History Headscratchers / ThunderCats2011

* (very minor thing) In episode 4 one of the Lizards (don't know his name) went invisible as they carried on going after the Thundercats. i might of missed something but what was the point? to establish he can go invisible?

* Is it just me or is every episode following the EXACT SAME format? The ThunderCats arrive at a village full of quirky animals, said animals are facing a threat to their village, Lion-O tries to help and screws it up, they come up with a plan and defeat the threat. The end. It's getting kind of redundant....

** Perhaps they were simply GenreSavvy enough to know that running with the crowd is not necessarily the best option. They probably had another hiding spot in mind.

** Yes to the GenreSavvy, but probably no to the other hiding place, it looked like they were running next to the walls of the city, so they probably fled to the surrounding fields.

** Because at that point everyone thinks Grune is just plain awesome, and doesn't (at the moment) come off as ObviouslyEvil. Hell, all the trailers were very careful about keeping his betrayal a secret ([[GenreSavvy but the fans figured it out anyway.]])

* A rather big headscratcher popped up for me in the second ''Trials of Lion-O'' episode. As far as Mumm-Ra knows, Lion-O is dead, and suddenly the remaining four Cats just sort of hand themselves to him on a silver platter. He incapacitates them all with his magic, they're all lying there helpless, Mumm-Ra is in the middle of his fortress (he even says inside his pyramid he's at his peak, power-wise) surrounded by Lizard soldiers plus his three generals...why, why, why, WHY did he not just KILL the Cats right there and then? Or at the very least have the generals do it, if the ritual was so important Mumm-Ra had to focus on that instead? But no, in order to avoid Mumm-Ra basically WINNING, he just has them thrown into the dungeons (and apparently never even thought to have them searched, since Panthro's still carrying around a proximity mine!). This just doesn't seem to gel with Mumm-Ra's previous appearances where he was much more GenreSavvy and outright ruthless. I know he was still pretty much a CardCarryingVillain, but he seemed smarter about it. I know the generals later allude to Mumm-Ra wanting to torture the Cats, and the writers DID have to avoid a Bad Guy Wins scenario, but it just seems so clumsily handled and not in-character with Mumm-Ra's previous appearances.
** I think I can answer that question reasonably. First off, as far as Mumm-Ra knew at the time. Tygra and the others are the only ones who know the location of the Book of Omens, the key to finding the others stones, after all you yourself said that Mumm-Ra is GenreSavvy. He probably figured on torturing the info out of them. Honestly his behavior seemed very practical and logical to me.

*** Not to mention the fact that a good deal of animals died on the crash course to Third Earth (though still enough so they could reproduce and populate). It's slim and unlikely, but maybe Leo was among those that died in the crash, along Panthera and the others that wanted to change the social structure of animals? Just because the Cats were [[CodeGeass Honorary]] [[strike: Brittanians]] animals doesn't mean they want to go back down to being the same as the Lizards or Dogs.

*** Of course we figured it out. In a past cartoon Grune's voice actor (Creator/ClancyBrown) was a part of, he played a despicable, heartless soul who would've desecrated the dead and sold out his own mother just to make a buck. Oh, and he voiced SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor, too.

* Why was Jaga the one sent to wield the Sword of Omens against Ratilla? Wouldn't the king of the Thundera normally wield the Sword? Also, why does Ratar-O refer to Ratilla as his "ancestor"? Jaga was a man of somewhat advanced years at the time of his death, suggesting that his duel with Ratilla occurred perhaps a generation or two prior to the beginning of the series. Why wouldn't Ratar-O refer to Ratilla as his grandfather? More generally, why does Ratar-O tell the story as if he is relating ancient events, when they in fact occurred within living memory? For that matter, how is it that none of the Thundercats already know the story? Lion-O, Tygra, and Cheetara were all themselves Jaga's pupils, albeit in different ways, and Panthro certainly knew the man.

** Well Lion-0 wouldn't really ''be'' Lion-O if he didn't keep trying to do the right thing again and again, it's just in his nature.

** Well Lion-0 wouldn't really ''be'' Lion-O if he didn't keep trying to do the right thing again and agin, it's just in his nature.