Just 20 solid seconds. I think there should have been better animation for reactions like hands over mouths, sadness, shock, ...dropped items from hands. But the silence was wise. it was as quiet as every kid watching their screens. Devastating.
I remember being around 8 or 9 years old. I was the same. Bob being fired up into that portal was bad enough but Enzo losing that game which was solid for a kid to beat. I remember being in shock and getting chills! Kids don’t get shows like this anymore. Needless censorship robbed us all.
As she cycles through all those conflicting feelings, shock, horror, anger, terror, loss, disbelief, outrage, and finally just despair. Dot is my waifu, I just want to cuddle her, lol. Bob, you lucky bastard! 👿🤬👿
This show had balls of steel. It took creative risks with the story telling and it paid off. This series will always be one of my favorites. Also love how chilling the end of this episode is. No clear resolution or answers...Just Dot mourning the 'loss' of her brother and Megabyte laughing at our hero's misfortunes...then a fade to black... Classic.
I really how the writers changed things this season and they did not pull punches on Enzo, as even though he was a kid and was working his way up, they didn't give in any advantages or plot armor because he's a kid. He realistically loses a fighting game and then actually gives up on being a Guardian despite being confident before he lost and was stuck in the game. Normally shows for kids would make it so that kids have to magically be the ones to save the say, but instead they were trying to see what the censors ignored them doing. Even Enzo being slashed in the eye and they show it all bloody was ballsy.
YEEeEEeEeeEEeEeEEEesSSsS!~ Though their next few projects; Shadow Raiders, Beast Machines and Spiderman: The new Animated series felt...lacking, probably due to studio meddling. Guardian Code is absolutely unwatchable.
This is so perfect. Not only was the silence perfectly used but Dot's crying and Megabyte's gloating were synced perfectly. I miss Tony Jay, greatest cartoon villain actor ever.
What gets me is that it wasn't one of his usual full-throated laughs or deep chuckling. It was a downright sadistic giggle. He can probably imagine Dot's anguished scream even if he can't hear it...and that just makes it better.
Few shows are brave enough to "kill off" the main hero (and leave it hanging for so long), have the "apprentice" character fail like this, and then have such a brutal time jump... And this was a kid's show. The story arc from the end of Season 2 to the end of Season 3 puts some "adult" sci-fi shows to shame.
I just watched this episode again after years, and even at 24 years old that moment after the system voice says "user wins" was just.. it's hard to describe. Me and my cousin just sat there in silence. Usually we can't help but crack jokes about everything. But not about this. ReBoot was ahead of its time. It's really rare to find a show like this that can cater to both young and older people. I fucking miss this show. Too bad we never got a true finale..
this is likely due to you being young and all the times prior the show had stakes, but they always seemed to win games in mainframe when bob showed up. This ep was the end of a season and they finally lost a game without bob
Apparently it's non-canon or whatever, but there was a webcomic sequel(?) a few years ago that I think had official backing. Paradigm Shift or something. Still haven't read it myself, will do that after I finish rewatching the series
Loss of innocence is a theme that’s overdone across media, but the way ReBoot approaches it with its buildup as a “kids show” up until this moment is really emotionally flooring and some top-tier storytelling
I think the return to Mainframe ranks up there. I'm sure they expected it to get bad, but nowhere in their wildest dreams did they think it could get _THAT_ bad. In other words, it was bad. It was really bad.
That silence is some damn powerful, heavy shit. Just a few episodes prior Bob got shot into the web, then this, followed by Megabyte LAUGHING at the possible death of a child. ReBoot season 3 didn't mess around.
One of the most memorable parts for me. I remembered crying as a kid but that quickly went away when he became the coolest character in the show. ReBoot please come back.
@@solblackguy Another IP sacrificed to corporate greed, that makes literal fanfic around the same concept look far, far superior. Next up? Oh dear God no... with the MGM sale to Amazon, I'm calling it now... *_STARGATE..._* I have only one thing to say to that... *CLOSE THE IRIS!!!*
I'm in my 30's and recently my friends and I had a big multi-day tabletop gaming session where ReBoot was playing in the background. When we got to this scene, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked. Even after all these years, it still hits hard.
that deafening silence after "User Wins" was perfect. only broken when Dot screams "no" - sin counter (ding) followed by Megabyte's laughter knowing that he has achieved a small victory just because Enzo failed to win the game. ReBoot is one of the best animated shows and it is a crime that we never got a true ending. heard there was a comic, but I'm talking about a movie or season that showed the show ending
I hope soon Mainframe Studios allows the OG team to return for one last run. The new ReBoot ReWind documentary is so fascinating, you coudl tell all the people involved were so passionate and STILL are all these years later. It's incredible.
