Element Protectors PreCure (2022 - 2023)

Element Protectors PreCure is a Japanese-American animated magical girl/boy series that aired from February 21st, 2022, to March 19th, 2023. The Japanese Dub aired from June 19th, 2038 to October 21st, 2039.
== Plot ==
In the year 2010, an unknown disease ravages Japan, eventually infecting the U.S. Those who are infected turn into horrifying creatures called "Obscurians". As the death toll reaches high amounts, Obama is blamed for his mismanagement of the pandemic, effectively causing him to resign from the pressure, putting John McCain into office.
Those who do recover from the virus later activate elemental powers, causing fears from around the country. Many years later in 2023, Katie Howards lives an ordinary life of a 12-year-old girl alongside her friends, Jonathan Downers, Lily McMillian, Timothy Phillips, Rachel Harrison, Michael Allen, Alex Johnson, and Shinchi Tazuto, and others. She later discovers she has Air powers and decides to save the humans from the evil guys.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* Katie Howards - a 12 year old tomboy who can transform into Cure Air to access her air powers. Her theme color is Purple.
* Jonathan Downers - a 13 year old Afro-American basketball player who can transform into Cure Fireblast to access his fire powers. His theme color is Red.
* Lily McMillian - a 12 year old girl popular girl who can transform into Cure Tidal to access her water powers. Her theme color is Teal.
* Timonthy Phillips - a 13 year YouTuber who can transform into Cure Earthquake to access his earth powers. His theme color is Orange.
* Rachel Harrison - a 12-year-old movie buff who can transform into Cure Freeze to access her ice powers. Her theme color is White.
* Michael Allen - a 13-year-old gamer who can transform into Cure Hyper to access his electricity powers. His theme color is Yellow.
* Alex Williams - a 12-year-old cat lover who can transform into Cure Tree to access her grass powers. Her theme color is Green.
* Shinichi Tazuto - a 13-year-old Japanese international student who can transform into Cure Smokebomb to access his smoke powers. His theme color is Gray.
* Trish Miley - a 12-year-old Tik-Tok vlogger who can transform into Cure Musical to access her sound powers. Her theme color is Pink.
*James Carter III - a 13-year-old graffiti artist who can transform into Cure Plasma to access his plasma powers. His theme color is Lavender.
=== Villains ===
* Takumi Tazuto/Snut - the main antagonist of the series. He is one of the many infected of "The Disappeared". He wears a hoodie, blue jeans, white sneakers, and green and cyan eyes (he is born with a conditon called Heterochromia iridum) being patient zero in Japan, he is the leader of the villains. He is also Shinchi's father.
* Tommy Juarez/Blue Predator - The second antagonist of the series. He is Snut's second in command. He wears a blue sweater, a white jacket, grey cargo shorts, and boots.
* Terry Maxwell/Red Goblin - The former C.E.O of Millitech, the greedy quest for ultimate power led him to be ousted by the V.P, Topher Pena. He wears Crimson armor, a maroon helmet, dark red goggles, and bloodshot red knee & shoulder pads
* Eugene Hamilton/Dr. Neo - A former British scientist who after being humiliated at the Madrid International Science Summit, turns into a Villain. He wears a lab uniform with long tentacles reminding viewers of Doctor Octopus from Sam Raimi's 2004 sequel, Spider-Man 2.
*Spherix - A malevolent pixie, hell bent on destroying the Elemental Protectors.
** Vang and Glut - a pair of imps and Snut's dimwitted spies.
** Toxico - a Poison Elementian and Snut's one of many minions.
** Irradiata - a Radiation Elementian and Snut's one of many minions.
** Sulphus - a Sulfur Elementian and one of Snut's one of many minions.
** Acerbio - a Acid Elementian and one of Snut's one of many minions.
** Hazor - a Smog Elementian and one of Snut's one of many minions.
** Gore - a Blood Elementian and one of Snut's one of many minions.
** Metalico - a Metal Elementian and one of Snut's one of many minions.
** Pollutio - a Pollution Elementian and one of Snut's one of many minions.
** Shadow - a Void Elementian and one of Snut's one of many minions.
** Yrephix - a horde of skeletal-like beings and footsoldiers.
** Phaerions - an race of dark animals that serve Snut.
**Naulinis - shadowy squid-like creatures only found in the planet of Naumaris.
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* Dr. Zelgius/Seth Goldblum - a cyborg scientist.
** Atlas - a infected gorilla.
** Spike - a infected crocodile.
** Blinky - a infected octopus.
** Snout - a infected boar.
** Dreadlock - a infected horse.
** Muzzle - a infected wolf.
** Crosshair - a infected snake.
** Wings - a infected eagle.
** Fang - a infected rat.
** Sniper - a infected cat who betrays Snut.
** Omicron - a infected wasp
** Omega - a infected tiger.
* Savage/Earl Johanson - a hunter obsessed with Elementia's existence.
* Baron Vodoun/Jules Lavernge - a voodoo magician.
* Miss Ion/Francine Nightingale - a mathematician.
