Kid Crusade

**Kid Crusade** is a real-life sitcom planned to become a franchise on YouTube, and made with several surreal, supernatural aspects. It's planned to have at least 2 - 3 seasons with 40 episodes, 30 shorts and 4 specials.

## Synopsis

One summer break, a trio of homeless kids known as the "Dynamics" are taken in by gruff adult named Brian, his optimistic housewife, Tina, and their trigger-happy daughter, Kate. Said team consists of Alex, the cheerful, fast-paced leader, Mike, the dimwitted goofball and Zack, the laid-back intellectual.

The main group embark on several types of misadventures while obliviously exploring the secrets of their town, only to then encounter enemies on a daily basis, with some being new, then others being common, such as Luke, the leader of the Acorn Scouts, Arsonist Regan, the local pyromaniac, and Hand, an eldritch hand-based abomination that haunts the town. Thus said, it's just them against the world in their paranormal, capricious environment.

## Setting

The story takes place in Shortland, a place labeled as the "home of happiness" despite being the exact opposite. Sure, it's a light-hearted location full of quirky innocents, but it's also full of many mysterious dilemmas of the supernatural, with most not failing to go undiscovered. The time period itself takes place in present times.

## Development

Development started in 2018 with a past video, *Alijah and Logan; Starring In... Thanos' Wrath! | Part 1: The Terror of The Turbo Titan*. It never got a Part 2, as Alijah and Logan have forgotten about it after some time. The next day, however, they streamed a video, *Alijah and Logan: Minecraft Gaming!*, with the two playing rounds of Minecraft in their former living room. These videos were a starting point for the two and their career in making videos.

A year *later*, they made plushie videos that nowadays they can't even find despite being the sole creators. Maybe Alijah's old account they uploaded the videos on were removed for unknown reasons. Alijah and Logan were separately doing their own content or taking hiatuses to hang out with each other in real-life during 2019 and 2020. At least until they made *The Wario and Waluigi Show*. This is where they utilize their plushies, action figures and overall arsenal of toys for comedic, entertaining purposes. Wario and Waluigi themselves are played by them, and unlike Alijah, Waluigi had Logan's overall personality added to him at the time until Alijah decided to properly plan the show out.

After a movie, re-do movie, and about 4 episodes, Alijah posted an announcement for the actual series being in development and coming soon. Even the intro played in the video. *Twice!* On December 12th of 2021, the Thunderbolt Inc. Wiki was created, and after a long while of working on it, Void decided to move it all here to work on the new *Kid Crusade*, which is said show but better since it doesn't utilize the main cast's real-life names.

## Trivia

* The three main protagonists' names are short for longer names.
	+ Alex is short for Alexander, Mike is short for Michael, Zack is short for Zachary.
* Its main form of slapstick is including extreme feats of strength, durability, speed, and et cedera into the show. This provides an experience similar to that of a cartoon for people to enjoy.
	+ Some characters also endure tons of gruesome injuries, which is a very, very, *very* common running gag. The page involving such can be seen here.
	+ Plot-induced injuries could last for the rest of the episode, and, in some occasions, the rest of the franchise. That brings us to the section below.
* Continuity is, for the most part, ignored in this show. You could have someone sent into space, mailed to another country, or even blown to bits, but they're completely fine by the next episode.
* Before the show's full planning, it was just going to be the creators recording things going on their house for "episodes". The creators decided to change it just in time though, as doing so sounded kind of creepy to them.
* The idea for stickmen cutscenes were thought of by the voice actor for the show's Mike, who is Void's (the voice actor for the show's Alex) best friend, with him taking it into consideration, and including it in almost every episode, even making one dedicated to it, utilizing them for some of the exaggerated feats, weapons and random joke sections. This feature is like a support beam to this franchise, and mooch off the same artstyle as the intro and outro of the show.