Atomic Betty

Atomic Betty
File:Atomicbettycast.jpg From L to R: Sparky, Betty, and X-5
Created by	Trevor Bentley Mauro Casalese Rob Davies Olaf Miller
Starring	(English version) Tajja Isen Rick Miller Bruce Hunter Len Carlson Colin Fox Patrick McKenna Kristina Nicholl Jayne Eastwood Laurie Elliott Catherine Disher Adrian Truss
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	104 x 15 minutes or 52 x 30 minutes, plus 1 Christmas special (60 minutes) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Ira Levy Peter Williamson Kevin Gillis Trevor Bentley Steven Hecht Philippe Alessandri Nghia Nguyen (co-executive producer)
Producers	Kevin Gillis Virginie Jallot Rob Davies
Running time	15 or 30 minutes, depending on market and format.
Original release
Network	Teletoon / Télétoon See Airing locales for outside of Canada.
Release	September 6, 2004 (Canada) September 17, 2004 (United States) – Present

Atomic Betty is a Canadian animated television series produced by Atomic Cartoons, Breakthrough Films & Television, and Tele Images Kids. Additional funding for production is provided by Teletoon in Canada and Métropole 6 in France. The animation is produced by Atomic Cartoons, with some additional animation support for the French language version by French firm Caribara. The series airs on Teletoon and Télétoon in Canada, Métropole 6 and Télétoon in France, and Cartoon Network in the United States and internationally, as well as numerous other stations in other countries.

There are 52 half-hour or 104 quarter-hour episodes of the series over two seasons. There is also a full-hour Christmas special. As of January 1, 2006, Atomic Betty took a break on Cartoon Network in the United States while the third season of the show was reportedly in development by Canada's Teletoon channel.

Atomic Betty is one of an increasing number of cartoons made using Adobe Flash and has a distinct smoothness to the animation that separates it from traditional cel animation. Ironically, there is considerable artistic influence from classic cel animation such as old Hanna-Barbera cartoons like The Jetsons.

Overview

Production

Breakthrough Films & Television became Atomic Cartoons' partner in producing and distributing the television series worldwide, beginning with Teletoon in Canada (premiered September 6, 2004) and Cartoon Network in the United States (premiered September 17, 2004)

Story

The series centers on Betty, a typical adolescent who enjoys school, science-fiction movies and singing in her band. Unknown to most of her friends and family, however, she is also a Galactic Guardian, dedicated to interstellar peacekeeping and law enforcement. As Atomic Betty, assisted by her alien pilot Sparky, and a robot named X-5, she confronts the evil overlord Maximus I.Q. Despite being rather unassuming on Earth, Atomic Betty is a superstar throughout the galaxy and even has her own fan club of loyal followers.

In each episode, a crisis occurs somewhere in the galaxy, while Betty enjoys some activity with her friends. Invariably, her bracelet begins beeping, and she runs off alone to save the galaxy. Accompanied by her crew, Betty manages to defeat the villains before returning home.

Characters

With the exception of the show's eponymous character and the particular story involved, most of the characters encountered in the series are exclusive to either of the two major settings in the show. The show is largely centred around Betty and her friends in segments taking place on Earth, while Betty and her crew are the major focus of the space setting.

Primary Characters

These characters appear in all or most episodes of the series.

