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Easter may make us think of fluffy, gentle bunnies, but throughout the history of film, rabbits have been a lot more subversive than their benign image would suggest.



Movie rabbits are often irreverent, mischievous, and even dangerous. (Yes, dangerous, really. Doubters, please watch 1972's Night of the Lepus, in which giant mutant rabbits terrorize a community, and please suppress your snickering.)



Here, then, are 10 of the most bad-ass bunnies in movies, starting with the most famous film rabbit of all time… niennunb ## Bugs Bunny 
His bad attitude, like his accent, is pure Brooklyn. His carrot-chomping nonchalance can be traced back to Clark Gable in It Happened One Night. (Though some have likened his carrot to the cigar of that other great anti-authoritarian movie comic, Groucho Marx.) His insouciant catchphrase, "What's up, Doc?", rings down through the ages. His voice, as created by the great Mel Blanc, is unmistakable. He's the most beloved bad example for kids this side of Bart Simpson, though his exploits have been even more outrageous and have gone on much longer.



He debuted in the 1940 cartoon short "A Wild Hare" and soon supplanted Porky Pig as the avatar of Warner Bros. animation and as the mascot of the whole company. He's unflappable in any tricky situation, whether he's fighting off a Martian invasion, evading Elmer Fudd's shotgun, or playing basketball with Michael Jordan (in Space Jam, one of his rare feature-length efforts). He's what all Americans imagine ourselves to be: brash, unstuffy, resourceful, funny, triumphant. Let's face it, Bugs Bunny is America. niennunb ## Roger Rabbit 
The star of 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit was like nothing we'd ever seen before. Not in terms of character; as voiced by comic Charles Fleischer, he was a floppy-eared, baggy-pants vaudeville clown, a nervous, needy, clingy relic from an era of seltzer spray-bottles that was already passé even in 1947, when the movie takes place. But he also seemed real, shaded to look three-dimensional (by animation whiz Richard Williams) and interacting seamlessly with live actors like Bob Hoskins (as private eye Eddie Valiant) and Christopher Lloyd (as Judge Doom).

He was as cutting-edge technically, as he was a throwback comically. Still, he was funny, which is how he was able to land Jessica Rabbit, the voomy wife (voiced by Kathleen Turner) who famously said, "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." Give the Rabbit couple credit, not just for their technical brilliance, or for their clever movie (a kiddie "Chinatown"), but also for brokering a détente (however temporary) between feuding toons. Who else could have gotten Disney's Mickey Mouse and Warners' Bugs Bunny to share the screen? niennunb ## The White Rabbit and the March Hare 
Think, for a moment, about what a subversive fellow is the waistcoat-clad White Rabbit from Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland. He sends Alice tumbling down a dangerous hole into a menacing dream world, where she trips out on mushrooms and nearly loses her head. (No wonder he inspired that Jefferson Airplane song.) In Tim Burton's smash 2010 reboot of enduring children's classic, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is older, on the cusp of womanhood, but still just as vulnerable to the influence of the rabbit (voiced by Michael Sheen).



She's forced to live out the same nightmare from her girlhood all over again, though at least she has an unlikely ally this time in the form of Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter. (By the way, there's another crazy rabbit at his tea party, the March Hare, as in, "Mad as a…", voiced by Paul Whitehouse.) Alice does manage to slay her dream-projection demons, return to the surface world, and display a streak of independence that's scandalous for a Victorian woman. Still, that White Rabbit has a lot to answer for. niennunb ## Harvey 
Harvey is no ordinary rabbit. For one thing, he's six feet tall. Also, he can stop time. And he's a pooka, a mischievous spirit out of Celtic mythology. And he's invisible – at least, to everyone except Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart), who calls Harvey his best friend. Now, Elwood likes to drink, and he may even be crazy, but what he really is, in Henry Koster's 1950 movie Harvey, is an affront to middle-class propriety.In this satire, based on Mary Chase's play, Harvey doesn't really have to do anything to make mischief, except let Elwood insist on his existence. Soon, Elwood has convinced even Dr. Chumley (Cecil Kellaway), the shrink who'd have him committed, that Harvey is real.

Stewart, in one of his most amiable performances, makes Elwood a precursor to those comic anti-heroes of the '60s and '70s, like Alan Bates in King of Hearts or Bud Cort in Harold and Maude, who suggest that it's really the rest of society that's insane, and that a little deliberate craziness is the best immunization against society's madness. niennunb ## Frank 
Rabbits don't come any creepier than Frank (James Duval) in Donnie Darko. He's man-sized and has matted black fur, opaque eyes, and a frozen grin revealing menacing-looking choppers. Plus, he's a doom-saying prophet who, as his name suggests, is brutally candid, appearing before Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) to deliver the news of the world's imminent demise (in precisely 28 days, six hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds).



Is Frank good or evil? Honest or deceptive? Human or something more sinister and strange? Real or a Harvey-like projection of Donnie's subconscious? Darkologists (as fervent a cult of movie lovers as rookie writer/director Richard Kelly could have wished for) have spent many an all-night bull session debating such questions. Toward the end of the movie, Kelly hints at answers that would explain Frank's true nature and allow the movie's looped narrative to make some sense (at least in a David Lynchian nightmare-logic kind of way), but for many viewers, it's more fun to let ambiguity remain and leave Frank as a terrifying symbol of innocent childhood fantasy gone horribly to seed. niennunb ## The rabbits of Watership Down 
Almost all of the major characters in this 1978 animated adaptation of Richard Adams' novel are rabbits living in the English countryside, but we're a long way from Beatrix Potter territory. The rabbits here live in a world that might have been envisioned by Darwin, Orwell, and William Golding working together: a totalitarian police state where rabbits fall prey to ruthless predators, including humans, dogs, and other rabbits. Our heroes manage to escape and found their own warren on the idyllic hillside of the title, but even that community threatens to become just like the one they fled.



