Atomic Betty

Atomic Betty
File:Atomicbettycastpic.jpg Atomic Betty opening sequence.
Created by	Trevor Bentley Mauro Casalese Rob Davies Olaf Miller Ginan Zedra
Voices of	(English version) Tajja Isen Rick Miller Bruce Hunter Adrian Truss Laurie Elliott Catherine Disher Colin Fox Len Carlson
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 Ginan Zedra 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	2004 – 2006

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.

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)

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.

There were 52 half-hour or 104 quarter-hour episodes over the course of two seasons. There is also a full-hour Christmas special and a third season is in progress.

Episodes of Atomic Betty are currently available online at Veoh.com.

Story

The series centers on Betty, a typical Canadian 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.

Although the series is about a spaceranger, the story line bears similarity to the superhero genre and, mostly, magical girl genre, since Betty has an identity secret to the people on Earth.

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

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

• 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. She 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. The bracelet 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 Betty's first lieutenant and co-pilot of the Hyper-Galactic Star Cruiser. He possesses 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. Sparky’s not the smartest alien in the galaxy (he was the only one stupid enough to fall for Greenbeard's cruise ship disguise in "Ferried Treasure", and is low-tech and primitive even as a robot, as seen in "Oy, Robot"), but his energy, enthusiasm and loyalty more than make up for his intellectual shortcomings. Sparky’s bravery is only surpassed by his appetite. There isn’t a situation that Sparky can’t eat his way out of.
• 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. In "Oy, Robot", it is revealed that he used to spray oil during his times as a prototype. X-5 is a brilliant robot…if he does say so himself. He’ll tell you everything you need to know about some alien species…and more. 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. He is a supporter of Betty’s awesome abilities. He knows Betty is the best, and he should; after all, the Admiral’s been around since Sirius, the Dog Star, was still paper training. In "Reeking Havoc", it is revealed that he got strong because of Schmoz when he wished that he was strong.
• 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 much to his dismay. In the end of the second season, he was accidentally teleported to Maximus I.Q.'s citadel.
• Paloma is introduced in the second season as a new transfer student who quickly befriends Betty (and becomes Noah's occasional rival). Like Betty, Paloma is a kind, strong-willed young woman who willingly stands up to nasty people like Penelope Lang. 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, who looks exactly like Paloma, only with light purple hair, lighter skin, and yellow eyes. 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. She’s used to getting her own way — even if it means stepping all over other people. In fact, she enjoys getting her own way more if she has to do step over other people to do so. In "Bracelet Yourself", she appeared as one of the villains when she tampered with Betty's bracelet which is property of the Galactic Guardians and caused the Starcruiser to lose control.
• Maximus I.Q. is a bumbling supervillain, catlike in appearance and somewhat regal (or at least believes himself so) in bearing. Maximus has one simple dream: to impose his evil rule on every sentient being in the Cosmos. Though bumbling, he represents enough of a danger that he is Betty's most annoying and 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). Betty hates Maximus because he’s always breaking the Galactic Guardian rulebook, while Maximus hates Betty because she’s always ruining his plans. As Maximus would say, “That girl has no respect for evil geniuses!” He resembles Mechanikat on Krypto the Superdog.
• Minimus P.U., P.U. for "portable underling", is Maximus’s long-suffering assistant. He enjoys his job and is oblivious to the almost unbearable levels of abuse inflicted upon him by his boss. Minimus’s head has two distinct faces that can alternate back and forth. This allows Minimus to be both a sycophant and a grumbler at the same time, giving new meaning to the phrase “two-faced".

