Atomic Betty

Atomic Betty
File:Atomicbettycastpic.jpg Atomic Betty and her friends, as seen on the show's opening sequence.
Created by	Trevor Bentley Mauro Casalese Rob Davies Olaf Miller Ginan Zedra
Voices of	(English version) Tajja Isen Rick Miller Bruce Hunter Adrian Truss Laurie Elliott Catherine Disher Colin Fox Len Carlson
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	104 x 15 minutes or 52 x 30 minutes, plus 1 Christmas special (60 minutes) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Ira Levy Peter Williamson Kevin Gillis Trevor Bentley Steven Hecht Philippe Alessandri Nghia Nguyen (co-executive producer)
Producers	Kevin Gillis Ginan Zedra Virginie Jallot Rob Davies
Running time	15 or 30 minutes, depending on market and format.
Original release
Network	Teletoon / Télétoon See Airing locales for outside of Canada.
Release	September 6, 2004 – Present (Returning in 2008, with the third season)

Atomic Betty is a Canadian animated television series produced by Atomic Cartoons, Breakthrough Films & Television, and Tele Images Kids. Additional funding for production is provided by Teletoon in Canada and Métropole 6 in France.

Overview

Production

Breakthrough Films & Television became Atomic Cartoons' partner in producing and distributing the television series worldwide, beginning with Teletoon in Canada (premiered September 6, 2004) and Cartoon Network in the United States (premiered September 17, 2004)

Atomic Betty is one of an increasing number of cartoons made using Adobe Flash and has a distinct smoothness to the animation that separates it from traditional cel animation. Ironically, there is considerable artistic influence from classic cel animation such as old Hanna-Barbera cartoons like The Jetsons. Many of the characters (Notably Maximus I.Q.) and designs (Such as Betty's spaceship) take cues from early space operas, such as Flash Gordon.

There were 52 half-hour or 104 quarter-hour episodes over the course of two seasons. There is also a full-hour Christmas special and a third season is in progress, scheduled for completion and airing sometime in 2008.

Story

The series centers on Betty, a typical Canadian adolescent who enjoys school, science-fiction movies and singing in her band. Unknown to most of her friends and family, however, she is also a Galactic Guardian, dedicated to interstellar peacekeeping and law enforcement. As Atomic Betty, assisted by her alien pilot Sparky, and a robot named X-5, she confronts the evil overlord Maximus I.Q. and other intergalactic supervillains. Despite being rather unassuming on Earth, Atomic Betty is a superstar throughout the galaxy and even has her own fan club of loyal followers.

In each episode, a crisis occurs somewhere in the galaxy, while Betty enjoys some activity with her friends. Invariably, her bracelet begins beeping, and she runs off alone to save the galaxy. Accompanied by her crew, Betty manages to defeat the villains before returning home.

Although the series is about a spaceranger, the story line bears similarity to the superhero genre and, mostly, magical girl genre, since Betty has an identity secret to the people on Earth. Earlier seasons of Danny Phantom follow a similar route too, since he holds a secret to the residents of Amity Park.

Characters

Main article: List of characters in Atomic Betty

With the exception of the show's eponymous character and the particular story involved, most of the characters encountered in the series are exclusive to either of the two major settings in the show. The show is largely centred around Betty and her friends in segments taking place on Earth, while Betty and her crew are the major focus of the space setting.

Primary characters

• Elizabeth "Betty" Barrett/Atomic Betty is the heroine of the show, a very unusual 12-year-old girl from Moose Jaw Heights (a fictional borough of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan). She is awkward yet unique both in her qualities and in her social position. She has eclectic interests, from skateboarding to learning to play both the guitar and keyboard, and writing her own songs. She and her friends have a band, which play infrequently. In terms of her social identity, Betty is known to be a serious carnivore and has very tomboyish characteristics, though she has a crush on her classmate, Dylan. She also has a secret life as a Galactic Guardian, an enforcer of law and order across the galaxy. In school, she is unusually intelligent, unusually thoughtful, quirky, and a little bit of a nerd, but in outer space she is professional and always focused, though she is unusually confident of winning. Betty was recruited and trained at a young age, and is one of the best at what she does, commanding considerable respect. While she seems to be famous throughout the galaxy, her home planet (Earth) is a closely guarded secret from all but a few within the galaxy's power structure. Betty wears a bracelet that allows her commander, Admiral DeGill, to contact her at any time. The bracelet also contains an arsenal of weapons and tools, and may be the item she uses to alter her appearance between Earth and her star cruiser. In the Penguin Books book "Supreme Overlord Penelope", her real name was known as "Elizabeth Barrett".

• Sparky is Betty's first lieutenant and co-pilot of the Hyper-Galactic Star Cruiser. He possesses an immense appetite (and a talent for using his four cow-like stomachs for storage). While a bit ditzy and accident-prone, he forms one third of a very reliable team. Sparky’s not the smartest alien in the galaxy (he was the only one stupid enough to fall for Greenbeard's cruise ship disguise in "Ferried Treasure", and is low-tech and primitive even as a robot, as seen in "Oy, Robot"), but his energy, enthusiasm and loyalty more than make up for his intellectual shortcomings. Sparky’s bravery is only surpassed by his appetite. There isn’t a situation that Sparky can’t eat his way out of.

