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Doom wears a black ensemble which includes a trenchcoat, a fedora, gloves, and rimless yellow-tinted glasses; he also carries a pocketwatch and a swordstick that also serves as a walking stick.

Judge Doom started off as a xenophobic austere judge who holds a hatred towards Toons, even abusing his own Toon Patrol when they laugh at something amusing. However, this was shown to be a facade to cover his true nature as a heartless, psychopathic, homicidal, manipulative, and pitiless Toon who enjoys doing terrible things for his own pleasure, even gleefully boasting to a shocked Eddie that he killed Eddie's brother Teddy. And he is also known as evil, murderous, fearsome, mean, stingy, abusive, cruel, cold-blooded, merciless, chicken-hearted, calculating, monstrous, relentless, prideful, petty, loathsome, intimidating, serious, strict, power-hungry, hammy (at times), brilliant, accountable, rational, obstinate, negative, violent, organized, no-nonsense, reasonable, obsessive, testy, thoughtless, efficient and nasty.

When the film first introduces Judge Doom, Lt. Santino confides to Eddie Valiant that Doom bought the election. Later, at the Terminal Bar, Doom uses the "Shave and a Haircut" trick to lure Roger out, then prepares to execute him. After a brief scuffle inside the bar, the Judge orders the weasels to capture Roger and Eddie Valiant. Roger realizes he's in trouble with Doom after him, and begs Eddie to hide him. When Eddie learns that studio head R.K. Maroon is connected to the plot to frame Roger, Eddie interrogates him, but Maroon pleads that he is "a dead man" if he confesses. Just as Maroon is about to spill everything, he is killed by an unseen gunman who nearly shoots Eddie as well.

Valiant escapes and defeats the weasels then attempts to rescue Roger and Jessica when he is interrupted by Doom. The two men then square off, duelling with various ACME props. During the fight, Judge Doom is run over by a steamroller. He survives, revealing himself as a toon. Doom re-inflates himself with a helium gas tank. As he did, his hat pop off of him and his eyes popped out as well, revealing them to be fake. After Doom re-inflates himself with a helium gas tank, he reveals himself, much to Eddie's horror, as the same Toon who murdered Eddie's brother, Teddy Valiant, thus triggering his hatred towards Toons and explaining how Doom managed to buy the judicial election and the trolley car company. His voice grew higher until it reaches a horrifyingly high pitch and his eyes turn to daggers, showing Doom's intent that he is now out to kill him, as well. Doom taunts Eddie and exhibits his hidden Toon powers, leaping after Eddie with springs in his shoes, changing his right hand into a massive anvil and a circular saw. After Eddie breaks open a vat of Dip with a boxing glove hammer, Doom is doused in his own Dip. While he is dissolving to his death, he shrieks the familiar "melting" lines of the Wicked Witch of the West, cursing Eddie. Following Doom's death, his scheme is finally exposed and all charges against Roger are dropped.

In the graphic novel Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom, it is explained that Doom was originally a Toon named Baron von Rotten, who took up the role of playing the antagonist in animated movies, until a filming accident in which he suffered a concussion, and awakens believing he is a real villain. Von Rotten thus begins his crime career, robbing the First National Bank of Toontown, then killing Teddy Valiant by dropping a piano on his head from 15 stories, and spreading the stolen money all over the town in order to buy the election for Judge of Toontown, assuming the new name of Judge Doom.

**Roddy McDowall, Robin Williams, Eddie Deezen, Sting, and Jon Pertwee were all considered as well.

*Doom's death is an allusion to the Wicked Witch of the West's death in MGM's ''The Wizard of Oz'', as they both melt while shouting, "I'm melting! Melting!".

*According to the (non-canon) graphic novel, ''The Resurrection of Doom'', Doom's real name was "'''Baron Von Rotten'''", who worked as an actor until an accident resulted in him believing that he was a villain.

*Fittingly enough, Judge Doom is one of the most evil villains ever involved with Warner Brothers and Disney, he is said to be the "Enemy of all Toons" which probably means that he is also a threat to other cartoon villains such as Pete and Yosemite Sam who were also in the film.

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