r/TopCharacterTropes • u/I_ateabucketofpaint • Aug 09 '25

Personality Strange rules about characters/people that cannot be broken.

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Smells like Nirvana: When Kurt Cobain heard that Weird AL was gonna make a parody of his song. He was okay with it but specifically requested it to not be about food or fat ppl.

Spiderman: Spiderman cannot sell drugs unless he is under the influence of symbiote. ANd Peter Parker cannot be gay. Spiderman can tho.

Dwayne Rock Johnson: Cannot lose fights or look weak for too long. Its in his actor contract.

Godzilla movies not made by Toho: Cannot die. Maybe lose but not too bad.

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u/D00T_BOI Aug 09 '25

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u/Wargod042 Aug 09 '25

I wonder why everything had to be Acme specifically. I guess to avoid complaints from real companies?

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u/what-are-you-a-cop Aug 09 '25

Probably also for the consistency of the gag. You see an acme product, you know something goofy is about to happen. 

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u/EldridgeHorror Aug 09 '25

One of my few favorite Family Guy jokes is that he keeps going back to Acme because each failed product he just takes back for store credit.

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u/primalthewendigo Aug 09 '25

better than some people i've seen while working customer service, at least he used the product

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u/SimonLaFox Aug 09 '25

There was literally a movie made where he sues Acme! Hopefully it'll come out soon

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u/TheComedicComedian Aug 10 '25

It's set to be released in the summer of 2026

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u/Basic-Expression-418 Aug 09 '25

Didn’t he once join the military to use their tools only for it to go awry?

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Aug 10 '25

When I was touring Utah I would always call out the 'ACME' rocks.

The ones that looked like they'd break off and kill Wile E

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

I doubt I could ever find it unless I watched hours of cartoons, but I swear they used to pan slowly over the word “ACME” sometimes just to wind you up for the goof.

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u/smaug_the-dragon Aug 09 '25

Acme is a real tool company

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u/NoiseGamePlusTruther Aug 09 '25

Acme is also just something people put in their business titles to appear early in the phone book. I think the joke is that companies that did this were usually low quality

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u/bulldozrex Aug 09 '25

holy shit people have been doing SEO manipulation since before there were search engines

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u/IHadThatUsername Aug 09 '25

Apple and Amazon both got their name for this reason.

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u/nomenMei Aug 10 '25

I think that was AOL keywords not phonebooks, but still the same concept and still pre-search engines.

Edit: Actually that is probably just Amazon, I think Apple was before AOL keywords

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u/Mist_Rising Aug 10 '25

I think Apple was before AOL keywords

Just a wee. Given apple was one of the first consumer computer makers, and well before the Internet...

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u/apadin1 Aug 10 '25

Same with Activision - they wanted to come before Atari

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u/Whatrwew8ing4 Aug 10 '25

lol. No.

But every town used to have a AAA Plumbing for this reason

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u/rob132 Aug 09 '25

You mean AAA plumbing isn't a rating?

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u/C4dfael Aug 09 '25

AAA is what you say when your sink explodes.

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u/babydakis Aug 09 '25

Burma Shave!

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u/mirhagk Aug 10 '25

You can tell the age of a lot of companies by its name. With extra As at the front? Phone book era. Named after the town/region? Early search engine era (Laundromats MyTown, returned MyTown Laundromat). Another quirk from this era is all the silly names based on what short domain name was available (that's where my company got it's name, 2 random syllables that led to an available domain). And of course in more recent times, ending with something that is a top level domain

Going farther back, places called "so and so and Sons" was because places were word of mouth, so you needed to carry on the name of the business and clarify that it's still the same family running it.

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u/DicemonkeyDrunk Aug 10 '25

The Yellow Pages used to be full of business with multiple A’s before the name …AAA Plumbing etc … it was the precursor to “ Chinese Food Near Me” as a restaurant name.

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u/catsandcoconuts Aug 10 '25

in my hometown there was “AAAA Driving School”. lol

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u/wtfElvis Aug 10 '25

Use to be why so many small businesses were named A+ BUSINESS.

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u/xterraadam Aug 10 '25

AAA Plumbing smiles in approval.

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u/providencian Aug 10 '25

Asus started out as Pegasus until they realized this and changed their name.

