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Mega Man Ruby Spears: Night Of The Living Monster Bots Rant
Reviewed: 05/22/2022
Doctor Wily Is A Living Monster Human!
So, we continue season two of the blue dweeb's life with episode #19 (although on the DVD, it is episode #18) as Dr. Wily unleashes horror movie monster robots, which attack everything in sight. He films it as a threat to come if people don't pay to watch. Mega Man has to fight these monster robots and even his family and friends under their curse. How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
Night Of The Living Monster Bots is written by Doug Molitor and was directed by Katsumi Minoguchi.
We begin this episode AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) on a road towards an abandoned castle. Then we head into a castle room where Dr. Wily is literally Doctor Frankenstein with The Creature on the table being surged with lightning bolts as Proto Man claims that Dr. Wily being insane is well within the wheelhouse. HA! I think this is on-brand rational with Dr. Wily at this point, but what do I know? Dr. Wily wants to terrorize the populace again with the creature, which is insane because this story is so played out at this point, it felt fresh in TaleSpin because TaleSpin took place in the 1930's. The wooden clock strikes midnight, which looks like a clock Nosedive would have cleaned had he existed two years before this. Never mind, let's go to the monitor screen and show a white supply truck on a road as Dr. Wily is hamming it up much more than usual. We cut inside the truck with a man wearing a blue shirt, brown uniform and hat, he looks like a UPS employee, delivering something to the British museum, so apparently, the episode takes place in the UK. This employee's promo sounds like someone who is going to complain about how bad contracted work is when he gets fired after this episode is over. Then he hears noises (and has a green scarf) and stops the truck. He opens the back and we get a weird moment where they added a dream border in a scene where no one is dreaming and them the coffin is shown, the top breaks and it's Mummy Bot. They should have called it Mummy Man and made a new robot master out of it. It's not like we are going to see Pharoah Man in any way in this episode; because Pharoah Man is cool and even Rock cannot bury him. Actually, only Cut Man and Guts Man are in this episode, one of a few times there was no cameo robot master! Somehow, the truck is a short enough distance for the man to flee into a village called Hampton Village, which I'm certain Hampton Pig from Tiny Toons is not the mayor. So, at least two denizens are there, including the rich dude in a top hat calling this all tubbyrot. Even after all the preparation for this by ranting on Peppa Pig couldn't prepare me for that one. Mummy Man enters and shoots purple lasers at the denizens, they all flee into the conveniently placed inn as a devlishish angel statue in a fountain gets destroyed. More chasing and stalking make Gregory Weagle something...oh wait, Cut Man is hiding in the bushes on headset and using an ancient filming projector straight out of 1937.
This is how we recorded film in ancient Egypt by the way. Guts Man is on this Skullcycle with Cut Man on shotgun and the boon microphone of course gets shown. I realize that it's supposed to be shown to us, but it's still very Keith Mitchell of this show. Mummy Man is scattering denizens with his laser as Dr. Wily is loving life, but Proto Man clearly isn't judging by his Gruffi pose. Dr. Wily's plan is this: Terrorize cities with monster movie robots and then make the cities pay up to stop them. And make money on the side with an actual monster movie, which that part is what Blues blows off. I have heard far worse plots on this very show, starting with the previous episode I ranted on and Ice Age. Mummy Man is told to back off and return to the castle, along with Cut Man and Guts Man; as Dr. Wily wants movie actors Emerlin and Ray to be delivered to him. Head to London with the OBVIOUS LANDMARK OF THE DAY, and then head into an office with a guy wearing a grey vest, red tie, black hair and mustache who might be Vern Thompson's cousin for all I know. His name is Inspector Headley as Headley tells Dr. Light, Rock, Roll and Rush that there was a mummy sighting and Dr. Light says that this is bogus. HA! Anyone who knows British English knows that mummy and mommy are the same title. Sod off, Dr. Light Bigot! Headley then shows Dr. Light an odd-shaped titanium metal boomerang and Rock deduces Dr. Wily is behind this, thus proving Headley made the right call, according to Roll. Rock wants to nip this scam in the bud early as we scene change to outside the city in a lot of fog as Dr. Light states that it's going to be a long way to Hampton Village. So, the decision is to flag a cab as we see a blond haired woman in a black cloak on the sidewalk as Dr. Wily's Taxi Service arrives with Guts Man and Cut Man driving like the Wuzzles, forcing Rock to run in to save what I believe is Emerlin, one of the actors Dr. Wily wanted. So, yes; this taxi service has a worse driving record than anyone in The Wuzzles. Ponder that one for a moment, and despair! Also, I made an error: I thought Everlin and Ray were two different actors, but Everlin Ray is the woman's full name. And yes, I got the spelling and pronouncation wrong as well. Damn me! They exchange pleasure thoughts for a while as Roll wants Everlin's autograph on her weapon mini mop. By the way, the color stylist is having trouble determining Everlin's skin color in various shots.
