History WesternAnimation / MutantLeague

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: The championship game has Zalgor pulling dirty trick after dirty trick to ensure his team wins. When they fail and his team loses anyway, he institutes a new rule that the remaining player has to win a sudden death match with him to take home the trophy.

* ImagineTheAudienceNaked: How Razor Kid advises a new player to imagine the opposition to get over his fear of the spotlight: imagine them in just their underwear. It works so well the new player actually starts imagining the other team wearing women's underwear...

* KarmaHoudini: Despite being called "evil personified" for everything he does, Zalgor Prig never faces any consequences more serious than the humiliation of losing a one-on-one basketball game when he enters the stadium himself.

* MerchandiseDriven: There was an almost-unknown line of action figures released based on the show. Had there been a third game in the series, ''[=GamePro=]'' magazine implied it probably would've been based on the show rather than the games already in existence.

* AnAesop: The general one for the show was "play fair and have integrity". A lot of second season episodes were built around one, like, don't be sexist, stay away from drugs, etc. There were also some that were unusually sophisticated for a cartoon, like know when it's time to stop doing something, sometimes there's a situation with no ideal resolution, or the danger of obsessive stalkers.

* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Sure, playing in the Mutant League involves a certain level of fighting skill. It's still kind of jarring when there's a mid-second season episode about a bunch of characters being invited to a martial arts tournament.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Unless in uniform, the players tended to around just wearing trunks.

* 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.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite being called "evil personified" for everything he does, Zalgor Prig never faces any consequences for them more serious than the humiliation of losing a one-on-one basketball game when he enters the stadium himself.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Commissioner Zalgor Prig constantly tries to [[DisproportionateRetribution kill Bones for not agreeing to play for his team]], the Slaycity Slayers.

* AffirmativeActionGirl: The second season introduced us to Thrasher Malone, the show's first female mutant. Even moreso with the plot of her introduction episode being about the evils of sexism.

* {{Bookends}}: The first episode opens on K.T. Slayer doing a commercial for Spikeys athletic shoes. The final episode in the second season goes out on the same one.

* ParodyCommercial: With the main characters being pro athletes, it isn't surprising a few plot beats were about them shilling shoes, cars, drinks, and even perfume in a late-series one. Heck, literally the first thing the viewer sees after the intro in the first episode is one.

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 play. To keep from killing off the entire cast within three episodes, a device called "the rejuvenator" was introduced that could [[GoodThingYouCanHeal heal practically any injury]] by bathing the injured mutants in certain chemical mixtures.

* FantasticRacism: A TwoPartEpisode is about a mutant-hating bigot being mutated, playing for the League for a while because his former friends have obviously turned on him, and seeing how mutants are NotSoDifferent past the SuperStrength and all.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The episode about Joe Magician retiring from playing. He can't face the thought of being a has-been, but he's getting too old to keep recovering from the constant gruesome injuries playing in the Mutant League involves.

* FantasticRacism: A TwoPartEpisode is about a mutant-hating bigot being mutated, playing for the League for a while because his former friends have obviously turned on him, and seeing mutants how are NotSoDifferent past the SuperStrength and all.

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 rejuvenator" was introduced that could [[GoodThingYouCanHeal heal practically any injury]] by bathing the injured mutants in certain chemical mixtures.