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, as she spends most of her day fussing over her beloved cat, Purrsy. This is why she never seems to notice that Betty has just returned from a mission in space.
• Beatrixo (Betty's Granny) is a lively older woman with a love of clog dancing and numerous other talents. She lives in the country just outside of Moose Jaw Heights. Like any country girl she enjoys life’s simple pleasures: curling up under a warm quilt with a nice warm fire in the hearth, and munching down some nice cow-tongue stew. 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 (Betty is the only one on Earth who knows her secret). It is unknown whether Betty's father is in on the secret. She may be retired, but every now and then, and only when Betty is in real trouble, she will come out of retirement to help her granddaughter. Beatrixo found her husband Jimmy on the episode The No-L 9. In the second season finale Takes One to Know One, we see that her old team consisted of her, Spindly Tam Kanushu,a retired Galactic Guardian named Arkan, a young Admiral DeGill, and B-1.
• Jimmy (Betty's Grandpa) 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, beloved Siamese cat. She lavishes him with attention and treats him like he’s Betty’s younger sibling. And just like any other spoiled rotten little brat, Purrsy is petty, jealous and conniving. 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. Penelope is nuts about him! So is Betty… although she’d never admit it. He is the dream guy of every girl in school, but he is attracted to Betty because of her intelligence and interest in science. The fact that she says bizarre things, and leaves at a moment’s notice, only intrigues Dylan even more.
• Duncan Payne is Moose Jaw Heights Junior High's resident school bully, and likes Penelope, although he had a small crush on Paloma in the episode The X-Rays. Duncan Paine bosses people around, like Penelope, though he is not really that descriptive on any show, but Bracelet Yourself where he appeared as one of the villains when he tampered with Betty's bracelet which is property of the Galactic Guardians and ended up insulting Maximus with it.
• 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. Stylish, and groomed with a slickly-coiffed pompadour hairdo (actually a wig), Atomic Roger is not evil; he’s just vain and self-centred. He is actually a highly skilled Galactic Guardian who helps save the world (as long as he doesn’t have to get too messy doing it). He also may or may not have a crush on Betty.
• Spindly Tam Kanushu was apparently Betty's martial arts trainer. He is an elderly alien martial arts expert.
• Commander McSlim is another commanding officer of Betty. He is the director for the Galactic Guardians Training Corps.
• Empress Narcissitad was apparently a selfish, spoiled empress who was kidnapped by Maximus and held for ransom on the planet Crushden in "Battle of the Bots". She also hates and is allergic to robots (like X-5 and B-1) to the point where she would rather be kidnapped by Maximus than be rescued by robots. Instead of paying Maximus' demands, Narcissitad's subjects sent him a note saying he could keep her. In the episode's conclusion, you can see Maximus being annoyed by her complaints and asks Minimus to find his ear plugs.
• 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 fiery 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 (such as Maximus) who tries to profit from the giant scrap pile at the cost of what little functionality the robots have.
• Chef Bernadette was apparently Maximus' personal chef in her appearances before "Poached Egg". In "Poached Egg", she resigned as Maximus' personal chef when she refused to make an omelette out of the last existing Piraxian rhino egg, despite Maximus' order. In the episode's ("Poached Egg") conclusion (not in her appearances after "Poached Egg"), she went back to her old job as Maximus' personal chef after Maximus gave up on making an omelette out of a Piraxian rhino egg, and as a result, he ended up eating Minimus instead.
• Robo-Betty was apparently a robotic version of Betty that Sparky ordered through a mail-in kit. In "Robo-Betty" (this episode is named after her), she was able to defeat Captain Lure (which was a bomb used as a trap set by Maximus). In its sequel "Best Dressed Villain", she was able to defeat Maximus and his tin suit.

