Big Bad BeetleBorgs: BeetleBorgs Metallix
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Big Bad BeetleBorgs Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Crush of the Crustaceans
Sep 8, 1997
Nukus destroys the Beetleborgs' armor, weapons, and powers, and turns Flabber into ice. While the kids try to persuade Art Fortunes to draw new armor, weapons, and powers for them,
Metallix Rising
Sep 9, 1997
Nukus, along with new fellow villains Vilor and Horribelle and the Dregs, takes Les Fortunes to the Charterville Cemetery, in order to have a new army of monsters drawn for him.
Battle Station Alert
Sep 10, 1997
The Crustaceans kidnap Art Fortunes, but the kids use the Bug Out spell to sneak into the Charterville Cemetery and rescue him. Art then draws a new Battle Station and new Battle V
Ghoul Trouble
Sep 11, 1997
Items begin to go missing around Hillhurst, leading the House Monsters to suspect someone new has taken up residence in their basement.
Totally Slammin' Sector Cycles
Sep 12, 1997
The siren-song of Les' latest creature, Hagfish of Gar, threatens the children of Charterville from falling under its spell. Luckily, the latest issue of the Beetleborgs Metallix c
Headless Over Heels
Sep 15, 1997
The Headless Horseman comes to Hillhurst, seeking his missing head! Seems Wolfgang stole it years ago in the old country... will he give it back, or will the Horseman need to take
Monster Imposter
Sep 16, 1997
A monster of Les', with shape-shifting powers, comes to Hillhurst, and wrecks havoc by transforming into each of the House Monsters.
Horror Hotel
Sep 17, 1997
The house monsters create a hotel in the Hillhurst Mansion, but what is there to do when one a new creation of Les Fortunes checks in?
Les is More
Sep 18, 1997
When Vilor brings Les' new monster to life, it proves to be more than the crustaceans reckoned for.
Sunset Boo-levard
Sep 19, 1997
An aging starlet from Hollywood's silent era (and now ghost) shows up at Hillhurst, wanting to make a comeback.
Extra...Beetleborgs Revealed
Sep 22, 1997
An anxious journalist seeks out the Beetleborgs' secret identities... and finds them! Will she keep quiet, or will she use this scoop to make herself famous?
Who's That Ghoul?
Sep 23, 1997
A Transylvanian bounty hunter comes looking for the Little Ghoul.
Attack of the Brain Suckers
Sep 24, 1997
Nukus is angry when publisher Rudy McDougal refuses to devote a comic book to his new Brain Sucker monster.
Don't Fear the Reaper
Sep 29, 1997
The Grim Reaper comes to Hillhurst. Not to kill anyone, but to train Little Ghoul to be his replacement!
The Old Gray Flabber
Oct 3, 1997
Nukus has a special portrait of Flabber sent to him, and before long, Flabber starts turning old and gray.
Son of Frankenbeans
Oct 10, 1997
Dr. Frankenbeans sends his youngest son, Frankie, to stay wih his older brother, Frankenbeans, at Hillhurst.
The Curse of the Mummy's Mommy
Oct 30, 1997
Mums' mommy, who is also a mummy, comes to town.
Halloween Haunted House of Horrors
Oct 31, 1997
As the House Monsters leave Hillhurst on Halloween to do some Trick or Treating of their own, the mansion attracts unsuspecting kids believing it to be haunted.
Booger Man
Nov 3, 1997
The Booger Man appears at Hillhurst to give the house monsters nightmares. This inspires Nukus to have him give nightmares to Les for an inspiration for a new monster.
The Poe and the Pendulum
Nov 6, 1997
Edgar Allan Poe, the long-deceased horror poet author, comes to Hillhurst seeking inspiration.
The Lost Comic
Nov 7, 1997
When Art and Les Fortunes were children, they produced a homemade comic book together. Their only collaboration. Now, Les leads the Crustaceans in a quest to find where he buried i
Enter the Dragon Borg
Nov 10, 1997
To help out the Beetleborgs, one of the Astral Borgs, Dragonborg is unleashed to battle with the Evil Borgs.
To Foretell the Truth
Nov 14, 1997
Count Fangula, believing he can see the future, starts up a psychic hotline. Also, the Beetleborgs gain a new Astral Borg ally, in Fireborg!
Wolfie's Wild Ride
Nov 17, 1997
Wolfgang wanted to come along with the Beetleborgs and the Astral Borgs (the Lightningborg is now found to add the the team of 3 so far) to see what it's like to be in the middle o
Lady and the Champs
Nov 21, 1997
Count Fangula is feeling ill. Seems he swallowed one of the Astral Coins! Horribelle, disguised as a nurse, attempts to retrieve it. Should Fangs manage to cough it up, the Beetleb
Astral Ransom
Nov 24, 1997
One of the monsters of Hillhurst is kidnapped and the enemies want something in return...One of the Astral Borgs.
Astral Ambush
Nov 25, 1997
An Ambush is done by the Crustaceans to eliminate the Astralborgs so they can get at the three puny Beetleborgs.
Roboborg
Nov 26, 1997
The 8 Astral Coins are at last reunited with the Astral Sword, leading to the summoning of the giant robot beetle fighting creature, Roboborg! But whose side will he be on?
Mega Spectra Beetleborgs
Feb 9, 1998
Nukus and Vilor get an upgrade, going Mega powered. To even things up, the Beetleborgs are given a power-boost by Roboborg, fusing their old powers with their Metallix ones, creati
Battle of the Giants
Feb 10, 1998
Les creates the Astral Ax, and with it, Roboborg's evil counterpart, known as Boron. Mega-Nukus pits Boron and Roboborg against one another.
Super Fang
Feb 17, 1998
Count Fangula becomes a super hero by helping out the Beetleborgs defeat their rivals/enemies.
Experiment in Evil
Feb 23, 1998
Dr. Baron Von Frankenbeans' latest creation, a mutant plant, is sought by Mega-Nukus' forces.
Mega Borg Power
Mar 2, 1998
The Beetleborgs make one last play to gain control of Boron.