Star Wars and Superman influences

How bout "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?"

The Thundercats were created before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. TMNT was conceived in part as a parody of Marvel's Daredevil comics. In the original TMNT comics it was implied that the radioactive waste that mutated the Turtles was the same that blinded young Matt Murdock. Daredevil was trained by a sensei named Stick while the Turtles were trained by a sensei named Splinter. Daredevil fought a ninja clan called the Hand while the Turtles fought a ninja clan called the Foot.

Besides Star Wars, Superman, and Batman being possible inspirations for Thundercats, I'd include Planet of the Apes and other series such as Kamandi and Thundarr the Barbarian that featured highly evolved animals and savage humans on a post-apocalyptic Earth. While it was never explicitly stated that Third Earth was our planet sometime in the future, there are clues suggesting that it was.

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