D.N. Ace is a Canadian animated television series created by Matthew Wexler and produced by Nelvana for Teletoon (now Cartoon Network). The series focuses on the life of Ace Ripley, a 12-year-old boy who gains the power to create DNA by using the Dscram to manipulate the Scrammers, alongside his lovable best friend Sloane Plunderman and an immortal squirrel named Mendel.
| D.N. Ace | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Created by | Matthew Wexler |
| Developed by | John Derevlany Andrew Harrison |
| Directed by | Don Kim |
| Voices of |
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| Theme music composer | Justin Forsley Craig McConnell |
| Composer | Scott Bucsis |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (80 segments) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Scott Dyer Athena Georgaklis Matthew Wexler |
| Producers | Laurie Handforth Jeff Ramsden |
| Running time | 22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) |
| Production companies | Nelvana Yeti Farm Wexworks Media |
| Original release | |
| Network | Teletoon |
| Release | July 6, 2019 – April 11, 2020 |
The show debuted on 6 July 2019,[1] and ended its run on 11 April 2020. This was the final English-language Teletoon original series before the network rebranded as the new version of Cartoon Network Canada in 2023. Forty episodes were produced.
Plot
editThe series follows the adventures of a curious, adventurous, mischievous, proudly nerdy, 12 year old boy named Ace Ripley who suddenly learns he holds an incredible ability to manipulate DNA by fusing the genes of a living thing with any other thing, to create something entirely new. The hero-in-the-making uses his newfound power to create ridiculous, amazing, and even terrifying mashed up creatures, and tries to save his town from total chaos while trying to have the time of his life.
Development
editThe series was announced on 14 November 2017, as a comedy adventure series created by Matthew Wexler and produced by Nelvana. Dentsu and OLM, Inc. served as consultants through production and represent the series in Japan.[2] The show features service animation by Yeti Farm.[3] Teletoon released the shows first trailer online 21 June 2019.[4]
Characters
editMain
edit- Ace Ripley (voiced by Lyon Smith) is the eponymous main character: a fun-loving 12 year old boy who gains the power to manipulate DNA by using the Dscram, the DNA scrambling device that can create the Scrammers.
- Sloane Plunderman (voiced by Samantha Weinstein) is a teenage girl who is Ace's best friend and the sister of Huxley Plunderman.
- Mendel (voiced by Juan Chioran) is a talking 500 year old immortal squirrel. He was the first animal mutated by the meteorite that fell on top of him. He has also sworn himself to be the guardian of the meteor from anyone with evil desires. With help from Ace's ancestor, Zebediah Ripley, he created the DNA scrambler.
- Stuart Tweeble (voiced by Mpho Koaho) is the older stepbrother of Ace. Step Stu's dad married Ace's mom.
- Huxley Plunderman (voiced by Taylor Abrahamse) is the main antagonist. He is the C.E.O. of Plunderman Enterprises and the evil brother of Sloane. He is later downgraded to a recurring antagonist when he fires the scientist Juan and becomes target to some of his attacks.
Other/Minor/Supporting
edit- Huxley's Scientists are engineers who work for Huxley to build Clashbots.
- Scientist #1/Juan; (voiced by Juan Chioran) is a tall red headed male. In "Del Contender", Huxley fires him and Juan joins Ace and his team. He soon betrays Ace because he was actually spying for Huxley. After the event of Ace and his team to retrieve the rod that destroyed Crabby, Huxley fires Juan, for real this time, making him became a new enemy to Ace when it was revealed that Juan had been studying Ace and the Scrammers, knowing that they were not robots from the start. He intended to collect 3 meteor splinters to power up his robot armour.
- Scientist #2; is a purple-haired African-Canadian woman.
- Scientist #3/Wesley; (voiced by David Berni) is an obese male with sage-colored hair.
All three of them wear red sunglasses, white coats, and black clothes. They also act as "The Worlds Clashbots League Council Of Elders" when they are wearing robes and amulets.
Bruiser is Huxley's main robot, a rag doll Frankenstein's Monster like robot with a monstrous attitude and a human-like voice. In the episode "Splinterfell", it was revealed that he had a meteor splinter inside of him. His true form resembles more of a common Clashbot that has his original color design.
Countess of Clash is a clash coach champion that lives on Clash Mountain with her giant robotic pig. She has crazy eyes and disguises herself as Steve, a crazy old man.
Cynthia E. Overdrive/C.E.O. is a businesswoman who owns vending machine-type clash bots and speaks in a snotty Valley-girl accent.
