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Andy
Richter Controls The Universe (2002)
Phil Diffy is the oldest child in a normal family. His sister,
Pim is an often devious girl with an unusual vocal talent, his
mother has a robotic body, and his father spends all of his time
working on their broken time machine. Okay, so Phil would be normal
he were in his own time. Until then, the Diffys are stuck in the
early 21st Century (what they consider the past) and trying to fit
in. Only one person knows their secret, Phil's new best friend
bubbly and popular Keely Teslow. But with this new life and the
misadventures that come with it become the norm, when the time comes
will Phil want to return to the future?
Avatar:
The Last Airbender (2005)
In a lost age the world is divided into four equal powers: Water
Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. In each nation
there's a group of gifted people known as Benders who have the
ability to manipulate there native element using martial arts and
elemental magic. For thousands of years the nations lived together
peacefully. But then disaster struck. The young ruler of the Fire
Nation, Fire Lord Sozin, began a war of world conquest. The only one
who could have prevented it was the Avatar. The Avatar is the human
incarnation of the Spirit of the World, he alone can master bending
all four elements. But, just when he was needed most, he
disappeared. Now, 100 years later, a young Waterbender named Katara
and her older brother Sokka stumble upon the long lost Avatar, Aang,
who was in-cased in an iceberg for 100 years. Now, they must help
Aang master all four elements before summers end when Sozin's
grandson Fire Lord Ozai will use a comet to deal one last deadly
strike against the other nations and claim a Fire Nation victory.
But, all that is easier said than done with the Fire Lord's
determined and hot-tempered son, Prince Zuko, hot on their trail.
Batman
Beyond (1999)
Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman is in his 50's and has created the
ultimate Batsuit but is no longer fully able to do the job so places
the suit away and vows to never use it. Several years later and into
the next century there's a new breed of criminal terrorizing Gotham
City but Bruce has kept his vow. Terry McGinnis, a teenager whose
father was killed because he was going to expose criminal activities
at the company that he works for which just happens to be Wayne
Enterprises. Terry comes across Bruce as he was being beaten by some
thugs, he takes him to the mansion and he discovers the Batcave and
the Batsuit; he takes the suit to get the people who killed his
father. Afterwards Bruce decides to make him the new Batman and
train him.
Bucky
O' Hare and the Toad Wars (1991)
In an alternative dimension called the Aniverse where the
denizens are humanoid animals, the free worlds are threatened by the
toads who are under the control of the insane computer, Komplex. The
sole defence is the forces of S.P.A.C.E., which unfortunately,
consists of a single ship called The Righteous Indignation under the
command of Captain Bucky O'Hare. During one engagement, the ship's
Photon Accelerator seriously malfunctioned, resulting in the
disappearance of the engineer and the opening of a dimensional
portal to the room of a human boy called Willy Dewitt, who is an
engineering genius as well. Now, that boy has a part time job as
part of Bucky O'Hare's crew as the war against the toads continues.
Cowboy
Bebop (1998)
Cowboy Bebop weaves the story of space cowboys on the lookout
for bounty. The main character, Spike, with a haunting past of
betrayal and a lost love, chases bounty across the stars with Jet,
the burley ex-detective with a prosthetic arm. The two later come
across the sexy outlaw Fay, who comes and goes as she pleases.
Teamed up with an eccentric child computer-hacker named Edward and a
worthless but adorable mutt named Ein, it's a odd couple of
characters with secrets buried in the past. In the year 2071, the
crew of the spaceship Bebop travel the solar system trying to
apprehend bounties. In the slang of the era, "Cowboys" are bounty
hunters. Most episodes revolve around a specific bounty, but the
show often shares its focus with the pasts of one of each of the
four main characters and of more general past events, which are
revealed and brought together as the series progresses.

Darkwing Duck (1991)
Darkwing Duck is an
Emmy-nominated American animated television series produced by The
Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991 to 1992 on both the
syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and
Saturday mornings on ABC. It featured an eponymous superhero
anthropomorphic duck with the alter ego of Drake Mallard (voiced by
Jim Cummings).
In the city of St. Canard, they are plagued by the most bizarre
criminals, but they have a protector as well, Darkwing Duck. This
bumbling and egotistical superhero battles evil in that fair city
with the help of his dumb pilot sidekick, Launchpad McQuack and his
rambuctious adopted daughter, Gosalyn.
