Xavier: Renegade Angel

Xavier: Renegade Angel is a computer animated, fantasy-comedy television series created by John Lee, Vernon Chatman, Alyson Levy and Jim Tozzi. Lee and Chatman are also the creators of Wonder Showzen. The show is produced by PFFR, with animation by Cinematico. It premiered at midnight on November 4, 2007 on Adult Swim, and November 1, 2007 on adultswim.com. The show features a style characterized by a very loosely formed, noncontinuous plot and the ubiquitous use of surrealist, absurdist humor through a pseudo-shamanistic/new age lens. The second season premiered on February 12 and ended on April 16, 2009. The show is also normally rated either TV-MA or TV-MA V because of the occasional intense violence.

Style and Content: The computer-generated animation of Xavier: Renegade Angel resembles that of video games such as Second Life and The Sims[citation needed]. The show features ribald wordplay, nonchalant violence and transgressive sexuality, in deeply-nested, often recursive plots. These plots are often very nonlinear in their chronology; however, each episode seems to contain similar themes and motifs, as well as a single opening scene that has reccured in every episode of Xavier: A depiction of the titular character wandering through a desert, likely a reference to the 1970's show Kung Fu (TV series), as he rambles on about a semi-random, humor-tinged philosophical thought that many times connects with the episode at hand. An opening theme presumed to be played by Xavier on his "shakasuri" is present during these openings. Co-creator Vernon Chatman called the show "a warning to children and adults about the dangers of spirituality." The show has been known to mock Christianity, Middle America, redneck stereotypes, and anarcho-punk subcultures. Xavier often incorporates underlying themes and concepts based outside of, though interconnected with the plot of each episode. Philosophical or political concepts are often juxtaposed with the surrealistic and alleatory nature of the show. Society and cultural psychology and phenomena, the meaning of life, the existence of sentience and the nature of reality have been examined in one form or another throughout the program's several seasons. Jokes and humor tend to be oriented towards Xavier's own philosophical inquiry and the "deep", "zen-like" diction of wisdom quotes from various spiritual systems (particularly Native American and Hindu or Eastern spirituality) that Xavier seemingly attempts to mimic. These are many times lightly mocked with Xavier's misuse of the phrases, reflecting on contemporary humor and taking the often circular logic of such statements far out of context. "Taboo" topics such as necrophilia, homophobia, abortion, and racism may be hinted at, with Xavier ignorantly making light of such situations when trying to carry on conversation or simply speak to others. As well, racial and other epithets are frequently used by Xavier in a spontaneous and often non-meaningful way. In these aspects of Xavier: Renegade Angel, the program could be seen as containing a substantial amount of black comedy.

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