Tom and Jerry: The Space Giants - The End of the Lugo Race

Tom and Jerry: The Space Giants - The End of the Lugo Race is the fourth installment of the theatrical animated film series, Tom and Jerry: The Space Giants, produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Turner Entertainment, and animated overseas by Japanese animation studios TMS Entertainment and Tezuka Productions.

Rodak's Monstrous Christmas Presents
It was winter in Tokyo, Japan, at the time of the 1960 Christmas season. Mikko Mura, on his shopping trip with Robyn Starling, Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse, was given a present by Santa Claus, whom they don't recognize to be Rodak's chief henchman, Sultan, from the Planet Setar.

Sultan's Betrayal and Allegiance
In Mount Olympian, Tuffy and Silvar watch in such as Vacuma grabs the incapacitated Gam with its powerful suction tentacles. However, Methusan tells them and Magma that this is actually a trap to lure them to Gam's aid. Back in Tokyo, the army sends its jets against Vacuma, but all are crushed. Meanwhile, Mikko, Robyn, Tom and Jerry goes with Kita to look at the store where he bough Gam's Christmas present. They tail the store's owner and the other men (possessed by Rodak's dwarf robots) to a house on a hill. The gang enter the house and find Gam. But just as they approach their frozen ally, iron bars suddenly drop around them, capturing the gang too.

Fight with Vacuma and Gor
While the Muras, the Starlings, Gam, Tom, Jerry, Uncle Harry, Cousin George, Cousin Muscles, Tuffy, Tim, Spike, Tyke and Quacker are safely moving Sultan to the military complex of the United Nations and Japanese armies, Rodak turns Gor loose on the airport. As Magma heads to his confrontation with his monstrous opponent, the space conqueror tells him that Gor’s body contains an army of Dwarf Robots which will be released if Gor is destroyed. In the military complex, Sultan informs the Starlings, Mikko, Gam, their pets, Kita, Droopy the Master Detective Hound, Dripple and the authorities that only freezing cold can safely destroy Gor and the Dwarf Robots. Taking Tom, Jerry, Robyn and Mikko with them, Gam and Tuffy returns to Mount Olympian where Methusan equips them with a freezing chemical. As Magma attacks Gor in the continuing battle, the group returns to the battle to aid him. Mikko and Gam throws the freezing chemical on the monster, killing him and the Dwarf Robot army once and for all.

But although watching Magma win from the monitor of his spaceship, Rodak wasn't ready to give up yet, and he send down more of his Lugo Men and Animals to hide in a meal prepared by a Dwarf Robot in the body of a waiter for Sultan to eat. When Sultan carves the roast chicken; to his surprise, the Lugo Warriors rise up in their normal sizes and attempt to kill him. But Gam, Kita, the Starlings and the animals quickly defeats them, saving Sultan just in time. While the commander orders all the food supplies to be burned, the group and the armies move Sultan to another safe place. Briefly watching Sultan and his defenders leaving in a car, but distracted by nearly more than fifteen of the armies' cars that match the same, the Dwarf Robot calls the others and tells them to follow the cars as an effort to find the on Sultan is. But before the Dwarf Robot could follow them, they are attacked by the UN and Japanese armies again. Angered by yet another interference, Rodak orders an full-scare attack to find and execute Sultan before he can give away any more of his secrets. Suddenly, Magma (in his rocket form) tries to disable Rodak's ship with the rest of the freezing chemical, but Rodak's men defrost it with the emergency engine. After a defrosting escape from Magma, Rodak's men informs their master that Sultan came from Setar which was a highly magnetic planet in the solar galaxy. Rodak was pleased with the detail and commands his men to send every magnet to all areas and buildings of Tokyo to extract Sultan. Back in Tokyo, using the radar magnet, the last surviving Dwarf Robots enter harbor warehouse, where they find "Sultan" hiding in the barrels and shot him to death, but they find instead find Sultan's cape and realize that its owner is missing. Then Magma appears and finishes the Dwarf Robots, foiling Rodak once more.

Taking a serious report from the last Dwarf Robot who then dies, Rodak is infuriated by all failures to do away with Sultan, until his men told him that the magnets have located him in the Haneda Tokyu Hotel, where he was working on difficult drawings of the blueprint of Rodak's saucer, and Kita, Mikko, Robyn, Gam, their animals and the soldiers were guarding him. After two of his agents, disguised as men in black suits, spies on Sultan at the window of the hotel room, the vengeful Rodak shrinks Vacuma with some of his spaceship's energy, enabling the monster to go underground through the sewers and enter the building. Now in the corridor of the hotel, Vacuma kills some of the soldiers who tried to stop him, and finds Sultan in his room with nobody else getting in his way. Despite Sultan's best efforts to fight him, the monster finally slaughters Rodak's traitor by crushing him to death, and quickly disappears before the group arrive to find Sultan's corpse. Enraged by Rodak's murderous act, Mikko summons Magma to fight Vacuma and avenge Sultan's death. Using Methusan’s freezing compound, Magma destroys Vacuma. Later, at the UN and Japanese armies' salute with the Muras, the Starlings, Kita, the Cat and Mouse families, the Bulldogs and Quacker attending, Sultan's body is cremated while his staff is placed on display so that everyone will remember him for all time.

