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Wreck-Gar (Animated)

2009-06-13T14:44:05Z

69.254.94.220: /* Notes */

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{{disambig2|the garbage truck from ''Transformers Animated''|the Junkion from Generation 1|Wreck-Gar (G1)}}
:''Wreck-Gar is a very confused individual from the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Wreck-garanimatedpoint.jpg|right|360px|thumb|Put down that chainsaw and listen to me!]]
Recently brought to life by the power of the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]], '''Wreck-Gar''' is simple-minded and highly suggestible. As he attempts to learn more about his identity, he never loses his sense of humor. His trash bin is an impressive bag of tricks, able to stash and deploy many useful (and even more useless) items at a moment's notice, or make them seemingly disappear forever. This ability is a bit of a mixed blessing, as Wreck-Gar will frequently confuse your request with something that sounds vaguely similar.

Wreck-Gar's primary goal in life is to acquire an identity. Additionally, he is eager to help people and be liked. He will automatically take on whatever role is suggested to him. This makes him rather unpredictable and prone to making the wrong move at the wrong time. However, if he can learn to think for himself instead of relying on others, there's potential in this friendly mix-and-match bot.

{{bigquote|I am Wreck-Gar! I am only good for one thing... '''GARBAGE!'''|Wreck-Gar cheerily takes [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] at his word, "[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [["Weird Al" Yankovic|"Weird Al" Yankovic]] (English), [[Joachim Kaps]] (German)

[[Image:Wreck-garisgoodforonlyonething.jpg|left|180px|thumb|OKAY I CAN HEAR YOU NOW!]]

Wreck-Gar emerged from a garbage scow, activated by a shard of [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] energy that was close to [[Sari Sumdac]]'s [[Key]], self-aware but with no sense of history or identity. He tried to figure out what he was by studying objects in his environment and was briefly tricked by a food label into thinking he was high-fructose corn syrup. Spying a blimp proclaiming the [[Detroit]] Metro Police Department was "here to help", Wreck-Gar went off in search of the police for help. Once ashore, Wreck-Gar's clumsy curiosity prevented police officers from apprehending the [[Angry Archer]], and the villain quickly conscripted Wreck-Gar as a sidekick, even giving the confused mechanoid his new, shorter name (as "worthless-''wreck''-walking-pile-of-''gar''bage" was a bit overlong). Wreck-Gar helped the Archer disable an armored car, allowing him to steal a canister of unknown content right in front of the [[Autobot]]s [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]].

Upon seeing the Autobots and overhearing that they protected life and caught bad guys, Wreck-Gar decided he wanted to do that, slapped an [[Insignia|Autobrand]] on his chest, and chased the escaping Archer. Throwing the Archer high into the air in order to "catch" him, Wreck-Gar only got the canister, as the Archer used a grappling arrow to escape. After being harshly told by Ratchet he was only good for one thing, ''GARBAGE!'', Wreck-Gar proudly declared he was good for only one thing—''GARBAGE!''—and set about trying to deliver the stinky stuff to the entire citizenry of Detroit. (Detroit just happened to be in the middle of a garbage strike as well. Hooray!) The Autobots gave chase, having discovered the canister Wreck-Gar held contained experimental [[Sumdac Systems]] garbage-eating microbots, which Ratchet worried would be dangerously mutated by Wreck-Gar's AllSpark energy.

[[Image:Wreck-garanimatedvehicle.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet!]]

This mission became much more dangerous when he was approached by [[Lugnut]], who was out to retrieve the AllSpark shard from Wreck-Gar's body. Thanks to Wreck-Gar's habit of repeating everything said to him (specifically, Ratchet's proclamation that "you're not an Autobot, and you never ''will be'' an Autobot!"), Lugnut believed the newcomer was just as much a loyal [[Decepticon]] as himself. When Ratchet accosted Wreck-Gar, Lugnut prepared his [[Punch of Kill Everything]], which Wreck-Gar took to mean the [[universal greeting]], so he gave Lugnut a high-five that left a colossal impact crater. As the Autobots ran for it, Wreck-Gar hopped on the pursuing Lugnut, pulling out the now-cracked microbot canister he'd gotten. A small amount spilled on Lugnut and began eating through his tail section. Wreck-Gar helpfully disassembled the tail, sending Lugnut plummeting somewhere in Detroit, with himself and the tail landing in a full garbage scow, which the nanobots quickly began to consume. From the shore, a group of bystanders began cheering as they saw the scow's load diminish. Now supplied with a fresh load of garbage and mistaking the cheers as intended for his delivery of said garbage, Wreck-Gar pushed the scow full steam ahead.

Wreck-Gar's attempt to deliver it was impeded by Ratchet, who first screamed at the junk-bot that the nanobots would destroy the entire city should they reach shore, but Wreck-Gar was adamant. Ratchet then did the hardest thing he'd ever had to do: ''apologize'' for his insults and bad attitude. Ratchet told the now-even-more-confused robot that he could be whatever he wanted and to not let others decide for him who he was. Wreck-Gar decided he truly wanted to be a hero, and slapping the Autobot symbol on his chest once again, began vacuuming up the nanobots. The nanobots began to overload within his backpack, however, and as Wreck-Gar tumbled off of what was left of the scow, he cried out his thank-you to Ratchet. An explosion of AllSpark energy burst from the water, and all Ratchet's magnetic power could retrieve was random junk...

And, at the bottom of the lake, Wreck-Gar smiled to himself, a hero. Despite being buried up to his shoulders, he assured the fish passing by he was there to help...but first...could somebody give him a hand or a fin? {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}

[[Image:Wreck Gar Polka Party.jpg|thumb|180px|left|You better squeeze all the Charmin you can, when Mr. Whipple's not around!]]

Eventually roused from his lakebed slumber by the crude raft of Sari Sumdac's [[Scrapper (Animated)|ragtag]] [[Snarl (Animated)|crew]], he joined the [[Substitute Autobots]] to help liberate Detroit from the grip of [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]]. A bit less befuddled than in previous encounters, he proved (mostly) effective in aiding Sari in battle, only being defeated once Soundwave was able to focus his attentions solely on controlling [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]. Afterward, he enthusiastically pitched in on the cleanup efforts, collecting the scraps of hundreds of [[Porter C. Powell]]'s damaged Soundwave toys.

[[Image:TFAni_Human_Error_Part2_Wreck-Gar_Merry_Trashmas.jpg|thumb|right|180px|The sleigh bells are ringing and the carolers are singing while the air raid sirens blare!]]

He even got into the [[Christmas|holiday]] spirit a bit, playing Santa and handing out garbage to all the good little girls and boys. {{storylink|Human Error, Part II}}

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==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Wreckgaranimatedvoyager.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ya gotta buy one if you wanna get one free!]]
*'''Wreck-Gar''' (Voyager, 2008)
**''Accessories'': 2 scissor-blade weapons

: Wreck-Gar transforms into a garbage truck with articulated lifting-forks. Pushing a small spring-loaded lever on the back of either of the lifting forks will extend the fork forward. The sliding lever on the top of the truck exposes both of his weapons from slots in the rear. These blade- or scissor-like weapons can attach to his forearms, or combine into a single bladed weapon which can also attach to either of his forearms. (Don't run with them!) His [[Shellformer|transformation]] involves pulling nearly his entire robot mode out from under the truck mode, meaning he wears his vehicle mode like a backpack. However, you don't care because Wreck-Gar is awesome (and it's show-accurate).

:According to the back of his box, he collects things others throw out, watches more TV than even Bumblebee, and believes everything he reads on the internet. How he manages to watch TV and browse the internet ''at the bottom of a river'' is unknown, but this is still awesome.

==Notes==
* Originally, the creators wanted [[Eric Idle]] to play Wreck-Gar, as he was the original voice for his [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Generation 1 namesake]]. As Idle was busy with the production of ''Spamalot'', Weird Al was selected instead.

* Wreck-Gar's head is an old-fashioned portable TV set, complete with channel selection dials, aerial and a handle for transport. As art director/character designer [[Derrick Wyatt]] has admitted to being heavily influenced by [[wikipedia:Gainax|Gainax]] shows, this may well be a visual cue to [[wikipedia:FLCL|FLCL]], along with the resemblance to the original Wreck-Gar's head and his "TV talk" persona.

* Wreck-Gar's line "I ''dare'' to be stupid!" is something of a double-callout, as the Weird Al song "[[Dare to Be Stupid]]" was featured in the original [[The Transformers: The Movie|''Transformers'' movie]] during the battle against the [[Junkions]], and Wreck-Gar himself is voiced by Al.

* Then, of course, there's the accordion in one of the above images. Al himself has been an accordion player since the age of 7.

* ''Transformers Animated'' story editor [[Marty Isenberg]] stated in an interview that the idea of a garbage bin that Wreck-Gar can pull anything out of was inspired by Harpo Marx.<ref>[http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=242 CVComics.com's Art & Story 68 audio interview with Marty Isenberg.]</ref>

==References==
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Lugnut (Animated)

2009-06-09T16:24:38Z

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{{disambig2|the Animated-series Decepticon military plane|the Cybertron-series Decepticon motorcycle|Lugnutz}}

:''Lugnut is a glorious [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated]] [[Continuity family]].''

[[Image:LugnutPromoModel.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The secret (GLORIOUS!) love child of Shockwave and Omega Supreme.]]
If mighty [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] were to command '''Lugnut''' to jump, the powerful Decepticon would be in the upper atmosphere long before his master could specify how high. In Lugnut's optic, bold, heroic Megatron embodies the Decepticon cause, and his devotion is total. It's easy to misinterpret Lugnut’s blind zeal for a lack of overall processing power, but this is not the case. Although he isn't much of a thinker or planner, Lugnut does not care, for wise Megatron is brilliant enough for a thousand Decepticons. His master makes the plans, and Lugnut carries them out. However, that blind loyalty is his weakness. Although innovative on the battle field, he does little thinking about anything else.

Besides his compulsion to serve Megatron, the only other driving force in his programming is to destroy the Autobots. Renowned throughout Cybertron as one of the most destructive fighters for the Decepticon cause, Lugnut has no time or patience for contemplation or strategy when he could just as easily level an entire Autobot battalion with a single [[Punch of Kill Everything|explosive punch]]. He knows that his unparalleled strength, endurance, and seemingly limitless missile payload is enough to serve glorious, bold, fresh-scented, bright and shiny MEGATRON! Autobots that know him know the only way to survive a fight with him is to stay clear of his path.

He will only keep company with Decepticons who are as loyal to the grand and imperious Megatron as he is. Traitors and disgraces such as [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] and [[Lockdown]] are not worthy of mention, let alone being in the presence of the glorious Megatron. Granted, even magnanimous Megatron himself can get a little tired of Lugnut's praises, but he keeps it to himself, lest Lugnut should lose faith in mighty Megatron.
{{bigquote|I believe only two things: The Decepticons will rule Cybertron, and Megatron will rule the Decepticons!|Lugnut, Megatron loyalist|"[[Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{note|Events from [[IDW Publishing]] comic books are in italics.}}
:''Voice actor:'' [[David Kaye]] (English), [[Uwe Jellinek]] (German)

[[Image:Megatron prayer.jpg|left|150px|thumb|In glorious Megatron's name we pray, AMEN!]]
At some point in the past, Lugnut got a call from [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]], who had infiltrated [[Autobot boot camp]], and allowed him to report to Megatron. {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}} Many, many years later, Lugnut was on board the [[Nemesis (Animated)|''Nemesis'']] with [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] and [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] when they discovered the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]]. Doubting that it was near, Starscream insulted Megatron (out of the latter's presence, of course) as a fool who was chasing a ghost. Furious, Lugnut leapt in and roared at the "traitor" about how Megatron would lead the Decepticons to a new age. Blackarachnia mocked him, asking if the speech was memorized or just hardwired into his one-track processor. Blitzwing indirectly defended Lugnut by insulting Blackarachnia, but soon burst into song, prompting all the Decepticons to argue until the entry of Megatron silenced them. Later, when it became clear the ''Nemesis'' was going to crash into an exploding space bridge, Lugnut showed uncharacteristic intelligence by fleeing in an escape pod. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

''Lugnut and Blitzwing, upon leaving the warship, returned to [[New Kaon]]. Lugnut, refusing to believe that Megatron was offline, destroyed a statue Blitzwing had made in memory of their fallen leader. Blitzwing was not pleased.'' {{storylink|The Arrival issue 1}}

''After finding out Blitzwing had made arrangements with a [[Lockdown|bounty hunter]] in order to locate and exact revenge on the Autobots, Lugnut was furious. His fury (along with Blitzwing's responding fury) were taken advantage of by an [[Swindle (Animated)|unscrupulous arms dealer]] seeking to make a profit off the two in a never-ending escalating arms race. Things ended poorly for said arms dealer, however, once Lugnut and Blitzwing caught on to the fact they were both being played. {{storylink|Everything Must Go}} (Although odds are, if Lugnut had known just [[Punch of Kill Everything|what Blitzwing had offered Lockdown]], he may not have been so forgiving).'' {{storylink|A Few Loose Strands}}

''When the Allspark gave off the radiation burst during Prime and Starscream's battle, the signal served as a beacon, the Decepticons on New Kaon picking up the signal. Lugnut took this as evidence his leader was still online.'' {{storylink|The Arrival issue 1}}

[[Image:Lugnutfist.JPG|right|175px|thumb|FALCON PUNCH!]]
After arriving on [[Earth|Earth's]] [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], Lugnut and Blitzwing discovered the ''Nemesis'', near where Blitzwing mentioned that [[Lockdown]] had last reported. Lugnut did not care for the bounty hunter or his mission, for he still believed that Megatron was alive. Heading to Earth, the two crash landed at a construction site, where Lugnut interrogated a crane on Megatron's whereabouts with little success. After randomly destroying everything in sight, Lugnut and Blitzwing had a battle with the Autobots. Utilizing his back-mounted missile arsenal, Lugnut easily outgunned the Autobots himself, and was able to throw [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] around like he was nothing. When he demanded to know where Megatron was, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] mentioned that he was reduced to a "fireball somewhere over [[Cleveland (city)|Cleveland]]". Screaming "Megatron lives", Lugnut knocked out the Autobots with his [[Punch of Kill Everything]] (which Blitzwing says he told him "a thousand times" to warn him before using), which convinced Megatron that Lugnut could be trusted. He contacted only Lugnut, who, in his eagerness, dragged a confused Blitzwing away from the fight. Blitzwing thought that Lugnut had finally overheated his motherboard and headbutted him, who responded in kind and sent Blitzwing plummeting straight smack dab in the middle of a military base. When they heard police cars approaching, Blitzwing suggested that they lay low to determine their strengths, but Lugnut planned to slaughter them ''en masse''. An annoyed Megatron told him to shut up and get a disguise.

That evening, Megatron contacted Lugnut, uploading a sample of the [[Key|Key's]] energy signature, and instructed him to use it to find the AllSpark itself, which would restore Megatron. Heading for Lake Erie, the two Decepticons tracked down the [[Teletran-1|Autobots' ship]]. Once they'd followed the Autobots below its surface, Lugnut showed remarkable intelligence by being reluctant to enter the underwater smokescreen [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] had created, although he still entered to follow Blitzwing. Obscured by kicked-up dust, his targeting systems still found a body in the haze. Pleased that his targeting sensors had not failed him, he fired – on Blitzwing. The Autobots seemed to have the upper hand when Lugnut again displayed unexpected smarts by transforming and using his jet thrusters to blow away the obscuring dirt. Unfortunately for him and Blitzwing, just as they were going destroy the Autobots, [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] and [[Sari Sumdac]] brought the weapon systems of the Autobots' ship online. The two Decepticons were blasted to the shores of Lake Erie in several pieces, severing Megatron's radio link with Lugnut and thus leaving the poor lunk to believe that his master had forsaken him. The next morning, Starscream appeared and promised to repair them – if they swore loyalty to him. {{storylink|Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found}}

[[Image:Megatron Rising Starscream on Lugnut.JPG|left|175px|thumb|Keep trying, Lugnut. Keep trying.]]
For reasons beyond understanding, Lugnut agreed to Starscream's request, or at least pay lip service to him, but was quick to remind the upstart that they served not by choice. However, when Megatron contacted him, Lugnut immediately repledged himself to Megatron. The Decepticon leader told Lugnut to locate the Key and bring it to him. Taking it from [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]], they flew to [[Sumdac Tower]], where Lugnut blabbed the whole Decepticon thing to [[Isaac Sumdac]], forcing him to kneel to Megatron. Now that he knew Lugnut wasn't totally bonkers (like him), Blitzwing used the Key to help Megatron repair his body and restore him. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1}}

[[Image:TFA Megatron Rising Lugnut boom.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Looks like Team Decepticon is blasting off again!]]
As Megatron proceeded to beat up the Autobots, Blitzwing and Lugnut decided not to intervene, but to keep an eye on Professor Sumdac. As Megatron called his loyal troops to him, Lugnut prostrated himself before his master, where he briefly found himself humiliated by Starscream, but then got to look on as Megatron made an example of the schemer. The Decepticons took to the air, locating and attacking the Autobots' ship as it travelled from the lake to the Tower, then from the Tower to [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]], where it was shot down. Bulkhead leapt into the air and [[Jet judo|Jet-Judo'd]] Lugnut, and the two landed in the forest. Although Lugnut was the physically stronger of the pair and tossed Bulkhead around like a beach ball, his zeal let him down. He prepared to use his powerful punch...and Bulkhead slammed the ignition point with his wrecking ball, causing a powerful explosion that defeated the brute. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

After the battle with Bulkhead, Lugnut helped the Decepticons set up a base in a mine, even though his left arm kept falling off. Not realizing that the mine's carbon deposits shielded their energy signatures from Autobot detection, Lugnut did not understand why they had to hide. He was even more confused by Megatron's plan to conquer Cybertron, but this didn't prevent him from hitting a doubting Blitzwing. Things became clearer to Lugnut when Megatron said that they would use [[space bridge]] technology, one of the two reasons they lost the Great War, to reach and conquer Cybertron. First, they needed Isaac Sumdac, who had been captured by Megatron, in order to reverse-engineer the missing pieces of the space bridge data Megatron had copied. When a servant-bot in Sumdac's enclosure malfunctioned, Lugnut accused the professor of sabotaging Megatron's plans. However, he backed down at the behest of Megatron, who learned the servant-bot had acted as it did because it had a fragment of the AllSpark in its circuits. {{storylink|The Elite Guard}}
[[Image:Lugnutkick.JPG|left|200px|thumb|The dancing lessons weren't going that well!]]
Lugnut and Blitzwing were sent by Megatron to steal a tachyon generator from the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]]'s ship. Lugnut was able to acquire the generator, when Starscream appeared and tried to destroy Megatron. After the Decepticon leader offlined him, Lugnut confirmed that Starscream was dead. After all, there was no spark in his spark chamber, so he had to be dead. Despite this, Starscream kept coming back and trying to kill Megatron, and Lugnut spent the rest of the night repeatedly throwing his corpse into a river. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}}

[[Image:GarbageInGarbageOut-Wreck-GarandLugnutwithaxe.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Stop! Hammertime!]]
When Lugnut later detected an AllSpark fragment, Megatron sent him to retrieve it, partially to be rid of his sycophantic subject for a while. Discovering it in a garbage truck, Lugnut believed it was being transported by a human. He was thus surprised when the truck transformed into a robot named [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]]. The simple-minded robot soon confused poor Lugnut with his habit of mirroring what was being said to him, so Lugnut came to believe that Wreck-Gar was a Decepticon like him. Pleased that the new Transformer was a Decepticon, Lugnut celebrated the discovery with a resounding cry of "All hail Megatron!" Wreck-Gar followed suit...then asked who Megatron was.

