Satellite Secrets

+ October 31, 2021 (Cartoon Network Mexico)
* May 23, 2023 (Max United States)

"**Satellite Secrets**" is the fourth episode of the first season of *Villainous*, and the fourth episode overall.

It was released on HBO Max Latin America on October 29, 2021. and aired on Cartoon Network Mexico on October 31, 2021, and it was released on Max United States on May 23, 2023.

## Synopsis

A board of directors of an unknown organization has been assembled to discuss an emergency: the villain known as V.I.R.U.S. stole important information from them and threatens to leak it on the internet. One of the directors blames an armored figure in the shadows, complaining that they didn't do their job correctly; the figure, in turn, remarks on how the man is acting like a villain, and intimidates him into giving them his watch and wallet. Addressing the hero by their code name, Airlock, the leader of the board asks if they're up to the task, to which they reassure the board they are. Unbeknownst to anyone in the room, V.I.R.U.S. watched the whole discussion, and comes to the logical conclusion that he will require the assistance of Black Hat Organization.

Meanwhile, Dr. Flug goes about his day running errands for the company, such as overhauling the security systems, containing Demencia and burning evidence. Once all his tasks are done, he gets ready for breakfast with 5.0.5. and expresses his eagerness to watch the last episode of his favorite show, *Code Turkey*. Turning on the TV, both watch a reporter interviewing the hero Goldheart about the disappearance of Sunblast, who claims that although they've never met, all could agree he was a true hero; Flug sarcastically remarks that "one thing's for sure, he didn't meet him". He changes the channel and gets an ad for *Code Turkey*'s series finale, panicking and turning off the TV in order to avoid spoilers. Demencia joins them for breakfast and mocks the show, claiming Flug only watches it because it features talking airplanes, to which Flug replies in annoyance that she's thinking of another show.

Demencia then mumbles while eating cereal and watches TV, and to the doctor's surprise, it has been hacked. V.I.R.U.S. introduces itself and requests their help, and they hear the growling voice of their boss. The group is sucked into Flug's paper bag, winding up in Black Hat's office, where he assigns them to secure the data stolen by their client and defend its system from the military superhero, Airlock. Flug tries suggesting that Demencia handle the mission by herself, only for Black Hat to cut him off, telling Demencia will accompany him - after all, he *knows* that the doctor has *no plans whatsoever* for the night. Flug tries to stand up to the villain but concedes, and the team is immediately teleported to their destination.

V.I.R.U.S. greets the trio to his data storage facility, and Flug calculates they have about 6 hours to complete the mission and arrive home in time for *Code Turkey*'s series finale. Demencia claims she can see the manor from the window, to Flug's relief, which turns into dismay once he realizes they're in a satellite on Earth's orbit and he'll never make it in time. Demencia waves and calls for Black Hat, wondering if he can see her; back in the manor, he looks up, growls and hisses. Soon enough, V.I.R.U.S. systems detect Airlock approaching and Demencia readies herself, frustrating her partner. Flug asks why does he bother, and comments that a horrible kids show, *Weeweenies,* is airing at the moment. Back in the manor, Black Hat watches the show, but with a thought changes the script to ruin the characters' lives.

Airlock enters the satellite blowing a hole on a wall, and sealing it with a foamy substance. Removing her helmet, the hero makes her way into the control panels of the station and gets ambushed by Demencia; the fight that follows breaks the panels and renders V.I.R.U.S. unable to defend himself and his allies. Airlock traps Demencia in the control room and is shocked to find out she is human, but focuses on her mission and heads to the server room. Demencia then promptly escapes through the vents. Back once again to Black Hat, he now ruins a soap opera.

Flug rushes to the server room and starts the backup of V.I.R.U.S.'s data into his plane flash drive, as the robotic voice thanks him for their good service and promises to leave a good review. When asked by the doctor, the A.I. reveals the contents of the stolen databanks: to Flug's horror, it's the final episode of *Code Turkey*. V.I.R.U.S.'s plan was to cause riots after leaking the episode on the internet, and the executives hired Airlock to stop him. The hero arrives and is in disbelief at Flug's choice of headgear, as well as the fact that tries pointing at her with his eyes closed. Under attack from her hand cannon, Flug tries to shoot back but is still unwilling to open his eyes and risk getting the ending spoiled - which frustrates her even further.

