The Great Robot Detective the Series Season 1

Original cast from the first and second stories, except Nanimon, are back.

Characters introduced this season:

Respective reporter and normal allies: The Mane Eight, Dazzlings, Stallion Eight, Spike, Ember (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls; They work at the News Studio), and the Gangreen Gang (The Powerpuff Girls (1998); They also get jobs at the News Studio halfway through this season)

The Mane Eight's group's boss: J. Jonah Jamieson (Spiderman the Animated Series; Voiced by J.K. Simmons)

New henchmen for Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid: Makuramon, Demidevimon (Digimon), and the Sharkticons (Transformers; As Liverpool's henchmen)

Megatron's group's partner: Madame Gasket (Robots; Besides being P.T. Ratchet's mother)

New allies who reform: Starscream, Knockout (Transformers Prime; They gradually reform right near the end of this season due to gradually growing soft towards the heroes due to the heroes reluctantly saving both their necks repeatedly, and while Alexis and Dani will become their respective human partners as well, Piper and Starscream and Arcee and Knockout will also eventually fall in love with each other), Tiny Tiger, and Dingodile (Crash Bandicoot; They also start off as humans at first)

New villains: Myotismon, Puppetmon (Digimon), Hunter J (Pokemon), Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts 3), Dunce Spark/Max Sparker, Blackthorn/Rosie Gardner, Liverpool/Michael Fisher (OC characters), and Pitch Black (Rise of the Guardians)

New friends and allies: Ash and Kaya Ketchum, Pikachu, Eevee, Serena, Lillipup, Jessie, James, Meowth (Pokemon Sword and Shield/Pokemon XYZ), Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson, Santa's Little Helper, Milhouse Van Houten, Nelson Muntz, Martin Prince, Ralph Wiggum, and Colin (The Simpsons/The Simpsons Movie; They officially join Team Robot Detective and their allies at the end of this season and Colin is first introduced along with the Gangreen Gang in Season 1 Episode 2)

Season 1 episode count: 18

Season 1 Episode 1: The Return of Megatron's Group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid

Synopsis: After rescuing the Mane Eight, Stallion Eight, Dazzlings, Spike, and Ember from a new group of villains consisting Tucker Tigerson, Dale Wallaroo, Demidevimon, and Makuramon, Team Robot Detective and their allies agree to be their bodyguards after they are tasked by J. Jonah Jamieson to do a story involving the mysterious thefts of the chemicals. Soon, the heroes learn that the thefts were caused by none other than a vengeful Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid and their henchmen, and that the new villains are now working for them. But they will soon find a hint that someone behind the curtain is calling the villainous shots.

Season 1 Episode 2: Back to Gym School (The Great Robot Detective Version)

Synopsis: Upon meeting Colin and the Gangreen Gang for the first time at a local gym school they did a story on with the rest of the Mane Eight's group and Lisa Simpson's help, Lisa and the Dazzlings develop a respective crush on them upon learning that they, like them, never dated anyone before. As they spend time together at the same gym, they begin to fall in love. And then that love is put to the test when Colin and the Gangreen Gang team up with Team Robot Detective and their allies to save Lisa and the Dazzlings from Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid, their henchmen, and the now mutated Tucker and Dale, now Tiny Tiger and Dingodile respectively, and Demidevimon and Makuramon’s masters, Myotismon, Hunter J, and Vanitas.

Season 1 Episode 3: Welcome to the Urban Jungle (The Great Robot Detective Version)

Synopsis: After Rosie Gardner disappeared swearing revenge against her colleagues who killed her experimental human food and drink-consuming plant, New York City is soon consumed by floral life for a mysterious reason, turning it into a literal urban jungle. Then to make matters worse, Jim Hawkins meets a mysterious beautiful plant creature and is asked by her to create Healing Flowers, unaware that she's using him to make poisonous Doku Flowers. Soon, the heroes learn that she's a new villainess named Blackthorn and must find a way to save Jim and the city from her overgrowth and poison scheme.

Season 1 Episode 4: Along Came a Spider Insecticon

Synopsis: After Airachnid, with Megatron’s group and Uka-Uka’s help, unleash an army of Spider Insecticons onto New York City to locate some Power Keg Energon that could help her and Uka-Uka have their own mechanical body-like vessels without the need of two living hosts to use as vessels, Team Robot Detective and their allies then begins their literal bug hunt to stop the said invasion, all the while help May and Tulip Grover overcome their fear of spiders.

Season 1 Episode 5: Campy Feeling (The Great Robot Detective Version)

Synopsis: During a camping trip run by the news crew, Team Robot Detective and their allies learn of the mysterious disappearances of the camp counselors and that they're connected to a mysterious theft of both the Wumpa fruits and Energon Crystals. Soon, they learn that it's Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid's doing, planning on mutating the camp counselors by threat if the camp doesn't surrender a Mutagen casing and Energon casing. And in order to rescue the camp counselers, Team Robot Detective and their allies, including Fat Tony's gang and Michael D'Amico's group, kidnap Tiny Tiger and Dingodile and convince them to help them instead of Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid to assist in the rescue, helping the two realize that they were being used by the villains like how Fat Tony's gang originally were.

