History WesternAnimation / MegasXLR

* OffModel: In the 8th episode, Jamie takes the car for a date and Coop has to fight using the second bridge command center at Megas' core. In one instance, Megas punches Gorrath, but the animation shows the car on top of the Megas when it should be in the parking garage next door.

* RatedMForManly: You ''bet''.

* {{Cameo}}: Several characters from MTV's WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}} show up throughout the show. Goat is an obvious one. Alex makes an appearance in two separate episodes (and even appears twice in the second episode, on both sides of two teams competing against each other in a robot battle *somehow*). The nerd Wedge appears at least once. Serena is in the pilot episode "Lowbrow". The girl Jamie gets a date with by borrowing Coop's car appears to be the same girl Fruity was flirting with on the subway.

* PyrrhicVictory:
** Coop argues with a fellow gamer over who is the bigger gaming expert. As the latter rattles off games which Coop has mastered, he finally gets one over on Coop by naming ''Love Them Lerps'', a mashup of the Care Bears and the Smurfs. Jaime gets one back on the gamer by pointing out that he's just admitted to liking a child's game.
** Parodied during Coop's battle with REGIS. He laments that their battle has destroyed every Mega-Slush machine in the city (going to [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Hoboken]] was completely unacceptable), when getting a Mega-Slush was his goal for the entire episode. Note that they also destroyed ''the city itself'', and that didn't bother Coop. (Lucky for Coop, he found a working Mega-Slush machine in a pile of debris after defeating the robot for good.)

* PreciousPhoto: [[spoiler:AlternateUniverse Jamie carries one of himself and Kiva, back before Coop went power mad and Kiva followed him. Or rather, carried, and dropped it dramatically]].

-->'''Evil Coop:''' "You know you can't win!"

** And everyone cheers (even convicts in a prison) cheer when they see something from [[Creator/{{MTV}} POP TV]] [[TakeThat get destroyed]].

** Averted in DMV where he needed to run to the Impound Lot to get MEGAS while Kiva and the Bounty Hunter fight. He is completely winded and exhausted when he gets to the lot despite the fact that you can still clearly see Kiva and the Bounty Hunter fighting from their location. Another one where he is running away from the Glorft because the CPU is out Coop adds in his ArsonMurderAndJaywalking speech on how he had to "run half a block".

The show, originally entitled Lowbrow, began life as a pilot episode that was shown in Creator/CartoonNetwork's 2002 Weekend Summerfest to determine a new [[Creator/CartoonCartoons Cartoon Cartoon]], where it ended up the most popular one. The pilot episode was also shown during Toonami's Giant Robot Week, and the show itself premiered on Creator/{{Toonami}}. It has yet to see a DVD release, but at least you can still find it on iTunes and [[UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade Xbox Live]]. As of 2022 it is also available on Creator/HBOMax, but only in Latin America.

Unfortunately, Megas XLR suffered the fate of being written off by Cartoon Network, meaning that it can no longer be aired legally on Cartoon Network, Creator/AdultSwim, or any of their affiliates; George Krstic said in 2014 that the show cannot be aired again without getting into legal problems. Fortunately, George Krstic, [[{{Creator/Titmouse}} Chris Prynoski]], and the Toonami crew are working to bring it back. On February 8, 2019, Krstic stated on his Twitter that [[https://twitter.com/GeorgeKrstic/status/1093913747553280000 Warner Bros owns the rights to the show now.]] While it's too early to tell what it could mean for the show's future, at the very least, the show is ''finally'' in proper legal hands.

** One episode had the Glorfft commander crash into the gunpowder, shrapnel, and ball bearing factory. Everyone survived.

-->'''Coop''': One word, pal. Game over.
-->'''Kiva and Jamie''': That's two words.

* CerebusSyndrome: Of the "Tone doesn't get darker, but [[BlackComedy the]] [[KafkaKomedy humor]] [[BlackComedy does]]" variety.

Action cartoon ''Megas XLR'' -- created by Chris Prynoski and George Krstic, two of the minds behind MTV's ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' -- serves up an [[AffectionateParody affectionate spoof]] of "guy culture", science fiction, {{anime}}, and pretty much anything considered "cool" in TheEighties. If you consider ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the {{Deconstruction}} of the HumongousMecha genre, then consider ''Megas XLR'' the Demolition (and, possibly, the American precursor to ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'').

Coop repairs the robot, but he also makes a few modifications -- such as [[RuleOfCool replacing the mecha's absent, destroyed head with a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda,]] and [[RuleOfCool operating the mech's systems with various video game controls]]. He dubs it XLR -- "[[XtremeKoolLetterz Xtra]] Large Robot" -- but as he shows it off to his friend Jamie, who should show up but soldier, [[GadgeteerGenius mechanical expert]], and all-around ActionGirl Kiva Andru, who's traveled from the future to reclaim the robot '''she''' modified in the first place. Coop's modifications, however, have made him the only person who can pilot MEGAS -- and that sucks for Kiva, because a band of Glorft troopers, led by the tyrannical Warmaster Gorrath, followed her through time to take MEGAS back for themselves. Coop, Kiva, and -- to a lesser extent -- Jamie find themselves thrust into battle the Glorft, along with countless other threats to the Earth; too bad they usually do just as much damage to the Earth as the threats themselves.

