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Screwy Squirrel
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A type of Jerkass who mercilessly pranks characters primarily for his own (and the audience's) amusement. This is sometimes over a minor slight where the character is annoyed that the perpetrator doesn't even acknowledge it. Many writers of original animated shorts felt it was more difficult to sympathize with an obviously clever lead doing this kind of thing too often. A famous comparison is the early "Tex Avery style" Bugs Bunny, who was zany on sheer principle (or better yet, Bob Clampett's take on Bugs, which portrayed him as a manic, short-tempered egotist who breaks down when met with someone of his own wile). Chuck Jones turned Bugs into a Karmic Trickster. He was paired with bombastic or life-threatening antagonists who deliberately threaten or mistreat him without provocation. Given that he responds only in retaliation or in self-defense, Bugs was more easily excused for his behavior, and even then he tended to play on the stupidity of his enemies rather than outright aggression. A problem with this moral logic of the encounter was that it is always incredibly one-sided — since Bugs is rarely in real danger, it shades into Why Did You Make Me Hit You?. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })On the bright side, this kind of character will rarely, if ever, cause any permanent or serious damage to their victims, mainly due to the downtoning of this trope. Modern examples of this trope will usually result in a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, who, while causing other characters a lot of annoyance, will notice when they have gone too far even for them. They are trying to amuse themselves, after all, and some levels can flat out be disturbing even to them. Writers also frequently took pleasure in showing the odd occasion where such pranksters to have absolutely no sense of humor when it is they who act as the butt of a joke, often leading to a Humiliation Conga. If they have a favorite victim, on the other hand, they will usually be very protective of them should another similar-minded prankster show up and do the same on them, reasoning that it is only he or she is allowed to treat the victim in such a manner, which often leads up to a Hypocritical Heartwarming moment. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })If the Screwy Squirrel is an otherworldly being, the character may also be an Amusing Alien or a Great Gazoo. A Troll is the online version of this trope. Often criss-crosses with The Prankster whose focus is on practical jokes. Media Watchdogs for Saturday Morning Cartoons in the 1980s came down heavily on any remaining Screwy Squirrels, citing them as bad influences on children; many revivals of them tend to be toned down considerably. Not to be confused with Crazy Awesome or Screwball Squirrel (the latter of which is about the actual fauna). Examples: |
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One of these turned up on Clone High. "Try and catch me, bitch!" | |
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Bun-Bun from Sluggy Freelance can often be like this. Oh, he'll usually claim that the people he torments did something to piss him off, but for Bun-Bun sometimes just existing in the same room as him is enough to do that. | |
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Quite a few of the early Tom and Jerry shorts portray have Jerry going after Tom with little to no reason, but most of the time Tom is allowed to have the last laugh. Similarly there were a lot of times Tom was less intent on catching Jerry and just tormenting him for kicks. Until Chuck Jones came anyway. | |
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House: Dr. Gregory House has been known to ruin people's lives for no reason other than that he found them annoying. The fact that the majority of his victims wouldn't be alive were if not for him is the only thing saving him from complete Jerkassery. | |
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The Simpsons: Itchy and Scratchy. The entirety of the Simpsons' show within a show within a show's purpose was to take this trope to the nth+ 1 degree, where Itchy is a violently psychopathic mouse that revels in repeatedly murdering Scratchy the cat in unbelievably graphic and gory ways. Interestingly, the supposed wrongs that Itchy is paying back are never shown or implied in the slightest. Itchy is merely portrayed as being an unrepentant psycho. Likewise, virtually all of the Simpsons'' characters react to Itchy's horrific cartoon sadism, by screaming with laughter. | |
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Alluded to in an early season of MythBusters: the animated intro to the myth of whether you could stop a bullet by putting your finger in the gun barrel depicts stoic Jamie as an Elmer Fudd-like hunter and goofy Adam as a cartoon squirrel. | |
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The earliest incarnations of Looney Tunes characters Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny were "screw balls", a character type that, along with Porky Pig's everyman, put Warner Bros. animation on the map. Before Bugs turned into an agent of righteous reprisal, his personality largely depended on his adversary's intelligence: when facing Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam-styled dumbasses, Bugs could only be a screwball tormentor; paired with certain gremlins or tortoises of equal wiles, however, Bugs was the tormented. Daffy, who became a star by stealing the show, used screwiness to grab attention, and, in fact, may have been the first recurring example of this type of character; as various writers and directors learned, however, watching a screwball get his just desserts could be just as funny. A decades-long process of Flanderization turned him into the greedy, egotistical, self-righteous Jerkass we know today. Foghorn Leghorn was an interesting take on the Screwy Squirrel: in his cartoons, clueless