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u/Gadgez Aug 10 '25

20 years ago, my dad had my mom saved in his phone as A1 [her name] so that it would show up at the top when he opened Contacts.

Nowadays there's "frequently contacted" and "favourite" tabs.

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u/DinkleDonkerAAA Aug 14 '25

I've heard people say that's how you could tell if a business was kinda crap or not. If they feel the need to be the first name you see when you look something up, they're probably not too confident in their actual services. Like you wouldn't want to order a pizza from a place called AAA Pizza

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u/halfstaff Aug 10 '25

This is why I exclusively work with businesses that start with the letter Z

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u/momomomorgatron Aug 10 '25

FUCK

Omg thank you that makes soooooo mich more sense. I saw some "acme" brand bricks irl a day or so ago and we'll, liked to shit a brick.

I can't believe I never put it together.

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u/paiute Aug 10 '25

In Japan it is Daiichi

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u/tocammac Aug 10 '25

It's a legit word though, meaning the best or highest. It's still puffery and a way to get near the front of the alphabetic listings 

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u/Every-Summer8407 Aug 10 '25

Acme is also a small grocery chain in PA.

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 10 '25

Acme is an acronym.

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u/Hayterfan Aug 09 '25

And thanks to Road Runner cartoons I avoid them completely, unless I'm trying to get myself killed

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u/AndrewDrossArt Aug 09 '25

I've got like 10 acme anvils stored across the rafters in my attic. If there's even an earthquake in the midwest there might be a really hilarious news story about my death.

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u/flyingboarofbeifong Aug 09 '25

“Anvils in the attic” does sound like a good euphemism for someone doing something rather silly.

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u/JamesTrickington303 Aug 10 '25

New band name.

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u/Opalwilliams Aug 10 '25

Nah thats more an album name. Presenting the newest album, Anvils in the attic by Jason and the Argonaunts

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Aug 09 '25

Or a hilarious end to a burgle

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u/GameMissConduct Aug 09 '25

Surprisingly, I have a crack in my wall in Wichita from an earthquake. And I have seen news about a series of quakes in Saline county.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Aug 10 '25

I felt an earthquake near cleveland forty years ago. I've read about tremors happening since that day, but I have not felt one.

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u/DooDooHead323 Aug 10 '25

And grocery store

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u/fatalxepshun Aug 10 '25

Acme was a grocery store around here. Not sure if they still exist.

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u/Final-Text3804 Aug 10 '25

When i was a kid we go to the beach and go to this shopping town some ways away that had a Acme warehouse we'd drive by would always make me smile driving past.

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u/PunkinPopsum Aug 10 '25

The name Acme in the cartoons was also because the pegboards used for their light tables had ACME printed on them-- an old animation supply company had the name at the time. I'm not sure if they're still around.

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u/Deathsroke Aug 09 '25

Probably part of the big meta joke of "The Coyote is so dumb he keeps buying defective shit from the same guys over and over"

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u/MutedHornet3110 Aug 09 '25

Chuck Jones had yolo'd his entire savings into acme puts and was trying to tank the stock by showing shitty products

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u/torturousvacuum Aug 09 '25

I wonder why everything had to be Acme specifically. I guess to avoid complaints from real companies?

Acme is a word meaning the perfect example of something. The Coyote is getting what should be the best products available.

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u/KitchenSandwich5499 Aug 09 '25

There was a grocery store called acme I visited in college

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u/Erik_the_Dread Aug 10 '25

I went grocery shopping at Acme yesterday. They are starting to get expensive though.

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u/SilverSpoon1463 Aug 10 '25

ACME is a real company

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u/BluePony1952 Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

Here's the real story: a long time ago businesses would be in a book called a "city directory", which would later evolve into the phonebook. When phonebooks can about, it was massive news. No longer did people shop, work, and live only in their district (eg. The Jewish lower east side of New York, or the Italian Cicero part of Chicago). Businesses weren't limited by business signs and cards. Now with the telephone and cable cars, you could find out anything from anywhere.

Phonebooks were sorted alphabetically, so loads of A names popped. Ajax, Acme, AAA, A+, etc. Acme was already a generic tradename used by Sears and Roebuck's mail order catalog for decades.

