Who Framed Roger Rabbit The ORIGINAL Roger Was A StoneCold Killer

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: The ORIGINAL Roger Was A Stone-Cold Killer

Disney fans know Roger Rabbit as a loveable cartoon from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? – but his original version was actually a straight-up murderer!

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit The ORIGINAL Roger Was A StoneCold Killer

Fans of 1988, live-action/animated mystery comedy Disney film Who Framed Roger Rabbit love the titular character – a cartoon rabbit who lives in the “real” world alongside flesh-and-blood humans. Childlike, friendly, and very silly, Roger finds himself accused of murdering Marvin Acme, the owner of Toontown who was having an affair (of sorts) with Roger’s buxom wife Jessica Rabbit. Fortunately, Roger is cleared of the murder charges by human private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) – not that anyone in the audience ever believed such an innocent character could be capable of murder – however, the books tell a different story.

In contrast to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is loaded with Disney charm and fun, the original novel the movie was based on – Who Censored Roger Rabbit – contains a much darker view of a world populated by humans and animated characters. In this version, Roger is not only guilty of murder – he gets murdered as well! If this seems to fly in the face of everything you thought you knew about the story… it gets a lot weirder.

Written in 1981 by Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit, is a more serious mystery novel done in the tradition of “hardboiled private eye” stories. While the premise of animated characters living side-by-side with flesh-and-blood humans remains, the living cartoon characters aren’t as zany as the ones in the film. For one thing, while the film “Toons” are virtually indestructible, the book’s characters can be killed through mundane means like shooting. The book’s comic characters also have the unique ability to create doppelgangers of themselves whom they use to run errands and engage in dangerous stunts. When the doppelgangers’ psychic energy runs out, however, they disintegrate.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit The ORIGINAL Roger Was A StoneCold Killer

Roger Rabbit is also not a star of animated cartoons, but a comic strip character who gets photographed for the newspaper instead of drawn. This also affects the way he speaks – instead of just talking like in the film, he produces physical “speech balloons” with written words that disintegrate once he’s done “talking.” When the story begins, Roger hires private eye Eddie Valiant to discover why his employers Rocco and Dominic DeGreasy wouldn’t give him his own comic strip after promising to do so.

Valiant investigates – but later discovers Roger was murdered (or “censored”) in his own home. However, Roger created a doppelganger to run some errands before his death, and that version of Roger (who has all of the original’s memories) accompanies Valiant on his investigation. Things get hairier when Roger is accused of killing Rocco DeGreasy, although his doppelganger insists that he’s innocent.

As Valiant continues investigating, he encounters Roger’s widow Jessica Rabbit and co-star Baby Herman. He also learns that Roger possessed a magic kettle that contained a Genie who was magically granting Roger’s wish to be a successful comic strip star and to marry Jessica Rabbit (giving a more cynical reason for how the bunny and the bombshell got together). When Roger accidentally activates the Genie a third time, however, the Genie – who has grown tired of granting wishes – shoots Roger.

In a final twist, however, Valiant reveals he knows the original Roger really did murder Rocco in retaliation for Rocco stealing Jessica from the cartoon rabbit. The doppelganger Roger created was supposed to be his alibi by letting Roger Rabbit appear to be in two places at the same time. Even worse, Roger had intended to plant the murder weapon in Valiant’s office to frame the private eye for the murder! Roger’s doppelganger admits that Valiant is right before he finally disintegrates, having finally run out of energy.

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It’s a shocking – and frankly disturbing – ending for a book that eventually became a family-friendly comedy film (although the Disney version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? movie also had its fair share of controversy, mostly dealing with the oversexualized way Jessica Rabbit was portrayed). Oddly enough, Wolf later wrote another Roger Rabbit book, Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? which seems to share continuity with the Disney film and not the original book. In fact, at one point Jessica Rabbit seems to claim the events of the first book were just a dream, further retconning the story’s dark roots into obscurity.

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