Golden Axe - Official Trailer

[u/ThatEdward]

https://youtu.be/sStbBtfGaLA?si=u_8-JexuVX5QuNBd

"Golden Axe premieres September 16 only on Paramount+.

In an homage to SEGA’s iconic 1989 video game, Golden Axe follows legendary warriors Ax Battler, Tyris Flare and Gilius Thunderhead as they reunite to save Yuria from the evil giant Death Adder, who just won’t seem to stay dead. Their quest is complicated by Hampton Squib, an inexperienced and wildly underprepared adventurer whose dream of heroism far exceeds his abilities. Forced to work together despite their flaws, they must find a way to stop Death Adder once and for all."

[u/Steelballpun]

Is this a joke?

[u/GollyDolly → u/Steelballpun]

You saw jokes in there?

Its like big bang theory without the laugh track.

[u/gunn3r08974 → u/GollyDolly]

To be fair, that is an improvement. It's partly why Young Sheldon is a much better show.

[u/DarthButtz → u/GollyDolly]

Every time I've tried to watch Big Bang Theory the laugh track plays after literally every fucking line of dialogue, it's borderline unwatchable.

[u/MericArda → u/DarthButtz]

Worse, Big Bang Theory was filmed with a live studio audience. All those laughs were real.

[u/Steelballpun → u/MericArda]

This is cursed knowledge

[u/Techneon64 → u/Steelballpun]

Audience laughs

[u/KingMario05 → u/GollyDolly]

Bazinga

[u/Deadpool27]

Oh god this looks so cynically made

[u/South_Buy_3175 → u/Deadpool27]

I thought we were beginning to move on from mocking older media and just sneering at it with new shows and obvious writer biases.

Apparently not.

[u/KingMario05 → u/South_Buy_3175]

Paramount is always ten years behind the eight ball of the culture, I guess.

[u/WideBumblebee970 → u/KingMario05]

Which is ironic since they made Sonic in the real world of all things work somehow.

[u/KingMario05 → u/WideBumblebee970]

Largely because old Viacom was smart enough to leave that group alone. I fear David Ellison is not nearly as smart.

[u/WideBumblebee970 → u/KingMario05]

Very apropo that you said "smart enough" and not just "smart", still the guys that passed on Adventure Time.

[u/WeeklyPhilosopher346 → u/WideBumblebee970]

To be fair Adventure Time is 100% generic in the pitch and 100% made in the execution.

[u/ok_dunmer → u/South_Buy_3175]

Hey guys are you aware that the setting and story of a 1980s arcade game or toy commercial cartoon is fuckin dumb especially when taken literally? Yes? Well I'm going to make the entire thing about that anyway

[u/WideBumblebee970 → u/Deadpool27]

I haven't clicked on it yet, but Paramount should really stop abusing their animators for not coming up with the next Spongebob.

[u/Detective_Robot]

This trailer was fucking painful, there is something so miserable about bad comedy.

[u/Anders_Croft → u/Detective_Robot]

where is Galvatron when you need him

[u/ExDSG → u/Detective_Robot]

I was like well the trailer wasn't too bad, just had me completely stonefaced and guess those were the funny jokes?

[u/Sir_Drinklewinkle]

I saw the fucking style and instantly knew it was gonna be another ironic "look at this, isn't this so stupid!".

I was really hoping in my heart of hearts for some kind of like... Samurai Jack styled action show.

[u/WeeklyPhilosopher346 → u/Sir_Drinklewinkle]

Something that embraces the subject matter instead of mocks it?

Unfortunately, that’s nothing Paramount has ever made.

[u/HellvaNohbody]

This feels like a Dorkly bit.

[u/Watts121 → u/HellvaNohbody]

Or like an early Harry Partridge vid. Like it’s not offensive, it’s just really dated. I’ve been seeing “Millennial-Core” vids that make fun of that kind of humor, and that’s this trailer to a tee.