When the Autobots arrived and verbally accosted Wreck-Gar, Lugnut came out of hiding and prepared to use his bomb punch on Ratchet. Wreck-Gar then responded to the threatened use of the Punch of Kill Everything with the [[universal greeting]]...and a high-five. Despite the premature detonation, Lugnut was left unharmed, but grew increasingly impatient with Wreck-Gar's lack of comprehension. Attempting to attack the Autobots, he took off in plane mode with Wreck-Gar still on his back. However, when Wreck-Gar caused his tail/mace to become infected with matter-eating microbots, Lugnut panicked and demanded that Wreck-Gar get the microbots off him. The obliging robot responded by simply unscrewing Lugnut's tail assembly, leaving Lugnut rather unsteady in the air. {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}

Later on, Lugnut was sent with Blitzwing to recover parts for Megatron's new space bridge, and the two began stealing caches of construction materials. During one such raid, the Autobots became involved, and Lugnut's singlemindedness meant that he practically ignored Bumblebee's stinger attack, not even slowing down until a pipe fell in his path and sent him falling. He then departed in his bomber mode to unload the material. Sometime later, he and Blitzwing began moving two huge containers of heavy supplies, and Lugnut was most offended when Blitzwing noted how Megatron was curiously absent when they were moving such heavy equipment. Soon afterward, they encountered the [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicons]]. Lugnut was suspicious of these newly created machines, but Blitzwing convinced him to allow them to do the heavy lifting until they reached base, at which point they would eliminate the two newcomers. At base, Blitzwing kept them distracted so Lugnut could activate his rocket punch, but at the last second, Megatron told him to stop. Unfortunately, this caused poor Lugnut to lose balance, fall into a cave and detonate his weapon in his own face. Ever the trooper, he tersely acknowledged he was still all right. {{storylink|Rise of the Constructicons}}

Soon after the space bridge was near completion, the Autobots found the Decepticons' hideout and attempted to stop them. Lugnut and Blitzwing attacked the Autobots invading their underground base, but they ended up getting stasis-cuffed by [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]]. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

Lugnut was soon freed by the Constructicons and cheered when Megatron announced they'd be invading Cybertron via space bridge, but was interrupted by the invading Autobot ship. When given the task of stopping [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]], Lugnut remarked that the large Autobot's size was no match for their leader's glory. This inspired [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] to attack Omega's legs. Lugnut attempted to stop Omega Supreme by firing his entire missile supply at the enormous Autobot. Instead, he was blown away by Omega's lasers. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

[[Image:Three'saCrowdLugnutPrime.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[wikipedia:I've fallen and I can't get up!|I've fallen and I can't get up!]]]]
Lugnut survived the battle, and later was found by the Autobots after Professor Sumdac disabled the Decepticon signal dampers. He attacked, demanding the the whereabouts of Megatron and creating the world's biggest pothole in the road. After a brief battle, the Autobots managed to cuff him, but found he was too heavy for them to pull out. When Bulkhead sent a distress call, Prime decided Lugnut wasn't going anywhere and went to rescue Bulkhead. Upon returning, however, they found the pit empty and Lugnut out of scanner range. He had been freed by the [[Liar Starscream|honest-as-the-day-is-long Starscream clone]], who wholeheartedly promised Lugnut he'd never reveal his humiliating defeat to Megatron. What a guy. {{storylink|Three's a Crowd}}

Later, Lugnut was captured by Lockdown and given to [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] in exchange for energon and parts, along with Blitzwing [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] and the [[Liar Starscream|lying]] and [[Sunstorm (Animated)|sycophantic]] Starscream clones.{{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}

[[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air Lugnut Megatron.jpg|thumb|left|200px|It is an honor to serve as mighty Megatron's [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]] window sticker. Inside or outside of the ship.]]
Their capture did not last long, however, as Sentinel Prime steered the Elite Guard's ship into a stormy nebula, creating a chain reaction which freed Swindle from his transformation lock. When Lugnut ordered him to release the others in the name of the glorious Megatron, Swindle was happy to oblige on behalf of his best customer. The freed Decepticons then made short work of the "Elite" Autobots, but not before Sentinel had sent an SOS to Optimus Prime.

When Optimus arrived, he led the Decepticons on a run-around, eventually freeing the captured Autobots. Their attempt to escape led Lugnut to [[Punch of Kill Everything|POKE]] a hole in the ship, venting everyone in the room into space, where the Autobots were more limited than the flying Decepticons. Lugnut ordered his comrades to Transform and Rise Up, and they attacked, but ultimately Lugnut was thrown clear of the battle when Optimus used Sentinel as a bludgeon to knock him away...leading to him being picked up by the glorious Megatron in Omega Supreme. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}

[[Image:TFA-ThisIsWhyIHateMachines-LugnutRagesStarscreamPlots.jpg|thumb|200px|Let the butt-kissing contest begin!]]
Brought inside Omega Supreme, Lugnut recovered a transwarp cell, allowing Megatron to regain control of the ship. Lugnut was quick to point Megatron's numerous achievements to a moaning Starscream, explaining how they now both had the freedom to come and go as they pleased and had regained the ability to transform Omega. However, Lugnut was annoyed when Shockwave joined their crew, which wasn't helped by Megatron referring to Shockwave as "my most loyal servant". Lugnut's inner rage was noted by an amused Starscream. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

As Shockwave tried to recover the Omega activation codes from Arcee, Starscream egged Lugnut about Shockwave being Megatron's new lapdog. Lugnut easily fell for it, starting an epic butt-kissing, ego-pissing contest between the two purple giants while Starscream sneaked back to the ''Nemesis''. Megatron eventually got the two separated and sent them to start building three [[Lugnut Supreme|clones of Omega Supreme]]. Shockwave later tore the activation codes from Arcee, and when Starscream tried to interfere again, Lugnut loyally leapt to his master's aid—just as Megatron was planning. Lugnut became the template for the three new Decepticon war machines and almost wagged his tail at being chosen for such an honor. Shockwave then discovered that there was a missing security patch, requiring Lugnut to be wired into Omega Supreme for the "Lugnuts Supreme" to be operational, so Lugnut had to remain on the Moon while the purple ships themselves flew to Earth with Megatron aboard. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}

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===''Animated'' shorts===
As [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] heckled [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] during a rousing speech, Lugnut looked on in utter horror until Megatron eventually dispatched Starscream straight through a wall. The sight of such brutality caused Lugnut to wince. {{storylink|Starscream Heckles Megatron}}

Later, Lugnut used his [[Punch of Kill Everything|Punch of Kill Everything]] to create gigantic craters in a forest. As it turns out, he was helping [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] build a new Decepticon swimming pool, but the lunatic couldn't settle on where it should be located, forcing Lugnut to explode things over and over ''and over''. {{storylink|Explosive Punch}}

===Titan Magazines===
[[Image:Lugnut_stick.JPG|right|150px|thumb|]]

Lugnut was part of Megatron's assault on the Autobot base and got beaten very quickly off panel. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Megatron's Revenge}}

He later went along with [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]'s plan of isolating and terminating a lone Autobot. He was ''very'' eager to be the one who got to break the captive, including ''ripping a stalactite off a cave roof'' so he could use it as a stick to [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]'s pinata. (He did wonder if it was too small a stick, though.) Unfortunately for Lugnut, the tracer used to track [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] was whacked onto his "robo-butt" (no, really, Lugnut said that) and this, along with him mega-bombing a cave roof, led to the Decepticon's defeat.

[[Image:Lugnut robobutt.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Sometimes the captions write themselves.]]

Lugnut also admitted to Blitzwing that he's scared of the dark. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|The Race}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Lugnut animated toy.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Made tiny in name of the glorious Hasbro toy race!]]
*'''Lugnut''' (Voyager, 2008)
**''Accessories'': Tail assembly/power mace

: Part of the third wave of ''Animated'' Voyager-class toys, Luggy transforms into a big ol' retro-futuristic bomber plane that includes features from many historic designs, including the B-25 Mitchell and the Heinkel He 111. He also suffers from [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] syndrome, as his robot mode is '''tiny''' compared to most Voyagers. A good portion of his vehicle mode transforms into his big-ass "power mace", almost as big as Lugnut himself. He features three [[Autotransform]] [[Gimmick|gimmicks]] in his head, mace, and hands. The mace connects with a special tab into Lugnut's hand and activates its gimmick: tapping the bottom of the mace on the ground while he holds it causes the engine pods to pop open. Pushing down the area on his back where the mace is stored flips his head up and splits his cockpit halves to the sides of his chest. The small purple tabs on his lower arms open and close his claws in unison. Pushing the mace into one of the hands causes it to close around the mace.

: The mace can also be activated with any Mini-Con figure

: The figure's paint deco shown in promotional photography and the boxart depicts Lugnut's teal areas with highly metallic, almost silver coloration and a slightly lighter shade of purple. The final figure, however, has a darker purple with an much more show-accurate flat teal with no trace of the metallic colouring.

: There have been reports of his cockpit halves not closing properly in vehicle mode due to an overly tightened screw inside his torso. It cannot be corrected without dismantling the figure. The head automorph area also tends to flop slightly, not staying in place in vehicle mode. It is unknown if future releases will remedy this.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Lugnut/lugnut.htm More information on Lugnut at TFU.info]''

{{-}}
[[Image:Ani-toy LugnutMcD.jpg|right|250px|thumb|He stands up straight to look good for his master.]]
*'''Lugnut''' (McDonald's Happy Meal Toy)
**''McNumber'': '''6'''

:A simple version of Lugnut with a very simple transformation sequence. You transform him by flipping his back to reveal the head, bringing down the missiles/arms and flipping the tail to reveal his legs. This makes him stand ''very'' tall. Like most of the McDonald's ''Animated'' toys, he gave up a show-accurate robot mode for a show-accurate vehicle mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/McLugnut/lugnut.htm More information on McDonald's Lugnut at TFU.info]''

{{-}}
[[Image:Atomiclugnutvoyager.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Yeah, this'll come off real well in Japan.]]
*'''Atomic Lugnut''' (Voyager class, 2009)
**''Accessories'': Tail assembly/power mace

: Part of the sixth wave of ''Animated'' Voyagers, Atomic Lugnut is a [[Redeco]] of the Voyager-class Lugnut in a color scheme inspired by World War II era B-29s. He gonna bomb you. He retains all of his previous [[gimmick]]ry.
{{--}}

==Notes==
*Lugnut's name derives from an earlier stage in his development; at one point he was going to be more Frankenstein's Monster-esque, with giant bolts (or "nuts") sticking out from his neck. While this concept was effectively discarded, the character kept "Lugnut" for his final name... but it works well enough on its own, as he ''is'' a big lug and a bit of a nut.
*Of the five main ''Animated'' Decepticons, Lugnut is the only one without a G1/Beast Era counterpart.
*According to the Decepticon character descriptions sent out in the initial [[Cartoon Network]] press release for ''Transformers Animated'', Lugnut "carries a payload of mega-bombs and can spew liquid napalm with laser-like accuracy". Alas, his napalm-spewing ability hasn't shown up anywhere.
*[[Derrick J. Wyatt|Derrick Wyatt]] and [[Marty Isenberg]] admitted at [[BotCon 2008]] that they didn't know that Lugnut's toy had the battle mace, as it was a [[Hasbro]] creation. Once they learned of its existence, they slipped it into season 2, and it makes its only appearance in "[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]".
*At Botcon 2008, Marty Isenberg took a liking to the term [[Punch of Kill Everything]] used in the fandom to refer to Lugnut's attack, and said he would find a way to work it in. Sure enough, in the the comic [[The Arrival issue 4|''The Arrival'' #4]] penned by Isenberg, Lugnut's attack was named as such.
* The four small red dots (two to either side) on Lugnut's head, according to the series' creators, are secondary optics. This means Lugnut actually has ''five'' eyes, rather than the one he appears to have at a casual glance.

[[Category:Animated characters]]
[[Category:Decepticons]]

Five Servos of Doom

2009-05-17T18:45:33Z

69.254.94.220: /* Synopsis */

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|image=TFA Five Servos Yoketron vs Prowl.JPG
|caption=Wax on, wax off.
|ep=35
|title="Five Servos of Doom"
|airdate=[[April 4]], 2009
|written by=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
}}

'''Sentinel Prime has incredible success capturing fugitive Decepticons, leading Prowl to suspect he's getting help. '''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:FiveServosOfDoom-CapturedDecepticons.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"We're gonna need a bigger shelf..."]]

In the dead of night, the [[Autobot]]s steal through the streets of [[Detroit]], on the trail of a [[Decepticon]] energy signature. With the source of the signal cornered, [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] makes his move and dives through a window, only to find that the signal is coming from a beacon and that the Autobots have been tricked. To make matters worse, [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] has disappeared, and the Autobots spread out to search for him. During the search, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] spots an unfamiliar shadow and follows it around a corner...to find the [[Sunstorm (Animated)|sycophantic Starscream clone]], captured and [[stasis cuffs|stasis-cuffed]] by Sentinel Prime. They take the prisoner back to the [[Elite Guard]]'s ship, where Optimus is stunned to discover that Sentinel has also recently captured [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] and [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] as well.

[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] and [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] are eager to know how Sentinel managed to apprehend the Starscream clone, as is Optimus, but Sentinel gets defensive and tells Optimus it does not concern him. Prime confides in Prowl his suspicion that Sentinel is hiding something, and tells about the strange shadow he saw. Back at the Autobot plant, the pair consult computer records to see if Optimus can identify the distinctive helmet the robot was wearing, and when they find one that fits the bill, the stunned Prowl flashes back to his past on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]…

[[Image:TFA Five Servos Prowl meets Yoketron.JPG|thumb|right|200px|"Blam! Pow! You want I should leave this here?"]]

:''The helmet belongs to [[Yoketron]], the ninja master who trained Prowl centuries ago. Attempting to dodge the draft during the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]], Prowl was apprehended by Elite Guardsman [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] and placed into the care of Yoketron, who saw potential in him and offered to train him in exchange for the charges against him being dropped.''

Optimus pulls Prowl out of his ruminations, and the ninja-bot silently speeds back to the Elite Guard ship to converse with [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]], another of Yoketron's old students. The pair suspect that their old sensei may somehow be on Earth, capturing Decepticons, and that Sentinel is taking the credit. Sentinel walks in on the middle of the discussion and laughs off the notion that Yoketron is even still online, before departing on another patrol. Knowing that something is not right, Jazz and Prowl shadow Sentinel, but when Sentinel rounds a corner and disappears, Prowl lapses into his memories once again, recalling when Yoketron taught him that it was the robot himself, not his tools, that made the ninja. With nothing left to do, the pair return to the Elite Guard's ship, where Jetfire and Jetstorm are working to repair their communications system.

[[Image:Jetstormpose.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Say cheeeeeese!]]

The two brothers tell the ninjas that Sentinel is waiting for them in the brig, and Jazz and Prowl are amazed to see that Sentinel has brought in [[Lugnut]]! As Sentinel gloats, Prowl calls him on the unlikelihood of the whole scenario and accuses him of having "help". The ninja-bot points out the missing weapons on all the Decepticons, and notes that [[Lockdown|only one bot]] that he knows of takes trophies from his victims, but Sentinel silences him by revealing that he has removed Lugnut's "[[Punch of Kill Everything]]" and placed it in a storage compartment in that very hallway. Embarrassed, Prowl leaves, and Sentinel turns on Optimus, telling him to keep Prowl in line, lest he "bust him back to protoform". The word echoes down the hallway, and Prowl pauses…

:''As Prowl's skills increase under Yoketron's tutelage, he is deemed worthy of a weapon by his master and is given his shuriken. Yoketron leads Prowl into a chamber containing holographic busts of his greatest students, but one plinth is empty—a spot, Yoketron reveals, previously held by a former student who disgraced the cyber-ninja corps. Prowl is amazed when Yoketron uses a technique known as "[[processor-over-matter]]" to open the far wall of the chamber with the power of his mind, revealing a greater chamber beyond, its walls lined with [[protoform]]s that the [[Cyber-Ninja Corps]] has been charged with protecting. Yoketron challenges Prowl to close the chamber using processor-over-matter, but Prowl is unable to accomplish the task, and Yoketron sends him on an "optics quest" to find his center and become a true cyber-ninja.''

Prowl's trip down memory lane is cut off as Sentinel comes down the hallway. He uses his hologram projector to disguise himself as a cabinet and listen in as Sentinel talks with parties unknown over his communicator. Prowl alerts Jazz before trailing Sentinel to [[Tigatron Stadium]], where he learns that his suspicions were correct: Sentinel is working with [[Lockdown]], who is wearing Yoketron's helmet! Prowl busts up the prisoner exchange, but it is soon revealed that Lockdown has double-crossed Sentinel, having been made a better offer by the [[Liar Starscream|lying Starscream clone]]. Lockdown and Prowl engage in battle, and Lockdown reveals that he was also a student of Yoketron...

:''Returning from his unsuccessful optics quest, Prowl discovers that Yoketron's dojo has been attacked, the protoforms almost all stolen, and Yoketron himself fatally wounded. As Yoketron's spark begins to fade, Prowl recovers one of the remaining protoforms and places his master's spark in it, saving Yoketron's life. Yoketron, however, is appalled by his student's actions; one must never sacrifice a piece of the future in order to save a piece of the past. When Prowl's time comes, Yoketron tells him, he too will understand. As Prowl looks on, Yoketron allows his spark to fade out.''

