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Earth, Wind & Fire  is an American R&B and disco band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as  EWF , the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.  Rolling Stone  has described them as “innovative, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing” and has also declared that the band “changed the sound of black pop”. In 1998, they were ranked at number 60 on VH1’s list of the  100 Greatest Artists of Rock N’ Roll .

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 Chaka Khan is the latest woman to be inducted into the coveted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023. She is a global music star that has served as an inspiration for generations of singers, songwriters, recording artists, storytellers, and musicians. 

Aside from being a singer, she is a distinguished songwriter, producer, visual artist, author, actress, humanitarian, activist, and mother. 

While her birth certificate may say Yvette Marie Stevens, in many ways, Chaka Khan is one of a kind. 

She is a trendsetter, a fighter, and a survivor. She redefined pop, soul, jazz, and funk, and has helped mold the contemporary music landscape into what it is today. 

Although Chaka has affectionately been referred to as the “Queen of Funk” and is also known as the “Empress of Funk, Rock and Soul,” she prefers to ditch the genre limiting monikers. After all, she has the rare ability to sing in eight different music genres, these include R&B/soul, pop, rock, gospel, country, world music, dance, and classical music. 

Chaka has developed a vast and loyal international fan base, and she has performed in six continents. 

Humble beginnings 

She grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and she was the eldest of four siblings. In her teenage years, Chaka and her sister, Bonnie, formed a vocal group, The Crystalettes, with two school friends. 

Chaka subsequently sang with several local bands before she became the lead singer for the band Ask Rufus, which would become Rufus, a group that would churn out hit after hit. 

She learned to trust her heart and instincts and follow her dreams from an early age. She caught the attention of Stevie Wonder, who wrote Rufus’ debut single “Tell Me Something Good.” 

This song earned Chaka and Rufus their first Grammy Award in the “Best R&B Vocal Performance by A Duo, Group or Chorus” category; moreover, it became a Top 5 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and the Billboard R&B songs charts. 

Rufus entertained audiences with sold-out concerts, and their smash hits include the ubiquitous “Ain’t Nobody,” “Once You Get Started,” “Sweet Thing,” “Do You Love What You Feel,” and “You Got the Love,” which was co-penned by Chaka and Ray Parker Jr. 

A Landmark Year 

2023 is a landmark year for Chaka. She celebrates her 50th anniversary in the music business, as well as her 70th birthday. 

An induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, class of 2023, solidifies her legacy as a musical powerhouse. With the once-in-a-lifetime performance at the ceremony, a dynamic medley of hits alongside H.E.R., Common, and Sia, stands as a testament to her generational influence within popular culture. She was bestowed the “Musical Excellence Award.” The prestigious acknowledgement recognizes artists, musicians, songwriters, and producers whose originality and influence have made an impact. 

“The Musical Excellence Award means a lot to me,” she said. “This meant even more to me than getting in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, especially just to have the words ‘musical excellence’ attached to my name.” 

Earlier this spring, on March 29, 2023, Chaka made a special appearance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as part of “Women’s History Month,” where she celebrated her golden anniversary in the music industry, and her 70th birthday. Five of her outfits from her music career are displayed in the “Legends of Rock” exhibit. 

For over five decades, Chaka has remained relevant as one of the mightiest and most influential voices in modern music. Her artistic work has stood the test of time, and it continues to inspire fellow recording artists, musicians, and fans alike. 

Chaka possesses a voice of seductive fire and sweet smoke. At the age of 18, she came to prominence with the innovative multiracial funk and rock group Rufus. Back in the 1970s, Chaka was the group’s secret weapon, and she was both fearless and feminine. 

Rufus is credited for being “funky, sexy and soul,” and they subsequently “made an indelible mark on a generation of music.” 

‘I’m Every Woman’ and other solo hits 

“I’m Every Woman” was her debut single from her solo album “Chaka,” which she released in 1978. It was Khan’s first hit outside of her recordings with the group Rufus. Her signature song “I’m Every Woman” is more than just a hit single and Grammy-nominated tune, it’s a lifestyle filled with positivity. 

As a solo recording artist, her other hits include “Clouds,” “What Cha’ Gonna Do for Me,” “Through the Fire” and “I Feel For You,” all of which have become pop, R&B/soul, and adult contemporary classics in their own right. 

Speaking of “I Feel For You,” which was written by Prince, it was her rendition that catapulted her to the stratosphere. It was one of the most popular songs of the ‘80s, and it made history by becoming the first R&B tune to feature a rap vocal (performed by Grandmaster Melle Mel). 

She also lent her powerhouse vocals on two of the biggest Grammy-winning songs of 1986: Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” and Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love.” 

Chaka: The frequent collaborator 

Aside from being one of the world’s most distinctive artists, she is known as a perennial musical explorer and song stylist. She has collaborated with such 

diverse artists as Prince, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, and Ariana Grande to George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Miles Davis. 

Her collaborative spirit has birthed so many musical gems. One that has become a musical trivia topic is that in 1999 Chaka’s voice became the voice for the theme song of the children’s television show “Reading Rainbow.” 

Chaka has also collaborated on countless film soundtracks over the years including “Love Me Still” from Spike Lee’s film, Clockers , “My Funny Valentine” on the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack, “Missing You,” from the Set It Off soundtrack, and her Grammy Award winning performance of the Marvin Gaye classic, “What’s Goin’ On,” from the documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown . 

Chaka: The stage and theater performer 

In 1995, Chaka made her theater debut on London’s iconic West End, where she starred in “Mama I Want to Sing.” 

Seven years later, in 2002, she headlined “Signed, Sealed Delivered,” the musical based on the music and lyrics of Stevie Wonder. Then, in 2008, she made her way to Broadway, where she stepped into the leading role of Sophia in Oprah Winfrey’s Tony-nominated musical “The Color Purple.” 

10-time Grammy Winner 

With music and streaming sales in excess of 100 million units, Chaka’s mantel holds 10 Grammy Awards (and she has been nominated 22 times, three of which were as a band member of Rufus), and she is consistently listed as a musical influence for generations of young artists, especially women. 

“It is lovely to be recognized by your peers, where they think you are doing a good enough job that you deserve a Grammy. It would be nice, however, if that would affect my pay grade,” Chaka said with a sweet laugh. 

Influences 

One of her biggest musical influences, the late but great Aretha Franklin proclaimed Chaka as a “premier vocalist.” Another one of her greatest musical inspirations, Miles Davis, paid her what she considers to be a huge compliment when he acknowledged that “she sings like my horn.” 

Chaka was also inspired by the legend ary Sarah Vaughan, as well as folk rock star Joni Mitchell and R&B/soul pioneer St evie Wonder. 

Modern artists such as Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae, Lizzo, and Sam Smith have all cited Chaka as a musical influence. 

An eclectic discography 

In her respected and prolific career, Chaka has released 22 studio albums, 10 of which were certified gold and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 10 of her singles have catapulted to the top spot on the Billboard charts. 

Her recorded music has produced well over 2,000 catalog song placements. 

Her latest single “Woman Like Me” was released in July of 2022, and it raises awareness on self-respect for all women and encourages them to live in their own truths. 

“Life inspires my music. Love, breakups, and almost everything in life,” she said about her music and songwriting inspirations. 

The entrepreneur 

Aside from being an entertainer, she is also an entrepreneur. She is known for “Chakalates,” her gourmet chocolates, which she launched in 2004, as well as Khana Sutra, a fragrance collection, which includes candles, as well as room and linen sprays. 

The Chaka Khan Foundation 

In 1999, she founded the Chaka Khan Foundation, whose mission is to educate, inspire, and empower women and children to reach their full potential. 

It featured a variety of educational programs and initiatives to help women and children at risk, especially children with difficult backgrounds and autism. 

She is now relaunching her foundation and focusing initiatives on mental health and wellbeing. 

With this foundation, she is able to make a huge difference, and help people, especially children, on a higher scale. She is a firm believer that “the arts, music, and mental health are all very important, especially for our youth.” 

In return, Chaka feels that “giving is better than receiving,” so she is happiest when she is doing something for somebody else. 

Chaka: The bestselling author 

Chaka’s life story and her music career was profiled in her autobiography “Through the Fire,” which was published in 2003 via Rodale Books. 

Her memoir “Through the Fire” is a candid account of the trials and tribulations she went through in her life and music career. She is not afraid to be raw and vulnerable and opens up about her substance abuse, where she offers optimism and encouragement for her fans and readers. She refers to “walking through life” as a metaphor of “walking through the fire” accordingly. 

Dr. Chaka Khan: Honorary Doctorate Recipient 

In December of 2004, Chaka was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston for her services and accomplishments in contemporary music and for her philanthropy. 

“A lot of kids get sidetracked and feel like they should put on some booty shorts, and do the song, and that’s sad. That’s one of the things that bothers me and makes me sad about this business. I always also remind kids to go to college because they are always hiring at the post office, and somebody has to work the computers,” she told young and aspiring artists. 

Chaka’s Awards and Accolades 

Chaka has been the recipient of countless well-deserved accolades and awards. Notable acheivements include a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an induction into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame, the Soul Train Legend Award, the BET Lifetime Achievement Award and Triumph Award, the World Music Lifetime Achievement Award, the United Negro College Fund’s “An Evening of Stars” Tribute, and a Grammy Honors Award from the NARAS Chicago Chapter. 

Her Chicago hometown also honored her with “Chaka Khan Way,” a street in her name, and Sunday, July 28, 2013, was officially declared “Chaka Khan Day.” 

Personal life 

Chaka has lived for a time in both London and Germany, as well as New York. She now resides in California. She is the mother of two children, daughter Indira Milini and son Damien Holland. 

Chaka is a true renaissance woman who can use her music and her book as a vessel to help spread her radio energy and indomitable spirit with the rest of the globe. 

“Thank you for hanging in there with me for all these years. I hope I brought somebody some joy, some truth, and some love,” she told her dedicated fans. 

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Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown, born in Boston in 1969, is an iconic American singer, actor, and former member of the R&B group New Edition. He shot to solo stardom with his 1988 album “Don’t Be Cruel,” featuring chart-topping hits like “My Prerogative” and “Every Little Step,” and left an indelible mark on the music world by blending R&B with hip-hop, pop, and funk. Beyond music, he ventured into acting and garnered media attention for his high-profile marriage to Whitney Houston. Brown’s enduring influence on contemporary R&B solidifies his status as a beloved and influential figure in the music industry.

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Durrell Artaze Babbs, known by his stage name Tank, is a highly influential R&B singer and songwriter hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born on January 1, 1976, Tank has solidified his status as a prominent figure in the realm of contemporary R&B. With his soulful and emotionally charged vocals, he has cultivated a dedicated fan base and garnered critical acclaim. Beginning his music career in the late 1990s, Tank has consistently delivered a series of chart-topping albums and hit singles, including tracks like “Maybe I Deserve,” “Please Don’t Go,” and “When We.” Renowned for his unique ability to seamlessly fuse smooth, seductive melodies with heartfelt lyrics, Tank remains a respected and enduring presence in the world of R&B, continuously shaping the genre with his distinctive voice and artistic versatility.

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Ralph Tresvant

Ralph Tresvant, born on May 16, 1968, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, is a celebrated American R&B singer and songwriter. He gained fame as the lead singer of the legendary R&B group New Edition, which he co-founded as a child in the early 1980s. Tresvant’s velvety, soulful vocals and charismatic stage presence played a pivotal role in New Edition’s success. In addition to his contributions to the group, he embarked on a successful solo career with his self-titled debut album, “Ralph Tresvant” (1990), which featured the hit single “Sensitivity.” Tresvant’s impact on the R&B genre is notable, and he remains an influential figure in the music industry, celebrated for his enduring contributions to the world of soulful, romantic R&B.

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Jeffrey Bruce Atkins  (born February 29, 1976) a leap year child, better known by his stage name  Ja Rule , is an American rapper. Born and raised in Hollis Queens. Atkins began his rap career in 1994 with the hip hop group Cash Money Click alongside members Chris Black and O-1. He took the stage name “Ja Rule”. Together they worked with DJ Irv to produce a number of songs, releasing their debut single  “ Get Tha Fortune “  independently in 1994. In 1998 he wrote a single which was picked up and recorded with Jay- Z “ Can I Get A ” which was featured on the Rush Hour Soundtrack.

Ja Rule has received many accolades for his musical endeavors – 2002 he received the BET Award for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist – from GQ he won the Musician of the Year – MTV Best Hip-Hop Video – NAACP Image Awards, he won for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Artist. As an artist, he has always been generous and has many respective collaborators most notable Ashanti, Jennifer Lopez, Mary J Blige, Jay-z, DMX, R. Kelly, Bobby Brown, Missy Elliot, Christina Milian, Charli Baltimore, Black Child, Caddilac Tah Murda, Lil Mo, Vita and Case to name a few.  

Following the release of his debut album “ Venni Vetti Vecci ” (1999), and its lead single “ Holla Holla ”, the album was Certified Platinum July 1999. He released his respective second album “ Rule 3:36 ” (2000), the album was a commercial success, selling 276,000 copies during its first week of release and debuting at number one on the Billboard 200. Kicking off chart topping hits “ Between Me and You ”, “ Put It On Me “and “ I Cry ”. He followed this with a couple of singles with Jennifer Lopez “ I’m Real ” – “ I’m Real – Murder Remix ” and “ Ain’t That Funny “ all of which placed in Billboard top 20. His 3 rd released album came right behind this successful movement in October 2001 titled “ Pain Is Love ” on this album he delivered “ Living It Up ”, “ Down Ass Chick ” and the Billboard No 1 hit “ Always On Time ”. Both albums topped the US  Billboard  200 album chart, launching him into the mainstream, selling over a combined 15 million units to a worldwide audience. Ja Rule followed up with his respective fourth, fifth and sixth albums “ The Last Temptation”  (2002), “ Blood in My Eye”  (2003), and “ R.U.L.E ”.  (2004), with “ The Last Temptation”  attaining platinum status and “ R.U.L.E. “ reaching gold status. As of 2018, Ja Rule has sold 14.4 million units in the US and has sold over 30 million records worldwide.

