![]() ![]() which they didn't, changing nothing about him other than making him a crook. While the majority of Adaptational Villainy among the cast was gratuitous and forced, Octoman was written in a way that he simply couldn't be a villain without completely rewriting his character. Designated Villain: Octoman's treatment in the anime is downright painful.Black Shadow, in the finale, reveals his glorious dream that his every waking moment has been dedicated to: Using his Dark Matter Reactor, Black Shadow throws the entire galaxy into death and destruction, to precede him creating a new Big Bang to annihilate the old universe and create a new one of pure evil on top of it. Black Shadow carbonizes Miss Killer when she finally breaks free of Black Shadow's spell, and gleefully torments Ryu with her petrified body. Black Shadow creates the deranged criminal Zoda and sends him off to homicidal rampages-at one point powering up Zoda to annihilate all of Mute City-and kidnaps Ryu's girlfriend Haruka to brainwash her into his pet assassin, Miss Killer, trying to use her to kill her own boyfriend. Black Shadow, atop facilitating general terrorism and abusing underlings as a course of habit, has gone to every length imaginable to prevent Ryu Suzaku from stopping him. Complete Monster: Black Shadow is the ruler of Dark Million, and the always grinning chessmaster behind every single bad event in the series.Of course, fans prefer their explanation. "Common Knowledge": The cosmos-wrecking explosion that occurs in the series finale came from the destruction of the Dark Reactor, not as the result of Captain Falcon being a Memetic Badass with the sheer power of the Falcon Punch.Many who started with and/or grew up playing the games tend to despise it for its sheer lack of faithfulness to the source material, while those who were introduced to the series via the anime tend to be more forgiving. Broken Base: How much one likes this anime seems to be inversely proportional to how much one played the games.The fact that it plays during the legendary Falcon Punch scene certainly helps. Awesome Music: The Meaning of Truth, the anime's opening theme by HIRO-X, is considered one of the best things to come from this anime.The resulting Theme Music Power-Up (see directly below) didn't hurt either. Ryu finding the inner strength to use the full-power Boost Fire also deserves mention, as it's what kicks off the entire sequence leading up to the Falcon Punch.As of today, you are the new Captain Falcon. "Only the one who surpasses/has exceeded Falcon can become Falcon." Ryu Suzaku. ( the Blue Falcon and Black Bull are swept up by the chain reaction caused by the Dark Reactor destabilizing)Ĭaptain Falcon: The name "Captain Falcon" is a title given to those worthy of it. Easily the most famous part of the series, and the only reason most have even heard of the anime.Ĭaptain Falcon: Black Shadow! Looks like we're going to hell together! Captain Falcon's immortal Heroic Sacrifice and takedown of Black Shadow in the final episode.series treats GX as the latest entry, with the Falcon Densetsu/GP Legend line only getting a paltry mention in the chronicle in Brawl. The two games based off of said anime failed to match GX's sales combined note keep in mind that these games were on the Game Boy Advance, which had a much higher install base than the GameCube and Climax in particular sold poorly enough that its international release was halted, the anime's second season never came, the dub was Cut Short, and the franchise was thrown into an indefinite hiatus. Audience-Alienating Era: Unlike Pokémon: The Series and Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, the F-Zero anime was not warmly received.Not only does it come with little-to-no foreshadowing, it outright contradicts earlier episodes that showed the trio as separate characters, including one that showed them conversing with each other in the same room. Ass Pull: Deathborn and Don Genie being alternate identities of Black Shadow. ![]()
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