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VM

VM may stand for:

Businesses and organizations

 * VM Motori, a diesel engine manufacturer
 * VMware, Inc., an American technology company
 * Vauxhall Motors, a British car maker
 * Virgin Media, a cable provider in the United Kingdom
 * Virgin Mobile, a mobile phone service
 * Virgin Money (London Stock Exchange symbol VM), a bank
 * Voice of Music (V-M), an audio equipment manufacturer

Science and technology

 * VM reactor, various series of nuclear pressurized water reactors
 * VM (nerve agent), a chemical weapon agent a.k.a. edemo
 * VM (operating system), IBM's virtual machine operating system
 * Membrane potential, in a cell
 * Molar volume, symbol Vm
 * Variola major, smallpox
 * Vascular malformation, in medicine
 * Vasculogenic mimicry, in medicine
 * Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
 * Virtual machine, an emulation of a computer system
 * Virtual memory, a memory management technique
 * Voicemail
 * Vm, from virginium, a rejected name and abbreviation for the element francium
 * An email reader for Emacs
 * An extension for Apache Velocity files

Transport

 * Fixed-wing, aircraft in U.S. Marine Corps
 * Viaggio Air (IATA airline designator VM), a private airline in Sofia, Bulgaria
 * Viluppuram Junction railway station (station code VM), a railway station in Tamil Nadu, India

Other uses

 * Väike-Maarja, Estonia
 * Vasthy Mompoint (born 1980), Broadway actress
 * Vayu Sena Medal, an Indian military award
 * Verba Maximus, literary festival of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
 * Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 and NATO obsolete country code VM)
 * Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus
 * Virtuti Militari, a Polish military award
 * Visual merchandising, developing floor plans and displays to maximize sales
 * Voynich manuscript, an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system

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Voltron

Voltron is an American animated television series franchise that features a team of space explorers who pilot a giant super robot known as "Voltron". Produced by Peter Keefe (executive producer) and Ted Koplar through his production company World Events Productions, Voltron was an adaptation of several Japanese anime television series from Toei Animation. The original television series aired in syndication from September 10, 1984, to November 18, 1985. The first season of Voltron, featuring the "Lion Force Voltron", was adapted from the series Beast King GoLion. The second season, featuring the "Vehicle Team Voltron", was adapted from the unrelated series Armored Fleet Dairugger XV.

Voltron: Defender of the Universe was the top-rated syndicated children's show for two years during its original run, and it spawned three follow-up series, several comic books, and a line of toys.

Lion Force Voltron ("Voltron of the Far Universe"; Voltron III)
The first series was primarily edited from Beast King GoLion (Hyakujū-ō Goraion), and it features a team of five young pilots commanding five robot lions which can be combined to form Voltron. In this undefined future era, the Voltron Force is in charge of protecting the planet Arus (ruled by Princess Allura) from the evil King Zarkon (from planet Doom), his son Lotor, and the witch Haggar, who creates huge "ro-beasts" to terrorize the Arusian people. Despite being the first of the two robots to appear on American television, the "GoLion" version of Voltron was regarded as "Voltron III" within the storyline because, within the original planned three-Voltron continuity, Arus was the furthest setting from Earth's side of the universe ("Voltron I" being intended for the Near Universe, and "Voltron II" being intended for the Middle Universe).

Vehicle Team Voltron ("Voltron of the Near Universe"; Voltron I)
The second series, colloquially dubbed "Car Voltron", was primarily edited from Armored Fleet Dairugger XV (Kikō Kantai Dairugger XV), with the storyline considerably changed. In this iteration of Voltron, the Galaxy Alliance's home planets are now overcrowded, and a fleet of explorers is sent to search for new planets to colonize. Along the way, they attract the attention of the evil Drule Empire, long engaged in an ongoing war against the Alliance, and the Drule proceed to interfere with the mission of the explorers and the colonists. Since the Arusian Voltron is too far away to help these explorers, a totally new Voltron has to be constructed to battle the Drule threat.

This Voltron Force consists of fifteen members, divided into three teams of five, known respectively as the Land, Sea, and Air Teams. Each team is specialized in gathering data or fighting in their area of expertise. Each team can combine their vehicles into a bigger machine. When necessary, all fifteen vehicles combine to form the mighty Voltron. However, the Vehicle Team Voltron only had enough stored energy to operate for five minutes at a time.

In the toy line, this Voltron was referred to as Voltron I because it was set closest to Earth.

Gladiator Voltron ("Voltron of the Middle Universe"; Voltron II)
The proposed third season was to have been based on Lightspeed Electroid Albegas. The series would have centered around three teenage geniuses who each created a humanoid robot that were then modified for battle to combat an alien threat. Unlike the Lion Force Voltron or the Vehicle Force Voltron, both of whom were composed of machines that combined to form them, Gladiator Voltron's three components actually disassembled and reassembled into one large robot. This allowed for multiple different combinations with different functions and skills depending on the situation. There were also three jets that the team members would fly into hatches on the backs of their robots to pilot them that could also combine into one large jet, which were later replaced with other jets that could transform into smaller bipedal robots and could also combine to form a larger robot. Although Matchbox did produce and market toy versions of the three robots (Black Alpha, Blue Beta, Red Gamma) under the "Voltron II" name, the series never actually aired. Due to the extreme popularity of the Lion Force Voltron and the lack of popularity of the Vehicle Team Voltron series, World Events Productions eventually elected against another alternate Voltron, and plans to adapt Albegas were aborted.

Voltron: Fleet of Doom (1986)
In 1986, World Events hired Toei Animation to produce the one-off crossover television special Voltron: Fleet of Doom, which mixed in GoLion and Dairugger XV footage with new animation. The special was made for the international market and, as of the middle of September 2016, it had not been released in Japan.

Voltron: The Third Dimension (1998–2000)
The computer-generated series Voltron: The Third Dimension was released in 1998, set five years after the end of the original Lion Voltron series. The series was met with a mixed response, due to various changes, such as the revamped looks of the Lion Voltron, King Zarkon, and Prince Lotor. The series served as a sequel to the Lion Force Voltron series; among the tools used to bridge the gap between the two series was an official starmap as designed by Shannon Muir and finalized in partnership with World Events Productions. After Voltron: The Third Dimension, World Events Productions went back to the drawing board to develop a more traditionally animated series in an attempt to recapture the spirit of the original.

Voltron Force (2011–2012)
The animated series Voltron Force premiered on Nicktoons in June 2011. The series follows the exploits of a group of three young cadets brought together by the original members of the Voltron Force to defend the galaxy against a resurrected Lotor, now ruling the planet Drule after a military coup d'état. Voltron Force is a World Events Production in conjunction with Kick Start Productions and Classic Media.

Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016–2018)
The Netflix exclusive series Voltron: Legendary Defender, produced by DreamWorks Animation, is a reboot of the Voltron story. The series premiered on June 10, 2016, with Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery serving as showrunners. On January 5, 2016, Netflix announced that Voltron would debut in 2016 as an original animated Netflix series in partnership with DreamWorks Animation (DWA), part of an expanded multi-year agreement between the two groups. In February, teasers revealed the title of the new series to be Voltron: Legendary Defender. On March 25, 2016, a teaser trailer was released, announcing that the first season, consisting of 13 episodes, would premiere June 10, 2016. A second season premiered on Netflix on January 20, 2017. The third season premiered on Netflix on August 4, 2017, and consisted of 7 episodes while the fourth season premiered on October 13, 2017, and consisted of 6 episodes. The fifth season premiered on March 2, 2018, and consists of six episodes. The sixth season premiered on June 15, 2018, and consists of seven episodes. The seventh season premiered August 10, 2018 and consists of 13 episodes. The eighth and final season premiered on December 14, 2018, and consists of 13 episodes. The series' success has spawned several comics, action figures, and other toys.

