League of Super Evil

League of Super Evil
Title card
Genre	Action Comedy Slapstick
Created by	Philippe Ivanusic-Vallee Davila LeBlanc Peter Ricq
Based on	Once Were Heroes by Ryan Harper-Brown
Developed by	Asaph Fipke
Voices of	Scott McNeil Colin Murdock Lee Tockar Tabitha St. Germain
Theme music composer	Steffan Andrews Hal Beckett
Opening theme	"League of Super Evil"
Ending theme	"League of Super Evil" (instrumental)
Composers	Steffan Andrews Hal Beckett
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	52 (104 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Asaph Fipke Ken Faier Chuck Johnson
Producer	Asaph Fipke
Running time	22 minutes (2 11–minute segments)
Production company	Nerd Corps Entertainment Hit Entertainment Fremantle Media
Original release
Network	YTV
Release	7 March 2009 (2009-03-07) – 25 August 2012 (2012-08-25)

League of Super Evil (initialized as L.O.S.E. or LOSE) is a Canadian animated comedy television series co-created by Philippe Ivanusic-Vallee, Davila LeBlanc and Peter Ricq and developed by Asaph Fipke. Inspired by a comedy sketch entitled "Once Were Heroes" by Ryan Harper-Brown,^{[ citation needed ]} the series was produced by Nerd Corps Entertainment in association with YTV.

The series aired for 52 episodes from March 7, 2009 to August 25, 2012. Reruns ended on YTV on September 2, 2014, when Teletoon picked up for additional reruns; the series also aired in the UK on CBBC, in Australia on ABC1 and ABC3, and internationally on Cartoon Network, on Disney XD and on Nickelodeon.

Plot

The League of Super Evil (or "L.O.S.E.") is a group of so-called "supervillains" who are plotting to take over their neighborhood in Metrotown and the world ultimately, but their plans usually involve pranks such as gluing a penny to a chair. While all the other citizens in the neighborhood live in suburban houses, The League has a "secret evil lair". The League is often at odds with other, more important and competent supervillains such as Skullossus and also try to avoid getting busted by Metrotown's residential superheroes.

Episodes

Main article: List of League of Super Evil episodes

Season		Episodes	Segments	Season premiere	Season finale
	1	26	52	March 7, 2009 (2009-03-07)	December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18)
	2	13	26	September 11, 2010 (2010-09-11)	December 11, 2010 (2010-12-11)
	3	13	26	June 2, 2012 (2012-06-02)	August 25, 2012 (2012-08-25)

Characters

League of Super Evil (L.O.S.E.)

From L-R, Red Menace, Voltar, Doktor Frogg and Doomageddon

The League of Super Evil (or L.O.S.E. for short) are the main protagonists of the series. The members are:

• Voltar (voiced by Scott McNeil) is the short self-proclaimed leader and commander of the League. Voltar is not very bright and always takes Doktor Frogg’s ideas as his own and thinks that his pranks are “evil plans”. He has a nemesis named Bundlington Von Pantaloon who was his rival from Kiddy College. In "Once Upon a Lose", Voltar used to be a hall monitor until he met Doktor Frogg, Red Menace, and Doomageddon.
• Doktor Frogg (voiced by Lee Tockar) is a self-proclaimed mad scientist and inventor for the League with mechanical hands. He is often tormented by Doomageddon who tries to eat him. In "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow", it's revealed that Frogg is allergic to hair (despite having some on his head). Out of all the members in the League, Frogg aspires to be a true villain and often has much more evil aspirations compared to Voltar.
• Red Menace (voiced by Colin Murdock) is the strong Happy-Go-Lucky member of the League. He is the only member who doesn't act very evil. Red Menace has a mother named Mama Menace and has an unseen but mentioned grandmother named Grand-Menace. He is best friends with Doomageddon. In "Gameageddon", it's shown that Red has very destructive anger issues when losing a game and/or someone rubbing it in for winning a game.
• Doomageddon is the League's pan-dimensional doomhound. Doomageddon is known for tormenting and torturing Doktor Frogg. Sometimes, Doomageddon would often go to his extra-dimensional happy place nicknamed DoomWorld. In "00-Geddon" with the League not noticing, Doomageddon works as a secret agent for the Federation of Nefarious Minds. He has the ability to teleport, breathe fire, change size, levitate, invisibility, walk on walls and tears holes through time and space
• Henchbot #17 and Henchbot #32 are the robotic servants of L.O.S.E. who easily fall apart.

