Megas XLR turns 15 today

>Valve, of all developers, wanted to make a video game adaptation at some point

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Kiva was my first cartoon fap

why is this show so much better than your average mecha animu? What burgers did right that Japan failed?

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youtube.com/watch?v=J8FYqGX-xTw

Fuck off, Yea Forums with your autistic term.

It doesn't take itself seriously. It doesn't try to have a "deep lore" and "complicated character design". This is just a guy, his high friend and a future hooty doing wacky stuff with a giant robot.

No, the creator of the series wanted to make a video game adaptation and valve is yet to comment on it. It would also take valve 50 years to make it and they haven't made a single player only game in over a decade.

I wish the main protagonist had had a foil on the other side. An outcast, snarking hotshot.

was jamie supposed to be a stoner? i didn't pick up on that. it's been awhile since i've watched megas.

So you're saying that you wish that the gorrath recruited a human that was coop's rival who knew how coop ticked to give them an advantage and actual chance at winning?

Jamie was just more of a slacker, I think. He more wanted to have Megas be used to solve easy problems for them

>was jamie supposed to be a stoner?
Pretty much. Just look at the first episode, fella, It's kinda obvious.

Coop might have been a lazy NEET. But he knew how big of a responsibility MEGAS was and jamie was there to make coop look more responsible in comparison.

>MC is not a skinny beta
>doesnt appeal to 3D
>doesnt try to look 2deep4u
>Has actually good jokes, not japanese “humor”
>makes references everyone can understand, not making jokes only your regular otaku or weeb who learned japanese can pretend to understand in order to look smart

Yea Forums is just ran by zoomies.

Yea Forums? What is Yea Forums? This is Yea Forums2.0. I think you are lost, friend.

why does Yea Forums get 2 boards?

>>doesnt appeal to 3D
I don't get it
>>Has actually good jokes, not japanese “humor”
I thought I was the only one who can't stand jap humor.

Because you can post adaptations of comics and cartoons on Yea Forums. Nobody complains about video games of Yea Forums works yet if you post a live action movie, you're the evil Yea Forums.

>we'll never get Megas in Super Robot Wars and see him interact with Gundam protagonists

Which japanese mecha protagonist do you guys think would get along the most with Coop? I feel like most of them would do the "this guy is an idiot" shtick. I seriously can't think of a single Gundam protagonist that would actually want to be friends with Coop lmao. Maybe Domon would like him after Coop proves himself in a fight against G Gundam.

>you want to drop a colony on Jersey? Listen here pal, I'M the only one who's allowed to drop a colony on Jersey! Wait...

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Because unfortunately live action shit is allowed here which allows all kinds of faggots from Yea Forums, tumblr, and reddit to come and spam their shit all over the board every single day. Boy howdy nothing says comics and cartoons like box office numbers and Hollywood social media gossip.

Low effort twitter screencap threads are a problem on other boards like Yea Forums. Yea Forums at least purges that quickly. Yea Forums you get it up for hours.

>"I like you coop. You get in the robot. Unlike some people I know."

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Megalomoose!

>"i have the power to destroy entire planets, guess with which one i'm going to start!"
>"uhhhh, i dont know, YOUR MOM'S HOUSE?!"

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Can this show have another season out of CN like Samurai Jack had but without shitting the plot or changing it's soul?

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fuck gendo. Shinji was right

>His head is a fucking car
Always makes me chuckle

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LUCHAMOS CONTRA VILLANOS, EN UN FUTURO MUY DISTANTE

Could coop with MEGAS beat the iron giant?

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That is perhaps the worst thing, is there really nothing to be done about it? Such as someone else buying the rights and such but perhaps it is also a blessing as it means that no shitty reboots will happen, of Samurai Jack fiasco

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I'd at least want them to release a Megas statue

I dunno, once they see him obliterate entire armies they would likely rethink that, Coop may look like an idiot, but he's great at what he likes to do i.e. cars, vidya and mecha

If he can survive until the last five minutes of the episode.
Ryoma would at least respect his hot bloodedness and how balls to the wall Megas is.

