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The Nerdlucks are a group of aliens that work for galactic carnival worker Mr. Swackhammer, and the supporting antiheroes in the film Space Jam. They start out as tiny extraterrestrial weaklings who are goonish but child-like.

Background[]

History[]

Personality[]

The Nerdlucks[]

They are loyal, but they fear Swackhammer who abuses and mistreats them. They are easily persuadable around the Looney Tunes. Yet they are gullible when Bugs tricks them.

Its later revealed that they are just kind-hearted but child-like but lost and lonely little aliens who were just eager to be a part of an influential group, but were lead by the wrong hands all along.

The Monstars[]

Monstars

The Monstars

They are cocky, dangerous, and intimidating, They act like bullying thugs around Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes, like in their Nerdluck forms they fear Swackhammer and they're still loyal to him.

However after they lost the game, Swackhammer threw a fit towards them, and the team found their inner strengths by thinking for themselves for the very first time (thanks to Jordan's concerned comment to them) and grew fed-up of being being abused and mistreated, then the five gang-up against Mr. Swackhammer to restrain him, cram him into a small rocket, and then lifting him off to the moon. Then they had a change of heart with true self-confidence in place of their cockiness. But they still show a childish mindset when being reluctant to give the NBA players back their talent.

Physical Appearances[]

The Nerdlucks[]

The Nerdlucks are small insectoid aliens with different colored skins, three fingers, pale colored bellies, lizard-like noses and different colored bowties.

Pound

Pound

Pound is an orange and overweight leader of the nerdlucks, who wears a green bowtie. He speaks in a high raspy voice. As a monstar, he looks like Charles Barkley in the form of an Ogre, has small floppy ears, he is overweight and muscular. He speaks in a very deep voice. He is bossy, demanding, mean spirited and takes pleasure in bullying Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes.

Blanko

Blanko

Blanko is a blue nerdluck, who is dumb and laid back, unlike his pals, he is also friendly who wears a pink bowtie and speaks in a thick Californian accent. As a monstar, he looks like Shawn Bradley in the form of a Goblin, he is tall, muscular and has dark blue hair, pointy ears, and a buck tooth. He speaks in a thick Californian accent and he is friendly to Michael Jordan and Tweety.

Bang

Bang

Bang is a green and second-in-command nerdluck who wears an orange bowtie. He speaks in a high timid voice. He is nervous and concerned and as a monstar, he looks like Patrick Ewing in the form of an Orc, he is tough and aggressive. He speaks in a deep growling voice. He is muscular and has a large chin, small dragon-like ears, spikes on his back and a red orange flat top. He enjoys insulting Michael Jordan and picking on the Looney Tunes.

Bupkus

Bupkus

Bupkus is a purple nerdluck who is naive and cheerful. He speaks in a high cheerful voice and who wears a yellow bowtie. As a monstar, he looks like Larry Johnson in the form of a Troll, he is emotional and cocky and has dark purple hair and pointy ears that are slightly floppy. He speaks in a deep suave voice and is very muscular. He enjoys mocking Michael Jordan and hurting the Looney Tunes.

Nawt

Nawt

Nawt is a small and red, who is the lieutenant of the nerdlucks and speaks in a high squeaky voice. He is smart and who wears a light orange yellow spotted bowtie. As a monstar, he looks like Muggsy Bogues in the form of a Gremlin, he has big floppy rabbit-like ears, he is muscular and shorter.

The Monstars[]

As the Monstars, they are cocky of their monstrous strength and appearances, they use it to intimidate others who gets in their way. When they becomes monstars they become from small aliens to gigantic muscular humanoid mutants who are bigger and taller than any real-world NBA star, they wear navy blue basketball uniforms with gold trim lines, white zeroes on the front and on the back, white socks and navy blue sneakers. They have five fingers and pointy claw-like fingernails.

Role in the film[]

They first appear when Swackhammer is trying to attract more customers to his theme park on Moron Mountain because he's losing money. During his rant, he suggests something funny, wacky, and nutty when he suddenly sits on his remote in which a library of Looney Tunes shorts start playing on his TV screens, Bupkus and Nawt point them out and he agrees with them so he sends them to Looney Tune Land where the Looney Tunes reside. They encounter Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd accidentally landing on Elmer in the process. They interrogate Bugs and ask him the whereabouts of Bugs Bunny because they have no idea what he looks like. He describes himself to them in one of his classic routines and they agree with the descriptions and he tells them that he never heard of him which disappoints them. Bugs remarks to himself "you know maybe there really isn't any intelligent life out there in the universe!". At this point they figure out he really is the Bugs Bunny who they're looking for and they shoot him with their laser guns and tell him to come with them.

That night, Bugs holds a town meeting with the other Looney Tunes and tells them that they will be enslaved by the Nerdlucks. They laugh when they hear the Nerdlucks talk because they look and sound small and weak so they send Yosemite Sam after them. They shoot him with their laser guns frying him and knocking him unconscious. Now terrified they raise their hands in surrender. Bugs decides to negotiate with them telling them "The rules of kidnapping a cartoon character". He then holds a meeting with Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and Sylvester after much discussion. They decide to have a basketball game to decide their fates because they think they have the advantage because the Nerdlucks are too small. Little do they know the Nerdlucks have the ability to melt themselves and shoot into a person's brain to steal their abilities. Using this, they steal the talent from Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Muggsy Bogues, and Shawn Bradley and place the stolen talents into a basketball. Later as they prepare to train. Daffy sarcastically tells them since they are performing poorly "they need to practice growing taller".

They then take out the basketball and transform into gigantic monsters now calling themselves "The Monstars". After trashing the court, Bugs decides that they may need a little help, so they abduct Michael Jordan while he's golfing. After some coaching and training, he decides to help them in the game. At first the Tune Squad does poorly against them and are off by many points until Bugs pretends to take steroids which is actually water in order to improve their skills. After the Monstars start trailing Swackhammer tells them to play more aggressively which they do sending most of the Looney Tunes to the hospital, the only remaining players are Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Lola Bunny, and Michael Jordan, Bill Murray eventually comes as a replacement and through the power of cartoon logic. Michael Jordan is able to stretch his arm long enough to score the winning points. Swackhammer tells them that they are a bunch of losers and will never amount to anything Bugs and Michael ask why they take that from him they reply "He's bigger than...we used to be!". After stating their comment, they realize that they are bigger than Swackhammer and having enough of their abusive boss, they turn on Swackhammer, and strap him to one of Wile E. Coyote's rockets sending him to the moon. Afterwards with some hesitation, they agree to give back the basketball player's talents and revert back to their Nerdluck forms. They then reform and decide to live with the Looney Tunes.

Other appearances[]

Pinky and the Brain[]

Their only other appearance to date has been a cameo in the Pinky and the Brain special "Star Warners" as the patrons at the cantina bar.

Teen Titans Go![]

The Nerdlucks appeared in Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam.

Space Jam: A New Legacy[]

The Nerdlucks appear in 2 shots during the big game, but reusing animation from the first Space Jam.

Video games[]

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Gallery[]

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Trivia[]

  • Blanko's appearance as a Monstar bares a resemblance to the classic movie version of Frankenstein's Monster, both are tall creatures with the lowest IQs.
  • They were not referred to as Nerdlucks in the movie.
  • When the Nerdlucks turned into the Monstars, they became giant monsters of the basketball players who talent they stole, resembling them in the process.
  • The Monstars' basketball uniforms appear when they transform but when they transform back to the Nerdlucks, their uniforms never disappear.

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