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Who changed Lola Bunny?

Malcolm D. Lee explained, “This is 2021. It’s important to reflect the authenticity of strong, capable female characters. … So we reworked a lot of things, not only her look, like making sure she had an appropriate length on her shorts and was feminine without being objectified, but gave her a real voice. For us, it was, ‘Let’s ground her athletic prowess, her leadership skills, and make her as full a character as the others.'”

(See the complete interview here: X)

So, gone are her curves, thigh-high drawstring shorts and midriff-baring crop top. Instead, Lola Bunny now takes on a sportier look wearing a more standard basketball vest and leggings under her track shorts.

But, let's see more deeply what determinated this choice:

1. Being mad at a fan art is sad, people.

Before, a sad 50 yo guy starts complaing about how "cancel culture" or "politically correct" ruined his life - Really? Changing a cartoon bunny from a movie you didn't see for a decade ruined your life? Wow. Someone should really review the list of their priorities -, let's see how really Lola looked in the 1996 original Space Jam.

Here we have original Lola Bunny:

(Here you can see all Lola's scenes in Space Jam: X)

Yes, Lola walked in a sexy way that show off her curves, or at least she seemed to have curves (a little breast, tight waist, long legs, bootie), but those are not big as in the fan art you are seeing around, and Lola's curves are not evidenced during the match or when she played. Is more her attitude and posture that made her look sexy. However, althought her curves clearly changes every time she is doing something different, from action to action, there are some scenes in which she is purposely made sexy, with saxophone music as soundtrack and male-gaze sections that ends in the same way, Lola surrounded by a bunch of horny and howling cartoon guys.

That's appropriate with Jessica Rabbit: she is purposely made and designed as a parody of the femme fatale from old hard boiler movies, in which attractive, mysterious women were portrayed as evil and manipulative gals who hide criminal intentions. Jessica, with her intentionally exaggerated body, subverted the misogyny of 40s and 30s detective movies: she is kind-hearted, truly loves her naive and goofy husband Roger and uses her powers (beauty and cunning) to protect him. Her body too is used for comic sketches, while this not happens for Lola, that's just a serious and indipendent basketball player. So, the male obsession for her body is out of place, expecially because she reacted with anger at being misconsidered only for being an attractive female bunny. “Don't call me doll” is her catch phrase. So, it seems strange she didn't react at all at the very sexualized presentation at the final basketball match: Lola simply shows her basketball skills, ignoring or accepting passively the reaction of the honey crowd of wolves around her. (Please, notice the association: Lola “admirers” are wolves, predators, while Lola, their object of desire, is a rabbit, a prey)

This is the cartoon version of cat calling: they are like a group of men who sit on their porches and whistle at girls everyday when they walk in from of them. A normal girl or woman would pass over this thing, even if they are bothered, unconfortable or embarassed, because they are more scared by a possible violent reaction of this whistling horny guys at their legitimate anger objections. But here, we are talking of Lola, a strong Looney Tunes bunny, and she could smash that damn basket ball on wolves' face, breaking all their teeth. That would be very a Looney reaction. But Lola doesn't react at all at this situation. Here, on my opinion, screenplayers missed an opportunity, but probably they thought to have already did too much with Lola's personality and “girl power”.

Remember also that Lola is the only young cartoon female character we see in the whole movie. So we can't do a proper comparison with other female relevant characters' rapresentation. (See here for a deeper analysis of Lola's origin and development: X)

However, compared with Bugs, Lola looks more fit, more humanized than Bugs. Lola has clearly a definited breast and booty, but it looks like is more her posture that makes them relevant. Lola has clearly shoulders back to show the rack. Bugs is anthropomorphic but remains an animal, has no shoulders or pectorals more like a human and looks a bit over-weight (fat belly). And his posture don't keep that stomach in, chin up, and march forward.

Lola, on the other hand, has a more human structure. That's why I say she has curves. An example are Mickey and Minnie who are two beans in the same way it is not that Mickey is a bean and Minnie has small tits, they are structurally alike.

