NOTE: This page is only about the classic incarnation of Daffy, as all other incarnations were not voted Inconsistently Heinous, therefore, only information and crimes from classic Daffy are allowed here.
| “ | You're despicable! | „ |
| ~ Daffy's famous catchphrase |
| “ | I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a greedy craving little coward! I just gotta have those G's! | „ |
| ~ Daffy plotting his get-rich-quick scheme from listening to the radio in "Ducking the Devil" |
Daffy Sheldon Duck is one of the main protagonists of the Looney Tunes franchise.
He is a greedy, anti-heroic, envious duck who is one of the mainstream heroes of the Looney Tunes franchise. For all of his insanity and foolishness, he is quite often times an anti-villainous character or even a downright occasional antagonist.
He is the arch-rival and on & off best friend of Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig, the secondary archenemy of Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, and the archenemy of Marvin the Martian and Speedy Gonzales.
He was voiced by the late Mel Blanc until his death in 1989. Since then, he has been voiced on-and-off by other voice actors like Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Sam Vincent, Joe Alaskey, Dee Bradley Baker, and currently Eric Bauza since 2018.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- In "Conrad the Sailor", without any provocation, Daffy harasses Conrad the Sailor and fires a large shell from one of the battleship's cannons.
- In "Nasty Quacks", when a duckling replaces Daffy as his owner's favorite pet, Daffy actually attempts to kill the baby duck with an axe.
- In "'The Ducksters", Daffy runs a deadly game show called "Truth or AAAHHH". In the crooked game, contestant Porky Pig is forced to answer ridiculous questions under a strict time limit with the threat of being tied to a log headed to the sawmill, crushed by a boulder or even attacked by a killer gorilla. When a audience member warns Porky Pig that the gameshow is rigged, Daffy responds by shooting the man with a rifle.
- In "Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning" and "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!", he tries to get Bugs Bunny killed by Elmer Fudd.
- In "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" and "Rabbit Seasoning," he posts "Rabbit Season" signs despite it really being duck season and removes the "Duck Season" signs in order to try to get Bugs Bunny shot by Elmer Fudd respectively, which could have gotten Elmer in trouble with the law for hunting off-season.
- In "The High and Flighty", he turns Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg against each other to sell them his flimsy low-quality products.
- In "Daffy's Inn Trouble", he destroys Porky's hotel by placing explosives under the floor boards all because he didn't want to work as a janitor and Porky's hotel was attracting more customers, both of which are extremely petty and selfish reasons to destroy someone else's property.
- In "Dime to Retire", he runs a low-quality hotel to make Porky pay him a dime per day.
- In "Stork Naked", he tortured a stork with malice for his own twisted sadistic pleasures, even claiming he doesn't want any kids.
- In "The Prize Pest", he scares Porky and constantly pulls cruel pranks on Porky for his own amusement, which caused Porky to retaliate after finding out that Daffy was scaring him for the fun of it.
- In "The Iceman Ducketh", he attempts to hunt down and kill Bugs Bunny to take his fur and get rich quick. Note that it was explained that rabbit season was over making Daffy's action poaching.
- In "Well Worn Daffy", Daffy is a wealthy oasis owner in an otherwise barren desert. When three starving and lost mice, including Speedy Gonzales, come across Daffy's well and Oasis, they ask Daffy for some water, Daffy denies them any water out of cruelty and chases them away with a shotgun. Not only does Daffy shoot any mice who come near his well, but he also taunts the mice by wastefully taking a shower with the Oasis water in front of them. Finally, when Daffy has loaded all the water he needs from the well, he then attempts to blow it up with dynamite, so no one else will ever get to have the water.
- In "Moby Duck", he and Speedy are starving on a deserted island, with the Duck rejecting Gonzales' attempts at friendship. When several big crates of canned food wash up on the Island, Daffy claims them all for himself, refusing to let Speedy have even a crumb from a single can. When Speedy tries to bargain with Daffy, offering a can opener in exchange for less than a quarter of food, Daffy refuses and tries to murder Speedy. Finally, when Speedy gives Daffy the can opener out of pity for the insatiable duck, Daffy shows no gratitude and still claims Speedy won't even get a crumb.
- In "Assault and Peppered", he is an evil land Baron who whips several mouse beggars for starving on his property under the pretense of them lowering the value and declaring a war on poor people even after the mice had apologized. When Speedy Gonzales arrives to rescue the poor, Daffy tries to attack him with various firearms.
