SPC Mysteries

[Turbos]

The sheets focus around the fact that the Cats (and everyone else in Little Tokyo) are cybernetic, something that the show tends to ignore.

They're cybernetic?
...
...
.
.
.


Excuse me, I'm gonna go crawl back under my little rock again...

[Blackcat]

Ester or Esther?  You're not wrong to use either one, but "Ester" seems to be the preffered spelling.  I've always gone with "Ester" because of the toy packaging, but "Esther" is used in the Saban Powerhouse comic.  So, use which ever one you like.

Big Cheese is a fox not only in the Japanese version, but in every version except the English one.  It's my theroy that the English writers automatically assumed he was a rat without getting a good look at his tail in the first episode, and by the time they figured it out, it was too late to change it, so they just went with it. 

For fan-fic writers who want to explain it away, you can say he's a fox but was adopted and raised by rats (I just made that part up of course).

My theory’s that they call him Rat just to annoy him and because is some kind of insult ^_-

One more mystery. needs battery-like power suply and sun light to get his energy. Supposing that other animoloids functions in the same way, why they need to eat?  Are they eating food shaped nuclear fuel? 

The batteries and solar energy are for the armors, and maybe for the weapons. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have taken so long for Big cheese to discovered they where powered by Solar energy and batteries. The armors are so heavy that they can barely move when they have little energy left. And remember when they showed the cats defeating ninja crows without the battle armors^^

[SBaby]

Doraemon is another cartoon with robotic cat, but he has no feline ears that was eaten by mice. I read many years ago a manga with X-ray view of Doraemon, which showed his stomach as a nuclear reactor. The food was converted to energy by some kind of nuclear reaction. Is it possible the same principle be applied to the animaloids? 
To learn more about Doraemon, you can see this link.

So THAT explains why Nobita is always the first one to get killed in the game...  (His stats are like '2' and everyone else's are like 300)



But, yeah, they're all robotic and stuff (kind of obvious from the joints, but it's easy to forget sometimes).  That's one of the reasons that some of the things on SPC remind me of Megaman.

Batteries:  I heard somewhere that the armors of the SPC and Rescue Team weigh, like, 500 pounds a piece.  They supposedly still function without their batteries, but they are impossible for the SPC to lift without a power source.  (Makes you wonder how everyone else, like Francine, seems to have no trouble lifting them.)

[Blackcat]

Doraemon is another cartoon with robotic cat, but he has no feline ears that was eaten by mice. I read many years ago a manga with X-ray view of Doraemon, which showed his stomach as a nuclear reactor. The food was converted to energy by some kind of nuclear reaction. Is it possible the same principle be applied to the animaloids? 
To learn more about Doraemon, you can see this link.

So THAT explains why Nobita is always the first one to get killed in the game...  (His stats are like '2' and everyone else's are like 300)



But, yeah, they're all robotic and stuff (kind of obvious from the joints, but it's easy to forget sometimes).  That's one of the reasons that some of the things on SPC remind me of Megaman.

Batteries:  I heard somewhere that the armors of the SPC and Rescue Team weigh, like, 500 pounds a piece.  They supposedly still function without their batteries, but they are impossible for the SPC to lift without a power source.  (Makes you wonder how everyone else, like Francine, seems to have no trouble lifting them.)

You mean, lift the pizza cats?, girls are strong in this show^_-. The SPC and the rescue team are the only ones who wears battle armor.

[SBaby]

While they're wearing the armor, though...  I mean if it weighs that much and Francine only weighs some 30 pounds...  Can you see the physics here?

[Blackcat]

While they're wearing the armor, though...  I mean if it weighs that much and Francine only weighs some 30 pounds...  Can you see the physics here?

Francine doesn’t wear a battle armor. The “work” armor is light and not made for combat.

[SBaby]

Yet, she is capable of almost putting Speedy (or was it Guido?...) through a wall...  That's the mystery.

Polly actually has battle armor (But I'm sure you meant her too.).


Oh, here's one.  Bad Bird decides that a night time arial attack is the best way to go with the SPC, so he hires the Rude Noise.  Well, the Ninja Crows fly and have been known to attack in the dark.  Why didn't they just use that strategy in the first place?

[cartoonking10749]

Don't know really. Maybe a change of mind on the script writers's part. A night fight between Rude Noise and Pizza Cats would be cool, effective and atmospheric.

Why would Seymour be ashamed of cross-dressing when exposed in "Kind of a drag", when he dresses up like a woman all the time?

What sort of shade is Francine's eyes? I know they're purplish (though I thought they were blue at first for some reason), but they seemed to be lavender and in some cases, violet.

[Violet]

Why would Seymour be ashamed of cross-dressing when exposed in "Kind of a drag", when he dresses up like a woman all the time?

He likes doing it, but if it became public knowledge, it would politically damage him (More so in KNT than SPC).  He doesn't mind his inner circle seeing him like that, and he does like to go out in public like this, but disguised to the point where people won't know who he really is.

What sort of shade is Francine's eyes? I know they're purplish (though I thought they were blue at first for some reason), but they seemed to be lavender and in some cases, violet.

