The WORST episodes of Exosquad
Every episode of Exosquad ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Exosquad!
A future without hunger or need is torn to pieces when the genetically engineered servant race known as the Neo-Sapiens restarts a 50-year-old war of independence as a war of conquest, seizing control of the Earth and the Venus colony. Now the humans' only hope of freedom lies with the remains of the Exofleet, and their top unit: Able Squad.
#1 - Winged Fury
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/18/1994
Marsh and Marsala are shot down above New York and Marsala is captured by Neo Megas. Marsh is chased by Neo Warriors but receives help from local taxi driver Sidney. After a third-generation winged Neo Warrior kidnaps Sidney, Marsh has to outfly him in his damaged E-frame to save his benefactor.
#2 - Venus Rising
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/30/1994
Terrans gradually retake Venus. James Burns leads Resistance's assault on the capital city Vesta but is incapacitated by General Draconis. Before escaping, Draconis orders Thrax to detonate a hydrogen bomb beneath the city which Thrax disobeys, saving thousands of lives. Phaeton arrives to Venusian orbit with the gigantic battleship Olympus Mons II.
#3 - Miracle
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/3/1994
When Neosapiens launch a counter-offensive, Barca sabotages Resolute II, so the Able Squad has to board Olympus Mons II and cripple her, too, leaving her open for Resolute's main cannons. As Phaeton seemingly goes down with his ship, Draconis abandons him only to soon discover that he betrayed Phaeton's clone and the real one orders him executed.
#4 - Under the Skin
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/4/1994
A Neosapien with Alice Noretti's (who was killed in episode 6) appearance and memories is sent to Venus, programmed to reunite with her squad and get close enough to Marsh and Winfield to assassinate the latter. However, the conflict between Neosapien programming and Terran personality eventually results in her death.
#5 - Ultimatum
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/5/1994
Terran extremists on Venus kidnap Marsala, demanding that all Neosapiens, regardless of their loyalties, be deported from the planet. Knowing his sister's affection to Marsala, James Burns sneaks him out but they are ambushed by Neosapien guerrillas and James is killed while delivering Marsala to safety.
#6 - Warrior Brood
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/6/1994
Australian Resistance leader Nick Tyree launches liberation of Australia without permission from Napier, who travels there with the Able Squad. Before long, however, Phaeton dispatches the first generation of Neo Warriors to crush them and the survivors withdraw to Canberra.
#7 - The Dream War
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/7/1994
Extraction of survivors from Canberra fails and DeLeon and Weston are stranded in the desert, chased by Neo Warriors. Fortunately, they receive help in an aborigine camp and spend a night there. Napier escapes Australia.
#8 - No Surrender
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/10/1994
On Phaeton's orders, General Shiva offers to spare the lives of Terrans in Canberra if they surrender and hand over Marsh, which Tyree refuses. Shiva attacks but a jumptroop regiment arrives and takes him prisoner. In exchange for his life, the General lets the Resistance go.
#9 - Fire Ship
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/11/1994
Exofleet discovers a gigantic underground complex on Mars and sends E-frames to investigate it. They are ambushed by Neosapiens and the only survivors, Able Squad, are captured by Barca, who locks them in a fire ship provided by General Typhonus and sends her to Resolute II. With Hallas' help, the Squad manages to turn the vessel around and ram it into Barca's own ship. Hallas is severely injured.
#10 - Martian Luck
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/12/1994
Typhonus uses a captured spy to lure Able Squad into a trap, as they descend to Mars again. Torres is shot down and believed dead by her team but is, in fact, rescued by a group of ExoScouts (E-frame pilot cadets) stranded on Mars since their Scout Leader was killed.
#11 - The Lost Patrol
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/13/1994
Torres attempts to take charge of the ExoScouts but they resent her and are eventually captured by Neo Warrior search party and Torres has to free them. Meanwhile, the Able Squad proceeds to their original destination from episode 2.22 and discovers that it is, in fact, an alien installation.
#12 - Call of the Unknown
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/14/1994
The Able Squad enters the alien complex and has to fight off its security systems, as well as newly arrived Typhonus' troops. As soon as they finally manage to find their way out, the facility starts emitting undecipherable radio signals.
#13 - Heart of Mars
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/17/1994
Both Terrans and Neosapiens decide to seize the alien technology for themselves and enter the complex again. When a battle breaks out inside, the installation takes critical damage and self-destructs, destabilizing the Martian lithosphere. Able Squad (including Torres and her scouts) barely escapes the planet as it is literally blown to pieces.