Supervillains

The League of Super Evil often ends up in conflict with other supervillains in Metrotown who are more important and competent than they are:

• Skullossus (voiced by Colin Murdock) is the top supervillain in Metrotown. In "World Wreckers", Skullossus holds the most evil world records at the total of 114 records broken.
  • The Skullmandos are the robotic foot soldiers of Skullosus.
• The Cougar (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is a elderly cat-themed supervillain and famous super-thief. She is very flirtatious and often attempts to hit on younger men. Whenever Cougar's name is mentioned or she is in the scene, it is accompanied by the yowl of a wild cat and soft jazz. This is revealed to be a guitarist and white tiger.
  • The Granny Goons (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) are the elderly henchwomen of the Cougar.
• Linemaster (voiced by Ian James Corlett) is a supervillain obsessed with being first in line so that he can have bragging rights. He has the ability to summon his loyal Linebots behind him. He is currently held captive in the Halls of Glory as one of Glory Guy's villain trophies.
  • The Linebots are the robotic minions of Linemaster.
• Commander Chaos (voiced by Colin Murdock) is the archenemy of Force Fighters V who controls his Shuriken Typhoon Super S Atomic Destructo-Bot.
• Doom Driver (voiced by Colin Murdock) is an undead villain who lives a block away from the League of Super Evil, he drives his Doom Mobile which he uses to challenge ruthless street racers to a race where the winner gets the opponent's vehicle, which he always wins.
• Rock Gothlington (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a rock metal-themed supervillain and a famous rock star.
• Evil Stevens (voiced by Colin Murdock) is the proprietor of the supervillain store "Rotten Core". Evil Stevens is a parody of Steve Jobs and his Rotten Core company is a parody of Apple.
  • The Henchbot Elites (voiced by Scott McNeil) are large and muscular robots sold at Rotten Core where some of them work for Evil Stevens. Despite being able to accept orders, they require constant upgrades for simple tasks (such as crossing Steve's lawn).
• Jules LeSimian (voiced by Lee Tockar) is the gorilla manager of the famous villain restaurant "Villaynes", where its reservations is so long that customers cryogenically freeze themselves to wait for their table.
  • Ninja Waiters are the staff of Villaynes who work for Jules LeSimian as security guards and waiters where they serve the guests food.
• Mysterio Villaino (voiced by Peter Kelamis) is a mysterious villain who resembles Voltar wearing a trench coat with a brimmed hat, curling mustache, and dark sunglasses.
• 8-Ball (voiced by Lee Tockar) is a villain that dresses like an 8-Ball.
• Malachi Milk (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a child prodigy in villainy that Red Menace mentors for the Cool Buddy Foundation, he stole Frogg's Time Plunger to make everyone think they are late for important matters (which also made the lair's VCR stop recording Voltar's favorite show "Battle of the Robot Chefs").
• Babooshka (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is a Russian secret agent who works for the Federation of Nefarious Minds, an organization Doomageddon works for to fight the forces of good. She will continuously double cross anyone she works for her own gain.
• Destruktor (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a demonic warlord and the second greatest villain, he is so powerful that he could warp reality and destroy the universe.
• Bundlington Von Pantaloon III (voiced by Colin Murdock) is Voltar's old rival and former friend from Supervillain Kiddy College. He and Voltar used to be best friends, until both of them pulled a prank in school, and Voltar boasted that he took all the credit for it. As such, they started to hate each other and become rivals.
• Humungo (voiced by Colin Murdock) is an evil alien who has destroyed and conquered many planets across the galaxy. in "Dial E for Evil", he came to earth to steal all the black licorice twisty blobs in order to take over the universe. In "Voltina", Humungo is also revealed to have a wife named Voltina, who runs away from their wedding.
• The Legion of Supreme Evil are the doppelgänger version of the League. They only appear in "A Lose/Lose Situation".
  • Bolkar (voiced by Scott McNeil) is the leader of the Legion of Supreme Evil and Voltar's doppelgänger.
  • Doktor Squid (voiced by Lee Tockar) is the mad scientist and inventor of the Legion and Doktor Frogg's doppelgänger.
  • Green Menace (voiced by Colin Murdock) is the muscle for the Legion and Red Menace's doppelgänger.
  • Chaosageddon is the Legion's pan-dimensional doomhound pet and Doomageddon's doppelgänger.

