The Zentraedi main fleet bombards Earth from orbit, eliminating the orbital defense fleet and 70% of the planet surface. This scene is from episode 27 "Force of Arms" from the Robotech remastered series.
Пікірлер: 452
@GrenadeMagnet4 жыл бұрын
So many people never learned or don't properly appreciate just how ahead of its time Robotech was for America when it came to animation. I was born in 76 so all I ever had until Robotech came out in 85, aside from a few like Thundarr the Barbarian, Voltron, Transformers, and GI Joe, which was all still rather sanitized for young kids. lol Like in GI Joe you could bail out of ANYTHING and treat it like hopping out of bed. Bahahahaha! Ten billion laser blasts and not one person actually shot. :) All the rest took that even further like Disney, Hanna Barbera, Loony Toons, and about the most violent thing was lol, all of Tom and Jerry. All in all it was cartoonish harmless violence. Then Robotech comes along and says hold my beer and frags most of humanity in almost literal hellfire and SHOWS IT. lol It was like buckle up butter cup, I'm going to show you what war really looks like. This was not your mom's cartoon so to speak. It went so far as to kill off main characters in a time where nobody ever dies in most TV shows and sure as hell doesn't in cartoons. I'm in my 40s now and it's hard to remember that far back, but I think when Roy Fokker died it may very well of been the first time in my life watching something gave me an actual visceral reaction. It opened the door for so many other great shows that treated animation as merely another art form. Not something that has to be for kids. It's a shame what Harmony Gold has done to the franchise.
@sidearmsalpha3 жыл бұрын
Born in '73. The GI JOE comic book and Robotech changed me for sure.
@Meineself2 жыл бұрын
Thundersub
@Meineself2 жыл бұрын
"Blue Noah"
@Chris-es3wf2 жыл бұрын
@@thotslayer9914 all way after robotech (in the US at least)
@GrenadeMagnet2 жыл бұрын
@@thotslayer9914 Yes to Gundam, no to the other. But Gundam didn't air in America until way after Robotech, and IDK about the other but I suspect it's the same.
@kchishol19702 жыл бұрын
I remembered seeing the ships charge up for firing, and I was still convinced that there was going to be some cheap last-minute save, only to see them fire. All my brother and I could react was mutter in horror, "Oh my God! They actually did it!"
@noneedtoknow074 жыл бұрын
Alien: destroy most of the population on earth and irrevocably mess it up. Humans: "....Alright then... our turn."
@javiercosaco46604 жыл бұрын
no puedes caer sin devolver el golpe.
@mpm11253 жыл бұрын
Could have used all those humans and Zentradi against the Invid.
@addisonchow97983 жыл бұрын
This is how you get the imperium of man.
@shadowmaverick152 жыл бұрын
@@mpm1125 no, even that wouldnt have been enough agaisnt the Invid, any spare troops and equipment would have been used agaisnt the Masters whose Colony ships wasted the SC fleets , the Masters themselves said it, Mankind didnt reserve troops to defend agaisnt the Invid cause they didnt know they were coming until the Masters told them
@PointReflex Жыл бұрын
@@shadowmaverick15 I think the only difference is that the Invid Regis was open to negotiations even at her peak of domination. The Invid species is the only one wich values more the natural enviroment than war itself. So even if that race was one hell of a parasitic plague, they at least, had a heart so to speak. Humans, Zentraedis and even the Masters themselves took turns killing each other just for the sake of power way more often than any kind of Invid kill in the universe.
@kuribayashi844 жыл бұрын
What gets me is the shot of the two Soldiers on the Tank getting vaporized a second before the Tank blows up.
@joehand21564 жыл бұрын
That's sad too but the kid and soldier is way worse
@thudthud54233 жыл бұрын
Intense heat before the shockwave.
@nickwalker49364 жыл бұрын
“When are we going to Zentraedi Prime?” “I don’t know, but we’re burning it down when we get there.”
@marior34794 жыл бұрын
Nick The Undying modern warfare reference
@renrekilo27853 жыл бұрын
Nice reference
@RedGlass88 Жыл бұрын
"When the time is right Corporal. When the time is right."
@artken4901 Жыл бұрын
@@renrekilo2785so whats the reference....
@renrekilo2785 Жыл бұрын
@@artken4901 the fact you can't put 2 and 2 together with other comments here is sad
@afitz344 ай бұрын
'Emperor Dolza, we have detected a high energy reaction coming from the third planet.' Dolza: 'Third plan....wait...what...'
