Our current IP-obsessed age is doing anything possible with old properties, but that’s not as new a trend as you’d think. Such a practice was around in the early and mid-2000s, just in small droves—case in point, do you remember when the Looney Tunes were superheroes?

Yes, that really happened in a show called Loonatics Unleashed . The Kids’ WB show launched on September 17, 2005, and was the franchise’s first foray into the action genre. Our premise? It’s 2722, and the Loonatics were normal people given superpowers as the result of a meteor hitting the city-planet Acmetropolis. Some of the heroes had whatever powers seemed cool at the time, like laser vision or teleportation; others had powers calling back their Looney ancestors, like Tech E. Coyote being functionally immortal and

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