Then I realize that Roll is trying to get her arm to show a pen, but she just shows off various robot weapon arms, because apparently, the pen is not more powerful than the sword in Dr. Light's eyes. Idiot. Rush groans as the babyfaces all walk on the sidewalk for a while. Everlin confirms that she's shooting a monster movie at Hampton Village, and Dr. Light offers her a ride in a real taxi that conveniently shows up. Remember that cars drive on the opposite side of the road in the UK, so this makes sense for the car to stop on the left. Jump cut to Dr. Wily's evil taxi and of course, Cut Man is the driver. CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT~! Guts Man wants to mangle them of course. So, we get the CAR CHASE SEQUENCE THE ROLLING CUTTER EDITION~! Because of course, Cut Man is firing Rolling Cutters, destroying the left back tyre as Roll is consoling Everlin while the black haired taxi driver is panicking like crazy. Rock is pissed off as the robots and Dr. Light are stupid to show their heads and must duck a Rolling Cutter. Rock fires the Rock Buster and hits the evil taxi of death. More shooting to destroy Rolling Cutter. Wow, this is the best animated sequence of the season so far, I'm actually impressed. Sadly, the taxi turns into a corvette in one shot when Rock jumps out of it onto a grappling hook construction truck. Even when the animation is great, there has to be a logic break somewhere. Rock swings like robot Tarzan on said grappling hook as he lands on the evil taxi roof. Rock slices the roof with the hook and bails. Why does Rock even need to shoot the buster to get the lever (JESUS~!) to work?! Just run over there and pull the lever (JESUS~!). Easy. I assure you the physics do not work in shooting the lever (JESUS~!) on. This is becoming a motif and it annoys me a lot more than Baloo piloting the SeaDuck with his feet. I'm shocked Kit didn't mimic this in The Lost Cargo Of Kit Cloudkicker! The evil taxi is brought up in the sky as Rock bails and Guts Man protests this outrage. Sadly, it's not the shooting the lever part that Guts Man is protesting. We head to the castle and then jump cut to inside the taxi with the babyfaces breathing a sigh of relief. The taxi makes it to the castle as Everlin gets out and thanks them as she'll take it from there. Everlin walks into the castle and disappears as Dr. Light is questionning all this. The babyfaces all get out and notice FOUR humans with torches and weapons; so there is a mob commencing. Uh-Oh!