Demencia arrives at the scene and nearly gets hit by a stray ray from Flug, claiming she missed him as well. The backup process is finished and they attempt to flee, and get cut off by Airlock - but the timely appearance of 5.0.5., who was watching *Weeweenies* and was traumatized by Black Hat's interference, distracts her and allows them to breeze through. They head towards a spacecraft, but the hero chases them and blows it up. Having reached her breaking point, Airlock declares they are by far the most insufferable and annoying enemies she has ever faced, and in a deranged attempt to finish them off blasts a hole in the satellite's shell. While Flug and 5.0.5. are nearly sucked into space and hold on to dear life, Airlock is enraged to find out that Demencia is unaffected by the pressure drop, as she sticks to the ground and several items fly out of her hair. But once Demencia's Black Hat doll flies away, it lands on Airlock's chest, prompting her to attack the hero and make her jetpack spiral out of control.

While Demencia retrieves her doll, Airlock nearly slips, but 5.0.5. manages to catch her. Unwilling to spend another second with the villains, she detaches her prosthetic hand and lets herself be sucked into the cold void of space. Flug uses her hand cannon to seal the hole in the wall, and celebrates that there's still time left to watch the finale; Demencia suggests him to watch it in the spot, since he has it all on the flashdrive, but Flug retorts that he's a villain, not a pirate. As they have no way of going home, V.I.R.U.S. helps them by crashing the satellite on Hat Island, near the manor.

Excited to finally watch the finale, having saved all of his breaks for this moment, Flug turns on the TV. Just as the program is about to start, V.I.R.U.S. butts in and tells the major plot points of the episode to the audience - to the doctor's misery and Black Hat's entertainment, as he requested this from the A.I. as payment for the service.

In a mid-credits scene, Airlock is floating through space with an emergency oxygen helmet, finally relaxing. However, she bumps into the same space monster that Black Hat fed Malum Kranus to; she simply sighs and asks him to make it quick, as he licks her and starts biting into her helmet.

## Credits

* English version
* Spanish version

* **Dubbing Studio:**
	+ VOA Studios Miami
* **Translator:**
	+ Cindy Perez
* **Director:**
	+ Jose Aparicio
* **Sound Engineer:**
	+ Nico Chang
* **Voices by:**
	+ Alan Ituriel as Black Hat
	+ Yian Ruiz as Dr. Flug
	+ Cindy Eliz as Demencia
	+ Jinon Deeb as Airlock Unmasked
	+ Sean Davis as V.I.R.U.S.
* **Secondary Voices by:**
	+ Doug Turkel as Airlock
	+ Sahid Pabon as EWE
	+ Jason Kesser as Stallion
	+ Katherine Clavelo as UWU

- **Producer/Director**
	* Alan Ituriel

- **SVP & CM WarnerMedia Kids LATAM**
	* Pablo Zuccarino

- **Head of Original Production WarnerMedia Kids LATAM**
	* Jaime Jiménez Rión

- **Executive Producers**
	* Humberto Cervera
	* Andrés Milán

- **Associated Producers**
	* Ernesto Alemán
	* Jácora Xochitl

- **Executive VP of AI Animation Studios**
	* Mayte Sanz

- **Written by**
	* Diego Valenzuela
	* Stephan Schöer Silva
	* Alan Ituriel

- **Story Editor**
	* Diego Valenzuela

- **Original Story**
	* Alan Ituriel

- **Storyboard Artists**
	* Julio Villegas
	* Ariadna "Ami" Guillén
	* Carlos Ramírez Bernal
	* Lucía Delgado Mixcoatl

- **Original Score by**
	* Kevin Manthei

- **Casting**
	* Karla Falcón

- **Dialogue Director**
	* Alan Ituriel

- **Voice Cast**
	* José Macías as Dr. Flug
	* Melissa Gedeón as Demencia
	* Mark Fischbach as 5.0.5.
	* Alan Ituriel as Black Hat
	* Raul Anaya as V.I.R.U.S.
	* Rebecca Patiños as Airlock
	* Armando Coita as Executive #1
	* Roberto Gutiérrez as Executive #2
	* Edson Matus as Goldheart
	* Erika Buenfil as Fernanda
	* Gaby Guznan as Reporter
	* Betzabé Jara as OWO
	* Mauricio Pérez as EWE and Friend Sun
	* David Camarillo as UWU

