Hatchling

2011-09-11T19:32:12Z

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:''Hatchlings are a stage of Transformer life from the [[live-action film series|life-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ROTF hatchling death.jpg|thumb|right|300px|How is decepticon babby formed?]]
'''Hatchlings''' are the first stage of life for [[Transformer|Cybertronian]]s. Un[[programs|programmed]] [[protoform]]s held in small sacs, they require regular doses of [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]] to survive. If their sac is breached before the end of the gestation process, they will die.

And they're so ''cute!''

{{bigquote|Hatchlings, careful, fragile!|Starscream and Megatron exhibit very different parenting skills|[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]}}

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' prequel comics===
[[Image:Foundation 3 babysitter.jpg|300px|left|thumb|"Where do babies come from? You see, when a mommy bot and a daddy bot love each other very much they..."]]
Before the war, after the AllSpark was rediscovered and used to revitalize Cybertron, some newborn hatchlings were being tended to by [[Flatline]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1|Foundation #1}} Later, a [[Driller|monster]] attacked the hatchlings and their protector [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], but they were rescued by [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}} Many years after the war broke out, when [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] broke into [[Lord High Protector citadel|Megatron's citadel]], he found Megatron surrounded by hatchlings. Megatron dared Optimus as to whether he would kill the defenseless young Transformers to get at him. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} Optimus refused to succumb to this temptation and let the hungry hatchlings swarm over Megatron: when the Decepticon cast them off, he discovered his nemesis was gone. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
Despite the loss of both [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and the [[AllSpark]], [[The Fallen]] continued his plans to raise an army and ordered new [[Decepticon leader]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] to oversee the spawning of this army. Without the AllSpark to provide energon, the plan was failing, and the hatchlings continued to die. Starscream's command came to end when [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] resurrected Megatron (possibly without telling Starscream). Upon his return to the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'', Megatron chastised his lieutenant for leaving him to die on [[Earth]], but Starscream defended his actions by saying The Fallen had decreed the spawning of the new army, and in Megatron's absence, someone had to assume command. Furious at Starscream's presumption, Megatron slammed him into a wall containing protoform sacs, telling Starscream that there was no command but Megatron's. Despite warning Megatron of their fragile state, Starscream's presence on the wall caused one of the sacs to break open, causing the hatchling inside to fall out and die. Starscream later presented the body of the hatchling to The Fallen to further emphasize the need to find more Energon, as the other hatchlings would die without it. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

===IDW ''Dark of the Moon'' prequel comics===
Megatron relocated the hatchlings to [[Namibia]], [[Africa]]. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}}{{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

===''Dark of the Moon'' movie===
Megatron, after making an undisclosed journey and frightening the wildlife of the Savannah, returned to his temporary base of operations in Namibia, Africa, where he kept a number of hatchlings grouped together in rusty barrels. He fed them what little sustenance he had managed to acquire, musing for them not to be greedy, whilst simultaneously listening to Starscream's sycophantic pity. What became of them afterwards is unknown. {{storylink|Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===
====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====
=====Decepticon campaign=====
After the defeat of The Fallen, Megatron returned to the ''Nemesis'', unleashing his dormant army of Decepticons. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

==Notes==
*In the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]], [[Revenge of the Fallen (comic series)|comic adaptation]] and [[Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|video game]], following the end of the battle in Egypt, Megatron returns to the ''Nemesis'' to activate the protoforms and bring them forth. This was presumably supposed to be the "hook" ending shown after the credits (but the question remains as to ''how'' Megatron would have accomplished this, since he never ''got'' any more Energon!). While not included in the film itself, this idea was reflected in various pieces of subsequent media, including ''[[Unite for the Universe]]'', [[Titan Books|Titan]]'s [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|UK comic]], and eventually ''[[Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' and its prequel ''[[Rising Storm]]'', by which time the hatchlings had been brought to Earth.

===Foreign names===
*''Polish:'' '''Embricony'''

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