Densha
Otoko (2005)
Densha Otoko (translated as
Train Man) is a television series, based on the purportedly
true story of a 23 year old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened
when a drunk man was harassing several women on a train. Aoyama
Saori, working as an office lady at a MNC, gets into trouble with a
drunkard on a train and she is saved by Yamada Tsuyoshi. As a form
of appreciation, she sends him Hermes teacups. Having no experience
with the opposite sex, Tsuyoshi decides to ask for help on the
Aladdin Channel BBS on how to interact with Saori. The event, and
the man's subsequent dates with the woman, who became known as
Hermès, was chronicled on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.
Dinosaurs (1991)
The Dinosaurs are an animatronics stone-age working-class family
created by Jim Henson for Disney. Incredibly overweight, even for a
dinosaur, Earl Sinclair/Ralph Kramden/Fred Flintstone is married to
Fran/Alice/Wilma and tries/fails to support 14-year-old valley girl
Charlene, 16-year-old Robbie, widowed, cranky Grandma Ethel, and
terrible-twos Baby, the true master of the house. Sharp social
commentary is featured surprisingly often; Earl is a tree-pusher for
the Wesayso Development Corp., which regularly implements schemes to
screw their workers even more and destroy the world for marginal
profit increment. Chilled but live prey are kept in the refrigerator
and are helpful when you can't find the milk, and caveman Humans
make occasional appearances as wild animals and pets.
Earthworm
Jim (1995)
The TV show Earthworm Jim is based on a video game by the same
name. As in the video game, our main character is Earthworm Jim, an
annelid with a power suit. His best friend is Peter Puppy, a scared
doggy, but when Peter gets mad... Let's say you do NOT wanna be in
the vicinity. His love interest is the "beautiful" (whether she
really is or not depends on whether you're a pro or anti)
Princess... The series maintained much of the absurd and surrealist
humor of the original games as well as introducing its own features.
Most of the episodes revolved around one of Jim's many villains
trying to reclaim the super suit, or otherwise causing mayhem
through the galaxy, or some sort of problem Jim is faced with, such
as returning his neighbors eggbeater, or finding a new power source
after his suit is depowered. The show also often broke the fourth
wall with many characters often talking to the audience and the
narrator.
Freakazoid! (1995)
The show's title character is the superhero alter ego of geeky
teenager Dexter Douglas. Gaining his abilities from a rather
spectacular computer bug (becoming absorbed into his computer and
instantly gaining all the information on the Internet), Freakazoid
has enhanced strength and endurance, extraordinary speed, agility,
and, unfortunately, negligible amounts of sanity. These changes make
him a powerful and fearsome force for upholding freedom and
righteousness, unless he gets distracted by something like a bear
riding a motorcycle. Dexter can change into and out of Freakazoid at
will with the words "Freak out!" and "Freak in!" (respectively).
When not in Freakazoid mode, Dexter looks and acts completely
normal, and his family is unaware that anything has happened to him.
Full
Metal Alchemist (2003)
Edward Elric and his younger brother Alphonse were living quite
happily with their mother... until she died. So Edward and Alphonse
decided to try to raise her from the dead. The resurrection failed,
leaving Edward without an arm and a leg and Alphonse's soul attached
to a suit of armor. Now they roam around the country trying to find
a way to restore their bodies. After their mother's death, Edward
Elric and his younger brother, Alphonse, try using alchemy to bring
her back to life. Unfortunately they do not fully take into account
the law of equivalent exchange which requires a sacrifice of equal
value to what one hopes to achieve. Not only do they fail to revive
their mother but Edward loses an arm and a leg and Alphonse loses
his entire body, forcing his soul to remain confined to an empty
suit of armor. Seeking a way to restore their bodies, Edward becomes
a state alchemist and the brothers begin a long search for the
legendary Philosopher's Stone, an object purported to allow its
users to ignore the law of equivalent exchange.
Gargoyles (1994)
In the Dark Ages, there was a race of heroic Warrior monsters
known as Gargoyles. These creatures existed as stone in the day, but
become flesh and blood at night. One Scottish clan made an alliance
with humans to help protect a castle by night if the humans would
protect their stone forms by day. The uneasy alliance was shattered
when human prejudice provoked a betrayal that allowed the castle to
be sacked and most of the resident clan destroyed, leaving only six
adult survivors and a rookery of unhatched eggs. A further
misunderstanding during the Clan's retaliation on the invaders and
rescue of their hostages left the clan frozen in stone by a magic
spell that would only be broken when the "Castle rises above the
Clouds." For a thousand years, the castle laid abandoned and the
clan condemned by this curse.
