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Voltron Legendary Defender Kickass Torrent Download voltron legendary defender kickass torrent download Will There Be a Voltron Legendary Defender Sequel? The showrunners weigh in on whether we could ever get a Voltron sequel or spin-off. Voltron Legendary Defender may only be a little over half way through its overall run but fans are already hoping the story won’t end. Could there ever be a sequel or spin-off to Netflix’s Voltron? Showrunners Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery love the Voltron universe and agree there’s a ton of potential in the world for a spin- off or sequel. However Dos Santos makes it clear that decision is outside of their control and that, “we couldn’t answer that now if you paid us a million dollars.” Speculatively though the two have many things they’d love to expand on if they got to do more with the Voltron universe. Montgomery says they both would love to pursue stories that don’t necessarily move the series forward in the tradition sequel sense but going back and seeing different sides of the current story. “How did the rebels form? How did the Blade of Marmora form?” Montgomery says. “Just exploring the depths of some of the organizations we didn’t get to spend a ton of time with.” Please help us grow further! As you can see we have very few ads and no popups on the website. We are trying our best to upload as much videos as we can. But we need your help. Please help us maintain the website and keep uploading movies and series! Please donate. Every dollar counts! Voltron: Legendary Defender. Five unlikely teenage heroes and their flying robot lions unite to form the megapowerful Voltron and defend the universe from evil. KissAnime Review: Voltron: Legendary Defender is one of the biggest surprises of the year 2016. This anime, which I free even refuse to compare with the other ones is the masterpiece created by my favorite director. If a anime can manage me to stay hooked on the whole anime online, that’s very impressive. Voltron: Legendary Defender’s one of the best anime films ever made, I love music. Everytime I watch this anime online, I really enjoy the music, it is just pure soul of that anime. The opening song still gives me goosebumps and increases the warmth of my body. I needed some time after I watched to get back to mind. There is no better place in web for anime than KissAnime so I added full anime Voltron: Legendary Defender here :), now everyone can see this anime online for free. Voltron (Legendary Defender) Voltron is the legendary defender. He is made up of the five Lions that were hidden away from Emperor Zarkon 10,000 years ago by King Alfor. The five Lions are the Black Lion, the Red Lion, the Blue Lion, the Green Lion, and the Yellow Lion. They were piloted by Shiro, Keith, Lance, Allura, Pidge, and Hunk respectively. Contents. Biography. In the beginning, a comet composed of trans-dimensional properties crashed on planet Daibazaal, creating an interdimensional rift into another reality. King Alfor brought the comet back to Altea, where he began experimenting on it in his lab, creating five robotic ships in the form of lions. Each lion embodies one of five elemental forces: water, land, fire, sky, and forest. When Daibazaal was threatened by a massive transdimensional alien that emerged from the rift, Alfor introduced the lions to his fellow monarchs, Emperor Zarkon of Daibazaal, Lady Trigel of the Dalterion Belt, Blaytz of Nalquod and Gyrgan of Rygnirath, where they instantly bonded with the Red, Black, Green, Blue and Yellow Lions, and took on the mantle of Paladins. The Paladins then took their lions into battle against alien entity but were hard pressed to defeat it. Suddenly, Alfor had a vision of a mighty robot composed of all five lions combined and he spoke its name: Voltron. Forming Voltron, the Paladins were able to destroy the alien entity. From then onwards, as their alliance explored the universe, Voltron became known as the Defender of the Universe. Eventually, Zarkon called on his fellow Paladins to use Voltron to close the rift on Daibazaal. But instead of sealing it, Voltron merely enlarged it and fell into the rift into the other reality, where Zarkon revealed his true goal to expose his dying wife, Honerva, to quintessence to save her. When the alien creatures responded to Voltron's intrusion, forcing Alfor to lead Voltron back to their reality. Being exposed to an overdose of quintessence, Zarkon and Honerva had apparently perished, so Alfor was forced to evacuate Daibazaal and destroy the planet to seal the rift. Later, it turned out that Zarkon and Honerva were made immortal and pure evil. Desiring