Tibi the Take it Back Butterfly
Tibi the Take it Back Butterfly is an animated butterfly who first appeared in the Yakety Yak, Take it Back all-star public service music video, in which she is created by Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, and voiced by Melba Moore. She has a black-colored body from head to toe, light blue eyelids, red lips, light blue antennae, and light blue, orange, and yellow wings. She wears a pair of white Mickey Mouse-type gloves, a black tank top, a pair of black shorts, a pair of light blue pants, a pair of black socks, and a pair of light blue Minnie Mouse-type slippers. From her first appearance in Yakety Yak, Take it Back, to its sequel, Trash Talk, and other recycling music videos that followed, and so on, she is the official mascot of the Take it Back Foundation. Being a professional rapper first and foremost, second to Yakety Yak, Tibi is also a good friend to MC Skat Kat, Yakety Yak, Bugs Bunny, the Stray Mob members Micetro, Fatz, Taboo, Leo, Katleen, and Silk, and her family and friends, among many other Warner Bros. animated characters. Tibi cares about saving the environment from the different types of dangers of the world around her, such as trash, pollution, habitat loss, and others to name a few. She is cute, sweet, and good natured. She is also somewhere being caring in the personality that she will be able to take back the world from the dangers, along with everyone around her. In addition to being a Take it Back Foundation mascot, Tibi is the leader of an insect rapper group, the Take it Back Gang, an all-bug version of the Stray Mob members themselves. She is also best friends with one of the group's members, Honey B.. Also, in addition to flying around from one place to another, Tibi can even walk and run on the ground.
Appearances
- Yakety Yak, Take it Back (1991) -- (Main role)
- Tiny Toon Adventures (1991) -- (Supporting role)
- Taz-Mania (1991) -- (Supporting role)
- Trash Talk (1992) -- (Main role)
- Yakety Yak, Take it Again (1992) -- (Main role)
- Yakety Yak, Take it Another Again (1992) -- (Main role)
- Animaniacs (1993) -- (Supporting role)
- Space Jam (1996) -- (Supporting role)
- Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000) -- (Supporting role)
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) -- (Cameo)
- Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006) -- (Supporting role)
- Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2012) -- (Minor role)
- New Looney Tunes (2015) -- (Supporting role)
- Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) -- (Supporting role)
Further reading
- TBA
