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* NoFairCheating: The "passport" cheat code automatically unlocks every single level in the game, but disables saving, so any progress made after the code is entered will be lost upon turning the game off.
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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Bugs and Daffy get clothes for progressing the game after collecting enough money.
* AnvilOnHead: This happens if the player gets a Yosemite Sam symbol on the slot machine in the Wooden Nickel level.

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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Bugs WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and Daffy WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck get clothes for progressing the game after collecting enough money.
* AnvilOnHead: This happens if the player gets a Yosemite Sam WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam symbol on the slot machine in the Wooden Nickel level.



** Porky Pig and Speedy Gonzales get more focus in this game than in the film.
** Tweety becomes a key character in the final level where [[spoiler:he transforms into a pterodactyl]].

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** Porky Pig WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and Speedy Gonzales WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales get more focus in this game than in the film.
** Tweety [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Tweety]] becomes a key character in the final level where [[spoiler:he transforms into a pterodactyl]].



* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The CEO initially shows up in the first cut scene and seemingly has little to no importance to the plot, up until the very end when it turns out he needs the gem to power his ray that turns everyone into monkeys.]]
* CollectionSideQuest: The Michigan J. Frog statues and the Road Runner seeds. The former gets an extra monkey upon collecting all 20, while collecting all 7 of the latter opens a stage of the traffic minigame where you need to reach a certain distance (the later the level, the farther you have to go) to earn yet another monkey.

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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The CEO initially shows up in the first cut scene cutscene and seemingly has little to no importance to the plot, up until the very end when it turns out he needs the gem to power his ray that turns everyone into monkeys.]]
* CollectionSideQuest: The [[WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening Michigan J. Frog Frog]] statues and the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner Runner]] seeds. The former gets an extra monkey upon collecting all 20, while collecting all 7 of the latter opens a stage of the traffic minigame where you need to reach a certain distance (the later the level, the farther you have to go) to earn yet another monkey.



* FakeActionPrologue: The game begins where Daffy Danger tries to defeat Elmer Fudd. It turns out to be a pitch by Daffy Duck. It originally came from a deleted scene of the film.

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* FakeActionPrologue: The game begins where Daffy Danger tries to defeat Elmer Fudd.WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd. It turns out to be a pitch by Daffy Duck. It originally came from a deleted scene of the film.



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** Bugs says "Hey, I still got my Film/SpaceJam skills!"
** One of the two guys driving a film cart around the jungle set says, "We got you a bottle of water, Mr. Schlesinger!", referring Leon Schlesinger, a producer for the original Looney Tunes shorts.

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** Bugs says "Hey, I still got my Film/SpaceJam ''Film/SpaceJam'' skills!"
** One of the two guys driving a film cart around the jungle set says, "We got you a bottle of water, Mr. Schlesinger!", referring to Leon Schlesinger, a producer for the original Looney Tunes ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts.



* ThatsAllFolks: Bugs gets to say it throughout the game when he defeats an enemy. There's also the screen with this text in the Game Over screen for the GBA version, including the final part of the Looney Tunes theme.

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* ThatsAllFolks: Bugs gets to say it throughout the game when he defeats an enemy. There's also the screen with this text in the Game Over screen for the GBA version, including the final part of the Looney Tunes ''Looney Tunes'' theme.
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* PiranhaProblem: Las Vegas and the Jungle Ruins have piranhas that leap over logs, threatening to bite Bugs or Daffy when they get in the way.

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* PiranhaProblem: Las Vegas and the Jungle Ruins have piranhas that leap over logs, threatening to bite Bugs or Daffy when should they get in the way.
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The Jungle Ruins have waters infested with crocodiles that will eat Bugs or Daffy when they fall in.
* PiranhaProblem: Las Vegas and the Jungle Ruins have piranhas that leap over logs, threatening to bite Bugs or Daffy when they get in the way.
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* EarlyDraftTieIn: [[spoiler:Tweety's transformation during the final boss fight]] was originally planned for the film before being cut. It can be seen in the bonus features for the movie's home release.
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* EarlyDraftTieIn: [[spoiler:Tweety's transformation during the final boss fight]] was originally planned for the film before being cut. It can be seen in the bonus features for the movie's home release.
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* ThatsAllFolks: Bugs gets to say it throughout the game when he defeats an enemy.

