January Q. Irontail

January Q. Irontail is a fictional anthropomorphic rabbit, and the villain of the 1971 Rankin-Bass Easter special "Here Comes Peter Cottontail". He is voiced by Vincent Price. In the 2006 direct to video sequel, "", he was voiced by Roger Moore.

Irontail lived inside of an old, craggy tree outside of April Valley and his only friend was a large bat, Montresor, who he occasionally rode around on.

In the movie it is revealed that when he was younger, Irontail lost his tail when a human child ran over it with rollerskates. Even though the child did not mean it, the bitter Irontail hated children ever since, and has his old tail replaced with one made of iron, which made gonging noises whenever it moved.

When Colonel Bunny was going to retire as Chief Easter Bunny and name a successor, Irontail wanted the position so he could ruin Easter for all the children and gain revenge. His main opposition was in the form of Peter Cottontail, and Irontail made Colonel Bunny hold a contest where the rabbit who delivered the most Easter eggs on Easter would earn the position of Chief Easter Bunny.

Irontail cheated by sabotaging Peter's alarm clock so he would oversleep on Easter, and although he only managed to deliver one egg to a sleeping bum because all the children were frightened of him, Irontail still won. As the new Chief Easter Bunny, he passed new laws that banned colorful Easter eggs and forced the other rabbits to make chocolate tarantulas and octopuses instead of bunnies and chicks.

When Peter sought the help of Seymour S. Sassafrass and his time machine to go back in time and take the contest again, the bitter Irontail did everything in his power to thwart Peter's efforts: among other things, he sabotaged the time machine so that it would go to any holiday "but" Easter, stole the basket of Easter eggs (first by sending Montresor to steal them during Halloween, then personally pilfering them on Christmas), and even turned them all green using magic.

Peter won the contest however when he successfully gave the green eggs away during St. Patrick's Day. Irontail then became the janitor of April Valley.

In "Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie", Irontail and Montresor return for revenge against Peter, teaming up with Jackie Frost to steal the golden spring from the Clock of Spring, preventing April, and Easter, from ever coming. Here it is learned that his original name was actually Fluffy, but he changed it to January Q. Irontail after he was forced to get a metal tail (and indeed, we actually get a flashback in this movie showing the incident with the boy on rollerskates).

Irontail, Jackie and Montresor are able to steal the Spring of Spring from the Clock of Spring when Irontail distracts Peter's son, Junior, by feigning interest in one of the boy's inventions. Later, they also steal the Leaf of Fall and the Sun of Summer from those seasons' respective clocks, taking them back with them to Jackie's hideout on Winter Peak. They are thwarted however when Junior and his friends Munch and Flutter infiltrate the palace and steal the Spring, Leaf and Sun and escape, also swiping the Ice Crystal of Winter before replacing it.

Irontail and Jackie's partnership crumbles and the two come to blows, ultimately tumbling down into a seemingly bottomless ice cavern outside the Clock of Winter. However they manage to escape and follow Junior back to April Valley, where Irontail has one final confrontation with Peter. Using the gold key to the Clock of Spring, Junior deflects Jackie's ice magic back onto her, freezing her from the waist down. Irontail betrays Jackie and tries to flee without her, only to he zapped by her ice magic and frozen from the waist up.

Jackie's penguin guards gather up the two frozen villains and take them back to Winter Peak. The last we see of Irontail, he and Jackie are being chiseled free by the penguins.