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Villainous is a Mexican animated web series created by Alan Ituriel. It is based on a 2012 web series which he had previously created and was initially picked up by 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, talks for a full series are underway.[]
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.
Plot
Villainous is the story of Black Hat Org., run by Black Hat (whose name is a synonym for , a reference to black-hatted evil cowboys from ) 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.
CharactersBlack 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 , 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.