[[Image:FiveServosOfDoom-Yoketron%27sDeath.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"You must not sacrifice a piece of the future to bring back the past." "But the seeds of the future lie buried in the past!" "... shut up, boy."]]

At last, all is clear to Prowl: Lockdown led the attack on the dojo and took the protoforms! Prowl pins Lockdown and demands the return of Yoketron's helmet; Lockdown appears to comply, but the helmet has been booby-trapped and binds Prowl in a tangle of cables. The captured Prowl is taken to Lockdown's ship, where the bounty hunter intends to remove his jump jets and holo-projector in order to complete a duplicate set of the armor that he loaned Prowl during their [[A Fistful of Energon|last encounter]]. Lying on Lockdown's "operating table", Prowl concentrates, and at last masters processor-over-matter, freeing his body from the cables with the power of his mind.

[[Image:Sentinel-derp.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Sentinel displays his ''Unfortunate Accident'' mode.]]

Meanwhile, Optimus Prime, Jazz, Jetfire and Jetstorm have arrived to rescue Sentinel Prime from the clutches of the Starscream clone, but the fight is not going well, as the clone uses Sentinel for a shield most of the time. The clone takes to the air, but Prime blinds him with a faceful of foam, and he crashes into the middle of the stadium field, dropping Sentinel head-first into the ground.

Back aboard Lockdown's ship, the bounty hunter turns to discover that Prowl has freed himself and donned both Yoketron's helmet and the armor, knowing that he will be able to handle its power this time because of the lesson he has finally learned: It is the ninja-bot, not the weapon. The two engage in battle once more, and their fight soon carries them out of the ship and into the middle of the other fight going on in the field outside. Optimus Prime and Jazz are in the process of dropping the stadium's scoreboard onto the Starscream clone, but Prowl and Lockdown get in the way at the last second, before they can stop the giant screen's tumble. As the dust clears, Optimus and Jazz discover that Prowl has used processor-over-matter to protect the combatants from the debris. Optimus quickly stasis-cuffs the Starscream clone, but Lockdown gets away.

[[Image:TFA Five Servos processor over matter.JPG|right|thumb|200px|And thus Prowl became Ninja Jesus.]]
A little later, everyone has returned to the Elite Guard ship, where Jetstorm and Jetfire open a communications channel with [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] on Cybertron. Cliffjumper tells the Autobots about [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]]'s attack on [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]], and rather than add to the trouble, Prime refrains from reporting Sentinel's misconduct, instead simply informing Cliffjumper of the capture of the Decepticons on [[Earth]], crediting Prowl. Sentinel thanks Optimus for covering for him, but Optimus promises that once everything is done, he and Sentinel will have it out.

Back at the Autobot base, Jazz compliments Prowl on his armor, and tells him that Yoketron would be proud to have him wear his helmet. Prowl vows to do everything he can to be worthy of it.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (1)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (4)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (8)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (9)
*[[Yoketron]] (10) (Flashback)
*[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] (11) (Flashback)
*[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]] (15)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (16)

|c2=
*[[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]] (5)
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (6)
*[[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] (7)
*[[Lugnut]] (12)
*[[Lockdown]] (13)
*[[Liar Starscream]] (14)

}}

==Quotes==
'''Jetfire''': Sentinel Prime, sir, tell please. 
'''Jetstorm''': How did you making to capture this badness bot? 
'''Optimus''': Yes, Sentinel. How did you capture this badness bot?
:—Optimus Prime and the twins question Sentinel and butcher the English language.

'''Warpath''': Ask me, he should rust in the stockade. Any Autobot who won't fight the Decepticons is no better than a Con himself. We're at war. 
'''Prowl''': It's not my war! 
'''Warpath''': Then maybe I should take you out back and ''make it'' your war! 
'''Yoketron''': I believe I can take it from here. 
'''Warpath''': Bam pow! Lousy draft-dodgin' peacenik.
:—Warpath has no time for draft-dodgers.

"Give. Me. Yoketron's. Helmet."
:—'''Prowl''', not pissing around.

"Couldn't resist that old armor, though, could ya? What makes you think you can handle it this time?" 
"I've learned something since then. It's the ninja-bot, not the weapon."
:—'''Lockdown''' and '''Prowl'''

"Whoa, bro. P-over-M."
:—'''Jazz''', impressed with Prowl's processor-over-matter mastery.

"Diggin' the new armor, specially Yoketron's helmet. He'd be proud to have you wear it." 
"Thank you. I plan to do everything in my power to be worthy of it."
:—'''Jazz''' and '''Prowl'''

==Notes==

===Animation or technical errors===

*When the scoreboard crashes onto Prowl, Lockdown and the Liar, Prowl is missing his samurai armor.

===Continuity errors===
*It's not ''technically'' an error, since Prowl has always remained quiet on his history and could just have been holding back from correcting anyone, but this episode reveals that he was online during the Great War, prior to the creation of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]], where previous episodes have suggested that none of the main ''Animated'' Autobot cast, except for [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]], were around back then. Notably, this makes Prowl older than Optimus Prime, which... sits ill, at best.
*On a related note, this also means that Jazz was active in the Cyber-Ninja Corps during the war, apparently long before Sentinel even came online (much less joined the Elite Guard). Even ignoring Sentinel's various flaws, this raises legitimate questions about just how promotions are handed out in the Elite Guard.
*Swindle is still in one piece, despite [[Fanzone|a certain cop]] telling the Autobots he would be stripped down and sold at an auction. Foreshadowing of his return, or just exaggeration on Fanzone's part?
*Lockdown has never mentioned Prowl's fighting before, referred to any cyber-ninja training, or, perhaps most noticeably, worn Yoketron's helmet previous to this episode. The latter may have been meant to be explained by Lockdown's stated interest in Prowl's use of the samurai armor during their last encounter, however it's still a little clunky.
*The [[protoform]] in this episode is a whoole lot different than the one featured in [[Transwarped]] (then again, perhaps the robot originally coming from that type of protoform would be different from [[Sari Sumdac|Sari]], so it may not be a error at all. Still, is weird). Maybe it means that Sari was not a normal protoform.

===Transformers references===
*Prowl performed the titular "Five Servos of Doom" technique back in "[[The Elite Guard]]".

*Swindle is still stuck in vehicle mode after the events of "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]".

*Yoketron is named for [[Takara]]'s lead designer, [[Hideaki Yoke]].

[[Image:FiveServosOfDoom-TempleCameos.jpg|thumb|right|250px|For those who thought getting [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] just wasn't good enough...]]

*In addition to Yoketron and Jazz, the busts in Yoketron's little "hall of fame" depict ''Animated'' incarnation of various Transformers that have otherwise not appeared in the series (yet?). Those clearly visible onscreen include [[Springer (Animated)|Springer]], [[Sky Garry (Animated)|Sky Garry]], [[Devcon (Animated)|Devcon]], [[Dai Atlas (Animated)|Dai Atlas]], [[Heavy Load (Animated)|Heavy Load]], [[Star Upper (Animated)|Star Upper]] and [[Roadhandler (Animated)|Roadhandler]], but there are many more busts in the room that are only seen from a distance, and are essentially unidentifiable. [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] has identified the other Transformers as [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Star Saber (Animated)|Star Saber]], [[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]], [[Kick-Off (Animated)|Kick-Off]], [[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]], [[Motorarm (Animated)|Motorarm]], [[Powerhug (Animated)|Powerhug]] and [[Road Rocket (Animated)|Road Rocket]].
** Additionally, Wyatt classifies the characters as being specialists in different categories, namely Fencing/Swordfighting/Melee Weapons (Star Saber, Magnus, Dai Atlas, Springer) , Boxing/Kick-Boxing/Street-Fighting (Tap-Out, Star Upper, Sky Garry, Kick-Off, Devcon), Sumo/Wrestling (Grandus, Motorarm, Powerhug and Roadhandler) and Martial Arts/Ninja (Yoketron, Jazz, Heavy Load and Road Rocket). These classifications speak for themselves more often than not (no explanation is needed for the melee-weapon characters, nor for someone like Star Upper, who was all about boxing), but sometimes the rationale is a bit more obscure (Heavy Load, for instance, was only ever noted to be a martial artist in his [[bio]]; it never came across in the cartoon), or is a reference to some past fiction (Roadhandler being classified as a wrestler is the main example, being that it's a reference to his stint in the squared circle from the Marvel Comics story, "[[The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!]]"). Conversely, sometimes it's just a joke—Grandus as a sumo, for instance, is purely a gag based on the fact that he's a big fatty fat-fat.

*[[Tigatron]] Stadium!

*Lockdown identifies Prowl's techniques as [[Metallikato]] and [[Circuit-Su]].

*Prowl's samurai armor was previously seen in "[[A Fistful of Energon]]", in which Lockdown last appeared. Additionally, it was in that episode that Starscream escaped from the Elite Guard flagship, which is the "last time" that Sentinel refers to while arguing with Optimus.

*Yoketron's Spark container is similar to design to [[Big Convoy]]'s Matrix, with two L-shaped handles instead of U-shaped ones. Fitting, when one considers Yoketron's Japanese-based aesthetic.

*One of the upgrades seen on Lockdown's shelves is [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave's]] G1 shoulder-mounted missile launcher.

*The protoform Prowl takes from the room is has a design similar to the ones in [[Beast Wars]].

*Also, the protoform-pods-or-whatever-it-is-called on the walls looks like the [[stasis pods]] from [[Beast Wars (franchise)|the same franchising]]...where the protoforms were guarded as well! Coincidence? Perhaps...
===Real-world references===
*The title of the episode is apparently derived from the 1972 Hong Kong martial arts movie [[wikipedia:Five Fingers Of Death|''Five Fingers Of Death'']]. The movie's name is a regular source of recycling, including wrestler Bret Hart's "Five Moves Of Doom" and the mockumentary ''18 Fingers Of Death'' to name a few.
*Tigatron Stadium is named after and largely based on [[wikipedia:Tiger Stadium|Tiger Stadium]], the former home field of the [[wikipedia:Detroit Tigers|Detroit Tigers]], which has been partially demolished.

===Trivia===
*Like [[Where Is Thy Sting?|the previous episode]], this episode received an early online debut when a copy loaded onto the Cartoon Network website server, intended to go live after the episode premiered, was leaked out on [[March 27]], over a week before the episode premiered on television.

*The voice cast for this episode does not credit [[David Kaye]] with the role of Cliffjumper.

[[Image:FiveServosOfDoom-CapturedBlitzwingFaces.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Watch out, it bites!]]

*Having three faces warrants three mouth clamps, it seems, as the animation depicts the mouth clamps on Blitzwing's faces rotating when he switches personality.

*While trying to identify the helmet Optimus Prime saw, Prowl brings up the images of the helmets worn by Ultra Magnus and Blitzwing on the computer.

*In this episode, we finally see Prowl's Cybertronian [[alt mode]]. The full Autobot main cast is now covered.

*Prowl's keeping of his new armor continues the trend started in "[[Transwarped]]" with Bumblebee and Ratchet that upgrades are okay now because damnit, this is war. This is a notable turnaround from the position of the first two seasons.

*As of the end of this episode, most of the originally Earth-based Decepticons have been destroyed, captured, or scattered, with exceptions including [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] and maybe a [[Starscream clone|clone]] or two.

==External links==
*[http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/dlink/index.html?episodeID=8a25c392205bc74701205dfe7f810028 "Five Servos of Doom" streaming video at Cartoon Network] (link functional until 5/18/09)

[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Huffer (Animated)

2009-05-09T17:49:56Z

69.254.94.220:

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{{disambig3|Huffer}}

:''Huffer is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
It-sa heem! '''Huffer!'''

[[Image:Animated_Huffer.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Swing your arms from side to side, come on it's time to go!"]]

__TOC__
==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
Huffer was among the crowd welcoming home [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel "Magnus"]] and cheering on the capture of several [[Decepticon]] prisoners. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}
He was later seen among the group of Autobots that [[Captain Fanzone]] Transwarped into {{storylink|This is Why I Hate Machines}}

==Notes==
* Huffer was first revealed on [[April 1]]st 2009 on [http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2009/03/april-fools.html Derrick Wyatt's blog], as part of a group shot of characters who may or may not actually appear in the cartoon.

* Huffer's character model is based pretty heavily on [[wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], mustachioed plumber and protagonist of about a billion Nintendo games. Pipes also looks like [[wikipedia:Luigi|his brother Luigi]].

[[Category: Animated characters]]
[[Category: Autobots]]
[[Category: Cartoon-only characters]]

Talk:Human Error, Part II

2009-04-26T02:13:44Z

69.254.94.220: /* Possible References */ Power Booster Rod?

==Possible References==

That blue truck Bulkhead rammed (and then the driver yelled at him); did it look like the Micromaster [[Battlefield Headquarters]] to anyone else?
Also, is the trivia note accurate when it says this is the first time Sari was called techno-organic? I thought in "Transwarped," Ratchet called her a techno-organism.--[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 13:33, 25 April 2009 (EDT)

*Wreck-Gar pulling out a stick to battle Optimus with could be a reference to the Power Booster Rod from It's Walky!, created by David Willis (aka User:ItsWalky)

== (Another) Possible Reference? ==

Is it just me, or is Scrapper's outfit, along with the whole "stranded on an island" thing a reference to Robinson Crusoe? [[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 17:40, 25 April 2009 (EDT)

Nightstick (G1)

2009-04-14T22:50:49Z

69.254.94.220: /* Generation 1 Series */

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{{disambig3|Nightstick}}
:''Nightstick is a [[Nebulan]] and a [[Targetmaster]] partner from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:NightstickLeaping.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"You're probably confusing me with someone else."]]
Back on Nebulos, '''Nightstick''' was a master criminal. For some reason, he gave that up to undergo [[binary-bonding]] to [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. The loyal and honorable [[Decepticon]] warrior often finds himself at odds with the very dishonorable Nightstick and generally considers him an irritating pest.

Nightstick transforms into a black beam gun that fires a corrosive beam of blinding darkness (and no, that doesn't make a lot of sense).

The [[Autobot]] [[Ricochet (G1 Autobot)|Ricochet]]'s Targetmaster partner is also named "[[Nightstick (Ricochet)|Nightstick]]"... and looks ''identical.'' This seems a monumental coincidence, but whether there is an actual connection—or if they're perhaps the same individual—is unknown.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{Note|Events from the [[The Transformers (Marvel Comics)|UK-only]] comic stories are in italics.}}
Nightstick became the Targetmaster partner to Cyclonus, under [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s command, near the end of the Decepticons' stay on his homeworld of Nebulos. When the Autobots left Nebulos for Earth, Scorponok's Decepticons followed, as did their Nebulan partners. {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}}

''Nightstick remained in Cyclonus's service even after he and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] left Scorponok's crew. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s leadership was periodically threatened by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], who was also originally from the future, as were Cyclonus and Scourge. Cyclonus and Scourge, desperate to return to 2008, offered their services to Shockwave to protect him from Galvatron, so long as they could take Galvatron's [[time-jump trigger mechanism]] when he was defeated.''

[[Image:Nightstickwreckinghavoc.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Well, Springer, you could just crush them first.]]
[[Image:Nightstickcrushed.jpg|right|100px|thumb|See?]]

''Nightstick traveled with Cyclonus, Scourge, and [[Fracas]] to predetermined coordinates, where they would surround and defeat Galvatron, and along the way they defeated a squad of [[United States]] military jets over [[Oregon]]. When they arrived in their destination, a human city, Galvatron was surprised that Cyclonus and Scourge did not travel alone, what with their tiny Nebulan companions, and that they dared to challenge him unarmed. He was subsequently surprised when Nightstick and Fracas transformed into the guns of their Decepticon partners. But before the battle could begin, they were interrupted by the sudden arrival of the [[Wrecker]]s! ''

''[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] did not expect Cyclonus or Scourge to be there, nor that their guns would be able to transform and run away when removed from them. The battle was called off when they realized that Galvatron no longer had the time-jump trigger mechanism, and everyone went home. {{storylink|Wrecking Havoc!}}''

''Later, Shockwave learned that the reason Cyclonus and Scourge wanted to return to 2008 was that they were co-leaders of the Decepticons—and that they had assassinated Shockwave to take that position! Shockwave unleashed his pet project on his would-be protectors and assassins, a brainwashed [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Megatron attacked and killed Cyclonus, while he grabbed and squeezed the gun-mode Nightstick, quite likely killing him. {{storylink|Dry Run!}}''

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===Generation 1 cartoon===
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English)

[[Image:Cyclonus tm.jpg|right|180px|thumb|See this? This... is my NIGHTSTICK!]]

A member of the [[Hive]], Nightstick initially suggested to [[Lord Zarak]] that the alien robots who had arrived on [[Nebulos]] should be "rubbed out" for "muscling in on our turf". Zarak had other ideas, however, and when a bargain was struck between the Hive and the Decepticons, Nightstick became the Targetmaster partner of Cyclonus. As they paired up, he told Cyclonus "the boys" all called him Nightstick, and he hoped Cyclonus liked "bustin' heads".

During a subsequent battle with the Autobots, Nightstick was briefly captured by [[Brainstorm]], who took a detailed scan of his exo-suit. The information obtained was then used to create the Autobot Targetmasters. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2|The Rebirth, Part 2}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:NightstickDecep-1987toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|]]
*'''Cyclonus''' (Targetmaster, 1987)

:Nightstick is a figure of an armored humanoid in black armor with gray legs. He folds in half to turn into a "black-beam gun" that can be held by any Targetmaster (or any toy that uses 5mm pegs for accessory holding/mounting).

: This mold was used without changes as the [[Autobot]] [[Ricochet (G1 Autobot)|Ricochet]]'s partner [[Nightstick (Ricochet)|Nightstick]]. (Yes, we know. [[Nightstick (Decepticon)#Trivia|See below.]])

