D.N. Ace

D.N. Ace is a Canadian animated television series created by Matthew Wexler and produced by Nelvana for Teletoon (now Cartoon Network). The series focuses on the life of Ace Ripley, a 12-year-old boy who gains the power to create DNA by using the Dscram to manipulate the Scrammers, alongside his lovable best friend Sloane Plunderman and an immortal squirrel named Mendel.

The show debuted on July 6, 2019, and ended its run on April 11, 2020. This was the final English-language Teletoon original series before the network rebranded as the new version of Cartoon Network Canada in 2023. 40 episodes were produced.

Plot
The series follows the adventures of a curious, adventure-loving, mischief-making, proudly nerdy, 12-year-old boy named Ace Ripley who suddenly learns he holds an incredible ability to manipulate DNA by fusing the genes of a living thing with any other thing, to create something entirely new. The hero-in-the-making uses his newfound power to create ridiculous, amazing, and even terrifying mashed up creatures, and tries to save his town from total chaos while trying to have the time of his life.

Development
The series was announced on November 14, 2017, as a comedy adventure series created by Matthew Wexler and produced by Nelvana. Dentsu and OLM, Inc. served as consultants through production and represent the series in Japan. The show features service animation by Yeti Farm. Teletoon released the show's first trailer online on June 21, 2019.

Main

 * Ace Ripley (voiced by Lyon Smith) is the eponymous main character: a fun-loving 12-year-old boy who gains the power to manipulate DNA by using the Dscram, the DNA scrambling device that can create the Scrammers.
 * Sloane Plunderman (voiced by Samantha Weinstein) is a teenage girl who is Ace's best friend and the sister of Huxley Plunderman.
 * Mendel (voiced by Juan Chioran) is a talking 500 year old immortal squirrel. He was the first animal mutated by the meteorite that fell on top of him. He has also sworn himself to be the guardian of the meteor from anyone with evil desires. With help from Ace's ancestor, Zebediah Ripley, he created the DNA scrambler.
 * Stuart Tweeble (voiced by Mpho Koaho) is the older stepbrother of Ace. Step Stu's dad married Ace's mom.
 * Huxley Plunderman (voiced by Taylor Abrahamse) is the main antagonist. He is the CEO of Plunderman Enterprises and the evil brother of Sloane. He is later downgraded to a recurring antagonist when he fires the scientist Juan and becomes target to some of his attacks.

Other/Minor/Supporting

 * Huxley's Scientists Head engineers who work for Huxley to build Clashbots.
 * Scientist 1#/Juan; (voiced by Juan Chioran) Tall red head male. In "Del Contender", Huxley fires him and Juan joined Ace and his team. He soon betrays Ace because he was actually spying for Huxley. After the event of Ace and his team to retrieve the rod that destroyed Crabby, Huxley fires Juan, for real this time, making him became a new enemy to Ace when it revealed that Juan has been studying Ace and the Scrammers, knowing that they are not robots from the start. He intended to collect three meteor splinters to power up his robot armor.
 * Scientist #2; Purple-haired African-Canadian woman.
 * Scientist #3/Wesley; (voiced by David Berni) Overweight male with sage-colored hair.

All three of them wear red sunglasses, white coats, and black clothes. They also act as "The World's Clashbots League Council Of Elders" when they are wearing robes and amulets.

Bruiser is Huxley's main robot. A rag doll Frankenstein's Monster like robot with a monstrous attitude with a human-like speaking voice. In the episode "Splinterfell", it revealed that he had a meteor splinter inside of him. His true form resembles more of a common Clashbot that has his original color design.

Countess Of Clash A clash coach champion that lives on Clash Mountain with her giant robotic pig. She has crazy eyes. She disguises herself as Steve, a crazy old man.

Cynthia E. Overdrive/C.E.O A businesswoman who owns vending machine-type clash bots. She speaks in a snotty Valley-girl accent.

Cackles The Clown A psychotic clash coach clown that terrorizes and destroys cities if his challengers won't accept his challenge. He makes a 2nd appearance in "Crooks and Grannies".

Rad Maverick A suffer-type clash coach who lives in the sewers.

Mendor Mendel's twin brother. Mendor is opposite to his brother, he's more fun, more adventurous, and more greedy. He hides his evil twin brother act so he can trick Ace and Sloane, plus the Scrammers, to convince them he's more chilled and lovable.

Clashsquatch A sentient previous clashbot champion that gain intelligence by a small version of the super meteorite.

Captain Nuevo The recent Clash Coach champion.

Warhol Muse (voiced by Jamie Watson) An industrialist magician clash coach. He is shown to have a southern accent dialogue and seem to be insane. He has a WM logo on his giant hat and tie. In the episode "Now Museum Now You Don't" he touch a splinter statue of Mendel and gain powers to turn anyone into paintings, float and glow orange. Thankfully it wasn't permanent, only keeping it inside his hat allows him to have powers.

Mr.Preston/Mr.P a.k.a. The Dump King A nice and kind garbage man that been corrupted and turned evil by drinking essence of the exiled Scarrathorn.

Granny Ace's grandma (and Stew's step grandma). Originally a sweet grandmother before her arrival. After she went on a Gluten free diet, she became more reckless, destructive, obnoxious and crazier than her own grandson.

Ace's Mom Ace's mother (and Stew's Stepmom) shares resemblance to her son.

Stew's Dad Stew's father (and Ace's Stepdad) shares resemblance to his son.

Jerry Dayzee (Voiced by Rob Tinkler) A salesman who is barely respected.

