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The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1

2006-11-29T07:29:54Z

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'''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation One]] > [[Generation 1 (television series)#Season 3|Season 3]]'''

'''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1''' is the first part of the two-part season finale of Season 3 of the ''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation 1 animated series]]''. Part 1 first aired on February 24, 1987.

===Synopsis===
While testing a new heat- and radiation-resistant alloy that they developed within deep space, scientists Jessica Morgan and Greggory Swafford detect a ship carrying Optimus Prime's body (see [[Dark Awakening]]) on a collision course with a planetoid orbitting a star they are researching nearby. Despite Greggory's reservations (his face was scarred in a previous scuffle between Optimus and Megatron, which he blames on Optimus), he is talked into helping Jessica rescue Prime's body before the ship collides with the planetoid, the impact of which also sets off the star into a supernova and coating their ship with unusual spores. Upon return to Earth, Jessica's father studies the spores and learns that they are not only alive, but are an [[Hate Plague|incredibly contagious viral agent]] that induces hatred and destructive urges into whoever they contaminate. After a new scuffle between the Technobots and Terrorcons over the new alloy gravely injures Jessica, her father is convinced by Greggory to try and resurrect Prime's body as a carrier of the spores against the Autobots, a sentiment exacerbated when it's learned Jessica was paralyzed from the waist down in the accident and now needs a special exosuit to walk. However, when reviving Prime's body turns out to be impossible for them, Greggory and Jessica's father decide to use it as bait for the other Autobots, forcing Jessica into luring them into a spore trap at the lab.

The trap goes off without a hitch, mostly due to Roddimus' reckless haste in recovering his predecessor's corpse in lieu of caution, and several Autobots - including Superion and Defensor, two of the most powerful Autobot gestalts - are infected. However, the Decepticons had learned about Optimus Prime's recovery as well, and have shown up to terminate the once Autobot leader permanently, but are instead infected themselves. Fortunately, Roddimus, Jessica, and Galvatron manage to escape unharmed, the former two with Optimus' body; a few other Autobots manage to escape infection as well, but are badly wounded while attempting to subdue a sickened and crazed Superion. Back at Autobot City, Roddimus pleads to Wreck-Gar to try and repair Prime, but Prime is too far gone even for Junkion medical experience. Desperate, Roddimus contacts Sky Lynx and orders him to locate and bring back a Quintesson, remembering that they had [[Dark Awakening|once before restored Optimus to life]], before disconnecting Metroplex, keeping the city-former from becoming infected. However, just as he finishes the final steps to do so, an infected Ultra Magnus appears and has a short chase with Roddimus before being temporarily subdued by Wreck-Gar...who ends up becoming infected, and infecting Roddimus in return, for his efforts.

Now, with the Hate Plague, as it's now called, rampaging even to the ends of the galaxy, Sky Lynx finds an uninfected Quintesson who he's able to convince to help revive Optimus, even though he warns that - should anything go too awry during the process - there's a good chance that Optimus will never live again. It's touch-and-go for a while, but eventually, the Quintesson manages to pull through and Optimus is restored to full life, declaring that "no force in the Universe will be able to stop him".

==Animation errors==

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The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1

2006-11-29T07:28:08Z

66.233.188.87: /* Synopsis */

'''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation One]] > [[Generation 1 (television series)#Season 3|Season 3]]'''

'''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1''' is the first part of the two-part season finale of Season 3 of the ''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation 1 animated series]]''. Part 1 first aired on February 24, 1987.

===Synopsis===
While testing a new heat- and radiation-resistant alloy that they developed within deep space, scientists Jessica Morgan and Greggory Swafford detect a ship carrying Optimus Prime's body (see [[Dark Awakening]]) on a collision course with a planetoid orbitting a star they are researching nearby. Despite Greggory's reservations (his face was scarred in a previous scuffle between Optimus and Megatron, which he blames on Optimus), he is talked into helping Jessica rescue Prime's body before the ship collides with the planetoid, the impact of which also sets off the star into a supernova and coating their ship with unusual spores. Upon return to Earth, Jessica's father studies the spores and learns that they are not only alive, but are an [[Hate Plague|incredibly contagious viral agent]] that induces hatred and destructive urges into whoever they contaminate. After a new scuffle between the Technobots and Terrorcons over the new alloy gravely injures Jessica, her father is convinced by Greggory to try and resurrect Prime's body as a carrier of the spores against the Autobots, a sentiment exacerbated when it's learned Jessica was paralyzed from the waist down in the accident and now needs a special exosuit to walk. However, when reviving Prime's body turns out to be impossible for them, Greggory and Jessica's father decide to use it as bait for the other Autobots, forcing Jessica into luring them into a spore trap at the lab.

The trap goes off without a hitch, mostly due to Roddimus' reckless haste in recovering his predecessor's corpse in lieu of caution, and several Autobots - including Superion and Defensor, two of the most powerful Autobot gestalts - are infected. However, the Decepticons had learned about Optimus Prime's recovery as well, and have shown up to terminate the once Autobot leader permanently, but are instead infected themselves. Fortunately, Roddimus, Jessica, and Galvatron manage to escape unharmed, the former to with Optimus' body; a few other Autobots manage to escape infection as well, but are badly wounded while attempting to subdue a sickened and crazed Superion. Back at Autobot City, Roddimus pleads to Wreck-Gar to try and repair Prime, but Prime is too far gone even for Junkion medical experience. Desperate, Roddimus contacts Sky Lynx and orders him to locate and bring back a Quintesson, remembering that they had [[Dark Awakening|once before restored Optimus to life]], before disconnecting Metroplex, keeping the city-former from becoming infected. However, just as he finishes the final steps to do so, an infected Ultra Magnus appears and has a short chase with Roddimus before being temporarily subdued by Wreck-Gar...who ends up becoming infected, and infecting Roddimus in return, for his efforts.

Now, with the Hate Plague, as it's now called, rampaging even to the ends of the galaxy, Sky Lynx finds an uninfected Quintesson who he's able to convince to help revive Optimus, even though he warns that - should anything go too awry during the process - there's a good chance that Optimus will never live again. It's touch-and-go for a while, but eventually, the Quintesson manages to pull through and Optimus is restored to full life, declaring that "no force in the Universe will be able to stop him".

==Animation errors==

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The Agenda (Part III)

2006-11-29T07:21:58Z

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'''Writers:''' [[Bob Forward]]

His plans crumbling, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] takes a final stab at winning the Beast Wars and changing history.

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Original Air Date:''' March 12, 1998 (Cartoon Network Special); May 23, 1998 (Regular Syndication)

==Summary==
Extended summary

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*Glitch

===Continuity Errors===
*Error

===Transformers References===
*Originally, when Ravage switched sides, the G1 cartoon theme song was going to play during his first cry of "Decepticons Forever!" and subsequent attack on the Axalon. However, due to copyright constraints, this plan was dropped, and a more generic song was put in its place.

===Real-World References===
*Reference

==External Links==
*Link
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Nemesis Part 1

2006-11-28T12:41:04Z

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{{disambig3|Nemesis}}

'''Writers:''' [[Bob Forward]]

Down, but not out, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] discovers [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas']] secret tunnel network that leads to the [[Decepticon|Decepticon]] warship the [[Nemesis]].

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Original Air Date:''' May 6, 1999

==Summary==
Extended summary

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*Glitch

===Continuity Errors===
* All of the recounts of the Ark's and Nemesis' crash to Earth by both Megatron and Optimus (complete with the 'flashback' during Optimus' retelling), as well as that by Blackarachnia in [[The Agenda, Part 3]] clearly state that the Nemesis shot down the Ark in a grand space battle. However, in both [[More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1]] and the Marvel Comics rendition, this is not really the case; both clearly show the Decepticons tethering the Ark to the Nemesis for a forced boarding and firefight right before the crash, which had a hand in the crash (in fact, MTMTE clearly establishes the boarding and the gravitational anomalies it caused as the primary - if not sole reason - for the crash). There is no such reference to a boarding in any of the Beast Wars accounts, leaving the firefight between the ships as the sole reason for the crash. Why this account was established is unknown; though this accountis mentioned as a 'myth' (indicating that the real details behind it were lost during that time), it is known that Transformers living at that time (like [[Ravage]]) do still exist among them, discounting any natural means for the account to slip into legend unless all knowledge about that time were suppressed (a possibility, given the fact that [[Starscream]]'s records were confirmed sealed in ''[[Possession]]''. Also, although it is known that the show's creators had little knowledge of past Transformers continuity when they first made the show, Transformers guru [[Benson Yee]] was consulted for [[The Agenda]], who DID know about it, further questioning where and how the inaccurate recounts given in the series came about.

===Transformers References===
*References

===Real-World References===
*Reference

==External Links==
*Link
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Nemesis Part 1

2006-11-28T12:23:40Z

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{{disambig3|Nemesis}}

'''Writers:''' [[Bob Forward]]

Down, but not out, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] discovers [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas']] secret tunnel network that leads to the [[Decepticon|Decepticon]] warship the [[Nemesis]].

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Original Air Date:''' May 6, 1999

==Summary==
Extended summary

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*Glitch

===Continuity Errors===
* All of the recounts of the Ark's and Nemesis' crash to Earth by both Megatron and Optimus (complete with the 'flashback' during Optimus' retelling) clearly state that the Nemesis shot down the Ark in a grand space battle. However, in [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]] and Marvel's interpretation of the battle, both ships are grounded by gravitational distortions from Earth disrupting their orbits, while they are both tethered together by a tractor beam. This would account for why Megatron and the other Decepticons are on the Ark; the tractor beam was there to secure the Ark while they boarded. However, there ''was'' a firefight between the Autobots and Decepticons ''inside'' the Ark that may have contributed to the ship's orbit's destablization, but this isn't confirmed either way in the G1 continuity, and there are no references to the boarding or firefight in any of the Beast Wars recounts. It is interesting to note that the retellings by Optimus and Megatron are stated as 'myths', meaning that the truth of what happened back then was lost in time, but this makes no sense, either, as it's been confirmed that Transformers who were involved in the Ark/Nemesis battle (like [[Ravage]]) are still around and functional during the Beast Era, meaning that such a gross mistranslation of those events would be nigh-impossible, unless purposely suppressed (which, considering the Maximal Elders' designating Earth as off-limits, is a possibility). Behind the scenes, this version of the Ark/Nemesis incident gets even more confusing, as it's known that Transformers guru [[Ben Yee]] was consulted for the three-part episode, which should have informed them about what really happened.

===Transformers References===
*References

===Real-World References===
*Reference

==External Links==
*Link
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The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2

2006-11-20T06:48:55Z

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'''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation One]] > [[Generation 1 (television series)#Season 3|Season 3]]'''

'''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2''' is the second part of the two-part season finale of Season 3 of the ''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation 1 animated series]]''. Part 2 first aired on February 25, 1987.

===Synopsis===
Optimus Prime, now fully restored to life by Sky Lynx and a Quintesson survivor of the rampant Hate Plague that's infecting the universe, demands to know what has happened during his time in the Allspark. Sky Lynx recaps the events that had conspired to bring him back, including Jessica Morgan's valiant play to save him from total destruction, the discovery of the [[Hate Plague]] spores, and the trap laid out by Jessica's father and her partner, Greggory Swafford to infect the Autobots with the spores in revenge, which ultimately spiraled out of control. It was thought by Roddimus, before his infection, that Prime would know what it would take to stop the plague, but Prime admits that he doesn't have that knowledge; without the accumulated wisdom within the Matrix of Leadership (which now resides in Roddimus), he doesn't have a clue as to where to start. That is, until Jessica comes forward with the experimental alloy that she, her father, and Greggory had worked on, which proved strong enough to block the spores. Theoretically, coating Optimus with this alloy would protect himself from the spore's infection and allow him to get close enough to Roddimus to extract the Matrix from him. However, all remaining alloy samples were stolen by the Decepticons, prompting Optimus to restore the remaining non-infected Autobots to full operation and lead them to find any uninfected Decepticons.

Meanwhile, on Charr, Galvatron is pinned down by his own mutinously diseased soldiers, unable to fight back against their maddening ferocity...until Optimus and his team arrive to save the day, convincing Galvatron that it would be in his best interest to join in an alliance with them. As is his way, however, the Decepticon leader is suspicious of Optimus' motives, especially when he leans they need the alloy he stole, but cannot get a reason for it out of them. He leads Optimus and his gang down a series of boobytrapped tunnels, their numbers dwindling from the tunnel's natural hazards and the infected Decepticon mob behind them, until only Optimus, Galvatron, Sky Lynx, and Jessica arrive at the alloy's hiding place. Unfortunately, Jessie accidentally lets slip their plan to coat Optimus with the metal after confirming there would be enough of it to do the job, prompting Galvatron to turn on Optimus in hopes of using the process on himself, but he is soon subdued by Sky Lynx. Under coersion, Galvatron loads the alloy onto Prime's trailer, but doesn't notice that an infected Cyclonus has managed to sneak in, infecting Jessica in the process. Jessica, in turn, infects Galvatron, forcing Sky Lynx and Optimus to flee back to Earth.

Once on Earth, Optimus is coated with the alloy, and sets out to find Roddimus. He finds him, taking down infected Transformers with reckless glee, and attempts to reason with him, which fails. Unwilling to hurt his successor, Prime lurs Roddimus to a nearby auto shop, attempting to peacefully subdue and talk Roddimus into helping him, but the Hate Plague is overriding any effort to do so, forcing Optimus to knock Roddimus out and take the Matrix back by force. Back at Autobot City, Optimus dives into the Matrix, questioning the elders of the past in reverse chronological order (of their history) to try and find out any information on the spores, risking becoming lost within the Matrix itself. While he is doing this, the Quintesson that revived him notices a troop of infected Transformers attempting to get in, and manages to temporarily shut them out, givingn Optimus the time he needs to finally find his answer. He learns that, in a period of pre-Cybertronian history, the Plague ''has'' visited the planet before, but was contained and sealed inside the star Jessica and Greggory found it in using sheer wisdom, though even back then, no one had the wisdom to destroy the spores, and now that it has spread so much throughout the galaxy, it's doubtful that anyone has the wisdom to even contain them again. Optimus then realizes that a source of raw wisdom may be available to destroy the infection once and for all: the accumulated wisdom within the Matrix of Leadership.

Optimus awakens just before Galvatron gets set to impale him with a metal pole, and releases the energy of the Matrix, which spreads across the universe and totally eradicates the Plague. It even seems to, at least temporarily, cure Greggory and Jessica's father of their hatred for Autobots, and Galvatron of his own madness, both of which call a truce with Optimus. It is then that Roddimus (now Hot Rod, without the Matrix within him) notes that the Matrix is now empty, its wisdom supposedly lost in order to stop the plague. Optimus, however, disagrees; they have all become a little wiser, now, and although the Matrix is indeed empty of wisdom, it is up to them from then on to fill it again with their knowledge and experience. The episode ends with Optimus, back in command of the Autobots, ordering his troops to "Transform and roll out".

==Animation errors==

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The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2

2006-11-20T06:47:45Z

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'''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation One]] > [[Generation 1 (television series)#Season 3|Season 3]]'''

'''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2''' is the second part of the two-part season finale of Season 3 of the ''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation 1 animated series]]''. Part 2 first aired on February 25, 1987.

===Synopsis===
Optimus Prime is fully restored to life, and is now demanding what has happened during his time in the Allspark. Sky Lynx recaps the events that had conspired to bring him back, including Jessica Morgan's valiant play to save him from total destruction, the discovery of the [[Hate Plague]] spores, and the trap laid out by Jessica's father and her partner, Greggory Swafford to infect the Autobots with the spores in revenge, which ultimately spiraled out of control. It was thought by Roddimus, before his infection, that Prime would know what it would take to stop the plague, but Prime admits that he doesn't have that knowledge; without the accumulated wisdom within the Matrix of Leadership (which now resides in Roddimus), he doesn't have a clue as to where to start. That is, until Jessica comes forward with the experimental alloy that she, her father, and Greggory had worked on, which proved strong enough to block the spores. Theoretically, coating Optimus with this alloy would protect himself from the spore's infection and allow him to get close enough to Roddimus to extract the Matrix from him. However, all remaining alloy samples were stolen by the Decepticons, prompting Optimus to restore the remaining non-infected Autobots to full operation and lead them to find any uninfected Decepticons.

Meanwhile, on Charr, Galvatron is pinned down by his own mutinously diseased soldiers, unable to fight back against their maddening ferocity...until Optimus and his team arrive to save the day, convincing Galvatron that it would be in his best interest to join in an alliance with them. As is his way, however, the Decepticon leader is suspicious of Optimus' motives, especially when he leans they need the alloy he stole, but cannot get a reason for it out of them. He leads Optimus and his gang down a series of boobytrapped tunnels, their numbers dwindling from the tunnel's natural hazards and the infected Decepticon mob behind them, until only Optimus, Galvatron, Sky Lynx, and Jessica arrive at the alloy's hiding place. Unfortunately, Jessie accidentally lets slip their plan to coat Optimus with the metal after confirming there would be enough of it to do the job, prompting Galvatron to turn on Optimus in hopes of using the process on himself, but he is soon subdued by Sky Lynx. Under coersion, Galvatron loads the alloy onto Prime's trailer, but doesn't notice that an infected Cyclonus has managed to sneak in, infecting Jessica in the process. Jessica, in turn, infects Galvatron, forcing Sky Lynx and Optimus to flee back to Earth.

Once on Earth, Optimus is coated with the alloy, and sets out to find Roddimus. He finds him, taking down infected Transformers with reckless glee, and attempts to reason with him, which fails. Unwilling to hurt his successor, Prime lurs Roddimus to a nearby auto shop, attempting to peacefully subdue and talk Roddimus into helping him, but the Hate Plague is overriding any effort to do so, forcing Optimus to knock Roddimus out and take the Matrix back by force. Back at Autobot City, Optimus dives into the Matrix, questioning the elders of the past in reverse chronological order (of their history) to try and find out any information on the spores, risking becoming lost within the Matrix itself. While he is doing this, the Quintesson that revived him notices a troop of infected Transformers attempting to get in, and manages to temporarily shut them out, givingn Optimus the time he needs to finally find his answer. He learns that, in a period of pre-Cybertronian history, the Plague ''has'' visited the planet before, but was contained and sealed inside the star Jessica and Greggory found it in using sheer wisdom, though even back then, no one had the wisdom to destroy the spores, and now that it has spread so much throughout the galaxy, it's doubtful that anyone has the wisdom to even contain them again. Optimus then realizes that a source of raw wisdom may be available to destroy the infection once and for all: the accumulated wisdom within the Matrix of Leadership.

Optimus awakens just before Galvatron gets set to impale him with a metal pole, and releases the energy of the Matrix, which spreads across the universe and totally eradicates the Plague. It even seems to, at least temporarily, cure Greggory and Jessica's father of their hatred for Autobots, and Galvatron of his own madness, both of which call a truce with Optimus. It is then that Roddimus (now Hot Rod, without the Matrix within him) notes that the Matrix is now empty, its wisdom supposedly lost in order to stop the plague. Optimus, however, disagrees; they have all become a little wiser, now, and although the Matrix is indeed empty of wisdom, it is up to them from then on to fill it again with their knowledge and experience. The episode ends with Optimus, back in command of the Autobots, ordering his troops to "Transform and roll out".

==Animation errors==

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The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1

2006-11-20T06:16:01Z

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'''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation One]] > [[Generation 1 (television series)#Season 3|Season 3]]'''

'''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1''' is the first part of the two-part season finale of Season 3 of the ''[[Generation 1 (television series)|Generation 1 animated series]]''. Part 1 first aired on February 24, 1987.

===Synopsis===
While testing a new heat- and radiation-resistant alloy that they developed within deep space, scientists Jessica Morgan and Greggory Swafford detect a ship carrying Optimus Prime's body (see [[Dark Awakening]]) on a collision course with a planetoid orbitting a star they are researching nearby. Despite Greggory's reservations (his face was scarred in a previous scuffle between Optimus and Megatron, which he blames on Optimus), he is talked into helping Jessica rescue Prime's body before the ship collides with the planetoid, the impact of which also sets off the star into a supernova and coating their ship with unusual spores. Upon return to Earth, Jessica's father studies the spores and learns that they are not only alive, but are an [[Hate Plague|incredibly contagious viral agent]] that induces hatred and destructive urges into whoever they contaminate. After a new scuffle between the Technobots and Horrorcons over the new alloy gravely injures Jessica, her father is convinced by Greggory to try and resurrect Prime's body as a carrier of the spores against the Autobots, a sentiment exacerbated when it's learned Jessica was paralyzed from the waist down in the accident and now needs a special exosuit to walk. However, when reviving Prime's body turns out to be impossible for them, Greggory and Jessica's father decide to use it as bait for the other Autobots, forcing Jessica into luring them into a spore trap at the lab.

The trap goes off without a hitch, mostly due to Roddimus' reckless haste in recovering his predecessor's corpse in lieu of caution, and several Autobots - including Superion and Defensor, two of the most powerful Autobot gestalts - are infected. However, the Decepticons had learned about Optimus Prime's recovery as well, and have shown up to terminate the once Autobot leader permanently, but are instead infected themselves. Fortunately, Roddimus, Jessica, and Galvatron manage to escape unharmed, the former to with Optimus' body; a few other Autobots manage to escape infection as well, but are badly wounded while attempting to subdue a sickened and crazed Superion. Back at Autobot City, Roddimus pleads to Wreck-Gar to try and repair Prime, but Prime is too far gone even for Junkion medical experience. Desperate, Roddimus contacts Sky Lynx and orders him to locate and bring back a Quintesson, remembering that they had [[Dark Awakening|once before restored Optimus to life]], before disconnecting Metroplex, keeping the city-former from becoming infected. However, just as he finishes the final steps to do so, an infected Ultra Magnus appears and has a short chase with Roddimus before being temporarily subdued by Wreck-Gar...who ends up becoming infected, and infecting Roddimus in return, for his efforts.

Now, with the Hate Plague, as it's now called, rampaging even to the ends of the galaxy, Sky Lynx finds an uninfected Quintesson who he's able to convince to help revive Optimus, even though he warns that - should anything go too awry during the process - there's a good chance that Optimus will never live again. It's touch-and-go for a while, but eventually, the Quintesson manages to pull through and Optimus is restored to full life, declaring that "no force in the Universe will be able to stop him".

==Animation errors==

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Maze

2006-11-09T08:49:05Z

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'''The Maze''' is a location on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] where [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], with the aid of [[Daniel Witwicky]], and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] raced each other. It appears to be a sort of Autobot gauntlet for training against Decepticons, and is notorious for its sharp, narrow twisting corridors that requires precision over speed to make it through without incident.

[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] attributed Hot Rod's victory in said race to the fact that he had help from a human. He took this as evidence in support of his theory that the Autobots could function better with the aid of secondary operators. This theory would eventually lead to the creation of the [[Headmaster]]s. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}}

[[Category:Generation 1]]
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Inferno (BW)

2006-11-06T10:16:55Z

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{{Template:Disambig3|Inferno}}

:''Inferno is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] in the [[Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

[[Image:Infernobwpostcard.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"Pain is my friend -- allow me to introduce ''you'' to it!"]]

'''Inferno''' wholeheartedly believes that he is an ant and that [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] is his queen. Unlike many Predacons, he has no personal ambitions or future plans; everything he does is for the good of the colony and his queen. Luckily for Inferno, many of the tasks his queen assigns him involve burning things - and he likes burning things.

Keeping with his ant mentality, Inferno has absolutely no regard for his own personal safety whatsoever. He is fanatically loyal to Megatron, and as such will use his heavy firepower and incredible strength full-on and take any task given of him, no matter how suicidal. And he'll do it laughing maniacally the entire time, for the glory of the colony.

''Spanish name: '''Infierno''' ''

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====''Beast Wars''====
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Jim Byrnes]] (US), [[Shinichiro Miki]] (Japan)
{{storylink|Spider's Game}}

When Inferno's [[stasis pod]] crashed to prehistoric [[Earth]], [[Tarantulas]] and [[Blackarachnia]] immediately set out to claim him as their own. Unfortunantly, Inferno had been awakened automatically, having scanned the form of a fire ant. Moreover, due to the damage his pod received entering the atmosphere, Inferno was wholly convinced that he was an actual fire ant and that his stasis pod was his "colony". [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] arrived at the scene and is immediately attacked by Inferno and Blackarachnia. Durring the fight Tarantulas escaped with the stasis pod, which was his real goal, and an enraged Inferno followed. Persuing the Predacons, [[Tigatron]] was able to destroy the stasis pod before Tarantulas was able to get it to his lab. This act put Inferno completely over the edge and he (if possible) went even crazier. Before he could finish Tigatron off however, [[Optimus Primal|Optimus]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] showed up and blew him to bits. However, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] took an immediate shine to the brutish psychopath and had him restored, possibly with some mental improvements, and thereafter Inferno was fanatically loyal to Megatron (thinking of him as his "Queen"). A few death threats changed Inferno's words to calling Megatron "The Royalty."

In subsequent skirmishes, he killed Tigatron's mate, discovered and recovered the [[Alien Disk]], and was sent to assassinate the treacherous Tarantulas, though the latter ended in temporary defeat while the [[Vok]]'s [[Planet Buster]] ravaged the planet's surface.

When [[Ravage]] arrived in the Beast Wars and Megatron's troops were scattered, Inferno sacrificed himself by detonating a huge cache of [[Energon]] in a failed attempt to defeat the Maximals. Despite his apparent vaporization, he revived yet again, though with several holes in his chassis.

As the Beast Wars conflict escalated, Inferno's importance and intimidation factor declined. When he was sent (alongside [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] and [[Waspinator]]) to destroy a [[protohuman]] settlement, not only was he beaten severly by the cavemen, he was also accidently killed when he was caught in the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''' firing range.

His head was used thereafter by the protohumans as a drum.

====''Tales of the Beast Wars: Critical Mass''====

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
* Inferno
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-11'''

===Beast Wars Metals===
* Metals Inferno
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-46'''

==Trivia==
* No one knows exactly ''how'' Inferno's beast mode became so dominant; his stasis pod was perfectly intact upon landing, thus ruling out any problems due to damaged circuitry, and Tarantulas' other attempts at reprogramming Maximals caused no such glitch in personality. The primary theory given is that - as Inferno's pod was already in the midsts of a scan for an altmode when Tarantulas administered the shell program - the interruption caused by this interference created the glitch.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Inferno/inferno.htm Inferno at TFU.info]

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Depth Charge (BW)

2006-11-06T09:53:52Z

66.233.188.87: /* Beast Wars */

:''Depth Charge is a [[Transmetal]] [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1]]/[[Beast Era]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Depthchargebw.jpg|right|thumb|250px|I'm Batman.]]

'''Depth Charge''' is a powerful but insubordinate Maximal whose singular goal in life is to hunt down and either capture or destroy [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]]. He has a joyless, insatiable lust for justice.

