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Wander Over Yonder: Trending 27th (May 2020)

If you could have any one character from outside WOY appear in a single episode, which would it be? / Which cartoon would you see Wander make a cameo in? 

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Trending 27th (June 2020)

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This is a tough question because there are a lot of great potential crossover ideas. However, I’d like to mention a few that I’ve coincidentally been thinking about recently anyway. 

First of all, I’d like to see a crossover between “Wander Over Yonder” and “Zig & Sharko” due to the many parallels I’ve been able to draw between the two. 

In case you don’t know, “Zig & Sharko” is a a French animated slapstick comedy television series created and directed by Olivier Jean-Marie and produced by Xilam Animation (known for creating other successful series such as “Space Goofs” and “Oggy and the Cockroaches”). It shares the first two genres with WOY and has many similar character archetypes. 

Both cartoons have a "bad guy” who wants to kill a “good guy”. 

Both bad guys have small sidekicks that are underappreciated by them and are also way smarter, making most of the plans and generally doing all the work. 

Both good guys wear a star as their head accessory (in Marina’s case, it’s the starfish hairpin, and in Wander’s, it’s the star is attached to his hat) and are oftentimes (at least seemingly) oblivious to the bad guys’ attempts to destroy them. 

Both of them also find the bad guy’s right hand man adorable. 

And finally, the good guy also has a strong companion who protects them and who they are very close to.

I haven’t watched all the episodes of “Zig & Sharko”, but if I did, there would most likely be even more parallels I could draw. I would also like to see this crossover because the characters from Z&S don’t talk, so watching the characters from WOY try to communicate with them non-verbally (or watching the characters from Z&S talk for once, allowing the audience to find out what their canon voices would sound like) would be very interesting to me.

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Second of all, I’d like to include an honorary mention. 

While it’s not a cartoon, I’d really like to see a crossover between the characters from “Wander Over Yonder” and the “Patapon” franchise. 

If you don’t know, Patapon is a series of video games published originally for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game console combining gameplay features of a rhythm game and a god game. The title is created from two Japanese onomatopoeia (the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes), pata (marching) and pon (drumming). 

The game is presented in a cartoonish, silhouetted two-dimensional environment, and features the player acting as a deity who commands an army of caricatured miniature tribal creatures by beating traditional talking drums. The game was developed by Pyramid and produced by Japan Studios. 

It has two sequels, with Patapon 3 being the conclusion to the series (just like season 3 of WOY was supposed to be - third time’s the charm!). Additionally, the first 2 games were remastered in 2017 and 2020 for the PlayStation 4 (PS 4). Despite this, the series is still fairly underrated, and I urge you to check it out! 

The “Patapon” franchise features characters that are very similar to watchdogs in that they are an army of talking eyeballs, most of whom are male. 

Additionally, they are led by a (generally) smart leader - Meden in “Patapon” and Peepers in “Wander Over Yonder” - who can be differentiated from the rest of their species by their height (Meden is taller thanks to her legs, whereas Peepers is shorter) and their head accessory (Meden has an elaborate headdress of five coloured feathers instead of a usual cap or helm, and Peepers has a differently shaped helmet with a bigger lightning bolt than normal). 

All 3 games even have characters shaped as stars (which is a reocurring symbol in Wander Over Yonder)! They’re called Hoshipon (“Hoshi” (星) means “star” in Japanese).

That’s just some of the things I could think of off the top of my head! I might go into more details about the similarities between the aforementioned franchises specifically later, as well as draw fanart and/or write fanfiction based on my observations, too. 

This is it for now, though! I hope you enjoyed. Please consider participating in the “Trending 27th” event if you haven’t already! 

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concept: human!watchdogs wear electronic masks

homogenizes them and minimizes their individuality

leans into the original concept of them being at least somewhat mechanical

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A Rant About Wander

We all know how obsessed/crazy Wander can get if he's not able to help people. It's how he acts in "The Sick Day," but also "The Helper," where we see a glimpse of Wander's heroic, black-and-white personality; the person he is without his core self:

For the first time, we see Wander look at Hater as a bad guy he has to "stop" and he can't believe that, behind all his evil deeds, he's a normal guy just trying to pick up his lunch. A similiar moment happens in "The Wanders," where Wander sees Hater as a heartless evil-doer and says: "I am a good guy, and he is a bad guy, and I stop him!" he's like Brad Starlight It's clear tunnel vision

When Sylvia tells Wander how it's good that people don't need his help all the time, he's curious as to why. Wander's so used to being the nice guy that he wonders why it's a bad thing that he's one to such an obsessive degree.

It's not just that he enjoys helping others or that he empathizes deeply with everyone due to his (unexplored) past; Wander also wants to feel worthy/good about himself. Look at this line from "The Big Job":

Wander feels WORTHLESS when he messes up, he feels worthless when he's not doing anything for other people. His desire to help stems not only from past pain but also feelings of not being good enough and he buries them deep deep DEEP down

As humble as Wander is, he enjoys being seen as a legendary hero because it makes him feel important. See how excited he gets here?