Potential live-action film
In July 2005, producer Mark Gordon (Grey's Anatomy, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) announced plans to create a live-action film adaptation of the Voltron franchise in collaboration with producers Pharrell Williams, Mark Costa, and Frank Oelman. Pharrell Williams was also reported to compose the musical score for the film. The project's development was funded by Jim Young's Animus Films. In December 2006, screenwriter Enzo Marra was announced to have completed a script for Gordon. In August 2007, the production entity New Regency entered negotiations with The Mark Gordon Company to adapt Voltron. Interest in the property heightened after the box office success of Transformers, another film involving shape-changing robots. Mark's script was described as "a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City...[in which] five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders." On August 18, 2008, Relativity Media entered negotiations with New Regency to finance and produce the film, though on a more moderate budget, utilizing cost-saving CGI techniques such as those used in 300. Max Makowski was slated to direct. As of the end of August 2008, the title had been set for Voltron: Defender of the Universe. Relativity would have released the film in North America while New Regency's distribution partner, 20th Century Fox, would handle international distribution. But at that time, Ted Koplar, through his World Events Production Company (Koplar took over the company as the health of Peter Keefe declined; Keefe died in 2010 at age 57), was fighting a legal battle with Toei Company Ltd. over the movie rights as of November of that year. On September 16, 2010, concept art for the movie was released. On March 8, 2011, it was announced that Relativity Media and World Events had entered a bidding war on who would make the film. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer entered into collaboration on writing the script. On July 21, 2011, Atlas Entertainment & Relativity Media announced they would bring Voltron: Defender of the Universe to the big screen. Relativity Media would distribute. On July 30, 2015, Relativity filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York after lawsuits and missing loan payments,   and the film rights reverted to Classic Media. On November 4, 2016, three months after the completion of NBCUniversal's acquisition of Classic Media's parent company, DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion, it was announced that Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation will make the film with David Hayter writing the script.

In March 2022, it was announced that the live-action film was officially back in development with Rawson Marshall Thurber directing and co-writing the screenplay with Ellen Shanman, and produced by Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, and Bob Koplar. The film also incited a bidding war between Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Amazon Prime Video. Amazon is leading the bid.

Characters

 * Note: A gray cell indicates the character did not appear in that medium.

DVD releases
In Australia, DVDs of all episodes of Voltron were released by Madman Entertainment as the 20th Anniversary Edition, Lion Force Voltron Collection. The original series was released in five volumes between August 2004 and July 2005, under the name Voltron: Defender of the Universe. Each box was in the color and style of one of the lions with a metallic glossy inner DVD-case. Another three volumes of "Vehicle Team Voltron" were released between August and December 2005. In addition, a "Best of" 2-DVD set released in November 2006 featured five episodes from each series. Finally, a 24-disc boxset subtitled The Lion and Vehicle Force Complete Collection was released on June 24, 2009. Madman Entertainment has since relinquished the rights to the Voltron series and has since been re-released by Beyond Home Entertainment. Previous licensees of Voltron in Australia have been CBS/Fox Video and Manga Entertainment.

Prior to the release of the boxed sets, a promotional DVD was released for Voltron. It was packed in a threefold glossy cardboard folder. The folder featured full-color artwork and text about the then-upcoming release of Voltron on DVD. The disk had an image of Voltron, and was labeled for promotional use only. It featured the first episode, "Space Explorers Captured", and several promos for other series.

In Region 1, Voltron was released on DVD in its original broadcast form and remastered, restored, and remixed by New York-based distributor Media Blasters (via their AnimeWorks unit) in eight volumes between September 2006 and July 2009. The volumes contain approximately fifteen episodes each, along with special features such as interviews with producer and director Franklin Cofod, and various others involved in the original and current productions. The first five volumes together contain all the Lion Force episodes, which were broadcast as seasons 1 and 3, while the next three contain the Vehicle Team episodes, broadcast as season 2.

The Fleet of Doom special was released on DVD early in 2007, as an online Voltron.com exclusive. Media Blasters released Fleet of Doom on July 28, 2009, as a full retail release. A Blu-ray version was planned, but it was delayed many times and was finally officially canceled.

The first volume of the original series was released in the UK in 2007 by Manga Entertainment.

According to TVShowsOnDVD.com, Voltron: The Third Dimension was to be released on DVD at some point, but no release date has been announced currently.

Media Blasters/AnimeWorks also released the two Japanese shows that made up Voltron — Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV — each in their original, unedited Japanese form, with English subtitles. Volume 1 of GoLion was released on May 27, 2008, Volume 2 on August 12, 2008, and Volume 3 on November 25, 2008. GoLion was re-released as a complete chronology set with all 52 episodes on April 13, 2010. The first Dairugger XV DVD collection was released on February 23, 2010, the second Dairugger XV collection was released on May 25, 2010. The third and final collection was originally scheduled to be released in September 2010, but was repeatedly delayed and finally released on January 4, 2011.

As of mid-2011, Classic Media (DreamWorks Classics) now owns the rights to Voltron on DVD.

On September 24, 2019, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released Voltron: Defender of the Universe: The Complete Collection on DVD in Region 1, which includes all 124 episodes and Fleet of Doom. The series is also scheduled for DVD releases in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany.

Digital releases
As of July 2011 all Lion Force episodes have been released on Hulu. Minisodes of the first twenty episodes of the first season can be streamed for free online on Crackle.

Following the success of Voltron: Legendary Defender, Netflix released 12 episodes of Defender of the Universe as Voltron '84 on March 24, 2017. Each episode is introduced by members of the cast and crew of Legendary Defender.

Soundtracks
The Voltron television franchise has produced soundtracks for three of its series which have been released exclusively on the iTunes and the Google Play stores. The first soundtrack release was on September 27, 2012, for the original Lions series with music composed by John Petersen. The second soundtrack release was on October 1, 2012, for the Third Dimension series with music composed by Stephen Martson and the third release on July 21, 2016, for the first season of the Legendary Defender series with music composed by Brad Breeck, Brian Parkhurst, and Alex Geringas. Currently, there are no plans to release any of the soundtrack to a non-digital version such as a physical album or CD.

1980s
In 1985, Modern Comics, an imprint of Charlton Comics, produced a three-issue mini-series based on the Lion Voltron television show.

2000s
In 2002, comic book publisher Devil's Due announced that it had acquired the rights to publish Voltron comic books. Devil's Due, through Image Comics, published a five issue mini-series (preceded by a #0 issue from Dreamwave) which featured the Lion Voltron incarnation of the character and rebooted the property. This was then followed by an ongoing series self-published by Devil's Due, which was placed on hiatus in 2005 after the eleventh issue, due to poor sales.

Devil's Due announced in January 2008 that the five-issue mini-series, the eleven issues of the ongoing series, and the #0 issue would be collected into a Voltron Omnibus trade paperback that would also include the unpublished twelfth issue of the ongoing series that would wrap up all the storylines.

In July 2008, a new five issue mini-series was released by Devil's Due, which picked up where the ongoing series left off. This series further explored the origins of Lion Voltron's creation, from 12,000 years in the past to the present day. The mini-series showed Voltron existing as a single construct created by sorcerers and scientists, resembling a knight. During its battle with the first Drule Empire, Voltron was tricked by Haggar into landing on a black comet with the gravitational attraction of a singularity. Voltron was then attacked by Haggar, and blown into five pieces. However, the intervention of a sorcerer resulted in the five pieces becoming the five lions as they descended onto Arus.