''French name: '''Torpille''' ''<br>
''Spanish name: '''Manta Raya'''<br>
''Italian name: '''Abyssal'''

==Fiction==
===Beast Wars===
'''Voice Actor''' [[David Sobolov]] (US), [[Kiyoyuki Yanada]] (Japan)

Depth Charge was a security officer on [[Colony Omicron]] when Protoform X broke free and went on a rampage. As the colony's sole survivor, Depth Charge made hunting down "X" his only mission in life. Pursuing Protoform X to places throughout the Universe (including [[Starbase Rugby]]) Depth Charge successfully captured Protoform X, and turned him over to the [[Maximal Elder]]s. The Elders decided that Protoform X should be placed in stasis aboard the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]] and dumped on an uninhabited world.

Knowing that "[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Primal]] would screw it up", Depth Charge continued to monitor the Universe for any trace of Protoform X. The sensors on his [[Starhopper]] picked up traces of Protoform X just as he was pulled through a temporal anomaly. The resulting crash left him on prehistoric Earth with a transmetal Manta Ray body, and put him right in the middle of the Beast Wars.

Depth Charge became a wild card for the Maximals. They never knew if he could be counted on, as his pursuit of Rampage always took precedent. In the end, Depth Charge and Rampage met in a final battle (ironically, this engagement was the only one that Depth Charge did NOT want, as he was preoccupied with stopping [[Megatron (Beast Wars)|Megatron]] from claiming the newly-discovered [[Nemesis]]), with Depth Charge shoving an energon crystal through Rampage's spark. The resulting explosion killed both combatants.

===IDW Beast Wars Comics===
Depth Charge was observed emerging from the water by [[Magmatron (BW)|Magmatron]] and [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]]; due to their chronal displacement, they could see him, but he could not see them.

===Universe===

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
*'''Depth Charge''' (Ultra Transmetal, 1998)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-46'''

===Universe===
*'''Depthcharge''' (Ultra, 2004)

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Maximal/DepthCharge/depthcharge.htm Depth Charge at TFU.info]

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Beast (planet)

2006-11-06T07:27:40Z

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:''Beest is a planet in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

'''Beest''' is a distant planet inhabited by a race of anthropomorphic animals known as the [[Beastformers|Battle Beasts]]. Beest used to be a relatively peaceful planet, with dissenters few and generally quiet about their dissatisfaction with the planet's then-rulers, until the Transformers came to stir things up, with each faction joining with their appropriate Battle Beast counterparts.

''('''Note:''' The only official English interpretation of the planet's name appeared in the Dreamwave Summer Special, where it was referred to as "Planet Beest". Previously, the planet was simply spelled "Planet Beast" in most English episode guides written by fans, as no English version of the name was ever officially released.)''

==Fiction==
===Headmasters cartoon===

Planet Beest first appeared in the 5th episode of the Japanese-exclusive Transformers [[Headmasters]] cartoon, "Rebellion on Planet Beest". In that episode, the Autobots come into contact with two refuge Battle Beasts who have come to seek help. The Decepticons invaded planet Beest and helped the enemy forces of [[Alligatron]] take control. The Autobots then assisted the good Battle Beasts free planet Beest from Decepticon tyranny.

====Headmasters manga====

Planet Beest appeared again in the 30-page [[manga]] special, "Great Decisive Battle of Planet Beest". Once again, the Decepticons have teamed up with Alligatron to take over planet Beest. The good Battle Beasts under the command of [[White Leo]] send for help from the Autobots, who arrive to help defeat the Decepticons and Alligatron.

===Dreamwave comic continuity===

After being ejected out into deep space by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] finds himself on the planet Beest in the middle of the war of the Battle Beasts. Megatron becomes aware that the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] have taken refuge on Beest and proceeds to hunt them down.

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Astrotrain (G1)

2006-11-06T07:17:48Z

66.233.188.87: /* Classics */

{{disambig2|the [[Triple Changer]] from [[Generation 1]]|the bounty hunter/pirate from ''Cybertron''|Astrotrain (Cybertron)}}

:''Astrotrain is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

[[Image:Astrotraing1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Choo Choo Rocket!]]

'''Astrotrain''' loves to sow confusion. To this end, his [[Triple Changer]] abilities serve him well. Nothing pleases him more than confronting an Autobot in a dark corner and making him wonder if he's up against one Decepticon or two. He craves having this power over others. Single-minded, you may say, but when most of your time is spent transporting troops around, you have to take your jollies where you can.

He also craves having power over a massive army of train drones. Follow your dreams, Astrotrain. Follow your dreams.

''Italian name:'' '''Triplex Uno'''

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Jack Angel]] (US), [[Takurō Kitagawa]] (Japan)

With the help of [[Blitzwing]], Astrotrain froze Megatron and Starscream in sewer system in order to take over the Decpticons. He then created an army of trains to help him rule, thinking it was a good idea. The productive day ended with him flooding the entire city, after bursting a water main. The embarassment of these incididents forced him to creep back into the Decepticon ranks quietly. At gunpoint.

=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform: The Transformers'' manga=====
Astrotrain photographed the incomplete [[Autobot City]], with the aid of [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector's]] camera mode, allowing the Decepticons to build [[ Trypticon]] from the stolen specs.

===Marvel Comics continuity===

Astrotrain shows up among a crowd of Decepticons all fired up to tackle the armies of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], just before they're pretty much slaughtered.

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
He isn't [[Quintessa]].

===IDW comics continuity===

Astrotrain is part of a Decepticon insurgent cell that has operated covertly on Earth for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. He oversees the extraction and refinement of the mysterious, Energon-like substance, [[Ore-13]].

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
* '''Astrotrain''' (1986, 2005)
* "White" Astrotrain
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''48'''
: This toy was a Japanese exclusive, and was released in 1985. Astrotrain's 1986 Japan release was in US toy colors

* '''Astrotrain''' (proto color version)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''48'''
: This Astrotrain was released in the colors used on the original toy's packaging and in the cartoon

* Transformer Collection Astrotrain
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''48''', '''TFC-11'''
: White version, but with ''NASA'' stickers changed to ''ASTR'', and with white paint on the shuttle side of the die-cast front.

===Classics===
*'''Astrotrain''' (Deluxe, 2006)
:This version, in an attempt to update the character, eschews the archaic steam locomotive altmode for a more modern (but arguably less convincing} bullet train alt.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Decepticon/Astrotrain/astrotrain.htm Astrotrain at TFU.info]

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Cryotek (RID)

2006-11-06T02:56:39Z

66.233.188.87: /* Robots in Disguise */

:''Cryotek is a [[Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] and [[Universe]] series. His toy, however, was released under the [[Robots in Disguise]] banner. ''

[[Image:Cryotek.jpg|right|thumb|300px|It's almost as if he's been doing ''too much'' science.]]

'''Cryotek''' is a gangster in [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s dangerous criminal underworld. Once a brilliant engineer, he grew increasingly dissatisfied with his fellow [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]' actions (or lack thereof) after the war. Turning his talents to crime, he has become Cybertron's most dangerous outlaw.

Ironically, Cryotek's claim to fame would be his protege, the rogue Predacon who would be called [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]. Cryotek's greatest ideas would be co-opted by his former student, including technology for [[spark extractor]]s and even his plan for the theft of the [[Golden Disk]]. If there's one thing Cryotek's pride cannot stand, it's his own failures.

[[Chro]] can often be seen perching on his shoulder.

==Fiction==
===Universe: The Wreckers===
Cryotek began a business partnership with the [[Quintesson]]s, manipulating several groups of survivors of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s virus into orchestrating his grand plan.

==Toys==
===Robots in Disguise===
*'''Cryotek''' (Ultra, 2001)

:Cryotek, a [[redeco]] of [[Transmetal 2]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] in blue, teal, and purple chrome, was a Target [[exclusive]] in 2001. He transforms from a robot into a cyborg-like dragon and can launch a missile from the top of his robot head. He also has a third "dragster" mode which is best forgotten.

: Both this mold and [[Tigerhawk]]'s mold share a gimmick that was dropped before release -- a cockpit bubble where a tiny "[[spark]] figure" would have piloted the character. [[Hasbro]] dropped the concept due to it junking around with the ''Transformers'' mythos (as it was feared fans would mistake the "spark figures" as humanoid pilots for a non-sentient transforming robot {a la ''[[Diaclone]]''} instead of being representations of the spark essence of a living, breathing Transformer), but the cockpit bubbles remain on both toys (and their redecos). A limited-edition Japanese release of the toy restored the "spark figure" feature, however.

==Trivia==

The name "Cryotek" was first used by a hero from Hasbro's mid-Eighties action figure line ''Visionaries''.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Predacon/Cryotek/cryotek.htm Cryotek at TFU.info]

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Gorilla Warfare

2006-11-06T02:07:08Z

66.233.188.87: /* Summary */

'''Writers:''' [[Greg Johnson]]

'''Summary:''' A virus, courtesy of [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] turns [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus]] into an overly aggressive fighting machine.

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Original Air Date:''' October 14, 1996

==Summary==
While out on a specimen gathering mission, Optimus Primal and Dinobot are ambushed by a small team of Predacons lead by Scorponok, who manages to implant a Cyber Bee onto Optimus' chest before being driven away. Back at base, it's learned that the Bee contains a viral mine designed by Scorponok to infect Optimus' core systems and humble his personality, making him too cowardly to adequately lead. Because the mine has infected all of Primal's core systems, removing the Bee is impossible without killing the Maximal commander, and doing so would trigger a self-destruct in the Bee that would destroy everything within a given radius, regardless.

However, when the mine is fully activated, it ends up having the opposite effect on Primal, turning him into a crazed berserker. Obviously, Scorponok's 'notorious incompetence' has caused the Predacons' plan to backfire. Still, in his current state, Primal is now a danger to himself and his teammates, and is still at risk of perishing under the system drain of the mine, forcing the Maximals to confine him while they delegate over what to do next, knowing that Scorponok would have the antivirus for the mine but unsure of how to acquire it. With what little bit of clarity he has left, Optimus convinces Cheetor that they could use the mine against the Preds, taking advantage of their lack of knowledge of the mine's malfunction to launch a surprise assault to force the Preds into relinquishing the antivirus, but when brought to the rest of the crew, his plan is shot down as being far too risky and dangerous to attempt, prompting Optimus to strike out on his own.

Their options running short, Dinobot ironically suggests they 'think like the old Optimus' and suggests negotiating with the Predacons for the cure, but their attempt only serves to give the Predacons advanced warning of Optimus' new state and his oncoming assault. Now with the Preds on full alert and with no other course of action to take, the Maximals begrudgingly follow Optimus to the Darksyde to give him covering fire in his one-ape assault. Meanwhile, Optimus manages to thrash through all of the Darksyde crew before confronting Megatron, who teasingly dangles the cure in front of his nose while giving an ultimatum: submit to him and live, or stay defiant and die from the mine. Optimus, inspired by a plant specimen from the mission at the beginning of the episode, chooses a third option, and rips the Bee from his chest, activating its self-destruct while tossing it onto Megatron, who is forced to drop the antiviris and flee to Scorponok for help. Fortunately for Primal, the calvary manages to arrive just in time for Cheetor to grab the cure and administrate it to the Maximal leader before his spark gives out, and the Cyber Bee blows. With the crisis averted, the Maximals return to the Axalon to nurse their commander back to health.

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*Glitch

===Continuity Errors===
*Error

===Transformers References===
*This episode has the first reference to a [[Spark]] in any Transformer animated continuity.

===Real-World References===
*Reference

==External Links==
*Link
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Cosmic Rust (disease)

2006-10-19T04:15:03Z

66.233.188.87: /* Animated Continuity */

'''Cosmic Rust''' is one of the few ailments capable of affecting Transformers. The affected Transformer starts growing a rust-like substance all over their body. Eventually, the corrosion causes the Transformer to waste away to nothing.

===Animated Continuity===

It was first discovered in the ruins of an ancient [[Autobot]] colony in deep space, on the planet [[Antilla]]. The [[Decepticon]]s who visited the planet were accidentally infected by the rust courtesy of a stray meteor. The radiation provided from a weapon found on the planet (known as The [[Lightning Bug]]) caused the virus to accelerate substantially.

The only cure for Cosmic Rust was a substance called [[Corr-o-Stop]], invented by [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] to remove corrosion of any form and protect substances from future corrosion.

===Binaltech===
This 'Cosmic Rust' disease once again surfaced in the backstory for the Japanese toyline, Binaltech. Here, the Decepticons flood the Earth with it, destroying the Autobot's original bodies - before apparently backfiring on the Decepticons once again. The Rust itself is never cured, but humans build new bodies for the Transformers in the 'Binaltech' project.

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Talk:Nightstalker (G1)

2006-10-14T03:04:37Z

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I'm sorry-- clone? Identical, doppleganger, twin, lookalike... but clone? Clone has a specific meaning. I don't think Nightstalker rises to it. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 23:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

*Clone, in the sense that the creator of the character clearly based it off of Ravage. True, it's not a "Clone" (capitalized), but for all intents and purposes, he was pretty much Ravage as an Autobot.
**Clone isn't a proper noun. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 11:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
***It is when we talk about Autobot or Decepticon clones. I do believe the 'proper' way of pronouncing them is Clones with a capital C.

Night Stalker being one of the Design A Decepticon contest winners is less noteworthy than the entry makes it appear, as it wasn't a first/second/third place type of contest - there were easily over a dozen "winners" spread across three issues. I assume that Marvel simply printed a handful of however many submissions they received. Not sure how to edit the entry to reflect that.--[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 16:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Overlord (rank)

2006-10-14T02:33:49Z

66.233.188.87: /* Marvel Comics UK continuity */

''The Overlords were a group of Autobots from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

The Overlords were the ruling council on [[Cybertron]] before the onset of the [[Great War]]. Their home base was [[Iacon]].

==Marvel Comics UK continuity==

During a time immediately prior to the [[Cybertronian Civil Wars]], the planet was broken up into a galla of warring city-states, ruled over (rather pathetically) by the last of the Autobot Overlords. This aging, rusted husk of a mech - enfeebled to the point of needing a near-constant supply of energon injected directly into his body to keep himself functional - had attempted to quell the fighting between two such providences, those of [[Tarn]] and [[Vos]], with the suggestion of settling their disputes through glatiatorial combat, instead of all-out conflict. The talks went sour, however, and as war began brewing between the two city-states once again, the Overlord - accompanied by his trusted bodyguards [[Nightstalker]] and [[Ravage]], along with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-neutral [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] - was forced to beat a hasty retreat back to Iacon.

He didn't get far, however, before the Tarn forces cornered him and his party at the ruins of the bridge to Iacon, the forces having demolished it to prevent their quarry from escaping. Jumping the gap, Optimus went on ahead to gather reinforcements, while Megatron and the bodyguards held their ground. Unfortunately, they quickly realized just how outnumbered they really were, and both Megatron and Ravage suggested they try to jump the gap, as well. Nightstalker, in an extreme show of loyalty to his charge, defied their suggestion and sacrificed himself to take out the Tarn army, instead of leaving the Overlord behind to save their own skins.

His sacrifice was in vain; now almost completely out of energon, the Overlord pleaded to both Megatron and Ravage to spare some of their own energy to keep him alive, but they rebuffed him. Megatron was convinced that he would make a bettler leader of Cybertron even then, and Ravage was convinced to agree, noting that Megatron was the planet's best chance of weathering the inevitable change on the horizon. Faced with this shocking betrayal of his most trusted comrades, the Overlord was left to perish, his death retold by Megatron to all who asked as his circuits giving out from the stresses of escaping the Tarn army.
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Overlord (rank)

2006-10-10T14:57:30Z

66.233.188.87: /* Marvel Comics UK continuity */

''The Overlords were a group of Autobots from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

The Overlords were the ruling council on [[Cybertron]] before the onset of the [[Great War]]. Their home base was [[Iacon]].

==Marvel Comics UK continuity==

During a time immediately prior to the [[Cybertronian Civil Wars]], the planet was broken up into a galla of warring city-states, ruled over (rather pathetically) by the last of the Autobot Overlords. This aging, rusted husk of a mech - enfeebled to the point of needing a near-constant supply of energon injected directly into his body to keep himself functional - had attempted to quell the fighting between two such providences, those of [[Tarn]] and [[Vos]], with the suggestion of settling their disputes through glatiatorial combat, instead of all-out conflict. The talks went sour, however, and as war began brewing between the two city-states once again, the Overlord - accompanied by his trusted bodyguards [[Nightstalker]] and [[Ravage]], along with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-neutral [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] - was forced to beat a hasty retreat back to Iacon.

He didn't get far, however, before the Tarn forces cornered him and his party at the ruins of the bridge to Iacon, the forces having demolished it to preven their quarry from escaping. Jumping the gap, Optimus went on ahead to gather reinforcements, while Megatron and the bodyguards held their ground. who began to quickly realize just how outnumbered they really were. When all hope seemed lost, Nightstalker, in an extreme show of loyalty to his charge, jumped into the middle of the Tarn forces and self-destructed, choosing to sacrifice his own life to destroy the enemy and save the Overlord than abandon the elderly Autobot and save himself. His sacrifice succeeded in defeating the Tarn forces, but in vain; now almost completely out of energon to sustain him, the Overlord pleaded to Megatron, then Ravage to sacrifice some of their own energy to keep him alive, only to be rebuffed by both, believing it was time for a change, and that Megatron represented the planet's best chance for that change. With this betrayal, the rusting scrap pile that was the Overlord perished, his death glossed over by Megatron to those who asked him as the old mech's circuits failing from the stresses of the Tarn attack.
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Overlord (rank)

2006-10-10T14:54:41Z

66.233.188.87: /* Marvel Comics UK continuity */

''The Overlords were a group of Autobots from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

The Overlords were the ruling council on [[Cybertron]] before the onset of the [[Great War]]. Their home base was [[Iacon]].

==Marvel Comics UK continuity==

During a time immediately prior to the [[Cybertron Civil Wars]], the planet was broken up into a galla of warring city-states, ruled over (rather pathetically) by the last of the Autobot Overlords. This aging, rusted husk of a mech - enfeebled to the point of needing a near-constant supply of energon injected directly into his body to keep himself functional - had attempted to quell the fighting between two such providences, those of [[Tarn]] and [[Vos]], with the suggestion of settling their disputes through glatiatorial combat, instead of all-out conflict. The talks went sour, however, and as war began brewing between the two city-states once again, the Overlord - accompanied by his trusted bodyguards [[Nightstalker]] and [[Ravage]], along with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-neutral [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] - was forced to beat a hasty retreat back to Iacon.

He didn't get far, however, before the Tarn forces cornered him and his party at the ruins of the bridge to Iacon, the forces having demolished it to preven their quarry from escaping. Jumping the gap, Optimus went on ahead to gather reinforcements, while Megatron and the bodyguards held their ground. who began to quickly realize just how outnumbered they really were. When all hope seemed lost, Nightstalker, in an extreme show of loyalty to his charge, jumped into the middle of the Tarn forces and self-destructed, choosing to sacrifice his own life to destroy the enemy and save the Overlord than abandon the elderly Autobot and save himself. His sacrifice succeeded in defeating the Tarn forces, but in vain; now almost completely out of energon to sustain him, the Overlord pleaded to Megatron, then Ravage to sacrifice some of their own energy to keep him alive, only to be rebuffed by both, believing it was time for a change, and that Megatron represented the planet's best chance for that change. With this betrayal, the rusting scrap pile that was the Overlord perished, his death glossed over by Megatron to those who asked him as the old mech's circuits failing from the stresses of the Tarn attack.
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Overlord (rank)

2006-10-10T14:52:40Z

66.233.188.87: /* Marvel Comics UK continuity */

''The Overlords were a group of Autobots from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

The Overlords were the ruling council on [[Cybertron]] before the onset of the [[Great War]]. Their home base was [[Iacon]].

==Marvel Comics UK continuity==

During a time immediately prior to the [[Cybertron Civil War]], the planet was broken up into a galla of warring city-states, ruled over (rather pathetically) by the last of the Autobot Overlords. This aging, rusted husk of a mech - enfeebled to the point of needing a near-constant supply of energon injected directly into his body to keep himself functional - had attempted to quell the fighting between two such providences, those of [[Tarn]] and [[Vos]], with the suggestion of settling their disputes through glatiatorial combat, instead of all-out conflict. The talks went sour, however, and as war began brewing between the two city-states once again, the Overlord - accompanied by his trusted bodyguards [[Nightstalker]] and [[Ravage]], along with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-neutral [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] - was forced to beat a hasty retreat back to Iacon.

He didn't get far, however, before the Tarn forces cornered him and his party at the ruins of the bridge to Iacon, the forces having demolished it to preven their quarry from escaping. Jumping the gap, Optimus went on ahead to gather reinforcements, while Megatron and the bodyguards held their ground. who began to quickly realize just how outnumbered they really were. When all hope seemed lost, Nightstalker, in an extreme show of loyalty to his charge, jumped into the middle of the Tarn forces and self-destructed, choosing to sacrifice his own life to destroy the enemy and save the Overlord than abandon the elderly Autobot and save himself. His sacrifice succeeded in defeating the Tarn forces, but in vain; now almost completely out of energon to sustain him, the Overlord pleaded to Megatron, then Ravage to sacrifice some of their own energy to sustain him, only to be rebuffed by both, believing it was time for a change, and that Megatron represented the planet's best chance for that change. With this betrayal, the rusting scrap pile that was the Overlord perished, his death glossed over by Megatron to those who asked him as the old mech's circuits failing from the stresses of the Tarn attack.
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Overlord (rank)

2006-10-10T14:52:13Z

66.233.188.87: /* Marvel Comics UK continuity */

''The Overlords were a group of Autobots from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

The Overlords were the ruling council on [[Cybertron]] before the onset of the [[Great War]]. Their home base was [[Iacon]].

==Marvel Comics UK continuity==

During a time immediately prior to the [[Cybertronian Civil War]], the planet was broken up into a galla of warring city-states, ruled over (rather pathetically) by the last of the Autobot Overlords. This aging, rusted husk of a mech - enfeebled to the point of needing a near-constant supply of energon injected directly into his body to keep himself functional - had attempted to quell the fighting between two such providences, those of [[Tarn]] and [[Vos]], with the suggestion of settling their disputes through glatiatorial combat, instead of all-out conflict. The talks went sour, however, and as war began brewing between the two city-states once again, the Overlord - accompanied by his trusted bodyguards [[Nightstalker]] and [[Ravage]], along with [[Optimus Prime (G1|Optimus Prime]] and a then-neutral [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] - was forced to beat a hasty retreat back to Iacon.

He didn't get far, however, before the Tarn forces cornered him and his party at the ruins of the bridge to Iacon, the forces having demolished it to preven their quarry from escaping. Jumping the gap, Optimus went on ahead to gather reinforcements, while Megatron and the bodyguards held their ground. who began to quickly realize just how outnumbered they really were. When all hope seemed lost, Nightstalker, in an extreme show of loyalty to his charge, jumped into the middle of the Tarn forces and self-destructed, choosing to sacrifice his own life to destroy the enemy and save the Overlord than abandon the elderly Autobot and save himself. His sacrifice succeeded in defeating the Tarn forces, but in vain; now almost completely out of energon to sustain him, the Overlord pleaded to Megatron, then Ravage to sacrifice some of their own energy to sustain him, only to be rebuffed by both, believing it was time for a change, and that Megatron represented the planet's best chance for that change. With this betrayal, the rusting scrap pile that was the Overlord perished, his death glossed over by Megatron to those who asked him as the old mech's circuits failing from the stresses of the Tarn attack.
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Overlord (rank)

2006-10-10T11:04:08Z

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''The Overlords were a group of Autobots from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

The Overlords were the ruling council on [[Cybertron]] before the onset of the [[Great War]]. Their home base was [[Iacon]].

==Marvel Comics UK continuity==

The last of the Overlords, an old and feeble mech who needed near-constant refuelling to keep himself functioning, was in rule during the time period immediately before the onset of the War, when Cybertron was broken up into many warring city-states. Two such provinces - [[Tarn]] and [[Vos]] - were on the verge of yet another of these scuffles, when the Overlord, accompanied by his bodyguards [[Nightstalker]] and [[Ravage]], along with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-neutral [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], visited them to promote a more diplomatic solution to the conflict in the form of gladiatorial battles. The talks went south, however, and the Overlord was forced to retreat back to Iacon.

On their way there, however, the Overlord and his troupe were cornered by Tarnian warriors, who had blocked off their only escape by destroying the bridge to Iacon. Optimus, seeing they were outnumbered, jumped the damaged bridge in order to return to Iacon for reinforcements, while Megatron, Ravage, and Nightstalker stayed behind to defend the aging monarch. The Tarnians were just too much for them, however, and in an extreme show of loyalty, Nightstalker detonated the bomb he and the rest of the Overlord's bodyguards were fitted with (as a last resort) to destroy himself and the Tarn army. Now safe, but severely energy-deprived, the Overlord begged Megatron and Ravage to share with him some of their energy, but they refused, believing that Megatron would be the future for Cybertron, watching as the rusted old mech died out.<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Nightstalker (G1)

2006-10-10T10:06:34Z

66.233.188.87: /* Marvel Comics UK continuity */

:''Nightstalker is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

'''Nightstalker''' is the catlike partner of [[Ravage]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===

Nightstalker, along with his partner Ravage, was the bodyguard to the last surviving [[Overlord (Autobot)|Overlord]], an enfeebled old Autobot who needed constant re-energizing to stay alive (think 24/7 life support). When the Overlord visited the city-state of [[Tarn]], war broke out between it and its neigbor, [[Vos]], forcing the Overlord to retreat back to his own home in [[Iacon]]. Accompanied by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-non Decepticon [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the Overlord almost made it, but was tracked down and cornered at the bridge to Iacon by Tarn's forces, who had blown it out before they got there. Nightstalker, in a display of extreme loyalty to his charge, detonated a self-destruct mechanism installed in all the Overlords' bodyguards as a last resort, taking out all of Tarn's forces with him.

He shouldn't have bothered; the Overlord died soon afterwards from energon deficiency after Ravage betrayed him and sided with Megatron, refusing to give up his own energy to sustain the old, rusting fool.

==Trivia==

[[Image:NightStalkerUK.jpg|thumb|right|200px|I wonder whatever happened to Jason Yco..]]

Nightstalker may have been loosely based on a similarly-named fan character that was entered into (and won) one of Marvel UK's character creation contests. This character, named "Night Stalker" (with a space), was less of a Ravage clone in design, with a canine robot mode (though with a similar color scheme to that of the Decepticon feline).

==External links==
[http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/ukcomics/nightstalker.htm Nightstalker at the Obscure Transformers website]

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Nightstalker (G1)

2006-10-10T08:50:07Z

66.233.188.87: /* Trivia */

:''Nightstalker is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

'''Nightstalker''' is the catlike partner of [[Ravage]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===

Nightstalker, along with his partner Ravage, was the bodyguard to the last surviving [[Overlord (Autobot)|Overlord]], an enfeebled old Autobot who needed constant re-energizing to stay alive (think 24/7 life support). When the Overlord visited the city-state of [[Tarn]], war broke out between it and its neigbor, [[Vos]], forcing the Overlord to retreat back to his own home in [[Iacon]]. Accompanied by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-non Decepticon [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the Overlord almost made it, but was tracked down and cornered at the bridge to Iacon by Tarn's forces, who had blown it out before they got there. Nightstalker, in a display of extreme loyalty to his charge, detonated a self-destruct mechanism installed in all the Overlords' bodyguards as a last resort, taking out all of Tarn's forces with him.

