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Blast from the Past

2012-03-29T07:49:13Z

189.200.89.83: /* Foreign dubbing */

{{disambig2|the 2008 Transformers Animated episode|the 2003 Armada comic|Panini Armada issue 6}}
{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA Blast Past Dinobots burn.JPG
|caption="When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked." "Yes, but, John, when Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."
|ep=6
|ep2=8
|prev2=Total Meltdown
|next2=Nanosec (episode)
|title="Blast from the Past"
|airdate=[[January 12]], [[2008]]
|written by=[[Kevin Hopps]]
|directed by=[[Irineo Maramba]] [[Ben Jones]] [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|animation studio= [[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]}}

'''Professor Sumdac upgrades a trio of animatronic dinosaurs from a local theme park, but the creatures develop minds of their own and become rampaging Dinobots, bent on destroying the Autobots.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:TFA Blast Past Bulkhead Tutor Bot.JPG|left|200px|thumb|"Did you find him?" "Just the parts they didn't like."]]

[[Sari Sumdac|Sari]] takes the [[Autobot]]s to "[[Dino Drive]]", a [[dinosaur]]-based theme park, in order to teach them about [[Earth]]'s history. On the way, [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] accidentally destroys every car in the parking lot. Once inside, [[Tutor Bot]] gives an impromptu lesson on dinosaurs. The Autobots see the animatronic dinosaurs and become amazed by the replicas, especially Bulkhead, who becomes so fascinated that he tries to get the robot ''Pteranodon'' to fly. This only succeeds in having the robot fall and cause a ''Triceratops'' and ''Tyrannosaurus'' robot to collide and break each other, crushing Tutor Bot in the process. The Autobot take the broken animatronics to [[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] for repair.

[[Image:TFA Blast Past Sumdac Megatron meet.JPG|right|200px|thumb|"The voice you hear is Richard Kiley. We spared no expense."]]

At the lab, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] views the power of dinosaurs through the damaged Tutor Bot and seems very impressed by their destructive potential. Sumdac enters the lab and berates himself for programming the Tutor Bot with such simple information that everyone already knows. Megatron reveals his consciousness by saying ''he'' never knew these things. Sumdac is shocked, and Megatron, pretending that he has just come back online, asks where he is. Professor Sumdac rambles a bit, then says it's a long story. Megatron reassures him that he can listen, as he is not going anywhere. After Sumdac gives a brief history of Megatron's discovery and how he relates to modern technology, Megatron convinces Sumdac that he is an old friend of the Autobots and that they'll be more forgiving of Sumdac keeping his secrets if he helps repair their old comrade. However, it would be best to keep it quiet for now. As a sign of good faith, he offers to help Sumdac repair the dinosaur displays and provide information on how to upgrade their technology so they'll be even more convincing. He conveniently forgets to tell Sumdac that he plans on using them for prototype attack drones.

Meanwhile, at the [[Autobot Earth Base|Autobot base]], [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] is trying to teach Bulkhead how to control his strength. This, of course, ends with Bulkhead falling on Prowl. He then tries a new tactic and moves the training to an island in Lake Erie. This results in Bulkhead causing some trees to drop on Prowl.

[[Image:TFA Blast Past pulse.JPG|left|200px|thumb|"Think they'll have that on the tour?"]]

At Dino Drive, Sumdac reveals his and Megatron's creations to the gathered press and Autobots—the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]]! After a short display, Megatron takes control, and the Dinobots go on a rampage. As the Autobots fight them, Bulkhead tries to recreate Prowl's teaching, but to no effect other than falling into Prowl and knocking him flat on his back. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] then combine their powers to create an electromagnetic pulse to shut down the Dinobots, but Sari's [[AllSpark Key]] is somehow drawn to the creatures. She decides to help and plugs the Key into Bumblebee. The blast intensifies, blowing the dinosaurs' skins off and revealing the robot bodies beneath. Professor Sumdac is confused as to why they malfunctioned and brings them back to his lab for maintenance.

At Sumdac's lab, Megatron becomes perplexed as to why the AllSpark Key activated, thinking it sensed something Cybertronian about the Dinobots. He dismisses this idea and curses the drones for being useless. Their failure also forces Megatron to reassess his plans. Given the primitive level of technology available on the planet, it could take years not only to create adequate attack drones, but even longer for his own new body. Megatron laments the grim situation of being locked away in Sumdac's lab, then something very surprising happens—the ''Tyrannosaurus'' starts to talk, and the other dinosaurs begin to move. On top of that, Megatron finds he can't control them!

Megatron then surmises that the Autobots must have done something to them, declaring that, somehow, they have [[Spark]]s of their own. The ''Tyrannosaurus'' then dubs himself "[[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]]" and, without fail, Megatron declares that he is the Dinobots' leader. Grimlock doesn't approve of this concept and announces that ''he'' is the leader, and [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] and [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]] seem to agree. The Tutor Bot activates, much to Megatron's annoyance, and explains how dinosaur fossils create fossil fuel, which powers cars and trucks. Grimlock takes this to mean cars and trucks "eat" dinosaurs and announces that cars and trucks are bad. Megatron takes advantage of their low intelligence and tells them to destroy the "fossil feeders", and, of course, that the only things worse than cars and trucks are "car robots". He shows them how to use one of their more destructive powers, [[fire-breath]], and they use it to destroy the Tutor Bot. Grimlock is pleased with this, but does not know how he did it. Megatron explains how he designed them, then tells them that the fossil feeders want them dead, so the Dinobots go to defend themselves.

[[Image:Fanzone.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Somewhere on this island is the greatest hunter that ever lived. And the second greatest hunter must take him down."]]

As they start on their rampage, [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] and assembled emergency crews try to stop them. Suddenly, Snarl whips a car with his tail, and [[Captain Fanzone's car]] becomes the first casualty of the Dinobots' war on the fossil feeders as the thrown car lands on it. Fanzone, not missing a beat, takes a bazooka and shoots Snarl in the face, but he just swallows the incoming missile.

The Autobots arrive and, at Bulkhead's suggestion, lure the Dinobots to a park in order to avoid any more collateral damage. As Grimlock sees them transform, he remembers something he'd forgotten: Car robots are worse than cars and trucks. Furious, he orders the Dinobots to attack. As the battle goes on, the Autobots are seriously outmatched, especially since Bulkhead is trying to "assess the situation" before acting, as Prowl tried to teach him to do. Prowl, realizing their disadvantage, hollers for Bulkhead not to try and be like Prowl, but to be like ''Bulkhead''. Reassured, Bulkhead quickly drops Snarl and Swoop.

At the lab, Sumdac and Megatron are watching the events unfold on the news, and Sumdac is unable to comprehend why the Dinobots malfunctioned again. Suddenly, the professor realizes that the fire-breath was part of Megatron's design specifications. Megatron feigns shame, claiming that he wanted a body again, so he experimented with the Dinobots by adding "features". Sumdac sympathizes with Megatron, promising not to tell the Autobots and to restore Megatron one day.

[[Image:TFA Blast Past Dinobots stuck.JPG|left|200px|thumb|"You're sure they're contained?" "Yes. Unless they figure out how to open doors."]]

Meanwhile, Bumblebee and Ratchet are pinned down by Grimlock's fire-breath. Snarl and Swoop get up and join in, the heat melting the parking lot behind the two Autobots. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] remembers the tar lesson from Dino Drive, and Bulkhead throws all three Dinobots into the newly formed pool. The Dinobots use their flames in an attempt to free themselves from the "black, sticky stuff", but only make things worse for themselves.

The Dinobots are trapped with only their heads sticking out. Professor Sumdac promises to melt them down due to their unpredictableness and the danger they therefore pose. Optimus approves of this, but Prowl does not, feeling that they have shown they have minds and sparks of their own. When Sumdac returns the next morning, he finds the Dinobots have escaped from their tar prison.

On the [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|deserted island]] where Prowl and Bulkhead trained, the Dinobots are freed into a large crater which houses a beautiful natural environment. Prowl and Bulkhead see how happy they are and decide to keep it their little secret. With that, Prowl sets a hologram up to keep them hidden and safe from the world.

[[Image:Animated cartoon Grimlock energo-sword.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Life finds a way."]]

After they leave, Grimlock dubs cars and trucks bad, but Nature good. Two birds promptly defecate on him, which makes him rethink his claim and dub Nature stupid. He orders the birds to come down and "fight like Dinobot" and spits out a flame at them, but they simply fly away. Furious, Grimlock suddenly activates another of Megatron's "features" and transforms! Snarl and Swoop stare in amazement as Grimlock draws a [[Energo weapon|giant, flaming sword]]. Grimlock like….
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
* [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (4)
* [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (5)
* [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (6)
* [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (7)
*[[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] (10)
*[[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]] (11)
*[[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] (12)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (7)

|c3=
* [[Sari Sumdac]] (1)
* [[Isaac Sumdac]] (9)
* [[Porter C. Powell]] (13)
* [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] (14)
* [[Lester Black]] (15)

|c4=
*[[Tutor Bot]] (2)
}}

==Quotes==
"Sorry I'm late, guys. Uh, did I miss anything?" 
"No, I'd say you hit just about every car in the lot."
:—'''Bulkhead''' can't seem to catch a break, certainly not from '''Bumblebee'''.

