Yabuverso

Yabuverso is a fictional universe created by Brazilian cartoonist Fábio Yabu. Yabuverso means literally Yabuverse in English. It’s a word play with the name of the creator (Yabu) and Universe. Yabuverso was created entirely to be the set location for the Combo Rangers series. Many names of locations and characters are clear references to many other fictional characters from other series.

History

Yabuverso is where all the characters created by Fábio Yabu live. It is very similar to the universe where we live, and Earh’s counterpart is identical (and also called Earth), except for the existence of superheroes and supervillains. Other notable difference is, for instance, the presence of only four fingers in the human’s hands, instead of five.

The Earth in Yabuverso is frequently attacked by aliens, and that’s basically what the superheroes are for. Some aliens, though, decided to settle on earth and are even working and raising a family, although that’s considered illegal.

Famous planets and locations

Toobaine

Toobaine’s name is a clear reference to a famous Brazilian soft drink called Tubaína. This is the land of Mago Syros and his disciples, the Go Go Riders. Toobaine was accustomed to live in peace, until Syros daughter Cristal (Crystal) died. From that moment on, Syros self-isolated from the world, and the Go Go Riders had to defend the planet alone, until Syros was brought to social life again by the Combo Rangers.

Yabusei

Another word play using the cartoonist’s name Yabu, and the name of the fictional planet Namekkusei, land to the Namekians of the Dragon Ball Z series. The planet is land to the yabuseijins (which all have identical bodies and faces). Famous yabuseijins include Spectroseven, the warrior of Love, and Japonaro Kido

Kururusei

Land to the kururuseijins and to the villain Kururu. The kururuseijins are a conqueror race, who had dominated many planets of the Yabuverso. Fortunately, they were defeated by Ken and Tati who were working together with the yabuseijins to defeat the kururuseijins.

Oreo

Oreo is an extinguished planet, were Deck was born and brought up. As Oreo was extremely advanced on technology, many Oreans managed to escape before the planet was destroyed.

Império Deskarga

Means Flush Empire (although flush is actually written "Descarga" in Portuguese). It is a planetary system formed by 14 planets, which are named DS-1 to DS-14. each planet plays a different role to the system. DS-1 is the center of operations, DS-2 is the responsible for all military operations, etc. DS-2 is where Angamenon Monte Pereira, also known as General Monte was born.

Biriguisei

Again a word play involving Namekkusei, but this time with the name of Brazilian municipality Birigüi. Biriguisei is only 45cm wide, but has billions of inhabitants. It was saved from destruction by scientist Hugo Hungria, who fused to the planet to become the Homem-Planeta.

Cidade City

Cidade City means literally City City in Portuguese, and is a terrestrial city where most of the events of the story take place. All the rangers live there, and so do most of their enemies. The city is very large, populous, and modern. That’s the place where ASH, the Associação de Super-Heróis (Superheroes association) is headquartered. The majority of the superheroes of Earth are members of ASH.

See also

* Combo Rangers
* List of characters in the Combo Rangers series

References

* [http://www2.uol.com.br/comborangers/yabuverso.htm Yabuverso’s page at the combo Rangers’s official site]

External links

* [http://www2.uol.com.br/comborangers/ Official Combo Rangers site]
* [http://www2.uol.com.br/comborangers/yabuverso.htm Yabuverso’s page at the combo Rangers’s official site]
* [http://www.yabu.com.br/blog/ Yabu’s official blog]