He shouldn't have bothered, as the Overlord died soon afterwards from energon deficiency after Ravage betrayed him and sided with Megatron, refusing to give up his own energy to sustain the old, rusting fool.

==Trivia==

[[Image:NightStalkerUK.jpg|thumb|right|200px|I wonder whatever happened to Jason Yco..]]

Nightstalker may have been loosely based on a similarly-named fan character that was entered into (and won) one of Marvel UK's character creation contests. This character, named "Night Stalker" (with a space), was less of a Ravage clone in design, with a canine robot mode (though with a similar color scheme to that of the Decepticon feline).

==External links==
[http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/ukcomics/nightstalker.htm Nightstalker at the Obscure Transformers website]

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Nightstalker (G1)

2006-10-10T08:47:56Z

66.233.188.87: /* Trivia */

:''Nightstalker is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

'''Nightstalker''' is the catlike partner of [[Ravage]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===

Nightstalker, along with his partner Ravage, was the bodyguard to the last surviving [[Overlord (Autobot)|Overlord]], an enfeebled old Autobot who needed constant re-energizing to stay alive (think 24/7 life support). When the Overlord visited the city-state of [[Tarn]], war broke out between it and its neigbor, [[Vos]], forcing the Overlord to retreat back to his own home in [[Iacon]]. Accompanied by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-non Decepticon [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the Overlord almost made it, but was tracked down and cornered at the bridge to Iacon by Tarn's forces, who had blown it out before they got there. Nightstalker, in a display of extreme loyalty to his charge, detonated a self-destruct mechanism installed in all the Overlords' bodyguards as a last resort, taking out all of Tarn's forces with him.

He shouldn't have bothered, as the Overlord died soon afterwards from energon deficiency after Ravage betrayed him and sided with Megatron, refusing to give up his own energy to sustain the old, rusting fool.

==Trivia==

[[Image:NightStalkerUK.jpg|thumb|right|200px|I wonder whatever happened to Jason Yco..]]

Nightstalker may have been loosely based on a similarly-named fan character that was entered into one of Marvel UK's character creation contests. This character, named "Night Stalker" (with a space), was less of a Ravage clone in design, with a canine robot mode (though with a similar color scheme to that of the Decepticon feline).

==External links==
[http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/ukcomics/nightstalker.htm Nightstalker at the Obscure Transformers website]

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2006-10-10T08:44:57Z

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Ravage (G1)

2006-10-09T23:25:44Z

66.233.188.87: /* Marvel Comics continuity */

{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the Energon Terrorcon|Battle Ravage (Energon)}}

''Ravage is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Generation 1]] continuity and a [[Predacon]] in the [[Beast Era]]. He is a chronic time-traveler.''

[[Image:Ravageg1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Ravage reveals his slef (sic) to humans.]]

No Decepticon has a stronger loyalty to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] than '''Ravage'''. Ravage believes unwaveringly in the Decepticon cause, and Megatron embodies that cause. To serve Megatron, Ravage has become the most efficient and deadly war machine under his command. He hides himself in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike with grim accuracy. His name is synonymous with stealth. His survivors are few.

Ravage's only weakness is bright light, which can temporarily blind him. Perhaps his absolute loyalty to Megatron can blind him as well.

''Japanese name:'' '''Jaguar'''<br>
''Italian name:'' '''Jena'''<br>
''Swedish name:'' '''Hunden'''

==Fiction==
According to the UK book [[Dinobot War]], Ravage's cassette tape mode is disguised as the soundtrack to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_(musical) Cats].''

===Marvel Comics continuity===
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''
[[Image:Ravage_uk258.png|right|thumb|100px|The smirking Ravage was a chatty catty in the Marvel comics.]]
''Ravage was loyal bodyguard for the Overlords, the Autobots that once ruled all of Cybertron, for Generations. He witnessed as their planet-wide rule crumbled into a loose collection of feuding city-states.''

''During the Vos-Tarn war, Ravage, his partner [[Nightstalker]], Megatron and Optimus Prime.''

''While escorting the last Overlord, an enfeebled mechanoid who required constant re-energization to survive, out of the city of Tarn during the Vos-Tarn war, they were pinned down. Though the Overlord was near death, Ravage refused to give the Overlord any of his energy, instead allying himself with Megatron, whom he believed would be the future ruler of Cybertron.''

''As for Nightstalker, he blew himself up in order to take out the forces that pinned them down, proving just how gullibly loyal Autobots could be. Ironic how Ravage would make that same sacrifice for ''his'' leader millions of years later.''

===Animated continuity===
Voice Actor: [[Frank Welker]] (US) [[Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese speech)

One of the original team of Decepticons that accompanied [[Megatron]] on the attack of the ''[[Ark]]'' spacecraft, Ravage was reformatted by [[Teletraan-1]] as an audiocassette to better blend in for operations based on Earth. Ravage served loyally as a Decepticon spy. He was one of the first Transformers to have been encountered by a human, as workers investigating a destroyed power station fell afoul of Ravage who pounced upon them and frightened them away.

Shortly thereafter, Ravage accompanied Soundwave on an infiltration mission to gather data from Teletraan 1. Though Soundwave was discovered, Ravage was captured in an energy net and held captive. The Decepticon spy figured into a disinformation plot hatched by the Autobots, who purposely leaked the presence of a rocket fuel depository in the outlying desert. In truth, there was no rocket base -- Autobot [[Hound]] projected a holographic illusion in the hopes of luring the Decepticons into a trap. The Autobots allowed Ravage to escape and report back to Megatron, who easily saw through the ruse.

===Beast Wars===

====Toy Bio====
*'''Shadow Panther'''
:He looks like a Maximal, but he is really a Predacon. His thirst for the hunt can only be satiated by attacking many Maximals. Keep an eye on the darkness, for that is where Shadowpanther lives.

*''' ''Metals'' Jaguar'''
:The process of becoming a Predacon has cost Ravage some of his early Decepticon memories. His ability to become invisible is called Reflect Shade. His orders are to rid the planet [[Earth#Beast Wars|Energois]] of Transformers.

*'''Tripredacus Agent'''
:This lone assiassin may look like a Maximal, but his irradiated spark is that of a Predacon. He was saved (and presumably rebuilt into a Transmetal 2) by the Vok. He can hide his energy signature, thanks to his unusual spark. In his history as a Predacon, he has adopted many names to better suit his covert line of work. His weapon is a low-radiation proton bomb launcher. As he loves the dark, the light is his weakness.

====''Beast Wars''====
[[Image:JaguarX9.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Beast Wars Ravage from TV Magazine]]

'''Voice Actor:''' [[Lee Tockar]] (US), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (Japan)

Ravage is one of the few Decepticon warriors who was granted amnesty at the end of the Great War and reformatted into a Predacon. Sent by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to capture [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], clean up any messes he might have made, and deal with the rest of the Beast warriors. Ravage made the trip to prehistoric Earth in a specially modified stealth [[Transwarp]] space ship. He successfully contacted the [[Maximal]]s and allied with them to capture Megatron. Due to the stealth capabilities of his ship, and the fact that [[Tarantulas]] was also an agent of the council, Ravage and the Maximals easily captured Megatron and imprisoned him.

Megatron, however, had one more card to play. He knew that Ravage wasn't going to let any of the Beast warriors live, and also knew he had the one thing that would turn Ravage to his side. Using a fragment from the [[Golden Disk]], Megatron played Ravage the message on it from the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Ravage, perhaps still driven by loyalty to ''his'' Megatron, joined the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and turned on the Maximals.

His latest treachery was short lived. During the assault on the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]], [[Rattrap]] infiltrated his ship and caused an explosion that destroyed the vessel and Ravage himself. His head, seemingly all that remained of him, was knocked into the water below the Axalaon by one of Tarantulas' [[spider-drone]]s.
{{-}}

====[[The Gathering|IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics]]====
[[Image:Ravage Teansmetal2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Alternate interpretations of Transmetal 2 Ravage.]]
Magmatron recovered Ravage's heavily-damaged torso, which still contained his spark. He then inserted the spark into a blank [[protoform]], and Ravage was reborn. In his Transmetal 2 body, he and his fellow Predacons, under the command of Magmatron, sought out [[Razorbeast]]'s band of Maximals. Viewing from a safe distance, Ravage ordered his soldiers to engage. Additional Maximal forced arrived, however, and Ravage's forces were defeated. Ravage retreated into the wilderness.

Despite being a continuity that borrows heavily from other G1 continuities, where it is suggested that Ravage is completely loyal to Megatron, before attempting to revive Ravage, Magmatron suggests that Ravage's most important loyalty is to Ravage himself.

Ravage never uses his robot mode in this story. Instead, he stands up on his hind legs in beast mode.

====[[Universe (comic)|''Primeval Dawn'' comics]]====
An undead [[Vok]]-infested [[Tarantulas]] revived Ravage (in his Tripredacus Agent TM2 body) to help boost his forces. The remnants of Ravage's body were used and recycled by the Vok to re-create [[Tigatron]].

===''Binaltech''===
Ravage's part in the Binaltech storyline is a bit more complicated than past incarnations. Several years prior to the line's continuity, government-run [[Intelligence and Information Institute]] (or Triple I) unearths a msyterious black box during an archaeological dig. After years of probing, the container, dubbed "Schrödinger's Box" by the group's scientists, was revealed to be the flight recorder of Predacon Ravage's stealth ship, containing a copy of the feline's personality and memory engrams. When the scientists found a way to communicate with this personality, it offered them its knowledge of future events in exchange for a new body. Triple-I agreed, and used a fake Binaltech project to provide their part of the bargain. However, to truly bring the new Ravage to life, Triple-I stole the present-day Ravage - who had been somehow captured by the [[Earth Defense Command]] and stasis-locked into his cassette mode - and implanted him into the new Ravage, thereby 'fusing' the old and new Ravages into one.

This new Ravage, however, had no intention of fulfilling his end of the bargain and, after eliminating his benefactors and learning to his shock that history did ''not'' change in his faction's favor, decided to rectify his mistake. First on his agenda was his former commander, Megatron; stealing an Autobot shuttle, he located and repaired the [[Kronosphere]] and - during a decisive battle between Megatron's and Optimus Prime's forces that would have normally ended with the Autobots being forced off of Cybertron and into their moon bases - turned the weapon on his own faction, trapping Megatron and his crew in a space-time rift. This alteration in the timeline served two purposes: first, it would give the Autobots the chance to retake Cybertron, which would then lead to them having to face off against the oncoming [[Unicron]] alone, severely weakening them in the process. The second, and more important, purpose was to keep Megatron alive and in good health, thus preventing him from becoming the insane [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], and allowing him to lead the Decepticons to victory over the battle-weary Autobots. Ravage also reformatted [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] into a new Binaltech body of his own, so he could lead the remaining Decepticons in Megatron's absence, and secretly drailed many of the Autobots' supply missions, further weakening them for their battle with the Chaos Bringer.

Unfortunately for him, the Autobot named [[Overdrive]] became aware of Ravage's meddling in history, thanks to his acute sensitivity of the timestream, and - with the help of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheljack]] - captured the wayward Decepticon and forced a confession out of him. Ravage, however, was not without a trump card, revealing that his alterations ''may'' prevent the deaths of many of the Autobots destined to die in the normal timeline (which, as a distinction between the two, was dubbed 'Prime Time' by Wheeljack, Ravage's altered timeline being called 'Ravage Time'), though in the grand scheme of things, only Optimus could not be considered expendable, as he contained the one thing that could bring down Unicron (the [[Autobot]] [[Matrix of Leadership]]). By the time of his capture, however, Unicron had already been sighted on a collision course with Cybertron and, despite the temptation of preventing future deaths among his ranks, Optimus decided Ravage's plans to be too dangerous to allow to come to fruitition. To that end, he ropes [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] into helping him fly to Unicron in a preemptive strike against the monstrous threat, while the other Autobots (left in the command of [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]), were to initiate "Operation: Distant Thunder", which involved sending a copy of Wheeljack's memories of what Ravage confessed to them, back in time to a point prior to the Decepticon panther's meddling, via the energies located on [[Dinobot Island]]. If "Operation: Distant Thunder" worked as planned, Ravage's plans would be foiled, and any tremors in the timeline he caused would be smoothed over by "Project Body Shop" (aka, the Binaltech project). However, just as Skids gives the signal to transmit the memory engrams, the Autobot base is rocked by an entire fleet of Decepticons. It is unknown as of now if "Operation: Distant Thunder" succeeded or not, or what Ravage's fate will be.

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[Image:General jaguar.jpg|thumb|Predacon General Jaguar]]

''(Note: although it picks up after the first season, the Beast Wars Metals manga is '''not''' in-continuity with the television series.)''

In the ''Beast Wars Metals'' manga, Metals Jaguar was portrayed as G1 Jaguar's homicidal son, with Jaguar taking the design of the Happy Meal Panther toy.

===Kids Stuff Read-Along book===
Ravage immediately recognized what a hydro electric station was, a method of generating power used on Cybertron "way way back in the mists of time," when Transformers were not much more advanced in science than humans are now.

This indicates that Ravage is among the oldest of the Decepticons. Even Megatron only feigned familiarity with this form of technology.

==Toys==
===Generation 1===

* '''Ravage'''
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''19''', '''D-59''', '''D-104'''
: Released with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] by Hasbro in 1984-1986, and by Takara from 1985-1987. The mold was later used for [[Howlback]].

===Beast Wars===
* '''Panther''' (Happy Meal 1996)

* '''Shadow Panther''' (Deluxe 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-7'''
: This toy is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Cheetor]] toy in black, silver, and yellow.

* '''Jaguar''' (Deluxe 1999)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''X-9'''
: ''Beast Wars Metals'' Jaguar is a heavy [[retool]] of [[Transmetal]] Cheetor, just as Ravage's CG model in the show is an altered Transmetal Cheetor.

* '''Tripredacus Agent''' (Deluxe, Wal-Mart exclusive 2001)
: Redeco of --wait, can you guess?-- Transmetal 2 Cheetor, in black, silver, and gold.

===Alternators===
* '''Battle Ravage'''
: A retooling of Alternators [[Tracks (G1)]], ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-11'''
* '''Ravage'''
: Jaguar XK, transforms into G1-modeled panther form, ''No Japanese ID number, as of yet.''

===Smallest Transformers===
* '''Jaguar'''

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Ravage Ravage Transformers Universe profile]
*[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm Ravage at TFU.info]

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Nightstalker (G1)

2006-10-09T23:24:56Z

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''Nightstalker is an Autobot from the Generation 1 series.''

Nightstalker is the partner (and clone) of [[Ravage]]. He proves that Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb...in their loyalty.

==Fiction==

===Marvel Comics UK Continuity===

Nightstalker, along with his partner Ravage, was the bodyguard to the last surviving Overlord, an enfeebled old Autobot who needed constant re-energizing to stay alive (think 24/7 life support). When the Overlord visited the city-state of [[Tarn]], war broke out between it and its neigbor, [{Vos]], forcing the Overlord to retreat back to his own home in [[Iacon]]. Accompanied by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a then-non Decepticon [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the Overlord almost made it, but was tracked down and cornered at the bridge to Iacon by Tarn's forces, who had blown it out before they got there. Nightstalker, in a display of extreme loyalty to his charge, detonated a self-destruct mechanism installed in all the Overlords' bodyguards as a last resort, taking out all of Tarn's forces with him.

He shouldn't have bothered, as the Overlord died soon afterwards from energon deficiency after Ravage betrayed him and sided with Megatron, refusing to give up his own energy to sustain the old, rusting fool. In an unrelated note, Ravage would end up making the same sacrifice his old partner did years later, during the ''[[Beast Wars]]''.

==Trivia==

Nightstalker was loosely based on a similarly-named fan character that was entered into one of Marvel UK's character creation contests. This character, named "Night Stalker" (with a space), was less of a Ravage clone, with a fox-like robot mode (though with a similar color scheme to that of the Decepticon feline). Why this design for the character was not used, no one knows.<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Ravage (G1)

2006-10-09T22:55:27Z

66.233.188.87: /* ''Binaltech'' */

{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the Energon Terrorcon|Battle Ravage (Energon)}}

''Ravage is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Generation 1]] continuity and a [[Predacon]] in the [[Beast Era]]. He is a chronic time-traveler.''

[[Image:Ravageg1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Ravage reveals his slef (sic) to humans.]]

No Decepticon has a stronger loyalty to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] than '''Ravage'''. Ravage believes unwaveringly in the Decepticon cause, and Megatron embodies that cause. To serve Megatron, Ravage has become the most efficient and deadly war machine under his command. He hides himself in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike with grim accuracy. His name is synonymous with stealth. His survivors are few.

Ravage's only weakness is bright light, which can temporarily blind him. Perhaps his absolute loyalty to Megatron can blind him as well.

''Japanese name:'' '''Jaguar'''<br>
''Italian name:'' '''Jena'''<br>
''Swedish name:'' '''Hunden'''

==Fiction==
According to the UK book [[Dinobot War]], Ravage's cassette tape mode is disguised as the soundtrack to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_(musical) Cats].''

===Marvel Comics continuity===
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''
[[Image:Ravage_uk258.png|right|thumb|100px|The smirking Ravage was a chatty catty in the Marvel comics.]]
''Ravage was loyal bodyguard for the Overlords, the Autobots that once ruled all of Cybertron, for Generations. He witnessed as their planet-wide rule crumbled into a loose collection of feuding city-states.''

''During the Vos-Tarn war, Ravage, his partner Nightstalker, Megatron and Optimus Prime.''

''While escorting the last Overlord, an enfeebled mechanoid who required constant re-energization to survive, out of the city of Tarn during the Vos-Tarn war, they were pinned down. Though the Overlord was near death, Ravage refused to give the Overlord any of his energy, instead allying himself with Megatron, whom he believed would be the future ruler of Cybertron.''

''As for Nightstalker, he blew himself up in order to take out the forces that pinned them down, proving just how gullibly loyal Autobots could be. Ironic how Ravage would make that same sacrifice for ''his'' leader millions of years later.''

===Animated continuity===
Voice Actor: [[Frank Welker]] (US) [[Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese speech)

One of the original team of Decepticons that accompanied [[Megatron]] on the attack of the ''[[Ark]]'' spacecraft, Ravage was reformatted by [[Teletraan-1]] as an audiocassette to better blend in for operations based on Earth. Ravage served loyally as a Decepticon spy. He was one of the first Transformers to have been encountered by a human, as workers investigating a destroyed power station fell afoul of Ravage who pounced upon them and frightened them away.

Shortly thereafter, Ravage accompanied Soundwave on an infiltration mission to gather data from Teletraan 1. Though Soundwave was discovered, Ravage was captured in an energy net and held captive. The Decepticon spy figured into a disinformation plot hatched by the Autobots, who purposely leaked the presence of a rocket fuel depository in the outlying desert. In truth, there was no rocket base -- Autobot [[Hound]] projected a holographic illusion in the hopes of luring the Decepticons into a trap. The Autobots allowed Ravage to escape and report back to Megatron, who easily saw through the ruse.

===Beast Wars===

====Toy Bio====
*'''Shadow Panther'''
:He looks like a Maximal, but he is really a Predacon. His thirst for the hunt can only be satiated by attacking many Maximals. Keep an eye on the darkness, for that is where Shadowpanther lives.

*''' ''Metals'' Jaguar'''
:The process of becoming a Predacon has cost Ravage some of his early Decepticon memories. His ability to become invisible is called Reflect Shade. His orders are to rid the planet [[Earth#Beast Wars|Energois]] of Transformers.

*'''Tripredacus Agent'''
:This lone assiassin may look like a Maximal, but his irradiated spark is that of a Predacon. He was saved (and presumably rebuilt into a Transmetal 2) by the Vok. He can hide his energy signature, thanks to his unusual spark. In his history as a Predacon, he has adopted many names to better suit his covert line of work. His weapon is a low-radiation proton bomb launcher. As he loves the dark, the light is his weakness.

====''Beast Wars''====
[[Image:JaguarX9.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Beast Wars Ravage from TV Magazine]]

'''Voice Actor:''' [[Lee Tockar]] (US), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (Japan)

Ravage is one of the few Decepticon warriors who was granted amnesty at the end of the Great War and reformatted into a Predacon. Sent by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to capture [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], clean up any messes he might have made, and deal with the rest of the Beast warriors. Ravage made the trip to prehistoric Earth in a specially modified stealth [[Transwarp]] space ship. He successfully contacted the [[Maximal]]s and allied with them to capture Megatron. Due to the stealth capabilities of his ship, and the fact that [[Tarantulas]] was also an agent of the council, Ravage and the Maximals easily captured Megatron and imprisoned him.

Megatron, however, had one more card to play. He knew that Ravage wasn't going to let any of the Beast warriors live, and also knew he had the one thing that would turn Ravage to his side. Using a fragment from the [[Golden Disk]], Megatron played Ravage the message on it from the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Ravage, perhaps still driven by loyalty to ''his'' Megatron, joined the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and turned on the Maximals.

His latest treachery was short lived. During the assault on the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]], [[Rattrap]] infiltrated his ship and caused an explosion that destroyed the vessel and Ravage himself. His head, seemingly all that remained of him, was knocked into the water below the Axalaon by one of Tarantulas' [[spider-drone]]s.
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====[[The Gathering|IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics]]====
[[Image:Ravage Teansmetal2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Alternate interpretations of Transmetal 2 Ravage.]]
Magmatron recovered Ravage's heavily-damaged torso, which still contained his spark. He then inserted the spark into a blank [[protoform]], and Ravage was reborn. In his Transmetal 2 body, he and his fellow Predacons, under the command of Magmatron, sought out [[Razorbeast]]'s band of Maximals. Viewing from a safe distance, Ravage ordered his soldiers to engage. Additional Maximal forced arrived, however, and Ravage's forces were defeated. Ravage retreated into the wilderness.

Despite being a continuity that borrows heavily from other G1 continuities, where it is suggested that Ravage is completely loyal to Megatron, before attempting to revive Ravage, Magmatron suggests that Ravage's most important loyalty is to Ravage himself.

Ravage never uses his robot mode in this story. Instead, he stands up on his hind legs in beast mode.

====[[Universe (comic)|''Primeval Dawn'' comics]]====
An undead [[Vok]]-infested [[Tarantulas]] revived Ravage (in his Tripredacus Agent TM2 body) to help boost his forces. The remnants of Ravage's body were used and recycled by the Vok to re-create [[Tigatron]].

===''Binaltech''===
Ravage's part in the Binaltech storyline is a bit more complicated than past incarnations. Several years prior to the line's continuity, government-run [[Intelligence and Information Institute]] (or Triple I) unearths a msyterious black box during an archaeological dig. After years of probing, the container, dubbed "Schrödinger's Box" by the group's scientists, was revealed to be the flight recorder of Predacon Ravage's stealth ship, containing a copy of the feline's personality and memory engrams. When the scientists found a way to communicate with this personality, it offered them its knowledge of future events in exchange for a new body. Triple-I agreed, and used a fake Binaltech project to provide their part of the bargain. However, to truly bring the new Ravage to life, Triple-I stole the present-day Ravage - who had been somehow captured by the [[Earth Defense Command]] and stasis-locked into his cassette mode - and implanted him into the new Ravage, thereby 'fusing' the old and new Ravages into one.

This new Ravage, however, had no intention of fulfilling his end of the bargain and, after eliminating his benefactors and learning to his shock that history did ''not'' change in his faction's favor, decided to rectify his mistake. First on his agenda was his former commander, Megatron; stealing an Autobot shuttle, he located and repaired the [[Kronosphere]] and - during a decisive battle between Megatron's and Optimus Prime's forces that would have normally ended with the Autobots being forced off of Cybertron and into their moon bases - turned the weapon on his own faction, trapping Megatron and his crew in a space-time rift. This alteration in the timeline served two purposes: first, it would give the Autobots the chance to retake Cybertron, which would then lead to them having to face off against the oncoming [[Unicron]] alone, severely weakening them in the process. The second, and more important, purpose was to keep Megatron alive and in good health, thus preventing him from becoming the insane [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], and allowing him to lead the Decepticons to victory over the battle-weary Autobots. Ravage also reformatted [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] into a new Binaltech body of his own, so he could lead the remaining Decepticons in Megatron's absence, and secretly drailed many of the Autobots' supply missions, further weakening them for their battle with the Chaos Bringer.

Unfortunately for him, the Autobot named [[Overdrive]] became aware of Ravage's meddling in history, thanks to his acute sensitivity of the timestream, and - with the help of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheljack]] - captured the wayward Decepticon and forced a confession out of him. Ravage, however, was not without a trump card, revealing that his alterations ''may'' prevent the deaths of many of the Autobots destined to die in the normal timeline (which, as a distinction between the two, was dubbed 'Prime Time' by Wheeljack, Ravage's altered timeline being called 'Ravage Time'), though in the grand scheme of things, only Optimus could not be considered expendable, as he contained the one thing that could bring down Unicron (the [[Autobot]] [[Matrix of Leadership]]). By the time of his capture, however, Unicron had already been sighted on a collision course with Cybertron and, despite the temptation of preventing future deaths among his ranks, Optimus decided Ravage's plans to be too dangerous to allow to come to fruitition. To that end, he ropes [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] into helping him fly to Unicron in a preemptive strike against the monstrous threat, while the other Autobots (left in the command of [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]), were to initiate "Operation: Distant Thunder", which involved sending a copy of Wheeljack's memories of what Ravage confessed to them, back in time to a point prior to the Decepticon panther's meddling, via the energies located on [[Dinobot Island]]. If "Operation: Distant Thunder" worked as planned, Ravage's plans would be foiled, and any tremors in the timeline he caused would be smoothed over by "Project Body Shop" (aka, the Binaltech project). However, just as Skids gives the signal to transmit the memory engrams, the Autobot base is rocked by an entire fleet of Decepticons. It is unknown as of now if "Operation: Distant Thunder" succeeded or not, or what Ravage's fate will be.

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[Image:General jaguar.jpg|thumb|Predacon General Jaguar]]

''(Note: although it picks up after the first season, the Beast Wars Metals manga is '''not''' in-continuity with the television series.)''

In the ''Beast Wars Metals'' manga, Metals Jaguar was portrayed as G1 Jaguar's homicidal son, with Jaguar taking the design of the Happy Meal Panther toy.

===Kids Stuff Read-Along book===
Ravage immediately recognized what a hydro electric station was, a method of generating power used on Cybertron "way way back in the mists of time," when Transformers were not much more advanced in science than humans are now.

This indicates that Ravage is among the oldest of the Decepticons. Even Megatron only feigned familiarity with this form of technology.

==Toys==
===Generation 1===

* '''Ravage'''
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''19''', '''D-59''', '''D-104'''
: Released with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] by Hasbro in 1984-1986, and by Takara from 1985-1987. The mold was later used for [[Howlback]].

