Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
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Opening theme | "Moon Girl Magic" by Diamond White |
Composer | Raphael Saadiq |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 30 |
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Running time | 22 minutes 45 minutes ("Moon Girl Landing" only) |
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Network | Disney Channel |
Release | February 10, 2023 present | –
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (or simply Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur) is an American animated television series developed by Steve Loter, Jeffrey M. Howard, and Kate Kondell for Disney Channel. Based on the characters of the same names by Marvel Comics, the series follows Lunella Lafayette and her dinosaur companion "Devil Dinosaur".
The series features the voices of Diamond White, Fred Tatasciore, Alfre Woodard, Sasheer Zamata, Jermaine Fowler, Gary Anthony Williams, Libe Barer, and Laurence Fishburne. Development began after Marvel Studios president Louis D'Esposito showed Fishburne the comic book Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. His interest piqued, Fishburne sought to make an animated series based on the duo. Production proceeded for two years before Steve Loter was hired as an executive producer. After a successful pitch to Disney Television Animation executives, the series was greenlit and publicly announced in February 2018. It is produced by Cinema Gypsy Productions, Disney Television Animation, and Marvel Animation, with animation by Flying Bark Productions.
In October 2022, ahead of the series premiere, the series was renewed for a second season. Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur premiered on Disney Channel on February 10, 2023, and was released on Disney+ five days later. The series received highly positive reviews for its writing, animation, soundtrack, representation and characters. The series won five Children's and Family Emmy Awards.[1] The second season premiered on February 2, 2024.[2]
Premise
Lunella Lafayette is a 13-year-old genius living with her parents and grandparents in the Lower East Side of New York City. One day, she activates a portal and a red Tyrannosaurus steps out of it. With the support of her friend Casey, she becomes a superhero named Moon Girl and names the dinosaur "Devil Dinosaur".
Characters
Main
- Diamond White as Lunella Lafayette / Moon Girl, a gifted 13-year-old Black girl who lives a double life as a superheroine and accidentally brings Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York.[3]
- Fred Tatasciore as:
- Devil Dinosaur, a red Tyrannosaurus accidentally brought to present-day New York City by Lunella. He is shown to have a big appetite for food, especially hot dogs.[3]
- Coach Hrbek, Lunella's gym teacher at Intermediate School 833 who also works as a substitute science teacher.
- Devos the Devastator, a robotic being that speaks in the third person.[4]
- Alfre Woodard as Miriam "Mimi" Lafayette, Lunella's grandmother who is a snack bar attendant at Roll With It and is an expert cook. In the first season finale, it is revealed that Mimi was actually the original Moon Girl, having operated under that code name as a scientist, and that she secretly knows that Lunella and Moon Girl are one and the same.[3]
- Sasheer Zamata as Adria Lafayette, Lunella's mother who is a DJ at Roll With It.[3]
- Jermaine Fowler as James Lafayette Jr., Lunella's klutzy father and a sneaker clerk at Roll With It.[3]
- Gary Anthony Williams as James "Pops" Lafayette Sr., a middle-aged man styled as 1960s punker, Lunella's paternal grandfather, and the proprietor of Roll With It.[3]
- Libe Barer as Casey Calderon, Lunella's manager, best friend of Puerto Rican and Jewish ancestry, and confidant in regards to Lunella's identity as Moon Girl.[3]
- Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster, a geneticist specializing in Pym particles. Fishburne reprises his role from the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Villains
- Alison Brie as Ms. Dillon / Aftershock, a supervillain with electrokinesis and former science teacher.[5][6]
- Jennifer Hudson as Mane, Lunella's vengeful living hair.[7][8]
- Carlee Baker as Sofie Slugfoot / Instantanegirl, an ex-hurdler who took a chemical compound that enhanced her leg muscles to give her more speed which got her banned from the Olympic games
- Diamond White as: Devil Girl, an alternate reality version of Lunella.
- Fred Tatasciore as Moon Dinosaur, an alternate reality version of Devil Dinosaur.
- Gary Anthony Williams as:
- Rockin' Rudy, a villain that always manages to evade capture despite not having any superpowers other than a working car.
- Garko the Man-Frog, a humanoid frog villain and thief.
- Sasheer Zamata as Flying Fox, a light salmon-colored humanoid fox villain who can fly.
- Ace Gibson as Gravitas, a supervillain whose gloves can shoot liquid that negates the gravity of his targets.
- Maya Hawke as Abyss, a teleporter who is the daughter of an unnamed female supervillain.[9]
- Daveed Diggs as Rat King, a humanoid rat villain who lives in the sewers and is served by the rats that live there.[9]
- Jonathan Banks[2] as Silvermane, a cybernetic crime lord
- Vincente Cimetta, a supervillain with the ability to change between solid, liquid, and gaseous forms.
- Mae Jemison as Skipster, an app created by Lunella that can skip forward in time and is made to sound like her voice actress Dr. Mae Jemison.[9]
- Kari Wahlgren as Linh Pham / Stiletto, a supervillain and shopaholic of high-heeled shoes whose special stilettos can expand to long heights.[10]
- June Diane Raphael as Marcy Muzzler, a scientist who is obsessed with gentrification.
- Paul Scheer as Marty Muzzler, a scientist and husband of Marcy who is obsessed with gentrification.
- Method Man as Torg, a giant ape-like creature.
- Aaron Drown as Timmy Grubbs / Man Baby, the infant son of a scientist who was accidentally enlarged by his scientist father's growth rays
- Wesley Snipes as Maris Morlak, a mad scientist and member of Enclave who has connections with the original Moon Girl.[11]
- Edward James Olmos as Molecule Man, a powerful alien being wielding a reality-warping wand who rules over a planet in another reality.[12]
- Robin Thede[2] as Zakiya / Quickwhip, an aspiring culinary chef who became a whip-wielding supervillain because of a bad turning point in her life that involves Lady Bullseye.[13]
- Asia Kate Dillon as LOS-307, a living supercomputer. They would later become the new school counselor at Intermediate School 833 after Miss Sarah's retirement.[14]
- Miki Yamashita as Maki Matsumoto / Lady Bullseye, a female supervillain with excellent accuracy.[15]
- Kalen Aris Whitfield as Jonathan Powers / Jester, a jester themed villain.
- Sam Riegel as Jackson Weele / Big Wheel, a battle bot player turned supervillain.
- Manny Jacinto[2] as Brian Glory / Blue Streak, a rollerblading enthusiast.
Recurring
- Omid Abtahi as Ahmed, one of Lunella's neighbors who runs the local deli.
- Utkarsh Ambudkar as Anand, an intellectual rival of Lunella.[16]
- Michael Cimino as Eduardo, Lunella's friend who is loud and loves music.[16]
- Indya Moore as Brooklyn, a friend of Lunella's who is openly trans.[17][18]
- Craig Robinson as Principal Nelson, the principal of Intermediate School 833.[14]
- Ian Alexander as Tai, a non-binary classmate of Lunella's.[19]
- Tajinae Turner as Geri, a classmate of Lunella's.
