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"	A mythological Pooka who travels the galaxy, E. Aster Bunnymund specializes in making delicious chocolates—and battling evil. Part sorcerer, part ninja, and completely bright, Bunnymund is hard to find but well worth the search.	"
—Guardians of Childhood official website

East. Aster Bunnymund is the Rising of the Guardians re-imagining of the Easter Bunny, speaking with an Australian accent and known as the Guardian of Hope. Bunnymund is a Pooka, a philosophical warrior rabbit, and used to live in a village with other Pookas on his homeworld before they were wiped out, leaving him every bit the only survivor. He currently lives on Earth in his Warren, an oasis deep nether the surface of Australia that is said to be the birthplace of spring. He is voiced past Hugh Jackman.

Contents

• 1 Physical Advent
• 2 Personality
• 3 Ascent of the Guardians
• 4 The Guardians of Childhood
  • four.ane Groundwork
• 5 Powers and Abilities
  • 5.ane Rabbit Prowess
  • 5.2 Ability over Flora
  • 5.3 Rabbit Holes
  • 5.4 Martial Artist
  • five.five Magic
  • five.6 Master Boomerang Wielder
  • v.7 Hope Manipulation
  • 5.eight Gift of Life
  • five.9 Shape-shifting
• 6 Appearances
  • 6.1 The Guardians of Childhood
    • 6.1.one Flick books
    • vi.i.2 Chapter books
  • vi.two Rise of the Guardians
    • half dozen.2.1 Film
• seven Conception and Creation
• 8 Trivia
• 9 References

Physical Advent

He is a Pooka; a fictional rabbit species that stands between six to seven anxiety alpine, with grayish-bluish fur, bloom-like imprints on both his forehead and shoulders, and bright emerald-green eyes. He wears leather bracers set with orange stones, a unmarried-strap holster with which he carries his boomerangs, and leather wrappings on his anxiety. In his disbelieved state, he assumes the grade of a regular rabbit, but still retains the ability to talk.

Personality

Bunnymund is a cool, calm Australian as dry as the Outback. A natural ranger, he is in the dirt, rough and tumble protector of nature. He follows nature'south rhythms and when it's time to spring into action he waits for the perfect moment to deed. When he finally does, it's all over in a center beat with the aid of his exploding eggs and enchanted boomerangs. Bunny is completely unflappable. The only things that does get under his skin are North'southward constant ribbing most how Christmas is more of import than Easter and his grudge on Jack Frost for causing a blizzard on Easter in '68. (And how Jack employ to call him a Kangaroo.)^[one]

Bunnymund takes great pride in Easter, and its respective flavor, Leap, stating Spring and Easter represent new ancestry, new life, and the Hope that comes of it. Aside from his tough side, Bunnymund is agape of Greyhounds.

Bunnymund profoundly dislikes Jack Frost due to an incident known every bit the Blizzard of '68. Beyond it occurring on Easter Dominicus, this blizzard and why it caused Bunnymund to detest Jack is unknown, but at the time of the moving-picture show, many years later on, Bunnymund still held a grudge over it. As a upshot, Bunnymund was the most vocally confronting Jack joining the Guardians, even proverb that he preferred the Groundhog (who Bunnymund had been hoping wouldn't exist the new Guardian moments earlier) over Jack. He spent a nifty deal of time arguing with and competing with Jack, but every bit he got to know him amend, seemed to abound to like and trust the young winter spirit. Notably, subsequently Jack helps him with painting his eggs for Easter and have fun with Sophie Bennett, the two are able to share a friendly moment where they joke about ane of their previous arguments. Nonetheless, when Jack appears to have betrayed them to Pitch, all of Bunnymund's trust in him is shattered and he virtually hits the boy, but restrains himself at the last moment. His actions outcome in Jack getting thrown out of the Guardians and he is surprised when Jack returns to assist in the end. He instantly assumes that Jack told Jamie Bennett to make fun of him and is deeply touched when Jamie reveals that Jack made him believe in Bunnymund instead. Indeed, Jack had used his powers to restore Jamie's fading belief in Bunnymund when Jamie had asked Bunnymund for a sign and got nothing in render. During the boxing, Bunnymund seems to take regained total trust in Jack again as he fights next with him with no problems and fifty-fifty tries to save him from Pitch's attack. Afterwards, when Jack is offered the take chances to become a Guardian in one case over again, Bunnymund voices no objections and in fact congratulates Jack on his achievement afterwards saying "that's my male child!"