Roll notices this and this isn't a picnic to her. You don't say?! One of them is the UPS truck driver from earlier as they found Mummy Man with it's back turned. He turns around and the denizens change their tune because they all have lobster courage as suspected. Cut Man is shown filming with his headset as Dr. Wily is watching and giving orders to keep the camera steady. You know, Cut Man is incompentent, why would you give him the most difficult job of filming a movie? The Skullcycle rises up with Guts Man and the boon mike as Mummy Man destroys weapons and scares the denizens because of course! Rock runs in, shoots Mummy Man, Mummy Man flies into the lake with ease and that is that. This leads to Dr. Wily protesting this outrage of Mega Man being in his movie?! Personally, I think it's great since it gives the movie extra star power if you catch my drift. Then again, Dr. Wily is a homo sapien vampiris with cluster b traits in the maligant position, so why am I not surprised? Mummy Man somehow teleports out to the plains (damn, I should have guessed) as Rush runs in, bites Mummy's leg and gets kicked away within one second of the spot happening. Ouch! Mummy Man shoots at Rock, Rock clearly jumps, but the smoke covers up the jump so Dr. Wily can claim that Rock is dead. What a stupid idiot?! Even BLUES thinks Dr. Wily is wrong, so there's that. Yup, Rock is sitting in a tree as his kick is going to K-I-S-S-I-N-G that bot! Rock hates showoffs! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Psychological projection much there, you blue dweeb?! Mummy Man goes into the lake as Rush is somehow in said lake. The mob has increased to six denizens now, I think. Mummy Man sinks as the denizens pop as we return to Dr. Wily on the microphone ordering Wolf Man (I don't care if they are called bots, there are no new robot masters in this episode; so they are x Mans and I can call them as I see fit) to tear the blue dweeb to shred. About damn time Dr. Wily called Mega Man a blue dweeb. A wolf shadow howls on a rock as the crack logic team decides to have some weapon break off the UPS driver's torch from a direction where the wolf would never be able to do that. If this scene was mirrored, then the scene makes sense, but not here. Another spike destroys the top hat guy's torch and the denizens all scatter as purple lasers are shot. Someone in color styling loves purple lasers for some reason.
Okay, then we get the most amazing sequence ever: Rock shoots wolf on hill and it disappears, denizens pop for that. It turns out that the wolf was just shadows and a decoy for the real Wolf Man to come out and it shoots claws at Dr. Light. Dr. Light does not bail as somehow the claws missed him, but Dr. Light sells it like he was hit and his clothes are torn and it appears a blood splat is on his lab coat, despite the fact that the red trim, clearly shows a tear. I'll give the animators this, they did an awesome job of making me think that Dr. Light was legit shot in the chest and blood came out. Then, Dr. Light teases transforming into a Wolf Man; but we cut away before he even does that. Wolf Man and Rock have a fire fight as Rock backs up, and of course he backs up in the lake. Which is the general signal for Roll to tell him to watch out because Mummy Man rises from the dead and grabs Rock's ankle. Cut back to Dr. Wily's castle as he's loving life as the animators forgot to animate the monitor at all. Nice picture though; until we see the monitor on the closeup being animated as Rock's facial expression are like "don't tickle me". I was laughing harder than Dr. Wily here as the segment ends almost seven and a half minutes in. I'm actually enjoying this episode and the animation is much better than the last two episodes so far; plus: "MEGA! MEGA! RIGHT BACK! MESSAGES! WOO-WOO!" It never grows old and Rush's pose in the eyecatcher just makes it even more hilarious now.
After the commercial break; Rock is in the lake literally getting crub stomped into the lake by Mummy Man, which is silly because robots cannot drown in this show. The babyfaces all panic, well, only really Roll. Mummy Man has his buster set to profits. Even funnier, Dr. Light is not injured again! WHAT?! At least he didn't turn into a werewolf despite teasing it in the previous segment. Rock jumps from behind like a heel, and steps onto Mummy Man's right arm, which the animators decided to increase his size and height by three feet. WHAT?! Rock touches the buster arm and it's WEAPON GET TIME~! He got Mummy Wrapper. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ZAP! OUCH! Ummmmm...Sadly, it's basically him shooting a purple laser to a branch of a conveniently placed tree and Mummy Man gets wrecked. Why bother?! The blaster is a purple colored version of the Rock Buster. What was the point of stealing the weapon?! Mummy Man sparks red sparks as Dr. Wily is protesting this as cheating. Since when?! Rock steals weapons all the time even from non-robot masters. This is well within the wheelhouse in this show. Dr. Wily orders Wolf Man to finish the job as Wolf Man jumps from a rock and tackles Rock down to the ground. Wolf Man growls in his face. Rock and Wolf tumble like a bunch of kids and Rock kicks his away, denizens pop for that one. The moon gets covered in fog, so Wolf Man bails stage left and transforms into a robot man with black hair before leaving stage left. Dr. Wily is such an idiot to have that as a FEATURE in a robot master. Rock tries to find him, but no dice as Rock calls him a coward. Word. We head back to the castle with Dr. Wily protesting this outrage and admits that he designed a luna robot without considering the consequences. HAHA! Rock returns to the denizens on the monitor to address them. Guts Man is so offended by all this that he finds an out of nowhere dead tree and throws it at Rock, basically blowing the robot masters cover because the camera and boon mike are there for Rock to see. All because Guts Man was insulted by Dr. Wily. What a simpleton?! Rock grabs the wooden log, shoots a shot through the log and it hits Guts Man, and the power of suggestion knocks both robots into the lake along with the Skullcycle being destroyed into the ground. What a bunch of idiots these two are?! The monitor fizzles out as Dr. Wily has a splitting headache because he cannot admit that he builds defective robots.
