Megas XLR

*Megas XLR*
Megas XLR
	File:Megas XLR.png Megas, Kiva, Coop, and Jamie.
Created by	Jody Schaeffer; George Krstic
Starring	David DeLuise; Wendee Lee; Steven Jay Blum; Scot Rienecker; Clancy Brown
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	26 minutes
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network
Release	May 1, 2004 –; April 26, 2005

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.

Originally entitled Lowbrow, the pilot episode was shown during Cartoon Network's 2002 Summer Contest to determine which cartoon would become a new Cartoon Cartoon; 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. Megas XLR is currently not airing on any station in the United States, but is airing on Teletoon in Canada.

The story

Template:Spoiler 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 late 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, she 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 pilot. He's not exactly the brightest person around—his amazing heroics are just accidents, and he usually ends up destroying more than he protects. Coop also is quite strong as depticed by his demonstrations of raw power, such as being able to punch a TV screen and breaking it without flinching. His number is 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 modifications, and finds herself stuck in the present time. Instead of driving MEGAS herself, she tries to train Coop.
Jamie (Steven Jay Blum): Coop's best friend and a smart-aleck slacker. His contribution to the team is, well, nothing. The only thing he does is hit on cute girls (and he can't even do that.). He is very cowardly and often runs at the sight of combat.
Goat (Scot Rienecker): The owner of the junkyard in which Coop found Megas, Goat dreams of finding a robot of his own. Like Jamie, he tries to hit on girls and falls just a bit short. Although he did get lucky with Galaxia apparently.
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 cool.
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, the only is that he isn't as good as Coop is. He also seems to be fond of the lurps. Tiny orange creatures who reselmbe smurfs. He has a lurp doll which he calls "his precious" He was later seen in Las Vegas with Goat at the game convention.
Gina (Rachael MacFarlane): A girl Jamie tried to date, she thought he had a really cool car which was actually Coop's. 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. Fortunatly for her, Coop was there to rescue her from the Glorft.
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. When approached by Gorrath he cowers 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.
R.E.G.I.S. Mark 5 (Michael Dorn): Short for Replicant Engineered for Galactic Infiltration and Sabatoge. 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 consuming 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 because of his size he is often made fun of, 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.
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 deviced needed to activated the thrusters which would push the moon to Earth.
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 the car horn into the Saving Grace, which attracted the Florgnots to it and made them attack it.
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 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 Denouce you!" He later tried to attack Magnanamus when he learned he lied about the case prize.
Gerkek: 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 cacoon 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.
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 take the time drive so he could go back in time and steal the universe's junk. He pilots a monstorus 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. Apparently she 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.
R.E.C.R. (Phil Lamarr): A robot created by Area 50. It's prime programming was to defeat the enemy, but due to a programming flaw it considered everything to be it's enemy. It was awakened by Megas. It feeds off of energy and becomes stronger as it feeds. It also needs 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 Ardvark, it fought Megas because it considered it to be a threat to it's germination process, it later multipled and took the guises of the other parade ballons. 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 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 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 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. Their voice actors are (Tara Strong), (Apollo Smile), and (Janice Kawaye)
Cryohocks: 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 cool. All the ice melted and now the Cryohocks now live on a warm planet thanks to Coop.
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 wanted to team up with Coop, but when Coop insisted he was good, he instead fought with Coop, he lost when Coop integrated the Zorps into Megas and used their power to defeat Ender, much to the dismay of the S-Force. Ender was sucked into an anti-matter rift.
Zatrik (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 reistance 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 modifed 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 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.
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.

Equipment

Megas has some unusual and familiar components installed onboard—many are taken from popular anime series, though there are some original Coop designs among the weapons, usually based on his obsession with video games, complete with control pads, joysticks, Trackballs and light guns.

