I found this disturbing on many, many levels.
I mean, he doesn’t eat him, but still…
The Roadrunner doesn’t actually beat the Coyote. He does nothing to foil Wile E.'s plots and contraptions. Except occasionally surprising him into the path of a truck or falling off a cliff with a well-timed “Beep Beep.” The Coyote is done in by a combination of his own ineptitude and the failure or misuse of Acme products
Off hand I don’t recall an instance of an Acme product failing. Not that I doubt you, but can you remind me of one or two?
That’s not in the hunter prey context though. Also, rather than cold bloodedly breaking Bugs’ neck and dragging him away, Elmer regrets what he’s done.
Also, Bugs wakes up and talks to the audience at the end, indicating that they’re simply actors in a play and no one has actually been harmed.
If Tom had won and ate Jerry, it’d have been a very short cartoon series.
Family Guy also had the coyote catch the roadrunner.
Well, maybe not failures in that they were defective. Actually, they usually worked as described. It was more of a failure on the Coyote’s part to anticipate the effects of the products, for example, being crushed by a dehydrated boulder after he added water to it. Or feeding the Roadrunner some earthquake pills then taking some himself after they have no effect on the Roadrunner, just before reading the fine print stating that the pills are not effective on roadrunners. And, of course, it could be debated that this would fall under misuse of the product.
That’s good because I’d hate to see the good folks at the Acme Company (I SO want to work there) slipping on their quality control.
“Feed the Kitty” maybe? Unless that doesn’t count because the cat is a kitten.
If you want real fairness and equality, try Spy vs Spy.
Ooh, good simulpost, Thudlow Boink! 
Tom & Jerry was kind of like Popeye – an animated cartoon that went through various phases differing wildly in quality. The original Hanna-Barbera series (1940-1957) won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film seven times (tying it with Disney’s Silly Symphonies). After that, another series was produced by Gene Dietch in Prague which is generally considered lousy (those aren’t often seen nowadays). Then Chuck Jones took over for awhile and produced some very good shorts (like the Road Runner cartoons, “slapstick humor hampered by the fact that there was no verbal wit”)… later on it went back to Hanna-Barbera, who churned out some truly lame product in which T&J were often actually portrayed as friends.
Actually ACME’s products failed quite regularly. Contraptions such as the catapult that wouldn’t launch until Wile E. Coyote climbed onto the boulder and stomped until the catapult launched him between a rock and a hard place were common.
Wile E. Coyote also fell victim to the first law of explosives* often.
*There are no duds!
Well, Claude gets the last bark, once.
And there was that time the cat and the mouse won out over the dog, in one of the most psychologically disturbing Warner toons ever, Chow Hound
“This time, we didn’t forget the gravy…”
I always felt a litlle sorry for the carnivore (but not Elmer)
Brian
Remember the ones where the mice really were evil, and Sylvester had to rescue Porky?
Worst dynamic I can recall is Herman and Katnip. Katnip gets to do his evil laugh once per episode, but the rest of the time Herman dominates him utterly.
Plus the technical quality sucked.
Krazy Kat turned it all upside down. Note the heart from the cat as the mouse hits her/him/it in the head with the brick.
