Highlander the Animated Series Quentin's Mother
Highlander the Animated Series Quentin's Mother
| Highlander: The Animated Serial | |
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 Connor MacLeod as depicted in the serial. | |
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| Created past | Serge Rosenzweig |
| Directed by | Frederic Dybowski |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
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| Executive producers |
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| Producer | Marc du Pontavice |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Product visitor | Gaumont Multimedia |
| Benefactor | Bohbot Entertainment |
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| Original release | September 18, 1994 (1994-09-18) – January 5, 1996 (1996-01-05) |
Highlander: The Blithe Series is an animated idiot box serial which premiered on September 18, 1994. [ane] It is a loose spin-off and sequel of the 1986 motion picture of the same name. The series was produced by Gaumont Multimedia with the worldwide distribution rights owned by Bohbot Amusement (now BKN International). [2] [3]
Plot [ edit ]
The series is set in the far future of the 27th century. The last living descendant of the original Highlander fights against the evil dictator Kortan. [4]
The story unfolds on post-apocalyptic Earth, afterwards a meteorite standoff nigh wipes out all man civilization after setting off nuclear weapons. Following this catastrophe, Connor MacLeod (the protagonist of the original pic) and the other Immortals forswear the Game of fighting each other until simply one Immortal remains to win the Prize. Instead, the Immortals swear to preserve human knowledge and assist humanity. They cast abroad their swords and call themselves Jettators (from the French jette, "thrown away".)
But one Immortal, Kortan, refuses to swear the oath, he nevertheless seeks the Prize and now wishes to dominate the world. Connor challenges Kortan to a duel and is defeated and killed, as whatever Immortal who breaks the adjuration is destined to die. Yet, with Connor's death comes the prophecy of the ascension of a new Immortal, unbound by the oath, who will defeat Kortan. Uncontested by the Jettators and nigh-unkillable by mortals, Kortan establishes an empire controlling most of the planet, which he rules from his fortress Mogonda.
7 hundred years subsequently, a Highland youth named Quentin is killed trying to defend his clan, the Dundee, from Kortan'south slavers. He is the prophesied Immortal and returns to life. His dying mother reveals his true identity to exist Quentin MacLeod from clan MacLeod, "The Concluding of the MacLeods". Quentin meets the Jetattor don Vincente Marino Ramirez, who becomes his mentor. Ramirez teaches Quentin about Immortals and his mission to confront Kortan, and trains him in gainsay.
Accompanied by Ramirez, his adoptive sister Clyde, and their pet Gaul, Quentin seeks out the Jettators to gain their Quickening and their cognition, not by beheading, simply by a sharing as MacLeod and the Jettator grasp the same sword simultaneously (although the effects are sometimes just every bit destructive to the surrounding area). In the wake of a sharing the Jettator becomes mortal and often his or her sword shatters to signify this. With the wisdom of Ramírez and the Quickenings of the Jettators, Quentin may be able to destroy Kortan.
Despite being redesigned to attract a younger audience, the show was surprisingly mature/violent; it was non uncommon for small characters to dice, and while Quentin took other Immortals' power and noesis without also taking their lives, Kortan nevertheless did it the old way, past beheading them. In improver, though substantially a adept-versus-evil scenario, most of the characters on both sides were more than than merely black and white heroes and villains. Many of Kortan's henchmen are shown to take good characteristics and feelings, and even on occasion Quentin will be tempted past greed and be selfish, especially when offered the chances of immense power. Of class, ultimately, his good side always wins through. Some episodes involve Jettators making use of a loophole in their oath to challenge Kortan regardless, such equally Matsuda, who built a cyborg to fight Kortan in his stead, or Cornell, who inverse his name to Orion to be able to fight Kortan.
Protagonists [ edit ]
- Quentin MacLeod: The titular character of the serial. Raised by the Dundee clan, he was killed past Arak and afterward resurrected as an Immortal, when Kortan sought to capture the Dundee. He usually fights with the sword that belonged to Connor MacLeod just also carries a boomerang he is quite skilled with.
- Don Vicente Marino Ramírez: The Jettator tasked with guiding Quentin and making sure the other Jettators go on the oath. He trains Quentin in the art of combat every bit well as philosophy and some history. Many episodes feature flashbacks of his life.
- Clyde of the Dundee: Quentin'south adoptive younger sister, though raised as his blood relative. She often ends up in danger during missions but on occasion serves every bit a distraction.