'''Tutor Bot''': Besides the valuable information dinosaurs' bones can tell us, fossils also gave way to fossil fuels, which today power our automobiles. 
'''Sumdac''': Oh, I cannot believe that I programmed you with such simplistic information. Everyone knows this. 
'''Megatron''': Oh, but I did not. 
'''Sumdac''': Well, everyone but you. ''[gasps loudly]'' You—you ''spoke!''
:—Isaac Sumdac learns that his guest is awake.

"Nice, Prowl. Maybe next you can teach an engine block to float."
:—'''Ratchet''' being a crotchety old goat

"The primitive materials available on this planet are useless. It will take countless solar cycles to create attack drones capable of ''my'' needs, and without more substantial robotics for my own body, my prospects are grim, locked in this prison of a lab." 
"Grim—lock…Grim—lock."
:—'''Megatron''' learns why '''Grimlock''''s name doesn't start with an "S".

"Cars and trucks bad! [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Car robots]]…worse!"
:—'''Grimlock''', to the dismay of ''[[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' fans everywhere.

'''Bulkhead''': Wait! Uh, I was thinking. Maybe we should lead them someplace safer first. 
'''Optimus''': Good thinking, Bulkhead! 
'''Bulkhead''': He said "good thinking". 
'''Bumblebee''': And "''Bulkhead''".
:—Optimus gives Bulkhead kudos, much to his and Bumblebee's shock.

"You call breathing fire a glitch?!?"
:—'''Ratchet''', saying what we're all thinking.

"Just because something is big and lumbering and destructive doesn't mean you give up on it."
:—'''Prowl''' delivering the most backhanded compliment ever

"Cars and trucks bad. Nature....good."
:—'''Grimlock''' admiring nature, just before it poops on him.

==Notes==
===Animation errors===
*In one scene, Snarl's head is coloured grey instead of gold.

*Prowl removes his Autobot symbol because of its hologram emitter. However, in the next shot, he still has it.
** In "[[Five Servos of Doom]]", Master Yoketron is shown removing Prowl's projector, too. A new insignia, implied to be his true one, slides in from right behind it.

*During the final fight, when Bulkhead tries to use Prowl's training properly, his mouth doesn't move.

===Transformers references===
*A far-off island that becomes a training ground for a lumbering warrior to hone his skills without causing collateral damage to the Autobots' base? Gee, [[Dinobot Island (G1)|that sure sounds familiar]].

*After smashing into Snarl, Bulkhead cheerfully apologizes with "Excuse me!" in much the same way that ''Generation 1'' [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] did after stomping on a [[Quintesson]] in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

* Grimlock's line "Cars and trucks bad! Car Robots worse!!!" may be taken as a subtle jab at ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'', which was called ''Car Robots'' in Japan (though Derrick J. Wyatt claims it's not the case <ref>[http://www.formspring.me/DerrickJWyatt/q/512301073 Derrick Wyatt on Formspring]</ref>). Interestingly enough, that was also the only post-Generation 1 show that did not feature [[David Kaye]], Grimlock's voice actor.

* Megatron tries to convince Grimlock that Autobots are bad. [[War of the Dinobots| Familiar indeed]].

* At the end of the episode, Prime suggests that the Dinobots are too dangerous to be kept around. Again, [[S.O.S. Dinobots| familiar]].

*Only two other animatronic dinosaurs are seen in Dino Drive, a ''Stegosaurus'' and an unidentified sauropod. These may be references to [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] and the original [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]].

*Grimlock's robot mode resembles his look in the Generation 1 series. However, in this series, he wields a flaming sword just like his G1 toy and depiction in several comic series including ''[[War Within (comic)|Transformers War Within]]''.

*This is not the first series to use a tar pit to entrap the Dinobots. In the Generation 1 cartoon episode "[[Dinobot Island, Part 1|Dinobot Island]]", Megatron used the island's residents to drive the Dinobots into a tar pit to get them out of the Decepticon's way. In the G1 Marvel comic series, the Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] defeated the Dinobots by entombing them in tar (before falling in himself).

===Foreign dubbing===
'''Brazil'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Explosão do Passado'''" ("Blast from the Past")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Le Dino-Parc'''" ("The Dino-Park")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Drachenkämpfer'''" ("Dragon Fighters")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 7|7 June]] [[2008]]

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Enemigos de la Prehistoria'''" ("Enemies of prehistory")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Dinobot Tanjō!'''" (ダイノボット誕生!, "Birth of the Dinobots!")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 22|22 May]] [[2010]]
::*The Japanese title of this episode, "''Dinobot Tanjō!''", is the same as the Japanese title of the episode that introduced the Dinobots in [[S.O.S. Dinobots|the original ''Transformers'' cartoon]].
::*Grimlock here has the same verbal tic as his [[Grimlock (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]] did on putting "da" at the end of his sentences in the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Japanese]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|dub]]. Speaking of talking, Swoop and Snarl can speak! Except only their names in the fashion similar to [[wikipedia:Pokémon|Pokémon]]. In fact, Grimlock lampshades this by saying the two aren't "pocket monsters" (''poketto kaijū'') during the "next episode" segment.

'''Polish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cios z przeszłości'''" ("Blast from the Past")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

===Real-world references===
* The gate of Dino Drive is remarkably similar to the gate of Jurassic Park in the [[Jurassic Park|movie of the same name]] (and thus, by extension, to the gate from [[King Kong (movie)|''King Kong'']], to which Jurassic Park's design was an [[homage]]). Music reminiscent of the ''Jurassic Park'' theme can be heard during some of the Dino Drive scenes.

===Trivia===
*This marks the first time the Dinobots have been used in a ''Transformers'' television series since Generation 1. There is much joy. Grimlock is particularly happy.
*Snarl was obviously designed to be the ''Animated'' incarnation of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] named [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], and preproduction shots even bore that name. Hasbro [http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=76674442 holds the United States trademark for "Slag" unopposed, and renewed it as recently as Xmas 2007]. They aren't using "Slag" as a product name because, as acknowledged by the Hasbro representatives at [[BotCon 2008]], it is a negative slang term in the United Kingdom (specifically, a reference to prostitution), and might have affected toy sales. Grimlock was the only Dinobot to be named in the show itself until "[[Human Error, Part II]]", when [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] gave Snarl his name. Swoop was never named in the show.
*For the first time, the Dinobots' alt modes match closely with how dinosaurs are depicted in the fossil record (no sluggishness, more mammal/bird-like, Grimlock bent over horizontally, no bowleggedness, etc.). There was still a lack of feathers before they were de-skinned, though. (However, since it's unknown if ''T. rex'' had a feather covering like smaller theropods, and large pterosaurs had short, bristly fur, if at all, it's not really an issue.)
*In this episode, Tutor Bot actually teaches Sari and the Autobots about dinosaurs and fossil fuels. He's back on form, however, when the pre-Transformer Grimlock squashes him.
*It seems somewhat odd (but not terribly surprising) that humanity has developed advanced robotics and such, but still uses fossil fuels in cars.
*According to Ratchet, the Transformer race is over 10 billion years old.
*Tutor Bot makes statements of questionable factual accuracy in this episode:
**Despite what Tutor Bot says, fossil fuels are ''not'' made from dinosaur fossils. Fossil fuels are made from various [[wikipedia:Hydrocarbon|hydrocarbons]], which are mostly formed from plant matter that has long since settled in the Earth's crust. For more, see [[wikipedia:Fossil_fuel|this]].
**Tutor Bot claims that the [[wikipedia:Jurassic|Jurassic]] era is over 200 million years old. It lasted from circa 199.6 million years ago to 145.4 million years ago. Yes, the show takes place in the future, but not '''that''' far in the future.
**Tutor Bot claims that many of the creatures lived during the Jurassic period, but ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Triceratops'' and the pterosaur ''Pteranodon'' hail from the Late [[wikipedia:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]], not the Jurassic. The only dinosaurs actually from that time period are the [[Snarl (G1)|''Stegosaurus'']] and the [[Sludge (G1)|sauropod]] mentioned above. This makes Tutor Bot blind, vague, or incapable of teaching about dinosaurs, fossil fuels, and (depending on how literally you take him) basic math. The fact that Professor Sumdac continues to fix him is almost amazing.
*Michigan does not have volcanoes. (Although, this ''is'' the future.)

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Season One ([[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video|Paramount]]) — English and Spanish audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume One: Blast from the Past (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume One: Blast from the Past (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Eins: Drachenkämpfer (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2010 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 2 (Paramount) — Japanese audio only.

