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Wile E. (Ethelbert) Coyote (also known simply as "The Coyote") and the Road Runner are cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, created by Chuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Brothers. Chuck Jones based the character of the coyote on Mark Twain's Roughing It, in which Twain describes the coyote as "a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton" that is "a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry." Twain also notes that despite his poor appearance, the coyote is so fast that if threatened, by the time you have aimed your rifle "nothing but an unusually long-winded streak of lightning could reach him where he is now." Wile E. has brown fur, wiry body, huge ears and black nose. When he sometimes speaks, has the upper-class British accent and the egotistical bearing. The Road Runner has dark blue and dark lavender feathers. Wile E. was voiced by Mel Blanc and is by Maurice LaMarche (despite the fact that Wile E. never speaks) and Road Runner by Paul Julian and Dee Bradley Baker.

Chuck Jones once said of his most famous protagonist and antagonist that "Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal." He originally created the Road Runner cartoons as a parody of traditional "cat and mouse" cartoons (such as Tom and Jerry) which were increasingly popular at the time. The major difference is that the audience's sympathy is drawn to Wile E., a comically ineffectual predator whose hunts always end in disaster. The cartoons' Southwestern setting also mirrors the setting of the Krazy Kat comics, by George Herriman

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