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Mega Man Ruby Spears: Robo-Spider Rant
Reviewed: 05/15/2022
Doctor Wily Is A Vampire Spider!
So, we continue season two of the blue dweeb's life with episode #17 (although on the DVD, it is episode #16) as Dr. Light creates a super computer that can defend military bases. Dr. Wily wants to destroy the supercomputer and take over the military bases. He uses a robot spider to drain the city of all its energy, to destroy the supercomputer. How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
Robo-Spider is written by Michael Maurer and was directed by Katsumi Minoguchi.
We begin this episode with a northern pan shot of a forest and then a peak of a mountain top. Then a couple of jump cuts to show that we are outside a military base somewhere in the USA as alarms go off. We head to a military building and inside the computer room with Dr. Light, Rock, Roll, Rush and a dozen military personnel in uniform as there are green tanks invading the base and crashing down the fence. Fire fight ensues between a bunch of robots behind sand like bunkers and the tanks, complete with Transformers sound effects and lasers. Then out comes literally out of nowhere, a bunch of giant robot hammers destroying the tank and at that point, I realize that this is not only a demonstration, but a demonstration of how demented Dr. Light can be as we cut to the sky with green airplanes shooting lasers and out of the military building comes a giant computerized magnet that shoots blue sound waves, crumbling airplanes in it's wake. Oh, and the airplanes are made of metal, so they stick to the magnet when crumbled and the crumble items also become a magnet. Tanks shoot the giant hammers down, out comes a satellite dish shooting yellow beams and that destroys more tanks. Cut back to inside the computer room as the military personnel all do slow claps. The front shot of their faces is hilarious when Rock claps and talks about the fourth of July, which is kind of disturbing to me, given the context. Dr. Light presses the stop button (so yes, this computer is literally a VCR) and ends the simulated test run of the attack. The military captain with the dark sunglasses inside is impressed by this super computer as the monitor screen reads "Simulated Test Run?" in the most boring way possible. The military captain's name is General Hawthorne as Dr. Light assures them that the super computer can protect itself as we get shot on the wall near a monitor of a robot spider that has wasp-equse colors. Uh-oh! That sparkle blue light indicates trouble and damn it to hell if I'm not right. We see in Dr. Wily's computer room watching the whole action and proclaiming that he's a genius too that has a plan while petting a wasp-equse like spider that may or may not be a robot. Dr. Wily cackles for fun as we scene change to a high rise building AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) with a resturant on the top of the building, because we head inside with Dr. Light with some human in a brown suit as the waiter bot is serving them with meals.
The humans eat regular food, Rush has the ROBOT SCOOBY SNACKS OF DOOM smothered in sauce. Roll has the robot version of fish & chips and Rock...I cannot believe I'm typing this...the wackiest energy drink punch I have ever known. This is Stacker X, where I can just see the commercial for this with Rock as his pyro explodes and he crumbles Robot Masters. It would be so similar to Kurt Angle's commercial with Stacker 2. By the way, Rush's food is way too similar to Roll's as the brown haired man with glasses is one of Dr. Light's college buddies. Dr. Light and the buddy exchange notes about Dr. Wily not serving mankind and I would say that he abuses robotkind to boot; but here comes the GIANT ROBOT SPIDER OF DOOM to crash the lovely conversation. PZ Meyers would be rightfully pissed at this, because even robot spiders wouldn't be THIS hostile. Dr. Wily? Michael Maurer? I don't think that matters at this point. The babyfaces are hiding behind a wooden table as Dr. Light states the obvious for us. By the way, there will never be a Spider Man in Mega Man until Mega Man X4 with Web Spidus as the robot spiders shoots electric sucking webs at robots and machines and drains them of their energy. Rock runs in and wants to spoil the feeding frenzy of this robot spider, but the Rock buster shots have no effect because it's made of titanium. The continuity of this angle I swear makes no sense, because I'm sure that there were instances that titanium had an adverse effect. Then again, robustness isn't exactly Dr. Wily's strong suit and neither is Dr. Light's for that matter. It did however, make the robot spider retreat though, so there's that to consider. Rock decides to go after it and gets on Rush Jet as we cut to a sign that is a blantant Coca Cola knock off poster, called Cola Cola. The cursive writing is SO obvious, I'm surprised this wasn't edited out of the DVD release. There was a Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers episode clearly showing the Shell logo. Robot Spider comes in shooting webs and draining Wii energy from said webs as Dr. Wily is loving life. Jump cut to a meter of energy rising as Dr. Wily mentions Proto Man and Proto Man is shown as Dr. Wily wants to drain enough energy to go destroy the super computer and take over the military bases for world domination. Train arrives right in time to be drained as the conductor bot panics for an emergency stop; but Proto Man is not happy because here comes his bro. Rock, everyone.