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* ThatsAllFolks: Bugs gets to say it throughout the game when he defeats an enemy. There's also the screen with this text in the Game Over screen for the GBA version, including the final part of the Looney Tunes theme.

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''Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' is a 2003 video game based on the film of the same name. It notably doesn't have any main human characters with the exception of the chairman (voiced by Creator/JoeAlaskey instead of Creator/SteveMartin). It was released by Electronic Arts for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance.

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''Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' is a 2003 video game based on [[Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction the film of the same name.name]]. It notably doesn't have any main human characters with the exception of the chairman (voiced by Creator/JoeAlaskey instead of Creator/SteveMartin). It was released developed by Electronic Arts British studio Warthog Games and published by Creator/ElectronicArts for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance.



!!''Looney Tunes: Back In Action'' contains examples of:
* AdaptedOut: Despite being major characters in the movie, D.J and Kate are completely absent.

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!!''Looney Tunes: Back In in Action'' contains examples of:
* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:Tweety, of all characters, for the final boss.]]
* AdaptedOut: Despite being major characters in the movie, D.J J. and Kate are completely absent.



* BlindingCameraFlash[=/=]WeaponizedCamera: Unintentionally, but an "enemy" that appears throughout the game is an excitable tourist who will all too happily take blindingly bright photos that will cause you to take damage. Of course, he doesn't mean any actual harm, he's just oblivious to this fact.



* DevelopmentGag: The opening cutscene is based on [[DeletedScene an alternate opening of the movie]], where Daffy pitches a film with himself as a Batman-like hero and Elmer Fudd playing his MonsterClown opponent.



* EleventhHourSuperPower: [[spoiler:Tweety, of all characters, for the final boss.]]



* HumanFocusedAdaptation: {{Averted}}. Unlike the movie, Kate and D.J are completely absent, putting the focus back onto Bugs and Daffy.

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* HumanFocusedAdaptation: {{Averted}}. Unlike the movie, Kate and D.J J. are completely absent, putting the focus back onto Bugs and Daffy.



* WantedPoster: In the first level, there are wanted posters of Daffy everywhere for some reason. Daffy has to hide while Bugs destroys all the posters.

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* WantedPoster: In the first level, there are wanted posters of Daffy everywhere for some reason. Daffy has to hide while Bugs destroys all the posters.posters.
* WeaponizedCamera: Unintentionally, but an "enemy" that appears throughout the game is an excitable tourist who will all too happily take blindingly bright photos that will cause you to take damage. Of course, he doesn't mean any actual harm, he's just oblivious to this fact.
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* DevelopmentGag: The opening cutscene is based on [[DeletedScene an alternate opening of the movie]], where Daffy pitches a film with himself as a Batman-like hero and Elmer Fudd playing his MonsterClown opponent.
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* BlindingCameraFlash[=/=]WeaponizedCamera: Unintentionally, but an "enemy" that appears throughout the game is an excitable tourist who will all too happily take blindingly bright photos that will cause you to take damage. Of course, he doesn't mean any actual harm, he's just oblivious to this fact.


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* GuiltBasedGaming: Inverted. It's reasonable to assume that the player might feel bad for attacking the tourists considering they don't mean any real harm...which the game cleverly combats by keeping them just as giddy and excitable ''even when you attack them.''
--> '''Tourist:''' He touched me! He actually touched me!
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* FakeLongevity: The door to the final boss cannot be opened until you have 35 monkeys total. This would normally not be a case of this...except this is the only time in the whole game that ''any'' kind of progression is locked behind a certain number of monkeys, so the player likely hasn't been concerning themselves over them beyond making sure all the normal objectives were completed. Furthermore, the player is not forewarned about this in any way until they actually reach the door, so if they didn't go in knowing this, that's some forced backtracking to earlier levels that will be needed.