In between his very successful music career he was able to work on 4 Movie Soundtracks and about 20 movies. Most Notable “Fast and the Furious”, “Cookout”, “Scary Movie”, “Assault on Precinct 13”, “Cookout 2” and “I’m In Love with a Church Girl” to name a few as well as many TV shows Most notable “Follow the Rules” and “Growing up Hip Hop – New York”,  

In 2023, Ja Rule is the curator of the Iconic Vibes concert series, which celebrates the legendary Rappers in a signature one night only live band performance, which can be viewed on his https://iconn.live/ or in your App store. He is involved in bringing his Roses Wines to consumers and is instrumental in the creative for other products in development currently, Ja Rule is an Innovative Creative Entertainer whom we most certainly have not heard everything from yet.    

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Kirk Franklin

With a celebrated career spanning 30 years, Kirk Franklin continues to make a profound mark on the music industry. The eclectic 19-time GRAMMY Award-winning artist, songwriter, music producer, and television and film producer has successfully bridged the gap between gospel, R&B, hip-hop, and pop as he continues to take his career and craft to new levels. It’s no doubt that Franklin’s God-given talent and deep faith have helped him remain the influential, relevant, and visionary he is today.

Franklin is back with his 14 th and most personal and reflective studio album yet, titled Father’s Day. The album, slated to be released in early October from his RCA-distributed label, Fo Yo Soul Recordings, is a collection of 10 inspirational, beautifully curated tracks (all written by Franklin) with the constant theme of love, faith, and resilience flowing through them. Father’s Day will be accompanied by a short film that will be released a few days before the album and provide a deeper context to what Father’s Day means for Franklin.

Making the album wasn’t exactly easy for the artist. While creating Father’s Day , the man Franklin grew up thinking was his father (whom he didn’t have the best relationship with) passed away, and shortly after that, he discovered his real biological father after a series of DNA tests. This was one of the most traumatic experiences Franklin had to go through, and someone else in the same position might have faltered. But for Franklin, who had his fair share of ups and downs throughout his life, his music and heavenly father God helped him get through this latest storm and also helped him come up with the name of the album. “I have no idea how I was able to finish this album with all that was going on at the time. But I know that I would have been in an even worse troubling state if I wasn’t working on it. Father’s Day gave me an escape and an emotional outlet,” he admits.

The lead single, “All Things,” released in May 2023 with an official video, is a bold, upbeat, soul-stirring track that is a reminder that God is what makes everything and all things possible. The second single, “Try Love,” which will be released in late August, is an uplifting song with a rousing chorus that goes: “ This is your day love/This is the day that you can’t give away love/ I’ve been waiting all day love/Waiting for your embrace love,” before switching gears midway into a funky R&B throwback. “Needs” is an authentic, comforting gospel ballad that delves into the need of God in one’s life. Gospel royalty such as Chandler Moore, Tori Kelly, Jonathan McReynolds, and Jekalyn Carr join Franklin on the exhilarating track “Again,” while Kelontae Gavin and Maranda Curtis lend their vocals to its sequel “Again & Again,” with both songs rejoicing in how no matter what, God will continuously move mountains for you. Franklin closes out the album with “Somebody’s Son” a deeply moving and touching song where he candidly expresses the heartbreak and pain he’s felt throughout his life (especially most recently) due      to the familial trauma he’s endured.

Franklin hopes the album resonates with people and gives them permission to accept the highs and lows of life while still understanding that God is always there for them. “For many people, the image of God is Him always keeping score of their wrongdoings. So there’s some fear when it comes to their relationship with God,” he says. “I hope this album is a stripped-down, honest conversation about the difficulty of the life journey and how life can be messy, nuanced, and a matter of trial and error even for those who subscribe to faith. But it’s all wrapped in a bow of love, and that love doesn’t always make sense, but is always constant.”

Since bursting onto the scene in 1993 with the release of his critically acclaimed debut album Kirk Franklin & The Family, Franklin has blessed the world with hit after hit, a bevy of award-winning, lauded albums (in addition to multiple GRAMMYs, he has garnered nearly 40 Stellar Awards and is a 22-time Dove Award winner), and a plethora of epic collaborations with artists such as Mariah Carey, Lil’ Baby, Chance the Rapper, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Khalid, and Michael Jackson. His most recent album, Kingdom Book One (Tribl Records, Fo Yo Soul Entertainment, and RCA Inspiration), a live, collaboration album with the gospel group Maverick City Music, was recorded at the Everglades Correctional Institution in Miami-Dade, Florida, to raise awareness on the injustice of mass incarceration and debuted at number two on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart and the Top Gospel Albums chart. The album also received three GRAMMY Awards, a BET Award, and NAACP Image Award. In March 2023, Franklin made history by spending 100 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Songwriters Chart and becoming the first person to reach the 100-week milestone on a songwriters chart.

In addition to his music awards and accolades, Franklin’s 2022 tour with Maverick City Music broke records as one of the highest-grossing tours in the history of gospel and Christian contemporary music. This fall, Franklin will hit the road again with The Reunion Tour, which will feature Israel Houghton, David and Tamela Mann, Tye Tribbett, and The Clark Sisters, and kick off in Boston with stops in 29 cities across the country.

Making hit records and selling out concerts isn’t the only thing Franklin has mastered. He has served as an executive producer for two popular holiday films such as Kirk Franklin’s The Night Before Christmas in 2022 and Kirk Franklin’s A Gospel Christmas in 2021 and also served as an executive producer for the BET+ television series “Kingdom Business” in 2022, which was renewed for a second season. In addition to that, Franklin and his wife, Tammy Franklin, premiered their new dating series “The One,” on TV One this past May and served as co-hosts and executive producers. Franklin is now shopping a few more projects around and plans to continue working on unscripted and scripted programming. “I’ve been very excited about being part of these projects,” says Franklin. “I still enjoy doing music, but I’m very grateful to be used by God to bring his name to the conversation and use the vehicle of entertainment to do it.”

For Kirk Franklin, his iconic songs, unforgettable verses, and undeniable showmanship have made him the star and household name he is. Still, he remains humble and extremely grateful to be blessed to share his passion for music with the world. Right now he is in the healing process, and the music gives him the strength to persevere. And yes, the past several months have been a trying time for the renowned artist, but at the same time he is excited about the release of Father’s Day . “The Lord has been super kind to me. This album is an opportunity for me to escape and an opportunity to communicate what I may not always emotionally be able to say,” he says. “This album has been a lifesaver God has blessed me with, and I am truly grateful.”

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Method Man & Redman

Method Man & Redman (also referred to as Meth & Red, Red & Mef, John Blaze and Funk Doc or Funk Doctor Spock and Johnny Blaze) are an American hip hop duo, composed of East Coast rappers Method Man (of Wu-Tang Clan) and Redman (of Def Squad). They are signed to Def Jam Recordings both as solo artists and as a duo.

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Ashanti is a GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/songwriter, actor and author, who burst onto the music scene with her smash hit, self-titled debut album Ashanti. The album landed the #1 spot on both the Billboard Top 200 and R&B album charts, selling a whopping 504,593 units in its first week and set a SoundScan record as the most albums sold by any debut female artist in the chart’s history, granting her a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records, which she still holds today. Ashanti has released six studio albums and received eight Billboard Awards, a GRAMMY, two American Music Awards, two Soul Train Awards, six ASCAP Awards, and many more awards and illustrious honors. Ashanti has continued to reign at the top as one of Billboard’s “Top Females of the Decade from 2000-2010” and continues to break Billboard records as having a Hot 100 entry in the 2000’s, 2010’s and 2020’s.

In 2005, Ashanti made her telefilm debut starring as Dorothy in The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz , opposite Miss Piggy and Kermit. She also starred in the Disney animated series The Proud Family and continued to receive roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Army Wives , Sabrina, the Teenage Witch , and portrayed Dionne Warwick on NBC’s American Dreams . She has also played herself and performed on the hit TV series, Vegas .

In her feature film debut in Coach Carter , Ashanti co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson, and the film was a #1 box office hit. Ashanti’s other film credits include Resident Evil Extinction, John Tucker Must Die and Bollywood film Bride & Prejudice . Ashanti executive produced, starred in the musical drama and feature film STUCK , released April 2019. She also executive produced the feature film Mothers and Daughters , starring Sharon Stone, Susan Sarandon, Mira Sorvino and more.

Ashanti recently starred in Honey Girls , in partnership with Build-A-Bear Entertainment and Sony Pictures’ rom-com The Plus One , that she will Executive Produce and star in, alongside Cedric the Entertainer, released September 29, 2023. Ashanti will also star in No Address , a film about a group of people that are experiencing homelessness and realize they must bond together as a family if they are going to survive, to be released in 2024.

Ashanti has built her brand with several major partnerships and has her own fragrance, “Precious Jewel” with AMC Beauty, American Express, Shea Moisture and Ciroc, to name a few. Her endorsements include Herbal Essences , where she is the first African American to land a national campaign, and Candies Apparel . She launched her clothing line in collaboration with Miss Circle and partnered with Pretty Little Thing to create her own swimsuit line “Ashanti.”

She has written her first book of poetry through Hyperion titled Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love and released her first children’s book, My Name Is A Story , with Harper Collins on July 12, 2022. My Name Is A Story was voted, “2023 Best Children’s Book” by the African American Literary Awards.

To celebrate her contributions to music and recording, Ashanti received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 7, 2022.

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The brilliant scientist Jan Benes (Jean Del Val) develops a way to shrink humans, and other objects, for brief periods of time. Benes, who is working in communist Russia, is transported by the CIA to America, but is attacked en route. In order to save the scientist, who has developed a blood clot in his brain, a team of Americans in a nuclear submarine is shrunk and injected into Benes' body. They have a finite period of time to fix the clot and get out before the miniaturization wears off.

Genre: Sci-fi

Original Language: English

Director: Richard Fleischer

Producer: Saul David

Writer: Jerome Bixby , Otto Klement , David Duncan , Harry Kleiner

Release Date (Theaters): Aug 24, 1966  original

Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2013

Runtime: 1h 40m

Distributor: 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Production Co: 20th Century Fox

Sound Mix: Mono

Cast & Crew

Stephen Boyd

Raquel Welch

Cora Peterson

Edmond O'Brien

General Carter

Donald Pleasence

Dr. Michaels

Arthur O'Connell

Colonel Donald Reid

William Redfield

Captain Bill Owens

Arthur Kennedy

Dr. Peter Duvall

Jean Del Val

Communications Aide

Secret Service

Shelby Grant

James Brolin

Brendan Fitzgerald

Wireless Operator

Richard Fleischer

Jerome Bixby

Otto Klement

David Duncan

Harry Kleiner

Screenwriter

Leonard Rosenman

Original Music

Ernest Laszlo

Cinematographer

William B. Murphy

Film Editing

Dale Hennesy

Art Director

Jack Martin Smith

Stuart A. Reiss

Set Decoration

Walter M. Scott

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What a title! set to impress with a claim like that huh. This film really is a piece of history, an old iconic pop culture movie that has inspired so many other ideas in various formats. What is interesting is (like some original sci-fi concepts) back in 66 when this film was made the idea was of course deemed fantasy, these days I don't think it is, well with robots anyway. The plot is classic, you all know it, a group of scientists are miniaturised to microscopic proportions in order to enter the human body of a man with a brain clot. The reason, to save him obviously, and because he knows the secret to the miniaturising technology and how to perfect it. At the same time other folk (pesky Russians) are trying to whack him because he defected to the US with the technology secrets. There's a time limit, the stakes are high and everybody will revert back to their normal size when the limit expires, game on. The start of the story is actually pretty technical in my opinion, its all quite meticulous and realistic (as far as the fantasy goes). Compare this to the 80's revamp 'InnerSpace' and this film is far superior in my humble opinion. Where as 'InnerSpace' is a very wacky over the top comedy (good comedy), this is far more sensible which I didn't expect really, it works so much better despite being a slow build up. What I love about this film is the visuals, now I'm very sure in reality if this happened it would be pitch black inside a body, apart from what the ships lights illuminated hehe. However here we have a vibrant underwater-like ocean of life, a rainbow of soft glowing colours in a gloopy sea of bodily fluids. Within these fluids (mainly blood) we see hundreds of transparent blue and pink oxygen carrying corpuscles, antibodies, fibers, proteins, bacteria etc...whilst the crew venture through the heart and lungs on their way to the brain. The whole visual experience looks like errr...a lava lamp and quite psychedelia in a soft way, not surprising seeing as this was the mid 60's. What I do find amusing throughout the film is how much bad luck the team has the moment they enter the body (fantastic little injection sequence I must add, really effective). Straight away they have big problems which basically means they might have to abort, oh well can't get around that, game over, lets go. Then someone has a brilliant plan and they manage to overcome the issue, five minutes later they hit another problem, oh well can't get around that, game over, lets go. Someone has a great plan and they overcome the issue, turn the next corner bang! another problem, oh well can't get around that, game ov....etc... How about the Proteus eh? now is that another iconic sci-fi design or what. Love the shape of that sub with the little bubble dome on top, sound effects are nice too, it reminds me of a ship from the cartoon 'The Jetsons' puttering around. It looks like they built a full scale ship too, really lovely craftsmanship, looks gorgeous, very realistic. Despite looking like an old 'Star Trek' episode this film is a truly award winning entertainment machine. Not only does it look great (and still works well today) but its pretty tense at times too. The final moments for Donald Pleasence are still a bit harrowing as he is slowly engulfed by a large white corpuscle. His frantic squirming and panicking unnerve you quite a bit...'I can't move my hands!. I'm stuck and I can't...I can't move my hands!...Get me out!!'. Mr Pleasence most definitely steals the show throughout this film no doubt, Welsh as usual is nothing more than eye candy in a tight white jumpsuit. Quite liked Edmond O'Brien as the gruff General, everyone else was you're regular cliched sci-fi character. All in all a fine example of good fun science fiction. Some plot holes do reveal themselves which do spoil it admittedly, mainly at the end when the Proteus is left inside the patients body half digested along with the laser gun, the bad doctor's remains (Pleasant) and all the fluid used to inject the crew originally. Surely that would all revert and cause death?. But a few niggly bits aside this film is solidly exhilarating with a lovely rose tinted charm that hasn't died in all these years.

Back in the 60's this probably was an amazing movie. A scifi classic. The story is original and I loved the initial credits. Unfortunately is out of date. The FX are good but everything seems too static to represent the inner space. However is a good scfi story with a semi-slow rythm that create some suspense but I wouldn't recommend it if you have seen a lot of Cameron movies.

I know a lot of people today think that the special effects in this movie were too silly or fake looking, but to me they were too realistic, they creeped me out. The story is interesting, but a bit slow and sometimes really boring. It's pretty good, though it could have been better.

