However, the content of the Toxic Avenger films was arguably more controversial than many such films, featuring strong sexual content in addition to intense violence. Prior to Toxic Crusaders, cartoons based on R-rated (under-17s must be accompanied) films had indeed been attempted with programs like Rambo: The Force of Freedom. The US cable network G4 aired the first two episodes on July 25, 2009. Thirteen episodes were produced and aired, with at least a few episodes airing as a "trial run" in Summer 1990 followed by the official debut on January 21, 1991. As this incarnation was aimed at children, Toxic Crusaders is considerably tamer than the edgy films it was based on (although it nevertheless contained many adult-oriented jokes that would go over most children's heads). This followed a trend of environmentally considerate cartoons and comics of the time, including Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Swamp Thing, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, as well as cartoons based on R-rated properties like RoboCop and Police Academy. It features Toxie, the lead character of the films, leading a group of misfit superheroes who combat pollution.
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Toxic Crusaders is a 1991 animated series aimed at children, loosely based on The Toxic Avenger films. The Escapist – Webcomics via Archive.The Toxic Crusaders: The Television Series, Vol. Encyclopedia Dramatica (via Wayback Machine) – Slackerz CADbortion (via Wayback Machine) – Seriously posted on EEGRA (via Wayback Machine) – Hilarity Comic posted on
EEGRA (via Wayback Machine) – Gamer Comic posted on Explosm – Cyanide and Happiness posted on Similar to how anything with green and purple can be recognized as Daily Dose, any similar-looking four pane comic can be recognized as Loss. Usually, these would attempt to be minimalistic, portraying the characters as lines, dots, or just having four empty panels. Alternative/Minimalist InterpretationsĪlongside the outright mockery of the strip, a trend arose on /v/ which involved taking the Loss strip and representing it in different ways. On July 25th, 2009, YouTuber KennylovesArin uploaded a musical tribute based on the comic accompanied by friends Skraggy and Arin (popular animator known as Egoraptor), with lyrical references to the miscarriage strip. Someone went to the extent of making a random CAD comic generator, subtly mocking that even disjointed, mismatched panels of the comic are still funnier than the originals.Įl Santo (the webcomic overlook), The Bad Webcomic Wiki and others have also mentioned the infamous comic in negative reviews of the webcomic as well.
Something Awful users were particularly unkind to the comic, creating mock threads (one of which is over 350 pages long), two entire (now closed) wikis and an interactive graph of the comic. On 4chan, the /v/ board became overrun with parodies to such an extent that moderators began banning people who opened new "Loss" threads. Other notable internet persona to mock the comic included as Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw of Zero Punctuation and Shmorky from Something Awful's Flash Tub. After the strip was posted, many notable webcomics began parodying the comic and its final panel in particular, including HijiNKS Ensue, Cyanide and Happiness, Bigger then Cheeses, EEGRA hilarity comics, Fanboys, and Slackerz.
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