Everybody Digs Giant Robots

   I am a big fan of giant robots. As such there are few shows I haven't at least watched that include a giant robot. Whether it be Evangelion, Gundam, Robotech, or Power Rangers/Super Sentai, I have seen them all and can tell you the difference between 'em. Pacific Rim is even one of my favorite movies of all time, and I had a smile on my face as through the whole movie, because it was exactly what I wanted, Fun characters and even more fun giant robot fights. I even collected transformers and power ranger toys growing up.

    My favorite mecha( or giant robot) show is Megas XLR. It was a cartoon network show that acted as a love letter parody to the entire genre. It wasn't only aimed at mecha and mixed in comic and anime parodies based on marvel comic characters like Modok and a team based around sailor moon. The show only really lasted two seasons getting canceled as cartoon network's management changed and it was decided to write off the show as a failure for tax credit purposes. This means there can never be any more of the show, which honestly really depresses me as a fan of it.

    The story of Megas starts in the far future, the humans are nearly on the verge of being conquered by the Glorft. Our last hope is a human named Kiva and a robot she took from them, the Megas. When she attempts to travel back in time, she is separated from the robot, along with the Glorft commander that went back with her, and the Megas got sent to a different time. When it gets discovered by the mechanical genius(, but pretty dense in other areas) Coop, he decides to take the broken robot and rebuild it into one massive hot rod of a robot. It even has a car for a head.

                                                      © Cartoon Network.
   That's when this show really jumps into its strong suit, it's crazy over the top action. Coop throughs everything out to beat the bad guy lasers, guns, swords, other enemies. If you can think of a way to beat a bad guy with a giant robot, Coop has done it.  He has some great bad guys like the Glorft commander, a war-loving general with an honorable side, Magnanimous, a literal floating head, who owns an intergalactic wrestling federation, and even an alternate dimension version of Coop. You also had Jamie, Coop's money and girl loving sidekick, voiced by the ever interesting steven bloom.

The thing that saddens me the most about this show?  It's that I can't buy anything legally connected to the show. I can write to Cartoon Network and ask them for a new show like it, but other then something like a massive twitter campaign there is really no way to watch this show legally. I implore you to track down this show and watch it. It is one of the finest examples of the genre. Needless to say, I really dug this giant robot.

Stay nerdy my beautiful friends.