While Bunnymund doesn't accept much experience with children up shut, he develops a special bond with Sophie Bennett who is shown to be very fond of the Easter Bunny, always going "bunny, hop, hop, hop." Bunnymund at kickoff panics upon seeing Sophie in his Warren, only once under the influence of Jack's magic snowflake, he has great fun with her, having her help pigment his eggs and carrying her on his back around the Warren. When she falls asleep he even holds her in his lap. When the Guardians say adieu to the kids, Bunnymund admits he is going to miss Sophie greatly and gives her some eggs he painted for her.

Rise of the Guardians

Bunnymund is the Guardian of Hope and commencement appeared lament almost the cold weather when N chosen the Guardians to the North Pole to alarm them about the uprising of Pitch. Bunnymund was annoyed past this since Easter was in three days and began to fence with North when he said that Christmas was more of import than Easter.

Every bit Bunnymund and North bickered and Tooth was busy giving orders to her fairy minions, Sandy noticed The Man in the Moon shining from above. After many attempts to get the attention of the other Guardians, Sandy started to shake an elf (a bell was connected to its hat), successfully receiving attention. The Man in the Moon told the Guardians that Pitch had returned one time over again, resulting in a chosen new Guardian. Tooth asked them who could it be and Sandy suggested the Leprechaun. Bunnymund still started praying that new Guardian wasn't the Groundhog. When it was revealed that the new Guardian was Jack Frost, Bunnymund argued that Jack didn't care about children and preferred the Groundhog instead.

Bunnymund is later seen in an ally against Jack Frost after he lead him there. Jack asked Bunnymund if he was yet mad well-nigh their last meeting (the Easter of '68) simply soon after Jack was thrown into a bag by Due north'due south Yetis. The Yetis asked Bunnymund nearly coming with them through the portal but Bunnymund refused and he opened a tunnel to accept him back to the pole. The Yetis then shuffle Jack in to the magic portal teleporting him to North'southward Workshop.

At the Pole, Jack was impressed and curious as to why he was there. He was shocked to discover that he was chosen to be a Guardian but he refused something that Bunnymund was happy for. Bunnymund thinks Jack doesn't know anything near bringing joy to children causing a fuss to start between him and Jack.

After Bunnymund told Jack that children believe in him and that Jack was invisible to them. North takes Jack away and explains to him almost The Man in The Moon must have known that Jack has something special in him and North reveals his center which is Wonder. Jack, still confused, doesn't know what his center could be. Simply then Bunnymund reveals there's problem in Molar's Palace and they have to make their way to assistance Tooth.

On their way there, it's revealed that Pitch has sent his Nightmare to take hold of all the fairies and collect the teeth of the children of the world. Jack saves Baby Tooth from one of the Nightmares earlier they go far inside of the Palace to discover a panicking Tooth. Pitch then confronted the Guardians and after a boxing betwixt them he escapes.

Soon subsequently information technology'southward revealed that the children of Earth are losing hope in Tooth, North thinking fast comes upward with a plan of them collecting the teeth and with Jack Frost aboard the Guardians get-go their quest. Soon subsequently a competition between them started but when Molar told them they were as fast at collecting teeth and leaving gift as her fairies, the guys remembered that they forgot to leave a souvenir and had to travel back effectually the world to exit the gifts.

