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=== ''Captain Pronin'' provides examples of: ===
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: Some characters have different skin colors, such as the junkies in the first part, who are blue, Myshyakovich, who is green and Don Carlione, who is pink.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: Some characters have different skin colors, such as the junkies in the first part, who are blue, Myshyakovich, who is green and Don Carlione, who is pink.
* [[Art Evolution]]: The fourth episode has much better animation than the previous ones.
* [[Art Evolution]]: The fourth episode has much better animation than the previous ones.
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* [[Everybody Lives]]: No one dies in any of the parts. Mooks, even hit by hand grenades are merely knocked out.
* [[Everybody Lives]]: No one dies in any of the parts. Mooks, even hit by hand grenades are merely knocked out.
* [[Explosions in Space]]
* [[Explosions in Space]]
* [[Expy]] - Captain Pronin is [[Red Heat (Film)|Ivan Danko]]'s one.
* [[Expy]] - Captain Pronin is [[Red Heat|Ivan Danko]]'s one.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Again, Captain Pronin's theme.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Again, Captain Pronin's theme.
** A shop featuring medieval weaponry features a "Guns" sign.
** A shop featuring medieval weaponry features a "Guns" sign.
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* [[The Infiltration]]: One of the dentist mooks in the first part turns out to be [[James Bond]].
* [[The Infiltration]]: One of the dentist mooks in the first part turns out to be [[James Bond]].
* [[I Have Your Wife]]: In the first episode.
* [[I Have Your Wife]]: In the first episode.
* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Ninja]]: The villain of the first part has everything at his disposal, including ninjas.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: The villain of the first part has everything at his disposal, including ninjas.
* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: In the second episode, there are lines such as "This is your money. Give me your smoking!" ("Smoking" means "tuxedo" in Russian. Likely intentional, as the Russian subtitles used "kurtka", another word for "jacket").
* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: In the second episode, there are lines such as "This is your money. Give me your smoking!" ("Smoking" means "tuxedo" in Russian. Likely intentional, as the Russian subtitles used "kurtka", another word for "jacket").
* [[Parody Sue]]: Pronin himself. Subverted in the second episode that {{spoiler|for the most part of it, it was actually a robot lookalike of him.}}
* [[Parody Sue]]: Pronin himself. Subverted in the second episode that {{spoiler|for the most part of it, it was actually a robot lookalike of him.}}
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* [[Reference Overdosed]]
* [[Reference Overdosed]]
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: In the third episode, Pronin beats the lightsaber-using viking Darth Vader using a standard-issue police baton (even with the word "Advertisement" appearing on the screen afterwards).
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: In the third episode, Pronin beats the lightsaber-using viking Darth Vader using a standard-issue police baton (even with the word "Advertisement" appearing on the screen afterwards).
* [[Shout Out]]: Mafia members, each taller than each other much like the [[Lucky Luke|Dalton brothers]] are seen coming out of the red Mafia [[Clown Car]] in the second episode.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Mafia members, each taller than each other much like the [[Lucky Luke|Dalton brothers]] are seen coming out of the red Mafia [[Clown Car]] in the second episode.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: In the second episode, Don Carlione turns the radio on a song that sounds similar to [[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]] theme.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: In the second episode, Don Carlione turns the radio on a song that sounds similar to [[The Godfather]] theme.
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: In the first episode Pronin is filled with less emotion, from the second episode onward he becomes a [[Large Ham]].
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: In the first episode Pronin is filled with less emotion, from the second episode onward he becomes a [[Large Ham]].
* [[Woolseyism]]: Niffiwan, the English translator inserted a subtle one into the theme song for the rhyme:
* [[Woolseyism]]: Niffiwan, the English translator inserted a subtle one into the theme song for the rhyme:
{{quote| "Russian Super! Captain Pronin, cracks the case, loves the chase, he's owning!"}}
{{quote|"Russian Super! Captain Pronin, cracks the case, loves the chase, he's owning!"}}


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[[Category:Captain Pronin]]
[[Category:Captain Pronin]]
[[Category:Animation]]
[[Category:Animation]]
[[Category:Eastern European Animation of the 1990s]]

Latest revision as of 15:30, 16 April 2021

Captain Pronin is a 4-episode cartoon series made in the post-Soviet Russia in the early nineties.

Created as a parody of American action movies that flooded Russia in the early nineties, it is about Captain Pronin, the grandson of Major Pronin, a character from a series of Soviet books from The Fifties (who was like a Russian James Bond).

The 4 episodes are:

Tropes used in Captain Pronin include:

"Russian Super! Captain Pronin, cracks the case, loves the chase, he's owning!"

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