"Of course, you realize dis means war..."
Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem is a 2018 free-to-play Role-Playing Game for mobile devices, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and many more Looney Tunes characters. It was developed by Aquiris and published by Scopely.
After taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque, Bugs discovers that Marvin the Martian has rounded up all of the other toons with a disintegrator and reduced them to round discs bearing their images on them in order to be unopposed in his latest scheme to take over the world. After a brief tussle, the machine containing the discs containing the other toons, the Reatomizer, shorts out and explodes, scattering them all over the Looneyverse. It's up to Bugs (and you the player, of course) to fight through Marvin and his army of clones of the other toons to restore order to the world.
The game is an RPG where the player can journey through the various campaigns the game offers or against other players with numerous familiar Looney Tunes characters. Along with the base "Original" versions of the toons, other versions of the toons based on various Looney Tunes shorts with different attributes are also playable. Toons can be attack-oriented like Daffy, Wile E. Coyote, and Pepe Le Pew and be based around dealing damage to opponents. Others are support-oriented like Bugs, Porky Pig, and Granny and have movesets based around helping allies or hindering opponents. Others have a more defensive-focused moveset such as Foghorn Leghorn, Gossamer, and Hector, and focus in protecting other toons by forcing opponents to only attack them. Toons are unlocked by collecting Illudium, energy for the Reatomizer that can be used to restore and unlock other toons. The characters can then be leveled up with XP Potions to quickly increase their stats or continuing to collect their respective discs so they can rank up and get an even bigger stat boost. Various other objects such as dynamite, anvils, and world-exclusive items can be used to "Tune-up" your characters and unlock other moves and abilities that they can use.
When not playing the campaign modes, you can assign up to five characters to "Showbiz", where they will earn in-game cash, universal Tune-Up items, or their respective Discs. You can also battle with other players to receive crates (or pilfer their own crates) with various bonuses inside. The game uses an energy system that when at the player's maximum level, is capped at 110, though there are various ways to get extra energy so you don't have to wait to dive back into the campaign for too long if you don't want, be it through Gems, the game's premium currency, or receiving fistfuls of energy from bonus crates.
Looney Tunes: World of Tropes:
- Adaptational Badass:
- The Solid Tin Coyote was a giant remote-controlled robot built by Wile E. Coyote to hunt the Road Runner, but it tended to malfunction a lot. Here, it not only accurately responds to commands, but is also capable of flight and fires missiles.
- Sylvester Slazlo was an Adaptational Wimp in the Carrotblanca short compared to Victor Slazlo in the movie. Here, Sylvester has access to time bombs and can order fighter planes to shoot his enemies and drop bombs at will.
- Wile E. Coyote himself is a Butt-Monkey in his own series, with many of his gadgets and traps backfiring on him including painted tunnels being hilariously unreliable. Here, he's much more capable, with his gadgets usually working exactly as advertised and deliberately paints a tunnel which guarantees a train heading towards his target. His other variants often use gadgets that failed in the original shorts, but work perfectly here.note And the gadgets that do fail still damage the enemy: for example, when his super suit fails and he does the classic fall into a ravine, he lands on the enemy.
- Dr. Frankenbeans' robot from "Water, Water, Every Hare" that he tried to use Bugs' brain to activate, but never got to do so. Here, he has a brain for it to work, and it immediately pounds the target with its fist.
- Penelope wasn't too shy about using brute force when needed in her shorts, but her variants cover the spectrum. As Kitty Ketty, she's paws-off. Penelope Couture will slap an enemy, but otherwise tanks by distraction and dodging (seriously, there's a wolf whistle with one of her actions). However ... there's Countess Penelope, who as a counter can hit everyone on your team; Tigress Penelope, where she trades her traditional white stripe for orange ones and teams with the other Lunar kung-fu toons; and Dread Pirate Penelope. Yes.
- Adaptational Modesty: Certain Toons like Salesduck Daffy, Scout Foghorn, and Dr. Killpatient have more clothing compared to their original appearances. Justified, as to differentiate them more from their vanilla counterparts.
- Always Accurate Attack: Some characters' attacks cannot be dodged, such as Cowboy Bugs, Elmer the Sure, or Sea Goin' Sam. The latter especially if a fellow Pirate is on the same team as him, which grants 100% accuracy to the entire team.