To enjoy this movie one must turn off their brain as soon as the theme tune of 20th Century Fox starts . The whole set up is very hard to swallow - A scientist who know the secret of miniaturization is injured by commie assassins and now lies in a coma due to a blood clot on the brain and only by miniaturizing a submarine type capsule and sending both it and its crew through an artery can both the scientist and free world be saved . It's never actually explained as to why miniaturizing is such a radical development for espionage or warfare . Think about it does this mean you can infiltrate the Kremlin by sending an envelope containing a miniaturized army ? Seeing as the enemy are aware of the process they can easily protect themselves against this - By running a rolling pin over all incoming mail . And wouldn't shrinking someone to the size of something little bigger than an element kill them anyway due to the changes in mass ? Wouldn't air pressure alone kill any miniaturized person ? And wouldn't it have been a good idea to vet the crew to find out if any of them were claustrophobic before sending them on their mission ? You understand what I'm saying don't you ? The ideas and plot devices presented are entirely laughable because of their nature , that's why I told you to stop thinking about it . If you manage this you've got a pretty enjoyable escapist fantasy once it gets started . You realise that if the capsule crew go on an uneventful journey we wouldn't have much of a movie so we find obstacles at every corner involving detours , anti-bodies and a traitor within and if none of this gets you excited how about Raquel Welch in a really tight costume ? What do you mean she hasn't been given any decent lines ?

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Modified & Updated: 05 Mar 2024

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In 1966, the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage" took audiences on an extraordinary journey into the human body, captivating them with its groundbreaking special effects and imaginative storytelling. As we delve into the fascinating world of "Fantastic Voyage," we'll uncover 44 intriguing facts that shed light on the movie's production, impact, and enduring legacy. From the visionary concept of miniaturized exploration to the remarkable behind-the-scenes innovations, this cinematic adventure continues to inspire and enthrall both science fiction enthusiasts and movie buffs alike. Join us as we embark on a remarkable voyage through the captivating universe of "Fantastic Voyage."

Key Takeaways:

• “Fantastic Voyage” is a timeless classic that takes audiences on a thrilling journey into the human body, inspiring curiosity and wonder about science and the marvels of the human anatomy.
• The film’s innovative storytelling and captivating premise have left an indelible mark on popular culture, sparking discussions about the intersection of science, adventure, and the boundless potential of the human spirit.

The movie "Fantastic Voyage" was released in 1966.

This science fiction film, directed by Richard Fleischer, takes viewers on a mesmerizing journey into the human body, where a team of scientists and a submarine crew are miniaturized to microscopic size and injected into a dying man in a desperate attempt to save his life.

The film features an outstanding cast.

"Fantastic Voyage" stars renowned actors such as Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, and Donald Pleasence, who deliver captivating performances that bring the thrilling narrative to life.

The movie won two Academy Awards.

At the 39th Academy Awards, "Fantastic Voyage" received recognition for its exceptional visual effects, earning Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Special Effects.

The film's unique premise captivated audiences.

The concept of miniaturizing a submarine and its crew to navigate through the human body struck a chord with viewers, sparking their imagination and curiosity about the inner workings of the human anatomy.

The production of "Fantastic Voyage" was a technical marvel.

Crafting the intricate visual effects to depict the inner workings of the human body posed a significant challenge, but the filmmakers successfully brought this imaginative concept to the silver screen with stunning realism.

The movie's legacy endures.

Decades after its release, "Fantastic Voyage" continues to captivate audiences and inspire discussions about the intersection of science, adventure, and the human body.

"Fantastic Voyage" has left an indelible mark on the science fiction genre.

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The film's impact extended beyond the silver screen.

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The film's success paved the way for future explorations of the human body in cinema.

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"Fantastic Voyage" has solidified its place as a pioneering work in the realm of science fiction, leaving an indelible legacy that continues to inspire filmmakers, writers, and audiences alike.

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"Fantastic Voyage" continues to captivate audiences with its timeless tale of adventure, exploration, and the boundless potential of the human spirit.

The film's impact on the science fiction genre continues to reverberate through cinematic history.

The movie's enduring legacy is a testament to its timeless relevance and enduring impact..

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In 1995 Czech scientist Jan Benes escapes from behind the Iron Curtain and is brought to the United States for interrogation. U. S. scientists are able to reduce objects, including people, to the size of bacteria, but the miniaturization can be sustained for only 60 minutes. The Czech scientist has learned the secret of prolonging the miniaturization; but before he reveals this knowledge, he sustains a severe brain injury which can be treated only from within his body. A plan is conceived whereby a crew of five will be placed in an atomic-powered submarine, miniaturized, injected into the scientist's bloodstream, and set on a course through the arteries to the brain. In addition to American secret agent Grant, the crew consists of Dr. Duval, the surgeon who will perform the operation; Cora Peterson, his assistant; Dr. Michaels, a circulatory expert; and Captain Owens, the sub's pilot. To save some of the 60 minutes, the group decides to stop the scientist's heart to allow the submarine to pass through the heart. Then Grant and the crew leave the sub, and by means of a snorkel tube attached to the patient's lungs, replenish their oxygen supply. As they near their destination, a nurse in the operating room drops a pair of surgical scissors, and the sound causes tremendous vibrations in the sub that hurl the crew from their positions. With only 6 minutes left, Dr. Michaels reveals himself to be an enemy agent intent on sabotaging the mission. The remaining crew members escape as white corpuscles envelop and digest both the submarine and Michaels. The operation is successfully performed by removing a blood clot with a laser beam, and the four survivors leave the scientist's body by swimming along the optic nerve and emerging through a tear duct.

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Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought - - Dr. Duval

- proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man... - Grant

Very poetic, gentlemen. Let me know when we pass the soul. - Dr. Michaels

The soul? The finite mind cannot comprehend infinity - and the soul, which comes from God, is infinite. - Dr. Duval

Yes, well, our time isn't. - Dr. Michaels

The medieval philosophers were right. Man is the center of the universe. We stand in the middle of infinity between outer and inner space, and there's no limit to either. - Dr. Peter Duval

Isaac Asimov was approached to write the novel from the script. He perused the script, and declared the script to be full of plot holes. Receiving permission to write the book the way he wanted, delays in filming and the speed at which he wrote saw the book appear before the film. Asimov fixed several plot holes in the book version, but this had no effect on the film (see the Goofs entry).

The scenes of crewmembers swimming outside the sub were shot on dry soundstages with the actors suspended from wires. There was some additional hazard involved because, to avoid reflections from the metal, the wires were washed in acid to roughen them, which made them more likely to break. To create the impression of swimming in a resisting medium, the scenes were shot at 50% greater speed than normal, then played back at normal speed.

As a college student, director Fleischer was a pre-med student for a time.

When filming the scene where the other crew members remove attacking antibodies from Ms. Peterson for the first time, director Fleischer allowed the actors to grab what they pleased. Gentlemen all, they specifically avoided removing them from Raquel Welch's breasts, with an end result that the director described as a "Las Vegas showgirl" effect. Fleischer pointed this out to the cast members -- and on the second try, the actors all reached for her breasts. Finally the director realized that he would have to choreograph who removed what from where, and the result is seen in the final cut.

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Released in United States July 1966

Released in United States Winter January 1, 1966

Released in USA on video.

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By Bosley Crowther

• Sept. 8, 1966

TALK about "underground" movies, wait until you see the first of the "inside" movies! "Fantastic Voyage" is its tag, and it opened yesterday at Loew's State and the Festival Theater.What is it? Well, it is the latest in sheer science-fiction fantasy about a group of adventurous people who take a way-out trip—a CMDF trip, you might call it, meaning a Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces trip—inside Dr. Benes (which might be a better tag).That's right. This team of scientists, including a woman technician, played by Raquel Welch, a newcomer who is the most pneumatic-looking thing in a skin-diving suit that has yet appeared on the screen, are shrunken to microscopic proportions by a new scientific means. Then they are injected into the bloodstream of an injured Czechoslovak scientist to do an inside job of removing a threatening blood clot from his highly knowledgeable brain.Snugly contained in a tiny capsule that bears a comforting resemblance to that wonderfully neat diving saucer of Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, these voyagers through the arterial system find themselves in a kind of Mammoth Cave, filled with transparent liquid in which float squashy colored balloons."That's plasma," somebody mentions, and now we presumably know what the blood in the human body looks like, from the point of view of a germ.Inevitably trouble develops. It just couldn't be a nice safe trip from that point of injection above the clavicle to the injured area of the brain. A violent fistular disturbance in the region of the throat diverts the tiny capsule into the jugular vein. With the pilot, William Redfield, wrestling with the controls, and CMDF officers, Arthur O'Connell and Edmund O'Brien, giving directions in the operating room, the capsule is delicately guided through the perilous caverns of the heart, which has been stopped (by the operating room) for one precious minute to let the vehicle pass.But that's not all. There is dangerous trouble in the area of the lungs. The air pressure tanks have been leaking. Stephen Boyd has to leave the capsule and, with an air hose, refill the empty tank from the abundance of vapors roaring through this mighty cave of winds.In the arteries of the nose, the frightened travelers are forced to get out of their capsule to remove heavy mucous substance from the nuclear intake valves. In the ear chamber, cotton-candy crystals form on the skin-suit of Miss Welch and the fellows have to strip her to save her."Antibodies," somebody says.The climax comes when the good guys—Mr. Boyd, Arthur Kennedy and Miss Welch—are out of the capsule, clearing the blood clot with a handy laser ray, and the evil saboteur, Donald Pleasance, tries to run them down. Just then a white corpuscle, a great cotton avalanche, looms to engulf the operation. What a predicament!Yessir, for straight science-fiction, this is quite a film—the most colorful and imaginative since "Destination Moon." Harry Kleiner's screenplay and Richard Fleischer's direction combine to make it amusing and exciting, and the interior decorations have a bubbly, fantastic quality you won't find this side of Disneyland.Are they reasonably authentic? A couple of lads who I suspect were from the Bronx High School of Science were arguing that point behind me yesterday. I wouldn't know. All I can tell you is it is quite a trip.Fortunately, all of the voyaging is done in the northern hemisphere.

The CastFANTASTIC VOYAGE, screenplay by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby; directed by Richard Fleischer, and produced by Saul David for 20th Century-Fox release. At the Loew's State Theater, Broadway and 45th Street, and the Festival Theater, 57th Street west of Fifth Avenue. Running time: 100 minutes.Giani . . . . . Stephen BoydCora Peterson . . . . . Raquel WelchGeneral Carter . . . . . Edmond O'BrienDr. Michaels . . . . . Donald PleasenceCol. Donald Reid . . . . . Arthur O'ConnellCapt. Bill Owens . . . . . William RedfieldDr. Duval . . . . . Arthur KennedyJan Benes . . . . . Jean Del Val

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"Fantastic idea for a movie. Terrible idea for a proctologist." — The Twelfth Doctor , Doctor Who , " Into the Dalek "

A plot that involves characters being shrunk to enter someone's body. Usually animated. Travel is often via submarine and scuba variants. Lighting is rarely a problem. Often has a time limit parameter , where either the person the characters go inside has a very short amount of time left to live, or the shrinking is temporary and the characters must accomplish their mission and get out before they kill the person by returning to normal size while inside of them. There will be at least one scene of just barely squeezing through some sphincter or valve as it closes . If there's a scene inside the stomach, expect to see random inedible objects scattered around for comedic effect (even if the character isn't an Extreme Omnivore ) and/or food that has been swallowed whole that would normally be too large (such as whole burgers or hot dogs). These items tend to make handy platforms for any body explorers lacking a submarine, since shrunken characters usually suffer instant death upon contact with stomach acid (either that or they are completely immune). Protagonists being menaced by Seeker White Blood Cells , Monstrous Germs and/or giant tapeworms (well, giant to them ) is also common.

For some reason, visibility is almost never an issue in these adventures, even though the inside of your body would be pitch black, unless fictional humans all have an ambient light organ somewhere in their torso. Also, if the character enters the body by being swallowed, don't expect them to come out through the other end. Alternative exit points typically involve being sneezed, burped, or cried out, whether by request to the host or through involuntary means.

See also Incredible Shrinking Man . If there are normal-size invaders inside a giant body, then you have been Swallowed Whole . Curiously, giant bodies tend to be filled with large open spaces for movement and even extended travel within , even if one was swallowed.

Named for the granddaddy of them all, a movie co-starring Raquel Welch , which also spawned its own Animated Adaptation . An episode with this plot will usually contain some kind of direct homage to or parody of said film — a favourite being the infamous Clothing Damage scene. Bizarrely, the titles of such episodes surprisingly often reference Journey to the Center of the Earth instead, with the person's name or a noun that describes them in place of "the Earth".

Not to be confused with the funkarific song by Lakeside. Or Coolio's 1994 hit sampling it. Sometimes, characters can go into a robot's body as well, to resolve a Glitch Episode .

Compare and contrast with Journey to the Center of the Mind , Ghost in the Machine , Animate Body Parts , Anthropomorphized Anatomy , and Brain with a Manual Control . If somebody's body just happens to be the Adventure Town this week, you're probably just flying in a Womb Level .

