Beyond Good & Evil’s Jade and its hybrids are a big part of Captain Laserhawk Image: Netflixīut Captain Laserhawk isn’t as tonally dissonant as it sounds. Virtually all modern Ubisoft franchises, from Watch Dogs and Beyond Good & Evil to various Tom Clancy games, are thrown into Shankar’s new animated concoction and boiled into something shockingly potent. Rabbids are interdimensional interlopers who make an all-too-brief appearance. The Assassin’s Creed franchise is represented in the show not by Ezio or Basim, but by a badass anthropomorphic frog assassin. Beloved mascot platformer Rayman appears as a TV host and propagandist, who is at various points shown snorting something illicit and hosting an execution on live television. Instead, for Captain Laserhawk Shankar has plucked a handful of Ubisoft characters from across the game maker’s catalog and thrust them into a dystopian technocratic sci-fi future. Outside of an appearance from Far Cry 4 bad guy Pagan Min, Captain Laserhawk has little in the way of that game series’ DNA. Most importantly: Despite its title, don’t expect this to be a Far Cry animated series. That is, unless you know creator and executive producer Adi Shankar’s work, which takes beloved, carefully protected pop culture characters and reinterprets them in subversive, often graphically violent ways. Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, Ubisoft’s new (very) adult animated series for Netflix, may not be what you’re expecting.
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