There are five major classes of superheroes. 1- Light heroes. (Superman Flash etc. ) 2- Dark heroes. (Batman, The Shadow etc.) 3- The anti-heroes (Punisher, Wolverine, etc.) 4- Evil heroes. Heroes that draw their power from evil sources. (Spawn, Ghost Rider, etc.) 5- And my favorite. Weird heroes. (TMNT, Swamp thing, and of course, Toxic Crusader.)
For those wondering how the hell this cartoon got made; Kevin Eastman, who was also a big Troma fan, convinced Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, the production company behind TMNT, into producing a cartoon spinoff based on Toxic Avenger.
+Tetsuron I wonder why he thought it would be a good idea. The Toxic Avenger remake that is in development is supposed to be PG-13, apparently inspired by the cartoon in that it's more family friendly.
In 1990, Kaufman sought to expand Troma’s audience base into the juveniles by bringing Toxie to the mainstream; namely, Saturday morning network television. Troma partnered with Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, who had brought another adult-oriented mutant-hero franchise to animation with their adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original comics, while not as brutal as the Avenger films, were decidedly more violent than the eventual cartoon version), Alvin and the Chipmunks (season 6), The California Raisin Show, Barnyard Commandos, etc. Of course, the series would have to be almost entirely scrubbed of Troma’s signatures in order to be appropriate for young audiences. Also, to fulfill FCC requirements for children’s programming, the show took on a pro-ecological message. Toxie (Rodger Bumpass) had a similar origin as he did in the films, except he didn’t go on a murderous vengeance spree on those who wronged him and future foes. The mop that he used to clean the health club where he worked was also changed by the toxic waste to be a super-powered, semi-sentient being (aptly named Mop). Further differences included Toxie was given a team of similarly mutated freaks. Amongst them was No-Zone (Paul Eiding), a test pilot that crashed into a silo of radioactive pepper giving him powerful sneezing powers; Major Disaster (Ed Gilbert), a soldier that fell into a radioactive swamp and gained the power to control plants; Junkyard (Gregg Berger), a homeless man merged with a junkyard dog after he took shelter in a toxic waste-covered dog kennel that was struck by lightning; and Headbanger, a fusion of mad scientist Dr. Bender (Hal Rayle) an surfer-like singing telegram boy Fender (John Mariano) that became fused when Fender accidentally knocked them into Dr. Bender’s invention. Together, they became the Toxic Crusaders, often aided by Toxie’s tone-deaf girlfriend, Yvonne (Kath Soucie), and his mother (Susan Silo). Toxie was also given a pet in the form of Blobbie; a little blob of goo that came to the toxic waste dump that served as the primary base for the Crusaders. Their primary foes were the Smogulans; aliens from the planet Smogula who wanted to pollute the Earth in order to make it habitable for their people and conquer it. The primary ruler of the planet was Czar Zosta (Patric Zimmerman), whose forces on Earth were led by Dr. Killemoff (Bumpass). Psycho (Michael J. Pollard) was an obese bio-mechanical being that worked for Killemoff and had the uncanny ability to predict the future-usually the failure of Killemoff’s plans, that often went unheeded. Hazmat-suited minions known as Radiation Rangers served as Killemoff’s foot soldiers and cannon fodder. Bonehead (Hal Rayle) was the lead health club bully (replacing Bozo from the first movie) that led to Toxie’s creation who himself was changed into a monster when Toxie threw him into a barrel of acid rain. Bonehead joined forces with Killemoff, but wasn’t much of an asset as he was brainless and incompetent. Also working with the Smogulans was the corrupt mayor of Tromaville, Max Grody (based on the mayor from the first movie, voiced by Chuck McCann). The Toxic Crusaders (so named because Avengers was deemed too violent sounding) premiered in syndication on March 1st, 1991. Even though they couldn’t go to the lengths of brutal, dark, gross-out humor that the films it was based on did, the series had its fair share of adult-oriented jokes, toilet humor, and often broke the fourth wall by being self-referential. The series was written by a combination of MWS and Troma alum, including Jack Mendelsohn, Carole Bruce Mendelsohn, D.J. MacHale, Ned Candle. Walt Kubiak, Jeffrey W. Sass and Andrew Wolk, along with Chuck Lorre and Herz. Lorre, who had written the Turtles theme, co-wrote this series’ theme with Dennis C. Brown. Brown and Larry Brown handled the rest of the series’ music. Although the Avenger films were popular enough to inspire enough networks to put decent orders for the series, they weren’t sufficient enough to guarantee a second season. The show ended after its 13-episode run. During the show’s run, Marvel Comics released an 8-issue comic series that ended up cancelled along with their other TV-based projects. In the UK, Fleetway Publications published their own series that run two issues longer. Playmates, who produced the toys for Ninja Turtles, made a line of figures in a similar style. Bandai and Sega released side-scrolling platform beat ‘em up video games in for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy and Sega Genesis developed by TOSE, Realtime Associates and Infogrames, respectively. A SNES version was also planned by Bandai at the same time with the NES and Game Boy, but never released. Other merchandise included trading cards by Topps, coloring/activity books and puzzles published by Golden Books, junior novels by Boxtree, a card and board game by International Games, a Colorforms playset, lunchboxes by Thermos, costumes by Collegeville and costume patterns by McCall’s Patterns.
