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| - The series starred Scott Valentine, Margot Kidder, Ron Perlman, and Jeff Bennett. Mark Hamill, Debbie Harry, Rob Paulsen, and Paul Williams had recurring roles. Phantom 2040 is one of history's few animated series to focuse more on intelligent storylines and character development than action sequences, although the latter was also featured. Based on Lee Falk's long-running (since 1936) The Phantom comic strip, the series sent the "Ghost Who Walks" into the not-too-distant future.
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| - The series starred Scott Valentine, Margot Kidder, Ron Perlman, and Jeff Bennett. Mark Hamill, Debbie Harry, Rob Paulsen, and Paul Williams had recurring roles. Phantom 2040 is one of history's few animated series to focuse more on intelligent storylines and character development than action sequences, although the latter was also featured. Based on Lee Falk's long-running (since 1936) The Phantom comic strip, the series sent the "Ghost Who Walks" into the not-too-distant future. In the year 2040, environmental disasters and the economic Resource Wars of the early 21st century had decimated the fragile ecological balance of an Earth once teeming with life. Everywhere, the privileged and wealthy continued to thrive in expensive real estate that towered above the suffering masses. The victims of Earth’s misfortune had been forced to survive on scavenged refuse from the past on the mangled streets of forlorn city-states. In Metropia, the largest and most powerful of the city-states, the powerful corporation Maximum Inc. had commandeered armies of robotic Biots to create a cold, steely urban center, consisting of huge, residential towers intertwined with TubeTrain tunnels. Maximum had plans to build Cyberville—an immense survival shelter where only the wealthiest and most elite humans would retreat to when Earth finally succumbed to its slowly deteriorating state. The only hope for the survival of humanity was the Ghost Jungle—thousands of square miles of mutated vegetation that could be the planet's salvation. This secret source of life was submerged beneath Metropia where no one could find it, but fortunately, college student Kit Walker Jr. had been chosen by fate to save the world, donning the black mask and purple suit of his people’s savior, the 24th Phantom. The role of the Phantom had been passed on from father to son since the 1500s, leading the world to believe that the Phantom was a single being. Kit, the 24th in the line, was young, unsure, and inexperienced, but he found within him the courage and might to battle the evil that threatened to destroy the Earth. Phantom 2040 debuted in 1994 to rave reviews, though it survived only 35 episodes before it was relegated to weekend repeats in 1996. The show won praise for its subtle teaching of such values as individuality, freedom, and the volatility of humanity.
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