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Aug 16, 2004 8:05:46 GMT -5
Post by Mini Man on Aug 16, 2004 8:05:46 GMT -5
What was the best enemie group in the beetleborgs series?
Magnavores? Crustaceans?
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Aug 16, 2004 17:46:06 GMT -5
Post by AtreyuNukus on Aug 16, 2004 17:46:06 GMT -5
Crustaceans all the way!
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Aug 17, 2004 8:00:10 GMT -5
Post by Mini Man on Aug 17, 2004 8:00:10 GMT -5
by far.
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Aug 30, 2004 16:04:20 GMT -5
Post by Columbia on Aug 30, 2004 16:04:20 GMT -5
Magnavors. Not Vexor, but the Magnavors.
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Aug 31, 2004 3:58:39 GMT -5
Post by Mini Man on Aug 31, 2004 3:58:39 GMT -5
The Crustaceans, cause they don't just take the villans from the comics, they create their own.
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Sept 2, 2004 22:20:25 GMT -5
Post by AtreyuNukus on Sept 2, 2004 22:20:25 GMT -5
Yea, but the Magnavors were funnier, the Crustaceans were just meanier. Both good.
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Sept 4, 2004 8:07:46 GMT -5
Post by Mini Man on Sept 4, 2004 8:07:46 GMT -5
good point ^^
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Jul 28, 2007 20:33:34 GMT -5
Post by columbia18 on Jul 28, 2007 20:33:34 GMT -5
Anybody ever see the original B-Fighter? Tell me the Magnavors aren't mean in that. By the time they get to Earth, they have already dominated multiple dimensions. Even Noxic is literally terrifying. Vexor has this whole "Psychic Hand of Satan" thing going on. Typhus looks ready to EAT SOMEONE. The demeanor of the entire thing is different, too. The show is very dark and gritty. Rather than burst out of a comic book and go trash the local dollar theater, they blast the earth with a debilitating energy ray, then the three Magnavors sweep down from the inter-dimensional spaceship, land atop a building and Jara has the Scabs round up the survivors and cart them off. Rather than casually skulking down in a crypt with Vexor, the three generals kneel before him as a roomful of Scabs lie prostrate behind them. BADASS.
Of course, the Crustations are also doubly nasty in their Japanese precursor, although I don't know as much about them. They come from underground, and I don't think they are quite as formal in their organization.
In the American version, everything is admittedly soft. The Magnavors are a plasmoidial mix of squabbling roomates/touching lovers/Mom trying to cope with her two idiot kids. They fight, they blame, they scavenge for food, they sleep on hard floors. But they watch out for each other, and they are family to each other. Which is why I like them. They have no one but each other, but ultimately show in their actions what is never shown in words. I find them, in lack of straight evil, to be more empathetic and fun characters.
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Nov 25, 2009 1:42:19 GMT -5
Post by rinoatilmitt on Nov 25, 2009 1:42:19 GMT -5
Hmmmm Crustaceans are obviously the badass group while the Magnavores are more so comic relief than villains. Unless you add in Shadowborg as part of the Magnavores, then that would probably boost their' side up a notch. But then again, the Crustaceans do have the Mantrons, so that leaves the Crustaceans as the better baddies of Beetleborgs...even though I like the Magnavores more for their silliness XD But in the case of the original Japanese show B-Fighter as columbia18 nicely put it, the Magnavores definitely had themselves a 360 degree turn from their Beetleborgs counterparts. Well, perhaps only a 290 for Noxic because he's basically the funny one out of the three, but he alone can still hold a good fight with the B-Fighters But it wasn't just the whole clowns turned into badasses thing for me, it was more so their characterizations. Having watched the first and second seasons of B-Fighter, I find that the Magnavores' characters were more developed than that of the Crustaceans. [B-FIGHTER SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE SHOWS YET!] Typhus used to be this weak skeleton-like creature until Vexor made him into a powerful being. Noxic was originally a computer virus but eventually acquired himself a mechanical body that once resembled a black 3PO (and of course, later became the Noxic that we all see). Jara basically encountered many warriors and defeated large beasts throughout different dimensions in her lifetime. Later on in the series, she had this extremely strong friendship with Shadowborg where they were both willing to help each other out. Even when Jara was about to die in one of the final episodes, you can see the sadness in Shadowborg's face (yes, he had a human counterpart). The only background story I know of the Crustaceans is that they came from Prehistoric times and laid dormant under the earth for millions of years. But because I don't know Japanese, I might have been missing out on what they were saying :/ The Crustaceans were a powerful lot, but the "ones that we're most familiar of" do not play as much of a role in about almost half of the show. I mean, having Nukus and later Vilor "killed" in the middle of the series tells you that they're really not the most prominent villains (though they were revived eventually). Horribelle, whose pretty kickass in battle, did nothing but longingly await for Nukus' revival (hmmmm I could see a lot of people are going to further ship the Nukus and Horribelle pairing here). So at this time, the Mantrons were the bad guys until the Crustaceans made their comeback along with their Mega forms (this explains why Horribelle didn't get a Mega form in Beetleborgs; she did NOT die midway of the B-Fighter series!). So yeah, even though the Crustaceans are pretty cool in Beetleborgs Metallix and B-Fighter Kabuto, I find myself liking the Magnavores more in Big Bad Beetleborgs and Juukou B-Fighter, but for different reasons between the American and Japanese shows; one being funny and other for characterization
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