- May Calamawy as Fawzia, a Muslim classmate of Lunella's.[9]
- Xolo Maridueña[2] as Mel-Varr / Marvin Ellis / Kid Kree, a Kree who is sent to Earth.[20]
- Gerald Waters as Eli, a wheelchair using STEM student and Cecelia's boyfriend.
- Isabella Gomez as Cecelia, an excitable STEM student and Eli's girlfriend.
- Myha'la Herrold as Jurnee, a laid back STEM student.
Guest
Multiple seasons
- Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who works under director Nick Fury. Smulders reprises her role from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[21]
Shorts guests
- Bone Raider, a man obsessed with stealing dinosaur bones from museums.
Season 1 guests
- Josh Keaton as Angelo, a boy with community-helping plans who becomes possessed by a trolling Symbiote called Syphonater.[22]
- Andy Cohen as Isaac Goldberg-Calderon, one of Casey's fathers[23]
- Wilson Cruz as Antonio Goldberg-Calderon, one of Casey's fathers[23]
- Ramone Hamilton as TJ, Brooklyn's younger and annoying brother who is obsessed with his models.
- Luis Guzmán as Council President Diego Peña, the head of the L.E.S. city council.
- Gideon Adlon as Lara, Laura, and Laurel, Casey's triplet cousins who are always deadpan.
- Pamela Adlon as Rabbi Ryda, Casey's rabbi at her bat mitzvah.
- Anna Akana as Odessa Drake, a social media influencer who is the daughter of the unnamed Thieves Guild leader.
Season 2 guests
- Ann Harada[2] as Matsuye, a college friend of Mimi.[13]
- Jackée Harry[2] as Merle, a college friend of Mimi.[13]
- Carol Kane[2] as Bubbe Bina, a baker who owns a Knish bakery.[13]
- Andy García[2] as Pad-Varr, a Kree who is the father of Kid Kree.[13]
- Ephraim Sykes[2] as Bobby the Myth, a famous rapper known for selling swag.[13]
- Kalen Aris Whitfield as Donny, a museum security guard.
- Cynthia Erivo[2] as Dr. Akonam Ojo, a scientist from Wakanda whom Lunella looks up to.[13]
- Giancarlo Esposito[2] as Granite, a rock-skinned superhero.[13]
- Alex Newell[2] as Pebble, a dog with a powerful bark and Granite's animal sidekick.[13]
- Bumper Robinson as Redwing, a psychic bird who wanted to know the identity of the Falcon that he is partners with.
- Cree Summer as Aragorn, a winged horse who wanted to fly in a plane like her superhero partner.
- Fred Stoller as Toothgnasher, a goat who refuses to talk about his superhero partner due to an "impending lawsuit".
- David Tennant[2] as Franklin, a Scottish-accented alien dog who is a hero in his own right.
- Parker Posey[2] as Kat Swan, a philanthropist who owns a dog whistle that makes dogs do her bidding every since dogs didn't love her back when she was young.
- Peter Weller as Dr. Stern, a strict museum curator who detests kids.[24]
- Kimberly Brooks as Dani, a museum security guard.
- Arsenio Hall[2] as Vernell Lewis, a roller skater and an old friend of Pops Lafayette.
- SungWon Cho[2] as General Hyles, the leader of the moth-like Zingarian army[25]
- Erika Ishii as Turbo,[26] a superhero with powered armor.
Episodes
Note: Episodes are listed by production order for continuity reasons.
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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1 | 16 | February 10, 2023 | May 6, 2023 | |
2 | 24 | February 2, 2024 | TBA |
Season 1 (2023)
No. overall | No. in season | Title [27][28][29] | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [27][28][29] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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1 | 1 | "Moon Girl Landing" | Trey Buongiorno & Christine Liu | Jeffrey M. Howard & Kate Kondell | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Jules Bridgers, Morgan Hillebrand, Lidia Liu, Alfred Coleman III, Annie J. Li & Kalen Aris Whitfield | February 10, 2023 | 0.21[30] | |
13-year-old genius Lunella Lafayette wants to help her family keep their business called Roll With It running after numerous blackouts cause everything to shut down. She builds what she thinks is a generator, but it turns out to be a portal generator that summons a horned Tyrannosaurus. He imprints on her as they run into Casey Calderon, a social media influencer, and encounter Aftershock, an electricity-based villain and the culprit behind the blackouts. With Casey's support, Lunella picks the name Moon Girl and names the dinosaur Devil Dinosaur and become heroes to the Lower East Side. After an intense fight with Aftershock, who is her new science teacher Ms. Dillon, Lunella considers hanging up her costume until she gets the support of her Grandma Mimi. With the LES backing her up, Lunella and Devil defeat Aftershock. | ||||||||
2 | 2 | "The Borough Bully" | Trey Buongiorno | Halima Lucas | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Annie J. Li & Kalen Aris Whitfield | February 11, 2023 | 0.20[31] | |
Lunella becomes perturbed by an internet troll named Syphon8r. Despite Casey warning her to ignore him, Lunella cannot let it go and uses her ingenuity to find and confront Syphon8r face to face, only to learn that he is a literal troll with multiple appendages that is made up of a symbiote. After trial and error, Lunella realizes that he is powered by her anger and calms down, weakening him. The symbiote escapes, revealing a boy named Angelo, who was angry that people ignored his activism in favor of Moon Girl, though he did not mean to go too far. Lunella offers to aid him in activism against bullying and the two become friends. | ||||||||
3 | 3 | "Run the Rink" | Ben Juwono | Jeffrey M. Howard & Kate Kondell | Steve Hirt, Trey Buongiorno, Diana Kidlaied, Paulene Phouybanhdyt, Johnny Castuciano, Jessica Lin & Philip Pignotti | February 18, 2023[a] | 0.16[33] | |
Lunella volunteers to look after Roll With It while her family is away, but things get bad when she makes a mess and accidentally destroys her mother's turntables. With Casey's guidance, they entice people to come for the evening to see Moon Girl and earn money to buy a new set. However, villains crash the event including Instantanegirl, Man Baby, and Gravitas (who wants revenge on Lunella for a botched heist). Taking Mimi's advice into consideration, Lunella uses patience to thwart Gravitas, save Roll With It and the patrons who return home satisfied. The Lafayettes return none the wiser and Lunella thanks Mimi for her advice. | ||||||||
4 | 4 | "Check Yourself" | Rodney Clouden & Ben Juwono | Maggie Rose | Samir Barrett, Samm Lee & Tyre Jones | February 18, 2023[a] | 0.14[33] | |
Lunella learns that her family considers her unfun when it comes to playing games due to her competitive nature. At IS 833, the principal introduces LOS-307, a living computer. Lunella challenges LOS to chess, but they hit a stalemate and are forced to end it early, making Lunella fixated with winning the chess game and LOS becoming obsessed with learning more about Lunella. They play again at night, but LOS overheats and traps Lunella in the school while holding Casey hostage. Casey manages to call Devil Dinosaur and he and Lunella cool down LOS and they both apologize. LOS becomes the new student guidance counselor. | ||||||||
5 | 5 | "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" | Christine Liu | Lisa Muse Bryant | Jules Bridgers, Morgan Hillebrand & Lidia Liu | February 25, 2023[a] | 0.19[34] | |
Adria tells Lunella to take better care of her hair and she becomes self-conscious after another girl at school comments on it. Lunella creates a solution to straighten her hair, but it falls out and becomes sentient. The sentient hair, named Mane, begins to intrude on Lunella's life and plans to create a living hair army with her solution. Lunella comes clean about her botched plan to Adria and Mimi who inform her that she needed neutralizer. Lunella battles Mane, but realizes she took her hair for granted and apologizes. Mane willingly returns to Lunella's head, just in time for picture day, and the latter begins to love herself more. | ||||||||
