Too many to list. My favorite is about a monkey who's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who gets involved in a battle of conflicting political and philosophical ideals.
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Raven Wilder
One idea I've had is for a kind of Looney Tunes style thing, where, during World War II, an American fighter pilot and a Japanese fighter pilot (portrayed as Funny Animals; not sure what kind, exactly) both crash land on the same deserted island in the Pacific Ocean after an aerial battle. There would be three basic plots to the series:
1) Obeying their patriotic duties, the two characters try to kill each other in increasingly elaborate ways.
2) They both try to overcome the various challenges to survival on the island (finding food/water, withstanding storms, outwitting the island's ancient, cursed idol). Sometimes they work together on this, other times they try to sabotage each other.
3) One of them tries to contact their country's military so they can get rescued, with the other character naturally trying to foil this plan.
This idea would work better as a series of shorts, though, rather than as a full-length TV series.
P.S. @scythemantis: Hideous Mutant Girl School sounds awesome.
"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool" - Haruhara Haruko
animation elitist
Here's a Bleach like show that was inspired by a dream
-A Delinquent gets run over and goes to purgatory, he finds out there is a tournament and whoever wins it becomes an angel and gets into heaven, he wins it.
-He finds out that angels are a demon-fighting army, angels show very little or no emotion, believe in a "I'm right/you're wrong" mindset and are often dangerously subservient to their superiors, but they do have a strong sense of justice and deep down inside, they will always try to do the right thing.
-After a few scraps with the demons, our hero decides to sneak into hell and see if the angels can do a full scale assault, but he finds out that the demons aren't really evil but Hedonistic, boisterous and good-natured
-After telling his superiors about how the demons aren't evil, his superior cuts off one of his wings and banishes him from heaven.
-But thankfully the demons he befriended from his time in hell save him by turning him into a demon and because he was an angel, an extremly powerful one to boot
-The demons with our hero go out to attack heaven, but our hero remembers the friends he had when he was an angel, in order to protect both the angels and demons, he gets between their opposing attacks and it transforms him into an Angel-Demon hybrid
-Our hero's quest now is to create peace between the angels and the demons
-I wil also put in this show a place for the souls of fauna
and here's a simple cartoony idea
Franklin's vacation- It tells the story of Franklin, a Funny Animal turkey wearing a Hawaiian shirt, a cap with an American flag on it and a camera around his neck. He travels the world meeting new people and experiencing new things. Unlike most sterotypical American tourists, he is good-natured and polite to foreigners, but like most sterotypical American tourists, he is very ignorant towards other countries, often time causing incedents without him even knowing
Sample episode: Franklin goes to a country and in the middle of a civil war, Franklin believes they're just reenacting their civil war and joins in, he then after going into the president's place of residence, the president flees and the people make Franklin their new president (with Franklin being completely oblivious)
Another sample episode: while in France, he unowningly helps some art theives steal from the louvre
At the end of each episode, he takes a group photo of all the people he's met in the episode.
edited 10th Oct '11 2:54:54 AM by truteal
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Mystical Monkey Master
Transformers Prime+Animorphs+BECK=an idea I just had. The 3 kids who already have a band get kidnapped by a alien race and turned into cyborgs to fight another alien race coming to harvest Earth for all its worth then nuke it. They can now transform their body's into objects or weapons, have Jet Feet, the singer has a sonic cannon in his mouth, the guitarist has extendable extremities that can cut almost any substance, and the drummer has the can move at 587 mph (the same max speed as a Boeing 787) before his body starts to break down.
theme song will be: Anytime by Eve6
edited 10th Oct '11 2:15:53 PM by vanthebaron
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Isn't there a show like that already?
Mystical Monkey Master
No...not that I know of
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Speaking of bands, I did have this one idea for a show named The Rebels that I came up with a while ago but I don't know if it'll happen because it seems very Aquabats-y but with garage rock instead of new wave.
Premise: An animated sitcom (think Cartoon Network's recent fifteen-minute comedies) that focuses on the kind of insane lives of five teenagers that end up starting a band named La Rebellion.
Evan, Dizzy, Oscar, Heloise and Brett are the oddest group of teens you'll meet. The majority of them come from completely different backgrounds (except Evan and Dizzy), and their personalities run the gamut from "shyest guy ever" to "loudest girl on the block". But after Evan and Dizzy put out an ad to start a band, the group meet up and start gaining fame around Greyson City.
