He’s racked up enough writing and producing credits on shows like Angel, Firefly, The Venture Brothers, Revolution, and Supernatural to qualify.
Obviously creator Ben Edlund should be involved as showrunner. Trying to get new writers to understand The Tick’s unqiue brand of humor is effort that could be better spent corralling writers who already have experience writing for The Tick. This teaching moment would follow the Chainsaw Vigilante discovering that not only does the Tick not wear a costume – he’s also impervious to chainsaws. The Tick can turn his life around by demonstrating that some superheroes really are genuinely noble. (My other suggestion for a morally ambiguous anti-hero is the mysterious Red Eye, who is the Ghost Rider of hitch-hikers.) He does have a point that most of the heroes in The City are too self-absorbed to really help people, but he’s a hypocrite for putting on his own costume to harass them instead of directly combating society’s ills. The Chainsaw Vigilante would add an interesting dynamic to the show since he’s somewhere in between a villain and a hero. Since he targets heroes wearing silly costumes (which is pretty much all of them in The Tick), the show could go even more meta by using him to poke fun at the “grounded in realism” trend. He’s a deconstructionist character, so the upside-down Smiley Face pin on his jacket evocative of Watchmen’s Comedian is no accident. His deal is that he attacks superheroes with his chainsaw (but not killing them) to stop them from endangering society while dressed in ridiculous costumes. All that’s needed is a mask and a chainsaw. But he’d be a perfect fit for an edgy live action show. The Chainsaw Vigilante never made it onto the cartoon, likely because he was too violent for Broadcast Standards & Practices. customer service about refunds due to the Tick’s intervenion would match perfectly with the live-action show’s tone. Watching wannabe superheroes argue with Villains, Inc. Its bickering owners, Mort and Terry, are already characters in the comics. In-between the Tick accidentally beating up villains that somebody else paid for, the rest of the cast could get involved in workplace hijinks at Villains, Inc.
#APOCALYPSE COW THE TICK SERIES#
could even be an excuse to save money on casting by having most of the villains throughout the series be played by the same actor. The Red Scare already appeared as a badass robot programmed to kill Jimmy Carter on the last version of the show, but if they don’t want to reuse that name and costume there are plenty of wacky supervillains they could substitute, like Whirling Scottish Devil. The Tick first encountered them when he mistook the Red Scare for a real supervillain before his client, the Running Guy (he’s faster than ten really fast guys!), made it to the scene. (Decoy villains for the benefit of the real supervillains in Batman Begins, Iron Man 3, and earlier versions of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aren’t the same deal.) This is such a funny and cynical concept that I’m shocked it hasn’t been stolen more often. Its “supervillain” employees even spout pre-fab threats before taking a fall. It’s a business that rents out fake supervillains that pretend to be beaten by superhero clients in front of news crews. When fledgling superheroes want to make names for themselves, they call up Villains, Inc. Watching Carbonell reprise his Batmanuel role would be even funnier now that he’s played Gotham City’s Mayor in Christopher Nolan’s ultra-serious Dark Knight trilogy. (You can also check out their voicework together in select episodes of Kim Possible.) He’s spoken well of The Tick during interviews, so hopefully Amazon can lure him back too. If it weren’t for Patrick Warburton perfectly embodying the Tick (he’d get his own entry on this list if he weren’t already onboard), Carbonell would be the show’s MVP.
Batmanuel may be little more than a one note character, but Carbonell played that note really well! He’s the almost the opposite of the Tick, but the actor imbued him with enough charisma that you root for him instead of loathing him.
(I also had my heart set on Bruce Campbell playing him.) My opinion changed once I saw Nestor Carbonell in the role. When I first saw Die Fledermaus was being replaced by Batmanuel (for legal reasons that also changed American Maid to Captain Liberty), I was disappointed because Die Fledermaus’s costume rivals even Batman’s for coolness.
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