"Defenders of the Earth" is an animated science fiction series that unites some of King Features Syndicate’s most iconic comic strip heroes into one superhero team to battle evil forces threatening Earth. The series is set in the year 2015 (a distant future at the time of release) and blends high-tech action with classic pulp comic lore.
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00:01Defenders of the Earth! Defenders!
00:05Out of the sky, his rockets ignite!
00:08He gets into battle, flying faster than light!
00:12Lord of the jungle, the hero who stalks!
00:15The beast call him brother, the go of the war!
00:19Defenders of the Earth!
00:22Master of magic, spells and illusion!
00:26Enemies crumble in fear and confusion!
00:30And drink!
00:31Defenders of the Earth!
00:32Enders!
00:35His strength is a legend, his skills conquer all!
00:38Armed with his power, we never will fall!
00:42Defenders of the Earth!
00:44Enders!
00:46With our new young heroes proving their worth!
00:49Four become eight, defending the Earth!
00:52Defenders of the Earth!
00:54Enders!
00:55Defenders of the Earth!
01:06Approaching craft, please identify yourselves!
01:11We cannot enter the loading station space without clearance!
01:17Repeat, identify yourselves!
01:19Problem?
01:20Three small vehicles making an unauthorized approach!
01:23Those look awfully small to be ships!
01:25What else could they be?
01:27They're people!
01:29Without the aid of space suits or rocket packs!
01:33It's not possible!
01:36Destroy all machines!
01:41Destroy all machines!
01:57Out!
01:58You are destroying US Space Agency property!
02:01Seize at once!
02:02Mindless robot God!
02:03You machines are finished!
02:04Every last one of you will be wiped out!
02:06By the League of Flesh and Blood!
02:07Raids on robot mechanized installations have occurred all over the galaxy!
02:09This is the first time it's happened to me!
02:10The League of Flesh and Blood!
02:11This is the first time it's happened in our solar system!
02:12This League of Flesh and Blood!
02:13This is the first time it's happened in our solar system!
02:14This League of Flesh and Blood!
02:15This League of Flesh and Blood!
02:16The League of Flesh and Blood!
02:17They were able to rip the machines apart with their bare hands!
02:18I don't understand why this is the first time it's happened in our solar system!
02:19This League of Flesh and Blood!
02:20The League of Flesh and Blood!
02:21will be wiped out by the League of Flesh and Blood.
02:29Raids on robot mechanized installations have occurred all over the galaxy.
02:34This is the first time it's happened in our solar system.
02:37This League of Flesh and Blood, they were able to rip the machines apart with their bare hands.
02:43I don't understand it. A hate group against robots?
02:47People become dependent upon robots.
02:49When they find they cannot do without them, they begin to resent them.
02:53Human supremacy groups have been around for a long time.
02:56Come in! Flash Gordon! This is Paul Delaney!
03:00My new power station's under attack by Ming the Merciless!
03:04I need your help!
03:08Still, there are some kinds of robots I could do without.
03:12Come on!
03:19This plant is totally mechanized. I need a better design to improve my robotics.
03:38Phantom, you ready?
03:40Ready.
03:41And blast those robo-ships with everything the sword ship's got.
03:46Thanks for coming so quickly, Flash.
03:48Ming is after my plans for a self-contained robot-controlled power plant.
03:52Paul, evacuate all your personnel to a well-insulated room and lead me into the main generator.
03:58The defenders of the earth. How did they know I was here?
04:15Paul, we'll need rubber insulation suits if we don't want to get fried.
04:19I may short-circuit some of your robots, but it's the only way to stop Ming.
04:25Don't worry, Flash. My robots are all triple-insulated.
04:29But what are you going to do?
04:30Drop 200 ice robots with one blow.
04:34Hurry! Hurry! Find the plant!
04:37Capture as many robots as you can!
04:40These girders interconnect with the whole structure of the power plant.
04:44Hang on to your shots!
04:46Flash, I can't thank you enough.
05:00Ah, forget it. Any excuse to visit an old friend.
05:04Once Ming's ice robots were melted, he took off like a shot!
05:09Here's my crew, Flash.
05:16Not very many of you are there.
05:18With so much of the plant automated, it only takes a few of us to run things.
05:22Ming seemed more interested in stealing robots than in shutting down the power plant.
05:27Ahem. I repeat. Ming seemed more interested in...
05:31I heard you. I heard you.
05:33I also heard Ming say something about needing to improve his robotics.
05:37Why don't I stay here? You know, check out the robots.