Lola's body remembers highly No-Ribs-Jasmine from Aladdin (see the gif for reference). That unrealistic Barbie-like waist that was so popular in the 90s and 80s. (See here for references: X and X)

Now, we are changed a lot from the past 24 years. Barbies didn't have that impossible, unrealistic waist-line anymore, Disney princess concept has changed (see Merida and Moana).

Lola concept is changed in 2012: her design for the new cartoons is totally different and her personality too. She wear a blue or violet dress, almost flat-chested and she was made annoying and silly, just to make a contrast with Bugs smarter. Just like Daffy Duck is dumb as hell and his new girlfriend, Tina Russo (no more dear old Melissa Duck), is way smarter than him. Tina is tough, street-smart, rebellious and feisty. But we will see this thing in the next point.

2. People on the upper floors hated Lola personality.

Lola Bunny had only few lines in Space Jam, but she definitely passed the first impression that she was draw only for make male characters fall in love. Lola was a good basketball player and show it off, in front of a skeptical and then astonish bunch of cartoon guys and also Michael Jordan. She also had a strong personality and said it clear to Bugs she didn't like being called "doll". Lola was beauty and curvy, but not a cheerleader. Lola was a basketball player. Remember this part, because we will talk about basketball in the next point.

If at the box office Space Jam was a success, at Warner Bros there were those who turn up their noses, and they are important people, from the upper floors, who accused the film with Michael Jordan of having completely distorted the philosophy of the Looney Tunes. They blamed Lola Bunny more than everything else. Producers of Warner Bros said she was too perfect for the moody group of Warner cartoons: she was too sensual, provocative and independent, totally alien to that core of crazy characters that act as an exaggeration of the vices of 'man.

And fans hated her too. Chuck Jones, creator of the Merrie Melodies said: "Lola Bunny is a character with no future, she’s a totally worthless character with no personality."

So, Lola Bunny was deleted. Lola would make only some brief apparitions in some comics edited by DC Comics, in Baby Looney Tunes, in which she was a toddler with a very similar personality and resemblance to Space Jam adult version, and also as playable character in some unsuccessful videogames.

Years passed and projects for a sequel of Space Jam never become reality, so in 2003 Warner Bros relased Looney Tunes Back in Action. But Lola wasn't here, because the movie purposely want to make a deep cut with what we saw in Space Jam, according to what said it's director Joe Dante. This movie was a totally failure, but it gave back to Looney Tunes their craziness.

Years passed again, but this time is 2011, 10th of May on Cartoon Network was relased the second episode of The Looney Tunes Show. The series aimed to strongly relaunch the Looney Tunes, long gone from the glories of the past, updating the stories of Bugs Bunny and associates in a sitcom key, with the rabbit sharing a house with Daffy Duck in a suburb of Los Angeles. All interspersed with sketches by Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner done in CGI and the updated return of the Merrie Melodies. But the big news of the second episode is that LOLA BUNNY RETURNED.

And Lola was a character with some relevance within the series, even if something didn't seem right with her. Lola looked different, she was no longer the rabbit version of the femme fatale seen in Space Jam: she was naive, talkative, with her head in the clouds, crazy to the point of becoming Bugs Bunny's stalker. Bugs after having fallen in love with her at first glance understands on the first date that he absolutely can't stand Lola. She is no longer the Lola we used to know, even if the appearance is similar and the name is the same. Lola is effectively a Looney Tunes now. And the fans like her, the public like her, Warner Bros like her.

(See Lola in The Looney Tunes Show here: X)

But this is a big walk in behind from the indipent character we used to know in Space Jam. Lola was turned into the stereotype of the crazy girlfriend for a while. And this is not a surprise, if we remember that in 2012 were popular the "overly attached girlfriend" meme template. (See here for references: X)

However, in The Looney Toons Show Lola has some very funny moments, while in Space Jam she was more serious and a little out of space among the other characters. (See here for references: X)

3. What women wear when they play basketball?

Women's National Basketball Association was only created in 1996. So, women's basketball were not considered - and still is not considered - as important as men's basketball at the time Space Jam was filmed.

In Space Jam 2 there will be WNBA players with a significant role, for example Diana Taurasi and Nneka Ogwumike.