The Guardians all get together in Jamie's room only caused an uproar that acquired Jamie and his canis familiaris, Abby, to wake upward and see them (except Jack). Abby starts growling at Bunnymund and Jamie tries to stop her. Jack wanting to have fun with Bunnymund, makes the alarm go off, causing Abby to assault Bunnymund and make him leap around the room. Sandy, trying to put Abby to slumber with his dream sand, ends upward hitting anybody except Jack, Jamie and himself. Jamie flies out of bed when North lands on it and Sandy catches him, putting Jamie to sleep likewise. And then Sandy and Jack go to fight Pitch's Nightmares that have appeared outside Jamie'south window.

Soon after Jack and Sandy are contesting Pitch and his nightmares, Bunnymund joined in with North and Molar but as the boxing heats up, Pitch's Nightmares surrounds Sandy while Pitch took the opportunity to shoot him with an arrow fabricated of nightmare sand, turning The Sandman into more than nightmare sand. Jack, aroused and horrified, charged at Pitch and creates an ice wave destroying the Nightmares.

The Guardians render to the Pole and do a memorial for Sandy. Knowing that they still tin plough things around, the Guardians decided to help Bunnymund with Easter. Bunnymund got excited when N said that this time Easter was more important than Christmas and when Due north announced nigh going to the Warren Bunnymund said that since it was 'his warren, his rules' and so opened a tunnel nether everyone anxiety.

At the Warren, they find Jamie'south sister, Sophie, who had used ane of North's snow globes and was transported to the Warren. Jack used his special skills to make Bunnymund more relax and to open up to fun, so he could play with Sophie. After, Bunnymund relaxes with Jack and Sophie and even shares a friendly moment with the winter spirit. Afterward the eggs were ready, Sophie fell asleep and Jack decides to bring her dwelling.

Shortly after the Nightmares attacked the Warren, destroying every egg. Jack found them, but it was besides tardily as Bunnymund tried to impress some children, it was revealed he had become invisible. When Tooth asked about Baby Tooth and where he become the Tooth Box and Jack stuttered for an answer other than he was with Pitch. Bunnymund got mad at him and told the other Guardians that they shouldn't accept trusted him, most hitting Jack in the process. Bunnymund also revealed his center, hope, by saying that "Easter is new ancestry. New life. Easter's about hope, and now, it'due south gone." Jack, knowing he has lost the trust of the Guardians, left.

Due to Pitch's power, all the children in the world stopped believing in the Guardians except Jamie Bennett due to his strong belief and seeing them in his room before. In desperation, Jamie speaks to a toy bunny, trying to reach out to Bunnymund for a sign that he is real. When Bunnymund doesn't respond, Jamie despairs and almost gives up before Jack, having returned to help, uses his powers to create a snowfall bunny and egg. Seeing that causes Jamie to realize the Easter Bunny is existent and restores his belief in the Guardians. Jack's efforts to make Jamie believe in Bunnymund inadvertently leads to Jamie becoming his own believer and existence able to finally see him.

Losing Easter took the greatest toll on Bunnymund, shrinking him to the size of a regular bunny. Despite this, he joined the near-powerless Northward and Tooth in their efforts to reach the last light, Jamie Bennett. To the Guardians' daze, they found Jack had browbeaten them there and that Jamie withal believed. When Jack asks about Bunnymund, North reveals that losing Easter took its toll on all of them, Bunnymund most of all. At that moment, Bunnymund emerges from the sleigh in his pocket-sized class to an "oh no" from Jack. Jamie is deeply amused to see Bunnymund in this form and scratches him, giving Bunnymund a moment of excitement until Jamie asks what happened to him as he used to be "cool" and is at present only "beautiful." Believing Jack told Jamie to say that, Bunnymund attacks Jack's leg ineffectually and challenges him to a fight until Jamie reveals that Jack instead told him that Bunnymund was real merely when Jamie was starting to think he wasn't. Learning that Jack made Jamie believe in him earns Jack Bunnymund's gratitude and he stares at Jack with a stunned and grateful expression for a moment, forgiving him for his before apparent betrayal.