Original equipment

Eight-Ball Fireball (first appeared in "Test Drive") - Megas makes the signature move of Ryu from Street Fighter and projects a Hadoken-like fireball that resembles a billard 8-Ball.
The Jammer (first appeared in "Battle Royale") – A weapons-grade karaoke system that, when teamed with Coop's (very) off-key singing, is capable of generating a wave of sonic destruction capable of annihilating a space station. Use of The Jammer may very well constitute a war crime—not to mention a crime against all that is music.
Super-Destructor Mode (first appeared in "S-Force S.O.S.") – A mode that covers Megas from head to toe in missile launchers. It would be devastating—if only Coop had finished debugging the targeting system.
Mazer Refractor (first appeared in "Universal Controller") – Fires a beam that creates an invincible, deflecting force field around whatever it hits (although weapons that are inside the shield can still be shot out). The usefulness of such a "weapon" is obviously questionable. If the polarity is reversed, however, it creates a reverse shield that lets everything in and nothing out.
Energy Sword (first appeared in "Battle Royale") – The hands of Megas can create a huge energy sword in a manner similar to that of Voltron.
Cool Blade Thingy (first appeared in "Junk in the Trunk") – Blades surround Megas's entire body. Spinning blades have also appeared.
Nitrous (first appeared in "The Fat and the Furious") – A mode that accelerates Megas's speed a thousand times, enabling it to move at lightning-like speed and leave dead mechas in its path.
Manual Overdrive (first appeared in "The Fat and the Furious") – A Dance Dance Revolution-style system used as a back-up when the automatic driving gears fail. Coop dances, and Megas mimicks Coop's exact movements, though the other weapons are off-line. Despite the silliness of the system, this can actually be very handy for use in combat. Well, if Coop was in better shape...
Headlight Lasers (first appeared in Dude, Where's my Head?) - The headlights of the car that forms Megas' head project lasers that can be increased by using the Hi-Beam option.
5 Minutes Till End of Episode (first appeared in "Coop D'Etat") – Megas's fists burst into flames, enabling it to melt anything it touches.
The Do Not Touch Button This launches multiple nuclear warheads. Fortunately, Kiva is able to keep Coop from actually using it. Coop then replies "What's the point of having Nukes if you can't use them?" (first appeared in Viva las Megas)
Big Red Button of Irony (debut in Ice Ice MEGAS) involves using the enemy's own beam of destuction against them, it doomed two entire species directly and indirectly
Bet You Can't Guess What This Button Does (debut in Driver's Seat) - This is the ejector seat for the passenger side, which Coop uses to launch Gorrath into the air. He was surprised that it actually worked and stated "And who says my modifications backfire?"
Light Gun (debut in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Coop) - Pulling the gun out of the holster causes Megas to retract its right hand, forming a blaster. The blasts are powerful, but you have to 'reload' it after eight shots, by pointing down at the reload monitor and pulling the trigger.
Custom Horn (appeared in Space Booty) - After discovering that Megas's custom horn severly enrages a colony of dragon-like alien creatures, Coop uses it to his advantage, hurling the horn into the ship of Captain Warlock, which leads the swarm of creatures inside, causing mass hysteria.
Save the World Button (debut in Driver's Seat) - Amazingly, Coop came up with something to actually save the world. Too bad it was out of order at the time. He also had buttons labeled Destroy the World, Smite the World, and Destroy the World Worse.
Heater Flamethrower (debut in Universal Controller) - By moving the heater controls from Cool, to Hot, to Dang, Megas' arms come together, the hands retract, and an enormous blast of searing flames is shot out.
Special Move Controls (debut in All I Wanted was a Slushie) - Due to his love for smashing, Coop had installed various controls which make Megas do all sorts of physical violence. These include Head Butt, Ripping Arms Out of Sockets, General Pummeling, Pounding and More Pounding.
This better then (first appeared in "Junk in the Trunk") - twin axes (capable to cut steel hard enough to tie Megas up)sprout from Megas arms, wich can also be launched.
Robot Intergration System (first appeared in "The Bad Guy") - Megas acquires the ability to intergrate parts from other robots onto his own armor making it stronger. Coop did this with the parts of the S-Force making his mech stronger which he used to defeat Ender.

Non-original equipment

Wave Motion Gun (Taken from Space Battleship Yamato, appeared in "Test Drive") – This highpowered weapon comes out of the front of Megas, consisting of not only the cannon, but a sizable portion of the bow of the Yamato as well. Accuracy is an issue, however.
Autobot Matrix of Leadership (Taken from Transformers, appeared in "The Fat & the Furious") – Though not called by its name, the Matrix somehow wound up in Megas, where Coop and Jamie promptly injected pasteurized cheese spread into it and somehow created a cheese monster.
Reflex Cannon (Taken from Robotech's adapted name for the super dimension energy cannon in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, appeared in "Viva Las Megas") – The ultimate weapon of the Macross is now part of Megas's armament. The weapon was part of a giant fortress; the front of it; and when the ship transformed, the front of the ship made two huge cannons.
Something Bigger (Taken from Robotech/Macross, although the name is original) - Megas transorms into a bipedal battleship, complete with cannons, missile launchers and rocket launchers.
Secondary Command Centre is an obvious allusion to the Enterprise Ds rather less than high tech secondary bridge. It includes various old monitors and control pad with twist buttons, and, surprisingly, a CB radio. (Appeared in "Dude, where's my head?")
EMP Torpedo (Taken from Star Trek, appeared in "TV Dinner") - The design is obviously copied from the photon torpedo of the Star Trek movies, though Coop had turned it into a refrigerator.
Target Acquisition (Taken from the Last Starfighter) This is actually dialed up using a touch-tone phone pad and the targeting sight is exactly the same as in the Gunstar Controls in the movie the Last Starfighter.