outsiders would be drawn into an ongoing prank war between Foggy and Barnyard Dog; as such, both characters, while low-key, were relentless tormentors with no stated motivation. Sylvester the Cat, usually a hapless Butt-Monkey of a provoker to such characters as Tweety, was utilized as a "screwball" type to good effect in "Back Alley Op-roar", in which he drives a sleepy Elmer Fudd to distraction with his late-night singing. "Kitty Kornered" similarly played a prototype Sylvester (and three similar cats) as zany hecklers against Porky Pig. Sylvester himself also fell victim to Screwy Squirrels on a few odd occasions (eg. "Canned Feud"). Granted, since his tormentor is a mouse, we are possibly meant to interpret some Offscreen Villainy on Sylvester's part, after all Cats Are Mean, but based on the short alone he plays an unprovoked victim rather straight. Other examples of this type in the Looney Tunes world: Charlie Dog, the Goofy Gophers, the mice Hubie and Bertie, and the Do-Do in Porky in Wackyland. Charlie Dog may also count as a somewhat twisted Loveable Rogue, in that his antagonism was usually motivated by a profit of some kind, usually a roof over his head. This also applies to Hubie and Bertie and (occasionally) Daffy. That said, it's not as if they weren't shown to take sadistic enjoyment in driving their foils crazy a lot of times. In the classic short "Duck Amuck", it's the artist (who is none other than Bugs Bunny) who plays the Screwy Squirrel. Bugs got his comeuppance in "Rabbit Rampage", when the artist is Elmer Fudd. |
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In Men in Hats, Aram seems to love setting his friends on fire or tossing scorpions on their faces for no better reason than that he grows bored easily. | |
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Circe in Justice League. After being released from Tartarus she decides to humiliate an old enemy by turning her daughter into a pig... And then going clubbing. In the end, she voluntarily ends the curse in return for having Batman sing in public. | |
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The Teen Titans Go! episode "Squash and Stretch" is about the Titans trying various ways to get their bowl of nuts back from one of these. | |
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Screwy Squirrels make pretty good comic book villains: The Joker has had aspects of this in his character, especially when more in a Villainous Harlequin mode. | |
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Digeri Dingo from Taz-Mania was a combination of this, Deadpan Snarker, Fourth-Wall Observer and Too Clever by Half. | |
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Classic Disney Shorts: Although usually depicted as personable, Donald Duck's famous temper is usually catalyzed by Screwy Squirrels, most often Chip 'n' Dale. Huey, Dewey, and Louie actually debuted as this type of character in the 1938 short "Donald's Nephews". For most later instances, however, it was actually Donald who started the fights, and they retaliated with some Disproportionate Retribution. Chip 'n' Dale were also similarly retaliators or Loveable Rogues a lot of occasions. In contrast, the little orphans common in the Classic Disney Shorts were always Screwy Squirrels against Donald, and sometimes Mickey had to suffer as well. Contrary to popular belief, it was Chip and Dale, not Donald Duck who usually made the first attack. A lot of times it was merely their curiosity or hunger that grated on Donald's nerves, and led him to respond disproportionately, after that it was free game. They seemed to play the role more consistently against Pluto. Ironically, Donald himself played this role in "The Band Concert", as he annoyed Mickey by continually turning his band's performance of the William Tell Overture into "Turkey in the Straw" with an endless supply of flutes. In the early shorts, Goofy can be as much of a victim of Screw Squirrel-types, due to his simple nature. One bizarre Running Gag of the earlier Disney shorts was to have the tormentors be inanimate objects. Be it a piano, a boomerang, a diminutive tornado or the innards of a giant clock, their humour plays off from them being things that shouldn't be alive, and yet constantly malfunction and move almost independently in a way that causes abuse for Mickey and co, sometimes even making intricate gestures that imply they are sentient and out to make them miserable. |
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Janitor in Scrubs torments J.D. to an insane degree. His own amusement is at least one of the possible reasons. Other interpretations include him honestly feeling just as tormented by JD (which is sometimes the case, though not because J.D. wanted to) or that he actually sees him as a friend but is too screwed up and socially awkward to properly show it (Something his actor believes). The finale reveals that J.D. really did put the penny in the door and the Janitor saw it was an honest accident, but by repeatedly lying about it, he failed the Janitor's Secret Test of Character. | |
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In Freefall, Sam Starfall is all about pranking and generally causing trouble for others, though none of his plans have involved the intent to cause real harm. | |
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The Sesame Street Muppet character Harvey Kneeslapper had some of these qualities, and parental concerns about this were one reason (along with his loud voice, which was hard on Frank Oz's vocal chords) why he was eventually dropped from the show. | |
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Although usually depicted as personable, Donald Duck's famous temper is usually catalyzed by Screwy Squirrels, most often Chip 'n' Dale. | |
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Tom Foolery of the Global Guardians PBEM Universe is a psychotic, sadistic clown who enjoys messing with people just to mess with them. Add in his scary makeup, his spine-chilling laugh, his weaponized toys, and an urge to see the whole world go down in flames, and you have a really sick Screwy Squirrel. But then, he is the setting's Captain Ersatz of The Joker. | |