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Decepticon/Cyclonus/cyclonus.htm More information on Nightstick (with Cyclonus) at tfu.info]''

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===Universe (2008)===
====Generation 1 Series====
[[Image:Universe08Nightstick.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The first Nebulan to break the posability glass ceiling!]]
*'''Cyclonus''' (Deluxe, 2008)

: Part of the fourth wave of ''[[Universe (2008)|Universe]]'' deluxes, Nightstick is once again available only with his larger partner Cyclonus, only this time he has some genuine posability, with swivels at the shoulders, elbows and hips. He is a "robot-to-machine figure"<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=Products/Detail&product_id=22998 Description on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' website]</ref> that transforms into a "laser cannon" that can be held in Cyclonus's right hand, mounted on his vehicle mode back, or—in an undocumented feature—plugged into the "wrist socket" created by leaving Cyclonus' fists in their vehicle-mode position. This undocumented combination emulates the "plug into the wrist" method of Targetmaster combination seen in the Japanese [[The Headmasters (cartoon)|''Headmasters'' cartoon]] (even though this is the ''first'' toy to actually be physically capable of such a combination, and Cyclonus wasn't a Targetmaster in that series, but it's still neat). His gun handle can also act as a Powerlink port for a Mini-Con

: Nightstick is based ''very'' loosely on his [[Fracas]]-based [[character model]] ([[#Trivia|see below]]), if only for the rough shape of his gun mode and the fin on his helmet. Everything else appears to be an entirely new design.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/TFUCyclonus/cyclonus.htm More information on Universe Nightstick (and Cyclonus) at TFU.info]''

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===Henkei! Henkei!===
[[Image:Cyclonushenkeitoy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Sometimes he breaks out the shiny pants.]]
*'''Cyclonus''' (Deluxe, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-07'''

: This [[redeco]] of the ''Universe'' mold hews more closely to the animation model's colors, having a mostly black upper body with silver legs, though in this case, the silver is shiny chrome. His primary gun barrel is also chromed silver. He was only available with the ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' [[Cyclonus (G1)|version of Cyclonus]]. On this release, the gun can plug into either of Cyclonus' wrists, not just the right (see above).

:Nightstick was later redecoed into ''Henkei!'' [[Strafe]]'s Targetmaster partner [[Daystick]].

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==Trivia==
* Nightstick and [[Fracas]]'s [[Character model|character models]] apparently got swapped around in pre-production, so Nightstick's fictional appearances in both cartoon and comic are based on Fracas's toy, and vice-versa, though unlike [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]][[FIBRIR|/]][[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], they got the colors correct.

* As such, [[Krunix]] is ''technically'' a giant Fracas, not a giant Nightstick.

* Targetmaster Cyclonus's box art shows him holding the Nightstick mold in Fracas's colors; so basically he's got model-sheet Fracas.

* The character model switcharoo may be tied up in the two toys' use in Japan as well. In the Japanese ''[[The Headmasters (franchise)|The Headmasters]]'', series, the Hasbro Nightstick toy was sold as Stepper's partner "Nebulon" (the "name" given to Fracas in Scourge's on-package [[bio]]), and Fracas was given to [[Artfire]] and dubbed [[Nightstick (Artfire)|Nightstick]]. Confused yet? It gets worse.

* Here's how it gets worse. When [[Hasbro]] released Stepper under the name "Ricochet" as part of the Toys "R" Us [[exclusive]] [[Commemorative Series]], they gave Nebulon the name "Nightstick". Without a Hasbro bio for the newly-dubbed Nightstick, it's impossible to determine what relationship Cyclonus's Nightstick has with Ricochet's Nightstick in the Hasbro fiction... if Cyc-Night and Ric-Night are the same, or if Ric-Night is a non-Nebulan robot as he is in his Japanese bio, separate from Cyc-Night. Nguh. (But for this wiki's purposes, Ric-Night gets [[Nightstick (Ricochet)|his own page]].)

==References==
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[[Category:Decepticons]]
[[Category:Hive]]
[[Category:Nebulans]]
[[Category:Targetmasters]]
[[Category:Universe (2008)]]

Waspinator (BW)

2009-04-12T20:20:28Z

69.254.94.220: /* Beast Wars cartoon */

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{{disambig2|the ill-destined wasp robot from the Beast Era|the ill-destined wasp robot from ''Transformers Animated''|Wasp}}
:''Waspinator is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Waspinatorbw.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Waspinator: chew-toy of fate.]]
'''Waspinator''' is the universe's whipping boy. If something goes wrong, it happens to him. If something blows up, he's usually at the epicenter of the explosion. He has been blasted, burned, shot down, torn up, crushed, slashed, smashed, bashed, and otherwise reduced to his component parts times beyond counting. Disturbingly, [[Rattrap]] has taken to collecting his severed components.

Waspinator's not the brightest 'bot in the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. Megatron has classified the harebrained Predacon as expendable, much to Waspinator's dismay; he doesn't get much more respect from anyone else, either. His speech quirks don't help: he tends to refer to himself in the third person and to most other people by nicknames like [[Cheetor (BW)|"cat-bot"]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|"two-head"]]. He's also a bit too fond of the letter "Z". (Those prone to witticisms might say he has a "lizzzzp".)

Waspinator may be dumb, but he's not stupid. He has caught on to his lot in life and tries to avoid his fate as often as possible... but fate always finds him. Thankfully, he's almost supernaturally durable and has survived the most devastating and humiliating of defeats.

{{quote|[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] blow up, Waspinator must salvage. Waspinator blow up, ''nobody'' salvage! Why universe hate Waspinator?|Waspinator laments his lot in life, "[[Deep Metal]]"}}
''Japanese name:'' '''Waspeeter''' (ワスピーター ''Wasupītā'')<ref>This particular [[Romanization]] was used on a Japanese ''Beast Wars'' [http://www18.tok2.com/home/jackhama/transformers/bwtcard_1/img/015.jpg trading card], which is about as valid as anything else in these matters.</ref> 
''Bulgarian name:'' '''Osinator''' (''Осинатор'') 
''French-Canadian name (original toy):'' '''Bourdon''' ("Bumblebee") 
''French-Canadian name (cartoon, Transmetal form):'', '''Bizznator'''<ref>It is unknown at this time if Waspinator was Bizznator in both Quebec and France, or if there were even two separate French dubs of ''Beast Wars'' to begin with. However, it ''is'' definitely known that only Canada got packaging with actual French names on it.</ref> 
''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Hú-fēng''' (胡蜂, "Wasp") / '''Tsāng-yíng''' (蒼蠅, "Fly") 
''Italian name:'' '''Punginator''' 
''Polish name:'' '''Osator''' 
''Spanish name (cartoon):'' '''Avispaneitor''' or '''Avispanator''' (spelling uncertain) 
''Spanish name (toyline):'' '''Avispón''' ("Hornet") 

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[Image:Waspinatordawn.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Waspy is mi kopilot, but hoo on Sibertron is mi spelcheker?]]
While [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], his [[Dinobot (BW)|lieutenant]], and [[Scorponok (BW)|another underling]] stole a Maximal relic, the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], the Predacon who would later name himself Waspinator stole a ship with the help of an accomplice he nicknamed "[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Beakbot]]." The two had a contest to name the ship, but "Waspinator" lost, and thus the stolen ship was dubbed the ''[[Darksyde]]''. "Waspinator" believed ''Buzzerbot'' would have been a better name. For reasons known only to [[Primus]], Megatron agreed.

After escaping [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the ''Darksyde'' was intercepted by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', but after an intense space battle, only the ''Darksyde'' and the ''Axalon'' remained. Megatron ordered "Waspinator" to ''excecute'' their planned [[transwarp]] jump, opening up a portal which both ships entered. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
''Voice Actor'': [[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese), [[Ivo Roberto]] (Portuguese)

[[Image:Better_Mousetrap_Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Waspinator not want to know "who's there?"]]
Waspinator, part of Megatron's rogue band of Predacons, landed on an unknown planet with dangerous levels of unstable [[Energon (G1)|energon]]. To protect themselves from the energon, the Predacons took organic beast modes. In Waspinator's case, he now transformed into a large green wasp. The first conflict between the stranded Predacons and their Maximal pursuers came when the Maximal [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] stumbled across Waspinator. In a stark contrast to his later career, he actually proved to be a serious threat and had the advantage over the inexperienced Cheetor. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

He was often partnered on flying missions with [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], starting from early on {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}}, and they were a dangerous duo (and dynamic too); with casual on-job talk and Terrorsaur retrieving Waspinator from rock burial {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}}, they also seemed to be mates.

When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] had his personality program converted to that of a Predacon, he started surreptitiously taking out the various Predacons. He swung a cargo crate into Waspinator, giving him a concussion. As a result, Waspy flew around in a daze, claiming to be the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] as well as the great [[Ben Yee|Wonko the Sane]]. This dementia was apparently reversed when Cheetor later got annoyed at his yattering and shot him down. {{storylink|Dark Designs}}

[[Image:Possession_Waspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Give him an orange parka and call him [[Tom Kenny|Kenny.]]]]
The "ghost" of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] traveled through time and possessed his body (even changing the Predacon sigil on his helmet to a [[Decepticon]] one). It took a major [[Energon (G1)|energon]] explosion to dislodge Starscream's immortal [[spark]] from Waspinator's body. It also had the after-effect of giving Waspinator a headache in his ''whole'' body. {{storylink|Possession}}

After the [[Vok|mysterious aliens]] detonated the unstable energon on the planet using the [[Planet Buster|artificial second moon]], Waspinator fell into the Restoration pool on the bridge of the ''Darksyde'' as the ship was rocked by the force of the [[transwarp]] wave resultant from the moon's explosion. Bathed in the regenerative fluids, this prevented him from becoming a [[Transmetal]]. He was also the first to realize that this seemingly unknown planet was, in fact, [[Earth]]. [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] had made the same realization and stole into the ''Darksyde'' to retrieve both of Megatron's disks. Waspinator proposed the two work together to steal the disks, and much to his surprise, Dinobot agreed... and threw him into the security shield. Waspinator was crushed into a cube by the disks' security contraption, leaving Dinobot free to steal the disks unharmed, while Waspinator crawled away to the CR chamber using two fingers. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}}

[[Image:Waspinatorigor.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Igor needs to file his nails.]]
Surprisingly, he managed to easily take down Silverbolt on ''two'' occassions. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}{{storylink|Master Blaster}} This, however, would be his sole solace as his glorious missions were reduced from serious hunt/kill actions to being a decoy {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} {{storylink|Master Blaster}}, picking up bits of other guys (which nobody did for him) {{storylink|Deep Metal}}, and ''pulling levers'' so Megatron didn't have to. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}. Adding injury to insult, he increasingly became offlined in humiliating ways, such as being swatted {{storylink|Master Blaster}}, jumped up and down on {{storylink|Cutting Edge}}, being beaten up by a small girl {{storylink|Go with the Flow}}, and having a ship crash into him because the driver wasn't paying attention {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}.

On the plus side, he got to play card games with the lads when off-duty! {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

After the destruction of the ''Darksyde'' at [[Tigerhawk]]'s hands, Megatron sent Waspinator, [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] on an errand to find a new base, which was really nothing more than pointless busywork while Megatron went to do more important things. As the trio staked out an early [[human]] tribe that had taken up residence in a series of caves, Waspinator decided he'd finally had enough and ripped off his [[Faction symbols|Predacon symbol]], declaring himself out of the Beast Wars.

[[Image:Waspinatorhappyatlast.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Waspinator happy at last! ...until the [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|next series]].]]
"I said '''no!''' [[Megatron (BW)|Dragon-Bot]] command '''you,''' [[Sub-Commander]] [[Inferno (BW)|Kiss-Butt]]! Dragon-Bot not command Waspinator! Not any more! Waspinator sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator especially sick of getting blown to '''scrap''' all the time! Sooo, Waspinator '''quit!''' As of '''now,''' which means [[Inferno (BW)|Ant-Bot]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Two-Head]] can just pucker their mandibles and plant [[Kiss|big, wet, juicy one]] right here on Waspinator's big . . . fat . . . stripy . . . "

At this point Waspinator was interrupted by getting blown to scrap by Inferno and Quickstrike. It is also worth mentioning that this is the first (and only) time that he refers to himself as "I". {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

His parts recovered by the tribe, Waspinator remained on Earth while all the other surviving Transformers set off for Cybertron, and led the tribe, declaring that he was finally...happy. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

For a bit, at least.

====''15 Go! Go!''====
The time-traveling [[human]] [[Atari Hitotonari]] and the [[Sparkbot]] [[Star Dust]] witnessed a battle between Waspinator and Optimus Primal. However, the two interlopers could not be seen by either of the warriors.

====''Tales of the Beast Wars''====
[[Antagony]] threatened to blast Waspinator if Megatron did not back down. Waspinator's warranty had expired, but it didn't matter as Antagony accidently wasted her last shot when she sneezed. Do we even need to guess what happened to Waspinator? {{storylink|Visitations}}

Later, to his credit, Waspinator was the only Predacon aside from Megatron to not be paralyzed in fear at the sight of a [[Unicron]]-possessed [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]]. Of course, Waspinator had just been blown up for the umpteen millionth time. None of the Maximals expressed satisfaction. They always got Waspinator. Always. {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Paradox}}

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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
[[Image:Wazzpinator.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Why [[Vector Sigma#Beast_Era|Oracle]] hate Waspinator?]]
Sadly for Waspinator, the Protohumans he had ruled over grew tired of his presence and forced him to leave the planet and return to Cybertron (and his proper time) under his own power (quite how this could be acheived is unclear). There, his spark was removed and used to power the [[Vehicon general]] [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]. He ''loved'' being a cool biker-bot as he now got respect and was finding [[Blackarachnia (BW)|chicks]] dig the new brooding bad boy schtick!

Influences from his inner spark caused Thrust to save Blackarachnia's life several times, causing her to believe he carried [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]'s spark. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} She later tried to bring his original mind back and discovered, to her disgust, that she'd spent all her effort getting Waspinator back. Poor Waspinator was rather upset to find Blackarachnia no longer wanted to "go steady" with him, and briefly had a punch-up with a revived Silverbolt over her honour. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

Following Blackarachnia's unambigious rejection of him, Waspinator remained in the "background" and let Thrust run the show, until [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] used an [[Spark extractor|extractor]] to remove Waspinator's spark from the body shell. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall}} After Cybertron's [[technorganic]] reformatting (thanks to Optimus Primal, through the cost of his and Megatron's lives) Waspinator returned in his beast mode with Thrust's head, now the size of a standard wasp. He complained to Rattrap about how much he wanted glory and power and never gets what he wants... at which point Rattrap swatted him away. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}}

{{note|While the suggestions that Thrust was really Silverbolt turned out to be a red herring, his actions raise the question of ''how'' Waspinator's spark could influence Vehicon programming, seemingly due to having a crush, but her true love Silverbolt's ''didn't''.}}

====''Universe'' comic====
After the reformatting of Cybertron, Waspinator came under the command of [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]]. His tiny size and great speed made him an excellent scout and messenger, and he reported to Galvatron that the invading Quintessons had entered a particular canyon that the Predacons had booby-trapped. He seemed very giddy to have a commander who actually found him useful for once. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Later, Waspinator was part of a team sent to rescue victims of [[Unicron]] who had been transported to an isolated, icy planetoid. {{storylink|OTFCC 2004 Live-Action Script Reading}}

===''Beast Wars: Transmetals''===
[[Image:TMWaspinator-Render.jpg|left|thumb|180px|Full Metal Yellowjacket]]
''Voice Actor:'' [[Scott McNeil]] (English), ??? (Japanese)

[[Transmetal]] Waspinator joins his fellow Predacons in distributing various one-on-one beat downs to the Maximals. Eventually he got fed up, quit, and became God to early humanity. He did this after ''kicking everyone's ass''. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transmetals}}

===''Legends'' anthology===

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[Image:Waspinatorjbwtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Japanese version is more [[Playskool]].]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 1996/1997)
* ''Japanese ID number'': '''D-3'''
* ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

Waspinator transforms into a large organic wasp. His stinger separates to become a hand-held spring-loaded missile launcher for his robot mode; the bolts are stored on the underside of his insect-wings. His head is on a vertical column that rotates around a horizontal axle; each end has a different head, one "mutant", one "robot". The "mutant" head was used as the base for his CGI model, and thus the norm for his fictional portrayals. The [[Takara]] version of Waspinator uses slightly brighter, more primary colors than the [[Hasbro]] version.

This mold was later [[Redeco|redecoed]] for a "[[Fox Kids]]" version, as well as [[Beast_Wars_10th_Anniversary|both the Hasbro and Takara 10th anniversary versions]] of the character.

This mold was also used to make [[Buzz Saw]] and [[Dirge (BWII)#Mutant|Dirgegun]].

[[Image:VS3-CheetorWaspinator.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Catbug is a cat but he's got bugness in his veins.]]
* '''Showdown of the Quickest: Cheetus VS Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1997)
* ''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-3'''
* ''Accessories:'' Launcher, 2 missiles

In Japan, Waspinator was available both separately and in a VS pack with [[Cheetor (BW) toys#Dx1|Cheetor]]. Both toys are identical to their original releases.

Currently, it is unknown if the latter "show-like" version of the two toys were ever released in the VS set.

[[Image:Waspinator-TMtoy.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 1998)
* ''Japanese ID number'': '''D-42'''
* ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

Now an almost completely robotic figure, [[Transmetal]] Waspinator transforms into a robotic wasp. He features a third "jet" mode, flipping and folding his wings into a fighter-jet configuration as well as flipping a cockpit/nosecone between his insect-head mandibles. Though he appears solid black at first glance, he is actually made of very dark transparent-black/green plastic.

The Takara version of this toy is almost completely identical, except the "WASPINATOR" [[tampograph]] on his wing was replaced with "DESTRON" and the Predacon sigil.

This mold was later [[Redeco|redecoed]] for a "[[Fox Kids]]" version of the character. It was slated for a [[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Waspinator#Universe_.282003.29|version of Waspinator]], but that set was canceled.

* '''Hurricane Showdown: Metals Cheetus VS Metals Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1999)
* ''Japanese ID number'': '''VS-42'''
* ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

In Japan, Transmetal Waspinator was available both individually and in a two-pack with [[Cheetor (BW)#TM1|Transmetal Cheetor]]. The two-pack version was unchanged from the normal individually-packaged one.

[[Image:Waspinator-FKtoy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Do be a blue bee.]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 1999)
* ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

This toy is a [[redeco]] of the first Waspinator toy. A "[[Fox Kids|FoxKids!]]" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time. Like most of the other Fox Kids redecoes, his color scheme was altered significantly, consisting primarily of slate blue and green-gold plastic, with dark blue (barely) translucent parts.

Hasbro solicitations for this toy gave it the name "Power Flight Waspinator", but this name never made it to final packaging.

