The WORST episodes of VR Troopers
Every episode of VR Troopers ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of VR Troopers!
Three friends who study martial arts find themselves defending humanity from a criminal mastermind and his invading army from another dimension. An American kids show by Saban Entertainment adapting footage from Toei's Metal Hero franchise (specifically Chojinki Metalder, Jikuu Senshi Spielban, Uchuu Keiji Shaider and Uchuu Keiji Gavan) similar to how Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers adapted Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger footage..
#1 - Grimlord's Dummy
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 2/13/1996
Woody asks Kaitlin, Ryan, and JB to find entertainment for the annual Underground Kid's Extravaganza. They go to the park, where they track down WENDLE, a young ventriloquist and his dummy, WOODMAN. They hire him on the spot. When Ziktor gets word of the Trooper's mission, he transforms and orders Despera to place a spell on Woodman--bringing the puppet to life. Wendle is first amused at Woodman's unexpected outbursts, but then realizes he has no control over the dummy. When the dummy begins to grow to human proportions, he announces his true objective: to destroy the VR Troopers. Woodman steals JB and Kaitlin's Virtualizers, then runs off. To distract the Troopers, Grimlord sends PUPPETOID into Cross World city. Ryan must fight Puppetoid while JB and Kaitlin find Woodman and restore him to his earlier condition. They recover their Virtualizers, Wendle and Woodman are reunited, and the Underground Kid's Extravaganza is a smashing success!
#2 - Grimlord's Children
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/18/1995
Tao Dojo becomes a temporary kiddie play center when the neighborhood center has water damage. Ryan, J.B., and Kaitlin must learn quickly how to deal with out-of-control kids, especially young Chad, who doesn't tell the truth. Ziktor/Grimlord, realizing that ""kids are the future"", sends OBOTATRON to turn the children into his slaves. Obotatron releases balloons which hypnotize kids who touch them. Adults who touch the balloons become imprisoned inside. Chad meets Obotatron in the park and is chased by balloons. He tells J.B., but J.B. does not believe him. Meanwhile, balloons in the dojo turn the kids into walking zombies and Ryan and Kaitlin become entrapped in the balloons, which float down the street. Tao takes care of Chad and the zombie kids, while J.B. transforms and fights off Obotatron to rescue Ryan and Kaitlin from the balloons. The Troopers defeat Obotatron, returning the children to normal. Chad, having learned to tell the truth, is accepted as Tao's newest karate student.
#3 - Kaitlin Goes Hollywood
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/9/1995
When the models don't show up for Kaitlin's fashion layout photo session, she becomes the model---until a famous movie director drops by to place an ad for a casting call for his new movie. Kaitlin is ""discovered"" and wins, not only the role but also the heart of the director. Meanwhile, all this movie business gives Grimlord an idea---he will create PHOTOBOT, half bot, half movie camera. Photobot will not only destroy the V.R. Troopers, he will photograph the battle for everyone to see. But General Ivar decides he wants to be a movie star and secretly uses Photobot to make a movie starring, who else, but General Ivar! Grimlord learns of the ruse and orders Photobot to destroy Ivar's movie set and attack Cross World City. Grimlord's armies march through the reality barrier as Ryan and J.B. transform. But they need Kaitlin and she is about to begin her new movie. Kaitlin must choose between movie stardom and her secret promise to defend all that is good. Kaitlin follows her heart, trans
#4 - The Old Switcharoo
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 2/10/1995
GRIMLORD steals DR. UNGER's transforming device, hoping to take the powers of the V.R. TROOPERS for his army. RYAN interrupts the theft and the device's beam is turned on him. JEB jumps into the beam and the two of them switch bodies. Later, J.B. and Kaitlin transform to get the device while Ryan, in Jeb's body, tries to control Jeb. J.B. and Kaitlin fight a fierce battle and when they need help, Ryan tries to transform while still in Jeb's body. Jeb winds up in Ryan's robot body and is forced to fight a MUTANT. When J.B. and Kaitlin destroy the device, Ryan and Jeb are switched back to their own bodies and Ryan defeats his foe. Back at the Dojo, the kids are surprised by one the antics Jeb pulled while a human. He bought out every fast food place in Cross World City.
