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You got your Cool World in my Cyberseduction!

Ten years after Filmation disbanded, Lou Scheimer was approached by a Dutch investment company called Dreamweavers, N.V. to produce an animated series for young adults based on "an off-kilter Dutchman's renderings" of bizarre cartoon characters. There were plans for an ambitious franchise that would include the series, movies, music albums, and even a clothing line, but all that came out of it was a Pilot Movie for the series.

Robin, the first girl born in Cyberspace, becomes a virtual DJ for Brenda Plump's new virtual reality nightclub. However, she soon gains the attention of the leather-clad dominatrix XXX (pronounced "Triple X"), a cyber being who wants to enter the real world to turn everyone into sex-crazed maniacs. With the help of a band of psychic furries, Robin learns that her unique birth grants her special powers that help her face off against XXX.


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  • Ambiguously Gay: Nelson Orlar makes it clear to XXX that "the charms of women" have no effect on him. Aside from that, Brenda starts to bring up rumors that Nelson is gay, but it's never explicitly stated.
  • Art Evolution: There's an early trailer/music video for the franchise with a more cartoony art style reminiscent of Animaniacs, while the Pilot Movie has humans with more realistic proportions.
  • Big Fun: Brenda Plump is a chubby, loud and fun loving woman.
  • Bondage Is Bad: The villain's domain is a cyber BDSM dungeon called Decadence.
  • Cyberspace: It's one of those internet will be another dimension in the future where people can enter stories.
  • Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: XXX is always carrying the classic villainous cigarette holder.
  • Imagination-Based Superpower: Notion's power, and one of the special abilities passed onto Robin.
  • Lady in Red: XXX wears a skimpy red dominatrix outfit.
  • Male Gaze: For a movie that's supposedly about the dangers of sex addiction, there are quite a lot of indulgent shots of both Robin and XXX.
    • Female Gaze: Robin's boyfriend, Reed Stokes, is also quite the looker.
  • Ms. Fanservice: XXX is a villainous version of this, what with being the avatar of internet porn and all.
  • Multiple Head Case: Sass is a tiny worm head sticking out of the top of Frass's scalp.
  • Offstage Waiting Room: There's a 20-year Time Skip where Robin grows up from an infant to a young woman, but aside from Nelson Orlar getting a few gray hairs, it might as well be 20 days as far as the other characters are concerned.
  • One-Winged Angel: XXX turns into a floating smoke monster that eats people when she gets angry. At the climax, she gets a more sinister-looking form, with a longer red robe doubled with Combat Tentacles.
  • Satellite Love Interest: Reed doesn't have much character traits beyond the role of Robin's love interest who works under Brenda.
  • Sex Is Evil: The villain's apparent goal is to make everyone do it in public.
  • Totally Radical: "Log yourselves over to Decadence Dot Zone!"
  • The Internet Is for Porn: XXX is the embodiment of porn addiction and she wants to turn everyone in the physical world into a sex maniac.
  • You Have Failed Me: XXX is introduced by eating alive her two henchmen after they failed to capture baby Robin.

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