This show was AWESOME! Why literally NO ONE picked it back up again to resolve its unresolved cliffhanger in Season 4 is beyond me! That crap with Netflix does NOT count.
Bob being launched into the web and Enzo losing i remember were the moment that you knew that this wasn't just your average kids show. Look at how many still talk about it today.
Sadly, it seems the revival is pretty much dead. And Zoomers won't give this show a chance because the graphics are a little outdated, so... meh. Not much you can do about it, sadly...
0:28 We can't see Dot's face, but we know it turned to an expression of absolute shock just by the subtle way she moves. This show was so brilliant. Guardian Code doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. I deleted it.
I know right? Think of the great trailers a person could make using just the music from the show and select clips. Guardians code just looks so... generic. I can get over it being a complete reboot. But the trailer showed NONE of the charm, style, mythos, satire, epicness, emotion, heart, and fun of the original series. And as a random bit of trivia, its like/dislike ratio is even worse than Ghostbusters 2015. I never knew it'd be possible.
I don't have ANY clue how the soulless studio overlords calling the shots thought their little exercise in narcissism would work out well in even the remotest sense of the concept. You'd suspect those damned fuckin' focus groups would have _TOLD_ them before they started that Zoomers will not bite since they do not share our familiar loved history to ReBoot due to less of an HD polish they are used to, and the older shows have quality top-level writing with character plots that put many in those recent spat of blockbuster movies to shame, such as Ghostbusters (2016), Independence Day: Resurgence, The Predator, and more. Seriously, why the hell are they hiring these grifters outside of nepotism? Trust me, I _know._ I've tried to get my Gen Z friends into it and many of them just don't care, they prefer something like Filoni's Clone Wars despite the watered down take on the multimedia project that came out a few years prior. They are too addicted to spectacle and put off from the graphics, which... come on, it takes place in the world of _computers._ Virtual reality is under no constraint to look like our own. That being said, it really is understandable - it wasn't their show, their childhood experiences and warm nostalgia and fond passions and constant rewatches. So, the young crowd wasn't going to trifle themselves with a nearly twenty-year-old series when they had so many other possible alternatives to pick and choose from (because believe me, by what I hear from my Zoomer friends, it is harder for them to select media than it was at our ages 😢). Who did they need _the MOST_ to give the failed reboot project greater cultural staying power to help the brand? _"And Mom said all this time in the basement was wasted."_ *OH YEAH.* US. *_REMEMBER US?_* YOUR OLD FANBASE. THE LOYAL CUSTOMERS _YOU_ JUST CALLED FAT NECKBEARD LOSERS. *_Go. To. Hell._* Pardon me for a moment while I _devolve_ into the real Mr. McSweary... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I just went back and watched the episode "To Mend and Defend." There were TWO instances of foreshadowing in there. There was that one liner, but earlier in the episode "zombie Thriller Enzo" accidentally popped his eye out and he had to shove it back in. Season 3 was jammed full of easter eggs.
@@AceSpadeThePikachu The foreshadowing went back far earlier than that--it was in Season 2, in the AndrAIa episode (Enzo's rebooted eyepatch, meaning the eye is badly damaged and needs to be hidden) and Identity Crisis of Season 1 (teenage Enzo with a scar over his eye). Safe bet that they wanted something terrible and life-changing to happen to Enzo for a long time.
This was one of the few OMG moment of any kids TV show I saw, props for ReBoot for redefining CGI with many good episodes plus many parodies. If it got a ReBoot of its own: Minecraft, FNAF, FPS shooters and others would get good jokes.
@@saberiandream316 Very true, even though there some kid shows recently has got some mature writing in them, they really need to bring this lost medium back.
This definitely traumatized me back then, I thought they'd just enter a game and win as usual and then this happened, and the silence at the end, they weren't the only ones in silence after what just happened
Now Enzo (Matrix) realized that Gamecubes are not just for fun, but dangerous as well. Mentioned by Dot Matrix between episodes: "Bad Bob" and "AndrAla".
I remember seeing a description of the episode before it aired, that said something like 'Dot's terror is contrasted by Megabyte's mocking laughter as the voice intones "Game Over, User Wins"'. Didn't stop me being moved by this ending though, and all my friends were discussing it the next day at school!
I remember when this happened as a kid I sat there in shocked silence for almost a whole minute. When I could finally speak again I was like, “No… that… that’s not supposed to happen! They’re the good guys! They’re supposed to win!” My parents couldn’t understand why I was moping the whole afternoon. 😢
I was a teenager when this aired, and my takeaway from it then is the same as it is now. It is the most powerful scene from my favorite childhood show. But I don't feel the heartbreak when Dot screams. No. Instead, watch Dot's initial reaction, before we see her face. I feel it when her shoulders slightly rise, that second after hearing "User wins." That, right there, is when I feel her heartbreak. You can sense the shock, disbelief, and sadness hitting her all at once. That was my favorite animated childhood moment--more than any cartoon or anime could give me at that time. And I still feel, to this day, it with every viewing. Look for the shoulders.