6 | 6 | "The Beyonder" | Ben Juwono & Samantha Suyi Lee | Halima Lucas | Samir Barrett, Tyre Jones, Samantha Suyi Lee, Kellye Perdue & Sixiao Tang | February 25, 2023[a] | 0.18[34] | |
Lunella learns that she has been watched by the Beyonder following her fight with Stiletto, who wants to learn about humanity so as to decide their fate in regards to whether or not they are worth his people's effort. Lunella enters a science fair with Eduardo, an annoying boy at her school; she is so desperate to get away from him that she pays no mind to the Beyonder's quest, thus inadvertently convincing him to wipe humanity out. Eduardo learns that Lunella does not want him around, but the Beyonder hangs humanity on the science fair and wants them to work together. Lunella apologizes to Eduardo and they make up, but they lose the science fair. The Beyonder briefly enacts his destruction of humanity before reversing it, revealing that he liked what they made and agreeing to leave humanity alone for now. | ||||||||
7 | 7 | "Goodnight, Moon Girl" | Christine Liu | Liz Hara | Jules Bridgers, Morgan Hillebrand & Lidia Liu | March 25, 2023[b][c] | 0.16[37] | |
Lunella and Casey get invited by their school's volleyball team to a sleepover. Lunella is nervous and invents a mind-reading device that allows her to know what everyone is thinking, but it instead causes her to switch minds with Devil. She leaves the remote behind and it is mistaken for a regular remote, causing chaos for Lunella and Devil. Lunella comes to realize that the girls like Devil as her. As Casey tries to comfort her, Brooklyn's little brother TJ steals her remote as revenge for ruining his night. Lunella and Devil manage to catch him and the former learns that it is okay to be weird and ends up having a fun time at the sleepover. | ||||||||
8 | 8 | "Teacher's Pet" | Trey Buongiorno | Taylor Vaughn Lasey | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Annie J. Li & Kalen Aris Whitfield | March 11, 2023[c] | 0.23[38] | |
Lunella brings home her class's pet hamster Angel and Devil becomes jealous. During the night, Devil accidentally causes Angel to escape his cage and in the morning looks for him. Angel is found by Rat King, who wants revenge on Lunella and Devil for a pizza heist gone wrong. Lunella finds out what happened and is upset with Devil, but gets captured by Rat King. Devil and Angel team up to free Lunella and they defeat Rat King. Afterwards, Lunella tells Devil that he will always be her number one friend and that Angel was only staying for the weekend, much to Devil's shock. In the sewers, Rat King reemerges. | ||||||||
9 | 9 | "Skip This Ad...olescence" | Samantha Suyi Lee | Halima Lucas | Samir Barrett, Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Steve Hirt, Tyre Jones, Waymond Singleton, Sixiao Tang, Kalen Aris Whitfield & Yunhao Zhang | March 18, 2023[c] | 0.12[39] | |
Lunella finds herself bored by the numerous things she considers a waste such as cleaning with her family. She invents an app named Skipster that allows her to jump forward in time. While excited at first, Skipster begins to skip through things and Lunella misses personal moments with her family and friends. Finally fed up, she hacks into the app to disable it and is sent across the past and future until she is in a time void. Having learned her lesson, Skipster allows Lunella to go back to the point in time before she invented her just as her battery dies. Lunella is back at home. This time, she is happy with the small things in life. | ||||||||
10 | 10 | "Moon Girl's Day Off" | Trey Buongiorno | Liz Hara & Lisa Muse Bryant | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Annie J. Li & Kalen Aris Whitfield | March 4, 2023[b] | 0.15[40] | |
Lunella becomes overworked by her busy life, so she decides to fake a broken ankle to get out of it. She has Casey pose as her for the day and she starts to see that Lunella has it rough. Mimi finds out that Lunella is faking her broken ankle and tells her to simply be honest. Casey is confronted by the villain Abyss, who wants revenge on Moon Girl. Lunella goes into town to help Casey, only to break her ankle for real. Together with Casey and Devil, Lunella defeats Abyss again. Inspired by Lunella and Casey's friendship, Abyss calls her mother stating that she wants to get out of the supervillain business. Lunella and Casey relax with ice cream. | ||||||||
11 | 11 | "Like Mother, Like Moon Girl" | Samantha Suyi Lee | Halima Lucas | Samir Barrett, Sixiao Tang & Yunhao Zhang | April 1, 2023[c] | 0.13[41] | |
Lunella is made community captain by council president Peña, who hires the Muzzlers to help improve the community. Lunella is reluctant, but agrees only to find that the Muzzlers are obsessed with extreme gentrification, causing everyone, including Adria, to lose faith in Moon Girl for the massive changes and restrictions. Lunella is encouraged to use her voice and organizes a protest. Peña joins in the protest as the Muzzlers reveal their true colors and battle Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. They are defeated and things return to normal with Adria still not realizing that Lunella and Moon Girl are one and the same. | ||||||||
12 | 12 | "Today, I Am a Woman" | Christine Liu | Maggie Rose | Jules Bridgers, Morgan Hillebrand & Lidia Liu | April 8, 2023 | 0.13[42] | |
Lunella gets ready for Casey's bat mitzvah, but she wants to impress her triplet cousins. Lunella decides to show up with Devil as Moon Girl, which catches the attention of social media influencer Odessa Drake. Casey begins to act obnoxious and obsessed with likes, which drives Lunella away. However, Lunella discovers that Drake is a criminal who is after her tech and fights her. Casey realizes that she has been acting terribly and helps Lunella catch Drake. Afterward, they have the afterparty at Roll With It, while Drake is taken in by Sam Wilson—who is Captain America—for her history of stealing the Avengers' tech. | ||||||||
13 | 13 | "Devil on Her Shoulder" | Christine Liu | Taylor Vaughn-Lasley | Jules Bridgers, Morgan Hillebrand & Lidia Liu | April 15, 2023[d] | 0.19[44] | |
Devil feels insecure about his size, so Lunella creates a compound that shrinks him to people size. Devil wants to be smaller and takes more of the serum, but finds that he is still shrinking. Panicked, Lunella calls Dr. Bill Foster who gives her a growing compound. At that moment, the monster Torg attacks the L.E.S. over a movie depicting him as the villain and Lunella is forced to fight him while Casey makes the compound for Devil. He is restored to size and fights Torg, but empathizes with him and gets him to calm down. In the end, Devil and Torg become friends and Casey makes a movie about them. | ||||||||
14 | 14 | "Coney Island, Baby!" | Trey Buongiorno | Liz Hara | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Annie J. Li & Kalen Aris Whitfield | April 22, 2023[d] | 0.14[45] | |
