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'''Palmer:''' TIME TO PUNCH THE F██K OUT OF IT! }}
 
What would happen if the cast of ''[[Voltron]]'' [[This Is Your Premise Onon Drugs|started drinking, went on a binge, and pretty much threw up acid all over the place]]? Well, that depends on who caught it all on tape -- and in the case of '''''Titan Maximum''''', the fine folks who gave us ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' ended up doing just that.
 
In the future, mankind has colonized the entire solar system, including Saturn. Saturn's moon, Titan, needed protection during its war against Mars -- and to that end, it created Titan Maximum, a [[Combining Mecha]] which serves as its last, best line of defense for Titan's capital. While Titan Maximum's pilots ([[Jerk Jock|egocentric and narcissistic]] '''Palmer'''; [[Parody Sue]] '''Jodi'''; [[Alpha Bitch|stuck up]] '''Sasha'''; [[The Smart Guy|plan man]] '''Gibbs'''; and [[The Big Guy]], '''Spuds''') never saw eye-to-eye with each other, they always managed to get the job done. After budget cuts, the team -- who all but hated each other by the end -- went their separate ways.
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What happened to Gibbs? During a televised interview, Gibbs reveals what he plans to do: "conquer the Solar System, crush all who oppose [him], and name [himself] 'Super King Big Nuts'."
 
The three remaining members of Titan Force Five reassemble to fight Gibbs and his new evil compatriots -- and since they need to replace Spuds and Gibbs, they round out the team with '''Willie''', Palmer's rather overeager yet technically-brilliant younger brother (who graduated as an [[Mr. Fixit|engineer]] -- from DeVry), and '''Leon''', the [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|surly monkey]] who worked as janitor of the team's abandoned base. Once the ''new'' Titan Force Five manages to get Titan Maximum working again, they become the solar system's best hope of stopping Gibbs -- but their dysfunctional teamwork and clashing personalities also make them a danger to pretty much everyone else, including their commanding officer, Admiral Bitchface.
 