Superheroes

Metrotown has an assortment of superheroes who protect Metrotown and who the League of Super Evil often try to avoid:

• General Sargent (voiced by Blu Mankuna) is the general of the military force known as S.W.E.A.T. He has a relationship with his daughter Elizabeth Sargent. General Sargent has a loud voice and is often shouting orders or one-liners and will often go out the front lines himself against villainy....especially against Skullossus.
  • Elizabeth "Liz" Sargent (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is General Sargent's short-tempered and spoiled daughter. When she took her father's XGL Prototype Battle Armor, she dubbed herself "Lighting Liz".
• The Legion of Glory is a superhero team that operates in Metrotown.
  • Glory Guy (voiced by Lee Tockar) is one of Metrotown's greatest superheroes. He lives in the Halls of Glory and is the leader of the Legion of Glory.
  • Wow Woman (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is a female superhero who is a member of The Legion Of Glory. Due to her hotness, Voltar, Doktor Frogg, Red Menace, and the rest of Metrotown have crushes on her eventually. Wow Woman is a collector of super-powered shoes which she keeps in the Halls of Glory.
  • NightShade (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a superhero who is a member of The Legion Of Glory. As his name implies, he fights crime during the night. Nightshade has a father named Dayshade who crashed into a building after he was blinded by a young Voltar and his cape fell down on Voltar's baby crib. After the crash, Voltar kept Dayshade's cape and dubbed it "Mister Wubby".
• Justice Gene (voiced by Colin Murdock) is a wannabe superhero who is the victim/target for The League of Super Evil's "evil plans". He first appears in "Justice Gene" when he gives the League too many rules for their pranks, including being rude and annoying to the neighborhood than they are. Eventually, he got "sent back to basics" by his chief due to a rule he broke when his socks were covered in stinky cheese (because of the League's stinky cheese piñata) and he wore mismatching socks. He was even ticketed by his chief for crying like a baby. In "Bite at the Museum", Gene took up the job as a museum security guard and the League showed up again to get something from one of the exhibits. He got fired from his job since the curator had caught him messing around with the dinosaur exhibit and put back a dinosaur the wrong way. In "Injustice Gene", he breaks into the League's lair in a depressed state. Saying that he couldn't be a hero anymore after his latest firing, he joins the team and becomes Injustice Gene. At the end of the episode, he later gets hired by Glory Guy to be the janitor for the Halls of Glory. In "Just Us Genes" after being thwarted by the League once again, he "borrows" one of Glory Guy's villain trophies which makes copies of himself where he later takes over Metrotown where his plan failed once again. Due to one of his clones saying that the whole world was going to be "Justice Gene'd", he was horrified by the idea and stops his vehicle to talk about it and he and his clones were stuck on Voltar's gum wad. Gene is also shown to have a malevolent side, as shown is “U.O Me”, where he blackmailed Voltar to do stuff for him because he caught him during a pop star concert.
• The Force Fighters V are 5 heroes in Metrotown who are parodies of the Super Sentai heroes and also own a sushi restaurant in town when not fighting crime.
  • Rosé (voiced by Asaph Fipke) is the short leader of the team who pilots the Cool Jet.
  • Seafoam Green (voiced by Lee Tockar) is the bulk member of the team who pilots the Gnarly Tank.
  • Goldenrod (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is the female member of the team who pilots the Slick Hovercraft.
  • Magenta (voiced by Peter Kelamis) is the scrawny member of the team who pilots the Sweet Attack Helicopter.
  • Perrywinkle (voiced by Colin Murdock) is the obese member of the team who pilots the Giant Blue Hand.
• Suzie Scout Master Sweets (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is the tough-as-nails scoutmaster of the Suzie Scouts, an organization of girl scouts who go door to door selling cookies (which everyone refuses to say no to them).
  • The Cookie Commandos are the elite ninja squad of Suzie Scouts who are ordered to attack anyone who refuse to buy their cookies.
• Nanny Boo Boo (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is a nanny-like superhero. She is a strict woman obsessed with safety and discipline, but with good intentions. In "Kinderprison", she runs a daycare for all the super children of Metrotown, where all superheros and villains send their kids. She is shown to be a parody of Mary Poppins.
• Dipper the Dolphin is a genetically-engineered dolphin created by S.W.E.A.T. to be a highly trained aquatic soldier. He first appears in "Swimming with Sharks" where the League mistakes him for a shark and captures him so he'll scare off a kid who is using their new pool, only to befriend him and immediately see the League as a threat. He is skilled in combat, can walk on land, flies like a airplane, and can retract weapons from his blowhole.
• White Knight (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a retired knight-themed superhero. Previously a muscle-bound protector of justice, now a weak narcoleptic old man who has to be pushed on a gurney, uttering his catchphrase "Do right, like the knight".

