History WesternAnimation / HighlanderTheAnimatedSeries

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: At the start of the series, the first Jettetor to die at Kortan's hands is Mangus, the architect.

* BookBurning: One episode features a rogue Hunter who tries to carve out his own empire and decides the best way to keep his people in line would be to restrict their access to knowledge. It should come as no surprise that his number is [[{{Fahrenheit 451}} 451]].

* BraveScot: Naturally. In addition to the title character, there's also the people of the Clan Dundee, who raised him. Oddly, while the Dundee speak with Scottish accents, Quentin himself sounds [[CanadianAccents Canadian]] (maybe he's from Nova Scotia).

* ItsAllMyFault: According to one astrophysicist immortal, the Great Catastrophe was all because of his fault. [[NukeEm While nukes were ready to be launched against the asteroid]], he made a last minute calculation and urgently called the army to stand down as its destruction would make things worse. The army complied immediately. However, he realized his mistake when he made another last minute calculation and frantically called the army to launch the missiles immediately. Unfortunately, it was already too late [[ApocalypseHow as the asteroid has already entered the atmosphere and hit the Earth]]. He never got over it and blamed himself for the next 700 years.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A cartoon based on the]] CultClassic film ''[[Franchise/HighLander The Highlander]]'' taking place in a post apocalyptic wasteland seven hundred years after a giant asteroid devastated Earth (with a little help from fallout caused by nuclear missiles deployed in a failed attempt to stop it). After "[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Great Catastrophe]]", as it came to be called, the world's immortals banded together to restore the world to its former state. Unfortunately they were betrayed by the evil Immortal known as Lord Kortan, who decided he'd rather the world stay a miserable ruin because it'd be easier to conquer and rule that way and because the other immortals, now known as Jettetors[[note]]from the French ''jette'', "to throw", as in those who have thrown down their swords[[/note]], took a mystical oath that prevented them from killing another immortal they were powerless to stop him. [[WhatAnIdiot Didn't really think that one through]].

The series started in 1994 and lasted for two seasons. There were a total of 40 episodes. Notably, this series does not share continuity with ''any'' other version of ''The Highlander''. While most sequels and spinoffs, though usually unrelated to each other, at least nominally follow on from the continuity of the first film, in this series Connor dies before the show even starts without ever attaining "The Prize" while Ramirez, conversely, survives and becomes the mentor to the main character.

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* NoEnding: Over the course of 40 episodes Quentin manages to gain the power of numerous Jettators, infiltrates Kortan's fortress numerous times, and survives numerous encounters with Kortan himself, but he never got any closer to that final showdown.

The series started in 1994 and lasted for two seasons. There were a total of 40 episodes. Notably, this series does not share continuity with ''any'' other version of ''The Highlander''. While most sequels and spinoffs, though usually unrelated to each other, at least nominally follow on from the continuity of the first film, in this series Connor dies before the show even starts without ever attaining "The Prize" while Ramirez, conversely, survives and becomes TheObiWan to the main character.

Kortan kills the protagonist of the first movie, Connor [=McLeod=], and proceeds to hoard the last of Earth's science and technology for himself in his walled fortress city of Mogonda, which he rules with an iron fist. Now, only the newly awakened immortal Quentin [=McLeod=], born after the others took the oath, can stop Kortan and restore Earth to her former glory. To do this he'll need to [[GottaCatchEmAll track down the other immortals]] and gain their knowledge and skills. Fortunately for them, a side effect of the oath allows them to perform The Quickening by holding their sword with Quentin instead of getting their heads cut off, though it does cause them to lose their immortality.

* MythologyGag: Various characters repeatedly refer to LostTechnology from the old world as "a kind of magic".

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: At the start of the series, the first immortal to die at Kortan's hands is Mangus, the architect.

* HonorBeforeReason: Quentin once got hold of Kortan's prized sword and threaten to melt it down if Kortan wouldn't release his friends. After Kortan let them go, Quentin threw Kortan's sword back to him unscathed.

* HonorBeforeReason: Quentin once got hold of Kortan's prized sword and threaten to melt it down if Kortan wouldn't release his friends. After Kortan let them go, Quentin throw Kortan's sword back to him unscathed.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: At the start of the series, the first immortal to die at Kortan's hands is a Mangus. Also an architect.

* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Gaul, Quentin and Clyde's pet mutant.
** Also, Clyde.