- **Additional Voices**
	* Javier Sanchez
	* Stephan Silva
	* Alan Ituriel

- **Production Manager**
	* Adriana Cid Flores

- **Production Coordinator**
	* A. Gabriela Morales Piña

- **Production Assistants**
	* Aile Salinas Villegas
	* Giovann Peña Ulloa

- **Lead Character Artists**
	* Miguel Angel "Thor" Sánchez García
	* Alan Ituriel

- **Character Artists**
	* Ami Guillén
	* Ramsés Uriel Villegas Ochoa
	* Carlos Ramírez Bernal
	* Christian Paul Cárdenas Galarraga
	* Ornella Antista
	* Ruben Steven Cárdenas
	* Paul Köhn Díaz
	* Gerardo Rául Cepeda Carranza
	* Pamela Medina "Bysamy" Uribe Quintanar
	* Alan Ituriel

- **Concept Art**
	* Miguel Ángel "Thor" Sánchez García
	* Ramsés Uriel Villegas Ochoa

- **Props Design**
	* Miguel Angel "Thor" Sánchez García
	* Paul Köhn Díaz
	* Ramsés Uriel Villegas Ochoa
	* Christian Paul Cárdenas Galarraga
	* Gerardo Alejandro Oviedo Rodríguez
	* Alan Ituriel

- **Background Supervisor**
	* Oscar "Yoke" Flores Tovar

- **Location Design**
	* Oscar "Yoke" Flores Tovar
	* Miguel Angel "Thor" Sánchez García
	* Ramsés Uriel Villegas Ochoa
	* Paul Köhn Díaz

- **Background Artists**
	* Oscar "Yoke" Flores Tovar
	* Jose Manuel Cuautle Sortano
	* Alma Canchola
	* Jesús Enrique de María y Campos
	* Joris Sanchez
	* Maritza Agutlar Camacho
	* Andrés "Kalegrro" del Valle
	* Miriam "May" Serrano
	* Juán Urbeña
	* Crosby González Guerrero
	* Pamela Medina "Betsy" Urribe Quintazar
	* Gerardo Rául Cepeda Carranza
	* Paul Köhn Díaz
	* Miguel Angel "Thor" Sánchez García
	* Ramsés Uriel Villegas Ochoa

- **Animation Supervisor**
	* Ana Guerrero

- **Revisionist Animation**
	* Ami Guillén

- **Layout Animation**
	* Ornella Antista
	* Aide Eth Paulina Olvera Ruiz
	* Juan Miguel Figueroa Vega
	* Ruben Steven Cárdenas Trejo
	* Andrew Steven Peñaranda Arango
	* Chloe Anastasia Cherubin
	* Marco Antonio Villagómex
	* Iara Atlen Sepulveda
	* José "Joe" Cruz
	* Ami Guillén
	* Laura "Jashiraptor" Rosas López
	* Stephan Silva
	* TheFlyingPanda (Nanda W)
	* Pamela Medina "Bysamy" Urribe Quintanar
	* José Luis Rutz De La Cruz
	* Gerardo Alejandro Oviedo Rodríguez
	* Alan Ituriel
	* Adrian Andrés Vargas Naranjo

- **Clean Supervision**
	* Adriana Cid Flores
	* Ana Guerrero

- **Clean Animation**
	* Iris Lilián Palacios Fernández
	* Veronica González Riviera
	* Hernán Rodríguez Carrillo
	* Aide Eth Paulina Olvera Ruiz
	* Jesús "Krizth" Rojas López
	* Daniela Trejo Rutz
	* Mariolt Granados
	* Stephan Silva
	* Ami Guillén

- **Revisionist Animation**
	* Ana Guerrero
	* Ami Guillén
	* Carlos Ramírez Bernal
	* Alan Ituriel

- **Intermission/Clean-Up Animation for APUS**
	* Gabriel Bonilla
	* Jantzen R. Estela
	* Sofia Chavez

- **Animation/Inbetweens**
	* Alessio Del Pozo
	* Claudia Sofia Vargas
	* Christian García
	* Christian Jiménez
	* Fernández Cipriani Llontop
	* Jantzen R. Estela
	* Julinho Espinoza
	* Mauricio Chavez
	* Max Grohovaz
	* Meler Asto
	* Pamela Aching
	* Veronica Noemi Casimiro
	* Ximena Ruiz
	* Yumi V. Matayosh