Cackles The Clown is a psychotic clash coach clown that terrorizes and destroys cities if his challengers won't accept his challenge. He makes a 2nd appearance in "Crooks and Grannies".
Rad Maverick is a suffer-type clash coach who lives in the sewers.
Mendor is Mendel's twin brother who is opposite to his brother, funnier, adventurous, and greedy. He hides his evil twin brother act so he can trick Ace, Sloane and the Scrammers, to convince them he's more chilled and lovable.
Clashsquatch is a sentient previous clashbot champion that gained intelligence by a small version of the super meteorite.
Captain Nuevo is the recent Clash Coach champion.
Warhol Muse (voiced by Jamie Watson) is an industrialist magician clash coach. He is shown to have a southern accent and seems to be insane. He has a WM logo on his giant hat and tie. In the episode "Now Museum Now You Don't" he touches a splinter statue of Mendel and gains the power to turn anyone into paintings that float and glow orange. Thankfully it wasn't permanent, only keeping it inside his hat allows him to have powers.
Mr.Preston/Mr.P a.k.a. The Dump King is a nice and kind garbage man that has been corrupted and turned evil by drinking essence of the exiled Scarrathorn.
Granny is Ace's grandma (and Stew's step-grandma). Originally a sweet grandmother before her arrival, she went on a gluten free diet and became more reckless, destructive, obnoxious and crazier than her own grandson.
Ace's Mom Ace's mother (and Stew's stepmom) shares a resemblance to her son.
Stew's Dad Stew's father (and Ace's stepdad) shares a resemblance to his son.
Jerry Dayzee (Voiced by Rob Tinkler) is a salesman who is barely respected.
Butternut (voiced by James Hartnett) is a Christmas elf that came over from the North Pole to Del Lago. He befriended Ace, Sloan, Mendel and the Scrammers. He was kidnapped by Huxley and forced him to make clashbots to rule the city. He told the team that Santa has been monitoring the super meteorite from a satellite for 100 years since its arrival.
Tim is Butternut's reindeer friend who gains powers from jumping onto the super meteorite which gave him the abilities to fly, create portals and shoot laser beams from his antlers.
Raj Dynamite (voiced by Chai Valladares) is a clash coach who lost in a clash fight and wasn't seen for a year. He returns in the Clash Of The Titans Tournament when he created a cloning device, The Clonezooka, to enter the Titan Tournament. It was revealed he was after the belt not just for the title but because there was a Meteor Splinter on the belt.
Lucy, also called Little Lucy (voiced by Julie Lemieux) is a little girl who used to be Ace's biggest fan until Ace starts to miss out of the Clash Tournaments while he was busy with fighting Juan and his Juander-bots. Ace is aware of Lucy before fighting Juan, including having spare time to hang out with her until he forgot about her. She used a Combiner-Bot to fight off Ace and his Scrammers.
Eel Mutant is a normal eel that was mutated by a Splinter underwater. It turned into a giant angler fish, dragonfish, hybrid-like monster and had the power to absorb the energy of the Scrammer's attacks. When the splinter was removed, it returned to a normal eel.
Feral Plasma is a bacteria that had been mutated from feeding on Splinters for centuries and was turned into a lava monster. It can drain the Splinter's energy.
Clashbots/Clashers are small robots that are a popular brand for people and used in the Clash-a-torium to compete in tournaments and games.
- Common Clashbots
- Security-Bot
- Unicycle-Bot
- Party-Bot
- Ice Cream-Bot
- Lumber Jack-Bot
- Mega-Clasher/Dragon-Bot/Flap Dragon A robot dragon
- Servant-Bots
- Combiner-Bots Five Clashbots merge into one
- Combo-Bot A robot that was built to destroy the Scrammers
- Jolly-Bots
- Dragon-Bot 2/Flap Dragon 2 are a smaller version of the original Dragon-Bot
- Royal-Bot is Juan's little robot butler
- Juander-Bots
- Ninja Juander-Bots
Scrammers
editCreatures that Ace creates with the Dscram using DNA mix of one living being and one object. The Scrammers also have their own unique powers and their own personalities when created. All of them are very loyal to their creator Ace and are about 2 feet tall.
- Multi Crab/Crabby (voiced by Luke Gordon) is a half crab, half multi-tool.
- Snout Hammer (voiced by Athena Karkanis) is half boar and half hammer.
- Hide-And-Sneak/Heidi (voiced by Evany Rosen) is half chameleon and half high top shoes.
- Digby/Digs (voiced by David Berni) is half groundhog and half Whoopee cushion.
