Bonkers D. Bobcat (Miranda Wright episodes)

Bonkers D. Bobcat is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1993-95 animated television series of the same name. Originally featured on Raw Toonage, he is a former star for cartoon shorts at Wackytoon Studios, an overly energetic and hyperactive, out-of-work, somewhat foolish, and not-so-bright Toon bobcat who works in the Toon Division of the Hollywood P.D. as a police officer.

Voiced by Jim Cummings respectively.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) He's a total embarrassment of a Roger Rabbit clone. (So you can literally say that he was a copycat, pun intended)
 * 2) He is quite an unlikable goof, always blundering himself with ideas or decisions that just don't make any sense whatsoever. His antics from his incompetent, flanderized counterpart or his regular, emotional counterpart usually go on the Jar-Jar Binks levels of annoying.
 * 3) * Whenever he does make sense, it comes out of nowhere (because of bad writing since Bonkers is supposed to be a dumb clown) and makes him seem not as innocent as he makes himself out to be.
 * 4) One of his utterly impulsive actions was when pretending to act as an officer despite being hired as one in the Disney Afternoon series by demonstrating irresponsible behavior without any civilized reason to do so, isn't the most mature or rational idea to do, especially when he was tasked with solving real-life crimes showing his unwary nature (e.g Retrieving a lost relative with Lucky & Fall Apart in the episode 'Color Me Piquel', and demonstrating with chasing him with Lucky & Fall Apart like it's a joke and letting him get away because of one of Bonkers forcing Lucky [a non-toon character] into one of his obviously fallible plans based on cartoons and cartoon logic.)
 * 5) His oddball voice can grate on the nerves when excessively talkative, especially when it can sometimes be pretty hard to listen to when he speaks insanely fast-paced or when he portrays childish behavior like pointlessly wailing or complaining for example.
 * 6) Everything he does is very weird, senseless, somewhat annoying and simply unfunny. Not to mention that several characters like Lucky and some cop characters demonstrate how irritated they are with Bonkers around when in a problem (even around Miranda at times, she's usually levelheaded compared to the others).
 * 7) His sense of humor is very passé, uninspired, and sometimes immature.
 * 8) Some of his morals/fourth-wall breaking are very bland and predictable to the point that it feels unnecessary and forced.
 * 9) In many episodes, he always gets his partners Lucky or Fall Apart into many destructive misadventures, either on purpose or not (and Lucky was even cartoonishly murdered once, on-screen), not to also mention BQ#3 being one of them for a brief moment.
 * 10) He can be very childish with his clueless yet cocky behavior despite being a problematic and naive character.
 * 11) His design looks like a generic and uninspired 'Classic Looney Tunes' looking character (if not overall bad) even for trying to have a Roger-Rabbit persona, and speaking of which, he doesn't even look like a Bobcat at all. Just look at a bobcat here and just look at Bonkers.
 * 12) * Also in the Lucky episodes, whenever Bonkers made a cat noise, he sounded too much like a real-life house cat in which Bobcats in real life don't make regular cat noises at all. Some of them even seem to make some REALLY strange sounds & noises, which explains Bonkers' voice.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Just like Jar Jar Binks, he means well and Bonkers does show to care about his friends most of the time like the aforementioned Lucky & Fall Apart, even if he is cocky, childish, or passive around them sometimes. He can also be quite compassionate and pleasant to those he interacts with, not to mention that he can be kindhearted and supportive to those with rather serious-minded problems or trying to help Lucky about toons. This is also shown in his cutesy if a somewhat vague brother-sister relationship with Miranda and he's shown to care a lot about her, due to how capable he can show his aforementioned compassion.
 * 2) Speaking of cute, his design is still appealing to look at (if looking like a bland yet bizarre Looney Tunes character).
 * 3) With that said, he isn't as atrocious or as aggravating as Bubsy
 * 4) There are fans who still support this character.
 * 5) When it isn't Bonkers relying on his dumb luck, he can pull through to save the day when it counts the most and can be practical when he needs to be or just motivated properly with what he knows about toons.
 * 6) In spite of his apparent unfunny sense of humor, clumsiness & presence, his special moments of klutziness, buffoonery, or just buffoonish behavior can be genuinely ludicrous to see. And just like Roger Rabbit himself, Bonkers can provide some fun and charm every once and a while.
 * 7) His appearance in Ducktales (2017) [when he was mute or not] was done a lot better.

Trivia

 * Bonkers made an appearance when in one of many cameos in Ducktales (2017) in Season 3 Episode 12 "Let's Get Dangerous!", in which he was mute while portrayed as a comical klutz (which can count as a redeemable quality as well).
 * When the show was having a troubled production, the show's cancellation took place because Disney was trying to scrap the character himself from all public consciousness.

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