I loved the toxic avenger cartoons when I was a kid watching TNMT every week I even love the movie I wish Nickelodeon or cartoon network could bring this guy back in action toxie the toxic avenger is the BEST independent scifi superhero ever
a cool fact is that they honored him in teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 , where they made an episode called the noxious avenger which is a tribute to the movie and the cartoon , starring the mutant muckman which is a tribute to both toxies since he had an origin grotesque and violent like the Toxic Avenger, but became a hero loved by New York City like the Toxic Crusader for Tromaville, he also had a mutant friend named Joe Eyeball who makes reference to Toxie's friend Blobbie
Toxic Crusaders Toxic Crusaders I had no friends. No girls would hug me til I got radioactive ugly! Toxic Crusaders Toxic Crusaders I live in a dump cause the rent's real low! Got a little pet blobblie and he loves me so! Toxic Crusaders Toxic Crusaders Now me and the boys fight against wrong! Though we're hideously deformed! (Guitar solo) Hey, I'm sitting on top of the world! With my mop, tutu, and girl! Wow! Toxic Crusaders Toxic Crusaders Toxic!
TMNT been crossing over with everyone lately, Street Fighter, Stranger Things, Master of the Universe, there's a Transformer due out later this year... We need a TMNT x Toxic Crusaders collab
For a while this was my favourite cartoon. I remember my aunt and grandma buying me the action figures. Man, Saturday morning kids tv was absolutely golden here in the uk.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage yeah. Another one from the time was captain N the gamesmaster. Did you watch that? The real ghost busters is prob my fave tho of the time.
@@Eggnoodlesandketchup3 I loved captain N. I was always a fan of the mega man and castlevania games so I was all over that cartoon. And yeah, the real Ghostbusters was fantastic too. It was awesome to see great cartoons still being made in the 90s after all the sublime ones we had in the 80s, like he-man, thundercats, centurions, bravestarr, the raccoons, transformers, mask, dungeons and dragons, duck tails, teenage mutant ninja turtles. Man, the list goes on and on. Great time to be a kid for sure. It's better than the absolute rhubarb they make for kids in the 21st century.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage the early 90s I suppose was still kind of like the 80s...films, music, cartoons, comic books, games, toys not a patch now on what they were. Would rather go back in time and straight to the source.
Man, I used watch the HELL out of this show as a kid. I had an action figure of Toxie, and it had a glow in the dark eyeball if I'm not mistaken. Wish I still had that damn thing...
I'm not too sure about the glow in the dark eyeball. Then again, I might not have had a Toxie figure. I know I had the big nose guy and the dog man. I think I settled on the latter because Toxie was sold out. I was also like 5 when this was a thing, so...
@@AzureSenel it was pretty big here in the uk. I remember having all the action figures. Obviously it wasn't on the level of mask, he-man, tmnt, or thundercats. But it was still really big over here.
I can not thank you enough for putting up such a high-quality version of this intro. The toyline for this show was my WORLD during my kindergarden years.
Marvel Comics released an eight-issue comic book series for 7 months, from May to December 1992. It had no regular writer. Each issue was written by such notables as Steve Gerber (issues #3 and #5), Ann Nocenti (issue #7), David Leach and Jeremy Banx (lead strip script and artwork) and David Michelinie (back up strip) (issue #8), Hilary Barta (issue #2), and Simon Furman (issues #1, 4, and 6). A four book mini series was written and drawn by David Leach & Jeremy Banx. The series was solicited and the first issue written and drawn before being canceled along with all of Marvel TV tie-in titles. One issue was a direct parody of Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Issue #8 was the only mainstream US comic book ever published to carry an 'Approved by the Comic Code Authority' stamp while at the same time featuring a man sat on a toilet defecating. It ran at the same time as Barbie, Barbie Fashion, Captain Planet, NFL SuperPro, Pirates of Dark Water, the Bill & Ted's series, Kid 'n Play, Defenders of Dynatron City, WCW: World Championship Wrestling, and Ren & Stimpy.
I liked Toxic Crusaders and James Bond Jr but they never lived up to Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. Watching these, after school or on a Saturday morning while playing Nintendo with friends.. miss the early 90s
I remember watching this cartoon not knowing about the movie, I just recently watched the movie for the first time and how the hell did they make a cartoon from it? Good job Troma and Lloyd Kaufman :D
@@marthagilbert3459 The cartoon was surprisingly really good and despite being toned down for kids still had a lot of adult humor. I'd love to see Toxic Crusaders done as a movie but with the ultra-gory violence of the movies.
