#Zevo 3

[madscientistotd]

MAD SCIENTIST OTD IS...

dr. stankfoot from zevo-3

formerly a respected physicist, stanley k foot was twisted and mutated by an experiment gone wrong!

[quietfounder]

I been thinking of there being a comic book IP and sometimes a shared universe with superheroes, vigilantes, super-powered individuals, etc., similar to Marvel and DC, but it’s from shows and movies that either been cancelled, been left on a cliffhanger, are underrated, are not well-known, or have more potential than was presented.

It can’t already be based off another series, comic book, or have even been successful, which is why The Incredibles isn’t on here.

There are a few more that I want to include but I’m not sure about some of them.

And I will give you credit if anyone decides to come up with a name for whatever this is.

[stretchedoutadventures]

[lovelydollparis]

Another Elastika fancomic doodled on trackpad.

[tempoaryblogformightyjensblog]

Fucking hell does anyone remember Zevo 3? It was that one superhero show where they were like, superhero themed. It was on nicktoons.

I watched it when I was a little kid and just suddenly remembered it.

[neopuff]

ok since you're one of the 5 people that knows that Zevo-3 exists can I just say Hear Me Out on Stankfoot

LMAOOO you're so valid and I love you for sending me this

[fuck-yeah-pierrelepew]

how we rating tha husbando chart 🔥🔥🔥

[sapphic-agent]

You wouldn't last an hour in the...

Asylum where they raised me✨

[theshadowrealmitself]

What’s your fave obscure movie/tv show, something people immediately google cuz they have no clue what you’re talking about

There’s probably some better ones but my immediate thoughts are: Zevo-3

So Zevo-3, which I thought was pretty popular but I have had several people confused, was a superhero show made by Sketchers that got cancelled because it was ruled that ads for kid’s can’t be over, like, 3 minutes long? and this show was obviously just an ad for kids

Yeah. It was my “cyborg cider-man”.

I haven’t looked it up as an adult because I know it’s not gonna live up to my nostalgia, but as a kid, it has this great premise??

So, from memory: These 3 kids become superheroes while this evil guy becomes mayor, and people also start becoming mutants? Well, anyways, so the mutant stuff and part of the town being blocked off was all relatively new, but the citizens were being brainwashed into thinking that this is how life always was, as well as also being made to believe other stuff, I forget what, I think that all mutants are evil? And that the superheroes were evil? And only the heroes and possibly the mutants weren’t brainwashed

And I don’t know I just always loved that, it was so cool, and I did. kinda really want sketchers. as a kid. cause of that.

I think about it every time I see sketchers, and even though I really don’t think it’s “obscure”, no one ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention it, like they know the ads with the sketcher heroes, but not that there was an entire show

[seraphim-seeker]

GUESS WHAT I JUST LEARNED AND IS NOW ABSOLUTELY GONNA BUG ME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE

THEY

HAVE

THE SAME

DAMN

VOICE ACTOR!!!! GOD DAMMIT!!!

I know it comes with the territory of being a Voice Actor but this is just frickin’ with me TvT

[purplegossipgirl]

Call me a weirdo capitalist or whatever, but I miss tv shows that were made to sell toys. And part of that is 100% just that I’ve gotten older (I could watch the rainbow high show or mh g3), but like, there’s a distinctly different vibe from those shows and like transformers g1 or zevo-3 and I can’t put my finger on it

[historyhermann]

"Against the hair of your professions": Fictional librarians and hair buns [Part 1]

12 librarians with hair buns in Western animation (Top row, from left to right: unnamed librarian in Futurama, unnamed librarian in DC Super Hero Girls, Ms. Hatchet in Kim Possible, Rita Book in Timon & Pumbaa, unnamed librarian in Rugrats. Bottom row, from left to right: Mrs. L in Dexter's Laboratory, unnamed librarian in Totally Spies!, unnamed librarian in We Bare Bears, Eztli in Victor and Valentino, Francis Clara Censordoll in Moral Orel, unnamed librarian in Big City Greens, Arlene in Phineas and Ferb, and Censordoll again) The last one is Censordoll again because she is a prominent bun-wearing librarian

Often librarians are portrayed as quiet, bookish people, who shush those who are noisy, and act in a stereotypical manner. However, librarians come in many types and kinds, either with an MLIS/MLS or not, and those stereotypes can be disrupted when a librarian changes professions as it changes audience expectations. Even so, librarians aren't united on what the image of librarians should be changed into in order to counter the stereotypes. Through all of this, many librarians are portrayed with hair buns, part of the oft-stereotype. [1] Today, I'll explore that, determining why this is the case, its significance in librarian portrayals, and what it means overall. As Swallow said in Act I of William Shakespeare's classic comedy play, The Mary Wives of Windsor, "if you should fight, you go against the hair of your professions," meaning that you are going against the grain.

Originally posted on Pop Culture Library Review on March 21, 2023.

Fictional librarians are often shown with so-called "traditional" outfits, looks, and hairstyles, including hair buns, which are symbolic in research around stereotypes themselves. This has even cropped up in webcomics. This is in part because styling one's hair can be "highly politicized" and complicated, especially for people of color, who experience microaggressions when people want to "touch" their hair or question it entirely. Some have even argued that different hair styles can be empowering and resist stereotypes, even as a library can be a "very conservative" place to work, although this may not be as strict in university library environments. Hair can also be an opportunity to communicate change, while serving as an intricate part of the identity and responsibility of the profession itself, with different hair styles having the potential to dispel stereotypes. [2]

In Western animation, this is clear as librarians of color, like Clara Rhone in Welcome to the Wayne, and Mira in Mira, Royal Detective episode ("The Case of the Missing Library Book") don't wear hair buns. Neither does Ms. Herrera in a Archie's Weird Mysteries episode ("The Haunting of Riverdale"). However, the unnamed librarian in a We Bare Bears episode ("The Library") prominently wears a hair bun, and serves as the only librarian of color that I know of, in Western animation, that does so. This could be a function of her role in the library and set rules which may establish that she dresses to "impress" in a semi-formal outfit. So, it could be a consequence of that, as other librarians I've mentioned may work in environments which are more open with their rules around self-expression or care little about how people look.

