Supercrooks - General Discussion

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Supercrooks     13 episodes    Nov. 25    Netflix

The animated Supercrooks is based off of a 4 issue comic book published in 2012 that was a spinoff of the Jupiter's Legacy comic book created by Mark Millar and artist Leinil Yu. The comic book provides roughly 3 and a half episodes of material for the 13 half-hour episodes of the animated series.  The rest of the episodes provide some prequel material that shows the heroes and villains before the comic's grand heist commences as well as fills in and updates the general storyline.

 

One last heist. That's what they all say, right? Just one final score, and everyone can retire and take up fishing. Thing is, the jails are filled with super villains who thought the same thing, and got busted. But the Heat's in a jam. He's run up the kind of gambling debt that - if he can't pay it back in cash - will be paid in blood. Nobody wants to see the most beloved supercrook of all time rubbed out by the mob - especially his biggest fan, Johnny Bolt. And Johnny's got a plan to help the Heat and make his eight buddies disgustingly rich at the same time. Their target? The riches contained within the compound of the most successful villain of them all, who has retired to a life of luxury in Spain. To pull off the job, they'll have to avoid the big boss, the authorities, and their old super heroic nemeses, Praetorian who has 200 different powers.

L-R     Roddy Diesel   Sammy Diesel   Forecast    TK McCabe   
The Ghost    The Heat   Kasey Ann    Johnny Bolt   
The Gladiator    Salamander     The Bastard    The Praetorian

The Supercrooks Cast - English (Japanese) Voice Artists

Johnny Bolt – Jonah Scott (Kenjiro Tsuda) a super-powered criminal with electrical abilities who was just released from prison.

Kasey Ann – Abby Trott  (Maaya Sakamoto) Johnny Bolt's ex-girlfriend that has the power to make people see what she wants them to see.

Carmine / The Heat – Doug Stone  (Yasushi Kimura) An elderly supervillain with fire-manipulation powers and a heat gun, who needs to quickly pay off a mob gambling debt. Carmine has been a mentor to most of the super villains in one way or another. Carmine and Johnny Bolt put together a team of Supercrooks, to steal millions of dollars from the world's most successful and brutal supervillain, The Bastard.

The Gladiator – Beau Billingslea  (Pierre Taki) A super hero who possesses great strength that Johnny Bolt blackmails into helping the Supercrooks on their heist.

Josh / The Ghost – Bill Butts  (Junichi Suwabe) The world's greatest cat burglar who can become intangible and phase through walls and uses two pistols. Now retired from a life crime to become an architect.

Forecast – Zeno Robinson  (KENN) A con artist who can control the weather with his mind.

TK McCabe – Bill Rogers  (Eiji Takemoto) A Telekinetic supervillain who tried to go legit, and hated it. He jumps at the chance to be part of the heist.

Roddy Diesel – Bruno Oliver  (Tetsu Inada), brother of Sammy Diesel – Ben Pronsky  (Subaru Kimura). These two former super villain siblings are now professional fighters calling themselves the Indestructible Men. Even though that can't seem to get along together, together they share the same power of being able to regenerate any part of their body.

Christopher Matts / The Bastard – Jason Marnocha  (Hiroshi Yanaka) was world's greatest super villain of all time, until he retired and moved to Spain. He has the power of Telekinesis.

The Salamander - ?  (Hisao Egawa) helped run The Bastard's old criminal empire.

The Praetorian – DC Douglas  (Wataru Hatano) A super hero who just barely stayed on the right side of the law. He becomes The Bastard's head of security.

A live-action Netflix version is also in the works.

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Episode Titles and Descriptions

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S01.E01: Electro Boy
A regular kid named Johnny Bolt suddenly finds that he can control electricity. Soon enough, he starts testing the limits of his newfound powers.

S01.E02: Kasey
As soon as he's released from prison, Johnny meets up with his old supervillain friends, who try to pull him into a very intriguing gem heist.

S01.E03: Man Mountain
Things don't go as planned with the heist, and Johnny and the crew end up getting chased by cops and superheroes through the streets of San Francisco.

S01.E04: The Praetorian
Johnny and his friends are confronted by Praetorian, a superhero who relishes using his seemingly endless abilities to punish them.

S01.E05: The Heat
In Chicago, Carmine introduces Johnny and Kasey to the other supervillains. They've all been chosen for their specific powers and their nameless status.

S01.E06: The Gladiator
Carmine and his crew steal a plane and fly off to rescue TK, who's on a heavily guarded aircraft protected by Gladiator.

S01.E07: The Supermax
While waiting for the final member of their crew to show up, Carmine shares his plan with everyone else and gives them one last chance to drop out.

S01.E08: The Union of Justice
The night before hitting the Union of Justice headquarters, Johnny and Kasey have an early celebration and vow to walk away from crime after this heist.

S01.E09: Count Orlok
While confronting their old friend Praetorian, Carmine and the crew realize they've made a major miscalculation and have to think on their feet.

S01.E10: Carmine
Johnny's old supervillain buddies take him out for a celebration and as usual, try to pull him into one last harebrained job.

S01.E11: Casino Grand Granite
To save Carmine, Johnny tries to get the crew back together for another heist he's planned using information he gathered while serving time in supermax.

S01.E12: The Bastard
Kasey and Roddy disguise themselves as professors for a meeting with Christopher Matts while Carmine, Johnny, TK and Josh case the casino.

S01.E13: SUPER CROOKS
Christopher Matts sends Praetorian to stop Johnny and his crew - but this time, the supervillains have Gladiator on their side.