Big Bad Beetleborgs (later Beetleborgs Metallix) is an American live-action television series by Saban Entertainment. Two seasons aired on Fox Kids from September 7, 1996, to March 2, 1998. The series adapted combat footage from the Metal Hero tokusatsu-series Juukou B-Fighter (first season) and B-Fighter Kabuto (second season). Big Bad Beetleborgs also had a cast of monsters as regular characters on the show including Flabber and Frankenbeans and helped to hasten the death of the show VR Troopers.