The original five issue mini-series was adapted as the 2007 motion comic Voltron: Defenders of the Universe - Revelations. Its sequel, Voltron: Defenders of the Universe - Paradise Lost, adapted the first story arc of the ongoing series, introducing the V-15 and its pilots. The Devil's Due run is now collected digitally exclusively through Devil's Due Digital.

2010s
In 2011, Dynamite Entertainment announced plans to publish Voltron comics, while Viz Media's young readers imprint, Viz Kids, announced plans to publish a series of graphic novels called Voltron Force, on which Bian Smith would serve as head writer, and Jacob Chabot and Dario Brizuela would serve as lead artists.

In September 2015, Dynamite released Voltron: From The Ashes, written by Cullen Bunn with art by Blacky Shepherd.

Matchbox
Matchbox imported the Lion Force Voltron, Gladiator Voltron, and Vehicle Force Voltron diecast toys from Popy of Japan in 1984. The company also released 6-inch figures of the Voltron robots that were more affordable, but lacked the detail level of their larger counterparts and could not separate into their component forms.

Panosh Place
At the peak of the series' popularity, Panosh Place released new Voltron toys, including action figures of the characters and a larger Voltron toy that could fit them.

Trendmasters
To coincide with the 1998 broadcast of Voltron: The Third Dimension, the now-defunct Trendmasters reissued the Matchbox diecast Lion Force Voltron, with a few changes to the mold and a total of 17 weapons in comparison to the original's sword and shield. Trendmasters also released the newer Stealth Voltron and Voltrex variants at various sizes, as well as character action figures to go along with them. A dragon version of Voltron called Dracotron was prototyped but never made it to production.

Toynami
Shortly after the demise of Trendmasters, Toynami acquired the Voltron license and released their Masterpiece Voltron toy in 2005. Boasting more detail and articulation than the previous toys, the Masterpiece Voltron sold for US$139 to US$149.99 at the time of its release. In 2007, Toynami sold an all-plastic version of the Masterpiece Voltron for up to one-third of the first release's price (ranging from US$49 to US$60). A variant of this version was packaged and sold with a Voltron line of Reebok sneakers. For the 25th anniversary of the cartoon franchise in 2009, the plastic Masterpiece Voltron was reissued in a metallic repaint.

Mattel
In late 2011, Mattel designed but never released toys for the new Voltron Force series, while its online collectors' site MattyCollector.com sold brand new toys for the classic series - including a 23-inch Voltron that fits 4-inch pilot figures in each lion.

Playmates Toys
In 2017, Playmates Toys released toys based on Voltron: Legendary Defender. Though only three pilot action figures were ever released before the line was terminated.

Bandai
In early 2017 Bandai Japan, who produced the toys of Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV back in their initial releases, released a Soul of Chogokin version of the GoLion robot. The box was repackaged as Voltron for its American release. A Dairugger XV version was later produced in 2019, similarly branded as Vehicle Voltron in the US release. WEP purchased the rights to the original Dairugger XV as well as Albegas and Golion some time previously, so Bandai had to relicense the toys back from WEP to produce them.

Lego
In August 2017, Lego announced that a forthcoming Lego Ideas set based upon classic Voltron will be placed into production. The set was released on August 1, 2018, coinciding with the final seasons of Voltron: Legendary Defender.

Other merchandise
Privateer Press released a Voltron: Defender of the Universe expansion set for their Monsterpocalypse battle miniatures game series in 2010.

In 2012, Voltron was shown in MetLife's "Everyone" commercial during Super Bowl XLVI.

In 2023, 4 Hands Brewing Company, based in WEP LLC's hometown of St. Louis, launched a six-part, two-year licensed series of Voltron-themed beers, each "volume" a collaboration with a different craft brewery.

Voltron: Defender of the Universe (2011)
In December 2009, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced the first ever Voltron video game would be released on mobile phones in the US, including the iPhone. The game would have 30 levels and 6 acts, isometric gameplay and gamers will command robot lions to traverse the galaxy and take on King Zarkon's evil droid armies. In 2011, Voltron: Defender of the Universe, produced by THQ and Behaviour Interactive, was developed for home console play. A 1-5 player co-op game, it was released on November 29, 2011, for the PlayStation Network and November 30, 2011, for the Xbox Live Arcade. The First Trailer has been announced on IGN.com and tentatively priced at $10. Players will be able fight as the individual lions in an overhead shooter style gameplay to then form Voltron to take on Robeasts in a fighter style combat.

Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion (2019)
In 2018, NBCUniversal announced the video game Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion, the winner of their developer competition Universal GameDev Challenge that had offered game developers the opportunity to use some of Universal's IP. In 2019, Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion, produced by indie game studio Gbanga, was made published on the Steam store in Early Access, the platform's experimental game program. In the game, players compete in real-time player vs player (PvP) game battles by placing own and destroying opponent blocks with different features in a game board with a grid.

Animation staff

 * Original story: Saburo Yatsude
 * Chief Director: Katsuhiko Taguchi
 * Character Designer & Chief Animation Director: Kazuo Nakamura
 * Episode Directors: Kazufumi Nomura, Kazuyuki Okaseko, Hiroshi Sasagawa, Katsuhiko Taguchi, Katsuhito Akiyama
 * Scenarists: Ryo Nakahara, Masaaki Sakurai, Susumu Takahisa
 * Music: Masahisa Takeichi (incidental), Asei Kobayashi (opening/closing themes)
 * Theme song performance (GoLion): Ichirou Mizuki (OP- Tatakae! Goraion, ED- Gonin de Hitotsu)
 * Production: Toei Animation Co., Ltd. / Toei Advertising Co. Ltd (credited as "Toei Agency")

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Duplicate?
Is this article a duplicate of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron_(TV_series) by any chance? Yves Gurcan (talk) 15:46, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

No Daltanius Reference?
I have read that the original Voltron lineup was suppossed to be Daltanius, Dairugger, then Albeg... the gladiator one, but they screwed up and sent the wrong "one with the lion" to World Events (lucky mistake). However, I remember the commercial teaser for Voltron and they showed Daltanius, Dairugger, and GoLion (and I just found it on youtube). But the toys were GoLion, Dairugger and the Gladiators, so there were 3 different possible lineups (at least). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.160.35.117 (talk) 11:09, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

 * by all means, write up the section if you like. Angel the Techrat (talk) 03:47, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Sven question
he dies in the original Japanese...but then how does he pilot it 1 more time in a later episode? They would have had to recon the previous plot. And I'm pretty sure I remember Sven in the 3D Voltron show (I miss that show). Did they pull an Ultimate Muscle and decide to stay with the USA plot instead of the Japanese plot? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.57.184 (talk) 00:54, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * If you mean the second season then the animators had to create a new scene. If you can tell me the episode name you're talking about post it here.  The second season was never broadcast in Japan.  --VoL†ro/\/Force 01:07, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

In the original GoLion series in Japan, Sven dies and it's his twin brother who comes back later on in the series. Because of programing regulations and censors, World Events Productions changed Sven's death scene to him merely being injured. Later on in the series, the twin brother is changed to Sven and the story reveals that he was on Planet Doom after recovering from his "near fatal" injury. Sven never made an appearance in V3D. --KiethBlackLion

 * Sho was Takashi's younger brother, not a twin. Angel the Techrat (talk) 03:46, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

The Voltron name
If Voltron's REAL name is GOLION, then where did Voltron got it's name?

Was it from, VOLTES V????? -A Voltes V fan

Voltron is definitely a copy of Voltes Vin many aspects;

The 5-man team (Space Explorers in Voltron vs Young Earth Defense Agents in Voltes V.) A multi-funtioning combination machine/robot craft. (Voltron as Lion Robots and Voltes V as Super Earth defense space ships.)

