I remember this series going on and caught a few scenes here and there but since it's a cartoon series for kids, did they show any heads getting chopped off like the movies? Or they could substitute like a slap on the wrist instead for take the others' powers.
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Highlander the Animated Series was for kids. Graphic violence and characters getting beheaded was a no no.
shareYeah I sort of knew the answer. So how did they do it since it was canon?
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Kortan would still remove heads, though I think it was mostly done off screen
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A bit of both actually.
Whenever Kortan killed an Immortal he took their heads but they never actually showed the beheading (just like on the TV series). It would just show him raising his sword, bringing it down, and then the scene would cut away.
Since they didn't want the main character beheading people the series introduced the idea that an Immortal could willingly transfer his power to another by having them both grip the same sword. In this case the Immortal would still be alive but would give up his Immortality. Interestingly a Quickening would still take place, with the lightning, explosions etc.
The show is not as kid-friendly as you might remember. People got killed a lot, rarely even on screen (i.e. one runaway slaver gets bombarded by the villain in one of the final episodes and although there's no gore, he's directly hit by a missile and falls lifelessly on the ground on screen and Ramirez confirms that he's dead and steals his uniform). The villain decapitated several Immortals off-screen. He would swing his sword at an off-screen Immortal and then the Quickening would begin to confirms that he had indeed decapitated his opponent.
shareBring it back or update plz
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Plenty of characters died over the course over the show, sometimes in gruesome ways. Here's a list (not counting all random Hunters that may have been killed in a less explicit way):
The Last of the MacLeods: Quentin's mother is killed (and possibly raped) during the Hunters' raid on the Highlands. Kortan beheads Mangus.
A Taste of Betrayal : Kortan beheads Stevenson.
The Last Weapon : a flashback shows soldiers getting killed by a machine gun during WW2. Mohar and his fellow bandits presumably fall to their deaths as Quentin forces them to jump down the aircraft carrier.
Melvyn the Magnificent: Some Hunters are killed when Melvyn attacks Mogonda.
The Sound of Madness: Kortan beheads Connor MacLeod (in a flashback).
The Suspended Village : Kortan pushes a slave down a bridge suspended over an Anomas (giant ants) cage, causing his death.
Exodus : Arak hits one of the village women causing her to to fall in the water and drown.
The History Lesson: Some Hunters fall down the walls of the citadel they're besieging during a Quickening.
The Cursed Both Dundees and members of the rival clan die from malaria. We see the latter burying one of their own.
Fallout : Flashback shows the bombing of Hiroshima and Ramirez walking the destroyed cities of the city shortly after. Prometheus' man is murdered by Asklepios' spy. The latter is then tricked by Arak into getting bitten to death by a poisonous snake. After passing on his knowledge to Quentin and becoming mortal, Prometheus commits suicide.
The Sword of Evil : Kurt- the blacksmith who made Kortan's sword- falls to his death into his own forge.
The Eye of Heaven : Flashback of the great catastrophe shows the meteorite collision that wiped out life on earth.
Treasure in the Sand : 451 is presumably buried under the ruins of his citadel.
Orane : Kortan has some Hunters go kamikaze by sinking with their own tanks and crashing against the underwater city.
The Secret Prison: At least one Digit is killed while trying to fight off the Anomas.
Dead Ringer The bureaucrat who impersonates Ramirez presumably dies as he's last seen hanging on to a collapsed bridge with neither Kortan nor Ramirez and Quentin coming to his rescue.
Orion's Reign : A group of slaves revolts against Kortan's Hunters in Mogonda, killing some. They're later defeated, with Arak mentioning at one point that they're dropping like flies. Cornell/Orion is eventually beheaded by Kortan.
Rage of the Hurricane : Quentin is electrocuted to death (he resurrects of course).
Oblivion : A flashback shows Kortan's former human key, who was executed before being replaced by Malone.
Valka : Quentin and Ramirez kill some of Mogonda's spies who've been tracking them down.
The Survivors From Outer Space : none of the three astronauts who went into space 700 years before survives: Irina never wakes up from hibernation, Janssen dies when the shuttle crashes on earth, while the immortal Emerson survives the accident just to be beheaded by Kortan shortly after.
Revenge of the Shantytown : Kortan has the Anomas set loose in Shantytown, killing or mutilating several people, including children. The rebels get their revenge by bringing some wild Anomas to Mogonda, something that causes the death of several Hunters. Kirk, the Anomas' sadistic trainer in Mogonda, meets a particularly horrible fate.
The Double : Fredrickson's immortal clone is torn to pieces as he falls into a waterwheel.
Playing with Fire : Asklepios has one of the Hunters shot dead so that he doesn't deliver any message to Arak. When the bureaucrats' tower is demolished, some of them are killed.
Matsuda : Matsuda's cyborg possibly kills some Hunters in the main square.
Countdown : Kortan fires some nuclear missiles on the near human settlements, killing several people. One mentions to have lost his entire family in the bombing.
The concept was watered down so that all immortals had decided to just get along, and the only one that still took heads was the villain. But it never happened on screen.
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