05:40Have fun, Flash.
05:51Mindless robot, watch where you're going.
05:53You sure picked the wrong place to work if you don't like robots.
05:56Robots must be told what to do. They'll never take the place of humans.
05:59Flash, these are my friends, Dask and Teak. We work as a team.
06:05Hi, how are you guys?
06:07Come on, Dask. We must go now.
06:09You know, I never thought this could happen to me.
06:15What do you mean?
06:17Oh, I just meant...
06:19I didn't think anyone would ever be interested in me.
06:23Why not? You're very beautiful, Kayla.
06:27Oh...
06:31If I have to spend one more minute around those lousy robots, I'll explode.
06:37Then we'll make our move.
06:39Now, how can we?
06:41Flash Gordon won't let Kayla out of his sight.
06:43Gordon can't stop us. No one can.
06:45We know enough now to shut down every lousy machine in this place.
06:49I'll get Kayla. Let's do it.
06:51Destroy the machines. Long live the League of Flesh and Blood.
07:03Mindless robot!
07:05You're the League of Flesh and Blood? Kayla, you're with them?
07:09Yes, and so should you be if you care about your humanity.
07:17Humanity is my business. Hold it, Dask!
07:21You dare interfere with our sacred mission? You don't deserve to be called human!
07:31Man Drake!
07:47Phantom!
07:49The League of Flesh and Blood!
07:51They're here!
07:53Mindless robot! Die!
08:03All right, Kayla. This is it.
08:07Kayla! No!
08:11Stop it! This is crazy!
08:13No!
08:15Machines make us weak. They rob us of our humanity.
08:19They must be stopped. That's all that matters.
08:23Ow!
08:25Nothing is more important. Not even us.
08:38Why, you?
08:39Cool!
08:53Changed!
08:56Changed!
08:57Changed!
08:58No!
08:59Crap!
09:01Don't puyen!
09:03No!
09:04No!
09:06Why do these humans try to stop us?
09:16Humans?
09:17Our work here is finished.
09:18We must make sure we're not followed.
09:21By jungle law, the ghost who walks calls forth the power of ten tigers.
09:36There's something wrong about all this.
10:06There's never anything right about bigotry, even if it's only against machines.
10:11No, no, there's a missing piece to all this, and I haven't figured out what it is.
10:16Alert! An automated chemical manufacturing plant is under attack.
10:21You can't stay here. Let's move it.
10:29How to do what?
10:30I've got a plan.
10:32What is it?
10:32I'm going to talk to them.
10:34Talk?
10:36Authorities are helpless as the siege of the so-called League of Flesh and Blood continues.
10:48Hear me, true-blooded men and women of Earth!
10:52Destroy all machines!
10:53They weaken your bodies!
11:00They're killing your spirits!
11:05Do you want to surrender to the machines?
11:08Or will you stand and fight this metal onslaught as humans?
11:14Stop!
11:15Wait!
11:15Gordon, do you know what will happen if you try to stop us?
11:18But I'm not here to stop you.
11:20I want to know more about your organization.
11:23Ladies and gentlemen, could it be that Flash Gordon has joined these... these outlaws?
11:27Flash Gordon is no traitor.
11:29He's working on a plan.
11:30He knows exactly what he's doing.
11:33I hope.
11:34It could be a trick.
11:36Of course I want to stand up for all humans.
11:39But I wonder if we're all the same here, Dask.
11:42I've found that whatever a person hates most, whatever a person tries to suppress hardest,
11:48is usually what a person is under the surface.
11:51Now the whole world knows your secret, Dask.
12:04The League of Flesh and Blood is made up of robots!
12:08No!
12:08Make them go away!
12:10Make them go away!
12:11It's too late, Dask.
12:12We all know you're robots.
12:14You're finished.
12:15No!
12:16No!
12:17No!
12:17Well, well, well.
12:22I may have found a way to improve my robotics after all.
12:34Dad sure is upset over all this.
12:36Give him time, Rick.
12:38He'll get over it.
12:39Maybe we were all taken in by them.
12:41Boy, when I make a mistake, I do it in a big way.
12:45Don't be so hard on yourself, old man.
12:47There was no way you could have known.
12:49What if they attack again?
12:51They're so humiliated, they'd never dare show themselves on this planet again.
12:55I don't get it.
12:57Why were they trying to destroy all the robots if they were robots themselves?
13:01Dad said they were programmed to be as human as possible.
13:05They really did believe they were humans.
13:08They tried to convince themselves they were human by leading a crusade against robots.
