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Fury (Cybertron)

2011-04-26T01:18:11Z

24.185.70.0: /* Quotes */

{{disambig2|the episode of Cybertron|the character from G1|Nicholas Fury}}
{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=40
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=41
|image=GalvatronPepClub.jpg
|caption=
|title="Fury"
|japanese=マスターガルバトロン降臨
|romaji=Master Glavatron Kōrin
|translation=Enter Master Galvatron
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Kenji Sugihara]]
|director=[[Kei'ichirō Kawaguchi]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[October 15]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[September 14]], [[2006]] (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''In the wake of defeat, Megatron isn't happy.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_wounded_megs.jpg|left|thumb|220px|A little kid's gonna give "Mean Megatron" Greene a Coke. ]]

In a lower layer of [[Gigantion]], [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] helps the battered [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] walk after his thrashing at the hands of [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]]. The [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] offer words of encouragement, but Megatron isn't listening, as he growls that he needs more power.

Up on the surface of the planet, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] recalls the [[Autobot]]s' brief but tumultuous time on Gigantion, before asking Metroplex to guide them to the central layer. The planet leader unfortunately tells Prime that they cannot: It's not that they don't ''want'' to, but their customs dictate that data on old cities be erased, so the lower levels are as much a mystery to them as they are to the newcomers. Undeterred by this turn of events, the Autobots determine to search the old cities for any remaining data. Given the size of the planet, narrowing down their search radius is a necessity, and to that end, they start unloading equipment from the ''[[Ogygia]]'' which will help [[Vector Prime]] get a general fix on the location of the [[Cyber Planet Key]] via the [[Omega Lock]].

[[Image:SpectralMegatronKey.jpg|right|220px|thumb|BURNING HEART-O I MUST SUCCEED!]]

Back underground, Megatron is fuming, literally. Ransack and Crumplezone get a little too close and get knocked backwards by the sheer force of Megatron's "aura of fury". Scourge assures everyone that it's not ''them'' he's angry at... and then Megatron's fury boils over, creating an energy blast that scatters the Decepticons and punches a hole to the surface. Megatron rises high into the air, and the Decepticons pull themselves from the rubble. Soundwave announces he's "droppin' outta this session" and flies off.
Megatron rumbles that he needs more power, and the Gigantion Cyber Planet Key reacts to his anger... as does the Omega Lock, which starts emitting the [[Omega Frequency]]. Megatron's spirit resonates with the Key, and he becomes intangible, plunging downward, through layer after layer of the planet, all the way to the lowest level and the resting place of the Key. When he reaches out to take it, the Key resists him, but Megatron persists and begins to draw energy from it. In a mighty blast of energy, Megatron shoots back through to the surface, tearing a huge hole in the planet. As the Decepticons look up at their leader, Megatron stands shrouded in a black miasma, and Thunderblast swoons at the sight.

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_dark_megs.jpg|left|thumb|220px|There's a monster on the loose, and it's not in Loch Ness!]]

Back at the ''Ogygia'', the Omega Lock's reaction has allowed Vector Prime to pinpoint the general location of the Key, but he warns that someone else has obviously located it first, and drawn energy from it. The Autobots split into groups to search (the fliers turning it into a little race), but by dividing themselves, the Autobots inadvertantly make themselves the perfect target for the darkness-enshrouded Megatron. [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]], [[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] and [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] are the first to fall to the superpowered Decepticon leader, who takes them out so fast that their battle does not even damage the surrounding area. The three Autobots' unconscious bodies found by Optimus's team when Vector Prime realizes they have not reported in, but even as they are tending to them, elsewhere on the planet, [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] finds herself being pursued by Megatron. She is knocked into the air, but [[Quickmix (Cybertron)|Quickmix]] catches her and fires at Megatron before engaging him hand-to-hand...only to be quickly knocked out and smashed into the ground (literally). Optimus's team soon finds them, too, and Override warns Optimus about the upgraded Megatron, prompting the Autobot leader to recall all his troops.

[[Image:Cyb ep40 meet galvatron.jpg|right|220px|thumb|[[Armada (cartoon)|Déjà]] [[Energon (cartoon)|vu]], anyone?]]

Jetfire's team receives the recall order just as [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] is crawling through an old computer, and he instructs the human to get out immediately. Coby, however, spots a data chip in the distance, and asks for five minutes to check it out. While he successfully recovers the chip, those five minutes prove to be a fatal delay: having bested the [[Cybertron Defense Team]], Megatron and the Decepticons arrive at Jetfire's team's position. [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] and [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] tackle Megatron so Jetfire can get Coby and [[Lori]] away safely, but this attempt is in vain, as Megatron wipes out all three Autobots pretty much instantly. As he turns on the humans, the wounded Jetfire grabs his leg, but is saved from being completely destroyed by the timely arrival of Optimus Prime. Prime fires on Megatron, to virtually no effect, and Megatron responds by knocking Prime out of the air with a single flying kick. As he stands over his fallen foe, Megatron's black aura dissipates, and his newly-colored armor is revealed as he announces he is now '''Galvatron''' (again)!

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_one_finger.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Apparently, Galvatron has been taking [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]'s "Totally Lopsided Takedowns" class.]]

Metroplex has at Galvatron, but the Decepticon stops the giant's [[Sparkdrinker]] axe with ''a single finger'', then pushes him back easily. Metroplex powers up his weapon with a Cyber Key, but Galvatron actually takes the weapon from Metroplex's hands and bashes him with it, knocking him out for the count. Vector Prime leaps in, but is dispatched with a single swipe of Galvatron's hand, and the Decepticon leader then activates his bladed shield to bash Optimus around some. Prime refuses to stay down, so Galvatron whips out his gatling cannon, which sends Optimus flying. In victory, Galvatron emits a lightning storm, and one bolt screams towards the kids at the top of a high tower... but Optimus ''somehow'' gets in the way of the bolt, saving them.

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_prime_vs_galvy.jpg|right|thumb|220px|It doesn't get more anime than this...]]

Recalling the promise he made to their parents to keep the children safe, Optimus powers up into [[Super Mode]] and the two leaders charge one another. Their fists collide spectacularly, and Galvatron is pushed back. But Prime falters, and Galvatron is ready to go again... until Metroplex hurls the gigantic Sparkdrinker at Optimus. Prime manages to summon a Cyber Key to power it up, and the two rush at each other ''again'', this time to do the classic run-past-each-other-then-stand-dramatically deal. When the dust clears, Optimus falls to his knees, and Galvatron stands triumphant...for about five seconds, as numerous wounds open on him. The Decepticons rush to Galvatron's aid, and he decides to call it a day. They run, and Soundwave, who has been watching this whole time, also flies off.

The Autobots return to the ''Ogygia'', and use the machinery Coby recovered to plot a course underground. The ship heads for the coordinates, but along their way, they pass by the crevice Galvatron tore when he emerged from within the planet... which now contains the ''[[Atlantis]]'' starship!
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
* [[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (7)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (8)
* [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] (9)
* [[Vector Prime]] (10)
* [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (11)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (12)
* [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (13)
* [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (14)
* [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (15)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (16)
* [[Quickmix (Cybertron)|Quickmix]] (18)
* [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] (19)
* [[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] (20)
* [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] (23)
* [[Six-Speed]] (27)
* [[Drill Bit (Cybertron)|Drill Bit]] (28)

|c2=
* [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (1)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron/Galvatron]] (2)
* [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (3)
* [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (4)
* [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (5)
* [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] (17)
* [[Nemesis Breaker]] (19)
* [[Menasor (Cybertron)|Menasor]] (24)

|c3=
* [[Coby Hansen]] (21)
* [[Lori]] (22)
* [[Ernesto]] (29)
* Lori's Mom (30)
* [[Robert Hansen]] (31)
* Mrs. Hansen (32)

|c4=
* [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]] (25)
* [[Laserbeak (Cybertron)|Laserbeak ]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"We'll find that needle a whole lot faster if we're searching only part of a haystack!"
:—'''Scattorshot'''

"He's trippin' 'cuz he got served."
:—'''Soundwave''', referring to '''Megatron''''s strange behaviour

"You're ''so'' square."
:—'''Wing Saber''' to '''Jetfire'''

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_thunderswoon.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Women-swooning over the first guy who powers up and beats the mortal crap out of the Autobots.]]

'''Ransack:''' "He beat them like a drum!" 
'''Thundercracker:''' "Megatron opened a ''big'' can o' whoop-butt on them!" 
'''Crumplezone:''' "Whooooop-''butt!''" 
'''Menasor:''' "Aye, laugh, but his power scares me." 
'''Thunderblast:''' "It scares ''me'' how hunky he is! Hee hee hee!" 
'''Scourge:''' "Hunky?"
:—The Decepticons discuss Galvatron's power.

"I have changed. I am no longer Megatron. Megatron was a ''loser''!"
:—<s>'''Megatron'''</s> '''Galvatron''' introducing his new identity

"I am invincible. I am Galvatron!" 
"New look, same old lines."
:—'''Galvatron''', who is lame, and '''Optimus Prime''', who is right.

"Nothing you say or do will make you my equal!" 
"You're right!" 
"I ''know''!" 
"I'd ''never'' stoop down low enough to be ''your'' equal!"
:—'''Galvatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' deliver less-than-impressive banter.

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_take_a_whack.jpg|right|thumb|220px|We were wrong, it does get more anime.]]
"You don’t really expect to beat Galvatron with an axe?" 
"I'm gonna take a whack!"
:—'''Galvatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' again

Such heroic nonsence
:-'''Galvatron''' quotiing G1 [[megatron]] in [[The Transformers The Movie]]

"If you're going to keep asking for it, I'm going to keep giving it to you! It's on!" 
"I wish you'd shut up."
:—'''Galvatron''' gets the best comeback ever from '''Optimus'''.
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*''Cybertron'' adds the customary sound of the Omega Frequency when the Lock powers up.
*After Prime and Megatron's final attacks upon each other, ''Cybertron'' has Megatron mock Prime, before his injuries suddenly get the better of him. In ''Galaxy Force'', Megatron is ''aware'' that he has been injured before his wounds open, and calmly dubs the outcome "interesting".

===Animation or technical errors===
[[Image:Cyb_ep40_biggest_fans.jpg|right|thumb|220px|And still more anime.]]
* Ransack is missing the black "mask" around his eyes at several points during this episode. We have seen this error in a few prior episodes, but it really started to happen with noticeable frequency on Gigantion.
* The three Decepticon fans on Crumplezone's back when he and Ransack celebrate Galvatron's reveal are gone in the next shot, even though the fans in their hands are still there (compare the picture at right with the one at the head of this article).

===Continuity or plotting errors===
* So... now there's this gigantic hole in the planet, yes? Which presumably leads from the Key at the center of the planet... all the way to the surface where the Decepticons are... so... why don't they just fly down the hole and snag the Key all easy-peasey? The ''Galaxy Force'' version of the next episode will even see the Autobots suggest doing this! (To be fair, it ''does'' look like the hole doesn't go to the bottom of the planet's layers and only a few Autobots can fly...)
* When Metroplex throws his axe to Optimus, Galvatron fires a few shots from his machine gun...that never hit anything! The shots are never seen again as Optimus activates Cyber Key power on Sparkdrinker for the final clash with Galvatron.
* Speaking of which, Galvatron spontaneously switches weapons in the following clash. Before the stock footage, he's using his machine gun, but after Optimus powers up Sparkdrinker, he's wearing his arm blade instead.

===Transformers references===
*Optimus Prime flashes back to the events of "[[Family]]", recalling the promise he made to the children's parents.
* Galvatron mutters "Such heroic nonsense" before powering up with a Cyber Key, the infamous line [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] uttered before brutally killing [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] in the movie. Scourge previously offered a different spin on the line back in "[[Cybertron (episode)|Cybertron]]".
* On that note, the way Jetfire grabs Galvatron's legs to try and protect the children seems very similar to the way Ironhide grabbed Megatron immediately before his death. Luckily for Jetfire, he does not pay for this act with his life.
* Later, Galvatron adds another instance of over-use of movie lines with "Why throw away your life so recklessly?", (which would later be used again in "[[Unfinished]]").

===Real-world references===
* When Megatron communes with the Key, Vector mutters he "felt great disturbance within the force", a line ripped straight from the first ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' movie, spoken by [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and referring to the [[Force]]. There was even a ''Star Wars'' novel named "[[Wikia:starwars:Vector_Prime_%28novel%29|Vector Prime]]"!

===Trivia===
*The blacked-out figure of Metroplex that has been seen in the ''Galaxy Force'' opening sequence since "[[Titans]]" is now blacked-out no longer, transitioning the sequence into the finalized form it will retain until the end of the series.
*Okay, okay, ''this'' is ''technically'' the last time we see Nemesis Breaker... but it's only in flashbacks to last episode.
*Quickmix uses his left-arm pipes as a hand-held blaster here, which the Quickmix toy can actually do!
*And yes, Optimus' toy can hold the toy version of Sparkdrinker.
* While the development of the Coby-Lori romance is ''extremely'' subtle throughout the series (to the point of invisibility), this episode brings it slightly out of the subtext, with Lori fondly cleaning Coby's face. The moment when Coby instantly interposes himself between her and ''Galvatron'' also indicates his affection for her (and is frankly one of his finest moments).

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 11 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Fury (Cybertron)

2011-04-26T01:14:56Z

24.185.70.0: /* Quotes */

{{disambig2|the episode of Cybertron|the character from G1|Nicholas Fury}}
{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=40
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=41
|image=GalvatronPepClub.jpg
|caption=
|title="Fury"
|japanese=マスターガルバトロン降臨
|romaji=Master Glavatron Kōrin
|translation=Enter Master Galvatron
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Kenji Sugihara]]
|director=[[Kei'ichirō Kawaguchi]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[October 15]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[September 14]], [[2006]] (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''In the wake of defeat, Megatron isn't happy.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_wounded_megs.jpg|left|thumb|220px|A little kid's gonna give "Mean Megatron" Greene a Coke. ]]

In a lower layer of [[Gigantion]], [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] helps the battered [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] walk after his thrashing at the hands of [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]]. The [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] offer words of encouragement, but Megatron isn't listening, as he growls that he needs more power.

Up on the surface of the planet, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] recalls the [[Autobot]]s' brief but tumultuous time on Gigantion, before asking Metroplex to guide them to the central layer. The planet leader unfortunately tells Prime that they cannot: It's not that they don't ''want'' to, but their customs dictate that data on old cities be erased, so the lower levels are as much a mystery to them as they are to the newcomers. Undeterred by this turn of events, the Autobots determine to search the old cities for any remaining data. Given the size of the planet, narrowing down their search radius is a necessity, and to that end, they start unloading equipment from the ''[[Ogygia]]'' which will help [[Vector Prime]] get a general fix on the location of the [[Cyber Planet Key]] via the [[Omega Lock]].

[[Image:SpectralMegatronKey.jpg|right|220px|thumb|BURNING HEART-O I MUST SUCCEED!]]

Back underground, Megatron is fuming, literally. Ransack and Crumplezone get a little too close and get knocked backwards by the sheer force of Megatron's "aura of fury". Scourge assures everyone that it's not ''them'' he's angry at... and then Megatron's fury boils over, creating an energy blast that scatters the Decepticons and punches a hole to the surface. Megatron rises high into the air, and the Decepticons pull themselves from the rubble. Soundwave announces he's "droppin' outta this session" and flies off.
Megatron rumbles that he needs more power, and the Gigantion Cyber Planet Key reacts to his anger... as does the Omega Lock, which starts emitting the [[Omega Frequency]]. Megatron's spirit resonates with the Key, and he becomes intangible, plunging downward, through layer after layer of the planet, all the way to the lowest level and the resting place of the Key. When he reaches out to take it, the Key resists him, but Megatron persists and begins to draw energy from it. In a mighty blast of energy, Megatron shoots back through to the surface, tearing a huge hole in the planet. As the Decepticons look up at their leader, Megatron stands shrouded in a black miasma, and Thunderblast swoons at the sight.

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_dark_megs.jpg|left|thumb|220px|There's a monster on the loose, and it's not in Loch Ness!]]

Back at the ''Ogygia'', the Omega Lock's reaction has allowed Vector Prime to pinpoint the general location of the Key, but he warns that someone else has obviously located it first, and drawn energy from it. The Autobots split into groups to search (the fliers turning it into a little race), but by dividing themselves, the Autobots inadvertantly make themselves the perfect target for the darkness-enshrouded Megatron. [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]], [[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] and [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] are the first to fall to the superpowered Decepticon leader, who takes them out so fast that their battle does not even damage the surrounding area. The three Autobots' unconscious bodies found by Optimus's team when Vector Prime realizes they have not reported in, but even as they are tending to them, elsewhere on the planet, [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] finds herself being pursued by Megatron. She is knocked into the air, but [[Quickmix (Cybertron)|Quickmix]] catches her and fires at Megatron before engaging him hand-to-hand...only to be quickly knocked out and smashed into the ground (literally). Optimus's team soon finds them, too, and Override warns Optimus about the upgraded Megatron, prompting the Autobot leader to recall all his troops.

[[Image:Cyb ep40 meet galvatron.jpg|right|220px|thumb|[[Armada (cartoon)|Déjà]] [[Energon (cartoon)|vu]], anyone?]]

Jetfire's team receives the recall order just as [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] is crawling through an old computer, and he instructs the human to get out immediately. Coby, however, spots a data chip in the distance, and asks for five minutes to check it out. While he successfully recovers the chip, those five minutes prove to be a fatal delay: having bested the [[Cybertron Defense Team]], Megatron and the Decepticons arrive at Jetfire's team's position. [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] and [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] tackle Megatron so Jetfire can get Coby and [[Lori]] away safely, but this attempt is in vain, as Megatron wipes out all three Autobots pretty much instantly. As he turns on the humans, the wounded Jetfire grabs his leg, but is saved from being completely destroyed by the timely arrival of Optimus Prime. Prime fires on Megatron, to virtually no effect, and Megatron responds by knocking Prime out of the air with a single flying kick. As he stands over his fallen foe, Megatron's black aura dissipates, and his newly-colored armor is revealed as he announces he is now '''Galvatron''' (again)!

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_one_finger.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Apparently, Galvatron has been taking [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]'s "Totally Lopsided Takedowns" class.]]

Metroplex has at Galvatron, but the Decepticon stops the giant's [[Sparkdrinker]] axe with ''a single finger'', then pushes him back easily. Metroplex powers up his weapon with a Cyber Key, but Galvatron actually takes the weapon from Metroplex's hands and bashes him with it, knocking him out for the count. Vector Prime leaps in, but is dispatched with a single swipe of Galvatron's hand, and the Decepticon leader then activates his bladed shield to bash Optimus around some. Prime refuses to stay down, so Galvatron whips out his gatling cannon, which sends Optimus flying. In victory, Galvatron emits a lightning storm, and one bolt screams towards the kids at the top of a high tower... but Optimus ''somehow'' gets in the way of the bolt, saving them.

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_prime_vs_galvy.jpg|right|thumb|220px|It doesn't get more anime than this...]]

Recalling the promise he made to their parents to keep the children safe, Optimus powers up into [[Super Mode]] and the two leaders charge one another. Their fists collide spectacularly, and Galvatron is pushed back. But Prime falters, and Galvatron is ready to go again... until Metroplex hurls the gigantic Sparkdrinker at Optimus. Prime manages to summon a Cyber Key to power it up, and the two rush at each other ''again'', this time to do the classic run-past-each-other-then-stand-dramatically deal. When the dust clears, Optimus falls to his knees, and Galvatron stands triumphant...for about five seconds, as numerous wounds open on him. The Decepticons rush to Galvatron's aid, and he decides to call it a day. They run, and Soundwave, who has been watching this whole time, also flies off.

The Autobots return to the ''Ogygia'', and use the machinery Coby recovered to plot a course underground. The ship heads for the coordinates, but along their way, they pass by the crevice Galvatron tore when he emerged from within the planet... which now contains the ''[[Atlantis]]'' starship!
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
* [[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (7)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (8)
* [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] (9)
* [[Vector Prime]] (10)
* [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (11)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (12)
* [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (13)
* [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (14)
* [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (15)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (16)
* [[Quickmix (Cybertron)|Quickmix]] (18)
* [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] (19)
* [[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] (20)
* [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] (23)
* [[Six-Speed]] (27)
* [[Drill Bit (Cybertron)|Drill Bit]] (28)

|c2=
* [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (1)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron/Galvatron]] (2)
* [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (3)
* [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (4)
* [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (5)
* [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] (17)
* [[Nemesis Breaker]] (19)
* [[Menasor (Cybertron)|Menasor]] (24)

|c3=
* [[Coby Hansen]] (21)
* [[Lori]] (22)
* [[Ernesto]] (29)
* Lori's Mom (30)
* [[Robert Hansen]] (31)
* Mrs. Hansen (32)

|c4=
* [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]] (25)
* [[Laserbeak (Cybertron)|Laserbeak ]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"We'll find that needle a whole lot faster if we're searching only part of a haystack!"
:—'''Scattorshot'''

"He's trippin' 'cuz he got served."
:—'''Soundwave''', referring to '''Megatron''''s strange behaviour

"You're ''so'' square."
:—'''Wing Saber''' to '''Jetfire'''

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_thunderswoon.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Women-swooning over the first guy who powers up and beats the mortal crap out of the Autobots.]]

'''Ransack:''' "He beat them like a drum!" 
'''Thundercracker:''' "Megatron opened a ''big'' can o' whoop-butt on them!" 
'''Crumplezone:''' "Whooooop-''butt!''" 
'''Menasor:''' "Aye, laugh, but his power scares me." 
'''Thunderblast:''' "It scares ''me'' how hunky he is! Hee hee hee!" 
'''Scourge:''' "Hunky?"
:—The Decepticons discuss Galvatron's power.

"I have changed. I am no longer Megatron. Megatron was a ''loser''!"
:—<s>'''Megatron'''</s> '''Galvatron''' introducing his new identity

"I am invincible. I am Galvatron!" 
"New look, same old lines."
:—'''Galvatron''', who is lame, and '''Optimus Prime''', who is right.

"Nothing you say or do will make you my equal!" 
"You're right!" 
"I ''know''!" 
"I'd ''never'' stoop down low enough to be ''your'' equal!"
:—'''Galvatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' deliver less-than-impressive banter.

[[Image:Cyb_ep40_take_a_whack.jpg|right|thumb|220px|We were wrong, it does get more anime.]]
"You don’t really expect to beat Galvatron with an axe?" 
"I'm gonna take a whack!"
:—'''Galvatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' again

Such heroic nonsence
'''Galvatron'''

"If you're going to keep asking for it, I'm going to keep giving it to you! It's on!" 
"I wish you'd shut up."
:—'''Galvatron''' gets the best comeback ever from '''Optimus'''.
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*''Cybertron'' adds the customary sound of the Omega Frequency when the Lock powers up.
*After Prime and Megatron's final attacks upon each other, ''Cybertron'' has Megatron mock Prime, before his injuries suddenly get the better of him. In ''Galaxy Force'', Megatron is ''aware'' that he has been injured before his wounds open, and calmly dubs the outcome "interesting".

===Animation or technical errors===
[[Image:Cyb_ep40_biggest_fans.jpg|right|thumb|220px|And still more anime.]]
* Ransack is missing the black "mask" around his eyes at several points during this episode. We have seen this error in a few prior episodes, but it really started to happen with noticeable frequency on Gigantion.
* The three Decepticon fans on Crumplezone's back when he and Ransack celebrate Galvatron's reveal are gone in the next shot, even though the fans in their hands are still there (compare the picture at right with the one at the head of this article).

===Continuity or plotting errors===
* So... now there's this gigantic hole in the planet, yes? Which presumably leads from the Key at the center of the planet... all the way to the surface where the Decepticons are... so... why don't they just fly down the hole and snag the Key all easy-peasey? The ''Galaxy Force'' version of the next episode will even see the Autobots suggest doing this! (To be fair, it ''does'' look like the hole doesn't go to the bottom of the planet's layers and only a few Autobots can fly...)
* When Metroplex throws his axe to Optimus, Galvatron fires a few shots from his machine gun...that never hit anything! The shots are never seen again as Optimus activates Cyber Key power on Sparkdrinker for the final clash with Galvatron.
* Speaking of which, Galvatron spontaneously switches weapons in the following clash. Before the stock footage, he's using his machine gun, but after Optimus powers up Sparkdrinker, he's wearing his arm blade instead.

===Transformers references===
*Optimus Prime flashes back to the events of "[[Family]]", recalling the promise he made to the children's parents.
* Galvatron mutters "Such heroic nonsense" before powering up with a Cyber Key, the infamous line [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] uttered before brutally killing [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] in the movie. Scourge previously offered a different spin on the line back in "[[Cybertron (episode)|Cybertron]]".
* On that note, the way Jetfire grabs Galvatron's legs to try and protect the children seems very similar to the way Ironhide grabbed Megatron immediately before his death. Luckily for Jetfire, he does not pay for this act with his life.
* Later, Galvatron adds another instance of over-use of movie lines with "Why throw away your life so recklessly?", (which would later be used again in "[[Unfinished]]").

===Real-world references===
* When Megatron communes with the Key, Vector mutters he "felt great disturbance within the force", a line ripped straight from the first ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' movie, spoken by [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and referring to the [[Force]]. There was even a ''Star Wars'' novel named "[[Wikia:starwars:Vector_Prime_%28novel%29|Vector Prime]]"!

===Trivia===
*The blacked-out figure of Metroplex that has been seen in the ''Galaxy Force'' opening sequence since "[[Titans]]" is now blacked-out no longer, transitioning the sequence into the finalized form it will retain until the end of the series.
*Okay, okay, ''this'' is ''technically'' the last time we see Nemesis Breaker... but it's only in flashbacks to last episode.
*Quickmix uses his left-arm pipes as a hand-held blaster here, which the Quickmix toy can actually do!
*And yes, Optimus' toy can hold the toy version of Sparkdrinker.
* While the development of the Coby-Lori romance is ''extremely'' subtle throughout the series (to the point of invisibility), this episode brings it slightly out of the subtext, with Lori fondly cleaning Coby's face. The moment when Coby instantly interposes himself between her and ''Galvatron'' also indicates his affection for her (and is frankly one of his finest moments).

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 11 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Warp

2011-04-25T02:13:27Z

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{{disambig2|the episode of [[Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]|the transportation technology|warp drive}}
{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=38
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=39
|image=Cyb_ep38_warp.jpg
|caption=Attack of the ''Super Friends'' Scene Change
|title="Warp"
|japanese=超時空トンネル突破
|romaji=Chōjikū Tunnel Toppa
|translation=Breaking Through the Super Space-Time Tunnel
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Manabu Ishikawa]]
|director=[[Matsuo Asami]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[October 1]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[September 12]], [[2006]] (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''The Autobots head for the warp-hole leading to the alternate universe where Gigantion rests.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb_ep38_not_depressed_honestly.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Give Optimus a shirt to rip off, and this could be straight from Superdickery.com.]]

In the [[Autobot]] base on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] (which is still in the form of [[Primus]]'s robot mode), [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] is working on a deactivated [[Scrapmetal (race)|Scrapmetal]]. [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] checks in on him, and Coby enthusiastically replies he's been tinkering...though Optimus knows he's doing it to keep from being depressed about his brother [[Bud Hansen|Bud]], who is stranded along with [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] and [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] aboard the missing ''[[Atlantis]]'' starship. Presently, [[Vector Prime]] contacts them, calling them up to the command room so that he can tell the assembled Autobots about the space-time tunnel he has discovered in the [[Skeleton Nebula]], which leads to the alternate universe where [[Gigantion]] and the final [[Cyber Planet Key]] wait. He explains that the tunnel is only open for a few days before closing down for an entire year. [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] warns that travelling through the unstable, constantly warping tunnel could separate their minds from their bodies, a prospect that scares Jetfire considerably, though Red assures them all that they've created a vaccine program to keep them safe. Coby and [[Lori]] express some concern over their own well-being, but Vector Prime reminds them that [[human]] children and [[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]] are already immune to the tunnel's effects.

[[Image:Ogygia-landing.jpg|right|thumb|220px|You wanna get that thing outta my driveway? I gotta get to work!]]
[[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] is ready and raring to go, but the Autobots have no ship capable of getting the non-flying Autobots there (or, as Leobreaker quips, a "really big slingshot"). [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] grins that it's not going to be a problem, as he patches in a communication from [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] who has returned to Cybertron with a surprise...the colony-ship that brought [[Ancients|her ancestors]] and a Cyber Planet Key to [[Velocitron]], the ''[[Ogygia]]''. She recounts that [[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]] and [[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]] had been searching for the legendary craft and finally uncovered it recently. As the Autobots prep the ''Ogygia'' and load it with supplies, Coby, Lori and [[Six-Speed]] pique [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]]'s curiosity with a large crate that they are pushing into the bay. Coby simply says it's a surprise.

[[Image:Cyb_ep38_this_may_sting.jpg|left|thumb|220px|That's the look my dentist gives me all the time.]]

With the ship ready, the Autobots line up to install Red Alert's vaccine program, which apparently is done via injection. Leobreaker is apprehensive about needles, but not as much as Jetfire, the last Autobot in line. To try and avoid the shot, Jetfire suggests that he should stay behind to keep watch over the power-drained Primus...and then Primus steps in via glowing orb, saying his power levels are rising and he'll be just fine, thank you, so you can all go on to Gigantion. Shut down by god, Jetfire hems and haws a lot, then finally admits defeat and gets the shot, which Red Alert takes a mild sadistic pleasure in administering.

With everyone all shot up, the ''Ogygia'' takes off for the tunnel. Vector Prime warns everyone that the tunnel is unstable, and that even the psychic imprints formed by doubts, fears, etc. might distort the warp and basically destroy them. Coby grips Lori's hand to reassure her (aww). However, as they enter the tunnel, they come under attack from behind by the ''Atlantis''! The Autobots realize they can't shoot back, because of their comrades trapped aboard the ship.

Speaking of, Bud peers out a window to see the ''Ogygia'', confused by the appearance of what looks like another ''Atlantis''. Jolt picks up Six-Speed's energy signature coming from it, which gets Bud excited and ready to act! He encourages the Mini-Cons to follow him: Jolt is scared, but Reverb doesn't hesitate.

[[Image:WarpBudWrench.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Bud has been reading too many comics.]]

Another blast takes out the ''Ogygia''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main engine, and the ship starts to sink towards the edges of the tunnel. Coby volunteers his mechanical skills to fix the engines, and Optimus sends Red Alert and Six-Speed to help him. The trio speed to the engine room, where Coby hits on the idea of re-routing the power from the weapons, which they are unable to use, to the engines. He and Six-Speed re-patch the cables and hit the activation switch at the last moment, bringing the engines back online and allowing the ''Ogygia'' to pull away from the tunnel edge. The celebration is short-lived, however, when Scattorshot reports that a gigantic asteroid is now right in the ''Ogygia''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s path, with no room to dodge and no weapon power to blast it! Things are looking bad, until Coby gets a communication from Bud on the ''Atlantis'', who has a plan of his own.

[[Image:Cyb_ep38_full_blast.jpg|left|220px|thumb|Care Bears stare!]]

Bud, Jolt and Reverb start smashing up the engine room, which causes the ship to lag behind and give the Autobots some breathing room. Optimus Prime decides the only way to get past the asteroid is to get up close and personal with it, and all of the available Autobots with projectile [[Cyber Key]]s exit the ship and stand on its bow. As one, the Autobots unleash a mighty combined blast upon the asteroid, the power of their attack actually ''melting'' a hole clean through the gigantic space rock, which allows the ''Ogygia'' to fly through it safely.

A little later, Coby wakes up, having been knocked out by a jolt of a feedback when the asteroid was blasted, to find they have safely traversed the tunnel and are now in the alternate universe. The Autobots thank Coby for saving them, and they head for Gigantion...

...but they are not the first to get there. Guided through the [[fire dimension]] by [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]], [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and his [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] have made it to Gigantion first! Megatron surveys the planet and vows to obtain the fourth Cyber Planet Key and become ruler of the universe!
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
* [[Vector Prime]] (3)
* [[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] (4)
* [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] (5)
* [[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (6)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (7)
* [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (8)
* [[Six-Speed]] (10)
* [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (11)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (12)
* [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (13)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (14)
* [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (15)
* [[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]] (17)
* [[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]] (18)
* [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] (19)
* [[Primus]] (20)
* [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (21)
* [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (22)

|c2=
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (25)
* [[Nemesis Breaker]] (26)
* [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (27)
* [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (28)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (29)
* [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (30)
* [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] (31)
* [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (34)

|c3=
* [[Coby Hansen]] (1)
* [[Lori]] (9)
* [[Bud Hansen]] (23)

|c4=
* [[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]] (16)
* [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (24)
* [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]] (32)
* [[Laserbeak (Cybertron)|Laserbeak]] (33)
}}

==Quotes==
"What matters is not how you ''start'' a race, but how you ''finish'' it."
:—'''Optimus Prime'''

'''Leobreaker''': Would you cool your turbines, Wing Saber?! Some of us can't just take off, y'know! 
'''Wing Saber''': Uh, I almost forgot! Not all Transformers know how to fly. 
'''Snarl''': That doesn't mean flying Autobots are better. 
'''Hot Shot''': Yeah, but where are we gonna find a spaceship? 
'''Leobreaker''': Or a really big slingshot?
:—The Autobots' "strategy" on how to get to Gigantion

"Hey, Big Sister! Where you been?" 
"Well, I took your advice, Lori...and went ''shopping''."
:—'''Lori''' and '''Override''' as the latter returns with the ''Ogygia''
[[Image:Coby-plug.jpg|right|180px|thumb|So many quips, so little space.]]

"Are you Auto''bots'' or Auto''nots''?"
:—'''Bud'''

"I've learned from the Autobots that sometimes one must save the moment before he can save the whole day!"
:—'''Coby'''
{{--}}
==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*''Galaxy Force'' includes a "previously on" segment that summarizes the events of "[[Titans]]".
*The Skeleton Nebula is not named in ''Galaxy Force''.
*In ''Galaxy Force'', Leobreaker wonders what the odds are of another ship crashing nearby, causing Snarl to facefault. Like Bud's crack about the possibility of Cybertron transforming back in "[[Cybertron (episode)|Cybertron]]", this is terribly on the nose (and Snarl's reaction is a bit excessive), so ''Cybertron'' replaces it with the slingshot gag quoted above.
*In ''Cybertron'', Coby guesses the name of the [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]]'s starship as "Brigadoon" (see "Real-world references," below). In ''Galaxy Force'', on the other hand, he (correctly, somehow!) guesses it as "[[Lemuria (Cybertron)|Lemuria]]". For the ''Cybertron'' dub, "Lemuria" was made the name of the Gigantion starship; the Jungle Planet's ship is later named the ''[[Hyperborea]]''.
*In ''Galaxy Force'', Coby responds to Vector Prime's warning to not let his emotions rule him by pointing out that he would not have been able to pass through the tunnel if he was not focused. In ''Cybertron'', he instead makes the "save the day" remark quoted above.
*The Velocitronian ship is named "Mu" in ''Galaxy Force'', another legendary continent. ''Cybertron'' calls it the "Ogygia" instead, mainly because "Mu" would have led to a number of bad jokes (sounding similar to the onomatopoeia of a cow's call).

===Animation or technical errors===
* When Override asks Jetfire why he thinks he should stay behind, it's Hot Shot who steps forward. Of course, we don't see anyone's lips moving...but characters in this series tend not to move unless they have lines...so take whichever way it works out that makes you happier.
*When Bud hops onto Jolt, he apears to be at least twice as tall as Bud.
===Continuity or plotting errors===
* Why doesn't Red Alert push the toggle switch to restart the engines, being right there and not apparently doing much, rather than have the two tiny beings that are ''smaller'' than the switch do it? Other than laziness, that is.

===Transformers references===

*Red Alert's work on the vaccine program was introduced back in "[[Family]]".
*Sideways obtained the data on the location of the warp tunnel from Jolt's memory in "[[Memory]]".

===Real-world references===
* Just as the ''Atlantis'' is named after a "real" mythical lost land, so too is the [[wikipedia:Ogygia|Ogygia]].

* Coby guesses "Brigadoon" as the name of another colony-ship. "[[wikipedia:Brigadoon|Brigadoon]]" is actually a musical play from 1947, about a (made-up) town in Scotland that only appears one day every hundred years. [[Brigadoon]] is also the Japanese-given name of the Vok island seen in the ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' two-parter, "[[The Trigger, Part 1|The]] [[The Trigger, Part 2|Trigger]]".

* Optimus gives the order "Second star to the right, then straight on 'til Gigantion!", referencing the directions for flying to [[wikipedia:Neverland|Neverland]] in the "[[wikipedia:Peter_Pan|Peter Pan]]" stories. ("Second star to the right, then straight on 'til morning!") In a way, this mirrors Vector Prime's whole "happy thoughts" deal in the warp-hole later...intentional?

* Bud muses "Do Mini-Cons dream of electric ships?" This is a play on the title of the [[wikipedia:Philip_K._Dick|Philip K. Dick]] novel ''[[wikipedia:Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep?|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'', which was adapted into the movie ''[[wikipedia:Blade_Runner|Blade Runner]]''.

* This is one reference-heavy episode! Wing Saber quips "It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that Wing!", a play on the jazz hit "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".

===Trivia===
*Dirt Boss is barely seen in the flashback to the ''Ogygia'''s uncovering; he's got his back to the camera in the slow pan across the crew. Apparently, he turned over a new leaf. (Hence his being listed as an "Other" in the cast list above.)
*Nemesis Breaker makes one of his two exceedingly rare robot-mode, non-stock-footage appearances here. The other is in [[Escape (episode)|"Escape"]].
*Vector Prime uses his Cyber Key-activated chest-cannon for the first time since "[[Haven]]".

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 10 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Escape (episode)

2011-04-25T01:55:15Z

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{{disambig3|Escape}}

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=35
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=36
|title="Escape"
|japanese=それゆけ脱出大作戦
|romaji=Sore Yuke Dasshutsu Daisakusen
|translation=The Big Escape Plan Go
|image=Cyb_ep35_kids_and_minicons.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Kenji Sugihara]]
|director=[[Masashi Nagao]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[September 10]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[September 7]], [[2006]] (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''With Sideways on their tail, the kids and the Mini-Cons must navigate the labyrinth of the ''Atlantis'' and alert the Autobots on Cybertron to their plight.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb ep35 jolt gate.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

In the starship ''[[Atlantis]]'', [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], [[Bud Hansen|Bud]], [[Lori]] and the [[Recon Mini-Con Team]] are confronted by [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]], but are able to quickly escape through one of [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]]'s [[dimension gate]]s. They teleport to another location within the ship, and begin a plan to shut down the electromagnetic jamming shield that is keeping them from contacting the [[Autobot]]s on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Coby brings up the map of the ''Atlantis'' that he downloaded into his communicator, and the team set off to find the jamming signal controls.

On Cybertron, [[Vector Prime]], [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] continue to use the base computers to scan for some trace of the kids and Mini-Cons, while the battle between [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]'s forces continues to rage outside. The only Decepticon not actively getting involved in the fight is [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]], who has been ordered to retrieve the [[Omega Lock]] by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]]. Fearing for her life if she does not complete the mission, the scheming Thunderblast contacts Starscream, who is observing the battle from a safe vantage point out in space, and asks him to come and help her carry the Omega Lock.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_face_of_foam.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Back on the ''Atlantis'', Bud comes up with a very good point: since the kids and Mini-Cons have identified the location of the control room, why are they ''walking'' there instead of warping? Jolt tries to open a warp gate, only to discover that he cannot, at which point Sideways emerges from the shadows and reveals that he has set up an anti-warping energy field within the ship. The team turns to run, but Sideways hurls his sword to block their path, and the kids push their luck, trying to distract Sideways by claiming that [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] is standing behind him. Recalling their previous trick with the hologram, Sideways doesn't fall for it, so they push it even further by claiming Optimus Prime is there instead. While he doesn't buy it for a second, Sideways decides to play along to mock the kids, but he only winds up giving Coby time to use his communicator to activate a fire extinguisher in the roof of the corridor. The extinguisher blinds Sideways with a faceful of foam, and the kids and Mini-Cons all leg it.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_thunderblast_cowers.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Back with the battle on Cybertron, Optimus Prime and [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] decide they are took evenly matched against Megatron and [[Nemesis Breaker]], and so they decide to switch up their tactics and pull back. Megatron moves to pursue them, but is shot out of the air by none other than Thunderblast, who then claims Starscream ordered her to do it! Starscream himself promptly arrives, and the two Decepticons are about to fight when Optimus Prime returns with [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]]. As they merge into Sonic Wing Mode, Thunderblast slinks away, exploiting her self-made distraction to make a break for the Omega Lock.

On the ''Atlantis'', Coby downloads his map into Jolt's brain, so the Mini-Con can lead them to their objective quickly. Although they have to drive because of the anti-warp field, they are able to move around comparatively quickly, since Sideways is also unable to warp after them. The team stops in the engine room, where they realized that the ship's self-repair function isn't working, and that Sideways has been fixing up the ship himself, putting an idea in their heads...

[[Image:Escape-Sidewaysmeandrawing.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Meanwhile, down on [[Earth]], [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] despairs over his current situation. Although he is done with the Decepticons, he realizes that he cannot return to the Autobots after his traitorous actions. [[Lugnutz]] observes his passage, and sagely acknowledges his plight, before wondering whatever happened to Starscream. Little does the hipster realize that his former boss is currently battling most of the Autobots on Cybertron!

Back on the ''Atlantis'', Jolt leads the kids to the ship's control room. Well aware that Sideways is waiting for them on the other side of the door, they trigger their plan for the engine room, remotely triggering an explosion there that Sideways heads out to investigate. Once in the engine room, he finds only an insulting doodle scrawled on the wall before the kids, now in the control room, eject him out of the ship through the garbage chute. Unable to warp himself to safety, Sideways is shot out into space and with his threat removed, the kids shut down the jamming signal and make contact with the Autobots on Cybertron.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_in_the_warp_field.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Vector Prime picks up the kids signal and immediately informs Optimus Prime before opening a warp gate to the ''Atlantis'' through which he, Red Alert and Scattorshot depart. Before the gate shuts, however, [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] and [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] jump through it after the Autobots. As they appear in space near the ''Atlantis'', they radio Megatron to inform him of their discovery, and the Decepticon leader breaks off the fight on Cybertron, heading for the ''Atlantis'' through a dimension gate of his own.

Starscream, meanwhile, has also left the battle on Cybertron and returns to the ''Atlantis'', calling for Sideways to ready the ship for warp. Sideways, unbeknownst to him, is still drifting through space, so he activates the warp system himself. Realizing what Starscream has done, the kids and Mini-Cons immediately make for the escape pods, while Vector Prime's team prepares to meet them outside. The pods successfully launch but alas, the pod containing Bud, Jolt and [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] collides with Sideways's drifting body, and as a result, fails to escape the reach of the ''Atlantis'''s warp field. Megatron and Nemesis Breaker arrive just in time to witness the ship warp away...taking Bud and his two Mini-Con friends with it!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (2)
*[[Six-Speed]] (3)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (7)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (8)
*[[Vector Prime]] (9)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (10)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (12)
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] (15)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (16)
*[[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] (18)
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (19)
*[[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] (20)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (21)
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (23)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (24)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (27)
*[[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] (31)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (11)
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (13)
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (14)
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (17)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (22)
*[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] (25)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (26)
*[[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] (28)
*[[Lugnutz]] (29)
*[[Nemesis Breaker]] (30)

|c3=
*[[Coby Hansen]] (4)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (5)
*[[Lori]] (6)

|c4=
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (1)
*[[Primus]] (8)
}}

==Quotes==

"Oh no! Optimus Prime?! I'd better completely let my guard down and look! Like I'm gonna fall for that! I'd have to be a complete WAAAGH!"
:—'''Sideways''' is, in fact, a complete waaagh.

"Forget about holding your own in ''this'' battle! This time you're taking the express train to Loserville!" 
"Oh ''please''. 'The express train to Loserville'?"
:—'''Wing Saber's''' battle-cry gets critiqued by '''Optimus'''

"Another malfunction in the engine room? Slaggit! This is the crummiest evil hideout ''ever''!"
:—'''Sideways''' reacts to the kids' sabotage.

"Aw, now that's just mean!"[[Image:Cyb_ep35_wheeeeee.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]
:—'''Sideways''' is not impressed with the kids' drawing of him.

"Why do they care about those annoying kids anyway?" 
"I think they know stuff about that Omega Block thingy." 
"So, if we told Megatron where they are, maybe he'd give us a big reward!" 
"Maybe he'd even make us co-rulers of the universe!" 
"We could crush anyone we wanted!" 
"Or have your people do our crushing for us!" 
"Aw, Ransack, you used to be all about the crushing! Now look at you!"
:—'''Crumplezone''' and '''Ransack''' let power go to their heads.
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*''Galaxy Force'' includes a "previously on" segment that summarizes the events of "[[Memory]]".
*''Galaxy Force'' has Coby actively radio Vector Prime to let them know they are boarding the escape pods, while ''Cybertron'' has Vector Prime determine this independently by tracking the signal of Coby's communicator. Not exactly drowning in differences, this episode!

===Animation or technical errors===
*Thunderblast's voice is once again ''very'' heavily amplified in this episode.

===Continuity or plotting errors===
*Sideways spends the vast majority of this episode just standing around when he could be doing things. It takes the kids and Mini-Cons five whole seconds to get through Jolt's warp gate, and he just stands there and watches it happen, and when he confronts them in the hallway soon after, he ''just stands there'' and lets them plot instead of, I don't know, just ''stepping on them'', or something. however Sideways has been shown to be hopelesly lazy in [[Trust (Cybertron)|past episodes]].

===Transformers references===
*Thunderblast refers to Starscream with the nickname "Screamer", an epithet used to refer to the [[Starscream (G1)|original Starscream]] in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] episodes "[[Fire on the Mountain]]" and "[[B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.]]". The nickname is used much more frequently in the [[fandom]] than it ever is in official material, to refer to all the different [[Starscream (disambiguation)|Starscreams]] down the years.

===Real-world references===
* "Wherever you go, there you are," Lugnutz comments, quoting the title of the book by [[Wikipedia: Jon Kabat-Zinn|Jon Kabat-Zinn]].
* In addition to mistakenly calling the Omega Lock the "Omega Block" (as quoted above), another of Ransack's misnomers for the device is the "Elmyra Lock", apparently referencing the [[Wikipedia:Elmyra Duff|character of the same name]] from ''[[Wikipedia:Tiny Toon Adventures|Tiny Toon Adventures]]''!
===Trivia===
* This episode is remarkably over-padded, even for ''Cybertron''. The random Autobot fights with the Decepticons, already essentially filler, is padded even more by the addition of several stock transformation sequences. Starscream's full transformation sequence is shown twice, as is Sonic Wing Mode's. In fact, Optimus Prime separates from Wing Saber to converse with Vector Prime, and then initiates the combination ''again'' only 50 seconds later.
* Nemesis Breaker makes one of his two exceedingly rare non-stock-footage appearances in robot mode this episode. The other is in "[[Warp]]".

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 09 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Escape (episode)

2011-04-25T01:49:40Z

24.185.70.0: /* Continuity or plotting errors */

{{disambig3|Escape}}

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=35
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=36
|title="Escape"
|japanese=それゆけ脱出大作戦
|romaji=Sore Yuke Dasshutsu Daisakusen
|translation=The Big Escape Plan Go
|image=Cyb_ep35_kids_and_minicons.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Kenji Sugihara]]
|director=[[Masashi Nagao]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[September 10]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[September 7]], [[2006]] (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''With Sideways on their tail, the kids and the Mini-Cons must navigate the labyrinth of the ''Atlantis'' and alert the Autobots on Cybertron to their plight.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb ep35 jolt gate.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

In the starship ''[[Atlantis]]'', [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], [[Bud Hansen|Bud]], [[Lori]] and the [[Recon Mini-Con Team]] are confronted by [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]], but are able to quickly escape through one of [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]]'s [[dimension gate]]s. They teleport to another location within the ship, and begin a plan to shut down the electromagnetic jamming shield that is keeping them from contacting the [[Autobot]]s on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Coby brings up the map of the ''Atlantis'' that he downloaded into his communicator, and the team set off to find the jamming signal controls.

On Cybertron, [[Vector Prime]], [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] continue to use the base computers to scan for some trace of the kids and Mini-Cons, while the battle between [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]'s forces continues to rage outside. The only Decepticon not actively getting involved in the fight is [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]], who has been ordered to retrieve the [[Omega Lock]] by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]]. Fearing for her life if she does not complete the mission, the scheming Thunderblast contacts Starscream, who is observing the battle from a safe vantage point out in space, and asks him to come and help her carry the Omega Lock.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_face_of_foam.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Back on the ''Atlantis'', Bud comes up with a very good point: since the kids and Mini-Cons have identified the location of the control room, why are they ''walking'' there instead of warping? Jolt tries to open a warp gate, only to discover that he cannot, at which point Sideways emerges from the shadows and reveals that he has set up an anti-warping energy field within the ship. The team turns to run, but Sideways hurls his sword to block their path, and the kids push their luck, trying to distract Sideways by claiming that [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] is standing behind him. Recalling their previous trick with the hologram, Sideways doesn't fall for it, so they push it even further by claiming Optimus Prime is there instead. While he doesn't buy it for a second, Sideways decides to play along to mock the kids, but he only winds up giving Coby time to use his communicator to activate a fire extinguisher in the roof of the corridor. The extinguisher blinds Sideways with a faceful of foam, and the kids and Mini-Cons all leg it.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_thunderblast_cowers.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Back with the battle on Cybertron, Optimus Prime and [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] decide they are took evenly matched against Megatron and [[Nemesis Breaker]], and so they decide to switch up their tactics and pull back. Megatron moves to pursue them, but is shot out of the air by none other than Thunderblast, who then claims Starscream ordered her to do it! Starscream himself promptly arrives, and the two Decepticons are about to fight when Optimus Prime returns with [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]]. As they merge into Sonic Wing Mode, Thunderblast slinks away, exploiting her self-made distraction to make a break for the Omega Lock.

On the ''Atlantis'', Coby downloads his map into Jolt's brain, so the Mini-Con can lead them to their objective quickly. Although they have to drive because of the anti-warp field, they are able to move around comparatively quickly, since Sideways is also unable to warp after them. The team stops in the engine room, where they realized that the ship's self-repair function isn't working, and that Sideways has been fixing up the ship himself, putting an idea in their heads...

[[Image:Escape-Sidewaysmeandrawing.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Meanwhile, down on [[Earth]], [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] despairs over his current situation. Although he is done with the Decepticons, he realizes that he cannot return to the Autobots after his traitorous actions. [[Lugnutz]] observes his passage, and sagely acknowledges his plight, before wondering whatever happened to Starscream. Little does the hipster realize that his former boss is currently battling most of the Autobots on Cybertron!

Back on the ''Atlantis'', Jolt leads the kids to the ship's control room. Well aware that Sideways is waiting for them on the other side of the door, they trigger their plan for the engine room, remotely triggering an explosion there that Sideways heads out to investigate. Once in the engine room, he finds only an insulting doodle scrawled on the wall before the kids, now in the control room, eject him out of the ship through the garbage chute. Unable to warp himself to safety, Sideways is shot out into space and with his threat removed, the kids shut down the jamming signal and make contact with the Autobots on Cybertron.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_in_the_warp_field.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Vector Prime picks up the kids signal and immediately informs Optimus Prime before opening a warp gate to the ''Atlantis'' through which he, Red Alert and Scattorshot depart. Before the gate shuts, however, [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] and [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] jump through it after the Autobots. As they appear in space near the ''Atlantis'', they radio Megatron to inform him of their discovery, and the Decepticon leader breaks off the fight on Cybertron, heading for the ''Atlantis'' through a dimension gate of his own.

Starscream, meanwhile, has also left the battle on Cybertron and returns to the ''Atlantis'', calling for Sideways to ready the ship for warp. Sideways, unbeknownst to him, is still drifting through space, so he activates the warp system himself. Realizing what Starscream has done, the kids and Mini-Cons immediately make for the escape pods, while Vector Prime's team prepares to meet them outside. The pods successfully launch but alas, the pod containing Bud, Jolt and [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] collides with Sideways's drifting body, and as a result, fails to escape the reach of the ''Atlantis'''s warp field. Megatron and Nemesis Breaker arrive just in time to witness the ship warp away...taking Bud and his two Mini-Con friends with it!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (2)
*[[Six-Speed]] (3)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (7)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (8)
*[[Vector Prime]] (9)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (10)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (12)
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] (15)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (16)
*[[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] (18)
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (19)
*[[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] (20)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (21)
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (23)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (24)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (27)
*[[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] (31)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (11)
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (13)
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (14)
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (17)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (22)
*[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] (25)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (26)
*[[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] (28)
*[[Lugnutz]] (29)
*[[Nemesis Breaker]] (30)

|c3=
*[[Coby Hansen]] (4)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (5)
*[[Lori]] (6)

|c4=
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (1)
*[[Primus]] (8)
}}

==Quotes==

"Oh no! Optimus Prime?! I'd better completely let my guard down and look! Like I'm gonna fall for that! I'd have to be a complete WAAAGH!"
:—'''Sideways''' is, in fact, a complete waaagh.

