Trivia / Loonatics Unleashed

• Acting for Two:
  • Tech and Slam are both voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
  • In the French dub, Duck and Slam are both voiced by Emmanuel Garijo (who later became the French voice of both Daffy Duck and Taz following the passing of their previous voice actor Patrick Guillemin in 2011).
• Billing Displacement: The episodes list the voice actors in alphabetical order, rather than order of importance. This results in Charlie Schlatter (voice of Ace) being billed last despite being the main character.
• Creator Backlash: Warner Bros sees the series as a project they would like to forget. Notably, out of all the Looney Tunes series that aren't licensed out to other networks^note Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain (though they did on Cartoon Network in the very late 90s and early 2000s), or Tiny Toon Adventures prior to 2020 or just installment/anthology series^note  The Bugs Bunny Show, That's Warner Bros., The Plucky Duck Show, The Big Cartoonie Show, etc. this is the only one that Boomerang outright refuses to rerun or add to their streaming service. Well, at least in the United States.
  • The only acknowledgements the series gets are negative, as it was given a Take That! in New Looney Tunes, Teen Titans Go!, and Animaniacs (2020).
  • Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation, once described the show's designs as "a reminder of what not to do."
• Follow the Leader: Most egregiously to the 2003 Teen Titans series, another animated Warner Bros. property that found popularity with its stylized aesthetic and more free-form interpretations of its older characters.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Considering its Creator Backlash by WB, has not arrived on HBO Max yet (it is available on the Latin American version, though), and the season box sets have long since been out of print, meaning the only way to get them is through secondhand sites like eBay. Thankfully, the entire series is available for purchase on Amazon Prime (in HD to boot!)
• No Export for You: This series wasn't broadcast in Japan. This is especially relevant here because this series was one of the very few Looney Tunes related things (including WWII-era anti-Japanese propaganda like Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, and very old public domain shorts pre-WWII) which didn't get either dubbed or broadcast in that country.
• Recycled Script: The second season has two episodes, "Secrets of the Guardian Strike Sword" and "In the Pinkster," which both use the premise of hero's friend is actually a traitor. Three if you count "The Heir Up There".
• Renamed to Avoid Association: An early promo introduced the six-member squad of superheroes lead by Buzz Bunny. After the creators learned that "Buzz Bunny" was also the name of a women's personal vibrator in the United Kingdom, the character was renamed Ace Bunny.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Massive was originally voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan, but he is instead voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson for his cameo in "The Hunter".
  • Mr. Leghorn goes from being voiced by Bill Farmer in "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" to being voiced by Rob Paulsen in "The Music Villain".
• Playing Against Type
  • Khary Payton, known for voicing heroic/good natured characters like Cyborg and Rafiki, voices General Deuce, a villain.
  • Florence Henderson, best known as Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch, plays the villainous Mallory Mastermind.
• Similarly Named Works: "A Creep in the Deep" shares a title with an episode of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.
• Troubled Production
  • According to animator Chris Duncan, the show had an absolutely insane production schedule that seriously affected the show's quality:
    "We had to finish an episode a week and the BGs were mostly giant city pans. So I finally made a library of stuff we could just plug in. It was nuts."
  • Showrunner Ron Myrick said in an interview that Christian and Yvon Tremblay were very particular about how the show was being run, despite the fact they were only the art directors and not actual showrunners. Highlights include them demanding Warner Bros letting them be as dark as they could get for a Saturday morning cartoon and demanding the show be written for a demographic much older than the average Kids WB viewer:
    "[Warner Bros.] wanted their art, not their vision."
• What Could Have Been:
  • The main characters originally had different designs◊. The most notable differences include Ace Bunny having noticeable buck teeth and Rev Runner being colored blue instead of red.
  • There were changes in powers, as well, if the series announcement was any indication. Duck was originally going to be a marksman with sonar powers (yes, shooting guns), while Tech's original powerset didn't seem to include the later electromagnetism.
  • Ace, Rev, Tech and Slam were originally named Buzz, Roadster, Slick and Spaz respectively. Early drafts of scripts also have Rev with the surname of Rocket instead of Runner.
  • Zadavia was originally named Maxima, as seen in the teaser.
• Working Title: According to early design sheets, the show was originally just called The Loonatics.

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