Megas XLR

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Megas XLR is an American animated television series that aired on the Toonami block on Cartoon Network and is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It was created by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic. Its Opening song is "Megas XLR Theme (Chicks Dig Giant Robots)" by Deathwish Nine.

Originally entitled Lowbrow, the pilot episode was shown during Cartoon Network's 2002 Summerfest wherein 8 original Cartoon Cartoon pilots were shown. Megas XLR would become a new series as it was the most popular among viewers. After being delayed from its original debut in December 2003, Megas XLR finally debuted on Toonami in May 1, 2004 and was cancelled on April 26, 2005. However, there is a fan effort to save the show. It has been revealed though that Megas will be available on a new website known as Toonami Jetstream. Megas XLR is now in comic form in the pages of Cartoon Network Action Pack with stories written by its co-creator George Krstic.

Contents

1 The story
2 Characters

2.1 Lesser Characters

3 Megas
4 Episodes
5 External links
6 Unofficial Sites

The story

[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the distant future, Earth is fighting a losing war with an alien race known as the Glorft. In order to save the planet, the human resistance steals a prototype giant robot from the Glorft and modifies it, renaming it Megas (Mechanized Earth Guard Attack System). The idea was to send Megas back to the Battle of the Last Stand, which was the last major offensive fought by humanity against the Glorft. Humanity lost that battle, but the members of the resistance believe that Megas can tip the scales and hand the Glorft a decisive defeat.

Before the plan can be executed, however, an attack by the Glorft forces the human resistance to send Megas back in time. The prototype timedrive, however, accidentally sends the now-crippled Megas (its head was blown off in the attack) all the way back to the early 20th century. Megas languishes in a New Jersey junkyard until it ends up in the hands of two slackers, Coop and Jamie, around the year 2000. Coop turns Megas into a hot rod project and names it XLR, for eXtra Large Robot.

Kiva goes back in time to retrieve Megas, and when she finds she is unable to pilot it because of Coop's modifications (using car, stereo and videogame parts), she grudgingly decides to train Coop for fighting.

Characters

Coop (David DeLuise): The pilot of Megas, Coop is overweight and has an insatiable appetite. Due to years of playing video games, he is an excellent, if unconventional, pilot. He's not exactly the brightest person around—- his amazing heroics are mainly just accidents, and he usually ends up destroying more than he protects. Coop also is quite strong as depicted by his demonstrations of raw power, such as being able to punch a TV screen and breaking it without flinching or using a wrench to wreck a neo distortion missile on Megas. He usually wears a shirt with the number number 12.
Kiva (Wendee Lee): Kiva is a military pilot and engineer who traveled back in time from over a thousand years in the future. She has a no-nonsense personality, but adopts a small sense of humor as the series progresses, and is highly skilled in both robotic and hand-to-hand combat. Kiva is intelligent, tough, and fearless. Originally meant to be the pilot of MEGAS, she can no longer pilot it due to Coop's extensive modifications, and finds herself stuck in the present time. Instead of driving MEGAS herself, she tries to train Coop, who would usually rather eat, play videogames or tinker with cars or with MEGAS.
Jamie (Steven Jay Blum): Coop's best friend and a smart-aleck slacker. His contribution to the team is very limited. He spends much of his time hitting on cute girls (and often fails). He can be very cowardly and often runs at the sight of combat.
Goat (Scot Rienecker): The owner of the junkyard in which Coop found Megas, Goat sold him "anything in the junkyard for two bucks"-- which turned out to be MEGAS. Goat dreams of finding a robot of his own. Like Jamie, he tries to hit on girls (usually Kiva) and falls just a bit short. Although he did get lucky with Galaxia apparently. Goat also appeared in the MTV series Downtown.
Gorrath (Clancy Brown): The head of the Glorft. Gorrath followed Kiva and led his army back in time to try and retrieve Megas. He hates Coop and often launches attacks to try to kill him and reclaim Megas (or as he calls it: "the prototype"), but always fails in some way or other, usually because of sheer dumb luck on Coop's part.