"Forget about holding your own in ''this'' battle! This time you're taking the express train to Loserville!" 
"Oh ''please''. 'The express train to Loserville'?"
:—'''Wing Saber's''' battle-cry gets critiqued by '''Optimus'''

"Another malfunction in the engine room? Slaggit! This is the crummiest evil hideout ''ever''!"
:—'''Sideways''' reacts to the kids' sabotage.

"Aw, now that's just mean!"[[Image:Cyb_ep35_wheeeeee.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]
:—'''Sideways''' is not impressed with the kids' drawing of him.

"Why do they care about those annoying kids anyway?" 
"I think they know stuff about that Omega Block thingy." 
"So, if we told Megatron where they are, maybe he'd give us a big reward!" 
"Maybe he'd even make us co-rulers of the universe!" 
"We could crush anyone we wanted!" 
"Or have your people do our crushing for us!" 
"Aw, Ransack, you used to be all about the crushing! Now look at you!"
:—'''Crumplezone''' and '''Ransack''' let power go to their heads.
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*''Galaxy Force'' includes a "previously on" segment that summarizes the events of "[[Memory]]".
*''Galaxy Force'' has Coby actively radio Vector Prime to let them know they are boarding the escape pods, while ''Cybertron'' has Vector Prime determine this independently by tracking the signal of Coby's communicator. Not exactly drowning in differences, this episode!

===Animation or technical errors===
*Thunderblast's voice is once again ''very'' heavily amplified in this episode.

===Continuity or plotting errors===
*Sideways spends the vast majority of this episode just standing around when he could be doing things. It takes the kids and Mini-Cons five whole seconds to get through Jolt's warp gate, and he just stands there and watches it happen, and when he confronts them in the hallway soon after, he ''just stands there'' and lets them plot instead of, I don't know, just ''stepping on them'', or something. however Sideways has been shown to be hopelesly laxy in past episodes.

===Transformers references===
*Thunderblast refers to Starscream with the nickname "Screamer", an epithet used to refer to the [[Starscream (G1)|original Starscream]] in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] episodes "[[Fire on the Mountain]]" and "[[B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.]]". The nickname is used much more frequently in the [[fandom]] than it ever is in official material, to refer to all the different [[Starscream (disambiguation)|Starscreams]] down the years.

===Real-world references===
* "Wherever you go, there you are," Lugnutz comments, quoting the title of the book by [[Wikipedia: Jon Kabat-Zinn|Jon Kabat-Zinn]].
* In addition to mistakenly calling the Omega Lock the "Omega Block" (as quoted above), another of Ransack's misnomers for the device is the "Elmyra Lock", apparently referencing the [[Wikipedia:Elmyra Duff|character of the same name]] from ''[[Wikipedia:Tiny Toon Adventures|Tiny Toon Adventures]]''!
===Trivia===
* This episode is remarkably over-padded, even for ''Cybertron''. The random Autobot fights with the Decepticons, already essentially filler, is padded even more by the addition of several stock transformation sequences. Starscream's full transformation sequence is shown twice, as is Sonic Wing Mode's. In fact, Optimus Prime separates from Wing Saber to converse with Vector Prime, and then initiates the combination ''again'' only 50 seconds later.
* Nemesis Breaker makes one of his two exceedingly rare non-stock-footage appearances in robot mode this episode. The other is in "[[Warp]]".

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 09 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Escape (episode)

2011-04-25T00:47:30Z

24.185.70.0: /* Quotes */

{{disambig3|Escape}}

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=35
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=36
|title="Escape"
|japanese=それゆけ脱出大作戦
|romaji=Sore Yuke Dasshutsu Daisakusen
|translation=The Big Escape Plan Go
|image=Cyb_ep35_kids_and_minicons.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Kenji Sugihara]]
|director=[[Masashi Nagao]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[September 10]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[September 7]], [[2006]] (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''With Sideways on their tail, the kids and the Mini-Cons must navigate the labyrinth of the ''Atlantis'' and alert the Autobots on Cybertron to their plight.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb ep35 jolt gate.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

In the starship ''[[Atlantis]]'', [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], [[Bud Hansen|Bud]], [[Lori]] and the [[Recon Mini-Con Team]] are confronted by [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]], but are able to quickly escape through one of [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]]'s [[dimension gate]]s. They teleport to another location within the ship, and begin a plan to shut down the electromagnetic jamming shield that is keeping them from contacting the [[Autobot]]s on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Coby brings up the map of the ''Atlantis'' that he downloaded into his communicator, and the team set off to find the jamming signal controls.

On Cybertron, [[Vector Prime]], [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] continue to use the base computers to scan for some trace of the kids and Mini-Cons, while the battle between [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]'s forces continues to rage outside. The only Decepticon not actively getting involved in the fight is [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]], who has been ordered to retrieve the [[Omega Lock]] by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]]. Fearing for her life if she does not complete the mission, the scheming Thunderblast contacts Starscream, who is observing the battle from a safe vantage point out in space, and asks him to come and help her carry the Omega Lock.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_face_of_foam.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Back on the ''Atlantis'', Bud comes up with a very good point: since the kids and Mini-Cons have identified the location of the control room, why are they ''walking'' there instead of warping? Jolt tries to open a warp gate, only to discover that he cannot, at which point Sideways emerges from the shadows and reveals that he has set up an anti-warping energy field within the ship. The team turns to run, but Sideways hurls his sword to block their path, and the kids push their luck, trying to distract Sideways by claiming that [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] is standing behind him. Recalling their previous trick with the hologram, Sideways doesn't fall for it, so they push it even further by claiming Optimus Prime is there instead. While he doesn't buy it for a second, Sideways decides to play along to mock the kids, but he only winds up giving Coby time to use his communicator to activate a fire extinguisher in the roof of the corridor. The extinguisher blinds Sideways with a faceful of foam, and the kids and Mini-Cons all leg it.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_thunderblast_cowers.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Back with the battle on Cybertron, Optimus Prime and [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] decide they are took evenly matched against Megatron and [[Nemesis Breaker]], and so they decide to switch up their tactics and pull back. Megatron moves to pursue them, but is shot out of the air by none other than Thunderblast, who then claims Starscream ordered her to do it! Starscream himself promptly arrives, and the two Decepticons are about to fight when Optimus Prime returns with [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]]. As they merge into Sonic Wing Mode, Thunderblast slinks away, exploiting her self-made distraction to make a break for the Omega Lock.

On the ''Atlantis'', Coby downloads his map into Jolt's brain, so the Mini-Con can lead them to their objective quickly. Although they have to drive because of the anti-warp field, they are able to move around comparatively quickly, since Sideways is also unable to warp after them. The team stops in the engine room, where they realized that the ship's self-repair function isn't working, and that Sideways has been fixing up the ship himself, putting an idea in their heads...

[[Image:Escape-Sidewaysmeandrawing.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Meanwhile, down on [[Earth]], [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] despairs over his current situation. Although he is done with the Decepticons, he realizes that he cannot return to the Autobots after his traitorous actions. [[Lugnutz]] observes his passage, and sagely acknowledges his plight, before wondering whatever happened to Starscream. Little does the hipster realize that his former boss is currently battling most of the Autobots on Cybertron!

Back on the ''Atlantis'', Jolt leads the kids to the ship's control room. Well aware that Sideways is waiting for them on the other side of the door, they trigger their plan for the engine room, remotely triggering an explosion there that Sideways heads out to investigate. Once in the engine room, he finds only an insulting doodle scrawled on the wall before the kids, now in the control room, eject him out of the ship through the garbage chute. Unable to warp himself to safety, Sideways is shot out into space and with his threat removed, the kids shut down the jamming signal and make contact with the Autobots on Cybertron.

[[Image:Cyb_ep35_in_the_warp_field.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Vector Prime picks up the kids signal and immediately informs Optimus Prime before opening a warp gate to the ''Atlantis'' through which he, Red Alert and Scattorshot depart. Before the gate shuts, however, [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] and [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] jump through it after the Autobots. As they appear in space near the ''Atlantis'', they radio Megatron to inform him of their discovery, and the Decepticon leader breaks off the fight on Cybertron, heading for the ''Atlantis'' through a dimension gate of his own.

Starscream, meanwhile, has also left the battle on Cybertron and returns to the ''Atlantis'', calling for Sideways to ready the ship for warp. Sideways, unbeknownst to him, is still drifting through space, so he activates the warp system himself. Realizing what Starscream has done, the kids and Mini-Cons immediately make for the escape pods, while Vector Prime's team prepares to meet them outside. The pods successfully launch but alas, the pod containing Bud, Jolt and [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] collides with Sideways's drifting body, and as a result, fails to escape the reach of the ''Atlantis'''s warp field. Megatron and Nemesis Breaker arrive just in time to witness the ship warp away...taking Bud and his two Mini-Con friends with it!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (2)
*[[Six-Speed]] (3)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (7)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (8)
*[[Vector Prime]] (9)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (10)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (12)
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] (15)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (16)
*[[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] (18)
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (19)
*[[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] (20)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (21)
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (23)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (24)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (27)
*[[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] (31)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (11)
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (13)
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (14)
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (17)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (22)
*[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] (25)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (26)
*[[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] (28)
*[[Lugnutz]] (29)
*[[Nemesis Breaker]] (30)

|c3=
*[[Coby Hansen]] (4)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (5)
*[[Lori]] (6)

|c4=
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (1)
*[[Primus]] (8)
}}

==Quotes==

"Oh no! Optimus Prime?! I'd better completely let my guard down and look! Like I'm gonna fall for that! I'd have to be a complete WAAAGH!"
:—'''Sideways''' is, in fact, a complete waaagh.

"Forget about holding your own in ''this'' battle! This time you're taking the express train to Loserville!" 
"Oh ''please''. 'The express train to Loserville'?"
:—'''Wing Saber's''' battle-cry gets critiqued by '''Optimus'''

"Another malfunction in the engine room? Slaggit! This is the crummiest evil hideout ''ever''!"
:—'''Sideways''' reacts to the kids' sabotage.

"Aw, now that's just mean!"[[Image:Cyb_ep35_wheeeeee.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]
:—'''Sideways''' is not impressed with the kids' drawing of him.

"Why do they care about those annoying kids anyway?" 
"I think they know stuff about that Omega Block thingy." 
"So, if we told Megatron where they are, maybe he'd give us a big reward!" 
"Maybe he'd even make us co-rulers of the universe!" 
"We could crush anyone we wanted!" 
"Or have your people do our crushing for us!" 
"Aw, Ransack, you used to be all about the crushing! Now look at you!"
:—'''Crumplezone''' and '''Ransack''' let power go to their heads.
{{--}}

Okay, all we have to do is find the omega lock and get the funk out of here
:-Ooh!''' [[Thunderblast]]''' said a bad word.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*''Galaxy Force'' includes a "previously on" segment that summarizes the events of "[[Memory]]".
*''Galaxy Force'' has Coby actively radio Vector Prime to let them know they are boarding the escape pods, while ''Cybertron'' has Vector Prime determine this independently by tracking the signal of Coby's communicator. Not exactly drowning in differences, this episode!

===Animation or technical errors===
*Thunderblast's voice is once again ''very'' heavily amplified in this episode.

===Continuity or plotting errors===
*Sideways spends the vast majority of this episode just standing around when he could be doing things. It takes the kids and Mini-Cons five whole seconds to get through Jolt's warp gate, and he just stands there and watches it happen, and when he confronts them in the hallway soon after, he ''just stands there'' and lets them plot instead of, I don't know, just ''stepping on them'', or something.

===Transformers references===
*Thunderblast refers to Starscream with the nickname "Screamer", an epithet used to refer to the [[Starscream (G1)|original Starscream]] in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] episodes "[[Fire on the Mountain]]" and "[[B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.]]". The nickname is used much more frequently in the [[fandom]] than it ever is in official material, to refer to all the different [[Starscream (disambiguation)|Starscreams]] down the years.

===Real-world references===
* "Wherever you go, there you are," Lugnutz comments, quoting the title of the book by [[Wikipedia: Jon Kabat-Zinn|Jon Kabat-Zinn]].
* In addition to mistakenly calling the Omega Lock the "Omega Block" (as quoted above), another of Ransack's misnomers for the device is the "Elmyra Lock", apparently referencing the [[Wikipedia:Elmyra Duff|character of the same name]] from ''[[Wikipedia:Tiny Toon Adventures|Tiny Toon Adventures]]''!
===Trivia===
* This episode is remarkably over-padded, even for ''Cybertron''. The random Autobot fights with the Decepticons, already essentially filler, is padded even more by the addition of several stock transformation sequences. Starscream's full transformation sequence is shown twice, as is Sonic Wing Mode's. In fact, Optimus Prime separates from Wing Saber to converse with Vector Prime, and then initiates the combination ''again'' only 50 seconds later.
* Nemesis Breaker makes one of his two exceedingly rare non-stock-footage appearances in robot mode this episode. The other is in "[[Warp]]".

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 09 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Trust (Cybertron)

2011-04-24T15:28:12Z

24.185.70.0: /* Quotes */

{{disambig2|the Cybertron episode|the Armada episode|Trust (Armada)}}
{{episode|
|series=cybertron
|ep=22
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=23
|title="Trust"
|japanese=決戦! アニマトロス
|romaji=Kessen! Animatros
|translation=Climatic Battle! Animatros
|image=Cyb_ep22_autobots_together.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Hiro Masaki]]
|director=[[Oyunamu]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[June 11]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[October 18]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Optimus Prime's trust in Leobreaker is all that stands between the Decepticons and Jungle Planet's Cyber Planet Key.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb_ep22_shell_game.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Galled at both [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]]'s decision to give [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]]'s [[Cyber Planet Key]] to the [[Autobot]]s and his change of heart in his attitude toward subordinates, [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] leads [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] on an air raid of Scourge's temple. While the Autobots try to fight them off, [[Lori]] petitions Scourge for his aid in the battle, but the dragon-bot has no desire to get involved in their war. To keep the Cyber Planet Key out of the [[Decepticon]]s' clutches, [[Vector Prime]] and [[Backstop (Cybertron)|Backstop]] follow [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]'s instructions to conceal the key within a box, and then distribute it and several dummy boxes among the Autobots. With none of the Autobots aware which of them is carrying the real key, they break into teams and head off in different directions, splintering the pursuing Decepticon forces.

[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] and [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] have to deal with the wild terrain of Jungle Planet as they are pursued by [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] and [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]], who manage to get ahold of their box. When Ransack opens it, however, he is met with a spring-loaded boxing glove to the face. At the same time, [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] engages Vector Prime, using his newly-revealed ability to warp to keep the elderly Transformer at bay, then using his [[insignia]]-switching power to dupe [[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] and snatch Vector Prime's box. He has as much luck as Ransack, though, finding only a rock inside. As these two clashes play out, Optimus Prime tries to douse the fires around the temple started by Thundercracker, and Scourge comes to his aid in the interest of protecting his planet, taking Thundercracker out with a blast of his own flame.

[[Image:Cyb_ep22_eets_your_grave.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Snarl and Leobreaker, meanwhile, have escaped to a nearby shoreline, drawing attention to themselves deliberately by eschewing the cover of the jungle, based on Leobreaker's belief that there is no way Optimus would trust him with the real Key. The pair suddenly fall into a pit dug by [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]], but are able to quickly extricate themselves and overpower Mudflap, hurling him into the ocean. Leobreaker is then given pause to reconsider his tactic, debating the possibility that he does indeed have the real key, and after conferring with Snarl, the pair decide to head into the jungle.

Elsewhere, Megatron confronts Optimus Prime, who is carrying the one remaining box. The two enemies attack simultaneously, but Prime's blast is the one that finds its mark, and Megatron is laid low. Megatron mocks Prime for being too weak to deliver a killing blow, and when Prime turns to leave, Megatron quickly transforms to vehicle mode and drives into him, causing him to drop the box. This one, too, contains only a rock, meaning that Leobreaker ''is'' actually carrying the real key! Megatron is surprised that Prime has that much trust in any of his troops, but Prime merely finds it sad that Megatron can't trust any of ''his'' men that much. Dismissing the issue, Megatron and Starscream head after the key with all due haste.

[[Image:Cyb_ep22_key_and_matrix.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

The two Decepticons catch up to Snarl and Leobreaker in the jungle, and Starscream locks swords with Snarl while Megatron stalks Leobreaker through greenery. Megatron's taunts draw Leobreaker out of hiding, but before the two can battle, Optimus Prime arrives to back his friend up. The pair combine into Savage Claw Mode, only to be cut down from behind by Starscream. As the merged pair fall, they drop the box containing the Cyber Planet Key, and Megatron seizes it, before preparing to deliver the final blow. Before he can, Prime's [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] shines with energy, interacting with the Cyber Planet Key and causing a beam of energy to shoot into the sky. At first, nothing seems to come of it, and Megatron returns to the matter at hand... when he is suddenly hit by a barrage of a laser fire! Looking heavenward, everyone sees that the Matrix and the Key have opened a [[space bridge]] to [[Earth]], and all the other Autobots, [[Mini-Con]]s and humans have come to join their comrades! Surrounded by Autobots, Megatron tries to muscle his way through, but Prime is able to muster enough strength for a final attack, taking out Megatron and reacquiring the Cyber Planet Key.

[[Image:Cyb_ep22_crosswise_emerges.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Cue ''"Knight Rider"'' Theme]]

After the Decepticons retreat, the heroes all regroup back at Scourge's temple, where Lori greets them. [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] is especially impressed with Scourge's fearsome dragon form, but the Jungle Planet leader is now thoroughly tired of outsiders and strange little creatures cluttering up his planet, and orders them all to leave. With the Key now in their hands, the Autobots comply and head back to Earth through the space bridge. On their journey, Vector Prime asks the Mini-Cons how the "secret mission" he assigned them was going, and [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] attempts to tell him about their new alliance with [[Lucy Suzuki]], only to be drowned out by some shouts from Coby, who worries what the other Autobots will think about another human knowing of their existence.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Lucy Suzuki's ears would probably be burning, if she wasn't in the middle of a freezing blizzard, still carrying on her research in the Arctic. When some of her fellow scientists discover a [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|huge object]] frozen in a wall of ice, Lucy is called in to examine, but none of the assembled men and women of science expect a beam to burst from the ice and scan the car that brought her! The ice wall crumbles, and a perfect replica of the car bursts out, much to everyone's shock... except, perhaps, that of the [[Colonel Franklin|government agent]] watching through binoculars from nearby, who announces that at last, he has seen a robot in disguise with his own eyes....

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (4)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (5)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (6)
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (7)
*[[Vector Prime]] (8)
*[[Backstop (Cybertron)|Backstop]] (9)
*[[Six-Speed]] (18)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (19)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (20)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (21)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (22)
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (23)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (24)
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] (28)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (3)
*[[Undermine]] (10)
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (11)
*[[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]] (12)
*[[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] (15)
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (16)
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (17)

|c3=
*[[Lori]] (13)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (25)
*[[Coby Hansen]] (26)
*[[Lucy Suzuki]] (27)
*[[Colonel Franklin]] (29)

|c4=
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (14)
}}

==Quotes==

'''Starscream:''' I still can't believe Scourge sold out to the Autobots! 
'''Megatron:''' Bah! He has decided to act like Optimus Prime! 
'''Thundercracker:''' What'cha mean, big guy? 
'''Megatron:''' He considers himself a leader who protects his subordinates at potential cost to his own welfare. Such noble sentiments are only held by the weak and foolish...it makes me sick! 
'''Thundercracker:''' Ah get it! 
''[pause]'' 
'''Thundercracker:''' Hold the relish! Does that mean in a pickle, you'd forget about me? ''[to Starscream]'' You too?! 
''[Starscream and Megatron silently fly off]'' 
'''Thundercracker:''' Wait! Wait up! Why d' y'all skeedaddle whenever Ah talk?!

"You wanna rumble in my jungle?! That's all right by me!" 
"Sorry...but I'm hungry like the ''wooooolf''!"
:—'''Leobreaker''' and '''Snarl''' unleash their dreaded puns on Mudflap.

'''Megatron:''': Were is the rest of our team? 
'''Starscream:''':Their indesposed 
'''Thundercracker:''':My Nose Cone!!! 
'''Ransack''':(to crumplezone) Jump!!! 
'''Mudflap''':(Drowning noise) 
'''Sideways''': La-De-Da-De Da... 
'''Starscream:''' Luckily, you still have me. 
'''Megatron:''' Hm. Yes. But do I really trust you? 
'''Starscream:''' No, I don't think you do. 

"You should visit Earth! You have friends there now!" 
"By the Spark of the Ancients, don't you ever give up?!"
:—'''Lori''' is going to make '''Scourge''' nice whether he likes it or not.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*In ''Galaxy Force'', as Vector Prime hands out the boxes, he sagely states: "To fool your enemies, you must first fool your allies." In ''Cybertron'', he doesn't say this, and it isn't replaced with anything, leading to an odd moment of noticeable silence.
*As Hot Shot and Override race off with their box, ''Galaxy Force'' has them comment on how difficult Jungle Planet is to drive on (which is why Override has to blast the tree stump). ''Cybertron'' replaces the exchange (for no apparent reason) with some general banter about the scenery.
*In ''Cybertron'', Lori briefly believes the final box is her responsibility, when actually, it is Optimus Prime's. In ''Galaxy Force'', she's not so deluded.
*''Cybertron'' has Leobreaker unsure of what to do following his battle with Mudflap, and sees him consider the possibility that he does have the real key. In ''Galaxy Force'', hesitance doesn't enter into it; he immediately decides that making themselves an easy target will only help convince the Decepticons they do ''not'' have the real key, so he has to start thinking and acting like ''does'' have it, even though, unlike ''Cybertron'', he genuinely never believes Optimus trusts him that much.
*As he stalks Leobreaker through the jungle, ''Galaxy Force'' has Megatron insult both his bravery and that of Optimus Prime. It is the insult against his commander that Leobreaker cannot brook, causing him to reveal himself. In ''Cybertron'', Megatron only insults Leobreaker himself, and that's enough to make the lion-bot snap.
*When Lori greets Coby and Bud, ''Cybertron'' merely has her ask what took them so long. In ''Galaxy Force'', she is miffed to see Coby, because that means he has been allowed to go to two different planets, when she and Bud have only been to one.

===Animation or technical errors===
[[Image:Cyb_ep22_maskless_ransack.jpg|right|thumb|220px|The Lone Ranger revealed!]]
*For the entirety of this episode, Ransack is missing the black "mask" that normally surrounds his eyes.
*Footage of Optimus Prime dousing the fire from the air is recycled from "[[Inferno (episode)|Inferno]]".

===Continuity or plotting errors===

*Megatron is struck by a laser blast from the Autobots...before the space bridge is actually shown to open.

===Transformers references===
*As Megatron transforms before engaging Optimus Prime in battle, he declares that he has "waited an eternity for this," paraphrasing [[Megatron (G1)|Generation 1 Megatron]]'s famous line from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. This the first instance of ''Cybertron'' homaging a line from the movie...but it will not be the last!
*Leobreaker is still combining with Optimus Prime as his left arm, after the damage their normal right-armed combination suffered in the previous episode.
*The kids met Lucy Suzuki in "[[Race]]". She was carrying out research in the Arctic, and discovered the truth about the Transformers, when they met her again in "[[Ice]]".
*By now familiar to regular audiences, the mysterious government agent has previously appeared in "[[Hidden]]", "[[Collapse]]" and "[[Race]]". He's about to stop being mysterious soon, we promise!

===Real-world references===
*Vector Prime describes the Autobots' gambit with the boxes as a [[Wikipedia:shell game|shell game]].
*Crumplezone paraphrases the classic philosophical riddle about a [[Wikipedia:If a tree falls in a forest|tree falling in a forest]], except he's talking about Autobots.
*As Leobreaker leaps at Mudflap, he declares: "You wanna rumble in my jungle? That's all right by me!", a seeming fusion of two different references. The line is apparently derived from the 1974 Jethro Tull song "Bungle in the Jungle" (which features the lyrics "Let's bungle in my jungle/Well, that's all right by me!"), incorporating a reference to [[Wikipedia:The Rumble in the Jungle|The ''Rumble'' in the Jungle]], the famous boxing match between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman from the same year.
*The musical reference Snarl makes right afterward is a lot more clear, as he announces himself to be "hungry like the wolf," quoting the 1982 Duran Duran song of the same name.
*Megatron mocks Leobreaker by calling him a [[wikipedia:Cowardly Lion|Cowardly Lion]].

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 06 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Trust (Cybertron)

2011-04-24T15:26:59Z

24.185.70.0: /* Quotes */

{{disambig2|the Cybertron episode|the Armada episode|Trust (Armada)}}
{{episode|
|series=cybertron
|ep=22
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=23
|title="Trust"
|japanese=決戦! アニマトロス
|romaji=Kessen! Animatros
|translation=Climatic Battle! Animatros
|image=Cyb_ep22_autobots_together.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Hiro Masaki]]
|director=[[Oyunamu]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[June 11]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[October 18]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Optimus Prime's trust in Leobreaker is all that stands between the Decepticons and Jungle Planet's Cyber Planet Key.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb_ep22_shell_game.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Galled at both [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]]'s decision to give [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]]'s [[Cyber Planet Key]] to the [[Autobot]]s and his change of heart in his attitude toward subordinates, [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] leads [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] on an air raid of Scourge's temple. While the Autobots try to fight them off, [[Lori]] petitions Scourge for his aid in the battle, but the dragon-bot has no desire to get involved in their war. To keep the Cyber Planet Key out of the [[Decepticon]]s' clutches, [[Vector Prime]] and [[Backstop (Cybertron)|Backstop]] follow [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]'s instructions to conceal the key within a box, and then distribute it and several dummy boxes among the Autobots. With none of the Autobots aware which of them is carrying the real key, they break into teams and head off in different directions, splintering the pursuing Decepticon forces.

[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] and [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] have to deal with the wild terrain of Jungle Planet as they are pursued by [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] and [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]], who manage to get ahold of their box. When Ransack opens it, however, he is met with a spring-loaded boxing glove to the face. At the same time, [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] engages Vector Prime, using his newly-revealed ability to warp to keep the elderly Transformer at bay, then using his [[insignia]]-switching power to dupe [[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] and snatch Vector Prime's box. He has as much luck as Ransack, though, finding only a rock inside. As these two clashes play out, Optimus Prime tries to douse the fires around the temple started by Thundercracker, and Scourge comes to his aid in the interest of protecting his planet, taking Thundercracker out with a blast of his own flame.

[[Image:Cyb_ep22_eets_your_grave.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Snarl and Leobreaker, meanwhile, have escaped to a nearby shoreline, drawing attention to themselves deliberately by eschewing the cover of the jungle, based on Leobreaker's belief that there is no way Optimus would trust him with the real Key. The pair suddenly fall into a pit dug by [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]], but are able to quickly extricate themselves and overpower Mudflap, hurling him into the ocean. Leobreaker is then given pause to reconsider his tactic, debating the possibility that he does indeed have the real key, and after conferring with Snarl, the pair decide to head into the jungle.

Elsewhere, Megatron confronts Optimus Prime, who is carrying the one remaining box. The two enemies attack simultaneously, but Prime's blast is the one that finds its mark, and Megatron is laid low. Megatron mocks Prime for being too weak to deliver a killing blow, and when Prime turns to leave, Megatron quickly transforms to vehicle mode and drives into him, causing him to drop the box. This one, too, contains only a rock, meaning that Leobreaker ''is'' actually carrying the real key! Megatron is surprised that Prime has that much trust in any of his troops, but Prime merely finds it sad that Megatron can't trust any of ''his'' men that much. Dismissing the issue, Megatron and Starscream head after the key with all due haste.

[[Image:Cyb_ep22_key_and_matrix.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

The two Decepticons catch up to Snarl and Leobreaker in the jungle, and Starscream locks swords with Snarl while Megatron stalks Leobreaker through greenery. Megatron's taunts draw Leobreaker out of hiding, but before the two can battle, Optimus Prime arrives to back his friend up. The pair combine into Savage Claw Mode, only to be cut down from behind by Starscream. As the merged pair fall, they drop the box containing the Cyber Planet Key, and Megatron seizes it, before preparing to deliver the final blow. Before he can, Prime's [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] shines with energy, interacting with the Cyber Planet Key and causing a beam of energy to shoot into the sky. At first, nothing seems to come of it, and Megatron returns to the matter at hand... when he is suddenly hit by a barrage of a laser fire! Looking heavenward, everyone sees that the Matrix and the Key have opened a [[space bridge]] to [[Earth]], and all the other Autobots, [[Mini-Con]]s and humans have come to join their comrades! Surrounded by Autobots, Megatron tries to muscle his way through, but Prime is able to muster enough strength for a final attack, taking out Megatron and reacquiring the Cyber Planet Key.

[[Image:Cyb_ep22_crosswise_emerges.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Cue ''"Knight Rider"'' Theme]]

After the Decepticons retreat, the heroes all regroup back at Scourge's temple, where Lori greets them. [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] is especially impressed with Scourge's fearsome dragon form, but the Jungle Planet leader is now thoroughly tired of outsiders and strange little creatures cluttering up his planet, and orders them all to leave. With the Key now in their hands, the Autobots comply and head back to Earth through the space bridge. On their journey, Vector Prime asks the Mini-Cons how the "secret mission" he assigned them was going, and [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] attempts to tell him about their new alliance with [[Lucy Suzuki]], only to be drowned out by some shouts from Coby, who worries what the other Autobots will think about another human knowing of their existence.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Lucy Suzuki's ears would probably be burning, if she wasn't in the middle of a freezing blizzard, still carrying on her research in the Arctic. When some of her fellow scientists discover a [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|huge object]] frozen in a wall of ice, Lucy is called in to examine, but none of the assembled men and women of science expect a beam to burst from the ice and scan the car that brought her! The ice wall crumbles, and a perfect replica of the car bursts out, much to everyone's shock... except, perhaps, that of the [[Colonel Franklin|government agent]] watching through binoculars from nearby, who announces that at last, he has seen a robot in disguise with his own eyes....

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (4)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (5)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (6)
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (7)
*[[Vector Prime]] (8)
*[[Backstop (Cybertron)|Backstop]] (9)
*[[Six-Speed]] (18)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (19)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (20)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (21)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (22)
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (23)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (24)
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] (28)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (3)
*[[Undermine]] (10)
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (11)
*[[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]] (12)
*[[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] (15)
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (16)
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (17)

|c3=
*[[Lori]] (13)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (25)
*[[Coby Hansen]] (26)
*[[Lucy Suzuki]] (27)
*[[Colonel Franklin]] (29)

|c4=
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (14)
}}

==Quotes==

'''Starscream:''' I still can't believe Scourge sold out to the Autobots! 
'''Megatron:''' Bah! He has decided to act like Optimus Prime! 
'''Thundercracker:''' What'cha mean, big guy? 
'''Megatron:''' He considers himself a leader who protects his subordinates at potential cost to his own welfare. Such noble sentiments are only held by the weak and foolish...it makes me sick! 
'''Thundercracker:''' Ah get it! 
''[pause]'' 
'''Thundercracker:''' Hold the relish! Does that mean in a pickle, you'd forget about me? ''[to Starscream]'' You too?! 
''[Starscream and Megatron silently fly off]'' 
'''Thundercracker:''' Wait! Wait up! Why d' y'all skeedaddle whenever Ah talk?!

"You wanna rumble in my jungle?! That's all right by me!" 
"Sorry...but I'm hungry like the ''wooooolf''!"
:—'''Leobreaker''' and '''Snarl''' unleash their dreaded puns on Mudflap.

'''Megatron:''': Were is the rest of our team?
'''Starscream:''':Their indesposed
'''Thundercracker:''':My Nose Cone!!!
'''Ransack''':(to crumplezone) Jump!!!
'''Mudflap''':(Drowning noise)
'''Sideways''': La-De-Da-De Da...
'''Starscream:''' Luckily, you still have me. 
'''Megatron:''' Hm. Yes. But do I really trust you? 
'''Starscream:''' No, I don't think you do. 

"You should visit Earth! You have friends there now!" 
"By the Spark of the Ancients, don't you ever give up?!"
:—'''Lori''' is going to make '''Scourge''' nice whether he likes it or not.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*In ''Galaxy Force'', as Vector Prime hands out the boxes, he sagely states: "To fool your enemies, you must first fool your allies." In ''Cybertron'', he doesn't say this, and it isn't replaced with anything, leading to an odd moment of noticeable silence.
*As Hot Shot and Override race off with their box, ''Galaxy Force'' has them comment on how difficult Jungle Planet is to drive on (which is why Override has to blast the tree stump). ''Cybertron'' replaces the exchange (for no apparent reason) with some general banter about the scenery.
*In ''Cybertron'', Lori briefly believes the final box is her responsibility, when actually, it is Optimus Prime's. In ''Galaxy Force'', she's not so deluded.
*''Cybertron'' has Leobreaker unsure of what to do following his battle with Mudflap, and sees him consider the possibility that he does have the real key. In ''Galaxy Force'', hesitance doesn't enter into it; he immediately decides that making themselves an easy target will only help convince the Decepticons they do ''not'' have the real key, so he has to start thinking and acting like ''does'' have it, even though, unlike ''Cybertron'', he genuinely never believes Optimus trusts him that much.
*As he stalks Leobreaker through the jungle, ''Galaxy Force'' has Megatron insult both his bravery and that of Optimus Prime. It is the insult against his commander that Leobreaker cannot brook, causing him to reveal himself. In ''Cybertron'', Megatron only insults Leobreaker himself, and that's enough to make the lion-bot snap.
*When Lori greets Coby and Bud, ''Cybertron'' merely has her ask what took them so long. In ''Galaxy Force'', she is miffed to see Coby, because that means he has been allowed to go to two different planets, when she and Bud have only been to one.

===Animation or technical errors===
[[Image:Cyb_ep22_maskless_ransack.jpg|right|thumb|220px|The Lone Ranger revealed!]]
*For the entirety of this episode, Ransack is missing the black "mask" that normally surrounds his eyes.
*Footage of Optimus Prime dousing the fire from the air is recycled from "[[Inferno (episode)|Inferno]]".

===Continuity or plotting errors===

*Megatron is struck by a laser blast from the Autobots...before the space bridge is actually shown to open.

===Transformers references===
*As Megatron transforms before engaging Optimus Prime in battle, he declares that he has "waited an eternity for this," paraphrasing [[Megatron (G1)|Generation 1 Megatron]]'s famous line from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. This the first instance of ''Cybertron'' homaging a line from the movie...but it will not be the last!
*Leobreaker is still combining with Optimus Prime as his left arm, after the damage their normal right-armed combination suffered in the previous episode.
*The kids met Lucy Suzuki in "[[Race]]". She was carrying out research in the Arctic, and discovered the truth about the Transformers, when they met her again in "[[Ice]]".
*By now familiar to regular audiences, the mysterious government agent has previously appeared in "[[Hidden]]", "[[Collapse]]" and "[[Race]]". He's about to stop being mysterious soon, we promise!

===Real-world references===
*Vector Prime describes the Autobots' gambit with the boxes as a [[Wikipedia:shell game|shell game]].
*Crumplezone paraphrases the classic philosophical riddle about a [[Wikipedia:If a tree falls in a forest|tree falling in a forest]], except he's talking about Autobots.
*As Leobreaker leaps at Mudflap, he declares: "You wanna rumble in my jungle? That's all right by me!", a seeming fusion of two different references. The line is apparently derived from the 1974 Jethro Tull song "Bungle in the Jungle" (which features the lyrics "Let's bungle in my jungle/Well, that's all right by me!"), incorporating a reference to [[Wikipedia:The Rumble in the Jungle|The ''Rumble'' in the Jungle]], the famous boxing match between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman from the same year.
*The musical reference Snarl makes right afterward is a lot more clear, as he announces himself to be "hungry like the wolf," quoting the 1982 Duran Duran song of the same name.
*Megatron mocks Leobreaker by calling him a [[wikipedia:Cowardly Lion|Cowardly Lion]].

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 06 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Trap

2011-04-24T15:16:30Z

24.185.70.0: /* Animation or technical errors */

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=23
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=24
|title="Trap"
|japanese=怪物たちの復活
|romaji=Kaibutsu-tachi no Fukkatsu
|translation=Revival of the Monsters
|image=Cyb_ep23_stasis_pods.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Kazuhiko Sōma]]
|director=[[Atsuhi Nigorikawa]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[June 18]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[October 19]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''As the quest for the third Cyber Planet Key begins, Starscream finally makes his move!'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb_ep23_ye_olde_crosswise.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

In the forests of [[Alaska]], the [[Autobot]] [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] has escaped his icy prison and is in the process of evading the humans searching for him. Transforming to vehicle mode and hiding amongst ordinary traffic, Crosswise reflects on his past as a "monster hunter," hunting down and sealing away mysterious creatures that threatened humankind thousands of years ago. Fearing for the security of the seal keeping the monsters trapped in their underground prison, Crosswise races against time to reach it.

In the [[fire dimension]], [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] rages at his troops over their three successive failures, having lost the [[Omega Lock]] and the [[Cyber Planet Key]]s from [[Velocitron]] and [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]]. He is about to destroy the [[Planet Map]] in his fury when [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] stops him. Taking the map into his own hands, Starscream gets it to offer up the supposed location of the third Cyber Planet Key, and Megatron immediately takes his troops into space to find it. When [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] notices that Starscream does not depart through Megatron's [[dimension gate]], he pauses, and watches as Starscream opens a gate of his own, to [[Earth]]. Suspecting that Starscream is at last about to make his long-foreshadowed move, Sideways decides to accompany him.

[[Image:Cyb ep23 crosswise vs starscream.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

The [[Autobot]]s, meanwhile, have returned to Earth, with [[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] in tow. The wolf-bot is ill at ease in the artificial enclosure that is the Autobots' base, but [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] and the kids offer to help him get acclimated by giving him a tour.

Elswhere on Earth, the mysterious government agent that has long been observing the Transformers—at last identified as "[[Colonel Franklin]]"—is mobilizing the armed forces to capture the fugitive Crosswise. The Autobot soon comes across a roadblock intended to apprehend him, and uses his [[Cyber Key]] power to blast out the guard wall of the road, allowing him to escape by going off-road. The light from his Cyber Key attracts the attention of Starscream and Sideways, who track him until he arrives at the site of his still-intact seal. Crosswise remains on guard when Starscream approaches him, and asks him a question that makes Sideways start in surprise: Starscream believes that the third Cyber Planet Key is on Earth, and that Crosswise knows where it is! A two-on-one battle erupts, but Crosswise is wise enough to know when to cut-and-run, so Starscream has Sideways pursue him while he investigates the mysterious subterranean seal.

[[Image:Cyb ep23 minicon mediums.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Back at the Autobot base, the team prepares to add Jungle Planet's Cyber Planet Key to the Omega Lock. [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] offers the task to Snarl, but he defers to [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]], who he deems much worthier, and all the other Autobots support the choice. Leobreaker nervously carries out the task, at which point the Omega Lock explodes with a golden radiance that engulfs everyone present. No sooner has [[Vector Prime]] identified the glow as the light of [[Primus]] than the world fades away around the assembled Autobots and humans, and is replaced with a purplish, featureless void. Vector Prime speculates that they have been drawn into the consciousness of Primus himself, and his theory is soon borne out, as the Mini-Cons begin to glow golden. Primus's powerful, booming voice speaks through the tiny robots, who serve as mediums for the deity, and he tells his children to "protect the balance, until all are one." As the light fades and reality returns, the Autobots' alarm system begin blaring, once again alerting them to the presence of something in the [[Arctic|North Pole]].

Meanwhile, another of the Autobots' acquaintances is running afoul of Colonel Franklin's blockade: [[Lucy Suzuki]] is trying to get back to her lab to analyze the date she has gathered in her research. She is eager to know why Crosswise was hidden in ice, and, impatience getting the best of her, she gets out of her car to ask when the blockade will be lifted. It turns out Colonel Franklin himself is present to supervise, and he greets her with a warmth that leaves her quite surprised.

[[Image:Cyb ep23 ancient decepticons.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Not that far away, Optimus Prime, Jetfire, Leobreaker and [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] arrive at the site of the signal, which turns out to be the site of Crosswise's seal. Unaware that the massive tunnel that lies gaping before them has been blasted open by Starscream, three of the Autobots venture into the huge tunnel while Jetfire waits up top. The tunnel leads them deep into the bowels of the Earth, where discover a massive chamber full of strange metallic "eggs", which [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] remotely analyses and deduces are [[stasis pod]]s containing creatures emitting Transformer-like life signals Starscream suddenly appears and quickly takes down the three Autobots, before grandiloquently addressing the heavens and blasting the central column of the chamber, deactivating Crosswise's seal and opening all the stasis pods. As [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] and the others stare with wide eyes at the scene unfolding on the monitor before them, monstrous, shadowed creatures emerge from the pods, which Bud is able to identify as [[Werewolf|werewolves]], [[vampire]]s, [[Bigfoot]] and more. Starscream then reveals that these are not mythological beasts, but the ancient Decepticons who once lived on Earth millennia ago, and Bud puts two and two together, realising that all the legends of terrible creatures from Earth's past were really stories about Decepticons!

[[Image:Cyb_ep23_starscreams_address.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

At Starscream's command, the ancient Decepticons stride forward, their true robotic natures revealing themselves, and converge on the three Autobots before them. Unable to fight against a horde of such numbers, the Autobots are forced back, at which point Starscream blasts open the roof of the cavern, allowing his new army to escape, and entombing Prime's team. Jetfire spots the escaping Decepticons and attempts to engage Starscream, but quickly breaks off when the Decepticon informs him of his leader's fate. Soon after, Starscream addresses his assembled army, promising to bring about a new world order for the Decepticons. In the process, he is reminded that he needs to check in on his other plan...

Somewhere in space, not too far from the Jungle Planet, Megatron and the other Decepticons have followed the map to the supposed location of the next Cyber Planet Key. [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] observes that the map is doing something strange, and the other Decepticons lean in to look. [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] is crowding [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]], so the smaller 'bot shoves him back...which spares Crumplezone from what comes next! The Planet Map suddenly begins to glow, and when the light fades, all the Decepticons save for Crumplezone are encased within a massive metallic sphere! Starscream projects his image through the duplicate map, informing Megatron that he is in command now, and Megatron bellows Starscream's name deep into the cosmic night...

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] (1)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (9)
*[[Vector Prime]] (11)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (13)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (14)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (15)
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (16)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (17)
*[[Six-Speed]] (18)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (19)
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (20)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (21)
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (22)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (23)
*[[Primus]] (24, voice only)

|c2=
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (4)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (5)
*[[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] (6)
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (7)
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (8)
*[[Ancient Decepticon]]s (27 and lots, lots more!)

|c3=
*[[Coby Hansen]] (10)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (11)
*[[Lori]] (12)
*[[Colonel Franklin]] (17)
*Lucy's friend (25)
*[[Lucy Suzuki]] (26)

|c4=
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (3)
}}

==Quotes==

"You made the map work, but ''I'll'' lead the way. ''You'' guard the rear."
:—'''Megatron''' to Starscream, pre-treachery

"It could use a few boulders and some moss to make it a bit more homey, if you ask me."
:—'''Snarl''' on the Autobots' base.

"Maintain the balance, until all are one."
:—'''Primus'''

"They've been sealed here for thousands of years, all because they scared a few humans! It's ''so'' unfair..."
:—'''Starscream''' goes for the sympathy vote

"Let's say I won't be guarding the rear anymore..."
:—'''Starscream''' to Megatron, post-treachery

"Hey, don't leave me out here all alone! Let me in, guys!"
:—'''Crumplezone''' wants to be a prisoner too, damn it!

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*When Crosswise retreats from Starscream and Sideways, ''Cybertron'' has him explain that this is a deliberate feint manoeuvre he is pulling, before spinning around and opening fire. In ''Galaxy Force'', he is genuinely running away to inform [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] of the threat the pair pose.
*''Cybertron'' inserts the customary reference to the [[Omega Frequency]] when the Cyber Planet Key is added to the Omega Lock.
*As the Autobots close on the location of the seal, the distance left to their journey is 3 kilometers in ''Galaxy Force'', but three ''miles'' in ''Cybertron''.
* In its quest to not make it immediately obvious that the monsters Crosswise has captured are Transformers, the show first renders the ancient Decepticons as swirling masses of purple energy that resemble the shapes of classical monsters. In ''Galaxy Force'', once everyone understands what they really are... they just... stop being purple swirls, and are suddenly robots now, with no explanation for the drastic shift in appearance. ''Cybertron'', in its usual attempt to try and be logical about the stuff ''Galaxy Force'' tends to handwave, adds some dialogue to explain that the swirly purple forms are just the ''sparks'' of these Decepticons, and that they are "assuming their true Decepti-forms" when they become robotic.

===Animation or technical errors===
*When this episode was first broadcast, Crosswise was referred to with the name "[[Smokescreen (disambiguation)|Smokescreen]]" in dialogue. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTUE3BxVCk The original broadcast version of "Trap", in which Crosswise is named "Smokescreen"]</ref> This gaffe was corrected by the time the episode premiered in Canada, and the corrected version appears on the series' DVD collections.
* Starscream calls croswise [[Cyber Planet Key]] a Cyber Power Key.

===Transformers references===
*In ''Galaxy Force'', Megatron recalls the supposed destruction of the third Cyber Planet Key by the [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]], as seen in "[[Savage (episode)|Savage]]".
*After appearances in "[[Hidden]]", "[[Collapse]]", "[[Race]]" and the previous episode, "[[Trust (Cybertron)|Trust]]", the mysterious government agent who has been observing the Transformers is at last named. He'll be playing a much bigger role in the series from here on in!
*Although the connection is never explicitly drawn, the giant cavity within the Earth seen in this episode is apparently intended to be a callback to Lucy Suzuki's talk of the [[Wikipedia:Hollow Earth|Hollow Earth theory]] back in "[[Ice]]", revealing that it's not ''quite'' true, but not entirely wrong either.
*Just as in "[[Champion]]", the insertion of a Cyber Planet Key into the Omega Lock sends the Autobots to the North Pole.
*Starscream threatens to send Optimus Prime to "meet the [[Allspark]]", one of the [[Unicron Trilogy]]'s sparing references to the concept.
*The idea of Autobots sealing away Decepticons during the time of early humans and becoming the basis for modern legends of monsters has been [[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|used before]].
*The plot thread of Starscream's duplicate Planet Map comes to a head this episode. The duplicate was created at some point before "[[Speed]]", but it wasn't clear until "[[Savage (episode)|Savage]]" that he had kept the original, and given Megatron a tampered copy.

===Real-world references===

[[Image:Cyb_ep23_mythbudsters.jpg|right|thumb]]

*Franklin threatens to put any disobedient soldiers on "[[wikipedia:KP duty|KP duty]]".
*Images of legends, mysteries and monsters that swirl around Bud as he deduces the truth behind the ancient Decepticons include the [[Wikipedia:Loch Ness Monster|Loch Ness Monster]], a [[Wikipedia:Crystal skull|crystal skull]], a [http://forgetomori.com/2008/skepticism/ancient-jets-the-amazing-flying-beings/ disputed pre-Columbian artifact] and a... guy in a top hat and cape. [[Wikipedia:Jack the Ripper|Jack the Ripper]]? [[Wikipedia:Spring-Heeled Jack|Spring-Heeled Jack]]?

===Trivia===
*Ironically, Crosswise is indirectly responsible for the release of the Ancient Decepticons. In his haste to check to see if his Decepticon prisoners are still sealed away, he attracts Starscream's attention, leading the treacherous jet to discover-and destroy-the seal. How's that for a backfire?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 06 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Hidden (Cybertron)

2011-04-24T03:20:00Z

24.185.70.0: /* Trivia */

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=3
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=4
|title="Hidden"
|japanese=地球での暮らし方、教えます
|romaji=Chikyū de no Kurashikata, Oshiemasu
|translation=A Lesson in Living on Earth
|image=Cyb_ep3_you_go_less.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Manabu Ishikawa]]
|director=[[Jun'ichi Watanabe]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[January 29]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[July 2]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=
}}
'''The Autobots learn that being robots in disguise is more complicated than they thought. Also blue (not green) means go '''

==Synopsis==

At sea, [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] is riding aboard one of two Autobots who have taken on colorful submarine [[alternate mode]]s. He declares this to be totally awesome, until a ship from the real Navy shows up, and the crew demands that the two Autobots identify themselves. When they don't respond, the Navy prepares to fire on them, and the Autobots dive beneath the waves to escape the danger (much more energetically than a real sub could). The captain of the ship decides to pretend the whole thing never happened.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 coby cars.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

In a suburban parking lot, [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] is attempting to teach an assortment of sports car Autobots how to behave like real Earth cars, including parallel parking. Unfortunately, the hot-rodding Autobots' tendency to show off draws a crowd of spectators who begin admiring the cars, and Coby begins extemporizing about how he designed them. A police officer then points out that the cars aren't street legal, so Coby quickly declares that they're not real cars, but actually ''voice-activated remote-controlled'' cars. A quick demonstration of the cars' remarkable abilities (e.g., ''dancing'') befuddles the officer, and Coby escapes in one of the cars.

Deep in the desert, an old man driving a truck stops at a red traffic light. He comments to himself that there's no conceivable need for a light here, and a disembodied voice tells him to not even think about running the light. It then turns green, and the same voice tells him he can go. Well and truly freaked, he speeds away. [[Lori]] comes out from behind a rock, and advises the traffic light—actually an [[Signal Lancer|Autobot]] in disguise—that traffic lights don't usually talk.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_collapsing_the_black_hole.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Later, back at the Autobots' base, [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] admonishes the kids that they need to pick the Autobots' altmodes a little more carefully, since they don't want to call attention to themselves. The kids begin to squabble among themselves over who screwed up worst, while the exasperated Jetfire leaves to join the other Autobots in the command centre, where they are teleconferencing with [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]. From his position on a remote station, Red Alert is about to initiate an attempt to collapse the universe-devouring [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] in on itself with a [[gravitron grid]], thus ending the threat to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Jetfire gripes about how unhelpful the kids have been, but [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] tells him to give them a chance, and they all turn their attention to Red Alert's efforts. Alas, the power of the black hole is too much for the graviton grid, and Vector Prime again states that the only real solution is to find the Cyber Planet Keys. The Autobots are skeptical, but Red Alert speaks up on Vector Prime's behalf, and the team decides to make the search for the Keys their top priority.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_jetfire_vs_thundercracker.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

Jetfire meets with the kids again, and discovers that they're now buckling down and discussing the practical aspects of hiding the Autobots on Earth. His new feeling of reassurance is quickly shunted aside by [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], who informs him that he has just piccked up some Air Force transmissions regarding an unidentified bogey. Scattorshot identifies it as [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], and Jetfire quickly speeds into action with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and Vector Prime to save the two military planes that have tried to engage the Decepticon. Jetfire swoops in to protect the planes, shielding them from 'Cracker's missiles with his body. For a moment, he appears to be destroyed, but then he emerges from the explosion, and instinctively summons his [[Cyber Key]] for the first time. His powered-up attack easily disposes of Thundercracker's next salvo, and Vector Prime opens a [[dimension gate]] to teleport the Air Force planes to the Bermuda Triangle, well beyond Thundercracker's reach. Thundercracker flees, and Jetfire pursues him, clashing in an aerial, vehicle-mode duel that Jetfire is winning, until Scattorshot shoots Thundercracker down.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 optimus cyber key.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Optimus Prime, meanwhile, is confronted by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], and laid out by a swipe of the Decepticon leader's arm. As Optimus and Vector Prime demand the return of the [[Planet Map]], Megatron just stands there looking smug and refuses. Optimus hurls Starscream aside and switches to Super Mode, but as he charges towards Megatron, Starscream slashes him across the back. His [[Burning justice|heart burning]], Optimus summons his own Cyber Key for the first time and knocks Starscream down with a double cannon blast. Megatron still refuses to surrender the map and trades a few punches with Optimus, but when Autobot reinforcements arrive, Megatron declares it's time to leave. He brags about having already located the first Cyber Planet Key, then warps away with Starscream.

One of the Air Force pilots reports in to his [[Colonel Franklin|superior officer]] about their strange encounter with giant robots. The officer doesn't seem particularly surprised, and seems to know about Transformers. He tells the pilot that everything about his encounter is classified.