Dr. Wily does my favorite "never gets old" call of Rock being a blue dweeb. No matter how stupid the episode gets, no matter how much this makes Dr. Wily look like a dork, it's funny. It also helps that Rock comes in and the spider flicks Rock away and crashing into a building in the background, making Rock look like the blue dweeb that he is. HAHA! Dr. Wily proclaims that Rock should give up the hero business because it's bad for your health. Spoken like a true homo sapien vampiris there, Dr. Wily! Dr. Wily cackles for exactly one second and then moves on with the draining the monorail. That was funny. Dr. Wily is so loving life that Blues for the second time in this series, says "Whatever turns you on!". HAHA! Just to note: Joules is energy and Volts is potential difference, so Dr. Wily is not a genius scientist. On the other hand, it does make Dr. Light's claims about Wily being incompentent hold far more water. We cut to the building, which is basically a women's fashion store as Rush is wearing a hat that he hates, while Rock wears nothing. Sigh. Rock wearing that hat would have been better, considering what a blue dweeb he is. Rock and Rush bail as the robot spider just terrorizes the denizens as they panic and bail. We get at least four police officers shooting legit bullet shooting guns at it with no bullets and only flashes. I remember Bullethead Baloo where the officers literally had bullet shooting sound effects, powder smoke and actual bullets fired about four years ago. Considering that animation being awful so far in this episode, I'm going to say BS&P's fingers are not in the pie in this scene. More shooting webs from the robot spider and draining as the police bail stage left. Dr. Light, Roll and the buddy are behind a lamp post, the dumbest hiding spot ever. Also, Roll is in danger because she's a robot and therefore the spider web can drain her energy with ease. The babyfaces realize that the robot spider found them and they run for a while in a disorganized fashion and the sequence is so poorly staged that it cannot be taken seriously when they reach the dead end of doom. Rock comes in from behind and shoots a hole into the ground, and the hapless babyfaces all escape while clearly showing a sewer hole. WHAT?! So, basically Rock shot a manhole cover off. That was odd. By the way, the robot spider shoots web, Rock was able to destroy the web anyway. Ooops! Rock and Rush dive into the moral sewer of doom, robot spider uses his hook; but misses everyone.