==References==
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[[Category:Animated episodes]]

The Thrill of the Hunt

2012-03-29T07:44:59Z

189.200.89.83: /* Foreign dubbing */

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA Thrill Hunt Ratchet Lockdown reunion.JPG
|caption=Sadly, no tumbleweeds.
|ep=7
|ep2=5
|prev2=Sound and Fury
|next2=Home Is Where the Spark Is
|title="The Thrill of the Hunt"
|airdate=[[January 19]], [[2008]]
|written by=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|directed by=[[Ben Jones]] [[Shunji Ōga|Shunji Oga]]
|animation studio= [[The Answer Studio]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]}}

'''While Autobots encounter a mysterious muscle car creating havoc in Detroit, Ratchet keeps flashing back to his "tour of duty" in the Great Autobot-Decepticon Wars.'''

==Synopsis==
While debating the ethical dilemma of an [[Maramba Brothers Auto Supply|auto parts store]] with [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]'s old war wound tingles, making him think that trouble's ahead. Just then, the lights in the city go out, and the trio is confronted by a spiked muscle car with red headlamps. Thinking it's a human out for a joyride, the [[Autobot]]s go after the car. At a critical moment in the chase, Ratchet experiences a flashback to his days in the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]]….

[[Image:Ratchetanimatedthrill.jpg|left|170px|thumb|PTSD-bait in the making.]]

''Field tech Ratchet is in the middle of a war zone with a Decepticon barrage falling down around him. Communicating with [[Supreme Commander]] [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]], he says he found the object of his mission, an Autobot intelligence officer named [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]. She is badly damaged and in need of immediate repair. Ratchet uses his [[electromagnetic pulse|EMP]] generator to deactivate her temporarily, allowing him to replace her leg, despite Arcee's concern that the EMP could wipe her [[memory core]].''

Ratchet flashes back into the present and is nearly run over by the muscle car, but is pushed out of the way by Bumblebee. The Autobots regroup at headquarters and Optimus inquires of Ratchet's well-being, but the crusty old bot doesn't want to talk. Meanwhile, the [[Television|TV]] news is broadcasting a live, high-speed chase between the police and the strange car, and Ratchet experiences another flashback.

[[Image:Lockdown both hands.jpg|right|170px|thumb|SUCKER-PUNCH!]]

''In the middle of the repair to Arcee, Ratchet loads her up and starts to evacuate the area, only to be caught and smacked down by a bounty hunter.''

Ratchet's thoughts are snapped back into the present as the Autobots begin the chase after the muscle car anew. Ratchet finally recognizes the muscle car as an old nemesis, [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]. The past haunts him again….

''Ratchet and Arcee are now prisoners of Lockdown, who explains his work as a bounty hunter and his lack of allegiance to either side in the war. He also says he has a fondness for taking weapons and parts from his quarry as trophies and upgrades. This time, he's taken Ratchet's EMP generator.''

Flash-forward to the present, where Prime finally forces Lockdown to stop. The bounty hunter incapacitates Prime with the EMP weapon, and they both disappear. In his hideout, Lockdown explains to a tied-up Optimus Prime about the bounty on his head for killing [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. Optimus explains that he didn't kill the [[Decepticon]], but Lockdown insists doesn't care as long as he gets his bounty. Then he gets to work on removing Prime’s grapplers and installing them in his own body.

The Autobots scan the city for Prime, but don't have much luck until [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] finds that Lockdown's [[Death's Head (Animated)|ship]] is sitting in the middle of the old downtown area, cloaked as an ordinary warehouse. Before they roll out, Ratchet refuses to join the rescue mission, though without explanation.

[[Image:TFA Thrill Hunt Prowl Lockdown.JPG|left|170px|thumb|Everybody was kung-fu fighting! Those cats were fast as lightning.]]

Finished with his chop job on Optimus, Lockdown converses with [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], who is evidently the one who put the price on Prime's head. Lockdown requests payment, but Blitzwing wants results first. If those satisfy him, then the upgrade reward will satisfy Lockdown. The Autobots arrive at Lockdown's ship and attack. Lockdown dispatches [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and Bumblebee without much trouble. Prowl is a bit harder for Lockdown to handle until the bounty hunter drops him with an EMP blast. Before he can take any more trophies, Ratchet arrives and confronts Lockdown. The bounty hunter recognizes the old bot as the source of his EMP generator, and Ratchet vows that he'll never take another another trophy again, but the medic too falls to the EMP. However, when Lockdown thinks he's beaten the doc-bot, Ratchet reveals he was playing dead, being immune to the effects of his own weapon, and throws Lockdown around with his magnetic powers, knocking him unconscious. Inside Lockdown’s ship, Ratchet finds Prime and frees him, but Lockdown—himself "playing possum" after Ratchet's attack—stops them from leaving. Ratchet takes him out again, and once the bounty hunter’s pinned down, Ratchet forcibly removes the parts Lockdown stole from Prime. He remarks that he would have used his EMP generator to remove them painlessly, but he no longer has it. Lockdown offers to return the generator if Ratchet will use it. The act brings on another flashback.

''In order to avoid interrogation from Megatron, Arcee asks Ratchet to use his EMP generator on her to wipe her memory core, which contains critical access codes for the Autobots. When Ratchet and Lockdown struggle for the device, it overloads and goes off. Ratchet and Arcee leave Lockdown's ship just before some part of it detonates, but when Ratchet inquires of her condition, Arcee doesn't know who she is or where they are, a result of the EMP blast.''

[[Image:TFA Thrill Hunt Ratchet EMP Generator ship.JPG|right|170px|thumb|She cannae take the pressure!]]

In the present, Ratchet mockingly asks Lockdown if he wants the generator to ease his pain, while Lockdown tightens his grip on a rod. As Ratchet moves to take the EMP generator back, Lockdown prepares to strike, but Ratchet hits Lockdown with a magnetic blast before he can do so. Ratchet denounces Lockdown for turning a medical tool into a weapon and zaps Lockdown's ship. He then escapes with Optimus as the ship crashes into a river.

Back at headquarters, Ratchet repairs Prime’s grapplers and then finally opens up to Optimus about his war experiences.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (6)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (8)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (9)

|c2=
*[[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] (4)
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (11)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (12)

|c3=
*[[Adrias]] (5)
*[[Lester Black]] (10)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Ratchet''': Augh, it's primitive. It's barbaric. There ought to be a law against it! 
'''Optimus Prime''': It's just an auto supply store, Ratchet. 
'''Ratchet''': You mean they actually sell spare parts on the open market? What kind of malfunction would be crass enough to buy this stuff? 
'''Bumblebee''': Hey, guys, check out my new horn!
:—Evidently, Bumblebee is crass enough.

'''Hothead Blitzwing''': You have Optimus Prime? Hand him over at once! That Autobot will pay for what he did to our leader! 
'''Lockdown''': Yeah, speaking of payment, I'm gonna need mine first. 
'''Icy Blitzwing''': Patience, my bounty-hunting friend. You will not be disappointed with your upgrades, provided I am not disappointed with your results. 
'''Random Blitzwing''': Ooooh! I wanna see him turn into a fire truck! Can I? Can I, ha-ha, can I? Ahahahahahahahaha!
:—Blitzwing, Blitzwing and Blitzwing negotiate with Lockdown.

"I'm impressed. It's been eons since the last time anyone got the drop on me." 
"The next time will be much sooner!"
:—'''Lockdown''' and '''Prowl''' engage in some [[A Fistful of Energon|foreshadowing]].

"I'm not good with names and faces, but I never forget a trophy."
:—'''Lockdown''', best buddy of Kraven and the Predator.

"Time was I'd use my EMP generator to do this painlessly. Too bad I don't have it anymore."
:—'''Ratchet''', right before ripping Prime's grapplers out of Lockdown's arm, forgetting children are watching.

"How're you healing?" 
"Arm's as good as new, thanks to you." 
"That wasn't what I meant." 
"Let's just say I have a much better appreciation for what you went through back in the day and why you don't wanna remember it." 
"It's not that I don't want to remember. I have to remember… for those who can't." 
"Still, I don't suppose it hurts to talk about it sometimes… with a trusted friend." 
"So, what do you wanna know?"
:—'''Ratchet''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity errors===
* During the news broadcast sequence, if the EMP is enough to shut off the lights in Lockdown's wake, how are the pursuing police vehicles not affected? Is he just projecting the EMP out to both sides?

===Animation errors===
* After Bulkhead says "Hey no fair!" Ratchet transforms into robot mode and skids on the ground. At that point, Ratchet's pupils are black, but when he stops skidding, they turn white.
* Blitzwing changes from Hothead to Icy personality abruptly and without either a transition animation or a sound effect.

===Transformers references===
* Bumblebee's new horn plays the traditional melody of the phrase "Ro-bots in Dis-guise"!