And in some cases, Violet is the one you turn to for these questions.
They are a blue/grey.  Of course, different arists will have slight variations

[ApacheMan2K]

Of course, different arists will have slight variations

i think the appearance of every character in an SPC or KNT episode could vary on any of the following:

the artists who made the designs for the episode, the director of that episode, and the animation studio that produced it.

like you said, different artists have slight variations, and i think they have different styles of coloring and character design, too.

[Daisensei]

OMG! You're right! That's so FREAKY! 

In the same episode, not only has an extra finger, but too. Have the same artist drawed them?

[Violet]

I think the extra fingers were just from drawing too fast.  The artists are all used to drawing hands with 4 fingers and a thumb, so it would be easy to slip up.

[ApacheMan2K]

do they sometimes draw characters with three fingers and a thumb, too? the way i heard, it was only to make things a little easier. i remember seeing Princess Vi with three fingers and a thumb in "Field of Screwballs", when she was waving her hand downwards in what looked like a beckoning hand signal (in Japanese culture, that is).

[Violet]

do they sometimes draw characters with three fingers and a thumb, too? the way i heard, it was only to make things a little easier. i remember seeing Princess Vi with three fingers and a thumb in "Field of Screwballs", when she was waving her hand downwards in what looked like a beconing hand signal (in Japanese culture, that is).

Yes, the 3 fingers + thumb hand is normal for all SPC characters.  The four fingered hands are the one's drawn by accident.

[Blackcat]

Yet, she is capable of almost putting Speedy (or was it Guido?...) through a wall...  That's the mystery.

Polly actually has battle armor (But I'm sure you meant her too.).


Oh, here's one.  Bad Bird decides that a night time arial attack is the best way to go with the SPC, so he hires the Rude Noise.  Well, the Ninja Crows fly and have been known to attack in the dark.  Why didn't they just use that strategy in the first place?

Because everyone knows that the standard ninja crows are weak They are a parody of the easy to defeat robot ninjas in the original Ninja Turtles cartoon.

[adam808]

Gotta love those foot soldiers. Weird purple suited guys that never talked as far as I recall.

[Violet]

Yet, she is capable of almost putting Speedy (or was it Guido?...) through a wall...  That's the mystery.

Polly actually has battle armor (But I'm sure you meant her too.).


Oh, here's one.  Bad Bird decides that a night time arial attack is the best way to go with the SPC, so he hires the Rude Noise.  Well, the Ninja Crows fly and have been known to attack in the dark.  Why didn't they just use that strategy in the first place?

Because everyone knows that the standard ninja crows are weak They are a parody of the easy to defeat robot ninjas in the original Ninja Turtles cartoon.

That's from every cartoon!  Any villian's henchmnen are always .a bunch of dopes.  SPC is NOT influenced by TMNT!  No one in Japan at the time KNT was being made gave a ___ about the Ninja turtles.  They probably did have some influence on Saban to bring that type of anime over and dub it, but not on the anime itself!  KNT would have exisited exactly the same way if TMNT had never exisited, no one in Japan cares about it.

Sorry, this is one of my "pet peves".

[Supersonic]

God I loved TNMT.

[Blackcat]

Yet, she is capable of almost putting Speedy (or was it Guido?...) through a wall...  That's the mystery.

Polly actually has battle armor (But I'm sure you meant her too.).


Oh, here's one.  Bad Bird decides that a night time arial attack is the best way to go with the SPC, so he hires the Rude Noise.  Well, the Ninja Crows fly and have been known to attack in the dark.  Why didn't they just use that strategy in the first place?

Because everyone knows that the standard ninja crows are weak They are a parody of the easy to defeat robot ninjas in the original Ninja Turtles cartoon.

That's from every cartoon!  Any villian's henchmnen are always .a bunch of dopes.  SPC is NOT influenced by TMNT!  No one in Japan at the time KNT was being made gave a ___ about the Ninja turtles.  They probably did have some influence on Saban to bring that type of anime over and dub it, but not on the anime itself!  KNT would have exisited exactly the same way if TMNT had never exisited, no one in Japan cares about it.

Sorry, this is one of my "pet peves".

Then explain the TMNT reference in the first episode and some others things that have been already talked a lot. KNT wasn’t a ninja turtles parody, it just parodied everything they could, TMNT was just one of the things they parodied(two parodies, one in the first episode and other when they where in the servers). Maybe the ninja crows weren’t inspired by the purple ninja bots in ninja turtles, but it parodies the way Occident uses ninjas in movies. It doesn’t matter that becoming a ninja takes lots of years of hard training, the hero beats them easily in American “Karate” movies. Marvel does that a lot, Spiderman and Wolwerine beat ninjas easily, yeah they have superpowers, but still, is not an excuse. And yeah, Galactor henchmen where easily beaten by the Gachaman(G-force) but like the KNT they had special suits, and those henchmen didn’t have a training as hard as ninjas. In fact most of them where brainwashed, but that’s enough about Gachaman for now^_-.

Ah.. did you know KNT designs where inspired by the 1989 SD Gundan Ova?. At least the flying armors...

[laura kuijpers]

         I know that Guido's hair is brown, polly's hair is red. But what colour has speedy's hair?

                      mauwra