The Velociraptor Warrior

Velocity: The Dark Human Slayer is an American animated dark fantasy series created by Bryan Andrews with Rob Renzetti co-creating that premiered on Nickelodeon on November 5, 1999 and ended on March 7, 2003, being produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studios and MTV Production Development (Season 5 only). The show is known for its very dark action, some crude humor and violent moments. The series stars Dan Green as Velocity, a Velociraptor who was chosen to save their village from the evil Dark Humans (where they stop aging and evolving after reaching their teenage times (16 years old or 17 years old), being set in an alternative timeline where all Humans, but one were extinct.

On 2017, it was announced that the series will be getting a new short season that will last for 11 episodes, making it a mini-series for Netflix. Unlike the original, it is more violent and bloody and features an aging Velocity. The first six episodes started on March 23, 2018 with the last five episodes originally aimed for its June date, but went ahead and got released on May 31, 2018 instead and had its MTV premiere on April 7, 2018.

The original series is rated TV-Y7-FV while its last season is rated TV-14-V.

This series has spawned a franchise: Velocity: The Dark Human Slayer (franchise), with tons of games being made and a prequel, titled The Human Race, being set to be released in 2020.

Season 1-4
After an incident strikes on Dinosaur Village, a Velociraptor is chosen to save not just the village from the Dark Humans, who wants to put the dinosaurs back to extinction, but also the entire world as well.

Season 5
40 years had past since Velocity's mission had begun, but all hope is lost. An aging Velocity is lost and had given up hope to destroy the Dark Human species. But after Shadowus plans to kill the entire race, a now aging Velocity must not only save the world, but also to finally being able to return home.

Main

 * Velocity (voiced by Dan Green) - a vegetarian Velociraptor who tends to kill the Dark Humans.
 * Shunky (voiced by Rob Paulsen) - a triceratops who is Velocity's not so bright best friend and partner.
 * Elisha (voiced by Kat Cressida) - a Dark Human who was betrayed by Brimstone, joining Velocity and Shunky on their journey.

Supporting

 * Prime (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) - a tyrannasaurus rex warrior who has raised Velocity, as well as the first to banish Brimstone and died on his hands on the day of his rise.

Antagonists

 * Dark Humans, consisting of:
 * Brimstone (voiced by Maurice LaMarche for the first four seasons and Clancy Brown for the revivial season) - a spiritual Dark Human with snake legs and firey hair, and the main antagonist.
 * Ashton
 * Malware (voiced by TBD) - TBD
 * Clay
 * Nancy

Music
American rapper Snoop Dogg has made a song titled Velocity, which is the theme song for the series.

Animation
The series was mainly animated at Rough Draft Korea, with the assistance of Paramount Television Animation (Japan) (CGI effects, season 5 only) and Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS Entertainment, flashback in one episode). The animation resembles the animation from Samurai Jack. Rough Draft Korea didn't return to animate the fifth season, so an another Korean animation studios, Digital eMation, provided the animation for that season instead.

Tropes
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Episodes
List of episodes

Film adaptation
See more information: Velocity

In October 2003, 7 months after the series ended, Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures had plans for a film adaptation based on the series. The movie was intended to be as a series finale to the show and was going to be released in 2007, but due to unexplained difficulties, troubles and money losses, the project was cancelled. However, in 2005, before the cancellation, Nickelodeon Movies created the project reel.

However, Ronzetti posted his late plans for a Velocity movie. The movie was to be titled Velocity: The Dawn of the Dark Humans and was to serve as a proper series finale. The animation would have been produced at Digital eMation in Korea, rather than Rough Draft Korea.

Even though the film in 2007 got cancelled due to unexplained difficulties, in 2019, a year after the revival season got out, they released a live-action film based on Velocity The Dark Human Slayer. The movie received mixed reviews from critics, but positive reviews from audiences, fans and other people, becoming a box-office hit.

Comic adaption
See more information: Velocity

IDW Publishing confirmed that they are adapting the most-beloved cartoon into a comic series starting in February 2017.

Video games
The series has spawned 4 games.

The first game is the video game, released in 2001 for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color and PC. The Dreamcast version is planned, but was soon cancelled due to low sales of that console.

The second game is Velocity: The Dark Human Slayer: The Elemental Journey was released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance and N-Gage. It was the only Nick Games game to be ever released on N-Gage.

The third and final game, titled Velocity: The Dark Human Slayer: The Curse of the Blackdeath, was released in 2006 (3 years after the series ended) for the GameCube, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo DS. A Xbox and a Wii versions was planned, but was cancelled due to difficulties. It is the only Velocity game to be rated E10+ by the ESRB due to the fact that the previous 2 are rated T due to the fact that the E10+ rating didn't exist during these time.

The fourth (and upcoming) game is the LEGO game, being called LEGO Velocity: The Video Game.

Prequel
Main Article: The Human Race

In 2018, due to the fifth season's success, it was announced that a prequel to Velocity: The Dark Human Slayer is in production. The prequel was confirmed to be about Halie (who would later become the last human and Velocity's close ally/best friend) and Brimstone (who would later become the main antagonist of the original).

Critical reponse
The series recieved "universal acclaim" from critics, viewers and fans alike. The rating on Rotten Tomatoes has "99%" Fresh certificate, with the critical consensus reading: (reserved for Green). The Metacritic has a score of 98 of 100, indicating "universal acclaim".

Revival
Main article: /Season 5

On June 2017, Netflix confirmed that Velocity: The Dark Human Slayer will be returning as a 11-episode mini-series. The revival shared the same animation as its first 4 seasons, but more enchanced.