The Looney Tunes you know are undergoing X-treme changes.
The easiest way to explain Warner Brothers' process in changing Bugs Bunny
and the gang would be to use a parallel with the torture scene from the Hannibal Lecter
film, Red Dragon.
First, Warner Brothers has decided that children will (like it or not) enjoy seeing
the classic Looney Tunes characters "go away," shall we say.
So Warner has the old characters die, and long afterwards, they begin to transform, evolve, and
spawn new characters.
The descendants of the Looney Tunes characters, identical to the old except for pieces of
mirrors jammed into their eye sockets and other demonic touches, become the new Looney Tunes.
This is all sadly true.
However, after children were forced to sit down and watch their favorite
friendly toons being transformed into satanic creatures with dead eyes, they were,
perhaps unsurprisingly, terrified out of their living skulls.
So Warner was convinced to eventually redesign these creatures. Here they are in
their initial, eyeless, malevolent glory:
I can't wait to see how Granny with the Tweety Bird comes into play. Maybe she sells
her soul and finds these characters burning her in a fiery pit for eternity.
Anyway, here are the new toons redesigned, meaning Warner decided not to have them bare their
pointed fangs with pure malice
in every picture. Oh, and they have eyes now:
You can also read descriptions of each new character
here.
Among the highlights is the fact that the voice talent matches the look of the show,
with actors from Sin City and Kill Bill rounding out the evil villain half of the cast
for this show for kindergarteners.
Also, here are two characters you may enjoy reading about:
-- Rev Runner (descendant of Road Runner), voiced by Rob Paulsen, the rapid fire, head-spinning talker the Loonatics are quick to quash, buoyed by his brain-embedded telekinetic GPS-tracking system and catch-him-if-you-can super sonic speed.
-- Tech E. Coyote (descendant of Wile E. Coyote), voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, the effusively erudite technical genius and gadget guru with an endless "way over their heads" vocabulary and scientific savoir faire, imbued with regenerative powers, electromagnetic abilities and mechanical mastery.
The words "brain-embedded telekinetic GPS-tracking system" always
sprung to mind when people asked me which improvements I'd make in Looney Tunes.
I also am pleased to see that someone on Looney Tunes finally has regenerative powers,
even though every Warner character who's had 50,000+ anvils dropped on his head arguably
already had it. Nevertheless, I can't wait to see this power in action, when he breaks bones
and bleeds profusely and gets gangrenous infections to impress the children with his regenerating.
But maybe we should appreciate these hell-spawn creations.
Regardless how much kids are scared of these new characters, these still beat the crap out of Disney
cartoons we had to watch 15 years ago.
Oh, and here is another opinion
on the new X-treme Looney Tunes. Says more than I probably should.
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