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Atomic Betty standing

• Betty/Atomic Betty is the heroine of the show, a very unusual 12-year-old girl from Moose Jaw Heights (a fictional borough of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan). She is awkward yet unique both in her qualities and in her social position, and has eclectic interests, from skateboarding to learning to play both the guitar and keyboard, and writing her own songs. (She and her friends have a band, which play infrequently). In terms of her social identity, Betty is known to be a serious carnivore and has very tomboyish characteristics, though she has a crush on her classmate, Dylan. She also has a secret life as a Galactic Guardian, an enforcer of law and order across the galaxy. In school, she is unusually intelligent, unusually thoughtful, quirky, and a little bit of a nerd, but in outer space she is professional and always focused, though she is unusually confident of winning. Betty was recruited and trained at a young age, and is one of the best at what she does, commanding considerable respect. While she seems to be famous throughout the galaxy, her home planet (Earth) is a closely guarded secret from all but a few within the galaxy's power structure. Betty wears a bracelet that allows her commander, Admiral DeGill, to contact her at any time. It also contains an arsenal of weapons and tools and may be the item she uses to alter her appearance between Earth and her star cruiser.
• Sparky is the slightly hyperactive alien pilot of Atomic Betty's ship with an immense appetite (and a talent for using his four cow-like stomachs for storage). While a bit ditzy and accident-prone, he forms one third of a very reliable team.
• Robot X-5 is the third member of Betty's crew. Although an antiquated robot by Galactic standards, X-5 remains a walking database on everything important to a Galactic Guardian. He and Sparky have a contentious but occasionally respectful working relationship.
• Admiral DeGill is a goldfish with a crew cut who is Commander in Chief of Galactic Guardian and Planet Protectors Battalion 147. He is Betty's commanding officer, who dispatches Betty on her various missions.
• Noah Parker is Betty's best friend. Although Noah thinks of Betty as being somewhat flaky, he is secretly in love with her, yet is unable to express his feelings. He is unaware of Betty being a Galactic Guardian, and often thinks that Betty being frequently missing is due to coincidence.

• Paloma is introduced in the second season as a new transfer student who quickly befriends Betty. However, this Latino girl hides a secret that is only revealed at the end of the second season. The secret is that Paloma is from a planet where people can morph into any living thing. Many years ago on this planet, a female villain named Golgotha wanted to use the morphing abilities to start an army. The people disagreed, so Golgotha freed a demon who couldn’t be imitated. Together they terrorized the galaxy until the GG stopped them. The demon and Golgotha fell in love and eventually she hid on another planet and gave birth to two twin girls: One of them was Paloma and the other is her sister Pandora. Pandora kidnaps Paloma at the end of season 2 and attempts to use her to free their demon father. During her capture Paloma appears to die but is suddenly reborn with horns and a tail. Using the good side of her father's powers she manages to imprison both him and Pandora.

• Penelope Lang is Betty's rival, who thinks of herself as the most popular prima donna at her school. She is rich, spoiled, and often uses her popularity or wealth to undermine Betty's social standing, a plan that inevitably backfires. She is usually seen with two sidekicks named Megan and Sarah.
• Maximus I.Q. is a bumbling supervillain, catlike in appearance and somewhat regal (or at least believes himself so) in bearing. Though bumbling, he represents enough of a danger that he is Betty's most frequent nemesis. He is obsessed with defeating Betty and discovering her home planet, and has come very close on several occasions (including once building a temporary base near Jupiter). Despite not knowing her origins, Maximus has created clones of Betty from hair samples taken in combat. Maximus' father is also a criminal, though more of a robber and thug than a supervillain.
• Minimus P.U., P.U. for "portable underling", is Maximus' hapless, monkey-like, literally two-faced sidekick -- one face is reluctantly sycophantic, while the other is sarcastic and bitter at Maximus' constant disrespect.

