1/7/2024 0 Comments Thundercats go![]() Cut to Lion-S with the sword, which has Mandora's image on it. Answer Cut: When Lion-S takes the Sword of Vengeance at the end of "Sword Heist", Lion-O asks who she could possibly want to take vengeance on.This show takes the trope Up to Eleven by making them muscular and huge. Amazon Brigade: The Warrior Maidens from the original show reappear in "Warrior Maiden Invasion".Always a Bigger Fish: Just as the Mutants are about to blast Lion-O at the end of "Exodus Part 1", they are swatted away by Mumm-Ra.The Kittens are the only ones small enough to crawl through the vent, so they make their way to the control room to open the brig from there. Air Vent Escape: In "Warrior Maiden Invasion", the ThunderCats need to escape from the Thunder Brig, but the only way out is a small air vent.Tygra is older than he looks and is in his 30's.Lion-O is close to age of the adult ThunderCats by the start and never starts out as a child with the Cryonics Failure of having his body age without his mind, but he is a Manchild who still considers himself to be a kid, despite being naturally aged.Lampshaded by Tygra in "Prank Call" where he's glad that Lion-O learned a valuable lesson. An Aesop: Played with some episodes have a proper moral, similarly to the 80s series, but Lion-O takes them in a different direction than intended.The story set-up is similar, but the show emphasizes the absurdities of the original cartoon while greatly exaggerating the personalities of the ThunderCats for comedic effect. Affectionate Parody: Of the original series.Adaptational Villainy: King Claudus is not a good and just ruler in this version, and is portrayed as a tyrannical jerk to his people.Adaptation Species Change: Within the prior two series, Snarf was a Snarf in Roar he's a robot, though whether he's a Cyborg or just a Ridiculously Human Robot is unclear.Fanservice of the group, is now flat chested and shlubby looking, and could be easily mistaken for a man. Tygra looks less attractive then his other two incarnations.Adaptational Modesty: Unlike the original series, Lion-O's outfit covers his belly and his thighs.Grune is far more noble than his other two counterparts and actually rebels against the tyranny of King Claudus, before being sealed away.The Nether-Witch is not an alter ego of Mumm-Ra and while she starts out as an antagonist, she became a friend to the ThunderCats by the end of her debut episode.Instead of using slaves to build Castle Plun-Darr, the Mutants get help from people doing it out of their own free will.Driller is not an enemy to the ThunderCats and becomes their ally by the end of his debut episode.Zigzagged with Jaga while Jaga made the mistake of sending the Sword of Plun-Darr into a volcano on Thundera in the original version, he also came off as dumb but wise in his other appearances, but he suggested the same mistake of sending the Sword of Plun-Darr into Third Earth's volcano until Tygra called him out on it.Ssslithe has more cartoonish and less reliable plans, and while he has some level of intelligence in regards to not shrinking the planet and being aware of Jackalman's stupidity, Vultureman as well as Ratar-O are the only mutants who are aware of how dumb Ssslithe's plans are.Mumm-Ra: Now I remember why I unplugged you! You guys are total dum-dums! The Ancient Spirits of Evil are a lot dumber, mistaking the ThunderCats' impressions of Mumm-Ra for the real deal and even granting them powers! Mumm-Ra then lampshades their new stupidity:.Jackalman is less bright than his original incarnation, from breaking the mutant's ship, getting to the ThunderCats vehicle by mistake and thinks the ThunderCats think is he a ThunderCat when the former thinks that the latter thinks he is a ThunderCat.This Lion-O, by contrast, is an Idiot Hero through and through who still acts like a child and it's impressive he hasn't gotten himself killed during one of his stunts, outside of sheer luck and his more competent teammates. Lion-O could certainly be naive and a little stupid in the original incarnations, but he generally knew his way around things and learned fast, plus he had the excuse of still mentally being young and was certainly trying to act his physical age.While the original version of Safari Joe was no slouch, the version featured in "Safari Joe" is a Trap Master beyond compare, having been regularly catching the ThunderCats in his traps since the day they first arrived on Third Earth.
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