#5 - The Couch Potato Kid
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 2/9/1995
RICKY, TAO'S visiting nephew, is a couch potato who spends most of his time watching TV and playing video games. The kids are planning an obstacle course for Cross World City and they get Ricky involved. GRIMLORD, reeling from recent defeats at the hands of the V.R. TROOPERS, plans an obstacle course competition for his warriors. The prize: another bout with Ryan. Grimlord's newest robot, COMBAX, kidnaps Ricky and brings him to the games. Ryan finds Ricky and Combax at the robot games. Ryan defeats Combax and rescues Ricky, who no longer wants to be a couch potato. He wants to participate in life. To Tao's delight, Ricky not only runs the obstacle course, he soundly trounces PERCY, despite his opponent's head start.
#6 - The Disappearance
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/25/1994
GRIMLORD plots to overtake reality by making his mutants invisible. At the same time, TAO tries to teach the TROOPERS the importance of stealth in combat. In a comic sequence, they try to attack Tao, but are unsuccessful. They step outside to cool off. While alone in the dojo, JEB is used as a guinea pig by SKUGS and made invisible. He attacks them. RYAN discovers the skug fight and helps the invisible Jeb defeat them. They take Jeb to the lab for treatment, where they learn that Grimlord is invading, using the power of invisibility. The Troopers transform. Ryan meets SPITBOT and TOXOID in a battle where they can disappear. KAITLIN and J.B. take on the skugs. They are ultimately victorious. Back at the lab, PROFESSOR HART is successful at making Jeb only half visible (his front half). Ryan learns to appreciate things in life before they disappear.
#7 - Grimlord's Greatest Hits
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/19/1994
The teens are going to put on a dance-a-thon so that a student of theirs, BRANDON, can afford to go to a special music academy. GRIMLORD decides to hypnotize everyone so that he can defeat the TROOPERS and play his evil music for everyone, causing them to become ZOMBIES. Grimlord's plan goes awry as J.B. and Brandon are not hypnotized. Grimlord then kidnaps Brandon. The Troopers must infiltrate Grimlord's disk plant, rescue Brandon, and fight the evil DISKBOT.
#8 - My Dog's Girlfriend
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/10/1994
JEB the dog is depressed because he's fallen for PRINCESS THE DOG and her puppies, but Princess's owner, MRS. BURNS, calls Jeb a pound mutt and blocks their romance -- even though Mrs. Bums' little boy, TIMMY, is all for it. When Kaitlin does a dog show photo session, Jeb and Princess sneak into the darkroom. Mrs. Bums is furious and the puppies run wild. Kaitlin takes Jeb to see Princess at Mrs. Burns' house and a SKUG appears. During the fight, the puppies are stolen. Jeb promises Princess that RYAN will get the pups back. However, GRIMLORD wants the puppies in virtual reality to lure the TROOPERS into the firing range of his ultimate robot - THE TROOPER TERMINATOR. Jeb asks Ryan to help, so the V.R. Troopers battle Grimlord's best robots to rescue the puppies. WOODY'S newspaper throws a ""Puppy Homecoming"" party attended by MAYOR ROONEY and his wife. Jeb gets even with Mrs. Burns by pulling a thread on her dress, which unravels, as she runs screaming from the party in her white slip.
#9 - Secret Admirer
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/3/1994
KAITLIN receives flowers from a secret admirer -- GRIMLORD! COLONEL ICE-BOT is developing evil flowers to capture and destroy the TROOPERS. The flowers keep coming and PERCY tries to claim they're from him, but his sneezing demonstrates he's too allergic to have anything to do with flowers. RYAN and J.B. stake out the U.V.D. Office and trail the delivery person who turns into a SKUG and a fight ensues. They hurry back to warm Kaitlin, but she has just sniffed the toxic flower Colonel IceBot sent. She feels very weak, so the guys take her to the lab, where she disintegrates. She has been pulled into an inter-reality prison. J.B. makes an antidote and crosses the barrier to Kaitlin. He tricks GENERAL IVAR and frees Kaitlin, but General Ivar releases the POLLEN-BOT. General Ivar, and his forces, follow right behind J.B., but he defeats them and returns to reality. The Troopers are reunited.