===Beast Wars===
* '''Panther''' (Happy Meal 1996)

* '''Shadow Panther''' (Deluxe 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-7'''
: This toy is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Cheetor]] toy in black, silver, and yellow.

* '''Jaguar''' (Deluxe 1999)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''X-9'''
: ''Beast Wars Metals'' Jaguar is a heavy [[retool]] of [[Transmetal]] Cheetor, just as Ravage's CG model in the show is an altered Transmetal Cheetor.

* '''Tripredacus Agent''' (Deluxe, Wal-Mart exclusive 2001)
: Redeco of --wait, can you guess?-- Transmetal 2 Cheetor, in black, silver, and gold.

===Alternators===
* '''Battle Ravage'''
: A retooling of Alternators [[Tracks (G1)]], ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-11'''
* '''Ravage'''
: Jaguar XK, transforms into G1-modeled panther form, ''No Japanese ID number, as of yet.''

===Smallest Transformers===
* '''Jaguar'''

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Ravage Ravage Transformers Universe profile]
*[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm Ravage at TFU.info]

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The Transformers: The Movie

2006-10-09T22:31:12Z

66.233.188.87: /* Trivia and controversies */

[[Image:Transformersanimatedfilmposter.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Featuring the deaths of all your favorite Transformers characters.]]

'''''The Transformers: The Movie''''' is an animated feature film based on the original Transformers toyline. It was released in the United States on August 8, 1986.

Often referred to by fans simply as "the movie", this film opens with characters who had been featured in the first two years of the toyline and associated media (cartoons, comic books, etc.), but quickly introduces new characters and kills many of the old ones to make room. In particular, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Starscream are all destroyed during the course of the film.

The movie was a step up in almost every area from the television series, with a more sophisticated plot, more serious treatment of war and violence, a hugely ambitious scope and a greatly increased animation budget with well-known celebrities providing voice work. For these reasons the film remains very popular with children of the 1980s.

==Primary characters and cast==
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]...[[Peter Cullen]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]...[[Robert Stack]]
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]...[[Paul Eiding]]
*[[Hot Rod]]...[[Judd Nelson]]
*[[Kup]]...[[Lionel Stander]]
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]...[[John Moschitta Jr.]]
*[[Springer]]...[[Neil Ross]]
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]...[[Susan Blu]]
*[[Wreck-Gar]]...[[Eric Idle]]
*[[Daniel Witwicky]]...[[David Mendenhall]]
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]...[[Frank Welker]]
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]...[[Chris Latta]]
*[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]...[[Leonard Nimoy]]
*[[Unicron]]...[[Orson Welles]]

==Brief synopsis==

[[Image:Unicronplanet.jpg|left|thumb|That's no moon. It's a space station.]]

A planet-sized Transformer called [[Unicron]] who eats other planets is approaching [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. As part of their continuing wars, the Autobots and Decepticons have a fierce battle on Earth which sees both Optimus Prime and Megatron mortally wounded. Prime passes the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to Ultra Magnus and dies, and Megatron is transformed by Unicron into [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (briefly) assumes leadership of the Decepticons, but is killed when Galvatron arrives at Cybertron. Galvatron then chases the surviving Autobots on Earth across space, splitting them up and taking the Matrix. The Autobots find their way back to each other, and follow Galvatron to Cybertron just as Unicron transforms into robot mode and begins to eat their world. Travelling inside Unicron, [[Hot Rod]] recovers the Matrix, transforms into Rodimus Prime, and uses the Matrix to destroy Unicron.

==Full synopsis==

[[Image:Tftm1986a.jpg|right|thumb|I have a bad feeling about this.]]

In the first sequence of the film, a mechanical planet called [[Unicron]] is shown travelling through the depths of space, then approaching and destroying another metal planet which has robotic inhabitants, much like [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. During the attack, robots, vehicles, buildings, and even large chunks of rock float off the surface of the planet and spiral into the large "mouth" on Unicron.

The scene then transitions to Cybertron, and the narrator explains that it is the year 2005, and that the [[Decepticon]]s are now in control of the planet. The [[Autobot]]s are preparing to launch an assault to retake the planet from hidden bases on two of Cybertron's moons. The Autobots launch a [[Autobot shuttle|shuttle]] to pick up a final shipment of [[energon]] from [[Earth]] before they strike.

Plans for the attack are overheard by [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], who reports back to Megatron. The Decepticons attack the Autobot shuttle en route to Earth, wiping out its crew. Using the Autobots' own shuttle, the Decepticons are able to get very close to the Autobots' base on Earth, [[Autobot City]], before they are detected, and begin a devastating surprise attack on the unprepared city.

[[Image:Tftm1986b.jpg|left|thumb|If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.]]

During the battle at Autobot City, both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and Megatron suffer mortal injuries, and a number of other characters are also killed. Eventually the Decepticons retreat, but the damage suffered by the Autobots has been severe. Shortly after the battle, Prime lies on his deathbed. He passes the reigns of leadership to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and gives him the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Prime relates a prophecy: "One day, an Autobot shall rise from our ranks, and use the power of the Matrix to light our [[darkest hour]]." He then gives the oath, "[['Till All Are One]]", and dies. This sequence of events is observed remotely by Unicron, who appears unusually concerned by the survival of the Matrix.

The Decepticons are making their escape aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], but are too heavy for him to get them all home under his own power. After putting the matter to a fair vote, the Decepticons decide to throw their injured members off the ship to better the chance of survival for the rest. One of the most severely injured Decepticons is Megatron. Starscream tosses him out and claims leadership of the Decepticon army.

Megatron and the other adrift Decepticons then encounter Unicron in interstellar space. Unicron offers to rebuild Megatron and his men in exchange for their service. Megatron agrees, and is [[reformatting|reformatted]] into [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. The other Decepticons are turned into [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], and [[The Sweeps]]. Unicron provides them with a ship, and sends them to kill Ultra Magnus and destroy the Matrix, stating that the Matrix is the only thing which can stand in his way.

[[Image:Tftm1986c.jpg|right|thumb|Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.]]

Galvatron first stops at Cybertron to take his revenge by killing Starscream and reclaiming leadership of the Decepticons. Almost immediately afterwards, Unicron arrives in Cyertron's vicinity and devours at least two moons -- both of the Autobots' moon bases are destroyed. Under coercion by Unicron, Galvatron finally heads to Earth to kill Ultra Magnus, but Magnus and the other surviving Autobots flee in a pair of shuttles. Eventually Galvatron manages to cause one shuttle to crash on yet another metal planet ([[Quintessa]]), and detonates the other with a volley of missiles. However, the Autobots in the second shuttle escape unnoticed by separating the front portion of their shuttle just before impact.

The Autobots in the crashed shuttle, [[Hot Rod]], [[Kup]], and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], find themselves separated and in a hostile environment. Hot Rod and Kup are captured by a squad of [[Alligatorcon]]s and taken before a [[Quintesson]] [[Quintesson judge|judge]] and his court. While being held there, they learn the name and nature of Unicron from [[Kranix]], a survivor of the planet destroyed in the opening of the film, which he calls [[Lithone]]. Meanwhile, the Dinobots encounter and befriend a young, wild Autobot named [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] who has been living alone on Quintessa. Together, they crash the trial just as Hot Rod and Kup are fighting losing odds against the Quintessons' [[Sharkticon]]s. The tide is turned, and the Autobots commandeer a [[Quintesson ship]].

[[Image:Tftm1986d.jpg|left|thumb|What an incredible smell you've discovered!]]

The other group of Autobots has landed on the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]] to make repairs, but are attacked yet again by Galvatron, who was tipped off to their survival by Unicron. During the battle, Ultra Magnus tries to open the Matrix to use its power, but is unable to do so, and instead is killed. Galvatron absconds the Matrix, taking it away to Unicron. The remaining Autobots -- [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Springer]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], and [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]]'s son [[Daniel Witwicky|Daniel]] -- are then ambushed by [[Junkion|Junkions]], the eponymous natives of Junkion, who are also giant transforming robots. This battle is cut short, however, by the arrival of Hot Rod's group in their Quintesson ship. After exchanging the [[universal greeting]] they all make friends, and the Junkions restore Ultra Magnus to life. Together, the whole group travels to Cybertron to try to recover the Matrix.

Galvatron attempts to open the Matrix to use its power against Unicron, but is also unable to get it open. Unicron, not pleased with this attempted treachery, shocks Galvatron by transforming from a planet into a planet-sized robot. Unicron plucks Galvatron off his chest and swallows him, Matrix and all, and then begins attacking Cybertron itself. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] scrambles the Decepticon forces to defend the planet, but they are ineffective against so large an enemy. Shortly the Autobots arrive from Junkion, and fly the Quintesson ship straight through Unicron's eye. This impact destroys the ship, and the Autobots fall out inside Unicron. Hot Rod, separated from the others, eventually runs into Galvatron. During their fight, Hot Rod gets his hands on the Matrix and hears Optimus' voice speak the words, "Arise, Rodimus Prime." Hot Rod grows in stature, adopts a much sterner demeanor, and quickly dispatches Galvatron by tossing him through Unicron's hull out into space. He then opens the Matrix, which fills Unicron with light and begins destroying him.

[[Image:Tftm1986e.jpg|right|thumb|Use the Force, Luke.]]

In the meantime, the other Autobots inside Unicron have located some of their comrades from the moon bases who had been presumed dead, including [[Bumblebee]] and Daniel's father, Spike. The Autobots, including Rodimus, escape through Unicron's remaining eye just as he begins to fall apart and explode. The scene then immediately shifts to the surface of Cybertron, where -- for unclear reasons -- the Autobots seem to be in charge again. Rodimus predicts an era of peace and prosperity, and the film closes with a shot of Unicron's severed head still floating in orbit around Cybertron.

==Significance in Transfandom==

''Transformers: The Movie'' remains one of the most important elements of the entire Transformers brand, both within the fiction and from the perspective of the brand's popularity and "mindshare".

Fictionally, it established several story concepts that have been used repeatedly in the years since 1986, some of which -- such as Unicron and the Matrix -- are now central to the entire Transformers mythos. The movie is also the centerpiece of the most well-known Transformers continuity: the G1 animated universe. The G1 cartoon is split into "pre-movie" and "post-movie" sections which feature differenct characters and settings, and even somewhat different visual styles. (Most pre-movie episodes were animated by the studio [[Toei]], while most post-movie episodes were animated by [[AKOM]].)

To an entire generation of young fans, the movie was the most visually spectacular and narratively epic Transformers experience of their entire youth. Events such as the death of Optimus Prime are widely reported to have reduced many little boys to tears. It is hardly a surprise that these emotional experiences embedded themselves deeply in many fans' memories.

This is not all to say that the movie is a "masterpiece", exactly. The film displays an arguably cynical attitude towards itself as a vehicle for advertising toys, especially in the way beloved characters are killed -- sometimes gratuitiously -- for sake of justifying the story's focus on a new group of toys. Further, the two primary plot devices -- [[Unicron]] and the [[Matrix]] -- have no prior establishment in the fiction. Unicron is given no backstory or justification; he simply exists, and is really dangerous, and is afraid of the Matrix, all for no good reason. The introduction of the Matrix itself is a heavy [[retcon]]. The story asks us to accept that this cosmically-powerful artifact has been in Prime's possession all along (even though an X-ray of Optimus Prime's innards in the Season 2 episode "A Prime Problem" show absolutely no signs of said Matrix...), but has somehow never been relevant before. Finally, the movie bears many similarities to ''[[Star Wars]]'': There are several character-parallels (Springer is a Han Solo-type and Arcee even has Princess Leia's hairdo!), the primary threat is similar (it's the Death Star... but it transforms!), and both feature a climactic battle where the young hero hears the voice of his wise mentor one last time before saving the day. To be a bit more fair to TF:TM, however, most of these similarities are either superficial (Arcee's Leia-hair) or can be seen as elements common to thousands of years worth of epic storytelling through human history, not just common to ''Star Wars''.

==Trivia and controversies==

This film was one of the last professional performances by [[Orson Welles]], if not the very last. According to production materials shown at [[BotCon 2000]] by Tim Finn, the voice recording sessions for TF:TM were done on September 10 and 11 of 1985. Welles died on October 10 of that same year. It has often been speculated that Unicron's last line ("Destiny... you cannot destroy my destiny...!") was recorded by another actor -- possibly [[Leonard Nimoy|Nimoy]] -- because it sounds different than the other lines. This speculation has been quashed by statements by Transformers voice director [[Wally Burr]].[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/60-astrominutes/wally_burr_3.html]

Although the movie was billed in some advertisements before its theatrical release as being "widescreen", the movie was in fact animated in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. It was intended to be matted down in the projector by the projectionist when screened, but all video transfers of the movie were done without mattes, meaning that there is actually more picture visible in the fullscreen video and DVD releases than there would have been in theaters. In November of 2006, a new DVD of the film will be released by Sony BMG which includes, for the first time, a widescreen version of the film. However, comparison of frames from this new disc and old editions again shows that there is no missing picture on the sides -- the new "wide" version has simply had the top and bottom of the picture cropped off.

The Dinobot [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] is mysteriously absent from almost the entire movie, even though the Dinobots as a group are featured prominantly. It is unclear why this is the case, but one possible explanation is that copies of the script which have come into fans' hands repeatedly list the Dinobots but never make mention of Snarl by name. In fact, at one point the script refers to "the four Dinobots". Despite this, Snarl does appear in two very brief shots, although he has no lines and no action.

With the exception of Starscream, Unicron, and possibly Shockwave, only the Autobots suffered casualities in the movie. All of the other "dead" Decepticons from the Autobot City battle were rebuilt into Galvatron's new troops, and although Decepticons were shown taking heavy damage while fighting Unicron, their identities and their condition are uncertain. Additionally, both Starscream and Unicron survived in the post-movie series in some form or another. Shockwave's death in the finished film is highly uncertain, although in the script it is fairly strongly implied. He does make some appearances in crowd shots in later cartoon episodes, but these may be examples of the fairly common animation errors in those episodes.

There exists more than one English-language version of the film, with the following differences in content from the American theatrical run:

* In some versions (notably the European version) the opening credits are replaced with a scrolling text ("Star Wars style") which provides backstory.

* In some versions (notably the European version) the film ends with a narrator reassuring the audience that Optimus Prime will return.

* Instances of swearing in the film (there are two) were edited out; sometimes one, sometimes both.

Though most likely coincidental, the movie bears many similarities to the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four miniseries "The Galactus Trilogy":

* The presence of an enormous world-devouring cosmic entity that threatens to destroy the heroes' home planet (Galactus/Unicron).

* The presence of a single item that is the only thing that can stop said cosmic entitiy (The Ultimate Nullifier/The Matrix of Leadership).

* The presence of a herald of said cosmic entity, who ultimately betrays the entity (The Silver Surfer/Galvatron).

==Soundtrack==

*1. The Touch - [[Stan Bush]]
*2. Instruments Of Destruction - N.R.G.
*3. Death Of Optimus Prime - [[Vince DiCola]]
*4. Dare - Stan Bush
*5. Nothin's Gonna Stand In Our Way - Spectre General
*6. The Transformers (Theme) - Lion
*7. Escape - Vince DiCola
*8. Hunger - Spectre General
*9. Autobot/Decepticon Battle - Vince DiCola
*10. Dare To Be Stupid - 'Weird Al' Yankovic

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Bad Spark

2006-10-09T22:07:14Z

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'''Writers:''' [[Greg Johnson]]

An oversized [[stasis pod]] reveals the secrets of Protoform X.

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Silverbolt (BW) (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]]

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]], [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]

'''Original Air Date:''' February 22, 1998

==Summary==
Cheetor, on recon patrol, spots a giant stasis pod (labelled with a big yellow "X") crashed inside a patch of unstable [[energon]] deep inside a murky swamp. Optimus Primal and Silverbolt meet him beside the pod, and Primal tells them what the pod means. The stasis pod held "the dark secret of [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'s journey," Protoform X. Protoform X was created in experiments to make a Transformer [[spark]] that could not die, but the subject was treacherous and insane, so the Axalon was to dump the protoform "somewhere far, someplace barren."

Blackarachnia and Waspinator attack, attempting to take Protoform X for themselves. Attacking Silverbolt, Blackarachnia is angry that his code of honor won't allow him to fight back, hitting a female. But Tarantulas arrives and threatens her. Silverbolt defends her, but accidentally ignites the energon that was keeping Protoform X docile, which erupts into an energon storm which scatters everyone for miles.

Blackarachnia and Silverbolt wake up next to each other. They agree to work together, as they are far from their respective teams and Silverbolt's wing is broken. Tarantulas lands next to the pod, and it awakens; his scream echoes for miles. Optimus Primal and Cheetor return to the Axalon, too damaged to search for Silverbolt. Blackarachnia and Silverbolt journey, learning to trust each other, but they are being eavesdropped on by Megatron, who believes that Blackarachnia will turn on the [[Fuzor]] when she no longer needs him. However, he's disappointed when it is made apparent (by saving his life from an attacking sabertooth cat) that she may have feelings for him.

Tarantulas' body, in several pieces, is found. Silverbolt notes that Protoform X must have done this. Megatron, still eavesdropping, fashions an energon blade in preparation. Suddenly, they are attacked by Protoform X! Huge and frightening, it knocks them around and is immune to their firepower. Lifting up Silverbolt in its powerful claws, it asks, "Is that fear you're feeling Maximal? My spark, it feeds on terror." Silverbolt screams, absolutely horrified. Silverbolt is freed as Primal and Cheetor arrive and attack, knocking Protoform X off a cliff. However, it transforms into tank mode and ascends the cliffside. Silverbolt throws a feathermissile, knocking him down into another pile of raw energon, but not before Protoform X fires at Blackarachnia, knocking her off the other side of the cliff. Silverbolt jumps after her, unsure if his wing mechanism is healed, but it succeeds, and she is saved, though she escapes. The Maximals return home, and Blackarachnia notes that (with the help of her grappling hook) she could have saved herself, but she wanted to be caught.

Helpless in the pile of raw energon, Protoform X sees Megatron appear over him with the energon blade. X wakes up in the Predacon base to find that Megatron has carved out a piece of his spark, which he keeps in tiny cage that, when squeezed, causes him pain. Megatron has him at his mercy and renames Protoform X "Rampage."

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*Glitch

===Continuity Errors===
*Error

===Transformers References===
* Rhinox notes, "[[Primus]] help us all if that thing survived," which was the first reference to the creator-God of the Transformers outside of the original Marvel comics.
* Protoform X was created as an attempt to duplicate [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s "mutant indestructable spark." This is a reference (and a retcon in technobabble jargon) to Starscream's ghost in the third season of the original animated series and, more recently, to Starscream's appearance in the Beast Wars episode "[[Possession]]." It also explains why, as Optimus noted in "Possession", Starscream's records were sealed; the Council didn't want anyone else to make the same mistake they did and try to recreate Starscream's spark condition.

===Additional notes===
* Cheetor's [[Transmetal]] body can soak up energon, and instead of seizing up, he can shunt it away from his body in a burst of gas. Primal thinks this is rude, and Cheetor apologizes for "blasting one off." In other words, Transformers can [[The Low Road|fart]]. This absorption and release of energon radiation was rarely mentioned in the series.

===Theatrical Release===

This episode was released theatrically in Japan as the second segment in the [[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers]]. The episode was included to get fans anticipated for the long-awaited Japanese release of [[Beast Wars Metals]]; seasons 2 and 3 of the American series. The episode was undubbed, however, meaning the dialogue was the original English version. There were no subtitles, either.

==External Links==
*Link

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Deep Metal

2006-10-09T21:58:29Z

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'''Writers:''' [[Larry DiTillio]]

[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] arrives on Earth continuing his obsessive quest to hunt down [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]].

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Original Air Date:''' November 1, 1998

==Summary==
Extended summary

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*Glitch

===Continuity Errors===
*When Depth Charge first enters Earth's solar system, he is informed by his ship's navi-computer that the area was declared off-limits by order of the High Council. There is no explination given for exactly ''why'' this order was given, and seems to contradict both pre-Beast Era G1 continuity, where Earth is a staunch ally to the Autobots. This also seems to contradict the Council's actions in both ''[[Beast Wars II]]'' and ''[[Beast Wars Neo]]'', both of which takes place on a future Earth.

===Transformers References===
*References

===Real-World References===
*Reference

==External Links==
*Link
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Deep Metal

2006-10-09T21:58:07Z

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'''Writers:''' [[Larry DiTillio]]

[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] arrives on Earth continuing his obsessive quest to hunt down [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]].

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Original Air Date:''' November 1, 1998

==Summary==
Extended summary

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*Glitch

===Continuity Errors===
*When Depth Charge first enters Earth's solar system, he is informed by his ship's navi-computer that the area was declared off-limits by order of the High Council. There is no explination given for exactly ''why'' this order was given, and seems to contradict both pre-Beast Era G1 continuity, where Earth is a staunch ally to the Autobots. This also seems to contradict the Council's actions in both ''[[Beast Wars the Second]]'' and ''[[Beast Wars Neo]]'', both of which takes place on a future Earth.

===Transformers References===
*References

===Real-World References===
*Reference

==External Links==
*Link
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Nemesis Part 1

2006-10-09T21:47:12Z

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{{disambig3|Nemesis}}

'''Writers:''' [[Bob Forward]]

Down, but not out, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] discovers [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas']] secret tunnel network that leads to the [[Decepticon|Decepticon]] warship the [[Nemesis]].

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' Characters

'''Original Air Date:''' May 6, 1999

==Summary==
Extended summary

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*Glitch

===Continuity Errors===
* All of the recounts of the Ark's and Nemesis' crash to Earth by both Megatron and Optimus (complete with the 'flashback' during Optimus' retelling) clearly state that the Nemesis shot down the Ark in a grand space battle. However, in [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]] and Marvel's interpretation of the battle, both ships are grounded by gravitational distortions from Earth disrupting their orbits, while they are both tethered together by a tractor beam. This would account for why Megatron and the other Decepticons are on the Ark; the tractor beam was there to secure the Ark while they boarded. However, there ''was'' a firefight between the Autobots and Decepticons ''inside'' the Ark that may have contributed to the ship's orbit's destablization, but this isn't confirmed either way in the G1 continuity. It is interesting to note that the retellings by Optimus and Megatron are stated as 'myths', meaning that the truth of what happened back then was lost in time, but this makes no sense, either, as it's been confirmed that Transformers who were involved in the Ark/Nemesis battle (like [[Ravage]]) are still around and functional during the Beast Era, meaning that such a gross mistranslation of those events would be nigh-impossible, unless purposely suppressed (which, considering the Maximal Elders' designating Earth as off-limits, is a possibility).

===Transformers References===
*References

===Real-World References===
*Reference

==External Links==
*Link
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Ravage (G1)

2006-10-09T20:37:05Z

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the Energon Terrorcon|Battle Ravage (Energon)}}

''Ravage is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Generation 1]] continuity and a [[Predacon]] in the [[Beast Era]]. He is a chronic time-traveler.''

[[Image:Ravageg1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Ravage reveals his slef (sic) to humans.]]

No Decepticon has a stronger loyalty to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] than '''Ravage'''. Ravage believes unwaveringly in the Decepticon cause, and Megatron embodies that cause. To serve Megatron, Ravage has become the most efficient and deadly war machine under his command. He hides himself in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike with grim accuracy. His name is synonymous with stealth. His survivors are few.

Ravage's only weakness is bright light, which can temporarily blind him. Perhaps his absolute loyalty to Megatron can blind him as well.

''Japanese name:'' '''Jaguar'''<br>
''Italian name:'' '''Jena'''<br>
''Swedish name:'' '''Hunden'''

==Fiction==
According to the UK book [[Dinobot War]], Ravage's cassette tape mode is disguised as the soundtrack to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_(musical) Cats].''

===Marvel Comics continuity===
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''
[[Image:Ravage_uk258.png|right|thumb|100px|The smirking Ravage was a chatty catty in the Marvel comics.]]
''Ravage was loyal bodyguard for the Overlords, the Autobots that once ruled all of Cybertron, for Generations. He witnessed as their planet-wide rule crumbled into a loose collection of feuding city-states.''

''During the Vos-Tarn war, Ravage, his partner Nightstalker, Megatron and Optimus Prime.''

''While escorting the last Overlord, an enfeebled mechanoid who required constant re-energization to survive, out of the city of Tarn during the Vos-Tarn war, they were pinned down. Though the Overlord was near death, Ravage refused to give the Overlord any of his energy, instead allying himself with Megatron, whom he believed would be the future ruler of Cybertron.''

''As for Nightstalker, he blew himself up in order to take out the forces that pinned them down, proving just how gullibly loyal Autobots could be. Ironic how Ravage would make that same sacrifice for ''his'' leader millions of years later.''

===Animated continuity===
Voice Actor: [[Frank Welker]] (US) [[Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese speech)

One of the original team of Decepticons that accompanied [[Megatron]] on the attack of the ''[[Ark]]'' spacecraft, Ravage was reformatted by [[Teletraan-1]] as an audiocassette to better blend in for operations based on Earth. Ravage served loyally as a Decepticon spy. He was one of the first Transformers to have been encountered by a human, as workers investigating a destroyed power station fell afoul of Ravage who pounced upon them and frightened them away.

Shortly thereafter, Ravage accompanied Soundwave on an infiltration mission to gather data from Teletraan 1. Though Soundwave was discovered, Ravage was captured in an energy net and held captive. The Decepticon spy figured into a disinformation plot hatched by the Autobots, who purposely leaked the presence of a rocket fuel depository in the outlying desert. In truth, there was no rocket base -- Autobot [[Hound]] projected a holographic illusion in the hopes of luring the Decepticons into a trap. The Autobots allowed Ravage to escape and report back to Megatron, who easily saw through the ruse.

===Beast Wars===

====Toy Bio====
*'''Shadow Panther'''
:He looks like a Maximal, but he is really a Predacon. His thirst for the hunt can only be satiated by attacking many Maximals. Keep an eye on the darkness, for that is where Shadowpanther lives.

*''' ''Metals'' Jaguar'''
:The process of becoming a Predacon has cost Ravage some of his early Decepticon memories. His ability to become invisible is called Reflect Shade. His orders are to rid the planet [[Earth#Beast Wars|Energois]] of Transformers.

*'''Tripredacus Agent'''
:This lone assiassin may look like a Maximal, but his irradiated spark is that of a Predacon. He was saved (and presumably rebuilt into a Transmetal 2) by the Vok. He can hide his energy signature, thanks to his unusual spark. In his history as a Predacon, he has adopted many names to better suit his covert line of work. His weapon is a low-radiation proton bomb launcher. As he loves the dark, the light is his weakness.