The robot spider brings up his needle hook and waddles away as Rock proclaims that he cannot stop the spider, despite destroying the spider-web. Dr. Light grabs a piece of the spider web and has a plan, and the faces are even creepier than usual. I love to know what artwork studio did the artwork here because the facial artwork is hideously hilarious in this episode so far. Dr. Light proclaims that time is of the essence, so they are going to the university lab, which confirms that the Dr. Light residence is likely in Colarado. Jump cut to the sky with Dr. Light in a lime green helicopter, Roll in her green WRJS and Rock is on Rush, DUH! No sign of the buddy, so I assume he was written out by teleport. Which is the wrong assumpation because when they head to the lab, which has ivy on the walls, and cut to inside the computer lab, the buddy is back watching Dr. Light examining the spider web. Dr. Light confirms that the spider web is basically a super electric wire designed to drain energy and store it in the robot spider's battery. Rock deduces that Dr. Wily is probably using the energy stored in it to fry the super computer. That sounds about right and Dr. Light agrees with that. Roll is wondering how to stop a ten ton spider with an attitude; which is dumb because the robot spider has no emotions whatsoever. It's just a machine, but robots having empathy for other robots, no matter how sentient they are is par for the course in this show. Dr. Light ponders over how to get a copy of this robot spider's weapon and Rock answers the call, he'll use his WEAPON GET TIME~! Hey, it's still better than shooting it at this point. Dr. Light wants the weapon to make a device to counteract the spider's draining abilities. Dr. Light calls this a dangerous mission because the webs could drain his energy. Rock don't care as always, because the webs can be destroyed anyway. Jump cut to a sky shot of the entire city engulf in spider-webs. J. J. Jamieson would have a field day with this story and while it's not Spider-Man, it is a robot spider. Close enough! Also, we have the return of the cheese reporter of this show, with a literal cheese name: Brie Racotta. To make matters worse, when we see her; her skin is bleached. WHAT THE HELL, SHOW?! This is worse than Oscar Vandersnoot going from bear in Captains Outrageous to platypus in Sheepskin Deep. At least the platypus didn't speak a word and I could deduce that Kit was helping out another kid. Not here, oh no! Bigots! By the way, Brie and a cameraman are at the power plant (a real one, not the WCW training center) and their artwork is getting worse as the robot spider arrives and shoots webs at the power plant to drain it's energy and take out the entire electrical grind of the city in the process.
I just realize that indeed, Blues and Dr. Wily are inside the robot spider as Dr. Wily is still loving life. Dr. Wily pushes the button and the draining process begins. We jump cut to a shot of the city with screaming and then jump back to inside the robot spider cockpit. What was the point of that?! This episode is falling really fast now as Dr. Wily is still loving life, and Blues tells him to stop because here comes the blue dweeb on Rush Jet along with Roll on the WRJS. But wait?! Dr. Wily was prepared for such a happening in spite of Blues sick fantasies as Dr. Wily orders his robot masters to attack nearly eight minutes in. This is the debut of Quick Man talking fast and not in clusters as I was hoping this to be, just to see if the voice actor could keep us. Quick Boomerangs are shot in Wii blue colors and they manage to miss Rock and Roll; but get them from behind and destroy Rush Jet and the WRJS. Rock calls them exploding boomerangs which is complete overkill since the engines can explode on their own will without the boomerangs being explosive. This is a case of the writers overthinking too much to apease the executive stance that kids love explosions. Sure, it's true in a sense; but come on, now. Rock holds onto a steel structure skeleton, while the rest fall into a conveniently placed swimming pool, just to make the BS&P decision look obvious. Rock notices Quick Man as the animation continues to look literally like crack and Rock counters the boomerangs and gets shot and falls down. Yes, Rock buried Quick quickly on that one. Damn, this episode really sucks now. Thankfully, Guts Man saves Quick Man from total burial and simply throws him into the electric spider web, ala Super Smash Brothers for Wii U and 3DS. It's amazing how the Dumptruck of this show is one of the smarter robots on this show. Even smarter than Proto Man at times and even smarter than Rock at times. Rock is stuck and despite it being clear that shooting the web destroys it, Rock has to be totally helpless. What a stupid booking decision that was?! Jump cut to Dr. Wily and Blues as Dr. Wily is loving life and this gaping logic break. I love that Blues was going to a cut a promo on Dr. Wily's hilariously bad analogy; but decides to back off. HAHA! Blues has done nothing and is still the best thing about this episode thus far. Dr. Wily is cackling as he is seeing Rock stuck in a spiderweb that is probably going to ruin his dress to end the segment nine minutes in. Damn, this episode outside of Proto Man doing nothing is just really bad so far, mostly the animation.