@AcidRainComics4 жыл бұрын
I just saw this series a few days ago. Binged it. I remember thinking when the Zentradi showed up, "Haha I'd just attack Earth, not the Macross" and then he commands an attack on Earth. I'm like "ok well grand multi episode battle, nice" and he fucking DECIMATED the Earth. I still can't believe they did that.
@mrdriver29882 жыл бұрын
The Zentradi did a 200IQ move
@El.broder2 жыл бұрын
@@mrdriver2988 maybe if they didnt bring the whole fleet
@mrdriver29882 жыл бұрын
@@El.broder actually it was a good idea to bring the whole fleet cus I don't think the Zentradi knew about the Grand Canons on each major continent on earth. Quite unfortunate that the Humans where not able to use all I think 7 or 8 grand cannons, most of them where damaged from the attack. Plus there was on on the moon but I don't think anyone was operating it at the time.
@shadowmaverick15 Жыл бұрын
@@mrdriver2988 Last time i checked only one Grand Cannon was operational, hence why it was the only one used, the rest werent finished by the time the Zentraedi showed up, if they had Dolza's fleet would have received a very warm welcome by the RDF the moment they showed up and didnt reply to radio communications
@keithw49204 жыл бұрын
As a kid, I was IMPRESSED that a 'cartoon' would allow genocide to be inflicted on earth and the 4 million ship number.
@AvengerII4 жыл бұрын
It's definitely NOT GI Joe where they fired weapons all the time and nobody seems to get hurt much or die until the animated movie!
@ronaldsanfran3 жыл бұрын
@Naofumi Iwatani Hiroshima and Nagasaki kinda made war horror a fact of life.
@keithw49203 жыл бұрын
@@AvengerII parachutes and ejection seats are 100% reliable in GI joe I remember
@RaikenXion3 жыл бұрын
As a kid i was always intrigued by "Protoculture" in this awesome series.
@mejercit3 жыл бұрын
@@ronaldsanfran Most of humanity experienced the horrors of war.
@rdubayoo4 жыл бұрын
Everyone is freaking out over the devastation of Earth, but here I am flummoxed that they made a weapons platform so heavy that it can't even take a step without crushing the hull plating of the ship it's deploying from.
@BigusGeekus4 жыл бұрын
The Monster. It's basically a walking battleship turret.
@hippoace4 жыл бұрын
yeah that really detracts from the overall experience...they cannot be fixing the floor everytime they deploy it.
@hot2warm4 жыл бұрын
In earlier episodes, they didn't walk but hovered.
@levioch3 жыл бұрын
@@hot2warm I believe they have rollers on their feet.
@JohnSmith-uk6wh Жыл бұрын
Allow me to introduce you to the wonderful world of WW2 German tank design.
@thudthud54233 жыл бұрын
GI Joe cartoon - a hundred jet fighters are shot down and we see a hundred parachutes Robotech - 4 million Zentraedi warships appear out of hyperspace and nearly wipeout all life on the Earth's surface.
@meatybtz3 жыл бұрын
In the actual Macross version they actually annihilated all human life on earth, all that was left when they returned to earth was mutated animals and rad-wasteland. Nothing, there was nothing left at all and Rick and Lisa had to take rad medication to stay alive. It was even more devastating to watch them go through a ruined and deserted earth. Still though that soldier protecting the girl as they are vaporized sticks with you. Watched this as a kid when it first came to the USA as Robotech.
@thegrayone56663 жыл бұрын
@@meatybtz Geeze no punches pulled..
@michaelgreenwood34133 жыл бұрын
@@thegrayone5666 it's also why all of the series after it apart from the other two made into Robotech were about Colony Fleets. And making contact with the other species the Protoculture created, since they were basically our sister species. My personal fave are probably the Ragnans, who're amphibious and have short fins and gills, but're otherwise human. A lot of them were only to happy to allow humanity and the Zentraedi with them to settle on Ragna, and signed up with the UN Spacy in large amounts to help out other colonization fleets. Nearly every Macross series post-first contact with the Ragnans has always had them as an integral part of the crew and flight corps.
@crownowan62025 жыл бұрын
imagine being a kid in 80's and reacting at this images. that was creepy. very impressive and shoking
@victorfergn5 жыл бұрын
@Evil Doctor PorkChop I saw it in the early 90s and it was shocking too, anime and cartoons weren't this catastrophic back then so it got us unprepared.
@Fatty4205 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in the 80s and remember watching stuff like this attack, Roy dying then Ben getting vaporized the very next episode. It was a harsh but important lesson to learn that sometimes the good guys don't win and may even die. I could only roll my eyes when I watched GI Joe. No deaths, not even a drop of blood in that show.
