Kate Houghton is the tertartagonist of the 2003 film Looney Tunes: Back in Action. She is the love interest of DJ Drake, later girlfriend. She was played by Jenna Elfman.
Background[]
Personality[]
Kate Houghton is known for being for being as cold a ice (she proves by freezing Daffy’s hand) and never caring about what happens if others get want they desire and or not. She believes what she is doing is right or for the best, thinking she get rid anyone she believes is no longer needed. She did, however, has known type of flaw besides her non-caring: her lack of thinking as she never seems bothered think ahead or things through as more for us on the things that only mattered to her and seem to see the consequences of her actions or how it affects everyone and everything until she sees it in front her. For example, she decided to fire Daffy from not the Bugs Bunny movie she’s making but also from the studio fails to realize that by doing so that she didn’t see the important part of his role and that Bugs Bunny and the studio needed him more than ever, especially after he got shot by Elmer for the first time ever. Furthermore, she is responsible for the decline of beloved and popular characters like Porky Pig and Speedy Gonzales due to her politically correct and puritanical decisions and failed to understand and recognize what other people besides her really like and find funny. In spite of seeing her poor decisions and lack of recognizing her own mistakes, Kate refuse to back down and attempts to defend herself from being fired by her own bosses, including the Warner brothers for disposing their best Duck for nothing, even though she fails and given no other choice but undo her own mistakes, which includes rehiring Daffy. Despite her cold personality, Kate is also a huge fan of the Studio’s biggest star Damian Drake for work and actions, unaware of him being an actual spy. After finding out that D.J. is Drake’s son, Kate soon began to realize her own faults and regrets the decisions she makes as well as admitting to Bugs revere Bugs and tried to model her life after his, much the rabbits surprise and heartbreakness. Through every part of the movie, Kate is arrogant, charismatic, adventurous, extravagant and determined. In the group of protagonists of the film, Kate should be the mind, being the smartest of the group.
Personality in alternate ending[]
After being devolved by Blue Monkey, Kate becomes the film’s least intelligent human character. since the Blue Monkey removes her intelligence. This makes Kate act like a dumb prehistoric woman. In fact, while placing her in a primitive context, Kate’s intellectual abilities are rather low. Cave Kate thinks mainly instinctively, without worrying about the opinion of others and without reasoning much (or if not, tries with his regressed and primitive mind to reason to the maximum of its limited abilities). This devolution of her cognitive ability completely resets her language skills, lead Kate to express herself exclusively through grunts, screams and primitive verses. Another downside is the fact that, since his limited IQ, Mr. Chairman can manipulate her without problems. Leaving this aside, Cave Kate is particularly protective and loving about the people she cares about the most (although she shows off these emotions with prehistoric actions).
Physical appearance[]
Kate Houghton is a tall and slender woman with short blond hair and blue eyes. Kate Houghton dresses in different ways throughout the film:
- Normal outfit: white long-sleeved shirt, black pants tied with a black belt, black shoes;
- Las Vegas outfit: pink formal wear, white sandals, makeup;
- Desert outfit: gray tank top with black edges, short jeans with a belt, cowgirl hat, ground-colored boots;
- Paris outfit: french black beret, black shirt, dark skirt, fishnet stockings, black heels;
- Africa outfit: white tank top, dark green shorts, short boots, hair tied.
Physical appearance in alternate ending[]
Like her mind, Kate’s physical appearance is also devolved by the Blue Monkey: her Stone Age counterpart has the same height, but looks more tanned and with messy hair. In addition, the only clothes she wears are:
- Animal leather bra: a generic brown leather bra. On the straps, the bra has some extra leather patches, giving it a more wild look. On the back there is a botched bow that ties the whole;
- Animal leather loincloth: a cavewoman loincloth, made of the same material as the bra, which on the A side cover only the groin and leave room for the legs. On the other side, the garment covers the entire lower back. This part seems more ruined than the side A;
- Animal leather anklet: made of the same material as the bikini, it is not clear whether it covers a wound or is a simple ornament.
