I mean, it's only a bloodthirsty eight-hundred-pound gorilla wanting to tear him limb from limb. Do you think Max is okay? Virgil: Oh, don't worry. Slow and stupid! Rumble in the Jungle Virgil: What on earth are gorillas doing, driving chariots? Max: Trying to kill us, Virg! Max: Oh, yeah? Do you mind being locked up in a Turkish prison for the rest of your life?! Let Sleeping Dragons Lie! Max: Virg, why do I get the feeling that waking the Doom Dragon is a bad thing? Virgil: When the Doom Dragon arises, he will rupture Odin's rift, cracking the world asunder! Max: Uh-huh.sort of, "have you riven a fjord lately?" Huh, "Turkish furniture polish." Nice going, Mom. Max: Hey, cool special effects! Yo, Ven.what's the gimmick? Venom: No! You've disrupted the celestial timing! Do you realize what you've done?! Max: Spoiled your moontan? Day of the Cyclops Max: Whoo! That'll keep the bugs away. Bea: Three hideous looking things in black robes behind me? Max: Yeah. Snakes & Laddies Max: Watch out, Bea! There are. Max: Hey Virg, how come you can't fly? Virgil: I learned to read instead.
Norman: I eat aliens for breakfast! Max: Ha, you see? They're even on his diet. Max: Oh, and I am? How about Norman? I really have a good feeling about him. Virgil: I'm afraid the aliens' ships are invisible to radar and your military is no match for their superior firepower. What about the air force, or the U.N.? Arnold Schwarzenegger? I mean we don't want to hog all the glory for ourselves. Skullmaster, I presume? The Brain Suckers Cometh! Virgil: Max, my boy.you are earth's only hope! Max: You know, I knew you were going to say that. Max: Chosen One? What did I win? Cash? Prizes? Video games? Where's Ed McMahon? Skullmaster: At last. Season 1 A Bellwether in One's Cap Virgil: Every person has a gift, and in that gift lies their destiny. 1.9 Less Than 20,000 Squid Heads Under the Sea.Status Quo Is God: Norman throws Mjolnir into the ocean at the end of the episode for no clear reason.Plus, the thing about Skullmaster being able to impersonate a Loki who was imprisoned underground is mythologically accurate. Like Thor wasn't a god, he was an immortal human warrior who went on to inspire a bunch of other legends. Then again, this episode makes a point of establishing that some legends are embellished from the real thing.So it could be thought of as a counterpart to either the Midgard Serpent, a snake so big it circled the entire world and had an enmity with Thor because they were fated to die fighting each other in Ragnarok, or Nithogg, a vaguely-described dragon-like creature that tried to chew through the trunk of the world tree and destroy everything, but is not mentioned having ever encountered Thor. There was no direct counterpart in Norse legend to a dragon that could push the world apart like the episode has going for it. In "Mighty Max Slays the Doom Dragon", Ravendark was a generic hooded sorcerer and the Doom Dragon a fairly generic car-sized scaly beast. Sadly Mythtaken: The episode has to twist itself in some knots to get the playset this was based on to fit with the Norse mythology it tries to adapt.Runic Magic: Ravendark inscribes runes to wake up the Doom Dragon.Gory Discretion Shot: The camera cuts away as Ravendark draws a knife to kill himself to put the Doom Dragon back to sleep.He's cooperating with Loki/Skullmaster in exchange for the "god's" promise the spell will be broken for waking the dragon. Forced Transformation: Ravendark's under a curse to turn into a raven outside the cave/throat of the Doom Dragon.Drop the Hammer: Norman wields Mjolnir for the episode.The dragon also somehow knows he was Sir Lancelot and Little John. Been There, Shaped History: Norman's exploits were what inspired legends about the Viking god Thor.
Big "NO!": Skullmaster makes one as Ravendark sacrifices himself to break the spell that woke up the Doom Dragon.A viking wizard's been tricked into thinking Skullmaster is the ancient god Loki, so that he'll wake up an ancient dragon who can split the world apart.
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