Rainbow Family

Rainbow Family is an American-Canadian-Japanese-French Animated series created by Caterpillar Studios for Nelvana. It premiered in the US on Cartoon Network (later, NBC on its Discovery Kids block and Jetix) (As a competitor to Pecola), In Canada, TVO Kids, Disney Channel in Japan and Fox France in France. It revolves around a family of Seven bug-like creatures known as the Rainbowfolk as they go on adventures restoring all of the colors stolen from the wicked Queen Mintipede. The Series was originally created as a competitor to Pecola before just airing for no reason. The series spawned several things. Inducing a TV Movie for NBC, several video games, and an Anime reboot for Tokyo TV and Fox.

Plot
After a severe war between the Rainbowfolk and the Mintipedes, the Mintipedes decided to wipe out all of the colors on the entire planet as a form of revenge after they lost the great war. Everyone was affect. Except for the seven who didn't participate in the War. Each episode revolves around the Mintipede kingdom doing an act of evil and creating a Monster (or Color beast in the English dub) to stop them. Usally, they're weak to a color (Such as Red).

Heroes

 * Red - A courageous young girl with a huge imagination. She may be seven years old, but she won't go down with out an imaginary fight. She tends to make imaginary enemies to train for actual battle with monsters. She resembles a red caterpillar.
 * Orange - An Adolescent male who seems to be attracted to girls around his age (16). He uses his attraction powers to slow down various foes (such as the fenifly). Though he tends to place self-control first. He resembles an orange ladybug.
 * Yellow - Yellow is a sassy 12 year old who likes to act rebellious (But in a good way). Unlike her younger sister Red, who can be easily manipulated, She can be quite disloyal to villains. However, she is aware that doing it to someone she knows is good will result in something bad. She is bagworm.
 * Green - Green is a cowardly 10 year old who fears evil. His cowardness can alert the others when a Color Beast arrives. His trademark phrase is "The only thing to fear is fear itself and also spiders". Ironically, he is a Spider.
 * Blue - Blue is a shy 18 year old. He is the oldest of the group. Usually hiding back from those he doesn't know. When he does, the monsters call him cowardly until Green stares at them with an angry face. He is also criticism intolerant. As he calls anyone who judges him even the slightest, a hater. He is a moth.
 * Indigo - Indigo is a indigo a 15 year old girl who is a nerd. She is extremely smart and is even the smartest at her school, Colorless high. She's also Anti-SJW and uses her electronics (such as a Nintendo DS-like system, the Double phone) against evil. She is a thick beetle larva and hopes that she becomes mature by 16.
 * Violet - Violet is a 17 year old with anger issues. She is sometime refereed as Violent Violet. She uses an assortment of things to beat up her foes. Ranging from her fists to a new invention created by Indigo, her younger sister. When she wins, she does the angry dance of anger as a sign of happiness. She is a Wasp.

Villains
The Mintipede Queen - She is a wicked queen who decided to take all of the color away as a response of loss of the war. Her next target is the Rainbow Family. She gets her name from her species, the Mintipede who are Centipedes who smell like mints.
 * The White Knights - A group of easily manipulated flies who follow the Queen's directions. They tend get into conflict with each other. They also created two holidays named Flyday. Which fall on the last Friday of September and The 25th of March.
 * The Bacon Clown - A corrupt clown who treats defenseless animals like another meal to him. In some episodes, he tends to kidnap Red and Green because they're the weakest of the seven. Funny enough, the two things he fears are himself and Violet due to her Violent behavior.
 * Imaginary Enemies - A group of creatures from Red's Imagination (hence the name) They only appear in her and are weak to her as well.

VHS
On VHS, Rainbow Family was released on four VHSes. All from Paramount Home Video. They are:
 * Colorful Stories
 * Red Vs. the Imaginary Evil
 * Fear of a Spider
 * and Flyday.

DVD
On DVD, the series was released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment under the Caterpillar Studios Collection. All six series, its TV Movie and additional DVDs were released by Disney.

Blu-Ray
The Series was last seen on Blu-Ray by GKIDS and their distributor: Universal Home Entertainment.

Video Games

 * Rainbow Family: The Game - An RPG released for the PlayStation 2, XBOX, Gamecube and GBA. The GBA port is rated E and the console ports are rated E10+.
 * Rainbow Family: Red and Imaginary War - A platformed released for the Nintendo DS. It is rated E.
 * Rainbow Family: Violet's Blinding Rage - A 1st person shooter released for the Wii, PlayStation 3 and XBOX 360. It is rated T.
 * Rainbow Family: Night of the Metamorphosis - A sci-fi RPG released for the Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Nintendo 3DS. It is rated E.