10 Cartoon Spin-Offs I Want to See
All for fun. Just some cartoons I would like to see.
Fright Night
I could fill out this entire list with just 80s horror films like Lost Boys. Satisfying cartoon adaptations of 1980s horror films would be a radical fad. But this one is on the list for a reason. The comic book continuation. It tells the story of Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent tangling with monsters and the supernatural.
In the intervening years, Lost Boys has gotten follow ups. But oddly, the movie featuring comic books didn't get a comic book at the time of release and the movie with no comics got a really fun comic book continuation. Don't get me wrong, I would still watch every episode of a Lost Boys cartoon multiple times but I feel like the comic book gives a clear idea how the show could go.
She-Wolf of London
This show started as an American-British production before being transformed into an American only production. It tells the story of an American student in London getting bit by a werewolf then working with her professor to find a cure and encountering many monsters along the way. It was part of the early 90s supernatural show boon that I reveled in. Alternatively, there was also Big Wolf on Campus but that show had a completed story. She-Wolf was retooled then cancelled.
Kolchak
Kolchak was a seventies show about a reporter encountering supernatural forces and never using his camera correctly. Kolchak had the iconic style that would translate beautifully to a cartoon character. His style is iconic to the point that his suit is a signifier of the character in other shows like Rhys Darby's wardrobe on The X-Files.
I swear, not everything is supernatural shows.
Legend of the Seeker
Legend of the Seeker is an epic fantasy series about the Seeker and his allies fighting against the evil of their land. This book series and show could be adapted in the same vein as Avatar: The Last Airbender which tackled intense topics.
Friday the 13th
Imagining this makes me laugh. Is there a better reason than that for a cartoon show? I am referring to Friday the 13th the movie series, not the television series. I don't know if anyone would assume I meant the Friday the 13th series but it's me and it's not unreasonable to think I would mean that. My favorite Friday the 13th film is Jason Lives. Push it a little more comedic and we could have a killer show with a Rick and Morty level twist. Or just make it a twisted thing.
Troop Beverly Hills
The Naked Gun
The Conjuring
The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Nun and all of the others. This is another idea that makes me laugh. A Scooby-Doo style mystery series based on The Conjuring-verse, not the real stories but a fun mashup between the two.
The Thin Man
This movie was about Nick and Nora Charles, a retired detective and a socialite, getting dragged into a murder case. The Thin Man was adapted from a novel into a movie, a television series, a radio series, and a radio drama adaptation of the film. It also had five sequels. There was oddly no comic strip adaptation at the time. This was odd because other movie serials like The Saint were adapted into comic strips. They even had comic strips to advertise Broadway shows.
A big part of the charm of the series was the banter between Nick and Nora. The characters are exaggerated in the film and they could be ridiculous in a cartoon and still be recognizably them.
Drop Dead Fred
Drop Dead Fred was a film about a woman, her childhood imaginary friend and the difficult childhood and the end of her marriage. I just want to see what kind of drama and adventures Elizabeth and Drop Dead Fred had in the vein of Beetlejuice, the animated series.
Special Mention
Southern Fried Fugitives
Southern Fried Fugitives was a comic that ran in Nickelodeon Magazine. It's about a group of animate pieces of fried chicken fleeing for their finger licking lives.
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