People often write the animation of this show off as "outdated" and "not aged well," but they overlook just how much the animators were able to do with the limited technology they had.
I know this scene is somewhat out of context but if you know then you know but if you don't know then watch from the start of the series and this scene becomes a million times more powerful
Problem: A reboot would start the series from scratch. Much needed, granted... but what about the first series? It won't resolve the cliffhanger. What it needs is a Firefly/Serenity moment, one final movie to resolve the cliffhanger and end the first series with a resounding bang. Maybe then, a reboot.
It should have ended with "Daemon Rising": That said everything that really had to be said for the show. "My Two Bobs" just felt like overkill that left us with things that weren't needed, and a cliffhanger that just hurt. Yes, I know they wanted to make it a trilogy, but "Daemon Rising" was really all that was needed.
I agree. Daemon rising filled in a lot of backstory hints in Season 2, and gave Hex, Bob, Turbo, Kid Enzo, a lot of character development after Season 3. My Two bobs was unnecesary but the only thing it did address was Bob's issue with Glitch breaking him down. They could have focused on that and him returning back to his classic look, but the arc was just too silly trying to be like Season 1 and it really made Dot unlikable.
There will never be another show like reboot, for a show that was about the digital era of its time it's writing was leagues ahead of anything on air and beats today's easily.
This show Reboot took incredibly serious dark twists. The first 10-15 episodes was very kids friendly and always a happy ending. As a kid, I assumed it was going to be a problem the gang solved by beating the game and always outsmarting the villain, but damn was I wrong. You would have never expected this show to become so dark and adult with Bob and Enzo being taken away from Mainframe. Then for the story to basically go 20 years into the future where Mainframe has fallen apart without Bob and Enzo was unreal. Enzo going total renegade, Andrea becoming a total babe was like wtf? Dot's emotional reactions were always really felt, she lost her little brother and the love of her life to the net. Megabyte was a seriously malicious and cold villain, he would torment his own sister to destroy Mainframe.
It's because the network censors were breathing down their necks for the first 2 seasons. The whole episode "Talent Night" was basically the writers taking shots at them. They finally got free reign in season 3, and a truly amazing plot arc became of it ❤️
We STILL haven't gotten the conclusion to that "Prepare yourselves...for the HUNT!" cliffhanger over 20 years later...and no whatever the heck "Guardian Code" was doesn't count.
Exactly. Though there is one contender within this show itself that rivals all other scenes for most devastating... "Prepare yourselves...for the hunt."
Dot's scream of anguish always turns my blood to water every time I hear it. The use of silence says more than over-copious amounts of dialogue could. Honestly, restraint is one of the show's biggest points. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
Actually the scene that traumatized me was from the episode Painted Windows, after Bob cuts-and-pastes Hexadecimal's "mask" off her face, revealing her "face" to be an empty abyss of pure nothingness that sucks everything into it.
Don't laugh viral fool. You're dealing with a woman who's lost her father, her lover and her little brother yet still keeps on going, and she's not even a guardian.
Despite this, Megabyte still took the Principal's Office and was on the verge of infecting the Super Computer. Call him a viral fool if you like, he is still a very dangerous threat.
@@GameAlicornLuna He was badly injured and alone when he tried to get into the Super Computer. He would have been killed the moment he got there. Frankly, he would have been killed even at full power and with an army; the guardians there are very powerful. Bob, a single one of them, was able to thwart his plans over and over again.
@@RingtailCafe Dot is too damned hardcore. So hardcore, even her boyfriend can't handle her, and everyone's okay with that. But... I thought we hate strong women, I thought we hate diversity and all those liberal the - oh. We only hate them coming from smug moral peacocks who can't write for shit and only do it for attention and accolades, lol.
I remember watching this the night it premiered... You could hear a pin drop in my house... The next morning at school, it was all my group of friends could talk about.
@@gracegoff5209 All we wanted was one more season to wrap up that "Prepare yourselves for The Hunt" cliffhanger, but noOooOooo...they gave us a lame Power Rangers rip-off instead.
What a dark ending. Losing Bob was bad enough but losing her little brother made it worse.
That silence. I was 14 when I first saw this. I'm 34 years old now. I know it's coming. Goosebumps, still. Every time.
She thought both were dead. First Bob, then Enzo. Not again.