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• The original Astro Boy anime had the episode "Mighty Microbe Army", which actually predates the original Fantastic Voyage by three years. According to Frederick Schodt's book The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Anime Revolution , Fox actually wanted to steal a couple of Osamu Tezuka 's plot elements from the episode, but never credited him for it.
• There's also “Go to the Doctor, Doraemon!”, where Doraemon breaks and Noby has to fix him from the inside.
• In Dragon Ball Z , during the fight versus Buu, Goku and Vegeta ( fused together as "Vegetto") get absorbed by Buu, unfuse, and end up travelling through the villain's body so they can rescue their allies.
• Dr. Slump : In Chapter 89/Episode 61 in the 1981 anime and Episode 22 in the 1997 anime, Dr. Goat shrinks Senbei, Arale and Gatchan to very small proportion with the Big Small Ray Gun and has Midori swallow them. Hazards include fighting a mosquito and exiting Midori's body before they enlarge.
• Galaxy Angel has an episode where the team needs to enter Volcott's body because of some strange thing that make him change his body into several crazy stuff. Mint got haywire and it turns even crazier, which in the end result in Volcott turning into a baby.
• Due to some extremely trippy Applied Phlebotinum , the final battle of the IL arc of Get Backers takes place inside the opponent's body. Thus, hitting Makubex (who was in there with them...) caused the whole landscape to warp and shake.
• Gintama : The Tama Quest Arc which is also a parody of the Dragon Quest game franchise.
• In the third part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , when Steely Dan implants his microscopic Stand, Lovers , into Joseph's head, Polnareff and Kakyoin shrink their own Stands to the same size and enter Joseph's brain to battle Lovers.
• Done in an episode of Kirby: Right Back at Ya! where Kirby goes into King Dedede to cure a cold.
• In the Kyouran Kazoku Nikki episode "The Correct Way to Nurse", Kyouka turns the family, sans Yuuka, into a microscopic virus-fighting squad and takes them inside Ouka's body to remove an artifact that they tried to use to cure his cold.
• Discussed (but ultimately averted) in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid . Takiya suggests that Tohru could do this to cure Kobayashi's fever in chapter 42. Tohru shoots down the idea, saying that Kobayashi's body wouldn't be able to handle it.
• The Osomatsu-san episode "We Caught A Cold" has each brother trade off taking care of the other five when they're all sick; when Jyushimatsu is the well one, he divides into a million microscopic clones of himself, which all invade the bodies of his brothers to fight the infections inside them. It works, but as a side effect, they all end up acting like Jyushimatsu themselves.
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt : Panty and Stocking, after being slipped shrinking drugs by the Daemon sisters and getting fed up with Brief's weird tea parties in "Inner Brief", jump down his throat and stab and shoot him from inside for their amusement.
• In the Parappa The Rapper episode "Did You Say You Didn't Sleep?!", Parappa's friend PJ gets infected by a virus, which causes him to grow into a giant every time he eats. This causes Parappa and his friends to get absorbed into his body and get rid of the virus in order to turn him back to normal.
• Rooster Fighter : Piyoko volunteers to get inside Morio to remove a parasite from his brain.
• The Joseph Lai mockbuster pseudoanime Space Transformers is about a mecha and its young pilots entering the body of a woman... who has a small galaxy inside her body.
• Time Bokan series Yattodetman does this in episode 37 where heroes and villains fight in the brain of a support character.
• In episode 10 anime, Keroro's mouth becomes infested with microscopic, cavity-causing aliens, and a good chunk of the rest of the cast (including a robot duplicate of the sergeant mentally controlled by Keroro) shrinks down and enters his mouth to fight them off. Turns out there's a devil-winged chick inside there. In the end, it happens to Natsumi.
• A later episode has Giroro going inside Natsumi to fight an alien fungus.
• Wonder Beat Scramble is a whole series about this. Aliens seek the Secret of All Life by invading human bodies, and the heroes battle them using the titular ship Wonder Beat.
• There's a comic in which The Atom (Ray Palmer) has to enter the body of a patient to fight an infection. (Given his powers, it would be somewhat surprising to learn that this is the only time that happened.) Then Superman has to get himself shrunk and go in after him when the observers on the outside figure out that the microscopic creatures he's trying to get rid of are actually themselves fighting the infection rather than causing it .
• There's a similar story in a Justice League of America comic in which the whole JL get shrunk by the Atom and enter someone's body. When shrinking themselves down, they also lose their powers, as they have to accelerate their perception of time, which throws their physiologies out of whack, resulting in them being briefly imprisoned by the microscopic life-forms.
• Shortly after this, the Atom shrinks down Steel , Superboy and Supergirl to enter Superman's body to help treat a kryptonite 'tumour' he's recently developed (the Atom is unable to go himself, as he can't cope with the conditions inside Superman at this time, and Steel is briefly replaced by the Prankster, of all people ).
• In The Unknown Supergirl , Kara, who has been affected by a Red Kryptonite meteor, is shrunk to microscopic size, which she uses to her advantage to take care of some infectious viruses that are inside Dick Malverne's adoptive father.
• In The Great Darkness Saga , Yera-as- Shrinking Violet kills a Servant of Darkness by shrinking down, entering her body, and expanding inside her blood vessels to give her a stroke.
• The 18th issue of Justice League Adventures , the first of two comic book tie-ins for the DC Animated Universe Justice League cartoon, has the Atom shrinking the JLA to enter Superman's body and defend it against microscopic aliens who want to control him in order to destroy the mysterious "Evano" who killed their scouts years earlier (actually Evan O., the owner of a comic book store who a kid found their spaceship, thought it was a toy, and put it in water) .
• The tenth and final issue of Madballs has the Madballs Touchdown Terror, Bash Brain, and Fist Face enter the body of their arch-enemy Dr. Frankenbeans so that they could cure him of a virus.
• The second Ant-Man (Scott Lang) does a variation of this when he has to shrink down and enter Iron Man 's armor to repair it after Tony is trapped inside the suit due to damage sustained in a battle with the Hulk .
• Scott does this more literally when he's part of a team helping to cure Bruce Banner's ALS, as he shrinks down and enters the Hulk's body so that he can literally alter Banner's DNA to cure him of the disease.
• Pym does it again in New Avengers to retrieve a device on Luke Cage 's heart, bringing Doctor Strange with him.
• In a later issue of Rom: Spaceknight , Rom and Starshine reduce themselves by the use of Ant-Man's technology to submicroscopic size so they can enter the body of an ant and find a way to defeat a semi-mystical plague.
• An issue of Wolverine and the X-Men (Marvel Comics) has members of the X-Men shrink down and enter the body of Kitty Pryde to eliminate a Brood egg that has entered her system. Please note that this is immediately after Hank just finishes teaching a biology class on mutant genetics that takes place in Toad's body with the same process.
• In The Simpsons , Mr. Burns has become ill from suppressing his need to burp for decades. To undo the blockage that built up in his system, Burns' scientists plan to drop a shrunken submersible into his body. Though the pod can be remote controlled, they still need a pilot in case of an emergency. Since even 'an anthropod will do' Homer is selected.
• In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) #33, Sonic must shrink down and enter Rotor's body to fight off robotic germs.
• Suske en Wiske : In "De Slimme Slapjanus", Suske, Wiske, and Lambik enter Jerome's body this way to find out what is causing him to be so weak all of a sudden, and hopefully destroy it before it does more harm. Sadly, the mission fails so they have to find another way.
• Volume 4 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage) features a variation similar to Futurama 's: instead of shrinking down, the turtles send millions of mentally-willed NanoTurtleBots into April O'Neil's body, which has been infected by millions of NanoBaxterBots. A straight example appears later, with the turtles going into April's sister's body to fight off "alien cancer".
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures story "Big Trouble in Master Splinter" has an example similar to the original comic above, with the turtles going into Splinter's body, since he is the one infected with NanoMousers.
• In Tom Strong , Tom and his gorilla sidekick Solomon have to shrink themselves to enter the body of the malfunctioning robot butler Pneuman (which is more complex than it sounds because Pneuman had originally been a Steampunk robot in the 1890s and had been upgraded continuously right into the 21st century, so his innards contained everything from gears to vacuum tubes to atomic reactors to nanites).
• The Annual issue of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye opens with a group of Autobots led by Rodimus entering Ultra Magnus to destroy a colony of lethal Nanocons .
• The Pokémon Squad : In one episode, Ash swallows Sailor Pikachu's Invader Zim DVD thinking it's a flat donut. Sailor Pikachu demands Max gets it out of him, so Max shrinks Brock and RM to go get it. And guess what the episode is called? RM and Brock: Ash's Inside Story.
• Kris Performs Surgery 's main plot revolves around Susie and Kris entering Rudy's body to fight a tumor. Unlike most examples, though, they do not shrink down and physically enter him to do this, instead having Kris open a Dark World in his chest and going about it in there.
• Vow of Nudity : In one chapter, Kay'la is magically shrunken down to microscopic size and sent into the king's body to try and save him from his mysterious coma.
• Osmosis Jones is this trope from Drix's perspective, as he's a cold medication that enters Frank's body to help the man. From the viewpoint of Thrax, the Big Bad virus, it's an inversion: he invades Frank's body to kill him. Averted by Osmosis Jones himself, a white blood cell who was already a resident of Frank.
• Fantastic Voyage , obviously . The scientist who perfected the technology in the USSR is wounded after defecting and has a bloodclot that can't be operated on externally, so a team goes in on mini-submarine. They only have an hour to complete their mission because the only man who knows how to solve the time-limit problem is the comatose patient.
• Gamera vs. Jiger : The giant turtle is pierced by the ovipositor of his opponent of this film, implanting a larva into him and putting him into a coma. Two kids pilot a mini-sub into Gamera's body to get rid of the larva, successfully killing it by throwing their walkie-talkie at it (because, coincidentally , it's deathly weak to low-frequency sound waves).
• The movie Innerspace , but it's less, "let's enter the body to fix a problem," and more "let's find the tool that can allow me to exit before I run out of air."
• According to the trailer for the Australian documentary/film, That Sugar Film , presenter Damon Gameau shrinks down voluntarily, to go inside of actor Brenton Thwaites 's body and examine the effects that sugar has on the heart and liver. Also, in a metaphysical fashion, when a shrunken version of Gameau goes inside the head of a larger version of himself, to examine the effects that sugar has on the brain.
• In The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear the main character that gives the book its name must venture through a giant's brain in order to get to the other side of a mountain chain, as the giant has died fallen asleep and its head is blocking the pass through the mountains.
• In A Wind in the Door , Meg Murry and several other characters shrink to microscopic size to enter Charles Wallace's mitochondria and save him from the rebellious farandolae destroying him from the inside.
• In the fifth novel in the Young Wizards series, Wizard's Dilemma , Nita and Kit travel into the body of Nita's mother, though they do so in a metaphysical manner rather than by shrinking themselves, with her body's metaphysical representation taking on the appearance of New York City.
• Animorphs : In "The Journey", several members of the team chase some really tiny aliens inside Marco's body with the help of a convenient shrink ray. Unfortunately, the aliens anticipated this and sabotaged the shrink ray, so the team became much smaller than they were intending. This is made more complicated by the fact that Marco can shapeshift, and everyone is nearly crushed to death when he turns into a cockroach.
• Show Within a Show version: in Dream Park , one of the park's many popular attractions is the Mr. Digestion roller coaster.
• Besides the film novelization that he wrote (which is in itself notable for being a movie tie-in that's still in print over forty years after the movie was in theaters ), Isaac Asimov wrote a Spiritual Sequel novel in the 1980s called Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain .
• In Journey to the West (and by extension most adaptations thereof), Sun Wukong shrinks himself and enters Princess Iron Fan's body by hiding in her soup.
• In the first The Paper Magician book, Ceony winds up shrunk down and traveling through Thane's disembodied heart. As she travels, she phases back and forth between his physical heart and his metaphorical heart (desires, fears, etc.) , making this an unusual hybrid with Journey to the Center of the Mind .
• The story "The Space Cow" inverts this; a normal-sized veterinarian enters a gigantic alien organism to attempt to diagnose its apparent illness. The animal is perfectly healthy; it's just lethargic because its young are ready to leave its stomach and begin independent living.
• Lenny Cyrus School Virus has Lenny shrink himself down and enter his crush's body in an attempt to change her mind about not liking him, only to have to save her from a life-threatening disease.
• The Franny K. Stein book Frantastic Voyage had Franny have to enter her dog Igor's body to save his life after he ate a doomsday device she built.
• Pale introduces a variation in the form of the Alcazar Ritual; while the ritual can be done on people (Other or human) to produce the standard version, it can also be used on objects. And while it has its dangers - its initial mention comes with an example of a botched version trapping the celebrant in a loop that reset with her murder, for example - it has come in useful to the protagonists twice now. Once, going into a photo, and the second time going into the furs of the Carmine Beast.
• Harlan Ellison 's short story "Adrift off the Islets of Langerhans" has the werewolf protagonist's microminiaturized clone go into his body in search of his soul.
• In the cartoon segments of The Aquabats! Super Show! , the band shrinks down to infiltrate Jimmy the Robot's body in order to rid him of his parasites that make him malfunction. Humorously, it is never explained how they shrunk themselves down, it just happens.
• In Choujin Sentai Jetman episode 43, the Jetman (minus Kaori) shrink Jet Icarus to go into the Commander's body to save her from a Bio Dimension Beast.
• Joked with in the opening scene of the Community episode " Conventions of Space and Time ", when Troy explains to Britta that them dating might cause Abed to relapse into another meltdown, and have to resort to this trope to bring him back. Abed already knew, but didn't say anything because he liked the donuts that Britta brought to their apartment.
• In Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey , Neil shrinks the Ship of the Imagination down to cellular level to fly into a brown bear's bloodstream, eventually traveling to the ovaries where he can explain how genetic mutations gave rise to polar bears.
• In serial " The Invisible Enemy ", miniaturized clones of the Doctor and Leela enter the Doctor's body to fight a virus. They fail, but clone-Leela's dissolving corpse imbues the Doctor with immunity to the aforementioned virus.
• In the episode " Into the Dalek ", the Doctor, along with Clara Oswald and some human soldiers enter the outer-shell of a malfunctioning Dalek called Rusty.
• Farscape has an episode featuring a Budong, an animal so big that an entire colony of people could live in its corpse collecting the minerals produced in the stomach, with the obvious problems of gastric juices and other treats still in common.
• Spoofed in an episode of Fur TV when Lapeño, Mervin and Fat Ed's Identical Cousin enter Ed's anus after he overgrows due to infected food.
• Another live-action example is an episode of Homeboys in Outer Space .
• The premier episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids did this accidentally when the family and their fully submersible (just in case) minivan wound up inside Grandpa. They did some impromptu cholesterol removal with the laser windshield de-icer, prompting the mother to ask " Why aren't we richer? "
• Hounded : In episode 8 (Queen Mu), Dr Mu has shrunk himself down to the size of a single bacteria, transported himself into her brain and is now controlling her! Rufus, who has sneaked on board Mu Force One and overheard the doctor's scheme, decides to go after him. Inside the Queen's stomach he teams up with a pair of Royal brain-cells who have been evicted from the Royal brain by Dr Mu. Together they set off on an incredible journey around the Queen's body. But when the Queen's yappy little dog arrives in the Palace, things don't go quite according to plan...
• The first season sees Sun Wukong shrinking himself and hiding in soup to infiltrate the stomach of Princess Iron Fan, in order to co-erce her into surrendering her fan by threatening to beat up her insides. It doesn't work when Iron Fan managed to expel Wukong on her own.
• The second season has both Sun Wukong and Bajie turning microscopic-sized to help a king who's long-suffering from constipation, and they find out the king was cursed into having a ball of glutinous rice stuck in his intestinal canal by a vengeful demon, blocking most of his digestive system.
• Kroll Show has a particularly jarring version of this when Bobby Bottleservice, Peter Paparazzo, and Gian shrink down and enter Bobby's own body, in order to rid himself of his love for Farley.
• In a season one episode of Legends of Tomorrow , Ray uses his shrinking Atom suit to enter Kendra's bloodstream and remove fragments of a dagger.
• In one of the more clever Lost in Space episodes, Will Robinson and Dr. Smith find a severely malfunctioning robot who has become a giant due to his problem. The two have to physically enter the robot's body to fix him. However, the major complication is that they know that the second they are successful, the robot's body would start shrinking to normal size and they would have only seconds to escape before they are crushed. Naturally, the pair escape just in time before it was too late.
• The Middleman : The episode "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol" had Wendy go inside Ida 's body to stop nanobots from making her explode. The snarky subtitles referred to it as "Like Fantastic Voyage . Or Die Hard in an Android ".
• The Mighty Boosh : In the episode " Journey to the Centre of the Punk ", punk Vince is infected with a Jazz Virus, and Howard and Lester are shrunk in order to destroy it. This is probably the strangest one ever , especially the antibodies singing a song with Howard while he's trying to convince them he's their friend.
• Mighty Med has an episode in which an envious Kaz uses a shrinking ray on Oliver as revenge for "stealing" his crush. It just so happens that a superhero with metallic skin has fallen ill and, as his skin makes x-rays and injections impossible, the only way to find out what's wrong is to send Oliver inside him. It turns out to be the superhero's arch-enemy, who had shrunken himself down to destroy the hero from the inside.
• In the Mr. Young episode "Mr. Heart", Adam and Derby shrink down and enter Echo's body without her knowledge to fight a flu virus and allow her to go on a date with Adam that same day. Of course, they do have to find a way out again. When they do get out and return to normal size, Echo accidentally shrinks Adam, Derby, and herself. The three of them are accidentally swallowed by Slab, who is seen entering the bathroom during the ending credits, remarking that his favourite stall is free .
• In "No One Knows Libby Like Sabrina Knows Libby", Sabrina enters Libby's brain.
• In a later episode, Sabrina went inside herself to make room in her heart for a new beau.
• When Kirk Douglas hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live , he played a "microdentist" in a sketch that spoofed the movie Fantastic Voyage listed above under live action films.
• The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " One Little Ship " plays with this by having a space anomaly shrink down a runabout. While Dax, O'Brien and Bashir aren't inside a human body, they're on board the Defiant during an attack by the Dominion, and many of the same issues apply. One key component of the shrinking plot is that the ship has been shrunken at the molecular level — this means that the air outside the ship would've been fatal to them if they had tried to breathe it due to the size of the molecules.
• In an episode of Ultraseven entitled "The Flower Where Evil Lies", an alien insect called Darii gets into the body of a young woman related to one of the Ultra Garrison's members. Ultraseven miniaturises himself, and enters the girl's body so he can fight the insect and save her life.
• Ultraman 80 has two episodes in which 80 did this. The first is "The Visitor from Space", in which an old friend of 80 named Alma comes to Earth to study negative energy with her snail-like Jakki. However, Jakki absorbs too much negative energy and goes rogue until it is accidentally consumed by a zoo elephant, transforming the elephant into the giant monster Zuruzlar and forcing 80 to shrink himself and go inside Zuruzlar to subdue Jakki. The second is "I'm a Monster, You Guys!", in which a boy named Tetsuo eats an alien seed on a dare and is turned into a child-sized monster by it (though he still acts and thinks like a kid). The climax sees 80 shrink down and go inside Tetsuo to defeat the space plant.
• An episode of Weird Science has Chett eating a map to a house party that Wyatt and Gary were invited to. Wyatt and Gary shrink down, along with Lisa, to go inside Chett to retrieve the map.
• In an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place , aptly titled "Journey to the Center of Mason", a jealous Mason attempts to eat Dean, Alex's ex-boyfriend, after the two of them start getting close again...and succeeds after Max uses magic to shrink Dean. Alex, Max and Justin then have to go inside of Mason to rescue Dean.
• The song Samut and the Dragon (found in Peter Alsop and Bill Harley In the Hospital ) details a young boy with cancer who uses imagery to help his body heal. Every evening he dresses up like a knight and rides a white stallion into his own body, "by the bloody steaming rivers... through the mighty sinew forest, under tendon trees and bone," until finally he finds the cancer, a dragon, and uses his "healing sword" to strike it down, leaving his body to heal in peace. Of course, the dragon's always back by the next evening, but one hopes it's getting a little weaker.
• The music video for the song Special K by Placebo acts as a kind of homage to the film Fantastic Voyage . The music video takes place at an unspecified laboratory where the lead singer, Brian Molko, is shrunk and sent into the body of drummer Steve Hewitt, in order to locate and destroy a clot somewhere in his brain.
• The last episode of Season 2 of Mitch Benn 's Crimes Against Music is called "Journey to the Centre of Rick Wakeman ", and is about Mitch and his friends doing exactly that in an Affectionate Parody of Wakeman's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" Concept Album , because it's the only way to stop war between England and Wales. Or something.
• In Series Three of Old Harry's Game , Satan and the Professor take a journey into Scumspawn's brain, discovering it to be a wide empty space, containing only tumbleweed and lumbering demon-thoughts. The title of this episode does somewhat reference the Trope Namer - 'The Reasonably Fantastic Journey'.
• An audio series from Radio Phonic Audio, The Space Adventures of Chet Cosmos , has one episode where Chet is infected with parasitic stomach slugs, and the rest of the crew must shrink down and enter his digestive tract to remove them.
• Not long after Fantastic Voyage came out, Stan Freberg did a radio commercial, "Fantastic Sound System" to promote an automaker's car stereo.
• A UK-based stage production titled Intronauts takes place in a dystopian future where miniaturized human workers are injected inside other people in order to carry out "essential maintenance." This production incorporates the use of puppetry and visual imagery alongside its live performance to help the audience feel immersed in the story. The story in particular focuses on a woman who is injected inside a man who has an itch somewhere in his lower abdomen.
• EPCOT used to have a simulator ride called "Body Wars" based on this plot until 2007, when they closed down the entire pavilion that used to host it. It followed the travels of Dr. Cynthia Lair (played by Elisabeth Shue ) as she studies how white blood cells react to a splinter.
• There was also a ride that combines the concept with Journey to the Center of the Mind in the same pavilion, called " Cranium Command ."
• At the Futuroscope , the Virus Attack dynamic movie brings you inside a patient's body in a mission to kill the nasty virus.
• In the ZX Spectrum game Blood and Guts , a miniaturised character must collect bits of a submarine and reconstruct it in the brain in order to escape through the eye, all the while using a laser to fight infections, random white blood cells to clear growths, and collecting red blood cells for oxygen. Eventually Quicksilva decided to abandon all pretense and re-released the game as Fantastic Voyage .
• Bodyworks Voyager is an educational game from 1994 set 20 Minutes in the Future and involving a crack team of commando-doctors trained to pilot fighter ships that are shrunk and injected into a patient's body, where your task is to shoot germs. Considering that this came out years before Trauma Center , some of the bugs are just damn hard .
• For some unknowable reason (wanting to make good use of the textures?), Breath of Fire II is in love with this setting: over the course of the game, Ryu journeys inside a whale (to kill the monsters nesting inside of it and wake it up), a tree (to cure its senility), and an overweight queen (to exterminate the calorie demons inside her organs).
• There is a level in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening which takes place in Leviathan's body. Leviathan isn't big enough to hold all of that space, but his in-game profile says that his body serves as a gateway to the "jealousy hell" (in a nice Shout-Out to Leviathan's traditional role as the patron demon of envy).
• The Doom user mod DTS:T features a level like this with the player wandering inside a human body- although to keep the level playable, the anatomy was incredibly bizarre.
• In one of the missions in Elite Beat Agents , the EBA enter a track star's body in order to encourage his immune system (anthropomorphized as a nurse) in its battle against a rather nasty virus. In the original Japanese game , the Ouendan squad helps antibodies fight off what appears to be food poisoning in a musician.
• Midgame in Final Fantasy II , you are swallowed by Leviathan and must fight your way out of him.
• In Final Fantasy XIV , players have to exploit this trope during the fight against Cerberus in the World of Darkness. Anyone who stands in Cerberus' sticky drool will end up chomped and instantly killed; however, if they let the Gastric Juices hit them with the Mini debuff first, they'll be swallowed whole instead and get a chance to punch the daylights out of Cerberus' stomach lining, causing the beast to collapse and leaving him vulnerable.
• In Final Fantasy Legend II , the party must travel inside Kai in order to fight off micronized soldiers of Ashura and extract the Magi from Kai. While this saves her life, it also means that she can't heal you afterwards since the Magi granted her healing powers.
• Gears of War 2 has Delta Squad swallowed whole by a giant riftworm that's been sinking human cities . Marcus and the gang have to kill it from the inside out using freaking chainsaws .
• The Gradius Gaiden Game Salamander was retooled in the arcade as Life Force , set inside a planet-devouring Eldritch Abomination named Zelos.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) includes a sequence in which Arthur finds himself exploring his own brain.
• Kingdom Hearts has a Monstro Womb Level , which has more anatomical detail than the film it's based on .
• La-Mulana : The Ruins of La-Mulana are the Mother's body, and the true form of the final dungeon is a hybrid ruin/ Womb Level .
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time features Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly, which is a dungeon set inside the body of a giant fish, where you have to kill a parasite that is affecting his behaviour. On the flora side of things, the very first dungeon in the game has you do the same for a giant, sentient tree (Inside the Deku Tree).
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games reuses the two concepts from Ocarina of Time . For both the Maku Trees, within each of them lies the Hall of Secrets, where you can get special items and upgrades in a linked game, and for each essence you obtain, the trees begin to grow and it is after finding the final essence, you can access the very top of the trees. In addition, Jabu-Jabu's Belly serves as the seventh dungeon in Oracle of Ages , where you have to lower and raise the water level a few times until you reach and defeat Plasmarine to obtain the seventh Essence of Time, the Rolling Sea.
• In the 1983 Apple II game Microbe , a miniaturized submarine and crew are injected into a patient's leg vein. They must proceed through various organs and blood vessels to the brain, where they will fix the patient's problem. Certain organs provide specific benefits: the submarine can refuel in the liver and get more air in the lungs.
• The Interactive Movie Microcosm is a space shoot-'em-up with this plot.
• The Intellivision game Micro Surgeon has this as its plot.
• In the Moshi Monsters mission "20,000 Leauges Under the Fur", the monsters must shrink themselves and go into Elder Furi's body to remove Glumps that are in there .
• Done twice in Ōkami . First, a shrunken Amaterasu has to enter the Emperor's body, through his mouth, to stop whatever it is that is making him exhale a noxious gas. A much longer trip involves a full-sized Ammy leaping down the gullet of the Water Dragon and exploring its innards, causing such wounds in the process that the Dragon dies from internal bleeding .
• Project Remedium is an FPS set inside a human body, where you play as a nanobot shooting assorted diseases and illnesses.
• Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters has a level where Ratchet must travel inside Clank in order to reboot him after he is attacked by Technomites.
• Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon , an anti-smoking Edutainment Game for the SNES, has the title character shrinking himself to enter the body of a dying smoker to eradicate tobacco-induced ailments and Mecha-Mooks sent by the evil tobacco company.
