Spyman's Cosmos

Not to be confused with Spyman's Cosmos group.
Spyman's Cosmos, also known as Spyman's Cosmos Universe is a series and a shared universe developed by four creators - wp.drive, Dr Saturn, The Philmer and OkiWan. Main protagonists of the series are the characters representing these creators - Spymankiller, Dr Saturn, Phil and OkiWan, respectively. It was started by wp.drive (at the time known as SpymanStudios). Its first installment - It's a Spyman's Christmas! was released on December 10, 2015.
== Plot ==
While there is no real goal for where the Cosmos storyline goes, the main premise of the series is the main four Spy, Saturn, Phil and OkiWan having fun together with each other and other members of the Cosmos, and eventually their main ememy, Blue Screen of Death and his gang try various schemes to finish them off for once and for all. This is a common pattern used in most, if not all the regular 4/5 part series, tried in various different ways with different characters and interactions, opening the way to introduce new characters fit enough for the current situation. However sometimes there are installments that don't follow this pattern, for example the so called one-shots, which serve to introduce new characters or things (f.e. Spy's New Car!) or develop the already existing ones. There is also an annual spin-off series, No-Life Christmas specials, which focus on the titular character and show his adventures during holiday season, always based on or parodying a popular Christmas story. As every special appears year after another, the most notable thing about them is showing No-Life growing up.
Sometimes, there are also specials about the main gang, like Corrupted Chaos, which takes the 4 part series format and turns it into a mini-movie one, with the main focus on it not being the villains, but temptation and instead of the villains being the ones to destroy the Cosmos, it was to tempt the Cosmos to destroy each other. The installments don't always focus on Blue Screen and his gang, as seen in the first Spyman's Cosmos feature length movie, The Thunder, the main focus was on the ancient creature Fari. While it was released by Blue Screen and thus considered another scheme, the movie didn't give much focus to the evil gang. There's also Core Inbound, which introduces even more danger outside of BSoD's Gang, with the central focus of it being Vitreous' Authority and the ultimate weapon in the Earth's deepest core.
There are also some series that focuses on a villain, like Cloak of Murk, which focuses mainly on Dr Rex, and his fed up with Blue Screen of Death, and how he collaborates with his worst enemies in order to destroy his former leader for once and for all, while Blue Screen is already pulling up a new scheme up his sleeve.
== History ==
=== The Gang Guys Era ===
Prior to 2015, wp was already making animated videos, using multiple characters known from the later Spyman's Cosmos, such as Spymankiller, Mangle or PCus. However, there were also unique characters that didn't make it to Spyman's Cosmos Universe (for example Smiley or Oblivion). The most important videos were two series - The Storm and The SNOWStorm, both sharing the 4-part format that was used in Spyman's Cosmos. However, The SNOWStorm was never finished and had only three parts. After discovering Dr Saturn through his series Spongebob and Patrick: Haunted Night, wp decided to incorporate his avatar (who has appeared in three episodes of said series) to his videos. He debuted in It's a Spyman's Christmas!
=== The Spyman's Cosmos Golden Era ===
==== Hypnothis Era ====
After the name change from Gang Guys to Spyman's Cosmos and creating a brand new universe, there have been many serious changes in the canon. Some of the characters (e.g. the entire Spongebob sub-universe) were thrown away, while another part made it to the new world. Additionally, the character of Thinkableant changed his name to Pankid. Despite having a different name, look and personality, he was still considered to be the same person. Besides that, a whole new rogues gallery has appeared. BSoD's Gang took Squidward's place. The BSoD's Gang consists of: Blue Screen of Death - the leader, a huge computer and the greatest enemy of Spymankiller, Copper - Spy's equally fierce nemesis and Commander Bus - a friend of this two, who most often had brawls with Pankid. 
At the same time, during the birth of the universe, wp and Dr Saturn befriended two fellow amateur animators - OkiWan (known then as Mr. Okiwan 2000) and The Philmer (known as Filip77 or Philip77). It's worth mentioning that Saturn and The Philmer were both Polish and have known each other already, meeting three years earlier on a popular Polish site called NK (Nasza Klasa). Along with them joining, new enemies for BSoD's Gang were created - Garmatrol, Jack Jester and, created by Dr Saturn, Dr Rex. They were supposed to be the adversaries of their respective characters. 