Recurring villains

• Infantor is a tough-talking, foul-tempered,1930’s gangster-like evil alien infant (or perhaps an adult or adolescent trapped in an infant's body) who enjoys playing games with his enemies and is more spoiled than Paris Hilton and year-old milk — combined! He thinks the galaxy is his own personal box of toys and, accordingly, he wants and demands everything. He is usually accompanied by his "Terma-Nanny", a robotic henchman designed to look like a nanny. 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 and used mind controlling chocolate chip cookies to form his own Brat Pack army.
• The Chameleon is an evil, dangerous spy and former top agent of Maximus, the Chameleon is so named because he has the curious ability to mimic the sound and appearance of any form possible. After being fired from Maximus' forces for an unexplained mishap, The Chameleon will do anything to get back in Maximus’s good books. As such, he wants to prove himself a super-criminal, and the best way he can see to do that is capture and/or destroy that pesky Atomic Betty.
• 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, using a scepter that can fire blasts of ice. Queen of the crystal planet Glacies, Iciclia is an icy, mean, cold-hearted, ugly old hag (1,000 years old, to be precise, which may mean she is immortal) and was once dependent on montegoberries to keep her youth and beauty, but she seems to have eliminated this dependency somehow. She has a sidekick named Dingleberry. She is at home only in climates as icy and cold as she is because if she were in a warm climate, she would melt.
• Atomic Dodger is Roger’s evil identical twin who is a very evil and dangerous criminal. Dodger’s villainous ways may stem from his belief that their mother liked Roger more than him. Roger, for his part, is jealous that Dodger has real hair.
• Nuclea is a Cruella de Vil-esque female alien with wild Medusa-like hair that is fatally shocking to the touch. She is energy-based being whose power (and size) increase as she consumes more energy and she has the power to fire energy blasts from her hands. She continually uses new methods to secure large sources of energy to absorb. She is basically a human lightning bolt of energy, but that, of course, is not enough power for her.
• The Betty Clones are three identical clones of Atomic Betty that were created from the genetic material in a piece of hair that Maximus IQ sliced off during a duel. The clones looked identical to Betty in every way, shape, and form except for the eye colors (red for Fire Betty, who can generate and control fire, yellow for Rock Betty, who can morph into a larger form with rock like skin and incredible strength, and blue for Stretch-O Betty, who can stretch her body like rubber), they even wore mock ups of the Galactic Guardian uniform, each with the same color as the eyes. Unlike the real Betty, the Betty clones were evil, obnoxious, selfish little brats, also, Maximus mutated the DNA of the Betty clones using genetic material of three evil alien females. In "The Trouble with Triplets", Maximus used them to commit crimes and frame the real Betty. In its sequel "The Cheerleaders of Doom", they possessed cheerleading powers to hypnotize people.
• 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 when she was hunting down the wedding party 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. In the episode "The Really Big Game", she trapped Degill on a jungle like planet and hunted him. In its sequal, "Night of the Degilla-Monster", she attempted to assasinate Degill, then teamed up with a clone he (Degill) created named Degilla, however she betrayed him and left him to die along with Betty and her crew.
• Hopper the Chopper is a space cowboy who robs planets. In "Solar System Surfin'", he tried to transport aquatic wild west sharks, and in its sequel, "The Great SubTRAINean Robbery", he tried to tie Tex Degill (Admiral Degill's brother) onto a train track using molydenum, but was saved with the help of Lily Rose (his niece) after leading Betty to a shortcut.
• Enormo is an incredibly small being who was angry because his small stature tends to make him ignored and planned to shrink everything in the galaxy, making him the biggest and most powerful being in the galaxy. He has a dog named Griffin, who looks to be part dog, part eagle.
• Greenbeard is the captain of the Galactic Pirates of the Corralean with a green beard (as his name suggests) who is always trying to find new ways of stealing various treasures (especially shiny objects like diamonds). In the episode "Galactic Pirates of the Corralean", Sparky and Betty snuck aboard his ship to retrieve a map to a 12,000 year old doomsday device, and in its sequel, "Ferried Treasure", Sparky inadvertently vacations on Greenbeard's pirate ship, which is now a not-so-luxury cruise ship (Greenbeard had lied and stated he had reformed) and accidentally lead them to a gigantic diamond that Betty and X-5 were transporting, but took the bait Betty set up instead (which was a box that looked like a treasure chest containing various junk).
