Make it Pop: Superstars

Make it Pop: Superstars is a Canadian animated comedy musical action adventure series created by DHX Media and YTV. It is an animated spinoff of the Make It Pop TV series, and it features the main characters XO-IQ as a superhero team. The show was animated using Toon Boom Harmony. It will be produced by DHX Media and distributed by them worldwide, including the US. The show was animated and stars the main cast members of Make It Pop to reprise their respective characters.

Premise
The show is set in the Make it Pop universe, and the four main characters Sun Hi Song, Corki Chang, Jodi Mappa and Caleb Davis are not just XO-IQ anymore, but are now powerful superheroes named the Superstars who now reside in the lively, colorful and peaceful OverTune City, battling the forces of evil and solving mysteries, music and funny humor ensue!

Characters - Heroes

 * Sun Hi Song/SuperSong (Voiced by Megan Lee): She's the Leader of the Superstars, and possesses the ability to sing beautifully, as well as excellent strength and flexibility She's funky, super bubbly, super weird (In a good way!) and has a great sense of humor. She is based off of her appearance in season 2 of the original Make It Pop show, sporting pink hair.


 * Corki Chang/ Captain Chang (Voiced by Erika Tham): The Brains of the team. She can create cool gadgets and even concocts strategies for the heroes, which can help the team through any situation they get into. She is seen as a bookworm who spends her time making inventions, playing violin, and even spending time with her friends. She's also known to be really sensitive, but is also calm, collected and full of fun and justice no matter what.


 * Jodi Mappa/ Mighty Melody Mappa (Voiced by Louriza Tronco): The strength of the Team. Fierce, tough, and tomboyish, she is very caring of her friends, and has a mediocre temper when it comes to situations, but is nice nonetheless.


 * Caleb Davis/Dr. DJ Davis (Voiced by Dale Whibley): He's the fastest of the team, and is armed with two futuristic Tron-like chakrams, resembling that of phonograph records. He is often seen as a normal kid enjoying his life, and is also a great DJ. He also known to be socially awkward, but cares deeply of his friends no matter what.
 * Chip the Robot - (Voiced by Yuri Lowenthal): The robot of the team. He briefs the Superstars on their missions, and always congratulates the team upon accomplishment of their mission. He can also transform into many things, such as a laptop, a notebook, an iPad-like object, and a hairbrush. In this show, he is a humanoid robot with a computer screen for a head. He often appears out of nowhere and briefs the Superstars on their missions.

Episodes: Season 1
Episode 1: XO-IQ Superstars, Assemble!: Sun Hi and her friends one day are taking a break from Mackendrick Prep while reading comic books and discussing music, Until a Song-Hating supervillian named Doctor Mute-Inator appears. Sun-Hi tries to stop him, but gets exposed to a strange substance that the mad doctor throws, and then Becomes "Super Song"! She sings to her friends, and they all turn into superheroes. Suddenly, Doctor Mute-Inator returns and unleashes his most evil his "Super-Seriously-Sinister and Sentient-Song-Stealing Robots", and attacks the city with them. Can they save Mackendrick Prep, find a way to stop the robots and defeat the villain, too?

Featured Song: "Superstars to the Rescue"

Episode 2: "Band Bubble Trouble": Sun Hi and the rest of XO-IQ. are busy cleaning Mackendrick Prep's hallways, and they suddenly hear something outside: All of the students that are on break outside and all other objects are floating around in mysterious bubbles! The villain responsible for all this? Sun Mi Song, and her creation: The " Big Bad Bubble Blower Bot", a giant mech that creates bubbles of any size she desires. The Superstars try to stop her, but the four heroes each get trapped in a bubble! Can they use their super skills to get themselves free and stop Sun Mi's bubble trouble?

Featured Song: "We Got It (Superstars Remix)"

Episodes 3: "Pizza Power!": Today is Pizza Day at Mackendrick Prep, and everyone is having Pizza! However, Corki doesn't like Spinach Pizza, and refuses to eat it. But when a new villain named Captain Cucumber-Face comes along and starts unleashing giant killer veggie monsters (That includes spinach too.). Can the Superstars save the day, and will Corki get over her fears of spinach?