The Zana Monster Gorda
Two weeks after the death of Gor and Vacuma by Magma during the last holiday season (featuring Christmas and the New Year), in January 1961, Rodak goes to New York City in the United States and attacks the Statue of Liberty. On assignment in the city where he founded his new Starling Enterprise headquarters after giving his previous location to Pristine and Lickboot Figg, Mr. Starling and Ito calls Mikko, and has him send Magma to stop Rodak. Magma, Gam and Tuffy arrive in New York City and drive Rodak back into outer space. At the volcano base of Mount Olympian, Methusan is suspicious that Rodak went away without a fight.

Back in the Big Apple, a hotel reports that ten of its guests have mysteriously disappeared. Kita is sent to cover the story. One of the caretakers tells him that people seem to disappear after going swimming. Kita asks if there is anything special in the water, and is told that that the only additive is sulfur for health purposes. The caretaker even says that the water is drinkable. He demonstrates by drinking some of it himself, but suddenly goes crazy and runs off. Kita decides to have the water analyzed. He is attacked by one of Rodak's men, but is saved by Magma. It is discovered that the water contains "Zana", a chemical from outer space that acts as a radio transmitter. Just then, Mr. Starling and Ito calls from New York, asking for Magma to come back to Manhattan as Rodak is attacking again.

Rodak sends his newest creature from space, Gorda, to spread the Zana chemical into all water supplies of Earth, causing everyone who drinks it to come under Rodak's control. The monster's underground movements also cause volcanoes to erupt. Rodak orders his men to have as many people as possible drink Zana so that he can have an army of spies. Many drink the water and become the space conqueror's willing slaves. Rodak orders all the missing guests to return to their hotels and await further orders. Tom, Jerry, Tim, Quacker, Spike, Tyke, Tuffy, Robyn, Gam, Mikko and Kita go to the hotel to investigate and come face to face with Gorda. Only Tim, Spike, Tyke, Kita are captured by Rodak's men, while their space emperor orders Gorda to create more volcanic eruptions. Returning from America, Magma is told by Methusan that Gorda is responsible for the Zana and must be destroyed. And so, Magma challenges Gorda to another fight and manages to injure him, but the monster escapes into a volcano. Magma returns to Mount Olympian, where Methusan begins to work on a new weapon to use against the monster. Meanwhile, Kita, Tim, Spike and Tyke are prisoners of a doctor who has taken Zana. They are kept in a room, which gets hotter and hotter in order for the doctor and his men to force Kita, Tim and Spike to drink the Zana-contaminated water, turn them into Rodak's slaves and have them kill Tyke. Tuffy and Gam uses their sensitive, electronic headpiece to discover Kita's whereabouts. They, Tom, Jerry, Quacker, Robyn and Mikko enter the doctor's lab by pretending that they want to take Zana. However, Gam's headpiece causes anyone under the influence of Zana to become dizzy and they are found out. Locating the cell where Kita, Spike, Tyke and Tim are locked in, Gam and Tuffy crashes through the wall and everyone escapes.

Back in Mount Olypiam, Methusan finally develops a special ray gun which can destroy Zana. Magma successfully uses the gun against Gorda, and then instructs Gam to use it on all the people who consumed Zana. As Gam shoots the ray at them, they all return to normal, with no recollection of what they had been doing. Zana is no more and Magma now seeks to destroy Gorda who hides in the depths of hot volcanoes where Magma cannot follow. But as the third battle between the two giants near a volcano went on and on, the rising heat becomes too intense for the Ambassador. Methusan sends Silvar, Tuffy and Gam to Magma's aid. Gorda returns to his volcanic lair, where Rodak orders it to stay hidden. Gam manages to get a small piece of Magma's skin for Methusan to analyze. Methusan discovers that Gorda is from the Planet Zephyr. The planet is dissolving fast and once Zephyr disappears completely, so will Gorda. Magma flies Methusan to his planet, where he gets his leader to agree to speed up the destruction of Zephyr. Rodak decides to cover the Earth with a heavy fog. As the Japanese army attacks Gorda, Methusan creates a time ring which Magma throws around the head of the creature. This causes Gorda to disappear at the exact same time as Zephyr, and the Earth is safe again for now, thanks to Ambassador Magma, Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse.

Characters

 * Thomas "Tom" Cat:
 * Jerry Mouse:

Trivia

 * The film was combined from the fourth set of eight episodes from the live action TV show.
 * Episode 25: Invaders from a Far Planet
 * Episode 26: A Suprise Monster
 * Episode 27: Gor Against Earth
 * Episode 28: Vacuma's Showdown
 * Episode 29: The City Smasher
 * Episode 30: Terror from East to West
 * Episode 31: Gorda's Revenge.
 * Episode 32: The Big Shock

Possession and Chaos/Buying Christmas Presents for Gam and Tuffy
(At his spaceship, Rodak is communicating to Sultan on the monitor with his men watching from behind their space emperor.)

Rodak: Listen, I have ordered my Dwarf Robots to take possession of young men's bodies and minds, and then, to spread chaos all over Tokyo. Can you supervise their destructive rampage, Sultan?

(The scene shows Sultan on the TV screen, holding a Santa suit and worshiping Rodak.)

Sultan: Yes, Rodak. As your most-trusted commander, I will see if it shall be done. (bows)

(The camera switches back to Rodak with his men standing behind him.)

Rodak: Soon, all of Earth will be mine! (evil laughter)