*Minerva Mink (originally called Marilyn Mink, after cinema bombshell Marilyn Monroe) is a character in the TV series, Animaniacs. She was created by Warner Bros. animation producers Paul Dini and Sherri Stoner. Her initial designs were handled by character artist Barry Caldwell, while her final design was done by Dan Haskett. Being one of the more infamous Animaniacs characters, she has received only two solo cartoons of her own: "Meet Minerva" and "Moon Over Minerva." Despite this, she received more stories in the Animaniacs comic book series.

Minerva was voiced by Julie Brown.

Minerva is an anthropomorphic mink with an hourglass figure. She, much like Hello Nurse, is designed to be "attractive" (she also gets similar reactions from male characters as Hello Nurse). Her initial design had her naked, very much like Slappy Squirrel’s younger design in the episode “Buttermilk”. WBTA's management felt this "al fresco design" was inappropriate for family entertainment, with final designs and name change occurring prior to the first Minerva episode airing. Minerva has white fur with long blonde hair, an enormous soft blonde tail as well as a pretty face, pink nose and sweet big black eyes with blue eyeshadow for makeup. Being a "fashionable" girl, she is rarely seen wearing the same outfit twice, though most production art shows her wearing a red jumpsuit. Her signature outfit is a red jumpsuit. In addition, appearance borrows from many famous sex symbols, most notably Veronica Lake, whose sheepdog haircut is similar to Minerva's style.

Her scale often changes with the plot. In her first appearance she was shown to be the size of a normal mink (this is in relation to her size compared to Newt, who was shown earlier in that episode only coming up to his master's knee). However, she was most often shown the same size as human beings, only about a head shorter than Hello Nurse.

Personality-wise and despite her "beauty" and "attractiveness", Minerva can best be described as a gold-digger, so to speak, being extremely vain and greedy. If the people who swooned over her got to know her a little more they would discover some of her more meaner traits. She is typically seen using men to do whatever she wanted, showing no interest in them whatsoever.

Minerva is also seemingly only into one’s physical appearance above all-else, as she kept rejecting Wilford Wolf in his "nerdy" appearance despite his kindness to her and desire to establish an actual connection with her (it should be noted Wilford made more of an effort to bond with her beyond her looks unlike most of her other admirers). In addition, she threatened to end a friendship with her best friend Trudy just because Trudy arranged for Minerva to give her cousin a tour of the woods.

As an example of poetic justice, "Meet Minerva" and "Moon Over Minerva" show her receiving a taste of her own medicine. In "Moon Over Minerva", as she fawns over Wilford only for his werewolf form which vanishes after a short amount of time. Then in "Meet Minerva" she fawns after a man with similar exacting standards who didn't seem to find her attractive at all. Her personality, being fashion conscious, obsessed with beauty and money, resembles a valley girl - a stereotype typically mocked in the works of her voice actress, Julie Brown.

Although Minerva can be snobby and often lacks interest in those who seek her attention, she sometimes acts kind around others. This is best shown when, toward the end of her debut short, she gives Newt a hug and kiss of genuine affection rather than manipulation, being actually surprised when he reacts in an attracted manner even when that wasn't her intent this time. She is shown to have a more friendly dynamic with Newt in the comics following this, as well.*