Blanko is a male Nerdluck and a major antagonist of Space Jam. He is part of a group of 5 Nerdlucks that used to serve Swackhammer, the proprietor of Moron Mountain. Blanko was tasked along with with comrades to capture the Looney Tunes and bring them to Moron Mountain to increase its entertainment. He became a Monstar after he stole the talent from Shawn Bradley to beat the Looney Tunes in a basketball game, but he lost along with his team and turned on Swackhammer and returned his talent back along with the others and decided to stay in Looney Tune Land.
Appearance[]
Physical Appearance[]
Blanko is a blue male Nerdluck. He has a slim body, big purple eyes, three fingered hands, lizard-like nose, small tail, two crooked antennas and tiny feet. His antennas, hands, and feet are dark blue, and his underbelly up to his mouth is bright. He also has dark blue spots on his back
As a Monstar, Blanko gained a humanoid appearance. He was very tall, the tallest of the Monstars, and slender. He had pointy ears, dark blue short hair, sharp dark blue nails, and five teeth, two of them buck, and dark spots on some parts of his body.
Attire[]
Blanko wears only a pink bow tie.
As a Monstar, Blanko wore clothes in a dark blue and white color scheme. He wore a basketball uniform, including sneakers, shorts and a basketball jersey with his number zero on the chest colored white. The outlines of the shorts and jersey were colored gold.
Personality[]
Blanko is very laid back, naive and foolish. Unlike the other Nerdlucks, Blanko is the kindest and friendliest alien even as a Monstar, holding no grudges no matter how badly he is treated and being honest about how he feels and cares for others. He does harm sometimes but much more rarely than his comrades and unlike them he doesn’t do it out of malice, but gets scared when he feels threatened. Blanko did play against the Looney Tunes in basketball, but he played more fairly and for fun. He did take delight for once making someone suffer with his teammates, that being his abusive boss, Mr. Swackhammer. He can feel a little embarrassed when he is praised. Blanko is also attached to having strength, even if it's stolen and feels hesitant about giving it away, but he is honorable enough to accept a deal even if he loses.
Abilities[]
As a Nerdluck, Blanko has the ability to turn into aun undetectable pink transparent floating goo-like being that can enter a person through their nose and after a moment he can steal their talent, rendering them powerless. He can store this stolen abilities inside an object and can use them for himself or others. He can also return said talent back if he wants too.
As a Monstar, Blanko is very powerful and a capable basketball player despite being a little clumsy.
Biography[]
The Mission[]
Blanko and his other four Nerdluck companions serve under Mr. Swackhammer in the amusement park Moron Mountain, which was starting to lose its popularity and pull on customers. Blanko watches along with everyone present in Mr. Swackhammer's office a multiscreen of an alien child complaining about his experience in the amusement park and refuses to return. Blanko and the other Nerdlucks get in front of the displeased Mr. Swackhammer's table with the blue Nerdluck standing next to Bang's right and Pound's left. He hears Mr. Swackhammer complaining about his amusement park losing popularity and the need for new attractions and stands on his table near his left holding a pair of scissors. When Mr. Swackhammer starts releasing some spit that falls on Blanko, the little blue Nerdluck is disgusted by it and when his boss starts brainstorming on new attractions, Blanko slides of the table and goes to his right, but accidentally gets slapped away by Mr. Swackhammer's right hand, much to the Nerdluck's shock and pain and watches as he sits on the table and tries to come up with an idea and when his boss sees the screens depicting the Looney Tunes that Swackhammer unknowingly turned on, the amusement park manager gets the idea to use them as his attractions and Blanko gets closer with the rest of the Nerdlucks and hear his boss demand that they bring the Looney Tunes to him. Blanko gets closer right between Mr. Swackhammer feet and points out an important fact to his boss that the Tunes are from Earth and makes a fair question if they can't come to Moron Mountain, but gets immediately grabbed by Mr. Swackhammer who demands that the Nerdlucks make the Looney Tunes come and a squished Blanko says "Cool" with barely any breath and gets swinged around by his excited boss.