- Cobra Tot (voiced by Taylor Abrahamse) is half snake and half baby doll.
- Boom Hound (voiced by John Gallagher) is half Bull Terrier and half boombox.
- Chopper is half beaver and half pine cone.
- Sharkuum is half shark and half vacuum cleaner.
- Cluck-Cluck-Boom/C.C. (voiced by Rob Tinkler) is half chicken half "Blueberry Pancake Cannon" Paint Ball Gun.
- Hose Fly is half moth and half fire extinguisher.
- Rachael 2 (voiced by Angela Maiorano-Thurston) is half raccoon and half Finger Puppet Rachael.
- The Great Bivalvo/val is half oyster and half fortune cookie.
- Cucarocka (voiced by Deven Mack) is half cockroach and half voice box thingy.
- Chlorofile/Klo is half ivy and half nail file.
- Elasta-Kitty (voiced by Mark Little) is half cat and half rubberband.
- Snot Rocket (voiced by Rob Tinkler) is half snot germs and half toy tank.
- Head Wig is half sloth and half helmet.
- Beef Plungington (voiced by Ron Pardo) is half cow and half plunger.
- Scarrathorn is half biologically mutated Venus Fly Trap and half body spray.
- Night Leaper (voiced by Andrew Jackson) is half grasshopper and half Action Figure.
- Polly Roger is half parrot and half GPS.
- Rhinestone is half rhino and half diamond.
- Bear-B-Que is half bear and half grill cooker.
- Monkey Floss/Mo (voiced by Tony Nappo) is half monkey and half Cotton Candy.
- Sammy-Rye (voiced by Julius Cho) is half scorpion and half sandwich.
- Spark Bug (voiced by Allana Reoch) is half firefly and half headphones.
- Razzle Dazzle is half peacock and half glow stick.
- Sir Quills is half porcupine and half Knight's Helmet.
- OctoGraph is half octopus and half lie detector.
- Bucky BlowTorch (voiced by Gavin Fox) is half rabbit and half torch.
- Tooleo is half carpenter ant and half toolbox.
- Lazerine is half wolverine and half lazer.
- Arachnotist/Ari is half spider and half 3D Printer.
- Power Wash/PDubs (voiced by Deven Mack) is half mosquito and half sponge.
- Frostbite is half crocodile and half freezer.
- Solar Ray is half sunflower and half microwave.
- CompuFox is half fox and half computer.
Episodes
edit| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Any Given Clashday" | Don Kim | Miles Smith | July 6, 2019 | |
| 2 | "Baby Snakes are a Pain" "Crabeo and Tooliette" | Don Kim | Miles Smith | July 13, 2019 | |
| 3 | "Adventures in Scrammersitting" "Countess of Clash" | Don Kim | Andrew Harrison Laurie Elliott | July 20, 2019 | |
| 4 | "Vending for Danger" "Ace Is Wild" | Don Kim | Miles Smith Andrew Harrison | July 27, 2019 | |
| 5 | "Dash 'N Splash" "Kicked to the Side" | Don Kim | Laurie Elliott | August 3, 2019 | |
| 6 | "Super Cool Creator Guy Day" "Hot Mess" | Don Kim | Evany Rosen Ben Joseph | August 10, 2019 | |
| 7 | "Scrapkins Clean!" "Trash Decisions" | Don Kim | Miles Smith Laurie Elliott | August 17, 2019 | |
| 8 | "Pure Clownage" "Terminacer" | Don Kim | Laurie Elliott Ben Joseph | August 24, 2019 | |
| 9 | "A Muggy Day" "Scrappetite For Destruction" | Don Kim | Shawn Kalb Miles Smith | August 31, 2019 | |
| 10 | "Pearls of Wisdom" "Clash of the Bands" | Don Kim | Evany Rosen Shawn Kalb | September 7, 2019 | |
| 11 | "The Scourge" "Sloane Plunderman, Junior Ghost Hunter" | Don Kim | Ben Joseph Laurie Elliott | September 14, 2019 | |
| 12 | "Squirrel Interrupted" "Clash Cops" | Don Kim | Shawn Kalb Ben Joseph | September 21, 2019 | |
| 13 | "Wingin' It" "The Pawshank Redemption" | Don Kim | Miles Smith Josh Gal | September 28, 2019 | |
| 14 | "The Ace and the Hound" "Sibling Riotry" | Don Kim | Laurie Elliott Miles Smith | October 5, 2019 | |
