#2016 voltron reboot

[fauxfabgator]

Voltron would be 100% better if the Paladins armor had little cat ears.

[marrmora]

dude ur pfp is stirring a very dormant set of memories and i CANNOT remember where i've seen it before. pleaseee,,, please!! ,,,enlighten me 🙏/silly/genreq

It’s Keith (I believe) in his BoM (Blade of Marmora, they were in the 2016-2018 Voltron reboot) suit, the show is Voltron!! My old account was like… my godkin stuff, but I feel more connected to my past life so :)

BUT HEHEEHE I LOVE UR WHOLE PROFILE ITS SO COOOLPL

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Voltron: The Series

Last stop folks! One I'm sure you already know well This was my introduction into Voltron, fell in love with it, led me to its predecessors, then had a rocky relationship with it, and still do Thanks for joining me so far! I love Voltrons history because there's so much to be inspired from Dotu/VV - V3D - VF - VLD (here)

Word vomit under the cut <3

Oh boy 2016, nothing can go wrong here Frankly this is the better looking Voltron out of all of them, I'm glad to see what 2D and 3D can really do together since VF had a rocky time with that itself. Like I said in the Dotu/VV post, this show is a hard reboot, at most it takes the names and basic legend of the original show and just runs with it. Though it does take inspiration from the previous shows, again with Pidge being a genius, the lions being mystical, and this time I'm fairly sure the bayards were directly inspired from the voltcoms from VF That's the main reason why I don't find it fair to compare Voltron Legendary Defender (VLD) to the other Voltrons because it's not the same story at all, it's its own thing and is pretty well isolated. It has major changes to the story beats, like Lotor not automatically being a villain, the pilots aren't trained soldiers and instead cadets themselves, for a while the team aren't even friends, Allura's planet is renamed (to be fair it's back to the original anime name) and also destroyed, and Pidge is a girl now, which I don't mind but from what I've learned its a joke between older fans since many of them thought dotu Pidge was a girl at first due to his headband. The gist of VLD is vaguely similar to the rest of them, a team of five lands on Altea (Arus) and discovers Voltron which is then used to defend the universe. Like I mentioned though, the team isn't made up of soldiers, most of them are cadets with only one (1) seasoned soldier on the team who has been missing for years until the group found him. They have an Indiana Jones moment and find blue lion hidden away on Earth which abducts the entire team to Arus, a planet unrelated to Altea, where the castle of lions sits locked up. The rest of the show is them learning to work together and the best way to handle dangerous situations when more than just easily ignored lives are on the line. In total, it had 8 seasons in 2 years (yikes), the most of the shows (probably ran too long in retrospect), spawned 3 volumes of comics (15 in total), and brought the return of the toy line. This iteration brought in the most viewers because of the original fans who were still kicking, the animation, the story (in the beginning), and it was on Netflix which many people had at that point so it was easily accessible. It also spawned an incredibly large fandom which could be amazing at some points and down right radioactive at others. Either way though, it created avenues for merchandise, podcasts, fan interactions, and furthering the legacy of Voltron itself! As of this post, there's information slowly coming out about a live action movie for Voltron (probably not VLD related, that ship has sailed lads) which has many fans excited for what's to come

[eldragon-x]

theres something deeply wrong about the fact that the voltron reboot first aired in 2016

[gaymothman]

ok how the fuck did you get that user? did you somehow fight off all the people who after the 2016 reboot of Voltron came out decided that Keith Kogane is a certified gay crypted and was obsessed with mothman. like did that happen? did you have to kill someone? was blackmail involved?

this is so fucking funny because against all odds, this url was just totally free when i decided to grab it in like 2021 after changing from an equally shockingly available fandom specific url

[silenthill2ps2]

when I was 11 I had a crush on two guys in voltron (the reboot) but more importantly I thought they should date so I set aside my love for them so they could love each other. I’m a lesbian fujoshi now And they didn’t even get together in the show 😭

