46. Season One, Episode Forty Six - “The Mighty Space Mouse”

Doom Log File Title:  “Defeated by Space Rodents?!” (Cossack’s Note: I guess even Mogor had trouble dealing with that one.)

This is the reason why Haggar hates mice.

Summary:  The space mice of the Castle of Lions have decided that they want to help in the noble war against Doom, starting with harassing Haggar’s cat.  While out in “training” the little vermin make the brave move of spiking Coba in the tail while he’s asleep and then later nail him in the eye while he’s chasing them.  Haggar, who’s been on Arus incognito working on an underground robeast, isn’t too happy about this, and neither is Zarkon, since he’s pissed that her cat might have given them away.  Wouldn't you be?  She assures him there’s no problem, while the mice scamper on home and convince their special friends Allura and Pidge to help them become a part of the Voltron Force by building them an ugly mouse Voltron. If you thought Voltron couldn't get any uglier, think again.  Note the cat and mouse imagery here.  Normally a cat would eat the damn mouse and be done with it, but that's assuming anything Arusians conjure up makes any freaking sense.  But no, the pilot of a robot lion makes a facsimile for mice. Uggh. Back at the Castle of Lions, they become aware of ground tremors, which they send the lions to investigate.  It turns out to be Haggar’s robeast, which traps them.  They form Voltron, but some chains spring from the ground and snare him in some kinky robeast bondage, complete with saws that slowly come in from the sides to cut him in half.  Things start looking dire for them since they can’t use their energy powers to break free because, get this, one of the stupid mice manages to piss off Coba again and winds up hanging off the edge of the cliff.  Yeah, GA guys, your noble Voltron Force is willing to submit to defeat and leave all of Arus at our mercy for the sake of one stupid mouse.  Completely insane, simply stupid?  Hard to make the call here.

Now, you’d think that would score us a victory, but, no.  The gods must’ve been in a very cruel mood that day, because before you know it, here come the rest of the mice to save their little cat-antagonizing pal in the mouse ship!  The fact that the mouse attempts suicidal altruism here is beyond lame.  How melodramatic do these GG feeds have to be, focusing on a stupid rat letting go of a cliff and plummeting to its mushy demise, only to have Voltron sustain damage and save it? You know what the slam at the bottom of the cliff would be considered in my Empire?  The punchline to a very funny joke.  Curse you for having no sense of humor, Voltron!  They attack Coba, save the critter on the cliff, and Voltron is free to energize and melt the chains before the saws can do permanent damage.  Haggar gets pissed and releases the robeast, but unfortunately it winds up on the unfriendly end of the BS and the battle is over with Voltron the victor thanks to the help of their special fuzzy friends.

Notable Doom Highlights:  Zarkon has a nice zinger for Haggar at the beginning of this fiasco and an even funnier one at the end, when he says, “May you ride a splintered broom, old witch!”  Yes, I meant what thought I meant.  She's a sick woman, she might even enjoy that kinda thing.  I tend to keep a safe distance from people holding sticks while staring at my ass.  Needless to say, the king of Doom isn’t too impressed when his people get their asses handed to them by a bunch of rodents.  You'll never see ME get defeated on account of stupid mice...will you?

Notes:  This is probably one of our lowest lows in the battle against Voltron. Nobody likes to talk about it, even Lotor, who found it funny at the time.  This is probably because he also had a run-in with those mice and their ugly little ship a bit later on but, uh, well I better not get into that either.  Oh no.  No!  This is why animal testing is a good thing!

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