===Foreign dubbing===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Le fantôme du passé'''" ("The Ghost of the Past")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Der Kopfgeldjäger'''" ("The Bounty Hunter")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 14|14 June]] [[2008]]

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La emoción de la cacería'''" ("The Thrill of the Hunt")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Nuguenai Kioku'''" (ぬぐえない記憶, "Unwipeable Memories")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 1|1 May]] [[2010]]
::* The [[Otoboto family]] segment has [[Hiroyuki Otoboto|Hiroyuki]] holding a "Trans-quiz" with [[Tatsuya Otoboto|Tatsuya]] and [[Yūka Otoboto|Yūka]] (Yūka rather reluctant at the silliness of it). Questions include: what was Optimus' other name when G1 aired in Japan in [[1985]] (A: [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]); and what was the name of the game that was released on the [[Famicom]] in [[1986]] (A: ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Convoy no Nazo]]'', answered by [[Megumi Otoboto|Megumi]]). Megumi tells Hiroyuki that he has a phone call and Hiroyuki promptly asks "Are you Bill Gates?", along with several questions in near-perfect English, before leaving the living room and his family mystified.

'''Polish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gorączka polowania'''" ("The Thrill of the Hunt")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

===Real-world References===
* The TV anchorman seen in this episode appears to be an ''Animated'' version of [[wikipedia:Ron_Burgundy|Ron Burgundy]]. Stay classy, Cybertron.
* Ratchet's line, "Don't call me sir. I work for a living," is a common sentiment of sergeants and other non-commissioned officers in the armed forces.
* Ratchet's other line, "I'm a medi-bot, not a field commander!" is based on Dr. McCoy's oft-repeated line from [[wikipedia:Star_Trek|''Star Trek'']], "I'm a doctor not a…".

===Trivia===
*This episode reveals how the right half of Ratchet's chevron got broken and why his left arm has a missing piece. Both were caused by Lockdown. However, it would seem that it [[The Arrival issue 3#"'Bots of Science"|wasn't the first time his chevron snapped off]].
*[[Susan Blu]] reprises her role of Arcee from the Generation 1 cartoon series.
*This is the first episode in which we see ''Animated'' Cybertron, albeit in a flashback.
*This is also the first episode to not feature any of the main [[human]] cast.
*This episode seems to refute [[Fandom|fans]] who had worried the series would be too kid-oriented, as it features a heavy atmosphere, post-traumatic shock, guilt, suggested torture, and quite obvious pain being inflicted by a good guy on a villain, pretty much for no other reason but revenge.
*As Prime and Ratchet talk at the end, you hear the saddest rendition of "More than Meets The Eye" ever.
*Prowl's wheels make the same noise as Lockdown's chainsaw.
*Blitzwing's face-swapping feature makes a different noise in this episode than in other episodes.

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Season One ([[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video|Paramount]]) — English and Spanish audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume One: Blast from the Past (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume One: Blast from the Past (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Eins: Drachenkämpfer (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2010 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 2 (Paramount) — Japanese audio only.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thrill of the Hunt}}
[[Category:Animated episodes]]
[[Category:MSTF]]

Nanosec (episode)

2012-03-29T07:42:20Z

189.200.89.83: /* Foreign dubbing */

{{disambig2|an episode of Transformers Animated|the supervillain the episode is named for|Nanosec}}
{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA Nanosec flee.JPG
|caption=Sure was nice of Sumdac to make a prototype suit that already had a supervillain look to it.
|ep=8
|ep2=9
|prev2=Blast from the Past
|next2=Along Came a Spider
|title="Nanosec"
|airdate=[[January 26]], [[2008]]
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|directed by=[[Matt Youngberg]] [[Shunji Ōga|Shunji Oga]]
|animation studio=[[The Answer Studio]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Bumblebee's self-proclaimed title as "fastest thing on wheels" is threatened by Nanosec, a super-speedster crook on a deadly mission that could destroy all of Detroit.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:TFA Nanosec Bumblebee Nino Sexton.JPG|left|200px|thumb|"Bumblebee, put your doll down." "It is an ACTION FIGURE, Prime!"]]
During a nighttime fireworks display, a small-time thief named Nino Sexton takes advantage of the distraction to pull a heist not far from [[Detroit|Detroit's]] boardwalks. He eludes the easily bamboozled [[police drone]]s, but makes the mistake of trying to steal the not-so-easily-bamboozled [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] for a getaway car. Bumblebee toys with the crook for a bit, showing off his speed, but [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] arrives and tells him to knock it off. As they argue, Sexton tries to leave, but Bulkhead stops him with his wrecking ball—which cracks apart the boardwalk, sending all three plunging down. The two 'bots hit the water while Sexton hangs on desperately to a shattered board. He is saved in the nick of time by [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], who turns him in to the police.

Meanwhile, in [[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]]'s private lab, his attempt to construct a servo for [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] fails, as Megatron knew it would. The [[Decepticon]] says that [[Destronium]] is necessary to build parts of sufficient quality, but Sumdac responds that the only available Destronium is a small amount synthesized on Earth.

[[Image:TFA Nanosec Bumblebee turbo boosters.JPG|right|200px|thumb|"Bumblebee, give me my jetpack back right now!"]]

The next day, Prime reprimands Bulkhead and Bumblebee, then says that Bumblebee will spend the day working with [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and Bulkhead on using his head instead of his thrusters. This upsets [[Sari Sumdac|Sari]], who has been looking forward to sharing with 'Bee one of her dad's latest prototypes: a set of [[turbo booster]]s. Bumblebee's all too eager to get them attached, but [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] absolutely nixes the idea. Sari protests that her dad's equipment is perfectly safe.

Across town, a technician reports to Professor Sumdac that there are problems with the new turbo-blade cyber suit as the test subject hurtles helplessly around the test track. Sumdac resignedly asks for the design specs so he can work out the bugs. Once the suit is perfected, it will increase human speed and reaction time a thousandfold. Megatron insists that the Destronium take priority, but Sumdac notes that the available sample is too unstable; transporting it from across town would leave it useless—or worse, highly explosive—unless it could be delivered in under ten minutes. He notes that nothing is that fast, but Megatron eyes the display of the plans for the cyber suit.

Shortly, Nino Sexton is informed that someone has posted his bail, though the police drone has no info on who it was. Bemused, he walks outside, where a delivery drone hands him a package "from a friend." Nino opens it to find the cyber suit.

In traffic, Bumblebee refuses to slow down and blend in. He points out that a riderless motorcycle hardly blends in either, so Prowl generates a holographic driver, but Bumblebee still refuses to cooperate—until a traffic jam forces him to do so. When a group of police vehicles speed by, Bumblebee takes the excuse to put on his own police roof light and do some "blending".

[[Image:TFA Nanosec Prowl awesome.JPG|left|200px|thumb|Ninjas are AWESOME!]]

The police turn out to be responding to a sudden rash of thefts by a hyper-fast Nino Sexton. Just after one theft, a teller comments in shock that the money vanished in a nanosec. Nino overhears and decides he likes the name. He then proceeds to elude the police easily, then encounters Bumblebee. This time, [[Nanosec]] gets away, and Bumblebee can only marvel at his speed. However, for all his velocity, Nanosec finds his big bags of loot rather heavy, and he pauses to catch his breath—only to be confronted by Prowl. The crook soon escapes, but Bumblebee's had time to catch up. He's still not fast enough to overtake Nanosec before the speedster zooms through a railroad crossing with a train closing in fast. Losing his nerve at the last second, Bumblebee slams on the brakes but gets stuck on the tracks. Bulkhead manages to grab the train in time to save 'Bee from getting crushed and holds it long enough that his buddy can get out of the way.

As Nanosec rejoices in his escape, he is contacted by Megatron, who is using a strobing signal that can only be detected at ultra-high speeds. Megatron offers Nanosec a substantial reward—$50 million—for delivering the Destronium. As a downpayment, he provides an ATM code that delivers a large amount of cash out of Isaac Sumdac's private bank account. All he has to do is get the Destronium from the lab to [[Sumdac Tower]] within ten minutes.

At the [[Autobot Earth Base|Autobots' base]], Bumblebee continues to try to beat his speed record, but to no avail. As he begs Ratchet to give him the turbo booster upgrade, Nanosec heists the Destronium from Sumdac Labs. Prime arrives to announce Nanosec's latest activity and location, and commands everyone to roll out to capture the villain. A dejected Bumblebee thinks it's impossible, but Sari holds up the [[AllSpark Key]] and says there might be a way.

[[Image:TFA Nanosec Bumblebee no control.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Don't drink and drive, kids!]]

As Nanosec races into town, Prime stops him with a spread of negative-friction lubricant, but once he lassos the criminal out of the puddle, Nanosec's speed allows him to turn Prime's grappling lines against him. Prime calls for back-up, so Sari activates Bumblebee's newly installed boosters with the AllSpark Key. Prime finally manages to catch Nanosec by his legs, but Bumblebee rockets into him, out of control, allowing the villain to escape. 'Bee and Sari nearly zoom off the edge of a half-built bridge, but Prime's line catches them. Even so, it's a struggle for the Autobot leader to hold them, so 'Bee throws it in reverse. This gets him away from the drop, but otherwise doesn't help much.