Hero Wander is even a part of him, as we see in "The Wanders"; there's no way he doesn't have savior complex/hero syndrome:

Wander never denies being 'the legend.' On the contrary, as soon as Hank starts describing "The Hero," he figures out he's talking about him and says "Oh, really?" like he's reveling in that fact:

He just goes with the kids' portrayals of him even though they aren't accurate. And he knows. He KNOWS that the Yonder galaxy thinks of both himself and Sylvia as heroes:

"The Family Reunion" shows exactly how well-known Syl and Wan are:

There's also this deleted scene from "The Hole... Lotta Nuthin'" where Wander pretty much reveals that he KNOWS he's very well-known and is being just a tiiiiiiny bit arrogant about it:

When Wander doesn't feel worthless, he acknowledges/ doesn't deny/enjoys being seen as a hero, but when he's down in the dumps, he'll straight up say he's not one, which is what he said in "The Big Job"

Then there's this moment in "The Good Deed" where he's being a show-off:

Wander not only has flaws, but he's actually no stranger to negative emotions either.

In "The Good Deed," he gives in to nihilism:

Wander was ready to drown himself in mud because he thought doing good was pointless in the end, that things will turn bad anyway no matter what he does. I never saw anyone talk about what this scene implies, but it's both really dark and really heartbreaking. WoY actually tackled it with care and a good moral about life, though

He's heartbroken when he thinks his good intentions didn't amount to anything ("The Gift 2: The Giftening"):

He feels hopeless after repeated failure and needs Sylvia to lift his spirits ("The Liar"):

In "The Show Stopper," he's so focused on getting Dominator to notice Hater's concert that he completely forgets to rescue the bunny folk (he probably came back for them later, but the thing about Wander is that when he's hyperfocused on a specific thing or goal, he's HYPERFOCUSED).

In "The Battle Royale," he gets so caught up in getting Hater and Dominator together that he accidentally creates an entire warzone, gets McGuffin fried, and becomes (temporarily) discouraged after he thinks he failed to set the two up (and soften Hater's heart):

And yet, no matter what happens, he always bounces back ("The Flower" shows this best), either with Sylvia's help, or on his own. Season three would have challenged him, though:

In "The Void," Wander is selfish and controlling and only thinks about what he wants to do, and what's interesting is how that was metaphorically shown by having him control Sylvia like she's a puppet:

This episode suggests that a part of Wander, at least subconsciously, sometimes wants control over Sylvia (best seen in "The Tourist," where he constantly neglects her need for rest so he could compete with Trudi). This ties in with another thing I want to talk about, and that's how there's a clue in "The Rider" that Wander didn't have a deep one-on-one friendship with anyone before he befriended Sylvia (even if he had other travel partners). He literally had to consult Frederick about how to handle the falling out between them:

Wander always had acquaintances, strangers he helped, and villains he reformed around him; he probably dated many people, too. But he never bonded with someone who genuinely liked being around him, who cared about his safety and well-being and who'd always have his back. He and Syl are found family siblings to me He's so used to either being by himself and doing whatever he wants or only making casual connections; it's understandable why he'd struggle with thinking about others' feelings at times. Yeah, Wander takes care of people in a practical sense, but intimate relationships where he sometimes has to sacrifice his autonomy are still new to him.

Tl;dr Wander looks silly and shallow but he's such a flawed, deep character when you peel back the layers.

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I’m thinking about the ending of WOY Season 2 because it’s one of the most exciting things in the whole series. AND HERE’S WHY.

In the episode “The Waste of Time” there is a quick shot of a character called Monkeyboy when Wander & Sylvia are going back in time. The shot is implied to be from an event that happened before the start of the series. Frank Angones confirmed his name and revealed that he was intended to play a “big part” in season 3.

The character’s relevancy is further established by the cliffhanger ending of season 2. An American flag can be seen on both the escape pod from the ending and the monkey’s astronaut suit. Those are some strong parallels that I’m sure most people in the fandom have picked up on by now. It’s hard to ignore because we have NEVER seen evidence that Earth exists in the show aside from these two instances! That alone makes me excited!

But wait, there’s more! The final shot shows green electricity coming out of the crashed escape pod, along with monkey noises that transition into Hater’s evil laugh. This leads me to believe that Hater’s origin story is somehow tied to Monkeyboy. And revealing something big like that about a main character would be totally new territory for the show! One popular theory is that he IS Monkeyboy, or was. I can see that being true since Craig McCracken has a track record with villainous monkey characters.

This may be purposefully misleading, however, because how could Monkeyboy play a big part in season 3 if he was only found within Hater’s backstory? Another theory I have is that Hater and Monkeyboy knew each other at one point, exploring space together, until Hater betrayed him. That way Monkeyboy could show up to take his revenge against Hater in season 3. He looks fairly pissed off in that one image we see of him.

Maybe in the past they were both monkeys or maybe Hater was a human astronaut with a monkey companion. There are many possible ways it could go, but even putting aside all the fan speculation, I love that this new character is based on the actual history of space travel. From 1948 to 1993, monkeys and chimps were routinely launched into space by the USA. It was incredibly dangerous for the animals involved since they were the first to test the equipment. Looking back at the screenshots, I wonder if the spacecraft that Monkeyboy (and maybe Hater) was in simply malfunctioned or if there was another element at play.