Non Canadians are welcome to answer if youve seen any of these! I considered not putting TDI on as it has a high chance of winning but I wanted to put shows I remembered watching a lot of so....
Here's two interesting facts about these Marathon shows if anyone remembers them along with a just as interesting bonus one that is somewhat related:
According to the co-creators of all three —
• Martin Mystery, Totally Spies and The Amazing Spiez! are all set in the same universe as each other while Team Galaxy is simply just a show that exists in their universe.
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• M.O.M.'s real name is Olivia Lombard and she's Martin's stepmother, Gerard's second wife and Diana's mother. She just had that part of her family's memory erased so it doesn't get in the way of running the Center and kept in stasis to restore one day.
As for the bonus one, when asked if there's anything else set in what they jokingly called the "Marathon Universe", they replied with different types of movies and shows that while not created by them do feel that they could be a part of it as they both A). show the different sides and viewpoints to this world and B). have heroic leads that are strong in their own different ways....
what if doctor who actually did something with that blank period between 'the runaway bride' and 'smith and jones.' it always bothered me that there was no real solution to the whole 'the doctor isn't always here' thing. unit is too militaristic. torchwood is torchwood.
so what if during that blank period, the doctor created his own organisation, one he could trust. like woohp from totally spies with a holding facility or the the centre from martin mystery with the alien stuff. that would have been so cool.
Before its cancellation, plans for a fourth and potentially final season of Martin Mystery was in the works from Marathon Media and years later, they were eventually leaked out and later confirmed to be true from the creators:
• Season 4 in a change of pace, would've been serialized by having stories that would span multiple episodes and make mini-arcs with them comparing it to the fifth and final season of Totally Spies!, another show of theirs.
• In one of the mini-arcs, we would have saw the return of the Gatekeeper who was last seen in the Season 2 finale which ended on a cliffhanger with him infiltrating the Center with the storyline picking that up with Martin and Billy uncovering it in a conspiracy within the Center itself.
• Others that would've happened were Jenni and returning characters Michelle Dubois, Darla and Kaitlin becoming new agents for the Center, an episode set in Chinatown that would've been an homage to John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China, creatures such as the Jersey Devil, mermaids that steal souls and the Ninki Nanka were to be included but in their own different ways, it was going to be revealed that the Center was founded by the first President Of The United States themselves, George Washington himself.
• A new character that would've been introduced and be added to the main cast is Troy — a british gymnast who died of a broken neck back in the 80s but is accidentally brought back to life by Diana and is now a corpse without half of his body and a snapped neck that is has to use duc tape to keep said head up. No, seriously.
• Now one major storyline that would've changed the show and recontextualize it is that while Martin figures it all out by himself, Diana discovers that M.O.M. is in fact her mother and his step-mother. The latter is already on thin ice and working her way to the top with the help of Martin after the Octavia Paine incident but at the end of one of the mini-arcs, Diana discovers this to her shock, disbelief and horror, only be immediately "caught" and kidnapped by M.O.M. who appears right behind her out of the shadows in her room. M.O.M. reveals that she wiped her family's memories of her and has kept them in stasis in order to keep their relationship from interfering with her role as head of the Center, leading to more of M.O.M.'s character being fleshed out which shows her as a strict and morally grey but loving and caring woman who will equally do anything to keep the Center afloat and anything to keep her family safe to which she's called out on by Diana for all of the things that she's been through and all of the things that's happened to her, leading M.O.M. to question herself. To show what kind of drama we're dealing with and were to be dealing with, an episode would've ended with just M.O.M. and Diana driving in a car with the former driving and the latter sitting next to her, Diana apologizes for everything that has just happened and M.O.M. says she know she is and that she's her daughter and nothing will ever change that, she'll always love and care for her no matter what and nothing will ever change that as well but from this point forward to she don't know when, her trust is something Diana is going to have to earn back. Diana hangs her head down in shame as M.O.M. drives off emotionless.
Oh, and M.O.M.'s real name is revealed to be Olivia Lombard.