@akumabakemono14474 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in 2006 (10 years old) and my stephfather said to me "So, do you like anime? (I was watching DBZ), see this" and put Macross on DVD. Three things happened that day: -I falled in love forever with anime. -I falled in love forever with Macross, Mechs and Space operas. -I love, but also felled really affected and shock with this scene. Specially when the soldier and the girl die together.
@alegomezbersano1034 жыл бұрын
it was fucking awsome!!!
@MurasakiBunny4 жыл бұрын
As said kid in the 80's watching this when it first came on, I dropped a brick in my pants.
@PlasmaBurns4 жыл бұрын
I have all 3 generations on hard drive. Havent watched them in 30 years or so. I remember getting home from school just in time to watch, record and pause during commercials on the Betamax player.
@mangavf25253 жыл бұрын
3 generations? You have my interest
@akumabakemono14477 жыл бұрын
Minute 3:29. Several years passed and I'm still affected when the soldier hugs the girl to protect her ...
@MetalGack7 жыл бұрын
Akuma Bakemono me too :/
@Shiro6427 жыл бұрын
yes! me too I came here for that scene. whoever came up with that shot is a genius.
@bobdown3916 жыл бұрын
Same here
@h0neyglaz3d6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's really a moment. It takes what could be a board-game style attack and makes it instantly human.
@carlingas6666 жыл бұрын
Me too. When I first saw it, disturbed me
@Kalebfenoir7 жыл бұрын
This scene alone, the bombardment, singularly sparked my interest in space, getting off this rock as fast as we can, and the idea of creating and maintaining actual defenses in case someone DOES come to visit with a Big Stick.
@Battlecry177 жыл бұрын
It's definitely a powerful scene where humanity is rendered insignificant in size and technology (and probably age) in comparison to the Zentraedi.
@Fudgeoff66285 жыл бұрын
We need to get the fuck off earth, settle some colonies in this system and bolster our home system asap. I fully believe theres life out there, some good & some, well, lets just say NOT what the creators of Mass Effect would have us believe of a “united” galaxy. Humanity needs to rise up, immediately.
@@Fudgeoff6628 A "Pinesalad Productions" parody dub of "Farewell to Tenderness" ("To the Stars") would probably have used your first paragraph .
@Warsie3 жыл бұрын
@@Fudgeoff6628 the Dark Forest theory as an answer to the Fermi Paradox. You know assuming they aren't already here.
@boradis11 жыл бұрын
I remember how freaking intense this was when it first aired in the U.S. I couldn't believe a "mere cartoon" would show death on this scale or deal with the aftermath. Between this, "Mach Go Go Go" and "Gatchaman" I became an anime fan for life.
@ianwestc4 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Space Battleship Yamato, which started with most of the surface of the Earth destroyed by constant bombardment. Pretty wild.
@boradis3 жыл бұрын
@@ianwestc Loved that show! You ever see the live action version? They nailed that too.
@ianwestc3 жыл бұрын
@@boradis I have not seen the live action version . TBH, it looked a bit like a battlestar galactica knock-off. :-D
@ianwestc3 жыл бұрын
I was also worried that live-action yamato seemed a bit too nishizaki-like. The old yamato was a combination of nishizaki (plot, ship, technology) and Leiji Matsumoto (characters, design, emotion).
@ianwestc3 жыл бұрын
What I really want to see is yamato 2199 and yamato 2201, two recent animated remakes of the first two series of space battleship yamato. They look gooooood.
@bjscorpio40415 жыл бұрын
Watching that cloud vaporize; one of my favourite pieces of animation.
@michaeldrainville24254 жыл бұрын
I have always thought that it looked like the battle star galatica in cloud form
@schizoidboy10 ай бұрын
This was the best episode of the series when the planet Earth gets attacked. Earth gets devastated but still fights back, but it still doesn't sanitize the war, when people get killed they get killed and the few scenes show it.
@lordmechanic4 жыл бұрын
35 years later and I still get the chills.
@YaHussain3_1_38 ай бұрын
Im 41. Same sheet
@fabioartoscassone93053 жыл бұрын
Zentraedi: i destroyed 70% of your planet Super Cannon: so u choose DEATH
@mrdriver29882 жыл бұрын
It didn't do enough damage to the total number of Zentradi ships. The Zentradi littraly surround the earth with ships.
@jordanstreat5905 ай бұрын
Yeah but it did knock hole big enough for the sdf to punch straight throw thier command base winning the battle
@Hurricanelive3 жыл бұрын
In the 80's up through the 90's we'd called this being Dolzad as in, you just got Dolzad because whenever we roleplayed or played any game it usually resulted in one side going into MAD or games just resulting in whoever could Dolza the other gamer first if we got locked in a stalemate or wanted denial of resources to gain footholds or advantages.