Back at the Autobot base, Coby is setting the refugees up with sensible, inconspicuous altmodes, Bud is providing them with templates for holographic drivers, and Lori is teaching them the traffic laws. Jetfire comments that this may work out after all.

And, deep in space, Megatron stares down at [[Velocitron]], the Speed Planet, location of the first Cyber Planet Key...

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* Two unnamed submarine Autobots (1,2)
* Assorted generic sports car Autobots (6)
* [[Signal Lancer]] (9)
* [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (11)
* [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (12)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
* [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (15)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (16)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (17)
* [[Vector Prime]] (18)
* [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (23)
* [[Six-Speed]] (24)
* Assorted refugees (25)

|c2=
* [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (20)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (21)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (22)

|c3=
* [[Bud Hansen]] (3)
* Navy personnel (4)
* [[Coby Hansen]] (5)
* Parking lot spectators (7)
* Police officer (8)
* [[Lori]] (10)
* Air Force personnel (19)
* [[Colonel Franklin]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"But... I never got a chance to ask him where I could ''get'' one of those."
:—The friendly neighborhood '''police officer''', after Coby makes his getaway in one of those supercool cars.

"I'm supposed to do this all day long?" 
"Either that, or go home and get sucked into a black hole." 
"That's a good point."
:—'''Signal Lancer''' and '''Lori''' discuss the upside of being a traffic light.

"That's way better than a square dance for cars in a parking lot!" 
"Ha! Shows what you know! They were ''break''-dancing!"
:—'''Coby''' and '''Lori'''

"Unidentified flying object? Is it an Autobot or a Decepticon? Can you tell who it is?" 
"Just a second... good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy... bad guy! It's Thundercracker!"
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Scattorshot'''

"You're a stone-cold fool, Jetfire." 
"Coming from you, that's a compliment." 
"Tell you what. Here's another little something coming from me!" 
[''Launches missiles.'']
:—'''Thundercracker''' and '''Jetfire'''

"You're nothing better than a common thief." 
"Soon enough I'll be ruler of the Universe! I care not what vermin like you think of me."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Megatron'''

'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. If you tell anyone, the only flying you'll do... is at an amusement park. Got it? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. I know. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It was nothing at all, pilot, understand? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir! I do.
:—Ow, ow, ''[[Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' flashback! Ow!

"I'm going to teach you guys all the traffic laws. We're going to start with traffic lights, okay? So, what do you do when you see this color?" 
[''Blue light.''] 
"You go!" 
"And this color?" 
[''Red light.''] 
"You go less!" 
"Very funny. Come on..."
:—'''Lori''' and assorted '''unnamed Autobots'''

==Notes==

===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===

*In ''Cybertron'', the cop who inspects the Autobot cars tells Coby that the drafting fins on the cars make them illegal to drive on the road. In ''Galaxy Force'', on the other hand, he suspects them of being stolen. As Coby denies it, ''Galaxy Force'' also sees him backpedal on his previous claim of designing them, as he states they're new on the market.
*While the Autobots remain unsure of whether to follow Vector Prime's plan in both versions of the show, ''Galaxy Force'' puts a little more emphasis on the fact that the Autobots are not entirely convinced that the Cyber Planet Keys even ''exist''. During Optimus and Megatron's battle towards the end of the episode, Megatron even questions why Prime wants the map back if he doesn't believe in the Keys.
*In a small change, ''Galaxy Force'' has the pilots that engage Thundercracker note that he has not responded to their hails. ''Cybertron'' makes it appear they're shooting at him without attempting contact!

===Pain count===
*"Cyber Key Power!": 2
*"Super mode!": 1

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* How are those Blurr-like cars moving around upright when their wheels aren't touching the ground? Shouldn't their back ends be throwing up sparks and scraping asphalt?
* At 7:14, Jetfire's yellow cheek-vent is visibly clipping into his dark green collar.
* At 17:11 and 17:18, Optimus's ear-fins clip into his backpack. Those dramatic poses are nothing but trouble.

===Continuity errors===
* One of the Air Force pilots asks how Thundercracker got behind them, when he's clearly still in front of them.
* Vector Prime says that Jetfire's Cyber Key came without him needing to call it forth, before the key actually arrives.

===Transformers references===

*The Autobot cars under Coby's watch all use the bodyform of [[Blurr (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'' Blurr]], and one of them has his color scheme. Whether or not this ''is'' Blurr is a loaded question; check out the character's article for an in-depth examination.

===Trivia===
* With the first two episodes of the series having been skipped over when ''Cybertron'' debuted on American television, this episode was the first aired, dropping viewers right into the middle of things with no explanation in what must surely be one of the most fumble-fingered launches of a television programme ''ever''.
* Let's face it. The scene in the parking lot is terribly silly on many levels.
* While it's quixotic to expect the physics of the universe-devouring black hole to make much sense, it may be worth pointing out that making a black hole "collapse in on itself" is redundant.
* The two Air Force jets are very similar in model to Thundercracker himself, but in a basic gray color scheme. However, the model of fighter jet is of ''[[Russia|Russian]]'' make, while the pilots are American.
* When Optimus charges Megatron, then spins and falls down, it's really unclear why he fell.
[[Image:Cyb ep3 blue traffic light.jpg|right|thumb|Blue light means go? And they ask us why kids dont drive...]]
* Did Megatron come to Earth just to brag about possessing the Map and finding the first Key? Why?
* A blocking issue: At 18:20, part of Optimus's face is hidden by the fire engine light bar on his shoulder. It looks very odd, and a slightly different angle would have solved the problem.
* When Signal Lancer (as he will later be named) switches his light colors, and when Lori teaches the Autobots the rules of the road, the green traffic light is ''blue''. As you will be aware if you watch much anime, however, this is ''not'' actually a mistake. This color conundrum is an odd Japanese cultural tic based on the fact that for a large portion of the language's history, they used the same word, "ao" (青), for both blue and green. Although a separate word meaning green has since been established in the language (''midori'' 緑), "ao" is still widely used to describe both shades of blue and green: the blue sky can be "ao", but so is a green traffic light. As a befuddling consequence of this quirk of language, illustrations of traffic lights, be they in driving manuals or animated cartoons about robots from space, are ''actually colored blue'', despite the fact that the real, tangible physical traffic lights on streets in Japan ''are actually green''. You get all that? Okay, now forget it and go play outside, or something. Life's too short, man.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount)
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 01 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Hidden (Cybertron)

2011-04-24T03:19:26Z

24.185.70.0: /* Trivia */

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=3
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=4
|title="Hidden"
|japanese=地球での暮らし方、教えます
|romaji=Chikyū de no Kurashikata, Oshiemasu
|translation=A Lesson in Living on Earth
|image=Cyb_ep3_you_go_less.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Manabu Ishikawa]]
|director=[[Jun'ichi Watanabe]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[January 29]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[July 2]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=
}}
'''The Autobots learn that being robots in disguise is more complicated than they thought. Also blue (not green) means go '''

==Synopsis==

At sea, [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] is riding aboard one of two Autobots who have taken on colorful submarine [[alternate mode]]s. He declares this to be totally awesome, until a ship from the real Navy shows up, and the crew demands that the two Autobots identify themselves. When they don't respond, the Navy prepares to fire on them, and the Autobots dive beneath the waves to escape the danger (much more energetically than a real sub could). The captain of the ship decides to pretend the whole thing never happened.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 coby cars.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

In a suburban parking lot, [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] is attempting to teach an assortment of sports car Autobots how to behave like real Earth cars, including parallel parking. Unfortunately, the hot-rodding Autobots' tendency to show off draws a crowd of spectators who begin admiring the cars, and Coby begins extemporizing about how he designed them. A police officer then points out that the cars aren't street legal, so Coby quickly declares that they're not real cars, but actually ''voice-activated remote-controlled'' cars. A quick demonstration of the cars' remarkable abilities (e.g., ''dancing'') befuddles the officer, and Coby escapes in one of the cars.

Deep in the desert, an old man driving a truck stops at a red traffic light. He comments to himself that there's no conceivable need for a light here, and a disembodied voice tells him to not even think about running the light. It then turns green, and the same voice tells him he can go. Well and truly freaked, he speeds away. [[Lori]] comes out from behind a rock, and advises the traffic light—actually an [[Signal Lancer|Autobot]] in disguise—that traffic lights don't usually talk.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_collapsing_the_black_hole.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Later, back at the Autobots' base, [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] admonishes the kids that they need to pick the Autobots' altmodes a little more carefully, since they don't want to call attention to themselves. The kids begin to squabble among themselves over who screwed up worst, while the exasperated Jetfire leaves to join the other Autobots in the command centre, where they are teleconferencing with [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]. From his position on a remote station, Red Alert is about to initiate an attempt to collapse the universe-devouring [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] in on itself with a [[gravitron grid]], thus ending the threat to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Jetfire gripes about how unhelpful the kids have been, but [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] tells him to give them a chance, and they all turn their attention to Red Alert's efforts. Alas, the power of the black hole is too much for the graviton grid, and Vector Prime again states that the only real solution is to find the Cyber Planet Keys. The Autobots are skeptical, but Red Alert speaks up on Vector Prime's behalf, and the team decides to make the search for the Keys their top priority.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_jetfire_vs_thundercracker.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

Jetfire meets with the kids again, and discovers that they're now buckling down and discussing the practical aspects of hiding the Autobots on Earth. His new feeling of reassurance is quickly shunted aside by [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], who informs him that he has just piccked up some Air Force transmissions regarding an unidentified bogey. Scattorshot identifies it as [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], and Jetfire quickly speeds into action with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and Vector Prime to save the two military planes that have tried to engage the Decepticon. Jetfire swoops in to protect the planes, shielding them from 'Cracker's missiles with his body. For a moment, he appears to be destroyed, but then he emerges from the explosion, and instinctively summons his [[Cyber Key]] for the first time. His powered-up attack easily disposes of Thundercracker's next salvo, and Vector Prime opens a [[dimension gate]] to teleport the Air Force planes to the Bermuda Triangle, well beyond Thundercracker's reach. Thundercracker flees, and Jetfire pursues him, clashing in an aerial, vehicle-mode duel that Jetfire is winning, until Scattorshot shoots Thundercracker down.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 optimus cyber key.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Optimus Prime, meanwhile, is confronted by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], and laid out by a swipe of the Decepticon leader's arm. As Optimus and Vector Prime demand the return of the [[Planet Map]], Megatron just stands there looking smug and refuses. Optimus hurls Starscream aside and switches to Super Mode, but as he charges towards Megatron, Starscream slashes him across the back. His [[Burning justice|heart burning]], Optimus summons his own Cyber Key for the first time and knocks Starscream down with a double cannon blast. Megatron still refuses to surrender the map and trades a few punches with Optimus, but when Autobot reinforcements arrive, Megatron declares it's time to leave. He brags about having already located the first Cyber Planet Key, then warps away with Starscream.

One of the Air Force pilots reports in to his [[Colonel Franklin|superior officer]] about their strange encounter with giant robots. The officer doesn't seem particularly surprised, and seems to know about Transformers. He tells the pilot that everything about his encounter is classified.

Back at the Autobot base, Coby is setting the refugees up with sensible, inconspicuous altmodes, Bud is providing them with templates for holographic drivers, and Lori is teaching them the traffic laws. Jetfire comments that this may work out after all.

And, deep in space, Megatron stares down at [[Velocitron]], the Speed Planet, location of the first Cyber Planet Key...

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* Two unnamed submarine Autobots (1,2)
* Assorted generic sports car Autobots (6)
* [[Signal Lancer]] (9)
* [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (11)
* [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (12)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
* [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (15)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (16)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (17)
* [[Vector Prime]] (18)
* [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (23)
* [[Six-Speed]] (24)
* Assorted refugees (25)

|c2=
* [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (20)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (21)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (22)

|c3=
* [[Bud Hansen]] (3)
* Navy personnel (4)
* [[Coby Hansen]] (5)
* Parking lot spectators (7)
* Police officer (8)
* [[Lori]] (10)
* Air Force personnel (19)
* [[Colonel Franklin]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"But... I never got a chance to ask him where I could ''get'' one of those."
:—The friendly neighborhood '''police officer''', after Coby makes his getaway in one of those supercool cars.

"I'm supposed to do this all day long?" 
"Either that, or go home and get sucked into a black hole." 
"That's a good point."
:—'''Signal Lancer''' and '''Lori''' discuss the upside of being a traffic light.

"That's way better than a square dance for cars in a parking lot!" 
"Ha! Shows what you know! They were ''break''-dancing!"
:—'''Coby''' and '''Lori'''

"Unidentified flying object? Is it an Autobot or a Decepticon? Can you tell who it is?" 
"Just a second... good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy... bad guy! It's Thundercracker!"
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Scattorshot'''

"You're a stone-cold fool, Jetfire." 
"Coming from you, that's a compliment." 
"Tell you what. Here's another little something coming from me!" 
[''Launches missiles.'']
:—'''Thundercracker''' and '''Jetfire'''

"You're nothing better than a common thief." 
"Soon enough I'll be ruler of the Universe! I care not what vermin like you think of me."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Megatron'''

'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. If you tell anyone, the only flying you'll do... is at an amusement park. Got it? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. I know. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It was nothing at all, pilot, understand? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir! I do.
:—Ow, ow, ''[[Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' flashback! Ow!

"I'm going to teach you guys all the traffic laws. We're going to start with traffic lights, okay? So, what do you do when you see this color?" 
[''Blue light.''] 
"You go!" 
"And this color?" 
[''Red light.''] 
"You go less!" 
"Very funny. Come on..."
:—'''Lori''' and assorted '''unnamed Autobots'''

==Notes==

===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===

*In ''Cybertron'', the cop who inspects the Autobot cars tells Coby that the drafting fins on the cars make them illegal to drive on the road. In ''Galaxy Force'', on the other hand, he suspects them of being stolen. As Coby denies it, ''Galaxy Force'' also sees him backpedal on his previous claim of designing them, as he states they're new on the market.
*While the Autobots remain unsure of whether to follow Vector Prime's plan in both versions of the show, ''Galaxy Force'' puts a little more emphasis on the fact that the Autobots are not entirely convinced that the Cyber Planet Keys even ''exist''. During Optimus and Megatron's battle towards the end of the episode, Megatron even questions why Prime wants the map back if he doesn't believe in the Keys.
*In a small change, ''Galaxy Force'' has the pilots that engage Thundercracker note that he has not responded to their hails. ''Cybertron'' makes it appear they're shooting at him without attempting contact!

===Pain count===
*"Cyber Key Power!": 2
*"Super mode!": 1

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* How are those Blurr-like cars moving around upright when their wheels aren't touching the ground? Shouldn't their back ends be throwing up sparks and scraping asphalt?
* At 7:14, Jetfire's yellow cheek-vent is visibly clipping into his dark green collar.
* At 17:11 and 17:18, Optimus's ear-fins clip into his backpack. Those dramatic poses are nothing but trouble.

===Continuity errors===
* One of the Air Force pilots asks how Thundercracker got behind them, when he's clearly still in front of them.
* Vector Prime says that Jetfire's Cyber Key came without him needing to call it forth, before the key actually arrives.

===Transformers references===

*The Autobot cars under Coby's watch all use the bodyform of [[Blurr (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'' Blurr]], and one of them has his color scheme. Whether or not this ''is'' Blurr is a loaded question; check out the character's article for an in-depth examination.

===Trivia===
* With the first two episodes of the series having been skipped over when ''Cybertron'' debuted on American television, this episode was the first aired, dropping viewers right into the middle of things with no explanation in what must surely be one of the most fumble-fingered launches of a television programme ''ever''.
* Let's face it. The scene in the parking lot is terribly silly on many levels.
* While it's quixotic to expect the physics of the universe-devouring black hole to make much sense, it may be worth pointing out that making a black hole "collapse in on itself" is redundant.
* The two Air Force jets are very similar in model to Thundercracker himself, but in a basic gray color scheme. However, the model of fighter jet is of ''[[Russia|Russian]]'' make, while the pilots are American.
* When Optimus charges Megatron, then spins and falls down, it's really unclear why he fell.
[[Image:Cyb ep3 blue traffic light.jpg|right|thumb|Blu light means go? And they ask us why kids dont drive]]
* Did Megatron come to Earth just to brag about possessing the Map and finding the first Key? Why?
* A blocking issue: At 18:20, part of Optimus's face is hidden by the fire engine light bar on his shoulder. It looks very odd, and a slightly different angle would have solved the problem.
* When Signal Lancer (as he will later be named) switches his light colors, and when Lori teaches the Autobots the rules of the road, the green traffic light is ''blue''. As you will be aware if you watch much anime, however, this is ''not'' actually a mistake. This color conundrum is an odd Japanese cultural tic based on the fact that for a large portion of the language's history, they used the same word, "ao" (青), for both blue and green. Although a separate word meaning green has since been established in the language (''midori'' 緑), "ao" is still widely used to describe both shades of blue and green: the blue sky can be "ao", but so is a green traffic light. As a befuddling consequence of this quirk of language, illustrations of traffic lights, be they in driving manuals or animated cartoons about robots from space, are ''actually colored blue'', despite the fact that the real, tangible physical traffic lights on streets in Japan ''are actually green''. You get all that? Okay, now forget it and go play outside, or something. Life's too short, man.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount)
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 01 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Hidden (Cybertron)

2011-04-24T03:15:55Z

24.185.70.0:

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=3
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=4
|title="Hidden"
|japanese=地球での暮らし方、教えます
|romaji=Chikyū de no Kurashikata, Oshiemasu
|translation=A Lesson in Living on Earth
|image=Cyb_ep3_you_go_less.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Manabu Ishikawa]]
|director=[[Jun'ichi Watanabe]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[January 29]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[July 2]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=
}}
'''The Autobots learn that being robots in disguise is more complicated than they thought. Also blue (not green) means go '''

==Synopsis==

At sea, [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] is riding aboard one of two Autobots who have taken on colorful submarine [[alternate mode]]s. He declares this to be totally awesome, until a ship from the real Navy shows up, and the crew demands that the two Autobots identify themselves. When they don't respond, the Navy prepares to fire on them, and the Autobots dive beneath the waves to escape the danger (much more energetically than a real sub could). The captain of the ship decides to pretend the whole thing never happened.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 coby cars.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

In a suburban parking lot, [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] is attempting to teach an assortment of sports car Autobots how to behave like real Earth cars, including parallel parking. Unfortunately, the hot-rodding Autobots' tendency to show off draws a crowd of spectators who begin admiring the cars, and Coby begins extemporizing about how he designed them. A police officer then points out that the cars aren't street legal, so Coby quickly declares that they're not real cars, but actually ''voice-activated remote-controlled'' cars. A quick demonstration of the cars' remarkable abilities (e.g., ''dancing'') befuddles the officer, and Coby escapes in one of the cars.

Deep in the desert, an old man driving a truck stops at a red traffic light. He comments to himself that there's no conceivable need for a light here, and a disembodied voice tells him to not even think about running the light. It then turns green, and the same voice tells him he can go. Well and truly freaked, he speeds away. [[Lori]] comes out from behind a rock, and advises the traffic light—actually an [[Signal Lancer|Autobot]] in disguise—that traffic lights don't usually talk.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_collapsing_the_black_hole.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Later, back at the Autobots' base, [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] admonishes the kids that they need to pick the Autobots' altmodes a little more carefully, since they don't want to call attention to themselves. The kids begin to squabble among themselves over who screwed up worst, while the exasperated Jetfire leaves to join the other Autobots in the command centre, where they are teleconferencing with [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]. From his position on a remote station, Red Alert is about to initiate an attempt to collapse the universe-devouring [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] in on itself with a [[gravitron grid]], thus ending the threat to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Jetfire gripes about how unhelpful the kids have been, but [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] tells him to give them a chance, and they all turn their attention to Red Alert's efforts. Alas, the power of the black hole is too much for the graviton grid, and Vector Prime again states that the only real solution is to find the Cyber Planet Keys. The Autobots are skeptical, but Red Alert speaks up on Vector Prime's behalf, and the team decides to make the search for the Keys their top priority.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_jetfire_vs_thundercracker.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

Jetfire meets with the kids again, and discovers that they're now buckling down and discussing the practical aspects of hiding the Autobots on Earth. His new feeling of reassurance is quickly shunted aside by [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], who informs him that he has just piccked up some Air Force transmissions regarding an unidentified bogey. Scattorshot identifies it as [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], and Jetfire quickly speeds into action with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and Vector Prime to save the two military planes that have tried to engage the Decepticon. Jetfire swoops in to protect the planes, shielding them from 'Cracker's missiles with his body. For a moment, he appears to be destroyed, but then he emerges from the explosion, and instinctively summons his [[Cyber Key]] for the first time. His powered-up attack easily disposes of Thundercracker's next salvo, and Vector Prime opens a [[dimension gate]] to teleport the Air Force planes to the Bermuda Triangle, well beyond Thundercracker's reach. Thundercracker flees, and Jetfire pursues him, clashing in an aerial, vehicle-mode duel that Jetfire is winning, until Scattorshot shoots Thundercracker down.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 optimus cyber key.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Optimus Prime, meanwhile, is confronted by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], and laid out by a swipe of the Decepticon leader's arm. As Optimus and Vector Prime demand the return of the [[Planet Map]], Megatron just stands there looking smug and refuses. Optimus hurls Starscream aside and switches to Super Mode, but as he charges towards Megatron, Starscream slashes him across the back. His [[Burning justice|heart burning]], Optimus summons his own Cyber Key for the first time and knocks Starscream down with a double cannon blast. Megatron still refuses to surrender the map and trades a few punches with Optimus, but when Autobot reinforcements arrive, Megatron declares it's time to leave. He brags about having already located the first Cyber Planet Key, then warps away with Starscream.

One of the Air Force pilots reports in to his [[Colonel Franklin|superior officer]] about their strange encounter with giant robots. The officer doesn't seem particularly surprised, and seems to know about Transformers. He tells the pilot that everything about his encounter is classified.

Back at the Autobot base, Coby is setting the refugees up with sensible, inconspicuous altmodes, Bud is providing them with templates for holographic drivers, and Lori is teaching them the traffic laws. Jetfire comments that this may work out after all.

And, deep in space, Megatron stares down at [[Velocitron]], the Speed Planet, location of the first Cyber Planet Key...

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* Two unnamed submarine Autobots (1,2)
* Assorted generic sports car Autobots (6)
* [[Signal Lancer]] (9)
* [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (11)
* [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (12)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
* [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (15)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (16)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (17)
* [[Vector Prime]] (18)
* [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (23)
* [[Six-Speed]] (24)
* Assorted refugees (25)

|c2=
* [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (20)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (21)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (22)

|c3=
* [[Bud Hansen]] (3)
* Navy personnel (4)
* [[Coby Hansen]] (5)
* Parking lot spectators (7)
* Police officer (8)
* [[Lori]] (10)
* Air Force personnel (19)
* [[Colonel Franklin]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"But... I never got a chance to ask him where I could ''get'' one of those."
:—The friendly neighborhood '''police officer''', after Coby makes his getaway in one of those supercool cars.

"I'm supposed to do this all day long?" 
"Either that, or go home and get sucked into a black hole." 
"That's a good point."
:—'''Signal Lancer''' and '''Lori''' discuss the upside of being a traffic light.

"That's way better than a square dance for cars in a parking lot!" 
"Ha! Shows what you know! They were ''break''-dancing!"
:—'''Coby''' and '''Lori'''

"Unidentified flying object? Is it an Autobot or a Decepticon? Can you tell who it is?" 
"Just a second... good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy... bad guy! It's Thundercracker!"
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Scattorshot'''

"You're a stone-cold fool, Jetfire." 
"Coming from you, that's a compliment." 
"Tell you what. Here's another little something coming from me!" 
[''Launches missiles.'']
:—'''Thundercracker''' and '''Jetfire'''

"You're nothing better than a common thief." 
"Soon enough I'll be ruler of the Universe! I care not what vermin like you think of me."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Megatron'''

'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. If you tell anyone, the only flying you'll do... is at an amusement park. Got it? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. I know. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It was nothing at all, pilot, understand? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir! I do.
:—Ow, ow, ''[[Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' flashback! Ow!

"I'm going to teach you guys all the traffic laws. We're going to start with traffic lights, okay? So, what do you do when you see this color?" 
[''Blue light.''] 
"You go!" 
"And this color?" 
[''Red light.''] 
"You go less!" 
"Very funny. Come on..."
:—'''Lori''' and assorted '''unnamed Autobots'''

==Notes==

===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===

*In ''Cybertron'', the cop who inspects the Autobot cars tells Coby that the drafting fins on the cars make them illegal to drive on the road. In ''Galaxy Force'', on the other hand, he suspects them of being stolen. As Coby denies it, ''Galaxy Force'' also sees him backpedal on his previous claim of designing them, as he states they're new on the market.
*While the Autobots remain unsure of whether to follow Vector Prime's plan in both versions of the show, ''Galaxy Force'' puts a little more emphasis on the fact that the Autobots are not entirely convinced that the Cyber Planet Keys even ''exist''. During Optimus and Megatron's battle towards the end of the episode, Megatron even questions why Prime wants the map back if he doesn't believe in the Keys.
*In a small change, ''Galaxy Force'' has the pilots that engage Thundercracker note that he has not responded to their hails. ''Cybertron'' makes it appear they're shooting at him without attempting contact!

===Pain count===
*"Cyber Key Power!": 2
*"Super mode!": 1

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* How are those Blurr-like cars moving around upright when their wheels aren't touching the ground? Shouldn't their back ends be throwing up sparks and scraping asphalt?
* At 7:14, Jetfire's yellow cheek-vent is visibly clipping into his dark green collar.
* At 17:11 and 17:18, Optimus's ear-fins clip into his backpack. Those dramatic poses are nothing but trouble.

===Continuity errors===
* One of the Air Force pilots asks how Thundercracker got behind them, when he's clearly still in front of them.
* Vector Prime says that Jetfire's Cyber Key came without him needing to call it forth, before the key actually arrives.

===Transformers references===

*The Autobot cars under Coby's watch all use the bodyform of [[Blurr (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'' Blurr]], and one of them has his color scheme. Whether or not this ''is'' Blurr is a loaded question; check out the character's article for an in-depth examination.

===Trivia===
* With the first two episodes of the series having been skipped over when ''Cybertron'' debuted on American television, this episode was the first aired, dropping viewers right into the middle of things with no explanation in what must surely be one of the most fumble-fingered launches of a television programme ''ever''.
* Let's face it. The scene in the parking lot is terribly silly on many levels.
* While it's quixotic to expect the physics of the universe-devouring black hole to make much sense, it may be worth pointing out that making a black hole "collapse in on itself" is redundant.
* The two Air Force jets are very similar in model to Thundercracker himself, but in a basic gray color scheme. However, the model of fighter jet is of ''[[Russia|Russian]]'' make, while the pilots are American.
* When Optimus charges Megatron, then spins and falls down, it's really unclear why he fell.
[[Image:Cyb ep3 blue traffic light.jpg|right|thumb]]
* Did Megatron come to Earth just to brag about possessing the Map and finding the first Key? Why?
* A blocking issue: At 18:20, part of Optimus's face is hidden by the fire engine light bar on his shoulder. It looks very odd, and a slightly different angle would have solved the problem.
* When Signal Lancer (as he will later be named) switches his light colors, and when Lori teaches the Autobots the rules of the road, the green traffic light is ''blue''. As you will be aware if you watch much anime, however, this is ''not'' actually a mistake. This color conundrum is an odd Japanese cultural tic based on the fact that for a large portion of the language's history, they used the same word, "ao" (青), for both blue and green. Although a separate word meaning green has since been established in the language (''midori'' 緑), "ao" is still widely used to describe both shades of blue and green: the blue sky can be "ao", but so is a green traffic light. As a befuddling consequence of this quirk of language, illustrations of traffic lights, be they in driving manuals or animated cartoons about robots from space, are ''actually colored blue'', despite the fact that the real, tangible physical traffic lights on streets in Japan ''are actually green''. You get all that? Okay, now forget it and go play outside, or something. Life's too short, man.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount)
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 01 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Hidden (Cybertron)

2011-04-24T03:15:23Z

24.185.70.0:

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=3
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=4
|title="Hidden"
|japanese=地球での暮らし方、教えます
|romaji=Chikyū de no Kurashikata, Oshiemasu
|translation=A Lesson in Living on Earth
|image=Cyb_ep3_you_go_less.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Manabu Ishikawa]]
|director=[[Jun'ichi Watanabe]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[January 29]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[July 2]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=
}}
'''The Autobots learn that being robots in disguise is more complicated than they thought. Also blue (not green means go '''

==Synopsis==

At sea, [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] is riding aboard one of two Autobots who have taken on colorful submarine [[alternate mode]]s. He declares this to be totally awesome, until a ship from the real Navy shows up, and the crew demands that the two Autobots identify themselves. When they don't respond, the Navy prepares to fire on them, and the Autobots dive beneath the waves to escape the danger (much more energetically than a real sub could). The captain of the ship decides to pretend the whole thing never happened.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 coby cars.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

In a suburban parking lot, [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] is attempting to teach an assortment of sports car Autobots how to behave like real Earth cars, including parallel parking. Unfortunately, the hot-rodding Autobots' tendency to show off draws a crowd of spectators who begin admiring the cars, and Coby begins extemporizing about how he designed them. A police officer then points out that the cars aren't street legal, so Coby quickly declares that they're not real cars, but actually ''voice-activated remote-controlled'' cars. A quick demonstration of the cars' remarkable abilities (e.g., ''dancing'') befuddles the officer, and Coby escapes in one of the cars.

Deep in the desert, an old man driving a truck stops at a red traffic light. He comments to himself that there's no conceivable need for a light here, and a disembodied voice tells him to not even think about running the light. It then turns green, and the same voice tells him he can go. Well and truly freaked, he speeds away. [[Lori]] comes out from behind a rock, and advises the traffic light—actually an [[Signal Lancer|Autobot]] in disguise—that traffic lights don't usually talk.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_collapsing_the_black_hole.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Later, back at the Autobots' base, [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] admonishes the kids that they need to pick the Autobots' altmodes a little more carefully, since they don't want to call attention to themselves. The kids begin to squabble among themselves over who screwed up worst, while the exasperated Jetfire leaves to join the other Autobots in the command centre, where they are teleconferencing with [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]. From his position on a remote station, Red Alert is about to initiate an attempt to collapse the universe-devouring [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] in on itself with a [[gravitron grid]], thus ending the threat to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Jetfire gripes about how unhelpful the kids have been, but [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] tells him to give them a chance, and they all turn their attention to Red Alert's efforts. Alas, the power of the black hole is too much for the graviton grid, and Vector Prime again states that the only real solution is to find the Cyber Planet Keys. The Autobots are skeptical, but Red Alert speaks up on Vector Prime's behalf, and the team decides to make the search for the Keys their top priority.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_jetfire_vs_thundercracker.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

Jetfire meets with the kids again, and discovers that they're now buckling down and discussing the practical aspects of hiding the Autobots on Earth. His new feeling of reassurance is quickly shunted aside by [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], who informs him that he has just piccked up some Air Force transmissions regarding an unidentified bogey. Scattorshot identifies it as [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], and Jetfire quickly speeds into action with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and Vector Prime to save the two military planes that have tried to engage the Decepticon. Jetfire swoops in to protect the planes, shielding them from 'Cracker's missiles with his body. For a moment, he appears to be destroyed, but then he emerges from the explosion, and instinctively summons his [[Cyber Key]] for the first time. His powered-up attack easily disposes of Thundercracker's next salvo, and Vector Prime opens a [[dimension gate]] to teleport the Air Force planes to the Bermuda Triangle, well beyond Thundercracker's reach. Thundercracker flees, and Jetfire pursues him, clashing in an aerial, vehicle-mode duel that Jetfire is winning, until Scattorshot shoots Thundercracker down.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 optimus cyber key.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Optimus Prime, meanwhile, is confronted by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], and laid out by a swipe of the Decepticon leader's arm. As Optimus and Vector Prime demand the return of the [[Planet Map]], Megatron just stands there looking smug and refuses. Optimus hurls Starscream aside and switches to Super Mode, but as he charges towards Megatron, Starscream slashes him across the back. His [[Burning justice|heart burning]], Optimus summons his own Cyber Key for the first time and knocks Starscream down with a double cannon blast. Megatron still refuses to surrender the map and trades a few punches with Optimus, but when Autobot reinforcements arrive, Megatron declares it's time to leave. He brags about having already located the first Cyber Planet Key, then warps away with Starscream.

One of the Air Force pilots reports in to his [[Colonel Franklin|superior officer]] about their strange encounter with giant robots. The officer doesn't seem particularly surprised, and seems to know about Transformers. He tells the pilot that everything about his encounter is classified.

Back at the Autobot base, Coby is setting the refugees up with sensible, inconspicuous altmodes, Bud is providing them with templates for holographic drivers, and Lori is teaching them the traffic laws. Jetfire comments that this may work out after all.

And, deep in space, Megatron stares down at [[Velocitron]], the Speed Planet, location of the first Cyber Planet Key...

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* Two unnamed submarine Autobots (1,2)
* Assorted generic sports car Autobots (6)
* [[Signal Lancer]] (9)
* [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (11)
* [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (12)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
* [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (15)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (16)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (17)
* [[Vector Prime]] (18)
* [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (23)
* [[Six-Speed]] (24)
* Assorted refugees (25)

|c2=
* [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (20)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (21)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (22)

|c3=
* [[Bud Hansen]] (3)
* Navy personnel (4)
* [[Coby Hansen]] (5)
* Parking lot spectators (7)
* Police officer (8)
* [[Lori]] (10)
* Air Force personnel (19)
* [[Colonel Franklin]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"But... I never got a chance to ask him where I could ''get'' one of those."
:—The friendly neighborhood '''police officer''', after Coby makes his getaway in one of those supercool cars.

"I'm supposed to do this all day long?" 
"Either that, or go home and get sucked into a black hole." 
"That's a good point."
:—'''Signal Lancer''' and '''Lori''' discuss the upside of being a traffic light.

"That's way better than a square dance for cars in a parking lot!" 
"Ha! Shows what you know! They were ''break''-dancing!"
:—'''Coby''' and '''Lori'''

"Unidentified flying object? Is it an Autobot or a Decepticon? Can you tell who it is?" 
"Just a second... good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy... bad guy! It's Thundercracker!"
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Scattorshot'''

"You're a stone-cold fool, Jetfire." 
"Coming from you, that's a compliment." 
"Tell you what. Here's another little something coming from me!" 
[''Launches missiles.'']
:—'''Thundercracker''' and '''Jetfire'''

"You're nothing better than a common thief." 
"Soon enough I'll be ruler of the Universe! I care not what vermin like you think of me."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Megatron'''

'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. If you tell anyone, the only flying you'll do... is at an amusement park. Got it? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. I know. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It was nothing at all, pilot, understand? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir! I do.
:—Ow, ow, ''[[Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' flashback! Ow!

"I'm going to teach you guys all the traffic laws. We're going to start with traffic lights, okay? So, what do you do when you see this color?" 
[''Blue light.''] 
"You go!" 
"And this color?" 
[''Red light.''] 
"You go less!" 
"Very funny. Come on..."
:—'''Lori''' and assorted '''unnamed Autobots'''

==Notes==

===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===

*In ''Cybertron'', the cop who inspects the Autobot cars tells Coby that the drafting fins on the cars make them illegal to drive on the road. In ''Galaxy Force'', on the other hand, he suspects them of being stolen. As Coby denies it, ''Galaxy Force'' also sees him backpedal on his previous claim of designing them, as he states they're new on the market.
*While the Autobots remain unsure of whether to follow Vector Prime's plan in both versions of the show, ''Galaxy Force'' puts a little more emphasis on the fact that the Autobots are not entirely convinced that the Cyber Planet Keys even ''exist''. During Optimus and Megatron's battle towards the end of the episode, Megatron even questions why Prime wants the map back if he doesn't believe in the Keys.
*In a small change, ''Galaxy Force'' has the pilots that engage Thundercracker note that he has not responded to their hails. ''Cybertron'' makes it appear they're shooting at him without attempting contact!

===Pain count===
*"Cyber Key Power!": 2
*"Super mode!": 1

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* How are those Blurr-like cars moving around upright when their wheels aren't touching the ground? Shouldn't their back ends be throwing up sparks and scraping asphalt?
* At 7:14, Jetfire's yellow cheek-vent is visibly clipping into his dark green collar.
* At 17:11 and 17:18, Optimus's ear-fins clip into his backpack. Those dramatic poses are nothing but trouble.

===Continuity errors===
* One of the Air Force pilots asks how Thundercracker got behind them, when he's clearly still in front of them.
* Vector Prime says that Jetfire's Cyber Key came without him needing to call it forth, before the key actually arrives.

===Transformers references===

*The Autobot cars under Coby's watch all use the bodyform of [[Blurr (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'' Blurr]], and one of them has his color scheme. Whether or not this ''is'' Blurr is a loaded question; check out the character's article for an in-depth examination.

===Trivia===
* With the first two episodes of the series having been skipped over when ''Cybertron'' debuted on American television, this episode was the first aired, dropping viewers right into the middle of things with no explanation in what must surely be one of the most fumble-fingered launches of a television programme ''ever''.
* Let's face it. The scene in the parking lot is terribly silly on many levels.
* While it's quixotic to expect the physics of the universe-devouring black hole to make much sense, it may be worth pointing out that making a black hole "collapse in on itself" is redundant.
* The two Air Force jets are very similar in model to Thundercracker himself, but in a basic gray color scheme. However, the model of fighter jet is of ''[[Russia|Russian]]'' make, while the pilots are American.
* When Optimus charges Megatron, then spins and falls down, it's really unclear why he fell.
[[Image:Cyb ep3 blue traffic light.jpg|right|thumb]]
* Did Megatron come to Earth just to brag about possessing the Map and finding the first Key? Why?
* A blocking issue: At 18:20, part of Optimus's face is hidden by the fire engine light bar on his shoulder. It looks very odd, and a slightly different angle would have solved the problem.
* When Signal Lancer (as he will later be named) switches his light colors, and when Lori teaches the Autobots the rules of the road, the green traffic light is ''blue''. As you will be aware if you watch much anime, however, this is ''not'' actually a mistake. This color conundrum is an odd Japanese cultural tic based on the fact that for a large portion of the language's history, they used the same word, "ao" (青), for both blue and green. Although a separate word meaning green has since been established in the language (''midori'' 緑), "ao" is still widely used to describe both shades of blue and green: the blue sky can be "ao", but so is a green traffic light. As a befuddling consequence of this quirk of language, illustrations of traffic lights, be they in driving manuals or animated cartoons about robots from space, are ''actually colored blue'', despite the fact that the real, tangible physical traffic lights on streets in Japan ''are actually green''. You get all that? Okay, now forget it and go play outside, or something. Life's too short, man.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount)
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 01 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Hidden (Cybertron)

2011-04-24T03:14:26Z

24.185.70.0: /* Quotes */

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=3
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=4
|title="Hidden"
|japanese=地球での暮らし方、教えます
|romaji=Chikyū de no Kurashikata, Oshiemasu
|translation=A Lesson in Living on Earth
|image=Cyb_ep3_you_go_less.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Manabu Ishikawa]]
|director=[[Jun'ichi Watanabe]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[January 29]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[July 2]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=
}}
'''The Autobots learn that being robots in disguise is more complicated than they thought.'''

==Synopsis==

At sea, [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] is riding aboard one of two Autobots who have taken on colorful submarine [[alternate mode]]s. He declares this to be totally awesome, until a ship from the real Navy shows up, and the crew demands that the two Autobots identify themselves. When they don't respond, the Navy prepares to fire on them, and the Autobots dive beneath the waves to escape the danger (much more energetically than a real sub could). The captain of the ship decides to pretend the whole thing never happened.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 coby cars.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

In a suburban parking lot, [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] is attempting to teach an assortment of sports car Autobots how to behave like real Earth cars, including parallel parking. Unfortunately, the hot-rodding Autobots' tendency to show off draws a crowd of spectators who begin admiring the cars, and Coby begins extemporizing about how he designed them. A police officer then points out that the cars aren't street legal, so Coby quickly declares that they're not real cars, but actually ''voice-activated remote-controlled'' cars. A quick demonstration of the cars' remarkable abilities (e.g., ''dancing'') befuddles the officer, and Coby escapes in one of the cars.

Deep in the desert, an old man driving a truck stops at a red traffic light. He comments to himself that there's no conceivable need for a light here, and a disembodied voice tells him to not even think about running the light. It then turns green, and the same voice tells him he can go. Well and truly freaked, he speeds away. [[Lori]] comes out from behind a rock, and advises the traffic light—actually an [[Signal Lancer|Autobot]] in disguise—that traffic lights don't usually talk.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_collapsing_the_black_hole.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Later, back at the Autobots' base, [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] admonishes the kids that they need to pick the Autobots' altmodes a little more carefully, since they don't want to call attention to themselves. The kids begin to squabble among themselves over who screwed up worst, while the exasperated Jetfire leaves to join the other Autobots in the command centre, where they are teleconferencing with [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]. From his position on a remote station, Red Alert is about to initiate an attempt to collapse the universe-devouring [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] in on itself with a [[gravitron grid]], thus ending the threat to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Jetfire gripes about how unhelpful the kids have been, but [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] tells him to give them a chance, and they all turn their attention to Red Alert's efforts. Alas, the power of the black hole is too much for the graviton grid, and Vector Prime again states that the only real solution is to find the Cyber Planet Keys. The Autobots are skeptical, but Red Alert speaks up on Vector Prime's behalf, and the team decides to make the search for the Keys their top priority.

[[Image:Cyb_ep3_jetfire_vs_thundercracker.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

Jetfire meets with the kids again, and discovers that they're now buckling down and discussing the practical aspects of hiding the Autobots on Earth. His new feeling of reassurance is quickly shunted aside by [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], who informs him that he has just piccked up some Air Force transmissions regarding an unidentified bogey. Scattorshot identifies it as [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], and Jetfire quickly speeds into action with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and Vector Prime to save the two military planes that have tried to engage the Decepticon. Jetfire swoops in to protect the planes, shielding them from 'Cracker's missiles with his body. For a moment, he appears to be destroyed, but then he emerges from the explosion, and instinctively summons his [[Cyber Key]] for the first time. His powered-up attack easily disposes of Thundercracker's next salvo, and Vector Prime opens a [[dimension gate]] to teleport the Air Force planes to the Bermuda Triangle, well beyond Thundercracker's reach. Thundercracker flees, and Jetfire pursues him, clashing in an aerial, vehicle-mode duel that Jetfire is winning, until Scattorshot shoots Thundercracker down.

[[Image:Cyb ep3 optimus cyber key.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

Optimus Prime, meanwhile, is confronted by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], and laid out by a swipe of the Decepticon leader's arm. As Optimus and Vector Prime demand the return of the [[Planet Map]], Megatron just stands there looking smug and refuses. Optimus hurls Starscream aside and switches to Super Mode, but as he charges towards Megatron, Starscream slashes him across the back. His [[Burning justice|heart burning]], Optimus summons his own Cyber Key for the first time and knocks Starscream down with a double cannon blast. Megatron still refuses to surrender the map and trades a few punches with Optimus, but when Autobot reinforcements arrive, Megatron declares it's time to leave. He brags about having already located the first Cyber Planet Key, then warps away with Starscream.

One of the Air Force pilots reports in to his [[Colonel Franklin|superior officer]] about their strange encounter with giant robots. The officer doesn't seem particularly surprised, and seems to know about Transformers. He tells the pilot that everything about his encounter is classified.

Back at the Autobot base, Coby is setting the refugees up with sensible, inconspicuous altmodes, Bud is providing them with templates for holographic drivers, and Lori is teaching them the traffic laws. Jetfire comments that this may work out after all.

And, deep in space, Megatron stares down at [[Velocitron]], the Speed Planet, location of the first Cyber Planet Key...

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* Two unnamed submarine Autobots (1,2)
* Assorted generic sports car Autobots (6)
* [[Signal Lancer]] (9)
* [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (11)
* [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (12)
* [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
* [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (15)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (16)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (17)
* [[Vector Prime]] (18)
* [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (23)
* [[Six-Speed]] (24)
* Assorted refugees (25)

|c2=
* [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (20)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (21)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (22)

|c3=
* [[Bud Hansen]] (3)
* Navy personnel (4)
* [[Coby Hansen]] (5)
* Parking lot spectators (7)
* Police officer (8)
* [[Lori]] (10)
* Air Force personnel (19)
* [[Colonel Franklin]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"But... I never got a chance to ask him where I could ''get'' one of those."
:—The friendly neighborhood '''police officer''', after Coby makes his getaway in one of those supercool cars.

"I'm supposed to do this all day long?" 
"Either that, or go home and get sucked into a black hole." 
"That's a good point."
:—'''Signal Lancer''' and '''Lori''' discuss the upside of being a traffic light.

"That's way better than a square dance for cars in a parking lot!" 
"Ha! Shows what you know! They were ''break''-dancing!"
:—'''Coby''' and '''Lori'''

"Unidentified flying object? Is it an Autobot or a Decepticon? Can you tell who it is?" 
"Just a second... good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy... bad guy! It's Thundercracker!"
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Scattorshot'''

"You're a stone-cold fool, Jetfire." 
"Coming from you, that's a compliment." 
"Tell you what. Here's another little something coming from me!" 
[''Launches missiles.'']
:—'''Thundercracker''' and '''Jetfire'''

"You're nothing better than a common thief." 
"Soon enough I'll be ruler of the Universe! I care not what vermin like you think of me."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Megatron'''

'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. If you tell anyone, the only flying you'll do... is at an amusement park. Got it? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It's classified. Top secret. 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir. I know. But, what was that thing, anyway? 
'''Creepy superior officer:''' It was nothing at all, pilot, understand? 
'''Air Force pilot:''' Yes sir! I do.
:—Ow, ow, ''[[Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' flashback! Ow!

"I'm going to teach you guys all the traffic laws. We're going to start with traffic lights, okay? So, what do you do when you see this color?" 
[''Blue light.''] 
"You go!" 
"And this color?" 
[''Red light.''] 
"You go less!" 
"Very funny. Come on..."
:—'''Lori''' and assorted '''unnamed Autobots'''

==Notes==

===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===

*In ''Cybertron'', the cop who inspects the Autobot cars tells Coby that the drafting fins on the cars make them illegal to drive on the road. In ''Galaxy Force'', on the other hand, he suspects them of being stolen. As Coby denies it, ''Galaxy Force'' also sees him backpedal on his previous claim of designing them, as he states they're new on the market.
*While the Autobots remain unsure of whether to follow Vector Prime's plan in both versions of the show, ''Galaxy Force'' puts a little more emphasis on the fact that the Autobots are not entirely convinced that the Cyber Planet Keys even ''exist''. During Optimus and Megatron's battle towards the end of the episode, Megatron even questions why Prime wants the map back if he doesn't believe in the Keys.
*In a small change, ''Galaxy Force'' has the pilots that engage Thundercracker note that he has not responded to their hails. ''Cybertron'' makes it appear they're shooting at him without attempting contact!

===Pain count===
*"Cyber Key Power!": 2
*"Super mode!": 1

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* How are those Blurr-like cars moving around upright when their wheels aren't touching the ground? Shouldn't their back ends be throwing up sparks and scraping asphalt?
* At 7:14, Jetfire's yellow cheek-vent is visibly clipping into his dark green collar.
* At 17:11 and 17:18, Optimus's ear-fins clip into his backpack. Those dramatic poses are nothing but trouble.

===Continuity errors===
* One of the Air Force pilots asks how Thundercracker got behind them, when he's clearly still in front of them.
* Vector Prime says that Jetfire's Cyber Key came without him needing to call it forth, before the key actually arrives.

===Transformers references===

*The Autobot cars under Coby's watch all use the bodyform of [[Blurr (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'' Blurr]], and one of them has his color scheme. Whether or not this ''is'' Blurr is a loaded question; check out the character's article for an in-depth examination.

===Trivia===
* With the first two episodes of the series having been skipped over when ''Cybertron'' debuted on American television, this episode was the first aired, dropping viewers right into the middle of things with no explanation in what must surely be one of the most fumble-fingered launches of a television programme ''ever''.
* Let's face it. The scene in the parking lot is terribly silly on many levels.
* While it's quixotic to expect the physics of the universe-devouring black hole to make much sense, it may be worth pointing out that making a black hole "collapse in on itself" is redundant.
* The two Air Force jets are very similar in model to Thundercracker himself, but in a basic gray color scheme. However, the model of fighter jet is of ''[[Russia|Russian]]'' make, while the pilots are American.
* When Optimus charges Megatron, then spins and falls down, it's really unclear why he fell.
[[Image:Cyb ep3 blue traffic light.jpg|right|thumb]]
* Did Megatron come to Earth just to brag about possessing the Map and finding the first Key? Why?
* A blocking issue: At 18:20, part of Optimus's face is hidden by the fire engine light bar on his shoulder. It looks very odd, and a slightly different angle would have solved the problem.
* When Signal Lancer (as he will later be named) switches his light colors, and when Lori teaches the Autobots the rules of the road, the green traffic light is ''blue''. As you will be aware if you watch much anime, however, this is ''not'' actually a mistake. This color conundrum is an odd Japanese cultural tic based on the fact that for a large portion of the language's history, they used the same word, "ao" (青), for both blue and green. Although a separate word meaning green has since been established in the language (''midori'' 緑), "ao" is still widely used to describe both shades of blue and green: the blue sky can be "ao", but so is a green traffic light. As a befuddling consequence of this quirk of language, illustrations of traffic lights, be they in driving manuals or animated cartoons about robots from space, are ''actually colored blue'', despite the fact that the real, tangible physical traffic lights on streets in Japan ''are actually green''. You get all that? Okay, now forget it and go play outside, or something. Life's too short, man.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount)
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 01 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (Paramount) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Mike Franklin

2011-04-23T20:16:46Z

24.185.70.0:

:''Mikey Franklin is a [[human]] character from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ColFranklin01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Attention Duelis- Wait wrong series.]]

Colonel '''Mikey Franklin''' is an officer in an unspecified branch of the [[United States of America|United States]] military. He has cool shades.

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Michael Dobson]] (English), [[Rintarō Nishi]] (Japanese)

Years ago, young Franklin was caught in a river rafting accident at the [[Green River Rapids]]. A man (presumably his father) tried to save him, but was unsuccessful. Ultimately, however, the Transformer known as [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] came to his rescue.

This instilled a desire to understand the creature that had saved his life, and Franklin began a life-long pursuit of this knowledge. He immersed himself in studies of sightings of strange vehicles and beings, and later joined the United States military to have access to classified information {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}}. Eventually, he worked his way up to a position where he could launch his own investigation; though the [[President of the United States|president]] thought this was a waste of money, she still provided the necessary funding {{storylink|Family}}.

Sightings of the Earth-dwelling Transformers turned his attention to a town in Colorado {{storylink|Hidden}}. He began to closely watch [[Coby Hansen]], his brother, [[Bud Hansen|Bud]], and their friend, [[Lori]] {{storylink|Collapse}}. In addition, he made contact with Dr. [[Lucy Suzuki]], who had discovered artifacts that ultimately turned out to be remnants of an earth-dwelling Transformer civilization {{storylink|Race}} {{storylink|Detour (episode)|Detour}}.

Suspecting Dr. Suzuki knew something about the Transformers, he secretly followed her to the [[Arctic]], where he witnessed [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] being released from the ice {{storylink|Trust (Cybertron)|Trust}}. When [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] attacked, he organised a blockade to prevent civilian humans from being caught in the crossfire, and once again met up with Dr. Suzuki {{storylink|Trap}}.

Soon afterwards, during the appearance of Starscream's army of [[Ancient Decepticons]], he took the people living in Coby and the other children's town into government custody, and tried to learn the location of the Autobots' base from the children, only for them to be saved by the [[Recon Mini-Con Team]]. Franklin also observed a battle between the Autobots and Starscream's Decepticons, and noticed that there was a significant tactical difference between the two groups {{storylink|Invasion}}.

Franklin would soon after reveal himself to the Autobots {{storylink|Retreat}}, where he revealed his story and was finally reunited with Evac {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}}. He presented himself as a friend, and used his contacts to mobilise part of the military in an attempt to help the three Transformers who would become the [[Cybertron Defense Team]] after they sustained near fatal damage from [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]. During this time, when a blast of the [[Omega Frequency]] arrived from the Omega Lock and reformatted the three, Franklin arranged for the base's receiver arrays to trace the signal, allowing the Autobots to find Starscream's secret base {{storylink|Critical}}. Franklin became an indispensable ally, and Earth's main representative to the Transformers.

When the Autobots and the kids returned to Cybertron, Franklin led a force to Starscream's island base, but found it deserted and devoid of anything useful {{storylink|Darkness (episode)|Darkness}}.

