The Road Runner (The Larriva Eleven)

Road Runner, also known as Beep Beep, is a Looney Tunes character created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese.

Road Runner debuted with his frequent adversary Wile E. Coyote in 1949's "Fast and Furry-ous". To date, 48 cartoons have been made featuring these characters, including the computer-animated shorts, most of which were directed by Chuck Jones. In each cartoon, Wile E. Coyote utilizes absurdly complex gizmos (often from ACME, a mail-order company and recurring gimmick in Looney Tunes) and elaborate plans to try to catch his prey, rather than his natural guile, but fails every time.

While Road Runner was a good character for the most part, he unfortunately got flanderized in the infamous Larriva Eleven.

NOTE: This article will be focusing on this specific series of cartoons and to a lesser extent, "The Wild Chase", "Rushing Roulette" and "Sugar and Spies".

"Beep..." Qualities

 * 1) To get Bugs Bunny out of his Rabbit Hole: The main problem with Road Runner in these cartoons is that he often doesn't stay true to his original routes as originally established by Chuck Jones and lack the charm and cleverness of the Chuck Jones originals from the classic era and the revival era cartoons, and to a lesser extent, Friz Freleng's "The Wild Chase", and even the two Robert McKimson Road Runner cartoons "Rushing Roulette" and "Sugar and Spies".
 * 2) * He used to be a blissfully ignorant/unaware Road Runner in the aforementioned and more superior set of cartoons who didn't really know that he was being hunted, but now it feels like he's actively trying to get Wile E. Coyote into trouble and mishap.
 * 3) He has done lots of awful things to the Coyote that also break the laws of his cartoons, and they're more painful and hurtful than funny.
 * 4) * Firing him out of a cannon in "Chaser On The Rocks".
 * 5) ** Abusing the fact that the Coyote just needed a drink in the cartoon and constantly attacking him. Keep in mind that for once, Wile E. wasn't even trying to get him in this cartoon.
 * 6) * Driving multiple vehicles over him.
 * 7) * Hypnotizing Coyote into walking off a cliff in "Boulder Wham!"
 * 8) * Sending Coyote off to the moon using a remote at the end of "Sugar and Spies", as well as mailing a bomb back to him in the same episode.
 * 9) * In "Rushing Roulette" he throws the Coyote off a mountain on a trolley.
 * 10) ** Also setting Coyote ablaze on top of a mountain, somewhere where he CAN'T GET DOWN FROM in that same short.
 * 11) His design, while still good, goes off-model quite a bit.
 * 12) He very often contributes to quite a bit of the slow and unfunny gags in these shorts.
 * 13) He's also a technical Gary-Stu in most of the shorts here, apart from "The Solid Tin Coyote", as he never really gets caught by the Coyote and always outsmarts him. Yes, this could be implied for the shorts outside this period, but keep in mind there he was at least likeable.
 * 14) Because of these reasons above, though mostly the first 2, this shows why the Road Runner was overall ruined as a character in this period of shorts.

"Beep Beep!" Qualities

 * 1) "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner", "Boulder Wham!", "Just Plane Beep", "Hairied and Hurried", "Shot and Bothered", and "The Solid Tin Coyote" at least try to pay more attention to the Road Runner rules by not breaking the number one rule, and don't have him totally flanderized as sadistic or cruel.
 * 2) * Also, "The Solid Tin Coyote" shows that he isn't completely infulliable.
 * 3) His design, despite going off-model quite a bit, it's still decent.
 * 4) "Beep Beep!" is still a memorable line.
 * 5) "Run Run, Sweet Road Runner", Just Plane Beep, "Hairied and Hurried", "Shot and Bothered", "The Wild Chase" and "The Solid Tin Coyote" are the only shorts from this period where he was likeable.
 * 6) He was a much better character before these shorts and has redeemed himself since the 1979-revival era.