List of Ace Lightning episodes
This is a list of episode synopses of the television show, Ace Lightning.
Season 1 consists of 26 episodes, while Season 2 consists of 13. Some people like to see episodes 14-26 as the second series, with episodes 27-39 as Season 3, to balance the total of episodes out correctly.
Season 1
Season 1 introduces all of the main characters for the next two seasons, and brings together the storyline of the series.
Episode 1: The Game Begins
Teenager, Mark Hollander in playing his favourite video game Ace Lightning when he discovers a mysterious "Level Seven" that is not supposed to exist. Suddenly a lightning bolt strikes the satellite dish on Mark's house and the electricity goes out. Mark then looks on in horror as his game joystick sparks with electricity and rattles about on its own accord. Up on the roof, a portal open through the satellite and the villain from the video game file through it, led by Lord Fear, a villainour but crippled skeleton. Lady Illusion, Dirty Rat, Anvil and Pigface appear afterwards. Lord Fear spies Mark in his bedroom and they scare eachother in shock, Lord Fear falling down the side of the house.
Once all the villains are on the ground, Lord Fear explains to a dim-witted Pigface that they are in a new dimension and must find new headquarters. The Rat spies something and the Amulet of Zoar floats out of the satellite and shatters, the fragments magically flying away. Ace Lightning flies down and battles Lord Fear and his minions. Lord Fear's faithful staff, Staff Head trips Ace up and Lord Fear blasts the superhero down. Mark appears to aid Ace and the villains retreat. Mark's parents arrive home and Mark hides Ace behind the shed.
The villains come across what appears to be an abandoned theme park, called the Kent Bros. Carnival and after Lord Fear decides it will the new Carnival of Doom, Anvil smashes the gates open, which awakens the carnival's owner, Duff Kent. Duff is frightened by the villainsa and nervously welcomes them to stay in the carnival, pleasing Lord Fear. The next morning, Mark is awoken by Ace (who smashes his way through the bedroom window). Mark leaves for school and meets his neighbour Samantha Thompson along the way. Catching the school bus, he meets Chuck Mugel and bully Wayne Fisgus. Mark has a rough time at school, and is scolded by his science teacher, Mr. Chesebrough when he spies Ace awaiting him outside the school. Ace gives Mark his piece of the Amulet and flies off to find Lord Fear.
He locates Lord Fear at the carnival, but falls into a trap set up by his enemies.
Episode 2: The Trap Is Set
After speaking with his friend Pete, who lives in London, Mark and Chuck head off to the carnival to rescue Ace. Samantha spies them along the way and stalks them. Lord Fear is draining Ace's powers, while he is trapped in a giant orb. Mark, Chuck and Samantha are chased out of the carnival by Duff and Pigface. Samantha has no idea what Mark is up to and leaves.
That night, Mark heads out to the Carnival of Doom to save Ace again. It is the carnival's grand opening but Lord Fear reveals to Duff that the carnival now belongs to him. Mark saves Ace by having Anvil smash the orb he is trapped in. Ace fights Lord Fear and Lady Illusion, while Mark discovers the Rat is disguised as a toy rabbit, armed with a bomb, and Samantha has got him! Mark saves Samantha, but she now considers him to be a wacko.
Episode 3: The Substitute
Believing that Mark can have his Amulet fragment stolen via his school, Lord Fear kidnaps Mark's science teacher, Mr. Chesebrough and replaces him with Lady Illusion in disguise. Lady Illusion gives Mark and Chuck a detention for disrupting her class for the next day. Mark and Chuck go to the carnival, Mark running into Dirty Rat and Pigface, however Ace appears and scares them away. Mark goes to see how Chuck is doing in his search, but he hasn't starting looking yet. Samantha suddenly appears, explaining she found Mr. Chesebrough trapped in a cage like an animal with people throwing food at him. Can Mark get out of this "detention" or will Lady Illusion destroy him?
