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Bibleman is a 2016 animated adaptation of the original series. It appears to be mostly influenced by the Powersource series (Josh Carpenter is Bibleman, the color schemes for their costumes, Melody, etc.).


Provides examples of:

  • Actor Allusion: There were a lot of jokes aimed at Willie's acting career when he was around.
    Bibleman: Set up a meeting for 8'clock.
    Cypher: Will eight be enough?
    Bibleman: Don't get cheeky.
    (rimshot)
  • Adapted Out: The Bible Team's computer is no longer a character in her own right, given how the human cast is more than big enough for the shortened run time. LUCI is also absent.
  • All-CGI Cartoon: The 2016 reboot.
  • Ambidextrous Sprite: Bibleman wields his sword using each hand in different episodes.
  • Art Shift: The show will often stop to have a sequence done up in flannel-styled Clip-Art Animation and told by a hand puppet Sunday school teacher and her magic flannelgraph board.
  • Continuity Nod: The cartoon version tries this, like by recycling villains from the live action series. Some details don't really gel with what the actual live action episodes said, though, such as a newer segment saying Josh and Miles were lifelong friends (especially since as noted the apparent intent when they replaced Willie was to hand things over to a younger and hopefully more relatable new star).
  • Decomposite Character: In the cartoon, Luxor Spawndroth and some of his identities from the old live episodes appear as different characters, which just messes up the Continuity Nod attempts mentioned above even more.
  • Environment-Specific Action Figure: In the 4th of July episode Bibleman wears an American flag-based version of his regular costume. No extra weapons or gimmicks, it's just red white and blue.
  • Evil Brit: The Baroness.
  • Expository Theme Tune: The theme song now uses the lyrics to set up the show and explain what Bibleman's costume represents, since the episodes are too short now to include the once-standard Transformation Sequence.
  • Expressive Mask: Almost to be expected, especially with the episodes now being so short the heroes are almost never out of costume anymore.
  • Humongous Mecha: Luxor gets one in an episode, though it's a crummy one the heroes still easily overpower.
  • Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: In one episode Bibleman gets help from late show host David Noteman.
  • Race Lift: The cartoon recycles a lot of villains from the live series, but for some reason some of them have over the top European accents now. For instance Luxor Spawndroth is German now and the Fibbler is Scottish.
  • Thememobile: They sure embraced the freedom of their new medium by tossing a bunch of toyetic vehicles at Bibleman like the Biblevan, Biblecopter, Biblejet, Bibleboat...
  • Three Shorts: The cartoon version is released like this with three 11-minute segments per disc.
  • A Twinkle in the Sky: The cartoon version's solution to the question of how Bibleman can defeat the villains without resorting to imitable violence: launching the villains into the sky and out of sight.
  • Two Decades Behind: One episode has Luxor being able to infect most of the town with his new evil MMO, which he interests people in by handing out physical passcards from a booth in the mall.


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