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Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as "The Coyote") and The Road Runner are a duo of characters from the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. In the cartoons, Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, a fast-running ground bird, but is never successful. Coyote, instead of his species' animal instincts, uses absurdly complex contraptions (sometimes in the manner of Rube Goldberg) and elaborate plans to pursue his prey, which always comically backfire with Wile normally getting injured by the slapstick humor. The characters were created by animation director Chuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Bros., while the template for their adventures was the work of writer Michael Maltese. The characters star in a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts (the first 16 of which were written by Maltese) and occasional made-for-television cartoons. It was originally meant to parody chase cartoons like Tom and Jerry, but became popular in its own right. The Coyote appears separately as an occasional antagonist of Bugs Bunny in five shorts from 1952 to 1963: ''Operation: Rabbit'', ''To Hare Is Human'', ''Rabbit's Feat'', ''Compressed Hare'', and ''Hare-Breadth Hurry''. While he is generally silent in the Coyote-Road Runner shorts, he speaks with a refined accent in these solo outings (except for ''Hare-Breadth Hurry''), introducing himself as "Wile E. Coyote — super genius", voiced with an upper-class accent by Mel Blanc. The Road Runner vocalizes only with a signature sound, "Beep, Beep", recorded by Paul Julian, and an occasional "popping-cork" tongue noise.〔The interviews included in the DVD commentary were recorded by animation historian Michael Barrier for his book ''Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age''.〕 To date, 48 cartoons have been made featuring these characters (including the three CGI shorts), the majority by Chuck Jones. ''TV Guide'' included Wile E. Coyote in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.〔Bretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt; (March 25, 2013). "Baddies to the Bone: The 60 nastiest villains of all time". ''TV Guide''. pp. 14−15.〕 ==Creation== Jones based the Coyote on Mark Twain's book ''Roughing It'', in which Twain described the coyote as "a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton" that is "a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is ''always'' hungry." Jones said he created the Coyote-Road Runner cartoons as a parody of traditional "cat and mouse" cartoons such as MGM's ''Tom and Jerry,'' which Jones would work on as a director later in his career. Jones modelled the Coyote's appearance on fellow animator Ken Harris. The Coyote's name of Wile E. is a pun of the word "wily." The "E" was said to stand for Ethelbert in one issue of a Looney Tunes comic book, but its writer had not intended it to be canon. The Coyote's surname is routinely pronounced with a long "e" ( ), but in one cartoon short, ''To Hare Is Human'', Wile E. is heard pronouncing it with a diphthong ( ). Early model sheets for the character prior to his initial appearance (in ''Fast and Furry-ous'') identified him as "Don Coyote", a pun of the name Don Quixote. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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