NO DOUBT! The Greatest Fictional Character From Utah

The Beehive State has a bunch of celebrities that are from here.

Wilford Brimley.

Brandon Flowers.

The Osmonds.

The guy who made the TV.

It's hard to pick the best one honestly.

But the best fictional character from the state of Utah is an easy choice.

No it's not the kids from The Sandlot, because I don't think they're "in Utah" in the movie even though it was filmed here.

I think it's Wile E. Coyote.

Wile E. was constantly flying around the Southern Utah landscape trying to catch the Road Runner.

Here he is in Zion:

Here he is at Bryce.

Does the landscape in roadrunner and coyote cartoons resemble any actual location?
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According to some this is clearly Monument Valley.

u/jaques_sauvignon said:

"It looks a lot like the Four Corners region in USA to me. Although I don't think the saguaro cactus range extends quite that far north, and is mostly restricted to southern Arizona and Sinaloa Sonora, MX."

u/ekelzards said:

"I'm an Australian living in the US. About 6 months after I moved I did a road trip from Dallas to Southern Colorado (specifically a little town called Durango).

I went via Albuquerque, New Mexico. It's basically a straight drive up from there to Durango.I swear there were parts of that drive where I thought I was in the cartoon.I don't even think that area is the area that most closely resembles the cartoon. But still, it was crazy. Beautiful too."

I would agree that it's vague enough to be a couple different states in the Southwest, but to me Wile E. is a Utahn.