| rdfs:comment | - A Merchandise-Driven Animated Show from 1987, Spiral Zone has an unusually dark storyline for an 80s action cartoon, complete with nods to the After the End and Zombie Apocalypse genres. Exty Years From Now (specifically, the far-flung future of 2007), a Mad Scientist-cum-Diabolical Mastermind code-named Overlord covers much of the planet with his Spiral Zone, a dense, fog-like atmosphere which envelops about half the Earth in a spiral pattern. Inside the Zone, any unprotected person becomes a yellow-eyed, disfigured "Zoner" with no free will. Overlord and his enforcers, a motley crew of hardened criminals called the Black Widows, effectively control the minds of millions of Zoners, and they won't stop until they've enslaved the entire world.
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| abstract | - A Merchandise-Driven Animated Show from 1987, Spiral Zone has an unusually dark storyline for an 80s action cartoon, complete with nods to the After the End and Zombie Apocalypse genres. Exty Years From Now (specifically, the far-flung future of 2007), a Mad Scientist-cum-Diabolical Mastermind code-named Overlord covers much of the planet with his Spiral Zone, a dense, fog-like atmosphere which envelops about half the Earth in a spiral pattern. Inside the Zone, any unprotected person becomes a yellow-eyed, disfigured "Zoner" with no free will. Overlord and his enforcers, a motley crew of hardened criminals called the Black Widows, effectively control the minds of millions of Zoners, and they won't stop until they've enslaved the entire world. The heroes of this bleak future are the Zone Riders, an elite team of "Earth's most powerful soldiers" led by Colonel Dirk Courage. The Zone Riders travel the world, engaging Overlord and the Black Widows in battle, destroying their existing Zone Generators (thus automatically freeing every Zoner in the vicinity), and trying to prevent them from conquering any more territory. However, both sides are waging a desperate war of attrition, with no end in sight. Most notable nowadays for having a theme song that freakin' kicks.
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