Episode List

Season 1	Season 2
01 "Test Drive" (May 1, 2004)	14 "Ultra-Chicks" (Oct 16, 2004)
02 "The Fat & the Furious" (May 1, 2004)	15 "The Return" (Oct 23, 2004)
03 "Battle Royale" (May 8, 2004)	16 "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Coop" (Oct 30, 2004)
04 "All I Wanted Was a Slushie" (May 15, 2004)	17 "Viva Las Megas" (Nov 6, 2004)
05 "Bad Buy" (May 22, 2004)	18 "S-Force S.O.S." (Nov 13, 2004)
06 "Buggin the System" (May 29, 2004)	19 "Space Booty" (Nov 20, 2004)
07 "Breakout" (June 5, 2004)	20 "Thanksgiving Throwdown" (Nov 27, 2004)
08 "Dude, Where's My Car?" (July 31, 2004)	21 "Terminate Her" (Dec 4, 2004)
09 "DMV: Department of Megas Violations" (Aug 7, 2004)	22 "Ice Ice Megas" (Dec 11, 2004)
10 "Junk in the Trunk" (Aug 14, 2004)	23 "A Clockwork Megas" (Dec 18, 2004)
11 "TV Dinner" (Aug 21, 2004)	24 "Universal Controller" (Jan 1, 2005)
12 "The Driver's Seat" (Aug 28, 2004)	25 "Rearview Mirror, Mirror Part 1" (Jan 8, 2005)
13 "Coop D'Etat" (April 26, 2005)	26 "Rearview Mirror, Mirror Part 2" (Jan 15, 2005)

All air dates are U.S. air dates and are in U.S. format (month/day/year).

