History Film / SpaceJamANewLegacy

** Daffy "acts" as coach in this movie, rather than part of the team in the original. Downplayed though given he's still one of the largest roles.

* AbsenteeActor: [[spoiler: As the film follows a different athlete decades after the last film, Michael Jordan doesn't appear, but he's mentioned at least three times.]] Also, the two only major Tunes that do not appear in the movie are WesternAnimation/PepeLePew and Penelope Pussycat, though they were intended to appear but were removed due to Pepe's controversy.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The film unites every major film and TV franchise from Warner Bros. and puts them into one big "Serververse", a literal SharedUniverse where every IP has its own planet.

** What happens when [=Lebron=] is about to arrive at Tune World? He first goes through none other than the iconic rings that open up many a ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon.

* AbsenteeActor: The two only major Tunes that do not appear in the movie are WesternAnimation/PepeLePew and Penelope Pussycat, though they were intended to appear but were removed due to Pepe's controversy.

* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: The normally [[ComicallyInvincibleHero untouchable]] Road Runner gets subjected to as much slapstick humor as the other Tunes, at one point even getting the old PaintedTunnelRealTrain trick used against him by Wile E. Coyote. The crowning moment, however, is when he gets [[TheWorfEffect worfed]] by [[TimeMaster Chronos]] during the big game, and Chronos humiliates the bird by putting him on a silver platter right in front of Wile E. (much to the coyote's delight) while time is slowed down. (Though to his credit, the bird easily escapes this and gets right back in the game like nothing happened.)

[[caption-width-right:350:The world's most beloved characters are getting a Tune Up.]]

* AdvertisedExtra: Chronos, the speedy robot inspired and voiced by Damian Lillard, is the least prominent Goon Squad player. [[spoiler: He only participates twice before he is defeated by Granny.]] Also, the UsefulNotes/McDonalds commercials and Happy Meal Toys leading up to the movie's release features Marvin The Martian among the new Tune Squad and even wearing the movie's new outfits. In the actual film, Marvin is never seen wearing the new Tune Squad outfits or get involved with basketball.

* AdvertisedExtra: [[spoiler: Chronos, the speedy robot inspired by Damian Lillard, is the least prominent Goon Squad player. He only gets to participate in the game twice before he is defeated by Granny.]] Also, the UsefulNotes/McDonalds commercials and Happy Meal Toys leading up to the movie's release features Marvin The Martian among the new Tune Squad and even wearing the movie's new outfits. In the actual film, Marvin is never seen wearing the new Tune Squad outfits or get involved with basketball.

* MaliciousMisnaming: Lola trash-talks White Mamba by calling her "worm."

* PreMortermCatchphrase: When a Looney Tune needs to risks their life to get the last point needed to win the big game, they utter "That's all folks" just before they can suffer the consequences of their sacrifice, calling to mind how all the old ''Looney Tunes'' toon ended. [[spoiler:Bugs seems to die, but he appears in the real world perfectly fine after a few scenes.]]

* ComicBookAdaptation: Creator/DCComics released one in late June 2021, three weeks before the movie came out.

''Space Jam: A New Legacy'' is a 2021 live-action/animated film that is the sequel to the iconic 1996 film ''Film/SpaceJam''. Creator/RyanCoogler produces and Creator/MalcolmDLee directs, while UsefulNotes/LeBronJames takes the main protagonist mantle from UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan this time around. The film was released on July 16, 2021 both in theaters and for a one-month duration on Creator/HBOMax only on their ad-free plan.

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: During the prologue scene, 'Bron plays with Malik's UsefulNotes/GameBoy because his dad bought the [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor Color one]], while he turns it on the iconic startup sound was replaced with a soundalike due to the sound being possibly owned by Creator/{{Nintendo}}. Also while he plays ''[[VideoGame/TheBugsBunnyCrazyCastle The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2]]'' there, the game music was changed due to issues with the original composer of the ''Crazy Castle'' games.

