Toon Wars: Legacy

Toon Wars: Legacy is the sequel series to the fan-made Toon Wars crossover series written by Frozarburst, with each subsequent story taking place further into the future with their own adventures following Toon Wars: The Final Days. It centers around new and recurring cartoons, such as *The Amazing World of Gumball, Summer Camp Island,* and *Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart*. Like Toon Wars introducing Nicktoons to Cartoon Network as a neighboring universe, Legacy includes new concepts revolving around properties in and outside both channels, as well as entirely different media starting with the introduction of Netflix's *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power* reboot. The first crossover in the series serving as a direct continuation of the previous series was released on March 27, 2020, followed by The Watterson and Dark Disney, which concluded on June 28, 2021. A 2022 expansion to the series titled, Dust and the Sweeper, was posted detailing a standalone game-centered crossover between *Dust: An Elysian Tail* and *Blinx the Time Sweeper* following the aftermath of Dark Disney, which aimed to improve the formatting of Frozarburst's writing for future projects, followed by Venomous Syndicate's release in 2023. Part 1 of the final Toon Wars Legacy story, Heroes of Power, was released on day one of 2024.

## Development

Ideas for Toon Wars: Legacy began during the development of Toon Wars: The Final Days when Frozarburst considered future works after the series. He mainly focused on characters who had a background impact on the Toon Wars, such as Professor Venomous, Nyando, and Ashi. However, with new shows like Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart being aired around the conclusion of the Final Days' development cycle, Frozar also decided to create works revolving around the newer generation of cartoons. Including a crossover involving a then new series, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Netflix. Like Steven Universe, he was introduced to it by his sister. It was in the show's third season that Frozar had the idea that Netflix is an entirely separate omniverse while Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon had merged into the Toonverse. To kick off the idea, Frozarburst started drafting scripts for Crossover Forces along with an additional story, Crossover Madness, which would have been posted alongside the other. Instead late in production, Crossover Forces was primarily focused on to better grasp an idea for what he wanted to do.

While working on Crossover Forces, other works both related and unrelated to each other were plotted. However, each were noticeably aimed towards CN and Netflix instead of Nickelodeon aside from those seen in the Toon Wars. This was due to a lack of variety on Nickelodeon's part, tending to have cartoons either move to Netflix (i.e. Glitch Techs and Avatar) or fail to capture the writer or the audience's interests. As such, almost all of Legacy wasn't solely focused on new shows either, having some be centered around previous characters prominent in the past series. After Crossover Forces, his first return to the original cast from Toon Wars was The Watterson, which was drafted during production of the first story.

In the middle of Crossover Forces' development, Covid-19 struck globally. However, the story continued to be scripted and set to post on June of 2020. Instead, to ease tensions for fans, Frozarburst released the story on March 27, 2020 ahead of time thanks to the first few chapters being finalized. As a result, he posted it as Act 1 of 3 and eventually continued up to the final chapter posted on June 27 of the same year. Afterward, The Watterson was announced with two teaser posters on Amino and Deviantart with no release date until an outline was created. Months later, The Watterson was released on September 10, 2020 in memory of Frozar's husky, Shi, who passed away a month earlier. With critical acclaim once again and development of Dark Disney beginning ahead of time, the following series was released on January 1st, 2021. It quickly gained interest for introducing other types of media to Frozarburst's storytelling, tackling heavy subjects with Disney and creating new concepts out of pre-established ones from Toon Wars. It would also continue to refine The Watterson's approach of creating longer chapters while having a shorter book length. However, this also began to show the flaws of the original modified script format, forcing Frozar to delay Venomous Syndicate and other projects to work on fixing his writing. Although scripts for Crossover Madness and Jimmy Timmy Power Battles had been created, it is currently felt by the creator that they should be postponed until a later date once every major project had been completed. To address these issues, Frozarburst began development on the Gameverse Expansion to Dark Disney with the announcement of Dust and the Sweeper, not only providing more lore to areas beyond the Toonverse, but to help improve his writing for future projects.

When a Halloween 2-parter, Magiswords Darker, was released in October 2021, Frozarburst initially posted it as a complete storyline in Toon Wars Legacy. But he later changed it the next year as the first in the Tales of the Toonverse Expansion, posting short stories rather than full-length novels.

