Death and Destruction

Roger has defeated many foes with the help of Big O! Here's a few tidbits on who they've fought, where, and whatever else. (Beware of spoilers here!)

DOROTHY-1

When: Ep. 1 "Roger the Negotiator", Ep. 2 "Dorothy, Dorothy"
Where: somewhere in the middle of Paradigm City
Details: In "Roger the Negotiator," we see Roger call on Big O for the first time, in order to prevent R. Dorothy Wayneright's "sister", Dorothy-1, from reducing the city to rubble. Big O defeated Dorothy-1, leaving her with a massive chest wound.

In "Dorothy, Dorothy", we see Dorothy-1 attacking the city again, despite the giant hole in the unit's torso. This time, Dorothy-1 is being used to rob the city mint. The catch? R. Dorothy Wayneright is being used as a power regulator for Dorothy-1! So instead of fighting Dorothy-1, Roger must instead leap out of Big O to save R. Dorothy, thus shutting down Dorothy-1.

SEA MONSTER

When: Ep. 3 "Electric City"
Where: near the dams in Electric City
Details: Roger is investigating a group of residents in a part of town called Electric City, where a dead hydroelectric dam also sits... until a certain Casey Jenkins of the Paradigm group (also known to us as Angel) re-activates the dam. As a result of the dam starting to run again, a huge monster rises up from the lake!

Big O tries to battle the beast, but it has a lot of difficulty with the electrical charges that the monster lets off, and the monster is moving too quickly for Big O to fire its helmet cannon at it. Then, Roger spots an old man rowing towards the dam. Big O manages to keep the sea monster occupied until the old man can shut off the dam, thus also shutting down the monster.

MEGADEUS PROTOTYPE

When: Ep. 4 "Underground Terror"
Where: a hidden underground level, beneath Big O's subway tunnels
Details: coming soon!

GHOST MEGADEUS

When: Ep. 5 "Bring Back My Ghost"
Where: near a fog-engulfed, "haunted" bridge
Details: There is a particular bridge in Paradigm City that is rumored to be haunted, and several higher-ups in the Military Police have disappeared near there. Roger is trying to perform a task for a client when it leads him to this bridge, where he sees the gigantic ghost first hand.

Big O takes several hits from the Ghost's laser, but soon Roger realizes that the ghost isn't the real robot. He attacks the true robot, and defeats it, after figuring out that the "ghost" was just a laser projection onto the fog surrounding the bridge.

KONSTANZ

When: Ep. 6 "A Legacy of Amadeus"
Where: on the outskirts of Dr. Amadeus' former mansion
Details: Roger and Dorothy are searching for a robot friend of theirs, R. Instro, when they meet a large mecha called Konstanz. Dr. Amadeus' old partner, Giseng, convinced Instro to pilot Konstanz and take revenge on the Paradigm Group, supposedly in the name of his father and creador, Amadeus.

Big O fights hard to fend off Konstanz's photosonic attacks, while Roger tries to convince Instro that destroying Paradigm is not his father's wish. Roger's efforts seem to be in vain, until Instro hears Dorothy playing piano from inside the old mansion. Instro had taught her that song, and this brings him to the realization that he passed his true gift, piano playing, onto another robot. He ceased his attack, and Konstanz fell, crushing the evil Giseng before he could attack Dorothy.

SEA TITAN

When: Ep. 7 "The Call From The Past"
Where: underwater and on the surface.
Details: Roger and Angel are inadvertently thrown together, and are going underwater to investigate the area, both for their own reasons. They wind up trapped underwater inside a submersible ship, and eventually see a huge, slimy monster emerge from a deep hole under the water, which leads Roger to call for Big O to help fight off the beast.

The Sea Titan surfaces, and starts flailing about, causing a lot of damage, but not necessarily seeking to hurt the citizens of Paradigm City. Dan Dastun orders the military police to fire on the Sea Titan, and part of the slimy layer is blasted off, revealing a Megadeus underneath! Fortunately, Roger and Big O are much more powerful than the Sea Titan, and he has little trouble destroying it... and he does so, despite Angel's pleas to save the Sea Titan because of the memories that may lie inside it.

PERO

When: Ep. 8 "Missing Cat"
Where: at the stronghold of
Details: Pero was a small cat found by Dorothy that she grew quite fond of. However, he was kidnapped for what seemed to be no apparent reason, so Roger and Dorothy went to search for him at the kidnapper's stronghold. Roger was attacked there by a large beast, and he called upon Big O to help him fight it.

Big O easily won the upper hand in the fight, and was about to strike a crushing blow, when Dorothy suddenly ran out and told Roger to stop attacking the creature, because the mind and spirit of Pero was actually part of the beast. The beast was a genetically engineered creation, and Pero had been integrated into it. Pero was ordered by his master to attack Big O, but when Dorothy held her hand out to Pero, he remembered her kindness, and instead turned on his fiendish master.

