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MUTEscifan31W
Since: Feb, 2010
20th May, 2016 02:20:42 AM
My guess would be one of the animated Flash Gordon's, but I don't see a muscle-y friend...
Dagnillo
Since: May, 2016
21st May, 2016 02:13:41 PM
It's older but fits your description- Dungeons and Dragons?
fake_alias
Since: Apr, 2016
27th May, 2016 08:43:42 PM
Neither of those unfortunately, but thanks for the effort!
I'm trying to remember an animated show from the 90s or early 2000s where some kind of dimension artifact/tech transported at least three people into a weird alien medieval-ish dimension where at least some of the inhabitants were non-human. The main character was Indiana Jones like with a standard hero quarterback build. The other two were a big muscle guy best friend who has above average intelligence for the standard big muscle guy in animation at the time, and he mostly held off the enemies whenever the hero needed time to figure out a puzzle or defeat the bag guy of the episode. The third character was the female action love interest who was capable of taking out a few mooks on her own but fewer than the other two.
There was at least one episode where they had to fight in a gladiator arena and another where there was a big evil tower that they needed to infiltrate/fight there way up where a high up bad guy was. The show goal was trying to find away home and maybe understand some of the ancient artifacts/tech from a long lost civilization.
I think maybe the season/series finale had them getting home with a shot of the three (or more) characters standing in a room with lots of glass windows (some broken) with a rainstorm outside and one character stating that they were back home in the exact room where they were originally transported.