80s cartoons which did and/or didn't end

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The TV movie, Turtles Forever, was effectively a finale to the whole Eastman & Laird era, before they sold off the rights to Viacom. It involved the 1987 and 2003 incarnations meeting up with the 1984 originals and ended with a shot of the first comic being inked.

Which Nolan had done something like this instead of Dark Knight Rises.

[NoSleep]

Not quite the 80's (1992) and the animation was stop-motion models, but Truckers was really good for its 13 episodes and came to a halt at what seemed the beginning of the real story. It was based on just a part of Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad. Disappointing that something so well done seemed to have been ignored and abandoned.

[Dr Rock]

In he later series of Battle of The Planets, Zoltar's mask slipped indicating he was a she - or possibly trans - but I never saw them follow up on that, then the series ended.

[dissolute ocelot]

In he later series of Battle of The Planets, Zoltar's mask slipped indicating he was a she - or possibly trans - but I never saw them follow up on that, then the series ended.

There are a lot of stories grown up around this, but basically Battle of the Planets was based on a Japanese original series which was much weirder and Zoltar was both male and female in the Japanese version, but they hacked it up for western transmission, took some characters out, put others in. There is a ton of websites and articles which can explain this better than I.

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In he later series of Battle of The Planets, Zoltar's mask slipped indicating he was a she - or possibly trans - but I never saw them follow up on that, then the series ended.

Fire + wind + earth + water = Captain Planet

Spring + summer + autumn + winter = Colonel Planet

North + south + east + west = Private Planet

There's another one


Captain Planet + Colonel Planet + Private Planet + Lieutenant Planet = BATTLE OF THE PLANETS

[wooders1978]

I swore I'd seen the D&D episode where they got home in the end but probably have it mixed up with the numerous times they nearly got home or got home but had to come back for some reason

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

You had to roll 18 or higher to see the final episode.

[Huxleys Babkins]

He-Man also ended after the four/130 milestone. Two sequel series, in 1990 and 2002, ran 65 and 39 episodes respectively.

The 2002 series was a reboot and really, really good. It was cancelled midway through the second series, although I think they knew the writing was on the wall as it has a real Arrested Development Series 3 feel to it. It doesn't commit to any significant arcs so that you wouldn't be too disappointed if it were to suddenly stop. There was a similarly brilliant Image Comics series that ran concurrently, but Mattel decided that they'd cancel all licensing when the TV show ended, so that was the end of that too.

The Kevin Smith series has a lot to live up to.