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Movie(s): Bambi (1942), Bambi 2 (2006)
First Appearance: Bambi (1942)
Voiced by: Peter Behn, Tim Davis, Sam Edwards, Brandon Baerg
The thing about Thumper is that he's so cute he almost helps you to forget that Bambi's mum has, um, [sob] died. The scene where the rabbit and the young faun venture out on the ice during their first winter, slipping and sliding around, remains one of the happiest things you'll ever see, guaranteed to raise a smile even if you've just eaten venison before watching the movie and are feeling horrendously guilty. A sage advisor to Bambi himself, more or less, and a more streetwise (forest-wise?) character, he's a good friend and fellow adolescent in the big, bad woods.
Stroke of genius
Why, it's his trademark habit of drumming his feet against the ground, much imitated but never bettered.
Fun fact
Thumper doesn't appear in the original novel, which is darker and more concerned with the natural world than the cuddly baby animals. The Nazis, book lovers that they were, banned the book as an allegory for the treatment of the Jews in Europe.
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