- Amusing Injuries: True to form, most of the toons' attacks are this way, be it through dropped safes or anvils or cartoonish bashing with blunt objects.
- Anti-Frustration Features: In the Special Conditions ACME Labs event, to help avoid locking your Toon in a deadly scenario where they're down to their basic attack and their only target does not meet said conditions to take it down without any consequence, a unique skill is available with a one-turn cooldown that allows all Toons to skip their turn and heal.
- Anvil on Head: Some toons often drop large metallic objects (i.e. grand pianos, safes, and anvils) onto a single enemy target when attacking; Jester Bugs's basic skill is a jack-in-the-box variant of the trope, causing a large anvil to be released from the box, via a spring mechanism, and dropped onto an enemy's head.
- Arbitrary Headcount Limit: You may have up to four characters in your party at a time.
- Artificial Stupidity:
- AI-controlled characters with healing moves have a startling tendency to waste their main health-recovery moves at the very start of battles when they and their teammates' health is still full, giving you free reign to go to town on the opposing team without worrying about them recovering their HP for a few turns.
- Similarly, some characters with moves that increase the stats of one or more allies (but not themselves) may sometimes use said move when they are the only toon still standing and waste their turn entirely.
- Ascended Meme: Some of the playable characters reference popular memes from the franchise. Such examples include Zoot Suit Daffy and Big Chungus, the latter even being referred to as that in-game.
- Battle Boomerang:
- Outback Dawg's weapon of choice. He also carries a giant one for Whirling Kylie which he whacks the target with.
- Countess Penelope throws her Combat Hand Fan like this.
- Warrior Princess She-Devil (the Tasmanian She-Devil in a Xena motif) does this by taking a sword, bending it into a boomerang, then throwing it. Instead of catching it on return, she eats it.
- Big Bad: Marvin the Martian, who decimated the entire cast into Toon Pieces until Bugs intervened.
- Big Entrance: Countess Penelope's secondary attack combines this with Dynamic Entry, where her carriage falls off a cliff and lands on the opposing team, only for her to simply strut out of it unharmed, red carpet included.
- The Bus Came Back: This videogame brings back several characters who hasn't made any single appearance in years, such as Melissa Duck, which made her last appearance in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters and hasn't made any single appearance after it.
- Construction Zone Calamity: Foreman Leghorn's entire moveset is this, with the classic swinging girders, falling piles of bricks, and a wrecking ball.
- Counter-Attack: Certain toons can gain or give this, most notably the aristocrat toons.
- Critical Hit Class: Some characters are based around getting critical hits and critical stat boosts to make up for their otherwise mediocre attack stats, with Fiends being the theme that utilizes this the most.
- Cutlass Between the Teeth: Deckswab Dawg usually has one in his mouth and takes it out when he attacks.
- Damage Over Time: Several characters are capable of inflicting this on their opponents. Villains and Scoundrels in particular specialize in this.
- Damage-Sponge Boss: The enemies in ACME R&D always have incredibly high HP, making them difficult to defeat. Even the weakest opponents have 2,000 HP. Enemies in the Endurance Tower also get a hit point boost.
- Dark Reprise: The theme for ACME Labs is a dramatic and darker remix of the Looney Tunes theme.
- Death or Glory Attack: Captain Bligh's "This is Mutiny, Mr. Christian" skill gives the entire team a massive boost at the cost of most of his own skills.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Michigan J. Frog appears on a billboard in the background of the City stage, 3 years before he made his personal debut.
- Eastern Zodiac: The Lunar toons are released each Chinese New Year, currently there are six of them: Lunar Petunia, Master Speedy, Lunar Toro, Tigress Penelope, Lunar Lola, and Lunar Bugs.
- Enemy Mine: Characters that usually hate each other, like Tweety and Sylvester or Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner are perfectly able to fight on the same team. This is especially egregious in the case that you can actually have Marvin the Martian in your team.
- Eternal Engine: ACME Labs, a wrecked but still-functional laboratory filled with souped-up clones.
- Evil Knockoff:
- It's stated that all of the enemies in this game are clones created by Marvin.
- An official comic
reveals that Evil Granny is actually a robot created by Dr. Frankenbeans and Sylvester.
- Fake Shemp: Michigan J. Frog notably is the first Toon to use audio directly lifted from his origin short instead of having new lines recorded or left silent.
- Falling Chandelier of Doom:
- Phantom Le Pew's special attack, Strange Pew-et, drops a chandelier packed with dynamite onto the target.