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In Sinfest, this is how Ezekiel and Ariel act when around Satan. Part of their job appears to be "annoy the Devil as much as possible so he'll be too distracted to corrupt mortal humans". Their favorite way to do this is to dress up as Jehova's Witnesses and ring his doorbell. | |
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Mr. Mxyzptlk, whenever he showed up on Superman: The Animated Series. Slightly inverted when he ends up effortlessly tricked into banishing himself by Superman; in that case the Screwball archetype is being tricked, but just to keep him out of the strait-laced hero's hair. Supes does briefly get to be a Smug Super when he finally banishes Mxyzptlk once and for all. | |
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The Black Hat Guy of xkcd, being based on the aforementioned Aram, also fits this trope. Unless Word of God says so, Black Hat Guy was probably based around the old black-hat/white-hat notion of hackers. Black-hats (as in the bad guys from cowboy movies) were the ones that hack maliciously; white-hats are out to test security systems (and occasionally rob the rich to give to the poor). | |
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A bunch of other historical figures and fictional characters were also depicted as Screwy Squirrels in the Downfall parodies, like Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Lt. Werner from Das Boot, and Felicity Merriman from the American Girl series. | |
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Azumanga Daioh: Tomo may be an unintentional version of this trope, strangely enough. She is a good example of what a Jerkass with ADHD can become when she tries a bit too hard to be a Genki Girl. | |
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Woody Woodpecker, whose merciless, skull-splitting cackle begged for comeuppance he seldom received, is a good example of why Screwy Squirrels get toned down. By the '50s the character was considerably more laid-back. | |
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The three cockroaches in Oggy and the Cockroaches | |
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Hitler Rants: Fegelein in the parodies. "FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! A bunch of other historical figures and fictional characters were also depicted as Screwy Squirrels in the Downfall parodies, like Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Lt. Werner from Das Boot, and Felicity Merriman from the American Girl series. |
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The skull kids from The Legend of Zelda commonly possess this kind of personality. The one in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is said to have possessed such a personality prior to finding the titular mask, who also may have appeared in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, as implied in the game's ending. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess also has a similar-minded skull kid, pulling pranks on Link while he's searching for the Master Sword. | |
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The Frollo Show has Fegelein among its characters. It also turns Mephiles the Dark into one of those, and he has a rivalry with Fegelein (who typically outdoes him). The main characters are not above trolling others for their own amusement, either (best seen against Marco Antonio Regil in Frollo Enters A Mexican Contest). | |
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Niles the butler from The Nanny. While normally his actions are limited to bitter sarcasm, his life's passion seems to be playing cruel tricks on C.C. Babcock. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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The three rodents in Big Buck Bunny, the most virulent of them is a squirrel. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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The Red Guy from Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel in his less villainous moments. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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The Aracuan Bird first introduced in The Three Caballeros seems to be like this. It steals José's cigar while he's still using it, and then later draws false train tracks that cause all the individual cars of a train to separate. When it shows up again in the Melody Time short "Blame it on the Samba", it cheers up an incredibly depressed Donald and José, apparently just so that they'll be in a better mood for messing around with them. It also stars in a Classic Disney Short, a similar Mickey Mouse Works sketch and stars in an episode of House of Mouse where it is torments Donald in various ways in all three. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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This seems to be The Monarch's modus operandi in regards to "arching" Dr. Venture in The Venture Bros.: to be Venture's Arch-Nemesis and basically just screw with his life as much as possible. In episodes where he's actually out for blood (and not targeting Dr. Venture), he's scarily competent. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Yukari from Rosario + Vampire is introduced as one (in addition to Tsukune's love rival for Moka's affection), but she gradually mellows out. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Ambush Bug, from The DCU. | |
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| Screwy Squirrel / int_cade2230 | type |
Screwy Squirrel | |