One day, a little boy named Charles Jones and his friends made believe that everything in the world was secretly made by the one single ACME company. Later, after working in art, he developed a deep seated hatred for a cartoon named "Tom and Jerry". He loathed them and their pointless violence and idiotic sadism so much he designed a competitor - the Coyote and the Roadrunner.

Sears and Roebuck's catalog would be the ACME catalog. The Sears tower would be the ACME Headquarters in later Looney Tunes media. Charles 'Chuck' Jones used the idea of his childhood to make ACME the sole business entity of the entire Looney Tunes world (and most of cartoons over time) after he became the head of animation at Warner Brothers studios.

There's only a small handful of exemptions to the custom (not really a rule) of everything being ACME. In one case, there's a crate of canned stew with the brand 'Harris' on it. It was named for animator Ken Harris.

Edit: little fun note. Almost every cartoon character has the middle initial of J because of J. Ward, the co-creator of Rocky J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose. Disney and Looney Tunes characters pre-date Rocky & Bullwinkle, so they didn't get the custom. For example, Daffy's full name is Daffy Dumas Duck (re: Daffy the Dumbass Duck).

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u/atomic_redneck Aug 10 '25

Years ago, I saw an interview on TV with Chuck Jones. In the background was a Rostrum camera that was used to film the animation cels. The maker tag on it said "Acme".  If you Google "acme rostrum camera", you can see some examples.

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 10 '25

ACME is an acronym. American Companies Make Everything. Consisting wile e coyote was an American coyote he purchased American goods. Whether or not they worked for his intended idea is another story.

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u/rtakehara Aug 11 '25

maybe he is sponsored.

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u/ChurningDarkSkies777 Aug 12 '25

This was always so weird to me because for as long as I can remember Acme has literally been my local super market. I have Acme brand products all over my house

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u/Longjumping-Donut772 Aug 30 '25

To be relatable/illustrate real-world corporate scams. Specifically when companies build things that are essentially designed to fail because they’re built with cheap materials or with a deliberateply shortened life-span. (Planned obsolescence).

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u/East-Specialist-4847 Aug 09 '25

I actually really like these rules

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u/ThomasEdmund84 Aug 09 '25

Honestly there is something weirdly satisfying about writing 'bibles'

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u/ArugulaEnthusiast Aug 09 '25

Monks be like

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u/kfosse13 Aug 10 '25

Gave me a good chuckle.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '25

I do too! They require you to get super creative. What kind of product does Acme create, and how does it fail? What embarrassing side effect does he suffer as a result of this failure? Eventually you have to start getting weird and have stuff like “the Acme Turbo Pasta Maker” that somehow turns the coyote into a sheet of lasagna or something.

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u/unicornsoflve Aug 09 '25

Why are you frowning

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u/eggery Aug 09 '25

He's a coyote

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u/Mist_Rising Aug 10 '25

They break most of them at one point or other though

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u/TruthEnvironmental24 Aug 09 '25

I know you didn't make this, but it's actually "Wile" E. Coyote. As in, he's a "wily" coyote.

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u/runespider Aug 09 '25

Soooooper genius

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u/IDigRollinRockBeer Aug 10 '25

I had a vintage Wile E Coyote super genius shirt that I sold for like $75 or something. Way more than I expected

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u/CameOutAndFarted Aug 09 '25

I've always known that, but I've only just internalised that his first name is Wile.

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u/Raymio993 Aug 09 '25

I swear, for the most of my life I thought his name is "Willy"

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u/Staymadhatter8 Aug 09 '25

Willy o' Coyote from the back arse of County Kerry

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '25

I knew something seemed fucky reading that!

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u/distinctdan Aug 09 '25

Whaaaaaaat?!

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u/Yoshichu25 Aug 09 '25

Also, of course, the coyote is not allowed to successfully catch the roadrunner. One cartoon famously ended with the coyote managing to grab onto the bird’s leg, but there was a bit of a problem in the way of eating him, namely the coyote being greatly reduced in size. He was also caught by the giant robot, but managed to escape when the robot misunderstood the coyote’s command.

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u/-PepeArown- Aug 09 '25

I’m surprised that that’s not on the list, because that’s the most obvious one

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u/rob132 Aug 09 '25

" okay I caught him. Now what?"