Blanko is sent to Earth along with his other four Nerdluck friends and Blanko is sitting on the far right of the ship next to Bupkus. Once they make it underground to enter the Looney Tunes World, Blanko asks if they have made it yet and when a huge wall depicting the Warner Bros Logo is in front of them, Blanko starts screaming for a moment along with his friends, but gets immediately excited like the rest of the gang when they see it as the entrance to the Looney Tune Land. After they've landed, Blanko emerges from the ship's exist with the other Nerdlucks, standing between Pount on his right and Bang on his left and they all walk down the bridge and come across a male anthropomorphic rabbit toon. The Nerdlucks ask the stranger where they can find Bugs Bunny and when the rabbit asks if Bugs Bunny possesses attributes like him such as long ears, hopping around and using the accent "What's up, Doc?", they answer positively and get excited only to get dissent when the stranger states he does know Bugs Bunny. However, they realize that the stranger is Bugs Bunny and Blanko uses his laser weapons like the rest of the Nerdlucks and blasts the rabbit. When Pound sinisterly states that Bugs Bunny and his friends are going for a ride, Blanko gets excited and jumps before getting close to Pound while dragging his laser gun and stupidly asks the Nerdluck leader where they are going. Because of his foolishness, Blanko receives a hard slap from Pound that shakes him around and gets him dizzy while asking if they have made it to their destination yet. Blanko and his friends are brought to a platform by a chained Bugs Bunny to make their announcement to all the gathered Looney Toons. Blanko is standing between Bupkus on his right and Nawt on his left and watches Pound and Nawt make their announcements and threats about taking the Looney Tunes to their amusement park in outer space and Blanko comes close to the mic and gently says that they are telling the truth, but the threats are all taken as a humorous joke until Blanko and his companions pull out their laser guns and point them to the frightened Looney Tunes which make them surrender without resistance. However, before they can imprison the Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny reveals a book about capturing cartoon characters and a curious Blanko walks towards Pound holding the book while dragging his laser gun and watches behind the Nerdluck leader that the book says that they have to give the Toons a chance to defend themselves and Blanko happily accepts it as a part of the rule book and his comrades accept too.
After the Toons are done talking, Blanko is standing in the mitt between Bupkus on his right and Pound on his left and watches along with the others Bugs Bunny pull away a chart and when the rabbit reveals the challenge being a basketball game the Nerdlucks accepts and Blanko becomes excited until he realizes that he doesn't know what basketball is and neither do the others and they wander what it could be. Blanko watches a theater movie about basketball along with everyone in the room to enlighten them and once they learn about the sport of basketball and the NBA players, Blanko becomes a little nervous and takes a look at Bang, Pound and Nawt, and then becomes excited about what they have learned.
New Challenge, New Talent[]
In New York City, Blanko and the other Nerdluck attend a basketball game of NBA players that they target for their purposes disguised in a raincoat. Once they take a seat, Blanko and Bang open the raincoat slightly in the chest to watch the game and the former is amazed and asks what they should now. Blanko slightly gets his right foot out without anyone noticing and gets inside. When Bang points out that someone is killing somebody when looking at the small opening in the chest, Blanko becomes curious and takes a look and notes that the mentioned basketball player is good before getting pushed away by Pound. After Pound steals the talent from the basketball player and seals it inside a basketball ball the Nerdlucks have, Blanko is amazed at the accomplishment. It doesn't take long before the Nerdlucks can steal the talent of four more NBA players so each one can have the power of the best NBA players.
Back in the Looney Tune Land, Blanko is doing physical exercises in a basketball field alongside his teammates and they demand the court for training, which Bugs Bunny allows and the Tunes mock them for their short size. To prove how strong they can be, the Nerdlucks pull out the basketball ball containing the NBA players' talent and Blanko touches it as do the others and stormy clouds start gathering. The talent is transferred to each one and when Blanko gets his, he starts shaking for a moment and watches as Pound begins to transform into a huge monster. Blanko then takes notice of his feet shaking and transforming into giant sneakers and he immediately transforms into a very tall monster as thunder strikes and his other friends transform as well. Blanko and the other monstrous Nerdlucks look down on the terrified Looney Tunes and the blue titan takes a closer look at the pig, while holding on the shoulders of Bupkus and Pound. Blanko greets the pig with a small boo, which scares the pig instantly. Blanko watches as Bang strikes the ball hard to the ground which makes it shake and break apart much to his shock. The terrified Looney Tunes are shocked by the immense power the Nerdlucks have gained and dub them Monstars. The monstrous gang leaves and Blanko bids them goodbye.
