Paul Dini (producer/story editor on many of WBA's DC Comics projects, co-creator of Batman's Harley Quinn and story editor/writer on Tiny Toon Adventures) was responsible for the initial conception of the character.While Minerva mostly appeared as a recurring character in the TV series, she was featured far more prominently in the comic book series. Episode 5: " Good Warner Hunting" (silent).Episode 99: The Scoring Session and The Animaniacs Suite.Episode 95: Hooray for North Hollywood (Part 1) (Cameo).Episode 84: The Return of the Great Wakkorotti and The Big Wrap Party Tonight.Episode 64: No Face Like Home (On magazine cover).She is shown to have a more friendly dynamic with Newt in the comics following this, as well.īesides her two solo cartoons, Minerva has made a lot of cameo appearances in other segments and songs.Īnimaniacs (Original Series) Minerva Mink This is best shown when, toward the end of her debut short, she gives Newt a hug and kiss of genuine affection rather than manipulation, being actually surprised when he reacts in an attracted manner even when that wasn't her intent this time. Her personality, being fashion conscious, obsessed with beauty and money, resembles a valley girl - a stereotype typically mocked in the works of her voice actress, Julie Brown.Īlthough Minerva can be snobby and often lacks interest in those who seek her attention, she sometimes acts kind around others. Then in "Meet Minerva" she fawns after a man with similar exacting standards who didn't seem to find her attractive at all. In "Moon Over Minerva", as she fawns over Wilford only for his werewolf form which vanishes after a short amount of time. In addition, she threatened to end a friendship with her best friend Trudy just because Trudy arranged for Minerva to give her cousin a tour of the woods.Īs an example of poetic justice, "Meet Minerva" and "Moon Over Minerva" show her receiving a taste of her own medicine. Minerva is also seemingly only into one’s physical appearance above all-else, as she kept rejecting Wilford Wolf in his "nerdy" appearance despite his kindness to her and desire to establish an actual connection with her (it should be noted Wilford made more of an effort to bond with her beyond her looks unlike most of her other admirers). She is typically seen using men to do whatever she wanted, showing no interest in them whatsoever. If the people who swooned over her got to know her a little more they would discover some of her more meaner traits. Personality-wise and despite her "beauty" and "attractiveness", Minerva can best be described as a gold-digger, so to speak, being extremely vain and greedy. Some shots of her cleavage were considered to be too much for a children's cartoon, and as a result, were air-brushed out. Her second and last solo short, "Moon Over Minerva", was slightly edited for content before broadcast. Additionally, many of the zany wild-takes on part of the male cast members were filled with innuendo. For example, on one occasion, Minerva was seen as a shapely, nude silhouette while bathing in a lake. Minerva starred in the least number of shorts of all the ensemble cast, allegedly on account that the content of her shorts was so overtly sexual that it was decided that it would be inappropriate for the intended predominantly children's audience. When she spots an attractive male, she goes into multiple lustful spasms of her own like the ones the males give her. However, her final concept was for her to drive every male, no matter their species, into wild take-filled Tex Avery-styled conniptions at her beauty. Minerva was created with an initial thought of reversing the gender on the Tex Avery Wolf, who would go into extreme wild takes when he saw a particularly hot female. However, she was most often shown the same size as human beings, only about a head shorter than Hello Nurse. In her first appearance she was shown to be the size of a normal mink (this is in relation to her size compared to Newt, who was shown earlier in that episode only coming up to his master's knee). In addition, appearance borrows from many famous sex symbols, most notably Veronica Lake, whose sheepdog haircut is similar to Minerva's style. Being a "fashionable" girl, she is rarely seen wearing the same outfit twice, though most production art shows her wearing a red jumpsuit. ![]() Minerva has white fur with long blonde hair, an enormous soft blonde tail as well as a pretty face, pink nose and sweet big black eyes with blue eye shadow. WBTA's management felt this "al fresco design" was inappropriate for family entertainment, with final designs and name change occurring prior to the first Minerva episode airing. ![]() Her initial design had her naked, very much like Slappy Squirrel’s younger design in the episode “Buttermilk”. She, much like Hello Nurse, is designed to be "attractive" (she also gets similar reactions from male characters as Hello Nurse).
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