After the commercial break, we head back as the continuity is now shot again as Rock is stuck in the spider-web that is much higher in height than what we saw before the commercial break. Guts Man taunts him on the pillar and this causes Rock to break the web and shoot him just to bury the energy sucking wire even deeper in the earth. Guts Man's selling was hilariously bad when the pillar is destroyed as he free falls. Rock gets totally free, jumps on Guts Man's back to escape, Dr. Wily pushes the button a good ten seconds too late and Guts Man is fried and drained of his energy. In hindsight, Rock looks dumb because Dr. Wily still got more energy, but if you consider Rock to be OP'ed to the gills, then this is a big L for Dr. Wily actually. Rock touches the web and it's WEAPON GET TIME~! Let's call it Lightning Web, which is the weapon for Web Spider/Spidus and be done with it. Rock jumps down to the ground and bails as Proto Man basically states the obvious to us, and this causes Dr. Wily to panic because Dr. Light will ruin his plans if Rock somehow gets back to the university lab. Luckly for Dr. Wily, the entire city has no power for Rock to communicate with Dr. Light and Rush Jet and the WRJS are out of commission so this forces Roll, Rock and Rush to walk across the city, playing the old puzzle of avoiding the helicopter with a spotlight routine. Yup, practicing the fine art of not being seen by a bunch of attack bots. Roll finally calls the WRJS a Skycycle, so I can FINALLY stop with the Wave Race jokes and move on. The Skull Copter finds them anyway without the spotlight being even close to them as the babyfaces all bail. The Attack Bot in the Skullcopter is a red bot with orange spikes informing everyone to seek and kill them before they reach the lab of course. Considering that Rock's rock buster can destroy the webs with ease, I don't see why brute forcing through the area would be a bad thing at this point. It's not like the heels cannot find them anyway. Rock and Roll reach a dead end as the spotlight blinds them; but Rock shoots down a ladder and Roll climbs. The whole segment just buries Rock as a total dork here, considering what happened earlier in the episode. Rock, Roll and Rush climb up the ladders to the roof, as Rock gets a clear shot and destroys a Skullcopter and kills the attack bot. Then two more Skullcopters show up and the babyfaces are forced to bail again.
Hop, skip and jump on the walls, which defys the laws of physics and gravity, but still looked cool. Rock shoots down two Skullcopters in the Rescue Rangers "suddenly one shot became two and hit both heels at the same time" spot that is stupid, but sometimes funny. This is not one of those times, sadly. Roll loves this, but Rock wants to get to the bridge right away; but Roll is distracted because here comes the Battattons because we have to kill time somehow. Rock's is shooting and the logic is so horrible that somehow, none of them get hit despite being in position to be hit; and the number of enemies range from one to dozens without any sort of rhyme and reason. The animation in this episode has to be the worst in the series; they are literally turning into a Darkwing Duck episode with horrible internal logic. Roll destroying the Battattons with her garbage disposal tool was both nasty and one of the few spots animated well in this episode. Rush is chasing Battattons to waste more time. That animation was also horrible, it looked like Twinkle Nora Rock Me back in 1985. Battattons bite Rush in the ear and ass and drag him into the air as Rock kills one and one of the Battattons still manages to escape unharmed, which was their plan from the very start, since Rock didn't want one of them to report their position to Dr. Wily. Rush is rightfully panicky about it, but Rock still forgives him in the most condescending way possible. The babyfaces all bail stage left and we jump cut to somewhere in the web area of the city as a tank arrives with Guts Man being so totally pissed off that Blues has to be the voice of reason. And finally, Cut Man is in the tank. WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU?! That in itself is a CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT moment; but I betcha it gets worse for him. This is almost fourteen minutes in by the way. Cut Man calls the Battatton a spy bat as it arrives. Blues wants a road map of Rock's position and Spy Bat uses red light to simulate the three babyfaces running with no context whatsoever. Blues claims that they found them; despite having no map to prove where they are. This episode is pissing me off now! Thankfully, Blues gives the coordinates just to bury the animators even deeper into the soil. Cut to the babyfaces as Rush's signal shows a weak scent that Roll cannot find, so she deduces that Rush is damaged worse than first thought. Then, a building gets destroyed and in comes the green tank from the beginning of the episode! How about that?!
