Adrien the Cat series

Adrien the Cat is TobiKomi's Western Anime video game franchise created by Turner Broadcasting System Japan K.K. featuring their mascot, Adrien. The series is alternatively called the TobiKomi's Adrien the Cat series or simply the Adrien series, it is the central series of the greater Adrien franchise. At least one Adrien the Cat game has been released for the Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16 and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System right after his videogame debut. Most of the videogames are made by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TobiKomi.

The Adrien the Cat videogames follow Adrien's adventures in the fictional Raleighopolis (or in Adrien's home state Raleigh, NC (USA)), usually with Adrien as the player character. He is usually joined by his best pal, Nathan, and occasionally by other members of the Adrien cast. As in platform video games, the player runs and jumps across platforms and atop enemies in themed levels. The games have simple plots, typically with Adrien saving the world from the primary antagonist, Dr. Drakken. The first title in the series, Adrien the Cat (1991), released for the Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16 and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1991, established gameplay concepts and elements prevalent in nearly every Adrien the Cat game since. These include a multitude of power-ups and items that give Adrien special magic powers such as a barrier to protect himself, his black boots to move quick as a flash, chili dogs increases his health bar, atc power-up bubblegums allows him to be a temperate shield, adding additional health points and secret moves regardless of type for each character.

The Adrien the Cat series is part of the greater Adrien franchise. The series has a familiar ideas to other platformer videogames.

ATC coins
ATC Coins is one of the most distinctive feature of Adrien games are collectible golden coins that spread throughout the levels.

In many games, collecting 100 ATC Coins usually rewards Adrien or any other playable character an extra life. Certain games in the series often reward the collection of 50 coins with Power Stones, access to the Special Stages in which the Power Stones may be obtained, or utilization of a character's super transformation.

Coins have had other uses in various games as well, such as currency, or improving statistics (Adrien Riders).

Rainbow ATC coins
A variety of the normal ATC Coins, the Rainbow ATC Coins are hidden in the games' stages and designed to be jumped through, which would transport the character to a Special Stage, where the character could collect one of the Power Stones or, in certain circumstances, Super Stones. They were used for this purpose in Adrien the Cat 3, Adrien CD and Adrien the Cat 3 featuring Barnaby & Garfield. Adrien the Cat 2 used the Star Posts instead. In Super Adrien video games, if all the Stones had already been found, these Coins could be collected as a normal one, granting 50 normal Coins each, allowing the characters to tap into the power of the Power Stones (usually becoming Super, or Hyper in Adrien the Cat 3 featuring Barnaby & Garfield if the player has collected all the Super Stones as well). Since Adrien Adventure 2, they have taken the place of the old Goal Plates as the end level marker and touching it would end the stage.

Power Stones
The Power Stones are seven gems with mystical powers which are a recurring feature in Adrien games. They are the basic in most of the games' plots, and the player is frequently required to collect them all to fully defeat Dr. Drakken and achieve the games' "good endings", Super forms, or both. The method used to acquire the Stones differs between titles in the series. Most early games require the player to find them in Special Stages. In some games, such as the Super Adrien series, they can be found in hidden locations within the main levels. In later games, the Power Stones are found by the characters throughout the games' story modes and do not need to be "found" by the player.

A counterpart to the Power Stones, known as the Sol Stones, appear in the Adrien Rush series.

Master Stone
The Master Stone resides in a shrine on Barnaby's Floating Island and is guarded by Barnaby the Bear; it contains an infinite amount of power, much greater than the seven Power Stones, and is used to keep the Floating Island afloat in the sky. The Stone also has the power to fully control everything that the Power Stones do, including the ability to negate the energy of the Power Stones, as seen in Adrien Adventure and Adrien Adventure 2, or empower them, as seen in some games. The Master Stone can also be used to power mechanical devices, and has been coveted by Dr. Drakken since his discovery of it. During Barnaby's final boss fight in Adrien the Cat 3 featuring Barnaby & Garfield, Mecha Adrien powers up using the Master Stone into a Super State. In earlier materials, the Master Stone was sometimes called an eighth Power Stones, but this association has been lessened in later games, making it a separate but related entity.

While it was featured prominently in earlier games, more recent entries have diminished the number of appearances of the Master Stone.

