Bugs Bunny was a hare.

Hares and rabbits are not the same.
Bunnies and rabbits however ARE the same animal.

'Bunny' is just a cutesy word for rabbit, and is often used for baby rabbits, much like the word 'kitty' for very young cats.

'Rabbits are often known affectionately by the pet name bunny or bunny rabbit, especially when referring to young, domesticated rabbits. Originally, the word for an adult rabbit was coney or cony, while rabbit referred to the young animals. Coney was abandoned as a term for the animal after it was co-opted in the eighteenth century as a synonym of a really voulgar word. More recently, the term kit or kitten has been used to refer to a young rabbit. Young hares are called leverets, and this term is sometimes informally applied to any young rabbit. Male rabbits are called bucks and females does.'

Maybe Ace corrects everyone when he's called 'rabbit' because he's proud to be Bugs Bunny's descendant (or most likely the writers simply wanted to underline his origins). That or he wants to be called by his last name by his enemies and those he doesn't really like in general, instead of being referred to as the animal, so he corrects them.

In my country that was translated differently in fact. Massive calls him 'hare' and he shots back saying 'wrong, I'm a rabbit!'.


-- Edited by Ayelet_Ripley at 05:27, 2007-04-24

Ayelet_Ripley wrote:

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Bugs Bunny was a hare.

Hares and rabbits are not the same.
Bunnies and rabbits however ARE the same animal.

'Bunny' is just a cutesy word for rabbit, and is often used for baby rabbits, much like the word 'kitty' for very young cats.

'Rabbits are often known affectionately by the pet name bunny or bunny rabbit, especially when referring to young, domesticated rabbits. Originally, the word for an adult rabbit was coney or cony, while rabbit referred to the young animals. Coney was abandoned as a term for the animal after it was co-opted in the eighteenth century as a synonym of a really voulgar word. More recently, the term kit or kitten has been used to refer to a young rabbit. Young hares are called leverets, and this term is sometimes informally applied to any young rabbit. Male rabbits are called bucks and females does.'

Maybe Ace corrects everyone when he's called 'rabbit' because he's proud to be Bugs Bunny's descendant (or most likely the writers simply wanted to underline his origins). That or he wants to be called by his last name by his enemies and those he doesn't really like in general, instead of being referred to as the animal, so he corrects them.

In my country that was translated differently in fact. Massive calls him 'hare' and he shots back saying 'wrong, I'm a rabbit!'.


-- Edited by Ayelet_Ripley at 05:27, 2007-04-24

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Thanks...

In spanish there's Conejo and Liebre. In school they teach us that conejo is bunny and Liebre is Rabbit (when Liebre is hare)... I will change that... is funny how is the language n_n

You'd think French would follow the same pattern since all three are Latin-based, and it does for 'hare' - 'lièvre'.  A rabbit, however, is 'lapin'.

StellaMagic wrote:

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Frankly, I don't see a difference. ;(

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is in the pronunciation... maybe you don't see it when we write lièvre and lapin but in the pronunciation you can "see it"

Skifox, t’as appris le français a l’école ou tu viens d’une famille qui parle le français ???

-- Edited by Tyranee at 19:50, 2007-04-24

Stella:  Did you mean not seeing a rabbit/hare difference in Space Jam?  If so, I'd have to agree with you.  Hares are bigger, have proportionally longer ears, and live above ground rather than in burrows, but I don't think the distictions carry over much to cartoon characters.

Tyr:  Je l’ai appris en lycée.  J’étais presque à l’aise en français, mais après deux ans en université sans vrai practice, je sais que j’ai perdu beaucoup. ;_;

B_O:  It's also pretty traditional for species to become the surname in cartoons, so to Ace, it's probably more than just a species issue.  'Ace Bunny' is his name, so he gets annoyed at being called 'Rabbit' just like you or I would if someone fouled up our names.

-- Edited by Skifox at 20:38, 2007-04-24

Ace Rabbit?...where have I heard that before?...

Well... Lola Bunny is a Bunny (or Rabbit)



We can see it by how she look in the movie (others drawings make her different). Many people think that she look differente that Bugs Bunny because the wanted she look cute...



Bugs have big feet and big hears... like a hare

We can see more that in a old Bugs Bunny cartoon




So... is Ace Bunny a Hare or a Bunny??? and Lexi??? is she a Bunny or a Hare???

Hare...rabbit...bunny...HARERABBITBUNNY!

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HABENY!

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HABBITY!

-wrapped up in straightjacket- I'm fine.

Jacovie: -is also wrapped up in straightjacket- WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

...well I'm fine.

Bugs has a gold tooth up in his grill?!

In one MM short, Elmer Fudd brought Bugs Bunny in a pet shop so I'll vote "Bunny".

I think WB don't know either if Bugs Bunny is a Hare or a Rabbit (and in Costa Rica you can buy a Hare from a petshop): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bugs_Bunny_cartoons

You can see that in many of his cartoons (more the first ones) he is called a Hare... and not only that... I read I don't remember where that Bugs have the name Bunny because they need something that match with the name Bugs and they didn't find a cazy name that match with Hare...

Bugs bunny last cartoon was in 1964 (the old type cartoon... becuase after that he did movies and things like that)... and the name of that cartoon is False Hare...

So... if Busg Bunny in his origines was a hare... that means that Ace is a hare... well... or have hare blood, because if Lola marry Bugs (and she is a bunny), that means that Ace and Lexi have hare and bunny blood...

But what happens if Lola never married Bugs... remember that cute gray hare with brown hair (for that time she was cute... now we see her old fashion)... maybe he married her and not to Lola... after all in the movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action he said something about having a female partner and that he didn't need her... (we can say that Lola and Bugs relationship didn't work)... and she only appeared after in the baby toones... no other cartoon... nobody mentioned her...

You brought up some excellent points, Tyranee! Moreover, kudos on the research; I learned quite a bit of history. In addition, I didn't know that it was possible to buy a hare at a pet shop.

Therefore, from the research that Tyranee conducted--It seems that Bugs is [was] a hare so most likely, Ace is a hare also.

That's a marvelous story, Lumosnight!

Thanks guys! I was starting to worry because I wasn't getting many reviews (I do prefer getting my reviews on FF.Net). There were practically no Daffy/Lola fics (except the M rated one "Daffy and Lola: Looniest Duet", but it's not written that well).

If Bugs was a hare, then that totally kills a major subplot in a fanfic I'm writing...TT^TT

So, I shall say that Bugs and Ace are rabbits.

BlackCat wrote:

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Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,Bunny,bunn-

Ace:We get it! You think I'm a bunny.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Question: A bunny and a hare can have babies??? (in real world)

Who knows... maybe Ace is half Hare and half Bunny

Well, his last name is bunny.You'd think they'd call Bugs Bugs Hare if he was, but it's not as catchy.Oh well, don't care which one he is.I love him!