Mimi invites Lunella and Casey to Coney Island where Lunella reveals that she has a traumatizing fear of the park, due to an incident in the funhouse from her childhood. However, the Beyonder is there and becomes intrigued with the concept of fear and decides to exploit it in Lunella with rigorous tests. He realizes her biggest fear is losing a loved one, and decides to "help" her through it by turning the park into a horrifying nightmare and kidnaps Mimi, forcing Lunella to confront her fears head-on and rescue her. Upon seeing Devil face his fears to reach the island, Lunella finally understands that she needs to deal with hers and happily embraces the rides at Coney Island with Casey. However, Beyonder then enigmatically tells Mimi that someone is coming for her and that she needs to be ready. | ||||||||
15 | 15 | "O.M.G.! Issue #1" | Trey Buongiorno | Taylor Vaughn-Lasley & Liz Hara | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Annie J. Li & Kalen Aris Whitfield | April 29, 2023[d] | 0.13[46] | |
Lunella is attacked by mysterious agents of the Enclave, whose leader Maris Morlak wants the portal generator recreated so as to be recognized for its discovery. Even S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill is perplexed. Lunella discovers that Mimi was the original Moon Girl, who worked for the Enclave before running away from Morlak. Morlak sends his men after Lunella and Mimi; the two destroy the generator and fight their way out, only for Lunella to get captured and Devil collapses from exhaustion. Lunella manages to escape Morlak while Mimi willingly goes to protect her family. However, the Enclave blows up Lunella's lab with Devil still inside. | ||||||||
16 | 16 | "O.M.G.! Issue #2" | Christine Liu | Taylor Vaughn-Lasley & Liz Hara | Jules Bridgers, Morgan Hillebrand & Lidia Liu | May 6, 2023[d] | 0.13[47] | |
Continuing from "O.M.G.! Issue #1", Devil has managed to escape the exploding lab. Later, Lunella successfully locates the Enclave's covert base. With help from Casey's new stealth suit, Lunella, Devil, and Casey sneak in to rescue Mimi who finishes rebuilding the portal generator. Morlak activates the machine and brings in three alien creatures, and uses a mind-controlling whistle to control them. Lunella, Devil, Casey, and Mimi manage to send the monsters back home, but Morlak snaps and overclocks the generator, opening an unstable wormhole and getting sucked in despite Mimi's efforts to rescue him. Lunella is forced to go through the wormhole in order to close it. Devastated, Mimi declares that she is going to find and rescue Lunella. In a post-credits scene, Lunella awakens in a void and wonders aloud where she is. |
Season 2 (2024)
No. overall | No. in season | Title [27][48] | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [27][48] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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17 | 1 | "The Great Beyond-er!" | Samantha Suyi Lee | Halima Lucas | Samir Barrett, Sixiao Tang & Yunhao Zhang | February 2, 2024 | 0.13[49] | |
Lunella is flung through time and space, but gets rescued by the Beyonder. They end up on a desolate planet where Beyonder's powers suddenly become null. When Lunella spots a black hole, she concludes that they can build a ship that is fast enough to allow them to travel through it. The two must avoid other aliens that have a grudge against the Beyonder as Lunella teaches him to become more independent without his powers. Just as they are about to leave, they are attacked by the Molecule Man, the owner of the planet, and reveals that Beyonder was the cause of the planet's desolation. Molecule Man comes close to killing Lunella, but Beyonder snags his wand, getting his powers and allowing both of them to escape. Lunella is kicked back to the moment she left Mimi, Casey and Devil and reunites with them, but is traumatized from her trip. | ||||||||
18 | 2 | "Suit Up!" | Trey Buongiorno Annie J. Li (co-director) | Liz Hara | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Annie J. Li & Kalen Aris Whitfield | February 2, 2024 | 0.11[50] | |
Mimi decides to take Lunella out to her scientist friends to see if they can produce upgrades to her suit. Merle and Matsuye happily take the challenge, but Lunella, still traumatized from her trip, insists on adding extra things to the suit out of fear. An enlargement ray accidentally causes a desert scorpion to get large and after the suit proves too clunky, Lunella strips down to a simpler model and defeats the Scorpion. Lunella finally decides on a simplistic suit, but is saddened that Merle and Matsuye cannot see their family. Mimi agrees that both her and Lunella will tell their family their secrets when they are ready. | ||||||||
19 | 3 | "Belly of the Beast" | Christine Liu Morgan Hillebrand (co-director) | Liz Hara | Jules Bridgers, Morgan Hillebrand & Lidia Liu | February 10, 2024[e] | 0.12[49] | |
Casey surprises Lunella with the new and improved lab, but their contrasting workplace etiquette soon leads to a heated fallout between them. An experimental bomb accidentally gets swallowed by Devil and both girls shrink themselves down and venture inside of him to get it out. The two continue to bicker and split up, but when Lunella finds the bomb and gets trapped, she uses a song to alert Casey who comes to her rescue. Lunella allows Casey to use her method and both girls manage to escape and toss the bomb in a safety box so it can explode. Both girls apologize for their behavior towards one another and promise to be kinder. | ||||||||
20 | 4 | "Ride or Die" | Trey Buongiorno Annie J. Li (co-director) | Halima Lucas | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Annie J. Li, Jessica Lin & Kalen Aris Whitfield | February 10, 2024[e] | 0.11[52] | |
Lunella finally catches Quickwhip, but due to S.H.I.E.L.D. getting swamped with work, Lunella is forced to take her to their base by herself. On the train, they are attacked by Lady Bullseye and her Diabolical Darts. Quickwhip, whose real name is Zakiya, reveals that she wanted to be a chef, but circumstances lead her to be a criminal working for Lady Bullseye and she has been on the run since. Lunella finally understands her and they work together to defeat Lady Bullseye. When Maria Hill arrives to pick up Zakiya, Lunella instead offers an outreach program for her. Zakiya now works at Bubbe Bina's bakery, fulfilling her dream. | ||||||||
21 | 5 | "Kid Kree" | Samantha Suyi Lee Samir Barrett (co-director) | Maggie Rose | Samir Barrett, Sixiao Tang & Yunhao Zhang | February 17, 2024[e] | 0.19[49] | |
Lunella meets Marvin, a mysterious boy who turns out to be a Kree child named Mel-Varr, who was sent to Earth to capture Moon Girl and prove himself to his father, Pad-Varr. Lunella and "Marvin" end up befriending one another over their shared interest in science, while their alter egos battle one another on the streets. Lunella discovers Mel-Varr’s true identity, saddening both of them as Mel-Varr genuinely liked her. As Pad-Varr comes to pick up his son, Lunella admits that she still likes him, and Mel-Varr finally impresses his father with his science know-how. Lunella and Mel-Varr decide to stay in touch with each other. | ||||||||
22 | 6 | "Wish-Tar" | Samantha Suyi Lee | Halima Lucas | Samir Barrett, Sixiao Tang & Yunhao Zhang | February 17, 2024[e] | 0.12[53] | |
Lunella and Casey try to keep up with the trends started by rapper Bobby the Myth. When the Lafayettes purchase a machine called Wish-Tar, Lunella learns that the Beyonder has possessed it and wants to help her. He grants her every wish, before finally wishing for Bobby the Myth to play at Roll With It. When Bobby asks for a new piano, Lunella wishes for the "baddest" piano, but the new model ends up turning Bobby evil. Lunella angrily tells Beyonder to go away, forcing Lunella and Devil to defeat Bobby and returning him to normal. Lunella no longer wants to follow any trends as she wonders what happened to Beyonder. | ||||||||
