Editing Approved Cartoons (section)

== Action ==
*'''The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers''': 80s cartoons were all just merch-driven crap... aside from this gem. Amazingly high quality show, which is still perfectly watchable today (unlike pretty much anything else from the 80s). Mostly famous for combining space exploration, western and alien invasion, without falling into camp. Oh, and killing characters left and right. Think about it as a prototype Exosquad. Also, kick-ass music.

*'''The Adventures of Tintin''': A faithful (but still censored, though not as much as the burgers would) adaptation of the classic Franco-Belgian comics series, combining quality animation with that pulpy adventure feeling. Think Indiana Jones, but with an action reporter instead of an action archeologist. And just like the source material, the series deftly balances humor, pulp qualities and serious, often dark themes (on average at least one dead body per episode and this is still a kid-friendly show).

*'''Blake and Mortimer''': Another Franco-Belgian comic adaptation. This time it's about the adventures of two Brits: Scottish scientist Philip Mortimer and Welsh Captain Francis Blake of MI5. Spy fiction, exotic adventures, weird science and ancient mythos - what more could you expect from what started as a pulp magazine? If you ever plan to run ''[[Hollow Earth Expedition]]'', this is one of the best possible inspirations.

*'''Cybersix''': What was originally an adult-oriented Argentinian cyberpunk comics about Nazi escaped experiment fighting for her life was bizarrely adapted into children-oriented animated series. Probably due to how easily it is to mistake it for capeshit, despite not being even close to it. Worth watching due to sheer crazyness of the content alone.

*'''Exosquad''': The European Front of World War II '''IN SPACE''' with Mechs and Power Armor. It is well plotted and can get incredibly dark for what is supposed to be a kids show with a very high body count and lots of fun with genocide. Even so it suffered from having a small budget and a few sub par designs.

*'''Gargoyles''': Disney's serious response to Batman: TAS (as opposed to Disney's satirical response to Batman: TAS of Darkwing Duck, which was pretty damn good itself if a bit more conventionally cartoony). A band of [[Gargoyle]]s (winged strong humanoids with claws that can cut steel that turn into stone during the day) live in Scotland the middle ages fighting Vikings, get betrayed, frozen in stone and are re-awakened in modern New York by a businessman who could give Tzeentch lessons in plotting played by William Riker. Stories of betrayal, romance, robots, suits of [[power armor]], cyborgs and a fair number of magical things borrowing from a variety of sources, but most notably the works of William Shakespeare.

*'''Gravity Falls''': 12-year-old fraternal twins Dipper and Mabel get sent to spend a summer with their shady "grunkle" Stan at his woodland tourist trap in Gravity Falls. Naturally the town is packed with more absurd supernatural shit than your average [[Call of Cthulhu]] campaign, though a good deal more noblebright (at least most of the time). In Stan's own words, the show has "a big mystery element! And a lot of humor that goes over kids' heads!" Notable for ending mostly organically at two seasons, with an only somewhat rushed finale wrapping things up before seasonal decay could ruin things.

*'''Invader Zim:''' A cult classic sci-fi series about a little green cyborg bug alien who is banished to Earth after after he almost accidentally his throneworld and tries to conquer the planet while posing as a school student along with his insane robot GIR. The only one on Earth who knows Zim is an alien is the wannabe cryptozoologist Dib Membrane. Zim's race, the Irken, are effectively kid-friendly [[Skaven]] in space and Zim is their [[Thanquol]] equivalent, which neatly explains why the Reddit generation went bananas for the show as kids. Cancelled due to the cultural whiplash from 9/11 and tonally clashing with what was already becoming the SpongeBob Channel, its pop culture impact was such that it got a series finale movie almost 20 years later, "Enter the Florpus".

*'''The Legend of Calamity Jane''': A too-good-to-last 90s cult classic. Probably the best "serious" animated western. Since it wasn't exactly made with kids in mind, it provides a lot of mature content. Which is the main reason why moral watchdogs killed it after just 13 episodes.

*'''Motorcity:''' Corporate overlord Mark Hamill has built an apple brand hive city on top of post apocalyptic Detroit and rules it with an iron fist while a band of renegades fights him from the Detroit Underhive with high tech muscle-cars. Similar to Megas XLR in a lot of ways, including being screwed over by the Network Execs.

*'''Nanook's Great Hunt''': A French-Canadian co-production, telling a story of a young Inuit boy on his self-declared quest to hunt down a mythical Great Bear which brought famine to his people. All in the backdrop of early 20th century and modernity slowly pushing even into the frozen fringes of the world. Borderline fantasy, since as long as things are viewed from Inuit perspective, everything is explained by magical thinking. Worth watching even for the setting and lore alone.

*'''Primal''': A show by Genndy Tartovsky about a Caveman and a T. Rex trying to survive in a brutal primitive fantasy world. Features the same creativity and elegancy in simplicity as Samurai Jack, just in a radically different setting and with the benefit of a TV-MA rating.

*'''Roughnecks: [[Starship Troopers]] Chronicles''': Take the best parts of the book and film and none of the crap.  One of the early CGI shows (and it shows) cut short due to budget (as in just short of the ending).

*'''[[Samurai Jack]]:''' A wandering samurai lost in the future kicks ass and saves lives in his quest to get home. Elegance in simplicity. Amazing animation. [[Kaldor Draigo]] ''wishes'' he could be this cool.

* '''Star Wars The Clone Wars:''' Not to be confused with the other one from 2005. A TV series that started out bad and gradually got better, while also injecting gradually enough grimdark to make some question how this show was for kids. Include the awesomeness that is the Clone Troopers and their incredibly talented VA, who has starred in several of the shows on this list, great character development all over the board and smart ass one-liners. Really just did a fantastic job with the lore and expanding the universe. It is advised to skim through the first two seasons, as the series was still trying to figure out what it wants to be. Then again, maybe don’t, since the first two do have some important plot points for later, but you have been warned.

*'''Todd McFarlane's Spawn''': Imagine a world where animated series aren't related with kids and "animated" doesn't mean "low quality". That's the world from which Spawn was accidentally teleported from. Dark as fuck, it plays anti-hero dial so high you seriously wonder if the guy can even quality as a hero at all. Worth even for the imagery alone. It gave us Keith David as the man himself (bless his sexy, deep voice).

*'''[[War Planets]]/Shadow Raiders''': Forgotten third show from Mainframe in the 90s, alongside Reboot and Beast Wars. Four alien races that have been screwing each other over for thousands of years because they need the resources of each other's worlds have to put aside their difference in the face of a common foe -- a "Beast Planet" that devours entire worlds and their civilisations whole, overwhelming its prey first with armies of mindless drones. Very intense, very good characters, plenty of action. The Beast Planet is kind of a "[[Necron]]s imitating [[Tyranid]]s" enigma, which may be a good or a bad thing.

*'''[[Wakfu]]''': A French cartoon based on a video game which itself is the sequel to a mmorpg, is bizarrely good for its first few seasons. Also full of cheesecake and weeaboo; the Ankama execs have admitted [[PROMOTIONS|"there are some sketches that can't leave ths studio"]], bless those crazy French.

* '''Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?''': There's a good chance your local "Well, akshually" guy got at least some of the trivia from this cartoon in his youth. One improbable heist job after another, pure pulp adventure and tomb-raiding, with Squidward as a factoid-spouting AI - what's not to like?