The animated show Gargoyles centered
on a heroic group of night creatures who vowed to protect New York
City from the evil Xanatos and Demona, who wanted to annhilate
humanity.
Gokusen
(2002)
Gokusen is the story of
recently graduated Kumiko Yamaguchi, aka. Yankumi, and her life as a
new high school teacher. Unlike the other new teachers at her school
Kumiko gets placed with teh toughest kids there. And has to deal
with all their rebellious actions. However as time passes she gains
her students respect by helping them out both in school and in their
daily lives. Which is easy for her to do as her students remind her
of her life at home, since she is a fourth generation crime
syndicate member and next in line to head it up. She's gone straight
and wants to be a teacher though, but she's one person in whose
class you don't want to be caught fooling around!
Greg
The Bunny (2002)
An outgrowth of a series of "interstitial" segments
seen between programs on cable TV's Independent Film Channel, the
adult-oriented Fox Network sitcom Greg the Bunny was set in an
alternate world where human beings peacefully coexisted with talking
puppets. Among the "Fabricated Americans" in this bizarro setup was
Greg the Bunny, an unemployed puppet who shared an apartment with
human roomie Jimmy Bender (Seth Green). Thanks to Jimmy's dad, TV
producer-director Gil Bender (Eugene Levy), Greg lands a job on the
popular kiddie show Sweetknuckle Junction, where he falls prey to
the petty jealousies of his fellow puppets and the sharkish behavior
of cutthroat network executives.
Love
Hina (2000)
When Keitaro was a child, he was friends with a little girl.
When the girl had to move away, the two made a promise to meet each
other at Tokyo University when they grew up. Years later, Keitaro
has failed his entrance exam twice, and his parents refuse to
support him any longer. His grandmother gives him refuge and
employment as caretaker of her inn, which just happens to serve as a
female dormitory. The eclectic group of tenants tease, annoy and
berate him to no end. Still, Keitaro won't ever give up his promise
to meet his childhood friend again, even though he can't remember
her name.
Neon
Genesis Evangelion (1995)
In 2015, 15 years after the enormous catastrophe that killed
half of the world population, another crisis has come - the
unidentified invaders called "Angels" begin to attack human-kind.
Any of their weapons are useless against the so-called "Absolute
Terror Field". But now human-kind had created an exception;the
ultimate all-purpose humanoid weapon "Evangelion". To operate this
exception needs the minds of "Children", 14-year-old juveniles. The
weak-minded Shinji Ikari, the only son of the commander-in-chief of
the team that administered Evangelion suddenly finds himself forced
to pilot EVA-01, a giant organic mecha, designed and constructed by
NERV, that is the only thing that can stop the Angels.
Phil
of the Future (2004)
Phil Diffy is the oldest child in a normal family. His sister,
Pim is an often devious girl with an unusual vocal talent, his
mother has a robotic body, and his father spends all of his time
working on their broken time machine. Okay, so Phil would be normal
he were in his own time. Until then, the Diffys are stuck in the
early 21st Century (what they consider the past) and trying to fit
in. Only one person knows their secret, Phil's new best friend
bubbly and popular Keely Teslow. But with this new life and the
misadventures that come with it become the norm, when the time comes
will Phil want to return to the future?
The
Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
When Ren, a young son of a lighthouse keeper, rescues a stranger
foundering in the rocks near his home, he learns the man was an aide
to his true father, a great king. Ren is given a magic compass
crystal that guides him to a dragon who shows him that the only way
to claim his heritage is to find the Thirteen Treasures of Rule.
Unfortunately, a pirate ship captained by the evil Bloth is also
aware of this treasure and is relentlessly pursuing Ren for it. On
his side, Ren soon acquires companions like Ioz the Pirate, Tula the
Eco-Mage and Nibbler the Monkey Bird who help him in his quest. That
quest becomes all the more urgent when Ren learns that the Dark
Water, a carnivorous form of water that consumes anything it snares,
threatens to envelope and destroy his world and only the treasures
he seeks can stop it.
Pride (2004)
Haru idolizes his first
coach, Anzai, played by Saburo Tokito, who, like Yukari, is also
killed off in the very first episode. But he hovers over the story
and Haru's life as he tries to cope with the new irritating coach
played by Koichi Sato. One of the things Anzai has instilled in him
is that he can't fall in love. Romance has to be a game during his
serious playing career. He has no trouble following those rules
until he meets Aki. It starts out as a game as his friends pick up
her friends and he observes that she may be one of those rare,
old-type Japanese girls who is not so quickly picked up or toyed
with. This makes the game more enticing because that is the kind of
woman he really wants. When Haru finds she is waiting for a
long-gone boyfriend to return, he suggests they should just hang out
together until then. Since neither wants to get serious, it will be
safe for both of them. She sees through this line but agrees. This
one will keep viewers coming back game after game. Four goals!