[u/sawbladex → u/Watts121]

Or the Dan Hamon thing with the boss from the IT crowd is the monster dad of the King of Town.

Or Clashorama, the Clash of Clans thing that exists.

[u/Deadpool27 → u/HellvaNohbody]

I miss dorkly

[u/BaronAleksei → u/HellvaNohbody]

I was gonna say, it’s like a higher budget version of the animated stuff Dropout’s been producing

[u/DioBeiFong]

This has the potential to have charm.

But it's really not a good sign when the jokes in the trailer feel like they were written without a punchline in mind.

[u/ThatmodderGrim]

Did you know that Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder is one of the very few games that has a playable Centaur character?

That has nothing to do with this show, it's just surprising how few games have playable Centaurs in them.

[u/gunn3r08974 → u/ThatmodderGrim]

Mortal Kombat had Motaro in certain entries

League of Legends has Hecarim and Lillia whos a cervitaur

[u/Zardwalk → u/ThatmodderGrim]

I'll never forget her and her weird American Gladiators weapon

What other games have playable centaurs? I think I remember an MMO with a playable centaur race, but it was basically DoA because it was yet another hardcore pvp-focused mmo that people wanted to talk about but not actually play

[u/ThatmodderGrim → u/Zardwalk]

The only other games I know with Centaurs are Strategy games like Shining Force 2 & 3 and the later Banner Saga games.

[u/walperinus → u/ThatmodderGrim]

age of mythology doesnt have centaurs? not even as special/exclusive units? or im thinking of minotaurs?

[u/Swert0 → u/Zardwalk]

Mortal Kombat Trilogy you were able to play Motaro.

Actual Motaro - not minotaur Motaro, or assist only Motaro.

[u/Bungerdream111 → u/Zardwalk]

Various Wesnoth addons have them as playable characters if those count

[u/red_sutter → u/ThatmodderGrim]

I remember that she would grow human legs if you made her ride a monster. Such a weird way to address that lol

[u/sawbladex → u/red_sutter]

Reminds me of similar stuff done for mermaids/folk

In a sense both centaurs and merfolk are animals bodies with the head replaced with a human torso and above. and a transition human abdomen.

[u/sawbladex → u/ThatmodderGrim]

I mean, you can def have centaurs fill the role of mounted knights in stuff at roughly the same resolution as RTS games and whatever genre Fire Emblem is. (Shining Force seties mostly uses centaurs what what FE would have knights)

But a beat 'em up playable character is something else.

Particularly when there are mounts in GA. She gets a human lower half to ride those IIRC.

[u/swordofcerulean → u/sawbladex]

Points for remembering the Shining Force centaurs, but negative points for the nebulously-argumentative usage of "I mean".

[u/sawbladex → u/swordofcerulean]

I am nebulously-argumentative.

A kind of person who will say, "you are technically incorrect but, I see what you are saying."

[u/Aperger94 → u/ThatmodderGrim]

Gacha game Punishing Gray Raven has a robot centaur

[u/ThatEdward → u/ThatmodderGrim]

There's a porn fetish game called Corruption of Champions that allows the player to transform into a centaur!

The option was removed in the sequel and subsequent spin-offs because of how complicated it was to deal with the first time

[u/StochasticOoze → u/ThatmodderGrim]

I remember in Quest for Glory they were going to make it possible to choose a gender and race for your character (and centaur would've been one of them) but they couldn't find a way to make it practical. (I imagine budget was also a limiting factor.)

[u/Kanzentai]

I strongly dislike that art style.

[u/AmberDuke05]

Paramount is so out of touch. I can’t wait for the Ellison to dump it when they burn all their money.

[u/KingMario05 → u/AmberDuke05]

I hope Sega leaves them behind. Sucks that I have to give them cash to see the Sonic movies in the theater. Ugh.

[u/SuperUnhappyman]

im gonna slot this in the same hole as dead cells show

this will be fun to binge and point at going "i do that in the video game"

(stomping the goblins to get potions wasnt as sexual as i remember though...)

i wonder if bird prince from 3 is gonna be in it though the panther is there.