====''Beast Wars''====
[[Image:JaguarX9.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Beast Wars Ravage from TV Magazine]]

'''Voice Actor:''' [[Lee Tockar]] (US), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (Japan)

Ravage is one of the few Decepticon warriors who was granted amnesty at the end of the Great War and reformatted into a Predacon. Sent by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to capture [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], clean up any messes he might have made, and deal with the rest of the Beast warriors. Ravage made the trip to prehistoric Earth in a specially modified stealth [[Transwarp]] space ship. He successfully contacted the [[Maximal]]s and allied with them to capture Megatron. Due to the stealth capabilities of his ship, and the fact that [[Tarantulas]] was also an agent of the council, Ravage and the Maximals easily captured Megatron and imprisoned him.

Megatron, however, had one more card to play. He knew that Ravage wasn't going to let any of the Beast warriors live, and also knew he had the one thing that would turn Ravage to his side. Using a fragment from the [[Golden Disk]], Megatron played Ravage the message on it from the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Ravage, perhaps still driven by loyalty to ''his'' Megatron, joined the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and turned on the Maximals.

His latest treachery was short lived. During the assault on the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]], [[Rattrap]] infiltrated his ship and caused an explosion that destroyed the vessel and Ravage himself. His head, seemingly all that remained of him, was knocked into the water below the Axalaon by one of Tarantulas' [[spider-drone]]s.
{{-}}

====[[The Gathering|IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics]]====
[[Image:Ravage Teansmetal2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Alternate interpretations of Transmetal 2 Ravage.]]
Magmatron recovered Ravage's heavily-damaged torso, which still contained his spark. He then inserted the spark into a blank [[protoform]], and Ravage was reborn. In his Transmetal 2 body, he and his fellow Predacons, under the command of Magmatron, sought out [[Razorbeast]]'s band of Maximals. Viewing from a safe distance, Ravage ordered his soldiers to engage. Additional Maximal forced arrived, however, and Ravage's forces were defeated. Ravage retreated into the wilderness.

Despite being a continuity that borrows heavily from other G1 continuities, where it is suggested that Ravage is completely loyal to Megatron, before attempting to revive Ravage, Magmatron suggests that Ravage's most important loyalty is to Ravage himself.

Ravage never uses his robot mode in this story. Instead, he stands up on his hind legs in beast mode.

====[[Universe (comic)|''Primeval Dawn'' comics]]====
An undead [[Vok]]-infested [[Tarantulas]] revived Ravage (in his Tripredacus Agent TM2 body) to help boost his forces. The remnants of Ravage's body were used and recycled by the Vok to re-create [[Tigatron]].

===''Binaltech''===
Ravage's part in the Binaltech storyline is a bit more complicated than past incarnations. Several years prior to the line's continuity, government-run [[Intelligence and Information Institute]] (or Triple I) unearths a msyterious black box during an archaeological dig. After years of probing the container, dubbed "Schrödinger's Box" by the group's scientists, was revealed to be the flight recorder of Predacon Ravage's stealth ship, containing a copy of the feline's personality and memory engrams. When the scientists found a way to communicate with this personality, it offered them its knowledge of future events in exchange for a new body. Triple-I agreed, and used a fake Binaltech project to provide their part of the bargain. However, to truly bring the new Ravage to life, Triple-I stole the present-day Ravage - who had been somehow captured by the [[Earth Defense Command]] and stasis-locked into his cassette mode - and implanted him into the new Ravage, thereby 'fusing' the old and new Ravages into one.

This new Ravage, however, had no intention of fulfilling his end of the bargain and, after eliminating his benefactors and learning to his shock that history did ''not'' change in his faction's favor, decided to rectify his mistake. First on his agenda was his former commander, Megatron; stealing an Autobot shuttle, he located and repaired the [[Kronosphere]] and - during a decisive battle between Megatron's and Optimus Prime's forces that would have normally ended with the Autobots being forced off of Cybertron and into their moon bases - turned the weapon on his own faction, trapping Megatron and his crew in a space-time rift. This alteration in the timeline served two purposes: first, it would give the Autobots the chance to retake Cybertron, which would then lead to them having to face off against the oncoming [[Unicron]] alone, severely weakening them in the process. The second, and more important, purpose was to keep Megatron alive and in good health, thus preventing him from becoming the insane [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], and allowing him to lead the Decepticons to victory over the battle-weary Autobots. Ravage also reformatted [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] into a new Binaltech body of his own, so he could lead the remaining Decepticons in Megatron's absence, and secretly drailed many of the Autobots' supply missions, further weakening them for their battle with the Chaos Bringer.

Unfortunately for him, the Autobot named [[Overdrive]] became aware of Ravage's meddling in history, thanks to his acute sensitivity of the timestream, and - with the help of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheljack]] - captured the wayward Decepticon and forced a confession out of him. Ravage, however, was not without a trump card, revealing that his alterations ''may'' prevent the deaths of many of the Autobots destined to die in the normal timeline (which, as a distinction between the two, was dubbed 'Prime Time' by Wheeljack, Ravage's altered timeline being called 'Ravage Time'), though in the grand scheme of things, only Optimus could not be considered expendable, as he contained the one thing that could bring down Unicron (the [[Autobot]] [[Matrix of Leadership]]). By the time of his capture, however, Unicron had already been sighted on a collision course with Cybertron and, despite the temptation of preventing future deaths among his ranks, Optimus decided Ravage's plans to be too dangerous to allow to come to fruitition. To that end, he ropes [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] into helping him fly to Unicron in a preemptive strike against the monstrous threat, while the other Autobots (left in the command of [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]), were to initiate "Operation: Distant Thunder", which involved sending a copy of Wheeljack's memories of what Ravage confessed to them, back in time to a point prior to the Decepticon panther's meddling, via the energies located on [[Dinobot Island]]. If "Operation: Distant Thunder" worked as planned, Ravage's plans would be foiled, and any tremors in the timeline he caused would be smoothed over by "Project Body Shop" (aka, the Binaltech project). However, just as Skids gives the signal to transmit the memory engrams, the Autobot base is rocked by an entire fleet of Decepticons. It is unknown as of now if "Operation: Distant Thunder" succeeded or not, or what Ravage's fate will be.

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[Image:General jaguar.jpg|thumb|Predacon General Jaguar]]

''(Note: although it picks up after the first season, the Beast Wars Metals manga is '''not''' in-continuity with the television series.)''

In the ''Beast Wars Metals'' manga, Metals Jaguar was portrayed as G1 Jaguar's homicidal son, with Jaguar taking the design of the Happy Meal Panther toy.

===Kids Stuff Read-Along book===
Ravage immediately recognized what a hydro electric station was, a method of generating power used on Cybertron "way way back in the mists of time," when Transformers were not much more advanced in science than humans are now.

This indicates that Ravage is among the oldest of the Decepticons. Even Megatron only feigned familiarity with this form of technology.

==Toys==
===Generation 1===

* '''Ravage'''
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''19''', '''D-59''', '''D-104'''
: Released with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] by Hasbro in 1984-1986, and by Takara from 1985-1987. The mold was later used for [[Howlback]].

===Beast Wars===
* '''Panther''' (Happy Meal 1996)

* '''Shadow Panther''' (Deluxe 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-7'''
: This toy is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Cheetor]] toy in black, silver, and yellow.

* '''Jaguar''' (Deluxe 1999)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''X-9'''
: ''Beast Wars Metals'' Jaguar is a heavy [[retool]] of [[Transmetal]] Cheetor, just as Ravage's CG model in the show is an altered Transmetal Cheetor.

* '''Tripredacus Agent''' (Deluxe, Wal-Mart exclusive 2001)
: Redeco of --wait, can you guess?-- Transmetal 2 Cheetor, in black, silver, and gold.

===Alternators===
* '''Battle Ravage'''
: A retooling of Alternators [[Tracks (G1)]], ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-11'''
* '''Ravage'''
: Jaguar XK, transforms into G1-modeled panther form, ''No Japanese ID number, as of yet.''

===Smallest Transformers===
* '''Jaguar'''

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Ravage Ravage Transformers Universe profile]
*[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm Ravage at TFU.info]

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Ravage (G1)

2006-10-09T20:35:57Z

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the Energon Terrorcon|Battle Ravage (Energon)}}

''Ravage is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Generation 1]] continuity and a [[Predacon]] in the [[Beast Era]]. He is a chronic time-traveler.''

[[Image:Ravageg1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Ravage reveals his slef (sic) to humans.]]

No Decepticon has a stronger loyalty to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] than '''Ravage'''. Ravage believes unwaveringly in the Decepticon cause, and Megatron embodies that cause. To serve Megatron, Ravage has become the most efficient and deadly war machine under his command. He hides himself in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike with grim accuracy. His name is synonymous with stealth. His survivors are few.

Ravage's only weakness is bright light, which can temporarily blind him. Perhaps his absolute loyalty to Megatron can blind him as well.

''Japanese name:'' '''Jaguar'''<br>
''Italian name:'' '''Jena'''<br>
''Swedish name:'' '''Hunden'''

==Fiction==
According to the UK book [[Dinobot War]], Ravage's cassette tape mode is disguised as the soundtrack to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_(musical) Cats].''

===Marvel Comics continuity===
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''
[[Image:Ravage_uk258.png|right|thumb|100px|The smirking Ravage was a chatty catty in the Marvel comics.]]
''Ravage was loyal bodyguard for the Overlords, the Autobots that once ruled all of Cybertron, for Generations. He witnessed as their planet-wide rule crumbled into a loose collection of feuding city-states.''

''During the Vos-Tarn war, Ravage, his partner Nightstalker, Megatron and Optimus Prime.''

''While escorting the last Overlord, an enfeebled mechanoid who required constant re-energization to survive, out of the city of Tarn during the Vos-Tarn war, they were pinned down. Though the Overlord was near death, Ravage refused to give the Overlord any of his energy, instead allying himself with Megatron, whom he believed would be the future ruler of Cybertron.''

''As for Nightstalker, he blew himself up in order to take out the forces that pinned them down, proving just how gullibly loyal Autobots could be. Ironic how Ravage would make that same sacrifice for HIS leader millions of years later.''

===Animated continuity===
Voice Actor: [[Frank Welker]] (US) [[Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese speech)

One of the original team of Decepticons that accompanied [[Megatron]] on the attack of the ''[[Ark]]'' spacecraft, Ravage was reformatted by [[Teletraan-1]] as an audiocassette to better blend in for operations based on Earth. Ravage served loyally as a Decepticon spy. He was one of the first Transformers to have been encountered by a human, as workers investigating a destroyed power station fell afoul of Ravage who pounced upon them and frightened them away.

Shortly thereafter, Ravage accompanied Soundwave on an infiltration mission to gather data from Teletraan 1. Though Soundwave was discovered, Ravage was captured in an energy net and held captive. The Decepticon spy figured into a disinformation plot hatched by the Autobots, who purposely leaked the presence of a rocket fuel depository in the outlying desert. In truth, there was no rocket base -- Autobot [[Hound]] projected a holographic illusion in the hopes of luring the Decepticons into a trap. The Autobots allowed Ravage to escape and report back to Megatron, who easily saw through the ruse.

===Beast Wars===

====Toy Bio====
*'''Shadow Panther'''
:He looks like a Maximal, but he is really a Predacon. His thirst for the hunt can only be satiated by attacking many Maximals. Keep an eye on the darkness, for that is where Shadowpanther lives.

*''' ''Metals'' Jaguar'''
:The process of becoming a Predacon has cost Ravage some of his early Decepticon memories. His ability to become invisible is called Reflect Shade. His orders are to rid the planet [[Earth#Beast Wars|Energois]] of Transformers.

*'''Tripredacus Agent'''
:This lone assiassin may look like a Maximal, but his irradiated spark is that of a Predacon. He was saved (and presumably rebuilt into a Transmetal 2) by the Vok. He can hide his energy signature, thanks to his unusual spark. In his history as a Predacon, he has adopted many names to better suit his covert line of work. His weapon is a low-radiation proton bomb launcher. As he loves the dark, the light is his weakness.

====''Beast Wars''====
[[Image:JaguarX9.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Beast Wars Ravage from TV Magazine]]

'''Voice Actor:''' [[Lee Tockar]] (US), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (Japan)

Ravage is one of the few Decepticon warriors who was granted amnesty at the end of the Great War and reformatted into a Predacon. Sent by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to capture [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], clean up any messes he might have made, and deal with the rest of the Beast warriors. Ravage made the trip to prehistoric Earth in a specially modified stealth [[Transwarp]] space ship. He successfully contacted the [[Maximal]]s and allied with them to capture Megatron. Due to the stealth capabilities of his ship, and the fact that [[Tarantulas]] was also an agent of the council, Ravage and the Maximals easily captured Megatron and imprisoned him.

Megatron, however, had one more card to play. He knew that Ravage wasn't going to let any of the Beast warriors live, and also knew he had the one thing that would turn Ravage to his side. Using a fragment from the [[Golden Disk]], Megatron played Ravage the message on it from the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Ravage, perhaps still driven by loyalty to ''his'' Megatron, joined the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and turned on the Maximals.

His latest treachery was short lived. During the assault on the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]], [[Rattrap]] infiltrated his ship and caused an explosion that destroyed the vessel and Ravage himself. His head, seemingly all that remained of him, was knocked into the water below the Axalaon by one of Tarantulas' [[spider-drone]]s.
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====[[The Gathering|IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics]]====
[[Image:Ravage Teansmetal2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Alternate interpretations of Transmetal 2 Ravage.]]
Magmatron recovered Ravage's heavily-damaged torso, which still contained his spark. He then inserted the spark into a blank [[protoform]], and Ravage was reborn. In his Transmetal 2 body, he and his fellow Predacons, under the command of Magmatron, sought out [[Razorbeast]]'s band of Maximals. Viewing from a safe distance, Ravage ordered his soldiers to engage. Additional Maximal forced arrived, however, and Ravage's forces were defeated. Ravage retreated into the wilderness.

Despite being a continuity that borrows heavily from other G1 continuities, where it is suggested that Ravage is completely loyal to Megatron, before attempting to revive Ravage, Magmatron suggests that Ravage's most important loyalty is to Ravage himself.

Ravage never uses his robot mode in this story. Instead, he stands up on his hind legs in beast mode.

====[[Universe (comic)|''Primeval Dawn'' comics]]====
An undead [[Vok]]-infested [[Tarantulas]] revived Ravage (in his Tripredacus Agent TM2 body) to help boost his forces. The remnants of Ravage's body were used and recycled by the Vok to re-create [[Tigatron]].

===''Binaltech''===
Ravage's part in the Binaltech storyline is a bit more complicated than past incarnations. Several years prior to the line's continuity, government-run [[Intelligence and Information Institute]] (or Triple I) unearths a msyterious black box during an archaeological dig. After years of probing the container, dubbed "Schrödinger's Box" by the group's scientists, was revealed to be the flight recorder of Predacon Ravage's stealth ship, containing a copy of the feline's personality and memory engrams. When the scientists found a way to communicate with this personality, it offered them its knowledge of future events in exchange for a new body. Triple-I agreed, and used a fake Binaltech project to provide their part of the bargain. However, to truly bring the new Ravage to life, Triple-I stole the present-day Ravage - who had been somehow captured by the [[Earth Defense Command]] and stasis-locked into his cassette mode - and implanted him into the new Ravage, thereby 'fusing' the old and new Ravages into one.

This new Ravage, however, had no intention of fulfilling his end of the bargain and, after eliminating his benefactors and learning to his shock that history did ''not'' change in his faction's favor, decided to rectify his mistake. First on his agenda was his former commander, Megatron; stealing an Autobot shuttle, he located and repaired the [[Kronosphere]] and - during a decisive battle between Megatron's and Optimus Prime's forces that would have normally ended with the Autobots being forced off of Cybertron and into their moon bases - turned the weapon on his own faction, trapping Megatron and his crew in a space-time rift. This alteration in the timeline served two purposes: first, it would give the Autobots the chance to retake Cybertron, which would then lead to them having to face off against the oncoming [[Unicron]] alone, severely weakening them in the process. The second, and more important, purpose was to keep Megatron alive and in good health, thus preventing him from becoming the insane [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], and allowing him to lead the Decepticons to victory over the battle-weary Autobots. Ravage also reformatted [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] into a new Binaltech body of his own, so he could lead the remaining Decepticons in Megatron's absence, and secretly drailed many of the Autobots' supply missions, further weakening them for their battle with the Chaos Bringer.

Unfortunately for him, the Autobot named [[Overdrive]] became aware of Ravage's meddling in history, thanks to his acute sensitivity of the timestream, and - with the help of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheljack]] - captured the wayward Decepticon and forced a confession out of him. Ravage, however, was not without a trump card, revealing that his alterations ''may'' prevent the deaths of many of the Autobots destined to die in the normal timeline (which, as a distinction between the two, was dubbed 'Prime Time' by Wheeljack, Ravage's altered timeline being called 'Ravage Time'), though in the grand scheme of things, only Optimus could not be considered expendable, as he contained the one thing that could bring down Unicron (the [[Autobot]] [[Matrix of Leadership]]). By the time of his capture, however, Unicron had already been sighted on a collision course with Cybertron and, despite the temptation of preventing future deaths among his ranks, Optimus decided Ravage's plans to be too dangerous to allow to come to fruitition. To that end, he ropes [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] into helping him fly to Unicron in a preemptive strike against the monstrous threat, while the other Autobots (left in the command of [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]), were to initiate "Operation: Distant Thunder", which involved sending a copy of Wheeljack's memories of what Ravage confessed to them, back in time to a point prior to the Decepticon panther's meddling, via the energies located on [[Dinobot Island]]. If "Operation: Distant Thunder" worked as planned, Ravage's plans would be foiled, and any tremors in the timeline he caused would be smoothed over by "Project Body Shop" (aka, the Binaltech project). However, just as Skids gives the signal to transmit the memory engrams, the Autobot base is rocked by an entire fleet of Decepticons. It is unknown as of now if "Operation: Distant Thunder" succeeded or not, or what Ravage's fate will be.

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[Image:General jaguar.jpg|thumb|Predacon General Jaguar]]

''(Note: although it picks up after the first season, the Beast Wars Metals manga is '''not''' in-continuity with the television series.)''

In the ''Beast Wars Metals'' manga, Metals Jaguar was portrayed as G1 Jaguar's homicidal son, with Jaguar taking the design of the Happy Meal Panther toy.

===Kids Stuff Read-Along book===
Ravage immediately recognized what a hydro electric station was, a method of generating power used on Cybertron "way way back in the mists of time," when Transformers were not much more advanced in science than humans are now.

This indicates that Ravage is among the oldest of the Decepticons. Even Megatron only feigned familiarity with this form of technology.

==Toys==
===Generation 1===

* '''Ravage'''
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''19''', '''D-59''', '''D-104'''
: Released with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] by Hasbro in 1984-1986, and by Takara from 1985-1987. The mold was later used for [[Howlback]].

===Beast Wars===
* '''Panther''' (Happy Meal 1996)

* '''Shadow Panther''' (Deluxe 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-7'''
: This toy is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Cheetor]] toy in black, silver, and yellow.

* '''Jaguar''' (Deluxe 1999)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''X-9'''
: ''Beast Wars Metals'' Jaguar is a heavy [[retool]] of [[Transmetal]] Cheetor, just as Ravage's CG model in the show is an altered Transmetal Cheetor.

* '''Tripredacus Agent''' (Deluxe, Wal-Mart exclusive 2001)
: Redeco of --wait, can you guess?-- Transmetal 2 Cheetor, in black, silver, and gold.

===Alternators===
* '''Battle Ravage'''
: A retooling of Alternators [[Tracks (G1)]], ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-11'''
* '''Ravage'''
: Jaguar XK, transforms into G1-modeled panther form, ''No Japanese ID number, as of yet.''

===Smallest Transformers===
* '''Jaguar'''

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Ravage Ravage Transformers Universe profile]
*[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm Ravage at TFU.info]

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Tigatron (BW)

2006-10-09T19:46:29Z

66.233.188.87: /* ''Beast Wars'' */

[[Image:Tigatron1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Rar!]]

:''Tigatron is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] continuity family. He was previously designated '''Unit 2'''''

Damage to his stasis pod upon crashing to [[Earth]] caused [[Tigatron]] to emerge far more tiger than robot. A loner who is more connected to the Earth than any other [[Beast Wars|Beast Warrior]], he enjoys the planet's natural beauty and is often concerned about the damage that the Transformers' battle is doing to it. Scout, infiltrator, and sometimes programming guru, Tigatron has filled a variety of roles for the Maximals.

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====''Timelines: Dawn of Future's Past''====
[[Image:Tigatrondawn.jpg|left|thumb|250px|He wasn't even supposed to be here today!]]
Tigatron was once known as Unit 2, part of the [[Maximal Command Security Force]] which protected the fragile peace that existed on [[Cybertron (planet)]] in the centuries following the [[Pax Cybertronia]]. One of the Security Force's elite troops, Unit 2 was often put in charge of guarding important Maximal artifacts, a job that often required his amazing prowess at tracking. Despite his strong command of this environment, Unit 2 wondered if his destiny and place was elsewhere.

When the [[Golden Disk]] was stolen by a band of rogue [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], Unit 2 responded along with Unit 1, [[Nitrostreak]]. After Nitrostreak was incapacitated, Unit 2 attempted to follow the [[Darksyde]] by commandeering the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', pursuing, along with [[Airazor (BW)|its pilot]]. During the ensuing firefight, their ship was badly damaged. [[Optimus Primal]] had their [[Spark]]s remotely uploaded to blank protoforms in the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'s cargohold, which saved their lives, but severely damaged their core mainframes.

====''Beast Wars''====
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Blu Mankuma]] (US), [[Kōichi Tōchika]] (Japan)

Before Airazor showed up, Tigatron had an organic tiger friend named Snowstalker, who may or may not have been one of two things: the basis for his altmode, or his 'secret lover'. Sadly, Snowstalker became one of the war's casualties, putting Tigatron in a funk for at least an episode.

====''Universe: The Wreckers''====
=====''Primeval Dawn=====
[[Image:Primeval Tigatron.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tigatron reborn.]]
Tigatron and Airazor's sparks were sent back to Earth by the [[Vok]] sometime after [[Tigerhawk]]'s destruction. Tigatron's spark took possesion of [[Ravage]]'s former body at the bottom of a lake. Joining Transmetal Airazor and a newly-created [[Primal Prime]], Tigatron battled [[Tarantulas]] and Ravage, who had also managed to escape death.

''The ''Primeval Dawn'' story was never finished.''

=====''The Wreckers''=====
Tigatron, Primal Prime, and others arrived on Cybertron during Megatron's anti-biological reign. Various teams met with the [[Oracle]], which assigned them various tasks. When Optimus Primal objected, saying that with all these soldiers, Megatron could be defeated easily, the Oracle swept him away and cleansed his memory of the recent events. Tigatron vehemently objected to this treatment of his former commander. A set of coordinates was infused into Primal Prime's head by the Oracle. When arriving at an Autobot shuttle, which was to ferry the Wreckers to those coordinates, Tigatron felt that something was amiss. It was then that the Vehicon generals [[Spy Streak]], [[Scavenger_(BM)|Scavenger]], [[Quake]] and [[Blastcharge (BM)|Blastcharge]] attacked. Tigatron used his Nature's Fury attack, utterly destroying Quake. During the ride in the Autobot shuttle, Tigatron meditated, recovering from the battle. Upon arrived at their destination, he once again sensed that danger awaited the Wreckers...

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===

[[Image:Blackarach24.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Let's hope Airazor doesn't find out about this.]]

''(Note: although it picks up after the first season, the Beast Wars Metals manga is not in-continuity with the television series.)''

In the Beast Wars Metals manga, Tigatron was interpretted as a samurai warrior and given a character re-design to reflect that angle. At one point, he is forced to do battle with the [[spark|spark]]-less body of his beloved [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]. Not wishing to harm her, he willingly let the evil Airazor take the opportunity to decapitate him.

Just as evil Airazor began to strike, the spark of the real Airazor entered his body. In cyberspace, the two embrace eacher other and vow never to be apart again. Their sparks then merge, resulting in the all-powerful [[Tigerhawk]].

==Toys==

===Beast Wars===
[[Image:BWRConcept07.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Tigatron's control art. Note the extensive remolding from Cheetor that never happened.]]
*'''Tigatron'''
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-08'''
:This mold is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] in pale yellow, gray, and green.

*'''Tigatron''' (Transmetal Botcon 2001 exclusive)
:This mold is a redeco of Metals [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] which is a [[retool]] of transmetal [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]].

===Timelines===
*'''Unit 2 (Tigatron)''' (2006)

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Maximal/Tigatron/tigatron.htm Tigatron at TFU.info]
*[http://www.botcon.com/archive/story/characters/tigatron.html Tigatron's profile at BotCon.com]

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Aerialbot (G1)

2006-10-09T18:50:02Z

66.233.188.87: /* Animated continuity */

{{disambig2|the [[Scramble City]] combiner team from [[Generation 1]]|the [[Micromaster]] combiner team from [[Universe]]|Aerialbot (Universe)}}

:''The Aerialbots are a team of [[Autobot]]s in the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

The '''Aerialbots''' are the first Autobot [[Combiner|combiner/gestalt/special team]]. They all transform into Earth-style aircraft and combine to form [[Superion]].

*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] is the responsible one, the leader, and scared of hights. He keeps the others out of trouble.
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] is the strategist, the modest and bookish one who doesn't realize he the best flier the Autobots have.
*[[Fireflight (G1)| Fireflight]] is the space case who's a hazard to everything else in the air.
*[[Air Raid (G1)| Air Raid]] is a gung-ho, wreckless, fearless, and fun-loving warrior.
*[[Slingshot]] is a loud-mouthed, bragging jerk with VTOL capabillities. He gets the others into trouble.

==Fiction==

===Marvel Comics continuity===
The Aerialbots were created to bolster the [[Earth]]-bound [[Autobot|Autobots]]' depleted forces, counter the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]' aerial superiority, and utilize the [[combiner]] technology that [[Bumblebee]] had stolen from the Decepticons. Their first mission came suddenly when a crisis arose at Hoover Dam. An employee armed with a super-powerful handgun had taken over the control room and ordered that the dam be shut down. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] suspected [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s involvement, but the only Autobots who could reach the dam fast enough were the newly-constructed Aerialbots. Although [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] had completed their bodies, [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] was the only one whose personality had been fully programmed. Feeling he had no choice, Prime sent them anyway.

Arriving at the dam, they found that it had, indeed, been shut down, and where water used to fall there now hovered a [[space bridge]]. Sitting on the bridge was a giant drilling machine that was slowly boring through the dam. From the machine, a huge pipe led back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The Decepticons' plan was apparent: The water that would normally flow over the dam would be piped to Cybertron, where technologically advanced turbines would generate huge amounts of power. (Cybertron is devoid of water.) As the Aerialbots began to assault the drill, they were intercepted by [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], who had just arrived from Cybertron. During the fight, Silverbolt briefly succumbed to his fear of heights, but he recovered by putting his team's safety before his own. The battle was soon joined by the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] (also new arrivals from Cybertron), but the Aerialbots still managed to win the fight. The drill, however, was impervious to individual attacks, so the Aerialbots combined into [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and began to destroy it. Suddenly, the human who had started the whole mess (under [[Bombshell]]'s mind control) appeared atop the dam and pointed Megatron's gun mode at the Autobot gestalt. As Megatron hurled threats, Superion reached over to crush him. The human, [[Ricky Vasquez]], began to think of his daughter, and Bombshell's control weakened. At the same time, Superion was having a mental crisis of his own: Silverbolt, the only fully-programmed Aerialbot, was the only one who had any respect for human life, and he tried desperately to override the other Aerialbots and stop the gestalt from crushing Ricky. Realizing that he couldn't succeed, he forced his team to disassemble. Meanwhile, Ricky managed to fight the Decepticon mind control just enough to shoot the drill instead of the Aerialbots. The Decepticons left in defeat, and the Aerialbots returned to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]].

However, the tiny Bombshell was able to sneak into the Ark with the Aerialbots, and he secretly injected a mind-controlling [[cerebro-shell]] into Optimus Prime. But the shell malfunctioned, and the Insecticon could only read Prime's thoughts, not control them. Megatron still used this to his advantage, for when Prime used the [[Creation Matrix]] to give life to more robots, Megatron could secretly access its power and do the same. This occurred when Prime reprogrammed the Aerialbots. Because of their poor performance at Hoover Dam, Optimus had had the team's minds completely wiped and re-created. (It is unknown whether Silverbolt still had a fear of heights after being reprogrammed.) During the process of re-creation, Matrix power was channeled from the cerebro-shell to [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], then to Megatron (via an artificial communications hook-up), and from him into the lifeless [[Stunticon|Stunticons]]. This five-member Decepticon team could transform into Earthen cars, and thus humans would easily confuse them with the Autobots.

The Stunticons began to wreak havoc on a highway, and their attack was not a random one; they were targeting the Autobot [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], who (along with the human [[Donny Finkleberg]]) was searching for a group of Cybertronian Autobots that had been accidentally transported to Earth. As the Stunticons neared Skids, Donny ran off to safety. At that moment, a [[RAAT]] team led by [[Circuit Breaker]] attacked the Decepticons but was somewhat ineffectual. The Stunticons surrounded Skids, who saw the helplessness of his situation and didn't fight back. Then the Aerialbots appeared and began firing at the Stunticons, who pretended to be protecting Skids. Circuit Breaker saw the destructive Stunticons appear to protect the supposed "good guy" Skids, and this further cemented her belief that all robots are evil. After the two Transformer teams merged into their gestalt modes, Circuit Breaker slipped into the fight and blasted Superion with all the energy her suit could provide. This stunned the giant Autobot long enough for the Stunticon gestalt, [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], to deal a debilitating blow with his cyclone gun. Skids and Donny used the opportunity to escape and continue their mission. It's unclear exactly what happened after this point-- apparently, the RAAT forces were strong enough to drive Menasor off (or perhaps he simply lost interest). At any rate, the deactivated Superion was taken to RAAT headquarters and dissassembled for study. Several other captured Autobots (incidentally, the same ones Skids and Donny had been looking for) were in similar states of dissection when RAAT again moved into the offensive, this time against the two Decepticon [[Battlecharger|Battlechargers]]. In the heat of the battle, Circuit Breaker unintentionally endangered the lives of civilians (and lost the fight anyway). Because of her poor judgment, she was forbidden to participate in any more assaults on the Battlechargers. Itching for revenge on the two Decepticons, she found that her only possible allies were the disassembled Autobots in her lab. It would have taken too long to properly repair their bodies and reconnect their brains, but she knew she could jury-rig them together into a form that she could control. However, she would not be able to completely subdue them, so she struck a deal: If they would obey her commands, then she would let them go after she had had her revenge on the Battlechargers. And that is just what happened. Unfortunately for her, releasing the Autobots got her fired from RAAT.

Immediately after Ratchet finished repairing the damage inflicted by Circuit Breaker's studies and jury-rigging, the Aerialbots were sent on a new mission: Bumblebee had spotted Bombshell at the grand unveiling of [[Power Station Alpha]], an advanced, mobile nuclear power facility. Sent to assist Bumblebee, the Aerialbots arrived to find their ally in pieces. The anti-terrorist team [[G.I. Joe]] had been guarding the station, and, mistaking Bumblebee for a threat, they had destroyed him. The Aerialbots combined into Superion and briefly battled the humans. The fight was cut short by a radio message from [[Blaster]], who informed Superion that Optimus Prime was dead, and that all Autobots were to return to the Ark. The Aerialbots did just that, leaving Bumblebee's wreckage (and some confused G.I. Joes) behind.

Later, the Decepticons stole Power Station Alpha and began to use it in a plan that would, if enacted, ultimately destroy the Earth. After clearing up some misunderstandings, an alliance was formed between the Autobots, G.I. Joe, and (recognizing the mutual threat) the terrorist organization called [[Cobra]]. While a team of humans sneak-attacked the station, the Aerialbots participated in a diversionary strike on the Decepticons' island base. As human jets battled the Decepticons' air armada, Superion fought an aerial battle with Devastator, the [[Constructicon]] combiner. Just as Superion defeated his foe, Alpha was destroyed. The beaten Decepticons retreated, and the Autobot-Joe-Cobra alliance dispersed.

After this point, the Aerialbots faded out of the spotlight. Their next notable appearance was during [[Buster Witwicky]]'s Decepticon captivity. Wanting the awesome power of the mysterious, spaceborne [[Underbase]] for himself, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] used Buster as bait to lure the Autobots into a massive battle with the Decepticons. He would use the confusion to sneak off and find the Underbase before anyone else could. Three Aerialbots (Air Raid, Fireflight, and Skydive) were the Advance Security Patrol that found Buster freezing in the Arctic. After the other Autobots arrived, the battle ensued. However, the combatants soon deduced Starscream's plan, and they forged a shaky alliance to stop him. When they found him, they were able to stop him from absorbing all but a small fraction of the Underbase's power... but that was enough to make him virtually invincible. In a show of force, he sought to destroy three major Earth cities. The Aerialbots were easily eliminated while defending [[New York|New York City]].

Although Starscream was eventually destroyed, the severe microchip damage he inflicted on his victims kept them in deactivation for a very long time. Although the technology to repair them did exist, the Autobots didn't have it on the Ark. The Aerialbots and many others were not revived until [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] found a miracle fuel called [[Nucleon]], and they awoke just in time to fight the demi-god [[Unicron]]. After Unicron's destruction, the Decepticons left Cybertron to conquer other worlds. Under Grimlock's impulsive orders, Aerialbot leader Silverbolt piloted the main pursuit ship that flew right into a Decepticon ambush (nearly destroying the entire Autobot army).

But the Autobots prevailed, and the Decepticons exiled themselves (supposedly) forever. For a time, peace was known. But a situation developed on Earth: Megatron, who knew nothing of the Decepticon exile, was making his presence known through an alliance with Cobra. He had been on board the Ark when it had crashed in northern [[Canada]] shortly after Unicron's defeat. He had repaired and hidden the Ark, then had made a deal with Cobra: He would give them access to the Ark's technology if they would build him a new body (to his specifications, including a "rail gun," a human invention which he considered superior to his fusion cannon). When G.I. Joe discovered that he had returned, they contacted the Autobots on Cybertron, and a team was sent to Earth to stop him. The team consisted of [[Hot Spot (G1)]], [[Brawn]], [[Chase]], [[Override (G1)|Override]], [[Steeljaw]], and the Aerialbot Skydive. Megatron quickly destroyed Steeljaw, Chase, and Brawn, and the Autobots realized that they had to come up with some new tactics. Override distracted Megatron while Skydive and Hot Spot snuck aboard the Ark. At some point, Hot Spot left the Ark to stop Cobra, who had a truckload of Cybertronian technology. After destroying Override, Megatron launched the Ark into orbit, aware of neither Skydive nor a second stowaway, the human [[Spike Witwicky]]. Spike found the body of his [[Headmaster]] partner, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], and merged with it. He and Skydive attacked Megatron, and Max was severely injured. With his last ounce of strength, Max plunged himself into the Ark's antimatter conversion chamber, setting off a chain reaction that quickly destroyed the ship. Skydive escaped with Megatron's human captive, the brilliant [[Dr. Biggles-Jones]], and delivered her to G.I. Joe. Upon arrival, he found that Hot Spot had succeeding in destroying Cobra's Cybertronian technology, but he had destroyed himself to prevent his own tech from falling into Cobra's hands. As the only Autobot on Earth, Skydive briefly functioned as a liaison between his own army and the humans. When the main Decepticon army returned and began decimating the Earth, Skydive contacted Optimus Prime and asked for reinforcements. When other Autobots arrived and established a presence on the planet, Skydive was reunited with his fellow Aerialbots.

Soon the vicious [[Swarm]] arrived on the Earth and began devouring all Transformers. The Aerialbot Slingshot was destroyed just moments before Megatron arrived with a substance that would make metal virtually indestructible.

===Animated continuity===
In order to fight the [[Autobot|Autobots]] more effectively on the ground, the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] built a [[Combiner|combiner team]] that could convert into cars. However, in order to give these [[Stunticon|Stunticons]] life, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] had to take them to [[Vector Sigma]], a megacomputer deep within [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Vector Sigma could only be activated with a Circuit Key, which was in the hands of the ancient Autobot [[Alpha Trion]]. Megatron stole the Key and succeeded in giving life to the new team. A group of Autobots had been following Megatron, and, to counter the Stunticons, they rebuilt some old, abandoned shuttles into the Aerialbots. However, without the Key, they couldn't activate Vector Sigma. Alpha Trion then revealed that, as one of the first Transformers created, he had the ability to interface his power supply with the megacomputer. Against [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s protests, he merged with Vector Sigma, activating it, and his lifeless body fell to the ground. Prime asked Vector Sigma to "Let them [the Aerialbots] think for themselves, to grow in knowledge and wisdom, and let them always value freedom and life wherever they find it." After the Aerialbots were programmed, Alpha Trion's voice came from the megacomputer; his mind had merged with Vector Sigma.

Once on [[Earth]], the Aerialbots fought a brief battle with the Stunticons that ended when Megatron sent a message to his car warriors to return to base. Thinking that the Stunticons had retreated, the Aerialbots' egos soared; all, that is, except [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]. During the fight, he had discovered his fear of heights; he guessed that it came from the fact that he was built from a low-altitude cargo shuttle. Prime helped him deal with the phobia by naming him Aerialbot Leader, thus giving him duties that would keep his mind off of his fear. However, he found his position a hard one to fill. The other Aerialbots, especially [[Slingshot]], saw themselves as better than anyone else. They couldn't understand why the Autobots wasted their time protecting the foolish and inferior humans, and they eventually left the Autobots. Silverbolt, who didn't agree, merely promised Prime he would bring them back, then left with them. After a while, Silverbolt finally convinced them that they owed the Autobots their lives, and they decided to stay with the Autobot army.

Meanwhile, Megatron had discovered that the Key could "de-energize" Earthen matter, turning it to metal. Hoping to create a new Cybertron, he began sweeping through forests near the [[Seattle-Tacoma area]], turning everything from trees to mountains into metal. The Autobots tried to stop him, but the Stunticons were unstoppable...that is, until the Aerialbots arrived. The two teams formed their gestalt modes, and, as the battle entered the outskirts of a city, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|] arrived and turned the tide. Megatron retreated, but he still had the Key. Silverbolt, braving his phobia, chased him down and destroyed it.

A few weeks later, strange energy readings were detected on Cybertron. A team of Autobots and the Aerialbots left to investigate. The Aerialbots, enamored with Cybertron, were on a patrol when they were attacked by three Decepticon jets. Curious, Slingshot surrendered and began to ask the Decepticons questions, like why Prime thought they were evil. All the other Aerialbots except Silverbolt did the same, and Silverbolt followed at a distance. [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], feigning friendship, led the naive team into the [[Chronosphere]], a time machine that had been generating the unusual energy readings. As Silverbolt arrived, trying to convince his teammates that they were in a trap, Megatron activated the Chronosphere, intending to send them back to before the beginning of time. Outside of the timestream, they would be trapped in eternal nothingness. However, the other Autobots arrived and destroyed the machine before it could finish its work. The Aerialbots had been sent only nine million years into the past, during the [[Golden Age of Cybertron]] before the [[Great War|Great Wars]] had broken out.

In the past, the Aerialbots met a young Transformer named [[Orion Pax]], who was working at an energy shipment facility. As they got to know each other, Orion soon told them about his admiration of a "new kind" of Transformer that had the ability to fly in robot mode. He was understandably awestruck when the leader of those robots, Megatron, arrived at his workplace under the guise of friendship. After Orion gave him a brief tour, Megatron ordered his disguised troops to attack the facility and take the energon. During the assault, Orion, his girlfriend Ariel, and his friend [[Dion]] were severely injured. The Aerialbots arrived at the scene just as Megatron was leaving. They took Orion to the young Alpha Trion, who was devising ways to fight the Decepticons. He rebuilt Orion into the first of a new breed that would be capable of standing against Megatron. He also gave him a new name: Optimus Prime. Alpha then rebuilt Ariel into [[Elita One]], but it is unknown whether Dion was given similar treatment.

Prime inflicted severe damage on the Decepticon forces, but Megatron was still powerful. His raiders were starting to loot a fuel transfer center that would supply him with enough [[energon]] to win the war just as it was beginning. The Aerialbots realized this, and they set up explosives to destroy the energon. However, while they were inside, the Decepticons surrounded the facility, preventing their escape. Now fully aware of Megatron's evil, they set off the charges despite the danger to themselves. Just as the energon detonated, they found themselves being transported back to the present. When they arrived, they saw that the Autobots had repaired the Chronosphere but were fighting the Decepticons and a reanimated [[Guardian Robots|Guardian Robot]]. The Aerialbots combined into Superion and destroyed the Guardian, and Megatron retreated. As the Decepticons flew away, Slingshot swore, "You'll never get away from us, Megatron! We won't stop fighting till you're finished!"

Since that time, the Aerialbots have been invaluable to the Earth-bound (and largely flightless) Autobots. When Megatron obtained the ultra-powerful [[Lightning Bug]] from the ruins of an ancient Autobot colony, it was Superion who eventually destroyed the weapon. Later, Slingshot and Skydive went undercover at a Middle Eastern airbase to investigate a rash of jet thefts. Late one night, men in laundry trucks began disassembling them and several other jets, carting their components to a car repair shop. There, the parts were jury-rigged into bizarre-looking cars and driven across the border to Megatron's secret base. The planes were then reassembled and used by the Decepticons as a remote-controlled drone armada. With the help of [[Hassan]], a young human who was also investigating the smugglers, Slingshot and [[Skydive (G1)|Skydive]] were rebuilt without being detected. The other Aerialbots soon arrived and began battling the drones, the [[Combaticon|Combaticons]], and Megatron's sphinx-like airborne fortress. As Superion, they beat the Combaticons' gestalt mode and destroyed the fortress by blowing up an oil well. After the Decepticons retreated, the Autobots discovered that [[Ali]], the head of the smuggling operation, had become the ruler of his country by allying himself with Megatron and overthrowing a certain Prince Jamal. Megatron was going to use Ali's drone jets to take over the Middle Eastern oil fields, thus supplying himself with enough energy to conquer the world...and giving Ali a fair share of domination, of course. It was also revealed that the Aerialbots' friend Hassan was actually the deposed Prince Jamal in disguise.

For many years, the Aerialbots remained a valuable asset to the Autobot cause. When [[Rodimus Prime]] and several other Autobots were trapped on [[Quintessa]], the Aerialbots arrived in a rescue craft and saved them, just as the planet self-destructed. However, the force of the explosion destroyed their ship, and they hurtled helplessly through space until colliding with [[Goo]]#8739B. There, they fought a giant trash-collecting machine and (later) Decepticon warriors before escaping with the help of the [[Junkion]] [[Wreck-Gar]].

Some time later, the Aerialbots were dispatched as part of a reinforcement team to help a group of Autobots who had discovered a [[Quintesson]] base on a large asteroid near Cybertron. The Aerialbots arrived and drove the Quints away, finding [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] heavily damaged and half-conscious. Before blacking out, Perceptor told them that the team had discovered a Quint time machine. Under attack with virtually no hope of escape, the other team members had jumped through the "time window" just moments before their would-be rescuers arrived. Now, the reinforcement team (led by Rodimus Prime) could do nothing but keep the time machine activated and hope that their comrades would come back through. The Autobots also made another discovery at the Quint base: The Quints had used the time machine to extract from the distant past an Autobot named A-3. As Rodimus and A-3 began to converse, the Quintessons returned in force, and a battle ensued. During the battle, chronal energies emanating from the time machine were playing havoc with the nature of space-time. Events were occurring that defied normal linear time, such as endlessly repeating loops and sudden reversals of the timestream. Superion was holding A-3, protecting him from the Quint attacks, when suddenly the ancient robot became Alpha Trion. He told Superion, "You must live, that I may be born," then reverted back to A-3. Then things really got bizarre when a second Superion appeared out of nowhere and began attacking the Quints. The two gestalts proved to be too much for the Quints, who retreated. After they left, the second Superion vanished. Later, the Quints sent the Autobots a holographic message explaining that the time distortions were the result of the activated time machine, and that it had to be destroyed before the space-time continuum was completely unraveled. A-3 volunteered to go back through the window and find the missing Autobots, which he did. Upon their return to 2006, the window was destroyed, and everything appeared to return to normal. The time-traveling Autobots had participated in the first rebellion against the Quintessons 11 million years ago, and that battle was won when A-3 returned through the window and used a secret weapon.

Later, the Aerialbots returned to the Middle East, this time to fight in the African desert nation of [[Carbombya]]. The conniving Decepticon [[Octane]] had convinced [[Abdul Fakkadi]], the ruler of the country, to allow the heavily-damaged [[Trypticon]] to recuperate there, using the super-rich Carbombyan oil as a fuel source. Octane sought to use the power of the oil and the strength of Trypticon to overthrow [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and become leader of the Decepticons. Meanwhile, in order to justify the giant Decepticon's oil consumption, Octane ordered Trypticon to steal famous monuments (including Fort Knox and all of its gold) and place them in Carbombya. The money gleaned from these tourist attractions would make up for the loss of natural resources. But the Autobots soon deduced Trypticon's location, and the Aerialbots were sent to attack. However, their timing was terrible--Galvatron and the main Decepticon army had just arrived in the country to investigate the situation, and the Aerialbots found themselves badly outclassed. They retreated, and Galvatron took over Carbombya, imprisoning Fakkadi. Later, the Aerialbots returned with reinforcements (including the behemoth [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]). They won that battle, driving the Decepticons out of the nation and freeing Fakkadi. Ecstatically grateful for the Autobots' help, Fakkadi swore never to associate with the Decepticons again. On a side note, it is unknown whether there is any connection between Prince Jamal in 1985 and Carbombya in 2006.

The Aerialbots later traveled to an Earth-like world inhabited by humanoids who could produce the [[Harmony]], a manipulation of sound that could be used as either a miraculous healing power or an incredibly destructive force. Naturally, Galvatron sought to possess the Harmony, and the Aerialbots were among the Autobots who tried to stop him.

Some time after that incident, the Aerialbots met up once again with Trypticon. Trypticon blasted Air Raid with his powerful fire-breath, but, while the Decepticon dinosaur was recharging, Silverbolt was able to fly into his mouth and inflict heavy damage that disabled him for a brief period of time.

Their next assignment was to investigate the Junkions, who had inexplicably attacked the Autobot [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]. When they arrived at the junk planet, they found a Quintesson ship in orbit, so they merged into Superion and attacked. Superion inflicted damage on the ship, but he was also heavily injured. Unbeknownst to the Aerialbots, the Quintessons had been using subliminal messages to induce xenophobic hatred in the television-obsessed Junkions. However, Superion's attack had damaged the Quints' transmitter, and the subliminal message turned from "All other life forms are your enemies" to "To care is to share; to share is to care." The brainwashed Junkions blindly obliged, using their own omnidirectional broadcaster to share the original message of hatred with the rest of the galaxy. Every race with any sort of TV technology was affected, and massive interstellar war broke out.

The Autobots soon stopped the messages and thereby ended the wars, but the Aerialbots' next major appearance heralded another galactic conflict. They were part of an Autobot team sent to a human laboratory where the late Optimus Prime's body was supposedly stored. The body was there, but it was a trap set by a vengeful scientist to infect the Transformers with the [[Hate Plague]], highly contagious spores that cause maniacal hatred and violence. The Aerialbots were among the first to be infected, and in their subsequent rampage they gravely injured several Autobots (including [[Bumblebee]]) and passed the disease to many more. The damaged Autobots were later repaired, and Bumblebee was completely rebuilt into a new form, Goldbug. With their help, the reanimated Optimus Prime was able to cure the Plague by emptying the Matrix.

The Aerialbots were later seen fighting the Decepticons, a battle during which the entire team was taken out by the Decepticon [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]].

====Scramble City OVA (Japan-only)====

===Dreamwave comics continuity===

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{{disambig2|the [[Scramble City]] combiner team from [[Generation 1]]|the [[Micromaster]] combiner team from [[Universe]]|Aerialbot (Universe)}}

:''The Aerialbots are a team of [[Autobot]]s in the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

The '''Aerialbots''' are the first Autobot [[Combiner|combiner/gestalt/special team]]. They all transform into Earth-style aircraft and combine to form [[Superion]].

*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] is the responsible one, the leader, and scared of hights. He keeps the others out of trouble.
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] is the strategist, the modest and bookish one who doesn't realize he the best flier the Autobots have.
*[[Fireflight (G1)| Fireflight]] is the space case who's a hazard to everything else in the air.
*[[Air Raid (G1)| Air Raid]] is a gung-ho, wreckless, fearless, and fun-loving warrior.
*[[Slingshot]] is a loud-mouthed, bragging jerk with VTOL capabillities. He gets the others into trouble.

==Fiction==

===Marvel Comics continuity===
The Aerialbots were created to bolster the [[Earth]]-bound [[Autobot|Autobots]]' depleted forces, counter the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]' aerial superiority, and utilize the [[combiner]] technology that [[Bumblebee]] had stolen from the Decepticons. Their first mission came suddenly when a crisis arose at Hoover Dam. An employee armed with a super-powerful handgun had taken over the control room and ordered that the dam be shut down. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] suspected [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s involvement, but the only Autobots who could reach the dam fast enough were the newly-constructed Aerialbots. Although [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] had completed their bodies, [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] was the only one whose personality had been fully programmed. Feeling he had no choice, Prime sent them anyway.

Arriving at the dam, they found that it had, indeed, been shut down, and where water used to fall there now hovered a [[space bridge]]. Sitting on the bridge was a giant drilling machine that was slowly boring through the dam. From the machine, a huge pipe led back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The Decepticons' plan was apparent: The water that would normally flow over the dam would be piped to Cybertron, where technologically advanced turbines would generate huge amounts of power. (Cybertron is devoid of water.) As the Aerialbots began to assault the drill, they were intercepted by [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], who had just arrived from Cybertron. During the fight, Silverbolt briefly succumbed to his fear of heights, but he recovered by putting his team's safety before his own. The battle was soon joined by the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] (also new arrivals from Cybertron), but the Aerialbots still managed to win the fight. The drill, however, was impervious to individual attacks, so the Aerialbots combined into [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and began to destroy it. Suddenly, the human who had started the whole mess (under [[Bombshell]]'s mind control) appeared atop the dam and pointed Megatron's gun mode at the Autobot gestalt. As Megatron hurled threats, Superion reached over to crush him. The human, [[Ricky Vasquez]], began to think of his daughter, and Bombshell's control weakened. At the same time, Superion was having a mental crisis of his own: Silverbolt, the only fully-programmed Aerialbot, was the only one who had any respect for human life, and he tried desperately to override the other Aerialbots and stop the gestalt from crushing Ricky. Realizing that he couldn't succeed, he forced his team to disassemble. Meanwhile, Ricky managed to fight the Decepticon mind control just enough to shoot the drill instead of the Aerialbots. The Decepticons left in defeat, and the Aerialbots returned to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]].

However, the tiny Bombshell was able to sneak into the Ark with the Aerialbots, and he secretly injected a mind-controlling [[cerebro-shell]] into Optimus Prime. But the shell malfunctioned, and the Insecticon could only read Prime's thoughts, not control them. Megatron still used this to his advantage, for when Prime used the [[Creation Matrix]] to give life to more robots, Megatron could secretly access its power and do the same. This occurred when Prime reprogrammed the Aerialbots. Because of their poor performance at Hoover Dam, Optimus had had the team's minds completely wiped and re-created. (It is unknown whether Silverbolt still had a fear of heights after being reprogrammed.) During the process of re-creation, Matrix power was channeled from the cerebro-shell to [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], then to Megatron (via an artificial communications hook-up), and from him into the lifeless [[Stunticon|Stunticons]]. This five-member Decepticon team could transform into Earthen cars, and thus humans would easily confuse them with the Autobots.

The Stunticons began to wreak havoc on a highway, and their attack was not a random one; they were targeting the Autobot [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], who (along with the human [[Donny Finkleberg]]) was searching for a group of Cybertronian Autobots that had been accidentally transported to Earth. As the Stunticons neared Skids, Donny ran off to safety. At that moment, a [[RAAT]] team led by [[Circuit Breaker]] attacked the Decepticons but was somewhat ineffectual. The Stunticons surrounded Skids, who saw the helplessness of his situation and didn't fight back. Then the Aerialbots appeared and began firing at the Stunticons, who pretended to be protecting Skids. Circuit Breaker saw the destructive Stunticons appear to protect the supposed "good guy" Skids, and this further cemented her belief that all robots are evil. After the two Transformer teams merged into their gestalt modes, Circuit Breaker slipped into the fight and blasted Superion with all the energy her suit could provide. This stunned the giant Autobot long enough for the Stunticon gestalt, [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], to deal a debilitating blow with his cyclone gun. Skids and Donny used the opportunity to escape and continue their mission. It's unclear exactly what happened after this point-- apparently, the RAAT forces were strong enough to drive Menasor off (or perhaps he simply lost interest). At any rate, the deactivated Superion was taken to RAAT headquarters and dissassembled for study. Several other captured Autobots (incidentally, the same ones Skids and Donny had been looking for) were in similar states of dissection when RAAT again moved into the offensive, this time against the two Decepticon [[Battlecharger|Battlechargers]]. In the heat of the battle, Circuit Breaker unintentionally endangered the lives of civilians (and lost the fight anyway). Because of her poor judgment, she was forbidden to participate in any more assaults on the Battlechargers. Itching for revenge on the two Decepticons, she found that her only possible allies were the disassembled Autobots in her lab. It would have taken too long to properly repair their bodies and reconnect their brains, but she knew she could jury-rig them together into a form that she could control. However, she would not be able to completely subdue them, so she struck a deal: If they would obey her commands, then she would let them go after she had had her revenge on the Battlechargers. And that is just what happened. Unfortunately for her, releasing the Autobots got her fired from RAAT.

Immediately after Ratchet finished repairing the damage inflicted by Circuit Breaker's studies and jury-rigging, the Aerialbots were sent on a new mission: Bumblebee had spotted Bombshell at the grand unveiling of [[Power Station Alpha]], an advanced, mobile nuclear power facility. Sent to assist Bumblebee, the Aerialbots arrived to find their ally in pieces. The anti-terrorist team [[G.I. Joe]] had been guarding the station, and, mistaking Bumblebee for a threat, they had destroyed him. The Aerialbots combined into Superion and briefly battled the humans. The fight was cut short by a radio message from [[Blaster]], who informed Superion that Optimus Prime was dead, and that all Autobots were to return to the Ark. The Aerialbots did just that, leaving Bumblebee's wreckage (and some confused G.I. Joes) behind.

Later, the Decepticons stole Power Station Alpha and began to use it in a plan that would, if enacted, ultimately destroy the Earth. After clearing up some misunderstandings, an alliance was formed between the Autobots, G.I. Joe, and (recognizing the mutual threat) the terrorist organization called [[Cobra]]. While a team of humans sneak-attacked the station, the Aerialbots participated in a diversionary strike on the Decepticons' island base. As human jets battled the Decepticons' air armada, Superion fought an aerial battle with Devastator, the [[Constructicon]] combiner. Just as Superion defeated his foe, Alpha was destroyed. The beaten Decepticons retreated, and the Autobot-Joe-Cobra alliance dispersed.

After this point, the Aerialbots faded out of the spotlight. Their next notable appearance was during [[Buster Witwicky]]'s Decepticon captivity. Wanting the awesome power of the mysterious, spaceborne [[Underbase]] for himself, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] used Buster as bait to lure the Autobots into a massive battle with the Decepticons. He would use the confusion to sneak off and find the Underbase before anyone else could. Three Aerialbots (Air Raid, Fireflight, and Skydive) were the Advance Security Patrol that found Buster freezing in the Arctic. After the other Autobots arrived, the battle ensued. However, the combatants soon deduced Starscream's plan, and they forged a shaky alliance to stop him. When they found him, they were able to stop him from absorbing all but a small fraction of the Underbase's power... but that was enough to make him virtually invincible. In a show of force, he sought to destroy three major Earth cities. The Aerialbots were easily eliminated while defending [[New York|New York City]].

Although Starscream was eventually destroyed, the severe microchip damage he inflicted on his victims kept them in deactivation for a very long time. Although the technology to repair them did exist, the Autobots didn't have it on the Ark. The Aerialbots and many others were not revived until [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] found a miracle fuel called [[Nucleon]], and they awoke just in time to fight the demi-god [[Unicron]]. After Unicron's destruction, the Decepticons left Cybertron to conquer other worlds. Under Grimlock's impulsive orders, Aerialbot leader Silverbolt piloted the main pursuit ship that flew right into a Decepticon ambush (nearly destroying the entire Autobot army).

But the Autobots prevailed, and the Decepticons exiled themselves (supposedly) forever. For a time, peace was known. But a situation developed on Earth: Megatron, who knew nothing of the Decepticon exile, was making his presence known through an alliance with Cobra. He had been on board the Ark when it had crashed in northern [[Canada]] shortly after Unicron's defeat. He had repaired and hidden the Ark, then had made a deal with Cobra: He would give them access to the Ark's technology if they would build him a new body (to his specifications, including a "rail gun," a human invention which he considered superior to his fusion cannon). When G.I. Joe discovered that he had returned, they contacted the Autobots on Cybertron, and a team was sent to Earth to stop him. The team consisted of [[Hot Spot (G1)]], [[Brawn]], [[Chase]], [[Override (G1)|Override]], [[Steeljaw]], and the Aerialbot Skydive. Megatron quickly destroyed Steeljaw, Chase, and Brawn, and the Autobots realized that they had to come up with some new tactics. Override distracted Megatron while Skydive and Hot Spot snuck aboard the Ark. At some point, Hot Spot left the Ark to stop Cobra, who had a truckload of Cybertronian technology. After destroying Override, Megatron launched the Ark into orbit, aware of neither Skydive nor a second stowaway, the human [[Spike Witwicky]]. Spike found the body of his [[Headmaster]] partner, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], and merged with it. He and Skydive attacked Megatron, and Max was severely injured. With his last ounce of strength, Max plunged himself into the Ark's antimatter conversion chamber, setting off a chain reaction that quickly destroyed the ship. Skydive escaped with Megatron's human captive, the brilliant [[Dr. Biggles-Jones]], and delivered her to G.I. Joe. Upon arrival, he found that Hot Spot had succeeding in destroying Cobra's Cybertronian technology, but he had destroyed himself to prevent his own tech from falling into Cobra's hands. As the only Autobot on Earth, Skydive briefly functioned as a liaison between his own army and the humans. When the main Decepticon army returned and began decimating the Earth, Skydive contacted Optimus Prime and asked for reinforcements. When other Autobots arrived and established a presence on the planet, Skydive was reunited with his fellow Aerialbots.

Soon the vicious [[Swarm]] arrived on the Earth and began devouring all Transformers. The Aerialbot Slingshot was destroyed just moments before Megatron arrived with a substance that would make metal virtually indestructible.

===Animated continuity===
In order to fight the [[Autobot|Autobots]] more effectively on the ground, the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] built a [[Combiner|combiner team]] that could convert into cars. However, in order to give these [[Stunticon|Stunticons]] life, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] had to take them to [[Vector Sigma]], a megacomputer deep within [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Vector Sigma could only be activated with a Circuit Key, which was in the hands of the ancient Autobot [[Alpha Trion]]. Megatron stole the Key and succeeded in giving life to the new team. A group of Autobots had been following Megatron, and, to counter the Stunticons, they rebuilt some old, abandoned shuttles into the Aerialbots. However, without the Key, they couldn't activate Vector Sigma. Alpha Trion then revealed that, as one of the first Transformers created, he had the ability to interface his power supply with the megacomputer. Against [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s protests, he merged with Vector Sigma, activating it, and his lifeless body fell to the ground. Prime asked Vector Sigma to "Let them [the Aerialbots] think for themselves, to grow in knowledge and wisdom, and let them always value freedom and life wherever they find it." After the Aerialbots were programmed, Alpha Trion's voice came from the megacomputer; his mind had merged with Vector Sigma.

Once on [[Earth]], the Aerialbots fought a brief battle with the Stunticons that ended when Megatron sent a message to his car warriors to return to base. Thinking that the Stunticons had retreated, the Aerialbots' egos soared; all, that is, except [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]. During the fight, he had discovered his fear of heights; he guessed that it came from the fact that he was built from a low-altitude cargo shuttle. Prime helped him deal with the phobia by naming him Aerialbot Leader, thus giving him duties that would keep his mind off of his fear. However, he found his position a hard one to fill. The other Aerialbots, especially [[Slingshot]], saw themselves as better than anyone else. They couldn't understand why the Autobots wasted their time protecting the foolish and inferior humans, and they eventually left the Autobots. Silverbolt, who didn't agree, merely promised Prime he would bring them back, then left with them. After a while, Silverbolt finally convinced them that they owed the Autobots their lives, and they decided to stay with the Autobot army.

Meanwhile, Megatron had discovered that the Key could "de-energize" Earthen matter, turning it to metal. Hoping to create a new Cybertron, he began sweeping through forests near the [[Seattle-Tacoma area]], turning everything from trees to mountains into metal. The Autobots tried to stop him, but the Stunticons were unstoppable...that is, until the Aerialbots arrived. The two teams formed their gestalt modes, and, as the battle entered the outskirts of a city, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|] arrived and turned the tide. Megatron retreated, but he still had the Key. Silverbolt, braving his phobia, chased him down and destroyed it.

A few weeks later, strange energy readings were detected on Cybertron. A team of Autobots and the Aerialbots left to investigate. The Aerialbots, enamored with Cybertron, were on a patrol when they were attacked by three Decepticon jets. Curious, Slingshot surrendered and began to ask the Decepticons questions, like why Prime thought they were evil. All the other Aerialbots except Silverbolt did the same, and Silverbolt followed at a distance. [[Starscream (G1)|], feigning friendship, led the naive team into the [[Chronosphere]], a time machine that had been generating the unusual energy readings. As Silverbolt arrived, trying to convince his teammates that they were in a trap, Megatron activated the Chronosphere, intending to send them back to before the beginning of time. Outside of the timestream, they would be trapped in eternal nothingness. However, the other Autobots arrived and destroyed the machine before it could finish its work. The Aerialbots had been sent only nine million years into the past, during the [[Golden Age of Cybertron]] before the [[Great War|Great Wars]] had broken out.

In the past, the Aerialbots met a young Transformer named [[Orion Pax]], who was working at an energy shipment facility. As they got to know each other, Orion soon told them about his admiration of a "new kind" of Transformer that had the ability to fly in robot mode. He was understandably awestruck when the leader of those robots, Megatron, arrived at his workplace under the guise of friendship. After Orion gave him a brief tour, Megatron ordered his disguised troops to attack the facility and take the energon. During the assault, Orion, his girlfriend Ariel, and his friend [[Dion]] were severely injured. The Aerialbots arrived at the scene just as Megatron was leaving. They took Orion to the young Alpha Trion, who was devising ways to fight the Decepticons. He rebuilt Orion into the first of a new breed that would be capable of standing against Megatron. He also gave him a new name: Optimus Prime. Alpha then rebuilt Ariel into [[Elita One]], but it is unknown whether Dion was given similar treatment.

Prime inflicted severe damage on the Decepticon forces, but Megatron was still powerful. His raiders were starting to loot a fuel transfer center that would supply him with enough [[energon]] to win the war just as it was beginning. The Aerialbots realized this, and they set up explosives to destroy the energon. However, while they were inside, the Decepticons surrounded the facility, preventing their escape. Now fully aware of Megatron's evil, they set off the charges despite the danger to themselves. Just as the energon detonated, they found themselves being transported back to the present. When they arrived, they saw that the Autobots had repaired the Chronosphere but were fighting the Decepticons and a reanimated [[Guardian Robots|Guardian Robot]]. The Aerialbots combined into Superion and destroyed the Guardian, and Megatron retreated. As the Decepticons flew away, Slingshot swore, "You'll never get away from us, Megatron! We won't stop fighting till you're finished!"

Since that time, the Aerialbots have been invaluable to the Earth-bound (and largely flightless) Autobots. When Megatron obtained the ultra-powerful [[Lightning Bug]] from the ruins of an ancient Autobot colony, it was Superion who eventually destroyed the weapon. Later, Slingshot and Skydive went undercover at a Middle Eastern airbase to investigate a rash of jet thefts. Late one night, men in laundry trucks began disassembling them and several other jets, carting their components to a car repair shop. There, the parts were jury-rigged into bizarre-looking cars and driven across the border to Megatron's secret base. The planes were then reassembled and used by the Decepticons as a remote-controlled drone armada. With the help of [[Hassan]], a young human who was also investigating the smugglers, Slingshot and [[Skydive (G1)|Skydive]] were rebuilt without being detected. The other Aerialbots soon arrived and began battling the drones, the [[Combaticon|Combaticons]], and Megatron's sphinx-like airborne fortress. As Superion, they beat the Combaticons' gestalt mode and destroyed the fortress by blowing up an oil well. After the Decepticons retreated, the Autobots discovered that [[Ali]], the head of the smuggling operation, had become the ruler of his country by allying himself with Megatron and overthrowing a certain Prince Jamal. Megatron was going to use Ali's drone jets to take over the Middle Eastern oil fields, thus supplying himself with enough energy to conquer the world...and giving Ali a fair share of domination, of course. It was also revealed that the Aerialbots' friend Hassan was actually the deposed Prince Jamal in disguise.

For many years, the Aerialbots remained a valuable asset to the Autobot cause. When [[Rodimus Prime]] and several other Autobots were trapped on [[Quintessa]], the Aerialbots arrived in a rescue craft and saved them, just as the planet self-destructed. However, the force of the explosion destroyed their ship, and they hurtled helplessly through space until colliding with [[Goo]]#8739B. There, they fought a giant trash-collecting machine and (later) Decepticon warriors before escaping with the help of the [[Junkion]] [[Wreck-Gar]].

Some time later, the Aerialbots were dispatched as part of a reinforcement team to help a group of Autobots who had discovered a [[Quintesson]] base on a large asteroid near Cybertron. The Aerialbots arrived and drove the Quints away, finding [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] heavily damaged and half-conscious. Before blacking out, Perceptor told them that the team had discovered a Quint time machine. Under attack with virtually no hope of escape, the other team members had jumped through the "time window" just moments before their would-be rescuers arrived. Now, the reinforcement team (led by Rodimus Prime) could do nothing but keep the time machine activated and hope that their comrades would come back through. The Autobots also made another discovery at the Quint base: The Quints had used the time machine to extract from the distant past an Autobot named A-3. As Rodimus and A-3 began to converse, the Quintessons returned in force, and a battle ensued. During the battle, chronal energies emanating from the time machine were playing havoc with the nature of space-time. Events were occurring that defied normal linear time, such as endlessly repeating loops and sudden reversals of the timestream. Superion was holding A-3, protecting him from the Quint attacks, when suddenly the ancient robot became Alpha Trion. He told Superion, "You must live, that I may be born," then reverted back to A-3. Then things really got bizarre when a second Superion appeared out of nowhere and began attacking the Quints. The two gestalts proved to be too much for the Quints, who retreated. After they left, the second Superion vanished. Later, the Quints sent the Autobots a holographic message explaining that the time distortions were the result of the activated time machine, and that it had to be destroyed before the space-time continuum was completely unraveled. A-3 volunteered to go back through the window and find the missing Autobots, which he did. Upon their return to 2006, the window was destroyed, and everything appeared to return to normal. The time-traveling Autobots had participated in the first rebellion against the Quintessons 11 million years ago, and that battle was won when A-3 returned through the window and used a secret weapon.

Later, the Aerialbots returned to the Middle East, this time to fight in the African desert nation of [[Carbombya]]. The conniving Decepticon [[Octane]] had convinced [[Abdul Fakkadi]], the ruler of the country, to allow the heavily-damaged [[Trypticon]] to recuperate there, using the super-rich Carbombyan oil as a fuel source. Octane sought to use the power of the oil and the strength of Trypticon to overthrow [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and become leader of the Decepticons. Meanwhile, in order to justify the giant Decepticon's oil consumption, Octane ordered Trypticon to steal famous monuments (including Fort Knox and all of its gold) and place them in Carbombya. The money gleaned from these tourist attractions would make up for the loss of natural resources. But the Autobots soon deduced Trypticon's location, and the Aerialbots were sent to attack. However, their timing was terrible--Galvatron and the main Decepticon army had just arrived in the country to investigate the situation, and the Aerialbots found themselves badly outclassed. They retreated, and Galvatron took over Carbombya, imprisoning Fakkadi. Later, the Aerialbots returned with reinforcements (including the behemoth [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]). They won that battle, driving the Decepticons out of the nation and freeing Fakkadi. Ecstatically grateful for the Autobots' help, Fakkadi swore never to associate with the Decepticons again. On a side note, it is unknown whether there is any connection between Prince Jamal in 1985 and Carbombya in 2006.

The Aerialbots later traveled to an Earth-like world inhabited by humanoids who could produce the [[Harmony]], a manipulation of sound that could be used as either a miraculous healing power or an incredibly destructive force. Naturally, Galvatron sought to possess the Harmony, and the Aerialbots were among the Autobots who tried to stop him.

Some time after that incident, the Aerialbots met up once again with Trypticon. Trypticon blasted Air Raid with his powerful fire-breath, but, while the Decepticon dinosaur was recharging, Silverbolt was able to fly into his mouth and inflict heavy damage that disabled him for a brief period of time.

Their next assignment was to investigate the Junkions, who had inexplicably attacked the Autobot [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]. When they arrived at the junk planet, they found a Quintesson ship in orbit, so they merged into Superion and attacked. Superion inflicted damage on the ship, but he was also heavily injured. Unbeknownst to the Aerialbots, the Quintessons had been using subliminal messages to induce xenophobic hatred in the television-obsessed Junkions. However, Superion's attack had damaged the Quints' transmitter, and the subliminal message turned from "All other life forms are your enemies" to "To care is to share; to share is to care." The brainwashed Junkions blindly obliged, using their own omnidirectional broadcaster to share the original message of hatred with the rest of the galaxy. Every race with any sort of TV technology was affected, and massive interstellar war broke out.

The Autobots soon stopped the messages and thereby ended the wars, but the Aerialbots' next major appearance heralded another galactic conflict. They were part of an Autobot team sent to a human laboratory where the late Optimus Prime's body was supposedly stored. The body was there, but it was a trap set by a vengeful scientist to infect the Transformers with the [[Hate Plague]], highly contagious spores that cause maniacal hatred and violence. The Aerialbots were among the first to be infected, and in their subsequent rampage they gravely injured several Autobots (including [[Bumblebee]]) and passed the disease to many more. The damaged Autobots were later repaired, and Bumblebee was completely rebuilt into a new form, Goldbug. With their help, the reanimated Optimus Prime was able to cure the Plague by emptying the Matrix.

The Aerialbots were later seen fighting the Decepticons, a battle during which the entire team was taken out by the Decepticon [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]].

====Scramble City OVA (Japan-only)====

===Dreamwave comics continuity===

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The Agenda (Part 1)

2006-10-09T12:22:07Z

66.233.188.87: /* Trivia */

'''Writer:''' [[Bob Forward]]

The [[Tripredacus Council]] sends an agent to Earth to bring back Megatron and his band of criminals.

'''Major Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Optimus Primal]], [[Rattrap]], [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], [[Blackarachnia]], [[Waspinator]], [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]], [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]], [[Tarantulas]]

'''Minor Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Sea Clamp]], [[Ram Horn]], [[Cicadacon]] (together, The [[Tripredacus Council]]); [[Ravage]]

'''Original Air Date:''' March 11, 1998 (Cartoon Network Preview); May 9, 1998 (Regular Syndication)

==Summary==

{{spoiler}}

Rhinox tracks the transwarp wave (not to be confused with the [[Transmetal]]-inducing [[quantum surge]] from "[[Aftermath]]") released by the destruction of the alien superweapon, announcing it will arrive at Cybertron in a few hours, and that the Maximals are going home.

Megatron also sees that the transwarp wave is on its way to Cybertron. After learning that [[Code of Hero|his attack]] on the early humans caused them to scatter, making their extinction an impossibility, he decides to implement one final plan. He calls up his security cameras, showing Blackarachnia leaving the ''[[Darkside]]''.

Silverbolt flies to a secluded location where he meets up with Blackarachnia, handing her some sort of gadget (which is later revealed to be a levitation device of some kind) and he once again offers her a spot in the Maximal ranks. She refuses, but grabs Silverbolt and obviously some sort of robot lovin' goes down.

In the future, a Cybertronian outpost receives the transwarp wave quite violently. The Tripredacus Council convenes and destroys a satellite to make sure the Maximal sensors don't detect the wave. They decide to send an operative to find and capture Megatron, the rogue Predacon who stole the [[Golden Disk]] from the Maximals.

Back at the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', the Maximals get ready for Megatron's inevitable final attack on their base. Waspinator and Inferno ready some attack systems, but Rampage decides to take the more direct approach and assaults [[Sentinel]]'s shields with his weapons. The battle begins, and the Predacons appear to be winning until reinforcements come from above. Megatron orders a retreat, and the invisible source of the Maximals' help lands.

The ''Axalon'''s hatch opens and Silverbolt's super doggie nose smells something. All the Maximals draw their weapons as two red lasers appear out of nowhere from the hatch. Optimus Primal finally realizes that their reinforcements came in the form of a Decepticon who after the [[Great War]] was granted amnesty and rebuilt as a Predacon - Ravage.

Shots are fired, knocking all of the Maximals' weapons out of their hands. Ravage apologizes, and introduces himself as "Covert Agent Ravage, at your service." He lies about the transwarp wave, saying that it was too weak for anything but the Predacon sensors to detect.

At the ''Darkside'', Blackarachnia finishes work on a flying stasis pod with Silverbolt's device. Her celebration is cut short, however, when Megatron calls for her. Megatron correctly anticipates a Maximal retaliation, and sends everyone but Waspinator to fortify the base. Waspinator, he sends on a "secret mission", which Blackarachnia takes special note of.

Ravage's transwarp cruiser takes off from the ''Axalon'' with the Maximals onboard. This sets off alarms in Tarantulas' lair, and in his only appearance in the episode, he takes off. The battle at the ''Darkside'' begins. Silverbolt ignores Optimus' orders to kill Blackarachnia, who takes off towards Waspinator's secret location.

Ravage begins firing upon the ''Darkside''. Megatron attempts to retreat, but suddenly is binded to his chair with energy rings. Ravage, Optimus, Rattrap, and Rhinox walk in, and Ravage places Megatron under arrest. Are the Beast Wars over? Of course not, what do you think "Part 1" means?

==Notes==

===Trivia===
*In the opening shot, parts of Optimus Primal pre-transmetal fly at the screen.
*Ravage arrests Megatron in the name of the "Pax Cybertronia". This is a reference to "Pax Romania", which is Latin for "Roman Peace".
*The Tripredacus Council shown at the beginning of the episode ''were'' meant to be the Tripredacus gestalt toy, and were even referred to by their individual names in the original script. However, time constraints prevented the renders for the figures to exactly match the toys they were based on, so Hasbro asked that their individual names not be referred to, though the gestalt name was still used for the group.

===Quotes===
*Cheetor: ''What do you think it is, Big Bot?''
Optimus Primal: ''Not what...but who. After the Great War, a few Decepticons were granted amnesty. Most have retired. But rumor has it that one was reprogrammed and rebuilt - '''as a Predacon!'''''
*''In the name of the Pax Cybertronia and the Predacon Alliance, you are under arrest.'' - Ravage, upon apprehending Megatron

===Technical/Animation Glitches===
*None noticed

===Continuity Errors===
*None noticed

===Transformers References===
*The entire three-part season finale, ''The Agenda'', is a reference to the original G1 cartoon. In this part, Ravage, the rebuilt Decepticon, is dispatched to the Maximals to assist them in capturing Megatron (who the Predacons see as a dangerous rebel as well, not knowing his true motives, which are revealed in [[The Agenda, Part 3|the third part]].)

===Real-World References===
*[[Six Lasers Over Cybertron]], which Cheetor gets excited about, is a reference to '''Six Flags''' over various states.
*Rattrap speaks of places in Cybertron where the serverbots walk around "minus their torso plates" and then does sort of a "wink wink, nudge nudge" toward Silverbolt. He's referencing strip clubs, of course.

==External Links==
*[http://www.tv.com/beast-wars/the-agenda-1/episode/45431/summary.html TV.com episode summary]
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Xaaron (G1)

2006-10-07T16:55:29Z

66.233.188.87: /* Trivia */

[[Image:Emiratexaaron.jpg|thumb|175px|You wily old buzzard!]]
:''Emirate Xaaron is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation One]] continuity family.''

'''Emirate Xaaron''' is the leader of the Autobot underground resistance movement and was the chairman of the [[Council of Autobot Elders]]. He is not a fighter, but his strength is found in his convictions. Xaaron, though physically unimposing, speaks and acts with incredible confidence that grows from his irreverent brand of wisdom. Due to this, he is extremely valuable to the Autobots as a source of inspiration.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Xaaroncomealeader.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Lips weren't invented yet.]]
:''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''

''Millions of years ago, when the [[Autobot]]/[[Decepticon]] war was new, Xaaron belonged to Iacon's [[Acadamy of Science and Technology]], where he dismissed a proposal from his colleague [[Flame]] to reattempt [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s scheme to rebuild [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] into a mobile battlestation. Flame, who was increasingly mad, was then seemingly destroyed in an explosion near [[Kalis]].'' <ref>It is not entirely clear when, relative to other events, Flame disappeared. He must have been dispelled from the Iacon academy before Iacon was destroyed, but it also seems unlikely he worked at his plan for nine million years.</ref>

''The war continued, and long after, the capital city of [[Iacon]] was under heavy assault, prompting the Council of Autobot Elders to contemplate surrender. Emirate Xaaron refused, suggesting that bureaucratic mismanagement of the Autobot army was the real culprit. He nominated a single warrior to take direct control of the Autobot forces -- [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]!''

''After Optimus Prime, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and countless other combatants were lost to [[Earth]], the Decepticon warlord [[Trannis]] rose into power. Xaaron created an assault team, the [[Wreckers]], to assassinate Trannis, but when they succeeded, one warlord was merely replaced by [[Straxus|another]].''

[[Image:Xaaronimpactor.jpg|right|thumb|125px|[[Impactor]] and Xaaron versus unfortunate illustration composition.]]
''In 1986, Xaaron hatched a new plan for the Wreckers: [[Operation Volcano]]. Using himself as bait, he would lure the several of the best Decepticon warriors into a trap. The Wreckers, under the leadership of [[Impactor]] momentarily reconsidered when [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], who was built to aide them in this particular mission, left for Earth to investigate the disappearance of Optimus Prime. Xaaron quickly replaced them with the Autobot [[Triple Changer]]s, at first sending them to attack Impactor while pretending to be Decepticons. Though this trick aggravated Impactor, the Wreckers commander grudgingly admitted it proved the three were up to the job. The bait was set, but a turn of events forced the Decepticons to abandon it. However, one disobedient Decepticon fired on Xaaron anyway, and when Impactor jumped in front of the blast, the Wreckers commander was destroyed, dying in Xaaron's arms. [[Springer]] was chosen to replace him.''

''A short time later, Springer captured an alleged imposter posing as Optimus Prime. The imposter escaped, and Springer alerted Xaaron. Upon finding the imposter cradling a dying [[Outback]], Xaaron heard enough of his passionate words to realize that this was, indeed, the real Optimus Prime. After four million years, Xaaron welcomed his old friend home. Xaaron pleaded for him to stay, but Optimus insisted he was needed more back on [[Earth]].''

[[Image:Xaarondelbo.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Xaaron's first Marvel US appearance. Sadly, only the yellow passed through customs.]]
After [[Bumblebee]], [[Jazz]], and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] were restored as [[Pretender]]s, their new might helped turn the tide of Xaaron's underground resistance. The Classic Pretenders needed to return to [[Earth]], but while Xaaron had opened a transdimensional portal to send them home, the Autobots were suddenly under attack by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon's]] [[Mayhem Attack Squad]]. As a result, the Mayhem Attack Squad, the Classic Pretenders, and some Autobot [[Micromaster]]s were thrown into the center of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Xaaron was able to locate them and send them to their intended destination, but not before the combatants had awoken [[Primus]].

With [[Unicron]] now nearing Cybertron, Xaaron aided Optimus Prime in their search for the Autobot [[Creation Matrix]] by sending out teams into a sector of the galaxy where the Matrix (in Optimus Prime's old body) had likely been jettisoned. But Unicron had his own plans in mind, sending a [[Galvatron II|Galvatron from a possible future]] to Cybertron to prepare for his arrival. The timelost herald pursued Xaaron specifically, finally cornering him deep below the surface of the planet. Galvatron revealed that he felt betrayed by Unicron and wished to ask Xaaron how to defeat him. Xaaron gasped, recalling an old legend which stated that if the Transformers united as one, Unicron could be defeated. Galvatron brought Xaaron down into the center of Cybertron, where Primus' chamber lay, had the resistance leader attempt to pray Primus out of his renewed slumber. Xaaron succeeded, Primus awoke, and all of the Transformers on [[Earth]] were instantaneously transported to Cybertron.

