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- Aeon Flux: (esp. 'Season Three' episodes) Contains many tenets and explorations important to PBX. "That which does not kill us, makes us stranger."
- Boogiepop Phantom: A cohesive story told from a different person's perspective every episode. The character starring in each episode appears briefly in the episode previous, making for an interesting guessing game. Made by the creators of Lain.
- [Fraggle Rock]: Very Charm. Messages about love and friendship, the meaning of life, and interesting symbiosis. The trash heap has spoken!
- Futurama: Has enough inhuman and posthuman concept-as-jokes crammed into it to qualify. Also a story of a 20th-century boy trying to adapt to culture a thousand years advanced. Lampoons any science-fiction concepts it gets its tentacles on.
- Galaxy High School: Local boy gets transferred to an interstellar high school complex as an exchange student. All your typical social stereotypes are here, but with bodies built to match their personalities.
- [Ghost in the Shell (Stand Alone Complex)]: Addresses many issues occuring between modern times and the post-scarcity/post-human setting of PBX.
- [Invader Zim]: Delightfully hateful and antisocial -- full of wonderful freaks and tongue-in-cheek alien technology. Essential reference for any bumbling megalomaniacs.
- [Kidd Video]: "We look like cartoons!" Teen rockers + cartoon world = Charm!
- Lexx, (esp. eps. 1-4): lots of mental/physical transformation, cynical politics, and imaginative biotech
- [Max Headroom]:
- [The Maxx]: (I wasn't aware that this comic ever made it to TV. Could someone give a write-up for it? - Echo) (It was nearly verbatim from the comics, though it ended with additional enigmatic scenes with the ultimate 'fate' of the main character. - Jeremy)
- Moon Dreamers: takes place in a futuristic intricate shiny colorful plastic city in the stars, which should be massive inspiration for some Charmwarp architecture.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Huge Strange influence for Hydra. Teen angst with interesting manifestations and organic monster-robots. Degenerates into an incoherent (not in a good sense) story with interesting imagery.
- Phantom 2040: Same design lead as Aeon Flux. Also, he was responsible for Alexander the Conqueror, which I haven't seen, but it sounds right up our alley... (Note on Alexander: Is it ever.. ~[[cPThe Prisoner</i>: a gripping dramatic manual of non-violent psych warfare tactics and how to resist them
- Paranoia Agent: An unusual assault upon the creator of a well-loved cartoon character evolves into a tale of art-and-meme warfare in the purest post-modern sense. Same creator as Boogiepop Phantom.
- The Prisoner: a gripping dramatic manual of non-violent psych warfare tactics and how to resist them
- Project GeeKeR: GeeKeR is effectively a Charmwarp denizen (Fool archetype) surviving in a Downwarp world, complete with urban grunge, cyberpunk, and mutant anthro animals. A character of note is Larry, an intelligent virus, although not as intimidating as Strange. The entire cartoon series is archived online at http://www.projectgeeker.org/
- [ReBoot]: Life, love, and death inside a computer.
- [Red Dwarf]: Single human survivor tries to find meaning (and curries) in the vast post-human universe accompanied by a cat-humanoid and a hologram of his dead (but no less annoying) bunkmate. Later episodes are more adventure sci-fi oriented.
- Secret Adventures of Jules Verne:
- [Serial Experiments Lain]: A story about memory and universal power, once you get down to it.
- [Twin Peaks]: Who killed Laura Palmer?