I know I'm pretty late this time, but I wanted to do something special for this beautiful date 23.04.23!
Happy 13th anniversary, Generator Rex!
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More Danny Phantom fans should watch Generator Rex tbh, because it’s basically everything we wish Danny Phantom was. (Link to pirate GenRex once you’re convinced and another link to the megs file if that’s what you prefer ; )
Snarky superpowered teenage protagonist? Rex has that in spades (like Danny)
Parents experimented on him? Check (DP fans wish)
A mysterious thing that no one knows much about but it causes unexpected changes in a person? (Nanites are like ectoplasm but scarier imo)
Main character abducted and used by a terrifying government agency? Providence got their grips in him when he was like 10 (they actually caught theirs, take that Guys in White!)
Smart but a little crazy older sibling character? Meet Cesar (our chaotic neutral Jazz)
Scary and powerful mentor figure with a hidden soft side? That’s Six (and he’s actually a regularly recurring mentor unlike *select ghost you wish was Danny’s mentor*)
Main character is part of a highly discriminated against group which is generally not considered human? Here we call them Evos (they’re like ghosts except death would be preferable)
Main character specifically and almost exclusively fights his own kind? Yeah, and Rex can actually cure them instead of just sending them away for two episodes.
Arch nemesis with similar powers to the hero? Van Kleiss walks in, blood-red flowers blooming in his footsteps. (Vlad could never)
We’re initially led to believe the hero is the only good guy in the discriminated against group until it’s revealed that that’s not the case at all.
Plus, there’s kind of a lot of body horror. There’s betrayal. There’s peril. There’s sympathetic villains. Theres a deeply terrifying and yet incredibly intriguing world. A crossover with another series about superheroes (Ben 10, though, not DC). There’s a pile of dead bodies on screen in the first episode—that’s not even hyperbole I’m being 100% literal with you right now.
It even has some inter-dimensional travel shenanigans including a town being pulled into a pocket dimension and leaving no trace. No cloning as far as I can remember though, but it does have a giant mutant rabbit, and the main character even sucks at basketball!
As an added bonus, it was targeted to 10-13 year olds and eventually taken off the air because it scared children : )
It’s everything your average Danny Phantom fan spends hours reading fanfiction about! I’m telling you! I cannot recommend this show highly enough!
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Man I miss this show. Generator Rex is what I claim is my first fandom because it was the first fandom I actually participated in a lot and I have such fond memories of it <3 so here's my 2023 drawing of Rex Salazar!
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my piece for the art telephone :3
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