:brutalmoose: But don't worry, though. Even though I just released the only criminal on LEGO Island, the police are basically like, "Oh, s'all good." Infomaniac: So we need someone to race over there! Someone who can use a vehicle that can travel on roads and paths, over ramps, and in a jiffy! brutalmoose: Oh, you mean a motorcycle. Infomaniac: A skateboard, perhaps! There are two people on motorcycles right there! [arrows point at Nick and Laura, both riding motorcycles] But no, the general consensus is that a skateboard would be a much, much better idea. Son of Zorn is an American live-action/animated sitcom television series created by Reed Agnew and Eli Jorné. The series stars Cheryl Hines, Johnny Pemberton, Tim Meadows, Artemis Pebdani, and Jason Sudeikis as the voice of Zorn. The first season, which consisted of 13 episodes, premiered on September 11, 2016, on Fox. The series is about Zorn, a warrior from the fictional South Pacific island of Zephyria who moves to Orange County, California to reconnect with his ex-wife and teenage son, Alan.
Within the show, Zorn and things native to Zephyria are animated, following the style of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, while the rest of the world is live action. The series' opening title cards are rendered in the style of Hanna-Barbera superhero cartoons of the late 1960s such as Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, The Herculoids, Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor, and Samson & Goliath. The show was created by Reed Agnew and Eli Jorné[5] who wrote the pilot episode while Eric Appel directed.[6] Initially Agnew and Jorne were set to be co-showrunners, however after Fox ordered the series to air Agnew backed out and was made co-executive producer instead.[7] At this point, Sally McKenna was brought in to replace Agnew; McKenna would later, in April 2016, become the sole showrunner after Jorne also left the project. Artemis Pebdani and Tim Meadows' casting was announced in July 2015,[8] with Jason Sudeikis, Cheryl Hines, and Johnny Pemberton's involvement announced the following November.
Son of Zorn has received generally mixed reviews from television critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 57% approval rating based on 30 critics, and a 6.3/10 rating. The critical consensus reads: "Son of Zorn earns points for originality, a talented cast, and intermittent laughs, but they aren't quite enough to prop up a gimmick that's still in search of a workable premise for an ongoing series."[23] On Metacritic, the show holds a score of 56 out of 100 based on 18 critical media reviews indicating "mixed or average reviews".VideoGameMain/Lego Island 2If you meant one of those, just click and go. If you want to start a VideoGame/LEGOIsland2 page, just click the edit button above. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the Main namespace are tropes and should be created through the YKTTW system. Don't put in redirects for shows, books, etc.. Use the right namespace for those. This article is about the fictional material from the Superman mythos. For other uses, see Kryptonite (disambiguation).
Kryptonite is a material from the Superman fictional universe, specifically the ore form of a radioactive element (Pre-Crisis)[1] or compound (Post-Crisis)[2] from Superman's home planet of Krypton. First mentioned in The Adventures of Superman radio show in June 1943, the material has been featured in a variety of forms and colors (each with its own effect) in DC Comics publications and other media, including feature films, television series, and novelty items such as toys and trading card sets. The established premise is that Superman and other Kryptonian characters are susceptible to its radiation, which created usage of the term in popular culture as a reference to an individual's perceived weakness, changes their personality, irrespective of its nature,[3] similar to the term "Achilles' heel". An unpublished 1940 story titled "The K-Metal from Krypton", which Superman creator Jerry Siegel himself wrote, featured a prototype of kryptonite, a mineral from the planet Krypton that drained Superman of his strength while giving humans superhuman powers.
A mineral actually named "kryptonite" was introduced in the story arc "The Meteor from Krypton" in June 1943 on The Adventures of Superman radio series. Since radio shows had to be performed live, when Clayton "Bud" Collyer, the actor who played Superman and Clark Kent, wanted to take a vacation from the series, Superman was placed in a kryptonite trap, and a stand-in groaned with pain for several episodes until Collyer came back from his vacation. In 1949, kryptonite was incorporated into the comic mythos with issue #61 of Superman. In August 1993, pioneering female editor Dorothy Woolfolk stated in an interview with Florida newspaper Today that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet. Kryptonite gradually appeared more frequently, causing science fiction writer Larry Niven to theorize in tongue-in-cheek fashion that Krypton was in fact a Dyson sphere or a cold neutron star, and that this was the underlying reason for so much of the mineral finding its way to Earth courtesy of meteor showers.
[6] In an effort to reduce the use of kryptonite in storylines, all known forms on Earth were transmuted into "k-iron" in a 1971 story arc[7] titled "The Sandman Saga". Various forms of the fictional mineral have been created in the Superman publications: Superman and Jimmy Olsen discuss the mineral kryptonite, with the jewel variant making its debut in Action Comics #310 (March 1964). Art by Curt Swan. Other varieties of the mineral have appeared but have been revealed to be hoaxes, such as yellow (Action Comics #277, June 1961), "kryptonite plus" (Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #126 Jan. 1970) and "blood" (52 #13, Aug. 2006). Columbia Pictures produced two 15-part motion picture serials that used kryptonite as a plot device: Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).Men Of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, 2004, pg. 181-183, ISBN 0-465-03656-2"Dorothy Woolfolk, Superman Editor", Daily Press (Hampton, Virginia), December 6, 2000.