How do you feel about Xabungle?

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>Yea Forums - Comics & Cartoons

Can somebody make an edit with CN signs being blown up?

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>comedy centric
>MC is a chad, does largely whatever they want
>robot is actually a car, is driven with steering wheel
>shit blows up

Which of these two shows am I describing?

>An MTV reference in a Channel that aimed to children
Neat

Is it true that Megas XLR is one of the few things three different boards (in this case Yea Forums, /m/ and Yea Forums) absolutley adore?

Dunno about Yea Forums but /m/ seems to like it from what I've seen

It's not better than most mecha shows, it's better than most animated shows period.

Samurai jack s05 wasn't that bad. It was just rushed.

Yea Forums likes it, at least it did back in the day. Dunno about now.

That's what I meant, it was rushed and ultimately disappointing

Valve would never have made it anyway, they completed Steam.

>nostalgia critic does an hour long toonami celebration
>mentions a half dozen shows that weren't on toonami, or at least were only barely on toonami after mostly being part of a different block
>leaves out Megas
man...

anyone who buys the rights, buys the debt. that's how it works. bankruptcy is basically an indefinite interest-free loan, but you can't get back what was "repossessed" until you pay it back.

How much is the dept?

I rewatched this a couple years ago... it actually doesn't hold up that well. The humor's a bit on the mindless side, really predictable, the action's fine but there's no weight to any of it, it's just solved cartoonishly.. It's a good comedy but meh

Some large amount, but anything that makes it cost more than a normal show would to revive means it will NOT happen.

It's cause he doesn't have any criticisms of it. It's really just that good he has to pretend it doesn't exist.

I was just hoping for a bit of perspective on it, is there a place where I could look up that information all I can find is shit on the public domain. I don't even know what Megas XLR would be filed under but I don't think its that.

good show, i remember when i was 4 and i saw that

Technically, the pilot Lowbrow came about a year or two before, but the show got delayed.

> both hates the DMV

Every time I watch I laugh, no matter the episode. You need more happiness on your life, specially thinking a parody cartoon about mecha animes and other style of animes should have a protagonist to be serious and the consequences to have actual weight. Damn dude! Coop actually annihilating everything by accident because he is careless is part of the humor.

well coop has actual weight

Kek. Indeed.

not sure if hes in super robot wars but i can see coop and chibodee getting along

youtube.com/watch?v=zUkrGY7KAmA

I miss main character like Coop. Guy's that are Zen as fuck in their place in life. While Jaime complain about their life constantly Coop just rolled with the punches

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I mean it'd be easy to roll with the punches if you owned a 300 foot tall robot and the government didn't even try to steal it from you like they would IRL

One of the co-creators of Megas XLR was also a co-creator of Downtown, which was poorly treated by MTV.

The head detaches and can drive around

If your going to hide something from the government put in a place they'll never look.
Jersey

Legit, the only people who are ever going to talk about Megas XLR this year are hardcore fans trying to cobble together a zine, or Death Battle when it fights Gurren Lagann

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it got a dvd release in the UK at Poundland.

I don't think you watch much robot anime.

Jiron would likely appreciate his 'just go for it attitude'. Boss would have a friendly rivalry with some mild jealously, while bragging that his robot was all hand built even if Boss Borot isn't on the same level as Megas.

YOU GOTTA FIND FIRST GEAR

God I miss this show. It truly was maximum comfy. No politics, no unnecessary drama about representation or ships, just a big fat chill dude fucking around and/or smashing shit in a giant mech with his weasely best friend and a chick from the future. The man literally flew all over jersey in a hyper advanced war machine for a slushee, what's not to love about that?

Coop'd soup up the shit out of Borot. Lovely imagery, that.

It still can get distributed, released, and aired internationally.

IN YOUR GIANT ROBOT CAR

I mean just look at Cartoon Network Latin America/Brazil still airing it legally.

What I loved about this show was by the end of the episode, the villain would be utterly decimated.

Robot anime is trash.

