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7	It is the year 2772, and a [[MagicMeteor meteor]] has struck the CityPlanet of Acmetropolis. Instead of destroying the planet, the meteor knocks the planet completely off its original axis upon landing in a harbour. From there, the meteor starts giving off large waves of supernatural energy that drastically altered the genetic code of several nearby residents, granting them unique powers and strengths. Under the guidance of the mysterious Zadavia, six of these newly empowered individuals are brought together to become the Loonatics. Together, these descendants of the original ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' gang must use their new powe--[[DoubleTake wait a minute]], the descendants of ''who now''?
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9	''Loonatics Unleashed'' is an animated series that aired on Creator/KidsWB from 2005 to 2007 and is best known as one of the most polarizing entries in the ''Looney Tunes'' franchise. The show takes the classic FunnyAnimal characters and places them in a (not so) [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond-eqsue'' {{Cyberpunk}} universe as a ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''-style team of superheroes who must fight off threats to their city, some of which resulted from the very meteor that gave them their powers.
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11	The first season was a straight-forward action/adventure series wherein the only ''Looney Tunes'' characters were the Loonatics themselves and an {{Expy}} of WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn, with all other villains and supporting cast being invented for the series. In response to criticism concerning the show's tone, and perhaps thinking the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal lack of Looney legacy links]] wasn't helping either, the second season underwent a heavy ReTool, transforming the show into an action/comedy featuring nearly all the other prominent characters from the classic line-up, along with other nods to the franchise's history. This change failed to make enough of an impact and the show ended with 26 episodes, making it the shortest-lived of any television series in the franchise. [[note]]Not counting ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' spin-off ''The Plucky Duck Show'', which was mostly repackaged segments of the former.[[/note]]
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13	Compare ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'', ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'', and ''WesternAnimation/CaptainSimianAndTheSpaceMonkeys'', three earlier [[AnimalSuperheroes Animal Superhero]] shows with equally ridiculous premises.
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15	It also has its own [[http://lul.wikia.com wiki]].
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18	!!Tropes:
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20	* TheAce: Ace Bunny is this, obviously.
21	* ActionGirl: Lexi Bunny is just as formidable as the male members of the team.
22	* AesopAmnesia: Danger Duck learns the downside of being a glory hound in "Cape Duck", only to go back to hogging all the credit for the team's heroics at the end of the episode.
23	* AirVentPassageway: Zadavia stages an escape this way on Deuce's ship during "In Search of Tweetums, Part II".
24	* AloofBigBrother: Optimatus.
25	* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: The Loonatics themselves have parallels with some of the ComicBook/XMen.
26	** Ace has ComicBook/{{Cyclops\|MarvelComics}}' eye beams, but his weapon fighting skills have a bit of ComicBook/{{Gambit\|MarvelComics}} and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in them.
27	** Lexi is more or less ComicBook/JeanGrey.
28	** Danger can be considered a mix of Gambit (kinetic energy), Pyro (use of fire), and ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} (teleportation).
29	** Slam, as TheBrute, has the brawler tendencies of ComicBook/{{Colossus}} and ComicBook/{{Juggernaut\|MarvelComics}}. He also has WolverineClaws, although those can be attributed to Beast as well.
30	** Tech, as his name implies, is TheSmartGuy. Aside from that, which draws parallels to Forge and ComicBook/{{Beast\|MarvelComics}}, he also has Magneto's magnetism powers.
31	** Rev is ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}. Nothing else.
32	* AmazonBrigade: The Apocazons.
33	* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After General Deuce is defeated, Zadavia and Optimatus plan to return to their home planet and the Loonatics plan to stay on Blanc, where they can use the wormhole trains to go anywhere in the galaxy. Xadavia then tells them they've graduated from guardians of Acmetropolis to guardians of the galaxy]].
34	* AnimalSuperheroes: In this setting, the descendants of the characters all have superpowers granted by a meteor.
35	* {{Animesque}}: More so in narrative feel than in art style.
36	* BadassCrew: The Loonatics, of course.
