YMMV / Loonatics Unleashed

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did Pinkster really mean it when he said he deliberately tricked Duck into rigging the coin toss that ensured Pinkster would get adopted by Bugsy and Stoney or did he just say that in an attempt to destroy any lingering sympathy and pity Duck had for him?
• Audience-Alienating Era: Released during a time where the franchise had little success and relevancy beyond merchandising, being made shortly after Looney Tunes: Back in Action bombed at the box office, changing the Looney Tunes to grimdark superheroes was almost unanimously panned by Looney Tunes fans and did little to attract new children as well. Nothing like it has been attempted since.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: An anime-inspired superhero action show.... starring descendants of the Looney Tunes? The show tries to combine slapstick and sight gags with tense action scenes, story arcs, and character development, creating a disconnect that makes the whole thing impossible to take seriously. Even people who like the show have a hard time with this.
• Awesome Music: The Season 1 intro is a melodramatic orchestral piece mixed with an epic chorus and an electric string riff that acts as the Loonatics' own leitmotif.
• Bile Fascination: Some people usually watch the show just to see how unfaithful it was to its predecessor. Of course, they might actually like the show and its concepts, eventually leading to...
• Critical Backlash: One of the most polarizing things to come out of the Looney Tunes franchise, yet it still has its own fandom and has decent audience reception on review sites. Others who are more neutral to the show think that while far from a hidden gem, the show's issues were greatly overblown by purist Looney Tunes fans and the actual series is essentially just a standard animated action/comedy kids show from the 2000s with good animation and voice acting.
• Designated Hero:
  • Ace is supposed to be the greatest hero of all time, but has some questionable moments, especially in the second season. In "Secrets of the Guardian Strike Sword," for example, he calls out his rival for attacking him from behind, then later in the same fight takes advantage of said rival's distraction to attack him from behind. Worse, that same fight is supposed to prove that Ace is a "true warrior" and thus the one who really deserves to wield his Cool Sword.
  • The Royal Tweetums. Much like his ancestor Tweety in his very first 1940s incarnations, Tweetums is a self-centered jerkass who runs around getting into danger, is very obnoxious, and causes all sorts of pain and suffering for his caretakers when he's not treating them like crap. When foe Sylth Vester comes along, his reasons for trying to take out the little bastard include having had his head shoved into a singularity; he and Duck actually bond some over the abuse Tweetums has put both of them through. And the show wants you to believe installing him on the throne will prevent centuries of galactic warfare.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Rev's family (who showed up in "Family Business") got a massive fan base because of their quirky natures. Rip especially, often being in fanfic as joining the Loonatics themselves.
  • Pierre Le Pew has gotten more attention from the fanbase, due to him being a human descendant of Pepé Le Pew, not to mention his aesthetic and role.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • Pinkster. Who thought Porky Pig could be such an awesome villain?
  • Electro J. Fudd, Elmer's descendant with a battle armor and the array of dangerous weapons.
• Fridge Brilliance: Sypher, a villain with the ability to steal other people's abilities through touch, is introduced using them to take the talents of a popular athlete and win at their sport. Sound familiar?
• Genius Bonus: At one point, Duck calls a saber-toothed tiger "Smiley." While this might at first seem to be a jab at the... well, "Saber Teeth," the actual name for a saber-toothed tiger is "Smilodon." That's pronounced "Smile-oh-dawn," for reference.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Ralph "Pa" Runner's animosity towards coyotes is reminiscent of the Fantastic Racism in Zootopia, specifically of Bonnie and Stu's animosity towards foxes.
  • Ace Bunny, the descendant of Bugs Bunny, is voiced by Charlie Schlatter. In a short episode of Justice League Action over a decade later that parodied Looney Tunes, he would reprise the role of the Flash, whose behavior is very Bugs Bunny like.
  • May also double as Heartwarming in Hindsight, but one episode has Candi Milo, the voice of Zadavia, also voice Granny's descendant Grannicus. Come New Looney Tunes, and she becomes the new voice for Granny herself following the death of June Foray.
  • This Wouldn't be the last time an Airship froze over a City. In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 Team Plasma uses the then captured Kyurem to turn Opelucid City into a frozen maze with Ghetsis's plan to do this to the rest of the Games Region Unova. Much like the events of the first episode.
• Ho Yay:
  • Some fans read a degree of UST into Tech and Rev's friendship. In the second season, the creators may have picked up on this and, in an attempt to reduce it, had Tech and Rev show more animosity towards each other. However, this just made them look like a bickering old married couple.
    • The episode "Family Business" is a goldmine for this with a lot of Does This Remind You of Anything? moments. Rev's parents react to Tech as a stereotypical parent would react to their child's boyfriend, with not trusting him and with sarcastic insults.
    Rev: If you weren't a coyote - and a guy - I'd kiss you!
    Tech: Then lucky for me, I'm both.
    • In "Weathering Heights", during the fight against Weather Vane, Tech saves Rev and the following exchange happens:
    Ace: (about Rev) I was going to save you next.