[[Image:BW_FoxKidsTransmetal_Waspinator_toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Why FoxKidzzzz hate Waspinator?]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 2000)
* ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

This toy is a [[redeco]] of the Transmetal Waspinator toy. A "Fox Kids!" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time. The toy's new deco bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Buzz Saw]].

===Universe (2003)===
[[Image:Waspinator_unreleased.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Wazzpinator... purple?]]
For a brief time, [[Hasbro]]'s official website checklist featured listings for two "Halloween Horrorcon Value Packs" that were to be Wal-Mart [[Exclusive|exclusives]]... which also likely explains why they were canceled. (Wal-Mart had taken a good half-dozen exclusives and released them more-or-less simultaneously, leading to a huge glut. A lot of other ''Transformers'' exclusives were canceled during the ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' era.)

In 2004, several test-shots appeared on eBay in a group, among them the Transmetal Waspinator toy with opaque-salmon wings and lavender insect legs. This, presumably, was to have been the ''Universe'' incarnation of Waspinator, as the other toys in the group line up with the names given for the two Halloween sets. He was to come in a "Vs." two-pack with the presumably-[[Autobot]] character [[Nightprowler]].
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===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===
[[Image:Waspinatortenthtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Finally Waspinator come with pieces that aren't Waspinator's!]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 2006)
* ''Accessories:'' Launcher, 2 missiles, Transmutate's head

This toy is a slight [[redeco]] of the first Waspinator toy to make it closer to Waspinator's cartoon appearance, replacing the gray with green and adding extra gold [[Paint application|paint applications]]. He came with the head to [[Transmutate]] plus a DVD with the episode "[[Possession]]".

===Timelines===
[[Image:Waspinator-BC06toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|This works surprisingly well on many levels.]]
* '''Darksyde Megatron and Darksyde Waspinator''' (Bagged set, 2006)
* ''Accessories'': 2-part rifle

Available [[Exclusive|exclusively]] at the [[BotCon 2006]] event itself, this two-pack represents Waspinator and Megatron before the events of the ''Beast Wars'' show. "Darksyde Waspinator" is a Basic-sized figure, originally used for ''[[Machine Wars]]'' [[Skywarp (G1)#MW|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)#MW|Thundercracker]], which autotransforms to robot mode from a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#Dassault_Rafale|Dassault Rafale fighter jet]]. (One can surmise, however, that it is meant to represent a Cybertronic design in this case.) His rifle splits into two pieces, which store in the backs of his lower legs.

This mold was also used to make ''[[Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], and ''[[Robot Masters]]'' [[Wing Stun]].

===Beast Wars Telemocha Series===
[[Image:Waspinatortelemocha.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Otherwise known as Dr. Wasp Itor.]]
* '''Waspeeter''' (Deluxe, 2007)
* ''Japanese ID number'': '''TM-04'''
* ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

This toy is a ridiculously-extensively-painted redeco of the first Waspinator toy to make it almost completely [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] to Waspinator's cartoon appearance (forgiving mold issues and [[unpaintable plastic]], of course). Due to a manufacturing error, Waspinator's crotch piece is backwards.

He came with a DVD of the episode "The Aerial Mountains Explode", the Japanese dub of "[[Power Surge]]".

==Merchandise==
[[Image:Robotheroesrhinoxwaspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Do we ''want'' to know what that is gushing out of his butt?]]
===Robot Heroes===
* '''Rhinox vs Waspinator''' (2008)
Waspinator was released in the second wave of [[Universe (2008)|''Universe'']] ''[[Robot Heroes]]'' packed with [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] as part of the "Beast Wars Series." An amalgam of toy and television show depictions, Waspinator has articulation at the neck and shoulders. He suspends himself in the air on a strong stream of fluid launching from his butt. (Okay, it's probably supposed to be a compressed air jet or something, but look at it. Eyuw.)

==Trivia==
* Ironically, in the original toyline's continuity (which was created before the animated series), Waspinator was profiled as a cruel, cunning, highly skilled warrior who was greatly feared by the Maximals.
* Waspinator was originally chosen by [[Hasbro]] to be one of the characters killed off for the second season of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon to help make way for new characters ([[To sell toys|read: product]]). However, story editors [[Bob Forward]] and [[Larry DiTillio]] convinced them to spare Waspinator on the grounds of his popularity with the online fan-base, so [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] took the plunge instead.
* Waspinator was originally slated to appear in the very first [[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|''Beast Wars'' video game]], and even had a character model built. However, he was ultimately unused and only appeared in footage taken from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.
* Waspinator appears to be the inspiration for [[Buzzer-Bot]] from the ''[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Playskool Go-Bots]]'' line, as well as the obvious [[Wasp]] character from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]''.
* As a side note, Waspinator's original toy contains a high number of [[Ball joint|ball]] and [[Swivel joint|swivel joints]], which more than easily separate. Makes him a little more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]], after all.
* When Waspinator is hit from behind by a stasis pod ship made by Blackarachnia, a toilet is seen falling from Waspinator's smashed body. Now Waspinator need new waste disposal unit!
* According to Waspinator's profile in ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'', he likes flying and nectar.
* Waspinator has a yellow [[tongue]] in robot mode.
* While Waspinator ''usually'' refers to other characters by nicknames, he is fairly consistent about calling Megatron and Optimus Primal by their real names. ([[Nemesis Part 1#Quotes|Fairly.]]) He also refers to Inferno by name at least twice, and Tarantulas at least once.
* Waspinator is the only member of the Beast Wars [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] lineup who was there from the beginning and remains alive and unchanged for the entire course of the show.
* Waspinator is the only known robot to be susceptible to being kicked in the junk, and we don't mean scrap metal.
* Waspinator never once makes a proper landing while in his beast form. However, there are plenty of instances for which he makes ''improper'' landings while in beast form, usually when he's being blasted out of the sky.
* Technically, Waspinator's beast mode is that of a female wasp, given that males do not possess a stinger. He would probably find this objectionable, along with everything else in his life.
* Somebody give this guy a hug.
==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Waspinator/waspinator.htm Waspinator at TFU.info]
* [http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d75/binalternator/unreleased/nightprowler_vs_waspinator/ Gallery of Nightprowler vs. Waspinator test-shots]

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Waspinator (BW)

2009-04-12T20:19:12Z

69.254.94.220: /* Beast Wars cartoon */ link to Tom Kenny in picture

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{{disambig2|the ill-destined wasp robot from the Beast Era|the ill-destined wasp robot from ''Transformers Animated''|Wasp}}
:''Waspinator is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Waspinatorbw.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Waspinator: chew-toy of fate.]]
'''Waspinator''' is the universe's whipping boy. If something goes wrong, it happens to him. If something blows up, he's usually at the epicenter of the explosion. He has been blasted, burned, shot down, torn up, crushed, slashed, smashed, bashed, and otherwise reduced to his component parts times beyond counting. Disturbingly, [[Rattrap]] has taken to collecting his severed components.

Waspinator's not the brightest 'bot in the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. Megatron has classified the harebrained Predacon as expendable, much to Waspinator's dismay; he doesn't get much more respect from anyone else, either. His speech quirks don't help: he tends to refer to himself in the third person and to most other people by nicknames like [[Cheetor (BW)|"cat-bot"]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|"two-head"]]. He's also a bit too fond of the letter "Z". (Those prone to witticisms might say he has a "lizzzzp".)

Waspinator may be dumb, but he's not stupid. He has caught on to his lot in life and tries to avoid his fate as often as possible... but fate always finds him. Thankfully, he's almost supernaturally durable and has survived the most devastating and humiliating of defeats.

{{quote|[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] blow up, Waspinator must salvage. Waspinator blow up, ''nobody'' salvage! Why universe hate Waspinator?|Waspinator laments his lot in life, "[[Deep Metal]]"}}
''Japanese name:'' '''Waspeeter''' (ワスピーター ''Wasupītā'')<ref>This particular [[Romanization]] was used on a Japanese ''Beast Wars'' [http://www18.tok2.com/home/jackhama/transformers/bwtcard_1/img/015.jpg trading card], which is about as valid as anything else in these matters.</ref> 
''Bulgarian name:'' '''Osinator''' (''Осинатор'') 
''French-Canadian name (original toy):'' '''Bourdon''' ("Bumblebee") 
''French-Canadian name (cartoon, Transmetal form):'', '''Bizznator'''<ref>It is unknown at this time if Waspinator was Bizznator in both Quebec and France, or if there were even two separate French dubs of ''Beast Wars'' to begin with. However, it ''is'' definitely known that only Canada got packaging with actual French names on it.</ref> 
''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Hú-fēng''' (胡蜂, "Wasp") / '''Tsāng-yíng''' (蒼蠅, "Fly") 
''Italian name:'' '''Punginator''' 
''Polish name:'' '''Osator''' 
''Spanish name (cartoon):'' '''Avispaneitor''' or '''Avispanator''' (spelling uncertain) 
''Spanish name (toyline):'' '''Avispón''' ("Hornet") 

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[Image:Waspinatordawn.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Waspy is mi kopilot, but hoo on Sibertron is mi spelcheker?]]
While [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], his [[Dinobot (BW)|lieutenant]], and [[Scorponok (BW)|another underling]] stole a Maximal relic, the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], the Predacon who would later name himself Waspinator stole a ship with the help of an accomplice he nicknamed "[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Beakbot]]." The two had a contest to name the ship, but "Waspinator" lost, and thus the stolen ship was dubbed the ''[[Darksyde]]''. "Waspinator" believed ''Buzzerbot'' would have been a better name. For reasons known only to [[Primus]], Megatron agreed.

After escaping [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the ''Darksyde'' was intercepted by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', but after an intense space battle, only the ''Darksyde'' and the ''Axalon'' remained. Megatron ordered "Waspinator" to ''excecute'' their planned [[transwarp]] jump, opening up a portal which both ships entered. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
''Voice Actor'': [[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese), [[Ivo Roberto]] (Portuguese)

[[Image:Better_Mousetrap_Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Waspinator not want to know "who's there?"]]
Waspinator, part of Megatron's rogue band of Predacons, landed on an unknown planet with dangerous levels of unstable [[Energon (G1)|energon]]. To protect themselves from the energon, the Predacons took organic beast modes. In Waspinator's case, he now transformed into a large green wasp. The first conflict between the stranded Predacons and their Maximal pursuers came when the Maximal [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] stumbled across Waspinator. In a stark contrast to his later career, he actually proved to be a serious threat and had the advantage over the inexperienced Cheetor. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

He was often partnered on flying missions with [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], starting from early on {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}}, and they were a dangerous duo (and dynamic too); with casual on-job talk and Terrorsaur retrieving Waspinator from rock burial {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}}, they also seemed to be mates.

When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] had his personality program converted to that of a Predacon, he started surreptitiously taking out the various Predacons. He swung a cargo crate into Waspinator, giving him a concussion. As a result, Waspy flew around in a daze, claiming to be the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] as well as the great [[Ben Yee|Wonko the Sane]]. This dementia was apparently reversed when Cheetor later got annoyed at his yattering and shot him down. {{storylink|Dark Designs}}

[[Image:Possession_Waspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Give him an orange parka and call him [[Tom Kenny|Kenny.]]
The "ghost" of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] traveled through time and possessed his body (even changing the Predacon sigil on his helmet to a [[Decepticon]] one). It took a major [[Energon (G1)|energon]] explosion to dislodge Starscream's immortal [[spark]] from Waspinator's body. It also had the after-effect of giving Waspinator a headache in his ''whole'' body. {{storylink|Possession}}

After the [[Vok|mysterious aliens]] detonated the unstable energon on the planet using the [[Planet Buster|artificial second moon]], Waspinator fell into the Restoration pool on the bridge of the ''Darksyde'' as the ship was rocked by the force of the [[transwarp]] wave resultant from the moon's explosion. Bathed in the regenerative fluids, this prevented him from becoming a [[Transmetal]]. He was also the first to realize that this seemingly unknown planet was, in fact, [[Earth]]. [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] had made the same realization and stole into the ''Darksyde'' to retrieve both of Megatron's disks. Waspinator proposed the two work together to steal the disks, and much to his surprise, Dinobot agreed... and threw him into the security shield. Waspinator was crushed into a cube by the disks' security contraption, leaving Dinobot free to steal the disks unharmed, while Waspinator crawled away to the CR chamber using two fingers. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}}

[[Image:Waspinatorigor.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Igor needs to file his nails.]]
Surprisingly, he managed to easily take down Silverbolt on ''two'' occassions. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}{{storylink|Master Blaster}} This, however, would be his sole solace as his glorious missions were reduced from serious hunt/kill actions to being a decoy {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} {{storylink|Master Blaster}}, picking up bits of other guys (which nobody did for him) {{storylink|Deep Metal}}, and ''pulling levers'' so Megatron didn't have to. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}. Adding injury to insult, he increasingly became offlined in humiliating ways, such as being swatted {{storylink|Master Blaster}}, jumped up and down on {{storylink|Cutting Edge}}, being beaten up by a small girl {{storylink|Go with the Flow}}, and having a ship crash into him because the driver wasn't paying attention {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}.

On the plus side, he got to play card games with the lads when off-duty! {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

After the destruction of the ''Darksyde'' at [[Tigerhawk]]'s hands, Megatron sent Waspinator, [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] on an errand to find a new base, which was really nothing more than pointless busywork while Megatron went to do more important things. As the trio staked out an early [[human]] tribe that had taken up residence in a series of caves, Waspinator decided he'd finally had enough and ripped off his [[Faction symbols|Predacon symbol]], declaring himself out of the Beast Wars.

[[Image:Waspinatorhappyatlast.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Waspinator happy at last! ...until the [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|next series]].]]
"I said '''no!''' [[Megatron (BW)|Dragon-Bot]] command '''you,''' [[Sub-Commander]] [[Inferno (BW)|Kiss-Butt]]! Dragon-Bot not command Waspinator! Not any more! Waspinator sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator especially sick of getting blown to '''scrap''' all the time! Sooo, Waspinator '''quit!''' As of '''now,''' which means [[Inferno (BW)|Ant-Bot]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Two-Head]] can just pucker their mandibles and plant [[Kiss|big, wet, juicy one]] right here on Waspinator's big . . . fat . . . stripy . . . "

At this point Waspinator was interrupted by getting blown to scrap by Inferno and Quickstrike. It is also worth mentioning that this is the first (and only) time that he refers to himself as "I". {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

His parts recovered by the tribe, Waspinator remained on Earth while all the other surviving Transformers set off for Cybertron, and led the tribe, declaring that he was finally...happy. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

For a bit, at least.

====''15 Go! Go!''====
The time-traveling [[human]] [[Atari Hitotonari]] and the [[Sparkbot]] [[Star Dust]] witnessed a battle between Waspinator and Optimus Primal. However, the two interlopers could not be seen by either of the warriors.

====''Tales of the Beast Wars''====
[[Antagony]] threatened to blast Waspinator if Megatron did not back down. Waspinator's warranty had expired, but it didn't matter as Antagony accidently wasted her last shot when she sneezed. Do we even need to guess what happened to Waspinator? {{storylink|Visitations}}

Later, to his credit, Waspinator was the only Predacon aside from Megatron to not be paralyzed in fear at the sight of a [[Unicron]]-possessed [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]]. Of course, Waspinator had just been blown up for the umpteen millionth time. None of the Maximals expressed satisfaction. They always got Waspinator. Always. {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Paradox}}

{{charstubfiction}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
[[Image:Wazzpinator.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Why [[Vector Sigma#Beast_Era|Oracle]] hate Waspinator?]]
Sadly for Waspinator, the Protohumans he had ruled over grew tired of his presence and forced him to leave the planet and return to Cybertron (and his proper time) under his own power (quite how this could be acheived is unclear). There, his spark was removed and used to power the [[Vehicon general]] [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]. He ''loved'' being a cool biker-bot as he now got respect and was finding [[Blackarachnia (BW)|chicks]] dig the new brooding bad boy schtick!

Influences from his inner spark caused Thrust to save Blackarachnia's life several times, causing her to believe he carried [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]'s spark. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} She later tried to bring his original mind back and discovered, to her disgust, that she'd spent all her effort getting Waspinator back. Poor Waspinator was rather upset to find Blackarachnia no longer wanted to "go steady" with him, and briefly had a punch-up with a revived Silverbolt over her honour. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

Following Blackarachnia's unambigious rejection of him, Waspinator remained in the "background" and let Thrust run the show, until [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] used an [[Spark extractor|extractor]] to remove Waspinator's spark from the body shell. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall}} After Cybertron's [[technorganic]] reformatting (thanks to Optimus Primal, through the cost of his and Megatron's lives) Waspinator returned in his beast mode with Thrust's head, now the size of a standard wasp. He complained to Rattrap about how much he wanted glory and power and never gets what he wants... at which point Rattrap swatted him away. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}}

{{note|While the suggestions that Thrust was really Silverbolt turned out to be a red herring, his actions raise the question of ''how'' Waspinator's spark could influence Vehicon programming, seemingly due to having a crush, but her true love Silverbolt's ''didn't''.}}

====''Universe'' comic====
After the reformatting of Cybertron, Waspinator came under the command of [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]]. His tiny size and great speed made him an excellent scout and messenger, and he reported to Galvatron that the invading Quintessons had entered a particular canyon that the Predacons had booby-trapped. He seemed very giddy to have a commander who actually found him useful for once. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Later, Waspinator was part of a team sent to rescue victims of [[Unicron]] who had been transported to an isolated, icy planetoid. {{storylink|OTFCC 2004 Live-Action Script Reading}}

===''Beast Wars: Transmetals''===
[[Image:TMWaspinator-Render.jpg|left|thumb|180px|Full Metal Yellowjacket]]
''Voice Actor:'' [[Scott McNeil]] (English), ??? (Japanese)

[[Transmetal]] Waspinator joins his fellow Predacons in distributing various one-on-one beat downs to the Maximals. Eventually he got fed up, quit, and became God to early humanity. He did this after ''kicking everyone's ass''. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transmetals}}

===''Legends'' anthology===

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[Image:Waspinatorjbwtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Japanese version is more [[Playskool]].]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 1996/1997)
* ''Japanese ID number'': '''D-3'''
* ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

Waspinator transforms into a large organic wasp. His stinger separates to become a hand-held spring-loaded missile launcher for his robot mode; the bolts are stored on the underside of his insect-wings. His head is on a vertical column that rotates around a horizontal axle; each end has a different head, one "mutant", one "robot". The "mutant" head was used as the base for his CGI model, and thus the norm for his fictional portrayals. The [[Takara]] version of Waspinator uses slightly brighter, more primary colors than the [[Hasbro]] version.