Recurring Characters

• Betty's Father is a slightly absent-minded salesman, but he is a devoted father when he's around.
• Betty's Mother dresses like a stereotypical hairdresser, with a poufed blonde ponytail and tacky animal-print clothes, but her actual skills at hairstyling are best left unseen. Where her father is absent-minded, her mother is simply oblivious, often paying excessive attention to her spoiled cat Purrsy, to whom she is devoted.
• Betty's Granny, Beatrixo, is a lively older woman with a love of clog dancing and numerous other talents. She is a retired Galactic Guardian, a fact that Betty discovered when she found a signal bracelet identical to her own in her granny's attic. It is unknown whether Betty's father is in on the secret. Beatrixo found Jimmy on the episode 'No-L 9'.
• Betty's Grandpa, Jimmy, was lost while trying to discover sounds on a distant planet, but was found on The No-L 9, a collection of singing planets in "Atomic Betty: The No-L 9" (christmas special). Jimmy is a scientist studying the musicality of space rocks. In his sole appearance on the show Jimmy's voice was provided by William Shatner.
• Sir Purrsefus or Purrsy for short, is Betty's mother's spoiled, surly cat. Purrsy has accidentally accompanied Betty on one of her missions, but being a cat has not said anything about it. He tends to cause trouble, but the trouble often backfires on him.
• Kyle is Betty's bratty cousin. He's self-centered, arrogant, and thinks that anything not to his liking is stupid. This usually means anything Betty or her friends like. He also has a talent for causing havoc that eventually gets him into trouble.
• Dylan is the school heartthrob, as he is both attractive and athletic. He is the dream guy of every girl in school, but he is attracted to Betty because of her intelligence and interest in science.
• Duncan Paine is Moose Jaw Heights Junior High's resident school bully, and likes Penelope. Duncan Paine bosses people around, like Penelope, though he is not really that descriptive on any show, but Bracelet Yourself.
• Mr. Peterson is Betty's school principal. Tough but fair, he takes his interest in hockey to the point of obsession. His voice and style of dress are patterned after veteran Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry.
• Atomic Roger is another Galactic Guardian, apparently human, although clearly not from Earth, who is Betty's colleague and occasional rival. He is the twin brother to the villain Dodger.
• Spindly Tam Kanushu was apparently Betty's martial arts trainer. He is an elderly alien martial arts expert.
• Commandant McSlim is another commanding officer of Betty. He is the director for the Galactic Guardians Training Corps.
• Zulia, Sparky's mother, is a sweet, perfect mother figure to anyone she comes across. She's thoughful, kind, and an incredible cook who will never let anyone leave her house hungry. She also has a firey temper and a vicious hit with kitchen utensils should anyone threaten her son.
• B-1 is X-5's "uncle". He's an older model robot who was discarded on the planet Crushden when he became obsolete. Since then he's led a robot militia against anyone who tries to profit from the giant scrap pile at the cost of what little functionality the robots have.

Recurring Villains

• Iciclia is a character reminiscent of the Witch Queen from Disney's 1937 animated film version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; her trademark attacks are ice-based. She was once dependent on montegoberries to keep her youth and beauty, but she seems to have eliminated this dependency somehow.
• Infantor is a foul-tempered infant (or perhaps an adult or adolescent trapped in an infant's body) who enjoys playing games with his enemies. He once sucked Betty and her crew into a portal leading them to a virtual reality game to fight for their lives according to his rules.
• Nuclea is an energy-based being whose power (and size) increase as she consumes more energy. She continually uses new methods to secure large sources of energy to absorb.
• The Chameleon is an alien that can change form into any person, animal or object. He was once Maximus's most trusted spy until being fired after an unexplained mishap. Since then, his efforts at evil have been intended to win back Maximus's favour.
• Dr. Cerebral is a brain that wants to control the universe, and eliminate inefficianet and unsanitary organic life forms in the process. He once inserted a virus to every robot to the universe, that almost destroyed B-1 and X-5.
• Pontifidora the Conquistadora is a former big-game hunter turned bounty hunter. She was Admiral DeGill's fiancée before turning to a life of crime. DeGill then turned her in to the authorities and ran off with a showgirl from the planet Vega. She has never forgiven DeGill for either act, and is determined to have him stuffed and mounted on her wall.

Episode list

In North America, the show airs in a half-hour format comprising two cartoons. Many areas outside of North America use a 15-minute format of only one cartoon. The second season premiere and finale are both two-part, half-hour episodes.

Season one (2004 – 2005)

The order and pairing of some episodes in season one differed between Canada and the rest of the world where the show was broadcast, including the United States. Below is the order and cartoon pairing as they were aired in these areas, except Japan where Cartoon Network reshufled US order.[1] Subsequent seasons were identical in both Canada and the United States.

