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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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* [[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!"