This is a list of episodes in the American animated television series Sym-Bionic Titan. Cartoon Network initially ordered 20 episodes; which series creator Genndy Tartakovsky had hoped to expand on. [1] Although there was only one Season, Cartoon Network marketed the second half as Season 2.
| Seasons | Episodes | U.S. First air date | U.S. Last air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | September 17, 2010 | April 9, 2011 | |
| EP# | Title | Airdate | Prod. Code | |||
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| 1 | "Escape to Sherman High" | September 17, 2010 | 101 | |||
| Lance, Ilana, and Octus crash-land on Earth while fleeing the evil General Modula, who has conquered their home planet, Galaluna. They try to blend in to Earth society by going to high school. During their first day at school, Modula sends a fire monster to destroy the princess. While battling the beast, Lance, Ilana, and Octus form "Titan" with their robotic suits and defeat the monster, with some help from the mysterious Solomon. | ||||||
| 2 | "Neighbors in Disguise" | September 24, 2010 | 102 | |||
| Ilana visits the mall to buy furniture for their new home, but Lance sees everyone around them as enemies, leading to a confrontation with mall security. Lance activates his armor in Ilana's defense, attracting the attention of a five-headed robot beast sent by Modula. Lance tries to redeem himself for the mess he has caused by being swallowed so he can destroy the beast's power core from within. Later, Solomon takes security footage of Lance transforming. | ||||||
| 3 | "Elephant Logic" | October 1, 2010 | 103 | |||
| Ilana and Lance are having a hard time working as a team, so Octus consults childrens' television in an attempt to find a solution. Meanwhile, General Steel comes into possession of a mysterious rock. In his rush to uncover its secrets, he unleashes the monster within, a massive, electrical storm creature. Taking advice from the shows he's been watching, Octus gets Ilana and Lance to work together to defeat the storm creature. | ||||||
| 4 | "The Phantom Ninja" | October 8, 2010 | 104 | |||
| Modula sends a squid-like Mutraddi assassin named Xeexi to find Ilana and kill her and the "other two". Meanwhile, Lance takes up vigilantism to spice up his boring life. One crime fight forced Lance to turn on his armor which leads Xeexi to the capture of him. Xeexi then finds Ilana and is about to kill her when Lance breaks free and saves her. Though Xeexi is defeated, knowledge of Titan's existence reaches Modula. | ||||||
| 5 | "Roar of the White Dragon" | October 15, 2010 | 105 | |||
| Lance develops a rivalry with a street-racing gang leader named Mike Chan, also called the White Dragon. When Lance's rivalry gets him arrested, Ilana forces him to get a driver's license -legally- if he wants to race Chan again. During the test, he is harassed by Chan's gang, followed by a long limbed Mutraddi monster. Lance manages to escape the monster, and his instructor passes him in gratitude. Lance, Ilana and Octus defeat the monster and Chan is taken into police custody by the detective who was trying to catch him. | ||||||
| 6 | "Shaman of Fear" | October 22, 2010 | 106 | |||
| Ilana and Lance suffer from nightmares induced by a shaman-like Mutraddi who preys upon their fear. Ilana sees visions of her people dying, while Lance relives the experiment which claimed his father's life. They face and overcome their fears to beat him and upon returning home, both Ilana and Lance begin to have a new outlook at their mission on Earth. | ||||||
| 7 | "Showdown at Sherman High" | October 29, 2010 | 107 | |||
| Using Sym-Bionic Titan, the group defeats a Mutraddi blob monster. However, a small piece survives and follows them to school, where it reassembles itself and attacks while they are vulnerable. The creature encompasses the school taking the whole student body prisoner. While Lance and Ilana fight for their lives and the other students, Octus has to devise a means to defeat the creature- which turns out to be cell phone signals. | ||||||
| 8 | "Shadows of Youth" | November 5, 2010 | 108 | |||
| Lance flashes back to his time at the Galalunan military academy shortly after the death of his father. While at the academy, he is bullied and proves he is better than them by achieving the Medal of Excellence. In doing so, his bullies try to kill him and they end up destroying the school. | ||||||
| 9 | "Tashy 497" | November 12, 2010 | 109 | |||
