• Air date: 23 Apr '10 21 episodes
      Generator Rex is an American science fiction "nanopunk" action animated television series created by Man of Action for Cartoon Network. John Fang of Cartoon Network Studios serves as supervising director. It is inspired by the comic M. Rex, published by Image Comics in 1999. The series premiered in the United States on April 23, 2010, on Cartoon Network. Generator Rex is rated TV-PG. The last episode of the third season had aired on January 3, 2013.
  • List of Episodes (21)
    • 1. Day That Everything Changed

      23 Apr '10
      Rex defeats and cures an E.V.O. rampaging through a city. Criticized by his superiors over his performance and frustrated by his lack of freedom, Rex breaks out of Providence with Bobo and goes on a road trip. In a city, he meets a group of young men. A young blond named Noah comes by and tells him that the boys are just using him. After telling the boys he doesn't want to give them anymore freebies, they call him a freak and leave. Noah stays and quickly befriends Rex. When Agent Six comes to r
    • 2. String Theory

      30 Apr '10
      Rex is sent on a mission to lower Manhattan, where an E.V.O.-infected human named Peter Meechum which infects everything it touches is turning humans into zombies. Rex wants to attempt a cure, but White Knight is determined to prevent the infection from spreading, and is willing to resort to destroying the city with a nuclear bomb. Complicating the matter further, Peter is being blackmailed by Van Kleiss (who has Biowulf kidnap his daughter) and refuses the cure. Rex and Agent Six must cooperate
    • 3. Beyond the Sea

      07 May '10
      In the hope of finally getting to do something normal, Rex stages another breakout, giving Noah and Bobo a lift to the tourist destination of Cabo Luna for spring break. During a volleyball game, he meets and falls for a girl called Circe, who initially wants nothing to do with him. Another chance encounter later leads Rex to discover that she is an E.V.O. with ultrasonic sound powers who is trying to earn the right to join the Pack by defeating an E.V.O. sea monster. While Agent Six, Bobo, and
    • 4. Lockdown

      14 May '10
      While investigating a mysterious bunker at Providence's Petting Zoo known as "The Hold," Rex and Noah stumble onto a formidable spider-like E.V.O. After White Knight locks down the Petting Zoo, Rex and Noah must make it to the exit alive. A panicky Noah lets slip that he works for White Knight, which rattles Rex so deeply that he loses the use of his powers. The two manage to make it to the exit, but while Noah apologizes for his deception the friendship seems over. However, after the spider sna
    • 5. The Architect

      21 May '10
      Having fled Providence, Rex is traveling through a desert when he comes across a construction crew under attack by rat-like E.V.O.s. After Rex intervenes to save them, the foreman Jacob invites him to a nearby optically-cloaked village of engineers, who are working to create communication between the nanites and humans, in an attempt to achieve harmony and peace, all under the direction of a mysterious man they call "the Architect." The idyllic atmosphere and the sense of belonging he experience
    • 6. Frostbite

      28 May '10
      Absorbing the nanites from cured Evos takes its toll on Rex, and he is taken to a remote Providence base in the Arctic codenamed "Paradise" to have the excess nanites extracted and stored. The base commander Weaver is upset about the unscheduled visit, and his personnel are uncooperative. Dr. Holiday has to threaten them to have Rex treated. Rex is sedated for the procedure; after having an odd dream, he wakes up to find the base personnel unconscious (possibly dead), Six, Holiday, and Bobo miss
    • 7. Leader Of The Pack

      04 Jun '10
      The agents of Providence mobilize to stop Van Kleiss when he arrives in New York City aboard a giant flying whale-like E.V.O., but are forced to stand down when it turns out that he is there to address the UN and therefore has diplomatic immunity. Rex observes Circe among Van Kleiss' followers. Later at Providence, while voicing his suspicions, Rex learns that he has been invited to a reception at the Abysus consulate, though White Knight intends to dispatch Agent Six and Dr. Holiday instead, no
    • 8. Breach

      11 Jun '10
      Rex wakes up in a creepy boarding school, full of mannequins and stuffed animals, but no people. He is able to use his ear-link communicator to talk to Dr. Holiday, who informs him that he had been fighting an E.V.O. when Breach appeared out of nowhere and teleported Rex away. Providence has Breach in custody, but while Six and Bobo are detected in a desert somewhere, Rex cannot be located. Rex is about to leave the school when he hears a roar; he rescues a small girl from a spider-like E.V.O. w
    • 9. Dark Passage

      18 Jun '10
      After packages boobytrapped with a substance that activates nanites are sent to dozens of powerful people around the world, briefly turning them into rampaging E.V.O.s, White Knight dispatches a team made up of Rex, Agent Six, Bobo Haha, and Dr. Holiday to the Amazon to secure an abandoned base to which the packages have been traced. The base is where a missing scientist named Gabriel Rylander is thought to be hiding; the team is to apprehend him and secure his research, keeping it from falling
    • 10. The Forgotten

      17 Sep '10
      A team of Providence soldiers led by Captain Calan, carrying an important data rod, are shot down over the "Bug Jar" (formerly Kiev, Ukraine, which has been sealed off from the rest of the world via a one-way force field bubble). Rex, Six, and Bobo are called in to retrieve the rod and any survivors of the crew. Doctor Holiday gives Rex a secret task of collecting samples, on the condition of a dinner date with Rex. Rex is able to secure the data rod after entering the zone, but things go awry w
    • 11. Operation: Wingman

