Think of a piece of media aimed at adults whose content is all mature and not at all suited for younger audiences

Think of a piece of media aimed at adults whose content is all mature and not at all suited for younger audiences.
You now have to make it into a cartoon for kids.

I once read a cogent explanation for this; yes, the movies were R-rated and hence not for kids, but the advertisements would still reach children and excite them on the basic concept (robot policeman, space adventures, etc.) and so to tap that market they'd make a kiddie version of the R-rated movie. It's not a weird idea at all.

Evil Dead/Army of Darkness is now a Scooby Doo esque show about Ash Williams going to spooky places all across America with his sidekick talking lizard Elie. He has the robotic arm of AoD instead of his iconic chainsaw hand and shoots lasers out of his boomstick 4000. It's monster of the week and the episodes usually end with him trapping the monsters inside his Necronomicon Ex Mortis, who can also talk and really loves pizza.

>One number away from 666.
So close.

The plot revolves around leather face and his brother chop top living in a dysfunctional family. They get avoided by the neighbors because of their famous mystery meat chili, but try their best to aft like civilized well rounded members of society, much to their failure

>Predator
A Yautja comes across a young feral girl lost in the jungle. He tries to ignore her, but she keeps following it and getting in the way of his hunting. Eventually the girl is found and taken back to human civilization, but the Yautja had already grown kind of attached to her.
So he follows her around throughout her daily life, being the big angry ghost dad she never had. They get in constant trouble from encounters with a government agency designed to capture alien menaces, as well as other aliens and Yautjas. All while dealing with the girl's problems with adapting to a normal life, alongside normal teenager issues.

Darkest Dungeon is now a cartoon where the heroes defend The Hamlet from the fiends sent by The Heart while dwelling into the dungeons in the vein of finding ways to disperse the darkness that surrounds them. Reygauld acts as the main character, a hero who, while foolish and selfish at times, always maintain his heroic nature, his best friend, Dismas is his wise-cracking sidekick who say way too many bad puns, especially when fighting those skeletons. The heroes will read the memoirs written by the Ancestor, which contain clues on defeating the beast of the week. The Ancestor will be portrayed as a goofball who unintentionally brings Armageddon ever so closer via his poorly thought-out get-rich schemes.

Ditch the book being a character and this sounds like a cool '90s action carton. A little like Mighty Max.

>Always Sunny in Philadelphia
A little help?

>Three kids are joined together by a stereotypically wacky mad scientist. Hilarity ensues.

>the episodes usually end with him trapping the monsters inside his Necronomicon Ex Mortis, who can also talk and really loves pizza.
This sounds so genuine. He's voiced by Howard Morris.

this would be like Catdog but with humans.

>Gremlins
A Real Ghostbusters inspired Monster of the Week show. Gizmo mistakenly spawns a new version of Stripe, who turns into a Gremlin and escape. Every episode, Billy and Gizmo hunt him down and along the way, have to fight different kinds of Gremlins spawned by Stripe, similar to the mutants in Gremlins 2.

Or alternatively, just a series of shorts about rouge Gremlins fucking around with whatever they get their hands on. Think a silent Looney Tunes short.

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A weird but inventive kid named Florian and his brave guerilla friends always find ways to sabotage the plans of the bumbling Germans and make the wacky monocle-wearing Gruppenführer mad! But the cute village girl he fancies doesn't believe Florian's stories, and all of his attempts to prove himself fail in contrived but hilarious ways! There's also a talking cow.

There were tons of cartoons in the 80's that were made from R rated movies.

Many of those movies also had toylines too

Pulp Fiction is now a series about the traveling gang consisting of Tough-talking Jules, cowardly Vincent, The tech genius Mia, the muscle Butch, and Jimmy the talking robot pal as they travel around trying to stop the evil Deadly Vipers from taking over the world. The Vipers led by the Wolf want to take the other half of the Ch'lakan crystal which Vincent keeps safe in a briefcase.

They are sent on missions each week from their leader Marcellus who tells them to go stop evil Deadly Viper plots like kidnapping scientists, taking over small towns, or turning people of a neighborhood into snake soldiers with toxic waste. Meanwhile the Wolf stops at nothing to get the other half of the Ch'laken crystal so he can rule the world.

Strong together, united forever
They're the best of friends
But when troubles about, you'd best watch out

hardcore henry

Starship Troopers

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An odd example as the series had the original novel to look to whereas the film wasn't interested in a real adaptation.

Caligula, The Emperor's New School

Caligula has to graduate from middle school.

It had an animated series for kids though.