History WesternAnimation / MightyOrbots

Despite being an 80s SuperRobot anime, ''Mighty Orbots'' is notable for its lack of MechVsBeast-centric storytelling [[note]] The show was animated in Japan, but the scripts were by western writers who probably had no exposure to such anime. [[/note]]; not that such never happened, in fact the Orbots threw down with giant monsters and mecha with great regularity, but that those conflicts were always solved through methods besides obliterating the enemy with a barrage of {{Toyetic}} weaponry. Instead, ''Mighty Orbots'' played out more like a {{Superhero}} show in a SpaceOpera setting.

* ActionHoggingOpening: It's not that the rest of the show doesn't have amazing animation for an early 80's cartoon too, because it mostly certainly does, but the opening sequence ''did'' obviously get a disproportionate amount of resources poured into it.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Bort most obviously, since he can turn himself into gadget the team needs, but Bo and Boo's powers especially tended to include whatever thing the script writer thought was cool at the moment.

Despite being an 80s SuperRobot anime, ''Mighty Orbots'' is notable for its lack of MechVsBeast-centric storytelling [[note]] The scripts were by western writers who probably had no exposure to such anime. [[/note]]; not that such never happened, in fact the Orbots threw down with giant monsters and mecha with great regularity, but that those conflicts were always solved through methods besides obliterating the enemy with a barrage of {{Toyetic}} weaponry. Instead, ''Mighty Orbots'' played out more like a {{Superhero}} show in a SpaceOpera setting.

Despite being an 80s SuperRobot anime, ''Mighty Orbots'' is notable for its lack of MechVsBeast-centric storytelling [[note]] The scripts were by western writers who probably had no exposure to such anime. [[/note]]; not that such never happened, but that those conflicts were always solved through methods besides obliterating the enemy with a barrage of {{Toyetic}} weaponry. Instead, ''Mighty Orbots'' played out more like a {{Superhero}} show in a SpaceOpera setting.

* ActionHoggingOpening: It's not that the rest of the show doesn't have amazing animation for an early 80's cartoon too, because it mostly certainly does, but the opening sequence ''did'' get a disproportionate amount of resources poured into it.

* ActionHoggingOpening

Despite being an 80s SuperRobot anime, ''Mighty Orbots'' is notable for its lack of MechVsBeast-centric storytelling; not that such never happened, but that those conflicts were always solved through methods besides obliterating the enemy with a barrage of {{Toyetic}} weaponry. Instead, ''Mighty Orbots'' played out more like a {{Superhero}} show in a SpaceOpera setting.

* BadBoss: When a Shadow agent finds himself stranded on an uninhabited planet after completing his mission, Umbra just leaves him there.

Despite being an 80s SuperRobot anime, ''Mighty Orbots'' is notable for its lack of MechVsBeast storytelling; not that such never happened, but that those conflicts were always solved through methods besides obliterating the enemy with a barrage of {{Toyetic}} weaponry. Instead, ''Mighty Orbots'' played out more like a {{Superhero}} show in a SpaceOpera setting.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Mighty Orbots has all the robots' abilities. Tor supplies the form's main chassis and muscle, Bort's powers manifest in the ability to change the combination's hands into different weapons, Bo's elemental ability is the form's firepower, Boo's energy manipulation abilities are its defensive functions while Crunch acts as an emergency battery using his trademark ability to eat anything and convert it to energy.

* BythePowerofGrayskull!: "Orbots, UNITE!"

* BythePowerofGrayskull!: "Orbots, Unite!"

* EldritchAbominaton: Umbra's look is extremely alien, and is large as a planet's core.

* BigEater: Crunch, naturally.

* ClarkKenting: Rob Simmons.
** Not to mention the Orbots themselves, who had more rounded "civilian" modes and blockier, more angular "Orbots modes".

* ShapeshifterBaggage: Bort violates this with impunity.

*** It has been suggested that this is done via a "subspace shunt".

* StockFootage: Used in the Orbots' TransformationSequence. Although in a subversion there was more than one rendering of their combination sequence.

* MoralMyopia: Umbra infects Dr. Phoenix with the Mechanogen for not behaving as a good little minion, but then Dr. Phoenix as a traitor helps develop a cure.

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In 2018 it finally saw a complete home video release.

In 2018 it finally saw release on DVD.

* PoliceAreUseless: Again and again it seems like the Orbots are the only members of the Galactic Patrol capable of actually getting anything done, with gangs of faceless constantly officers looking on helplessly as the current threat gets worse and worse until Rob and his buddies manage to stop it. "The Cosmic Circus" shows a subversion where they have a superweapon independent of Mighty Orbots that can fend off invasions [[spoiler: until it turns out SHADOW's whole plan for that episode was to capture the officers who control the weapon and take it over]].