37	* BatDeduction: If the characters had absolutely no other way to find out something important, sometimes the writers would have Rev figure out the plot because apparently, his brain works super-fast too, letting him do that.
38	* BigEater: Slam Tasmanian.
39	* BigGood: Zadavia. Her twin brother, Optimatus, is [[BigBad her exact opposite]].[[spoiler:.. until his HeelFaceTurn near the end of the series.]]
40	* CaptainFishman: "A Creep In The Deep" has Adolpho as the BigBad. He's a dolphin that can transform into a SuperMode armored fish-man. His EvilPlan is to sunder the "air-breather" civilization, reshaping the whole of Acmetropolis into an underwater Sea World. He's not only a speedy cetacean, but has some amount of telepathy as well, commanding other marine organisms to serve his purposes.
41	* CatchPhrase
42	** Ace: "Let's jet!"
43	** Duck: "I liked you better when you were [The other person's previous state of being]."
44	** Zadavia: "Zadavia, Out."
45	*** The last one is frequently lampshaded.
46	---> ''"Where does she go out to? Out to dinner?"''
47	* TheChewToy: Fate seems especially cruel to Danger Duck.
48	** Also, in one episode, the team used an EMP, which shut off all power, thus making the machines of their opponent useless. As a celebration, they used their virtual reality machine to take a vacation. What was powering the virtual reality machine? Rev on an exercise bike. He hadn't even done anything punishment-worthy in that episode.
49	** Tech also experiences this due to his healing factor. Although strangely a lot less in the second season, which leaned more sharply toward comedy; it was actually Duck was frequently the victim of AmusingInjuries.
50	* CircusOfFear
51	* CityOfAdventure: City-''[[{{Planetville}} planet]]''.
52	* CluelessAesop: In one episode the villain Sypher steals all the Loonatics' powers one by one. After the entire team's been BroughtDownToNormal, Ace reminds the rest of them that they've still got their skills. This seems as if it's going for an "it's not the powers that make the hero" moral and that you should learn to hang in there and keep trying even when the stuff that usually works doesn't. But do the Loonatics get tricky and come up with a plan that plays to their remaining strengths or lure Sypher into a trap where his stolen powers do him no good? Nope; Tech whips up some PoweredArmor that approximates their normal powers and they stomp right in the front door of his hideout to beat him into submission as they would normally.
53	* ColorCodedCharacters: The team can be told apart without the colours what with being different animals and all, but despite this, they all have distinct colours.
54	* ComboPlatterPowers: What the gang uses.
55	* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Any time Danger Duck complains, his position is directly in opposition to the "Correct" one. And any time he agrees, it usually means that the position he agrees with is incorrect. Even when he advocates something like it's better for one person to sacrifice themselves than to doom everyone.
56	* ContinuityNod: Of course, they occasionally reference the original Looney Toons, with phrases like, "You realize, this means war."
57	* CoolSword: The Guardian Strike Sword.
58	* CowardlyLion: Danger Duck is a craven coward when it comes to battles, yet his powers can be pretty damaging to his opponents, especially after he TookALevelInBadass in the second season.
59	* CrystalWeapon: Doc Dare from "Going Underground" steals the Jade Serpent crystal, with which he pulls entire precincts of Acmetropolis into his subterranean domain. At one point, he draws raw power from the crystal into his BoomStick, from which he launches a DeathRay at the heroes.
60	* CuteBruiser: Lexi is attractive and very aggressive.
61	* CuttingTheKnot: In one episode, the Loonatics are frozen in ice but Danger Duck escapes, thanks to his teleportation. He weighs the pros and cons of freeing his teammates when Ace frees them by melting the ice with his laser vision. Danger protests that he was going to save them and Ace says "We had seconds, not hours, Duck."
62	* CyberPunk
63	* DarkerAndEdgier: In fact, initial promos showed that the series was going to be even ''more'' dark and edgy, with all the characters being pointier and more demonic looking, with BlankWhiteEyes. After a large online protest [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer started by a child]], the creators decided to tone it down.
