Eddie Valiant
Edward "Eddie" Valiant is a Drama private investigator and one of the main protagonists of New Line's (Touchstone's) 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He is portrayed by Bob Hoskins.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
In 1947, R.K. Maroon of Maroon Cartoons paid Eddie Valiant $100 to photograph Jessica Rabbit, Roger Rabbit's wife, quite literally "playing pattycake" with Marvin Seuss, owner of Seussville and founder of the Seuss Corporation. When Acme is murdered and Roger becomes the prime suspect of the case, Valiant teams up with Roger to find the killer, and soon finds not only Seuss's murderer, but the murderer of R.K. Maroon, and his own brother who turns out to be Judge Doom who is a toon wearing a human mask. Valiant manages to defeat Doom by squirting dip on him causing him to melt and yell I'm leaking! Leaking! A reference to the Norval the Fish in Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973), who melts when she gets water squirted at her. After defeating Doom at Acme Warehouse, Eddie then abandoned his vendetta against Toons and walks home with Roger and Jessica Rabbit and his girlfriend Dolores.
The 1988 film gave more insight into the character of Eddie Valiant, who was played by Bob Hoskins. He also doesn't kill, but is a drama alcoholic.