Canadians of a certain age will already know what I’m talking about.

Our heroine is the product of Nazi science and must feed on her fellow creations for the chemicals she requires to live, stalking these sentient tools of fascism becomes not just a duty but a necessity and a hunger. Her identity hidden, only revealed in the moonlight hours of her hunt, provides a strong queer allegory as she lives by day as a mild-mannered man and rebuffs romantic affections.

Cybersix is only one 13-episode season long, and I still recommend it even as an adult. Even to those who, living outside of Canada, will have no nostalgia for this late-90s CanCon re-run staple. Now this comes with a bit of an asterisk: there’s a fair amount of problematic depictions in this for a kids’ cartoon. There’s child abuse, a ranting nazi, one of the characters is drawn like a Yellow Peril caricature, not to mention some fairly graphic violence for the time slot and some on-screen deaths. But I’m always of the mind that the message is the soul of the media, and the message here is dope.

When I saw Wierd Writer start a “girly” blogwagon it didn’t take me long to pick recommending this as my jumping aboard. Cybersix always did strike me as somehow more feminine than her contemporaries in punch-up superhero cartoons. Sure there is plenty of beating up goons but superhero cartoons are really about the named villains; episode to episode Cybersix is forced to confront different weird science siblings and will always strive for a compassionate resolution, empathizing with her fellow monsters and extending them sororal love. Unless they are a furry trying to steal her man, then they just fall off a roof and die.