This week on Boomb Tube, Ultimate Spider-Man makes its (kind-of) triumphant return and Teen Titans Go! offers a startling parable about the corruption of leaders and the dangers of power. Also: Gorillas.
On Teen Titans Go!, Robin was filling his archetype role as “Too-Serious Leader” which caused Beast Boy to make a move to usurp the throne. Beast Boy overthrew Robin by turning into a gorilla and just staying that way for the rest of the episode. Everyone else on the team goes along with this and Robin leaves while “The Rains of Castamere” plays in the distance. Beast Boy leads the Titans into a new golden era of taking over playgrounds and screaming at children, an odd reflection of my prom weekend. Cyborg eventually gives Robin lessons on toughening up to take out Beast Boy which culminates in a tickle fight between the two would-be kings. Robin wins against Beast Boy, reclaiming the Iron Throne, but the damage is still done. The smoke has cleared, but the citizens of Go! City may never recover from the scars each citizen now holds in their hearts.
Man it is difficult to genuinely write about that show.
Review Score: 3.3 – There are jokes in this show, we guess.
Over on Ultimate Spider-Man, we were treated to a double feature beginning with an episode about the best Marvel villain ever: Swarm! The whole episode is building up anticipation for the greatest baddie to ever face a hero, we even have his alter ego, Michael Tan, call himself an “insignificant worker bee!” Folks, this is it. We’ve been watching this show for over a year in anticipation of the world’s favorite Nazi made of bees. Oh wait he’s just a pile of Spider-Man’s spider-tracers.
Talk about lazy. Writers of Ultimate Spider-Man, if you can’t stay honest to the source work, and yourselves, you would have done the mess of Nazi bees storyline that children everywhere are clamoring for Drake Bell to get dragged into. There are very few constants in comic books: Spider-Man is always Peter Parker, Jason Todd is always dead, and Swarm is always a pile of bees who have some very unfortunately hateful opinions. The ideologies of said bees needs to be kept, it’s actually a better move to leave all that out, but son if you think a man made out of actual bees is too silly then you’re not ready to read comic books.
Oh and Spider-Man and Iron Man team up to fight the pile of robot spiders and win.
Review Score: 6.2 – THE LACK OF BEES! THEY STING!
In the other episode, Spider-Man and his team are searching for Norse artifacts for reasons and they are turned into the annoying chibi versions of themselves from the show’s dream sequences. They’re then taken in by Nick Fury who throws all of them into a daycare run by Phil Coulson that SHIELD just happens to have on-hand. There, a little boy talks about Thor in an a familial sense and it takes everyone five whole minutes to guess that it’s Loki. It’s Loki. Loki has broken into the helicarrier and incapacitated the heroes as children so he can steal the Destroyer armor. Thor shows up because and gets turned chibi too. The heroes battle with Loki and the Destroyer in a toy store where they use the Nord stones to turn back into normal teenagers and transform Loki into Not-Kieron-Gillen’s-Kid Loki. All is well and everyone tries to forget the horrors of when their bodies actually morphed into the shape of a middle schooler’s idea of anime.
Review Score: 5.3 – Talk about a kid’s show! Hahaha but no it’s pretty mediocre