      24 Sep '10
      Rex is stalked by a carnivorous rabbit E.V.O. that he insulted. Surprisingly, every time they meet, Rex is dealt a humiliating defeat made all the worse when Noah convinces Rex to be his wingman for Prom night. The girl Noah set Rex up with is named Annie who is almost supernaturally clumsy, having a bad habit of putting her dates in the hospital or worse. Noah set Rex up with Annie because he is the only one who could possibly survive the night with her. Shockingly, Annie's clumsiness proves to
    • 12. Rabble

      01 Oct '10
      While in Hong Kong with Agent Six, cracking down on three E.V.O. criminals, Rex discovers that a member of the gang named Tuck knew Rex despite Rex not being able to remember him. White Knight concludes that there is someone behind the robberies and orders Agent Six to have Rex infiltrate the three criminals. Tuck leads Rex to Tuck's friends Sqwydd and Cricket. Rex can't remember being a member of their gang because of memory blackouts which Tuck mentioned he suffered from frequently. Rex also d
    • 13. The Hunter

      08 Oct '10
      During a routine job in a small town neighborhood, a flea E.V.O. that Rex was in the middle of curing is destroyed by Hunter Cain, a Punisher-styled vigilante who uses an advanced weapon known as "Sweet Caroline" that causes targeted Nanites to self destruct. Hunter claims that Providence has been lying to the public for years and that the E.V.O. Crisis isn't caused by nanites in every form of life on the planet but in fact a disease that spreads from person to person. Six is able to prevent a f
    • 14. Gravity

      15 Oct '10
      Dr. Holiday and small group of Providence scientists are on board a satelite station working on a modified form of nanites that deactivate regular nanites. The test run is a success until ZAG-RS, the rogue AI system from the village of engineers from The Architect, hacks into the satelite to steal the deactivated nanite research. Holiday manages to shut down the satellites' systems thus preventing the download and trapping ZAG-RS but causes the satelite to enter orbital decay. Rex arrives to hel
    • 15. What Lies Beneath

      22 Oct '10
      While making a midnight taco run with Bobo, Rex gets a call from Circe stating that there is a problem in Abysus. Agent Six and Dr. Holiday come along with Rex when an anomaly is detected there. Meanwhile, Bobo conducts missions that distract White Knight, including dinner, a movie, and some time at the beach. Dr. Holiday discovers that the floating goop is actually nanites that have become unstable and are multiplying. When a giant one-armed E.V.O. attacks, Circe, Biowulf, and Skalamander also
    • 16. The Swarm

      29 Oct '10
      Rex faces off against a group of mutant locusts that feed on metal, leaving a path of destruction behind them. However, defeating them is not an easy task as. When they are attacked, the locusts keep dividing through binary fission. As the locusts rage toward China (which holds the Earth's largest metal concentration, Beijing), Providence pulls out all stops to halt their advance. Dr. Holiday comes to odds with White Knight, Six, and Rex as she strongly protests against their "attack first, ask
    • 17. Basic

      05 Nov '10
      Rex decides to attend "Providence Boot Camp" in an attempt to beat Noah. Once the boys arrive at the camp, they must dissect E.V.O.s, do sit-ups until they puke (literally), and even brush their teeth a specific way. When Rex and Noah fail a crash landing test and are ordered to do it over and over again until they do it correctly, they realize this may not be as easy as they thought. Things take a turn for the worse when a cadet, Kenwyn, who is angry at Rex for dropping her rank from #1, turns
    • 18. Plague

      12 Nov '10
      A powerful virus has put all of North America into a deep sleep. While E.V.O.'s are immune, somehow Bobo has been affected, leaving Rex the lone agent dispatched by the White Knight to address the outbreak of emergencies. Though a temporary fix, Dr. Holiday manages uses electric neural stimulation to stay awake long enough to build a tracking device designed to locate the source of plague before finally succumbing to sleep. Left with no other choice, White Knight uses a protective weaponized sui
    • 19. Promises, Promises

      19 Nov '10
      It's Rex's birthday (more accurately the anniversary of when he first joined Providence) and Six has flashbacks about how Rex first joined Providence. Back when Providence was forming, captured E.V.O.s were detained only until they were disassembled on a molecular level for study. However, Dr. Holiday, an assistant at the time, believes that studying how nanites cause mutations may one day allow for an option other than kill or contain: cure. One day, Six and his partner White Knight were called
    • 20. Badlands

      03 Dec '10
      A large Providence convoy commanded by Six is transporting a case of unstable nanites through a desert. Rex, Bobo, and Noah are assigned the humiliating task of transporting the force's toilet paper on a beaten-up truck; Rex is further annoyed at not being allowed to drive. After his attempt to resuscitate the truck's radio backfires and fills the cabin with smoke, the three stray down a side road. Meanwhile, the convoy is ambushed by a criminal gang of self-declared anarchists, led by the deran
    • 21. Payback

      10 Dec '10
      Rex and Noah are aboard the Keep and returning to Providence HQ when news breaks of surprise attacks against major Providence bases around the world. Having lost his nature-controlling powers at Rex's hands (he has apparently manage to turn himself back into a E.V.O. through a as of yet unidentified means), Van Kleiss is out for revenge; he personally leads the Abysus forces which board the Keep. Rex counter attacks, but is restrained by Biowulf long enough for Van Kleiss to drain Rex of all his