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Blue Cop
- First appearance S1E1, Mystery of the Police Car Robot!
- Occupation Star Guardian (former)
- Vehicle Mode Machina Patrol Car
- Metal Card(s) Justice Gauntlet
- Voice Actors 🇰🇷 Kwak Yoon-sang (곽윤상)
🇨🇳 文翔
🇷🇺 Алексей Рыжков
EN Unknown
Blue Cop is the secondary protagonist of Metal Cardbot, who fights alongside Jun to keep the peace between the Metal Cardbots and humans. He transforms into Ultimate Blue Cop in S1E26, The Final Battle, granting him new abilities.
Blue Cop’s name was changed to “Blue Star” during American localization.1 An earlier name for him was also “Blue Cobalt”.2
Backstory
Blue Cop was a well-known Star Guardian on planet Machina, one of many tasked with protecting the Mother Computer, Deus Machina.3 He was known to have at least one superior, Flame Nova.4
As one of the few who were warned about the impending destruction of his home planet, Deus Machina entrusted Blue Cop with a Metal Breath, and a final task: to use the Metal Breath to find a friend.5 Blue Cop took to an escape pod, joining the mass exodus from his home and was left to travel through space for thousands of years before eventually finding his way to planet Earth.
On Earth, he desired to help other Metal Cardbots hiding out on Earth so they did not alarm the natives, learning as much about the planet and its inhabitants as he could in the process.6 He becomes close friends with Jun Grant, who commands him with the Metal Breath to fight and capture other Metal Cardbots.
Metal Cards
Justice Gauntlet (저스티스 건틀렛)
Metal Card
Weapon Card
A large translucent blue gauntlet that mounts on Blue Cop’s right arm with a double-barreled gun on the forearm.
- Thunderbolt Smash (썬더 볼트 스매쉬): Blue Cop jumps in the air and punches using electric energy.
- Burst Shot (버스트 샷): Blue Cop deploys the double-barreled gun from the Justice Gauntlet and fires.
- ⭐ Mega Bolt Punch (메가 볼트 펀치, Mega Bolteu Peonchi): Blue Cop’s main ultimate skill; he gathers electricity in his Justice Gauntlet and unleashes a powerful energy punch, stunning the opponent.
- ⭐ Infinity Force Break (인피니티 포스 브레이크): Blue Cop’s ultimate skill discovered in S1E12, Blue Cop's Special Training!. By uniting with Jun on a deeper level, Blue Cop throws multiple energy punches in rapid succession. It is notably much stronger than Mega Bolt Punch.
- ⭐ Infinity Force Mega Bolt Punch (인피니티 포스 메가 볼트 펀치): Blue Cop’s final technique used right after reverting to his normal form from his Ultimate form in S1E26, The Final Battle. After gathering electric energy in the Justice Gauntlet, he charges forward and delivers a powerful punch, at the cost of destroying his Justice Gauntlet.
Ultimate Armor (얼티밋 아머)
Parts of the Ultimate Armor shown in S1E26
A special Weapon Card that combines the powers of all captured Metal Cardbots to create Ultimate Blue Cop. It consists of large, translucent armor colored in green, red, blue, and purple.
- Edge Acceleration (엣지 엑셀레이션): The wheels on Ultimate Blue Cop’s boot armor allows him high speeds and manouverability.
- Lightning Overstrike (라이트닝 오버 스트라이크): Ultimate Blue Cop restrains an opponent with lightning energy, delivering a barrage of punches before finishing with one powerful punch.
- ⭐ Infinite Punish (인피니트 퍼니쉬): Ultimate Blue Cop’s ultimate skill. Energy from all four parts of the Ultimate Armor are combined into one powerful beam.
Alongside special moves, Ultimate Blue Cop can use all of the special moves of the captured Metal Cardbots.
Production
![Early designs for Blue Cop and [[Mega Trucker]]](/_astro/early-bluecop-megatrucker-designs.DpGawlWQ_1b5aAv.webp)
Early designs for Blue Cop and Mega Trucker7
Blue Cop was one of the first Metal Cardbots to be designed, informing the design and features of future Cardbots.8 As such, director Seoro Oh had a lot of say in how Blue Cop looked, particularly in the design of his head. There was a time early in development where Oh wanted to pursue a more cartoonish, 2D approach, before settling on the final proportions.7
Given the lack of production time, Oh was only allowed to fully redesign the heads of the Metal Cardbots, giving them common features such as expressive eyes and a mouthless mask.9
Early head designs9
During development, Oh retouched base model renders to give modellers a sense for how his expressions should be shown:
Before retouching10
After retouching10
The beginning of “that look”11
Early toy design, before the invention of Metal Cards12
Blue cop blinking tests13
Blue Cop expression testing14
Blue Cop expression testing, continued
Trivia
- Blue Cop’s original name was “Silver Bullet”.15
- Director Seoro Oh finds Blue Cop the most fun Cardbot to torment.16
- Blue Cop’s hat can be removed.17 This was later shown in a flashback during S2E3, Menace Up in the Sky!, of which his head is much more blue.
