I mean I think it’s pretty obvious that the iconic cartoon character Bugs Bunny is genderfluid or non-binary. There are so many instances of them crossing traditional gender lines in the cartoons. Creator Chuck Jones confirmed this according to these tweets below by Ferret Pigeon.
Charles Martin “Chuck” Jones was an animated filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his work with Warner Bros. on Looney Tunes. He wrote, produced and directed many classic animated cartoon shorts. During the Golden Age of animation Jones helped bring to life many of Warner Bros. most famous characters, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig.
(via: Justice McPherson)
What do you think? Is Bugs Bunny genderfluid, trans or a fabulous drag queen? Either way they are a beloved icon and I think you can take whatever you want from Bugs. ❤️
Also the fact that, you know, he’s not, um….real! Bugs is whatever bugs’s creators deem to be.
I’d love to see citation of the book this person was talking about, rather than just screencaps of someone else claiming it! I’m so down with gnc Bugs being genderfluid or genderqueer or generally trans, but I was hoping to see Chuck Jones’s words <3
I would also like to see this but assuming it is real, I won’t consider him transgender. The reason is that it is not canon, in spite of what the creator claims, if it is contradicted in the lore of his character. Bugs has examples in his cartoons to using male pronouns. Normally when dressed as female there aren’t any pronouns used by Bugs directly and that is relevant here because Bugs is tricking another character in these situations, typically so them using female pronouns is related to them assuming gender and not really knowing how Bugs identifies. But Bugs has made references to themselves as being female while dressed in clothing typical of what society considers female. So I can and will accept genderfluid. I thought Bugs might have been Non-binary but I don’t think we can claim Bugs to be if he has never stated that he is non-binary or described feeling that way or asked for any neutral pronouns to be used. Genderfluid is the term that fits him based on the canon of the show and as stated above, the creator didn’t know what terms were appropriate and if this is true the character was considered this and written this way but did not actually get created with the intent of being this way. So it is far more likely that genderfluid is what was trying to be attained here, especially if the trickster god inspiration is true. Which honestly, I can see elements of it in the character so I believe it is possible. But even if this turns out to be false I do believe him to be genderfluid and I use he because the majority of the time Bugs does use masculine pronouns or is in a form perceived as male. It is only occasional times that Bugs has a female persona.
Genderfluid is a nonbinary identity. I got that impression about Bugs as they seemed to love being a woman sometimes 🙂
pronouns DONT determine whether someone is trans or not. You can use any pronoun you want and still be trans…
sounds like you are looking for reasons to not accept this. I had a friend who said something similar, we are no longer friends 🙂 Because yes, he’s a trickster, but he also still CLEARLY enjoys dressing femme and showing more sides of himself. And just like Loki uses he but is genderfluid, so is Bugs.
you seem very static in your definitions, but actually transgender can be used as an umbrella term, and genderfluid is a non-binary identity. i’d recommend not being so rigid in defining these things, it feels very limiting, like you can only be trans/non-binary if you behave a certain way. that’s not true. and non-binary/trans people can go by whichever pronouns they like. one does not need to use neutral pronouns to be non-binary.
This is the creators Char sheet – hes male
https://chuckjones.com/characters/bugs-bunny/
This was a revision made some time after Chuck Jones’ death in 2002 — while ChuckJones.com has been online (or at least has Wayback history dating to) 1996, and Chuck did have character bios on the site while he was alive, but they just included a name, first appearance date and title, and a sound clip of their voice. Example from June 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20020203131644/http://www.chuckjones.com/characters/
A confusing site refresh in 2013 seems to bring bios back after the site mostly being dormant in the years following his death. The current version of bios, including gender, seem to have been added just a couple years ago in 2020, 18 years after Chuck’s death. I wouldn’t consider this anything to contradict what Chuck said in his own books.
Is Bugs gender fluid or a fabulous drag queen?
Yes.