23 | 7 | "Make It, Don't Break It!" | Annie J. Li | Story by : Halima Lucas Teleplay by : Taylor Vaughn-Lasley | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Jessica Lin & Kalen Aris Whitfield | February 24, 2024[e] | 0.14[49] | |
IS 833 gets a new science teacher, Dr. Akonam Ojo from Wakanda. Lunella gets her to sponsor her for the RobotWarz competition, but finds her methods to be harsh and demeaning. Dr. Ojo explains that she wants her to be her best and Lunella makes a more satisfactory robot. However, when her robot comes apart, Lunella has a panic attack just as Big Wheel arrives, forcing Devil and the STEM kids to fight and defeat him. Casey and Mimi get Lunella to think clearly and she tells off Dr. Ojo who admits that her methods were unfair. She invites Lunella to join her top secret group, but Lunella decides to join the STEM kids instead. | ||||||||
24 | 8 | "The Devil You Know" | Christine Liu | LaGina Hill | Jules Bridgers, Lidia Liu, Morgan Hillebrand & Shanelle Wang | February 24, 2024[e] | 0.11[54] | |
Lunella and her family go on a road trip for the weekend, leaving Devil to feel bad over the fact that she cannot tell her family about him. He finds a support group for other animals, led by Pebble, the former sidekick to Granite, and has fun with them. Devil later realizes that they are irresponsible trouble makers and puts his foot down when Pebble demands that they destroy Granite's base. They fight and Granite returns, revealing that their breakup was due to a misunderstanding and they make up. Lunella returns and apologizes to Devil about his secrecy, promising that she will make the effort to introduce him to her family. | ||||||||
25 | 9 | "Dog Day Mid-Afternoon" | Annie J. Li Chivaun Fitzpatrick (co-director) | Maggie Rose | Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Jessica Lin & Shanelle Wang | March 2, 2024[e] | 0.23[49] | |
In preparation for the annual dog show, Pops finds an unusual dog and names him Franklin. Lunella quickly discovers that Franklin is not normal and after following him one night, believes that he is trying to kidnap other dogs. At the dog show, a chase ensues that ends with Lunella, Pops, Devil, and Casey learning that Franklin can talk and is an alien trying to take down Kat Swan, the organizer behind the show and the true culprit thanks to a dog whistle she uses to rob banks. The group work together and defeat Kat. Franklin gives Pops a tearful goodbye before taking Kat away to face her crimes on his planet. | ||||||||
26 | 10 | "In the Heist" | Christine Liu | Liz Hara | Jules Bridgers, Morgan Hillebrand & Lidia Liu | March 2, 2024[e] | 0.16[55] | |
While visiting the museum, Lunella and the STEM kids become curious about a gem. Lunella recognizes it as Kree and calls Mel-Varr who reveals that it can cause weather type disasters. Lunella convinces the STEM kids to help steal it, but must avoid the museum curator Dr. Stern who is onto their scheme. Anand nearly ruins their plan due to his self-demoralizing, but Lunella coaxes him to help. In the end, the kids successfully abscond with the diamond, replacing it with a fake, and Dr. Stern is fired. Afterwards, Lunella delivers the diamond to Mel-Varr where it is implied that the two are developing a crush on each other. | ||||||||
27 | 11 | "Roller Jam!" | Samantha Suyi Lee Samir Barrett (co-director) | Roxy Simons | Samir Barrett, Sixiao Tang & Yunhao Zhang | March 9, 2024[e] | 0.18[49] | |
The Lafayettes hold their annual Roller Jam, but Lunella accidentally invites Vernell Lewis, Pops' former friend turned rival. The two were blading partners, but broke up due to a disagreement. Lunella attempts to bring them both together, but neither is willing to admit defeat and hold a skate off to determine who will continue skating. Their competition is put off by the arrival of Brian Glory, Blue Streak, who wants to prove himself the best by beating Moon Girl. Lunella teams up with Pops and Vernell, who finally put aside their differences, to defeat the deranged villain and become friends again. | ||||||||
28 | 12 | "Dancing With Myself" | Christine Liu Morgan Hillebrand (co-director) | Liz Hara | Jules Bridgers & Lidia Liu | March 9, 2024[e] | N/A | |
Lunella is interested in going to the middle school dance with her friends, but when they all find dates, she begins to feel left out. Mel-Varr suddenly arrives, trying to escape General Hyles and the Zingaran Army, and Lunella asks him to go with her. When Hyles arrives to kidnap Mel-Varr, Lunella learns that her friends were also nervous about dating and realizes that it is okay to not be ready. Lunella and Mel-Varr suit up as Moon Girl and Kid Kree and fight and defeat Hyles and his army. Lunella and Mel-Varr decide to remain friends for the time being while Mel-Varr forms a friendly rivalry with Eduardo, who also has a crush on Lunella. | ||||||||
29 | 13 | "Family Matters" | Annie J. Li | Halima Lucas | Luz Batista, Chivaun Fitzpatrick, Jessica Lin, Travis Marks & Shanelle Wang | March 16, 2024[e] | 0.18[49] | |
While struggling with revealing her double life to her family, Lunella encounters the superhero Turbo doing battle with Silvermane, who is after her armor. The two of them team up and eventually capture the villain and send him to S.H.I.E.L.D. Turbo reveals her origin and the fact that she and her mother, Erma, have not spoken in a long time as she has neglected to bring up her double life. Silvermane escapes and kidnaps Erma, but Lunella and Turbo transfer his consciousness to a stuff toy. Moved by her experience with Turbo and not wanting to make the same mistakes as her, Lunella finally sits her family down to tell them the truth. | ||||||||
30 | 14 | "The Molecular Level" | Samantha Suyi Lee | Liz Hara | Samir Barrett, Luz Batista, Sixiao Tang, Yunhao Zhang & Waymond Singleton | March 16, 2024[e] | 0.17[56] | |
Lunella finally tells Adria, James Jr., and Pops that she is, in fact, Moon Girl, but the family do not believe her until Devil shows up. Mimi reveals that not only did she know already, but that she was a former scientist as well. As Lunella explains that there is no reason for them to be afraid of anyone else knowing her identity, their home is suddenly attacked by Molecule Man. He reveals that he could not find the Beyonder so he decided to go after Moon Girl instead. Molecule Man entraps the family and Lunella is pushed to her limit. With Devil's help, she rescues her family and instead helps Molecule Man by reminding him the reason he created his planet. Changed by the events, Molecule Man apologizes to Lunella and returns home. While the Lafayettes are grateful for Lunella's heroics, Adria forbids her from doing anymore. |
Shorts
Chibi Tiny Tales
Chibi Tiny Tales is a series of shorts that depict characters from various Disney Channel properties in chibi-style animation. In June 2023, the series began releasing shorts based around Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
No. | Title | Original release date |
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1 | "Hot Dog!" | June 3, 2023[57] |
2 | "Perilous Parade" | July 1, 2023[58] |
3 | "Carnival Carnivore" | August 1, 2023[59] |
How NOT To Draw
No. | Title | Original release date |
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1 | "How NOT To Draw: Moon Girl" | September 4, 2023[60] |
Theme Song Takeover
No. | Title | Original release date |
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1 | "Devil Theme Song Takeover" | January 29, 2024[61] |
Moon Girl's Lab
A musical series which showcases Moon Girl using scientific concepts to take down bad guys.
