Ruby-Spears: Brain Bots

Guest Starring: Dark Man and Snake Man

Plot Synopsis
Ugh. Dr. Light invents a new robot with a super computer brain that makes him ultra intelligent, not that you would believe that with all the stupid shit he does, and in a lack of creativity by the artists, he looks like a green Mega Man with glasses. Why does he have glasses? Did Dr. Light figure his optic abilities could be lessened with more power to his brain, or are they just for decoration because Dr. Light is into fashion???

Anyway, Mega Man and Roll have to escort Brain Bot (I'd complain about his name, but this is from a series where every characters name end with Man) to a California research center. Of course, Dr. Wily picks up the aircraft's signal and wants Brain Bot for himself. He sends his bots to attack, and they end up grabbing Brain Bot. Mega Man chases them down and gets him back, and then he gets an idea. Mega Man and everyone decide to stay at Red Gulch (continuity!) and go to sleep for the night... HOLD ON! Wait a minute, they're robots god damn it! Not only that, we had an episode from THIS FUCKING SEASON in which Mega Man even says robots don't sleep! God damn it!

Well Wily's bots attack them in their sleep predictably and kidnap Brain Bot. When they arrive to Wily's lab, Brain Bot removes his disguise and he's actually Mega Man! Now you might be thinking, "Oh, that's why they look alike, so Mega Man could disguise as him, how clever!" Well no, actually Mega Man uses a morphing device that Brain Bot made for him for the disguise so actually his appearance makes no difference.

Wily's bots take down Mega Man and then leave him to a slow crushing death while they go after Brain Bot. Mega Man gets out of this contraption by just breaking his restraints and goes after them. They catch up with Roll and Brain Bot, who is riding Mega Man's Jet Glider thing, and open fire. Brain Bot fires a missile from the glider, but while playing with the buttons on it, he activates a button that causes the missile to turn around and home on him. So let me get this straight, there is a button on Mega Man's glider specifically made to attract missiles back on him... WHAT!?

Brain Bot flies around running away, but manages to get the missile to hit Wily anyway. Mega Man then shows up in one of Wily's air ships to finish them off and they escort Brain Bot to California... and I guess Dr. Wily loses interest or something because he never tries to kidnap Brain Bot from the low security laboratory... This show... I swear.

Critique
This episode is dumb, it's not funny, and the back and forth crap with Brain Bot is tedious to watch. It lacks so much creativity when they just copy Mega Man's design for an original robot character. The only redeeming feature of this episode is that it's not as dumb as Monster-Bots and it's not as horrible as Curse of the Lion Men, but what kind of standard is that?

Also, what the hell is up with Dark Man? His weapons don't make any sense on how they work. What the hell is he supposed to do?

Rating: Thumbs down.