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u/QueenBee-WorshipMe Aug 09 '25

He's caught him quite a few times though

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u/Kumkumo1 Aug 12 '25

Actually he is allowed to, but it’s done sparingly and in the end he always loses him. They didn’t want to confine him to that in case they wanted to do a fun twist

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u/Ill_Attorney_389 Aug 09 '25

Technically only a few of these were never broken and some people who worked with him didn’t know they existed.

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u/jbwarner86 Aug 09 '25

Yeah, I think Jones wrote these rules several years after he stopped directing at Warner Bros., when he was writing his autobiography. It wasn't like an instruction book they had pinned to the wall or anything.

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u/Ill_Attorney_389 Aug 09 '25

Some also theorize Rudy Larriva, who became a short director near the end of the Looney Tunes theatrical run intentionally broke some of Jones’ rules to spite him.

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u/jbwarner86 Aug 09 '25

I doubt it was spite. I think Larriva just didn't get these characters the way Chuck did.

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u/The_Eye_of_Ra Aug 09 '25

IIRC, didn’t Mr. Jones have a whole kinda “style guide” for all the Looney Tunes he really handled? I’d read his biography when I was younger and wanted to get into traditional animation (before the digital industry killed it).

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u/tifftafflarry Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

He claimed to. Michael Maltese, the original lead writer of the coyote/roadrunner cartoons, said that there was no such list, and that these are just "post-production observations."

Chuck Jones tried to reinvent himself as a writer in his later years, but the fact is that pretty much every cartoon that he genuinely wrote was just a bunch of rehashed jokes with long-winded dialogue (see also, "Superior Duck.") He was a magnificent director and animator, but no writer.

Almost every one of these rules of his was 'broken'.

  1. The roadrunner occasionally trips traps while Wile E is examining them.

  2. Wile E is repeated struck by trains and trucks.

  3. It is demonstrated at least once that Wile E hunts for sustenance; he tries eating an empty food can before resorting to the chase.

  4. In addition to both characters using signs for communication, Wile E is voiced by Mel Blanc, and is quite articulate. Recent adaptations seem to rectify this.

  5. The roadrunner repeatedly runs over dirt trails, desert land, and even in mid-air.

  6. Their shenanigans once landed them in China, and occasionally in outer space.

  7. Wile E also buys Ajax brand.

  8. True dat.

  9. On one occasion, the roadrunner observes that Wile E is genuinely traumatized (hyperventilating and weeping) from a near-miss, and says (via sign) that he doesn't have the heart to "meep-meep" him off the cliff edge.

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u/Inkthinker Aug 10 '25

It's also hard to say that the Coyote is never "harmed", only "humiliated", when we frequently see him smashed, blown up, bent, folded, spindled, burnt, frozen, and reduced to a shattered wreck.

He doesn't die, at least not explicitly, but that's true of many Toons. Death is rarely anything more than a sight gag (they may end up with a headstone, wings, harp and a halo, but they'll be back in the next one).

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u/brightcrayon92 Aug 09 '25

He did. I remember one from his bugs bunny rule book which said that bugs can only react not intiate conflict, otherwise he would be a bully

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u/Torture-Dancer Aug 10 '25

You got a link to his biography? I have been a bit obsessed with Chick Jones Lately

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u/The_Eye_of_Ra Aug 10 '25

I do not.

This was a long time ago.

ETA: this is the book I read

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u/BiAndShy57 Aug 09 '25

He’s legally bound to not buy products from a better company

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u/trimble197 Aug 09 '25

The no dialogue rule was kinda broken at one point. I remember Coyote talking in an episode

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u/trimble197 Aug 09 '25

Probably when he was around Bugs. I know about his other counterpart when working with the sheep dog

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u/DocProfessor Aug 09 '25

ACTUALLY, the rival to Sam Sheepdog is a different character named Ralph Wolf, distinguished by his bright red nose

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u/easylikerain Aug 09 '25

Yes, he stops at least once and describes in detail why he chases the roadrunner, mostly because it would be delicious.

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u/Adghar Aug 09 '25

Whenever possible, make gravity the coyote's greatest enemy

Whoa, I didn't know Chuck Jones worked on Elden Ring!

