Jackie Chan Adventures
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Jackie Chan Adventures is an animated series that was produced in the years 2000 to 2005 in the USA. The main character is an animated version of the actor Jackie Chan.
Content
Jackie Chan lives with his uncle in an apartment above the antique business in San Francisco and works on behalf of a university archaeologist. One day, his niece Jade Chan from Hong Kong appears in San Francisco. Since she was repeatedly involved in their homeland in trouble at school, they will now go to the U.S. to school and get help from her uncle and great-uncle.
- Season 2: In banished to another dimension, Shendu tries to free himself and his demons siblings from her captivity by attempting to open the gates again, by the Eight Immortals they once banished. When Jackie and the others learned of this plan, a desperate race against time begins ... (39 episodes)
- Season 3: An evil wizard named Daolon Chi Wong tries Shendus talismans to take se. Jackie is able to destroy them, but their forces are spread subsequently to certain noble animals anywhere in the world. Jackie and his friends must now find these animals and get to safety before Daolon Wong can incorporate the powers of the talismans ... (17 episodes)
- Season 4: Tarakudo, the Lord of Shadow Warrior, examines the Oni masks which contain the life force of his generals, to bring them back to life and to take dominion over the earth. It is important to collect the masks before the world sinks into darkness. ( 13 episodes)
- Season 5: Draco, Shendus son from the future breaks out of his prison, and the powers of demons Shendus siblings wants to learn to conquer the world. And this he can gain only if he can bring into his possession various artifacts from the possession of the Eight Immortals. ( 13 episodes)
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Main characters
- Jackie Chan is working on behalf of a university archaeologist and is a skilled kung fu fighter. Actually, a very peaceful and peace-loving man, he gets by Jade, Shendu and section 13 to more adventure than he can actually be nice.
- Jade Chan is Jackie's eleven year old niece from China. Adventurous and impulsive as she is, which performed at every adventure and brings herself and her uncle often in trouble. But just as often help their incursions them from many sticky situations. Jackie, they are often nicknamed as " Jackienator " is for them over time with a mentor and role model.
- The uncle, a very wise, if somewhat grumpy husband and a gifted magician who runs an antique shop in San Francisco. Uncle Jackie helps very often, if somewhere a mystery to be solved in the world, especially in terms of magic and mystical events. His name is not mentioned; Jackie and Jade always call him only "uncle".
- Tohru, a Japanese fighter ( but despite his immense stature not sumo ), was originally a henchman of Valmont. At first he leads the missions on behalf of Valmont, but this loses at the end of the first season after several failures patience with him and provides Hak Foo as the new Head of Mission. Tohru can not cope with the new hierarchy, and finally switches sides after Jackie suggested to him the first jokingly. He joins Jackie and his family, and is trained by uncle in the magic. He has very very afraid (only known as Mama Tohru ) to disappoint his strict mother.
- Augustus Black is the head of the secret organization Section 13 in San Francisco. Even if he makes a rather cool impression from the outside, he is a very good friend of Jackie Chan and support him as much as he can, in his fight against supernatural enemies.
- The J Team was compiled by Jade for Jackie to fight against crime. The J Team consists of beside the characters already mentioned:
- Viper, a former thief, who later gives up her criminal career and works as a security consultant;
- El Toro Fuerte, a Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler;
- And Paco, El Toros young fan and student.
Opponent
- Shendu: A dragon demon who once ruled China until it was banned along with his demons siblings of the Eight Immortals in a different dimension. The main source of his strength and his life force comes from twelve magical talismans he has in his body; each with forces that are associated with an animal of the Chinese horoscope.
- Valmont: The founder and leader of the criminal organization The Black Hand. He made a pact with Shendu to enrich themselves at lost treasures may, but is betrayed by him and his empire disintegrates. From the third season occurs Valmont increasingly only as a minor character.
- The collector ( The Enforcers ): Originally Valmont's henchmen, they are shanghait throughout the series again and again by demonic forces as a helper. Your incompetence makes them in each of their companies a spanner in the works - especially when Jackie mucking them.
- Finn: An Irish disco and seventies freak and the leader of the collector.
- Ratso: A muscular man with a rather childlike mind. He likes to collect toys for his life.
- Chow: An Asian with an orange glasses that are not only fashionable, but also necessary ( he is short-sighted ).
- Hak Foo: its attacks and actions to accompany A mercenary and dangerous kung fu fighter who has the peculiarity of having very vivid descriptions; also known as the "Black Tiger". From the second season he is a member of the collector.
- Daolon Wong is a powerful dark chi wizard. He sees in his special uncle mortal enemy - a feeling that is mutual, as the student of Uncle Wong's old nemesis is. In the third season, he becomes the main antagonist of the Chans.
- The Dark Warriors: A trio of silent, demonic warriors under the name Gun, Run and Chui which are in Daolong Wong's services. They have the ability to take their weapons ( a giant shuriken, a hammer and a three - link - bar ) telekinetically control. After creating the Chans to imprison these warriors, recruited Daolon Wong ado Finn, Ratso and Chow (later also Hak Foo ) as its new Dark Warrior - what his success rate is still not improved.
- Tarakudo: The Lord of all Oni and the real masters of shadow warriors. First, he appears only as a floating demon head. After he was accidentally summoned in the beginning of the fourth season of Daolon Wong, he does everything possible to free his nine generals, all of which were included in Oni masks and to take dominion over the earth.
- The Shadow Warrior ( The Shadow Khan): Demonic Ninja warriors who are completely subservient to the will of their masters. The most common version of this warrior people are very similar, but in the course of the fourth season more types are presented by Shadow Khan. First Shendu appear as their master; However, their true ruler of Oni Tarakudo, whose book once Shendu had been able to take in to bring the Shadow Khan under his control.
- Drago: Shendus son, a hybrid of dragon and human. In the third season of the series, he and Jade seem grown-up version in the present, as Drago tries to free his father from the section 13, but is stopped and locked up. In the fifth season, however, it manages to escape him, and he begins to tear the forces of demons Shendus siblings in itself.
- Bartholomew Chang: A millionaire who is obsessed with Jade (which evolved in the English original into a running joke between the name of Jackie's niece and the stone ). Instead his right hand he wears an artificial prosthesis made of solid jade. After the J- Team has defeated him for the first time, he sees them as his special mortal enemies.
Production and publication
The animated series was produced from 2000 to 2005 Adelaide Productions, directed by Frank Squillace and Phil Weinstein. The music is by Jim Latham and Christopher Ward. The transmitter Kids' WB! beamed the series of 9 September 2000 to 7 July 2005 in five seasons in the United States.
A first part of the series was broadcast on 17 November 2001 to 9 February 2002 on Pro Sieben German. Later broadcasts followed by K- Toon, Jetix, Junior, ORF 1, SF1, RTL and ProSieben Maxx 2. The series was, inter alia, into Spanish, Chinese, French and Finnish translated.