Henery Hawk
| Henery Hawk | |
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| Looney Tunes character | |
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| First appearance | The Squawkin' Hawk (1942) |
| Created by | Chuck Jones Robert McKimson |
| Voiced by |
Kent Rogers (1942) Mel Blanc (1946–1986) Joe Alaskey (2000) Jeff Bergman (2003) Ben Falcone (2011–2012) Damon Jones (2012; singing voice) Tom Kane (2014) |
| Information | |
| Species | Chickenhawk |
| Nationality | American |
Henery Hawk (sometimes misspelled Henry) is a cartoon character from the American Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, who appeared in thirteen cartoons. His first appearance was The Squawkin' Hawk, directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger. He also appeared in Flop Goes the Weasel, but he is darker. Henery's third appearance was Walky Talky Hawky which also featured Foghorn Leghorn and The Barnyard Dawg, directed by Robert McKimson. The last Warner Brothers short to feature Henery was Strangled Eggs. He appeared most recently on The Looney Tunes Show.
Henery is a small, brown chickenhawk with a forelock of feathers. The young bird lives at home with his parents, and speaks with tough-guy bravado, but shows surprising strength to pull or deadlift prey more than three times his size. He was played in the first short by Kent Rogers. The role was then taken by Mel Blanc (and later by Joe Alaskey). Henery has a high-pitched voice with a New York accent (a la Bugs Bunny) and perpetually angry temperament. (With these characteristics of his, he became the later inspiration for the TV character Scrappy Doo)
In a typical Foghorn/Henery cartoon, Henery strikes out on his own for the first time, eager to capture (and presumably consume) a chicken. Having led a sheltered life, however, he does not know what a chicken looks like, only that chicken hawks eat them. Foghorn presumes that this diminutive, naïve troublemaker is no real threat; however, seeing the potential for annoyance, he points & manipulates Henery in the direction of Barnyard Dawg. The remainder of the cartoon is usually consumed by Dawg and Leghorn alternately assuring Henery that the other is a chicken and encouraging him to attack the "chicken" mercilessly. In a reversal, the cartoon The Foghorn Leghorn has Foghorn wanting Henery to believe Foghorn is a chicken, where Henery believes Foghorn is merely a "loud-mouthed shnook," supposedly a separate kind of creature. Later, when Barnyard Dawg calls Foghorn a "good-for-nothing chicken", Henery finally wises up.
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