killed Daffy Duck ," a video game character, and a talk show host, and they always wound up with Daffy starring in Moby Dick ( the story's running gag ).

The character was developed by writer Mark Evanier, who has acknowledged basing his personality largely on that of the Looney Tunes character Henery Hawk.

The character makes an appearance in the Wii game Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal as an unplayable character.

Marvin the Martian is a character from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.

There are two other Looney Tunes " villains " in the evil character army, as well: An evil-eyed Gossamer and a possibly rabid Wile E. Coyote.

In February 2010, New Line Cinema and parent company Warner Bros. Pictures announced that they are planning a live-action / CG-animated combo feature film based on the Looney Tunes character.

Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr., Sylvester the Cat or simply Sylvester, or Puddy Tat, is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies repertory, often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper.

Under producer Leon Schlesinger's guide Harman and Ising created Looney Tunes ( the title being variation on Disney's Silly Symphonies ) starring their character Bosko.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

In short, gymnastics uses every part of the body and requires a great deal of character as well.

In spite of the relatively short period of time that we have experienced among you, we have already seen many indications of your character and spirit.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

In total, more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories featuring the Conan character have been written by authors other than Howard.

* The character Dan Rydell in the short lived series Sports Night was a Dartmouth alumnus, a subject that is mentioned in numerous episodes.

Doom, a science fiction / horror themed video game, has a background which is given in the game's instruction manual ; the rest of the story is advanced with short messages displayed between each section of the game ( called episodes ), the action as the player character progresses through the levels, and some visual cues.

* " Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living In Hell ", a 1988 short story lampooning televangelists included in Prayers to Broken Stones, is about a brief return to earth by the title character, an inhabitant of Dante's Inferno

An interesting literary interpretation of this period of Christianity and the character of Paul can be found in Rudyard Kipling's short story " The Church that was at Antioch ".

The area and the people inspired him and provided the backdrop for his best-known short stories, the Oom Schalk Lourens series ( featuring an older character named " Oom Schalk Lourens "), and the Voorkamer sketches.

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

* 1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.

Gay film historian Vito Russo, in considering Pretorius, stops short of identifying the character as gay, instead referring to him as " sissified " (" sissy " itself being Hollywood code for " homosexual ").

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries ; usually, but not always, murders.

* The Flying Sorcerers ( 1971, with David Gerrold ), previously serialised as " The Misspelled Magishun ", includes portraits of other SF authors — e. g. the lead character name becomes translated into the local language as " As a color, shade of purple-gray " ( or Purple for short ), that is, " As-A-Mauve "

Mark Twain's humorous short story " Nevada Funeral " similarly has a character saying a series of euphemisms for death.

" Patinkin found his studies a huge asset in The Princess Bride, playing the role of the best swordsman in the country, short of the main character, and part of his role included proficiency in fencing at a professional level.

The roots of the Vorkosigan Saga lie in an early short story by Bujold, " Dreamweaver's Dilemma ", which features a planet called Beta Colony and a character with the last name of Naismith.

While Nasreddin is mostly known as a character from short tales, whole novels and stories have later been written and an animated feature film was almost made.

The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome " ( 1982 ), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic " ( 1981 ) laid the foundations for the novel.

The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the violent Punch and one other character.

A point of view shot ( also known as POV shot or a subjective camera ) is a short film scene that shows what a character ( the subject ) is looking at ( represented through the camera ).

Pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard wrote extensively about his romanticized version of the Picts, especially in his short stories revolving around the fictional character Bran Mak Morn, but also in many other of his stories.

This tiny specimen was that year described by von Soemmerring as Ornithocephalus brevirostris ( for its short snout, now understood to be a juvenile character ), and provided a restoration of the skeleton, the first one published for any pterosaur.