## Storyline

### Toon Wars

The Toon War was a massive conflict spanning across the old CN/Nick multiverse before its merging into the Toonverse. This was conceived by the Syndicate; villains from the Nicktoons universe who sought revenge after their defeat in the Nicktoons Unite series. They started the war with the discovery of the Void in the CN Universe through Elmore, learning that beyond their realm is the real world. Cancellation would lead to a show being frozen in time while an official conclusion would cause them to loop endlessly from their first season to the last; both fates occurring until future content could be made. This, combined with the belief that popular shows like *Spongebob Squarepants* or *Teen Titans GO* were actively determining their fate, drove many worlds down the path of insanity, eventually culminating when the Nicktoons Saga began immediately after the end of *Crossover Nexus*; another event which reaffirmed the Syndicate's views.

To put an end to the war, classic Nicktoons Jimmy Neutron, Danny Phantom, Timmy Turner, Jenny Wakeman, etc. founded the Toon Force and sought help from other cartoons in the CN Universe, now made fully aware of the war thanks to the villains' intervention. Over time, major conflicts would ensue with the introduction of Gumball Watterson, Samurai Jack, and Lyvsheria, expanding the team into a full organization against the Syndicate. This war lasted for 5 years, seemingly coming to a close before the arrival of the Toon God and the Virus Entity, totally consuming the multiverse in their corruption feed. With barely any of the Toon Force alive, they faced many greater battles against corrupted foes, including their strongest ally turned evil, Nicole Watterson. She was saved and restored thanks to the compassion of the heroes and went on to defeat the Toon God with help from Spongebob and the rise of the once minor character from *Mighty Magiswords*, Bimm. Jimmy Neutron then restored reality using the Fourth Wall controls, creating the Toonverse.

### Crossover Forces

    Two years after Toon Wars: The Final Days, when members of the Toon Force embarked on an expedition to unknown space, the Toonverse was threatened by a new villain organization, the Horde Syndicate. They were comprised of Orangusnake, his henchmen, several hundreds of salvaged Echo Commandos, HueHue, and their leader, Cyber Catra. Cyber Catra in particular was member of the Netflix omniverse, having

been duplicated in a freak reality incident she caused at the end of
*She-Ra and the Princesses of Power's* third season. The villains plotted
to send their fleet of modified Battloons
 to subjugate the universe and Etheria, threatening immediate action
should the Toon Force intervene. Luckily, with the arrival of Blue Hat
from an alternate timeline, he gathered enough heroes of the newer
generation Cartoon Network shows to form a new team. Together, they
sabotaged the plans of the Horde Syndicate by liberating their worlds
and confronting their leader. However, this was all secretly a ruse set
by Black Hat,
 who was in disguise as Blue Hat to gain the trust of the Toonverse
enough that he could access the Fourth Wall controls. Doing so gave he
and Catra ultimate power over the Toonverse, forming an empire in a few
days. Fortunately, those who were saved by the new heroes banded
together to fight back. With Mao Mao's leadership, they put an end to
the Horde Empire, defeated Black Hat and his henchmen, reset Catra to an
 earlier point in her life into a toddler, and restored the Toonverse in
 time for the crew of the original Toon Force to return.

### The Watterson

3 years after Crossover Forces and completing his training with Nicole Watterson, Gumball returns to Elmore but struggles with the fear of involving his city with the rest of the Toonverse. While his mother along with Yuki and Anais remain away, Gumball learns that Darwin already knew of the events of The Final Days and the Toon Wars and is abducted by the Spectra Corp clones of Nicole who sought to exterminate all abnormalities of the world. With the aid of their friends and new ally, Walton, Gumball and Darwin are able to escape the invaders and discover that the Rainbow Factory, Nicole's old job, was originally a subsidiary of Spectra Corp in Netherworld, Walton's home town. After visiting the place and extracting the files regarding the clones, with help from one of the duplicates, Nicole 39, the team make an infiltration on the hidden headquarters of Supreme Nicole, the leader of the clones. This is before the clones could bombard Elmore as per their plan to try and corrupt Gumball and Anais. However, Supreme Nicole changes her strategy and decides to release her monstrous horde of Richard clones. While Netherworld's citizens fend against the creatures, Gumball and Darwin confront Commander Nicole and Supreme Nicole separately, not only allying with the Nicole clones to fight back, but also learn that Nicole Watterson is actually one of the clones of the Supreme Leader. The original Nicole intends to unlock Gumball's dark side from his time in the Toon Wars to take her place and rule over the planet, only to accidentally kill herself from a slip and fall. Though she was able to briefly corrupt Gumball, he was finally able to let go of his trauma and guilt and overcame his dark side, putting an end to the Spectra Corp invasion. Following the attack, he and the many clones of Nicole and Richard move on and begin living new lives in and out of their world.

