Editing Approved Cartoons (section)

== Old Stuff & Remakes ==
*'''[[Masters of the Universe|He-Man/She-Ra]]:''' The original 80s [[Sword & Sorcery]] cartoons of choice, He-Man is about a cosmically-empowered [[barbarian]] hero who has to juggle his daily life as the foppish Prince Adam and his muscle-bound alter-ego whilst defending Castle Greyskull from the forces of Skeletor, an evil wizard who seeks to claim the castle and the cosmic powers it holds to rule the universe. Made to sell every single crazy toy the designers could come up with. It's 80s fucking bullshit to the extreme, but if you can embrace the cheese and get past the memetically limited animation, it's actually good, clean, turn-your-brain-off fun, with plenty of ideas to mine for a more S&S or old-school [[Science Fantasy]] setting. "She-Ra" is literally "He-Man for girls", with Prince Adam's twin sister Adora using the twin to He-Man's sword of power to turn into a super-powered [[Amazon]] warrior, leading a resistance on the magical world of Etheria against the Horde, an invading army of space monsters and robots. "She-Ra" was conceived totally as a cashgrab to take advantage of the fact that "He-Man" was surprisingly popular with girls, so it's even more a toy commercial then "He-Man" and suffers for it quality wise, still it can be decent turn-your-brain-off fun just like "He-Man".
** An early 90s remake tried to rebrand He-Man (since it was also one of the forerunners of "cartoons as toy commercials" in the 80s) and failed flat. Mostly forgotten, since it dropped everything unique about the setting, replacing it with generic science fiction. These days very few even remember this thing even existed, with more than likely many not wanting to remember it. Easily one of (if not the) worst things in whole franchise.
** A 2001 remake of He-Man attempted to create a more serious, focused, action-orientated and generally less goofy take on the show. It worked, but sadly it died after two seasons due to a lack of an audience. Main culprit is believed to be horrid marketing from its main network who were never sure how to market the somewhat mature show among the more younger-audience leaning lineups at the time. Dig it up and enjoy it if you can for as far as remakes are concerned it is one of the best things to come out of franchise. And also accomplished the rare feat of honoring the previous series but forging its own distinct tone. While also giving refreshing spins on classic characters such as He-Man and Evil-Lyn. 
** A 2018 "remake" called She-Ra and the Princesses of Power...exists. Whilst it ''technically'' has a better plot and animation than its predecessor, it is also much more rooted in post-2010s culture memes, so view at your own risk. That aside it does contain some surprisingly mature themes and subject matter considering the target audience and includes some legitimately good world building and character arcs, arguably some of the best in the whole franchise. If you can get behind some of the humor and occasionally very overt Noblebright tone it can actually be a rewarding watch. Bears repeating it won't be everyone's cup of tea and the above good points are somewhat [[skub]] depending on who you ask since more than few took to hating the show on principle (anti-[[SJW]] whinging for the most part or nitpicking lore changes etc.......).
*** Success of the above led to the 2021 "continuation" of the 2001 version, done to <s>maintain copyrights and licensing agreement</s>{{BLAM}} refresh the format and shakes things up. Not only it suffers from the same issues the 90s remake had, it's also [[Serious Business]] [[Edge]]fest running entirely on [[skub]]. Unlike rest of the list, fully disapproved.
** The 2021/2022 "He-Man & The Masters of the Universe" show. Reimagines Eternia as [[Science Fantasy|an advanced technological world whose magical past is being brought back]]. Despite a rather weird animation style and some borderline [[SJW]] choices (replacing Ram-Man with a female counterpart, most notable), largely considered to ''not'' be as shit as Revelation.
* '''Jana of the Jungle''': Hanna-Barbera's take on the archetypical pulp character of "blond chick in fur bikini raised by natives, now having adventures in the jungle with her big cat". As such, it tackles just about every single possible scenario and accompanying archetypes from those pulps, making it a condensed way to learn the ropes with this kind of stuff. Somewhat on the short note (it was a companion show, rather than its own thing), but still good watch, prime idea-mining material, and, above all, not taking itself too seriously.
* '''Jonny Quest:''' '''''The''''' adventure series from Hanna-Barbera, notable originally for being first "realistic" cartoon to be made and having amounts of violence and brutality - for a show ostentiably aimed at very young kids - that makes moral watchdogs twitch to this day. For those same reasons, it is also never-ending source of pulp ideas and weird science plots. Even if you never saw it, there is a high chance you can recognise the characters and hum the main theme, regardless of nationality. Comes in three distinctive flavours, all three very much approved:
** The original series from the 60s, titled simply ''Jonny Quest''.
** 80s revival series, ''The New Adventures of Jonny Quest'', which came with animation bump, updated the setting and made if far more kid-friendly, without losing the adventuring vibe
** 90s Cartoon Network sponsored remake, ''Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures'', which finally realised the series mostly watched by teen boys could benefit from having a teen-aged main character.