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* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The monkey you've been chasing through the entire game mistakenly gets zapped with anti-monkey ray at the very end of the game and turns out to have been Michigan J. Frog the entire time.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The CEO initially shows up in the first cut scene and seemingly has little to no importance to the plot, up until the very end when it turns out he needs the gem to power his ray that turns everyone into monkeys.]]
* CollectionSideQuest: The Michigan J. Frog statues and the Road Runner seeds. The former gets an extra monkey upon collecting all 20, while collecting all 7 of the latter opens a stage of the traffic minigame where you need to reach a certain distance (the later the level, the farther you have to go) to earn yet another monkey.


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* EleventhHourSuperPower: [[spoiler:Tweety, of all characters, for the final boss.]]


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* GuideDangIt: The final boss has an extremely unintuitive control scheme with no instruction on how it works, and it's made even worse if you have never played [[spoiler:a boxing game]] before. You're supposed to somehow come to the conclusion that you need to control it with both joysticks. This is especially nonsensical with the right stick, which has had no utility beyond camera control for the whole game.


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* SoundCodedForYourConvenience: The Michigan J. Frog statues emit a ribbit and the Road Runner seeds sound the iconic "beep beep" noise to help aid the player in tracking them down.
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* ExcusePlot: In contrast to the sometimes convoluted plot the movie has, the game's version of it is pretty bare bones -- Bugs and Daffy are chasing a monkey to retrieve the valuable gem he's reportedly stolen. [[spoiler:Subverted near the end when it turns out the gem was for a machine that turns everyone into monkeys.]]


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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The gem that Bugs and Daffy chase through the whole game ends up being rendered completely moot when, after they finally ''do'' retrieve it, Daffy trips and drops the gem into a pit of lava. This has the effect of undoing the damage caused moments earlier by the villain, but considering most of the game led the player on a wild goose chase for the gem...]]


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* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Littered throughout the game are minigames that aren't platforming focused at all. [[spoiler:Special mention goes to the final boss, in which the player takes control of a mutated Tweety of all things and the game suddenly turns into a boxing game.]]
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* VideoGameCrueltlyPunishment: Some characters, when hit, will attempt to hit you back.

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* VideoGameCruetlyPunishment: Some characters, when hit, will attempt to hit you back.

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* MythologyGag: Bugs says "Hey, I still got my Film/SpaceJam skills!"

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Bugs says "Hey, I still got my Film/SpaceJam skills!"skills!"
** One of the two guys driving a film cart around the jungle set says, "We got you a bottle of water, Mr. Schlesinger!", referring Leon Schlesinger, a producer for the original Looney Tunes shorts.
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* AdaptedOut: Despite being major characters in the movie, D.J and Kate are completely absent.


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* HumanFocusedAdaptation: {{Averted}}. Unlike the movie, Kate and D.J are completely absent, putting the focus back onto Bugs and Daffy.
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* Area51: The fourth level in the game takes place at "Area 52".


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* FallingDamage: Falling from a great height will cause you to lose a chunk of health. Amusingly, falling from a height that is not high enough to cause damage will have Bugs or Daffy fall face-first onto the ground with a resounding "thunk".

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* InvisibilityInk: In the first mission of the Louvre, Blacque Jacque Shellacque uses this on himself so he can steal paintings. Bugs has to use a spy outfit to find hi and get the paintings back.

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* InvisibilityInk: In the first mission of the Louvre, Blacque Jacque Shellacque uses this on himself so he can steal paintings. Bugs has to use a spy outfit to find hi him and get the paintings back.


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* SolidClouds: In the movie studios level, once you are able to climb up the water tower, you reach an area full of clouds that you can walk on.
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* {{Balloonacy}}: In the final mission of the "Wooden Nickel" level, Daffy has to use a bunch of balloons to fly up and pop Yosemite Sam's balloons to defeat him.


