Roger Rabbit is the deuteragonist of Disney/Touchstone’s 1988 hybrid film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the main protagonist in the short films and comics spun off from it. Voiced by Charles Fleischer, he is the titular anthropomorphic rabbit of the film, a frantic over-anxious type who often stutters (even while he’s screaming).

Before Richard Williams came aboard on the project, early animation tests for Roger gave him a simple and stylized look of a skinny white bunny with a purple nose. In these test animations, Roger was voiced by Paul Reubens. When the film went into full production, Roger was redesigned in a fashion to take elements from all the major cartoon studios of the period, the philosophy behind the new characters in general being a combination of Disney’s elaborate animation style, similar characterization to Warner Bros. characters and capable of performing Tex Avery-inspired gags.