Just 20 solid seconds. I think there should have been better animation for reactions like hands over mouths, sadness, shock, ...dropped items from hands. But the silence was wise. it was as quiet as every kid watching their screens. Devastating.
I was 11. It changed me lol
@@TheRedGameboythis was state of the art for animation back then dude.
I remember being around 8 or 9 years old. I was the same. Bob being fired up into that portal was bad enough but Enzo losing that game which was solid for a kid to beat. I remember being in shock and getting chills! Kids don’t get shows like this anymore. Needless censorship robbed us all.
the use of silence in this scene is so powerful.
Indeed
As she cycles through all those conflicting feelings, shock, horror, anger, terror, loss, disbelief, outrage, and finally just despair. Dot is my waifu, I just want to cuddle her, lol. Bob, you lucky bastard! 👿🤬👿
It's one of tbe few times where I saw American voice overs do a good job showing the power of silence vs the usual "OMG WTF NO WAY"
@@AgentAika001 I remember this scene as a kid. It was devastating to watch
This show had balls of steel. It took creative risks with the story telling and it paid off. This series will always be one of my favorites. Also love how chilling the end of this episode is. No clear resolution or answers...Just Dot mourning the 'loss' of her brother and Megabyte laughing at our hero's misfortunes...then a fade to black... Classic.
the voice actress my respects did a masterful job the cry of dot noo felt real
@@RaulGonzalez-xt1kx Kathleen Barr voiced Dot
@@gaby85 thanks you Too bad the series was left unfinished.
I really how the writers changed things this season and they did not pull punches on Enzo, as even though he was a kid and was working his way up, they didn't give in any advantages or plot armor because he's a kid. He realistically loses a fighting game and then actually gives up on being a Guardian despite being confident before he lost and was stuck in the game. Normally shows for kids would make it so that kids have to magically be the ones to save the say, but instead they were trying to see what the censors ignored them doing. Even Enzo being slashed in the eye and they show it all bloody was ballsy.
The development of the story is second to none! Started off a bit childish and grew up with us
It's amazing that mainframe had two really good quality shows so close together, Beast Wars and Reboot were both incredible
YEEeEEeEeeEEeEeEEEesSSsS!~
Though their next few projects; Shadow Raiders, Beast Machines and Spiderman: The new Animated series felt...lacking, probably due to studio meddling.
Guardian Code is absolutely unwatchable.
At least Beast Wars got a proper finish.
Reboot has been waiting for 20+ years now for it's ending.
What about Heavy Gear?
This is so perfect. Not only was the silence perfectly used but Dot's crying and Megabyte's gloating were synced perfectly. I miss Tony Jay, greatest cartoon villain actor ever.
I douno man David Kayes Megaton was a fucking mad genius- did the most with the least amount of resources... and pretty much won the beast wars
Dot and Megabyte were the perfect foil to one another.
What gets me is that it wasn't one of his usual full-throated laughs or deep chuckling. It was a downright sadistic giggle. He can probably imagine Dot's anguished scream even if he can't hear it...and that just makes it better.
Few shows are brave enough to "kill off" the main hero (and leave it hanging for so long), have the "apprentice" character fail like this, and then have such a brutal time jump... And this was a kid's show. The story arc from the end of Season 2 to the end of Season 3 puts some "adult" sci-fi shows to shame.
Yeah, look at The Mandalorian, or Voyager.
@saberiandream316 kids show.
mandelorian is clearly not a kids show.
I just watched this episode again after years, and even at 24 years old that moment after the system voice says "user wins" was just.. it's hard to describe. Me and my cousin just sat there in silence. Usually we can't help but crack jokes about everything. But not about this.
ReBoot was ahead of its time. It's really rare to find a show like this that can cater to both young and older people. I fucking miss this show. Too bad we never got a true finale..
this is likely due to you being young and all the times prior the show had stakes, but they always seemed to win games in mainframe when bob showed up. This ep was the end of a season and they finally lost a game without bob
Apparently it's non-canon or whatever, but there was a webcomic sequel(?) a few years ago that I think had official backing.
Paradigm Shift or something. Still haven't read it myself, will do that after I finish rewatching the series
@@Matanumi It wasn't even the end of a season, this was four episodes into the start!
@@nihilvox Paradigms Lost. I just downloaded it online.
This has to be one of the most painful moments in this show's history. 😣
that rank right up there too when Bob got sent to the web
Zenrikku77 I don't remember that one too well...
IMO it's worse
Loss of innocence is a theme that’s overdone across media, but the way ReBoot approaches it with its buildup as a “kids show” up until this moment is really emotionally flooring and some top-tier storytelling
I think the return to Mainframe ranks up there. I'm sure they expected it to get bad, but nowhere in their wildest dreams did they think it could get _THAT_ bad.
