Sci-Fi Superhero Series Predicted The Future In The Wildest Ways

From the egregiously hyperbolic political climate we live in to early nods toward Kanye West’s present-day fall from grace, Frisky Dingo is an all-knowing crystal ball of pop-culture predictions that was way ahead of its time. 

The first season of Frisky Dingo introduces us to Killface, a muscular, talon-toed, 500-pound humanoid of unknown origin.

Functioning as the main protagonist of the series, Killface builds a doomsday device called the Annihilatrix. But since he spent $20 billion designing and building the rocket that’s supposed to propel Earth into the sun, he can’t afford the necessary marketing expenses required to announce his wrath to the world.

The primary antagonist in Frisky Dingo, Xander Crews, is a billionaire tycoon and playboy who bears a striking resemblance to Archer’s Sterling Archer (both series are Adam Reed inventions).

Xander Crews fights crime under the alias Awesome X with the help of his mech suit-wearing henchmen, the Xtacles. He also wants to market the Awesome X brand to the public so he can sell a line of action figures under the Crews Enterprises umbrella.

Since Crews needs a nemesis for his line of toys, he relentlessly antagonizes Killface so he can use his likeness as a supervillain.

While season 1 of Frisky Dingo establishes its primary and secondary characters, season 2 is where the predictions really pop off. 

When the Annihilatrix gets activated at the end of season 1, Killface’s plan for world domination backfires. Instead of propelling Earth directly into the sun, the rocket thrusts Earth three feet further away from the sun and effectively eliminates the threat of global warming.

At this point in Frisky Dingo, Killface uses his newfound adoration among the environmentalist crowd to run against Xander Crews in the 2008 presidential election. 

The presidential debates in Frisky Dingo’s second season are rife with commercialism and hyperbole and hosted at the Haggar Pants arena to drive the point home.

The debates lean heavily into controversial single-issue voter concerns like climate change, abortion, separation of church and state, and same-sex marriage.

Like the 2016 election, which we’re still recovering from in many ways, the sensationalist news coverage plays out more like an episode of WWE Monday Night RAW than an avenue for objective political discussion. 

Perhaps the most glaring instance of prophetic storytelling in Frisky Dingo comes in the form of Killface’s running mate, Taqu’il.

Taqu’il was introduced in season 1 as a global hip-hop, movie, and TV star who can do no wrong. But his audience quickly turned on him after he releases his controversial concept album, The Ballocaust, which blends basketball with National Socialism and antisemitic imagery. 

Unless Adam Reed had some prior knowledge about what would lead to Kanye West’s recent controversies when he co-created Frisky Dingo in 2006, we have to assume that he was simply shooting from the hip for the sake of satire.

Considering that the series concluded 15 years ago, you can’t help but be impressed by the amount of foresight found in Frisky Dingo throughout its 25-episode run. 

The most impressive part about Frisky Dingo is that you can watch the entire series from start to finish in less than five hours. Given the show’s pacing, we only touched upon a couple of instances of Simpsons-level predictions found within its storytelling.

If you’re interested in watching Frisky Dingo predict the future with a startling degree of accuracy, you can stream the series on Apple TV+ and see for yourself.