Bugs Bunny raises a quiet philosophical question about what it means for a fictional being to feel more real than flesh and blood. He has a personality sharper than most people's — witty, calm under pressure, and utterly self-possessed. He has outsmarted hunters, gangsters, scientists, and coyotes across over a century of storytelling. Chuck Jones described him as a cross between Dorothy Parker and Errol Flynn, and that pairing is telling: Bugs combines the sardonic wit of a literary icon with the swashbuckling grace of a movie star. He exists only as ink, paint, and voice, yet millions of people feel they know him personally.