>People died in every episode>highly political plots about villains uniting Arab nations and staging falseflag attacksWhat happened to children’s cartoons?
YES!
Looks woke.
>>220733463For me it's the indian slave, Haji.
>>220733463Anyone who didn’t grow up watching this, or at least wasn’t exposed to it in their formative years, should avoid it completely. Seeing it for the first time as an adult can trigger paranoia with the number of barely concealed straight-up truth bombs about modern history.
>>220736093indeed
>>220733463The show was based, even the newer one that was on toonami. Ezekiel Rage was unironically right about everything.
>>220733463lead creator back then ran a tight ship. guys like him and Space Ghost's Alex Toth were a part of a generation of cartoonists who didn't fuck around and generally took things very seriously
>>220736093Like what, the show frequently relied on plot devices where governments were all secretly evil/nefarious and many of the antagonists were straight up created by government tomfoolerly but other than that I can't think of specifics.
>>220736400All of that shit is exactly what I’m talking about.
zim zim badabimbring back colonialism and manservants
>>220736546the invisible monster episode is so fucking funny because Race was just going to let Hadji get killed when his jetpack failed and Johnny had to fly back for him
>>220736599Kek
>>220733463I'm 80% sure that the reason i have a thing for red heads is because of jess from the real adventures of Jonny Quest.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uuJULBkHG4
>>220737786No doubt at all here. I used to imagine going on adventures with her.
>>220736257Quick rundown on ezekiel?
>>220733463>>220736093You are a very dumb.
>>220733463i forgot why did they drag a poojit with them
>>220739633To test for booby traps and explore monster dens.
>>220734648For me, it was Jessie Bannon.
>>220737786Every time I drive I still think about an ending segment where Johnny gives advice that reflections in your bike mirror may appear closer than they seem.
>>220740798For me it's when the reflections seem closer than they appear.
>>220739121A guy that was originally a brilliant CIA cryptographer and secret-agent during the Cold War got exposed to a deadly Nerve-Gas. He ultimately survived but went completely insane. He started calling himself "Ezekiel Rage" and preaching from an apocalyptic holy book (which he authored himself) called "The Book of Rage" and eventually had people join up with him to form a deranged cult.In the series he repeatedly tries to commit acts of terrorism that are supposedly integral to the apocalyptic events foretold in his Book of Rage, such as trying to detonate Hydrogen Bombs in the newly inaugurated world's deepest subterranean bore-hole in order to fuck God knows how hard with the earth's tectonic plates.After quoting "scripture" of some piece of seemingly relevant, surreal imagery described in his personal holy book he'd always follow it up by saying "...so it is written in The Book of Rage!".Genuinely kino supervillain. Deranged, unpredictable and filled with dramatic bravado.
>>220741042He was too good for Jonny Quest. The man looked and sounded like a Batman villain.
>>220737786This is still by far one of the greatest American action-cartoons ever made.Genuinely high stakes and adult situations, on screen bad guy deaths (and lots of them), plots revolving around fascinating science fiction or paranormal concepts, a cool virtual reality tool Dr. Quest has invented that had numerous useful functions which were surprisingly believable (in one episode they scanned the thousands of fragments from a broken ancient artifact into VR and had an AI reassemble it for them using trial and error, stuff like that), legitimately fucked up villains that often had legitimately fucked up personal agendas, etc.
Get on my level, xoomer trash. Clutch Cargo was the real adventure kino GOAT
>>220739633In the sequel-series from the 90's Hadji is a Hell of a lot more useful (along with everyone else, for that matter).No idea if it was ever touched on in the original series, but in the sequel-series he was originally an orphan that was adopted into a a traveling group of con-men and mystics and thus learned a weird and unique range of skills from them that end up being useful for a globe-trotting adventurer. This ranged from things like pickpocketing and slight of hand to a technique he learned from a yogi allowing him to slow his own heart-rate to the point of unconsciousness (which eventually came in handy when they needed to do the classic "Sick Man Routine" while being held prisoner).
>>220741261>can steal>so lazy appears to be deadYeah he sounds like real useful guy to have on the team.
>>220741042This was in a cartoon show!? Never even knew there was a villain in johnny quest.
>>220741566Oh, there were MULTIPLE villains even in the original, more kid-oriented show from back in the 60's. The 90's reboot brought a lot of them back (including Dr. Zin, Ivar, etc.), added a bunch of new ones, and made them ALL way more realistic and believable. It was fucking great.Kid's entertainment has gone MARKEDLY down-hill since the 1990's, and it's a shame.
>>220733463I have been thinking of getting into old cartoons like Johnny Quest and Scooby-Doo. Seeing that this is a Johnny Quest thread, is it best to start at the 60s cartoon and work my way forward?
>>220733463Guess they decided to stop pushing propaganda to kids?
>>220742367you have to start with the pulp novels of the 30s and 40s that Johnny Quest was an homage to along with the classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers
>>220742394Yeah.
>>220742457Luckily, I have read Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers. And I am reading the old pulps (The Shadow and Doc Savage), which is why I am interesting in old shows like Johnny Quest.
>Hadji……
>>220742394>propaganda is...le bad
