To this end, in “The Unholy Alliance” we are seeing the adult Lion-O at his most immature, essentially a pre-adolescent boy in a grown man’s body.
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One of the central themes of the ThunderCats series is, of course, the early character development of Lion-O, which allows the writers to incorporate morals and life lessons into the episodes. Mumm-Ra is immediately established as a genuine and deadly threat, besting the inexperienced Lion-O in hand-to-hand combat and nearly destroying him, only to be warded off by his one weakness: repulsion at the sight of his own evil reflection!Īnother extremely well-handled element of this episode is the continued development of Lion-O. Whilst the ThunderCats continue to best the Mutants easily in battle, this feels as though it might just be through the natural physical superiority of the Thunderian species, rather than because “the good guys have to win”. In some animated series from this period, there was a tendency to play the show’s main villains for comic relief, or to dilute the level of threat they posed to the show’s heroes, yet this is not done here.
In Mumm-Ra, we are introduced to a villain who is both menacing and believable-menacing because of his softly spoken yet grandiose manner when he initially meets the Mutants (making his transformation into his ever-living form all the more jarring), and believable because of his portrayal. It goes without saying that this episode is notable for introducing the ThunderCats’ most long-standing villain, the demon priest Mumm-Ra, and one of the most commendable aspects of this episode is how memorably and impressively this is done.
Along with “Exodus”, this episode is likely to have been watched by more ThunderCats fans than any other, firstly through its initial broadcast along with “Exodus” as an extended pilot, and also through its appearance as part of the famous “movie version” of the first four episodes.
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