[[Image:Destronium.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Better hope [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] doesn't find this.]]

Down the road, Ratchet uses his magnets to catch Nanosec, then checks the container he was carrying. He quickly realizes the danger involved—if the Destronium detonates in its current state, it could wipe out half of Detroit. Then Bulkhead notices Nanosec, whose hood has come off, now has grey hair when he used to be a redhead. Just then, Bumblebee rockets by, still out of control and now in reverse, again knocking Nanosec free to resume his delivery. Ratchet suggests Bee switch to robot mode, which is a MUCH bigger help. Prime catches up and orders Ratchet to disable the boosters, but there's no time; Nanosec has to be caught and stopped NOW. Prime tells everyone to roll out—without any vehicle mode modifications, thank you. As they proceed, Bulkhead wonders if the Destronium turned Nanosec's hair white, but Prowl responds that loss of hair color in organics is a sign of aging. Realizing what's going on, Bumblebee activates his boosters (which are apparently under control now) and races after Nanosec, using his head AND his thrusters. Once he catches up to the slowing speedster, 'Bee easily zaps the Destronium out of his grasp and rolls off with it. He then taunts the criminal into pursuing him at top speed until Nanosec becomes literally too old for this stuff and collapses.

[[Image:TFA Nanosec Bumblebee flight.JPG|right|200px|thumb|And they say bees can't fly.]]

By this time, the Destronium is very near its flash point, and according to Ratchet, the only safe place to take it is the upper atmosphere. With a two-stage boost assist from Bulkhead and Prowl, Bumblebee manages to use his thrusters to take the Destronium high enough and chuck it away before it explodes. Ratchet and Prime then slow him down and cool him off during his reentry. As the media cover Nanosec's arrest and the averted disaster, Prime congratulates everyone on a job well done, and Prowl even offers to race Bumblebee back to the plant, but 'Bee says he and Sari will walk.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
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*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (4)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (9)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (12)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (7)

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*[[Nanosec]] (1)
*[[Isaac Sumdac]] (6)
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (8)
*[[Sumdac technician]]s (10)
*[[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] (13)

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*[[Domestic Bot]] (11)
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==Quotes==
"I'm kinda new to this planet, but I believe you're supposed to pay for those things before you run off with them."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' holding Nanosec after he robs the warehouse

"Couldn't I just ask your Autobot friends to help?" 
"NO! I…do not wish them to see me in this weakened state."
:—'''Megatron''' tells '''Isaac Sumdac''' the absolute truth, for once. Sort of.

'''Bumblebee''': Turbo boosters! Suh-weet! 
'''Optimus Prime''': You're not actually thinking of hooking these things up to yourself, are you? 
'''Bumblebee''': Oh, of course not! I was gonna ask the doc-bot to do it for me. 
'''Ratchet''': Have you got your processor up your exhaust port? These things are untested, incompatible— 
'''Sari''': And totally wicked fast!
:—Bumblebee gets a few mixed signals.

'''Prowl''': The point of this exercise is to blend into your environment 
'''Bumblebee''': Oh, right! 'Cause nothing says 'blend' like a motorcycle driving itself." 
''[Prowl generates a hologram of a policeman driver for himself]'' 
'''Prowl''': Happy?
:—Houston, we have [[Moustache Man]] sighting.

"You know, there might be another way to get that turbo booster upgrade." 
"But, Prime's orders—" 
"Were to catch Nanosec. He didn't say HOW."
:—'''Sari''' plays the little devil on '''Bumblebee'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s shoulder.

"What is this stuff? Are you nuts?" 
"Negative friction lubricant. ''[transforms]'' And technically, I'm nuts, bolts, and armored plating."
:—'''Nanosec''' gets schooled by '''Optimus Prime'''

'''Bumblebee''': You ROCK! 
'''Sari''': No, YOU rock! 
'''Bumblebee''': No, YOU rock! 
'''Sari''': No, YOU rock! 
'''Bumblebee''': I said YOU rock! 
'''Sari''': I said YOU rock! 
'''Bumblebee''': YOU rock! 
'''Sari''': YOU rock!
:—Mercifully, the exchange ends here.

"How do you suppose this Nanosec fellow got hold of my experimental turbo suit?" 
"I suspect it was an inside job."
:—Delightfully layered-meaning dialog between '''Professor Sumdac''' and '''Megatron'''

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*As Bumblebee is about to go over the closed bridge, just before he goes into reverse, the AllSpark Key is stuck in his ignition—and also depicted hanging from its lanyard around Sari's neck.
*When the police drone tells Nanosec to freeze, its caterpillar treads are still moving.
*When the Autobots arrive on scene after Bumblebee makes Nanosec become older, Ratchet's hood is white instead of red.

===Continuity errors===
* Prof. Sumdac seems woefully dim about his own creation, stating that nothing could be fast enough to bring the Destronium across town in time, '''right after''' talking about the turbo suit. However, as the suit has just been shown to have problems, perhaps Sumdac is instead exercising some sensible caution by not even considering using it.
* Ironically, judging from the position of the train at the time Bumblebee stopped on the tracks, he ''would'' have made it if he'd kept going, or he could've just stepped off the tracks by transforming to robot mode.
* Comparing Megatron's directions to a map of the Detroit-Monroe area, he seems to recommend taking a primarily north-south route, which seems to be the shortest distance. However, Prime says Nanosec's taking I-94, the east-west highway, which would require a substantially longer route. Even given his super speed, why would Nanosec make it harder on himself to make the 10-minute deadline? (It's possible maps.megatron.com's route doesn't use highways, meaning more traffic lights, but the map's semi-fictionalized, so it's hard to tell. And why would Nanosec care about traffic lights anyway?)
* Apparently, news spreads as fast as Nanosec can run. No one seems to be around to hear him say he likes the name after he hears the teller use the word, yet within a few hours, Prime and Sari somehow know his name as well. Maybe he quickly put up some P.R.?
* Sumdac claims that the Destronium has to be delivered quickly, or it will become too unstable, yet Ratchet later claims that moving the substance at high speed is what makes it so volatile, so it was a lose-lose situation from the beginning. Perhaps Megatron needs to run a few more self-diagnostics before he starts his galactic conquest gig again.
* What would Megatron actually ''do'' with the destronium, even if he got it, without letting Sumdac know about it? He needs ''help'' to get his body back.

===Transformers references===
* Bumblebee uses the term "Big Bot", which was also [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor's]] affectionate name for [[Optimus Primal]] in ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.
* Megatron is made up of [[Destronium]] circuits. The Decepticons are called [[Destron]]s in Japan. Or maybe they got it from [[Destro|a certain Scottish arms dealer]].
* Bumblebee's battle mask bears a striking similarity to the toy-face of the original [[Generation 1]] [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] toy.
* Sumdac's new police drones, first seen (sort of) in "[[Total Meltdown]]", have been adopted by the Detroit police department. They still need to work out some bugs.

===Foreign dubbing===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Nanoseconde'''" ("Nanosecond")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Nanosegundo'''" ("Nanosecond")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die Turbodüsen'''" ("The Turbojets")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[July 2|2 July]] [[2008]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Wana no Jikan'''" (罠の時間, "Trap Time")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 29|29 May]] [[2010]]
::* Bumblebee actually sings along with the first few lines to the opening song "[[Transformers Evo.|TRANSFORMERS EVO.]]" after doing the introduction.
::* A reference to the ''[[wikipedia:Lupin III|Lupin III]]'' series, notably Nanosec's "Later, pops!" (''Abayo, tott-san''!), which the titular Lupin would say to Inspector Zenigata whenever the thief makes his escape.

===Real-world references===
* Going by the semi-fictional map Megatron provides, Sumdac Tower appears to be near the interchange of I-96 and State Highway 39, while the lab with the Destronium is somewhere near the suburb of Berlin, just east of I-75. For comparison, the robot plant shown in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]" is on the lakeshore in Monroe, about six miles further southwest.