After the kids returned to Earth, the president called him up to admit she had been wrong about his secret Autobot research. Around the same time, Lori contacted him via Dr. Suzuki in the hope he would persuade her and Coby's parents to let her go to [[Gigantion]]. To Lori's dismay, they both argued that this simply wouldn't be safe; however, they were quickly overridden by Optimus Prime, Vector Prime, and Landmine, who all appeared and argued in the kids' favor. The pair then watched the Autobots and kids riding off on the [[space bridge]], Franklin mulling on youthful enthusiasm and determination {{storylink|Family}}.

He and Dr. Suzuki later observed the Primus' efforts to contain the Unicron Singularity from the Autobots' base {{storylink|Challenge}}. He also attempted to contact the Autobots, but was unable to do so as they were in another universe at the time. However, just as he was giving up, a space bridge opened between Gigantion and Earth, allowing him to get in an encouraging message {{storylink|Showdown (episode)|Showdown}}.

After the Auobots returned to their own universe, Col. Franklin and Dr. Suzuki contacted them to tell them about catastrophic events on Earth due to Galvatron's influence on the Unicron Singularity. Franklin then co-ordinated the civilian Autobots' rescue operations for a while, but soon decided that what they were doing was ineffectual, and told them all to get to Cybertron and stop the problem at the source {{storylink|Homecoming (episode)|Homecoming}}. In the meantime, he and Dr. Suzuki evacuated the people of Earth to areas where they would presumably last a little longer in the event of planetary explosion; after that, they could just wait and watch {{storylink|End}}.

In the aftermath of the conflict, Franklin was appointed Earth's representative at the first interplanetary peace conference. He proposed sealing the Cyber Planet Keys away; however, Optimus Prime suggested that instead of hiding them, they instead take them to the far corners of the universe and expand the space bridge network their ancestors had started.

Franklin also struck up a relationship with Lucy Suzuki, which resulted in her proposing marriage to him (she presumed he was proposing at the time). Years later, the two were married and had a child together {{storylink|Beginning}}.

==Notes==
* His first name may or may not have been "Mick" in ''Galaxy Force''.
* In ''Galaxy Force'', it is Colonel Franklin who very desperately proposes marriage to Dr. Lucy Suzuki as she leaves Earth, instead of what's seen in ''Cybertron''. She was very ''laissez-faire'' to his pleas, but the end result was the same.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Franklin, Mikey}}
[[Category:Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category:Cybertron humans]]
[[Category:United States military officers]]

Daniel Witwicky (G1)

2011-04-23T15:47:42Z

24.185.70.0: /* The Transformers cartoon */

{{picsneeded|some fiction}}
{{disambig3|Daniel Witwicky}}
:''Daniel [[Witwicky]] is a [[human]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Danielwitwickytftm.jpg|right|250px|thumb|He wears a matching "D" on his underroos.]]

'''Daniel Witwicky''' is the human son of [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Carly|Carly Witwicky]]. He is approximately 12 years of age in 2005, and was presumably born sometime between 1990 and 1993. He is the grandson of [[Sparkplug Witwicky]].

Daniel often gets into trouble, which requires either his father or the [[Autobot]]s to save him. He is very good friends with the Autobots, particularly [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], but the one he's closest to is [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], who views him as a surrogate son. Come to think of it, he doesn't seem to have any human friends. What a shock.

Daniel is (sometimes) the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster partner]] to Arcee.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[David Mendenhall]] (English), [[Mayumi Tanaka]] (Japanese, ''The Movie''), [[Masumi Gotō]] (Japanese, ''Transformers 2010''), [[Yoshiko Kamei]] (Japanese, ''The Rebirth''), [[Francette Vernillat]] (Fench)

In the year 2005, Daniel appeared to be in the care of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (smart choice) at [[Autobot City]] while his father was preparing for an assault on the [[Decepticon]]-held planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] from [[Moonbase One]].

Following a brutal Decepticon attack on the city (in which he was almost killed), Daniel tearfully witnessed the death of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], sobbing on the fallen commander's hand as the color left his corpse. (We forgive Daniel's crying on this occasion, as [[Fandom|everyone else]] cried as well.)

Escaping from a second Decepticon attack, Daniel and a group of Autobots were stranded on [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], where Daniel donned his father's old [[exosuit]] to weather the harsh environment. He did not get much time to enjoy the suit, as yet ''another'' Decepticon assault left [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] dead and stirred the native [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] into violent action. Daniel proved his worth in this battle by smacking Junkion leader [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] with an I-beam, saving a prone [[Springer (G1)|Springer]].

Hostilities with the Junkions were settled with the arrival of Hot Rod and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], Ultra Magnus was revived, and a brief celebration was held wherein Daniel showed he could boogey down.

Daniel joined the combined Autobot-Junkion attack force in the assault on [[Unicron]]. He was on the ship that plunged into Unicron's eye, and soon became separated from the main Autobot group. As luck would have it, he ended up in Unicron's acid-based digestion center, where he was able to save his father, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] from certain death.

Daniel and the rest soon met up with the other Autobots inside of Unicron. Everything around them was exploding! And then came this [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] guy. Spike and Daniel hopped into his front seat, all of the Autobots drove out of Unicron's undamaged eye, ''through space'' (!), and back to Cybertron as Unicron blew up. Daniel looked on as Rodimus gave a heroic speech. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

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[[Image:HeadmasterDanielRebirth1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|That kid's therapist is gonna make a fortune.]]

Daniel would subsequently be around to watch his father get kidnapped by [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]], {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} witness Optimus Prime's revival as a zombie, {{storylink|Dark Awakening}} become the subject of a Quintesson dream/reality experiment, {{storylink|Nightmare Planet}} try to determine Ultra Magnus's birthday, {{storylink|Surprise Party}} bring a [[Mara-Al-Utha|mad Quintesson wizard]] to justice, {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}} and steal [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s transforming cog. {{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

Following those adventures, Daniel was Om-nom-nomed by [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] and was seriously injured and required extensive life support. [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] volunteered her own systems to assist in saving Daniel's life. Her head was reconfigured into an [[exosuit]], allowing Daniel to become Arcee's [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster partner]]. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}}
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====

{{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as detailed above, except that the events of season 3 are pushed back to 2010, and "The Rebirth" does not occur (hence, Daniel never becomes a Headmaster). Japanese continuity inserts several new stories into different points in the timeline, as described below.}}

=====''The Great Transformer War'' comic=====
{{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 2|The Great Transformer War #2}}

{{charstubfiction}}

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tomiko Suzuki]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Dannigun.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Give a boy a gun and you arm him for a day. Teach him how to make a gun... and the whole metaphor breaks down.]]

In 2011, Daniel seemed to be somehow regressing in both age and maturity, looking and acting a good deal younger than in the movie or the previous season of the cartoon. He hung out with Wheelie a whole lot more than was probably healthy, and the two shared constant adventures. In fact, at one point, Daniel and Wheelie defeated Trypticon by tricking him into trying to walk a rope bridge across a deep gorge.

As the series progressed, Daniel changed from a snot-nosed little cry-baby into a responsible young man. These coming-of-age adventures included traveling alone to a robot-killing asteroid, befriending the murderous psychopath, [[Sixshot]], and finally rescuing his Mom from inside a narrow crevice she had tumbled into, injuring herself.

Real men don't cry, Danny.

{{charstubfiction}}

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=====''The Headmasters'' comic=====
[[Image:DanielWheelie.jpg|180px|thumb|We find this picture works better WITHOUT the captions.]]

{{storylink|The Headmasters issue 1|The Headmasters #1}} {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 3|The Headmasters #3}} {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 4|The Headmasters #4}} {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 5|The Headmasters #5}} {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 7|The Headmasters #7}}

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Shortly after [[Scorponok (G1)|Mega Zarak]] and the Decepticons were driven from Earth, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] showed up and took Daniel's family hostage. Not havin' none-a that, Daniel finally snapped. He went insane and took on both [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] and [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] in a bare-knuckle brawl, defeating the pair of Cassette dinosaurs and leaving Soundblaster open to an attack from [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 8|The Headmasters #8}}

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=====E-Hobby pack-in comics=====
{{storylink|MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.}} {{storylink|MP-3G Destron Air Commander / Starscream Ghost Ver.}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
[[Image:Danieluk.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Fifteen years old, and still wearing matching outfits with his dad... and still a hysterical wreck too.]]

''In 2009, the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] and the rest of the Decepticons rampaged across Earth unhindered, and Daniel and his father Spike were rescued from the carnage by [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. Kup brought them to Autobot City, where Daniel convinced [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] that he wasn't devoting enough resources towards defending Earth. {{storylink|Time Wars (issue)|Time Wars}}''
{{-}}

===Coloring books===
Returning home from a road trip with his Autobot friends, Daniel had a sandwich while listening to Kup's story about a lost stash of [[energon cube]]s on Earth. While Daniel wanted to participate in the ensuing treasure hunt, the Autobots deemed it too dangerous for the boy, and Hot Rod drove him home to his parents, [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster]] and [[Jesse]]. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

{{-}}
===Universe: The Wreckers===
[[Image:Departure-WheelieDaniel.jpg|200px|thumb|Rebel without a cog.]]

Daniel detonated an explosive to destroy a legion of [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] drones, killing himself and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] in the process. This event caused [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] to enter a deep depression, setting the stage for her personality change as she became a [[Wrecker]]. {{storylink|Departure}}
{{-}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{quote|Thanks kiddo. What would I do without you?|[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]}}
{{quote|Get your head knocked is what.|Daniel}}
A day after a reactivated [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] attacked and destroyed a South American rebel militia, a young Daniel reminded Spike to wear his [[hard hat]], which he scrawled his father's name on so he wouldn't forget (the hardhat, not his name). Spike told him to go upstairs when General [[Robert Hallo]] invited himself into Spike's home. He wears pajamas to bed. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}}

==Toys==
===Unreleased===
[[Image:Concept-HeadmasterArcee.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Every boy dreams of his own car. Daniel is head over wheels for his.]]
A pink [[redeco]] of [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] as Headmaster Arcee was considered by Hasbro/Takara at one time. Presumably Daniel would have been the Headmaster partner.

{{canceledtoy}}
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==Merchandise==
===Super Collection Figure===
[[Image:Hoc arcee and daniel.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''A & D'', this fall on Fox.]]
*'''Arcee & Daniel''' (2001)

:A PVC figure of Daniel in his exosuit was released in [[TakaraTomy|Takara's]] [[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]] series. It was only available in ACT-4, coming in the same blind-packed box as [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (who was unchanged from her ACT-1 release).
{{-}}
==Notes==
* In Japanese continuity, it originally was not explained why Daniel did not seem to age between the animated film, which took place in 2005, and their season three, which took place in 2010. To the contrary, in ''The Headmasters'', his mental age seemed to ''regress''. According to the massive timeline featured in ''[[Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]'', Daniel was in suspended animation in outer space in the interim. As far as [[retcon]]s go, there have been clunkier.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Witwicky, Daniel (G1)}}
[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]
[[Category:Headmasters]]
[[Category:The Headmasters humans]]
[[Category:Universe characters]]
[[Category:Witwicky family|Daniel Witwicky (G1)]]

Optimus Prime (Movie)

2011-04-09T02:15:28Z

24.185.70.0: /* Titan Magazines post-Revenge of the Fallen comics */

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{{disambig3|Optimus Prime}}{{suite}}

:''Optimus Prime is the [[Autobot]] leader from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[Continuity family|continuity family]]. He has [[Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots|sometimes]] used the codename '''10-22'''.''

[[Image:Movieprime meettheautobots.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Hello, pretty bird. GIVE ME YOUR FACE.]]

'''Optimus Prime''' is the leader of the [[Autobot]]s. Long ago, he was the humble leader of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s science division, which studied the [[AllSpark]], and were protected by [[Lord High Protector]] [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]'s military. When Megatron was corrupted by [[The Fallen]], Optimus discovered that he was the last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], hidden away when The Fallen destroyed their lineage. In response to Megatron's attempts to seize the AllSpark and conquer other worlds, Optimus assumed his proper [[Prime (rank)|title]] and rallied the Autobots to stand against the [[Decepticon]]s.

As obsessively as Megatron strives to achieve his objective, Optimus is equally as dedicated to stopping him, even at the cost of his life, his world, and—if necessary—his own people. It was on his order that the AllSpark was jettisoned into space, dooming Cybertron to a slow death and his people to a nomadic life. The sacrifices he has made weigh heavily on his [[spark]], but they must be done, for there is no other choice. He knows the ambitions that lurk in Megatron's spark, and they must never see the light of day. Lives must be kept free from the threat of Megatron's tyranny, no matter the cost.

{{bigquote|Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.|Optimus Prime reflecting on his past|''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie prequel comics===

It was Optimus Prime's [[Prima|ancestor]] who finally vanquished [[the Fallen]] to another [[sarcophagus|dimension]] in the battle for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 4|Tales of the Fallen #4}} but his orphaned descendant who was hidden away from the Fallen grew up with no knowledge of what he was. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen issue 3|Revenge of the Fallen Adaptation issue 3}}

[[Image:Foundation1-literaldawn.jpg|left|thumb|300px|He's right, an actual literal dawn ''was'' involved. Put those knives away, English majors.]]

Eons after the [[Dynasty of Primes]] were vanquished, Cybertron fell into dark times. The AllSpark had been buried somewhere within Cybertron and been dismissed as a legend, and the planet itself lacked a star to orbit. As energy became more and more scarce, Cybertronians segregated into tribes. Optimus and his brother [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] chose to rally behind [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], who claimed to be descended from [[Primus]] himself. Optimus and Megatron helped Sentinel Prime locate the AllSpark and harness a star for Cybertron to orbit, and these fantastic acts united Cybertron for the first time in known history. But Sentinel Prime had grown old and weary and refused to lead the Cybertronians, and, in confidence, he expressed his wish for Optimus to become the next [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]. Little did they know that Megatron had been eavesdropping, and Optimus's brother came to a jealousy-inspired conclusion. He didn't believe Optimus Prime had the ability to competently lead Cybertron, and that this series of events would one day pit the two against each other, until one was dead. Megatron vowed that it would not be him. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1}}

[[Image:Defiance1 Megs Prime argument.jpg|right|350px|thumb|"Hey, I wanted a mouthplate!"]]

For two generations, Optimus helped govern [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] under [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], and was in charge of the [[Science Division]] and the protectors of the [[AllSpark]]. The two personalities created a balance; Prime was fair while Megatron was firm. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} When Protector Megatron toured the excavation site near the temple at [[Simfur]], he and Optimus clashed over several issues. While Optimus wanted to take the investigation slowly, all Megatron cared about was whether the site contained power similar to the AllSpark. Optimus nettled Megatron when he reminded the Protector that the science sector was in charge of scientific and archaeological discoveries, and that the defense forces had a tendency to treat such discoveries as hostile, to which Megatron responded that if and when he was leader, he could make such decisions. When a [[The Fallen|mysterious relic]] was uncovered, Optimus disagreed with Megatron's order for it to be removed from the ground. Just as the two were about to launch into yet another argument, aliens previously encountered by Commander [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] attacked Cybertron. Megatron blackmailed Optimus into moving the relic into his personal quarters by reminding the science leader that the science division would like to protect the only intact relic from harm. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}}

Optimus ordered his science teams to help the survivors on both sides, in the hopes of finding out who was responsible and why they attacked. While he went off to find Megatron, he ordered the others to continue searching for survivors while [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] examined the alien remains. Optimus was shocked and appalled when Megatron ordered him to marshal his forces for war. Optimus objected, as his science division was not trained for combat, but Megatron retorted that the scientists should have known that aliens were after the AllSpark. He endured Megatron's insane fury when he accused the Protector of betraying that upon which their society was built. Later, Optimus called upon a meeting with his science division to ask them to stay by his side and continue on with their mission of peaceful research, as they were protectors, not soldiers. While the aerial-based Cybertronians followed Megatron into space, Optimus confided in [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]] and [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] that Megatron sought to divide their planet, and he asked the former for help breaking into the High Protector's personal quarters. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[Image:Defiance3_OptimusPrime_battle.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Man...Prime is here to kick tailpipes and take faces, and he's all out of tailpipes...]]

After noting that Megatron had restored the artifact to pristine condition, Optimus had to leave the military leader's quarters just before he returned. Back at Burthov, he came upon [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], Arcee, and [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] scanning the pieces of the other artifacts. Arcee then discovered that the pieces all contained the same symbol on them, and that the same symbol was on Optimus' head. Ratchet declared that the symbol was proof of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], and it indicated Optimus himself was a [[Dynasty of Primes|Prime]]. Ratchet and the other Autobots began to dub him "Optimus Prime", although a humble Optimus noted they did not know what it meant and for all they knew, he could just be from a line of record clerks. As they discussed the revelations, Prowl was forced by Megatron to arrest Optimus, but this turned out to be a trap to kill him. Optimus bested Starscream, while Megatron formed his new faction, the [[Decepticon]]s. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}}

[[Image:Ark Bridge Defiance4.jpg||thumb|300px|right|]]
Retreating to Burthov with his fellow scientists and Prowl's security officers, Optimus was acknowledged as the leader of the group, with Prowl serving as his lieutenant. He and Prowl were discussing sites for a new base when Jazz informed them that Captain Ironhide of the [[Defense Force]] wanted to see Optimus. Learning of Megatron's new starship, the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'', Optimus Prime was convinced by his advisers that their side needed a [[Ark (Movie)|ship of their own]] to prepare for any eventualities. The Autobots found themselves at an advantage when the ''Nemesis'' left Cybertron with the balance of the Decepticon forces, and Optimus himself took the fight to their enemies. However, years of bloody war devastated the planet, and Optimus saw no end in sight, unless the main reason for fighting was removed from the conflict. He revealed his plan to capture the AllSpark, and most assumed the Autobots would somehow take it aboard their ship. But Optimus's real plan was to blast the Cube into deep space, away from Cybertron and away from Megatron. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

{{note|In line with ''Revenge of the Fallen'', ''[[Defiance]]'' changes the past relationship between Megatron and Optimus Prime as previously seen in IDW's [[Movie Prequel issue 1|first movie prequel]], where they ruled side by side as equals. This was because, like several other pieces of tie-in fiction, the first movie prequel comic was based upon an earlier draft of the 2007 movie, where Prime and Megatron were referred to as "brothers", a reference that only survived in one line of dialogue in the final movie, which, according to writer [[Roberto Orci]], was intended to be open to interpretation.}}

[[Image:Optimusprimemovieprequel.jpg|left|200px|thumb|All Primes are required to have window boobs.]]

The AllSpark was successfully ejected into space at [[Tyger Pax]], where [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] distracted Megatron. Prime and the Autobots were held up in [[Simfur]] during the launch. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} As they prepared to leave Cybertron on board the ''[[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]'' to go after the AllSpark, Optimus Prime had some doubts about his decision, feeling that in buying them some time in the war, he had sentenced their world to death. [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]] disagreed, pointing out that had Megatron been able to claim the Cube, all those that opposed him would have been destroyed, and that Prime had turned death into a fighting chance for the Autobots. Bolstered by Prowl's words, Prime resolved to rebuild their shattered home once they retrieved the AllSpark. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream Issue Number One}}
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===''Transformers: Beginnings''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]

Bumblebee remembered Optimus Prime's orders that they must launch the AllSpark into space, for it was better to lose it to the depths of space than allow Lord Megatron to corrupt it with his evil. For wherever there is hope, there is life. {{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}

===Titan Magazines ''Transformers'' movie comics===
[[Image:OptimusMovie_GeoffSenior.JPG|250px|thumb|Starting as he means to go on.]]

When war broke out, Optimus studied the entire history of intergalactic warfare from any datatrack he could find—he studied whole campaigns to desperate last stands, gaining a focused "playbook" of warfare strategy. He understands warfare on a practical and psychological level, and in desperate battles knows to show no mercy to opponents beyond a swift death. <ref>''Autobot VS Decepticon Smackdown! - Megatron V. Optimus Prime'', #4</ref>

Optimus was the focus of constant attacks by assassin drones and killed them all. In the aftermath of one, he witnessed a prophetic vision of the [[Mission City]] battle and realised the AllSpark's ejection could spread war to other planets—but too late to stop the launch... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prelude: Optimus Prime}}

{{note|The following event is unique to the Titan Magazines comics continuity, and thus does not occur anywhere else.}}

Almost immediately after the final battle against Megatron, Optimus Prime had to lead the Autobots against a horde of [[Zombie|zombie]] Decepticons. Despite having no idea how they could be stopped and having had his power drained by fighting Megatron, Optimus continued to fight the monsters rather than let them run amok. Ratchet worked out a solution just in time before Optimus fell. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7|Starscream's Militia}}

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In the alternate reality, Megatron defeated Optimus and took the AllSpark at [[Mission City]]. Prime's body was now partially frozen and in Decepticon hands. He was the last and only hope of the Earth resistance, and so Bumblebee and [[Mikaela Banes]] were not happy to find him offline. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

She thawed him out while Bumblebee distracted Megatron, and the revived Prime challenged Megatron to a solo duel... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}} Unfortunately, Megatron's link to the AllSpark meant Optimus could not do any lasting damage and was never going to win. Luckily, Bumblebee and Mikaela saved the day, hitting the distracted Megatron with an old [[Sector Seven]] nanovirus. (Which means ''they'' were the last and only hope, but oh well.) Despite Megatron dying as a result and the AllSpark being destroyed elsewhere, Prime could take no satisfaction in victory: this battle was won, but the war remained... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

[[Image:Optimus_Titan12.JPG|left|250px|thumb|"Megatron's face must be cut off...no MATTER THE COST!"]]

He became resigned to the fact that Humanity, battered by Decepticon occupation, would view both Autobot and Decepticon as hostile invaders. When [[NATO]] was manipulated into attacking the Autobots, Optimus refused to allow his men to return fire, and after the crisis passed, he was sure that [[Starscream (Movie)|the Decepticons' unknown new commander]] was up to something bigger. Optimus also placed the last AllSpark fragment in the care of Ratchet, though he was worried exposure to Megatron might have corrupted it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath Part 1}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 15|Aftermath Part 2}} He was ''not'' happy when Ratchet "took care" of the fragment by bringing [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] back with it, who was left corrupted and amoral by it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

Optimus Prime soon worked out that while the AllSpark's transformation of Earth had been halted, the damage had been done: the organic Earth and the technological transformation were now fighting for supremacy, killing the planet in the process. He called in a specialist team to investigate and limit the damage, while working with [[President of the United States|President Allen]]. In secret, he organised for [[Nucleon]] to be retrieved from the dead Cybertron and brought to Earth, as there was a long shot it could save the planet. He didn't tell the humans out of concern that if they knew about the plan and it failed, their hopes would be raised and dashed. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} It was bad enough that Nucleon was so unstable it could turn destructive... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}}

When the team on Cybertron sent a distress signal and reported [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade's]] Decepticons had captured the Nucleon, Optimus led the entirety of the Earth-bound Autobots (save Camshaft's team) to Cybertron as back-up. He was then surprised to see Cybertron coming to ''them'', looking [[Unicron|a lot meaner these days]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|Return to Cybertron: Part 3}} The planet's possessor, Unicron, shot down the Straxus and the Autobots survived only by evacuating it in time in [[protoform]] modes.

Optimus landed next to Stockade's old equipment and, after being filled in by [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], he effortlessly formed an alliance with Stockade against Unicron. His plan was to drain the Nucleon away so Unicron couldn't use it as a power source, while the bulk of the Transformers provided a distraction, which turned out to be going underground and shooting up Unicron's body. The plan worked, Nucleon was secured for Earth, and Optimus extended an offer for Stockade to join them on Earth whenever he wished. Optimus was left optimistic that Autobots and Decepticons had come together in a common cause. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

On returning to Earth, he found the Decepticons had seized the Autobot base and six hundred square miles around it; he made the decision to withdraw to [[Washington, D.C.]], knowing that this meant leaving Mikaela in Decepticon hands. Upon landing at an air base, the Decepticon-controlled President Allen lured him into a trap, and he found himself fighting Jazz, now a Decepticon hired gun. Optimus lured him away from humans and prepared to engage him, but when a second assassin named [[Kullt]] turned up, Jazz gunned it down out of annoyance. Optimus had viewed Jazz as a lost cause but now stated there was still some Autobot in him: he ''could'' have let Kullt do the work for him and then killed him, but he saved Prime instead.

The battle made it clear to Optimus that Allen was under Decepticon mental control. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Hard Target}}

[[Image:Optimus Titan22.JPG|200px|thumb|Freedom is not dispensed here, sentient fools, only DEATH!]]

As he'd promised Bumblebee, Optimus took the Autobots to get Mikaela back; he himself went first, launching himself in [[Protoform|protoform]] mode to land in Savannah like a bomb and tearing his way through [[Swindle (Movie)|drone hordes]]. He was quickly gunned down by aerial units and about to be killed by Starscream, but this whole flashy attack had been a diversion—allowing other Autobots a chance to hit the distracted air forces and nab Mikaela. After the battle, Optimus remarked Starscream was no Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

Optimus seemed to quickly bond with [[General Seward]], his military liaison at Andrews Air Base, but that didn't help when the mind-controlled President Allen had the government order the Autobots out of America. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution Part One}} However, Prime had anticipated this. Almost two weeks before, he'd had Ironhide task [[Tom Banachek]] to identify all the Decepticon puppets for him. With Allen making the expected move, he dispatched Ironhide and Bumblebee to set things up so that the following day, when the Autobots all departed, Allen would try to nuke them out of the sky and be fooled by a decoy ship into thinking he'd killed them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}

To protect the Earth while they were undercover on Cybertron, Optimus had made a deal with Stockade to start a [[Decepticon Civil War]]. Optimus didn't trust Stockade to not renege on the deal and just take control of Earth for himself, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Revolution Part Two}} but he ensured the Decepticons were set up for the Autobot's final strike: forcibly teleporting all of the enemy to Cybertron via Unicron's leftover teleportational engines, then stranding Cybertron in a remote solar system. Optimus led the troops to Earth and witnessed Megatron's return from the dead... only to ''thwack'' him flying. The next minute, both Megatron ''and'' Stockade (why wait for him to renege?) were teleported away, along with their forces.

This left the Autobots stranded on Earth and with a lot of clean-up to do. But Optimus had ''finally'' brought about the end of the war... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}
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===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
Optimus Prime led the search for the AllSpark in the ''[[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]'', a transport vessel. When they came across an abandoned solar system, they located [[Ghost 1|a vessel]] of strangely Cybertronian design, seemingly of Decepticon make. When the vessel fled to the surface of a planet, Prime dispatched Bumblebee to investigate while he and the other Autobots battled Decepticons from the ''[[Nemesis (Movie)|Nemesis]]''. Prime managed to defeat [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], and [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] all on his own. After losing touch with Bumblebee, Prime went down to locate him on the planet, where they were attacked by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and the alien ship. They fell into a cavern network, where they were further attacked by [[Worm-thing|indigenous worms]].

During their flight from the creatures, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee came across the alien vessel. Prime realized that they were trying to surrender, so the Autobots communicated with its crew. Optimus explained that they came in peace, "freedom is the right of all sentient beings," Starscream tricks everyone, and so on. However, the creatures, who called themselves "[[Human|humans]]", explained that they held Megatron, whom they called the Ice Man, on their home world, [[Earth]]. Realizing the destruction Megatron would wreak upon the humans if he escaped, and that the humans would be unable to defend themselves effectively, Prime vowed to see them return to their world to warn it. Prime was able to blast an opening in the cavern, and the group escaped. As they returned to the ''Ark'', Prime began to speculate that the AllSpark was what drew Megatron to Earth.

In the ensuing battle with the Decepticons, Prime was in the difficult position of fighting Starscream and protecting the human ship. His distractions allowed Bonecrusher to spear him with his tail. The difficult state nearly gave Starscream the chance to kill him, but the humans saved Prime's life by damaging Starscream, who destroyed them. Optimus Prime was inspired by their courage and sacrifice, and resolved to locate Earth before the Decepticons did—and hopefully before Megatron came back online. {{storylink|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

===''Transformers'' (2007) film===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Brazil), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish)

{{bigquote|A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet. We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes.|Optimus Prime on sacrificing his life to destroy the [[AllSpark]]}}

[[Image:Movie OptimusPrime protoform.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Having overenergized the previous night, Prime woke up abandoned in a field, with his wallet and clothes stolen.]]
The leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, came to Earth shortly after [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] sent his comrades a beacon. Upon atmospheric reentry, Prime managed to land outside of [[Tranquility]]'s inhabited areas. While Sam and Mikaela watched, Optimus transformed and left his landing place. From atop a hill, he quickly scanned the form of an Earth truck, thus configuring his body to transform into it. Prime, [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] met up with Bumblebee and his human friends, [[Sam Witwicky]] and [[Mikaela Banes]] in an alley. In one of the most extended [[Transformation|transformations]] in the multiverse, Prime assumed his robotic form before the stunned humans. After confirming Sam's identity, Prime introduced himself and his team. When Mikaela asked of the Autobots' intentions, Prime explained the search for the AllSpark, the betrayal of Megatron, and why Sam was important to their search.

[[Image:Movie PrimeSam parentsfreakout.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Optimus Prime will watch you fornicate. And there is nothing you can do about it.]]
Glasses that belonged to Sam's ancestor, [[Archibald Witwicky|Captain Archibald Witwicky]], contained the location of the AllSpark encoded across its lenses, so Optimus Prime ordered his troops to wait outside Sam's house while Sam and Mikaela searched inside for the glasses. Much to Sam's exasperation, Optimus Prime, in his impatience, clumsily ruined his parents' garden, and the Autobots' heavy footsteps convinced them there was an earthquake. Prime's attempts to hide, such as having the Autobots transform into vehicle mode right in the backyard, were also less than satisfactory. Ultimately, Sam came so close to a panic attack that Prime was forced to order the Autobots to fall back. As Prime lectured his team on their supposed inability to remain quiet, Ratchet got himself shocked by walking into some powerlines, causing further problems. When [[Ron Witwicky|the]] [[Judy Witwicky|parents]] came to investigate, Prime's attempt to avoid discovery caused the house to shake, though this was to their benefit, as the father assumed that the damage to the yard was the result of an earthquake. Ironhide suggested that they kill the parents, but Optimus scolded his old friend. Despite all this, their presence remained undetected until [[Sector Seven]] arrived (in a convoy of GMC Yukons) and abducted Sam, Mikaela, and Sam's parents.

[[Image:Movie Optimus Prime S7 mad.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Get out of the car...what's left of it anyway!]]
Optimus Prime sent the Autobots in pursuit of the SUV that contained Sam, Mikaela, and Sector Seven's director, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]]. Prime intercepted the vehicle carrying their young human friends, ripping the roof of the vehicle off, with the other Autobots disarming the agents, and made it perfectly clear to Simmons how pissed off he was at him for trying to apprehend the two children, regarding this as a bad move on Simmons' behalf. Optimus then ordered his comrades to relieve the agents of their weapons, and attempted to interrogate Simmons. The agents' lack of surprise at their appearance indicated that they had seen Cybertronians before, but Simmons refused to reveal any information. With a Sector Seven backup team en route, Prime ordered the Autobots to scatter, while he took Sam and Mikaela. While hiding under a bridge, Mikaela and Sam slipped and fell off Prime's shoulder. Bumblebee managed to catch them before impact, but was captured, and Sam and Mikaela recaptured, by the organization after their retreat. Now in possession of the glasses which could tell him the location of the AllSpark, Optimus regretfully left Bumblebee in Sector Seven's hands, knowing that if they went after him, they would have to use deadly force.

After regrouping the next day, Prime used the glasses to locate the AllSpark. Jazz again raised objections to leaving Bumblebee behind, but Prime remained firm in his belief of not harming the humans. Ironhide seemed okay with using deadly force, stating the humans were too violent, but Prime countered that when their time had come, the Cybertronians had been [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|little different]]. Going on to explain the potential he saw in the humans, as well as reminding them that "freedom is the right of all sentient beings", Prime revealed to the Autobots his real plan for the AllSpark: if they could not defeat the Decepticons, Prime intended to merge the Cube with his [[Spark|spark]]. Though this would destroy the AllSpark, Ratchet cautioned Prime against this, as it would also kill him. Prime believed that this was acceptable, vowing not to let another race suffer the mistakes of the Transformers. The glasses placed the AllSpark at [[Hoover Dam]] where, luckily, Bumblebee and the young humans were taken.

[[Image:Movie2007 Prime sword.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Swiss army Prime.]]
Optimus Prime's team met up with Sector Seven, Bumblebee, Sam, and Mikaela en route, who had planned to hide the AllSpark in nearby [[Mission City]]. While on the highway, he was attacked by [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]], who managed to tackle Optimus and drag him over the edge of a freeway overpass. During the battle, Optimus struck the rage-filled Transformer so hard his [[Optic|optic]] popped out. As the Decepticon swung his claw wildly, Optimus drew his sword from his right arm and sliced off one of Bonecrusher's arms, before brutally finishing off his enemy by [[Decapitation|driving the blade through]] Bonecrusher's neck, severing his head.

Optimus arrived at Mission City just in time to observe Megatron discarding the remains of Jazz, and challenged him. Millennia in the ice had done nothing to lessen Megatron's hatred of his brother, and he launched himself in jet mode at the Autobot leader. Optimus leaped and grabbed hold of the wings, which was a really bad idea, as Megatron drove himself and Prime through an office block. As they flew out of the building onto the street below, Megatron transformed and leapt on top of Prime, declaring the humans undeserving of life. Prime rejected his claims, saying that they deserved to choose for themselves. Megatron threw Prime across the street, declaring that if he wished to defend the humans, Prime could die with them. He then formed his [[Fusion cannon|fusion cannon]] from his forearms. The power up time allowed Prime to draw his [[Ion blaster|ion blaster]] and fire, hitting Megatron. The Decepticon used the momentum to spin around, then used the fusion cannon to blast Prime across the street into another building. Megatron then resumed the hunt for Sam and the AllSpark.

[[Image:Movie2007 Prime truck.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He knows he's a sexy truck.]]
Tracking Megatron to the deserted building, Prime barely managed to catch Sam after Megatron knocked him off the roof. Telling the boy to hold onto the Cube, Prime attempted to scale down the building, but Megatron jumped on Prime, causing them both to fall down hard onto the street below. Sam survived, however, and Optimus told the boy that if he could not defeat Megatron, Sam must put the AllSpark into his chest which would destroy it. As Sam sought cover, Optimus faced down Megatron, and informed him that, "At the end of this day, one shall stand, one shall fall". Unfortunately, Megatron, even after years of stasis, proved to be far too powerful for Prime to defeat alone. The unit led by Lennox and the Raptor squadron laid down suppressing fire as Megatron reached for the AllSpark, until Optimus finally took him down by sweeping his legs. Still, Megatron continued, crawling toward the cube. Believing he had lost, Optimus implored Sam to put the AllSpark into his chest. Sam instead thrust it into Megatron's chest, killing the Decepticon leader and destroying the AllSpark.

[[Image:Movie2007 Prime AllSpark shard.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership|Dorito of leadership]]]]
As Optimus watched his brother die, he regretfully said there was little other choice. He also told Sam he owed him a debt of gratitude for saving his life, but was then informed that Jazz had not survived (Jazz was flapping around disrespectfully like a ragdoll during this sequence). Prime briefly eulogized his comrade, then commented that they had gained new comrades in the humans, and was honored by their bravery. Bumblebee, who had finally regained his voice, requested permission to remain with Sam Witwicky, to which the young human eagerly agreed, and Optimus approved. He noticed a fragment of the AllSpark in Megatron's chest cavity and removed it, then permitted the humans to dispose of the Decepticon corpses by dumping them into the deepest part of the ocean.

[[Image:Movie Optimus ending.JPG|right|300px|thumb|[['Til all are one]]!]]
Though Megatron was killed and his Decepticons were defeated, the AllSpark was destroyed, leaving the Autobots unable to restore Cybertron. The Autobots elected to remain on Earth, and Prime sent a message into deep space to any surviving Autobots in the Galaxy to come to their new home on Earth, their long years of searching having finally having come to an end. As the other Autobots rested (and watched Sam and Mikaela make out on Bumblebee's hood) Optimus Prime looked to the sky, hoping his message had been heard. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers}}
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{{note|The [[Movie Adaptation Issue Number Four|comic book adaptation]] depicts Optimus Prime also defeating [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] during the highway altercation with Bonecrusher. However, the later comic [[The Reign of Starscream Issue Number One|''The Reign of Starscream'' #1]] depicts Ironhide doing the deed.}}
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===Toy bios===
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That truck he transcanned was ''the coolest thing he ever saw''. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Robo-Vision Optimus Prime}}

When the AllSpark was destroyed, Optimus was ''bathed'' in its power and became a living receptacle: he could destroy or heal with the merest thought. He still remained dedicated to peace, and altered his exterior decorations to match the ones he bore as a young leader, before the beginning of the war. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|First Strike Optimus Prime}}

When the war turned out to ''not'' be over though, and with more Decepticons appearing on Earth, he was forced to alter himself to be used for stealth missions—something he finds dishonourable but knows has to be done. He is now sensor transparent and silent. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Leader Class toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime}} In this form, he came under surprise attack by an equally stealth-modified Starscream, leader of the new Decepticons! {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Legends Class toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime vs. Stealth Starscream}}

Once the Decepticons were beaten on Earth, Optimus was given intelligence by [[Sector Seven]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Brawlers|Fire Blast Optimus Prime}}

===Beast Wars Diorama Story===
[[Beast Wars (event)|On Earth in the past and in another universe]], a contingent of [[Maximal]]s, led by [[Optimus Primal]], battled a group of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] in a forest. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story|Convoy Chapter}}

Some time into the battle, a warp opened, bringing with it [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], Optimus Prime, and [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]. Optimus Prime made fast friends with [[Optimus Primal]]; they joined their forces and double-teamed the injured [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], who had just taken a blast to the face from [[Tigatron]]. Starscream then joined the Predacons. The two Optimuses commemorated their accomplishment of teamwork by shaking hands. The Maximals and Ratchet looked up with approval. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story|Tigatron Chapter}} [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] later appeared and joined the Predacons. As the battled raged, the [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] from Prime's universe came in through the warp. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story|Gimlet Chapter}}

The Decepticon Megatron brought along [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], and the two Megatrons combined their troops into a fearsome force against the Autobots and Maximals. Fortuantely for the Autobots and Maximals, [[Motorarm (BWII)|Motorarm]] arrived to assist. The two factions then took formation against each other with the intention of combining their energies to attack the opposing side. With [[Motorarm (BWII)|Motorarm]] leading the charge, the Maximals and the Autobots attacked first. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story|Motorarm Chapter}}

===IDW ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===
[[Image:AllianceOptimusHoloDriver.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Peter Cullen|Optimus Prime]] driving Optimus Prime! Sheer awesomeness!]]

Following the battle of [[Mission City]], and the destruction of Megatron and the AllSpark, Optimus Prime was left to ferry the body of his first lieutenant [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] out of the city in an abandoned trailer. Trusting [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]] and his men, Prime asked the human soldiers to help the Autobots escape from the city, before [[Sector Seven]] and other untrustworthy humans could arrive. A month later, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] managed to convince Lennox and [[Robert Epps|Sergeant Epps]] to call upon the assistance of Optimus Prime and the Autobots to escort the Decepticon remains, thereby hopefully reactivating the Decepticon [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] somehow. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}}

Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet and Bumblebee arrived at Sector Seven's Nevada desert base to escort to a naval base at [[California|San Diego, California]]. Optimus insisted on escorting Jazz's remains personally, and thanked Lennox for arranging a proper burial-at-sea for his fallen lieutenant. When he noticed the AllSpark shard seemingly reacting to the Decepticon bodies, he handed the fragment to [[Professor Vine]] for safekeeping until he returned. Shortly after leaving the base, Optimus had second thoughts about leaving the fragment in Sector Seven's possession, and ordered Bumblebee and Ironhide to turn around and retrieve the only remaining piece of the AllSpark. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}}

[[Image:Alliance3_OptimusPrime_Lennox.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"So erm, want to go back to my place?" "Prime, are you trying to get onto me?" "No dude, I just want to show you my collection of faces and heads!"]]

The convoy returned to the Sector Seven base after learning of Wreckage and Starscream's attacks. [[Salani]] retrieved the AllSpark shard and returned it to Optimus Prime, who felt the last piece of their heritage should stay with him. Weeks later, the Autobots and the soldiers with whom they served traveled aboard a [[United States Navy|US Navy]] carrier for Jazz's burial-at-sea and to observe the disposal of the Decepticons. Optimus deeply appreciated the humans' paying last respects to their fallen comrade, though he was concerned that even the great depths of the [[Laurentian Abyss]] were not enough to keep the Decepticon bodies hidden. Below deck, Optimus and Lennox agreed to a formal [[NEST|alliance between the Autobots and humans]] as the first line of offense and defense against the Decepticons. During training on the island of [[Diego Garcia]], Optimus Prime reminded the Autobots that they must work together with the humans as a team, never forgetting that division was what caused the war on Cybertron in the first place. When they were alone, Optimus Prime and Major Lennox complimented each other's leadership and the dedication of their respective troops. When Lennox commented that it was because of the Autobots that he and his soldiers were alive today, Optimus refuted this, saying it was because of humans such as Lennox and Sam, and that the Autobots were only part of the problem. Soon, both [[NEST]] leaders learned that the Decepticons had returned to Earth. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

By November 2008, Sideswipe had arrived on Earth, but was recklessly pursuing the Decepticon Demolishor in South America. Optimus was chastised by Admiral Morshower for this "grey area" in the Autobot ranks, but the Autobot leader assured Morshower he would settle it. Human relations were so strained the exasperated Optimus decided to forcibly bring Sideswipe in to end his rampage; however, Ironhide requested he go calm his former student down. Optimus agreed, but made his position clear: if Sideswipe could not be negotiated with... he would be ''dealt'' with. Ironhide eventually was able to calm his student, but not before Demolishor was let loose upon human civilians, AND the authorities were attacking Cybertronians on sight. Luckily, Optimus and a strike team had already arrived and had the authorities stand down, and Sideswipe joined the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 2|Tales of the Fallen #2}}

[[Image:Alliance4_Prime_killingspree.jpg|thumb|300px|Freedom is the right of all '''non-Decepticon''' sentient beings.]]

NEST was deployed to [[San Francisco]], where the Decepticons [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] and [[Dead End (Movie)|Dead End]] were wreaking havoc. Flushed out of hiding, the Decepticons managed to evade the other Autobots, but Optimus Prime quickly put down Dead End by ramming him head-on. When asked by Prime, he commented that he was fine, but he wasn't sure if Dead End was. On the way back to base, Lennox and Optimus Prime discussed Swindle's last words and were concerned that this was just the first wave of Decepticons coming to Earth, and that they were after [[Sam Witwicky]]. Optimus convinced Lennox that no matter what, it was Sam's destiny to become involved in this conflict, and they agreed to send Bumblebee back to the States to resume his role as the boy's guardian. Later, when Optimus observed the distrust for the Autobots held by Lennox's superiors, he suggested that they must work harder and that continued success would satisfy those above them. During the subsequent hunt for Decepticons around the world, Optimus Prime personally destroyed [[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]], [[Dropkick]] and [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. As NEST's ranks grew, together they celebrated their victories and mourned those who made the ultimate sacrifice. One event brought joy and hope to the team: The arrival of Autobot refugees who were eager to protect their new homeworld. This joy was tempered by the fact more and more Decepticons were being sighted on Earth, and Optimus believed that there was some unknown that threatened their new home, their species and their alliance with the humans. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}}
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===''The Veiled Threat''===
{{Note|The events of ''The Veiled Threat'' take place during [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[Alliance (comic)|Alliance]]'' comic.}}

{{bigquote|I know Megatron. I know all of you. You would not have taken the AllSpark and left this world in peace. You would have subdued it and made slaves of its people. Even in the absence of the AllSpark, my conscience and that of my friends could not have allowed that.|Optimus Prime to [[Macerator]]}}

Optimus attended an initial [[NEST]] briefing about sightings of Starscream in [[Zambia]], and was placed in joint command with Lennox of a team to go there to investigate. He also advised some new Autobot arrivals about how best to fit in on Earth. In Zambia, they quickly tracked down three Decepticons, [[Payload (Movie)|Payload]], [[Macerator]] and [[Dropkick]] waiting at the Zambezi River. Optimus, Ironhide and Ratchet waded in to face their opponents, unaware that it was a trap — as they fought, they were dragged downriver towards Victoria Falls. Although the other two Autobots escaped the trap, Optimus was held fast by Macerator and plunged off the falls. While Macerator was caught mid-air by Starscream, Optimus managed to cling to an outcropping. He was rescued by the other Autobots present, utilizing [[Beachbreak]]'s tow line. Enraged by the rescue, Starscream killed Beachbreak, something Optimus regarded as a result of his own failure to lead. The team tracked Payload, Macerator and Dropkick downriver to the Kariba dam, where Optimus rammed two of the Decepticons and then fought with Macerator at length. He eventually triumphed, decapitating the Decepticon. As Dropkick retreated, Optimus stopped Ironhide from firing as he might have hit some of the humans nearby. They instead went to look for Payload, who had been swept away by raging waters from the dam emergency release.

Back at [[Diego Garcia]], two more Decepticon contacts were made in [[Australia]] and [[Peru]]. Optimus opted to lead the team checking Australia. After exploring the Outback for a number of days, the team discussed whether the Decepticons might be hunting for energy to resurrect Megatron, but Optimus doubted there was an energy source on the planet that could do so. They eventually encountered [[Kickback (ROTF)|Kickback]], [[Trample]] and [[Tread]], three [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]s mining for minerals. Optimus found Kickback's sonic charge weapon to be a challenge, but with some help from Lennox, killed the Decepticon.

After they returned to base, Optimus's input into the conversation on how the Decepticons might revive Megatron was for the most part unhelpful. The subsequent appearance of [[Jolt (Movie)|Deadend]] and [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] in [[Rome]] led the Autobots to take another trip, but Optimus found Rome's narrow streets frustrating as he was unable to navigate them in his truck form. After [[Knock Out (ROTF)|Knockout]] dealt to the two Decepticons, a furious Starscream challenged Optimus to one-on-one combat in the nearby Colosseum. Naturally it was a trap — Starscream had allied himself with a human, [[Bruno Carrera]], and together they trapped Optimus in a pit and set Barricade on him. With the help of four humans, Optimus broke free, threw Barricade into the pit and sealed him there. He then had only to show his face outside to where Starscream was fighting Ironhide, Ratchet and [[Salvage (Movie)|Salvage]], and the would-be Decepticon leader fled. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}

===Titan Magazines ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

[[Image:Titan5_Optimustwins.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Your slang is bad and you should ''feel'' bad!"]]

Since coming to Earth, Optimus has had to strive daily to gain credibility with the human powers-that-be. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}}

Even Optimus doesn't believe [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap's]] stories anymore! When those same twins arrived, Optimus was absent on a 'need to know' mission {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}} in [[Australia]] with [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]. When [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] landed on the continent, the two Autobots interrupted their mission to bring the bot in. It proved far more difficult than you'd expect, with the Decepticon able to outdistance them in the long run and better suited to the terrain. Optimus was knocked offroad when Sideways blasted him with exhaust, and Arcee reported her alt mode was too out of its comfort zone to keep up... which gave Optimus an idea.

That idea was to take ''away'' the terrain, blasting Sideways off the road and into the grass with projectile weaponry. Violence works!

Optimus took the prisoner to Diego Garcia, and on arrival was greeted with the sight of the twins brawling on the runway. He bawled them out over improper conduct, but before he could go further [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] made an attack. Taking fire, Optimus began barking out orders... only to be tripped up by Skids. Once he was up, Scorponok and Sideways had both done a runner. Knowing that the enemy could ''not'' have got this close without NEST security being compromised, Optimus was convinced by [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe's]] argument that the twins had turned traitor and had them taken away for questions. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}}

When the twins were sprung by Decepticons, Prime agreed with [[Theodore Galloway]] that the Autobots would make finding the twins a number one priority. However, Optimus was left suspicious when a [[Soundwave (ROTF)|mysterious "friend"]] tipped the Autobots off about the twins. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.6|Outlaw Blues}} Soon, it came out that the twins were being framed and by tracking the two, Optimus and his men found out about a Decepticon base near [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. Optimus led a raid on it, taking down the [[Purple generic drones|drone army]] stationed there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.8|Back-to-Back}}

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===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Brazil), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish)

[[Image:ROTF-DemolishorPrime.jpg|thumb|right|250px|With the Legends and Voyager toys, this scene is ''just'' possible.]]
After the events in [[Mission City]] two years ago, Optimus Prime and the Autobots became part of a Transformer/human military group called [[NEST]], which hunted down the remaining Decepticons across the world. When [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] and [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] were detected in [[Shanghai]], NEST was deployed there, including the Autobots [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]]. Once Demolishor made himself known by transforming into robot mode and crushing dozens of cars along the highway, [[Robert Epps|Sergeant Epps]] radioed an overhead C-17 to release the Autobot leader. Optimus Prime parachuted out of a NEST cargo plane and landed in vehicle mode. He leapt off a bridge onto the Decepticon's head as he plowed through it. When the massive Constructicon refused his order to pull over, Optimus unleashed several blasts of his [[ion blaster]] into Demolishor's head. These shots, coupled with Ironhide destroying his tires, sent the titan crashing to the ground and into a warehouse. As he and Ironhide approached the dying Decepticon, Optimus asked if he had any last words. With his dying breath, the Constructicon stated that [[The Fallen]] would rise again. Optimus responded in the negative and unceremoniously executed him.

Returning to [[Diego Garcia]], Prime entered a briefing with [[Theodore Galloway]], the National Security Adviser who had been appointed liaison by the [[President of the United States|President]], and [[Morshower|General Morshower]], the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was watching by satellite feed. Prime relayed the warning of The Fallen to them, but Galloway made no effort to conceal his hostility toward the Autobots. He noted that while they had given them intelligence and the sole remaining AllSpark fragment, Galloway took issue with their refusal to share weapons technology and their continued sending of transmissions into space. Prime told Galloway that the Autobots were aware of humanity's history of warfare, and Morshower said that all the transmissions had been vetted by NEST officers. Galloway also pointed out that despite Megatron's death and burial in the Laurentian Abyss and the destruction of the AllSpark, the Decepticons had not left Earth as Optimus had hoped, leading him to conclude that the Autobots were the ones who the Decepticons were after. When asked if the Autobots would leave Earth peacefully if told to, Optimus replied that they would honor their request, but warned Galloway to consider what would happen if the Autobots left but the Decepticons did not.

Unknown to Prime, the Decepticon [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] had been monitoring transmissions and spied on the briefing. Dispatching [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] to the island, he had his agent steal the remaining AllSpark fragment, killing several soldiers in the process. The incident left the Autobots with rather chilly relations with the United States. Seeking outside help, Optimus dispatched Bumblebee to retrieve Sam Witwicky from college in an effort to secure his testimony on the Autobots' behalf. Meeting Sam at an abandoned cemetery near his college, Optimus explained the situation. Sam was not receptive; in fact, he was quite hostile, saying that he had just started college and was trying to have a normal life. Knowing that fate often called at inconvenient times, Optimus impressed upon Sam the importance of what was going on, but Sam reiterated that the Cybertronian War was not his, and that they didn't need him. Optimus relayed his fear that it soon would be, and silently said that they needed him more than he realized.

[[Image:ROTFPrimevsMegsandScreamer.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Stick em' up!]]
Prime's fear soon came to pass, but in the last way he could imagine: the Decepticons had used the AllSpark shard to resurrect Megatron, who had learned that the knowledge of the AllSpark had been passed to Sam by a fragment Sam had touched, and soon captured him, Mikaela, and Sam's college roommate [[Leo Spitz]]. Heading to rescue the three humans, Optimus and Bumblebee ambushed the Decepticons in the [[Broadwater Metal Works|abandoned industrial complex]] where the teens were being held, just as [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]] was about to perform fatal neurosurgery on Sam. Knocking Megatron and [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] out of the building, Optimus managed to whisk Sam away from the plant. Optimus made it as far as the nearby forest when Megatron arrived. Going one-on-one with the Decepticon leader, Prime managed to hold his own, all the while trashing talking Megatron. Megatron then called for Starscream and [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]], who quickly arrived. Prime was forced to run interference between Megatron and Starscream, who pursued Sam.

