History Fridge / SpaceJamANewLegacy

* It's clear the executives at Warner Bros. don't think very highly of Al-G Rhythm, as both they and [=LeBron=] turn down his idea to have the basketball star digitally added to their films. If this is a major stinker of an idea, and it's clear that Al-G has been online for a while, who's to say that he wasn't responsible for some of the studio's more controversial decisions? The constant ExecutiveMeddling on the DC projects? Some of the more divisive decisions with ''Series/GameOfThrones'' going beyond the books? Trying to make the ''Looney Tunes'' more "hip" in some of the early-2000s projects? Their distaste of the A.I. suggests he may have had a hand in their previous slumps, and his lack of imagination in this project may suggest that's not far from the truth.

* How many rescue workers or emergency personnel were transported to the game world while on the clock? We even see two firemen get sucked into the virtual world while in full gear, meaning they may have just finished or were heading to an emergency. This isn't even counting the number of people that may have looked at their phones while driving.

** Same goes for Jason Voorhees. Once the game's over he's going back to Camp Crystal Lake.
* Wile E Coyote has a body count in this movie. He takes Morsov's place as a war boy to parody the iconic "Witness me!" scene in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. The Buzzards' car still explodes when Wile E Coyote collides with it and before Slit's explosive spear hits it, meaning Wile E Coyote [[BewareTheSillyOnes has just killed those two people]]. Although they do try to show the car exploding before Wile E actually lands on it in a closer shot, [[AccidentalMurder he still caused their deaths by leaping onto them]].

** Same goes for Json Voorhees. Once the game's over he's going back to Camp Crystal Lake.

** Lola's initial refusal also has a deeper connotation. In the original film, she served as little more than [[MsFanservice eye candy]], and ended up becoming a [[BaseBreakingCharacter divisive figure]] amongst the fans, being remembered [[BestKnownForTheFanservice primarily for that trait alone]]. Even with ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' helping to [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap fix up her reputation a little]], it came at the expense of her being a CloudCuckoolander. Why go back to where she started when she has a chance to join the Amazons, a group of warrior women who are amongst the best-known fighters in comics history? Plus, getting a chance to work with Franchise/WonderWoman, one of the most famous icons in comics and cinema, would help show that she's far more than just eye candy.

** The biggest reason also has to do with Al-G's selection of properties attending the game. Notice how the only DC characters there are the ''Series/Batman1966'' and Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher iterations of Batman and his rogues, and not the versions seen in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' or the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''? No DCAU, no DC Universe Animated Original movies, and no ''Teen Titans Go''? Just Creator/HannaBarbera, films from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' to ''Film/TheGoonies'' and ''Film/It2017'' to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' and [[spoiler: actor Creator/MichaelBJordan]]? That's because he didn't want to pick any properties that would cause a serious FlameWar. Drop in Creator/ChristianBale's Batman and put him next to Creator/BenAffleck's Batman, and the spectators watching will instead argue about which franchise did Batman better rather than watching a high-stakes game between the Looney Toons and the Goon Squad. Throw ''Teen Titans Go'', infamous for being AdoredByTheNetwork over other CN shows into the mix, and the debate will intensify to the point that will become the main draw, and Al-G clearly wants the attention on himself. He's clearly been paying attention to the latest trends on how certain properties are doing and knows he can have a mix of nostalgia and recent properties that will bring in enough people to tune in if they aren't interested in [=LeBron=] or the Toons, while also avoiding bringing in anything that will light up the internet and distract from his own showing.

** That would make his son a Ravenclaw since his son has intelligence, can be quite curious (about Warner 3000), is creative and has individuality (becoming a video game developer instead of a basketball player). And apparently, Al-G has the entire weaknesses of a Ravenclaw's. Disconnected from the outside world (literally and figuratively), arrogant and felt isolated (especially once Dom abandoned him to join his father and the Tune Squad).

** That would make his son a Ravenclaw since his son has intelligence, can be quite curious (about Warner 3000), is creative and has individuality (becoming a video game developer instead of a basketball player). And apparently, Al-G has the entire weakness of a Ravenclaw's. Disconnected from the outside world (literally and figuratively), arrogant and felt isolated (especially once Dom abandoned him to join his father and the Tune Squad).

** That would make his son a Ravenclaw since his son has intelligence, can be quite curious (about Warner 3000), is creative and has individuality (becoming a video game developer instead of a basketball player).

* It's possible that UsefulNotes/LeBronJames becoming the ComicBook/{{Robin}} to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's Franchise/{{Batman}} on the DC world might be because Batman is the older of the duo, and the movie came out just a few weeks before Bugs' ''eighty-first'' birthday.