• Robot X-5 is the third member of Betty's crew. Although an antiquated robot by Galactic standards, X-5 remains a walking database on everything important to a Galactic Guardian. In "Oy, Robot", it is revealed that he used to spray oil during his times as a prototype. X-5 is a brilliant robot…if he does say so himself. He’ll tell you everything you need to know about some alien species…and more. He and Sparky have a contentious but occasionally respectful working relationship.

• Admiral DeGill is a goldfish with a crew cut who is Commander in Chief of Galactic Guardian and Planet Protectors Battalion 147. He is Betty's commanding officer, who dispatches Betty on her various missions. He is a supporter of Betty’s awesome abilities. He knows Betty is the best, and he should; after all, the Admiral’s been around since Sirius, the Dog Star, was still paper training.

• Noah Parker is Betty's best friend. Although Noah thinks of Betty as being somewhat flaky, he secretly has a huge crush on her, yet is unable to express his feelings. He is unaware of Betty being a Galactic Guardian, and often thinks that Betty being frequently missing is due to coincidence much to his dismay. In the end of the second season, he was accidentally teleported to Maximus I.Q.'s citadel.

• Paloma is a Latino girl who is introduced in the second season as a new transfer student who quickly befriends Betty and becomes Noah's occasional rival for Betty's friendship. Like Betty, Paloma is a kind, strong-willed young woman who willingly stands up to nasty people like Penelope Lang. However, she hides a secret that is only revealed at the end of the second season. The secret is that Paloma is from the planet Sharbena, where its citizens possessed the unique ability to shape shift into any living creature they desired. No army could defeat a race that could duplicate it in every detail, so the inhabitants of Sharbena enjoyed peace and prosperity lasting for eons, until many years ago on this planet, a female villain named Golgotha became convinced their powers were divine, and that the rightful place for Sharbena was as rulers of the galaxy. When she couldn't convince her fellow citizens of her beliefs, she freed a Demon who couldn’t be imitated. Unable to duplicate the demon, the Sharbenians where helpless to defend themselves, the city was destroyed, Golgotha fell in love with the demon, and together they swept through the galaxy on a reign of terror, destroying all who stood in their way until the Galactic Guardians were able to imprison the demon in a mystic box, Golgotha fled into hiding, and while in hiding, Golgotha gave birth to the Demon's children, twin girls: One of them was Paloma and the other is her sister Pandora, who looks exactly like Paloma, only with light purple hair, lighter skin, and yellow eyes. Pandora kidnaps Paloma at the end of season 2 and attempts to use her to free their demon father. During her capture Paloma appears to die but is suddenly reborn with horns and a tail. Using the good side of her father's powers she manages to imprison both him and Pandora.

• Penelope Lang is Betty's rival, who thinks of herself as the most popular prima donna at her school. This girl is rich, spoiled, and often uses her popularity or wealth to undermine Betty's social standing, a plan that inevitably backfires. She is usually seen with two sidekicks named Megan and Sarah. She’s used to getting her own way — even if it means stepping all over other people. In fact, she enjoys getting her own way more if she has to step over other people to do so. In "Bracelet Yourself", she appeared as one of the villains when she tampered with Betty's bracelet which is property of the Galactic Guardians and caused the Starcruiser to lose control. She also seems to not hate, but despise Betty (she even despises Noah and Paloma just about much as she despises Betty), for in "Pre-Teen Queen of Outerspace", she attempts to kill Betty and her friends, though she thinks it is just a dream.

• Maximus I.Q. is a bumbling supervillain, catlike in appearance and somewhat regal (or at least believes himself so) in bearing. He comes from the planet called Splatsy. Maximus has one simple dream: to impose his evil rule on every sentient being in the Cosmos. Though bumbling, he represents enough of a danger that he is Betty's most annoying and frequent nemesis. He is obsessed with defeating Betty and discovering her home planet, and has come very close on several occasions (including once building a temporary base near Jupiter). Betty hates Maximus because he’s always breaking the Galactic Guardian rulebook, while Maximus hates Betty because she’s always ruining his plans. As Maximus would say, “That girl has no respect for evil geniuses!” He resembles Mechanikat on Krypto the Superdog.

• Minimus P.U., P.U. stands for "portable underling", is Maximus’s long-suffering assistant. He enjoys his job and is oblivious to the almost unbearable levels of abuse inflicted upon him by his boss. Minimus has a swivel-head with two distinct faces that can alternate back and forth. This allows Minimus to be both a sycophant and a grumbler at the same time, giving new meaning to the phrase “two-faced".

Recurring characters

• Mr. Barrett (Betty's Father) is a slightly absent-minded salesman who is usually busy with whatever new gadget he is trying to sell, but he is a devoted father when he's around.