I do love irony and this show is just bringing it in hindsight. The top opens to reveal Proto Man and he loves dramatic entrance. Word. Blues buster is fired and the babyfaces all bail as Blues completely destroys a car down to one tire. Blues is literally carrying this episode on it's back and it's not nearly enough to off set the awfullness of the animation here. Tire is destroyed as Proto Man looks around as it's the SCOOBY-DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE TANK EDITION~! Fitting since Rush is literally this game/show's Scooby-Doo. Roll wants some help right about now as they run into a conveniently place robot museum as more shots from Blues is fired. Head into the robot museum and the only thing of note is the artwork of the robot maid with huge lips, wire eyes and mini Rolling Cutter hands. Otherwise, everything looks generic as this episode just looks bad. Then we get the funniest part of the entire episode without question: Rock, Roll, Rush and the Robot Masters literally doing the mannequin challenge as museum pieces. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That alone makes all the crap I had to sit through worth it. And to make it even funnier, the real heels show up and outside of talking, are basically doing the same thing. HAHA! So the heels all run in and yes, Quick Man is with them. Apparently, this is one of the few areas not affected by the energy drain. I guess external generators are immune to this spider. Ooops! Then it gets even better: The fake Guts Man is moving and Cut Man talks to another Guts Man and Cut Man is stuck inbetween two Guts Man and is confused. This is the "Mad Dog is clueless that Kit Cloudkicker is cosplaying Don Karnage" in A Bad Reflection Of You Part Two, only even funnier because the two Guts Man are exactly the same. I howled with laugher and that's a dang-it. The fake one exposes himself as Rock and blasts the Super Arm and knocks Guts Man the f out. Somehow, Cut Man dodged that one. Guts Man is short circuiting on the floor to distract Cut Man and he gets a Super Arm and goes down. Yawn. Quick Man is near the fake Rock and Roll as he calls out for Blues and how Blues hasn't heard a thing so far is beyond me. Oh, screw it; the logic in this episode is shot to death now.
Roll and Rush have a rope as they are upstairs and Roll's miming Proto Man's voice is beyond horrible that it's clear it's Roll talking. Kit needs to sit her down and demonstrate how to mime a voice. Quick still falls for it as he uses the Quick Boomerange to crumble the fake Rock and this leads to Roll basically doing the spot where Dumptruck almost gets killed with a piano thrown by Mira from In Search Of Ancient Blunders, only it's a case with the head bust of some scientist no one cares about. Rock arrives, touches Quick's arm and it's WEAPON GET TIME~! Quick Man has been buried deep within the earth now, made even worse by the fact that in the games, Quick Man was the biggest threat and annoyances in Mega Man 2. Blues finally shows up just to make the logic breaks even worse and it's time for a fire fight again. Rock fires boomerangs into the metal vents of the roof, and the metal spikes imprison Blues just like that. Damn this episode to hell! I cannot even get a decent one minute fight with Proto Man anymore. The animation did them no favors as the babyfaces bail once again and head to the bridge. Roll thinks they are almost there, but gets cut off by a shot by the green tank of course. Only this time, it's a different tank because Bright Man is back! By the way, despite Quick Man being made to be a total joke in this show, his artwork design is really good, so at least Quick Man has THAT going for him. Bright Man's voice is annoying; but that makes the ultra FLASH STOPPER OF EYE DAMAGING DEATH arrive as Roll and Rock cannot see and are forced to block the light and that ends the segment 16 minutes. Wow, that means the final segment is going to equal the previous two. That's RARE in the 1990's. Episode sucks though seeing the robot museum moment was hilarious, I'll give this episode that at least.