#14 - Behind the Shield
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/29/1994
The liberation of Venus begins with Able Squad destroying the GRAF Shield generator first seen in episode 9. However, the Neo Megas have covertly constructed another one and activate it as Exofleet approaches the planet. Fortunately, GRAF is useless against cloaked Pirate ships and jumptroops land safely on the surface.
#15 - Night of the Traitor
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/19/1994
Neo Megas team up with Marsala to kidnap Phaeton and, thus, stop the war. As the Resistance discovers and storms Phaeton's recently built bunker in Phaeton City, Marsala confronts him in person but Phaeton is able to escape using abilities he acquired due to Automutation Syndrome. Discovering their treachery, Phaeton orders all Neo Megas in existence (save Galba) wiped out.
#16 - Trial by Combat
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/20/1994
Exofleet's attack on a Neo breeding facility in Antarctica ends in a slaughter which only Yuri Stavrogan survives. Able Squad moves in but J.T. Marsh is soon captured by Neo Warriors and pretends to be Kaz Takagi to avoid unnecessary attention. Neosapiens return him his E-frame and pit against a newly created Neo Lord to test the latter's abilities.
#17 - The Perfect Warrior
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/21/1994
With Galba's help, Marsh reunites with his squad and leads them and the jumptroops to attack the breeding complex. Chased by Neo Lords, he manages to enter the geothermal processing plant and destroys it along with the rest of the facility and all Neo Lords bred up to date.
#18 - The Price of Courage
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/24/1994
Phaeton orders his best General Shiva to gather the remnants of the Neosapien fleet and retake Venus from the Terrans. Seeing through Winfield's tactics, Shiva attacks Venus but takes heavy losses and is eventually shot down himself. He is then captured by the group of ExoScouts first seen in episode 2.23 but dies of his wounds before they get him to a medic.
#19 - Dark River
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 10/25/1994
Able Squad lands in the vicinity of Manaus in Amazon Basin to extract Dr. Albrecht Ketzer, a genius geneticist who, they hope, can discover weaknesses in Neo Lords' genetic structure. However, Ketzer is unwilling to cooperate, more interested in his eugenical experiments, and even infuses Nara Burns with an unknown mutating agent before disappearing.
#20 - The Art of War
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/26/1994
Bronski and Takagi deliver explosives to Alaska and cooperate with local Resistance under Eve Hanley's command to plant them on a Neosapien transport train to Great Slave Lake. However, they soon discover that the train carries countless works of Terran art, which they manage to save before Neosapiens notice them. The Great Slave Lake facility is seemingly destroyed.
#21 - One Small Step (The Fall of the Neosapien Empire 1)
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/27/1994
Exofleet attacks the Moon and Phaeton throws all forces available on Earth to defend it. The battle slowly turns in Neosapiens' favor until Alec DeLeon kills Typhonus, himself mortally wounded, and uses the General's E-frame to announce that the Moon is lost. Most of the Neosapien E-frames self-destruct and DeLeon dies soon thereafter.
#22 - Fifth Column (The Fall of the Neosapien Empire 2)
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/28/1994
Winfield orders all Resistance cells on Earth to attack Neosapiens at once and Napier's group manages to seize a factory worth of Neosapien heavy tanks. They proceed to Phaeton City but are pinned down at the Battle Creek. Meanwhile, Galba learns about Phaeton's doomsday device and attempts to warn Exofleet but is captured. The liberation of Earth begins.
#23 - The Last Jump (The Fall of the Neosapien Empire 3)
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/31/1994
Able Squad and C5 Jumptroop Squadron land in Washington, D.C. but Marsh's team is soon recalled to go after Phaeton's doomsday device at the Great Slave Lake. Meanwhile, the jumptroops are overwhelmed without proper E-frame support and have to be rescued by Bronsky in Winfield's personal shuttle. Capt. Avery Butler is severely wounded and passes command to Colleen O'Reilly.
#24 - The Night Before Doomsday (The Fall of the Neosapien Empire 4)
Season 2 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/1/1994
Able Squad locates the facility where the doomsday device was built but it has been already transported to Phaeton City. They are ambushed by Neosapiens, resulting in Stavrogan's death and Marsh's captivity, and the latter is taken directly to Phaeton. Thrax disbands his Manausian garrison and is detained for execution by Neo Lords.
#25 - Abandon Hope (The Fall of the Neosapien Empire 5)
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/2/1994
Phaeton informs Marsh of his plans to destroy the Earth but discovers that his most trusted General Livia sabotaged the doomsday device. This delay is just enough for E-frames and jumptroops to enter his bunker, where Nara Burns uses her mutated body's abilities to first paralyze and then kill Phaeton.