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Sufferin’ succotash!
~ Sylvester’s catchphrase
(Dog snarling and barking) AAAAAAAH, SSSHADDUP! (Dog continues barking) AHH Shut your BIG yap, or I'll let YOU have another!! (train goes uphill) Ahhhhh, what are you looking for? A FAT lip!?
~ Sylvester to a snarling bulldog in "All A Bir-r-r-d".

Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr. is a major character in the Looney Tunes franchise. He is the main protagonist villain of the Sylvester and Tweety cartoon shorts, the main antagonist of the Speedy Gonzales cartoon shorts, and the main protagonist of various other cartoon shorts and TV shows like Tweety and Sylvester Mysteries. He is the best friend and arch-rival of Tweety Bird.

From 1945 to 1989, he was voiced by the late Mel Blanc. Since 1990, he has been voiced by several other actors; most notably Jeff Bergman and the late Joe Alaskey.

His Evil Ranking[]

What Makes Him Heinous?[]

  • He often smacks around a kitten for just speaking in his first appearance Kitty Kornered.
  • He continuously attempts to kill Tweety and Speedy Gonzalez in several cartoons by stalking them and attempting to manipulate any opportunity to murder them individually without anyone knowing.
    • Surpisingly, he managed to achieve at killing Tweety by eating him twice in the 1957 short Greedy for Tweety (for a short amount of time) and also did it again in the 2002 webtoon, Twick or Tweety.
  • He committed theft numerous times.
  • In "Ain't She Tweet", he attempted throwing a brick at a glass wall at the pet shop Tweety and a mouse were seen poking fun at Sylvester, and in the same episode, he even tossed a flower vase to a group of dogs out of pure anger and yelled at them to keep their mouths shut.
  • In "All A Bir-r-r-d", most memorably, Sylvester brutally whacked a bulldog on the head with a umbrella stick for just snarling at him and also telling said dog to shut up because of Sylvester's petty irritation with the dog.
  • He attempted creating a vicious robotic dog and a explosive device to get rid of a bulldog that was protecting Tweety in the episode Tweet and Lovely.
  • In "Crowing Pains", he tried to destroy an egg to stop it from being hatched, and he used a mallet and anything he could get his hands on. He also brutally whacked Foghorn Leghorn on the head for Foghorn nagging to Sylvester about not understanding a "joke".
  • In "Tweet Tweet Tweety", he violated the rule of "No Hunting and Fishing".
  • In "Back-Alley Oproar", he harassed Elmer Fudd at night time by constantly singing, making noise and pulling tons of pranks, Sylvester didn't once give him a chance to sleep or rest with silence, and his antics resulted in tormenting and inconviencing Elmer more times than not. This also led to Elmer Fudd creating a bomb that killed both: Sylvester and even Elmer himself by mistake after wanting him to be quiet and being mentally scarred by Sylvester bothering him at nighttime rather than letting him sleep peacefully.
    • Even when Elmer Fudd became a angel and saw all nine lives of Sylvester sing, Elmer even commits suicide as a angel while Sylvester just sings with glee!
  • In "The Scarlet Pumpernickel", he played his most villainous role as the Grand Duke has him trying to force Melissa Duck into marrying him, and attempted to kill The Scarlet Pumpernickel (played by Daffy Duck) when he arrived to come and rescue Melissa.
    • He also wields a sword around and also behaved like a pervert and even a full-on rapist towards the innocent Melissa Duck.
    • It is worth noting, however, that all of the events in the story of "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" are all product of Daffy's mind, meaning that this Sylvester as the Grand Duke is an imaginary separate character rather than the original Sylvester.
  • In "Toon Marooned", he cheated in a competition and attempted to set many dangerous traps for Daffy Duck to get killed or trapped (not to mention he is seen violently beating Daffy up sometimes).
    • It doesn't help that in the 2016 game Looney Tunes World of Mayhem, Sylvester is seen being a whole lot more ferocious and violent towards Daffy in a more threatening way than ever before.
  • In one of the episodes of "Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries", he once violently kicked a kid who merely wanted to have some peanuts.
  • In "Greedy For Tweety", while he, Tweety and Hector were all being hospitalized a couple of times at the Animal Hospital by Granny, Sylvester tried to disfigure Hector's foot by creating a device that is programmed to extend a robotic claw and drill a hole inside of Hector's foot before placing a lighted up TNT bomb to place in Hector's foot cast with a wine cork to close it shut.
    • It doesn't help the same episode, he brutally whacks Hector's foot cast with a cane he needed to walk, visibly harming Hector's foot for just snarling at Sylvester while the latter tried eating Tweety in a sneaky and devious fashion (Sylvester was more than willing to hit him more than twice if it meant silencing him).
    • Sylvester even used scissors to cut the rope holding Hector's foot to make his foot cast brutally slam onto the front side of his chair, making Hector tormented even more.
    • He also managed to eat Tweety successfully before Granny had to use surgery to free Tweety from Sylvester's stomach before Sylvester could even digest him.
  • He gleefully abuses and assaults a couple of feral animals in the zoo (ex. using a whip and using a mallet to whack a lion's head in Tweety's Circus) for no reason other than his own mischief and sadism in multiple episodes like "Tweet Zoo", "Pest Coaster", "Tweety's Circus" and "Rhino Ya Don't". He even had the intent to kill multiple animals in the zoo as well.
  • It's heavily implied that he killed a lot of mice in the short Speedy Gonzales, where a mouse tries to get the cheese from him and he eats him off-screen. The mice were sad and threw away his hat along with the other hats of mice, implying that wasn't the first time Sylvester killed a mouse for trying to get in the Ajax Cheese Factory.
  • It's shown that Sylvester did eat one of Speedy's friends in the SNES Speedy Gonzales game.
  • It's heavily implied that he (before his assassination) was once known as an unscrupulous CEO of a super successful store titled "Cat Meow Superstores" in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas.
  • Even if Looney Tunes has a fairly high heinous standard, Sylvester still stands out for his high attempted kill count and having less resources than Daffy Duck, Mr. Chairman and Marvin the Martian due to being a mere tomcat.