===Trivia===
[[Image:TFA Nanosec Sumdac Megatron chill.JPG|right|200px|thumb|"You know, this really hugs the buttocks." "I hate you. I really, really do."]]
* The script for this episode was the first ''Transformers Animated'' script to be written, and was used by series scribe [[Marty Isenberg]] both as a showcase and as a testing ground for the new show's Detroit setting and character dynamics, particularly in terms of its focus on a human rather than a Decepticon villain. Indeed, this episode was originally conceived as the show's pilot, until the decision was later made to open instead with a larger-scale "event" TV movie, leading to the development of "[[Transform and Roll Out]]".<ref>[http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=242 Art & Story interview with Marty Isenberg]</ref>
* This is the first time Bumblebee uses his battle mask.
* This is also the first time we see Bumblebee's rocket boosters. He loses them during atmospheric reentry, but he gets them back in the second season—just in time to have some [[Velocity|fun with race cars]].
* In the previous week's episode, "[[The Thrill of the Hunt]]", Ratchet repaired his war wound—the exposed circuitry on the dorsal side of his left forearm—when he installed his EMP generator, regained from the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]. Only a few shots in this episode provide a view of that part of his arm, and most of them show it as whole. However, the one good view available—after the Destronium theft, when Bumblebee is begging Ratchet to install the boosters—distinctly shows the war wound still present. It's possible he's left the generator unattached so he may continue to remember the circumstances of its loss [[Arcee (Animated)|"for those who can't,"]] as he puts it.
* In this episode, Bumblebee tries to be responsible, while Sari is the one who opts for breaking the rules. Wow. That's a role reversal from [[Unicron Trilogy|previous fictions]].
* Isaac Sumdac is still using Megatron's hand as a chair. For a fleshling, he's got brass.
* Bumblebee ran Nanosec, already slowed enough to make them equal, into old age on purpose for no apparent reason. That is '''COLD'''.

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Season One ([[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video|Paramount]]) — English and Spanish audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Two: Lost and Found (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Two: Lost and Found (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Zwei: Die Alten Waffen (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2010 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 3 (Paramount) — Japanese audio only.

==Footnotes==
<references />

[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Along Came a Spider

2012-03-29T07:38:18Z

189.200.89.83: /* Foreign dubbing */

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA Along Spider Blackarachnia introduction.JPG
|caption=[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee, you seem to have lubricated yourself]].
|ep=9
|ep2=10
|prev2=Nanosec (episode)
|next2=Lost and Found (episode)
|title="Along Came a Spider"
|airdate=[[February 16]], [[2008]]
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|directed by=[[Matt Youngberg]] [[Irineo Maramba]] [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]}}

'''Bumblebee and Bulkhead's first Halloween turns even spookier when they encounter a giant spider that turns out to be the deadly Decepticon Blackarachnia.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Sari Sumdac|Sari]] introduces [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] to the concept of [[Halloween]], starting with selecting pumpkins. As she explains the idea of choosing just the right costume, Optimus's attention is distracted by a large black widow spider decoration. He remembers back to his academy days….

[[Image:Alongcameaspiderthreefriends.jpg|left|210px|thumb|"So once again, we find that evil of the past seeps into the present like salad dressing through cheap wax paper, mixing memory and desire."]]

''On [[Archa Seven]], Optimus and his friend Elita-1 admire the strange webbing stretching across the high rocks, not knowing what it is, until [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel]] calls to them to hurry up. Optimus cautions that such worlds are normally considered off-limits to Autobots, but there's supposedly a real Decepticon [[Twilight (Animated)|ship]] somewhere in the area. Elita's there for the historical value, but Sentinel just wants to get his hands on the [[energon]] cache that must be in it. Optimus is still wary of potential punishment should they get caught, but figures he has to keep the other two from getting in over their heads. Sentinel insists that never happens—right before the ground crumbles under their feet, sending all three plunging into a deep cavern. Strange, skittering noises echo from its dark reaches. Optimus activates his shoulder-light to see….''

Bulkhead snaps Optimus's attention back to the present by donning a bedsheet (which just covers his head) and going "Boo," startling his leader. Optimus claims a ghost from his past just has him jumpy, then stalks off.

[[Image:TFA Along Spider Costume bots.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Bumblebee's decision to dress up as Count Blackula didn't go down well.]]

Back at the [[Autobot Earth Base|Autobot base]], Sari critiques Bumblebee and Bulkhead's costumes, but says her own costume is only one surprise planned for the night. Noticing Optimus lost in thought, she uses the [[AllSpark Key]] to activate one of the car plant's cranes, swinging another spider decoration in his face. The unexpected sight of it gives Optimus a bad flashback, and he quickly hacks the fake spider to bits. He admonishes Sari for making frivolous use of the Key, and she counters about him needlessly using his axe. Optimus stares down at the remains of the decoration, and his thoughts travel back again….

''As Optimus, Elita, and Sentinel walk through the cavern, Sentinel enthuses about the rich hoard of energon he's sure they'll find soon. Optimus shushes him as he hears something, and soon all three are casting their lights about, trying to pinpoint the skittering. The source reveals itself as an enormous, alien spider, which quickly traps Elita with some webbing. As Optimus fights it off, Sentinel frees her with his charged shield, but the spider abruptly takes him down. Elita starts using her special power-download ability, but Optimus, holding back the spider, tells her it won't work on organics. She instead borrows the unconscious Sentinel's shield power and shield itself, using them to defend herself, then to bring down a huge stalactite to impale the spider. As Sentinel wakes up and Elita returns his shield, Optimus says that it's not worth staying around, be it for history or energon. Sentinel still insists on one good reason to leave, and he gets three when another trio of giant spiders drop down to confront them. Sentinel quickly puts up his shield's energy barrier, covering Optimus and Elita's retreat. Optimus rolls out, and Elita follows, calling his name….''

[[Image:Saricostume.jpg|left|130px|thumb|Arise, Sarimus Prime.]]

Optimus suddenly becomes aware of Sari calling his name to show off her costume—a costume of him. He doesn't appreciate her vocal impersonation of him, and declines to join the trio on their trick-or-treat outing.

As Sari and the two Autobots progress though a local neighborhood, Bumblebee is a bit spooked by the atmosphere. Sari reminds him it's all pretend—unaware they're being tracked by an enormous spider traveling over the rooftops. As she coaches them through their first actual "trick or treat," Bumblebee spots the spider watching them and freaks out, but it's gone before anyone else sees it. Sari teases him for being more timid than Optimus, but 'Bee protests he knows the difference between a fake decoration and a real giant spider. Listening in from headquarters, Optimus has Bumblebee clarify what he saw, then heads out to meet them, advising them to stay put. As Optimus [[roll out|rolls out]], his thoughts roll back….

''Racing through the caverns, Optimus reaches the wreckage of a [[Decepticon]] warship. Separated from the other two, he heads inside, hoping to find them there. Instead, he finds an impressive stash of energon cubes, just as Sentinel predicted. He also finds an impressive stash of giant spider eggs. As the spiderlings hatch and start attacking, Optimus gets stuck on some webbing, but Elita shows up in time to help. As they fight to escape from more full-grown spiders, Optimus has Elita borrow his grappler ability. They bring down a huge stalactite through the ship's ruined overhead, grappling their way out as the energon detonates below them. However, Elita's download ability times out just then, and she goes plunging back too fast for Optimus to catch her. Sentinel arrives on top of the ship as she plummets into the hold, but knowing the energon is going to blow any second, Optimus grapples himself and Sentinel to safety rather than risk going after Elita just then. Once they break the surface, Optimus scans for Elita's energy signature, but doesn't find it. A furious Sentinel blames everything on Optimus.''

[[Image:Blackarach anim beast.jpg|right|200px|thumb|All those eyes, and she still can't see why those kids like Cinnamon Toast Crunch.]]

In the present, still en route to Sari and company's location, Optimus swears he won't let it happen again. Meanwhile, Bumblebee stresses that they have to stay vigilant until Optimus arrives—even as Sari is yanked out from under them by the giant spider. Bumblebee quickly cuts Sari free, but as he and Bulkhead surround the spider, it transforms into a female robot who calls herself [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]. Sari's not too surprised or impressed by her femininity, but it makes a much bigger impression on Bulkhead—right up to the point Blackarachnia stabs him with two of her spider legs, knocking him out. She quickly gives Bumblebee the same treatment, then tells Sari they should go, now that Sari's safe. Sari protests the two Autobots are her friends, and Blackarachnia apologizes, pretending she can't tell which robots are good or bad on Earth. As Sari futilely tries to revive Bulkhead with her AllSpark Key, Blackarachnia notes that the organic nature of her venom precludes that solution, since the All Spark doesn't affect organics. She offers to try helping the Autobots if Sari will just hand her the Key, but her ruse is interrupted when Optimus lassos her legs out from under her. Blackarachnia appears shocked to see him, but quickly frees herself and starts fighting back—using Bumblebee's stingers and Bulkhead's strength. Instead of borrowing any of Optimus's powers, though, she judo-throws him across the street, then kidnaps Sari.

Optimus desperately pursues the pair across the rooftops. He catches up, stuns Blackarachnia with a faceful of foam, then grapples Sari free. Despite this respite and Sari's warning, Blackarachnia still catches Optimus half-unaware. He fights back, but she dodges him constantly, claiming to know all his textbook Autobot Academy moves. Optimus wonders if he knows her, and she berates him for forgetting his friends—even if he remembered Sentinel. Optimus is horrified to realize he's facing Elita-1. She finally relates what really happened that day:

[[Image:TFA Elita-1 mutation.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Even Female Transformers have to worry about bloating.]]

''Trapped in the ship and surrounded by the spiders, Elita tries desperately to download their abilities. Instead, she is infected with their venom, and it mutates her into a freak, a half-organic, half-robotic being.''