HELP MEEEE IS THIS ABOUT KLANCE i never watched that show but i understood the craze 2016 was a wild time

[koganelovesmcclain]

JGNSKCKSK UR TAGS ON THE VOLTRON REBOOT OMFG LMAOOO STOOOP😭😭😭😭😭

gkldfgjdklg darling i've been here since 2016 and i actually wanted to puke at the thought of a reboot

[feathergail]

which voltron king

the reboot from 2016 :)

[poejemuelgallaza]

Voltron

Voltron is a franchise that originally began with the animated television series "Voltron: Defender of the Universe," which first aired in the 1980s. The series was adapted from two Japanese anime series: "Beast King GoLion" and "Armored Fleet Dairugger XV."

In "Voltron," a team of space explorers pilots five robotic lions that can combine to form a powerful giant robot called Voltron, which they use to battle evil forces threatening the universe. The show became popular for its action, team dynamics, and the concept of combining vehicles or robots into a more powerful form.

Over the years, Voltron has expanded into various iterations, including reboots like "Voltron: Legendary Defender," which premiered on Netflix in 2016 and introduced the series to a new generation with updated animation and storytelling.

[gojos-nightmare-box]

the 2016 voltron reboot was a fking mistake and the ppl behind it should be persecuted fr

[fmp2maxleighton]

Voltron: Legendary Defender is an animated science fiction mecha television series produced by American animation company DreamWorks that debuted on Netflix in March 2016 and ending in December 2018, acting as a reboot to the classic Japanese anime of the same name. The series follows the adventures of a group of heroes who learn to work together and form the titular giant robot to fight against villainous forces. Featured in the series is the Castle of Lions, a gigantic castle that transforms into a futuristic space ship, and the main home of the main bunch of characters and the five robotic lions that form Voltron. The ship and the entire series as a whole serves as a minor inspiration for the FMP, mainly because of the appearance of the Castle of Lions having a style that looks eerily similar to the technology found in Aphrodite and the CROWN Module asteroid location, as well as the series having large robots, like the Agamemnon mech concept.

[arnorion-in-arda]

Scoping this talk was hard. There are so many fantastic leaders in the books, shows, and movies I love. I knew from previous experience that I needed to keep the focus narrow to avoid the inevitable sprawl that ultimately results in unfinished works or hectic deletions at the end to fit within allocated time limits. It was a bit easier because I went into this one planning to write a series of talks on leadership, with this one just being the first instance. 

I went with Rogers, Aragorn, and Picard because they are the heroes I grew up with and after whose example I patterned my own leadership style. They come from different story genres (superheroes, fantasy, and science fiction) told in disparate formats (comics, novel, television) which allows us to look at leadership from a few different perspectives. They are skilled leaders and fascinating characters in their own right. I’m not saying my three are the best fictional leaders, just that they resonate deeply with me. 

I realize that they are not a demographically diverse set. This isn’t a problem in itself, but I wanted to acknowledge that reality. Pictured on the left are just a few of the leaders I hope to study in future installments. 

The Marvel comics and movies are replete with leaders of diverse styles and descriptions but so is Fullmetal Alchemist, both manga and anime (Brotherhood). Voltron not only features a female leader, Princess Allura is successfully reimagined as a fascinating character in the 2016 reboot of the now nearly-unwachable 1984 original, but as a bonus it affords us a look at team- and coalition-building, a topic my wife and I looked at in our first joint Mythmoot presentation back in 2020. Galadriel’s career has long interested me, especially with the alternative and mutually-exclusive versions described in the History of Middle-earth series. I have not yet seen the Rings of Power series so I’m curious to see which elements they incorporated into her character for their adaptation.

[dawnmarsmleighton]

Voltron: Legendary Defender is an animated science fiction mecha television series produced by American animation company DreamWorks that debuted on Netflix in March 2016 and ending in December 2018, acting as a reboot to the classic Japanese anime of the same name. The series follows the adventures of a group of heroes who learn to work together and form the titular giant robot to fight against villainous forces. Featured in the series is the Castle of Lions, a gigantic castle that transforms into a futuristic space ship, and the main home of the main bunch of characters and the five robotic lions that form Voltron.