The first actual series of the present universe was Collision Course. At this time, the universe consists of 24 productions and lasts until now. While Dr Saturn and Spyman were focused on the main series, Philmer, although also having this kind of videos in plans, hasn't realized any of them. However, he was the mind behind the character of No-Life, which first appeared in his 2016 Christmas special - A Christmas Carol by No-Life - and went on to appear in future (sort of) annual holiday specials. The video was at first intended to stand alone, but it (along with the character) was incorporated into the universe by Dr Saturn with No-Life's appearance in Us vs. Us series.
The name of the era originates from the title of Kevin Macleod's track, which was considered as the Spyman's Cosmos anthem that time.
==== Resonance Era ====
The last regular series was Deep Sleep by wp.drive. Immediately before the series' ending, Dr Saturn wanted to produce another one called Party Hard. Its first part was released on January 28, 2018, but because of the creator's leave from the project on February 16, it was cancelled. Before leaving, he wanted to create the first full-length movie of the series titled The Thunder, which would be sort of a goodbye and thank-you for all the years of friendship and co-working, but it was cancelled as well. That way, there have been only four official videos (Party Hard 1/4, Deep Sleep 4/4, Spy's New Car! and No-Life's Home Alone) in 2018, which is a weak score, compared to respectively seven and eleven productions in the previous two years. 
The name of the era originates from the title of HOME's track, which was used very often in announcements and other miscellaneous videos. 
=== The Fall of Spyman's Cosmos===
The number of productions lowered even further next year. At the beginning of summer holidays of 2019 wp.drive started to develop a concept for a series called PhalanxVerse, which was supposed to take place a hundred and four years into the future of that world. Older versions of Dr Saturn and Alice were supposed to appear, but the idea has been thrown away after some time. Some other well-known characters (Mangle, PCus, Frank) were still to appear though. First episode was expected to release in 2019, but ultimately, in November of that year, wp officially abandoned video-making, thus also cancelling PhalanxVerse. If not for the annual No-Life special, there wouldn't be any production in 2019. The special alone was late and The Philmer barely made it. The Christmas special titled How No-Life Stole Christmas was released on December 29, 2019. Additionally, this was the first special to be strictly connected with rest of the series, as it featured Caddict, Charles and finally debuting Lenny Jester in supporting roles. What's more, the Phil character has also made a cameo appearance, suggesting the disbandment of Spyman's Cosmos in-universe. On December 31, Dr Saturn temporarily came back to his abandoned The Thunder movie. However, after not even two weeks, the idea has been cancelled once more.
=== The Rebirth Era ===
On January 1, 2020, in his video 2019 recap & 2020 plans, The Philmer has confirmed the fourth No-Life Christmas special and said that it will most likely be a sequel to No-Life's Home Alone. It turned out to be titled No-Life's Alone in Paris.
On March 19, 2020, OkiWan mentioned he's planning to make a yet untitled video for Spyman's Cosmos, that will show the gang after it was disbanded and will present some villains trying to use this opportunity. On March 20 it was revealed that the video's title will be "Corrupted Chaos". On March 29, OkiWan has mentioned he's planning to do at least one Spyman's Cosmos video per year from now on, to keep it alive from his side, and redeem the fact that he's the least contributor to it, as well as the effect of his cancelled and lost deleted videos. The point of the video was to revive Spyman's Cosmos. However, nobody knew that The Philmer was actually already making the same plan happen by himself. On April 1, he released In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 1/5 as an April Fools joke, where the joke was that it's not actually a joke. He had the video stored on his computer for two weeks and wanted to keep it a secret from his collaborators. The second part premiered on April 19, with the third part following after a long hiatus on August 13, part four premiering on October 4 and the finale releasing on December 14, while Corrupted Chaos was released on May 2.
On April 8, 2020, the works on yet another revival of The Thunder project have started. The special became Dr Saturn's sole focus. The movie premiered on May 11 of the same year and despite many flaws, it gained positive opinions.