@lordfrostwind31512 жыл бұрын
Ha, sounds like how my brother and I played Risk when they released the version with nukes. I'll have to remember getting Dolzad.
@robertwilkins31677 ай бұрын
I recall reading someplace (in Jack McKinney's Robotech novelizations most likely) that when the Grand Cannon fires it destroys more Zentraedi warships in that single moment than all of their other warships ever lost combined.
@NaturalEnquirer Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love that this feels so much like "crisis narrowly averted" right up until, y'know, it's not averted
@TheVoiceOfReason938 жыл бұрын
In essence, Macross did not went to save Earth from the Zentradi, but simply to save what the Zentradi had MISSED.
@sangkang6294 Жыл бұрын
You do realize if an advanced species do visit Earth and declare war, it's not gonna some Hollywood invasion but a total wipe from orbit.
@Kevin-se6nc6 жыл бұрын
I just love that blast from the grand cannon
@Kevin-se6nc2 жыл бұрын
i'm here again lol
@Zapp333114 жыл бұрын
I remember as a sheltered kid in the 80’s on a steady diet of He-Man and Transformers watching this it just blew my mind. People dying even kids with cities and ships full of crews vaporized. Yeah it was traumatic but you have to grow up sooner or later.
@virtualpellot9334 жыл бұрын
Hey at least we could handle this stuff not like the new current sissy gen which they would shit themselves in their pants and would not be able to handle this.
@dragonstormx10 ай бұрын
Even as someone who has watched this for the first time because I didn't follow Robotech much as a kid, this is still an amazing scene with the tension building up to the GIGANTIC FLEET preparing to fire at Earth. Previously it had been established that if the Zentreadi were serious about wiping out humanity, they'd do it. And the dub didn't pull any punches, the bombardment annihilated most of humanity.
@johnrettig18804 жыл бұрын
I was in my early twenties when this came out . I was hooked on this thing called Anime . Also met someone who had some of the uncensored comic books from Japan that was translated to English . He let me read the collection that he had at the time and would bring over a new set that came directly from Japan , after he read them first of course .
@upandaljm3 жыл бұрын
When you realize your playing on max difficulty and you haven't unlocked the Minmay defence yet.
@PointReflex3 жыл бұрын
Oh, the "Minmay Defense System (R)", ... sheesh, thanks for reactivating an old PTSD over that bullshit-fest known as Macross II.
@upandaljm3 жыл бұрын
@@PointReflex hey when I'm really really really drunk I absolutely love Macross II so lay off it
@michaelmolina62672 жыл бұрын
I was a few years out of High school when ROBOTECH aired on US TV. I grew up in the late 60s early 70s and was exposed to shows like Gigantor, Kimba the white lion, Speed Racer, and Marineboy. Then came Space Cruiser Yamato aka Space BattleshipYamato-Star Blazers. First, there was the movie on TV around 1978, afterward had to settle for the likes of Battle of the Planets, which was a watered down version of Gatchaman, and then my freshmen year of high school Star Blazers. After I graduated in 83 I had to settle for Voltron until ROBOTECH came along. WOW! I was hooked and still a fan in my late 50s.
@Anzac7RAR2 жыл бұрын
1:17 when your mech so thicc she buckles the floor under her awesomeness 😂🙌🏻
@frankderossi7952 жыл бұрын
Heft is always a good sign of quality lol
@Warsie11 ай бұрын
Doesn't make sense given they're in low Earth orbit and the gravity is controllable aka shouldn't be turned on in the LOADING DOCK
@davidjones31653 жыл бұрын
Back story when the grand cannon fired the zentradi lost more ships in that one instant than ever before.
@BigusGeekus2 жыл бұрын
And it still wasn't enough.
@Kujakuseki019 жыл бұрын
Best part of the entire series for me. It's really well directed, animated and the musical score is perfect. And of course, the performances of all of the voice actors is phenomenal at the beginning here.
@chrisgenson22783 жыл бұрын
Her: Our sensors can't fix on all of them. Him: ...I have to go now. LOL!!!
@kloa42193 жыл бұрын
Japan has the most grounded and realistic takes on war.
@newdivide98823 жыл бұрын
Given what happened to them in the 40s, I can see why
@3675Chandra3 ай бұрын
@@newdivide9882 It's what they did to others first that's worse.
@sigmarecovery699 Жыл бұрын
I loved this show when I was a kid. Uses to wake up to watch it at 6am. It got me out of bed.