• Mrs. Barrett (Betty's Mother) dresses like a stereotypical hairdresser, with a poufed blonde ponytail and tacky animal-print clothes, but her actual skills at hairstyling are best left unseen. Where Betty's father is absent-minded, her mother is simply oblivious, as she spends most of her day fussing over her beloved cat, Purrsy. This is why she never seems to notice that Betty has just returned from a mission in space.

• Beatrixo (Betty's Granny) is a lively older woman with a love of clog dancing and numerous other talents. She lives in the country just outside of Moose Jaw Heights. Like any country girl she enjoys life’s simple pleasures: curling up under a warm quilt with a nice warm fire in the hearth, and munching down some nice cow-tongue stew. She is a retired Galactic Guardian, a fact that Betty discovered when she found a signal bracelet identical to her own in her granny's attic (Betty is the only one on Earth who knows her secret). It is unknown whether Betty's father is in on the secret. She may be retired, but every now and then, and only when Betty is in real trouble, she will come out of retirement to help her granddaughter. Beatrixo found her husband Jimmy on the episode The No-L 9. In the second season finale Takes One to Know One, we see that her old team consisted of her, Spindly Tam Kanushu, a retired Galactic Guardian named Arkan, a young Admiral DeGill, and B-1.

• Jimmy (Betty's Grandpa) was lost while trying to discover sounds on a distant planet, but was found on The No-L 9, a collection of singing planets in "Atomic Betty: The No-L 9" (Christmas special). Jimmy is a scientist studying the musicality of space rocks. In his sole appearance on the show, Jimmy's voice was provided by William Shatner.

• Sir Purrsefus (A.K.A. Purrsey for short) is Betty's mother's spoiled, surly, beloved Siamese cat. She lavishes him with attention and treats him like he’s Betty’s younger sibling. And just like any other spoiled rotten little brat, Purrsy is petty, jealous and conniving. Purrsy has accidentally accompanied Betty on one of her missions, but being a cat has not said anything about it. He tends to cause trouble, but the trouble often backfires on him.

• Kyle is Betty's bratty cousin. He's self-centered, arrogant, and thinks that anything not to his liking is stupid. This usually means anything Betty or her friends like. He also has a talent for causing havoc that eventually gets him into trouble.

• Dylan is the school heartthrob, as he is both attractive and athletic. Penelope is nuts about him! So is Betty… although she’d never admit it. He is the dream guy of every girl in school, but he is attracted to Betty because of her intelligence and interest in science. The fact that she says bizarre things, and leaves at a moment’s notice, only intrigues Dylan even more. Betty may or may not still like him now, but Penelope no longer likes him after an incident in "Bee Movie".

• Duncan Paine is Moose Jaw Heights Junior High's resident school bully, and likes Penelope, although he had a small crush on Paloma in the episode "The X-Rays". Duncan Paine bosses people around, like Penelope, though he is not really that descriptive on any show, but "Bracelet Yourself" where he appeared as one of the villains when he tampered with Betty's bracelet which is property of the Galactic Guardians and ended up insulting Maximus with it. In "Takes One To Know One" he chases after Paloma who pranked him and became suspicous after he saw Paloma getting abducted by her evil twin sister Pandora.

• Mr. Peterson is Betty's school principal. Tough but fair, he takes his interest in hockey to the point of obsession. His voice and style of dress are patterned after veteran Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry.

• Atomic Roger is another Galactic Guardian, apparently human, although clearly not from Earth, who is Betty's colleague and occasional rival. Stylish, and groomed with a slickly-coiffed pompadour hairdo (actually a wig), Atomic Roger is not evil; he’s just vain and self-centred. He is actually a highly skilled Galactic Guardian who helps save the world (as long as he doesn’t have to get too messy doing it). He also may or may not have a crush on Betty.

• Spindly Tam Kanushu was apparently Betty's martial arts trainer. He is an elderly alien martial arts expert.

• Commander McSlim is another commanding officer of Betty. He is the director for the Galactic Guardians Training Corps.

• Empress Narcissitad was apparently a selfish, spoiled empress who was kidnapped by Maximus and held for ransom on the planet Crushden in "Battle of the Bots". Her personality is similar to that of Princess Helena from Princess Sissi. Her "donut hairstyle" and type of dress are a parody of Princess Leia. She also hates and is allergic to robots (like X-5 and B-1) to the point where she would rather be kidnapped by Maximus than be rescued by robots. Instead of paying Maximus' demands, Narcissitad's subjects sent him a note saying he could keep her. In the episode's conclusion, you can see Maximus being annoyed by her complaints and asks Minimus to find his ear plugs.

• Zulia, Sparky's mother, is a sweet, perfect mother figure to anyone she comes across. She's thoughtful, kind, and an incredible cook who will never let anyone leave her house hungry. She also has a fiery temper and a vicious hit with kitchen utensils should anyone threaten her son.

• B-1 is X-5's "uncle". He's an older model robot who was discarded on the planet Crushden when he became obsolete. Since then he's led a robot militia against anyone (such as Maximus I.Q.) who tries to profit from the giant scrap pile at the cost of what little functionality the robots have.