* Why was [=LeBron=] unable to get his heavy hitters for the basketball game? Well, aside from Bugs making sure that he got the rest of the Looney Tunes instead, a lot of his choices wouldn't know the first thing about the game. King Kong and the Iron Giant, while intelligent, are not savvy enough about the human culture to grasp the basic concepts, Gandalf is from a world where basketball doesn't even exist, and Superman, Dumbledore, and Batman already have their hands full enough as it is. Even if Lebron didn't have Bugs Bunny interfering with his plans, they would have turned him down anyway.
* People mock UsefulNotes/LeBronJames for wanting to enlist people like [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]], Franchise/{{Superman}} and WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant. However, he wants to put the team together to rescue his son. Why ''wouldn't'' he want the most powerful people he could get?

* It's clear the executives at Warner Bros. don't think very highly of Al-G Rhythm, as both they and [=LeBron=] turn down his idea to have the basketball star digitally added into their films. If this is a major stinker of an idea, and it's clear that Al-G has been online for a while, who's to say that he wasn't responsible for some of the studio's more controversial decisions? The constant ExecutiveMeddling on the DC projects? Some of the more divisive decisions with ''Series/GameOfThrones'' going beyond the books? Trying to make the ''Looney Tunes'' more "hip" in some of the early-2000s projects? Their distaste of the A.I. suggests he may have had a hand in their previous slumps, and his lack of imagination in this project may suggest that's not far from the truth.
* Nearly all the characters watching the game are unable or unwilling to interfere, instead spectating the entire event. When you think about it, they didn't just avoid interfering because of the force-field Al-G put up, but because of his threat to the Toon Squad if they lost. Remember how he said they'd be deleted should they lose? He would have likely done the same to any of the spectators should they try to interfere, showing how (MeanCharacterNiceActor aside) he was able to keep heavy hitters like Voldemort, two different Jokers, and even ''Pennywise'' from acting up.

** The biggest reason also has to do with Al-G's selection of properties attending the game. Notice how the only DC characters there are the ''Series/Batman1966'' and Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher iterations of Batman and his rogues, and not the versions seen in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' or the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''? No DCAU, no DC Universe Animated Original movies, and no ''Teen Titans Go''? Just Creator/HannaBarbera, films from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' to ''Film/TheGoonies'' and ''Film/It2017'' to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' and [[spoiler: actor Creator/MichaelBJordan]]? That's because he didn't want to pick any properties that would cause a serious FlameWar. Drop in Creator/ChristianBale's Batman and put him next to Creator/BenAffleck's Batman, and the spectators watching will instead argue about which franchise did Batman better rather than watching a high-stakes game between the Looney Toons and the Goon Squad. Throw ''Teen Titans Go'', itself infamous for being AdoredByTheNetwork over other CN shows into the mix, and the debate will intensify to the point that will become the main draw, and Al-G clearly wants the attention on himself. He's clearly been paying attention to the latest trends on how certain properties are doing and knows he can have a mix of nostalgia and recent properties that will bring in enough people to tune in if they aren't interested in [=LeBron=] or the Toons, while also avoiding bringing in anything that will light up the internet and distract from his own showing.

** Lola's initial refusal also has a deeper connotation. In the original film, she served as little more than [[MsFanservice eye candy]], and ended up becoming a [[BaseBreakingCharacter divisive figure]] amongst the fans, being remembered [[BestKnownForTheFanservice primarily for that trait alone]]. Even with ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' helping to [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap fix up her reputation a little]], it came at the expense of her being a CloudCuckoolander. Why go back to where she started when she has a chance to join the Amazons, a group of warrior women who are amongst the best known fighters in comics history? Plus, getting a chance to work with Franchise/WonderWoman, one of the most famous icons in comics and cinema, would help show that she's far more than just eye-candy.

* The Creator/WarnerBros Serververse is, in essence, an entire universe contained within the computers of the studio, and while Al-G Rhythm has full control over it as the server's AI, it's still the creation of the real life people working at Warner Bros. In other words, these everyday Hollywood executives, writers, directors, and so on, are literal ''gods'' to the inhabitants of the Serververse.

** Not to mention, he "upgrades" Lola first because he knows how much she means to Bugs, the one who declined his offer. It's a two for one KickTheDog moment.

* Why was [=LeBron=] unable to get his heavy hitters for the basketball game? Well, aside from Bugs making sure that he got the rest of the Looney Tunes instead, a lot of his choices wouldn't know the first thing about the game. King Kong and the Iron Giant, while intelligent, are not savvy enough about human culture to grasp the basic concepts, Gandalf is from a world where basketball doesn't even exist, and Superman, Dumbledore, and Batman already have their hands full enough as it is. Even if Lebron didn't have Bugs Bunny interfering with his plans, they would have turned him down anyway.

* It was noted on the TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot entry for the YMMV page that only ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' got to represent Cartoon Network's lineup from WB. Why not any of the other shows, like ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' or ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''? There's actually two perfectly good reasons why only those two got involved.