    Tech: I got impatient. (winks at Rev)
    • For some reason Rev always gets close to Tech at certain moments, places his hand on his shoulder and stays that way. No reason is given, he just does that sometimes.
  • Pinkster's backstory is that he was adopted by Stoney and Bugsy. Apparently, these two partners in crime wanted a child for some reason?
• Jerkass Woobie: Danger Duck. You can't help but to feel sorry for the crap he goes through, even if he did a Jerkass move beforehand.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Tech.
• Moe: Lexi, in her flashback from before she became a hero.
• Popular with Furries: Due to its character designs being closer to realistic human proportions compared to most interpretations of the Looney Tunes, it's not without its fans for that reason alone.
• Shocking Moments: Pinkster, the show's version of Porky Pig is a villain.
• Spiritual Successor: This is the closest one could get to an animated adaptation of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!.
• Spoiled by the Format: The pilot has a running gag where Duck's still trying to settle on a hero name for himself. Since the opening theme has a roll call with everybody's name and list of their powers, though, viewers old enough to read already knew how that was going to turn out.
• Superlative Dubbing: The Mexican Spanish dub deserves a special mention: Traditionally, Warner Bros. tends to dub almost all their animated, non-Looney Tunes-related series from the 90s to this date into Latin American Spanish in Venezuela since it's cheaper to dub there than in Mexico. This series^note Along with Static Shock, albeit that series was dubbed in Mexico due for political reasons involving the late Hugo Chavez in the 2000s is one the few modern animated ones dubbed by Mexican voice actors, rather than Venezuelan ones, even if Warners could invoke the fact the Loonatics are descendants of the original Looney Tunes just to avoid dubbing the series in Mexico. The reason for not dubbing the series in Venezuela could be the criticism the company received from Spanish-speaking fans about how the original Looney Tunes were dubbed by Venezuelans in both Tiny Toon Adventures and some few modern shorts.
• Tainted by the Preview: The early character designs were extremely stylized and overly spikey, and the characterizations were written to be so Totally Radical that it instantly turned people off. The show was being mocked before it even came out, and many of those people continued to mock it while refusing to even watch it. There were even people still complaining about the character designs not realizing those designs had been changed.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Within the fandom, the change of the opening theme in Season 2 from an epic orchestration to a goofy rap wasn't well received.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Danger Duck’s backstory is a wasted plot and character arc. Danger Duck tricked Pinkster Pig in order to get adopted and he obviously feels guilty about it, as he believes this drove Pinkster to villainy. Many fans feel this could have been more than just something dropped once in the backstory, as it could have been a proper character arc with some deep and real development for Danger and Pinkster.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: The reaction many unsuspecting viewers have upon randomly stumbling into an episode for the first time.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: With how clunky other parts of the production can get, the voice acting and casting are some of the few saving graces of the series. All of the Loonatics are played by veteran VAs who've had very successful careers before and since the show, and were clearly doing the best they could with the rather stock lines and jokes they were given.
• Uncertain Audience: This show's biggest problem is that after the negative backlash to the original offering, the creators seemed unwilling to commit to being either too serious or too comical for fear of alienating potential viewers even more. As a result it's usually a little too silly for the action and character development to really work, yet at the same time it also takes itself a little too seriously for the jokes and callbacks to the source material to work as well as they should've. The usual favorite example of this kind of wishy-washy treatment is at the end of the show's run where twice big rocks fall on Danger Duck and Sylth Vester, and it's supposed to be an example of Amusing Injuries that's forgotten after the next cut. Then just a minute later the villains show up, and Ace and Lexi can't blast their way out of a collapsed room because now rocks falling on the Loonatics is something that would kill them.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Danger Duck can be this in some episodes where he will be the victim of unfortunate fate and he did nothing to deserve it or something that's very small.
  • An example is in "The World Is My Circus", where Zadavia was transformed into a monkey and Danger Duck was completely oblivious that Zadavia was the monkey and started attacking her and insults her and when she gets transformed back to a human, Danger Duck was afraid that she would tell him off for attacking her and she did in the end offscreen and somehow it's Duck's fault.
  • Another is in "The Heir Up There", where he was assigned to look after Royal Tweetums and he gets put through hell looking after him who torments Duck through pain and he's hated for just for being mean to Tweetums and gets bonked on the head whenever he knights him.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Tweetums is presented in the right for tormenting Duck and Sylth Vester for being mean to him, but he comes off as very sadistic and harming to his victims, while it's justifiable for Tweetums to be against Sylth Vester because he's villainous, his treatment of Danger Duck comes off as very sadistic as he's tormenting him for his own sick amusement.
• Win Back the Crowd: After the failure of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, which starred the classic versions of the characters, Warner Bros. attempted this with a hipper, more modern take in an effort to connect with a younger audience. While the show did well enough to get a second season, some of the fanbase (both younger and older) were turned off by the premise.

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