"On every planet in the galaxy you?ll find the Flux, a powerful, magical energy. Here on Akillian we call it the Breath. The Flux is so strong that it had to be banned, except in Galactik Football, the most spectacular sport in the universe. But fifteen years ago a mysterious explosion rocked Akillian, swept the Breath away and destroyed our chances in the Galactik Football Cup. Fifteen years without a decent team and nothing but snow and ice. Now, hope lives again. Young, new players to revive the Breath of Akillian. Our fate is in their hands.
— Aarch, opening credits
Galactik (sic) Football, is a French produced animated series that mixes conventional 2D animation with 3D motion-capture. Think The Mighty Ducks in space, but not THAT The Mighty Ducks in space.The story centres around a group of misfit teenagers recruited by veteran footballer Aarch, to play in the Galactik Football Cup. His new team, The Snow Kids, must face off against a host of magically endowed alien teams and more teen angst then you can shake a stick at if they are to have any hope of advancing in the competition.Notable because while the team is often surrounded by intergalactic conspiracy, corporate evil and the occasional off-screen genocide, the the Snow Kids are usually mostly unaware of the grand space opera brewing around them and are more concerned with team squabbles and perfecting their dribbling then they are with the evil conspiracy out to get them.A third season premiered in Summer 2010.
This Show Contains Examples Of:
Aesop Amnesia: (D'Jok's ego problems always get sorted by the end of the season and always return by the start of the next.)
Broken Aesop (Veteran player Warren stresses to Rocket that the Snowkids have to win as a team... shortly before pulling off a performance that's like that Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs is in a game of baseball and playing all the positions.)
Ho Yay (Most of the male cast, but most obviously Artegor and Aarch. They ran off to 'play for the other team' together and when Aarch went back to his own team Artegor never forgave him. He once greeted Aarch by saying "can't live another moment without me?")
Ineffectual Loner (Sinedd in season 2. In Season 1 he's mostly a Jerkass. Also subverted Rocket is a very effectual loner)
Infatuation At First Sight: Micro-Ice with Mei and Zoelin in season one, and Yuki in Season two. Justified by the fact he's very young and clueless.
Law of Alien Names (Subverted. The aliens tend to have names like Warren and Nealy while the human characters are called Micro Ice, Aarch and D'Jok.)
Limited Wardrobe: (Partially averted with the Snow Kids, who tend to wear the same clothes day to day, but also are seen throughout the series in their uniforms, training gear, pyjamas, party outfits, dressing gowns, swimsuits and underwear. Playes straight with almost everyone else, most glaringly with Aarch who wears his coat in the Akillian Blizzard and the tropical Wambas planet, and Norata, who wears his gardener's gloves EVERYWHERE.)
Finally averted in season 3 where the adults who make it to Paradisia get a costume change to account for the warmer weather.
Love Triangle (D'Jok, Mei, Micro-Ice. D'Jok, Mei, Sinedd)
Luke, I Am Your Father (Twice. Once with D'Jok and Sonny Blackbones and once with Rocket and his mother Kiera
Married to the Job (In the past this pretty much decimated Aarch's relationships with Norata and Addim.)
Meddling Parents (Mei's mother is extremely ambitious on her behalf, even going so far as to encourage her daughter to use her feminine wiles to create a rift in D'Jok and Micro-Ice's friendship.)
Mundane Utility (Flux gives super-strength, super-speed, super-agility, teleportation, hypnosis and possibly flight but is used only to play Soccer. A Jedi Council is in place to rigidly enforce this rule.)
Somewhat lampshaded, since in the backstory, Flux was used to fight savage wars, so the restrictions are seen as necessary.
Nonhumans Lack Attributes: Warren is designed to look like down to the suit he wears for public appearances. However his appearance differs from Dr. Manhattan in regards to one large attribute.
Non-Mammal Mammaries (Averted with the Shadows. Played straight with pretty much everyone else.)
Remember the New Guy (Apparently everyone knew Mark before he joined the team and at one point he was set to replace Micro-Ice.)
Crosses over into Ass Pull. Supposedly, he was up for consideration when Micro-Ice had left with the pirates, but if that was the case, Aarch would have had him play instead of using a clone, as the clones at that point could have been beaten by a crippled 5-year old. They should just have had him be a friend of the players that had been away during the last cup.
Punny Name (D'Jok is the Jock. Sinedd performs the Face Heel Turn. Who knows what Micro-Ice is a pun of.)
Time Skip (supposedly between season 1 and 2 there's a 4-year time skip, despite the fact that the characters don't age at all, not to mention change their clothes. Of course, they might be Older than They Look)
Unwitting Pawn: Sinedd can inadvertently further someone's plot for Galactic domination just by sitting quietly in his room. Rocket and D'Jok aren't immune to this either.
Welcome Back, Traitor (D'jok after defecting to Team Paradisia and Sinedd to the Shadows both return to the Snow Kids)
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