This mold was later [[Redeco|redecoed]] for a "[[Fox Kids]]" version, as well as [[Beast_Wars_10th_Anniversary|both the Hasbro and Takara 10th anniversary versions]] of the character.

This mold was also used to make [[Buzz Saw]] and [[Dirge (BWII)#Mutant|Dirgegun]].

[[Image:VS3-CheetorWaspinator.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Catbug is a cat but he's got bugness in his veins.]]
* '''Showdown of the Quickest: Cheetus VS Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1997)
* ''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-3'''
* ''Accessories:'' Launcher, 2 missiles

In Japan, Waspinator was available both separately and in a VS pack with [[Cheetor (BW) toys#Dx1|Cheetor]]. Both toys are identical to their original releases.

Currently, it is unknown if the latter "show-like" version of the two toys were ever released in the VS set.

[[Image:Waspinator-TMtoy.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 1998)
* ''Japanese ID number'': '''D-42'''
* ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

Now an almost completely robotic figure, [[Transmetal]] Waspinator transforms into a robotic wasp. He features a third "jet" mode, flipping and folding his wings into a fighter-jet configuration as well as flipping a cockpit/nosecone between his insect-head mandibles. Though he appears solid black at first glance, he is actually made of very dark transparent-black/green plastic.

The Takara version of this toy is almost completely identical, except the "WASPINATOR" [[tampograph]] on his wing was replaced with "DESTRON" and the Predacon sigil.

This mold was later [[Redeco|redecoed]] for a "[[Fox Kids]]" version of the character. It was slated for a [[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Waspinator#Universe_.282003.29|version of Waspinator]], but that set was canceled.

* '''Hurricane Showdown: Metals Cheetus VS Metals Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1999)
* ''Japanese ID number'': '''VS-42'''
* ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

In Japan, Transmetal Waspinator was available both individually and in a two-pack with [[Cheetor (BW)#TM1|Transmetal Cheetor]]. The two-pack version was unchanged from the normal individually-packaged one.

[[Image:Waspinator-FKtoy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Do be a blue bee.]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 1999)
* ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

This toy is a [[redeco]] of the first Waspinator toy. A "[[Fox Kids|FoxKids!]]" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time. Like most of the other Fox Kids redecoes, his color scheme was altered significantly, consisting primarily of slate blue and green-gold plastic, with dark blue (barely) translucent parts.

Hasbro solicitations for this toy gave it the name "Power Flight Waspinator", but this name never made it to final packaging.

[[Image:BW_FoxKidsTransmetal_Waspinator_toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Why FoxKidzzzz hate Waspinator?]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 2000)
* ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

This toy is a [[redeco]] of the Transmetal Waspinator toy. A "Fox Kids!" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time. The toy's new deco bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Buzz Saw]].

===Universe (2003)===
[[Image:Waspinator_unreleased.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Wazzpinator... purple?]]
For a brief time, [[Hasbro]]'s official website checklist featured listings for two "Halloween Horrorcon Value Packs" that were to be Wal-Mart [[Exclusive|exclusives]]... which also likely explains why they were canceled. (Wal-Mart had taken a good half-dozen exclusives and released them more-or-less simultaneously, leading to a huge glut. A lot of other ''Transformers'' exclusives were canceled during the ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' era.)

In 2004, several test-shots appeared on eBay in a group, among them the Transmetal Waspinator toy with opaque-salmon wings and lavender insect legs. This, presumably, was to have been the ''Universe'' incarnation of Waspinator, as the other toys in the group line up with the names given for the two Halloween sets. He was to come in a "Vs." two-pack with the presumably-[[Autobot]] character [[Nightprowler]].
{{canceledtoy}}

===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===
[[Image:Waspinatortenthtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Finally Waspinator come with pieces that aren't Waspinator's!]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 2006)
* ''Accessories:'' Launcher, 2 missiles, Transmutate's head

This toy is a slight [[redeco]] of the first Waspinator toy to make it closer to Waspinator's cartoon appearance, replacing the gray with green and adding extra gold [[Paint application|paint applications]]. He came with the head to [[Transmutate]] plus a DVD with the episode "[[Possession]]".

===Timelines===
[[Image:Waspinator-BC06toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|This works surprisingly well on many levels.]]
* '''Darksyde Megatron and Darksyde Waspinator''' (Bagged set, 2006)
* ''Accessories'': 2-part rifle

Available [[Exclusive|exclusively]] at the [[BotCon 2006]] event itself, this two-pack represents Waspinator and Megatron before the events of the ''Beast Wars'' show. "Darksyde Waspinator" is a Basic-sized figure, originally used for ''[[Machine Wars]]'' [[Skywarp (G1)#MW|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)#MW|Thundercracker]], which autotransforms to robot mode from a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#Dassault_Rafale|Dassault Rafale fighter jet]]. (One can surmise, however, that it is meant to represent a Cybertronic design in this case.) His rifle splits into two pieces, which store in the backs of his lower legs.

This mold was also used to make ''[[Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], and ''[[Robot Masters]]'' [[Wing Stun]].

===Beast Wars Telemocha Series===
[[Image:Waspinatortelemocha.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Otherwise known as Dr. Wasp Itor.]]
* '''Waspeeter''' (Deluxe, 2007)
* ''Japanese ID number'': '''TM-04'''
* ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

This toy is a ridiculously-extensively-painted redeco of the first Waspinator toy to make it almost completely [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] to Waspinator's cartoon appearance (forgiving mold issues and [[unpaintable plastic]], of course). Due to a manufacturing error, Waspinator's crotch piece is backwards.

He came with a DVD of the episode "The Aerial Mountains Explode", the Japanese dub of "[[Power Surge]]".

==Merchandise==
[[Image:Robotheroesrhinoxwaspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Do we ''want'' to know what that is gushing out of his butt?]]
===Robot Heroes===
* '''Rhinox vs Waspinator''' (2008)
Waspinator was released in the second wave of [[Universe (2008)|''Universe'']] ''[[Robot Heroes]]'' packed with [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] as part of the "Beast Wars Series." An amalgam of toy and television show depictions, Waspinator has articulation at the neck and shoulders. He suspends himself in the air on a strong stream of fluid launching from his butt. (Okay, it's probably supposed to be a compressed air jet or something, but look at it. Eyuw.)

==Trivia==
* Ironically, in the original toyline's continuity (which was created before the animated series), Waspinator was profiled as a cruel, cunning, highly skilled warrior who was greatly feared by the Maximals.
* Waspinator was originally chosen by [[Hasbro]] to be one of the characters killed off for the second season of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon to help make way for new characters ([[To sell toys|read: product]]). However, story editors [[Bob Forward]] and [[Larry DiTillio]] convinced them to spare Waspinator on the grounds of his popularity with the online fan-base, so [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] took the plunge instead.
* Waspinator was originally slated to appear in the very first [[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|''Beast Wars'' video game]], and even had a character model built. However, he was ultimately unused and only appeared in footage taken from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.
* Waspinator appears to be the inspiration for [[Buzzer-Bot]] from the ''[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Playskool Go-Bots]]'' line, as well as the obvious [[Wasp]] character from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]''.
* As a side note, Waspinator's original toy contains a high number of [[Ball joint|ball]] and [[Swivel joint|swivel joints]], which more than easily separate. Makes him a little more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]], after all.
* When Waspinator is hit from behind by a stasis pod ship made by Blackarachnia, a toilet is seen falling from Waspinator's smashed body. Now Waspinator need new waste disposal unit!
* According to Waspinator's profile in ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'', he likes flying and nectar.
* Waspinator has a yellow [[tongue]] in robot mode.
* While Waspinator ''usually'' refers to other characters by nicknames, he is fairly consistent about calling Megatron and Optimus Primal by their real names. ([[Nemesis Part 1#Quotes|Fairly.]]) He also refers to Inferno by name at least twice, and Tarantulas at least once.
* Waspinator is the only member of the Beast Wars [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] lineup who was there from the beginning and remains alive and unchanged for the entire course of the show.
* Waspinator is the only known robot to be susceptible to being kicked in the junk, and we don't mean scrap metal.
* Waspinator never once makes a proper landing while in his beast form. However, there are plenty of instances for which he makes ''improper'' landings while in beast form, usually when he's being blasted out of the sky.
* Technically, Waspinator's beast mode is that of a female wasp, given that males do not possess a stinger. He would probably find this objectionable, along with everything else in his life.
* Somebody give this guy a hug.
==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Waspinator/waspinator.htm Waspinator at TFU.info]
* [http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d75/binalternator/unreleased/nightprowler_vs_waspinator/ Gallery of Nightprowler vs. Waspinator test-shots]

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Transformer clothing

2009-04-04T01:01:49Z

69.254.94.220: /* Trenchcoats */

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One way that non-Transformer species seem to have influenced [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] culture is the relatively rare occurrence of [[Transformer|Transformers]] wearing clothing.

==Capes==
[[Image:BlasterG2.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Optimus and Megatron: Slaves to Fashion]]
From time to time, some high-ranked Cybertronians tend to wear capes. Presumably, they are a symbol of office, as only generals, commanders, and other such leaders have been seen sporting them. Exactly what material these capes are made from is unknown, but one presumes that Earth-style fabrics are likely extremely rare on Cybertron (which could make the capes even ''more'' special, considering).

* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] wore capes while serving as the leaders of the [[Cybertron Alliance]]. Prime's was purple (the Decepticon color), while Megatron's was red (the Autobot color). Whether this was a symbol of high office or just a desire to look pretty is unknown.

* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] wore a cape, large shoulder pads, and a crown at his coronation as Decepticon leader. The crown alone survived [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s blast, only to be crushed under his feet.

* The [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] mostly wore capes (except Trypticon, who wore a Batman-like cowl) in the ''Zone'' story pages.

* The members of the [[Maximal High Council]] wear capes, too.

* ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] wore a large, body-obscuring cloak when he first arrived on [[Earth]].

*[[:Image:ConvoyCouncil1.jpg|Seriously]].

==Trenchcoats==
[[Image:Micromastercoats s.jpg|right|200px|thumb|You better accept the terms, or...]]
Quite a few characters have been depicted wearing trenchcoats, mostly when involved in detective work or similarly secretive activity.

* [[Nightbeat]] is often seen [[:Image:MarvelUK-230.jpg|wearing a trenchcoat and fedora]], due to their connection with detective fiction. He pulls it off pretty well, actually.
* The [[Air Strike Patrol|Micromaster Air Strike Patrol]] wore trenchcoats and fedoras while trying to pass as human professional wrestlers. Interestingly enough, these coats somehow obscured large physical protrusions on their bodies (jet intakes, wings, etc.). {{storylink|The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!|The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!}}

==Pretenders==
[[Image:Nomates.jpg|right|150px|thumb|No, really, thanks. I got to go now.]]
* Most of the [[Pretender]] toys have clothing molded onto their Pretender shells. Naturally, it's only pretend clothing, being part of the Transformers' shells (which themselves might be considered a form of clothing).
* In the TV commercial for the Pretenders, the human Pretenders can take off and reveal the muscle of the outer shells.
* In [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]], human Pretenders wear clothes in their everyday lives as normal humans.
* [[Cloudburst]] also wears normal clothing in [[The Transformers (Marvel Comics)|Marvel Comics continuity]]. {{storylink|Recipe for Disaster!|Recipe for Disaster!}}

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==Helmets and masks==
[[Image:MegatronOrigin2 Megs hair.jpg|right|150px|thumb|This didn't happen. This didn't happen. This didn't happen.]]
*[[Cohrada]] wears a hat in [[Beast Wars Neo (manga)|"Beast Wars Neo" manga]].

*In [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave continuity]], [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] wore a removable face-mask that resembled the face of his original toy. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within issue 6}} He was later shown to have integrated a similar mask into his head proper. {{storylink|Skyfire (comic issue)|Skyfire (comic issue)}} [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] was also shown to wear a removable face-mask that resembled his toy's face. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons|Night of the Combaticons}}

*During the [[The War Within: The Dark Ages|Dark Ages]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] sported a face-mask resembling his original toy, which was later upgraded into a fully removable helmet that he wore along with detachable armor. {{storylink|Skyfire (comic issue)|Skyfire (comic issue)}} He would also wear a helmet (based on that of his Classics toy) during the events of [[Stormbringer (comics)|Stormbringer]].

*In [[Dawn of Future's Past]], [[Rattrap]] is seen wearing a removable cap-like helmet.

[[Image:Timelines-rattrap.jpg|right|150px|thumb|A cap-like helmet]]

* Back in the [[Megatron Origin|dim and distant past]] on Cybertron, it was revealed that [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s "bucket-head" is in fact a helmet, presumably a hangover from his mining days. After his first [[Cy-Kill|kill]] in the [[Gladiatorial combat|deathmatches]] at the [[Forge]], Megatron removed his helmet to reveal a crest of hair-like panels underneath, while the crowd cheered him on. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin issue 2}}

* Later, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] was seen (in a cameo) at [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]]'s funeral having removed his head/helmet as a mark of respect, along with his unnamed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|albino twin]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin issue 3}}

{{note|The significance of the principal two Transformers' heads really being helmets (in [[IDW continuity]], at least) has not been expanded upon.}}
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==??????==
[[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Robot dancing!?]]
Sometimes, people on [[Earth]] wear clothing to look like [[Ramjet (G1)|various Transformers]]. Sometimes this is hot, sometimes this is sad.
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==Others==
[[Image:Windcharger flash.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Hey, cover up! There are children watching!]]
* In an early plan to trap the Decepticons, the Autobots had to run around in lab coats. It was very silly. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3|More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}
* The magic of [[:Image:Christmasprime.jpg|dress up]] in a festive outfit. Obviously, the big guy is a little too open to suggestion. The same holds true for [[:Image:Biggrim christmas.jpg|Grimlock]], it seems.

[[Image:GrimlockManga.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Me Grimlock say it fun to learn! (Because knowledge is power!)]]
* [[:Image:Biggrim me king.jpg|a crown]], [[:Image:Biggrim.jpg|a bandana]], an [[:Image:Madman Paradise Grimlock drinks.JPG|apron]], and... err...
* The [[Maximal Elder|Maximal Elders]] wear robes. They have their reasons, and they do not concern you.
* The [[Exo-structure|exo-structures]] of the members of [[Council of Ancients]] resemble robes. They also have their reasons.
* The [[Jointron]] brothers have been shown wearing ponchos and sombreros, as well as using mariachi-style guitars and maracas. This is both hilarious ''and'' racist.
* ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] wore a cloak for his first few appearances for little reason other than the animators probably thought it looked cool.
* In his Unicron-created dream world, ''Armada'' [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] wore a crimson sash around his shoulders. He was apparently the ruler of all Cybertron in his dream, so it was probably ceremonial.
* The [[Space Mini-Con Team]] and [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] have disguised themselves as humans using large, heavy jackets, coats, baseball caps, hats, sunglasses, and other items of clothing to try to blend in with other people in robot mode.

[[Image:Heinrad timecop.jpg|right|100px|thumb|And yet, somehow not as ludicrous as the other Time Cop.]]
* [[Heinrad]] wears his God of Time agent's uniform in the end of [[Beast Wars Neo (manga)|Beast Wars Neo manga]].
* [[Six-Speed]]'s curiosity about human clothing led him to examine the closets of his [[human]] friends [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] and [[Coby Hansen|Coby]]. However, his attempt to dress like a human basically amounted to putting random articles of clothing on his limbs, looking more ridiculous than clothing-wearing Transformers normally do. Which is kinda amazing.
* [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] wore a robe before his wrestling match with [[Colossus Rhodes]], likely more to keep with human tradition than actual need. {{storylink|Total Meltdown|Total Meltdown}}
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] made a seemingly metaphorical reference to footwear called [[proton boots]].
*[[Lockdown]] wore a poncho when he showed up on the remains of the ''[[Nemesis (Animated)|Nemesis]]'' in reference to the Man With No Name from the spaghetti western ''A Fistful of Dollars''. {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon|A Fistful of Energon}}
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] wore a beret while indulging in his artistic tendancies.

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==Toys==
* SCF '''Starscream''' (2002)

:This highly articulated, non-transforming version of Starscream, part of the Japan-exclusive Super Collection Figures series, comes with removable shoulder pads and cloak. He also has a choice of normal head or a head with a crown.

*''Armada'' '''Starscream''' (Supreme, 2005)

: Supreme Starscream, a colossally upscaled version of the ''Armada'' line's Voyager-class Starscream toy, comes with a Decepticon "Crown of Leadership" obviously based on the one worn by the original Starscream in [[The Transformers: The Movie|the 1986 movie]].

*''Star Wars Transformers'' '''Darth Vader/Death Star''' (2007)

:The sole Supreme-class figure of the ''Star Wars Transformers'' toyline, this gigantic Darth Vader mech includes an actual cloth cape that can attach to the back of the figure in robot mode.

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*''Masterpiece'' '''Grimlock''' (2009)
*''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-8'''

: ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Grimlock comes with an intelligence transfer helmet accessory, based upon the device Grimlock used to transfer his super-intelligence into [[Computron]] in "[[Grimlock's New Brain]]". He was originally going to come with a crown commonly featured in the [[Grimlock (G1)| Marvel Comics]], but that accessory has since been omitted.

==Merchandise==
* '''Starscream''' (2002)

: Originally a chase figure in Japan, this remold of the regular figure includes a cape, newly molded limbs, and a head with the crown as seen in the movie.

* '''Coronation Starscream''' (Diamond Select, 2008)

:Released by Diamond Select Toys in 2008, Coronation Starscream was an exclusive to on-line retailer Action Figure Xpress. He was sculpted by [[Mark Wong]] of [[Art Asylum]] and limited to 600 pieces. It features Starscream decked out in the royal crown, cape, and big honkin' shoulder pads he wore (albeit briefly) in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

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==See Also==
*[[Christmas]]

==External link==
*[http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/oddities/oddities_clothes.htm "Transformers that aren't nude" at Obscure Transformers]

[[Category:Transformer culture]]

Where Is Thy Sting?

2009-03-29T01:34:27Z

69.254.94.220: /* Miscellaneous trivia */

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|image=WhereIsThySting-reflectingface.jpg
|caption=Get out of my head!
|ep=34
|title="Where Is Thy Sting?"
|airdate=[[March 28]], 2009
|written by=[[Todd Casey]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Shigeharu Takahashi]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
}}

'''A crazed Wasp finds his way to Earth to exact his revenge on Bumblebee... but he doesn't count on the Elite Guard following him.'''

