# Identify a cartoon: space ships, giant monsters, and clone zombies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379 "2021-06-02T00:06:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smilingbandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@smilingbandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/1 "2021-06-02T00:06:51Z")
By chance, I happened to watch a few minutes of a cartoon I’d never seen before, but didn’t catch the title or the network. It looked liked a modern western animated show, where a giant humanoid monster was attacking a starship (with a human crew, cyborgs, robots, & aliens, etc.). I guess if you’re a giant monster, you can fly through space without issue as other giant monsters then teleported in while the ship escaped, and then was attacked by clone zombies of the captain, who seemed to be a young-ish guy. Also, his mom was a pilot (I think), who apparently raided Han Solo’s leftover wardrobe. My inability to identify this show has been bothering me, as it was a rather bizarre but entertaining few minutes. Can anyone figure out what it was? ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/2 "2021-06-02T00:23:57Z")
That sounds like the latest episode of Final Space. > **[Final Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Space)** > > Final Space is an adult animated space opera comedy drama television series created by Olan Rogers and developed by Rogers and David Sacks. The series involves an astronaut named Gary Goodspeed and his immensely powerful alien friend Mooncake, and focuses on their intergalactic adventures as they try to save the universe from certain doom. > The series aired on TBS on February 26, 2018. It then moved to Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim, started with the second season o... The Captain is Gary. And those weren’t clones. They were other dead Gary’s from the multiverse. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z4MGJI2zeRs/maxresdefault.jpg "Final Space SEASON 3 Official Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4MGJI2zeRs) It’s a really good show. The KVN robot is hilarious. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mSBCnO_L9KU/maxresdefault.jpg "Final Space - Everybody Hates Kevin") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSBCnO_L9KU) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/3 "2021-06-02T00:31:49Z")
At least 20 years ago I saw part of a space cartoon that has stayed with me, who knows why. The alien ship is disabled and falling into the sun. A crew member cries (something like): “what do we do now?” to which to commander replies matter of factly: “we die”. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/4 "2021-06-02T00:44:39Z")
You seem to be thinking of _The Last Starfighter_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/c55PtTyvfE4/hqdefault.jpg "What do we do? We Die") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c55PtTyvfE4) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/5 "2021-06-02T00:55:52Z")
I’da swore it was crappy animation. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/6 "2021-06-02T00:59:56Z")
Well, it does have crappy animation in it. Very early, very bad CGI spaceships. ---
**Author:** ![smilingbandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@smilingbandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/7 "2021-06-02T02:59:30Z")
Thank you for the show - I will say it definitely does not look boring! And The Last Starfighter is a classic of the genre! Sure, the CGI looks pretty rough by today’s standards, but there are many good special effects and it’s a surprisingly fun story. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/8 "2021-06-02T04:38:36Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > At least 20 years ago I saw part of a space cartoon that has stayed with me, who knows why. The alien ship is disabled and falling into the sun. A crew member cries (something like): “what do we do now?” to which to commander replies matter of factly: “we die”. I think that’s [Titan AE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_A.E.) from Don Bluth. It came out around the same time as Disney’s largely forgotten _Treasure Planet_. ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379/9 "2021-06-02T06:03:57Z")
> [@smilingbandit](#): > > And The Last Starfighter is a classic of the genre! Sure, the CGI looks pretty rough by today’s standards, but there are many good special effects and it’s a surprisingly fun story. Death Blossom was pretty bad-ass. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hlAsSyDAWR8/hqdefault.jpg "The Last Starfighter - Death Blossom") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlAsSyDAWR8)