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Incidentally Screwy did gain his own animated series in the early nineties (segments placed alongside Droopy, Master Detective), albeit renamed "Screwball Squirrel". Similar to Bugs, his sadism was toned down and made more karmic. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Elijah And Azuu has Fraja's Mom, who has actively antagonized every character she's interacted with at least once simply for her own amusement. She actually helps her son get through a romantic crisis by helping him realize that, as a demon, being impulsive and doing whatever you want is part of life. The romantic crisis only came about because she herself seduced her son's boyfriend. |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Mr Mxyzptlk, Depending on the Writer. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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In the classic short "Duck Amuck", it's the artist (who is none other than Bugs Bunny) who plays the Screwy Squirrel. Bugs got his comeuppance in "Rabbit Rampage", when the artist is Elmer Fudd. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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The Creeper, sometimes. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Captain Kangaroo's Mr. Moose and Mr. Bunny Rabbit kind of fit this trope, too. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Todd Daring in The Replacements, especially in the episode, "Truth or Daring'' which in that episode, also shows realistic consequences. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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While the regular chipmunks averts this completely, the Direct-to-Video movie Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein parodies this trope when Alvin drinks a potion from Dr. Frankenstein that turns him into a Warner Bros. esque screwball character. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Eric Cartman of South Park parodies this character type when the gang encounters Osama Bin Laden, and Cartman becomes a Screwy Squirrel cartoon-character while attacking him. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: The Trope Namer is Screwy Squirrel◊, a Tex Avery MGM character from the '40s. He at least had the excuse of being, well, screwy: One of the shorts starts with him escaping from an asylum and tormenting the asylum's guard dog while wearing a Napoleon hat. Perhaps best encapsulated in 1997, when Screwy Squirrel, on April Fool's day "took over" Cartoon Network and refused to show anything but a repeat viewing of his short Happy-Go-Nutty while demanding his own animated series. Screwy Squirrel is so completely demented a character he came to scare his creator. There were only four or five Screwy Squirrel shorts made — and already the Fourth Wall was in smithereens — before Tex Avery decided to stop using the character; the unlimited potential for utter insanity and chaos unnerved the animation team. It's particularly telling that the final short "Lonesome Lenny" featured Screwy running afoul of a dimwitted but friendly dog named Lenny who ends up hugging him to death. Incidentally Screwy did gain his own animated series in the early nineties (segments placed alongside Droopy, Master Detective), albeit renamed "Screwball Squirrel". Similar to Bugs, his sadism was toned down and made more karmic. |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Touhou: Tewi Inaba. Despite leading most of the youkai rabbits in Eientei, she is said to have a deceitful personality (this is later shown when Reisen Udongein Inaba arrives at Eientei, and Tewi often pulls pranks with her as the victim). Fanon takes it so far that she pulls pranks on everyone (mostly the lower-leveled girls), though canon and semi-canon shows that this isn't far from the truth, with her victims in both Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red and Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth having included Aya, Meiling, Eirin, Kaguya, Mokou, Suwako, and Yorihime. Strangely, her power is to give good luck to humans... Kijin Seija, Big Bad of Double Dealing Character, tried to cause a revolution, overthrow the society which had given the strong free reign to opress the weak and cause a societal upheaval which would allow the weak to rule over the strong instead. What drives her in her quest towards this ambitious, visionary goal? While she, herself, claims it's revenge for years of opression, the truth is that she, as an amanojaku with the power to turn anything upside-down and the personality to match, simply felt like turning the world around her on its head. No matter what the results or consequences of such an act would be, just the act of doing it was her motivation. |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Sledgehammer O'Possum from What A Cartoon! Show really pushes the envelope of this trope, violently and repeatedly attacking victims who not only didn't cross him, but who amiably shared lunch with him. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Sylvester himself also fell victim to Screwy Squirrels on a few odd occasions (eg. "Canned Feud"). Granted, since his tormentor is a mouse, we are possibly meant to interpret some Offscreen Villainy on Sylvester's part, after all Cats Are Mean, but based on the short alone he plays an unprovoked victim rather straight. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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The protagonist of Untitled Goose Game is, quote, "a horrible goose", who terrorizes a small English village with pranks seemingly for nothing but their own amusement. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Beneath the intimidating demeanor, Lord Dominator from Wander over Yonder is a bratty, slightly-goofy young woman who likes to screw with people and is in on the whole "Galactic Villain Leaderboard" thing because mayhem and wanton destruction are her idea of fun. Word of God explicitly says she's the Screwy Squirrel to Wander's Bugs Bunny. | |
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Screwy Squirrel | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation's Q is another non-cartoon example, and a perfect one; many a Great Gazoo falls into this category. | |
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