### Dark Disney

After accidentally jumping through hyperspace into a century later, Max finds himself in a future ruled entirely by Disney after they bought out almost every known property on Earth and converted the Toonverse into the Disneyverse. To return to the past and prevent the dark future, Max allied with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and his rebellion, hoping to bring down Mickey's empire and regain access to time and space. Along the way, he obtained special artifacts from the old universe called Soul Retrievers; special capsules invented by Jimmy Neutron to grant the user the powers of previous Toonverse characters, including Gumball, Jenny, and Danny respectively. One particular capsule for She-Ra was created as well, and other technologies built specifically for Nicktoon and CN characters were locked off, motivating Mickey to try and capture Max to obtain them. After multiple successful sabotage missions and a number of losses, Max and the Underground eventually make it to Castle Disney with a large army of fallen heroes from the regime to confront Mickey and locate the Elysian Engine; a supercomputer used to corrupt those in the Disneyverse and lock down time itself. However, following his defeat, it's revealed that Black Hat (or rather a copy of him) was responsible for the entire Disney takeover after a great disaster he took part in between the Toonverse and Etheria wiped out half of the old universe. Fortunately, with the discovery that Elysium was powered by Bimm's body, Max was able to free her, who in turn killed Black Hat and reset the timeline so the boy could defeat the villain before he could launch for Disney. With the timeline preserved, Max returns to Summer Camp Island, only to find that it's been an entire decade since his disappearance, forcing him to adapt to the times with help from a now teenage Kitra.

### Venomous Syndicate

Years after OK K.O. Let’s be Heroes and Toon Wars: The Final Days, Professor Venomous finds himself against the criminal circuit after Black Hat seized all operations since the death of Shadowy Venomous. With a hit placed on him, the Professor has no choice but to pledge himself to Cattus the Ultimate to hone his skills in preparation to sabotage Black Hat's organization.

## Tales of the Toonverse

Unlike the rest of Toon Wars Legacy, Tales of the Toonverse focuses on shorter individual adventures from around the Toonverse, including the first in the series, Magiswords Darker, which details a different yet similar timeline where Mighty Magiswords had been manipulated by the Syndicate at the start of the war. This is can be considered an unofficial Season 2 of Toon Wars: Shorts, which had a similar style but was developed with Toon Wars' original format instead of prose and consisted of single-part episodes.

## Time Placement

See Toon Wars Timeline

Since Toon Wars: The Final Days, the first story of Toon Wars Legacy takes place 2 whole years after the ending of the last saga. The Watterson then occurs another 3 years later, while the ending of Dark Disney (after erasing a grim version of the far future) happens 12 years after the former. Venomous Syndicate and Trial of the Diamonds take place during the gap between The Watterson and Dark Disney's ending.

## Trivia

* While writing Crossover Forces, Frozarburst was listening to different tracks from various media to get the feel of each different scene. "Mean Green Mother" from Little Shop of Horrors was one of them, used while scripting a fight with Catra and the heroes.
* Chronologically, The Watterson and Dark Disney occur in the same year as each other, with Dark Disney starting sometime after The Watterson ends.
* To keep up with the order of events in the series, Frozarburst uses Kitra's age as a chronology guide, beginning with Dark Disney/The Watterson (Age 3) up to 12 years later when she's 15.
* Like Toon Wars, a lot of inspiration comes from Star Wars. However, as of the Gameverse Expansion, this has changed to Earth's Mightiest Heroes, as well as the Transformers franchise.