Powers and abilities[]
Kate has excellent businesswoman skills, as she is the vice president of Warner Bros. Studios. In addition, Kate solves a riddle at the entrance to the temple of the Blue Monkey. She copes sufficiently in hand-to-hand combat.
Powers and abilities in alternate ending[]
After being hit by the Blue Monkey, Kate loses some of her abilities but gains some (albeit in a more primitive context): Cave Kate has the average abilities of a cavewoman:
- She have an average IQ of a neanderthal, thus being able to use several primitive skills. Cave Kate can only express herself through primitive verses, screams and grunts;
- Has a better sense of smell and vision;
- his fighting style is mostly scenic, also take a bone to defend.
Role in the Film[]
When Mr. Chairman kidnaps DJ Drake's father, who was trying to stop Mr. Chairman from finding the [[Blue Monkey] Diamond, Kate teams up with DJ, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to defeat Mr. Chairman. At the end of the movie, she and DJ become boyfriend and girlfriend.
Deleted scenes[]
Area 52 scene[]
Desert scene[]
Alternate Ending[]
Kate's role in the alternate ending is very different from the original one: after D.J. and Daffy Duck have activated all the traps that precede the mosaic, Kate cuts all the posts to be able to cross the path.
Later, in the alternate final act, Kate attempts to catch the Blue Monkey thrown by D.J. and accidentally devolves Bugs Bunny into Happy Rabbit. After Bob Smith approaches Kate menacingly, she throws the Blue Monkey at D.J. but after passing into the hands of Mr. Chairman, Blue Monkey is intercepted by Daffy Duck who, stumbling, accidentally directs the Blue Monkey towards Kate. After a bright glow, Kate is devolved into her Paleolithic ancestor, reducing her intelligence and her clothes are turned in an animal leather bikini. In addition, her hair is untied and tousled, giving her a more scruffy look.
After making a jump for the impact of the Blue Monkey on her, Kate gapes at the sight of her new appearance, but after hearing the verse of Bugs Bunny (who had just been devolved along with her in Neanderthal Bugs from Mad as a Mars Hare) the cavewoman turns and begins to analyze the creature that opens her mouth. Meanwhile Mr. Chairman lifts his glasses and greets the new Kate, try to be a flirt with her. She stops analyzing the mouth of Neanderthal Bugs and turns, grunting disinterestedly. Cave Kate then begins to do a primitive stuff, in which he slams her fists in the air and goes back and forth with his chest, then looks suspiciously at Daffy Duck, who accidentally devolved himself in an egg and kicks the Blue Monkey into lava. As DJ jumps to save the Blue Monkey from the lava, Cave Kate tries to groom her scruffy hair and eat what she finds. As Mr. Chairman heads towards DJ, the cavewoman looks at Mr. Chairman’s hair and starts groom them accurately with her hands, finding something and eating it.
After sniffing her hands, Cave Kate looks carefully at the ground and finds a bone under one of the steps leading to the Blue Monkey temple. She takes the bone with one hand and after a few seconds thinking she decides to tie it to her hair. While performing this action, watch DJ (who in the meantime has been put in check by Mr. Chairman) disinterested, putting herself in a standing position while watching the jungle sky. After finishing tying the bone to her hair, Cave Kate begins to do what seems like a primitive ritual, standing on her toes and directing her hands towards supposedly Neanderthal Bugs. Everything seems not to work and the cavewoman removes the bone from her head and looks at it carefully. Next, Cave Kate watches Mr. Smith leave the jungle and then focuses on D.J., trying to help. Cave Kate recognizes DJ and puts his head on his shoulder, beginning to rub his face. While Mr. Chairman threatens Tweety, Cave Kate finds a small stick and begins to clean her mouth and teeth with it.
While D.J. points the Blue Monkey at Mr. Chairman, the cavewoman tries to understand the evolved language of the two homo sapiens, looking around her with a confused face. After Mr. Chairman "pulls" Taz from a cylinder, Cave Kate, frightened by the arrival of the Tasmanian devil, puts herself into her primitive defense mode, screaming and trying to attack Taz.