64	* DeadpanSnarker: Ace Bunny, Lexi Bunny, Danger Duck, and Tech E. Coyote.
65	* DecoyAntagonist: [[spoiler: In the episode "The Music Villain" the villains are a rock band with music-based attacks. We're led to believe the frontman is the leader, but late in the episode it turns out he's just a decoy and the real leader is another member.]]
66	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Adolpho wanted to kill all land creatures. Read his name a few times and [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler let it sink in]].
67	* DoubleEntendre: Ace to Mech "I'm in position... are you ready?" among other instances.
68	* DoubleStandard: Duck involuntarily screwing-up something? Everybody is on his back (and sometimes, even when he doesn't... we're looking at you, Zadavia). Lexi involuntarily starting an '''interplanetary war'''? Everybody consoles and pities her and if you don't, you are a jerk.
69	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Lexi brainblasts Danger Duck several times out of annoyance. Nobody ever made a fuss out of it.
70	* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Ace does this twice in the series.
71	** He first does it in "Loonatics on Ice".
72	--->'''Gunnar''': We will conquer your world by any means necessary!\
73	'''Ace''': No, you won't!\
74	'''Gunnar''': Yes, we will!\
75	'''Ace''': No, you won't!\
76	'''Gunnar''': Yes, we will!\
77	'''Ace''': Yes, you will!\
78	'''Gunnar''': No, we ''will not'' conquer your world!\
79	'''Ace''': Have it your way.
80	** He does it again in "It Came from Outer Space" to trick Melvin the Martian into blowing himself up with his own explosive.
81	* EarsAsHair: Lexi ties her ears up in a ribbon.
82	* ElementalPowers
83	** BlowYouAway: Slam's Tornado Maximizer.
84	** ExtraOreDinary: Tech.
85	** GreenThumb: Lexi, but only for one episode.
86	** MakingASplash: Danger Duck's Aqua Dense.
87	** ShockAndAwe: Slam's Thunder Mode.
88	* EliteFour: Optimatus frees four select villains in the Loonatics' RoguesGallery from prison capsules, to occupy/overrun the Loonatics while Optimatus engineers a ''coup d'etat'' on planet Blanc. The four Optimatus selects are Massive (TheBigGuy), Mallory Mastermind (TheSmartGuy), Weathervane (Berserker), and Sypher (Subversive).
89	* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Ace was a martial artist and stunt double, and Slam was a professional wrestler, before gaining their powers. Even after that, Ace usually FightsLikeANormal and only uses his powers and the Guardian Strike Sword's full capacities when necessary.
90	* EndlessWinter: The Ice Vikings who invade Acmetropolis are armed with "hammers of frost" and know to attack the power station to best plunge that world into a new Ice Age.
91	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Pinkster (Porky). This is still true regardless of him being roommates with Duck at the orphanage, and Duck rigging the coin toss over who'd get adopted by the nice nuclear family. ]]
92	* EvilLaugh: The Ringmaster, though it is more of a chuckle than anything.
93	** He ''is'' voiced by Creator/TimCurry after all...
94	* ExpositoryThemeTune: Polar opposites in what the exposition's about, though. The first one sets up the plot, while the Loonatics' powers are only mentioned as little two-word descriptions in the background. The second one rattles off their powers to techno-ish music, but does nothing to explain the setting.
95	* {{Expy}}: After fans loudly protested the series' initial announcement, Warner Bros. hastily pointed out that the Loonatics were not actually the Looney Tunes. They are the Looney Tunes' futuristic descendants. While this doesn't exactly fix the problems many fans had with the concept, it does correct the misconception pushed by the mainstream media that these were actually updated versions of the classic Looney Tunes.
96	* ExtranormalPrison: Season 1 housed super-powered criminals such as Mallory Mastermind and the Sagittarius Stomper in the Acmetropolis Prison, miles below ground in a bedrock bunker. Season 2 moved many of these criminals to a prison satellite in orbit, adding Otto the Odd and Massive to the inmate roster.