That fucking 5 minutes until end of episode button

God-tier villains.

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LUCHAMOS CONTRA VILLANOS

button gags is a thing that should be more common when parodying mecha

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They were top notch.

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my face when manual controls are a DDR setup.

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The buttons were fucking great

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>someone modeled a better megas in 2014 for fun than a multi-million dollar studio can model a blue hedgehog in 2019
youtu.be/WGSDHSt0ZxM
really gets the cashews roasting

Now blow it up.

Which part of the 00s was better for cartoons?

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first half by a fucking mile

YOU
DIG
GIANT ROBOTS

early 2000's cartoons had more layered humor, it's what makes them a treat to rewatch.

Didn't the rights for Megas got recently purchased by Warner?

How were they planning on bringing him back after that cliffhanger ending?
Would've been pretty awesome if he came up during a Glorft attack for a 3-sided battle.

CN/Turner/Warner always had the rights. It's just that if they want to do anything with the it, they need to pay 10+ years of back taxes. That could easily be in the millions at this point.

The creators said Regis would come back in a Pokemon style parody episode.

Loved it

the better voltron reboot

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JUNTOS CON NUESTRO ROBOT GIGANTE

Context sensitive, means sensitive to context

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So did my bastard, but you don't see me acknowledging him either.

>why is this show so much better than your average mecha animu?
Because it was constantly homaging everything that great mecha shows had done in the decades before it came out
Megas is like the greatest hits album of mecha

>No politics
Yes user, that's why the woman was the sanest, smartest, most competent character while the male characters were either a shrieking coward or a bumbling moron

She was also wrong, incompetent, and worthless in pretty much all fights. The show also made it clear she was a no fun allowed killjoy to be mocked.

The way this show did parodies was a work of art I remember that one episode where Goat hooked up with a Sailor Scout or that alternate timeline where Jamie became a total chad.

no one posted the pilot yet?
youtube.com/watch?v=9PoXd_Xt8ns

Simon and kamina would be his best buds.

The finale showed coop was better than her in every way if he was serious.

CHICKS
DIG
GIANT ROBOTS

>Hilarious pilot from Cartoon Network's original show, Megas Xlr. It's truly a crime that it was never released on DVD.

I remember liking Duchess x Coop for some reason.

>”Now listen up you blonde fancy Cobra lookalike, you interrupt my show, insulted my robot AND try to drop an asteroid on MY planet. I’m taking you and your ugly red robot down!”

Early, but holy shit were Chowder, Flapjack and Batman BATB fucking kino

Good news! Someone bought the rights to Megas XLR but instead of a show, is making a big budget movie!

Cast it.

they were all kinda fuckups

I'd rather have a show to be honest.

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>>CN made the show a tax write off
Non american here. What does this mean? Here in Latin America it airs just fine in their really late classics block and they even aired it just fine on their 25th anniversary special

It's my goal in life to when the lottery to buy back the rights from the irs, give them free of charge to the original creators on the 1 condition they make another season funded by me. It's all I really want that's super expensive

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Who gives a fuck what that no talent shit has to say nowadays

It's good for liking as a mem but it's a bad and boring show

nigga all the kids on my class watched southpark and top music videos every day. They only switched to CN for toonami and billy and mandy.

>obese NEET mech pilot
we need more protagonists like that

For what purpose?

Fun fact. Goat, the owner of the junkyard where Coop finds Megas is based on a real guy who voices him and shows up in both Megas Xlr and Downtown and is implied to be the same character meaning both shows take place in the same universe.

He also made a brief cameo in metalocalypse although not voiced by the real life guy. There's also another character in Motorcity based on him

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Other than seeing the fun side of life and seeing something honest and refreshing? Coop had a level of child-like innocence and honesty about what he wanted to do, it was hard to hate him, even when he destroyed the city more than the enemies on a daily basis.

Nigger, Shows aren’t people. I’m not gonna remember their “birthdays”, which are purely arbitrary mind you as airing dates can differ, unless someone reminds me.

Thanks for the bump?

