Editing Approved Cartoons (section)

== Old Stuff & Remakes ==
*'''[[Masters of the Universe|He-Man/She-Ra]]:''' The original 80s [[Sword & Sorcery]] cartoon and the first 30-minute toy commercial. He-Man is a cosmically-empowered [[barbarian]] hero who has to juggle his daily life as the foppish Prince Adam and his muscle-bound alter-ego to defend 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 after Reagan's FCC deregulated children's television. 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 [[PROMOTIONS|surprisingly popular]] with girls, so it's even more of a toy commercial then "He-Man" and suffers for it quality wise.
** 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 and focused take on the show. It worked, but sadly it died after two seasons due to a lack of an audience. 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 the franchise.
** A 2018 "remake" called She-Ra and the Princesses of Power...exists. While it ''barely'' manages to have a better story and animation than the original, it suffers very badly from (in the showrunner's own words) "the gay agenda" and a tumblr-esque obession with cribbing from anime instead of doing its own thing.
** 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 the 2017 Revelation series.
* '''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.''' It was never screened to the original creator, Morris, for review and they waited until he died before releasing it, because they knew it was crap and he would cry foul.

*'''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 collaboration with the 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 ruins of the United States. It's a collection of everything popular in early 80s: fantasy, post-apocalypse, 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. Aged far better than most 80s cartoons, since it wasn't intended to be 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. Infamous for the Cheetara Paradox: if you want to bang Cheetara you're a furfag, but if you don't you're gay. 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.