** Second, ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', since they already had a ''Space Jam'' of their own with The Nerdlucks (themselves one of the many cameos in this movie) dropping by, tricking them into stealing their powers, and stuffing the five of them on Moron Mountain. The other residents would have likely heard of this and, if Rick and Morty didn't tell them about Taz, wouldn't have tried to chance it out of fear of being subjected to the same fate.
** The biggest reason also has to do with Al-G's selection of properties attending the game. Notice how the only DC characters there are the ''Series/Batman1966'' and Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher iterations of Batman and his rogues, and not the versions seen in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' or the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''? No DCAU, no DC Universe Animated Original movies, and no ''Teen Titans Go''? Just Creator/HannaBarbera, films from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' to ''Film/TheGoonies'' and ''Film/It2017'' to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' and [[spoiler: actor Creator/MichaelBJordan]]? That's because he didn't want to pick any properties that would cause a serious FlameWar. Drop in Creator/ChristianBale's Batman and put him next to Creator/BenAffleck's Batman, and the spectators watching will instead argue about which franchise did Batman better rather than watching a high stakes game between the Looney Toons and the Goon Squad. Throw ''Teen Titans Go'', itself infamous for being AdoredByTheNetwork over other CN shows into the mix, and the debate will intensify to the point that will become the main draw, and Al-G clearly wants the attention on himself. He's clearly been paying attention to the latest trends on how certain properties are doing, and knows he can have a mix of nostalgia and recent properties that will bring in enough people to tune in if they aren't interested in [=LeBron=] or the Toons, while also avoiding bringing in anything that will light up the internet and distract from his own showing.

* Considering WB's failed attempts at modernizing the Looney Tunes with ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' & ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'', the incredibly divisive ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', and the heavily ScrewedByTheNetwork ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'', I wouldn't be surprised if after all that, Al-G decided "Can't fail to make those Tunes relevant if you don't make them relevant at all."

* What will happen to Warner Bros. once news gets out that [[spoiler:hundreds of innocent people were trapped in their server]]? Sure it was all Al-G's doing, but he's still an AI owned by the studio, so who's to say that the public won't blame them for [[spoiler:the endangerment of all those civilians]]?

* We can see a lot of different characters in the audience but one of them is the child eating monster clown Pennywise so what happens when the game is over? He's gonna be back in Derry Maine.

* Wile E Coyote has a body count in this movie, he takes Morsov's place as a war boy to parody the iconic "Witness me!" scene in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. The Buzzards' car still explodes when Wile E Coyote collides with it and before Slit's explosive spear hits it, meaning Wile E Coyote [[BewareTheSillyOnes has just killed those two people]]. Although they do try to show the car exploding before Wile E actually lands on it in a closer shot, [[AccidentalMurder he still caused their deaths by leaping onto them]].

* Wile E Coyote has a body count in this movie. When he takes Morsov's place as a war boy to parody the iconic "Witness me!" scene in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', the Buzzards' car still explodes when Wile E Coyote collides with it and Slit is still too slow to destroy the car. Wile E Coyote [[BewareTheSillyOnes killed those two people]].

* Wile E Coyote has a body count in this movie, he takes Morsov's place as a war boy to parody the iconic "Witness me!" scene. The Buzzards' car still explodes when Wile E Coyote collides with it and Slit is still too slow to destroy the car, Wile E Coyote killed those two people.

* The appearance of the [=DeLorean=] on the scoreboard even though the film is owned by [[Creator/{{Universal}} a rival company]] makes some sense if one remembers the Ecto-88 from ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne'' (which IS owned by Warner Bros.).

* Why did Bugs Bunny decide to complete the move that causes whoever performs it to get [[spoiler: deleted?]] He knew from earlier in the film with [=LeBron=] reminding him that humans can't survive what Tunes can. He stole the ball from [=LeBron=] and completed the move because he knew there was no way [=LeBron=] would survive it, but he knew there was a chance he could, even if he wasn't 100% sure.

* It's possible that [=LeBron=] becoming the ComicBook/{{Robin}} to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's Franchise/{{Batman}} on the DC world might be because Batman is the older of the duo, and the movie came out just a few weeks before Bugs' ''eighty-first'' birthday.

* A bit of Fridge Horror, but how many rescue workers or emergency personnel were transported to the game world while on the clock. We even see two firemen get sucked into the virtual world while in full gear, meaning they may have just finished or were heading to an emergency. This isn't even counting the number of people that may have looked at their phones while driving.

* What will happen to Warner Bros. once news gets out that [[spoiler:hundreds of innocent people were trapped in their server]]? Sure it was all Al-G's doing, but he's still an AI owned by the studio, so who's to say that the public won't blame them for [[spoiler:the endangerment of all those civilians]]?

* It was noted on the TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter entry for the YMMV page that only ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' got to represent Cartoon Network's lineup from WB. Why not any of the other shows, like ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' or ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''? There's actually two perfectly good reasons why only those two got involved.

** Second, ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', since they already had a ''Space Jam'' of their own with The Nerdlucks (themselves one of the many cameos in this movie) dropping by, tricking them into stealing their powers, and stuffing the five of them on Moron Mountain. The other residents would have likely heard of this and, if Rick and Morty didn't tell them about Taz, and wouldn't have tried to chance it out of fear of being subjected to the same fate.