Pitch soon appear and Jack goes to confront him. Making Bunnymund and the other Guardians to accept Jamie away from Pitch merely before long they find themselves in alley. Jack crashes down and revealed that Pitch was stronger. With the Guardians trapped Pitch started to approach them making Jamie tell Jack that he was scared. Jack got an idea and later on hitting Pitch with a snowball they went to find Jamie's friends.

With the help from the other Guardians, Jamie's friends start to believe over again. Pitch asks them who was going to protect the Guardians if the Guardians were protecting them. Jack reassured Jamie to not exist scared since the Nightmares are only bad dreams and Jamie volunteered to protect the Guardians causing his friends to bring together him. Pitch then sends a wave of nightmare sand their way but once Jamie says, "I do believe in you. I'g just not afraid of you!" Jamie was able to plow the nightmare sand dorsum into dreamsand. Which helps the Guardians get their full energy back and boxing Pitch. North used his snow globes to bring his Yetis to help out while Bunnymund opened tunnels to become his Warrior Eggs to also help in the battle against the Nightmares while the Guardians confronted Pitch. Jamie gets an idea on how to revive the Sandman and told his friends about it.

Equally the battle with Pitch continued, the Nightmare Rex was cornered past the Guardians, but hid in the shadows and appeared behind a distracted Jack with scythe created of nightmare sand. Before he could injure him the Sandman returns at the last second saving Jack from Pitch and uses his sand to requite everyone good dreams and brand more believers. Upon Sandy's return, Bunnymund eagerly greets him, telling him "mate, y'all are a sight for sore optics."

The Guardians and the children started celebrating and Jack hits Jamie with a snowball, which acquired a friendly snowball fight. When Pitch woke up, he tried to make Jamie fear him again but found that Jamie was not scared of him anymore considering he was able to pass through him. Pitch, afraid, retreats to his lair which acquired the Guardians to follow and confront him ane terminal time. After Pitch was taken away by his ain Nightmare creatures, the Guardian ceremony was performed again. Jack looked at Jamie which caused him to nod. Proud of himself and of Jamie, Jack says, "I volition," making him an official Guardian. Their experiences together having changed his listen about Jack, Bunnymund congratulates Jack on becoming an official Guardian and is proud of his accomplishment.

Bunnymund is seen saying good day to Sophie and saying that he will miss her. Bunnymund is later seen welcoming Jack on the sleigh, after Jack said his good bye to Jamie and Jamie gave him a hug.

The Guardians of Babyhood

Background

Bunnymund in the books.

Pitch, the Nightmare Rex, and his Fearlings had been soundly driven dorsum by Nicholas St. Due north and visitor in the beginning Guardians' adventure. But now Pitch has disappeared completely—and out of sight does NOT make for out of mind. It seems certain that he's plotting a particularly nefarious revenge, and the Guardians suspect he might have gone surreptitious. But how tin they notice him in that location? Enter Eastward. Aster Bunnymund, the but emissary of the fabled alliance of the Pookas—the league of philosophical warrior rabbits of imposing intellect and size. Highly skilled in martial arts (many of which he invented himself), Bunnymund is vivid, logical, and a tunnel-digger extraordinaire. If the Guardians need paths nearly the Earth's cadre, he's their Pooka. He's also armed with magnificent weapons of an oval-sort, and might just be able to assistance in the quest for the 2d slice of the Moonclipper.

This second book in The Guardians series is about much more fixing a few rotten eggs—information technology brings the Guardians one step closer to defeating Pitch! ^[two]

He is too the last of his kind, having the remainder been killed off by Pitch.

Powers and Abilities

Rabbit Prowess

Bunnymund has the physical prowess of a rabbit at its peak, enabling him incredible speed and jumping abilities.

Power over Flora

Bunnymund has the ability to control flora growth, sometimes making a flower abound whenever his tunnels close up. In the Warren, he has various flowers and plants with magical abilities that assist him paint and decorate his easter eggs.

Rabbit Holes

Bunnymund tin can open holes to underground tunnels past tapping his pes on the footing. This allows him to travel anywhere in the earth in a thing of seconds. He taps his foot twice to travel, and appears to tap thrice to summon something from the tunnels, as he did when he summoned some of his sentinel eggs to fight Pitch and his Nightmares.