The show, originally entitled Lowbrow, began life as a pilot episode that was shown in Creator/CartoonNetwork's 2002 Weekend Summerfest to determine a new [[Creator/CartoonCartoons Cartoon Cartoon]], where it ended up the most popular one. The pilot episode was also shown during Toonami's Giant Robot Week [[note]] when everything and anything giant robot was shown, from Anime/{{Gigantor}} to Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion - yes, ''that'' Evangelion [[/note]], and the show itself premiered on Creator/{{Toonami}}. It has yet to see a DVD release, but at least you can still find it on iTunes and [[UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade Xbox Live]]. As of 2022 it is also available on Creator/HBOMax, [[NoExportForYou in Latin America…]]

Rumors circulated for a while about a possible game/crossover headed by Valve, but nothing has been said since said rumors came to light. MEGAS and the characters did appear in Cartoon Network's MMORPG ''VideoGame/FusionFall'', however.

Unfortunately, Megas XLR suffered the fate of being written off by Cartoon Network, meaning that it can no longer be aired legally on Cartoon Network, Creator/AdultSwim, or any of their affiliates (you could essentially say that it was ScrewedByTheNetwork on a technical level) and depriving many fans of a much-desired return on the revived Toonami block. Fortunately, George Krstic, [[{{Creator/Titmouse}} Chris Prynoski]], and the Toonami crew are working to bring it back.

As of 2014, George Krstic says that the show was written off as a loss, which means that the show cannot be aired again without getting into legal problems, effectively condemning it to never getting a revival or a even a DVD/Blu Ray release...

For a while, anyway.

On February 8, 2019, Krstic stated on his Twitter that [[https://twitter.com/GeorgeKrstic/status/1093913747553280000 Warner Bros owns the rights to the show now.]] While it's too early to tell what it could mean for the show's future, at the very least, the show is ''finally'' in proper legal hands.

** Parodied during Coop's battle with REGIS. He laments that their battle has destroyed every Mega-Slush machine in the city (going to [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Jersey]] was completely unacceptable), when getting a Mega-Slush was his goal for the entire episode. Note that they also destroyed ''the city itself'', and that didn't bother Coop. (Lucky for Coop, he found a working Mega-Slush machine in a pile of debris after defeating the robot for good.)

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Philly Cheesesteaks and Strawberry Slushies for Coop. Warmaster Gorrath uses this against Coop in "The Driver's Seat" - see ColdBloodedTorture.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Kiva, but her tan gets ''lighter'' the longer she's on Earth. Possibly justified given she'd been living in space in the future and might have been exposed to extra UV to compensate for not living on Earth.
** DarkSkinnedBlond: Coop's skin ''is'' much darker than Kiva's, even in the pilot. [[AmbiguouslyBrown Not explained]] in either case.

* UpToEleven: The car's controls were designed with this trope in mind.
** The Speedometer measures from "Slow", "Fast", "Faster", and '''"GOOD CRIPES!"''';
** The Oil Gauge reads from "Empty", "Need a little", "Almost There", "Enough", "No really, I'm fine", and '''"PLEASE STOP!"''';
** "Missiles," "More Missiles" and '''[[MacrossMissileMassacre "ALL THE MISSILES"]]''';
** Coop's Car heater settings read "Warm," "Hot," and '''"DANG!"''' The last one activates flamethrowers;
** The stereo system goes up to eleven MILLION.
** The weapons systems include buttons for "Destroy The World," "Smite The World," and "Destroy The World WORSE." There's also a "Save The World" button, but it was broken.

* OnlyElectricSheepAreCheap: As stated in "All I Wanted Was a Slushie", the most basic form of non-water beverage being chemically enhanced water. Possibly owing to being in a time of desperate survival against Glorft.

Action cartoon ''Megas XLR'' -- created by Chris Prynoski and George Krstic, two of the minds behind MTV's ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' -- serves up an [[AffectionateParody affectionate spoof]] of "guy culture", science fiction, {{anime}}, and pretty much anything considered "cool" in TheEighties. If you consider ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the {{Deconstruction}} of the HumongousMecha genre, then consider ''Megas XLR'' the Demolition (and, possibly, the American precursor to ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''). ''Megas'' remains one of the few mecha shows to get unanimous praise from Website/FourChan's [[{{Anime}} /a/]], [[WesternAnimation /co/]], and [[HumongousMecha /m/]] boards.[[note]] For 4chan, that ''really'' says something, [[FandomRivalry especially given that those three boards tend to have very divergent tastes.]][[/note]]

* FoeYay:[[invoked]] Parodied with in the credits background of the first season finale. It shows a valentine with Coop and Gorrath in it, and the caption "Best Enemies".

* CallBack: The building-sized space rhino from the end of "D.M.V.: Department of Megas Violations" is seen sipping tea as Coop and gang are uncontrollably warping through different points in the universe in "Coop D'Etat"

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Evil Coop pilots a black and red mech.