The movie has earned acclaim over the years for its vivid animation, its master-thespian voice cast (made up of British Shakespeareans like John Hurt, Richard Briers, Nigel Hawthorne, and Ralph Richardson, as well as Yank import Zero Mostel, as a gull, in his final role), and its complex and bloody allegory of human civilization. But it's also disappointed or frightened many an unwary parent and child who saw a bunny on the poster and expected something a lot more benign and kid-friendly. No wonder the film is referenced in Donnie Darko. niennunb ## The rabbit of Caerbannog 
In 1975's Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and his posse from Camelot face a number of belligerent foes and fierce creatures, but none more monstrous or deadly than the rabbit guarding the cave that marks the end of their sacred quest. Sure, it looks like a harmless little bunny, but the knights foolishly ignore the dire warning of the wizard Tim (John Cleese) about the rabbit's sharp teeth and "vicious streak a mile wide."



The biting bunny slays three of Arthur's finest before the crew manages to take out the creature by deploying the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.Lesson learned, though the knights really should have known to avoid all things rabbit after their debacle earlier in the movie with the Trojan bunny they built to invade the castle of the taunting Frenchmen. See, you're supposed to hide inside the wooden beast and come out fighting once you're inside the fortress walls, not send in an empty rabbit and let the Frenchmen hurl it back over the wall at you. niennunb ## The Were-Rabbit 
You wouldn't expect a were-rabbit to be as terrifying as a werewolf, but then, you're not a giant vegetable. In 2005's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the monstrous bunny is terrorizing an English country village, ravaging the local gardens and laying waste to what should have been prize-winning veggies. Eccentric inventor Wallace and his silent but brainy dog Gromit have tried to keep the town rabbit-free by capturing all the local bunnies with the aim of brainwashing the love of vegetables out of them, but a bizarre accident involving a Wallace, a captive rabbit, and the brainwashing machine results in the horrifying mutation that turns Wallace himself into the giant, fluffy vegetarian vandal.



It's up to Gromit, as usual, to save the day, with a scheme that involves Wallace's favorite stinky cheese. Okay, the whole were-rabbit idea is more silly than scary, but it's also pretty brilliant, like the rest of Aardman's endlessly inventive Wallace & Gromit series. This is the only one of the pair's stop-motion movies that's feature-length, but unlike the were-rabbit itself, it's proof that sometimes, bigger really is better. niennunb ## E.B. 
E.B., from the 2011 hit Hop, is the only rabbit on this list who's an actual Easter Bunny (note the initials). Not that he wants to be; as voiced by Russell Brand, E.B. would rather be a rock drummer than a distributor of candy and painted eggs. His dad (Hugh Laurie) has been grooming him to take over the family business, but one day, E.B. escapes from holiday HQ (on Easter Island, natch) and heads to Los Angeles to pursue his dream. There, he meets live-action layabout Fred (James Marsden), who, it turns out, does have an aptitude for handing out candy and hiding eggs.



In the end, everyone gets the job they're suited for, though not before Brand's trouble-prone hare wreaks havoc throughout Hollywood. For all his reputation of grown-up debauchery, Brand has no trouble making his variety of naughtiness safe and puerile enough for kids (for further evidence, watch him with Adam Sandler in Bedtime Stories). Still, the funniest line in the film belongs to David Hasselhoff, who explains why he's not fazed to meet a talking, drumming rabbit: "My best friend is a talking car." niennunb ## Thumper 
Bambi's friend has that annoying habit of pounding his left hind foot on the ground (hence his name). He also a penchant for childish insults, but then, he's not that much older than the fawn. (In Disney's Bambi, Thumper was voiced by Peter Behn, who was four years old at the time.) He has to be reminded by his parents to heed the maxim now known as Thumper's Law: "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all." Still, he takes an interest in mentoring the deer. He teaches him how to say a few words and even how to ice skate (though, as Thumper himself notes, Bambi on ice is "kinda wobbly").



In a larger sense, Thumper helped Bambi by providing comic relief and by helping to establish a tradition in Disney cartoons of talking animal sidekicks who have more personality that the protagonists. As a result, he was rewarded with a whole "Disney Bunnies" line of merchandise, coloring books, and storybooks. In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he's said to be Roger's uncle. So, not a bad career for a snarky little woodland creature. niennunb ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7119410/hare-club-10-memorable-movie-rabbits/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7119410/hare-club-10-memorable-movie-rabbits/"},"headline":"Hare Club: 10 Memorable Movie Rabbits","datePublished":"2013-03-31T12:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-16T05:45:38.100Z","description":"From cuddly cottontails to homicidal hares, TIME goes down the rabbit hole to bring you our favorite box-office bunnies","url":"https://time.com/archive/7119410/hare-club-10-memorable-movie-rabbits/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdaac2f8c5f94909/698a8f08457a524e11d6ffbe/bambi-e1364605841744.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Susman","url":"https://time.com/author/gary-susman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdaac2f8c5f94909/698a8f08457a524e11d6ffbe/bambi-e1364605841744.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bambi","caption":"","creditText":"Walt Disney Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7119410/hare-club-10-memorable-movie-rabbits/","name":"Hare Club: 10 Memorable Movie Rabbits"}}]}] ```