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"The Mega Diaper Babies" is an episode of Rugrats from Season 3.
Characters Present[]
Characters Introduced[]
- Mega Hyper Heroes
- Changeling
- Flamo
- Miss Invisible
- The Bolt
- Metallitron
- Angelitron
- Ricky
- Johnny
- Diana
- Marco
Synopsis[]
The Rugrats play-act "The Mega Hyper-Heroes" as Angelica commandeers their action figures. Each of the Rugrats takes on a different superpower as they go on their adventures. - Description from Klasky Csupo
Plot[]
The babies and Angelica are watching the Mega Hyper Heroes, a "Captain Planet"-type television show. Two of the heroes are being chased by Metallitron, a giant robot that is firing lasers at them. Johnny, one of the heroes, states that if the others were here, they could put their rings together and become the Mega Hyper Heroes, as the rings only work when all four of them are together. They run into a cave and are reunited with the other two, who had been off saving the rain forests. They put their rings together and become the Mega Hyper Heroes: Changeling, with the power to change into any animal; Flamo, with the ability to ignite himself with fire; Miss Invisible, with the ability to turn invisible; and The Bolt, with the strength of two really strong men.
They prepare to battle Metallitron, but she has already found them. She punches Changeling into a wall, causing him to turn into a cobra, which she uses to tie up the others. The announcer asks if this is the end for the heroes and to tune in next week to find out. Angelica turns the TV off before the announcer finishes.
Angelica states that Metallitron is her favorite character. Tommy retorts that Metallitron is evil and takes what isn't hers, such as the world's oxygen supply. Angelica does the same; she snatches the babies' Mega Hyper Hero action figures and runs off. Tommy wants to get them back, but the others don't think that they can. Tommy says that the real Mega Hyper Heroes could, and he and his friends can become them. The others wonder how, since they don't have superpowers, muscles, a T.V. show, and most importantly, magic rings. However, Tommy says that they do have their teething rings. Putting them together, they become the Mega Diaper Babies, young superheroes with incredible power.
Tommy becomes Changing Baby (capable of turning into animals), Phil becomes Spitball Boy (who can shoot out machine gun- like spitballs from a spitball gun), Lil becomes Dotted Line Girl (who's a dotted line), and Chuckie becomes Stinky (who smells as strong as two babies). Chuckie doesn't want to be Stinky, but Tommy claims that it's an honor to be the stronger hero.
The babies take off towards Angelitron's evil lair to rescue the heroes. Angelitron is watching on her security monitor T.V. and orders Cynthiatron to unleash her secret weapon, call out the guards and warriors, and get her more snacks. As the babies are nearing, Angelitron shows up and unleashes the Robo-Buster, a deadly robot and the secret weapon that Angelitron mentioned earlier. Changing Baby becomes an octopus and attempts to fight it, but he's no match for the robot's abilities. Spitball Boy then unleashes a barrage of spitballs that have no effect until he runs out. Dotted Line Girl steps up to help and manages to deactivate it.
It's revealed that the Robo-Buster was really a vacuum cleaner, and Lil really tripped the switch. Chuckie wants to play something else, but Tommy says they have to save the heroes; they head on.
They arrive at Angelitron's mountain hideout (which is the stairs in the real world). Phil notes how high the mountains are for climbing. Changing Baby turns into a spider, and they start climbing up the web rope. Angelitron unleashes her army of flying Dummi Bear warriors at the babies. Spitball Boy attempts to hold them off but his spitballs have no effect, so they are forced to retreat. In the real world, it's revealed that Angelica is merely tossing stuffed animals at them.
Chuckie again wants to play something else, and Phil and Lil are forced to agree with him. Angered, Tommy states that the Mega Hyper Heroes never gave up when the Earth needed them, and neither should they. Phil and Lil agree to go on and reluctantly, Chuckie agrees as well, but angrily asks why he has to be Stinky.
Angelitron, meanwhile, has the Mega Hyper Heroes trapped in an anti-energy force field. Changeling says that she'll never get away with this. Angelitron tells him to keep silent (in reality, she's talking to a doll.)
The babies are wondering how to get past Angelitron's robot guards, who are armed with laser guns. Dotted Line Girl volunteers to fly up in her ship. She gets past the guards and, just as she is about to reach the heroes, Angelitron stops her. Dotted Line Girl wonders how she could see her when she's just a dotted line. Angelitron points out that any idiot can see a dotted line. Before Angelitron can kill her, Changing Baby (as a rhino) smashes through the wall with the others behind him. Reunited, they state that they are the Mega Diaper Babies (with Stinky being rather enthusiastic this time around).
Unimpressed, Angelitron reveals her abilities and unleashes various weapons from her body, including a flamethrower and plasma laser. Dotted Line Girl attempts to battle her with her ship and shoot her airplane with purple smoke, but Angelitron hurls it into a wall, then destroys it with the flamethrower, causing it to go up in flames (which Angelitron states is "cool"). Spitball Boy then fires three spitballs at her, but she vaporizes them with her laser. Changing Baby turns into a giant bear to fight her, but she easily knocks him aside. The palace is destroyed with purple smoke like the house. Just as Angelitron is about to finish the babies off, she smells something horrible: Stinky. He unleashes his horrible smell, which makes Angelitron unable to breathe, and she explodes with purple smoke, circuit and exoskeleton.
With the enemy defeated, the babies free the heroes. Changeling thanks the babies, but Changing Baby tells him there's no time for that because they have to reclaim the world's supply of oxygen from Metallitron. Miss Invisible agrees, saying they have to leave. Changeling turns into an eagle and takes off with Flamo holding on while Miss Invisible and The Bolt take off in her ship. They say farewell to the babies as they head off to save the oxygen.
The announcer from the show then states that the day is once again saved thanks to the Mega Hyper Heroes (with a little help from the babies). Meanwhile, a now massive Angelitron stands over Tommy's house and laughs maniacally; the episode ends abruptly with two lightning bolts that makes the screen fade to black.
Goofs[]
- Considering she is a robot, and that most robots can't smell, how can Angelitron smell?
- The Bolt's skin color changes from blue, to peach, and back to blue again throughout the episode.
Trivia[]
- This is one of the more action-oriented episodes of the series.
- After Angelitron explodes, you can see an inner robot face with empty eye sockets and a speaker in the mouth area. The endo-skeleton's face can't fit the huge face of her.
- The Mega Hyper-Heroes are based loosely on Marvel Comics's Fantastic Four and Captain Planet and the Planeteers, produced by Turner Entertainment in association with DIC and Hanna-Barbera. While The Changeling which fills in Fantastic Four's Mr. Fantastic's spot resembles Wolverine from the X-Men series with abilities of Beast Boy from Teen Titans, The Bolt fills in the spot for Fantastic Four's The Thing, his design is mostly based off of the Hulk.
- Metallitron, as well as Angelitron, is based on Megatron (and by extension his upgraded form, Galvatron) from the Transformers franchise.
- This is one of the episodes where Tommy and the babies stand up to Angelica by confronting her.
- The closing credits state that Christine Cavanaugh voiced Reptar, although Reptar doesn't appear at all in this episode or its' paired episode, "Angelica's Worst Nightmare".
- Chuckie being a skunk-themed superhero references Chuckie Gets Skunked
- Moral: Don't be afraid to defend yourself and your friends if you are being bullied.
- This is the only episode of purple smoke in the palace destruction.
Video Clip[]
The Mega Diaper Babies Rugrats NickSplat