Kid Cosmic is an American animated superhero streaming television series. Created by Craig McCracken and produced in-house by Netflix Animation, it was released on February 2, 2021, on Netflix. The show is the first of McCracken's creations to have a serialized format and his second foray into the superhero genre. The series follows Kid, a young boy who naively fantasizes about becoming a superhero, living in a junkyard in a thinly populated stretch of desert in the Southwestern United States. When a spaceship crashes in the area, he discovers it had onboard 5 "Cosmic Stones of Power" that give him the chance of fulfilling his dream. Upon learning the stones will attract alien invasions, he forms a motley team of superheroes to defend the Earth from them. This team, with a stone bestowed upon each member that gives them their power, consist of Kid's grandpa, Papa G (Old Man Many Men), who can create multiple clones of himself; the leader Jo (Portal Girl), who has the ability to teleport; Rosa (Niña Gigantica), a four-year-old girl who can become a 40-foot giant; and Tuna Sandwich (The Precognitive Cat), a cat that can predict the future with a third eye on his forehead. They are accompanied by Stuck Chuck, an alien invader stranded on Earth after the destruction of his ship. Stuck Chuck's mission is to steal the Cosmic Stones for his Great Leader. In the second season, the Local Heroes are teleported into space and have to go on a quest to find the other eight Stones of Power to fight against Erodius the Planet Killer.