Now the movie is running over budget because Rock ruins everything. Sorry, Guts Man ruined this movie because of his hothead temper; which you programmed yourself. I have zero sympathy nor empathy for you. As a robot designer, you suck! Jump cut back to Cut Man and Guts Man getting out of the lake and despite the SkullCycle being broken, it is not damaged enough for them to escape as they escape into the sky and that's that. Roll then has an out of nowhere film reel as the babyfaces deduce that Dr. Wily is making a horror film and must be put out of business. Also, Everlin Ray is in grave danger as we head to a sky shot of the castle and somehow Everlin Ray is still outside the castle despite the last time we see her, she was at the door before she disappeared. WHAT?! Everlin knocks on the door and the door opens to reveal the Wolf Man in human form as he's the robot butler of this outfit. Also, Everlin admits that she's here to see Dr. Wily on her new film role and is allowed in just like that! Jump cut back to the lab with Dr. Wily welding sparks into the creature underneath the covers while Blues is checking the stuff so to speak. Dr. Wily calls this a blockbuster monster bot as Everlin enters the lab loving it because it looks like an awesome set to her. Everlin checks the covers and a robot arm is lively, causing Everlyn to back up as Blues tells her not to touch the props. Dr. Wily and Everlyn exchanges notes for a while about the plot and Everlyn proclaims that this is the worst idea ever, basically being on Blues' side of things on the matter. Everlyn no sells the deal; but Dr. Wily has a back up known as Dracula Bot as it goes from bat bot to Dracula. I was so disappointed that it wasn't based on the Battattons design because that would have been much more on the nose and a neat character design compared to the generic one we got here. Dracula Man (sadly, all robot masters past Mega Man 5 don't exist yet, so this will have to do over Shade Man at this point) brainwashes Everlyn into Dr. Wily's bidding as she is now a vampire. We head to the castle back door as Rock shoots a wooden door down and the butler robot arrives to ask if he has an appointment. Rock threatens the robot butler with violence and the butler backs down as the babyfaces all head inside. Rush stops to check on the butler as the full moon is clear and the butler turns into the Wolf Man. Rush panics and heads further inside.
