Terri Starstrike is an ongoing 2025 independent animated Sci-Fi Comedy webseries created by writer and singer-songwriter Jerrica Castro, who voices the two main characters Terrina Ave-Lo and Bailey Wilson.

The series follows two 17-18 year old girls: Terrina Ave-Lo, a curious giant alien from a distant planet who believes in the good of humanity, and Bailey Wilson, a pragmatic genius who has an unabashed obsession with old sci-fi media. Bailey longs for a friend who understands her, but apparently, she's getting a lot more than what she bargained for.

The pilot animatic premiered on YouTube on May 22, 2025, and the second animatic episode premiered on December 19, 2025, and a third episode was released on May 22 2026. A fourth episode is expected to release later in the summer.

Media: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3

Social Media Profiles (and more art) can be found: on Bsky on Tumblr, on Instagram

 Terri Starstrike provides examples of:

• ​Aerith and Bob: The first two Jotuzons we've met so far are Terrina Ave-Lo and Jacqueline El-Benn.
• Affectionate Nickname: Terri often gives Bailey the nickname "Lovebug."
• Affectionate Parody: The series is both a satire and a love letter to the sci-fi media of the 1950s era, from its retrofuturistic mid-century designs all over the town of Westshore, to the pilot's opening prologue that starts off in Black and White and the 4:3 aspect ratio. In episodes 1 and 2, Bailey watches sci-fi movies and shows that are also B&W with vintage sci-fi music, and in the pilot, she even acknowledges the overdone trope of a human hiding an alien from the human public. 
• Alpha Bitch
• All There in the Manual: The Terri Starstrike blog on Tumblr and Bluesky explain more of the series and the characters' lore outside of the episode.
• Ambiguous Time Period: According to the narration in the pilot, the story is set in "a time beyond our time" and is meant to be an alternate version of the present day that is envisioned by people living in the 1950s, fusing smartphones and social media and futuristic holograms with a world that has 1960s fashion, slang, and culture.
• Animation Bump: While 99% of the material is done in a colored animatic style, here is one fully animated shot in the Charades short, and a couple of shots in Episode 2 where the characters' mouths actually move for a few seconds.
• Anti-Villain: The Jotuzon Empire. Despite being a very peaceful and moral race, they ban all contact with the Earthlings due to prejudice, which ends up making Terri feel very insecure about her mixed-species identity and her curiosity towards humans, and boy, Terri has a lot to complain about the Empire. The societal pressures of the Jotuzon Empire end up being treated as an unseen force that holds Terrina back from being her true self, but it's the compassion and trust of her Earthling friends that allow her to be more comfortable with herself in Westshore.
• Arc Words:
  • "Child of the Earth of Stars": Terrina sings this in the theme song, and it reflects her secret half-human heritage.
  • "I'm allergic to humanity.": Bailey says it first in the pilot while convincing her mother not to send her back to school on her first day of senior year, and confidently repeats the phrase again in Episode 2 when Terrina asks why she doesn't want to make friends.
• Aspect Ratio Switch: Done within the first minute of the pilot, as it starts with a B&W astronomical zoom into the Milky Way and into Earth, as if it were an old cartoon from the 1950s, and then it switches to 16:9 and color as it zooms into the town of Westshore.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Terrina Ave-Lo is the first giant to appear in Westshore, and then Jacqueline El-Benn joins in in Episode 2.
• Bait-and-Switch: 
  • In episode 1, Martha chooses to work late at night due to a special birthday party. At first, it's believed to be a family-friendly birthday party, but then we cut to a drunk 21-year-old woman drunkenly slamming her leg on the table, in front of other families!
  • During the cafeteria scene in Episode 2, Terrina woefully mumbles to herself about being "half of one thing and not enough of the other." The audience is to believe that she's talking about her half-human side, but she's actually complaining about a can of soda having two mixed flavors.
  • When Terrina asks Bailey to have a private conversation with Jacqueline, Bailey believes that she will have a moment to herself in peace, but Terrina and Jacqueline crash into Bailey's bedroom 5 seconds later!
  • We are at first to believe that Terrina will develop a seething rivalry with Elijah after hearing that he treats her like a monster, but then, she apologizes for plucking him off the ground and scaring him when she gets ready to leave, and Elijah nervously agrees in acknowledgement.
  • When Jacqueline runs past a billboard in the junkyard, they get googly-eyed over an image of two chesty girls having a pillow fight, but they are more fascinated with the idea of a furniture store.
