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The ACS® is an Emmy Award winning American animated television series created by multiple associations and studios, including KM Publishing, Fanon Fun! Entertainment, Family Fanon Favorites Entertainment, and Typewriter Productions. The show first aired on April 18, 2013, on KM TV, and also airs on Nicktoons 1000, The Best! Cartoons, NickFlip, MegaNicktoons, Vision, Nicktoons Central, and Nicktoons Go!. The show focuses on the ACS, a group of heroes trying to make the world a better place. The show takes place in 2023-2024 (third season is 2033), years after LT Fan's death. The show features a wide array of heroes from the Nickelodeon Fanonverse. The general format of each episode is to have the ACS deal with a particular situation, with a focus on both action and character interaction. Most episodes tell a self-contained story, but the series also features extended story arcs.

Throughout April and June of 2013, new episodes of The ACS aired every Thursday on KM TV. After its two month hiatus, new episodes would air every Monday. During its second and third seasons, new episodes aired every Sunday.

The success of the series has lead to it developing into its own franchise.

Crew

 * KM has written most episodes. He is the series creator, executive producer, and showrunner.
 * Bagel has written Wronged Identity, A Planet in Need, Riddles, and The Epic Episode. He is the co-creator and an executive producer.
 * Stacy is the regular cartoonist and illustrator for the show.
 * Wario has made the storyboard for Protest and written Kings and Thieves, An ACS Movie, Odd Man Out, and The Golden Bandit. He is an executive producer and assistant producer for season two.
 * Web has written The Life of a Fighter. He is a producer and was previously an assistant producer for season one.
 * Rob has made the storyboard for A Team of their Own. He is a writer.
 * JJam was the former executive producer.
 * Derpy has written Panda. He is a writer.

Production
Series creator KM served as the executive producer during the show's entire history, and functioned as its showrunner from the show's debut. The show underwent a temporary hiatus throughout July and August of 2013, but later returned in September.

Summary
The years have been idyllic in the Nickelodeon Fanonverse. It's been years since LT Fan's demise, and since then, crime has remarkably decreased. The heroes of the Fanonverse have gone their own ways. They never thought a threat such as LT Fan would ever emerge again. They are all, however, going to be proven wrong and pay for their impudence.

Season one
Though season one features a wide array of villains, the primary antagonists of season one are Project Venture, a secret division of the United States government dedicated to destroying the ACS.

Additionally, this season features The Return of LT Fan and Into the Future extended story arcs.

Season two
Numerous villains featured in season one have returned, this time forming the deadly TAO (The Abduxuel Oddities), a loose-knit organization formed to combat the increased superhero coordination of the first season. However, the main plot is introduced later in the season starting with Things That Go Bump in the Night. The ACS also gain secondary helpers known as the Non-ACS this season.

Additionally, this season features the Oblivion extended story arc.

Season three
Season three of The ACS takes place nine years later, exactly the same time the events of Fanonverse Jr. take place.

Episodes
Main article: The ACS/Episodes

Characters
Main article: The ACS/Characters

The ACS has a large and colorful cast of characters, running a gamut of detailed histories and complex personalities, and allowing many of them their fair share in the spotlight. These characters are also seen to grow and mature as the series progresses.

Censorship
All of the firearms on the show are named after real firearms, however, these firearms don't look realistic and bear little resemblance to the actual gun it's suppose to be. The firearms are essentially "pew pew" guns, often shooting anything but bullets. Blood is absent in most versions of the show except in Japan. Blood is, however, present in all versions of the theatrical movie, The ACS: High Society.

Expletives
Expletives in The ACS are uncommon, even in the TV-14 episodes. Instead, swears are usually replaced with puns, euphemisms, or uttered through subterfuges.

DVD releases
The ACS was released on DVD on January 25, 2014, and presents the series' episodes in their airing order along with special features.

Deleted scene in DVD release
Morality Questioned was later altered from its original airing on April 27, 2013. Originally the civic speech featured several iconic attendees including W3 Source, Sharkrill, Joe the Marksman, and Dr. Unknown. All these characters, except Dr. Unknown, were later removed (for obvious reasons) and the scene pacing was re-edited for subsequent airings and its DVD release.

Trivia

 * Wario is the youngest member of the group, being 21-years-old.
 * JJam is, hands down, the most underrated member.
 * The fourteenth episode of season two is named Wednesday in homage to The Bagel Show episode Tuesday, in which Chrome debuted.
 * The Golden Bandit references the cancelled now non-canon spin-off called The Wario Show and uses some of it's plot devices and characters.
 * The ACS uses the same font as CNN.