[fauxfabgator]

I love how everyone in the fandom completely refuses to believe that Adam is dead lol

[blueskittlesart]

tell me more about voltron please

i considered putting this behind a readmore but i dont think i will actually. i think im going to subject you all to this. okay to begin with when i say voltron i am not talking about the 1984 anime voltron. i am talking about the american 2016 reboot of that anime, voltron legendary defender. it had eight seasons within 2 years and i was obsessed with it for the majority of my time in middle school. it did irreparable damage to my brain.

voltron was run by two people named lauren montgomery and joaquim dos santos. voltron voice actors and writers also had a kind of unprecedented amount of interaction with their fans, both in-person and online. the majority of those fans were adolescent lgbt people, as are fans of most netlfix cartoons. this did not end well. i'll get into it later.

the first two seasons of voltron came out to relative praise. it appeared, at the time, to be an interesting character-driven children's show, similarly to steven universe and other cartoons of its time. As I mentioned, a lot of fans were adolescent and/or young adult lgbt people. this obviously led to fandom, and, as a consequence, shipping culture. the problem was that the shipping culture in voltron was insane. there were two MAIN ships that people were into at the time. keith/lance (klance) and keith/shiro (sheith). for context, keith and lance were 17 & 18-year old classmates and established rivals who had several heart-to-heart/romantically-coded scenes in the first two seasons, causing fans to latch on HARD. shiro was keith's 26-year-old adopted brother.

the mid-stage voltron fandom literally coined the terms "anti" and "proship." "anti" originally meant "anti-sheith" that is the kind of fandom culture were talking about here. before voltron, these debates had obviously still been present in fandom, but voltron dialed everything up several notches. it was insane. I was put on blocklists for being anti-sheith, as a FOURTEEN YEAR OLD.

I mentioned earlier that the showrunners and voice actors had a kind of unprecedented amount of interaction with their fans, and i actually think this is what lead to the show's downfall. What happened was, basically, at the very beginning of the show's run, one of the showrunners teased that they would have lgbt rep in their show. everyone assumed that this rep would be either klance or sheith, and went insane about it. the staff of the show could not have a single event without some fan asking if shieth or klance was going to be canon. they would always dance around it, which i don't REALLY blame them for. the biggest problem was that they actively REFUSED to condemn sheith, an incestuous ship between a 26 year old and a 17 year old. some fans at the time suggested that they even encouraged the shipping culture within the fandom because they knew it brought them more engagement. however, encouraging this kind of thing and refusing to condemn sheith led to several unsavory situations with voice actors and fans, most notably pidge's voice actor bullying a 13-year-old off this site after they pointed out it was weird that the voice actor openly shipped sheith. there were also several incidents where FANS were in the wrong, most notably when a klance shipper took photos of unaired material during a tour of the studio where voltron was being made and then threatened to leak it if the showrunners didn't make klance canon. it was an insane couple of years to be in fandom spaces on the internet.

this is bad, obviously. all of this is really bad. but it also all came alongside the steady, obvious decline in quality of the show itself. what had once seemed like an interesting, well-paced, character-driven narrative was clearly devolving into a badly-paced serialized mess. subtle racism began to creep into the writing. the racism became less subtle as the show went on, obviously favoring white characters. Characters would have development teased and then never followed through on. filler episodes would be full of weirdly malicious digs at fan-favorite characters for seemingly no reason. the story became disjointed, the tone shifted to be much darker with little warning, and the plot became nearly impossible to follow. what came out later on, after the show had concluded, was that sometime after season 3 or so, the showrunners had THROWN OUT THE SHOW'S BIBLE. meaning past a certain point, there was ZERO PLANNING, zero written plot, zero ANYTHING. it was obvious in hindsight why the show started to go downhill so quickly. It was speculated that the bible was thrown out specifically to spite klance shippers, who the showrunners later openly admitted to hating and wanting to screw over.

