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The Reign of Morocco

2012-06-25T14:10:15Z

169.139.222.5: /* Synopsis */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 13
|prev=The Other Doctor
|next=Small Blessings
|image=ReignOfMorocco Morocco explains his history.jpg
|title="The Reign of Morocco"
|airdate=[[May 19]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Greg Johnson]]
|director=[[Patrick Archibald]]
}}

'''Cody looks for proof that the new scientist's invention is really a villainous plan.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:ReignOfMorocco MorBot rescues Harrison.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
[[Huxley Prescott]] reports on the recent events, including the retirement of the [[Rescue Bot]]s and the appointing of [[Morocco|Dr Morocco]] as head scientist. His report is interrupted by [[Harrison (RB)|Harrison]]'s out-of-control helipack ride. The [[MorBot]] turns up and begins a pursuit, crashing through a building and causing two car accidents. [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] saves two passerbys from being hit by rubble from the building. Though the rest of the team wants to be called in, Burns says they can't, and the MorBot uses a fire hydrant to destroy Harrison's helipack before returning to the lab. Within the lab, Morocco is busy trying to sell off Doc Greene's inventions.

At the station, the Rescue Bots are making use of their spare time. An optimistic [[Boulder]] is painting a rose, [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] is exploring alternate career options, and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] is studying humans by watching [[television]]. Meanwhile [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] is fruitlessly trying to contact [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] for reassignment and is considering getting their ship back into service.

[[Image:ReignOfMorocco Burns complains to Morocco.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Burns takes the [[nanite]] module to the [[Luskey|mayor]], but as there's nothing linking the logo to Morocco, he doesn't get anywhere. [[Doc Greene]] is packing to move to the mainland in a couple of days as he needs a job. [[Cody Burns|Cody]] and [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] are determined that this won't happen, and decide to look for evidence in the lab. Cody persuades [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and Blades to take him up and Cody spies on the doctor through binoculars until the MorBot interrupts them. It chases them through the wind farm back to the fire station, where the other Rescue Bots stand ready. Conflict is averted when Morocco calls the MorBot back to the lab.

Morocco and Mayor Luskey are returning to port in the ''[[Floating Xanadu]]'' when they're met at the dock by Burns and Cody, the former of whom complains about the MorBot attacking Blades. Despite the threat of angry voters, the mayor is placated by Morocco announcing he'll reprogram the MorBot. Burns isn't convinced, and even Prescott is beginning to sour on the machine, showing footage of the MorBot wrecking a driver's car and tearing up a tree to retrieve [[Mister Pettypaws]].

[[Image:ReignOfMorocco Chase makes soup.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Without a sense of taste, you are free of distractions, and thus you can reach the essence of pure flavor!"]]
Heatwave does circuits outside the fire station, while inside Chase prepares pea soup, as he's decided to become a gourmet chef. The results aren't appetizing, and ends up being used as paint by a Boulder, who's now painting a less rosy picture.

Cody and Frankie sneak into the lab via a holographic doggie door. They find Morocco making sales over the phone, and discover that Frankie has been locked out of the computer. They're found by the man himself, who sends the MorBot after them. They hide behind boxes and make their way to an elevator, but when they reach the roof, they realize they're trapped. A grenade knocked loose by the MorBot causes an explosion.

[[Image:ReignOfMorocco Rescue Bots vs MorBot.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
With a mounting number of emergency calls and no sign of the MorBot in town, the mayor is forced to call in the Rescue Bots. While the team is on their way to the lab, Cody and Frankie evade the MorBot temporarily by heading into Morocco's airship and closing a door. They find Morocco's computer is active and displaying incriminating evidence. Cody radios Dani, who starts instructing him on flying the blimp while the other Rescue Bots extinguish the lab fire. With the MorBot breaking down the door, Cody brings the blimp down and the two kids disembark, followed by the MorBot, which is promptly surrounded by the Rescue Bots, who tear it to pieces. Frankie presents Burns with the evidence she's downloaded from the computer.

The council reinstates Burns's team and Doc Greene, who go back to the station for a celebratory barbecue while Prescott reports on the good news. Doctor Morocco in the meantime has left the island, having stolen the mayor's ship.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Boulder]] (11)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (12)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (13)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (14)

|c3=
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (1)
*[[Doc Greene]] (2)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (3)
*[[Morocco|Doctor Morocco]] (4)
*[[Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] (5)
*[[Graham Burns]] (6)
*[[Cody Burns]] (7)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (8)
*[[Kade Burns]] (9)
*[[Dani Burns]] (10)
*[[Harrison (RB)|Mr. Harrison]] (11)
*[[Neederlander|Mrs. Neederlander]] (12)
*[[Alper|Mr. Alper]] (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"What's more human than game shows and cartoons?"
:—'''Blades'''

"Shame." 
"I was quite ready to rumble."
:—'''Boulder''' and '''Chase''' are disappointed the giant robot fight didn't happen.

"MorBot decommissioned." 
"And the less MorBot the better."
:—'''Chase''' and '''Boulder''' get their fight.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*When the Rescue Bots move in to punch the [[MorBot]], the lineup from the MorBot's perspective (from left to right) is [[Boulder]], [[Chase (RB)|Chase]], and [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]], with [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] absent. But when the punches land and the camera pulls away, the lineup is Boulder, Heatwave, and Blades, while Chase is absent.

===Continuity errors===
*And how, exactly, did Prescott get the footage in his opening report?
===Continuity notes===
*Inventions which appear on the monitor as Morocco makes his phone call include the electro-magnetic sensors from "[[Deep Trouble]]", the newspaper dispenser from "[[Hotshots]]", [[floatium]] from "[[Flobsters on Parade]]", the [[Robo-Baby]] from "[[Four Bots and a Baby]]", a cleaning bot, the [[Turbo Cycle (RB)|Turbo Cycle]] from "Four Bots and a Baby", and the [[Helper Bot]] which appeared in "Deep Trouble".
*One of Morocco's clients is seeking highly advanced weapon technology and is building an army. Given that ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' shares continuity with ''Rescue Bots'', it seems almost certain that the good doctor is selling to [[MECH]].
*In a similar vein, no definitive reason is given as to why Optimus Prime doesn't respond to Heatwave's messages. While it's hard to know whether it's by coincidence or design, this episode of ''Rescue Bots'' aired in the middle of a four-part ''Prime'' storyline that ''did'' have Optimus away from base on a solo mission.
*The monitors on Morocco's airship display images of the shark submarine from "Deep Trouble", the nanite canister from "[[Cody on Patrol]]", the road roller and Doc Greene's [[solar car]] from the previous episode, and [[Trex]] from "[[Return of the Dinobot]]".
===Transformers references===
* The big green guy of the group [[Bulkhead (Animated)|likes to paint]].
===Real-world references===
===Foreign localization===
===Trivia===

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File:Transformers prime the game trypticon.jpg

2012-06-14T22:17:18Z

169.139.222.5:

The ''[[Trypticon (Prime)|Nemesis]]'' in [[Transformers Prime: The Game]]. {{hastak}}
[[Category:Prime the Game video game images]]

Charlie Burns

2012-06-06T12:41:52Z

169.139.222.5: "Walk on the Wild Side" revealed his formal first name to be "Charles"

{{disambig3|Burns}}
:''Charlie Burns is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[Image:Charlie Burns profile.jpg|300px|thumb|Of all the Charlie Burnses in the world, you're the Charlie Burnsiest.]]

Along with [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]], Chief '''Charles "Charlie" Burns''', leads the [[Rescue Bot]]s, a secret team of [[Autobot]]s and humans that protect [[Earth]], and especially [[Griffin Rock]] island, from fires, floods, disaster and crime. His tool of choice is the [[Rescue Cutter]], which can tear down barriers between heroes and the danger they must extinguish. He partners with [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] and [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]]. He is the father of [[Kade Burns|Kade]], [[Graham Burns|Graham]], [[Dani Burns|Dani]], and [[Cody Burns|Cody]].

==Fiction==
===''Rescue Bots'' pack-in storybooks===
[[Image:ChiefCharlieBurns.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Police Chief, Fire Chief...I'm the man with the badge.]]

Early one morning at [[Fire Station Prime]], Chief Charlie directed [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] to participate in a fire training exercise on the other side of town. After Heatwave left, Chief Charlie's son Cody arrived, eager to be given his own mission. However, Chief Charlie only trusted Cody with washing [[Sparkplug (RB)|Sparkplug]], the firehouse dog. Though dejected, Cody and Sparkplug were able to alert Chief Charlie to the presence of an electrical fire within Fire Station Prime itself! Trapped on the roof of the burning station, the Burnses struggled to activate the [[Prime Signal]] to call for help, until ultimately Cody was able to activate it manually. Heatwave quickly returned, and Chief Charlie's son was surprised to learn that their fire truck was actually a fire-fighting sentient robot! After the fire was extinguished and the group spoke with Optimus Prime via teleconference, Chief Charlie nodded with approval as his son was welcomed as a full member of the team. {{storylink|Prime Alert}}
{{-}}

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Maurice LaMarche]] (English)
When he was young, Charlie Burns built himself a go-kart. {{Storylink|Cody on Patrol}}

{{spoiler|The Reign of Morocco|June 9, 2012}}
He, [[Doc Greene]] and [[Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] chased [[Morocco|Doctor Morocco]] out of town when his inventions were deemed unsafe. {{storylink|The Reign of Morocco}}

[[Image:FamilyofHeroes-Burnses.jpg|left|thumb|300px|One of the show's upcoming educational puzzles is determining what hair color genetics Charlie and his unseen mate possess which would have facilitated this range of hair color in their offspring.]]
As the head of a family of rescue heroes, Burns was entrusted by Optimus Prime with the secret that the new Rescue Bots were actually Autobots. He presented the quartet to the people of [[Griffin Rock]] as new hi-tech robots. When they attended a fire at the [[Griffin Rock Natural History Museum|museum]] and Heatwave saved Burns and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] from a falling dinosaur head, Burns covered for the Autobot. That night, the Rescue Bots contacted him, and he discovered that [[Cody Burns|Cody]] had discovered the secret. After the whole team united to stop a rogue robotic ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', he let [[Kade Burns|Kade]], [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and Graham in on the truth as well. {{storylink|Family of Heroes}}

Chief Burns and Chase stopped an out-of-control [[robo-landscaper]] while the rest of the team were busy failing to cooperate. He later alerted the rest of the team to the fact that lava was overflowing out of manholes across the town, and together with [[Chase (RB)|Chase]], made sure the residents were cleared from the area. When the problem was traced to [[Mount Magma]] and the rest of the team went to deal with the problem, Chief Burns and Chase patrolled the area around the mountain and cleared out campers. {{storylink|Under Pressure}}

Chief Burns accompanied Chase as they chased down [[Doc Greene]]'s out-of-control [[solar car]] and stopped it plunging into a ravine. He was with the team again as they responded to a rock fall. {{storylink|Hotshots}} He was helping Doc Greene inflate balloons with helium prior to the [[Lobster and Technology Festival]] when he and the Rescue Bots had to rescue the Doc from a runaway parade balloon. The next day the team was taking part in the parade when it came under attack from [[flobster]]s. They quickly swung into action once more, protecting the townsfolk from the flying threat until Doc Greene could mix up a permanent solution. {{storylink|Flobsters on Parade}}

[[Image:AlienInvasion Chief Burns facepalm.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Probably not the first or last time he'll have this reaction.]]
Burns found himself covering for the Rescue Bots again after a rescue, but told them that saving lives had priority over maintaining cover. He and the family subsequently had to stop [[Huxley Prescott]] from inadvertently destroying the island with his [[SETI]] dish. {{storylink|The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock}} After retrieving a cat from a tree, Burns decided to celebrate [[Earth Day]] by having everyone clean up the fire station. The next day, he and the team were faced with several escapees from the [[Griffin Rock Zoo|zoo]], including [[Whiskers|a lion]] and some trained lemurs. {{storylink|Walk on the Wild Side}}

Burns took part in the rescue of [[Harrison (RB)|Mr Harrison]] and was impressed when Cody rebuilt his old go-kart into [[Rolling Thunder]], though he turned down Cody's request to get a bigger engine for it. After Cody tried souping it up with nanites, Burns made him help [[Boulder]] replant the trees that had been knocked down in the ensuing chaos. {{storylink|Cody on Patrol}} Chase and the Chief were blocking traffic from trying to cross a damaged bridge when a man on a motorcycle zoomed past them. On another occasion, Burns supervised the operation to save the bank after a sinkhole opened under it. {{storylink|Four Bots and a Baby}}

During a heatwave, Burns discovered that Chase didn't have air conditioning. After Cody had the idea to use a weather machine to create snow, Burns joined in with a snow fight, but ended up having to go rescue people when the machine went out of control. {{storylink|Christmas in July}} Burns, Cody and the Rescue Bots went on the family annual fishing trip on the ''[[Darby Eva]]'', something Burns regarded as a way to bond. When they encountered a [[shark submarine|robotic shark]], Burns left his son on the pier while he and the bots tried to find the finned menace. Though Burns had a plan to lead the sub into a cove, it started attacking the ferry instead, and Burns and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] had to go to the assistance of the people on board. While they did so, the other Rescue Bots disabled the shark, but when Burns opened the sub, he triggered a self destruct, and Blade had to carry the vessel away before it exploded. {{storylink|Deep Trouble}}

On a particularly foggy day, Burns and his team had to deal with the island's technology run amok thanks to a virus in the central mainframe, and also the rogue [[Trex]], which was infected with the same virus. {{storylink|Return of the Dinobot}}

{{spoiler|The Other Doctor|June 9, 2012}}
He continued to educate Chase on compassionate policing. When Doctor Morocco returned to the island with a [[MorBot]], aiming to replace Burns's team, Burns argued against letting Morocco have the chance. He and his team were forced to compete against the MorBot, and eventually lost through the machinations of Morocco. The team was stood done. {{storylink|The Other Doctor}}

{{spoiler|The Reign of Morocco|June 9, 2012}}
Though Burns argued with the mayor and brought evidence that was disregarded, he refused to give up. When there was a fire at the lab, the team was finally called out to attend to it, and Cody and [[Frankie Greene]] managed to obtain evidence against Morocco that saw Burns's team reinstated. {{storylink|The Reign of Morocco}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Rescue Bots===
[[Image:RescueBotstoy-CharlieBurnsRescueCutter.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He looks so much younger without the mustache!]]
*'''Chief Charlie Burns & Rescue Cutter''' (2011)
: Chief Charlie Burns comes with a Rescue Cutter [[Rescue Gear]] that can transform into a handheld Robot Tool for ''Rescue Bots'' Optimus Prime. When the buttons on each side are pressed, the blades scissor together.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Charlie}}

*'''Fire Station Prime''' (Walmart bonus pack, 2011)
: A Walmart-exclusive version of Fire Station Prime came packaged with a bonus Charlie and Cody Burns plus their single-pack accessories.

[[Category: Rescue Bots humans]]

Title sequence

2012-06-05T16:31:26Z

169.139.222.5: /* Generation 1 (Japanese) */

[[Image:Targetmasters.jpg|right|300px|thumb|''Mooooooom!'' Crosshairs and Pinpointer are making a title sequence!]]

A '''title sequence''' is the animation that accompanies the [[theme song]] or opening narration of a television series, introducing the audience to the show's characters and storyline on a visual level. Title sequences are usually composed of original animation commissioned solely for the sequence, a collection of clips from actual episodes, or a mixture of both. Oftentimes, the original animation commissioned for the title sequence is of vastly superior quality to the animation seen in the actual program. ''Oftentimes'', but not always. These sequences can range from thirty seconds to a minute and thirty seconds, depending on the length of the theme song or opening narration.

==Generation 1 (English)==

:'''Theme song:''' "The Transformers" by [[Anne Bryant]] and [[Ford Kinder]].

Each season of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1]] cartoon boasted an original title sequence with varying performances of the original ''Transformers'' theme song. Seasons 1 and 2 each offered original performances of the theme song, while from season 3 onward, a third and final version was performed and used exclusively. For the reruns on the Sci-Fi Channel's [[Animation Station]] block (as well as some syndicated reruns of season 2), the season 2 animation was combined with the season 3 version of the theme.

===Season 1===

:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''

[[Image:G1season1intro01.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Prime at perhaps his wussiest.]]

The [[Autobot]] and [[Decepticon]] insignias fly by as [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and several of his troops transform. After the title flips to different faction colors, the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]s transform and fire upon several Autobot cars. Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] join the battle. [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] clashes with [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and judo-flips him, but Jazz transforms to car mode, lands, drives back and returns to robot mode, punching Skywarp in the face. [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] unleashes several of his cassette troops while Megatron transforms to gun mode and fires on the Autobots. Both sides then fly into the air and behind a mountain, where the title pops out.
{{--}}
===Season 2===

:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''

[[Image:G1season2IntroGrid01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Hand-drawn version of computer-generated grids. How ironic!"]]

The Autobot and Decepticon insignias come flying out from space and across the landscape of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] before the scenery changes to that of [[Earth]]. The "Transformers" title then appears and is snatched in the jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], where it morphs into [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]]. Grimlock releases Thrust as the rest of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s transform and fire upon [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]. Blitzwing transforms to tank mode and makes the mistake of firing upon [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], who transforms to robot mode and squashes him beneath his heel. [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] picks up the remains of Blitzwing, and Omega fires on the approaching [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], who transforms to space shuttle mode just as the tracks drop off into a pit of lava. Down in the lava, the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s are swimming about for some reason. The lava then changes into a ''Tron''-like grid where Optimus Prime and Megatron clash before sinking into a wormhole as the title explodes onto the screen.
{{--}}

===Season 3 ("Five Faces of Darkness")===

:'''Animation:''' ''[[AKOM]]''

:''This title sequence was used only for the "[[Five Faces of Darkness]]" episodes.''

[[Image:Season3AlternateIntro01.jpg|left|200px|thumb|The valiant Springer leaves Rodimus to die.]]

The Autobot and Decepticon insignias glide across the landscape of Cybertron, passing over several battered Decepticons dogpiling on top of a single [[Energon cube]]. As the Decepticons fight over the Energon, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] choose this strategic time to blast their helpless foes with laser fire. [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] then drives up and transforms to robot mode within a wall of flames as the title appears on his chest. The scene shifts to [[Thrull]], where [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] emerges from his plasma bath and fires on a nearby planet, destroying it. Beneath the planet, back on Cybertron, [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] is confronted by [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], only to be rescued by [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. Then, on [[Quintessa]], Ultra Magnus, Kup and Spike are dropped into a [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] pit and swim away in fear from one of the approaching beasts. The faction insignias then go racing again through space, this time to the planet [[Goo]], where the Autobots are stuck in slime. [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] transforms to helicopter mode and rescues everyone but Rodimus Prime, who gets sucked into a giant spaceship. Rodimus blasts his way out of the ship as several letters scramble together to form the title.
{{--}}
===Season 3===
:'''Animation:''' ''[[AKOM]]''

[[Image:Intro3 4 with error.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Remember that bit about title sequences having ''better'' animation than the show itself...?]]

A vector grid forms the disembodied head of [[Unicron]], orbiting Cybertron. [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] flies through his eye as the scene shifts to the landscape of Cybertron and an army of [[Overcharge (G1)|Overcharge]]s in tank mode. One of them fires a blast at the audience which blows up the title. Out in space, [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] is chasing a unit of [[Sweep]]s and a miscolored [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] through a field of space debris. Amid the debris is a TV set that shows Metroplex battling Trypticon. Grabbing Trypticon by the shoulders, Metroplex whirls him around into a crudely drawn tornado. That tornado then becomes the rings of Saturn, upon which are driving [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]. Wheelie's spinning tire becomes the barrel of Galvatron's cannon, aimed directly at the audience. The Decepticon insignia on his chest then rises up, becomes an Autobot insignia and then situates itself onto the chest of [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], who is engaged in a battle on Earth. Blaster transforms to boom box mode and emits several ripples representing sound or radio waves. Those waves then become the ripples in a pool of water filled with Sharkticons. A Sharkticon swims toward the audience, and the darkness in its mouth becomes a space background and a platform. Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus and Kup (with Springer's head) come running over the platform and toward the audience. The platform is then revealed to be the title.
{{--}}

===Season 4===

:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]], [[AKOM]]''

:''This title sequence is composed of animation commissioned for several Transformers toy [[commercial]]s as well as a few clips recycled from the season 3 title sequence.''

[[Image:Scorponok-Rebirth.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille."]]

Rodimus Prime and Blurr race across a wall and through an electrical field, where they meet a distraught Kup. [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] then unites beautifully with his head. Elsewhere, the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s unite into [[Computron (G1)|Computron]]. [[Flywheels]] then transforms to robot mode and fires. Blitzwing appears with the title in front of his cannon in tank mode and blows it up (''recycled season 3 footage''). Above Cybertron, [[Triggerhappy]] and [[Blowpipe (G1)|Blowpipe]] fire and land on the ground. Triggerhappy is immediately tackled by [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]. [[Spoilsport]] and Blowpipe transform out of gun mode and clash. As they do, [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] and [[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]] arrive in vehicle mode and transform, only to be immediately tackled by [[Misfire]] and [[Aimless (G1)|Aimless]]. On another planet, ship-mode [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] blasts the approaching [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcon]]s. The scene shifts to the barrel of Galvatron's cannon as his Decepticon insignia rises and becomes Blaster's Autobot insignia (''recycled season 3 footage''). Back on Cybertron, Sureshot and Triggerhappy are still going at it. On Earth, Metroplex transforms from battle station mode to robot mode as he's fired upon by [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. The scene shifts to the platform in outer space, as Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus and Kup (with Springer's head) run across it, revealing it to be the title (''recycled season 3 footage'').
{{--}}

===Season 5===

:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''

:''This title sequence is composed of animation commissioned for several Transformers toy [[commercial]]s as well as a few clips recycled from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.''

[[Image:G1season5titlesequence01.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Give us a screenshot of this without watermarks and video fuzz, and we'll give ''you'' something very explicit.]]

Hot Rod runs through a valley carrying Daniel Witwicky, transforms to vehicle mode and places Daniel in the driver's seat (''recycled Movie footage''). The Headmasters roll-out from a [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] city. A shuttle blasts off from planet Cybertron and into space. On the planet of [[Junkion (planet)|Junk]], Springer and the Junkions run from Galvatron and Cyclonus, who are sparying them with laserfire (''recycled Movie footage''). In [[Autobot City]], Optimus Prime transforms from vehicle to robot mode, rocketing himself into the air and shooting several Decepticons beneath him while the title appears, slanted, on the screen (''recycled Movie footage''). Megatron blasts his [[fusion cannon]] while Starscream strafes Springer, who fires back (''recycled Movie footage''). The [[Targetmaster|Double Targetmaster]]s transform from vehicle to robot modes and fire. In the sky, Triggerhappy and Blowpipe transform to robot and gun mode and open fire. In Autobot City, Devastator tears through a wall, on Cybertron, [[Unicron]] smashes his hand down on the planet, back on Earth, Megatron and the Decepticons evacuate a burning Autobot shuttle and both Megatron and Starscream open fire (''recycled Movie footage''). On Cybertron, Crosshairs and Pinpointer arrive in vehicle mode, transform to robot mode and skid to a stop. The Autobot [[Pretender]]s exit their Pretender shells and rise up into the air in robot mode. On [[Quintessa]], Hot Rod punches a Sharkticon in the face (''recycled Movie footage''). Inside Unicron, Hot Rod opens the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and reveals the show title, outside, Grimlock claws his feet into Unicron, at Autobot City, Megatron ignites his energon saber, leaps into the air and is felled by an uppercut from Optimus Prime that causes the title to appear on the screen (''recycled Movie footage'').

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===Generation 2===
:'''Animation:''' [[Lamb & Company]]

:''Rather than sport a theme song, the ''[[Generation 2 (cartoon)|Generation 2]]'' series featured new CG animation accompanied by narration.''

[[Image:G2CartoonIntro01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|G2 Prime was too extreme for his own good sometimes.]]

Optimus Prime drives over a bridge on some alien planet with two moons in the sky and transforms to robot mode as the narrator describes him as "More than meets the eye, he's a robot in disguise!" Optimus is then strafed by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] in jet mode. The narrator describes him and the Decepticons as "going ballistic to destroy the Autobots". Ramjet transforms to robot mode and fires a missile into Prime's chest, damaging it, and then shoves him against the side of a cliff. Prime kicks Ramjet away and punches the fallen Ramjet square in the face before he can stand back up. (Way to fight fair, Prime.) Prime then begins stomping on the defeated Ramjet repeatedly with his foot while triumphantly firing his rifle into the sky. (''Jeez, man''.) The narrator then explains to the audience the "Magic of the [[Cybernet Space Cube]]" and introduces the "computer-enhanced stories of the Transformers".
{{--}}

==Generation 1 (Japanese)==
===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===

====Title sequence #1====
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformer (song)|TRANSFORMER]]" by [[Satoko Shimonari]]''

:''The first Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers title sequence consisted of the animation used for the English season 1 sequence with additional clips from "[[More than Meets the Eye (episode)|More than Meets the Eye]]" to pad out the full minute-and-twenty-second length.''

[[Image:FSRLTitleSequence01.jpg|left|200px|thumb|]]

The Autobot and Decepticon insignias fly by as Prime, atop the Autobot one, transforms from truck to robot mode. The Japanese title then appears floating in space. The Seekers fly down and transform to robot mode, attacking several Autobot cars who transform to robot mode and fire back. Prime and Megatron join the battle as the two sides clash. Skywarp judo-flips Jazz, who transforms to car mode as he lands, drives back, transforms to robot mode and punches Skywarp in the face. Soundwave unleashes several of his cassette warriors as Megatron transforms to gun mode and fires upon the Autobots (recycled from the English season 1 title sequence). Prime then commands a full line-up of Autobots to transform, and they roll out over the desert (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3]]"). Underwater, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] causes an earthquake that begins destroying a dam. On top of the dam, Prime and Megatron battle with [[Energon-axe]] and [[Energon mace]], only for Prime to be knocked off the ledge (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]"). At the ruby crystal mines of [[Burma]], an explosion sends truck-mode Prime tumbling down the side of a mountain (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]"). Out in the desert, Prime transforms from truck mode to robot mode and rushes toward the audience. Megatron transforms to gun mode and is caught by Skywarp as Soundwave unleashes several of his cassette warriors (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3]]"). A trio of [[Air Warrior]]s transform to jet mode and fly off (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]"). On Cybertron, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] transforms to his pre-Earth saucer mode (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]"). In the desert, Soundwave and Rumble watch as [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] transforms to jet mode and flies off into the distance (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]"). The Autobots and Decepticons then go flying behind a mountain. Where the words creating the title would have popped out from behind the sides of the mountain in the English version, the Japanese title pops out from over top of the mountain (recycled from the English season 1 title sequence).

====Title sequence #2====
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformer (song)|TRANSFORMER]]" by [[Satoko Shimonari]]''

:''The second Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers title sequence consisted of the animation used for the English season 2 sequence with additional clips from "[[More than Meets the Eye (episode)|More than Meets the Eye]]" to pad out the full minute-and-twenty-second length.''

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===Scramble City: Mobilization===
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformer (song)|TRANSFORMER]]" by [[Satoko Shimonari]]''

:''The "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]" title sequence consisted of the animation used for the English season 2 sequence with additional clips from "More than Meets the Eye" to pad out the full minute-and-twenty-second length.''

[[Image:ScrambleCityTitleSequenceSoundwave01.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Laserbeak: Eject. Operation: Destroy the departing sky!"]]

The Autobot and Decepticon insignias fly across the landscape of Cybertron, which becomes the landscape of Earth. The English title appears and is bitten by Grimlock, then morphs into Thrust. Grimlock releases Thrust as the Dinobots transform and fire upon Blitzwing. Blitzwing transforms to tank mode and fires on Omega Supreme, who squashes him beneath his foot. As Scrapper hauls off Blitzwing's remains, Omega fires on Astrotrain, who transforms to shuttle mode above a pit of lava. Down in the lava, the Insecticons are swimming around for no apparent reason (recycled from the English season 2 title sequence). On Cybertron, three [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]s (including [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]) attack Bumblebee and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] with a flamethrower (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]"). On Earth, a quake rumbles the crashed [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and knocks Optimus Prime into the repair beam of [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], who converts him into a truck (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]"). Soundwave ejects [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], who chases after [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], blasting the former off of a cliff (recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]"). A vector grid then appears with both Autobots and Decepticons charging over top of it. Prime and Megatron clash and sink into a pit as the English title explodes onto the screen (recycled from the English season 2 title sequence).

===''Transformers 2010''===
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformer 2010|TRANSFORMER 2010]]" by [[Shō Hirose]]''

:''Rather than recycle any of the crude animation from the English season 3 title sequence, the ''Transformers 2010'' title sequence was cobbled together from multiple toy [[commercial]]s and clips from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. Oddly, ''The Transformers: The Movie'' would not be released in Japan until 1989.''

[[Image:TF2010TitleClip01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|It was a choice between "Cross of heat" or "BURNING HEART!" This won out.]]

Unicron's head orbits Cybertron as the Japanese title pops out of his broken eye (recycled from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''). On an Earth highway, Ultra Magnus and several Autobots appear. Magnus transforms and fires his missiles at the approaching Galvatron and multiple Decepticons. Galvatron flies right through the flames, only to be socked in the jaw by Magnus. Galvatron transforms to cannon mode and returns fire. Elsewhere, Trypticon is approached by the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]]s, who transform and open fire on the city. Trypticon transforms first to battle station mode, then dinosaur mode. The Protectobots combine into [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] as Trypticon breathes fire in their direction. Metroplex arrives in mobile battle station mode and is attacked by Bruticus. Metroplex transforms to robot mode and returns fire (footage from the Metroplex commercial, also used in the English season 4 intro). In some other desert, [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and [[Sandstorm (G1)|Standstorm]] show off their three transformations as they battle Blitzwing and Astrotrain. And yet elsewhere, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s mow down [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] and then pose on a cliff before combining into [[Predaking]]. Inside Unicron, Rodimus Prime gives Galvatron the "end of the road" speech, picks him up and hurls him out into space. On Cybertron, Rodimus rallies a line-up of Autobots as the Japanese title appears (recycled from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'').
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===''The Headmasters''===
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[The Headmasters (song)|The Headmasters]]" by [[Hironobu Kageyama]]''

:''The first completely original title sequence commissioned by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]. Beginning with "[[Explosion on Mars!! Maximus Is in Danger]]", the Decepticons in the sequence would flash on and off as a tie-in with the light-gun game [[Video Challenger]].''

[[Image:HeadmastersTitleSequence01.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Apply directly to the footage!]]

[[Image:GalvyChallenger.gif|right|thumb|200px|Captain Powermaster and the Robots of the Future!]]

As the sun is eclipsed by a planet, the title appears on the screen. [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s head-on and fly toward the audience. Above Earth, the [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Battleship Maximus]] transforms and deploys [[Blaster (G1)|Twincast]] and the [[Trainbot]]s. On the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], Spike and Daniel Witwicky hop along the surface in their [[Exosuit]]s as [[Sixshot]] and the Decepticon Headmasters fly up behind them. In space, Galvatron, [[Scorponok (G1)|Mega Zarak]] and the Decepticon Headmasters open fire on the Trainbots, who combine into [[Raiden]]. The Autobot and Decepticon Headmasters then engage in a massive outer space firefight with lasers flying all over the place. Rodimus Prime is struck by a laser and injured, but is quickly shielded by Chromedome, who then blasts [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] in the chest and sends him flying. [[Skullcruncher]] then attacks Chromedome with his sword, but is immediately deflected. The Terrorcons then arrive on the scene but are all blown up by the combined efforts of Raiden and the recovered Rodimus Prime. Sixshot and the remaining Decepticons are then driven back by a blast from [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]]. The Autobot insignia then appears, and every Autobot that matters lines himself up in front of it, with Chromedome taking center point.
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===''Super-God Masterforce''===
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Chōjin Masterforce no Theme]]" by [[Toshiya Igarashi]]''

====Title sequence #1====

[[Image:Masterforce_opening_1.jpg|right|225px|thumb]]

At a drive-in movie theater, [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Minerva (Masterforce)|Minerva]] prepare a computer, which projects the rest of the opening sequence onto the big screen for the theater's patrons. The title is revealed, standing atop a pedestal with spotlights illuminating it, before cutting away to a blue-tinged shot of human-mode [[Metalhawk]] racing across a field of anime speed-lines. The image is soon replaced with one of him in his [[Pretender]] armor, quickly joined by [[Phoenix]], [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] and [[Lander]] in theirs. The four Pretenders transform into robot mode and then fly into the screen. Jet-mode Metalhawk and Phoenix fly around [[Ginrai]]'s [[trailer]] in battle station mode as the [[Trainbot]]s soar by in the background, all in the sky above the Autobots' mountain headquarters. [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] and [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] fly by a dark castle in jet mode, and inset boxes appear onscreen revealing their names, ages and nationalities, before they engage Metalhawk and Phoenix in a dogfight. As Shūta and Minerva look on, worried, the two Decepticons merge into [[Darkwings]]. On the ground below, [[Lightfoot]], [[Ranger]] and [[Road King]] come speeding into action, as an inset gives Lightfoot's details to the audience. Lightfoot races into a tunnel, where he is confronted by Pretender-mode [[Dauros]], [[Gilmer]] and [[Blood]], the latter transforming to robot mode and opening fire. As Minerva cheers, Lightfoot transforms into robot mode and fire back, nailing Blood. Elsewhere, humans run in panic as a [[Tentakil (Masterforce)|Tentakil]] rampages through their city before combining with its fellow [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacons]] to form [[King Poseidon]]. Ginrai comes rolling onto the scene with the requisite inset box, transforms into robot mode and leaps into the air, avoiding King Poseidon's cannon fire and flattening the combiner with a kick. The projection ends with Ginrai and the four Autobot Pretenders standing on Ginrai's battle station, and the camera pulls back out to show Minerva and Shūta watching. The five Transformers onscreen leap towards the camera, and the two kids fall over as they come ''out'' of the screen and land in front of them. Shūta and Minerva right themselves and cheer.
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====Title sequence #2====

[[Image:Masterforce_opening_2.jpg|left|225px|thumb]]

Ginrai and the [[Headmaster Junior]]s come running towards the audience on a white field ([[Cab]] swings in on a rope), which dissolves to reveal the image of the Autobots' mountain headquarters. The quartet turn stage-left and jump into the air as flames fill the screen, segueing to the title on a background of green spotlights. Ginrai very dramatically dons his [[Godmaster]] armor just before King Poseidon comes bursting through a field of ice and shoots at him, prompting him to leap into the air and merge with his [[Transtector]] to become Super Ginrai. [[Mega]] and [[Giga]] appear against a black field, surrounded by rainbow-colored energy, then combine with their Transtectors into [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]. Human-form Road King, Lightfoot and Ranger slide across a sparkly green background, and their vehicle-mode Transtectors roll by below them. Each one of the three fades away as his Transtector lines up below him, transitioning into close-ups of their cockpits, with their armored drivers now behind the wheel. The three Godmasters drive off the top of waterfall and transform into robot mode before they hit the ground below. Back at the battle, Ginrai flips King Poseidon and slams him into the tundra, where he explodes dramatically. Ginrai then turns, and the scene changes to a city, where Overlord shields himself against a blast from Ginrai's cannon. Overlord unleashes his own weapons, but Ginrai leaps over the volley and kicks Overlord in the face. Overlord spins and launches his "Mega Child" jet-shield to pursue Ginrai, but the Autobot whips around and knocks it out of the air before blasting Overlord some more, then finally bringing him down with a rain of punches and kicks. Cab, Shūta and Minerva are then seen driving [[Godbomber]] into action, and the drone launches into the air, linking up with Ginrai to form God Ginrai. A long pan up God Ginrai's body concludes with the Headmaster Juniors jumping from Godbomber's cockpit and being joined by Ginrai. They all join hands and run forward, with the images of God Ginrai and their mountain base in the background.
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===''Victory''===
[[Image:Victory_title_sequence.jpg|right|thumb]]
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformer V]]" by [[Kōji Kaya]] and Morinoki Children's Chorus''
The [[Brainmaster]]s roll across a blue grid and transform into robot mode, quickly followed by the [[Breastforce]] doing the same, only on a red grid. A glowing "V" descends into shot, and the scene transitions to the show's title, with the V in place as part of the logo. [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] flies in space above the [[Earth]], as [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] wreaks havoc in a city down on the planet's surface. Star Saber [[stock footage|transforms to robot mode]] and lunges into battle with Deathsaurus, while the Brainmasters clash with the Breastforce. Elsewhere, the [[Dinoforce]] attack the Autobots' [[Rocket Base|Shuttle Base]], but are repelled by [[Galaxy Shuttle]]. [[Jean Minakaze]]'s face then fills the screen, and the camera zooms out to show him standing on a green grid, with an image of Earth hanging in space in the background. Galaxy Shuttle and the Brainmasters jump down from off-screen to join him, and then Star Saber's face fills the whole screen. The camera zooms out again, and the grid and other characters are gone, leaving only Star Saber standing before the Earth. He swings his sword and poses dynamically.
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===''Zone''===
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Toei]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformer Z no Theme]]" by [[Ichirō Mizuki]]''

[[Image:Zone_title_sequence.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Is he union?]]

[[Emusa]] cues the beginning of the sequence by popping up with a clapperboard. The [[Jet Patrol Team]] and [[Sunrunner]] come flying out of the sunset, over the ocean, followed by the huge form of [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]], who fills the whole screen. By the time Dai Atlas has passed, the scene has changed to a shot of [[Micro|Planet Zone]] from space, before the title card appears. [[Violen Jiger]] whirls in space, and from the folds of his cloak, the [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] emerge. Dai Atlas transforms from jet to robot mode, while [[Sonic Bomber]] destroys some kind of flying monster, then transforms to robot mode himself. The [[Rescue Patrol Team]], [[Battle Patrol|Battle Patrol Team]] and [[Race Car Patrol|Race Car Patrol Team]] prepare for action. The [[Rocket Base]]'s Galaxy Rocket flies through space, flanked by the Jet Patrol Team, while on Zone's surface, the other [[Micromaster]]s ride the Rocket Base itself into battle. [[Moonradar (Zone)|Moonradar]] and [[Rabbicrater]] pose in front of a large "Z", then drive through a field, just behind [[Cain]] and [[Akira Serikawa]], who are hand-in-hand. [[Zone Base]] transforms into battle mode as Cain, Akira and Emusa leap through the air excitedly, while Dai Atlas dodges his way around a series of explosions. He emerges from the dust of the explosions in drill tank mode and lunges towards the monster that is attacking him, drilling right through and destroying it. Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber land in front of Zone Base, Cain and Akira pop up in front of them, and then Emusa reappears with his clapperboard to signify that it's all over.
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==Beast Wars (English)==
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Mainframe Entertainment]]''

==Beast Wars (Japanese)==

===Beast Wars===
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Mainframe Entertainment]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[War War! Stop It|WAR WAR! STOP IT]]" by [[Banana Ice]], [[Shitamachi Kyōdai]]''

===Beast Wars Metals===
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Mainframe Entertainment]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Tamashī no Evolution]]" by [[Hironobu Kageyama]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Sen'nen no Soldier]]" by Hironobu Kageyama''

===Beast Wars II===
====Title sequence #1====
:'''Animation:''' [[Production Reed|Ashi Productions]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Get My Future|GET MY FUTURE]]" by [[Cyber Nation Network]]''

:''Most of the first ''Beast Wars II'' title sequence is composed of clips from "[[The New Forces Arrive!]]", along with [[stock footage]] of transformations and special attacks.''

[[Image:Bwii_title_sequence1.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Invisible hot metal flooring.]]

Glowing, yellow outlines of the individual letters of the ''Beast Wars'' logo fall into shot in front of the silhouette of [[Gaea]], shifting to full color as a large "II" rises up behind them, followed by the "Super Lifeform Transformers" logo. Light dawns on [[Lio Convoy]], who turns around to face the approaching vehicle-mode [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]. [[Megastorm]] fires a blast that sends [[Bighorn]] sprawling off the top of the ''[[Galvaburg II]]'', and Lio Convoy unleashes his wrist cannons and fires back before jumping down to a rocky shoreline and looking up to watch the ''[[Yukikaze (BWII)|Yukikaze]]'' fly by overhead. Scenes of the ''Yukikaze'' coming under fire when it arrived on Gaea and the Maximals leaving the damaged craft in escape pods play, followed by shots of Lio Convoy in lion mode posing heroically, the ''Galvaburg'' drifting in front of the [[Moon (moon)|moon]], and [[Scuba]] carrying [[Diver (BWII)|Diver]] and [[Tasmania Kid]] through a body of water. [[Moon (BWII)|Moon]] and [[Artemis]] appear, and when Moon tries to crowd Artemis out of shot, she clobbers him with her hammer. Stock footage of [[Apache]], Bighorn, Diver, Scuba and [[Starscream (BWII)|Starscream]]'s transformations follow, after which Starscream rides tank-mode [[BB]] into battle and the Maximals return fire. The heroes are then bombarded by bolts of purple lightning fired by the ''Galvaburg II'', and Lio Convoy leaps to their aid. The camera pans out on a still shot of the assembled Predacons, Scuba and Diver unleash their special attacks, and the camera pans out on a still shot of the Maximals.
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====Title sequence #2====
:'''Animation:''' [[Production Reed|Ashi Productions]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Super Voyager|SUPER VOYAGER]]" by Cyber Nation Network''

[[Image:ArtemisMoonNAVIBWIITitleSequence02.jpg|thumb|250px|left|This is a Transformers show? Are you sure?]]

The ''Beast Wars'' logo fades into shot, followed by the II symbol. The logo then shifts from grey to yellow. A small shooting star appears, revealing the "Super Lifeform Transformers" logo. Against the background of a far-off galaxy, [[Lio Junior]], [[Skywarp (BWII)|Skywarp]] and [[Santon]] transform. The three are then fired from the ''Yukikaze'' in the form of streams of light. The camera pans out from a translucent Galvatron. Lio Junior draws his weapon and swings it. He is then seen alongside Santon and Skywarp in their light forms, about to enter Gaea's atmosphere. Artemis, Moon and [[NAVI]] briefly flash on screen. Gigastorm rears up, surrounded by rays of sunlight. Shots of Lio Convoy and Galvatron transforming are shown, followed by Lio firing his wrist missiles. From a still shot of drill-mode Galvatron, the camera pans up to reveal Gigastorm and the ''Galvaburg II''. This is followed by stock footage of Apache, Bighorn, Tasmania Kid, Diver and Scuba transforming. Lio Convoy appears in a field, transforms to beast mode, and begins to run. He is joined by Lio Junior and the other Maximals. The Lios are then shown on a windy cliff, staring out across a valley, with a close-up of Lio Convoy's face, followed by an underside shot of Skywarp rising towards the sun. [[Magnaboss II|Magnasboss]] combines against a background of stars. This is followed by a panning shot of [[Max B]], [[Dirgegun]], [[Thrustor]] and [[Hellscream]]. Stock footage is shown of [[Tripledacus]] and [[God Neptune]]. Galvatron is then shown in his dragon mode. This followed by Gigastorm running in place in front of a background featuring Galvatron's face and dragon form. Water erupts from the ground as the [[Tako Tank]] rises up. The camera then pans out of a group shot of all the Maximals, followed by Lio Convoy turning to face the camera.

===Beast Wars Neo===
====Title Sequence 1====
:'''Animation:''' [[Production Reed|Ashi Productions]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Love For Ever: Kimi wo Mamoru Tame ni|Love For Ever —Kimi wo Mamoru Tame ni—]]" by [[M.C.R.]]''

[[Image:BigConvoyTitleSequencePoint01.jpg|thumb|left|250px|]]

A planet similar to Gaea is shown. The screen goes black before revealing a spotlight on Big Convoy's back. He is then shown flying through the sky. Magmatron appears, translucent against a background of space, firing random laser blasts. This is followed by stock footage of Big Convoy firing his Big Cannon. The "Beast Wars" emblem flies into the middle of the screen, followed by the "Super Lifeform Transformers" and "Neo" logos. In space, the ''Gung Ho'' launches the Maximals at a planet. They are shown walking through a valley, before looking shocked against an anime speedline background. [[Guiledart]] and [[Saberback]] appear in their beast modes. The camera then pans across the Predacons in their robot modes, with flames in the foreground. The Maximal emblem appears. A line drawing of Big Convoy is superimposed over it and then filled with colour. Superimposed over this are shots of the heads of Landsaur, Skysaur and Seasaur, with Magmatron appearing in front of these. Recycled episode footage of Big Convoy and the Maximals fighting Magmatron and the Predacons is show. Big Convoy points at the audience. The screen splits to reveal a group shot of the Maximals.

====Title Sequence 2====
:'''Animation:''' [[Production Reed|Ashi Productions]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Love For Ever: Kimi wo Mamoru Tame ni|Love For Ever —Kimi wo Mamoru Tame ni—]]" by [[M.C.R.]]''

[[Image:LoveIsHere01.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Love is here... and it BUURRNSS!!]]

A sun is shown. As flames rise from it, one dissipates as a heavily shadowed [[Big Convoy]] passes through it and flies at the screen. The camera closes on his face as the shadow disappears. The ''[[Gung Ho (BWN)|Gung Ho]]'' passes by the screen and warps away as shots of the Maximals pan across screen. The "Beast Wars" emblem flies into the middle of the screen, followed by the "Super Lifeform Transformers" and "Neo" logos. On a planet with no atmosphere, Big Convoy in his mammoth mode faces off against [[Magmatron|Landsaur]]. The camera then pans over Magmatron's three beast modes before revealing the upper torso of his robot mode. [[Break]] dives into some water, [[Cohrada]] strikes at the screen from some grass, and [[Stampy (BWN)|Stampy]], [[Heinrad]] and [[Longrack (BWN)|Longrack]] run at the screen. Stock footage of Big Convoy and Magmatron transforming is shown, which moves partway through Magmatron's transformation into a mosaic of all the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and [[Blendtron]]s transforming. Cohrada then shoots flames at the top left of the screen against a background of anime action lines. Stock footage of the Maximals including [[Mach Kick]] transforming is then shown against a background of space, before panning across head shots of the original ''Gung Ho'' crew. Big Convoy and Magmatron then appear, battling in space above a planet before Big Convoy pushes them both into the atmosphere. Break bursts from an iceberg and fires missiles at the screen, followed by Longrack doing the same in a field. Big Convoy in space blasts Magmatron. The camera shows the [[Energon Matrix]], followed by Big Convoy drawing the [[Big Cannon]] and firing. Big Convoy is then shown in the foreground with his crew in the background left.

==Beast Machines==
:'''Animation:''' ''[[Mainframe Entertainment]]''
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Phat Planet]]" by [[Leftfield]]''

==Robots in Disguise==
:'''Animation:''' [[Studio Gallop]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''Robots in Disguise'' theme by [[Shuki Levy]] and [[Kussa Mahchi]]

:''The ''Robots in Disguise'' opening is composed entirely of clips taken from the series. The only new material is superimposed on existing footage: the show's logo and two pairs of inset windows.''

[[Image:Rid_titlesequence.jpg|left|thumb|225px|Through the magic of the Cybernet Space... Dodecahedron?]]

The ''Robots in Disguise'' logo unfolds as the camera zooms through the subterranean tunnels of the [[Global Space Bridge]]. [[R.E.V.]], [[Crosswise (RID)|Crosswise]] and [[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]] transform and drive forward. The [[Autobot Brothers]] drive through a loop on the Global Space Bridge roadway. [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and the Autobot Brothers transform to robot mode one after the other, and [[Koji Onishi|Koji]] runs towards the camera. [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] swoops out of the sky, scattering the [[Commando]]s, followed anachronistically by the Commandos transforming to robot mode. Stock footage of [[X-Brawn]] and [[Midnight Express (RID)|Midnight Express]]'s transformation sequences play in small windows overlaid on top of a shot of Optimus Prime posing. R.E.V. emerges from his billboard hiding place and transforms to robot mode. [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] transforms to shark mode and grabs up the [[Plutonium Energy Generator]] in his jaws. [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] transforms to dragon mode and shoots bolts of flame at Optimus Prime. Inset windows containing clips of [[Slapper (RID)|Slapper]] and [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]]'s transformation stock footage appear over footage of Megatron's transformation to bat mode. [[Gas Skunk]] fires his left laser, and [[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]] and X-Brawn dodge it. Optimus Prime fires his shoulder-mounted missile launchers, then launches his [[Flying Fist]] over Koji's head, and a blast sends Megatron sprawling. Optimus Prime stands behind the show's logo, as the three Autobot Brothers jump down to stand beside him and they all pose together.
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===Car Robots===
:'''Animation:''' [[Studio Gallop]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Honō no Overdrive: Car Robot Cybertron|Honō no Overdrive ~Car Robot Cybertron~]]" by [[Kōji Wada]]''
[[Image:Carrobots titlesequence.jpg|right|thumb|225px|BURNING CGI JUSTICE]]
Silhouettes of [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], [[X-Brawn]], [[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]] and [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]] scroll past a pair of wailing red siren strobe lights. A shot of Optimus Prime in vehicle mode speeding down a city street towards the camera is followed by a slow pan across the rooftops of the city, on top of which the ''Car Robots'' logo appears. Optimus Prime continues on his way, coming face to face with a [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] dragon-mode [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]], while the [[Autobot Brothers]] zoom into the [[Global Space Bridge]] on their way to join him. Prime (briefly rendered in CGI himself) transforms to robot mode and opens fire on Megatron, then is attacked by the [[Predacon (RID)|Predacons]] and retaliates by blasting [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] with his "Blaze Baster" attack. Prime transforms into [[Super Mode]] and holds [[Koji Onishi|Koji]] and [[T-AI]] in his hand, while CGI versions of the Autobot Brothers arrive on the scene and transform. [[Team Bullet Train]] are shown driving along, and the CGI Megatron transforms into robot mode, before the sequence ends on a group shot of Prime, the Autobot Brothers and Team Bullet Train standing on a starfield, with Super Mode Prime superimposed on the background.

{{note|A slightly modified version of this opening was introduced with "[[Sideburn's Obsession]]" that [[:Image:Carrobots_cgi_intromod.jpg|replaced the cel-animated renditions of Team Bullet Train]] towards the end of the sequence with CGI counterparts.}}
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==Unicron Trilogy (English)==

===Armada===

===Energon===

===Cybertron===

==Unicron Trilogy (Japanese)==

===''Micron Legend''===
====Title sequence #1====
:'''Animation:''' [[Raretrick]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformer: Dream Again|TRANSFORMER -Dream Again-]]" by [[Psychic Lover]]''

====Title sequence #2====
:'''Animation:''' [[Raretrick]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformers: Kōtetsu no Yūki|Transformers ~Kōtetsu no Yūki~]]" by [[Hideaki Takatori]]''

===''Super Link''===
:'''Animation:''' [[Studio A-CAT]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Taiyō no Transform!!|Taiyō no transform!!]]" by [[Hiroshi Kitadani]]''
Hot Shot, Jetfire, Inferno, and Ironhide all fly to the audience in vehicle mode. Optimus Prime comes too, and transforms. Optimus combines with the Prime Force, and the title appears. Alpha Quintesson appears and creates the Terrorcons. Kicker and Ironhide come running on a field.

===''Galaxy Force''===
====Title sequence #1====
:'''Animation:''' [[GONZO]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Call You... Kimi to Boku no Mirai|CALL YOU... Kimi to Boku no Mirai]]" by [[Shinji Kakijima]]''

====Title sequence [[Savage (episode)#Trivia|#2]]====
:'''Animation:''' [[GONZO]]

====Title sequence [[Ice#Trivia|#3]]====
:'''Animation:''' [[GONZO]]

====Title sequence [[Critical#Trivia|#4]]====
:'''Animation:''' [[GONZO]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Ignition!|IGNITION!]]" by [[CHINO]]''

====Title sequence [[Titans#Trivia|#5]]====
:'''Animation:''' [[GONZO]]

==Animated==
===English version===
:'''Animation studio:''' [[Studio 4°C]]
:'''Theme song:''' [[Andy Sturmer]] and [[Sebastian Evans II]]
:''This title sequence combines animation originally commissioned for promotional purposes with clips from the first few episodes of the series. The promotional animation (the "Mighty Orbots" tunnel sequence) was screened at conventions and released on the DVD packaged with the Optimus Prime and Megatron "The Battle Begins" two-pack.''

[[Image:BumblebeeAnimatedUSTitleSequence01.jpg|thumb|left|250px|]]

The Autobot insignia falls through a computer-generated grid, followed by the title "Transformers Animated". The "camera" then travels down a tunnel, first passing [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], standing with his arms folded (followed by clips of him transforming and fighting). Next we pass [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]], who is surprised to see the ground-level camera zooming toward his legs (followed by clips of him transforming and fighting). Passing under Ratchet's crotch, we stumble upon [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], who is sitting on the ground, drinking and then eating a whole barrel of oil (followed by clips of him transforming and fighting). Further down the tunnel we spot [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], clinging to a wall. Prowl leaps down with a ninja-flip and lands in a stylish pose (followed by clips of him transforming and fighting). [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] then comes speeding by in vehicle-mode, transforms and dangles in midair (followed by clips of him transforming and fighting). The Decepticon insignia then shatters through a computer-generated grid, leading to clips of [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]], [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] and [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] transforming and fighting. We return to the computer-generated grid where now all the Autobots are making macho poses, ending with a group shot and the title logo.

:''The uncut promotional footage of the tunnel sequence ends with the reveal that the "cameraman" zooming past everybody is actually [[Sari Sumdac|Sari]] on a tricycle. She plants her [[AllSpark Key|key]] in the trike, turning it into a jetpack and proceeds to disappear down the end of the tunnel.''

===Japanese version #1===
:'''Animation studio:''' [[Barnum Studio]]
:'''Theme song:''' ''"[[Transformers Evo.|TRANSFORMERS EVO.]]" by [[JAM Project]]''

[[Image:TheHoodedClaw01.jpg|left|thumb|300px|I'll get you, Penelope Pitstop!]]

The camera swoops through the depths of space, panning past planet after planet, finally settling on a view of [[Earth]] from space. The spectral form of a [[cloaked mystery villain]] appears over the planet, spreading its arms and then vanishing, leaving the planet surrounded by a glowing red miasma. Bolts of lightning strike the planet, dispelling the glow, and from the bolts the title appears. It moves forward into the camera, and the sun rises over Earth.

[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (in jet mode) and [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] fly over an ocean. Tank-mode [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] bursts out of the ground, and [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] speeds in front of him. [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] descends into shot in spider-mode, supporting by a net of webbing, which she promptly rips through, transforming to robot mode and landing neatly. The image of Elita-1 is superimposed over her with a bolt of red lightning, and then she gestures, prompting the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]] to burst out of the scenery behind her and charge forward.

[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]], [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] appear side-by-side in front of [[New York City]]'s Flatiron Building, transform, and drive into the camera. In [[London]], [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] enters stage right and also transforms, driving past Big Ben, followed by [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] and [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]], who fly alongside him. [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]], [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] and [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] appear one after the other against streaky blue anime speed lines, the shot ending on a close-up of Sentinel as he deploys his battle mask. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] stomps his foot and poses dramatically on a highway, then transforms to truck mode after still shots of the other Autobots appear. The camera pans over the silhouetted form of [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]], only shining a little light on him as it passes over his head, to reveal a teasing glimpse of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|the Autobot spaceship]].

[[Image:Japanese_animated_intro.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Wildest graduation photo shoot ever.]]

Starscream appears in [[France]] and transforms to robot mode, revealing the [[AllSpark]] fragment in his forehead. He dogfights with Bumblebee (who is using his [[turbo booster]]s) in front of the [[Eiffel Tower]], while Prowl and Lockdown duel close to the [[Wikipedia:Tsūtenkaku|Tsūtenkaku]] tower in Osaka, [[Japan]]. Lugnut fires bullets in front of the [[Russia|Moscow Kremlin]], Bulkhead unleashes his wrecking ball from the Great Wall of [[China]], and Blitzwing flies through the skies of [[Egypt]], firing a volley of ice missiles before switching to tank mode, landing in front of the [[pyramid]]s, and launching a flame blast. This blast, er, apparently makes it to [[Australia]], where it harmlessly bounces off Ironhide's steel skin as he jumps in front of the Sydney Opera House. Arcee and Blackarachnia grapple underwater, as do Ratchet and [[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm]], and then out of a water spout, Starscream's army of [[Starscream clone (Animated)|clones]] emerges. The clones fly into the sky in jet mode, then descend back into shot in robot mode, over a red sky with a Decepticon symbol in it, with [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] getting a close-up. The male clones gesture dramatically as the towering form of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] in [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] mode appears, and Slipstream lands on his shoulder. Megatron's face fills the screen, and red lightning from his eyes lances out, striking the assembled [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]] in front of the [[Washington, D.C.|Washington Monument]]. With the White House in the background, Optimus Prime blocks the blast with his hand, and then dons his battle mask. Ultra Magnus activates his [[Magnus Hammer]], creating a surge of energy that surrounds Optimus. [[Burning justice|Glowing with blue energy]], Optimus flies into the sky and collides with the silhouetted, glowing form of Megatron (now in his Earth body). The resultant flash of light fills the screen, and the sequence ends with a still shot of the assembled Autobots (now including [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]) standing on a different version of the logo.

===Japanese version #2===
[[Image:Animated_j_op2.jpg|left|thumb|250px| Maybe the other Blackout is [[Grinder|''Animated'' Grindor]]!]]

Beginning with "[[The Return of the Headmaster|Headmaster, Once Again!]]", the Japanese opening sequence was modified, replacing the scene of Cybertronian-mode Megatron and the Starscream clones with new footage and using the second half of the song. This new clip shows Megatron in his helicopter alternate mode, as one after the other, [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]], Electrostatic Soundwave, and [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] jump into and out of the shot. Soundwave appears from the left in car mode, transforms, and fires some sonic pulses from his shoulder speakers; Electrostatic Soundwave appears from the right, transforms to robot mode, and clutches guitar-mode [[Laserbeak (Animated)|Laserbeak]]; and Swindle appears in the center from below the shot, transforms to robot mode, and deploys all his weapons and gadgets. Swindle's head fills the screen as he leaps into the camera, and when he has passed out of view, Megatron has transformed to robot mode, with two rather diminutive Cybertron-mode [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackouts]] flanking him. The Blackouts transform as the camera swoops in on Megatron's face, and red lightning bursts from his eyes, linking the new sequence up to the remainder of the original.

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==Prime==
:'''Animation studio:''' [[Polygon Pictures]]
:'''Theme by:''' [[Brian Tyler]]
[[Image:PrimeTS-Autobots.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Light of the Moon.]]
Introduced in the 2011 episode "[[Masters & Students]]", the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)| Prime]]'' opening sequence shows [[Team Prime]] driving down a speedway at night before [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] transforms and is flanked by his four teammates in robot mode. It quickly fades to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]] and [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] jumping into a transforming [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]], [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] getting inside [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] and [[Jack Darby|Jack]] jumping onto [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and driving through the [[GroundBridge]]. [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] is then seen on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] firing his [[fusion cannon]], while [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] transforms to jet mode and fires at Optimus, who runs past the explosion while firing his [[ion blaster]]. Optimus and Megatron then greet each other with a punch that flashes into the title card.
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==Rescue Bots==
:'''Animation studio:''' [[Atomic Cartoons]]
:'''Theme by:''' [[Starr Parodi]] and [[Jeff Eden Fair]] (music); [[Nicole Dubuc]] (lyrics); [[Josh Ramsay]] (vocals)
[[Image:Rescue Bots cartoon title screen.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
The [[Rescue Bot]]s' ship flies through space with the crew in tubes, before landing on Earth and its crew disembarking. On [[Griffin Rock]], [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] talks to them over monitor. The Burns family stands ready. The Rescue Bots work with the Burns family—[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] shakes [[Cody Burns|Cody]]'s hand, [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] sprays water with [[Kade Burns|Kade]], [[Charlie Burns]] presents the Rescue Bots and their partners at the dedication. [[Boulder]] scans his vehicle mode. The Rescue Bots roll out as Cody observes on the monitors. [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] dodges light fixtures, transforms and jumps over the [[robo-landscaper]]. Cody stands in front of the four Rescue Bots, Boulder uses his seismic sensors, Heatwave and Blades crash through things. The Rescue Bots transform in four-way split-screen. The main cast stand in front of the ''Rescue Bots'' logo before fading to just show the logo and main credits.
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[[Category:Media]]

Road Rage (G1)

2012-06-04T14:07:32Z

169.139.222.5:

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Autobot|the ''Animated'' Autobot|Road Rage (Animated)}}
:''Road Rage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:RoadRage-TScard.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Horn broken, watch for magnabomb. Oh, and finger.]]
'''Road Rage''' (ロードレイジ ''Rōdo Reiji'') is the bodyguard/advisor of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] ambassador [[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]. She is well-versed in alien cultures and generally cheerful, making her a very good diplomat. However, a chronic short-out in her vehicle mode causes her to live up to her name; in car mode, she is a snarling, swerving speed machine with little regard—if not utter contempt—for anyone else on the road with her. This is pretty embarrassing for her once she reverts to robot mode.

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==Fiction==
===''Wings Universe''===
[[Image:BattleLines1RoadRageandSideBurn.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Of course she's missing her [[mouthplate]]—how else is she gonna drink?]]
Near the dawn of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], Road Rage sat in a bar, listening intently to a bot who claimed he was the lone survivor of the recent siege against the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]]. She appeared to be interested in him until it was revealed to her that the bot was just some lying schmuck named [[Side Burn (G1)|Side Burn]], and not the hero named [[Dion]]. As Side Burn was dragged away by [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], she and [[Red waitress Transformer|her waitress]] shot furious looks at the impostor. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 1}}
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===Bee in the City 2: Electric Boogaloo===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Abby Collins]]

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{{storylink|Bee in the City 2: Electric Boogaloo}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:RoadRage-toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|FFFFFFFFFFF—]]
*'''Road Rage''' (Autobot, October 2002)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''94'''
**''Accessories'': Left & right "magnabomb launchers", launcher base, "plasma discharger" rifle, 4 "magnabomb" missiles

: Road Rage is a [[redeco]] of [[Tracks (G1)#Toys|the original Tracks toy]], transforming into a Corvette Stingray sports car. She also has a third [[Transportation mode|"flight" mode]] with swing-out wings and add-on thruster-pack/missile launchers. (her rifle can mount on her undercarriage in this mode, but it's really awkward when she's grounded.) As a Japanese release, her spring-loaded missile launchers are fully-functional.

: She was available only as an [[e-HOBBY]] [[exclusive]], sold in a set with Crosscut. Pre-orders ended on [[July 31]] of 2002, and the toys were sent out in October.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/RoadRage/roadrage.htm More info on Road Rage at TFU.info]''

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==Notes==
* Road Rage and Crosscut are notable for being the first additions to the Generation 1-era cast of characters after the original line ended since the short-lived ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' series. This also started the general trend toward e-Hobby releases being new characters rather than old characters in new colors.

