Franchise spinoffs where the main characters are nephews or nieces of prior protagonists

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DUCKTALES (sorta)

― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ducktales is kinda the opposite.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

On James Bond Jr. the villains would always speak mockingly of his connection with "the famous 007," it was like they were not allowed to use the name James Bond without the Jr. appendage. When my little brother was a few years old he got the idea to go as "the famous 007" for Halloween and after a little picking at him to find out what he thought this costume would entail it came out that he thought the famous 007 was some sort of robot.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie count, though

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES BOND! James Bond, Jr.!

Marvin the Martian had a niece, Marcia, on Tiny Toons.

― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ducktales is at once the opposite and the textbook example. Although wasn't Scrooge really the main character? Yeah, the nephews were there, along with Launchpad and Webitha and Mrs. Beaksley, but Scrooge was the main(est) character.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

More of an ensemble that alternately focused on Scrooge and/or the trips, I think.

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Super-Sons by Bob Haney

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

ok, not nephews or nieces but...

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

The Disney comics "DuckTales" was based on were already ensemble cast based though, pretty much.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

The Flash

As in, Barry Allen was The Flash, then his nephew Wally West took over his name, costume and comic book.

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Did we ever see the parents of Huey, Dewey and Louie?

― Eyemelt (Eyemelt), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

THere's a Duck family tree out there somewhere.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 October 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Whichever way you read it, though, the whole thing is that Scrooge is Donald Duck's uncle - so it's definitely a familial spinoff.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

...by which logic the "spin-off" as such starts in 1952, when Scrooge got his first comic book series. But yeah, I suppose it's like if they made a Robin cartoon now or something, the characters are so established as supporting cast members that the fact that they've had their own books for ages wouldn't register much with much of the audience.

Did we ever see the parents of Huey, Dewey and Louie?

The Disney universe is uncle/nephew specific, parents *never* show up. It's one of the first observational comedy-esque things ppl pick on when talking Disney comics, along with the whole "Pluto is Mickey's dog but Goofy is his friend and ALSO A DOG!" thing.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

there's a branch of observational humour that deals with Disney comics?

further to that, the entire Disney pantheon is littered with (usually unexplained) absent parents.

Air-Wave, who had his own back-up feature in Action Comics in the 70s, was younger cousin to his namesake Hal Jordan (and son of the Golden Age Airwave, who was from Earth-2 back then).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 22 October 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Teen Wolf Too (based on the SMASH HIT Teen Wolf written by COMICS' OWN Jeph Loeb) featured Jason Bateman as some not-immediate relative of Michael J. Fox, who concurrently played the brother of Justine Bateman, who later played the suspected sister of Jason Bateman, who was portrayed in the filmic adapation of the cult classic novel American Psycho (based on Bateman's time on the set of the first season of Silver Spoons) by Christian Bateman, who is currently starring on Broadway in the Tony-nominated Batman Beguiles, scripted by Eugene Dennis O'Neill.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 22 October 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

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