[[Image:ROTF Optimus vs Grindor.jpg|thumb|right||250px|''Frenzy is red,'' '' Rumble is blue,'' ''this poem doesn't rhyme,'' ''NOW GIVE ME YOUR FACE !'' ]]
As the battle raged, Megatron told Prime that the boy was the key to finding another energon source, then shattered his [[mouthplate]] and sent him flying back with a point blank shot from his [[fusion cannon]]. Megatron asked if the boy's life was greater than the future of their race, but Prime knew that he would never stop with a single life. Declaring that he'd take them all on, Optimus Prime unsheathed his [[Dual Energon Swords]] and fought a three-on-one fight against the Decepticons. Surprisingly, not only did he manage to hold his own, he was actually winning, managing to stab Megatron multiple times, slice off Starscream's arm and use it as a club, and rip apart Grindor's head. However, Megatron managed to stab his own sword through Optimus Prime's chest, following with a point blank shot through his injured back. Critically injured, Optimus implored the still-observing Sam to run. Although the rest of the Autobots soon arrived and drove off Megatron and Starscream, Optimus Prime was [[The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime|dead]].

[[Image:ROTF Optimus death.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"You're so weak!" "Then why have I spent this whole fight kicking your a--"*BOOM*]]
Soon after, The Fallen made his presence known and demanded Sam Witwicky be turned over to him or the world would be destroyed. Galloway used this as a reason to shut down NEST and ordered the Autobots returned to Diego Garcia under guard, along with Prime's corpse (which Galloway callously denounced as a piece of scrap metal). Fortunately, Bumblebee, and [[Skids (ROTF)|the]] [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Twins]] managed to spirit Sam, Mikaela, and Leo away before The Fallen made his announcement. With help from their former enemy Seymour Simmons and the Decepticon-turned-Autobot [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]], the group discovered that Sam's mind contained the Language of the Primes, to which group The Fallen had once belonged. The human/Autobot group managed to locate the Seeker [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], who told them of how the [[Dynasty of Primes]] forged a [[star harvester]] to use a star's energy to replenish the AllSpark, and the [[Matrix of Leadership]], needed to activate the harvester, until they were betrayed by The Fallen, who tried to harvest [[Sun|Sol]] in defiance of the Primes' rule of the sanctity of life. Sam hit upon the idea to use the Matrix to restore Optimus to life, similar to how the Decepticons had used the AllSpark fragment to resurrect Megatron. Having been teleported to [[Egypt]] by Jetfire, the group managed to relay the information to Major Lennox and Sergeant Epps, who faked engine trouble over Petra, where the [[Tomb of the Primes]] was located. Unfortunately, the Matrix had turned to dust in the thousands of years since its entombment, but Sam still believed that it could be used to revive Optimus.

[[Image:ROTF movie Powered-Up Optimus Prime.jpg|thumb|right|250px|I'm bringing sexy back.]]
However, the Decepticons were still looking for the harvester and the Matrix needed to activate it. Sam was technically killed in the [[Operation: Firestorm|battle]], during which he communed with the six Primes from the tomb, who restored the Matrix. Jamming it in the fallen Autobot's chest, Sam used the Matrix to restore Optimus Prime to life. Unfortunately, The Fallen soon arrived and stole the Matrix. Having been fatally injured by [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], Jetfire offered his parts to Optimus, as only a Prime could defeat The Fallen, and snuffed out his own spark. After Ratchet and [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] finished attaching Jetfire's wings and thrusters to Prime's body, Optimus hurried to the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], which had been constructed around the harvester, and damaged the machine before it could destroy Earth's sun.

[[Image:TheFallen-ROTFfacegotten.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Your face is insufficient. GIVE ME YOUR SPARK!]]
Optimus Prime then faced Megatron and the Fallen. This against the odds battle went far better for Optimus, as he used Megatron's own fusion cannon to shoot off half his face and his afterburners to send him through some ruins. Optimus then battled the Fallen, using his Energon Sword to slice through his face. The Fallen countered by ripping off his left wing and striking him with it, but Optimus managed to grab the Fallen's own spear and impale him with it. Telling the traitorous Prime he had picked the wrong planet, Optimus used the spear to rip off The Fallen's face plate. As The Fallen tried to flee, Optimus Prime punched through his abdomen and crushed his spark core, killing The Fallen and forcing Megatron and Starscream to retreat.

[[Image:ROTF Optimus Sam ship.JPG|thumb|right|250px|"So why did you want his face?" "Okay, I'll tell you."*cuts to credits*]]
On the return voyage home, Optimus thanked Sam for saving his life, as the boy thanked the Autobot leader for believing in him. Following this, Optimus Prime sent another transmission into space, detailing recent events so that the pasts of both races would be remembered, and also declaring that Humanity and the Autobots would face the future together. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|The film's official adaptations note Optimus is an orphan, implying he is the son of one of the [[Seven Primes]] (although their number was [[Thirteen original Transformers|thirteen]] since these were based on early drafts of the script). }}
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===Titan Magazines post-''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

Following the later Fallen incident, Optimus continued operations against the Decepticons. [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt's]] over-enthusiasm began to muck that up, causing damage and getting NEST into trouble, despite Optimus' attempts to point this out to him. Optimus had to confine him to base. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}}

[[Image:Titan10_Optimusgetsout.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Human faces are not exempt from the wrath of Prime]]

Soon after that, he was drawn out into a trap by [[Trophy White]] and the [[Free Men]], who wanted to take his head as a trophy. Optimus worked out their plan and allowed himself to be captured by the deranged hunter, in order to keep the fight away from civilians. He pretended to be securely chained down and listened to White's sociopathic ravings, before (at the moment he considered funniest) breaking free and taking White prisoner. Shockingly, he found keeping the severed heads of animals as trophies to be ''bad'', and destroyed Trophy's trophies. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.10| Bring Me the Head of Optimus Prime}}

When there was a Decepticon breakout in [[South Africa]], Optimus ordered his men to let the prisoners flee: a battle outside [[World Cup|a major sports event]] would cause unacceptable civilian casualties. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} This led to a major collapse in Autobot popularity, and open battles with Decepticons in cities were just risking further alienation. In response, Prime created of a secret covert unit (even under NEST's radar) that would monitor the Decepticons, wait for windows of opportunity out of the public eye, and then hit hard and fast. While this worked, Optimus was left disquieted: the tactics he was using were too akin to the Decepticons, and a fine line was being walked. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}}

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===Cyber Missions===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Eric Edwards]] (English), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish)

[[Image:CyberMissions1 Optimus.jpg|right|thumb|250px|]]
Optimus Prime recorded some information on the Autobot-Decepticon war for preservation in [[Vector Sigma]]. Bumblebee and Ironhide were reviewing it when [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] and [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] launched their attack. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 1}} The next morning, Optimus had been informed of the attack and Soundwave's capture, and he ordered Ironhide to wait for reinforcements to assist in pursuing Bludgeon. Bludgeon made that difficult for Ironhide. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 2}} Later, Optimus contacted Ratchet to inform him that [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] was causing chaos in [[Mission City]], and he reminded the Autobot medic to be careful. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 3}}

He and Sideswipe tracked Megatron to a disused factory, only to lose the scent. Megatron, having cloaked his spark signature, jumped out of hiding to attack them, and Optimus used his swords to attack the Decepticon. An appeal for Megatron to surrender was answered by a blast from Megatron's cannon bringing the roof down on the two Autobots, and the Decepticon escaped. Optimus promised that Megatron would no longer be able to hide. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 4}}

When Ironhide went missing after the incident with Bludgeon, Optimus searched for him, and Bumblebee revealed he was last near a cave with a load of [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]]. That same cave happened to be where [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]] was hiding. As Optimus went to rescue his friend, Mindwipe tried to hypnotize the Autobot leader, but Optimus was able to resist the hypnosis and defeat Mindwipe, leaving a confused Ironhide to wonder what was going on. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 5}}

Reports of [[Smolder]] attacking a building in [[Scramble City (city)|Scramble City]] resulted in Optimus dispatching Bumblebee and Ratchet to investigate. He filled them in on the situation en route. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 9}} During another mission, Optimus warned Sideswipe and Ratchet that they were being tracked, moments before the pair were attacked by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and Mindwipe. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 10}}

Bumblebee reported to Optimus that he'd managed to pinpoint the location where Megatron and Starscream were meeting, leading Optimus to confront the two Decepticons in an Arctic region. When Megatron expressed surprise that he'd come to fight them without backup, Optimus assured him that the Autobots were never far from their leader's side. While Starscream went to attack the others, Optimus and Megatron continued to fight, with Optimus emerging the eventual victor. As Megatron tried to goad him into finishing the fight, Optimus announced that the Autobots protected all sentient life, and that included the Decepticons. He subsequently allowed Megatron to flee. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}}

{{quote|By showing even one such as him the power of mercy, Megatron might realize that we'll never give up, no matter the cost.|Optimus Prime|"Cyber Missions 12"}}

Prime set up an elaborate trap involving a hologram of Soundwave to lure the Decepticons to a spot in the wilderness. The ploy worked, and Optimus attacked Megatron while his men attacked Megatron's troops. At one point during the battle, Megatron threw a train car at him, and he simply somersaulted along its length. Though Megatron boasted that the Decepticons would win through sheer determination, Optimus knocked him to the ground and gave a speech about building alliances, which was the cue for the [[human]]s to turn up in force and surround the Decepticons. Optimus informed Megatron that he could either leave the planet peacefully or be destroyed. Once the rest of the Decepticons fled, Megatron delivered a final threat before taking off. Prime celebrated with another speech, before admiring the huge Autobot [[insignia]] Bumblebee had stomped into the ground. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===Transformers Annual 2011===
An alert of Decepticon activity in [[Tokyo]] sent Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet and Sideswipe to investigate. He intervened in Sideswipe and Barricade's battle to lift the Decepticon into the air, only to find himself under attack by Grindor. Ordering Sideswipe and Ratchet to cover him, Optimus scaled the side of a nearby office block so he could punch the helicopter out of the air. Standing over the two Decepticons, Optimus was surprised when they informed him that they were simply providing a diversion. Optimus realised that Sam was in danger, and rushed back to America in time to find Starscream attempting to abduct the boy. He jumped on Starscream's back, causing the Decepticon to flee and saving Sam from a kidnapping. {{storylink|Sam in Danger}}

===IDW Post ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===
[[Image:Nefarious2 Prime on Soundwave.jpg|thumb|left|350px]]
Lennox reported to Optimus via videolink on the halting of [[Alice]]'s rampage. Optimus mentioned that they should be more aggressive in tracking down Decepticons, but Lennox reminded him that NEST was low on resources. They decided on some "improvisations" in the form of newly-arrived Autobots. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 1|Nefarious #1}} Optimus was witness to Galloway balling out Lennox over the battle at [[Kingdom Petrochemicals]], but kept quiet. Afterwards, Lennox and Optimus discussed the [[Initiative|mysterious humans]] who had been seen at the petrochemical plant. When [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]] came under attack from [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], Optimus parachuted in and bested Soundwave. Soundwave attempted to persuade Prime to let him go, but Prime decided that instead they would take him into NEST custody for interrogation. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 2|Nefarious #2}}

Optimus oversaw the preparations of the facilities for holding Soundwave, rather than face having to tell Major Lennox what they'd done. He was only delaying the inevitable, and Lennox was even more annoyed when the plane carrying Soundwave was shot down. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 3|Nefarious #3}} When NEST received a distress call from Galloway, who was under attack from [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]], Optimus sent [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] to assist. He also reminded Ironhide that just because the man was a "pain in the aft" didn't mean they could avoid helping him. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 4|Nefarious #4}}

[[Image:Nefarious5 Prime already too late.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"They've already put the bomp in the bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp"]]
Soundwave led the Autobots to the location of the [[Initiative]] base in [[California]], but the base was gone. Despite this, Optimus still trusted Soundwave as he believe the organization they faced had access to Cybertronian technology. Soundwave pinpointed the mobile base as being in [[Utah]], so the Autobots headed there. Part way, Optimus felt the power of something very like the [[AllSpark]] being used and began to realize what they were up against. They reached Utah and began an assault on the [[Initiative base]], only to find themselves facing brainwashed Transformers. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 5|Nefarious #5}}

As the battle continued, Optimus tried to call out for their foe to surrender the AllSpark they possessed, however [[Carter Newell]], head of the Initiative, responded by trying to use the artifact to terminate all Cybertronian life. An injury courtesy of [[Reedman]] aborted the attempt, and Newell tried to flee. Optimus was forced to ram the truck he was in to obtain the AllSpark, but realized the only way to halt the rapidly-destabilizing Cube was to
feed it his own [[spark]]. Luckily that turned out to be unnecessary, as [[Fortress (ROTF)|Fortress]] took the AllSpark from him and carried it into space, where it exploded. Optimus later noted that the Initiative data banks had been [[Soundwave (ROTF)|picked clean]] and wondered if anyone else could make an attempt to recreate the AllSpark. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 6|Nefarious #6}}
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==Games==
===Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots===
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===''Transformers'' (Glu)===
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===''Transformers'' The Game (console)===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]

====Autobot campaign====
Optimus Prime provided intelligence and missions to Bumblebee in his search for the AllSpark. Eventually, the clues led the Autobot to Sam Witwicky. After saving Sam from Barricade, Bumblebee finally completed preparations for the Autobots to arrive on Earth.

Once on Earth, and having informed the two teenagers of their mission, Prime and the Autobots were discovered by Sector Seven. Optimus sent Jazz on a high-speed <strike>destruction</strike> distraction mission, then sent Ironhide to rescue Jazz from a double-threat posed by the government agents and various Decepticon scouts.

When Bumblebee was captured, Optimus Prime transformed and chased the helicopter which from which the small Autobot was tied. After a lengthy pursuit, Optimus managed to catch the net, only to be thrown off by another Cybertronian [[transition form|meteor]]. As Bumblebee was carried away, Optimus promised he would not fail him again. Jazz informed him that the meteor was not an Autobot and Optimus confronted the new threat, who turned out to be the Decepticon triplechanger [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]. The two battled it out across [[Tranquility]] before Optimus finally destroyed him, and in doing so, overheard [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s transmission revealing the location of the AllSpark.

Optimus then returned to an intel role as he guided Bumblebee in his mission to retrieve the AllSpark from Hoover Dam. Unfortunately, the Decepticons managed to free Megatron, leading to the final battle in Mission City.

As the Autobots engaged in an all-out urban war with the Decepticons to protect Sam and the AllSpark, things seemed to take a turn for the worse as Megatron finally arrived. But before the Decepticon leader could claim the Cube, Optimus Prime attacked.

The two leaders duked it out until Megatron was finally on the ground, seemingly devoid of life. Optimus knelt to take the AllSpark as Sam handed it to him, but Megatron suddenly awoke, leaping at the Autobot with his chain-flail out, and making one last attempt at defeating his adversary. Optimus grabbed the chain, pulling Megatron in closer, and with the AllSpark clutched in his fist, delivered a punch through Megatron's spark. As Megatron died Optimus reflected on the losses and rewards of this battle, as the Autobots have a new home. Optimus planned to guard the humans in secret, "For freedom is the right of all sentient beings." {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}

====Decepticon campaign====
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In the final battle, Optimus Prime was beaten to the ground, and as he desperately crawled for the AllSpark, Megatron smashed his head with his flail, before using the Cube to destroy humanity. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}

===''Transformers: Autobots''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]

Arriving late on Earth, Optimus meets up with the other Autobots to give further commands to his troops. [[Create-A-Bot (Autobot)|Create-A-Bot]], the new rookie, is eager to help in the cause, but Optimus tells him to sit back while the grown-ups take care of business. Getting fed up with the bureaucracy, Create-A-Bot finally defies orders and completes a mission against Optimus's counsel. After nearly getting himself and the other Autobots killed, Create-A-Bot apologizes to Optimus personally. Taking pity on the newcomer, Optimus lets him off with a stern warning, and they move out together to face Megatron. During the fight, Create-A-Bot sacrifices himself to save his commander. Megatron defeated, Optimus commends the young Autobot as a war hero, and sends out an interstellar message to any Cybertronians living among the stars. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots}}

===''Transformers: Decepticons''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]

Landing on Earth, Optimus Prime quickly joins the other Autobots to attempt to stop the Decepticons. Prime didn't appear on the battlefield until Megatron himself was released and Starscream escaped with the AllSpark. He stepped in to thwart the maniacal leader of the Decepticons, but alas, was struck down, left in the streets while Megatron gave chase to his traitorous second-in-command. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Decepticons}}

===Datafile Decoder===
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===AllSpark Wars===
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===Allspark Highway===
The Autobots needed to race the Allspark to safety, and Optimus Prime teamed with his fellow Autobots to drive through the Decepticon defenses and get their prize to a secure location. {{storylink|Allspark Highway}}

===Autobot Stronghold===
The Decepticons were invading an Autobot stronghold in the city, and Optimus Prime and the Autobots placed themselves at key positions to defend it from attack. {{storylink|Autobot Stronghold}}

===Transformers: Battle for the Matrix===

{{Note|Battle for the Matrix is a simplified retelling of the events of [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]. It can be played from the perspective of either Bumblebee or Optimus Prime.}}
[[Image:Optimusprime battleforthematrix.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
{{storylink|Transformers: Battle for the Matrix}}
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===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English) [[Dariusz Odija]] (Polish)
====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====
=====Autobot campaign=====
[[Image:ROTF game Optimus Prime.jpg|thumb|right|300px|One shall stand, one sha--oh, you know the drill.]]
Optimus Prime served as the Autobots all around fighter. Weapons wise, he possessed dual laser rifles and dual shell cannons. In melee combat, he possessed [[Dual Energon Swords|Dual Energy Swords]] in each hand. Finally, with his valiant leader ability, he could generate a shield around himself which would prevent his energy from dropping past 1%.

After overseeing Ironhide's defeat of [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] and Ratchet's rescue of Ironhide, Optimus Prime took to the field when a previously unknown Decepticon named [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] began attacking the [[Shanghai]] waterfront. Optimus was finally able to defeat him, but Demolishor gave a single warning before he was killed: "The Fallen shall rise again". Optimus and the Autobots were at a loss as to what he meant. Back in the United States, Sam Witwicky gave Mikaela Banes a fragment of the AllSpark that he had discovered, which the Decepticons soon sought. Prime dispatched Bumblebee to rescue her. Following this, the Decepticons launched a raid on the city's oil refinery, where Ratchet rescued several engineers. Finally, Ironhide escorted a NEST team to safety in the city's canals.

Their victories were short lived. The Decepticons soon learned about the AllSpark shard on Diego Garcia, stealing it to revive Megatron. Although [[Breakaway (ROTF)|Breakaway]] managed to save the fleet, Megatron was reborn. He soon made an attack on Sam, trying to access information in his mind downloaded from the AllSpark. Bumblebee managed to rescue him. In light of these attacks, Optimus decided to give NEST the [[Axiom Gun]] to better defend themselves against the Decepticons. The escort came under Decepticon assault, but Prime was able to beat back the attackers and deliver the Axiom Gun to NEST. Soon afterwards, Bumblebee escorted Sam to meet with [[Seymour Simmons]], who told him of Jetfire, who then took the boy to Egypt.

While there, Jetfire explained what was going on: Eons ago, Optimus's ancestors, the [[Thirteen original Transformers|13 founders]] of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], built a star harvester to convert the energy of the sun into [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]]. When they discovered the humans, they upheld their rule of the sanctity of life, but one of the Primes defied the rule and murdered his twelve brothers. This Prime was known as The Fallen, but the star harvester was hidden from him. While Sam made inquires to the [[Tomb of the Primes|Tomb of the Twelve]], Megatron and Starscream arrived in an attempt to learn the harvester's location and kill Sam. Optimus Prime was able to defeat both Decepticons with Jetfire's help, but Jetfire was stabbed in the back by Megatron. Dying, Jetfire offered his parts to Optimus, as only a Prime could defeat The Fallen.

Finding the harvester at the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], Optimus challenged The Fallen. Despite The Fallen's powerful command of telekinesis and pyrokinesis, Optimus Prime was able to get past his defenses and kill The Fallen by stabbing him through the face. On the return trip home, Sam expressed gratitude at seeing the sunrise, and told Optimus he would have to trust him on it. Optimus Prime replied that he had always trusted Sam, and always would. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

=====Decepticon campaign=====
When the revenant Megatron and the Decepticons rampaged across the United States of America, Optimus Prime faced him in a major city on the East Coast. The two leaders engaged in a titanic struggle that shook the city, but despite being aided by many Autobot drone units, Optimus was seemingly destroyed. However, much later, Optimus Prime reappeared when Megatron's master, The Fallen, activated the Star Harvester to drain Earth's Sun. The Autobot leader revealed that The Fallen's promise to make Megatron a Prime was a lie, as Primes were born, not made. When Megatron demanded his reward, The Fallen reneged on his promise. As the master and disciple of evil began to fight, Optimus left to find a way to disable the Harvester. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}
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===Transformers Battle Universe===
At the edge of time, when the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] needed a new host, Optimus Prime was among several warriors (and [[Optimus Prime|Prime]]s) summoned from the multiverse to battle for control of the prize. {{storylink|Transformers Battle Universe}}

===Starscream Showdown===
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{{storylink|Starscream Showdown}}

===Transformers RPMs: Devastator's Demise===
[[Image:Devastatorsdemise optimus.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]
Optimus Prime is both fast and sturdy. His firepower blows obstacles to smithereens.

In order to defeat [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]], Bumblebee, Optimus and Ironhide must drive through Cairo and avoid obstacles.{{storylink|Transformers RPMs: Devastator's Demise}}
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===Hunt for the Decepticons===
{{charstubfiction}}
{{storylink|Hunt for the Decepticons}}
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===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon - The Game''===
====(Xbox 360/PS3)====

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==Commercial appearances==
* As part of the hype buildup to the movie's release, Optimus Prime made a brief cameo at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, interacting with host Sarah Silverman. The scene spliced Silverman into pre-existing movie footage, but featured new dialogue recorded for the event by Peter Cullen. Prime heavily hinted that he wanted to present an award, but was rejected for a regular MTV fan.

* According to a tie-in advertisement for [[Burger King]], Prime likes his Whoppers with no onions, no cheese, extra pickles, with a side of ????. However, due to a cruel twist of fate, he can never enjoy the sweet taste of beefy victory (and all because he needed a driver for him to receive his order). He saved the world from the Decepticons, and still he can't even have it his way? Where's the justice?

* Optimus Prime (in truck mode) made an appearance at [[BotCon 2007]], alongside the [[Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit]]. He was available for pictures all weekend. He made a second appearance at [[BotCon 2009]].

* Optimus threw a trailer during his appearance on an [[M&M's]] commercial.

* On [[July 6]]th 2009, Optimus appeared on ''The Late Show With David Letterman'' to declare the "Top Ten Things That Sound Cool When Said By A Giant Robot". Optimus said it was nice to be there, although David was ''clearly'' concerned by having an 28-feet tall robot in the studio because of a bad history of robots messing up the place, and during the presentation Letterman decided there was something about Prime he didn't like. Anyway, the top ten was:
<ol>
<li value="10">"Jergens lotion leaves my hands silky smooth."</li>
<li value="9">"Do you have these khakis in size 114?"</li>
<li value="8">"My perfect night involves a pint of Haagen-Dazs and season three of ''Sex and the City''."</li>
<li value="7">"Man do I love me some 'taters."</li>
<li value="6">"It was so hot in Central Park, I saw a squirrel rubbing sunblock on his nuts."</li>
<li value="5">"You seemed a little pitchy, dawg."</li>
<li value="4">"Brody Jenner has added you as a friend on Facebook."</li>
<li value="3">"Live from New York, it's Saturday night."</li>
<li value="2">"My parents wanted me to be a Rabbi."</li>
<li value="1">"All the slammin' shorties in the house say 'Yeah'."<ref>[http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/video_player/index/php/991507.phtml Lateshow CBS archive video of Optimus's guest spot.]</ref></li>
</ol>

* To promote the DVD and Blu-ray release of ''Revenge of the Fallen'', Paramount set up a website where US fans could request Optimus call up their friends, warning them of Starscream's attempts to recruit human civilian allies.

*In the Discovery Channel promo, "The World Is Just Awesome," Optimus made a brief cameo, singing the words "boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da."<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0jZzBEKIMc Discovery commercial] on YouTube.</ref>

*Prime (voiced by Cullen, but not animated by ILM) appeared to promote a NASA competition to vote for videos made by children about NASA's impact on commonplace technology.<ref>[http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/optimus/ NASA Optimus Prime]</ref>

*Optimus appeared in truck mode at [[Toy Fair 2011]]. He got a $115 parking ticket.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357327/Transformers-truck-gets-parking-ticket-toy-fair.html ''Daily Mail'' article on Prime's fine.]</ref>

==Toys==
{{main|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
:''Main article: [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Merchandise|Merchandise]]''

==Notes==
[[Image:moviecullen.jpg|right|150px|thumb|GIVE ME MY FACE]]

[[Image:Movie Primetruck before.jpg|right|150px|thumb|8:30 pm: "Trick My Truck". Tonight's guest: [[Alpha Trion (disambiguation)|Alpha Trion]].]]
* When Optimus' design was first revealed, many fans of the Generation 1 series objected to the flames seen on Prime's body. When asked in an interview why he put the flames on, [[Michael Bay]] claimed he liked them because it was "cool". It was later revealed on a special featurette on the DVD that the flames were added because, apparently, red is not very good to film on camera, so Bay chose a blue truck but used the flames so that when Optimus transformed, the layout would result in maintaining his iconic red chest.

* The announcement of [[Peter Cullen]] as Prime's voice actor in the movie is credited by some fans as alleviating many fan tensions about the movie. Not all tensions, mind you, as there are some who just will never be satisfied, but it put the fans in a good mood.

* Prime's ''Rise of the Chevy Autobots'' codename, "10-22", is [http://www.truckercountry.com/cb-terminology.html#10c CB radio slang] for "report in person to." As in "Bumblebee, 10-22 to 10-22." Cute, huh?

* [[TakaraTomy]] officially recognizes Optimus Prime's vehicle mode as a [http://www.kenworth.com/2100_vir_w900.asp Kenworth W900 truck], even though the vehicle used for filming was a modified Peterbilt 379, a different model from a different brand, although both are made by the PACCAR company.<ref>[http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=121424?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..2.* Article at Edmunds.com on some of the vehicles used in the movie]</ref>
[[Image:Movie OptimusPrime truckrear.jpg|right|150px|thumb|No container for you!]]

* Prime's truck mode is apparently intended to haul a flatbed trailer, based on the presence of the large silver "headache rack", a piece of optional equipment that protects the driver in case a flatbed load breaks free during braking. It is generally not installed on trucks hauling enclosed container trailers.

* Despite this, the one time that Prime has been seen with a trailer, it's an enclosed trailer (with a design based on Generation 1 Optimus Prime's [[Combat Deck]]), commandeered by the Autobots for use as Jazz's coffin after the battle of [[Mission City]] in [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Alliance (comic)|Alliance]] comic book series.

[[Image:Movie Prime Trucklogomistake.jpg|right|150px|thumb|In the darkness, a PA will misread "Truck A" as "Truck B", and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth — Revelation 11:7.]]

* When Optimus Prime scans a truck for his new body, the passing truck has what appears to be an Autobot sigil on its grill, but the actual truck that Prime turns into at the end of the scene has a much wider, flatter symbol on the grill, which looks rather more like that of Peterbilt. Then, Prime has an Autobot sigil on his grill while driving to meet the other Autobots.

* According to the free trading cards from the Boston Globe, Optimus is 28 feet tall, weighs 4.3 metric tons, and his primary weapon is an [[Ion blaster|ion blaster]]. (Considering Optimus's height, however, this weight would seem implausible.)

* In the Japanese dub of the movie, he is given his original western name of Optimus Prime rather than the Japanese equivalent, Convoy. Just as Peter Cullen voiced Prime in the English version of the film, Tesshō Genda (the voice of G1 Convoy) reprised his role for the Japanese dub.

[[Image:MBMovieOptimusAttacks.jpg|thumb|250px|Maybe it's, uh, [[jet judo]].]]

*The [[Milton Bradley]] [[Transformers Battling Card Game]] depicts Prime with a unique a magnetic grapple attack, fired from the side of his arm. It also declares his forearm gun to be a chain gun (it's an ion blaster in other sources), and has him using a "judo kick", which... while it may not be out of the realm of plausibility for Prime to have learned an Earth martial art, judo does not actually '''use''' kicks, being focused on throwing moves. Oops.

* The Optimus Prime computer generated model consisted of 10,108 individual parts, 1,830,898 polygons, 27,744 rig nodes, and 2336 texture maps. The volume of all pieces combined came to 5445 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>

* It said in the Autobots game in the DS, Prime's father was killed by Megatron. However, since it is also widely known that Prime and Megatron were brothers, Megatron killed his own dad. Not that this is surprising, though.

* In Titan Magazines ''Transformers'' comics, Optimus's Cybertronian robot mode is exactly like his Earth mode, but with different weapons, yet his Cybertronian mode is a mostly silver protoform—with no truck windows. Odd.

[[Image:ROTF Optimus trailer super mode.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"One shall be scrawny...One shall be brawny"]]
* Optimus was supposed to combine with a trailer for ''Revenge of the Fallen'', something for which [[Ben Procter]] and [[Josh Nizzi]] drew up designs. In the end, Nizzi designed the combination with Jetfire.

* This incarnation of Optimus Prime doesn't do the best burials in the world, either—giving what can at best be described as a half-hearted goodbye to his [[Jazz (Movie)|first lieutenant]] at the end of the first movie, and unceremoniously dumping the parts of [[Jetfire (ROTF)|the converted Decepticon who had given him the power to defeat the Fallen]] at the conclusion of the second film. This is offset by how he's treated by humans when ''he'' dies.

* Of the Optimus Primes in all the existing continuities, this one is probably the most aggressive incarnation. Additionally, he seems obsessed with destroying the heads of his opponents. In ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]'', Prime [[Decapitation|decapitates]] [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]] and tries pulling off [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]'s head. In ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of The Fallen]]'', Optimus severely damages [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]]'s head before putting the lethal bullet in it, he tries pulling off [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream's]] head with his foot, ''rips apart'' [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor's]] head with hooks, shoots off part of Megatron's face, and ''rips off'' [[The Fallen]]'s face before killing him. (He also slices or tears off Megatron, Starscream and Grindor's arms in the second film, but this was not immortalized with a classic one liner.) Maybe he took Jazz's death hard after all?

* According to [[TakaraTomy]] marketing director [[Masahiko Yamazaki]], for the Japanese dub of ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', the [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] featured in that show would become a young version of this one. However, nothing in the show-itself has happened to support his claims.

* Optimus was seen with some sort of jetpack attatchment in the recent Super Bowl Trailer. This is most likely his trailer, which was added in Dark of the Moon.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Optimus Prime''' (オプティマス・プライム ''Oputimasu Puraimu'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''O Baak Man''' (Hong Kong, 柯柏文)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Optimusz Fővezér''' ("Prime Leader Optimus")
*''Indonesian:'' '''Optimis Prima'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Kē Bó Wén''' (Taiwan, 柯博文), '''Qíng Tīan Zhù''' (China, 擎天柱, "Pillar that Supports the Sky")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Optimus Naikrashchiy''' (Оптимус Наiкращий, "Optimus the Best")

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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/ProtoformOptimusPrime/optimusprime.htm Optimus Prime at TFU.info]
* [http://www.seibertron.com/toys/index.php?f_series=40&f_name=optimus&f_type=exact&Submit=Search Galleries of various different Optimus Prime toys from the Movie]

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Optimus Prime (Movie)

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:''Optimus Prime is the [[Autobot]] leader from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[Continuity family|continuity family]]. He has [[Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots|sometimes]] used the codename '''10-22'''.''

[[Image:Movieprime meettheautobots.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Hello, pretty bird. GIVE ME YOUR FACE.]]

'''Optimus Prime''' is the leader of the [[Autobot]]s. Long ago, he was the humble leader of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s science division, which studied the [[AllSpark]], and were protected by [[Lord High Protector]] [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]'s military. When Megatron was corrupted by [[The Fallen]], Optimus discovered that he was the last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], hidden away when The Fallen destroyed their lineage. In response to Megatron's attempts to seize the AllSpark and conquer other worlds, Optimus assumed his proper [[Prime (rank)|title]] and rallied the Autobots to stand against the [[Decepticon]]s.

As obsessively as Megatron strives to achieve his objective, Optimus is equally as dedicated to stopping him, even at the cost of his life, his world, and—if necessary—his own people. It was on his order that the AllSpark was jettisoned into space, dooming Cybertron to a slow death and his people to a nomadic life. The sacrifices he has made weigh heavily on his [[spark]], but they must be done, for there is no other choice. He knows the ambitions that lurk in Megatron's spark, and they must never see the light of day. Lives must be kept free from the threat of Megatron's tyranny, no matter the cost.

{{bigquote|Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.|Optimus Prime reflecting on his past|''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie prequel comics===

It was Optimus Prime's [[Prima|ancestor]] who finally vanquished [[the Fallen]] to another [[sarcophagus|dimension]] in the battle for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 4|Tales of the Fallen #4}} but his orphaned descendant who was hidden away from the Fallen grew up with no knowledge of what he was. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen issue 3|Revenge of the Fallen Adaptation issue 3}}

[[Image:Foundation1-literaldawn.jpg|left|thumb|300px|He's right, an actual literal dawn ''was'' involved. Put those knives away, English majors.]]

Eons after the [[Dynasty of Primes]] were vanquished, Cybertron fell into dark times. The AllSpark had been buried somewhere within Cybertron and been dismissed as a legend, and the planet itself lacked a star to orbit. As energy became more and more scarce, Cybertronians segregated into tribes. Optimus and his brother [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] chose to rally behind [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], who claimed to be descended from [[Primus]] himself. Optimus and Megatron helped Sentinel Prime locate the AllSpark and harness a star for Cybertron to orbit, and these fantastic acts united Cybertron for the first time in known history. But Sentinel Prime had grown old and weary and refused to lead the Cybertronians, and, in confidence, he expressed his wish for Optimus to become the next [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]. Little did they know that Megatron had been eavesdropping, and Optimus's brother came to a jealousy-inspired conclusion. He didn't believe Optimus Prime had the ability to competently lead Cybertron, and that this series of events would one day pit the two against each other, until one was dead. Megatron vowed that it would not be him. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1}}

[[Image:Defiance1 Megs Prime argument.jpg|right|350px|thumb|"Hey, I wanted a mouthplate!"]]

For two generations, Optimus helped govern [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] under [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], and was in charge of the [[Science Division]] and the protectors of the [[AllSpark]]. The two personalities created a balance; Prime was fair while Megatron was firm. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} When Protector Megatron toured the excavation site near the temple at [[Simfur]], he and Optimus clashed over several issues. While Optimus wanted to take the investigation slowly, all Megatron cared about was whether the site contained power similar to the AllSpark. Optimus nettled Megatron when he reminded the Protector that the science sector was in charge of scientific and archaeological discoveries, and that the defense forces had a tendency to treat such discoveries as hostile, to which Megatron responded that if and when he was leader, he could make such decisions. When a [[The Fallen|mysterious relic]] was uncovered, Optimus disagreed with Megatron's order for it to be removed from the ground. Just as the two were about to launch into yet another argument, aliens previously encountered by Commander [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] attacked Cybertron. Megatron blackmailed Optimus into moving the relic into his personal quarters by reminding the science leader that the science division would like to protect the only intact relic from harm. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}}

Optimus ordered his science teams to help the survivors on both sides, in the hopes of finding out who was responsible and why they attacked. While he went off to find Megatron, he ordered the others to continue searching for survivors while [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] examined the alien remains. Optimus was shocked and appalled when Megatron ordered him to marshal his forces for war. Optimus objected, as his science division was not trained for combat, but Megatron retorted that the scientists should have known that aliens were after the AllSpark. He endured Megatron's insane fury when he accused the Protector of betraying that upon which their society was built. Later, Optimus called upon a meeting with his science division to ask them to stay by his side and continue on with their mission of peaceful research, as they were protectors, not soldiers. While the aerial-based Cybertronians followed Megatron into space, Optimus confided in [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]] and [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] that Megatron sought to divide their planet, and he asked the former for help breaking into the High Protector's personal quarters. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[Image:Defiance3_OptimusPrime_battle.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Man...Prime is here to kick tailpipes and take faces, and he's all out of tailpipes...]]

After noting that Megatron had restored the artifact to pristine condition, Optimus had to leave the military leader's quarters just before he returned. Back at Burthov, he came upon [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], Arcee, and [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] scanning the pieces of the other artifacts. Arcee then discovered that the pieces all contained the same symbol on them, and that the same symbol was on Optimus' head. Ratchet declared that the symbol was proof of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], and it indicated Optimus himself was a [[Dynasty of Primes|Prime]]. Ratchet and the other Autobots began to dub him "Optimus Prime", although a humble Optimus noted they did not know what it meant and for all they knew, he could just be from a line of record clerks. As they discussed the revelations, Prowl was forced by Megatron to arrest Optimus, but this turned out to be a trap to kill him. Optimus bested Starscream, while Megatron formed his new faction, the [[Decepticon]]s. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}}

[[Image:Ark Bridge Defiance4.jpg||thumb|300px|right|]]
Retreating to Burthov with his fellow scientists and Prowl's security officers, Optimus was acknowledged as the leader of the group, with Prowl serving as his lieutenant. He and Prowl were discussing sites for a new base when Jazz informed them that Captain Ironhide of the [[Defense Force]] wanted to see Optimus. Learning of Megatron's new starship, the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'', Optimus Prime was convinced by his advisers that their side needed a [[Ark (Movie)|ship of their own]] to prepare for any eventualities. The Autobots found themselves at an advantage when the ''Nemesis'' left Cybertron with the balance of the Decepticon forces, and Optimus himself took the fight to their enemies. However, years of bloody war devastated the planet, and Optimus saw no end in sight, unless the main reason for fighting was removed from the conflict. He revealed his plan to capture the AllSpark, and most assumed the Autobots would somehow take it aboard their ship. But Optimus's real plan was to blast the Cube into deep space, away from Cybertron and away from Megatron. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

{{note|In line with ''Revenge of the Fallen'', ''[[Defiance]]'' changes the past relationship between Megatron and Optimus Prime as previously seen in IDW's [[Movie Prequel issue 1|first movie prequel]], where they ruled side by side as equals. This was because, like several other pieces of tie-in fiction, the first movie prequel comic was based upon an earlier draft of the 2007 movie, where Prime and Megatron were referred to as "brothers", a reference that only survived in one line of dialogue in the final movie, which, according to writer [[Roberto Orci]], was intended to be open to interpretation.}}

[[Image:Optimusprimemovieprequel.jpg|left|200px|thumb|All Primes are required to have window boobs.]]

The AllSpark was successfully ejected into space at [[Tyger Pax]], where [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] distracted Megatron. Prime and the Autobots were held up in [[Simfur]] during the launch. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} As they prepared to leave Cybertron on board the ''[[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]'' to go after the AllSpark, Optimus Prime had some doubts about his decision, feeling that in buying them some time in the war, he had sentenced their world to death. [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]] disagreed, pointing out that had Megatron been able to claim the Cube, all those that opposed him would have been destroyed, and that Prime had turned death into a fighting chance for the Autobots. Bolstered by Prowl's words, Prime resolved to rebuild their shattered home once they retrieved the AllSpark. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream Issue Number One}}
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===''Transformers: Beginnings''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]

Bumblebee remembered Optimus Prime's orders that they must launch the AllSpark into space, for it was better to lose it to the depths of space than allow Lord Megatron to corrupt it with his evil. For wherever there is hope, there is life. {{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}

===Titan Magazines ''Transformers'' movie comics===
[[Image:OptimusMovie_GeoffSenior.JPG|250px|thumb|Starting as he means to go on.]]

When war broke out, Optimus studied the entire history of intergalactic warfare from any datatrack he could find—he studied whole campaigns to desperate last stands, gaining a focused "playbook" of warfare strategy. He understands warfare on a practical and psychological level, and in desperate battles knows to show no mercy to opponents beyond a swift death. <ref>''Autobot VS Decepticon Smackdown! - Megatron V. Optimus Prime'', #4</ref>

Optimus was the focus of constant attacks by assassin drones and killed them all. In the aftermath of one, he witnessed a prophetic vision of the [[Mission City]] battle and realised the AllSpark's ejection could spread war to other planets—but too late to stop the launch... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prelude: Optimus Prime}}

{{note|The following event is unique to the Titan Magazines comics continuity, and thus does not occur anywhere else.}}

Almost immediately after the final battle against Megatron, Optimus Prime had to lead the Autobots against a horde of [[Zombie|zombie]] Decepticons. Despite having no idea how they could be stopped and having had his power drained by fighting Megatron, Optimus continued to fight the monsters rather than let them run amok. Ratchet worked out a solution just in time before Optimus fell. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7|Starscream's Militia}}

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In the alternate reality, Megatron defeated Optimus and took the AllSpark at [[Mission City]]. Prime's body was now partially frozen and in Decepticon hands. He was the last and only hope of the Earth resistance, and so Bumblebee and [[Mikaela Banes]] were not happy to find him offline. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

She thawed him out while Bumblebee distracted Megatron, and the revived Prime challenged Megatron to a solo duel... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}} Unfortunately, Megatron's link to the AllSpark meant Optimus could not do any lasting damage and was never going to win. Luckily, Bumblebee and Mikaela saved the day, hitting the distracted Megatron with an old [[Sector Seven]] nanovirus. (Which means ''they'' were the last and only hope, but oh well.) Despite Megatron dying as a result and the AllSpark being destroyed elsewhere, Prime could take no satisfaction in victory: this battle was won, but the war remained... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

[[Image:Optimus_Titan12.JPG|left|250px|thumb|"Megatron's face must be cut off...no MATTER THE COST!"]]

He became resigned to the fact that Humanity, battered by Decepticon occupation, would view both Autobot and Decepticon as hostile invaders. When [[NATO]] was manipulated into attacking the Autobots, Optimus refused to allow his men to return fire, and after the crisis passed, he was sure that [[Starscream (Movie)|the Decepticons' unknown new commander]] was up to something bigger. Optimus also placed the last AllSpark fragment in the care of Ratchet, though he was worried exposure to Megatron might have corrupted it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath Part 1}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 15|Aftermath Part 2}} He was ''not'' happy when Ratchet "took care" of the fragment by bringing [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] back with it, who was left corrupted and amoral by it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

Optimus Prime soon worked out that while the AllSpark's transformation of Earth had been halted, the damage had been done: the organic Earth and the technological transformation were now fighting for supremacy, killing the planet in the process. He called in a specialist team to investigate and limit the damage, while working with [[President of the United States|President Allen]]. In secret, he organised for [[Nucleon]] to be retrieved from the dead Cybertron and brought to Earth, as there was a long shot it could save the planet. He didn't tell the humans out of concern that if they knew about the plan and it failed, their hopes would be raised and dashed. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} It was bad enough that Nucleon was so unstable it could turn destructive... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}}

When the team on Cybertron sent a distress signal and reported [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade's]] Decepticons had captured the Nucleon, Optimus led the entirety of the Earth-bound Autobots (save Camshaft's team) to Cybertron as back-up. He was then surprised to see Cybertron coming to ''them'', looking [[Unicron|a lot meaner these days]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|Return to Cybertron: Part 3}} The planet's possessor, Unicron, shot down the Straxus and the Autobots survived only by evacuating it in time in [[protoform]] modes.

Optimus landed next to Stockade's old equipment and, after being filled in by [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], he effortlessly formed an alliance with Stockade against Unicron. His plan was to drain the Nucleon away so Unicron couldn't use it as a power source, while the bulk of the Transformers provided a distraction, which turned out to be going underground and shooting up Unicron's body. The plan worked, Nucleon was secured for Earth, and Optimus extended an offer for Stockade to join them on Earth whenever he wished. Optimus was left optimistic that Autobots and Decepticons had come together in a common cause. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

On returning to Earth, he found the Decepticons had seized the Autobot base and six hundred square miles around it; he made the decision to withdraw to [[Washington, D.C.]], knowing that this meant leaving Mikaela in Decepticon hands. Upon landing at an air base, the Decepticon-controlled President Allen lured him into a trap, and he found himself fighting Jazz, now a Decepticon hired gun. Optimus lured him away from humans and prepared to engage him, but when a second assassin named [[Kullt]] turned up, Jazz gunned it down out of annoyance. Optimus had viewed Jazz as a lost cause but now stated there was still some Autobot in him: he ''could'' have let Kullt do the work for him and then killed him, but he saved Prime instead.

The battle made it clear to Optimus that Allen was under Decepticon mental control. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Hard Target}}

[[Image:Optimus Titan22.JPG|200px|thumb|Freedom is not dispensed here, sentient fools, only DEATH!]]

As he'd promised Bumblebee, Optimus took the Autobots to get Mikaela back; he himself went first, launching himself in [[Protoform|protoform]] mode to land in Savannah like a bomb and tearing his way through [[Swindle (Movie)|drone hordes]]. He was quickly gunned down by aerial units and about to be killed by Starscream, but this whole flashy attack had been a diversion—allowing other Autobots a chance to hit the distracted air forces and nab Mikaela. After the battle, Optimus remarked Starscream was no Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

Optimus seemed to quickly bond with [[General Seward]], his military liaison at Andrews Air Base, but that didn't help when the mind-controlled President Allen had the government order the Autobots out of America. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution Part One}} However, Prime had anticipated this. Almost two weeks before, he'd had Ironhide task [[Tom Banachek]] to identify all the Decepticon puppets for him. With Allen making the expected move, he dispatched Ironhide and Bumblebee to set things up so that the following day, when the Autobots all departed, Allen would try to nuke them out of the sky and be fooled by a decoy ship into thinking he'd killed them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}

To protect the Earth while they were undercover on Cybertron, Optimus had made a deal with Stockade to start a [[Decepticon Civil War]]. Optimus didn't trust Stockade to not renege on the deal and just take control of Earth for himself, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Revolution Part Two}} but he ensured the Decepticons were set up for the Autobot's final strike: forcibly teleporting all of the enemy to Cybertron via Unicron's leftover teleportational engines, then stranding Cybertron in a remote solar system. Optimus led the troops to Earth and witnessed Megatron's return from the dead... only to ''thwack'' him flying. The next minute, both Megatron ''and'' Stockade (why wait for him to renege?) were teleported away, along with their forces.

This left the Autobots stranded on Earth and with a lot of clean-up to do. But Optimus had ''finally'' brought about the end of the war... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}
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===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
Optimus Prime led the search for the AllSpark in the ''[[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]'', a transport vessel. When they came across an abandoned solar system, they located [[Ghost 1|a vessel]] of strangely Cybertronian design, seemingly of Decepticon make. When the vessel fled to the surface of a planet, Prime dispatched Bumblebee to investigate while he and the other Autobots battled Decepticons from the ''[[Nemesis (Movie)|Nemesis]]''. Prime managed to defeat [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], and [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] all on his own. After losing touch with Bumblebee, Prime went down to locate him on the planet, where they were attacked by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and the alien ship. They fell into a cavern network, where they were further attacked by [[Worm-thing|indigenous worms]].

During their flight from the creatures, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee came across the alien vessel. Prime realized that they were trying to surrender, so the Autobots communicated with its crew. Optimus explained that they came in peace, "freedom is the right of all sentient beings," Starscream tricks everyone, and so on. However, the creatures, who called themselves "[[Human|humans]]", explained that they held Megatron, whom they called the Ice Man, on their home world, [[Earth]]. Realizing the destruction Megatron would wreak upon the humans if he escaped, and that the humans would be unable to defend themselves effectively, Prime vowed to see them return to their world to warn it. Prime was able to blast an opening in the cavern, and the group escaped. As they returned to the ''Ark'', Prime began to speculate that the AllSpark was what drew Megatron to Earth.

In the ensuing battle with the Decepticons, Prime was in the difficult position of fighting Starscream and protecting the human ship. His distractions allowed Bonecrusher to spear him with his tail. The difficult state nearly gave Starscream the chance to kill him, but the humans saved Prime's life by damaging Starscream, who destroyed them. Optimus Prime was inspired by their courage and sacrifice, and resolved to locate Earth before the Decepticons did—and hopefully before Megatron came back online. {{storylink|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

===''Transformers'' (2007) film===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Brazil), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish)

{{bigquote|A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet. We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes.|Optimus Prime on sacrificing his life to destroy the [[AllSpark]]}}

[[Image:Movie OptimusPrime protoform.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Having overenergized the previous night, Prime woke up abandoned in a field, with his wallet and clothes stolen.]]
The leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, came to Earth shortly after [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] sent his comrades a beacon. Upon atmospheric reentry, Prime managed to land outside of [[Tranquility]]'s inhabited areas. While Sam and Mikaela watched, Optimus transformed and left his landing place. From atop a hill, he quickly scanned the form of an Earth truck, thus configuring his body to transform into it. Prime, [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] met up with Bumblebee and his human friends, [[Sam Witwicky]] and [[Mikaela Banes]] in an alley. In one of the most extended [[Transformation|transformations]] in the multiverse, Prime assumed his robotic form before the stunned humans. After confirming Sam's identity, Prime introduced himself and his team. When Mikaela asked of the Autobots' intentions, Prime explained the search for the AllSpark, the betrayal of Megatron, and why Sam was important to their search.

[[Image:Movie PrimeSam parentsfreakout.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Optimus Prime will watch you fornicate. And there is nothing you can do about it.]]
Glasses that belonged to Sam's ancestor, [[Archibald Witwicky|Captain Archibald Witwicky]], contained the location of the AllSpark encoded across its lenses, so Optimus Prime ordered his troops to wait outside Sam's house while Sam and Mikaela searched inside for the glasses. Much to Sam's exasperation, Optimus Prime, in his impatience, clumsily ruined his parents' garden, and the Autobots' heavy footsteps convinced them there was an earthquake. Prime's attempts to hide, such as having the Autobots transform into vehicle mode right in the backyard, were also less than satisfactory. Ultimately, Sam came so close to a panic attack that Prime was forced to order the Autobots to fall back. As Prime lectured his team on their supposed inability to remain quiet, Ratchet got himself shocked by walking into some powerlines, causing further problems. When [[Ron Witwicky|the]] [[Judy Witwicky|parents]] came to investigate, Prime's attempt to avoid discovery caused the house to shake, though this was to their benefit, as the father assumed that the damage to the yard was the result of an earthquake. Ironhide suggested that they kill the parents, but Optimus scolded his old friend. Despite all this, their presence remained undetected until [[Sector Seven]] arrived (in a convoy of GMC Yukons) and abducted Sam, Mikaela, and Sam's parents.

[[Image:Movie Optimus Prime S7 mad.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Get out of the car...what's left of it anyway!]]
Optimus Prime sent the Autobots in pursuit of the SUV that contained Sam, Mikaela, and Sector Seven's director, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]]. Prime intercepted the vehicle carrying their young human friends, ripping the roof of the vehicle off, with the other Autobots disarming the agents, and made it perfectly clear to Simmons how pissed off he was at him for trying to apprehend the two children, regarding this as a bad move on Simmons' behalf. Optimus then ordered his comrades to relieve the agents of their weapons, and attempted to interrogate Simmons. The agents' lack of surprise at their appearance indicated that they had seen Cybertronians before, but Simmons refused to reveal any information. With a Sector Seven backup team en route, Prime ordered the Autobots to scatter, while he took Sam and Mikaela. While hiding under a bridge, Mikaela and Sam slipped and fell off Prime's shoulder. Bumblebee managed to catch them before impact, but was captured, and Sam and Mikaela recaptured, by the organization after their retreat. Now in possession of the glasses which could tell him the location of the AllSpark, Optimus regretfully left Bumblebee in Sector Seven's hands, knowing that if they went after him, they would have to use deadly force.

After regrouping the next day, Prime used the glasses to locate the AllSpark. Jazz again raised objections to leaving Bumblebee behind, but Prime remained firm in his belief of not harming the humans. Ironhide seemed okay with using deadly force, stating the humans were too violent, but Prime countered that when their time had come, the Cybertronians had been [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|little different]]. Going on to explain the potential he saw in the humans, as well as reminding them that "freedom is the right of all sentient beings", Prime revealed to the Autobots his real plan for the AllSpark: if they could not defeat the Decepticons, Prime intended to merge the Cube with his [[Spark|spark]]. Though this would destroy the AllSpark, Ratchet cautioned Prime against this, as it would also kill him. Prime believed that this was acceptable, vowing not to let another race suffer the mistakes of the Transformers. The glasses placed the AllSpark at [[Hoover Dam]] where, luckily, Bumblebee and the young humans were taken.

[[Image:Movie2007 Prime sword.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Swiss army Prime.]]
Optimus Prime's team met up with Sector Seven, Bumblebee, Sam, and Mikaela en route, who had planned to hide the AllSpark in nearby [[Mission City]]. While on the highway, he was attacked by [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]], who managed to tackle Optimus and drag him over the edge of a freeway overpass. During the battle, Optimus struck the rage-filled Transformer so hard his [[Optic|optic]] popped out. As the Decepticon swung his claw wildly, Optimus drew his sword from his right arm and sliced off one of Bonecrusher's arms, before brutally finishing off his enemy by [[Decapitation|driving the blade through]] Bonecrusher's neck, severing his head.