''Space Jam: A New Legacy'' is a 2021 live-action/animated film that is based on the iconic 1996 film ''Film/SpaceJam''. Creator/RyanCoogler produces and Creator/MalcolmDLee directs, while UsefulNotes/LeBronJames takes the main protagonist mantle from UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan this time around. The film was released on July 16, 2021 both in theaters and for a one-month duration on Creator/HBOMax only on their ad-free plan.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One part of Dom Ball that Dom briefly shows to [=LeBron=] is in-game figures being beamed down onto the outside of the court, representing the people watching the game. [[spoiler:This is later reflected for the big game thanks to Al-G stealing Dom's scanning code to beam people into the Server-verse as hostages.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One part of Dom Ball that Dom briefly shows to [=LeBron=] is in-game figures being beamed down onto the outside of the court, representing the people watching the game. [[spoiler:This is later reflected for the big game thanks to Al-G stealing Dom's scanning code to beam people into the Server-verse as hostages.

** When the basketball court begins forming in Tune World, he's is shown to be downright ''[[OhCrap terrified]]'' for once in his life.
** He's just as heartbroken as the other Tunes over [[spoiler:seeing Bugs Bunny dying (his being a DisneyDeath nonwithstanding)]]. It's particularly noteworthy as we never see him actually sad before.

*** A blimp is visible in the skyline of Gotham, likely referencing ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

* TakeThat: A subtle one towards CG animation (with some shades of SelfDeprecation). When Al-G Rhythm changes the Tunes from 2D-animated characters to CG models, they treat it like it's a ''bad'' thing (except for Daffy, who actually enjoys his smoother design). Being hand-drawn characters who've been around for decades, it does make sense that they wouldn't be too keen about being "updated" with CGI.

* YouJustHadToSayIt: Bugs and Granny have this reaction after Daffy’s TemptingFate moment.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[PerpetualSmiler Road Runner]] in general shows much more expressions compared to most of his and Wile E.'s cartoons, which make certain moments from the movie really stand out.

->''"The only way you're getting your son back is if you and I play a little basketball."''

Set 25 years after the first film, [=LeBron=] and his son Dom (Cedric Joe) are having trouble connecting; [=LeBron=] wants Dom to be a basketball player like him, but Dom is more interested in becoming a video game developer. While on a tour of Creator/WarnerBros Studios, [=LeBron=] and Dom find themselves getting sucked into a digital server ruled by the rogue A.I. Al-G Rhythm (Creator/DonCheadle), that houses worlds from the entire nearly-100 year old library of the studio. Dom soon gets captured by Al-G and [=LeBron=] gets sent to the world where the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes roam...but with only WesternAnimation/BugsBunny there. Teaming with Bugs, they must traverse the Warner Bros. Server-verse, find the rest of the Tunes and take to the court to rescue Dom by - how else? - challenging Al-G and his team of superpowered digital versions of [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] and WNBA [[UsefulNotes/NotablePlayersOfTheNBA stars]] to a basketball game.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Al-G Rhythm. He looks like an African-American human, but he resides in the Serververse and has the ability to teleport, create duplicates of himself, etc.

'''Lola:''' Trying to be like you.\\

* IronicEcho:

* JerkassRealization: [=LeBron=] gets one at halftime. [[spoiler:Mainly after learning that the Tunes are only losing because, as Lola and Bugs say, they're only doing how ''he'' would do in basketball and it just isn't working for the game. This leads to him finally realizing how restricting he was acting towards the Tunes and, by extension, his son, letting the Tunes play their way and properly apologizing to Dom during the game.]]

** "You never let me just... do me." First said by Don to [=LeBron=] while calling him out, then [=LeBron=] to himself when while fully realizing WHY. Finally, it comes back at the end when [=LeBron=] encourages Dom to join the video game development camp rather than the basketball camp.