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Penny Arcade - Comic - Professional Courtesy
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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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She sill loved it though.
I had a similar question back when I first watched Power Rangers when I was a kid. Why don't they just go straight to the giant robot and step on the monster before before Rita makes it huge?
Because television.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oOCydGRcv1A
Oh yeah forgot about that. I'll be surprised if this doesn't come up at some point then.
I used to wonder about this too, but if you go back to the first episode the talking face whose mouth never moves quite right makes them all promise not to escalate their powers beyond what is necessary for each situation.
It was still kind of bullshit though. It's not like Rita/Zedd were super fair with them, and the consequences for failure were basically the enslavement/mass killing of all humanity with an evil dictator ruling the world. You'd think they would be allowed a little flexibility in deciding how to prevent that.
Reminds me of the airplane joke, "Why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box?"
When we watch Voltron coming together, we witness what the team does, we see the parts of the lions folding together and transforming into feet and legs and arms and body and the head. It seems like it takes upwards of a half minute to complete the transformation, during which time the lions are left open to attack.
To the external observer, I wonder if they see the lions being wrapped in glowing luminescence associated with their color as they fly towards one another, the five lights unifying in mere moments to one near-blinding coruscation from which emerges the fully formed Voltron in a seemingly effortless unification of the individual units.
If this is the case, then it would seem that an enemy would have to move incredibly fast to interrupt the transformation. While this may seem like a stretch, in the case of a 10,000 year old legendary defender of the universe that is loved by good and feared by evil, I don't think it's too much to believe.
Also a duel of giant robot vs giant monster inevitably results in said giants getting thrown into (presumably) populated or at the very least, costly, buildings.
Giant robot turning regular sized monster into something sticky on the bottom of its robot foot, might be excessive use of force, but it probably results in far lass collateral damage.
Basically, Zord is a weenie.
Not 20 years enough. Did you know there are like a dozen power ranger series on Netflix? My son does!
(Also some profoundly shitty dinosaur cartoons. Not Dinosaur Train, though. We're cool, Dinosaur Train.)
You know what was my other guilty pleasure around then? Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad.
Oh to be young and stupid.