* Her coloration is based on the original pre-''Transformers'' ''[[Diaclone]]'' version of the sculpt. This sculpt in these colors was also available as Tracks under the ''Transformers'' brand in some European markets in 1985, distributed by [[Milton Bradley]].<ref name="maz">[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/eurous_frame.php?art=mb "Milton Bradley and the Transformers Red Tracks" at TF-1.com]</ref> A convincing theory suggests that red Tracks, like most of the second [[wave]] of MB-branded Transformers, was actually originally a ''Diaclone'' toy by European Takara licensee [[Joustra]], which was acquired by MB together with the rest of Joustra's ''Diaclone'' stock and put into ''Transformers'' packaging.<ref name="mbjoustra">[http://20thcenturytoycollector.com/mb-transformers-part-4/ "MB Transformers: Part 4"] at 20th Century Toy Collector.</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/reissue_frame.php?art=Roadrage Road Rage toy article at TF-1.com]

==Footnotes==
<references/>

[[Category:E-Hobby]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Autobots]]

Shockwave (WFC)

2012-05-30T13:56:46Z

169.139.222.5: /* Commercial appearances */

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{{disambig3|Shockwave}}
:''Shockwave is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[Image:War for Cybertron Shockwave.jpg|250px|thumb|right|"When your hit percentage exceeds mine, YOU may choose the soundtrack!"]]
'''Shockwave''' was a member of the scientist caste in the industrial city of [[Kaon]]. In a reversal of the usual order, he was swayed by the ambitions of the former mining caste member turned gladiator [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]. Serving as Megatron's "pet mad scientist" and [[second-in-command]], he saw to the fighter's armament during his rise to prominence, all the while fantasizing on the prospect of ''mass producing'' such warriors. Thankfully, Megatron's more practical nature reined in Shockwave as the movement which became the Decepticons finally moved out of the shadows.

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Shockwave was a scientist who lived on the fringes of Cybertronian society, admitting to [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Orion Pax]] he knew little of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. He was one of the scientists whose innovations allowed the mass production of stressed-crystal material used to build [[Crystal City]]. There he began his [[combiner]] experiments, creating [[Bruticus (Prime)|Bruticus Maximus]], whose lack of intelligence in combined form made him a danger to friend and foe, and he was put in [[stasis lock]]. Shockwave moved to [[Kaon]], becoming a surgeon for the gladiators, where he met [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]us. He continued his combination experiments with the three [[Insecticon (Prime)|Insecticon]]s, whom Megatronus bested in combat: it was in this match that the crowd chanted a shorter name for the gladiator, Megatron. Megatron recognized two things about Shockwave: that he was bereft of any morality or ethics, and that while he was his most loyal ally, he would turn on him one day.

[[Image:WFCcomicDecepticons.jpg|thumb|300px|''We three 'Cons of Kaon are...'']]

During the [[Autobot]]-[[Decepticon]] war, Shockwave perfected his experiments with the [[Constructicon (WFC)|Constructicon]]s, creating a [[Devastator (WFC)|Devastator]] which was unleashed on Crystal City. Shockwave set up a laboratory in the ruins but was ordered to take command of the newly conquered city state [[Tarn]]. Autobot sympathizers became fodder for experiments, while Shockwave's forces conquered [[Vos]]. He quelled dissent in both cities by requesting Vos' Air Commanders [[photon missile]] strike Tarn, for which he claimed the Autobots were responsible, and then had a photon missile strike (of supposedly unknown origin) ordered on Vos, killing the Air Commanders whose true loyalty lay with [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]].

When the Decepticons captured [[Trypticon (Prime)|Trypticon]] Station, Shockwave oversaw two of Starscream's scientists ingest [[Dark Energon]]: the powerful result activated a security [[gyro-inhibitor charge]] which rendered Shockwave unconscious. Shockwave later subjected the two subjects to a deprivation study, and found it necessary to muzzle them as the duo agonized as a result of Dark Energon's absence in their bodies. Shockwave also used the [[Spark]]s of those killed in the capture to turn Trypticon into a Decepticon, able to spawn drones and [[Mini-Con|Minicons]] in its corridors.

Shockwave remained on Cybertron in command of the Decepticons, while Megatron left with his elite soldiers on the ''Nemesis'' to pursue the Autobot ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]''. Shockwave promised Megatron that [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1|Cybertron would remain as he left it]], the notion of which Megatron chastised. He ordered Shockwave to rebuild Cybertron and enslave the remaining Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

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{{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3)===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Steve Blum]]''

[[Image:WFC Shockwave game.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Well done. Here come the test results: "You are a horrible person." That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.]]

{{Note|Shockwave is an pre-order [[exclusive]] downloadable content character for use in multiplayer modes, and is not playable in the ''War for Cybertron'' storyline campaign. Using a preorder code to unlock him will allow the player to use Shockwave in Escalation mode, and makes his chassis available for customizing an online multiplayer character for Decepticon scientists. His chassis is labelled as "Retaliator". Shockwave was later made available alongside the other preorder-exclusive characters in the ''Transformers: War for Cybertron Map and Character Pack''. He was available for the XBox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, but not for the PC version.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' - Decepticons (DS)===
:''Voice actor:'' Steve Blum

{{Note|Shockwave is an unlockable character for the Nintendo DS version of ''War for Cybertron''. On the Decepticon version he can replace any of the other Decepticons in the campaign mode. He can be unlocked by beating Purification 6 in Arena Mode.}}

Shockwave was at the Energon Purification zone when the Decepticons had used it for their stores of Energon. Shockwave challenged Megatron and his troops to a fight, saying if they beat him, he'd join their ranks. Shockwave was indeed defeated, and somewhat reluctantly joined the Decepticon ranks.
{{Storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===

Shockwave was tasked with finding deadly new alternate forms that the Decepticons could use to further their goals. As he observed the universe, [[Earth|a small blue planet]] populated by [[dinosaur (dinosaur)|large reptilian creatures]] caught his eye. Inspired by this, he forcibly reformatted [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and his [[Lightning Strike Coalition|Dynobots]] into the [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobot]]s. He also became interested in the Insecticon swarms that had taken over much of Cybertron since the poisoning of Cybertron's [[core]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}

==Commercial appearances==
:''Voice actor:'' [[Corey Burton]]''

{{storylink|Commercial#War for Cybertron|GameStop's commercial for their Shockwave multiplayer exclusive}}
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==Toys==
===Generations===
[[Image:Generationstoy-Shockwave.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"I want him in the games until he dies playing. Acknowledge." "Acknowledged, Master Control." "End of line."]]
*'''Shockwave''' (Deluxe, 2012)
: Part of the first wave of [[2012]] ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Shockwave is based on his ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)| War for Cybertron]]'' design and transforms from a robot to a spaceship and back. The front center fuselage of the spaceship appears to become a handheld weapon.

: This toy was [[repurposing|repurposed]] as ''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]]'' comics.

: This mold was [[retool]]ed into ''Generations'' [[Fireflight (FOC)|Fireflight]].
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==Notes==
* In the map of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] from the "[[Binder of Revelation]]" included in ''[[Transformers Vault]]'', Shockwave came from [[Tarn]], which explains why he took control of it during the war.
* Shockwave is usable in both the Autobot and Decepticon versions of the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|''War for Cybertron'' games for the DS]]. He is used only for multiplayer, bonus missions and Arena mode in the Autobot version and used in Multiplayer, Arena mode, and campaign in the Decepticon version.
* In the XBOX 360/PS3 versions of War for Cybertron, Shockwave's left arm is his Plasma Cannon. But in the DS version, it's his RIGHT arm.
* The GameStop ''War for Cybertron'' commercial describes Shockwave as second-in-command of the Decepticons, and [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] is never officially referred to as such.
* For said commercial, Shockwave was voiced by [[Corey Burton]], voice actor of [[Shockwave (G1)|Generation 1]] and [[Shockwave (Animated)|Animated]] Shockwaves. He later lamented over [http://www.coreyburton.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=853&sid=3992b18086e21d8f6face60940505757 a forum post] that the performance was so rushed and the "gag" nature so out of character, that it hardly even sounded like him:
** "Two different sessions; and while they were awfully nice to work with, I have to say that the gag line was written and directed completely off-character. Since it was all supposed to be pretty "camp" anyway, and it had to be wedged-into a space that wasn't even there in the initial cut, I just went along with it. Figured it's just a silly bit of hype, that wasn't worth taking seriously enough to fuss over."
* The aforementioned commercial also indicates that Shockwave is evidently a fan of Stan Bush.
* According to his [[Transformers Hall of Fame]] bio, Shockwave's emotions sometimes get the better of him, leading to irrational behavior. He also hopes that one day his work will let him reformat all Cybertronians to a new form of existence- and ideally become ruler of Cybertron in the process. Looks like Megatron's hunch wasn't far off...
* Although Shockwave is a Jet in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, he's a ground vehicle in the DS Version. Most probably because his Autobot counterpart in the mission he is unlocked is Grimlock, a Heavy Ground vehicle. Shockwave's increasable stats are, however, those of a Flying Vehicle.

[[Category:Generations]]
[[Category:Scientists]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Decepticons]]

The Transformers: Masterpiece

2012-05-24T12:27:56Z

169.139.222.5: /* Special editions */

'''''The Transformers: Masterpiece''''' (トランスフォーマーマスターピース) is a toyline of collector-focused toys that are mostly based upon classic ''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' toys, but manufactured with today's advanced engineering techniques. ''Masterpiece'' Transformers tend to be very expensive, with an average price of 10,000 yen (approx. $118.30), and with [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Grimlock]]'s cost purportedly rising to 13,000 (approx. $153.79). Currently, the Masterpieces appear to be on a bi-yearly rotation with a new one being released in the spring or the fall.

Though the ''Masterpiece'' line is largely developed by [[TakaraTomy|Takara/TakaraTomy]] with the [[Japan|Japanese]] market in mind, several releases have been made available in [[Australia]] as Target-[[exclusive]]s, distributed by [[Hasbro|Hasbro Australia]].

Several sub-lines have emerged, one designated as MP-B## based upon the ''[[Brave (franchise)|Brave]]'' franchise, and another with the designation MPM-# to represent [[live-action film series]] Transformers.

==Products==

=== Generation 1 ===
<center>
====Standard products====
<gallery>
Image:20thAnniversary_OptimusPrimesm.jpg|MP-1 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Convoy]]<ref>The toy is released as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]] outside Japanese market.</ref> (2003)
Image:Masterpiece_UltraMagnus_toy.jpg|MP-2 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Ultra Magnus]] (2005)
Image:MasterpieceStarscream_toy.jpg|MP-3 [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Starscream]]<ref>Additionally, TakaraTomy has released their own version of Hasbro's ''Generation 1'' colored [[:Image:Hasbro Masterpiece Starscream toy.jpg|''Masterpiece'' Starscream]] with reduced weathering details and an additional faction symbol.</ref> (2006)
Image:MP04Convoy2.jpg|MP-4 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Convoy Perfect Edition]] (2006)
Image:MP05_megatron.jpg|MP-5 [[Megatron (G1)/toys#20th_Anniversary.2FMasterpiece|Megatron]] (2007)
Image:MP-6_Skywarp.jpg|MP-6 [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Skywarp]]<ref>Additionally, Hasbro has released their own version of ''Generation 1'' colored ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp as a [[Walmart]] exclusive.</ref> (2007)
Image:MP_Thundercracker_toy.jpg|MP-7 [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Thundercracker]] (2008)
Image:Grimlock_Masterpiece.jpg|MP-8 [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Grimlock]]<ref>Additionally, Hasbro has released their own version of Masterpiece Grimlock using King Grimlock's accessories.</ref> (2009)
Image:Takara Masterpiece Rodimus.jpg|MP-9 [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Rodimus Convoy]] (2011)<ref>Hasbro's version of Rodimus is a [[Toys"R"Us]] exclusive. It has a different color layout, lacks the trailer and comes with [[Targetmaster]] [[Firebolt (G1)|Offshoot]].</ref>
Image:MP-10_toy_photo.jpg|MP-10 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Convoy]] (2011)
Image:Masterpiecetoy coronation starscream.jpg|MP-11 [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP11|Starscream Coronation Version]] (2012)
</gallery>

====Special editions====
<gallery>
Image:Gold masterpiece prime.jpg|MP-1 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Convoy]] ([[Lucky Draw figure]], 2004)
Image:Masterpiecetoy-GrimlockKing.jpg|MP-8X [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|King Grimlock]] (2009)
Image:Soon-silhouette.jpg|MP-1B [[Eldedroid|Convoy Black Version]] (2010)
Image:Masterpiece_ghost_starscream.jpg|MP-3G [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Starscream Ghost Version]] (2010)
Image:MP4Sconvoysleepmode.jpg|MP-4S [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Convoy Sleep Mode]] (2010)
Image:MPtoy_last_shot_convoy.jpg|MP-1L [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Convoy Last Production]] (2011)
Image:Soon-silhouette.jpg|MP-09B [[Black Rodimus Convoy]] (2011)
Image:Soon-silhouette.jpg|MP-11S [[Sunstorm (G1)#Masterpiece|Sunstorm]]
</gallery></center>

===Live-action movie series===
<center><gallery>
Image:Masterpiece_Movie_Starscream.jpg|MPM-1 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#Masterpiece|Starscream]] (2010)
Image:Masterpiece Movie Bumblebee.jpg|MPM-2 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Masterpiece|Bumblebee]] (2010)
</gallery></center>

==References==
<references/>
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[[Category:Generation 1 franchises]]
[[Category:Japanese toylines]]
[[Category:Masterpiece| ]]

The Reign of Morocco

2012-05-22T17:16:20Z

169.139.222.5: /* Featured characters */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 13
|prev=The Other Doctor
|next=Small Blessings
|title="The Reign of Morocco"
|airdate=[[May 19]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Greg Johnson]]
|director=[[Patrick Archibald]]
}}

'''Cody looks for proof that the new scientist's invention is really a villainous plan.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Huxley Prescott]] reports on the recent events, including the retirement of the [[Rescue Bot]]s and the appointing of [[Morocco|Dr Morocco]] as head scientist. His report is interrupted by [[Harrison (RB)|Harrison]]'s out-of-control helipack ride. The [[MorBot]] turns up and begins a pursuit, crashing through a building and causing two car accidents. [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] saves two passerbys from being hit by rubble from the building. Though the rest of the team wants to be called in, Burns says they can't, and the MorBot uses a fire hydrant to destroy Harrison's helipack before returning to the lab. Within the lab, Morocco is busy trying to sell off Doc Greene's inventions.

At the station, the Rescue Bots are making use of their spare time. An optimistic [[Boulder]] is painting a rose, [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] is exploring alternate career options, and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] is studying humans by watching [[television]]. Meanwhile [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] is fruitlessly trying to contact [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] for reassignment and is considering getting their ship back into service.

Burns takes the [[nanite]] module to the [[Luskey|mayor]], but as there's nothing linking the logo to Morocco, he doesn't get anywhere. [[Doc Greene]] is packing to move to the mainland in a couple of days as he needs a job. [[Cody Burns|Cody]] and [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] are determined that this won't happen, and decide to look for evidence in the lab. Cody persuades [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and Blades to take him up and Cody spies on the doctor through binoculars until the MorBot interrupts them. It chases them through the wind farm back to the fire station, where the other Rescue Bots stand ready. Conflict is averted when Morocco calls the MorBot back to the lab.

Morocco and Mayor Luskey are returning to port in the ''[[Floating Xanadu]]'' when they're met at the dock by Burns and Cody, the former of whom complains about the MorBot attacking Blades. Despite the threat of angry voters, the mayor is placated by Morocco announcing he'll reprogram the MorBot. Burns isn't convinced, and even Prescott is beginning to sour on the machine, showing footage of the MorBot wrecking a driver's car and tearing up a tree to retrieve [[Mister Pettypaws]].

Heatwave does circuits outside the fire station, while inside Chase prepares pea soup, as he's decided to become a gourmet chef. The results aren't appetizing, and ends up being used as paint by a Boulder, who's now painting a less rosy picture.

Cody and Frankie sneak into the lab via a holographic doggie door. They find Morocco making sales over the phone, and discover that Frankie has been locked out of the computer. They're found by the man himself, who sends the MorBot after them. They hide behind boxes and make their way to an elevator, but when they reach the roof, they realize they're trapped. A grenade knocked loose by the MorBot causes an explosion.

With a mounting number of emergency calls and no sign of the MorBot in town, the mayor is forced to call in the Rescue Bots. While the team is on their way to the lab, Cody and Frankie evade the MorBot temporarily by heading into Morocco's airship and closing a door. They find Morocco's computer is active and displaying incriminating evidence. Cody radios Dani, who starts instructing him on flying the blimp while the other Rescue Bots extinguish the lab fire. With the MorBot breaking down the door, Cody brings the blimp down and the two kids disembark, followed by the MorBot, which is promptly surrounded by the Rescue Bots, who tear it to pieces. Frankie presents Burns with the evidence she's downloaded from the computer.

The council reinstates Burns's team and Doc Greene, who go back to the station for a celebratory barbecue while Prescott reports on the good news. Doctor Morocco in the meantime has left the island, having stolen the mayor's ship.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Boulder]] (11)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (12)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (13)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (14)

|c3=
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (1)
*[[Doc Greene]] (2)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (3)
*[[Morocco|Doctor Morocco]] (4)
*[[Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] (5)
*[[Graham Burns]] (6)
*[[Cody Burns]] (7)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (8)
*[[Kade Burns]] (9)
*[[Dani Burns]] (10)
*[[Harrison (RB)|Mr. Harrison]] (11)
*[[Neederlander|Mrs. Neederlander]] (12)
*[[Alper|Mr. Alper]] (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"What's more human than game shows and cartoons?"
:—'''Blades'''

"Shame." 
"I was quite ready to rumble."
:—'''Boulder''' and '''Chase''' are disappointed the giant robot fight didn't happen.

"MorBot decommissioned." 
"And the less MorBot the better."
:—'''Chase''' and '''Boulder''' get their fight.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
===Continuity errors===
*And how, exactly, did Prescott get the footage in his opening report?
===Continuity notes===
*Inventions which appear on the monitor as Morocco makes his phone call include the electro-magnetic sensors from "[[Deep Trouble]]", the newspaper dispenser from "[[Hotshots]]", [[floatium]] from "[[Flobsters on Parade]]", the [[Robo-Baby]] from "[[Four Bots and a Baby]]", a cleaning bot, the [[Turbo Cycle (RB)|Turbo Cycle]] from "Four Bots and a Baby", and the [[Helper Bot]] which appeared in "Deep Trouble".
*One of Morocco's clients is seeking highly advanced weapon technology and is building an army. Given that ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' shares continuity with ''Rescue Bots'', it seems almost certain that the good doctor is selling to [[MECH]].
*In a similar vein, no definitive reason is given as to why Optimus Prime doesn't respond to Heatwave's messages. While it's hard to know whether it's by coincidence or design, this episode of ''Rescue Bots'' aired in the middle of a four-part ''Prime'' storyline that ''did'' have Optimus away from base on a solo mission.
*The monitors on Morocco's airship display images of the shark submarine from "Deep Trouble", the nanite canister from "[[Cody on Patrol]]", the road roller and Doc Greene's [[solar car]] from the previous episode, and [[Trex]] from "[[Return of the Dino Bot]]".
===Transformers references===
* The big green guy of the group [[Bulkhead (Animated)|likes to paint]].
===Real-world references===
===Foreign localization===
===Trivia===

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[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

MorBot

2012-05-22T17:15:03Z

169.139.222.5:

:''The MorBot is a robot from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:ReignOfMorocco MorBot robot mode.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Go, mighty MorBot!]]
The '''MorBot''' is an invention of [[Morocco|Doctor Morocco]]. Constructed of the most advanced technology, it is positively bristling with <s>deadly weapons</s> hi-tech rescuing gear, including a <s>giant cannon</s> industrial-strength fire extinguisher and rocket boots. It even has the ability to [[transformation|convert]] into <s>an armored assault tank</s> a rescue vehicle. It's sure to be a great asset to any <s>terrorist</s> rescue organization.

==Fiction==
===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
<div style="float:left">{{spoiler|The Other Doctor|June 9, 2012}}</div><div style="clear:left"></div>
[[Image:ReignOfMorocco MorBot vehicle mode.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[MECH]] should have just asked Doctor Morocco how to build a [[Transformer]].]]
After causing [[Doc Greene]] to be fired as [[Griffin Rock]]'s lead scientist, Morocco sabotaged a road roller, allowing his MorBot to swoop in and save the day ahead of the [[Rescue Bot]]s. The MorBot made short work of the roller, impressing [[Luskey|Mayor Luskey]], who agreed to let the MorBot enter into a competition with [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burn's]] team. Morocco engineered a fire at the dock, which the MorBot extinguished by diving into the sea and causing a giant wave. After the MorBot stopped both a runaway toy rocket and Doc Greene's [[solar car]], the latter just before it would have squashed the mayor, Luskey was only too happy to promote Morocco to lead scientist. {{storylink|The Other Doctor}}

{{spoiler|The Reign of Morocco|June 9, 2012}}
The MorBot continued to rescue people, halting [[Harrison (RB)|Mr Harrison]]'s runaway flight and retrieving [[Mister Pettypaws]] from a tree, though its rescue methods left something to be desired. It also guard the laboratory, and pursued [[Blades (RB)|Blades]], [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and [[Cody Burns|Cody]] when they tried to spy on Morocco. After Cody and [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] sneaked into the lab, they were spotted by Morocco, who sent the MorBot after them. Though carelessly knocking a grenade and causing an explosion, the MorBot pursued its quarry into Morroco's blimp. It was prevented from reaching the two children by a large door, and by the time it broke through, Cody had landed the blimp. The MorBot jumped out to attack them, only to be surrounded by the Rescue Bots, who forcibly disassembled it. {{storylink|The Reign of Morocco}}

[[Category:Robots]]
[[Category:Rescue Bots technology]]

Arms Micron Theater

2012-05-22T16:18:33Z

169.139.222.5: /* Episodes */

'''''Arms Micron Theater''''' (アームズマイクロン劇場 ''Arms Micron Gekijō'') is a supplemental segment of the Japanese version of the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' cartoon. Its main purpose is to promote the [[Arms Micron]]s available with Japanese [[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|''Prime'']] toys.

==Episodes==
*[[O.P.]], [[B.2]], and [[R.A.]] all attempt to transform, but meet difficulties in doing so. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1|Perfect Transformation! Enter the Transformers}}
*B.2 and R.A. succeed at transforming into robot mode, but O.P. still struggles. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2|Dark Transformation! Dark Energon}}
*O.P., B.2, and R.A. succeed in combining into the [[Star Saber (Arms Micron)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3|Rescue Transformation! Fowler in Crisis}}
*[[Arc]] complains about how R.A. and B.2 have become lazy due to being infected by [[Dark Energon]]. Meanwhile, [[Zori]] crawls along the wall behind them. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4|Infiltration Transformation! Battleship ''Nemesis''}}
*R.A. and B.2, no longer infected, try to get over their couch potato laziness be being active and lively. Behind them, Zori wall-crawls. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5|Explosive Transformation! Spacebridge Battle}}

{{stub}}

[[Category:Prime]]

Blitzwing (Animated)

2012-05-14T13:32:54Z

169.139.222.5: /* Notes */

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{{disambig3|Blitzwing}}
:''Blitzwing is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:AniBlitzwingPromoModel.jpg|right|250px|thumb|That's far enough, Dr. Jones.]]
'''Blitzwing''' not only has three modes (robot, jet, and tank), he also has three alternate personalities (an "Icy" cold strategist, a short-tempered "Hothead", and a total "Random" nutcase) along with the faces rattling around in his head to go with them.<ref>Blitzwing's three personas are named "Icy", "Hothead" and "Random" on his [[Character model|model]] sheets.</ref> He's as liable to have a conversation with himself as he is to say a word to his fellow Decepticons. Pretty much the only thing that keeps him in line is that all three of his personalities are scared to death of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].

Blitzwing's "dominant", Icy personality is represented by a long, blue face with a monocle and speaks with quiet disdain. His easily angered Hothead personality has a wide, red face, is gap-toothed, and tends to react angrily with violent threats towards almost anyone. Finally, his Random personality's face looks like nothing so much as a black jack-o'-lantern, and may toss out bad puns and jokes, children's nursery rhymes, or random non sequiturs, mostly followed by hysterical laughter. All three personalities speak with a pronounced German [[Accents|accent]] and apparently he has trouble flying in a straight line.

Blitzwing's armament varies depending upon which personality is dominant at the time. His calculating personality has an arsenal of ice weaponry, while the Hothead predictably can turn up the heat. When his third personality is foremost, nearly anything can be dished out from either of his vehicle modes. Blitzwing's alt-mode is likewise usually dependent on which aspect is dominant at the time. His cold side uses the jet, his angry side uses the tank, and his insane side can use either. However it seems that if he changes personality while in his alt mode, that alt will change with him, and if that's a jet to tank change, he'll fall right out of the sky.

{{quote|Ze name iz Blitzwing, [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|insect]]—remember it! Cause it's ze last thing you're gonna hear before I—express my feelings in song!|Blitzwing switching personalities like we switch shoes|"[[Transform and Roll Out]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{Idw-tfa}}
:''Voice actor:'' [[Bumper Robinson]] (English), [[Yūichi Nagashima]] (Japanese), [[Rainer Doering]] (German), [[Giorgio Bonino]] (Italian), [[Wellington Lima]] (Portuguese), [[Rodolfo Vasquez]] (Latin American Spanish, all heads during the pilot episode), [[Sergio Aliaga]] (Latin American Spanish, Icy head), [[Nelson Medina]] (Latin American Spanish, Hothead head), [[Rodrigo Saavedra]] (Latin American Spanish, Random head)

[[Image:Animated blitzwing faces1.JPG|left|125px|thumb|"So Arnold, Dietrich, and Blot walk into a bar..."]]

Long after the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]] ended and the Decepticons went into hiding, [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] experimented upon Blitzwing, rebuilding him into a Triple Changer and giving him the fractured mind he is known for today. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac}}

Blitzwing was aboard the [[Nemesis (Animated)|''Nemesis'']] with the other Decepticons at the time of the [[AllSpark]]'s re-discovery. He partially froze [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]'s arm, commenting on how her demeanor was as unpleasant as her organic beast mode. When Blackarachnia advised him to blow it out his actuator, Blitzwing angrily demanded that she refer to him by his proper name, or else he would...''express his feelings in song!'' His out-of-tune rendition of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" got all the Decepticons arguing until Megatron entered, prompting Blitzwing to fall silent with the rest.

When it became clear the ''Nemesis'' was going to crash into an exploding space bridge, Blitzwing fled in an escape pod. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

''After Megatron's disappearance, the Decepticons held a funeral at [[New Kaon]]. Blitzwing gave the eulogy, in which he vowed that they would destroy the [[Autobot]]s responsible for their leader's demise...and then paint mustaches on their faceplates. [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] was angry with the service, declaring that Megatron was alive and would return. When Blitzwing pointed out evidence to the contrary, Lugnut destroyed the statue of Megatron that Blitzwing had built. This angered Blitzwing, who'd spent six deca-cycles building it, and initiated an exchange of fire between him and Lugnut.'' {{storylink|Dispatches}}

Blitzwing placed a bounty on [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], intending to punish him for destroying Megatron. Fifty stellar cycles later, the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] contacted Blitzwing, saying he had Prime. Blitzwing promised that Lockdown would receive payment once Blitzwing received Prime — then his random side asked if he could ''please, please, please'' see Prime turn into a firetruck. {{storylink|The Thrill of the Hunt}} ''His conversation was cut short however, when an enraged Lugnut slammed his face into the monitor for daring to commune with the bounty hunter. The pair began scrapping, and things were only made worse when [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] showed up, taking the opportunity to sell each of them a wide variety of weapons so they could pummel each other. It eventually culminated in him selling the pair of them doomsday weapons and unbreakable nemesis shields. Realizing they were being played, Lugs and Blitz put aside their anger, beat the holy hell out of Swindle and made friends again.'' {{storylink|The Arrival issue 5#Everything Must Go|Everything Must Go}}

[[Image:LugnutBlitzwingNemesis.JPG|right|200px|thumb|"This was Megatron's ship!" "Oh, cool! Maybe my DVD collection's still in there."]]

Some time after this, Blitzwing and Lugnut followed a beacon to the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] to find the wreckage of the ''Nemesis''. Noting that [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] was bad at parking, Blitzwing also remembered that this quadrant was the last time they received an update from Lockdown. Concluding that the Autobots responsible for killing Megatron were nearby, the duo went to Earth. Landing at a construction site, the two had similar problems determining the dominant species on Earth as the Autobots did, mistaking Earth's automatons and machines for sentient beings. Lugnut's attempt to interrogate a crane ended up getting Blitzwing hit by the wrecking ball, which convinced the Decepticons to do a more time honored tactic—blow stuff up and hope it forces the Autobots to come out. It worked. During the battle with the Autobots, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] and [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] were hard pressed to avoid Blitzwing's energy blasts, but his freeze beam did get Bumblebee off his feet. When Lugnut demanded information on Megatron's location, the Autobots mentioned that he had "turned into a fireball somewhere over [[Cleveland (city)|Cleveland]]". Naturally, Lugnut was displeased, and he used his [[Punch of Kill Everything|super-punch]] to floor the Autobots—and bury himself and Blitzwing under the rubble. When Blitzwing unburied himself, he irritatedly reminded Lugnut of his oft-repeated request for a little warning before the punch.

Having observed the battle over a live feed, Megatron opted to radio Lugnut exclusively, leaving Blitzwing struggling to work out what exactly was going on. Blitzwing believed Lugnut was only listening to voices in his head, so Lugnut had to take him along forcibly. Uncertain of the number and strength of the Autobots' "reinforcements" (the Detroit Police Department), the pair scanned Earth vehicles for disguises so they could lay low. Icy Blitzwing wanted to scan a fighter jet, while Hothead wanted a tank. After a brief argument, Random suggested that they scan both. That evening, the two Decepticons followed the Autobots to [[Lake Erie]], where Blitzwing froze the lake. When the Autobots submerged, he followed them in tank form. Blitzwing was lured by the Autobots towards [[Teletran-1|their ship]] and blasted by one of its weapons systems. He and Lugnut were left fragmented but functional and floated to the surface, only to be met by Starscream, who offered to repair them in exchange for a pledge of undying allegiance. {{storylink|Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found}}

[[Image:Megatron Rising 1 Ratchet Blitzwing Key.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Oooh, Autobot-cicles, fresh out of the freezer!]]
Apparently, they chose to serve under Starscream, but still were bickering with each other. When Lugnut began receiving internal transmissions from Megatron again, Starscream was confused, and Blitzwing explained that it was a "technical glitch" that happened. A lot. When Starscream learned that Lugnut thought he was talking to Megatron, he felt threatened and scanned Lugnut, detecting the signals. Starscream ordered both Lugnut and Blitzwing to find the [[AllSpark Key]] while he himself tracked the transmissions.

At the moment, the AllSpark Key was in the hands of [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]. Blitzwing used his ice guns to freeze Ratchet and rip off the arm that was carrying the Key. Afterward, they went to [[Sumdac Tower]] to find Megatron. In the process of greeting him, they revealed Megatron's true Decepticon nature to [[Isaac Sumdac|Prof. Sumdac]]. Blitzwing, now understanding what had been going on with Lugnut, inserted the Key into Megatron's head, restoring their true leader. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1}}

[[Image:Megatron Rising 2 Blitzwing tank crash.jpg|right|200px|thumb|He's just as aerodynamic as the next tank.]]
As Megatron proceeded to beat up the Autobots, Blitzwing and Lugnut decided not to intervene and kept an eye on Professor Sumdac instead. When Megatron called his loyal troops to him, Blitzwing looked on as his leader made an example of Starscream. The Decepticons took to the air, locating and attacking the Autobots' ship as it travelled from the lake to the Tower, then from the Tower to [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]], where it was shot down. Blitzwing split off to tackle Prowl, Ratchet and Bumblebee, before being brought down by a combined EMP burst. As Blitzwing rolled around and shelled the Autobots, Prowl noticed that Blitzwing's personalities were connected to his alternate modes and powers. By this time, Blitzwing was back in the air, but Bumblebee taunted the Triple Changer enough that Hothead Blitzwing took over, transformed from jet to tank—and fell into the lake. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

[[Image:TFA Blitzwing Jet Altmode.jpg|left|200px|thumb|I'm gunning for you, Snoopy.]]
The Decepticons set up a base in a mine containing carbon deposits, which would block their energy signatures so they could recover from their encounter with the Autobots without detection. When Megatron announced his new plan to conquer [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Blitzwing felt the plan was crazy, as neither he nor Lugnut had any idea how they would get there. He changed his mind when Megatron explained that they would build their own [[space bridge]] using the specs Megatron had downloaded from [[Teletran-1]] during one of the encounters with the Autobots. However, they would need the captured Prof. Sumdac to help them, as the specs were incomplete. {{storylink|The Elite Guard}}

After Isaac Sumdac developed a device that shielded their energy signatures from Autobot sensors, Blitzwing and Lugnut went to retrieve a tachyon transmitter from the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard's]] [[Steelhaven (Animated)|ship]]. When they presented it to Megatron, Starscream appeared, tried to kill Megatron—and was killed by Megatron. However, Starscream appeared to survive, and Blitzwing spent the rest of the evening dumping Starscream's body into the river...repeatedly. The next day, Blitzwing and Megatron responded to an AllSpark energy signature which turned out to be a trap laid by Starscream. Blitzwing and Megatron then pursued the traitor, offlining him again. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}}

Blitzwing was later sent by Megatron to track down an AllSpark fragment, with an oddly disappearing energy signature. He froze [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and much of the surrounding landscape, destroyed a bridge, [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]]'s [[Captain Fanzone's car|car]], and [[Master Disaster (Animated)|Master Disaster]]'s truck before [[Sari Sumdac]] managed to make him leave using Master Disaster's remote. {{storylink|Velocity}}

Blitzwing and Lugnut wound up stuck with the dirty work, collecting supplies for the construction of the space bridge. Foiled by the Autobots, they tried again the next day, hauling heavy trailers up a hill. Blitzwing's foot slipped, and he was nearly offlined by the trailer sending him careening towards a wall. Bracing for impact, his demise was interrupted by the intervention of [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] and [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]]. Seeing a good opportunity in the brawny Constructibots, he tricked them into hauling the two trailers to the mine. Though Lugnut stated that Megatron would never stand for this, he reassured the huge Decepticon that the two newcomers would be offlined as soon as the work was done. True to his word, Blitzwing was about to have Lugnut dispatch the hapless bots when Megatron stepped in. He had bigger plans for them. {{storylink|Rise of the Constructicons}}

[[Image:TFA Sari no one home Blitzwing Ratchet hostage.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Verrry interesting...but shtupid.]]
When the [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicons]] resurfaced, Megatron dispatched Blitzwing to bring them back to the mine, giving him some oil to entice them, and instructing the Triple Changer not to engage the Autobots. During his search, Blitzwing came across the Autobots. Although his Icy personality wanted to continue the search, his Hothead and Random personality decided to engage them. During the battle, Blitzwing utterly dominated the Autobots, and eventually took Ratchet hostage. At that point, Megatron ordered Blitzwing to disengage and resume his search. Finally locating the Constructicons, Blitzwing offered the two the oil barrels he was carrying, and led them back to base. {{storylink|Sari, No One's Home}}

Soon after the space bridge was near completion, the Autobots found the Decepticons' hideout and attempted to stop them. Blitzwing and Lugnut attacked the Autobots invading their underground base, but they ended up getting [[Stasis cuffs|stasis cuffed]] by [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]]. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}} Blitzwing was later retrieved by Scrapper and joined in on the attack on [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]. His Hothead side was unimpressed with the gargantuan Autobot, and he vowed to damage Omega Supreme so badly he'd need a GPS locator to help him find his still-attached exhaust port. Omega was equally unimpressed with the verbal posturing and headbutted Blitzwing to the horizon. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

[[Image:FiveServosOfDoom-CapturedDecepticons.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"So, how often do you transform them for display?"]]
When [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] hired Lockdown to capture Decepticons for him, Blitzwing was one of the bounty hunter's early victims. He was subsequently locked up in the Elite Guard flagship alongside [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]] and Swindle, and had mouth clamps placed on each of his faces to keep him quiet. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}

As the Elite Guard headed back to Cybertron with their prisoners, they navigated the ship through an energy storm in outer space, causing a stray bolt of energy to hit the ship and free Swindle, who had been left unrestrained. The greedy Decepticon immediately released Blitzwing and the others from their bonds and provided them with new weaponry. Led by Lugnut, the Decepticons defeated and captured the crew, only for Optimus Prime to transwarp into the ship and release them. The ensuing battle took place outside the ship, where Blitzwing froze Sentinel Prime and threatened to blast his head off if the other Autobots didn't surrender. The plan was a success, and the captured Autobots were led into their own decontamination unit to be frozen. (Blitzwing's crazy side also wanted them grinded up into snowcones.) However, this was the Autobots' plan all along, as [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] had tampered with the freeze-gas pipes, causing Blitzwing, Sunstorm and [[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] to be frozen instead. The three Decepticons were subsequently recaptured and brought to Cybertron, where Sentinel Prime displayed them during his [[Magnus]]-promotion parade. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}

===''Prime Suspect''===
Upon discovering that the launch of [[HomeTech]]'s new range of [[Pixie-6]] helpbots was imminent, Blitzwing cooked up a plan to steal a Pixie-6 control sphere. Holographically disguising himself as Optimus Prime, he broke into HomeTech's laboratory and successfully stole a controller, which he modified to be powerful enough to control ''all'' of the Pixie-6 'bots. He intended to wait until they had been sold and installed in every home in America, but the Autobots caught up with him at HomeTech's warehouse. After a brief battle, Blitzwing was subdued, and Prime announced that they would attempt to reprogram him into an Autobot. {{storylink|Prime Suspect}}

===''The Cool'' comic===
[[Image:TheCoolBlitzwingKneels01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|]]

Blitzwing was part of Megatron's band of Decepticons, chasing down the Autobots who had rediscover the long-lost AllSpark. He was visibly frustrated (though he maintained his "Icy" persona) when Megatron along with the Autobots disappeared through a Space Bridge gate. {{storylink|The Cool Extra issue 3|The Cool Extra #3}}

Through some means, Blitzwing succeeded in obtaining the [[AllSpark Key|key]] and bringing it to the disembodied head of Megatron. Upon Megatron's rebirth, Blitzwing offered to help him destroy the oposing Autobots. Lugnut berated Blitzwing for trying to rob Megatron of a good time, and Megatron agreed with Lugnut, as he wanted the Autobots all to himself. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 5}}

Blitzwing later joined the other Decepticons in intercepting the rogue Starscream from the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]. When the "Starscream" they were given turned out to be a bomb, Blitzwing and the other Decepticons fled into the sky, only to be caught in the explosion ''anyway'' after [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] launched the clones at them with his rocket packs. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 6}}

During the battle for the Decepticon [[Space Bridge]], Blitzwing attempted to keep [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] from interfering with Megatron's battle against Optimus Prime. The speedsters proved too much for him, however, running in circles around him until his rotating faces got dizzy. They then slapped a pair of stasis cuffs on him, and "random" Blitzwing cried that his arms had "fallen asleep" as the cuffs paralyzed him. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 7}}
{{-}}

==Games==
===Transformers Animated: The Game===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Bumper Robinson]] (English)
[[Image:TFAnimated Game Blitzwing.jpg|thumb|left|324px|Can you guess which one wants to do the victory dance?]]
As the Decepticon armies stood ready to invade [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], two of Blitzwing's personalities were keen to get to bashing Autobots. The third just wanted to do the Decepticon victory dance. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Game}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Ani blitz.JPG|right|250px|thumb|"WHY IS IT GETTING SO CROWDED IN HERE?!" "Oh, wait, it's me." ''"And me! AHAHAHAHAAA!!!"'']]
*'''Blitzwing''' (Voyager, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TA-13'''
**''Accessories'': 2 "flame" missiles

: Blitzwing transforms into a futuristic "Mech-Warrior"-ish tank with two large, spring-loaded anti-aircraft-like guns, and a fighter jet that loosely resembles the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat. His tank-cannons become the jet's thrusters. The robot mode has three faces, which can be switched around via a knob on the back of the head. Surprisingly against the [[For safety reasons|norm]], Blitzwing's pointy nosecone is molded from rigid plastic. He has a pair of panels on his forearms which are spring-loaded to be able to lie flush in his vehicle modes, yet make his arms wider in robot mode (as they tend to be rather flat without them).

: Sadly, his cannons cannot tilt forward over his shoulders when in robot mode. Though promotional photos showed the figure with a gold traditional Decepticon insignia, the final toy used the movie variant in the tampograph.

[[Image:Blitzwinganimatedtoyfaces.jpg|left|250px|thumb|So people who buy enough toys to display them in every mode have to buy five of this guy, right?]]
: Blitzwing also has a minor [[misassembly]] problem, in that his upper arms are swapped. This is the reason his wings cannot press down flush with the rest of the jet fuselage. This can be fixed by pulling off his arms, unscrewing the one screw visible on either forearm, then separating the upper arms and switching them, which makes for a much improved jet mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Blitzwing/blitzwing.htm More information on Animated Blitzwing at TFU.info]''
{{-}}{{anchor|McD}}

[[Image:TFAnimated_McDonalds_Blitzwing.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Chip Chase|No one's ever really insane so long as he has courage!]]]]
*'''Blitzwing''' (McDonald's Happy Meal toys, 2009)

: A very simplified (but well painted!) version of Blitzwing that has abandoned his triple changer aspect for simplicity's sake. Although this toy sports Blitzwing's "Icy" face, he transforms into "Hothead"'s tank mode.

{{--}}

==Notes==
* When developing the character who would become Blitzwing, [[Marty Isenberg]] originally envisioned a character who could change into anything. Obviously enough, that idea proved unworkable in toy terms, so art director [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] proposed using [[Sixshot]] for the role. When Hasbro deemed a [[Six Changer]] to be too expensive, the Triple Changer Blitzwing was finally settled upon instead.<ref name="artstory">[http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=242 Art & Story interview with Marty Isenberg]</ref> As fate would have it, Hasbro designer [[Eric Siebenaler]] had been itching to do a face-swapping Blitzwing since 2005. <ref>Blitzwing's long design history was detailed at [[BotCon 2008|BotCon 2008's]] Hasbro Design panel.</ref>
* His German accent was a last-minute improvisation by voice actor [[Bumper Robinson]], inspired by the character's name, that went on to influence his entire robot mode aesthetic; once Robinson had been cast in the role, Blitzwing was subsequently designed to "make him look really German,"<ref name="artstory"/> with his helmet an obvious nod to a World War II-era [[wikipedia:Stahlhelm|Stahlhelm]] helmet and goggles.
* Blitzwing's face-changing [[gimmick]] was in part inspired by [[wikipedia:Man-E-Faces|Man-E-Faces]] from ''Masters of the Universe.''<ref>According to [[Hasbro]] employees speaking at the 2007 Comic-ConInternational.</ref> He's not the first Transformers toy to feature multiple rotating faces; [[Alpha Quintesson]], inspired by the five-faced Generation 1 [[Quintesson]]s, holds that distinction. The fiction-only character [[Violen Jiger]] also had three faces that spoke in different tones.
* According to the Allspark Almanac, Blitzwing wasn't always the [[Triple Changer]] we know now him as today. His current state came about as a result of being rebuilt by [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] after the Great War, to increase his versatility. This process, however, also had the side effect of giving him three distinct personalities, something [[Springer (Animated)|hinted at earlier]] by [[Derrick J. Wyatt]].
*In the Japanese dub of the series, Blitzwing speaks with a stressed ''American'' accent, rather than a German one, with his "Icy" personality speaking with a very proper American accent and his "Hothead" personality even spouting English words such as "Hey!", "Now", and ending many sentences with "Man!"

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Blitzwing''' (ブリッツウイング ''Burittsuuingu'')

==Footnotes==
<references />

[[Category:Animated Decepticons]]
[[Category:Fast food exclusives]]
[[Category:Triple Changers]]

Alpha Trion/Shattered Glass

2012-05-14T13:31:44Z

169.139.222.5: Undo revision 715978 by Magnus (Talk)

{{factions|sgAutobot}}
{{disambig3.5|the evil Autobot|his heroic counterpart|Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion}}
:''Alpha Trion is an evil [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Alphatriontimelinestranscendent.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Eventually one of them was bound to go senile.]]
'''Alpha Trion''', the '''Old One''', is from a universe where the [[Decepticon]]s were defeated long ago. He is also the owner of a sword taken from a dead Decepticon named [[Slaughter]], a sword which can corrupt the mind of the wielder towards evil. But an act of sabotage took him from his original universe and whisked him here, to [[Axiom Nexus]], where he fights an underground war against the arrogant [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]], who aim to control the populace with mind control devices.

None of the above is true.

Sure, ''this'' Alpha Trion may seem like a nice old robot [[Alpha Trion (disambiguation)|like all the others]], but wait until you're introduced to his ceiling of mutilated corpses! Then the web of lies will begin to unravel...

{{note| In 2010 Hasbro introduced a [[retcon]] naming Alpha Trion as a member of the [[Thirteen|Thirteen original Transformers]], and thus a likely [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularity]] (meaning, basically, that all Alpha Trions in the [[multiverse]] would be the same individual). Due to the lengthy histories many of these incarnations had prior to the retcon—and in particular, the massive contradiction to the idea that this version of the character seemingly represents—we have opted to leave their pages as separate entities, and merely note the retcon on each individual page. For the Alpha Trion that is definitively one of the 13 see: [[Alpha Trion (Prime)]]}}

==Fiction==
===''TransTech'' and ''Shattered Glass''===
Alpha Trion acted as an adviser to [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]] in a [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|shattered universe]]. Prime had little patience for the Old One's lies and scheming, and so Alpha Trion was banished from this universe, {{storylink|Shattered Glass}} cast through the prototype [[stellar spanner]] that Alpha Trion had been developing. {{storylink|Blitzwing Bop}} Alpha Trion left a [[:Category:Alpha Trion's acolytes|secret cadre of loyalists]] behind who would wait for his return. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 1}}

The outcast sage found himself in the [[multiverse|multiversal]] hub city of [[Axiom Nexus]], in [[Nexus 208.0 Epsilon|the ancient, super-advanced universe]] of the TransTech Transformers. Rather than admit defeat, Alpha Trion plotted anew, and gathered another group of loyalists. [[Maximal]]s [[Blackarachnia (TransTech)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Nightscream (TransTech)|Nightscream]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s [[Scavenger (TransTech)|Scavenger]] and [[Immorticon]] soon fell under his wing. He easily turned their feelings against the TransTech government, as they had dealt with corruption in their native universe, and once Alpha Trion had also accumulated a skilled Transformer named [[Topspin (Classics)|Topspin]], the experiments began. With Topspin's help, Alpha Trion was able to move the sparks of his Maximal and Predacon acolytes into new TransTech bodies {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|''TransTech'' Blackarachnia's profile}} as well as a [[Bulletbike (TransTech)|few other unfortunates]]. {{storylink|I, Lowtech}} But Topspin himself was the piece to a larger puzzle, and one that Alpha Trion, with his intimate knowledge of Cybertronian lore, had devious plans for. All he needed were the other pieces. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 2}}

[[Image:Alphatrionceilingofcorpses.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Dammit, A3, you show them the rec room first. THEN the ceiling of corpses.]]
Alpha Trion soon found these pieces. He was assigned to three newcomers to Axiom Nexus, [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]], [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], and [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]], and instructed to help them acclimate to their new dimension. However, after Breakaway was abducted right under their noses by [[Shockwave (TransTech)|mechs unknown]], {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 1}} Alpha Trion revealed his real plan. He revealed that the TransTechs that ruled over the city were an untrustworthy and manipulative lot, and that there were personality inhibitors broadcast through satellites in this [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] orbit. Furthermore, they had a habit of abducting certain mechs of interest, and were likely probing the slag out of poor Breakaway somewhere. Skyfall and Landquake began to feel uncomfortable, so Alpha Trion tried to reassure them. He led the two to his room full of ceiling-suspended TransTech corpses. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 2}}

For some reason, that didn't work. Alpha Trion's helper, Topspin, arrived to explain, noting that none of the corpses were actually dead, as their [[spark]]s were kept safe elsewhere. These were nothing more than their experiments in trying to help mechs escape Axiom Nexus, as its inhabitants' bodies are tagged. Speaking privately with Skyfall, Alpha Trion gave him his own sword for safekeeping. He warned it once belonged to a Decepticon named Slaughter, and though it could influence terribly the thoughts of the bearer, Alpha Trion believed Skyfall had as strong a spirit as himself. Should Alpha Trion fall, Skyfall would have to keep it. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 3}}

Nightscream brought word to Alpha Trion: He had learned where the TransTech had taken Breakaway! Alpha Trion informed his acolytes that they would attack that very night. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 4}} Gathering Nightscream, Scavenger, Blackarachnia, Immorticon, Topspin, and an increasingly suspicious Skyfall and Landquake, Alpha Trion stormed the [[Transwarp Complex]] in search of Shockwave's lab and the Transit Room. After he killed the guards and ran [[Depth Charge (TransTech)|Depth Charge]] through with his sword, he reminded Skyfall of the terrible influence of his evil weapon. He took Skyfall, Landquake, and Immorticon with him towards the lab and ordered the others to occupy the Transit Room. Unfortunately, [[Megatron (TransTech)|Megatron]] was in their way. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 5}} It wasn't long before the TransTech military commander struck a devastating blow, mutilating one side of Alpha Trion's face. But he and the two multiversal hitchhikers made their getaway (with Breakaway in tow) as Megatron was busy reducing Immorticon to rubble.

[[Image:Skyfallwontbethereforit.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"You don't even get the non-attending exclusive package."]]
As the group neared the Transit Room, Alpha Trion told Skyfall of his great importance, how back in his original universe, [[Vector Sigma]] had told him that "[[Primus]] is calling his first sons home." Unfortunately for Skyfall, Alpha Trion had different plans. While the others disappeared through the Transit Room into Alpha Trion's original universe, he impaled Skyfall with his sword, killing him. Skyfall's conscience and strength of will would have served as a distraction in Alpha Trion's coming rise to power, and "Reunification" could take place with one of "them" dead. He then ordered Nightscream to drag the body through the portal with them, as Alpha Trion had a universe to conquer. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 6}}

Alpha Trion and the others appeared back in his home universe within his old lab. Though Alpha Trion wished to get directly at the task at hand, Breakaway and Landquake obviously had questions about Skyfall's demise. When pressed on the issue, Alpha Trion told Landquake that Skyfall had been shot from behind on their way through the portal, but Breakaway was quick to note that Skyfall had a blade wound, not a gun wound. Alpha Trion sighed, and as more of his acolytes (ones native to this universe) arrived, he called for them to seize the two... and Topspin. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 1}} Topspin was puzzled, to say the least, as he had been very loyal to Alpha Trion. This act of betrayal unhinged Topspin, and after he killed [[Kickback (SG)|one of Alpha Trion's acolytes]], the three were able to escape Alpha Trion's lab with Skyfall's body. Alpha Trion decided to move his group to another of his labs and hunt them down another day. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 2}}

Some weeks later, Alpha Trion communicated with [[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus]] that his plans were in place and he was ready to strike. [[Remote Patrol Six|Rodimus' assassins]] would kill Optimus Prime at the same time [[Cyclonus (SG)|Trion's agents]] killed [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]], thus paving the way for the two of them to conquer Cybertron and [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 3}}

After [[Remote Patrol Six]] attempted (and miserably failed) to kill [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]], Alpha Trion showed up with [[Sky Lynx (SG)|Sky Lynx]] and [[Nightscream (TransTech)|Nightscream]] to try and kill Prime himself, only to be introduced to [[Omega Doom|Omega Doom's]] cannon. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 5}}

He survived the cannon blast, though the Decepticons had taken his stellar spanner back to their base, and destroyed it after [[Nexus Prime]] and [[Aquarius (SG)|Aquarius]] passed through it to parts unknown. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 6}}

==Toys==
===Timelines===
[[Image:Timelinestoy-AlphaTrion.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Old people can't drive, but they sure can fence.]]
* '''Alpha Trion'''/'''Weirdwolf''' (souvenir add-on, BotCon 2007)
**''Accessories:'' Sword, missile, Cyber Planet Key

: A bagged set of Alpha Trion, [[Beta Maxx]] and [[Weirdwolf]] was released at [[BotCon 2007]] as a souvenir set add-on, limited to 1400 pieces. Alpha Trion was a [[retool]] of [[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|''Cybertron'']] [[Vector Prime]], [[redeco]]ed in purple, white, and red, plus a new head.

: Alpha Trion transforms into a large Cybertronian space cruiser with "solar panel" wings. His nosecone has a spring-loaded missile launcher at the tip. Inserting his [[Cyber Planet Key]] (painted gold to resemble the [[Key to Vector Sigma]]) does not activate any sounds, unlike Vector Prime's toy. Alpha Trion has the more flexible translucent plastic parts ([[for safety reasons]]) of the [[Hasbro]] version of the mold.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/BCAlphaTrion/alphatrion.htm More information on Alpha Trion at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

==Notes==
* ''Timelines'' Alpha Trion's profile card is super-misleading! It doesn't mention how he's evil at all! Just stuff about how he knows lots of things and has advised lots of Transformers, which is technically true. And how we don't know much about him yet. It doesn't say he's ''not'' evil, but...
* However, the profile card does state that [[Beta Maxx]] is his "constant companion." We've never seen Beta Maxx in any fiction, despite the numerous appearances of this Alpha Trion thus far.
* The situation with Alpha Trion is a little difficult. He may have been intended to be part of the ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' toyline, but never made an appearance in that universe fiction-wise. The toy's bio also does not contradict its status of being a ''Shattered Glass'' toy. He also just "evolved" into what we now have with the publishing of ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (fiction)|Shattered Glass]]'' stories featuring him, but he was always kind of hinted at being sinister, so he could either be the first "official" ''Shattered Glass'' toy, or he could technically be a [[repurposing]].

[[Category:Convention exclusives]]
[[Category:Convention-original characters]]
[[Category:Elderly Transformers]]
[[Category:Shattered Glass Autobots]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:TransTech Autobots]]

The Emperor of Destruction Wins!

2011-12-08T16:47:07Z

169.139.222.5:

{{episode
|image=Emperorwins.jpg
|caption="My name is Deh-Soo-Zah-Rah-Soo, got it!?"
|series=Victory
|ep=40
|title="The Emperor of Destruction Wins!"
|japanese=破壊大帝に勝て!
|romaji=Hakai Taitei ni Kate!
|production code=
|production company=[[TakaraTomy|Takara]], [[Toei]]
|compiled by=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''No, just kidding, he doesn't really.'''

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] (1)
*[[Galaxy Shuttle]] (3)
*[[Boater]] (4)
*[[Pīpō]] (5)
*[[Fire]] (6)
*[[Holi]] (8)
*[[Wingwaver]] (21)
*[[Laster]] (22)
*[[Braver]] (23)
*[[Blacker]] (24)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (25)
*[[Minerva (Masterforce)|Minerva]] (26)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (27)
*[[Victory Leo]] (28)

|c2=
*[[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] (2)
*[[Gairyū]] (9)
*[[Doryū]] (10)
*[[Kakuryū]] (11)
*[[Rairyū]] (12)
*[[Gōryū]] (13)
*[[Yokuryū]] (14)
*[[Killbison]] (15)
*[[Leozack]] (16)
*[[Jallguar]] (17)
*[[Drillhorn]] (18)
*[[Guyhawk]] (19)
*[[Hellbat (Victory)|Hellbat]] (20)

|c3=
*[[Jean Minakaze]] (7)
}}

==Notes==
* This episode is the eighth of ''Victory'''s many [[clip show]]s, and the second of six released directly to home video. Combining footage from "[[The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber]]", "[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]", "[[A Deadly Battle]]", "[[The Tide Is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification]]", it covers the history between Star Saber and Deathsaurus and showcases some of the times that Deathsaurus came closest to victory from throughout the series.
* Like the other home-video clip shows from ''[[The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]'' and ''[[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Super-God Masterforce]]'', it was not included on either the [[Metrodome]] or [[Madman Entertainment]] DVD collections of the series.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote|japanese}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Victory'' — DVD Box 02 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]])

{{DEFAULTSORT:Emperor of Destruction Wins!}}
[[Category:Clip shows]]
[[Category:Victory episodes]]

Distribution

2011-12-06T16:55:02Z

169.139.222.5: /* Trivia */ Take away both Zone and Scamble City and it equals 500. Include one or the other and it equals 501

{{episode|
|series=Energon
|series2=Superlink
|ep=43
|ep2=Special
|prev=Break Through
|next=The Omega Train
|title="Distribution"
|japanese=必見! 夢の最強マッチ
|romaji=Hikken! Yume no Saikyō Match
|translation=A Must See! The Greatest Dream Match
|image=E43 titlecard.jpg
|caption=This was where people started reevaluating their opinions of ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''.
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]]
|writer=[[Akira Okeya]]
|director=[[Kei'ichirō Kawaguchi]]
|animation studio=[[Actas Inc.|Actas]], [[Studio A-CAT]] (3D)
|airdate=[[November 3|3 November]] [[2004]] (Japanese) [[January 28]], [[2005]] (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy]]
}}

'''A virtual training match pits Autobot against Autobot, Decepticon against Autobot, old bodies against new bodies, and commercial bumpers against plot advancement.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] ''strongly'' suggests to his men that, before they watch this, they turn on the lights.

In a huge arena, amid the cheers of thousands of spectators and waves of falling confetti, two [[Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B|horrifying robotic cat girls]] introduce the night's first combatants, [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]] and [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], vs. [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Mirage]] and... Tidal Wave! And so begin the virtual games! It only takes Rodimus and Hot Shot a brief (off-screen) second to defeat their first opponents.

[[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] observes—it's some kind of virtual training program run by the [[Autobot]]s. At least one of his faces wants to change the channel.

The matches continue. [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] is suitably confused when Alpha Q comes out alongside [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]]. [[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]] and [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] squabble so much that the match is delayed, leaving [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]] and [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] standing around with nothing to do; eventually the [[Decepticon]]s decide to try combining too, but just end up standing on each other's shoulders.

Rodimus and Hot Shot beat [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus]] and [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]]. Snow Cat and Demolishor win their match, probably because Downshift and Prowl tried powerlinking top-to-top; they're looking forward to the next one, wondering if there's prizes—maybe a power-up from Galvatron! Unfortunately, their next opponent ''is'' Galvatron, who's just finished off their old-body selves.

[[Image:Distribution SteamhammerBarricade.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Barricade's only robot-mode appearance. Ever.]]
The combiners finish off [[Superion Maximus]], and take on Optimus Supreme, who stomps them. The [[Shockblast (Energon)|Shockblast]] brothers take on Rodimus and Hot Shot; [[Six Shot]] gets annoyed with Shockblast and zaps him out of the program. The same trick fails against the Autobots, who are real and can overcome the program. Galvatron stomps off after beating Snow Cat and Demolishor, refusing to play the games any further.

The final match is Hot Shot and Rodimus against [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega]] and Optimus. Omega and Prime fly into the air, combine spectacularly and land... and Hot Shot and Rodimus are immediately declared the winners, as Optimus Supreme has landed outside of the ring. Optimus fumes that nobody told ''him'' about any stupid rules.

The winners get trophies, and the chance to battle a special guest. The ceiling opens up, and down comes… [[Unicron]]! A rather ''tiny'' Unicron. But tiny or not, he's still a force to be reckoned with. As they continue to battle, Alpha Q notes that perhaps the Transformers ''enjoy'' fighting.

And back in the real world, Hot Shot enthuses: he and Rodimus have finally beaten the game! He falls back into his seat, exhausted with pleasure. [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] observes that they're more alike than he realized.

==Brackets==
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1;"
|-align="center"
|colspan="16"|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|-align="center"
|colspan="8"|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|colspan="8"|Optimus Prime + Omega Supreme
|-align="center"
|colspan="4"|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|colspan="4"|Six Shot + Shockblast
|colspan="4"|Galvatron + Starscream
|colspan="4"|Optimus Prime + Omega Supreme
|-align="center"
|colspan="2"|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|colspan="2"|Optimus Prime + Wing Saber
|colspan="2"|Jetfire + Ironhide
|colspan="2"|Six Shot + Shockblast
|colspan="2"|Snow Cat + Demolishor
|colspan="2"|Galvatron + Starscream
|colspan="2"|Bruticus Maximus + Constructicon Maximus
|colspan="2"|Optimus Prime + Omega Supreme
|-align="center"
|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|Mirage + Tidal Wave
|Cliffjumper + Landmine
|Optimus Prime + Wing Saber
|Jetfire + Ironhide
|Scorponok + Alpha Q
|Inferno + Roadblock
|Six Shot + Shockblast
|Snow Cat + Demolishor
|Downshift + Prowl
|Galvatron + Starscream
|Cyclonus + Demolishor
|Bruticus Maximus + Constructicon Maximus
|Superion Maximus
|colspan="2"|Optimus Prime + Omega Supreme
|}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (9)
* [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]] (10)
* [[Cliffjumper (Energon)|Cliffjumper]] (13)
* [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (14)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (15)
* [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] (16)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (17)
* [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] (18)
* [[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]] (21)
* [[Inferno (Energon)|Roadblock]] (22)
* [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] (23)
* [[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]] (24)
* [[Storm Jet (Energon)|Storm Jet]] (27)
* [[Superion Maximus]] (30)
* [[Bulkhead (Energon)|Bulkhead]] (31)
* [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] (34)
* [[Omega Supreme (Energon)#Omega|Omega]] (35)
|c2=
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] (1)
* [[Six Shot]] (2)
* [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]] (3)
* [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (4)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (5)
* [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Mirage]] (6)
* [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] (11)
* [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] (19)
* [[Shockblast (Energon)|Shockblast]] (20)
* [[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]] (25)
* [[Barricade (Energon)|Barricade]] (26)
* [[Constructicon Maximus]] (28)
* [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] (29)
* [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (32)
* [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (33)
|c3=
* [[Kicker Jones]] (37)
|c4=
* [[Nekomimi B]] (7)
* [[Nekomimi A]] (8)
* [[Alpha Quintesson]] (12)
* [[Unicron]] (36)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Angry face:''' Well, why are wasting our time watching them?! 
'''Sinister face:''' Good question. 
'''Hysterical face:''' I do so like to watch! 
'''Angry face:''' I think this is all a bunch of frivolous flub! Change the channel! 
'''Hysterical face:''' NOOOOOOOOO!
:—Alpha Q views the madness...and at least one of him likes what he sees.

"It almost looks like they're married!"
:—'''Snow Cat''' watches Prowl and Downshift squabble.

"Huh! There is ''no way'' I'm playing this childish little game. I'm going ''home''."
:—And '''Galvatron''' is taking his playthings with him!

"Gee, he sure is puny—''(Unicron fires massive laser)''—WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
:—'''Hot Shot''' eats his words.

==Notes==
===Lost in translation===
* In the ''Super Link'' version, Cliffjumper spouts his characteristic [[Engrish|Engrish]] line "Check it out, yo", which Landmine interprets as Japanese and, therefore, doesn't understand. The gag wouldn't have really worked for the dub.
* ''Super Link'' includes Scorponok proclaiming that Galvatron is still his master.
* The dub omits Six Shot marveling that the program manages to reproduce his brother's dim intellect; this is why Shockblast gestures angrily.
* Prowl and Downshift's argument is supposed to be over who would look cooler on top; the dub changes this to a random argument over... uh... something. This makes it much more random when later, they combine, both in their "top" modes.
* In ''Super Link'', Jetfire tells his partner Ironhide to relax, as Alpha Q is part of the program. Jetfire then calmly tells him that "by the way, I'm part of the program too." The dub omits the gag.
* Amazingly, all three of the combiner team leaders appear separated and in robot mode, and the groups finally get full animation of their combining sequences (previously hidden behind glowing balls of light.) The dub gets confused by this, having the horrifying robotic catgirl announcer say "Constructicon and Bruticus brought along a few of their friends" in reference to the combiners' limb components.
* The reason that Ironhide and Jetfire lose to the Shockblast brothers is that Six Shot tampered with the program. The dub makes it sound like Six Shot just fired some kind of weapon, in defiance of the animation.
* A gag that has Bulkhead declaring that the stubborn old man won't be in this episode is replaced in the dub by a lame line about "I didn't see that coming".
* Predictably, Hot Shot and Rodimus overcome Six Shot's virtual tampering through the power of [[burning justice|BURNING HEART OF FLAMING JUSTICE]] or some such. The dub changes it to "the power of powerlinking".
* In ''Super Link'', Demolishor and Snow Cat aren't afraid of the program Galvatron, and start insulting him, saying the original is much better. In the dub, they're afraid of him. The gag is further lost when it turns out that this ''is'' the real Galvatron.
* The dub has Optimus Prime saying "I AM YOUR LEADER!"... to the Decepticon combiners.
* The combiners' nature is briefly noted in ''Super Link'' when Prime tells the pair that "even ten isn't enough". The line doesn't appear in the dub.
* The dub omits the horrifying robotic catgirl announcer commenting that, though Optimus and Omega lost, it sure did look cool.
* The dub inserts a last line from Kicker that's supposed to be like, deep, or something. In ''Super Link'', he's just a bit appalled that Hot Shot has made time for this ridiculous game.

===Pain count===
* "Uh?": 2
* Stock footage: 10, not including the made-up ones for Demolishor and Snow Cat.
* Let's do this: 2
* "Gimme a break": 1
* Take it Easy: 1

===Real-world references===
[[Image:Distribution FusionDance.JPG|right|200px|thumb|HA!]]
* Alpha Q notes that the training program is a bit like pro wrestling—you can't tell what's real and what's fake.
* After Demolishor and Snow Cat take a crack at powerlinking, the fake [[Commercial bumper|commercial bumper]] that follows their match depicts them doing the Fusion Dance from ''[[wikipedia:Dragonball_Z|Dragonball Z]].''

===Trivia===
* ''Cameos'': [[Energon Saber]], [[Skyblast (Energon)|Skyblast]], [[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]], [[Signal Flare (Energon)|Signal Flare]], and [[Divebomb (Energon)|Divebomb]].
* In Japan, this episode was a special made to commemorate the 500th Transformers episode (though the maths is heavily slanted to make this work: the count includes every Japanese series but ignores ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', which hadn't reached Japan at this stage; it doesn't limit itself to TV broadcasts, as it includes every Japanese-produced direct-to-video clip show, yet excludes the Japanese home media release of "[[The Rebirth]]," both "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]" and ''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Zone]],'' and any theatrical presentations, which for Japan includes the ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episodes "[[Bad Spark]]" and "[[Cutting Edge]]"). It aired at a different time on a different day to the series norm, and did not feature an episode number in its title card. In America, it was just aired where it fell without fanfare, and hence came off as really, seriously, totally random.
* Not helping the situation any are the inclusion of several jokes based around aspects of the series which were cut for the ''Energon'' dub:
** For instance, the opening skit of the episode with Galvatron is a reference to the health-and-safety card that appears at the start of each ''Super Link'' episode, which features a still image of Optimus Prime and his voice telling the audience to sit back from the screen and watch in a well-lit room. In the ''Super Link'' version of this episode, Galvatron simply repeats Prime's standard dialogue word for word (with the gag being that he's in darkness, and the lights then ping on), while in ''Energon'', it had to be changed to Galvatron asking for the lights to be turned on, because American audiences hadn't seen the scene they were playing off.
**A large number of random fake ''Super Link'' [[commercial bumper]]s are included at the conclusion of most matches. Since the actual bumpers were not part of the ''Energon'' dub of the series, the "gag" of including them as part of the episode was essentially lost, since the audience had no idea what they were.
* Despite the lack of plot, the untranslatable gags, and the [[Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B|horrifying robot cat girl announcers]], there is a certain wit to the match-ups, such as having various present/past incarnations of the same guy fighting together, and Demolishor and Snow Cat walking in to find their old selves already defeated.
*This is the only robot-mode appearance of Bruticus Maximus's [[Barricade (Energon)|central component]]. ([[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]] appears in "[[Galvatron Terror|Galvatron Terror]]", while [[Storm Jet (Energon)|Storm Jet]] appears in "[[Spark (episode)|Spark]]".)
*The three Maximus combination sequences are entirely hand-drawn. Additionally, during this sequence, Bruticus Maximus' right arm ([[Blight (Energon)|Blight]]) is drawn using an unofficial configuration that gives it bicep and elbow articulation.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 011 ([[Interchannel]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Energon episodes]]

Distribution

2011-12-06T14:46:31Z

169.139.222.5: /* Trivia */

{{episode|
|series=Energon
|series2=Superlink
|ep=43
|ep2=Special
|prev=Break Through
|next=The Omega Train
|title="Distribution"
|japanese=必見! 夢の最強マッチ
|romaji=Hikken! Yume no Saikyō Match
|translation=A Must See! The Greatest Dream Match
|image=E43 titlecard.jpg
|caption=This was where people started reevaluating their opinions of ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''.
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]]
|writer=[[Akira Okeya]]
|director=[[Kei'ichirō Kawaguchi]]
|animation studio=[[Actas Inc.|Actas]], [[Studio A-CAT]] (3D)
|airdate=[[November 3|3 November]] [[2004]] (Japanese) [[January 28]], [[2005]] (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy]]
}}

'''A virtual training match pits Autobot against Autobot, Decepticon against Autobot, old bodies against new bodies, and commercial bumpers against plot advancement.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] ''strongly'' suggests to his men that, before they watch this, they turn on the lights.

In a huge arena, amid the cheers of thousands of spectators and waves of falling confetti, two [[Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B|horrifying robotic cat girls]] introduce the night's first combatants, [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]] and [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], vs. [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Mirage]] and... Tidal Wave! And so begin the virtual games! It only takes Rodimus and Hot Shot a brief (off-screen) second to defeat their first opponents.

[[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] observes—it's some kind of virtual training program run by the [[Autobot]]s. At least one of his faces wants to change the channel.

The matches continue. [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] is suitably confused when Alpha Q comes out alongside [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]]. [[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]] and [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] squabble so much that the match is delayed, leaving [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]] and [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] standing around with nothing to do; eventually the [[Decepticon]]s decide to try combining too, but just end up standing on each other's shoulders.

Rodimus and Hot Shot beat [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus]] and [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]]. Snow Cat and Demolishor win their match, probably because Downshift and Prowl tried powerlinking top-to-top; they're looking forward to the next one, wondering if there's prizes—maybe a power-up from Galvatron! Unfortunately, their next opponent ''is'' Galvatron, who's just finished off their old-body selves.

[[Image:Distribution SteamhammerBarricade.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Barricade's only robot-mode appearance. Ever.]]
The combiners finish off [[Superion Maximus]], and take on Optimus Supreme, who stomps them. The [[Shockblast (Energon)|Shockblast]] brothers take on Rodimus and Hot Shot; [[Six Shot]] gets annoyed with Shockblast and zaps him out of the program. The same trick fails against the Autobots, who are real and can overcome the program. Galvatron stomps off after beating Snow Cat and Demolishor, refusing to play the games any further.

The final match is Hot Shot and Rodimus against [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega]] and Optimus. Omega and Prime fly into the air, combine spectacularly and land... and Hot Shot and Rodimus are immediately declared the winners, as Optimus Supreme has landed outside of the ring. Optimus fumes that nobody told ''him'' about any stupid rules.

The winners get trophies, and the chance to battle a special guest. The ceiling opens up, and down comes… [[Unicron]]! A rather ''tiny'' Unicron. But tiny or not, he's still a force to be reckoned with. As they continue to battle, Alpha Q notes that perhaps the Transformers ''enjoy'' fighting.

And back in the real world, Hot Shot enthuses: he and Rodimus have finally beaten the game! He falls back into his seat, exhausted with pleasure. [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] observes that they're more alike than he realized.

==Brackets==
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1;"
|-align="center"
|colspan="16"|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|-align="center"
|colspan="8"|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|colspan="8"|Optimus Prime + Omega Supreme
|-align="center"
|colspan="4"|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|colspan="4"|Six Shot + Shockblast
|colspan="4"|Galvatron + Starscream
|colspan="4"|Optimus Prime + Omega Supreme
|-align="center"
|colspan="2"|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|colspan="2"|Optimus Prime + Wing Saber
|colspan="2"|Jetfire + Ironhide
|colspan="2"|Six Shot + Shockblast
|colspan="2"|Snow Cat + Demolishor
|colspan="2"|Galvatron + Starscream
|colspan="2"|Bruticus Maximus + Constructicon Maximus
|colspan="2"|Optimus Prime + Omega Supreme
|-align="center"
|Rodimus + Hot Shot
|Mirage + Tidal Wave
|Cliffjumper + Landmine
|Optimus Prime + Wing Saber
|Jetfire + Ironhide
|Scorponok + Alpha Q
|Inferno + Roadblock
|Six Shot + Shockblast
|Snow Cat + Demolishor
|Downshift + Prowl
|Galvatron + Starscream
|Cyclonus + Demolishor
|Bruticus Maximus + Constructicon Maximus
|Superion Maximus
|colspan="2"|Optimus Prime + Omega Supreme
|}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (9)
* [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]] (10)
* [[Cliffjumper (Energon)|Cliffjumper]] (13)
* [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (14)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (15)
* [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] (16)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (17)
* [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] (18)
* [[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]] (21)
* [[Inferno (Energon)|Roadblock]] (22)
* [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] (23)
* [[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]] (24)
* [[Storm Jet (Energon)|Storm Jet]] (27)
* [[Superion Maximus]] (30)
* [[Bulkhead (Energon)|Bulkhead]] (31)
* [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] (34)
* [[Omega Supreme (Energon)#Omega|Omega]] (35)
|c2=
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] (1)
* [[Six Shot]] (2)
* [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]] (3)
* [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (4)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (5)
* [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Mirage]] (6)
* [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] (11)
* [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] (19)
* [[Shockblast (Energon)|Shockblast]] (20)
* [[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]] (25)
* [[Barricade (Energon)|Barricade]] (26)
* [[Constructicon Maximus]] (28)
* [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] (29)
* [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (32)
* [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (33)
|c3=
* [[Kicker Jones]] (37)
|c4=
* [[Nekomimi B]] (7)
* [[Nekomimi A]] (8)
* [[Alpha Quintesson]] (12)
* [[Unicron]] (36)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Angry face:''' Well, why are wasting our time watching them?! 
'''Sinister face:''' Good question. 
'''Hysterical face:''' I do so like to watch! 
'''Angry face:''' I think this is all a bunch of frivolous flub! Change the channel! 
'''Hysterical face:''' NOOOOOOOOO!
:—Alpha Q views the madness...and at least one of him likes what he sees.

"It almost looks like they're married!"
:—'''Snow Cat''' watches Prowl and Downshift squabble.

"Huh! There is ''no way'' I'm playing this childish little game. I'm going ''home''."
:—And '''Galvatron''' is taking his playthings with him!

"Gee, he sure is puny—''(Unicron fires massive laser)''—WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
:—'''Hot Shot''' eats his words.

==Notes==
===Lost in translation===
* In the ''Super Link'' version, Cliffjumper spouts his characteristic [[Engrish|Engrish]] line "Check it out, yo", which Landmine interprets as Japanese and, therefore, doesn't understand. The gag wouldn't have really worked for the dub.
* ''Super Link'' includes Scorponok proclaiming that Galvatron is still his master.
* The dub omits Six Shot marveling that the program manages to reproduce his brother's dim intellect; this is why Shockblast gestures angrily.
* Prowl and Downshift's argument is supposed to be over who would look cooler on top; the dub changes this to a random argument over... uh... something. This makes it much more random when later, they combine, both in their "top" modes.
* In ''Super Link'', Jetfire tells his partner Ironhide to relax, as Alpha Q is part of the program. Jetfire then calmly tells him that "by the way, I'm part of the program too." The dub omits the gag.
* Amazingly, all three of the combiner team leaders appear separated and in robot mode, and the groups finally get full animation of their combining sequences (previously hidden behind glowing balls of light.) The dub gets confused by this, having the horrifying robotic catgirl announcer say "Constructicon and Bruticus brought along a few of their friends" in reference to the combiners' limb components.
* The reason that Ironhide and Jetfire lose to the Shockblast brothers is that Six Shot tampered with the program. The dub makes it sound like Six Shot just fired some kind of weapon, in defiance of the animation.
* A gag that has Bulkhead declaring that the stubborn old man won't be in this episode is replaced in the dub by a lame line about "I didn't see that coming".
* Predictably, Hot Shot and Rodimus overcome Six Shot's virtual tampering through the power of [[burning justice|BURNING HEART OF FLAMING JUSTICE]] or some such. The dub changes it to "the power of powerlinking".
* In ''Super Link'', Demolishor and Snow Cat aren't afraid of the program Galvatron, and start insulting him, saying the original is much better. In the dub, they're afraid of him. The gag is further lost when it turns out that this ''is'' the real Galvatron.
* The dub has Optimus Prime saying "I AM YOUR LEADER!"... to the Decepticon combiners.
* The combiners' nature is briefly noted in ''Super Link'' when Prime tells the pair that "even ten isn't enough". The line doesn't appear in the dub.
* The dub omits the horrifying robotic catgirl announcer commenting that, though Optimus and Omega lost, it sure did look cool.
* The dub inserts a last line from Kicker that's supposed to be like, deep, or something. In ''Super Link'', he's just a bit appalled that Hot Shot has made time for this ridiculous game.

===Pain count===
* "Uh?": 2
* Stock footage: 10, not including the made-up ones for Demolishor and Snow Cat.
* Let's do this: 2
* "Gimme a break": 1
* Take it Easy: 1

===Real-world references===
[[Image:Distribution FusionDance.JPG|right|200px|thumb|HA!]]
* Alpha Q notes that the training program is a bit like pro wrestling—you can't tell what's real and what's fake.
* After Demolishor and Snow Cat take a crack at powerlinking, the fake [[Commercial bumper|commercial bumper]] that follows their match depicts them doing the Fusion Dance from ''[[wikipedia:Dragonball_Z|Dragonball Z]].''

===Trivia===
* ''Cameos'': [[Energon Saber]], [[Skyblast (Energon)|Skyblast]], [[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]], [[Signal Flare (Energon)|Signal Flare]], and [[Divebomb (Energon)|Divebomb]].
* In Japan, this episode was a special made to commemorate the 500th Transformers episode (though the maths is heavily slanted to make this work: the count includes every Japanese series but ignores ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', which hadn't reached Japan at this stage; it doesn't limit itself to TV broadcasts, as it includes every Japanese-produced direct-to-video clip show, yet excludes the Japanese home media release of "[[The Rebirth]]" and either "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]" or ''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Zone]]''; and it omits any theatrical presentations, which for Japan includes the ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episodes "[[Bad Spark]]" and "[[Cutting Edge]]"). It aired at a different time on a different day to the series norm, and did not feature an episode number in its title card. In America, it was just aired where it fell without fanfare, and hence came off as really, seriously, totally random.
* Not helping the situation any are the inclusion of several jokes based around aspects of the series which were cut for the ''Energon'' dub:
** For instance, the opening skit of the episode with Galvatron is a reference to the health-and-safety card that appears at the start of each ''Super Link'' episode, which features a still image of Optimus Prime and his voice telling the audience to sit back from the screen and watch in a well-lit room. In the ''Super Link'' version of this episode, Galvatron simply repeats Prime's standard dialogue word for word (with the gag being that he's in darkness, and the lights then ping on), while in ''Energon'', it had to be changed to Galvatron asking for the lights to be turned on, because American audiences hadn't seen the scene they were playing off.
**A large number of random fake ''Super Link'' [[commercial bumper]]s are included at the conclusion of most matches. Since the actual bumpers were not part of the ''Energon'' dub of the series, the "gag" of including them as part of the episode was essentially lost, since the audience had no idea what they were.
* Despite the lack of plot, the untranslatable gags, and the [[Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B|horrifying robot cat girl announcers]], there is a certain wit to the match-ups, such as having various present/past incarnations of the same guy fighting together, and Demolishor and Snow Cat walking in to find their old selves already defeated.
*This is the only robot-mode appearance of Bruticus Maximus's [[Barricade (Energon)|central component]]. ([[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]] appears in "[[Galvatron Terror|Galvatron Terror]]", while [[Storm Jet (Energon)|Storm Jet]] appears in "[[Spark (episode)|Spark]]".)
*The three Maximus combination sequences are entirely hand-drawn. Additionally, during this sequence, Bruticus Maximus' right arm ([[Blight (Energon)|Blight]]) is drawn using an unofficial configuration that gives it bicep and elbow articulation.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 011 ([[Interchannel]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Energon'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Energon episodes]]

Talk:Distribution

2011-12-06T14:42:24Z

169.139.222.5: /* "but frankly, we're still not sure how the math works on that" */

sorry, that's all i got. [[User:ShinkisRule|ShinkisRule]] 18:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
:If you're not even going to put in the effort of doing it within our manual of style, please don't bother writting an episode summary. We prefer no pages over subpar pages. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 18:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
::Anyone wanna lay odds? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:28, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
:Not now, Sipher...-- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 18:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

what odds, sipher? [[User:ShinkisRule|ShinkisRule]] 15:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

==Uncredited Puns no Nihon==
When Grand Convoy combines into Wing Convoy and Omega Convoy, he shouts "<Call me ____ Convoy!!>", only to have the other characters address him simply as Commander Convoy, resulting in an awkward silence.

This message has been brought to you by our sponsor, [[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 23:06, 9 January 2010 (EST)

== Barricade, Steamhammer and Storm Jet ==

Does it count as a trivia the fact that the Central components actually say transform when going into their vehicle modes despite being called non sentients?

--[[Special:Contributions/190.206.80.130|190.206.80.130]] 19:25, 10 February 2011 (EST)

== "but frankly, we're still not sure how the math works on that" ==

74 (''Fight!'') + 32 (''2010'') + 38 (''Headmasters'') + 47 (''Masterforce'') + 44 (''Victory'') + 1 (''Zone'')* + 26 (''Beast Wars'') + 43 (''II'') + 35 (''Neo'') + 26 (''Metals'') + 39 (''Car Robots'') + 52 (''Micron Densetsu'') + 43 (''Super Link'') = 500

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Or Scramble City. Or ''The Movie''.

Is there something I'm missing here? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 05:19, 9 July 2011 (EDT)
:Beast Machines. (Also you've got the numbers of II and Neo eps wrong there, making 496, but they do equal 500 when corrected). And the fact that as you point out, you have to discount Scramble City or Zone to make it work, when you shouldn't. And the fact that the count includes the episodes of G1 that weren't broadcast but released on VHS or laserdisc, yet excludes "The Rebirth". And the two ''Beast Wars'' episodes that were shown theatrically and replaced with clip shows are left out. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 05:26, 9 July 2011 (EDT)
::''Beast Wars Returns'' didn't air in Japan till November 6, just three days after this. The 500 episode count seems to only count the episodes found in Japanese episode lists at the time, which also exclude "The Rebirth". The two omitted BW episodes also don't count since they were never standalone and not even dubbed, IIRC. I assume they just counted ''Zone'' since it was meant to be an literal episode in a series and not a stand-alone OVA like Scramble City. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 14:10, 9 July 2011 (EDT)
:::Although your note works. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 14:14, 9 July 2011 (EDT)
The math also only works if this episode itself is not counted, since it would total the count to 501. --[[Special:Contributions/169.139.222.5|169.139.222.5]] 09:42, 6 December 2011 (EST)

Project Powermaster

2011-11-22T14:21:00Z

169.139.222.5:

:''Project: Powermaster is a project from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

'''Project: Powermaster''' is a top-secret project initiated by acting Magnus [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
On time off from Project: Powermaster, [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] reprogrammed a [[Diagnostic Drone]] into [[Tutorbot 2.0]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
* Project: Powermaster is most likely the construction of a [[Powermaster]] trailer for Sentinel Prime by the old team from [[Project Omega]]. It was to be co-opted by [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] in the aftermath of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron's]] prison break.

[[Category:Animated]]

Diagnostic Drone

2011-11-22T14:20:30Z

169.139.222.5: /* The AllSpark Almanac */

{{picsneeded|Regular drone, Cryotek's drone}}

[[Image:GrandMal Schematics.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ahhhh... I am a genius. Heeheeheehee!]]
A '''Diagnostic Drone''' is a type of autonomous drone which generally assists [[Transformer]]s in performing administrative or technical tasks. They have some measure of artificial intelligence and are small, roughly ovoid devices with one visual sensor, two clawed arms, and two "wings". They can hover or fly. Diagnostic Drones are explicitly depicted as [[spark]]less. Several have been shown to have the ability to speak and use advanced experimental technology, but only one is known to have had apparent emotions and a sense of humor; that unit was either a true artificial intelligence, or a very good simulation of one.

==Fiction==
===Beast Era===
====Theft of the Golden Disk====
A black and white Diagnostic Drone accompanies [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]. {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Christopher Gaze]]/[[Paul Dobson]] (English), [[Isshin Chiba]] (Japanese), [[Mino Caprio]] (Italian), [[Hans Hohlbein]] (German)

Diagnostic Drones were used by [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] during his tenure as ruler of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. One drone in particular served as Megatron's right-hand man until it was reprogrammed by the reawakened [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]. This drone displayed a seemingly full range of emotions, although its ability to make decisions was handicapped in some ways by its programming. Despite this nearly full sentience, it was explicitly stated to have no spark.

Near the end of Megatron's rule, after his spark was de- and repolarized, his spark became stuck in a Diagnostic Drone for a time.
{{--}}

===Dreamwave Generation One comics===
Diagnostic Drones—or drones that look exactly like them—were put to use at the [[Vaults]] storing data cassettes. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}}

A similar drone later helped [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] carry out [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s plan to expose the core of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] itself. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

===''TransTech''===
The case of Diagnostic Drone vs. [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] was mentioned during an argument regarding the [[GoBots (G1)|GoBots]], and claims from [[Crystal Widow]] and [[Demolishor (TransTech)|General Demolishor]]. It is implied to relate to a manner of property dispute similar to what happened in Beast Machines. Evidently, Tankor's misuse of Diagnostic Drone landed him in court. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}

===Shattered Glass===
[[Image:Shattered Glass Diagnostic Drone.JPG|thumb|right|200px]]
A Diagnostic Drone is seen along with [[Scrapper (SG)|Scrapper]] and [[Hook (SG)|Hook]], who are giving [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] medical treatment. This one has the addition of an adorable nurse's cap. {{storylink|Shattered Glass}}

===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
On time off from [[Project Powermaster]], [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] reprogrammed a Diagnostic Drone into [[Tutorbot 2.0]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Flying C''' (フライングC ''Furaingu C'')

[[Category:Animated Autobots]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Drones]]
[[Category:Generation 1 drones]]
[[Category:Shattered Glass Decepticons]]
[[Category:Timelines]]
[[Category:TransTech characters]]
[[Category:Vehicons]]

The Transformers Classics, Vol. 1

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Beginning in 2011, IDW Publishing began a second reprinting of the Generation 1 Marvel Comics in full-color trade paperback omnibuses a year after completing their previous Classic Transformers reprint series. Volume 1 collects issues 1-13.

==Issue manifest==

===="[[The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers]]"====
Original date: September 1984 
Story by: [[Ralph Macchio]] 
Pencils by: [[Frank Springer]]

===="[[Power Play!]]"====
Original date: November 1984 
Story by: [[Jim Salicrup]] 
Pencils by: Frank Springer

===="[[Prisoner of War!]]"====
''Original date: January 1985'' 
''Story by: Jim Salicrup'' 
''Pencils by: Frank Springer''

===="[[The Last Stand]]"====
Original date: March 1985 
Story by: Jim Salicrup 
Pencils by: Frank Springer

===="[[The New Order]]"====
Original date: June 1985 
Story by: [[Bob Budiansky]] 
Pencils by: [[Alan Kupperberg]]

===="[[The Worse of Two Evils!]]"====
Original date: July 1985 
Story by: Bob Budiansky 
Pencils by: Alan Kupperberg

===="[[Warrior School!]]"====
Original date: August 1985 
Story by: Bob Budiansky 
Pencils by: [[William Johnson]]

===="[[Repeat Performance!]]"====
Original date: September 1985 
Story by: Bob Budiansky 
Pencils by: William Johnson

===="[[DIS-Integrated Circuits!]]"====
''Original date: October 1985'' 
''Story by: Bob Budiansky'' 
''Pencils by: [[Mike Manley]]''

===="[[The Next Best Thing to Being There!]]"====
Original date: November 1985 
Story by: Bob Budiansky 
Pencils by: [[Ricardo Villamonte]]

===="[[Brainstorm!]]"====
Original date: December 1985 
Story by: Bob Budiansky 
Pencils by: [[Herb Trimpe]]

===="[[Prime Time!]]"====
Original date: January 1986 
Story by: Bob Budiansky 
Pencils by: Herb Trimpe

===="[[Shooting Star!]]"====
Original date: February 1986 
Story by: Bob Budiansky 
Pencils by: [[Don Perlin]]

[[Category:IDW titles]]
[[Category:Generation 1 comic compilations]]

Aerialbot (WFC)

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{{faction|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Aerialbot}}
:''The Aerialbots are an [[Autobot]] [[subgroup]] from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)| War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
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The '''Aerialbots''' are the few [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]s loyal to the Autobots rather than the [[Decepticon]]s.

==Fiction==
===''Exodus''===
The Seekers were generally Decepticon-leaning [[neutral]]s following [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]]'s lead, until [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] bombed [[Vos]]. Though a good portion of the main Seeker forces still followed Starscream into the Decepticons, the survivors of the Vos massacre felt betrayed and joined the Autobots instead, becoming the Aerialbots and patrolling [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and [[Kalis]]. [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] was a Decepticon who defected to the Autobots and mostly worked in a laboratory to improve their flight capabilities. He led the Aerialbots to gather every spaceworthy craft to distract [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] while the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' was built. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus}}

===''Exiles''===
Silverbolt was present as part of Prime's command crew after the Ark fled Cybertron throught the space bridge. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (360/PS3/PC)===
[[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]] was made Aerialbot leader despite his fear of heights, which displeased [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]]. He, Jetfire and Air Raid were sent to disable Trypticon. Silverbolt's Aerialbot troops were armed with jet machine guns and X12 Scrapmakers in robot mode. However, they lacked armor in jet mode, and could be easily destroyed.

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===''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures''===
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{{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
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{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)}}

[[Category:Autobot subgroups]]
[[Category:Aerialbots| (WFC)]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron subgroups]]

Galvatron (disambiguation)

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The name '''Galvatron''' can refer to several different things:

{{disamb|y=1986|[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], [[Decepticon]] leader from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. For toys of this character, see [[Galvatron (G1)/toys]].}}

{{disamb|y=1988|[[Grand Galvatron]], Galvatron's proposed [[Unicron]]-sized upgrade from ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]''.}}

{{Disamb|y=1990|[[Galvatron II]], a Galvatron from an alternate Generation 1 future where the [[Autobot]]s were nearly eradicated.}}

{{disamb|y=1998|[[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]], a triple-changer and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Emperor of Destruction]] from ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars II]]''.}}

{{disamb|y=2001|[[Megatron (RID)|Galvatron]], a supercharged version of Megatron (and astounding ten-changer) from ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''.}}

{{disamb|y=2002|[[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]], a supercharged version of Megatron from the [[Unicron Trilogy]]. (Note that at the beginning of each franchise, Galvatron reverts to being called "Megatron", but upgrades to "Galvatron" again before the end.)}}

{{disamb|y=2004|"[[Galvatron!]]", an episode of the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|''Transformers: Energon'']] television series.}}

{{disamb|y=2009|[[Galvatron (ROTF)|Galvatron]] units, Decepticon drones from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''.}}

{{disamb|y=2009|[[Megatron (SG)|Galvatron]], the resurrected and reformatted form of the heroic Megatron from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}

{{disambig}}

Aligned timeline

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As is to be expected when multiple authors and writers are working on a continuity, the '''Aligned timeline''' bears more than a few discrepancies and continuity hiccups. Nevertheless, we here at TFWiki have tried to rectify this as best we can.

==In the beginning==

[[Image:OneShallRise1-TheThirteen.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Problem, fans?]]

[[Primus]] and [[Unicron]] battle for eons. To try and turn the tide, Primus creates the [[Thirteen]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} Over the course of the fight, [[Solus Prime]], creates many [[Artifacts of the Primes|weapons and icons of power]] for them to use. At the urging of [[The Fallen|Megatronus Prime]], she creates a [[Requiem Blaster (Prime)|great weapon]] to fight Unicron, although Solus herself worries that this power could corrupt them. The Thirteen vote seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} Ultimately, the Primes defeat Unicron, and the Chaos Bringer's inert form drifts off into space, where it later forms the core of [[Earth]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} His fossilized blood, spilled in this conflict, becomes known as [[Dark Energon]]. Following the defeat of Unicron, Primus becomes one with the [[Core]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and he gives life to future [[Transformer]]s through the [[AllSpark]], located within the [[Well of All Sparks]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

==Near the beginning of time==

Solus Prime is murdered by Megatronus, causing the first schism in the Primes. (Whether this is before or after the battle with Unicron is unknown.) After Megatronus Prime is defeated, the [[Liege Maximo]] makes his own play for power. He is defeated and flees to another galaxy. After this great battle, [[Nexus Prime]] fragments himself into five robots, each one carrying and guarding a fragment of the [[Cyber Caliber]]. His components are dubbed [[Clocker (Prime)|Clocker]], [[Mainspring]], [[Chaindrive]], [[Cannonspring]], and [[Pinion]]. The fight has lasting repercussions For the Thirteen—Megatronus and the Liege have left the Primes for good, the once idealistic [[Vector Prime]] despairs and leaves the dimension. The other ten go their separate ways. [[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] and [[Alchemist Prime]] remain on Cybertron and start Transformer civilization. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} When it has a good start, Alchemist leaves to hunt down the Liege Maximo. Gradually, the Thirteen Primes are forgotten and pass into the realm of legend. Early generations of [[Protoform|newborn Transformers]] must brave the terrors of the [[Underworld]] to reach the surface, which, over the years, becomes a deeply ingrained custom. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

==Age of Wrath==
The [[Quintesson]]s invade Cybertron and interfere with the development of the planet's occupants. The aliens modify the bodies of their new servants to serve their own ends, such as installing cockpits on the bodies of the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. This period becomes known as the [[Age of Wrath]]. The Age of Wrath comes to an end when the Quintessons are overthrown by [[Sentinel Zeta Prime]], part of the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]]. Under Sentinel's rule, Cybertron enters its [[Golden Age]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

==Golden Age==
The [[Golden Age]] brings sweeping changes to Cybertronian social structure and hierarchy. As only two Primes now remain on Cybertron, Sentinel Prime takes control of government and ushers in a new era for Cybertronian civilization, by instating the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]]. Under his rule, the [[space bridge]] project allows trailblazing Cybertronians to colonize faraway worlds, including [[Gigantion]], [[Velocitron]], [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], and the [[Hub (G2)|Hub]]. The construction of the spaceport on the [[Hydrax Plateau]] begins, and [[Moonbase]]s One and Two are constructed on the [[Mini-Con]] inhabited moons of Cybertron.

[[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] Station is put into orbit as well, and a crew of Seekers are tasked with defending the Dark Energon stored within, remnants of Unicron's attack on the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} The High Council encouraged the gathering and storage of Dark Energon aboard the vessel.

The first [[Cybertronian data cylinder]]s are created, which store the accumulated knowledge of Cybertronian society. {{storylink|T.M.I.}} However, the Golden Age draws to a close as the space bridges begin to fail and other cracks begin to show in Cybertronian civilization. Before long, the space bridge project is abandoned. The Transformers now stranded across the galaxy begin to develop along their own lines, gradually evolving into entirely new breeds of Cybertronian that are well-adapted for life on their new homeworlds. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

==Era of the Caste System==
[[Image:WFCcomicD16.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Gold Plastic Syndrome]] strikes again.]]

In the waning years of the Golden Age, the [[caste system]] is implemented, where civilian guilds oversee and assign newly created Transformers to jobs, and it eventually becomes a major social institution under the urging of Sentinel. Alpha Trion, however, disagrees with many of these changes, and retreats further and further into the [[Hall of Records]], eventually becoming a recluse. Many ancient traditions, such as travelling through the Underworld, are abandoned. These controversial reorganizations do not go unnoticed, though, and many newly born Transformers become dissatisfied with their lot in life, some seeking change. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

The city-states of [[Kaon]] and [[Slaughter City]], populated mostly by low-caste miners and workers, soon turn to gladiatorial combat as a way to escape from the drudgery of their lives. The High Council, aware of why the games began, does nothing to stop them. One particularly powerful warrior, an energon miner formerly known as D-16, takes on the name Megatronus in honor of the Prime of the same name, but later shortens it to [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]. Megatron seeks to topple the stifling caste system, and makes his points known, gathering a group of followers that includes fellow gladiator and spymaster [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] and sadistic scientist [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

At the same time, a young data clerk named [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Orion Pax]], monitoring transmissions from across Cybertron, befriends Megatron, and the two of them begin a secret correspondence, encouraged by Alpha Trion. They have intense but friendly debates over the nature of free will and the dangerousness of their ideals, and soon Orion begins training with [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]], learning to fire an ion-cannon and to fashion his arms into an axe and a sword. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

[[Image:OneShallRise3-corresponding.jpg|thumb|right|250px|And so the fangirls leapt to their computers, and produced horrible things.]]

Before long, Orion visits Megatron in person in Kaon. Terrorists, calling themselves "[[Decepticon]]s", begin bombings in Megatron's name, attacking such popular spots as [[Six Lasers Over Cybertron]]. Megatron himself makes his first public announcement on the Grid, stating he is not responsible for the attacks and will bring the perpetrators to justice. Orion follows him up with a speech of his own, and points out that the members of Cybertronian should be free; autonomous robots, or "[[Autobot]]s". In reality, however, Megatron had heard rumors about the bombings and terrorist attacks but did nothing to prevent them. The High Council makes Orion a Prime, and bestows upon him the new name of "Optimus", but Megatron is incensed by the fact that his speech went unnoticed, and kills [[Halogen (WFC)|Halogen]], a High Council member in the Chamber Hall itself. At Optimus's urging, the two sides retreat for now as to avoid further bloodshed in the Council halls. However, the Council itself begins to fragment; [[Contrail]], [[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]] and [[Drivetrain (WFC)|Drivetrain]] now support the Decepticons's cause. The only option is to wage war—the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]] has begun. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

==Great War==
[[Image:WarforCybertron-OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Yeah, why don't ya come over and say that to my face, tough guy? Bonk!]]

The war takes Cybertron by storm, and before long battlelines are drawn as various city-states declare their allegiances or declare neutrality. The Autobots maintain control of the most important locations on Cybertron, including [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and [[Kalis]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} Special operations forces assemble on both sides, such as the [[Wrecker]]s, whose members include [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]. Optimus Prime survives an assassination attempt by [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] at the [[Battle of Technar]]. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} At some point, [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and her combat partner [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]] are captured by the Decepticon [[Airachnid]]. Although Arcee is rescued by [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]], they are too late to save Tailgate. {{storylink|Predatory}} Many cities are destroyed utterly in the carnage—[[Crystal City]] is destroyed in the fourth offensive of the war, and [[Praxus]], locked in a stalemate is razed not long afterwards. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} Many dangerous weapons, such as the [[Cybonic plague]], are developed by the [[Decepticon Biological Warfare Program]]. {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

As the war continues, the Autobots are gradually outnumbered and outgunned, and in an act of desperation they are forced to launch the AllSpark, denying the Decepticons of a method to generate more Transformers. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} The data cylinders are also ejected from Cybertron to prevent Decepticons from using the vital knowledge within. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

Seeking a new edge in the war, Megatron storms Trypticon Station and wrests control of it from [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]], empowering himself and other Decepticons with the Dark Energon stored there. As part of their next strike, the Decepticon-allied Seekers travel deep underneath Cybertron in search of the long-abandoned [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] beneath the ruins of Crystal City, which will allow the manufacture of new Dark Energon for the Decepticons' use.

Megatron leads a group of Decepticons into Iacon, to find a means of travelling to the very core of Cybertron to spread the Dark Energon. Though Sentinel Prime attempts to stand in his way, he is soon defeated by the vengeful Decepticon—but unbeknownst to Megatron, [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] is reactivated due to these events, and is intent on stopping the Decepticons. The Decepticon forces manage to cripple the Guardian's alternate mode, and Megatron and his troops soon defeat him on ground level. Because of this, the Decepticon leader manages to reach Cybertron's core and corrupt it with Dark Energon—a critical blow against the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War For Cybertron}}

The Autobots, however, are not yet defeated, and muster a counter-attack to rout the remaining Decepticons from Iacon. Sentinel, now imprisoned in Kaon, is able to send a transmission, and a small group of Autobots, lead by Optimus, soon launch an incursion into the prison to recover him. However, the former Prime perishes before he can be rescued. The Autobots return the body to the Autobot High Council, who tell Optimus that he must accept that he is a Prime and take up his role as leader. From then on, he becomes known as Optimus Prime, the last of the Primes. Optimus' first task as Prime is to cleanse the infected core. Heading to the entrance, where Omega Supreme is being held by the Decepticons, the Autobots manage to free Omega, then call in Ratchet to repair him enough to open the Omega Gate. The core, however, tells Prime that Cybertron is greatly corrupted; it will take millions of years of shutdown in order to undo the grevious damage done by Megatron's Dark Energon. Optimus is given the [[Matrix of Leadership]] by the Core, a fragment of [[Prima]]'s powerful sword that contains a portion of Cybertron's spark. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War For Cybertron}}

==Great Exodus==

[[Image:WFCgalactic transports.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

As soon as Prime reaches the surface, he orders that an exodus from Cybertron will take place immediately. Preparations are made to flee the planet, but many ships are shot down by the Trypticon Station before they can make good their escape. Trypticon itself comes to life, thanks to multiple sparks implanted by Shockwave, and Optimus Prime leads his forces in a battle to knock it out of orbit. The ensuing battle results in Trypticon hurtling towards Cybertron's surface. However, Trypticon is not killed, and it transforms into its robot form. After another battle with it, Optimus and his forces escape aboard the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', allowing them to escape Cybertron and follow the trail left by the AllSpark. They are pursued, however, by Megatron aboard Trypticon, which has transformed in a [[Nemesis (Prime)|spacecraft]]. The two vehicles race for Cybertron's final working space bridge, which explodes, scattering the craft across the universe. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War For Cybertron}}

During this time, [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and several other members of the [[Lightning Strike Coalition]] are taken captive by Shockwave. Inspired by [[Dinosaurs|alien lifeforms]] he has viewed, he rebuilds them into powerful berserkers with beast modes inspired by dinosaurs, creating the Dinobots. {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame}} {{storylink|Fall of Cybertron}}

As Cybertron begins to shut down, the Wreckers continue to fight against forces commanded by Shockwave for control of the dying planet. Far out in space, Prime and his crew set out to find and recover the AllSpark. Their quest takes them to Velocitron, Junkion, and, along the way, Optimus learns more about the original Thirteen and their legacy. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

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As Cybertron's conditions steadily deteriorate, it is abandoned by the remaining Autobots, Decepticons and neutral Cybertronians. The war spreads to other worlds, including [[Earth]], which is seeded with energon and becomes the site of multiple large battles. During this period, Skyquake is dispatched to Earth to guard its energon resources. However, most of the Cybertronians there eventually leave or enter stasis lock, leaving Earth abandoned... for the time being.

==Present day==

[[Image:CliffArcee ognpreview.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]

Much later, a small group of Autobots and Decepticons return to Earth, unaware of its true nature. The Decepticons begin mining the energon deposits left there with the intention of using it to restore Cybertron. Starscream is tasked by Megatron with recreating space bridge technology, so that the energon can be quickly transferred between planets. After scouring the galaxy on this mission, the Air Commander returns to their home planet with a number of troops to construct a space bridge. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (comic)|Prime}} Optimus Prime's small team of Autobots—Bulkhead, Ratchet, and Bumblebee—secretly ally themselves with the United States government. They are assigned [[William Fowler]] as their liaison, and provided with an abandoned missile silo as a [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|base]] in exchange for keeping the Decepticon threat contained. A great deal of Cybertronian technology is installed there, including a [[GroundBridge]] of Ratchet's design. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}}

Optimus Prime sends a message into space, calling all Autobots to the new battleground. Arcee and Cliffjumper are both investigating the Decepticon activity on the desolate Cybertron when they receive the message. They hijack Starscream's space bridge to travel to Earth, before destroying it. The Air Commander follows them through, but, after a brief confrontation, the two Autobots are able to join up with [[Team Prime]] and [[scanning|scan]] new terrestrial alternate modes. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (comic)|''Prime'' comic}} Subsequently, Megatron leaves Earth with the intention of gathering a new army. The Decepticons under Starscream avoid conflict with the Autobots, and continue to secretly mine the planet's energon, along with constructing a new space bridge in orbit. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} During his three year journey, meanwhile, Megatron finds a far greater prize than new troops: solidified crystals of Dark Energon. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

On Earth, hostilities between the Autobots and Decepticons resurface when Cliffjumper is executed by Starscream; later, he is reanimated by Megatron with the power of Dark Energon. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} A series of accidents draws three [[human]]s—[[Jack Darby]], [[Raf Esquivel]], and [[Miko Nakadai]]—into the mayhem. Megatron's plan is to reanimate the thousands of dead Transformers on Cybertron and transport them to Earth via the orbital space bridge, but this is ultimately foiled by the Autobots. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}} Megatron himself is caught in the explosion of the bridge as it is destroyed, but survives thanks to the Dark Energon in his body. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} Megatron's wounded form is discovered by Starscream after a failed attempt to bring Skyquake under his control. Starscream attempts to kill him, but Soundwave's presence compels him to put the Decepticon leader in stasis in the ''Nemesis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s sick bay instead. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} Wheeljack, now an interstellar nomad, briefly arrives on Earth, but after a run-in with [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]], he leaves. {{storylink|Con Job}}

An encounter with the mysterious human terrorist organization [[MECH]] introduces a second antagonistic party for the Autobots. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}} [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and his partner [[Breakdown (Prime)|Breakdown]] arrive on Earth to aid with Megatron's repairs. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} Airachnid, too, lands on Earth to rekindle her standing grudge against Arcee and collect some "specimens", but she is stranded on Earth when her ship is destroyed by Jack and Arcee. {{storylink|Predatory}}

Events come to a head when Optimus Prime and Ratchet detect an ancient Autobot distress signal, and come across an abandoned Autobot ship infected with cybonic plague. Optimus is contaminated, and so to find a cure for the sickness Bumblebee and Arcee are forced to infiltrate the ''Nemesis'' and enter Megatron's mind. {{storylink|Sick Mind}} However, Megatron manages to download himself into Bumblebee's consciousness, and by taking control of the Autobot's body he restores his original body with Dark Energon and uploads his mind into it, restoring himself to life. {{storylink|Out of His Head}} Megatron grievously wounds Starscream sometime after this as punishment, but Starscream makes another play for power by reanimating Skyquake's corpse, which ends in failure. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

MECH enters the picture again, first capturing and mutilating Breakdown {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} and later teaming up with Airachnid to lure Arcee into a trap. {{storylink|Crisscross}} Both of these end in failure for MECH.

After Megatron and Starscream are trapped in the [[energon mine]] due to the actions of the Autobots {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}, Starscream renounces Megatron's command and tries to join the Autobots, but this ends in failure when Starscream lets slip that he killed Cliffjumper. {{storylink|Partners}}. Starscream becomes an independant faction in the war. Ratchet manages to devise a formula for synthetic energron from a retrieved data cylinder, but it ends in failure {{storylink|T.M.I.}} {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}.

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[[Category:Chronologies]]

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)

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The '''''Transformers 2010''''' [[story page]]s were published in ''[[TV Magazine]]'' from December, 1986, to June, 1987. The stories were primarily provided by [[Masumi Kaneda]] while the art was provided by both [[Studio OX]] and [[Ban Magami]].

Much like the story pages associated with ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'', the ''2010'' story pages were not particularly concerned with telling ''stories'' like later series were, instead featuring mostly character fact files, match-ups and the occasional hypothetical situation. They did have one great task, however: As ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' was not released in Japan until 1989, the burden of transitioning audiences from ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'' (US seasons 1 and 2) into ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers 2010]]'' (US season 3) fell solely on the shoulders of the story pages. To spice things up, various "tricks" were employed, such as "subtly" implying that [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] may be a reborn [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in order to maintain an air of mystery to the circumstances that lead to the state of affairs in the ''Transformers 2010'' cartoon. A more detailed account of the events of ''The Transformers: The Movie'' was gradually revealed over the course of several story pages, but with the events always referred to as the "[[Unicron War]]".

==Issues==
===Part 1===
:'''Published:''' December, 1986
:'''''Special Report! Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio Ox and Ban Magami

[[Supreme Commander]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] has died and [[Emperor of Destruction]] [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] has gone missing, though the circumstances behind these events remain a mystery. The [[Matrix of Leadership]] has been passed to [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], transforming him into [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], the new leader of the [[Autobot]]s. Alongside him are new warriors [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]], [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]. [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], who was passed over for leadership, also joins him.

:'''''These Are the New Autobot Members!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami and toy box art

The newest members of the Autobots are introduced: [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]], [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], Arcee, Springer, Wreck-Gar, Kup, Wheelie and Blurr. All are represented by box art, save Arcee, who has new artwork commissioned (due to lack of box art).

:'''''These Are the New Decepticon Members!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami and toy box art

The newest members of the [[Decepticon]]s are introduced: [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (who is rumored to be a reborn Megatron, though the facts behind this are cloudy), [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s, [[Octane]] and the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]].

:'''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers Secret Info: Battle Chronicles'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'' episodes "[[More than Meets the Eye (episode)|More than Meets the Eye]]", [[S.O.S. Dinobots]]", "[[Heavy Metal War]]", "[[Triple Takeover]]", "[[The Search for Alpha Trion]]", "[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|The Key to Vector Sigma]]", "[[Starscream's Brigade]]" and "[[War Dawn]]" are detailed. It is also explained that the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] were built in response to the threat of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. The mystery behind Optimus Prime's death and Megatron's disappearance also thickens.

[[Image:GanbareMetroplexAdvertisement01.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Who's a good dinocity? Who is? You is a good dinocity! Yes you is! Does the dinocity want a treat? Does he? Does he?]]

:'''''New TV Series: Transformers 2010'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami'''

The ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers 2010]]'' episodes "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1]]", "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2]]" and "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3]]" are detailed.

:'''''Hang in There, Metroplex!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' ?

Optimus Prime has died, leaving [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] to defend his corpse from an attack by Megatron and [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. This makes absolutely no sense. It's just a toy advertisement. A whacked-out toy advertisement.

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===Part 2===
:'''Published:''' January, 1987
:'''''New Leaders Power Comparison'''''
:'''Illustrated by''': Studio Ox and Ban Magami

Rodimus Prime and Galvatron do battle. Even with the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] he inherited from Optimus Prime, Rodimus's power is evenly matched by Galvatron's!

:'''''New Transformers Power Comparison!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami and Studio Ox

The [[Tech Spec|Tech Specs]] of the new Autobots (Hot Rod, Blurr, Wheelie, Wreck-Gar, Kup, Sandstorm, Springer and Broadside), and Decepticons (Cyclonus, Scourge, Octane, Razorclaw, Rampage, Tantrum, Divebomb, Headstrong and the Sharkticons) are profiled. The spotlight is also shone upon the new second-in-commands, Ultra Magnus and Cyclonus, who are joined in their fight by teams of previously-enlisted warriors.

:'''''The Decepticons Begin Their Counterattack!'''''
:'''Illustrated by''': Studio Ox and Ban Magami

The Decepticons ally themselves with the alien menace of the [[Quintesson]]s and attack with their newest combiner warrior, Predaking. In a sidebar, Rodimus Prime gives a hearty thumbs up to the offer of a "Transformers secret notebook" that readers can mail away for.

:'''''TV News: Birth of the Transformers!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The events of "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]" are detailed.

:'''''Rise, Metroplex!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The events of "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5]]" are detailed, and "[[Thief in the Night]]" and "[[Starscream's Ghost]]" are previewed. The preview image for the latter is the infamous picture with [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] in place of Octane.

===Part 3===
:'''Published:''' February, 1987
:'''''Autobot/Decepticon: Everything on the New Battalions!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio Ox

The [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]], [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]], [[Headstrong]], [[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] and [[Tantrum]] are introduced. They have been created by the [[Quintesson]]s to serve the [[Decepticon]]s.

The [[Autobot]] [[Triple Changer]]s [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] are introduced. They have been built to counter the threat of the Decepticon Triple Changers.

The [[Sweep]]s, led by [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], are introduced. They were created from Decepticons who perished in the [[The Transformers: The Movie|Unicron War]]. The [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]], led by [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]], are introduced next. They were built from rusted scrap metal and spaceship debris. The [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] are introduced last, having been built to serve the Quintessons.

:'''''This is the Latest Autobot/Decepticon Chain of Command!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The new chains of command are introduced.

For the Autobots, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] is the new [[Supreme Commander]]. Beneath him, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] commands the [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]] teams, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] and the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]]. Then there are other subgroups, such as the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], [[Triple Changer]]s, [[Mini Vehicle|Minibots]], [[Autobot Mini-Cassette]]s, [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]], [[Autobot Cars]] and [[Female Autobots]], who are all commanded by [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]].

For the Decepticons, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] is the new [[Emperor of Destruction]]. Beneath him, [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] commands [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and his [[Sweep]]s as well as the remaining [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. Cyclonus also commands the [[Trypticon (G1)|Dinobase]] teams, the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] and the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. Cyclonus has additional authority over the Decepticon [[Triple Changer]]s, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s (who are listed as independents). However, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and the [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette]]s report directly to Galvatron. Galvatron also bears authority over the [[Quintesson]]s, who in turn command the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] and the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]].

:'''''TV News: Commander Optimus Prime Lives!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The events of "[[Dark Awakening]]" are retold in detail.

:'''''Special Feature: Who is Stronger? Optimus Prime and Rodimus Prime Strength Comparison'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The differences between Optimus Prime and Rodimus Prime are detailed.

:'''''These are the Ancient Autobots!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The episodes "[[Forever Is a Long Time Coming]]", "[[The Killing Jar]]" and "[[Chaos (episode)|Chaos]]" are previewed.

===Part 4===
:'''Published:''' March, 1987
:'''''The Great Decepticon Counter Offensive!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio Ox

The threat of the newly reorganized Decepticons is revealed. They have added a new group to their team, the [[Battlecharger]]s [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] and [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]]. The Sharkticons are described as the "pride of the Quintessons" and often team up with the Decepticons. Galvatron's other troops, such as Cyclonus, Scourge, the Sweeps and the Predacons, also increase the threat of the Decepticons.

:'''''Will the Autobots Triumph?'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' ???

The Autobots are caught in a battle with [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. They have underestimated the strength of the Decepticons' many [[combiner]] warriors, which is a mistake that will cost them.

:'''''The Ultimate Decepticon Combiner Soldier. This is Predaking!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio Ox

Hoping to continue the success of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], the Decepticons have teamed up with the Quintessons to build their newest combiner, [[Predaking]].

[[Image:Guiltaur.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]

:'''''A Mysterious Decepticon Soldier Appears. He is the Colossal Cannon Soldier Guiltaur!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio OX

The Decepticons have once again teamed with the Quintessons and created [[Guiltaur]], a mammoth soldier combining the powers of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]. The Quintessons obtained Optimus Prime's specifications when they brought him back from the dead as a zombie [[Dark Awakening|in the past]]. Guiltaur is built from the same [[Cybertonium]] alloys which made Prime so resilient. On top of that, his "Destrogun" is modeled after Megatron's gun-mode but powered up intensely. When he combines his shoulder artillery, Active Revolver and Destrogun, he can create the all-powerful "Bazooka Storm" attack.

[[The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 4|Can the Autobots hope to defeat him!?]]

:'''''The Secrets of Super Car Mode'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

Up until now, the Autobots typically adopted vehicle modes based on modern [[Earth]] vehicles. Now, however, they have taken to becoming "super cars". The reason for this is because they are often active on other planets, and these are merely how the vehicles on other planets look.

:'''''Autobot Triple Mission'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

Predaking is on the move! The Autobots dispatch the Triple Changers to take him on, as they can challenge him with a total of nine different forms.

:'''''TV News: More and More, the Plot Thickens!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The episodes "[[Carnage in C-Minor]]", "[[Madman's Paradise]]", "[[Fight or Flee]]" and "[[Surprise Party]]" are previewed.

===Part 5===
:'''Published:''' April, 1987
:'''''Clash! Rivals at War!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio Ox

For the month of April, a special look at rivals between the Autobot and Decepticon factions is presented.

'''''Part 1: New Strongest Rivals. Sky Lynx (Autobot) vs. Predaking (Decepticon)'''''. [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] is revealed to be the only Autobot strong enough to stand up to [[Predaking]], who is the greatest threat to the Autobots.

:'''''Which Leader is the Strongest?'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio Ox

'''''Part 2: Original Leader Rivals. Optimus Prime (Autobots) vs. Megatron (Decepticons)'''''. The most evenly matched rivalry in Transformer history, their fate following the end of the [[Unicron War]] remains a mystery.

'''''Part 3: Subleader Rivals. Ultra Magnus (Autobots) vs. Cyclonus (Decepticons)'''''. These days, though, all attention is on the rivalry between these two, as they are both capable warriors for their faction.

'''''Part 4: 2nd Leader Rivals. Rodimus Prime (Autobots) vs. Galvatron (Decepticons)'''''. Their battles tend to end in a draw, though Galvatron at times, despite his craziness, can give a hint of his true power.

'''''Part 5: Cassette Leader Rivals. Blaster (Autobots) vs. Soundwave (Decepticons)'''''. Soundwave was initially more powerful, but Blaster has evened the odds with his own legion of cassette warriors. The cassette warriors themselves are all evenly matched.

:'''''Giant Robot Power Comparison!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio Ox

'''''Part 6: Giant Base Robot Rivals. Metroplex (Autobots) vs. Trypticon (Decepticons)'''''. Their battles shake the earth, though they are each evenly matched.

'''''Part 7: Scramble Combination Rivals A. Superion (Autobots) vs. Menasor (Decepticons)'''''. There is next to no gap in power between these two, apparently.

'''''Part 8: Scramble Combination Rivals B. Defensor (Autobots) vs. Bruticus (Decepticons)'''''. Defensor has the upper hand in power!

'''''Part 9: Heavyweight Robot Rivals. Omega Supreme (Autobots) vs. Devastator (Decepticons)'''''. Omega Supreme holds a grudge against Devastator from long ago, when Devastator [[The Secret of Omega Supreme|betrayed him]] back on Cybertron.

[[Image:studioox_combiners_whatif.jpg|right|300px|thumb]]

:'''''Transformers Dream Teams. What if These Rivals Joined Forces?'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Studio Ox

'''''Part 1: Grand Scramble Team'''''. Bruticus forms with the combination of [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]], [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]], [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] and [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. Superion forms with the combination of [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], [[Blades (G1)|Blades]], [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]], [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] and [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]. Menasor forms with the combination of [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]], [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]], [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] and [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]. Defensor forms with the combination of [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]], [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]], [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] and [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]. Superion and Menasor shake hands while beneath them, [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] and [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] do the same. Apparently, if these rivals could consent to get along, their team up would be full of wild combinations.

'''''Part 2: Cassette Team'''''. Since the Decepticon and Autobot cassette warriors are built at the same scale, they could go live in whoever's tummy they want.

'''''Part 3: Triple Team'''''. The six [[Triple Changer]]s shared between the Autobots and Decepticons each have 3 modes, which means that if they teamed up, they'd have ''18'' unique transformations with which to devise strategies.

:'''''Special News: Galvatron's True Form was Megatron All Along!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

Everyone suspected that Galvatron was the same as Megatron because they looked the same, sounded the same and acted the same...but no one could figure it out! As it turns out, Megatron was injured during the Unicron War and sent drifting helplessly through space until he was rebuilt by [[Unicron]].

[[Image:TVMagazineStarscreamsGhost1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|This didn't happen.]]

:'''''Special News: Transformation Patterns Revealed! These Are the New Transformations!'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The transformations of the new Autobots and Decepticons are faster and cooler than ever! The transformations of Rodimus Prime, Wreck-Gar, Blurr and Cyclonus are illustrated in detail. Oddly, Rodimus Prime's trailer is shown impossibly transforming into his legs rather than separating into his [[Mobile Defense Bay]].

:'''''TV Info'''''
:'''Illustrated by:''' Ban Magami

The episodes "[[Starscream's Ghost]]", "[[Webworld]]" and "[[The Dweller in the Depths]]" are previewed. New Scramble Combiners and Minibots are teased as appearing soon.

===Part 6===
:'''Published:''' May, 1987

===Part 7===
:'''Published:''' June, 1987

==External links==
*[http://www.allspark.com/content/blogcategory/10/44/ Translated Transformers 2010 story pages at the Allspark/TF Pulp]

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Talk:Title sequence

2011-10-20T17:02:10Z

169.139.222.5: /* EVERY Japanese title sequence */

We're gonna need an article for the closing sequences/endings/end credits. If only to match up with the title sequence/openings, not to mention the various [[Japanese themes|songs]] that are used in the end credits. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 07:52, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

== EVERY Japanese title sequence ==

As far as I can tell, at least.
* FSRLTF 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_G-8qZrMaA
* FSRLTF 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_clwBr24rso
* Scramble City Hatsudō Hen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8l-f65RDQg
* FSRLTF2010 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21p48QqU9Ng
* The Headmasters 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxJkXN5HCY
* The Headmasters 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47Dw1PPZLo
* Masterforce 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhfLeZtQ5Hk
* Masterforce 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYbU6F162U
* Victory - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eoUcP9z7Ms
* Omni Productions dub - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkhQ0eAg1j8
* Zone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5osnBJcbxM
* Beast Wars - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bXiYrPXTqw
* Beast Wars II 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PkkDz5iRk
* Beast Wars II 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ0HcYaShU
* Lio Convoy Kiki Ippatsu! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_DqIwUO4bFU#t=185s (3:05-4:33)
* Beast Wars Neo 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-19SZ0L_is
* Beast Wars Neo 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPYLT9qzVFs
* Beast Wars Metals 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqKsbr7xk4
* Beast Wars Metals 1 (singalong version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cM8rG_Jr3E
* Beast Wars Metals 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8i4iqvwQCM
* Beast Wars Metals 2 (singalong version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1GvvYKKlGs
* Car Robots 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUPeMCo3RN0
* Car Robots 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDP8SvUpAI
* Micron Densetsu 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JADt85HEL-4
* Micron Densetsu 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4oQFTosAoU
* Super Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bE7BFB2Wwc
* Beast Wars Returns - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcE2tdNmfaI (0:00-0:31)
* Galaxy Force 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcvVuXmS3h8
* Galaxy Force 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcUdcRuZgR0
* Galaxy Force 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHq6G9Y6Qcc
* Galaxy Force 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3u0Vei6M8
* Galaxy Force 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90AIiO-VwE4
* Galaxy Force 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_5ALqRwmuA
* Galaxy Force 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L7cFJlEQVU
* Galaxy Force 8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUlaAu-4b4
* Galaxy Force 9 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHwAysDpd-I
* Animated 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQxl4qFGp4
* Animated 1 (w/ sound effects) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8GDArLUf2E
* Animated 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRF045O98gM
* Anmimated 2 (singalong version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueQA3QUO-eY
This should help. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 16:18, 19 October 2011 (EDT)

Talk:Title sequence

2011-10-20T16:45:57Z

169.139.222.5:

We're gonna need an article for the closing sequences/endings/end credits. If only to match up with the title sequence/openings, not to mention the various [[Japanese themes|songs]] that are used in the end credits. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 07:52, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

== EVERY Japanese title sequence ==

As far as I can tell, at least.
* FSRLTF 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_G-8qZrMaA
* FSRLTF 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_clwBr24rso
* Scramble City Hatsudō Hen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8l-f65RDQg
* FSRLTF2010 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21p48QqU9Ng
* The Headmasters 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxJkXN5HCY
* The Headmasters 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47Dw1PPZLo
* Masterforce 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhfLeZtQ5Hk
* Masterforce 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYbU6F162U
* Victory - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eoUcP9z7Ms
* Omni Productions dub - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkhQ0eAg1j8
* Zone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5osnBJcbxM
* Beast Wars - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bXiYrPXTqw
* Beast Wars II 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PkkDz5iRk
* Beast Wars II 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ0HcYaShU
* Beast Wars Neo 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-19SZ0L_is
* Beast Wars Neo 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPYLT9qzVFs
* Beast Wars Metals 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqKsbr7xk4
* Beast Wars Metals 1 (singalong version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cM8rG_Jr3E
* Beast Wars Metals 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8i4iqvwQCM
* Beast Wars Metals 2 (singalong version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1GvvYKKlGs
* Car Robots 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUPeMCo3RN0
* Car Robots 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDP8SvUpAI
* Micron Densetsu 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JADt85HEL-4
* Micron Densetsu 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4oQFTosAoU
* Super Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bE7BFB2Wwc
* Beast Wars Returns - TBA (looking for a new video)
* Galaxy Force 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcvVuXmS3h8
* Galaxy Force 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcUdcRuZgR0
* Galaxy Force 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHq6G9Y6Qcc
* Galaxy Force 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3u0Vei6M8
* Galaxy Force 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90AIiO-VwE4
* Galaxy Force 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_5ALqRwmuA
* Galaxy Force 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L7cFJlEQVU
* Galaxy Force 8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUlaAu-4b4
* Galaxy Force 9 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHwAysDpd-I
* Animated 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQxl4qFGp4
* Animated 1 (w/ sound effects) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8GDArLUf2E
* Animated 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRF045O98gM
* Anmimated 2 (singalong version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueQA3QUO-eY
This should help. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 16:18, 19 October 2011 (EDT)

Talk:The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos

2011-10-11T17:26:20Z

169.139.222.5: /* United = Henkei world? */ new section

Looking at the art on the last page it looks like Kup now has some sorta of "Elite Guard" wings on his Autobo symbol, and Optimus Prime is handing Stepper a new Autobot symbol with Elite Guard wings too. Another continuity with Elite Guardsmen? [[Special:Contributions/71.238.48.47|71.238.48.47]] 16:44, 2 September 2011 (EDT)
:"[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=81604&view=findpost&p=1893772 The badges that Optimus is giving to Stepper and Kup in the epilogue 1, are an homage to both the Elite Guard and the Vanguard Team of course.]" [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 17:09, 2 September 2011 (EDT)

== United = Henkei world? ==

With the inclusion of some Henkei! Henkei!-colored characters, would this imply that the United fiction is part of (one of) the Henkei! Henkei! fiction? --[[Special:Contributions/169.139.222.5|169.139.222.5]] 13:26, 11 October 2011 (EDT)

Gold Plastic Syndrome

2011-09-22T12:04:08Z

169.139.222.5: /* Toys commonly associated with Gold Plastic Syndrome */

[[Image:Electrogoldplasticsyndrome.jpg|right|450px|thumb|Ouch.]]
'''Gold Plastic Syndrome''' (commonly shorthanded to '''GPS''') is fandom terminology used to describe the phenomenon of a toy's [[plastic]] decomposing and becoming brittle to the point of shattering or crumbling under minimal-stress conditions. In the most extreme cases, toys have been reported to spontaneously crumble to small bits without any applied force at all, even if they're fresh out of their [[Mint in sealed box|unopened package]].

This breakage is different from the relatively more common stress-fracture type of plastic breakage that can occur in some [[Toy|Transformers toys]]. The condition takes its name from the gold plastics of late Generation 1 through to ''Beast Wars'', that have proved the most prone to this sort of breakage. However, despite the name, Gold Plastic Syndrome has been known to affect other types of plastic—most of them noted for a pretty metallic swirl in the plastic.

==Notability==
GPS is widespread among toys made in the tail-end of [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]], typically the second year of [[Pretender|Pretenders]] and even some European-market exclusives, ''[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' and the ''[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' series, but examples have surfaced from lines as recent as [[Universe (2003 toyline)|''Universe'' (2003)]]. Transformers toys are not the only ones to suffer from this; there have been reports of ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'' and ''[[Visionaries]]'' toys' gold plastics also crumbling seemingly of their own accord.

The toys most likely to suffer from Gold Plastic Syndrome are those with gold or bronze plastics with a metallic swirl in the plastic. There are other known cases with different colours of plastic—though usually there is a tell-tale swirl.

==Cause of GPS==
Because this is not exactly an area of scientific notability there aren't any causal studies into Gold Plastic Syndrome that we know about. Basically, it is thought that certain plastics weren't mixed as well as others, possibly because of the metallic pigment or colouring, so they break down more quickly.

It's not much of a theory, really. Here's a more detailed attempt:

{{bigquote|The problem likely arises, as with many composites, when the bonding between the polymer and the dye/particles breaks down. This could occur do to a natural chemical/phase change of the plastic, due to oxidation, for example, or by another mechanism, say the forces incurred by the toy being played with, or more likely, due to some combination thereof. In any case, when the bonds between the particles and the polymers break down, you would get small voids in the plastic structure. If this occurs frequently enough, the structure would become effectively porous (that is, it would be filled with lots of tiny voids/cracks where the polymers and particles have come apart). With even a slight amount of force, some of these cracks/voids could expand, even slightly, to the point where they intersect another void and join, making an even bigger crack. Once a critical crack length is reached, the sample fractures.

So effectively, the plastic becomes more brittle, and this would also explain it "crumbling" as well as cracking.}}
:-Aernaroth suggests a cause for GPS [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=57191&view=findpost&p=1174876 on the Allspark]

So what it amounts to is: "The plastic crumbles a'cause it ain't very good."

Hasbro have attributed it to "the amount of gold fleck included in the plastic", and have apparently reduced the amount in similar plastics of more recent vintage to prevent further occurrences.<ref name="hasbrogps">[http://www.transformerland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3481 Hasbro Transformersland.com Q&A, August 2009:] "When we used gold metallic plastic in the past we discovered, along with many of you, that it becomes brittle over time. As we became aware of this situation, we took the necessary steps to reduce the amount of gold fleck included in the plastic to eliminate this issue. Ultimately, this should no longer be an issue due to these corrective steps that we have taken."</ref> Later Hasbro said that they believe they've "alleviated the issues associated with the 'gold' plastic issue" through "trial and error." <ref>http://www.toyark.com/news/transformers-toy-news-2/hasbro-transformers-june-2010-qna-2867/</ref>

All in all, the actual causes of Gold Plastic Syndrome aren't a very big deal to Transformers fans—it's really pretty academic. Of more concern is the RESULTS (i.e., crumbling like a soggy Tim Tam in a cup of coffee), and what to look out for. There's no cure here, no fix. If a toy has GPS, it '''will''' die.

==The Symptoms==
Gold Plastic Syndrome usually has a few clear signs. Knowing how to tell the difference between Gold Plastic Syndrome and normal plastic breakage is very important for a Transformers fan who is collecting vintage toys. It's the difference between giving up on that toy completely (since if it has GPS so will any other sample of the toy) and buying a new copy.
[[Image:GPSSkyquakescopeclose.jpg|300px|thumb|Nooo!]]
*GPS usually takes place in metallic-coloured plastics, most notably gold plastic and bronze plastic.
*GPS breaks are NOT accompanied by stress fractures. There is usually NOT any visible wear before the breakage. This is really important. Plastic breaks. This is a reality of toy collecting, plastic gets old and it breaks. Gold plastic syndrome is breakage without warning.
*GPS breaks often leave a powdery residue and shards of plastic (though not always), the result of the plastic actually physically crumbling. Take a look at the picture of Skyquake's scope—okay, the bits of his scope—to the right. You can actually see some of the left-over shards of plastic. Keep in mind this picture was taken years after the break actually occurred—these are new shards of plastic which came off these pieces of scope during the process of moving the parts around for photography. Plastic should '''not''' be that brittle or delicate.
*GPS breakages don't need to involve any excess stress or force on a toy—simply handling a toy can cause the breakage. Looking at it funny, sometimes does it. Spitting on it, maybe. Opening its box. ''Anything.'' If your toy breaks despite careful handling it's more likely to be GPS.
[[Image:SkyquakeGPSback.jpg|thumb|300px|Gleargh]]
*GPS breaks often have rough, uneven edges with no stress lines around them. This is important—usually when plastic snaps it snaps cleanly (as is common with clear plastic), or it bends first (leaving a torn-off piece, or clear stresses around the break). If a break is uneven, with different colours and textures in it, yet there are no stress fractures around the wound, and especially if it leaves a powdery residue as well, it's almost certainly a GPS break. Take a look at the photo of Skyquake to the right for a good example of the ragged break. Okay...not good. What's the other word that's LIKE "good", but not actually good? Oh yeah. Horrifying. A HORRIFYING example.
*GPS plastics will sometimes feel brittle to the touch, sometimes making cracking noises as they're handled.

A really easy test to tell if you have GPS breakage is this—if a piece breaks off, try snapping it again. If it's normal plastic breakage, the broken piece should bend or bow instead of just snapping like dry wood; there should be some give in the plastic, even if it's a brittle, clear plastic—so you should be able to glue it back into place, or at least get a replacement part. On the other hand, if the broken piece snaps like your grandmother's ankles in a rugby match, then you've almost definitely got Gold Plastic Syndrome.

==GPS misconceptions==
'''ALL GOLD PLASTIC WILL DIE!'''
:Not true. It's gold plastic from certain eras that will die. It's plastic from about 1989 (second year Pretenders are notorious for it) and through to about the end of ''Beast Wars''. As far as we know later toys do not suffer from GPS, due to a reduction in the amount of metallic flakes in similar, but more recent toys<ref name="hasbrogps" />. ''As far as we know.'' But just you wait...oh yes, just you wait. Toys with flexible nylon-based gold plastics, such as [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Superbase Optimus Prime's]] elbows, are not susceptible to GPS.

:Even on toys well known for GPS, some of their gold plastic is less prone to break. Gold plastic which is nice and thick is much less likely to snap than gold plastic which is thin. Gold plastic which is under constant stress—like that at a joint—is also more likely to break. That said, some really nice solid parts can shatter like eggshells if it's real GPS we're talkin' about.

'''MY TOY BROKE, IT MUST BE GOLD PLASTIC SYNDROME'''
:There are plenty of ways for plastic to break that aren't related to Gold Plastic Syndrome. Repeated stress on a plastic, dropping a toy, a toy with metal parts that damage the plastic parts, thin plastic, or simply the use of translucent plastic, which is more brittle. Just because a toy breaks doesn't mean it's Gold Plastic Syndrome. Look for the symptoms (listed above) and ask around before assuming that every single copy of this toy is destined to die a painful and horrible death.

'''ONLY GOLD PLASTIC GETS GOLD PLASTIC SYNDROME'''
:Not quite true. Observations suggest that it should probably called "Metallic Plastic Syndrome". It's those metallic plastics, most commonly the gold and bronze plastics used for almost ten years by Hasbro and Takara, from around 1989 to 1998. However, in theory, any colour of plastic could be susceptible, given time. Keep an eye on your Fire Convoy, kids; that pretty metallic swirl in his plastic isn't promising.

'''MY TOY IS DOOMED!'''
:Okay...not exactly a misconception. Your toy is probably doomed...but there is a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

:You see, the thickness of the plastic seems to affect GPS. Also, the amount of stress on it affects it. While some toys are known for breaking just by having their packages opened—guys like Randy, Roadblock and ''Generation 2'' Slingshot—others, like Skyquake and Pyro, can remain very strongly intact because the parts that are made of GPS plastics are large and thick and otherwise robust. GPS is an inconsistent process—eventually your toy '''will''' crumble, but there's no telling how long it will take. With delicate handling (read: almost none) you can maintain a GPS-afflicted toy in your collection for quite some time.

:Also remember that the evidence for Gold Plastic Syndrome is completely observational. There seems to be some evidence that different plastic batches were less affected, that some releases of the toys were less affected. You might luck out and get an Electro that never crumbles to dust, or you might be really unlucky and get multiple Electros, all of which break horribly. This page is a caution more than anything else. Know what you're getting into when you buy a toy known to be afflicted by GPS.

==Toys commonly associated with Gold Plastic Syndrome==
====Generation 1====
* [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]]
:Rather depressingly, BlackZarak's feet and shield tend to shatter. Since both parts have to be under stress to function as intended, this particularly expensive toy is almost never intact. The Black Roritchi repaint of Fasttrack included with him is almost ''entirely'' made of gold plastic. Good luck...
* [[Bristleback]]
:Bristleback on his own isn't in much danger, as he has a fairly minimal amount of moving parts. However, when combining with the other Monster Pretenders, sliding the Monstructor fist in place will usually be enough to create a large crack through his legs, sometimes even splitting them entirely.
* [[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]]
:The innermost robot has three peg holes, two in the fists and one on his back, that are particularly susceptible to cracking and shattering, leaving many a Roadblock hand-less.
* [[Skyhammer (G1)|Skyhammer]]
:One of the most notorious toys. The entire bottom of his large vehicle shell is made of gold plastic and it is very prone to breakage. Not to mention how much gold plastic is on his inner shell and his robot mode.
* [[Slog]]
:Slog is notable because his gimmick requires another toy (Birdbrain) to be inserted up inside his gold sections. His thin gold sides will crumble like a good fruit cake (just not as moist) if Birdbrain jostles around too much.
* [[Killbison]]
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[[Image:GPSSkyquakescope.jpg|thumb|Well, crap.]]

====Generation 1-2 Transitional Phase====
* [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]]
:Skyquake is another toy notable for having a gimmick which makes the whole thing worse. Skyquake actually has two colours of metallic plastic on him: One is a dark bronze, the other a light bronze. It is the light bronze plastic that is most likely to break. Unfortunately, the light bronze plastic also forms Skyquake's scope. You're supposed to put a Predator jet's scope slide into that part of him. But the union is not pleasant for the one on the receiving end. Take a look at the picture to the right. These are the parts left of Skyquake's scope after another Predator tried to unite with him. Actually...that's not even all the parts, that's just all that could be found.

:This is a gimmick which should never be used by modern collectors. Never, ever, ever, ever. Watch out for the movable panel on the back of his head, too, as it's the same light bronze plastic.

* [[Pyro]]
:Although he can be something of a trouper in comparison to other victims on this page, Pyro's waist can break very easily if not handled with care.
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====Generation 2====
* [[Electro]]
[[Image:Electrobrokenknee.jpg|thumb|Oh, God, my knee! MY KNEEEEEEE!!]]

:There's a reason that Electro sits up at the top of this page. Poor guy just can't catch a break.

:Wait...actually, no. That's the entire problem. The poor guy totally ''can'' catch a break. All the time. Because he is designed to die.

* [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]
:Slingshot is infamous for being made almost entirely of gold plastic, and he has been reported to come apart straight out of the package.<ref>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/2b8b3dec846e5479?hl=en</ref> Worse, he's known for being another toy whose gimmick will destroy him. Slingshot's head is a post which is designed to plug into [[Silverbolt_(G1)|Silverbolt]] (or any other Scramble City leader), so that Slingshot can form an arm or a leg. Doing this will destroy your Slingshot.
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====Beast Wars====
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]
[[Image:Goldplasticgrimlock.jpg|thumb|He's hopping mad! ... Okay, fine. YOU do better.]]
:Take a look at the picture to the right. Grimlock's gold plastic can break pretty damned hard. The fact that he uses a gold plastic ball joint for his hips is not really a good thing. Common breakages include the insides of his legs (where his chest pegs into them in beast mode) and his mutant face (which is very thin).
* [[Randy (BWN)|Randy]]
:Poor Randy. This is one of the legendary Gold Plastic Syndrome toys. Imagine, if you will, a toy with an entirely spring-loaded transformation made entirely out of gold plastic. Ouch, right? Well, don't worry. You'll never have to see what a mess that could be, because this toy will shatter into a million pieces the moment you open it. Ouch.
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[[Image:Brownplasticsyndrome.jpg|thumb|The one picture for the wiki you never want to be able to make.]]
* [[Megatron (BW)|''Transmetal'' Megatron]]
:He'll snap at the waist, the shoulders, the ... well, anything that's made of that brown plastic. This is technically Brown Plastic Syndrome, but regardless of what you call it this toy will end in sadness. The Japanese ''Metals'' version uses black instead of the brown, so it seems to be immune. The fragility of the waist may be due to GPS, a [[design flaw]], or a combination of both.
* [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]
:Despite having a dangerously large amount of bronze plastic, Magnaboss Silverbolt IS fairly stable. The main breakage point is where his tail connects to his body. As well, [[Skywarp (BWII)|Skywarp]], his Japanese counterpart, is just as likely to suffer from this. That said, just...be careful, okay? Be careful.
* [[Soundwave (BW)|Soundwave]]
:His entire fraggin' body is composed of gold plastic, so it's a crap shoot. The places on his body where the sides hinge open as part of his transformation are the first to go, however.
* [[Torca]]
:His legs, tail hinge and sides are prone to Gold Plastic Syndrome.
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====Universe (2003)/Cybertron====
*[[Megabolt]]
:Having limbs cast primarily in gold plastic is not a good thing. Fracture points include his forearms, the holes that lock his arms in place in crawling head mode, lower legs near the knees, and his head.

*[[Micromaster]] [[Superion (Universe)|Superion]] (initially a [[KB Toys]] [[exclusive]] ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' release in the USA, later also available at CVS Pharmacy stores; mass-retail ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' release in Europe), released in 2006, suffers from this as of 2010, particularly the peg that connects [[Ro-Tor (Universe)|Ro-Tor]] to Superion's torso piece.<ref name="tfwsuper">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-toy-discussion/300674-warning-universe-micromaster-superion-suffers-gold-plastic-syndrome.html TFW2005 thread about Micromaster Superion suffering from Gold Plastic Syndrome, with multiple reports,</ref>
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====Star Wars: Transformers====
* [[Millennium Falcon]] / [[Han Solo]] & [[Chewbacca]]
:Particularly, the Chewbacca half suffers from GPS. His legs can lock up and ultimately snap off. His upper arms are also said to fall victim as well. <ref>http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=2481&size=0&start=101</ref>
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====Other notable instances====
* [[Serpentor]]
:While not a Transformer, he is also known to suffer from this problem—especially through his hips, given the leg construction found on G.I. Joe toys of the era.

==Toys often mistaken for having GPS==

A number of toys have gold parts that easily break not due to the plastic used, but due to structural problems with the part designs themselves.

* [[Predator]] [[missile]] launchers
:The Predator launcher pegs are notorious for breaking off, but this is due to their size. Those pegs are ''tiny''; many other weapons with a similar peg have the same problem. However, the Predator launchers are worse off, as they are also used by larger figures like Skyquake. Also, the "false" trigger is known to break off, as it doesn't have a hinge, relying on the plastic to bend. (The actual trigger is a small, black, internal piece.) If the Predator launchers actually had GPS, the strength of the spring would cause them literally to explode.

* [[Thunder Clash]]
:Thunder Clash's gold feet are often broken due to the design of the ratcheting transformation joint. The ratchets are so stiff that you're more likely to pry his feet apart before the ratchets budge. Like the Predator launchers, if this ''was'' due to GPS, Thunder Clash's launcher barrels would literally explode due to the very strong springs.

* ''[[Movie (toyline)|Movie]]'' [[Legends Class]] [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
:Legends Scorponok's tail stinger, originally soft and bendy, tends to harden after a while, and then becomes prone to breaking. While the stinger ''is'' made of a gold plastic type, the cause for this problem appears to be an inferior plasticizer rather than traditional Gold Plastic Syndrome.

==Etymology==
The earliest use of the term that can be found in the [[alt.toys.transformers]] archives dates to September 2002 in a post by user Sky Shadow,<ref>http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/2b3d532961b2c2dc</ref> though it is unclear from his usage of the term whether or not it was already in use. A post by [[Dave Edwards|Dave "Zobovor" Edwards]], meanwhile, made in June of the previous year,<ref>http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/6ed7e0f3586f37e4</ref> is the earliest identifiable acknowledgment of the widespread nature of the phenomenon within the Transformers fan community.

==Fiction==
===Transformers Animated===
At some point during the great war, a vaccine for Gold Plastic Syndrome was developed by [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==External links==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjAUN5Ssj8 Demonstration of Gold Plastic Syndrome in effect at Youtube]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Diseases]]
[[Category:Toys]]

More than Meets the Eye, Part 1

2011-09-20T13:07:50Z

169.139.222.5: /* Foreign dubbing */

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|ep=1
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=1
|next2=More than Meets the Eye, Part 2
|series3=''[[Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=1
|next3=More than Meets the Eye, Part 2
|image=FHE-MTMTE.jpg
|caption=Admit it. As a kid, you longed to own this, and were only marginally satisfied if your parents instead merely dubbed it from the rental tape.
|title="More than Meets the Eye, Part 1"
|production code=4023
|airdate=[[September 17]], 1984
|written by=[[George Arthur Bloom]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
|packaged with=[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|Optimus Prime]]
}}

'''In search of energy, the Autobots leave Cybertron and are pursued by the Decepticons.'''

{{TOCclear}}
==Synopsis==
[[Image:MTMtE Part1 Cybertron.jpg|left|150px|thumb|[[Star Wars (franchise)|A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...]]]]

On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], many [[MYA|millions of years ago]], the [[Autobot|Autobots]] are on the verge of extinction. Eons of war with the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]], their bitter enemies, have drained the planet's once plentiful resources. Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] are scraping together [[Conductor|energy conductors]], and narrowly avoid capture by a Decepticon patrol. They arrive at [[Great Dome|Iacon]], the Autobots' headquarters. There, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]], confers with his lieutenants [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] on the plan to leave Cybertron on a mission to search for new sources of energy. This plot is overheard by the Decepticon spies [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]].

Inside [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|their base]], [[Decepticon leader]] [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] plots to intercept the Autobots, and leaves his [[second-in-command| first lieutenant]] [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] in charge of Cybertron.

[[Image:MTMtE Part1 Arkcrash.jpg|right|150px|thumb|One does not simply walk into Mordor... one apparently rams one's ship into it.]]

The Autobots blast off aboard an [[Ark (G1)|Autobot spaceship]], followed by the [[Nemesis (G1)|Decepticon cruiser]]. An asteroid collision forces them to use up most of their energy clearing a path through the resulting storm. The Decepticons take advantage of this vulnerability and attack. Both ships spin out of control, crashing on nearby [[Earth]].

Four million years pass. It is the year 1984, and volcanic activity stirs the half-buried ''Ark'', awakening the computer systems aboard. [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] sends out a [[Sky Spy]] satellite to reconnoiter this new world, and scans examples of terrestrial machinery in order to reformat the Transformers into new [[Alternate mode|alt modes]]. The Decepticon [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] is awakened first, and he revives the other Decepticons. Megatron observes that much time has passed since the crash. An impudent [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] leaves a parting shot at the dormant Autobots, unwittingly knocking Optimus Prime into the repair beam and causing him to be the first Autobot to be revived.

[[Image:MTMtE Part1 Prime repair.jpg|left|150px|thumb|The light! It burns!]]

Megatron decrees that their mission is to drain Earth of its resources in order to build an ultimate weapon and conquer the universe (as you do). To start, they'll need a base of operations, so he puts Starscream in charge of converting the area for the construction of a [[Victory (G1)|new star cruiser]]. The Decepticon [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] trashes a nearby power station to serve as raw materials.

Meanwhile, Optimus Prime dispatches [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] to scout the area. They find the Decepticons, and Cliffjumper brashly takes a shot at Megatron. He misses, and the Decepticons unleash Laserbeak in pursuit. Hound is blasted and injured.

Autobot medic [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] and [[Hauler]] come to fetch Hound. Meanwhile, Decepticons [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] spot an Earth vehicle coming to investigate the destruction of the power station. [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] intercepts the vehicle, frightening the human workers away.

Hound is repaired, and reports what he overheard: that the Decepticons are on the hunt for energy. Prime has Jazz assemble a battle group to go after them. The Decepticons attack an off-shore oil rig, where [[Sparkplug Witwicky|William "Sparkplug" Witwicky]] and his son [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] work. They begin gathering energon cubes, but are interrupted by the Autobots.

[[Image:MTMtE Part1 OilRig battle.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Do yourself a favor, don't smoke at a Cybertronian waterpark.]]

A battle erupts on the drilling platform. Megatron blasts the rig's supports, tipping it into the ocean. It bursts into flames. Realizing the humans are in danger, Optimus Prime tries to save Spike and Sparkplug while the Decepticons retreat with their energon plunder.

'''[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2|To be continued...]]'''

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (1)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (2)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (9)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (10)
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (11)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (12)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (15)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (16)
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (17)
* [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] (18)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (21)
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (22)
* [[Hauler]] (23)
* [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (28)
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (29)
* [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (30)
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (31)
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (32)
* [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (33)
* [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (34)
|c2=
* [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (3)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (4)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (5)
* [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] (6)
* [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (7)
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (8)
* [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (13)
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (14)
* [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (19)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (20)
* [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (25)
|c3=
* [[Joe (MTMTE)|Joe]] and his coworker (24)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (26)
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (27)
}}

==Quotes==
"Prime told me there'd be days like this." 
"And you didn't believe him?" 
"I do now!"
:—'''Bumblebee''' and '''Wheeljack''' under fire.

"When do we start the search mission?" 
"Soon as you're ready to launch."
:—'''Prowl''' is told to hurry up by '''Optimus Prime'''.

"Fear not, Megatron. Cybertron shall remain as you leave it."
:—'''Shockwave''', more accurate than he realizes.

"Leakin' lubricant!"
:—'''Ironhide'''

"What about materials?" 
"Use your imagination!"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Megatron'''

"Here's something to keep you warm."
:—'''Megatron''' as he ignites the oil spill.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
'''Minor art and coloring errors'''
* Soundwave's mouthplate doesn't move during his "Autobots are set to launch" line.
* As Megatron gives Shockwave his orders, Starscream is missing his canopy lines, and Soundwave's eject button is blue, while his backpack is white.
* The retracting segments of Iacon's dome appear to come out of solid, unbroken metal. The interior shot of the bridge also shows the segments retracting incorrectly. Since the ship is upright at a 90-degree angle, the retracting segments should go from camera-right to camera-left, down the length of the ship.
* Sideswipe's missing his shoulder launcher as he mans an Ark console.
* Starscream has a red "collar" around his neck as he prepares the tractor beam.
* When Soundwave tosses Ratchet into a console aboard the Ark, the Autobot Medic is sporting a Decepticon symbol in the center of his chest windshield, most likely the result of the animator carrying over Soundwave's design.
* As Starscream fires on the Autobot ship, the top segment of his canopy is red instead of gray in some frames.
* As the gathered Decepticons gaze at the desert from atop the volcano, Skywarp's arm cannon is colored teal.
* Part of Megatron's fusion cannon is white as he says "we'll set up here".
* Soundwave's eject button is blue instead of white as Megatron orders him to plan the new space cruiser.
* Megatron is missing his barrel as he speaks to his newly revived troops. In a close-up, he has a "five o'clock shadow", as the central segment of his face is a darker shade than the rest of it.
[[Image:Mtmte1 prepare the energon cubes.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]
* After landing at the power plant, Soundwave's eject button is blue, instead of... y'know what? Let's just say the colorists screwed up this little detail ''all the freaking time'', and leave it at that.
* As Starscream talks about his plans with Soundwave and Rumble standing behind him, the tip of Soundwave's shoulder cannon is colored entirely black.
* Cliffjumper's mirror housings are white instead of red as he delivers his "moonbeam" line.
* Ratchet's Autobot symbol is gray before he jumps off the cliff.
* Prime's running light housings are white instead of red as he orders Jazz to organize a battle unit.
* In the pan across the battle unit, Sideswipe's helm is red instead of black, and the top of Trailbreaker's chest is white instead of black.
* The center segment of Megatron's fusion cannon is white as the wrenches & etc. bounce off of him.
* Soundwave's cheekguards are blue instead of white as he starts making energon cubes.
* Starscream is missing his wing insignia as Megatron returns to his robot form.

'''Not-so-minor errors'''
[[Image:Sunstorm Cartoon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Then again, Thundercracker has ''two'' wings.]]
* The Decepticon "welcoming committee" is often stated to contain a constantly-changing roster, but close examination reveals that it's ''almost'' consistent:
** The initial shot shows [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].
** The second shot shows a vaguely Thundercracker-colored Seeker (the blue is deeper than Thundercracker's color, and there's extra bits of white and gray) alongside two completely different Seekers (a purple one with a flamethrower, and an orange one).
** The third shot, as Wheeljack barrels through them, shows a total of five Seekers, too small to be identified. If that darker blue guy from the second shot was supposed to be Thundercracker, and you're willing to believe that several of the Decepticons managed to be off-camera in all the other shots, then the numbers actually add up. (Your wiki editors acknowledge that this probably ''was'' a goof.)
** The final shot of the group shows Starscream ordering Skywarp and Thundercracker to pursue the Autobots; both have lines in their normal voice, so they were clearly supposed to be there.
* Starscream's two lines during this scene are performed by two different actors in two different voices, neither resembling the high rasp he'll shortly establish as his normal voice. The second voice is clearly Frank Welker, sounding close to his Megatron voice.
* Bumblebee steps out of Wheeljack and immediately fires a shot in the completely opposite direction from their attackers. Was he testing his gun??
* Bumblebee is repeatedly shown to be a hovercar... yet somehow he's got wheels and an axle when the Seekers manage to hit him.
* Bumblebee is repeatedly shown to be ''wider'' than Wheeljack in vehicle mode, yet he has no trouble driving right into Wheeljack's cargo compartment. He ''keeps'' driving in until he's completely out of sight, even though we can see at least half of the compartment.
[[Image:ArkCartoon1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|If it's supposed to be transparent, then it probably shouldn't be blocking out the scenery behind it.]]
* The Ark's exhaust comes from ''behind'' the thruster ports.
* Bluestreak is colored like Prowl as the Autobots stumble around in the wake of the asteroid collision; Trailbreaker, meanwhile, has one white and one gray hand.
* Presumably, an impact is supposed to be knocking Jazz out of the pilot's seat; what the animation actually shows, however, is Prime saying "Jazz!", to which Jazz responds by spontaneously flying out of his seat.
* Immediately after a shot of Optimus Prime rallying his troops to prepare to repulse Decepticon boarders ("Prepare for battle!"), the same animation is re-used, but this time with Megatron's voice urging his troops to "Attack! Attack!" When the episode was re-done for the ''[[Generation 2 (cartoon)|Generation 2]]'' series, this scene was amended by placing a shot of Megatron sitting on this throne from earlier in the episode over the image, shouting the command. (In the same shot, Prowl's eye is missing.)
* A shot of Soundwave being kicked out of frame by Ironhide is immediately followed by Soundwave sparring with Ratchet.
* After Ratchet is thrown into the console, Optimus Prime and Megatron enter the frame, struggling with each other. Megatron is missing his fusion cannon in this shot, but it reappears when the angle changes to show them grappling as Prime asks for a status report.
* Ratchet is shown being thrown by Soundwave, but after Optimus Prime asks for a status report, Ratchet is seen fighting with Thundercracker on the other side of the room.
* As the above shot pans across the bridge to the right, we see Soundwave has teleported from one side of the bridge to the other, slumped against a console.
* In the pan shot on the Ark when the Transformers find out they're going to crash, there are TWO Soundwaves and TWO Starscreams.
* As the Ark rocks and sends the combatants tumbling, the left arm of the second Soundwave turns into an extended smear of gray paint for a couple of frames.
* The voice that reports about g-forces is Prowl's, but he's struggling with Starscream and doesn't seem to have time to read a console or make a report or anything. Although it's hard to tell due to the ship shaking, Jazz's mouth seems to be moving, and he ''does'' seem to be looking at machinery.
* Quite a few generic robots are mixed in among the identifiable inert Transformers in the crashed ship.
* The land around the volcano changes frequently between shots. Sometimes it's rocky desert; other times it's got forests and a river, sometimes both at once. This trend would continue throughout the whole series.
* Starscream has no transformation sound as he lands at the power plant.
* When Optimus Prime assigns Hound his mission, the establishing shot has Cliffjumper with Bumblebee's yellow colors.
* Hound's voice carries a soundproof-roof echo as he comments on how different Earth is.
* In the long shot of the Decepticons building their base, Soundwave appears in Sideswipe's colors.
* Hound says that he got shot in the drive train, but Laserbeak shot him topside. Did the shot go straight through him??
* Reflector's three component robots are standing shoulder-to-shoulder as they turn to look at the truck, but are standing in a line in the next shot.
* After Thundercracker informs Soundwave about the approaching vehicle, there's a [[scene transition]]. The final frame of the scene transition is faded into an image of Sparkplug and Wheeljack working on Optimus Prime from "Divide and Conquer".
* Rumble isn't a big guy, but he should at ''least'' be a few feet taller than a human. He's shown the same height as Sparkplug.
* Ironhide and Starscream are shown sparring with poles, while Prowl and Thundercracker have a shootout from cover. In the very next shot, Ironhide is taking on Skywarp and Thundercracker, while Starscream is now busy with Huffer and Gears, and Prowl is grappling with a Reflector. In the shot after that, Prowl is suddenly free from Reflector and charging toward Skywarp.
* A red robot of indeterminate character model is shown retreating with the Decepticons. It looks a bit like an upside-down Sideswipe.
* When Rumble knocks Spike into the water, his father yells "Pike!" instead of "Spike". Perhaps he was meant to be warning his son about carnivorous fish, but ''of course'' pike live in fresh water, not salt.

===Continuity errors===
[[Image:MTMtE Part1 Cybertron.jpg|thumb|right|200px| ]]
* Later episodes will go to some length to establish that Cybertron is outside of our galaxy. There's even some implication that it's not inside ''any'' galaxy, but that unlikely notion is put to the lie by the very first shots of this episode, which show its surface illuminated by an unseen sun, and the space around it filled with stars.
* Whether for reasons of cost (unlikely considering how much effort was expended on this episode's artwork) or to avoid confusing the kiddies, hardly any of the Transformers were designed to have Cybertronian robot modes (Laserbeak is the sole exception). Thus we get the strange phenomena of, for example, Jazz having a Porsche 911 bumper on his chest, four million years before Porsches were invented. This also leads to some strange transformations, with guys like Bumblebee and Wheeljack not having a single part from their vehicle forms visible in their robot modes.
* Soundwave is in robot mode outside of Iacon, not transforming back to lamppost mode until Jazz is practically on top of him. How could Jazz have failed to notice the big blue Decepticon right in front of him?
[[Image:Shockwave Hands.jpg|thumb|200px|''My honey my baby Don't put Shockwave upon no shelf She said don't gimme no lines And keep your hands... hand... whatever... to yourself!'']]
* During the scene in [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|Decepticon Headquarters]], Shockwave is consistently drawn with two hands. This may not be an error ''per se'', as he shows up a couple of other times with two hands, and plenty of characters can retract their hands and replace them with various gadgets and weapons, but it goes against his toy design and his established character model.
* Two asteroids in deep space just show up out of nowhere and collide? Right by the passing ship? The cosmic improbability beggars the imagination.
* Oddly enough, nobody opens fire during the scuffle when the Decepticons board the Ark... not even Megatron.
* The Transformers' interplanetary cruise is ''incredibly'' short. At no point do they engage any kind of faster-than-light drive, yet somehow they go from Cybertron to Earth in what seems to be a matter of minutes. The only possible gap that might account for this is the scene cut between the Decepticon launch and the asteroid collision.
* The animation would have us believe that the Autobot spacecraft has just been sticking out of the side of this active volcano for ages, without anybody noticing. The intended gist might have been that the eruption uncovered it, but the animation doesn't show it.
[[Image:Cliffgun.JPG|thumb|right|200px|"You see the size of that gun he fired at us? It was bigger than him!"]]
* Cliffjumper somehow stores on his person a cannon that's as big as he is.
* Okay, maybe it's not an actual error. But considering how many ordinary Transformers are shown to have enhanced visual abilities (Hot Rod, Rumble, Arcee, etc.) it seems a tad ridiculous that Thundercracker needs to use Reflector's camera mode to zoom in a little bit on the approaching truck. It's ''insanely'' ridiculous that Reflector produces Polaroid prints. He's not even that kind of camera! (More to the point, he should just be able to see what's visible through his own viewfinder.)
* While he is getting repaired by Ratchet, Hound refers to an Energon cube as "some kind of cube", implying that the Autobots don't know what Energon cubes are. The inference that energon cubes are a Decepticon invention holds true for almost the entirety of the pre-movie cartoon, during which time they are never used by the Autobots (something that is even made a plot point in "[[Traitor]]"). We say "almost" because of a contradictory flashback in "[[War Dawn]]" that shows what appear to be energon cubes being used by Autobots nine million years in the past. By the time of the movie, the Autobots are shown to have begun using the cubes, and continue to do so throughout the third season.
* How do the Autobots know where the Decepticons are planning to attack? They organize their battle unit before the Decepticons even learn about the oil platform!
* During Jazz's roll-call of the Autobots, he neglects to call out Cliffjumper's name. The little red guy transforms anyway.
* The large cast frequently gave the animators trouble in remembering which secondary characters should or should not be present, especially concerning the Autobots. Thus, we frequently must catalog appearing/disappearing Autobots:
** Jazz's battle group consists of Prowl, Cliffjumper, Trailbreaker, Wheeljack, Mirage, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, and Ironhide. Even before they've left headquarters, the problems start, as Ironhide disappears and Ratchet takes his place. Ratchet is still with the group when they arrive.
** Bluestreak joins the group as they fly toward the oil rig.
** Huffer and Brawn are with them as they land on the platform.
** Gears is visible in a wide shot of the battle.
* In what ''universe'' is it legal for a fourteen-year-old American kid to be working on an oil rig, even ''with'' his father?
* Until the oil platform attack, the episode has consistently portrayed the Decepticon forces as Megatron, Soundwave, 3 tapes, 3 jets, and 3 Reflectors. Things start to fall apart here, as a dark blue jet is shown diving alongside Thundercracker. It gets ''much'' worse in the following episodes.
* ''The Transformers'' had a tendency to frequently exaggerate the capabilities of humans to survive being dropped, punched, swatted, hit, etc. As a main protagonist, Spike Witwicky was especially susceptible to this treatment; thus we catalog the adventures of ''Superhuman Spike!'':
** Spike punches Rumble in the back without breaking or even seeming to hurt his fist.
** Spike survives being bashed aside by Rumble's metal fist without even bruising a rib.
* When Starscream fires his [[Null-ray|null-ray]], ice appears on the machinery that the ray hits. However, a null ray only stops the flow of electricity; it doesn't cause freezing. (Megatron prompts him with the strange command to "activate the null ray", as if it's some external piece of equipment.)
* Flying Autobots:
** In this and the following two episodes, the Autobots are all shown flying just as easily as the Decepticons. Once the show went into full production, this ability mostly disappeared, with occasional exceptions due to special abilities (Wheeljack, Sideswipe, the Dinobots), and some [[Roll for It|scripting]], [[Attack of the Autobots|animation]] and [[The Master Builders|sound]] [[Fire on the Mountain|effect]] screw-ups. The change was, in part, to help distinguish the two forces (and perhaps because it doesn't make sense for the Autobots to drive places if they can just fly there instead).

===Continuity notes===
* As the first pilot episode, this episode establishes several iconic aspects of the cartoon and the entire [[Transformers brand]]. The planet Cybertron and its city Iacon both appear in many other media and continuities. The crash of the Ark and the four-million-year slumber of its inhabitants likewise recur in several other versions of the Generation 1 story.
* The orange Seeker from the "welcoming committee", visible for all of about two seconds, was [[Retcon|retroactively established]] to be the neo-G1 character [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]].
[[Image:Cybertronlaserbeak.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
* We get a look at Cybertronian vehicle forms for Bumblebee, Wheeljack, Skywarp and Thundercracker, Jazz, Soundwave and Laserbeak. Soundwave's toy can totally be configured into that lamp-post mode.
* Trailbreaker's presence alongside Jazz and Prowl on Cybertron is just about the ''only'' indication of his "defense strategist" function in the cartoon.
* Three episodes from now, we will see that Shockwave was true to his word, and Cybertron has not changed one iota in four million years.
* The Decepticon vessel is last seen spiraling out of control, unpiloted, toward Earth. It will be rediscovered in the Season 2 episode "[[Microbots]]". The unnamed ship would finally be given a title almost 15 years later, when it was referred to as the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' in the [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|''Beast Wars'']] episode "[[Nemesis Part 1]]".
* The events of the ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon take place during the 4 million years in which the Autobots and Decepticons lie dormant in the wreckage of the Ark... a time frame covered by about 5 seconds of footage in this episode.
[[Image:Sky Spy.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
* As the satellite-like probe (later dubbed a [[Sky Spy]]) leaves the Ark, we see a city skyline in the distance. While the cartoon's animation could never make up its mind about what was around the crashed ship (oceanside cliffs? desert? forests and rivers?), one might take this city to be [[Central City (Earth)|Central City]], later established to have jurisdiction over the land where the Autobot ship rests.
[[Image:MTME1 Reflector camera.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yep, pretty clearly an SLR.]]
[[Image:Ratchetg1cartoon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Repair bay optional.]]
* Gadgets and powers:
** Wheeljack deploys a pair of tiny spinning blades from his front bumper, which lets him... drive through fire?
** Laserbeak spies with a pair of cylindrical doodads that come out of the side of his head.
** Rumble demonstrates his earth-quake-making power, which consists of banging the ground with a couple of big pile drivers that replace his arms. This will become one of the cartoon's most frequently-seen special powers, to the point that it eventually would carry over to the Marvel comics as well. (This power also seems to exclude Rumble himself from its effects, as the ground under him never cracks open.)
** Hound pops out a little wrist radar dish that lets him hear what the Decepticons are saying from some distance away.
** Soundwave can display graphics — the space cruiser, in this case — on his chest door.
** Cliffjumper somehow stores on his person a gun that's as big as he is. We don't want to know how he does this. Although it does look like it's collapsible.
** He also has a little cannon that pops out of his vehicle mode's backside. In the original script, this was his [[glass gas]] gun, but in the completed episode, it's merely a laser. His line "it's a gas!" hints at this earlier version, but is rendered out-of-place by the new visuals.
** Laserbeak can launch one of his cannons and have it chase down Autobots on its own.
** Ratchet is shown splitting into his robot form and his repair bay; however, the repair bay is never seen again.
** Reflector, being a super-advanced space robot, can take a photograph and instantly spit out a paper print of the resulting image. Instant photographs?! It must be THE FUTURE!
** Starscream "activates the <s>noal</s> null ray", which freezes the device it's aimed at.
[[Image:Hauler01-sm.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Frank Lloyd ''Wrong''.]]
* A [[Grapple]]-like crane named Hauler is seen with Cliffjumper, recovering Hound; he's never seen again, however. Fans have speculated that this was to be an earlier release of Grapple's toy, aborted for reasons unknown.
* [[Energon cube]]s make their first appearance here. They have to be compressed before they convert the fuel they have been filled with into energon, at which point they glow a sort of yellowish-white iridescent-y rainbow-y sort of color. The "compressing a stack" aspect of the cubes was quickly done away with after the pilot mini-series, but the rainbow-glow would stick around for a little while before being phased out in favor of a pink-purple coloration that became the standard representation of energon cubes down through ''Transformers'' history.

===Real-world references===
* ''The Transformers'' made heavy use of the sound effects library that sprung out of the movie ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''. Fans have a tendency to make tiresome shocked exclamations that Laserbeak sounds like a TIE Fighter; it is therefore instructive to catalog these sound effects, which are used ''far'' more extensively than just a couple of TIE engine roars. About half a dozen sound effects tend to appear in nearly every episode, and at least a dozen total are known to have been used on ''The Transformers''. In this episode:
** The sound of the Death Star firing to destroy Alderaan, and Alderaan's subsequent explosion, is used as Skywarp and Thundercracker strafe Bumblebee and Wheeljack, and again as they abandon their pursuit.
** The sound of the Seeker training sphere aboard the ''Millennium Falcon'', along with Luke's lightsaber humming and igniting, is used as Soundwave begins making energon cubes.
* We also get the lesser-used ''Star Trek'' sliding door sound effect as Soundwave sends Laserbeak after Hound and Cliffjumper.

===Foreign dubbing===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Im Weltraum verschollen'''" (''Generation 2'', "Lost in Space")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fuga da Cybertron'''" ("Escape from Cybertron"), "'''Molto più di quel che appare - I'''" (2008 dub, "More than Meets the Eye - I")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Chikyū e no Michi'''" (地球への道, "The Road to Earth")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[July 6]], [[1985]]
::*When [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] releases the [[Sky Spy]], additional narration describing the scene is added.
::*'''Cut:''' Immediately after [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] says, "Megatron, my leader, we are alive again", a few seconds of the close-up of him and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] staring at each other and the fade away into the next scene is cut. Megatron's line, "Quickly, we must revive the other Decepticons", followed by him carrying and dropping [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]], was also cut. The sequence resumes right after Megatron sets Reflector down next to [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]].
::*When the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] fires the ring of flame around [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] from his flame-thrower, he shouts out the name of his "special attack" in an traditional anime-style manner. It was called the "Fire Attack", by the way.

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mais do Que Os Olhos Veem Parte 1'''" (Brazil, "More than Meets the Eye part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ne vsjo tak prosto (Chast' 1)'''" (Не всё так просто (Часть 1), "Not All Is So Simple (Part 1)")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Serbian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Više nego što se vidi prvi deo'''" (''Generation 2'', Више него што се види први део, "More than Meets the Eye Part 1"), "'''Sile zla prvi deo'''" (''Generation 2'', Силе зла први део, "Forces of Evil Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

===Trivia===
*Scenes deleted from the original script to this episode include Ratchet working to repair Bumblebee's damage after he and Wheeljack return to Iacon; Rumble destroying a railroad trestle for more construction materials in addition to the power plant; Skywarp and Thundercracker grumbling about being stuck with grunt work as the Decepticons construct their temporary headquarters; Skywarp finding a frisbee and tossing it back and forth to Starscream before Megatron blasts it to bits; and a scene of Brawn, Huffer and Windcharger trying to fight the oil rig fire, only for the rig to collapse out from under them, setting up the opening scene of the next episode in which Huffer is caught in the wreckage. Other differences include Soundwave being the first Decepticon to be restored by Teletraan I, rather than Skywarp, and Teletraan I bouncing its beams off of human satellites, rather than using a [[Sky Spy]].

* Shockwave's appearance hints that Hasbro was already planning for expansion of the toyline. His toy was not among the initial 28 characters advertised by the 1984 Transformers catalog, yet there he is, making a short appearance that obviously sets up the possibility of future appearances. His toy would be one of the very first 1985 toys to see release, and his character would return in the very first post-pilot episode.

[[Image:Cartoon Cybertron Marvel Iacon case 1.jpg|350px|right|thumb|]]
* The episode ends with a preview of "Part 2". While other multi-part Transformers episodes generally refer to the episode by its title ("Next time, on ''The Transformers'': 'The Ultimate Doom'"), this preview uses the series title, ''The Transformers'', as "More Than Meets the Eye" is a retroactive name for the three-part episode, which began as a mini-series before becoming a regular program.

* Many later episodes would mine this one for recycled footage, particularly the line up of transforming Autobots near the end. Transformation sequences (with and without new backgrounds) from this episode appear in "[[Heavy Metal War]]", "[[Blaster Blues]]", and others. Optimus Prime's transformation sequence from this episode is used in ''dozens'' of episodes.

*Imagery of Cybertron from this episode was used to depict Iacon in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel story]] "[[And There Shall Come...a Leader!]]". Several buildings are clearly taken from the cartoon, and the most precious comparison has to be the tunnel entrance used by Wheeljack and Bumblebee to get energy conductors to the cartoon's dome-shaped Autobot headquarters, which is exactly the same as the one [[Fusion]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] used to get shatter bombs to the [[Great Dome]]. The only difference is that the next piece of road for Fusion and Bluestreak is the same road Wheeljack and Bumblebee drove over befóre entering the tunnel.

[[Image:G2DoubleTargetmasters.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The new RCA Colortrak, with Commercial-in-Commercial feature!]]
* The mid-80s [[Family Home Entertainment]] VHS release of "More Than Meets the Eye" was granted the [[wikipedia:Film Advisory Board|Film Advisory Board]] Award of Excellence, proudly displayed on the video box cover above. However, this particular "award" does not reflect the ''quality'' of any work submitted, but rather that the work is "family-friendly". Cheeky, that.

* The three parter was released on video in the United Kingdom in 1986 under the title "Arrival from Cybertron".

* Footage from the [[commercial]] featuring the Autobot [[Targetmaster|Double Targetmaster]] trio was spliced into the [[Generation 2 (cartoon)|Generation 2]] version of this episode by way of the [[Cybernet Space Cube]]. Outside of this, they never actually appeared in the cartoon.

* Footage from this episode was used to represent a historical video in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", the opening movie for ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]''.
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==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1985 — ''The Transformers'' — Volume 1: "More than Meets the Eye" ([[Family Home Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1986 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|A.M.T. Video Gems]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|V.I.P. Video Gems]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|Little Gems Junior Video Club]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: Generation 2'' — More than Meets the Eye ([[Malofilm|Seville Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Exclusively from Blockbuster ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;Laserdisc
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1994 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''The Transformers'' — Autobot Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers: Generation 2'' ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Original Series: Volume Two (Sony Wonder) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition (Sony Wonder) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — First Season Collector's Edition ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Volume One (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 1: Series 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — The Best of ''The Transformers'' (Madman Entertainment) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Episodes (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Classic Transformers'' — Series One: Part One (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[Image:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 01: Stagione Uno Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season One (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete First Season: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — More than Meets the Eye (Shout! Factory) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)

==External links==
* [http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/synopses/more_than_meets_the_eye_part_1.html Dossier at the Cybertron Chronicle]

[[Category:Generation 1 episodes]]
[[Category:Generation 2 episodes]]
[[Category:MSTF]]
[[Category:Pack-in material]]
[[Category:Universe (2008)]]

Transformers Disney Label

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'''''Disney Label''''' is a 2009 toyline in which [[TakaraTomy]] design Transformers toys based upon [[wikipedia:Disney|Disney]] characters.

==Figures==
<center><gallery>
Image:MickeyMouse-ColorToy.jpg|[[Mickey Mouse|Mickey Mouse Trailer]]
Image:Disneylabel_monochrome_mickey.jpg|Mickey Mouse Trailer Monochrome
Image:HalloweenMickey.JPG|Mickey Mouse Trailer Halloween Edition
Image:Donald_duck_transformer.jpg|[[Donald Duck|Donald Duck Holiday Vehicle]]
Image:Disneylabel_monochrome_donald.jpg|Donald Duck Holiday Vehicle Monochrome
Image:disneylabel_halloween_donald.jpg|Donald Duck Holiday Vehicle Halloween Version
Image:Buzz.jpg|[[Buzz Lightyear|Buzz Lightyear Spaceship]]
Image:Soon-silhouette.jpg|Buzz Lightyear Spaceship Cosmic Black
Image:Soon-silhouette.jpg|Buzz Lightyear Spaceship Gentei Version
</gallery></center>

==See also==
*[[Crossovers]]

{{stub}}
[[Category:Disney Label| ]]
[[Category:Japanese toylines]]
[[Category:Multi-property brands]]

Series

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|class="heading" colspan="6" style="background:#096;color:#fff;font-size:110%;padding:0;"|'''Series Information'''
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="34%"|'''''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]''''' 
[[The Transformers (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[List of Generation 1 comics|Comics]] | [[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]] | [[List of Generation 1 books|Books]] | [[Manga#Generation_1|Manga]] | [[Video games#Generation 1 games|Video Games]] | [[Online games#Generation 1 (Japanese)|Online Games]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="33%"|'''''[[The Headmasters (franchise)|The Headmasters]]''''' 
[[The Headmasters (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Headmasters (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[The Headmasters (manga)|Manga]] | [[Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|Video Game]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="33%"|'''''[[Beastformer]]s''''' 
[[Beastformer#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Beastformer#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]''''' 
[[Super-God Masterforce (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Super-God Masterforce (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Victory (franchise)|Victory]]''''' 
[[Victory (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Victory (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Victory (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]''''' 
[[Zone (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Cartoon]] | [[Zone (manga)|Manga]] | [[Zone (story page)|Story pages]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy]]''''' 
[[Return of Convoy (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Battlestars (manga)|Manga]] | [[The Battlestars (story page)|Story pages]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Operation Combination (franchise)|Operation Combination]]''''' 
[[Operation Combination (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Operation Combination (story page)|Story pages]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]''''' 
[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Generation 2 (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Comics]] | [[G-2 (pack-in comic)|Manga]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars (comic)|Comics]] | [[Beast Wars Metals (manga)|Manga]] | [[Video games#Beast Era games|Video Games]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Machine Wars]]''''' 
[[Machine Wars|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars II (franchise)|Beast Wars II]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars II (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers|Movie]] | [[Beast Wars II (manga)|Manga]] | [[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle|Video Game]] [[Beast Wars II Sausage|Sausage]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Animorphs]]''''' 
[[Animorphs|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Neo (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars Neo (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Machines]]''''' 
[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)#Transformers_Universe:_Featuring_The_Wreckers|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Mutant Beast Wars (toyline)|Mutant Beast Wars]]''''' 
[[Mutant Beast Wars (toyline)|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[1-2-3 Transformers]]''''' 
[[1-2-3 Transformers|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''''' 
[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Ultra Magnus...to the Rescue?|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[The Transformers: Micromaster|Micromaster]]''''' 
[[The Transformers: Micromaster#Toys|Toyline]] | [[The Transformers: Micromaster#Story|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[The Transformers Collection]]''''' 
[[The Transformers Collection|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]''''' 
[[Armada (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Armada (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Armada (comic)|Comics]] | [[Linkage (comic)|Manga]] | [[Transformers (PS2)|Video Game]] | [[Transformers Armada: The Energon Within|Online Game]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Expanded Universe]]''''' 
[[Expanded Universe|Toyline]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)#Transformers_Universe:_Featuring_The_Wreckers|Comic]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Commemorative Series]]''''' 
[[Commemorative Series|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[War Within (franchise)|The War Within]]''''' 
[[War Within (toyline)|"Toyline"]] | [[War Within (comic)|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers| Smallest Transforming Transformers]]''''' 
[[Smallest Transforming Transformers|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Go-Bots (franchise)|Go-Bots]]''''' 
[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Go-Bots (cartoon)|Cartoon]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Dinobots (toyline)|Dinobots]]''''' 
[[Dinobots (toyline)|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|''Universe'' (2003)]]''' 
[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]''''' 
[[Energon (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Energon (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Energon (comic)|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Alternators]]''''' 
[[Alternators#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Alternators#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Masterpiece]]''''' 
[[Masterpiece|Toyline]] | [[MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]''''' 
[[Robot Masters (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Robot Masters (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Robot Masters (pack-in comic)|Pack-in Manga]] | [[Robot Masters (online comic)|Online Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''''' 
[[Cybertron (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Cybertron (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Balancing Act|Comics]] | [[Galaxy Force (manga)|Manga]] | [[Online games#Cybertron|Online Games]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Hybrid Style]]''''' 
[[Hybrid Style|Toyline]] | [[Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version|Pack-in Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Timelines (franchise)|Timelines]]''''' 
[[Timelines (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Timelines (fiction)|Comic]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''''' 
[[Star Wars (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Star Wars (event)|"Fiction"]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]''''' 
[[Kiss Players (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Kiss Players (manga)|Manga]] | [[Kiss Players (radio drama)|Radio drama]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Reborn]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Reborn|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Reborn#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]''''' 
[[Classics (2006)|Toyline]] | [[Classics (2006)#Fiction|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Titanium Series]]''''' 
[[Titanium Series|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Movie (franchise)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]''' 
[[Movie (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] | [[Movie (comics)|Comics]] | [[Movie (books)|Books]] | [[Transformers The Game|Video Games]] | [[Transformers (Glu)|Mobile Game]] | [[Online games#Transformers (2007)|Online Games]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Diorama Story|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Encore|Transformers Encore]]''''' 
[[Encore|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Music Label]]''''' 
[[Music Label|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Sport Label]]''''' 
[[Sport Label|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''''' 
[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Transformers Animated (comic)|Comics]] | [[Transformers Animated (books)|Books]] | [[Transformers Animated: The Game|Video Game]] | [[Transformers Animated: Action Packs|Online Game]] | [[The Cool|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]]''''' 
<s>[[Transtech|Toyline]]</s> | [[Transcendent|Comics]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Henkei! Henkei! (franchise)|Henkei! Henkei!]]''''' 
[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Henkei! Henkei! (pack-in comic)|Pack-in Manga]] | [[Henkei! Henkei! (Comic Bun Bun)|Comic Bun Bun Manga]] | [[Henkei! Henkei! (Visualize)|Visualize shorts]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''''' 
[[Shattered Glass (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Shattered Glass (fiction)|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe'' (2008)]]''' 
[[Universe (2008 toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Universe (cartoon)|Cartoon]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Crossovers]]''''' 
[[Crossovers|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Disney Label]]''''' 
[[Disney Label|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]''' 
[[Alternity (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Alternity (franchise)#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Chrono Label]]''''' 
[[Chrono Label|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|''Revenge of the Fallen'']]''' 
[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Movie]] | [[Revenge of the Fallen (comics)|Comics]] | [[Revenge of the Fallen (books)|Books]] | [[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|Video Games]] | [[Online_games#Revenge_of_the_Fallen|Online Games]] | [[Cyber Missions|Cartoon]] | [[Unite for the Universe|Manga]]
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Device Label]]''''' 
[[Device Label|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers'' (2010)]]''' 
[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Rodimus vs. Cyclonus|Comic]]
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Power Core Combiners]]''''' 
[[Power Core Combiners|Toyline]]
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Generations (toyline)|Generations]]''''' 
[[Generations (toyline)|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)| War for Cybertron]]''''' [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[War for Cybertron games|Video Games]] | [[Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron|Novel]] | [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|Comic]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transformers United|United]]''''' 
[[Transformers United#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Transformers United#Fiction|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|''Prime'']]''' 
[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Transformers: Prime (comic)|Comics]]
|-
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]''''' 
[[Dark of the Moon (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Dark of the Moon (film)|Movie]] | [[Dark of the Moon (comics)|Comics]] | [[Dark of the Moon (books)|Books]] | [[Dark of the Moon (video games)|Video Games]]
|}
[[Category:Media]]

Series

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{|id="series" class="series" style="border:solid 1px #096;margin:1em auto;text-align:center;-moz-border-radius:.5em;-webkit-border-radius:.5em;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
|-
|class="heading" colspan="6" style="background:#096;color:#fff;font-size:110%;padding:0;"|'''Series Information'''
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="34%"|'''''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]''''' 
[[The Transformers (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[List of Generation 1 comics|Comics]] | [[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]] | [[List of Generation 1 books|Books]] | [[Manga#Generation_1|Manga]] | [[Video games#Generation 1 games|Video Games]] | [[Online games#Generation 1 (Japanese)|Online Games]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="33%"|'''''[[The Headmasters (franchise)|The Headmasters]]''''' 
[[The Headmasters (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Headmasters (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[The Headmasters (manga)|Manga]] | [[Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|Video Game]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="33%"|'''''[[Beastformer]]s''''' 
[[Beastformer#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Beastformer#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]''''' 
[[Super-God Masterforce (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Super-God Masterforce (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Victory (franchise)|Victory]]''''' 
[[Victory (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Victory (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Victory (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]''''' 
[[Zone (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Cartoon]] | [[Zone (manga)|Manga]] | [[Zone (story page)|Story pages]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy]]''''' 
[[Return of Convoy (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Battlestars (manga)|Manga]] | [[The Battlestars (story page)|Story pages]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Operation Combination (franchise)|Operation Combination]]''''' 
[[Operation Combination (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Operation Combination (story page)|Story pages]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]''''' 
[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Generation 2 (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Comics]] | [[G-2 (pack-in comic)|Manga]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars (comic)|Comics]] | [[Beast Wars Metals (manga)|Manga]] | [[Video games#Beast Era games|Video Games]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Machine Wars]]''''' 
[[Machine Wars|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars II (franchise)|Beast Wars II]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars II (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers|Movie]] | [[Beast Wars II (manga)|Manga]] | [[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle|Video Game]] [[Beast Wars II Sausage|Sausage]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Animorphs]]''''' 
[[Animorphs|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Neo (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars Neo (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Machines]]''''' 
[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)#Transformers_Universe:_Featuring_The_Wreckers|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Mutant Beast Wars (toyline)|Mutant Beast Wars]]''''' 
[[Mutant Beast Wars (toyline)|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[1-2-3 Transformers]]''''' 
[[1-2-3 Transformers|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''''' 
[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Ultra Magnus...to the Rescue?|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[The Transformers: Micromaster|Micromaster]]''''' 
[[The Transformers: Micromaster#Toys|Toyline]] | [[The Transformers: Micromaster#Story|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[The Transformers Collection]]''''' 
[[The Transformers Collection|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]''''' 
[[Armada (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Armada (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Armada (comic)|Comics]] | [[Linkage (comic)|Manga]] | [[Transformers (PS2)|Video Game]] | [[Transformers Armada: The Energon Within|Online Game]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Expanded Universe]]''''' 
[[Expanded Universe|Toyline]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)#Transformers_Universe:_Featuring_The_Wreckers|Comic]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Commemorative Series]]''''' 
[[Commemorative Series|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[War Within (franchise)|The War Within]]''''' 
[[War Within (toyline)|"Toyline"]] | [[War Within (comic)|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers| Smallest Transforming Transformers]]''''' 
[[Smallest Transforming Transformers|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Go-Bots (franchise)|Go-Bots]]''''' 
[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Go-Bots (cartoon)|Cartoon]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Dinobots (toyline)|Dinobots]]''''' 
[[Dinobots (toyline)|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|''Universe'' (2003)]]''' 
[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]''''' 
[[Energon (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Energon (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Energon (comic)|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Alternators]]''''' 
[[Alternators#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Alternators#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Masterpiece]]''''' 
[[Masterpiece|Toyline]] | [[MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]''''' 
[[Robot Masters (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Robot Masters (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Robot Masters (pack-in comic)|Pack-in Manga]] | [[Robot Masters (online comic)|Online Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''''' 
[[Cybertron (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Cybertron (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Balancing Act|Comics]] | [[Galaxy Force (manga)|Manga]] | [[Online games#Cybertron|Online Games]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Hybrid Style]]''''' 
[[Hybrid Style|Toyline]] | [[Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version|Pack-in Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Timelines (franchise)|Timelines]]''''' 
[[Timelines (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Timelines (fiction)|Comic]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''''' 
[[Star Wars (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Star Wars (event)|"Fiction"]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]''''' 
[[Kiss Players (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Kiss Players (manga)|Manga]] | [[Kiss Players (radio drama)|Radio drama]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Reborn]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Reborn|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Reborn#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]''''' 
[[Classics (2006)|Toyline]] | [[Classics (2006)#Fiction|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Titanium Series]]''''' 
[[Titanium Series|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Movie (franchise)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]''' 
[[Movie (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] | [[Movie (comics)|Comics]] | [[Movie (books)|Books]] | [[Transformers The Game|Video Games]] | [[Transformers (Glu)|Mobile Game]] | [[Online games#Transformers (2007)|Online Games]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Diorama Story|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Encore|Transformers Encore]]''''' 
[[Encore|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Music Label]]''''' 
[[Music Label|Toyline]]
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Talk:Optimus Prime vs Megatron: The Ultimate Battle

2011-03-16T15:52:22Z

169.139.222.5: /* Armada footage */ new section

[http://obscuretf.com/UltimateBattleTitle.jpg http://obscuretf.com/UltimateBattleTitle.jpg] --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 21:11, 15 November 2009 (EST)

== Additional versions ==

Hmm, my NZ-store bought copy appears to have an alternate cut! It has no footage from Armada at all - even [[:Image:UltimateBattleHotShot.jpg|the many bodies of Hot Shot image]] shows images of Hot Shot's Energon and Cybertron bodies only. Like the US version, it only has the English soundtrack, and it has the gallery of Classic toys. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:08, 16 November 2009 (EST)
:Huh. That would certainly explain why the page originally said there was no Armada footage in it; as far as I could tell by the history, the people who edited the page to that effect were Australians or New Zealanders. This should definitely be noted ''somewhere''... I still need to add the rest of the standard episode subheaders, too.

:I think I'm going to stick the "reused footage" section at the end of the article, because it's just going to get longer, and that's going to obscure the rest of the info. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 01:18, 16 November 2009 (EST)

==Credits==
I want to add these under the video box cover, but I don't know whether all these titles are available as part of our template system, and I've had bad luck trying to edit the template in the past, so... if someone could add these, that'd be great.

Creative Consultants: Aaron Archer, Gregory Lombardo, Michael Verrecchia, Michael Ballog

Associate Producer: Joshua Izzo

Writer & Producer: David McDermott

Executive Producer: Steve Drucker

Post-Production Services Provided By D-Spot Post

Those are the only credits directly related to The Ultimate Battle; the rest of the credit sequence is just the Energon, Armada, and Cybertron end credits (in that order!), sped up. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 02:56, 16 November 2009 (EST)

== Versus ==

Why is "VS" in capitals like that? It should be "Vs" (or maybe "Vs.") because it's a contraction, not an acronym. - [[User:Magnus Maximus|Magnus Maximus]] 17:50, 24 November 2009 (EST)

== Not a DVD? WTF? ==
"Its actaully not a DVD, and only works on computers"

Uh, it IS a DVD and it works just fine on 2 of my regular DVD players (A samsung one and a car mounted one from WalMart.) I thought I'd ask about this before changing the article lede. -- [[User:G1MarvelBlaster|G1MarvelBlaster]] 16:52, 13 August 2010 (EDT)
:Works just fine on my DVD player as well. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 18:55, 13 August 2010 (EDT)

== Armada footage ==

Okay, I need some context here. I just watched this whole thing on YouTube and not once was there any footage of Armada being shown in any part of this video. Only Cybertron and Energon footage. Even the Hot Shot body comparison was different, not only lacking his Armada body but the images of his Energon and Cybertron bodies differed from we see in [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:UltimateBattleHotShot.jpg this image]. Could someone check this out and clue me in on what the deal is with the use/lack of use of Armada footage? Here's the video split across three parts. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0FMiIKWQZw] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDO9kC2ko_E] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFl0mEsK_NM] -- A very confused Sabrblade (can't log in right now)

Subline imprint

2011-03-14T17:15:31Z

169.139.222.5: /* Subline imprints for Transformers series */

[[Image:EnergonPerceptorPackagingVariant.jpg|right|280px|thumb|Fools [[Walmart]]'s buying agents every single time.]]A '''subline imprint''' is a partial [[Rebranding|re-branding]] of a [[franchise]]—typically with a sub-title reflecting a theme or gimmick running through the entire franchise.

Examples include "Battle for the Spark" during ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' and [[AllSpark Power]] for [[Movie (toyline)|the 2007 movie]]. United States airings of the second season of the [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|''Beast Machines'' cartoon]] were re-titled to feature the subline imprint - though not the Canadian or UK versions, nor any of the DVDs - while the "Allspark Power" toys occupy a loose umbrella story which occurs after the events of the movie.

{{-}}

==Game Theory==
[[Image:Retailbuyer decisiontree.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Bulk purchasing agents find re-hashed merchandise more attractive offered under a subline imprint.]]
Purchasing agents known as "buyers" make purchasing decisions for hundreds of American retail stores, making their best guess what products will sell and how many while trying to avoid being stuck with the dreaded "old product" ([[Shelfwarmer|unsold toys]]) when the toyline ends.

Buyers purchase many toys from early waves reasoning that even if the toyline flops these will sell ''eventually'' over the line's (hopeful) year-to-eighteen-month "lifetime." Toys in later [[wave]]s (eight-ish) represent a higher risk because they have only a six month window to sell, and tend not to be purchased as heavily. As a result, toy companies spend less money developing later waves, often heavily featuring [[redeco]]s and [[retool]]s, making them even ''less'' attractive to retailers.

For their part, consumers try to avoid purchasing the pegwarmers and shelfwarmers left over as a toyline winds down, but lacking the encyclopedic product knowledge known only to buyers, [[fandom|fans]] and small children, they learn to suspiciously avoid any packaging they recognize from the ''last'' birthday/[[Christmas]]/Kwaanza etc. (again making later-wave toys less attractive to retailers.)

A subline imprint refreshes the packaging for consumers (orange may become bright green in the same layout) while assuring the regional buyers that "No, seriously, this is a ''new'' toyline, you should purchase it more heavily!" Buyers aren't particularly ''fooled'' by this argument, but the re-branding is understood to be a sign that the toy companies have invested in these tail-end waves rather than filled them with junk, making larger retailer purchases a safer investment.

==Subline imprints for ''Transformers'' series==
*''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'': [[Battle for the Spark]]
*''[[Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'': [[The Unicron Battles]]
*''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'': [[The Powerlinx Battles]]
*''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'': [[Primus Unleashed]]
*''[[Movie (toyline)|Movie]]'' (2007): [[AllSpark Power]], [[Premium Series]]
*''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'': [[N.E.S.T. Global Alliance]]
*''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' (2010): [[Reveal the Shield]]
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Rhinox (BW)

2011-03-02T17:48:01Z

169.139.222.5: /* Beast wars Diorama Story */

{{factions|maximal|predacon|vehicon}}
{{disambig3|Rhinox}}
:''Rhinox is a [[Maximal]] (and occasionally a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] or [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]) from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Rhinoxbw.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"I will usher in a new age of technological perfecti — er, I mean, yay, pretty flowers."]]
[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] was on the mark when he said that '''Rhinox''' was the best of them. He's a Renaissance Bot. Intelligent, massive, strong, and stalwart, there are few Maximals one could depend on more. Rhinox is of a rare breed -- he's incredibly tech savvy, but mystically-inclined... without coming off as a burnt-out technohippie. He's quick and decisive in a crisis, with spectacular results, but is slow and steady. He loves to sniff the flowers. A behind-the-scenes charismatic and an on-his-feet strategist, he could lead the Maximals if he wanted to, but he doesn't.

If he sounds too good to be true, it's because he just might be. At times he can be borderline obsessive and single-minded. The Maximals are glad he's on their side, because if he ever had a change of heart, woe be to them. No, woe be to the ''galaxy''.

Still, you can't help but love a bot who can fight Megatron to a standstill without breaking a sweat yet would rather take a nap in a patch of daisies. Rhinox considers [[Rattrap]] to be his best friend, though he also has a close friendship with [[Optimus Primal]]. He appears to have some "older sibling/parental" emotions toward [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] due to his role in bringing her online.

Rhinox's only weapons—besides his rather intimidating strength—are his twin chainguns, affectionately named "Chainguns of Doom" by the fans.

Rhinox's core was an integral part of the evil [[Vehicon general]] [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]].

{{bigquote|Make a device to extract molecular structure from an alien probe... man, I gotta be a miracle worker!|Rhinox|"[[Chain of Command]]"}}

==Fiction==
===First wave toy bios===
Rhinox is a territorial warrior who stampedes his way through the jungle whenever Predacons draw near, crushing everything in his path. Although he is known to be courageous and cunning, what makes him stand out from other warriors is that he has never been injured. EVER. Even though he has never backed down from a fight, his triple-thick, steel-plated skin protects him from all harm, even double-barreled laser cannons (which are presumably very powerful weapons). {{storylink|Rhinox (BW)#Toys|Rhinox bio}}

{{note|The on-package [[bio]]s of the first wave of Beast Wars toys, predate the development of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon and its backstory. They seem to present the characters as a direct continuation of the previous Autobot/Decepticon conflict, with Optimus Primal actually being a new form of Optimus Prime and Megatron being his Generation 1 counterpart, and their battles taking place on present day, [[human]]-inhabited Earth, rather than in the distant past. Once the cartoon launched, the toyline adjusted itself to match that continuity instead, relegating this one to an aborted [[micro-continuity]].}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
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====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Richard Newman]] (English), [[Daiki Nakamura]] (Japanese), [[Felipe D'inardo]] (Portuguese), [[Hervé Joly]] (French), [[Maurizio Trombini]] (Italian), [[Gerhard Marcel]] (German), [[Miguel Angel Ghigliaazza]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Vicente Gisbert]] (Castilian Spanish)
[[Image:BeastWarsPt1 Primal and Rattrap ride Rhinox.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Right, I've changed my mind: Optimus, become a damn truck."]]
Rhinox was a crewmember of the exploration ship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' when captain Optimus Primal got word that the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] criminal [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] had stolen the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] and a [[Darksyde|ship]] with [[transwarp]] capabilities. The ''Axalon'' was the closest vessel that also possessed a transwarp drive, so Rhinox's ship was sent to engage them. After following the Predacons through a transwarp portal and appearing above a mysterious planet, both ships were damaged in the ensuing space battle, and before both ships crashed into the planet's surface below, the [[stasis pod]]s carrying the rest of Rhinox's crew were ejected into orbit.

The planet was rich with [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] — so much so that prolonged exposure would short out their bodies, so the Maximals and Predacons were forced to take organic forms from the local creatures. Rhinox took the form of a rhinoceros. He soon took part in a rescue mission to retrieve [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] after the young Maximal ran into the Predacons, and forced [[Rattrap]] to give Primal cover. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

During Optimus's battle with [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], Rhinox pulled the pair to safety after they almost plunged off a ledge. The Maximals subsequently were forced to tail the Predacons, and when Dinobot almost accidentally slagged Rhinox, it caused the ex-Predacon and Rattrap to come to blows. The two factions eventually reached the mountain topped with energon and fought over it while in their beast modes, until Megatron ended up destroying it. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}}

[[Image:TheWeb Rhinox closeup.jpg|thumb|right|220px|"Bah, stuck in the base ''again''! To get more scenes, I need some sort of ''weapon''... a really ''impressive'' one..."]]
Being the handyman of the crew, Rhinox quickly developed a new comlink to overcome the problems with energon interference. After Cheetor got into trouble while testing it, Rattrap gave the cat a hard time, causing him to race off, and Rhinox pointed out that Cheetor was about to do something stupid. {{storylink|The Web}} Rhinox's next developments were some energon monitoring devices, though Optimus initially scrubbed the mission to install them. After Cheetor went anyway, and a series of events almost destroyed the Maximal base, Rhinox and the other Maximals thanked Cheetor for preventing the explosion. {{storylink|Equal Measures}}

[[Image:ChainofCommand Rhinox with chaingun.jpg|thumb|left|240px|-OF DOOM.]]
Rhinox had to dive for safety during a battle at the [[Standing Stones]], after [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] blew up the energon cache at its center. After Primal went missing, Rhinox had to break up a fight between Dinobot and Rattrap over who would lead, insisting on a secret ballot. The ballot ended in a deadlock, but they were then contacted by Primal, who'd become trapped in an [[Vok probe|alien probe]] at the Standing Stones. Rattrap was placed in charge during the bossmonkey's absence, and his command to Rhinox was to build a device to extract Optimus from the probe. Whether or not this device would actually have worked is unknown, as shortly before he had a chance to use it, Rhinox was ambushed by [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], but turned the tables by blasting the Predacon with his chaingun. Waspinator stumbled into a stone, and Rhinox realised the whole structure was a mechanism as it caused the probe to disgorge Optimus Primal. {{storylink|Chain of Command}}

When Cheetor reported that [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] had found a [[flying mountain]], Rhinox theorized that the high concentration of energon on the top of it might be responsible for the strange gravity-warping effect. {{storylink|Power Surge}} After Primal was taken out by a Predacon sneak attack, Rhinox, Cheetor and Rattrap headed for a crashed stasis pod. The trio were delayed further, and beaten to the pod, however the [[protoform]] had already been awakened as [[Tigatron]]. {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}} Like the other Maximals, Rhinox was shocked by Rattrap's apparent defection to the Predacons, but as it turned out, it was a ploy to discover how the Predacons had been spying on the Maximals, and they were soon rescuing their comrade. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}}

Rhinox later developed [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]], a hi-tech security system for the Axalon, which unfortunately went berserk when its control panel was damaged in a struggle between [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] and [[Rattrap]], forcing the Maximals from their own base. Rattrap however, was able to infiltrate the now-heavily guarded ship and deactivate Sentinel, which was then repaired and made fully-functional by Rhinox. {{storylink|A Better Mousetrap}} The Maximals were forced to restrain Optimus after he was infected by a rage virus in a [[cyberbee]] developed by [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] and Rhinox was unable to work out how to remove it. After Primal undertook a one-bot assault on the Predacon base, Rhinox took part in the mission to rescue their leader, laying down suppressing fire to allow Cheetor to slip inside the base. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}}

[[Image:Victory Rhinox sit down.jpg|thumb|right|260px]]
He was unsuccessful in contacting a Maximal [[temporal probe]] which flew past the planet. Though he blamed himself, he and the other Maximals rallied themselves to build a communications array on Predacon soil. Unfortunately while they were doing so, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]'s latest invention the [[transformation lock lens]], prevented them from sending the signal before Megatron destroyed the array. {{storylink|The Probe}} When a Predacon plan to fake a Maximal victory was exposed, Rhinox was dismayed when Optimus and Cheetor insisted on leaving the ''Axalon'' with liftoff imminent in order to rescue Dinobot. Tigatron attempted to go as well, leading Rhinox to order him to sit down. Liftoff eventually occurred without Primal, however Megatron got on board and damaged the controls. Rhinox attempted to control the ship and, with some assistance from Optimus, managed to get it down at least in one piece, though it would never fly again. {{storylink|Victory (episode)|Victory}}

[[Image:DarkDesigns Rhinox monologues.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Evil has silver detailing. Who knew?]]
Some time later, when the Maximals found themselves cornered by a Predacon ambush, Rhinox was able to take out their attackers with a carefully aimed spray of chaingun fire. Megatron was so impressed that he decided to make Rhinox a member of his merry band of thieves, by force. Rhinox was captured by Tarantulas and then reprogrammed into a Predacon by a device designed by Megatron called a "[[Transmuter (BW)|Transmuter]]". However, the newly malevolent Rhinox proved to be too much for Megatron to handle, as Optimus Primal had correctly predicted. He quickly dispatched most of the Predacons, working his way up to Megatron himself in an attempted coup. Rhinox very nearly succeeded, but fortunately, Megatron was able to revert him back into a Maximal using the Transmuter, and Rhinox escaped to rejoin his Maximal comrades and smell some flowers. {{storylink|Dark Designs (episode)|Dark Designs}}

The Maximals arrived back at base after being sent on wild goose chases by Megatron's [[Clone One|clone of Dinobot]], only to find that the clone had already been dealt with by the real Dinobot. {{storylink|Double Dinobot}} Later, a stasis pod crash landed in a barren wasteland. Rhinox intercepted it and, with [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]'s help, managed to save the protoform Maximal's [[spark]]. The protoform then became [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], who repaid the favor by saving the weakened Rhinox from Terrorsaur. {{storylink|The Spark}}

While Rhinox was communicating long distance with Tigatron, his fellow Maximal was attacked by Waspinator and Terrorsaur, leading the Maximals to discover the existence of a [[Brigadoon|flying island]]. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 1}} [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] took control of the island and piloted it towards the ''Axalon'', forcing Rhinox, Cheetor and Dinobot to evacuate the base. The only thing Rhinox took with him was a potted plant. When the island's destruction sent a beam into space, the Maximals wondered who received the signal and what they'd do next. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 2}}

At one point, a [[magna pulse]] triggered by Tarantulas knocked out the power in the Maximal base, and Optimus Primal left Rhinox struggling to get things working again. {{storylink|Spider's Game}} The loss of the ''Axalon''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[rectifier coil]] forced the Maximals to stay in their beast forms at all times, which resulted in their beast instincts taking over and sending them off to wander the jungle. It was only with Tigatron's help that they deleted the programming blocks separating their core programming, and they were able to fight the Predacons who were hunting them. {{storylink|Call of the Wild}}

[[Image:Dark Voyage Rhinox listening.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Rhinox's Yoga phase]]
When Scorponok detonated a pile of energon near a group of Maximals, rendering them blind, it was Rhinox who led the group on the dangerous trek back to the Axalon, teaching them how to use their other senses. They were able to overcome the obstacles both nature and the Predacons could throw at them, and succeeded in reaching safety. Afterwards, Rhinox again went off to smell some flowers. {{storylink|Dark Voyage}} After the Maximals were ousted from their base by the Predacons assisted by a [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]-possessed Waspinator, they attempted a ruse to get the ''Axalon'' back, resulting in Rhinox and the others mounting an assault on the Predacon base. {{storylink|Possession}}

Later, Tarantulas infected Rhinox with an [[energon discharge virus]], which made him expel his energon reserves via his nasal passages in bursts powerful enough to tear through the hull of the Axalon, threatening both to destroy the Maximals' base and completely drain Rhinox of energy. Rattrap and Dinobot were dispatched to acquire a countervirus, while Rhinox ate some wild bean vines to keep his strength up. When the bickering duo nearly failed in their mission, the other Maximals, including Rhinox, showed up, and the rhinoceros blew away the Predacons with a massive energon... *ahem* "derriere-based"... discharge which was caused by his ingestion of wild beans. Megatron would remember this moment as the most humiliating defeat in his entire career. Rhinox was later cured by the countervirus via a Cybertronic beer hat. {{storylink|The Low Road}}

After Megatron called a truce, Rhinox assisted "non-violently" in helping Tigatron escape after infiltrating the Predacon base to find out more information. He non-violently held up a sheet of metal for Terrorsaur to crash into, and then non-violently sat on him. Tigatron reported that the aliens were coming. {{storylink|Before the Storm}} Indeed, an alien construct appeared and, while the other Maximals were investigating it, Rhinox and Dinobot were bushwhacked in the Maximal base by Tarantulas and Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 1}} The rest of the Maximals found their two comrades webbed to the ceiling, and placed them in [[CR chamber]]s. Rhinox stirred in his chamber as he sensed Primal's impending destruction. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}}

[[Image:ComingFuzors2 Rhinox searches for Primal.jpg|thumb|left|240px]]
Protected by the CR chamber, Rhinox avoided being upgraded into a [[Transmetal]] by the [[quantum surge]]. After recovering, he took leadership of the Maximals to forestall any bickering and sent Rattrap and Cheetor out to protect the base against Megatron. Unfortunately Inferno was already loose in the base, and managed to blast Rhinox before fighting Dinobot. Rhinox quickly recovered, throwing a badly-battered Inferno out and forcing Megatron to retreat. {{storylink|Aftermath}} Rhinox later initiated a dangerous plan to bring the recently-deceased Optimus Primal back to life by using the hole in space-time caused by the destruction of the Planet Buster to astrally project his spark into the [[Allspark|Matrix]]. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} Rhinox followed the transion left by Primal's spark and led it back to the land of the living, where it was reborn as Transmetal Optimus Primal. Primal was able to come to the aid of the Maximals right when they were on the verge of defeat. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

[[Image:OtherVisits2 Rhinox emerges from chamber.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Ohhhhhh... What ''had'' I been taking in that last screencap?"]]
Rhinox conducted tests on Optimus Primal to attempt to determine what the new Transmetal forms were capable of, with limited results. {{storylink|Tangled Web}} His research into the alien sites predicted that there would be one located in an area Tigatron and Airazor were patrolling, however a Predacon jamming tower prevented the Maximals from warning the pair, who were shot into space by some sort of alien planet device. While the others were off the base, Rhinox was attacked by Megatron, Blackarachnia and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], who made off with the [[Golden Disk (Vok)|Golden Disk]]. After repairs, Rhinox and the other Maximals went to the alien site, only to be blasted by the alien construct that appeared. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 1)}} The Transmetaled Maximals recovered quickly, and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] and Cheetor took Rhinox and Dinobot back to base for repairs. Rhinox was barely recovered when he was again pressed into action, attacking the [[Metal Hunter|alien construct]] which Megatron had taken over, to allow Rattrap and Tarantulas to slip inside. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 2)}}

When [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]]'s stasis pod was discovered, Rhinox worried that its contents had survived the crash. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} Rhinox calculated that the [[transwarp wavefront]] from the Planet Buster explosion would soon be reaching [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], though the good news was tempered a short time later when Dinobot perished saving a group of [[protohuman]]s from the Predacons. {{storylink|Code of Hero}} Rhinox's tests on [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]] were not promising, and he suggested putting the creature in stasis. Silverbolt wasn't happy with the suggestion. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

[[Image:Agenda3 Rhinox forcing door.jpg|left|230px|thumb|"Hey Rhinox, we just found the garage door opener after all... never mind."]]
Continuing to track the transwarp wavefront, Rhinox and the other Maximals celebrated their impending rescue, however instead they got Predacon agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. After fighting off the Predacons, Ravage helped the Maximals storm the ''Darksyde'' and arrest Megatron. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} With Ravage's defection, Rhinox and Rattrap found themselves under heavy assault in the ''Axalon''. Some daring-do on Rattrap's part saved the day, but the Maximals had to chase Megatron. Rhinox was forced to ride on Primal's surfboard, much to his visible discomfort at the height. They tracked Megatron to [[Mount St. Hilary]], where the Predacon leader had located the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and attempted to reach the ship first. Though Rhinox physically forced the ship's doors open, they were too late — Megatron had blasted [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], causing a [[time storm]] as history began to change. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

With Blackarachnia's help, the Maximals stabilised Prime ad Rhinox stayed to supervise the repairs while the others went to defend the ''Axalon''. His work was interrupted by Silverbolt's "situation" — Blackarachnia had been shot by Megatron during the conflict, but as Rhinox pointed out, she just needed repairs. The ''Axalon'', on the other hand, was lost, and the Maximals were forced to set up base in the cavern housing the Ark. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

Rhinox had difficulties interfacing Maximal and [[Autobot]] technology, and expressed doubts that help was still on the way, though it did turn up in the form of [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who'd come looking for [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]. {{storylink|Deep Metal}} An attempt by Rhinox to rig up [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]]'s force field to protect the base failed, forcing the Maximals to attempt to salvage Sentinel. He later had to restrain Rattrap from trying to attack Depth Charge, who had caused the mission to fail. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

[[Image:CuttingEdge Rhinox chainguns.jpg|thumb|right|230px|You wouldn't like him when he's angry.]]
Analysing the [[cyber raptor]] which Primal had encountered, Rhinox reported that it was fused with Transmetal technology. Once the others had all left the base, he and Rattrap found themselves under siege from Megatron and a group of Predacons. Rhinox finally made a desperate attempt to see them off with a barrage of chaingun fire, only to be blasted backwards. Depth Charge fortunately came to the rescue and saved them both. {{storylink|Cutting Edge}}

When the Maximals thought that Cheetor had been killed, Rhinox told Primal not to give up hope, and went to get the long-range sensors online. As it turned out, his optimism was correct, as Cheetor later turned up outside the base. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}} After Cheetor was apparently spirited away overnight by a strange creature, Silverbolt and Blackarachnia went out looking, but to Rhinox's surprise, didn't find anything. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}

[[Image:CrossingtheRubicon Rhinox operating.jpg|thumb|left|240px|"Everyone, shut up! I'm finally gonna beat the first level of ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]!''"]]
Rhinox scanned Blackarachnia's internals, with a view to extracting her Predacon [[shell program]] and restoring her to a Maximal state. Some time later, he and Primal discovered that she had overheard their conversation about the concept, and fled in the belief they'd force her to go through with it. {{storylink|Proving Grounds}} A huge buildup of energy on a mountain top caused alarm for the Maximals, who braced for a possible attack, but all that happened was that the top of the mountain exploded. How odd. {{storylink|Go with the Flow}}

When Blackarachnia's attempts to become a Transmetal caused her shell program to deteriorate, threatening to erase her core consciousness, Rhinox carried out a very delicate procedure to surgically remove the shell program directly. Unfortunately, certain failsafes installed by Tarantulas, combined with a Predacon attack, caused the operation to fail. Fortunately, Blackarachnia was mysteriously resurrected anyway by the [[Transmetal driver]]. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} Megatron's next gambit involved [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] remote controlling Optimus Primal. Once this was achieved, the subverted Primal's first order was for Rhinox to order everyone back to base, where Quickstrike was able to knock them out and stick them in a cage. Fortunately Blackarachnia was able to free Primal and the others and they fought off Megatron, who had upgraded himself using the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s spark. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

[[Image:Nemesis2 Rhinox yelling in shuttle.jpg|thumb|right|250px|'''I AM NOT GETTING AGGRESSIVE!!!!''']]
Detecting an alien signature inbound to Earth, Rhinox realised that it meant that Tigatron and Airazor were coming back. Indeed, the Predacon base was soon destroyed by [[Tigerhawk]], the emissary the [[Vok]] had created using the two Maximal sparks, though Rhinox wasn't in the mood for celebrating. {{storylink|Other Victories}} Once the situation was sorted out, the Maximals began searching for Megatron and his scattered forces. Rhinox monitored the situation from base, as the others discovered that Megatron was attempting to raise the [[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]. He and Rattrap were overjoyed when Primal reported that Depth Charge had taken out the warship, but it turned out the news was a little too premature. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

Rhinox was ordered by Optimus Primal to execute [[Operation Eternity]], which apparently only Primal and he knew about. The purpose of the operation was to "move the Ark" by activating its engines and taking off; little is know beyond that, because the Maximals failed when the Ark's engines proved beyond repair. However, [[Dinobot II]] downloaded emergency data to the Ark about an [[Autobot Shuttle Omega Delta|Autobot shuttle]] hidden within the Ark. Rhinox piloted the shuttle and flew it directly into the bridge of the Nemesis, taking down Megatron and causing the warship to spiral out of control and crash somewhere beyond the horizon. Thus, the Beast Wars were won. Rhinox and the other Maximals left prehistoric Earth aboard the aforementioned Autobot shuttle and began the voyage home to Cybertron. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}
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====Beast Wars Diorama Story====

{{note|This fiction takes place shortly after the events of ''[[Possession]]''.}}

Rhinox eventually met up with several [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s from [[Transformers (2007)|another dimension]]. A battle broke out between the Maximals, Predacons, Autobots and Decepticons. The other-dimensional Transformers eventually returned to their place of origin and the Beast Wars continued as they were. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story}}

====''Tales of the Beast Wars''====
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====Transmetal Toy Bio====
Following the quantum surge, Rhinox found himself in a new Transmetal body, and couldn't be happier; thanks to his new vehicle mode, his new body is a lot faster then his previous one. One of his new battle moves involves pulling off wheelies on the battlefield. Furthermore, the semi-organic nature of his robot mode granted him additional fluidity and skill in combat.{{storylink|Rhinox (BW)#Toys|Transmetal Rhinox Bio}}
{{note|The on-package [[Bio|bios]] of the Transmetal sub-line presented a micro-continuity where all of the characters receiving a new toy were transmetalized due to the initial quantum surge, instead of a select few.}}
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====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
Rhinox stood outside the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] as [[Razorbeast]]'s [[Chronal phase|chronically dispaced]] Maximals passed by. Although Optimus Primal could vaguely sense their presence, Rhinox theorized that the sensation was just a side-effect of Primal's recent upgrades. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}

After his (very) later death, Rhinox was reborn by the [[Vok]] and traveled the multiverse. He's supposedly fighting [[Unicron]]'s chaos, but knows the Vok really want him to manipulate Cybertronian history; however, out of guilt for his actions as Tankor, he still helps any Cybertronian he comes across. He's probably [[Rhinox (Armada)|some other guy]] now. {{storylink|Beast Wars Sourcebook}}
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====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
{{Note|The following takes place after the events of "[[Master Blaster]]"}}
Not long after Megatron combined his spark with that of the original Megatron, he had Quickstrike plant a device in the Maximal base. The device magnified the Maximals' aggression, resulting in Rhinox trying to kill Blackarachnia while Silverbolt attempted to stop him. While Silverbolt failed, Optimus Primal arrived in time to pin Rhinox down, only to succumb to the device's effects himself. Primal was soon able to overcome the effect, and freed the rest of the Maximals who then fought off Megatron. {{storylink|A Meeting of Minds}}
{{Note|The following takes places after the events of "[[Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege]]"}}
After Tankor's death, Rhinox' spark and consciousness were cleansed and rejoined the Matrix. When Megatron was defeated by Nightscream {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege}}, Rhinox saw an opportunity to redeem the fallen tyrant, and attempted to act as a spirit guide. Rhinox led Megatron through the ascending layers of Transformer afterlife ''(which is actually a tree!)'', urging him to leave behind his fixation on worldly power. Megatron was briefly tempted, but his repeated returns to Cybertron {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} convinced him that godhood was still within his reach. Tapping into the power of the Oracle, Megatron erases Rhinox' spark, killing him utterly. Very upsetting. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}
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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Richard Newman]] (English), [[Daiki Nakamura]] (Japanese), [[Gerald Paradies]] (German)

{{see|Tankor (BM)}}
[[Image:Revelations3 Rhinox vision.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Rhinox suffers the horrors of symbolism.]]

Rhinox returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with the surviving Maximals to discover the entire population had been replaced by mindless [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon drones]] created by Megatron. {{storylink|The Reformatting}}

Rhinox, like the other Maximals, was exposed to Megatron's [[Transformation virus|virus]] at this point. Although the [[Transmetal]] Maximals merely reverted back to their original shapes, the Maximals who were still ''in'' their original shapes were instantly paralyzed. As a result, Rhinox and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] were captured, stripped of their organic bodies and placed in the new bodies of [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] and [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]]. Much later on, Rhinox's mind was freed by Optimus' spark connection with him, and he watched and observed, eventually turning his back on his Maximals to go along with Megatron's cause of a purely technological, one-mind Cybertron. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse}}

Rhinox pretended to still be Tankor and sneaked around Megatron's ranks, reprogramming the [[Diagnostic Drone]] as his agent. He'd decided Megatron's ''cause'' was right, but it needed a different, more efficient person at the helm... someone like ''him''. He went off to fulfil this new mission, in a highly malevolent and sadistic manner. {{storylink|Survivor}}

[[Image:BeastMachinesRhinoxFuneral.JPG|left|180px|thumb|Optimus struggles with the "make-your-own Transformer" toy.]]

Rhinox went looking for the legendary [[Key to Vector Sigma]] that was supposed to turn organic life into technomatter. He found it, took control of it, and then faked his death. {{storylink|The Key}} Now on the underground and spying on both sides, he used the Diagnostic Drone to reveal the Key had been discovered, intending for Megatron to use it on himself (to eradicate his beast mode) and go insane in the process. When this didn't work, he set it up so Rattrap would find and use a catalyst program that would cause mutant plant-life to erupt in [[Cybertropolis]], scaring Megatron into arming the [[Tank Drone]]s with copies of the Key... {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

[[Image:TankorRhinox Spark.jpg|right|150px|thumb|]]

...only to find he no longer had remote control of the drones, and would need to trick Megatron into using them instead. By this point, he'd already been tampering with the Oracle (an interface for Vector Sigma) and used it to trick Optimus into finding the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] that could destroy all technology. While he (wrongly) thought Primal would never use it, he knew Megatron would never take the chance! Unfortunately for him, he overplayed his hand: Megatron thought Optimus wouldn't use it either, grew suspicious with the Diagnostic Drone pushing him to strike first, and disabled it. Rhinox decided to launch an ambush assault and take out both enemy leaders while they were fighting... only to find, whoops, Megatron had programmed his generals to be ''incapable'' of shooting him. Rhinox was swiftly offlined, his plan stolen by Megatron, and then killed by plasma energy: a humiliating demise. {{storylink|End of the Line|End of the Line}}

Rhinox's spiritual form appeared once more with Optimus in the Matrix, bidding his friend farewell and to telling him to embrace his Spark. For his sins, he told Optimus, he himself would be remaining in the Matrix; he expressed regret for his actions. {{storylink|Fallout}}
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====''Universe''====
When [[Primus]] gives [[Optimus Primal]] the ability to choose any Transformer, living or dead, from the [[Allspark]] to assist him in the war against [[Unicron]], Primal chooses [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depthcharge]] and Rhinox. Depthcharge is bitter about being brought back from the dead, but Rhinox is thankful for the chance to atone for his actions as Tankor. {{storylink|Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming}}
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====''Cybertron'' comic====
[[Image:Tankorrhinoxrevelations.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!]]
''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] recalled the end of the [[Universe war]], where Rhinox defeated the [[Tankor (BM)|Minion of Unicron Tankor]], presumably redeeming his actions as his own universe's Tankor. He escaped [[Unicron]] with Optimus Primal. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}
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===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===
Following the [[Quantum surge]], [[Optimus Primal]] was dead and the [[Maximal|Maximals]] were left scattered all over [[Earth|Energoa]], with only [[Transmetal]] Rhinox and [[Rattrap]] holed up in the Maximal base. The [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] were in much better condition, having also been mutated into Transmetals but with their numbers still intact. As the Maximal base came under attack from [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] and his forces, Rhinox casually worked on a new machine while Rattrap freaked the hell out. Suddenly, [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] appeared and was attacked by [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]]. Much to Rattrap's chagrin, Rhinox shut Sentinel down to allow Airazor to get inside the base, though it considerably weakened their defenses.

Seeing an opening, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] infiltrated the base and effortlessly took out Rattrap and Airazor. Rhinox proceeded to pull out a strange "gun", but instead of pointing it at ''her'', he pointed it at ''himself'' and proceeded to "blow his brains out". With the job well done, Blackarachnia left the base as it exploded.

As it turned out, the "gun" was part of Rhinox's machine, which was being kept safe from the explosion (along with Rattrap and Airazor) by a small force field. The "gun" allowed Rhinox to travel into [[Transwarp space]], where he found the [[Spark|spark]] of [[Optimus Primal]], about to move on to his deathly reward. Reminding Primal of his duty to his Maximals, he helped Primal's spark escape Transwarp space and return to his body, turning it into a Transmetal. {{storylink|Raise the Curtain for Beast Wars Metals!!}}

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===Fire in the Dark===
The Maximals crashed in [[Mexico]] around 1,000BC, near where the [[Natiltec]] tribe lived. Their war with the Predacons eventually involved the local humans, and after the situation had been resolved, Rhinox recorded and encoded a message onto a cave wall alongside a Natiltec warrior's writings. Some three thousand years later, it was discovered by an archaeology team, who were able to use [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] to play back an audio recording of Rhinox. {{storylink|Fire in the Dark}}
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==Games==
===''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game===
:''Voice actor:'' ??? (English), ??? (Japanese)
{{note|This game takes place in an alternate version of the first season of the [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] cartoon.}}
{{Note|Rhinox is a playable character in the Maximal mode of this game for normal gameplay.}}
Rhinox joined his fellow Maximals in battling not only an entrenched
Predacon threat, but the interdimensional monsters known as the [[Skriix]].

Rhinox built a massive fortified base (described as an "urban zone") away from the downed ''Axalon''. He eventually expanded it to within reach of [[Tarantulas's lair]]. Rhinox's base was judged a threat by the Predacons, who attempted to neutralize it.
{{Note|Due to the nature of this game, a player may select various individual characters to perform the feats required in every level, and complete the game's narrative. Thus, any playable Maximal can fill the role of protagonist in Maximal Mode, and any playable Predacon can fill the role of protagonist in Predacon Mode. As such, each character's page only lists said character's actions when they fill the role of antagonist during gameplay. To view the various feats Rhinox can accomplish throughout gameplay in Maximal Mode, it is told on the pages of the [[Megatron (BW)|several]] [[Scorponok (BW)|Predacons]] [[Tarantulas (BW)|included]] [[Blackarachnia (BW)|as]] [[Inferno (BW)|opponents]] in this game, as well as the game's main antagonists, the [[Skriix]], wherein Rhniox fills the role of the nameless Maximal. To view the plot as a whole view the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)]] page.}}
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===''Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals'' video game===
[[Image:TMRhinox-Render.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Ayyyyyyy!"]]
:''Voice actor:'' [[Alec Willows]] (English), ??? (Japanese)

[[Transmetal]] Rhinox stayed behind at the ''Axalon'' as his fellow Maximals went to battle the Predacons.
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==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[Image:Rhinox-bw-deluxetoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|''Like'' a mutant head? Can anyone like a mutant head? I wonder.]]
* '''Rhinox''' (Deluxe, 1996)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-7'''
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

: Rhinox transforms into a tan rhinoceros. In robot mode, his primary weapon is a spinning blade-gun/double mace-thing/lawn edge trimmer, though the television series liberally interpreted this weapon as a sort of Gatling gun (the aforementioned "Chaingun of Doom"). His tail also detaches to become a blade.

: The two panels mounted on either side of his head close together to form his 'mutant' battle mask.

: The [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] release of Rhinox added a thick layer of gray paint to the beast-mode parts that faded to reveal the original tan towards the lower body as well as black eyes. ''Why'' is uncertain, as this made him even less like his show coloration. The Japanese version featured a [[running change]] where the tan plastic was replaced with brown.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Maximal/Rhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Rhinox at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:VS7-RhinoxShadowPanther.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
*'''Wilderness Showdown: Rhinox VS Shadow Panther''' (Multi-pack, 1996)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-7'''
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

: In Japan, Rhinox was available both in an individual release, and in a two-pack with the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Shadow Panther]]. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.
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[[Image:Transmetal rhinox toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|No chain gun of doom? LAME!]]
* '''Rhinox''' (Transmetal, 1998)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-44'''
**''Accessories:'' Horn dagger

: For the ''Transmetals'' line of ''Beast Wars'' toys, Rhinox now transforms into a robotic rhinoceros. The rhino mode has fold-down skis in the front legs and tank treads in the rear legs so he can become a kind of snowmobile. In robot mode, armed with only his blade, now formed out of his beast mode horn.

: In the Hasbro line, early releases of the toy had a much paler aqua-colored chrome than later versions. Such chrome differences were seemingly common among the Transmetals, but the pale/rich-chrome Rhinoxes seem to be the most common and most likely intentional change.

: The Takara release of Transmetal Rhinox has gold chrome instead of the aqua-blue and replaces the "RHINOX" [[Tampograph|tampograph]] with "CYBERTRON" and the Maximal faction sigil.

: This mold was [[Retool|retooled]] slightly to make ''[[Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' [[Rhinox (Armada)|Rhinox]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Maximal/Rhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Transmetal Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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* '''Rhinox''' (Deluxe, 1999)
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

: Part of the first wave of "[[Fox Kids]]" [[Redeco|redecoes]], and exclusive to Toys "R" Us stores, this toy uses the original Rhinox mold in off-white and dark burgundy. Hasbro documents listed this toy as "Energon Surge Rhinox", a name that never made it to the final package.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Maximal/FKRhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Fox Kids Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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* '''Rhinox''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 2000)
**''Accessories:'' Horn dagger

: Part of the last year of mass-retail ''Beast Wars'' product (sold concurrently with the early releases of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]''), the Transmetal mold also got a "Fox Kids" redeco in mainly blue and gray—an interesting color choice, given that those are the show colors of [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], whom Rhinox would become. His chrome color was a pale green.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/FKTMRhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Fox Kids Transmetal Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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[[Image:Rallnox.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Merciful death.]]
* '''Beast Wars''' (Fast food premium, 2001)

: Available only as part of a Hasbro-brand-names fast food promotion (which included miniature versions of other Hasbro properties like Mr. Potato Head), and labeled simply as "Beast Wars", this toy is an ''extremely'' simplified version of the Transmetal Rhinox toy, available only at participating Rally's and Checkers restaurants.

: Despite it being... well, ''look'' at it... it goes for ''mad'' money on the secondary market. Most people didn't realize the promotion even existed until after it was over, and the restaurant chain was fairly small and somewhat regional.

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===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===
[[Image:BW10Rhinox toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"This leg and crotch is a danger to itself and everyone around it!"]]
* '''Rhinox''' (Tenth Anniversary, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

: For the 10th Anniversary of ''Beast Wars'', Hasbro redecoed the original 1996 Rhinox toy in more show-accurate colours, giving him a darker beast mode colour scheme, and painted gold details on his robot mode head, to more closely match the CGI model. They also tampographed a Maximal sigil on his beast mode's right foreleg.

: Also included was the lower torso and right leg to [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]], and a DVD of the ''Beast Wars'' epsiode "[[The Spark]]".

:This version of Rhinox is assembled with his shoulders on the wrong sides, so the screws that hold them together are visible from the front of the robot.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Maximal/Rhinox/rhinox.htm More information on 10th Anniversary Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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===Timelines===
[[Image:Botcon Rhinox toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"I only signed onto this crew so I could bulldoze some flowers *evil laugh*"]]
* '''Dawn of Future's Past''' (Multi-pack, 2006)
**''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, "Golden Disk Key"

: A redeco of ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Landmine (Energon)#Cybertron_2|Landmine]], "Axalon Rhinox" is one of five toys in [[BotCon 2006]]'s ''Dawn of Future's Past'' box set. He transforms into a front-end loader, with pop-out blades in his rear tires that are revealed with the use of a [[Cyber Planet Key]] (or his [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disk]] Key, of course). This gimmick and his spring-loaded missile launcher are usable in both modes.

: This set also included "Axalon" versions of [[Optimus Primal/toys#Timelines_2|Optimus Primal]], [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#Timelines_2|Cheetor]], [[Rattrap#Timelines_2|Rattrap]], and "Darksyde" [[Dinobot (BW)#Timelines_2|Dinobot]].

: This mold was also used to make the [[Movie (toyline)|live-action movie universe]] [[Grindcore (Movie)|Grindcore]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Maximal/BCRhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Axalon Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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===Beast Wars Telemocha Series===
*'''Rhinox''' (Deluxe, 2007)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TM-09'''
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

:This figure has the same assembly problem as the ''10th Anniversary'' version and also has the upper arms switched. It is the most show-accurate version of Rhinox in colors.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Maximal/Rhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Telemocha Rhinox at TFU.info (scroll down)]''
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==Merchandise==
[[Image:Rhinoxmutatingcard.jpg|thumb|300px|right]]
* '''Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game''' (1997)
:Rhinox was one of the 24 beast warriors to receive a battle card representation for the Beast Wars [[Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game|card game]].
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*'''Beast Wars Movie Coin''' (1997)
:Released only in Japan, Rhinox was one of three characters from Beast Wars to receive a movie coin, the other two being Rattrap and Scorponok.
::*''[http://www.tfmuseum.com/tf-02274.html Rhinox Movie Coin at TFMuseum.com]''

* '''Rhinox''' (2004)

[[Image:Hardhero rhinox.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Flower-smelling/nature-hating, gentle/megalomaniacal, Maximal/Jerk.]]
:In 2004, [[Hard Hero]] announced a line of ''Beast Wars'' statues, starting with Rhinox. As it turned out, Rhinox was the only one to be released.
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===Kabaya candy toys===
*'''Rhinox''' (candy toy, 1997)

: A tiny plastic Rhinox figurine molded onto an irregularly-shaped stand was released by Kabaya. Labeled toy 3 of 6, the other characters in his wave were Dinobot, Rattrap, Megatron, Optimus Primal, and Cheetor. As always, terrible candy is included.

===Robot Heroes===
* '''Rhinox vs Waspinator''' (2008)

[[Image:Robotheroesrhinoxwaspinator.jpg|right|200px|thumb|You may remember him as "Dr. Teeth" on The Muppet Show.]]
:Rhinox was released in the second wave of ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' packed with [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] as part of the "Beast Wars Series." An amalgam of toy and television show depictions, Rhinox has articulation at the neck and shoulders.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Maximal/RHRhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Robot Heroes Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*Rhinox is the only member of the Beast Wars Maximal lineup who was there from the beginning and remains alive and unchanged for the entire course of the show.
*Skir's original intention was that Rhinox had "seen all sides of the argument, and chose to go more in Megatron's direction" in ''Beast Machines'', and that after a quiet chat, he and Optimus would part company. As Richard Newman played that scene with growling and shouting, Rhinox instead sounded not quite in his right mind after his experiences. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071202095033/http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Fri_03_Dec_1999.html Q&A from Bigbot's "bobskir.com"] (archive copy)</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Rhinox''' (ライノックス ''Rainokkusu'')
*''Italian:'' '''Metal Rinox''' (Transmetal)
*''Polish'': '''Nosoron''' ("Rhinon")
*''Spanish:'' '''Rinox'''
*''Russian:'' '''Reenox''' (Ринокс)

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Rhinox (BW)

2011-03-02T17:47:33Z

169.139.222.5: /* Fast Action Battlers toyline */

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:''Rhinox is a [[Maximal]] (and occasionally a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] or [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]) from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Rhinoxbw.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"I will usher in a new age of technological perfecti — er, I mean, yay, pretty flowers."]]
[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] was on the mark when he said that '''Rhinox''' was the best of them. He's a Renaissance Bot. Intelligent, massive, strong, and stalwart, there are few Maximals one could depend on more. Rhinox is of a rare breed -- he's incredibly tech savvy, but mystically-inclined... without coming off as a burnt-out technohippie. He's quick and decisive in a crisis, with spectacular results, but is slow and steady. He loves to sniff the flowers. A behind-the-scenes charismatic and an on-his-feet strategist, he could lead the Maximals if he wanted to, but he doesn't.

If he sounds too good to be true, it's because he just might be. At times he can be borderline obsessive and single-minded. The Maximals are glad he's on their side, because if he ever had a change of heart, woe be to them. No, woe be to the ''galaxy''.

Still, you can't help but love a bot who can fight Megatron to a standstill without breaking a sweat yet would rather take a nap in a patch of daisies. Rhinox considers [[Rattrap]] to be his best friend, though he also has a close friendship with [[Optimus Primal]]. He appears to have some "older sibling/parental" emotions toward [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] due to his role in bringing her online.

Rhinox's only weapons—besides his rather intimidating strength—are his twin chainguns, affectionately named "Chainguns of Doom" by the fans.

Rhinox's core was an integral part of the evil [[Vehicon general]] [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]].

{{bigquote|Make a device to extract molecular structure from an alien probe... man, I gotta be a miracle worker!|Rhinox|"[[Chain of Command]]"}}

==Fiction==
===First wave toy bios===
Rhinox is a territorial warrior who stampedes his way through the jungle whenever Predacons draw near, crushing everything in his path. Although he is known to be courageous and cunning, what makes him stand out from other warriors is that he has never been injured. EVER. Even though he has never backed down from a fight, his triple-thick, steel-plated skin protects him from all harm, even double-barreled laser cannons (which are presumably very powerful weapons). {{storylink|Rhinox (BW)#Toys|Rhinox bio}}

{{note|The on-package [[bio]]s of the first wave of Beast Wars toys, predate the development of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon and its backstory. They seem to present the characters as a direct continuation of the previous Autobot/Decepticon conflict, with Optimus Primal actually being a new form of Optimus Prime and Megatron being his Generation 1 counterpart, and their battles taking place on present day, [[human]]-inhabited Earth, rather than in the distant past. Once the cartoon launched, the toyline adjusted itself to match that continuity instead, relegating this one to an aborted [[micro-continuity]].}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
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====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Richard Newman]] (English), [[Daiki Nakamura]] (Japanese), [[Felipe D'inardo]] (Portuguese), [[Hervé Joly]] (French), [[Maurizio Trombini]] (Italian), [[Gerhard Marcel]] (German), [[Miguel Angel Ghigliaazza]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Vicente Gisbert]] (Castilian Spanish)
[[Image:BeastWarsPt1 Primal and Rattrap ride Rhinox.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Right, I've changed my mind: Optimus, become a damn truck."]]
Rhinox was a crewmember of the exploration ship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' when captain Optimus Primal got word that the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] criminal [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] had stolen the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] and a [[Darksyde|ship]] with [[transwarp]] capabilities. The ''Axalon'' was the closest vessel that also possessed a transwarp drive, so Rhinox's ship was sent to engage them. After following the Predacons through a transwarp portal and appearing above a mysterious planet, both ships were damaged in the ensuing space battle, and before both ships crashed into the planet's surface below, the [[stasis pod]]s carrying the rest of Rhinox's crew were ejected into orbit.

The planet was rich with [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] — so much so that prolonged exposure would short out their bodies, so the Maximals and Predacons were forced to take organic forms from the local creatures. Rhinox took the form of a rhinoceros. He soon took part in a rescue mission to retrieve [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] after the young Maximal ran into the Predacons, and forced [[Rattrap]] to give Primal cover. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

During Optimus's battle with [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], Rhinox pulled the pair to safety after they almost plunged off a ledge. The Maximals subsequently were forced to tail the Predacons, and when Dinobot almost accidentally slagged Rhinox, it caused the ex-Predacon and Rattrap to come to blows. The two factions eventually reached the mountain topped with energon and fought over it while in their beast modes, until Megatron ended up destroying it. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}}

[[Image:TheWeb Rhinox closeup.jpg|thumb|right|220px|"Bah, stuck in the base ''again''! To get more scenes, I need some sort of ''weapon''... a really ''impressive'' one..."]]
Being the handyman of the crew, Rhinox quickly developed a new comlink to overcome the problems with energon interference. After Cheetor got into trouble while testing it, Rattrap gave the cat a hard time, causing him to race off, and Rhinox pointed out that Cheetor was about to do something stupid. {{storylink|The Web}} Rhinox's next developments were some energon monitoring devices, though Optimus initially scrubbed the mission to install them. After Cheetor went anyway, and a series of events almost destroyed the Maximal base, Rhinox and the other Maximals thanked Cheetor for preventing the explosion. {{storylink|Equal Measures}}

[[Image:ChainofCommand Rhinox with chaingun.jpg|thumb|left|240px|-OF DOOM.]]
Rhinox had to dive for safety during a battle at the [[Standing Stones]], after [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] blew up the energon cache at its center. After Primal went missing, Rhinox had to break up a fight between Dinobot and Rattrap over who would lead, insisting on a secret ballot. The ballot ended in a deadlock, but they were then contacted by Primal, who'd become trapped in an [[Vok probe|alien probe]] at the Standing Stones. Rattrap was placed in charge during the bossmonkey's absence, and his command to Rhinox was to build a device to extract Optimus from the probe. Whether or not this device would actually have worked is unknown, as shortly before he had a chance to use it, Rhinox was ambushed by [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], but turned the tables by blasting the Predacon with his chaingun. Waspinator stumbled into a stone, and Rhinox realised the whole structure was a mechanism as it caused the probe to disgorge Optimus Primal. {{storylink|Chain of Command}}

When Cheetor reported that [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] had found a [[flying mountain]], Rhinox theorized that the high concentration of energon on the top of it might be responsible for the strange gravity-warping effect. {{storylink|Power Surge}} After Primal was taken out by a Predacon sneak attack, Rhinox, Cheetor and Rattrap headed for a crashed stasis pod. The trio were delayed further, and beaten to the pod, however the [[protoform]] had already been awakened as [[Tigatron]]. {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}} Like the other Maximals, Rhinox was shocked by Rattrap's apparent defection to the Predacons, but as it turned out, it was a ploy to discover how the Predacons had been spying on the Maximals, and they were soon rescuing their comrade. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}}

Rhinox later developed [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]], a hi-tech security system for the Axalon, which unfortunately went berserk when its control panel was damaged in a struggle between [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] and [[Rattrap]], forcing the Maximals from their own base. Rattrap however, was able to infiltrate the now-heavily guarded ship and deactivate Sentinel, which was then repaired and made fully-functional by Rhinox. {{storylink|A Better Mousetrap}} The Maximals were forced to restrain Optimus after he was infected by a rage virus in a [[cyberbee]] developed by [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] and Rhinox was unable to work out how to remove it. After Primal undertook a one-bot assault on the Predacon base, Rhinox took part in the mission to rescue their leader, laying down suppressing fire to allow Cheetor to slip inside the base. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}}

[[Image:Victory Rhinox sit down.jpg|thumb|right|260px]]
He was unsuccessful in contacting a Maximal [[temporal probe]] which flew past the planet. Though he blamed himself, he and the other Maximals rallied themselves to build a communications array on Predacon soil. Unfortunately while they were doing so, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]'s latest invention the [[transformation lock lens]], prevented them from sending the signal before Megatron destroyed the array. {{storylink|The Probe}} When a Predacon plan to fake a Maximal victory was exposed, Rhinox was dismayed when Optimus and Cheetor insisted on leaving the ''Axalon'' with liftoff imminent in order to rescue Dinobot. Tigatron attempted to go as well, leading Rhinox to order him to sit down. Liftoff eventually occurred without Primal, however Megatron got on board and damaged the controls. Rhinox attempted to control the ship and, with some assistance from Optimus, managed to get it down at least in one piece, though it would never fly again. {{storylink|Victory (episode)|Victory}}

[[Image:DarkDesigns Rhinox monologues.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Evil has silver detailing. Who knew?]]
Some time later, when the Maximals found themselves cornered by a Predacon ambush, Rhinox was able to take out their attackers with a carefully aimed spray of chaingun fire. Megatron was so impressed that he decided to make Rhinox a member of his merry band of thieves, by force. Rhinox was captured by Tarantulas and then reprogrammed into a Predacon by a device designed by Megatron called a "[[Transmuter (BW)|Transmuter]]". However, the newly malevolent Rhinox proved to be too much for Megatron to handle, as Optimus Primal had correctly predicted. He quickly dispatched most of the Predacons, working his way up to Megatron himself in an attempted coup. Rhinox very nearly succeeded, but fortunately, Megatron was able to revert him back into a Maximal using the Transmuter, and Rhinox escaped to rejoin his Maximal comrades and smell some flowers. {{storylink|Dark Designs (episode)|Dark Designs}}

The Maximals arrived back at base after being sent on wild goose chases by Megatron's [[Clone One|clone of Dinobot]], only to find that the clone had already been dealt with by the real Dinobot. {{storylink|Double Dinobot}} Later, a stasis pod crash landed in a barren wasteland. Rhinox intercepted it and, with [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]'s help, managed to save the protoform Maximal's [[spark]]. The protoform then became [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], who repaid the favor by saving the weakened Rhinox from Terrorsaur. {{storylink|The Spark}}

While Rhinox was communicating long distance with Tigatron, his fellow Maximal was attacked by Waspinator and Terrorsaur, leading the Maximals to discover the existence of a [[Brigadoon|flying island]]. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 1}} [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] took control of the island and piloted it towards the ''Axalon'', forcing Rhinox, Cheetor and Dinobot to evacuate the base. The only thing Rhinox took with him was a potted plant. When the island's destruction sent a beam into space, the Maximals wondered who received the signal and what they'd do next. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 2}}

At one point, a [[magna pulse]] triggered by Tarantulas knocked out the power in the Maximal base, and Optimus Primal left Rhinox struggling to get things working again. {{storylink|Spider's Game}} The loss of the ''Axalon''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[rectifier coil]] forced the Maximals to stay in their beast forms at all times, which resulted in their beast instincts taking over and sending them off to wander the jungle. It was only with Tigatron's help that they deleted the programming blocks separating their core programming, and they were able to fight the Predacons who were hunting them. {{storylink|Call of the Wild}}

[[Image:Dark Voyage Rhinox listening.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Rhinox's Yoga phase]]
When Scorponok detonated a pile of energon near a group of Maximals, rendering them blind, it was Rhinox who led the group on the dangerous trek back to the Axalon, teaching them how to use their other senses. They were able to overcome the obstacles both nature and the Predacons could throw at them, and succeeded in reaching safety. Afterwards, Rhinox again went off to smell some flowers. {{storylink|Dark Voyage}} After the Maximals were ousted from their base by the Predacons assisted by a [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]-possessed Waspinator, they attempted a ruse to get the ''Axalon'' back, resulting in Rhinox and the others mounting an assault on the Predacon base. {{storylink|Possession}}

Later, Tarantulas infected Rhinox with an [[energon discharge virus]], which made him expel his energon reserves via his nasal passages in bursts powerful enough to tear through the hull of the Axalon, threatening both to destroy the Maximals' base and completely drain Rhinox of energy. Rattrap and Dinobot were dispatched to acquire a countervirus, while Rhinox ate some wild bean vines to keep his strength up. When the bickering duo nearly failed in their mission, the other Maximals, including Rhinox, showed up, and the rhinoceros blew away the Predacons with a massive energon... *ahem* "derriere-based"... discharge which was caused by his ingestion of wild beans. Megatron would remember this moment as the most humiliating defeat in his entire career. Rhinox was later cured by the countervirus via a Cybertronic beer hat. {{storylink|The Low Road}}

After Megatron called a truce, Rhinox assisted "non-violently" in helping Tigatron escape after infiltrating the Predacon base to find out more information. He non-violently held up a sheet of metal for Terrorsaur to crash into, and then non-violently sat on him. Tigatron reported that the aliens were coming. {{storylink|Before the Storm}} Indeed, an alien construct appeared and, while the other Maximals were investigating it, Rhinox and Dinobot were bushwhacked in the Maximal base by Tarantulas and Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 1}} The rest of the Maximals found their two comrades webbed to the ceiling, and placed them in [[CR chamber]]s. Rhinox stirred in his chamber as he sensed Primal's impending destruction. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}}

[[Image:ComingFuzors2 Rhinox searches for Primal.jpg|thumb|left|240px]]
Protected by the CR chamber, Rhinox avoided being upgraded into a [[Transmetal]] by the [[quantum surge]]. After recovering, he took leadership of the Maximals to forestall any bickering and sent Rattrap and Cheetor out to protect the base against Megatron. Unfortunately Inferno was already loose in the base, and managed to blast Rhinox before fighting Dinobot. Rhinox quickly recovered, throwing a badly-battered Inferno out and forcing Megatron to retreat. {{storylink|Aftermath}} Rhinox later initiated a dangerous plan to bring the recently-deceased Optimus Primal back to life by using the hole in space-time caused by the destruction of the Planet Buster to astrally project his spark into the [[Allspark|Matrix]]. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} Rhinox followed the transion left by Primal's spark and led it back to the land of the living, where it was reborn as Transmetal Optimus Primal. Primal was able to come to the aid of the Maximals right when they were on the verge of defeat. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

[[Image:OtherVisits2 Rhinox emerges from chamber.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Ohhhhhh... What ''had'' I been taking in that last screencap?"]]
Rhinox conducted tests on Optimus Primal to attempt to determine what the new Transmetal forms were capable of, with limited results. {{storylink|Tangled Web}} His research into the alien sites predicted that there would be one located in an area Tigatron and Airazor were patrolling, however a Predacon jamming tower prevented the Maximals from warning the pair, who were shot into space by some sort of alien planet device. While the others were off the base, Rhinox was attacked by Megatron, Blackarachnia and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], who made off with the [[Golden Disk (Vok)|Golden Disk]]. After repairs, Rhinox and the other Maximals went to the alien site, only to be blasted by the alien construct that appeared. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 1)}} The Transmetaled Maximals recovered quickly, and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] and Cheetor took Rhinox and Dinobot back to base for repairs. Rhinox was barely recovered when he was again pressed into action, attacking the [[Metal Hunter|alien construct]] which Megatron had taken over, to allow Rattrap and Tarantulas to slip inside. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 2)}}

When [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]]'s stasis pod was discovered, Rhinox worried that its contents had survived the crash. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} Rhinox calculated that the [[transwarp wavefront]] from the Planet Buster explosion would soon be reaching [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], though the good news was tempered a short time later when Dinobot perished saving a group of [[protohuman]]s from the Predacons. {{storylink|Code of Hero}} Rhinox's tests on [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]] were not promising, and he suggested putting the creature in stasis. Silverbolt wasn't happy with the suggestion. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

[[Image:Agenda3 Rhinox forcing door.jpg|left|230px|thumb|"Hey Rhinox, we just found the garage door opener after all... never mind."]]
Continuing to track the transwarp wavefront, Rhinox and the other Maximals celebrated their impending rescue, however instead they got Predacon agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. After fighting off the Predacons, Ravage helped the Maximals storm the ''Darksyde'' and arrest Megatron. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} With Ravage's defection, Rhinox and Rattrap found themselves under heavy assault in the ''Axalon''. Some daring-do on Rattrap's part saved the day, but the Maximals had to chase Megatron. Rhinox was forced to ride on Primal's surfboard, much to his visible discomfort at the height. They tracked Megatron to [[Mount St. Hilary]], where the Predacon leader had located the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and attempted to reach the ship first. Though Rhinox physically forced the ship's doors open, they were too late — Megatron had blasted [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], causing a [[time storm]] as history began to change. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

With Blackarachnia's help, the Maximals stabilised Prime ad Rhinox stayed to supervise the repairs while the others went to defend the ''Axalon''. His work was interrupted by Silverbolt's "situation" — Blackarachnia had been shot by Megatron during the conflict, but as Rhinox pointed out, she just needed repairs. The ''Axalon'', on the other hand, was lost, and the Maximals were forced to set up base in the cavern housing the Ark. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

Rhinox had difficulties interfacing Maximal and [[Autobot]] technology, and expressed doubts that help was still on the way, though it did turn up in the form of [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who'd come looking for [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]. {{storylink|Deep Metal}} An attempt by Rhinox to rig up [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]]'s force field to protect the base failed, forcing the Maximals to attempt to salvage Sentinel. He later had to restrain Rattrap from trying to attack Depth Charge, who had caused the mission to fail. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

[[Image:CuttingEdge Rhinox chainguns.jpg|thumb|right|230px|You wouldn't like him when he's angry.]]
Analysing the [[cyber raptor]] which Primal had encountered, Rhinox reported that it was fused with Transmetal technology. Once the others had all left the base, he and Rattrap found themselves under siege from Megatron and a group of Predacons. Rhinox finally made a desperate attempt to see them off with a barrage of chaingun fire, only to be blasted backwards. Depth Charge fortunately came to the rescue and saved them both. {{storylink|Cutting Edge}}

When the Maximals thought that Cheetor had been killed, Rhinox told Primal not to give up hope, and went to get the long-range sensors online. As it turned out, his optimism was correct, as Cheetor later turned up outside the base. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}} After Cheetor was apparently spirited away overnight by a strange creature, Silverbolt and Blackarachnia went out looking, but to Rhinox's surprise, didn't find anything. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}

[[Image:CrossingtheRubicon Rhinox operating.jpg|thumb|left|240px|"Everyone, shut up! I'm finally gonna beat the first level of ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]!''"]]
Rhinox scanned Blackarachnia's internals, with a view to extracting her Predacon [[shell program]] and restoring her to a Maximal state. Some time later, he and Primal discovered that she had overheard their conversation about the concept, and fled in the belief they'd force her to go through with it. {{storylink|Proving Grounds}} A huge buildup of energy on a mountain top caused alarm for the Maximals, who braced for a possible attack, but all that happened was that the top of the mountain exploded. How odd. {{storylink|Go with the Flow}}

When Blackarachnia's attempts to become a Transmetal caused her shell program to deteriorate, threatening to erase her core consciousness, Rhinox carried out a very delicate procedure to surgically remove the shell program directly. Unfortunately, certain failsafes installed by Tarantulas, combined with a Predacon attack, caused the operation to fail. Fortunately, Blackarachnia was mysteriously resurrected anyway by the [[Transmetal driver]]. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} Megatron's next gambit involved [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] remote controlling Optimus Primal. Once this was achieved, the subverted Primal's first order was for Rhinox to order everyone back to base, where Quickstrike was able to knock them out and stick them in a cage. Fortunately Blackarachnia was able to free Primal and the others and they fought off Megatron, who had upgraded himself using the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s spark. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

[[Image:Nemesis2 Rhinox yelling in shuttle.jpg|thumb|right|250px|'''I AM NOT GETTING AGGRESSIVE!!!!''']]
Detecting an alien signature inbound to Earth, Rhinox realised that it meant that Tigatron and Airazor were coming back. Indeed, the Predacon base was soon destroyed by [[Tigerhawk]], the emissary the [[Vok]] had created using the two Maximal sparks, though Rhinox wasn't in the mood for celebrating. {{storylink|Other Victories}} Once the situation was sorted out, the Maximals began searching for Megatron and his scattered forces. Rhinox monitored the situation from base, as the others discovered that Megatron was attempting to raise the [[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]. He and Rattrap were overjoyed when Primal reported that Depth Charge had taken out the warship, but it turned out the news was a little too premature. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

Rhinox was ordered by Optimus Primal to execute [[Operation Eternity]], which apparently only Primal and he knew about. The purpose of the operation was to "move the Ark" by activating its engines and taking off; little is know beyond that, because the Maximals failed when the Ark's engines proved beyond repair. However, [[Dinobot II]] downloaded emergency data to the Ark about an [[Autobot Shuttle Omega Delta|Autobot shuttle]] hidden within the Ark. Rhinox piloted the shuttle and flew it directly into the bridge of the Nemesis, taking down Megatron and causing the warship to spiral out of control and crash somewhere beyond the horizon. Thus, the Beast Wars were won. Rhinox and the other Maximals left prehistoric Earth aboard the aforementioned Autobot shuttle and began the voyage home to Cybertron. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}
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====Beast wars Diorama Story====

{{note|This fiction takes place shortly after the events of ''[[Possession]]''.}}

Rhinox eventually met up with several [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s from [[Transformers (2007)|another dimension]]. A battle broke out between the Maximals, Predacons, Autobots and Decepticons. The other-dimensional Transformers eventually returned to their place of origin and the Beast Wars continued as they were. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story}}

====''Tales of the Beast Wars''====
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====Transmetal Toy Bio====
Following the quantum surge, Rhinox found himself in a new Transmetal body, and couldn't be happier; thanks to his new vehicle mode, his new body is a lot faster then his previous one. One of his new battle moves involves pulling off wheelies on the battlefield. Furthermore, the semi-organic nature of his robot mode granted him additional fluidity and skill in combat.{{storylink|Rhinox (BW)#Toys|Transmetal Rhinox Bio}}
{{note|The on-package [[Bio|bios]] of the Transmetal sub-line presented a micro-continuity where all of the characters receiving a new toy were transmetalized due to the initial quantum surge, instead of a select few.}}
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====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
Rhinox stood outside the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] as [[Razorbeast]]'s [[Chronal phase|chronically dispaced]] Maximals passed by. Although Optimus Primal could vaguely sense their presence, Rhinox theorized that the sensation was just a side-effect of Primal's recent upgrades. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}

After his (very) later death, Rhinox was reborn by the [[Vok]] and traveled the multiverse. He's supposedly fighting [[Unicron]]'s chaos, but knows the Vok really want him to manipulate Cybertronian history; however, out of guilt for his actions as Tankor, he still helps any Cybertronian he comes across. He's probably [[Rhinox (Armada)|some other guy]] now. {{storylink|Beast Wars Sourcebook}}
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====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
{{Note|The following takes place after the events of "[[Master Blaster]]"}}
Not long after Megatron combined his spark with that of the original Megatron, he had Quickstrike plant a device in the Maximal base. The device magnified the Maximals' aggression, resulting in Rhinox trying to kill Blackarachnia while Silverbolt attempted to stop him. While Silverbolt failed, Optimus Primal arrived in time to pin Rhinox down, only to succumb to the device's effects himself. Primal was soon able to overcome the effect, and freed the rest of the Maximals who then fought off Megatron. {{storylink|A Meeting of Minds}}
{{Note|The following takes places after the events of "[[Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege]]"}}
After Tankor's death, Rhinox' spark and consciousness were cleansed and rejoined the Matrix. When Megatron was defeated by Nightscream {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege}}, Rhinox saw an opportunity to redeem the fallen tyrant, and attempted to act as a spirit guide. Rhinox led Megatron through the ascending layers of Transformer afterlife ''(which is actually a tree!)'', urging him to leave behind his fixation on worldly power. Megatron was briefly tempted, but his repeated returns to Cybertron {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} convinced him that godhood was still within his reach. Tapping into the power of the Oracle, Megatron erases Rhinox' spark, killing him utterly. Very upsetting. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}
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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Richard Newman]] (English), [[Daiki Nakamura]] (Japanese), [[Gerald Paradies]] (German)

{{see|Tankor (BM)}}
[[Image:Revelations3 Rhinox vision.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Rhinox suffers the horrors of symbolism.]]

Rhinox returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with the surviving Maximals to discover the entire population had been replaced by mindless [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon drones]] created by Megatron. {{storylink|The Reformatting}}

Rhinox, like the other Maximals, was exposed to Megatron's [[Transformation virus|virus]] at this point. Although the [[Transmetal]] Maximals merely reverted back to their original shapes, the Maximals who were still ''in'' their original shapes were instantly paralyzed. As a result, Rhinox and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] were captured, stripped of their organic bodies and placed in the new bodies of [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] and [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]]. Much later on, Rhinox's mind was freed by Optimus' spark connection with him, and he watched and observed, eventually turning his back on his Maximals to go along with Megatron's cause of a purely technological, one-mind Cybertron. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse}}

Rhinox pretended to still be Tankor and sneaked around Megatron's ranks, reprogramming the [[Diagnostic Drone]] as his agent. He'd decided Megatron's ''cause'' was right, but it needed a different, more efficient person at the helm... someone like ''him''. He went off to fulfil this new mission, in a highly malevolent and sadistic manner. {{storylink|Survivor}}

[[Image:BeastMachinesRhinoxFuneral.JPG|left|180px|thumb|Optimus struggles with the "make-your-own Transformer" toy.]]

Rhinox went looking for the legendary [[Key to Vector Sigma]] that was supposed to turn organic life into technomatter. He found it, took control of it, and then faked his death. {{storylink|The Key}} Now on the underground and spying on both sides, he used the Diagnostic Drone to reveal the Key had been discovered, intending for Megatron to use it on himself (to eradicate his beast mode) and go insane in the process. When this didn't work, he set it up so Rattrap would find and use a catalyst program that would cause mutant plant-life to erupt in [[Cybertropolis]], scaring Megatron into arming the [[Tank Drone]]s with copies of the Key... {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

[[Image:TankorRhinox Spark.jpg|right|150px|thumb|]]

...only to find he no longer had remote control of the drones, and would need to trick Megatron into using them instead. By this point, he'd already been tampering with the Oracle (an interface for Vector Sigma) and used it to trick Optimus into finding the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] that could destroy all technology. While he (wrongly) thought Primal would never use it, he knew Megatron would never take the chance! Unfortunately for him, he overplayed his hand: Megatron thought Optimus wouldn't use it either, grew suspicious with the Diagnostic Drone pushing him to strike first, and disabled it. Rhinox decided to launch an ambush assault and take out both enemy leaders while they were fighting... only to find, whoops, Megatron had programmed his generals to be ''incapable'' of shooting him. Rhinox was swiftly offlined, his plan stolen by Megatron, and then killed by plasma energy: a humiliating demise. {{storylink|End of the Line|End of the Line}}

Rhinox's spiritual form appeared once more with Optimus in the Matrix, bidding his friend farewell and to telling him to embrace his Spark. For his sins, he told Optimus, he himself would be remaining in the Matrix; he expressed regret for his actions. {{storylink|Fallout}}
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====''Universe''====
When [[Primus]] gives [[Optimus Primal]] the ability to choose any Transformer, living or dead, from the [[Allspark]] to assist him in the war against [[Unicron]], Primal chooses [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depthcharge]] and Rhinox. Depthcharge is bitter about being brought back from the dead, but Rhinox is thankful for the chance to atone for his actions as Tankor. {{storylink|Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming}}
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====''Cybertron'' comic====
[[Image:Tankorrhinoxrevelations.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!]]
''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] recalled the end of the [[Universe war]], where Rhinox defeated the [[Tankor (BM)|Minion of Unicron Tankor]], presumably redeeming his actions as his own universe's Tankor. He escaped [[Unicron]] with Optimus Primal. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}
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===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===
Following the [[Quantum surge]], [[Optimus Primal]] was dead and the [[Maximal|Maximals]] were left scattered all over [[Earth|Energoa]], with only [[Transmetal]] Rhinox and [[Rattrap]] holed up in the Maximal base. The [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] were in much better condition, having also been mutated into Transmetals but with their numbers still intact. As the Maximal base came under attack from [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] and his forces, Rhinox casually worked on a new machine while Rattrap freaked the hell out. Suddenly, [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] appeared and was attacked by [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]]. Much to Rattrap's chagrin, Rhinox shut Sentinel down to allow Airazor to get inside the base, though it considerably weakened their defenses.

Seeing an opening, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] infiltrated the base and effortlessly took out Rattrap and Airazor. Rhinox proceeded to pull out a strange "gun", but instead of pointing it at ''her'', he pointed it at ''himself'' and proceeded to "blow his brains out". With the job well done, Blackarachnia left the base as it exploded.

As it turned out, the "gun" was part of Rhinox's machine, which was being kept safe from the explosion (along with Rattrap and Airazor) by a small force field. The "gun" allowed Rhinox to travel into [[Transwarp space]], where he found the [[Spark|spark]] of [[Optimus Primal]], about to move on to his deathly reward. Reminding Primal of his duty to his Maximals, he helped Primal's spark escape Transwarp space and return to his body, turning it into a Transmetal. {{storylink|Raise the Curtain for Beast Wars Metals!!}}

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===Fire in the Dark===
The Maximals crashed in [[Mexico]] around 1,000BC, near where the [[Natiltec]] tribe lived. Their war with the Predacons eventually involved the local humans, and after the situation had been resolved, Rhinox recorded and encoded a message onto a cave wall alongside a Natiltec warrior's writings. Some three thousand years later, it was discovered by an archaeology team, who were able to use [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] to play back an audio recording of Rhinox. {{storylink|Fire in the Dark}}
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==Games==
===''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game===
:''Voice actor:'' ??? (English), ??? (Japanese)
{{note|This game takes place in an alternate version of the first season of the [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] cartoon.}}
{{Note|Rhinox is a playable character in the Maximal mode of this game for normal gameplay.}}
Rhinox joined his fellow Maximals in battling not only an entrenched
Predacon threat, but the interdimensional monsters known as the [[Skriix]].

Rhinox built a massive fortified base (described as an "urban zone") away from the downed ''Axalon''. He eventually expanded it to within reach of [[Tarantulas's lair]]. Rhinox's base was judged a threat by the Predacons, who attempted to neutralize it.
{{Note|Due to the nature of this game, a player may select various individual characters to perform the feats required in every level, and complete the game's narrative. Thus, any playable Maximal can fill the role of protagonist in Maximal Mode, and any playable Predacon can fill the role of protagonist in Predacon Mode. As such, each character's page only lists said character's actions when they fill the role of antagonist during gameplay. To view the various feats Rhinox can accomplish throughout gameplay in Maximal Mode, it is told on the pages of the [[Megatron (BW)|several]] [[Scorponok (BW)|Predacons]] [[Tarantulas (BW)|included]] [[Blackarachnia (BW)|as]] [[Inferno (BW)|opponents]] in this game, as well as the game's main antagonists, the [[Skriix]], wherein Rhniox fills the role of the nameless Maximal. To view the plot as a whole view the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)]] page.}}
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===''Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals'' video game===
[[Image:TMRhinox-Render.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Ayyyyyyy!"]]
:''Voice actor:'' [[Alec Willows]] (English), ??? (Japanese)

[[Transmetal]] Rhinox stayed behind at the ''Axalon'' as his fellow Maximals went to battle the Predacons.
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==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[Image:Rhinox-bw-deluxetoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|''Like'' a mutant head? Can anyone like a mutant head? I wonder.]]
* '''Rhinox''' (Deluxe, 1996)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-7'''
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

: Rhinox transforms into a tan rhinoceros. In robot mode, his primary weapon is a spinning blade-gun/double mace-thing/lawn edge trimmer, though the television series liberally interpreted this weapon as a sort of Gatling gun (the aforementioned "Chaingun of Doom"). His tail also detaches to become a blade.

: The two panels mounted on either side of his head close together to form his 'mutant' battle mask.

: The [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] release of Rhinox added a thick layer of gray paint to the beast-mode parts that faded to reveal the original tan towards the lower body as well as black eyes. ''Why'' is uncertain, as this made him even less like his show coloration. The Japanese version featured a [[running change]] where the tan plastic was replaced with brown.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Maximal/Rhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Rhinox at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:VS7-RhinoxShadowPanther.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
*'''Wilderness Showdown: Rhinox VS Shadow Panther''' (Multi-pack, 1996)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-7'''
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

: In Japan, Rhinox was available both in an individual release, and in a two-pack with the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Shadow Panther]]. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.
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[[Image:Transmetal rhinox toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|No chain gun of doom? LAME!]]
* '''Rhinox''' (Transmetal, 1998)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-44'''
**''Accessories:'' Horn dagger

: For the ''Transmetals'' line of ''Beast Wars'' toys, Rhinox now transforms into a robotic rhinoceros. The rhino mode has fold-down skis in the front legs and tank treads in the rear legs so he can become a kind of snowmobile. In robot mode, armed with only his blade, now formed out of his beast mode horn.

: In the Hasbro line, early releases of the toy had a much paler aqua-colored chrome than later versions. Such chrome differences were seemingly common among the Transmetals, but the pale/rich-chrome Rhinoxes seem to be the most common and most likely intentional change.

: The Takara release of Transmetal Rhinox has gold chrome instead of the aqua-blue and replaces the "RHINOX" [[Tampograph|tampograph]] with "CYBERTRON" and the Maximal faction sigil.

: This mold was [[Retool|retooled]] slightly to make ''[[Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' [[Rhinox (Armada)|Rhinox]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Maximal/Rhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Transmetal Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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* '''Rhinox''' (Deluxe, 1999)
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

: Part of the first wave of "[[Fox Kids]]" [[Redeco|redecoes]], and exclusive to Toys "R" Us stores, this toy uses the original Rhinox mold in off-white and dark burgundy. Hasbro documents listed this toy as "Energon Surge Rhinox", a name that never made it to the final package.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Maximal/FKRhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Fox Kids Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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* '''Rhinox''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 2000)
**''Accessories:'' Horn dagger

: Part of the last year of mass-retail ''Beast Wars'' product (sold concurrently with the early releases of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]''), the Transmetal mold also got a "Fox Kids" redeco in mainly blue and gray—an interesting color choice, given that those are the show colors of [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], whom Rhinox would become. His chrome color was a pale green.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/FKTMRhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Fox Kids Transmetal Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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[[Image:Rallnox.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Merciful death.]]
* '''Beast Wars''' (Fast food premium, 2001)

: Available only as part of a Hasbro-brand-names fast food promotion (which included miniature versions of other Hasbro properties like Mr. Potato Head), and labeled simply as "Beast Wars", this toy is an ''extremely'' simplified version of the Transmetal Rhinox toy, available only at participating Rally's and Checkers restaurants.

: Despite it being... well, ''look'' at it... it goes for ''mad'' money on the secondary market. Most people didn't realize the promotion even existed until after it was over, and the restaurant chain was fairly small and somewhat regional.

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===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===
[[Image:BW10Rhinox toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"This leg and crotch is a danger to itself and everyone around it!"]]
* '''Rhinox''' (Tenth Anniversary, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

: For the 10th Anniversary of ''Beast Wars'', Hasbro redecoed the original 1996 Rhinox toy in more show-accurate colours, giving him a darker beast mode colour scheme, and painted gold details on his robot mode head, to more closely match the CGI model. They also tampographed a Maximal sigil on his beast mode's right foreleg.

: Also included was the lower torso and right leg to [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]], and a DVD of the ''Beast Wars'' epsiode "[[The Spark]]".

:This version of Rhinox is assembled with his shoulders on the wrong sides, so the screws that hold them together are visible from the front of the robot.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Maximal/Rhinox/rhinox.htm More information on 10th Anniversary Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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===Timelines===
[[Image:Botcon Rhinox toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"I only signed onto this crew so I could bulldoze some flowers *evil laugh*"]]
* '''Dawn of Future's Past''' (Multi-pack, 2006)
**''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, "Golden Disk Key"

: A redeco of ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Landmine (Energon)#Cybertron_2|Landmine]], "Axalon Rhinox" is one of five toys in [[BotCon 2006]]'s ''Dawn of Future's Past'' box set. He transforms into a front-end loader, with pop-out blades in his rear tires that are revealed with the use of a [[Cyber Planet Key]] (or his [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disk]] Key, of course). This gimmick and his spring-loaded missile launcher are usable in both modes.

: This set also included "Axalon" versions of [[Optimus Primal/toys#Timelines_2|Optimus Primal]], [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#Timelines_2|Cheetor]], [[Rattrap#Timelines_2|Rattrap]], and "Darksyde" [[Dinobot (BW)#Timelines_2|Dinobot]].

: This mold was also used to make the [[Movie (toyline)|live-action movie universe]] [[Grindcore (Movie)|Grindcore]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Maximal/BCRhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Axalon Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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===Beast Wars Telemocha Series===
*'''Rhinox''' (Deluxe, 2007)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TM-09'''
**''Accessories:'' Rotating mechanism, saw blade, two flails, sword

:This figure has the same assembly problem as the ''10th Anniversary'' version and also has the upper arms switched. It is the most show-accurate version of Rhinox in colors.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Maximal/Rhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Telemocha Rhinox at TFU.info (scroll down)]''
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==Merchandise==
[[Image:Rhinoxmutatingcard.jpg|thumb|300px|right]]
* '''Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game''' (1997)
:Rhinox was one of the 24 beast warriors to receive a battle card representation for the Beast Wars [[Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game|card game]].
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*'''Beast Wars Movie Coin''' (1997)
:Released only in Japan, Rhinox was one of three characters from Beast Wars to receive a movie coin, the other two being Rattrap and Scorponok.
::*''[http://www.tfmuseum.com/tf-02274.html Rhinox Movie Coin at TFMuseum.com]''

* '''Rhinox''' (2004)

[[Image:Hardhero rhinox.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Flower-smelling/nature-hating, gentle/megalomaniacal, Maximal/Jerk.]]
:In 2004, [[Hard Hero]] announced a line of ''Beast Wars'' statues, starting with Rhinox. As it turned out, Rhinox was the only one to be released.
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===Kabaya candy toys===
*'''Rhinox''' (candy toy, 1997)

: A tiny plastic Rhinox figurine molded onto an irregularly-shaped stand was released by Kabaya. Labeled toy 3 of 6, the other characters in his wave were Dinobot, Rattrap, Megatron, Optimus Primal, and Cheetor. As always, terrible candy is included.

===Robot Heroes===
* '''Rhinox vs Waspinator''' (2008)

[[Image:Robotheroesrhinoxwaspinator.jpg|right|200px|thumb|You may remember him as "Dr. Teeth" on The Muppet Show.]]
:Rhinox was released in the second wave of ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' packed with [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] as part of the "Beast Wars Series." An amalgam of toy and television show depictions, Rhinox has articulation at the neck and shoulders.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Maximal/RHRhinox/rhinox.htm More information on Robot Heroes Rhinox at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*Rhinox is the only member of the Beast Wars Maximal lineup who was there from the beginning and remains alive and unchanged for the entire course of the show.
*Skir's original intention was that Rhinox had "seen all sides of the argument, and chose to go more in Megatron's direction" in ''Beast Machines'', and that after a quiet chat, he and Optimus would part company. As Richard Newman played that scene with growling and shouting, Rhinox instead sounded not quite in his right mind after his experiences. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071202095033/http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Fri_03_Dec_1999.html Q&A from Bigbot's "bobskir.com"] (archive copy)</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Rhinox''' (ライノックス ''Rainokkusu'')
*''Italian:'' '''Metal Rinox''' (Transmetal)
*''Polish'': '''Nosoron''' ("Rhinon")
*''Spanish:'' '''Rinox'''
*''Russian:'' '''Reenox''' (Ринокс)

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Colada (BW)

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:''Cohrada is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:Cohrada1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Who needs fingers when you have a gun and a whip?]]

'''Cohrada''' (コラーダ ''Korāda'') is a hothead with absolutely no patience. He hates sitting around and wasting time when he could be out fighting a battle or two. He likes to fight by himself since he thinks his teammates will just get in his way. Cohrada is also very cold and rarely acknowledges the positive qualities of others. He’s had a strong rivalry with [[Break]] since the early days of the [[Maximal]] military academy and takes every opportunity he can get to outdo his teammate. Though impatient and easily frustrated, he knows a good plan when he sees one and isn’t so careless as to ignore it.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Makoto Ueki]] (Japanese)

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===Beast Wars Diorama Story===

At some point, Cohrada was transported back in time to the planet [[Earth|Energoa]], during the original [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] between the Maximals and the Predacons. There, he met up with several [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s from [[Transformers (2007)|another dimension]]. A battle broke out between the Maximals, Predacons, Autobots and Decepticons. The other-dimensional Transformers eventually returned to their place of origin and the Beast Wars continued as they were. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story}}

===''Beast Wars Neo'' comic===
===3H comics===
Cohrada was a member of the post-Reformatting [[Maximal High Council]]. {{storylink|Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming}}

===IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics===
After the [[Pax Cybertronia]] was declared, Cohrada left the official Maximal army to work as an independent agent, since he had little patience for the rules and laws of peacetime. {{storylink|Beast Wars Sourcebook}}

Serving as part of [[Big Convoy]]'s task force on the trail of Cybertron's illicit trade in [[Angolmois]], Cohrada was present when the Maximal leader located the newly risen tower headquarters of [[Shokaract]]. He speculated that this was in fact a structure from an older era of Cybertron, thrust to the surface of the planet by an unknown force. Of course then Shokaract decided that he and the other members of the task force had to die. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}} While Cohrada did in fact die originally, this was undone thanks to the [[Pack]] using [[time travel]] to show up just as Shokaract began massacring the task force. With Shokaract distracted, Big Convoy's team traveled to the Pack's crashed ship, where a suspicious Cohrada stuck a gun in [[Bump]]'s face. After the situation was made clear to them, the Maximals teamed up with the Pack and the reinforcements their had brought to defeat Shokaract once and for all. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

===''TransTech''===
[[Image:Saltmanzandothers.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Weaving through the streets like a... a...]]
Cohrada was seen among the inhabitants of the multiversal hub city of [[Axiom Nexus]]. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 4}}

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==Toys==
===Beast Wars Neo===
[[Image:BWN-toy Cohrada.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Snake]]? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!]]
*'''Colada''' (Deluxe, 1999)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''C-30'''
**''Accessories'': Water-squirting gun

: Cohrada transforms into an organic cobra. His tail is segmented to "whip" freely (like a great many plastic snake toys), plus he has a soft-plastic "bladder" in his mouth that [[Water-squirting gimmick|squirts water]] by pressing on the panel at the top of the snake-mode's hood. Both gimmicks are available in his robot mode; the whip-tail forming his right arm while the bladder-blaster mounts on his left wrist. He also has a third "Gun Mode" that is best left forgotten.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Cybertron/Corahda/corahda.htm More information on Cohrada at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:BWN-toy VS-30-box.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
*'''Showdown in the Desert: Colada VS Saberback''' (Deluxe VS set, 1999)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''VS-30'''
**''Accessories'': Water-squirting gun

: Cohrada was also available in a two-pack with the "Destoron" [[Saberback]]. The two toys were identical to their individual releases.

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===Beast Wars Telemocha Series===
*'''Colada''' (2007)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TM-07'''
**''Accessories:'' Water squirting gun

: As part of the ''[[Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]'', Cohrada was ''extensively'' repainted so as to blend in with the other toys in the line, which got paint jobs hewing very closely to the [[Mainframe Entertainment|Mainframe]] models of the CGI show's cast. He came with a DVD of the ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[A Better Mousetrap]]"... ''which he was '''not''' in''. Oh well.

==Notes==
*Cohrada's name is likely taken from either the drink piña colada, which is represented in Katakana as ピニャ・コラーダ (''pinya korāda''), or the sword [[Wikipedia:Colada|Colada]]. Nevertheless, we're stuck with "Cohrada", since ''[[Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' is the only English fiction with the character in it, and it uses that spelling.

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Waspinator (BW)

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169.139.222.5: /* Fast Action Battlers toyline */

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{{disambig2|the ill-destined wasp robot from the Beast Era|the ill-destined wasp robot from ''Transformers Animated''|Wasp}}
:''Waspinator is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Waspinatorbw.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Waspinator: chew-toy of fate.]]
'''Waspinator''' is the universe's whipping boy. If something goes wrong, it happens to him. If something blows up, he's usually at the epicenter of the explosion. He has been blasted, burned, shot down, torn up, crushed, slashed, smashed, bashed, and otherwise reduced to his component parts times beyond counting. Disturbingly, [[Rattrap]] has taken to collecting his severed components.

Waspinator's not the brightest 'bot in the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. Megatron has classified the harebrained Predacon as expendable, much to Waspinator's dismay; he doesn't get much more respect from anyone else, either. His speech quirks don't help: he tends to refer to himself in the third person and to most other people by nicknames like [[Cheetor (BW)|"cat-bot"]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|"two-head"]]. He's also a bit too fond of the letter "Z". (Those prone to witticisms might say he has a "lizzzzp".)

Waspinator may be dumb, but he's not stupid. He has caught on to his lot in life and tries to avoid his fate as often as possible... but fate always finds him. Thankfully, he's almost supernaturally durable and has survived the most devastating and humiliating of defeats.

{{quote|[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] blow up, Waspinator must salvage. Waspinator blow up, ''nobody'' salvage! Why universe hate Waspinator?|Waspinator laments his lot in life|"[[Deep Metal]]"}}

==Fiction==
===First wave toy bios===
[[Image:Optimusprimalvsmegatronwaspinator.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"This new aerobics regimen is great! Work, you abs!"]] The Waspinator is a fearsome warrior of monstrous appearance, striking fear with the eerie sound of his ominous buzzing. He strikes down helpless victims using his secret wing missiles, poisoning them with his cyber-sting. {{storylink|#Toys|Waspinator bio}}
He also likes to gang up on his victims with his partner, [[Buzz Saw]]. {{storylink|Buzz Saw#Toys|Buzz Saw bio}}
When the Maximals located the Predacons' genetics lab, Waspinator was present along with Megatron and Tarantulas to fend them off. Waspinator exchanged blasts with Cheetor before Megatron initiated the lab's self-destruct mechanism, at which point the Predacons retreated. {{storylink|Optimus Primal vs Megatron!}}

{{note|The on-package [[Bio|bios]] of the first wave of Beast Wars toys, predate the development of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon and its backstory. They seem to present the characters as a direct continuation of the previous Autobot/Decepticon conflict, with Optimus Primal actually being a new form of Optimus Prime and Megatron being his Generation 1 counterpart, and their battles taking place on present day, [[human]]-inhabited Earth, rather than in the distant past. Once the cartoon launched, the toyline adjusted itself to match that continuity instead, relegating this one to an aborted [[micro-continuity]].}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====''Timelines''====
[[Image:Waspinatordawn.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Waspy is mi kopilot, but hoo on Sibertron is mi spelcheker?]]
While [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], his [[Dinobot (BW)|lieutenant]], and [[Scorponok (BW)|another underling]] stole a Maximal relic, the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], the Predacon who would later name himself Waspinator stole a ship from [[Predacon Transwarp Research Center D-F]] with the help of an accomplice {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}} he nicknamed "[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Beakbot]]". The two had a contest to name the ship, but "Waspinator" lost, and thus the stolen ship was dubbed the ''[[Darksyde]]''. "Waspinator" believed ''Buzzerbot'' would have been a better name. For reasons known only to [[Primus]], Megatron agreed.

After escaping [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the ''Darksyde'' was intercepted by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', but after an intense space battle, only the ''Darksyde'' and the ''Axalon'' remained. Megatron ordered "Waspinator" to ''excecute'' their planned [[transwarp]] jump, opening up a portal which both ships entered. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
''Voice actor'': [[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese), [[Ivo Roberto]] (Portuguese), [[Fábio Vilalonga]], (Portuguese, in some episodes), [[Diego Sabre]] (Italian), [[Pierre Laurent]] (French), [[Roberto Molina]] (Latin American Spanish, season 1), [[Carlos Iñigo]] (Latin American Spanish, last episodes of season 1, season 2 and season 3), [[Gabriel Gama]] (Latin American Spanish, last 2 episodes of season 3), [[José Padilla]] (Castilian Spanish)

[[Image:BeastWars1 Waspinator robotmode.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Remember when Waspinator used to be a threat? Because ''he'' doesn't, the poor guy.]]
Waspinator, part of Megatron's rogue band of Predacons, landed on an unknown planet with dangerous levels of unstable [[Energon (fuel)|energon]]. To protect themselves from the energon, the Predacons took organic beast modes. In Waspinator's case, he now transformed into a large, green wasp. The first conflict between the stranded Predacons and their Maximal pursuers came when the Maximal [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] stumbled across Waspinator. In a stark contrast to his later career, he actually proved to be a serious threat and had the advantage over the inexperienced Cheetor, pinning the young Maximal down in a canyon. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

The Predacons pursued the Maximals and interrupted a fight between [[Optimus Primal]] and [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]. When a stray shot exposed a cache of energon atop a nearby mountain, the Predacons headed for it. Waspinator was teamed with [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] for the first time, in an attempt to slow the Maximals down. They were chased off by a missile from Primal and rejoined the others for a mountaintop battle, wherein Cheetor attempted to have a rematch with Waspinator. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}}

He helped [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] and Terrorsaur install some perimeter defenses around the Predacon base. {{storylink|The Web}} When Cheetor ended up in the Predacon base through some sort of freak teleportation system, Waspinator and Scorponok tried to kill him, but only succeeded in blowing themselves up with their own missiles. Little did Waspinator know that he would be blown up numerous times in the adventures to come. {{storylink|Equal Measures}}

[[Image:ChainOfCommand Waspinator gets shot up.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"...and here we see a wild Waspinator in its natural state."]]
Waspinator was part of an attack on the Maximals at the [[Standing Stones]]. He survived that battle, but when an [[Vok probe|alien probe]] appeared at the circle, he and Megatron attempted to take possession of it, and a pulse of energy zapped them. They turned up, badly damaged, back at the Predacon base. After repairs, Megatron sent Waspinator and Scorponok to guard the circle. The Maximals soon turned up to try and extract Primal from the probe, and Waspinator attempted to sneak up on [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], only for the Maximal to ventilate him with a chaingun. Waspinator fell backwards against a standing stone, activating a sequence which freed Primal from the probe. {{storylink|Chain of Command}}

After Terrorsaur managed to slag Megatron and take leadership of the Predacons, Waspinator and Scorponok promptly fixed Megatron. {{storylink|Power Surge}} When a stasis pod crashed, Waspinator and Terrorsaur went directly to the ''Axalon'' and ambushed Optimus Primal when he emerged to look for the pod. Though they succeeded, Dinobot dropped a huge rock on Waspinator, and Terrorsaur had to help his fellow. Waspinator was still healthy enough to report to Megatron, who sent the pair to capture the pod. On the way, they managed to slow down the Maximals by destroying an ice bridge, but by the time they reached the pod, [[Tigatron]] had already been activated. The new Maximal fought them off. {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}}

[[Image:Better_Mousetrap_Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Wazzzzpinator not want to know "who'zzzz there?"]]
In one of Waspinator's few victories, he managed to retrieve the stasis pod which gave birth to [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. When Terrorsaur again deposed Megatron, Waspinator seemed happy to follow his fellow Predacon. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} Perhaps that was why he was subsequently assigned with Blackarachnia and Terrorsaur to deliver a [[sonic emitter]] to a location below the ''Axalon''. Dissatisfied with the task, he went to fly around for a bit and mutter to himself, only to give away their position accidentally. Though he returned to the other two Predacons, they were discovered by Tigatron, who destroyed the sonic emitter. {{storylink|A Better Mousetrap}} After Primal was inadvertently turned into a berserker by Scorponok's [[cyberbee]], Waspinator attempted to track down Optimus in the Predacon base, but found himself pulled through a wall and blasted. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}}

Waspinator acted as bait for the first test of [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]'s [[transformation lock lens]]. The test was a success, but Waspinator was slagged by Tigatron. {{storylink|The Probe}} He was later one of the trio who mounted a mock revolt against Megatron to fool the Maximals. The Predacons concealed themselves in a crevasse (where Waspinator apparently spent his nights cuddling Tarantulas like a soft toy) while the Maximals repaired the ''Axalon''. They were discovered by Dinobot, who dropped a large rock on Waspinator and Terrorsaur. Though the latter survived to battle on, Waspinator apparently didn't. {{storylink|Victory (episode)|Victory}}

[[Image:DarkDesigns Waspinator is nuts.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Dancing Queen Bee]]
When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] had his personality program converted to that of a Predacon, he started surreptitiously taking out the various Predacons. He swung a cargo crate into Waspinator, giving him a concussion. As a result, Waspy flew around in a daze, claiming to be the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] as well as the great [[Ben Yee|Wonko the Sane]]. This dementia was apparently reversed when Cheetor later got annoyed at his yattering and shot him down. One of Waspinator's stray shots subsequently hit the [[Transmuter (BW)|Transmuter]], causing it to explode. {{storylink|Dark Designs (episode)|Dark Designs}}

Terrorsaur and Waspinator were hanging around outside the Predacon base during Megatron's experiment to create a [[Clone One|clone of Dinobot]]. {{storylink|Double Dinobot}} The pair attacked Cheetor when the young Maximal was protecting a stasis pod. Cheetor managed to lure Waspinator into flying over an energon geyser, frying his circuits. {{storylink|The Spark}} Perhaps a sign that they hadn't learned their lesson, Waspinator and Terrorsaur attacked Tigatron, only to be blasted by the defense system of a strange [[Brigadoon|flying island]]. Though injured, they were able to return to base to report the find. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 1}} Following another bout of repairs, the duo headed back for the island, only to run into Primal and [[Rattrap]], who were headed in the same direction. Eventually they did each the island...only for Blackarachnia to trick them into triggering the island's defenses again, resulting in them both being blasted. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 2}}

Tigatron was ambushed on his way to another stasis pod by Waspinator, who managed to get a drop on the tiger. Waspinator's victory was short-lived, as [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] promptly shot his wings off, and he crashed to the ground. {{storylink|Spider's Game}} Waspinator and Terrorsaur stole the ''Axalon''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[rectifier coil]], forcing the Maximals remain in their beast modes. Once the Maximals had gone feral and wandered off into the jungle, the Predacons mounted a hunting expedition. The Maximals were able to overcome their programming block, and during the subsequent fight, Rhinox swatted Waspinator out of the air with a ''tree''. {{storylink|Call of the Wild}}

[[Image:Possession_Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Give him an orange parka and call him Kenny.]]
After an apparently victorious battle, Waspinator and Scorponok returned to base. However, the Maximals they had attacked were not dead, merely blinded, and Waspinator was soon sent out again, teamed with Terrorsaur, to eliminate them. Unfortunately, even four blind Maximals were more than enough match for them, and both Predacons were sent packing. {{storylink|Dark Voyage}} Things continued to go badly for Waspinator, as during a violent storm, he was possessed by the immortal [[spark]] of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. It took a major [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] explosion to dislodge Starscream's immortal [[spark]] from Waspinator's body. It also had the after-effect of giving Waspinator a headache in his ''whole body''. {{storylink|Possession}}

Waspinator was part of a diversionary attack while Tarantulas tried out his new weapon, an [[energon discharge virus]]. Later on, the Predacons attempted to stop the Maximals getting the antidote and were blasted by Rhinox's enormous fart. {{storylink|The Low Road}} Waspinator teamed up with [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] and Terrorsaur for a fight, only to be roundly trounced by Tigatron. The trio were later able to defeat Dinobot, with Waspinator dealing the final blow, but Optimus Primal turned up and blew both him and Terrorsaur away with one shot. {{storylink|Law of the Jungle}}

[[Image:OtherVoices1 robonoogie.jpg|thumb|200px|right|"Wazzzzpinator having flashbacks to grammar zzzzzchool!"]]
Waspinator caught Tarantulas stealing a [[transwarp cell]] from the ''Darksyde'', but he was unable to stop the spider from leaving, as Tarantulas tossed him a bomb. Waspinator was soon in a multitude of separate pieces. {{storylink|Before the Storm}} Recovered and ready to take revenge on Tarantulas, he was instead sent by Megatron to secure a new alien site. Unfortunately, once he got there, he encountered Rattrap, who saw him off with a "robonoogie" and a kick to the unmentionables. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 1}} He retired to the ''Darksyde'', where the Predacons monitored the situation with the [[Planet Buster]] weapon which had been revealed from the planet's second moon. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}}

[[Image:ComingFuzors1 Waspinator cubed.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Rube-ik's Cube]]
After the Planet Buster was destroyed, the strange energies of a [[quantum surge]] saturated both ships. Waspinator lost control of his hoversled and was tipped into one of the restoration pools. Bathed in the regenerative fluids, he was prevented from becoming a [[Transmetal]]. He and his newly upgraded leader mounted an attack on the ''Axalon'', but once Waspinator faced a similarly upgraded Cheetor, he soon retreated. {{storylink|Aftermath}} Waspinator was the first to realize that the seemingly unknown planet on which they'd landed was, in fact, [[Earth]]. Dinobot had made the same realization and stole into the ''Darksyde'' to retrieve both of Megatron's disks. Waspinator proposed the two work together to steal the disks, and much to his surprise, Dinobot agreed...and threw him into the security shield. Waspinator was crushed into a cube by the disks' security contraption, leaving Dinobot free to steal the disks unharmed while Waspinator crawled away to the CR chamber using two fingers.

He got himself repaired in time to join Megatron's forces on the battlefield, where they outnumbered Dinobot, Cheetor and Rattrap. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} He was teamed up with new recruit [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] to attack the ''Axalon'' by air. After asserting his authority over the [[Fuzor]], he was promptly knocked out of the air by Cheetor. He joined the other Predacons as they prepared to finish off the Maximals for good...but was the first victim of a reborn Transmetal Optimus Primal. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}}

Waspinator and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] were tasked with constructing a new jamming tower. They constructed it successfully, but while Waspinator proudly reported their success to Megatron, Inferno playfully knocked the tower over on him. {{storylink|Tangled Web}} Another of Waspinator's rare victories came when he shot Silverbolt from behind, causing the Maximal to crash into Dinobot, effectively taking both out. While Inferno took off with Dinobot's prone form, [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] refused to help Waspy carry Silverbolt. A short time later, Rattrap mimicked Quickstrike's voice, tricking Waspinator into picking up a gas mine, and Waspinator's victory was no more. {{storylink|Maximal, No More}}

Waspinator and the rest of the Predacons installed shield generators around another alien site, but the [[Metal Hunter|alien construct]] which appeared zapped everyone, sending him into stasis lock. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 1)}} Megatron took control of the construct and restored all of the Predacons to working order. Waspinator and Inferno retrieved transwarp cells to give the ship transwarp capability. They were later sent out to defend the construct against the Maximals. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 2)}}

[[Image:BadSpark Waspinator defeated.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Not quite what "stick the landing" means.]]
Sent with Blackarachnia to claim another pod, Waspinator didn't last long before he was shot down by Cheetor and landed head first. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} He also took part in the attack on the valley where the [[protohuman]]s were living, but his contribution ended when Dinobot stuffed him head-first into [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]'s main cannon and Rampage exploded. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

As by Megatron's calculations, the [[transwarp wavefront]] from the Planet Buster explosion would soon be reaching [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Predacons mounted an attack on the ''Axalon''. The Maximals received reinforcements in the form of Predacon covert agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], whose [[transwarp cruiser]] saw the Predacons off. Waspinator was subsequently given a new solo mission by Megatron, and he departed when the Maximals next attacked. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} Just as he arrived at his [[Mount St. Hilary|destination]], Blackarachnia accidentally hit him with her hoversled, knocking him apart. Waspinator once again started gathering himself together. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

Waspinator pulled himself together in time to aid Megatron's escape, after the Predacon leader badly damaged [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. He, Megatron and Inferno headed for the ''Axalon'', but Cheetor and Primal caught up with them, and Waspinator was downed by one shot from Cheetor. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} After Inferno was blown to bits while attacking the Maximal base, Megatron sent Waspinator to salvage him. Waspinator was less than happy, complaining that no one ever salvaged ''him''. {{storylink|Deep Metal}} He was able to get the drop on Silverbolt when the Maximals were attempting to salvage [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]], and he happily flew off with the module.

{{Quote|Waspinator having good day! Not get shot once!}}

[[Image:Waspinatorigor.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Igor needs to file his nails.]]
Sadly, he didn't get very far before Silverbolt and Rattrap caught up, blasting him out of the air so they could reclaim Sentinel. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}} After Megatron developed [[cyber raptor]]s, Waspinator and Tarantulas were sent out with a group of them to attack Cheetor and Blackarachnia. The Maximals soon discovered that destroying the raptors' control components sent them wild, and Waspinator was stomped into the ground by an out-of-control dinosaur. {{storylink|Cutting Edge}} Another of Waspinator's increasingly few victories came when he managed to snatch a stasis pod from under the Maximals' noses. He acted as lab assistant as Megatron utilised the [[blank]] [[protoform]] contained in the pod, plus a [[transmetal driver]], to create a new [[Dinobot II|Dinobot]]. Unfortunately, even this victory was short-lived, as a short time later, the device Megatron was using exploded, and Waspinator was caught in the blast. After getting repaired, he made his way to where Megatron was interrogating [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]...only to be blasted by his own trigger-happy leader. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}}

After Megatron discovered that Cheetor had upgraded himself into a [[Transmetal 2]], he sent Waspinator and Dinobot out to find and capture the kitty. The pair located him in a cave, but as Dinobot began to move in, Waspinator asserted his own leadership...and was shredded by Dinobot. Following another bout of repairs, Waspinator rejoined the hunt, and they eventually found Cheetor again. Waspinator was offhandedly slagged by the Maximal while trying to sneak up. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}

[[Image:Go with the Flow Waspinator Una.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Requiring someone organic to complete the [[disruptor cannon]], Megatron sent Waspinator and Inferno to pick up a protohuman. Waspinator was able to capture [[Una]], but she did quite a bit of damage to him on the flight back. On reaching the mountain hideout, Waspinator reported success and promptly collapsed into a collection of parts. At some point, he got repaired and was able to join in the pursuit of Rattrap and Una as they escaped. He was hit in the face by mud, sending him out of control, crashing into first Inferno, then Dinobot, and allowing the Maximals to escape. The three Predacons were called back to the mountain, where Megatron attempted to use the disruptor cannon, which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Go with the Flow}} Waspinator's next glorious mission was an attack on the Maximal base. Unfortunately for him, his expected backup wasn't there, and he was swatted by Optimus Primal. It had all been a ploy to draw Primal out so that Tarantulas could deliver a device to take control of the Maximal leader. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

After the destruction of the ''Darksyde'' at [[Tigerhawk]]'s hands, Megatron sent Waspinator, [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] on an errand to find a new base, which was really nothing more than pointless busywork while Megatron went to do more important things. As the trio staked out an early [[human]] tribe that had taken up residence in a series of caves, Waspinator decided he'd finally had enough and ripped off his [[insignia|Predacon symbol]], declaring himself out of the Beast Wars.

[[Image:Waspinatorhappyatlast.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Wazzzzpinator happy at last! ...until the [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|next series]].]]
{{quote|I said '''no!''' [[Megatron (BW)|Dragon-Bot]] command '''you,''' [[Sub-Commander]] [[Inferno (BW)|Kiss-Butt]]! Dragon-Bot not command Waspinator! Not any more! Waspinator sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator especially sick of getting blown to '''scrap''' all the time! Sooo, Waspinator '''quit!''' As of '''now,''' which means [[Inferno (BW)|Ant-Bot]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Two-Head]] can just pucker their mandibles and plant [[Kiss|big, wet, juicy one]] right here on Waspinator's big...fat..stripy...}}

At this point, Waspinator was interrupted by getting blown to scrap by Inferno and Quickstrike. Also, note that this is the first (and only) time that he refers to himself as "I". {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

His parts recovered by the protohuman tribe, Waspinator remained on Earth while all the other surviving Transformers set off for Cybertron, and led the tribe, declaring that he was finally...happy. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

For a bit, at least.
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====Beast Wars Diorama Story====

{{note|This fiction takes place shortly after the events of ''[[Possession]]''.}}

Waspinator eventually met up with several [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s from [[Transformers (2007)|another dimension]]. A battle broke out between the Maximals, Predacons, Autobots and Decepticons. The other-dimensional Transformers eventually returned to their place of origin and the Beast Wars continued as they were. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story}}

====''15 Go! Go!''====
[[Image:Atari meets optimus primal.jpg|125px|thumb|right|Even in this series Waspinator gets shot at.]]
The time-traveling [[human]] [[Atari Hitotonari]] and the [[Sparkbot]] [[Star Dust]] witnessed a battle between Waspinator and Optimus Primal. However, the two interlopers could not be seen by either of the warriors. {{storylink|Sparkbots Volume 2}}

====''Tales of the Beast Wars''====
[[Antagony]] threatened to blast Waspinator if Megatron did not back down. Waspinator's warranty had expired, but it didn't matter as Antagony accidently wasted her last shot when she sneezed. Do we even need to guess what happened to Waspinator? {{storylink|Visitations}}

Later, to his credit, Waspinator was the only Predacon aside from Megatron to not be paralyzed in fear at the sight of a [[Unicron]]-possessed [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]]. Of course, Waspinator had just been blown up for the umpteen millionth time. None of the Maximals expressed satisfaction. They always got Waspinator. Always. {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Paradox}}

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====Transmetal Toy Bio====
Even though the quantum surge has upgraded Waspinator physically, his personality remains the same. He has however found a renewed drive to eliminate the Maximals, accompanied by enhanced speed.
{{storylink|Waspinator (BW)#Toys|Transmetal Waspinator Bio}}
{{note|The on-package [[Bio|bios]] of the Transmetal sub-line presented a micro-continuity where all of the characters receiving a new toy were transmetalized due to the initial quantum surge, instead of a select few.}}

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
An alternate timeline's Waspinator was possessed by Starscream's immortal spark after the later's defeat at the hand of the Maximals. This time around, Starscream was able to hold possession of Waspinator until the Quantum Surge hit Prehistoric Earth, and was able to influence Waspinator's transmetalisation so that the Predacon's third mode would ressemble Starscream's own original fighter jet mode. The two of them bicker constantly over control of the shared body, their two distinct voices audible to whoever hears them argue. {{storylink|Beast Wars Sourcebook}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor'': [[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese), [[Victor Covarrubias]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Vittorio Stagni]] (Italian), [[Thomas Nero Wolff]] (German)

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[[Image:Wazzpithrust_TheCatalyst.jpg|right|thumb|180px|''Bug to be wiiii-iii-ild!'']]
Waspinator grew bored of being a god to the Protohumans and started flicking rocks at their heads. The Protohumans he had ruled over grew tired of his presence and evicted him from their settlement by catapulting him from a tree. After this, Waspinator returned to Cybertron, which "took forever."
{{note|It is unclear just ''how'' Waspinator traveled from prehistoric Earth to future Cybertron, presumably under his own power. Perhaps if he somehow managed to reach escape velocity and traveled to Cybertron at sub-light speed, it would have taken long enough that he would have "caught up" to the main timeline. A concrete explanation would have been provided in the [[Primeval Dawn]] comics, with Waspinator (among many other Earth-bound characters) traveling back to Cybertron via transwarp portal. However, the bankruptcy of [[3H Productions|3H]] meant these final issues were never fully written, much less published, and all we really know about [[authorial intent|what they were going to say]] came from messageboard posts from author [[Dan Khanna]]. Since the material was never completed or published, fans [[personal canon|may not necessarily accept them as storyline facts]] and could thus leave the mechanics of Waspinator's return an unsolved mystery.}}

Once home, his spark was removed and used to power the [[Vehicon general]] [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]. He ''loved'' being a cool biker-bot as he now got respect and was finding [[Blackarachnia (BW)|chicks]] dig the new brooding bad boy schtick!

Influences from his inner spark caused Thrust to save Blackarachnia's life several times, causing her to believe he carried [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]'s spark. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} She later tried to bring his original mind back and discovered, to her disgust, that she'd spent all her effort getting Waspinator back. Poor Waspinator was rather upset to find Blackarachnia no longer wanted to "go steady" with him, and briefly had a punch-up with a revived Silverbolt over her honour. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

[[Image:Wazzpinator.jpg|left|thumb|180px|Why [[Vector Sigma#Beast_Era|Oracle]] hate Wazzzzpinator?]]

Following Blackarachnia's unambigious rejection of him (''there's'' gratitude for you!), Waspinator remained in the "background" and let Thrust run the show, and nobody ever expressed interest in reformatting Thrust to free Waspinator. In the final battle, [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] used an [[Spark extractor|extractor]] to remove Waspinator's spark from the body shell. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall}} After Cybertron's [[technorganic]] reformatting (thanks to Optimus Primal, through the cost of his and Megatron's lives) Waspinator returned in his beast mode with Thrust's head, now the size of a standard wasp. He complained to Rattrap about how much he wanted glory and power and never gets what he wants... at which point Rattrap swatted him away. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}}

{{note|While the suggestions that Thrust was really Silverbolt turned out to be a red herring, his actions raise the question of ''how'' Waspinator's spark could influence Vehicon programming, seemingly due to having a crush, but her true love Silverbolt's ''didn't''. ("[[In Darkest Knight]]" indicate it's because Silverbolt just didn't really want to give up being Jetstorm)}}

====''Universe'' comic====
After the reformatting of Cybertron, Waspinator came under the command of [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]]. His tiny size and great speed made him an excellent scout and messenger, and he reported to Galvatron that the invading Quintessons had entered a particular canyon that the Predacons had booby-trapped. He seemed very giddy to have a commander who actually found him useful for once. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Later, Waspinator was part of a team sent to rescue victims of [[Unicron]] who had been transported to an isolated, icy planetoid. {{storylink|OTFCC 2004 Live-Action Script Reading}}
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===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
The Predacons crashed on Earth in [[Mexico]] around 1,000 BC. Acting on Megatron's orders, Tarantulas and Waspinator enslaved the local [[Natiltec]] tribe, who saw Waspinator as some sort of "wasp-god", and forced them to mine energon. Silverbolt mounted a heroic rescue, struggling with Waspinator as the humans escape. The Natiltec later immortalised the event on a cave wall, which was uncovered some three thousand years later by a team of archaeologists. {{storylink|Fire in the Dark}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' video game===
{{note|This game takes place in an alternate version of the second season of the [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] cartoon.}}
[[Image:N64Waspinators.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Neon]] Camo Waspinator and Transmetal [[Buzz Saw]]! In stores now!]]
[[Image:TMWaspinator-Render.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Full Metal Yellowjacket]]
''Voice actor:'' [[Scott McNeil]] (English), ??? (Japanese)

[[Transmetal]] Waspinator joined his fellow Predacons in distributing various one-on-one beat downs to the Maximals. Eventually he got fed up, quit, and became god to early humanity. He did this after ''kicking everyone's ass''. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals}}

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{{Note|Waspinator is only available for game play in the Nintendo 64 game. His model was also used to represent the hidden character [[:Image:N64Starscream.jpg|Starscream]].}}

{{note|Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the Nintendo 64 game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Waspinator's fate in those outcomes.}}

===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle'' video game===
Megatron was capable of summoning Waspinator forth to the battlefield in his attempts to acquire the super-powerful [[energon crystal]]. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle}}
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==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[Image:Waspinatorjbwtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Japanese version is more [[Playskool]].]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 1996/1997)
** ''Japanese ID number'': '''D-3'''
** ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

:Waspinator transforms into a large organic wasp. His stinger separates to become a hand-held spring-loaded missile launcher for his robot mode; the bolts are stored on the underside of his insect-wings. His head is on a vertical column that rotates around a horizontal axle; each end has a different head, one "mutant", one "robot". The "mutant" head was used as the base for his CGI model, and thus the norm for his fictional portrayals. The [[Takara]] version of Waspinator uses slightly brighter, more primary colors than the [[Hasbro]] version.

:This mold was later [[redeco]]ed for a "[[Fox Kids]]" version, as well as [[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary|both the Hasbro and Takara 10th anniversary versions]] of the character.

:This mold was also used to make [[Buzz Saw]] and [[retool]]ed into [[Dirge (BWII)#Mutant|Dirgegun]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Waspinator/waspinator.htm More information on Waspinator at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:VS3-CheetorWaspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Catbug is a cat but he's got bugness in his veins.]]
* '''Showdown of the Quickest: Cheetus VS Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1997)
** ''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-3'''
** ''Accessories:'' Launcher, 2 missiles

:In Japan, Waspinator was available both separately and in a VS pack with [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#Dx1|Cheetor]]. Both toys are identical to their original releases.

:Currently, it is unknown if the latter "show-like" version of the two toys were ever released in the VS set.

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[[Image:Waspinator-TMtoy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Contains a tiny bit of Starscream in every mold.]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 1998)
** ''Japanese ID number'': '''D-42'''
** ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

:Now an almost completely robotic figure, [[Transmetal]] Waspinator transforms into a robotic wasp. He features a [[transportation mode|F-15-like jet mode]], flipping and folding his wings into a fighter-jet configuration as well as flipping a cockpit/nosecone between his insect-head mandibles. Though he appears solid black at first glance, he is actually made of very dark transparent-black/green plastic.

:The Takara version of this toy is almost completely identical, except the "WASPINATOR" [[tampograph]] on his wing was replaced with "DESTRON" and the Predacon sigil.

:This mold was later [[redeco]]ed for a "[[Fox Kids]]" version of the character. It was slated for a ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)#Universe_.282003.29|version of Waspinator]], but that set was canceled.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Predacon/Waspinator/waspinator.htm More information on Transmetal Waspinator at TFU.info]''

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* '''Hurricane Showdown: Metals Cheetus VS Metals Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1999)
** ''Japanese ID number'': '''VS-42'''
** ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

:In Japan, Transmetal Waspinator was available both individually and in a two-pack with [[Cheetor (BW)#TM1|Transmetal Cheetor]]. The two-pack version was unchanged from the normal individually-packaged one.

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[[Image:Waspinator-FKtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Do be a blue bee.]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 1999)
** ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

:This toy is a [[redeco]] of the first Waspinator toy. A "[[Fox Kids|FoxKids!]]" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time. Like most of the other Fox Kids redecoes, his color scheme was altered significantly, consisting primarily of slate blue and green-gold plastic, with dark blue (barely) translucent parts.

:Hasbro solicitations for this toy gave it the name "Power Flight Waspinator", but this name never made it to final packaging.

:This toy's deco was later used to create the non-toy character [[Buzzbomb]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Predacon/FKWaspinator/fkwaspinator.htm More information on Fox Kids Waspinator at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:BW_FoxKidsTransmetal_Waspinator_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Why FoxKidzzzz hate Waspinator?]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 2000)
** ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

:This toy is a [[redeco]] of the Transmetal Waspinator toy. A "Fox Kids!" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time. The toy's new deco bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Buzz Saw]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Predacon/FKTMWaspinator/waspinator.htm More information on Fox Kids Transmetal Waspinator at TFU.info]''

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===Universe (2003)===
[[Image:Waspinator_unreleased.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Wazzpinator... purple?]]

For a brief time, [[Hasbro]]'s official website checklist featured listings for two "Halloween [[Horrorcon (Universe)|Horrorcon]] Value Packs" that were to be Wal-Mart [[Exclusive|exclusives]]... which also likely explains why they were canceled. (Wal-Mart had taken a good half-dozen exclusives and released them more-or-less simultaneously, leading to a huge glut. A lot of other ''Transformers'' exclusives were canceled during the ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' era.)

In 2004, several test-shots appeared on eBay in a group, among them the Transmetal Waspinator toy with opaque-salmon wings and lavender insect legs. This, presumably, was to have been the ''Universe'' incarnation of Waspinator, as the other toys in the group line up with the names given for the two Halloween sets. He was to come in a "Vs." two-pack with the presumably-[[Autobot]] character [[Nightprowler]].
::*''[http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d75/binalternator/unreleased/nightprowler_vs_waspinator/ Gallery of Nightprowler vs. Waspinator test-shots]''
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===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===
[[Image:Waspinatortenthtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Finally Waspinator come with pieces that aren't Waspinator's!]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 2006)
** ''Accessories:'' Launcher, 2 missiles, Transmutate's head

:This toy is a slight [[redeco]] of the first Waspinator toy to make it closer to Waspinator's cartoon appearance, replacing the gray with green and adding extra gold [[Paint operation|paint applications]]. He came with the head to [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]] plus a DVD with the episode "[[Possession]]".
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Predacon/Waspinator/waspinator.htm More information on 10th Anniversary Waspinator at TFU.info]''

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===Timelines===
[[Image:Waspinator-BC06toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|This works surprisingly well on many levels.]]
* '''Darksyde Megatron and Darksyde Waspinator''' (Bagged set, 2006)
** ''Accessories'': 2-part rifle

:Available [[Exclusive|exclusively]] at the [[BotCon 2006]] event itself, this two-pack represents Waspinator and Megatron before the events of the ''Beast Wars'' show. "Darksyde Waspinator" is a Basic-sized figure, originally used for ''[[Machine Wars]]'' [[Skywarp (G1)#MW|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)#MW|Thundercracker]], which autotransforms to robot mode from a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#Dassault_Rafale|Dassault Rafale fighter jet]]. (One can surmise, however, that it is meant to represent a Cybertronic design in this case.) His rifle splits into two pieces, which store in the backs of his lower legs.

:This mold was also used to make ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], and ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Predacon/BCWaspinator/waspinator.htm More information on Darksyde Waspinator at TFU.info]''

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===Beast Wars Telemocha Series===
[[Image:Waspinatortelemocha.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Otherwise known as Dr. Wasp Itor.]]
* '''Waspeeter''' (Deluxe, 2007)
** ''Japanese ID number'': '''TM-04'''
** ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

:This toy is a ridiculously-extensively-painted redeco of the first Waspinator toy to make it almost completely [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] to Waspinator's cartoon appearance (forgiving mold issues and [[unpaintable plastic]], of course). Due to a manufacturing error, Waspinator's crotch piece is backwards. Just his luck.

:He came with a DVD of the episode "The Aerial Mountains Explode", the Japanese dub of "[[Power Surge]]".
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Predacon/Waspinator/waspinator.htm More information on Telemocha Series Waspinator at TFU.info (scroll down)]''

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==Merchandise==
[[Image:Waspinatormutatingcard.jpg|thumb|300px|right]]
* '''Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game''' (1997)
:Waspinator was one of the 24 beast warriors to receive a battle card representation for the Beast Wars [[Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game|card game]].
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[[Image:Robotheroesrhinoxwaspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Do we ''want'' to know what that is gushing out of his butt?]]
===Robot Heroes===
* '''Rhinox vs Waspinator''' (2008)
:Waspinator was released in the second wave of [[Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe'']] ''[[Robot Heroes]]'' packed with [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] as part of the "Beast Wars Series". An amalgam of toy and television show depictions, Waspinator has articulation at the neck and shoulders. He suspends himself in the air on a strong stream of fluid launching from his butt. (Okay, it's probably supposed to be a compressed air jet or something, but look at it. Eyuw.)
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==Notes==
* Ironically, in the [[Micro-continuity|original toyline's continuity]] (which was created before the animated series), Waspinator was profiled as a cruel, cunning, highly skilled warrior who was greatly feared by the Maximals.
* Ever wonder ''why'' Waspinator became the whipping boy of ''Beast Wars''? Early in the series, his buzzing, drawling method of speaking frustrated story editors [[Larry DiTillio]] and [[Bob Forward]], as they found it was taking up too much time out of the episodes. To get around this, but still meet with the requirement that he appear regularly, they took to blasting him to bits so that he wouldn't ''have'' to talk! Of course, this only wound up endearing him to the writers and the fans, and his frequent brushes with destruction became a running gag done for fun, rather than a script requirement. <ref>[http://www.infinitefrontiers.0catch.com/AutoAssembly/BobForward.htm Auto Assembly interview with Bob Forward]</ref>

* Waspinator was originally chosen by [[Hasbro]] to be one of the characters killed off for the second season of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon to help make way for new characters ([[To sell toys|read: product]]). However, Forward and DiTillio convinced them to spare Waspinator on the grounds of his popularity with the online fan-base, so [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] took the plunge instead.
* Waspinator was originally slated to appear in the very first [[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|''Beast Wars'' video game]], and even had a character model built. However, he was ultimately unused and only appeared in footage taken from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.
* Waspinator appears to be the inspiration for [[Buzzer-Bot]] from the ''[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Playskool Go-Bots]]'' line, as well as the obvious [[Wasp]] character from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]''.
* Waspinator's original toy contains a high number of [[Ball joint|ball]] and [[Swivel joint|swivel joints]], which more than easily separate. Makes him a little more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]], after all.
* When Waspinator is hit from behind by a stasis pod ship made by Blackarachnia, a toilet is seen falling from Waspinator's smashed body. Now Waspinator need new waste disposal unit!
* According to Waspinator's profile in ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'', he likes flying and nectar.
[[Image:Waspinatortongue.png|thumb|200px|right|Waspinator's special tongue, there is no other like it!]]
* Waspinator has a yellow [[tongue]] in robot mode.
* While Waspinator ''usually'' refers to other characters by nicknames, he is fairly consistent about calling Megatron and Optimus Primal by their real names. ([[Nemesis Part 1#Quotes|Fairly.]]) He also refers to Inferno by name at least twice, and Tarantulas at least once.
* Waspinator is the only member of the Beast Wars [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] lineup who was there from the beginning and remains alive for the entire course of both shows.
* Waspinator never once makes a proper landing while in his beast form.
* Technically, Waspinator's beast mode is that of a female wasp, given that males do not possess a stinger. He would probably find this objectionable, along with everything else in his life.
* Somebody give this guy a hug.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Waspeeter''' (ワスピーター ''Wasupītā'')<ref>This particular [[romanization]] was first used on a Japanese ''Beast Wars'' [http://www18.tok2.com/home/jackhama/transformers/bwtcard_1/img/015.jpg trading card], and later reappeared in the opening sequence for the Japanese version of the PSX ''[[Beast Wars: Transmetals]]'' fighting game.</ref>

*''Bulgarian:'' '''Osinator''' (Осинатор)
*''French:'' '''Bourdon''' (Canada, "Bumblebee"), '''Bizznator''' (Canada cartoon and Transmetal)<ref>It is unknown at this time if Waspinator was "Bizznator" in both Quebec and France, or if there were even two separate French dubs of ''Beast Wars'' to begin with. However, it ''is'' definitely known that only Canada got packaging with actual French names on it.</ref>

*''Italian:'' '''Punginator'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hú-fēng''' (Taiwan, 胡蜂, "Wasp"), '''Tsāng-yíng''' (Taiwan, 蒼蠅, "Fly")
*''Polish:'' '''Osator''' (Beetor)
*''Russian:'' '''Ospinator''' (Оспинатор)
*''Spanish:'' '''Avispaneitor''' (cartoon, spelling uncertain), '''Avispón''' (toy, "Hornet")

==References==
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[[Category:Beast Machines Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]
[[category:Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]
[[Category:Convention exclusives]]
[[Category:Pilots]]
[[Category:Robot Heroes]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Toys "R" Us exclusives]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]
[[Category:Transmetals]]
[[Category:Universe (2008)]]
[[Category:Universe Predacons]]

Cheetor (BW)

2011-03-02T17:32:03Z

169.139.222.5: /* Fast Action Battlers toyline */

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:''Cheetor is a [[Maximal]] (and later an [[Autobot]]) from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Cheetorbw.jpg|right|250px|thumb|There he is, your little guy.]]
'''Cheetor''' is full of youthful overconfidence. He's also the fastest Maximal on four legs which, combined with his impulsive nature, often gets him into more trouble than he can handle. It's needless to say that Cheetor's overbearing enthusiasm gets on the nerves of some of his teammates, [[Rattrap]] in particular. He's in those awkward formative years. Thankfully, [[Optimus Primal]] keeps a steady eye on the young Maximal. In return, Cheetor has grown to idolize Primal, whom he calls "Big Bot." Optimus Primal knows the inexperienced Cheetor needs a good role model, so he doesn't mind too much. And, hey, at [[spark]] he's a good kid. Just... keep him away from [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], okay? Impressionable minds, and all. And [[Matrix]] help us when Cheetor gets past his "cooties" stage and notices [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]].

Cheetor also appears to have vague precognitive skills, sensing important events before they actually happen — usually in the form of ominous dreams. With such power and potential, who knows — maybe the lad is destined for [[Oracle (BM)|great things]] [[Matrix Templar|someday]].

{{quote|I'm not lookin' forward to the day they chronicle ''my'' early bonehead adventures onto a [[Data-Con|datacon]] for all the world to see.|Cheetor, about [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]], in "[[Wreckers: Finale Part II]]."}}

==Fiction==
===First wave toy bios===
[[Image:CheetorBW-2packcomic.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Whose tusks gleam in the night? Not his!]]

{{quote|Eyes of a '''stalker''' hunting its prey... The super-swift '''cheetah''' springs! But '''food''' is not on '''this''' hunter's mind...|[[Optimus Primal vs Megatron!]]}}

Cheetor is a quiet and confidant warrior, who constantly stalks jungles in his search for Predacons. He is efficient, striking hard and fast with incredible reflexes in either mode. He is known to openly dare Predacons to challenge him and his laser-powered [[Quasar rifle|quasar cannon]]. {{storylink|Cheetor (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|Cheetor Bio}}

In a swamp outside the [[Fusion Building]] genetics lab, a fleet of ferocious animals has gathered. Suddenly, the cheetah and his wild comrades are under attack by a massive alligator! Surprise! This is a battle between [[Optimus Primal]] and his [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]! Cheetor quickly transforms to attack [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], and the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] have begun! {{storylink|Optimus Primal vs Megatron!}}

{{note|Collect them all!}}

{{note|This comic and the on-package [[Bio|bios]] of the first wave of Beast Wars toys predate the development of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon and its backstory. They seem to present the characters as a direct continuation of the previous Autobot/Decepticon conflict, with Optimus Primal actually being a new form of Optimus Prime and Megatron being his Generation 1 counterpart, and their battles taking place on present day, [[human]]-inhabited Earth, rather than in the distant past. Once the cartoon launched, the toyline adjusted itself to match that continuity instead, relegating this one to an aborted [[micro-continuity]].}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[Image:CheetorBW-DawnofFuturesPast.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Fur is murder!]]
A former cadet of the [[Maximal Command Security Force]], a Maximal who would later call himself Cheetor left the organization young after being recruited by Optimus Primal based on his leadership potential. "Cheetor" enthusiastically joined the crew of the ''Axalon'', hoping to see the furthest reaches of space. His vehicle mode could reach 550 mph, making him the fastest Maximal aboard the ''Axalon'' even before landing on prehistoric Earth. Cheetor served as the ship's communications officer.

Cheetor and the rest of the Axalon crew were waylaid on a Maximal space station for weeks, waiting for their exploration mission to begin. Finally, after leaving the space station, Optimus Primal explained the reason for their delay: they were ordered by the [[Maximal High Council]] to deposit a [[Protoform X|precious cargo]] on a barren moon. But before this could be achieved, the ''Axalon'' was contacted by the Maximal High Council again. The [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], a treasured Maximal artifact, was stolen by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], and he and a band of Predacon criminals left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in a stolen ship. Since the ''Axalon'' was the closest ship, they were ordered to intercept.

But there were other ships en route. A ship piloted by the Predacons [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] appeared and attacked them. Their mysterious attacker was countered by another strange ship, the ''[[Chromia 10]]''. Ultimately, the ''Axalon'' was able to destroy the Predacon ship but not before serious damage was dealt the ''Chromia 10''. The sparks of the two Maximals on board were beamed aboard the ''Axalon'' to save their lives.

Just as the battle seemed to be over, Cheetor received an incoming transmission from Megatron's stolen ship. Megatron introduced himself and disappeared through a [[transwarp]] portal. Cheetor and the rest of the ''Axalon'' crew followed blindly. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}
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====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Ian James Corlett]] (English), [[Wataru Takagi]] (Japanese), [[Cássius Romero]] (Portuguese, Season 1), [[Tatá Guarnieri]] (Portuguese, Season 2 onwards), [[Bernard Métraux]] (French), [[Eberhardt Haar]] (German), [[Mario Scarabelli]] (Italian), [[Alejandro Illescas]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jover Eduardo]] (Casilian Spanish)

[[Image:Cheetorbeast1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|What? Is it my breath?]]
After the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' crash-landed on a mysterious planet, the most youthful crew member of the disabled ship chose a cheetah as his new beast form. After admiring his new appearance, he renamed himself Cheetor. While the other Maximals were unpacking, Cheetor decided to show off, racing after some cheetahs. He soon encountered Waspinator, and opened fire, but found himself outclassed(!). The rest of the Maximals and Predacons turned up, and Cheetor cut off [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s speech with a "treacherous underhanded sneak attack". A full battle ensued, during which Cheetor's foot became caught in some rocks, and he had to be rescued by Optimus. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

When Dinobot challenged Optimus to a duel, Cheetor was keen to take out the Predacon himself, and had to be restrained from joining the fight. After the battle was interrupted by the other Predacons, a huge [[Energon (fuel)|energon crystal]] was revealed in a nearby mountain, and the Maximals rushed there to try to prevent the Predacons claiming it for themselves. With the massive amount of energy there, they were forced to fight in their beast modes, though it did give Cheetor the opportunity to try to settle the score with Waspinator. Ultimately, the energon was all destroyed. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}}

[[Image:Cheetor-precog.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Cheetor should stop eating cheese before he goes to bed.]]
Cheetor enthusiastically volunteered to check out a new experimental comlink. Despite being under orders not to get into any combat situations, he unsuccessfully attempted to attack [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] and was left heavily damaged. After a strange precognitive dream, he awoke back on the ''Axalon'', whether the other Maximals expressed their disappointment in his actions. Given a hard time by Rattrap, Cheetor rushed out to make another attempt to capture the cannon that Scorponok was recovering, and was captured by [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]. Luckily for him, he was soon rescued by Rattrap, who also lied to Optimus to cover the young bot's hide. {{storylink|The Web}}

[[Image:EqualMeasures Cheetor with gutgun.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Boy's got guts.]]
Though Cheetor was looking forward to another mission to install energon monitoring devices, Optimus delayed the mission due to the heavy storm raging. Dinobot managed to goad Cheetor into going out anyway, and, while placing one of the devices, a lightning bolt hit it, resulting in a bizarre two-way teleportation effect between the Maximal and Predacon bases. Cheetor himself found himself in the ''[[Darksyde]]'', where he was able to hack the Predacon data files and discover that the two crashed ships lay on a common energon vein, meaning that an explosion at one base would destroy both. He managed to get the information back to Optimus, but Dinobot had already sent through a bomb — Cheetor was able to detach it from the console it was fixed to in time. He returned to the ''Axalon'', where he promised Optimus that he would pay more attention to orders... until the next time. {{storylink|Equal Measures}}

After a decisive Maximal victory at the [[Standing Stones]], an [[Vok probe|alien probe]] swallowed Optimus Primal. The argument over who would lead turned into a secret ballot, during which, from Rhinox's reaction, Cheetor voted for Dinobot, suggesting he trusted the Predacon's leadership skills over those of Rattrap. As it turned out, the exercise was rendered pointless by the revelation that Optimus wasn't dead after all. {{storylink|Chain of Command}}

[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] discovered a [[flying mountain]] with a cache of super-powerful energon at the top, but he was spotted by Cheetor, who immediately dashed back to the ''Axalon'' to inform the other Maximals. {{storylink|Power Surge}} When one of the [[stasis pod]]s crashed to the ground and Optimus was damaged by a Predacon sneak attack, Cheetor, Rhinox and Rattrap set out to try to get to the pod, but were delayed by Waspinator and Terrorsaur. They were beaten to the pod by the Predacons, but a last-minute gambit by Dinobot and Optimus meant that the [[protoform]] inside had already been reformatted into [[Tigatron]]. {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}} Like the other Maximals, Cheetor couldn't believe that Rattrap had defected to the Predacons. Of course, it turned out to be simply a ploy to determine how the Predacons had been spying on the Maximals. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}}

[[Image:Cheetor&badoptimus.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
Cheetor, Rattrap, Dinobot and Rhinox were forced to evacuate the ''Axalon'' when a fight caused Rhinox's new [[Sentinel (BW)|defense system]] to go out of control. {{storylink|A Better Mousetrap}} Infected by a Predacon virus which caused uncontrollable rage, Optimus managed to persuade Cheetor to release him from his confinement, only for the Maximal leader to head off on a one-bot mission against the Predacons. After Primal had slagged most of the Predacons, Cheetor managed to get hold of the antivirus and administer it to Optimus. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}}

When a [[temporal probe]] sent from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] came into range of the planet, the Maximals tried to set up a signal array to contact it. The Predacons had other idea though, and Tarantulas's [[transformation lock lens]] locked both Cheetor and Tigatron in their beast modes. The pair were captured and put in cages in the ''Darksyde'', but soon escaped and used the Predacon repair pools to fix themselves. They rejoined the fight in time to save Optimus and Rhinox from Megatron, but the Predacons had prevented the signal from being sent. {{storylink|The Probe}}

After the apparent destruction of the Predacons, Cheetor and Rattrap mocked Dinobot's sorrow at the passing of his ex-comrades. It was, of course, a ruse, and the Predacons revealed themselves once the Maximals had repaired their ship. Cheetor accompanied Optimus into battle to retrieve the injured Dinobot, providing cover fire for his leader. When Terrorsaur hit a retreating Optimus from behind, Cheetor flew into a rage, firing wildly (and downing the flier) before getting shot by Megatron. He managed to drag himself to the ''Axalon'' as it took off, and would've pulled Optimus onboard if not for Scorponok's parting shot. As he broke the sad news to his allies, he was ambushed by their stowaway—Megatron himself—and awoke to find the Axalon grounded...permanently this time. {{storylink|Victory (episode)|Victory}}

When Rhinox was twisted into a Predacon by Megatron's [[Transmuter (BW)|Transmuter]], Cheetor was keen to rescue their friend, Optimus ordered everyone to hold back, while the evil Rhinox wrecked havoc in the Predacon base. {{storylink|Dark Designs (episode)|Dark Designs}} On another occasion when Rattrap went missing, Cheetor and Optimus looked for the ratbot, only to discover that the Dinobot who had sent them on the hunt was a [[Clone One|clone]] controlled by Megatron. By the time they got back to base, the clone had already been defeated—and devoured—by the real Dinobot. {{storylink|Double Dinobot}}

[[Image:The Spark Cheetor Waspinator.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"No!! Waspinator's come to steal the fanbase's affection!"]]
Rhinox and Cheetor got to another crashed stasis pod before anyone else, however the ambient energon was endangering the protoform inside. Cheetor shut himself down to allow Rhinox to extract a needed component from him, and dreamed that Rhinox was telling him about [[spark]]s. After reawakening, Cheetor was forced to try to defend the pod against Blackarachnia, Waspinator and Terrorsaur, while only having limited use of his robot mode. Though he managed to defeat the first two, Terrorsaur prevailed... only to be defeated by the newly online [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]. {{storylink|The Spark}}

During Tigatron's disappearance, Cheetor spotted Blackarachnia and Scorponok leaving the Predacon base on a mission. As it turned out, they were heading towards a [[Brigadoon|flying island]] which Tigatron had crashed on. Tigatron sent a [[Cyberbee]] containing footage of the island, which the Maximals were able to recover, despite Cheetor firing on it. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 1}} Cheetor and Rhinox were forced to evacuate the ''Axalon'' after Blackarachnia took control of the island, intending to destroy the Maximal base with it. The spider's scheme was thwarted, but Cheetor bore witness to the island's final action: a beacon sent to its creators, who would most likely be very displeased with the island's demise. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 2}}

[[Image:Dark Voyage Cheetor snake.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Featuring a scene from several fanfics.]]
Another Predacon gambit saw them stealing the [[rectifier coil]] from the Maximal base, effectively trapping the Maximals in their beast modes. Overcome by bestial instincts, the Maximals wandered off into the jungle, and it was only through Tigatron's intervention that they were able to delete the blocks separating their robot and beast psyches. {{storylink|Call of the Wild}} During a routine energy-harvesting run, an energon explosion caused a group of Maximals, of which Cheetor was a part, to be blinded far from base. As they attempted to journey home, Cheetor was attacked and severely damaged by a huge snake. He spent most of the rest of the journey on Rhinox's back, until they came under attack by Terrorsaur and Waspinator. Rhinox was able to guide everyone in fending off the attack without the use of their sight, and they were soon found by Optimus. {{storylink|Dark Voyage}}

After a violent storm damaged the Maximal base, making it vulnerable, Cheetor shot down a cyberbee which was spying on them. Unfortunately the Predacons had gained enough information and the help of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], who had possessed Waspinator's body, enabling them to easily take over the ''Axalon''. The Predacon occupation didn't last long, as internal conflict in their ranks allowed the Maximals to retake their base. {{storylink|Possession}} After Rattrap and Dinobot's bickering caused Rhinox to beome infected by a Predacon [[energon discharge virus]], Optimus insisted the pair go out alone to find the cure. Cheetor was part of the party which went to back them up when they located [[Tarantulas's lair]]. {{storylink|The Low Road}}

[[Image:LawoftheJungle unhappy Tigatron and Cheetor.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Are we there yet?" "No." "Are we there yet?" "NO!" "Are we there yet?"]]
After [[Snowstalker]] was killed by incidental fire during a battle, Cheetor tried unsuccessfully to comfort Tigatron, but the other Maximal announced he would no longer be a part of the Beast Wars. {{storylink|Law of the Jungle}} After Megatron called a truce and the Maximals needed to find out what he was up to, Cheetor suggested that Rattrap infiltrate the Predacon base unarmed, so as to not violate the truce. Rattrap was less than impressed with the suggestion. In the end, Tigatron did the infiltrating, and the other Maximals covered his escape. Rhinox and Cheetor "intercepted" Terrorsaur with a sheet of metal. {{storylink|Before the Storm}}

Tigatron and Cheetor observed the [[Planet Buster|moon splitting open]], but were called back to base by Optimus. They got back as the alien weapon began super-heating the planet's surface, and helped the damaged Dinobot and Rhinox into [[CR chamber]]s. Optimus intended to use a stasis pod Tarantulas had been working on to attack the Planet Buster, despite Cheetor, Tigatron and Airazor all volunteering to go in his stead. As the pod lifted off, Cheetor managed to tune the sensors in to follow its path until it destroyed the Planet Buster—and thanks to Megatron's meddling, Optimus Primal as well. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}}

[[Image:Aftermath Rattrap Cheetor.jpg|left|200px|thumb|INVISIBEL KEYBORD]]
When the [[quantum surge]] from the explosion engulfed the planet, Cheetor's exostructure was mutated into a shiny new [[Transmetal]] body. Along with a tougher metal hide and built-in weaponry, his beast mode gained the ability to fly via two powerful thrusters in his torso. Unfortunately, his first attempt at flying led him on a one-way trip into a bulkhead. His new flight mode allowed him to be particularly effective against Waspinator in a subsequent battle, however he was then blasted off a cliff by Megatron, and crashed into Rattrap while trying to fly to safety. Rhinox fortunately interceded before the pair could be slagged. {{storylink|Aftermath}}

[[Image:TM2Cheetorfly.jpg|right|200px|thumb|NEEEEOOOOWWWWWNNNNN]]
While Rhinox set up some equipment to send his core consciousness on a jaunt, Cheetor left the ''Axalon'' to look for Dinobot. Instead he found the Predacons and was attacked by a new addition to their forces, [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]. He radio'd base to warn Rattrap. Rattrap and Dinobot soon joined him and prepared for a showdown with the Predacons. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} Though outnumbered, the trio persisted in defending the ''Axalon'', eventually capturing Silverbolt and taking him back to the ship for repairs. As the Predacons pressed on with their attack, the Maximals found themselves out of ammo, but were saved at the eleventh hour by the resurrection of Optimus Primal in a new Transmetal body. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

[[Image:OtherVisits2 Cheetor closeup.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Captain Blueface]]
Despite his new form, Cheetor was still assigned to monitor the sensor grid, reporting on strange signals. {{storylink|Tangled Web}} When Rhinox worked out that there was an alien site in [[Grid Zeiram]], the area Tigatron and Airazor were patrolling, Cheetor was sent to warn them. He was moments too late to prevent them from being shot into space by the alien plants there, much to his anguish. Though Cheetor wanted to rescue Tigatron and Airazor, the priority was on stopping Megatron, and the Maximals returned to Grid Zeiram, where a [[Metal Hunter|spaceship]] grew from the plant life and released an energy surge which blasted everyone present. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 1)}} As the Transmetals and [[Fuzor]]s recovered quickly from the blast, Cheetor and Silverbolt took Dinobot and Rhinox back to base for repairs. After Megatron took control of the alien craft, the Maximals launched an attack on it, distracting Megatron long enough for Rattrap to undertake some sabotage. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 2)}}

Out flying on patrol, Cheetor spotted a crashed stasis pod marked with an X, which Optimus explained contained [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]], a Maximal experiment. Of course, the Predacons arrived to try to take control of the pod, and weapons fire caused energon beneath the pod to explode. Damaged, Optimus and Cheetor returned to base, but were repaired in time to help Silverbolt and Blackarachnia defeat Protoform X. The Maximals left to consult Rhinox on the abomination, but that gave Megatron time to conscript X into the Predacons as Rampage. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} On another patrol, Cheetor encountered the Predacon forces, again, and communicated their position to Dinobot. After Dinobot died defending a valley of [[Protohuman|early humans]] from the Predacons, Cheetor extinguished the flames in the valley and joined the other Maximals in mourning his loss. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

[[Image:Transmutate Cheetor in flight.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Check out my undercarriage!]]
While out hunting for yet another Predacon jamming tower, Rattrap and Cheetor stumbled on a stasis pod containing a strangely mutated [[Transformer]], which became known as [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]]. Unfortunately the first thing it did was break up their fight with the Predacons using its sonic attack. As Rattrap later joked about the creature's appearance, Cheetor pointed out Transmutate was standing right behind him. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

[[Image:Agenda1 Cheetor with tail club.jpg|thumb|left|300px| Kitten with a whip.]]
The Maximals were overjoyed when Rhinox revealed that the transwarp wavefront from the Planet Buster explosion would soon be detected by Cybertron and a rescue mission sent. Cheetor was looking forward to going to [[Six Lasers Over Cybertron]], much to Rattrap's embarrassment. Instead of the expected rescue mission, they got [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], a Predacon operative sent to apprehend Megatron. Joining forces, they mounted an attack on the ''Darksyde''. Cheetor was blasted by the defense systems. Twice. Unsurprisingly, he wasn't present when Megatron was finally captured. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} With the Maximals in control, Optimus order Cheetor to go out and look for Blackarachnia, whom Silverbolt had allowed to escape. Cheetor assured Silverbolt, who had developed feelings for the Predacon, that he would bring her in in one piece, only for Silverbolt to punch him out, leaving to find Blackarachnia himself. Cheetor wasn't happy.

[[Image:Agenda3 Cheetor handblasters.jpg|thumb|right|200px|KA-ME-HA-MEEEEEE...]]
He and Optimus instead went to fetch some energon crystals stashed by Tarantulas, only to run into [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] and were forced to retreat when the crazed Predacon blew up the energon. The pair headed back for the ''Axalon'', only to be informed by Rattrap over the commlink that Ravage had switched sides — a fact made obvious by the [[transwarp cruiser]] bearing down on them with Megatron riding atop. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} Pinned down on the battlefield, Optimus and Cheetor were blasted flat by Megatron (although Cheetor managed to deal with Quickstrike first), but fortunately survived without too much damage. After Rattrap took out the transwarp cruiser, the Maximals set out in pursuit of the retreating Megatron.

As it turned out, the Predacon leader had found the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] buried in [[Mount St. Hilary]]. The Maximals worked frantically to dig out the cave in he'd created to block their passage, and then to evade the Ark's defenses, but were too late to prevent Megatron from shooting a stasis-locked [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in the head. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

The [[time storm]] abated once the Maximals stabilized Optimus Prime's condition. Cheetor and the newly "optimised" Optimus Primal attempted to stop the Predacons from attacking the ''Axalon'', with Cheetor taking out both Waspinator and Inferno, but the pair were helpless to stop the ship plunging off the cliff and being lost. The Maximals subsequently took up residence in the cavern housing the Ark. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} Some time later, Cheetor was out on patrol when he saw a [[Starhopper|spaceship]] entering Earth's atmosphere. He was in the middle of a radio report when Rampage shot him down, and he was rescued by new arrival [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who left him on a small rock. Without his flight capability, Cheetor had to wait to be rescued by Optimus. The pair picked up Depth Charge, who'd lost his fight with Rampage, and took him back to base for repairs. Cheetor's attempt to thank the new Maximal resulted in Depth Charge insulting him and swatting him aside. {{storylink|Deep Metal}}

[[Image:CuttingEdge Optimus sings to Cheetor.jpg|thumb|left|250px|There he is, my little guyyyyy! There he is; my little guy. Isn’t he cute?]]
When Rattrap was assigned to recover Sentinel from the underwater remains of the ''Axalon'', Cheetor was highly amused at the [[Subaquatic stealth vessel|wee ship]] that would be used, imagining it would make a swell kitty toy. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}} While looking after [[Chak]] and [[Una]], after the pair had become separated from their tribe, Cheetor displayed the first hints of a crush on Blackarachnia, much to Silverbolt's displeasure. He volunteered to accompany her on a mission to return the children to their people. And gave Chak rides. As soon as they were attacked by a [[Cyber raptor]], he was blasted off a cliff and his jets damaged. Then during another battle with Tarantulas and a pack of Cyber raptors, he was blasted from behind by Waspinator. Primal and Silverbolt soon joined the battle, but Optimus was quickly incapacitated by a new [[cyber venom]]. They were all saved by [[Leader Neanderthal|protohuman leader]], who attacked the raptors with his club. Afterwards, Blackarachnia rebuffed his thanks, walking off with Silverbolt. Cheetor muttered that he was "not a kid... and maybe I'm not so nice either." {{storylink|Cutting Edge}}

[[Image:FeralScream1 Cheetor gets zapped.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]
Optimus and Cheetor were unsuccessful in preventing the Predacons stealing another stasis pod — in fact Cheetor's missile accidentally took out Optimus, much to his dismay and embarrassment. After scolding Cheetor, Optimus told him to get some backup and assist Depth Charge, however Cheetor opted to go on alone. As he assisted Depth Charge in battling the Predacons, Cheetor was able to steal the [[Transmetal driver]] which Megatron was using in an experiment to create a [[Transmetal 2]] [[Dinobot II|clone of Dinobot]]. No sooner had he thrown the artifact to Depth Charge, than Cheetor was knocked into the cloning machine's electrical arc and apparently destroyed. Depth Charge returned to Maximal HQ with a piece of Cheetor's exo-shell as proof.

Cheetor, however, was alive, though badly damaged. After Depth Charge was captured by the Predacons, who were after the Transmetal driver, the group was attacked by a [[Wikipedia:Werecat|strange feline creature]]. A short time later, Cheetor himself collapsed on the Maximals' doorstep. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}} Refusing use of the CR chamber, Cheetor had troubled dreams as he slept in his own quarters. On waking up, he was enveloped by a strange green glow from his spark. Rattrap, investigating the noise, was knocked down by the strange feline creature bursting out of Cheetor's quarters. Cheetor awoke in a cave, back in his Transmetal form and totally repaired, but with confused memories of what had happened. He returned to base, claiming to have taken care of the "cyber creature", but naturally Optimus insisted on seeing the remains in an attempt to get the young bot to tell him the truth.

[[Image:Cheetort2.JPG|left|300px|thumb|Rawr.]]
Finally, during a fight with Dinobot and Waspinator, Cheetor mutated permanently into his new Transmetal 2 form. He made short work of the two Predacons, however as Optimus observed, his beast mode was "still feral", and he had to be coaxed into returning to robot mode. As Optimus picked him up joyfully, Cheetor asked to be put down, as Optimus was embarrassing him. "Oh, joy," Rattrap remarked on this. "Cyber-puberty." He did seem happier when Blackarachnia admired his new form. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}

Cheetor returned the favor by drooling over scans of Blackarachnia's internal structure. She later pulled her gun on him and told him to back off, being sick of his stupid crush. Optimus broke up the conflict, sending Cheetor out on patrol. {{storylink|Proving Grounds}} He spent some time with Chak and Una, attempting to teach the pair about defending themselves against Predacons and basic engineering principles, such as levers. The class was interrupted when the Predacons abducted Una, however the girl was able to put Cheetor's teachings to the test, with favorable results. {{storylink|Go with the Flow}}

[[Image:CrossingtheRubicon Cheetor beast mode.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"U-G-L-Y - I ain't got no alibi!"]]
After Blackarachnia made an aborted attempt to upgrade herself with the Transmetal driver, Cheetor was concerned for her safety. He assisted in defending the base against a Predacon attack while Rhinox worked on removing the Predcaon shell program from Blackarachnia. As the Predacons retreated, their jubilation was cut short by the news that Blackarachnia didn't make it. As the Maximals eulogized her, Cheetor said she was "something special". Fortunately, she wasn't that dead. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} Megatron's new plan saw [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] taking control of Optimus Primal. The first thing he did was punch out Cheetor and lock the young Maximal in a cage. All of the Maximals were released in time to fight off a newly upgraded Megatron. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

[[Image:Nemesis2-Maximals.jpg|left|thumb|300px|See ya in the next show!]]

Cheetor was sent to stop [[Tigerhawk]] from destroying Megatron, an act which would also destroy the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s spark, but he was quickly incapacitated by Tarantulas, who had plans of his own. Cheetor dreamed of Tigatron, Airazor and the [[Vok]], before waking and breaking free of his bonds. The fused spark from his dream guided him to Tarantulas's lair, where he was able to pull Tigerhawk clear before the lair exploded. {{storylink|Other Victories}} Depth Charge soon spotted the fugitive Predacons, and Cheetor was part of the group that went after them, though he just ended up escorting Blackarachnia and a badly damaged Silverbolt back to base. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

With Megatron on the way in the [[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]], the Maximals hurried to try to get the Ark ready to be moved, but were unable to get the ship moving. Fortunately a last minute schematic download pointed them to a shuttle stored in the Ark, and, after Rhinox used it to assault the Nemesis, the Maximals watched the warship crash in the distance. The Beast Wars over, the Maximals headed back for Cybertron in the shuttle. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}
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====Beast Wars Diorama Story====
{{note|This fiction takes place shortly after the events of ''[[Possession]]''.}}

Cheetor eventually met up with several [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s from [[Transformers (2007)|another dimension]]. A battle then broke out between the Maximals, Predacons, Autobots and Decepticons. The other-dimensional Transformers eventually returned to their place of origin and the Beast Wars continued as they were. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story}}

====3H ''Tales from the Beast Wars'' comics====
[[Image:CheetorBW-GroundZero.jpg|left|thumb|200px|In which Cheetor has a rugged, dimpled chin.]]
On a particularly beautiful day, Airazor and Rhinox were basking in the glow of a quiet Predacon-less day. In contrast, Cheetor was bored. Fortunately for Cheetor, he got his wish, and the sound of explosions alerted the three to a battle over the horizon. Unfortunately for Cheetor, he was quickly blasted into inaction by [[Packrat]], who had become unstable after an encounter with [[Furmanite]]. Later, he was okay, and he accompanied his fellow Maximals home. {{storylink|Ground Zero}}

Much later, after having acquired his [[Transmetal 2]] form, Cheetor and the other Maximals faced the time-traveling warlord, [[Shokaract]]. Unfortunately, they were no match for the [[Unicron]]-powered juggernaut and Cheetor was crushed in Shokaract's claws. This battle, as well as Shokaract's existence itself, would soon be retroactively erased from Cheetor's timeline with the efforts of the legendary [[Covenant]]. {{storylink|Terminus}}
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====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
Cheetor appeared outside the ''Ark'' alongside Optimus Primal and Rhinox. Showing concern for Optimus, as the big monkey seemed to sense a presence that Cheetor pointed out to be seemingly non-existent. Somewhat freaked-out by Optimus's odd behavior, both Cheetor and Rhinox convinced Optimus that he was simply "chasing ghosts." {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}
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====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
Near the end of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], shortly after Megatron [[Master Blaster|combined his spark with that of the original Megatron's]], the newly-reconfigured Predacon leader hatched a new plan. Quickstrike was ordered to sneak into the Maximal base and place a transmitter which would increase the aggression of Cheetor and the other Maximals. Quickstrike was successful, and soon Cheetor was fighting that annoying little jerk, Rattrap. Fortunately, Optimus Primal was able to detect something was wrong, despite the transmitter's effects on himself, and the Maximals deactivated the transmitter and defeated Quickstrike. Cheetor and the others raced into the Ark, where they found Megatron, confused after a mental battle with his namesake, attempting to control the lifeless body of Starscream. Megatron fled. {{storylink|A Meeting of Minds}}

Later on Cybertron, just before the [[Battle for the Spark]] was over, [[Spark of Darkness|Megatron's spark polarity had been inverted, and his tortured life force traveled all over Cybertropolis]]. As Megatron's spark approached Cheetor and Nightscream, he was consumed with hatred for the both of them: for Nightscream because his actions recently had put him in this very predicament, and for Cheetor "because... well, because he's Cheetor." {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}

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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor'': [[Ian James Corlett|Ian Corlett]] (English), [[Wataru Takagi]] (Japanese), [[Hercules Fernando]] (Portuguese), [[Vitcor Covarrubias]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Julio Lorenzo]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Björn Schalla]] (German), [[Massimo de Ambrosis]] (Italian)
[[Image:Reformatting Cheetor beast mode.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"STOP LOOKING AT MY ASS!"]]
During the journey back to Cybertron, Megatron broke free from the Autobot shuttle and somehow reached the planet before the Maximals. By the time the Maximals got there, Megatron had taken control of the planet with an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] drones. They were hit with a [[transformation virus]] which reverted them to their original beast forms. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent}} Unable to transform, Cheetor searched for a [[CR chamber]] with which to repair himself, and ended up saving Primal and Rattrap from a [[Tank Drone]]. The trio were unable to remember what had happened to them since arriving on Cybertron. They located Blackarachnia and descended into the planet to find the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]. Primal communed with the Oracle, which reformatted the four Maximals into new [[Technorganic]] bodies. Faced with more Vehicons in the form of [[Motorcycle Drone]]s, the Maximals found themselves unable to transform out of beast mode, and were forced to deal with the drones as is. When Optimus finally worked out how to transform, Cheetor admired his new robot mode. {{storylink|The Reformatting}}

[[Image:MasteroftheHouse Cheetor deflects shots.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Trust us, in ''context'' this scene is really cool.]]
With Optimus's guidance, Cheetor and Blackarachnia were able to remaster the art of transformation, regaining their robot modes. However on the first attack by a [[Vehicon Mole|Mole Drone]], they spontaneously reverted back to beast modes through lack of focus. Despite the pair believing that they should find more survivors, Primal insisted that they concentrate on their training, and the group split up to find a new base. Blackarachnia persuaded Cheetor to accompany her to the surface to find more information, only to find the city deserted and the [[Cybertron InfoCore]] erased. Attacked by [[Sonic Attack Jet|Aero Drone]]s, the pair were helped by Primal, and the Maximals proceeded to the [[Council Citadel]], where Optimus went in and encountered Megatron. As the Maximals battled against the Vehicon drones, Cheetor discovered that, though he no longer possessed a flight mode, he could glide by holding his swords together. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

[[Image:MercenaryPursuits Cheetor poses with swords.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"...and I just got them stuck in the floor."]]
An attempt to access the [[Cybertron Archives]] didn't go much better, ending with Cheetor carrying Blackarachnia on his shoulders. Later on, he and Optimus had to save Rattrap and Blackarachnia ''again'' after the pair accessed the computer on the Autobot shuttle and alerted the Vehicons to their position. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}} After being captured by Megatron, the Maximals were able to turn [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], one of the [[Vehicon general]]s to their side for a brief period. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}}

Cheetor and Blackarachnia sparred with encouragement from Optimus, though Cheetor he preferred to rely on instinct not "blind faith". Realizing they were being watched, the Maximals chased down the spy with Cheetor finally catching [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]], a young Maximal who survived Megatron's planetwide purging. Though Nightscream led the Maximals to a fruit tree which he had been living off, Cheetor refused Optimus's suggestion that the other Maximals do the same, stating bluntly that they processed energon, not fruit. As it turned out, the fruit caused the Maximals' beast sides to take over, endangering their lives when [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] attacked with a squad of Aero drones, until Cheetor felled the tree. Optimus was left weakened after reformatting Nightscream, and put Cheetor in command. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}}

[[Image:WeakComponent Cheetor yells at Rattrap.jpg|thumb|right|200px|And now you know what it looks like if you're having sex with Cheetor.]]
On a recon mission in a tank drone factory, Cheetor's orders went unheeded by Rattrap, who ended up wrecking the whole plan. Understandably angry at his comrade, Cheetor would subsequently brush off Rattrap's suggestions that they should attack Megatron while the Vehicon leader was weak. He did stick up for Rattrap when Blackarachnia and Nightscream suggested getting rid of the rat, however his suggestion that they cover for Rattrap until Optimus recovered did not go down well when it was overheard by Rattrap himself. In fact, it drove Rattrap to Megatron's side. After the situation was resolved, Optimus reminded the others not to underestimate their fellow Maximal. {{storylink|The Weak Component}}

Cheetor was glad for Optimus to be back in command, bluntly rebuking Nightscream's suggestion that Primal was still too weak to lead. Nonetheless, when Cheetor had to save Optimus's life during a battle in a factory, and Optimus became lost in his own regrets what what Megatron had done, Cheetor was forced to take command to force a Maximal withdrawal. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} With the revelation that the Vehicon generals housed the sparks of their friends, Cheetor's plan was for Nightscream and Blackarachnia to distract [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] and Jetstorm while he and Rattrap attempted to convert Tankor back into a Maximal. Cheetor was able to distract the Tank Drones while Rattrap hacked into Tankor, discovering that the Vehicon was their old friend Rhinox. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent}}

[[Image:Revelations2 Cheetor looks wary.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
Though Cheetor primarily disbelieved Rattrap, the pair decided to try to reawaken their friend, but ended up fleeing from the enraged Vehicon. Optimus, via directly contacting Rhinox's spark, was able to restore his personality, but Rhinox announced he was siding with Megatron's plan for a technological Cybertron. Optimus confided to the other Maximals that he believed the Oracle's plan was to restore the organic element to Cybertron, something that Cheetor wasn't convinced the planet ever had. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse}} While trying to find Nightscream's tree again, the Maximals were ambushed by Vehicons, who abducted Nightscream. The Maximals were able to rescue him, leading them to discover a cavern full of the remains of organic life. {{storylink|Survivor}}

The Maximals set about trying to find water, though Cheetor thought they should instead be attacking Megatron. They soon struck gold, or at least an [[organic goo]] which sprouted plants. Their victory was interrupted by an attack by Tankor, who used the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] to turn Nightscream into [[technomatter]]. Despite Cheetor's attempts to save it, the drill was damaged by the drones extracting Tankor. Cheetor and Optimus disagreed over their next course of action, but Cheetor finally came up with a plan to use a Mole Drone to drill to the organic core, to get more goo to cure Nightscream. During the battle to get control of a factory, Rattrap again found himself in the middle of a leadership tug-of-war between Optimus and Cheetor. The Maximals succeeded in getting control of a Mole Drone, only for Megatron to take control of it back as soon as they reached the orchid, and Cheetor reluctantly followed Optimus's lead and fortunately the plan succeeded. Cheetor, however, told Optimus he demanded more respect, and wasn't a kid any more. {{storylink|The Key}}

[[Image:TheCatalyst irritated Cheetor.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]
The Maximals held a memorial service for Rhinox, before concentrating on trying to make their orchid succeed. A catalyst Rattrap found caused the plants to grow ''too'' well, forcing the other Maximals to rescue him from the rapidly growing vines. Cheetor was keep to use the fast-growing vines as a weapon against Megatron, but Optimus claimed the Oracle had other plans. When it turned out that Blackarachnia had gone trying to turn Thrust back into Silverbolt, Cheetor took the opportunity to prove that his plan would work, by rescuing her with a giant vine. Unfortunately it backfired, as the Vehicons zapped it into technomatter, and only swift work by Optimus saved the rest of the orchid. Optimus was not pleased. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

In search of information on who had tampered with the Oracle, Cheetor and Rattrap hacked into the central computer, but were forced to retreat before learning anything. They returned to the other Maximals, and Optimus led them to the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]] which, if opened, would destroy technological life on the planet, leaving only the organic. Shocked, Cheetor talked him out of opening the chamber and came up with an alternate plan to get Rattrap to find a way to disable the duplicate Keys. The operation was curtailed when Rattrap was zapped into technomatter by Tankor, leading Optimus to confront Megatron in person. Cheetor and the other Maximals continued fighting, but were overcome by Vehicons and turned into technomatter. {{storylink|End of the Line}}

[[Image:Fallout Cheetor's hopeful face.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Optimus is dead?! ''AGAIN?''"]]
Restored to health by Optimus Primal's sacrifice, the Maximals were shocked to find their leader dead. Cheetor reacted violently to Nightscream's assertion that Cheetor wanted Optimus gone, but took a leadership position anyway. When the surviving Vehicon generals attacked, Cheetor called timeout, and unsuccessfully attempted to get them to join the Maximals. He believed they should continue with Optimus's mission, and led the other Maximals down to the Oracle chamber, where they discovered Primal was floating within the Oracle. Cheetor gave an impassioned speech to Big Bot, which helped him realise what his real mission for Cybertron was, and to choose life over joining the Matrix.

Together again, Cheetor suggested the next step should be to find the missing sparks, but when they approached the Council Citadel, a [[Grand Mal|giant floating head]] hoved into view. {{storylink|Fallout}} While Optimus tried to contact Megatron's spark, Cheetor led the other Maximals in attempting to find Jetstorm and Thrust, and they encountered [[Noble]], a completely organic [[Transformer]], whose transformation into Savage was uncontrollable. {{storylink|Savage Noble}} Cheetor favored leniency in dealing with Noble, but the creature was soon revealed to be Megatron, who transferred himself into the Grand Mal and reactivated the Vehicon drones, forcing the Maximals to flee underground once again. {{storylink|Prometheus Unbound}}

[[Image:WolfintheFold raging Cheetor.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Low down scammers got me seein' red!]]
While trying to save Nightscream from a pack of drones, Optimus and Cheetor were drawn aboard the Grand Mal via a tractor beam and interrogated for information. They were soon rescued by Silverbolt, who Blackarachnia had resurrected from Jetstorm. {{storylink|In Darkest Knight}} A [[Hate Plague]] virus created by Megatron infected the Maximal ranks, giving Cheetor a rather more forceful leadership style and causing the Maximals to fight among themselves. Though Cheetor seemed to fight it for a short period, he soon succumbed again, even taking his frustrations out on Optimus physically. Finally they realised what was happening and managed to work together. {{storylink|A Wolf in the Fold}}

With the technorganic crops failing, Cheetor tried to console Optimus. The news of a crashing ship led the Maximals to encounter [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]], a Maximal formatted as a plant-based life form, who was able to lend a hand with the crops. {{storylink|Home Soil}} They would later encounter two new Vehicon generals created by Megatron — [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika (BM)|Strika]]. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike}} The Maximals split up in their search for the missing sparks. Silverbolt revealed he still regarded Cheetor as a child, calling him "kid", much to Cheetor's annoyance, though Cheetor's inability to come up with a plan to shake the drones pursuing them doubtless didn't help. Once Cheetor saved their lives by getting rid of the drones, Silverbolt developed a smidgen more respect for him. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search}}

[[Image:Sparkwar3 Cheetor actionlines.jpg|thumb|left|200px|]]
The reappearance of Noble caused problems for the Maximals, leading Cheetor to suggest that Nightscream get rid of the creature before it got them all killed. Noble, however, did help them as Cheetor, Silverbolt and Nightscream distracted the drones so that Optimus could sneak into the Grand Mal. The action cost Noble his life, and all of the Maximals mourned him. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege}} With the Grand Mal down, the Maximals celebrated. However Megatron's spark lived on, albeit in a disembodied state, and Cheetor tangled with it when it possessed the corpse of an Aero drone. Eventually Rattrap trapped it in a [[Diagnostic Drone]]. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}}

[[Image:Endgame2 sparkpower Cheetor.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Vegeta! What does the scouter say about his power level?]]
The Maximals became sieged within the Grand Mal, trapped with the sparks they had searched for. Cheetor worked unsuccessfully to bring the weapons systems online. Rattrap's act of saving Botanica accidentally left them wide open to attack, and Optimus had to stop Cheetor telling off the rodent. Fortunately the three of them survived the Grand Mal crashing. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral}} Down, but not out, the Maximals began preparing their defenses for the impending Vehicon assault. The shields did not hold long, and the Maximals found themselves fighting against hordes of drones. Outnumbered, the Maximals used spark power bestowed on them by the Oracle to decimate the drones, until Megatron took the Oracle from them. [[Image:Maximals endofBMac.JPG|left|thumb|250px|Primal's dream comes true: the universe's largest cannabis garden.]] Cheetor found himself facing the three Vehicon Generals on his own, but was able to use the anti-gravity generators to fire Obsidian and Strika into orbit. Cheetor struggled with Thrust, finally using a [[spark extractor]] to rip out the Vehicon's spark. He was unprepared to face his next foe — Megatron, newly-installed into a duplicate of Primal's old "optimal" body — and had his own spark torn out by a cycle drone. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall}}

After a city-spanning battle, Optimus sacrificed himself to destroy Megatron and reformat Cybertron into a technorganic paradise. Cheetor and the other Maximals were restored to their bodies and, as the sparks were reborn into new bodies, Cheetor had a final vision from the Oracle and told the other Maximals that Optimus would always be with them. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}}
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====''Beast Machines'' toy bio====
At some point, Cheetor acquired a highly advanced stealth armor and dubbed himself Night Slash Cheetor. This new armor granted Cheetor all sort of new abilities, including being undetectable to every known Vehicon radar and tracking systems and creating a negative psychological effects on Vehicon generals, rendering their drones useless in combat. Considering the armor was never mentioned elsewhere, it would seem to have been a short-lived upgrade. {{storylink|Cheetor (BW)/toys#Beast Machines|Night Slash Cheetor bio}}
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====''Universe''====
[[Image:Sentinelcryotekwreckersfinale.jpg|right|thumb|250px|So they ''have'' been seen in the same room together!]]
Shortly after the planet underwent the [[Great Reformatting]], the [[Quintesson]]s seized the opportunity to attack, believing that the revolutionary change would have rendered the planets' inhabitants confused and docile. Suffice to say, the Transformers were greatly underestimated. Cheetor was revealed as a [[Matrix Templar]], as he and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] (another templar) battled [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] deep underground. It also seemed that Cheetor was one of Rodimus's biggest fans, so much so that Cheetor based his first changeform on Rodimus's design.

Unfortunately, though Cheetor and Rodimus were able to use their powers to help defeat Cryotek, Rodimus perished in the incident. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

A year later, Cheetor and the rest of Cybertron eagerly awaited at [[Memorial Spaceport]] for the return of five Autobots from the great war: [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], [[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]], and [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]]. The event was covered by the famous journalist [[Rook (Universe)|Rook]], and when Cheetor had trouble communicating in front of a camera, Rattrap happily took over for him. Quickly thereafter, the five Autobots' ship arrived, and its occupants were shocked at the changes Cybertron had gone through. Cheetor demonstrated to the older warriors that the planet's inhabitants had also gone through a metamorphosis by transforming into his technorganic cheetah mode.

Unfortunately, the events pleasantries were interrupted when the five Autobots and Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were abducted by [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Abduction}} So began the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]], in which the [[Minions of Unicron]] battled the [[Children of Primus]], the latter led by a rejuvenated Optimus Primal. After Optimus Primal brought back the seven abducted Autobots and Maximals, plus a handful of other Transformers stranded in their universe, Cheetor accompanied them to the [[Oasis Research and Development Facility]]. As [[Ratchet (Universe)|Ratchet]] and [[Striker]] began research on Sideswipe to see if they could cure the [[Unicron virus|Unicron contamination]] they'd all suffered while in the [[Pit]], Cheetor expressed his doubts about Optimus Primal's return. Cheetor reasoned that being dead may have changed Primal, and Silverbolt added that it could all be a Unicron trick. Rattrap, surprisingly, was the one who reminded the two that this was Optimus-friggin'-Primal they were talking about. {{storylink|Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming}}

[[Image:Optimusprimaluniverseend.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Had to get a new body without the flying ability, huh?]]
The war continued, and Optimus Primal led Cheetor and several other Children of Primus against the forces of Unicron on countless occasions across several universes, but eventually, these interactions took a toll on Cheetor and the others. Contaminated by constant exposure to Unicron, Cheetor was afflicted with a nanotech "[[Unicron virus]]," which worsened with time. To keep from descending into madness or deactivation, Cheetor was rebuilt and repurified by Primal's [[Matrix of Purification]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 9|''Beast Wars 10th Anniversary'' Optimus Primal profile}}

This conflict with Unicron went one for an unspecified amount of time, until one raiding party on the Chaos Bringer, which included Primal, Cheetor, and several others, when Unicron suddenly began to [[Unicron Singularity|dissolve]] beneath them. The Universe conflict finally resolved, Cheetor, [[Longhorn (Universe)|Longhorn]], and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] were carried away by Optimus Primal through a portal to (presumably) their home. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}
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===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===
[[Image:CheetasManga1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Off to go train with Piccolo or something, I'm sure.]]
Following the [[Quantum surge]], Cheetor was upgraded into a [[Transmetal]] but left stranded on [[Earth|Energoa]] far, far away from the other [[Maximal]]s and believed dead by [[Rattrap]]. Following [[Optimus Primal]]'s return to life, Cheetor could be seen staring poetically at the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] from his distant location. {{storylink|Raise the Curtain for Beast Wars Metals!!}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in comic===
[[Image:HenkeiCheetorLionKing.jpg|right|180px|thumb|The Cirrrcle of Liiiife...]]
After [[Starscream (G1)|Screamscream]] and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] stole [[Energon cube|energon cubes]] from [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], Cheetor appeared on the scene, defeated both of them and got the cubes back, getting the adoration of Hound and random fauna. Cheetor then went to live in a safari park. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 8}}
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==Games==
===''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game===
{{note|This game takes place in an alternate version of the first season of the [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] cartoon.}}
[[Image:Cheetor-beastmodescan.jpg‎|right|thumb|200px|My eyes are up here!]]
Upon arriving on prehistoric Earth, the dangers of Energon radiation forced the Maximals and Predacons to take on beast alternate forms. "Cheetor" promptly grabbed a cheetah by its underbelly, hoisted it up to his optics, and scanned the creature's molecular structure. The indignant cheetah could do nothing but silently ask the robot "Do you mind?" Cheetor transformed into his new organic cheetah mode and darted into Predacon territory. Unfortunately, Cheetor was spotted by [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], and the two battled until they were forced to return to their beast modes to avoid Energon radiation damage. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transformers video game advertising comic}}

{{Note|Cheetor is a playable character in the Maximal mode of this game for normal gameplay.}}
[[Image:Beastwarspsx-Cheetorstats.jpg|left|thumb|200px|I lost weight! Can you tell?]]

All of the Beast Wars combatants had managed to construct personal bases, customized to their personal tastes, due to the extended duration of the war. Cheetor's own base featured sphinx-like statues bearing his likeness and colour scheme.

Cheetor warred against both the Predacons and the evil extra-dimensional aliens dubbed the [[Skriix]].
{{storylink|Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)}}
{{Note|Due to the nature of this game, a player may select various individual characters to perform the feats required in every level, and complete the game's narrative. Thus, any playable Maximal can fill the role of protagonist in Maximal Mode, and any playable Predacon can fill the role of protagonist in Predacon Mode. As such, each character's page only lists said character's actions when they fill the role of antagonist during gameplay. To view the various feats Cheetor can accomplish throughout gameplay in Maximal Mode, it is told on the pages of the [[Megatron (BW)|several]] [[Scorponok (BW)|Predacons]] [[Tarantulas (BW)|included]] [[Blackarachnia (BW)|as]] [[Inferno (BW)|opponents]] in this game, as well as the game's main antagonists, the [[Skriix]], wherein Cheetor fills the role of the nameless Maximal. To view the plot as a whole view the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)]] page.}}
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===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' video game===
{{note|This game takes place in an alternate version of the second season of the [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] cartoon.}}
[[Image:Beastwarstransmetalsgame-cheetorstats.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Glitch, game stats!]]
''Voice actor:'' [[Ian James Corlett]] (English), ??? (Japanese)

During a decisive battle, Cheetor witnessed Optimus being badly injured. Cheetor’s reaction was to charge into battle with unmatched fury, turning the tide of the war in favor of the Maximals. Thanks to this victory, the Maximals eventually overpowered the Predacons, and established peace on the planet. Following the battle, Optimus and Cheetor had this heartwarming exchange;

[[Image:N64Cheetors.jpg|thumb|300px|SECRET COLORS CHEETOR and also Cheetor's Tigatron cosplay.]]

Optimus: "You showed a lot of potential out there. Someday you might make one prime leader."
Cheetor replied: "Sorry Bigbot, but that's your department... But who knows? Maybe in another universe!" {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals}}

He liked to pelvic thrust, arms around the back of his neck, after each victory. ''Hello,'' pussycat.

{{note|Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the Nintendo 64 game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Cheetor's fate in those outcomes.}}

{{note|A series of unusual decisions was made regarding Cheetor and Tigatron in the Nintendo 64 game's localization. In the Japanese version of the game, Cheetor had a red-tinged set of "Player 2" colors and an unlockable "Player 3" color scheme obviously based on Tigatron. The North American version of the game added Tigatron as a playable character... but instead of reassigning the pre-existing "Player 3" colors to him, a new color scheme that ''[[:Image:N64Tigatron.jpg|looked less like Tigatron]]'' was created for him. Furthermore, Cheetor's Japanese "Player 2" colors were eliminated entirely and his original Tigatron-themed colors were '''kept'''... resulting not only in two primarily white Transmetal Cheetor models in one game, but a Tigatron who looked less like himself than Cheetor did.}}
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===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle'' video game===
[[Image:DuelFight-Cheetor.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Adolescence is so unstable.]]
Cheetor became involved in a series of one-on-one battles when the discovery of a super-powerful [[Energon crystal]] on [[Earth]] leads several Maximals and Predacons to attempt obtaining the crystal's powers for their own gain.

Cheetor could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.

Cheetor eventually defeated [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], the last bot standing between the crystal and himself. Once the crystal was in his possession, Cheetor absorbed its power, becoming the most powerful of the Maximal. This allowed him to soar through the ranks and become [[Supreme Commander]]. This position was more then he could handle, however, and he abandoned his post after only three days. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle}}
{{note|Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Cheetor's fate in those outcomes.}}
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===3D Battle-Card Game===
Cheetor, in his Transmetal 2 body, was one of Optimus's many allies in a fight against [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s own army, in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Cheetor (BW)/toys}}

==Notes==
* Cheetor fired the first shots of the Beast Wars. First he shot at [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], unprovoked, and again at [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] while [[Optimus Primal|Optimus]] was attempting to negotiate.

* Cheetor has the first line in the show Beast Wars; he also has the last line in the show Beast Machines, closing the arc of the two shows in a coherent development of Cheetor as a young rookie to Cheetor as commander.

* Cheetor and [[Tigatron]] are the only characters in ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' who are definitely [[Scale|in the correct scale]] to the life form they have adopted as a beast mode, since Cheetor in specific was seen near a real cheetah in the pilot episode. As a result, Cheetor and Tigatron have the odd distinction of being the yardstick by which other ''Beast Wars'' characters' scale inconsistencies can be measured.

* [[Mainframe Entertainment]]'s original plan for [[Transmetal]] Cheetor was to have his face mature over the course of the season, from a big-eared, wide-eyed, rounded face into one close to the toy. Also, he would have had a "Hero's Heart" which glowed after completing brave or heroic feats, somewhat akin to the classic anime character Astro Boy. Due to time and financial restrictions, none of these concepts panned out. Thankfully. His toy, however, DOES have a molded heart on the abdomen.

[[Image:CheetorGameBoyColor1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I wonder what Beast Machines Cheetor thinks of this artwork?]]
* ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' advertisements for the Game Boy Color's ''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]'' feature Cheetor with a slightly different (and much happier) head than the version which appeared in the game's instruction manual. Both are sickeningly cute, though.

* Cheetor has the somewhat dubious honour of being the only Maximal [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] ''never'' refers to by name on the show.

[[Image:CheetorBMconcept.jpg|right|300px|thumb| Things usually do look more badass in concept art.]]
* Though most early artwork for ''Beast Machines'' character designs were very different from the final product, Cheetor's design seems to have changed very little, with only the green being downplayed in his color scheme.

* In "[[Bee in the City]]", ''Beast Wars'' Megatron accidentally calls [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] "Cheetor", the first instance of a running gag where the plucky young yellow kid-appeal bot is called by another kid-appeal bot's name.
** This is also ironic in being the first and only time his name is spoken by Megatron.

*In the Japanese dub of the ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon and in the ''[[Beast Wars Metals (manga)|Beast Wars Metals]]'' manga, Cheetor had the quirk of ending nearly every sentence in a long, stressed "Jā-n", which is supposed to sound like a cute kitty growl. He maintains it in the [[Henkei! Henkei! (pack-in comic)|''Henkei'' pack-in comic]] that was packaged with him and [[Hound (G1)#Henkei! Henkei!|Hound]].

* According to ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II]]'', Cheetor likes pie.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Cheetus''' or '''Cheetas''' (チータス ''Chītasu'')<ref>The "Cheetus" [[Romanization]] was used on a Japanese ''Beast Wars'' [http://www18.tok2.com/home/jackhama/transformers/bwtcard_1/img/003.jpg trading card], and later reappeared in the opening sequence for the Japanese version of the PlayStation ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]'' fighting game. This spelling was used again in 2010 on the packaging for the ''[[Device Label]]'' Cheetor toy. Conversely, the ''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle Complete Manual]]'', the official strategy guide for ''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]'' video game, used "Cheetas". </ref>

*''French:'' '''Vélocitor''' (cartoon)<ref>Derived from "vélocité," which means "speed".</ref>
*''Indonesian:'' '''Sidor'''
*''Italian:'' '''Ghepard''', '''Metal Ghepard''' (Transmetal)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Bàu-tz''' (Taiwan, 豹子, "Cheetah"), '''Hūa Bàu''' (Taiwan ''Beast Machines'', 花豹, "Leopard")
*''Polish:'' '''Gepardon'''
*''Spanish:'' '''Chitor''', '''Chitah''' (America, "Cheetah")

==References==
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[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
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[[Category:Robot Heroes]]
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List of Generation 1 comics

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The [[Generation 1 (franchise)|''Generation 1'' franchise]] encompasses many types of fiction, but none have been as prolific as its various [[Comics|comic-book]] series. They include:

* '''1984-1991: ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]''''' — The original Transformers comic book series, published by [[Marvel Comics]] and Marvel UK in the 1980s and later reprinted by [[Titan Books]] and [[IDW Publishing]]. It also spawned sequel series under the ''[[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' and ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' franchises.

* '''1987: ''[[Transformers in 3-D]]''''' — The very short-lived [[Blackthorne Publishing]] series printed in [[Wikipedia:Anaglyph image|stereoscopic 3D]].

* '''2002-2004: ''[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Generation One]]''''' — Several miniseries and an ongoing series published by [[Dreamwave Productions]]. The series ended with Dreamwave's bankruptcy.

* '''2003: ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]''''' — Four miniseries by [[Devil's Due Press|Devil's Due]] crossing the ''Generation 1'' and ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' franchises.

* '''2004: ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe]]''''' — Dreamwave's own ''Generation 1'' / ''G.I. Joe'' crossover, cut short during its second miniseries by bankruptcy.

* '''2006-present: ''[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|Transformers]]''''' — IDW's robust collection of miniseries and one-shots which continue to be produced to this day and have transitioned into a proper ongoing.

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[[Category:Generation 1| List of Generation 1 comics]]

Blackthorne Publishing

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[[Image:BlackthorneTFAd.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Transformers!]]
'''Blackthorne Publishing''' somehow managed to produce Transformers [[comics]] in the US and UK ''while'' the Transformers license was still held by [[Marvel Comics]]. Because they used [[Gimmick|gimmicks]] (like 3D), they could claim their products had no overlap with the Marvel Comics, and purchase a separate license from Hasbro.

* Blackthorne produced 3 issues of ''[[Transformers in 3-D|The Transformers in 3-D]]'' in 1987. The third issue was to be the first part of a multi-part story, but no further issues were ever made.

* They also produced a 6-issue ''[[Official How to Draw Transformers]]''.

* Blackthorne also produced a four-issue ''[[Beastformer|Battle Beast]]s'' comic book. Issues are marginally easier to find than the [[Wikipedia:Holy_Grail|Holy Grail]].

==External links==
* [[Wikipedia:Blackthorne Publishing|Blackthorne Publishing on Wikipedia]]

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IDW Publishing

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'''Idea and Design Works, LLC''' currently owns the [[Transformers brand|Transformers]] [[Comics|comic book]] license as of May [[2005]], following the financial collapse of the previous license holder, [[Dreamwave Productions]], at the tail-end of 2004.

IDW's flagship storyline is a [[IDW timeline|rebooted Generation 1 continuity]], which started out being written by longtime Transformers scribe [[Simon Furman]] and told through a succession of mini-series and one-shot [[Spotlight (comics)|''Spotlight''s]], before finally producing a monthly comic in [[2009]]. IDW has also been authorized to re-release trade paperbacks published by [[Dreamwave Productions]], such as the ''[[War and Peace]]'' mini-series and ''[[The War Within]]'' and ''[[War Within: The Dark Ages|The War Within: The Dark Ages]]''. In May 2008, IDW's relationship with [[Hasbro]] proved to be quite healthy indeed as they snapped up the ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' comic book license as well.

IDW mocks your nerdy belief that writers and editors should be able to remember things that happened in previous issues.

==Series published==
=== G1 rebooted ===
Initial ideas for IDW's Transformer line included a ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''-style story crossing over with the new [[Cybertron (toyline)|''Cybertron'' toyline]], starting ongoings in both G1 and ''Cybertron'' continuity. The G1 cast would suffer Cybertron's destruction and learn [[Unicron]]'s death had destabilized the entire [[omniverse]], forcing them to try and assemble an artifact called the 'Decepticon Matrix' in order to ''resurrect'' Unicron. This would parallel with the ''Cybertron'' plot, in which the Autobots seek out the [[Cyber Planet Key]]s to revive [[Primus]], and [[Vector Prime]] would have appeared as a guide in both series. It seems that series would then have come together with the concurrent ''Cybertron'' comic as Transformers from across the [[multiverse]] were brought together for a final, epic clash.<ref>Pitch printed in ''[[The Best of Simon Furman]]''</ref>

This was considered too confusing for new readers, however, and dropped for a [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|continuity reboot of ''Generation 1'']]. Furman mostly oversaw this, creating a more sophisticated universe around the familiar characters and tropes: Marvel Comics' ''Ultimate'' line was the inspiration, and Furman deliberately borrowed the more leisurely pacing of Ultimate Marvel. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSyBtqe67uk Moonbase 2m AA2010 interview]</ref>

Instead of an ongoing civil war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] which spills over to [[Earth]] by accident, Furman presented us with an interstellar war between the [[Autobot|Autobots]] and [[Decepticon|Decepticons]], a war of Codes of Interplanetary Conflict and alt-form-and-dagger covert operations, with [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] the prize and whole planets at stake. A surprising development on Earth heats up the war and turns our planet from just another proxy battleground into the ultimate prize.

This slow, measured storyline was eventually abandoned in an attempt to bring in more casual fans with a more G1 Cartoon-inspired revamp in ''All Hail Megatron''. This failed to have the desired effect both in terms of sales and fan-response, so ''another'' revamp was attempted with the start of ''The Transformers'' ongoing series. It has met with sharp fan criticism as well. ''(sigh)''

The general order of publications to date is as follows:

* ''[[Infiltration]]'' ([[2005]]–06) Establishes the presence of the Transformers on modern-day Earth and re-establishes the theme of "robots in disguise" as central to the new continuity; a seven-issue story arc (issues #0 to #6).
* ''[[Spotlight (comics)|Spotlight]]'' ([[2006]]–present) Series of one-shot stories focusing on a single Transformer per issue; this series has no fixed publication format and is ongoing. It went on hiatus since "[[Spotlight: Metroplex]]" while the new ongoing series was getting established, but has since returned.
* ''[[Stormbringer (comics)|Stormbringer]]'' (2006) A four-issue miniseries tie-in to ''Infiltration'', establishing Cybertron's current situation in the re-boot and focusing squarely on the Transformers.
* ''[[Escalation (IDW)|Escalation]]'' (2006–07) Sequel to ''Infiltration''; a six-issue story arc detailing a conflict with the Decepticons in [[Brasnya]] and the abduction of [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Hunter O'Nion]].
* ''[[New Avengers / Transformers|New Avengers/Transformers]]'' ([[2007]]) A collaboration between [[Marvel Comics]] and IDW featuring the first ever crossover between the Transformers and New [[Avengers]]. Though it has minimal effects on the overall universe, it was specifically designed to fit into continuity between ''Infiltration'' and ''Escalation''.
* ''[[Megatron Origin]]'' (2007) A four-issue story arc detailing the events surrounding [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s rise to power and the founding of the Decepticon faction.
* ''[[Devastation (IDW)|Devastation]]'' (2007–08) Sequel to ''Escalation''; a six-issue story arc following up on what happened to Sunstreaker, as well as the Decepticons' battle with the [[Reaper]]s and seeds are planted for the upcoming [[Dead Universe]] arc.
* ''[[Revelation (IDW)|Revelation]]'' ([[2008]]) Sequel to ''Devastation''; composed of 4 ''Spotlight''s; [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]], [[Doubledealer]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]. This series wraps up the events of the Dead Universe.
{{note|The sequel to ''Revelation'' at one point was to be titled '''Expansion''', but it was canceled in favor of ''All Hail Megatron''. However, Furman stated that some of the ideas from the series may pop up in other series.}}
* ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'' (2008–[[2009]]) A twelve-issue maxi-series, extended to sixteen to include the ''All Hail Megatron Coda'' series. It chronicles the aftermath of the defeat of the Autobots and the Decepticon conquest of Earth. The publication schedule overlaps with ''Revelation'' and ''Maximum Dinobots''. Issues 13–16 each consist of two 11-page stories that help strengthen the flaws in ''All Hail Megatron'' and tie into the ongoing series.
* ''[[Maximum Dinobots]]'' (2008–2009) A five-issue which takes place chronologically between ''Revelation'' and ''All Hail Megatron'' (which it was published concurrently with). The series wraps up Furman's story arcs with the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]], Sunstreaker, the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]], [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], [[Skywatch]] and the [[Machination]].
* ''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' (2009–present) An ongoing series which began in November 2009 [http://www.tfarchive.com/comics/idw/guide.php?s=ongoing]. The series is penned by [[Mike Costa]] with art on the first arc by [[Don Figueroa]]. Different artists have contributed as well.
* ''[[The Transformers: Bumblebee]]'' (2009–[[2010]]) A four-issue miniseries chronicling Bumblebee's journey on Earth after the events of ''All Hail Megatron'', focusing on the conflicts and decisions 'Bee makes (sort of like a ''Spotlight''). It began in December 2009, written by [[Zander Cannon]] with art by [[Chee Yang Ong]] (the team that worked on the second story of [[All Hail Megatron issue 16|''All Hail Megatron'' #16]]).
* ''[[Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' (2010) A five-issue miniseries which began in January 2010, written by [[Nick Roche]] and [[James Roberts]] and drawn by Roche with colors by [[Josh Burcham]]. It chronicles the antics of the [[Wrecker]]s in deep space after ''AHM''.
* ''[[The Transformers: Ironhide]]'' (2010) A four-issue miniseries covering Ironhide, with story by Mike Costa and art by [[Casey Coller]]. It was published from May through August, 2010.
* ''[[The Transformers: Drift]]'' (2010) A four-issue miniseries that chronicles [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s origins as the Decepticon Deadlock to becoming an Autobot. It's written by Shane McCarthy, with art by Alex Milne and colors by Josh Perez. It's being released bi-weekly in September, 2010.

====See also====
* [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
* [[IDW timeline]]

===''Beast Wars''===
Taking place within the ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon universe, this line eschews the previous [[3H Productions]] fan club comics that previously continued the show's story to strike out in a new direction, focusing mainly on the non-show toy characters.

* ''[[The Gathering|Beast Wars: The Gathering]]'' (2006) A four-issue mini-series marking the 10th anniversary of the ''Beast Wars'' franchise.
* ''[[The Ascending|Beast Wars: The Ascending]]'' (2007–08) A four-issue sequel to ''The Gathering'' that began publication in October 2007.
* The ''[[Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' (2007) profile series of the Beast Era.
====See also====
* [[Beast Wars timeline (IDW)]]

===''Evolutions''===
Intended to be a series of [[wikipedia:Elseworlds|Elseworlds]]-like stories that exist in their own separate continuities, each taking different takes on Transformers. Only one has so-far been produced. (Reportedly, Hasbro has asked IDW to hold back on ''Evolutions'' as to not confuse customers looking for merchandise based on the 2007 film.){{fact}} [[Chris Ryall]] stated that with the Movie and ''Animated'' series, it is unlikely we will see any more of these series.{{fact}}

* ''[[Hearts of Steel]]'' (2006) Places the G1 Transformers in the American West during the Industrial Revolution.

