Trivia / Mighty Magiswords

• Acting for Two:
  • Many characters are voiced by Kyle Carrozza.
  • In addition to Vambre, Grey Delisle also voices the Mysterious Hooded Woman, Princess Zange, and various female background characters.
• Creator Couple: Creator/actor Kyle Carrozza is married to Lindsay Smith, who worked as a character designer and actor on the show.
• Descended Creator: The show's creator, Kyle Carrozza, voices several characters in the show, including Prohyas, Grup, and the announcer.
  • Luke Ski, a writer/storyboard artist of the show, voices various characters, such as Skullivan, Nyando, etc.
  • Supervising director Ken Mitchroney voices Mr. Pachydermus.
• Fake Brit:
  • Grey DeLisle fully applies a British accent for Vambre, even saying "Zed" instead of "Z". Also applies in universe as Prohyas stated in one short that Vambre sometimes talks in her sleep without the accent, and it's implied that she picked it up from reading Veronica Victorious books.
  • Speaking of Veronica Victorious, her voice is provided by Paget Brewster.
• Line to God: Creator Kyle Carrozza and frequent writer Luke Ski host a podcast about the production of the show, as well as discussing other cartoons. Found here.
• No Budget: According to Carrozza, budget restraints were the reason why he and DeLisle voice a good majority of the characters.
• The Other Darrin: Morbidia was voiced by Candi Milo in her first appearance and by Mary Faber afterwards.
• Screwed by the Network:
  • The series was a well-known victim of Cartoon Network's infamous obsession with airing as many Teen Titans Go! reruns as humanly possible. Don't believe us? It was the only show of the whole lot that had to wait six months in 2017 until it got full-length new episodes. It's also the only show that had slim to none reruns within that period, alongside Clarence. While Magimobile collect-a-thons still occurred regularly on the weekends, no actual episodes of Mighty Magiswords would be shown at that point (at most, the occasional 5 minute short.) It wasn't until the "Cartoon Network Collect-A-Thon" that happened in July that new episodes of the series were aired, but even then, they were interspersed among the entire lineup with no advertisement of when they would be airing. After "The Saga of Robopiggeh" aired, the show was removed from the line-up COMPLETELY, the series air once until "Bad Heir Day. Which means it's has not aired for nine months. Cartoon Network planned to air the second season weekdays at 6:15AM! Needless to say, it was pretty obvious CN had lost interest in the series by that point and, unsurprisingly, was eventually canned in 2018 as a result, though the showrunners had enough lead time to give it a proper finale.
  • The UK's treatment of the show was awful. It premiered in the country in April, which is pretty late for a foreign debut of a CN show (for comparison, We Bare Bears premiered just a month after the US). Even then, new episodes only premiered on weekends at 8:30AM with no presence on the weekdays. Then in August, its only timeslot was 7:15PM, only running for 15 minutes at a time. Then, in the middle of the month, for no reason at all, the show was completely removed with no mention, and didn't air for another seven months before finally returning for new episodes on March 30, 2018!
  • The show would eventually have a burn-off of the rest of the first season (starting from "Squideo Games", minus the two-parters) at the end of the year... at 10pm.
  • It got worse. In May of 2019, the final set of Season 2 episodes came back to air on CN after sitting on the app for almost a year, at 11:30 AM, the time when the target demographic would be in school.^note These episodes were originally supposed to get burned-off on the Boomerang channel, a network that doesn't have the distribution advantage that CN has. CN eventually decided to air the episodes on their channel, with encores at a much better timeslot (8:00 PM) on Boomerang. No on-air promotion was given. The only promotion it was given was from the show's creator, Kyle A. Carrozza, on social media.
  • HBO Max removed the show from their service in August 2022, and CN removed all related videos and tweets from their official YouTube and social media platforms. It is currently still available to stream on Hulu.
• Working Title: It went under two different names before Mighty Magiswords. Those titles were Warriors for Hire and Dungeons and Dayjobs. They would eventually become the names of a season 2 short and a full-length episode respectively.
• What Could Have Been:
  • It was originally conceived as an adult cartoon when it was called Dungeons and Dayjobs. Before that, it was called Warriors for Hire where Phil and Princess Zange worked with Prohyas and Vambre as a team of Warriors for Hire, Vambre wore pants as well as being the only serious member and Prohyas was "Prohias", a ladies-man stuck up wizard.
  • Manfish was originally designed for the Boss Design contest for Mega Man 6, but was not chosen from the entries in Nintendo Power.
  • This animatic shows that the theme song was originally 30 seconds, but about 6 seconds were shaved off.
  • According to Kyle Carrozza, Egoraptor was approached for character design on the show when the series got the greenlit but he declined and instead offered voice-over. However Kyle wasn't aware of Hanson's SAG membership until he informed him that he is a member, which led him to be cast.
  • Also according to Carrozza, although he wanted some of his friends who are part of The Fump to do voices for the show, since almost none of them are union actors, it couldn't materialize.
  • The primary reason the series was Flash animated to begin with was due to the low-budget and because Cartoon Network's in-house Flash animation team was reworked, which allowed Carrozza to hire his friends to animate for the show. Although he was offered to move past Flash animation and have the series' done traditionally overseas, he still chose Flash for two reasons: using Flash would allow the team access to unlimited assets of the series to make additional content and revisions for their oversea studio, and although he envisioned his animation to be executed similarly to The Ren & Stimpy Show (specifically the works by Carbunkle Cartoons) and Animaniacs (specifically the works of TMS Entertainment and Startoons), he knew realistically it wouldn't be an option due to cost-efficiency and using a traditional oversea studio would stiffen the animation and the complex designs of the Magiswords would make revisions very time-consuming.
• Write Who You Know: Professor Cyrus was based on Kyle Carroza's uncle Uncle Cyrus.