A day later, on April 9, wp.drive released the first part of a series titled Parenting, which is a reboot of Spyman's Cosmos, presumably unrelated to the rest of Spyman's Cosmos.
Moreover, nobody knew OkiWan was secretly planning a remake of his beloved video, Why Frank Hates OkiWan, he had the idea to remake it on it's 5th anniversary, but the creation of this wiki, along with wanting to start a new decade with a fresh remake of his first time hit, encouraged him to do it on it's 4th anniversary instead, so the production of the video officially started on March 29, as there was only April and a bit of May until the 4th anniversary, after he was done with it, he put it on scheduled for a while on his channel, until it was eventually uploaded on May 6th, celebrating the 4th birth of his deleted video.
Following the post-credits scene of Corrupted Chaos, it was clear OkiWan had another entry for the series incoming, with the mini movie he had, he wanted to bring it all out with a series, therefore the first part of the Core Inbound series officially premiered on June 7th, while the second part premiered on July 14th, the third one followed on September 4, the fourth one was released on September 24.
After the premiere of The Thunder, Dr Saturn had many concepts for a potential new series or special, including a Spyman's Cosmos adaptation of Team KK book "Shrunken" or a Charles origin story. Finally, on July 21, a new series called Cloak of Murk was announced and confirmed to focus on Dr Rex and show why he is an important villain and member of BSoD's Gang. The first part premiered on July 25, while the second on July 28, the third one followed on August 16 and the finale premiered on August 22.
On August 29, OkiWan revealed the title and logo of a planned upcoming series of his, Machinery Landing, where BSoD's Gang builds a massive machinery to rule the world. The series is planned to be short, as it uses the traditional 4/4 part formula, and the character cast isn't as crowded as Core Inbound.
On December 18, 2020, The Philmer unexpectedly uploaded a new video titled Lenny's Vlogs: The Revelation, which revealed No-Life's father to be none other than Colonel Johnson, the main villain of The Philmer's old and cancelled series, semi-connected to Spyman's Cosmos. The one-shot is meant to serve as an extended introduction to his next era entry, which was announced to be the second Spyman's Cosmos movie called Johnson's Vengeance. It's set to release in 2021. Finally, on January 13, 2021, after a long delay, the fourth No-Life special premiered, originally set to end the Rebirth Era.
=== Currently ===
It took ten days for another installment to premiere, being Dr Saturn's Down in the Mines 1/4, and slowly set up the tone for the next year of Spyman's Cosmos. The second part of Down in the Mines was released on February 2. However, at the end of the month, Dr Saturn announced that the series is most likely cancelled.
On February 27, The Philmer released an update on his channel, in which he announced his plans for the rest of the year, revealing the logo for Johnson's Vengeance and the summer special, whose title was announced to be "Road-Tripped". The movie was announced to be released in the time from May to July, while the latter would premiere in summer, most likely August. Additionally, it was announced that the fifth No-Life special would be called "It's a Wonderful No-Life", as planned for a long time, and that it will likely be the last one.
On June 30, The Philmer released another update, in which he stated that the Road-Tripped special might get delayed to 2022, but Johnson's Vengeance would still release this year. 
On July 7, OkiWan released the official trailer for the long-awaited Core Inbound 5/5. On July 24, Dr Saturn renewed the production on Down in the Mines 3/4, thus uncancelling the series as a whole and making it canon again. In addition, he retconned the end of Cloak of Murk 4/4 a bit, changing Trauma's final fate and thus making both that part, as well as Calamity of Malice, somewhat canon in the main timeline of Spyman's Cosmos. Part 3 and 4 of Down in the Mines released on July 27 and August 5, respectively. On July 27, Dr Saturn revealed, that he has plans for another Spyman's Cosmos movie - Night of Knights, which would be a direct sequel to Down in the Mines. 6 days later, the title was changed to Knights in Time.
On October 6, the idea of a Spyman's Cosmos movie by OkiWan finally got into his head, and thus he officially confirmed on that day that a movie by him is planned. The movie centers around his titular character OkiWan and his origins. Currently it goes by the title 'Grounded' which refers to a particular feeling OkiWan has throughout the film.
On October 15, the animation production on Core Inbound 5/5 had officially ended and the video was set to release later this month. On October 24, the video was finally released and it was received well.