#	Canadian order		Cartoon Network order
	Part A	Part B	Part A	Part B
1	Furball for the Sneeze	Attack of the Evil Baby	Atomic Roger	Toxic Talent
2	The Doppelganger	Toxic Talent	But the Cat Came Back	Lost in Spa
3	But the Cat Came Back	Lost in Spa	Spindly Tam Kanushu	Science Fair
4	Spindly Tam Kanushu	Science Fair	Furball for the Sneeze	Maximus Displeasure
5	Space Brains	Atomic Roger	The Doppelganger	Cosmic Cake
6	Maximus Displeasure	Cosmic Cake	Attack of the Evil Baby	Space Brains
7	Bye-Bye X-5	The Substitute	When Worlds Collide	The Ghost Ship of Aberdeffia
8	The Good, The Bad, and the Sparky	Self Sabotage	The Great Race	Poached Egg
9	When Worlds Collide	The Ghost Ship of Aberdeffia (Halloween episode)	The Really Big Game	The Substitute
10	Poached Egg	Battle of the Bots	Self Sabotage	Crass Menagerie
11	The Really Big Game	And the Winner is... (Father's Day episode)	The Good, The Bad, and the Sparky	Bye-Bye X-5
12	The Great Race	Martian Makeover	Battle of the Bots	Martian Makeover
13	Betty's Secret Admirer	Slime of the Century (Valentine's Day episode)	Betty's Secret Admirer	Slime of the Century
14	Winter Carnival	Crass Menagerie	Solar System Surfin'	Winter Carnival
15	Solar System Surfin'	Power of the Pharaoh	Power of the Pharaoh	And the Winner is...
16	The Trouble with Triplets	Spider Betty	The Trouble with Triplets	Spider Betty
17	Power Arrangers	Dream Come True	Power Arrangers	Dream Come True
18	Betty vs. the Giant Killer Ants	Best (Mis)Laid Plans	Betty vs. the Giant Killer Ants	Best (Mis)Laid Plans
19	No Business Like Snow Business	Infantor Rules	No Business Like Snow Business	Infantor Rules
20	Galactic Pirates of the Corralean	The Revenge of Masticula	Galactic Pirates of the Corralean	The Revenge of Masticula
21	The Incredible Shrinking Betty	Friends for Eternity	The Incredible Shrinking Betty	Friends for Eternity
22	Wizard of Orb	Max-Land	Wizard of Orb	Max-Land
23	Like Father, Like Scum	Planet Stinxx	Like Father, Like Scum	Planet Stinxx
24	Big Top Betty	Dr. Cerebral and the Stupifactor Ray	Big Top Betty	Dr. Cerebral and the Stupifactor Ray
25	Jingle Brawls	Toy Historyia (Christmas episode)	Jingle Brawls	Toy Historyia
26	Franken Brain	Evil Idol	Franken Brain	Evil Idol

Season two (2005 – 2006)

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Atomic Betty poster

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Atomic Betty series poster

#	Part A	Part B
1	Bracelet Yourself
2	The New Neighbor	Pre-Teen Queen of Outer Space
3	Auntie Matter	Oy, Robot
4	Werewolves On Zeebot	Return Of the Pharaoh
5	Pop Goes the Maxx	Sleeping Like a Baby
6	Ferried Treasure	The X-Rays
7	By Virtuoso of Insanity	SWITCHMO-tized
8	Captain Sparky	Earth to Roger
9	Hi-Jinxed	Robo-Betty
10	Take 2 Evils and Call Me in the Morning	The Scribe
11	Mad Maximus	The Cheerleaders of Doom
12	Reeking Havoc	Practically Joking
13	The Great Sub-TRAIN-ean Robbery	The Minion
14	Eternal Elixir	Bee Movie
15	Evil Juniors	As the Worm Turns
16	Extreme Makeover	Once Bitten, Twice Slimed
17	The Collector	Night of the DeGilla Monster
18	Big Bad Plant From Outer Space	Nuclea Infected
19	The Brat Pack Attack	A Fungus Amongus
20	The Gazundheit Factor	Good Kitty
21	Strange Case of Minimus-Hyde	The Market
22	Galactic Guardians No More!	Scribe 2: The Re-Scribing
23	No-Hit Wonders	License DeGill
24	Case of the Missing Kanushu	Devolution City
25	Amulet of Shangri-La-De-Da	Best Dressed Villain
26	Takes One to Know One

Specials

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A screenshot from the Atomic Betty: The No L-9 Christmas special.