Optimus arrived at Mission City just in time to observe Megatron discarding the remains of Jazz, and challenged him. Millennia in the ice had done nothing to lessen Megatron's hatred of his brother, and he launched himself in jet mode at the Autobot leader. Optimus leaped and grabbed hold of the wings, which was a really bad idea, as Megatron drove himself and Prime through an office block. As they flew out of the building onto the street below, Megatron transformed and leapt on top of Prime, declaring the humans undeserving of life. Prime rejected his claims, saying that they deserved to choose for themselves. Megatron threw Prime across the street, declaring that if he wished to defend the humans, Prime could die with them. He then formed his [[Fusion cannon|fusion cannon]] from his forearms. The power up time allowed Prime to draw his [[Ion blaster|ion blaster]] and fire, hitting Megatron. The Decepticon used the momentum to spin around, then used the fusion cannon to blast Prime across the street into another building. Megatron then resumed the hunt for Sam and the AllSpark.

[[Image:Movie2007 Prime truck.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He knows he's a sexy truck.]]
Tracking Megatron to the deserted building, Prime barely managed to catch Sam after Megatron knocked him off the roof. Telling the boy to hold onto the Cube, Prime attempted to scale down the building, but Megatron jumped on Prime, causing them both to fall down hard onto the street below. Sam survived, however, and Optimus told the boy that if he could not defeat Megatron, Sam must put the AllSpark into his chest which would destroy it. As Sam sought cover, Optimus faced down Megatron, and informed him that, "At the end of this day, one shall stand, one shall fall". Unfortunately, Megatron, even after years of stasis, proved to be far too powerful for Prime to defeat alone. The unit led by Lennox and the Raptor squadron laid down suppressing fire as Megatron reached for the AllSpark, until Optimus finally took him down by sweeping his legs. Still, Megatron continued, crawling toward the cube. Believing he had lost, Optimus implored Sam to put the AllSpark into his chest. Sam instead thrust it into Megatron's chest, killing the Decepticon leader and destroying the AllSpark.

[[Image:Movie2007 Prime AllSpark shard.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership|Dorito of leadership]]]]
As Optimus watched his brother die, he regretfully said there was little other choice. He also told Sam he owed him a debt of gratitude for saving his life, but was then informed that Jazz had not survived (Jazz was flapping around disrespectfully like a ragdoll during this sequence). Prime briefly eulogized his comrade, then commented that they had gained new comrades in the humans, and was honored by their bravery. Bumblebee, who had finally regained his voice, requested permission to remain with Sam Witwicky, to which the young human eagerly agreed, and Optimus approved. He noticed a fragment of the AllSpark in Megatron's chest cavity and removed it, then permitted the humans to dispose of the Decepticon corpses by dumping them into the deepest part of the ocean.

[[Image:Movie Optimus ending.JPG|right|300px|thumb|[['Til all are one]]!]]
Though Megatron was killed and his Decepticons were defeated, the AllSpark was destroyed, leaving the Autobots unable to restore Cybertron. The Autobots elected to remain on Earth, and Prime sent a message into deep space to any surviving Autobots in the Galaxy to come to their new home on Earth, their long years of searching having finally having come to an end. As the other Autobots rested (and watched Sam and Mikaela make out on Bumblebee's hood) Optimus Prime looked to the sky, hoping his message had been heard. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers}}
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{{note|The [[Movie Adaptation Issue Number Four|comic book adaptation]] depicts Optimus Prime also defeating [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] during the highway altercation with Bonecrusher. However, the later comic [[The Reign of Starscream Issue Number One|''The Reign of Starscream'' #1]] depicts Ironhide doing the deed.}}
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===Toy bios===
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That truck he transcanned was ''the coolest thing he ever saw''. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Robo-Vision Optimus Prime}}

When the AllSpark was destroyed, Optimus was ''bathed'' in its power and became a living receptacle: he could destroy or heal with the merest thought. He still remained dedicated to peace, and altered his exterior decorations to match the ones he bore as a young leader, before the beginning of the war. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|First Strike Optimus Prime}}

When the war turned out to ''not'' be over though, and with more Decepticons appearing on Earth, he was forced to alter himself to be used for stealth missions—something he finds dishonourable but knows has to be done. He is now sensor transparent and silent. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Leader Class toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime}} In this form, he came under surprise attack by an equally stealth-modified Starscream, leader of the new Decepticons! {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Legends Class toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime vs. Stealth Starscream}}

Once the Decepticons were beaten on Earth, Optimus was given intelligence by [[Sector Seven]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Brawlers|Fire Blast Optimus Prime}}

===Beast Wars Diorama Story===
[[Beast Wars (event)|On Earth in the past and in another universe]], a contingent of [[Maximal]]s, led by [[Optimus Primal]], battled a group of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] in a forest. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story|Convoy Chapter}}

Some time into the battle, a warp opened, bringing with it [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], Optimus Prime, and [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]. Optimus Prime made fast friends with [[Optimus Primal]]; they joined their forces and double-teamed the injured [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], who had just taken a blast to the face from [[Tigatron]]. Starscream then joined the Predacons. The two Optimuses commemorated their accomplishment of teamwork by shaking hands. The Maximals and Ratchet looked up with approval. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story|Tigatron Chapter}} [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] later appeared and joined the Predacons. As the battled raged, the [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] from Prime's universe came in through the warp. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story|Gimlet Chapter}}

The Decepticon Megatron brought along [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], and the two Megatrons combined their troops into a fearsome force against the Autobots and Maximals. Fortuantely for the Autobots and Maximals, [[Motorarm (BWII)|Motorarm]] arrived to assist. The two factions then took formation against each other with the intention of combining their energies to attack the opposing side. With [[Motorarm (BWII)|Motorarm]] leading the charge, the Maximals and the Autobots attacked first. {{storylink|Beast Wars Diorama Story|Motorarm Chapter}}

===IDW ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===
[[Image:AllianceOptimusHoloDriver.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Peter Cullen|Optimus Prime]] driving Optimus Prime! Sheer awesomeness!]]

Following the battle of [[Mission City]], and the destruction of Megatron and the AllSpark, Optimus Prime was left to ferry the body of his first lieutenant [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] out of the city in an abandoned trailer. Trusting [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]] and his men, Prime asked the human soldiers to help the Autobots escape from the city, before [[Sector Seven]] and other untrustworthy humans could arrive. A month later, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] managed to convince Lennox and [[Robert Epps|Sergeant Epps]] to call upon the assistance of Optimus Prime and the Autobots to escort the Decepticon remains, thereby hopefully reactivating the Decepticon [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] somehow. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}}

Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet and Bumblebee arrived at Sector Seven's Nevada desert base to escort to a naval base at [[California|San Diego, California]]. Optimus insisted on escorting Jazz's remains personally, and thanked Lennox for arranging a proper burial-at-sea for his fallen lieutenant. When he noticed the AllSpark shard seemingly reacting to the Decepticon bodies, he handed the fragment to [[Professor Vine]] for safekeeping until he returned. Shortly after leaving the base, Optimus had second thoughts about leaving the fragment in Sector Seven's possession, and ordered Bumblebee and Ironhide to turn around and retrieve the only remaining piece of the AllSpark. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}}

[[Image:Alliance3_OptimusPrime_Lennox.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"So erm, want to go back to my place?" "Prime, are you trying to get onto me?" "No dude, I just want to show you my collection of faces and heads!"]]

The convoy returned to the Sector Seven base after learning of Wreckage and Starscream's attacks. [[Salani]] retrieved the AllSpark shard and returned it to Optimus Prime, who felt the last piece of their heritage should stay with him. Weeks later, the Autobots and the soldiers with whom they served traveled aboard a [[United States Navy|US Navy]] carrier for Jazz's burial-at-sea and to observe the disposal of the Decepticons. Optimus deeply appreciated the humans' paying last respects to their fallen comrade, though he was concerned that even the great depths of the [[Laurentian Abyss]] were not enough to keep the Decepticon bodies hidden. Below deck, Optimus and Lennox agreed to a formal [[NEST|alliance between the Autobots and humans]] as the first line of offense and defense against the Decepticons. During training on the island of [[Diego Garcia]], Optimus Prime reminded the Autobots that they must work together with the humans as a team, never forgetting that division was what caused the war on Cybertron in the first place. When they were alone, Optimus Prime and Major Lennox complimented each other's leadership and the dedication of their respective troops. When Lennox commented that it was because of the Autobots that he and his soldiers were alive today, Optimus refuted this, saying it was because of humans such as Lennox and Sam, and that the Autobots were only part of the problem. Soon, both [[NEST]] leaders learned that the Decepticons had returned to Earth. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

By November 2008, Sideswipe had arrived on Earth, but was recklessly pursuing the Decepticon Demolishor in South America. Optimus was chastised by Admiral Morshower for this "grey area" in the Autobot ranks, but the Autobot leader assured Morshower he would settle it. Human relations were so strained the exasperated Optimus decided to forcibly bring Sideswipe in to end his rampage; however, Ironhide requested he go calm his former student down. Optimus agreed, but made his position clear: if Sideswipe could not be negotiated with... he would be ''dealt'' with. Ironhide eventually was able to calm his student, but not before Demolishor was let loose upon human civilians, AND the authorities were attacking Cybertronians on sight. Luckily, Optimus and a strike team had already arrived and had the authorities stand down, and Sideswipe joined the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 2|Tales of the Fallen #2}}

[[Image:Alliance4_Prime_killingspree.jpg|thumb|300px|Freedom is the right of all '''non-Decepticon''' sentient beings.]]

NEST was deployed to [[San Francisco]], where the Decepticons [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] and [[Dead End (Movie)|Dead End]] were wreaking havoc. Flushed out of hiding, the Decepticons managed to evade the other Autobots, but Optimus Prime quickly put down Dead End by ramming him head-on. When asked by Prime, he commented that he was fine, but he wasn't sure if Dead End was. On the way back to base, Lennox and Optimus Prime discussed Swindle's last words and were concerned that this was just the first wave of Decepticons coming to Earth, and that they were after [[Sam Witwicky]]. Optimus convinced Lennox that no matter what, it was Sam's destiny to become involved in this conflict, and they agreed to send Bumblebee back to the States to resume his role as the boy's guardian. Later, when Optimus observed the distrust for the Autobots held by Lennox's superiors, he suggested that they must work harder and that continued success would satisfy those above them. During the subsequent hunt for Decepticons around the world, Optimus Prime personally destroyed [[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]], [[Dropkick]] and [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. As NEST's ranks grew, together they celebrated their victories and mourned those who made the ultimate sacrifice. One event brought joy and hope to the team: The arrival of Autobot refugees who were eager to protect their new homeworld. This joy was tempered by the fact more and more Decepticons were being sighted on Earth, and Optimus believed that there was some unknown that threatened their new home, their species and their alliance with the humans. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}}
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===''The Veiled Threat''===
{{Note|The events of ''The Veiled Threat'' take place during [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[Alliance (comic)|Alliance]]'' comic.}}

{{bigquote|I know Megatron. I know all of you. You would not have taken the AllSpark and left this world in peace. You would have subdued it and made slaves of its people. Even in the absence of the AllSpark, my conscience and that of my friends could not have allowed that.|Optimus Prime to [[Macerator]]}}

Optimus attended an initial [[NEST]] briefing about sightings of Starscream in [[Zambia]], and was placed in joint command with Lennox of a team to go there to investigate. He also advised some new Autobot arrivals about how best to fit in on Earth. In Zambia, they quickly tracked down three Decepticons, [[Payload (Movie)|Payload]], [[Macerator]] and [[Dropkick]] waiting at the Zambezi River. Optimus, Ironhide and Ratchet waded in to face their opponents, unaware that it was a trap — as they fought, they were dragged downriver towards Victoria Falls. Although the other two Autobots escaped the trap, Optimus was held fast by Macerator and plunged off the falls. While Macerator was caught mid-air by Starscream, Optimus managed to cling to an outcropping. He was rescued by the other Autobots present, utilizing [[Beachbreak]]'s tow line. Enraged by the rescue, Starscream killed Beachbreak, something Optimus regarded as a result of his own failure to lead. The team tracked Payload, Macerator and Dropkick downriver to the Kariba dam, where Optimus rammed two of the Decepticons and then fought with Macerator at length. He eventually triumphed, decapitating the Decepticon. As Dropkick retreated, Optimus stopped Ironhide from firing as he might have hit some of the humans nearby. They instead went to look for Payload, who had been swept away by raging waters from the dam emergency release.

Back at [[Diego Garcia]], two more Decepticon contacts were made in [[Australia]] and [[Peru]]. Optimus opted to lead the team checking Australia. After exploring the Outback for a number of days, the team discussed whether the Decepticons might be hunting for energy to resurrect Megatron, but Optimus doubted there was an energy source on the planet that could do so. They eventually encountered [[Kickback (ROTF)|Kickback]], [[Trample]] and [[Tread]], three [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]s mining for minerals. Optimus found Kickback's sonic charge weapon to be a challenge, but with some help from Lennox, killed the Decepticon.

After they returned to base, Optimus's input into the conversation on how the Decepticons might revive Megatron was for the most part unhelpful. The subsequent appearance of [[Jolt (Movie)|Deadend]] and [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] in [[Rome]] led the Autobots to take another trip, but Optimus found Rome's narrow streets frustrating as he was unable to navigate them in his truck form. After [[Knock Out (ROTF)|Knockout]] dealt to the two Decepticons, a furious Starscream challenged Optimus to one-on-one combat in the nearby Colosseum. Naturally it was a trap — Starscream had allied himself with a human, [[Bruno Carrera]], and together they trapped Optimus in a pit and set Barricade on him. With the help of four humans, Optimus broke free, threw Barricade into the pit and sealed him there. He then had only to show his face outside to where Starscream was fighting Ironhide, Ratchet and [[Salvage (Movie)|Salvage]], and the would-be Decepticon leader fled. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}

===Titan Magazines ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

[[Image:Titan5_Optimustwins.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Your slang is bad and you should ''feel'' bad!"]]

Since coming to Earth, Optimus has had to strive daily to gain credibility with the human powers-that-be. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}}

Even Optimus doesn't believe [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap's]] stories anymore! When those same twins arrived, Optimus was absent on a 'need to know' mission {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}} in [[Australia]] with [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]. When [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] landed on the continent, the two Autobots interrupted their mission to bring the bot in. It proved far more difficult than you'd expect, with the Decepticon able to outdistance them in the long run and better suited to the terrain. Optimus was knocked offroad when Sideways blasted him with exhaust, and Arcee reported her alt mode was too out of its comfort zone to keep up... which gave Optimus an idea.

That idea was to take ''away'' the terrain, blasting Sideways off the road and into the grass with projectile weaponry. Violence works!

Optimus took the prisoner to Diego Garcia, and on arrival was greeted with the sight of the twins brawling on the runway. He bawled them out over improper conduct, but before he could go further [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] made an attack. Taking fire, Optimus began barking out orders... only to be tripped up by Skids. Once he was up, Scorponok and Sideways had both done a runner. Knowing that the enemy could ''not'' have got this close without NEST security being compromised, Optimus was convinced by [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe's]] argument that the twins had turned traitor and had them taken away for questions. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}}

When the twins were sprung by Decepticons, Prime agreed with [[Theodore Galloway]] that the Autobots would make finding the twins a number one priority. However, Optimus was left suspicious when a [[Soundwave (ROTF)|mysterious "friend"]] tipped the Autobots off about the twins. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.6|Outlaw Blues}} Soon, it came out that the twins were being framed and by tracking the two, Optimus and his men found out about a Decepticon base near [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. Optimus led a raid on it, taking down the [[Purple generic drones|drone army]] stationed there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.8|Back-to-Back}}

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===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Brazil), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish)

[[Image:ROTF-DemolishorPrime.jpg|thumb|right|250px|With the Legends and Voyager toys, this scene is ''just'' possible.]]
After the events in [[Mission City]] two years ago, Optimus Prime and the Autobots became part of a Transformer/human military group called [[NEST]], which hunted down the remaining Decepticons across the world. When [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] and [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] were detected in [[Shanghai]], NEST was deployed there, including the Autobots [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]]. Once Demolishor made himself known by transforming into robot mode and crushing dozens of cars along the highway, [[Robert Epps|Sergeant Epps]] radioed an overhead C-17 to release the Autobot leader. Optimus Prime parachuted out of a NEST cargo plane and landed in vehicle mode. He leapt off a bridge onto the Decepticon's head as he plowed through it. When the massive Constructicon refused his order to pull over, Optimus unleashed several blasts of his [[ion blaster]] into Demolishor's head. These shots, coupled with Ironhide destroying his tires, sent the titan crashing to the ground and into a warehouse. As he and Ironhide approached the dying Decepticon, Optimus asked if he had any last words. With his dying breath, the Constructicon stated that [[The Fallen]] would rise again. Optimus responded in the negative and unceremoniously executed him.

Returning to [[Diego Garcia]], Prime entered a briefing with [[Theodore Galloway]], the National Security Adviser who had been appointed liaison by the [[President of the United States|President]], and [[Morshower|General Morshower]], the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was watching by satellite feed. Prime relayed the warning of The Fallen to them, but Galloway made no effort to conceal his hostility toward the Autobots. He noted that while they had given them intelligence and the sole remaining AllSpark fragment, Galloway took issue with their refusal to share weapons technology and their continued sending of transmissions into space. Prime told Galloway that the Autobots were aware of humanity's history of warfare, and Morshower said that all the transmissions had been vetted by NEST officers. Galloway also pointed out that despite Megatron's death and burial in the Laurentian Abyss and the destruction of the AllSpark, the Decepticons had not left Earth as Optimus had hoped, leading him to conclude that the Autobots were the ones who the Decepticons were after. When asked if the Autobots would leave Earth peacefully if told to, Optimus replied that they would honor their request, but warned Galloway to consider what would happen if the Autobots left but the Decepticons did not.

Unknown to Prime, the Decepticon [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] had been monitoring transmissions and spied on the briefing. Dispatching [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] to the island, he had his agent steal the remaining AllSpark fragment, killing several soldiers in the process. The incident left the Autobots with rather chilly relations with the United States. Seeking outside help, Optimus dispatched Bumblebee to retrieve Sam Witwicky from college in an effort to secure his testimony on the Autobots' behalf. Meeting Sam at an abandoned cemetery near his college, Optimus explained the situation. Sam was not receptive; in fact, he was quite hostile, saying that he had just started college and was trying to have a normal life. Knowing that fate often called at inconvenient times, Optimus impressed upon Sam the importance of what was going on, but Sam reiterated that the Cybertronian War was not his, and that they didn't need him. Optimus relayed his fear that it soon would be, and silently said that they needed him more than he realized.

[[Image:ROTFPrimevsMegsandScreamer.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Stick em' up!]]
Prime's fear soon came to pass, but in the last way he could imagine: the Decepticons had used the AllSpark shard to resurrect Megatron, who had learned that the knowledge of the AllSpark had been passed to Sam by a fragment Sam had touched, and soon captured him, Mikaela, and Sam's college roommate [[Leo Spitz]]. Heading to rescue the three humans, Optimus and Bumblebee ambushed the Decepticons in the [[Broadwater Metal Works|abandoned industrial complex]] where the teens were being held, just as [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]] was about to perform fatal neurosurgery on Sam. Knocking Megatron and [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] out of the building, Optimus managed to whisk Sam away from the plant. Optimus made it as far as the nearby forest when Megatron arrived. Going one-on-one with the Decepticon leader, Prime managed to hold his own, all the while trashing talking Megatron. Megatron then called for Starscream and [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]], who quickly arrived. Prime was forced to run interference between Megatron and Starscream, who pursued Sam.

[[Image:ROTF Optimus vs Grindor.jpg|thumb|right||250px|''Frenzy is red,'' '' Rumble is blue,'' ''this poem doesn't rhyme,'' ''NOW GIVE ME YOUR FACE !'' ]]
As the battle raged, Megatron told Prime that the boy was the key to finding another energon source, then shattered his [[mouthplate]] and sent him flying back with a point blank shot from his [[fusion cannon]]. Megatron asked if the boy's life was greater than the future of their race, but Prime knew that he would never stop with a single life. Declaring that he'd take them all on, Optimus Prime unsheathed his [[Dual Energon Swords]] and fought a three-on-one fight against the Decepticons. Surprisingly, not only did he manage to hold his own, he was actually winning, managing to stab Megatron multiple times, slice off Starscream's arm and use it as a club, and rip apart Grindor's head. However, Megatron managed to stab his own sword through Optimus Prime's chest, following with a point blank shot through his injured back. Critically injured, Optimus implored the still-observing Sam to run. Although the rest of the Autobots soon arrived and drove off Megatron and Starscream, Optimus Prime was [[The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime|dead]].

[[Image:ROTF Optimus death.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"You're so weak!" "Then why have I spent this whole fight kicking your a--"*BOOM*]]
Soon after, The Fallen made his presence known and demanded Sam Witwicky be turned over to him or the world would be destroyed. Galloway used this as a reason to shut down NEST and ordered the Autobots returned to Diego Garcia under guard, along with Prime's corpse (which Galloway callously denounced as a piece of scrap metal). Fortunately, Bumblebee, and [[Skids (ROTF)|the]] [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Twins]] managed to spirit Sam, Mikaela, and Leo away before The Fallen made his announcement. With help from their former enemy Seymour Simmons and the Decepticon-turned-Autobot [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]], the group discovered that Sam's mind contained the Language of the Primes, to which group The Fallen had once belonged. The human/Autobot group managed to locate the Seeker [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], who told them of how the [[Dynasty of Primes]] forged a [[star harvester]] to use a star's energy to replenish the AllSpark, and the [[Matrix of Leadership]], needed to activate the harvester, until they were betrayed by The Fallen, who tried to harvest [[Sun|Sol]] in defiance of the Primes' rule of the sanctity of life. Sam hit upon the idea to use the Matrix to restore Optimus to life, similar to how the Decepticons had used the AllSpark fragment to resurrect Megatron. Having been teleported to [[Egypt]] by Jetfire, the group managed to relay the information to Major Lennox and Sergeant Epps, who faked engine trouble over Petra, where the [[Tomb of the Primes]] was located. Unfortunately, the Matrix had turned to dust in the thousands of years since its entombment, but Sam still believed that it could be used to revive Optimus.

[[Image:ROTF movie Powered-Up Optimus Prime.jpg|thumb|right|250px|I'm bringing sexy back.]]
However, the Decepticons were still looking for the harvester and the Matrix needed to activate it. Sam was technically killed in the [[Operation: Firestorm|battle]], during which he communed with the six Primes from the tomb, who restored the Matrix. Jamming it in the fallen Autobot's chest, Sam used the Matrix to restore Optimus Prime to life. Unfortunately, The Fallen soon arrived and stole the Matrix. Having been fatally injured by [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], Jetfire offered his parts to Optimus, as only a Prime could defeat The Fallen, and snuffed out his own spark. After Ratchet and [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] finished attaching Jetfire's wings and thrusters to Prime's body, Optimus hurried to the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], which had been constructed around the harvester, and damaged the machine before it could destroy Earth's sun.

[[Image:TheFallen-ROTFfacegotten.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Your face is insufficient. GIVE ME YOUR SPARK!]]
Optimus Prime then faced Megatron and the Fallen. This against the odds battle went far better for Optimus, as he used Megatron's own fusion cannon to shoot off half his face and his afterburners to send him through some ruins. Optimus then battled the Fallen, using his Energon Sword to slice through his face. The Fallen countered by ripping off his left wing and striking him with it, but Optimus managed to grab the Fallen's own spear and impale him with it. Telling the traitorous Prime he had picked the wrong planet, Optimus used the spear to rip off The Fallen's face plate. As The Fallen tried to flee, Optimus Prime punched through his abdomen and crushed his spark core, killing The Fallen and forcing Megatron and Starscream to retreat.

[[Image:ROTF Optimus Sam ship.JPG|thumb|right|250px|"So why did you want his face?" "Okay, I'll tell you."*cuts to credits*]]
On the return voyage home, Optimus thanked Sam for saving his life, as the boy thanked the Autobot leader for believing in him. Following this, Optimus Prime sent another transmission into space, detailing recent events so that the pasts of both races would be remembered, and also declaring that Humanity and the Autobots would face the future together. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|The film's official adaptations note Optimus is an orphan, implying he is the son of one of the [[Seven Primes]] (although their number was [[Thirteen original Transformers|thirteen]] since these were based on early drafts of the script). }}
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===Titan Magazines post-''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

Following the later Fallen incident, Optimus continued operations against the Decepticons. [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt's]] over-enthusiasm began to muck that up, causing damage and getting NEST into trouble, despite Optimus' attempts to point this out to him. Optimus had to confine him to base. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}}

[[Image:Titan10_Optimusgetsout.jpg|thumb|right|250px|]]

Soon after that, he was drawn out into a trap by [[Trophy White]] and the [[Free Men]], who wanted to take his head as a trophy. Optimus worked out their plan and allowed himself to be captured by the deranged hunter, in order to keep the fight away from civilians. He pretended to be securely chained down and listened to White's sociopathic ravings, before (at the moment he considered funniest) breaking free and taking White prisoner. Shockingly, he found keeping the severed heads of animals as trophies to be ''bad'', and destroyed Trophy's trophies. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.10| Bring Me the Head of Optimus Prime}}

When there was a Decepticon breakout in [[South Africa]], Optimus ordered his men to let the prisoners flee: a battle outside [[World Cup|a major sports event]] would cause unacceptable civilian casualties. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} This led to a major collapse in Autobot popularity, and open battles with Decepticons in cities were just risking further alienation. In response, Prime created of a secret covert unit (even under NEST's radar) that would monitor the Decepticons, wait for windows of opportunity out of the public eye, and then hit hard and fast. While this worked, Optimus was left disquieted: the tactics he was using were too akin to the Decepticons, and a fine line was being walked. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}}

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===Cyber Missions===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Eric Edwards]] (English), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish)

[[Image:CyberMissions1 Optimus.jpg|right|thumb|250px|]]
Optimus Prime recorded some information on the Autobot-Decepticon war for preservation in [[Vector Sigma]]. Bumblebee and Ironhide were reviewing it when [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] and [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] launched their attack. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 1}} The next morning, Optimus had been informed of the attack and Soundwave's capture, and he ordered Ironhide to wait for reinforcements to assist in pursuing Bludgeon. Bludgeon made that difficult for Ironhide. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 2}} Later, Optimus contacted Ratchet to inform him that [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] was causing chaos in [[Mission City]], and he reminded the Autobot medic to be careful. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 3}}

He and Sideswipe tracked Megatron to a disused factory, only to lose the scent. Megatron, having cloaked his spark signature, jumped out of hiding to attack them, and Optimus used his swords to attack the Decepticon. An appeal for Megatron to surrender was answered by a blast from Megatron's cannon bringing the roof down on the two Autobots, and the Decepticon escaped. Optimus promised that Megatron would no longer be able to hide. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 4}}

When Ironhide went missing after the incident with Bludgeon, Optimus searched for him, and Bumblebee revealed he was last near a cave with a load of [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]]. That same cave happened to be where [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]] was hiding. As Optimus went to rescue his friend, Mindwipe tried to hypnotize the Autobot leader, but Optimus was able to resist the hypnosis and defeat Mindwipe, leaving a confused Ironhide to wonder what was going on. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 5}}

Reports of [[Smolder]] attacking a building in [[Scramble City (city)|Scramble City]] resulted in Optimus dispatching Bumblebee and Ratchet to investigate. He filled them in on the situation en route. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 9}} During another mission, Optimus warned Sideswipe and Ratchet that they were being tracked, moments before the pair were attacked by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and Mindwipe. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 10}}

Bumblebee reported to Optimus that he'd managed to pinpoint the location where Megatron and Starscream were meeting, leading Optimus to confront the two Decepticons in an Arctic region. When Megatron expressed surprise that he'd come to fight them without backup, Optimus assured him that the Autobots were never far from their leader's side. While Starscream went to attack the others, Optimus and Megatron continued to fight, with Optimus emerging the eventual victor. As Megatron tried to goad him into finishing the fight, Optimus announced that the Autobots protected all sentient life, and that included the Decepticons. He subsequently allowed Megatron to flee. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}}

{{quote|By showing even one such as him the power of mercy, Megatron might realize that we'll never give up, no matter the cost.|Optimus Prime|"Cyber Missions 12"}}

Prime set up an elaborate trap involving a hologram of Soundwave to lure the Decepticons to a spot in the wilderness. The ploy worked, and Optimus attacked Megatron while his men attacked Megatron's troops. At one point during the battle, Megatron threw a train car at him, and he simply somersaulted along its length. Though Megatron boasted that the Decepticons would win through sheer determination, Optimus knocked him to the ground and gave a speech about building alliances, which was the cue for the [[human]]s to turn up in force and surround the Decepticons. Optimus informed Megatron that he could either leave the planet peacefully or be destroyed. Once the rest of the Decepticons fled, Megatron delivered a final threat before taking off. Prime celebrated with another speech, before admiring the huge Autobot [[insignia]] Bumblebee had stomped into the ground. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===Transformers Annual 2011===
An alert of Decepticon activity in [[Tokyo]] sent Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet and Sideswipe to investigate. He intervened in Sideswipe and Barricade's battle to lift the Decepticon into the air, only to find himself under attack by Grindor. Ordering Sideswipe and Ratchet to cover him, Optimus scaled the side of a nearby office block so he could punch the helicopter out of the air. Standing over the two Decepticons, Optimus was surprised when they informed him that they were simply providing a diversion. Optimus realised that Sam was in danger, and rushed back to America in time to find Starscream attempting to abduct the boy. He jumped on Starscream's back, causing the Decepticon to flee and saving Sam from a kidnapping. {{storylink|Sam in Danger}}

===IDW Post ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===
[[Image:Nefarious2 Prime on Soundwave.jpg|thumb|left|350px]]
Lennox reported to Optimus via videolink on the halting of [[Alice]]'s rampage. Optimus mentioned that they should be more aggressive in tracking down Decepticons, but Lennox reminded him that NEST was low on resources. They decided on some "improvisations" in the form of newly-arrived Autobots. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 1|Nefarious #1}} Optimus was witness to Galloway balling out Lennox over the battle at [[Kingdom Petrochemicals]], but kept quiet. Afterwards, Lennox and Optimus discussed the [[Initiative|mysterious humans]] who had been seen at the petrochemical plant. When [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]] came under attack from [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], Optimus parachuted in and bested Soundwave. Soundwave attempted to persuade Prime to let him go, but Prime decided that instead they would take him into NEST custody for interrogation. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 2|Nefarious #2}}

Optimus oversaw the preparations of the facilities for holding Soundwave, rather than face having to tell Major Lennox what they'd done. He was only delaying the inevitable, and Lennox was even more annoyed when the plane carrying Soundwave was shot down. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 3|Nefarious #3}} When NEST received a distress call from Galloway, who was under attack from [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]], Optimus sent [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] to assist. He also reminded Ironhide that just because the man was a "pain in the aft" didn't mean they could avoid helping him. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 4|Nefarious #4}}

[[Image:Nefarious5 Prime already too late.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"They've already put the bomp in the bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp"]]
Soundwave led the Autobots to the location of the [[Initiative]] base in [[California]], but the base was gone. Despite this, Optimus still trusted Soundwave as he believe the organization they faced had access to Cybertronian technology. Soundwave pinpointed the mobile base as being in [[Utah]], so the Autobots headed there. Part way, Optimus felt the power of something very like the [[AllSpark]] being used and began to realize what they were up against. They reached Utah and began an assault on the [[Initiative base]], only to find themselves facing brainwashed Transformers. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 5|Nefarious #5}}

As the battle continued, Optimus tried to call out for their foe to surrender the AllSpark they possessed, however [[Carter Newell]], head of the Initiative, responded by trying to use the artifact to terminate all Cybertronian life. An injury courtesy of [[Reedman]] aborted the attempt, and Newell tried to flee. Optimus was forced to ram the truck he was in to obtain the AllSpark, but realized the only way to halt the rapidly-destabilizing Cube was to
feed it his own [[spark]]. Luckily that turned out to be unnecessary, as [[Fortress (ROTF)|Fortress]] took the AllSpark from him and carried it into space, where it exploded. Optimus later noted that the Initiative data banks had been [[Soundwave (ROTF)|picked clean]] and wondered if anyone else could make an attempt to recreate the AllSpark. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 6|Nefarious #6}}
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==Games==
===Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots===
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===''Transformers'' (Glu)===
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===''Transformers'' The Game (console)===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]

====Autobot campaign====
Optimus Prime provided intelligence and missions to Bumblebee in his search for the AllSpark. Eventually, the clues led the Autobot to Sam Witwicky. After saving Sam from Barricade, Bumblebee finally completed preparations for the Autobots to arrive on Earth.

Once on Earth, and having informed the two teenagers of their mission, Prime and the Autobots were discovered by Sector Seven. Optimus sent Jazz on a high-speed <strike>destruction</strike> distraction mission, then sent Ironhide to rescue Jazz from a double-threat posed by the government agents and various Decepticon scouts.

When Bumblebee was captured, Optimus Prime transformed and chased the helicopter which from which the small Autobot was tied. After a lengthy pursuit, Optimus managed to catch the net, only to be thrown off by another Cybertronian [[transition form|meteor]]. As Bumblebee was carried away, Optimus promised he would not fail him again. Jazz informed him that the meteor was not an Autobot and Optimus confronted the new threat, who turned out to be the Decepticon triplechanger [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]. The two battled it out across [[Tranquility]] before Optimus finally destroyed him, and in doing so, overheard [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s transmission revealing the location of the AllSpark.

Optimus then returned to an intel role as he guided Bumblebee in his mission to retrieve the AllSpark from Hoover Dam. Unfortunately, the Decepticons managed to free Megatron, leading to the final battle in Mission City.

As the Autobots engaged in an all-out urban war with the Decepticons to protect Sam and the AllSpark, things seemed to take a turn for the worse as Megatron finally arrived. But before the Decepticon leader could claim the Cube, Optimus Prime attacked.

The two leaders duked it out until Megatron was finally on the ground, seemingly devoid of life. Optimus knelt to take the AllSpark as Sam handed it to him, but Megatron suddenly awoke, leaping at the Autobot with his chain-flail out, and making one last attempt at defeating his adversary. Optimus grabbed the chain, pulling Megatron in closer, and with the AllSpark clutched in his fist, delivered a punch through Megatron's spark. As Megatron died Optimus reflected on the losses and rewards of this battle, as the Autobots have a new home. Optimus planned to guard the humans in secret, "For freedom is the right of all sentient beings." {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}

====Decepticon campaign====
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In the final battle, Optimus Prime was beaten to the ground, and as he desperately crawled for the AllSpark, Megatron smashed his head with his flail, before using the Cube to destroy humanity. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}

===''Transformers: Autobots''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]

Arriving late on Earth, Optimus meets up with the other Autobots to give further commands to his troops. [[Create-A-Bot (Autobot)|Create-A-Bot]], the new rookie, is eager to help in the cause, but Optimus tells him to sit back while the grown-ups take care of business. Getting fed up with the bureaucracy, Create-A-Bot finally defies orders and completes a mission against Optimus's counsel. After nearly getting himself and the other Autobots killed, Create-A-Bot apologizes to Optimus personally. Taking pity on the newcomer, Optimus lets him off with a stern warning, and they move out together to face Megatron. During the fight, Create-A-Bot sacrifices himself to save his commander. Megatron defeated, Optimus commends the young Autobot as a war hero, and sends out an interstellar message to any Cybertronians living among the stars. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots}}

===''Transformers: Decepticons''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]

Landing on Earth, Optimus Prime quickly joins the other Autobots to attempt to stop the Decepticons. Prime didn't appear on the battlefield until Megatron himself was released and Starscream escaped with the AllSpark. He stepped in to thwart the maniacal leader of the Decepticons, but alas, was struck down, left in the streets while Megatron gave chase to his traitorous second-in-command. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Decepticons}}

===Datafile Decoder===
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===AllSpark Wars===
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===Allspark Highway===
The Autobots needed to race the Allspark to safety, and Optimus Prime teamed with his fellow Autobots to drive through the Decepticon defenses and get their prize to a secure location. {{storylink|Allspark Highway}}

===Autobot Stronghold===
The Decepticons were invading an Autobot stronghold in the city, and Optimus Prime and the Autobots placed themselves at key positions to defend it from attack. {{storylink|Autobot Stronghold}}

===Transformers: Battle for the Matrix===

{{Note|Battle for the Matrix is a simplified retelling of the events of [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]. It can be played from the perspective of either Bumblebee or Optimus Prime.}}
[[Image:Optimusprime battleforthematrix.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
{{storylink|Transformers: Battle for the Matrix}}
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===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English) [[Dariusz Odija]] (Polish)
====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====
=====Autobot campaign=====
[[Image:ROTF game Optimus Prime.jpg|thumb|right|300px|One shall stand, one sha--oh, you know the drill.]]
Optimus Prime served as the Autobots all around fighter. Weapons wise, he possessed dual laser rifles and dual shell cannons. In melee combat, he possessed [[Dual Energon Swords|Dual Energy Swords]] in each hand. Finally, with his valiant leader ability, he could generate a shield around himself which would prevent his energy from dropping past 1%.

After overseeing Ironhide's defeat of [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] and Ratchet's rescue of Ironhide, Optimus Prime took to the field when a previously unknown Decepticon named [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] began attacking the [[Shanghai]] waterfront. Optimus was finally able to defeat him, but Demolishor gave a single warning before he was killed: "The Fallen shall rise again". Optimus and the Autobots were at a loss as to what he meant. Back in the United States, Sam Witwicky gave Mikaela Banes a fragment of the AllSpark that he had discovered, which the Decepticons soon sought. Prime dispatched Bumblebee to rescue her. Following this, the Decepticons launched a raid on the city's oil refinery, where Ratchet rescued several engineers. Finally, Ironhide escorted a NEST team to safety in the city's canals.

Their victories were short lived. The Decepticons soon learned about the AllSpark shard on Diego Garcia, stealing it to revive Megatron. Although [[Breakaway (ROTF)|Breakaway]] managed to save the fleet, Megatron was reborn. He soon made an attack on Sam, trying to access information in his mind downloaded from the AllSpark. Bumblebee managed to rescue him. In light of these attacks, Optimus decided to give NEST the [[Axiom Gun]] to better defend themselves against the Decepticons. The escort came under Decepticon assault, but Prime was able to beat back the attackers and deliver the Axiom Gun to NEST. Soon afterwards, Bumblebee escorted Sam to meet with [[Seymour Simmons]], who told him of Jetfire, who then took the boy to Egypt.

While there, Jetfire explained what was going on: Eons ago, Optimus's ancestors, the [[Thirteen original Transformers|13 founders]] of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], built a star harvester to convert the energy of the sun into [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]]. When they discovered the humans, they upheld their rule of the sanctity of life, but one of the Primes defied the rule and murdered his twelve brothers. This Prime was known as The Fallen, but the star harvester was hidden from him. While Sam made inquires to the [[Tomb of the Primes|Tomb of the Twelve]], Megatron and Starscream arrived in an attempt to learn the harvester's location and kill Sam. Optimus Prime was able to defeat both Decepticons with Jetfire's help, but Jetfire was stabbed in the back by Megatron. Dying, Jetfire offered his parts to Optimus, as only a Prime could defeat The Fallen.

Finding the harvester at the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], Optimus challenged The Fallen. Despite The Fallen's powerful command of telekinesis and pyrokinesis, Optimus Prime was able to get past his defenses and kill The Fallen by stabbing him through the face. On the return trip home, Sam expressed gratitude at seeing the sunrise, and told Optimus he would have to trust him on it. Optimus Prime replied that he had always trusted Sam, and always would. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

=====Decepticon campaign=====
When the revenant Megatron and the Decepticons rampaged across the United States of America, Optimus Prime faced him in a major city on the East Coast. The two leaders engaged in a titanic struggle that shook the city, but despite being aided by many Autobot drone units, Optimus was seemingly destroyed. However, much later, Optimus Prime reappeared when Megatron's master, The Fallen, activated the Star Harvester to drain Earth's Sun. The Autobot leader revealed that The Fallen's promise to make Megatron a Prime was a lie, as Primes were born, not made. When Megatron demanded his reward, The Fallen reneged on his promise. As the master and disciple of evil began to fight, Optimus left to find a way to disable the Harvester. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}
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===Transformers Battle Universe===
At the edge of time, when the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] needed a new host, Optimus Prime was among several warriors (and [[Optimus Prime|Prime]]s) summoned from the multiverse to battle for control of the prize. {{storylink|Transformers Battle Universe}}

===Starscream Showdown===
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{{storylink|Starscream Showdown}}

===Transformers RPMs: Devastator's Demise===
[[Image:Devastatorsdemise optimus.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]
Optimus Prime is both fast and sturdy. His firepower blows obstacles to smithereens.

In order to defeat [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]], Bumblebee, Optimus and Ironhide must drive through Cairo and avoid obstacles.{{storylink|Transformers RPMs: Devastator's Demise}}
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===Hunt for the Decepticons===
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{{storylink|Hunt for the Decepticons}}
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===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon - The Game''===
====(Xbox 360/PS3)====

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==Commercial appearances==
* As part of the hype buildup to the movie's release, Optimus Prime made a brief cameo at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, interacting with host Sarah Silverman. The scene spliced Silverman into pre-existing movie footage, but featured new dialogue recorded for the event by Peter Cullen. Prime heavily hinted that he wanted to present an award, but was rejected for a regular MTV fan.

* According to a tie-in advertisement for [[Burger King]], Prime likes his Whoppers with no onions, no cheese, extra pickles, with a side of ????. However, due to a cruel twist of fate, he can never enjoy the sweet taste of beefy victory (and all because he needed a driver for him to receive his order). He saved the world from the Decepticons, and still he can't even have it his way? Where's the justice?

* Optimus Prime (in truck mode) made an appearance at [[BotCon 2007]], alongside the [[Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit]]. He was available for pictures all weekend. He made a second appearance at [[BotCon 2009]].

* Optimus threw a trailer during his appearance on an [[M&M's]] commercial.

* On [[July 6]]th 2009, Optimus appeared on ''The Late Show With David Letterman'' to declare the "Top Ten Things That Sound Cool When Said By A Giant Robot". Optimus said it was nice to be there, although David was ''clearly'' concerned by having an 28-feet tall robot in the studio because of a bad history of robots messing up the place, and during the presentation Letterman decided there was something about Prime he didn't like. Anyway, the top ten was:
<ol>
<li value="10">"Jergens lotion leaves my hands silky smooth."</li>
<li value="9">"Do you have these khakis in size 114?"</li>
<li value="8">"My perfect night involves a pint of Haagen-Dazs and season three of ''Sex and the City''."</li>
<li value="7">"Man do I love me some 'taters."</li>
<li value="6">"It was so hot in Central Park, I saw a squirrel rubbing sunblock on his nuts."</li>
<li value="5">"You seemed a little pitchy, dawg."</li>
<li value="4">"Brody Jenner has added you as a friend on Facebook."</li>
<li value="3">"Live from New York, it's Saturday night."</li>
<li value="2">"My parents wanted me to be a Rabbi."</li>
<li value="1">"All the slammin' shorties in the house say 'Yeah'."<ref>[http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/video_player/index/php/991507.phtml Lateshow CBS archive video of Optimus's guest spot.]</ref></li>
</ol>

* To promote the DVD and Blu-ray release of ''Revenge of the Fallen'', Paramount set up a website where US fans could request Optimus call up their friends, warning them of Starscream's attempts to recruit human civilian allies.

*In the Discovery Channel promo, "The World Is Just Awesome," Optimus made a brief cameo, singing the words "boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da."<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0jZzBEKIMc Discovery commercial] on YouTube.</ref>

*Prime (voiced by Cullen, but not animated by ILM) appeared to promote a NASA competition to vote for videos made by children about NASA's impact on commonplace technology.<ref>[http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/optimus/ NASA Optimus Prime]</ref>

*Optimus appeared in truck mode at [[Toy Fair 2011]]. He got a $115 parking ticket.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357327/Transformers-truck-gets-parking-ticket-toy-fair.html ''Daily Mail'' article on Prime's fine.]</ref>

==Toys==
{{main|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
:''Main article: [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Merchandise|Merchandise]]''

==Notes==
[[Image:moviecullen.jpg|right|150px|thumb|GIVE ME MY FACE]]

[[Image:Movie Primetruck before.jpg|right|150px|thumb|8:30 pm: "Trick My Truck". Tonight's guest: [[Alpha Trion (disambiguation)|Alpha Trion]].]]
* When Optimus' design was first revealed, many fans of the Generation 1 series objected to the flames seen on Prime's body. When asked in an interview why he put the flames on, [[Michael Bay]] claimed he liked them because it was "cool". It was later revealed on a special featurette on the DVD that the flames were added because, apparently, red is not very good to film on camera, so Bay chose a blue truck but used the flames so that when Optimus transformed, the layout would result in maintaining his iconic red chest.

* The announcement of [[Peter Cullen]] as Prime's voice actor in the movie is credited by some fans as alleviating many fan tensions about the movie. Not all tensions, mind you, as there are some who just will never be satisfied, but it put the fans in a good mood.

* Prime's ''Rise of the Chevy Autobots'' codename, "10-22", is [http://www.truckercountry.com/cb-terminology.html#10c CB radio slang] for "report in person to." As in "Bumblebee, 10-22 to 10-22." Cute, huh?

* [[TakaraTomy]] officially recognizes Optimus Prime's vehicle mode as a [http://www.kenworth.com/2100_vir_w900.asp Kenworth W900 truck], even though the vehicle used for filming was a modified Peterbilt 379, a different model from a different brand, although both are made by the PACCAR company.<ref>[http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=121424?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..2.* Article at Edmunds.com on some of the vehicles used in the movie]</ref>
[[Image:Movie OptimusPrime truckrear.jpg|right|150px|thumb|No container for you!]]

* Prime's truck mode is apparently intended to haul a flatbed trailer, based on the presence of the large silver "headache rack", a piece of optional equipment that protects the driver in case a flatbed load breaks free during braking. It is generally not installed on trucks hauling enclosed container trailers.

* Despite this, the one time that Prime has been seen with a trailer, it's an enclosed trailer (with a design based on Generation 1 Optimus Prime's [[Combat Deck]]), commandeered by the Autobots for use as Jazz's coffin after the battle of [[Mission City]] in [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Alliance (comic)|Alliance]] comic book series.

[[Image:Movie Prime Trucklogomistake.jpg|right|150px|thumb|In the darkness, a PA will misread "Truck A" as "Truck B", and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth — Revelation 11:7.]]

* When Optimus Prime scans a truck for his new body, the passing truck has what appears to be an Autobot sigil on its grill, but the actual truck that Prime turns into at the end of the scene has a much wider, flatter symbol on the grill, which looks rather more like that of Peterbilt. Then, Prime has an Autobot sigil on his grill while driving to meet the other Autobots.

* According to the free trading cards from the Boston Globe, Optimus is 28 feet tall, weighs 4.3 metric tons, and his primary weapon is an [[Ion blaster|ion blaster]]. (Considering Optimus's height, however, this weight would seem implausible.)

* In the Japanese dub of the movie, he is given his original western name of Optimus Prime rather than the Japanese equivalent, Convoy. Just as Peter Cullen voiced Prime in the English version of the film, Tesshō Genda (the voice of G1 Convoy) reprised his role for the Japanese dub.

[[Image:MBMovieOptimusAttacks.jpg|thumb|250px|Maybe it's, uh, [[jet judo]].]]

*The [[Milton Bradley]] [[Transformers Battling Card Game]] depicts Prime with a unique a magnetic grapple attack, fired from the side of his arm. It also declares his forearm gun to be a chain gun (it's an ion blaster in other sources), and has him using a "judo kick", which... while it may not be out of the realm of plausibility for Prime to have learned an Earth martial art, judo does not actually '''use''' kicks, being focused on throwing moves. Oops.

* The Optimus Prime computer generated model consisted of 10,108 individual parts, 1,830,898 polygons, 27,744 rig nodes, and 2336 texture maps. The volume of all pieces combined came to 5445 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>

* It said in the Autobots game in the DS, Prime's father was killed by Megatron. However, since it is also widely known that Prime and Megatron were brothers, Megatron killed his own dad. Not that this is surprising, though.

* In Titan Magazines ''Transformers'' comics, Optimus's Cybertronian robot mode is exactly like his Earth mode, but with different weapons, yet his Cybertronian mode is a mostly silver protoform—with no truck windows. Odd.

[[Image:ROTF Optimus trailer super mode.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"One shall be scrawny...One shall be brawny"]]
* Optimus was supposed to combine with a trailer for ''Revenge of the Fallen'', something for which [[Ben Procter]] and [[Josh Nizzi]] drew up designs. In the end, Nizzi designed the combination with Jetfire.

* This incarnation of Optimus Prime doesn't do the best burials in the world, either—giving what can at best be described as a half-hearted goodbye to his [[Jazz (Movie)|first lieutenant]] at the end of the first movie, and unceremoniously dumping the parts of [[Jetfire (ROTF)|the converted Decepticon who had given him the power to defeat the Fallen]] at the conclusion of the second film. This is offset by how he's treated by humans when ''he'' dies.

* Of the Optimus Primes in all the existing continuities, this one is probably the most aggressive incarnation. Additionally, he seems obsessed with destroying the heads of his opponents. In ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]'', Prime [[Decapitation|decapitates]] [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]] and tries pulling off [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]'s head. In ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of The Fallen]]'', Optimus severely damages [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]]'s head before putting the lethal bullet in it, he tries pulling off [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream's]] head with his foot, ''rips apart'' [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor's]] head with hooks, shoots off part of Megatron's face, and ''rips off'' [[The Fallen]]'s face before killing him. (He also slices or tears off Megatron, Starscream and Grindor's arms in the second film, but this was not immortalized with a classic one liner.) Maybe he took Jazz's death hard after all?

* According to [[TakaraTomy]] marketing director [[Masahiko Yamazaki]], for the Japanese dub of ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', the [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] featured in that show would become a young version of this one. However, nothing in the show-itself has happened to support his claims.

* Optimus was seen with some sort of jetpack attatchment in the recent Super Bowl Trailer. This is most likely his trailer, which was added in Dark of the Moon.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Optimus Prime''' (オプティマス・プライム ''Oputimasu Puraimu'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''O Baak Man''' (Hong Kong, 柯柏文)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Optimusz Fővezér''' ("Prime Leader Optimus")
*''Indonesian:'' '''Optimis Prima'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Kē Bó Wén''' (Taiwan, 柯博文), '''Qíng Tīan Zhù''' (China, 擎天柱, "Pillar that Supports the Sky")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Optimus Naikrashchiy''' (Оптимус Наiкращий, "Optimus the Best")

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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/ProtoformOptimusPrime/optimusprime.htm Optimus Prime at TFU.info]
* [http://www.seibertron.com/toys/index.php?f_series=40&f_name=optimus&f_type=exact&Submit=Search Galleries of various different Optimus Prime toys from the Movie]

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{{disambigr|Carlos|the comic book artist|Carlos Magno}}

:''Carlos is a [[human]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Carlos.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Holy frijoles!]]
<s> George </s>'''Carlos Lopez''' is a typical kid. He goes to school, he likes to [[Grindor (Armada)|skateboard]], he hangs around giant transforming alien robots, fantasizes about holographic dead girls, and happily propagates ethnic stereotypes.

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Matt Hill]] (English), [[Yukie Maeda]] (Japanese), [[Leo Hallerstam]] (Swedish), [[Yoan Sover]] (French)

One day, Carlos and his best friend [[Rad White|Rad]] went exploring into the caverns deep beneath [[Cosmoscope Research Center]]. Inside, they found the curious remains of a clearly artificial construction, seemingly far in advance of human technology. Rad discovered a [[Mini-Con storage panel]] half buried in the rubble, and against Carlos' advice, his friend was drawn towards the strange object. Touching it, the entire structure began to shake, suddenly springing to life as thousands of computers lit up the walls.

At home, [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] felt the tremors and used her computer to pinpoint the epicenter of the apparent earthquake as the mountain caverns that Rad and Carlos were exploring. Similarly, the scientists and researchers at the observatory were baffled by the sudden movement of the Earth. As Rad and Carlos made their escape with the artifact, a bright light engulfed the chamber they were in, simultaneously shutting down all electronic equipment in Licoln, as well as emitting three distinctly coloured distress signals beams into the sky.