Episode 4: "Caleb's DJ Dilemma!":  It's time for the Mackendrick Prep School Dance, and everyone is excited- except Caleb. He has a flashback about him once messing up massively while him and XO-IQ were putting on a performance. Suddenly, an evil villain named Dr. Turn-Trouble kidnaps the WHOLE school and sabotages the dance. Caleb has to face his fears and believe in himself to defeat the mad doctor and save the dance. Will he finally get over his fears and beat Dr. Turn Trouble?

Featured Song: "Dance Master"

Episode 5: "Call of Cootie": The Whole Mackendrick Prep school goes on a field trip to a Jungle. Corki and Jodi go into the woods and find a VERY cute creature known as Cootie, who is far away from her family. The three girls and Caleb help her, But an evil poacher named Raven the Huntress tries to kidnap her. Will the heroes outsmart Raven and try to reunite her with Cootie's family?

Episode 6: "The Man of Wheel": Sun Hi and her friends are going out to see the Turbo-Ton-Tracksters Grand Prix, the biggest racing event of the season! But they witness a cheater named Turbo El Hyperion, who literally starts wrecking the competition by making all of the racer crash out and/or lose control of their cars, and decides to kidnap the three girls. He then challenges Caleb to a race, but Caleb doesn't think he is a good racer. Can he believe in himself, raise his self-esteem, beat Turbo, and save his friends and the race?

Featured Songs: "Super-Speed Stars, Luv 'Em Boys (Superstars Remix)"

Episode 7: "Age of StoleTron": When our heroes are shopping for clothes at the Moneybags Mall, they see an evil android named StoleTron stealing all of the products from the different stores. Can the heroes lift the technological thief's shoplifting once and for all?

Featured Song: "Banded Together"

NOTE: This episode also guest stars James Spader, who did the voice of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron, whom StoleTron is based off of

Episode 8: "Tower Flower Power": When Corki is studying a new type of flower, Caleb comes in with a new Soda he bought called "Super-Sized Soda". However, he accidentally spills his drink with Corki's growth formula, and the flower suddenly mutates into a giant carnivorous plant. Now the Superstars have to find a way to bring this flower down to size before someone gets hurt.

Featured Song: "Growing Love"

Episode 9:"System of a Clown": XO-IQ are visiting the town fair, until they witness a scientist named Denny Wise, who is actually an evil Clown named Krazy Klown, who puts the visitors of the fair under hypnosis via a machine. Sun Hi and her friends try to stop her, but her three friends fall under the hypnotic spell. Can she rescue the people and her friends, and lay the frown on this kooky crazy clown?

Featured Song: "Going Big"

Episode 10:"Phone Alone": When Corki buys a the latest cell phone on the market, the Mango 2K Smartphone, she meets the company's mascot Marco McMango, who is zapped out of the phone, into the real world. However, things seem to go wrong when Sun Mi corrupts Mango with a nasty virus, in which she uses Mango to infect and attack all the other phones, as well as taking Corki's friends hostage into the digital universe. Can she use her knowledge of technology to take down the virus, and save man-kind and phone-kind?

Featured Song: "Dance Like A Machine (Superstars Remix)"

Episode 11: "Super Funky Ball": XO-IQ are invited to a gig in towering, golden shaped mansion hosted by a mysterious billionaire named Steiner Scrooge. However, the party turns out to be a trap set up by Steiner's spoiled, loud-mouthed, and wicked daughter Sally Spends-A-Lot Scrooge, who traps Sun-Hi in a durable, bouncy bubble, and won't free her unless the rest of the band challenge her to a dance competition, against her dancing androids while playing catch, with Sun Hi as the ball! If XO-IQ win, they free Sun-Hi. If they loose, She and Steiner get to buy XO-IQ. Can the friends beat this bad billionaire brat and save their bubbled buddy?

Featured Song: "United (Who We Are)

Episode 12: "The Fandom Menace": When XO-IQ are visiting the biggest event of the year Culture-Con, and want to enter the "Biggest Nerd Ever" contest being hosted their while cosplaying as their favorite comic heroes, they meet a typical pop-culture nerd named Dexter Dezabillion (Or Dexzy for short), who then challenges Corki to a series of challenges for nerds, and terrorizes Culture-Con unless Corki proves herself and wins back her fellow friends, her 3 best ones and her nerd friends. Can she prove herself as a true nerd and save the big event?