After the commercial break; and for the first time in this episode, they matched up the continuity with the last scene perfectly. Rock is shooting without any accurancy whatsoever as Bright Man has the Gruffi pose on loving life. Wow, remember Electrical Nightmare and Bright Man was literally buried within minutes of his debut. Yeah, this is far more badass on Bright Man's part, and it just buries Quick Man even further into the ground. Then Rock goes over to Rush and touches him to transfer the Lightning Web to Rush and orders Rush to bail stage left. Rush sells and leaves; which actually hurts Bright Man's reputation because Bright should have got them from the other side to cut the means to get to the lab. Wow, this episode is booked stupid even when Bright Man here is still vastly improved over his last appearance. Rock and Roll then run stage left as Bright Man continues to follow them, and Rock trips over a conveniently placed spider web and falls down and is run over by the tank. Bright Man thinks he's won; but Rock is underneath Bright Man's tank and Rock shoots the tank and destroys it and Bright Man in the process. In other words, the trip up by a spider web saved Rock and destroyed Bright Man. Way to go show, Bright Man is an idiot...AGAIN! Rock and Roll slowly recover as Rush has made it to the university and then we cut to the buddy watching television as Brie Recotta shows no changes between her reports and somehow has power to do the broadcast despite the entire city not being able to see it, except for Dr. Light. I'm certain that she can record the footage since the cameras nowadays are handhelds at worst and cellphones at modern; but broadcasting is a different matter. The logic of this episode is getting to Electrical Nightmare levels at this point. So, Rush runs in and gets on the table. Dr. Light does manage to understand what Rush is saying and Rush is connected to the computer as Dr. Light sees the sesmatics of the spider wire and Rock did succeed in his mission, just to make the buddy look dumb. Scene change to power lines with the robot spider continuing to shoot webs and drain energy. Not surprising the energy bar is totally changed in between the shots of it showing as it's at full energy. The fact that it only shows "Full" shows how rushed this episode was. Dr. Wily is loving life and the robot masters are just there, so Dr. Wily could blow them off for being hits of useless chips, and take all the glory as usual. Dr. Wily decides to finally go after the supercomputer and hope Rock doesn't show up in time, like all bad heels do at this point. Head back to the lab as Dr. Light is checking the monitor and exchanges notes on the situation as Rock and Roll have arrived, so too late for Dr. Wily.
Dr. Light's plan is to strap a battery on the Robot Spider and drain it of it's energy to counteract. However, the red stripe is positive and one of the straps is negative. There's only a 1/3 chance of the blue dweeb getting the red one right and a 2/3 chance of getting the negative one correct. If Rock is wrong, Rock is dead along with the supercomputer. Rock gets it as we head to the military base in the morning now as the gaint robot spider appears and somehow the staging is hilarious here. One of the robot guards is about to shoot, but the robot spider hits the gate and misses the robot anyway. Sigh. More shooting as the robot spider no sells all laser shots. The giant hammer comes out and gets webbed and drained all in that order. Dr. Wily is loving life as he notices the military dome and heads there, breaking the glass ceiling in the process. Robots all bail as the spider shoots more webs and Dr. Wily is draining the super computer claiming that it will blow up the super computer. I don't get that. Why not drain the supercomputer and then have Quick Man destroy it...oh wait, that would get all of Quick Man's heat back and Rock has to win at all costs. Speaking of Rock, Blues sees him on the monitor and Dr. Wily panics on cue. Also, Wily claims that the super computer will blow up, and yet seconds past and nothing happens other than refilling the ever changing energy gauge. Dr. Wily orders the RM's to destroy that blue dweeb, and yes; Dr. Wily said it for the second time in this episode! Rock and Rush crash through a glass window and run into the hallway. Rock makes it to the super computer without webs because the animation continuity sucks as bad as a bad Teddy Ruxpin episode. Even worse when the glowing light appears on the close up shot. In comes Bright Man and if you watched Electrical Nightmare, you know where this is going. Yup, Rock brings the shades to counter the Flash Stopper of Death as apparently there are Robo Scouts. I hope we get a Junior Woodchuck-equse episode of Rock after that one because that will be the stuff of legends for me. Bright Man gets shot down and that is it for him as his lightbulb is destroyed. Rock touches Bright, WEAPON GET TIME~! Quick Man, Cut Man and Guts Man do the worst surrounding ever because Rock can easily bail; but it don't matter because he invokes the Flash Stopper ala Mega Man 4 Minus Infinity style~! Okay, that was cool as Rock is about to get a weapon from an RM that he already got from, but gets cut off by Proto Man underneath the grate and Proto Man runs in as finally we have the fire fight I wanted since about ten minutes ago.