Jump cut to the monitor with Dr. Wily pissed off that Rock is here, and the monitor has the most absurd staring from the babyfaces that I have ever seen. The animation and facial expressions are hideously hilarious here. Blues is still doing the Gruffi pose as he tells Dr. Wily not to burst a blood vessel like Dr. Light did to his lab coat earlier in the episode. Wolf Man comes in out of nowhere to inform him why Rock is after them, and Dr. Wily orders him to hide Everlyn away. I'm guessing he meant Wolf Man, but Dracula Man is on retainer, so why not him? Anyhow, Rush runs in the hallway as there is a conveniently placed suit of armor with a sword as Rush has to play the poor man's Scooby-Doo to inform them that the butler turned into the Wolf Man. Somehow, this leads to a wall door sliding open and the babyfaces all go in and completely forget what Rush was talking about originally. That was so stupid. The babyfaces all go down a spiral staircase and find a dungeon cell, Rock blasts the lock. Somehow, the Wolf Man is back to being the butler again, for no reason whatsoever. The last two to three minutes of this episode has made Doug look like a complete fool. Why bother having the butler turn into the Wolf Man for Rush to see and then have it go absolutely nowhere. Rush sees the butler and goes after it stage left, while Dr. Light follows him. Then the smelly cats in the moonlight engulf Dr. Light and he is brainwashed into having Goliath's red eyes of death. One of the old paintings is fixed with camera lens in the eyes for Dr. Wily to notice this by the way. So, we teased and didn't even start to deliver and now they are teasing Dr. Light being a wolf man and maybe they'll deliver it this time?! Dr. Wily claims that Dr. Light has the mark of the beast and has the blood of a wolf now. Blues calls this a cheap B-movie. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. If there is one thing cartoons do great, it's Z-grade movies since the animation makes them better. We head to a room with multiple coffins lined on the floor. Roll doesn't like this at all as Rock and Roll are inside. One of the coffins opens to reveal Everlyn in a Dracula costume with fangs, lipstick and a really bad hair day. Somehow, being brainwashed allows her to shoot purple lightning bolts from her mouth. IN YOUR FACE, QUELLOR~! It makes no sense, but it's funny so I'll allow it. It's not much different from Dr. Light somehow being a werewolf in this episode anyway.
Lots of shooting as Roll really explains the obvious to us as Dr. Wily and Blues watch on from the monitor as he calls this very convinving while cackling. HAHA! Roll blocks a lightning bolt with her frying pan arm. Rock decides to run interference and gets Everlyn in a chase. Remember, Everlyn is technically a human who believes she's a vampire, so killing her would violate the no kill rule. So, Rock runs around, finds a conveniently placed coffin, opens the lid, Everlyn falls into said coffin and the lid gets shut and locked. Oh, and on the balcony, here comes Fangs The Dracula Man shooting lightning bolts and calling Everlyn a rookie. Pfft, whatever, you bigoted vampire. And after playing Castlevania: Order of Esccalata, I'm not surprised that Dracula is a sexist prick. Rock shoots at Dracula Man because he's not under the no kill rule; and misses. Dracula Man turns into a bat and flies out the window as Rock follows him while Roll has to keep an eye on Everlyn. Roll is gravely offended by this because she's a deadly vampire. Hello; SO IS DRACULA MAN~! So, Roll slowly opens the coffin and Everlyn literally turned into a bat and flies away. This believe it or not makes sense in storyline, because when Everlyn was brainwashed, Dracula Man wanted her to be exactly like him! So, this all makes sense in spite of how absurd this sounds in real life. Even more stupid: Roll chases her with a butterfly net arm. Like that is going to work! Jesus, Roll is being buried here for some reason. Rock goes up the staircase to the libarary filled with bookshelves and spider-webs. Rock orders Dracula Man to show itself and Dracula Man shows himself and almost blinds Rock in the process. Rock is such a blue dweeb! They have a shoot down and Rock wins despite both sides missing by a mile; but the library sleves topple on Dracula Man for Rock to win. Jump cut to Roll going up the stairs to join Mega and then we hear Rush on the balcony biting the robot butler leg. As we cut to Rush, Dr. Light is trying to peel Rush off, calling him harmless. Remember that Dr. Light is already brainwashed as Rush is pulled off. The full moon is clear as butler turns into the Wolf Man, as Rock tells Dr. Light to bail, but Dr. Light turns around and turns into a literal werewolf because why not?! Rock saying Wolf Bot, and I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. Rock is such a blue dweeb! Rock and Roll are at the mercy of the Wolf Devils to end the segment 14 minutes in. I like this episode actually!