- In "Chilly Corn Corny", Speedy befriends a crow who is starving to death who is begging for some corn. Daffy shows no gratitude and attempts to murder anyone who even gets a piece of corn on the field, including Speedy and his crow friend. Later on, Daffy makes a deal with the crow to give all the corn to him only to have Speedy get shot and killed, leaving their friendship in ruins.
- In "Mexican Mousepiece", a group of mice who are poor and starving invades Daffy's home to borrow a quantity of food. When Daffy finds out that many foreign cats are starving and are about to go extinct, he attempts to gain their trust pretending to be nice and generous to the mice only to be locked up by Daffy's package to be sent to the seas so that the starving cats can eat them. Speedy Gonzales becomes aware of Daffy's scheme and comes to the rescue. Unusually, Daffy's cruelty towards the poor mice was out of altruism for poor foreign cats, making him an anti-villain in this cartoon.
- In "Go Go Amigo", he is trying to prevent Speedy from listening to radios in his building for free, and goes insane and becomes a villain. Taking a pistol, Daffy invades the radio station Speedy was listening to and holds the DJ hostage at gunpoint, forcing the station to play off-tune records instead until Daffy is foiled by Speedy, leading to his arrest.
- In "Speedy Ghost to Town", Speedy is searching for buried treasure in a ghost town leading to the avaricious Daffy trying to steal his treasure maps using various cartoon weapons.
- In "Go Away Stowaway", he is so annoyed by Speedy's singing that he tries to throw him overboard and in the end of the cartoon, resorts to sinking a cruise ship full of people just to kill the mouse.
- In "Daffy's Diner", he is running a diner that sells overpriced Mouse burgers, which in addition to having stale bread, axle grease, insecticide, and too much hot sauce, has a (not safe for consumption) rubber mouse in place of a real one; making his burgers a safety hazard as well as a ripoff. When a customer, or as Daffy called him "a sucker", discovers the ruse after choking on a rubber mouse, he threatens Daffy into getting a real mouse. Daffy then tries to trick and cook Speedy to serve to the customer.
- In "Snow Excuse", Speedy is freezing to death and asks Daffy if he can kindly borrow some firewood from him, but the ever-greedy duck stubbornly refuses and tries to murder Speedy, prompting Speedy to steal some wood so he can survive. He's also shown to be a hypocrite by the end of the episode, as Daffy expects to gain shelter from Speedy in return from his success of being cozy and warm at last, when Daffy was the reason why Speedy couldn't get any in the first place, giving him the idea of stealing wood from him. Speedy was close to dying of hypothermia that he essentially endangered himself.
- In "Space Jam", he and Bugs broke into Michael Jordan's house and tried to steal his basketball equipment. Even though it was for good intentions, they still didn't ask for permission.
- In "Back in Action", he destroys Warner Bros Studios and gets D.J. Drake fired without showing any remorse. He then tries to eat one of D.J.'s pet fish.
- In "Back in Action" alternate ending, in order to protect the Blue Monkey from the clutches of Mr. Smith, Daffy Duck mistakenly devolves his friends Bugs Bunny and Kate Houghton (respectively in Neanderthal Bugs and a cavewoman). Daffy Duck doesn’t seem to care much about his friends' new wild looks, and he keeps watching the Blue Monkey’s diamond.
- In "Tease For Two", he is a fortune hunter looking for gold that accordingly is indicated to where the Goofy Gophers live. He furthermore antagonizes the honest and innocent gophers by using violent means to selfishly get rid of them, prompting them to fight back.
- In "The Astroduck", he rents the cheapest house he can find to relax for the summer. As Speedy kindly introduces that he lives there and so has his family for many generations, Daffy selfishly demands that he leave and claims the house for himself, refusing to accept Speedy's will to share the house and even tries to murder Speedy.
- In "A Squeak in the Deep", he wishes to win a yacht race to earn as much money as possible. As the race begins, he cheats his way against Speedy in order to claim the whole prize for himself and win the race, and selfishly even refuses Speedy's bargain to share the prize with him. He later redeems himself and joins forces with Speedy to win the contest and fairly share the prize.
- In "The Spy Swatter", Speedy is sending a secret strength formula for mice to the Mouse Factory. Daffy has been sent by the rivaling cat agency to stop him, using various traps.
- In "See Ya Later, Gladiator", he was instructed to guard a time machine while being instructed to not pull the chain. Unlike a few other shorts where Daffy's reason of being angry towards Speedy's antics can be justified (examples such as in "Swing Ding Amigo", "The Music Mice-tro", or in "Go Away Stowaway"), here, he goes as far as actually sending Speedy back in time just because of his "corny music".