ReBoot (1994)
The extraordinary adventures of life within a computer, as
depicted in one of the world's first totally-computer-generated
series. The mouth-watering animation, riotous humour,
infinitely-variable action and scenery, and intelligent use of every
computer reference known, combine to produce a stunning universe
where good constantly fights the forces of evil. Dot Matrix and her
brother Enzo, plus thousands of friendly binomes, live in Mainframe,
which is plagued by viruses Megabyte and sister strain Hexadecimal.
Guardian Bob is sent from the Net to protect them, and soon makes it
his home. Together, they must prevent Megabyte from taking control
of all the systems. As an added complication, games being played by
the mystical User invade the system regularly, and must be defeated,
or else portions of the city are laid waste... this gives us a
chance to see every genre of video-game ever conceived, from the
point of view of the characters! When Megabyte finally manages to
banish Bob, Enzo takes over as the city's Guardian, but things will
never be quite the same...
Rocko's
Modern Life (1993)
Rocko is a wallaby who has
emmigrated to America from Australia. He lives in O Town and tries
to get through life but, of course, comes across a multitude of
dilemmas and misadventures he must get through. Other characters
include Rocko's best friend, Heffer, a steer who has been raised by
wolves, Filbert, an easily upset turtle, and Ed Bighead who detests
Rocko and hates having him for a next door neighbor. On this show,
Rocko has such adventures as trying to adapt to a new vacuum
cleaner, having Heffer move in temporarily after his parents kick
him out, and going to a movie theater. The animated series "Rocko's
Modern Life" centered on the hilarious adventures of an Australian
wallaby and his friends as he adjusts to American life.
Scrubs
(2001)
The show focuses on the professional and personal lives of
several characters working at Sacred Heart Hospital, a fictional
teaching hospital. It uses first-person narration, verbose
characters, segues between subplots, fast pace, and surreal escapism
(presented as the thoughts and reveries of the main characters), counterpointed by poignant scenes where the characters address how
doctors deal with real issues relating to the practice of medicine.
The combination of these diverse elements distinguishes it from
other series. Scrubs has been advertised as "half as long as
ER and twice as funny."
Sonic
SATAM (1993)
An evil scientist named Dr. Julian Ivo Robotnik invaded and
conquered a huge city named Mobotropolis, with the help of his
assistant and nephew Snively and his army of robot soldiers called
SWATbots. He then used a giant airship called the Destroyer to turn
Mobotropolis into a new city, renaming it Robotropolis, a polluted
city of factories and warehouses. Robotnik soon abducted the city's
king, Maximillian Acorn, exiling him to a dimensional warp known as
"The Void" and made the palace his own personal headquarters. From
there, he captured the rest of the citizens, including a brainy old
hedgehog named Sir Charles Hedgehog and his dog Muttski, and used a
machine called the roboticizer to turn them into robot slaves. Those
who managed to escape retreated into the Great Forest and built a
village named Knothole to hide from Robotnik, including a group
called the Freedom Fighters, among them the protagonist, Sonic the
Hedgehog, Charles' speedy nephew, as well as his best friend Tails,
a young two-tailed fox who can twirl his tails to fly. Other Freedom
Fighters include Rotor, Antoine, Bunnie Rabbot, and Princess Sally
Acorn, the king's only daughter.
Spider-Man:
The Animated Series (1994)
After being bitten by a radioactive spider, young Peter Parker
finds that he now has spider-like super powers. Hoping to use his
new-found abilities for wealth and fame, he lets his ego blind him
to the needs of others, and indirectly causes the death of his uncle
Ben when he refuses to help a police officer catch a fleeing
criminal. Humbled by his failure, he resolves to use his talents for
fighting crime, and becomes the superhero Spider-Man. While he
fights assorted super-villains, Peter also must balance his personal
life, including his girlfriend Mary Jane, his job as a photographer
at the Daily Bugle, and a an editor who has convinced himself that
Spider-man is a criminal that has to be brought down.
