Trivia / Nicktoons Unite!

• Acting for Two: For Globs of Doom, THQ figured that Rob Paulsen talking to himself is cheaper and since Nicolai Technus is already a playable character, they decided to let him reprise the role of Tak and the Power of Juju antagonist Tlaloc/Traloc despite the TV adaptation of that video game series (where the character got The Other Darrin'd with Jeff Bennett) being depicted in the game. Indeed, the scene where the Evil Syndicate snaps back is mostly a Paulsen monologue; easily the most amusing thing in the game next to the hamminess that is Invader Zim himself.
• B-Team Sequel: Unite!, Battle for Volcano Island and Attack of the Toybots were all developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment while Globs of Doom was developed by Incinerator Studios who at the time was only known for working on ports of racing games, making it the first (and only) platform game they ever made. It has been rumored this happened due to Blue Tongue being too busy at the time making the El Tigre PS2 game and de Blob, the latter of which became their Breakthrough Hit.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: Due to the amount of Role Reprises, the series features a few big-name actors.
  • Tim Curry reprises his role as Professor Calamitous in Unite and Toybots.
  • Wendie Malick voices Beautiful Gorgeous in Globs of Doom.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: While technically not part of the Unite! series proper, Nicktoons: Freeze Frame Frenzy mislabels several characters:
  • The game seems to be under the impression that Valerie is a cover identity for ghost character Princess Dorathea, as taking Valerie's picture a certain amount of times at one point in one of the Amity Park levels results in Valerie suddenly transforming into Dorathea and flying away. Valerie and Dorathea are not the same person/ghost. Perhaps someone remembered the Danny Phantom episode "Parental Bonding" incorrectly while making the game.
  • It is also under the impression that Sheldon from My Life as a Teenage Robot is Tuck◊ when Tuck is in the same game.◊
  • Bill is mislabelled as Professor Membrane, a completely unrelated character.
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: Vancouver voice actress Saffron Henderson worked on the second game "Battle for Volcano Island" alongside everyone else that was located in the United States.
• Dueling Games: Compare the plot of Globs of Doom to that of rival Cartoon Network's MMORPG FusionFall (which was released three months later).
• Dummied Out:
  • Along with the content mentioned below in What Could Have Been, the console versions of Toybots also contain a ton of unused dialogue for when any of the playable characters either enter certain areas of the game, whenever they enter a Master Model chamber, or when they stumble upon the unlockable characters Stimpy, GIR, Jenny Wakeman, and Rocko. (Including numerous priceless reactions from all the characters upon finding Stimpy.) In the final game, there's no dialogue for any of these events. Unused dialogue for Cosmo and Wanda also suggest that they were going to give tutorials of the game.
  • Globs of Doom has several recorded voice clips that suggest that Dib and Tlaloc would have got to fight GIR in Zim's House (the final game has the player use Beautiful Gorgeous and Nicolai Technus for the boss battle); the clips perfectly describe every element of Zim's hijacked house that attacks you in the battle. Beautiful Gorgeous and Technus also have unused dialogue that implies they would have been used in Retroland, while Jimmy has unused clips that imply he would have been used in Retroville.
• Early Draft Tie-In: As with a lot of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius media produced during the show's heyday, Cindy Vortex uses her younger-looking movie design in Unite. Notably, in Globs of Doom, which came out after the show ended, Cindy was updated to instead use her show design.
• Franchise Killer: The series died after Nicktoons: Globs of Doom's poor reception. THQ later gave up on Nicktoons licensed games, so the game that followed Globs of Doom was 2K Games' Nicktoons MLB, a crossover between Nicktoons characters and real MLB players. There would be no more Nicktoons crossover games after that until 2018's Nickelodeon Kart Racers, and it would take until Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 in 2023 for a new Nickelodeon crossover game with an actual story.
• Market-Based Title: The first three games were named in Europe as SpongeBob SquarePants and Friends rather than Nicktoons. This may have something to do with some Nicktoons airing internationally on non-Nickelodeon channels due to a distribution deal Nick had with Nelvana, such as Fairly OddParents airing on Fox Kids/Jetix in Latin America. Apparently, the same deal also prevents Fairly OddParents from being acknowledged as a Nicktoon outside the US, given the modified references in the international versions of the covers. Tellingly, Globs of Doom and all Nick crossover before and after this series that don't include Fairly OddParents are allowed to use the "Nicktoons" or "Nickelodeon" branding in Europe.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": This series marks Danny Phantom's debut for Japanese audiences, as his show has never officially aired in that country.