six seasons came and went with no lgbt rep like they'd promised. the fans were getting incredibly impatient. the longer they went without the satisfaction of a klance or sheith payoff, the harder it became for them to overlook the writing problems in the show. something had to be done.

at sdcc 2018, the voltron team showed a clip of their new season.

this was an EVENT in the fandom. like. i remember exactly where i was at the time. i remember refreshing the blog of a mutual i had who was at the panel, liveblogging it, and praying that they would finally fix everything they'd fucked up over the last year. they showed a clip of shiro and another man, who was named adam. the clip itself was ambiguous, but when asked about it afterward the showrunners confirmed that adam was shiro's fiancee.

this literally sent voltron fans into a rabid state. we were going fucking INSANE for those 2 weeks between the panel and the season's release. as far as we knew, at the time, we had been given the lgbt rep we'd been promised, and they'd somehow managed to do it WITHOUT PISSING OFF EITHER SIDE OF THE SHIP WAR. it was a miracle.

two weeks later, the season aired. adam was in about 2 minutes of the episodes, total. EPISODES, PLURAL. there were 13 in the season. his presence on screen amounted to the ambiguous scene which was played at the con, where it's unclear what his relationship with shiro actually was, and a scene of him DYING IN A FIGHTER CRASH.

the fandom fucking imploded at this point, and i left it basically immediately afterwards because the lgbt rep was basically the only thing i'd been holding out for. i can't tell you exactly what happened after that but the rotten tomatoes score for voltron went from like 79% to 10% overnight, if that gives you any idea. voltron legendary defender is also currently cited as an example on the wikipedia page for queerbaiting. they lost about 90% of their fanbase that day, and the rest was lost a few months later when they killed their only black character and redeemed their genocidal villains in the final season.

voltron sucked ass and i have no idea what possessed me to sit through ONE season of it, let alone seven, when it was just so obviously never going to be what i wanted it to be. that being said, the fandom was a literal cultural reset for every lgbt person between the ages of 14 and 25 at the time. make of that what you will but for the love of god do not watch it for yourself. stay as far away from this fucking show as humanly possible

[ima-ghost-art]

I’ve just realised no one on here realises how badly I am Voltron trash!

(even when the fandoms been dead for ages now!!)

It was my first fandom for little ol baby me back in 2016, who hadn’t yet realised that they were about to collect the

 “pretty boy/ goofball comic relief character thats always there for the others, who the creators kinda just beat up for jokes even tho they almost definitely are severely traumatized and also probably Neurodivergent/ dyslexic/ bisexual (that ends up in almost definitely loveless/non-compatible relationships bc no gay??) but no one in the show acknowledges it” 

the very moment my eyes were set upon Lance!

i also survived the shipping war by hc Keith as ace (lances 2nd platonic soulmate after hunk, bc bonding moment) and lance dating matt bc latte has my heart bc goofy meme bisexual bfs who decided to get married so lance is legally pidges brother????

YES PLEASE??????

honestly matt/lance or matt&lance has taken over my Voltron brain like their ship name is so cute as well!?!? i love latte!!

alsooooo matt should have become the blue paladin and lance should have become the black paladin and if i ever get a chance at working on a Voltron reboot, you bet this last bit will be fucking cannon!!!

(Allura can be the red paladin after getting some actually GOOD character development and growing to realise she doesn’t need romance to be happy after like some really random love square involving her lotor, lance, and matt! also, lotor redemption where he wasn’t actually killing altaens  and it was hagger or something)

ALSO also ADAM FUCKING LIVES AND HES LANCES OLDER BROTHER (veronicas twin!!)

idky im posting this i just needed to get the voltron brain rot to disapper for a bit so i can actually get to finishing my stranger things fics!!