Theme songs

Opening

"Megas XLR Theme (Chicks Dig Giant Robots)" by Ragtime Revolutionaries

Trivia

The pilot episode was extended 15 minutes for the episode "Test Drive", which was aired in four separate parts at half-hour intervals. The first part was aired during the left-over "end-of-block" time from the last day of Giant Robot Week (February 28, 2003).
Steven Blum and Wendee Lee are both popular anime voice actors who had been in several giant robot anime, which include Vandread, Big O, and Universal Century Gundam.
Mick Foley was the voice of Gorrath in the pilot episode. Clancy Brown is the voice of Gorrath in the series.
Goat is originally from the animated series Downtown.
Goat originally had a cigarette in his mouth all the time, but it was changed to a lollipop in Season 2, probably because of CN's broadcast standards.
The character Magnanimous is based on the profile of Bruce Campbell who also lends his voice. His catchphrases are taken from his cult slapstick horror movies Evil Dead. His body, too (being mostly a head with tiny arms and legs) is a parody of MODOK from Iron Man.
Pop TV is an obvious parody of MTV (even the logos are almost completely identical).
A recurring theme in the series is that anything that belongs to Pop TV (and, by extension, MTV) is destroyed. The most likely reason for this is that MTV cancelled Downtown, the animated series created by Chris Prynoski, the director of Megas XLR.
Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic are huge fans of anime and video games.
In "Breakout," Megas's double-deuce move seems to be taken from the Strong Bad emails segment from Homestar Runner. In one SBE segment, Strong Bad flips the bird at the viewer with both hands (which he calls "the double deuce"). In another other, an anime version of Strong Bad named "Stinkoman", whose signature move is the Double Deuce, is introduced. It is important to note that both characters do not have visible fingers.
Michael Dorn (notable for playing the character of Worf in various Star Trek movies and series, as well as Weasel in the cartoon series I Am Weasel) provided the voice for R.E.G.I.S. Mark V in the episode "All I Wanted Was a Slushie" and Number 14 in the episode "A Clockwork Megas." Additionally, the acronym R.E.G.I.S. was likely generated from the Cyborg Name Decoder.
The episode "Ultra-Chicks" features four magical girl-type characters, apparently parodying the feel of the English-dubbed version of Sailor Moon. This is evident in the long, elaborate intro sequences, the costumes, and even the appearances of the four characters. If one didn't know better, one could have mistaken the double-ponytailed girl for Sailor Moon herself. They are also a parody of the Japanese superhero Ultraman in that they can transform into large (robotic) versions of themselves and call themselves the 'Ultra Cadets', a jab at both Ultraman and the Sailor Senshi's dub name, the "Sailor Scouts."
A sequence in "A Clockwork Megas" pokes fun at A Clockwork Orange.
The S-Force characters are a parody of the G-Force group from the classic anime, Battle of the Planets. However, they are also a parody of the Sentai/Power Rangers genre in general (they pilot "Xorbs" as opposed to "Zords" and their mentor is a floating holographic head in a tube). It also seems to be a parody of the popular anime Voltron, since the giant robot of the S-Force looks extremely similar to the Voltron robot.
There is a rather surprising parody of Captain Harlock as the center of the episode "Space Booty" as well. The legendary establishing shot of Harlock's ship, the Arcadia, is directly ripped in every detail in the Megas episode. Although the Harlock rip off and the parody of the Arcadia are named differently, and the Harlock parody is considerably different in personality to the real Harlock; it is impossible for those familiar with the material to not notice. This is often considered the most daring anime parody in the series yet, as Harlock is seen as something of a sacred series among anime enthusiasts; the episode was something of a big surprise and well established that Megas XLR meant business when it came to parodying anime and games.
In the episode "Space Booty", the VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross can be clearly seen in the hangar of the Space Pirate Ship.
There were video game references throughout the series. Some include Mario, Luigi, Sonic, and Zero Wing.
In "Thanksgiving Throwdown", the first parade balloon to be controlled and mutated by Ginok was Auggie the Adorable Aardvark who is a combined spoof of Mickey Mouse (due to him wearing the same gloves, pants, and shoes as Mickey) and Sonic the Hedgehog. (Due to his appearance as a giant blue spiky aardvark similar to Sonic in appearance. Auggie also uses Sonic's trademark spindash move as an attack on Megas.)
Two of the robots who are fighting for the throne in Coop D'etat sound very much like Optimus Prime and Megatron from G1 Transformers which were voiced by the original voice actors Peter Cullen and Frank Welker.
There is a planet which is identical to the planet-sized Transformer known as Unicron.
The two part series finale "Rearview Mirror, Mirror", features many references to the original Star Trek and Mobile Suit Gundam. The basic plot of the episodes, which center on an alternate universe where Coop and Kiva have gone evil and a battle-hardened Jamie opposes them, is taken from the classic Trek episode Mirror, Mirror, as the title references. Evil Coop's army consists of silver Zaku-lookalikes, while his personal machine has a head nearly identical to the MSN-04 Sazabi. Similarly, the relationship between the alternate reality characters (where Kiva chose to stay with Coop, instead of Jamie) mirrors the tragic relationship of Gundam protagonist Amuro Ray, his rival Char Aznable, and the young soldier Lalah Sune. The first part of this two-part also features a reference to the all your base are belong to us phenomenon, a similar phrase shows in a screen when Coop remembers his life of defeating aliens in video games.
Before launching his final attack against the villain, Coop usually makes some sort of speech or rant. These follow roughly the same formula, beginning with "Alright you (name of adversary), you (greviance committed against Coop), then you (another greviance committed against Coop) and now you (the greviance the villain is currently instigating against Coop)" followed by Coop declaring his intention to destroy the villain. There are variations, occasionally Jamie and Kiva will correct Coop on details of the rant ("I've got one word for you - GAME OVER!" receiving the response "Two words, Coop") and in the episode "Space Booty" Kiva interrupted the rant to complete it herself. In "Rearview Mirror, Mirror" part one, he rants against the Glort Leader he is forced to work with, who promptly reminds them they are all good guys.
Megas' head has a strong resembeliince to a 1972 Plymouth Barracuda.
The episode Coop D'etat features robots that are homages to several 70s-era super robots, the two most obvious being Mazinger Z and Raideen. Several of the other robots bear partial resemblences to Gaiking, Dangard Ace and Baratac.
In Episode 12 "The Driver's seat" you learn the car has a V10
In Episode 14 "Ultra-Chicks", Coop and Kiva's imagination of Jamie controlling a world is a parody of Ming The Merciless from the 1980 film adaptation of Flash Gordon - further impressed by the hawkman character stood at his side, very similar to Brian Blessed's famed character Prince Vultan.
In "Buggin the System," Coop calls the giant bug "You jive Mothra wanna-be."
In "Battle Royale" the battle arena/asteroid city closely resembles the Triceraton battle arena that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are brought to and forced to fight within, a conflict that is detailed within the original TMNT comic series created by Eastman & Laird.

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