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Danger Force is an American comedy television series created by Christopher J. Nowak that premiered on Nickelodeon on March 28, 2020, and ended on February 21, 2024. The series is a spinoff of Henry Danger, and includes returning stars, Cooper Barnes and Michael D. Cohen. Starring along them are Havan Flores, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Dana Heath, and Luca Luhan.
Premise
Cooper Barnes and Michael D. Cohen return as Captain Man and Schwoz, in this spinoff, of Henry Danger. The superhero and his inventor recruit four children, to attend their Swellview Academy for the gifted. The crimefighters in-training try to harness their frequently troublesome, and sometimes uncontrollable superpowers, as they learn to work as a team. The students include Chapa, a girl who gains the ability of electrokinesis, Mika, who develops the ability of sonic scream, Miles, the brother of Mika who develops the power of teleportation, and Bose, who gains the power of telekinesis.
Why It's Dangerous
- Just like Sam & Cat, it wasn't really necessary to even exist because Henry Danger ended a week before the show came out, and Nickelodeon already had the idea to make a spinoff of it. Shows like Planet Sheen only had 4 years to come out, after the original ended, so it's either end the show, and to make a spin-off a few years later, or just keep the show going, and don't make a spinoff at all.
- It's a downgrade, from the last two seasons of Henry Danger.
- The acting isn't very good, and is laughable at times, and it's nowhere near as good as the acting, in Henry Danger. Plus not to mention the lack of chemistry between the characters.
- Similar to the first 3 seasons of Henry Danger, most of the episodes are either stupid, bland, annoying, idiotic, nonsensical, or have horrendous plots that are nothing but pure filler, and it's more evident in Season 1.
- Like the original series the superheroes don't even act like superheroes at all. Sometimes they reveal their secrets to the villains and get distracted by certain animals they see.
- Like the original series, there are way too many unfunny jokes in the show. Some of the examples, are the pants joke, in one of the episodes, and the goat who says butt, and some jokes are trying hard to be hip and modern, such as Ray's annoying K-pop gag, in, "Down Goes Santa Part 2".
- The show seems to try to be hip and cool with kids, a good example being the fact that the show has four episodes featuring, "Among Us", in the title, being a poor attempt of making reference to the game of the same name.
- Many unoriginal supervillain names, one of them even has the name, "Mr. Guilty".
- A lot of the special effects come off as very bland most of the time and feel very forced.
- Some unlikable characters.
- Mika is the smart-ass and the punching-bag of the team. She is also way too sassy, and loud.
- Bose is way too stupid, to the point, where it isn't funny.
- Chapa is too aggressive to the point where she can get really annoying; and can be seen as a rip off of Sam Puckett from iCarly.
- Officer Didi Walnut was completely unlikable in the season 2 finale, Unmasked. She discovers her niece and nephew, along with Bose and Chapa, are in Danger Force, and exposes them, to their respectful mothers, which gets them kicked out, and all she did was laugh at them, and gets away scot-free.
- Several bad episodes like
- In "Mime Games", it teaches that French is just English, with very ridiculous accents. Not to mention that is making the show insulting, to people with French accents, or in other words, offending them, much like in the SML video, "Bowser Junior Learns Spanish".
- "Mika in the Middle", is a very mean-spirited episode.
- "Quaran-kini", is a terrible, and insensitive parody of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially considering that it was filled to the brim with jokes, revolving around toilet humor.
- Most modern Nickelodeon sitcoms have a little, "gimmick". For example, the show, Side Hustle's gimmick, is, of course, the app they make to pay off their debt. Danger Force also has a gimmick, which are the members not good at using their superpowers. Sometimes, these gimmicks can lead to tons of opportunities that can make the show better, and even involve character development. However, by the first season, this gimmick is already ended, as seen in the episode with Henry, Danger Force can fully control their powers, when they fight Blackout.
- This also shows that the writers are lazy enough to change something big just for one scene.
- The school for the gifted that Ray teaches, gets completely abandon by the end of season 2, and the entirety of the third season, in fact the kids, go to Swellview Junior High, which is the same school, Henry, Charlotte, Jasper and Piper used to go, in the previous series.
- While Henry did show up now and then, Charlotte, Jasper and Piper never returned for special guest appearances.
- Piper was also the only one not to be mentioned at all.
- On a side note, every time Henry returned to the series, he never once mentioned how they are doing.
Redeeming Qualities
- Danger Force's concept is overall pretty good. 4 superhero kids with their own powers, superhero identities and unique costumes will guaranteed attract a lot of people, even if said premise was poorly executed because of flaws mentioned above.
- The costumes are cool to look at for the most part, as they are creative, and there is even merchandise of their costumes.
- The logo is amazingly well made.
- While most of the jokes are bad, some would fit in the, "so bad, they're good", category.
- The theme song is absolutely incredible and fun to listen to.
- The promotional art looks very nice.
- The acting and chemistry is slightly improving as time went on.
- Some good characters:
- Miles is a likable character, and the one who tends to mostly good deeds, despite his lazy laid back nature at times.
- Henry is still likable, managing to keep his better self from the previous show’s last 2 seasons.
- Frankini, a villain from the first show, is also still likable, being one of the good villains in the show.
- The Toddler, another villain from the first show, is also still an amazing villain.
- Even though Ray is idiotic again in this series, he is also still as likable as he is in seasons 4-5, of the original series.
- Schwoz is still as hilarious, wacky, and likable as he is in the original series.
- Chapa finally receives character development in, "Chapa's Phone Home", and finally toned down her anger.
- Mika and Bose have also improved later on, but they can still be annoying, at times.
- The episode, “Return of the Kid”, and their Christmas special, "Down Goes Santa", were both very decent. The 2nd season 4-parter, also started off, with a good mini-arc, especially, “A Henry Among Us.”
- The second half of Season 3 is also enjoyable as that's when the serialized story line kicks in.
- The fight scenes are pretty good, despite some of the borrowed effects.
- Thankfully, there are no foot jokes in this series, due to Dan Schneider not being involved, as he got fired in 2018.
- Seasons 2 and 3 are slight improvements over season 1.
- Season 3 also has a serialized plot-line.
- The Cell is an awesome new villain group in season 3.
- At least this series is a lot better, than the animated series, and The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder.
- Drex finally redeems himself, near the end of the series, and starts a new relationship with his son, Lil' Dynomite.
- Thankfully, the show didn't last too long.
- The Battle for Swellview was a good way to end the series, and the Henry Danger franchise.
Reception
Danger Force has received very negative reception from critics, audiences, and fans of Henry Danger. It has an IMDb rating, of a 3.9/10. As with most modern Nickcoms, it is considered to be one of the worst Nickelodeon shows of all-time. In fact, lots of Henry Danger fans were actually really excited for this show, and then when it came out, a lot of them were really disappointed.
Trivia
- Dan Schneider didn't create this show because of his retirement back in 2018.
- Jace Norman's character, Henry Hart briefly returns for a guest appearance in "The Return of the Kid".
- Jace Norman also the producer of the show
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