Eventually, both Johnson's Vengeance and It's a Wonderful No-Life got delayed to sometime in 2022, or whenever they would be completed. On December 25, to celebrate his channel's sixth anniversary, The Philmer uploaded the movie's teaser.
On December 14, OkiWan announced the cancellation of his Dune Dazzle series, mainly due to him realizing it's a slight different version of his other upcoming series - Machinery Landing.
On December 29, OkiWan confirmed that Grounded got cancelled, due to the premise not being fit for a full feature film. With Haunted Heights potentially taking its place. Although, the main plot point of the movie has been reincorporated into Machinery Landing through the character of Belladonna.
On August 31, 2022, OkiWan decided to drop the "One Spyman's Cosmos video per year" idea and make one final installment meant to show OkiWan and Bernard doing one last shenanigan - Bullet Buddies.
On October 24, 2022, OkiWan released a new one-shot video called SKYORIGINS, exactly a year since the last installment - Core Inbound 5/5, that covers the origin stories of two characters that got introduced in the previous video.
On January 9, 2023, Dr Saturn announced the official title of the long-teased Droppy series, that being Spittin Image. The series is set to begin in early 2023.
On April 20, 2023, OkiWan announced a reboot of his cancelled Dune Dazzle series titled Beach Bash! that's set to have two parts.
May 29 marked wp.drive's return to Spyman's Cosmos after five years with the first part of his brand new series, Wish Upon a Clock.
At the moment the Spyman's Cosmos series is in a brand new era. With the Machinery Landing, Beach Bash! and Wish Upon a Clock series, as well as the many specials - Johnson's Vengeance, Knights in Time, Road-Tripped, Haunted Heights, Bullet Buddies, the new era is shaping to be as fruitful as the Rebirth. 
On August 11, 2023 wp.drive confirmed, that a one-shot Core Contingency is in the works. The video was released a day after. 
==Installments ==
As of right now the series consists of 51 installments, as well as 4 non-canon videos, all made by four creators - wp.drive, Dr Saturn, The Philmer and OkiWan.
SPYMAN'S COSMOS SERIES INSTALLMENTS
No. 	Video title 	Release date 	Creator 	Length
1 	It's a Spyman's Christmas! 	December 10, 2015 	wp.drive 	3:41
2 	Collision Course 1/4 	February 28, 2016 	wp.drive 	4:55
3 	A story from Phil's past 	May 6, 2016 	The Philmer 	2:42
4 	Collision Course 2/4 	May 8, 2016 	wp.drive 	5:00
5 	Collision Course 3/4 	July 7, 2016 	wp.drive 	5:08
6 	Arthur's Past Stories 	July 18, 2016 	Dr Saturn 	4:09
7 	Collision Course 4/4 	August 9, 2016 	wp.drive 	9:13
8 	A Christmas Carol by No-Life 	December 25, 2016 	The Philmer 	6:26
9 	Hurricane Inbound 1/4 	April 19, 2017 	wp.drive 	6:32
10 	Us vs. Us 1/4 	June 19, 2017 	Dr Saturn 	7:08
11 	Us vs. Us 2/4 	June 28, 2017 	Dr Saturn 	5:58
12 	Us vs. Us 3/4 	July 1, 2017 	Dr Saturn 	3:53
13 	Hurricane Inbound 2/4 	July 3, 2017 	wp.drive 	4:14
14 	Us vs. Us 4/4 	July 5, 2017 	Dr Saturn 	10:41
15 	Hurricane Inbound 3/4 	July 8, 2017 	wp.drive 	6:12
16 	Hurricane Inbound 4/4 	July 29, 2017 	wp.drive 	5:25
17 	Deep Sleep 1/4 	September 2, 2017 	wp.drive 	4:53
18 	Deep Sleep 2/4 	October 23, 2017 	wp.drive 	4:58
19 	Deep Sleep 3/4 	December 11, 2017 	wp.drive 	5:30
