Hatta Mari

For the writer Mari Hatta, see Picture Bride (film).

Hatta Mari
Looney Tunes character
First appearance	Plane Daffy (1944)
Voiced by	Sara Berner (1944) Tress MacNeille (1992)
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Species	Pigeon

Hatta Mari is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic pigeon and femme fatale featured in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes shorts. Her name is a pun on World War I spy Mata Hari.

Character Biography

Hatta Mari first appeared in the 1944 Looney Tunes short "Plane Daffy". She was seen as a villainous pigeon working for the Axis Powers. Hatta Mari used her sultry, feminine wiles to lure male carrier pigeons into her grasp, then disposed of them. Daffy Duck, a self-professed woman-hater (at least in this cartoon) was tempted into her home once she hiked up her skirt exposing her long curvaceous leg. The buxom beauty had lulled the woman-hater into a state of ease by her charm. At first Daffy was no match against the long passionate kisses she planted on his lips. However, he quickly realised it was a trap when he noticed her various Nazi paraphernalia, including swastika earrings. Hatta Mari then went berserk, trying to kill Daffy and steal his secret message to the Allied Powers. In an attempt to keep it from her, Daffy swallowed the message, but Hatta Mari managed to get it anyway using an X-ray machine. The message read "Hitler is a stinker". Hitler, on a device that predicted the Picturephone of 1964, replied, "Hitler is a stinker? That's no military secret!" Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels, standing beside Hitler, would add, "Ja, everybody knows that!" just before they commit suicide by gunshot at the end of "Plane Daffy".

After World War II, most of the wartime cartoons went largely unseen for decades, and Hatta Mari was virtually forgotten.

Legacy

Hatta Mari was briefly resurrected for an episode of the 1990-1992 animated series Tiny Toon Adventures. She appeared in the episode "New Character Day" during the segment "The Return of Pluck Twacy" voiced by Tress MacNeille. The episode was a sequel of sorts to the classic 1946 Daffy Duck cartoon "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery", where Daffy took the guise of "Duck Twacy", a parody of comic book action hero, Dick Tracy. In this cartoon, Daffy's protege Plucky Duck] assumes the mantle of "Pluck Twacy" and is hired by his friend Shirley the Loon to find her missing arua. The missing aura happens to be Hatta Mari, who has been hiding out in an eerie dilapidated mansion with a gang of hoodlums. Hatta Mari uses her feminine charms to seduce Plucky and then sics the numerous villains inside the house on him like "Ticklepuss" (who was actually a character named "Sloppy Moe" from two other forgotten Clampett films "Injun Trouble" and its color remake "Wagon Heels"), Soupy Man, Jack the Zipper, the Boston Dangler, Flatbottom, Boxcars (who resembles the Peter Lorre scientists), the Generic Thugs, Wolvertoon (who looks like a deformed Bugs Bunny), Millipede Pete, and the Chorus Line Men.

Trivia

According to the DVD commentary on Plane Daffy in the fourth volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, the blond hair and buxom figure of Hatta Mari would later be a reality as seen in 1950s blond bombshell Jayne Mansfield.