- ***APUS***
	* **Clean**
		+ Alejandro Gamarra Chapoñan
		+ Anita "Kros" Mejía
		+ Angely Arriola
		+ Brenda Guzmán Hidalgo
		+ Bronny Medina
		+ Carolina Cabrera
		+ Camila Fernández
		+ Claudia Sofia Rodríguez
		+ Edward Melgarejo Cueva
		+ Fernanda Cipriani Llontop
		+ Ireneko-chan
		+ Gabriela Doig Grandez
		+ Gerhardo Manuel Ouispe
		+ Gracia Pérez
		+ Jantzen R. Estela
		+ Lucero "Meloo" Martinez
		+ Meler Asto
		+ Ronny Palomimo
		+ Sebastian Meza
		+ Victor Arriojas
		+ Viviana "Bobt" Rodríguez

- ***Mokiki Animation Studios***
	* **Color Supervision**
		+ Ana Ferrer
		+ Adriana Cid Flores
	* **Colorists**
		+ Araceli Calderón Garcia
		+ Hernán Rodríguez Carrillo
		+ Claudia "Hioseb" Quezada
		+ Alejandra Flores Minakata

- **Composition Supervision**
	* Iván Javier Hernández García

- **Lead Composition Artist**
	* Brenda Lizeth López Becerra

- **Composition Artist**
	* Adrian Valdivia Marin

- **Episodic Intro**
	* Gerardo Alejandro Oviedo Rodríguez

- **Animatic Editor**
	* Gerardo Alejandro Oviedo Rodríguez

- **Editing Supervision**
	* Carlos "Xicuer" Damián

- **Editing**
	* Gerardo Alejandro Oviedo Rodríguez

- **Editing Assistant**
	* Alejandra María Belmont Alvarez

- **Recording Studio**
	* SDI Media de Mexico

- **Audio Post-Production**
	* Audio 4 Media

- **Dialogue Editing**
	* Juán David Chaparro

- **Foley Artists**
	* Robert Pérez
	* Mauricio Mendoza
	* Nicolás Gutiérrez C.
	* Nikol Pizarro

- **Sound Design**
	* María Claudia Mora
	* Juán David Chaparro

- **Sound Design Assistant**
	* Robert Pérez

- **Final Mixing**
	* María Claudia Mora
	* Juán David Chaparro

## Cartoon Network/Warner Bros./Hanna Barbera references/cameos

* During Flug's calibration of the manor's security systems, a raccoon resembling Rigby from *Regular Show* is vaporized by the hat-drones. This is a nod to the "Bad Security" short, where a blue-jay resembling Mordecai is blown up by Black Hat.
* Several Cartoon Network shows were referenced in this episode as props:
	+ A Beebo from *The PowerPuff Girls*.
	+ A Black-Hat version of the Grim Reaper's original scythe from the pilot episode of *The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy*, "Meet the Reaper".
	+ A bandaged jawbreaker from *Ed, Edd n Eddy*.

## Trivia

* Episode Lip-Sync: Spanish
* Goldheart, the hero in Flug's dream in "The Dreadful Dawn", has his design fully revealed in this episode.
* Additional animation services / clean-up is provided by APUS Estudio in Mexico.

## References

* The kids show that Black Hat tampered with, "Weeweenies", is a spoof of a british kids show, *Teletubbies.*
	+ Conversely, after ruining the soap opera he leaves a black rose, seemingly in reference to *La rosa de Guadalupe.*
* Two of the agents resemble Marcela Valencia and Patricia Fernández from the Mexican sitcom, *Yo soy Betty, la fea.*
* According to layout artist Paul Kohn Diaz, the screens shown briefly on the space shuttle where Airlock battles the three is inspired from the computer screens shown in the anime, *Neon Genesis Evangelion*.
* Flug's favorite show *Código Guajolote* (English: *Codename Guajolote*) has a protagonist named Macías. This is not only a direct nod to Flug's Spanish VA, José Macías, but also a homage to an ad-lib line performed by Macías in the *Pokémon'* episode "The Fortune Hunters", specifically the Latin American dub where the character James (also voiced by Macías), dressed as a Moltres proclaims himself as *Moltres el Guajolote Macías*.
	+ The English name for the show "Codename Guajolote" may have been inspired from the Cartoon Network series, *Codename: Kids Next Door*.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/kohn\_paul/status/1455324335011508228/photo/1
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/RubenSteven4/status/1455320289215229960
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/kohn\_paul/status/1455995023993057283