No. | Title | Original release date | |
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1 | "Adaptations" | June 11, 2024[62] | |
Lunella and Devil are chasing the Bone Raider within the museum. Lunella orders Devil to use his "adaptations" and proceeds to explain, through rap, what adaptations are and how they help with everyday life for him. Together, they capture Bone Raider and Lunella promises to explain how Devil is related to a chicken. | |||
2 | "States of Matter" | June 28, 2024[63] | |
Lunella and Devil are battling Vicente Cimetta, the matter shifter, in an ice cream factory. Lunella decides to explain to Devil how his powers work and they work together to literally put him on ice. Afterwards, Devil sneaks off to eat the ice cream in the factory. | |||
3 | "Plants" | July 5, 2024[64] | |
Lunella buys a greenhouse thanks to Casey finding a good discount on it, only to discover that it houses a sinister plant monster. Lunella realizes that it needs TLC and raps about plants need for sunlight, water, and fresh dirt. Casey, who wanted to do a photoshoot, winds up covered in dirt and Devil's mucus after he sneezes. | |||
4 | "Forces & Motion" | July 12, 2024[65] | |
Lunella and Devil once again run into Rockin' Rudy who speeds off. Lunella decides to use the method of forces and motion. They manage to successfully get Rudy to crash his vehicle, but he calls a backup vehicle and escapes. Luckily, Lunella and Devil manage to get the money he stole back. | |||
5 | "Light" | July 19, 2024[66] | |
Lunella, Devil, and Casey chase Nox to Coney Island. Using her new Sun Blaster, which Nox and Casey feel is brand confusion, Lunella raps about light and uses it to defeat Nox. She comes up with a new name, but it is too long, causing Casey to embrace Sun Blaster. | |||
6 | "Echolocation" | July 26, 2024[67] | |
Lunella and Casey are in the subway listening to subway musicians when Flying Fox appears and steals their money. Using her knowledge of echolocation, Lunella manages to trace where Flying Fox is and sets a trap using foam to block out her sound, trapping her and delivering her to justice. |
Production
Development
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During discussions with Marvel Studios regarding a potential collaboration with Cinema Gypsy Productions for a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) project, president Louis D'Esposito showed actor and comic book fan Laurence Fishburne the comic book Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.[68][69] Having read the original Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur comic book as a child, Moon Girl piqued Fishburne's interest. He afterwards began reading the comics, which gave him the inspiration to create an animated series based on the duo.[70][68] Fishburne and a production team worked on the series for two years at Disney Television Animation, before hiring Steve Loter as executive-producer due to his experience on female-centered shows such as Disney's Kim Possible.[71][69] Loter and the team then created a roller-skating sequence played over "Sweatpants" by Childish Gambino as a proof-of-concept piece and pitched it to both executives at Disney Television Animation and a Marvel Studios team including Brad Winderbaum and president Kevin Feige, who greenlit the series for development.[72][73]
On February 20, 2018, it was reported that Marvel Animation and Cinema Gypsy Productions were developing a Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur series for Disney Channel Worldwide.[74] Fishburne (a long-time Marvel alumni; having played Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Bill Foster in Ant-Man and the Wasp) and Helen Sugland serve as the series' executive producers.[74] The first season had 20 episodes ordered,[75] but was later cut down to 16 due to story purposes.[76]
On August 24, 2019, during the D23 Expo, Fishburne revealed that the series would premiere in 2020 on Disney Channel, with Disney Television Animation being set to co-produce the series, marking the first time Disney and Marvel worked together on an animated series.[77] Loter executive produces the series alongside Fishburne and Sugland;[77] Loter also serves as the series' showrunner.[78] Jeff Howard and Kate Kondell work on the series as co-producers and story editors.[77] Howard and Kondell were the first two writers hired for the series. The two helped the production team define the characters, with an hour being dedicated to a specific character. By the time writing for the episodes started, the characters were defined enough that not many ideas were revised.[79] Kondell also serves as head writer for the series.[80]
Fishburne said that "Disney Channel is the perfect platform to explore this pint-sized female African American superhero and [he] can't wait for their audience to enjoy the lighthearted adventures of Lunella and Devil Dinosaur",[77] while Cort Lae, Marvel Family and Entertainment's then-senior vice president, said that "[Moon Girl's] adventures with giant buddy, Devil Dinosaur, are filled with so much wonder and joy, and this historic partnership with Disney Television Animation and Cinema Gypsy Productions proved the right formula to bring them to television".[77]
In February 2021, it was reported that Rodney Clouden would serve as supervising producer for the series, while Pilar Flynn would produce.[3] Due to Disney Television Animation's studios having closed in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,[81] most of the series was produced remotely.[82] The producers developed each episode with a feature film-like pipeline, with each script receiving a "color script" as with films, and each episode being treated as a "mini-movie".[83][79] The producers wanted the team to be composed of people with different filmmaking experiences.[79]
In October 2022, the series was renewed for a second season.[84] The series was renewed after a positive reception from both Disney and Marvel executives.[85] Rafael Chaidez took over as producer for season two, while Flynn and Clouden serve as co-executive producers alongside Kondell. Kondell also serves as story editor alongside Halima Lucas, the latter who also became a co-producer alongside Ben Juwono, who replaced Clouden as supervising director.[84] Flynn was also promoted to co-showrunner alongside Loter.[86] Production for season 2 began by February 2023.[79]
Loter said that the production team envisions the series to span three seasons, believing they could tell a complete story within that timeframe while remaining open to the possibility of creating more seasons.[87] He also mentioned that the show's renewal or cancellation depends on the ratings of the season 2 premiere on both Disney Channel and Disney+.[88]
Writing
The series features entirely of women of color in its writers' room, as well as on its directing team, as the producers wanted the production team to reflect the diversity within New York City, where the show is set.[85][71] The writers, alongside other crew members of color, were allowed to provide feedback regarding representation of minorities within the show, with some of said crew members receiving promotions within the crew while working on the series.[72] The crew also worked alongside Disney production coordinator Allen March to identify moments to add diversity to the show via background or speaking characters, as well as to calculate the representation per episode.[71] Loter, who lives in New York City, said that it was important for the crew to "make sure they've got New York right", wanting to respect the city's "vibe" and "tone".[85] He also reused elements of the series' portrayal of NYC from his cancelled Cars spin-off film Metro,[89] such as prominently featuring the New York City Hall station, which appears in the series as Lunella's lab.[90] The series starts off with an episodic format as it explores Lunella becoming Moon Girl, before transitioning into a more serialized story, with an arc unfolding throughout the first season.[85][91]
