Eddie Valiant
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Eddie Valiant is a Californian private investigator and one of the main characters in Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?. He is also the only human character who appears in all three books and the 1988 film adaptation.
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[edit] Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Eddie Valiant is a Californian private detective hired by comic-book star Roger Rabbit to investigate the workings of Rogers' corrupt employers, the DeGreasey Brothers. When Roger is found dead, and his final words having been censored out, Valiant is soon sent on the case of tracking Rogers' murderers.
This first incarnation of Eddie is a heavy smoker, has a beard and is active when the book is set (1981), rather than the later, more accepted incarnation of the character.
[edit] Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The 1988 film gave more insight into the character of Eddie Valiant, who was played by Bob Hoskins.
Eddie Valiant and his brother Teddy Valiant were sons of a circus clown (shown by the pictures on their desk), who joined the police force and eventually started their own private investigation service, Valiant and Valiant, working largely on Toon cases, such as the kidnapping of Donald Duck's nephews or clearing Goofy of accusations of espionnage. However, when Teddy Valiant was killed by Judge Doom, Eddie turned to the bottle, and Valiant and Valiant disappeared from the public eye.
In 1947, R.K. Maroon of Maroon Cartoons paid Valiant to photograph Jessica Rabbit, Rogers' wife, quite literally "playing pattycake" with Marvin Acme, owner of Toontown and founder of the Acme Corporation. When Acme is murdered, Valiant teams up with Roger to find the killer, and soon finds not only Acmes' murderer, but the murderer of his own brother.
[edit] Graphic Novel
In the Graphic novel of the film published in 1989 by Marvel Comics, Valiant is the narrator of the story, telling the film through his eyes and in the style of a detective story.
[edit] Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?
In the sub-sequel to the film, Valiant has vowed to no longer take any toon cases, but is forced to do so when Baby Herman, Roger Rabbits' co-star, is found dead.
