Stung by a Metabee is the first episode of the Medabots anime. It first aired in the United States on September 01, 2001 on Fox Kids.
Content[]
Summary[]
Ikki Tenryou has his Medabot for the first time.[1]
Plot[]
In the beginning, an injured scientist is seen staggering away from his flaming car clinging to his silver briefcase. When he collapses, his briefcase is grabbed by the Rubberobo Gang. They open it to find a very rare Beetle Medal. Before they have time to examine it more, the Phantom Renegade appears and takes it away. He then disappears into a cloud of smoke, tricking the Rubberobo Gang to follow a decoy while he hides under the bridge. Before he has a chance to celebrate, the Medal slips out of his hands and falls into the river... then he himself is made the victim of the same fate as the Medal.
At Riverview Junior High, a submission Robattle (meaning the loser must give up a Medapart) is on - The Screws versus the Student Council. Ikki is right up front watching and dreaming of getting a Medabot of his very own. Erika is there filming the event. Samantha, boss of the Screws, with her Medabot Peppercat is battling the Student Council President's Medabot, Dr. Bokchoy. Dr. Bokchoy is fast, but is no match for Peppercat and her Electric Shock. Samantha wins.
Ikki and Erika head on over to a store owned by Henry that sells Medabots and have a look to see what's there. They then ask him if he has anything that is slightly cheaper than than the types on display. He reveals the KBT type, an older model that he thinks might fit their standards of a cheaper model, which Ikki and Erika, at Henry's expense, make fun of to the point he has had enough of their jokes and asks them to leave.
As they are walking home from school, Erika asks Ikki why he doesn't just ask his parents to buy him a Medabot - he explains that they told him he must save his money. Erika continues homeward while Ikki daydreams on a bridge overlooking the river. Suddenly, something shiny in the river catches his eye. He races over to fish it out - he has found the rare Beetle Medal.
That evening, after Ikki speaks with his mother, Ms. Tenryou, if he can get his own Medabot with Ms. Tenryou stating that he needs to keep on saving before he replies back that he's the only student at school without a Medabot, the news is telling kids to be on the lookout for a group of rockers tricking people into Robattles, and then taking their Medaparts. Spyke, part of the Screws, and his Medabot, Cyandog, end up one of their victims - they lose a Bombarder Medapart they've only just got from the store to these rockers.
On the next day, the Screws come face to face with the Rockers, but Erika is caught in the middle after she is discovered watching the events unfold; they instantly take her camera, and try to initiate a Robattle with their Medabots, two Blackrams (one being equipped with Spyke and Cyandog's purchased-but-then-stolen Bombarder) and one Phoenix, against hers: Brass - Ikki knows he must do something to save Erika! He runs off, grabs whatever allowance he has, and hurries to Henry's store to purchase the KBT Type. As Ikki assembles the body of the KBT Type, Henry explains the basics of how Medabots work, before he hands him a Medawatch that he must wear at all times so that he can control his newly-purchased Medabot, who he chooses to name Metabee. Ikki inserts the Beetle Medal into the Medawatch so that Metabee is ready for transportation and hurries over to the scene of trouble as quickly as possible - Henry, upon seeing the Medal being loaded into Ikki's Medawatch, asks him as he leaves where he got that Medal.
Meanwhile, things aren't going well for Erika, as the Rockers are on the verge of successfully winning. Ikki arrives though and has Metabee transport onto the scene for action. He then loads the Beetle Medal into Metabee... and nothing happens - Metabee does not come online. The Rockers unleash their Medabots attacks upon him, and Ikki is on his way to being the loser of his first ever Robattle. With much coaxing from Ikki, Metabee comes online at last and defeats the Rockers' Medabots. After that battle, Ikki learns the hard way that Metabee, despite Ikki bearing the role of his Medafighter, has a mind of his own!
Trivia[]
In the episode[]
- Blackram loses Bombarder (stolen by the Rockers from Spyke) to Ikki's Metabee.
- Student Council President's Dr. Bokchoy loses right arm (Point Radar) to Samantha's Peppercat.
Background[]
Characters[]
Listed in order of their first appearances in the episode.
| Image | Name | Note |
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Rubberobo Gang members | |
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Henry (Phantom Renegade) | |
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Erika | |
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Spyke | |
| Sloan | ||
| Samantha | ||
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Peppercat | Samantha's Medabot. |
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Student Council President | |
| Dr. Bokchoy | Student Council President's Medabot. Has a Phoenix Medal. | |
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Ikki Tenryou | |
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Mr. Referee | |
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Brass | Erika's Medabot, a Sailor-Multi. |
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Salty | The dog from the Tenryou family. |
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Chidori Tenryou | Ikki's mother. |
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The Rockers | |
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Cyandog | Spyke's Medabot. |
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Blackram | Two Blackrams from the Rockers. One used the Bombarder part stolen from Spyke. |
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Phoenix | Medabot from the leader of the Rockers. |
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Chick Seller | |
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Metabee | Ikki's Medabot. The Beetle Medal appears first, and later the Medaparts. Appears functional near the end of the episode. |
English dub changes[]
Student Council in the Japanese version.
The Rockers before changing their appearance.
- Samantha (Kikuhime) punching Spyke (Iwanoi) before her Robattle was removed.
- In Henry's shop, the "Medarot" (the Japanese name for Medabot) in two packages inside the shop (a dark green and a blue Medabot) were changed to "Medabot", and the scene showing the CAR, BMT and PLN Medabots was zoomed to disguise the "Medarot" in CAR's package, but Medarot can still be seen in other parts from the shop.