After the commercial break, we see the babyfaces being stalked by the Wolf Devils while Dr. Wily cackles and loves life behind the monitor with Blues. Dr. Wily calls this the plot twist he needed to make his movie "awesome". Yeah, it's awesomely bad. Oh great, now I sound like Proto Man. That's horrifying. Wolf Man shoot claws, Rock shoots buster, Wolf Man is done I think. Rush is trying to restrain Dr. Light and that fails badly. Roll bails behind a knight suit and pleads for Dr. Light to stop. That fails as Rock turns around and teases shooting Dr. Light, violating his own robot code....Rock shoots the buster at the knight helmet and it drops on Dr. Light's head and Dr. Light bonks into the wall and knocks himself the f out. HA! That was a great spot and it's not like Rock wants to kill Dr. Light anyway. Rock grabs Dr. Light as the babyfaces try to bail, but Dr. Wily has his vampires on retainer and they run in to cut off the babyfaces as bats. They transform into Dracula Man and Dracula Woman. Everlyn is Dracula Woman of course. Dracula Man finds a conveniently placed lever and pulls it (JESUS~!) as Rush and Roll go through a trapdoor down a spiral slide. They fall into a conveniently placed dungeon and Roll's arm is destroyed, so blasting out for Rush and Roll is out of the question. Rush is not amused by this as we head back topside as Rock bails with Dr. Light while Dracula Devils shoot lightning beams. However, Rock gets cut off by Guts Man coming in from a room. Guts Man is so stupid that he stands underneath the door, so Rock shoots the top of the door and it is still enough for the iron door to causes Guts Man to be smashed down on him. Guts Man holds onto the door, allowing Rock to walk past him without incident. Rock runs some more, and it's time for CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT~! Mostly because he says: "Three Shears For Mega Man!", which is dumb in itself, but he fires three Rolling Cutters. Next shot, only TWO Rolling Cutters are shown buzzing by Rock, Rock shoots the side wall which has extra bricks and Cut Man is entombed in a brick tomb. Rock goes over to Cut Man, touches his arm and it's WEAPON GET TIME~! The animators are making this look a lot less animeish despite the show being based on a product made by Japanese developers. Oh great, even Dracula Man is calling him a blue dweeb now! That's funny actually. Rock shoots a circular wall with Rolling Cutters that look more like Quick Boomerangs.
More shooting from the Dracula Devils as Rock jumps through the wall to the outside of the castle as Dr. Light somehow is still a werewolf despite his legs clearly looking human on every shot showing said legs. Rock shoots a rope off the most silliest catapult I have ever seen, but it's enough to catapult them over the castle walls into the moat as they showed Dr. Light's wolf face during one of the shot. Rock swims Dr. Light to shore and that is that. Dr. Wily is watching on the monitor and is not impressed; but Proto Man calls Rock the star of this flick. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Dr. Wily don't care because he has Roll and his little dog, too; because why not reference the Wizard Of Oz. Dr. Wily shows off Roll and Rush in pain as he proclaims that when Rock comes back, The Creature Bot under the blanket on the table will crush him. See, set up the whole episode and then pay it off. We head back to Hampton Village and then head to a hanger with Dr. Light being normal and making something with welding tools while Rock watches on. Dr. Light's plan is to get the bots off their game and then crush them, which in turn destroys the curse and bring Everlyn and Dr. Light's monster forms to a complete stop forevermore. Okay, that makes sense at least. Thankfully, Dr. Light is almost done as Rock is concerned about the full moon again. Jump cut to a far shot of the castle as the full moon is clear again. Wolf Man is on a hill as Rock suddenly comes out of nowhere to taunt him. Apparently, Rock turns into a werewolf and joins Wolf Man as we jump cut back to Dr. Wily demonstrating the ultimate monster getting sparks of energy on the table as all the heels except for Wolf Man are present. The door opens and in comes Wolf Man with Rock Wolf Man, which is where I wondered what happened as apparently, thirty seconds of episode were cut from my video. Dr. Wily is surprised and then we see Rock tear the whole wolf thing apart because it was a Dr. Light disguise, you see. See, it all made sense, didn't it?! Dr. Wily is not amused by this and pulls the lever (JESUS~!) and reveals his ultimate monster known as Frankenbot. Okay, again: Frankenstein is the doctor, not the creature. It's called Creature Bot or Creature Man. Then again, Dr. Wily doesn't know the difference between Watts and Joules, so why am I not surprised?! The Creature Bot looks hideously hilarious by the way.Creature Man has turret shooting lasers from his head and Rock dodges fire and shoots back. Things get destroys as Dracula Man and Wolf Man run in to assist Creature Man; but Dr. Wily panics because they have surrounded Rock properly. Rock dodges and Creature Man shoots lasers and destroys Dracula Man and Wolf Man like a bunch of Cell Juniors getting killed by Gohan in the Cell Games. Everlyn gets a splitting headache and reverts back to normal complete with bloody red sparks.