• Chef Bernadette was apparently Maximus' personal chef in her appearances before "Poached Egg". In "Poached Egg", she resigned as Maximus' personal chef when she refused to make an omelette out of the last existing Piraxian rhino egg, despite Maximus' order. In the episode's ("Poached Egg") conclusion (not in her appearances after "Poached Egg"), she went back to her old job as Maximus' personal chef after Maximus gave up on making an omelette out of a Piraxian rhino egg, and as a result, he ended up eating Minimus instead.

• Robo-Betty was apparently a robotic version of Betty that Sparky ordered through a mail-in kit. In "Robo-Betty" (this episode is named after her), she was able to defeat Captain Lure (which was a robot with a bomb used as a trap set by Maximus). In its sequel "Best Dressed Villain", she was able to defeat Maximus and his indestructible tin suit.

• Megan and Sarah are Penelope's two lackeys and do whatever Penelope tells them to and aren't as mean as Penelope (they give Betty an occasional compliment in some episodes) but snicker in a bratty manner at Penelope's cruel jokes. Megan is the fat brown haired one who toddles around, and Sarah is the Chinese girl who wears glasses.

Recurring villains

• Infantor is a tough-talking, foul-tempered, 1930’s gangster-like evil alien infant (or perhaps an adult or adolescent trapped in an infant's body) who enjoys playing games with his enemies and is more spoiled than Paris Hilton and year-old milk — combined! He thinks the galaxy is his own personal box of toys and, accordingly, he wants and demands everything. He is usually accompanied by his "Terma-Nanny", a robotic henchman designed to look like a nanny. He once sucked Betty and her crew into a portal leading them to a virtual reality game to fight for their lives according to his rules and used mind controlling chocolate chip cookies to form his own Brat Pack army.

• The Chameleon is an evil, dangerous spy and former top agent of Maximus, the Chameleon is so named because he has the curious ability to mimic the sound and appearance of any form possible. After being fired from Maximus' forces for an unexplained mishap, The Chameleon will do anything to get back in Maximus’s good books. As such, he wants to prove himself a super-criminal, and the best way he can see to do that is capture and/or destroy that pesky Atomic Betty.

• Iciclia is a character reminiscent of the Witch Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; her trademark attacks are ice-based, using a scepter which fires a beam that freezes any target within its range. Queen of the ice planet Glacies, Iciclia is an icy, mean, cold-hearted, ugly old hag (1,000 years old, to be precise, which may mean she's immortal) and was once dependent on montegoberries to keep her youth and beauty, but she seems to have eliminated this dependency somehow. She has a sidekick named Dingleberry. She is at home only in climates as icy and cold as she is because if she were in a warm climate, she would melt.

• Atomic Dodger is Roger’s evil identical twin (identical except that Dodger wears an orange visor and has a 5 o'clock shadow while Roger does not) who is a very evil and dangerous criminal. Dodger’s villainous ways may stem from his belief that their mother liked Roger more than him. Roger, for his part, is jealous that Dodger has real hair.

• Nuclea is a Cruella de Vil-esque female alien with wild Medusa-like hair that is fatally shocking to the touch. She is energy-based being whose power (and size) increase as she consumes more energy and she has the power to fire energy blasts from her hands. She continually uses new methods to secure large sources of energy to absorb. She is basically a human lightning bolt of energy, but that, of course, is not enough power for her.

• The Betty Clones are three identical clones of Atomic Betty that were created from the genetic material in a piece of hair that Maximus IQ sliced off during a duel. The clones looked identical to Betty in every way, shape, and form except for the eye colors (red for Optica (Fire Betty), who can fly as well as generate and manipulate fire, yellow for Destructa (Rock Betty), who can morph into a larger form with Superhuman strength and Rock-like skin, and blue for Roxanne (Stretch-O Betty), who can stretch her body like rubber), they even wore mock ups of the Galactic Guardian uniform, each with the same color as the eyes. Unlike the real Betty, the Betty clones were evil, obnoxious, selfish little brats, also, Maximus mutated the DNA of the Betty clones using genetic material of three evil alien females to give them their unique powers. In "The Trouble with Triplets", Maximus used them to commit crimes and frame the real Betty. In its sequel "The Cheerleaders of Doom", they became cheerleaders and gained the power to use their cheers to hypnotize people to do their bidding in which Maximus calls them his Sirens. They used their powers to steal the blueprints of Galactic Guardian HQ and tried to destroy it, but Betty and her team managed to figure out a way to reverse and duplicate their Cheerleading powers and used them to make the clones speak gibberish, thus rendering their cheerleading powers useless. Based on their powers, they seem to be a parody of the Fantastic Four, however, a Betty clone who can turn invisible and generate force fields like Susan Storm, has yet to be seen.

• Pontifidora the Conquistadora is a former big-game hunter turned bounty hunter. She was Admiral DeGill's fiancée before turning to a life of crime. DeGill then turned her in to the authorities when she was hunting down the wedding party and ran off with a showgirl from the planet Vega. She has never forgiven DeGill for either act, and is determined to have him stuffed and mounted on her wall. In the episode "The Really Big Game", she trapped Degill on a jungle like planet and hunted him. In its sequal, "Night of the Degilla-Monster", she attempted to assassinate Degill, then teamed up with a clone he (Degill) created named Degilla, however she betrayed him and left him to die along with Betty and her crew.