Professional female athletes aren't that curvy because curves are determined by body fat and they have a little.

As a busty volleyball player, I can say, dear people, breats could be very annoying during sport activities: it could be a pain, when you run or jump. That's because a lot of women wear sport bra to compress and support their breast. Sports bra may also include layered cups or a high neck to keep everything in place and protect from painful hits, so women can be safe and comfortable during workouts.

Female basketball players didn't wear crop-tops and tight shorts to play. They wear exactly what Lola wears in the picture above: long sleeveless tees, large shorts and maybe protective gears such as knee pads, sleeves or braces to reduce chronic pain caused by the immense burden put on the knees in basketball, to prevent bruises caused by collisions and hard fall and to provide support after a significant knee injury like an ACL tear. They could wear also compressive arms sleeves to help muscles that are sore or overworked to recover faster. The sleeve enables your blood flow to circulate quicker to the heart, which helps you heal and recover quicker.

Wow. WNBA wears Exactly what wear NBA players. So surprising.

4. This is only a promotional character sketch, not what Lola would look in the movie.

Space Jam 2 would be developed in CGI and there are a little preview frames going around, included one showing Lola jumping and you can see her breast shape. But she totally looks like a comic cartoon character. It's not humanized. It's not designed to be the sexy love interest. She doesn't look out of space among the others anymore, expecially because seems that there would be also Tweety's Granny and Melissa Duck or Tina Russo as players too.

5. Reality.

Really? You want a human anthropomorphic rabbit? Well, Lola as a rabbit would have something like six nipples, but no human-like breast. And, also, real life girls have ribs. No one in real life is that thin. Oh, well, if you don't considered Pixee Fox, a model who had surgically removed six ribs and wears daily a compressive bust corset (yes, like the one that made Elizabeth Swan faint in the first movie of Pirate of the Caribbean) to look like a cartoon fairy (Tinkerbell, you are the one to blame for this).

(See here for references: X)

In conclusion, we can say that all this controversy is based only on a porny fan art and that Lola “new” graphic isn't change too much from the original Space Jam movie. It's just a little more cartoonish.

We can also firmly remeber that Space Jam 2 is going to be developed for children, to relunch Looney Tunes among new generations of children, who are the largest buyers of merchandising (including Happy Meals surprises) and consumers of new cartoons that surely would be developed, if Space Jam 2 would be a success.

However, we should admit that those kids probably know better the 2011 version of Lola than her original version and that 2011 version was more appreciated by fans and producers. Lola's voice actress, Kristen Wiin won BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award in 2012 and was nominated for that prize also about three times in the following years. Also Rachel Ramras, Lola's voice actor was nominated for BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award in 2016 for her role in Looney Tunes: Rabbit Run.

We don't know anything about Lola's personality in Space Jam 2, so we can't do a proper comparison or a prevision, but, according to what Malcolm D. Lee said, we can assume that original personality of Lola would be preserved.

The controversy is relevant only for Lola's body and not for her personality, and that's is highly rappresentative of what impressed more this bunch of grow-up kids. They grow up to be like the horny wolves and they are howling because their prey is not available anymore.

And, to be honest, being so obsessed with the breast and the body of a cartoon character (that is clearly made up for kids) it's not sane at all. Sorry to say that, but sometimes people need to drink from a bottle of truth.

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GrimmIchi (post epilogue): Includes some Anime characters and an original character of mine also using Anime terms. 11

Taylor, Ichigo and Grimmjow return

Ichigo: Renji, what's wrong with Rukia?

Renji: She just collapsed suddenly.

Just then Orihime arrives

Orihime: Rukia! runs over

Renji: How'd you know to come, Orihime?

Orihime: Tsubaki told me since I had him keeping an eye on thing just in case something happened and someone needed healing.

Taylor: I can quickly check her vital signs to see what exactly is wrong.

Renji: Go ahead.

Taylor proceeds to check Rukia's vitals and his expression changes to upset

Renji: WHAT'S WRONG TAYLOR!

Taylor: I don't know how to say it but she has no vital signs.