What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]

  • Just like every other character in Looney Tunes, he is frequently played up for laughs in his many appearances and rarely has moments of genuine seriousness. Especially since the humor comes from his constant failed attempts to eat Tweety Bird due to having seriously bad luck and how he sometimes rarely thinks things through while chasing after Tweety or going hunting with his son despite being talented and fairly clever, thus making him way too incompetent and comedic to be NPE.
    • He can be mischievous at times, as he drove Elmer Fudd insane with his noisy singing and his prancing noises in "Back-Alley Oproar", which is one example of his misdeeds being humorous and played for comic effect.
  • He is extremely tragic. Not only are there shorts where he is starving and also homeless, his pet owner Granny pays much more time and attention to Tweety than him (even to the point that there's nothing but bird food in the whole house as seen in the episode "Snow Business"), meaning that Sylvester not being fed or loved by Granny as much as Tweety is, could possibly be the most understandable reason for why Sylvester wants to kill Tweety on a daily basis (as well as why he wants to be loved by his owners).
    • Because of this, he also has had several insecurities that have been played for sympathy (as well as played for dramatic tension), where Sylvester had an villainous breakdown that was depicted as a humanizing moment for Sylvester trying to go for a day without wanting to obsess over eating Tweety in the episode "Birds Anonymous" (and his hyperfocus on eating delicious foods including Tweety gave Sylvester tons of anxiety, stress, and was even driven crazy over his attempts to regulate himself).
    • He has been sexually harassed by Pepe Le Pew at least twice and was also repeatedly harassed by Pitu Le Pew from the Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries series, two male lustful skunks from two separate shows that all tend to act inappropiate without Sylvester's consent (which had Sylvester often struggling with resisting, saying no and running away from the both of them with a lot of fear and paranoia, even when he did once ran away from Pepe in his one cameo in the Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries series), all of which made him in a humilating and uncomfortable environment to be in (especially the moment Sylvester was put in a ladies dress).
    • In fact, Sylvester has died more times than any other Looney Tunes character in the entire series, specifically in the following episodes: "Peck Up Your Troubles", "I Taw a Putty Tat", "Back Alley Oproar", "Mouse Mazurka", "Bad Ol' Putty Tat", "Ain't She Tweet", "Satan's Waitin'", "Muzzle Tough", "Sandy Claws", "Tweety's Circus", "Too Hop to Handle", "Tree Cornered Tweety", "Tweet and Lovely", "Trick or Tweet", "The Rebel Without Claws", "The Wild Chase", and "Museum Scream".
    • Heck, at one point, he was a ghost in the film Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas since a disgruntled employee killed and squashed him with a forklift at least nine times on Christmas Eve.
  • He is On & Off since he is a protagonist that has also done numerous heroic acts.
  • He can be genuinely affable and also seems to show genuine care for his friends several times such as Porky Pig (no matter how many times Porky harshly misjudged him), and he even respects Tweety despite trying to kill him repeatedly, a good example of this is "Point, Laser Point".
    • In the same episode of "Point, Laser Point", he also shows a sympathetic side towards Wile E. Coyote. When Sylvester was called in for his therapy appointment by Witch Hazel, Sylvester tells Wile that he wishes all the best for him in his personal goals and whatever he goes through in his life despite Sylvester not knowing much about him, which shows that Sylvester is capable of showing compassion and empathy for the struggles of other people, even when someone like Wile didn't care about a thing that Sylvester just said to him (this being why Sylvester looked bummed that Wile didn't care what he said).
