Dream XOver: Mario x Sonic - Icons Clash

If there's one thing we geeks love, is Crossovers of our favorite franchises,especially when they have nothing to do with each other,like the topic of todays XOver Post: Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog. A dream Crossover for many.

Yeah Yeah,I know,Sonic and Mario already have a Crossover series in The Mario and Sonic Olympic Games Series,but many don't consider it a proper crossover between these 2 Legendary Franchises. I don't either,despite the fact that I love seeing the Nintendo Princesses' barefoot in those gymnast outfits. (can you blame me,they look so hot)

Anyway,I've decided to come up with a proper Mario/Sonic XOver myself. Please note that in order to make my idea work,I'm gonna be using many elements from the Sonic Archie Comics,such as Roboticization and the Freedom Fighters.

Story: Taking Place After Super Mario Galaxy 2,Eggman and Bowser team up to help each other conquer their respective Universes using a new version of the Death Egg called The Koopa Egg and they need extra man-power to built it and the Chaos Emeralds to power it. They decide to recruit Mario and Sonic's friends. They also plot to frame the heroes by having Bowser Jr.,as Shadow Mario,capture Sonic's friends and Metal Sonic capture Mario's. And while Mario and Sonic are fighting each other,the 2 villains will execute their plan. The kidnappings are a success and when the Main Heroes meet they blame each other for said kidnappings.

Eggman roboticizes Mario's Friends,while Bowser (with kamek's help) corrupts Sonic's friends and sends them to get the Chaos Emeralds.

Will Mario and Sonic stop their fighting to save the day and their friends? Will the Villians complete the Koopa Egg? Are Bowser and Eggman true allies? Or Are they just using each other? Yes,Yes,Maybe,and Likely.

That is the story for Mario x Sonic - Icon's Clash.

Characters: Mario,Sonic The Hedgehog,King Bowser Koopa,Dr.Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik,Bowser Jr.,Metal Sonic,Luigi,Miles "Tails" Prower,Toad,Knuckles the Echidna,Yoshi,Amy Rose,Princess Peach Toadstool,Cream the Rabbit and Cheeze the Chao,Princess Daisy,Chaos(cameo),Rosalina,The Chaos,The Lumas,Cubot and Orbot,Kamek the Magikoopa,Shadow The Hedgehog,Wario,Rouge the Bat,Birdo,Princess Sally Acorn,Toadsworth,The Knothole Freedom Fighters,Waluigi (cameo),Nack "Fang" The Weasel (cameo),Uncle Chuck,Captain Syrup(cameo),E-123 Omega,Donkey Kong(cameo),Team Chaotix (cameos),The Koopalings (cameos),The President and G.U.N.,Pauline (cameo),Breezie The Hedgehog (cameo),Big the Cat (cameo),Toadette (cameo),Bowser's Koopa Troop,and Eggman's Badniks.

Crossover Exclusive Characters: Mecha Luigi,Vicious Tails,Mecha Yoshi,Vicious Knuckles,Mecha Peach,Vicious Amy,Mecha Toad,Vicious Sally,Mecha Daisy,Vicious Cream and Nasty Cheeze,Mecha Rosalina,Vicious Shadow,Mecha Donkey Kong,and Vicious Rouge.

Mario Places: The Mushroom Planet,Grass Land,Desert Hills,Water Land aka Seaside aka The Islands,Macro Mountain (a mountain land populated by giants),Cloud Land aka The Sky,Iced Island,Pipe Maze,Dark Land,Sarasaland,Mario Land,Wario's Palace,Peach's Castle,Kastle Koopa,Rosalina's Observatory.

Sonic Places: Sonic's Planet,The Special Zone,The United Federation,Station Square,The Presedent's House,G.U.N. HQ,Knothole Village,Mobotropolis,
Westside Island,South Island,and The Floating Island.

Crossover Exclusive Places: Egg Island (original location),The Koopa Egg.

Notes: Mario and Sonic get to use each others Power Ups. Mario also uses the Chaos Emeralds to become Ultra Mario. There are 2 special types of Warp Pipes that exist in Mario's Universe: Silver ones and Gold ones. Silver ones lead to other worlds,while the Gold Pipes lead to other Universes. The Gold Pipes only appear once every year. Despite Bowser's objections,Princess Peach is Roboticized. Koopa's spell not only brainwashes Sonic's friends,but it also turns them into vicious monsters. Besides the Koopa Egg,Dr.Eggman also created the Rokoopnik,a special battle vehicle made in the image of both Himself and Bowser. The Rokoopnik can also transform into a giant robot.