The thing is, Greyson City is frakking weird. If it's not some Kaiju or giant something-or-other tearing up the streets, it's a zombie/werewolf/killer computer, or maybe even an evil band or two. Sure, balancing homework, rising fame and dealing with whatever Greyson has to offer that week can be a drag, but they're cool enough to manage with what they've got to dish out.
The Rebels have The Power of Rock on their side. And that is some powerful stuff.
Pitch: What happens when Regular Show, Lemonade Mouth, Stuck and Scott Pilgrim get put into a blender.
Main cast:
- Evan Busch, the keytarist for La Rebellion. The one who got the idea for the band in the first place, Evan is a kind of nerdy guy on the surface, but inside he's a born performer who's ready to share his talents with the world. And he could get his shot— if his ego doesn't blow up before it comes, that is.Â
- Davis "Dizzy" Slade, LR's bassist and Evan's long-time best friend. She's been there for him since they were kids, so Dizzy jumped at the call to play bass in Evan's band when she heard the news. Closer to earth than the rest of the group, Dizzy (ironically) ends up becoming the straight (wo)man of the band.Â
- Oscar "Oz" Weiner, LR's lead singer. Oz is what many would call a "late bloomer", and we mean really late. The guy barely speaks in front of anyone and kept himself locked up tight for a long time... until Evan heard him sing a bit in a music class. Oz blows up on stage and in battle despite being the least outspoken one of them all.Â
- Heloise Scott, the band's lead guitarist, is a bit... odd. She constantly swings between two personalities of hers: one is calm and collected most of the time, while the other is borderline insane. Together, she's some sort of weird Tsundere-Yandere combo as a result.
- Brett Beck rounds out the band on drums. He was a bit of a loner before he joined, in no small part because of his rep as a bully. Brett seeks to change this though, and as a result he tries his luck at getting better by joining La Rebellion. What doesn't change, however, is his loud, bombastic personality and a big obsession with kicking butt.
Recurring cast:
- Tre Listman, Grassy Scott, Nora Irving and Max Cromwell, classmates of the band that are fans.
- The Bros In Arms, a fellow band that often play together with them. They, too, are from Stuck.
- Brad Berke, a friend of Dizzy's that always has a sunny disposition despite being caught up in, well, Greyson City. He's also the focus of a different project of mine, named Brad Berke's List.
Miscellaneous crap:
- Considering that this is a show about a band, of course there'd have to be music. Of course, I don't have any knowledge in particular of what the songs would be, but I'd think they'd be kinda like the ones by Sex Bob-omb in the Scott Pilgrim movie: short, fast and pretty weird/awesome/whatever.
- The show'd be rated TV-PG (occasionally TV-PG-V) because, well...
- The episodes would kind of have a bit of an order to them, though I'm not talking through-and-through continuity, just enough that watching the episodes in any order would still make sense just in case they weren't aired the right way.
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Firebender
Hm. I don't have plot details, but I would create a TV cartoon that rivals Avatar in quality and story just to prove that original story(so, no toy line-based or superhero-based cartoons) action cartoons CAN be great in this day and age. It'd be around Y7 to PG in rating, so no bloody violence.
edited 10th Oct '11 7:22:43 PM by eudaemon
I just remembered another idea I had. It would be about a teen in his late teens/early twenties who can see the future in his dreams - but only people dying. He experiences their death from their perspective. Then since he knows what will happen he tries to stop it. Sometimes he succeeds sometimes he doesn't. The series would follow him trying to figure out why this is happening to him and also him trying to save as many people as he can. It is kind of a rough idea, so that is why it might not make much sense right now.
gobblygoop
I have been building this mythos with a friend of mine that has super powered warrior aliens, genre savvy cyborg villain with an army of space Orcs, Eldritch Abominations, a race of bloodthirsty Raisin-men living in the earth's core, and more. Exact characters and power concepts are not elaborated on yet, though.
What do ya mean I ain't kind? Just not your kind...
To expand on my idea for a D&D show a little:
- Call it Dungeons And Dragons: Points Of Light. There's your title, your setting, your philosophy of the characters, and possibly even the visual design.
- Have 6 main characters, because six seems like just the right number for a group of main characters and there are six power sources to be represented.
- Mikal, a human Paladin.
- Callia, a halfling Vampire.
- A not quite named dwarf Warlord.
- Makaria, a tiefling Psion>Swordmage.
- Basgar, a dragonborn Warden>Druid.
- Aramil, an eladrin Bard.
- Together these make a fairly typical but atypical party.