Dr. Wily is pissed off as he orders Creature Man to kill Rock as Creature Man does a military press on Rock and throws him into some power generators. I betcha Cut Man got a smirk out of that one as he continues to film the action. Rock is down as the power generator is sparkling and the castle starts caving in as Dr. Wily is readying the grand finale: Creature Man grabs Everlyn and destroys London; which is exactly what Creature is doing and is going to do in that order. All of the heels bail the castle and seal Rock in the lab. Roll manages to repair her cake mixer arm and drills the wall to open the cell door as she and Rush bail. Rock manages to recover somewhat and shoots a table to see saw out of the window onto the castle roof and then hang onto the ledge. Roll and Rush run out of the castle as Rush notices Rock on the roof, turns into Rush Jet and Rock gets on him. All three babyfaces flee as the castle is completely destroyed into ruins as we head into the night in a fog with Creature Man and Everlyn is screaming badly. She isn't going along with this at all as Dr. Wily loves it because it's melodramatic to him. Earth to Wily: If you want it to be suspenseful and dramatic, SHUT THE HELL UP~! Cut Man is going to do a closeup; but here comes the babyfaces as Rock shoots the Skullcopter and everyone splashes into the lake like a bunch of fools. Rock taunts Creature Man for a while. Earth to Rock: She's a woman, not a girl. Okay?! Creature Man shoots and Rock dodges as he gets from behind, twists two of the lasers cannons so they shoot towards him, grabs Everlyn and lands in front of Creature Man. Rock tells Creature Man to take his best shot, Creature Man sells and kills himself basically. Creature Man bursts into flames as Roll and Rush are in fact filming this. All the heels gets into the conveniently placed Wily Machine RS being all wet as Blues calls this a wrap. The Wily Machine RS bails stage right as Everlyn calls Rock her hero and Rock walks away from the hard camera. Jump cut to a projector screen saying "END" as we are in a private movie theater with the babyfaces watching a movie and wrapping this thing all up. Dr. Light suggests that books are safer, and he might be right as Rock declines an offer to film a sequel because Dr. Wily fighting is too real for doing stuff like this. Word. Rush eats from the garbage can, burps and giggles to end the episode at 24:00 approx. Despite the lack of new robot masters (I mean, Skull Man would have been perfect here, considering the theme and being the only robot master that isn't shown from Mega Man 4); this episode was really awesome in spite of being a mess. *** 3/4 (75%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well, I really liked this episode and minus the silliness and logic breaks; this was a great episode. The plot is silly, but it actually works and the new robots were actually a giant threat in this one. Even Everlyn and Dr. Light as heels worked perversely well. I highly enjoyed this episode because it was completely absurd, but somehow managed to stay within the bounds of logic and reason as a story. For the most part, the whole idea of Dr. Light turning into a werewolf is silly, but the episode was shooting for the Z-grade movie experience and animation does a much better job than live-action is in protraying the plot, so it worked out as well as it could had. Yes, no Skull Man and no Pharoah Man is a sad day; but the bots really could have easily been good Robot Masters with some fine tuning and personalities that weren't generic gimmicks. Doug deserves a lot of credit for writing this: This was really good and the animation was mostly good outside of some rough edges. Overall, a really fun episode that is good. Next up is the infamous episode of the series: Curse Of The Lion Men. I look forward to breaking that one down, and somehow I think it's a better episode than anyone wants to give it credit for. We'll see. So....
Thumbs in the middle pointing up and I'll see you all next time.