Cybertron City (episode)

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{{disambig2|the first episode of the Energon cartoon|the Autobot bases in the Energon cartoon|Cybertron City (city)}}
{{episode|
|series=Energon
|ep=1
|next=Energon Stars
|title="Cybertron City"
|japanese=浮上! オーシャンシティ
|romaji=Fujō! Ocean City
|translation=Arise! Ocean City
|image=E1_titlecard.jpg
|caption=You're going to wish Hot Shot had a trigger finger.
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]]
|writer=[[Akira Okeya]]
|director=[[Yutaka Satō]], [[Jun Kawagoe]]
|animation studio=[[Actas Inc.|Actas]], [[Studio A-CAT]] (3D)
|airdate=[[January 9|9 January]] [[2004]] (Japanese) [[January 31]], 2004 (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy]]
}}

'''Ten years after the defeat of Unicron, a new threat arises...'''

==Synopsis==
Deep within the shattered remains of [[Unicron]], [[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]]—one of Unicron's many victims—is resurrected, to gather [[energon]] to revive Unicron. Alpha Q releases a horde of energon-eating [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]]s, which will scavenge [[Earth]]'s abundant supplies of the power source.

[[Image:Energon Ocean City rises.jpg|thumb|left|200px|We built this city on rock and roll!]]
As [[Ocean City]] and bridge rise and unfold from one of Earth's oceans, [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] narrates: it has been ten years since [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and Unicron disappeared in the depths of space. He and the other surviving [[Decepticon]]s have had to suffer through working with the [[Autobot]]s and [[human]]s in search of energon, and he's ''not'' happy about it.

The city has surfaced so that the human known as [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] can go out on his motorbike and get some fresh air, much to Demolishor's consternation. [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] shows up too, and berates Demolishor for neglecting his work before running off in pursuit of the wayward Kicker. Kicker's tired of being cooped up in the submerged city and taking orders from 'bots. Suddenly, his hair flashes golden.

Below the waves, the [[Omnicon]]s are hard at work mining; they suddenly hit a golden glowing seam.

On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Rad White|Rad]] pays a visit to Earth's [[Extraterrestrial Research and Development Center]], where he communicates briefly with [[Sally Jones|Sally]]. Rad tells Kicker's father, [[Brian Jones (Energon)|Dr. Jones]], that the Omnicons have hit a big vein of energon right where Dr. Jones predicted. Energon is a clean energy source, needed to get Earth through an energy crisis, as well as the Transformers' requirements for the repair of Cybertron.

[[Image:Cybertron City Optimus and Ironhide train.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Primedouken!]]

On an asteroid colony, two 'bots give the stoic [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] a hard time about his terminal silence. Suddenly, a barrage of lights from the depths of space pound the colony, as the Terrorcon drones attack.

In a training arena, [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] spars with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], and is ready to go again despite getting put down. Optimus comments that the young 'bot reminds him a lot of Hot Shot, which Ironhide regards as about the best compliment ever.

Rad and Dr. Jones report the attack to Optimus, telling him that their [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] depot is under attack, as reported by Carlos. Prime speaks with [[Primus|a great glowing light]] about the strange development. Prime rounds up [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] and [[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]] to check out the situation, and Ironhide insists on coming too. Rad activates a [[space bridge]] gate, and the four Autobots roll out.

Arriving on Mars, the four find the smoking ruins of [[Mars City|the planet's Cybertron city]]. The team detects no life, even though there were many Transformers working there. They quickly head to Earth.

[[Image:E01 shinjiface.jpg|left|200px|thumb|This is my "Shinji" face.]]
At Ocean City, Sally and [[Miranda Jones|her mother]] observe the Omnicons' energon research, and squabble with Kicker. Kicker recalls arriving on planet Cybertron as a very young boy with his father, and meeting the gargantuan and rather terrifying Autobots. Present-day Kicker grumbles that he doesn't need any [[Transformer]]s to protect him.

[[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] reports that the Mars base was destroyed by asteroids. Kicker urgently tells Hot Shot that they're under attack, and he must submerge the city. He and Hot Shot race outside.

[[Image:E01 hentai iminent.jpg|right|200px|thumb|'''Finding God:''' Yer doing it wrong!]]
:''Optimus Prime searches for young Kicker, who, driven by his robot hatred, has run away and hidden in a restricted zone. Falling into a void, Kicker is snared by a glowing light. The voice of Primus speaks, wondering what energy source powers humans.''

And thus began Kicker's strange powers.

Hot Shot and Kicker observe as a huge swarm of Terrorcons appear in the sky, opening fire. Hot Shot returns fire. Demolishor soon finds himself against a pile of the creatures. The timely arrival of Optimus's crew saves Kicker from another group. Prime unleashes his [[Prime Force]] drones, then gives Hot Shot a [[Spark of Combination]], allowing him to [[Powerlinx]] with Inferno. Prime merges with his drones, and blows away ton of the Terrorcons.

Kicker leaps aboard Ironhide and makes good use of his cannon, but ultimately has to be saved by Prime, who grants him a suit from his father to protect him. Kicker is furious—this is his planet and nobody can tell him what to do!

Alpha Q observes that the first attack was a failure, but there are many hands yet to be played.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (7)
* [[Skyblast (Energon)|Skyblast]] (8)
* [[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]] (9)
* [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] (14)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (15)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (16)
* [[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]] (17)

|c2=
* [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (4)
* [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] (13)

|c3=
* [[Kicker Jones]] (5)
* [[Rad White]] (10)
* [[Sally Jones]] (11)
* [[Brian Jones (Energon)|Brian Jones]] (12)
* [[Carlos Lopez]] (18)
* [[Miranda Jones]] (20)
* [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] (21)

|c4=
* [[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] (1)
* [[Battle Ravage|Battle Ravage drones]] (2)
* [[Divebomb (Energon)|Divebomb drones]] (3)
* [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] (6)
* [[Primus]] (19)
* [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]] (22)
}}

==Quotes==
"You're not the boss of me, Hot Shot!"
:—'''Demolishor''' apparently liked taking orders from [[Megatron (Armada)|his last boss]] more.

"She said our Earth station has detected molecular activity at the precise coordinates where you suspected energon to be."
:—'''Rad''' begins the grand ''Energon'' tradition of things making no sense at all.

"Is that energon?" 
"Yes. It's the energy source that all life forms need to survive, Sally." 
"I'm not sure I get it, Mom."
:—'''Sally''' and '''Mrs. Jones''', who doesn't know much about biology

"Kicker! Don't be an idiot!"
:—'''Hot Shot''' is a real optimist

==Notes==
===Lost in translation===
* There are two distinct English-language dubs of this episode—a version broadcast on television, which is a straight dub of the Japanese edition of the episode, and the substantially-altered version released on DVD. In addition to a ''heavily'' re-written script, the DVD version re-orders several scenes, chief among them the opening sequence with Alpha Q and Kicker's flashbacks, and inserts a new opening monologue from Optimus Prime, along with clips from ''Armada''.
* The prolonged sequence of Ocean City rising up from beneath the waves differs across the various editions of this episode. The original Japanese version features only music and sound effects. The English TV-broadcast version features a monologue from Demolishor touching upon the events of the last ten years, to cement the series as a continuation of ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]''. The English DVD version replaces this monologue with an argument between Kicker and [[Misha Miramond|Misha]] about raising the city. Misha does not actually appear in the episode, though, and shouldn't actually ''be'' in Ocean City anyway.
* In the opening sequence of this episode, Alpha Q states that Unicron has brought him back on-line, in order to stop Unicron from going offline—a claim that is totally at odds with what we will learn of the character and his history as the series progresses. As an error, it's entirely confined to the English dub, but unlike the multitude of errors that would come to populate the dub, this one was ''not'' a product of stupidity, but instead, a very deliberately inserted line. This "minion of Unicron" role was Hasbro's intention for the character, and it's how he is portrayed in the [[Transformers: Energon (comic)|Dreamwave comic]], but the Japanese production staff wound up creating an entirely different story for the character that contradicted it. To get things back in order, the line was deleted from the DVD release of the dubbed episode.
* Curiously, the DVD version of this episode removed the cameos of young Alexis, Carlos and Rad departing the Autobot starship [[Axalon (Armada)|''Axalon'']] from Kicker's flashback sequence, instead jumping straight to Dr. Jones and Kicker leaving the vessel.

===Animation and technical errors===
* In the version broadcast on television, there is an audio synch mistake when Rad and Dr. Jones watch Prime's Autobots depart for Mars; their dialogue begins too soon, cringingly causing their lip movements to lag behind it. Surprisingly, this was fixed for the DVD release.
* During the attack on Ocean City, Sally wonders where her brother is, and her mother adds "Where's Kicker?" in Sally's voice. Oops. This was not fixed for the DVD release.

===Continuity errors===
*In Optimus Prime's opening monologue on the DVD version of the episode, he refers to the series as taking place 20 years after the Unicron Battles of ''Armada'', rather than 10.
*Optimus Prime is somehow able to identify the Terrorcons by name, before he has any way to know what they are. Again, this line was not in the original Japanese version, and was removed for the DVD release of the dub.

===Transformers references===
*The corpse of [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] is briefly seen in the opening scene, when the camera is moving through Unicron's body.

===Trivia===
* According to the ''[[Unicron Trilogy guidebooks|Transformers Energon Official Guidebook]]'', the sparring match was Optimus Prime training the others in the martial arts discipline [[Kumite]].
* Compared to later episodes, this one is ''astonishingly'' well-animated and acted.
* Kicker is seriously annoying.
* Primus sounds ''creepily'' like the late Megatron.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle for Energon ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle for Energon (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle for Energon (Paramount)
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2004 — ''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 001 ([[Interchannel]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle for Energon (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle for Energon (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle for Energon (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)

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{{picsneeded|Group-shot of several Revoltech figures including TF}}

'''Revoltech''' is a [[multi-property brand]] of super-articulated action figures produced by Japanese toy company [[wikipedia:Kaiyodo|Kaiyodo]]. The whole selling point of the line is that the figures are [[Articulation|articulated]] with many of the "revolver joints" that give the line its name. Introduced in mid-2006, as of July 2008, the line was on its 57th numbered figure, not counting unnumbered [[Redeco|redecos]] such as [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] from [[Optimus Prime (G1) toys|Optimus Prime]].

The figures are primarily made from [[Plastic|PVC plastic]] while the revolver joints and many accessories are [[Plastic|ABS plastic]]. The standard joint(seen below) is a 3-piece design, but there is also a double-jointed 5-piece design which is used in the necks of Prime, Megatron, and presumably the upcoming Transformers.

The joints are interchangeable, making it possible to swap body parts between different figures. This swapping of parts is limited by the fact that not all figures use revolver joints in the same places or to the same extent. Prime, for example, has cut-joints in his shoulders while Megatron has revolver joints, giving him much greater flexibility. The later Starscream and Hot Rod figures also use shoulder revolver joints.

Unusual for a Japanese figure line, ''Revoltech'' freely mixes giant robots with action figures of human characters, such as Dante of ''[[wikipedia:Devil_May_Cry_(series)|Devil May Cry]]'' and Revy of ''[[wikipedia:Black_Lagoon|Black Lagoon]]''. Regardless of height in the source material, all figures in the line stand approximately 12 cm at the head. With this glaring lack of [[scale]], the ''Transformers'' license was a natural, although, like modern-day [[Action Master|Action Masters]], the figures trade off increased articulation for a loss of transformability.

Similar jointing was used for the [[Hasbro]] "[[Robot Replicas]]" sub-line.

==''Transformers'' Revoltech figures==
The sculpts for Prime and Megatron were based on prototypes which Kaiyodo first revelead back in 2004. Since this was before the launch of the Revoltech concept, these figures were to feature traditional Kaiyodo joints (meaning a whole bunch of [[Swivel joint|swivel joints]]) and looked somewhat different. The photos released also showed a prototype for a figure of ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] but so far nothing more has been shown of this.

[[Image:Revoltech.png|right|150px|thumb|The spiffy revolver joint.]]
* 19. [[Optimus Prime (G1) toys|Convoy / Optimus Prime]]
* 19fs[[Ultra Magnus (G1) toys|Ultra Magnus]] (A redeco of Optimus Prime)(Kaiyodo "Friend Shop" exclusive)
* 25. [[Megatron (G1) toys|Megatron]]
* 46. [[Starscream (G1) toys|Starscream]]
* 47. [[Hot Rod (G1) toys|Hot Rodimus / Hot Rod]]

==External link==
* [http://www.kaiyodo.co.jp/revoltech/ Revoltech Official Website]

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