And then, the VOLT in Voltes V's name.

(They should have called Golion "Liontron" if they do not intend to "borrow" Voltes V's name.)

- Mark "Hentai" Jimenez

Hachi machi! I had my doubts at first, but after looking at the Wiki entry, there can be no denying it... Voltron really is a derivative of Voltes V. Even the characters match up almos perfectly. It's funny how much of this behind-the-scenes information you miss when you're just a kid, especially in the pre-Internet, pre-otaku 1980's. --M.Neko 11:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm clear thing up, Voltron did not ripoff the name Voltes V. Vol in Voltron is a abbreviation for volume. tron is a suffix to denote complex scienific insturment. (mich (talk) 16:35, 29 July 2009 (UTC))

Red vs Blue quote
I removed the bolded part of this piece of information, because it seemed pretty tangentially related to the main topic, especially for something in the introductory paragraph:

"Voltron was also mentioned in episode three of the web series red vs blue, in that episode the character Church asks his teammate Tucker what he would do with two chicks to which Tucker responds 'Church women are like voltron the more you hook up the better it gets'."

Esk 3 July 2005 20:25 (UTC)

 * The quote appears in both "TV" and "Miscellaneous". One or the other should be chosen.  --711groove 16:22, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Outfit colors and lion colors
Is it just me or didn't the guy in red pilot a black lion and the guy in black piloted a red lion?

 * Keith, the pilot of Black Lion, wore red.
 * Lance, the pilot of Red Lion, wore blue.
 * Pidge, the pilot of Green Lion, wore green, and was the only full color-match.
 * Sven, the first pilot of Blue Lion, is the one who wore black.
 * Allura, the pilot of Blue Lion after episode 6, wore pink.
 * Hunk, the pilot of Yellow Lion, wore orange.

 * The uniform colors were completely random, with the exception of the traditional "leader in red" and "girl in pink", and not related to the Lion they piloted. Angel the Techrat 18:24, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

This is the list of characters from the first season of Voltron:
 * Shiro, the pilot of Black Lion, wore black.
 * Lance, the pilot of Blue Lion, wore blue.
 * Pidge, the pilot of Green Lion, wore green, and was the only full color-match.
 * Kieth, the pilot of Red Lion, wore red.
 * Hunk, the pilot of Yellow Lion, wore orange.

So no the uniforms were not random. after Shiro vanished during thier battle with ZarKon, they needed to choose a new pilot to replace Shiro in the second season. That's when the colors didn't match-up any longer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:1981:35E0:61EF:C31:239F:2C (talk) 15:47, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Character Names
I find different American surnames for the Voltron characters in several websites. In Wikipedia is also not different. So which ones are the correct ones? The Japanese names are already correct, so we don't have to edit it, but I'm confused with the American ones. I got this names from various websites:

 * Commander Keith Noel
 * Lance Hollings
 * Sven Byorn
 * Malcom Cavish "Hunk"
 * Princess Allura Tiel Osie'
 * Patrick Grambling "Pidge"
 * Coran Sile
 * Prince Lotor Di'el
 * King Zarkon Di'el
 * Hagger

Can anyone verify this? Thanks HoneyBee 11:33, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Reply : There have never been official names released or aknowledged by World Events Productions. The "surnames" that you find on the net are made up ones by Fanfiction authors. About the closest to official surnames that we see were given to the characters in the Devil's Due Voltron Comic publication. RSXTC 08:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Is that where the article's names were found? --VoL†ro/\/Force 01:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Hagar or Haggar?
There's two different spellings in the article, which one is correct? nae'blis (talk) 21:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Dairakga.jpg
Not properly tagged. --Dangerous-Boy 10:48, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Lance vs Sven
Current revision states that both Lance and Sven are the second in command. DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMSHHHRRRRRREEEEEE... teh TK 02:45, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You need to READ MORE CAREFULLY. It says Sven WAS second in command, and all details of this are in the PAST TENSE.  Then he was injured and retired to another planet.  Allura replaced him as a pilot, and it's not too much of a brain burner to figure out that Lance replaced him as second in command. Canonblack 12:12, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Rumor about movie
Someone said some movie might come out in the future. Please tell Me if this is true or dispel it. -- Eddie, Tuesday February 28 2006 at 23:18
 * There is an article attached to this talk page, you might try reading it. It very specifically states that an untitled live action film project is in development. Canonblack 12:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

I've heard something about Pharrell Williams being involved with the movie. He was being interviewed on Australian TV a few weeks back, and he was asked about the Voltron movie, he confirmed it. I think he is a producer for the film, and i think he will be doing the music also. any info will be cool, if anyone has it. --Adam aka. Cho03 16:26, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

The original Voltron movie script was written by Justin Marks. However, due to fan unrest and the fact that the script barely had any resemblance to Voltron and was more or less a rehash of prior sci-fi/disaster movies, the script is going to be re-written by the creator of the show Criminal Minds. A full review of the script can be found at http://www.geocities.com/kiethblacklion/Scriptreview.html It use to contain spoilers, but since the script is being re-written, there's no telling how much of the original script will get used. [KiethBlackLion]

*Ahem*
"New York–based distributor Media Blasters has announced the commercial release of Voltron on August 23, 2006"

As of the writing of this comment, it is July 27, 2006. I know we're talking about a science fiction animated series here, but I doubt the author of this remark could see a month into the future.

*Ahem*
Well.. I didn't make the remark in question, but perhapse you should re-read it. And/or check out Mediablaster's page. The comment doesn't say the anouncement was made on Aug 23. Aug 23 is WHEN the DVDs will BE RELEASED. -- Angel the Techrat

this is Dangerous_D filling in on this part, I made another update on Vol 2 release date it was due to comeout on the 12th but was pushed back another week to the 19th, aking it the 3rd date change on this

Sound effects
I'm hesitant to do so, but I'm removing the parenthetical comments on sound effects added to the introductory section on August 14, 2006. The meaning is unclear, the analysis is based on conjecture, and if the content should be included at all, it belongs in the "Differences" section. I would suggest that if it is added there, some research be done on the actual sound effects used on the original. -- Fru1tbat 13:24, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I cleaned up this section again. My reword was intended to remove any possible subjectivity. If anyone has a problem with my edits, please discuss here. -- Fru1tbat 20:47, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Fansites and external links
I have removed external links to discussion forums as they are a violation of WP:EL. -- MakeChooChooGoNow 09:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Relating the toys to the storyline?
It seems very likely to me that the numbers have nothing at all to do with the storylines. Also, does anybody have release and rerelease dates for the toys? Growing up, I don't know whether it was because of my age, or because of my parent's situation that I first started watching the vehicle Voltron series with no knowledge of the Lion Voltron series, but when I wanted the Voltron toys, which an aunt bought each group for me and my two younger siblings, I don't remember the Lion toys being around at that time either. Hackwrench 22:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Thinking about it some more, if there was an original toy release for the Lions, the numbering may have come about due to a successful rerelease after am unsuccessful first release. Hackwrench 02:48, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Dillards use to sell strange Voltron toys until 1988 I think with names like Voltron III and Voltron IV, etc. These toys were expensive. This article addresses nothing about the tons and tons of Voltron toys that have been made. Japanimation station (talk) 15:37, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Earth was devastated by nuclear war?
"In Golion, the initial scenes are actually of Earth, as the pilots have returned from their mission in the year 1999 to find that the entire population of Earth has been killed in a nuclear war."

