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Bunnicula
The titular character, the rabbit with strange and unusual eating habits and vampire-like qualities, but otherwise harmless, Bunnicula came to the Monroe household on a dark, stormy night.
Toby found him in the theater, which was at the time showing Dracula, and brought him home, where Mrs. Monroe brought up the clever name Bunnicula.
A note was placed with Bunnicula when he was found, written in Russian, reading "Please take care of my baby."
It is unknown who left Bunnicula in the theater or wrote the note, but the letter was written in a dialect that nobody except Harold could read.
He is subjected to many murder attempts by Chester, who thinks that the rabbit would eventually become carnivorous.
However, his indestructible stature proves to Chester that he cannot be killed.
Due to his young age, Bunnicula cannot talk but he can wink and cry.
He does exhibit the unusual ability to get in and out of his cage without using the door, and initially opens the refrigerator by himself.
Instead of a rabbit's buck teeth, Bunnicula inexplicably has fangs, which enables him to bite vegetables and suck the juice out of them, similar to the method by which Dracula dines, leaving them ghostly white.
Bunnicula is put on a blender based vegetable juice diet, escapes his cage due and runs off into the night leaving a trail of white vegetables in his wake which Chester is convinced must be destroyed by using a stake through their hearts.
Chester had learned from his mistake in Bunnicula, and chose toothpicks as his weapon of choice in this book.
One of Bunnicula's apparent victims tries to sneak up on Harold at the end of the book, and it is left ambiguous as to whether or not Chester was playing a prank on Harold, though Chester seemed to be oblivious to the thumping noise the vegetable was making, or if this was indeed an actual attempt at an attack by a vampire vegetable.
Bunnicula eventually produces a litter of offspring with a rabbit owned by Pete's best friend Kyle as part of a project for their scout troop.
At least one of the offspring is stated by Pete as looking identical to Bunnicula, and was briefly mentioned again in Bunnicula meets Edger Allan Crow, where he was named Sonnicula due to his being the son of Bunnicula and carrying an identical appearance to his father.
Sonnicula never made any direct appearances in the series, being referred to only twice in passing during the events in the series.
In Nighty Nightmare, Chester's story implies that Bunnicula's parents were vampire rabbits who were created by a lonely vampire, though Chester may have made the entire story up as implied by revelations at the end of the novel.
However Chester seems personally convinced that the story is complete truth at the time that he tells it and tells it in such a way that it resembles a ghost story, one that entrances the other characters until the truth about the subject that brought up the story is revealed.
It is the closest there has ever been to an origin story for Bunnicula and his apparent powers, whether or not it was concocted entirely in Chester's imagination, and the author has never produced an actual origin for him or his abilities.
Nor has he ever explicitly confirmed or denied whether or not Bunnicula is vampiric outside of occasional hints in the novels by way of Bunnicula's odd abilities and physical features.
In the animated special Bunnicula's name is written in the note itself, to avoid having the Monroe's name him.
The note is one of the few aspects of the novel to carry over into the animated special, as Bunnicula is found near a processing plant in the special.
When Bunnicula goes into his vampiric form, he sprouts bat wings under his arms and his eyes turn yellow.
His vampire powers include flight, hypnosis, levitation, and telekinesis.
Chester's murder attempts do not take place in the special and he ultimately decides that the idea that Bunnicula is a vampire is "ridiculous", something which doesn't occur in the novels, which has a touch of irony, since Bunnicula is blatantly shown using his vampiric powers and Chester was correct in his belief of Bunnicula's true nature.
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Toby found him in the theater, which was at the time showing Dracula, and brought him home, where Mrs. Monroe brought up the clever name Bunnicula.
A note was placed with Bunnicula when he was found, written in Russian, reading "Please take care of my baby."
It is unknown who left Bunnicula in the theater or wrote the note, but the letter was written in a dialect that nobody except Harold could read.
He is subjected to many murder attempts by Chester, who thinks that the rabbit would eventually become carnivorous.
However, his indestructible stature proves to Chester that he cannot be killed.
Due to his young age, Bunnicula cannot talk but he can wink and cry.
He does exhibit the unusual ability to get in and out of his cage without using the door, and initially opens the refrigerator by himself.
Instead of a rabbit's buck teeth, Bunnicula inexplicably has fangs, which enables him to bite vegetables and suck the juice out of them, similar to the method by which Dracula dines, leaving them ghostly white.
Bunnicula is put on a blender based vegetable juice diet, escapes his cage due and runs off into the night leaving a trail of white vegetables in his wake which Chester is convinced must be destroyed by using a stake through their hearts.
Chester had learned from his mistake in Bunnicula, and chose toothpicks as his weapon of choice in this book.
One of Bunnicula's apparent victims tries to sneak up on Harold at the end of the book, and it is left ambiguous as to whether or not Chester was playing a prank on Harold, though Chester seemed to be oblivious to the thumping noise the vegetable was making, or if this was indeed an actual attempt at an attack by a vampire vegetable.
Bunnicula eventually produces a litter of offspring with a rabbit owned by Pete's best friend Kyle as part of a project for their scout troop.
At least one of the offspring is stated by Pete as looking identical to Bunnicula, and was briefly mentioned again in Bunnicula meets Edger Allan Crow, where he was named Sonnicula due to his being the son of Bunnicula and carrying an identical appearance to his father.
Sonnicula never made any direct appearances in the series, being referred to only twice in passing during the events in the series.
In Nighty Nightmare, Chester's story implies that Bunnicula's parents were vampire rabbits who were created by a lonely vampire, though Chester may have made the entire story up as implied by revelations at the end of the novel.
However Chester seems personally convinced that the story is complete truth at the time that he tells it and tells it in such a way that it resembles a ghost story, one that entrances the other characters until the truth about the subject that brought up the story is revealed.
It is the closest there has ever been to an origin story for Bunnicula and his apparent powers, whether or not it was concocted entirely in Chester's imagination, and the author has never produced an actual origin for him or his abilities.
Nor has he ever explicitly confirmed or denied whether or not Bunnicula is vampiric outside of occasional hints in the novels by way of Bunnicula's odd abilities and physical features.
In the animated special Bunnicula's name is written in the note itself, to avoid having the Monroe's name him.
The note is one of the few aspects of the novel to carry over into the animated special, as Bunnicula is found near a processing plant in the special.
When Bunnicula goes into his vampiric form, he sprouts bat wings under his arms and his eyes turn yellow.
His vampire powers include flight, hypnosis, levitation, and telekinesis.
Chester's murder attempts do not take place in the special and he ultimately decides that the idea that Bunnicula is a vampire is "ridiculous", something which doesn't occur in the novels, which has a touch of irony, since Bunnicula is blatantly shown using his vampiric powers and Chester was correct in his belief of Bunnicula's true nature.
Links:
Wikipedia
Heroes Wiki
Copyright Owner
Simon and Schuster Publishing
Record:
W:
L:
