Sam Collins

"Let's Samuraize, guys!"

―Sam Collins

Sam Collins
Data
Hero	Servo
Type	Hero
Gender	Male
Transformation Item	Samuraizer
Home World	Earth
Affiliation	Team Samurai
First Appearance	Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad episode 1 "To Protect and Servo"
Latest Appearance	Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad episode 53 "Take a Hike"
Portrayed by	Matthew Lawrence

Sam Collins gets into a freak computer accident, which allows him to transform into Servo. Servo is a computer program that has power to fight off evil Mega-Virus monsters (sent by the evil Kilokahn). Sam activates his Servo powers by shouting, "Let's Samuraize, guys!".

History

Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad

High school student Sam Collins is the head of a band, Team Samurai. During a recording session, Sam is zapped by a power surge and disappears, only to reappear seconds later with a strange device attached to his wrist (which is at the time irremovable). Later, after his friends Amp, Sydney, and Tanker leave, one of his video game programs dubbed, "Servo," is subject to a power surge and zaps Sam again. This time, the zap pulls him into the digital world and turns him into his creation. As Servo, he roams the digital world and fights Monster "Megaviruses". Meanwhile Malcolm Frink, another student from Sam's school, is designing monsters on his home computer when Kilokahn (an escaped military Artificial Intelligence presumed dead in the power surge) visits Malcolm via computer screen. Kilokahn strikes a deal with Malcolm and turns his digital monster into a Monster Megavirus who is not only capable of corrupting electronics, but is also capable of affecting the real world.

Sam, now as Servo, must enter the digital world and stop Malcolm's and Kilokahn's Megaviruses. Sometimes, when Servo was unable to handle a virus by himself, he would call on the help of his friends using his Arsenal Programs. The Arsenal Programs could fight the viruses solo, transform (with the help of other Programs) and attach to Servo as armor. Since Team Samurai consisted of only 3 people at any one time (excluding Sam), only 3 vehicles were available at any one time. When Servo linked up with these Programs as armor, he changed his name to either "Phormo" or "Synchro" (when he combined with Drago or Xenon, respectively)

Trivia

• In the earliest promos for Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Sam was described as a "computer genius". These promos featured no actual footage of actor Matthew Lawrence aside from his headshot, with the computer genius aspect of his character ultimately not being incorporated into the final version of the character.
• Sam's primary method of entering the Digital World to transform into Servo involved him playing a specific chord on his electric guitar when near a computer. In instances where Sam did not have access to his guitar, he would instead use his wrist-mounted Samuraizer to enter a nearby computer, similar to Naoto's primary means of transforming in Gridman the Hyper Agent, although Naoto specifically had to do so when in front of the Junk computer or a computer linked to Junk. (The latter of which was noted as risky and required an enormous amount of energy just to attempt.)
• Unlike his Gridman counterpart, Servo is the singular identity Sam assumes upon entering the Digital World, as opposed to bonding with an entirely separate digital entity as Naoto and Gridman did.

See Also

• Gridman
• Naoto Sho - counterpart in Gridman the Hyper Agent