Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter

2012-01-24T02:32:10Z

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{{episode
|series=Masterforce
|ep=16
|image=Dramaticencounter.jpg
|caption=As the big freighters go, she was bigger than most...
|title="Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter"
|japanese=ライトフット劇的なる出逢い
|romaji=Lightfoot: Gekitekinaru Deai
|production code=
|production company=[[TakaraTomy|Takara]], [[Toei]]
|writer=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|director=[[Takao Yoshizawa]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|airdate=[[August 9|9 August]] 1988
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''The search for the next Godmaster leads Ginrai to Canada, and a young man named Lightfoot!'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:LightfootDramaticEncounter Shuta Cab peeping toms.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Inappropriate doesn't begin to cover it.]]

It's summer, and at the [[International School]], gym class has become swim class. [[Cab]], [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]] and the rest of the boys class complete their lengths and head for the locker room, but Cab decides to head back to the pool, to peep at the girls' class through the fence in hopes of getting a look at [[Minerva (Masterforce)|Minerva]] in a swimsuit. Shūta is trying to dissuade him when both boys are caught by the coach, much to the disgust of all the girls. Minerva berates Cab and Shūta all the way back to the base after school, but when they apologize, discussion turns to the upcoming summer break, and they decide to ask [[Metalhawk|Hawk]] about taking a vacation. When they arrive at the [[Autobot Base|base]], Hawk is reviewing [[Ginrai]]'s televised appeal, and permits their vacation request if they promise to keep in touch.

In America, Ginrai is visiting the [[CNM TV|television studio]] that runs the programme he made his appeal on, where he receives a large handful of mail from people responding to his appearance. One in particular catches his attention immediately—a letter from a young man named [[Lightfoot]] in [[Canada]], which includes a drawing of a robot!

[[Image:LightfootDramaticEncounter Ginrai drawing.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Meanwhile, [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster]], still smarting over Ginrai's upgrade into Super Ginrai, have also come to the TV studio in an attempt to pick up any leads to his whereabouts. They menace [[Sam (producer)|a producer]] to try and find out where he has gone, to no avail. Subsequently, they meet with the [[Decepticon]] [[Pretender]]s in a junkyard to arrange a search. The search bears fruit a little later, as [[Blood]] spots Ginrai—already well on his way to Canada—getting directions at [[Stand boy|a gas station]]. The other Pretenders converge on his location and chase after Ginrai through the cover of the roadside forest, intent on defeating him themselves to improve their standing in the eyes of [[Giga]] and [[Mega]].

[[Image:LightfootDramaticEncounter Ginrai Lightfoot talking.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]

Ginrai eventually arrives at Lightfoot's home—as it turns out, he is heir to the vast [[British Motors]] automotive engineering company. Ginrai is quite smitten with the [[Leftfoot's assistant|maid]] who serves him [[Napoleon|a drink]] as he waits, but Lightfoot himself soon arrives and Ginrai gets straight to business, presenting him with the drawing of the robot. Lightfoot explains that he has been dreaming of the robot for the last three months, and was encouraged to write to Ginrai by a friend who saw him on television. Showing Ginrai around his home, he tells him the story of how his father moved from a run-down repair shop in England to Canada, where he started making cars. The first car he made led to the success of the British Motors company—the family even still has the original model, which [[Leftfoot|Lightfoot's father]] just recently gave to him for his birthday... right before his dreams began. Ginrai gives the car a look-over, and requests that he be allowed to drive it; Lightfoot allows him, but is a bit distressed by the fast speeds and rough terrain that Ginrai subjects the car to. His suspicions growing ever more likely, Ginrai hands Lightfoot one of the pairs of [[Master-Brace]]s that he found. When Lightfoot dons them, the [http://www.opalmine.com/ bracelets] are pulled together, and the car fills with light as the young man is surrounded by a suit of armor! At Ginrai's instruction, he utters the command—"Transform! God On!" and becomes one with his car, transforming into the robot from his own dreams! Lightfoot is the second Autobot [[Godmaster]]!

[[Image:LightfootDramaticEncounter Lightfoot drawing comparison.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Ginrai explains the whole situation to Lightfoot, who is a bit more interested in figuring out how to turn back into a [[human]]. Before he can, though, the three Decepticon Pretenders suddenly attack; with no combat experience, Lightfoot is helpless, and Ginrai instructs him to change back so they can escape. Fleeing in vehicle mode (nailing [[Gilmer]] right in the ball bearings along the way), Lightfoot takes Ginrai back to British Motors, where he reunites with his own Transtector and transforms to robot mode. The Pretenders attempt to target his trailer in order to prevent him from become Super Ginrai, but their scheme fails when the trailer knocks [[Dauros]] aside and merges with Ginrai. As Super Ginrai, he grapples with Gilmer and Dauros while Blood attempts to take Lightfoot hostage; the newly-born Godmaster transforms to robot mode again and struggles to hold off the Pretender, while Ginrai pursues the other two, who summon the [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacons]] to the battlefield. The water-monsters fuse into [[King Poseidon]], who is once again quickly overcome by Super Ginrai's [[Chōkon Power]] and even winds up impaling his leg on his own sword. With the Seacon combiner beaten, the Pretenders flee, and Lightfoot requests that Ginrai continue to teach him. The hunt is now well and truly on to find the remaining Godmasters!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
* [[Metalhawk]] (5)

