Part 35: B.R.O.F.I.S.T.

A little late, but I only just remembered something from 20 years ago. I was on the second leg of my term abroad in Spain, and had just moved to Valencia. There was a local Catalan-language station that would air dubs of all sorts of cartoons (my intro to Dragon Ball), and there was one that really stood out.

It was called B.R.O.F.I.S.T. (Badass Recon Outfit, First Insertion Strike Team), and near as I could tell, it was a mishash of at least three different cartoons. I recognized vehicles designs from Spiral Zone, and Wheeled Warriors, but the characters all seemed to be original characters drawn and animated solely for the show. Think MMPR, or the second "season" of Robotech...only worse.

I bring this up because nothing in the little I could understand (my Spanish was good, but my Catalan was non-existent) gave me any reason to think the show was in anyway related to SnakeFist - except for the live-action intro for every episode that was hosted by a f-list actor dressed to the t like actor in the original SnakeFist. He was never referred to by name, and only ever talked about the characters in B.R.O.F.I.S.T. as his "compatriots", or "fellow warriors".

It was weird. It was terrible. It had nothing to recommend it, but it was a cartoon, and 19 year old me was a bit of an idiot.