In other words, it was bad. It was really bad.
Reboot had amazing writing. They always knew where to put pause.
Yeah, when Bob was lost, I was sad for a day. When Enzo was defeated, that week was ruined.
That silence.................so deafening
It's okay. Enzo becomes a grim aggressor man.
And then gets copied/cloned.
He joined his gun with pirate swords and sailed the seas of cyberspace!
But does he become Bob's successor man?
There's nothing more soul crushing than when plans _fail._
I guess our fears were verified, he wasn't a protector much.
animegx45 "First Bob! Now Enzo! Not again!"
+animegx45 but now we're back together, and everything's alphanumeric.
animegx45 Exactly.
ProfGlitch
And now we’re back together, Everythiiiiinnng iiiis *AaaalphanumERIIIIIIIIIIC*
*DON'T ROLL FURTHER THAN THIS*
That silence is some damn powerful, heavy shit.
Just a few episodes prior Bob got shot into the web, then this, followed by Megabyte LAUGHING at the possible death of a child.
ReBoot season 3 didn't mess around.
It started with the gruesome Mortal Kombat loss to the child protagonist followed by an eye-gouging, and then things *_REALLY_* got serious...
One of the most memorable parts for me. I remembered crying as a kid but that quickly went away when he became the coolest character in the show. ReBoot please come back.
It did, but you're not going to like it 😒
@@solblackguy Another IP sacrificed to corporate greed, that makes literal fanfic around the same concept look far, far superior. Next up? Oh dear God no... with the MGM sale to Amazon, I'm calling it now... *_STARGATE..._*
I have only one thing to say to that...
*CLOSE THE IRIS!!!*
bro when i heard dot just screaming in frustration....it was heartbreaking.
I'm in my 30's and recently my friends and I had a big multi-day tabletop gaming session where ReBoot was playing in the background. When we got to this scene, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked. Even after all these years, it still hits hard.
that deafening silence after "User Wins" was perfect. only broken when Dot screams "no" - sin counter (ding) followed by Megabyte's laughter knowing that he has achieved a small victory just because Enzo failed to win the game.
ReBoot is one of the best animated shows and it is a crime that we never got a true ending. heard there was a comic, but I'm talking about a movie or season that showed the show ending
Indeed. And Guardian Code DOES NOT COUNT.
I hope soon Mainframe Studios allows the OG team to return for one last run. The new ReBoot ReWind documentary is so fascinating, you coudl tell all the people involved were so passionate and STILL are all these years later. It's incredible.
Dot’s screaming gave me absolute chills, and still does.
And MegaByte laughs with triumph
And likely Dot became too depressed to resist Megabyte while Megabyte knows it's a big turning point for his favor to conquer Mainframe
Object Oppose Phone Screaming gave ma absolute chills and still does
Only in ReBoot would you hear the phrase "User wins" and it feels like a punch to the gut.
That megabyte laugh is legendary
Tony Jay's voice may be imitated, but he will never be replaced.
I stoped being a kid the day i saw that episode.
This show was AWESOME!
Why literally NO ONE picked it back up again to resolve its unresolved cliffhanger in Season 4 is beyond me! That crap with Netflix does NOT count.
That was cold… and megabyte at the end: hahahaha…. Loll this was perfect
Simply one of the best shows of that decade. Regardless of genre. The silence is so perfect and shocking, the show really 180's in tone near the end.
My childhood heart was shattered watching this back in the day.
Bob being launched into the web and Enzo losing i remember were the moment that you knew that this wasn't just your average kids show. Look at how many still talk about it today.
Sadly, it seems the revival is pretty much dead. And Zoomers won't give this show a chance because the graphics are a little outdated, so... meh. Not much you can do about it, sadly...
I don't remember too much about this show, but i remember that this moment was shocking when i watched it on tv.
Power Rangers in Space - Countdown to Destruction.
The rangers repeatedly get their asses handed to them throughout the whole thing.
yes this was a big shock for me toosetting the events in motion for Enzo coming home
Drake Young Justice.
Only the thundercats reboot (far as i know) got to that level (sadly it was cancelled).
@@drake8050
Yeah it was pretty dark especially for a kids show. Superman TAS' ending is just as dark as this if you ask me.
It's 2021 and this still gives me chills
You could hear clear across the country with that silence.
That scream just squeeze my throat. What a great TV moment!
this moment rips my heart out every. single. time.
This was one of the most powerful scenes any cartoon has ever done, as far as I'm concerned.
Clone Wars or Green Lantern got nothing on this.
0:28 We can't see Dot's face, but we know it turned to an expression of absolute shock just by the subtle way she moves. This show was so brilliant. Guardian Code doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. I deleted it.