A nuclear war between who? Between Earth and Galra, or between two nations on Earth? 69.69.72.198 01:59, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Reply : During the opening narration for episode 1, the narrator doesn't specifically state who started the war, but it was the great nations. We are left to just assume who they were. RSXTC 08:09, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

The DVD released isn't the japanese version
"Collection One: Blue Lion, featuring the first fifteen episodes of the series, is scheduled for wide release on September 26, 2006, though it was released early in the US under special agreement by some major retail chains on September 12, 2006. [1]"

From what I read on amazon.com from both the description and the user comments, this isn't the Japanese version. It's just the american version of Voltron. http://www.amazon.com/Voltron-Defender-Universe-Colletion-One/dp/B000FUTV64/sr=8-1/qid=1159887879/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5088939-7040868?ie=UTF8&s=dvd Inforazer 15:09, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Correct. The article is about the American series, so the line you quoted wasn't inappropriate, but it may have been poorly worded (and was out of date). I've updated and clarified it. -- Fru1tbat 15:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, I also clarified the information even further to help avoid confusion. Inforazer 17:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure if the term "American Voltron" is necessary (as I understand it, "Voltron" is specific to the American version). In addition, "Collection One: Blue Lion" refers to the first volume only, not the entire series, as the current text makes it sound. Maybe it's the first sentence that's throwing you off. I've rewritten again to completely separate the two sets of releases. Note: Since it's hard to find two websites that agree on the exact name of the volumes, I've dispensed with the "Collection One: Blue Lion"-style names and simplified it to just "Volume 1" and "Volume 2" for consistency and accuracy. -- Fru1tbat 18:09, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, in Australia, the 20th anniversary editions of Voltron have been out since late 2005, and come in 5 sets for each of the lion force and vechicle force series from the early 80's. These have been released by madman and the AV channel. Shouldn't these be mentioned in the dvd sections of the article, as these complete collections seem to predate the collections talked about in the article. -- lturner80
 * Details have been added. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.166.5.241 (talk) 12:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC).

Here is a promo that claims that the Japanese version is going to be released sometime in 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8p4zXM22c —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.88.48.67 (talk) 10:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * King of Beasts Go Lion Vol. 1 released to DVD on May 27, 2008. Vol.2 scheduled for August. RSXTC (talk) 20:02, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Voltron's Weapons, how could you forget?!
Why didn't you guys list his weapons!--JDitto 03:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

The Blue Lion - suggest merge with this article
I was stub sorting, and the article The Blue Lion was one I picked to sort. I've moved it into an appropriate stub category, and also suggested it be merged with this article - as it consists of only one line, and is flagged as being in serious need of cleanup. Scottkeir 01:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * For the moment, I have  boldly made it into a redirect.  Even the one line was a bit misleading, as it did not indicate that this is a fictional object.  --Aleph-4 13:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Super Robot Taisen W
Alright, so our beloved Golion finally got into SRW, can this in any way be mentioned in the article? Just Wondering

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No untitled voltron movie
Though there might be a Volton movie coming out the trailer shown before the transformers movie is not it.It is a monster movie with the working title of Cloverfield.Produced by JJ Abrams.User:Parralax

yes but there is quite possibly some truth. threw the line someone screams in the street is "its a lion. Its huge" and it makes sense to put it infront of transformers. but this is still speculation. so i would not cross it out until we have a direct comment from someone working on the film that its not. (JW)

 * Actually, the line is "It's alive! It's huge!". It was a trailer before transformers based on the high number of people expected to see that movie.  There's nothing to back up it's a Voltron movie.  It's speculation and doesn't belong in the article.  CPitt76 01:11, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

New Voltron script review @ http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2007/06/latino_review_gives_voltron_script_a_rating.html

complete review @ http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65

Please fans out there be gracious that they are trying to produce VOLTRON movie. I hope they stay true to the story for nostalgic 80's fans as well as introduce new fans of the 21st century to Voltron. I hope the underlying story is strong with great characters after

the final script is revealed. So go out there an express your opinion.

VOLTRON!YES!
 * You know check on IMDb and the release might be delayed until 2010. --VoL†ro/\/Force 01:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I stated this earlier in this discussion, but I shall post it here as well. The original script is being re-written. The review on LatinoReview.com isn't a complete review, but rather an attempt to push the movie without giving any real substance to it. The following link leads to a FULL review of the script. http://www.geocities.com/kiethblacklion/Scriptreview.html

--KiethBlackLion —Preceding unsigned comment added by JoshuaBeazley (talk • contribs) 21:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The script is no longer up, as Geocities shut down their user sites LReyome254 20:13, 12 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by LReyome254 (talk • contribs)

How come their is no live action page when they released some conpect art for the movie? ≈

Voltron Combine Sequence
Activate: Interlock

Dyna Therms: Connected

Infracells: Up

Mega Thrusters: Are Go

"Let's Go Voltron Force!" (Sequence Confirmation?)

Form Feet and Legs

Form Arms and Body/Torso

And "I'll" (Black Lion) form the Head. Edgeix 03:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

TODO: What exactly does interlock, dyna-therms and the infracells do?
Pure OR speculation on my part, but I'm a Otaku with ranks in Star Trek Technobabble and a healthy dose of bullshit...

 * Activating Interlocks: This one is easy. Sends the command to open up the "tab A's" and "slot B's" that the other lions connect into. Presumably you would want them normally closed to seal out the vacuum of space, and protect them from interstellar debris.
 * Dynotherms Connected: Since dyna comes from the Greek dynamis meaning "power;" and therme is Greek for "heat;" I would conclude that it has something to do with heat transfer, possibly collecting generated heat and converting it back into power. Perhaps this means the engines tend to overheat during the combination sequence, and this is a safety feature.
 * Infracells Up: Since infra is Latin for "below", up would be opposite. Perhaps this means that the cells are stowed away at this command, maybe because the lion is switching over from a battery cell to being powered by the Megathrusters.
 * Megathrusters Are Go: This would therefore be the command to fire the megathrusters, and make the necessary maneuvers to form Voltron

So basically, it's a matter of opening up the plugs for the other lions to connect to, switch from Lion battery power to Robot megathrusters, and combine.

Or it could just be three minutes of filler that the animators didn't have to write for each episode... -- RoninBK T C 08:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Succession to Arus throne
With the death of King Alfor, one would've excepted his only child should've become Queen-regnant Allura. Oddly enough, Allura has an aunt who's a Queen-regnant - I know it's just a cartoon. GoodDay (talk) 22:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It would seem that the use of Queen regnant to refer to her aunt is likely inappropriate. If I understand correctly, the sibling of a reigning monarch is still referred to as Prince/Princess. (a case could be made to refer to her as Princess Royal). It's also possible that she was perhaps queen of a neighboring monarchy, seeing as how royal families have a tendency to intermarry. -- RoninBK T C 23:28, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Allura could still be a princess if she were a minor, which is believable considering how Coran and Nanny treat her. You'd think she'd have been an adult by the time of V-3D, though. Perhaps the age of majority on Arus is rather high...say, 25? --12.106.209.61 (talk) 20:51, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Separate The Japanese anime into its own article
Now with the release of Golion to DVD, its time to separate all references to the anime into it's own article; provide links between the new article and this one for reference.RSXTC (talk) 19:50, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes this is very important as it is now this can be very confusing, we need to do the same as macross and Robotech are doing now (minus the stupid figths)

Stealth Voltron
One thing that should be added is some info on the "stealth lions" that the Lion Force Voltron transformed into when they went through that weird interdimensional portal. (In one of the episodes — one of the few I actually managed to see — the stealth lions, sans one of them (that needed repairs), had to do battle with that universe's lion Voltron, which had an evil goatee and was piloted by Lotor and crew. --Joe Sewell (talk) 21:02, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

World Events YouTube
World Events Productions have a YouTube channel I am using that to show the difference between Voltron and GoLion. I hope no one minds.

