Carnage in C-Minor

2008-03-26T08:00:06Z

59.101.238.52: /* Animation and/or technical glitches */

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[[Image:Carnage C-Minor Autobots harmonic attack.JPG|thumb|350px|[[A Dream Is Born, Double Prime|What is that awful noise? Okay let me straighten him out!]]]]

'''Several Autobots and Decepticons find themselves battling over a planet whose civilization completely revolves around music, and whose inhabitants are capable of using sound as a powerful weapon.'''

==Detailed synopsis==

[[Image:zeebop.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Don we now our gay apparel...]]

[[Eurhythma]], a planet whose culture is based entirely on music, is threatened by a comet. [[Zebop Skandana]] joins fellow Eurythmans [[Allegra]] and [[Basso Profundo]] to use their combined harmonic weapon to destroy the comet, inadvertently shooting down a number of [[Autobot|Autobots]] and [[Decepticon]]s.

After [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] collapse a bridge on [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], Zebop joins a number of other citizens to revive the Autobots. He then leads them to Allegra's retreat, where they find that Galvatron has beaten them there and swayed Allegra to their side. When Soundwave uses Allegra's third of the harmony against them, Zebop counters with his own third, which Soundwave then records and combines with Allegra's, plunging Zebop and the Autobots into a chasm. As the Autobots pull themselves up, Galvatron turns on Allegra, prompting Zebop to run onto the battlefield to save her. While he is successful, he is accidentally crushed by Blaster and Soundwave in the process, but is harmonically revived by a tearful Allegra soon after.

Returning to the capital city, the Autobots discover the fallen forms of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], who Zebop, Allegra, and Basso heal. The three returned to [[Earth]] with the Autobots, where Galvatron and Soundwave were overwhelming [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] with the stolen harmony. The trio of aliens countered it with [[anti-sound]], giving Blaster enough time to erase the harmony from Soundwave's tapes (by manually pushing his crotch buttons). With the battle concluded, Zebop returns to his world with the others, vowing to live in harmony.

==Stats==

'''Written by:''' [[Buzz Dixon]]

==Quotes==

You! Because of you, I got blasted out of space. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THAT DID TO MY PAINT JOB?!<br>
:--'''Broadside''', right before he sucker punches Galvatron

"I don't wanna see your ugly face, just the button that says ERASE!"<br>
"My tapes! You've erased my tapes!"
:-- '''Blaster''' destroys '''Soundwave's''' tapes

"From now on, you'll have to learn to live in "harmony".<br>
:-- ''''Ultra Magnus''' to the Eurythmians. Hypocritical, as his race has been fighting for the last nine million years.

==Other notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* Throughout the entire episode, Broadside is drawn with a previously [[:Image:BroadsideCarnage.jpg|discarded]] [[character model]].
* When the Protectobots are combined as Defensor, Hotspot (the main body) is fighting alongside his combined self! This could be one of those infamous "[[decoy]]" Transformers...but probably not.
* In one scene, a cel-layering error causes Blaster to appear very tiny compared to Soundwave.
*Early in the episode, when Galvatron and Soundwave fly off to the planets city to capture the harmony, they appear to be holding hands.
* On the music-based world of Eurhythma, Ultra Magnus dispatches Hook and Scrapper{{m-}}by ''picking them each up in one hand'' and bashing them together. Magnus is supposed to be big, but not ''that'' big.
* And there are more than meets the eyes. This is what you get when you combine a season's worth of bloopers into 1 episode. Seriously, how much time do you have?

<center>
<gallery>
Image:Carnage C-minor Magnus Broadside.JPG|[[wikipedia:Monty Python's Life of Brian|"Hail Ceasar!"<br>"Hail Thethar."]]
Image:Bigmagnus tinyconst.jpg|We'll take revenge by merging into Devastator.
Image:Hotspot_defensor.jpg|Hey! Part of me, get back in me!
Image:CarnageMiniBlaster.jpg|It's his little shoulder-angel.
</gallery>
</center>

===Continuity errors===

[[Image:DeceptiBrawn1.jpg|right|125px|thumb|Maybe it's not Bonecrusher, but a rare cameo by [[Load Hauler]]?]]
* In one infamous scene, [[Brawn]] and [[Huffer]] (who should also be dead) show up alive and well. And it seems Bonecrusher has switched sides, as he's helping them shoot at the giant Decepticon rocket engine he'd just helped build!

* Soundwave travels with Galvatron to find the source of the harmony. However, when the scene returns to the battle outside the city, Soundwave is with the other Decepticons at the same time.

===Transformers references===
* References

===Real-world references===
* The Eurythman characters' names are all music-related puns.
* Eurythma was possibly named after the popular 80s band The Eurythmics.

===Miscellaneous trivia===

* "Carnage in C-Minor" is widely regarded by fans as the worst episode of all ''Transformers'' series, but this is seemingly due to the sheer volume of animation errors, and the glaringly obvious nature of many of the individual errors. However, the actual ''plot'' is certainly not the weakest to grace the cartoon series, and its "continuity errors" have little to nothing to do with the script itself... certainly not to the level of, say, "[[B.O.T.]]".

* That said, there is plenty of inanity to be found in the story too. For instance: Despite the aliens' dialog being in perfectly understandable English (or Galactic Standard or whatever), because they say everything a sing-song rhythm, apparently none of the Transformers except Blaster and Soundwave can understand them, and the two tape decks spend a large (and annoying) amount of time translating Eurythman to "non-sing-song" for everyone else.

* Apparently, a single blast from [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s [[lightning cannon]] can cause [[Devastator]] to disassemble. And [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] believes that intellectuals are weak.

* This was one of several episodes subjected to the [[MSTF]] treatment at [[BotCon 1999]].

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[[Music]]

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808817/ IMDb's page for this episode]

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