Episode 4: Face the Music
After failing to try and stay home, Mark heads to school to face the music. Ace agrees to help him, but he made need a distraction. This distraction comes when Chuck discovers a pea in his tappioca pudding and vomits harshly, allowing Mark to get Ace into the school unoticed. Lord Fear worries that Lady Illusion may have some trouble at the school, so she sends Pigface to assist her. After the detention, Lady Illusion springs her trap and chases Mark and Chuck throughout the school, cornering them in the cafeteria, where Pigface is eating Mrs. Kutcher's food. Ace appears and scares Lady Illusion and Pigface off. Chuck is shocked when he sees Ace, but Ace explains to Mark that Chuck is just dazed from getting him from Lady Illusion's smoke bomb and won't remember a thing.
Episode 5: No Place Like Home
Ace starts to drain of his energy after dumping Anvil in a dumpster. Ace is forbidden by Mark to use the electronic equipment in his house, so he goes to use the electricity at the carnival. Mark's cousin Ashley meets Ace and believes he is the Radioactive Guy, a man from a local urban legend which claims he came to close to a radioactive comet and went mad. Ace is nearly beaten out of existence by Anvil, but Mark rushes Ace to the nearby observatory and heals him using a transformer. Ace decides to live in the observatory, and names it the Thunder Tower.
Episode 6: Opposite Attraction
Lady Illusion, tired of waiting around nothing, strikes out on her own. Ace informs Mark of the news and they have to prepare for battle. Mark stupidly stands up Samantha on a date, and she has to watch Chuck scoot around a skatepark trying to impress her. Ace finds Lady Illusion and brings her to the Thunder Tower. There, the two fall in love and dance, until a furious Lord Fear arrives. He and Ace fight, Lady Illusion has to break up the fight. She takes Mark's piece of the Amulet and creates the Lightning Lance which Mark uses to chase the villains out the building.
Episode 7: Only Human
Dirty Rat discovers a new piece of the Amulet while digging, and Lord Fear uses it to summon Googler from the Sixth Dimension. Mark and Samantha are in the park when Chuck comes by with an ice cream. Freaking out as usual, Mark dashes off to confront Duff's ice cream truck, but is attacked by Anvil. Ace defeats Anvil, but Googler appears and wounds Ace. Ace soon discover his flight, super strength and lightning powers have all gone. He has become human! Ace disguises himself as a policeman and finds Mark. Mark and Ace go to Samantha's rescue when she gets stuck in a treehouse after Chuck breaks the ladder of the house. Mark is then kidnapped by Googler and taken to the carnival, where he is placed in a dunking tank where Zip and Snip await. Ace confronts Googler and Dirty Rat, regaining his powers and saving Mark. Lord Fear is very disappointed with Googler and angrily blasts him, senting him flying into a puppet show booth.
Episode 8: Behind the Mask
It is Halloween and Mark is hosting a party at his house. Mark has come as a knight, Brett as a rugby player and Samantha as an angel. However, things get drastic when Pigface mistakes Chuck for Ace Lightning (as he is wearing a costume) but Chuck thinks Pigface is Wayne. Pigface and Dirty Rat chase Chuck to the carnival, but Mark comes to his rescue. Meanwhile, Duff goes to Ace for help, but when they go to the carnival, Duff lies to Lord Fear saying he tried to get Ace's piece of the Amulet. Ace defeats Pigface and Dirty Rat, but Chuck throws up in a bin which Pigface later eats out of.
Episode 9: Once Upon A Hero
Dirty Rat cleverly relieves Mark and Lord Fear of their Amulet fragments and uses them to summon a new game character to serve him. Since Mark's summons heroes and Fear's summons villains, both of them summon Random Virus, who is both. However, what the Rat didn't count on was Random's dual personality. He has two programmes, one good and one evil. Random hides out in the local junkyard so he doesn't hurt Ace. Duff and Dirty Rat hear of Chuck's robot, Leviathan X-L 1, which they steal to power up Random. Mark comes to retrieve the robot, and Random moves in for the kill, but he senses Mark isn't a coward and turns on the Rat instead. Ace and Lord Fear appear and stop Random and the robot. Lord Fear takes care of Dirty Rat for his betrayal.