Season 1 Episode 6: Night of the Living Terrorcon

Synopsis: Based on the "Darkwing Duck" episode "Night of the Living Spud," but with twists. Blackthorn, deciding to gain revenge on Team Robot Detective and their allies, mostly Jim, creates a boyfriend in the form of a Terrorcon-transformed vegetable creature with Starscream, Knockout, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and Phineas T. Ratchet's help.

Season 1 Episode 7: Boom, Boom, Out Goes the Spark (The Great Robot Detective Version)

Synopsis: After a blackout strikes New York City, Team Robot Detective and their allies, while their human allies were going to the movies with Ash and Kaya Ketchum, Serena, Jessie, James, Meowth, Pikachu, Eevee, and Lillipup, learn that someone has caused it for some mysterious reason. Soon, they and even Ash's group learn why when Pikachu is abducted by the mysterious villain, Dunce Spark.

Season 1 Episode 8: Something's Fishy (The Great Robot Detective Version)

Synopsis: After discovering some recurring fish food poisonings at shops, Team Robot Detective and their allies decide to find the culprit responsible for the poisonings. They soon find him in the form of a corrupt fish food company manager, Michael Fisher, who wants to outwit the competition in a greedy fashion by poisoning their fish food supplies at their factories. But when an accident leads to Michael's supposed demise, a new handsome fish man villain named Liverpool is born, and it's up to the heroes, mostly Manaphy, to save all the fish, including the Gold Koi Fish named Goldilocks, from captivity and mutation by Liverpool and even Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid, as well as Liverpool's henchmen, the Sharkticons.

Season 1 Episode 9: Gumshoes in Toyland (The Great Robot Detective Version)

Synopsis: Based on the "Darkwing Duck" episode "Whiffle While You Work," but with twists. After Max wins a Whiffle Boy contest from a cereal box, he, Team Robot Detective, and their allies go to the Video Game Industry in Tokyo to have a grand tour of how video games are created. But during this, they soon become involved with a corrupt toymaker Digimon named Puppetmon who wants to unplug the video game industry for putting his unpopular toy company out of business long ago. So now it's a battle of wits between the heroes and Puppetmon involving both toys and video games.

Season 1 Episode 10: Boogey Nights (The Great Robot Detective Version)

Synopsis: When the human children of New York City begin disappearing at night, Team Robot Detective and their allies soon learn that a boogeyman named Pitch Black is kidnapping them to make them his NightMare-making slaves in order to block out the sun with a slow-approaching permanent eclipse and create nightmare monsters.

Season 1 Episode 11: The Treasure of One-Eyed Rick

Synopsis: Discovering a treasure map leading to the Treasure of One-Eyed Rick in the Simpsons' basement, Team Robot Detective, their allies, and even Lisa, Colin, Bart and Maggie Simpson, Milhouse Van Houten, Nelson Muntz, Martin Prince, and Ralph Wiggum embark on a treasure hunt to find it in the underground caverns beneath Ellis Island. But then they must race to get it first before the villains beat them to it.

Season 1 Episode 12: The Great Call of China

Synopsis: When Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid summon a guardian Chinese dragon named Xian Ling from the Great Wall of China, they trick him into helping them "Protect" the said Great Wall's fortunes by "Promising" him some treasure if he helps, and Megatron tasks Knockout and a reluctant Starscream to be Xian Ling's bodyguards to escort them to the enemy while, unbeknownst to Xian Ling, Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid steal the treasure to make it look like the heroes stole them. Now it's up to Team Robot Detective and their allies to find and return the stolen treasure, find a way to convince the misguided dragon about the villains' true colors, and save China.

Season 1 Episode 13: My One True Love (The Great Robot Detective Version)

Synopsis: Sick and tired of being angry and jealous of Rodney Copperbottom, Soarin, Ace D. Copular, and Agent William Fowler having Cappy, Rainbow Dash, Adagio Dazzle, and June Darby for themselves, P.T. Ratchet, Vanitas, Dr. Neo Cortex, and Pitch Black, while helping Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid illegally mine some Energon Diamonds from the Wumpa Islands to create some super laser weapons that can freeze a target in its spot with an abandoned candy factory, end up deciding to seduce Cappy, Rainbow Dash, Adagio, and June into joining forces with them by tricking the four couples into an argument with fake taffy bubble messages, with Starscream disguising their voices as each lover's voice, since Starscream, along with Knockout, are going along in pretending to woo Piper and Arcee respectively due to being teased on their respective secret crushes on the two girl robots. And when the six villains, alone from the hidden plotting villains, successfully trick the three girls, June, and even Piper and Arcee into believing that they've reformed, the four boys, Fowler, and their allies, knowing full well, along with even Piper and Arcee, that it's a trick, decide to go along with it while trying to help the four couples reconcile via a date and handmade love potion. But while the four couples are, despite still arguing with each other thanks to the four villains' early trickery, struggle to find a way to reconcile with Team Robot Detective and their allies' help, including the said love potion, they try to solve the mystery of the Wumpa Islands' missing Energon Diamonds. And during all of this, Starscream and Knockout somewhat begin to fall in love with Piper and Arcee for real, which they reciprocate, despite that they're still enemies.

