Gargoyles S1E1-5: "Awakening" (continued)
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Gargoyles S1E1-5: "Awakening" (continued)

Now, you might be asking: "how the hell did someone like this end up in the NYPD?" The answer is that 90's cartoon cops are a mythological creature that bears only coincidental resemblance to anything in real life. They are much like the gargoyles themselves in this way.

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Gargoyles S1E1-5: "Awakening"
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Gargoyles S1E1-5: "Awakening"

Yeah don't ask me how those thin little support struts are supposed to hold up half a castle's worth of weight. Or how the tower is supposed to hold them up in turn. There was another wizard involved in building this office building I guess.

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Sonny Boy E1-3
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Sonny Boy E1-3

"Sonny Boy" is an experimental original anime that came out in 2021, and that dared to ask the question "what if a bunch of high schoolers got randomly teleported into a series of sociology thought experiments?"

Did asking this question actually require very much daring? On second thoughts, no, not really. Still a decent premise though.

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Monster S1E6-12 (continued)
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Monster S1E6-12 (continued)

Episode 9, "The Girl and the Seasoned Soldier," has our hero seeking out a master to train him in the arts of the warrior so that he may go out and confront the villain.

I never expected to type that sequence of words when describing Monster of all damned things, but this series is nothing if not surprising.

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Monster S1E6-12
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Monster S1E6-12

Johan is probably the smarter one, then. He may or may not turn out to be physically stronger as well (the way things are going, I suspect that he will). And he's a psychopathic megalomaniac.

Partial augments don't necessarily have the superior ambition problem.

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FLCL
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FLCL

A juvenile, feverish madness of potential that I don't think I'll ever be able to make contact with again.

But it never came anywhere fucking near FLCL.

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Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles
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Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles

When I say that he's Captain America, what I mean is that he's an elite special forces squad leader from World War 2 who got frozen, was declared MIA, and then discovered and thawed out decades later to serve his country again when it is menaced by the same nazi-aligned supervillain who he fought back in the forties. What I don't mean when I say he's Captain America, on the other hand, is that he has any of the pathos, charm, or idiosyncrasy that various depictions of Cap have been imbued with by their authors.

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