I know right? Think of the great trailers a person could make using just the music from the show and select clips. Guardians code just looks so... generic. I can get over it being a complete reboot. But the trailer showed NONE of the charm, style, mythos, satire, epicness, emotion, heart, and fun of the original series.
And as a random bit of trivia, its like/dislike ratio is even worse than Ghostbusters 2015. I never knew it'd be possible.
I don't have ANY clue how the soulless studio overlords calling the shots thought their little exercise in narcissism would work out well in even the remotest sense of the concept. You'd suspect those damned fuckin' focus groups would have _TOLD_ them before they started that Zoomers will not bite since they do not share our familiar loved history to ReBoot due to less of an HD polish they are used to, and the older shows have quality top-level writing with character plots that put many in those recent spat of blockbuster movies to shame, such as Ghostbusters (2016), Independence Day: Resurgence, The Predator, and more. Seriously, why the hell are they hiring these grifters outside of nepotism?
Trust me, I _know._ I've tried to get my Gen Z friends into it and many of them just don't care, they prefer something like Filoni's Clone Wars despite the watered down take on the multimedia project that came out a few years prior. They are too addicted to spectacle and put off from the graphics, which... come on, it takes place in the world of _computers._ Virtual reality is under no constraint to look like our own. That being said, it really is understandable - it wasn't their show, their childhood experiences and warm nostalgia and fond passions and constant rewatches. So, the young crowd wasn't going to trifle themselves with a nearly twenty-year-old series when they had so many other possible alternatives to pick and choose from (because believe me, by what I hear from my Zoomer friends, it is harder for them to select media than it was at our ages 😢).
Who did they need _the MOST_ to give the failed reboot project greater cultural staying power to help the brand?
_"And Mom said all this time in the basement was wasted."_
*OH YEAH.* US. *_REMEMBER US?_* YOUR OLD FANBASE. THE LOYAL CUSTOMERS _YOU_ JUST CALLED FAT NECKBEARD LOSERS. *_Go. To. Hell._*
Pardon me for a moment while I _devolve_ into the real Mr. McSweary...
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
@@shadowspider9 Holy shit, it's even worse than I thought. O_O
I remember screaming at my television screen when this happened...my little mind couldn't handle it.
Oh hey Enzo
The deer head on the cabin wall was right, it’s all fun until someone loses an eye.
I just went back and watched the episode "To Mend and Defend." There were TWO instances of foreshadowing in there. There was that one liner, but earlier in the episode "zombie Thriller Enzo" accidentally popped his eye out and he had to shove it back in. Season 3 was jammed full of easter eggs.
@@AceSpadeThePikachu The foreshadowing went back far earlier than that--it was in Season 2, in the AndrAIa episode (Enzo's rebooted eyepatch, meaning the eye is badly damaged and needs to be hidden) and Identity Crisis of Season 1 (teenage Enzo with a scar over his eye). Safe bet that they wanted something terrible and life-changing to happen to Enzo for a long time.
This FUCKED ME UP as a kid. Love it
Phong: Enzo, what wrong? Do you read me?, Enzo, ENNNNNZOOOOO!
God, Dot's scream, you can really feel her pain... Man...
This was one of the few OMG moment of any kids TV show I saw, props for ReBoot for redefining CGI with many good episodes plus many parodies. If it got a ReBoot of its own: Minecraft, FNAF, FPS shooters and others would get good jokes.
This is mature writing you don't get much of anymore.
@@saberiandream316 Very true, even though there some kid shows recently has got some mature writing in them, they really need to bring this lost medium back.
This definitely traumatized me back then, I thought they'd just enter a game and win as usual and then this happened, and the silence at the end, they weren't the only ones in silence after what just happened
This is one of my top 10 most nerve racking moments growing up. From when he became a "guardian" to this was a wild roller coaster.
When I was a kid, this scene broke my heart
Now Enzo (Matrix) realized that Gamecubes are not just for fun, but dangerous as well.
Mentioned by Dot Matrix between episodes: "Bad Bob" and "AndrAla".
I remember seeing a description of the episode before it aired, that said something like 'Dot's terror is contrasted by Megabyte's mocking laughter as the voice intones "Game Over, User Wins"'. Didn't stop me being moved by this ending though, and all my friends were discussing it the next day at school!
Rewatching this after rewatching/relistening to Firewall. The silence... so deafening, everything about this entire clip, a thing of beauty.
This episode shook the hell out of me when it aired.
I remember when this happened as a kid I sat there in shocked silence for almost a whole minute.
