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Would this be quite an epic season finale!? =D

Imagine having a season finale ending with a sobbing Hazel cradling Dev and gasps in horror at an unseen figure as a scythe blade appears in the foreground, wiping the scene black. Then next season opens with Hazel begging for Dev be spared.

Had this idea for a while and started (mainly Dev) creating this in Illustrator.

I was going to have Hazel cradling him, but seeing I spent too much time on Dev, I felt I ran out of time and needed to move onto much more important things I need to finish.

The Hazel here is a sketch I came across on The Fairly OddParents Wiki, where I cropped out and colored in using Photoshop. I originally had her more over Dev's chest, but her arms blocked much of the details I put into Dev's chest, so I moved her down a notch.

I didn't want to leave the background white, so I screenshot a scene from the original series.

For whom the scythe belongs to, it's up for interpretation. For instance, given Hazel's character, she could think Father Time came to collect Dev and she's begging him not to, all the while Father Time is trying to tell her there's a small chance for Dev to be saved before his boss arrives and it's too late. Or collecting souls is Father Time's job. Or to be more angsty, it's the Grim Reaper himself. Then there could be some bargaining thrown in there, much like how it goes in the 1985 animated The Black Cauldron movie. Or Hazel could use her millionth free wish or the Magic Muffin to bring Dev back.

Same thing applies with Dev: what happened to him and if he's critically injured or not is up to the imagination.

Any of these ideas would be fun to read on Fanfiction.net or ArchiveOfOurOwn.

@butchhartman @danielabramovici @ashleighcrystal @itsdavestone @nickelodeon @nickelodeonmemories @nickelodeonhistory

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Les Trois Mousquetaires dans la Révolution française

“How is our young daredevil holding up?” “He's wishing he'd never heard of the Musketeers.”

An alternate scene of 1993’s The Three Musketeers, where Richelieu orders d'Artagnan executed for refusing to give up the musketeers' location, but around the time of the French Revolution.

The scene plays out where men-at-arms are holding back a motley crowd of bloodthirsty spectators gathered around the execution scaffold, where a hooded executioner waits next to the guillotine, accompanied by a priest, whose face is hidden behind the brim of his hat, holding a large Bible in his hands.

From a tower overlooking the square, Captain Rochefort (Michael Wincott) and Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry) watches D’Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) being transported in a horse drawn cart with hands roped behind his back. A man-at-arms drops the cart’s tailgate, d'Artagnan steps down and is flanked by two men-at-arms and lead to the execution platform.

A short distance from the festivity, sits the cardinal’s carriage, where the coachman remains seated on top, braiding his whip, the guards who attend the wheeled vehicle have wandered off to watch the festivities. Suddenly, a gloved hand grabs the coachman, yanks him from his seat and Athos (Kiefer Sutherland) quickly takes the carriage driver’s seat.

As two guards strap d’Artagnan to the bascule, the priest whispers comforting words to the young man, raising his face revealing himself as Aramis (Charlie Sheen). The executioner whispers “Don't worry, boy. You won't feel a thing” into d’Artagnan ear. The young man smiles, recognizing the voice as Porthos (Oliver Platt). The self-proclaimed traveler places d’Artagnan’s neck through the guillotine’s lunette, as he and the womanizing Musketeer wait for their de facto leader to arrive with the carriage, to complete their rescue and escape from d’Artagnan’s execution.

How this is done is up to the imagination . . .

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TOP CAT FICTIONAL MOVIE POSTER

Was bored during the COVID-19 outbreak and gotten the inspiration from Don Gato: El Inicio de la Pandilla movie, and finally decided to post this here. Created under Illustrator and Photoshop, I'm not sure why I wanted to do this but decided to create a fictitious movie after learning there's been two theatrical movies from a different country. I'd say it took me about a month to create, and this is just one of the few fictitious movie posters I had in mind and will probably be updating this as well. For the names, they are amalgamation of actors who portrayed each character.

TOP CAT - I decided to blend both Top Cat's original voice actor Arnold Stang and the English dub voice of Top Cat in the theatrical movie and it's CGI sequel, Jason Harris Katz, hence the former sounds remarkably like the latter. It's interesting to note the voice Stang delivered for Top Cat in later media (Purina Superbowl XXX Commercial, Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, Yogi's Treasure Hunt) sounds completely different from how the yellow feline originally sounded in both the series and that Kellogg's Commercial. Nonetheless, Harris is a good replacement.