Unfortunately, Hasbro would rather make a Sy Fy original movie...
edited 15th Oct '11 10:38:26 AM by EgregiousEric
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A Magic The Gathering Animated Adaptation that's a combination of Clerks and Yu-Gi-Oh
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An idea that I've been toying around with is a series in which a well-meaning but destructive teenager finds a mystical artifact that allows him to distort time and space, obtain elemental powers, and enhance his abilities. He travels from dimension to dimension, world to world helping people in trouble and encountering a strange number of characters. The object is supposed to be a giant robot cube, but it takes on the form of a cardboard box/backpack for the protagonist to wear.
RIGHTY-O! ;)
Trope on a Rope
I really thought it would have been intriguing to have an animated Star Trek series set in the time after DS 9 and Voyager with a technically non-Starfleet crew as the focus for the first time, and the focus is largely on the shaky future following the Dominion War.
Taking place on an experimental political vessel with representatives/crew members from the various powers in the Alpha Quadrant (Klingon Empire, Cardassian Union, Romulan Star Empire, Bajoran Government, Federation, Dominion, Tzenkethi) working together sometimes in the Alpha Quadrant, but mostly missions in the unexplored sectors of the Beta Quadrant.
Still waiting for a Legion of Losers movie...
Apparition in the Woods
The main thing I'm working on would, I think, work wonderfully as an animated something, but I'm not really sure who would finance or distribute such a thoroughly warped work, at least on this continent.
To whit, the budget would have to be utterly ridiculous.
edited 18th Oct '11 2:31:06 PM by JHM
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
This is going to be so much fun.
Might as well post my thoughts.
I'm thinking something as a homage to "dogs as cops" ideas I had, but with mecha. But then Humongous Mecha would be too superfluous and exaggerated especially when the scope is catching crooks and stopping crime, so I thought of around... a size of a Mini-Mecha!
Rook "Rookie" Roberto is a cop and, despite his name, is NOT a rookie. He is a specialized cop driving the Arrest Unit (AUnit) vehicle - a vehicle that normally looks like a police car which becomes a bipedal robot. It is designed for catching crooks, assisting other cops, and clearing collateral damage. He and the machine are bonded, as it was made by his father to which he tweaked to work with his occupation.
Of course, the military wouldn't want that to be wasted on such a small scale. And even the bigger echelons of the criminal empire would want their own AUnits to do their spree.
Death is a companion. We should cherish Death as we cherish Life.
I've got an idea for a cartoon show
Premise : The story follows the adventures of an ugly cute, completely insane villain protaginist named Skidd Skidderton. He was once a human, who grew up extremely lonely (he had no friends what so ever) during his childhood. One day, he found the most powerfullest thing in existance : The Book Of Evil.
Wanting revenge on society, it warped him into an ugly cute psychopath with reality-warping powers. Skidd's new goal was to conquer the world or just his home town depending on his mood! Mwa ha ha ha!
However, his arch-enemy Gwen Bonne, the ancient keeper of The Book of Good plans to stop him.
Skidd is helped by his magically created "daughter" Rosey, a plant/bug hybrid who loves her "father" dearly.
Other characters include Vi-vi (Skidd's "Son", a living computer virus who often fights Rosey inorder to be Skidd's favorite)
Dr. Greenburg (A mad scientist who works with Skidd and secretly attempts to steal his all-powerful book) A special would involve Dr. Greenburg winning and sending Skidd into the future where he's ruler of the universe. After that, Dr. Greenburg would work on his own.
Miyuki (The past empress of Atlantis. She traveled to the surface world to gain help from Skidd in order to take back her empire)
Mandy (An alien from a conquering-race. She was hired by the biggest corporation in the universe to steal Skidd's book/blow up Earth). She'd be considered Skidd's arch-enemy in season 2 instead of Gwen. After her mothership is destroyed, she's stuck on Earth and eventually joins Skidd.
Zipper (Ceo of the largest corporation in the universe, Zipper hired Mandy to get Skidd's book so he could use it's magic to further his profits.) He eventually arrives on Earth in a special, planning to blow up the Milky Way galaxy, after learning Mandy has switched sides
When it's not "actiony", the show will take a different format into a "Slice-of-life" showing the completely messed-up daily lifes of the characters.
Very Manly Muppet
I draw up ideas for cartoons all the time. I don't think about things like the voice cast much— when I get this off the ground, I wanna hear auditions.