Featured Song: "Do It (Superstars Remix)"

NOTE: Mark Hamill, who is best known for Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise, and the Joker in the Dark Knight film series guest stars as Dexter Dezabillion.

Episode 13: "Cat-Napped!": Sun Hi is having trouble sleeping in her bed at Mackendric Prep, and she's feeling really sad and tired the following day. She decides to invest in a cute cat pillow. Little does she know, that the pillow is actually evil and alive, and it then traps Sun Hi and her friends in it's dream world. Can her and the others use their dreams to get themselves out and and stop this fluffy feline forensic?

Featured Song: "Dream Dancers"

Episode 14: "Make it Rock": XO-IQ is performing at their prep school until a snooty Rock-And-Roll loving emo-looking kid named Subwoofer Sam sabotages the show and invites his bandmates, Stark Shred,Wolf Whammy, Paul Punk, Bart Beastie, and Axle Axe. Together, they're the Rock band known as POW-ARR (Short for Power of Worthy Awesome Rock and Roll). They then challenge XO-IQ to a "Battle of The Bands". Will the heroes take back their gig and show these punks how they rock?

Featured Song:

Episode 15: "A Disco Deception": Sun Hi and her friends are hanging out at Club Ry-Rye, and their favorite disco artist named Duke Jivewalker appears. But things don't look as they seem, since he's actually feeling strange, and the Superstars have to investigate.

Featured Song: "Party Tonight (Superstars Remix)"

Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1: "Ice Pops"

It's winter, and XO-IQ are going to perform at a hockey game. However, things start to change when they meet a supervillian named Ice N' Freezy, a scientist who went rogue after a freak ice accident appears, and freezes the whole stadium, and challenges our heroes to a game of hockey. Can the Superstars put the deep freeze on the feisty icy queen?

Featured Song: "The Rules"

Episode 2: "Band Bots": XO-IQ are visiting a robot show called "The Silicon Robo-Con", and they are seeing all of the awesome robots that are in the event. However, Sun-Mi is on their tail, and she unleashes a giant, formidable robot named "Sun-MiTron", and commands it to wreak havoc on the city. Now our heroes must use their robots prepared by Chip and Corki to battle the mechanical menace, and save the day!

Featured Song: "Skillz (Superstars Remix)"

Episode 3: "Hocus Pop-Us": It's Halloween, and XO-IQ dress up in cool costumes. However, at the Halloween, Valerie and her band of bullies accidentally unleash a phantasmagorical ghost known as "Zatch Zuul Zombington III", whom terrorizes the party! Will the Superstars find a way to contain the creepy not-so-gentleman?

Featured Song: "Monster Mash (XO-IQ Remix)"

Episode 4: "Homecoming Havoc": It's the 30th annual Homecoming Football Season season at Mackendrick Prep, and our heroes are having a swell time! However, things don't go smoothly as Valerie sabotages the party with her "FootBall Foot-Bot" mech, and takes Sun-Hi, Corki, and Caleb hostage! Can Jodi challenge and defeat Valerie in a football game of epic proportions?

Episode 5: "Sea You Around": Sun Hi and co. hear a legend about the underwater world of Atlantis, and want to go visit and meet a beautiful princess named Coralle Codfish IV, the queen of the lost city. Little did our heroes know, Sun Mi and her robot "Bolton Le Digger" plan to raid the city and steal all the riches for herself! Can the heroes and Coralle stop the brat and the bot's evil acts?

Featured Song: "Now I Am Here"

Episode 6: "Sun Hi Sick": XO-IQ is excited for Linc's Birthday party, and everyone from Mackendrick Prep will be there! But when Sun-Hi song falls ill to a strange sickness, the rest of the group have to find out and track the source of the dastardly disease. All the while, Jodi is caring for Sun Hi, making sure not to get anyone sick by putting Sun-Hi's room under quarantine, and placing her in a giant plastic bubble.

Episode 7: "Spring Break": When Caleb buys a new pair of shoes from the mail, he bounces around the town uncontrollably, and our heroes must rescue him before anyone (or anything) gets into harm's way.

Episode 8: "Cry-Day": The Carnival is town, and XO-IQ are more than excited for the occasion! But when Sun-Mi makes a ray that causes people to become sad and start crying, Corki must use her hearty power of kindness to help cheer up the people and her buddies and defeat the stuck-up super-villain.

