Starter Squad - Episodes 1-10

The starter Pokemon rebel against humanity and decide to evolve themselves.

0:00 - Ep 1: Choose A Starter
1:38 - Ep 2: A Wild Encounter
3:30 - Ep 3: Showdown At Viridian
6:55 - Ep 4: The Caterpie Ambush
11:11 - Ep 5: Charmander Gets Punched in the Face
18:07 - Ep 6: The Forest King
24:41 - Ep 7: Fight Fire With Fire
33:57 - Ep 8: Ooo Look At Me I'm a Big Scary Ghost
49:32 - Ep 9: The Lizard Slayer
1:06:11 - Ep.10: Legend of Blue Shell Man Guy

"Starter Squad" is a Pokemon parody series created by Pierce Shipp (Shippiddge)

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--- Video Credits ---

Writing/Directing/Animation/Editing:

Voice Acting:
Jill Harris as Caterpie & May
Marissa Lenti as Cooltrainer Gaven & Whiskers
Mick Lauer (RicePirate) as Hitmonchan
Reagen "Rev" Murdock as Flareon
Arón Keyser (PrimatePunk) as Sandshrew
Lyle Rath as Haunter, Gastly, & Golbat
Dave Capdevielle as Stool and Tombstones
Jordan Bonn as Turtwig

Model Porting:
RandomTalkingBush
ApocHedgie

Additonal Modeling:
Pierce Shipp (Shippiddge)
Soldier
Nick Havas
Background assets by Valve
Pokemon map assets by Plasma
Additional assets by Barbell

Animation Assistance:

Sound Design:
Pierce Shipp (Shippiddge)
Travis Thomas

Music:
Pokemon Red/Blue OST
Ori Schlesinger

Director of Photography (Ep8):
SoulBruthaNumbuh3

Intro Art (Ep9):

Cave Drawing (Ep9):
Arón Keyser

Story (Ep9):
Pierce Shipp
Arón Keyser
Josh Rubin

Animation (Ep9):
Pierce Shipp
Denis Cera
Johan Tri Handoyo
Omar Pico

Animation (Ep10):
Pierce Shipp
Denis Cera

3D Modeling & Texturing (Ep10):
Lance Lai
Pierce Shipp
Srecko Micic
Fernan R Napoles
Rahul Advani

Snow & Water Simulation (Ep10):
Alfred Tsaizer

Visual Effects (Ep10):
Pierce Shipp
PBnFlash

Additional Rigging:
Denis Cera

Writing Assistance:
Matt Vargas
Kyle Suter
DruoxTheShredder
SmashingVeteran
Lyle Rath
Aron Keyser
Dave Capdevielle
Zee Rubin

Additional Sound:
Pokemon Red/Blue Original Soundtrack
Valve

Tools used:
Source Filmmaker
Blender
Hammer
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere

Pokemon is Copyright Gamefreak, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company

[Shippiddge]

With a 1.5 hour runtime, I can now confidently state that Starter Squad is more than half complete. Two episodes to go.

Starter Squad: Episode 11 is currently in production. I'm not yet confident enough to announce a release date, but it features a longer runtime than Episode 10 and contains a few really ambitious scenes. Thank you in advance for your patience and thank you for watching.

[jackcarraway]

What started as a parody became one of the darkest, most thought provoking and emotional series ever.

[Argent_Void]

I love how this went from a simple parody to a full-fledged series

[friedchicken]

why is this series actually insanely well-written

[BlueShinyBowser]

The voice actors, the animators, the plot. I don’t think there’s anyone who is so impatient but we all love the series!

[kingbash]

I like how a parody series that started off as one-off joke has one of the most genuinely horrifying depictions of missingno to date.

[freb_]

This went from a silly parody to an amazing story.
No regrets in following this series for almost 10 years now.

[P.A.L.]

Charmander is unironically an amazingly written character

[nathangamble]

Episode 1: comedy parody
Episode 10: death. guilt. trauma.

[SaberAspirations]

I'll miss Charmander, but I like the amount of character development Squirtle got from the war and all that.

[johnwickwinchester]

From a simple parody into A God of War Pokémon series. Awesome!

[jaysonpereira]

1:59 a whole war started because of this little guy 💀

[D-s-M]

Watching this series since it started is single handedly one of the best decisions I've ever made.

[_thedarkmatter_]

1:16:36 "A true friend doesn't care if he's actually your friend. Some of my closest friends in the world have been my greatest enemies, and I never even talked to them."

Inspiring

[spursmanyessireee]

1:05:10 "you were always in this for yourself charmander!" THEN WHY DID HE COME TO SAVE YOU?!?!?!?

[pinkducklett]

The way that one of the best written series of all time came from what seemed like a one-off skit blows my mind. The way the most recent episodes gets my blood pumping is something that no other piece of media is able to elicit from me. Could not be more hyped for the final two episodes, I know they're going to be amazing.

[ripsterseeker]

Take as much time as you need for Episode Eleven. We’ll be here supporting you, and the series itself. Good night, and good luck.

[Bradyshade]

people who miss Charmander and want Charmander back
👇

[EnjoyerOfCats]

Spoiler Free:

I really like how the series is going. The writing is very good, and I really can’t wait for the next episode to see further development of characters.

[WellToastedBagel]

I get at the end of the day, Squirtle's conflict with where his agreeable nature lead him, as well as how to become an effective leader is far more interesting then Charmander finally learning how to be a decent person. But man, I do miss his presence in the story. His provocative and blunt nature was very interesting to watch play out over the series. It's too bad he never got to become the Charizard he was meant to be.