Chris Colorado

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Chris Colorado is an animated televised series by ??? with 26 episodes, created by Thibaut Chatel, Franck Bertrand and Jacqueline Monsigny, and originally aired on December 18, 2000 on Canal+. In Belgium, the series was shown on Club RTL, Quebec and Vrak TV. It aired on Toonami in the UK between 2003 and 2004.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Characters 2.1 The World Federation 2.2 The Thanors 2.2.1 Thanatos 3 Episodes

[edit] Synopsis

The history of Chris Colorado is located on an apocalyptic future Earth. After a data-processing bug prevents mankind from detecting the fall of a meteorite, It results in the destruction of nearly all life on Earth in a massive disaster later known as the "Great Crash". After some time, many groups of survivors gathered together to try to rebuild and create a newer, more peaceful society, and formed "The World Federation". After several decades of peace, a mysterious dictator called "Thanatos", a mysterious human wearing a helmet to conceal his face, with an army of humans converted into cyborgs called "Thanors", started a major conflict called "The Mega War", which resulted with Thanatos taking control of Europe. But a group, "The Centurions of Freedom", lead by Commander Richard Julian, succeeded in striking back and defeating Thanatos, who seemed to take refuge in what remained of Glorious City (Earth's first world capital and mostly destroyed by the meteorite) where a strange black liquid from the meteorite, now called "Dark Torrent" by the Centurions, enables him to recruit a new army of Thanors out of the survivors still living in the ruins and start a constant skirmish-war against the World Federation. The story begins with a former centurion named Captain Chris Colorado, a sporting, intelligent and world-weary soldier, who is recruited by new-World Commander Richard Jullian, who proceeds to reveal to Chris that he is the son of William-Erwin Krantz, a famous member of the Centurions of Freedom charged to infiltrate Thanatos's army and gather information but went missing and presumed to have defected to the enemy. This had left many, including Chris himself, to despise him as a traitor. Though initially reluctant, Chris accepts the job as Julian's primary secret agent in the war against Thanatos because of his need to search for the truth. This will involve Chris in increasingly dangerous adventures where various meetings with mysterious individuals will reveal the truth to him about his father, his family and the shocking secret behind the Great Crash itself.

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[edit] The World Federation

Main article: World Federation (Chris Colorado)

[edit] The Thanors

Recruited by force by Thanatos, they were originally humans who were captured by Thanatos and underwent severe brain-washing and physical transformation into cyborgs ready to fight in Thanatos's name. They thus do not hesitate to commit suicide rather than to fall to the hands from the enemy. To this end, they have had a button installed behind the temple which shuts down critical areas of the brain and plunges them in an induced coma. They are used Thanatos's main army and are sent on various missions against their enemies. They have many spies inside the highest ranks of the World Federation and are the central enemy in the series. It is later revealed that a "Supreme Thanor" exists as the commander of the entire Thanor army and acts as Thanatos's second-in-command. Chris is perplexed by the fact he bears an extremely strong resemblance to himself.

[edit] Thanatos

The mysterious dictator of the history to the head of Thanors. He appears to have several psychic abilities that he draws from the Dark Torrent, a viscous matter emanating from the meteorite. Though nobody has seen what he looks like under his helmet, he seems to be well known to his enemies, especially Julian. It is later revealed that he's secretly planning for Chris to eventually joining his cause.

[edit] Episodes

• The World Commander's Agent
• The Protected City
• The Forbidden Zone
• The Night of the Hopi
• The Voyage of Liberty
• The Woman Behind the Veil
• The Glass Cube
• The Great Crash
• Vote for Julian
• The Triumph of Thanatos
• Clandestinité
• The Mosais
• Faux-semblant
• Marubo
• The Madness of Chris Colorado
• Thanatos against Thanatos
• The Lost Library
• The Phantom from Chichen-Itza
• Enemy Forces
• The Last Will of Annouchka Krantz
• The Secret of Palenque
• Women of the Desert
• Chasse to Man
• The Minotaur File
• Son of the Clone
• The Destiny of Krantz