Kid Dynamo

**Kid Dynamo** is an animated comedy franchise, and Thunderbolt Inc.'s first official webseries in production. It has a heavy amount of slapstick, and the main plot is centered around three best friends who are exaggerated versions of the creators.

The animated episodes are mostly released on YouTube, Newgrounds and their (soon-to-be-made) official website, but the rest of the artwork is released on Twitter and DeviantArt.

## Synopsis

Deep within the dysfunctional neighborhood of Block Block lies a group of best friends known as The Dynamics, which consists of three eccentric housemates with a chaotic relationship in an even more chaotic household: Alijah, the greedy, self-centered, smooth-talking leader; Logan, the naive, disorderly, simpleminded brawns; Isaiah, the athletic, intelligent, levelheaded brains.

In spite of their laziness, they're always forced into inane, bizarre misadventures and battles against numerous villains, be it Alijah making harebrained get-rich-quick schemes, Logan letting his video game-addiction lead him into trouble, Isaiah acting weird around women, or just random things happening to them out of nowhere when they're going about their lives.

The trio lives in the fictional city of Whatchamacallit, Texas - the more well-known section of the Navarro County with hidden supernatural forces that they unwillingly bring out during their adventures (in fact, it doesn't even have to be supernatural). This includes, but is not limited to, demons, ghosts, mummies, pirates, robots, vampires, werewolves, zombies and eldritch abominations. The things that The Dynamics go through can sometimes warp reality in several confusing ways (e.g. having the animation style change to the one in the intro).

## Production

### Development

It all started when Alijah met Logan during the holidays, as during those times, his dad's family would meet up and have a nice dinner together. Immediately after they met, they became best friends, and started making videos together. Their first one was *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.

During the time they hung out, Logan had a birthday party where he invited a group of friends over, with one of them being Isaiah. 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 supposed "career" in making videos.

A year *later*, they made plushie videos that sadly can't be seen since the channel was deleted a long time ago. 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 total of 5 months after working on it, Alijah decided to recreate it into a show called *Kid Crusade*, until making up his mind **again** and creating Kid Dynamo. It was originally meant to have Alijah and Logan as the main characters, with Isaiah as a supporting character, until the three hung out more and agreed on him also being one of the protagonists.

### Voice Cast

* See Kid Dynamo/Characters

The creators voice themselves (Void as Alijah, Savage as Logan, XGX as Isaiah) in every episode unless one of them is unable to do so. Some of the characters in the show are voiced by those close to Void, Savage and XGX (e.g. family, friends), though Void does a majority of them due to not only having the talent of doing multiple different voices, but also refusing to hire any voice actors by ANY means.

### Animation

The art style for *Kid Dynamo* artwork was slightly inspired off of *Captain Underpants*', but the animation in the episodes is poorly made. However, this was done on purpose, as confirmed several times by Void himself. For example, the show utilizes "boiling lines" since not only is Void somewhat lazy in animation, but he also liked it for a reason he never understood.

### Music and title sequence

The specific types of music that was in the show happened to be some of the creators' favorite type of songs. Each of them really liked hip-hop, which prompted Void to use that type of music to generalize the main theme of the show, as it was meant to be very (playfully) ghetto with its frequent usage of black slang and rude language.

### Episode Process

First, the three owners of *Thunderbolt Inc.* discuss what the episode will be about, how it will be paced and what genre of music will fit. Once said discussion is finished, they each split up with separate paths; Void begins to work on a script, Savage starts working on storyboards and XGX looks up good instrumental music.

Void's work is usually finished in the matter of (not yet estimated) days at minimum if focused on only that, alongside Savage and XGX, as they all meet up after they're done.

After reviewing each other's works and giving each other constructive criticism, they do a test and combine everything to see how it is so far (the animation, special effects, music and video quality). If it's a success, they'd upload it, but if not, they'd take a few more days to help redo it a bit, and THEN review it once more.

