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What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

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[TV] Phantom 2040 - have any of you watched this? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago by Hammerjack to c/cyberpunk

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I'll admit as a kid I never watched Phantom 2040 mostly due to his boring purple outfit. If he had a cooler costume I probably would've watched it because otherwise it's crime fighting in a cyberpunk city, which I'm a fan of.

So have any of you watched it? Is it any good? I worry that being a saturday morning cartoon from the 90s means it'll just be basic childish plots resolved within 20 minutes. I mean, Spider-Man Unlimited has Spider-Man getting trapped in a cyberpunk city of human/animal hybrids with a spider-suit made of nanomachines and yet the execution was mostly boring. So I expect Phantom 2040 probably isn't worth watching.

Here's the intro. I happened to notice the show because the entire series is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, YouTube, Roku, and Pluto. And there's also a SNES game which I've heard good things about.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I never watched Phantom 2040, but I just wanted to say that I remember Phantom from Defenders of the Earth and it was nice to see him show up here on Lemmy :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well that's a weird coincidence, I just made a vague reference to this show to confuse a bunch of Zoomers in Discord since they weren't alive yet. I remember the intro more than anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The Phantom is rough on rough necks.

-Old jungle saying

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I remember I watched it in French-dubbed first before I found the English version many years later online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

lol, yeah I watched it a bit as a kid.

It was weird and kinda reminded me of Aeon Flux but I think there might've been some of the same people working on both.

[–] retrolasered 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So this is who phantom limb is a parody of ..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't know why I needed you to point this out, but I appreciate it!