[[Image:Xaaronpossessed.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Xaaron is full of the Holy Spirit.]]
Primus spoke through Xaaron's body, causing it to glow and float above the startled Transformers, and he told them the history of their race. After the Autobots and Decepticons joined forces long enough to ward off brainwashed [[Unicron cultist]]s, Primus' avatar nominated Optimus Prime to be their united leader. This union dissipated quickly into chaos and terror once the impossibly huge Unicron arrived.

Unicron's assault on the planet was halted momentarily when the possessed Xaaron confronted him, but both Xaaron's body and Primus' essence were seemingly destroyed once Unicron realized that this avatar could do him no harm and blasted Xaaron's form to tiny pieces.

==Trivia==
*Emirate Xaaron's name is a misnomer. ''[[wikipedia:Emirate|Emirate]]'' is not a title, but a word that describes a place. An [[wikipedia:Emir|Emir]] is the leader of an Emirate, hence his name should properly be "Emir Xaaron".
*Emirate Xaaron was one Marvel UK conceit that writer [[Simon Furman]] quickly brought over when he began writing for Marvel US. In the translation, however, Xaaron lost all his colors except for the yellow.
*Emirate Xaaron is one of two Transformers who has served as a yellow-glowing avatar for [[Primus]]. The other is [[Mini-Con]] [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] from [[Cybertron (television series)|''Cybertron'']].

==Footnotes==
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Talk:Nemesis (G1)

2006-10-07T15:43:22Z

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I removed the "Marvel Comics" section because, as I recall, the ship the Decepticons arrived on Earth in had a completely different name. Didn't Galvatron destory it in Target: 2006 or something? --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 03:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I just checked my copy of Traget: 2006 part 7 and it wasn't mentioned by any name before Galvatron blew it up. However, I could swear on a stack of bibles it had a different name than "Nemesis" in some other issue. But, if I'm wrong, go ahead and re-add a Marvel Comics section. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 03:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

:It never had a name until Beast Wars. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 04:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Cool. Added the Marvel info, then. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 05:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

:Wasn't Shockwave's underwater base in US #72 supposed to be the Nemesis? It was never said so outright in the story (leaving wriggle room I suppose) but the letters page confirmed it. It's one of the places wherte the US and UK stories are in obvious conflict. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 12:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
::Yeah. That's another Uk/US conflicty bit. And Furman wrote both! Bad Furman! --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 14:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

:::The UK letters page never directly addressed the Nemesis thing,b ut it did say that time wars had caused a new timeline, where TF:TM was no longer the future. Presumably this means Galvatron never arrived and thus never destroyed the Nemesis.

:::The Earthforce seems to be set in the original timeline. With Matrix quest occouring in BOTH...

:::...head hurts. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

== What about the "other" Nemesis from the toon? ==

Was there any offical name given to the ship built on earth in the cartoon pilot that looked just like the nemesis? The only place that may have had its name (if there is one) would be the show bible or the original scripts for MTMTE (not the badly-edited dictation found on the Metrodome DVDs). Anybody have AWESOME INSIDE SOURCES that has landed them scans of the script? --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 18:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

==The Nemesis and the Beast Wars==

Anyone find it odd how - despite BOTH G1 continuities clearly showing the Ark being downed after being boarded, WITHOUT the Nemesis attacking it, AND the fact that there ARE active Transformers who were witness to that attack (like Ravage) who could tell the record straight - the Beast Wars continuity STILL says that the Ark was shot down by the Nemesis? You would think that SOMEWHERE down the road, someone like Ravage or Laserbeak or Optimus Prime or someone would stand up and say "The hell? That's not how it happened! Here's how it went down..."<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Nemesis (G1)

2006-10-07T15:30:35Z

66.233.188.87: /* ''Beast Wars'' */

{{disambig3|Nemesis}}

''The ''Nemesis'' was a legendary [[Decepticon]] warship that factored heavily into most [[Generation 1]] continuities.''

[[Image:NemesisDreamwave1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The ''Ark'' vs. the ''Nemesis'']]

''(Note: '''''The Nemesis''''' is never named in the original animated series nor in the Marvel comics, and was not named until ''[[Beast Wars]]''.)''

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
''(Note: Events from the UK Marvel Comics are identified with italics.)''

[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and his crew of Decepticons used the ''Nemesis'' to chase [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and his crew of Autobots out into deep space. Eventually, the Decepticons boarded the [[Ark]], the Autobots' ship, and left the Nemesis orbiting Earth. The ''Ark'' then crashed into Earth with all the Transformers onboard, deactivating them and leaving the Nemesis in orbit with [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] to watch it.

''The ''Nemesis'' remained undisturbed, hidden from Earthling view with superior cloaking technology. In 2006, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back in time to the year 1986 in order to build a large laser cannon to destroy [[Unicron]]. Upon completing the cannon, Galvatron tested its effectiveness on the orbiting Nemesis, destroying the ship with a single blast.''

During the Decepticon Civil War, Shockwave's base was the ''Nemesis'', which he had parked at the bottom of the ocean 4 million years ago when he fought the Dinobots. ''(The ship's identity and part of its backstory was revealed in the letters page, which directly conflicts the earlier UK story. Simon Furman wrote both stories.)''

===Generation 1 animated continuity===
The ''Nemesis'' was the ship used by the Decepticons to pursue the [[Autobot]]s. All the Decepticons left the ship to board the [[Ark]] and both ships ended-up crashing on prehistoric [[Earth]]. The Nemesis initially crash-landed in the Pacific Ocean.

In 1985, archeologists eventually discovered the ruins of the ''Nemesis'' in South America. Once [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] relayed the news to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the Decepticons deployed immediately. Once they arrived, Megatron removed the Nemesis' power-source, the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. [[Hook]] then installed the Heart inside Megatron, giving him near-limitless power. Megatron then attempted to use his newfound power to destroy the Autobots, and almost succeeded, until the Heart of Cybertron was removed from his body and destroyed by [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Brawn]] and [[Bumblebee]].

===''Beast Wars''===
The ''Nemesis'' was a legendary warship, the most powerful ever built. According to myth, it was responsible for shooting down the [[Ark]] (how this myth came about - when both G1 continuities have the Ark crashing after being ''boarded'', and Transformers active during the Ark attack and, thus, could've debunked the myth {like [[Ravage]]) were still very functional during the [{Beast Era]] - is unknown). It was revealed in the series finale that [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] had discovered the wreckage of the ''Nemesis'' deep under water, and had been refurbishing it for unknown purposes. Following Tarantulas' death, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] discovered the rebuilt ship and commandeered it as a last ditch attempt to rewrite history and destroy The Ark.

Using the ''Nemesis''' awesome power, Megatron managed to kill [[Tigerhawk (BW)|Tigerhawk]] as well as [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] by accident. In the final battle, the Nemesis' controls were severely damaged by [[Rhinox]] and [[Optimus Primal]]. Damaged beyond repair, the ''Nemesis'' crashed a second and final time at an unseen location far over the horizon line.

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===

After returning to Earth following Shockwave's defeat on Cybertron, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] used the Nemesis as his base of operations. It is unknown if the warship had previously been used for this purpose by the Decepticons or if Starscream rediscovered it after returning to Earth.

==Toys==
===Energon===
:[[Sharkticon (Energon)|Sharkticon]]'s spaceship altmode was originally designed to resemble the ''Nemesis'', and his early working name was "Decepticon Nemesis."

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Beastformer (species)

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Possibly better known as the Battle Beasts. They were another toy line produced by Takara. They never got their own TV show, but they did guest star in an episode or two of Transformers Headmasters, as Takara considered the two part of the same continuity (when Battle Beasts were released in the west, no such connection was given, making the two lines separate).

They were a race of anthropomorphic animals in armour which bore some similarity to Transformer design. Unlike Transformers, they were not capable of transforming, and did not have alt-modes.

Other similarities to the Transformers were that there were two factions, one "good" and one "evil". In the Headmasters show, the "Good" ones were enslaved by the "bad ones", who were working for Galvatron. In a fascinating parallel to ''[[Beast Wars]]'', the 'good' Battle Beasts were mostly made up of mammals and birds, while the 'bad' Battle Beasts were mostly made up of reptiles and insects.

The key gimmick with the Beastformers, besides being technically part of the Transformers continuity, was their rub signs, which displayed either a fire, water, or wood symbol. These symbols were part of a 'ro-sham-bo' type of game that collectors could play, with fire trumping wood, which trumps water, which trumps fire. A fourth symbol, the Sun Burst, was introduced soon afterwards, which trumped all other symbols. Eventually, these rub signs were replaced by a clear marble-like 'crystal' akin to the 'spark crystals' of the later ''Beast Wars'' and ''[[Beast Machines]]'' figures.

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Dinobot (BW)

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:''Dinobot is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] and [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] continuity.''

[[Image:Dinobotbwx.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"You lived like a warrior ans died to an hero." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/ee52db9e103fd5a8?hl=en&]]]

'''Dinobot''' is a Predacon ruled by honor. He lives to die gloriously in battle. When he aided [[Megatron_(BW)|Megatron]] in the theft of the [[Golden Disc]] under the order of [[Cryotek]], Dinobot believed he was in the pursuit of endless glory. But when he and his Predacon peers crashed on a mysterious planet alongside a Maximal exploration vessel, his desire to be on the winning side turned him to the Maximal team. At first he feared his growing sense of right and wrong would clash with the demands of his Predacon heritage -- but perhaps they are not mutually exclusive after all.

==Fiction==
===Timelines===

===Beast Wars===
'''Voice Actor:''' [[Scott McNeil]] (US), [[Keiji Fujiwara]] (Japan)

Immediately after crash landing on [[Earth]], Dinobot turned on Megatron, claiming the Predacon commander had led them to the wrong planet. Unfazed by Dinobot's tirade, Megatron had [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] blast him, and left him for dead. Dinobot left the Predacons and laid in wait for the Maximals to return to their base. Challenging [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus]] to a duel, Dinobot was determined to lead one faction or another and gain the glory he desperately sought. During the duel, Dinobot displayed a rare amount of honor, fair play, and self sacrifice and won the respect of Optimus, who asked him to join the Maximals. This didn't sit well with the other Maximals, particularly [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], but as the series went on the two became a strange sort of friends.

As a Maximal, Dinobot still displayed strong Predacon tendancies. He was usually more willing to go to the extreme in terms of tactics, use whatever weapons the Maximals had, and often advocated kicking the Predacons when they were down. He also proved to be fairly introspective, and did not miss the gravity of his own situation should the Maximals ever win the Beast Wars. [http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Victory_(Beast_Wars_episode)]

After the destruction of the [[Planet Buster]], and it became obvious that they were on Earth, Dinobot had a few crises of character. His honor and growing sense of doing the right thing were coming into direct conflict with his desires to be on the winning side and gain eternal glory. He broke into the Predacon [[Darkside|base]] and stole the golden disks from Megatron, hiding the one from Cybertron and taking the [[Vok|Alien]] disk back to the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]. Hiding the theft from his Maximal comrades, Dinobot agonized over the contents of the disk from Cybertron. He knew that the knowledge on the disk would make Megatron powerful enough to win the Beast Wars, and rewrite history. After this revelation, Dinobot's desire for victory and glory got the better of him and he rejoined the Predacons and gave Megatron the disk back. [http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Maximal,_No_More] However, his friendship with Rattrap proved to be too strong, he couldn't eliminate the "vermin", and he once again turned on Megatron and rejoined the Maximals.

Dinobot was lost. Had he fumbled his chance at being a great warrior? After contemplating suicide and getting berated by a hurt Rattrap for his betrayal, Dinobot set out to find Megatron and set things right. [http://www.transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Code_of_Hero] However, Megatron had led the Predacons to the valley occupied by the proto-humans, intending to wipe them out and change history. [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] saw the imminent attack and radioed for help before he was forced to head back to base for repairs. Dinobot responed to the call and took on all of the Predacons by himself. Ignoring the damage he took, the warnings of his own internal computer, and the danger to himself, Dinobot defeated all of the Predacons save Megatron. Mocking the weakened Dinobot, Megatron tallied the score firmly in his own favor. He had unimaginable power(i.e. the Golden Disk ), the valley was in ruins, and he had hostages. Refusing to quit, Dinobot improvised (with a wood and rock axe), snatched the disk from Megatron, and with the last of his power, shattered it with his eye beams. The effort cost him, and a short time after the rest of the Maximals arrived, Dinobot's spark left his frame.

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
*'''Dinobot''' (Deluxe, 1995)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-04'''

*'''Dinobot''' (Happy Meal Transmetal, 1997)

[[Image:BWRConcept04.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Dinobot's control art. The beast head displays a more rigid grill structure.]]
*'''Dinobot''' (Tenth Anniversary, 2006)

===Timelines===
*'''Dawn of Futures Past''' (Multi-pack, 2006)

: Part of the five-toy [[BotCon 2006]] [[exclusive]] boxed set (along with [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Optimus Primal]], [[Rattrap]] and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]), Dinobot is a redeco of the ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' [[Longrack (Cybertron)|Longrack]] mold, itself a [[retool]] of ''[[Armada]]'' [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Hoist]]. Dinobot uses almost all of Longrack's new-mold parts save for the head; Hoist's was a dead ringer for Dinobot in the first place. He transforms into a Cybertronic excavator. Inserting a [[Cyber Key]] or [[Golden Disk Key]] into his shoulder assembly unlocks a shovel-punch attack activated by pressing on the plunger mechanism above the key port. Like Longrack, he does ''not'' come with a [[Mini-Con]] partner.

: The original version of this mold was also used to make ''[[Universe]]'' [[Ransack (Universe)|Ransack]].

===Merchandise===

==Trivia==
*Some fans humorously refer to Dinobot's spinning blade weapon as a "Rotate Blade". However, both the full-length version of the first ''Beast Wars'' toy commercial and a later commercial (starring Dinobot, Waspinator and Tarantulas) refer to the weapon as being his "spinning Veloci-Rotor blades".
*One scene in the cartoon involves Dinobot note his 'rigid grill structure'. This scene has become somewhat of a popular Transfan meme, over the years.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Maximal/Dinobot/dinobot.htm Dinobot at TFU.info]
*[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/ee52db9e103fd5a8?hl=en& "Dinobot's Old Technology" by MG-Dinobot]

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Beastformer (species)

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Possibly better known as the Battle Beasts. They were another toy line produced by Takara. They never got their own TV show, but they did guest star in an episode or two of Transformers Headmasters, as Takara considered the two part of the same continuity (when Battle Beasts were released in the west, no such connection was given, making the two lines separate).

They were a race of anthropomorphic animals in armour which bore some similarity to Transformer design. Unlike Transformers, they were not capable of transforming, and did not have alt-modes.

Other similarities to the Transformers were that there were two factions, one "good" and one "evil". In the Headmasters show, the "Good" ones were enslaved by the "bad ones", who were working for Galvatron. In a fascinating parallel to ''[[Beast Wars]]'', the 'good' Battle Beasts were mostly made up of mammals and birds, while the 'bad' Battle Beasts were mostly made up of reptiles and insects.

Each figure came with their own unique weapon, and a rub sign that would reveal either a fire, water, or wood symbol, which was used as a sort of 'ro-sham-bo' type of game for the figures, with Fire beating Wood, Wood beating Water, and Water beating Fire. Later on, a fourth symbol appeared, called the Sun Burst, which trumped all other symbols, and a special breed of Battle Beasts appeared with light-pipped crystals (similar to the 'spark crystals' in later ''Beast Wars'' and ''[[Beast Machines]]'' figures) in place of the rub signs, known as 'Laser Beasts'.

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Talk:Beast (planet)

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Should the Planet Beest article be called "Beest" or "Beast"? The only time it's ever appeared in any official US fiction was in the Dreamwave Summer Special where it was referred to as "Beest". The pronounciation of the planet's name in Japanese is "bii-su-to" which can be spelled "Beest", and I don't recall ever seeing it written as "Beast" in any official Japanese media. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 22:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

:It was spelled Beest when it appeared in a Dreamwave issue, the summer special story, IIRC. It's where Megatron found the Predacons, who'd beem issing sicne forever had had gone feral. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 00:19, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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Ravage (G1)

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the Energon Terrorcon|Battle Ravage (Energon)}}

''Ravage is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Generation 1]] continuity and a [[Predacon]] in the [[Beast Era]]. He is a chronic time-traveler.''

[[Image:Ravageg1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Ravage reveals his slef (sic) to humans.]]

No Decepticon has a stronger loyalty to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] than '''Ravage'''. Ravage believes unwaveringly in the Decepticon cause, and Megatron embodies that cause. To serve Megatron, Ravage has become the most efficient and deadly war machine under his command. He hides himself in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike with grim accuracy. His name is synonymous with stealth. His survivors are few.

Ravage's only weakness is bright light, which can temporarily blind him. Perhaps his absolute loyalty to Megatron can blind him as well.

''Japanese name:'' '''Jaguar'''<br>
''Italian name:'' '''Jena'''<br>
''Swedish name:'' '''Hunden'''

==Fiction==
According to the UK book [[Dinobot War]], Ravage's cassette tape mode is disguised as the soundtrack to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_(musical) Cats].''

===Marvel Comics continuity===
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''
[[Image:Ravage_uk258.png|right|thumb|100px|The smirking Ravage was a chatty catty in the Marvel comics.]]
''Ravage was loyal bodyguard for the Overlords, the Autobots that once ruled all of Cybertron, for Generations. He witnessed as their planet-wide rule crumbled into a loose collection of feuding city-states.''

''During the Vos-Tarn war, Ravage, his partner Nightstalker, Megatron and Optimus Prime.''

''While escorting the last Overlord, an enfeebled mechanoid who required constant re-energization to survive, out of the city of Tarn during the Vos-Tarn war, they were pinned down. Though the Overlord was near death, Ravage refused to give the Overlord any of his energy, instead allying himself with Megatron, whom he believed would be the future ruler of Cybertron.''

===Animated continuity===
Voice Actor: [[Frank Welker]] (US) [[Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese speech)

One of the original team of Decepticons that accompanied [[Megatron]] on the attack of the ''[[Ark]]'' spacecraft, Ravage was reformatted by [[Teletraan-1]] as an audiocassette to better blend in for operations based on Earth. Ravage served loyally as a Decepticon spy. He was one of the first Transformers to have been encountered by a human, as workers investigating a destroyed power station fell afoul of Ravage who pounced upon them and frightened them away.

Shortly thereafter, Ravage accompanied Soundwave on an infiltration mission to gather data from Teletraan 1. Though Soundwave was discovered, Ravage was captured in an energy net and held captive. The Decepticon spy figured into a disinformation plot hatched by the Autobots, who purposely leaked the presence of a rocket fuel depository in the outlying desert. In truth, there was no rocket base -- Autobot [[Hound]] projected a holographic illusion in the hopes of luring the Decepticons into a trap. The Autobots allowed Ravage to escape and report back to Megatron, who easily saw through the ruse.

===Beast Wars animated continuity===
====''Beast Wars''====
[[Image:JaguarX9.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Beast Wars Ravage from TV Magazine]]

'''Voice Actor:''' [[Lee Tockar]] (US), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (Japan)

Ravage is one of the few Decepticon warriors who was granted amnesty at the end of the Great War and reformatted into a Predacon. Sent by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to capture [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], clean up any messes he might of made, and deal with the rest of the Beast warriors. Ravage made the trip to prehistoric Earth in a specially modified stealth [[Transwarp]] space ship. He successfully contacted the [[Maximal]]s and allied with them to capture Megatron. Due to the stealth capabilities of his ship, and the fact that [[Tarantulas]] was also an agent of the council, Ravage and the Maximals easily captured Megatron and imprisoned him.

Megatron, however, had one more card to play. He knew that Ravage wasn't going to let any of the Beast warriors live, and also knew he had the one thing that would turn Ravage to his side. Using a fragment from the [[Golden Disk]], Megatron played Ravage the message on it from the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Ravage, perhaps still driven by loyalty to ''his'' Megatron, joined the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and turned on the Maximals.

His latest treachery was short lived. During the assault on the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]], [[Rattrap]] infiltrated his ship and caused an explosion that destroyed the vessel and Ravage himself. His head, seemingly all that remained of him, was knocked into the water below the Axalaon by one of Tarantulas' [[spider-drone]]s.
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====Toy Bio====
The process of becoming a Predacon has cost Ravage some of his early memories. His ability to become invisible is called Reflect Shade. His orders are to rid the planet [[Earth#Beast Wars|Energois]] of Transformers.

====[[The Gathering|IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics]]====
Magmatron recovered Ravage's heavily-damaged torso, which still contained his spark. He then inserted the spark into a blank [[protoform]], and Ravage was reborn. In his Transmetal 2 body, he and his fellow Predacons, under the command of Magmatron, sought out [[Razorbeast]]'s band of Maximals. Viewing from a safe distance, Ravage ordered his soldiers to engage. Additional Maximal forced arrived, however, and Ravage's forces were defeated. Ravage retreated into the wilderness.

Despite being a continuity that borrows heavily from other G1 continuities, where it is suggested that Ravage is completely loyal to Megatron, before attempting to revive Ravage, Magmatron suggests that Ravage's most important loyalty is to Ravage himself.

====[[Universe (comic)|''Primeval Dawn'' comics]]====
An undead [[Vok]]-infested [[Tarantulas]] revived Ravage (in his Tripredacus Agent TM2 body) to help boost his forces. The remnants of Ravage's body were used and recycled by the Vok to re-create [[Tigatron]].

===''Binaltech''===
Ravage's part in the Binaltech storyline is a bit more complicated than past incarnations. Several years prior to the line's continuity, government-run [[Intelligence and Information Institute]] (or Triple I) unearths a msyterious black box during an archaeological dig. After years of probing the container, dubbed "Schrödinger's Box" by the group's scientists, was revealed to be the flight recorder of Predacon Ravage's stealth ship, containing a copy of the feline's personality and memory engrams. When the scientists found a way to communicate with this personality, it offered them its knowledge of future events in exchange for a new body. Triple-I agreed, and used a fake Binaltech project to provide their part of the bargain. However, to truly bring the new Ravage to life, Triple-I stole the present-day Ravage - who had been somehow captured by the [[Earth Defense Command]] and stasis-locked into his cassette mode - and implanted him into the new Ravage, thereby 'fusing' the old and new Ravages into one.

This new Ravage, however, had no intention of fulfilling his end of the bargain and, after eliminating his benefactors and learning to his shock that history did ''not'' change in his faction's favor, decided to rectify his mistake. First on his agenda was his former commander, Megatron; stealing an Autobot shuttle, he located and repaired the [[Kronosphere]] and - during a decisive battle between Megatron's and Optimus Prime's forces that would have normally ended with the Autobots being forced off of Cybertron and into their moon bases - turned the weapon on his own faction, trapping Megatron and his crew in a space-time rift. This alteration in the timeline served two purposes: first, it would give the Autobots the chance to retake Cybertron, which would then lead to them having to face off against the oncoming [[Unicron]] alone, severely weakening them in the process. The second, and more important, purpose was to keep Megatron alive and in good health, thus preventing him from becoming the insane [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], and allowing him to lead the Decepticons to victory over the battle-weary Autobots. Ravage also reformatted [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] into a new Binaltech body of his own, so he could lead the remaining Decepticons in Megatron's absence, and secretly drailed many of the Autobots' supply missions, further weakening them for their battle with the Chaos Bringer.

Unfortunately for him, the Autobot named [[Overdrive]] became aware of Ravage's meddling in history, thanks to his acute sensitivity of the timestream, and - with the help of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheljack]] - captured the wayward Decepticon and forced a confession out of him. Ravage, however, was not without a trump card, revealing that his alterations ''may'' prevent the deaths of many of the Autobots destined to die in the normal timeline (which, as a distinction between the two, was dubbed 'Prime Time' by Wheeljack, Ravage's altered timeline being called 'Ravage Time'), though in the grand scheme of things, only Optimus could not be considered expendable, as he contained the one thing that could bring down Unicron (the [[Autobot]] [[Matrix of Leadership]]). By the time of his capture, however, Unicron had already been sighted on a collision course with Cybertron and, despite the temptation of preventing future deaths among his ranks, Optimus decided Ravage's plans to be too dangerous to allow to come to fruitition. To that end, he ropes [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] into helping him fly to Unicron in a preemptive strike against the monstrous threat, while the other Autobots (left in the command of [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]), were to initiate "Operation: Distant Thunder", which involved sending a copy of Wheeljack's memories of what Ravage confessed to them, back in time to a point prior to the Decepticon panther's meddling, via the energies located on [[Dinobot Island]]. If "Operation: Distant Thunder" worked as planned, Ravage's plans would be foiled, and any tremors in the timeline he caused would be smoothed over by "Project Body Shop" (aka, the Binaltech project). However, just as Skids gives the signal to transmit the memory engrams, the Autobot base is rocked by an entire fleet of Decepticons. It is unknown as of now if "Operation: Distant Thunder" succeeded or not, or what Ravage's fate will be.

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[Image:General jaguar.jpg|thumb|Predacon General Jaguar]]

''(Note: although it picks up after the first season, the Beast Wars Metals manga is '''not''' in-continuity with the television series.)''

In the ''Beast Wars Metals'' manga, Metals Jaguar was portrayed as G1 Jaguar's homicidal son, with Jaguar taking the design of the Happy Meal Panther toy.

===Kids Stuff Read-Along book===
Ravage immediately recognized what a hydro electric station was, a method of generating power used on Cybertron "way way back in the mists of time," when Transformers were not much more advanced in science than humans are now.

This indicates that Ravage is among the oldest of the Decepticons. Even Megatron only feigned familiarity with this form of technology.

==Toys==
===Generation 1===

* '''Ravage'''
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''19''', '''D-59''', '''D-104'''
: Released with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] by Hasbro in 1984-1986, and by Takara from 1985-1987. The mold was later used for [[Howlback]].

===Beast Wars===
* '''Panther''' (Happy Meal)
* '''Shadow Panther''' (Deluxe)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-7'''
: This toy is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Cheetor]] toy in black, silver, and yellow.

* '''Jaguar''' (Deluxe)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''X-9'''
: ''Beast Wars Metals'' Jaguar is a heavy [[retool]] of [[Transmetal]] Cheetor, just as Ravage's CG model in the show is an altered Transmetal Cheetor.

* '''Tripredacus Agent''' (Deluxe Transmetal 2)
: Redeco of Transmetal 2 Cheetor, in black, silver, and gold.

===Alternators===
* '''Battle Ravage'''
: A retooling of Alternators [[Skids (G1)]], ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-11'''
* '''Ravage'''
: Jaguar XK, transforms into G1-modeled panther form, ''No Japanese ID number, as of yet.''

===Smallest Transformers===
* '''Jaguar'''

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Ravage Ravage Transformers Universe profile]
*[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm Ravage at TFU.info]

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