Other characters

Besides L.O.S.E., the Superheroes, and the Supervillains, the show also has a large variety of other characters that are seen throughout the show. They are:

• Steve (voiced by Lee Tockar) is the League of Super Evil's next door neighbor and one of Voltar's archenemies, his face is never seen throughout the show with only his voice can be heard repeating the phrase "I Don’t Care!". In one episode, Steve was possessed by an alien name Globulous who planned to destroy the Earth.
• Mr. Nelson (voiced by Colin Murdock) is one of the neighbors who lives across the street from the lair of the League. He is a somewhat middle-aged man who is a friendly neighbor who mows his lawn and attends the local science fair. He seems to be patient with the League in general, but is on friendly terms with Red Menace.
• Mrs. Johnson (voiced by Lee Tockar) is the neighborhood's sweet little old lady, she usually is seen riding on her slow mobility scooter.
• Guy (voiced by Lee Tockar) is a civilian who occasionally works in multiple jobs (including jobs working for villains).
• Whiskers is a cute innocent bunny that hops around Metrotown. Though she may look adorable, she can be quite ferocious at times with her sharp teeth (including making Doomageddon afraid of her).
• LAIR-Y (voiced by Colin Murdock) was a artificial intelligent computer Doktor Frogg built to protect Voltar's bike, but took his programming so seriously that he kicks the entire League out of the house.
• Chuckles (voiced by Lee Tockar) is a robotic clown created by Doktor Frogg many years ago where he was made to terrorize the neighborhood kids who didn't invite him to their birthdays, however he became unstable and will attack anyone on their birthday.
• Kat Chatsworth (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is a civilian who never seems to stop talking which will eventually cause anyone near her to fall asleep.
• Kinder Kreep (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a dwarfish magical being who brings gifts to villains who have been evil yearly for "Chaos-Mas" (a villain holiday equivalent to Christmas).
• Mama Menace (voiced by Colin Murdock) is Red Menace's loving mother, she once came to the lair to take care of her son when he got sick (much to the annoyance of the team due to helping her).
• Seymour Sweat (voiced by Scott McNeil) is the sweaty fitness instructor of Metrotown who is the owner of the "Sweatotorium". He takes his job so serious that he locks his own gym until his customers gets into shape and sweating.
• Prima Danna (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is a famous pop star in Metrotown that everyone admires.

Production

When the series was first announced in October 2006, it underwent many changes for the title and main characters; Voltar was originally called The Great Voltar. His costume was green and yellow instead of red. Doktor Frogg originally had a steel jaw and did not wear goggles. Red Menace was meant to be a former Soviet supervillain (hence his name). His original design wore a thick red fur coat and a fur hat that incorporated the Red Star (a communist symbol) on it. Doomageddon did not exist in the original concept. In his place was a crawling hooded character described as embodying "the spirit of a hyperactive Neanderthal toddler". The series' title was originally just known as League of Evil.

Broadcast and release

League of Super Evil premiered on YTV in Canada on 7 March 2009. It aired on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m., as part of YTV's Crunch block. The series premiered earlier in the United States on Cartoon Network on 5 March 2009 at 9:00 p.m. It premiered in Latin America on Disney XD (LA) on 4 June 2011.

Reception

Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the series a two out of five stars stating "Too-chaotic 'toon follows villains' mostly harmless antics." ^[1]

IMDb gave the series a 5.7/10. ^[2]

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Award Category	Notes	Result
2010	Writers Guild of Canada	Animation	Edward Kay	Nominated
	Leo Awards	Leo Best Animation Program or Series	Chuck Johnson, Ken Faier, Asaph Fipke	Won
2011	Leo Awards	Leo Best Musical Score in an Animation Program or Series	Hal Beckett, Steffan Andrews (for episode "Ant-Archy!")	Nominated
	Gemini Awards	Gemini Best Sound in a Comedy, Variety, or Performing Arts Program or Series	Patrick Haskill, Steffan Andrews, Gordon Sproule, Johnny Ludgate, Ewan Deane (for the episode "Ant-archy")	Nominated
2012	UBCP/ACTR Awards	Best Voice	Lee Tockar	Nominated

References

1. The League of Super Evil. Review by Emily Ashby. Common Sense Media.
2. The League of Super Evil (Animation, Action, Comedy), Lee Tockar, Scott McNeil, Colin Murdock, Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Nerd Corps Entertainment, Shaw Rocket Fund, 7 March 2009, retrieved 8 June 2024

External links

• League of Super Evil at IMDb