Golden Axe is an American animated fantasy action black comedy television series created by Mike McMahan and Joe Chandler that premiered on Paramount+. It is based on the video game series developed and published by Sega. The series features the voices of Matthew Rhys, Danny Pudi, Lisa Gilroy, Liam McIntyre and Carl Tart as the show's main characters.
Plans for an animated series based on the video game franchise were officially confirmed in April 2024, when Comedy Central gave the series a ten episode order. That same day, the main cast was officially confirmed.
The series is produced by CBS Eye Animation Productions, Sony Pictures Television, Original Film, Sega Sammy Group and Important Science, with Titmouse, Inc. handling the show's animation.
Contents
Premise
Golden Axe is based on the 1989 arcade game of the same name. This follows a trio of warriors: Ax Battler, Tyris Flare, and Gilius Thunderhead. The warriors are battling to save Yuria from an evil giant known as Death Adder with the inexperienced and underprepared Hampton Squib by their side.
Voice cast
Main
Matthew Rhys as Gilius Thunderhead, a battle dwarf.
Liam McIntyre as Ax Battler, a barbarian warrior.
Lisa Gilroy as Tyris Flare, a battle sorceress.
Danny Pudi as Hampton Squib, an inexperienced first-time adventurer. The character is original to this series.
Carl Tart as Chronos "Evil" Lait, a humanoid panther.
SungWon Cho as the narrator.
Recurring
Haley Joel Osment as Janzu, a small elf-like thief who loves being kicked by others for his potions
Eugene Cordero as Bruiser, one of the Bad Brothers
Eric Bauza as Rooster, one of the Bad Brothers
Stephanie Beatriz as Druda Hildegrade, a skeleton and one of Hampton's former childhood bullies who used to served Death Adder before reforming and joining Gulius and Hampton on their quest to defeat Death Adder.
Guest
James Adomian as Moggabog, a 1000-year-old troll
Fred Tatasciore as Damned Hellstrike, one of Death Adder's henchmen who is also revealed to be Chronos' father and creator
Andy Daly as Dry Andy, a sober villager from Tender Hamlet
Dee Bradley Baker as Dark Guld
Kayvan Novak as Linus Squib, Hampton's father
Amy Sedaris as Midge Squib, Hampton's mother
Bashir Salahuddin as Thaxton, a famous bard who holds a grudge against Gilius
Richard Kind as the Executioner
Chris Diamantopoulos as Alex, a former acquaintace of Gilius' who died out of cowardice in the appropriately-named Cowoods
Kumail Nanjiani as the Eye of Novira
Heather Anne Campbell
Joe Chandler
Jonathan Braylock
Toks Olagundoye
Steph Tolev
Production
Development
On April 17, 2024, Comedy Central revealed that they had plans to give a 10-episode order animated series inspired by the video game series published by Sega. It is created by Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan with Joe Chandler. McMahan and Chandler would co-write the first episode and serve as executive producers, with Chandler serving as showrunner. Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio and Ben Kalina serve as the executive producers of the series, while Haruki Satomi, Shuji Utsumi, Toru Nakahara, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty and Toby Ascher are on board as well. Golden Axe comes from CBS Eye Animation Productions, an animation arm of CBS Studios, Sony Pictures Television and Original Film.
Casting
Alongside the announcement of the series, it was reported Matthew Rhys, Danny Pudi, Lisa Gilroy, Liam McIntyre and Carl Tart had been cast as the main characters.
Animation
The show's animation is being handled by the animation studio Titmouse, Inc.
Release
Golden Axe was originally set to premiere on Comedy Central. In August 2026, it was reported that the series would instead premiere on Paramount+ on September 16, 2026.
