Detective Vigilant (TV series)

Detective Vigilant (alternatively called Paramount's Detective Vigilant or Detective Vigilant: The Animated Series) is an American animated action-adventure comedy superhero slice-of-life television series created by Xavier Shaquille alongside Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle based on the Paramount Pictures feature film of the same name. Following the events of the film, the title character is tasked with juggling his crime-fighting career and his normal everyday life.

After production wrapped on the preceded film, Shaquille went to work on the series and recruited Schooley and McCorkle to develop the series after their on Pixar's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Disney's Kim Possible, and DreamWorks Animation/Nickelodeon's The Penguins of Madagascar. Like the film, it consists of self-referential humor while it has a few moments of black comedy spread around. The series was produced by Paramount Television Studios, Miramax Animation, Troublemaker Studios, and Smashup Productions. It is also the first Paramount animated series since The Itsy Bitsy Spider (1993–1996).

The series premiered on Paramount Global's new television network Paramount Kids on April 13, 2027 and ended on September 7, 2029, after 59 episodes and three seasons. The series received critical acclaim for its writing, self-referential humor, animation, and character development throughout; some critics and viewers found it more superior to the film.

Characters

 * Thomas Travis / Detective Vigilant (voiced by Xavier Shaquille) is an easy-going young adult who is the adopted son of his late mother Jamie. He had dawned the alter-ego Detective Vigilant to avenge his mother and find her killer; he retains his alter-ego for the sake of keeping her mother's legacy in keeping Northvile safe. When fighting crime, he relies on his knowledge of pop-culture to help him on his crime-fighting sprees and has himself suited up in his mother's spare bullet-proof vests as a matter of shielding his body from gunshots and tasing. He currently works part-time at Northvile's pizzeria in order to pay for his apartment.
 * Rebecca "Rebb" Ophelia (voiced by Isabella Merced) is Thomas' old girlfriend from high school before she moved out of town with her family; as shown in the film's immediate short, Found Job and Lost Time, she moved out of her parents' house her 18th birthday and moved next door to his apartment. Thomas has never told her his alter-ego, nor has she found out yet until the second season.
 * Caren Kaplin (voiced by Sarah-Nicole Robles) is Thomas' roommate and now best-friend after their alliance in the first film. Since discovering his identity in the first film, she has become his ally; when Thomas roams the streets as Vigilant, Caren serves as his chauffeur and will help him remotely through walkie-talkies and nany-cams.
 * Jamie Jean Travis (Deedee Magno-Hall) Thomas' late mother who was part of the Northvile Police Department as detective. Residing in the afterlife, she provides Thomas' with helpful advice when it comes to his crime-fighting.

Animation
Shaquille wanted to make his series distant from the modern animated series that had animation that was "fast-paced"; he wanted to have the animation for his series match the movement akin to the likes of Kim Possible and Cartoon Network's The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, certain animated series from the early to mid-2000s.