#10 - A Dirty Trick
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/4/1994
A celebration is held on the tenth Anniversary of Tao Dojo and GRIMLORD sends his EVIL MAGICIAN to abduct the real magician and catch the TROOPERS with their guard down. Using KAITLIN and JB to assist him in a trick, he steals their virtualizers. In the pursuit that follows, JB and Kaitlin battle SKUGS while Ryan transforms and fights the Magician, now in his robot form. Tricked into a fall from a high rooftop, Ryan is damaged and taken to the lab for repair. A plan is set: Kaitlin and JB will use the flying car to locate the Magician and Ryan will transform and fight the Magician for the virtualizers. The Magician is located and a battle ensues between him and Ryan. Kaitlin and JB are caught in a dogfight in the air above. Our heroes are ultimately victorious and the virtualizers- are returned.
#11 - The Great Brain Robbery
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/12/1994
The military has been robbed of the preserved brain of the greatest military mind in history. GRIMLORD will try to use the brain in his scheme to take over the planet. However, GENERAL IVAR decides that he has had enough of Grimlord's orders, and, using a plan the brain has come up with, plots to freeze all of the power lines in the city. If successful, the military will be helpless when the virtual army attacks. The TROOPERS must recover the brain and stop General Ivar in order to preserve peace in Cross World City.
#12 - Secret Power
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/1995
A neighborhood talent show is planned at the dojo. Amidst the festivities is little Timmy who is sad because he feels that he has no talent. Our teen heroes are determined to help him see differently. Meanwhile, Icebot has created a new invention, the Power Pulse -- two electro magnets, one at the Magnetic North Pole, the other near the Cross World City power plant. When full current is exchanged between these magnets, the reality barrier will warp and Ivar's robot armies will march through to destroy the real world. Fearing that the Troopers will discover the plot, Grimlord sends the MAGICIAN and several warrior bots to destroy the Troopers. The V.R. Troupers fight off the Magician and his warriors, and destroy the electromagnets just in time to save our reality. Back to the talent show, little Timmy says he has no talents, but Ryan, J.B. and Kaitlin show him that every kid has secret powers inside and lots of hidden talents.
#13 - Watered Down
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/27/1995
Grimlord is developing a substance in his underwater lab that will make it impossible for the Troopers to use their V.R. powers anywhere the substance is applied. When the Troopers spot the substance off shore near the beach, Ryan dives down to check it out. He meets OCTOBOT who has spread the substance into the surrounding water. With Ryan unable to use his V.R.Power and transform, he is trapped underwater with his air running out. J.B. and Kaitlin must find a way to reach Ryan and destroy the underwater lab that is manufacturing the substance before it's too late. With time running out, J.B. drills through the bedrock to enter the lab without passing through the water, and then he and Kaitlin destroy Octobot to neutralize the substance to enable Ryan to transform out at the last moment.
#14 - New Kids on the Planet
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 2/20/1995
While camping out the gang gets their visit of a life time. Two alien kids asks them for help. They bring them to Professor Hart, where he fixs their piece they needed. While waiting, they decides to show the aliens, Nicoli, and Elajh around. They then get kidnapped from Grimlord's hencemen, and the troopers get them back. The two aliens then return home.
#15 - Fiddler on the Loose
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 2/14/1995
KAITLIN'S cousin from Ireland, KEITH, and his band are in town to perform a benefit concert to help raise awareness concerning the environment. KARL ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD, not wanting the city to realize his company is responsible for harmful toxic waste dumping, needs to prevent the concert at any cost. Therefore, he kidnaps Keith and brings him into his world of Virtual Reality. For good measure, Grimlord decides to imprison Keith in a music synthesizer that will harness the musician's fiddling talent and enable the mutant FIDDLEBOT to play a series of songs that will finally destroy the TROOPERS. RYAN rescues Keith from Grimlord's clutches and returns him to human form so the concert can go on. PROFESSOR HART and the Troopers erase all of Keith's memories of Virtual Reality and he and his band entertain and enlighten the citizens of Cross World City as planned.