(WIP)

## Other Media

### Film

* See Kid Dynamo: The Movie

(WIP)

### Comics

* See Kid Dynamo/Comics

(WIP)

## Trivia

* There is no true pilot for the franchise, but instead an introduction video that acts as an advertisement-like teaser for it that is titled Introduction Video.
* The series is managed by the three owners of Thunderbolt Inc., who are each in the show as animated personas to themselves, but in real life, they all serve an important role for handling the franchise outside of tag-teaming the research for character development.
	+ Void (Alijah) is the one who writes the scripts, characters, and animates the episodes.
	+ Savage (Logan) is the one who offers unique ideas for the show, such as jokes, designs, plots and certain features.
	+ XGX (Isaiah) is the one who does the sound effects, music, and even edits when it comes to special effects for giving episodes pizzazz.
		- Said animated personas are over-exaggerated, nearly inaccurate parodies of the show's three creators.
* Its main form of slapstick is including extreme feats of strength, durability, speed, and et cedera. 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.
* The soundtrack full of music and sound effects can be seen here.
* Alijah does most of the editing, writing and management. This gives him a good majority of ownership on the show, especially since he came up with it, though he does let Logan have his fair share. Besides, that's why he manages this *entire* wiki all by himself, conducting all the scripts and characters.
* The shorts for the series can be seen here.
* 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.
	+ This is due to the show being centered around having inconsistent plots and enemies.
	+ Ironically enough, characters could survive drastic things without a permanent injury unless it's plot-induced.
* Believe it or not, the franchise is somewhat inspired by the forgotten Cartoon Network show, *Clarence*, as the creators watched it when they were younger, and wanted to succeed where the show failed. Some areas of the series, such as slapstick and action fuel, were massively boosted from it and was also inspired by that of *Madagascar*.
	+ *Ed, Edd n Eddy* also inspired the show a bit, as seen with how all the kids, especially the Dynamics, have a strong liking for Milky-Way Bars. However, the adults are shown to like them as well, which means it's moreso replicated from *SpongeBob SquarePants*.
* 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, which was during the introduction video, since their house is also the same area used for *The Wario and Waluigi Show*.
* The idea for stickman cutscenes were thought of by Savage and XGX. Void took it into consideration, 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.
* For experimentation, Void decided to start off with comics before jumping into an animated franchise.
	+ This was for a multitude of reasons, such as...
		- Void, at the time, didn't find a suitable animation app to draw the episodes, and found comics more enjoyable despite having a history of not finishing them.
		- Comic books seemed like a more easy, compatible way to start instead of immediately hopping into animation unprepared.
		- Using the comics was a way to stall until the music, voice, animation and copyright problems were all figured out.
* Each of the specials bring a slightly emotional, action-filled premise with them, just to make them actually feel, well, special.
* For those wanting to find the unlisted animations, look here.
* Some episodes have different ways of being made, depending on the plot, theme and members of an episode.
	+ They can sometimes be random, nonsensical pre-recorded skits that Void, Savage and/or XGX can rewrite into an either serious or more comedic episode.
	+ They can also be based off of other concepts they find within their houses or places they visit (e.g. they go on vacation and decide to make an episode based on that).
* The robots are some of the most common antagonists in *Kid Dynamo* due to Void's childhood love for drawing them, and on the topic of childhood, some of the other antagonists are from Void's past comics and drawings.
* Without the others knowing, Void would usually get a head-start on all the scripts so it would take less time for the start of the process for making an episode, as Savage and XGX have to give some of their thoughts as well.
* During the early seasons, the Dynamics' adventures were centered around them doing detective work and solving the mysteries behind the weird things they encounter.
	+ This also applies to some of the early-day comic books and such.
* When it came to the characters in specific, their statures and styles were very identical to their characters.
	+ e.g. Alijah always looked smug and slick, running very mischievously while leaning more forward. Logan always looked clueless and innocent, running very frantically with his upper body going back and his lower body going forward. Isaiah always looked relaxed and easygoing, not leaning forward nor backwards when he runs, but instead staying in a neutral state.
		- The reason they ran a certain way was because he wanted how they leaned to reference the key parts of their personalities (e.g. Alijah going forward symbolized how driven he is, Logan going backwards symbolized how slow he is and Isaiah staying in the middle symbolized how fair-minded he is).
			* Some of the characters also had different styles of eyes, teeth and more for the purpose of "fleshing out the show" in each of the creators' words. They also had different head and body shapes, along with a nonsensical color pallet at times.
* The show was originally going to have more child-friendly content, but the creators' didn't stick with it and decided to stick to their own style, which was the exact opposite.
* *Kid Dynamo*'s background art style was inspired off *Regular Show*'s, which looked more like it was drawn with pencils to not collide with the characters' dark outlines.
* The parents of the Dynamics are never seen in the show, and the reason why is never explained in-canon. It has been hinted in *Stick It To Em* that they weren't seen due to "them being too lazy to include them in the show".