  • Similar to another cartoon cat, he is oftentimes a complete scapegoat due to having the worst luck possible and regularly being treated like dirt countless times (even when he doesn't do much wrong to deserve it) and Tweety always overshadows him in terms of popularity, love and attention from Granny and just about many of his owners. It doesn't help that there are shorts in which he's depicted as homeless as well as starving.
    • He also commits many crimes because of his history of mistreatment from other people (as well as him being hopeless in nourishment in the episode "Catch as Cats Can"; a episode that directly implies Sylvester was always "emaciated"), his owners (Granny being one of them) that tend to be generally negligent of his health (which is always played for sympathy especially when Granny brutally whacked Sylvester on the head for no real reason in the Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "Double Take"), and he also lives with callous pets like Hector, a brutish bulldog that enjoys violently bullying him for the fact Sylvester is easy to mess with due to Sylvester's obsession with eating Tweety.
    • In fact, even when a little girl named Suzanne wanted to have Sylvester as a pet she'd show love and care for (and the mother even reminded her to give Sylvester a bath and medical attention) in the episode "A Kiddies Kitty" (remember that Suzanne, despite her mistakes and naviete, still wanted to take care of him as well being kind enough as to feed him milk or anything she thought would be edible, something no other character in the franchise ever once considered or remembered to do!), by accident and unintentional harm from Suzanne; he was pulled on the tail, nearly choked to death by her from the neck, frozen inside a freezer Suzanne told him to hide in, forced to wash himself inside a washing machine (which turned him into a floating fuzzball thankfully), forced to be fed mud by Suzanne, beaten up by the dog (to the point of being bandaged), getting little to no sleep due to watching a space show with Suzanne, and by the end of the episode, forced to wear a jacket with a fish bowl on his head and a rocket that blew up in Sylvester's face, and all of this made him feel so uneasy being there; he wanted to sneak out, kick the bulldog in the face and continue being chased around by the same violent bulldog who chased Sylvester throughout the whole episode.
    • Even Tweety himself, Sylvester's supposedly innocent arch-nemesis, also shows some enjoyment in tormenting Sylvester upon deceiving him at times, especially when Tweety teasing Sylvester has (unintentionally) traumatized Sylvester to the point of vacuuming him "as a ghost" out of fear in the episode "Boo! Appetweet". All of which, implies that Sylvester being tortured and neglected, is what caused him to be a villainous predator at all.
  • Despite anything he has done, he has shown honor and appears to have standards in many of his appearances; he attempts redeeming himself when he gave Tweety a hug in the Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries episode "This Is the End", has tried to stop going after Tweety and tried to think of anything else to do despite his struggles in restraining himself in the episode "Birds Anonymous", and has spared Tweety's life by listening to what Tweety's request was instead of just eating him immediately in the episode "Point, Laser Point" (the latter having Sylvester say "I suppose so. After all, I'm a animal, not a monster").

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