• Hopper the Chopper is a space cowboy who robs planets. In "Solar System Surfin'", he tried to transport aquatic wild west sharks, and in its sequel, "The Great SubTRAINean Robbery", he tried to tie Tex Degill (Admiral Degill's brother) onto a train track using molydenum, but was saved with the help of Lily Rose (his niece) after leading Betty to a shortcut.

• Enormo is an incredibly small being who was angry because his small stature tends to make him ignored and planned to shrink everything in the galaxy, making him the biggest and most powerful being in the galaxy. He has a dog named Griffin, who looks to be part dog, part eagle.

• Greenbeard is the captain of the Galactic Pirates of the Corralean with a green beard (as his name suggests) who is always trying to find new ways of stealing various treasures (especially shiny objects like diamonds). In the episode "Galactic Pirates of the Corralean", Sparky and Betty snuck aboard his ship to retrieve a map to a 12,000 year old doomsday device, and in its sequel, "Ferried Treasure", Sparky inadvertently vacations on Greenbeard's pirate ship, which is now a not-so-luxury cruise ship (Greenbeard had lied and stated he had reformed) and accidentally lead them to a gigantic diamond that Betty and X-5 were transporting, but took the bait Betty set up instead (which was a box that looked like a treasure chest containing various junk).

• Masticula is a galactic criminal who terrorized the galaxy for centuries, she was a living golem made of a rubbery, protoplasmic putty like substance and could morph her body into any shape at will. When she was caught, she was convicted by a jury that consisted of Chef Bernadette, Spindly Tam, Zulia, and Admiral Degill, she was found guilty and frozen on the ice planet Glacies, until Betty's team traveled there to stop an asteroid from crashing into it. Sparky was using a portable oven to cook pancakes and accidentally left it there, melting the ice, and freeing Masticula, who sought out and captured all the members of the jury that convicted her, taking them to Glacius and sentencing them to be frozen as she was, however, she was defeated by Betty and her team and was frozen once again. She may be a parody of Clayface.

• Mylord Orus is a smelly being who tried to pollute other planets by sending garbage. In "Planet Stinxx", Mylord Orus polluted Edenia which turned the Edenians into mutants. In its sequel "A Fungus Amongus", he escaped his rocket prison from "Planet Stinxx" (instead of polluting a planet, it endlessly orbited the galaxy) with a help from a metal-eating fungi that had grown in his ship that he named Shermie the Germie, and was plotting revenge on the Galactic Guardians for arresting him, later in the episode, he and Shermie the Germie were both defeated by Sparky's homemade slug worm soup, which proved to be the thing that can dissolve the fungi.

• Dr. Cerebral is a strange being, consisting of a giant brain with a face floating in a glass dome with mechanical legs and arms who yearns to control the universe, and eliminate inefficient and unsanitary organic life forms in the process. The self-proclaimed greatest genius in the galaxy, he is always trying to devise ways to destroy other intelligent beings and prove himself the smartest. First he invented a Stupefactor Ray which, when used to zap people, made them act silly. Then he tried to create a giant robot monster made from stolen data from some of the galaxy’s best programmed robots, including B-1 and X-5; Dr. Cerebral himself would serve as the monster’s brain, this plan almost destroyed B-1 and X-5. In the episode "Oy, Robot", he obtained a new robot and used it to convert organic lifeforms into robots, believing that they are superior and cleaner. He even transformed Sparky into a robot, but Betty managed to stop Cerebral and turn everyone back to normal. In its sequel "The Gazundheit Factor", he created an organic life form called "The Gloob" that can eat other life forms, but it was constantly trying to eat Dr. Cerebral instead, later in the episode, Betty and her crew and Dr. Cerebral work together to stop "The Gloob". In the episode's conclusion, he says that he should have known better than to trust an organic life form to do his evil bidding ("Ugh! I should have known better than to trust an organic life form to do my evil bidding") when both Dr. Cerebral and "The Gloob" were arrested by Betty and her crew (Dr. Cerebral and "The Gloob" became cellmates).

• Solovem was a dark wizard from the planet Mortavia who kidnapped R-Turmex, the ruler of the planet in "Wizard of Orb" (Solovem's only appearance so far) because R-Turmex had placed a ban on all dark magic, he attempted to assemble a mighty army to conquer Mortavia and the Galaxy, but Betty and crew managed to defeat him and save the king.

• Maximus Senior is Maximus IQ's father who is also a criminal, though more of a robber and thug than a supervillain. Like Maximus, he (Maximus Senior) possesses henchmen, but unlike Maximus, he does not possess an army. Even though Maximus is a successful super villain, his father still treats him like he is worthless and insults him at every turn, Maximus stated that growing up, his father constantly teased and taunted him.