Martial Artist

Bunnymund claims to be a master of Tai Chi with nerves of steel.

Magic

Bunnymund conspicuously has admission to magic, given his enchanted boomerangs and explosive easter eggs.

Primary Boomerang Wielder

Bunnymund's weapons of choice are his enchanted boomerangs, and wields them with uncanny skill and swiftness. He can easily take downwards several Nightmares with them single-handedly, up-close or from a distance, making him a very versatile combatant.

Hope Manipulation

The power to manipulate hope the Guardian of Promise. Bunnymund tin can sense and manipulate the hope, including the virtue, of people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling hope, even manifesting the emotional free energy to physical level.

Bunnymund's elaborately decorated Magic Eggs were designed to exist piffling symbols of hope. ^[3]

Gift of Life

Bunnymund is the Guardian of life and hope. ^[four] He can bring his Sentinel Eggs to help him with his Easter tasks.

Shape-shifting

Bunnymund, or Pooka, has the power to shape-shift. Past eating chocolate, Bunny can increase in power, size, grow extra arms or acquire the ability to fly. Bunny's shape-shifting powers are so advanced that he was able to change the Earth'due south shape from an oval to a sphere.

The movie, Rise of the Guardians, also reveals that Bunny has a decrease in power and size by the lack of conventionalities which reduces him into a small and adorable bunny.

Appearances

The Guardians of Childhood

Picture show books

• The Human in the Moon (The Guardians of Babyhood)

Chapter books

• E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the World's Core!
• Toothiana: Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies
• The Sandman and the War of Dreams

Rising of the Guardians

Film

• Rise of the Guardians

Conception and Cosmos

Bunny was the only Guardian who didn't have any associated furnishings. Half-kangaroo, half-rabbit, Bunny symbolizes nature. "He dovetails with the meaning of Easter equally a time of renewal, rebirth, and the return of life," Ramsey says. "He's as well a warrior, a nature ninja. He'due south the most superhero, a protector of nature. And, he is an ornery, crusty foil for North."

Hordos and Wanneroy tested diverse evolutions of Bunny until, as with Tooth, anybody realized that he wouldn't piece of work until they fabricated him a beast, not homo. "Every bit we talked with Peter, though, we realized he still needed to stand like a man to make his acting readable, simply he couldn't look similar a man in a suit," Hordos says. "The kangaroo is near humanoid, but doesn't look humanoid. And then, he's a mixture of kangaroo, human being, rabbit all in one. The tricky matter is that he has to run on all fours and walk upright. While his body is horizontal to the ground and his head is frontwards, he needs to swivel his head without breaking his caput. We took ideas we learned from rigging Toothless and added them to Bunny. And and then, Philippe Lebrun, who had done animation tests for the reindeer, took over this character and put the energy in his acting."

Other than his superpowers, the most magical affair about Bunny is the way in which he colors all the Easter eggs. He accomplishes this inside his bunny warren, in a green, lush landscape. "There's a niggling river that all these hundreds of thousands of little eggs bound into to get their start coat of paint," Prescott says. "We worked with the simulation team at PDI to create shots of the river using a mixture of Houdini and in-house tools. The fluid simulations have a magical quality, with pink and majestic colors and glitter."

As for the eggs, crowd simulations manage the multitudes of pretty niggling eggs and also the fighting, warrior eggs made of stone.^[5]