- Gaul: Clyde'south pet Gran, a hybrid of ape and canine. Like all Grans, Gaul is highly intelligent and is very protective of both Clyde and Quentin. His animal sense sometimes helps Quentin in dangerous situations.
Notable villains [ edit ]
- Kortan: One of the only three Immortals non to take the Adjuration, declared himself the winner of the Game and took control of the Earth. He rules from his city fortress of Mogonda, which is built like an arcology.
- Arak: One of Kortan's generals, leader of Kortan's army, The Hunters. Mortally wounded Quentin'due south adopted mother and killed Quentin, triggering his immortality. His left eye and hand are cybernetic. In the episode "The Underground Prison house", information technology is revealed that he was born "RY407."
- Malone: A quondam Mime, serves as the "man key" to Kortan'due south weapons locker and court jester. His original memories were erased past Kortan'south "oblivion chamber" device. Despite his childlike behavior, he can be quite cunning. And despite everything, he appears to exist consistently loyal to Kortan.
- Gorth: Another of Kortan's favoured and loyal army generals, leading a number of strong slaves who duel as Gladiators. Gorth is a skilled swordsman, and during an aroused dispute with Arak, Gorth shows that he is able to friction match Arak not just in terms of leadership, but also on a level of physical combat.
- Asklepios: Leader of the Bureaucrats, #76, of Mogonda, a brilliant scientist. He has a rivalry with Arak; the two are constantly trying to show upwardly one another to gain Kortan's favor.
- Valka: Bureaucrat #28, helped Asklepios ready a spy network, implied to be in love with Asklepious.
- Kirk: Some other officeholder in Kortan's army, he is the keeper of Kortan's colony of tamed Anomas (giant ants). In the episode "Revenge Of The Shantytown", he launches an attack on the rebels living in the slums around Magonda, prompting them to return the favour by setting wild Anomas loose in the city'south lower levels. Attempting to transport his ain ants to fight them off, he is killed when his 'pets' join the wild ones, turning on their sometime master and half devouring him.
- Mohar: The fearless leader of a remaining small group of ruthless bounty hunters living in the desert, who are historical adversaries of the Dundee association from which Quentin came. They occupy The Iron City, a giant abandoned aircraft carrier in The Dry Body of water. The Iron City is used as a Holy identify by Mohar's gang alongside a group of Imams/Priests, where they collectively worship their nigh sacred weapon - The last of a batch of hand held Browning Heavy Machine Guns, or "The Brownish" every bit Mohar refers to the gun. Despite being an enemy of MacLeod, Mohar similarly has the goal of somewhen challenging and killing Kortan, and taking Kortan's place in Magonda as ruler of the Planet.
Listing of Jettators [ edit ]
- Don Vincente Marino Ramírez: 3000 years-old Immortal, tasked with training and guiding the Highlander and enforcing the Jettators Oath, if whatsoever Jettator betrays the Oath, Ramírez must impale them.
- Mangus: Possesses the knowledge of architecture and the apparent leader of the Jettators, it was he who informed Kortan of the Highlander'south coming seven centuries ago. Kortan then stole his blueprints and used them to build his metropolis of Mogonda, where Mangus continued to hide out and spy on the enemy. When Quentin arrived to rescue the Dundees, he let them into the city through the sewers, but only by sacrificing himself in a duel and allowing Kortan to steal his powers was he able to ensure their escape.
- Yashoda: The greatest of the Jettators, leads a monastic life teaching people martial arts. His knowledge is key to using that of the others to defeat Kortan, but he tests Quentin's ability to resist abuse by having a disciple manipulate Quentin, and judges that he hasn't however earned the right to take Yashoda'south knowledge, but promises to reconsider if Quentin matures.
- Stevenson: An enigmatic immortal with the knowledge of hydroelectric power. In a desperate attempt to salvage his eternal life he betrayed the Highlander and instigated a program to hand him over to Kortan. When he failed, even so, Kortan killed him and stole his knowledge for himself.
- Ilrick: A Jettator with the noesis of medicine.
- Erol: A Jettator with knowledge of oil, dynamite and other secrets of the World. He went into hiding to avoid Kortan'due south henchmen. When the Highlander arrived at his onetime base they found only Melvyn, an insane ex-employee driven crazy by the loss of his girl Dana. Believing MacLeod'southward sister Clyde to be Dana he promptly captured her, thankfully Quentin was able to locate the existent Dana within the city of Mogonda and so salve them all. He was merely seen in a short flashback of Melvyn.