• Masticula is a galactic criminal who terrorized the galaxy for centuries, she was a living golem made of a rubbery, protoplasmic putty like substance and could morph her body into any shape at will. When she was caught, she was convicted by a jury that consisted of Chef Bernadette, Spindly Tam, Zulia, and Admiral Degill, she was found guilty and frozen on the ice planet Glacius, until Betty's team traveled there to stop an asteroid from crashing into it. Sparky was using a portable oven to cook pancakes and accidentally left it there, melting the ice, and freeing Masticula, who sought out and captured all the members of the jury that convicted her, taking them to Glacius and sentencing them to be frozen as she was, however, she was defeated by Betty and her team and was frozen once again. She may be a parody of either The Blob or Clayface.
• Mylord Orus is a smelly being who tried to pollute other planets by sending garbage. In "Planet Stinxx", Mylord Orus polluted Edenia which turned the Edenians into mutants. In its sequel "A Fungus Amongus", he escaped his rocket prison from "Planet Stinxx" (instead of polluting a planet, it endlessly orbited the galaxy) with a help from a metal-eating fungi that had grown in his ship that he named Shermie the Germie, and was plotting revenge on the Galactic Guardians for arresting him, later in the episode, he and Shermie the Germie were both defeated by Sparky's homemade slug worm soup, which proved to be the thing that can dissolve the fungi.
• Dr. Cerebral is a strange being, consisting of a giant brain with a face floating in a glass dome with mechanical legs and arms who yearns to control the universe, and eliminate inefficient and unsanitary organic life forms in the process. The self-proclaimed greatest genius in the galaxy, he is always trying to devise ways to destroy other intelligent beings and prove himself the smartest. First he invented a Stupefactor Ray which, when used to zap people, made them act silly. Then he tried to create a giant robot monster made from stolen data from some of the galaxy’s best programmed robots, including B-1 and X-5; Dr. Cerebral himself would serve as the monster’s brain, this plan almost destroyed B-1 and X-5. In the episode "Oy, Robot", he obtained a new robot and used it to convert organic lifeforms into robots, believing that they are superior and cleaner. He even transformed Sparky into a robot, but Betty managed to stop Cerebral and turn everyone back to normal. In its sequel "The Gazundheit Factor", he created an organic life form called "The Gloob" that can eat other life forms, but it was constantly trying to eat Dr. Cerebral instead, later in the episode, Betty and her crew and Dr. Cerebral work together to stop "The Gloob". In the episode's conclusion, he says that he should have known better than to trust an organic life form to do his evil bidding when both Dr. Cerebral and "The Gloob" were arrested by Betty and her crew.
• Solovem was a dark wizard from the planet Mortavia who kidnapped R-Turmex, the ruler of the planet in "Wizard of Orb" (Solovem's only apperance so far) because R-Turmex had placed a ban on all dark magic, he attempted to assemble a mighty army to conquer Mortavia and the Galaxy, but Betty and crew managed to defeat him and save the king.
• Maximus Senior is Maximus IQ's father who is also a criminal, though more of a robber and thug than a supervillain. Like Maximus, he (Maximus Senior) possesses henchmen, but unlike Maximus, he does not possess an army. Even though Maximus is a successful super villain, his father still treats him like he is worthless and insults him at every turn, Maximus stated that growing up, his father constantly teased and taunted him.
• Auntie Matter is Betty's aunt and Beatrixo's sister. The two have an extreme case of sibling rivalry and are always fighting. She has the ability to transform her body into a Black Hole and send all the things she sucks up into her body into deep space, According to her, this power comes from her fathers side of the family, and Beatrixo is more like their mother, who has no powers, she was imprisoned on a distant asteroid until she was accidentally freed, however, Betty and Beatrixo managed to team up and imprison her once again. Betty's mother appears to not have inherited these powers, this may be because they skip a generation, It is not yet known if Betty has inhertied these powers either.
• The X-Rays are a trio of ruffians who were reeking havoc across the galaxy. These may include drawing a picture of Admiral DeGill as a woman, stealing candy from babies, vandalizing billboards, stealing ships from Maximus' citadel (especially stealing a Starcruiser from the episode "Best (Mis)Laid Plans" that was already stolen by Maximus), etc. The members names are Plutor, Bubba, and Furball, Plutor, the leader of the X-Rays, appeared to have a crush on Betty, further evidenced as when he and his fellow X-Rays were arrested, Plutor stated that when he got out of detention, he was going to join the Guardians so he and Betty could hang out together much to Betty's displeasure.