| When Modula finds a cute but deadly new alien to unleash upon the group, Lance, Ilana and Octus find the cuddly little alien and decide to keep it as a pet. However, they soon discover that the cute creature isn't all what it seems. The creature is generating enough energy to wipe out Earth, so the trio reluctantly let their beloved pet die peacefully in a glorious burst of energy. At an astronomy center, Octus locates a nebula cluster where they let their pet go, which the scientist of the station allows them to name for discovering it. In agreement, they come to name the cloud Tashy 497, as a mix of the names they wanted to name the creature. | ||||||
| 10 | "Lessons in Love" | November 19, 2010 | 110 | |||
| When Kimmy the cheerleader comes over to study, she becomes infatuated with Octus' human student disguise. Meanwhile, Lance and Ilana encounter a manta-like Mutraddi creature that is absorbing electrical energy that also causes their armor activators/communicators to shut down. | ||||||
| 11 | "The Fortress of Deception" | December 3, 2010 | 111 | |||
| When Lance and Ilana are captured by G3, Octus has to discover the location of their base. Meanwhile Ilana and Lance are locked up in some sort of Galalunian-like cell at the G3 base. When Lance is taken in to be interrogated Ilana meets a seemingly fellow prisoner, Lance takes a beating from his interrogator and breaks out to get Ilana. They all run to get out and after being reunited with their communicators and Octus, they form Titan and break free. | ||||||
| 12 | "The Ballad of Scary Mary" | February 2, 2011 | 112 | |||
| Octus and Kimmy drag Ilana and Lance with them to an annual school event in the woods known as a Scary Mary party. It is apparently to honor a girl who supposedly died in those woods. Lance and Ilana are very reluctant to join in the fun but after Ilana sees a geekish kid named Jason trying to open a pop bottle she decides to go and talk to him, but Lance is still just not feeling the party vibe so he chooses to just hang out beside the van until a goth girl shows up and they begin talking. While Octus, Kimmy, and some of her friends start doing "The Robot" a shape shifting Mutraddi beast lands near the party. The shape shifter disguises itself as Jason and tries to kill Ilana, only to be stopped by Lance. When it shows its true form to the rest of the kids at the party, they all run, giving Lance, Ilana, and Octus time to form Sym-Bionic Titan and kill it. | ||||||
| 13 | "The Demon Within" | February 9, 2011 | 113 | |||
| Lance, Ilana, and Octus go deep in to the swamp to find a Mutraddi that has landed in the water. They investigate the crashed ship and are attack by an amphibian-like Mutraddi that, after a seemingly easy kill, is able to bite Ilana and escape. Very slowly she transforms into the creature and attacks an alligator that was also mutated. Lance and Octus kill the original Mutraddi, turning Ilana back to herself. | ||||||
| 14 | "I Am Octus" | February 16, 2011 | 114 | |||
| As the world seems to come to an absolute standstill, Octus remains immune and tries to find the cause for the problem. He is also forced to figure out what exactly he is. Once Octus finds the source, a giant bat Mutraddi that uses radio waves to stop all organic beings from moving, he attacks it, freeing Lance and Ilana. Now free, they form Titan with Octus and destroy the beast. | ||||||
| 15 | "Disenfranchised" | March 2, 2011 | 115 | |||
| Lance learns how to play the guitar, and General Steel sends a spy to Sherman High, convinced that whoever is behind Titan is at the school and Lance, Ilana and Octus become Steel's prime suspects. A dragon-like Mutraddi, which was defeated earlier by Titan, comes back as a severed head during a concert but is destroyed by Ilana and Octus with a hologram of the Manus armor, to give Lance an alibi with the General being at the concert. | ||||||
| 16 | "Escape from Galaluna" | March 9, 2011 | 116 | |||
| Another Flashback episode showing the invasion of Mutraddi on Galaluna and Ilana, Lance, and Octus's escape. Ilana attends the opening of a school in a tribal region of Galaluna with her guardian, Hobbes. Meanwhile, Lance goes on a mission to rescue hostages from an observatory. His commander tells him to return to his post, but sneaks in to the observatory as the Muddradi Leader was talking to Modula (unbeknown to Lance) and Lance was imprisoned for getting the hostages killed (even though they were beforehand). Meanwhile, the King is seen finishing building Octus. The invasion occurs and Hobbes is injured and returns Ilana to the palace with both of them alive, and Lance's commander is revealed to be a traitor for Modula. Lance kills his former commander after a long sword fight and events lead up to how the trio arrived on earth in the pilot episode. | ||||||
