The Mystery Cartoon Character Game, ongoing.

I have no idea. Someone else should get it this time.

A bit of a stretch, but this sounds like Snidely Whiplash from Dudley Do-Right Of The Mounties. He's the main villain in almost every DDR cartoon, and he pursues Nell Fenwick, as does Dudley, though not for romantic reasons. Snidely rarely sports a firearm, so I'm speculating that his "hunting" is limited to widows and orphans, whose mortgages Snidely delightedly forecloses. Being a villain, watching women and children suffer a bitter Canadian winter gives Snidely his jollies.

Nope, not Whiplash. Also, by "hunting" I mean the Elmer Fudd way.

I know a few characters who fit some of the clues--but not the clue about caring for both hunting and money. I'll have to wait and see.

Oh, wait, yes: money and hunting. Wow, am I dense.

This is Clayton the greedy hunter from Disney's Tarzan. He's the antagonist, all right, and he has eyes on Jane Porter as a way to marry into the leisure class. Tarzan is also interested in Jane, mainly because she's the first creature he's ever seen with a physiology similar to his own. And Clayton has no qualms at all about herding up the gorillas and selling them to circuses and zoos, because he's just that craven.

Ah, that's better.

No, not Clayton either. It's been a while since I've seen Tarzan, so I don't remember if he's strictly an explorer or really a hunter.

My search for Cartoon characters similar to Elmer Fudd turned up absolutely nothing. Got myself a goose egg on this one.

Okay, here is the next set.

I appeared once in a movie.
I long to rid my lady's property of pests.
In a way, I become the very thing I hate.

Still don't have it, sorry to say. I'll leave it to someone else.

Wait a minute...I'm not sure how this bell went off-I think it's due to saltyboot's love of stopmotion--but I got it.
I have not seen this film but it's Lord Victor Quartermaine from Wallace and Gromit--The Curse of the Wererabbit.

Absolutely correct!

Lord Victor Quartermaine and Wallace both rival for Lady Tottington.
He only cares about her money and hunting animals.
Her yard is full of bunnies, and he wants to exterminate them all.
At the end of the movie, Gromit puts Victor in a large Rabbit costume to make an angry mob think he's the wererabbit.

You're up.

Thanks.
1. I used to be a mascot for a television station.
2. Yet I only appeared in one classic short and resurfaced in another one 40 (!) years later.
3. I'm based upon a rather strange phenomenon that has been proven to be false.

The only mascot I can think of is the old NBC peacock. CBS has always had that Orwellian eyeball, and ABC ... may have had one. PBS has that guy in profile. I'm going with the peacock, though, because only boy peacocks have that elaborate tail plumage. If the peacock has been animated as a girl, well, somebody didn't do the research.

Nope, not the NBC peacock--I never really considered that to be an actual cartoon character.

This would be Michigan J. Frog.
- was mascot for WB Television Network
- One Froggy Evening 1955; Another Froggy Evening 1995
- the belief that frogs and toads could be found alive encased in rock.

Indeed! It is Michigan J. Frog. I never really knew much about the entombed animal myth until now--although I have heard of O'Rip--a horned toad who supposedly lived for 31 years inside a cornerstone much like Michigan. In fact, I always did used to wonder why the heck there was a frog inside there--but dismissed it as a cartoon thing.

And the next character...

1) my series was not made in the USA.

2) Cosmic dust brought me to life.

3) I was given my powers by a Legendary Figure.

Superted!

1. The show was produced in Wales.

2. Self-explanatory.

3. Mother Nature gave him his superpowers.

While Spotty did bring Superted to life--it was Mother Nature who gave him his powers.

Thanks, Glowworm. Just went back and fixed that.