![]() ![]() Samurai Jack is particularly guilty of this, with mooks constantly exploding in Jack's face. A hero can be five feet from a Mecha Mook, blow him up, and somehow not be cut to pieces by the flying shards of metal. This will usually happen no matter how they were defeated, even if it was something like turning off their power source.Ģ) Said explosions never produce shrapnel. Usually into a fireball, leaving nothing behind but a few patches of burning earth. ![]() Two governing rules of Mecha-Mooks seem to be:ġ) Upon being defeated, they will explode. Expect them to be programmed to march in eerie unison using Marionette Motion (and in a pinch provide back-up for dance numbers). Mecha-Mooks go to the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, since it would be awkward if the heroes had their brainstems targeted perfectly by Mooks running a predictive kinetic model much faster than real time. In extreme cases the heroes will demolish them with their fists. At which point, things start to get really, really messy, as the heroes decide they don't have to hold back anymore. In many of these shows, a common sequence has the heroes fighting the humanoid-looking mooks as normal, until one of them hits one a little too hard, revealing it to be a robot. ![]() This allows the protagonists to dismember, mutilate, and otherwise mess-up armies of faceless goons, in a manner unacceptable if said bad guys were squishy and red on the inside. In many American cartoon series, the extraordinary violence is blunted by having the nameless bad guys (or Mooks) be, in fact, robots. ![]()
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