The ThunderCats do n’t have the cultural clout of Transformers or even He - Man , but it still has a legion of fans that remember it fondly to this day . Chances are , this is because they ’ve forget how weird and nonsensical the toon unremarkably was . Here are a dozen “ fun ” fact that should remind you the ThunderCats were n’t just loose , they were loony .
1 ) Lion - O was actually a little kid .
In the rootage of the series , the ThunderCats fly into space to head for the hills the demolition of their home worldly concern of Thundera . Lion - O , the son of King Claudus , is a mere 12 - year - old when he ’s put into debar spiritedness during the long misstep to Third Earth along with Cheetara , Panthro , Tygra , and the relaxation . When Lion - O wake up , he in reality kind of enthused to break there was a malfunction with his space capsule that have his soundbox years into adulthood — while his brain is in reality untried than that of WilyKit and WilyKat .
2 ) They all stir up up on Third - Earth nude .
You certainly think back that the ThunderCats wore armor and clothes , correct ? And they did , all the time … except when they first wake up on Third Earth in their natal day suit . Now , they ’re still cover in their fur and everything , so no mammilla are exposed , and I assume everyone ’s genitals were sheathed . But ensure as the inaugural episode takes the metre to show the ThunderCats putting their wearing apparel on later , there can be no doubt that the show blend out of its fashion to depict its characters unclothed .
3 ) There were actually plenty of humans on the show .
While the ThunderCats and their eldritch brute ally and foe were apparently ThunderCats ’ stars , the show was not free of humans , who end by on a jolly even base . There was an intergalactic big game hunter named Safari Joe ( who arrange in traditional “ enceinte game hunter ” attire ) ; a variety of bounty Orion ; a samurai from “ the Planet of the Red Sun ” ; and many more . There were actually a clustering of humans already living on Third Earth as well , although 90 % of them were royal family and/or wizards , like Queen Tartara and Brodo . And there was even a kin group of Amazons living on Third Earth called the Warrior Maidens ( a bit on the nozzle , if you ask me ) who became acquaintance with the ThunderCats . Why did Third Earth have amazon ? Well , because …
4 ) Third Earth is really just Earth .
Specifically , our earth is First Earth , and then it had a couple of calamities and so that the planet is now in its third … phase , I guess ? But however weird Third Earth gets , what with the giant and the unicorns and the Berbils , it ’s still our planet in the future , hence the human being still living there , as well as the human beings scattered across space . If human beings alone is n’t enough to convince you , in the first installment , Mumm - Ra is shown clearly living in the heavy pyramid of Giza , . In another installment , the Ancient Spirits of Evil say Mumm - Ra that Excalibur was the greatest steel ever made , so Mumm - Ra disguises himself as King Arthur and borrow it from the Lady of the Lake . So unless the Lady of the Lake has a starship and mathematical function of the galax ’s best lakes , it was likely the original . Also , Merlin has to break off by to save the day , and if he had to journey through time and outer space to get there , he did n’t mention it .
5 ) Snarf ’s real name was Osbert .
And member of Snarf ’s wash are hollo Snarfs , so the ThunderCats just ca n’t be bother to learn his real name . Also , Snarf went to Snarf College , because the Snarfs are the worst .
6 ) Mumm - Ra had a dog . It ’s name was Ma - Mutt , and if you ’re at all reminded of Dick Dastardly and his dog Muttley from then old Hanna - Barbara cartoon Wacky Races , then you ’ve got the good approximation , except that Mumm - Ra was more evil than Dastardly , and yet somehow just as incompetent . Like Muttley , Ma - Mutt was in reality more successful than his master , if only because he knew enough not to make love with the ThunderCats . Ma - Mutt could vanish and grow many times his size , understand language , and even masquerade as Mumm - Ra sometimes to the point of put out orders as him . Mumm - Ra considered Ma - Mutt his only true friend , even once telling the blackguard dog he loved him , on camera , thus ruining all believability of immorality the character had ever achieve .
7 ) The Sword of Omens was the most pathetic deus ex machina in all of fabrication .
Seriously . When the show started out , Lion - O ’s sword had a set tilt of powers — it extended , it flashed the ThunderCats signaling , it have him raft beyond sight , and even allowed him to dart energy beams . Fine . But by the time the second season start , the writers hold on even strain to transmit story , and the Sword of Omens literally did anything the patch require it to : It cured the ThunderCats of anything from unwellness to being hit by a shrink beam . It turned into a pole so Lion - O could polevault over thing . He could vanish on it . He could operate the atmospheric condition . Most insanely , the ThunderCats logotype the sword would figure ? By the oddment of the serial publication , the logotype was actually attacking bad guys and doing shit like pressing push for Lion - O.
- Thundera was destroyed because of the ThunderCats ’ imbecility .
Not Lion - O and protagonist , but because of Jaga , Lion - O ’s “ impertinent ” Oni - Wan Kenobi - esque wise man ( who also drop a lot of the time as a juicy touch ) . in any case , back on quondam Thundera , Jaga fought the malefic Ratilla and handle to wrest the Sword of Plun - Darr ( which is like the Sword of Omens , but from another satellite than was run over by evil mutant ) from him , and tossed it in a nearby vent to keep it from return to the hands of wickedness . The Sword , however , had other program , and by sheer virtue of its endeavour to get away its molten tomb literally destroy the planet . Really , Jaga ? You could n’t have obliterate it in a storage unit or something ?
9 ) It once sport a creature call off the Tongue - a - saurus .
It lived in the River of Despair . This really seems like it ’s a metaphor for something .
10 ) The ThunderCats could exist in the vacuum of space .
Yep . Here they are , just hanging out in quad , mouth and breathing and not imploding or freezing to death . I understand that we should n’t be looking to ThunderCats as a citadel of scientific accuracy , but the cartoon knew enough to put them in a spaceship when traveling from Thundera to Third Earth . sure as shooting it would n’t have been that hard to guide some goddamned spaceman wooing .
11 ) Snarf has a nephew .
It ’s impossible to forget Snarf , the hideous , fawning , objectionable thing that hung around with the ThunderCats and made Orko from Masters of the Universe calculate like a charming , uber - competent hero in comparison . All Snarf did was mutter unfunny lines in the most gravelly voice in ’ 80s sketch — which is saying something — and do something horrendously dazed that the ThunderCats would have to fix . at any rate , I ’m pretty certain you have all strangle the existence of Snarfer , Snarf ’s even more annoying nephew . He is the Scrappy - Doo of ThunderCats , and as such he should have been shot into the goddamned sun . Bonus Trivia : The Urban Dictionary lists a Snarfer as “ A soul who farts in the bathroom vat and then attempts to deplete the fart bubbles , ” which seems to me to be entirely appropriate .
12 ) ThunderCats are loose , but not so loose that they O.K. of underage drinking .
Even when I was 8 , I screw that every fourth dimension I get wind Snarf talk I want a dead reckoning of whiskey .
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