Henery Hawk

Henery Hawk is a supporting character and minor antagonist on the Foghorn Leghorn shorts from Looney Tunes, first appearing on The Squawkin' Hawk in 1942. Originally voiced by Kent Rogers in his debut cartoon, he is later voiced by Mel Blanc beginning with Walky Talky Hawky.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) He is usually obnoxious and tries to put up fights with Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg, mainly just to eat the former.
 * 2) He also acts very egotistical.
 * 3) In The Squawkin' Hawk and The Foghorn Leghorn, he refuses to listen to his parents whenever they tell him to not get chicken but does it anyway.
 * 4) He is also incredibly stupid and doesn’t know what a chicken is, though to be fair it is due to him living a sheltered life.
 * 5) While Mel Blanc did a decent job voicing him, his voice can get on your nerves at times.
 * 6) He usually makes a bad cartoon predator due to his stupidity. Even Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, Tom, Taz and Wile E. Coyote have more intelligence than Henery has.
 * 7) Not only does he harm Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg, but also Sylvester and Daffy Duck.
 * 8) He also doesn’t seem to take criticism and can’t take no for an answer.
 * 9) Unlike all the other Looney Tunes antagonist characters, he never gets punished for his actions and usually gets off scot-free, often successfully preying on Foghorn Leghorn in almost every episode he appears in.

Good Qualities

 * 1) His creation in 1942 marked director Chuck Jones' first ever attempt at breaking away from creating boring, weak, slow-witted, and cutesy Disney-inspired knock-off characters like Sniffles, Inki, The Two Curious Puppies and Conrad Cat back in 1939-1941, even though Jones would have much better luck at doing so when creating Hubie and Bertie the following year in The Aristo-Cat.
 * 2) He and Foghorn Leghorn share good chemistry.
 * 3) He can be funny at times.
 * 4) His design is cute.
 * 5) Mel Blanc does a decent job voicing him.
 * 6) He did get his comeuppance only in Strangled Eggs (his final pairing with Foghorn Leghorn in the Golden Age of American Animation) where he gets scared away by Foghorn who pretends to be a chickenhawk chasing after him (despite Foghorn still losing in the end thanks to his adoptive guardian Miss Prissy shutting the door out on Foghorn).
 * 7) He did improve a bit on The Looney Tunes Show.
 * 8) The Foghorn Leghorn cartoons would likely not be as great as it is without him.
 * 9) As a recurring antagonist in the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, he is very likely supposed to be disliked for his obnoxious and bratty behavior, his habit of picking fights with Foghorn Leghorn and the other characters, and how needlessly dumb he is.

Trivia

 * Despite being used frequently by Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones actually created Henery Hawk.
 * Henery Hawk inspired Mark Evanier to create Scrappy-Doo for Scooby-Doo.