Despite powerhouse ratings when it first aired (it often beat out new episodes of ''[[The Venture Bros]]'', [[Adult Swim]]'s most popular original series), Seth Green [[Too Good to Last|halted all production on the show]] to focus on his [[Money, Dear Boy|self-admitted]] [[Cash Cow Franchise]], ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' -- even though he wasn't a creator or producer, and Matthew Senreich said he had enough material for "maybe ten seasons" of the show [http://www.adultswim.com/shows/titan-maximum/extras/interview/matt-senreich-titan-maximum-interview.html in an interview].
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'''Gibbs:''' Don't forget to stab me in the ears, too, darling, so I won't have to listen to another one of your albums.<br />
'''Sasha:''' You motherfucking cocksucker... [Palmer cuts her mic off, disturbing hand motions continue.] }}
* [[Coitus Uninterruptus]]: Gibbs is able to do this without even his partner Jodi noticing that he's given instructions to his assistant Clare, who's video taping it, and even using [[Authentication Byby Newspaper]] to prove the date.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Jodi and Sasha manage to beat Clare by resorting to cheating.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: After Jodi and Gibbs' sex tape has been released:
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* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: The promos made it look like that Spud and Gibbs were part of the cast.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]?: Sasha does this in front of Jodi and her grandmother while remembering how she gave a teacher a blow job for a good grade.
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Willie by Sasha.
* [[Downer Ending]]: In the season/series finale, {{spoiler|Mercury gets to experience kissing its sister, which is the ''fucking sun''!}}
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Jodi had one while she was in the running to be the right arm of Titan Maximum. The word "scum" is somewhere in all but one of his lines.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Despite her being a constant annoyance, Gibbs will not let Clare kill his grandmother. {{spoiler|Averted when Gibbs gets his [[Complete Monster]] moment, since his grandmother is still on Mercury when he destroys the heat shield.}}
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: Albeit an extremely creepy one. [[Word of God]] on the DVD Commentary admits this is the reason he's there.
** If anything, the [[The Voiceless|silence]] makes him even funnier.
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Gibbs.
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* [[Foil]]: [[The Chessmaster|Cool, collected and methodical]] Gibbs is a stark contrast to the [[Idiot Hero|fly by the seat of your pants style]] that Palmer uses.
** From the original team, Gibbs was the [[Token Evil Teammate]], whereas Spud was [[The Heart]]. Their [[Establishing Character Moment]] is Spud saying "I just wanna say that I love you guys!" to break up a fight, which gets a big "Awwwwwww" from Palmer, Jodi and Sasha, while Gibbs groans out "Fat dumbass." To further drive the point home, Gibbs was easily the most valuable man on the team, which is why the tolerated his personality, while Spud was only a mediocre pilot that they kept around because [[Big Fun|they just enjoyed his company.]]
* [[Foreign Language Theme]]: The end song is in Japanese as a tribute to the shows that inspired Titan Maximum, specifically the ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' theme by [[Puffy AmiYumi]].
* [[For the Evulz]]: Why Gibbs wants to [[Take Over the World|take over the solar system]], at least on the surface. He hints at having more altruistic reasons to Jodi.
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: The DVD comes with a mini comic about Spud's funeral -- Palmer gives a eulogy mostly about his own sexual conquests and interrupts Gibbs' eulogy to generally brag about how cool he is. He and Gibbs start tussling and accidentally knock over the casket, causing the body to fall out.
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* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Gibbs.
* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Completely averted when a scientist is hit by a freeze ray, and even after getting some of the ice off of himself with steam he still suffers from [[Crosses the Line Twice|horribly debilitating frostbite]] ([[Major Injury Underreaction|to which he is almost indifferent]]).
* [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity]]: Titan Force Five, at least after Gibbs became evil. Before that, they were rather well liked despite some embarrassing public displays of drunkenness.
** Actually, they were still well liked afterwards, because they were directly opposing Gibbs. It was only when their incompetence became apparent that people started to turn against them, but even then...
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Sasha seems to be approaching this, showing signs of being [[Ax Crazy]] and an über-[[Alpha Bitch]]. An good example would her being able to defeat a robot by punching through its crotch to reach its heart. Perhaps best summarized in her establishing character moment in her introduction in the first episode, where she saves a man's life from falling debris by kicking him in the crotch to get him out of the way. Palmer could also be seen as this. Their only saving grace is opposing Gibbs [[Omnicidal Maniac|plans]].
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* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Sasha.
{{quote| ''"Hey, Sasha? is there any connection between your poor album sales and the fact that it sucks?"''}}
** This gets [[Fridge Brilliance|even funnier]] once you realise that Sasha is voiced by Eden Espinosa, [[Casting Gag|who is known for playing Elphaba]] in ''[[Wicked (Theatretheatre)|Wicked]]''. After all, while singing badly requires no talent, singing ''horribly'' usually requires a lot.
{{quote| '''[http://www.adultswim.com/shows/titan-maximum/extras/interview/eden-espinosa-titan-maximum-interview.html Eden Espinosa]''': But we had to do several takes because they [Seth Green, Tom Root and Matt Senreich] were like, "Yeah, Eden, it still sounds too good. It sounds like you're singing good."}}
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Gibbs makes one of himself and Jodi during their tryst on Diode, then releases it while Jodi is visiting her grandmother.
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** Also Palmer and Sasha (hot-blooded) to Jodi and Willie (cool and collected), according to the lampshading in the third episode. "I have no opinion on [[The Quiet One|the monkey]]."
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Sasha.
* [[Screwed Byby the Network]]: More like, Screwed By The Creator. Seth Green willfully cancelled a hit show, so he could continue work on his [[Cash Cow Franchise]], ''[[Robot Chicken]]''.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The entire series is an obvious Shout Out to ''[[Voltron]]'', but there are a few other less obvious ones as well.
** When Sasha first enters the garage, her theme music is clearly inspired by Justin Timberlake's song "Sexy Back".
** Palmer's bike resembles that of Kaneda in ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]''.
** When the [[Space Marine|space marines]] are attacked by Clare in the hangar, the camera switches to a first-person perspective almost exactly like that of ''[[Doom]]''.
*** All while she's running in and out of shadows like the creatures from ''Aliens''.
** Episode 7 is entitled "[[Maximum Overdrive (Film)|Megamum Overdrive]]."
*** The same episode features [[Military Maverick|Military Mavericks]] Bingo and Buzzard, based on Maverick and Goose from ''[[Top Gun]]''. A previous episode also had a ''Top Gun''-inspired montage featuring Palmer riding his motorcycle, drunkenly singing in a nightclub, and playing volleyball.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Palmer and Willie.
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* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Gibbs' shtick. He attempts to be suave and [[Magnificent Bastard|magnificent]], but this is sharply contrasted by his cruder tendencies and love of [[Flipping the Bird|flipping people off]].
* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Sasha's entrance at the Titan Force Five hangar.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Cute assassin ''Clare'' (not Claire), likely named after [[Seth Green]]'s wife, actress Clare Grant.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Jodi's showing symptoms of being the "hidden sadness" variety. And the "[[The Fake Cutie|hidden homicidal madness]]" variety.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Sasha's miserable excuse of a music career.
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** "Sir, your daughter is mimicking fellatio on ..."
*** Later: "Sir, you daughter is mimicking fellatio on ''two'' ..."
* [[Talk to Thethe Fist]]: Played with. Gibbs is trying to make his ransom demands and Palmer smashes the robot transmitting his signal. Gibbs just keeps taking over more robots until he finishes.
* [[The Stoic]]: Leon.
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Palmer and Sasha.
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* [[The Unfavorite]]: Willie.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Palmer occasionally, though "Shrinky Dinks!" stands out a bit. As well as "[[Robot Chicken|Ass crackers]]!"
* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]: {{spoiler|Troy Hammerschmidtt}}
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: After Titan Maximum kicks Titan Megamum while it's holding a bomb.
{{quote| '''Gibbs:''' You idiotic shitbuckets! I was holding a freaking nuke!}}
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