[[Image:Firstenclight.JPG|200px|left|thumb|Had a toy been made, Rad would have been Carlos' Mini-Con.]]
One beam, green, reached an [[Exodus (Armada)|ancient starship wreck]] on the dark side of the moon, causing it to fire hundreds of smaller beams of green light at the [[Earth]]. The two remaining signal beams, coloured red and purple, continued deep into space until it reached [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

Emerging from the cave with Rad, Carlos turned to see a huge glowing purple sphere of pulsating energy floating in mid-air, which soon solidified into a huge robot. This being was [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], supreme leader of the evil [[Decepticon]]s. As he tried to take the object Rad had found, which had now revealed itself to be [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]], a sought-after [[Mini-Con]], suddenly another massive robot ordered Megatron to stand down. He was [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the heroic [[Autobot]]s. As the pair grappled, Rad mused that somehow this was all his fault. {{storylink|First Encounter}}

The kids attempted to flee on High Wire, but were stopped by the arrival of [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]]. Demolishor tried to grab the boys, but they were saved by the arrival of [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]. Rad fled back into the cave, calling Carlos and Alexis after him. High Wire led the three into a smaller room, to Alexis's further distress; Rad and Carlos, however, assured her that they'd be safer there.

While in this room, High Wire activated a hidden storage panel, revealing [[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] and [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]]; Grindor bonded the Carlos, and Sureshock to Alexis. They took their new friends out to play in the woods, but ran into Megatron. The timely arrival of Optimus Prime initially seemed to Rad and Carlos to make things worse, but when Alexis trusted the big Autobot, the boys did as well.

[[Image:Metamorphcontact.JPG|200px|right|thumb|[[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|(N.B.)E]].T]]
Optimus Prime took them into his cab and sped off to a distant location, where he set them down. Unfortunately, Megatron had followed close behind, and so Optimus had to combine with his [[trailer]] to fight him off {{storylink|Metamorphosis}}.

The commanders' battle caused a landslide to fall on the kids, but they were shielded by Hot Shot. They then dug up some more Mini-Cons, but two of those were stolen by Cyclonus.

The Decepticons retreated, and so the kids and robots made proper introductions. The kids offered to help the Autobots in their mission, and introduced them to the custom of bumping fists.

The next day at school, [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] grilled them over recent earthquakes; Rad and Carlos played dumb, while Alexis pointed out that if there was an earthquake, it would have been mentioned on the news. When Billy asked where he'd gotten his new skateboard, Carlos claimed his dad had owned it in the eighties and passed it down to him. He and Rad went on up to the mountain; on the way, they et up with Alexis, who chewed them out for nearly blowing their cover.

Up at the Autobots' base, Optimus Prime gave them [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] to help in their reconnaissance efforts. Right then, another Mini-Con was detected, {{storylink|Base}} and Carlos recognised the location as the [[Grand Canyon|Big Canyon]]. The kids ran out with the Autobots, getting spiffy new adventure suits on the way.
[[Image:Comrade Autobotuniforms.jpg|200px|left|thumb|]]

When they got to the canyon, Carlos hopped into Red Alert. He had a good time off-roading, but after a while Red Alert decided it was time to get serious, and they continued on foot. They got lost, then found the others again just as the Decepticons arrived. Optimus Prime claimed the Mini-Con - who turned out to be his old partner, [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] - and the kids helped dig up Hot Shot form where he'd gotten himself buried. {{storylink|Comrade}}

[[Image:Soldier dumpCarlos.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Hot Shot's popularity increased quite a lot once he dumped Carlos in the [[Antarctica|Antarctic]].]]
Later, they played tag with Hot Shot, which got him in trouble with Optimus Prime as he was supposed to be helping Red Alert install some equipment. They then went to find a new Mini-Con in [[Antarctica]], where Rad and Alexis rode in Red Alert while Carlos went with Hot Shot. Carlos and Hot Shot came under attack from Starscream, but were saved by Red Alert's quick thinking and advance preparation. {{storylink|Soldier (episode)|Soldier}}

When the next Mini-Con was detected in a forest, Carlos found a path that had been cut down by illegal loggers, prompting Rad to make a speech about how important it is to protect the environment. When the Decepticons started a fire, he helped get the animals to safety, but this had the unfortunate effect of letting Starscream get his hands on the Mini-Con. {{storylink|Jungle}}

[[Image:Carnival-Heavy Wrench.jpg|200px|left|thumb|[[Sari Sumdac|Sari]] [[Operating Table|handled this a lot better.]]]]
Back at the base, the kids tried to work out how to activate the dormant Mini-Con they'd found in Antarctica. When High Wire explained it was sleeping, Carlos tried to think of ways to wake it up, while Alexis thought it best to leave it alone so it could awaken in its own good time. Carlos and Rad fell for the old "pass me that spanner that's clearly too big for your species to lift" joke and, seeing there was nothing they could do to help, decided to take High Wire and Grindor to a local carnival, followed by [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]], [[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]], and [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]].

At the carnival, the boys were initially concerned that bringing five alien robots to a crowded area might blow their cover, but quickly came up with the idea of telling everyone they were supre-advanced [[human]]-developed robots that would be available for purchase in the future. After a while, the boys tried to take the robots home, but it turned out that Billy and Fred were also at the carnival, and got suspicious. They tried to capture one of the Mini-Con, causing the entire situation to descend into slapstick farce.

They were saved by the timely arrival of Hot Shot, Sureshock, and Alexis, who managed to get things under control, swore Billy and Fred to secrecy, and gave the lads a good scolding. As punishment, Rad and Carlos had to clean up their quarters back at the base. Carlos thought he saw something happen with the dormant Mini-Con panel, but nothing more happened. {{storylink|Carnival}}

[[Image:Palace-Exploring.jpg||200px|right|thumb|"Okay, go ahead and say it." "Holy [[Frijole]]s!"]]
The kids later accompanied the Autobots to the [[Sahara|Sahara Desert]], and fell into a sand pit after an altercation with Demolishor. They found themselves in an ancient temple, where they were attacked by ancient guardian robots, but fortunately Demolishor was there to blow them up. Further into the temple, they found a Mini-Con storage panel; Carlos accidentally activated a trap, and Rad knocked him out of the way. After that, the floor collapsed, but Perceptor was able to rescue them. Demolishor got the Mini-Con. {{storylink|Palace}}

The next day, back in America, Billy and Fred pursued the three to the Autobot base. Rad, Carlos, and Alexis all tried to outrun them, but soon had to split up when Cyclonus attempted to capture them.

The three met up again at the Autobot base, but Laserbeak (along with Billy and Fred) had been kidnapped by Cyclonus. They tracked Laserbeak to a ghost town, where the kids tried to rescue the bullies, but all ended up being captured by Megatron, who demanded Optimus Prime hand over all their Autobots' Mini-Cons in exchange for the humans' lives. Optimus Prime went through with it, but Megatron, naturally, refused to hand them over. However, Rad was able to use Laserbeak to free all the other humans, and Hot Shot was able to rescue Rad with Fred's surprising help. {{storylink|Confrontation (episode)|Confrontation}}

The day after that, the three sought out a Mini-Con in a subway system, while being followed by a disguised [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]]. Carlos personally pulled the Mini-Con storage panel out of a rock face. Right at that point, Smokescreen attacked them, forcing them to flee deeper into the tunnels.The kids fled deeper into the tunnels, and holed up in a convenient cave. They were found by the Decepticons, but Smokescreen came to the rescue, seeing that these fleshlings must be the good guys if Megatron was their enemy. Unfortunately, Cyclonus managed to get the Mini-Con. {{storylink|Underground}}

A while after that, the Autobots received a transmission from [[Atlantis]] and took the kids with them to search for yet another Mini-Con. Carlos was somewhat disappointed when he heard about their objective, as he was hoping to rescue the girl from the transmission.

At the ruins of Atlantis, while the Autobots fought the Decepticons, the kids went inside to look around. A [[Hologram|holographic]] display activated, and Carlos chased after the hologram of [[Amphitrite]]; Rad and Alexis followed. 'Amphitrite' gave them a canned history of Atlantis, focusing on how its inhabitants used the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]] to dominate the world, and were eventually defeated by another civilisation who wielded the [[Skyboom Shield]]. Despite this warning of the danger of the Mini-Cons' power, the kids decided to find the Mini-Con in Atlantis anyway, but it was claimed by [[Leader-1 (Armada)|Leader-1]] for the Decepticons. Dejected, the kids left with Optimus Prime; Carlos initially tried to take Amphitrite with him, apparently forgetting she was just a recording. {{storylink|Ruin}}

He accompanied the Autobots to a volcanic island when they searched for the next Mini-Con, and looked for it alongside Rad and Alexis while all the Transformers present fought each other.

After that adventure, the trio decided to give Billy and Fred a tour of the Autobot base, but were separated when the Decepticons attacked. Since the bullies were in danger of the automatic defenses, said defenses were shut off, allowing the Decepticons to penetrate deeper into the base that anyone would have liked. However, after a battle, the Star Saber was reassembled and in the hands of Hot Shot, so the day ultimately turned out all right. {{storylink|Swoop (episode)|Swoop}}

The next day, Carlos and Rad tried to sort out the human quarters on the base while Alexis and Sureshock were out shopping. For some reason, the fridge was full of tools. {{storylink|Overmatch}}

Carlos would disagree with Billy that Hot Shot was the most powerful Transformer in the universe because he possessed the Star Saber. Alexis soon tracked down another Mini-Con, and the trio, plus Billy and Fred, rushed off with the Autobots to cheer them on; Rad and Carlos rode in Hot Shot.

Hot Shot let the boys out so that he could focus on fighting Cyclonus, at which point [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] arrived, carrying Billy. Alexis arrived momentarily.

The battle went on, with Smokescreen finally claiming the Mini-Con. Back at the base, Carlos translated [[Spiral]]'s offer to give Fred a ride, while Rad and Alexis discussed their misgivings regarding Sideways. Speaking of Sideways, the treacherous motorcycle soon took Hot Shot to the moon in order to deliver the Star Saber into Decepticon hands. While Hot Shot was missing, Carlos was certain he'd return safely, but the Autobots and the rest of the humans were, understandably, not so sure. {{Storylink|Gale}}

With Hot Shot feeling naturally depressed about this disaster, all five kids tried to cheer him up by making silly faces. They also accompanied the Autobots on their search for the next Mini-Con, and managed to find it at the same time as [[Blackout (Armada)|Blackout]], and after a scuffle, it was taken by Scavenger for the Decepticons. Soon after, however, Scavenger came over to the Autobots, and revealed he had been a double agent all along. {{storylink|Conspiracy}}

In the aftermath of Sideways' betrayal, the trio weren't exactly eager to trust Scavenger. He seemed to be more interested in sleeping than mentoring Hot Shot, but when the kids tried to raise this with Optimus Prime, his explanation was cut short by the detection of still another Mini-Con. The Autobots warped off to somewhere with a lot of snow, while the kids observed from back at base. Scavenger heroically saved Optimus Prime's life, very nearly plunging to his own [[death]], and so the kids (and Smokescreen) apologised to him for their earlier suspicions when he got back, Scavenger accepted with characteristic stoicism. {{storylink|Trust (Armada)|Trust}}

Some time after that happened, the boys went on a camping trip, though forgot to tell Alexis about it. Rad tried to catch a fish while the others splashed around in the water, joined by a little boy named Shaun.

That evening, in spite of an earlier forecast for nice weather, a fierce storm blew in. The boys and Autobots tried to get back to base; however, a landslide trapped carlos and Shaun inside Red Alert beneath a huge pile of mud. The other Autobots came to the rescue while Rad and Laserbeak distracted the reporters in the area, and everybody headed back to the Autobot base as soon as Red Alert was dug up. Everybody warped back to the Autobots' base, where Alexis was waiting on tenterhooks. The boys taunted her for being concerned for their lives, leading Alexis to chase Carlos around the corridors {{storylink|Vacation}}.

All five kids were present at the battle in which [[Blurr (Armada)|Blurr]] made his first appearance. They tried to make friends with the new arrival, but he turned out to belong to the monosyllabic loner school of heroism. Carlos and Billy pressed the issue, and nearly got blown up for their troubles. However, Blurr did mellow out a little when his refusal to work as a team led to the Decepticons getting their servos on [[Downshift (Armada)|Downshift]], so it mostly turned out all right. {{storylink|Reinforcement}}

The next day, Blurr and Hot Shot trained together while the kids watched. They also congratuated Smokescreen for succeeding in a test where Hot Shot failed, even though Hot Shot only failed because he was competing with Blurr in addition to trying to dodge the obstacles.

This session was interrupted when Megatron challenged all the Autobots to a final, decisive battle. Due to the danger, the kids were left at the base to watch the proceedings from afar. Megatron would have won if Optimus Prime hadn't managed to get his hands on the Skyboom shield, and when the Star Saber was used against the shield, a mighty light was released which Rad and Alexis recognised as the same one that they had seen whe High Wire was awoken. This light streaked off into space, to awaken [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Decisive Battle}}

Despite this victory, the Optimus Prime decided the situation was too dangerous for the kids and barred them from the base. Frustrated, they wandered off, but were soon joined by the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Street Action Mini-Con Team]], who had received a transmission from the Decepticon-allied Mini-Cons on the Moon. While Rad and Fred went to tell Optimus Prime, the rest of the kids went with the Mini-Cons to the warp gate. Carlos was almost crushed by Megatron's suddent arrival, and then saw the Decepticon leader teleporting away with Rad, Fred, and four of the Autobots. Carlos then accompanied Alexis, Billy, and the Mini-Cons back to the Autobot base to try and establish contact. They did, with the end result that the Autobots gained several new Mini-Cons. {{storylink|Vow}}

After that adventure, the kids were allowed back into the base again, but were no longer taken on missions. As a result, Carlos quickly got bored, while Alexis got stroppy with him and Rad tried to keep the two from each other's throats. Despite not being at the front of the action, the war would still impinge on their lives when Sideways hacked the Autobots' computer system. Despite Rad and Alexis' best efforts, Sideways' virus quickly took control of the base and projected himself into it. Faced with no other options, the trio resorted to physically smashing the terminals, which granted them a brief reprieve.

However, this relief proved to be short-lived when Sideways sucked the minds of the kids as well as their partner Mini-Cons into a cyberspace landscae of his own devising. Rad and Carlos actually enjoyed the lack of gravity in this new realm for a while before Sideways' digital avatar appeared to them and tried to claim their Mini-Cons.

Back at the base, Billy and Fred tried to wake the trio up. Meanwhile, in cyberspace, the kids and Mini-Cons fled Sideways, and discovered that all they saw was just an elaborate illusion. Sideways managed to capture Sureshock, but then Alexis realized that since he had gone to so much effort, he clearly wasn't in control of this illusion - and also that he couldn't really harm them.

At this, Sideways panicked and made a desperate bid to take the Mini-Cons, but the kids' lack of belief in the world they saw put paid to that plan. At that point, a massive force of evil manifested in cyberspace - Unicron, the one entity Sideways feared! The kids fled back to the meatspace through a portal opened by Red Alert, leaving Sideways to his master's mercies. {{storylink|Chase (episode)|Chase}}

When Fred tried to tell the others about strange lights seen recently in space, Carlos just thought he was being silly. All the kids expressed relief when Sideways appeared on the battlefield during the next Mini-Con related skirmish, as this meant he couldn't hack their system again. The Autobots won this battle, bringing [[Prowl (Armada)|Prowl]] into the fold, and the kids were all there to welcome him when they took him back to base. {{Storylink|Tactician}}

In a subsequent battle, Optimus Prime was seriously injured, forcing Jetfire to take command. None of the kids were impressed by the new guy's constant boasting. They also got a brief history lesson on battles the Autobots had lost due to Thrust's tactical genius; while Carlos was confident that Jetfire could easily counter Thrust, the others weren't so sure.

As it turned out, the kids were right about Jetfire, as his overconfidence nearly led to the Autobots losing the next Mini-Con to surface. To his credit, Jetfire was contrite, saying he had learned his lesson and would be more cautious in future. {{storylink|Linkup}}

The next day, the kids watched Jetfire and Smokescreen arm wrestling; Carlos was confused, as Alexis cheered for both. They also filled in Jetfire on what Sideways had gotten up to. Jetfire then displayed his cunning side by showing the kids a photo of Sideways shooting down Cyclonus, which cast doubt on the turncoat's allegiance to the Decepticons. The kids tried to figure out what Sideways' deal was, while the Autobots went to obtain yet another Mini-Con. {{storylink|Detection}}

While the Autobots were dealing with [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]], two Mini-Cons were detected in addition to the one the Transformers were at the time specifically fighting over - one on the Moon, and the other right in the Autobot base! The kids and Street Action Mini-Cons rushed off to look for the one on Earth, locating it when Fred fell through a rotten floor. This Mini-Con revealed itself as [[Sky Blast]] before shooting High Wire and running off. {{storylink|Awakening}} The kids gave chase, and Sky Blast eventually came round, having just been scared. In order to complete the Requiem Blaster, Red Alert took Alexis, Rad, and Carlos to the beach where the factions' main forces were duking it out; while Alexis alerted the other Autobots to the situation, Rad and Carlos sought out [[Payload (Armada)|Payload]].

After some fighting, Sky Blast walked off and played a melody which awoke both Payload on the beach and [[Astroscope]] on the moon; the three Mini-Cons came together and did indeed form the Requiem Blaster, which Optimus Prime obtained and used to obliterate the Decepticons. {{storylink|Desperate}}

In the light of this, the kids became concerned about the rights of the Mini-Cons, and so took the [[Space Mini-Con Team]] out to a remote farmhouse where they could be safe. They were floowed by Thrust, but he got caught in a set of traps the kids had rigged up which allowed Optimus Prime to come by and save the day. After an impassioned discussion as to why the Mini-Cons should not be viewed as mere weapons, the kids and Mini-Cons both returned to base. {{storylink|Runaway}}

All three kids were present when [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]] made his rather eager appearance at the base, but they weren't terribly impressed and went off to play a video game {{storylink|Past}} at which Alexis beat all comers. {{storylink|Past II}}

Later, the kids stayed at the base with Red Alert when the Autobots went out to counter a Decepticon attack. However, this attack proved to be nothing more than a distraction posed by Starscream, while the rest of the 'Cons attacked the Autobot base in search of the Requiem Blaster. The kids ran for hiding before the Autobots warped back, and bore witness to Megatron obtaining the Blaster and using it on Smokescreen, apparently killing him. {{storylink|Sacrifice}} However, things would soon improve somewhat when the Starscream joined the ranks of the Autobots. Though the kids were initially suspicious, they eventually welcomed him when they saw his attendant Mini-Cons genuinely looked up to him. {{storylink|Regeneration}} Despite this display of camaraderie, Starscream dismissed them, as he was only concerned with defeating Megatron. {{storylink|Rescue}} Undeterred, the kids asked Starscream to bring them back a souvenir when he and Jetfire travelled to [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] in search of a Mini-Con panel. In spite of his rude, lone-wolf demeanor, Starscream brought back a mysterious green rock for the kids, thus earning him a place in their hearts. {{storylink|Mars (episode)|Mars}}

In return for his kindness, the kids threw Starscream a surprise party, sewing a large [[Chamois of Friendship]] out of several smaller rags. Starscream was touched by this, but unfortunately abandoned the gift ten minutes later when he was duped into returning to the Decepticons by [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]], ostensibly so as to destroy Megatron. {{storylink|Crack}} Enraged at starscream's betrayal, Carlos and Billy threw their Mars rocks away, while Rad and Alexis tried to calm them down. Carlos then went home to bed.

The next day, all the kids returned to the base to discover the Autobots and their allied Mini-Cons working quickly to complete the ''[[Axalon (Armada)|Axalon]]'' in order to retrieve the Decepticons' Mini-cons. The kids discussed Starscream a bit and decided never to speak of him again. At Fred's suggestion, they all went to see a comet. Not long after that, the Decepticons launched their assault on Earth using the [[Hydra Cannon]]. {{storylink|Threaten}} Rad and Alexis raced back to their friends, and all the kids just kind of stood around wondering what to do. {{storylink|Crisis}}

As it turned out, the Decepticons were thwarted through the [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|noble sacrifice of Optimus Prime]]. The kids all suffered a heartfelt grief.

Over the next week, the Autobots busied themselves with completin the ''Axalon'', but Hot Shot and Scavenger soon came to blows. The kids were confused by this and followed the two to an abandoned highway, where it turned out Scavenger was trying to snap Hot Shot out of his own depression. When the rest of the Autobots joined in abusing Hot Shot, the kids tried to persuade them that bullying their youngest member wouldn't help anything, but were overruled by Red Alert, who insisted that they had to get this out of their system.

After a while of this, Hot Shot did come to terms with Optimus Prime's death, and everybody's morale was raised; it was raised so much so, in fact, that Hot Shot was chosen as the Autobots' new commander. {{storylink|Remorse}}

Under Hot Shot's understandably unsteady command, the ''Axalon'' was soon completed and preparations made to depart for Cybertron. Carlos was particularly looking forward to seeing another planet, and was crushed when Hot Shot told them that he was leaving them on Earth where it was safe. All the kids glumly returned home, but ever hopeful, Carlos packed his bags anyway and. Rad called round the next morning and the lads, along with Alexis, headed for the Autobot base the next morning.

When they arrived, Hot Shot once again insisted that it was too dangerous for them to come along. Upon hearing this, the Mini-Cons collectively rebelled and blocked all the ship's systems, refusing to budge until the kids were allowed on. Hot Shot relented, and the kids and Autobots blasted off into space. {{storylink|Depart}}

During the journey, the kids bore witness to the arrival of thousands of new Mini-Cons and the rebirth of Optimus Prime, {{storylink|Miracle}} the conflict with [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis Prime]], and the Mini-Con powered [[spontaneous recoloration|recoloration]] of several Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|Puppet}}

Following a confrontation with the Decepticons, the Autobots arrived on Cybertron to discover it had already fallen to Galvatron. When the Street Action Mini-Cons led their little buddies to form a shield against Unicron, Carlos jumped out with them, but Blurr saved him from becoming a stain on the ground. The Mini-Cons returned, but soon tried to return to the surface of Cybertron. Carlos objected out of fear for their safety, but Rad and Alexis overruled him, arguing that the Mini-Cons had a right to set foot on their home planet. {{storylink|Uprising}}

At some point, Carlos walked in on Rad in the human-sized shower which the Autobots had installed on the ship for some reason. They talked about how Rad felt like he'd met High Wire before, but Carlos thought that was totally ''loco''. Shortly thereafter, they got a transmission from High Wire that Hot Shot, [[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]], and Starscream were independently chasing Thrust (who had in the meantime allied with Sideways and Unicron) down a suspiciously organic corridor deep beneath Cybertron. The lads went to see Alexis, and the trio then joined up with their partner Mini-Cons to plunge deep into the heart of Cybertron.

They came across Starscream standing off against Thrust in a chamber. Thrust seized the opportunity and threatened the kids with the Requiem Blaster, and so Starscream, remembering their earlier kindness, bravely threw himself into the path of the blast, saving them. At that point, time warped and the kids found themselves millions of years in the past, in an [[Splinter timeline|alternate timeline]]. They encountered Hot Shot, apprently being molested by creepy tentacles; Hot Shot revealed that the Mini-Cons had been created by Unicron, and the Transformers' use of them had led to the downfall of the entire race.

With that happy thought, the kids were sent back even further in time, where they witnessed the first Mini-Cons being spawned. Among these were High Wire, Sureshock, and Grindor, but they didn't recognise the kids. Rad grabbed High Wire, and the little robot imprinted in some way on the little human. High Wire gained both free will and a somewhat childish disposition, which then spread telepathically among all the other Mini-Cons. Rad urged the Mini-Cons to leave Cybertron and go to Earth, thus creating a temporal paradox.

Finally, the kids were warped back to a few seconds back before Thrust killed Starscream, allowing the Mini-Cons to combine into Perceptor and knock Thrust's aim off. Thrust's blast was redirected towards the ceiling Starscream was saved. However, the ceiling then collapsed, but Starscream used his own body to shield the kids while Thrust flew off. At that point, Hot Shot and Wheeljack arrived. {{storylink|Drift (episode)|Drift}} They explained the situation, and the fact that Starscream had saved them. Hot Shot ordered them to return to the ''Axalon'', but the kids managed to persuade him to let them tag along. The kids and carbots sped along behind Starscream, following him through a portal to an organic-looking area where Thrust and Sideways were waiting.

The team continued to explore the tunnels, and the various organic... things soon seperated Alexis and Starscream from the rest. Rad, Carlos, and the Mini-Cons and carbots made it to the surface without any major incidents, where they met up with Alexis and Starscream again. Then, they made two shocking discoveries in quick succession. First, the organic tunnels they had been exploring were actually the interior of one of Cybertron's moon. Second, that moon wasn't actually a moon, but the dormant body of Unicron. Unicron chose that moment to awaken, and Jetfire arrived just in time to take the kids to safety. {{storylink|Portent}}

Carlos was present when Alexis' [[Good Luck Necklace|necklace]] broke upon Starscream's death {{storylink|Cramp}}, and also attended the meeting at which the Autobots and Decepticons established a temporary truce to deal with the chaos bringer, where he was visibly concerned for Alexis {{storylink|Alliance (episode)|Alliance}}.

When Optimus Prime and Galvatron managed to sneak inside Unicron, the Street Action Mini-Cons decided the follow, and the trio tagged along as well to help in any way they could. {{storylink|Union}} They found the two leaders restrained by Unicron's tentacles, with Unicron trying to verbally break Optimus Prime through Sideways' vocal synthesiser. Unicron destroyed the Mini-Cons' human-derived personalities, restoring them to blank drones, and then dragged the kids into a bizarre mindscape. However, the kids' mental fortitude was strong enough not only to break Unicron's thrall over them, but also to restore the individual personalities of the Mini-Cons. The kids and Mini-Cons then managed to release the weapons, allowing Optimus Prime to blow up Sideways with the Requiem Blaster.

However, on the way out, Galvatron challenged Optimus Prime to a final battle, {{storylink|Origin}} on the grounds that as long as both of them still existed, the hatred and enmity would last forever and thus Unicron would never be permanently defeated. The kids fled, and were picked up by Jetfire and Cyclonus on Unicron's surface. Optimus Prime won the battle, and Unicron and Galvatron were both (apparently) destroyed.

Hot Shot and Jetfire returned the kids to Earth, where they said tearful (but temporary) goodbyes. Carlos was particularly upset, actually breaking into tears. {{storylink|Mortal Combat}}

====''Energon'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Matt Hill]] (English), [[Junichi Endō]] (Japanese), [[Leo Hallerstam]] (Swedish), [[Yoan Sover]] (French)

In 2020, Carlos was posted on the Earth Federation's space station orbiting [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. During a surprise attack by [[Alpha Quintesson]]'s [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]], he uttered the immortal phrase '''"[[Frijole|Holy frijoles]]"''', thus proving he isn't a horrible ethnic stereotype. Later, [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] inquired about the attack, but Carlos was unable to provide any additional information. {{storylink|Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City}} He continued scanning for [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] and [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]], but after many grid searches he came up fruitless. Instead he found a comet that miraculously disappeared, which caused him to invoke the [[frijole|holy frijoles]] again. {{storylink|Scorpinok}}

Some time later, he detected the resurrected Starscream approaching [[Asteroid City]] and warned the Autobots. {{storylink|Battle of the Asteroid Belt}} He also detected three mysterious comets (actually lumps of Unicron) speeding towards Earth, and as usual, warned everybody about them. {{storylink|Energon Grid}} The comets were destroyed, and in the aftermath Hot Shot tried to contact him regarding any other potential threats, but was cut off by an emergency transmission from [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]]. {{storylink|Rodimus: Friend or Foe?}}

Carlos then tracked a couple of Terrorcons that [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] had previously tagged, triangulating them to Unicron's head and body. {{storylink|Go for Unicron!}}

He wouldn't get involved with Transformers again for another ten years.

====''Cybertron'' cartoon====
[[Image:CybertronArmadaKids.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Apparently Carlos wants to be the next Ricardo Montalbán.]]
In 2030, Carlos and his friends were present when the Autobots departed Earth to begin construction of a galaxy-spanning [[space bridge]] network. {{storylink|Beginning}}
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===Dreamwave comics continuity===
====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====
Under the codename "Agent Sidekick" (assigned to him by Rad), Carlos put his mechanic skills to use on [[Project Supernova]], an aircraft made up of cardboard and balloons. On the launch day, the vehicle successfully took flight, but soon crashed due to sabotaged by bullies [[Sid and Seth]]. Carlos tried to cheer his friends up by saying they could build a new Project Supernova, any plans of that were postponed when Rad accidentally fell into a cave and awakened four [[Mini-Con]]s. Confused as to what to do, the kids brought the alien robots to Rad's garage, where Carlos awkwardly presented them with his toolbox so they could repair themselves. This brought the rage of Alexis down on him, but he still agreed with Rad that the visitors from space were really cool. The following morning, the Mini-Cons had not only repaired themselves, but made a new and improved version of Project Supernova. They offered to take Carlos and his friends for a ride, which they gladly agreed to. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 3}} Unfortunately, their new Mini-Con friends were targeted for capture by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], and the kids found themselves dragged into the [[Transformer]]s' war. An argument broke out between Rad and Alexis, but Carlos broke it up and pointed out that it wasn't just about them: by keeping the Mini-Con around, they were endangering everyone they knew. They ended up trying to escape, with Carlos fleeing on [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]]'s bike mode, and ran into several [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 4}}

Carlos and the others watched the Autobots and Decepticons for a while before sneaking off and almost getting killed by [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]]. In the end, the Decepticons were chased off, and the kids were introduced to [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 5}} Unfortunately, their newfound friendship with the alien robots didn't last. While Carlos was watching Rad skate (and lose his board) one day, Optimus Prime approached them and explained that the humans could no longer get involved with the Transformers' war, for their own safety. Carlos was angry that their Mini-Con friends didn't get a say in things, but Prime didn't budge. However, [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] disobeyed his orders and took the humans with him during a mission to infiltrate the Decepticon base in [[Silver Ridge]]. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 6}} When they weren't back in thirty minutes, Carlos and the others did as they were told and called for help, which arrived in the form of the [[Land Military Mini-Con Team]]. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 7}}

Later, when Rad was being bullied by [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] after school, Carlos tried to help him but was hindered by [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]]. The bullies were chased off by their friends on the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Street Action Mini-Con Team]], but while the kids were riding around on the Mini-Cons, they suddenly turned unresponsive and started speeding off towards [[Kansas]]. Carlos and the others were unable to get off until the Mini-Cons stopped, which they did near a [[Mini-Con Ark|strange monolith]]. Rad ended up entering the structure alongside the Mini-Cons, and Carlos and Alexis could only watch as it blasted off into space with their friend onboard. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 8}} Optimus Prime explained to them that Rad and the Earth Mini-Cons had apparently been taken to the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] by another group of Mini-Cons. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 9}} Prime got a gunship travel to the moon with, but refused to endanger Carlos and Alexis by letting them come. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 10}} However, [[simulcrum]] technology allowed them to be onboard the ship in the form of holograms, which was almost like being there yourself. They watched Optimus Prime let [[Sky Blast]] tow an orbital mine into the ship: a mine that turned out to contain Rad! {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 11}}

Much later, Carlos, Rad and Alexis said their goodbyes to the Autobots and Mini-Cons, who had to return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] for the fight against [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|The End}}

====''Energon'' comic====
Ten years after their adventures with the Transformers, Carlos and Rad both worked for [[Alterenergy]], a company in search of [[Energon (Energon)|Energon]]. Carlos worked on the space station Comsat Alpha, from which he watched the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons']] attack on an Alterenergy excavation site in [[Australia]]. He recognized the attackers as Transformers, and reported this to Rad and [[Brian Jones (Energon)|Doctor Jones]] on Earth. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath}} Carlos sent distress calls to Cybertron while continuing to monitor the situation, and learned that the Terrorcons had captured Alexis, who had coincidentally been in the vicinity of the attack. He then acted as mission control for Rad, who had gotten to the excavation site and was trying to rescue both Alexis and [[Kicker Jones]]. While Rad immediately got himself into trouble with [[Battle Ravage]], Carlos saved him and Alexis by remotely ramming a vehicle into a nearby Energon stockpile, detonating it. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Three}} Rad and Alexis were okay, but Carlos couldn't send an evacuation vehicle their way because of Alterenergy Mobile Command wasn't responding. He did, however, tell them that the Autobots were heading their way. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Four}}

By the time the Terrorcons began attacking four major Earth cities, Carlos was stationed at Alterenergy West Coast, where he prepared the [[Energon Volant Accumulator|E.V.A.]] for Rad's use. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 3}} As Rad flew out in the E.V.A. to "bring Energon to the needy", Carlos watched him from afar and explained to a curious Alexis what the E.V.A. was. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 4}}

===Panini ''Armada'' comic===
When Rad found the ruins of an old [[Exodus (Armada)|spaceship]] in a cave, Carlos came with him to check it out (and was very impressed). They accidentally stumbled into a computer terminal when [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] caused a rockfall outside, which led to the activation of the [[Mini-Con]]s. The first one they met was [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]], but before he could even learn proper English, he was attacked by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]. While Megatron was distracted by [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], High Wire grabbed Carlos, Rad and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] and took them to the other Mini-Cons. {{storylink|First Encounter!}} However, Rad was disgusted to hear that the Mini-Cons were unwilling to help Optimus fight Megatron, and decided to take matters into his own hands. Carlos wasn't so sure it was a good idea, but followed anyway. While Rad tried to negotiate with Megatron, Carlos made his way back into the caves in search of more Mini-Cons to help them. He didn't find any, but the time he returned, the other Mini-Cons had changed their minds and driven Megatron off anyway. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 2|Friends and Foes!}}

However, Carlos had managed to find the crashed ship's [[locator log]], and he and his friends were sent back to retrieve it alongside the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Street Action Team]]. Carlos led the expedition into the caves and found the log, but they soon found themselves under attack from [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]]. They got away thanks to some quick thinking on Rad's side, but the locator log was destroyed in the process. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 2|Deep Trouble!}} After a slow day at school, Carlos went skating with some buddies at the local mall. Unfortunately for him, [[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] wanted to help him, and replaced his skateboard with his own rocket-powered skateboard mode. The ensuing crazy looping, grinding and flying was not well received by Carlos, who feared having to explain it all to the other skaters. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 3|Just a Memory!}}

Later, Carlos was present when the Autobots tried to send the Mini-Cons back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and thought it was a bad idea since the Autobots would be wiped out without their Mini-Con power-ups. Thankfully, the plans fell through and the Mini-Cons remained on Earth. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 4|No Way Back!}} Carlos was using Grindor to race with his friends when they were suddenly attacked by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], out to capture the Street Action Team. While the three Mini-Cons defended themselves in the form of [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]], their human friends fetched Optimus Prime to help them. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 7|The Two-Edged Blade}} Shortly afterwards, Carlos, Rad and Alexis helped [[Amos Hume]] rescue the [[Land Military Mini-Con Team]] from the [[Extra-Terrestrial Response Division]]. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 7|Sale of the Century!}}

===Something Robotic This Way Comes===
One [[Halloween]], after explaining the holiday to their [[Mini-Con]]s, Carlos, Alexis and Rad decided to give a practical demonstration. Carlos donned the Mini-Con costume he'd been building for the last several weeks, and they all went out Trick-or-Treating. {{storylink|Something Robotic This Way Comes}}

===Bendon ''Armada'' books===
Rad, Carlos, and Alexis talked Optimus Prime into letting them explore some nearby caves in the hopes of finding other Mini-Cons, claiming that he and Carlos had already explored a few of them in the past. The trio succeeded in finding a crystal, but had to be saved by Hot Shot after a surprise Decepticon attack caused a landslide. {{storylink|Cave Catastrophe}}

In another adventure, Carlos talked Rad into joining him for a Mini-Con race, to which Alexis invited herself. They foolishly left themselves out in the open, allowing Megatron to attack. Fortunately for them (your mileage may vary), Optimus and Hot Shot were there to save them yet again. {{storylink|Race to Disaster}}

==Notes==
* According to the now-defunct TV Tokyo ''Micron Densetsu'' website, Carlos was 12 years old at the start of ''Armada''. The page also stated that he is good at sports, loves rap and skateboarding, and has been friends with Rad since kindergarten.

* According to the ''[[Unicron Trilogy guidebooks|Transformers Armada Official Guidebook]]'', Carlos was ten years old at the start of ''Armada''. It also specified that he enjoyed hip-hop, and that while he was not a great student, he was an excellent mechanic. Although this particular bit of his character didn't make it into the animated series, it was an important part of his role in the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] comics.

*When startled, Carlos invokes the holy [[Frijole]]s.

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Thank you, Derik.

Bwahaha. --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 21:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, my beans! [[User:Inferno'sQueen|Inferno'sQueen]] 19:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
:Sometimes simplicity is funnier. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:55, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, people. ''Why the heck does this page even exist?'' [[User:ShinkisRule|ShinkisRule]] 18:36, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
:Because it amuses us. Things that amuse us get to stay. Things that annoy us, not so much. ([[The Beast Within|Unless they're canon.]]) [[User:JW|JW]] 18:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

So that's why Krem gets banned. especially because of that whole "walky is a doodoohead" thing. HE HAS SAVED THE TEXT AS A WORD DOCUMENT. THAT PAGE '''WILL''' COME BACK TO HAUNT [[User:ItsWalky|YOU]]. [[User:ShinkisRule|ShinkisRule]] 21:18, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

But I will admit, I laughed. Come on, you did, too. [[User:ShinkisRule|ShinkisRule]] 21:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't this technically be at [[Frijole]]s? I don't think there's actually any canon evidence that ''a'' Frijole is a meaningful concept. --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 14:32, 31 August 2010 (EDT)

WINsauseXD [[Special:Contributions/24.185.70.0|24.185.70.0]] 22:39, 15 March 2011 (EDT)

Lucy Suzuki

2010-11-22T01:23:17Z

24.185.70.0: /* Cybertron cartoon */

:''Lucy Suzuki is a [[human]] from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Cyb ep25 gigiddy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Hello, Ms. Suzuki, I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC, would you take a seat plea-''Oh my god, get your hands off [[Coby Hansen|my son]]!''"]]

Doctor '''Lucy Suzuki''' is a scientist who believes that the [[Earth]] is [[wikipedia:Hollow Earth|hollow]] and inhabited by aliens and that there's another [[Sun]] inside, and also that numerous ancient artifacts are evidence of extraterrestrial life. She dismisses her countless detractors as closed-minded fools who need to adopt the mind of a child and believe just a little bit harder.

Because this is ''Transformers'', it turns out that she's kinda almost right, in the sense that there's a hole full of aliens right where she says there is. It's just kind of a cave though, nothing too special except for the massive Decepticon army inside it.

So, yeah, she's a bit of a crackpot. She's a cheerful, generally likable crackpot though, and the Autobots warm up to her for it.

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tabitha St. Germain]] (English), [[Machiko Toyoshima]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Cyb ep14 kids meet suzuki.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]

After spilling a cup of orange drink in her office one day, Dr. Suzuki went to get some paper towels to clean up the mess, and was surprised to discover a [[Bud Hansen]] and [[Lori]]<s> making out </s> hiding in the supply closet. Rather than berating them or calling security, she decided to show the kids her collection of strange artifacts, one of which turned out to be an object the pair had been sent to search for by [[Vector Prime]]. Having confirmed the object, and with Bud having almost blurted out the truth about Transformers, the pair left hurriedly; as Lucy was about to stop them to ask what the fuss was all about, she was informed by her secretary that someone from the government was there to see her {{storylink|Race}}.

That someone turned out to be [[Colonel Franklin]], who was investigating the Transformers' activities on Earth and whose attention had been caught by Lucy and her theories on aliens. A short time later, when the [[Autobot]]s' activation of the [[Omega Lock]] caused an atmospheric disturbance on Earth centred on the North Pole, Lucy was invited by Franklin to be part of a conference of scientists investigating the matter. While picking up supplies for the trip at a store in Alaska, Lucy ran into Bud and Lori again, this time joined by [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], and offered them a helping hand by buying them some parkas, since they had forgotten to pack warm clothes. In exchange for her kindness, Lucy recruited the trio to assist in her experiments. Suspecting the youngsters might know something about [[alien]]s, she tried to coax some information out of them and presented her belief in the Hollow Earth theory to them, but only got a few meaningless names. Still, she was impressed enough with their willingness not to dismiss her crackpot notions out of hand to forego the conference and instead take them to a hot spring.

[[Image:Cyb_ep19_hotspring.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Not a [[Kiss Players]] refrence ]]

Fortunately, she would soon get her wish to meet an alien when the four were attacked by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]]. After the Decepticons were fought off, the kids formally introduced Lucy to [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], much to her joy {{storylink|Ice}}.

After the kids returned to Colorado, Lucy carried on into the Arctic and met up with an archeological team. They managed to dig up another [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|robot]], which immediately scanned her car before absconding {{storylink|Trust (Cybertron)|Trust}}. While hurrying back to her lab to analyse the data she'd collected, she found herself stuck behind a roadblock set up by Col. Franklin, who greeted her with surprising warmth {{storylink|Trap}}.

Franklin realised Lucy knew something about the [[Ancient Decepticon|mysterious robots]] that had just launched an attack, and so took her back to his base to pick her brain. Lucy, however, didn't trust him, and refused to divulge what she knew unless he let her see his classified documents, which was an obvious no-no. Based on recent events, Lucy began to fear that the Autobots were just pretending to be the good guys, and were actually bent on world domination {{storylink|Invasion}}.

However, she decided to take a chance, and freed the Mini-Cons that had been taken captive by Franklin. The quartet then went on to rescue the also-captive Coby, Lori, and Bud, leaving their parents shocked and confused.

Fleeing the government agents, the group ran into Hot Shot and Landmine, who were out searching for them. They all returned to the Autobot base, where Lucy drew some flak upon the kids for bringing in an outsider. However, the kids defended her, and the Autobots quickly decided that Starscream's rampage across the world was more deserving of attention.

Shortly afterwards, the Starscream tore through the Autobot forces single-handedly, but was defeated by Optimus Prime and Leobreaker's Savage Claw Mode. As a result, Lucy found herself facing the business end of one of Starscream's missiles but was saved by Optimus Prime. Unfortunately, this allowed Starscream to claim the Omega Lock and the three Cyber Planet Keys that had thus far been located {{storylink|Retreat}}.

Still, there were no hard feelings, and Lucy pledged her support to the Autobots. She and Col. Franklin accompanied the kids and Mini-Cons when Megatron and his team returned to Earth and started causing trouble {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}}, and she then accompanied them to Franklin's base {{storylink|Critical}}.

Later on, she got a call from Lori, who had just returned to Earth from Cybertron and wanted Lucy and Col. Franklin to persuade her and Coby's parents to let them go off to [[Gigantion]]. Lucy gave Franklin a call, and they both arrived at the Hansens' house that evening. To Lori's dismay, they both argued that this simply wouldn't be safe; however, they were quickly overridden by Optimus Prime, Vector Prime, and Landmine, who all appeared and argued in the kids' favor. The pair then watched the Autobots and kids riding off on the [[space bridge]] {{storylink|Family}}. They later observed the Primus' efforts to contain the Unicron Singularity from the Autobots' base {{storylink|Challenge}}.

She was present when Franklin alerted the Autobots to catastrophic events on Earth and co-ordinated rescue efforts by the civilian Autobots {{storylink|Homecoming (episode)|Homecoming}}. After that, they waited and watched for the Autobots to win {{storylink|End}}.

As she was boarding one of the starships ships bound for deep space to build the [[space bridge]] network, Dr. Suzuki proposed to a very flustered [[Colonel Franklin|Mike Franklin]]. Years later, they had a baby and were present for [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] and [[Lori]]'s wedding. {{Storylink|Beginning}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Lucy}}
[[Category: Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category: Cybertron characters]]
[[Category: Humans]]
[[Category: Scientists]]

King

2010-11-22T01:20:16Z

24.185.70.0: /* Notes */

{{factions|{{factions/icons|custom=Burger-king.jpg|cSize=30px|cLink=Burger King}}}}
{{disambig2|the Cybertronian that burns inside with flame-broiling deliciousness|the Cybertronian that burns inside with universe-destroying evil|The Fallen}}
{{disambig3|King}}
:''The King is an unaffiliated [[Transformer]] from the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' portion of the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:RotF Transform Your Way Promo King.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Arrrr, that'll replace the [[Orcanoch|whale]] in me nightmares.]]

After crashing to Earth 55 years ago, the '''King''' scanned a broiler for his [[alternate mode]] and became [[Burger King]]'s Flame-Broiling Culinary Engineer. Despite having a "Conversation" [[Tech Spec]] rank of 0, he somehow revealed his burgering secrets to the Burger King scientists, and stayed hidden on Earth for decades, waiting for the arrival of his fellow Transformers from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. It is possible that the King is the mastermind behind the [[BBQ Double Stackticon]]!

The King is frightening as all hell.

{{quote|The Transformers? They've been here a long, ''long'' time.|[[Seymour Simmons]]|[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]}}

==Fiction==
===Transform Your Way television commercials===
When a lucky customer who had just left a Burger King proclaimed that he had a winning Transform Your Way scratch-off ticket, King dutifully transformed into robot mode and burst through the restaurant's wall to deliver the prize: a pallet bearing one million dollars in cash. The bespectacled winner was quite pleased with this development. The restaurant's manager was not. He emerged from the massive hole King had just made to declare that a million dollars was about how much it would take to fix this mess, to which King simply shrugged in response. The manager further informed King that this time outside of his normal duties counted as his break. King seemed quite dejected to hear this.

In a similar incident, another customer had also won a million dollars, but his associate remained unconvinced until King once again transformed and burst through the restaurant's wall and conveniently found an armored car in mid-travel, halting it and ejecting its rear doors with a single strike from his mighty fist. After noting that the bills that ejected from the rear door were not a million dollars, King proceeded to tip the rest of the car's contents onto the ground. The customer's associate remarked amazingly that the customer had even won a security guard that had spilled out along with an undetermined amount of cash.

==Tech Specs==
[[Image:RotF Burger King Broiler-bot by Josh Nizzi.jpg|thumb|right|Put it in me, Scott.]]

*'''Strength''': 8
*'''Speed''': 6
*'''Regalness''': 10
*'''Conversation''': 0
*'''Creepiness''': 7.5
*'''Heat''': 10
*'''Stealth''': 2
*'''Balance''': 1
{{--}}

==Notes==
* Burger King itself was also established 55 years ago, so it is likely that it was the culinary technology the King shared that allowed the fast food chain to get off the ground.
* King was designed by [[Josh Nizzi]], just like the robots in the film itself.
* He look nothing like [[Jetfire(ROTF)|jetfire]]

[[Category: Engineers]]
[[Category: Fiction-only characters]]
[[Category:Kings]]
[[Category: Revenge of the Fallen characters]]
[[Category: Transformers]]

Lucy Suzuki

2010-11-22T01:17:59Z

24.185.70.0: /* Cybertron cartoon */

:''Lucy Suzuki is a [[human]] from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Cyb ep25 gigiddy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Hello, Ms. Suzuki, I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC, would you take a seat plea-''Oh my god, get your hands off [[Coby Hansen|my son]]!''"]]

Doctor '''Lucy Suzuki''' is a scientist who believes that the [[Earth]] is [[wikipedia:Hollow Earth|hollow]] and inhabited by aliens and that there's another [[Sun]] inside, and also that numerous ancient artifacts are evidence of extraterrestrial life. She dismisses her countless detractors as closed-minded fools who need to adopt the mind of a child and believe just a little bit harder.

Because this is ''Transformers'', it turns out that she's kinda almost right, in the sense that there's a hole full of aliens right where she says there is. It's just kind of a cave though, nothing too special except for the massive Decepticon army inside it.

So, yeah, she's a bit of a crackpot. She's a cheerful, generally likable crackpot though, and the Autobots warm up to her for it.

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tabitha St. Germain]] (English), [[Machiko Toyoshima]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Cyb ep14 kids meet suzuki.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]

After spilling a cup of orange drink in her office one day, Dr. Suzuki went to get some paper towels to clean up the mess, and was surprised to discover a [[Bud Hansen]] and [[Lori]]<s> making out </s> hiding in the supply closet. Rather than berating them or calling security, she decided to show the kids her collection of strange artifacts, one of which turned out to be an object the pair had been sent to search for by [[Vector Prime]]. Having confirmed the object, and with Bud having almost blurted out the truth about Transformers, the pair left hurriedly; as Lucy was about to stop them to ask what the fuss was all about, she was informed by her secretary that someone from the government was there to see her {{storylink|Race}}.

That someone turned out to be [[Colonel Franklin]], who was investigating the Transformers' activities on Earth and whose attention had been caught by Lucy and her theories on aliens. A short time later, when the [[Autobot]]s' activation of the [[Omega Lock]] caused an atmospheric disturbance on Earth centred on the North Pole, Lucy was invited by Franklin to be part of a conference of scientists investigating the matter. While picking up supplies for the trip at a store in Alaska, Lucy ran into Bud and Lori again, this time joined by [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], and offered them a helping hand by buying them some parkas, since they had forgotten to pack warm clothes. In exchange for her kindness, Lucy recruited the trio to assist in her experiments. Suspecting the youngsters might know something about [[alien]]s, she tried to coax some information out of them and presented her belief in the Hollow Earth theory to them, but only got a few meaningless names. Still, she was impressed enough with their willingness not to dismiss her crackpot notions out of hand to forego the conference and instead take them to a hot spring.

[[Image:Cyb_ep19_hotspring.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Insert [[kiss players|slashfic]] comment here.]]

Fortunately, she would soon get her wish to meet an alien when the four were attacked by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]]. After the Decepticons were fought off, the kids formally introduced Lucy to [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], much to her joy {{storylink|Ice}}.

After the kids returned to Colorado, Lucy carried on into the Arctic and met up with an archeological team. They managed to dig up another [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|robot]], which immediately scanned her car before absconding {{storylink|Trust (Cybertron)|Trust}}. While hurrying back to her lab to analyse the data she'd collected, she found herself stuck behind a roadblock set up by Col. Franklin, who greeted her with surprising warmth {{storylink|Trap}}.

Franklin realised Lucy knew something about the [[Ancient Decepticon|mysterious robots]] that had just launched an attack, and so took her back to his base to pick her brain. Lucy, however, didn't trust him, and refused to divulge what she knew unless he let her see his classified documents, which was an obvious no-no. Based on recent events, Lucy began to fear that the Autobots were just pretending to be the good guys, and were actually bent on world domination {{storylink|Invasion}}.

However, she decided to take a chance, and freed the Mini-Cons that had been taken captive by Franklin. The quartet then went on to rescue the also-captive Coby, Lori, and Bud, leaving their parents shocked and confused.

Fleeing the government agents, the group ran into Hot Shot and Landmine, who were out searching for them. They all returned to the Autobot base, where Lucy drew some flak upon the kids for bringing in an outsider. However, the kids defended her, and the Autobots quickly decided that Starscream's rampage across the world was more deserving of attention.

Shortly afterwards, the Starscream tore through the Autobot forces single-handedly, but was defeated by Optimus Prime and Leobreaker's Savage Claw Mode. As a result, Lucy found herself facing the business end of one of Starscream's missiles but was saved by Optimus Prime. Unfortunately, this allowed Starscream to claim the Omega Lock and the three Cyber Planet Keys that had thus far been located {{storylink|Retreat}}.

Still, there were no hard feelings, and Lucy pledged her support to the Autobots. She and Col. Franklin accompanied the kids and Mini-Cons when Megatron and his team returned to Earth and started causing trouble {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}}, and she then accompanied them to Franklin's base {{storylink|Critical}}.

Later on, she got a call from Lori, who had just returned to Earth from Cybertron and wanted Lucy and Col. Franklin to persuade her and Coby's parents to let them go off to [[Gigantion]]. Lucy gave Franklin a call, and they both arrived at the Hansens' house that evening. To Lori's dismay, they both argued that this simply wouldn't be safe; however, they were quickly overridden by Optimus Prime, Vector Prime, and Landmine, who all appeared and argued in the kids' favor. The pair then watched the Autobots and kids riding off on the [[space bridge]] {{storylink|Family}}. They later observed the Primus' efforts to contain the Unicron Singularity from the Autobots' base {{storylink|Challenge}}.

She was present when Franklin alerted the Autobots to catastrophic events on Earth and co-ordinated rescue efforts by the civilian Autobots {{storylink|Homecoming (episode)|Homecoming}}. After that, they waited and watched for the Autobots to win {{storylink|End}}.

As she was boarding one of the starships ships bound for deep space to build the [[space bridge]] network, Dr. Suzuki proposed to a very flustered [[Colonel Franklin|Mike Franklin]]. Years later, they had a baby and were present for [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] and [[Lori]]'s wedding. {{Storylink|Beginning}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Lucy}}
[[Category: Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category: Cybertron characters]]
[[Category: Humans]]
[[Category: Scientists]]

Lucy Suzuki

2010-11-22T01:17:06Z

24.185.70.0: /* Cybertron cartoon */

:''Lucy Suzuki is a [[human]] from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Cyb ep25 gigiddy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Hello, Ms. Suzuki, I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC, would you take a seat plea-''Oh my god, get your hands off [[Coby Hansen|my son]]!''"]]