Voltron to reopen the rift into the quintessence reality, Zarkon led the Galra Empire against his former allies, catching them off guard. When Altea was the last planet left standing, Princess Allura pleaded with her father to reform Voltron to fight back, but Alfor refused to let the lions fall into Zarkon's hands, so he placed his daughter in cryogenic stasis and linked the lions to her lifeforces. He then locked the Black Lion in the Castle of Lions and scattered the remaining lions to the far corners of the universe, as bringing them together would remove the lock. Alfor then faked Voltron's destruction as he fell in battle against Zarkon, as the Castle of Lions flew to planet Arus. For ten-thousand years the lions waited until the arrival of five new Paladins: five pilots from planet Earth. Components of Voltron. While each lion is unique, they each have a few shared abilities. Each lion is equipped with a variety of common functions and abilities. These include speeders that allow them to be accessed from the hangars or used as swift mobile transports in areas inaccessible to the lions, as well as a mouth cannon and a tail laser. Each lion also automatically emits a force field when parked outside the hangars. The force fields are only able to be bypassed by the lion's respective Paladin and their allies. Each Lion is also capable of a degree of sapience, able to communicate with their Paladin via a psychic-like link, revealing their capabilities to them consistently during the heat of combat. Each lion is also capable of superluminal speeds, allowing them to travel unmeasured quantities faster than light. The Lions' intelligence is such that regardless of strength in a Paladin, the Lion itself can weaken a less worthy Paladin's connection to it. This was the case when Shiro deepened his bond with the Black Lion, acknowledging it as his friend and equal partner. This acknowledgment as a sentient being is what influenced Black into suppressing Zarkon's hold on it, as Zarkon did not see Black as a life form, but as a weapon to be mastered and used to dominate all who stood in his way and nothing more. This shows that the Lions actually have more in common with living beings than mere machines, including possessing emotions such as pride, anger, friendship, and loyalty. Suffice it to say that the Artificial Interactive Consciousness of the Lions is arguably one of their most impressive traits, making them more dangerous than unthinking chunks of metal. The Lions will rescue their Paladins if they believe they are worthy enough, such as when the Black Lion saved Keith after his battle with the clone and when the Lions arrived for the Paladins stranded in space. The consciousness of each Lion is capable of uploading the mind of its Paladin in extreme circumstances, such as imminent death. This was witnessed when the Black Lion brought Shiro's mind into its own when Shiro was killed during the battle against Zarkon's mech suit in the Season Two finale. The consciousness can then be transferred by an Altean sorcerer (if they have the skill) into a compatible host body, as Allura did by transferring Shiro's mind into the body of one of his clones. In addition of basic weaponry in form of hand-mounted lasers and shield, Voltron possesses a bayard system which enable it to materialize much more powerful weapons. As demonstrated by Alfor, by inserting a Bayard into any of Lions' bayard slot, Voltron would materialize weapons which depends on the Paladin wielding the Bayard, not the Bayard or Lion itself. When multiple Bayards are combined with respective Lions, the materialized weapon is upgraded into a more powerful form. As the weapons materializes in bluish white light, they are suggestively comprised of Quintessence. Though not all manifested weapons are necessarily alike, the bayard system, coupled with lions' sentience is another testament of Voltron being the greatest and indisputable defender of the universe, with only a few that can challenge its might. Black Lion. Paladin : Zarkon (formerly), Shiro ( formerly ), Shiro (clone) ( formerly ), Keith (formerly) Component of Voltron : Head, torso Voltron Ability: The wings of the Black Lion can be used to create a shield. The Black Lion's bayard has also been used to amplify the standard sword blade of Voltron into a literal "blazing" sword with intense heat energy output. The Black Lion was the last out of the set to be piloted as it was hidden on the Castle of Lions, only being allowed to be unlocked after the other four lions were located and brought to the castle. The Black Lion is able to create a jaw blade as a weapon in its lion form.
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