97	* FanserviceExtra: The mother wearing a bikini in "The Comet Cometh" in Danger's backstory.
98	* FantasticRacism:
99	** When Sypher's being hailed as a hero he says the Loonatics are just jealous he can do the job it took all six of them to do, and they should "go back to the petting zoo they came from." Whereupon his entire adoring crowd starts to jeer the Loonatics too.
100	** Rev's parents don't think very highly of coyotes, especially his dad Ralph. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything The scene where they meet Tech for the first time and Rev whisks the latter away while trying to explain how his folks have "coyote issues" isn't being subtle]].
101	* FictionalSport: "Basher Ball", where the players ride around on speeder bikes and shoot the ball out of cannons at each other. Oh, and the players can punch each other in the face.
102	* TheFirstSuperheroes: The Loonatics started as ordinary workaday {{Funny Animal}}s, until a meteor struck the planet of Acmetropolis, emitting bizarre energies upon impact. These energies gave the six characters their superpowers, which they use to fight crime. This isn't so easy, as the bizarre energies also gave superpowers to greedy criminals as well. The only inkling that Acmetropolis ever had another super resident is Zadavia, the mysterious manager of the Loonatics, who has similar powers, and is revealed to be an alien from planet Freleng living in exile after a ''coup d'etat''.
103	* FlamingMeteor: The Loonatics received their superpowers in 2772 when a large meteor entered the atmosphere of Acmetropolis, catching fire presumably due to air friction, and leaving a smoke trail as it plummeted into the city's central bay. There, it released arcane energies that empowered six relatively ordinary {{Funny Animal}}s, and also some of their RoguesGallery, such as Weather Vane and Massive.
104	* FoeRomanceSubtext: Most of the male cast (and [[HomoeroticSubtext Zadavia]] of all people) agree that TheVamp Black Velvet is attractive. Later on in episode 3 when she kidnaps Tech they both exchange flirtatious insults, afterwards, she brainwashes Tech she calls him various pet names. It is also later implied that Tech had a relationship with Mastermind, admitting to tutoring her and sharing a locker in college.
105	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode "The Comet Cometh," sets up for Optimatus' eventual showing as the Season 1 finale villain.
106	* ForgottenFallenFriend: In the Season 1 finale, [[DisneyDeath Ace and Rev supposedly perish in an accident]], leading to Lexi to give a RousingSpeech and even shed a tear. It is directed pretty much entirely towards Ace.
107	* ForgottenPhlebotinum: One second season episode is about protecting a special meteor that can take away the Loonatics' powers. It's treated as basically a death sentence for Acmetropolis if that happens but forget all about how there was a first-season episode where they ''did'' lose their powers, and Tech whipped up some PoweredArmor that replicated their usual powers. That's not an option, even though Tech was an inventor ''before'' getting his powers.
108	* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: All the furry characters.
109	* FurryConfusion: While in shopping in Chinatown with Lexi, Duck makes sarcastic comments about eating duck. With duck sauce.
110	* GadgeteerGenius: Tech E. Coyote.
111	* GelatinousEncasement: Tech Coyote invents a gel gun designed to trap villains in a cube of gelatin. This is how The Ringmaster and Otto the Odd are captured before they can make their escape. Their whole bodies are encased in gelatin, with only their heads poking out the top, allowing them to breathe.
112	* GlowingEyes: The Loonatics' eyes tend to glow when using their powers, but especially Ace, of course.
113	* GroundhogDayLoop: During one episode, Ace feels like he's suffering a recursive dream of a time-manipulating VillainOfTheWeek stealing a prototype robot that [[TheBadGuyWins destroys the city and seemingly kills everyone]]. [[spoiler:That's because the father of said villain reset the timeline whenever they failed.]] Once Ace realized this, he changed the way things went and solved the problem in no time.
114	* HealingFactor: Tech E. Coyote, for the sole purpose of preserving his ancestor's shtick. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Good thing he can heal.]]
