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| “ | Why, everybody knows me. I'm Yosemite Sam! The meanest, toughest, rip-roaring-est, Edward Everett Horton-est hombre what ever packed a six-shooter! That's who I am! | „ |
| ~ Yosemite Sam introducing himself in his debut cartoon Hare Trigger. |
| “ | Yeah, Yosemite Sam. The roughest, toughest he-man stuffest hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande. An' I ain't no namby-pamby. Now all-a-you skunks clear outta here! | „ |
| ~ Yomesite Sam |
| “ | We ain't a-going nowheres! | „ |
| ~ Yosemite Sam to The Nerdlucks. |
Samuel Michelangelo Rosenbaum, or more better known as Yosemite Sam, is one of the main antagonists of the Looney Tunes franchise. He is one of the archenemies of Bugs Bunny.
He was created because creator Friz Freleng needed a tougher figure to be Bugs Bunny's enemy since he considered Elmer Fudd too soft.
Potrayals[]
- From 1945 to 1989, he was voiced by the late Mel Blanc, who also voiced Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, Wile E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk, Tasmanian Devil, and many other Looney Tunes villains.
- From 1988 to 2011, he was voiced by the late Joe Alaskey.
- From 1989 to 2021, he was voiced by Jeff Bergman.
- In 1996, he was voiced by Bill Farmer.
- From 2003 to 2004, he was voiced by Jeff Bennett.
- Since 2017, he is voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
- In Looney Tunes cartoons, he was voiced by Eric Bauza.
Appearance[]
Yosemite Sam is a short, light-tanned man with a hairy red unibrow, big nose and a extremely long red mustache who sports on a giant tan cowboy hat, a black eye mask he wears underneath his hat, and he often changes his outfits in many of his appearances, these from his original cowboy outfits that had blue shirts and brown pants with a vest, long spiky boots or black clothing, and frequently changes outfits in countless episodes like a captain's outfit, a Viking outfit, a business suit, a swordsman outfit, an military outfit or wearing a yellow=green shirt or a pink shirt.
Sam has also been given names like Square-Deal Sam, Sea-goin' Sam/Sam the Pirate (his name in France instead of Yosemite Sam), Sam-Duke of Yosemite, Riff-Raff Sam, Sam Schultz, Sam Von Schmam the Hessian, Yosemite Sam of Outer Space, K'chutha Sa'am, and many other aliases.
Personality[]
He is usually depicted as a human cowboy with a fiery temper and a overwhelming hatred of rabbits to match. He enjoys hoving having money above all else, being the toughest one there is and even abusing his power.
He is also very trigger-happy and will start firing his [trademark] revolvers, rifles, flintlock guns, etc. at any moment. While he isn't the brightest of villains though - in fact he can probably be considered extremely stupid at times and is easily tricked into humiliating and/or painful situations as much as many of Bugs adversaries are. Like any good villain, Yosemite Sam keeps coming back despite his continual failings and plays the role of the villain while changing job positions in many episodes, but he doesn't seem to be any wiser for his antagonism towards Bugs, still falling for the same old tricks as before - of course this is a trait common to many cartoon villains, not just Yosemite Sam.
Sam is mostly an evil, grumpy, explosive, greedy and loud man. Even though he quickly became just as hopeless as Elmer Fudd is since Sam fared no better against Bugs Bunny and was soon to become hopelessly tricked by the rabbit continually, though he is more dangerous as a gunslinging villain and is only a bit smarter than Fudd, which helps him come off as a little more threatening in vast comparison. Yosemite Sam, unlike Elmer Fudd, does not fall for the same trick twice. Sam even goes to the point to shoot "Santa" if he did not give him some presents, in the 2015 spinoff New Looney Tunes, and once threatened the audience in "Rabbit Every Monday (1951)" by forcing a member of the movie theatre audience featuring the film, to stay in their seats and forced everyone to watch what he's going to do next with hunting Bugs.
In other media[]
Films[]
- In Space Jam, Sam teams up with Michael Jordan and the Tunesters to beat the Monstars into a basketball game.
- In Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Sam becomes a manager of his own casino and serves Mr. Chairman of the ACME Corporation (who is one of the main antagonists of the second film). He tries to obtain a play card and then kill D.J. and Daffy while chasing them through the streets of Las Vegas in Jeff Gordon's car, but failed. He served as one of the four major antagonists alongside Wile E. Coyote, Elmer Fudd, and Taz.
- In Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, Sam is the main antagonist, though he has a different agenda than Elmer.
- In Looney Tunes: Blam-a-Rooney, he teams up with other Looney Tunes characters to beat various villains at times.
Trivia[]
- Sam's role in "Honey's Money" is similar to Daffy's role in "His Bitter Half". However, while Daffy was the hero of "His Bitter Half", Sam was the villain of "Honey's Money".
- Sam's role in "The Fair-Haired Hare" is similar to Butch Dog's role in "Wags to Riches/Millionaire Droopy". Both showing off one of their most villainous deeds to selfishly keep what they want to themselves and take advantage to kill the protagonist (Yosemite Sam to Bugs Bunny; and Butch to Droopy) upon the revelation that the desired prize will revert to the one that survives, but fail miserably.
- Sam has the most Aliases of all the Looney Tunes characters due to the different cartoons & settings that he is often pitted with Bugs Bunny.
External Links[]
- Yosemite Sam on the Heroes Wiki
- Yosemite Sam on the Wikipedia
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