The elder ThunderKitten
Accurately described as a cunning junior duo, the ThunderKittens are small in size and still maturing, yet still serve a vital role in the ThunderCat ranks. Inseparable despite their competitive natures, both WilyKat and WilyKit are impatient to grow up and take their place amongst the adult ThunderCats. Inquisitive and impetuous, the ThunderKittens have been known to stir up their fair share of problems for the others to deal with, but with their good consciences and brave spirits they can always be relied upon to do the right thing in the end.
WilyKat is the elder of the two and the brother, and the more cautious of the pair, which does not stop him being the one who ends up captured.
What he carries
Trick pellets on a utility belt, a lasso that stretches, and a Space Board. The pellets run to chemical, smoke and incendiary compounds and are identical to look at, so an opponent never knows which one is coming.
He does not carry a bolo whip. That is Tygra’s weapon, and the mix-up is one of the most stubborn in the fandom, helped along by the LJN toy line packing WilyKat in with Tygra as a companion figure.
Caught, and getting out
The Tower of Traps turns on his capture. He and his sister chase robbers who stole a Wollo’s gold bracelet, Kat is taken, and WilyKit climbs the tower with Lion-O to get him out.
The twins are also the examiners for the Trial of Cunning, on the reasonable grounds that they are the most cunning ThunderCats there are. It does not go to plan. Their own trap backfires and traps them, Lion-O frees them, and when they try to race him to the exit of the Maze of Infinity they find he has quietly tied Kat’s own lariat around a stalagmite behind their backs.
Owning up
In The Trouble with ThunderKittens the twins lose the adult ThunderCats’ entire arsenal to the Mutants and go and win it back themselves rather than let anyone else clean it up. It is the episode that makes the case for them: reckless, but not cowardly, and straight with Lion-O when it counts.