Supervising producer Rodney Clouden said it was important for the production crew to accurately portray a multigenerational African-American family.[72] They wanted to show both Moon Girl learning from her family and her family learning from her through their multiple perspectives.[72] Each character was given a different personality and profession, such as Pops being owner of a roller-skate and Andria being a DJ, to further explore diversity and how "everyone is so different [from each other]".[92] Sasheer Zamata, who voices Lunella's mother, said that family is a crucial theme in the show, and described the series as "a nice way to see a Black family work together and enjoy each other and spread love in their community".[93] Producer Pilar Flynn said it was important for the writers to have Moon Girl and Casey have a close and supportive relationship, which is rarely seen among female friendships in animation.[92]
The producers used the original comic as "a springboard" and "a point of reference" for the series, although making several alterations regarding the source material to make the story fit in a television format while still incorporating nods to multiple comic-book storylines.[72] According to Diamond White, the series features "levels of emotions" that were absent from the original comic.[94] The series portrays the relationship between the duo as "a partnership" instead of "a pet/owner dynamic", with Devil becoming fiercely loyal to Moon Girl and feeling "at home with her" due to how she treats him.[94] Another changes were the increased role of Lunella's family and the addition of her friend Casey, which were made to showcase how Lunella's world changes as she grows through the series.[72] They also felt it was important for Lunella to have a support system, and for her household to represent that of many audiences' households.[92] The producers changed Lunella's age from 9 to 13-years-old because they wanted social media to play a prominent role in her character, which they felt would not work with her being 9-years-old.[95]
The series features several obscure characters from Marvel comics. The characters included were selected due to potential roles they could play in the story, interest from the producers, and/or recommendations from Marvel, such as the Beyonder, who was suggested by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige as a foil for Lunella;[78][85] the producers were particularly interested in featuring characters that hadn't been adapted to other media before, such as Aftershock, as their obscurity allowed the creators to make changes that fitted within the show's narrative,[85] though more prominent Marvel characters are also set to appear. Fishburne noted, however, that some characters were unable to appear due to "proprietary issues",[96][95] such as Amadeus Cho, whom the team wanted to include in season 1 but were forbidden by Marvel; elements of the team's plans for the character were ultimately used for Kid Kree in season 2.[73] Elements from Marvel comics will appear more prominently later in the series, after Lunella and "her world" are properly established.[96] Some of the villains represent real-life issues within the show, such as Aftershock draining the Lower East Side's energy in the first episode, which serves as "a statement" about gentrification.[5] The series was also described as "complimentary" to the MCU, with the creators including multiple nods to the franchise through the series.[97] Fishburne claimed that the series is not "connected to the MCU officially", while Loter revealed that "a couple of MCU characters" would appear in the series.[98] Additionally, Flynn stated that the producers consider the series a "companion series" to the MCU but not part of the franchise.[99]
Casting
In February 2021, it was reported that White and Tatasciore would voice the titular duo, with Woodard, Williams, Zamata, and Fowler providing the voices of Lunella/Moon Girl's grandparents and parents, respectively, and Barer as her best friend, Casey.[3] It was also reported that Fishburne would voice The Beyonder in a recurring capacity.[3] Additional recurring and guest roles were announced the San Diego Comic Con in July 2022.[100] White was cast shortly after Loter heard her audition tape; according to Loter, her tape was the only one he heard, as he was impressed with her performance.[79]
Voice recordings for season one were partially done remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[85] Williams, whose work on the show was his first role during the pandemic, received help from his wife to prepare to record his lines from their home.[85] White and Barer ad-libbed several dialogues between Moon Girl and Casey,[85] with the two recording their lines simultaneously either physically or through Zoom.[101] White also recorded some of her lines with Tatatsciore,[102] as well as with Woodward, Zamata, and Williams.[103] While providing the vocal effects for Devil, Tatasciore was given a script with lines for him, which he would later work into animal vocals.[94] The idea of Fishburne voicing the Beyonder was suggested by Loter.[104] For his performance, Fishburne wanted it to be lighter and less recognizable than his previous roles, so he and Loter worked together to develop his voice for the Beyonder.[69][104]
Animation
The series is animated by Flying Bark Productions, in Sydney, Australia.[74][105] Titmouse worked on early visual development for the series.[74] Flying Bark, whose employees were fans of the source material, was hired due to the studio's work on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.[83] Animation lead Kat Kosmala created a series of rules for the animators, among them being that the character animation must draw the viewers' attention, the action must be "simple and direct", and simplification should be used only for designs.[83] The visual style is meant to "[lean] heavy into [a] 2D graphic comicbook sensibility".[106] The animation combines hand-drawn animation with Toon Boom Harmony, with Toon Boom being used for stage and head-rigging, while the bodies of the characters are hand-drawn. The producers originally planned to only use Toon Boom, but ultimately felt hand-drawn animation was also required.[79]
Multiple animation styles were used per episode.[83] For the New York sequences, the producers drew inspiration from graffiti artists, as well as artists such as Andy Warhol, for the series' art style, to portray New York in a more realistic style than most animated shows, while also portraying the city as its own character.[85] Loter and Clouden drew inspiration from their childhood for the series' portrayal of NYC.[79] Graffiti artists were hired to work on the graffiti depicted through the show to show accurate graffiti.[85] The camera movement was also meant to evoke the feeling of a real-life city recording, with "forced tight shots" and "object obstruction".[83] The buildings and streets were also drawn to be accurate to their real-life counterparts.[107] The musical sequences feature a more abstract art style that is more colorful and action-focused.[83] Flashback sequences feature a simpler graphic style with colors that "quickly enhance emotional beats".[83]
Due to Fishburne's love of comic books,[98] producers also wanted the animation to "feel like an illustrated moving comic book",[85] so the artists drew inspiration from comic books from the 1970s, featuring a lack of "perfect shapes" and "edgy line work", while having a hand-drawn feel.[83] Details such as black spots were also added so they could "[feel] like a very complete piece" even before adding color.[107] Artists wanted to avoid using digital techniques such as motion blur, wanting instead to rely mainly on ink-and-paint techniques.[108] The animation also drew inspiration from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with the producers wanting the animation to be as energetic as possible within a budget for a TV series. The animators also sought for the animation to be "complimentary" to Into the Spider-Verse without recycling its animation style.[79][83] Marvel Studios Animation's What If...? was also an influence on the series' visual design.[69]
Lead character designer Jose Lopez wanted the characters to have multiple shapes that were "fun to look at", such as Moon Girl's silhouette changing when she dons her superhero outfit.[83] He also wanted Devil Dinosaur to look like "a mean dinosaur" while also being "believable as a lovable pet".[83] He also drew inspiration from comic strip artist Bill Watterson, of whom Lopez is a fan of.[83] Marc Hempel and Devil's co-creator Jack Kirby were also inspirations for the art style of the show, with the artists incorporating the Kirby Krackle into the series.[109][110] The artists also incorporated elements to visually represent the characters' feelings, such as manga-style "flairs",[108] as well as emojis that were "simple and clear and direct".[111]
