Butch (animated character)

Butch (formerly known as Spike) is an animated cartoon character created by Tex Avery. Portrayed as an anthropomorphic Irish bulldog, the character was a recurring antagonist in the Droopy shorts, and appeared in his own series of solo shorts as well. His name was changed to Butch in 1955's Deputy Droopy to avoid confusion with Spike from the Tom and Jerry cartoons. All of the original 1940s and 1950s shorts were directed by Avery and Michael Lah at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Butch would not appear in new material again until Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring in 2002.

Butch solo cartoons

Appearances in Droopy cartoons

• Wags to Riches (1949) – Academy Award shortlist; first time Spike appears as Droopy's rival.
• The Chump Champ (1950)
• Daredevil Droopy (1951)
• Droopy's Good Deed (1951)
• Droopy's Double Trouble (1951)
• Deputy Droopy (1955)
• Millionaire Droopy (1956) – a CinemaScope remake of Wags to Riches directed by Tex Avery.
• Grin and Share It (1957)
• Blackboard Jumble (1957)
• One Droopy Knight (1957) – a remake of Señor Droopy, Academy Award nominee.
• Mutts About Racing (1958)
• Droopy Leprechaun (1958)

Later appearances

Butch reappeared in direct-to-DVD films such as Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring and Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, alongside Droopy.

His latest appearance was in 2014's The Tom and Jerry Show. He appeared in the episode "Double Dog Trouble", where Spike and Butch are two separate characters who are twins, in order to poke at the character's retitling, while detectives Tom and Jerry mistake each one for the other after Spike buys a room at the town's motel.

Voice actors

• Tex Avery (Bad Luck Blackie, Wags to Riches, The Counterfeit Cat, Ventriloquist Cat, Garden Gopher, Cock-a-Doodle Dog, Daredevil Droopy, Droopy's Good Deed, Magical Maestro, Rock-a-Bye Bear, Millionaire Droopy, Cat's Meow)
• William Hanna (screaming in Wags to Riches, Garden Gopher, Rock-a-Bye Bear, Cellbound and Millionaire Droopy)
• Sara Berner (laughing in Wags to Riches, Garden Gopher, Rock-a-Bye Bear and Millionaire Droopy, screaming in Wags to Riches and Millionaire Droopy)
• Daws Butler (The Chump Champ, Droopy's Double Trouble, Blackboard Jumble)
• Bill Thompson (Droopy's Double Trouble, Grin and Share It, One Droopy Knight, Mutts About Racing, Droopy Leprechaun)
• Carlos Julio Ramírez (Magical Maestro)
• Frank Ross (Magical Maestro)
• Mary Kaye (Magical Maestro)
• Paul Frees (Magical Maestro, Cellbound)
• Norman Kaye (Magical Maestro)
• Jeff Bergman (Cartoon Network bumper, Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes)
• Jim Cummings (Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring)
• Joe Alaskey (Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz, Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz)
• Bill Farmer (The Tom and Jerry Show)

References

1. Butch Hartman
2. List of The Fairly OddParents characters
3. List of Tom and Jerry characters
4. Butch Patrick
5. Butch Cassidy (TV series)
6. T.U.F.F. Puppy
7. Butch
8. The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish
9. Butch Cassidy (disambiguation)
10. The Fairly OddParents
11. Spike and Tyke (characters)
12. DC Animated Movie Universe
13. Corto Maltese
14. Taz: Quest for Burger
15. DC Universe Animated Original Movies
16. List of Gargoyles characters
17. Tom and Jerry
18. List of black animated characters
19. Danny Phantom
20. Spike (character)