Cool huh? And this isn't the Only Mario/Sonic XOver I have. There's one more and it's a Huge one. And I mean Huge! In fact,It's so huge that it co-stars a certain Green-Clad Elven Hero. Legends Will Clash in the next Mario x Sonic!

Until Next Time,
See Ya,Space Cowboys!

Captain N/Super Mario Bros. XOver Special

Hey there, Toonsters and Gamers alike!

It's been since a long time since I did some ideas about crossovers and since Stefan has done a few, I thought I could give my ideas of another crossover. But this one is not just any crossover. Remember those Nintendo themed cartoons back in late 80s and into the early 90s? Well, this one's a doozy, so I will sum it up the best I can.

In the beginning, there was The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, which was followed by Captain N: The Game Master. When they first came out, their respective first seasons were shown separately on different channels. It was not until NBC in 1990 they aired both shows in an hour long block, promoting both season 2 of Captain N and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. A year later, before NBC killed off Saturday Mornings forever, they showed both shows, but it was cut to a half hour show called Captain N and the New Super Mario World. And even though we got the best of two worlds, neither Captain N nor the Super Mario Bros. never once crossed paths with each other...

Until now.

Now that the background of the Nintendo cartoons is done. Here is the plot of this awesome crossover.

Story: A long time ago, Videoland was once a peaceful happy place in all the world of fiction. All that changed when an army of gaming's most evil villains decided to claim Videoland as their own. Led by the villainous King Koopa, they led an assault on the heart of Videoland, the Palace of Power. That's right, folks, Koopa attempted to rule Videoland years before Mother Brain. As Koopa attempts to claims dominion over Videoland, he was stopped by Videoland's ruler, King Charles. Fortunately, Charles fought valiantly against the reptile king and banished Koopa from Videoland, sealing him up into the Warp Zone to his own world known as Koopa Valley, never to return. Since that time, while Koopa was exiled in his own world and starts his invasion of another world, the Mushroom Kingdom, Videoland enjoyed relative peace for many years.

And even though Koopa was banished, other gaming villains continued to carry on where he started, especially with Mother Brain. Since that time, King Charles disappeared and his daughter, Princess Lana took over the Palace of Power. Not even her and the other gaming heroes alone couldn't stop her. However, thanks to the Ultimate Warp Zone, Kevin Keene, a gamer from the real world, ends up being Videoland's new champion as Captain N: The Game Master. And time and time again, Kevin foils Mother Brain's insidious plot to rule Videoland.

But with her plans foiled again, Mother Brain, with her big brain, tries to find a way to get rid of Captain N once and for all, when she learns about Videoland's past and dark legend of King Koopa himself. Learning of the location of the Warp Pipe imprisonment,  Mother Brain finds it and opens it up, freeing Koopa from his Warp Zone prison. Initially thankful for free him, Koopa pledges his allegiance to Mother Brain and pledges to help destroy Captain N. And as Kevin confronts Koopa, he learned the hard way that he is more dangerous and calculating than Mother Brain ever was, as he diverted Kevin and the N-Team, allowing Koopa to go after the real target, the Palace of Power. And by doing so, he destroys the Power Glove (which is not only Kevin's way home, but also the source of his power), leaves the Palace of Power in ruins and nearly ending Princess Lana's life. While Kevin and other try to put two and two together, Koopa returns to Mother Brain in the world of Metroid to let her know that Captain N won't threatened the villains no more, now that the Palace of Power is in ruins. Enraged about what Koopa has done, Mother Brain reprimanded him for nearing destroying the palace and almost ended Princess Lana's life. All Mother Brain ever wanted was to rule Videoland, just to for the sake of greed and being vain. And feeling duped that Mother Brain is in this for her own greed, Koopa decided to take over Mother Brain's operations himself. Mother Brain tries to blast away Koopa, but she is no match for his dark magic, thus turning her into a brain in a snow globe. Fearing that Koopa would do the same thing to them, Mother Brain's henchmen, Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo, joined Koopa's ranks, thus Koopa plans to not only conquer the Mushroom Kingdom, but all of Videoland. As for Captain N, knowing that Koopa is too powerful and even more dangerous, and since King Charles isn't here to stop him, he figured that the only way to stop Koopa is locate the very heroes who fought against him in the past and knows the Koopa King better than he does and that is Mario and Luigi, the Super Mario Bros.. Will Kevin save all of Videoland or will King Koopa succeed where Mother Brain has failed? Only time will tell.

That is the story of this crossover in a nutshell. Here is a little synopsis, and everything else in between, on the whole story itself.