#16 - Who's King of the Mountain?
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 2/8/1995
J.B. agrees to help his South American ""E-Mail"" pal, JOSE, with some research on volcano data. Mount Kronos, an extinct volcano near-by, has been vibrating strangely and J.B. is convinced that his computer will give him the answer to why this is happening. Meanwhile, GRIMLORD is building an attack base to breach the reality barrier through the volcano. By eavesdropping on J.B., Grimlord learns that the TROOPERS may uncover his plan. JEB smells a rat and Ryan realizes ""Jose"" is an impostor. ""Jose"" turns into a Skug, multiplies himself and a Skug fight ensues. J.B. transforms, goes onto the mountain and is nearly trapped by GENERAL IVAR and ROLL-BOT. Ryan pulls J.B. back to reality just in time. The Troopers defeat their enemies and destroy Grimlord's attack base. Back at the Dojo, ""Jose,"" short for the beautiful Josephina, arrives. She wonders if J.B. would show her around Cross World City? J.B. is convinced this experience is better in reality than via computer ""E-Mail.""
#17 - The Transmutant
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 2/7/1995
J.B. spars with RYAN in an effort to relax before taking a test to qualify for a scholarship. When sparring fails to work, J.B. tries to relax in the park. SKUGS attack him and draw him into the BattleGrid where they administer the Metamorphosis Pulse -- a weapon designed to gradually change humans into virtual mutants. PROFESSOR HART informs Kaitlin and Ryan that J.B. is under GRIMLORD'S influence. As one of Grimlord's mutants, J.B. forgets who he really is and fights other mutants for position. Grimlord sends the mutant J.B. to fight Ryan, as Kaitlin works with the Professor to recover their fallen Trooper. Ryan manages to save J.B.'s life and, as the Transmutant, J.B. fights by Ryan's side and defeats the other mutants. At the lab, J.B. regains his human form just in time to take the test -- an exam about which he's no longer worried. His experience in the Virtual World has allowed him to put the scholarship in proper perspective.
#18 - The Reality Virus
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/29/1994
GENERAL IVAR and COLONEL ICEBOT stage a battle with the V.R. TROOPERS in virtual reality in order to infect them with a Reality Virus. The Troopers cross back to reality, unwittingly carrying a virtual sludge designed to eat away the reality barrier. By the time RYAN, KAITLIN and J.B. discover the virus, it's already infected much of Cross World City and GRIMLORD is preparing a massive attack. The kids discover one of TAO'S plants will destroy the virus, but SKUGS take the plant. As reality crumbles and Kaitlin and J.B. fight the QUANTUM CRUISERS, Ryan must fight RENEGADE and CRABOR in order to retrieve the rare plant that will allow PROFESSOR HART to prepare specialized virtual bombs that will heal the reality barrier.
#19 - The Littlest Trooper
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/23/1994
SKUGS kidnap BABY BOO from his parents in the park and leave the baby on the dojo doorstep. JEB alerts the kids, who alert the authorities and care for the baby. At the lab, the V.R. Scanner shows the bomb factory and Baby Boo's MOM and DAD being held prisoner by Skugs. Then Percy show up at the cave, gets pounced on by Skugs and is held hostage with baby's parents. Ryan stays in the lab with Jeb and Baby Boo. J.B. and Kaitlin fight Icebot until GENERAL IVAR'S Quantum Cruisers begin to release bombs. Ryan leaves Baby Boo with PROFESSOR HART and Jeb and transforms. Ryan fights the air battle in the V.R. Skybase. After J.B. and Kaitlin rescue the hostages, Ryan targets the bomb factory and destroys it. All's well that ends well, and Ryan hopes that he and his father will soon be reunited.
#20 - The Dojo Plot
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/14/1994
When TAO is informed that the Dojo is on the verge of shutting down due to financial problems, RYAN, KAITLIN and J.B. organize a fund-raiser to bail it out of jeopardy. Meanwhile, ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD plans to buy the building, demolish it and erect a power plant in its place. Further, he intends to install his new Weather Control Device, a system capable of controlling the world's weather and thereby giving him complete global power, within the plant. When Ryan, J.B. and Kaitlin learn of the device and attempt to destroy it, they must face the awesome power of CANNONBOT. Ultimately, they succeed and obliterate the weapon. The fund-raiser is a success, and the Dojo is saved.