- Grand Dukeling Sylvester Jr.'s special attack, Candlelight Duelist, has him cut the rope holding a chandelier and drop it onto the opposing team.
- First Town: The Town
- Food Slap: Chef Porky, Waiter Elmer, and Chamberlain Porky all have variations of these.
- Fragile Speedster: Queso Bandito outspeeds every other toon, but can't take much. Road Runner also counts, albeit to a lesser extent.
- Friendly Enemy: The vanilla versions of Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf have this dynamic via their Friendship and Nemesis skills, which trigger when one is fighting with or against each other, much like their relationship in the cartoons.
- Gangplank Galleon: The Pirate Ship arena, used mostly in the pirate-themed guild battles.
- Glass Cannon:
- Daffy Duck and his variations; most of them have high attacks but very low defense. Salesduck Daffy is the absolute most fragile toon in the game, for example. Some variants, such as Pepe le Bard and Rocket Coyote also cannot take much.
- Super Coyote is capable of dealing heavy damage, but his low defenses coupled with his strongest attack harming him means he'll be often targeted first and taken out rather quickly if not protected. Luckily, he can use Damage Immunity to protect himself and nullify the latter's self-damage as well as apply Heal Over Time to help fix the damage.
- Green Hill Zone: The Forest, fittingly as it is the place where you'll take your first battles and where your Home Base is. Avalooney and the Farm have elements of this as well, though the former has no level campaign yet.
- Guest Fighter: To celebrate the release of Space Jam: A New Legacy, the game included the cartoon version of LeBron James as a character.
- Healer Signs On Early: You get Fishercat Sylvester Jr. during the tutorial for the Premium Wheel in the original version or as your first party member in the updated version.
- Hold the Line: Any battle involving Egghead the Knowing becomes this, as he unlocks his moveset one turn at a time until he unlocks Banish, meaning that depending on whose side he's on, it's a race to stall the other team until he does so, or if to take him out as soon as possible before he eliminates the entirety of your team.
- Human Cannonball: Cannonball Coyote uses this as a main attack, and rolls around in one.
- Humongous Mecha: The Solid-Tin Coyote is Wile E. Coyote's homemade remote-controlled robot, capable of launching missiles or flying through the air.
- I Know Madden Kombat: A majority of the Athlete toons use sports equipment as weapons.
- It's All About Me: Most versions of Daffy get a stat boost whenever there are other versions of Daffy in the same team.
- Jack of All Stats: Bugs Bunny is good in just about all regards.
- Jungle Japes: Tasmania is set on a wild, jungle-like island. Mixed in with Lethal Lava Land, as the arena takes place in a temple with lava flowing.
- The Krampus: Hector has a variation based on this monster.
- Last Chance Hit Point: The Sturdy buff allows the Toon who has this to tank any hit to 1 HP. This doesn't work if they have damage over time and can't recover HP before their next turn, or if immediate bonus damage is applied.
- Lightning Bruiser: Many Epic toons fit this role.
- Mighty Glacier: Several characters fit this role, such as Foghorn Leghorn and Gossamer. Sam Sheepdog is the most egregious example, being the toon with the most HP and Power, and the lowest speed. His entire strategy is to take damage and use Counter to make up for it.
- Mythology Gag: Now has its own page.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bugs accidentally kickstarts the entirety of the game by blowing up Marvin's reatomiser and Toon Pieces collection, scattering the latter all over the place before he could restore the decimated toons.
- Ninja Prop:
- Deckswab Dawg's special attack involves stealing the stat-up counters from his target, knocking most of them to the floor in the process.
- The Do-Do Bird's "Hocus Pocus Presto" attack has it rip off the top-left corner of the game and throw the Autoplay button at a target.
- No-Sell: Damage Immunity protects those who have it from nearly any external attack, aside from most of The Mighty Angelo's bypassing and the special condition immunity present in ACME Labs, which requires a specific archetype of Toon to be able to deal any damage.
- Oh, Crap!: Some attack will cause some toons to react this way.
- One-Hit Kill: If Egghead the Knowing lives for long enough, he can unlock Banish, which defeats an enemy with a single hit, no matter how much health they have, and disregards any protective buffs.
- Painted Tunnel, Real Train: Wile E. Coyote weaponizes the classic gag in his favor, being his move "Choo Choo".