The next day, the Monstars come to the basketball gym and while his friends burst through the doors viscously, Blanko on the other hand opens the door gently, but when he walks in, he accidentally bangs his head on the basketball backboard, causing him great pain in the head and holds it with his hands. Blanko and his companions look down on the Looney Tunes and their new teammate, Michael Jordan, and challenge him to a game with Blanko preparing his right fist. The Monstars first humiliate Michael by turning him into a ball and playing with him. However, when Tweety bird is injured by Bang, Blanko becomes worried and swipes away Bang and Bupkus away to take a closer look while asking if the injured bird is okay, but gets pulled back by the two Monstars who glare at him for feeling sorry about their enemies, which makes Blanko nervous. Because of the Monstars' bad treatment, Michael agrees to play against them.
The Ultimate Game[]
On the night of the game that decides the fate of the Looney Tunes, Blanko emerges with his team and chest bumps Nawt, preparing to play against the Tune Squad with the all the Looney Tunes and inhabitants of Moron Mountain witnessing the game. In the beginning of the first round of the game, Blanko gets ready to start the game against Michael. Before they begin, Blanko takes notice of Michael's shoes and finds them cool and smiles at him excitedly, but becomes a little confused when the referee, Marvin the Martian, approaches them with a basketball, questioning if they are ready. Blanko gets in position and makes a jump to catch the ball the referee throws in the air with his right hand, but is too slow and Michael pushes it away before him, giving the Tune Squad an early lead which quickly dissipates thanks to the Monstars' superior strength, and Pound makes quickly the first goal for the team. After the game resumes, Blanko charges toward Duffy Duck holding the ball with his whole team, but then he dogpiles with the others on Granny after the ball is passed to her. The Monstars do very well by scoring 4 more points, which gets Blanko excited. Blanko passes the ball to Pound on his right and starts running and the team scores again. When Michael has the ball, Blanko surrounds him along with Pound, Bang and Bupkus and look down on him. After a few more points, Blanko has the ball in his hands and prepares to play, but is approached by the fast-talking Sniffles of the opposing team, who acts all friendly with the tall Monstar. Blanko likes the tiny friendly Tune and passes the ball to him, but because of Sniffles' small size, he is crushed instead, much to the crowd's shock and dismay. Thanks to the Monstars superior strength and agility, they manage to score far more points than the Tune Squad before halftime. Blanko is proud of his team's success and high-fives with Bupkus and happily waves to the Tune Squad and high-fives with Bang before they go to take a break in the locker room. Blanko bursts through the door with his team and enjoys his time with his teammates, before noticing that Mr. Swackhammer is in the locker room. Blanko greets his boss just like the other Monstars by waving at him. While Mr. Swackhammer praises the Monstars in the performance and they in turn explain how they have won with the talent they stole from NBA players, the manager states that he smells something. Blanko thinks that his boss is talking about the stench of their sweat and he takes a sniff of his right armpit to confirm it and states that they have been playing really hard and shouldn't get blamed for sweating. However, Mr. Swackhammer rudely says that he isn't talking about the Monstars and points out that the smell is coming from a locker. A curious Blanko goes to it take a sniff and pulls out the locker easily with his left hand and it's revealed to be a member of the Tune Squad that the Monstars beat up for spying on them.