• Auntie Matter is Betty's aunt and Beatrixo's sister. The two have an extreme case of sibling rivalry and are always fighting. She has the ability to transform her body into a Black Hole and send all the things she sucks up into her body into deep space, According to her, this power comes from her fathers side of the family, and Beatrixo is more like their mother, who has no powers, she was imprisoned on a distant asteroid until she was accidentally freed, however, Betty and Beatrixo managed to team up and imprison her once again. Betty's mother appears to not have inherited these powers, this may be because they skip a generation, It is not yet known if Betty has inhertied these powers either.

• Queen PeneloBee became the new queen of the planet Droneopolis when the bee people of this planet made Penelope Lang their new queen after their real queen died. In "Pre-Teen Queen of Outer Space", they kidnapped Penelope in order to make her their new queen, but in the end, Penelope was rescued by Betty and her crew (Penelope thought this was only a dream), but the bee people of Droneopolis had a strand of Penelope's hair, and with a DNA strand from that hair, they combined Penelope's DNA with some of their own and made their own version of Penelope Lang which was half human, half alien bee (in the episode's conclusion) when they failed to rescue her. In its sequel "Bee Movie", Queen PeneloBee is looking for a mate by kidnapping all the kings in the galaxy (she wouldn't listen when told that there is no such thing as a king bee).

• Jinx is a villain who got tired of being the butt of everyone's jokes because of his unluckiness. In "Hi-Jinxed" (Jinx's only appearance so far), he tried to prove himself the luckiest being in the galaxy by using a special ray to steal luck from others and use it to become the luckiest being alive.

• The Scribe, whose real name is Milton Scrivener, was a writer who got tired of his readers rejecting his works (Sparky was the only one who liked his works). According to X-5, his works are sub-standard, and therefore only interest species of low-level intelligence (such as Sparky). In "The Scribe" (this episode is named after him), Sparky jeopardized the mission by reading his (Milton Scrivener's) works instead of helping Betty and X-5 fight. He became "The Scribe" when he found a special quill inside of a mystical book in his bookcase. He yearns to become the best (and only) writer in the galaxy by kidnapping other writers and stealing their ideas directly from their minds (victims include Admiral DeGill, Chef Bernadette, K. C. Growling, etc), As "The Scribe" he has the power to fly on his mystic book, imprison others in his book, and fire special energy balls that bring to life the ideas of the authors he kidnapped. In its sequel "Scribe 2: The ReScribing", Milton Scrivener escaped from prison when Sparky handed him a pile of books which accidentally had his powerful book which was to be burned/discarded (Sparky couldn't bear to burn/discard Milton Scrivener's powerful book because he didn't want his works to go to waste). As soon as Milton Scrivener escaped from prison, he was in search for the person who stole his spot as number one writer, romance author Lola Polaris (who is really Zulia (Sparky's mother)). But he failed to capture Zulia when he accidentally dropped his quill after his battle with Betty and X-5.

• Bombshelle is a villainous fashion designer who used a special ray gun called the Beauty Bomber to "makeover" everything she considered ugly (these include turning an incomplete building into a fashionable upside-down pyramid, turning a swimming pool into a pool of pink mud, cutting the hair of the hairy beasts in the planet Glacies, beautifying the planet Crushden in which she describes it as an "orbiting eyesore", etc). She attempted to makeover the entire galaxy, but Betty managed to stop her and it was discovered she was really a short ugly alien inside of a robot suit.

• Schmoz is an evil genie who lives in a shoe. In "Reeking Havoc" (Schmoz' only appearance so far) his shoe was found by Sparky, who was given 3 wishes, for the 1st wish, Sparky wished for something to blow away the stink from Shmoz's shoe, the wish was granted in the form of a huge fan that nearly blew the ship into the sun, the 2nd wish was for a huge worm burger, however, the worms nearly ate the ship, for his final wish, Sparky wished for Shmoz's to be free, letting Shomz's do what he wanted, unfortunatley, what he wanted was to take revenge on those who made him do their bidding. However, Betty managed to trick him into imprisoning himself inside the shoe once again.

• The Collector is a thief who dresses in safari gear and uses a whip as his primary weapon. He also tries to look heroic especially by tricking the guards into believing that Betty and her crew stole the legendary Kalooka-booka Ruby after he and Wrybot stole it. In "The Collector" (this episode is named after him), he and his sarcastic robotic henchman Wrybot (who films his boss' adventures) attempt to steal the legendary Kalooka-booka Ruby. Wrybot is dissatisfied with his position with The Collector (being that the only reason he is with The Collector was because The Collector beat him in a game of Piraxian tic-tac-toe). Wrybot tries to fight as little as possible and criticizes his boss' adventures (he even asked Betty and her crew to lock him up in a different wing than The Collector when he and The Collector were arrested by Betty and her crew).

• Degilla was a clone of Admiral Degill that he created to stand in for him in "Night of The Degilla Monster" until he could discover who was trying to assassinate him, however, Degilla went rogue and teamed up with Pontifadora the Conquistadora to run the Galactic Guardians as their own private army. However, Pontifadora betrayed him and left him to die along with Betty and her crew, Degilla helped them to escape and he took off, stating he would go to a place where he would be appreciated. Due to a malfunction in the cloning machine, Degilla is much stronger than Degill and can morph into a much more bigger and muscular version of himself and speaks in a deeper voice in this form. Degill had originally named the clone Degill-A, but the clone changed it to Degilla. Degilla also has pointed teeth as opposed to Degill's normal ones.

