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Heroes

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired Feb 20, 1999

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Gotham gets some extra help in the form of The Terrific Trio, three scientists with superpowers gained from a radiation accident, now fighting crime with full government backing. Alas, behind the scenes, things aren't as terrific as they seem.

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Fiona Landers

Girl
GUEST STAR
Don Harvey

Kidnapper
GUEST STAR
Robert Davi

Magma / Dr. Mike Morgan

Will Friedle

Terry McGinnis / Batman
Ryan O'Donohue

Matt McGinnis
Stockard Channing

Commissioner Barbara Gordon (1999-2000)
Kevin Conroy

Bruce Wayne

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The Terrific Trio is a blatant rip off of the Fantastic Four but I love when comics rip each other off.

9.5

"Superb"

By tramlaw301, Sep 21, 2011

The Terrific Trio is great. Magma is my favorite. He's a gigantic walking Volcano with an attitude because he can't be with the woman he loves. He definitely has the same complex that The Thing has. I would too if I was a human Volcanic Rock. Batman gets to take a little break from saving everyone and the Terrific Trio shows why most super heros are independantly wealthy and self-supportive because the government has their own plans with super heros. The Terrific Trio was governmently funded and then SHUT DOWN just like any other project that either gives them trouble or loses funding. They attacked the Terrific Trio!!! They could've tried to help them but instead they just tried to eliminate them. Thanks Government.moreless
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An alright episode...

8.3

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By green_arrow92, Nov 30, 2006

In this episode these other heroes known as the terrific trio come to gotham and well do what heroes do. they were all turned into heroes by accident. I think that they just ripped off the fantastic 4 in this episode. Butmarvel comics aren't my favorite i like DC better so it doesn't really matter. They have 2 dimensional man, Magma, and this other girl who is like mist. I liked it in this episode when terry and matt are out in the mall and matt says that the terrific trio has nothing on batman and terry offers to buy him ice cream and matt says why are you being so nice? This was a good episode not the best but still not the worst. later...moreless
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The true nature of heroism

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By dregj, Nov 03, 2006

A accident invovling radiation
turns three scientists
into superpowered beings
The terific trio
MAGMA :a clayface clone with super heat powers
FREON:an insubstantail ice queen who cannot touch her boyfriend (magma)
2D MAN:Wearing a copy of elongated man`s outfit and having his powers pretty much

After some success beating criminals and suplating batman as gotham`s defenders the new heroes discover that there more to the business than the adulation of the masses .
Turns out the radiation that gave them there powers is also slowly killing them.There goverment handlers have been keeping that information from them. They quickly turn very unheroic and threaten the city,Magma and co activate there atomic device again knowing that this time it could destroy the city.
There friend advises against it .He admits his love for freon caused him to sabotage the device hoping to kill magma and get the girl.
Batsy must defeat the trio before gotham glows in the dark.

A kind of relatistic version of the fantastic four.
The radiation ,source of many super powers actually causes there cells to breaks down(real science??in a cartoon)
The heroes are minipulated by the goverment and others
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The Terrific Trio?

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By danideathstrike, Nov 03, 2006

As a fan of comic books, i know when i see a rip off- but The Terrific Trio? This is so blatant they might as well be holding as sign saying "we are the fantastic 4" jumping up and down screamin "dont look at us". if it was the actually fantastic four, i wouldnt have minded the episode- but becaue it is the The Terrific Trio it just p***ed me off. The story was very predictable. i was supried that DC or whoever made this sunk so low to copy others. they should think some new stuff up and get on with it. 5 out of 10moreless
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By saiyanman5215, Jul 22, 2005

just like it says in my classification field, this was one of the better written episodes in that neither Terry nor Bruce had all the answers. it was a bit sad to see how the "terrific trio" turned on each other but it seemed as if it was enviatable and i guess as the episode showed it was.
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- In the opening scene, the bad guy crashes into a billboard. On the billboard, the "r" in "Work, Win" is backwards.
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- In the end, where the fourth scientist's legs were frozen, if you look closely in another scene, they are unfrozen and then they are frozen again.
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- Matt: Hey, peg it, Magma underwear. Terry: (disinterested) Shway. Shop Clerk: Yeah, it's great to finally have some clean, wholesome heroes the kids can look up to. Matt: Eh, those guys are twips. Batman rips. Terry: You think? Matt: Big time! Terry: How about an ice cream? My treat. Matt: Sure! What's the catch?
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- Batman: Satisfied? Dr. Hodges: No. You don't understand, I was their friend. Batman: Right.
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- Batman: Now the army's attacking - I thought they were the good guys too!
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- Batman: Magma. Working solo tonight? Magma: Out of my way! (punches Batman) Batman: How about showing a fellow civil servant some professional courtesy? (Magma slams Batman against a wall) And I thought he was one of the good guys.
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- Batman: Er oh. (sees lava footsteps on the floor) Bruce: What is it. Batman: It ain't Smoky the Bear.
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- Batman: (to Bruce) I don't know why you bother to send me out. With the Terrific Trio around, there not even a purse snatcher in sight!
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- Terry: Looks like I'll have a lot more time to do my homework now. Bruce: We'll see.
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- (Magma smashes a police car) Policeman #1: Hey! That's police property! Policeman #2: You tell him.
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- Batman: (upon flying near a building) I'm picking up some heat signatures. Bruce: (in Batcave) Fire? Batman: Or a weenie roast.
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- Terry: Remember, you're heroes. Magma: No, real heroes, they make a choice. We never did.
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NOTES (1)
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- This episode, along with "Lost Soul" and "Splicer" were released on VHS as Batman Beyond: Tech Wars. It was later paired up with the VHS release of Batman Beyond: Disappearing Inque (consisting of "Black Out", "Disappearing Inque" and "Shriek") on DVD.
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- Batman Lifting Debris This scene references Amazing Spider-Man #31, the famous issue where Spider-Man battles the Master Planner and needs to lift a ton of debris to get the medicine his Aunt May needs in time.
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- The Terrific Trio Clearly the group is an allusion to Marvel Comic's Fantastic Four. Magma is a cross between the Human Torch and the Thing, 2-D Man can stretch like Mr. Fantastic (although Hodges has his super-intelligence), and Freon can turn (semi-)transparent and create clear structures (out of ice rather then force fields).
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