A Merchandise-Driven Animated Show from 1987, Spiral Zone has an unusually dark storyline for an 80s action cartoon, complete with nods to the After the End and Zombie Apocalypse genres. Exty Years From Now (specifically, the far-flung future of 2007), a Mad Scientist-cum-Diabolical Mastermind code-named Overlord covers much of the planet with his Spiral Zone, a dense, fog-like atmosphere which envelops about half the Earth in a spiral pattern. Inside the Zone, any unprotected person becomes a yellow-eyed, disfigured "Zoner" with no free will. Overlord and his enforcers, a motley crew of hardened criminals called the Black Widows, effectively control the minds of millions of Zoners, and they won't stop until they've enslaved the entire world.