Monster Minds

Monster Minds in their vehicle forms.

The Monster Minds are a race of mutations that feature in Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

History

The Monster Minds were intelligent plant mutations that were accidently created by the Human scientist Audric. Audric had conducted a series of experiments in his laboratory in another galaxy with the express purpose of engineering a species of plant to end hunger. His project would ultimately be successful and the plants were created but a burst of radiation from an exploding star drastically affecting the plants. The specimens quickly gained sentience and mutated into humanoid creatures with distinct brains that began engulfing his laboratory forcing Audric to flee. The leader of these Monster Minds would be Saw Boss who turned his newly created race into a scourge of the universe with his creator's laboratory being his base of operations. After driving Audric from his laboratory, the Monster Minds set out on a mission to conquer the universe. Using ever-growing Expansion Vines, they extended their field of influence across multiple star systems. Audric went into hiding and was able to create a special magic root capable of destroying the Monster Minds. (Episode: Escape from the Garden of Evil)

To defeat these mutations, Audric created the Magic Root that had been split in two but when united had the power to destroy all the Monster Minds. This led to the Monster Minds pursuing him as he sought to rendezvous with his family and Gillian. To prevent capture, he gave half the Root to his servant Oon and tasked him with giving it to Jayce with Audric desiring to meet them separately. Oon would be pursued by the Monster Minds who chased him to a valley protected by a dome powered by sunlight that had the rest of Audric's family with Gillian. Audric disappeared across the stars, but Jayce and his Lightning League vowed to find him and unite the magic root in order to put an end to the Monster Minds' reign of terror. (Episode: Escape from the Garden of Evil)

In Sector 37 Delta, a mass group of Monster Mind Vines bypassed many planets in that area as it targeted a world rich in organic life that grew its native plants to enormous sizes. Saw Boss intended to conquer that world so that his Monster Minds could grow to powerful forms and thus conquer the rest of known space. (Episode: Silver Crusaders)

Overview

Originally, the creatures were simple genetically engineered plants incapable of harming anyone until a burst of radiation mutated them. The newly formed Monster Minds sprouted from the plants as small brain-like humanoids that quickly grew into humanoid forms. (Episode: Escape from the Garden of Evil)

Generally, Monster Mind battles are carried out by clones of the main Monster Minds that are grown from vines. These clones are referred to as "troopers"; Saw Trooper, Terror Trooper, K.O. Trooper, etc. The true Monster Minds change from their humanoid forms into vehicles upon leaving their headquarters, although they are significantly larger and more powerful than their mass-produced clones. In addition to their laser arsenals, Monster Minds' primary weapons involving their extendable limb vine attached on top of them when in vehicle forms.

Pods could be dropped from orbit which when impacted the ground manifested into massive Vines that allowed the Monster Minds to form a foothold on a planet. (Episode: Steel Against Shadow) Alternatively, the Vines were able to move through space and force their way onto a planetary soil. Once there, the took root and manifested flower buds that birthed more Monster Minds. (Episode: Silver Crusaders)

Monster Minds appear as Humanoid looking creatures but with a plant based form which meant that they had vines and green coloured skin typically. They were capable of changing their form into a vehicle which possessed plant based characteristics. The Monster Minds made frequent use of Drill Vines which were capable of functioning in space and engulfing entire planets. These vines infested starships or worlds where they robbed them off all resources. The plants were capable of forming seeds which produced newer Monster Minds allowing for the creation of an army very quickly.

A majority of the Monster Minds forces are clones of the primary generals of Saw Boss who are all given orders telepathically by their leader in their goal for universal dominance.

The giant vines created by their kind were able to stretch into space and thus allowed the Monster Minds to spread from world to world. This allowed their kind to ravage planets that were drained of their minerals and water. (Episode: Escape from the Garden of Evil)

Members

Terror Tank.

• Saw Boss : leader of the Monster Minds with the Saw Trooper units having fanged faces on their fronts and are equipped with huge buzz-saws attached to vines. Commanding legions of cloned minions and Expansion Vines, Saw Boss is bent on conquering the entire universe, launching attacks on every known inhabited planet. The only opposition to his conquest are the Lightning League, a group of heroic space travellers led by Jayce, the daredevil son of Saw Boss' creator Audric. Before going into hiding, Audric left behind one half of a magical root supposedly capable of destroying the Monster Minds. Recognising the root as a threat, Saw Boss is determined to hunt down the Lightning League and destroy Jayce's root before he can find Audric and the root's other half.
• Gun Grinner : resembling a Jeep, it has a set of laser guns sticking out of the mouth on its front and a vine on its back that ends in a barbed flail.
• Terror Tank : tank armed with a powerful cannon and a vine that ends in a monstrous snapping mouth with four large fangs.
• K.O. Kruiser : truck-shaped with an angry face on its front and The vine on its back clutches a large green ball for crushing opponents.
• Beast Walker : largest variety of Monster Mind who on the battlefield, it appeared as a huge four-legged robot armed with many laser weapons.
• Saw Trooper :
• Dr. Zorg : a scientist working with Saw Boss. A scientific rival of Audric's. He is brilliant in his own field, but overall he is not a very nice guy: he's selfish, and thinks only of his own self glorification. His quest to gain all the information in Audric's old computer (the one that's now in SB's headquarters) leads him to become an enemy of both Jayce and the LL.

Notes

• The Monster Minds were created by Jean Chalopin and developed by J. Michael Straczynski with them featuring as antagonists in the setting of the Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors universe.

Appearances

• Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors: "Escape from the Garden of Evil"

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