Dwanyewest (talk) 09:21, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

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Why not have a general Voltron page and then separate ones for all versions?
I see links to two other pages for different Voltron series. Why isn't there an article for just the original Voltron show? This page mostly contains general information about all the television series, plus toys, comics, and whatnot. I enjoyed reading all the information on the page before it got taken out. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voltron&diff=246206739&oldid=244305200 Why not put it back in with a Voltron: Defender of the Universe page, and then just have another page for general information about everything Voltron releated? Dream Focus (talk) 09:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * All the deleted information from this article, others, and even the articles deleted in their entirely, was exported to an external Wiki and was expanded greatly over the years. Does everyone agree that http://voltron.wikia.com/wiki/Voltron_Wiki would be a good external link to add?   D r e a m Focus  15:14, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

ABC? I don't think so!
It aired in syndication. Whoever edited this article must've seen it on a local ABC affiliate, but it was definitely not a network show. For instance, in Detroit, it aired on WKBD 50, an independant station (later Fox then UPN/CW, but at the time of Voltron it was indy). 76.226.103.166 (talk) 08:37, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Does Sony own television rights?
I lookes up Sony Pictures Television shows on the iTunes Store and I found Voltron on the list! Does this mean that Sony owns distribution rights to that show? StevenMario (talk) 22:53, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Beware, this user likes to make up information and insert it into Wikipedia articles, then his actions get YOU banned for edit warring. Japanimation station (talk) 15:39, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Comparison to first generation of Power Rangers?
I remember thinking when Power Rangers first came out, that they were a rip-off of Voltron. Think about it: They each pilot a zord with connects into a larger fighting one. The major difference that I'll point out is that the Voltron crew, to my recollection, never fought hand to hand. 70.92.19.159 (talk) 13:56, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Better cites needed for this "Far/near/middle universe" stuff
The link given for the only real cite for these terms being used now seems to lead to something else after a revamp of voltron.com and without any sort of official source it comes off as some sort of fanwank or OR or something along those lines, but not appropriate for the article in any event. The shows never used near/far to distinguish the two (and the middle one wasn't even part of the show) and the toys used numbers to distinguish them, not near/middle/far. So where do these terms come from and how are they appropriate for the article?76.226.112.55 (talk) 20:14, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Watch the introduction of Fleet of Doom with the long description of how peace is prevailing. There are other references as well but that is the quickest one I can think of. (Shan (talk) 19:22, 19 June 2011 (UTC))

Starmap citation
Here's the rub - I can tell you where to find a citation for the starmap stuff but since it's about me I can't post it. Took me a while to find this since WEP has moved it to their archives, as I wanted to refer to it for my own personal sites. If others in the community would like to review and determine appropriateness you are more than welcome. Hope this helps. It's an interview from when Voltron: The Third Dimension was in production. http://wap.wep.com/archives/shan.html (Shan (talk) 19:27, 19 June 2011 (UTC))

eponymous
Not sure that it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 11:22, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

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This article's history is baffling...
So first, this article was about the Voltron franchise as a whole... Then, it became about the Voltron character ... Then, it became about the first series in the franchise (which it is today). What is going on? I'm currently in the process of trying to create a series article for the Voltron franchise, but at this point, I'm not sure if it's already here in this history and if the information about the first series should be moved elsewhere or what. I mean, I'll figure it out eventually, but any input is quite welcome. Steel1943 (talk) 21:46, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * A franchise article could probably use a lot from this one, but would there be too much overlap? Much of the franchise content here relates to spinoffs and adaptations of the original series, so it isn't out of place here. As for more content on the broader franchise in this article's history, I'm not sure how far back you'd have to look. I made some larger edits on the article a couple years ago, but the versions before my edits aren't significantly different in focus, at least from a quick look. --Fru1tbat (talk) 18:48, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * (over 10 months later) Actually, there are many portions of information in this article that could be removed to create a franchise article. In fact, at the least, the section at Voltron belongs in a franchise article, and not this one. I remember when I was looking at this article's edit history last year, I noticed several revisions that contained information that is no longer in this article; most of that information could be used to create a franchise article, and possibly even a character article. (The character article may be a stretch, but a substantial amount of content for a franchise article is definitely present in the edit history.) Steel1943  (talk) 06:14, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * Voltron (1984 TV series) should have its own article but only if there is sufficient information. As the article currently stands now (as of this writing) there are barely any sources to support the article. The episode and character sections are all blank and the "Differences from the original version" seem to be WP:ORIGINAL and WP:UNDUE. If you can expand it with more information, especially with reception independent of the Voltron franchise, then it would best. lullabying (talk) 18:11, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

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Messiah in Judaism

The Messiah in Judaism (מָשִׁיחַ) is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible a messiah is a king or High Priest of Israel traditionally anointed with holy anointing oil.

However, messiahs were not exclusively Jewish, as the Hebrew Bible refers to Cyrus the Great, an Achaemenid emperor, as a messiah  for his decree to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple.

In Jewish eschatology, the Messiah is a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to be anointed with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age and world to come. The Messiah is often referred to as "King Messiah" (מלך משיח, ).

Jewish messianism gave birth to Christianity, which started as a Second Temple period messianic Jewish religious movement.

Etymology
In Jewish eschatology, the term Messiah refers specifically to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to save the Jewish nation and will be anointed with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age. The Messiah is often referred to as King Messiah. In a generalized sense, messiah has "the connotation of a savior or redeemer who would appear at the end of days and usher in the kingdom of God, the restoration of Israel, or whatever dispensation was considered to be the ideal state of the world."

Messianism "denotes a movement, or a system of beliefs and ideas, centered on the expectation of the advent of a messiah." Orthodox views hold that the Messiah will be descended from his father through the Davidic line, and will gather the Jews back into the Land of Israel, usher in an era of peace, build the Third Temple, father a male heir, re-institute the Sanhedrin, and so on. However, the word Mashiach is rarely used in Jewish literature from the 1st century BCE to the 1st-century CE.

The Jewish tradition of the late or early post-Second Temple period alludes to two redeemers, one suffering and the second fulfilling the traditional messianic role, namely ben Yosef and ben David. Messiah unqualified refers to ben David.

Belief in the future advent of the Messiah was first recorded in the Talmud and later codified in halakha by Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah as one of the fundamental requisites of the Jewish faith, concerning which has written: "Anyone who does not believe in him, or who does not wait for his arrival, has not merely denied the other prophets, but has also denied the Torah and Moses, our Rabbi."

Pre-exile Jewish eschatology (8th–6th cent. BCE)
The roots of Jewish eschatology are to be found in the pre-exile prophets, including Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the exile prophets Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah. The main tenets of Jewish eschatology are the following, in no particular order, elaborated in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel:
 * End of world (before everything as follows).
 * God redeems the Jewish people from the captivity that began during the Babylonian captivity, in a new Exodus
 * God returns the Jewish people to the Land of Israel
 * God restores the House of David and the Temple in Jerusalem
 * God creates a regent from the House of David (i.e. the Jewish Messiah) to lead the Jewish people and the world and usher in an age of justice and peace
 * All nations recognize that the God of Israel is the only true God
 * God resurrects the dead
 * God creates a new heaven and a new earth

Second Temple period (516 BCE–70 CE)
Early in the Second Temple period, hopes for a better future are described in the Jewish scriptures. After the return from the Babylonian exile, the Persian king Cyrus the Great was called "messiah" in Isaiah, due to his role in the return of the Jewish exiles.

