Meta-Cooler
Before Broly... Cooler was popular enough to get a second movie! And much like Broly's third movie (bio-Broly), Cooler's return appearance was... different.
Cooler was incinerated in the sun, but one eye and part of his brain remained un-crispified. This would not have meant anything, except that he got picked up by the Big Gete Star!
The Big Gete Star was originally a sentient computer chip with self-integration abilities. it drifted in space, and began to gather and ocllect space junk, technology, and anything else it could use, soon becoming a massive death star-sized supercomputer. It snagged Cooler's remains and reactivated his consciousness, and he soon took over its AI. So in essence, Cooler WAS the Big Gete Star.
Meta-Cooler is a special body that Cooler/Big Gete Star made for himself. The real Cooler's remains are deep within the star's core, his head reconstructed with electronics. he also has the ability to make a gigantic conglomerated body from all the tech, which appears in the end of the movie (and has never gotten a toy! And only one video game appearance!!!), but that's not Meta-Cooler. Meta-Cooler isn't a drone, as he is remotely controlling it. It has all the abilities Cooler did (though no shapeshifting, oddly enough), but with one addition - regeneration and self-repair. As Goku damages the robot, the Big Gete Star collects this data and immediately repairs it to eliminate the wekaness. Goku blew off an arm? The arm gets fixed (nanites!), and is now stronger. It took bothS uper Saiyan Goku and Veget aattacking in tandem to damage Meta-Cooler too quickly for his systems to repair himself, and blow him to smithereens.
And then the Big Gete Star inferred that the main flaw in Meta-Cooler's design is that there was only one of him. So several thousand instantly rolled off the assembly line and dogpiled Goku and Vegeta, subduing them pretty much instantly.
Inside Gete's core, Cooler hooked the two Saiyans up to the Gete STar's power generator, and drained their energy to fuel the giant machine's engines. And that was a stupid move. Even though the two had been overpowered, they still had a lot of energy, and simply overloaded the Big Gete Star to the point where it started blowing up. Cooler built a gigantic body from his physical remains and the Big Gete Star's materials (remember that/), but Goku managed to blow it up. When it went down, Cooler's physical remains were vaporized for real, and the Big Gete Star overloaded and blew up, this was finally the end of Cooler. Also, Vegeta found the Gete Star's original chip and smashed it just for good measure.
FUN FACT: This movie was actually really cool. All of the robots and varied machinery allowed for a slightly different style, both in animation and atmosphere (The Big Gete Star really channels Unicron), and it feels "different" from the other DBZ movies while still very much being Dragon Ball. It's too bad that a lot of the stuff in this movie (Cooler's real cyborg body, the cyclopean guards, that one robot that gleefully sang about chopping people up) never got any merchandise. Also, the theme of "Goku overloads the energy absorber" got reused in the series itself, while fighting one of Babidi's henchmen.
Also, sources (video games, guidebooks, toys) really cannot agree if Meta-Cooler is greenish-silver, or just silver (and the grene would be reflection from New Namek's grene sky). He's probably supposed to be silver, as you see the metal reflecting differently-colored light once or twice.
Meta-Cooler
Before Broly... Cooler was popular enough to get a second movie! And much like Broly's third movie (bio-Broly), Cooler's return appearance was... different.
Cooler was incinerated in the sun, but one eye and part of his brain remained un-crispified. This would not have meant anything, except that he got picked up by the Big Gete Star!
The Big Gete Star was originally a sentient computer chip with self-integration abilities. it drifted in space, and began to gather and ocllect space junk, technology, and anything else it could use, soon becoming a massive death star-sized supercomputer. It snagged Cooler's remains and reactivated his consciousness, and he soon took over its AI. So in essence, Cooler WAS the Big Gete Star.
Meta-Cooler is a special body that Cooler/Big Gete Star made for himself. The real Cooler's remains are deep within the star's core, his head reconstructed with electronics. he also has the ability to make a gigantic conglomerated body from all the tech, which appears in the end of the movie (and has never gotten a toy! And only one video game appearance!!!), but that's not Meta-Cooler. Meta-Cooler isn't a drone, as he is remotely controlling it. It has all the abilities Cooler did (though no shapeshifting, oddly enough), but with one addition - regeneration and self-repair. As Goku damages the robot, the Big Gete Star collects this data and immediately repairs it to eliminate the wekaness. Goku blew off an arm? The arm gets fixed (nanites!), and is now stronger. It took bothS uper Saiyan Goku and Veget aattacking in tandem to damage Meta-Cooler too quickly for his systems to repair himself, and blow him to smithereens.
And then the Big Gete Star inferred that the main flaw in Meta-Cooler's design is that there was only one of him. So several thousand instantly rolled off the assembly line and dogpiled Goku and Vegeta, subduing them pretty much instantly.
Inside Gete's core, Cooler hooked the two Saiyans up to the Gete STar's power generator, and drained their energy to fuel the giant machine's engines. And that was a stupid move. Even though the two had been overpowered, they still had a lot of energy, and simply overloaded the Big Gete Star to the point where it started blowing up. Cooler built a gigantic body from his physical remains and the Big Gete Star's materials (remember that/), but Goku managed to blow it up. When it went down, Cooler's physical remains were vaporized for real, and the Big Gete Star overloaded and blew up, this was finally the end of Cooler. Also, Vegeta found the Gete Star's original chip and smashed it just for good measure.
FUN FACT: This movie was actually really cool. All of the robots and varied machinery allowed for a slightly different style, both in animation and atmosphere (The Big Gete Star really channels Unicron), and it feels "different" from the other DBZ movies while still very much being Dragon Ball. It's too bad that a lot of the stuff in this movie (Cooler's real cyborg body, the cyclopean guards, that one robot that gleefully sang about chopping people up) never got any merchandise. Also, the theme of "Goku overloads the energy absorber" got reused in the series itself, while fighting one of Babidi's henchmen.
Also, sources (video games, guidebooks, toys) really cannot agree if Meta-Cooler is greenish-silver, or just silver (and the grene would be reflection from New Namek's grene sky). He's probably supposed to be silver, as you see the metal reflecting differently-colored light once or twice.