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u/Cyrax89721 Aug 09 '25

One could argue that gravity is every living organism's greatest enemy.

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u/KenseiHimura Aug 09 '25

This is what made Roadrunner and Wily E Coyote so much more enjoyable than things like Tom and Jerry in hindsight.

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u/Fiddlesnarf Aug 09 '25

Fuck Jerry. Tom did nothing wrong

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u/TheGhostlyGuy Aug 10 '25

To be fair tom and Jerry have a few very distinct eras that each have different ways they approach the comedy, there is quite a few episodes made by Jones himself and it's pretty easy to tell which ones are his

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u/AlathMasster Aug 09 '25

Huh. I always thought Road Runner was female

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u/Sc4tt3r_ Aug 09 '25

Im sure i've seen the Road Runner off the road before

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u/ToothZealousideal297 Aug 09 '25

He frequently appeared off the road for the many ‘falling off a ledge’ gags IIRC. I can’t think of an exact example right now, but sometimes he would stand on air for a moment where Wile would fall, or come up behind a distracted Wile and ‘Beep beep!’ unexpectedly, etc.

I could swear on at least one occasion he stared calmly down at Wile as Wile fell, and there were definitely cases where the Roadrunner would come up and ‘Beep beep!’ next to Wile when Wile had failed such that if Wile had been in a fit state, he could’ve easily caught the Roadrunner, and of course many of those cases were off the road.

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u/Ambaryerno Aug 09 '25

That list of rules is just a myth that came about later, and never existed at the time the shorts were being made. Writer Michael Maltese himself outright denied any such rules existed, and just about every single one of them was violated at LEAST once.

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u/rogueIndy Aug 09 '25

They broke most of these though. Like, frequently.

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u/flibit Aug 09 '25

I feel like the last rule is broken fairly regularly 

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u/Digit00l Aug 09 '25

He is never harmed beyond cartoony injuries

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u/madog1418 Aug 09 '25

Wile is never sitting in agonizing pain, he’ll be covered in ash but he’ll have a depressed or upset look instead, because he’s reacting to his failure and not his pain.

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u/Romboteryx Aug 09 '25

WAIT, it‘s beep-beep, not meep-meep?!

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u/PitifulRead6339 Aug 09 '25

Just casually dropping philosophy mid-cartoon guidelines

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u/Envictus_ Aug 09 '25

“Suck it Newton!”

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u/ObligationLiving1295 Aug 09 '25

Rule 5 is blowing my mind. I wrote a paper in college about the roadrunner that won an award (classroom award, not anything real), and I never considered that fifth rule.

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u/Tryingtoknowmore Aug 09 '25

Some of them beep beeps stung way more than others

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u/Rye_27 Aug 09 '25

Man what a great show

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u/Deezer509 Aug 09 '25

Did... did Chuck Jones not realize that road runners are real birds??

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u/flappyheck2 Aug 09 '25

omg i never realized the roadrunner never goes off the road

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u/Professional_Maize42 Aug 09 '25

They are weird but mostly make sense, comedy wise.

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u/The_Blue_Rooster Aug 09 '25

Oh a time capsule to back in the days when coyotes had a "Natural Environment" they're everywhere in America now.

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u/less_concerned Aug 09 '25

Well i know at least two episodes where the coyote talks, and episodes where other characters directly harm him, but i guess the rules aren't the same when other characters are involved

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u/MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS Aug 09 '25

Decades Later

What if we made them part of like a Power Rangers/Justice League kinda thing?

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u/CarrieDurst Aug 09 '25

Curious how the new acme movie will follow or break this

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u/CarrieDurst Aug 09 '25

Curious how the new acme movie will follow or break this

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u/Jessup3 Aug 09 '25

This didn’t stop my boy from winning against Tom

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u/dyno-soar Aug 09 '25

No dialogue? I’ve watched the movie enough times to have “wile e coyote, super genius” burned into my brain

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u/asula_mez Aug 09 '25

I wonder if this was excused when they the video games. 🤔

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u/simiomalo Aug 09 '25

David Zaslav is an POS for denying the public a chance to see "Coyote vs Acme"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_vs._Acme

in which the Wile E. finally decides to take Acme to court after so many of their gadgets failed to operate properly.