Lesser Characters

Little Tommy (Sean Marquette): A kid who lives in Jersey City, he often goes "Coooooool!!!!" when he sees something unusual, such as an alien appearing in the middle a baseball game.
Cal (Greg Eagles): The owner of the impound lot. He seems to know Coop rather well.
Tiny (Kevin Michael Richardson): A friend of Coop's. Like Coop he is also fond of working with cars. He competed against Coop in an auto show and also assisted him on a number of occasions.
Georgie (Kevin Michael Richardson): He is a video game expert much like Coop, only he isn't as good as Coop is. He also seems to be fond of the lurps (tiny orange creatures who resemble smurfs). He has a lurp doll which he calls "his precious". He was later seen in Las Vegas with Goat at the gaming convention.
Gina (Rachael MacFarlane): A girl Jamie tried to date, she thought he had a really cool car which was actually Coop's (MEGAS's head module, in fact). So Jamie lied to get her to go for a ride which ended up turning into a cat-and-mouse chase with the Glorft.
Ally (Julie Nathanson): Kiva's ancestor from the past, Gorrath tried to kill her which would directly destroy Kiva and this would cause Coop to not have Megas at all. Fortunately for her, Coop was there to rescue her from the Glorft.
Skippy (Frankie Ryan Manriquez): Coop's bratty cousin. Coop was forced to babysit him in an episode. Coop decides to take Skippy into space where they encounter the Glorft who were using the Moon to attack Earth, when Coop accidentally released Skippy, he ended up finding the device needed to deactivate the thrusters which would push the moon into Earth.
Coop's mom: she never appears on screen, but in several episodes she can be heard yelling at Coop.
Glorft Commander (Kevin Michael Richardson): Gorrath's second in command. He seems to have an inferiority complex and is often scared of his commanding officer. His most common reaction when approached by Gorrath is to cower and says "NOT THE FACE!"
Magnanimous (Bruce Campbell): Head of the Intergalactic Robot Fighting Tournament. He uses Coop to make money in his battle arena, but when Coop refuses to lose for him they have a big fight resulting in Magnanimous being thrown in to a quantum singularity. In a later episode, Magnanimous comes to earth to challenge Coop for his title and to get revenge. His appearance seems to be a parody of MODOK, and of Campbell himself.
R.E.G.I.S. Mark 5 (Michael Dorn): Short for Replicant Engineered for Galactic Infiltration and Sabotage. An advanced and powerful alien robot, it was supposed to be dumped into a black hole by a cloaked ship. Unfortunately, Coop damaged the ship and the robot landed on Earth. R.E.G.I.S. is capable of absorbing metal to make it grow, regenerating after being damaged, replicating itself, and is equipped with multiple laser weapons. It was defeated when Coop made a smoke screen that cut off its supply of solar energy, similar to the clouds surrounding Earth in The Matrix.
Skalgar (Jeff Bennett): Skalgar strives to be the most feared criminal in the universe, but is often made fun of because of his small size. Despite this he is incredibly powerful. When he gets word of a universal controller made by Coop, he goes to claim it for his own thinking it will let him control the universe. He is defeated by MEGAS when Skalgar's own attack turns against him.
Warlock: A space pirate, captain of the Saving Grace. Warlock has a fetish for red hair (regardless of gender), and he unsurprisingly fell in love with Kiva. He tricked her by promising that he would give her a time drive, but he really wanted to make her his queen. Despite this, he was defeated when Coop threw a car horn into the Saving Grace, which attracted the Florgnots to it and made them attack it. He is a parody of Captain Harlock.
Florxin and Tolbit (Wally Wingert): Crab-like aliens who perform tasks. Their first job was to dump the REGIS mark V into a black hole but thanks to Coop their mission was accidentally sabotaged. Florxin is the tall cynical one and Tolbit is the short clueless one. They appear again in "Junk in the Trunk" to apparently pick up litter thrown in space.
T-Bot (Phil Lamarr): A robot who resembles Mr. T. He was one of Coop's challengers in "The Return". He often spoke in a mean rhyming tone saying stuff as "T-Bot will pounce you! Trounce you! And Utterly Denounce you!" He later tried to attack Magnanamus when he learned he lied about the cash prize.
Gerkek (Beau Billingslea): A giant space alien who cares for nothing but destruction and misery. He was sealed away long ago, but was released by Coop when he was testing a new game, not knowing it was a containment cartridge. Coop fought Gerkek and then blasted him, but this only turned him into a cocoon and transformed him into a bigger and meaner Gerkek. Gerkek was defeated when he got caught in a tidal wave which Coop caused and it shrunk him back down to size. He is now trapped in a "Love those Lurps" game console cartridge, thoroughly having the crap annoyed out of him.
Varsin (Rob Paulsen): A redneck-type alien who owned a junk planet. He allowed Coop and his friends to look for a photonic stablizer only so he could take MEGAS and its time drive, so he could go back in time and steal the universe's junk. He pilots a monstrous robot known as the Franken. He was defeated when Coop yanked a photonic stablizer out from the Franken's body.
Fred: Varsin's pet space worm.
Darklos: A space alien bounty hunter who controlled giant beasts. She was ordered to find and capture Kiva Andru so her clients could study her and her future knowledge. Apparently she also comes from the future but her time is further than Kiva's. She lost when the beasts she controlled broke free of her control and took her to prison on their homeworld. She is currently performing community service.