Episode 10: Knights Undercover
Mark discovers Samantha has got a job at the carnival and tries to otherwise persuade her to change her mind. Lady Illusion informs Ace of a trap Lord Fear is setting, but it is soon revealed her warning is also part of the plan. Ace and Mark decide to go undercover, Ace dressing as a motorcyclist and Mark (rather hilariously) cross-dressing as a girl, which Wayne mistakenly falls for. Chuck discovers a tent full of junk food. Simon and Fiona discover their vandilised garden gnomes which Ace destroyed by accident and go to the carnival to take a break. After closing hours, Googler sends Zip and Snip to torment Samantha who ends up trapped in a ride with Chuck. Mark saves them while Ace (with help from Lady Illusion) defeats Googler. Samantha decides to quit her job as she believes the glovepuppets are weird birds.
Episode 11: Tunnel of Love
Random is captured by Lord Fear and Ace needs to rescue him. However, this puts Mark and Samantha's relationship in jeopardy. Chuck discovers the Shield of Justice can be used to defeat Random if he turns evil. While Mark tries to rekindle with Samantha, he chases her (with Chuck) onto the carnival's tunnel of love ride where he discovers Random Virus. Lord Fear turns Random evil, but Ace appears and saves Mark with the Shield of Justice. Random chases off Lord Fear, who reminds him that he will be there for him when he turns evil again. Mark manages to restart his relationship with Samantha.
Episode 12: Nobody's Hero
Things go downhill for Mark including his parents grounding him for low grades, Ace finding another piece of the Amulet but Anvil is guarding it, Ace crushes Mr. Chesebrough's car and Lord Fear starts stalking Mark. Lord Fear kidnaps Mark and takes him to the carnival. There, Mark is surrounded by Lord Fear and Anvil. Ace appears and takes on the two villains while Mark retrieves the Amulet piece from a claw machine. He uses it to summon Sparx from the Sixth Dimension. However, Sparx criticizes him and Mark angrily leaves.
Episode 13: Ace's Wild
After watching into an ambush, Ace is transformed into a zombie by Zip and Snip. Lord Fear sends him to assassinate Mark and Sparx. Mark is dragged back into his crazy life when he has to help Sparx hide from Ace. Ace manages to get back to normal thanks to a power surge from Chuck. He saves Sparx who is at the mercy of Lord Fear.
Episode 14: The Field Trip
Mark's class go on a field trip to the carnival which greatly worries Mark as Lord Fear and his gang could cause some major trouble. Anvil destroys the transformer in the Thunder Tower, leaving Ace and Sparx without a power source. Lord Fear traps all of the students except Mark, Chuck and Samantha inside the funhouse while Duff sends Mr. Chesebrough on a wild ride on the twister ride. Duff also gives chase to his puppet, Mr. Huckleberry, who is really Dirty Rat in disguise for stealing some candy floss. Sparx goes to the carnival but is captured by Lord Fear. Ace rescues her but they both fall at Lord Fear's feet. Mark saves them, and Samantha frees the children trapped in the funhouse.
Episode 15: Not Alone At Home
Mark, Chuck and Ashley are spending the night at Mark's house watching videos, but Lord Fear sees this as the perfect time to launch an attack. Lady Illusion attacks Ace and Sparx at Thunder Tower to keep them from coming to the rescue. The villains invasion goes horribly wrong for them. Dirty Rat sneaks in disguised as a rabbit toy again but after listening to some music on some headphones he goes crazy and falls down the stairs and somehow gets trapped in the television. Pigface comes in through the kitchen window but electrocutes himself and later eats a horde of pizza from a truck. Lord Fear gets stuck in the chimney, while Staff Head comes up via the toilet. Ashley mistakes him for the tooth fairy. However, Chuck chases the villains out by accident when a blanket lands on him. Ace stops the fight between Lady Illusion and Sparx and then races to help Mark and Ashley clean up his house before Mr. and Mrs. Hollander.
Episode 16: Unidentified Flying Superhero
Sparx is caught on video by Chuck and he becomes a local hero, while Sparx is believed to be an alien. Googler gets lost and Duff's ice cream truck gets towed away. Lord Fear, Dirty Rat and Duff get the van back from Gus the Tow Truck Guy and go in search of Googler. Mr. Chesebrough constructs an alien-detection machine which he plans to use after school. Mark volunteers to assist him. Googler is disturbed by the machine's noises and gives chase to Mark and Chesebrough. Googler corners Mark outside but Ace and Sparx appear. However, tragedy looms overhead as Zip and Snip seize Sparx's sword and blast her with it, killing her and sending her back to the Sixth Dimension.
