21 Cartoons for Kids That Deserve Gritty Reboots
There was an era between the mid-2000s and the mid-2010s when Hollywood was obsessed with dark reimaginings of existing IP. It started with Christopher Nolan’s Batman, spread to just about every other superhero, sank its claws into the public domain, and finally infected everything within its reach. We made jokes about it, and they made a gritty Fresh Prince reboot called Bel-Air, which sounds like a joke but is both real and in its third season.It’s possible, though, that they didn’t go far enough. There’s real potential in the idea of gritty reboots of properties even further away from the target tone — let’s say, oh, just about everything in the Nickelodeon afterschool lineup between 1996 and 2002. That’s pretty much what Redditors itemized when user ItookAnumber4 asked r/AskReddit, “What kids’ cartoon would be super awesome if made into an R-rated movie (animated or live action)?”
21 ThunderCats
20 X-Men: The Animated Series
19 Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Courage the Cowardly Dog
17 Invader Zim
16 Hey Arnold!
15 The Amazing World of Gumball
14 Caillou
13 ReBoot
12 Pinky and the Brain
11 Darkwing Duck
10 Danny Phantom
9 Codename: Kids Next Door
8 Captain Planet
7 Inside Out
6 SpongeBob SquarePants
5 Zootopia
4 Kim Possible
3 Batman: The Animated Series
2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1 Johnny Bravo
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