Music
In July 2022, it was announced that Raphael Saadiq would serve as the executive music producer for the show.[112] He also provided both the score and songs for the show.[85] Loter, a fan of Saadiq, approached him to work on the project during an autograph signing.[112] Each episode features a different song by Saadiq, depicted in-universe as part of a mix-tape Moon Girl listens to; the songs were written before animation work began so the animators could synchronize the songs to the sequence.[83] Saadiq included different musical genres in the soundtrack to reflect the diversity within New York City.[112] Producer Pilar Flynn described his score as "sophisticated" and "unlike anything [she has] seen in animation before", saying it "elevated the entire show to another level".[92] According to Flynn, the crew generally pitched ideas for the score to Saadiq, only for him to discard them in favor of something different, which the producers received positively.[92] The first episode features a song titled "Where You Come From", which Loter described as "a love letter to New York".[85] Saadiq also wrote songs for the series' villains.[70]
The show's theme song, "Moon Girl Magic", was performed written by Saadiq alongside Halima Lucas and Taura Stinson, and performed by White.[113][112] The song was written by Saadiq with "a similar energy" to "Juice" by Lizzo, and received an "instant green-light" by the executives, which is rare for most theme songs for a TV series.[83] Saadiq said he wanted the song to be both "uplifting" and "happy", while White was excited to "bring Lunella's voice to the show in a singing way".[112] The title sequence was storyboarded by supervising director Ben Juwono, who drew inspiration from the music video for Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and storyboarded it to play to "Juice", as the theme song had not been written by that point.[83] The song was released as a single on November 14, 2022.[113]
A soundtrack featuring selected songs from the first season was released on February 10, 2023.[113]
Release
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur premiered on Disney Channel on February 10, 2023.[114] The series was originally scheduled to premiere in 2020,[77] before being delayed to 2022,[3] and later to its current premiere date.[100] The first six episodes of the series were added to Disney+ on February 15, 2023, resulting in episodes 3 to 6 being released prior to their television debuts.[32]
Marketing
A teaser trailer showing clips from the opening was released by executive-producer Laurence Fishburne in December 15, 2021.[115] An official clip was released during the San Diego Comic-Con 2022,[116] while the first trailer was released during the D23 Expo, where the first episode was shown to the attendees.[117][118] The series' intro was released during the New York Comic Con 2022, with the first two minutes of the season premiere also being shown during the panel.[119][84] A music video for the theme song was released in November 14, 2022.[120]
Merchandising for the show will include apparel and a series of toys produced by The World of EPI and Funko Pop! that serve as tie-ins for the series.[84][121] Characters from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur appear as limited-time meet-and-greet characters at the Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure starting from February 15, 2023, in commemoration of Black History Month.[122][123] A soundtrack featuring songs from the first season, in digital and audio cassette formats, was released on January 4, 2023 by Walt Disney Records.[124]
Reception
Critical reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds an approval rating of 100%, based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 8.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "With dazzling visuals and punchy pacing that feel beamed straight from a child's imagination, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur will enthrall kids while impressing animation connoisseurs."[125]
Joel Keller of Decider asserted, "Marvel's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur is a dynamic, smart, visually arresting series that has a unique girl at its center, a puppy-like dinosaur, and stories that will entertain both kids and their parents."[126] Matthew Aguilar of ComicBook.com gave the series a 4 out of 5, writing, "Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is an enchanting adventure that wears its heart and charm on its sleeve. The show carves out a corner of the Marvel universe all its own with personality for days and characters that leap off the screen, and any Marvel fan will regret missing out on this one-of-a-kind gem."[127]
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Refs |
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2023 | TCA Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Family Programming | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Nominated | [128] |
Humanitas Prize | Children's Teleplay (Live-Action or Animation) | Lisa Muse Bryant (for "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow") | Nominated | [129] | |
Children's and Family Emmy Awards | Outstanding Children's or Young Teen Animated Series | Laurence Fishburne, Steve Loter, Helen Sugland, Rodney Clouden, Pilar Flynn, Jeffrey M. Howard, Kate Kondell, Rafael Chaidez and Lisa Muse Bryant | Nominated | [130][131] | |
Outstanding Animated Special | Laurence Fishburne, Steve Loter, Helen Sugland, Rodney Clouden, Pilar Flynn, Jeffrey M. Howard, Kate Kondell, Rafael Chaidez and Lisa Muse Bryant (for "Moon Girl Landing") | Won | |||
Outstanding Voice Performance in a Children's or Young Teen Program | Laurence Fishburne | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program | Lisa Muse Bryant, Jeffrey M. Howard, Kate Kondell, Liz Hara, Halima Lucas, Maggie Rose and Taylor Vaughn Lasley | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series | Sam Riegel | Won | |||
Outstanding Main Title and Graphics | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Won | |||
Outstanding Editing for an Animated Program | Sandra Powers, Ryan Burkhard and Phil Lomboy | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Casting for an Animated Program | Tatiana Bull, Aaron Drown and Jennifer Trujillo | Won | |||
Individual Achievement in Animation | Kaz Aiwaza | Won | |||
2024 | Annie Awards | Best TV/Media – Children | "The Beyonder" | Nominated | [132] |
Best Character Design – TV/ Media | Jose Lopéz (for "The Beyonder") | Won | [133] | ||
Best Storyboarding – TV/Media | Ben Juwono (for "Run the Rink") | Won | |||
Best Voice Acting — TV/Media | Diamond White (for "Moon Girl Landing") | Won | |||
GLAAD Media Award | Outstanding Kids & Family Programming or Film – Animated | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Nominated | [134] |
Graphic novel
On May 12, 2023, it was reported that a graphic novel based on the series was in development, set to release on April 2, 2024.[135][136][137] The novel will be written by Stephanie Williams with art by Asia Simone, while Scholastic is set to publish.[135]
Notes
- ^ a b c d This episode was first released on Disney+ on February 15, 2023.[32]
- ^ a b The episode "Goodnight, Moon Girl" was originally scheduled to air as the seventh episode on March 4, 2023. However, due to a change in scheduling,[35] it was replaced by the episode "Moon Girl's Day Off", which was originally scheduled to air as the tenth episode on March 25, 2023. "Goodnight, Moon Girl" eventually aired as the tenth episode on March 25. On Disney+, the episodes are arranged in their original production order, which is how the episodes are presented here.
- ^ a b c d This episode was first released on Disney+ on March 8, 2023.[36]
- ^ a b c d This episode was first released on Disney+ on April 12, 2023.[43]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l This episode was first released on Disney+ on February 3, 2024.[51]
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