- Pimped-Out Dress: Countess Penelope wears a giant pink ballgown.
- Practical Taunt: All defensively-oriented toonsnote have some sort of move that gives them this status, thus drawing attention to themselves and not other party members. Some other toons, such as King Bugs, can also afflict this onto opponent toons.
- Promoted to Playable: After simply being stuck as a cameo in the city background for years, Michigan J. Frog is confirmed to be a playable character on December 3rd, 2021.
- Role-Playing Game
- Rooftop Confrontation: The city's background takes place on the roof of a building.
- Samurai in Ninja Town: Samurai Sheepdog and Ninja Ralph's movesets and attributes appropriately are meant to counter each other's.
- Scout-Out: Some of the early toons you'll first unlock are scout variants of Granny, Foghorn Leghorn, and Sylvester.
- Shout-Out:
- Fittingly, Litigator Lola mimics several poses of Phoenix Wright, with the signature pointing "OBJECTION!" and a desk slam. Her basic attack 'Opening Statement' even has her slap the target with documents similar to one of Phoenix's attacks in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
- The Sturdy buff introduced alongside Fireman Bugs works exactly like the ability of the same name from Pokémon.
- Completing the DANGER! Vampire Tower nets you a unique title: "a miserable pile of secrets".
- Fitting for his namesake, one of Big Chungus' skills is named "Such as He", as a reference to the song he's directly associated with in memes.
- Phantom Le Pew is a major shout-out to The Phantom of the Opera.
- Tweetysaurus Rex "Cenozoic Stomp" attack animation has him tearing up toilet during thunderstorm.
- Similarly, Roadius Runnerus "Clever Bird" attack animation and the name of it are based on the iconic "Clever girl" scene.
- Miss Prissy "Officer Prissy" outfit looks similar to Judy Hops meter maid uniform.
- Skyscraper City: The City stage, naturally. Fights take place on top of a building, which is surrounded by more buildings (and a neon sign announcing that one of them is a gangster hideout).
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: The summit stage takes place on top of a snowy mountain, complete with Aurora Borealis. Mostly ice and winter-themed characters are here, but the Divine characters are here too. Downplayed in that the ostensibly frozen ground has no effect on combat.
- Space Zone: Planet X, which provides an alien X-themed landscape.
- Squishy Wizard: Pepe le Bard certainly counts.
- Stance System:
- When any members of the Tune Squad obtain the Ball, their moves become more powerful and have additional effects.
- Michigan J. Frog can swap between the defensive Croaker form or the damage-oriented Crooner form.
- Grand Duke Sylvester's defense is higher when above 50% health, and swaps it for higher attack when below 50%.
- Stock Audio Clip: Michigan J. Frog's voice clips are straight from his original cartoon.
- Stone Wall: Appropriate to his size and shape, Big Chungus is a tank.
- Stylistic Suck: The "Wacky" toons are all designed with monochrome cel-shaded styles with lower framerates to simulate the very early cartoons they were designed after.
- Suddenly Voiced: Wile. E Coyote, unlike most of the times he appears, actually speaks here. Granted, he did speak in four of the five cartoons where he went after Bugs, but usually nowhere else other than that.
- This Means War!: Bugs says this word for word in the opening cutscene after Marvin's deatomizer ray disintegrates Bugs's map.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: After playing through the mostly easy Forest campaign, you'll most likely first discover that some toons can casually No-Sell your attacks by dodging them rather than stand there and take it when you first face Penelope in the Town campaign.
- Wartime Cartoon: The Victory team Toons are based on these.
- Water Hose Rodeo: Fireman Bugs has this as one of his attacks.
- Western RPG
- The Wild West: The Desert is the place where you'll find most of the western-themed characters like Sheriff Porky or Nasty Canasta, though it's also home for the Coyote and Roadrunner, as well as the Roman Empire characters.
- Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: How the plot kicks off when Bugs takes the wrong turn while trying to find Pismo Beach. Luckily, it allows him to discover Marvin's plan and start saving the day.
- Your Size May Vary: Hugo and the Solid-Tin Coyote are humongous in their origin shorts, each able to take a "normal-sized" toon in hand easily. Here, they've been scaled down to about twice a Toon's average height. Conversely, while the Mighty Angelo is depicted in battle as a small speck constantly jumping on top of a circus platform outside of using Special Moves or seen in the World, he's still more visible than in his cartoon.
