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This [[Animated Show]] from [[Rankin/Bass Productions]] was one of the most popular [[Merchandise-Driven]] cartoons of [[The Eighties]].
Somewhere in the depths of space, a group of aliens with feline-patterned skin/80s glam rock stars with a cat-like theme flee their doomed homeworld of Thundera. Pursued by their enemies, the Mutants, their ship crash-lands on the planet of Third Earth.
The series chronicled the Thundercats as they adapted to their new home, making allies and enemies with the natives, and battling the machinations of the series' [[Big Bad]], a mummified sorcerer named Mumm-Ra who usually cowed the Mutants into doing his bidding. The show's second season chronicled their return to Thundera and their attempts to re-stabilize it, with an expansion of the cast of other refugee Thunderans.
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* [[Action Girl]] - Cheetara. Remarkably, in several episodes she gets to save the day, on her own, when all the rest of the team has been defeated.
* [[Action-Hogging Opening]]
* [[Achilles' Heel]] – Mumm-Ra's reflection instantly defeats him. Averted in <s>later seasons</s> season 2.
** Doubles as [[Weaksauce Weakness]].
* [[Adult Child]] - Lion-O, especially in the earliest episodes.
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* [[Big Bad]] – Mumm-Ra
* [[Bigger Bad]] - The Ancient Spirits of Evil.
* [[Brother Chuck]] – All the mutants besides Ssslithe, Monkian, and Jackylman disappear after their first few appearances. It's possible they were still on the ship when Mum-Ra destroyed it in the second episode.
** They're out in space. When Mumm-Ra destroys the ship, he tells Ssslithe and the others that now they have no way of contacting their fellow mutants.
** They were featured in the episode "Fireballs of Plun-darr".
* [[Bully Bulldog]] - Ma-Mutt
* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]:
** "Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats, Hoooooooooo!"
** "Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!"
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** Not to mention a powerful relic actually CALLED the Keystone which makes a one-episode appearance in Season 3.
* [[Cute Machines]] – Robear Berbils
* [[Darker and Edgier]] – ''The Return'' comic series, and its sequel ''Dogs Of War''. [[Squick|Not kid-friendly]], folks.
* [[Deal with the Devil]] – In "Monkian's Bargain", Monkian agrees to allow Mumm-Ra to make him powerful enough to defeat the Thundercats and rule Third Earth. He's so impatient that he leaves without hearing what the price is, and he's too [[Genre Blind]] to question why Mumm-Ra is giving him the power and not using it himself. After he manages to defeat the Thundercats, what happens to him is pretty scary, even if he does recover.
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Mumm-Ra''': You rule Third Earth. But it is a kingdom you will never see! Because you can never leave my pyramid!}}}}
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