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Revision as of 23:32, 25 September 2009
The Voltron Lion Force (aka Voltron III and Voltron of the Far Universe) is the incarnation of Voltron composed of five mighty robot lions. Piloted by a team of intrepid space explorers and a princess, the Voltron Lion Force defends the planet of Arus against the hungry ambitions of King Zarkon's kingdom on Planet Doom.
As Voltron was always marketed as a single series, "Lion Force" may not be a canonical name but is adopted here for the purpose of distinguishing the lion-based Voltron from the other incarnations. The term "Lion Voltron" is another commonly used nickname.
Comic Books
Modern Comics did the first adapation in the 80s.
Devil's Due Publishing currently has the comic license.
Devli's Due Comics
Voltron, in the comic book series published by Devil's Due, was originally a unified machine intelligence, since it was created by sorcerers and scientists, therefore having hands and feet making him look like a knight. Voltron was tricked by Haggar into landing on a black comet with nearly the gravitational attraction of a singularity. This comet was either a reference to, or actually was, the Omega Comet from the anime, which had identical properties, and which appeared in the TV show. Voltron was then attacked by Haggar, and somehow blown into five pieces. They became the five "lions." (Much of this was presented in the "History of Voltron" back-up stories written by Mark Waid, which were ended early due to the cancellation of the series.)
Movie
Currently on hold.
Characters
The Team later on in the Series
The Original Team
The Voltron That Started it All
This series began when World Events Productions bought the rights to three giant mecha shows. GoLion was a 1981 mecha show which featured grotesques amounts of violence and blood in comparison to most western shows. World Events edited the series heavily to make it suitable for American broadcast. The end result was Voltron: Defender of the Universe. Originally, Voltron Lion Force was to be the last Voltron in the planned trilogy, but a tape mix-up made it the first.
The show took place in a futuristic setting where Voltron was a powerful robot made of fiver lesser robot lions piloted by five people. Voltron defended the people of Planet Arus (Rulled by Princess Allura) from King Zarkon, his son Lotor and the evil witch Haggar. In the attempt to destroy Voltron, they would send powerful robo-beasts to defeat the group. Voltron would then encounter the robo-beasts and defeat them. The show followed the classic mecha formula known as "monster-of-the-week."
Voltron became immensely popular, particularly Lion Force. To keep up with the demand for more Lion Force, World Event Productions created 20 more episodes of Lion Force, animated by Toei Animation (the creators of GoLion). This introduced a new villain known as Merla. It was the first time a dubbed anime had done this. They would later repeat this for the 1986 special known as Fleet of Doom .
Voltron the Third Dimension
This Voltron was the one featured in Voltron: The Third Dimension.