Butternut (voiced by James Hartnett) A Christmas elf that came over from the North Pole to Del Lago. He befriended Ace, Sloan, Mendel and the Scrammers. He was kidnapped by Huxley and forced him to make clashbots to rule the city. He told the team that Santa has been monitoring the super meteorite from a satellite for 100 years since its arrival.

Tim Butternut's reindeer friend. Tim gains powers from jumping onto the super meteorite which gave him the abilities to fly, create portals and shoot laser beams from his antlers.

Raj Dynamite (voiced by Chai Valladares) A clash coach who lost in a clash fight and wasn't seen for a year. Until he returns in the Clash Of The Titans Tournament when he created a cloning device, The Clonezooka, to enter the Titan Tournament. It was revealed he was after the belt not just for the title but because there was a Meteor Splinter on the belt.

Lucy also called Little Lucy (voiced by Julie Lemieux) A little girl who used to be Ace's biggest fan, until Ace starts to miss out the Clash Tournaments while he is busy with fighting Juan and his Juander-bots. Ace is aware of Lucy before fighting Juan, including having spare time hanging out with her, until he forgot about her. She use a Combiner-Bot to fight off Ace and his Scrammers.

Eel Mutant A normal eel that been mutated by a Splinter underwater and turn into a giant angler fish and dragonfish hybrid-like monster. It had the power to absorb the energy of the Scrammer's attacks. When the splinter was removed, it returns to a normal eel.

Feral Plasma A bacteria that been mutated from feeding on Splinters for centuries and turn into a lava monster. It can drain the Splinter's energy.

Clashbots/Clashers Small Robots that are a popular brand for people and are use in the Clash-a-torium to compete in tournaments and games.
 * Common Clashbots
 * Security-Bot
 * Unicycle-Bot
 * Party-Bot
 * Ice Cream-Bot
 * Lumber Jack-Bot
 * Mega-Clasher/Dragon-Bot/Flap Dragon A robot dragon.
 * Servant-Bots
 * Combiner-Bots Five Clashbots merge into one.
 * Combo-Bot A robot that was built to destroy the Scrammers.
 * Jolly-Bots
 * Dragon-Bot 2/Flap Dragon 2. A smaller version of the original Dragon-Bot.
 * Royal-Bot. Juan's little robot butler.
 * Juander-Bots.
 * Ninja Juander-Bots.

Scrammers
Creatures that Ace creates with the Dscram using DNA mix of one living being and one object. The Scrammers also have their own unique powers and their own personalities when created. But all of them are very loyal to their creator Ace. All of them are about 2 feet tall.


 * Multi Crab/Crabby (voiced by Luke Gordon) Half Crab half multi-tool.
 * Snout Hammer (voiced by Athena Karkanis) Half Boar half hammer.
 * Hide-And-Sneak/Heidi (voiced by Evany Rosen) Half Chameleon half High top shoes.
 * Digby/Digs (voiced by David Berni) Half Groundhog half Whoopee cushion.
 * Cobra Tot (vocied by Taylor Abrahamse) Half Snake half Baby doll.
 * Boom Hound (voiced by John Gallagher) Half Bull Terrier half Boombox.
 * Chopper Half Beaver half Pine cone.
 * Sharkuum Half Shark half Vacuum cleaner.
 * Cluck-Cluck-Boom/C.C. (voiced by Rob Tinkler) Half chicken half "Blueberry Pancake Cannon" Paint Ball Gun.
 * Hose Fly Half Moth half Fire Extinguisher
 * Rachael 2 (voiced by Angela Maiorano-Thurston) Half Raccoon half Finger Puppet Rachael.
 * The Great Bivalvo/val Half oyster half fortune cookie
 * Cucarocka  (voiced by Deven Mack) Half cockroach half voice box thingy
 * Chlorofile/Klo Half Ivy Half Nail File.
 * Elasta-Kitty (voiced by Mark Little) Half Cat half Rubberband.
 * Snot Rocket (voiced by Rob Tinkler) Half snot and germs half toy tank.
 * Head Wig Half sloth half helmet.
 * Beef Plungington (voiced by Ron Pardo) Half cow half plunger.
 * Scarrathorn Half Biological Mutated Venus Fly Trap half body spray.
 * Night Leaper (voiced by Andrew Jackson) Half Grasshopper half Action Figure.
 * Polly Roger Half Parrot half GPS.
 * Rhinestone Half Rhino Half Diamond.
 * Bear-B-Que Half Bear Half Grill Cooker.
 * Monkey Floss/Mo (voiced by Tony Nappo) Half Monkey Half Cotton Candy.
 * Sammy-Rye (voiced by Julius Cho) Half Scorpion Half Sandwich.
 * Spark Bug (voiced by Allana Reoch) Half Firefly Half Headphones.
 * Razzle Dazzle Half Peacock Half Glow Stick.
 * Sir Quills Half Porcupine Half Knight's Helmet.
 * OctoGraph Half Lie Detector Half Octopus.
 * Bucky BlowTorch (voiced by Gavin Fox) Half Rabbit Half Torch.
 * Tooleo Half Toolbox Half Carpenter Ant.
 * Lazerine Half Wolverine Half Lazer.
 * Arachnotist/Ari Half Spider Half 3D Printer.
 * Power Wash/PDubs (voiced by Deven Mack) Half Mosquito Half Sponge.
 * Frostbite Half Crocodile Half Freezer.
 * Solar Ray Half Sunflower Half Microwave
 * CompuFox Half Fox Half Computer