Movies about Batman villains. That's where we are now.
Next they should do a really dark movie about how Elmer Fudd was tormented by rabbits as a child.
Elmer tormented Bugs! https://babylooneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/A_Bully_for_Bugs
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https://www.dccomics.com/comics/dc-meets-looney-tunes-2017/batmanelmer-fudd-special-1
I actually really like the idea of an Elmer Fudd dark satire
Imagine as a kid, Elmer goes hunting with his dad, who he loves very much. Little Elmer has a rifle in hand and is being asked by his father to shoot a cute little bunny a few yards up ahead. The bunny just sits there happily chewing some grass
Little Elmer doesn't want to shoot the cute "wabbit", but the dad gives the son a heartfelt lesson on the circle of life and explains that the rabbits are highly overpopulated in the area, and they're actually doing a big favor to all of the other animals in the area
Little Elmer starts gathering the courage to shoot. He aims the gun. Then asks his dad some question, receives no answer. He looks to the side and sees his father, hunched over and clutching his chest. The dad is having a heart attack. The rabbit stays sitting there, just chewing grass. The cuteness has become almost a form of taunting, as his father lays there dying. Little Elmer cries, leaning over his father
Then his father becomes still. He is dead. Elmer wipes tears away and looks at the rabbit, picks the rifle back up. Just as he is about to shoot it, it runs away
This is great, so tragic!
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Then we fast-forward to him in school, still a young boy, about 9-10. He has a bad case of early allopecia, making him bald. Plus he has that speech impediment that makes him pronounce Rs like Ws. So the other kids pick on him, which puts him under stress. Then, around Easter time, one of the teachers dresses up in a bunny costume. Elmer's eyes glaze over as he remembers the rabbit that watched his father die. Elmer dissociates, grabs a pair of safety scissors, and attacks the teacher in the rabbit costume
Next scene, he is sitting outside the principal's office. Elmer's mother is talking to the principal, trying to explain that Elmer has had it rough. Close-up on little Elmer's face. He's looking at the wall. A decoration, a laminated Easter Bunny. Looks a lot like the rabbit from the hunting trip. The beady eyes look back at young Elmer
Then you cut to Elmer as an adult. A broken man, never quite adjusted well to life. He spends his time in bars frequented by hunters, but he doesn't hunt himself. He overhears conversations of a near-mythical rabbit in the woods. Several of the hunters have seen it, but it has evaded all attempts to kill it. It even caused two hunting buddies to hurt each other; they were drunk and it ran between them, causing one to shoot the other (non-fatally). The growing legend has caused an informal bounty to be placed on this rabbit's head among the hunting community. They're calling it Bugs Bunny
Fudd decides that he's going to be the one to find and kill this pesky wabbit. This leads to a Mouse Trap/Home Alone style comedy
They'll be making horror movies featuring The Banana Splits next.
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