• The Original Darrin:
  • Billy West returns to voice Stimpy in Attack of the Toybots, after getting The Other Darrin-ed by Eric Bauza for the short-lived Adult Party Cartoon spinoff on Spike TV.
  • After getting The Other Darrin-ed by Jeff Bennett in the Tak and the Power of Juju (2007) TV series (which is how the series is represented in the Unite! games), Rob Paulsen returns to voice Tlaloc/Traloc in Globs of Doom.
• The Other Darrin: Two for Globs of Doom:
  • In Battle for Volcano Island, the Wise Old Crab was voiced by Bill Farmer. When he returned for Globs of Doom, he was recast with Dee Bradley Baker and sounds much more like Farmer Jenkins as a result.
  • Candi Milo replaces Lucille Bliss as Ms. Bitters due to the latter's illness.
• Role Reprise: Almost every single character who appeared in the series is voiced by their original voice actor in the Nicktoon they originated from; the only character who isn't is Ms. Bitters, who's voiced by Candi Milo instead of Lucille Bliss.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In Nicktoons Unite, concept art reveals Calamitous was going to have his own boss fight in a gorilla mech instead of being a part of the final boss with the other villains.
  • A beta screenshot of Unite shows a stage set in the city of Retroville. In the final product, the Jimmy Neutron world consists only of a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot level inside Goddard and the final Boss-Only Level in Calamitous' indoor lair; Retroville proper is only explored in the DS version.
  • If a piece of concept art◊ is any indication, Jimmy was originally intended to be playable in Volcano Island instead of being Demoted to Extra.
  • There's at least one concept art◊ showing Jenny Wakeman amongst the characters that appears in Volcano Island, implying that she would have made her debut in the series there instead of Attack of the Toybots.
  • An early facts sheet for Volcano Island, when it was still under the codename Nicktoons 2006, mentions some things that were either altered or removed from the game, like having 10 playable characters instead of 6, upgradeable powers and weapons for every character, the Mawgu being a spirit from the Ghost Zone instead of just escaping from his prison in the volcano, and the island being called Vortex Island instead of Volcano Island.
  • Placeholder cutscenes and references in the files suggests there would be a level in Volcano Island where the Nicktoons explore a bug village after rescuing the Bug Queen from the Florians and before the boss battle with King Gorge in the dam.
  • The Cutting Room Floor Wiki has discovered that characters from Kablam were intended to be in Toybots as Master Models after all. (Specifically Henry and June, the Action League Now gang, Prometheus, and even Sniz and Fondue.) Kinda makes you wonder why they were removed when they were this close to being in the game.^note  Or where Loopy and Bob were for that matter, but given Kablam's tendency to be Screwed by the Network... It may have something to do with Nickelodeon no longer owning the rights to most of the KaBlam! shorts except for Henry and June and Action League Now (which has prevented reruns as of late). Data for Snap's Master Model is also in the game, but this also went unused for whatever reason. (Fellow main characters Rudy and Penny can be found in the game, however.)
  • Toybots's concept art gallery shows a number of unused ideas, among them are several unused themes for the Evil Toy Co. Factory, an unused "Invasion Force" area (possibly intended to be a mech-suit level), an early version of the scanner pod chambers (which features an Irken invader as the guard, which may suggest Zim was going to play a role in the game), and a different design for the "Goo launchers". One concept art shows Arnold himself in a pod rather than a master model, suggesting he was planned to be playable.
  • Additionally, various rumors stated that CatDog were meant to be playable in Unite at some point.
  • A test map for an unused bonus level centered around Timmy can be found in Toybots's files.
  • Several beta screenshots for Globs of Doom show certain team combinations in levels different from those in the final game. One shows SpongeBob and Tak in front of Zim's House (the final game uses Beautiful Gorgeous and Technus for that section instead while SpongeBob and Tak are used in Industrial Park) while another shows Tlaloc and Dib in Zim's Town (the final game uses Zim and Technus, while Tlaloc and Dib instead team up in Amity Park Rooftops). This implies that the game may have been intended to have a manual character select at some point.
  • An unlockable piece of concept art in Globs of Doom shows SpongeBob and Jimmy (a team combination not used in the final game) fighting Bubble Bass in the Krusty Krab, when the final game has SpongeBob and Traloc for that section instead.
  • According to unused concept art, a mutated Goddard was planned as a boss for Globs of Doom.