- Lanzelet: A Jettator with the noesis of history. His name is a German language language version of Lancelot.
- Olak: The Jettator of the winds. At kickoff he refuses to mitt over his cognition when Quentin's fear of heights places the son of one of his men in serious danger in duel inside the metropolis of Mogonda. When Quentin is able to overcome that fear and rescue the boy from certain expiry above a pit of behemothic ants ("Anomas"), nevertheless, he reconsiders. His "quickening" ritual is the kickoff we see on screen.
- Volta: A Jettator with the knowledge of nuclear power. He is a disfigured due to radiations (he has blueish skin).
- Eva: A woman with the knowledge of how to create and project holograms.
- Orane: A blueish-haired woman who rules an undersea city and has knowledge of oceanography. Unsaid to be an old lover of Ramirez.
- Fredrickson: Knowledge of genetics. Cloned himself to preserve his cognition in instance Kortan found him, only his clone turned evil. The clone Fredrickson was eventually killed while fighting Quentin, but because it was indirect (or perhaps considering he was a clone) there was no Quickening.
- Matsuda: An Asian Jettator with a noesis of cyborgs (more than properly androids, every bit his creations were merely artificial machines). He lost a manus to Kortan, and congenital a cyborg warrior to kill Kortan for him.
- Mahata: An old man with noesis of entomology.
- Branagh: Has noesis of linguistics. A coward, he found courage when the woman he was in honey with was kidnapped past Arak, 1 of Kortan's men.
- Cornell: A bullheaded Jettator with noesis of astronomy. He changed his name to Orion and hoped to fight Kortan during an eclipse, where he would have the advantage. However, he had given up his knowledge and immortality to Quentin earlier then, and stood no hazard against a powerful immortal like Kortan considering he likewise lost the enhanced senses he had developed during his fourth dimension as an Immortal.
- Sehebi: A Jettator with a master of botany. In the episode in which he appears, The valley of the Thorn Pods, he is initially idea to be a traitor to the Order of the Jettators for unleashing carnivorous thorn pods on the Valley where he lived; later it was revealed that he was non responsible, and was in fact helpful in stopping the pods. His Quickening ritual is the one we see on the opening credits.
- Sheperd: A Jettator with knowledge of satellites. He did non have the oath because he idea that he was the reason for the smashing ending. Hiding in his satellite station, he searched for the Highlander and Ramírez and passed his knowledge to Quentin but as Kortan found them.
- Prometheus: A Jettator with knowledge of the atom. His body suffers from intense radiation poisoning thus turning his immortality into a curse. At get-go Quentin refused his knowledge until Ramirez intervened and convinced Quentin that such noesis was better off in his hands than that of Kortan. Prometheus died after destroying his own fortress to protect his secrets.
- Emerson: An immortal who found a source of invisibility. He was the tertiary immortal who didn't have the oath (The others were Kortan and Shepard) considering Kortan sent him to outer space before the meteorite hit the earth. He returned to Earth after spending more than 700 years in space. Originally a friend, Kortan killed him in lodge to proceeds the cognition he had accumulated off-world.
Creatures [ edit ]
Several strange creatures be in the universe of Highlander: The Animated Series.
- Anomas: Gigantic ants the size of an elephant, highly aggressive, used in Mogonda to perform executions. Wild Anomas take special glands the produce a paralytic acid. Like normal ants they communicate though pheromones and rubbing antenne. The hermit Zack learned to speak to the Anomas and artificially create their pheromones and so they would not assault him.
- Gavors: Ostrich-like reptiles used as mounts, shown to exist about equally intelligent as horses.
- Grans: Animate being that are part ape and part canine. Highly intelligent Grans are capable of tool use and fifty-fifty complex planning. The Grans communicate with one some other through sign language and understand man speech. Wild Grans are shown to distrust both humans and domesticated Grans.
- Snow Spider: Big fuzzy blue arachnids, about the size of house cats, not-poisonous.
- Thorn Pods: Flesh-eating flowers capable of motility. They take a fragrance that induces sleep, Thorn Pods can consume humans.
- Gorans: Elephant-moo-cow hybrids that act as beasts of burden, doing heavy work and moving useful supplies from place to place for humans.