BECK VICTORY DELUXE

When: Ep. 9 "Beck Comes Back"
Where: a dilapidated, abadoned factory
Details: Roger and Dorothy tracked Beck to the factory, in the wake of a kidnapping case they handled. Beck, however, was ready for them, and he trashed the Griffon, and managed to take control of Dorothy, hoping to crush Roger in her powerful robot embrace. After Roger short-circuited Dorothy and freed himself by staring her down, Beck summoned the Beck Victory Deluxe, a golden robot built from industrial components that he extorted out of the previously kidnapped person's father. Roger called upon Big O to help him destroy it.

The Beck Victory Deluxe turned out to be, well, a pretty lame mecha, all in all. Beck attempted to defeat Big O with several different devices that were built into the Victory Deluxe, each time thinking that he would easily win the fight. But, Big O defeated the Victory Deluxe so easily that it was quite pitiful to watch, and Big O ends the battle by ripping the head off of Beck's robot, and delivering it (with Beck and his henchmen inside, of course) to the military police.

ROBOT BOMB

When: Ep. 10 "Winter Night Phantom"
Where: by the city harbor
Details: Roger and Dan Dastun are both investigating a recent series of terrorist bombings, and they part company near the harbor, at which time, a gigantic robot emerges and attacks the harbor! Roger hops into Big O to try and stop the robot, while Dastun chases a foreign woman whom he suspects is the perpetrator of the bombings. He faces off with her while Roger tries to keep the robot, which is wired with a huge arsenal of explosives, from reaching the city and detonating.

Dastun corners the woman at the end of a pier, and she is, indeed, responsible for the huge robot, threatening to trigger her control device and detonate the robot. Dastun tries to talk her out of it, but when she lifts the control device to blow up the robot, Dastun fires on her, and the controller is destroyed. This allows Big O to finally lift up the robot and destroy it, by throwing it into the air and firing on it with the laser beams in its eyes.

PLANT SEED

When: Ep. 11 "Daemonseed"
Where: the central dome
Details: There are people hustling and bustling near the central dome when a strange jewel (given earlier to a poor saxophone player named Oliver) suddenly cracks, and quickly begins to spawn a myriad of vine-like plant structures. Roger appears on the scene in Big O, and tries to fight the strange, growing plant.

Big O tries to sever and destroy the growing limbs of the plant, but even as he does so, the plant keeps growing and growing, faster than he can ever hope to keep up with. The plant continues to grow bigger and bigger, until it begins to crack the top of the dome, and then it suddenly stops! Dorothy arrives on the scene, telling everyone that the plant was actually designed to stop growing at a certain point, and on further inspection, the huge, horrifying plant *actually* looks suspiciously like a Christmas Tree. ^_-

BIG DUO

When: Ep. 12 "Enemy as/is Another Big!"
Where: JFK Mark (abandoned) Airport, later near a hotel
Details: In Roger's first encounter with Big Duo, Duo is covered in bandages, just as its master, Schwarzwald, usually is. The enemy bot attacks Big O, ensnaring it in the bandages, but Big O fires the machine guns in its chest, thus freeing itself and catching the enemy bot on fire. The robot emerges a moment later from the smoke, unharmed, but with its bandages now burned off... which allows Roger to see that the enemy bot is, in fact, another Megadeus that is alarmingly similar to Big O! Schwarzwald gloats over Roger's shock, and then he and Big Duo flee the scene, intending to save the real fight for later.

When Roger encounters Schwarzwald again later, while on assignment for the head of the Paradigm Group, Alex Rosewater, Schwarzwald threatens to cause another Event, and then leaps into Big Duo. Roger calls for Big O, and then goes to battle Big Duo... finding out from Norman only moments later that Big O hasn't been re-stocked with ammunition since the previous encounter!

Big Duo then latches onto Big O, trying to crush its head, and then Big Duo flies back and launches its remaining missles towards Big O. The missiles explode, but Big O manages to latch onto the edge of the dome, saving itself from destruction. Big O then gains the upper hand, breaking off Big Duo's arm, and using its powerful arm pistons to crush Big Duo's head. Roger tries to capture Schwarzwald, but Big Duo reactivates briefly, staggering towards the Paradigm Building, while Schwarzwald escapes, leaving Roger with a strange question in mind... "Do we control them, or do they control us?"

FOREIGN MEGADEUS UNITS

When: Ep. 14 "Roger the Wanderer" (also appears in Ep. 13)
Where: near the shore
Details: Roger and Big O first encounter these formidable Megadeus units in Episode 13, the infamous cliffhanger. But in Episode 14, they finally get to fight, and we also learn that these mysterious foes were a gift to Alex Rosewater from a foreign friend.

The battle is a rough one, and Big O manages to hold its own at first against its two opponents, when suddenly, the robots release a THIRD unit, and the trio of foes easily gains the upper hand, eventually leading to the loss of Big O's arm. As Big O is being pummeled by the foreign Megadeus units, Roger goes through a sudden crisis of self, questioning who he is and what role he is meant to play, in this world or any other.

After a seemingly surreal trip through another reality in which he is not remembered by anyone, Roger decides to accept the role of Negotiator, and the great responsibility and power that comes with it, and he regains his resolve. Big O springs into action, delivering a flurry of piston punches and deafening blows to its foes with its one remaining arm, until the three enemies are vanquished.