• The last part of Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier involves series hero Roger Wilco being sent into the body of his friend/love interest Stellar, to save her from being killed/possessed by nanites. Although Roger has a shrunken shuttlecraft for part of the voyage, much of the action takes place on foot; many of the puzzles involve figuring out how to navigate through Stellar's labyrinthian innards. Among other things, he uses digestive juices to break open a medicine capsule, carries out an improvised balloon angioplasty (using alveoli) to clear a path through a blocked glandular duct, rides a tapeworm through the small intestine to avoid being digested, and jabs her brain with a paper clip to trigger a debris-dislodging cough.
• There's a fan-made mission in Star Trek Online that uses the same "subspace compression" technique that's in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode above to shrink the party and enter someone's body.
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island has a boss fight which features this trope: you're shrunk down to bite-size by Kamek and have to fight your way out of Prince Froggy's stomach.
• Paper Mario 64 : After clearing Chapter 4, the next stop for Mario and his team is Lavalava Island, and their means of transportation is a whale residing at the Toad Town Harbor. Unfortunately, that whale has a bellyache, so Mario and his party have to traverse the inside of that whale's body to defeat a caterpillar-like creature causing his illness.
• The plot of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story has the brothers working with Bowser after the latter ends up sucking them up inside of him.
• Tales of Graces involves being swallowed by an enormous creature called the Rockgagong and navigating the dungeon inside its innards to escape. You can later choose to fight the Rockgagong as a bonus boss, and it is so large it can't fit inside the battle arena .
• The Amiga game Vaxine has you fighting diseases within different organs of the body, only the playing field is an infinite chessboard and the diseases are represented by bouncing balls.
• The Wonderful 101 has a chapter where the team must travel inside the body of Prince Vorkken to prevent a nano-bioweapon called Vaaiki from killing him.
• Irem's shooter X Multiply is set inside a human body, where you pilot a microscopic fighter called an X-002 to battle an alien virus. You even get to see the X-002 coming out of the tip of a syringe at the very beginning of the game.
• AstroLOLogy : In "Shrinking Taurus", Taurus hides an engagement ring intended for Cancer in a slice of cake, only for Aries to eat the whole thing, so Taurus pilots a miniaturized submarine into Aries' body to get it back.
• Seppuku's episode in the World of the Damned storyline of Banana-nana-Ninja! has him shrinking down and swimming through his opponent's intestines and bloodstream.
• The Happy Tree Friends episode "I've Got You Under My Skin" has Sniffles shrinking down to cure Giggles' cold. Unsurprisingly for the series, it ends in far worse maladies than any illness, which kicks off when he accidentally gets injected into Lumpy instead.
• Wendell & Wuggums : The first episode has Wendell (then named Wallace) going inside his dog Wuggums' body after shrinking.
• The Annoying Orange : The episode "Fruit-tastic Voyage" sees Orange and the other fruits traveling inside Nerville in order to remove a laser that had been implanted in his brain by broccoli aliens.
• Parodied in the Smosh sketch "Adult Magic School Bus ", in which Ms. Frizzle (played by Ian) forces the rest of the class on a trip inside of her ex-husband's body to "find out what the inside of a 55-year-old husband's cheating heart looks like" — and then deliberately grows her car back to normal size without leaving his body .
• In the SuperMarioLogan episode "Jeffy Gets Stung By a Bee!", Mario and Brooklyn T. Guy believe that Jeffy swallowed the rare Banana Butterfly, which, when digested, causes the victim's arms to fall off and the victim to turn into a banana, so they shrink themselves down to microscopic size and pilot a microscopic submarine to get the butterfly out of Jeffy's stomach. When it turns out that Jeffy swallowed a bee, they are angry at Jeffy for making them waste their time on him. Then it turns out that Jeffy really did swallow a banana butterfly along with the bee.
• Whale Lords had the characters go into the bowels of their Sky Whale to find the source of its illness. And the players discussed the trope without really realizing it: Lewis: This is like that film, where they got shrunk down. Duncan: " Magic School Bus "? Sips: " Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Then a Whale Ate Them"? Sjin: " Ant-Man "? Simon: " Innerspace "? Lewis: Yes, that's the one! Duncan: That's happened on so many things.
• One of the many sketches from 2DTV sees Tony Blair in hospital suffering from an unknown heart condition. The NHS wants to send a shrunken team of scientists into his body to resolve the problem, but John Prescott steps on them, so John Prescott, David Blunkett (and his guide dog), Jack Straw and Tony's wife Cherie Blair are sent. It turns out that Gordon Brown is the one causing Tony's heart problems, in his latest attempt to become Prime Minister.
• In the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode "Internal Affairs", after Oblina accidentally ingests a parasite monster that forces her to eat constantly, Ickis and Krumm are shrunk down and sent in to remove it before Oblina explodes from overeating.
• In one episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius , Jimmy and Sheen go inside Carl's body in order to get DNA so that Jimmy can make a cure to an illness. Of course, there is then the trouble of how you get out... but they soon decide that they should make Carl sneeze them out.
• An episode of Alf Tales taking advantage of the Little Red Riding Hood story has Alf traveling inside the wolf's body.
• In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode " Unremarkable Voyage ", after Meatwad swallows an experimental computer chip, Frylock shrinks himself to go in and get it. Thanks to a few screw-ups, both he and a miniaturized Carl eventually wind up inside Master Shake. They then have to beat their way out of Shake's eye, killing him in the process. No worries though.
• The Archer story " Drastic Voyage: Part I / Part II " has the group use the shrinking technology to remove a blood clot from the man who invented the Shrink Ray , in a direct Whole-Plot Reference to the film. Unfortunately, Krieger interferes with the procedure, causing them to be injected into the man's foot rather than his neck. It's about the first example when they fail, returning to their size while still in the man's head, killing him instantly.
• Arthur : Doesn't really happen, but in " Buster's Breathless ", Buster Baxter tries to explain his asthma by telling his classmates to imagine themselves inside his lungs.
• The Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode " Journey to the Center of the Bat! ", starring Aquaman, the Atom, and the cutest lymphocyte ever .
• Beetlejuice : In "Forget Me Nuts", BJ got a bad case of Easy Amnesia after being hit by a falling satellite, and a psychiatrist shrinks himself, Lydia, and a duplicate of Beetlejuice so they can enter the original BJ's body, work their way to the brain, and fix the problem.
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures : Bill and Ted go inside their Gym teacher's body. They even befriend the pretty female Anthropomorphic Personifications of his lungs. Makes Sense In Context .
• Bubble Guppies : The outside segment of "Swimtastic Check-Up!" features Goby and Deema going inside Nonny to wipe out a stomach bug.
• In the Bump in the Night episode "Gum Crazy", Mr. Bumpy travels inside his own body with Squishington in an attempt to retrieve the chewing gum stored in his stomach.
• Camp Lakebottom : A miniaturized McGee ends up inside Buttsquat in "Buttastic Voyage".
• This forms the plot of the Captain N: The Game Master episode " Germ Wars ": the rest of the N Team shrinks down to enter Captain N's body to help him fight off a disease.
• In Captain Planet and the Planeteers , the shrunken Planeteers battle microbes from polluted water inside Kwame after he accidentally drinks them.
• In an episode of CatDog , Cat goes inside his and Dog's own body after Cat eats Dog's pet fish. Very, very confusing if you haven't seen it.
• Multiple episodes of The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! have the Cat take Sally and Nick on a tour of someone's body in a shrunken Thingamajigger to learn about various body parts, such as the stomach, the heart, the nose, etc.
• The Chipmunks : In the episode "Inner Dave", the boys are accidentally shrunk by one of Simon's inventions. They end up going inside Dave's head in order to try telling him what happened.
• The titular character of Chowder once ate a really sour fruit that made his lips pucker so tight that he created a portal that sucks himself into his own mouth. He then had to get rid of the pieces of fruit in his mouth, led by "Lord Souron", with sweets and a musical number to get back.
• Codename: Kids Next Door has " Operation S.P.R.O.U.T. ", in which Numbuh Four accidentally eats a Brussels sprout, and Numbuhs One, Two and Five have six minutes to shrink themselves and enter his body to retrieve it before he digests it. They succeed, but then Numbuh Four accidentally eats a piece of liver !
• There is an episode of Cow and Chicken titled "Journey to the Center of Cow" in which Chicken is accidentally swallowed by Cow, in a rare example wherein someone is not shrunk.
• This happens in the Curious George episode "Inside Story", in which the titular character doesn't feel well and has a dream where he and Gnocchi fight the germs that have invaded his body.
• Danger Mouse has an episode in which DM and Penfold use Baron Greenback's shrink ray to follow the villain inside Colonel K. to defeat the toad's terrible plot.
• Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist has an episode in which the crew have to travel into the body of sick Space Whale in order to cure it.
• In one of the earlier seasons of the show, a mini-segment has Dexter exploring Dee Dee's brain, only for Dee Dee to pull him out with a Q-tip.
• The episode "Fantastic Boyage" has Dexter trying to get to Dee Dee's body to combat a cold she's having. He unknowingly ends up in the dog instead.
• Endangered Species (2015) has "Innards Space", in which Pickle is shrunk down and pilots a submarine into Gull's body to locate a TV remote he ate.
• In " Tiny Timmy! ", Timmy shrinks down to microscopic size to do a biology report and ends up inside Vicky. This is treated in an almost joking manner, with Vicky's insides treated as a building with multiple workers
• A straighter example occurs years later in Season 10, with the episode "One Flu Over the Crocker's Nest", involving Timmy and Chloe going inside Mr. Crocker to destroy a fairy virus after Cosmo sneezes on him.
• In " Emission Impossible ", Stewie shrinks himself and enters Peter's body to prevent his parents from reproducing. Apparently all sperm are their potential human counterparts flying around in fighter jets. Stewie also meets a comrade in sperm form who shares the same sadistic tendencies as Stewie. He actually gets born in a later episode after Peter donates sperm.
• Parodied in " Our Idiot Brian ", whereupon being informed that Brian has developed a benign brain tumor that's reducing his intelligence, Peter volunteers to shrink down to destroy it. He resizes almost immediately after and says he was raped by a bug .
• Futurama : In " Parasites Lost ", the Planet Express team enter Fry's body to interact with the worms that started living there . In a twist, they don't shrink because, according to Professor Farnsworth, "That would require extremely tiny atoms" that he's not willing to pay for. Instead, the party uses miniature robot replicas of themselves . This gives Leela('s miniature) the opportunity to slice and dice them up without any long-term ramifications. It also allows for Fry to create his own tiny robot, thus effectively allowing him to go inside his own body .
• In one episode of Gawayn , Gwendolyn and Roderick have to travel inside the body of a dragon to kill the germ causing its acid reflux.
• The Godzilla: The Series episode "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been" has Nick and Monique venture inside Godzilla Jr. For obvious reasons , shrinking isn't required.
• In one episode of Grojband , Kon ends up inside of Trina when he is accidentally zapped by Trina messing around with Kin's shrink ray and gets launched into her mouth in the process. The rest of Grojband has to get Kon out within one hour, because after that, he'll return to his normal size.
• In one episode of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange , Orange and the other fruits are shrunk down and sent inside Nerville on a miniaturized fruit cart to remove a laser that has been implanted in his brain by the broccoli aliens. It Makes Just as Much Sense in Context .
• The I Am Weasel episode "The Incredible Shrinking Weasel" has Weasel and Baboon shrink to repair a crack in the Red Guy's butt bone.
• In the Invader Zim episode " Nanozim ", Zim miniaturizes himself and his spaceship to go invade Dib's brain after Dib manages to get proof of Zim's alienness. Dib then swallows a nanobot and has Gaz remotely control it, eventually leading to Dib's robot and Zim's robot fighting near Dib's brain.
• The Iron Man: The Animated Series episode "Iron Man, On the Inside" does this; Hawkeye's spine is injured in a fight, and Tony has a technological fix but no way to safely insert it. So naturally he goes for hand-delivery. This is further complicated when a similarly-shrunken Ultimo tags along (controlled by a computer hacker who has also hacked into HOMER and made him act bizarrely). [Tony is trapped in a ventricle] "You're giving Hawkeye a heart attack!" "Yeah, and it's me the heart's attacking!"
• A light example in Jackie Chan Adventures when Jackie and Hak Foo are shrunk to near microscopic sizes and end up inside Tohru's head who perceives their voices as voices in his head . Luckily, Tohru sneezes them out before they return to size inside his head.
• The Justice League Action episode "Inside Job" has Batman, Wonder Woman and the Atom shrink and travel inside Superman to save him from nanites Lex Luthor put in his body that are draining him of his strength.
• In the Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode " Poxy ", the heroes must chase after an experiment of microscopic size that is inside Pleakley's body.
• Littlest Pet Shop (1995) has this when Delilah manages to eat Vim, causing Stu and others to go into Delilah to rescue her, where they go into several of Delilah's organs, although with lots of artistic interpretation.
• Several Looney Tunes shorts invert this by sending Bugs Bunny or another character running over and through the body of a giant as if it were a building (including pulling shades down over the giant's window-eyes). These no doubt influenced The Ren & Stimpy Show below.
• The Magic School Bus once takes a tour through the human body in one of the books that spawned the TV series, and then seven times in the TV series: Arnold is the "victim" in the book and the show's adaptation of it (" For Lunch "), with him accidentally ingesting the shrunken bus while eating a snack (which was later adapted into a computer game), while Ralphie and Ms. Frizzle have their turns as well, to investigate the body's immunity system (" Inside Ralphie ") and muscular systems (" Works Out "), respectively. Then they wind up going inside Arnold again to figure out what has made his skin turn orange (" Goes Cellular "). Later on, Arnold's cousin Janet gets her turn when the class goes inside her nose to study smell (" Makes a Stink "). In " Gets Eaten ", they go inside a tuna fish, and in " Cracks a Yolk ", they go inside a chicken (and get laid ).
• The Mega Babies episode "Inner Ear Inferno" involves Meg and Buck being shrunk and travailing inside Derrick in order to find the cause of his ear infection.
• In the Mickey Mouse (2013) episode " Down the Hatch ", Mickey Mouse and Goofy are accidentally miniaturized by a Shrink Ray and then are inadvertently swallowed by Donald Duck . They explore his body, but when he learns that they are in there, the duck tries all he can to get them out. In the end, as the shrinking effects wear off, Mickey and Goofy emerge from Donald by way of a giant egg, laid by Donald, a male duck !
• Mighty Mouse : The New Adventures uses this in the episode "Mundane Voyage", in which Mighty Mouse and Pearl Pureheart are miniaturized and sent into the President's body to save his life.
• Done in the Mona the Vampire episode "The Sam n' Ella Infiltration" to enter the body of someone who is sick.
• An episode of Muppet Babies (1984) has Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo and Skeeter use their imaginations to shrink down to germ-size and give Scooter's bumbling immune system a hand when he catches a cold.
• In the Muppet Babies (2018) episode "Don't Over Duet", the babies use Bunsen and Beaker's miniature submarine to travel inside Piggy's body and find her missing voice box in time for a duet that she's going to sing with Rowlf. Piggy has to learn the importance of taking a break while the other babies search her body, as talking, moving around, and making loud noises all compromise the mission.
• In the Nate Is Late episode "The Spore", Nate and Malika enter their gardener friend Violet's body to destroy the spore inside her stomach.
• In the Ned's Newt episode "Fantastic Neddage", Ned catches a cold and Ned and Newton travel inside his body to find a cure for it.
• The New Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has an episode, "The Mission of Captain Mordecai", in which the three main characters, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, get swallowed by a giant whale while trying to escape a mad Ahab-like sea captain who's trying to force them to be his new crew in his mission to kill said whale. To make matters worse, the giant whale also swallows the captain when he falls overboard while trying to harpoon it, and the rest of the episode deals with the young trio trying to evade the murderous captain while endeavoring to find a way out of the beast, which they finally do by climbing out its blowhole, the whale helping them along by blowing them out.
• In the Oggy and the Cockroaches episode "Globulopolis", while Dee Dee is swimming in a cup of yogurt, Oggy drinks it up, and Dee Dee along with it. Dee Dee then travels around the insides of Oggy and discovers white tiny ghost-clones , repeatedly punches Oggy's bladder as if it was a punching bag, and makes his stomach rumble by eating consumed fish inside it. In the end, when he gets out, he ends up in Oggy's nose and flies into Jack's mouth along with Joey and Marky.
• The Oh Yeah! Cartoons present nanorobotic parameciums known as the "Microcops" working to save a sick guy they live inside from an evil virus bug.
• In the Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero episode "Totally Into Your Body", Boone and Sasha are teleported into a sick Penn's body.
• In the Phineas and Ferb episode " Journey to the Center of Candace ", when Isabella's dog Pinky eats her sash, the boys try to go inside and retrieve it, but accidentally get to Candice’s body instead.
• Pinky and the Brain do this in order to foil an intelligibly-enhanced cat's Dance Sensation plot from being carried out properly by a band, by shrinking themselves and letting themselves get ingested by one of the band members. Unfortunately for them, they get eaten by the completely wrong guy, but they made the best of the situation by having the guy stand in for them. Also done in the comic book, in which they attempt to enter the President's brain, but end up inside the First Dog.
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016) : In the episode " Sugar, Spice and Super Lice ", instead of going inside Buttercup's body, Blossom and Bubbles shrink down and go into her hair to wipe out some lice.
• Quack Pack has an episode in which a germ-loving scientist invades Donald's body, with Huey, Louie and Dewey being shrunk and sent inside their uncle in order to stop him.
• The Real Ghostbusters 's episode " Mean Green Teen Machine " has Egon giving a conference inside a human vein (as part of a Dream Sequence ).
• In the ReBoot episode " The Great Brain Robbery ", Megabyte miniaturizes a mercenary named Mouse and his flunkies Hack and Slash and sends them to probe secrets from Bob's brain. Except they accidentally end up in Enzo's body instead, and Bob goes in after them.
• In the Regular Show episode "Cool Cubed", Thomas drinks a slushie which gives him extreme brain-freeze, and Mordecai and Rigby are sent into his body to thaw his brain out. His brain looks like a frozen wasteland.
• Inverted in a later episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show titled "Blazing Entrails"; a boy genius inflates Stimpy's body with a bicycle pump to ridiculous proportions, so that Ren can enter his body and find out why Stimpy is acting even stupider than usual.
• In the Rex the Runt episode "Holiday in Vince", the dogs voyage into Vince's brain in a shrunken submarine in an attempt to cure his Random Pavarotti Disease (he frequently blurts out short bursts of opera). Eventually they find his tuning knob and retune him to Radio 4 (so he now blurts out gardening tips and the shipping forecast instead).
• The Rick and Morty episode " Anatomy Park " is about Rick sending Morty into a homeless man's body. Bonus points for being a simultaneous send-up of Jurassic Park , with the episode's plot revolving around the eponymous microscopic amusement-park inside of the hobo and the subsequent escape of the viruses held within. Bonus Squick is added by the hobo dying very early into the adventure, leading to a Fantastic Voyage inside the man's decomposing corpse.
• In the 1991 series episode " The Inside Story ", Tommy and co. go inside Chuckie to retrieve a watermelon seed, though Angelica tags along with the intent to make the seed grow and Chuckie's stomach explode. In keeping with the relatively mundane setting, it's All Just a Dream (and once Chuckie wakes up from it, he expels the seed with a burp anyway).
• In the 2021 series episode "Fish Stick", the babies imagine themselves travelling into Chas' body to extract The Fishy Song from it.
• In a tongue-in-cheek episode, Samurai Jack has to enter an ailing dragon's body to cure its devastating flatulence.
• In the Sealab 2021 episode "Craptastic Voyage", when Captain Shanks refuses to get treatment for a brain tumor because of his religion (a thinly disguised parody of Christian Science), Stormy, Quinn, and Debbie Dupree shrink themselves to microscopic size and travel through Shanks' body to deal with it themselves. Subverted in that the episode's mostly Star Wars parodies, not Fantastic Voyage . They don't make it out in time (thanks to the closest passage out of Shanks-his nose- being blocked off by Shanks sticking a hookah pipe up his nose) and end up deforming Shanks.
• In the second season finale of The Secret Saturdays , the first final battle between Zak and Argost takes place inside the body of the super cryptid fake Kur .
• In " So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show ", Professor Frink references Fantastic Voyage by name as he discusses his plan to save Homer's life by miniaturizing three scientists ("one a beautiful woman") and sending them into his body. He doesn't actually follow through with it, noting that he's had a hard time finding volunteers.
• "In the Belly of the Boss", the final segment of " Treehouse of Horror XV ", has the Simpsons travel into Mr. Burns' body after the latter swallows Maggie after she mistakes a giant pill he ate for a ball pit and is shrunk. Marge references Latex Space Suit when she asks why her suit is so flatteringly cut. Homer replies, "But Marge, that's what turns a Mediocre Voyage into a Fantastic Voyage!" (A reference to Raquel Welch in the movie.)
• The South Park episode " Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset " has a twisted parody of this trope in which a gerbil named Lemminwinks has to find his way out of Mr. Slave's ass. Then it happens again with Paris Hilton .
• In Plankton's first appearance in the series, " Plankton! ", he takes control of SpongeBob's brain and makes him make and hand-deliver a Krabby Patty to him personally.
• In " Squidtastic Voyage ", SpongeBob and Patrick enter Squidward's body in order to remove a clarinet reed stuck in his throat. They also screw around with his brain. Unfortunately, after completing the task, Patrick accidentally makes them re-enlarge while still inside Squidward. While he doesn't burst, he does swell up big time from having a full-grown submarine inside of him.
• In " The Inside Job ", Plankton plans to use his new invention, a mind connector, to try to obtain the Krabby Patty formula from Mr. Krabs's brain, but instead of being launched into Mr. Krabs's head, he ends up inside SpongeBob, the second time he enters his body. Traversing SpongeBob's brain and heart, Plankton succeeds in getting the information he wants, but the mind connector soon reveals to have a very nasty side effect when it absorbs the contents of that person's body: it corrupts the wearer's personality and delivers a Painful Transformation to make said wearer look and sound like the person whose information they're absorbing. Long story short: when Plankton absorbed the contents of SpongeBob's body, his personality and appearance changed to look and sound like SpongeBob's. As Karen tries to bring Plankton back to the Chum Bucket, the mission soon fails when the mind connector hits Patrick, causing Plankton's body and personality to look and sound like the dimwitted seastar. Karen: [takes Plankton, now transformed into Patrick, back to the Chum Bucket] Well, where's the recipe? Plankton Star: The what? Karen: I knew you'd louse this up. Plankton Star: Louse what up?
• In " Karen's Virus ", Karen gets sick after she caught a computer virus from a visiting acquaintance, so Plankton asks SpongeBob to deal with it. As such, Plankton digitalized SpongeBob for him to do so. It turns out that the virus has been eating through Karen's internal circuits and threatened to delete her mainframe (while she does a delusional rampage through Bikini Bottom), until SpongeBob used a Krabby Patty to pacify and remove it.
• Superfriends : The 1978 episode "Journey Through Inner Space" has a plot similar to the above Iron Man episode. When Aquaman is turned into a prehistoric sea monster through radiation, a shrunken Superman and Wonder Woman inside the Supermobile are injected into Aquaman's monster body to change him back using another dose of radiation. Meanwhile, the other Superfriends try to stop the monster's rampage.
• Used in an episode of Teen Titans (2003) in which Beast Boy turns into a bacterium to fight a computer virus that has taken over Cyborg.
• Cyborg gets sick again and Robin, who always wanted to do this trope, shrinks himself and the team with a shrink ray he bought just for this purpose and goes into Cyborg. Reality and much Squick ensues, however, when the show deconstructs this trope and Robin experiences how gross the human body really is and leaves without curing Cyborg, disappointed.
• Cyborg himself gets swallowed by the dragon in "The Night Begins to Shine", and encounters a giant killer tapeworm while wandering around in its digestive tract before blasting his way out.
• The Tick : In "Tick vs. Dot and Neil's Wedding", the Tick and company drive a submarine through Dinosaur Neil, who has mutated into a giant dinosaur monster, again, and cure him from the inside. Due to Dinosaur Neil's size, there is no shrinking involved.
• In an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures , Buster, Babs, and Calamity shrink to enter Plucky's head and examine his brain to watch his fantasies.
• Totally Spies! : Sam, Alex, and Clover shrink down to the size of microbes to fight a trio of villains inside Jerry's brain.
• In the finale of Transformers Return Of Convoy , the Battlestars are swallowed by Star Giant and have to fight their way out from within.
• The Transformers has the episode "Microbots", which features Bumblebee, Perceptor, and Brawn shrinking down to enter Megatron and remove a power-enhancing crystal.
• Transformers: Rescue Bots also has an episode in which Kade accidentally ingests some microscopic cleaning bots (Scrubmites), prompting the Rescue Bots to be shrunk down and retrieve them from his body.
• Tuca & Bertie : The Season 3 finale " The Mole " has the titular mole being a doctor that specializes in exploiting his small size to enter patients and repair them from the inside. When he gets lost inside Tuca, Bertie shrinks down and enters Tuca's body to help him fix a growth from an impending rupture in her vagina. Interestingly, it plays out more like a Journey to the Center of the Mind plot considering that Tuca's vagina pretty much also functions as her Happy Place full of homages to her friendship with Bertie.
• In an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) , Spider-Man and Ant Man must shrink down into Fury's body that has been infected with Doc Ock's nano-bots.
• Uncle Grandpa once shrinks himself and Pizza Steve to get inside a kid's brain and make him better at video games.
• The Venture Bros. : Invoked , discussed , and lampshaded in the episode " The Diving Bell vs. the Butter Glider ". For some reason, Doctor Venture is paralyzed, and they can't use an MRI because there's too much metal in his body, so the logical solution from Billy Quizboy is to get a submarine, shrink it down, and go inside to find the problem. Which turns out to be a clot in Doc's bloodstream caused by a previous shrunken submarine piloted by previous clones of Hank and Dean, whose skeletons are still there . The implication is that Billy was quick to suggest this solution because of what a sci-fi geek he is. He name-drops Fantastic Voyage as a "classic" and defends the quality of Innerspace , though his assistant dismisses the premise an old cliché.
• Wacky Races (2017) has an episode in which Dick Dastardly shrinks the other racers to microscopic size in order to win a race that's supposed to take place in an equally tiny racetrack. He does win by default until it's discovered that the other racers have been accidentally swallowed by Dastardly after winding up in the food he was eating. As a result, the race actually ends in a tie.
• In Saban Entertainment 's The Why Why Family , most of the episode segments with Micro and Scopo Why Why, baby Victor's uncles, involve going with Victor into his family's bodies via shrinking themselves . This is also justified because Micro and Scopo are experts on the human body and nutrition.
• Yin Yang Yo! : In the episode "Voyage to the Center of the Yo", Yuck shrinks himself down into Master Yo's body so that he can steal the Toilet Brush of Illumination when the latter retrieves it from the Safety Deposit Box Dimension; Yin and Yang have to shrink themselves down in the battle cruiser and enter Master Yo's body in order to stop Yuck.
• In Young Justice - Revival Series , after Karen 'Bumblebee' Beecher gives birth, she's informed by the doctor that her daughter has a hole in her heart. In order to keep her newborn daughter alive until the heart surgeon can arrive, Karen suits up and shrinks down to microscopic size to enter the baby's body and apply a patch to the hole. Once she finishes this, thinking back to her earlier discussion with her husband about the ethics of DNA manipulation to trigger the Meta-Gene , she then shrinks even further to the point that she can apply the formula she created to a strand of her daughter's DNA... Doctor: This is crazy! I take the baby out of the mom; I never put the mom into the baby!
• Zeke's Pad : In "A Little Sketchy", Zeke and Jay shrink themselves down with the Pad and find themselves smack in the middle of Rachel's brain. Now Zeke and Jay have complete control over Rachel's actions . They make Rachel look like an absolute fool by making her do animal noises, walk into the wall, and say inappropriate things.