• Queen PeneloBee became the new queen of the planet Droneopolis when the bee people of this planet made Penelope Lang their new queen after their real queen died. In "Pre-Teen Queen of Outer Space", they kidnapped Penelope in order to make her their new queen, but in the end, Penelope was rescued by Betty and her crew (Penelope thought this was only a dream), but the bee people of Droneopolis had a strand of Penelope's hair, and with a DNA strand from that hair, they combined Penelope's DNA with some of their own and made their own version of Penelope Lang which was half human, half alien bee (in the episode's conclusion) when they failed to rescue her. In its sequel "Bee Movie", Queen PeneloBee is looking for a mate by kidnapping all the kings in the galaxy (although there is no such thing as a king bee).
• Jinx is a villain who got tired of being the butt of everyone's jokes because of his unluckiness. In "Hi-Jinxed" (Jinx's only appearance so far), he tried to prove himself the luckiest being in the galaxy by using a special ray to stealluck from others and use it to become the luckiest being alive.
• Milton Scrivener, also known as The Scribe, is a writer who got tired of his works' readers rejecting them (Sparky was the only one who liked his works). According to X-5, his works are sub-standard prose, and therefore only interest species of low-level intelligence (such as Sparky). In "The Scribe" (this episode is named after him), Sparky jeopardized the mission by reading his (Milton Scrivener's) works instead of helping Betty and X-5 fight. He became "The Scribe" when he found a special quill inside of a mystical book in his bookcase. He yearns to become the best (and only) writer in the galaxy by kidnapping other writers and stealing their ideas directly from their minds (victims may include Admiral DeGill, Chef Bernadette, K. C. Growling, etc), As "The Scribe" he has the power to fly on his mystic book, Imprison others in his book, and fire special energy balls that bring to life the ideas of the authors he kidnapped. In its sequel "Scribe 2: The ReScribing", Milton Scrivener escaped from prison when Sparky accidentally handed him his powerful book which was to be burned/discarded (Sparky couldn't bear to burn/discard Milton Scrivener's powerful book because he didn't want his works to go to waste). As soon as Milton Scrivener escaped from prison, he was in search for Lola Polaris (who is really Zulia (Sparky's mother)). But he failed to capture Zulia when he accidentally dropped his quill after his battle with Betty and X-5.
• Schmoz is an evil genie who lives in a shoe. In "Reeking Havoc" (Schmoz' only appearance so far) he wanted to take revenge on those who made him do their bidding.
• The Voice was apparently a former young singer who wanted to take revenge on the director of the musical academy he attended for insulting his voice, calling it not loud enough and kicking him out. In "No-Hit Wonders" (The Voice's only appearance so far), he tried to use a special ray gun to steal voices of the academy singers and use the loudness of the combined stolen singing voices to bring down the entire building.
• Boltar is a former Galactic Guardian who tried to steal Galactic Guardian weaponry for galactic domination, but Admiral DeGill caught him doing the deed. In "License DeGill" (Boltar's only appearance so far), he accused DeGill for lying about a battle called The Battle of the Drakus (although this battle is real), but was stopped by a retired Galactic Guardian named Arkan who proved him (Boltar) wrong.
• Koreena was apparently Betty's rival at her martial arts school who was lazy, never focused on her training, and cheated on all her tests (especially by copying off Betty during a test). In "Case of the Missing Kanushu" (Koreena's only appearance so far) Betty and her crew were called to investigate his fortress to find him (after he was kidnapped by Koreena). In the end, she got in trouble with Spindly Tam Kanushu for kidnapping him and for her unfavourable past record.
• Shaka Booga was apparently a prehistoric witch doctor who tried to devolve civilians into cavemen in "Devolution City" (Shaka Booga's only appearance so far), similar to the situation of the third season episode "Head Shrinker Much?" from Totally Spies!.
• Pandora was Paloma's evil twin sister, who looks exactly like Paloma, but only with purple hair, yellow eyes, and lighter skin, she wears a green cloak and body armor, she kidnapped Paloma to use her to help free their demon father from his prison, using a key hidden in a glass duck Maximus had bought that she stole from him, she was however, beaten by Betty and Paloma and sealed up along with her father.
• Degilla was a clone of Admiral Degill that he created to stand in for him in "Night of The Degilla Monster" until he could discover who was trying to assasinate him, however, Degilla went rogue and teamed up with Pontifadora the Conquistadora to run the Galactic Guardians as their own private army. However, Pontifadora betrayed him and left him to die along with Betty and her crew, Degilla helped them to escape and he took off, stating he would go to a place where he would be appreciated. Due to a malfunction in the cloning machine, Degilla is much stronger than Degill and can morph into a much more bigger and muscular version of himself.

