Elmer the Huntsman Spider – Elmer Fudd
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Elmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Fudd
In the Bunyip Warrens, your wizard is looking for the remnants of the Green Lake. Instead you come across Huntsman Spiders Elmer and Sam.
Elmer: “Be vewy, vewy quiet, we’re hunting Wizards.”
Sam: “Why are you talking like that?”
Elmer: “It’s quieter.”
Sam: “No, it ain’t. Look, the Wizard’s right there, doggone it. They heard you a mile off.”
Elmer: “Oh, then let’s get ’em!”
Monstrology Tome Description for Elmer:
Became a Hunter for one reason, but it’s vewy, vewy personal. He’s hunting the Wascally Wabbit. For vengeance, you see.
After defeating them both, Sam and Elmer offer your wizard a clue as to why trouble has followed you to Wallaru. In Novus your wizard made some powerful people feel weak, and there is no wrath more terrible than that of the insecure.
Looney Tunes is an American media franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The franchise began as a series of animated short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, alongside its spin-off series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation. Following a revival in the late 1970s, new shorts were released as recently as 2014. The two series introduced a large cast of characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. The term Looney Tunes has since been expanded to also refer to the characters themselves.
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were initially produced by Leon Schlesinger and animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising from 1930 to 1933. Schlesinger assumed full production from 1933 until he sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944, after which it was renamed Warner Bros. Cartoons. The Looney Tunes title was inspired by that of Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies. The shorts initially showcased musical compositions owned by Warner’s music publishing interests through the adventures of such characters as Bosko and Buddy. However, the shorts gained a higher profile upon the debuts of directors Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and Robert McKimson, and voice actor Mel Blanc later in the decade. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck became the featured Looney Tunes characters, while Merrie Melodies featured one-shot cartoons and minor recurring characters.
Elmer J. Fudd is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series and the archenemy of Bugs Bunny. Elmer Fudd’s aim is to hunt Bugs, but he usually ends up seriously injuring himself and other antagonizing characters. He exhibits the speech sound disorder known as rhotacism, replacing his Rs and Ls with Ws thus referring to Bugs Bunny as a “scwewy” (screwy) or “wascawwy (rascally) wabbit.” Elmer’s signature catchphrase is, “Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, I’m hunting wabbits”, as well as his trademark laugh.
The best known Elmer Fudd cartoons include Chuck Jones’ work What’s Opera, Doc?, the Rossini parody Rabbit of Seville, and the “Hunting Trilogy” of “Rabbit Season/Duck Season” shorts (Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit, Duck!) with Fudd, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck. An earlier prototype of character named Elmer had some of Fudd’s recognizable aspects before the character’s more conspicuous features were set.
Elmer was usually cast as a hapless big-game hunter, armed with a double-barreled shotgun (albeit one which could be fired much more than twice without being reloaded) and creeping through the woods “hunting wabbits”. In a few cartoons, though, he assumed a completely different persona—a wealthy industrialist type, occupying a luxurious penthouse, or, in one episode involving a role reversal, a sanitarium — into which Bugs would, of course, somehow find his way. In Dog Gone People, he had an ordinary office job working for demanding boss “Mister Cwabtwee”. In another cartoon (A Mutt in a Rut) he appeared to work in an office and had a dog he called “Wover Boy”, whom he took hunting, though Bugs did not appear. (Elmer also has a hunting dog in To Duck or Not to Duck; in that film, the dog is named Laramore.)
The current list of all the (known) Wallaru references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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