The
Adventures Of Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 was the second Mario
animated series produced by DiC. Based on the Super Mario Bros. 3
video game, the cartoon shows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and
Toad fighting against Bowser Koopa and his Koopalings, who went by
different names on the show. Since the show was based on Super Mario
Bros. 3, the enemies and power-ups were also seen in the show. In
addition to being more faithful to the Mario gameplay, the series
was given an established sense of continuity, something that the
previous series lacked. The show was also known for having many of
its episodes set in "the real world", with "actual" human beings
appearing from time to time. Episodes took place in locations such
as London, Paris, Venice, New York City, Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles
and even Washington, D.C.. One memorable episode entitled "7
Continents for 7 Koopas" was about the seven Koopa Kids invading
each of the seven continents.
Super
Mario World (1990)
The show takes place on Dinosaur World, and features the
then-new character Yoshi, as well as a preadolescent caveman named
Oogtar. This time, Toad was not in the cast, as he was not in the
game itself. Unlike in the game, Yoshi's Island was populated with
cavemen instead of Yoshis, and many of the locations had different
names. For example, the Vanilla Dome was called the Ice Dome, and
the Forest of Illusion was called the Enchanted Forest. Also,
enemies featured in the game were rarely called by their in-game
names on the show, but rather by whichever real-life creatures they
resembled. Also in the show were minor aspects that were never shown
in the game, such as Yoshi's aquaphobia. Also, in this show, as in
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario and Luigi still used
their red and green overalls, respectively, with a blue shirt when
Nintendo already started depicting them with blue overalls.
Swamp
Thing: The Animated Series (1990)
The adventures of a man-turned-muck monster. Swamp Thing was
once a man named Alec Holland, but after being caught on fire,
doused with strange chemicals, and dumped into the Louisiana swamps
by the evil Dr. Anton Arcane, Alec's body mutated. No longer is he
human, or even an animal. His body is made from the muck and plants
of the swamp. He's super strong and can make plants do his bidding.
Good thing he's on our side... Parodying The Troggs' song "Wild
Thing," the opening theme song went "Swamp Thing! ...You are
amazing!" Anton Arcane took the role of the main villain, along with
his Un-men: Dr. Zeemo, Weedkiller, and Skinman. The animation style
followed the trend of goofy, horror anti-heroes made for the
children's audience such as Troma's Toxic Crusaders.
Swat
Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993)
Chance "T-Bone" Furlong and Jake "Razor" Clawson were members of
Megakat City's SWAT team, known as the Enforcers. While in pursuit
of Dark Kat, the arch-villain of the series, the two rebelled
against Enforcer Commander Feral's orders to fall back and leave
Dark Kat to him. The direct disobedience to that order resulted in
Dark Kat's escape and Chance and Jake's jet crashing into Enforcer
headquarters. Because of the accident, they were discharged from the
force by Commander Feral and were required to work at a salvage
yard, also owned by Feral, to pay for their damages made to the
Enforcers HQ. Using discarded military parts and weapons from the
salvage yard, they built a three-engine jet fighter called the
Turbokat, along with a handful of other vehicles and patrol Megakat
City as the SWAT Kats, defending it against any kind of menace that
is too dangerous for the Enforcers to handle themselves. T-Bone and
Razor kept their identities secret from everyone, even from the
deputy Mayor Callie Briggs.
The
Adventures of Mighty Max (1993)
The series follows Max, an adventurous preteen boy who receives
a package in the mail. The package contains a small statue of a
fowl, inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs. The translation reveals a
message which reads: "You have been chosen to be the cap-bearer. Go
to the mini-mart and wait for a sign, Mighty Max." Shocked by the
message, Max drops the statue, shattering it and revealing a red
baseball cap emblazoned with a yellow "M" which he puts on. Upon
arriving at the mini-mart, he is chased by a lava-monster sent by
Skullmaster, a megalomaniacal demon who lives within the earth and
has the power to create evil minions. As Max races away, the cap
activates a vortex which transports him instantly from his current
location Washington D.C., to the Mongolian desert, where Max is met
by Virgil, a nearly-omniscient Lemurian, whose appearance is that of
an anthropomorphic "fowl". Virgil explains that Max's reception of
the cap was prophesized circa 3,000 BC. Max, Virgil, and Norman, his
Viking bodyguard, travel together around the world, defending Earth
against the minions of Skullmaster, who is responsible for the
downfall of both the Lemurians and the people of Atlantis.
