| Lola Bunny | |
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| Lola as she was seen in Space Jam. | |
| First appearance | Space Jam (1996) |
| Voiced by | Kath Soucie, Britt McKillip (Baby Looney Tunes) |
Lola Bunny is a cartoon character from Warner Bros. Studios. She is a female rabbit and has been established as having a romantic involvement with Bugs Bunny as well as being his main love interest and girlfriend.
The name Lola comes from the Kinks song of the same name.[citation needed] Lead animators at WB would often listen to music as a source of inspiration for their work.
Lola's first appearance was in the movie Space Jam, in which she is voiced by Kath Soucie. Lola's basketball skills got her a spot on the Toon Squad, in which the Looney Tunes characters battled the villainous Monstars for their freedom, with help from Michael Jordan. The Toon Squad was victorious, and Lola kindled a romance with Bugs. Although she had turned down his earlier advances, she saw him in a new light after he heroically saved her from injury by shoving her out of the path of a belly-flopping Monstar, getting himself painfully squashed under the Monstar's belly.
Aftermath
After Space Jam, Lola has regularly appeared in solo stories in the monthly Looney Tunes comic published by DC Comics. Lola was also seen as the reporter in the 2000 direct-to-video movie "Tweety's High-Flying Adventure" (it should be noted that in all of her scenes in this movie she is seen holding a basketball). An infant version of her is among the regular characters of Baby Looney Tunes. (Her relative obscurity was lampshaded in the original commercial break cards, where the announcer says things like "Yes, Lola is cute, but I'm not sure who she is.") Also, in the cartoon series Loonatics Unleashed, the character of Lexi Bunny is a descendant of Lola and possibly Bugs Bunny.
Lola Bunny was also one of the starting playable characters in Looney Tunes Racing which was released in November 2000.
Lola Bunny was also featured in a Looney Tune webtoon, on looneytunes.com, entitled "Dating Dos And Don'ts." During this webtoon, in the form of a fifties educational film, Bugs Bunny attempts to take Lola out on a date, but Elmer Fudd and Lola's disapproving dad (voiced by Tom Kenny) are all that stand between him and his date. The short ends with Elmer crashing on top of Lola's dad, and Lola continuing to kiss Bugs passionately. A mascot version of Lola Bunny in her Space Jam Tune Squad uniform helped debut the Women's National Basketball Association in 1997 appearing at their inaugural game between the New York Liberty and the Los Angeles Sparks in Inglewood, California.
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