Synopsis: Captain N teams up with the Super Mario Bros. to stop the evil King Koopa. Where in the Mario cartoons he's a gruff, ruthless reptile king who just wants to rule the Mushroom Kingdom, Koopa, in this story, is as more dangerous, ruthless and more powerful as Mother Brain ever was. So much so, he disposes Mother Brain earlier in the story and forces her henchmen to do his bidding. As for Captain N, in order to defeat Koopa, he not only enlisted the Mario Bros. to help him, but also getting new powers and upgrades, such as new control pad belt buckle that resembles the SNES gamepad and a bazooka that resembles the Super Scope 6. He is going to need them as he, the N-Team and the Marios travel all over Videoland and save every world from Koopa's wrath.

Character Designs: The character designs will be the same as they were in their respective cartoons, such as Mario having red overalls and Megaman, Kid Icarus and Simon Belmont being nothing like their gaming counterparts. As for King Koopa, he will be the same as he was in the 3 Mario cartoons, all green and not mult-colored like his gaming counterpart and other than having some comedic moments, he will be a very, dangerous foe to both Captain N and the Mario Bros. Not to mention breaking the 4th Wall, as he confronts the N-Team members head on, in rather comedic fashion (e.g. mocking Megaman for not being like his gaming counterpart or calling Simon Belmont a warthog-faced buffoon instead of a fearless vampire hunter). All the characters will be in it, since all the cartoons I have mentioned are all linked together, so expect Yoshi, Wart's minions and the Koopalings (who will be called by their cartoon names, except for Kevin who calls them by their gaming names as their berserk button in the beginning) will be in it as well.

Voices: Most of the cast would return to voice their respective characters like Matt Hill, Venus Terzo, Garry Chalk and so forth. However, some the voices have since either moved on, or some of them passed away such as Levi Stubbs, Tony Rosato and just recently, Harvey Atkin. So finding voices that sounded very similar would be much harder to find. If you have suggestions, leave me a comment for that.

As for music, I know I want them to sound like the ones from the games. If you have any suggestions of who should do the music since people like Shuki Levy and Michael Tavera have since moved on to bigger, better things, leave me a comment.

Other than that, hope you like this crossover idea. I think this crossover is a bit long overdue.

Until next time...Saraba! (Farewell!)

Retro Toonami TV Show Timeline

I did one for the Disney TV Animated Canon,so I've decided to do a list of Retro Toonami shows done in chronological order.

Note: I'm only gonna list the Toonami Shows from the block's Afternoon years (1997-2003). Sorry SatPM Toonami-faithful.

Moltar Era (1997-1999)

Thundercats (1997-1998 [first run]; 2001-2002 [second run])

Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1997-1998)

The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest (1997-1999)

Cartoon Roulette (1997-1998)

Robotech (1998)

Beast Wars: Transformers (1998)

The Superfriends (1998)

Sailor Moon (1998-2001)

Dragon Ball Z (1998-2003)

Reboot (1999-2001)
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TOM 1.0 Era (1999-2001)

The Powerpuff Girls [the original and best series] (1999-2000)

Ronin Warriors (1999-2000)

G-Force (2000)

Gundam Wing (2000-2001)

Batman: The Animated Series (2000-2002)

Tenchi Muyo (2000)

Tenchi Universe (2000-2001)

Tenchi in Tokyo (2000-2001)

Blue Submarine No.6 (2000)
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TOM 2.0 Era (2001-2003)

Superman: The Animated Series (2000-2001)

Outlaw Star (2001-2002)

The Big O (2001)

Cardcaptors (2001)

Mobile Suit Gundam (2001-2002)

Gundam: 08th MS Team (2001-2002)

Dragon Ball (2001-2004)

Batman Beyond (2001-2002)

Zoids (2001-2002)

Gundam 0080 (2001)

Hamtaro (2002)

Zoids: Chaotic Century (2002-2003)

G Gundam (2002-2003)

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe [2k2 series] (2002-2003)

Transformers: Armada (2002-2003)

G.I.Joe: Real American Hero [midnight run only] (2002)

Samurai Jack [original series] (2002-2003)

.Hack//Sign (2003-2004)
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TOM 3.0 Era (2003-2007)

Note: I will only be covering 2003,since it was Toonami's final year as a Weekday Afternoon block.

Yu Yu Hakusho (2003-2004)

Rurouni Kenshin (2003-2004)

Justice League (2003-2004)

Cyborg 009 (2003)

SD Gundam (2003)

Dragon Ball GT (2003-2004)

Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2004)

Well that about does it. Hope this sparked some awesome memories for you guys. So Happy Belated 20th,Toonami! Thanks for the memories!

Stay Gold,Space Cowboys!