My cousins and i had the toxie action figure! Between that and the cap planet toys which we would colour over with red marker to show blood, we had a blast haha
Mad cartoon watched as kid in aus now 38 have on dvd and still watch today the toys were cool have some still somewhere I think I brought dvd from jbhifi had it for years
I don’t know how one of the most violent films of the 1980s had a cartoon yet again RoboCop and all these other movies also had cartoons series the 80s were different time.
They made kids' versions out of a lot of stuff from adult-oriented media. The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was based off a character from Saturday Night Live and its Canadian counterpart, SCTV. Pee-Wee's Playhouse is from Paul Reubens' HBO special "The Pee Wee Herman Show." Robocop and Rambo (two very violent R-rated movies of their day) had their own SatAM series. Hell, even Police Academy (which had a lot of comic violence and inappropriate humor) had their own kids' cartoon. I wish "Airplane!" did too, but that will always be a lost dream.
Well Rambo in 1985/1986 had merchandise aimed at kids even PJS to Halloween costumes to cards to toys and all before a cartoon and in 1988 Robocop had toys even some merchandise for kids and all. Terminator 2 had merchandise aimed at kids even Demolition man and Aliens and Predator
@@MephProduction it's funny u say that. Saw the cartoon when I was little, sort of like and had action figures. When I was in my older teens i discovered the R rated movie and thought someone made an adaptation of the cartoon series. To my horror and somewhat amusement I learned that was NOT the case 😳😂
I always liked Psycho it was clear they had the voice actor reading from the future script like when killemoff disposed of the toxic waste(or whatever it was) Psycho said "but what if some nerd gets turned into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength"lo and behold some nerd got turned into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength :P
I found a picture of me dressed up as the toxic avenger and wasn’t sure why I looked so cartoony. It was from this cartoon and I completely forgot it existed
so Irma from tmnt put on a blonde wig and took off her glasses to become Yvonne. Vernon Fenwick became a punk and then mutated into Bonehead. Then rocksteady became a dog called scrapyard? Then they just mutated the secretary Janine from the real ghost busters. My friend had a toy or two of these but watching this intro for the first time i can see the reused characters in some ways.
Videos been up for 10 years, suddenly everyone commenting in the last 3 weeks XD An old episode of Um, Actually brought me here. Why is everyone else suddenly here?
I had several of the action figures (including the one with the snot nose, haha). Used to sing the chorus of this theme around my dad's apartment when I was 6 or 7 and the show was on.
Toxic Crusaders: mutants with low level powers who are various levels of deformed Public loves them Xmen: OP mutants who look are various levels of hot Public hates them There's a joke there
You hit the nail right on the head, man. Tim Burton's characters all have a great deal of depth and development to them, something that I'm sensing the Toxic Avenger himself doesn't have. I don't know that for sure because I never saw the movie. I never saw "Eraser Head" either. I've heard about it but I never knew what it was about. Now when you strip "Toxie" himself down to his bare essentials, he's a SUPERHERO. Kids LOVE superheroes, so I think that explains "Toxic Crusaders."
I was 9 when this show aired and dug it! i had a t-shirt, a few of the toys even Toxie, i had a coloring book and i had some comics and cards! then i rented the movie at that age to see where it all began and OMG it shocked the hell out of me especially when that kid gets his skull crushed in detail by a car which made me sick and after that i was like "they made a kids show out of this?" yet was an awesome movie despite that horrific scene. I had no problem with watching R-rated movies as a kid in video, cable, TV or theaters since i was 4 starting with Alien and First Blood on TV with Fright Night, Commando, Rambo 2, Elm Street 1 and 2 etc on HBO to seeing Aliens and Cobra in theaters at that age and i had cool family and parents. I also remembered having a Rambo toy gun, action figure and tricycle of Rambo when i was 4 plus i remembered they did a weekday morning cartoon and all and remembered seeing Rambo III in theaters when i was 6 on my last month of living in St Louis before moving to Omaha. They did merchandise for kids based on Rambo First Blood II even a luncbox. I also remembered seeing Robocop in theaters when i was 5 with my dad, my 12 year old big brother and my 15 year old bigger brother and thought it was an awesome movie and had a couple of Robocop toys and watched the cartoon on sunday mornings plus they did merchandise for kids and a lunchbox as one of my friends in second grade had a Robocop lunchbox. I had a few Aliens toys when i was 10 as i did saw Alien on TV when i was 4 even saw Aliens in theaters along with Cobra being the first r-rated films i saw in theaters at that age. I also saw Terminator when i was 4 on HBO and T2 in theaters when i was 9 as i had some T2 merchandise even t-shirt to toys and a lunchbox.
geez, when I think of all the sickness and XXX stuff that went on in these movies and troma.....its a wonder how this got made into a cartoon for a saturday morning line up....so much nostalgia, thanx for posting
Toxic Crusaders first aired in 1991 for Fox. The series ran for 13 episodes, before Fox decided that it was a no go and pulled the plug, but it did show briefly on USA's Cartoon Express.
