"Master Cylinder! So you sent that meteor plunging to Earth!"
Master Cylinder Captures Poindexter is a 1959 Felix the Cat cartoon and the 50th episode of the Felix the Cat (Joe Oriolo) series.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Physics: Master Cylinder has a built in helicopter rotor in his head, which he uses to flee the meteor he sent flying towards earth. Granted, the characters can breathe in space on the meteor with no problems, but there's still no air in space, so how could it even work? And in the same episode, Poindexter's attempt to build an anti gravity device blows up and sends him hurtling to the surface of the moon, where his labcoat serves as a parachute to slow his descent. While the moon has a little gravity, there's no atmosphere, so the parachute tactic shouldn't have worked.
- Death from Above: Master Cylinder has hijacked a meteor and has sent it hurtling towards Earth, with the impact site being Professor's lab. Felix and Poindexter take the Flying Saucer to it and try to reverse its path with Poinsy's Atomic Jet Pusher, but Master Cylinder steals the device and kidnaps him, escaping and leaving Felix for dead, pinned to a rock by a detachable claw while the meteor continues hurtling towards Earth. Felix manages to break free, and ties Poindexter's flying saucer to the meteor to redirect it towards a crater and inside the moon, where it explodes harmlessly.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Master Cylinder intends to blow up the earth with a meteor he hijacked.
- For the Evulz: Master Cylinder's plan here is to send a giant meteor hurtling towards Earth to destroy it. Why, you ask? Because he can.
- Near-Villain Victory: Master Cylinder comes dangerously close to succeeding in his plan.