The
Legend Of Zelda (1989)
Each episode of Zelda followed the adventures of the hero
Link and the royal Princess Zelda as they defended the kingdom of
Hyrule from an evil wizard named Ganon. Most episodes consisted of
Ganon (or his minions) either attempting to capture the Triforce of
Wisdom from Zelda, kidnap Zelda herself, or use some other
villainous scheme to conquer Hyrule. A common running joke of the
series was Link’s repeated failure to convince Zelda that he
deserved a kiss for his heroic deeds (whenever it seemed they were
going to kiss, something bad would happen, or Link would say or do
something that put Zelda off). Link’s fairy friend, Spryte, was
always willing to give him a kiss for free, but due to her small
size he never seemed to take serious notice.
The
Sopranos (1999)
North Jersey mob boss, Tony Soprano, self-described "waste
management consultant," reluctantly seeks a psychiatrist's help
after blacking out. Lest he appear weak, he must keep his therapy a
secret from the rest of the Mob. He's stressed: his teenage daughter
is giving his wife fits; his mean-spirited mother refuses to move to
a retirement community; his aging Uncle Junior, jealous of Tony's
rise to the top, won't stay in line and engineers a plot to kill
Tony; and the feds, armed with RICO, are circling. In therapy, Tony
must come to terms with his father's example, his mother's
manipulations, and his own fears of death and loss of family.
The
Tick: The Animated Series (1994)
A square-jawed, muscular, bright blue figure with antennae
sticking up from his head, the Tick is a surreal parody of
superheroes. The Tick is high-spirited, frequently obtuse, and prone
to quipping odd, dim remarks and "inspirational" speeches filled
with bizarre metaphors. His superpowers are nigh-invulnerability,
which allows him to crash and bang about without injury; super
strength; and something referred to as "drama power", or basically a
tendency for the Tick's powers to increase as the situation becomes
more dramatic. He can also survive out in space without a suit and
underwater without oxygen. He is known for his nonsensical battle
cry, "Spoooooon!", which he decided upon one day while eating
breakfast. After "crashing" the super hero convention in Reno, the
nigh invulnerable blue-clad super hero, the Tick, is deemed the
protector of "The City."
Trigun (1998)
Trigun takes place in the
distant future on a deserted planet. Vash the Stampede is a
gunfighter with a legend so ruthless that he has a $$60,000,000,000
bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his
arrival. However, the real Vash the Stampede is not the same man
that rumor portrays him to be. The enigmatic and conflicted lead
character in Trigun is actually more heroic in nature; as well as a
complete and utter idiot at times. Much of the damage attributed to
"Vash" is caused by the activities of the bounty hunters who are
after the reward on Vash's head for the destruction of a city called
July. Vash does not clearly remember the destruction of July, and
only wants "love and peace", as he puts it; though he is a
gunfighter of inhuman skill, he uses his weapons only to save lives
wherever he can.
The
Way Of The Master (2003)
The Way of the Master is a Christian evangelism training
ministry, created in 2002 and headed by 80's actor Kirk Cameron and
evangelist Ray Comfort, though there are several other key figures
within the organization. Key aspects include a TV show, radio
broadcast, numerous books, online school, small group training
courses, and Web site of the same name. The television show in
particular was the recipient of numerous awards from the NRB
association, including the "People's Choice Award" and the "Best
Program Award" during the years of 2004-2006. The Way of
the Master is a limited liability company and a closely intertwined
sister organization to Living Waters Publications.
X-Men:
The Animated Series (1992)
In the Marvel Comics universe, mutants, people with genetically
endowed superpowers, are a persecuted by a hateful and fearful
populous. One shelter from this is Professor Xavier's Academy for
Gifted Children. But the school has a secret function as a training
centre for mutants to control their abilities so they can function
in regular society. It also serves as a secret headquarters of a
superhero team, called the X-Men formed both to be a positive
example of mutants and as an opposing force against those mutants
who seek to force the world to kneel to their perceived superiority.
This series recounts their adventures as they struggle to make the
world accept them, while battling villains like Magneto, Apocalypse
and the genocidal robots known as the Sentinels.
X-Men
Evolution (2000)
Professor Charles Francis Xavier, who has the mutant ability to
read minds, searches for new mutants to train them how to use their
powers for good and to prevent the mutants from harming themselves
and others at his School for Gifted Youngsters. His opposition,
Magneto "Master of Magnetism", is doing the same thing, but for evil
purposes. He has made Mystique who is a shape-shifter, a principle
of his high school to gather evil mutants to prepare them for war
against non-mutants. The most interesting plot of the story is that
all the heroes and villains attend the same high school. The classic
battle of good vs. evil has begun again. |