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Description Just what it sounds like. Uploading this here so I can link people I'm doing requests from to it without them worrying about mistrustful links that lead offsite. Also made it for my own use, so I can stop rewatching the episodes every time I need to draw these guys. I figure I can't be the only whose annoyed there's no immediate results when you search for them. :3


Originally was just going to be a Francis sheet, but if you wanna know how to draw older of a more detailed Francis, Epsilon would be a great help as far as detailed facial shape goes. Then I thought 'man, what if they wanna draw them actually doing something? They need their gadgets!'

I might expand this later by adding on the other Graymen, and their little pod robot tentacle things, and maybe requests if someone can think of something I didn't cover.

Warning: These are taken directly from screen caps, so it's pretty massive as a download. 9mb. Download if you want to see the full detailed pictures. Fullview still shrinks it a LOT. Took about 2 hours.

AGAIN, IN CAPS:
I DO NOT TAKE CREDIT FOR ANY OF THESE IMAGES, CHARACTERS, ETC. I JUST PUT THESE IMAGES TOGETHER AS A RESOURCE FOR FAN ARTISTS. IMAGES PROPERTY OF CARTOON NETWORK.

ABOUT FRANCIS AND EPSILON:
"Good guys, bad guys, you always know their next move. Victory goes to the gray men in the middle because you never know how we'll surprise you." -
Francis

He's a young agent that works with his father, who work for an ambiguous organization only referred to as "our people." Back story for Epsilon is he worked with the good guys of the show to help recover an ancient relic from a bad guy, but had been to the good guys best knowledge retired. They were shocked to see him when they save him from being torn apart by atmospheric jelly fish after his ship is disabled. Epsilon introduces his son, Francis, who is aloofly playing a video game and has an mildly electrified self defense force field the good guy shocks himself on. When he asks why Francis doesn't turn it off, Francis remarks "Then you might actually TOUCH me." The good guys react with mingling of apprehension and outright disgust by their expressions, then force their kid Zak into trying to socialize with Francis.

Another remarkable moment is when the good guy, Zak, tries to calm down and control the jelly fish by getting into the mind of one, the others in the room turn on it and start trying to tear it apart. Zak remarks "You guys are just sick." Francis pithily observes while playing his game "Still, you've got to admire their dedication."

It turns out eventually it was all a cover, Francis isn't a shy child but a rather hardened with secret agent training, and their ship WAS downed because they're using a mind control signal on the atmospheric jelly fish that is driving them insane. The signal Francis is controlling via his video game. They want to weaponize the jelly fish for a living air defense system, and Francis forces the good guy into helping him capture one for analysis after knocking him off the wing of an air ship. After his request is fulfilled, he naturally drops him to plummet towards the ground miles below, but also gives the hero back his grappling hook so he can save himself.

In a second episode, Francis and Epsilon's people try to forcibly recruit the super powered good guy into a training camp. Francis backs down in the end and let's Zak escape after a 'you are you and no one can tell you how to live life' speech. Whether this is because he was sincerely moved by Zak's words, or because Zak had a komodo dragon, a giant cat monkey, and a massive water monster on his side and Francis was alone is unclear.


other tidbits:
Francis is microchipped, as Epsilon can track his location at all times via a display in his cybernetic arm.
They have attack robots.
They have blasting sonic collars.
Epsilon's regular team contains around 5 agents. Him, Francis, A woman, a white guy, a black guy.
Francis and Epsilon are both one of many, many serial clones of an agent discovered over 100 years ago. Notice this means they had cloning technology before the 1980s, so it's likely they're more technologically advanced than even the Secret Scientists. this may account for Francis's instance that Zak is stupid, ignorant, etc.
Epsilon also thinks the Saturdays are idiots, though, ("And you named the komodo dragon komodo. How...inventive." ) so it might just be they're assholes.
Francis is jealous Zak has parents. ("While mommy cooks you breakfast and daddy helps you pick out which uniformed shirt to wear!" )
Although Epsilon was one of the surviving secret scientists who raided the big bag villain's mansion to recover the ancient relic, his people were mysteriously absent during the earth shaking finale of the show. This means he probably had motives besides just saving the world when he did help out. Maybe Argost didn't get all of those Scientists...
They have a space station.
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Comments: 24

SonicTailsBros4ever [2012-07-07 23:13:21 +0000 UTC]

That's so cool! I didn't completely realize he was jealous of Zak's parents! That's so sad! Absolutely awesome work! Love this! Rock on! This was a wonderful thing for you to do! Thank you! Francis is so awesome! *U*

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RetroOutro In reply to SonicTailsBros4ever [2012-07-09 22:09:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!~ It's really for my own benefit, for art trades! X3

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Ookamiotokoo [2012-06-27 16:38:53 +0000 UTC]

Im trying to think of a position.. And the only thing i could think of is on food..

