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God's Gang

God's Gang is a 2D animated action-adventure comedy series on YouTube that follows four superheroes from different religious backgrounds, a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu, who fight villains together while promoting coexistence, kindness, and unity. It was created by Nimrod-Avraham May, a former Disney marketing executive, and its 13-minute pilot premiered on YouTube on 17 October 2023.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	2D animated action-adventure comedy web series on YouTube; 13-minute pilot released 17 October 2023¹^•²
Main characters	NinJew (Judaism), ChrisCross (Christianity), TaekwonHindu (Hinduism), and Sumuslim, also written SumoSlim (Islam)³^•⁴
Creator	Nimrod-Avraham May, former Head of Marketing at Disney ABC Television Group; founded God's Gang Ltd in 2021¹
Key creatives	Head writer Rob Kutner (five Primetime Emmys; The Daily Show, Conan); director Ehud Landsberg (Transformers: Cyberverse, Vampirina)¹^•⁵
Animation	Produced by Infinite Frameworks in Singapore, with Mocca Studio contributing 2D animation and backgrounds¹^•²
Target audience	Viewers ages 9 to 19³
Reach	Pilot viewed 2.6 million times by January 2024; over 2 million YouTube and social media subscribers by February 2025³^•⁵

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Premise and characters

The series follows four martial-arts heroes, each drawn from a different faith, who battle mad scientists, aliens, and other villains. Each character has a superpower associated with their religion, and the gang's catchphrase, "Thought! Speech! Action!", comes from Kabbalistic teachings.³

The four leads are NinJew, a small, quick-witted Jewish character who specializes in analytics and ninjutsu, has laser vision, and uses a special Kabbalah invisibility powder; ChrisCross, a Black Southern Baptist street preacher who fights with karate and can deflect anything thrown at him when he turns his cheek; TaekwonHindu, the group's big sister, a heavy-metal-loving Indian woman who fights with taekwondo; and Sumuslim (also spelled SumoSlim), a Muslim who fights sumo-style and whose power is hypno-storytelling.⁴^•⁶^•⁷ A fifth figure, Ms. Dogma, a dog with wings and a halo whose office is in heaven, serves as the team's leader.⁶

May has said the deliberately small, nebbishy design of NinJew was a choice to avoid associating Jewishness with aggression, comparing the character to Yoda, whom he called the most powerful Jedi despite being the smallest.⁷

The creators emphasize that the show is not about religion or proselytizing. May has described it as an action-adventure comedy "pulsing on a spiritual heart," and head writer Rob Kutner contrasted it with faith-based children's shows such as VeggieTales and Davey and Goliath, which aimed to spread Christian ideas.³ The second episode, "What's Cooking?", in which the four try to decide what to eat for lunch, makes the point that culinary and religious differences must be respected rather than eliminated.⁸

Origins

The idea dates to 2006, when May joined Disney Channel shortly after Disney acquired Fox Family from Haim Saban. At a Disney Channel Executive Summit he pitched an "interfaith Power Rangers," a team of superheroes from different religions who would join forces against evil; the project was not made, and May left to work in tech and venture capital.³^•⁹

May, who grew up in a secular household in Israel and considered himself an atheist until a near-death experience at age 36 led him to study Judaism and then other religions, returned to the idea during the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2021 he began building the project with seed funding from friends, founding God's Gang Ltd, raising money from investors, and contracting a Singapore-based animation studio.¹^•³^•⁹

Production and oversight

The production team is spread across 15 countries. Animation is by Infinite Frameworks in Singapore, with Mocca Studio contributing 2D animation and backgrounds. Rob Kutner came aboard as head writer and Ehud Landsberg as director; the advisory board has included Mark Taylor, formerly of Nickelodeon, DreamWorks, and Sony Pictures Animation, and Bruce Daitch, formerly COO and CFO of DreamWorks Animation and VP of Animation at Netflix.¹^•²

Interfaith review. Every script and social media post passes through an Interfaith Council of five spiritual experts: Imam Abed Mawasi, Rabbi Shlomo Chayen of Tel Aviv, Baptist Pastor Brandon Jones, Hindu Specialist Sanya Tyagi, and Spiritual Advisor Zohar Ezra Melnik. The council validates everything from dialogue to costume design, and advises on matters such as which holidays to celebrate and which clothing choices would appeal only to the wealthy rather than common believers.¹^•⁸

The pilot was self-funded, with Israeli and Arab investors pooling resources. May has sought about $3 million from investors and through crowdfunding to produce a first season of 52 three-minute episodes.³^•¹⁰

Reception and distribution

The pilot drew 2.6 million views within about three months of release, and over three million by February 2024; the studio reported more than one million YouTube subscribers by mid-2024 and 2 million or more YouTube and social media subscribers by February 2025. Industry professionals expressed skepticism about the title's marketability, worrying that "God's Gang" implies religious content, but the YouTube comments on the premiere were largely positive about the show's humor and diversity.³^•¹⁰^•¹

In February 2025 the series released "We Didn't Start the Fire: Wildfire & The Mysterious Hero," the first of four new episodes in a mini-series, its third episode overall, in which the heroes face a spreading forest fire and a mysterious new ally. The episodes arrive every two weeks on the channel and social media.⁵ The mini-series also added voice actors through a partnership with Spectrum Laboratory, an organization training neurodiverse artists in entertainment, including autistic actor Atticus Baldwin.⁵

In December 2025 the production company signed distribution deals with Powerkids Entertainment for India, Mercury TV for the United States, and the AVOD platform Red Coral Universe, along with an agreement with Linguana to dub episodes into multiple languages using speech synthesis and localization tools.¹¹

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series › Premiered 2022 to 2026

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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