Among my less trippy ideas is one about a meek gecko who lets his obnoxious friend move in with him, and only later learns that his friend is being targeted by several supervillains, the police, and an undead scientist. They characters manage to create all sorts of issues when they aren't fighting the bad guys, so it's an even split between a surreal sort of Slice of Life and more action/comedy shorts.
I wanted the two main characters to have contrasting personalities, so I chose the concepts of logic and emotion. The gecko is hyper-observant, calculating, and good at problem solving, but internally processes so many details that he gets distracted and emotionally detached. His roommate (a mouse) is book smart and only book smart, filtering everything he sees through whatever mood he's in now and acting immediately. On a good day, he's creepily pleasant. On a bad day, he nuked a city because he missed his show.
Did I make that sound totally awful? It's probably a good thing I didn't mention the show about the girl and the talking hair and the evil twin and the magic of imagination and the prophecy.
Actually a girl.
Mystical Monkey Master
I have another one partly inspired by this song. its a romance.
A loan werewolf named Morpheus saves a young girl from another werewolf (named Charon) when she is 5 but not before she is marked (clawed meaning she is not the property of the werewolf that clawed her). Time skip 11 years and she sets out to find man that saved her. She find's him and discovers he is extremely wealthy and Charon is from an enemy clan. He takes he in as a maid, until he finds out who she is when he brings her a change of close and see the scar on her bare back. A few weeks pass and the 2 clans have a meeting to continue talks of a treaty, the meeting falls apart when the girl enters with drinks and the other wolf smells his mark on her. The leaders of the clans for bid their ritual combat for the girl at the meeting and it proceeds with and finishes with a dance (there are a lot of formal dances in this). It ends with Morpheus killing Charon and turning the girl (we find out her name is Nyx here).
I still working it out but I think it'll be a great Shōjo story
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I Am The Walrus
Werewolf, Charon, marked? This sounds an awful lot like a prequel to Shadowgirls.
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Mystical Monkey Master
I'm using greek names...they sound bad ass >.>
more on the story
when Morpheus finds out shes marked he tried to make her leave before the meeting (she does leave the night of but comes back with ingredients for a meal). Charon attacks her, ripping the maid outfit off, pissing Morpheus off so much he snaps, grab's a stake knife and stabs Charon in shoulder. telling him "Touch her again and I'll kill you were you stand". everyone walks around with a fowl mood fro the rest of the party.
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Perpetual Noob
Alright, I've snapped. I'll tell you about my action-comedy-drama concept, T.O.O.N.: Team Obliteration of Neonation.
The show covers the eponymous team, a trio of anthropomorphic animals working as freelance agents, using cartoon antics in an attempt to shut down several major gangs in the city-state of Neonation. The thing is that these three just so happen to be the only individuals on their planet (which, for the record, is not Earth) that have the abilities of normal cartoon characters; The rest of the world functions much as the real world does.
Though each of the three characters share most of their abilities, they each have one that only they can perform. First, there's Agent Pop, an iguana with a master's degree in psychology and the ability to pull objects in or out of hammerspace. This includes being able to send her companions to the other side of the fourth wall. Second is Agent Bamph, a raccoon-fox thing* with a passion for the arts and the ability to move his limbs and digits at impossible speeds. Though this does not sound like much, it does enable him to run at breakneck speeds or do delicate work, like painting or typing, with speed and ease. Last, there's Agent Kremlin, a Russian-accented bald eagle with plenty of strength and the ability to build any piece of technology, given enough time. This goes for technology that would hard, if not impossible, to build in real life, like time machines, as well as highly impractical weapons, like a bazooka that fires chainsaws.
Team Obliteration's main goal is to destroy the drug empire of Brutus Berlin, a powerful mafia lord who has a better grip on Neonation's citizens than the local government. On occasion, the trio will deal several lesser gangs, headed respectively by an insane anarchist* , a mass murderer, and a rival crime lord to Brutus who is constantly switching sides. Team Obliteration normally has extra help, in the forms of the local police, their rivals, Team Pride, and assorted other recurring characters.
This is not the complete concept, even as of right now, but talking about it too much more would probably ruin the show's appeal. I'll just say that the group's name is fitting.
I put on my robe and tinfoil hat...
What if we had a cartoon involving an animated but normal cat, doing mundane cat things, for half an hour? Like you could film a cat in real life then color over it on the computer to make the cartoon.
It's easy, mmkay?
How about Half Life: The Animated Series, in the vein of the Animatrix? It would take place between Half-Life and Half-Life 2...
At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...
No, but they do go to Darwin IV
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