'''Human Autobots'''

* [[Cab]] (1)
* [[Shūta Gō]] (2)
* [[Minerva (Masterforce)|Minerva]] (4)
* [[Ginrai]] (6)
* [[Lightfoot]] (15)

|c2=
* [[Gilmer]] (11)
* [[Blood]] (12)
* [[Dauros]] (13)
* [[Gulf]] (17)
* [[Turtler]] (18)
* [[Lobclaw]] (19)
* [[Kraken]] (20)
* [[Overbite (Masterforce)|Overbite]] (21)
* [[Tentakil (Masterforce)|Tentakil]] (22)
* [[King Poseidon]] (23)

'''Human Decepticons'''

* [[Buster]] (8)
* [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] (9)

|c3=
* [[Coach]] (3)
* [[Sam (producer)|Sam]] (7)
* [[Stand boy]] (10)
* [[Leftfoot's assistant]] (14)
* [[Leftfoot]] (16)
}}

==Quotes==
"So he saw a robot in his dreams... not a very romantic dream."
:—'''Ginrai'''

"Do you think I overdid it?" 
"You should just put some disinfectant on the hood..."
:—'''Lightfoot''' and '''Ginrai''' after ramming Gilmer in the unmentionables.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*Improbable viewpoints:
**The footage Metalhawk reviews of Ginrai's television appearance includes footage of the cameraman who is filming the events.
*The very front of Ginrai's groin when he's in super mode varies between white and red depending on the shot. For example, it's red when he first combines with his trailer, and then it's white when he confronts the three Pretenders.
*The footage of the Decepticon Pretenders transforming and retreating is once again reused from "[[Rise Up!! Pretenders]]", with new backgrounds to reflect the change of scenery.

===Continuity notes===
*Ginrai appeared on television in "[[Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai]]".
*Ginrai found the new Master-Braces indicating the existence of other Godmasters in his glove compartment in "[[A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva]]".
*Super Ginrai and King Poseidon made their debuts in the [[Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai|previous episode]].
*It's not explained in this episode how the car built by Lightfoot's father could be his [[Transtector]], given what we know of Godmaster origins. It's clarified somewhat in the [[An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger|next episode]].

===Real-world references===
[[Image:LightfootDramaticEncounter CNM lobby.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
*As the bundle of envelopes is passed over the table to Ginrai, the top letter is addressed to "[[Toei|TOEI ANIME]]".
*As Ginrai then shuffles them, the top envelope is from "[[Bart Runcastar]]", an [[Engrish]] take on [[Wikipedia:Burt Lancaster|Burt Lancaster]].
*A poster in the CNM TV lobby advertises ''[[Jem]]''!

===Foreign dubbing===
'''English'''

:*''Title:'' "'''The Dramatic Encounter'''" ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

===Trivia===
*When Cab happily sings a song about the impending summer vacation, he tries to perform a Japanese schoolchildren's song, except that it's normally about New Year, not the summer, hence his confusion and everyone else's laughter.
*Lightfoot's father makes his debut in this episode; although not identified by name here, he will be named "Leftfoot" later in the series. This is part of one of those L/R puns you get in the Japanese language—in Japanese, there's no distinction between these two sounds, so it's possible to read "Lightfoot" as "Rightfoot". Hence, the pun of his father being named "Leftfoot". It hurts us too.
[[Image:LightfootDramaticEncounter Gilmer's injury.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Dramatic Encounter! Gilmer's groin]]
*When Lightfoot rams Gilmer, he nails him right in the crotch, and Gilmer makes one of those untranslatable Japanese-language puns when he painfully groans "Ta... ma... ge... ta"—from "tamageta" ("a shock") and "tama wo ketta" ("kicked in the balls").
*The rather pronounced piece of music that begins playing when Lightfoot transforms for the first time is an instrumental version of "[[Kiseki no Transformer]]", which will be heard in full as an insert song later in the series.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote|jsubs}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' — DVD Box 01 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — The Takara Collection Vol 2 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Takara Collection (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2008 — ''The Transformers: Super God Masterforce'' ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Japan Generation 1'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

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