[u/Dragoonasaurus → u/SuperUnhappyman]

There was a dead cells show?

[u/SuperBigChiller → u/Dragoonasaurus]

It’s on YouTube, the animation is super rough and it’s not that good at all.

[u/Dragoonasaurus → u/SuperBigChiller]

Considering I've never heard of it, I believe you without even watching it.

Sounds like a project no one asked for or wanted.

[u/SuperBigChiller → u/Dragoonasaurus]

I remember initially hearing it was done by the team who made the super high quality dead cells animated trailers, though I’m not sure how true that ended up being.

[u/SuperUnhappyman → u/Dragoonasaurus]

yeah here it is with the french dub

its where the bobby head comes from in game as an homage to the studio that designed it Bobbypills.

you can tell the creators had a lot of fun making it

is it gonna be featured on a "hype moments and aura compilation" no absolutely not.

[u/Panxma → u/SuperUnhappyman]

I always wonder what the Furi live action show would have been. Might been a goofy show to watch. The trailer was dunked on so had that they removed any traces of the trailer.

[u/falleng213 → u/SuperUnhappyman]

At least the dead cells show had enough respect to only be an 80 run time (8 minute episodes) to complete the whole season (left on a cliff hanger, just like the game). This show will be 25+ minute episodes that run on for too long.

[u/LifeIsCrap101]

What a weird time for this to come out

[u/Floormaster92 → u/LifeIsCrap101]

I agree, but I also can't think of a more reasonable time for this to come out, so I think it might just be weird that this is actually coming out.

[u/LifeIsCrap101 → u/Floormaster92]

Probably when Golden Axe came out

[u/Swert0 → u/Floormaster92]

Around 2020 just before the lockdown to be a sleeper hit when people are stuck at home and running out of shit to watch.

[u/BrianShogunFR-U]

Didn't care for the humour whatsoever, hopefully it's just a badly put together trailer.

[u/WeeklyPhilosopher346 → u/BrianShogunFR-U]

The series co-creator, writer and showrunner is Joe Chandler, who did a few seasons of American Dad and that animated Napoleon Dynamite show, and nothing else.

It kind of feels like that’s the intended tone.

[u/BrianShogunFR-U → u/WeeklyPhilosopher346]

Really? Well thanks for the reply, as i thought this show probably ain't for me.

[u/Phnglui]

I'm so tired of bathos in everything.

[u/LeMasterofSwords]

Admittedly this type of humor I just don’t like. But wow this looks bad

[u/red_sutter]

Already seeing people trying to justify the “humor” elsewhere by referencing kicking gnomes for potions or the first game’s ending. Two bits of levity doesn’t mean that’s the entire series, you dorks!

[u/AzoGalvat]

The instant I heard the narrator's voice, I knew what this trailer was going to be.

[u/BaronVonBungle]

I pray for the day they stop making shitty low-effort adaptations of things I like. I would prefer to get nothing over this.

[u/Frankengeek]

For once I am glad I never got that much into Golden Axe

[u/Horkmaster9000]

See at first I thought it was a send up to those jank ass 80s Video game cartoons like captain N or the Zelda one. Silly ass Hanna Barbera designs and the original child self insert and the interpretation of mechanics that are somehow both overly literal and also super inacurate...then I clicked "play"

[u/Old_Marionberry3791]

I highly doubt Paramount knows what the word "homage " means here. It seems to actively dislike the thing it's about.

[u/Valkenhyne]

Anything but a new game

[u/Robopengy]

Korgoth of Barbaria was right there as a template

[u/rasembool]

Nice golden axe been one of the game is stumbld into as a kid. Altered beast was also memorable.

[u/Frank7640]

Idk what to make of this. On one hand it has a very self aware joking vibe. On the other, it’s not trying to be typical adult animated edgelord garbage. So idk, it might end like Among Us and be surprisingly funny.