R.E.C.R. (Phil Lamarr): A robot created by Area 50. Its prime programming was to "defeat the enemy", but due to a programming flaw it considered everything to be its enemy. It was awakened by MEGAS. It feeds off of energy and becomes stronger as it feeds. It also needs external energy to operate properly. Coop later buried the robot in the Grand Canyon to prevent it from draining any more power, but that act also destroyed the popular tourist site in the process.
Gynok (Daran Norris): An alien plant spore from Saturn, it requires heat to grow and germinate. Taking the disguise of Auggie the Adorable Aardvark, it fought MEGAS because it considered it to be a threat to its germination process, it later multiplied and took the guises of the other parade balloons. Coop defeated it by feeding it extra heat it didn't need and it exploded.
S-Force: A group of superheroes from another galaxy (they're a parody of Gatchaman, more specifically their incarnation from Battle of the Planets, but also include elements mocking Power Rangers and Voltron), they first suspected Coop to be a bad guy most likely due to Coop's senseless destruction, they later learned that he was just stupid, not evil. Despite this they became great allies and later helped each other in a later episode. They pilot Zorps (Falcon, Rhinoceros, Ape, Kangaroo and Panther), which resemble animals. The pilots are Mac (Frank Welker), Argo (Scott Innes), Jax (Alan Young), Sloen (Ronnie Schell), and Duchess (Jennifer Hale). Their advisor is Targon. Due to their interaction with Coop, the S-Force have picked up his habits, becoming fast-food loving, less than serious, video game junkies. Although in S-Force S.O.S they appeared to have reverted back to normal.
Ultra-Cadets: Space chicks who came to Earth looking for Coop, instead they found Jamie. They needed Coop's assistance in fighting the Kurdock so Jamie, claiming to be Coop to impress the girls, went instead, not knowing what he was getting himself into. Later, Coop & Kiva showed up on their planet, and it was revealed that Jamie was an impostor. In the end, the Ultra Cadets were attacked by the Kurdock and it is unknown if they survived, but apparently they did as Goat was able to go to a movie with one of them. They are Galaxia, Comet, Pulsar, and Nova, and parodies of Sailor Moon and her teammates, the Sailor Scouts (this doubly ironic given that Galaxia is the name of a Sailor Moon villainess). Their voice actors are (Tara Strong), (Apollo Smile), and (Janice Kawaye)
Cryhocks: Otherwise known as the "Space Bigfoots" Their planet was being invaded by the Ceruleans, robots with the ability to transform into tanks much like the (Transformers). Coop helped them defeat the Ceruleans but at the same time also destroyed the planet Surell which kept the planet Cryhock cool in its shade. All the ice melted and now the Cryohocks now live on a warm planet thanks to Coop.
Ator (Keith Szarabajka): The chieftain of the Space Bigfoots. He is the leader of his tribe of Cryhocks who lived in an ice village. His village was protected by a defector of the Cerulean army but Coop mistook him for the enemy. Ator then explained this to Coop and Coop in return became their guardian.... for a short while.
Drarlig (Jeff Bennett): The Leader of the Ceruleans. He resembles Megatron in his appearance. He wanted ice to power up his ship. His ship was destroyed when a meteor from his own planet hit his ship.
Quarrel (Peter Cullen): The head of Prisoner Planet. Quarrel reprograms the AIs of dangerous criminal robots for the greater good. He mistook MEGAS for one of these, but the misunderstanding was soon cleared up. Quarrel decided to destroy MEGAS anyway due to Coop's interference. Ultimately, the criminals were all released thanks to Coop, who thought the robots were being held as slaves by Quarrel.
Ender (Dorian Harewood): One of the S-Force's enemies. He showed up while Coop was fighting the S-Force the first time and, mistaking him for a fellow villain, wanted to team up with Coop, but when Coop insisted he was good, he instead fought against Coop; he lost when Coop 'integrated' the Zorps into MEGAS (by brute force-- he shoved his arms and legs inside them) and used their power to defeat Ender, much to the dismay of the S-Force. Ender was sucked into an anti-matter rift.
Zarrik (Jeff Bennett): Another of the S-Force's enemies. He took over their planet and tried to throw the S-Force into the Infinity Zone but Coop came to their rescue and defeated him and his army. He pilots a giant snake mech and he looks sort of like a vampire.
Alternate Jamie (Steven Jay Blum): The leader of the resistance force in an alternate dimension. He is the hero of that Earth who fights against the evil forces of Coop and his army of robots. He apparently had a relationship with Kiva but Kiva left with Coop and became evil. Alternate Jamie is a battle-hardened man with a knee brace and is very brave and muscular. He modified the Glorft mechs into battle bots they can control.
Evil Coop (David DeLuise): The villain of the alternate dimension. After defeating the Glorft he snapped, he then wanted to defeat every baddie in the world and keep fighting, he eventually abandoned MEGAS and became Evil. He now rules the alternate Earth with an iron fist, that is, until good Coop showed up and allowed Evil Coop to go to his dimension and take over that Earth. He was defeated by Coop, Gorrath, and Alternate Jamie and is now trapped in the Lurp Dimension. His shirt number is 13.
Evil Kiva (Wendee Lee): Evil Coop's second in command. She followed Coop in the alternate dimension hoping to return home but she lost sight of her goal as well as her humanity. She became evil like Coop and follows his orders to a T. She, like Coop was trapped in the Lurp Dimension.

Megas

See: Megas (Megas XLR)

Episodes

''See: List of Megas XLR Episodes

External links

[Official site] at Cartoon Network (USA)
[] at TV.com
[Megas XLR DVD petition]
[Petition to bring back Megas XLR]

Unofficial Sites

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