Purge the King

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“	Behold the power of the President's croon.	„
	~ Purge during Purge the King's creation, Space Channel 5: Part 2.

Purge the King, also known as Singing Fusion Bot: Purge the King and King Purge, is a Rhythm Rogues Robot piloted by Purge and boss who only appeared in Space Channel 5 Part 2.

Purge the King is a deadly mecha, result of the Purge Hovercraft and the Peace Carrier combing with each other and powered by President Peace's song energy. It has a powerful voice, that is so intense to the point it is capable of shaking the Space Channel 5 studios and make pieces of the ceilings fall.

When Purge invaded the Channel 5's headquarters to steal its antenna, he used this robot in a singing battle against Ulala and Space Michael.

Information[]

Appearance[]

Purge the King is a humanoid silver-colored mecha. Its head has a purple viewfinder with a black stripe and a pointy antenna resembling a thunder on the top. Purge the King has a large chest with a purple thunder in the center, showing President Peace stuck inside of it. The mecha has large black hands with silver palms that have speakers which release a green energy every time Purge the King sings. Purge the King appears to be wearing black pants and black boots with silver soles.

History[]

Space Channel 5: Part 2[]

and about to fight against Purge the King. — Ulala and Space Michael about to fight against Purge the King.

Report 4: The End for Space Channel 5?!
Purge the King's first appears in the fourth report. After Ulala and Space Michael fighting against both Purge Hovercraft and the Peace Carrier in the "Playing in reverse" game, Purge fuses his hovercraft with the robot, creating Purge the King. Speakers will appear behind the robot and a singing battle will begin.

The battle has a total of four segments. Purge the King will sing "Dance!" and will also say "Chu" and "Hey" and the player will need to memorize then copy the moves. Space Michael does the singing parts by pressing any directions, while Ulala and the Upgraded Evilas do the "Chu" and "Hey" commands. The sing-off with this robot is so intense as it literally shakes the Core of Space Channel 5. Everytime Ulala and Space Michael copy Purge the King's moves, a row of the blue orbs on the walls behind the mecha will turn into orange. Sometimes when the player miss a move, Purge the King will repeat this missed move one more time with the purpose to make the player miss more stars.

Once the first segment is over, Purge the King will laugh and some pieces of the ceiling will crumble down. Four Rescue Police troopers will appear to assist Ulala, Space Michael and the Evilas, and Space Michael will say "Ulala, let's go. Let's shout!". The second segment of the battle will start with no music. As the battle goes on, a tribal-like remix of the Purge Hovercraft/Peace Carrier battle will slowly starts playing. In this segment, Purge the King only uses the "Dance!" command.

and arrive to help. — Brent Suzuki and Lance Sterling arrive to help.

As soon as the second segment is over, Purge the King will laugh again, making more pieces of the ceiling fall. Space Michael will say "Nice dance, Ulala" and Brent Suzuki, accompanied by three Lance Sterlings, will arrive to assist the heroes. In this segment, Purge the King starts singing "Dance!" a bit lounder and Space Michael will do his famous scream instead of singing back "Dance!". The background music also gets lounder as the heroes copy Purge the King's moves.

When the third segment is over, Purge the King will do a maniacal laugh, making the heroes worried and scared. Space Michael will say "Come on, Ulala! Come on!" and before the battle continues, four Space Cheerleaders will appear and join forces with the heroes. In this segment, the patterns are much faster than in the previous segments. Purge the King and Space Michael will also sing "Dance!" much lounder. The music swings back full force during this battle's last segment, most likely as a sign that Ulala’s dance energy is shining through. At the end of the battle Ulala doesn’t even say the dance commands anymore and instead make sounds like ‘hut’ and ‘hup’.

Purge the King's saying its last three "Chus".

Once the fourth segment is over, Purge the King will start shaking as a signal it is getting weak, making Fuse appears to finish him off. Fuse however, reveals to the heroes that they only have one chance to defeat the mecha. Purge the King will then say "Chu!" three times as its last resort. If the player fails at copying this command, it is game over and they will come to the their last checkpoint, which is right before the battle against the Purge Hovercraft and the Peace Carrier. If the player manages to copy this command however, Fuse will make the Astrobeat shoot an energy blast at Purge the King.

Once he is hit, Purge will first sound like he is getting defeated before he surprises everybody showing that he is okay. Purge will then reflect Fuse's blast back at Ulala and Space Michael. Without thinking twice, Fuse dives the Astrobeat with himself inside it in front of Ulala, taking the hit instead. The Astrobeat goes crashing deeper into the Core with Fuse inside of it. Purge will then taunt Ulala saying that he had a "relatively good time" and will escape with the Channel 5's antenna, leaving the station's Core collapsing itself. Ulala, Space Michael and the other Channel 5 employees then, run for their lives and are able to escape in time before the studio self-destructs. Fuse's status though, are left unknown.

Report 6: Purge's T.V. Special
Purge the King can be seen at the end of the sixth report, among the crowd marching to the end of the galaxy.

Extra Mode
Like the other Rhythm Rouges boss robots, Purge the King is given a different title in Extra Mode's captions. In Extra mode he is called "Singing Fusion Bot: Purge the King, Junior."

In-Game Profiles[]

Space Channel 5: Part 2[]

“A singing robot. The ultimate galactic master of song & dance. Created by an interlocking of the Purge Hovercraft and the Peace Carrier (powered by Peace’s song energy.)”

Space Channel 5: Part 2 (Japanese)[]

"Formed from the combination of the Purge Hovercraft and the Peace Carrier with Peace’s Energy, it is a singing invader robot that uses song and dance to attack, causing singing and dancing. It’s got speaker hands, that seem like they are pulsing with the beat, and can you stand a chance against it’s body that is infused with song energy?"

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

Purge the King has Purge's laugh from the Japanese dub even in the English PC version of the game. This is due to a directory error associated with Report 4's music AFS files. The game, even when set to English, pulls said files from the main "Space Channel 5 Part 2" folder rather than the "afs_english" subfolder.
- This can be easily patched if one moves the appropriate files (r42music and r43music) from the "afs_english" subfolder into the main folder and allow the files of the same name to be replaced.
Other than the final bosses of each game, Purge the King is the only boss to have a move that the player can't miss.
The music heard during the battle against Purge the King is a remix of the final Report theme Space Channel 5: Getting the Truth from the first game.
The timing of some of its moves are re-used from the guitar duel against Pudding.
Purge the King is currently the only boss in the entire series to never say Up, Right, Left and Down.
Despite being a "King", Purge the King is referred to as an "it" in its In-Game Profile.
Purge the King's boss battle is the only moment in the series where Brent Suzuki appears without Ms. Valala Petrie.
Because it somehow managed to reflect Fuse's attack and escaped, Purge the King is the only Rhythm Rogues boss robot which left undefeated.
Purge the King is one of the three bosses in the series to have a moment in their boss battles without background music. The others are Giant Evila and Purge the Great.
When Purge holds Chu during this battle, he gains a slight aura similar to Ulala's Cosmic Aura. However, his aura is blue, with electricity surrounding it.