• The Voice was a former young singer who wanted to take revenge on the director of the musical academy he attended for insulting his voice, calling it not loud enough and kicking him out. In "No-Hit Wonders" (The Voice's only appearance so far), he tried to use a special ray gun to steal voices of the academy singers and use the loudness of the combined stolen singing voices to bring down the entire building.

• Boltar is a former Galactic Guardian who tried to steal Galactic Guardian weaponry for galactic domination, but Admiral DeGill caught him doing the deed. His name is misspelled and mispronounced from Boltar to Joltar, Schmoltar, Koltar, Poltar, etc. by many characters. In "License DeGill" (Boltar's only appearance so far), he accused DeGill for lying his heroic deeds in a battle called The Battle of the Drakus but was testified against by a retired Galactic Guardian whom DeGill saved in the battle named Arkan.

• Koreena was apparently Betty's snobbish rival at her martial arts school who was lazy, never focused on her training (instead of focusing on her training, she idled her time away playing video games), and cheated on all her tests (especially by copying off Betty during a test). In "Case of the Missing Kanushu" (Koreena's only appearance so far) Betty and her crew were called to investigate his fortress to find him after he was kidnapped by Koreena. In the end, she got in trouble with Spindly Tam Kanushu for kidnapping him and for her unfavourable past record.

• Shaka Booga was apparently a prehistoric witch doctor who tried to devolve civilians into cavemen using a magical powder in "Devolution City" (Shaka Booga's only appearance so far), similar to the situation of the third season episode "Head Shrinker Much?" from Totally Spies!.

• Pandora was Paloma's evil twin sister and is one of the twin daughters of Golgotha and the demon, Pandora looks exactly like Paloma, but only with purple hair, yellow eyes, and lighter skin, she wears a green cloak and body armor. Long ago, Pandora attempted a galactic takeover, but her evil plot was squashed by the Galactic Guardians after they were tipped off by Paloma, later, at the end of Season 2, Pandora kidnapped Paloma to help free their demon father from his prison, using her life force combined with the box's key, which was hidden in a ceramic duck Maximus had bought that Pandora stole from him, she was however, beaten by Betty and Paloma and sealed up in the box along with her father.

Reformed villains

• The X-Rays are a trio of ruffians who were reeking havoc across the galaxy. These include drawing a picture of Admiral DeGill as a woman, stealing candy from babies, vandalizing billboards, stealing ships from Maximus' citadel (especially stealing a Starcruiser from the episode "Best (Mis)Laid Plans" that was already stolen by Maximus), etc. The members names are Plutor, Bubba, and Furball, Plutor, the leader of the X-Rays, appeared to have a crush on Betty, further evidenced as when he and his fellow X-Rays were arrested, Plutor stated that when he got out of detention, he was going to join the Guardians so he and Betty could hang out together much to Betty's displeasure.

Episodes

Main article: List of Atomic Betty episodes

Airing locales

In Canada, where the series produced, Teletoon, as well as its French language version, Télétoon, broadcast it. In the outside of Canada, Cartoon Network broadcast it in the countries where Cartoon Network exists except in some countries; for example, Cartoon Network broadcasts the show in the United States until January 1, 2006, when it was removed from their lineup. In France, Télétoon (not affiliated with the Canadian channel), only on TPS platform, broadcast the series; Cartoon Network in France, only on CanalSat platform, had never broadcast the series. In Germany, Disney Channel premiered the series on October 24, 2005 and later on its sister channel, Toon Disney.[1] Later, Kabel Eins launched Cartoon Network as their programming block. However, Disney Channel still broadcast the series. In the Netherlands, Jetix broadcast the series. From February 2007, the Dutch version of Cartoon Network is broadcasting the series in English.

As well as on subscription platform, the series also broadcast on terrestrial platform. In France, Métropole Télévision broadcast the series on their M6 KID block, as the station involved in the production. In the United Kingdom, CITV on the British ITV Network, as well as its free-to-air digital channel, CITV Channel, broadcast the series. In Australia, ABC broadcast the series on their ABC Kids block. In Hong Kong, TVB Pearl broadcast the series on their children’s programming slot. In Brazil, Rede Globo broadcast the series.

Pan Middle Eastern channel MBC 3 broadcast Arabic language version of the series.

In Andorra, Portugal and Spain, Luk Internacional, SA licenses the series.

In other media

Video game

Atomic Betty was a single player puzzle/shooter game developed by Big Blue Bubble for the Game Boy Advance and published by Namco in the United States and Atari in Europe. It was released August 25, 2005 in Europe and October 25, 2005 in North America.

Soundtrack

The Atomic Betty soundtrack was released by Koch Records on November 8, 2005. It contains ten tracks performed by Canadian actor-singer Tajja Isen, who voiced Betty in the entire series.