@rzerox21xx Жыл бұрын
I'm can't help but imagine how intense it was first aired in the mid 80s during the Cold War with the fear of Nuclear annihilation. Scary stuff for kids to exposed to. I was much too young but my brother introduced me to this show when it reaired in the mid 90s in Cartoon Network. My reaction would pale to how a 80s kid would react.
@YourOldUncleNoongah6 жыл бұрын
Goes to show, aliens are always badass when they get to earth and throw the first punch, but the old human race, with our extreme knowledge of mass destruction, always ends up landing the knockout blow that puts the invaders down for good.
@natheria49335 жыл бұрын
Well, for a while at least. Hummanity in this universe defeated the zentradi twice, then the robotech masters, but couldn't withstand the might of the invid as Earth was literally beaten down so hard by the past wars that there just wasn't really anything left to give agaisnt the next enemy. Luckily though, good old resistance and guerilla war managed to push back the invid to take earth back, but it was really the invid themselves that chose to leave. They didn't really have to because they still clearly had an advantage. Admittedly though, yeah hummanity sure put up one hell of a fight.
@macrosense4 жыл бұрын
yes. there are not many cartoons or books written with different plots.
Invid looked at this and thought, "Aw, that's cute..."
@Sion_Revan Жыл бұрын
The Destroid Monster was always my favorite, wish you saw more of them in the show.
@VeritechGirl4 жыл бұрын
0:45 taking the impending annihilation of Earth so casually! 😂
@RamdomView3 жыл бұрын
He's a Zentradi. He has likely seen many planets be blasted before.
@jinsaotome36072 жыл бұрын
lol right! that man said well, this is it. that was a true we're screwed, but eff it reaction.
@gumbie0073 жыл бұрын
Best cartoon series on TV in the US...ever! 👍 👏
@duomaxwell65234 ай бұрын
Now THAT is an extinction-level attack by the Zentraedi!
@thomasshaw6119 күн бұрын
Like all good things,they don,t last!I grew up with this!They will never make cartoons like this,anymore?That was a classic!
@juanv8758 Жыл бұрын
Years later after I purchased the DVD set for Robotech, I watched the destruction scene over and over in slow motion. The animation was amazing for it's time. I was 14 when I saw Robotech on tv; I couldn't believe they showed the practical annialation of the human race in a kids cartoon.
@midgetydeath2 жыл бұрын
As ridiculous as it is to believe a world that fought a world war to unify out of sheer terror of a potential alien invasion and gained the technology to rebuild the SDF-1 wouldn't build innumerable shelters and shields for cities and rush everyone into those shelters the moment any aliens appeared, I gotta say it's totally awesome that the response to the bombardment was to calmly return fire. Something the Zentradi not doubt had *absolutely* never imagined happening.
@4600norm Жыл бұрын
Yes, too bad they didn't warm up the cannon when the Zentraedi started folding in. There might have been a section of Earth saved, and a lot of problems avoided later on due to lack of population.
@sicksock43544622 күн бұрын
All of earth is destroyed... "VERY GOOD THEN, WE WILL BEGIN THE COUNTDOWN AT ONCE"
@apedreitor5 жыл бұрын
that freaking grand reflex cannon, so fucking epic we need shit like that pronto
@63042088563 жыл бұрын
The absolute best 80’s animated tv series. Pure war from different perspectives. Still Nothing like it. It Needs a feature film!
@WHR173 жыл бұрын
As a kid from the 80’s watching this blew my mind. I knew this was not your typical after school cartoon!!!
@BIGGGEDDD6663 жыл бұрын
This, & Space Battleship Yamato, A.K.A. Star Blazers here in the U.S., the after school rush to get home & Watch, theses were more important than Homework!!😂🤣😁😎
@kuribayashi8412 жыл бұрын
Wait a Sec! 4 MILLION SHIPS!?!? Damn, the Overkill-Win in terms of Fleet Size is one of the Reasons I love Macross!
@crazedvole5 ай бұрын
I wonder how much of the fleet the Grand Cannon took out? It may not have been able to get all of them, and they may have destroyed it, but the Zentraedi knew they had been in a fight when it got done.
@EHH2462 жыл бұрын
This was in syndication at the same time that cartoons like GI Joe and Transformers were airing. Think about that for a moment.
@SilentZombie4 жыл бұрын
I remember there was an original art book to go with this version of he series and even it tried bridging the other 2 unrelated series together. The Zentreadi actually fought the Invid some thousands or millions of years in the past which was how Breetai lost his eye. If HG (Harmony Gold) did things right I would have loved to see either a prequel series of that happening or eventually the 2 sides would clash. But as we all know HG just messed it up and they made sure that no one else could even expand on the series in any way without lawsuits, even though supposedly they recently decided NOT to renew their claim to it.