Episode 17: A Friend In Need
Mark is cheered up after losing Sparx when his friend Pete comes over to visit him, but more importantly to meet Ace. However, Mark gets envious when Pete makes friends with everybody, even Mr. Chesebrough. Random Virus, meanwhile, joins Lord Fear's gang and battles Ace. Lord Fear captures Pete and makes him listen to his dreadful and diliberately out-of-tune organ music to get Mark's Amulet fragment. Mark appears to save Pete, while Random is saved by Ace. Pete decides it is best he meets the Lightning Knights later on, as they are very serious at the time.
Episode 18: The Last Laugh
It is April Fool's Day and Lady Illusion disguised as Mark, goes on the rampage, breaking up with Samantha as well and terrfying Mr. Cheseborough by lifting him up off the ground. Mark, meanwhile has a cold and must stay at home. Ace goes to the carnival and is attacked by Googler, but defeats him easily. Later, Lady Illusion confronts Ace, and the real Mark appears, leaving Ace puzzled. He solves who is the real Mark by making one laugh using a April Fool's joke. Mark's life goes downhill as Samantha breaks up with him, but Heather now moves in...
Episode 19: Download Disaster
Ace is pushing himself to the limit fighting the Evil Gang, who are getting stronger with each defeat. Mark tries to get Random Virus to help Ace, but after Mark is almost smashed by the crazed cyborg Ace tells Mark to stay away from the junkyard for his own safety. Still determined to help Ace find a way to cope, Mark hooks Ace up to his computer and has Chuck send over some new powers, but Chuck's computer crashes during the transfer and Ace becomes a lifeless statue. The Evil Gang captures Ace, but during their victory party Mark shows up with a friend, Random Virus. Random distracts Lord Fear and Lady Illusion brings Ace back to life with a kiss, and the two Lightning Knights fight off the villains. However, Staff Head saw Lady Illusion kiss Ace, and uses this as leverage against her.
Episode 20: Daffy Duff
Duff is tired and mad of Lord Fear and his minions running over his carnival so he goes to the local psychiatrist for help. He takes Mr. Huckleberry for support. He explains to the Psychiatrist about his experiences with Ace Lightning, Lord Fear, Dirty Rat, etc. The episode is mainly a clip show and shows many different scenes from previous episodes, and it ends with a music video complete with the full-length theme song. The episode ends with the psychiatrist telling Duff not to drive for a while or work in his carnival. Duff exits the building, having a quick confrontation with Mr. Cheseborough, who is presumably there to discuss his alien encounters. The psychiatrist's secretary then reveals herself to be Lady Illusion in disguise and she follows him home.
Episode 21: The Unlikely Hero
During an assassination attempt on Mark, Lord Fear is attacked by Ace and they cause a deflected attack to hit Chuck. This turns Chuck into a person with super strength and he decides to help his football team go up against their superior opponents in their upcoming match. Chuck becomes Thunderfoot and believes he is the coolest kid in the world. Heather and Mark unexpectedly become an item, much to the annoyance of Samantha. Dirty Rat and Anvil distract Ace while Lord Fear goes to destroy Mark and Thunderfoot (Chuck). However, Ace escapes and goes to save Mark. Chuck's powers fade but he still helps win the match. As for Dirty Rat, he ends up being imprisoned behind electrical bars.
Episode 22: The Not So Great Outdoors
Ace finds an amulet piece, which will allow him to recall Sparx to the real world when joined with Mark's piece. However, Mark, Brett and Chuck have gone camping with Mr. Hollander, so Ace has to travel far out of town to find him. Lord Fear learns of the camping trip and sends Dirty Rat, Pigface and Staff Head to steal Mark's amulet piece while Ace isn't around to protect him. The boys run into Wayne and his father, who belittles Mr. Hollander. However, when the Evil Gang invades the campsite, Mr. Fisgus panics and Mr. Hollander takes charge, grouping the boys back to back and fends off Dirty Rat with a pan. Pigface and Staff Head corner Mark, but he turns on Chuck's portable Ace Lightning video game, and when they hear Ace's voice coming from it they think Ace is really there and run away. Ace finally finds Mark and brings Sparx back from the game.