I can't believe its been that long already. I feel Megas could of been longer/had a 3rd season if it was released not so long after the Lowbrow Pilot came out. A 3rd season could of been really good and went into depth of the new modifications Evil Coop did by the end of it all. Although season 1 was memorable, season 2 had better production and I feel that it was finally gaining some momentum as a show. I'm sad that the show was canceled the way it was but it's even more upsetting seeing ideas in this show will be never used again.

TL;DR: Megas was great and I wish more people talked about it.

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Goddammit Kiva doesn't have nearly enough art

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weren't episodes of this show copyrighted 2002 or 2003 in the end credits?

Did Kiva and Coop bang?

No. Although in an alternate universe her and Jamie hooked up.

She might not get a lot of art but she has had some real good ones. Although I wish her porn was better.

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You're over forty five years late

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>Although I wish her porn was better.

Try being a fan of Downtown

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God, those were always good, whenever Coop had his little speech to the villain.

Could megas defeat gurren lagann? They are both powered by bullshit and piloted by chads

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>I thought I was the only one who can't stand jap humor.
user, one of the only so-called "comedy" anime I've ever liked was Cromartie High School and in it, there's an episode with a show-within-a-show that's more typical Japanese comedy and the whole episode's struggle is trying to figure out why it's so popular. "How can people laugh at a show without jokes?!"

>"Where did you get that?!"
>extended flashback showing how he got that
>"Doesn't matter."

I never know what people mean when they say japanese "humor".
Slapstick like Nichijou?
References like Gintama?
Absurdity like Keijo!!!!!!?

Or more like those bad cliches where a guy walks in on naked girl followed by KYAAAAA *slap*?

ES MI ROBOT GIGANTE

She was a soldier from the future accustomed to fighting the main antagonists and was previously fully aware of Megas' specifications and abilities before Coop made his alterations. Coop and Jamie meanwhile were just a couple of dudes from Jersey, one of which was competent enough to take a technological marvel from centuries in the future and make it work with a fucking car and game consoles for a head/cockpit. Either you're a fucking moron or you're reaching to the point of muscle tearing to try and find a political message where there is none.

That was the better ship anyhow.

Have sex.

The amount of parody they stuck to this character
M.O.D.O.K body
Mojo scheme
bubba ho tep personality and Elvis color scheme
Ash's Evil Dead chansaw

I just started watching it a few weeks ago. Shit's great, reminds me of gurren lagann meeting jackie chan adventures

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rumor has it that Cartoon Network was actually interested in buying the rights back a couple years ago, but couldn't because someone else nabbed them and they haven't been able to find out who did it

hoooooooooly fucking shit I requested that drawing in a drawfag thread like 8 years ago, lost it when my computer died, and have been periodically searching for it online ever since. despite making threads asking for it sometimes, of course I find it in an actual megas thread.

thank you for randomly posting it, user.

oh about about your filename the exact request was Galactus playing with Big O and Megas like they were action figures. doesn't matter, but if that happens to be interesting or relevant to you there you go.

Saving for posterity

Glad I made you're day.

>that episode with the adapting robot who keeps destroying gas stations Coop wants a slushie from

>I AM R.E.G.I.S. MARK 5

Smashing isn't working

They can still internationally distribute the show.
it's just written off in the USA

Try something other than smashing, ANYTHING other than smashing!

The real tragedy of Megas being canceled is that we never got a Gurren Lagann parody.

Nice.

mfw the entire thing is controlled by a gamer setup

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Never, they would team up faster than any of the two cold bat an eyelash and start bashing baddies across all dimensions with tag wrestling moves and giant drills.

Gurren Lagann is shit.

The second season had a notable drop in quality.

How come?

I assume the budget was lower.
If you watch both seasons back to back it's more obvious.

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That's your collection? Awesome!

Kiva actually cuter then I remembered. I like the momments where Coop kinda forces her to have fun. Plus that matrix hole she has is a neat design

Post comparisons.

What's the episode where Coop talks about always wanting to jump through a car window?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Megas_XLR_episodes

No, thank you.

No problem.