Facts

• In the episode "The trouble with Triplets" is revealed from which planet Maximus comes from. He comes from the planet called Splatsy. This is revealed when he introduce the Betty clones to Atomic Betty.
• In the episode Maxland you can see al kinds of merchandise from Maximus. If you take a close look you can see a doll of Maximus as a little baby.

Voice cast

• Tajja Isen - Betty/Atomic Betty
• Rick Miller - Sparky
• Bruce Hunter - Robot X-5
• Adrian Truss - Admiral DeGill
• Laurie Elliott - Noah Parker
• Catherine Disher - Penelope Lang
• Colin Fox - Maximus I.Q.
• Len Carlson - Minimus P.U.

Episodes

Main article: List of Atomic Betty episodes

Posters

• Atomic Betty poster
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• Atomic Betty series poster
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Airing locales

In Canada, where the series produced, TELETOON, as well as its French language version, TÉLÉTOON, broadcast it. In the outside of Canada, Cartoon Network broadcast it in the countries where Cartoon Network exists except in some countries. In France, TéléTOON, only on TPS platform, broadcast the series; Cartoon Network in France, only on CanalSat platform, had never broadcast the series. In Germany, Disney Channel premiered the series in 24 October 2005 and later on its sister channel, Toon Disney.[1] Later, Kabel Eins launched Cartoon Network as their programming block. However, Disney Channel still broadcast the series. In the Netherlands, Jetix broadcast the series. From February 2007, the Dutch version of Cartoon Network is broadcasting the series in English. In Bulgaria the show is also shown on the local Cartoon Network form April 2007.

As well as on subscription platform, the series also broadcast on terrestrial platform. In France, Métropole Télévision broadcast the series on their M6 KID block, as the station involved in the production. In the United Kingdom, CITV on the British ITV stations such as ITV1 branded stations, STV and UTV, as well as its free-to-air digital channel, CITV Channel, broadcast the series. In Australia, ABC broadcast the series on their ABC Kids block. In Hong Kong, TVB Pearl broadcast the series on their children’s programming slot. In Brazil, Rede Globo broadcast the series.

Pan Middle Eastern channel MBC 3 broadcast Arabic language version of the series.

In Andorra, Portugal and Spain, Luk Internacional, SA licenses the series.

DVD releases

• Volume 1: Betty, Set, Go (released October 18, 2005)
• Volume 2: Betty to the Rescue (released October 18, 2005)

External links

• Official website
• Atomic Betty at Atomic Cartoons
• Atomic Betty at TELETOON
• Atomic Betty at Cartoon Network (UK)
• Atomic Betty at CITV
• Atomic Betty at IMDb
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