• Bigger on the Inside: Bailey's backyard garage can house a 50-foot giant on the inside, but is not much smaller than a one-story house when compared to the pool on the outside.
• Birds of a Feather: Bailey and Terri are both snarky, hyperactive, resourceful girls who want to explore other worlds and make peace with each other's species. Before they met each other, they were lonely and unable to show their true colors in public, so they isolated themselves from their families and friends and preferred to live in worlds of their own.
• Brick Joke: 
  • In the first minutes of the pilot, Bailey trips and falls on her "big bed" and commends it for the cushioned fall. Then, in Episode 2, Bailey starts to feel "emotionally attached" to the bed and refuses to let the bed go when her mother subtly suggests taking it out of her room and replacing it with the bunk bed. She even dramatically faints when the bed is taken to the junkyard!
  • Elijah calls Terri a kaiju upon the news of her spreading through the school. An episode later, Terri teases him after hearing that he called her a kaiju through Bailey's word-of-mouth.
• Cast Full of Gay: A huge majority of the cast is LGBTQ in one way or another.
• Chekhov's Skill: Terri can transform into a human under emotional stress, and Jacqueline can become invisible under emotional stress. Both of the Jotuzons use these powers to evade police officers who are chasing them under Agent Warren's manipulation.
• Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Subverted. Bailey looks like a loser at first glance, but she is already a popular kid at school, due to being the top student with her exceptional grades. Whereas Terrina is already the cool kid from the jump, despite some students being bewildered by her blue eyes and hair.
• Cute Giant: Terrina Ave-Lo is 57-feet-tall and as cute as a button. She likes to be overly curious about the human world and its strange inventions, despite how much of her enormous size causes problems for the town.
• Daddy's Girl: Bailey will do anything to make her deceased father proud; she even has her father's secret paranormal journal in her bedroom!
• Denser and Wackier: A Trio of Twisted Fate, despite having its emotional undertones, is a more comedic episode, and stuffs in more wackier and absurd jokes than the Invader, which focuses more on establishing the sentimental relationship between Bailey and Terrina.
• Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Terrina is the energetic Genki Girl, while Bailey is the Soft-Spoken Spock of the duo.
• Everyone Has Standards: When Glory Warren disguises herself as a junkyard owner to get the police chasing after Terri and Jacqueline, the police eventually scold her for wasting their time, knowing that Terri is a gentle giantess and not a rampager. Needless to say, even the police officers have more common sense than a government agent.
• Falling-in-Love Montage: Terri and Bailey have this when they visit the End-Of-Summer festival on the pier.
• Friendless Background: How Bailey starts out - though the only friend she had anyway was the school student body president, Khadija Saleh.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: A non-parent variant. In the "Terri On A Rampage" short, Terri chases down Bailey Wilson while shouting her full name in a thunderously angry volume.
• Funny Afro: Bailey's hair briefly turns into an afro after she is shaken by Jacqueline in a "Trio of Twisted Fate".
• Funny Background Event:
  • The opening shot of Episode 2 opens on a newspaper with a lot of written gags, including a humorous recap of the first episode.
  • A pigeon flies and crashes into Terri's hips as her giant height is being measured.
• Genre Savvy: Bailey jokingly discards the possibility that she was hiding Terrina from her mother, citing that "it's been done before."
• Genre Throwback: The plot and aesthetics invoke 50s and 60s sci-fi films.
• Giant Woman: Terrina Ave-Lo fits this trope as a giant 60-foot-tall alien who also belongs to a race of equally giant aliens.
• Hide Your Otherness: Terrina voluntarily hides her half-human traits from the Jotuzon world out of the fear that she might be ostracized from Jotuzon society forever, but she learns to let go of this fear when she's on Earth.
• Hide Your Shapeshifting: Terrina runs away to Earth so that her fellow Jotuzons won't discover that she has the ability to shapeshift into a human when she's anxious, due to the implication that Jotuzons look down on humans on their home planet. Fortunately, she finds use for her shapeshifting power to deceive a crew of police officers on her trail.
• Horrible Judge of Character: After Terrina gets upset and defensive over her human half, she sneers at Bailey for hiding her secret "giantess fetish", even though Bailey has been acting more innocently giddy over Terrina's giant form.
• Human Sacrifice: Bailey pulls this on Elijah by having him delivered to Terri and crushed in her grasp so that she would evade the same fate. Even Terri outright says no to this.