Track listing

1. "Atomic Betty" (2:25)
2. "Supersonic Tronic Kinda Girl" (4:09)
3. "Alien Ball (Do the Betty!)" (3:22)
4. "Dog Star Sirius" (2:30)
5. "A Feeling Called Love" (4:47)
6. "Hold On" (3:53)
7. "Back in Space" (2:01)
8. "This Cat's Coming After You" (3:19)
9. "That's What I Do" (4:12)
10. "Don't Surrender" (4:14)

Books

Activity books

• Reporting for Duty! (released August 4, 2005)

Maximus I.Q., the evil supreme overlord, has created a galactic-wide Opposite Day and Betty, Sparky, and X-5 are the universe’s only hope. Help Betty and her crew break top-secret intergalactic codes, navigate the ship through a dangerous asteroid field, and thwart Maximus’s evil plans!

• Star Struck! (released August 4, 2005)

Maximus I.Q. is stealing the stars from the sky! It’s Atomic Betty to the rescue as she leads her crew on an outer-space adventure straight to the heart of Maximus’s lair, where they find a glittery stockpile of stars awaiting rescue.

• Blast Off! (released August 4, 2005)

When Atomic Betty finds out that Maximus I.Q. is spraying sticky space webs across the Intergalactic Superhighway, she sets off on a highspeed chase to stop him. Can Betty catch Maximus in his own web?

Chapter books

• Supreme Overlord Penelope (released August 4, 2005)

It's no secret that Betty and her snobby classmate, Penelope Lang, don't get along. So it's a galactic nightmare for Betty when Penelope accidentally gets beamed onto her spaceship. And just when Betty thinks things can't get any worse, her ship crashes on the planet Penelepus X, where Penelope declares herself Supreme Overlord. Now it's up to Betty to bring Penelope back to Earth—and back to reality!

• Maximus's School for Super Villains (released March 2, 2006)

Supreme Overlord Maximus I.Q. is fed up with incompetent villains. So he's taking matters into his own hands by starting Maximus's School for Super Villains. But Maximus's ulterior motive is even more evil--he wants to train his very own army! Betty and her crew must thwart his dastardly plans, but in order to stop him they'll have to disguise themselves as students! Will Betty be able to keep up with Maximus's evil curriculum? Don't miss the action and hilarity in this original story featuring Atomic Betty and all the usual suspects.

• Halloween Invasion! (released August 17, 2006)

The universe seems suspiciously quiet to Atomic Betty lately, and no one has heard a peep from Maximus I.Q. Betty helps organize the Halloween Carnival at school while Maximus is hatching his most menacing plan yet—he wants to take over Earth! When Maximus’s invasion coincides with the carnival on Halloween night, will Betty’s secret double life be revealed?

Atomic Comics

• #1: Cosmic Cake (released August 4, 2005)

It’s Maximus I.Q.’s birthday, and he’s throwing the galaxy’s hottest party. But Maximus isn’t a very nice host—the icing on his birthday cake is mind-altering and when the guests eat it, they’ll be under his control forever! It’s up to Atomic Betty to crash this bash and save the day, but can she do it before it’s too late? This graphic novel highlights Betty’s exciting adventure!

• #2: Lost in Spa (released January 19, 2006)

Admiral DeGill is missing, and it’s up to Betty, Sparky, and X-5 to find him! All the clues lead them to an exclusive spa on the planet Mermidia, where they come face-to-face with evil overlord Maximus I.Q. himself! Read how Betty and her crew defeat Maximus and his minions to save their beloved Admiral. Betty may be lost in spa, but she’s never lost in space!

• #3: Galactic Pirates of the Corralean

Space pirates have stolen a map that leads to an ancient doomsday device! After a fierce battle on the pirate ship, Betty tracks down the X-marks-thespot. But Supreme Overlord Maximus I.Q. has beaten her to it and stolen the doomsday device! Will Betty be able to stop Maximus before he can cause an explosion of colossal proportions?

DVD releases

Warner Home Video released the only two DVD volumes of the series on October 18, 2005 in North America and February 6, 2006 in Japan.

• Volume 1: Betty, Set, Go

Chapter	Episode #	Episode Name
1	04/2B	Toxic Talent
2	07/4A	Spindly Tam Kanushu
3	10/5B	Atomic Roger
4	01/1A	Furball for the Sneeze
5	21/11A	The Really Big Game
6	05/3A	But the Cat Came Back
7	03/2A	The Doppelganger
8	43/22A	The Incredible Shrinking Betty

• Volume 2: Betty to the Rescue

Chapter	Episode #	Episode Name
1	11/6A	Maximus Displeasure
2	12/6B	Cosmic Cake
3	02/1B	Attack of the Evil Baby
4	28/14B	Crass Menagerie
5	31/16A	The Trouble with Triplets
6	14/7B	The Substitute
7	38/19B	Infantor Rules
8	36/18B	Best (Mis)Laid Plans

However, there are no plans to release the complete first season on DVD.

External links

• Official website
• Atomic Betty at Atomic Cartoons
• Atomic Betty at Teletoon
• Atomic Betty at Cartoon Network (UK)
• Atomic Betty at CITV