Doctor '''Lucy Suzuki''' is a scientist who believes that the [[Earth]] is [[wikipedia:Hollow Earth|hollow]] and inhabited by aliens and that there's another [[Sun]] inside, and also that numerous ancient artifacts are evidence of extraterrestrial life. She dismisses her countless detractors as closed-minded fools who need to adopt the mind of a child and believe just a little bit harder.

Because this is ''Transformers'', it turns out that she's kinda almost right, in the sense that there's a hole full of aliens right where she says there is. It's just kind of a cave though, nothing too special except for the massive Decepticon army inside it.

So, yeah, she's a bit of a crackpot. She's a cheerful, generally likable crackpot though, and the Autobots warm up to her for it.

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tabitha St. Germain]] (English), [[Machiko Toyoshima]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Cyb ep14 kids meet suzuki.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]

After spilling a cup of orange drink in her office one day, Dr. Suzuki went to get some paper towels to clean up the mess, and was surprised to discover a [[Bud Hansen]] and [[Lori]]<s> making out </s> hiding in the supply closet. Rather than berating them or calling security, she decided to show the kids her collection of strange artifacts, one of which turned out to be an object the pair had been sent to search for by [[Vector Prime]]. Having confirmed the object, and with Bud having almost blurted out the truth about Transformers, the pair left hurriedly; as Lucy was about to stop them to ask what the fuss was all about, she was informed by her secretary that someone from the government was there to see her {{storylink|Race}}.

That someone turned out to be [[Colonel Franklin]], who was investigating the Transformers' activities on Earth and whose attention had been caught by Lucy and her theories on aliens. A short time later, when the [[Autobot]]s' activation of the [[Omega Lock]] caused an atmospheric disturbance on Earth centred on the North Pole, Lucy was invited by Franklin to be part of a conference of scientists investigating the matter. While picking up supplies for the trip at a store in Alaska, Lucy ran into Bud and Lori again, this time joined by [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], and offered them a helping hand by buying them some parkas, since they had forgotten to pack warm clothes. In exchange for her kindness, Lucy recruited the trio to assist in her experiments. Suspecting the youngsters might know something about [[alien]]s, she tried to coax some information out of them and presented her belief in the Hollow Earth theory to them, but only got a few meaningless names. Still, she was impressed enough with their willingness not to dismiss her crackpot notions out of hand to forego the conference and instead take them to a hot spring.

[[Image:Cyb_ep19_hotspring.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Insert [[slashfic|kiss players]] comment here.]]

Fortunately, she would soon get her wish to meet an alien when the four were attacked by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]]. After the Decepticons were fought off, the kids formally introduced Lucy to [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], much to her joy {{storylink|Ice}}.

After the kids returned to Colorado, Lucy carried on into the Arctic and met up with an archeological team. They managed to dig up another [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|robot]], which immediately scanned her car before absconding {{storylink|Trust (Cybertron)|Trust}}. While hurrying back to her lab to analyse the data she'd collected, she found herself stuck behind a roadblock set up by Col. Franklin, who greeted her with surprising warmth {{storylink|Trap}}.

Franklin realised Lucy knew something about the [[Ancient Decepticon|mysterious robots]] that had just launched an attack, and so took her back to his base to pick her brain. Lucy, however, didn't trust him, and refused to divulge what she knew unless he let her see his classified documents, which was an obvious no-no. Based on recent events, Lucy began to fear that the Autobots were just pretending to be the good guys, and were actually bent on world domination {{storylink|Invasion}}.

However, she decided to take a chance, and freed the Mini-Cons that had been taken captive by Franklin. The quartet then went on to rescue the also-captive Coby, Lori, and Bud, leaving their parents shocked and confused.

Fleeing the government agents, the group ran into Hot Shot and Landmine, who were out searching for them. They all returned to the Autobot base, where Lucy drew some flak upon the kids for bringing in an outsider. However, the kids defended her, and the Autobots quickly decided that Starscream's rampage across the world was more deserving of attention.

Shortly afterwards, the Starscream tore through the Autobot forces single-handedly, but was defeated by Optimus Prime and Leobreaker's Savage Claw Mode. As a result, Lucy found herself facing the business end of one of Starscream's missiles but was saved by Optimus Prime. Unfortunately, this allowed Starscream to claim the Omega Lock and the three Cyber Planet Keys that had thus far been located {{storylink|Retreat}}.

Still, there were no hard feelings, and Lucy pledged her support to the Autobots. She and Col. Franklin accompanied the kids and Mini-Cons when Megatron and his team returned to Earth and started causing trouble {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}}, and she then accompanied them to Franklin's base {{storylink|Critical}}.

Later on, she got a call from Lori, who had just returned to Earth from Cybertron and wanted Lucy and Col. Franklin to persuade her and Coby's parents to let them go off to [[Gigantion]]. Lucy gave Franklin a call, and they both arrived at the Hansens' house that evening. To Lori's dismay, they both argued that this simply wouldn't be safe; however, they were quickly overridden by Optimus Prime, Vector Prime, and Landmine, who all appeared and argued in the kids' favor. The pair then watched the Autobots and kids riding off on the [[space bridge]] {{storylink|Family}}. They later observed the Primus' efforts to contain the Unicron Singularity from the Autobots' base {{storylink|Challenge}}.

She was present when Franklin alerted the Autobots to catastrophic events on Earth and co-ordinated rescue efforts by the civilian Autobots {{storylink|Homecoming (episode)|Homecoming}}. After that, they waited and watched for the Autobots to win {{storylink|End}}.

As she was boarding one of the starships ships bound for deep space to build the [[space bridge]] network, Dr. Suzuki proposed to a very flustered [[Colonel Franklin|Mike Franklin]]. Years later, they had a baby and were present for [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] and [[Lori]]'s wedding. {{Storylink|Beginning}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Lucy}}
[[Category: Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category: Cybertron characters]]
[[Category: Humans]]
[[Category: Scientists]]

Bud Hansen

2010-11-22T01:05:00Z

24.185.70.0: /* Cybertron cartoon */

{{picsneeded|Early alternate model, fiction (once that's filled)}}
{{disambig2|the kid from [[Cybertron (franchise)|''Cybertron'']]|the beer-drinking driller from the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] comics|Bud}}
:''Bud Hansen is a [[human]] from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|''Cybertron'']] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Budhansen.jpg|right|250px|thumb|You kiss in my story.]]
'''Bud Hansen''', [[Tim Hansen|Tim]] and [[Coby Hansen|Coby]]'s younger brother, is a young boy, with all the exuberance and naivete that comes with. Though he's far from stupid, his imagination rules him. A fan of bad sci-fi movies and the ''[[Galactic Guardians]]'', he doesn't just want to be a movie director when he grows up—he wants to be a movie director ''now''. As such, he has a quirky flair for drama, though it's tempered by a sense of fair play.

Despite his years, Bud is able to be surprisingly mature and even somewhat wise when he has to be. This doesn't keep him from getting himself and the more foolish of his robot friends into some rather bad situations (like [[Space|unprotected orbital reentry]]). Fortunately (or unfortunately), the Transformers don't seem to know enough about [[human]] development to apply the necessary butt-whuppins to prevent these minor disasters.

With his brother and their friend [[Lori]], Bud assists the Autobots during their search for the [[Cyber Planet Key|Cyber Planet Keys]]. He has probably bonded the most with the geeky [[Mini-Con]] [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]], who calls him "Bud-dude", after Bud insisted he stop saying "Master Bud". (Not that it's much of an improvement, dorkiness-wise.) He believes that if they wanted to, the Autobots could walk around in plain sight as long as people thought they were just [[Fandom|fanboys]] wearing costumes. The sad thing is...[[:Image:Transformers-cosplayers.jpg|he's probably right]].

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Ryan Hirakida]] (English), [[Mayumi Kurokawa]] (Japanese)
[[Image:SpaceDudeNumeroUno.jpg|left|thumb|Oh my god! I think [[Kicker]] is going to sue somebody ]]

The older boys of the Hansen family were having a dirt bike race on a picnic. However, their friend Lori complained to Coby that they were ruining the peace and quiet, but Bud was able to calm Lori down (and butcher a classic metaphor at the same time.) A little while later, Bud noticed a strange humming sound along with a bright light in the sky. Soon after that, the kids noticed something falling from the sky, discovering that it was [[Autobot|a giant robot]] at the bottom of a newly-formed crater. They hauled the robot out, and while repairing it the robot introduced himself as [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]]. After that, [[Thundercracker (Armada)|a talking plane]] swooped down from the sky and fired its missiles at the group, which Landmine blocked with its body. The plane was about to come around for another attack when [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|a talking, flying fire truck]] came out of nowhere and rammed it, saving Bud and company, who were introduced to the [[Jetfire (Armada)|rest]] [[Hot Shot (Armada)|of]] [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Optimus']] [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|team]]. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}

Bud doesn't trust the government because he's seen enough TV to know better. Smart kid!

===''Galaxy Force'' manga===

{{storylink|Touchdown! Optimus Prime}} {{storylink|The Devil's Dogfight! Coby's Courage}} {{storylink|Intense Race Planet! Velocitron}} {{storylink|Deep Sea Discovery! Vector Prime}} {{storylink|The Temple of Hell! Overhaul}} {{storylink|Galaxy Force Mission.7}} {{storylink|Galaxy Force Mission.9}}

{{charstubfiction}}

==Notes==
[[Image:Early galaxy force flyer 1.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
* According to TV Aichi's ''Galaxy Force'' webpage, Bud is 11 years old at the beginning of the series.

* Early promotional materials for ''Galaxy Force'' showed a somewhat different [[character model]] for Bud.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hansen, Bud}}
[[Category:Cybertron characters]]
[[Category:Entertainers]]
[[Category:Humans]]

Lucy Suzuki

2010-11-22T00:58:29Z

24.185.70.0: /* Cybertron cartoon */

:''Lucy Suzuki is a [[human]] from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Cyb ep25 gigiddy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Hello, Ms. Suzuki, I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC, would you take a seat plea-''Oh my god, get your hands off [[Coby Hansen|my son]]!''"]]

Doctor '''Lucy Suzuki''' is a scientist who believes that the [[Earth]] is [[wikipedia:Hollow Earth|hollow]] and inhabited by aliens and that there's another [[Sun]] inside, and also that numerous ancient artifacts are evidence of extraterrestrial life. She dismisses her countless detractors as closed-minded fools who need to adopt the mind of a child and believe just a little bit harder.

Because this is ''Transformers'', it turns out that she's kinda almost right, in the sense that there's a hole full of aliens right where she says there is. It's just kind of a cave though, nothing too special except for the massive Decepticon army inside it.

So, yeah, she's a bit of a crackpot. She's a cheerful, generally likable crackpot though, and the Autobots warm up to her for it.

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tabitha St. Germain]] (English), [[Machiko Toyoshima]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Cyb ep14 kids meet suzuki.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]

After spilling a cup of orange drink in her office one day, Dr. Suzuki went to get some paper towels to clean up the mess, and was surprised to discover a [[Bud Hansen]] and [[Lori]]<s> making out </s> hiding in the supply closet. Rather than berating them or calling security, she decided to show the kids her collection of strange artifacts, one of which turned out to be an object the pair had been sent to search for by [[Vector Prime]]. Having confirmed the object, and with Bud having almost blurted out the truth about Transformers, the pair left hurriedly; as Lucy was about to stop them to ask what the fuss was all about, she was informed by her secretary that someone from the government was there to see her {{storylink|Race}}.

That someone turned out to be [[Colonel Franklin]], who was investigating the Transformers' activities on Earth and whose attention had been caught by Lucy and her theories on aliens. A short time later, when the [[Autobot]]s' activation of the [[Omega Lock]] caused an atmospheric disturbance on Earth centred on the North Pole, Lucy was invited by Franklin to be part of a conference of scientists investigating the matter. While picking up supplies for the trip at a store in Alaska, Lucy ran into Bud and Lori again, this time joined by [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], and offered them a helping hand by buying them some parkas, since they had forgotten to pack warm clothes. In exchange for her kindness, Lucy recruited the trio to assist in her experiments. Suspecting the youngsters might know something about [[alien]]s, she tried to coax some information out of them and presented her belief in the Hollow Earth theory to them, but only got a few meaningless names. Still, she was impressed enough with their willingness not to dismiss her crackpot notions out of hand to forego the conference and instead take them to a hot spring.

[[Image:Cyb_ep19_hotspring.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Insert slashfic comment here.]]

Fortunately, she would soon get her wish to meet an alien when the four were attacked by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]]. After the Decepticons were fought off, the kids formally introduced Lucy to [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], much to her joy {{storylink|Ice}}.

After the kids returned to Colorado, Lucy carried on into the Arctic and met up with an archeological team. They managed to dig up another [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|robot]], which immediately scanned her car before absconding {{storylink|Trust (Cybertron)|Trust}}. While hurrying back to her lab to analyse the data she'd collected, she found herself stuck behind a roadblock set up by Col. Franklin, who greeted her with surprising warmth {{storylink|Trap}}.

Franklin realised Lucy knew something about the [[Ancient Decepticon|mysterious robots]] that had just launched an attack, and so took her back to his base to pick her brain. Lucy, however, didn't trust him, and refused to divulge what she knew unless he let her see his classified documents, which was an obvious no-no. Based on recent events, Lucy began to fear that the Autobots were just pretending to be the good guys, and were actually bent on world domination {{storylink|Invasion}}.

However, she decided to take a chance, and freed the Mini-Cons that had been taken captive by Franklin. The quartet then went on to rescue the also-captive Coby, Lori, and Bud, leaving their parents shocked and confused.

Fleeing the government agents, the group ran into Hot Shot and Landmine, who were out searching for them. They all returned to the Autobot base, where Lucy drew some flak upon the kids for bringing in an outsider. However, the kids defended her, and the Autobots quickly decided that Starscream's rampage across the world was more deserving of attention.

Shortly afterwards, the Starscream tore through the Autobot forces single-handedly, but was defeated by Optimus Prime and Leobreaker's Savage Claw Mode. As a result, Lucy found herself facing the business end of one of Starscream's missiles but was saved by Optimus Prime. Unfortunately, this allowed Starscream to claim the Omega Lock and the three Cyber Planet Keys that had thus far been located {{storylink|Retreat}}.

Still, there were no hard feelings, and Lucy pledged her support to the Autobots. She and Col. Franklin accompanied the kids and Mini-Cons when Megatron and his team returned to Earth and started causing trouble {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}}, and she then accompanied them to Franklin's base {{storylink|Critical}}.

Later on, she got a call from Lori, who had just returned to Earth from Cybertron and wanted Lucy and Col. Franklin to persuade her and Coby's parents to let them go off to [[Gigantion]]. Lucy gave Franklin a call, and they both arrived at the Hansens' house that evening. To Lori's dismay, they both argued that this simply wouldn't be safe; however, they were quickly overridden by Optimus Prime, Vector Prime, and Landmine, who all appeared and argued in the kids' favor. The pair then watched the Autobots and kids riding off on the [[space bridge]] {{storylink|Family}}. They later observed the Primus' efforts to contain the Unicron Singularity from the Autobots' base {{storylink|Challenge}}.

She was present when Franklin alerted the Autobots to catastrophic events on Earth and co-ordinated rescue efforts by the civilian Autobots {{storylink|Homecoming (episode)|Homecoming}}. After that, they waited and watched for the Autobots to win {{storylink|End}}.

As she was boarding one of the starships ships bound for deep space to build the [[space bridge]] network, Dr. Suzuki proposed to a very flustered [[Colonel Franklin|Mike Franklin]]. Years later, they had a baby and were present for [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] and [[Lori]]'s wedding. {{Storylink|Beginning}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Lucy}}
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Dragon

2010-07-13T05:19:48Z

24.185.70.0: /* Beast Wars II */

[[Image:Dragon.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A big, green, fire snortin' lizard. No, not [[That big green, fire-snortin' lizard|that one]].]]
'''Dragons''' are large reptilian, fire-breathing monsters. Though on modern-day [[Earth]], they are considered mythological creatures by native [[Human|humans]], real specimens have been known to exist.

Dragons can be bipedal, quadrupedal, winged, have necks of various size, and have heads or tails of varying number. Indeed, since the term "dragon" is so generic, it seems possible to describe creatures not native to Earth which fall under the very forgiving criteria as dragons.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
At least one full-on dragon (reptilian, fire-breathing, winged) has been seen on Earth in medieval times. It was tremendous in size, dwarfing both [[Human|humans]] and averaged-sized [[Transformer|Transformers]]. Although quite dangerous, it was driven off by [[Beorht|a wizard]] using [[Dragon's Bane]]. {{storylink|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}}

In modern times, [[Lord Chumley]] spent years patiently stalking a smaller, wingless, but similar beast in Borneo. He captured it and eventually set it against [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. The creature was a little larger than Prime and did not breathe fire, attacking him with teeth and claws instead. It was smart enough to bat Prime's dropped gun purposefully away from him, but in the end Prime simply threw the animal off a bridge and into some water. It has not been seen since. {{storylink|Prime Target}}

{{note|The real-world legend of the dragon [http://www.biopark.org/dragonhistory.html Kinabalu] may have inspired this creature, as it also lived in Borneo and met its end falling into water.}}

The fictional movie monster [[Hojoni]] bears a striking resemblance to the medieval dragon, though wingless. {{storylink|Kremzeek!}}

The only known instance of a non-Terran dragon was in the dimension of [[Menonia]], where a wizard called the [[Golden One]] could use [[magic]] to take on the form of a large, flying, golden dragon. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}}

When the [[Quintesson]]s hooked [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] up to a device to turn his dreams into reality, one of the illusionary monsters conjured up was a large pink dragon which dwelt in a castle. This dragon was large enough to abduct [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] but was ultimately defeated when the two Transformers teamed up and used a magic lance against it. {{storylink|Nightmare Planet}}

The [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcon]] [[Hun-Gurrr]], the [[Horrorcon]] [[Snapdragon]], and the [[Monsterbot]] [[Doublecross]] have [[Alternate mode|alt-modes]] which resemble mechanical dragons. Interestingly, most of those examples are two-headed, but that trait has not been seen in a biological specimen.

===''Classics''===
The [[Mini-Con]] [[Nightscream (Classics)|Nightscream]] transforms into a dragon, as does the Classics incarnation of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]].

===''Beast Wars''===
[[Image:Megatrontm2render.jpg|left|200px|thumb|The auditions for Reign of Fire were going well.]]
When the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] took on the [[spark]] of his [[Decepticon]] [[Megatron (G1)|namesake]] and was submersed in lava, his form mutated from a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' to a large, red, fire-breathing dragon. {{storylink|Master Blaster|Master Blaster}}

====''Beast Wars II''====
[[Image:Galvatron 2.JPG|right|200px|thumb|well everyone got tired of him so he went and auditioned fot toolbox Dragon in Yu-Gi-Oh5Ds where he embrased his heritage by paying card dames on motorcycles.]]
[[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] had the computer on [[Gaea]] (future Earth) download the most powerful creature from the planet's past, which resulted in the DNA of a dragon being downloaded into his system along with the planet's most powerful weapon, which turned out to be a drill tank for some odd reason.

====''The Wreckers''====
[[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] attempted to remove [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s [[Transmetal 2]] dragon mode and incorporate it into himself, but the process left Cryotek in stasis lock. Megatron's beast mode wasn't removed, but Cryotek was left with a similar body.

===''Robots in Disguise''===
Among the various forms used by the six-changer [[Predacon (RID)|Predacon]] Leader [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]], a two-headed dragon was one of his more well-known (and more creative) forms. Later, after his conversion into the more powerful "ten-changer" Galvatron, he gained a second (one-headed) dragon form. (This was originally a pteranodon in ''[[Car Robots]]'', but was changed for the US release.)

===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
The leader of [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]], [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]], transformed into a mechanical dragon with the ability to deploy up to three heads. Though the Jungle Planet is populated entirely by Transformers who transform into mechanical beast modes seemingly modeled after Earth creatures, it is unknown if Scourge's alt-mode has any direct connection to mythological dragons of Earth, which he expressed confusion about.

==External links==
*[[wikipedia:Dragon|Dragon]] on Wikipedia

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Starscream (Armada)

2009-09-19T16:06:41Z

24.185.70.0: /* Armada cartoon */

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:''Starscream is a [[Decepticon]] and briefly [[Autobot]] in the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Starscreamut.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Starscream's back, and he's a [[Linkin Park]] song.]]
'''Starscream''' is disillusioned by his leader [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]. It took a while for Starscream to come to grips with Megatron's faults, but there's no turning back. Megatron doesn't respect him, doesn't appreciate him, and would casually toss Starscream's life away if it got him something he wanted. If following Megatron is the school of hard knocks, then Starscream is the valedictorian—but not without a few scars. Starscream may have once been compassionate, he may once have known what true friendship is, but all that has been replaced, scab for scab, with the lessons of Megatron's abuse.

Unwittingly, Megatron may have created a monster even he cannot ultimately control.

Starscream's nominal [[Mini-Con]] partner is [[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]], though he has been seen to work with [[Zapmaster]].

:''Japanese name (Energon):'' '''Nightscream'''
:''Japanese name (Galaxy Force, "Supreme" version):'' '''Super Starscream'''
:''Hungarian name (Energon)'': '''Surranó''' ("Sneaker")
:''Hungarian name (Cybertron)'': , '''Üstökös''' ("Comet")
:''Polish name (Armada):'' '''Krzykotron''' ("Screamtron")

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Michael Dobson]] (English), [[Jin Yamanoi]] (Japan), [[José Sant'anna]] (Brazil), [[Gerd Meyer]] (Germany), [[Niclas Fransson]] (Sweden), [[Sander de Heer]] (The Netherlands)

[[Image:AStarscream cartoon.jpg|right|180px|thumb|He's grouchy because he's fangirl bait.]]
Accompanying Megatron's forces to [[Earth]], Starscream was deliberately made to be the last of the Decepticons to acquire a personal partner Mini-Con. Infuriated by this mistreatment, Starscream's resentment and hatred of Megatron made him a chink in the armor of the Decepticons that could be easily exploited by the manipulative [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]]. {{storylink|Rebellion}}

Initially, Sideways coerced Starscream into a duel with Megatron, which he promptly lost. A short time later, [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]], acting under the instructions of Sideways, further exploited Starscream by making him the patsy in his latest plan. Starscream was given the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]] and allowed to run riot to draw the [[Autobot|Autobots]] out of their base, but was then abandoned on the battlefield so that the other Decepticons could invade the base and steal the [[Requiem Blaster]]. {{storylink|Sacrifice}}

Surviving to return to the Decepticon base, Starscream went on a rampage with the sword and disowned the Decepticons, siding up with the wary Autobots, not out of any desire to do good, but simply out of sheer hatred for Megatron. After a clash with [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] and a trip to [[Mars]] with [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]], Starscream befriended the Autobots' [[human]] allies, particularly [[Alexis]], and then gave the Autobots access to the Decepticon base, resulting in a raid that freed all the captive Mini-Cons. Starscream's defection was not a smooth process, however; he constantly clashed with his new teammates over morals and battle strategies, but nonetheless proved a capable and, on at least some level, willing Autobot. {{storylink|Regeneration}} {{storylink|Rescue}} {{storylink|Mars (episode)|Mars}}

Soon thereafter, Sideways and Thrust approached Starscream, planting seeds of doubt in his mind. This eventually caused him to steal the [[Skyboom (Armada)|Skyboom shield]] from the Autobots and return to the Decepticon fold (for a chance to defeat Megatron by working from the inside), giving the Decepticons possession of all three Mini-Con weapons. {{storylink|Crack}}

As Megatron readied his new super weapon to attack Earth, Starscream began to suffer a serious moral crisis. He had returned to the Decepticons but he still viewed those he'd left behind on Earth as his friends, and was torn between following orders, and a desire not to harm them. At times he found compromises, for instance, as Optimus led an attack to stop Megatron using the three Mini-Con weapons, Starscream, currently battling Jetfire, spotted one of the Decepticons sneaking up on Prime. Starscream then attacked Jetfire, allowing himself to be thrown away, and collided with the Decepticon who would have attacked Prime.

[[Image:Cramp-Starscreamdies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|(He gets better.)]]

Subsequently, Starscream was among the Transformers injured battling [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis Prime]], and who then received "[[Powerlinx]]" power boosts from their Mini-Cons. Starscream gained a new, blue coloration that he commented made him look like his contemporary, [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], with disgust just ''dripping'' from his tone. Returning to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Starscream pursued Thrust into the depths of the planet when the turncoat tactician revealed his treachery by stealing the Requiem Blaster and Skyboom shield. Starscream took a fatal shot from the Requiem Blaster as he battled Thrust in the subterranean tunnels, but the Mini-Con [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] used his powers to restructure the timeline, saving Starscream (and throwing the human kids back in time, and.. well, it's confusing). Thrust escaped and delivered the weapons to Sideways and his master, [[Unicron]], presently disguised as Cybertron's moon. Following Thrust through a warp gate and briefly reuniting with Alexis, Starscream entered the belly of the beast along with Hot Shot and [[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]], but the unlikely trio were stymied by Unicron's [[Dead End Drone|internal defenses]] and failed to stop Sideways from using the weapons to begin Unicron's reactivation.

Megatron—now Galvatron—was unwilling to acknowledge Unicron's threat, dismissing it as an Autobot trick, but Starscream knew the threat was real, and that only united under a true leader like [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]—whose strength of character and nobility had touched Starscream during his time with the Autobots—could the Transformers hope to stop him. To show Galvatron the error of his ways, he challenged him to a duel in which he allowed Galvatron to run him through with the Star Saber. Galvatron realized what happened and demanded to know what possessed Starscream to do such a thing.

Starscream told him that he tried to gain Galvatron's respect, but nothing was ever good enough, no matter how many battles he fought, his leader always found fault. Optimus Prime treated his men with respect, and was thus a leader of integrity, unlike Galvatron. But that didn't matter anymore, and after tearing the Star Saber out with his bare hands, Starscream turned his full firepower onto Unicron. The Chaos Bringer promptly obliterated him, to the shock of both Galvatron and Optimus Prime. When the dust settled, Galvatron stood reflecting upon Starscream's last words, and as a gesture, handed his enemy the Star Saber.

Unfortunately, Sideways ran off with it two seconds later. But it's the thought that counts.

Alexis, who Starscream had formed a close bond with, was deeply affected by his death. {{storylink|Cramp}}

However this was not his end in the seiries. Starcream would make a last cameo durning one og gavatrons fanasies of becoming the leadaer of all transformers. A bit bakward dont u think.

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====''Energon''====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Michael Dobson]] (English), [[Nobuo Tobita]] (Japanese), [[Niclas Fransson]] (Swedish), [[Sander de Heer]] (The Netherlands)

Ten years after Starscream's death, when Megatron seized control of Unicron's body by ousting its former occupant, the alien being [[Alpha Quintesson]], the evicted extra-terrestrial needed an assassin to eliminate Megatron so that he could return to his original task of recreating the worlds destroyed by Unicron. Using what little [[Energon (Energon)|energon]] he had left, Alpha Q recreated another victim of Unicron—Starscream. However, Alpha Q ran out of energon before the process could be completed, leaving Starscream incomplete—his memory blank, and his body unstable, constantly shifting from a physical to an ethereal form, able to teleport by "ghosting" from location to location. {{storylink|Megatron Raid}}

Alpha Q unleashed Starscream upon [[Ocean City]], where he battled Optimus Prime and then tracked Megatron back to Unicron's body. Even his awesome new abilities proved no match for the Decepticon leader, who used Unicron's power to brainwash Starscream, turning him into his right-hand man and most loyal subordinate. Rather ironically, Megatron now treated Starscream with far more respect than previously, even entrusting him with some of the most difficult missions. Later, when Megatron became Galvatron again through immersion in a subterranean reservoir of [[Super Energon]] on Cybertron, Starscream was allowed to do the same as a reward for his loyalty; the influx of power stabilized his physical form, while allowing him to retain his teleporting powers. When Galvatron was subsequently possessed by Unicron, [[Primus]] used the Super Energon to create a sun, and Galvatron plunged himself into it in order to contain Unicron's spark within it. Starscream seemingly sacrificed himself as well, diving into the sun alongside his leader. {{storylink|The Sun}}

====''Cybertron''====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Michael Dobson]] (English), [[Takaya Kuroda]] (Japanese)

[[Image:CybStarscream01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Don Figueroa|Figueroa?]] I barely know 'er!]]

A decade after [[the Powerlinx Battles]] (as they were called), when [[Primus]]'s plan to contain Unicron's spark at the core of the energon sun failed, the sun collapsed, becoming a deadly [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] that threatened Cybertron. Along with Megatron, Starscream was freed from the sun, his mind his own once more and his body refurbished into yet another new form. He had no memory at all of what happened, but then it seems no one did.

Megatron began his campaign to acquire the legendary [[Cyber Planet Key|Cyber Planet Keys]] by stealing the map that showed their locations from the ancient Transformer, [[Vector Prime]] while Starscream created a diversion that kept the other Autobots busy. During the fight, Starscream sent [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] tumbling into the black hole, but Vector Prime saved him at the last moment, opening a dimensional gate that teleported him to Earth. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}} The Autobots and Decepticons followed, and when it was deduced that the Cyber Planet Keys' focusing device, the [[Omega Lock]], was hidden somewhere on the planet, Megatron charged Starscream with locating it while he focused on acquiring the Cyber Planet Key of [[Velocitron]], the Speed Planet.

Little did Megatron suspect, however, that Starscream had evolved a new ambition—now, he sought to oust Megatron and become the leader of the Decepticons, then the universe. Unlike [[Starscream (G1)|those with similar goals]], however, Starscream was smart enough to keep his intentions to himself, quietly working to achieve his goals through subtle means. While on a brief mission to attack [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] on Velocitron, Starscream was able to secretly switch Megatron's map with a copy that would play an important role later, and in an attempt to acquire more troops loyal to him, recruited the disillusioned Autobot [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] into his service on Earth. He later crossed paths once again with the mysterious [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]], who saw in him the best chance to achieve his own goals.

With the Autobots having successfully acquired the Omega Lock and the Cyber Planet Keys from Velocitron and the [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]], Starscream realized it was time to step up his agenda. His duplicate planet map led Megatron and the other Decepticons to a dead sector of space and sealed them within a metal sphere, freeing Starscream to search for the third Cyber Planet Key, from Earth itself. Encountering the Autobot monster-hunter, [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]]—one of the ancient Transformers whose ancestors had come to Earth with the Cyber Planet Key eons ago, who had recently been reactivated—Starscream discovered a vast underground holding cell in which Crosswise had imprisoned the [[ancient Decepticon]]s of his time. {{storylink|Trap}}

Liberating them, Starscream took command of their forces and began a planet-wide search for the Cyber Planet Key, fighting back the Autobot and human military resistance. {{storylink|Invasion|Invasion}} The Autobots had Crosswise's ally [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] recover the key from its hiding place in preparation for a retreat to Velocitron, but Starscream fought his way through the entire Autobot army and confronted Optimus Prime himself, successfully purloining the lock and all three keys by endangering the Autobots' human allies and drawing Prime out of the fight. {{storylink|Retreat}}

[[Image:Thunder-OhHi.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Betta have my money.]]

Retreating to a small volcanic island in the South Pacific, Starscream attempted to harness the power of the Cyber Planet Keys. Megatron, meanwhile, had been freed by [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]], and immediately sought retribution, only to wind up clashing with the Autobots first. The extra time this afforded Starscream allowed him to tap the power of the keys and harness a fragment of the spark of Primus, growing to a gigantic height, complete with a familiar crown with which he crowned himself "Emperor of the Universe". With an extra power boost courtesy of his combination with [[Wing Saber]], Optimus Prime was able to defeat Starscream, but Sideways teleported his body away to the ancient starship [[Atlantis]] to recuperate. {{storylink|Starscream (episode)|Starscream}}

Not longer thereafter, when the Cyber Planet Keys were used by the Autobots to awaken Primus and transform Cybertron into his body, Starscream attempted a rather pitiful attack on the god, only to be swatted away like an insect. Later, when the Autobots assembled an energy converter that would allow Primus to direct his energy against the black hole in beam form, Starscream sensed the release of power and had Sideways warp the Atlantis into range. Plunging himself into the energy beam, Starscream tapped into Primus's powers once more, and this time, grew to planetary size. Ultimately, however, he fared little better in combat with the creator, winding up bludgeoned into submission by Cybertron's moons and drained of his excess power. {{storylink|Titans}}

The discovery of the fourth Cyber Planet Key on [[Gigantion]], the Giant Planet, set Starscream racing to acquire the key first, but Landmine reached it ahead of him and was able to use its power to pay him back for past indignities by growing to his size and pummeling him. {{storylink|Optimus (episode)|Optimus}} Subsequently, Megatron—now Galvatron—stole the Omega Lock and all four keys, and Starscream challenged him to a final battle for possession of them. Declaring that he had given himself over to his pursuit of power, and had no reason to hold back as he had nothing to lose, Starscream engaged his former leader in battle. Throughout the fight Starscream was easily the aggressor using his ability to increase the mass of his body, and null cannons. This reduced Galvatron to the point where he was on the verge of destruction. At the climatic point of the battle, Starscream channeled unprecedented levels of energy; Galvatron did the same, and so incredible was the reaction when the two fully-powered combatants clashed released that space and time itself was rendered by the final explosion. Starscream was hurtled into another dimension along with the interfering Sideways and [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]]. Only his crown was left, seen floating through space. {{storylink|Showdown (episode)|Showdown}}

Finally, after Galvatron had been defeated in battle within the black hole, Starscream's spirit reached out across the dimensions, apparently via the [[fire dimension]], to encourage him to fight on, adding a little extra motivation when Galvatron acquired Starscream's crown, crushing it in his hand.

As the Autobots made preparations to begin their new galaxy-spanning [[space bridge]] initiative, [[Wing Saber]]—having departed from the rest of the Autobots to continue with his "loner" lifestyle—radioed Optimus to report that he had found a lead on Starscream's trail and was pursuing it. Landmine and a reformed Mudflap departed to aid him, and would eventually encounter Starscream within what appeared to be the fire dimension. {{storylink|Beginning}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
====''Armada'' comic====
Starscream lacked the more complex nature of his animated counterpart, filling the position of "snarky second-in-command" as Starscreams tend to do. He also gave Megatron the finger. (Behind his back, of course. He's not THAT stupid!)

====''Energon'' comic====
In the wake of the unification of Autobots and Decepticons following Unicron's defeat, Starscream tried to ingratiate himself with [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] and the rest of the remaining Decepticons. His wheedling didn't last long, though, as [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] showed up and promptly blasted him into a trash compactor. Later, during the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] attack on Earth, Starscream reappeared in his new form as an energon ghost and incapacitated [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]].

{{note|Due to Dreamwave's subsequent bankruptcy, this ended up being his only appearance in his Energon form. He was going to gain a new form made of pure Energon and battle the Omnicons in #33 <ref>[http://seibertron.com/comics/view.php?comic_id=787 Transformers: Energon #33 at seibertron.com]</ref>}}

====''Cybertron'' comic====
Starscream killed the Mini-Con [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]] as the little guy was uploading himself into Cybertron's planetary mainframe. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}

{{note|This is an allusion to a Dreamwave Comics continuity event, but apparently it also took place in the animated continuity, too? Well, okay. Don't think too hard on this one.}}

===Panini ''Armada'' comic===
Starscream answered letters! A mere wiki article write-up cannot convey how rude he was to the five-year-old letter-writers.

===Melbourne House ''Transformers'' video game===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Matt Hetherington]]

[[Image:Starscream-GameBurn.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Sephiroth! Sephiroth! 'Cause all bad guys walk in flames and not get burned to hell!]]
Starscream was stationed in Antarctica, overseeing [[Decepticlone]] operations in recovering the [[Mini-Con storage panel|Mini-Con storage panels]] found in the area, using a human research center they overran as his base of operations. When the Autobots ventured too close, Starscream attacked (blowing up the hangar he was holed up in first), but was shot out of the sky and left for dead.

Having survived his initial defeat, Starscream followed the Autobots to Alaska. There he collided his starship into a mountain in an attempt to crush them, but the Autobots escaped unscathed. This also gave them the chance to infiltrate the downed ship and free the captive Mini-Con [[Aftershock (Armada)|Aftershock]] from the control room. Starscream used his null laser cannons at full power in an attempt to finish off his foes, but only succeeded in cutting the rock face below the ship, which collapsed and sent the precariously balanced ship plunging into the valley below. The impact of the crash buried the bow deep into the earth, forcing the Autobots to climb their way up and out to the surface.

[[Image:Starscream-Cmere.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch?]]
When the Autobots pulled free from the buried ship and got back to ground-level, Starscream attacked again. But this battle too ultimately ended in defeat, leading Optimus Prime to interrogate him as to the whereabouts of Megatron. When Starscream refused and attempted to fire his functional null ray at point-blank range, Optimus knocked him unconscious with a well-aimed punch. He then ordered Red Alert to hack the treacherous Decepticon's warp transponder, which led them to Megatron's [[Pacific Island]] base.
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==Toys==
===Armada===
[[Image:Armada SS toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|He's Emo-tastic!]]
*'''Starscream with Swindle''' (Mega-Con, 2002/2003)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MD-02'''
**''Accessories:'' Port wing/sword, 2 "fireblast" missiles

: Starscream transforms into a Cybertronic jet fighter. In both modes, pressing down on his cockpit canopy activates electronic sound effects; in jet mode, it also deploys his [[Mini-Con]] partner [[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]] if he is stored under the cockpit. Plugging a Mini-Con onto his rearmost [[Powerlinx]] plug releases two spring-activated over-shoulder spring-loaded missile launchers, as well as more electronic sound effects. His left wing detaches and unfolds to form a large sword for use in robot mode.

: The [[Takara]] version of this toy is largely identical to the [[Hasbro]] version, but uses a brighter light gray plastic, gold paint instead of yellow, more detailed paint applications on the wings, and has a "separated" Decepticon sigil deco. The canopy section on the Japanese version is parallel to the rest of the jet mode, while the American points more downward. This is due to a retooling of the area that meets his chest, and was done [[for safety reasons]], making the nosecone "collapse" easier if pressed point-first into, say, your little brother.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Ramjet (Universe)|Ramjet]], ''Armada'' [[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]] and ''Armada'' [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]].



*'''Starscream''' (Happy Meal premium, 2003)

: Part of the McDonald's ''Armada'' promotion, this version of Starscream transforms into a Cybertronic jet the somewhat resembles his larger toy. It features a pull-back motor gimmick that propels his jet-mode forward, then leaps up to instantly convert to robot mode, like the [[Generation 1 (toyline)|Generation 1]] [[Jumpstarter|Jumpstarters]]. In jet mode, he can combine with the other three Happy Meal Decepticons to form a goofy-looking super vehicle.



[[Image:BTR Armada Starscream.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Starscream's attempts to take over [[Block Town]] were less than successful.]]
*'''Starscream with Swindle''' (Built to Rule, 2003)
**''Accessories'': 2 missiles

: ''[[Built to Rule]]''
Starscream is a building-brick set that can be assembled into a Cybertronic fighter jet or a robot, or to whatever else you feel like. He came with a building-brick version of Swindle. The set features two missile launchers that use a unique "twist-block" pressure-launch mechanism.

: This set was later released in different colors as Thundercracker and [[Zapmaster]].

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[[Image:Armada Thundercracker toy.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Thunder-who? Sorry, never heard of him.]]
*'''Starscream Supermode with Spark Grid''' (Mega-Con, 2003)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MD-09'''
**''Accessories:'' Port wing/sword, 2 "fireblast" missiles

: The Takara version of the ''Armada'' Thundercracker toy represents a powered-up version of Starscream instead of a new character. This toy is almost identical to the Hasbro Thundercracker, but uses a darker, more vivid blue plastic and a darker, more vivid red. Also the canopy section on the Japanese version is parallel to the rest of jet mode, while the American points more downward. This is due to a retooling of the area that meets his chest and was done [[for safety reasons]].

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Ramjet (Universe)|Ramjet]], ''Armada'' [[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]] and ''Armada'' [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]].

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===Energon===
[[Image:Superlink Nightscream Toy.jpg|right|130px|thumb|Takara Starscream, now with G1 sweetening.]]
*'''Starscream''' (Deluxe, 2004)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''SD-01'''
**''Accessories:'' Energon sword, energon rifle, 2 missiles

[[Image:Energon Starscream toy.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Hasbro Starscream, all spooky.]]
: ''Energon'' Starscream transforms into a jet fighter loosely based upon the F/A-22 Raptor (which would later be used as the alt-mode of [[Starscream (Movie)|another Starscream]]), cast mostly in dark clear-green plastics to emphasize his "energon ghost" status. The toy also features numerous spots of sculpted battle damage and asymmetrical plastic-color layouts to further enhance the effect. He comes with two very large accessories, a sword and a non-firing blaster, which can combine to form a ''really'' larger sword and/or non-firing blaster. In jet mode he has two wing-mounted spring-loaded missile launchers, which can flip up over his robot-mode shoulders for "Hyper Mode".

: The Japanese version of this mold, called "Nightscream", uses gray plastics instead of stony-blue, a lighter shade of red paint, and darker blue plastic and paint.

: There was much controversy upon the toy's announcement since at first glance it appears to be a simple [[retool]] of ''[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen]]. However, Starscream is in fact an all-new mold which uses a similar transformation scheme.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]], and [[Leozack]]

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*'''Prowl with Longarm & Starscream with Zapmaster''' (Multi-pack, 2004)

: Part of a Sam's Club [[exclusive]] set, the [[#Armada_2|original Starscream toy]] was [[Redeco|redecoed]] in primarily dark gray with burgundy and black accents. His Mini-Con partner was [[Zapmaster]] this time around rather than Swindle. The set also included ''Energon'' [[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]] as an ''Armada'' [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] redeco with [[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]].


[[Image:Superlink Nightscream Reverse Toy.jpg|right|130px|thumb|Takara "Nightscream" has two scoops of G1 in every toy.]]
*'''Energon Starscream''' (Deluxe, 2004)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''SD-19'''
**''Accessories:'' Sword, rifle, 2 missiles

[[Image:Energon Energon Starscream Toy.jpg|left|130px|thumb|Hasbro Starscream has twice the G1 for half the price.]]
: ''Energon'' Starscream was redecoed into a more [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]-inspired color scheme, primarily light gray with blue and red accents. His assymetrical arm coloration continues in this mode due to the use of [[Unpaintable plastic|unpaintable plastics]] needed for structural support.

: The Takara "Nightscream Rebirth" release of the toy has some significant differences, the most notable being the use of clear-blue plastics in the place of some of the solid-gray in the Hasbro version. Gray plastic was used in place of black, and many paint details were different. It also came with a yellow version of ''Energon'' [[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticon]]'s [[Energon weapon|energon drill weapon]] and Decepticon-style [[energon chip]].

: The Hasbro version of this mold was used as the model for the [[#Attacktix|unreleased ''Attacktix'' vehicle-mode Starscream piece]].

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[[Image:BTR EnergonStarscream.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Starscream's attempt to infiltrate the Space Police was only marginally more successful.]]
*'''Starscream''' (Built to Rule, 2004)

: The ''Energon'' version of ''Built To Rule'' Starscream was designed with a much more solid skeleton with larger, blockier limbs. He can be rebuilt from a Cybertronic jet fighter with pressure-launch missiles, to a robot, to basically whatever you feel like doing with the parts.

: Unfortunately, due to the slow performance of the ''Built to Rule'' line overall, the ''Energon'' versions only had a limited, test market release initially in and around Cincinnati, Ohio. The sets later filtered out into many "Tuesday Morning" chain discount stores at drastically dropped prices.

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===Cybertron===
[[Image:GalaxyForce Starscream toy.jpg|right|180px|thumb|I am Vegeta, Prince of all Saiya- I mean, I will be leader of all Decepticons!]]
*'''Starscream''' (Voyager, 2005)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''GD-03'''
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, Decepticon Cybertron Cyber Planet Key

: ''Galaxy Force'' Starscream transforms into a Cybertronic starfighter. In both modes, plugging a [[Cyber Planet Key]] into his back end flips out a spring-loaded blade from each arm. His spring-loaded missile launcher can be used as either a hand-held weapon, or mounted under his jet-mode nosecone. He comes with a Cybertron-Decepticon-style Cyber Planet Key.

: This mold in these colors was never released in the Hasbro ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' line, most likely to not interfere with sales of the much larger Supreme Starscream toy (see below). It was later used to make ''[[Shattered Glass (toyline)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]] and the [[Universe (2008 toyline)|2008 ''Universe'']] [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]].


[[Image:CybScreamSupreme.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Honeycomb big? Yeah Yeah Yeah! It's not small? No No No!]]
*'''Starscream''' (Supreme, 2005)
**''Accessories:'' Missile, "Crown of Leadership", Decepticon Cybertron Cyber Planet Key, Gold Earth Cyber Planet Key

: Supreme Starscream is a colossally-upscaled version of the Voyager-class Starscream toy, with quite a few changes. The most notable is the change in his Cyber Planet Key [[gimmick]]: each arm has a separate Key jack in it rather than the Voyager's single joint-jack. While the right arm still deploys a blade, the left arm now reveals a "null laser cannon" spring-loaded missile launcher and expanding prongs of undetermined function (beyond looking neat). The original back-mounted Key jack still exists in a fashion, though it does not activate any gimmicks and merely serves as a Key storage space (a rarity among ''Cybertron'' toys). A second storage-only jack is found on the underside of the same assembly. The two small guns on the sides of his cockpit can swivel up to firing position in robot mode, and he also has several electronic light and sound gimmicks, including one activated by moving his sword-arm.

: He comes with a Decepticon "Crown of Leadership" that fits over his noggin (which, together with his considerable size, has earned him the nickname "King Starscream" among fans.) He is also the only ''Cybertron'' toy to come with ''two'' Cyber Planet Keys, a Cybertron-Decepticon Key, and a gold-bordered Earth-style Key. Both Keys have the [[Cyber Key Codes|Key Code]] "'''s5a3'''" [[Tampograph|tampographed]] on their backs. (The placement of these accessories in the box varies in later releases.)

: In Japan, this toy was released as a Toys "R" Us exclusive, basically unchanged in US packaging.


[[Image:Tru2005Cybertronstarscream.JPG|right|180px|thumb|Thrust? No wait... Ramjet?]]
*'''Starscream vs. Vector Prime''' (Multi-pack, 2005)
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, Decepticon Cybertron-style Cyber Planet Key

: This burgundy and black redeco of ''Galaxy Force'' Starscream came in a two-pack with an unaltered [[Vector Prime]], and was exclusive to Toys "R" Us stores. It was also sold for slightly less than the cost of two Voyagers.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Shattered Glass (toyline)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]] and the [[Universe (2008 toyline)|2008 ''Universe'']] [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]].

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[[Image:CybScream-LOC.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Starsqueak.]]
*'''Starscream''' (Legends of Cybertron, 2005)

: A colossally ''downscaled'' and simplified version of the ''Cybertron'' Starscream figure was released as part of the first wave of the ''[[Legends Class|Legends of Cybertron]]'' series. He transforms into the same Cybertronic starfighter altmode, and has flip-out weapons (one sword, one non-firing blaster).

: In Japan, the toy was sold as part of the ''very'' short-lived "EZ Collection". It was given more extensive [[Paint application|paint applications]] than the Hasbro version.

: This mold was used to make ''Legends of Cybertron'' [[Ramjet (Universe)|Ramjet]], [[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]] and [[Sunstorm (LOC)|Sunstorm]], and ''[[Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].

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*'''EZ Collection Clear Set''' (Multi-pack, 2005)

: A three-pack of EZ Collection [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Galaxy Convoy]] and Starscream using clear plastics in some parts was released in Japan. It was a mail-away exclusive to ''TV Magazine''.

===Attacktix===
[[Image:AttacktixScream.jpg|right|180px|thumb|He keeps flying in circles for some reason.]]
*'''Starscream''' (Booster, 2006)
{{attacktix
|ID=TF08
|faction=Decepticon
|class=Captain
|special=Rally - 14/26 (54%) success ratio
|cost=10
|speed=6
|attacktype=Shooter (Large Missile)
}}
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: ''[[Attacktix]]'' Starscream is based on his [[#Cybertron_2|''Cybertron'' incarnation]]. His Special Power, ''Rally'', enables a player to return any one of their already-defeated [[Decepticon]] pieces to play. If Starscream's speed wheel reads 8 stop moving him there—you'll be able to move him 2 extra tix next turn and even if he gets shot down his special power is always white when he's on 8 speed.

: A Captain figure Starscream works very well with his own redeco, [[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]], supporting his ''Infiltration'' power.

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*'''Starscream''' (Booster, 2007)
{{attacktix
|ID=??
|faction=Decepticon
|class=Captain
|special=Rally - 14/26 (54%) success ratio
|cost=30
|speed=4
|attacktype=Shooter (Small Missile)/Flight
}}
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: This as yet unreleased Starscream is a missile launching piece based on his [[#EnergonEnergon|"''Energon'' Energon" form's vehicle mode]]. His vehicle form can detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces, or even airlift allies (or enemies... is that a legal move?). His "Transform" power would probably allow you to bring any Starscream figure into play from your back-ups—making Starscream an even more effective figure when working with Skywarp. But as the toy was never released, we'll never know.

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===Merchandise===
* A soft-plastic PVC figurine of Starscream's animation model was released in "Act-9" of Takara's [[Super Collection Figure]] series. It came in both full-color and pewter-finish version, one each per case of twelve.

* A larger non-transforming PVC figure of Starscream was released in the Mega Super Colleciton figure series. Like other toys in the line, he came with a few extra pieces, like a separate wing-sword, and a mini-PVC of his [[Mini-Con]] partner [[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]].

==Notes==
* According to the [[Transformers (Melbourne House)|''Armada'' video game]]'s instruction booklet, Starscream (in his ''Armada''-era body) has the following statistics:

:Height: 19' 7" (15' 1" vehicle mode length)
:Weight: 22,050 lbs
:Thrust: 28,000 lbs
:Vehicle Top Speed: Mach 2.7

* ''Armada'' Starscream's body parts made frequent cameos in the CGI models of the generic Decepticon and Autobot soldiers during the ''Energon'' cartoon series, despite Starscream not actually ever appearing in his ''Armada'' body during the series.

* [[Aaron Archer]] has expressed disappointment in how the ''Energon'' Starscream toy turned out, largely its design cues not quite coming across as intended.

* It's a popular rumor that the Starscream who appears in ''Super Link'' (the Japanese version of ''Energon'') is not the original, but a clone. Popular, but entirely wrong. Although not ''explicitly'' referred to with the name "Starscream" in dialogue, he is identified as one of Megatron's former soldiers, given a new name in a poetic moment (Galvatron traps him in utter darkness to reduce him to terror—hence his new Japanese name, "Nightscream"), and things just roll on from there without a backward look.

[[Image:Speaker.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Starscream's emptiness can only be filled by love or electronics.]]
* The ''Cybertron'' Starscream design is based on the [[Starscream (G1)|Generation 1 Starscream]] body from the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] comic series "[[The War Within]]", designed by [[Don Figueroa]]. Possibly as a "second try" at the design cues intended for the ''Energon'' toy that, as noted above, didn't come out as the designers had hoped.

* ''Cybertron'' Voyager Starscream was designed with a [[soundbox]] in mind (even including the requisite speaker and battery brackets when you crack one open), but the final Hasbro and Takara versions have no electronics.

* The Supreme Starscream's crown is modeled directly after the crown [[Starscream (G1)|Generation 1 Starscream]] wore in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', though this Starscream actually wore it for more than thirty seconds before dying.

* He is the only Starscream that has ever stood up to Megatron and earned the respect of his opponents. Like Dinobot, he "Lived a warrior and died a hero". Primus bless his spark.

* He is the first Starscream based on the original to start the trend of Starscream being a [[Starscream (Movie)|capable]] [[Starscream (Animated)|fighter]].

*He is by far the only Starscream to <strike>fall in love with and</strike> form a close bond with a human. Make that a [[Alexis|''female ''human]].

*Many times throughout the series Starscream was labeled a coward and a traitor. Up until Cybertron, it was because either Megatron abused him, or because he had enough common sense to avoid a battle that was impossible to win.

*In Cybertron, Starscream not only successfully betrays Megatron, but goes on to defeat the whole Autobot army. He follows this up with having the bearings to do battle with Primus himself.

*Ironically, Starscream's defeat at Galvatron's hands allowed him to outlive Galvatron. His current fate is unknown, as at the end of the series Landmine and Mudflap were last seen encountering him, but the outcome is not shown.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/Starscream/starscream.htm Starscream at TFU.info]

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