#street sharks

[peteneems]

[monsters-conquer-the-world]

OOZEPUNK

WHAT IS OOZEPUNK?

Oozepunk is the term I'm coining for the microgenre of urban heroic sci-fi horror-fantasy that first exploded in the mid-80s with movies, shows, and comics like Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Toxic Avenger, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hellboy, Street Sharks, and others. Lots of natural crossover with Biopunk and Cyberpunk, aesthetically and philosophically.

Your childhood trauma didn't let you forget Roger Rabbit heavily featured colorful nightmare slime, did it?

A ragtag gang of weirdos (often horribly mutated--more on that soon) band together to save a city that doesn't understand them. Grimy sewers, abandoned buildings and graffiti'd brick walls are lit up by neon lights, streams of mysterious, glowing goo and/or the unearthly lights of futuristic particle weapons--ideally all of the above!

Beyond the "cracked concrete and gutters full of liquid plutonium" aesthetic, Oozepunk prankishly asks "What if catastrophic aberrations of science, particularly DUMPING TOXIC FUCKING WASTE STRAIGHT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT created fucked-up monsters... but they're HEROIC fucked-up monsters!" These catastrophic aberrations of science grant the heroes incredible powers, but COST them their place in human society. (Ghostbusters and Roger Rabbit eschew character mutation in favor of discovering that the undead and olde tymey cartoons are real [and exploitable!], respectively. 'Busters and 'Toon sympathizers alike are treated like insane idiots and/or frauds in their respective universes.)

Oozepunk heroes are challenged not only by strange supernatural beings, but by human society itself. The Ghostbusters battle with local politicians as much as they do the undead. In the recent (and delightful) TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Splinter warns the Turtles of humans and their obsession with "milking" mutants for their blood--on top of the villainous mutants they're trying to thwart!

Crank up the creep factor in Oozepunk and you get awesome anti-establishment goo-horror like 1988's The Blob, The Stuff, Street Trash, and probably a bunch more. Toxic Avenger is a batshit crazy splatter-comedy (i.e. classic Troma)... and still garnered sequels, a kid's cartoon and toyline!

And there's a Shredder's Revenge-style Crusaders beat-em-up coming out next year??

This looks dope as shit

Ghostbusters and TMNT are the only current, "evergreen" (or radioactive green!) Oozepunk franchises I can think of off the top of my head, but Oozepunk elements are buried in almost all of the stories and settings I love the most. Heroic kaiju like King Kong, Godzilla and Gamera paved the way for our freaky friends, but so did comics characters like Fantastic Four's Ben "The Thing" Grimm, The Hulk and Swamp Thing. Hell, I think I blame SESAME STREET of all things for starting me down the Oozepunk path.

Surprise! I've loved screaming trash monsters with secret hearts of gold since I was a fucking baby, and they've ALWAYS been there for me!

But it's not just Oscar, Sesame Street as a whole is a proto-Oozepunk utopia, years before the big Ooze-splosion of the 80s. Muppets, monsters, talking animals and chill humans all live and work together to scrape by with a little dignity in a gritty-but-wholesome urban world!

Sesame Street, a decades-long reminder that educational childrens' programming can and SHOULD be cool as hell looking and loaded with all kinds of friendly mutant freakuloids.

OOZEPUNK! Whaddya think?

[chrissy-kaos]

Welp.. I done fucked up. I went out with Finn street sharking🦈 and hit a new high score with tickets 😂

“Street sharking is not a crime”

[gorgonitemaiden]

More redesigns

[onuatf]

Wow its the Street Sharks

[theanimationalley]

[marquisedemasque]

It took me a while but I've finaly finished the poster for my Street Sharks reboot project. Hope you guys like it!

[faded-under-a-palm-tree]

[brokehorrorfan]

Created in the wake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Street Sharks was an animated series and toy line about crime-fighting man-shark hybrids that aired from 1994 to 1997.

In honor of the 30th anniversary, Mattel is releasing 6" action figures of Slash (with drilling action), Ripster (with punching action), and Jab (with head-butt action). Priced at $25, each toy comes with a shark cage. They're expected to ship in July.

[residentroam]

Nostalgia TV

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991-1993)

Virtua Fighter (1995-1996)

Reboot (1994-2002)

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996-1997)

Thundercats (1985-1989)

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993-1994)

Street Sharks (1994-1997)

Extreme Dinosaurs (1997)

Legend of the Dragon (2005-2008)

Biker Mice from Mars (1993-1996)

[peteneems]

[randomencounters]

Encounter: a horrible whale man with too much tongue

[rustybottlecap]

Enough with the infinite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboots. Bring back Street Sharks. I never watched it, but they are sharks!

[sonicasura]

Martin Mystery

Chaotic

Slugterra

Street Sharks

Kaijudo Rise of the Duel Masters

Have fun!

[gorgonitemaiden]

Moby hair designs

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Sharktember Day 8: Sheila's squad meets the jawsome Street Sharks

(Big Slammu is supposed to be a whale shark, but whale sharks are neither red nor have huge pointy teeth... But then again the 90s were more about being rad and not scientifically accurate)