- Ikki crying in the river was removed.
- Outside the student council office, the large "Screws" (スクリューズ) text above the door was replaced by "Student Council Office", and other texts in the scene were either replaced by unreadable lines or removed. However, the original texts are still present in following scenes. The sign on the side is the one that reads "Student Council Room" (生徒会室). Other texts include "no entry!" (入るな！), "be quiet!!" (静かに！！), "do it at your own risk" (勝手に), and "congratulations" (祝).
- The scene of the rockers changing their appearance was reduced.
- The blue haired rocker playing his instrument loudly near Ikki was removed.
- Ikki named his Medabot Metabee. In Japanese it was Hikaru (Henry) that named him Metabee. This latter clashed with Ikki telling Metabee that Henry named him in The Medaforce Within.
- The blonde rocker playing his instrument loudly near Erika was removed.
- The "Medarot" text in Ikki's Medawatch was blurred.
- Metabee gained a presentation when Ikki teleports him. He had none in the original version.
- The "666" in the blonde rocker's head was removed.
- A short scene showing two of the rockers was removed.
- Spyke (Iwanoi) crying was removed.
- The two rockers complaining with their boss was removed.
- Metabee pointing his Revolver to Ikki's face was edited to remove his weapon.
- In the Japanese version, the "parts acquired" section in the end explained that Spyke cried to have his powerful Bombarder part back, and exchanged it for Dr. Bokchoy's right arm that the Screws had obtained, which is unsuitable for Robattles due to its low power and thin armor. No explanation about this was given in the dub, making it seen like Ikki kept the Bombarder part, but never used it despite its power, and also did not specify how he obtained Dr. Bokchoy's arm, which is seen in For Better, For Worse - Part I.
Parts acquired in the Japanese version.
Japanese ending.
- For all episodes from this season:
- The opening and ending changed. The Japanese version also had a warning in the beginning to avoid watching TV in the dark, and a summary of the next episode after the ending.
- Of note, the Japanese ending has some differences in the last episode, Metabee's Last Stand, giving additional story details.
- The title cards have a different design and appear in different times. In the dub the episode's title always appears after the opening. In the original the title usually appears a few seconds after the opening, between two scenes from the episode, only appearing in the beginning from a few episodes, like No Body Home and Metabee's Last Stand. Also, with a few exceptions, like Mystery Medabot and A Date with Destiny, in the original the episode's title is said by Ikki.
- "Medabot Vital Stats" presentations were added when a new Medabot appears, showing additional information not presented in the Japanese version, which only displays the Medarot's name and type without pausing the episode. Some Medabots that lacked brief introductions in the original also gained them, like Metabee in this episode.
- The eyecatches in the middle of the episodes were removed. Instead, most episodes added fadeouts at different points for the commercial breaks, with a few episodes, like Dance with the Mantis, also including double takes.
- The final screen in the end of the episodes are different:
- The "Parts obtained this time" (今回の取得パーツ) from the original lists the parts Ikki or someone else won in the end, also listing additional info like their model number, name, ability (のうりょく) and action (こうどう) type. In episodes were no parts were obtained (like The Legendary Medafighter and Welcome to Ninja World), instead of its theme this screen played a sad tune.
- The "Robattle Stats" from the dub focused on the results of the Robattles instead of the parts, giving a summary from most Robattles in the episode, even if no parts were obtained. While it shows most parts obtained, it omitted some details, like the ones from this episode, and the dub did not shown the parts Ikki acquired during the World Robattle Cup.
- The characters are more verbose in the dub, which added many new lines that were not present in the original, specially for Medabots as the majority lacks a mouth to sync with the lips, including giving lines to characters that did not spoke in the original, such as Pingen and Botafly. Also, the dub made Metabee more sassy, and several jokes were added to be more humorous. All those changes sometimes give a contrasting mood between the two versions, one example being when the Rubberobo Gang leader is revealed in Meet Your Meda-Maker, which is somber in the original and a fanfare in the dub.
- The background music changed in several episodes.
- The opening and ending changed. The Japanese version also had a warning in the beginning to avoid watching TV in the dark, and a summary of the next episode after the ending.
Quotes[]
Chick seller: "That's where you're wrong boy. All you need is you. You've got to take what little you have and use it. Start small, nurture what you can, breath life into it, and make it your own. You need to look deep down into your soul." (...) "And once you've dug deep into your soul, dig down deep into your pockets, take what little money you have, and for once, do the right thing. Buy one of my chicks! Huh? Where did he go?"
Ikki: "Robattles aren't just about the newest, most powerful Medabots. They are about courage and mindpower. The soul of the Medafighter and Medabot, combined."
Ikki: "As if. I controlled him perfectly, I did nothing wrong."
Metabee: "Correction: you called me a 'piece of junk'."
Ikki: "Huh?!" (Turns to look at Metabee)
Metabee: "Who's the 'piece of junk' now, mister?!"
Ikki: "But I'm your Medafighter!"
Metabee: "I don't take commands from you!" (Starts firing his Revolver and Sub-Machine Gun)
Ikki: "OW! AAH!"
Henry: (Ikki, shouting in the distance: "Metabee, I command you to stop!") "Then again, maybe it's just defective..."
Metabee: "Hey, come back here! I'm gonna show you a little somethin'! Name's Metabee, baby - METABEE!!"
Notes[]
This episode, being the very first, reveals a short explanation via visualization. For example, Samantha shows her defective side when she keeps switching from one side to the other in the fight. Naughty Naughty.
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