''Tigtone'' is an American

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that premiered on

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on January 14, 2019. It is based on the original characters of an independent short, ''The Begun of Tigtone'', created by Andrew Koehler, Benjamin Martian, and Zack Wallenfang. They produced it through their own company Babyhemyth Productions. The series was created by Andrew Koehler and Benjamin Martian and produced by Babyhemyth Productions with other two companies, Titmouse, Inc. and

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. The setting is a

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of clichés and tropes from the

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genre, with occasional

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references. A second season was announced in July 2019. On August 13, 2020, it was announced that the second season would premiere on September 14, 2020. In August 2021, Benjamin Martian announced that Adult Swim cancelled the series after two seasons.

Plot

In a medieval world, Tigtone is an intense and high-strung adventurer with a penchant for the over-dramatic and a murderous obsession for quests. He resides in the surreal, medieval kingdom of Propecia, ruled by its two-headed conjoined twin monarchs, King-Queen, who is regularly flanked by their effeminate man-child son Prince Lavender and their frequently put-upon attendant Command-Or Mathis. Joined by his trusty and expendable companion Helpy, Tigtone regularly accepts tasks and assignments that take him to various locations in Propecia, slaughtering numerous enemies along the way.

Characters

Main characters

* Tigtone (voiced by

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as an adult,

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as a child) - The primary protagonist, a wandering adventurer with an obsession for quests. * Helpy (voiced by

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) - An unspecified creature and Tigtone's companion whose regenerative powers make them regularly exploited and abused, even after becoming friends with Tigtone. In the finale of the first season, Helpy was revealed to have used Tigtone's quests to gather items needed for their master The Greater Good,only to subsequently be betrayed by The Greater Good and make amends with Tigtone. * King-Queen (King voiced by

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and Queen voiced by

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) - The two-headed ruler of Propecia. One head is a male who is a king and the other head is a female who is a queen. In season two, it was revealed that the queen half of King-Queen had an affair with the late Amothedeus which led to Lavender killing the king half and send the queen half into exile. The queen half starts to hallucinate seeing her husband's ghost as she plans to reclaim her kingdom. In "Tigtone and the Stakes" upon Helpy getting the queen half to Propecia, the king half is revived by Lavendar as the king half apologizes to Lavendar for not being his real dad. * Lore Mastra (voiced by

) - The intense keeper of the royal library who often acts as a dispatcher for Tigtone's quests. She is prone to unpredictable fits of rage. * Prince Lavender (voiced by

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) - The man-child son of King-Queen. In the second season, Lavender finds out that his true father is the late Amothedeus making him a half-wizard leading to him killing the king half of King-Queen and driving the queen half into exile. He then collaborates with Spaceress in plots to take down Tigtone. By the end of the second season, Prince Lavender revives the king half of King-Queen while reconciling with his parents and maintaining his love for Spaceress. * Command-Or Mathis (voiced by

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Recurring characters

* Memory Gnome (voiced by

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in the pilot,

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in later episodes) - A gnome who dispenses advice to Tigtone through memories. * Lord Festus (voiced by

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in the pilot,

in later episodes) - A recurring villain with a fetish for torturing people. * Beconka (voiced by

) - A wandering adventurer who becomes Tigtone's competitive rival. * Spaceress (voiced by

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) - An evil space villain who ends up on Tigtone's world at the start of the second season. She allies with Prince Lavendar and he falls in love with her. The episode "Tigtone and the Seven-Headed Serpent of Kloom" reveals that she is just an alien worm in a robotic armor.

Episodes

Precursor (2014)

Pilot (2018)

Season 1 (2019)

Season 2 (2020)

Shorts (2014–15, 2019, 2020)

In addition to the main episodes, there have been twelve ''Tigtone's Journal'' shorts released on Babyhemyth Productions'

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channel (like ''The Begun of Tigtone'', these predated the television series), and eight ''Dear Journal'' shorts released on

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's YouTube channel. With the exceptions of Entries # 6, 8, 9, and 10 of ''Tigtone's Journal'', which are slightly over a minute long, each has a runtime of less than one minute. As a promotion for Season 2, Adult Swim's YouTube channel released the short "Helpy's Useful Helpings," which is presented as an infomercial-like tutorial (note that the title for the YouTube posting is different than the video itself, which instead displays "Helpy's Useful Usings"). This short is over 3 minutes long.

References

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External links

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