When I could finally speak again I was like, “No… that… that’s not supposed to happen! They’re the good guys! They’re supposed to win!” My parents couldn’t understand why I was moping the whole afternoon. 😢
Pulling the rug out from under us over two decades before Avengers: Infinity War.
the reaction you get from the new live action tv show
I keep watching, but it's like a car accident. Can't stop looking.
That was a dark ending, and it wasn't even the final episode.
Bob going into the Web was Ned Stark dying.
This was The Red Wedding.
"I don't feel so good, Mr. Stark..."
I was a teenager when this aired, and my takeaway from it then is the same as it is now. It is the most powerful scene from my favorite childhood show. But I don't feel the heartbreak when Dot screams. No. Instead, watch Dot's initial reaction, before we see her face. I feel it when her shoulders slightly rise, that second after hearing "User wins." That, right there, is when I feel her heartbreak. You can sense the shock, disbelief, and sadness hitting her all at once. That was my favorite animated childhood moment--more than any cartoon or anime could give me at that time. And I still feel, to this day, it with every viewing. Look for the shoulders.
People often write the animation of this show off as "outdated" and "not aged well," but they overlook just how much the animators were able to do with the limited technology they had.
I know this scene is somewhat out of context but if you know then you know but if you don't know then watch from the start of the series and this scene becomes a million times more powerful
I teared up when I saw this when it first aired.
Man, even now at 34 I get a little teary eyed.
I remember breaking down in tears after hearing “User wins” & i cried in pure grief😢😢😢
If you sidnt cry whenever you see this scene after the Game itself. You are a literal megabyte
Problem: A reboot would start the series from scratch. Much needed, granted... but what about the first series? It won't resolve the cliffhanger.
What it needs is a Firefly/Serenity moment, one final movie to resolve the cliffhanger and end the first series with a resounding bang. Maybe then, a reboot.
The cliffhanger was resolved in comics. Essentially the codemasters wipe out all the viruses in order to try and take over the net. It got weird.
@@RXdash78 To bad no Animated version of it though :(
@@RXdash78 Sounds lame, not gonna lie.
One of the saddest scenes of Reboot.
This show was way ahead of its time. Even years later this scene still cuts me.
This particular scene always stuck with me.
#wow só fui saber disso hoje por um vídeo de um canal em espanhol 🇪🇸 infelizmente essas últimas temporadas nunca passaram no Brasil 🇧🇷
From what I've heard this show had very limited release outside of Canada and the U.S.
That twenty seconds of silence still gets to me to this day.
It should have ended with "Daemon Rising": That said everything that really had to be said for the show. "My Two Bobs" just felt like overkill that left us with things that weren't needed, and a cliffhanger that just hurt. Yes, I know they wanted to make it a trilogy, but "Daemon Rising" was really all that was needed.
Nah, fuck you. I'd be fine with 15 seasons. Supernatural hasn't been good for 8 years, why do they get to continue when better shows don't?
@@aldendomino3523 Because they were cheaper to make.
I agree. Daemon rising filled in a lot of backstory hints in Season 2, and gave Hex, Bob, Turbo, Kid Enzo, a lot of character development after Season 3. My Two bobs was unnecesary but the only thing it did address was Bob's issue with Glitch breaking him down. They could have focused on that and him returning back to his classic look, but the arc was just too silly trying to be like Season 1 and it really made Dot unlikable.
I saw this on TV back in the day and even then it hit hard.
That silence is deadly.
Megabytes laugh really added to it
Especially the way it overlapped with Dot's scream.
Soooooo... we can call off the med-teams then?
MetaGrave yep
Yeah just go in there with a scoop and some slug food.
Dude... too soon ☹️
You're gonna need them to treat the fans after seeing TGC...
There will never be another show like reboot, for a show that was about the digital era of its time it's writing was leagues ahead of anything on air and beats today's easily.
This show Reboot took incredibly serious dark twists. The first 10-15 episodes was very kids friendly and always a happy ending. As a kid, I assumed it was going to be a problem the gang solved by beating the game and always outsmarting the villain, but damn was I wrong. You would have never expected this show to become so dark and adult with Bob and Enzo being taken away from Mainframe. Then for the story to basically go 20 years into the future where Mainframe has fallen apart without Bob and Enzo was unreal. Enzo going total renegade, Andrea becoming a total babe was like wtf? Dot's emotional reactions were always really felt, she lost her little brother and the love of her life to the net. Megabyte was a seriously malicious and cold villain, he would torment his own sister to destroy Mainframe.
Then Guardian Code came along and was all "Nash, let's turn it into a Power Rangers clone."
It's because the network censors were breathing down their necks for the first 2 seasons. The whole episode "Talent Night" was basically the writers taking shots at them.