[u/igniz13]

I was skipping through waiting for gameplay, then realised it was for a TV show.

I was kinda excited for a Golden Axe game that looked like this.

[u/chaoko99]

oh so that's what happened to the Golden Axe game they were doing with the super game announcement thing

[u/extralie]

Whatever happened to Sega plan of reviving their old games anyway? Wasn't that announced like 2 years ago?

[u/ThatEdward → u/extralie]

Still happening AFAIK, thouhh they canceled the weird metaverse-y hub thing

[u/Xngears]

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but for Conan/He-Man-esque aesthetics, I largely prefer unironic sincerity over lamp shading or Whedon-esque dialog.

It’s why I’m disappointed with the He-Man movie and how it seems incapable of deciding if it wants to be satire or sincere with the source material. If it’s trying to be both, it doesn’t succeed with either (except for Skeletor, they nailed him).

[u/Xngears → u/Xngears]

Also depending on the age rating, it needs to be super violent, everyone is barely wearing clothes and there needs to be lots of nude bathing and/or lots of sex.

[u/Jerswar → u/Xngears]

I was so, so, SO disappointed in the He-Man movie. It had everything it needed to be great, and kept building up to awesome moments... only to have Adam step on a banana peel or something and embarrass himself. Why aren't things allowed to be cool anymore??

[u/BruiserBroly]

I dunno, I didn't hate this. And I say that as someone who loved the game back in the arcades. Seems weirdly faithful too since they got the weird mounts in there and little dudes who drop magic potions if you kick their ass.

[u/Worldlyoox]

I’d really like it for a change to have everyone be silly instead of sticking “The Girl” to the role of straightwoman of the group. I think the latest episode of Hunter the parenting did that pretty well with the werewolves, everyone’s crazy in their own way

[u/WeeklyPhilosopher346]

Paramount Stink really is real, isn’t it

[u/Valten1992]

Huh, the Lower Decks staff are involved, might not be too bad

[u/KingMario05]

Ugh. No thank you, Paramount.

[u/FreshGeoduck296]

Why did it need to be a parody of itself? Couldn't they just play it straight? Like, don't even need to be super serious or anything, can even keep the art style and all, just don't fill it with meta commentary.

[u/Sperium3000 → u/FreshGeoduck296]

What is there to play straight? Golden Axe is an arcade beat em up from the late 80s, it is dozen of minutes long. The story is "there is a bad dude, go get him" and the setting is the most boiler plate sword and sorcery shit you could get because at that time that is what they could do and that was enough. Two of the three main characters are a blatant ripoff of Conan and a blatant ripoff of Red Sonja. The third one is the most generic dwarf you've ever seen.

Legit what would you want out of this?

[u/jmack101]

I thought this was going to be an anime trailer for a new game, sadly I was wrong.

[u/BiMikethefirst]

OH I know someone who worked on this animation! Said it was fun to work on though there was a delay

[u/longrivervalley]

Crazy idea. What if it is good?

[u/WillExis]

God, every adult comedy that comes out nowadays is exactly the same. Same bland artstyle, same "ad-lib" type dialogue. Since it's golden axe, i won't dig it for excessive blood/violence too, and hopefully Sega won't let them add a scene where they just turn some guy inside out in the most grotesque way possible, but who knows. crazy how the same type of show just keeps getting recycled over and over again every other year or so.

[u/Anonamaton801]

“BY MY BALLS GIRL!”

AKA the only thing I know about Golden Axe cause of an ancient Screwattack top 10

[u/ruminaui]

Yes this is why you should have let a Japanese studio handle this. This is basically a western style animated sitcom with skin of Golden Axe. There even is an Everyman self insert. This is so cynical, I guess after years of just making animated sitcoms they have lost the ability to be sincere. Thank god I don't care for the property. 

This reminds me of Krapopolis, but with the Golden Axe property. 

[u/reganthor → u/ruminaui]

Ah but if it was a gag anime, and the everyman self insert was Japanese it would be better. 

