Speed Weed
Smash Master
Welcome to the Space Ghost Support Thread!
Greetings, Smashboards! Are you getting enough oxygen? You better be, because today we are here to discuss an icon amongst Warner Bros.' vast library of animated characters. We are going to talk about the man, the myth, the legend, Space Ghost.
Space Ghost started off as the hero of the eponymous 60s action cartoon by Hanna-Barbera. This series followed the adventures of the titular superhero as he fought crime......in space. Most of his powers came from his belt and wristbands, but his most famous and impressive power was the ability to turn invisible. It went on to become one of the many many classic cartoons under HB's belt, and is one of the most famous and noteworthy series to have come out of the more action-y side of their output.
But what makes Space Ghost so special? Sure, his original cartoon is a classic, but there's an absolutely ginormous wealth of characters that are eligible for this game, and he very easily gets lost in the shuffle when considering even just the other characters from his own lil' corner of the WB vault. I mean, not even Fred Flintstone has been confirmed yet! The thing is, well......
Notice how I said "original cartoon"?
Indeed, the Space Ghost story does not end here, because decades later, he underwent perhaps one of the craziest reinventions any cartoon character has ever gone through. In 1994, there was this lil' channel called Cartoon Network. Still in its relative infancy, mostly only played old WB and HB cartoons. Until one day, someone took stock footage from the original Space Ghost cartoon and repurposed it into what would eclipse its predecessor and become a true all-time classic. And that was how Space Ghost got his very own talk show.
We are indeed talking about Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Cartoon Network's first ever fully-produced original series (technically The Moxy Show came before, but that was pretty much just glorified interstitials for the aforementioned old cartoons). Using old footage from the original show, this series provided a completely new spin on the Space Ghost mythos. The man himself was done superheroing - he was now a talk-show host, with his old enemies now working with him, though they were kinda forced into it. He went through a substantial change in personality - now being much more of a jerk. However, easily the thing that made this show stand out was its utterly nonsensical humor. Despite claiming to be a talk show, the celebrity guest interviews were often interrupted by Space Ghost and co.'s antics as the show proceeded to go completely off-the-rails, and before you knew it, Space Ghost was blowing up Paris. It was an absolute experience, and there was nothing else like it airing on TV at the time. And let's be real: of the two incarnations of Space Ghost, this is probably the one you know. As briefly alluded to beforehand, this show went on to completely eclipse the original in terms of popularity and legacy, and I'm writing this OP mainly with that incarnation of him in mind. In fact, this show also left a very large legacy in another sect of CN's history - the production company responsible for making this show later went on to be responsible for pretty much all of Adult Swim's original programming. And it was this show that pretty much became the launchpad for AS - even having made the jump to it in its final years - and laid the foundation for a lot of what would more or less become their signature style! You can see traces of it all over their output over the years, namely in stuff like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and The Eric Andre Show. It's for this that, although it ran on Cartoon Network for most of its run, it's often considered to be, for all intents and purposes, basically an Adult Swim show through and through. Regardless, this show has proven to be an enduring classic, and an integral part of both CN and Adult Swim's history.
So how would Space Ghost fight? I mean.....he's a superhero. He can fly, he can turn invisible, and he can shoot powerful beams from his wristbands. But really, SGC2C is such a bat**** crazy show that you really could just go wild with him. And that's not even going into stuff like taunts. Dear lord, the potential there.
Anyway, yeah, I think Space Ghost would be an extremely fun and cool addition, and it surprises me that I haven't seen him talked about all that much for this game. I mean, c'mon, it's ****ing Space Ghost. You're gonna tell me you're against him getting in? LOOK AT HIM GO
Ghost Planet Audience
Speed Weed
Flyboy
OrpheusTelos
AlRex
KneeOfJustice99
Torgo the Bear
Greenhorne Ethan
Greetings, Smashboards! Are you getting enough oxygen? You better be, because today we are here to discuss an icon amongst Warner Bros.' vast library of animated characters. We are going to talk about the man, the myth, the legend, Space Ghost.
Space Ghost started off as the hero of the eponymous 60s action cartoon by Hanna-Barbera. This series followed the adventures of the titular superhero as he fought crime......in space. Most of his powers came from his belt and wristbands, but his most famous and impressive power was the ability to turn invisible. It went on to become one of the many many classic cartoons under HB's belt, and is one of the most famous and noteworthy series to have come out of the more action-y side of their output.
But what makes Space Ghost so special? Sure, his original cartoon is a classic, but there's an absolutely ginormous wealth of characters that are eligible for this game, and he very easily gets lost in the shuffle when considering even just the other characters from his own lil' corner of the WB vault. I mean, not even Fred Flintstone has been confirmed yet! The thing is, well......
Notice how I said "original cartoon"?
Indeed, the Space Ghost story does not end here, because decades later, he underwent perhaps one of the craziest reinventions any cartoon character has ever gone through. In 1994, there was this lil' channel called Cartoon Network. Still in its relative infancy, mostly only played old WB and HB cartoons. Until one day, someone took stock footage from the original Space Ghost cartoon and repurposed it into what would eclipse its predecessor and become a true all-time classic. And that was how Space Ghost got his very own talk show.
We are indeed talking about Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Cartoon Network's first ever fully-produced original series (technically The Moxy Show came before, but that was pretty much just glorified interstitials for the aforementioned old cartoons). Using old footage from the original show, this series provided a completely new spin on the Space Ghost mythos. The man himself was done superheroing - he was now a talk-show host, with his old enemies now working with him, though they were kinda forced into it. He went through a substantial change in personality - now being much more of a jerk. However, easily the thing that made this show stand out was its utterly nonsensical humor. Despite claiming to be a talk show, the celebrity guest interviews were often interrupted by Space Ghost and co.'s antics as the show proceeded to go completely off-the-rails, and before you knew it, Space Ghost was blowing up Paris. It was an absolute experience, and there was nothing else like it airing on TV at the time. And let's be real: of the two incarnations of Space Ghost, this is probably the one you know. As briefly alluded to beforehand, this show went on to completely eclipse the original in terms of popularity and legacy, and I'm writing this OP mainly with that incarnation of him in mind. In fact, this show also left a very large legacy in another sect of CN's history - the production company responsible for making this show later went on to be responsible for pretty much all of Adult Swim's original programming. And it was this show that pretty much became the launchpad for AS - even having made the jump to it in its final years - and laid the foundation for a lot of what would more or less become their signature style! You can see traces of it all over their output over the years, namely in stuff like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and The Eric Andre Show. It's for this that, although it ran on Cartoon Network for most of its run, it's often considered to be, for all intents and purposes, basically an Adult Swim show through and through. Regardless, this show has proven to be an enduring classic, and an integral part of both CN and Adult Swim's history.
So how would Space Ghost fight? I mean.....he's a superhero. He can fly, he can turn invisible, and he can shoot powerful beams from his wristbands. But really, SGC2C is such a bat**** crazy show that you really could just go wild with him. And that's not even going into stuff like taunts. Dear lord, the potential there.
Anyway, yeah, I think Space Ghost would be an extremely fun and cool addition, and it surprises me that I haven't seen him talked about all that much for this game. I mean, c'mon, it's ****ing Space Ghost. You're gonna tell me you're against him getting in? LOOK AT HIM GO
Ghost Planet Audience
Speed Weed
Flyboy
OrpheusTelos
AlRex
KneeOfJustice99
Torgo the Bear
Greenhorne Ethan
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