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ThunderCats,SilverHaw ks + TigerSharks!!!!

posted 16 years ago by re_zuleta
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Did all 3-short lived animated series: THUNDERCATS, SILVERHAWKS & TIGERSHARKS, created and animated by 'Pacific Animation' and which shared similar likeness in character appearances....(did they all) take place in the same universe, or galaxy?

I mean both THUNDERCATS and SILVERHAWKS took place in the far, far future...I can't remember TIGERSHARKS that well, except that it only aired for hardly 15 min segment episodes, as part of "THE COMIC STRIP"(series) and featured half-man, half sea creatures like creatures (dolphin,orca whale,octopus,walrus(etc); but I think they took place in present day Earth, or at least a not too distant future.

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[–] Louisifer 14 years ago

I always thought that Thundercats took place in Earth's distant future where all human life was extinct or relocated while in Silverhawks still exists as a metropolis and not the post-apocalyptic Third Earth. I think Silverhawks is a prequel to Thundercats but I'm not sure about Tigersharks. Very few people I know remember it.

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[–] lockon_stratos 13 years ago

Yay an update. Well sort of. First of all ThuderCats and SilverHawks are not short lived. They were pretty extensive. Before I watched the TC 2011 series and read the TC 2002 comics, I would have said the three series had nothing to do with one another but the 2011 series had a clip of SilverHawks. The comics showed that the ThunderCat universe is way bigger than what was shown in the series. So now I say they do connect in some way. Hopefully the new series will show more.

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[–] col_rutherford 13 years ago

I mean both THUNDERCATS and SILVERHAWKS took place in the far, far future...I can't remember TIGERSHARKS that well, except that it only aired for hardly 15 min segment episodes, as part of "THE COMIC STRIP"(series) and featured half-man, half sea creatures like creatures (dolphin,orca whale,octopus,walrus(etc); but I think they took place in present day Earth, or at least a not too distant future.

TigerSharks took place sometime in the future. The TigerSharks had spaceships capable of interstellar travel. The TigerSharks were originally from Earth but some of them had pointed ears or unusual pigmentation while in human form. I don't know why they were anatomically different from other humans.

It was implied that Third Earth might be our Earth in the distant future but I don't know if it was ever explicitly stated. I speculate that a disaster caused a massive reduction in Earth's human population. Some humans left for outer space while most of the humans who remained on Earth reverted to primitive ways. SilverHawks and TigerSharks could have been set before the hypothetical catastrophe that befell Third Earth in ThunderCats. Perhaps the TigerSharks were affiliated with the scientists who built and maintained the Great Oceanic Plug.

[–] Fluke_Skywalker 13 years ago

I have no memory of TIGERSHARKS as a kid. I watched THUNDERCATS and SILVERHAKWS religiously, but I don't remember ever even hearing of TIGERSHARKS until I was an adult. Did it have a short run?

As for the setting of THUNDERCATS, I've always assumed it was our Earth in a post-apocalyptic future. Third Earth, the fact that Excalibur exists there... It's thin evidence, but enough to support that theory for me. It's curious that beyond Mumm-Ra's temple it lacks the sort of identifiable landmakrs of something like THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN.

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[–] Oddark123 12 years ago

I don't think it was a work in progress for the three to be linked together but not in retrospect i do believe we are going with the idea they could have been all in the same universe.

Just imagine what could have been done with a huge Thundercats, Silverhawks and Tigersharks cross over.

I'd like to see Monstar lay into Mumm-ra and T-Ray and talk about how he's actually got a good criminal racket going while the other two really don't have much of anything to show from all their run-ins with the good guys lol

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