When it comes to White female librarians in animation, it is a different story. Apart from Kaisa in Hilda, the unnamed librarian in a Steven Universe episode ("Buddy's Book"), the librarian in the first Zevo-3 episode, Mrs. Higgins in a Sofia the First episode ("The Princess Test"), and Amity Blight in The Owl House, who briefly wears her hair in a pony trail, which became a sensation among fans of the series, to give a few examples, many of the other librarians wear hair buns. [3] This includes the librarian characters, who are effectively one-episode-wonders or only appear very briefly, in episodes of Futurama, DC Super Hero Girls, Rugrats, Kim Possible, Timon & Pumbaa, Dexter's Laboratory, Totally Spies, Phineas & Ferb, and The Simpsons, to name a few shows.

Also, Francis Clara Censorsdoll in Moral Orel wears a hair bun. Even, the blue-glasses wearing librarian in The Flintstones episode "The Hit Songwriter" wears a hair bun. At times, it appears that librarians with hair buns are meant to symbolize social conservative and prudish people, like the librarian in an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head ("Cyber-Butt"), who faints when she sees a nude image on a computer screen. Although she doesn't wear a hair bun, what she symbolizes is similar to how some librarians are portrayed in Western animation.

Others have declared that the perception of librarians with hair buns or lace collars should be discarded, as librarians are highly active and high tech now. While someone can easily agree with this, it is harder to push away the image of a spinster librarian with a hair bun, with some wearing buns and braids while working in the library. There is the further point that many librarians may not have enough hair to put into a bun in the first place. At one point, librarians adopted the hair bun style at one time, giving life to what became the stereotype and cliche. However, nowadays many younger librarians have different hair styles, and some might even have better eyesight than anyone else as they don't need glasses! [4] Still, tropes like the"Prim and Proper Bun" remain, with those with this hairstyle said to be in charge or be respected. This is somewhat countered with the "Loony Librarian" trope, which is said to describe a librarian who's let "their profession mess with their mind a little."

Continued in part 2!

© 2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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Notes

[1] Matthew Wood. "10 Most Awesome Librarians in Pop Culture," Comic Book Resources, Aug. 22, 2019; Stephen Walker, V. Lonnie Lawson. "The Librarian Stereotype and the Movies," MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, 1, no. 1 (1993): 16-28; Dana Vinke. "Unconventional Librarians," Image of Libraries in Popular Culture, Fall 2001, accessed May 27, 2022; Sadie Trombetta. "11 Of The Coolest Librarians From Pop Culture," Bustle, Mar. 2, 2015. For additional resources, see Ashanti White's Not Your Ordinary Librarian: Debunking the Popular Perceptions of Librarians, Nicole Pagowsky's The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work, to mention two books. There are librarians like Lani in Diner Dash and Myrna Bookbottom in Freaky Flyers who both embody librarian stereotypes, but there are others that buck these stereotypes.

[2] Raymond Pun and Jesus Lau, "Hair and Hairstyles as Metaphors for Librarians," IFLA WLIC 2018, pp. 1-5.

[3] Amity is beloved by fans since she is a somewhat prominent recurring character and she is a lesbian who is in a romantic relationship with the show's protagonist, Luz Noceda.

[4] Christine Sharbrough, "What Does a Librarian Do All Day?," BellaOnline, 2013; DarLynn Nemitz, "Male Librarians: Stereotypes and Role Models," Image of Librarians in Popular Culture, Fall 2001; Amy P., "Librarian Who Hadn't Updated Her Look In 8 Years Underwent An Extreme Head-To-Toe Makeover," LittleThings, May 12, 2022; "So, what does a librarian do all day?," Iowa State University University Library, Apr. 11, 2007; UNH Library, "The Top 10 Misconceptions about Libraries and Librarians," The Charger Bulletin, Nov. 14, 2012; David Levy, "Reel Librarians: Images and Stereotypes of Librarians and Libraries in film and literature," Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries (Boston, MA – June 18-20, 2018), pp, 1-3; "How to Style Your Hair Into an Upside Down Bun," StepByStep, accessed May 27, 2022; "More Librarian Misconceptions," Bound: A Blog About Books & Libraries, Apr. 1, 2014; Glenn A. Hascall, "Larry & The Librarian," accessed May 27, 2022; Megan Halsband, "Let’s Talk Comics: Librarians," Headlines & Heroes, Library of Congress, Jul. 3, 2019; Jodi McFarland, "Saginaw Valley librarians ride Internet age forward," mlive, Jul. 7, 2008; Michelle Reilly, "Librarians," It's a Dog's Life, Jul. 10, 2008.

[ordinaryschmuck]

You're thinking of Zevo-3. It was based on the old Sketchers ad campaign where they had superhero characters based on their shoes.

THAT'S what it was called.

Man...That show was WEIRD. I at least remember the red guy looking awesome.

[stretchedoutadventures]

[lovelydollparis]

An Elastika continuation comic I doodled on trackpad

[lefemmerougewriter]

My newest fic is out! It's a wild crossover between characters in Library War, Steven Universe, Cardcaptor Sakura, Zevo-3, The Simpsons, She-Ra: Princess of Power, We Bare Bears, DC Super Hero Girls, Mysticons, Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, however, it primarily pulls from characters in Library War, Steven Universe, and DC Super Hero Girls.