#toxic crusaders

[peteneems]

[monsters-conquer-the-world]

OOZEPUNK

WHAT IS OOZEPUNK?

Oozepunk is the term I'm coining for the microgenre of urban heroic sci-fi horror-fantasy that first exploded in the mid-80s with movies, shows, and comics like Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Toxic Avenger, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hellboy, Street Sharks, and others. Lots of natural crossover with Biopunk and Cyberpunk, aesthetically and philosophically.

Your childhood trauma didn't let you forget Roger Rabbit heavily featured colorful nightmare slime, did it?

A ragtag gang of weirdos (often horribly mutated--more on that soon) band together to save a city that doesn't understand them. Grimy sewers, abandoned buildings and graffiti'd brick walls are lit up by neon lights, streams of mysterious, glowing goo and/or the unearthly lights of futuristic particle weapons--ideally all of the above!

Beyond the "cracked concrete and gutters full of liquid plutonium" aesthetic, Oozepunk prankishly asks "What if catastrophic aberrations of science, particularly DUMPING TOXIC FUCKING WASTE STRAIGHT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT created fucked-up monsters... but they're HEROIC fucked-up monsters!" These catastrophic aberrations of science grant the heroes incredible powers, but COST them their place in human society. (Ghostbusters and Roger Rabbit eschew character mutation in favor of discovering that the undead and olde tymey cartoons are real [and exploitable!], respectively. 'Busters and 'Toon sympathizers alike are treated like insane idiots and/or frauds in their respective universes.)

Oozepunk heroes are challenged not only by strange supernatural beings, but by human society itself. The Ghostbusters battle with local politicians as much as they do the undead. In the recent (and delightful) TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Splinter warns the Turtles of humans and their obsession with "milking" mutants for their blood--on top of the villainous mutants they're trying to thwart!

Crank up the creep factor in Oozepunk and you get awesome anti-establishment goo-horror like 1988's The Blob, The Stuff, Street Trash, and probably a bunch more. Toxic Avenger is a batshit crazy splatter-comedy (i.e. classic Troma)... and still garnered sequels, a kid's cartoon and toyline!

And there's a Shredder's Revenge-style Crusaders beat-em-up coming out next year??

This looks dope as shit

Ghostbusters and TMNT are the only current, "evergreen" (or radioactive green!) Oozepunk franchises I can think of off the top of my head, but Oozepunk elements are buried in almost all of the stories and settings I love the most. Heroic kaiju like King Kong, Godzilla and Gamera paved the way for our freaky friends, but so did comics characters like Fantastic Four's Ben "The Thing" Grimm, The Hulk and Swamp Thing. Hell, I think I blame SESAME STREET of all things for starting me down the Oozepunk path.

Surprise! I've loved screaming trash monsters with secret hearts of gold since I was a fucking baby, and they've ALWAYS been there for me!

But it's not just Oscar, Sesame Street as a whole is a proto-Oozepunk utopia, years before the big Ooze-splosion of the 80s. Muppets, monsters, talking animals and chill humans all live and work together to scrape by with a little dignity in a gritty-but-wholesome urban world!

Sesame Street, a decades-long reminder that educational childrens' programming can and SHOULD be cool as hell looking and loaded with all kinds of friendly mutant freakuloids.

OOZEPUNK! Whaddya think?

[brokehorrorfan]

Join the Tromaville clean up crew with Fright-Rags' Toxic Crusaders collection: four shirts designed by Kyle Crawford ($33), a 32-ounce cup with art by Matthew Skiff ($7), a sheet of six stickers ($8), and a set of five 1.25" buttons ($7)

[my-midlife-crisis]

[isitfurbait]

I can already expect the answer but is Junkyard from Toxic Crusaders (both the cartoon and games) furbait ?

Little unfair, but yeah, you'd be right to expect this to be furrybait. I mean, I don't know a thing about Toxic Crusaders, but I trust this canine already.

[vgadvisor]

[kennytheghostwiththemost]

80's movies that had their own cartoons

Bill and Ted

Ghostbusters (Real GB and Extreme GB)

Back to the Future

Beetlejuice

Karate Kid

Little Shop of Horrors

RoboCop

Rambo

Teen Wolf

Toxic Crusaders

Police Academy

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[hedgypipes]

“Beat ‘Em Up based on a nostalgia franchise people grew up with in the 80s/90s” starter pack

[nintendroid]

Toxic Crusaders for Sega Genesis.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

Throwback to when it was socially acceptable to make kid friendly cartoons based on R rated movies.

Examples: Rambo The Force of Freedom, RoboCop, Highlander The Animated Series, Toxic Crusaders, Police Academy The Animated Series, Conan The Adventurer, Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles

[brokehorrorfan]

Gutter Garbs has released three The Toxic Avenger shirts, including a new Sam Coyne design. Priced at $30, they'll ship the week of May 19.

[stonedragonisnthere]

What my faves do in their free time

[murdercide626]

"ENEMIES OF GAIA"

aka "Defilers of the Earth!"

aka "Awesome Possum's Hit List"

Hexxus (FernGully: The Last Rainforest)

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Dario Agger/"The Minotaur" (Marvel Comics)

Dr. Barbara Blight (Captain Planet)

King K. Rool (Donkey Kong Country)

Dr. Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot)

Montana Max (Tiny Toon Adventures)

Cyril Sneer (The Raccoons)

Capital B (Yooka-Laylee)

Rebecca Madison (Phantom 2040)

Hedorah (Godzilla)

Duke Nukem (Captain Planet)

Megatox (Sonic the Comic)

Diesel Weasel (Rick and Morty)

Fire Lord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Dr. Killemoff (Toxic Crusaders)

C. Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons)

Rufus Shinra (Final Fantasy VII)

Hoggish Greedly (Captain Planet)

Gruntilda Winkybunion (Banjo-Kazooie)

Porky Minch (Mother 3)

Fenton Sludge (Goof Troop)

Lawrence Limburger (Biker Mice from Mars)

Dr. Machino (Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt)

[holy-shit-comics]