• Hypocrite: Bailey initially wanted to prove alien life to honor her late astrophysicist father's work, but she was quick to hide Terrina from the world after she found out she was actually a giant, believing that the government would not let her live in peace. Yet, after Terrina arrives at her school, Bailey finally gives in and lets her roam around the city by her side.
• I Am Not Shazam: Despite the show's title, Terrina Ave-Lo is never referred to as "Terri Starstrike".
• Interspecies Friendship: The main relationship is the bond between Jotuzon-Human hybrid Terrina Ave-Lo and human Bailey Wilson.
• Ironic Echo: In one comic, Chelsea discards the rumor that she's dating Elijah but hides it just to save face. After comedically beating Terri with her purse for spilling beans, she finally confirms the rumor word-for-word on her own reality TV series!
• Lame Pun Reaction: Bailey groans in annoyance when Terri pulls off a horrible giant-related pun in the "Pep Talk Therapy" short.
• Leitmotif: Terri has an 18-note leitmotif that also serves as the chorus for the theme song, sometimes shortened to just the first half.
• Look Behind You: Bailey tries to get Terri to look away when she angrily grows into a giantess in the "Terri On A Rampage" short.
  Bailey: Look, it's the world's biggest gummy bear!
  [A dumbfounded Terri looks behind her to see Bailey running away from the neighborhood at lightning speed.]
• Love Confession: Terri and Bailey spent a huge chunk of the Devil Has Pom Poms learning that they could be in love with each other, and it ultimately culminates in them finally becoming a romantic couple at the very last minute of the episode.
• Meaningful Name: Terrina, the Earth-loving alien teenager, was named after Terra, which is the Latin word for Earth, and more specifically, the word "Terrain", which technically means Earth. Bailey means "bailiff" and "law enforcer". She often enforces rules for Terrina to live amongst humans.
• Mundane Object Amazement: Terrina is amazed by cars, junkyards, and even the halls of a high school building!
• No Social Skills: Jacqueline starts off this way and feels isolated because of it.
• Not Now, Kiddo: Terri's reaction when Jack asks to hold Elijah in their hands.
• Our Mermaids Are Different: Mermaids in this universe go by the more fancy name of "Mertilians"
• Prank Gone Too Far: Chelsea and Elijah used emotional manipulation to turn Terri into a human, which ultimately led her being fed up with the prank war.
• Pranking Montage: Both Chelsea and Terri get one back-to-back on each other. After being pranked with Gellatine being slimed all over her golden outfit, Chelsea uses Elijah to learn that Terri is half-human, overhears one of Terri's conversations through a hidden speaker, and replaces her boots with smaller boots that make it hard for her to take off. Meanwhile, Terri planned to use a Humongous Hammer to crush her SUV flat, but instead, Jacqueline plans for Chelsea's boba tea to be mixed with pickle juice, making her stomach churn. Then, the final prank, Chelsea and Elijah both upset Terri with harsh words, and thereby transformed her into a human.
• Prank Punishment: Terrina uses Gellatine to slime Chelsea as payback for her years of bullying Bailey.
• Precision F-Strike:
  • Bailey drops an F-bomb when Terri grows into a giantess in front of her.
  • Terrina also drops a proud F-bomb when her disguise as a human fools the police officer.
• Punny Name: Bailey's middle and last name is Roz Wilson, which sounds very, very similar to Roswell, New Mexico.
• Queer Establishing Moment: Jacqueline, a non-binary and transfemme Jotuzon, introduces their set of they/she pronouns when meeting Bailey for the first time. Same thing with human student Izzy, who also introduces their they/them pronouns when meeting their classmate Terrina. Furthermore, Bailey's mother, Martha, shows off that Bailey is bisexual throughout her "supportive" fingernails.
• Retro Universe: The technology and social treatment towards women, the LGBTQ community, and people of color is effectively that of the modern age, but the industrial design of Westshore is the midcentury Googie design of the 1950s and 60s, and women and girls still wear big 1950s dresses and skirts in public. The retro town of Westshore also contains a popular Atomic Age-inspired diner, though it's anyone's guess why so many people still go to diners in this universe. 
• Riding in the Palms of Giants: In the short "Pep Talk Therapy", giant alien Terrina - who's so big that she stands as tall as a six-story building - gently holds her human friend Bailey in her palm after the latter gives the giantess a therapeutic session at home. The said therapeutic session comes after Terri felt insecure about being a giant after stepping on an expensive car. And in "The Devil Has Pom-Poms", she also allows Bailey to climb and sit on her palm after they both announce that they are in love with each other with joy.