@davidmartinez.22333 жыл бұрын
La devastación representada en esta secuencia es brutal, la primera vez que la vi tenía unos 12 años! Fue impresionante!.
@edwardw.90472 жыл бұрын
When i saw this episode when i was kid, i was thinking fire the freaking cannon first but then i realized that the whole destruction, the planet and the alien fleet was kinda amazing. 😜😜😜😜😜😜
@sunnygaia11476 жыл бұрын
The most realistic serie (destruction,casuality,war and history)
@fuzzo73 Жыл бұрын
Anyone in 2023 watching this? Hoping Sony gets it together with a live film adaptation, or a series. Word is that it's finally in development after years of legal wrangling . Will they have the courage to present this the way it was? Imagine this if it's done right, in a proper film franchise, or streaming series. Forget zombies and comets, THIS is an end of the world scenario truly horrifying.
@manfredschultz96194 жыл бұрын
3:17 tiny little dinky Earth ships firing away, likely tickling some nearby Zendraedi ships as the other 4 million warp by
@michaeldrainville24254 жыл бұрын
but the grand cannon destroyed 1,000,000 ships in that one shot killed more zendraedi than any enemy before
@manfredschultz96193 жыл бұрын
@CK Lim 40 million lol, not very fortunate of Earth getting mixed up with the mess
@phucphangiatoan4873 Жыл бұрын
@CK Lim You wanna go crazier? In Macross, Exedol said back in their heydays, Zentradi had about 1-2000 fleets like Bodol Mainfleet. That means their number back then were at least 4,8 billion ships. Can't remember if that was before or during the galactic civil war.
@alexvasquez5373 жыл бұрын
And this was on day time TV for us Gen-x kids.
@compman343 ай бұрын
And people wonder why some of us just shrug off things like this. "sonny, in my day we had multiple cartoons that showed genocide" (robotech and star blazers)
@highlander20004 жыл бұрын
The grand finale of 2020
@highlander20003 жыл бұрын
@Rowen Thomas I guess it's the only way to start 2021 with a clean slate! *shrugs*
@stardrifter28723 жыл бұрын
Aliens: Attack their life points directly. Humans: You've activated our trap card!
@ricarlab.9673 жыл бұрын
Magic Cylinder or any of the Mirror Force cards
@jorger88065 жыл бұрын
well, this first part of robotech is like the wine, just get better with time, the massive three person driven reflex units (like tanks) and the military athmosphere plus superb music and this scene of the massive attack I had never forviged, it impressed me to much when i was a Kid, still the power of the destructive forces unleashed give me the cringes, what a great anime this was, I am glad to had the opportunity to see it as a child.
@lordmechanic4 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree with you more!
@edder84 Жыл бұрын
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
@mrdriver29884 жыл бұрын
As a kid watching this it was so intense to watch. Man it really takes me back to watching SDF Macross (not Robotech)
@Servellion13 жыл бұрын
Also find it odd they need full magnification to noticed the sky-raping beam of death. One thing I find is annoying is would it kill the VA's to fucking emote? The Zentraedi just sterilized 70% of the planet and the humans are "Oh darn, they killed our friends and loved one, how inconveniant."
@RamdomView3 жыл бұрын
These were the early days of English dubs.
@lolroflroflcakes3 жыл бұрын
@@RamdomView To be fair Homeworld did a similar scene about a billion times better and that wasn't exactly in an era of cinematic experiences in games. The funny part is instead of having someone fail to emote the did really good at having the VA seem like they were suppressing said emotions. So everyone was stone cold professional and it made it really eerie to hear someone talking about the results of an implied brutal interrogation in a complete deadpan or how the crew under your character reacts the the event similar to this one that takes place. There is always a hint of emotion there, just enough that you understand the character understands what is happening.
@SMunro3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. There is a cursor arrow on the screen.
@nathanmerritt15812 жыл бұрын
When everybody else is freaking out, I'll probably be laughing like a maniac lol
@hudsonball47024 жыл бұрын
That very first line... Old Toonami fashbacks.
@spencersholden19 күн бұрын
I was shocked when Earth was actually bombarded into oblivion. I thought they were gonna full some amazing trick and Earth would be saved, but no. Earth was lost. Over 6 billion people were wiped out along with almost all plant and animal life.
@joseluisnewyork88324 жыл бұрын
3:38 That image is from the first episode when the original fortress arrived to the Earth.
@LuoSon312_G83 жыл бұрын
The crazy part? That's not even the whole fleet. That's just the equivalent of the covenant's high charity defense fleet. And that devastation was just one volley, not a continuous barrage.
