Hatta Mari
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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.
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 and lulled into a state of ease by her charm. 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 Goering and Joseph Goebbels, standing beside Hitler, would add, "Ja, everybody knows that!" just prior to their committing 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.
However, she 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". 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 aura. 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 sicks the numerous villains inside the house on him. One of these is "Ticklepuss", who was actually a character named "Sloppy Moe" from two other forgotten Clampett films, "Injun Trouble" and its color remake "Wagon Heels". Ticklepuss is a bizarre, barefooted, raggedy-looking blue-skinned man with a long beard who unsuccessfully tries to tickle Twacy into submission.
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
