Bugs can sometimes attempt to placate the antagonist and avoid conflict, however when an antagonist pushes him too so much, Bugs could address the audience and invoke his catchphrase "Of course you understand, this implies war!" before he retaliates, and also the retaliation are devastating. This line was taken from Groucho Marx and others within the 1933 film Duck Soup and was additionally employed in the 1935 Marx film an evening at the Opera. Bugs would pay homage to Groucho in different ways in which, like sometimes adopting his stooped walk or leering eyebrow-raising (in Hair-Raising Hare, for example) or generally with an on the spot impersonation (as in Slick Hare).
Other administrators, like Friz Freleng, characterised Bugs as altruistic. When Bugs meets different successful characters (such as Cecil Turtle in Tortoise Beats Hare, or, in World War II, the Gremlin of Falling Hare), his overconfidence becomes a drawback.
During the Nineteen Forties, Bugs was immature and wild, however beginning within the Nineteen Fifties his temperament matured and his angle was less frenetic. It's price noting, however, that some feel this shift in Bugs's temperament marked a big decline within the quality of his cartoons. Though typically shown as highly mischievous and violent, Bugs isn't really malicious, and solely acts as such in self-defense against his aggressors; the sole cartoon where Bugs ever served as a real villain was Buckaroo Bugs.