@jasonleetaiwan2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't this the main fleet?
@LuoSon312_G82 жыл бұрын
@@jasonleetaiwan Think of it as the primary fleet directly commanded by the Zentradi high command. A fraction of their galaxy wide empire. The Zentradi Empire was simultaneously fighting Earth, Robotech Masters, Invid, and Vajra. And a quoted "million ships" was considered a "quick reaction force" to simply bombard Earth into oblivion. While the Robotech trilogy is not canonical to the actual Macross saga, with specific series plots and side stories lost due to the world wide Harmony Gold ban. Careful translation of the series always pointed the fact that during the Earth v. Zentradi first contact war the Zentradi was in the midst of a civil war with the Meltradi (primarily female) faction, upstart remote Zentradi commanders inciting coupes for the rank of high command, and fighting a multi front war against some unknown enemies in deep space. Macross 7 introduced the civil war factions both pre-war and post-war. Macross Plus showed the first contact war Remnants. Macross Frontier and Delta introduced the Vajra.
@jasonleetaiwan2 жыл бұрын
@@LuoSon312_G8 Never heard of Vajra. That is from Macross only? Because I never heard of that in Robotech. Why are you combining Macross and Robotech? They are separate entities.
@LuoSon312_G82 жыл бұрын
@@jasonleetaiwan The Robotech series rushed the story a bit, forcing the original Macross writers to stop the series post release and rewrite alot of it; the civil war factions had became the Robotech Masters, and the Invid were an offshoot of the Vajra. Vajra are basically space bug bioweapons the size of a Destroid or a Battloid; the most powerful fighter types being able to take on smaller warships, with even smaller variants about the size of a person or a car. Unlike the Invid who are mechanized battle armors who's biggest variants are only as big as a tank piloted by a still unknown biomechanical biped species.
@jasonleetaiwan2 жыл бұрын
@@LuoSon312_G8 Macross was finished in 1982. Robotech wasn't released until 1985. There was no conflict in the release schedule.
@h0neyglaz3d6 жыл бұрын
I wish that the Grand Cannon's firepower was more clearly demonstrated. It IS meant to be a devastatingly powerful weapon (at least in the Robotech continuity), albeit ultimately quite unequal to the task set for it. The Zentraedi are supposed to lose a very noteworthy number of ships in that return of fire, perhaps a hundred thousand -- enough to explain Dolza's reaction at there being a return shot at all and also putting everything a bit more towards caution for a moment.
@AndrewJamesWilliams5 жыл бұрын
According to the novel version three hundred thousand Zentraedi ships were outright destroyed by the shot with many more disabled and helpless. In that one shot the Zentraedi sustained more casualties than at any time in there entire history.
@TheBigExclusive4 жыл бұрын
Too bad they weren't able to fire the Grand Cannon repeatedly. If they could quickly fire shots, they might be able to force a retreat of the Zentradi.
@marcomaceo35599 ай бұрын
@@TheBigExclusivein the novel they fired it four times.
@mrpark70438 ай бұрын
That MAC-II though... "Sir, we're stuck"
@bobdown3916 жыл бұрын
"I have to go now" lol
@shanek13664 жыл бұрын
Were to captian lol
@mrdriver29884 жыл бұрын
The fun fact is that only like a small ammount of Zentradi ships fired onto earth. Out of the 5Million ships from the zentradi fleet only like 100000 fired onto earth. If all the Zentradi ships fired idk if there will be an Earth left.
@mejercit3 жыл бұрын
Only a few tens of thousands had reflex cannons.
@iamfiefo Жыл бұрын
Now that I'm older, I realized the narrator always has to explain what we're watching like the dummies we were.
@kmontano12344 жыл бұрын
As a child I was blown away by this
@fieryspirit11 жыл бұрын
I think though out of those 4,8 million ships only around 65,000 had reflex weaponry, not all Zentraedi ships had these guns built in.. This is because of the complexity of those weapons and mass production even in the "golden age" was smaller for the Zentraedi fleets than the Supervision Army. And if anyone wonders the SDF1 is a rebuilt ship of the Supervision Army.
@h0neyglaz3d6 жыл бұрын
Not in Robotech it isn't. In Robotech, it's the battle fortress of Zor, a unique vessel unlike any other in existence. This is a point where Robotech and Macross fundamentally diverge.
@mejercit3 жыл бұрын
@@h0neyglaz3d So basically, some VIPs official space yacht.