While Cave Kate grits her teeth and looks menacingly at Taz, D.J. aims the Blue Monkey beam at Tweety, who falls into the lava. In this scene the cavewoman seems disappointed for Tweety's presumed death, but in a few seconds she looks menacingly at Taz again. After D.J. gives the Blue Monkey to Mr. Chairman (it's not clear if in this scene Kate doesn't understand D.J.'s choice or doesn't understand the evolved language of the two), Tweety resurrects from the lava in pterodactyl form, causing Kate's shock. After Tweety/Pterodactyl eats Mr. Chairman and spits out the Blue Monkey, D.J. it brings everyone back to evolved form (in Kate's case, she approaches D.J. as if they're flirting, with Kate fixing her hair with a stick and her hands and D.J. breaking the fourth wall). After bringing Kate to her homo sapiens form, D.J. gives the Blue Monkey to Kate to turn Damian Drake back into human form. Just before the finale, D.J. introduces Kate as if she were his girlfriend.
Relationships[]
Quotes[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Kate is named after the late Katherine Hepburn, who passed on the same year as the movie before its release. Hepburn's middle was also Houghton.
- While it was the Warner Brothers' vote of getting rid of Daffy before they realized his importance for Bugs and their studio, Kate was the one actually set the meeting to have him removed from the studio for an undisclosed reason from her perspective opinion, thinking that he was not of any use or importance to the studio before she realized how wrong she was upon realizing Daffy’s use and importance to the studio, making her responsible for the near downfall of the studio and nearly costing Bugs and the Looney Tunes, giving the Warner Brothers the right to fire her before she decided to bring back and rehire Daffy.
- After Kate fired Daffy Duck, during dinner at the Warner Bros Studio with Bugs Bunny, she was suggesting that he should team up with a "Female Costar" (Hinting that Kate wants Lola Bunny in Bugs Bunny's movie). But only for Bugs to claim that he plays the leading female, despite Kate is already seen enough with Bugs' drag gags instead doing a real female counterpart like the rest of the other cartoon characters who are willing to cooperate their gender solutions.
- Yet Bugs also called Kate "Doll Face" just as he did with Lola, who still hasn't been seen or mention trough out the movie.
- Despite this Kate's suggestion for Bugs teaming up with Lola again did come true after all but only when it foreshadowed 18 years later when Space Jam: A New Legacy came out when Lola finally got a large supporting role she deserves, where unlike in The Original Space Jam where she had a small role along with Looney Tunes Back in Action where she's absent but reference.
- Kate is one of the characters who uses the Blue Monkey on other protagonists:
- After accidentally pointing the statuette to Bugs Bunny, the latter is devolved to Happy Rabbit.
- Kate is one of the characters that is devolved by the Blue Monkey. In her case, Daffy Duck misses the aim of the statuette and throws a ray towards her, turning her into a primitive woman.
- While all other human characters are devolved in capuchin monkeys, Kate Houghton is the only character in Looney Tunes: Back in Action whose evolutionary line is regressed to a species more similar to the modern human. Despite a modern woman’s physical appearance (although her clothes have been adapted to a more primitive context), Cave Kate acts mainly as a stone-age woman.
- It is unclear whether the Blue Monkey reduced Kate’s IQ to that of a neanderthal woman or some other archaic human species (considering his crude actions). Taking the words of Mr. Chairman to be true (who descends from a long line of evil geniuses), Cave Kate’s IQ does not even reach half that of Mr. Chairman’s Neanderthal ancestor.
- According the original script[1], Cave Kate had a few more scenes in the alternate ending:
- When D.J. Drake jumps to prevent the Blue Monkey from falling into the lava, Cave Kate approaches the lava puddle where D.J.’s about to fall, and make a concerned grunt;
- After D.J. is saved via an electormagnetic phone tool, Cave Kate sidles up next to him, make a affectionately grunt and begins to smell and groom his hair. D.J. tries to ignore his girlfriend’s grooming. Mr. Chairman comments on Cave Kate’s action with a "Very clever";
- After finding nothing in her cavemate’s hair, Cave Kate notices insects in Neanderthal Bugs' fur. The cavewoman approaches him and start picking insects off of Neanderthal Bugs.
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