Optimus realizes that her half-organic nature is what masked her energy signature from his scans. Blackarachnia sneers that if he'd known and saved her, she'd just have been dismantled and examined on some lab table on Cybertron. Optimus reproves her for joining the Decepticons, but she counters that at least she knows where she stands with them. She webs up Optimus and snatches the AllSpark Key, certain that if anything can purge her organic half, it can. She plugs it into herself, but the unleashed energies begin causing all organic life in range, including Sari, to wither and sicken. Optimus breaks free, but before he can stop Blackarachnia, she grabs up Sari and throws her off the roof. Sari snags a flagpole long enough for Bumblebee and Bulkhead to save her, leaving Optimus free to deal with Blackarachnia.

[[Image:TFA ep9 Optimus and Blackarachnia rooftop.jpg|right|205px|thumb|Never liked the [[Silverbolt (BW)|Bird-dog]] anyway.]]

However, Blackarachnia collapses on her own, though. Optimus surmises her spark can't survive without her organic half, but she's too weak to pull out the AllSpark Key and stop the reaction. Optimus forces through the energy barrier around her and removes it for her, restoring the organic life in the area to normal. As he helps her up, Blackarachnia asks him to go, not wanting to be seen like that. Still calling her Elita, Optimus asks her to come with them, promising his group will find a cure, and allow him to earn back her trust. She seems to respond positively, but it's another sham. Blackarachnia stabs him unconscious and leaves, vowing it will be a long time before she trusts another Autobot, especially him.

Later, Optimus returns Sari the AllSpark Key. She thanks him and admits he was right—maybe it's time she gave the Key a rest. Bumblebee trundles in painfully, still damaged from his fall after catching Sari, and asks if she could use it once more. Bulkhead asks who the bug-bot lady was, and Optimus responds it was someone he should never have left behind. Elsewhere, Blackarachnia stands on a rooftop, gazing at the moon and sobbing over her fate.
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==Featured characters==
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*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead ]] (2)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (4)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel]] (6) (Flashback)

|c2=
*[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1/Blackarachnia]] (5)

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*[[Sari Sumdac]] (1)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Bumblebee''': ''[Bad Slavic accent]'' Velcome. I am Count Dracubot. I vant to drink your motor oil. 
'''Bulkhead''': Hey, guys! I finally found something big enough for my ghost costume. 
''[Fumes surround his feet, causing Sari to cough]'' 
'''Sari''': Bulkhead, where did you get that sheet? 
'''Bulkhead''': It was just draped over some house. Weird place for a bed sheet, huh? 
'''Sari''': Oh, that's not a bedsheet. That's a fumigation tent. 
'''Bulkhead''': Really…? What's a fumigation tent? 
''[As well as the fumes, Bulkhead's feet are now covered in dead cockroaches.]''
:—Sari sees the Autobots' costumes.

"I've got a good feeling about this. Any cycle now, we're gonna be overflowing with rich, All Spark-infused, energon-y goodness!" 
"Did you really just say 'energon-y goodness'?"
:—'''Sentinel''''s speech <strike>tick</strike>—er, tic bemuses '''Elita-1'''.

'''Sari''': Optimus! Check out my costume! 
''[Camera reveals that Sari is Optimus Prime]'' 
'''Sari''': ''[Imitating Optimus]'' Oh, look at me. I'm Optimus Prime. I'm scared of spiders. 
''[Bumblebee and Bulkhead chuckle]'' 
'''Optimus''': That's ''not'' what I sound like—is it? 
'''Bumblebee''': Last chance to join us, Boss Bot. 
'''Optimus''': Thanks, but I'll pass. Just be careful out there, all right? 
'''Sari''': Don't worry. I'll keep these two out of trouble. ''[Imitating Optimus]'' Transform and roll out! 
''[Optimus gives Sari a look]'' 
'''Sari''': Couldn't resist.
:—Sari and the Autobots roast Optimus Prime.

[[Image:Bee-AlongCameASpider.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A swarm of Bumblebees... And we're worried about a spider?!]]
'''Bumblebee''': Ahhh! Bulkhead! B-Bulkhead... BULKHEAD! 
'''Bulkhead''': ''[Costume falls over optics]'' What? 
'''Bumblebee''': ''[Climbing all over Bulkhead in a panic]'' Big, black, fangs! LEGS! Lots and lots of legs! 
'''Bulkhead''': I don't see anything... 
:— '''Bumblebee''' freaks out upon seeing a [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|giant black spider]].

'''Bumblebee''': Who are you? 
'''Bulkhead''': What are you? 
'''Sari''': Duh. She's a girl.
:—The gang meets Blackarachnia.

"So, who ''was'' that bug-bot lady?" 
"Someone I never should have left behind."
:—'''Bulkhead''' and '''Optimus Prime''' talk some heavy stuff.

==Notes==
===Animation or technical glitches===
* In the first flashback of Optimus' memories, Elita's skin color is teal, until to the moment when she falls into the underground caverns along with her teammates, being replaced by the same purple that she would later retain as Blackarachnia. It turns back to teal briefly, when Sentinel uses his shield to cut off the web binding her arms.
* Shortly after Sentinel says that he and Optimus should go back for Elita when the Decepticon ship explodes, his nose and forehead are painted silver, like Optimus.
* Sentinel's light blue markings can be seen several times during flashbacks.

===Continuity===
* Glitches

===Transformers references===
* In the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 animated series]], [[Elita One]] was [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s paramour. The ''Animated'' incarnation of the character refrains from attempting to visually homage the original pink-and-white Elita, instead creating a blue-and-yellow pony-tailed character who bears a resemblance to Elita's earlier (pony-tailed) form, Ariel. Similarly, her relationship with Optimus is less distinct. As confirmed [[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|later]], she used to be Sentinel's girlfriend, but present-day scenes do suggest ''some'' kind of personal tension (though that could be guilt on Optimus's part and anger on Elita's).
* Sentinel is depicted here as Optimus's friend and peer, whereas in all other series he's either been Optimus's mentor, a superior officer, or a predecessor. In this way, it seems the roles of Sentinel and [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] have been reversed from past continuities.
* With this episode, [[energon cube]]s make their first appearance in Transformers cartoons since ''Beast Wars''. They look ''exactly'' like they did in the Generation 1 cartoon, which even ''Beast Wars'' didn't pull off.
* Bulkhead's jaw-drop is certain to remind some of when [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]]'s jaw did practically the same thing in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' episode "[[Showdown]]."

===Foreign dubbing===
'''Brazil'''
:*''Title:'' "'''E lá vem uma Aranha'''" ("And Here Come a Spider")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Comme une araignée dans sa toile'''" ("Like a Spider in Her Web")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Im Netz der Spinne'''" ("In the Spider's Web")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 21|21 June]] [[2008]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Kumo-onna no Kage'''" (クモ女の影, "Shadow of the Spider Woman")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 5|5 June]] [[2010]]

'''Polish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''W Sieci Pająka'''" ("In the Spider's Web")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Y llego la araña'''" ("And I get the spider")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

===Real-world references===
[[Image:TFA Along Spider Bulkhead jaw drop.JPG|right|200px|thumb|We've heard of jaw-droppers before, but this is ridiculous.]]
* Bulkhead's "ghost" costume, with its constant cloud of pesticides at the bottom, coincidentally resembles "Pig-Pen's" costume from ''[[wikipedia:It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown|It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.
* Judging how Blackarachnia [[Spider-Man|can swing from a thread]], the Autobots had best take a look overhead.
* As Blackarachnia is stroking Bulkhead, his jaw falls off, then is seen re-attached to him the next cut—an obviously intentional, throw-away [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JawDrop animation joke.]
* "Little help for the vertically challenged?" Bulkhead throwing Bumblebee is better known to ''X-Men'' fans as the Fastball Special, usually performed by [[wikipedia:Colossus (comics)|Colossus]] and [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]].
* This episode's title is a reference to the James Patterson novel ''Along Came A Spider''...or possibly some nursery rhyme, but for coolness, we'll go with the novel.

