Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (2004)
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! is an American/Japanese animated television series, and was created by Ciro Nieli, one of the directors of Teen Titans, with animation being done by a Japanese studio known as The Answer Studio. Set mainly on the fictional planet of Shuggazoom, the series follows the adventures of five cyborg monkeys and a human boy named Chiro as they struggle to protect their planet - and the rest of the universe - from the forces of evil. As is obvious from the visual appearance of the show, there is a significant anime influence present, despite being produced for American television. It was also influenced by Star Trek, Super Sentai, Voltron, and Star Wars. The show also contains various references to pop culture, a notable example being the episode "Season of the Skull", which is a parody of the 1970s thriller The Wicker Man.
- Thomas Hart
- Brandon Auman
- Ciro Nieli
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Episode 1 - The Savage Lands: Part I
Release Date: 2005-10-24After all that has happened, Chiro, now in a strange new form, discovers a whole new world beneath Shuggazoom's surface. As the remaining Monkey Team member Jinmay search for him, he's on a search of his own... for Antauri. Well, he wants to put Antauri's power primate in the silver monkey suit. When the others finally find him, all they want is for Chiro to come home where he belongs. They are unaware of the greater journey that lies ahead. Guest appearance: Hynden Walch as Valeena
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Episode 2 - The Savage Lands: Part II
Release Date: 2005-10-24After all that has happened, Chiro, now in a strange new form, discovers a whole new world beneath Shuggazoom's surface. As the remaining Monkey Team member Jinmay search for him, he's on a search of his own... for Antauri. Well, he wants to put Antauri's power primate in the silver monkey suit. When the others finally find him, all they want is for Chiro to come home where he belongs. They are unaware of the greater journey that lies ahead. Guest appearance: Hynden Walch as Valeena
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Episode 3 - Season of the Skull
Release Date: 2005-10-30In hot pursuit of the Dark One Worm, the Super Robot is mysteriously transported to a strange village where everything is, as Otto puts it, "spook-tacular." The citizens turn to the Monkey Team for help, claiming that they are plagued by a curse that is taking away their little ones. Nova knows it is not true literally But what secrets are these strange people really hiding? Trivia: This episode is Halloween-inspired, despite the fact that it aired before Halloween. Guest appearance: Angus Scrimm as Magistrate and Cassandra Peterson as Severina
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Episode 4 - A Ghost in the Machinder
Release Date: 2005-11-07While still on the hunt for the Dark One Worm, the gang is pulled into a massive spaceship by an Artificial Intelligence whose colony was destroyed by Skeleton King, and is now bent on destroying anyone who has something organic. And on top of that, it separates Antauri from the others. Will the Hyperforce find Antauri and beat this A.I. with the aid of the Super Robot which is suddenly displaying an intelligence of its own...? Guest appearance: S. Scott Bullock as the Super Computer
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Episode 5 - The Stranded Seven
Release Date: 2005-11-21Attacked by a swarm of evil giant praying mantises, the Super Robot crashes on a distant world with nowhere to go. Until the Hyperforce meets the feline inhabitants, that is. It seems the Mantidons have been plaguing them for quite some time, and some look to the team for help while others turn them away. Should the Monkey Team stay and help? And will it make a difference if they do?
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Episode 6 - Girl Trouble
Release Date: 2005-12-10While out joy-riding, Chiro stumbles upon an old space station where he finds two girls that are being held as slaves by a monster. Meanwhile, the girl's father goes to the monkeys for help. But he isn't exactly what he seems to be... Guest appearance: Lacey Chabert as Surthanna, Busy Philipps as Korlianne, and Kurtwood Smith as Ciracus
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Episode 7 - Brothers in Arms
Release Date: 2005-12-16Still on their journey, Gibson's lecture on wormholes is interrupted when an alien robot mech unexpectedly attacks the Super Robot. The Monkey Team fights back, only to lose Gibson during the battle. Stranded on a strange world, the blue monkey finds that he is not alone - also stranded is a member of the team whose mech attacked them. At first it seems the two will never get along, but when a new enemy arises, can they work together to save their teams - and themselves? Guest appearance: Aaron Ruell as Suupa
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Episode 8 - Monster Battle Club Now!