Blue Cop without his hat17
His bald head later shown in S2E3
Gallery
Footnotes
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↩Hey! Tons happening. The OFFICIAL U.S. Metal Cardbot Facebook page is now live! The toys are scheduled for release end of the year. Pre-order info will be available very soon. Check us out and stay tuned!
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↩The Toy Fair 2025 announcement from Agabyss Distribution that I’m most excited about is probably Metal Cardbot! We’re aiming for a release date later in 2025 for our 1st wave of figures, which includes Blue Cobalt *, Shadow X, Buster Gallon, Megatrucker, Steel Hook, & Heavy Iron!
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↩S1E17, Showdown Between Blue Cop and Wild Guardy!, 1:39 (EN dub)Wild Guardy: “An elite force was selected to guard Deus Machina, the modern computer of Machina planet. Blue Cop… was the best Metal Cardbot of them all.”
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↩Blue Cop: “Flame Nova was… my superior on planet Machina.”
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↩S1E17, Showdown Between Blue Cop and Wild Guardy!, 10:40 (EN dub)Blue Cop: “Deus Machina told me, right before Machina planet collapsed, to use the Metal Breath, to find a friend.”
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↩S1E1, Mystery of the Police Car Robot!, 10:06 (EN dub)Blue Cop: “Since I came to this planet, I have been disguising myself as a car to avoid alarming the natives. As you say, a tree is best hidden in a forest.”
Jun: “That actually makes sense…”
Blue Cop: “I have to live on planet Earth now. So I am trying to learn as much about this planet as quickly as I can. I like this planet very much. However, there are some of my kind who have not adjusted to life here.”
Jun: “You mean, like that dump truck from yesterday?”
Blue Cop: “It’s not the only one. There are more Metal Cardbots hiding on planet Earth right now. I only wish to help them, so that they do not cause any harm to the natives of this planet.”
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↩ ↩2초기 블루캅 & 메가트러커 러프컨셉. 최종적으론 왕도적인 셰이프가 되었지만 좀 더 카투니하고 2D적인 접근을 하고 싶었던 시절. 헤드 디자인의 방향성 만큼은 여기서부터 시작..! #메탈카드봇
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↩뒷이야기 올리다보면 블루캅 투성이일 수 밖에 없는 것이, 블루캅은 모든 메탈카드봇의 얼굴이나 눈, 디자인 등등의 기준이 되는 알파적인 존재일 수 밖에 없어 초반 기획엔 블루캅이 참 많습니다.
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↩ ↩2헤드만은 재디자인이 허용 된 메탈카드봇들의 머리들. 기존 헤드도 왕도적인 변신로봇의 멋이 있지만, 조금이라도 시리즈만의 공통된 특징을 만들 필요가 있다고 생각했어요. 그 결과 눈동자(취향 반영)와 입없는 마스크가 그것. 시간은 많지 않았기에 왠만하면 한 방의 스케치로 정해졌습니다.
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↩ ↩2단 한장의 스케치를 토대로 만들어진(바쁘다 바뻐) 러프 모델링위에 리터치 해드리며 조금씩 본편에 가까워집니다. 눈동자도 아직은 희미하게 만 보이게 했던 시절.
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↩#블루캅 ‘그 표정’의 시작점. 사실 모자 벗겨짐.
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↩블루캅의 애니용 모델링을 만들기전 리터치 해드린 완구모델링 위 1차 컬러링
이때만 해도 아직 카드컨셉은 없었습니다..적어도 연출자 입장에선 몰랐죠.
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↩경찰차 블루캅의 눈 깜빡임 애니메이션 테스트. 일단 작화식으로 해드렸습니다. 1초 24프레임(풀프레임)이 아닌 이처럼 1초 12프레임 방식(2s)이었음 했지만 최종적으론 일반적인 풀프레임으로.
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↩왼쪽 1차로 나온 표정세트에서 제가 리터칭 피드백드린 표정세트. 최대한 생생하게 보이도록 노력. 본편엔 볼 수 없는 표정까지 있어요(…) 명칭은 어디까지나 참고용이라 꼭 감정에 맞춰 넣을 필욘 없지만 가끔 의도치않게 놓치고 어울리지 않는 표정이 본편에 나올 때가 있습니다..Blink가 특히.
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↩블루캅의 초기 명칭은 ‘실버불릿’ 이었다. 뜨든
귀에 있는 문양이 총알탄인 이유
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↩모두 사랑스러워서 고르기가 너무 어렵네요..!! 확실한 건 블루캅을 괴롭히는게 제일 재밌다는거에요.
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↩ ↩2사실 모자 벗겨짐2