Episode 23: The Biggest Fan
Chuck plans to host an Ace Lightning fan club meeting at the school, which angers Lord Fear as he thinks he should receive the praise of legions of fans. Lord Fear and Googler attack Mark's house in anger. Mark has his arm accidentally broken by Heather during a martial arts lesson. In return she promises to take him to the premiere of the next Jackie Chan movie, but Mark has already promised Chuck he'd help him. Mark goes to help Chuck, leaving Heather having a paddy. Chuck meets Jessica, Wayne's cousin and another Ace Lighting fan and he falls in love. Lord Fear attacks and Ace scares him off. Googler gets a surprise attack from Sparx and she defeats him.
Episode 24: The Play's The Thing
Samantha wins her pick of prizes from a carnival game and finds the last missing amulet piece, which she plans to wear during the school play, The Phantom of the Opera. Ace and Lord Fear both close in on the school to get the amulet piece, but Lord Fear is seen on stage he's mistaken for Chuck (the Phantom) and prodded by his ego must play to the crowd. Dirty Rat ends up getting the amulet piece.
Episode 25: The Rat Turns
Having a piece of the amulet himself, Dirty Rat is able to turn the other henchmen against Lord Fear, and they chase him out of the carnival. Staff Head blackmails Lady Illusion into disguising herself as Sparx and getting Mark's amulet piece, which allows Lord Fear to force Dirty Rat to give up his and complete the Amulet of Zoar. With the Amulet in the Evil Gang's possession, the Lightning Knights begin to weaken, and the final battle is imminent.
Episode 26: Game Over
It's the night of the school dance, but the Lightning Knights are weakening and Ace prods Mark to help them fight the Evil Gang before the Knights get too weak to beat them. Mark blows off Heather to help, and she ends up pairing with Brett. While the Lighting Knights fight the super-powered Evil Gang and begin to lose, Mark searches the haunted house and finds the Amulet in the organ. He shatters it, and the villains all disappear, Lord Fear discovering Lady Illusion's betrayal and swearing vengeance upon Ace. Lady Illusion confesses her feelings to Ace before disappearing too. Mark returns to the dance and reconciles with Samantha.
Season 2
Season 2 is set three months after the events of Season 1, and was made two years after the first. CGI has improved greatly and characters now have new features as such. Several new characters are introduced like Rotgut, Kilobyte, Rick and Kat.
Episode 27: Upgrades
Three months after the death of Lord Fear, Mark returns home to Conestoga Hills (after spending his summer in London) to find that Ace and Sparx plan to return to their world and take Random Virus with them. Random refuses to and it results in a battle. Lady Illusion tightens the noose by demanding that she go with Ace instead of Sparx. Ace and Sparx are sucked back into the game, leaving Random and Lady Illusion behind. Meanwhile, Wayne searches for the "Boneman" and Lord Fear and Staff Head return (Staff Head's form has been changed to make him look more frog like). While Lord Fear experiences the new additions to the Carnival of Doom, Mark and Chuck go to their new school and meet Kat, who appears to have an attitude problem. They also discover Mr. Cheseborough is their tutor! Mark learns that Lord Fear is back as well. Mark finds his new housekeeper, Felicity Fury, going through his personal belongings and she quickly scarpers. At the carnival, Lord Fear finds Lady Illusion and she begs for forgiveness. She hands Lord Fear two pieces of the Amulet and he summons Rotgut, a cowboy zombie who appears to be a bit useless. Lady Illusion plans a way to destroy Mark, and she transforms into Felicity.
Episode 28: The Game's On
Pete hears of the troubles going on in America and he advises Mark to protect himself. Mark recieves a message of SOS from Ace who is being stalked by Googler and Sparx is injured. Chuck discovers the truth of Ace Lightning and accidentally frees him from the game. Meanwhile, Lord Fear has recieved another piece of the Amulet from Lady Illusion and summons Anvil. Ace and Lord Fear battle, which leads to the school where Kat is playing basketball. Mark helps save the day and Kat wins the basketball match, much to Heather's annoyance.