I really loved Gargoyles as a kid
Keith. Mother. Fucking. David.
Also Evil Will Riker and Evil Deanna Troi.
Desdamona. Raawwwrr
Me too!
Theme song goes so hard
Oh yeah!
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Pirates of Dark Water
Anyone else remember “The Pirates of Dark Water”?
I think someone else mentioned it already, but Swat Kats was also great
I was opening the thread intending to say just this. I don’t remember either show very well, but I remember loving them.
Yes! I loved that show and it was gone too soon for my liking.
Captain Caveman
I’ve actually done the “Captain Caaaavemaaaaaan!!!” yell around people in my age group and just got blank stares.
Mummies Alive
Reboot
Ronin Warriors
Beetlejuice
(Not truly a favorite list exactly, but definitely big impact, I think forgotten, and not already seen listed.)
gargoyles of couse,
Exo Squad.
One of the first (to young me) serial cartoons that had an ongoing plot week to week.
Many I would mention are already here, so I’m throwing in Reboot!
Finally, a current discussion about Reboot to bring this up in.
Okay, so Matrix from the later seasons was absolutely just a parody of Cable from X-Men, right? With the gun, and the sleeveless armor, and the gold eye?
Yeah, it’s been a while so I looked up the character’s arc and it does seem that he is inspired from Cable and/or Solid Snake (who actually debuted in Metal Gear in 1987).
Ahh… Always felt like that was a parody or callback, and never figured it out!
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
Based on a comic book, it follows the lives of four turtle brothers who were mutated by toxic ooze to become anthropomorphic crime-fighting ninjas. Absolutely wild stuff.
The Secret Show - this old British cartoon about secret agents that would go on exciting missions and such! I swear that oversimplified corporate art style took inspiration from The Secret Show!
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Favorite of all time. Exosquad. Mech armor, space warfare, synthetic humans, space pirates, insurgency, spies, politics, slavery and freedom from it, reproductive rights, clones and resurrection- yes this was all in a kid’s cartoon and it was awesome. That was two seasons. Sadly they canceled it before season 3 where they were hinting at ALIENS.
didn’t they cross over with battletech or robotech? was too old by the time it came out but recall seeing some stuff…
Not as far as I know, but I’m willing to be wrong. I only ever knew about the TV show.
apparently it was robotech, but the toy lines, not the series; I was a huge robotech fan as a kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosquad
The toys were often compared to the popular Robotech franchise, and Playmates acquired the license to Robotech to produce both toy lines under the same label, spawning rumors of a possible crossover.[13][unreliable source?] This possibility was considered by the authors but later abandoned. Today the Exosquad toys are considered highly collectible along with their boxes.
Ah that makes sense. They did have a similar vibe so I could have absolutely seen a crossover happening. Maybe if the show hadn’t been canceled.
Thanks for the info.
Ulysses 31 was amazing but nobody seems to have heard of it.
And I’m still pissed Dungeons and Dragons was cancelled
They wrote the script for the final episode of Dungeons and Dragons, but never made it.
You can read the script here: https://thescriptsavant.com/tv/Dungeons_&_Dragons_3x99_-_Requiem.pdf
And see a fan remake of it (with the original voice actor for Sheila) here: https://youtu.be/m1_6SeRRflo
OMG mate!!! Thank you so much!!
I loved Ulysses 31, although I never really knew what was going on. It just looked amazing.
Yep!
There’s three that I consistently have people who grew up at the same time don’t remember:
Exosquad I watched religiously, and I don’t think they ever finished it. Mighty Max was on every day before I went to school, so it was my breakfast watch.
Samurai Pizza Cats
