Well the formatting in the original post turned out horrendous, so let's try this again. This time, I'll give the whole concept bible. It's really just a flexible base for what the show could be. The only definites are the two main characters and the setting.
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Afrocalypse and the Voodoo Bear Concept Ideas "It's Escape From New York meets Shaft meets New Jack City." Afrocalypse is an exterminator in a post-apocalyptic Cincinnati. Nuclear war has ravaged the US and radiation has mutated it's inhabitants. It's up to Afrocalypse and his kodiak bear side-kick to earn their keep and plunder their way to freedom outside of the quarantine that separates them from... well, other mutants and devastation.
The Voodoo Bear is a kodiak bear that was given sentience when the very edge of an irradiated nuclear site mutated his brain. He doesn't speak much, but he does tend to make Afrocalypse look like a jackass whenever it comes down to a battle of masculinity. The Voodoo Bear is a hunter who takes the skulls of his enemies and attaches them to a sash that he wears around his torso, much like a Predator sort of character.
The two of them live at the Funklair, which is located inside the Cincinnati Music Hall. Now, this is a satire on blacksploitation films, so the music is primarily funk. This is something I'm sure the good people at AS might be able to convince DJ Shadow to get involved in.
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Sub-Character Ideas
- A young gangster boy, 13 or 14 yrs old.
- A military leader of some kind that commissions the duo to eliminate certain threats within the quarantine.
- A major drug dealer that cooks up heavy drugs so the depressed majority of the quarantine pays him to take away the hopelessness.
- A "wise" old negro that predicts the Afrocalypse's destiny by flipping through television channels and writing down sentence fragments to create a full "prediction."
- A team of scientists trying to restore order to the quarantine.
- Afrocalypse's mother-in-law, who is a loud-mouthed, old school negro woman that constantly reminds him of how incompetitent, ugly, stupid, wicked, etc. he is. Could maybe be losing her memory, and believe's he's a teenager trying to get sleep with her dead daughter (Afrocalypse's dead wife.)
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Episode ideas
1. In the first episode, the Afrocalypse is shown as a high-end retail sales executive at a major african-american clothing retail company. He's very clean cut, always smiling, very polite, etc. A very respectible member of the work force and society. While he's talking with a fellow executive about whether or not twenty buttons is too many or too few, a loud explosion is heard. They walk outside of the store, and a mushroom cloud is billowing. The explosion engulfs everything. The screen fades to black. When Afrocalypse comes to, he's lying on the ground in front of the store. everything is destroyed, the city is a desert of debris. He hears a television. He looks up, and Obama is addressing the country. Obama: "There has been an alleged nuclear attack on the city of Cincinnati, but until the dust and radiation clears, we can't know for sure." Afrocalypse then passes out. "Five years later," the Afrocalypse is battling a mutated human in a hotel lobby. He gets pinned against a fountain, and just before the mutant finishes him off, a kodiak bear attacks it. There's a short battle, and the bear wins. The Afrocalypse is weary, thinking he might have to wrestle the bear, but the bear stands up and says, "I am the Voodoo Bear." The bear then grabs the mutant, tears it's skull out, and attaches it to a sash of skulls around his torso. "And you are the Afrocalypse." They have a short conversation, in which the Voodoo Bear makes it clear that the Afrocalypse has no choice in the matter, and that they're officially a duo.
2. People in the area start walking around like brain-dead zombies. As it turns out, there's a major drug ring taking place in the quarantine. It's up to the Afrocalypse and the Voodoo Bear to put a damper on the trafficking. When they get to the meth lab in the Price Hill, they take out a few places, but realize it's only the tip of the iceberg.
3. The duo decide to take a day off after destroying an entire subterranian nest of mutant molemen. On their day off, however, countless horrible things keep happening. A mutant attacks an orphanage, a bunch of irradiated zoo animals escape the quarantine, an evil drug-dealing witchdoctor attacks the Funklair, and a group of shell-shocked homeless vets wage war on the nuns because their church bells are giving them panic attacks. Every time a disaster happens, however, the duo are trying to avoid them. By the end of it, they have to save the quarantine from being nuked again.
4. Soulomite, Afrocalypse's old mentor, has lost his marbles. He's escaped and taken over King's Island Amusement Park. When Afrocalypse and the Voodoo Bear manage to convince the military to let them track him down, the duo leaves the quarantine. When they make it to King's Island, they have to fight hordes of mutant clowns, a lifeguard who's radioactivity has given him the power to control water, and people fused with their cartoon character costumes. When they finally take down Soulomite, they decide that even though they've finally made it out of quarantine, they have to go back because the city needs them.
5. The US Military General has lost his job. The failed attempts to clear the mutant plague within the quarantine have made the military lose faith in his efforts. He teams up with Afrocalypse and the Voodoo Bear to make a big move in the quarantine and try to re-establish his reputation. In order to do this, the three of them concoct a plan to take down a major nest of mutant scum residing in the abandon tunnels of Cincinnati's long lost attempt to bring a subway system to the city. Though the attempt succeeds only in releasing more toxic radiation into the quarantine, the duo has made a powerful new ally.
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