Rambo (1986) Animated Show Explored - A Controversial Show That Garnered Cult Following With Time!

[@MarvNARK]

Honestly it's amazing how people could turn R-rated films like this and Toxic Avenger into more kid-friendly stuff. I would pay good money to see this happen again, though have the cartoon focus more on the stuff that could pass through the sensors and/or the stuff people found most interesting about them

[@leg414]

Amazing....They pulled off making and showing a cartoon about a PTSD American warrior, now embraced by the government and working for them as free lancer for freedom...And in wars that show destruction but never bloodshed. I am truly impressed...Only in America! Peace

[@ihatekpoop6229]

child: momcan we have a rambo mom: but we have a rambo at home rambo at home

[@kali3665]

The problem with Rambo ... the character ... is that it didn't take long to alter the character from how he was originally depicted in David Morrell's novel. There, as in the first film, Rambo was suffering from PTSD and very suspicious of our own government for throwing American soldiers into someone else's war knowing that war was unwinnable. Then, with the second film, he became a superman and please don't mention the PTSD. Then we got the cartoon, which was even further removed from Morrell's original characterization of Rambo. The cartoon made him the greatest military figure ever, fighting only for the American Way that he was so untrusting of when we first met him. Yes, I know Hollywood has a habit of softening a popular character as the character became more and more popular (La Femme Nikita is a perfect example of THAT), but, really, they totally went beyond the pale with Rambo. The first film depicted a very damaged human being - a figure that many people could identify with. Every OTHER Rambo project depicted a superman with no flaws whatsoever. Not even Sylvester Stallone's trademark slurred voice! You can't identify with THAT Rambo any more than you can identify with Superman himself. Besides, the films were R-rated. Kids should NOT have been watching the films to become familiar with Rambo in the first place! But, of course, that's what "Moichendizin! Moichendizin! Ver da real money from da movie is made!" is for.

[@peadarmurray7994]

Rambo 4 in Burma and 5 he's a deeply damaged individual

[@Teddy-ev1zo]

Ok, but then kids would wonder what they are looking at and what is the source material.

[@kali3665]

@@Teddy-ev1zo Yeah, but I understand there's enough action to satisfy them.

[@jameshall1600]

No mention of his PTSD? What about his speech at the end of part 2 where he almost is in tears as he declares all he wants from his country is for it to love him and other Vietnam vets as much as they loved it and in the third film we see him living at a temple trying to put the past behind him and eventually having to start to accept he can't just leave it in the past. The fourth film sees him coming full circle and accepting that he has a killer instinct that was there before he ever went to war and the fifth saw him finally trying to move past it and live for something again only to see his would be found family torn apart by tragedy. In my opinion while it may have drifted away from the source material in the end we get a rather deep and interesting character arc about a man trying desperately to keep his sanity in the aftermath of absolute horror

[@GrimmShadowsII]

​@jameshall1600 yeah 2 still had aspects of the original character just slightly evolved, possibly from talking with Troutman during the first movie and maybe between movies. Beyond the first 2 he did become a kind of generic action hero even if in some moments the writing might have have been slightly better, like how Rambo ended the way first blood began in reference to Trautman saying things coming full circle I'm Rambo III. Of course then they ruined it in last blood by making Taken and changing the characters.

[@Teddy-ev1zo]

Uh, what about turbo?

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

Well, a G.I. JOE crossover would've been kinda nice