| 15 | "Snot Rocket" "Ace of Grades" | Don Kim | Shawn Kalb Josh Gal | October 12, 2019 | |
| 16 | "Tropic Blunder" "A New Dayzee" | Don Kim | Laurie Elliott Ben Joseph | October 19, 2019 | |
| 17 | "Wish Sewer Here" "Timber Tantrum" | Don Kim | Grant Sauvé Evany Rosen | October 26, 2019 | |
| 18 | "Underground Clashdown" "Ready Clasher One" | Don Kim | Miles Smith Shawn Kalb | November 2, 2019 | |
| 19 | "The Night Leaper" "Legend of the Clashsquatch" | Don Kim | Grant Sauvé Evany Rosen | November 9, 2019 | |
| 20 | "The New Guy" "Mendel Vs. Mendor" | Don Kim | Laurie Elliott Ben Joseph | November 16, 2019 | |
| 21 | "Del Contender" | Don Kim | Miles Smith | November 30, 2019 | |
| 22 | "The Art of Darkness" "The Explodies" | Don Kim | Shawn Kalb Ben Joseph | December 7, 2019 | |
| 23 | "Fortrash of Solitude" "Crooks and Grannies" | Don Kim | Laurie Elliott Evany Rosen | December 14, 2019 | |
| 24 | "Elf Destruction" | Don Kim | Andrew Harrison | December 21, 2019 | |
| 25 | "Squirreled Away" "Splinter is Coming" | Don Kim | Shawn Kalb Kyle Dooley | December 28, 2019 | |
| 26 | "The Clone Ranger" "The Chosen Juan" | Don Kim | Ben Joseph Laurie Elliott | January 4, 2020 | |
| 27 | "Sticks and Rhinestones" "Sauced and Found" | Don Kim | Evany Rosen Joel Buxton | January 11, 2020 | |
| 28 | "Carny Crush" "For Whom the BLT Tolls" | Don Kim | Craig Brown Miles Smith | January 18, 2020 | |
| 29 | "Night of the Clashing Dead" Orange is the New Blackout | Don Kim | Daniel Dillabough Shawn Kalb | January 25, 2020 | |
| 30 | "Splinterfell" "The Younger Games" | Don Kim | Ben Joseph Jeremy Winkels | February 1, 2020 | |
| 31 | "Last Auction Hero" "Fangirl Menace" | Don Kim | Miles Smith Kyle Dooley | February 8, 2020 | |
| 32 | "Clash to the Future" "All in the Scrammily" | Don Kim | Ian Macintyre Josh Gal | February 15, 2020 | |
| 33 | "Stu Detective" "Chillin' Like a Villain" | Don Kim | Joel Buxton Jeff Sager | February 22, 2020 | |
| 34 | "Now Museum, Now You Don't" "Where Have All the Powers Gone?" | Don Kim | Miles Smith Shawn Kalb | February 29, 2020 | |
| 35 | "Clothes Call" "Clashsquatch Lives!" | Don Kim | Rob Shapiro and Joel Buxton Mike D'Ascncenzo and Ben Joseph | March 7, 2020 | |
| 36 | "Small Business Sloane" "Plant Hardly Wait" | Don Kim | Laurie Elliott Ian Macintyre | March 14, 2020 | |
| 37 | "In the Heat of the Fight" "Supply and Demand" | Don Kim | Joel Buxton | March 21, 2020 | |
| 38 | "Caveheart" "Mommelganger" | Don Kim | Miles Smith Kyle Dooley | March 28, 2020 | |
| 39 | "A Drop in the Bucket" "Almost Aced 'Em" | Don Kim | Evany Rosen Miles Smith | April 4, 2020 | |
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Note: This is a tribute to the Batman: the Animated Series episode, Almost Got 'Im where all the villains meet up and recount how they nearly defeated Ace. | |||||
| 40 | "Juan for All and All for Juan" | Don Kim | Andrew Harrison | April 11, 2020 | |
References
edit- ^ "D.N. Ace, Young Justice: Outsiders – Part Two hit Teletoon in July". I Miss Bionix. June 23, 2019. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
- ^ Foster, Elizabeth (November 14, 2017). "Nelvana greenlights D.N.Ace". Playback. Brunico Communications. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
- ^ Milligan, Mercedes (June 4, 2018). "Yeti Farm and Surprise Bag Form Strategic Partnership". Animation Magazine. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
- ^ "NEW SERIES - D.N. ACE - premieres July 6th at 10AM et/pt on Teletoon". Teletoon. YouTube. June 21, 2019. Retrieved June 24, 2019.