Villainous (web series)

Villainous
Genre
Created by Alan Ituriel
Written by Alan Ituriel
Diego Valenzuela
Merril Hagan
Directed by Alan Ituriel
Voices of Alan Ituriel
Todd "Eco Vox" Asayer
Melaney Sems
Mark Fischbach
Composer(s) Kevin Manthei
Country of origin Mexico
United States
Original language(s) English
Spanish
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 15 (and 10 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Running time 1 minute (shorts)
11 minutes (specials)
Production company(s) Cartoon Network Mexico
A.I. Animation Studios
Release
Original network Cartoon Network Anything (2016)
ThatPlaceToHangOut.com (2012 webisodes)
First shown in September 6, 2016 (2016-09-06) (at Pixelatl Festival)
Original release May 15, 2017 (2017-05-15) – present
External links
Website

Villainous (Spanish: Villanos) is a Mexican-American animated web series created by Alan Ituriel.[1] It is based on a 2012 web series which he had previously created and was initially picked up by Cartoon Network Latin America as a miniseries of ten one-minute episodes for the Cartoon Network Anything app. (Further episodes, along with a series of specials, began to be released later.) The series is co-produced by CN and A.I. Animation Studios. Due to the success of the episodes released on YouTube, a television series is currently in development.[2]

The Villainous concept was pitched by Alan Ituriel at a contest run at the Pixelatl Festival in Cuernavaca, called IdeaToon Summit, in 2014. He met some Cartoon Network executives there and the concept was judged to fit the 6-11 year old demographic for CN Anything original content. Villainous has garnered very positive reception on Cartoon Network's online platforms, leading CN to decide to continue their own "Pitch Me" competition through at least 2017 in an aim to find more web original shows. Villainous is the first of what CN hopes to be many successful short projects for their app and YouTube channel.

Production notes

The original Villainous webisodes were written, animated and voiced by Alan Ituriel in 2012 for ThatPlaceToHangOut.com, an art website he jointly worked on. He had to use royalty-free music and voice all characters. During the production of the new series, Cartoon Network was able to sign on YouTuber and popular Internet gamer Markiplier as the voice of 5.0.5. and attached a professional composer, Kevin Manthei, to the project. Ituriel remained in control over most aspects as director, writer, storyboard artist, animator and voice of Black Hat.

Plot

Villainous is the story of Black Hat Org., run by Black Hat (whose name is a synonym for villain, a reference to black-hatted evil cowboys from western movies) and his team of three less-villainous aides. Black Hat is trying to sell various evil inventions created by Dr. Flug and desperate to achieve his evil aspirations. However, things usually end up going wrong for him as the brilliant innovations tend to have small and often comical flaws.

Characters

  • Black Hat (voiced by creator Alan Ituriel) is a pure evil, narcissistic mastermind who runs Black Hat, Org. and appears in all of the ads that the "company" produces. Black Hat is of unknown species and is able to shapeshift, teleport, manipulate space, conjure objects at will and open portals with his claws. He is shown to be able to play the pipe organ and, according to the creator, a violin with strings made of cat guts. Black Hat is also shown to wear a smaller, black bowler hat beneath his signature top hat. An alternate, muscular Black Hat in "The Perception of Evil" was voiced by Mark Fischbach, but in Spanish was voiced by Ituriel itself.
  • Dr. Flug Slys (voiced by Jose Antonio Macías in Spanish and by Todd "Eco Vox" Asayer in English) is a nervous scientist who wears a paper bag over his head. Flugslys means 'aviation accident' or 'plane crash' in Icelandic and, according to the creator, Flug has obtained his driver's and pilot's license. Nobody has ever seen his face, except, according to someone working on the show, Black Hat himself. According to a tweet by Alan Ituriel, the reason behind his bag will be revealed once the mini-series becomes a show.
  • Demencia (voiced by Melissa Gedeón in Spanish and by Melaney Sems in English) is Black Hat's crazed fan and assistant. Her outfit is inspired by reptiles and she has a love for destruction. If she crouches down, because of her hair color, her hair covers her body and she resembles a lizard. She is seen to be able to play the electric guitar.
  • 5.0.5 (voiced by Mark Fischbach) is the organisation's failed experiment that cannot be killed. Intended to be an evil creature, he instead became very loving and enjoys hugging his friends. He is a big blue bear-creature with a single flower sprouting from his head that wilts and grows based on his emotions, and closes when he is asleep. He seems to be the organisation's housekeeper.
  • Cam Bot was revealed by Alan Ituriel in a recent Twitter poll to be the one who films all of Black Hat Org.'s ads. It is a sentient camera with useful attachments, however, the make-up puff arm was removed by Black Hat when it attempted to use it on him.

Episodes

Episodes are produced in English and dubbed in Spanish afterwards. Below are the original English and Spanish dub titles for the one-minute shorts that Cartoon Network has approved and the small, fifteen-second shorts that are also being released on the CN Anything app to promote the show, ordered by their official YouTube compilation.

Phase One

  1. The Perception of Evil/La Percepción del Mal
  2. Ice Cream of Fear/Helado de Miedo
  3. Bigger, Badder/Más Grande, más Malo
  4. Squeak/Chirrido
  5. Horribly Heavy/Horriblemente Pesado
  6. Wearing Evil/Vistiendo la Maldad
  7. Bad Security/Seguridad Mala
  8. The Portrait of Evil/El Retrato del Mal
  9. Sculpting Evil/Esculpiendo Maldad
  10. The Note of Destruction/La Nota de Destrucción

Phase Two

  1. Horrible Holidays/Horribles fiestas
  2. The Foul Flower/La flor fétida
  3. Dementia WuZ Here/Demencia eZtubo aquí
  4. Black Hat Organization: 2018 Anniversary/Black Hat Organization: Aniversario 2018
  5. Trap-ical Resort/¡Verano!

Orientation Videos for Villains

Note: This is a series of 10-to-11-minute specials which feature Black Hat critiquing Villains from other Cartoon Network shows.

  1. The Lost Cases of Ooo (featuring Earl of Lemongrab from Adventure Time)
  2. The Lost Cases of Rhyboflavin (featuring Nohyas from Mighty Magiswords)
  3. The Lost Cases of Boxmore (featuring Lord Boxman from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
  4. The Lost Cases of Townsville (featuring Mojo Jojo from The Powerpuff Girls)
  5. The Lost Cases of Elmore (featuring Rob/Dr. Wrecker from The Amazing World of Gumball)
  6. Guide for an Evil Conquest (featuring Vilgax from Ben 10)
  7. The Lost Cases of the Future (featuring Aku from Samurai Jack)
  8. The Lost Cases of Beach City (featuring Peridot and Jasper from Steven Universe)
  9. The Lost Cases of the Park (featuring Anti-Pops from Regular Show)
  10. The Lost Cases of the Tree House (featuring The Delightful Children from Down the Lane from Codename: Kids Next Door)

In other media

Black Hat makes a cameo in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "Crossover Nexus".

References

[3]

  1. ↑ Villanous (TV Mini-Series 2017), retrieved 2017-08-31
  2. ↑ "Twitter". mobile.twitter.com. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
  3. ↑ Pineda Trujillo, Victor (June 14, 2017). "La nueva serie animada que hace honores al mundo de los antagonistas". It's Spoiler Time. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
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