115	* HeelFaceTurn: Optimatus near the Season 2 finale, kind of out of nowhere.
116	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Before receiving their powers, most of the cast were employed in various jobs where their superiors were mostly huge jerks... oh, and human as well.
117	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: "Apocalypso".
118	* IncrediblyLamePun: [[HurricaneOfPuns Dozens in every episode]]. Mainly from Ace.
119	* InformedAbility: Electro J. Fudd is supposedly the greatest hunter who's ever lived, even though in spite of his stealth-equipped PoweredArmor and loads of weapons his every attempt to catch Ace is inadvertently foiled by Duck with the Loonatics never even realizing he was ever there until the very end. They even go so far as try to apply this to the entire Fudd lineage, even though the shorts eventually started focusing on other villains because Elmer had [[VillainDecay decayed]] so much it just seemed mean to have Bugs keep outsmarting him.
120	* IntroductoryOpeningCredits: In the first season, the opening is instrumental and the visuals show the main characters with the names and their powers written onscreen. In Season 2, it was changed to a ThemeTuneRollCall.
121	%%* InstrumentOfMurder: The Cosmic Guitar.
122	* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: In "Going Underground" the episode opens on Lexi and Duck visiting Chinatown to pick up dinner. There is of course a full-on Chinese New Year parade going on as they do.
123	* {{Knight of Cerebus}}: Optimatus. Kind of says something about the rest of the season when a guy whose plan is to literally turn the planet inside out and who ends up being turned to stone isn't considered all that dark.
124	* LadyLand: In "Apocalypso". Landing on the island of Apocalypso, the Loonatics find a colony of beautiful, powerful women called the Apocazons led by Queen Athena. Queen Athena was impressed by Lexi's behavior towards Duck, and invites her to join them in a very special event. However, not all is as it really seems with the Apocazons.
125	* LegionOfDoom: One shows up in the first season finale, although it wasn't their decision to join up and their alliance isn't an easy one. Mainly because one of the members is [[AllYourPowersCombined Sypher]], who'd gladly steal the other villains' powers if he got the chance.
126	* LegoGenetics: The MagicMeteor that struck Acmetropolis released bizarre radiation that gave the Loonatics their superpowers. The episode "The World Is My Circus" has The Ringmaster and Otto the Odd bombard the Loonatics with their "sonic DNA scrambler," which mutates them in seconds into MixAndMatchCritters with superpowers.
127	* LighterAndSofter: Than the original version, anyway. It seemed like the second season was trying to fix the show by taking this even further. One episode even has a throwback to the old DisguisedInDrag bit.
128	* MagicAIsMagicA: Some inconsistent writing afflicted how characters' powers worked.
129	** When we first see the villain Sypher, he steals the abilities of a pro athlete. After that, it seems as though the rules change so that his power only lets him steal innate abilities (i.e., super powers), not skills - except, during the final confrontation, he explicitly taunts Ace with the fact that he's "got [his] moves, too." Basically, Sypher's powers take whatever's necessary for him to take to maintain tension.
130	** Also, Rev's talking really fast may or may not be a side effect of his powers. In "Sypher" it's how they notice he's lost his power: he's talking as fast as everyone else. In "The World is My Circus," he still talks fast and Tech still talks normally even though they've switched powers. In "Family Business", Rev's parents talk just as fast as him, but his brother doesn't.
131	* MagicMeteor: A meteor strikes Acmetropolis, but instead of destroying the city, gives several characters strange superpowers, similar to the heroes' origin in ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.
132	** Also a small subversion as the villains and the many problems in Acmetropolis were also caused by the meteor. Such as: Most of the villains were just normal people who lost it and went insane.
133	* MaleGaze: There are a couple of episodes in which the first thing the viewer sees on returning from commercial break is Lexi's cotton tail and anthropomorphic female hindquarters.
134	* ManEatingPlant: Rampant in "Apocalypso"
135	* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: The meteor strike.
136	* MechaMooks: Deuce's robot army.