They finally got free reign in season 3, and a truly amazing plot arc became of it ❤️
Just thinking the words "The user wins" sends shiver down my spine.
Worst part about that is we had to wait months to figure out what happened.
We STILL haven't gotten the conclusion to that "Prepare yourselves...for the HUNT!" cliffhanger over 20 years later...and no whatever the heck "Guardian Code" was doesn't count.
1:00 - 1:03 So that's where Frollo's evil laugh in Smash Bros Lawl and The Frollo Show came from...
R.I.P. Tony Jay.
That scream was so real 👀 wasn't a normal kids show delivery
The User aka Villain Wins the game
I miss this show
To me, this is when things just got real in this series
And The Guardian Code was when things got _unreal._
that was a dark day Dot would never forget.
Out of all the moments I remember from this show, its probably this one. Man poor Enzo.
0:55 Object Oppose Episode 15 Ending
(Phone Screaming)
(Taoism Evil Laugh)
Which is worse?
-Bob getting shot into the Web?
-Or this?
Guardian Code is worse. FAAAAAAAAR worse. Just everything about it, its entire existence. XD
@@AceSpadeThePikachu You mean the fact that they're willing to blow up Mainfraime to destroy the web-creature.
No, I mean the SHOW "Guardian Code" on Netflix. I don't blame you if you've blotted it out of your mind, it is terrible. XD
@@AceSpadeThePikachu Never even touched it... and don't plan on it (At least not right away) THIS is MY Reboot... THIS is where I/you/real fans belong
Exactly.
Though there is one contender within this show itself that rivals all other scenes for most devastating...
"Prepare yourselves...for the hunt."
That really happened???
PS. this vs the one in episode "The Tearing"
This was in Season 3. The Tearing was in Season 1.
@@AceSpadeThePikachu Ikr
This show and Batman had the best filmmaking prowess of cartoons in those days.
Object Oppose
Soap Bottle:Specky
Phone:Dot Matrix
Flashlight:Mouse
Gel ball:Fong
Taoism:Megabyte
Reboot s3 ep4 Game Over Ending
Side by side
Hehehehehehehe. Huahuahuahuahua. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. - Megabyte
Dot's scream of anguish always turns my blood to water every time I hear it.
The use of silence says more than over-copious amounts of dialogue could.
Honestly, restraint is one of the show's biggest points. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
Saddest cartoon moment ever.
This traumatized me as a kid.
Actually the scene that traumatized me was from the episode Painted Windows, after Bob cuts-and-pastes Hexadecimal's "mask" off her face, revealing her "face" to be an empty abyss of pure nothingness that sucks everything into it.
Don't laugh viral fool. You're dealing with a woman who's lost her father, her lover and her little brother yet still keeps on going, and she's not even a guardian.
And *that* is why she is the command dot com.
Despite this, Megabyte still took the Principal's Office and was on the verge of infecting the Super Computer. Call him a viral fool if you like, he is still a very dangerous threat.
@@GameAlicornLuna He was badly injured and alone when he tried to get into the Super Computer. He would have been killed the moment he got there. Frankly, he would have been killed even at full power and with an army; the guardians there are very powerful. Bob, a single one of them, was able to thwart his plans over and over again.
@@RingtailCafe Dot is too damned hardcore. So hardcore, even her boyfriend can't handle her, and everyone's okay with that. But... I thought we hate strong women, I thought we hate diversity and all those liberal the - oh. We only hate them coming from smug moral peacocks who can't write for shit and only do it for attention and accolades, lol.
He's related to her making this worse
this show was so good
This fucked me up as a kid especially when the user rips out Enzo's eye
Yo this show still hits hard.
I remember watching this the night it premiered... You could hear a pin drop in my house... The next morning at school, it was all my group of friends could talk about.
0:51 Object Oppose Episode 15 Ending Deteled
Phone: My Leaf..... no..... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
(Taoism Evil Laugh)
(Sigh) I am in love for Megabyte's laugh. Right, Ace? 0:58
Indeed. Just a shame Guardian Code had to ruin everything.
@@AceSpadeThePikachu I think ReBoot ended in 2001.
@@gracegoff5209 All we wanted was one more season to wrap up that "Prepare yourselves for The Hunt" cliffhanger, but noOooOooo...they gave us a lame Power Rangers rip-off instead.
@@AceSpadeThePikachu Good night, Ace.
This was a shocking moment.
Enzo and AndrAIa along with Frisket didn’t get nullified
They stayed with the Game by switching their icons to Game Sprite mode
Yes I know that, I watched the show. :P
@@AceSpadeThePikachu you can use emojis you know
@@denisgauthier9191 On desktop? I don't have a phone or tablet.
I remember this moment and how shocking it was
I remember this moment too