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When Numbuh 3's Rainbow Monkeys go missing, the team goes into space to find them. They then discover Rainbow Monkeys make up Saturn's rings. While looking for her missing stuffed animals, Numbuh 3 discovers that the one behind the monkey-napping is a rejected sentient Rainbow Monkey doll named Ramon-4, who thought if he can't be loved, then no other Rainbow Monkey can be loved! Will he let the Rainbow Monkeys go, or will every Rainbow Monkey drift alone in the dark cold reaches of space forever?
Tropes:
- Artificial Intelligence: The Rainbow Monkey 4-Ever was designed to have an endless supply of energy to play all day, emotions like a real child and a mind. Unfortunately, this meant it was also capable of negative emotions like anger and sadness like the kind it felt when it was rejected for being too ugly for a child to love.
- Bait-and-Switch: At first it seems there's going to be a Here We Go Again! with Monkey 4-Ever refusing to let Numbuh 3 go after she accepts him. When she calls him crazy for such a suggestion, he awkwardly brushes it off.
- Beast and Beauty: A platonic (but all the same loving) example between Kuki and RaMon-4.
- Call-Back: Numbuh 3's ability to sniff out Rainbow Monkeys is used here. It's so strong she can use it in outer space.
- Don't Think, Feel: Numbuh 3's Rainbow Monkey senses are based on her heart.
- Freudian Excuse: RaMon-4 was once a Rainbow Monkey prototype known as "Rainbow Monkey 4-Ever", created by the most brilliant American minds to be the ultimate Rainbow Monkey made in their image (before the Soviet Russians could do it). But when it came time to test it out, little girls were too repulsed by its "unlovable" appearance. Sent into space out of shame, RaMon-4 grew bitter and lonely, developing his motive to steal Rainbow Monkeys from the earth.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: RaMon-4 goes from being an abandoned Rainbow Monkey prototype to a vengeful robotic being stealing rainbow monkeys with telekinesis.
- Gone Horribly Right: The most brilliant minds wanted to create a Rainbow Monkey in their image. Regrettably, they succeeded, to the point where it was considered too homely for the little girls they tested it on.
- If I Can't Have You…: RaMon-4 feels if he can't be loved by any little girl on Earth, then no Rainbow Monkey can. Thankfully averted in the end when Kuki doesn't plan to stay with RaMon-4 in space forever.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Implied. While RaMon-4 does want Kuki to stay with him, he's still kind enough to let her return to Earth, now that he's known love for the first time.
- Not So Above It All: The end credits shows a montage of so many little girls getting their Rainbow Monkeys back. The last one reveals it belongs to... Numbuh 1, who secretly hides his under his pillow.
- Ship Tease: In the beginning of the story, we see Numbuh 4 dreaming about a certain someone confessing her feelings for him as he confesses his.
- Shout-Out: Ramon-4 is one for V'Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, including the fact that it is Earth technology all along.
- The Stinger: Ramon-4 returning all the Rainbow Monkeys to their original owners. Numbuh 1 is revealed to be among the overjoyed owners, but discreetly hides his Rainbow Monkey under his pillow.
- That's No Moon: The rings of Saturn are shown to actually be a massive collection of Rainbow Monkeys.
- Warts and All: Played with. Kuki says that as long as RaMon-4 "was made by an official licensee of the Rainbow Monkey Corporation", she loves him for the Rainbow Monkey he is on the inside.