| 17 | "Under the Three Moons" | March 16, 2011 | 117 | |||
| Ilana is homesick, so she joins the Homecoming Dance Committee and creates a Galalunian-themed dance. Meanwhile, General Modula's continued failure to destroy the princess is spreading across the galaxy. Modula is approached by an alien who guarantees on his own life that he has a creature that will destroy Ilana and crush the Galalunian People's spirit. As our three heroes try to prepare for the dance, Lance and Kristin go a little further in their relationship with a karate bout, but she declines his request to join him at the dance. Issues arise when the creature arrives just as they are about to depart for the dance. Titan at first fails poorly, as Octus and Ilana are distracted by missing the dance and making Kimmy feeling guilty and upset. However, Lance's lack of concern for their feelings pushes Ilana and Octus over the top, and the creature is soundly defeated as a result of their frustration. Later, Kimmy, fed up with Octus's "bathroom" disappearances, breaks up with him, while Ilana and Lance share a dance under the spotlight, their dates having run off together. Modula, after destroying the alien, continues plotting a way to destroy Ilana once and for all. | ||||||
| 18 | "A Family Crisis" | March 26, 2011 | 118 | |||
| Solomon and his team land at a heavily damaged space station when they are attacked by a burst of energy. Meanwhile, Octus is thrown a surprise birthday party by Lance and Ilana. During the party, Octus receives a distressing call from Solomon that requires Titan's immediate assistance. Titan arrives at the space station and are able to survive one encounter with the creature thanks to Solomon. He explains it is a creature made of pure energy and when it drains the energy of something, it cannot be recharged. As they flee from the creature, Octus is hit by the creature in his leg, and cannot fix it. The gang then decide to contain the creature instead of destroying it. Lance and Solomon head towards the creature while Octus and Ilana hide. They manage to trap the creature temporarily, until Solomon's ship arrives. All of them escape, except for Lance due to the cable breaking. Octus saves him but is drained by the creature. When they try to recharge his mainframe it fails, and an infuriated Lance uses Solomon's ship to destroy the station and the creature within. | ||||||
| 19 | "The Steel Foe" | April 2, 2011 | 119 | |||
| Lance and Ilana have been on the run for 3 weeks trying to reboot Octus. Meanwhile a giant Mutraddi beast has been ravaging Sherman in Titan's absence. General Steel reveals a giant robot named The "Homeland Mobile Emergency Robot" HMER (nicknamed the Hammer); constructed from the metal scraps of the gigantic rocket that Tashy was sent to Earth in; which he uses to defeat the creature. Lance believes that if they can sneak into the army base with the recharge unit for The Hammer, they will have enough power to reboot Octus, but they are discovered and find themselves fighting the army & The Hammer. Without the power of Titan, they are both easily overwhelmed. G3 intervenes to rescue Lance and Ilana, and they join forces to prepare to battle against General Steel & The Hammer. | ||||||
| 20 | "A New Beginning" | April 9, 2011 | 120 | |||
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General Steel launches an all-out assault on G3's mobile airship base with his new Hammer robot, and it's up to Lance and Ilana to stop it. The battle is soon interrupted when three Mutraddi monsters attack three parts of the world simultaneously. During the battle, the mysterious leader of G3 revives Octus and they reform Titan, defeating all three monsters. At the end of the day Octus sends Kimmy a text that he will be home soon. NOTE 1: This episode is the final episode of Sym-Bionic Titan that aired, making it an unofficial series finale. NOTE 2: The series' creator, Genndy Tartakovsky, had hoped to expand on the show's episode length and had 10 more episodes written [2] but the show was not renewed for a second season. There have since been many demands that the show be brought back for another season. As of December 26, 2011, this demand has increased to only a few thousand.[3] |
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