Some messianic ideas developed during the later Second Temple period, ranging from this-worldly, political expectations to apocalyptic expectations of an end time in which the dead would be resurrected, and the Kingdom of Heaven would be established on earth. The Messiah might be a kingly "Son of David," or a more heavenly "son of man", but "Messianism became increasingly eschatological, and eschatology was decisively influenced by apocalypticism", while "messianic expectations became increasingly focused on the figure of an individual savior." According to R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, "the Messiah no longer symbolized the coming of the new age, but he was somehow supposed to bring it about." The "Lord's anointed" thus became the "savior and redeemer" and the focus of more intense expectations and doctrines." Messianic ideas developed both by new interpretations (pesher, midrash) of the Jewish scriptures but also by visionary revelations.

Messiah in apocalypticism
Religious views on whether Hebrew Bible passages refer to a Messiah may vary among scholars of ancient Israel, looking at their meaning in their original contexts and among rabbinical scholars. The reading of messianic attestations in passages from Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel is anachronistic because messianism developed later than these texts. According to James C. VanderKam, there are no Jewish texts before the 2nd century BCE that mention a messianic leader, though some terms point in this direction. Some terms, such as the servant songs in the Book of Isaiah, were later interpreted as such.

According to Werblowsky] the brutal regime of the Hellenistic Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes (r. 175–163 BCE) led to renewed messianic expectations reflected in the Book of Daniel. His rule was ended by the Maccabean Revolt (167–160 BCE), and the installment of the Hasmonean dynasty (167–37 BCE). The Maccabees ruled Judea semi-independently from the Seleucid Empire from 167–110 BCE, entirely independently from 110–63 BCE, and as a Roman client state from 63–37 BCE, when Herod the Great came to power. The belief in a messianic leader further developed with the end of the Hasmonean dynasty. According to James C. VanderKam, the apocalyptic genre shows a negative attitude towards the foreign powers which ruled Judea. Rejection of these powers was not the only cause of the development of the apocalyptic genre.

VanderKam states, "the vast majority of Second Temple texts have no reference to a messianic leader of the endtime." The Animal Apocalypse of Enoch 1:85-90 (c. 160 BCE) is the first to do so. After that time, only some apocalypses and some texts which are not apocalypses but do contain apocalyptic or eschatological teachings refer to a messianic leader. According to VanderKam, the lack of messianic allusions may be explained by the fact that Judea was governed for centuries by foreign powers, often without great problems or a negative stance by Jews toward these gentile powers.

In the first century BCE, in the Qumran texts, the Psalms of Solomon, and the Similitudes of Enoch, "both foreign and native rulers are castigated and hopes are placed on a Messiah (or Messiahs) who will end the present evil age of injustice. After the First Jewish–Roman War (66-70 CE), texts like 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra reflect the despair of the time. The images and status of the messiah in the various texts are quite different, but the apocalyptic messiahs are only somewhat more exalted than the leaders portrayed in the non-apocalyptic texts.

Charleswoth notes that messianic concepts are found in the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, which include a large number of Apocalypses.

Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel (mid-2nd c. BCE) was quoted and referenced by both Jews and Christians in the 1st century CE as predicting the imminent end-time. The concepts of immortality and resurrection, with rewards for the righteous and punishment for the wicked, have roots much deeper than Daniel, but the first clear statement is found in the final chapter of that book: "Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting shame and contempt." Without this belief, Christianity, in which the resurrection of Jesus plays a central role, may have disappeared, like the movements following other charismatic Jewish figures of the 1st century.

1 Enoch
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, 3rd-1st c. BCE) is an Second Temple Jewish apocalyptic religious work, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Enoch contains a prophetic exposition of the thousand-year reign of the Messiah. The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to date from about 300 BCE, while the latest part (Book of Parables) probably to the 1st century BCE.

Enoch is the first text to contain the idea of a preexistent heavenly Messiah, called the "Son of Man". 1 Enoch, and also 4 Ezra, transform the expectation of a kingly Messiah of Daniel 7 into "an exalted, heavenly messiah whose role would be to execute judgment and to inaugurate a new age of peace and rejoicing." He is described as an angelic being, who "was chosen and hidden with God before the world was created, and will remain in His presence forevermore." He is the embodiment of justice and wisdom, seated on a throne in Heaven, who will be revealed to the world at the end of times, when he will judge all beings.

Some scholars contend that Enoch was influential in molding New Testament doctrines about the Christ, the son of man, the messianic kingdom, Christian demonology, the universal resurrection, and Christian eschatology.

Messianic titles of the Dead Sea Scrolls
VanderKam further notes that a variety of titles are being used for the Messiah(s) in the Dead Sea Scrolls:
 * Messiah - the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Congregation, the Commentary on Genesis, 4Q521 (Messianic Apocalypse), possibly 4Q246 ("Son of God Text")
 * Righteous One
 * Chosen One
 * Son of Man
 * Son (of God)
 * God's Servant
 * Prince of the Congregation
 * Branch of David
 * Interpreter of the Law
 * (High) Priest

Messianic allusions
Messianic allusions to some figures include to Menahem ben Hezekiah who traditionally was born on the same day that the Second Temple was destroyed.

Jewish Christianity
Christianity started as a messianic Jewish sect. Most of Jesus's teachings were intelligible and acceptable in terms of Second Temple Judaism; what set the followers of Jesus apart from other Jews was their faith in Jesus as the resurrected messiah. While ancient Judaism acknowledged multiple messiahs, the two most relevant being ben Joseph and ben David, Christianity acknowledges only one ultimate Messiah. According to Larry Hurtado, "the christology and devotional stance that Paul affirmed (and shared with others in the early Jesus-movement) was not a departure from or a transcending of a supposedly monochrome Jewish messianism, but, instead, a distinctive expression within a variegated body of Jewish messianic hopes."

Rejection of Jesus as the Messiah
According to Maimonides, Jesus was the most influential, and consequently the most damaging, of all false messiahs. However, since the traditional Jewish belief is that the messiah has not yet come and the Messianic Age is not yet present, the total rejection of Jesus as either messiah or deity has never been a central issue for Judaism.

Judaism has never accepted any of the claimed fulfillments of prophecy that Christianity attributes to Jesus. Judaism forbids the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, since the central belief of Judaism is the absolute unity and singularity of God. Jewish eschatology holds that the coming of the Messiah will be associated with a specific series of events that have not yet occurred, including the return of Jews to their homeland and the rebuilding of the Temple, a Messianic Age of peace and understanding during which "the knowledge of God" fills the earth." And since Jews believe that none of these events occurred during the lifetime of Jesus (nor have they occurred afterwards), he is not the Messiah for them.

Traditional views of Jesus have been mostly negative (see Toledot Yeshu, an account that portrays Jesus as an impostor), although in the Middle Ages, Judah Halevi and Maimonides viewed Jesus as an important preparatory figure for a future universal ethical monotheism of the Messianic Age. Some modern Jewish thinkers, starting in the 18th century with the Orthodox Jacob Emden and the reformer Moses Mendelssohn, have sympathetically argued that the historical Jesus may have been closer to Judaism than either the Gospels or traditional Jewish accounts would indicate.

Talmud
The Talmud extensively discusses the coming of the Messiah (Sanhedrin 98a–99a, et al.) and describes a period of freedom and peace, which will be the time of ultimate goodness for the Jews. Tractate Sanhedrin contains a long discussion of the events leading to the coming of the Messiah. The Talmud tells many stories about the Messiah, some of which represent famous Talmudic rabbis as receiving personal visitations from Elijah the Prophet and the Messiah.

