History WesternAnimation / MutantLeague

* DentedIron: The Monsters' coach is a former player who suffers from a degenerative disease that prevents the rejuvenator from healing injuries fully, he is now left a wreck as all of the injuries he sustained have caught up to him. One episode had the Monsters' picking up a rookie player who turned out to have the same disease, they convince him to switch to coaching while he still has his health.

* {{Retcon}}: During the first season players would often be said to spending weeks in the rujvenator recovering from their injuries. Seeming to realize a sports league couldn't operate with its players out for that long after every single game, by the second season spending a day in the rujvenator is considered a long enough time.

As there were games based on two different sports but featuring a lot of the same characters, the show ran with it by having all the teams competing in multiple sports (though still mostly football), as well as events like monster truck races and wrestling matches. Also keeping in the spirit of the games it was common for players to lose body parts in the course of the games. To keep from killing off the entire cast within three episodes, a device called "the rujvenator" was introduced that could [[GoodThingYouCanHeal heal practically any injury]] by bathing the injured mutants in certain chemical mixtures.

An earthquake at a football stadium reveals a cache of illegally dumped toxic waste which mutates all the spectators into half-human abominations. Soon a pro sports league springs up around the mutants, and rather than make the big bucks, rookie athlete Bones Justice decides to play for his dad's team, the last-place Midway Monsters.

* DentedIron: The Monsters' coach is a former player who suffers from a degenerative disease that prevents the rejuvenator from healing injuries fully, he is now left a wreck as all of the injuries he sustained have caught up to him.

* {{Retcon}}: During the first season players would often be said to spending weeks in the rujvenator recovering from their injuries. Seeming to realize a sports league couldn't operate with its players out for that long after every single game, by the second season spending a day in the rujvenator is considered a long time.

* ToxicWasteCanDoAnything: The premise of the show is that an earthquake ruptures the turf of a sports stadium, venting toxic gases from long-buried industrial waste. The athletes get dosed with this gas, which mutates them into ugly but superhuman creatures that can suffer horrific damage without dying or being convalescent more than a few hours.

* BrokenAesop: In one episode, evil mutants try to trick some adolescent fans into jumping into toxic waste to mutate themselves and be more like their idols in the League. The kids hesitate because "norms can't mutate". The very existence of the Mutant League is proof that isn't true. Everyone in it--from the players, refs, coaches, team owners, play-by-play guy and various mutants who had nothing to do with the League--''were'' ordinary humans once upon a time. Trying to mutate yourself wouldn't be an easy or smart thing to do, sure. But obviously it can be done.

* WithMyHandsTied: Discussed and parodied in the Season 2 episode "Enter the Skeletoid", when Razor Kidd tells the strong {{Badass}}, "I can beat you with one hand tied behind my back!" Of course, the strong guy rips off Razor's arm as a literal response, and the latter snaps back, "Hey! I said ''tied!''" Razor even tries to kick the strong one, who quickly rips off his leg as well!

* DentedIron: The Monsters' coach is a former player who suffers from a degenerative disease that prevents the rejuvinator from healing injuries fully, he is now left a wreck as all of the injuries he sustained have caught up to him.
* DisappearedDad: Bones' father mysteriously disappeared, and a subplot that never really went anywhere was Bones' quest to find him.

* ChristmasEpisode: Same thing as AChristmasCarol, but [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol no ghosts]].

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Although players' arms, legs and heads were frequently knocked off, they could usually come out good as new by bathing in a machine called the rejuvenator. As Joe Magician showed in the second season, though, there ''was'' a limit to how far this went...
* LargeHamAnnouncer[=/=]EverythingsBetterWithBob: Especially one game commentator with a [[VocalDissonance high-pitched voice]].

* BrokenAesop: In one episode, evil mutants try to trick some adolescent fans into jumping into toxic waste to mutate themselves and be more like their idols in the League. The kids hesitate because "norms can't mutate". The very existence of the Mutant League is proof that isn't true. Everyone in it from the players to the refs, coaches, team owners and other league officials, in addition to civilian mutants, ''were'' ordinary humans once upon a time. Trying to mutate yourself wouldn't be an easy or smart thing to do, sure. But obviously it can be done.

* BrokenAesop: In one episode, evil mutants try to trick some adolescent fans into jumping into toxic waste to mutate themselves and be more like their idols in the League. The kids hesitate because "norms can't mutate". The very existence of the Mutant League is proof that isn't true. Everyone in it from the players to the refs, coaches, team owners and other league officials, in addition to civilian mutants, ''were'' ordinary humans once upon a time. Trying to mutate yourself wouldn't an easy or smart thing to do, sure. But obviously it can be done.

* BrokenAesop: A moral of the show was that regular people wouldn't survive the things that happened to the mutant athletes, because "norms can't mutate". The hole in that argument is all the mutants in the show (from the players to the refs, coaches, team owners and other league officials, in addition to civilian mutants) ''were'' ordinary humans once upon a time.
** How is that a hole in the argument? Is there any chance a norm would deliberately try to mutate?
*** In the episode where this came up, some of the mutants' adolescent fans were tempted to jump into toxic waste so they could mutate and be more like their idols.

* BrokenAesop: A moral of the show was that regular people wouldn't survive the things that happened to the mutant athletes, because "norms can't mutate". The hole in that argument is all the mutants in the show (from the players to the refs, coaches, team owners and other league officials, in addition to civilian mutants) ''were'' ordinary humans once upon a time.
** How is that a hole in the argument? Is there any chance a norm would deliberately try to mutate?

Despite surprisingly graphic violence [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids for being aimed at young viewers]], ''Mutant League'' managed to last two seasons, the second longer than the first.

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