Episodes [ edit ]
Season i [ edit ]
| Nº | Ep | Championship | Jettator |
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| one | 1 | "The Last of the MacLeods" | Mangus |
| 2 | 2 | "A Gustatory modality of Expose" | Stevenson |
| 3 | 3 | "The Last Weapon" | -- |
| 4 | 4 | "Melvyn the Magnificent" | Erol |
| 5 | 5 | "The Sound of Madness" | -- |
| 6 | 6 | "The Suspended Village" | Olak |
| 7 | seven | "Exodus" | -- |
| 8 | 8 | "The Cursed" | Ilrick |
| 9 | nine | "The History Lesson" | Lanzelet |
| 10 | x | "The Valley of the Thorn Pods" | Sehebi |
| 11 | 11 | "Fallout" | Prometheus |
| 12 | 12 | "The Courage of Love" | Branagh |
| 13 | thirteen | "The Setup" | Yashoda |
Season 2 [ edit ]
| Nº | Ep | Title | Jettator |
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| 14 | 1 | "The Sword of Evil" | -- |
| 15 | ii | "The Eye of Heaven" | Sheperd |
| xvi | 3 | "The Cost of Freedom" | -- |
| 17 | four | "The Treasure in the Sand" | -- |
| 18 | five | "Orane" | Orane |
| 19 | six | "The Secret Prison" | -- |
| xx | seven | "Expressionless Ringer" | -- |
| 21 | 8 | "Orion's Reign" | Cornell |
| 22 | 9 | "Rage of the Hurricane" | -- |
| 23 | ten | "Oblivion" | -- |
| 24 | 11 | "Lord for a Twenty-four hour period" | Volta |
| 25 | 12 | "The Siege of the Dundees" | -- |
| 26 | 13 | "The Blood of My Enemy" | -- |
| 27 | 14 | "Valka" | -- |
| 28 | fifteen | "The Survivors from Outer Infinite" | Emerson |
| 29 | sixteen | "King of the Ants" | -- |
| 30 | 17 | "Eagle Valley" | -- |
| 31 | xviii | "Island of Grans" | -- |
| 32 | 19 | "The Revenge of the Shantytown" | Mahata |
| 33 | xx | "Trick of the Lite" | Eva |
| 34 | 21 | "The Double" | Fredrickson |
| 35 | 22 | "Cult of the Immortal" | -- |
| 36 | 23 | "Playing with Burn" | -- |
| 37 | 24 | "Tricks of the Heed" | -- |
| 38 | 25 | "Matsuda" | Matsuda |
| 39 | 26 | "Ice Dwellers" | -- |
| twoscore | 27 | "Countdown" | -- |
Cast [ edit ]
- Miklos Perlus - Quentin MacLeod
- Ben Campbell - Ramirez
- Lawrence Bayne - Kortan
- Katie Zegers - Clyde
- Don Dickinson - Arak
- Lorne Kennedy - Malone, Connor MacLeod
- Wayne Robson - Asklepios, Glen
- Hrant Alianak - Sahevy
- Graham Haley - Mangus, Erol
- Tracey Moore - Ave
- James Rankin - Stevenson, Mohar
- Stuart Rock - Young Quentin
- Alyson Court - Aria
- John Gilbert - Melvyn
- David Hemblen - Gorth, Olak
- Catherine Disher - Teen
- Dawn Greenhalgh - Petra
- Cedric Smith - Scott
- David Bryant - Lanzelet
- Colin Fob - Cubert
Spin-offs [ edit ]
A video game based on the series called Highlander: The Concluding of the MacLeods was released for the Atari Jaguar CD.
Home media [ edit ]
Some episodes of the series were edited into a characteristic-length film called Highlander: The Adventure Begins and was released by Family Home Amusement in 1996.
Genius Products released Highlander: The Blithe Series on DVD in Region 1 on Dec iv, 2007. [5]
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date |
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| The Complete Series | 40 | December 4, 2007 |
References [ edit ]
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 412–413. ISBN 978-1476665993 .
- ^ Review of the series and DVD prepare at IGN.com
- ^ Telotte, J.P. (2010). Geraghty, Lincoln (ed.). "Television Futures". Science Fiction Studies. 37 (1): 121–124. ISSN0091-7729.
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2022). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television receiver Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 284. ISBN 978-1538103739 .
- ^ Review of the serial and DVD set up at DVDTalk.com
External links [ edit ]
Highlander the Animated Series Quentin's Mother
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Animated_Series
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