Featured Song: "What Love Is About (Superstars Remix)"

Episode 9: "Fluff N' Stuff: When Corki buys a adorable fluffy creature from a pet shop named "Flufaflopsie", the pet keeps demanding more and more food, until it becomes a destructive, large 80-foot beast! Will our band buddies and her friends get the giant glutton?

Featured Song: "We Doin' It (Superstar Remix)

Episode 10: "Game On": XO-IQ are having fun a the local arcade, until the jealous and sneaky Dexter Dezabillion wants to get rid of the other players to make himself be the champion, and uses his uber tech skills to banish our four heroes into four arcade games: Sun-Hi in "Super Bouncy Bubble Bunny Ball", Caleb in "Cubi-Cool Champs", Corki in "Robot Rascal Rumblers", and Jodi in "Fast-Lane Fighters!" Can the heroes use their skills on their own favorite arcade games and beat the nefarious nerd at his own?

Episode 11: "XO-I2": Sun Hi and company are performing for their their concert at Mackendrick Prep, until four evil robot copies of XO-IQ plan on framing the band. Will our heroes clear their names, bust these bots, and find their creator to turn over to justice?

Featured Song: "How I'm Made"

Episode 12: "Musical Math Masters": Jodi is having trouble at school with math, and Mr. Stark has a secret plan on consulting Sun-Mi for a plan to release an army of Math-Machines and take over OverTune city, and eventually the world. Now The Superstars have to stop them with the power of simple mathematics, and even breaking the fourth wall to save the day!

Featured Song: "Think (Superstars Remix)"

Episode 13: "Watts Up?": When Mr. Stark uses a machine to steal the city's electrical power, our heroes must stop him. But there's one problem: Jodi is actually afraid of the dark! Now they have to stop Stark and help out Jodi too.

Episode 14: "The Power Inside": Valerie uses a mech she borrowed from Sun-Mi to steal XO-IQ's powers to make an army of robots to conquer the world. Now the Superstars must save the day - By using the powers of resourcefulness and their smarts to defeat the two villains and get their powers back.

Featured Song: "How I'm Made"

Episode 15: "Four Superstars and a Baby": When the Superstars rescue a baby from spaghetti flood, they must figure out who the baby belongs to whilst taking care of it. Will our heroes be super, even on babysitting duty that is?

Episode 16: "Fight At The Museum": The four friends are taking a trip to the OverTune Museum of Legendary Ancient Objects of Legends, they discover Dexter Dezabillion using an ancient artifact to unleash an ancient army of Moon Wolves, and later that night, he does it. Will the four superheroes find a way to send the bad beasties back to their home world?

Episode 17: Romance Race: It's Valentine's Day, and love is literally in the air; The Mackendrick Prep dance is tonight, and Caleb wishes to fall in love with Heather again. However, another girl named Ina Irresistible captures Heather in a heart-shaped bubble, with Caleb (Who goes on the mission alone) going after her to rescue Heather and show Ina what true love is all about.

Episode 18: "Superhero Security Super-Snooper": Linc is curious about who the Superstars are, and plans to investigate by raiding the home and HQ of the Superstars. Much to our heroes' surprise, Linc will go at any lengths to expose them, so they have to stop him at any cost, comedy and slapstick ensue.

Episode 19: Tiny Trouble": Corki designs a machine that can alter the size of any object, such as an eraser, a purse, and even an egg-salad sandwich. Suddenly, the machine goes haywire, and the heroes have to find a way to get themselves back to normal... While avoiding being squished the process.

(I'm yet to add more episodes soon!)

DVD Release
The 3 seasons of the show were released on DVD separately by Shout! Factory. The entire show on DVD with all the seasons was released on June 20, 2019 as Make It Pop: Superstars: The Complete Series.

Trivia

 * The cute character designs for the human characters resembles that of Team Umizoomi's; The characters are super deformed, have the same characters all have dotted black eyes and white pupils and given the appearance of young kids, just like the actual TU show.
 * The main Make it Pop theme in this show is now remixed, featuring dubstep-like beats, complete with a fanfare to incorporate it, keeping in tune (No pun intended) with the superhero motif of the show.