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Calamity

Calamity Coyote is a fictional anthropomorphic coyote and a cartoon character, who appeared on the early 1990s series Tiny Toon Adventures. He was voiced by Frank Welker.

Like his mentor and favorite teacher, Wile E. Coyote, Calamity has a penchant for inventing traps and other devices and never speaks (though a voice credit is officially given to Frank Welker), communicating instead with written signs. His quest is to catch Little Beeper, a young roadrunner. He resembles Wile E. though smaller, and wears hightops.

In one episode, fellow Tiny Toon character Elmyra Duff offered Calamity her allowance to catch Buster Bunny for her, but he fared about as well capturing Buster as he did with Little Beeper.

Another episode reveals that Calamity had been chasing Little Beeper since infancy; this episode featured Calamity's life story (told while Calamity is plummeting toward a street from the top of a tall skyscraper), narrated by Wile E. himself.

Unlike Wile E., however, Calamity seems genuinely competent and more technically proficient than the older coyote, even maneuvering himself out of his skyscraper plummet by switching Wile E. into his place. He is also portrayed as quite intelligent and is sometimes seen reading books on topics such as quantum physics. Other Tiny Toon characters have acknowledged him as a "science whiz", and even seem willing to trust their lives and well-being to his skills. Perhaps it is primarily his young age and inexperience -- along with Acme merchandise -- that have been the undoing of his efforts. Interestingly enough, the gadgets that he creates generally work perfectly as long as they don't directly benefit him. When a device would help Calamity, it malfunctions. For example, when Calamity was a contestant on a parody of Jeopardy!, he knew the answer to every question, but his buzzer refused to work.

At one point he also had the misfortune of being mistaken as a boy skunk by Fifi La Fume, resulting in Calamity discovering what being squeezed and smothered by the much stronger skunk really feels like.

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