@themercer49723 жыл бұрын
This moment has seldom been equaled in sifi literature and never in film. Alien invasion, yea that is bad. How many ships...? ... ... over 4 million ! It was mind blowing when I saw it as a kid, and I think it always stuck with me as an example of a "real" serious attack by an alien race. In almost all sifi we are dealing with an enemy who has a few mega powerful ships, or a few hundred "space battleships" but what defenses can you build to stop millions?
@deaddropsd19723 жыл бұрын
ROBOTECH AUDIOBOOK 1 GENESIS! Experience ROBOTECH in the theater 🎭 of your mind 🧠! 🗣 🎤 📚 ROBOTECH BOOK 1 GENESIS AUDIOBOOK. The origin of the SDF-1 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oZabZ8iL2cW4hKM.html
@-JustHuman-3 жыл бұрын
The battle would have been a bit different if the rest of the canons had been made too, one was simply not enough to take them all out, but the full count would properly have cleared most of the skies. Depending on how far from Earth some of the ships would have been.
@shadowmaverick15 Жыл бұрын
If the Grand Canon network was complete Dolza's fleet would have been decimated , sadly only one was in operation by the time the battle happened
@4600norm Жыл бұрын
They also should have fired first.
@-JustHuman- Жыл бұрын
@@4600norm The canon takes a long time to spin up the first time to carry the charge, they properly started when the fleet jumped in but the canon was barely finished, as in they where still building it when they fired it.
@AshokKumar241722 жыл бұрын
Was 10 years old bk then...nostalgic
@ilexgarodan2 жыл бұрын
7 billion, reduced to 700 million in just a few seconds. Just one tenth of the global population survived the Rain of Death.
@intorsusvolo78343 жыл бұрын
Now witness the power of this ARMED and Operational planet!
@foxerdesertico8 жыл бұрын
i CRY IN THis episode T_T So epic!
@scottgrimes12877 жыл бұрын
I cryed in roy Fokkers death scene
@revieworr5 жыл бұрын
I remember thinking, how will earth defend, what the catch, what will they pull out of the bag, the earth always wins ... or just makes it ...... I could not see how to get out of it .. annnnd. No blew the planet away ... all of my what stuck in my mind forever ...
@AlbertoRodriguez-zb3iu4 жыл бұрын
Now i know where jj Abrams got the idea for the star killer base. 😏
@daanvos194 Жыл бұрын
this is what i believe to be an extinction level event
@Lion_McLionhead13 жыл бұрын
You know it's on when humans build something that looks like it came from aliens.
@kennieminski70804 жыл бұрын
"I'm 2." Death doesn't care.
@darkreigncometh3 жыл бұрын
Ain't that the truth.
@aaroncarandang88923 жыл бұрын
I love how everyone's still chirpy and camp even after most of the planet's glassed
@RamdomView3 жыл бұрын
It was the early days of English dubs.
@TheRoleplayer40k Жыл бұрын
I like to imagine they're being professional and the reality just hasnt sunk in. Time to grieve later, gotta fight now. Theyre more cheering that the grand canon is alive...so that super weapon might give them a chance.
@Jesse124895 жыл бұрын
The Wonderful 101 put this to Shame. The Gethjerk had a fleet the size of a Solar System.
@Barabel224 жыл бұрын
They got the right kind of numbers down for what a high Type II/Low III civilization is capable of, no measly few dozen or hundred ships.
@youtubecommentsonly28602 жыл бұрын
The grand Canon was shocking
@jervishorton73724 жыл бұрын
I TURN 50 IN 2020 WE HAVE A TOP GUN SEQUEL COMING IN 2020 AND IAM STILL WAITING ON A ROBOTECH/MACROSS FILM OR SERIES TO GET MADE. HBO, SHOWTIME, NETFLIX, HULU, DISNEY PLUS COME THE FKK ON ALREADY 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤷♂️ THE BIGGEST SCI FI FRANCHISE SINCE STAR WARS AND NO ONE IS PRODUCING IT 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤷♂️
@monos702 жыл бұрын
The closet it got was when Tobey Maguire and Leo DiCaprio wanted to do do a franchise but it fizzled. Our last hopes lie in hbo or Netflix doing it.
@Matteus21094 жыл бұрын
Holy sh*t kids cartoons in the eighties got away with a lot.
@lordmechanic4 жыл бұрын
Actually just this one...and they really broke new ground with Robotech. We had never seen anything like it.
@Battlecry1711 жыл бұрын
Episode 27: Force of Arms
@donlengel47704 жыл бұрын
Episode 27 costs 77.00 to own/
@fabioartoscassone93053 жыл бұрын
"the terror will keep in bay the planet" unknown TAFF in Zentraedi fleet