Characters


The series revolves around its title character and his various friends. Adrien the Cat is an tough, brave, carefree, superfast, daredevilish, urbanistic and optimistic Yellow Tabby American teenage manga artist who lives in Raleighopolis loves his job as self-portraits master and videogames. whose peaceful life is interuptted by his arch-nemesis Dr. Drakken, a malevolent Caucasian-American scientist who looks like a ponytail & mustache wannabe has imprisoned animals in androids and stolen the magical Power Stones. Dr. Drakken's plans to conquer the world are always foiled by Adrien. Living in a house with a benevolent Laboratory down from Adrien is his best friend and sidekick Nathan the Fox, a super-intelligent yet cowardly Red Fox teenage chubby dude with two tails who is described as having idolized Adrien as a child and wanting to keep up with him, Nathan also has the skills of a mechanic, a biplane pilot and an Einstein. Despite his "setbacks", Adrien and Nathan shared a brotherly bond with each other and Nathan still sees himself as Adrien's one true friend. Another close friend of Adrien is Marinette the Cat, She is a Pink cat teenage schoolgirl who is Adrien's lucky girlfriend, loves picking four-leaf clovers, an expert babysitter, a professional in archery, a straight-A student and she is kindly with marrying Adrien. Another close friend of Mitchell is Katie the Fox, She is a young Light green arctic fox teenage female go-getter who is Nathan's obsessively crazy girlfriend, she is obsessed with marrying Nathan, she's a Giant Hammer wielder and Katie is also described as having idolized Marinette as a child and wanting to keep up with her (Marinette and Katie's sisterly bond is sharing the same idea as Adrien and Nathan's brotherly bond, But sometimes by jubilant teamwork). In the Half-Tennessean, half-North Carolinian floating island high in the sky is Adrien's good frenemy Barnaby the Bear, he is a tough, christianistic, aggressive, superstrong, wild and overprotective Blue grizzly bear teenage warehouse worker who is the guardian of the Master Stone (which grants the island its levitation powers) and a protector of his floating island home. Coming from the Tiger beast Forest is Adrien's dimwitted friend & Nathan's good frenemy Garfield the Tiger is a offensive, boastful, energetic, ignoramus, objectionable, greedy, thievish and trifling Green bengal tiger beast who is good at soccer, kickboxing, extreme taijitsu training and flirting with most girls. Coming from the Tiger beast Forest is Adrien's & Nathan's close friend Brock the Gorilla is a perceptive, clairvoyant, acrobatic, moderately arachnophobic and auto-mechanic skilled Western gorilla teenage dude who is good at snowboarding, algebra, dense caring and auto-mechanics.

The series has introduced dozens of additional recurring characters over the years. These have ranged from human characters like Alya the Fox, Nino the Mole, Korind'r the Mouse, Terra the Cow, Blondie the Rabbit, Chloe the Bee, Sabrina the Raccoon, Clemont the Cat, Mallow the Squirrel, Robin the Chameleon Raven the Firefly, Victor the Alligator, Brock's girlfriend Serena the Fox, Dr. Drakken's grandfather Slade, Dr. Drakken's wife Shego, a talented scientist/skilled martial artist Dr. Alexander Croft, Dr. Alexander Croft's adventurous thus frequently disobedient teenage daughter Lara Croft is Adrien's ex-girlfreind, Adrien's antihero doppelganger Kiawe the Cat and Marinette's antiheroine doppelganger Chloe the Bee to robots created by Dr. Drakken like Metal Adrien and V-123 Omega Prime. The series also features two fictional species: Pokémons, are animal babies which have usually functioned as digital pets and minor gameplay and plot elements, and Adrien's Power-up bubblegums, which have been used as power-ups.

Since Adrien's first appearance in 1991, many more characters have appeared and most of them have been added to the main cast. Many of these characters have garnered steady fanbases since their inclusion into the franchise, while other longtime fans have criticized them for allegedly taking the gameplay focus off Adrien:

Setting
The series predominantly takes place in the town of Hillsborough, North Carolina and in North Carolina's state capital of Raleigh, North Carolina which, according to some third-party sources, is located in the state of North Carolina where the real life of Raleighopolis began it's course. The citizens live in mostly heavy metal-themed city buildings and use Automobiles, as a mode of on-land transportation (or boats, as a mode of on-sea transportation). Recurring establishments present in Raleighopolis include competitive fast-food restaurants, schools (or colleges) and the Drakken Land; a Driver's Education School; and Shady Shoals Rest Home. Wilmington Beach, a popular beach hangout in Wilmington NC, is within the vicinity of the city of Wilmington, as is Greenfield Lake Park. There are also a few episodes with businesses such as the grocery store based on the Food Lion LLC, joke store, and a mattress store.