  • She even carries her tiny pet blob Gellatine in the palm of her hand in the pilot episode, though Gelli prefers to ride inside her hair while the giantess is walking around.
• Running Gag:
  • Bailey often overanalyzes and goes into a Motor Mouth rant whenever she's expressing her thoughts and ideas. An example of this is when she explains to her girlfriend about how humans can be hostile towards extraterrestrials.
  • A drunk brunette woman makes an appearance in both of the first two episodes and says the most outlandish things. The first half of the pilot takes place on her 21st birthday, where she, absurdly, chooses a family diner to spend her drunk night out. Then, when interviewed by Agent Warren, she only recalls the "spiritual" memory of puking glitter.
  • Jacqueline often points out interesting, fun facts about whatever's being talked about. She mentions the works of H.G. Wells when she finds a copy of The Time Machine, goes into great detail about the life of Julius Caesar during history class, and even mentions that French Fries are not an invention of the French.
  • In every establishing shot of the Westshore High School building, there is always a different joke on the letter signs, as a nod to Kim Possible.
• Screen Shake: Whenever a Jotuzon - or Terri, to a lesser extent - walks, laughs or yells at a thunderous volume, the screen violently shakes.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Izzy, refusing to be a part of Chelsea's nonsense, walks out of the gymnasium when Chelsea comes in to have a private conversation with Terri.
• Ship Tease: Bailey and Terri are constantly teased to be in a romantic relationship in Episode 2: Bailey claims that they're not gay when being asked if they want to be roommates, only for Martha to show off her bisexual painted nails in support of her daughter. Later, Bailey breaks down and tells Terri 'I love you' at the end of episode 2, and the same episode features a song where Terri claims 'Our love is on the line'. An episode later, The Devil Has Pom-Poms finally confirms that Terri and Bailey are, indeed, girlfriends.
• ​Shout-Out: 
  • Gellatine, Terri's gelatinous buddy, is a shout-out to The Blob. The Charades short reveals that she can shapeshift like Morph from Treasure Planet
  • Jacqueline mentions The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine as fictional works by H.G. Wells
  • Cassandra, leader of the Drama Club, mentions that her club shares "Sonic the Hedgehog" fanfictions.
  • Bailey's father, Irwin Wilson, is named after TV producer Irwin Allen, who was the creator of shows such as Lost in Space and Land of the Giants.
  • The idea for the series was inspired by the Iron Giant, one of Castro's all-time favorite films.
  • Elijah Eisenhower is named after President Dwight D Eisenhower, albeit Elijah's family runs an automobile company.
• Struggling Shop: There are hints that the Milky Way Diner might be financially struggling amongst the high-profile fast-food restaurants in Westshore. Martha states that she has to work overtime to pay for the kids' streaming services, and even Bailey comments that she wanted to support her mother's business by ordering the largest box of French fries available.
• Take That, Audience!:
  • After Terri is forced to reveal her secret half-human heritage, she aggravatedly points out that Bailey has an unhinged "giantess fetish" for Terri, and subtly calls out viewers who do have a giantess fetish without breaking the fourth wall.
  • In one of the shorts, Bailey begs Terri not to grow into a giant, because it's "what the internet wants".
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Terri and Bailey. Terri is very feminine and speaks with a sweet and girlish voice, and Bailey has a more tomboyish stance and a deeper voice, despite often dressing in feminine outfits at school.
• Trademark Favorite Food: As shown in Episode 2, Bailey loves Zebra Cakes and even shares one with her bed, which is inanimate. The trio of Terri, Jacqueline, and Bailey all eat and toast with Zebra Cakes at the end of the episode
• Transformation Sequence: Terrina gets one when she transforms into her human disguise.
• Thundering Footsteps: An inevitable trait of all full-sized Jotuzons. For instance, Terrina's booming footsteps shook Bailey's living room while she approached closer to the latter's house in the pilot episode.
• We Need a Distraction: When Agent Glory calls the cops to capture Terrina and Jacqueline, Terrina hatches up a plan to make herself human and for Jacqueline to render themself invisible. As a human, Terri gives the police officers the wrong direction to catch the Jotuzons and diverts their attention, giving her and Jacqueline both a chance to escape.