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* InvisibilityInk: In the first mission of the Louvre, Blacque Jacque Shellacque uses this on himself so he can steal paintings. Bugs has to use a spy outfit to find hi and get the paintings back.


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* SuperDrowningSkills: Bugs can't swim. If he falls in a deep enough volume of water, it's an instant death. Averted with Daffy.

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* AliceAllusion: One of the people at the movie studios says "I'm late for a very important latte!"



* AliceAllusion: One of the people at the movie studios says "I'm late for a very important latte!"

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* AliceAllusion: One of AnvilOnHead: This happens if the people at player gets a Yosemite Sam symbol on the movie studios says "I'm late for a very important latte!"slot machine in the Wooden Nickel level.



* BlueOrangeContrast: Bugs and Daffy's designated Toon Pads and Costume Rental doors are orange and blue, respectively.



* ThatsAllFolks: Bugs gets to say it throughout the game when he defeats an enemy.

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* ThatsAllFolks: Bugs gets to say it throughout the game when he defeats an enemy.enemy.
* WantedPoster: In the first level, there are wanted posters of Daffy everywhere for some reason. Daffy has to hide while Bugs destroys all the posters.

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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Bugs and Daffy get clothes for progressing the game after collecting enough money.



* FakeActionPrologue: The game begins where a superhero Daffy tries to defeat Elmer Fudd. It turns out to be a pitch by Daffy Duck. It originally came from a deleted scene of the film.

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* FakeActionPrologue: The game begins where a superhero Daffy Danger tries to defeat Elmer Fudd. It turns out to be a pitch by Daffy Duck. It originally came from a deleted scene of the film.
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* AliceAllusion: One of the people at the movie studios says "I'm late for a very important latte!"
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* TakeOverTheWorld: The chairman wants to take over the world after he gets the Blue Monkey.

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* TakeOverTheWorld: The chairman wants to take over the world after he gets the Blue Monkey.Monkey.
* ThatsAllFolks: Bugs gets to say it throughout the game when he defeats an enemy.
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* MythologyGag: Bugs says "Hey, I still got my Film/SpaceJam skills!"

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* AscendedExtra: Porky Pig and Speedy Gonzales get more focus in this game than in the film.

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** Tweety becomes a key character in the final level where [[spoiler:he transforms into a pterodactyl]].



* MediumAwareness: There are several examples including where Daffy said "Ah. Life in [=3D=]."

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There are several examples including where Daffy said "Ah. Life in [=3D=].""
** Bugs asks Daffy "Did you ever get the feeling that you was being rendered?"
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* GroundPound: Bugs does this so he can go into the ground and destroy objects.


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* SavePoint: The game saves after the player gets a monkey.
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** One of the people at the movie studios says [[Film/SuddenImpact "Go ahead, make my day."]]
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''Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' is a 2003 video game based on the film of the same name. It notably doesn't have any main human characters with the exception of the chairman (voiced by Creator/JoeAlaskey instead of Creator/SteveMartin). It was released by Electronic Arts for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance.
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!!''Looney Tunes: Back In Action'' contains examples of:
* AscendedExtra: Porky Pig and Speedy Gonzales get more focus in this game than in the film.
* DropTheHammer: Bugs uses a wooden mallet as a weapon.
* FakeActionPrologue: The game begins where a superhero Daffy tries to defeat Elmer Fudd. It turns out to be a pitch by Daffy Duck. It originally came from a deleted scene of the film.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Daffy uses this as a weapon.
* MediumAwareness: There are several examples including where Daffy said "Ah. Life in [=3D=]."
* PragmaticAdaptation: It has the same charm as the film but has differences such as the Blue Monkey diamond found by Daffy first in the game before taken by the chairman.
* ShoutOut:
** Daffy poses as ComicBook/{{Batman}} in the intro.
** Daffy says [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} "Up, up and away!"]] when jumping.
* TakeOverTheWorld: The chairman wants to take over the world after he gets the Blue Monkey.

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