*'''Lucky Luke''': An animated adaptation of a classic Franco-Belgian comics, done with help of Hanna-Barbera, following adventures of titular Lucky Luke - a cowboy so fast with his gun, he can even outdraw his shadow. Just like its source material, it's humorous in style and spoofs various staples of western genre, but never becomes an outright parody. Your gunslinger PC ''wishes'' to be this cool and suave.
** Got a new series in 2001, aptly titled '''The New Adventures of Lucky Luke''' and it's a hit-and-miss, with quality of the writing being all over the place. Somewhat infamous for being never screened to the original creator, Morris, for review and waiting out until he died with the release.

*'''The Mysterious Cities of Gold''': Throw into a shaker El Dorado, greedy conquistadors, dashing adventurers, an alien race of Mayan precursors... and a group of children tangled into the middle of it. Stir together, serve chilled. It's a high grade adventuring in the Latin America, easily passing modern quality standards without any issues and not struggling with any kind of typical cartoon censorship (thank God for the French). Oh, and it's a continuous plot, rather than villain-of-a-week type of deal - so you get a story of epic proportions, with equally impressive prep to to make it all work and come together, with world-building to carry it through. It's also one of the first "big" cartoons to be done in corroboration with Japanese (Studio Pierrot), so on technicality, it's an anime. Absolute classic and if you aren't a literal zoomer, you probably saw it as a kid.
** Got renewed in 2012 and 2016, thirty goddamn years after original premiere, for two additional seasons. To make it weirder, it picks the plot where the original, self-contained series ended, so you pretty much have to watch the whole thing to "get" it. Still worth every minute.

* '''Thundarr the Barbarian:''' Hanna-Barbera's [[Science Fantasy]] series set in the far future of post-apoc ruins of the United States. It's a collection of everything popular in early 80s: fantasy, post-apo, buff barbarians, Chewbacca look-alikes, <s>tits</s> princesses, light sabers and cheese. Copious amounts of cheese. If you ever wanted to run pulp megadungeon, look no further for inspiration. [[Dark Age of Cartoons|Aged far better than most 80s cartoons, since it wasn't intended as being a 20 minute long toy commercial.]]

*'''[[Thundercats]]:''' Regarded by /tg/ as "Dangerously [[Furry]]: the Cartoon". A [[Science Fantasy]] series revolving around a group of survivors from the destroyed world of Thundera crashlanding on the apocalyptic ruins of a far-future Earth and trying to rebuild their civilization, whilst battling mutants, monsters, magic and the ancient [[mummy]]-[[lich]]-thing called "Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living". Essentally He-Man, but more focus on action than on goofy comedy. Like He-Man, it also got a darker, edgier, more serious 2011 remake that fell through because <s>nobody watched it</s> <s>everyone was turned away by the tone shift</s> [[Derp|Cartoon Network wanted to replace it with Lego Chima]]. While the 2011 version is incomplete it still a very enjoyable watch as long as you don't mind some minor pacing problems.
** Then it had yet another - an unapproved - remake with even worse reception, the late 2010s "Thundercats Roar", which doubles down on just about everything awful in cartoons that had been pioneered by Teen Titans GO! (in fact, they did a crossover with TTG! purely for the "Teen Titans" to shill the Roar cartoon, which went down like a lead balloon). It aired early 2020 and only lasted one season. Given that COVID would force kids to stay at home, and thus have easy access to television, [[Fail|that is quite the accomplishment]].