Whats his favorite food??

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RetroOutro In reply to Ookamiotokoo [2012-06-28 16:43:24 +0000 UTC]

SPaghetti X3

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Ookamiotokoo In reply to RetroOutro [2012-07-01 16:27:09 +0000 UTC]

Yush... rolling in spaghetti...

perfect!!

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RetroOutro In reply to Ookamiotokoo [2012-07-03 02:42:00 +0000 UTC]

Haha, that sounds adorable!

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Ookamiotokoo In reply to RetroOutro [2012-07-04 17:56:15 +0000 UTC]

have outline done :33

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RetroOutro In reply to Ookamiotokoo [2012-07-05 02:23:04 +0000 UTC]

Yay me too!

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Dex-Wolf [2010-07-15 23:24:52 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry but the picture where is sad is just to cute.

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RetroOutro In reply to Dex-Wolf [2010-07-16 01:49:46 +0000 UTC]

It is. XD Francis sad is just adorable.

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Dex-Wolf In reply to RetroOutro [2010-07-16 01:51:29 +0000 UTC]

*gives francis a hug.* I know you won't be as cute anymore but. be happy.

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Dex-Wolf [2010-07-15 21:56:31 +0000 UTC]

so it might be they're assholes ahahahahahaha! i know what the feel. but when you do think about it. zak is pretty stpid. he can't reframe him self from touching a mioor, he can't really trick francis, he trys to tounch francis mutplie times before he gets the idea of not touching, he's more focused on something different ALL THE TIME, may I should explain.

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RetroOutro In reply to Dex-Wolf [2010-07-15 22:57:17 +0000 UTC]

Lol, Zak is a punk. XD It's true, both Zak and Francis misbehaved during their initial meeting, and their second one, and their third one. Zak certainly isn't a saint, and he has be kind of thick. How hard is it to remember someone likes their personal space?

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Dex-Wolf In reply to RetroOutro [2010-07-15 23:00:01 +0000 UTC]

amen! and it's seems zak is the one who starts most things.

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moonprincessyue [2010-06-14 21:39:07 +0000 UTC]

where did you get the pictures?????

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RetroOutro In reply to moonprincessyue [2010-06-15 13:13:43 +0000 UTC]

I made screen caps from copies of the episodes I had.

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moonprincessyue In reply to RetroOutro [2010-06-15 17:19:19 +0000 UTC]

how do you make screen caps? and is the episodes on the internet?

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Dex-Wolf [2010-05-21 22:31:50 +0000 UTC]

They clones!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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RetroOutro In reply to Dex-Wolf [2010-05-22 13:14:36 +0000 UTC]

They are !

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Erin88 [2010-04-01 22:41:18 +0000 UTC]

This must have been SUCH a trial to collect, huh? Going through all those episodes with Francis and detailing his... "hair behavior" .

Seeing him more filled out is strange, also.

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RetroOutro In reply to Erin88 [2010-04-01 23:08:39 +0000 UTC]

can't get over how thick they are in the show. XD I just attribute it to the coats, though everyone in TSS is thicker than my usual drawing style,

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captainq1632 [2010-04-01 07:23:01 +0000 UTC]

Epsilon actually SMILES? I would not have guessed. He reminds me of Mr. Freeze from the early 90's Batman animated series.

This is great.

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RetroOutro In reply to captainq1632 [2010-04-01 15:07:12 +0000 UTC]

Epsilon smiles a couple of times, though Francis smiles a lot more (true it's usually when he's being pretty nasty and vicious, but hey, boys will be boys. )

Epsilon smiles when he's lying, when he's sheepish, and the one i captured here is after Drew says something about their plans to escape the ship, and Epsilon sort of smirks, and Drew is all creeped out and like "What are you smiling about?" and he's replies something along the lines of " You jump straight to the power levels, as if fighting through the ship full of angry jelly fish is the easy part."

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Dex-Wolf In reply to RetroOutro [2010-07-17 04:16:12 +0000 UTC]

wow fan girl you got it rgiht! right.

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