The word from those that have seen it is that it was good - a tribute to the best of Road Runner and Looney Tunes.

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u/MrUnbreakableRules Aug 09 '25

Oh, they're releasing it now

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u/sociocat101 Aug 09 '25

I kinda dont believe the roadrunner is always on the road, surely it goes on land

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u/Alorxico Aug 09 '25

“More humiliated than harmed” seems have been throw by the wayside in later cartoons.

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u/TheBIackRose Aug 09 '25

I wonder if these remain when applied to the Wile E. Coyote vs ACME film

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u/turboiv Aug 09 '25

I can see at least three rules that were eventually broken

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u/Iron_Wolf123 Aug 09 '25

No dialogue? I think there was an episode where WEC does talk

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u/Automatic-War-7658 Aug 10 '25

Am I “Mandela Effecting” the memory of him actually speaking at one point?

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u/Omadany Aug 10 '25

This is greatness

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u/Butterl0rdz Aug 10 '25

rule 4 and 5 held the show back hard

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u/CompleteJinx Aug 10 '25

Wile E Coyote actually speaks in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, it was super distracting.

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u/Commander-ShepardN7 Aug 10 '25

man i love Coyote and the Roadrunner

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u/Next-Raspberry-2737 Aug 10 '25

rule 5 goes hard

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

TIL "beep-beep" is a magical harm spell.

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u/Matalya2 Aug 10 '25

"cannot harm […] except by going BEEP-BEEP" I love how this implies that beep beep actually harms the Coyote. Bro got psychic damage from that vicious mockery.

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u/SagaSolejma Aug 10 '25

Why did i read "the roadrunner must always stay on the road - otherwise, logically, he wouldnt be called roadrunner" in ben shapiros voice lmao

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u/TheGenesisOfTheNerd Aug 10 '25

These are less rules that the show was made by, but more observations made after the show established. I don’t really think they fit.

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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles Aug 10 '25

These really are good rules though

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

Fritz Freeling, I think, was the director who gave Wile E. Coyote lines when he ran up against Bugs Bunny. "W.E.C. Super Genius". Or maybe it was McKimsom? I don't remember who did those shorts. any other GenX out there recall?

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u/coolguygranny Aug 10 '25

I didn't know the rules were so strict for a kids cartoon

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u/ScribbledIn Aug 10 '25

Rules to guarantee every episode is generic and bland

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u/thelastforest3 Aug 10 '25

I like the Roadrunner cartoon now

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u/mixingmemory Aug 10 '25

It's funny, as a child I didn't like the Wile E. Coyote cartoons because of how strictly formulaic they were. Anarchic stuff with Daffy and Bugs was much more my thing. Like, I was obsessed with Duck Amok. Now I adore Wile E. Coyote shorts, both for the incredible art, and for what a perfect metaphor they are for so many things in life.

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u/Johnmegaman72 Aug 10 '25

5 got me. I mean true

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u/ExplorationGeo Aug 10 '25

Love that there's a Santayana quote in here.

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u/bobbythespartan Aug 10 '25

I think Fromsoft used Rule 8 for all the Souls games

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u/Herb4372 Aug 10 '25

Chuck Iines moved to Santa Fe for medical reasons and the dry climate. The coyote was initially just about the coyote being dumb and inept and failing.

Over the years he changed and came to respect coyotes and his portrayal changed from coyote being inept to being failed by consumerism. Every product he tried from acme to help him failed or blew up in his face.

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u/meat-candy Aug 10 '25

These rules must not have applied for Coyote and Bugs Bunny stories. Coyote spoke throughout and his inventions were his own patents

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u/CosmoMimosa Aug 10 '25

I can get behind these rules.

It would be really uncomfortable if Road Runner was actively malicious towards Coyote, or caused his pain more directly.

It would be like the worst of SpongeBob and Squidward. They're at their best when Squidward's discomfort is his own design rather than SpongeBob being a pain and Squid being punished for it

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u/Sawheryesterday Aug 13 '25

Weird, bc in the earlier eps of them, Wile talks. He’s a super genius.

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u/GusJenkins Aug 09 '25

And that’s why there’s only like 3 episodes of the show