Spin-offs
The success of the Adrien the Cat video game franchise has led to a large number of spin-offs in other media, such as TV shows, films and comic series, starring Adrien. Each spin-off incorporates aspects from the games to varying degrees. With few exceptions, each production takes place in their own fictional universe based entirely on the video games.

Adventure of Adrien the Cat
Adventure of Adrien the Cat is an American animated television series that was first broadcasted on syndication in September 1993, and later on Toon Disney in 1998. It is currently airing on television on Encore Family every Saturday mornings as of December 2018.

Adrien the Cat (1993 TV series)
Adrien the Cat is an American-Italian animated television series created by DiC Entertainment and the Italian studio Reteitalia, in association with Telecinco.

The show is loosely based on the video game series of the same name. The series aired from September 18, 1993 to December 7, 1996 on ABC. The series sharply contrasts with Adventures of Adrien the Cat, a syndicated series that premiered in the same month.

Adrien X
Adrien X (エイドリアンＸ Eidorian Ekkusu?) is an anime series loosely based on the Adrien the Hedgehog video game series. It was animated and produced in Japan by TMS Entertainment with the partnership of Warner Bros. Games and ADRIEN Project. It was first broadcasted in Japan in April 2003 by TV Tokyo. During that same year, 4Kids Entertainment obtained the license to localize and broadcast the show in America.

Adrien Advanced
Adrien Advanced ( アドリアン・アドバンスト) is the longest-running and most successful American western-anime television series that was first broadcast in Japan in April 2013 by TV Tokyo. in USA on Fox Kids in September 2013 and has been running in cartoon syndication Saturday morning ever since. It follows the escapades of Adrien, Nathan, Barnaby, Garfield, Brock and their allies (or rivals) as they stop the evil Dr. Drakken and his array of vicious Drakkenik robots from taking over the city of Raleighopolis. The plots very loosely followed the storyline of the video game series; at the time the Adrien games were still quite new and lacking much plot or character development, which was in turn filled in by the show's writers but known for its bright colors, whimsical humor, it also featured darker stories which constituted a departure from the tone of the Adrien games of the time. It even bears little relation to other entries featuring Adrien (including previous games, comics and the other animated series) and shares few established characters. Adrien the Cat has now expanded to 3 seasons, 78 episodes with the latest episodes set primarily in outer space sometimes. Adrien the Cat is also the only animated series to include Super Adrien. in human world a girl named Laura met Adrien the Cat after saving by swimming pool his family Forrest his father, Marian her mother, Willow her maid, Oak his grandfather, Andy Takana his butler, his friend Travis Laura's Boyfriend, Kana her best friend, other friend is Maggie, Maria, Curtis, Noel, Fred, Chris, Simon, Kylie, and Hillary. in Season 9 finale Laura and her friends and family want to say goodbye to Adrien & his friends and going back to Adrien's dimension and end of season 9 finale Adrien missed it and turn off Professor's Oak's Teleport.

Nathan's Mansion (TV series)
In the Adrien the Cat spin-off series Nathan's Mansion, Adrien is a world-roaming freedom fighter with a lifestyle similar to a tramp, who fiercely defends the citizens of Raleighopolis from the evil schemes of Dr. Drakken and his android robot ghost has kidnapped by Adrien the Cat stuck in the self portrait.

One night, a young orphan two tailed fox named Nathan the Fox went to the Nathan's Haunted Mansion and Open door and he scared of King Boom Boo

Luckly Nathan met Professor E. Gadd got an New Nathan's invention called "Nathan's Poltergust 3000".

Nathan trying to Escape the busting all the ghost and he found Adrien the Cat in his self portrait and he turning into Dr. Drakken. Nathan trying busting Dr. Drakken into Nathan's Poltergust 3000 turning back to normal self portrait get out by Adrien the Cat.

Adrien Boom
Micah Wright created Cartoon Network's first action-adventure TV pilot and the actual spin-off of the Adrien series, Nathan's Mansion, an anime-inspired Dieselpunk science fiction show, with an aesthetic inspired by "Russian wood-block propaganda posters of the 1920s and 30's."
 * Constant Payne

Adrien: Mobius Heroes
Adrien: Mobius Heroes is a 2020 Western Animation TV series originally on Netflix and HBO Max.

Adrien Prime
On 10 December 2020, it was announced that a 3D animated series based on the Adrien the Cat series was in development by Man of Action Entertainment and WildBrain. However, the announcement was quickly withdrawn by its source.

