The first trailer for the Golden Axe animated series has been released.
As first posted by Entertainment Weekly, the trailer for the show – which is based on the Sega video game series – reveals that it will start streaming on Paramount+ on September 16.
It also shows that the show is aiming for a comical, satirical take on the fantasy genre and video games, with a number of instances of ‘meta’ humour poking fun at the medium.
“We’re going to do what we do best,” heroine Tyris Flare says at one point in the trailer. “Face a series of progressively harder enemies until we have a big final battle with Death Adder. And then we kill him for good.”
Later in the trailer, another character is heard shouting at a large enemy: “You better not be another mini-boss, you better be the final one.”
The show was co-created by Mike McMahan, best known as the creator of Star Trek: Lower Decks and Solar Opposites. He was joined by Joe Chandler, who worked on American Dad and the Napoleon Dynamite animated series.
It stars Liam McIntyre (Spartacus: Vengeance), Matthew Rhys (The Americans) and Lisa Gilroy (Twisted Metal) as the game’s initial cast of playable heroes, Ax Battler, Gilius Thunderhead and Tyrus Flare.
They’re now joined by comedy sidekick Hampton Squib (Community’s Danny Pudi), described as “a naïve, inexperienced first-time adventurer who has dreamt of questing his entire life”.
When the show was officially announced in April 2024, it was set to air on Comedy Central. It will now instead premiere on Paramount+ on September 16.
