| 041 | Japan | 12/03/1986 | マッスルタワーの最期
Massuru Tawaa no Saigo
Muscle Tower's End |
| USA | 02/27/2002 | The Fall of Muscle Tower |
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With Buyon defeated, Gokuu and Hatchan confront General White in an attempt to get the village elder back. But White uses dirty tactics, such as holding the elder at gunpoint. Eventually, though, White is defeated, and Muscle Tower is destroyed.
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Now this episode has one of the longest cuts in all the TV edits. It was a pretty cute scene, too, mocking the whole "Forget about me and save yourselves!" cliche. But I guess they REALLY didn't want gun+head on TV.
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(9 seconds) Between White laughing and the commercial break, a clip of Gokuu getting angry, then the camera slowly panning out from a shot of White pointing his gun at the elder's head, is cut.
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(4 seconds) A close-up shot of the gun to the elder's head scrolling to White's face is cut, just after the shot of Hatchan with the frightened look on his face.
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(83 seconds) Just after the last cut, once White finishes talking, a long scene is cut. First there's more dramatic silence, then the elder yells for Gokuu to forget him and just defeat White, so Gokuu prepares to do just that, and White prepares to kill him. But then the elder says it would be nice if Gokuu could save him too.
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(2 seconds) Just after White tells Gokuu "Do it!" in the dub ("Sou da na" in the original), a shot of White putting his gun closer to the elder's head is cut.
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(9 seconds) Just after Gokuu hits the ground, a clip of Hatchan screaming "Songokuu!" in that same shot, followed by a shot of White holding the smoking gun and laughing, is cut.
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