Release Date: 2005-12-19Despite his already impressive combat prowess, it wouldn't hurt if Chiro learned some new moves. So the team heads to a distant planet to visit Nova's former master, only to find it corrupted by the Skeleton King Worm. Luckily, they are able to find Master Offay, who agrees to train Chiro. The leader of the Hyperforce is soon ready to compete in the tournament that will decide the team's freedom, all the while being affected by the planet's corrupted atmosphere. But while searching for a way out Sparx, Nova, Gibson, and Otto make a startling discovery about Nova's former master... Guest appearance: Mako Iwamatsu as Master Offay
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Episode 9 - Meet the Wigglenog
Release Date: 2006-01-01While playing laser quest inside the super robot, a strange creature called the Wigglenog appears before the team promising to grant their hearts with three wishes. Gibson accidentally wishes that Otto was smarter and finds he has a gigantic brain. Then the Hyperforce soon discover that with dealing with the Wigglenog, they should be careful what they wish for as when the Wigglenog grants his third wish, he is freed from his cosmic prison to conquer the cosmos! Can The Hyperforce defeat this seemly all powerful trickster? Guest appearance: John Kassir as the Wigglenog
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Episode 10 - Big Lug
Release Date: 2006-01-16Desperately in need of fuel, the Hyperforce stops at an intergalactic truck stop, and becomes enthralled with the contents of the stop's store. While the monkeys play around with the merchandise, Chiro stumbles upon the Lug, the stop's tourist attraction. Appalled by the conditions the creature is being kept in, he decides to set it free. But imagine his surprise when he discovers that the "lug" is actually a transformed human - and that the money-hungry owners of the truck stop have turned him into a Lug to replace the old one! When the monkey team look for Chiro, he turned. Can they ever get back to normal? Guest appearance: Diedrich Bader as the Craven gang and Dee Bradley Baker as the Lug
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Episode 11 - Prototype
Release Date: 2006-02-05Hot on the Dark One's trail, the Super Robot suddenly changes its course to a barren planet stripped of its resources, leaving the Monkey Team baffled. They wind up in a strange laboratory where they encounter a brilliant scientist who has been reduced to nothing but a brain - and claims that he is one of the Super Robot's creators. It turns out that it was the prototype of a long line of fighting robots and the most recent one, the Prometheus Five, that has relentlessly attacking the scientist and his creations. The team sets out to help, but the Super Robot won't seem to let them attack this new robot. In fact, the two actually communicate! And through this, the Hyperforce - and the Robot - learns that there is more to the story than the scientist has told them... Guest appearance: Scott Menville as Slingshot/Prometheus Five
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Episode 12 - Wormhole
Release Date: 2006-02-13The time has finally come - the final showdown with the Skeleton King Worm. Armed with explosives and a plan, the Hyperforce readies to face what could be their last battle. But the plan falls apart when the team loses Nova to the Worm...and is dragged through a wormhole to what seems to be a whole other dimension. Can the remaining members of the Hyperforce gets back to normal and defeat the Worm...without Nova? Guest appearance: Jim Cummings as The Being
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Episode 13 - Belly of the Beast
Release Date: 2006-02-20Finding themselves trapped within the Worm, the Hyperforce struggles to regain their composure after the day's past events. This doesn't keep them from their mission, however. As Antauri sets out, Sparx, Gibson, and Otto deal with the Skeleton King Droid. All the while, Chiro, separated from his teammates finds out that an old foe has survived within the Dark One's digestive tract and is plotting his vengeance. Is all lost for the Monkey Team? Dark One Worm aims to attack planet Earth.
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Episode 14 - Belly of the Beast
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