20 	Deep Sleep 4/4 	January 31, 2018 	wp.drive 	5:48
21 	Spy's New Car! 	February 3, 2018 	wp.drive 	2:06
22 	No-Life's Home Alone 	December 25, 2018 	The Philmer 	9:51
23 	How No-Life Stole Christmas 	December 29, 2019 	The Philmer 	16:08
24 	In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 1/5 	April 1, 2020 	The Philmer 	8:43
25 	In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 2/5 	April 19, 2020 	The Philmer 	13:31
26 	Corrupted Chaos 	May 2, 2020 	OkiWan 	29:15
27 	Why Frank Hates OkiWan - 2020 Edition	May 6, 2020 	OkiWan 	6:11
28 	The Thunder 	May 11, 2020 	Dr Saturn 	1:13:20
29 	Core Inbound 1/5 	June 7, 2020 	OkiWan 	15:10
30 	Core Inbound 2/5 	July 14, 2020 	OkiWan 	26:09
31 	Cloak of Murk 1/4 	July 25, 2020 	Dr Saturn 	8:16
32 	Cloak of Murk 2/4 	July 28, 2020 	Dr Saturn 	9:18
33 	In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 3/5 	August 13, 2020 	The Philmer 	15:34
34 	Cloak of Murk 3/4 	August 16, 2020 	Dr Saturn 	14:36
35 	Cloak of Murk 4/4 	August 22, 2020 	Dr Saturn 	21:16
36 	Core Inbound 3/5 	September 4, 2020 	OkiWan 	29:33
37 	Core Inbound 4/5 	September 24, 2020 	OkiWan 	14:40
38 	In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 4/5 	October 4, 2020 	The Philmer 	16:18
39 	In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 5/5 	December 14, 2020 	The Philmer 	20:25
40 	Lenny's Vlogs: The Revelation 	December 18, 2020 	The Philmer 	6:35
41 	No-Life's Alone in Paris 	January 13, 2021 	The Philmer 	27:53
42 	Down in the Mines 1/4 	January 23, 2021 	Dr Saturn 	13:26
43 	Down in the Mines 2/4 	February 2, 2021 	Dr Saturn 	11:35
44 	Down in the Mines 3/4 	July 27, 2021 	Dr Saturn 	13:13
45 	Down in the Mines 4/4 	August 5, 2021 	Dr Saturn 	17:57
46 	Core Inbound 5/5 	October 24, 2021 	OkiWan 	48:05
47 	SKYORIGINS 	October 24, 2022 	OkiWan 	12:50
48 	Wish Upon a Clock 1/3 	May 29, 2023 	wp.drive 	15:24
49 	Machinery Landing 1/4 	July 7, 2023 	OkiWan 	34:11
50 	Core Contingency 	August 12, 2023 	wp.drive 	8:48
51 	It Came from the Forest 1 	September 13, 2023 	wp.drive 	9:45
52 	Wish Upon a Clock 2/3 	December 19, 2023 	wp.drive 	13:22
NON-CANON INSTALLMENTS	NON-CANON INSTALLMENTS 	NON-CANON INSTALLMENTS	NON-CANON INSTALLMENTS	NON-CANON INSTALLMENTS
No. 	Video title 	Release date 	Creator 	Length
1 	THE SECRET 1/5 	August 27, 2017 	Droppy 	1:26
2 	Party Hard 1/4 	January 28, 2018 	Dr Saturn 	5:06
3 	It's a Spyman's Halloween! 	October 31, 2020 	Dr Saturn 	3:32
4 	Calamity of Malice 	December 9, 2020 	OkiWan 	15:31
==Trivia==
*There were many series that were at the stage of releasing episodes, but have been cancelled. Notable examples include: Mutation by OkiWan, Spongebob: Invasion from the Land by The Philmer (although there are many doubts whether it would be a part of Spyman's Cosmos) and Party Hard by Dr Saturn.
*There have also been multiple series that were cancelled duning the production of first episode, such as No-Life's Tales by The Philmer, PhalanxVerse by wp.drive, OkiWan's Past Stories by OkiWan or ADVENTure by Dr Saturn.
*Finally, there have been the most series that were cancelled before even starting production. Most of them come from The Philmer, for example: Phil's Past Stories, Moonshot or The Tournament, but one of them was planned by Dr Saturn - World Cup 2018.
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