==Synopsis==
Drawing closer to [[Earth]] in their pursuit of the presumed traitor [[Wasp]], [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] are at their stations on the bridge of the [[Elite Guard]]'s ship when [[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime]] contacts them and demands to know what they are doing in Earth Sector. [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] joins the conference call to apologize for not letting Longarm know of the situation, pointing out that they couldn't risk tipping off Wasp when he stands poised to lead them to his Decepticon contact on the planet. Except, as Jazz points out, Wasp isn't headed for the [[Decepticon]]s... he's making a beeline for the [[Autobot]]s' base!

In the Autobots' headquarters, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] is immersed in a game of ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]'' when [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] shuts the television off and reprimands Bumblebee for neglecting his monitor duty. In mid-argument, the base computers detect a [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] signal nearby, but no other information can be obtained due to interference caused by recent torrential rain. Prime and the other Autobots thus have to depart to investigate firsthand. Bumblebee, of course, returns to playing his video game.

The Elite Guard ship touches down in Detroit, and Sentinel and Jazz disembark. Sentinel is immediately disgusted by the notion of liquid falling from the sky, and he finds himself all but incapable of driving on the slick roads, but Jazz just rolls with it.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeecreepilydefeated.jpg|left|thumb|200px|We enjoyed that together.]]
Back at the base, Bumblebee continues playing games until the base is suddenly plunged into darkness. As the red emergency lights come on, Bumblebee finds himself staring into the all-too-familiar face of Wasp, now sporting an Earth-mode body styled after Bumblebee's own. Bumblebee tries to explain that they had both been set up by Longarm, but the insane Wasp doesn't care. He downs Bumblebee with a blast of his stingers and takes off his own helmet, revealing a wound on the top of his head. Just before passing out, Bumblebee sees Wasp standing over him, holding a strange gun fitted with a glowing green canister and vowing to make Bumblebee lose everything, just like he did...

A little later, Bumblebee awakens to find the other Autobots all staring down at him, including...himself? Looking down at himself, Bumblebee is horrified to discover that Wasp has repainted his armor, swapped their helmets, and exchanged their vocal synthesizers, making each a dead ringer for the other. As Wasp stands there, with Bumblebee's [[battle mask]] "stuck" up, Bumblebee attempts to convince the other Autobots that he is himself, but they aren't sold. When [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] attempts to [[stasis cuffs|stasis cuff]] him, Bumblebee is forced to shoot out the lights and make a break for it. He zooms out of the plant, right past Sentinel Prime and Jazz, who intercept Prime and the other Autobots when they try to pursue him. Sentinel demands to know why Optimus's Autobots haven't checked in in so long, but when Optimus tries to explain, Sentinel refuses to listen, informing them he is here to bring in Wasp...who, Optimus points out, just drove right past him. Sentinel ignores Optimus when he tries to tell him that Longarm is the real traitor, and departs immediately to hunt down "Wasp". Optimus instructs his Autobots to locate Wasp first, and they head out to search, while the true Wasp tells them he will stay behind in case Bumblebee comes back.

On Cybertron, Shockwave desperately makes another attempt to contact the missing [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. He transmits a message to him alerting him to the direness of the situation, adding that Shockwave is about to take matters into his own hands...

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-obligatorymisunderstanding.jpg|right|thumb|200px|I has logos-Autobot on my shoulders, da?]]
Back on Earth, Optimus and Ratchet are discussing how odd "Bumblebee" has been behaving when two jets suddenly come roaring by overhead. Knowing that no organic could pilot a plane the way these two crafts fly, the two Autobots assume they are dealing with Decepticons and zoom after them in hot pursuit. The two jets soon track down "Wasp", who is desperately attempting to rub his green paint off with a discarded couch cushion, and transform to robot mode to attack him with blasts of flame and roaring hurricane winds. Ratchet and Optimus arrive to hold off these apparent Decepticons, who reveal a remarkable power to combine into [[Safeguard (Animated)|one mighty robot]], but before the fighting can get too intense, Sentinel and Jazz arrive to reveal that these two are, in fact, Autobots! Sentinel introduces [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], Elite Guard warriors created using specs from [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], and orders the duo to resume their mission.

In the Autobots' base, Wasp is playing (and losing) ''Ninja Gladiator'', and he decides that he could get used to being Bumblebee. In order to complete the illusion, Wasp scans the Autobots' computer files, so that he can learn everything about Bumblebee and better pass himself off as his old rival.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-hotdogbot.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Bumblebee needs a lesson in kitbashing.]]
Racing through the city streets, Bumblebee discovers a hot dog cart and desperate tries slathering his armor in mustard to make him look more like himself. He is caught in the act by [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], but he is finally able to convince Bulkhead of his true identity when he tells him something only he could know: namely, that he took the blame for Bulkhead knocking a tower over on Sentinel Prime at [[Autobot boot camp|boot camp]]. Jetfire and Jetstorm arrive just in time to witness this happy scene, but get the wrong end of the stick and assume that Bulkhead and Prowl are traitors as well! The twins report this to Sentinel, and he, Optimus, Jazz and Ratchet head for their position, with Sentinel obstinately refusing to listen to Optimus's attempts to explain the numerous misunderstandings that have happened. When everyone reunites, Bulkhead explains that Bumblebee is definitely Bumblebee, and Optimus orders everyone back to the plant to straighten everything out.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-UltraMagnusDamaged.jpg|thumb|right|200px|If anyone inserts a "He's been dealt with" caption here, so help us...]]
A little later, back at the plant, Wasp cheerily denies Bumblebee's accusations, using the information he has gleaned from the Autobots' files to "prove" he is who he claims. When interrogation yields no results, Bulkhead comes up with the best way to figure out who's who: a versus match on ''Ninja Gladiator''! Before the game even starts, Wasp chokes and grabs Bumblebee, holding his stinger to 'Bee's neck. Wasp insists that he was always a good bot, but Bulkhead says that isn't true; he might not be a traitor, but he was always mean to Bulkhead and Bumblebee and was hardly good. Wasp blasts out the lights to cover his escape, and when the emergency lights kick in, both Wasp and Bumblebee are gone. The Autobots head outside, where they spot what looks like Bumblebee lying on the ground. Bulkhead assumes it is Wasp and leaps upon the prone figure, pummeling him and ripping off his helmet...only to find out that it really is Bumblebee underneath. Prowl examines Bumblebee's helmet and discovers that their colors were switched so quickly because Wasp had hit him with an [[electronic paintjob]] that he could turn off with the press of a button. As things begin to calm down, the truth of the whole matter hits Jazz—if Wasp really was innocent, that means that Longarm Prime really is a Decepticon spy!

Sometime later, on Cybertron, [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] is searching for Longarm in order to apprehend him. Entering the council chamber, Ironhide is horrified to discover the mangled, barely-alive body of Ultra Magnus. He asks the Supreme Commander where his [[Magnus hammer|hammer]] is and who was responsible. Before collapsing, Ultra Magnus manages to choke out, "Shock...wave..."

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

|c1=
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (1)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (2)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (4)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*[[Wasp]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (8)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (9)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (10)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (11)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (12)
*[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]] (13)
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] (14)

|c2=
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave/Longarm Prime]] (3)
|}}

==Quotes==
"Besides, if I'm playing ''Ninja Gladiator'', I'm at least getting valuable combat training." 
:—'''Bumblebee''' gives justification for slacking off.

"Liquid falling from the sky? What is ''wrong'' with this planet?!" 
"Crazy! It's like a planet ''and'' a car wash! You diggin' this or what?"
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' and '''Jazz''' share their thoughts on the rain.

'''Optimus''': Sentinel, you have to warn Ultra Magnus about Longarm! 
'''Ratchet''': Come on! You're doing it wrong! Turn ''into'' the skid! 
'''Sentinel''': Into the skid? That's stupid! 
'''Jazz''': Just gotta go with the flow, S.P.! 
'''Optimus''': How do you put up with him? 
'''Jazz''': I just tune out half of everything he spits out. 
'''Optimus''': Only half?
:—The Autobots attempt to put up with the jerk, with no such luck.

"What's the matter with you Cybertronians? Don't you know how to drive in the rain?"
:—'''Ratchet''', mocking Sentinel Prime

"I don't care! Arrest 'em all and let Ultra Magnus sort 'em out!"
:—'''Sentinel Prime''', jerk.

"So hit me with that one more time. A robot in disguise swaps metal with a double agent, who is really on the level?" 
"Makes even less sense when you say it."
:—'''Jazz''' and '''Bulkhead''' try their best to fathom what's been going on.

==Notes==

===Animation or technical errors===
*When Bulkhead knocks Jetfire back, Jazz (who isn't even ''there'' yet), instead of Jetstorm, is standing next to Bumblebee.
*When Wasp is playing Bumblebee's video game (and liking it), the characters on screen switch sides as he loses.

===Continuity errors===
*This isn't an ''error'' as such, but just when did Wasp get an identical Earth form to Bumblebee's?

===Transformers references===
[[Image:WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeesvideogame.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Referenciality!]]

*We last saw Wasp in "[[Autoboot Camp]]", to which this episode is essentially a sequel. A brief flashback from the episode is shown after Bumblebee says he "took the rap" for Bulkhead for what happened to Sentinel Prime, plus Wasp mentions all the things that Bumblebee had done in then to accidentally embarrass Sentinel Prime in an attempt to maintain his ruse.

* Optimus's Autobots discovered that Wasp wasn't guilty in "[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]".

*The background of the ''Ninja Gladiator'' video game prominently features [[TORQ III]].

* In the scene before he switches places with "Bumble-Bot", Wasp is wearing a [[rubsign]] in place of a conventional Autobot insignia.

* Sentinel Prime discusses the modifications made to Jetfire and Jetstorm, which took place in the "[[Rise of Safeguard]]" comic book.

* Sentinel Prime still doesn't remember his time with Bumblebee and Bulkhead, as he did (didn't?) in "[[The Elite Guard]]".

* Wasp mentions the events in "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]" in an attempt to "prove" his fake identity.

===Real-world references===
* The video game ''Ninja Gladiator'' is a possible reference to the popular fighting game series ''Mortal Kombat.''

===Miscellaneous trivia===
*This episode received an impromptu online debut on [[March 25]], [[2009]], when a copy loaded onto the Cartoon Network website's server, intended to go live after the episode aired a few days later, was pilfered and leaked by some ne'er-do-wells. Something similar happened with much of the third season of ''The Venture Brothers''.
*Wasp has purple eyes, which were visible even with Bumblebee's battle mask up. The Autobots didn't notice this because...?
* The ninja in ''Ninja Gladiator'' resembles G.I. Joe member [[Snake-Eyes]].
* Still no word on Sari after her life changing experience in Transwarped!
[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Abdul Fakkadi (G1)

2009-03-29T01:25:35Z

69.254.94.220:

:''Abdul Fakkadi is a [[human]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Fakkadi.jpg|right|250px|thumb|SILENCE! I keel you!]]
'''Abdul Fakkadi''' (also spelled '''Faghadi''') is the self-professed Supreme Military Commander, President-for-Life, and King of Kings of the [[Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya]]. One gets the feeling that if you were to inform him that, by definition, a republic cannot have a king (much less a "King of Kings"), his likely response would be to stare blankly for a long moment, and then order your immediate beheading.

None too bright and none too stable, Fakkadi is concerned primarily with the accumulation of wealth and keeping "fanatics" and "imperialists" away from his homeland's shores. He is not averse to making deals with [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] to help further these goals.

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
:''Voice Actor'': [[Phillip Clarke]] (US), [[Toshio Ishii]] (Japan)

When [[Outback]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] came looking for the [[Seeker|Seekers]], Fakkadi ordered the [[Autobot|Autobots]] to leave his country, and acted offended that Decepticons would use his country as a hiding place. It turned out that the Seekers were hiding there. Whether or not Fakkadi knew is unaddressed. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}}

Later, Fakkadi made a deal with [[Octane]] to allow him and hide [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] in Carbombya while he recovered after his battle with [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. Trypticon served as a defense for Carbombya's coasts, while Fakkadi allowed Trypticon and Octane access to Carbombya's [[oil]] fields, making extremely powerful [[Energon (G1)|Energon]]. However, Trypticon's extreme fuel consumption angered Fakkadi. Worse, all the city did was shoot at passing tourist cruises (though in Trypticon's defense, he did think they were invading ships). Fakkadi threatened to call in the Autobots, but Octane managed to negotiate a deal, where Trypticon stole Fort Knox, and it's gold, to appease Fakkadi. However, Fakkadi began forcing Trypticon to steal more monuments, to give Carbombya a thriving tourist trade. Unfortunately, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] tracked down Octane, but he was able to appease the Decepticon leader by giving him Carbombyan Energon. Fakkadi refused to deal with the Decepticons, but his Autobot trump card did not have the same effect on Galvatron as it did Octane. Running out of options, Fakkadi tried to send a message to the Autobots, authorizing them to invade Carbombya, but Galvatron imprisoned him. However, the Autobots managed to force the Decepticons away from Carbombya. [[Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime]] asked Fakkadi to return the monuments and never ally with the Decepticons again. Fakkadi promised the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] that he would never ally with Decepticons again, swearing by his relatives' various livestock. {{storylink|Thief in the Night|Thief in the Night}}

===''Legends'' anthology===
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{{storylink|Two for the Price of One|Two for the Price of One}}

==Trivia==
*The portrayal of Abdul Fakkadi as the stereotypical "evil Arab" prompted voice actor [[Casey Kasem]], who himself is of Lebanese descent, to quit the Transformers series.<ref>[http://www.ameu.org/page.asp?iid=108&aid=152&pg=6 Casey Kasem on Arab Defamation in the Media.]</ref>
*Fakkadi is loosely based on real-world politician [[wikipedia:Muammar_al-Gaddafi|Muammar al-Gaddafi]], the leader of Libya and, for a time in the '80s, an antagonist of the [[United States]]. His grandiose collection of titles, meanwhile, appears to be based on [[wikipedia:Idi_Amin_Dada|Idi Amin]].

== Footnotes ==
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Grimlock (Animated)

2009-03-26T10:53:52Z

69.254.94.220: /* Animated cartoon */

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:''Grimlock is an [[Autobot|Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated|Transformers Animated]] [[Continuity family|continuity family]].''

[[Image:TFAnimated Grimlock.jpg|right|256px|thumb|Some people got collar and cuffs, me Grimlock got collar and brass knuckles.]]
'''Grimlock''' is a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' in charge of a small, three-mech group of dinosaur transformers known as the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]]. Born from a fusion of Earth and Cybertronian technology, with some [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] intervention thrown in, he's a force to be reckoned with. A little short on brains (at first he didn't actually realise he was a Transformer) and a lot short on temper, Grimlock's answer to a problem is usually the simplest: squash it, slash it, bite it, burn it, or eat it.

Physically, Grimlock is one of the most powerful Transformers, with enough brute strength to give even the likes of Megatron pause for thought. In his beast mode, his powerful jaws and flame breath give him excellent short- and long-range combat abilities, while his flaming sword is an effective weapon in robot mode. Factor in his temper, and facing Grimlock can be a terrifying experience.

Currently, Grimlock and his fellow Dinobots are living on [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|an island]] in Lake Erie, hidden there by [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] from the rest of the world. But don't think he's not willing to come to the mainland, find the biggest 'Con around and feed 'em their own chassis after he's eaten his fill of it. After all, him Grimlock badass.

{{bigquote|No one tell me Grimlock how to fight!|Grimlock, rebel without a cause|"[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{ongoing}}
:''Voice actor:'' [[David Kaye|David Kaye]] (English), [[Dieter Memel|Dieter Memel]] (German)

[[Image:Grimlockanimatedinskin.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Cars shot me T-rex, out come me Grimlock! Him [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] sure blew it.]]
Grimlock, [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]], and [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] were originally theme park animatronic displays that [[Isaac Sumdac|Isaac Sumdac]] upgraded with the help of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] and a flash of [[Spark|spark]] from the [[Key|Key]]. When they came online, Grimlock dubbed himself the Dinobot leader, despite Megatron's commands. However, [[Tutor Bot|Tutor Bot]] brought up videos on how cars use fossil fuels. Grimlock believed this to mean that cars ate [[Dinosaur|Dinosaurs]],
and Megatron convinced them to destroy the "fossil feeders", including
the only thing worse than cars...cars and trucks that turn into robots.

[[Image:Grimlockanimatedbeastmode.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Me Grimlock beginning to [[Repeat Performance!|hate black sticky stuff!]]]]
As the Dinobots raged against the machines, the Autobots drew them
away from the city towards a park. Finally getting out of his funk, [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]
managed to throw them into a parking lot that their fire breath had
melted into tar, trapping the Dinobots. After their defeat, they were
imprisoned in an energy cage and were scheduled for meltdown. Believing
they had life and were not just some mindless machines, [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] freed the Dinobots with the help of Bulkhead and secretly relocated them to an island.