=== Returning Cures & Villians ===
There are a lot of returning cures from other shows. 4 are from 2013's Go! Elegant Pretty Cure, 2 from 2015's Dragon Gong PreCure, 5 from 2011's Mew Mew! Pretty Cure
*Raleigh Clark/Cure Iris - The Leader of Go! Elegant Pretty Cure. She is 23 in 2023 but during the events of Go! Elegant Pretty Cure in 2013, she was 13. Her transform item is a pink flower hair clip.
*Trinity Lauren/Cure Snowy - The Second-in-Command of Go! Elegant Pretty Cure. She is 24 in 2023 but during the events of Go! Elegant Pretty Cure in 2013, she was 14. Her transformation item is a blue icicle hair clip.
*Mei Wang/Cure Royal - The right-hand man of Go! Elegant Pretty Cure of Chinese origin. She is 22 in 2023 but during the events of Go! Elegant Pretty Cure she was 12. Her transformation item is a yellow necklace.
*Lisa Kennedy/Cure Wind - The 4th Member of Go! Elegant Pretty Cure. She is 21 in 2023 but during the events of Go! Elegant Pretty Cure she was 11. Her transformation item is a green bracelet.
* Cole Jackson/Cure Ronin - The leader of the Dragon Gong Pretty Cure duo. He is 27 in 2023 but during the events of Dragon Gong Pretty Cure, he was 20. His transformation item is a navy blue phone.
* Sabrina Clarkson/Cure Firebreath - The right-hand man (or in this case, right-hand woman) of the Dragon Gong Pretty Cure duo. She is 30 in 2023 but during the events of Dragon Gong Pretty Cure, she is 22. Her transformation item is a red watch.
=== International Pretty Cures ===
* Julia Morteau/Cure Fleur - A 15 Year Old member of Amour Elegant Pretty Cure, France's Pretty Cure.
== Episodes ==
=== Season 1 (February 21st, 2022 - August 9th, 2022) ===
* 1: The Start Part 1 - An unknown virus starts spreading in Japan in 2010, later infecting the U.S. Those who survive activate elemental powers, those who don't turn into horrifying creatures that are beyond description. (February 21st, 2022)
* 2: The Start Part 2 - It's been 13 years since the pandemic, and Katie Howards is living a quiet life until she discovers she has air powers and gets the ability to transform into Cure Air. She fights Atlas after appearing at her school. (February 25th, 2022)
* 3: Toxico vs Fireblast - Katie's crush, a 13-year-old boy Johnathan Downers, fights against Toxico, who attacks. He transforms into Cure Heatblast and defeats Toxico with his fire powers. (March 2nd, 2022)
* 4: Sons of the Fathers - Katie and Johnathan visit Lily's house, their best friend. However, her father makes derogatory terms since Johnathan is brown. This results in Lily leaving her family. Johnathan and Katie transform and try to stop Lily. That is until Gore appears, causing Lily to transform into Cure Tidal and use her newfound water powers. (March 6th, 2022)
* 5: F-Stop - Muzzle attacks the city as Irradiata tries to explode a nuclear weapon in the city center, but is stopped by the trio and Timothy Phillips, who transforms into Cure Earthquake and uses his earth powers to destroy Muzzle. (March 11th, 2022)
* 6: It Came Out Of The Sewers! - Metalico and Polutio attack just as Rachel Harrison, a local movie girl, transforms into Cure Freeze, and defeats the both of them via cryotekneis (aka Ice Powers). (March 17th, 2022)
* 7: The New Spark - Pollutio takes control of a disgruntled petrochemical plant owner, who then later pumps Pollutio's black tar into the water supply. Katie, Johnathan, Lily, Timothy, and Rachel transform and investigate alongside a local gamer Michael Allen. (March 23rd, 2022)
* 8: The Natural Reaction - Alex Williams is found to have a link between Nature's powers. They later use it to restore Naturalia, a former paradise into its glory. (March 29th, 2022)
* 9: Smoking It Up! - Shinchi uses his newly found Smoke powers to defeat his bullies, Flash and Harry. He later helps the Element Protectors PreCure with defeating Dreadlock. (April 7th, 2022)
* 10: The Power of the Voice - Tik-Toker, Trish Miley joins Element Protectors PreCure after her little brother, Terrence, is taken away by Red Goblin. (April 10th, 2022)
* 11: Control your Power! - The powers start to interfere with the regular lives of the main protagonists, like for example, Michael accidentally overloads the entire power grid with a Sonic Shock, or Trish accidentally unleashes her Super-Voice when singing, getting her disqualified from the signing contest. (April 12th, 2022)
* 12: How To Get a Companion for Fighting Crime - The Parisian Pretty Cure, Amour Élégant Pretty Cure asks for their help in defeating Dr. Neo, an evil doctor who rules the streets of Paris with an iron fist. (April 21, 2022)
* 13: Dr. Neo vs. Element Protectors PreCure - Dr. Neo is defeated by both the Element Protectors PreCure and the Amour Élégant Pretty Cure. (April 26th, 2022)
* 14: The Next War - The main villain focus on attacking Sunny Ridge on a massive attack. Sniper meanwhile, betrays the villains and joins with the Element Protectors PreCure. (May 9th, 2022)