===Trivia===
* In a flashback, prior to Blackarachnia's transformation, a helmet can be seen sitting in a corner of the Decepticon ship. In the season 3 episode "[[Predacons Rising]]", it is confirmed that she starts wearing the helmet to conceal the extent of her transformation.
* This episode makes a point of how Sari has been overusing the AllSpark Key previously, and that it can't be used to cure every Transformer injury. The writers evidently anticipated that reaction from the audience.
* Referring to himself as "vertically challenged", Bumblebee seems to be over his height complex, which was such a major point in "[[Total Meltdown]]".
* This is the first time Sentinel has been fully on screen. When he appeared in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", all that was seen of him was his big jerk head.
* In the flashbacks, neither Sentinel nor Optimus is addressed as "[[Prime (rank)|Prime]]". [[Endgame, Part I|Later events]] seem to confirm they hadn't attained that rank yet. (Sentinel is actually credited as just "Sentinel", not Sentinel Prime or Sentinel Minor, like he is in "[[Autoboot Camp]]", corroborating even at the time that the non-mention of their ranks was intentional.)
* On a related note, in the flashbacks, Sentinel's Autobot insignia (unsurprisingly) does not have the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] "[[:Image:Cyb Elite Guard Badge.png|wings]]" we see when he's introduced [[The Elite Guard|in the present]].
[[Image:TFA Along Spider Costume Bumblebee.jpeg|thumb|200px|right|Bumblebee attempts to get into character and fails.]]
* Blackarachnia claims that she's been waiting to be cured for "a thousand [[Units of time|stellar cycles]]", which gives us a rough time frame for when the flashbacks in this episode took place. Whether they occur before or after "[[Autoboot Camp]]" is unclear, but it's probably before if we assume that our favorite jerk was only going by "Sentinel", and not "Sentinel Minor" at that point.
* This episode gives us at least one reason why Sentinel hates Optimus. The incident is also later established as the cause of Optimus's expulsion from the Autobot Academy in "[[Endgame, Part I]]".
* The hand motions Bulkhead makes at the end of the episode when he says "So who was that Bug-Bot-Lady?" are...interesting, to say the least.
* While dressed up as Count Dracubot, Bumblebee states that he "wants to drink your motor oil." As we learn [[Rise of the Constructicons|later]], this is roughly the equivalent of a vampire saying he wants to bum a few beers off you. Bumblebee ''really'' needs to work on this whole Halloween thing.
* When we see Sari, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee together in the city, one of the kids in the bottom left of the screen is wearing a Bumblebee costume. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Season One ([[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video|Paramount]]) — English and Spanish audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Two: Lost and Found (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Two: Lost and Found (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Zwei: Die Alten Waffen (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2010 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 3 (Paramount) — Japanese audio only.

[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Along Came a Spider

2012-03-29T07:37:58Z

189.200.89.83: /* Foreign dubbing */

Vince

2012-01-17T03:46:12Z

189.200.89.83: /* Prime cartoon */

{{disambig3|Vince}}

:''Vince is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:Vince.jpg|thumb|300px|Guy Gardner: The High School Years.]]
'''Vince''' is a teenage boy who attends the school in [[Jasper]], [[Nevada]]. He's a jerk and a bully, and also takes part in street racing.

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Brad Raider]] (English), [[Moisés Ivan Mora]] (Latin America Spanish)
Vince was leaning on his car outside the school when [[Jack Darby]] started to head off, and he disparaged Jack's [[Arcee (Prime)|motorcycle]] as a moped. He caught up with Jack at a traffic light and challenged the boy to a race. Jack was reluctant to accept until Vince dissed his motorcycle again. They drove to a road outside Jasper, where they held a race. Vince took off first, but found that Jack was a much better motorcycle rider than Vince had expected. News of the race's result spread around school, and the next day, Vince challenged Jack to participate in a street race. Later that night, Jack turned up at the race in a [[Bumblebee (Prime)|yellow sports car]], claiming his motorcycle was in the shop. Jack and Vince jockeyed for lead position after the race started, but then Jack and a [[Knock Out (Prime)|red car]] started doing bizarre stunts. Vince followed them to a bridge, where he furiously challenged Jack to finish the race. While he was shouting, he was suddenly grabbed from behind and bundled into the red car, before being knocked out.

Vince had been taken prisoner by the [[Decepticon]] Knock Out, who'd mistaken him for one of the [[Autobot]]s' allies. The Decepticon attempted to use Vince as bait to draw in Bumblebee, but he and [[Breakdown (Prime)|Breakdown]] got more than they bargained for when [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] turned up as well. On the run, Knock Out was stopped by [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], who retrieved Vince. Jack and Bumblebee were returning Vince to his car when he came around, and Jack claimed that Vince had been grabbed by some guys in some sort of gang initiation. After Jack told Vince that maybe street racing wasn't such a good idea, Vince insulted Bumblebee's vehicle mode, and the Autobot left him coughing in a cloud of dust. {{storylink|Speed Metal}}

The race was so well known that word of it got back to [[June Darby|Jack's mother]]. {{storylink|Crisscross}}

==Notes==
*Vince's [[license plate]] is "'''281 DIL'''".

[[Category:Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category:Prime humans]]

Vince

2012-01-17T03:44:22Z

189.200.89.83: /* Prime cartoon */

{{disambig3|Vince}}

:''Vince is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:Vince.jpg|thumb|300px|Guy Gardner: The High School Years.]]
'''Vince''' is a teenage boy who attends the school in [[Jasper]], [[Nevada]]. He's a jerk and a bully, and also takes part in street racing.

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Brad Raider]] (English), [[Moisés Iván Mora]] (Latin America Spanish)
Vince was leaning on his car outside the school when [[Jack Darby]] started to head off, and he disparaged Jack's [[Arcee (Prime)|motorcycle]] as a moped. He caught up with Jack at a traffic light and challenged the boy to a race. Jack was reluctant to accept until Vince dissed his motorcycle again. They drove to a road outside Jasper, where they held a race. Vince took off first, but found that Jack was a much better motorcycle rider than Vince had expected. News of the race's result spread around school, and the next day, Vince challenged Jack to participate in a street race. Later that night, Jack turned up at the race in a [[Bumblebee (Prime)|yellow sports car]], claiming his motorcycle was in the shop. Jack and Vince jockeyed for lead position after the race started, but then Jack and a [[Knock Out (Prime)|red car]] started doing bizarre stunts. Vince followed them to a bridge, where he furiously challenged Jack to finish the race. While he was shouting, he was suddenly grabbed from behind and bundled into the red car, before being knocked out.

Vince had been taken prisoner by the [[Decepticon]] Knock Out, who'd mistaken him for one of the [[Autobot]]s' allies. The Decepticon attempted to use Vince as bait to draw in Bumblebee, but he and [[Breakdown (Prime)|Breakdown]] got more than they bargained for when [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] turned up as well. On the run, Knock Out was stopped by [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], who retrieved Vince. Jack and Bumblebee were returning Vince to his car when he came around, and Jack claimed that Vince had been grabbed by some guys in some sort of gang initiation. After Jack told Vince that maybe street racing wasn't such a good idea, Vince insulted Bumblebee's vehicle mode, and the Autobot left him coughing in a cloud of dust. {{storylink|Speed Metal}}

The race was so well known that word of it got back to [[June Darby|Jack's mother]]. {{storylink|Crisscross}}

==Notes==
*Vince's [[license plate]] is "'''281 DIL'''".

[[Category:Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category:Prime humans]]

Vince

2012-01-17T03:43:55Z

189.200.89.83: /* Prime cartoon */

{{disambig3|Vince}}

:''Vince is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:Vince.jpg|thumb|300px|Guy Gardner: The High School Years.]]
'''Vince''' is a teenage boy who attends the school in [[Jasper]], [[Nevada]]. He's a jerk and a bully, and also takes part in street racing.

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Brad Raider]] (English), [[Moisés Iván Mora]] (Spanish Latin America)
Vince was leaning on his car outside the school when [[Jack Darby]] started to head off, and he disparaged Jack's [[Arcee (Prime)|motorcycle]] as a moped. He caught up with Jack at a traffic light and challenged the boy to a race. Jack was reluctant to accept until Vince dissed his motorcycle again. They drove to a road outside Jasper, where they held a race. Vince took off first, but found that Jack was a much better motorcycle rider than Vince had expected. News of the race's result spread around school, and the next day, Vince challenged Jack to participate in a street race. Later that night, Jack turned up at the race in a [[Bumblebee (Prime)|yellow sports car]], claiming his motorcycle was in the shop. Jack and Vince jockeyed for lead position after the race started, but then Jack and a [[Knock Out (Prime)|red car]] started doing bizarre stunts. Vince followed them to a bridge, where he furiously challenged Jack to finish the race. While he was shouting, he was suddenly grabbed from behind and bundled into the red car, before being knocked out.

Vince had been taken prisoner by the [[Decepticon]] Knock Out, who'd mistaken him for one of the [[Autobot]]s' allies. The Decepticon attempted to use Vince as bait to draw in Bumblebee, but he and [[Breakdown (Prime)|Breakdown]] got more than they bargained for when [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] turned up as well. On the run, Knock Out was stopped by [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], who retrieved Vince. Jack and Bumblebee were returning Vince to his car when he came around, and Jack claimed that Vince had been grabbed by some guys in some sort of gang initiation. After Jack told Vince that maybe street racing wasn't such a good idea, Vince insulted Bumblebee's vehicle mode, and the Autobot left him coughing in a cloud of dust. {{storylink|Speed Metal}}

The race was so well known that word of it got back to [[June Darby|Jack's mother]]. {{storylink|Crisscross}}

==Notes==
*Vince's [[license plate]] is "'''281 DIL'''".

[[Category:Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category:Prime humans]]