Season 1 Episode 14: Raiders of the Lost Aztec Idol

Synopsis: Learning of a powerful artifact that grants the bearer their heart's desires called the Golden Idol located in the Ruins of El Dorado, Team Robot Detective and their allies are tasked to go retrieve it and put it in the Natural History Museum. But when the villains catch wind of it, it becomes a race against time to save El Dorado and the world from an impending golden destruction. During all of this at one point, Tiny, Dingodile, Fat Tony's gang, Charmy Bee, Miko Nakadai, Bulkhead, Jack Darby, June, Arcee, Piper, Alexis Thi Dang, and Danielle "Dani" Goldman encounter Madame Gasket for the first time while escaping captivity by the villains, with some surprise secret help from Knockout and even Starscream.

Season 1 Episode 15: Swiss Family Robot Detective

Synopsis: While on a fishing trip, Team Robot Detective and their allies soon get shipwrecked on a tropical island run by a Xerneas due to the villains attacking them. But soon after the villains become marooned as well, they and the heroes decide to temporally bury the hatchet and work together to get Xerneas' help to escape. During this, the heroes learn of and finally encounter Gasket for the first time thanks to Starscream, who, with Knockout's secret help, wants revenge against Gasket and even Megatron for humiliating him over his and Knockout's secret crushes on Piper and Arcee respectively and Gasket exposing to Megatron the truth of Starscream and Knockout secretly helping the heroes in their last encounter behind Starscream and Knockout's back.

Season 1 Episode 16: Komodo, Puppet, and Starscream Blues

Synopsis: After Starscream, Puppetmon, and the Komodo Brothers get fired and banished by Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid for Starscream purposely nearly blowing up Megatron's group's hideout with TNT and Nitro boxes while trying to show off a plan, which is part of Starscream's plan to pay Megatron's group and Gasket back for the abuse from their last failure by claiming the explosion trigger was an “Accident,” Piper, Fluttershy, and the human children of Team Robot Detective and even the reluctant Team Robot Detective and their allies take them in. But when they cause more harm than good when trying to help solve and stop crimes, Starscream, Puppetmon, and the Komodo Brothers are again kicked out. And when Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid find out about this, will Team Robot Detective and their allies find a way to escape their trap when Starscream, Puppetmon, and the Komodo Brothers are rehired by Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid?

Season 1 Episode 17: Team Robot Detective Assemble Part 1

Synopsis: Based on the two-part "Darkwing Duck" episode "Just Us, Justice Ducks," but with twists. When Team Robot Detective and their allies learn from the now rogue Starscream and Knockout that Megatron's group, Uka-Uka, and Airachnid have succeeded in creating Uka-Uka a body and Airachnid a body armor and that they have formed a new team name calling themselves Team CortexCon, the heroes jump into action to try and stop them, as well as Pitch, Puppetmon, Dunce Spark, Blackthorn, and Liverpool, from taking over the worlds, starting with New York City. But despite Ash and Bart’s groups and even Homer and Marge Simpson's insistence that they let Ash and Bart's groups help out and join their team and trying to convince Starscream and Knockout to defect to their side, Team Robot Detective, their allies, and even Starscream and Knockout respectively refuse because Bart and Ash's groups, despite being helpful at times, are just kids who are too young and "Inexperienced" to become crime-solving crimefighters and Starscream prefers to "Work alone" since becoming a rogue with Knockout upon learning the real truth of his, Megatron, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and Optimus' parents' murder at Megatron, Skywarp, and Thundercracker's hands besides going rogue by the two’s choice from the last episode.

Season 1 Episode 18: Team Robot Detective Assemble Part 2

Synopsis: Based on the two-part "Darkwing Duck" episode "Just Us, Justice Ducks," but with twists. After failing to stop the takeover and almost being left to drown because of Team CortexCon capturing them in the end of the first part, Rodney's group, upon being rescued by Bart and Ash's groups and even Starscream and Knockout, soon realizes that Ash and Bart's groups have a secret superhero compartment thanks to Homer and Marge under the blessing of Queen Aleena's group since the Battle for the New Year last year, resulting them to finally agree to do what they should’ve agreed to do before; Recruit them into their team, and soon after, Starscream has an audience with the spirits of his, Megatron, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and Optimus' parents via a Cortical Psychic Patch with Fluttershy, Braeburn, Alexis, Dani, Piper, Arcee, and Optimus' minds, and after a "Successful patching therapy session," Starscream, under the seven and even Knockout's advice, decides to consider joining the heroes' side for good. And when the Mane Eight, Dazzlings, Michael D'Amico, Calves, Louie Walters Jr., Regina Tightlips, and the Autobots, except Optimus, Arcee, Fluttershy, Braeburn, Ratchet, and Piper, who were unaware of Rodney's group's rescue, are captured by Team CortexCon, the rest of the heroes, including Ash and Bart's groups, Starscream, and Knockout, leap into action to save them and their homeworlds and home city from doom.