Orihime proceeds to attempt to heal Rukia but her Sōten Kisshun just breaks

Renji starts crying over Rukia's corpse

Taylor: Renji its possible she is still alive after all aren't the two of you in Gigai, if so her Gigai probably died and trapped her inside.

Renji (through his tears): I hope that's the case because I can't bear the thought of losing her.

Taylor proceeds to put on his Gokon Tekkō and pulls at Rukia's soul through her Gigai

Rukia: Thanks for that Taylor, I can't believe my Gigai could go and die on me since I though Gigai were artificial.

Taylor: They are but the organs are deigned to act like Human organs which includes the faults of such which means one of your Gigai's vital organs probably died which killed your Gigai, your first Gigai aka the one that Kisuke gave you to conceal the Hōgyoku proved that fact since you couldn't use Flash Step to chase after Shrieker's target who happened to be Chad and Yūichi Shibata who was stuck in the body of a parakeet at the time because of Shrieker making that fake deal with him, getting back to my point didn't you feel that your Gigai's Heart and Lungs were slowing you down? Yeah that is a poor choice to consider since the Gigai wasn't used to help you but Kisuke made it using the actual Gigai making technology the only difference he didn't make it to include power restoration and instead had it eat your Spiritual Pressure and I'm not saying he was trying to harm you since I highly doubt that was even in his agenda since he wanted to hide the Hōgyoku and you just happened to need a Gigai and yes he kind of duped you but his intentions were good if a bit misguided since you ended up getting harmed in the process and again I start talking about something unrelated to my point.

Rukia: Yeah you talk too much, Taylor.

Taylor: Well you need a new Gigai one that won't die on you so easily.

Taylor proceeds to take some kind of device out of his pocket and clicks something on the device he took out of his pocket which all of a sudden caused a lab equipment to appear

Taylor: There my portable lab is set up now to start working on that replacement Gigai and I could also work on replacement Soul Candies if you want, a type that makes it seem like you never left your Gigai which is the same type I use since mine are custom made so that the artificial soul takes on my personality that way no one gets confused on personality being changed. But that Soul Candy part is optional since I know how much you like Chappy since its based on a rabbit and you really love rabbits which tend to lead people to criticize what you draw when trying to draw something serious since most people don't take rabbits as serious beings due to their cuteness meaning its never that your drawings are bad since they are actually quite good its just you using rabbits or bunnies to show something serious means the person is likely to criticize the drawing because they can't take the subject seriously since the cute being isn't helping the mood and please do not hit me with your sketch book because I never once said anything bad about your drawings I simply said that when trying to illustrate a serious subject, using rabbits or bunnies isn't the best approach and the times Ichigo was like "your drawings suck" or anything of the sort, was a rude way of simply saying "I can not take what you are saying seriously because you are illustrating the subject using rabbits" I say this because your drawings don't suck. Again I went off subject.

Rukia takes out her sketch book and uses an empty page and starts drawing everything she has explained in the past using non-bunny related beings in the drawings

Rukia (showing her reworked drawings): This better Tay?

Taylor (looking at drawings): I'm not the one you need to convince since I already stated your drawings are good the person you need to convince is Ichigo after all he did more criticizing than anyone else.

Rukia proceeds to show Ichigo, her remade work of past subjects that she tried to illustrate to him in the past

Ichigo: Much better Rukia, now I can actually take those drawings seriously. I also apologize for going the rude way to explain what Taylor just did, if I had known that I needed to explain it then I would have.

Rukia: That's water under the bridge now.

Taylor then walks over to Rukia and places her replacement Gigai at her feet and a Soul Candy Dispenser with her head on it

Taylor: I did the Soul Candies up just in case you might want them in the future, Ichigo also has his own and I've got it added to the selection of Soul Candy options where its just listed as Custom since it is technically custom since it takes on the personality of the Soul Reaper who orders it. Oh and don't worry about replacements since the Soul Candy Dispenser auto replenishes so no matter what there will be one in there since it clones the only one in there to be used repeatedly and yes you could call them Mod Souls but they don't have any special abilities they are just average souls with the Soul Reaper's personality.

Rukia: Thanks Taylor. proceeds to enter her new Gigai Does this Gigai have an extended life or something?