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(director: Richard Fleischer; screenwriter: adapted from a story by Jay Lewis Bixby and Otto Klement/Harry Kleiner; cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo; editor: William B. Murphy; cast: Stephen Boyd (Grant), Raquel Welch (Cora Peterson), Edmond O’Brien (General Carter), Donald Pleasence (Dr. Michaels), Arthur O’Connell (Col. Donald Reid), Arthur Kennedy (Dr. Duval), William Redfield (Capt. Bill Owens), Jean del Val (Scientist, Jan Benes); Runtime: 100; 20th-Century-Fox; 1966) “Fantastic Voyage is an absurd but entertaining trip into inner space.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Fantastic Voyage is an absurd but entertaining trip into inner space. It’s a sci-fi adventure boasting some neat special effects and art direction. It won two Oscars, one for Art Direction (Jack Martin Smith and Dale Hennesy) and one for Special Visual Effects (Art Cruikschank).

A leading scientist (Jean del Val) defects to the West and is immediately shot in an ambush. He’s rushed to a secret military hospital in critical condition. He’s very important to the military team running the top secret operation CMDF (Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces), headed by General Carter (Edmond O’Brien) and supervised by Col. Donald Reid (Arthur O’Connell). The scientist is the only one in the world who has valuable info on how to control those who are miniaturized from growing back. At present, they can only be shrunk for not more than 60 minutes.