- In The Chocolate Chase, Daffy is assigned to guard a chocolate factory in Mexico from a village of Mexican mice
- In Space Jam 2: A New Legacy, he and Porky set up a runaway train incident by tying up the conductor so he can stop it and join the Justice League, endangering not only everyone onboard but even the children at an orphanage where the train was headed. Worse still, he accidentally breaks the level he was trying to pull to stop the train, making the train go faster instead.
- While not as heinous as Marvin the Martian, he stills stands out for having less resources.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is extremely comedic and incompetent like many Looney Tunes characters. He usually does not win in his shorts (except in a lot of his early 1940s appearances), he does not take the time to think things through, and oftentimes, he is hardly taken seriously due to his egotistical and greedy traits being constantly played up for laughs (or in his earliest appearances, his craziness and eccentricity), automatically disqualifying him from PE and NPE.
- He also has a more "screwball" side that makes him out to be even more of a wacky cartoon character whose exaggerated and crazy antics make him even harder to take seriously.
- While he is much more keen and smart in Box Office Bunny, (where he is always the first out of him and Elmer Fudd to notice Bugs Bunny's tricks and disguising hoaxes), he still ultimately loses in the end due to his pure clumsiness upon him and Elmer getting outwitted by Bugs' slippery grease trick, and his and Elmer's defeat (as well as him and Elmer running away fearfully at the end of the film) are played up for laughs.
- He is also mischievous since he enjoys pulling pranks on people and messing with anyone, often to amuse and benefit himself, and some of his misdeeds are even played up for laughs as well, one example includes the episode "The Prize Pest"; where he scares Porky relentlessly with a monster gag and amuses himself while belittling Porky's vulnerability in a arrogant fashion.
- He is on & off, as he is often shown in a heroic light or even sometimes having a good heart. Even though he is a overall anti-hero, he has done several good deeds like stopping Marvin the Martian from destroying the Earth in his superhero role as "Duck Dodgers" and he has helped LeBron James save his son and the universes from Al-G Rhythm in Space Jam: A New Legacy.
- He regrets his selfish acts and mistreatment with others and redeems in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Christmas, with him distributing gifts to other employees and even having a good time with Priscilla, starting to take care of her.
- While it may not seem like it, he does show some amount of care for his friends like Bugs and Porky, sometimes he saves them on certain occasions and even generally teams up with Bugs Bunny to defeat the villains who antagonize him.
- It can be argued that he is sometimes tragic despite Daffy often deserving the crap he's received and can be played for sympathy even though Daffy is always played up for laughs, due to occasionally being given such traits like:
- No one cheering for him at the basketball games as seen in Space Jam,
- Being disrespected at Warner Bros and was nearly fired from Warner Bros just for complaining that Bugs was always the main star of Looney Tunes as seen in Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
- In Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, it's shown that he grew up in an orphanage where no one adopted him, which made him sad upon remembering this and is played for sympathy.
- He also has a sympathetic moment in Back in Action, with him sadly telling Bugs Bunny that he just eats his carrot and people still love him, with Bugs Bunny even taking pity on him.
- He can arguably be considered to be a scapegoat sometimes, since some episodes treat him like dirt when he (actually) hasn't done much wrong, like when he gets shot by Elmer Fudd in the whole "Wabbit Season" trilogy, where the running gag solely focuses on Daffy defeated in cruel ways for trying to get Bugs Bunny shot by Elmer, and Bugs always tricks Daffy into getting shot all the time, and "Duck Amuck", where he just wants the short to go normally, but is constantly humiliated by the Animator (who is actually Bugs Bunny) just for fun, even though he has done nothing to deserve it.
- On the inside, he's actually a sympathetic character full of insecurities deep down underneath his overinflated ego. Since it's shown that he only desires to be respected, appreciated and applauded for despite being a egotist and a attention-seeker, this also disqualifies him from being PE since this is played for sympathy.
Trivia[]
- Daffy Duck is one of the three Looney Tunes characters who are Inconsistently Heinous, along with Marvin the Martian and Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr..
External Links[]
- Daffy Duck on the Villains Wiki
- Daffy Duck on the Heroes Wiki
- Daffy Duck on the Looney Tunes Wiki
- Daffy Duck on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Daffy Duck on the Shonen Rivals Wiki
- Daffy Duck on the Incredibly Cruel Wiki
- Daffy Duck on the Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki
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