Savage Noble: Difference between revisions
Screencaps, linking |
|||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
[[Image:SavageNoble Maximals Grand Mal.jpg|left|thumb|200px]] | [[Image:SavageNoble Maximals Grand Mal.jpg|left|thumb|200px|I see you.]] | ||
The [[Maximal]]s stare up at the [[Grand Mal|giant floating head]] of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]. [[Rattrap]] despairs, waiting for the hammer to drop, then is shocked when nothing happens. [[Optimus Primal|Primal]] suspects that, for some reason, Megatron ''can't'' do anything. | The [[Maximal]]s stare up at the [[Grand Mal|giant floating head]] of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]. [[Rattrap]] despairs, waiting for the hammer to drop, then is shocked when nothing happens. [[Optimus Primal|Primal]] suspects that, for some reason, Megatron ''can't'' do anything. | ||
| Line 42: | Line 42: | ||
Primal vows to help Noble, even as Noble warns that he can't control his other half. Nightscream reassures him, and Noble smiles to himself — just a bit ominously, yesss... | Primal vows to help Noble, even as Noble warns that he can't control his other half. Nightscream reassures him, and Noble smiles to himself — just a bit ominously, yesss... | ||
==Featured characters== | ==Featured characters== | ||
Revision as of 17:07, 24 July 2009
| ||||||
 Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea... | ||||||
| "Savage Noble" | ||||||
| Production company | Mainframe Entertainment | |||||
| Airdate | February 16, 2000 | |||||
| Written by | Len Wein | |||||
| Directed by | Greg Donis | |||||
| Animation studio | Mainframe Entertainment | |||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars continuity | |||||
The Maximals discover two strange new organic creatures, but what secrets do they hide?
- Japanese title: 怪物の悩み (Kaibutsu no Nayami, "The Monster's Anguish")
Synopsis
The Maximals stare up at the giant floating head of Megatron. Rattrap despairs, waiting for the hammer to drop, then is shocked when nothing happens. Primal suspects that, for some reason, Megatron can't do anything.
Nightscream hauls Blackarachnia up for a closer look; both are repelled by an energy field. But Primal again suspects it's purely automated.
Optimus sends the others to find Jetstorm and Thrust, while he attempts to contact Megatron's Spark. Nightscream leads the group to one of his old hangouts, a big generator-filled room with a waterfall. Blast-marks on the walls show that the Vehicon Generals were fighting someone or something recently. The Vehicons themselves attack just then, with Thrust vowing vengeance for the ambush.
The two teams exchange words, with Blackarachnia still trying to reach Silverbolt within Jetstorm. A fight is about to break out, when an eerie howling distracts the group, and finally convinces the Vehicons that the Maximals didn't attack them. Cheetor leads the others off in a hasty retreat. The Vehicons follow, as something massive, spiky, scaly, and four-legged lumbers in the shadows behind them. The group pauses a moment later to observe the beast, a dragon-like creature with spike-covered wings, lips, nose, claws, legs, torso, you name it. They retreat as it begins a firebolt-spewing advance.
Elsewhere, Optimus goes on a spiritual hunt. He enters the Spark/astral/whatever plane, calling out to his old foe. He's answered by Megatron's bellowing voice; insubstantial visions of Megatron's head surround him, laughing, mocking, screaming.... and the vision ends. Primal suspects that whatever he just contacted wasn't a sentient mind.
Cheetor, meanwhile, orders the group to stand down, not wanting to destroy the creature before they can figure out what it is. Jetstorm isn't happy about taking orders from Cheets, but the creature easily repels his and Thrust's attacks, knocking them out. A random shot buries the Maximals long enough for the creature to escape.
The Maximals track the creature to higher levels in the generator plant, and there discover a wolf-like creature hiding shyly in the shadows. Nightscream suspects the beast is another survivor, like him. The Maximals offer friendship, and the creature introduces himself as Noble, and recounts (in a very familiar fashion) the story of the Vehicon invasion. Noble fell into a pit, and awoke in his current form.
Further pleasantries are interrupted by a strafing attack by Jetstorm and Thrust, hunting for the dragon, Savage. But before the Maximals can even worry about defending their new friend, he disappears while their backs are turned.
Cheetor contacts Optimus, who still hasn't found any trace of Megatron. The group goes hunting for Noble. They find the dragon creature, growling ferociously. Nightscream is convinced the beast has done away with Noble, and leaps to attack; only Blackarachnia's quick thinking keeps him from getting blasted with fire-breath. The group follows as the creature flies off; they can't leave it loose in Cybertropolis.
Primal arrives, and orders the group to split up to cover more ground. Rattrap eventually finds the beast, which has him cornered and petrified. To his relief, it chooses to ignore him. Cheetor hems the beast in by chopping down a bridge, and the others stop it from the other direction. Primal begins to approach the beast, offering understanding and compassion. The Vehicon generals arrive and find the beast surrounded, but the dragon bats them away with a tail-slash, sending them over the horizon. After a long moment of carefully approaching the beast, Nightscream touches Savage and calms him enough for him to transform... into Noble. The two creatures are one, a beast-to-beast Transformer.
Primal vows to help Noble, even as Noble warns that he can't control his other half. Nightscream reassures him, and Noble smiles to himself — just a bit ominously, yesss...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Vehicons | Others |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Quotes
"I'm going in for a closer look."
"Isn't he ugly enough from here?"
- —Blackarachnia and Nightscream discuss Megatron's giant head.
"Get it through your CPU! That program has been deleted. I'm Jetstorm now. PERIOD!"
- —Jetstorm shouts at Blackarachnia. Meanwhile, the wire in his forehead is about to explode.
"We don't know what this thing is or where it came from - We're not going to find out by destroying it."
"Tell you what, pussycat, we'll bring you back the biggest pieces and you can ask 'em anything you want."
- —Cheetor and Jetstorm, shortly before the Vehicons get their butts kicked.
"Nice teamwork, Maximals! You catch 'em, we fillet 'em!"
- —Jetstorm, shortly before getting his butt kicked again.
Notes
Continuity errors
- As the Vehicons rush headlong towards Savage, Thrust and Jetstorm address him by name… almost immediately after Cheetor declares that "we don't know what this thing is." It seems, however, that Jetstorm and Thrust have come up with the name for the dragon, as a means of taunting it. Noble picks up on this when he names himself, as the diametrically opposed Dr. Jekyll to Savage's Mr. Hyde, an opposition that isn't entirely true.
Transformers references
- When Optimus attempts to make contact with Megatron's spark, he is tormented by numerous heads modelled on Megatron's original design from Beast Wars.
Real-world references
- The title "Savage Noble" is a play on the "Noble savage" of the eighteenth century cult of primitivism, in which "savages" from the new world countries were seen as innocent and unsullied, and uncorrupted by technology and civilization; they are, essentially, so savage as to convey a greater wisdom and dignity about the natural world. By proxy, a "savage noble," ostensibly what Megatron is (we learn later that they are the same person), would be the opposite oxymoron: a man so civilized he has become a monster. Noble savages were seen as unfettered and carefree, and able to show the essentially good nature of people; by contrast Megatron is trapped both in his zealotry and the physical organic body he abhors, and showcases the worst nature of people.