On the next half of the game, the Tune Squad make a comeback by bullying the Monstars instead with their newfound strength and score many points. Blanko passes the ball to Pound, but when Sylvester pulls off his shorts, Blanko becomes surprised by looking at his teammate's naked butt, which gets the crowd laughing. Because of the bad smell from Pepé Le Pew, Blanko is knocked out by the unbearable stench along with Bang and Bupkus in front of him and the Tune Squad scores and continues scoring. Blanko surrounds Tweety Bird with Pound, Bang and Bupkus and prepare to pick on him, but when the bird toon gets aggressive, Blanko is terrified as are the other Monstars who get beaten by the tiny Tune and Blanko gets his neck rolled, which is very painful. After the scores are 68-66 for the Monstars, they get a timeout from Mr. Swackhammer, who demands to know why they didn't steal the talent from Michael Jordan, to which the monstrous players respond that he is a baseball player, but the manager finds him more of a basketball player instead and Blanko agrees with him. Blanko watches as his boss and Michael make a deal by raising the stakes, that if the Monstars lose, they will give their stolen talent back, with the offer that they will get Michael Jordan as their new attraction in Moron Mountain. After the deal was made the Monstars play far more brutally than before by tormenting and thrashing the Tune Squad and get them badly beaten. Blanko surrounds Michael holding the ball with the other Monstars, but points at Stan who is open, and once he has the ball, the team dogpiles him one after the other, with Blanko jumping in after Bupkus and before Pound, but he manages to score nonetheless. After the Monstars have flattened Stan completely, Blanko gets off of him as do the others. When the game is in its final 10 seconds, Blanko gets ready, but watches in shock along with Bang when Pound loses the ball and it flies away. Blanko gets ready to stop Lola Bunny who has the ball, but watches in confusion when she passes it to Duffy Duck, but it ends up in Bugs Bunny's ears, who passes it to Bill Murray and Blanko tries to take it from him, but collapses from slipping and tries to get up. In the last 5 seconds, Blanko watches Michael make the last goal by stretching his arm and that seals the victory for the Tune Squad.
While the Looney Tunes celebrate over their victory, Blanko and the Monstars endure harsh insults from Mr. Swackhammer and the team apologizes with each insult and their boss orders them to get in the spaceship, but before they oblige, Michael asks the team why they allow Mr. Swackhammer to treats them so badly. The Monstars point out that they have to go through this because Mr. Swackhammer is bigger than them, but this makes Blanko and his poorly treated friends that they are currently bigger than their boss and have the power to make him pay and Blanko glares at him as do the others. Fed up with Mr. Swackhammer's attitude, Blanko and the Monstars turn on their boss to join the Looney Tunes and they grab the manager to turn him into a small rocket and they blast him off, with Blanko and the others waving their former boss goodbye. When Michael praises the group and the Looney Tunes cheer for them having strength to do the right thing, the Monstars smile with embarrassment and Blanko puts his right palm on his face, feeling happy to have his freedom and new friends. However, the Monstars' joy is cut short when Michael says that they have to return the talent to the NBA players as per their deal, which gets Blanko and the others sad and disappointed to lose their power now that they have changed their ways, but they reluctantly agree to honor the deal and Blanko places his right hand on the baseball ball as do the other Monstars and their power is extracted from them and they shrink down painfully back into Nerdlucks and their clothes fall off. Blanko emerges from his clothes back as a Nerdluck and rubs his head with his right hand and wished he could be big again. The Nerdlucks explain to Buggs Bunny that they don't want to go back to Moron Mountain and Blanko asks if they can stay with him instead now that they have become good and wish to stay with them as friends and he gives off a big smile begging as do the others. When Bugs Bunny feels hesitant about letting them join, doubting that they are "looney" enough, Blanko wears a Duffy Duck mouth , a straw hat and a cane, and sings with his other dressed up friends before getting crushed by Bupkus with a hammer. A crushed Walks a little to the left and gets back to normal while refuting his mouth mask before getting blown up along with the others by Nawt's gunshot and only his eyes remain.
It's likely that Blanko stays in the Looney Tune Land with his Nerdluck brethren to live they life they wished.
Relationships[]
Friends[]
Nerdlucks[]
The Nerdlucks are Blanko's closest friends with whom he hangs out the most and follows them. Despite being on their side, Blanko receives some bad treatment from his companions for his ignorance and compassionate nature. In the end however, the Nerdlucks became kind and friendly just like Blanko.
Pound[]
Pound is Blanko's friend as well as his leader. Blanko looks up to Pound, but can be a little bit annoying in his presence which makes the Nerdluck leader mad and mistreat the kind Nerdluck.
Bang[]
Bang is Blanko's friend as well as his superior. Blanko respects Bang, but when the kind Nerdluck shows compassion, he receives menacing gestures from Bang for showing weakness.
Nawt[]
Nawt is Blanko's friend. Not much is known about their relationship since they are rarely seen together, but Blanko tries to assist Nawt and feels okay about letting him stand on his shoulder.