Taylor: Not quite that Gigai is now tied to you like say my body is tied to me and Ichigo's body is tied to him, that way the Gigai will not drop dead and trap you inside this why it stays alive as long as you are alive but in the off chance it dies before then it has a safety measure in place where it'll eject you if you happen to be inside it at the time of its death and because its connected to you if it were to die suddenly just take it to me and I can bring it back to life. Oh and before you ask no the Gigai doesn't make you anymore human than you already are and that is based on appearance and the fact that you technically weren't born in the Soul Society but ended up dying soon after you were born here in the World of the Living speaking of which you'll probably be in for a surprise when you return to the Kuchiki Manor.

Rukia: Did my brother find love again?

Taylor: Not exactly, I resurrected your sister from the dead and I found something that might explain why she got sick and died and how the two of you died in the Would of the Living and it seems to do with glass being in her wrists which was slowly killing her after you and her went to the Soul Society because it was blocking her Spirit Energy which killed her from the inside. Isshin shows up Isshin: Like what Kisuke did to Aizen during the fight when Kisuke, Yoruichi and myself were fighting him though he did that before Yoruichi showed up. Taylor: Kind of but instead of special devices instead it was strange glass that attached to the soul and it just so happened that Hisana got the worst of it by shards of the glass penetrating her wrists which in turn cased her to have a different type of death by spirit energy buildup since instead of explosion it was causing her to become deathly ill and because it was placed there on her death when she died in the world of the living, the illness didn't take hold until she was close to finding Rukia who she had abandoned. Rukia: I am still upset with that fact. Taylor: Would you have preferred that she drag you around trying to care for you and you probably never meeting Renji since you never know if had she never abandoned you that Renji would have became a Soul Reaper since that idea was your idea when yours and his 3 friends had died, wasn't it? Rukia: Ok I see your point. Renji: I don't wanna think of what my life would have been like if Rukia and I never met. Ichigo: You are both my friends but please don't get all kissy while I'm around. Orihime: Oh is that why you barely kissed me while we are together? Ichigo: To be honest yes. Orihime: looks at Ichigo with a serious expression Koten Zanshun! Ichigo dodges Orihime's attack Orihime: Sure dodge it like its nothing you cocky bitch! Riruka shows up Riruka: Hey that was what I told Rukia when she dodged one of my attacks during my fight with her. Rukia: Yeah. Orihime continues to try and attack Ichigo Ichigo: I'm not your enemy Orihime, I can understand that you are heart broken but this isn't the way to deal with that. Orihime: SHUT THE FUCK UP BITCH! Orihime sends another Koten Zanshun but this one looks like it could destroy a skyscraper Taylor: Enough! Taylor stops Orihime's attack Orihime: LET ME KILL HIM TAYLOR! Taylor: No! Think about what Kazui will think about you if you kill his father, I highly doubt he will forgive you even though you're his mother. Orihime: Fuck you're right. I never thought about Kazui's feelings on the situation. Just than Kazui walks in Kazui: Mom if you killed Dad, I'd call the cops on you and live with Grim-Dad and you'd just rot in prison. Taylor: I think that is going a little too far but I can tell that you'd only do that if she actually went through with it. Kazui: Exactly, Uncle Taylor. Taylor: Why are you addressing me as Uncle Taylor? Kazui: Because Dad said to treat you like family. Taylor: That does sound like Ichigo. Ichigo: Hey, I think of all my friends as family. Rukia: So you think of me as a sister? Ichigo: Yes. Renji: With me as your brother, not brother-in-law? Ichigo: At first but your marriage to Rukia made you a brother-in-law. Renji: Oh. Orihime: What about me? or am I just your Ex-Wife. Ichigo: No you went from Best Friend to Wife to Sister. Orihime: Uh you know how weird that sounds since we had a son together. Ichigo: Uh... Taylor: I don't find it weird since you aren't biological or adopted siblings you are only siblings based on thought so in the end its not weird. Ichigo: Thank you for explaining that Taylor. Taylor: No problem. Meanwhile in the Soul Society At Squad 13's Barracks A big explosion To Be Continued.