* 15: Rain of Terror - Michael battles self-esteem issues as the Element Protectors PreCure try to stop Acerbio from destroying Sunny Ridge with a giant cloud of acid rain (May 16th, 2022)
*16: Fight or Flight - While off in an gaming tournament, Michael finds out his friends have been abducted by Shadow & Blue Predator. He, alongside the Parisian Pretty Cure, free his friends (May 21st, 2022)
* 17: Thirst - Dr. Zeligus attempts to experiment with Dark Matter and Virus-X, creating a dangerous combination and uses it to experiment with a dead villain, Thirst (May 29th, 2022)
* 18: The History of the Elements - Years ago, in another planet, the empire of Pyria fell into a war against Aerunis, triggering their alliance with Tidalis, Gaia & Electrunis. This ended up causing a war for a thousand years, so the dying civilizations sent meteors seeded with elemental orbs: Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Electricity, Ice, Plant, Smoke, Sound & Plasma (June 6th, 2022)
* 19: For The 12th Time - The Plasma meteor fragment is found and used to power James Carter II's powers. He joins the Element Protectors PreCure. (June 16th, 2022)
* 20: Gone Global - Aside the French Team, the Japanese, South Korean, Australian, Italian, Russian & Czech teams help the American Precure with defeating Snut (June 24th, 2022)
* 21: Revenge of the Spherix - Lily comes across a bottle in a box of old stuff in a storage warehouse. Inside the box is a beautiful bejeweled bottle. She takes the stopper off to see if there's anything inside and accidentally releases a malevolent sprite named Spherix, the last of his kind (July 3rd, 2022)
* 22: Element Protectors PreCure x inFAMOUS - The squad of inFAMOUS needs help with defeating The Beast from Destroying New Marais (July 12th, 2022)
* 23: The Sea Witchtress - The gang are out for summer vacation. However, a sea witch-like mistress who lives in Earth with the alter ego, Vera Mitchell causes trouble. (July 19th, 2022)
* 24: Der Riese - The gang teleports to an abandoned munitions factory swarming with zombies, mind-controlled by Snut, who seeks to wipe off the team (July 26th, 2022)
*25: The Matrix - Michael Allen's PC starts to malfunction and traps him in cyberspace, controlled by Havok, the Master of Malware. The group has no choice but to transform, enter his PC and save him. (August 2nd, 2022)
*26: Saving Mike - Held hostage at the Data Tower in Code City, the gang frees Michael & leaves cyberspace. Havok's evil schemes are revealed to all of Code City and he is banished to the Recycle Bin. (August 9th, 2022)
=== Season 2 (August 16th, 2022 - ===
* 1: Heavy Rain - Visiting his cousin Aiko alongside his team in Osaka, Shinchi finds out she is under the influence of a designer drug known as 'Dertax', peddled by Snut to control Osaka. Aiko spikes Shinchi's food with Dertax, turning him into an addict, and the other Element Protectors PreCure must try to help him break his addiction while also trying to stop drug-fueled riots from breaking out across the city but they are too late to save Aiko. This is one of the darkest Element Protectors PreCure episodes, showing not only the heavy corruption of one of the series' protagonists but also the death of his cousin Aiko. (August 16th, 2022)
*2: Stan - The team is constantly given a hard time by Stanley, a paparazzi obsessed with getting pictures of the Female members in bras & underwear. Angered, Michael & Shinichi hunt Stanley and intimidate him into apologizing. (August 23rd, 2022)
*3: I'm Done with Self-Control - A red monstrosity goes on several rampages through the city. Michael Thompson, a student upset that he has a grade one point less than 100, is suspected by the Element Protectors PreCure as being the creature. When they confront him, he goes berserk, transforms into the beast, and begins to go on a rampage. Shinchi, Michael & Katie lure Michael away from potentially damageable areas until he calms down and reverts to his human form. (August 30th, 2022)
*4: Michael's Quest - After merciless tormenting and a violent prank from Flash and Harry, Michael Allen uses his dad's gun to protect himself and accidentally shoots Carter in the leg. With the help of a psychologist, Katie, Trish, Johnathan, Lily, Shinchi, Timonthy, Alex & Rachel must all deal with the shock and guilt for not preventing the incident. (September 6th, 2022) 
*5: They Dissing my Track! - An infected named Mike Daniels/Mr. Slam, attempts to get revenge on 50 Bucks (voiced by 50 Cent), a rapper who stole a song he wrote. Johnathan gets a job at Burger Planet to save up to get 50 Bucks' new album, "Get Rich or Die Tryin" but loses it after having to sneak out to take care of Mr. Slam as Cure Fireblast. (September 13th, 2022)
*6: Michael Goes to South America - When the Allen family goes on a vacation to Brazil, Static teams up with the legendary Brazilian hero from Rio De Janiero, Grande Bomba to stop a group of evil Brazillian bandits, led by a leopard named Osebo, from stealing an ancient African treasure
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