137	* MeteorSummoningAttack: The main characters square off against Optimatus, a villain who can teleport meteors to drop upon Acmetropolis. His first meteor did some damage, but didn't destroy the place completely. In fact, it gave the Loonatics their superpowers. Optimatus launches a second, much bigger PlanetDestroyer meteor that the Loonatics must destroy with explosive charges.
138	* MisophoniaGag: In "The Cloak of Black Velvet", Danger Duck has a cell phone with a ringtone that irritates Tech Coyote out of a lotus meditation, and actually sparks a no-tech wager between the two characters. Later in the episode, the same raucous ringtone breaks Tech out of TheVillain Black Velvet's MindControl.
139	* MixAndMatchCritters: The monsters in "The World Is My Circus."
140	* MotorMouth: Rev Runner thanks to his super speed...[[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] (see MagicAIsMagicA).
141	%%* MrFanservice: Tech E Coyote. That is all.
142	* MysticalJade: The Loonatics fight a MadScientist geologist named Thaddeus Dare, who has earth-bending powers. His powers increase enormously when he gets his mitts on the Jade Serpent, a crystal with the power of an atomic reactor. Dare raises mountains on the surface and sinks Acmetropolis until it's an underground CityInABottle. The Jade Serpent even gives Dare the power to transmute living creatures into stone statues.
143	* MythologyGag:
144	** Alien planets are named Blanc (after Looney Tunes voice actor Creator/MelBlanc) and Freleng (after Looney Tunes director Creator/FrizFreleng).
145	** Wile E. Coyote was known for two things: building elaborate traps to catch his nemesis, and being repeatedly destroyed when his traps backfire. So it makes sense that his descendant Tech is a GadgeteerGenius with a HealingFactor.
146	* NotUsingTheZWord: The second season at least insists on always calling the Loonatics ''action'' heroes rather than ''super'' heroes. Even though they have powers, color-coordinated costumes and adventure on an interplanetary scope.
147	* OddCouple: Tech and Rev, of course. They are constantly shipped together, and with good reason. For it to be more apparent, they'd need to be joined at the hip.
148	* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Tech. We've seen him be a physicist, mechanic, and linguist.
149	* OpeningNarration: During the first season.
150	* OriginsEpisode: We don't really get any information on how the team was formed, but we do get two origin episodes nonetheless.
151	** "The Comet Cometh" shows in flashback what the Loonatics' lives were like before they had their powers and the circumstances where they gained their powers from the meteor.
152	** The two-part Season 1 finale "Acmegeddon" establishes the backstories of both Zadavia and her brother Optimatus.
153	* {{Planetville}}: Acmetropolis is literally a city the size of a planet. Although it does make hearing about the Acmetropolis Zoo/Power Plant/Reservoir/Prison sound a little ridiculous with the city and planet being the same thing.
154	* PlantMooks: The Apocazons can custom-grow plants to meet any need. Some of these extend kudzu-like tendrils to ensnare adversaries, while others can jettison toxic thorns. One variety even manages to bring down the Loonatics aircraft.
155	* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: In "The Heir up There", Sylth Vester takes off his helmet to show Duck the disfigurement he got from getting his head stuck in a black hole. We don't see Sylth Vester's face, but we can assume from Duck's reaction that what he saw wasn't pretty.
156	* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Regardless of the circumstances or the actual points they make, Zadavia, Ace and Lexi are pretty much always treated as being in the right because they're the "cool" team leaders. Whereas Danger Duck's kind of a jerk and gloryhound, so he's always wrong and the other team members are allowed to act as harsh to him as they want.
