#william warner

[cf56]

It is incredible how much the creators of Wakko's Wish were able to tell us about the Warners' parents with just a tiny, tiny bit of direct screen time. Have you ever noticed how most of the fandom characterizes the Warner parents the same way, as if they're established characters, even though they've never actually appeared outside of a painting? It's no accident.

In Wakko's Wish, this is all the information we get on the Warner parents:

-William was a good and kind king who was violently overthrown by Salazar

-As told in Yakko's story, William was a strong knight and his wife was a beautiful princess. They wanted a daughter.

-The painting above.

That's all. And yet, their characterization is so incredibly strong. From the painting alone, what can we glean? The king more resembles Wakko while the queen more resembles Yakko and Dot. We can extrapolate that the king had more of Wakko's personality, loyal and strong and true, but also a little goofy. The queen likely had more of the natural inquisitiveness and confidence that characterize Yakko and Dot.

In addition, they don't look like the traditional, arrogant, stoic royal family. The king and queen have kindly eyes. The children are all smiling and relaxed. Wakko and Dot are comfortable in their parents' arms- their parents haven't neglected raising them just because of their royal duties. Yakko beams with pride, likely wanting to live up to his parents' regal image. Overall, we can see that they appear to be a close and genuinely loving family. This is a royal couple who cared about their children as more than just heirs.

Finally, their usually accepted names of William and Angelina. William's name is directly stated in the movie, while Angelina is extrapolated from Dot's full name of Princess Angelina etc. the Third. If she is the third, there were others who came before her. It makes sense that her mother was also a Princess Angelina. While not official, it's another thing that just seems to make sense.

Like in the main show, there in an unsaid story of tragedy unfolding in the background of the main characters. The Warners are orphans, their parents are gone. Salazar violently took the kingdom. In the painting, Yakko looks probably 4 or 5, old enough to remember. He remembers enough to craft an accurate bedtime story about his parents' backgrounds. Dot thought it was just a story, but it likely isn't to Yakko. The events he described did loosely happen. His parents really were the sort to dote on their daughter and nuzzle her and call her cute and tickle her to sleep. They were likely the sort to do so for all of their children. It's a tight knit, extremely loving family that the Warners lost. You can see their tightness reflected in the mutually supportive relationship of the Warners. They would do anything for each other, and their parents would have done the same for them. Yakko's parenting style came from them. You can easily imagine a Warner family that got the chance to grow up together with loving parents and a nice home life. The kids turned out great anyway, but imagine what else they could have gotten up to if they weren't occupied with scraping by in a bleak, orphaned existence.

It's really impressive to me. Just a few nuggets form a natural, compelling picture of a loving family and a tragic backstory. Just a few nuggets form two strong new characters who never actually appear. You can easily imagine them because they are essentially reflections of the very well established characters/dynamics of the Warner siblings.

The last thing I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't have differing interpretations of the Warner parents, or that other versions are any less valid! But I still love how one version of the parents has become the most common because of how naturally it fell into place. They are almost official characters without being so.

[starlingdrawz]

Wishing star preview

Here's a preview of my piece for the Wishing Star Zine!

It was such an honor to be a part of this! I hope you all check out everyone's hard work!!!

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

Fic idea (feel free to steal, I probably won't get to writing this for like another year)

In the world of Animaniacs, toons come out of the paper they're drawn on, right?

Even if we assume that the moment shown above is just an in-universe recreation of what really happened when the Warners were drawn made for Newsreel of the Stars, the reboot still seems to support the idea that no special procedure is required to bring a toon to life. Once drawn, they are alive and can enter the real world easily.

OK.

So, Wakko's Wish (both according to the reboot and Wakko's Wish itself) is an in-universe fictional movie that the characters star in:

Pretty much every movie uses props, which means most items seen in the movie were props made specifically for the movie, right?

I don't know how long studios keep movie props for after a movie is released, but even though Wakko's Wish is an old movie now (it turns 25 this year!), it's not entirely impossible that the studio still has at least some of the items, costumes, etc. made for the movie. The reboot even supports this idea by (accidentally) implying that the Warners' costumes in the movie were kept and modified so that they could be used for Wakkiver Twist:

Maybe some were sold, maybe they're all collecting dust in a warehouse on the lot, the point is many of the props in the movie (especially if they were important, like for example…ones used as part of a big reveal…) probably still exist, not in an alternate reality, but within the Warners' world.

This means that there's a non-zero percent chance that the studio (or someone out there) still has this prop:

Assuming it wasn't destroyed, it has to be somewhere, right?

Somewhere where the Warners could find (or more likely, steal) it.

So I guess all I'm trying to say is...

What's stopping William and Angelina from hopping out of this thing?

[ace-of-garlic-breads]

"you'll be alright, no one can hurt you now, come morning light, you and I'll be safe, and sound" - Safe and sound (Taylor's version)-Taylor Swift. I was in a redraw mood today so i redrew this piece from January, and I based it off the song i used in the speedpaint for inspo (which i also remade link in bio :)) "Safe and Sound" by Taylor Swift.

scroll for the OG, no timelapse, that on YT today >:) so go check that out please I'd really appreciate it :)

[thebarroomortheboy]

HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (1941) | dir. Tex Avery

[michimonieart]

Part of my Haunted Mansion X Ducks crossover illustration series. Here is "The Dead," based on the characters from the 2023 Haunted Mansion movie.

The Living Illustrations

The Main Post

[sserrafeim]

“I need him biblically,” I say about a man that would be locked up in jail if he was real

[on-the-open-range]

I was really curious! Do Angelina and William have designs for this au? Or are they still an in progress thing?

They sure do! Night really went ham on these pictures!

[acmeoop]

Happy 36th Anniversary! Who Framed Roger Rabbit was Released on June 22nd, 1988 in North America

[johnbly]

Bush had the feeling that if he were a man of instant quickness of thought and readiness of tongue he would take advantage of this new attitude of the captain's to free Wellard from his peril; by posing as the captain's devoted companion in trouble and at the same time laughing off the thought of danger from any conspiracy, he might modify the captain's fears. So he felt, but he had no confidence in himself. - lieutenant hornblower, ch. 2

[cartoonico]

I can't believe Bernard joined the Mystery Gang.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

They may be orphans, but...

[ace-of-garlic-breads]

I did my own ver of my seperated collab

I was too lazy to do the 2nd smaller portrait so I just stuck a art trade I did with okarigold in there/

(Yakko and Queenie Portrait by itself)

the fic:

[mikyapixie]

First poster for the 20th anniversary of The Polar Express!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[shannendoherty-fans]

1998 - The Women of The WB by Norman Jean Roy: Holly Marie Combs, Michelle Williams, Jessica Biel, Katie Holmes, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shannen Doherty, Keri Russell and Alyssa Milano