History Animation / CaptainPronin

-->'''[[LetsPlay/{{Critikal}} Cr1TiKaL]]:''' "Aw shit! Space VideoGame/PacMan!"

The series also has a video game spin-off, ''Captain Pronin: One Against All'', a UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows (with an unlicensed UsefulNotes/PlayStation port that was showcased by WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} streamers Vinny and Joel) action game boasting 200 animations and 400 endings.

* DisappearedDad[=/=]RaisedByGrandparents: Captain Pronin's father is never mentioned. Even in the photos of the Captain's life, from his birth all the way to his wedding, he's always depicted with his grandfather, Major Pronin.
* TheDoorSlamsYou: Major Pronin appears by doing this to knock out Captain Pronin's opponent.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: both Putana and Pronin have, well, extreme driving skills. Justified since the latter is chasing the former in a life-or-death situation.

* GoldTooth: Putana has one.

* MeaningfulName: the evil doctor who conducts Nazi-like dental surgeries for fun is named Dr. Myshjakovitz. "Myshjak" means "arsenic", a then-used painkiller that worked by basically killing a patient's tooth nerve to make dental surgery painless.
* NotSoStoic: the ''only'' instance of the Captain being visibly horrified in the entire series is when Dr. Myshjakovitz tells him he's about to conduct terrible dental experiments on him.

* {{Expy}}: Captain Pronin is one to Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, likely specifically to his character in the Film/RedHeat.

-->'''Pronin''': No smoking, you give me very little money! (''the in-built subtitles, hilariously, translate it as "Your money is counterfeit!'')

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbSX-sDBEVk Captain Pronin 3 - Captain Pronin in Space]]'' (''Капитан Пронин 3 - Капитан Пронин в космосе'') - Now [[RecycledInSpace in SPACE!!!]]. Released in 1993.

** Car-Man is a blatant Expy of the Franchise/Terminator, which is doubly funny because Pronin himself looks like Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

** Car-Man is a blatant Expy of [[Franchise/Terminator the Terminator]], which is doubly funny because Pronin himself looks like Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

** Car-Man is a blatant Expy of ''[[Franchise/Terminator the Terminator]]'', which is doubly funny because Pronin himself looks like Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

** Car-Man is a blatant Expy of ''[[Franchise\TheTerminator the Terminator]]'', which is doubly funny because Pronin himself looks like Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

* {{Expy}}: Captain Pronin is one to Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

-->'''Pronin''': ([[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped Italian Dialogue]])

* NotSoStoicAfterAll: the ''only'' instance of the Captain being visibly horrified in the entire series is when Dr. Myshjakovitz tells him he's about to conduct terrible dental experiments on him.

** When Major Pronin meets James Bond and apologizes for a misunderstanding, he says "friendship" in plain English.

-->'''Pronin''': No smoking, you give me very little money!

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Putana sounds almost like "puttana", meaning "whore" in Italian.

* ''[[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkdpil Captain Pronin - Major Pronin's Grandson]]'' (''Капитан Пронин - Внук Майора Пронина'') - The first one.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teIOMLgaoyk Captain Pronin 2 - Captain Pronin in America]]'' (''Капитан Пронин 2 - Капитан Пронин в Америке'') - The sequel, now set in [[BigApplesauce New York City]].
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbSX-sDBEVk Captain Pronin 3 - Captain Pronin in Space]]'' (''Капитан Пронин 3 - Капитан Пронин в космосе'') - Now [[RecycledInSpace in SPACE!!!]].
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF0gnlJAf5k Captain Pronin 4 - Captain Pronin in Opera]]'' (''Капитан Пронин 4 - Капитан Пронин в опере'') - The last part, with higher production values than the others but not received as well.

''Captain Pronin'' is a 4-episode cartoon series made in the [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia post-Soviet Russia]] in the early [[TheNineties nineties]].

The series also has a video game spin-off, ''Captain Pronin: One Against All'', an action game boasting 200 animations and 400 endings.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91gBHC5TnA Captain Pronin - Major Pronin's Grandson]]'' (''Капитан Пронин - Внук Майора Пронина'') - The first one.

'''The 4 episodes are:'''

'''''Captain Pronin''''' is a 4-episode cartoon series made in the [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia post-Soviet Russia]] in the early [[TheNineties nineties]].

** [[Film/TheGodfather Don Corleone]] is pink.

* ButtMonkey: Svistunov loses his clothes in the first short, and gets his identity stolen in the second.

** Film/JamesBond and Major Pronin in the first episode.

* BookEnds: As Captain Pronin prepares for his mission, his wife reminds him to wear his bulletproof vest. At the end, she says how thankful she is that he had it on. [[spoiler:He just used it to protect her from Putana's last-ditch attack.]]

* TheInfiltration: One of Myshyakovich's mooks reveals himself to be Film/JamesBond.
* {{Seppuku}}: After the ninjas are defeated, one of them admits their failure and crawls out of Pronin's apartment to do this.

* BrickJoke: A literal one. When Pronin meets the mafia in the alley, one asks if Pronin can take a brick to the head. When Pronin confronts Don Corleone, another mafia man sneaks up and tries to brain him with a brick. The brick bounces off the first time, then shatters the second, but Pronin is unscathed.
* ClownCar: The Mafia has a host of men packed into one car in the second episode.

* ExactWords: The mafia man tests Pronin by asking "Can you do this?" and breaking a brick over his own head. Pronin answers "Yes I can!" and breaks another brick over the mafia man's head to knock him out.
* GratuitousEnglish:
** The dialog between Pronin and the trench-coated mafia man.
-->'''Mafia Man''': This is your money, give me a smoking! [[note]]"Smoking" means "tuxedo" in some languages including Russian. Likely intentional, as the Russian subtitles use "kurtka", another word for "jacket"[[/note]].
-->'''Pronin''': No smoking, you give me very little money!

* ShoutOut: After the Mafia's red car is parked, out comes a line of men, each taller than the last, much like [[ComicBook/LuckyLuke the Dalton Brothers]].

-->'''Pronin''': No smoking, give me very little money!

-->'''LetsPlay/{{Cr1TiKaL}}:''' "Aw shit! Space VideoGame/PacMan!"

* NobodyCanDie: No one dies in any of the parts. Even {{mooks}} hit by hand grenades are merely knocked out.

* IHaveYourWife: Putana kidnaps Pronin's wife as he beats up the ninjas.

-->'''LetsPlay/{{Cr1tikal}}:''' "Aw shit! Space VideoGame/PacMan!"