What's Up, Doc? Bugs Bunny Is Officially in the Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 Battle Pass

It was the leak everyone expected to be wrong. For months, Fortnite dataminers had been finding evidence of a Looney Tunes collaboration buried in the game's files — but the community consensus was that Bugs Bunny, if he came to Fortnite at all, would arrive quietly through the Item Shop like hundreds of other licensed characters before him. Nobody seriously expected Warner Bros. to give the most iconic animated character in television history a Battle Pass slot. On Monday March 16, at 2:49 PM, leaker HYPEX posted four words that sent the Fortnite community into collective meltdown: "BUGS BUNNY IS IN FORTNITE C7S2 BATTLE PASS CONFIRMED BY LOONEY TUNES." The post racked up 134,800 views in hours. The Looney Tunes social media accounts confirmed it simultaneously. Bugs Bunny — the wisecracking, carrot-chewing, "What's up, Doc?" rabbit who has been making people laugh since 1940 — is the headline skin of the Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 Showdown Battle Pass, launching this Thursday March 19, 2026. The Showdown Battle Pass: Bugs Bunny, The Foundation & The Order Remix Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2, subtitled Showdown, launches Thursday March 19 alongside the v40.00 update — which will bring approximately two to three hours of server downtime before the new season goes live. The Showdown Battle Pass is priced at 800 V-Bucks — approximately $8.99 — following Epic's recent V-Bucks pricing adjustments. The confirmed and leaked Battle Pass skins so far include Bugs Bunny as the headline Looney Tunes slot, The Foundation Remix — a reskin of The Seven's leader, described by leakers as narratively connected to the season's storyline — and The Order Remix, a reimagined version of the fan-favourite Seven member. A Jules Remix skin has also been reported by leakers. The Foundation's return is particularly significant for lore followers: the character — originally voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in Chapter 3 — has been largely absent since Chapter 3 Season 3, and his Chapter 7 Season 2 comeback is confirmed by Epic, with leakers cautioning that whether The Rock's voice and likeness will return remains unconfirmed until Thursday. Two additional Battle Pass skins are reportedly present in the files but have not yet been identified. Daffy Duck, Lola Bunny & The Space Jam Connection The Looney Tunes collaboration extends well beyond Bugs Bunny's Battle Pass slot. Daffy Duck and Lola Bunny are confirmed as part of the broader collaboration — with all indications from multiple leakers pointing to both characters arriving as Item Shop skins rather than Battle Pass rewards. The cosmetic set is expected to include back bling, pickaxes, and emotes capturing the classic slapstick humour and visual vocabulary of the original Looney Tunes cartoons — with specific leaked emotes reportedly referencing Bugs Bunny's most iconic gags. Perhaps the most intriguing detail in the entire Looney Tunes collaboration is a new game mode with the internal codename "Pimlico" — found in the Chapter 7 Season 2 game files by dataminers across multiple updates. All available evidence points to Pimlico being a basketball-based game mode — and given that Looney Tunes and basketball are inseparable in popular culture through the Space Jam films, the community theory that Pimlico is a Space Jam-inspired limited-time mode launching alongside the Looney Tunes skins has significant supporting evidence. Warner Bros., which owns the Looney Tunes brand, is reportedly directly involved in the development of the mode. As digital8hub.com reported in March, the Oscar-winning song "Golden" from the KPop Demon Hunters — which took Best Original Song at the 98th Academy Awards — has already been linked to a potential Fortnite tie-in through the game's existing KPop content pipeline. The Full Chapter 7 Season 2 Collaboration Picture: Overwatch, The Rock & More The Looney Tunes collaboration is the headline, but it is far from the only major crossover confirmed or strongly rumoured for Chapter 7 Season 2. Three separate leakers have confirmed an Overwatch collaboration that will include skins for Tracer, D.Va, Genji, and Mercy — with at least one leaker claiming an Overwatch character will appear in the Battle Pass itself. Notably, the leaker responsible for many of these reveals — a leaker known as Adira — was revealed in a recent Epic Games lawsuit to be a company contractor who broke a non-disclosure agreement to share the information. That complication adds a layer of uncertainty to some of the more speculative leaks, though the Looney Tunes and Overwatch collaborations have since been independently corroborated. The season's narrative is built around a rivalry conflict between the Ice King and Dark Voyager against The Seven — a lore-heavy direction that positions Chapter 7 Season 2 as one of the more story-driven seasons in Fortnite's recent history. Chapter 7 Season 2 launches Thursday March 19. Server downtime begins at approximately 2:00 AM ET. Bugs Bunny arrives in the Battle Pass. What's up, Doc? For the latest Fortnite, gaming, and entertainment coverage, follow digital8hub.com.