Bupkus[]
Bupkus is Blanko's friend. Blanko respects Bupkus, but when the kind Nerdluck shows compassion, he receives menacing gestures from Bupkus for showing weakness.
Looney Tunes[]
The Looney Tunes are former foes of Blanko's turned friends that he made after he and his Nerdluck friends chose to become good and likes them very much. At first, Blanko was tasked to capture the Looney Tunes to turn them into attractions for Moron Mountain. Although they were supposed to be his target and enemies in the game to take control of them, Blanko bared no animosity against them or bullied them like the other Monstars, and in fact he actually liked the cartoons and wished to befriend them despite being enemies and pointing his laser gun on them. In the end, Blanko became a friend of the Looney Tunes after he and the other Monstars got rid of Mr. Swackhammer and changed their ways to become good guys and the Tunes cheered for him and the others for earning their freedom. It's likely that he stayed with them after deciding not to return to Moron Mountain.
Bugs Bunny[]
Bugs Bunny is a former foe of Blanko's turned friend. Blanko seems to like the rabbit Tune and respects his decisions. At first, Blanko was tasked with capturing Bugs Bunny and his friends and had no problem with blasting him with his laser gun. After the game between the Monstars and Tune Squad was concluded with the removal of Mr. Swackhammer, Blanko begged Bugs Bunny to stay in his world and tried to prove that he was "looney" enough to stay with the Tunes.
Porky Pig[]
Porky Pig is a former foe of Blanko's turned friend. Blanko doesn't have much contact with Porky, but he seems to like the pig Tune as he greeted with a boo as a joke, but got him really frightened. But after Blanko's team became good, they appear to have left bygones be bygones.
Tweety Bird[]
Tweety Bird is a former foe of Blanko's turned friend. Blanko likes the tiny bird Tune and feels worried when he is hurt, such as when Bang hurt him. But despite his fondness of the Tune, Blanko can get very frightened of Tweety when he is fighting seriously and received a painful twist of the neck from the savage bird, but doesn't appear to hold a grudge against him. But after Blanko's team became good, they appear to have left bygones be bygones.
Sniffles[]
Sniffles is a friend of Blanko's. Blanko met Sniffles for a short time, but the huge Monstar liked the tiny Tune immediately when he first met him in the basketball game and liked his fast-talking and friendly demeanor. Blanko tried to be nice to him by passing the ball to Sniffles, but ended up accidentally crushing him with the ball instead.
Michael Jordan[]
Michael Jordan is a former foe of Blanko's turned friend. Blanko really likes Michael, and treats him like a good and respected friend. He did appear to show some hostility towards Michael by glaring at him, but never did anything to hurt him, however he played hard against him. Blanko respects Michael skills as a basketball player and admires his attire as well despite being enemies. It was to Michael that Blanko and the other Monstars realized that they had the strength to be free of their cruel boss, Mr. Swackhammer, and be free. Blanko felt very grateful for Michael's help and the praise he received from him which got him embarrassed. Although, Blanko felt disappointed when Michael asked back for the talent they stole from the NBA players, especially when they had become real friends, but obliged nonetheless to honor their deal.
Acquaintances[]
Stan Podolak[]
Stan Podolak is a brief acquaintance of Blanko's, whom he and his team found spying on them, which made Blanko displeased. It's unknown if he tortured him with the other Monstars, but he did flatten him with his team during the basketball game.
Enemies[]
Mr. Swackhammer[]
Mr. Swackhammer is Blanko's former boss turned enemy, after he turned on him like the other Monstars. Blanko used to be very obedient to Mr. Swackhammer and followed his orders because he was very afraid of him for being bigger than him and the other Nerdlucks. Despite his loyalty to his boss, Blanko received nothing but hardships and bullying from Mr. Swackhammer, which Blanko accepted without holding a grudge since there was nothing he could do about it. He was brave enough to question Mr. Swackhammer on his plans, which made only earned the Nerdluck more streif. In the end after Michael reminded them of the reason behind his fear of Mr. Swackhammer, Blanko realized that he no longer had to endure his boss' terrible treatment when he was a Monstar with the strength to make him pay and get rid of him, which he and his friends did by putting their manager in a rocket and ejecting him into space to finally be free from him.