157	** In the episode "Secrets of the Guardian Strike Sword" we have 1) a man named Deuce from Zadavia's past appearing in the city. She angrily tells him to leave but refuses to explain anything about why. This leads to him stealing Ace's powerful sword to use it to revive his robot army so he can take over the galaxy. After this Zadavia explains that Deuce used to be one of her generals but he had an insane lust for power and deserted when she wouldn't give absolute control over to him. If she'd just said so in the first place the danger might've been avoided, but it's pretty much brushed off with nobody questioning her wisdom or leadership. 2) In the process of trying to get the sword back Ace is attacked from behind by Deuce, and calls him out for this dirty trickery. During their duel, Ace takes advantage of Deuce's distraction at one point to attack ''him'' from behind, but the hypocrisy is totally ignored. 3) After getting the Guardian Strike Sword back Ace asks when Zadavia will tell him what all its powers are, and she says she'll do it when the time is right because too much knowledge is dangerous. Danger Duck complains that too little knowledge is also dangerous and an energy blast comes from the sword and zaps him, seeming to punish him for contradicting Zadavia. Even though he was basically saying that ''knowing how to use a dangerous weapon properly'' is a good idea. Plus the episode wouldn't have happened at all if not for Zadavia withholding important information from them for no good reason, yet the show turns right around and expects it to be taken on faith that if she says it's not the time to talk about this, then it's not the time to talk about it.
158	** In the episode "It Came From Outer Space" Rev and Lexi play with one of Tech's inventions that shoots missiles at an alien who then threatens to invade the planet for this unprovoked attack. Ultimately the alien's driven off and Tech starts setting booby traps in his lab to discourage any further meddling. But nobody's ever really called out on how by ignoring Tech's request of "don't play with my powerful crime-fighting inventions," they almost got the planet they're supposed to be protecting destroyed, and it's treated like a heroic victory when Melvin invaded in the first place because of a dumb thing the Loonatics did themselves.
159	* RecycledINSPACE: ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' [-IN THE FUTURE AS {{ANIMESQUE}} {{SUPERHERO}}ES-]!
160	** More like ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' [-WITH LOONEY TUNE CHARACTERS-]!, since that's how it was pretty much described in the original PR announcement.
161	* RecycledPremise: The writers seemed to be struggling for ideas in the second season. It has thirteen episodes, and three of them are the story arc for the finale. Out of the other ten, ''three of them'' are built around the same idea of [[spoiler: "heroes' ally is really an undercover villain": "Secrets of the Guardian Strike Sword" (Deuce), "The Heir Up There" (Granny) and "In the Pinkster" (Pinkster Pig)]].
162	* RedEyesTakeWarning: "The Cloak of Black Velvet" has an interesting aversion, where the darkness-inducing villain brainwashes Tech at one point. However, it's actually his teammates, who are using nightvision, who have menacing red eyes.
163	* RedOniBlueOni: Two sets in the team.
164	** Duck and Ace (much like their ancestors)
165	** Rev and Tech
166	* RidiculouslyLonglivedFamilyName: Ace Bunny finds himself being targeted by one Electro J Fudd, a "sportsman" with cloaking technology. Lexi Bunny is able to trace the Fudd lineage all the way back to the Stone Age when a Fudd died on a hunt after being stepped on by a dinosaur. The Fudd bloodline apparently considers hunting their raison d'etre, they tend to perish on a hunt, but they're smart enough to breed before going out after their quarries.
167	* RoguesGallery: Although for various reasons only a couple make true repeat appearances; usually they're just shown in prison with whatever villain was just captured in that episode.
168	* ShortRunner: Sadly, the show only lasted 26 episodes.
169	* ShoutOut:
170	** The most significant planets in the show's cosmology are Freleng (after Looney Tunes director Friz Freleng) and Blanc (after virtuoso voice artist Creator/MelBlanc).
171	** The exact words that Optimatus uses to describe what to do with their new powers of exploration are, word for word, "[[Franchise/StarTrek Explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations...]]"
172	* ShownTheirWork: The series shows that Rev Runner can fly. Roadrunners in real life are indeed capable of flying, something the media often forgets. Additionally, a de-powered Rev is able to run up to eighteen miles per hour, another trait of real life roadrunners.
173	* SmallNameBigEgo: Danger Duck
174	* SiblingsShareTheThrone: Zadavia once ruled Freleng with her brother Optimatus [[spoiler:and does so again following his HeelFaceTurn]].
