Xavier: Renegade Angel
American animated television series
Xavier: Renegade Angel is an American adult animated black comedy television series created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. It was produced by PFFR Productions, producers of Wonder Showzen, with computer animation provided by Cinematico. It premiered on November 1, 2007, on the Adult Swim website and November 4, 2007, on Adult Swim.
Xavier features an elaborate and nonlinear plot following the musings of an itinerant humanoid pseudo-shaman named Xavier. The show is known for its use of ideologically critical dark comedy as well as surrealist and absurdist humor presented through a psychedelic and satirically New Age lens. The program is also normally rated TV MA for intense, graphic, often bloody violence, as well as strong sexual content, use of racially/ethnically offensive language, and grotesque depictions in a comedic manner.
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Xavier (voiced by Vernon Chatman) is a well-meaning yet naïve and oblivious faun-like shaman wanderer with delusions of grandeur. Xavier often brings destruction to his environment and those around him in his attempts to right what he sees as wrong or help others with their problems. Xavier's left hand is a snake from the elbow downwards; it usually acts like an ordinary hand, but in the episodes "The 6th Teat of Good Intentions" and "El Tornadador", it appears to possess its own consciousness and speaks to Xavier directly. Xavier also has brown fur, a bird-like beak in place of a nose, and ocular heterochromia, having one brown eye and one blue.
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