Year	Title	Length	NOTE
2005	Atomic Betty: The No-L 9	60 minutes	Christmas special

Credits

Voice Cast

• Tajja Isen - Betty/Atomic Betty, Timmy the Droid
• Patrick McKenna - Betty's father
• Kristina Nicoll - Betty's mother
• Jayne Eastwood - Beatrixo (Betty's granny)
• Adrian Truss - Admiral DeGill
• Bruce Hunter - Robot X-5
• Rick Miller - Sparky
• Colin Fox - Maximus I.Q.
• Len Carlson - Minimus P.U., Spindly Tam Kanushu (2004-2006)
• Michael D'Ascenzo - Chip Osbourne, Dalton Osbourne
• Laurie Elliott - Noah Parker
• Peter Oldring - Duncan Payne
• Catherine Disher - Penelope Lang, Sarah
• Stephanie Morganstern - Megan
• Dwayne Hill - Dylan, Atomic Roger, Dodger, Mr. Peterson

Crew

Directed by:

• Jeffrey Agala
• Kenneth Chu
• Virginie Jallot
• Ridd Sorensen
• Dave Woodgate
• Kent Reimer
• Mauro Casalese - (supervising)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order):

• Trevor Bentley - creator
• Mauro Casalese - creator
• Olaf Miller - creator
• Rob Davies - creator
• Nicole Demerse - writer
• Dennis Heaton - writer
• Jono Howard - writer
• Edward Kay - writer
• Mike Kubat - writer
• Jackie May - writer
• Adrian Raeside - writer
• Bruce Robb - writer
• Steve Schnier - writer

Produced by:

• Kevin Gillis - executive producer and producer
• Virginie Jallot - producer
• Rob Davies - producer
• Ira Levy - executive producer
• Peter Williamson - executive producer
• Trevor Bentley - executive producer
• Philippe Alessandri - executive producer
• Nghia Nguyen - co-executive producer

Film Editing by:

• Alex Peake
• Aaron Saunders

Production Management:

• Paddy Gillen - production manager (2005)
• Candace Olsen - production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director:

• Krista Huot - assistant director

Sound Department:

• Michael Mancuso - dialogue editor
• Brad Zoern - sound re-recording mixer

Special Effects by:

• Allan Cortez - special effects
• Dennis de Koning - special effects supervisor: DDK

Visual Effects by:

• Corey Bastiaans - digital effects artist
• Arron Robinson - CG artist
• Dorian Roza - CG artist

Other crew:

• Dennise Fordham - story editor
• Anna Fregonese - story editor
• Alex Galatis - story editor
• Mike Kubat - story editor
• Kent Reimer - animation director
• Mr. Niko - animation director
• Mr. Niko - storyboard artist
• Pierre Varlan - storyboard artist

Airing locales

North America

• Canada: Teletoon / Télétoon
• United States: Cartoon Network

Europe

• All area: Cartoon Network
• Except
  • Germany: Disney Channel, Toon Disney [2]
  • France: Télétoon
• Terrestrial
  • France: M6 KID - Métropole 6
  • United Kingdom: CITV - ITV
• The series was licensed in Andorra, Portugal and Spain by Luk Internacional, SA

Asia Pacific

• All area: Cartoon Network
• Terrestrial
  • Australia: ABC Kids - ABC
  • Hong Kong: TVB Pearl

Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Central and South America

• All area: Cartoon Network

DVD Releases

Warner Bros. released two volumes of Atomic Betty on DVD in October 18, 2005, which contains 16 15-minute episodes from the first season.

Games

• This show has a video game called Atomic Betty that was released for the Game Boy Advance (published and developed by Namco).
• This show has a computer game released for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh-based PCs, called Atomic Betty: Intergalactic Conspiracy, published and developed by Brighter Minds Media.

Trivia

• Alternative logo can be seen in the intro in some episodes. [3]
• In The Trouble with Triplets, Maximus creates several clones of Betty that appear to be references to the Fantastic Four; One can turn into a rock-creature like The Thing, one can become living fire like the Human Torch, and one is capable of stretching her body in a manner similar to Mister Fantastic.
  • As of yet, an invisible Betty clone, who would make herself invisible and create force fields like the Invisible Woman, has yet to appear. But during one of the fight scenes Betty used her bracelet to trap someone in a bubble. It is also oftain implied that her friends (on Earth) thinks that Betty disappears whenever they want her around.
• In the Atomic Betty novel Supreme Overlord Penelope, her last name is stated as Barrett, but it is unclear if this name is considered canon.

External links

• Official website
• Atomic Betty at Atomic Cartoons
• Atomic Betty pilot (teaser trailer)