BENNY "THE BALL" - This name is a blend of multiple actors who've voiced Benny over the years. First name "Maurice" is not only from the character's original voice actor Maurice Gosfield, but from Maurice LaMarche, who voiced the character in an episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Mind Games."  Last name "Schredgerson" is from Avery Schreiber, Chris Edgerly and John Stephenson. Though not a particular fan of how Benny's voice sounded in Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, I just really like the name "Avery Schreiber," though there were a couple of instances Schreiber sounded like Gosfield. Much like the aforementioned Maurice LaMarche, Chris Edgerly does a decent job sounding like Gosfield when voicing the character in Top Cat: The Movie and Top Cat: Begins. I originally wasn't considering incorporating John Stephenson's name in there but I felt "Schredger" didn't sound right, so I simply added the "son" in the last name. John Stephenon voiced Benny in Yogi's Ark Lark, but sadly, Fancy remains silent, so Stephenson doesn't voice him like he did in the Top Cat series.

SPOOK - There's something about the beatnik personality Leo De Lyon provides the character in both Top Cat and Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats I love and hope he retains that if there ever is a movie or show about these characters. I originally wasn't going to add Benjamin Diskin, who gives Spook a surfer dude accent in both Top Cat: The Movie and Top Cat: Begins, in the 'actor' who voices the olive furred feline in this fictional movie, but seeing I have composited the actors who portrayed the respective character, I decided to incorporate his name anyways. Besides, I kinda liked the idea of the being a biker in the CGI animated movie.

CHOO-CHOO "CHOOCH" - The "M. Kaplan" part is a reference to Marvin Kaplan, who not only voiced Choo-Choo in Top Cat, but reprises the role in Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, Fender Bender 500, and Wake, Rattle & Roll. Despite giving Chooch a higher pitched Brooklyn accent, there's something I liked how Jason Harris Katz voiced him in Top Cat: The Movie and Top Cat: Begins, which is what the "J" stands for.

FANCY-FANCY - For some reason, I really like the last name "Piazzi" from Matthew Piazzi, who provided Fancy's voice in Top Cat: The Movie and Top Cat: Begins. First name "Stephen" is taken from John Stephenson, who voiced this Casanova in Top Cat and Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats. As an interesting side note, Chris Edgerly, who voices Benny the Ball in the aforementioned theatrical films, is credited as voicing Fancy in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, alongside Maurice LaMarche.

(THE) BRAIN - When it came to doing Brain, I tried hard not to have him being 'attached' to the bottom of TC's cane akin to his shadow in the Don Gato: El Inicio de la Pandilla poster, but when I tried aligning the other characters under Top Cat's cane, the other five didn't look right, so I had to use Brain in order to make the characters' silhouettes to be connected under Top Cat. And if you look closely, you can see his whiskers are bent, compared to the others. That's how Ánima Estudios portrayed Brain not only in their promotional materials but their respective films, Top Cat: The Movie and Top Cat: Begins. Liking that, I decided to give Brain bent whiskers, feeling it suits him. As for the name, apparently, as I learned not long ago, "Leo De Lyon" is a stage name Irving Levin is professionally known by. With that tidbit, I decided to use Leo's real name for 'actor' to play the orange cat, giving the feel of different people playing an individual character. And "Harris" is, of course, from Jason Harris Katz.

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Battle of the Big Wand au

To mark yet another end of a year, I got the idea from an animation of an alternate ending of The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish Season One finale. This animation was created by @galacticslug on Tumblr and I began working on this in Photoshop from superimposing screenshots taken from different episodes.

The synopsis is basically the same as the original animation: It’s an alternate ending of “Battle of the Big Wand,” where Dev reveals the the Big Wand chip's location to save Cosmo, Wanda, Peri and Jorgen. After Dale is sent back home with no memory by Jorgen, Irep attacks Jorgen, which causes the Big Wand to become unstable. One of the named fairies quickly open a portal to the Star Dome, where Jorgen, Cosmo, Wanda, Peri, Hazel, Antony, Winn and Jasmine escape through. As Dev is about to enter through the portal to escape the collapsing dome, an enraged Irep impales him with his mace wand. Peri and Hazel watch in horror as the portal closes with Dev collapsing.

Why Hazel, Peri, Dev, and Irep only appear is they are the only characters who appear the in the 28 second video

DISCLAIMER: The artwork portrayed above is based on a 28 second video. It is unknown if the individual who created that video is a fan of Aniphibia or whatever series. I have never seen, let alone heard of this show.

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Tangled the Series: Great Expotations

This eighth episode of Tangled: The Series' first season aired July 30, 2017, It involved Rapunzel coming up with inventions for the science expo. One of these is a device to chop vegetables. Unbeknownst to the former lost princess, it's a miniaturized guillotine, which greatly disturbs Eugene.

Here we have Pascal using the 'vegetable slicer' to cut a tomato, with Eugene grimacing in response. Considering his background as the former "Flynn Rider," think of all the implications this comes across for him...

Taking plenty of screenshots from not only "Great Expotations," but "What the Hair?!" and "Fitzherbert P.I.," and spliced together to create a different scene.