175	* SkyCell: The second season has many dangerous superpowered criminals moved from deep subterranean burrows to a prison satellite in orbit above the stratosphere of Acmetropolis. Many of the Loonatics' Rogues Gallery are housed in the satellite, including Massive, Otto the Odd and Electro J. Fudd.
176	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers''.
177	* SuddenlySpeaking: In a sense. Rev's original Looney Tunes counterpart, the Road Runner, didn't speak. (Save for "beep-beep".) Also, Tech's original Looney Tunes counterpart, Wile E. Coyote, also didn't speak. He just holds "Pick-it signs".
178	* SuperSenses: Lexi has super hearing.
179	* SuperSpeed: Rev Runner, which extends to his [[MotorMouth speech pattern]]. Although the show was a little inconsistent about whether [[MagicAIsMagicA the fast talking was a side effect of his powers or not]].
180	* SwissCheeseSecurity: It didn't come up often, but when a bad guy needed to break into the Loonatics' HQ or hack their communications, they had no trouble doing so.
181	* TalkingAnimal: The Loonatics and some of the guest stars. Oddly, [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy most of the other characters are human]].
182	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics:
183	** Lexi's ear-bow.
184	** Also, Lexi and Rev's mom seem to be the only animal characters with hairstyles.
185	* TimeForPlanB: They always have one. Lexi even becomes savvy in one case, where, after Ace spouts off the famous trope, she follows up with "Next time, let's ''start'' with Plan B".
186	* TotallyRadical:
187	** Sypher abuses words like, "yo," and, "dude," usually in that order. [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock Considering who his]] [[Creator/PhilLaMarr voice actor]] [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock has done in the past, it's not surprising.]]
188	** Toby, the delivery boy from "The Family Business" uses the phrase, [[FutureSlang "Whoa, dude! That's some gnarly trash! Far Out!"]] It should be taken into consideration that the show takes place in the year 2772.
189	** Boots's futuristic rock lingo sounds like this too, but it's over-the-top enough to probably be deliberate. Helps that he's basically an evil version of the guy who did his voice, Bootsy Collins.
190	* TransformationDiscretionShot: In the episode "The World Is My Circus", The Ringmaster and Otto turn the children including Zadavia into mutant animal creatures for their space circus. In Zadavia's case, it was a cheetah-monkey creature. While one of the children, along with Ace, Lexi, Tech, Slam and Rev's transformations occur on-camera, the scenes involving the rest of the children and Zadavia turning into mutants occur offscreen and their reversions are shown near the end.
191	* TrickedIntoEscaping: Ophiuchus Sam is easily captured while he was trying to rob a runaway train. The Loonatics deduce that Sam couldn't have masterminded the heist, so they make it easy for him to escape. Sam is such an idiot that the Loonatics have to set him out at the curb while he's asleep to effect the TrickAndFollowPloy.
192	* TwoGirlsToATeam: Lexi [[TheSMurfettePrinciple is the only female on the actual team]], but Zadavia, the BigGood they work for is also a woman.
193	* TheUnFavourite: Rev's kid brother, Rip. Even when he has a good idea, their dad gives Rev credit for it. [[spoiler: Things are patched up by the end of the episode, though.]]
194	* UnitConfusion: Prince Tweetums says he's only "Three Parsecs old," when a "Parsec" is a unit of distance, not time.
195	* VomitDiscretionShot: Lexi, in "A Creep In The Deep", when she gets seasick.
196	* WeaponTwirling: Ace and his sword.
197	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Weathervane. She was an eager, young intern, verbally abused by her superior, Misty Breeze. Then, she got her powers...
198	** Rip and Toby, to progressively lesser extents, are both mistreated and underappreciated in their environments. When they gain the powers of an alien device, [[spoiler:which turns out to be another alien girl's pet,]] they both lash out at their troubles, their darker sides being amplified by said alien device.
199	* YouAllLookFamiliar: If you pay any attention at all it's easy to notice the show reusing models for minor characters and background characters all the time.

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