13:12Kishin, do me a favor.
13:15Get me that new book on robotics from my room, please.
13:20To the League of Flesh and Blood, machines rob us of the very things that make us human.
13:25Who we are and what we're about.
13:31Infra alert.
13:32Infra alert.
13:33They've taken the kids.
13:46Who would have taken Rick, Jedha, and LJ?
13:48Attention.
13:50Incoming transmission.
13:54Defenders of the Earth.
13:55Mingle Ursulus has attacked Moon Base Delta.
13:58Moon Base Delta?
13:59But it's still under construction.
14:01It became fully operational today.
14:04The first crew was heading up there when Ming attacked their ship.
14:07If Ming takes over Moon Base Delta, he'll have the entire Earth at his mercy.
14:12This is beginning to make sense.
14:14It is?
14:15Moon Base Delta was to be Earth's first line of defense against alien attack, including robot attack.
14:21Excellent, excellent.
14:34The operation can begin at once.
14:37At last, at last, we will be truly human.
14:41Yes, and in return you will operate this battle station for me.
14:45And I will receive your robotic bodies.
14:48Not only will the Earth be mine, I will be able to redesign my ice robots to make them invincible.
14:58Now, expose your brain circuits so I can begin the neurotransference procedure.
15:05You will only be deactivated a few moments, my friends.
15:09Hmm.
15:10Farewell, Rick Gord.
15:14I hope your malpractice insurance has paid up, Ming.
15:17Stop them!
15:34Stop!
15:35What are you doing?
15:37You must destroy the defenders!
15:40Don't give me orders.
15:42We can do the operation ourselves!
15:44We don't need you, Ming!
15:46Ming is escaping!
15:52You guys, go after him.
15:54I'll try to get back inside.
15:57Find the defenders and destroy them.
15:59Kayla and I will begin the operation.
16:13Ming!
16:13There he goes!
16:15He's eluded us!
16:16But you can't elude me!
16:22So much for you, mighty defenders!
16:27What was that?
16:28I'd say it was the main generator overheating.
16:31And how do you know that?
16:33Because these used to be the controls for the main generator.
16:42Look at it, Kayla.
16:44In a few moments, that will be your body.
16:48You will be human.
16:50Flash, don't fight us.
16:57Be one of us.
16:58Join with us.
16:59Please!
17:00Never!
17:01Never!
17:02Don't make me do this to you!
17:04No!
17:04No!
17:04No!
17:04No!
17:04No!
17:05No!
17:05No!
17:06No!
17:06No!
17:07No!
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17:08No!
17:08No!
17:09No!
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17:10No!
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17:11No!
17:11No!
17:12No!
17:12No!
17:13No!
17:13No!
17:14No!
17:14No!
17:15No!
17:15No!
17:16No!
17:16No!
17:17No!
17:17I can only hold it for a few minutes!
17:25And I don't think I can fix it!
17:29Kayla, listen to me!
17:32This won't make you human!
17:34You lie!
17:35I will be flesh and blood at last!
17:39No, Kayla!
17:40You can't be human that way!
17:43If you don't feel caring and understanding,
17:46You'll just be a machine in a body of flesh and blood!
17:51Ugh!
17:52Ugh!
17:53The heart, Kayla, not the flesh!
17:56That's what makes you a human being!
17:59And not a machine!
18:00No!
18:01No!
18:01No!
18:09You traitor!
18:10Flash, we've less than two minutes to get out of here before this old base explodes!
18:23Help me with the kids!
18:24I don't think we'll make it to the ship before that thing blows!
18:36Then you all go!
18:39I can hold it together long enough for you to get out!
18:42But what about you?
18:44Don't worry about me!
18:46You must go!
18:47But!
18:49Go!
18:50Go!
18:50Go!
18:50Go!
18:54Go!
18:54Go!
18:55Go!
18:55Go!
18:56Go!
18:57Go!
18:57Goodbye!
18:58Blanche!
18:58Gordon!
18:59Go!
19:16Goodbye!
19:19Blanche!
19:20Gordon!
19:22I love you!
19:29The kill is gone.
19:38But we got away safely.
19:40That's what she wanted, Flash.
19:42I'm not sad for her.
19:43Really, I'm happy.
19:45In the end, she did get what she really wanted.
19:48She got to be human.
19:52Father.
19:53Jedha, you're all right.
19:57Dad.
19:59LJ, my son.
20:00Dad, you okay?
20:03I'm fine, son.
20:05Everything's fine.
20:06We're heading home.
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