===Live-action film series===
* ''[[Movie Prequel|Transformers: Movie Prequel]]'' (2007) A four-part series detailing the lead-up to the [[Transformers (2007)|2007 ''Transformers'' movie]].
* "[[Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall]]" and "[[Interlude]]" (2007) [[Target]] [[exclusive]] prequel comics for the 2007 film.
* ''[[Movie Adaptation|Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]'' (2007) A four-part comic adaptation of the film, released weekly in June 2007.
* ''[[The Reign of Starscream]]'' (2008) IDW's official sequel to the 2007 film, continuing where the ''Movie Adaptation'' left off. It began in May 2008.
* ''[[Saga of the Allspark]]'' (2008) Reprinting the [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|UK Movie comics]] from Titan Magazine.
* ''[[Destiny|Transformers: Destiny]]'' (2008–2009) The 2-miniseries prequel to ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''.
* ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (comic series)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' (2009) A four-part comic adaption of the film, released weekly in May and June 2009.
* ''[[Tales of the Fallen]]'' (2009–2010) A series of spotlights for six ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' characters.
* ''[[Nefarious|Transformers: Nefarious]]'' (2010) A 6-issue sequel to ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''.
* ''[[Transformers: Sector 7]]'' (2010-2011) A 5-issue series telling the history of Sector 7. The first prequel to ''[[Dark of the Moon (film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
* ''[[Foundation|Transformers: Foundation]]'' (2010-2011) A 4-issue series telling the history of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] on Cybertron. Second prequel to ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''.
* ''[[Rising Storm|Transformers: Rising Storm]]'' (2011) A 4-issue series. Third prequel to ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''.

===''Transformers Animated''===
* ''[[Transformers Animated (IDW Publishing)|Transformers Animated]]'' (2008) — An ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' cartoon adaptation series with screenshots from the series.
* ''[[The Arrival|Transformers Animated: The Arrival]]'' (2008) — A six-issue mini-series set in the same continuity as the ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' cartoon.
* ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac]]'' (2009) — Covers ''The Arrival'' and seasons 1 and 2 of the cartoon.
* ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II]]'' (2010) — Covers season 3 of the cartoon and other information.

===Reprint series===
* ''[[Generations (comic reprints)|Generations]]'' — Reprints old [[Marvel Comics]] issues, specifically ones that did not feature Marvel-owned characters such as [[Circuit Breaker]].
* ''[[Target: 2006|Target 2006]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Transformers: Magazine]] (2007)'' — Reprints three comics per issue from the Marvel, [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]], and IDW runs.
* ''[[Best of UK: Dinobots]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Best of UK: Space Pirates]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Best of UK: Time Wars]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Classic Transformers]] (2008)'' — Collects old [[Marvel Comics]] issues in trade paperback format, starting with [[The Transformers (issue)|Transformers #1]] and summarizing those featuring Marvel-owned characters such as [[Spider-Man]] and [[Circuit Breaker]] (until Volume 5, by which point the Marvel-owned characters are allowed).
* ''[[Best of UK: City of Fear]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Best of UK: Prey]]'' (2009)

===Others===
* ''[[Transformers: The Animated Movie]]'' (2006) A four-issue adaptation of the original ''Transformers'' film, 1986's ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''; marks the film's 20th anniversary and new DVD release.
* ''[[The Best of Simon Furman]]'' (2007)
* ''[[The Best of Don Figueroa]]'' (2007)
* ''[[The Art of IDW's Transformers]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Premiere Collection#Volume 1|The Transformers: The Premiere Collection, Volume 1]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Greatest Battles of Optimus Prime and Megatron]]'' (2007)
* ''[[The Ark: A Complete Compendium of Character Designs|The Ark]]'' (2007) — A Complete Compendium Of Transformers Animation Models
* ''[[Balancing Act]]'' (2007)
* ''[[The Ark II — A Compendium of Japanese Character Designs|The Ark II]]'' (2008) — A Compendium of Japanese Character Designs
* ''[[Transformers: War Within Omnibus]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Robot Heroes (comic)|Robot Heroes]]'' (2009) — A comic based around the [[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]] toyline.
* ''[[Premiere Collection#Volume 2|The Transformers: The Premiere Collection, Volume 2]]'' (2009)
* ''[[The Complete Ark]]'' (2009) — Combines the first and second volumes.
* ''[[The Transformers Continuum: The Definitive Chronology]]'' (2009) — A book theoretically chronicling the history of the Transformers Universe.
* ''[[Best of Optimus Prime]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Best of Megatron]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Best of Grimlock]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Best of Starscream]]'' (2010)
* ''[[The IDW Collection Volume 1]]'' (2010)
* ''[[The IDW Collection Volume 2]]'' (2010)
* ''[[The IDW Collection Volume 3]]'' (2011)

==Editorial policies==
[[Image:IDWBumblebeeDesignvsStyle.jpg|thumb|250px|right|One of these changes is an in-story plot point. The rest is artistic license. Can you tell which is which?]]
IDW has a somewhat unconventional editorial policy, at least as far as their ''Transformers'' titles are concerned: Whereas other companies such as [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] or DC often tend to dictate writers their stories, IDW takes the opposite approach and gives its writers pretty much free rein, regardless of whether it contradicts previous stories or even makes little sense by itself. What's worse, whereas [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] had enforced a rigid "house style", IDW actively encourages artists to use their own style... which appears to extend to Transformers characters' ''designs'' and even ''[[alternate mode]]s''.
*Regarding ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'', [[Simon Furman]], who had been the head writer of the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] up to that point, confirmed that that there had been no collaboration or communication between himself and ''All Hail Megatron'' writer [[Shane McCarthy]], and it was up to then IDW editor [[Denton J. Tipton]] to sort out the continuity.<ref name="furmanahm">[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=5032 Simon Furman November Q&A]</ref> The results were questionable, and AHM later required a four-issue "Coda" intended to sort out apparent inconsistencies and answer open questions.
*Editor [[Andy Schmidt]] wrote ''[[The Transformers Continuum: The Definitive Chronology|Continuum]]'', the self-declared "Definitive Chronology" of the IDW Generation 1 continuity up to that point, which was chock-full of inaccuracies, blatant omissions and even ''chronological errors within the issue itself''. Schmidt revealed in an interview<ref name="tformersint">[http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=12679 TFormers interview with Andy Schmidt]</ref> that all of these changes were ''intentional'', in order to ''simplify'' things, because he had hoped to attract new, younger readers he didn't want to "confuse" or confront with concepts unfamiliar to them. To his credit, Schmidt formally admitted to the poor quality of ''Continuum'' five months after it had been released.<ref name="schmidtapologizes">[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=175715& Continuum "apology"]</ref>
*As of ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'', recurring characters in the Generation 1 stories started getting redesigned. Depending on which artist was on a comic, several characters repeatedly alternated between Cybertronian alternate modes, [[E. J. Su|E. J. Su's]] modernized robot mode designs, entirely new designs, and almost slavish rehashes of the ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1]]'' [[character model|animation models]]. At the IDW forums, artist [[Guido Guidi]] stated that he had been ''specifically'' asked to ''ignore the designs Don Figueroa had used in previous issues'' and "do [his] own thing", which resulted in him having to re-draw almost half of issue 9 from scratch.<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=192461#192461 Guido post in which he says that IDW asked him to not bother with Dons designs, and to redraw half of the issue he already made using his own preference in design.]</ref>
*Artist [[Alex Milne]] deliberately drew two background [[generic]]s that were killed as cannon fodder in ''[[The Transformers: Drift|Drift]]'' [[Drift issue 2|issue 2]] to resemble established characters from other [[franchise]]s. He ''specifically'' elaborated on this, stating that he had included them at the suggestion of a friend because they were two of the favorite characters of [[David Willis]], an outspoken critic of Milne's art.<ref name="milnewillis">[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=8525&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=288 Post by Alex Milne on IDW's forum]</ref> In response to this, then editor Denton J. Tipton stated that Milne had no control over which characters live or die, and that these were just generics and this was only an issue because of the "fascination with '[[canon]].'"<ref name="dentonmilne">[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=205076#205076 Post by Denton Tipton on IDW's forum]</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.idwpublishing.com/ IDW Publishing]
*[http://www.tfarchive.com/comics/idw/guide.php?s=ongoing TF Archive's guide to the Ongoing ''Transformers'' comic]

==Footnotes==
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Dreamwave Productions

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[[Image:Dreamwave.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"We're not saying you should buy Dreamwave comics, only that you'll regret it."]]

'''Dreamwave Productions''' was a fairly unknown independent [[Comics|comic book]] publisher when it obtained the ''Transformers'' license in 2001. For a time, there was gigantic buzz surrounding Dreamwave's relaunch of the Generation 1 title, even pushing it past Marvel and DC's top titles. Many comic book fans had been away from Transformers for a long time and were overjoyed to see highly detailed manga-style art driving a childhood favorite.

Dreamwave published a good deal of ''Transformers'' books, including many varied miniseries, before capitulating to the notoriously fickle comic-buying public. Towards the end of 2004 delays started getting more and more frequent. This was followed by rumors of writers and artists leaving because they weren't being paid, which were then confirmed. In early January 2005, Dreamwave declared bankruptcy, and there were no Transformers comics to be had for more than half of 2005.

{{quote|TO ME DREAMWAVE WAS MORE THAN JUST A WORD. IT'S MEANING TO ME FULLFILLS ALL OF WHAT I BELIEVE IN. SUCCESS, LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, HOPES ANS WISHES. WHEN ALL IS BAD HUMANS EXCLUDE THEMSELVES FROM REALITY ONLY TO FIND THEMSELVES IN THE REALM OF DREAMS. BECAUSE HERE IN OUR DREAMS WE FIND THE FREEDOM FROM THE SHACKLES THAT THIS SOCIETY HAS LOCKED US IN REALITY.|[[Pat Lee]] [http://www.angelfire.com/pa/infrarred/infrarred4.html]}}

==History==
===The beginnings===
Dreamwave Productions was originally launched by brothers [[Pat Lee|Pat]] and [[Roger Lee]] as a studio within [[Wikipedia:Image Comics|Image Comics]] in 1996, at the height of the Image boom.

In 1998, Dreamwave would start to publish various <strike>blatantly plagiarized</strike> originally created titles such as ''[[wikipedia:Ghost in the Shell|Darkminds]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Record of Lodoss War|Warlands]]'', as well as accepting work-for-hire assignments for other publishers such as the four-issue limited series ''Wolverine/Punisher: Revelation'' for Marvel. Other titles such as ''Shidima'', ''Fate of the Blade'' or ''Arkanium'' would follow. Furthermore, Dreamwave also collaborated with [[wikipedia:VIBE (magazine)|VIBE]] and [[wikipedia:Wizard (magazine)|Wizard: The Comics Magazine]] on various projects, developed an advertising campaign for the [[wikipedia:Dr. Martens|Dr. Martens]] shoe label and created the production designs for the music video to [[wikipedia:Janet Jackson|Janet Jackson's]] song "Doesn't Really Matter".

Initially, the "hook" for Dreamwave's financial success was the drawing style of its president, Pat Lee, which many readers viewed as "manga-like" (although readers of actual Japanese mangas had a different opinion on this matter).

===Big 80s===
[[Image:Big80sWizard.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Oh boy, were we naïve.]]
In October of 2000, issue #111 of ''Wizard: The Comics Magazine'' ran a feature named "Big 80s", featuring various popular properties of the 1980s in new interpretations by modern artists, such as ''Thundercats'' drawn by [[Jim Cheung]], ''Masters of the Universe'' drawn by Ed McGunness, ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' drawn by J. Scott Campbell, and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' drawn by Joe Madureira. Dreamwave submitted their own take on the ''Transformers'', one of Pat's personal favorites from his childhood days, with Pat Lee himself and Alvin Lee handling the art. ''Wizard'', making suggestions for a modern ''Transformers'' comic, named Mark Millar as their number one choice for the writer of the book, with Pat Lee (aka "Mr. Mecha") on art duties.

Needless to say, the modern-style "manga"-like ''Transformers'' artwork caused an uproar in the established fandom as well as among regular comic fans who remembered ''Transformers'' from their childhoods. Seven months later, Pat got another chance of drawing Transformers characters in a feature named "How to draw Mecha" for issue #118 of ''Wizard''.

===Splitting from Image and getting the Transformers license===
[[Image:WIZautobots.jpg|left|100px|thumb|How to draw a mess of lines that look like Transformers once the colorist has salvaged it.]]
Still in 2000, a group of Dreamwave employees (including Alvin Lee, who had worked with Pat on the ''Wizard'' piece) departed from their company to form their own business, UDON Studios.

A year later, [[Hasbro]] was offering the license for new Transformers comics, which had effectively remained unused since [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] ''[[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Generation 2]] '' [[A Rage in Heaven!|issue 12]] in 1994. Several companies, including Marvel (with UDON being supposed to handle the art), were interested, but all of them used the piece of artwork Dreamwave had done for ''Wizard''. Dreamwave at one point intended to cooperate with Top Cow, but Top Cow rejected the offer. Ultimately, Dreamwave decided to get the license themselves instead of going through another company, claiming that Pat Lee would only handle the art if Dreamwave got the license. Marvel ultimately backed out because of the license fee Hasbro demanded.<ref name ="litgtfspec">[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14153 Lying in the Gutters ''Transformers'' Special], July 2002</ref>

Dreamwave officially acquired the ''Transformers'' license in December of 2001<ref>[http://tformers.com/New-Transformers-Comic/130/news.html TFormers confirms that Dreamwave acquired the Transformers comic license]</ref>, although Hasbro would ultimately never get the license fee in full. To commemorate the new flagship title, Dreamwave officially cut all ties with Image and became an independent publisher on their own.
{{-}}

===Success of the Transformers titles===
Dreamwave's launch title, ''[[Prime Directive|Transformers: Generation 1 vol. 1]]'', written by [[Chris Sarracini]] and drawn by Pat Lee, became an instant hit, dominating Diamond's sales charts for months. Back then, rumors were circulating that Dreamwave had manipulated the market through a special deal with Diamond to ensure their success, or that Hasbro had set up an account to order large numbers of the ''Transformers'' comics. in fact Hasbro had ordered less than 200 copies per issue, primarily because they were not guaranteed free copies from their contract with Dreamwave.<ref name ="litgtfspec" /> Later that year, other companies also reported high sales of "nostalgia" titles, thus further challenging those rumors.<ref name="litgnostal">[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14245 Lying in the Gutters], October 2002.</ref>

Dreamwave would soon expand their range of Transformers comics to include an ongoing ''[[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Transformers: Armada]]'' series (which later evolved into ''[[Energon (comic)|Transformers: Energon]]'' to accompany the respective toylines), initially also written by Sarricini. Although the [[War and Peace|second ''Generation 1'' volume]] was originally supposed to be written by Sarracini again, he was replaced by new writer [[James McDonough]] (who originally worked under the alias "Brad Mick"), thereby ultimately writing an entirely different story than what was originally intended<ref>[http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=1051 TFormers citing a ''Wizard Edge'' article that hints at the originally proposed plot for Dreamwave's Transformers: Generation 1 vol. 2]</ref>. With [[Original Sin|issue #5]] of the [[Generation One (Dreamwave comic)|third ''Generation One'' volume]] (now an ongoing title), McDonough was joined by his longtime friend [[Adam Patyk]], now forming a writing duo, eventually shifting out his "Brad Mick" alias.

Furthermore, Dreamwave hired fan-favorite [[Simon Furman]] to pen various ''Transformers: The War Within'' mini-series, the first official Transformers fiction ever to be not directly based on an existing toyline. Furman would be joined by artist [[Don Figueroa]], whom Dreamwave had hired directly out of the fandom. More fan artists such as [[Guido Guidi]] and [[Joe Ng]] would soon follow Don into the professional comic book world. Meanwhile, Furman would later also take over the ''Armada'' title as a writer.

===Trouble on the horizon===
The first problems arose in late 2002, when it turned out that Dreamwave had only acquired the license for distributing ''Transformers'' titles in the USA, which resulted in a temporary hold in the international distribution until the matter was settled.<ref>[http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=580 Newsarama reporting on problems resulting from Dreamwave's lack of a license for an international release of their ''Transformers'' titles]</ref> However, Dreamwave were far from being the only company suffering from that problem, as [[Devil's Due]] (then part of Image Comics) were also no longer allowed to distribute their ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' comic abroad, and other companies encountered similar problems.<ref name="litglicen">[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14266 Lying in the Gutters], November 2002.</ref> The problem was eventually resolved, and comics were allowed to be distributed internationally again.

Following the success of their ''Transformers'' titles, Dreamwave put their own titles ''Warlands'' and ''Darkminds'' on hold, instead focussing on other licensed books such as ''[[wikipedia:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', numerous [[wikipedia:Capcom|Capcom]] franchises such as ''[[wikipedia:MegaMan|MegaMan]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:Duel Masters|Duel Masters]]'' (a [[Hasbro]]-backed Japanese import card game/toyline). None of those titles would last particularly long, and some (mainly numerous Capcom titles) never even got the first issue out. This was also when rumors of creators not getting paid first came up.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=1760 Lying in the Gutters reporting on early rumors of Dreamwave artists not getting paid]</ref> Rumors about a rigid "house style" committing other artists to draw in a style close to company president Pat Lee started to circulate as well, most evident in the second ''War Within'' miniseries, where the original pencils by artist [[Andrew Wildman]] were drastically reworked by the inker, with rather disappointing results.

In mid-2004, Dreamwave announced the "addition" of new creators<ref>[http://www.brokenfrontier.com/headlines/p/detail/dreamwave-adds-transformers-creators The infamous "Dreamwave adds Transformers' creators" press release]</ref>, failing to mention that this also meant the departure of Adam Patyk and James McDonough from the company. Although Dreamwave tried to contain this delicate bit of information by asking websites to consider any public statements by the two regarding their current situation with Dreamwave as "private" and thus delete them<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2033 Lying in the Gutters reporting on Dreamwave's attempt to contain information about Patyk and McDonough's firing]</ref>, some sites ignored that request, thereby revealing that Patyk and McDonough were owed a significant amount of money for their work.<ref>[http://www.tformers.com/article.php?sid=3842 TFormers.com quoting a statement by Patyk and McDonough]</ref> At the same time, Pat Lee would start to do contractual work for Marvel and DC again, such as issues of ''House of M'' or ''Superman/Batman''.

===The end===

While other artists and writers, including Simon Furman, at least temporarily joined the fold of creators not getting paid by Dreamwave, Chris Sarracini was asked to rewrite the stories previously submitted by Patyk and McDonough.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2045 Lying in the Gutters reporting that even Simon Furman was temporarily not paid, and the stories by Patyk and McDonough were being rewritten]</ref> Likewise, a long-since announced ''Beast Wars'' title McDonough and Patyk had previously worked on was now supposed to be written by Furman instead. Those stories would ultimately never be published, as Hasbro had already declined to renew Dreamwave's license to publish Transformers comics by this point. <ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14839 Lying in the Gutters reporting that Hasbro had revoked Dreamwave's ''Transformers'' license]</ref> Following numerous rumors, including one posted by [[Ben Yee]] on his own website [http://www.bwtf.com/ BWTF.com], Dreamwave officially declared bankruptcy on [[January 4]], 2005, blaming the weak United States Dollar and other scapegoats for the company's failure, including a vastly incorrect claim about Dreamwave being the "only Canadian independent comics publisher".<ref>[http://www.tformers.com/article.php?sid=4053 Dreamwave's final press release]</ref>

By this time, Pat and Roger had already spent four months secretly moving most of Dreamwave's assets to a new company named Dream Engine, whose website domain was registered to Roger's name. The existence of Dream Engine first became public in early January of 2005.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2059 Lying in the Gutters discovering the existence of Dream Engine]</ref>

===The aftermath===
The overall amount of Dreamwave's debt was far over a million dollars.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14886 Lying in the Gutters' list of Dreamwave's creditors]</ref> While former Dreamwave employees never saw a single cent of the money they were owed for their work, Pat Lee repeated the performance a year later with Dream Engine, ultimately resulting in him departing from the new company and once again starting a new business, ''Pat Lee Productions''. Meanwhile, a Canadian entrepreneur named Christian Dery acquired the remaining Dreamwave assets, including the name "Dreamwave" and the rights to their "original" titles such as ''Warlands'' or ''Darkminds'', in August of 2005. Ultimately, no new Dreamwave comics would ever see the light of day, and the "new" Dreamwave ended up not paying employees ''either''.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2765 Lying in the Gutters reporting on trouble with the "new" Dreamwave]</ref> Eventually, Dreamwave II would close shop in mid-2006, selling back the remaining Dreamwave properties to Roger Lee and Dream Engine.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2769 Lying in the Gutters reporting on the final fate of the "new" Dreamwave]</ref>

{{bigquote|Looking back, I'm glad I didn't do any work for Dreamwave... at the time, I'd have worked for free but it turns out everyone else at Dreamwave was doing that anyway.|[[Nick Roche]] <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkqheta3GE Moonbase 2 interview with Roche]</ref>}}

==Series published==
=== Dreamwave G1 ===
*''[[Prime Directive|Prime Directive (G1 Volume 1)]]''
*''[[War and Peace|War and Peace (G1 Volume 2)]]''
*''[[Generation One (Dreamwave comic)|Generation 1 Ongoing (G1 Volume 3)]]''
*''[[The War Within]]''
*''[[War Within: The Dark Ages]]''
*''[[War Within: The Age of Wrath]]''
*''[[Micromasters]]''

''See also:
* [[Dreamwave timeline]]
* [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]]''

=== Unicron Trilogy ===
*''[[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Armada]]''
*''[[Energon (comic)|Energon]]''

=== Transformers/G.I. Joe ===
*''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe Vol. 1]]''
*''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe Vol. 2]]''

=== Other ===
*''[[More Than Meets The Eye (G1)|More Than Meets The Eye]]''
*''[[More Than Meets The Eye (Armada)|More Than Meets The Eye: Armada]]''
* ''[[Dreamwave Summer Special|20th Anniversary Transformers Summer Special]]''

''See also: [[Unreleased Dreamwave issues]]

==Japanese release==

For better or worse (likely the latter), the Dreamwave comics hold the honor of being the very first Western ''Transformers'' comics to be officially translated and published in Japan. They were published by [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96 JIVE Ltd.] (JIVE American Comics Series) and translated by [[Hiroto Ishikawa]] and [[Katsuya Akitomo]]. Releases began in November of 2003 and ended in December of 2004.

The graphic novels released in Japan were identical to the ones released in the US (aside from language, of course). The following collections were released:

*[[Prime Directive#International printings|Generation 1 Vol. 1]]
*[[War and Peace#Japan|Generation 1 Vol. 2]]
*[[The War Within#Japan|The War Within Vol. 1]]
*[[Armada (Dreamwave comic)#International printings|Armada Vol. 1]]
*[[Armada (Dreamwave comic)#International printings|Armada Vol. 2]]
*[[Armada (Dreamwave comic)#International printings|Armada Vol. 3]]

This gave Japanese ''Transformers'' fans their very first glimpse, at least on an official level, of what Western ''Transformers'' comics were like. A very unfortunate first impression, to be sure.

== Footnotes ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [http://tfarchive.com/comics/dreamwave/ By-issue guides, G1 timeline and information (TFArchive)]
* [http://seibertron.com/comics/series.php Cross-referenced information about series and creators (Seibertron)]
* [http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=509985&postcount=44 Unpublished Dreamwave G1 continuity timeline]
[[Category: Comics]]
[[Category: Companies]]
[[Category: Dreamwave| ]]

Marvel Comics

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{{disambig2|the [[Comics|comic]] company|the television and motion picture studio|Marvel Productions}}
:''Marvel Comics is a comic book company from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] and real world [[Continuity family|continuity families]].''

[[Image:Mavlogo.jpg|right|150px|]]
Face front, True Believers! The merry mirthmakers at '''Marvel Comics''' brought you seven scintillating years ([[1984]]–[[1991]]) of fabulous funnybooks starring the ever-lovin' Transformers! A mere two years later, those argumentative appliances struck back (and struck out, natch!) in ''[[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Transformers: Generation 2]]''. Eons later, in the far-flung future of [[2007]], Marvel published ''[[New Avengers / Transformers]]'', teaming Cybertron's Mightiest Robots with Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

Most of these Marvel mags were penned by one of two brilliant Bullpenners:

*"Blazing" [[Bob Budiansky]], who ably edited the original 4-issue limited series before becoming the first permanent writer of the ongoing series, and is credited with creating most of the backstory to the Transformers mythos, as well as writing most of the terrific [[bio]]s that came with the Hasbro toys.
*"Senses-Shattering" [[Simon Furman]], who had been the main writer for the Marvel UK series before being asked by Budiansky to write for the US comic, as well. Furman wrote the last 25 issues of the original series, then battled back to pen all 12 issues of Generation 2. For if he could not write them, what chance, then, did anyone else have?

Marvel published the following Transformers series, so hit those back-issue-bins and Make Yours Marvel!

*[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers (US)]]
*[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|The Transformers (UK)]]
*[[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]
*[[Headmasters (comic)|The Transformers: Headmasters]]
*[[G.I. Joe and the Transformers]]
*[[Transformers: The Movie (Marvel Comics)|Transformers: The Movie]]
*[[Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)|Transformers Universe]]
*[[New Avengers / Transformers]]

Excelsior!

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
Marvel Comics published the ridiculously terrible ''[[Robot-Master (comic)|Robot-Master]]'' comic book series. It did not, however, publish a Potato Salad Man graphic novel entitled ''This Man, This Mayonnaise.'' {{storylink|I, Robot-Master!}}

''The real Marvel never published a Robot-Master series, presumably due to the nonexistence of its creator, [[Donny Finkleberg]].''

==Toys==
Marvel characters are incorporated as part of the ''[[Crossovers]]'' franchise. Marvel Transformers? That certainly [[wikipedia:Mega_Morphs|sounds]] [http://www.superherotimes.com/newsarchive/000581.php familiar].

==Books==
[[Marvel Books]] published children's coloring and activity books in the 1980s, based on licensed properties retained by Marvel Comics, including ''Transformers''.

==Other titles==

It may surprise you to know this, but Marvel published comics that had nothing to ''do'' with Transformers! A number of these titles would be reprinted as [[back-up strips]] in Marvel UK's title: ''[[Visionaries]]'', ''[[Iron Man]]'', ''Machine Man'', ''Planet Terry'', ''Hercules'', ''[[Spider-Man]]'', ''[[Inhumanoids|The Inhumanoids]]'', and, the longest of all, ''[[G.I. Joe (comic)|<strike>Action Force</strike> <strike>G.I. Joe the Action Force</strike> G.I. Joe]]''. Marvel UK also published [[Action Force (comic)|''Action Force'']], which crossed over with ''Transformers''.

==Further information==
*[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
*[[Marvel Comics timeline]]

[[Category:Businesses]]
[[Category:Comics]]
[[Category:Marvel Comics| ]]

Series

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|-
|class="heading" colspan="6" style="background:#096;color:#fff;font-size:110%;padding:0;"|'''Series Information'''
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="34%"|'''''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]''''' 
[[The Transformers (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[List of Generation 1 comics|Comics]] | [[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]] | [[List of Generation 1 books|Books]] | [[Manga#Generation_1|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="33%"|'''''[[The Headmasters (franchise)|The Headmasters]]''''' 
[[The Headmasters (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Headmasters (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[The Headmasters (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top" width="33%"|'''''[[Beastformer]]s''''' 
[[Beastformer#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Beastformer#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]''''' 
[[Super-God Masterforce (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Super-God Masterforce (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Victory (franchise)|Victory]]''''' 
[[Victory (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Victory (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Victory (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]''''' 
[[Zone (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Cartoon]] | [[Zone (manga)|Manga]] | [[Zone (story page)|Story pages]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy]]''''' 
[[Return of Convoy (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[The Battlestars (manga)|Manga]] | [[The Battlestars (story page)|Story pages]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Operation Combination (franchise)|Operation Combination]]''''' 
[[Operation Combination (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Operation Combination (story page)|Story pages]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]''''' 
[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Generation 2 (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Comics]] | [[G-2 (pack-in comic)|Manga]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars (comic)|Comics]] | [[Beast Wars Metals (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Machine Wars]]''''' 
[[Machine Wars|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars II (franchise)|Beast Wars II]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars II (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers|Movie]] | [[Beast Wars II (manga)|Manga]] | [[Beast Wars II Sausage|Sausage]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Animorphs (toyline)|Animorphs]]''''' 
[[Animorphs (toyline)|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Neo (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Beast Wars Neo (manga)|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Machines]]''''' 
[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)#Transformers_Universe:_Featuring_The_Wreckers|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Mutant Beast Wars (toyline)|Mutant Beast Wars]]''''' 
[[Mutant Beast Wars (toyline)|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[1-2-3 Transformers]]''''' 
[[1-2-3 Transformers|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''''' 
[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Ultra Magnus...to the Rescue?|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Micromaster Collection]]''''' 
[[Micromaster Collection#toys|Toyline]] | [[Micromaster Collection#Story|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transformers Collection]]''''' 
[[Transformers Collection|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]''''' 
[[Armada (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Armada (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Armada (comic)|Comics]] | [[Linkage (comic)|Manga]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Expanded Universe]]''''' 
[[Expanded Universe|Toyline]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)#Transformers_Universe:_Featuring_The_Wreckers|Comic]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Commemorative Series]]''''' 
[[Commemorative Series|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[War Within (franchise)|The War Within]]''''' 
[[War Within (toyline)|"Toyline"]] | [[War Within (comic)|Comic]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers| Smallest Transforming Transformers]]''''' 
[[Smallest Transforming Transformers|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Go-Bots]]''''' 
[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Go-Bots (cartoon)|Cartoon]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Dinobots (toyline)|Dinobots]]''''' 
[[Dinobots (toyline)|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|''Universe'' (2003)]]''' 
[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Universe (2003 comic)|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]''''' 
[[Energon (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Energon (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Energon (comic)|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Alternators]]''''' 
[[Alternators#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Alternators#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Masterpiece]]''''' 
[[Masterpiece|Toyline]] | [[MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]''''' 
[[Robot Masters (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Robot Masters (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Robot Masters (pack-in comic)|Pack-in Manga]] | [[Robot Masters (online comic)|Online Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''''' 
[[Cybertron (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Cybertron (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Balancing Act|Comics]] | [[Galaxy Force (manga)|Manga]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Hybrid Style]]''''' 
[[Hybrid Style|Toyline]] | [[Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version|Pack-in Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Timelines (franchise)|Timelines]]''''' 
[[Timelines (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Timelines (fiction)|Comic]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''''' 
[[Star Wars (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Star Wars (event)|"Fiction"]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]''''' 
[[Kiss Players (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Kiss Players (manga)|Manga]] | [[Kiss Players (radio drama)|Radio drama]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Reborn]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Reborn|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Reborn#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]''''' 
[[Classics (2006)|Toyline]] | [[Classics (2006)#Fiction|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Titanium Series]]''''' 
[[Titanium Series|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Movie (franchise)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]''' 
[[Movie (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] | [[Movie (comics)|Comics]] | [[Movie (books)|Books]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]''''' 
[[Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Toyline]] | [[Beast Wars Diorama Story|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Encore|Transformers Encore]]''''' 
[[Encore|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Music Label]]''''' 
[[Music Label|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Sport Label]]''''' 
[[Sport Label|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''''' 
[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Transformers Animated (comic)|Comics]] | [[Transformers Animated (books)|Books]] | [[The Cool|Manga]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]]''''' 
<s>[[Transtech|Toyline]]</s> | [[Transcendent|Comics]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Henkei! Henkei! (franchise)|Henkei! Henkei!]]''''' 
[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Henkei! Henkei! (pack-in comic)|Pack-in Manga]] | [[Henkei! Henkei! (Comic Bun Bun)|Comic Bun Bun Manga]] | [[Henkei! Henkei! (Visualize)|Visualize shorts]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''''' 
[[Shattered Glass (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Shattered Glass (fiction)|Fiction]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe'' (2008)]]''' 
[[Universe (2008 toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Universe (cartoon)|Cartoon]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Crossovers]]''''' 
[[Crossovers|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Disney Label]]''''' 
[[Disney Label|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]''' 
[[Alternity (franchise)#Toys|Toyline]] | [[Alternity (franchise)#Fiction|Fiction]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Chrono Label]]''''' 
[[Chrono Label|Toyline]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|''Revenge of the Fallen'']]''' 
[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Movie]] | [[Revenge of the Fallen (comics)|Comics]] | [[Revenge of the Fallen (books)|Books]] | [[Cyber Missions|Cartoon]] | [[Unite for the Universe|Manga]]
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Device Label]]''''' 
[[Device Label|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers'' (2010)]]''' 
[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Toyline]]
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Power Core Combiners]]''''' 
[[Power Core Combiners|Toyline]]
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[Generations (toyline)|Generations]]''''' 
[[Generations (toyline)|Toyline]]
|-
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|''Transformers: Prime'']]''' 
[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Cartoon]] | [[Transformers: War for Cybertron|Video Game]] | [[Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron|Novels]] | [[Transformers: Prime (comic)|Comics]]
|style="padding: 0.5em;" valign="top"|'''''[[United (toyline)|United]]''''' 
[[United (toyline)|Toyline]] | [[A New Battle!|Manga]]
|style="padding:.5em;" valign="top"|
|}
[[Category:Media]]

Omega Sentinel (Animated)

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{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Omega Sentinel}}
:''Omega Sentinels were [[Autobot]]s from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
{{mainpic|November 2009}}

The '''Omega Sentinels''' were a mass-produced line of weapons of mass destruction sharing the same [[body-type]] as [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]. They were created as part of [[Project Omega]]. Prior to the Sentinels proper, at least four prototypes were created. The 1/12th scale Mark IV prototype, [[Omega S.P.R.E.E.M.]], is an example.

==Known Omega Sentinels==
*'''[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Orion
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (originally meant to be [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]])
::First of the Omega Sentinels. See main articles for details.

*'''[[Alpha Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Axalon
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Primal Major]]
::Plunged into a [[black hole]], apparently due to sabotage by [[Sideways (RID)|General Sideways]].

*'''[[Beta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Battlestar
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Big Bang Prime]]
::Destroyed by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Gamma Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Gung Ho
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Longrack Major]]
::Offlined during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Delta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Darkstar
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Silverbolt Major]]
::Shot down over [[Velocitron]] by the ''[[Revenge (Animated)|Revenge]].'' Rebuilt into artillery platform. Destroyed in bombing raid led by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]].

*'''[[Epsilon Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Eclipse
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Scattershot Major]]
::Rammed Decepticon ship ''[[Victory (Animated)|Victory]]'' at [[Floron III]]; did not survive.

*'''[[Zeta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Xantium
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Impactor Major]]
::Home to the [[Wrecker]]s. Destroyed by the Sentinel-hunting [[Decepticon Heavy Brigade]] (with [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] only survivor).

*'''[[Eta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Hyperion
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Hot Spot Major]]
::Destroyed by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Theta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Tsunami
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Railspike Major]]
::Crippled over [[Beta 4|Beta IV]] by plasma mine/blaster; destroyed by [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] while being towed away.

*'''[[Iota Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Iron Hope
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Wedge Major]]
::Spearheaded attack at the [[Battle for Omnitron]], taking heavy damage. Destroyed by [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] while being repaired.

*'''[[Kappa Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Chromia X
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Override Prime]]
::Only known female Sentinel. Destroyed by [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] while escorting supply convoy.

*'''[[Sigma Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Steelhaven
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]]
::Last of the Omega Sentinels. Terribly wounded during the [[Battle for Iacon]], and placed in emergency [[stasis lock|stasis]] by [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]]. Now serves as flagship of Autobot navy, and has been enhanced with a [[Vanguard Booster (Animated)|Vanguard Booster]] module.

==Notes==
* Most of the Sentinels' bond-partners are ''Transformers Animated'' versions of important Autobot leaders from other continuities:
**[[Optimus Primal]] is the heroic Maximal leader of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]].
**[[Big Bang]] was originally going to be the [[Supreme Commander]] in the post-''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]'' fiction, which became the ''[[Return of Convoy]]'' series.
**[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], [[Scattershot]], and [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] are leaders of the [[Special Teams]].
**[[Impactor]] has led the [[Wrecker]]s.
**[[Railspike (RID)|Railspike]] is leader of [[Team Bullet Train]].
**[[Wedge]] leads the [[Build Team]].
**[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] is the leader of [[Velocitron]].
**[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] has led the Autobots entire, from time to time.
**[[Longrack (BWN)|Longrack]] is [[Sub-Commander]] of the Maximal team under [[Big Convoy]]'s command.

* Most of the Sentinels' ship-names refer to Autobot (or Maximal) ships from other continuities:
**''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''
**''[[Triple Combination Battlestar Attack|Battlestar]]'' from ''[[Return of Convoy]]''
**''[[Gung Ho (BWN)|Gung Ho]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]''
**''[[Steelhaven (G1)|Steelhaven]]'' from [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s ''[[Marvel Comics continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Darkstar]]'' from Marvel's ''[[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Generation 2]]'' comics
**''[[Eclipse]]'' and ''[[Iron Hope]]'' from the ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' portion of the ''[[Unicron Trilogy]]''
**''[[Orion]]'' from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Xantium]]'' from [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s ''[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Hyperion (Armada)|Hyperion]]'' from ''[[Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]''
**''[[Chromia 10]]'' ("X" for "10" in [[Wikipedia:Roman numerals|Roman numerals]]) from ''Timelines'' issue "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]"

* The frequent use of "Major" in the bond-partners' names above is the primary evidence for a "Major" rank in the Animated universe, presumably lying between [[Minor (rank)|Minor]] and [[Prime (rank)|Prime]].

[[Image:AnimatedHistoryVidOmegaSentinels.jpg|right|thumb|200px|History vid produced by Michael Moore.]]

* In "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] viewed a history vid of the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]] that featured towering Transformers with cannons on their left arms and transparent faceplates. Though they strongly resemble the Sentinels, they differ in many details from their depiction in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II]]''. Either these are some other towering robots we don't know about, or the vid is not completely accurate.

* As you can see, [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] is very good at destroying Sentinels.

* Most of the Omega Sentinels were planned to make a cameo in [[TransWarped]], but their [[Battle for Iacon|scene]] was cut for time.

==See also==
* [[Lugnut Supreme]]

[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Autobot subgroups]]
[[Category:Omega Sentinels| ]]

Omega Sentinel (Animated)

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{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Omega Sentinel}}
:''Omega Sentinels were [[Autobot]]s from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
{{mainpic|November 2009}}

The '''Omega Sentinels''' were a mass-produced line of weapons of mass destruction sharing the same [[body-type]] as [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]. They were created as part of [[Project Omega]]. Prior to the Sentinels proper, at least four prototypes were created. The 1/12th scale Mark IV prototype, [[Omega S.P.R.E.E.M.]], is an example.

==Known Omega Sentinels==
*'''[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Orion
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (originally meant to be [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]])
::First of the Omega Sentinels. See main articles for details.

*'''[[Alpha Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Axalon
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Primal Major]]
::Plunged into a [[black hole]], apparently due to sabotage by [[Sideways (RID)|General Sideways]].

*'''[[Beta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Battlestar
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Big Bang Prime]]
::Destroyed by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Gamma Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Gung Ho
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Longrack Major]]
::Offlined during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Delta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Darkstar
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Silverbolt Major]]
::Shot down over [[Velocitron]] by the ''[[Revenge (Animated)|Revenge]].'' Rebuilt into artillery platform. Destroyed in bombing raid led by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]].

*'''[[Epsilon Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Eclipse
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Scattershot Major]]
::Rammed Decepticon ship ''[[Victory (Animated)|Victory]]'' at [[Floron III]]; did not survive.

*'''[[Zeta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Xantium
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Impactor Major]]
::Home to the [[Wrecker]]s. Destroyed by the Sentinel-hunting [[Decepticon Heavy Brigade]] (with [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] only survivor).

*'''[[Eta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Hyperion
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Hot Spot Major]]
::Destroyed by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Theta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Tsunami
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Railspike Major]]
::Crippled over [[Beta 4|Beta IV]] by plasma mine/blaster; destroyed by [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] while being towed away.

*'''[[Iota Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Iron Hope
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Wedge Major]]
::Spearheaded attack at the [[Battle for Omnitron]], taking heavy damage. Destroyed by [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] while being repaired.

*'''[[Kappa Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Chromia X
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Override Prime]]
::Only known female Sentinel. Destroyed by [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] while escorting supply convoy.

*'''[[Sigma Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Steelhaven
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]]
::Last of the Omega Sentinels. Terribly wounded during the [[Battle for Iacon]], and placed in emergency [[stasis lock|stasis]] by [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]]. Now serves as flagship of Autobot navy, and has been enhanced with a [[Vanguard Booster (Animated)|Vanguard Booster]] module.

==Notes==
* Most of the Sentinels' bond-partners are ''Transformers Animated'' versions of important Autobot leaders from other continuities:
**[[Optimus Primal]] is the heroic Maximal leader of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]].
**[[Big Bang]] was originally going to be the [[Supreme Commander]] in the post-''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]'' fiction, which became the ''[[Return of Convoy]]'' series.
**[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], [[Scattershot]], and [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] are leaders of the [[Special Teams]].
**[[Impactor]] has led the [[Wrecker]]s.
**[[Railspike (RID)|Railspike]] is leader of [[Team Bullet Train]].
**[[Wedge]] leads the [[Build Team]].
**[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] is the leader of [[Velocitron]].
**[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] has led the Autobots entire, from time to time.
**[[Longrack (BWN)|Longrack]] is [[Sub-Commander]] of the Maximal team under [[Big Convoy]]'s command.

* Most of the Sentinels' ship-names refer to Autobot (or Maximal) ships from other continuities:
**''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''
**''[[Gung Ho (BWN)|Gung Ho]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]''
**''[[Steelhaven (G1)|Steelhaven]]'' from [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s ''[[Marvel Comics continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Darkstar]]'' from Marvel's ''[[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Generation 2]]'' comics
**''[[Eclipse]]'' and ''[[Iron Hope]]'' from the ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' portion of the ''[[Unicron Trilogy]]''
**''[[Orion]]'' from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Xantium]]'' from [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s ''[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Hyperion (Armada)|Hyperion]]'' from ''[[Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]''
**''[[Chromia 10]]'' ("X" for "10" in [[Wikipedia:Roman numerals|Roman numerals]]) from ''Timeline'' issue "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]"

* The frequent use of "Major" in the bond-partners' names above is the primary evidence for a "Major" rank in the Animated universe, presumably lying between [[Minor (rank)|Minor]] and [[Prime (rank)|Prime]].

[[Image:AnimatedHistoryVidOmegaSentinels.jpg|right|thumb|200px|History vid produced by Michael Moore.]]

* In "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] viewed a history vid of the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]] that featured towering Transformers with cannons on their left arms and transparent faceplates. Though they strongly resemble the Sentinels, they differ in many details from their depiction in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II]]''. Either these are some other towering robots we don't know about, or the vid is not completely accurate.

* As you can see, [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] is very good at destroying Sentinels.

* Most of the Omega Sentinels were planned to make a cameo in [[TransWarped]], but their [[Battle for Iacon|scene]] was cut for time.

==See also==
* [[Lugnut Supreme]]

[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Autobot subgroups]]
[[Category:Omega Sentinels| ]]

Omega Sentinel (Animated)

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:''Omega Sentinels were [[Autobot]]s from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
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The '''Omega Sentinels''' were a mass-produced line of weapons of mass destruction sharing the same [[body-type]] as [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]. They were created as part of [[Project Omega]]. Prior to the Sentinels proper, at least four prototypes were created. The 1/12th scale Mark IV prototype, [[Omega S.P.R.E.E.M.]], is an example.

==Known Omega Sentinels==
*'''[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Orion
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (originally meant to be [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]])
::First of the Omega Sentinels. See main articles for details.

*'''[[Alpha Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Axalon
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Primal Major]]
::Plunged into a [[black hole]], apparently due to sabotage by [[Sideways (RID)|General Sideways]].

*'''[[Beta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Battlestar
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Big Bang Prime]]
::Destroyed by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Gamma Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Gung Ho
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Longrack Major]]
::Offlined during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Delta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Darkstar
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Silverbolt Major]]
::Shot down over [[Velocitron]] by the ''[[Revenge (Animated)|Revenge]].'' Rebuilt into artillery platform. Destroyed in bombing raid led by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]].

*'''[[Epsilon Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Eclipse
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Scattershot Major]]
::Rammed Decepticon ship ''[[Victory (Animated)|Victory]]'' at [[Floron III]]; did not survive.

*'''[[Zeta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Xantium
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Impactor Major]]
::Home to the [[Wrecker]]s. Destroyed by the Sentinel-hunting [[Decepticon Heavy Brigade]] (with [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] only survivor).

*'''[[Eta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Hyperion
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Hot Spot Major]]
::Destroyed by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] during the [[Battle for Iacon]].

*'''[[Theta Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Tsunami
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Railspike Major]]
::Crippled over [[Beta 4|Beta IV]] by plasma mine/blaster; destroyed by [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] while being towed away.

*'''[[Iota Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Iron Hope
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Wedge Major]]
::Spearheaded attack at the [[Battle for Omnitron]], taking heavy damage. Destroyed by [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] while being repaired.

*'''[[Kappa Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Chromia X
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Override Prime]]
::Only known female Sentinel. Destroyed by [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] while escorting supply convoy.

*'''[[Sigma Supreme]]'''
:'''Ship Codename:''' Steelhaven
:'''Bonded To:''' [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]]
::Last of the Omega Sentinels. Terribly wounded during the [[Battle for Iacon]], and placed in emergency [[stasis lock|stasis]] by [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]]. Now serves as flagship of Autobot navy, and has been enhanced with a [[Vanguard Booster (Animated)|Vanguard Booster]] module.

==Notes==
* Most of the Sentinels' bond-partners are ''Transformers Animated'' versions of important Autobot leaders from other continuities:
**[[Optimus Primal]] is the heroic Maximal leader of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]].
**[[Big Bang]] was originally going to be the [[Supreme Commander]] in the post-''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]'' fiction, which became the ''[[Return of Convoy]]'' series.
**[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], [[Scattershot]], and [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] are leaders of the [[Special Teams]].
**[[Impactor]] has led the [[Wrecker]]s.
**[[Railspike (RID)|Railspike]] is leader of [[Team Bullet Train]].
**[[Wedge]] leads the [[Build Team]].
**[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] is the leader of [[Velocitron]].
**[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] has led the Autobots entire, from time to time.
** God knows why [[Longrack (BWN)|Longrack]] made the list.

* Most of the Sentinels' ship-names refer to Autobot (or Maximal) ships from other continuities:
**''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''
**''[[Gung Ho (BWN)|Gung Ho]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]''
**''[[Steelhaven (G1)|Steelhaven]]'' from [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s ''[[Marvel Comics continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Darkstar]]'' from Marvel's ''[[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Generation 2]]'' comics
**''[[Eclipse]]'' and ''[[Iron Hope]]'' from the ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' portion of the ''[[Unicron Trilogy]]''
**''[[Orion]]'' from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Xantium]]'' from [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s ''[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|Generation 1]]'' comics
**''[[Hyperion (Armada)|Hyperion]]'' from ''[[Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]''
**''[[Chromia 10]]'' ("X" for "10" in [[Wikipedia:Roman numerals|Roman numerals]]) from ''Timeline'' issue "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]"

* The frequent use of "Major" in the bond-partners' names above is the primary evidence for a "Major" rank in the Animated universe, presumably lying between [[Minor (rank)|Minor]] and [[Prime (rank)|Prime]].

[[Image:AnimatedHistoryVidOmegaSentinels.jpg|right|thumb|200px|History vid produced by Michael Moore.]]

* In "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] viewed a history vid of the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]] that featured towering Transformers with cannons on their left arms and transparent faceplates. Though they strongly resemble the Sentinels, they differ in many details from their depiction in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II]]''. Either these are some other towering robots we don't know about, or the vid is not completely accurate.

* As you can see, [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] is very good at destroying Sentinels.

* Most of the Omega Sentinels were planned to make a cameo in [[TransWarped]], but their [[Battle for Iacon|scene]] was cut for time.

==See also==
* [[Lugnut Supreme]]

[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Autobot subgroups]]
[[Category:Omega Sentinels| ]]

Multiverse

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{{quote|Do you know that there are more than fifteen quadrillion concurrent universes? It's true!|[[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]]|"[[Games of Deception]]"}}
In '''Transformers''', the '''Multiverse''' is the overall collection of [[Continuity|universes and timelines]]. The Multiverse consists of a '''''very''''' large number of universes, millions of which have been cataloged as [[universal stream]]s.

:''Japanese name:'' '''Multi-Verse of Eternity'''<ref>Takara's "World of Transformers" site.</ref>

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
Traveler's tip: If you survive passage through a [[black hole]] you may end up in a [[negative universe]]. To get back, try traveling back through the corresponding white hole. {{storylink|The Killing Jar}}

A portal room exits down [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Planetary Corridor CB311B4]] which was used by the Quintessons when they ruled the planet to exile prisoners to alternate dimensions. The selectable dimensions include: an ice world, a place with no physical substance, and [[Menonia]]. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}}

{{note|These examples from the Generation 1 cartoon predate the concept of the "Transformers multiverse" invented to tie together the various different story continuities. As such it is unclear how these alternate realities relate to the universal streams.}}

===''Universe''===
[[Unicron]] kidnapped Decepticons from the various universes in order to assemble an army. Meanwhile, [[Primus]] recruited his own army of Autobots. {{storylink|Universe CD-ROM}}

[[Unicron]] abducted Transformers from the various universes in order to fight in gladiatorial combat. {{storylink|Abduction}}

==='''Armada'''===
====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====
Unicron had devoured many realities. While he was still finishing up devouring one reality he sent that reality's fatally wounded [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|Optimus Prime]] on ahead to the next reality he planed to consume as a warning. He also sent five [[Herald of Unicron|heralds]] ahead in order to prepare for his arrival. At the same time, [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]] arrived from a different reality bearing the [[Mini-Con Matrix]] and hoping to stop Unicron from devouring another reality, like his was devoured.

The heralds of Unicron were tasked with defeating Cybertronian leadership and centers of power and capture the Mini-Con Matrix. The used the Decepticons' [[space bridge]] network to open portals to other realities in order to initiate "phase two" of Unicron's plan. The heralds failed at all of their tasks. {{storylink|Worlds Collide}}

When Unicron entered the new reality, he was unaware of his herald's failure. Instead of disorder, he found a unified alliance of Autobots, Decepticons, and Mini-Cons. With the help of the Mini-Con Matrix, they were able to defeat Unicron, who apparently blew up. {{storylink|The End}}

===''TransTech''===
The [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s watched over the multiverse, welcoming travelers from the various universes at the city of [[Axiom Nexus]]. They have an extensive catalog of the [[universal stream]]s. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}

===''Animated''===
A trans-dimensional [[Vector Prime]] observed some of the events in the [[Transformers Animated (comic)|''Transformers Animated'' comic]] and identified the [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|cartoon's]] universal stream. ''[[Venus (magazine)|Venus]]'' was a trans-dimensional magazine. [[Jim Sorenson (Animated)|Jim Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster (Animated)|Bill Forster]] traveled from their home universal stream of Quadwal -3760.925 where they wrote the ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|AllSpark Almanac]]''. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac}}

{{stub}}
{{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==See also==
*[[Multiversal singularity]]

==References==
<References />

[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Generation 1]]
[[Category:TransTech]]
[[Category:Universe (2003)]]

Hasbro Q&A/September 2010

2010-11-03T18:42:03Z

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A question archive of, and links to the answers from, the September 2010 Hasbro Q&As, released on or around November 1st.

==Questions==
===16bit.com===
#Star Wars has a "greatest hits" Saga Legends line which keeps some toys (and characters) constantly in rotation. Will we ever see something like this for Transformers? For example, Sideswipe from the 2008 Transformers Universe line is a great mold, and it seemed to sell well, but the secondary market is slowing driving up his price. There are no Beast Wars toys in circulation, and presumably there must be dozens of top-notch deluxe-class molds still in working order in your factories. With HUB airing older Transformers programming, can we expect a modern equivalent of the late-1990s Beast Wars "Fox Kids" assortments to keep existing toys of older characters on-shelf for the kids and the new fans?
# What's going on with the Transformers Challenge on Cybertron set? This clearly Hasbro-packaged item included a Cyclonus, Rodimus, and Galvatron redeco and was distributed at an Asian toy convention, yet we're hearing rumblings that it will be a Target exclusive. Since it was not shown at the Summer conventions, and as far as we know nobody at Hasbro has confirmed this, we'd love to know if (or when) we can expect this set to go on sale in the USA.

* [http://16bit.com/hasbrotfqa-101102.asp 16bit.com answers]

===AllSpark.com===
# It has been recently revealed that Megatronus (The Fallen) will be in Transformers Prime story line. Is the Fallen from "Prime" the same Fallen that was in the movie and the same that was in the original Dreamwave comic? Basically, are they a multiversal singularity or are the all "different" Fallens?
# In a previous QandA it was revelaed that one of the original 13 Transformers was female, this raises the question, does the Hasbro TF creative team have a stance on what the difference between Male and Female Transformers are? Aside from asthetics and characterization that is? Is it physical at all or related to the nature of their sparks?

* [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74182 AllSpark.com answers]

===ASM===
# Is there an industry term for the various catalogs, flyers, DVDs, comics and other materials sometimes packaged in with Transformers figures? (All the stuff that isn’t the instruction sheet, effectively.)
# The “Cyber Missions” online videos have depicted Power Core Combiner characters, such as Smolder and Chopster, alongside characters from the live-action movies. Should we take this as evidence that Power Core Combiners are in the same continuity as the movies, or are “Cyber Missions” a separate continuity which happens to have a lot of the same characters as the movies?

* [http://www.asmzine.com/geekly-rewind/2010/11/01/hasbro-transformers-qa-november-2010-answers/ ASM answers]

===AwesomeToyBlog===
# In recent years, several toys have featured third modes, and sometimes indications of third modes that were dropped prior to release. While the toys that involve special parts for their additional transformation modes clearly have these features planned from an early stage, some toys seem to achieve their extra forms using only the parts required for their regular vehicle and robot forms. In this latter case, are the extra modes typically included in plans for a toy from the very beginning, or are they sometimes “figured out” at later stages in the design? Is there any special criteria that leads to the decision to give a toy an extra mode?
# It seems as though a lot of emphasis is currently being put on improving the hands on Transformers figures. Darkmount is the best of these, with hands that look quite natural and can hold a great variety of weapons, including traditional 5mm pegs. Are you looking for a new standard to replace the blocky fists typical of Transformers, or is it more a matter of what’s appropriate for each figure?

* [http://awesometoyblog.com/2010/11/01/transformers-qa-november-1st-answers/ AwesomeToyBlog answers]

===Cybertron.ca===
# Are the Power Core Combiners toys meant to share continuity with the Revenge of the Fallen/Hunt for the Decepticons toys or do they correspond to the new War for Cybertron storyline? Or are they completely self-contained, in terms of fiction?
# We've noticed more planned remolds and less straight up repaints. I think all fans agree this is a welcome move. How has Hasbro perceived the success of this move on their end? Are they planning to continue with more planned remolds?

* [http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/showthread.php?t=27064 Cybertron.ca answers]

===Kitty's Pryde===
# With the release of the Sea Cons as a BBTS exclusive, whats the possibility of getting some other classic combiners?
# Are there any chance of Getting Wingblade Prime or Blackout from TF Animated released as an exclusive or regular release at some point? I think those are two figures people would like to own without having to import them.

* [http://www.kittyspryde.com/?p=2630 Kitty's Pryde answers]

===Parry Game Preserve===
# Sometimes a figure who was classically of a smaller scale, say the lovable Powerglide, gets the up-scale treatment, in that case into the Ultra class version that we all recently had the good fortune to add to our collections. What is the process like for the design team - how do they approach the work of which details of the figure to expand upon, and what areas to focus on with a much more detailed and expressive figure size?
# The second wave of Transformers: Generations figures features two supreme tough-bots, Megatron and Darkmount. From Darkmount's bio we see that he's gritty enough to give even Megatron pause! What consideration went into designing such an evil double-header of a wave? If I were an Autobot I'd be sufficiently intimidated by this wave #2 of the excellent Generations line!

* [http://parrygamepreserve.com/newsDetail.php?jID=1552 Parry Game Preserve answers]

===Raving Toy Maniac===
# Generation 1 is obviously the most important part of Transformers history for the majority of fans. GI Joe RAH had recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with vintage style figures with updated sculpting and articulation. Star Wars has enjoyed the same treatment for over a decade now. The "other company" has done the same with monthly releases of their own in-house property, to great success. Outside of Transformers Masterpiece edition figures (while beautiful, are very expensive individually, and see few releases), why haven't we seen a newly-envisioned Gen-1 toy line featuring the exact G1 car/boat/plane/gun models with updated articulation and sculpting? As a casual Transformer fan, THIS I would get onboard with.
# Can we expect new War for Cybertron figures in upcoming waves? With the new DLC there are now even more people wanting a Zeta Prime figure.

* [http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/12448.shtml Raving Toy Maniac answers]

===Seibertron.com===
# With the surprise induction of Beast Wars DINOBOT into the 1st annual Transformers Hall-of-Fame, are there any plans yet to bring back some popular Beast Wars characters?
# Will Generations Deluxe Class SCOURGE come with his Targetmaster partner Fracas like Cyclonus did with Nightstick?

* [http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/hasbro-answers-seibertrons-qa/20135/ Seibertron.com answers]

===TFormers.com===
# In the case of recent series with supporting shows (e.g., Animated, Prime), do you feel that the 'cartoon first, toy line later' approach is the most viable and beneficial to fans, as well as sales of the product?
# With the release of Animated Rodimus Minor and Ironhide, can you provide any insight for any of the other Animated figures that we have previously seen (e.g., Wingblade Optimus Prime, Blackout)?

*[http://tformers.com/transformers-hasbro-answers-your-burning-questions-part-x-confirms-animated-done/14593/news.html TFormers answers]

===TFViews.com===
# With another Transformers movie line coming up, the line will almost certainly be bolstered by characters not appearing in TF3, just as the first 2 movies’ toy lines had extra characters. There are many Revenge of the Fallen and even Movie 1 characters still in demand for figure updates/upgrades, such as Voyager-class Bonecrusher, Scrapmetal and Scrapper figures for fans of the movie Constructicons, leader-class Blackout, and more great ideas that fans want. What are the odds that we’ll see those TYPES of movie-universe characters added the TF3 toy line, even if not those specific examples? (Though we’d like to see those examples of course.)
# Some collectors have expressed concern that the main TF lines such as the Movie lines and Universe/Generations might be getting too complicated for key target audiences, specifically casual consumers and kids. We’ve heard things along the lines of “I’m a grown man and had problems with ROTF Leader Prime, how is my kid supposed to figure it out?” to “I gave 2008′s New Camaro Bumblebee to a nephew and it still sits, half-transformed, at the bottom of a toy box.” Obviously, sub-lines like Fast Action Battlers and Activators are supposed to address this problem, but they only appeal to specific younger audiences, not generally to the larger casual consumer base. How much of a concern is this for Hasbro? What does Hasbro do to combat these issues in the main lines without simplifying them to the point of alienating the core fanbase?

* [http://www.tfviews.com/news/main/hasbro-q-and-a/1142 TFViews answers]

===TFW2005===
# How successful was the recent "Recon Ravage" mail away promotion for the NEST subline? Can we expect to see any more mail away promotions for Transformers toylines in the near future?
#Quite a few 2010 exclusives have been announced with no mention of the retailer that will be carrying them. Are you at liberty to share the retailers for any the following exclusives: Megatron Rising, Sideways Sneak Attack, the Minicon 8-pack, Blue Maximus VS Crosshairs, Drydock VS Undertow, The Fury of Bonecrusher, or the Challenge at Cybertron 3-pack?

* [http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/site-updates-18/hasbro-qna-answers-for-november-2010-170845/ TFW2005 answers]

===TFWiki.net===
# How is ''[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'s'' evil [[Alpha Trion (SG)|Alpha Trion]] consistent with the revelation in ''[[Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron|Transformers: Exodus]]'' that [[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] is one of the [[Thirteen original Transformers|original thirteen Transformers]] and a [[multiversal singularity]]? At [[BotCon 2009]], it was explained by [[Forest Lee]] that there is no Shattered Glass version of [[The Fallen]] specifically because of his status as a multiversal singularity.
# If [[Unicron]]'s mission is to consume everything in the multiverse, why does he fire projectiles? Isn't that ultimately counterproductive? Doesn't he just have to go eat them up later?

*[[Hasbro Q&A/September 2010: Answers|TFWiki.net answers]]

===Unicron.com===
# We love Transformers Exodus and War for Cybertron. (More toys please! and not *just* recolors, tho they're fine too for this series!) Through them, it seems the goals of Hasbro have become more 'in sync' with our own personal wishes to see each new incarnation of Transformers be not just a re-boot of the brand, but a new chapter in the fictional history of Transformers mythology. Can you please talk about this new philosophy in brand development and how you might continue it with TF: Prime, new books/toys, etc. (Please feel free to get IDW on board w/ this philosophy too, BTW...)
#We think that the Human Alliance toys are among the best of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen toy line. We love that Movie Jazz has made a reappearance, but it seems like Human Alliance Mudflap was skipped over all together. He has had an unfortunately scarce distribution, and is thus extremely hard to find. You can, however, buy a new one from sellers on Amazon.com for a mere $114.95. Are there any plans to release Human Alliance Mudflap in the Hunt for the Decepticons or later toy lines (as Bumblebee was), or could his ROTF packaged version possibly see a more distribution through HasbroToyShop.com and/or other online vendors?

[http://unicron.com/news_item/2411/ Unicron.com answers]

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Eight Track (G1)

2010-10-12T17:54:20Z

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:''The ''Eight Track'' is a Cybertronian [[Starships|starship]] from the [[Wings of Honor]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[Image:WoH Eight Track.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The ''Eight Track'' is a little old place where we can get together! ''Eight Track'', bay-bee!]]
The '''''Eight Track''''' is an [[Autobot Guard]] transport ship under commanding officer [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] during the early stages of the [[Decepticon]] insurgency. It is presently assigned to recon duty, much to the dismay of excitable young crew-member [[Kup (G1)|Kup]].

==Fiction==
===Wings of Honor continuity===
====Crew====
*[[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] - Commander
*[[Flak]]
*[[Landshark]] - Pilot
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] - Communications
====Wings of Honor====
The crew of the ''Eight Track'' had just finished up a lengthy deep-space scan for Decepticon activity, when [[Autobot High Command]] ordered them to investigate the recent crash-landing of the ''[[Van De Graaff]]'' on [[Beta-Nine]]. Right as they reached the planet and were preparing to descend, the ship was shot out of space by a Decepticon battleship. Landshark managed to crash-land without the crew suffering any casualties, but the ship itself ended up as a scrapmetal wreck in the middle of an alien lake. {{storylink|Wings of Honor}}

The ship apparently was retrieved and fixed at some point, as Landshark managed to wreck it yet again later on, leaving them needing to be ferried around by [[Metalhawk]]. Landshark blamed it on Kup's shreik bat chewing on some cables. {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 2}}

===''Prime'' continuity===
====''Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron''====
[[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] ordered the gathering of any flight-worthy ships during the construction of the ''[[Ark (Prime)|Ark]]'' and the ensuing preparations for evacuation. The purpose of this rag-tag fleet was to provide a diversion to draw the Decepticons away from the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s launch. To this end, the ''Eight Track'' was the only manned ship in the flotilla, piloted by [[Jetfire (Prime)|Jetfire]] and crewed by Optimus Prime, [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]], [[Ironhide (Prime)|Ironhide]], [[Prowl (Prime)|Prowl]] and [[Jazz (Prime)|Jazz]].

When [[Trypticon (Prime)|Trypticon Station]] proved more than a match for the entire fleet, Optimus Prime sent the unmanned ships back planetside, while the ''Eight Track'' searched for a hole in the station's defenses. Finding one, the team was able to knock the monstrous and now sentient space station from orbit, but nearly plummeted to its doom with Trypticon due to the inability to retract the ship's ingress tube. Jetfire was ultimately able to pull away from the rapidly descending hulk, but his timing was a bit too close for his crewmates' tastes. {{storylink|Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron|Exodus}}

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