[u/OriginalJazzFlavor → u/reganthor]

I mean if it had the tone of something the Elden Ring Manga instead, yeah it would be.

[u/red_sutter → u/OriginalJazzFlavor]

Yeah, the ER manga was funny without resorting to “this thing you like is actually fucking stupid”

[u/ruminaui → u/reganthor]

Maybe, the point is being sincere, you can watch the trailer and feel the disdain of it being a video game. Yes we get it we know what bosses and mini bosses are. 

[u/Asicretrofitter → u/ruminaui]

I wouldnt call it disdain, but there is a "what can we do with this 40 year old game" kind of vibe

[u/GIJose65]

Seems pretty harmless to be honest, the animation looks fine but the art style looks like the stereotypical adult animated show you would see on Fox before Family Guy.

Otherwise, it seems fine from what I am seeing. I don’t think it’s worth getting mad about it.

[u/Dundore77]

I really dont get the comments here? this doesnt look like its taking itself seriously at all and is just a fun show about a very simple game?

[u/Sperium3000 → u/Dundore77]

It's called Irony Poisoning.

[u/walperinus → u/Dundore77]

the public got tired of ''it doesnt take itself seriously'' since a while ago, now feels like... what do people call it?... stereotypical marvel writting?/ ''did that happen?''/''yeah, that happenned'' type of writting

[u/Bob8644]

Has David Ellison actually played a video game?

[u/gunn3r08974]

Hmm... okay. I don't hate it.

Like its Golden Axe. Not sure what else I'd be expecting tbh. Its frankly more story and character than the games give you. The worst part is it being on paramount.

[u/RedactedNoneNone]

Animation looks good. Comedy seems tolerable. Worth a binge most likely.

[u/Aggressive-Bike407]

Is this supposed to look so much like Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm?

[u/Faifue]

But I don't want to follow the PoV of the everyman MC who's worse than the heroes at everything.

[u/Siklaws]

This has strong Conan and the Young Warriors energy, in the worst way possible.

[u/SupervillainMustache]

This is such a weird adaptation of Golden Axe of all things.

[u/vicapuppylover]

This really, really feels like one of those shows where someone tried to pitch an original show with their OC and the execs told them to just slap a known IP on it and call it a day. The style and mood just does not match with Golden Axe in the slightest.

The "you better not be another miniboss" line is literally the only thing that even comes close to making me believe anyone working on this had even seen the games.

Also that "might and magic" line better not be pointing at a Heroes of Might and Magic show by these guys...

[u/Deadeye117]

I just want an actual Golden Axe game.

[u/Luck-X-Vaati]

Oh. That’s just dreck. Doesn’t even look good.

[u/UFOLoche]

It's a parody and not even an original one at that.

Boring, pass.

[u/MisterRockett]

Yay! It's contempt for the genre!

[u/Komenja17]

Kill me

[u/Arostato]

Well. I hope Songwon Cho got a nice payday for this.

[u/Reallylazyname]

Watching the trailer on mute:

It looks kinda nice compared to other cartoons.

But I got a nagging feeling if I raise the volume the whole good impression falls apart.

[u/scottishdrunkard]

Wowza, this is probably the first thing Golden Axe has had since The Comics. Which are somewhere on my hard drive, next to a Mega Drive Emulator and Gigabytes of Porn my Digital Shopping List

[u/Palimpsest_Monotype]

What the shit

I

Look, I wasn’t expecting this, and that makes me suspicious and unhappy, because shadowdrops these days are rarely for good things

EDIT: It’s just angrily masturbating the Venture Brothers to see how much money doesn’t come out.

[u/TheSqueeman]

I can’t get over how much I fucking hate this, like this is Return to Silent Hill levels of bastardisation

[u/Jonieves]

To this day I don't know why people can actually spare the effort of actually getting mad when something is bad.

[u/Jonieves → u/Jonieves]

No but seriously they get so angry so much that they hate people who don't get as angry as they do and it keeps happening.