Warner Bros., Looney Tunes · editorial
Road Runner
Always fast enough. The cartoons never give him a speed, because the joke collapses if Wile E. Coyote can measure it.
Fiction
How?
Fiction
Fiction. Always fast enough. The cartoons never give him a speed, because the joke collapses if Wile E. Coyote can measure it.
In the story
Road Runner does not train and does not lose. He beep-beeps, and the coyote meets the painted tunnel. Giving him a miles-per-hour figure would miss the only rule the shorts actually have: he is exactly as fast as the gag requires, which is always faster than the coyote.
What is not a measurement
No speed. The rule of the cartoon is that he is ahead. This page does not turn the story into miles per hour.
Warner Bros., Looney Tunes
That is why he sits with the cartoons and not with the Flashes. A character who cannot be caught is not “slower” than a comic-book runner. He is playing a different game, and the game does not have a clock.
The editorial order also includes A-Train and Speedy Gonzales. The order is about the scale each story claims. It is not a clock.
Road Runner does not train and does not lose. He beep-beeps, and the coyote meets the painted tunnel. Giving him a miles-per-hour figure would miss the only rule the shorts actually have: he is exactly as fast as the gag requires, which is always faster than the coyote.
That is why he sits with the cartoons and not with the Flashes. A character who cannot be caught is not “slower” than a comic-book runner. He is playing a different game, and the game does not have a clock.
No speed. The rule of the cartoon is that he is ahead.
Sources
- Warner Bros.: Looney Tunes, Road Runner
The shorts are the source. They print no speed.