#21 - Digging for Fire
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/11/1994
Crossworld is baffled by a number of Unexplained earthquakes the troopers are suspious because their have never been any earthquakes in the town before they soon discover that Grimlord is responsible for the earthquakes.
#22 - The Dognapping
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/7/1994
SKUGS dognap JEB when he steps outside for a nature call. They take him to GRIMLORD, who is angered by the dog's wise-cracking mouth. Although some robots want to terminate Jeb, Grimlord has a plan: he will set a trap. When the TROOPERS come to rescue Jeb, the warriors will be waiting. CRABOR promises to do the job. TORPEDO BOT will provide back up. GENERAL IVAR will send the FROGBOT to ensure success. Led by a phone call to the harbor, our V.R. Troopers battle Grimlord's forces as Jeb gives a play-by-play from his vantage point. The Troopers win and are reunited with their mascot. Jeb decides it's a lot safer inside the lab.
#23 - Save the Trees
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/2/1994
GRIMLORD (a.k.a. Ziktor) needs an old growth forest clear for a massive break-through from Virtual Reality. The Troopers confront Ziktor, who lies and says he'll stop. Discovering that the logging is to continue, they try to get MAYOR ROONEY to stop it, but the Mayor's wife thinks the forest is full of savage animals (Ziktor sneakily convinced her of this) and she supports clearing the forest of these beasts. Luckily, PROFESSOR HART recognizes that the forest bugs JEB has picked up are endangered insects, and they can get a Federal injunction to stop the logging. They stop Ziktor's chain saws, but Grimlord sends CHAIN-BOT and GENERAL IVAR to destroy the forest. The Troopers return to the forest, when the earth shakes from Grimlord's attack. They split up, Ryan tackling ChainBot and J.B. and Kaitlin facing General Ivar's tanks. The Troopers are victorious and the forest is saved. Back at the U.V.D., Ziktor is tricked into building a park, the Mayor congratulates the Troopers, and Jeb gi
#24 - The Virtual V-6
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/26/1994
KAITLIN is paid a visit by an eccentric young inventor who has plans for a pollution-free motorcycle engine. After showing the guys the plans, they decided to build a motorcycle version in V.R. and put it in J.B.'s Skycycle. Meanwhile, GRIMLORD, concerned that the engine will destroy his (ZIKTOR'S) oil business, sends SKUGS to the Dojo to look for the disk with the engine's design on it. They trash the place after a fight with TAO and take all the disks they can find. The kids come back to find the place a mess. They then hear that a busload of kids has been hijacked. The teens contact the PROFESSOR, who alerts J.B. Ryan and Kaitlin transform. Kaitlin fights Skugs as Ryan battles Grimlord's LEVIATRONS which have broken through the reality barrier. They all win their fights, including J.B. against DRILLBOT. In the end, the invention is turned over to WOODY'S friend who owns a motorcycle company. Everyone is happy.
#25 - Fashion Victims
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/25/1995
When Kaitlin and the Troopers offer to help a young fashion designer, they end up lending a hand, V.R. style. Grimlord brainwashes Andrea and uses her to lure the Troopers to her studio. Luckily, Ryan has to stay behind to help Tao, because while J.B. and Kaitlin are modeling Andrea's designs, they are trapped in cocoons by SILKOID. When Ryan shows up, he wonders where Kaitlin and J.B. are. He decides to look for them, but is intercepted by Doom Master and Vixens. Ryan transforms and drives them off. Returning to the studio, he discovers some silk residue which he uses to create a V.R. sensor in the Blue Hawk to track Silkoid. Ryan returns to save Andrea and defeat Silkoid which broke the spell that he had over J.B. and Kaitlin and freed them from their cocoons. Back at the office, Andrea has decided to scrap her previous line and look for more appropriate models to sport her new designs which are based on the ""V.R. Trooper look"".