Rock hides behind the computer and his left arm gets hit by the Blues Buster and his Rock Buster is disabled. Proto Man is still trying to carry this episode, but it's a lost cause and it's time to mercy kill it now! Hell, Proto Man's taunt for this scene was the best heelish promo I have heard in this series and some really excellent self-awareness. Jesus, Blues; stop it! The episode is a lost cause, stop trying to be awesome. Rush orders Rock to take his circuit out of Rush's head and Rock does that, Rush is dead. Rock puts it in his buster, firing ensues, rock buster nails Proto Man and he goes into the supercomputer and is elecutated in the process. Rock thanks Rush and runs over with the battery as Dr. Wily panics because Rock is going to ruin his plan. Then he gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and stops worrying because he's a blue dweeb, he'll never figure out how to plug in the battery, then he recoils and decides to kill him anyway. HAHA! Heels who are smart enough to know to never give a sucker an even break are the best ones. Dr. Wily decides to push the lever (JESUS~!) and electric bolts come out of the spider-web. Rock puts the wires correctly without any trouble because the writer booked it to make the spot so unforgiving that Rock had to get it right the first time without any suspense whatsoever. Bad finish, but that's due to booking yourself into a corner. The robot spider gets destroyed in hilarious fashion as Dr. Wily somehow didn't get killed in the process and bails. What a mess that was?! Jump cut to Rock as Rush is revived in between scenes and that is that. We head to AFTER HAPPY HOUR near the power plant as Rock does the same thing to the webbing with the battery and this turns all the lights on in the background. Pfft, whatever. Somehow, the mobile cars which uses no wires turn on, so someone doesn't understand how electric cars actually work. The babyfaces all are happy that the battery restored power to the entire city and Rush ends the episode at 24:00 approx doing backflips that are animated so badly, I was laughing my ass off for the wrong reasons. I mean, Rush doing backflips is funny, but this episode sucked so much that it was insulting and buried the animation team even further. The last part is Rush stepping onto a wire while tripping would make more sense and land in a spider web. Wow, now I see where everyone thought the animation was horrible, it's really starting to show. This was ** on the trainwreck scale for horrible animation, logic breaks, the mannequin challenge, Proto Man carrying the episode kicking and screaming and Cut Man being Cut Man while Quick Man got buried within seconds. -* (-20%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Oh damn, this episode was very bad. The story itself was the second best thing of the episode and it got destroyed by hideous animation, really bad booking and a lot of logic breaks. I should have guessed that when Dr. Wily was using volts rather than joules that this episode was going to be awful and it delivered. Proto Man tried, but he failed to make this episode good. I will say that the mannequin challenge was hilarious and there were a few funny spots that made me laugh; but the episode as a whole was a trainwreck is every other way. For every time this episode made me laugh, it pissed me off thrice as much. I hope that this is just a rushed episode and nothing else, because I shudder to think how Curse Of The Lion Men is going to look considering how many fans love to hate that episode. So....
Thumbs way down in hell for this episode and I'll see you all next time.