Rabbits are among nature’s most beautiful creatures, and they play many important roles. In movies, TV, and such, they are equally necessary, just as in nature, where they tell hunters and ducks which hunting season it is, and dress up like female Tasmanian devils.
6. 30-Second Bunnies
These bunnies re-enact movies in 30 seconds. Good movies, including Evil Dead II and Back to the Future. Watch now. You deserve it.
5. Enemies of Anya
Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer made it frequently clear her distaste for bunnies. In the episode “Once More With Feeling,” Anya claimed that they are not cute like everyone supposes.
4. Thunderbunny
In this 1982 comic book, a teenager wishes he was a superhero. Then he finds a crashed spaceship, where he is granted flight and super-strength, but only by turning into a muscle-bound talking bunny.
The lesson is, be careful what you wish for, because you just might get turned into a super rabbit-man.
3. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny
The power of Shazam compels you!
Captain Marvel Bunny first appeared in 1940. He returned in the 1980s to help the non-rabbit Captain Marvel in a story by Roy Thomas, a writer who loves bunnies so much he created Captain Carrot and Jaxxon the awesome Star Wars Rabbit.
Hoppy is invulnerable and super-strong like like Captain Marvel, but he’s a talking bunny.
What does a talking bunny do with the powers of Shazam? Whatever he wants.
2. Science bunnies from Lost
The things had red eyes.
When Ben Linus was Little Ben, he used one to see if a sound-wave fence was on. When he grew up, he made one fake a heart attack.
But the bunnies’ greatest contribution to Lost is that in one episode, Sawyer read Watership Down. The rabbit murders in it toughened him up.
1. Bunnicula
Bunnicula is a rabbit that a dog thinks is a vampire, in a book series by James Howe.
The star of the books is Harold the dog. Hijinks ensue when Harold tries and fails constantly to kill the bunny, and thus becomes convinced it’s a vampire.
That’s right. It’s a kids’ book. The bunny does not die. And it shows no sign of really being a vampire.
The book presents two options, but leaves the answer up to us gentle readers: The dog is crazy. Or Bunnicula is a soulless devil-spawn biding its time until it consumes the family’s lifeblood.
5. Captain Carrot
Captain Carrot was the greatest of all the animal heroes, because he was a wimpy rabbit who ate radioactive carrots to become a stronger rabbit.
Roy Thomas, a veteran writer who knows everything about comic books, even the ones with bunnies, teamed with Scott Shaw to visit a parallel Earth in the DC Universe in 1982, where superhero animals Captain Carrot, Rubberduck, Alley-Kat-Abra and Little Cheese fought Salamandroid, Dr. Hoot, and Cold Turkey. Every person, place, and thing was an animal pun. But I liked it anyway.
4. Captain Bucky O’Hare
This rabbit flew a spaceship. There might be only one thing more excellent than that. How about a rabbit who fires a laser gun?
The Captain did that, too.
Never has a hero been more resonant with our times than the good captain, who was “a funky fresh rabbit, who can take care of it.”
3. Killer rabbit, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Crusades were a dark time, when society had few things to help them strive forward, such as courageous knights who fought valiantly even though their arms were off.
In this bleakness, crusading warriors were set upon by deadly creatures. This terrifying historical re-enactment is not for the faint.
“What’s he do? Nibble your bum?”
2. Watership Down
So I’m eight, and a cartoon comes on at night, as cartoons were wont to do in 1978.
It’s a heroic quest story, but with rabbits, frolicking in a meadow. So I think “Neat. Bunnies.“
Then I sit down to watch and Oh Lord! Killing! Fangs! Blood! Garfunkel!
1. Jaxxon, the Green Star Wars Rabbit
Roy Thomas wrote the first issues of Marvel Comics’ Star Wars comic book. So he put a rabbit in it. That man loves him some rabbits.
Jaxxon is a green rabbit guy, which totally makes sense, since the galaxy far, far away has pig guys and walrus guys. Jaxxon is the baddest Star Wars anything that is not a Wookiee. You got that, Boba Fett?
The more serious Star Wars fans disavow Jaxxon’s existence, which makes him more awesome. Also, they need to chill out.
If you care not for Jaxxon, there may be something wrong with you.
4. Frank from Donnie Darko
Frank told Donnie Darko he would die in 28 days. He asked whether Donnie believed in time travel. He appears to be someone wearing a stupid bunny suit. He leaves us with more questions than answers.
Number one on the list: Why are we wearing these stupid man suits?
3. Usagi Yojimbo
Stan Sakai’s ronin rabbit appeared in comics in 1984. He teamed up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
But he lived in feudal Japan, not modern America. So he had no pizza or sewers. He lived outside, baby, and he had a sword, not some girly nunchuks.
2. Lepus, Night of the Lepus
“What is the terrifying mutant that strikes from behind the shroud of night?”
Night of the Lepus is about a giant bunny. Not scary, you might say, but only if you have never encountered a giant bunny.
Check out the horrifying way they pronounce mutant!
Janet Leigh runs afoul of the Lepus. You would think she learned her lesson after taking that shower in the crazy man’s hotel.
1. Hoops from Gamma World
In TSR’s 1978 role-playing game Gamma World, the apocalypse made bad things happen. Animals were mutated. Robots went crazy. Plants could talk. Best of all, it gave us a break from AD&D; for a week or two.
In Gamma World, society was crumbled. Things were rotten. You lived by your wits and fought for your life every day. But no one was prepared to handle rabbits who carried guns.