Trivia

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• His signature color is green.
• Bunnymund's signature shape is a triangle.
• Bunnymund was partly responsible for Jack gaining Jamie Bennett as a believer: Jack was trying to restore Jamie'south fading belief in Bunnymund by responding to Jamie'due south desire for a sign that his faith was non for zip and due to the way he did it, using a snow rabbit, Jamie realized that information technology was Jack Frost and not Bunnymund who had sent the sign and finally started believing in the winter spirit.
• His early on concept art depicted him in a green robe, but the artists felt this wasn't allowing him to motility as swiftly. They pulled it downwardly to a thin lab coat, just they however didn't feel like Bunnymund was filling in their thoughts. They eventually stripped him of all wearable, and they settled on his current pattern.^[6]
• William Joyce, writer of the series which the movie is based on, says of Bunnymund: "World was originally egg-shaped, just that was rotationally unstable, then we were heading toward the sun. The planet was going to be cooked similar a difficult boiled egg, and so against his aesthetic judgment, with his incredible excavation power, he rounded out the Earth into a rotationally more than docile sphere. In doing and then, he created a number of continents, among them his favorite, Australia."^[7]
• He seems to dislike the Groundhog. However, he likes him meliorate than Jack Frost as while he didn't want the Groundhog to exist the new Guardian, he instantly changed his mind later on learning the new Guardian was Jack Frost.
• He seems to suffer from air sickness and is afraid of heights, as shown in the scene where he, North and Jack fly in North's sleigh. He subsequently seems to develop an appreciation for information technology as he smiles and says that "everyone loves the sleigh" when the kids run into it. When he'southward final seen in the sleigh, he even seems comfortable in it.
• Bunnymund has a flock of enchanted eggs that comport out his work with groovy precision.
• According to the Rise of the Guardians App, Bunnymund protects spring and ensures the cycle of life, which is all symbolized through eggs.
• "In early designs, Bunny was professorial, wore a cloak, and was a little uptight. But then when Hugh was cast to play Bunny, the artists came up with this notion of him as a cool and tough Australian ranger."— Rise of the Guardians Producer, Christina Steinberg.
• During the scene where Jack and Toothiana are discussing Jack's memories, Bunnymund can be heard in the groundwork. He, North, and Sandy repose down after a bit and showtime paying attention to Tooth and Jack, so you can't hear what they were talking about. All the same, before that, he is heard telling Northward "I told you never to mention that!"
• "Our goal was to look at Bunny every bit the creator of life and to view his Warren as the birthplace of jump. This realm was in one case inhabited by a large population of rabbits, but today Bunny is the sole survivor. He is the Guardian of Hope. He feels this huge responsibility because if he goes, then all hope will exist lost too."— Rise of the Guardians Art Managing director, Max Boas.
• According to William Joyce, "the inspiration for Bunnymund was a play from the 1950s -- and a motion picture -- chosen Harvey starting Jimmy Stewart. In which Jimmy Stewart's best friend is a 6 foot all knowing all powerful invisible rabbit named Harvey. Harvey is described as a Pooka a creature of Celtic mythology. I loved that play and movie as a kid and I nonetheless dear it. So I made Bunnymund the last of the Pooka's and gave them a history that amused and delighted me and I tried to do honor to the original concept of Harvey. The chocolate thing, it only fabricated narrative sense." ^[8]
• When E. Aster Bunnymund eats chocolate he is transformed in a variety of ways depending on the intensity of the chocolate. This transformation was the outcome of a especially robust blend which was required by the situation at mitt.^[9]

References

1. ↑ http://www.riseoftheguardians.com/ Rise of the Guardians official website
2. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2921431-e-aster-bunnymund-and-the-battle-of-the-warrior-eggs-at-the-earth-south-cor Information about E. Aster Bunnymund and the Boxing of the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core! book by William Joyce and Laura Geringer
3. ↑ The Art of Rise of the Guardians
4. ↑ The Fine art of Ascent of the Guardians, Page 47
5. ↑ http://world wide web.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2012/Volume-35-Outcome-6-Oct-Nov-2012-/The-Magic-of-Belief.aspx
6. ↑ http://www.cgmeetup.cyberspace/dwelling house/making-of-bunnymund-dreamworks-animation-rise-of-the-guardians/
7. ↑ http://scifimafia.com/2012/03/ascension-of-the-guardians-grapheme-posters-and-dossiers/
8. ↑ https://world wide web.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3dv6v2/hi_were_william_joyce_and_brandon_oldenburg/ct902x8
9. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/8A2hsziz1B/

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