Attention Flesh Slugs! Im back!

 

After much neglect im back in biz! Im as nerdy as ever and ready to educate!

I’d like to shed light on a show I just recently watched. That show is inhumanoids. Inhumanoids was released in 1986 and aired only thirteen episodes. The show was released by Hasbro, the same company that brought you the more popular Gi Joe and transformers. Much like those shows, inhumanoids main objective was for children to buy their toys.  (Which are pretty cool btw!) Inhumanoids started off as a movie what was cut up into 6 minute segments and aired on a show called “Super Sunday” which featured a slew of different animated shows in one half hour. After some popularity it actually became its own show, along with Jem and the Holograms. (Another show on super Sunday)

What can I say about inhumanoids? It’s an intense cluster fuck of nonstop action, giant monsters, futuristic weapons/vehicles, grotesque scenes and gore, that satisfies the avid Saturday morning sugar induced viewer. There’s a lot going on! So stay with me folks as I’ll try to summarize as best as possible without boring you with facts.

                     

The show is about 4 scientist that work for a government funded group called earth corps.  Each of them have armored battle suits with different ability’s. Two prehistoric monsters known as the inhumanoids frozen underground get unearthed and then free there leader at the earth’s core. Every episode the inhumanoids try to conquer earth. Earth corps thwarts there plans at the end of every episode and it all starts over again. Majority of the show takes place at the earth’s core with lost civilizations, more creatures and characters joining the cast.

The main objective of Hasbro was to sell toys, these suckers were huge!

       

  

                    Onto the Roster of characters!

The leader of the inhumanoids is Metlar, an armored, lava breathing baddie that can turn statues to life to do his bidding. He pretty much calls the shots and is the most serious of the three. 

Next up is Tendril a giant plant like creature based on H.P. Lovecrafts Cthulu.. Has the ability to change sizes at will and not the most free thinking of the three. 

The best of the three is D'Compose! A undead dinosaur that has the ability to turn any living thing into an undead ghoul. His guts and rib cage are exposed which he uses to trap victims inside. He also commands an army of the living dead. 

Friendly monsters known as Mutores that have been battling the inhumanoids for centuries join earth corps throughout the series. Tree stumps that come to life called the redwoods. Underground rock men called Granites and a monster named Magnokor. A sort of lava rock man who has the ability to split into two polarized halves. He has magnetic energy that seems to be the only way to stop Metlar.  

Other characters appear as the show progresses. Like Russian military, journalists, senators, US air force pilots, movie directors and an array of creatures. More enemies make appearances as well like the reoccurring corrupt industrialist Blackthorne Shore, undead scitentist night crawler, Gagoyle, a blue cycloptic dinosaur that eats everything, has a transparent stomach so you can watch it’s victims get digested  and a whole new snake like inhumanoid named Sslither!

The show was pretty intense for children at the time with its scenes of  graphic gore and horror. As an adult watching it I found it campy  most of the time, with corny dialogue and plots similar to that of a usual 80s cartoon. But it was targeted toward kids and only lasted one season so I shouldn’t expect a whole lot. The animation and characters are great and imaginative. The main characters are not memorable at all, which is why I didn’t get too in depth with them. For the exception of Auger, he’s the usual badass antihero type character. There’s a running gag where if he doesn’t like a TV program he throws his shoe at the screen. It goes so far that the other characters have brand new TVs handy when he breaks them and even set up a net in front of the screen in one episode. At the final episodes they might have reaching because the plot gets to the point of ridiculous with Metlar getting into a domestic partnership with the actual statue of liberty. Inhumanoids has defiantly fallen into obscurity and the gory scenes is what really makes this series standalone from others. It also has a theme song that gets stuck in your head. I recommend it, if you can find it.

The show also spawned a short lived comic series.