The only way to save the scientist’s life is to have a medical team in a miniaturized submarine be injected into the bloodstream of the patient and to operate from within his brain on the clot in the one hour time frame they will remain reduced in size. The voyagers will be reduced to the size of a microbe. The mission members include: the best brain surgeon in the world, but someone who is not supposed to be reliable, Dr. Duval (Arthur Kennedy). Duval will perform the delicate operation; while, his medical technician for the last 5 years, Cora Peterson (Raquel Welch), will assist him. The one in charge of the ship and its navigator through the circulatory system will be Dr. Michaels (Donald Pleasence). Michaels will also make sure that Duval operates correctly when using the laser beam, and his decision will count if there are any disputes. The uptight Captain Bill Owens will steer the nuclear powered submarine; and, the James Bond wannabe, Special Agent Grant (Stephen Boyd), will be in charge of security (Dr. Duval might be a traitor) and he will also run the wireless to maintain communication with the control tower.

The voyage landscape is a beautiful trip among the corpuscles and fibers and antibodies. This is totally a tacky special effect film, as unfortunately the dialogue is asinine and the characters are uninvolving. The fun is in trying to find which one is the traitor, but the traitor is too obvious. He’s sweating profusely and twitching from the onset, so much so that he offers no challenge in being discovered. This is one of those films that could have been great if… . Unfortunately the film is too stiff and too full of medical briefings to amount to much more than a feast for the eyes. Raquel is along so she can get into a wet suit and we could see what she’s stacked up to be.

Warning: spoiler to follow in the paragraph.

Conflicts on the voyage concern turbulence from an unknown source that takes the submarine off course into the jugular vein instead of the carotid artery. The traitor messes with the laser beam and causes a short in the electrical valve circuit system. The submarine gets stuck because of fibers clogging the vents, so it must journey to the inner ear. Absolute silence is demanded in that area, but a nurse drops a scissor in the operating theater and there is a temporary shattering effect. Also, antibodies attack the submarine and when that’s repelled, the submarine will eventually get destroyed by the actions of the traitor. The four remaining survivors swim out through the optic nerve of the eye just before the hour is up and they return to their normal size.