On 1 February 2021, a press release was revealed that unveiled that Adrien Prime will be animated at Warner Bros. Animation and WildBrain's Vancouver studio. TobiKomi and WildBrain will jointly participate across production, distribution and licensing while Man of Action will act as showrunners and Executive Producers for the series. Adrien Prime is expected to have 24 episodes and will be released sometime in 2022 on Netflix and HBO Max.

Adrien the Cat Jr.
Cartoon Network also produced the eleventh cartoon series, called Adrien the Cat Jr.(referred to as Adrien Jr. by fans to distinguish it from the series), which originally aired launches from Fall 2021 on Cartoon Network & Cartoonito The story features Adrien, Nathan and the rest of the Adrien the Cat cast as preteen kids to solve problems that are similar to the Adrien the Cat franchise.

Other versions
Other Adrien the Cat animation adaptations which are made by other animation studios.

The western anime series Adrien the Cat is the longest-running and most successful animated series based on Adrien to date. Originally planned as a 52 episode series that would be inspired by the story lines of the Adrien Adventure series to the Adrien Galaxy series, Adrien the Cat has now expanded to 78 episodes with the latest 26 episodes set primarily in outer space. Adrien the Cat is also the only animated series to include Super Adrien. The main difference that sets this series from the other continuities is that Adrien and his friends originally came from an North Carolinian metropolis city Raleighopolis that is in Raleigh, NC (US) with Earth. It the only Adrien TV show to add the characters from the Tomb Raider pilot in the shows' anticipation as well as the characters from their videogame counterparts.

The CGI animated television series titled Adrien Boom features a comedic take on Adrien and his friends and their never-ending battles with Dr. Drakken as the main media of the Adrien Boom sub-franchise. More than one hundred episodes with a duration of eleven minutes each have aired.

A Adrien the Cat is a live-action film is in development by Warner Bros. Pictures. This film released in May 31, 1996.

A Adrien the Cat CGI/Live Action reboot film is in development by Warner Bros. Pictures, and Legendary Pictures. This film released in February 14, 2019.

Adrien CGI/Live-Action upcoming TV series on Netflix Original and The CW. premiered in Spring/Summer 2021.

Adrien the Cat (Archie Comics)
Adrien the Cat was an ongoing series of American comic books published by Archie comic. All of Archie comic's Adrien-related series, miniseries and specials take place in the same fictional universe. This universe features a mixture of characters, settings and situations from the video games, Adrien the Cat (1993) & the western anime series of the same name, the various other incarnations of Adrien, and many elements unique to the comic universe. The current status quo of the comic deals with a full-scale war between the Drakken Empire, ruled by Drakken, and the Freedom Fighters. However, it also features a variety of other villains and heroic characters whom Adrien and the other Cartoon Network characters interact with. It began in September 2005 and was originally meant to be a four-part series; due to the positive reaction to the series' announcement, it was extended to ongoing status before the first issue premiered. The comic is unique in that it is not directly based on the games; the comic is based on the television show and takes place in its expanded fictional universe. The comic borrows elements from the series first two seasons of the show, including Dr. Drakken's Fortress, (which was destroyed in the first season of the series) and characters from the storyline of Adrien Adventure. The comics were continued in 2017 until the present day sharing the same idea as it's sibling comic franchise Ben 10.

Adrien X was a spin-off comic book series published by to the main Adrien the Cat began in May 2005 and ended in November 2007.

Adrien Universe was a spin-off comic book series published by Archie Comics to the main Adrien the Cat comic series. It mainly featured characters that are less prominent in the main series but the two comic series frequently tied-in with each other.

Adrien the Cat Comics was a comic book series that is based on the the western anime series of the same name published by Archie Comics. It began in September 2011 and was originally meant to be a four-part series;

Adrien Boom was an on-going comic book series for the Adrien Boom sub-franchise published by Archie Comics, taking the main comedic traits of the characters that the series has shown so far.

Adrien the Cat (Papercutz)
The Adrien the Cat comic series began their publishing by Papercutz on 4 April 2018. The announcement for the new comic series was made shortly along the continuation of the Archie Comics partnership as a spin-off.

Trivia

 * Adrien is often regarded as TobiKomi's counterpart to Nintendo's Mario and Kirby, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, PlayStation's Nathan Drake and Sackboy, Xbox's Master Chief, Capcom's Mega Man, Bandai Namco's Pac-Man, Activision's Crash Bandicoot and Ubisoft's Rayman.


 * In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Adrien appears as a playable third party character.