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Final Space is an adult animated comedy starring Fred Armisen, David Tennant, Ron Perlman, Olan Rogers, Stephen Yeung, and Tom Kenny. Gary Goodspeed is a criminal who bursts into a bar and disguises himself as an Infinity Guard member so he can have a romantic chance with Quinn Airgone, an intelligent Infinity Guard officer. However, when Gary is called to action, he destroys several Infinity Guard ships and is sent onboard a prison ship to work on a satellite, his only companions being the ship A.I. Hue, the crazed repair robots the Sames, and his infuriating Insanity Avoidance Robot KVN. Five years later and nearing the end of his sentence, Gary meets an adorable little Planet Killer he names Mooncake and a Ventraxian bounty hunter named Avocato. Unfortunately, a tyrant known only as the Lord Commander is after Mooncake so he can unlock Final Space and release the Titans to destroy the universe. Can they keep Mooncake away from him? ...Maybe?
The series premiered on TBS on February 26th 2018 before it Channel Hopped to Adult Swim for its next two seasons, which aired on June 24th 2019 and March 20th 2021, respectively.
On September 10th 2021 however, series creator Olan Rogers announced that, due to the then impending Warner Bros. Discovery merger, the series had been cancelled. A year later, Rogers rubbed salt into the wound when he revealed that, after the show burnt through its international distribution contract on Netflix, it would be written off as a loss for tax purposes by Warner Bros. Discovery and, as a result, would not be distributed on any streaming platform or released on home video. Though Rogers has said that he is trying to raise enough money and interest for one last episode to put a bow on the whole saga, even encouraging people to pirate the show to generate interest in it.
- Always a Bigger Fish: The Titans are introduced as a god-like race, akin to the Celestials of Marvel Comics. But they were created by the Arachnitects. And they were created by the Beings of Unimaginable Light.
- Anyone Can Die: Characters are killed off left and right, no matter how major they are.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Gary is absolutely insane.
- Dead Star Walking: Conan O'Brian's character is killed when the breach destroys his ship and he is sucked out into space
- The Dragon: Kern.
- The Ditz: Triblore.
- Go Mad From the Isolation: Five years on the prison ship have left Gary a friendly lunatic.
- Jerkass:
- The Lord Commander is an utter dick.
- Superior Stone.
- Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Gary and KVN.
- Killed Off for Real: Avocato is killed taking the brunt of a bomb for the team, while KVN and possibly Gary are killed in the fight with the Lord Commander at the end of the first season.
- Nice Guy: Mooncake.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Subverted. Triblore is leader of the resistance, but is still The Ditz.
- Only Sane Man:
- Subverted by Quinn, who despite being one of the few competent Infinity Guards, but also beat up Gary for calling her nicknames and refuses to admit that the Infinity Guard is working with Lord Commander, something so obvious that Gary saw it coming.
- Avocato plays this straighter, often playing the Straight Man to Gary.