Midrash
There are innumerable references to the Messiah in Midrashic literature, where they often stretch the meaning of biblical verses. One such reference is found in the Midrash HaGadol (on Genesis 36:39) where Abba bar Kahana says: "What is meant by, 'In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as an ensign for the peoples, of him shall the nations inquire, and his rest shall be glorious' (Isaiah 11:10) ? It means that when the banner of the anointed king shall be lifted-up, all the masts of ships belonging to the nations of the world shall be broken, while all the lines (halyard, downhaul and sheets) are cut loose, while all ships are broken asunder, and none of them remain excepting the banner of the son of David, as it says: 'who shall stand as an ensign for the peoples'. Likewise, when the banner of the son of David shall arise, all the languages belonging to the nations shall be made useless, and their customs shall be rendered null and void. The nations, at that time, will learn from the Messiah, as it says: 'of him shall the nations inquire' (ibid.); 'and his rest shall be glorious', meaning, he gives to them satisfaction, and tranquility, and they dwell in peace and quiet."

Maimonides
The influential Jewish philosopher Maimonides discussed the messiah in his Mishneh Torah, his 14-volume compendium of Jewish law, in the section Hilkhot Melakhim Umilchamoteihem, chapters 11 & 12. According to Maimonides, Jesus of Nazareth is not the Messiah, as is claimed by Christians.

Maimonides, citing a reference in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 91b), says: "There is no difference between this world and the days of the Messiah, excepting only the subjugation of kingdoms."

Spanish Inquisition
Following the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, many Spanish rabbis such as Abraham ben Eliezer Halevi believed that the year 1524 would be the beginning of the Messianic Age and that the Messiah himself would appear in 1530–1531.

Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism maintains the 13 Principles of Faith as formulated by Maimonides in his introduction to Chapter Helek of the Mishna Torah. Each principle starts with the words Ani Maamin (I believe). Number 12 is the main principle relating to Mashiach. Orthodox Jews strictly believe in a Messiah, life after death, and restoration of the Promised Land: "I believe with full faith in the coming of the Messiah. And even though he tarries, with all that, I await his arrival with every day."

Hasidic Judaism
Hasidic Jews tend to have a particularly strong and passionate belief in the immediacy of the Messiah's coming, and in the ability of their actions to hasten his arrival. Because of the supposed piety, wisdom, and leadership abilities of the Hasidic Masters, members of Hasidic communities are sometimes inclined to regard their dynastic rebbes as potential candidates for Messiah. Many Jews (see the Bartenura's explanation on Megillat Rut, and the Halakhic responsa of The Ch'sam Sofer on Choshen Mishpat [vol. 6], Chapter 98 where this view is explicit), especially Hasidim, adhere to the belief that there is a person born each generation with the potential to become Messiah, if the Jewish people warrant his coming; this candidate is known as the Tzadik Ha-Dor, meaning Tzaddik of the Generation. However, fewer are likely to name a candidate.

Chabad messianism
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, declared often that the Messiah is very close, urging all to pray for the coming of the Messiah and to do everything possible to hasten the coming of the Messiah through increased acts of kindness. Starting in the late 1960s, the Rebbe called for his followers to become involved in outreach activities with the purpose of bringing about the Jewish Messianic Age, which led to controversy surrounding the messianic beliefs of Chabad. Some Chabad Hasidim, called mashichists, "have not yet accepted the Rebbe's passing" and even after his death regard him as the (living) 'King Messiah' and 'Moses of the generation', awaiting his second coming.

The "Chabad-Messianic question", regarding a dead Messiah, got oppositional addresses from a halachic perspective by many prominent Orthodox authorities, including leaders from the Ashkenazi non-Hasidic Lithuanian (Litvak) institutions, Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, and got vehement opposition, notably that of the Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim (RSA) in New York and that of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Conservative Judaism
Emet Ve-Emunah, the Conservative movement's statement of principles, states the following: "Since no one can say for certain what will happen 'in the days to come' each of us is free to fashion personal speculative visions ... Though some of us accept these speculations as literally true, many of us understand them as elaborate metaphors ... For the world community we dream of an age when warfare will be abolished, when justice and compassion will be the axioms of interpersonal and international relationships and when, in Isaiah's words (11:9) '...the land shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.' For our people, we dream of the ingathering of all Jews to Zion where we can again be masters of our destiny and express our distinctive genius in every area of our national life.... We affirm Isaiah's prophecy (2:3) that '...Torah shall come forth from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

... We do not know when the Messiah will come, nor whether he will be a charismatic human figure or is a symbol of the redemption of humankind from the evils of the world. Through the doctrine of a messianic figure, Judaism teaches us that every individual human being must live as if he or she, individually, has the responsibility to bring about the messianic age. Beyond that, we echo the words of Maimonides based on the prophet Habakkuk (2:3) that though he may tarry, yet do we wait for him each day."

Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism
Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism generally do not accept the idea that there will be a Messiah. Some believe that there may be some sort of Messianic Age (the World to Come) in the sense of an utopia, which all Jews are obligated to work towards (thus the tradition of Tikkun olam). In 1999, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the official body of American Reform rabbis, authored "A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism", meant to describe and define the spiritual state of modern Reform Judaism.

Karaite Judaism
Karaite Judaism holds to Elijah Bashyazi and Caleb Afendopolo's 10 principles of Karaite belief, with the tenth one being about the Messiah:

"God does not despise those living in exile; on the contrary. He desires to purify them through their sufferings and they may hope for his help every day and for redemption by Him through the Messiah of the seed of David."

Calculation of appearance
According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Zohar, the "deadline" by which the Messiah must appear is 6000 years from creation (approximately the year 2240 in the Gregorian calendar, though calculations vary). Elaborating on this theme are early and late Jewish scholars, including Nahmanides, Isaac Abarbanel, Abraham ibn Ezra, Bahya ibn Paquda, the Vilna Gaon, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Aryeh Kaplan, and Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis.

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Change in Historical Views: Talmud
I made a change in Historical Views: Talmud. It was written there: He [Elijah] answered him, 'This is what he said to thee, To-day, if ye will hear his voice.'

"if ye will hear his voice" is not the meaning of the sentence. It is a sentence taken from a verse in Psalms 95;7: "today if you will listen to his voice".

The true meaning of the sentence is "listen to his voice", it is also the only right translation there is.

It means to obey, to listen to what G-d says to you and do what he tells you to. Not to hear his voice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.183.167.80 (talk • contribs) 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Missing discussion of Haymanot
The article addresses the role of the Messiah in various sects/denominations of Judaism. But it does not address Haymanot (tradition of Beta Israel).

We are already over 6,100 years after creation
Dunno where this 2240 CE came from, but the numbers within the Bible add up with the current day already way over 6,000 years. So even if I take out the years that never were, we are way past the 6,000 years since Creation described in the Bible. 89.134.17.205 (talk) 19:25, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Deletion of sourced information
Don't delete sourced information. tgeorgescu (talk) 18:27, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

 * I refuse to interact with this individual, so my contributions to the article will stop here if other users are fine with him deleting my edit I will not revert it. Have a nice day! Nycarchitecture212 (talk) 23:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Why? Joshua Jonathan  -  Let's talk!  00:26, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I'm not talking about. I'm talking about your deletions. tgeorgescu (talk) 23:24, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Sourcing
@Davidbena: while I appreciate the hard work you put in to providing material for this page, the Talmud is not a secondary source per Wikipedia standards but an original source. In addition, we need to write an article intended for the general public, and these comments are really deep in the weeds. We must provide secondary sources that explain what theologians think of the Talmudic references, not provide the references themselves (except as limited examples, such as a quote). Ogress 01:32, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Okay, I agree with you there. If I find any secondary sources that are worthy of note, I'll suggest the edit. Thanks.Davidbena (talk) 03:28, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that would be super! Ogress 13:37, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

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