Phil's Past Stories

Phil's Past Stories was going to be The Philmer's first regular series for Spyman's Cosmos and a prequel series, showing the origins of Phil. Besides the titular character, the series would also feature Dr Saturn, Jack Jester and most notably, a gang, which Phil was a part of before Spyman's Cosmos, as a reference to Team KK. Firstly the series was supposed to appear in 2016, but was moved to the following year due to a lot of other projects and eventually became was scrapped.
== History ==
The idea for the series came to The Philmer's mind shortly after Dr Saturn released the then-first episode of Arthur's Past Stories. The Philmer started wondering what would be his character's past and started developing it. One of the main factors was also the creation of Jack Jester around the same time, when the creators were discussing how everyone besides Phil has an enemy. Throughout the summer of 2016, The Philmer was developing an "Everything You Need To Know About" video on the young scientist, alongside his main project, which was Team Y pilot episode. Thanks to that, he came up with Jack's motives and connected him to Phil's past, which eventually led to developing even more ideas that were even mentioned in the video. These are: a gang of Phil and Dr Saturn's friends and an opposite, evil gang called "Drago's Gang", which Jack was a part of. That way, the idea for Phil's Past Stories was born.
'The gang before Spyman's Cosmos' was one of the most important things in the series and was supposed to be a big homage for Team KK, with Dr Saturn being a part of it, like in real life. As another reference - he would be in the outfit of his Minecraft character, Axel. Not only that, but the other group also had its roots in KK. Drago was an old humanoid dragon (hence a dragon head on Jack's jacket in his video) and the primary antagonist in one of the co-written books called Team KK and the 2nd anniversary, as well as Team KK and superpowers. Seeing how he was technically a shared character, Phil thought about using him as the main threat, with Jack Jester being his helper and the secondary antagonist, if not an equal one. Jack's road to becoming the supervillain he is was also supposed to be an important plotpoint, so including Lenny Jester was inevitable. Additionally, a character based on The Philmer's friend, Jaro31 (most likely named the same) would also be in the story, as he was supposed to be in many of the other cancelled projects.
The series was first announed in The Philmer's Channel Update #2 as "series about Phil's past" as one of the planned projects. Eventually, it temporarily became an upcoming project. First episode would be released on Christmas Eve, as The Philmer had thoughts about making a huge videos event on that day as a one year celebration. However, not much could be made due to school responsibilities and additionally, thinking about reamking his scrapped special from the year prior, The Philmer ultimately released only A Christmas Carol by No-Life on that day. Later, he was focused on Team Y episode 2, as well as episode two of Spongebob: Invasion from the Land, though the latter suffered for a lack of ideas. In that case, The Philmer cancelled it and focused on Phil's Past Stories, setting its release date for sometime in late 2017, thinking that he would be able to release Team Y s01e02 in the summer.
Eventually, the summer came and getting yet another project in the form of No-Life's Home Alone, The Philmer became overloaded. Finally, he decided to cancel the series, considering he was pushing it over and over and after almost a year, he didn't even start a script. Another thing was that he figured the characters of Spyman's Cosmos don't need origins, because all the viewer has to know about them is that they are friends, who fight evil. Thus, the series was cancelled, but its plotpoints weren't lost forever. The Philmer used some things as easter-eggs in his In Search of the Scarlet Griffin series, where it was mentioned that both Phil and Dr Saturn were indeed members of another gang in the past.
== Plot ==
Not much is remembered about the plot, besides some major points. The major setting was supposed to be a fictional city called Charlespolis, as a reference to Team KK's city, KarolPolis, which actually came from the character of Horrid Henry (so it was actually "HenryPolis" in the co-written fan books). The "Team KK-based gang" would appear in three out of four parts and would fight Drago, but would be disbanded for whatever reason. Jaro, while not a part of that gang, would help Phil later in the final battle. Other possible plotpoint was, for example, Jack Jester's infamous incident on the school expo, making him rage and join Drago's Gang.
There were two possible endings, one being Phil ending up in a snowy area and found by Spymankiller, who would bring him to the local TUFOR base and soon develop a friendship. The other was based on the first one, meaning that the first created ending would take place sometime in the middle of part four and at the end Spy would introduce Phil to his friends, with a lot of gang members making cameo appearances and Spyman's Cosmos being officially formed.
== Characters ==
* Phil
* Dr Saturn
* Jack Jester
* Drago
* Lenny Jester
* Jaro31
* A few characters inspired by Team KK characters
* Spymankiller
== Trivia ==
* The title was inspired by Arthur's Past Stories.
Category:Cancelled projects