Knock Out Nemesis

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"Knock Out Nemesis" ネメシスをぶっ phi ばせ() (Nemesis o Buttobase)
Production company	TV Tokyo,NAS,Ashi Productions
Airdate	18 November1998
Writer	Junki Takegami
Director	Tomio Yamauchi
Animation studio	Ashi Productions
Continuity	Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Maximals try to shoot down Nemesis before it reaches Gaia.

Contents 1Synopsis 1.1Artemis & Moon II Report 2Featured characters 3Notes 3.1Continuity notes 3.2Story errors 3.3Animation and technical errors 3.4Transformers references 3.5Real world references 3.6Trivia 4Home video releases

Synopsis

Inside theMoon,ArtemisandMooncan only watch as the comingNemesiscontinues its increased agitation of the evilAngolmois EnergyacrossGaia's surface. They worry this continued disturbance will result in the planet's explosion.

In theYukikaze,NAVIreports to theMaximalsabout the chaotic Angolmois Energy and the ineffectiveness of their previous cooling efforts in controlling it now.Drill Nutsrushes in to announce the completion of his project, andLio Convoyorders the Maximals to gather at theNiagara Base,whereDiverreveals the powerfulNiagara Cannon,which will use Gaia's Angolmois Energy to fire a blast powerful enough to destroy Nemesis. With only 72 minutes to spare, they must bring the Niagara Cannon to a mountaintop for optimum Angolmois Energy and targeting.Lio Juniorasks for the responsibility, but Lio Convoy denies the request, stating it should go to somebody with more experience, namelyScuba.Lio Junior moans that people don't trust his abilities, but Lio Convoy has a task for him...

Elsewhere, theAutorollerscontinue their construction of facilities that send Angolmois Energy to Nemesis.DirgegunandThrustorare elated that their time on Gaia is soon coming to an end, but they spot the Maximals transporting the Niagara Cannon and report it to their superiors in theGalvaburg II.Galvatron realizes just exactly what Lio Convoy is attempting and sends outHellscreamandMax-Bto deal with Niagara Cannon while staying back to analyze the situation. Hellscream also realizes things are more than they seem and has Max-B scan elsewhere, where he quickly discovers theTako Tanktransporting the true cannon in an underground river.

Dirgegun and Thrustor, still unaware of the cannon's true location, attack the Maximals transporting the decoy cannon. The decoy cannon bursts open to reveal Lio Convoy and the Maximal Commander easily takes down the Predacon pair. Underground, the struggle between Hellscream, Max-B, and the Tako Tank reveal its cannon to also be a decoy! The true cannon was still at the Niagara Base all along with Lio Junior,Santon,andSkywarp.The three combine intoMagna Bossand carry the cannon to the mountaintop. The Predacons attempt to cut him off, but Lio Convoy and Scuba take care of them.

Magna Boss reaches the mountaintop and sets up the Niagara Cannon, but is soon accosted byGigastormandGalvatron,who refuse to allow Magna Boss carry out the destruction of Nemesis. To distract the Predacon brothers wailing on him, Magna Boss separates into his component parts, and Lio Junior tries to activate the cannon while his teammates hold back the Predacons. Gigastorm manages to cut the cable supplying Angolmois Energy to the cannon, but Lio Junior uses his Angolmois Ball attack to charge up the Niagara Cannon. Lio Junior fires the cannon... but the Angolmois Energy proves too much for the cannon and it explodes before the beam can make it to Nemesis. As it turns out, Drill Nuts miscalculated the Niagara Cannon's parameters.

The Magna Boss trio are knocked out by the explosion, but Galvatron and Gigastorm can't press their advantage before Lio Junior and the Tako Tank arrive on the scene. In their retreat, Gigastorm trips and falls into a valley, leading Galvatron to realize his supposed successor pales in comparison to Lio Convoy's... At dusk, Lio Junior beats himself up for failing at his job, but Lio Convoy is soon there to cheer on his protege.

Artemis & Moon II Report

Artemis and Moon discuss the approach of Nemesis so far, from its grazing of theninth planetto its absorption of thesixth planet's rings and thefifth planet's gas. Artemis is frightened by the fact that it only has four planets to go before it reaches Gaia, but Moon points out Gaia is the third planet in theSolar System.In actuality, it has onlyone more planetto go...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

Continuity notes

Story errors

• It's rather hard to believe that Artemis hasn't realized until now that Gaia is the third planet in its star system, given she spends literally all her time watching it from space and has frequently been shown looking at the system's layout.

Animation and technical errors

• When combined as Magna Boss in this episode, the voices of Lio Junior, Skywarp, and Santon become more metallic and muffled than normal, as though the three of them were speaking over radio comms. This has never happened in any previous instance of the three speaking individually as Magna Boss, and only ceases in this episode after Magna Boss splits back into the three of them.
• The same thing also happens to Gigastorm's voice for all of his dialogue at the mountain that Magna Boss brings the Niagara Cannon to. Up until that mountain scene, his voice had sounded normal during all of his prior scenes of the episode.
  • Of note, when footage from this episode's mountain scene wasrecycledfor Episode 39, "Assemble, Thirty-Nine Warriors",this technical error does not occur that episode.

Transformers references

Real world references

Trivia

Home video releases

VHS

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