REVIEWED ON 5/10/2001 GRADE: C+

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The Meaning Behind Coolio’s Funkadelic ‘Fantastic Voyage’

by Alli Patton October 5, 2022, 1:21 pm

If you’re only here for the infectious slide, slide, slippity-slide in the chorus, the “Fantastic Voyage” is leaving without you. A journey through the harsh realities of life on the streets and an escape from them in search of some semblance of an “American Dream,” Coolio’s 1994 hit is a poetic mission statement, a dream of hope for the future dressed up in elastic grooves and funk-fueled rhythms.

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In honor of the late legend , take a trip through the meaning of “Fantastic Voyage” with us.

The Meaning and Origin

Part Lakeside’s 1981 tune of the same name, part The Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There,” “Fantastic Voyage” borrows the funk of the former and the hopeful escapism of the latter to create something wholly Coolio.

Lakeside’s thumping groove carried Coolio’s tune, giving it a cruising laid-back vibe that offered a bright buoyancy to the grim realities painted by the lyrics. When the artist first cut the track, he said in a 1994 interview with The Baltimore Sun “It was cool. I had some catchy phrases in there, and it was funny, too.” His label also thought the single was good, however, with some lyrical tweaking they believed it could be great.

Not knowing where to go from there, the artist explained “One day, we were listening to some oldies, and this Staple Singers song came on … Right away, soon as I heard it, I said, ‘That’s what I can write it like.’ And I wrote it in about two hours.”

I know a place / Ain’t nobody cryin’ / Ain’t nobody worried / Ain’t no smilin’ faces / Lyin’ to the races , opens the gospel-tinged tune. The 1972 soul serenade “I’ll Take You There” is often interpreted as a reference to civil rights. The songstresses describe a world after the movement has succeeded, a world in which there are no more tears or no more need for worry or fear.

“I’ll Take You There” helped take Coolio’s “Fantastic Voyage” to new depths, giving the song the push toward the multi-dimensional musical journey we know it as today.

When “Fantastic Voyage” arrived, it was a welcome change from the commercialized rap that dominated the mainstream during that time. “I been tired for a long time of superficial, fake, made-up rap that ain’t coming from the heart,” Coolio told the Sun . “It’s all for money and shock value. I ain’t with that, man. When I wrote my album, I wasn’t really aiming for anything but making the kind of album I wanted to make. That was what was most important to me, being able to do exactly what I wanted to do.”

His release of the 1994 album, It Takes a Thief , was far more personal than anything else being brought to the genre. “Most rappers, they only talk about one side of their personality,” he explained. “If they’re a gangsta rapper, then that’s all they talk about. Or if they’re a lover, that’s all they talk about … I just tried to show all sides of my personality, that’s all. Just so it could be more real. I just wanted to make it well-rounded.”

“Fantastic Voyage” offered the perfect deep dive into Coolio’s personal side. The song championed coming together. Like The Staples Singers classic from which it took inspiration, the song ventured to a place where differences like race and class weren’t obstacles. Opening with:

Come on y’all let’s take a ride don’t you say shit just get inside It’s time to take your ass on another kind of trip coz you can’t have the hop if you don’t have the hip grab your gat with the extra clip and, close your eyes and hit the switch We’re going to a place where everybody kick it kick it, kick it, yeah… that’s the ticket

Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage, he sings in the chorus, flanked by the catchy slide slide slippity-slide . The song continues with the same dream, imagining a place where Coolio and his family can live without fear, a place where there ain’t no bloodin’, ain’t no crippin’, and where it really don’t matter if you’re white or black .

I’m tryin’ to find a place where I can live my life and maybe eat some steak with my beans and rice, a place where my kids can play outside without livin’ in fear of a drive-by

Coolio raps Life is a bitch and then you die / still tryin’ to get a peace of the apple pie , chronicling a hard life that asks a lot in order to overcome it. He continues:

you gotta have heart son, if you wanna go, watch this sweet chariot swing low ain’t nobody cryin` ain’t nobody dyin ain’t nobody worryin’, everybody’s tryin nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’ if you wanna have something, you better start frontin’ what ya gonna do when the 5 roll by you better be ready, so you can ride

When you’re living in a city it’s do or die , Coolio explains as the song comes to a close with its bouncing chorus.

Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage

The Music Video

The song’s accompanying music video opens with Coolio napping in a recliner on his front porch. A phone call from his friend Spoon wakes him. Asking about a trip to the beach, Spoon is quickly cut off by the rapper who responds annoyed, saying “We ain’t got no car,” looking out at the bicycle in disrepair in his driveway.

Suddenly, a mysterious man straight out of the ’70s appears, draped in a leisure suit and wielding a cane. With the flick of his cane, the man turns the bike into a blue 1965 Chevrolet Impala convertible car with hydraulics. Now with transportation, Coolio picks up his friends on the way to the beach and a “Fantastic Voyage” ensues.

The car is transformed back into the bicycle in the driveway as the video ends. The events of the day were merely a dream as Coolio is again woken up by Spoon calling to ask why he hung up on him, still trying to sell him on a beach trip. Coolio reminds him that they have no car, hanging up once again.

The rapper looks out at the bike to see something surprising hanging from the bike’s front wheel hub.

Coolio is no stranger to being parodied , but this time he joined in. In 2018, Chrysler used “Fantastic Voyage” to promote the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, releasing an ad disguised as a music video. Cringingly called “Vantastic Voyage” and featuring the rapper himself, the video spoofs the original, nearly frame-by-frame.

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As we mourn the passing of ‘60s icon Raquel Welch, we ponder why her breakthrough sci-fi classic, Fantastic Voyage, has not received a full-on upgrade.

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When 1960s and ‘70s icon Raquel Welch died last week at the age of 82 , much of the media focus was on her (well-deserved) status as one of the most memorable and gorgeous sex symbols in movie history. A lot of the coverage, in fact, noted that the Chicago native’s substantial talents as an actress, singer, and dancer (she appeared in 30 films, numerous TV series, and hosted a handful of her own variety specials), were overshadowed by her status as one of the era’s premiere pinups.

While she may be best remembered for her turn as a skimpily-clad cavewoman in 1966’s One Million Years B.C. , her breakout role came earlier that year in the 20th Century Fox sci-fi spectacle Fantastic Voyage . The film was Welch’s fourth, but the first in which she had a lead role. She played Cora Peterson, one of five members of a medical team who are miniaturized, along with a small submarine, and injected into the body of a defecting Soviet scientist in order to remove a clot from his brain and save his life.

With only 60 minutes in which to work, since that is when the miniaturization process will subside and they’ll revert to full size, the team makes its way via the patient’s bloodstream through various marquee organs—the heart, the lungs, the ear—each with their own dangers and challenges. Meanwhile the crew’s security officer (Stephen Boyd) begins to suspect that someone on board is a saboteur, installed on the mission by the enemy government to kill him from the inside.

Welch doesn’t have a lot of dialogue in the movie, but for the era, she’s no wallflower either. Her character is a capable technician charged with assisting the surgeon who’s going to perform the procedure. Welch and the rest of the cast, which also includes reliable character actors like Boyd ( Ben-Hur ), Donald Pleasance ( Halloween ), and Edmond O’Brian ( Seven Days in May ), all acquit themselves reasonably well considering that they spend most of the movie either on wires or in the cramped submarine set.

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Like many movies of its time, Fantastic Voyage is best remembered for its audacious (if scientifically ludicrous) premise and its technical presentation of the inner workings of the human body, which were recreated through the use of large sets , animation, and rear projection. The 57-year-old movie looks shakier today in visual terms—although one has to wonder how far we’ve really come from matte images to, say, the Volume—but watching it begs the question: Why hasn’t this been remade?

A Sci-Fi Spectacle of Its Time

Directed by Richard Fleischer, whose other sci-fi outings included the Disney submarine classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and the seminal Charlton Heston overpopulation thriller Soylent Green (1973), Fantastic Voyage was conceived by writers Otto Clement and Jerome Bixby (the latter wrote the classic “It’s a Good Life” episode of The Twilight Zone and penned two of the original Star Trek ’s most famous segments , “Mirror, Mirror” and “Day of the Dove”).

The story was adapted by David Duncan ( The Time Machine ) and the final screenplay penned by Harry Kleiner (yes, they had multiple writers on films back then too!), with science fiction titan Isaac Asimov approached to write the novelization. Because Asimov penned the book at a fairly rapid pace, leading it to come out ahead of the movie due to the latter’s production delays, it was a common misconception for years that Asimov himself came up with the premise and story.

Many of the internal organs that the submarine (dubbed the Proteus) travels through were created as full-sized sets, in which a five-foot model of the craft would sail. A full-sized set of the Proteus interior was also built, along with other versions of various sizes. Fox had announced prior to production that Fantastic Voyage would be the most expensive sci-fi film made to date, and with a final budget of $6 million (about $56 million when adjusted for inflation), the picture certainly lived up to that billing.

Critical reception at the time was mostly kind, and Fantastic Voyage won Oscars for Best Special Effects and Best Art Direction . Looking at it now, it moves more slowly than modern VFX-driven blockbusters (as do most films made before, say, the mid-1990s), and as mentioned the effects have not aged all that well. But there is absolutely a sense of wonder and even awe still present in the film, the imagery is colorful, imaginative, and psychedelic, and its ticking-clock narrative still builds in suspense and tension.

With Hollywood always on the lookout for another IP to remake or reinvigorate, it stands to reason that Fantastic Voyage would be ripe for rediscovery. The basic story remains sound, from a genre point of view, and the capabilities of modern VFX houses would no doubt be able to bring the interior of the human body to life in ways that the makers of the 1966 movie could have only dreamed about.

So what’s the holdup? The truth is that Fantastic Voyage has been on the remake “to-do” list for years, but even some heavyweight genre filmmakers have been unable to get it to the starting gate, never mind across the finish line.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 Is Better Without Fast Travel

Fast travel is an extremely common and welcome quality of life improvement in modern open-world games, but it's a mechanic Dragon's Dogma 2 heavily deemphasizes. It sounds annoying, but to my surprise, it's made me enjoy the game even more than I already did.

It's worth noting there are some fast travel options in the game, but they're limited. Oxcarts are the easiest, most affordable option, but they're only available in certain cities, and each route only has one of two destinations. They're also prone to attacks. In one extreme case, I got off the cart to slay some goblins, turned around to get back on the cart, and saw it get absolutely decimated by a griffin attack, leaving me stranded in the middle of nowhere. The other fast-travel option is an expensive item called a ferrystone, which can be used to travel to an extremely rare magic landmark called a portcrystal. 

There was some controversy around the launch of Dragon's Dogma 2 about the fact that certain items, including portcrystals, could be purchased as microtransactions . As I play the game, this frustrates me as well, but not because I wish it was a free option – it shouldn't be an option at all. Using real money to sidestep that obstacle misses the point of the game, and it's a frustrating way for Capcom to make money. Dragon's Dogma 2 is designed around the inability to move quickly throughout the world and is far stronger because of it. 

According to NPCs in the game, the world is perilous, but the lack of fast travel shows players just how dangerous and inconvenient it actually is. Journeying out into the wild means you'll be facing enemies in battle, and the more damage you take, the more your maximum health drops. Too many encounters can leave you with a dangerously low health bar, leaving you just a few hits away from death, even from the easiest foes. You can only heal yourself fully by sleeping, which can be done in an inn in town or at campsites in the wilderness. You can only sleep at campsites if you have the right gear, though, and since it's pretty heavy, you'll have to clear space in your inventory. After all, the more you're carrying, the slower you move.

Even if you don't need to heal, it's worth making the space to avoid being exposed at night, when the monsters are much deadlier. That said, even in a tent, unlucky adventurers can be ambushed in the middle of the night, forcing you to flee or defend yourself. This is all assuming you can even find a campsite since visibility at night is very low, even with a lantern, and lanterns can run out of fuel if you're not careful.

On paper, this sounds miserable. 

It sounds like a game nobody in their right mind would play because it seems so intent on punishing the player. And yet, it's these harsh systems that make the game so rewarding. Braving all of those conditions, defeating huge monsters, and barely arriving back to town alive is thrilling every time, and by the time you're strong and smart enough to make expeditions with ease, you feel much stronger for it. My fondest memories of Dragon's Dogma 2 all involve narrowly surviving dangerous journeys. Those memories wouldn't exist if fast travel was an easy option. 

It also adds to the scale of the world. Because other cities aren't reached as easily, it's a big deal to leave town to venture off to the capital of a neighboring country. When someone in one town asks you to visit another, it's a huge request, because it might take multiple in-game days and a real-world hour. Imagine arriving in Berlin, Germany only to hear that someone needs a favor from you that involves a visit to Paris, France. It's a monumental task and explains why they specifically need the help of an adventurer like you. When you decide to help someone, that decision has serious weight to it, especially when you take into account the fact that many of the quests run on a timer.

Here's an example of an experience I had that would have been ruined by fast travel. It takes me the better part of an in-game day to reach a quest marker, where a group of bandits is supposedly headquartered. As I get close, one of them flees inside, and even though I'm not at full strength, I know I have to follow now or lose their trail. What follows is a grueling gauntlet that has me and my team of pawns taking on their entire organization, with several party members downed multiple times, until we finally claim victory. 

But when I emerge back into the open air, there are two huge problems. First, it's nighttime, and second, the closest campfire is currently the site of a battle between some travelers, an army of magic skeletons, and an ogre. I try to take the enemies out quickly so I can use the campfire to rest, but I quickly realize I'm way out of my league, especially after battling that whole bandit camp. My pawns all die, and I'm forced to limp off into the night, alone, hoping to find a campfire. I finally do, only to realize my pawn was carrying the camping gear – I couldn't rest even if I wanted to. Then, as if things couldn't get any worse, my lantern burns out, leaving me in the middle of nowhere with no friends and no light.

Despite all that, I survived. I managed to craft some more oil for the lantern, use a dash ability from my vocation to avoid enemies, and make it back to the nearest town just as the sun began to rise. This was not scripted, and if someone tried to write it into the game, it wouldn't be as meaningful of an experience. The open world of Dragon's Dogma 2 is not an obstacle you need to surmount to reach the main parts of the game. The open world is the game. It's a symphony of hostile systems that, when overcome, create one-of-a-kind stories I get to tell my friends about. An easy, free fast travel system would negate all of this.  The friction of the journey is what makes the conclusion so rewarding. Why would I ever want to avoid that?

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