Dwelling within the peaceful forest, Grimlock dubbed cars and
trucks bad, but nature good—until two birds pooped on him. Redubbing
nature stupid, Grimlock expected the two birds to fight like Dinobots,
but they escaped! Tail twitching and stomach opening, Grimlock [[Transformation|transformed]], shocking Snarl and Swoop. He drew a [[Energo-sword|huge, blazing sword]] and decided he liked the results. {{storylink|Blast from the Past|Blast from the Past}}

He was later forced by the villain [[Prometheus Black|Meltdown]]
to attack Sari's would-be rescuers, Prowl and Bulkhead. Once Meltdown
was trapped and unable to hurt him, he demonstrated he'd learned to
transform and joined his fellow Dinobots in threatening the
acid-thrower. However, before Meltdown could be hurt, Grimlock's
attention was diverted to [[Colossus Rhodes|Colossus Rhodes]] and two of Meltdown's mutants, and he and the other Dinobots beat up on them instead. {{storylink|Survival of the Fittest|Survival of the Fittest}}

Shortly after this, the Autobots learned that the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] were mobilizing, and Bulkhead spilled the beans on the Dinobots' location. Seriously pissed, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Prime]] had them take him to [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]], where he tried to convince the Dinobots to help them fight the Decepticons. Grimlock was...uninterested, to say the least. He told Prime that Dinobots didn't need robots to fight, but that they would destroy robots. When Prime pointed out that the Dinobots ''were'' robots, this seemed to compel them to fight each other. When Grimlock gives an order, the Dinobots carry it out without question. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1|Megatron Rising - Part 1}}

[[Image:Animated cartoon Grimlock Sentinel Prime.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock say you jerk!]]
When Optimus brought [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel]] to see [[Autobot ship (Animated)|his damaged ship]], which had crashed into Dinobot Island as a result of [[Megatron Rising - Part 2|a recent Decepticon attack]], the Dinobots showed up. Optimus advised the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guardsbots]] that as long as the Dinobots weren't provoked, they wouldn't attack. Sentinel thought they were just primitive scrap heaps and acted like it. Grimlock responded by transforming, taking out his sword and knocking the jerk flying. Alas, neither he nor the other Dinobots could withstand the elemental lightning summoned by Ultra Magnus, Bot of Thunder. {{storylink|The Elite Guard|The Elite Guard}}

[[Image:T-Rex Ambush Predator.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Prowl learned T-rex defensive tactics from ''Jurassic Park''. Sadly, Grimlock never watched that movie.]]
Later, reports reached the Autobots of rampages on Dinobot Island, and Optimus sent Prowl and Bulkhead, the only two Autobots the Dinobots accepted, to investigate. Prowl's disbelief at the idea that the territorial but relatively peaceful Dinobots would be going on rampages was quickly dispelled when a furious Grimlock burst from the bushes and charged. He easily thrashed the two Autobots, and in his rage would have roasted a nest full of baby birds if Prowl hadn't used [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]'s loaned [[EMP|EMP]] generator to drop the massive beast. But a blast that would have knocked out an Autobot for a while merely dropped Grimlock for a moment, and a few seconds later, he began to wake up. Upon examination, it was revealed that Grimlock had a large piece of metal embedded in his foot, and the pain had driven him mad. Prowl used the EMP generator to loosen the shard while Bulkhead yanked it out, and an exhausted Grimlock collapsed and allowed the Autobots to fix him up. {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon|A Fistful of Energon}}

[[Image:TFA Black Friday ME GRIMLOCK IN LOVE.jpg|left|180px|thumb|I, Grimlock, am hot-headed when in love, wot.]]
When [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] washed ashore after the defeat of Megatron, the Dinobots took her in as one of their own. Ever the [[wikipedia:Alpha_(biology)|alpha male]], Grimlock was quick to remind Swoop and Snarl that "Spider-Lady like me Grimlock best" (he was taller than them), and was not above using violence to drive the point home. After Blackarachnia discovered Meltdown's genetic research, she had the Dinobots take Meltdown from prison. When the Autobots arrived to investigate, Prowl and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] were poisoned with venom, and Grimlock accompanied Optimus Prime to the mainland to help him find the [[Genetic modifier|genetic thingy]] that Meltdown needed.

[[Image:Animated Black Friday Grimlock Prime Powell.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Me Grimlock will love you and hug you and feed you and pet you and hug you and love you and call you George.]] Grimlock refused to listen to Prime's claims that Blackarachnia was using them, and he tore through the city to show the "puny humans" that "Dinobots rule". Arriving at [[Sumdac Tower|Sumdac Tower]], Grimlock threatened [[Porter C. Powell|Porter C. Powell]] with becoming lunch, which convinced the businessman to surrender the modifier. When the two Autobots returned to the island, Meltdown turned the tables on them, planning to remove Blackarachnia's technological half and leave him with an organic Transformer. To delay Grimlock and Prime, Meltdown sicced [[Fusion creature|his experiments]] on them. Grimlock nearly burned down half the forest while fighting "bad bat", but the other Dinobots arrived and helped them defeat the monsters while Prime put out the fire. After Prime defeated Meltdown, Blackarachnia urged him to hold her, causing Grimlock to attack Prime in jealousy. However, it was a trick to allow Blackarachnia time to escape, as Prime had predicted. Practically in tears, Grimlock begged Blackarachnia to return, saying he loved her, but all for naught. {{storylink|Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday}}

He later looked on as an oil rig with the Constructicons appeared out of nowhere and exploded off Dinobot Island

===Titan Magazines===
One day, it was raining really badly and making Grimlock's joints all stiff. Grimlock hate that! Then [[Sari Sumdac|that small girl thing]]
came to Dinobot Island; Grimlock almost ate her as a trespasser, but
then she said the Dinobots could stay in the Autobots' base until it
stopped raining and all they had to do in return was hit [[Starscream (Animated)|some annoying guy]] and his [[Starscream clone|clones]]. Plus, he got a souvenir in the form of a ripped off clone arm. Sari Grimlock's friend!

[[Simon Furman|Grimlock]] thinks there should be clones of ''him'' as the world needs more Grimlock! {{storylink|Dino-MIGHT!|Dino-MIGHT!}}

Another day, the other Dinobots were sick and it made them
attack Grimlock! Grimlock get hurt! Grimlock send an distress signal to
other Autobots by means unknown! Small girl thing save him with [[Key|even smaller glowy thing]], so he not eat her. {{storylink|Ratchet & Grimlock Are DEAD?|Ratchet & Grimlock Are DEAD?}}

Bah! Swoop keep questioning Grimlock! ''HOW DARE'' he disagree with Grimlock! Grimlock kick Swoop out of Dinobots! Bah! How dare Swoop... oh, cows ''do'' give milk like Swoop said? Well... Swoop still sucks, shut up Snarl! !{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Divebomb}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Grimlock Animated Toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Me Grimlock like. But want crown accessory.]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Voyager, 2008)
**''Accessories'': Flaming sword

: Part of the third wave of ''Animated'' Voyagers, Grimlock transforms into a robotic [[Popular beast alternate modes|tyrannosaurus rex]] with a spring-loaded chompy-jaw. His flaming sword somehow pegs into his dino-jaw to simulate his flaming breath attack. A mechanized switch in the right robot-mode wrist interacts with a spring-loaded feature in the sword, revealing pop-out flames when the wrist is tilted. Purely by coincidence, a peg on his left leg is the exact right size to serve as a [[Powerlinx|Powerlinx]] port for any [[Mini-Con|Mini-Con]].

: The [[Instruction booklet|instruction sheet]] for this toy has an error in step two, in which his mid-back region (with the three hash marks on either side) is shown as both unfolding backwards to form part of his feet ''and'' staying where it is. Also, the call-out on the back of the packaging that claims his flame-sword doubles as a mouth-mounted jet of flame breath totally lies.

: Some Grimlocks have been reported with legs that are impossible to shorten into arms for robot mode. Others contract, but the two halves of the thighs/shoulders start to separate when they do. Others still have no problem. It looks like a quality control issue rather than a running change to fix the problem, as recently bought Grimlocks still suffer with this issue.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm%7C More information on Grimlock at TFU.info]''

*'''Golfire Grimlock''' (Voyager, 2009?)
**''Accessories'': Flaming sword

: Golfire Grimlock appears to be a redeco of his voyager toy, sporting a gold and black color scheme, with a few silver parts too. Me, Grimlock King!

{{Comingsoontoy}}



[[Image:ActivatorGrimlock.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Tonight, on Jurassic Fight Club: Nanotyrannus!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Activator, 2008)

: Part of the third assortment of [[Activators|Activators]], this is a smaller, simplified version of the larger Grimlock toy. He features a spring-loaded [[Autotransform|auto-transformation]] from beast to robot mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/ActGrimlock/grimlock.htm%7C More information on Activators Grimlock at TFU.info]''

[[Image:Animated-toy_FireblastGrimlock.JPG|right|200px|thumb|]]
*'''Fireblast Grimlock''' (Activator, 2009)

{{Comingsoontoy}}

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==Trivia==
* Grimlock took his name by forming a portmanteau out of a sentence spoken by Megatron: "My prospects are '''grim''', '''lock'''ed in this prison of a lab." Who knew he had it in him? In fact, he's the only Dinobot shown to have a name in the cartoon at ''all.''
* Likewise, he's been the only ''Animated'' Dinobot to actually speak. He may not talk pretty, but maybe he deserves some credit for making it THAT far.
* As seen in ''[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]'' when he is very angry (or in love), his head pops up and some fire shoots up from around his collar in robot mode. That is awesome.

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm Grimlock at TFU.info]

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[[Category:Animated characters]]
[[Category:Dinobots]]

Sparkplug (Animated human)

2009-03-22T13:10:30Z

69.254.94.220: /* Animated cartoon */

{{disambig3|Sparkplug}}
:''Sparkplug is a [[Human|human]] from the [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]] [[Continuity family|continuity family]].''

[[Image:Anisparkplugwitwicky.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He wants to be John Goodman in the worst way.]]
'''Sparkplug''' is a construction worker in New [[Detroit|Detroit]].

Whether or not he's related to [[Spike Witwicky (Animated)|any]] [[Carly Witwicky (Animated)|other]] [[Daniel Witwicky (Animated)|citizens]] is unknown.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Bumper Robinson|Bumper Robinson]] (1st appearance) and [[David Kaye|David Kaye]] (2nd appearance)

Sparkplug was overseeing two construction bots in a mine, being paid by [[Isaac Sumdac|Isaac Sumdac]] to find something. Only problem was, that something found them...and it had [[Space barnacles|friends]]. Sparkplug was attacked, and was presumed dead. {{storylink|Nature Calls|Nature Calls}}

Except he got better. While the [[Autobot|Autobots]] were looking for [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] and [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]], the Autobot [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] thought that Sparkplug's truck was Mixmaster, and fired several bursts from his stingers, which did nothing to damage the truck. Upon being attacked by another alien lifeform, Sparkplug displayed both calmness and familiarity with modern slang by asking "Dude, why you whaling on my truck?" after Bumblebee's attack. Guess that encounter in the mines wasn't as bad as we thought. {{storylink|Sari, No One's Home|Sari, No One's Home}}

He later was driving an oil tanker and got mugged by the Constructicons

==Trivia==
*Sparkplug is clearly a homage to [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug Witwicky]], patriarch of the [[Witwicky|Witwicky]] family from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. And he's still wearing that hardhat. Why he talks like a frat boy in his second appearance is anybody's guess.

[[Category:Animated characters]]
[[Category:Humans]]

Facial hair

2009-03-21T23:24:15Z

69.254.94.220: /* Animated */

[[Image:WreckGar.JPG|right|300px|thumb|But teeth are out of the question.]]
Some [[Transformer|Transformers]] have facial features that resemble [[Human|human]] '''facial hair'''. These features sometimes indicate age, but this is not always the case.

==Transformers with facial hair==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Scourge.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Just like daddy.]]
*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|A3/Alpha Trion]]
*[[Detritus|Detritus]]
*[[Early Decepticon leader|Early Decepticon leader]]
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]
*[[Unicron|Unicron]]
*[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]
*[[Governor Raikuru|Governor Raikuru]]
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====Beast Era====
*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] (''Wreckers'')
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] ([[Transmetal 2|Transmetal 2]])
*[[Ramulus|Ramulus]]
*[[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] (''Beast Machines'')
*[[Tigatron|Tigatron]]
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===Unicron Trilogy===
[[Image:Alphatrionsigomega.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I've got a wicked sweet mustache! Who wants to touch me?]]
*[[Alpha Trion (Energon)|Alpha Trion/Sig-Omega]]
*[[Bulkhead (Energon)|Bulkhead]]
*[[Levitacus|Levitacus]]
*[[Quickstrike (Energon)|Quickstrike]]
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===Shattered Glass===
[[Image:Rodimus goatee.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Fear the power of the 'stache!]]
*[[Rodimus (Shattered Glass)|Rodimus]]
*[[Bug Bite (Shattered Glass)|Bug Bite]]

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===Animated===
[[Image:Scrapperanimated.jpg|right|150px|thumb|]]
*[[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] (The Lemmy)
*[[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] (Sideburns)
*[[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] (Van Dyke)
*[[Wheeljack (Animated)|Wheeljack]] (beard and Walrus Mustache)
*[[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]]
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==See also==
*[[Humanizing|Humanizing]]

[[Category:Transformer anatomy]]

General Grievous

2009-03-18T15:06:57Z

69.254.94.220: /* Crossovers */

: ''General Grievous is a... something in [[Star Wars]].''

[[Image:Grievous.jpg|thumb|right|250px|He's very proud of his [[Frenzy (Movie)|little brother]].]]
'''General Grievous''' has trained in the art of lightsaber combat with the evil Count Dooku. He is skilled in several unorthodox fighting techniques, such as a "furious four-lightsaber assault", and has used these skills to cut down several [[Jedi]] Knights. Now, Grievous changes into Wheel Bike mode to hunt and destroy [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and the remaining Jedi. <ref>Star Wars Transformers General Grievous Wheel Bike package</ref> He is the leader of the Separatist army, which apparently has lots of droids. <ref>Star Wars Transformers Obi-Wan Kenobi Jedi Starfighter package</ref> We're repeatedly told that he's much-feared.

He seems to be a raging religious bigot against Jedi. But what manner of being is this Grievous?

==Toys==
===Star Wars Transformers===
*'''General Grievous Wheel Bike''' (2006)
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===Crossovers===
*'''General Grievous Starfighter''' (Star Wars, 2008)

==Footnotes==
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==External links==
*[[w:c:starwars:Grievous|General Grievous at Wookieepedia]]
*[[w:c:starwars:Tsmeu-6_personal_wheel_bike|Grievous' Wheel Bike at Wookieepedia]]

[[Category: Crossovers characters]]
[[Category: Star Wars properties]]
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Starscream (G1)/toys

2009-03-17T17:56:01Z

69.254.94.220: /* Universe (2008) */ toy is already out

Many toys have been made of [[Starscream (G1)|G1 Starscream]], enough to warrant this page!
==Toys==
===Generation 1===
* '''Starscream''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/1986, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2004)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''22, TFC-09'''
[[Image:G1Starscream_toy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|[[Skywarp (G1)|Then]] [[Sunstorm (G1)|about]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|eight]] [[:Image:G1BlackStarscream toy.jpg|million]] [[Seeker|redecos]] [[e-Hobby|followed]].]]

: Starscream's first toy was taken from the ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, transforming into an F-15 Eagle fighter jet. In this mode he is armed with two cluster bombs, essentially shortened projectiles made to resemble (somewhat) the drop tanks that a real F-15 might carry. There are numerous minor construction variations on this mold, common for most of the ''Diaclone''-based Transformers.

: To transform Starscream, one must essentially take most of his plane parts off and transform his body, then reattach his plane parts on again, although if you don't mind being fiddly, it certainly can be achieved with only the fists and weapons being actually removed. In robot mode, the cluster bomb projectiles are replaced with long 'null rays''.
 
{{note|For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[Tech Spec]]s were switched around. Starscream was given Thundercracker's numbers.}}

: The first reissue of Starscream was practically identical to the original toy and was released by [[Takara]] in Japan in 2001.

: Starscream was reissued in normal colors for Hasbro's [[Commemorative Series]] in 2003. The release had remolded elongated missiles and launchers as to comply with current US toy safety laws.

: Starscream's [[Transformers Collection|T/F Collection]] reissue from 2003 featured show-accurate colors and retooled fists to hold a new miniature Megatron gun-mode accessory. An [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] fist that could hold the gun was also included, as was a DVD.

: This mold is notorious for having many missing pieces due to the... modular design of its transformation. As such, an intact set is hard to come by. While it is impossible for all the pieces to fit in any one form of the toy, the landing gear can fit in the cockpit for storage in robot mode. Still, only one set of missiles can be fit into the launchers at one time.

: This mold is [[redeco]]ed into [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], and [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]. It is also [[retool]]ed as [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].

[[Image:PretenderStarscream_toy.jpg|right|thumb|150px|You can tell he's evil because he's spiky.]]
* '''Starscream''' (Classic Pretender, 1989)

:Starscream was released as a [[Classic Pretender]] with a human shell of a badly dressed man. The inner robot was a simplified version of the original toy, that transformed into an almost [[superdeformed]] F-15 fighter. His arms, legs and rear wing assemblies were all cast in blue plastic, with the latter also serving as dual laser weapons in robot mode.

* '''Starscream''' (Legends, 1989)

:The inner robot of Pretender Starscream was also sold separately as a K-Mart [[exclusive]] "[[Legends (G1)|Legends]]" figure, and was released with Legends [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz]], and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] in a Japanese giftset the same year.

* '''Starscream''' (Action Master, 1990)
[[Image:ActionmasterStarscream_toy.jpg|left|thumb|150px|He loved the gray helmet so much, he used it again.]]

: ''Action Master'' Starscream is a non-transforming action figure based loosely on his cartoon appearance but using a colour scheme derived from the Pretender toy. His main accessory is the [[Attack Jet]], a small personal attack craft that Starscream can set astride like a motorcycle. The Attack Jet rolls on three small wheels, and can transform into a gun emplacement. This mould was [[redeco]]ed as [[Thundercracker (G1)#Generation 1|Action Master Thundercracker]].

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[[Image:GhostStarscream_toy.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Wait a minute. Since when do ghosts have painted metal chests?]]
* '''Ghost Starscream''' (2001)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-22'''

: Ghost Starscream was an [[e-Hobby]] [[exclusive]] release of the 2001 Starscream reissue, cast almost entirely in translucent plastics, except for those parts made of die-cast metal.

* '''Black Starscream''' (2001)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-22'''
[[Image:G1BlackStarscream_toy.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Who am I again?]]

: Black Starscream was also an e-Hobby exclusive release, with his colours loosley based upon [[Machine Wars]] Starscream, though his deco has much darker shades of gray, lacks clear blue plastic and has gold as one of his primary colours.
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* '''Secret Starscream''' (2001)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-22'''
[[Image:Secret_Starscream.jpg|right|thumb|150px|I'm so invisible even '''I''' don't know if I exist.]]

: An all-clear Starscream was made for the ''Transformers: Generations'' Lucky Draw contest. This figure was limited to 5 pieces, making it one of the rarest TFs in the world. Four of the winners are still unknown, but the fifth figure is currently owned by [http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/toyreview.php?review=712 Transformers @ The Moon.] Secret Starscream differs from Ghost Starscream in that its plastic parts are completely clear and not color tinted.
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===Generation 2===
* '''Starscream''' (Decepticon Jet, 1993)
[[Image:G2Starscream_toy.jpg|left|thumb|150px|With my camouflaged wings, I'll appear to be merely a fuselage flying through the sky!]]

:Starscream's ''Generation 2'' release was a [[retool]] of his original toy with new missiles, launchers, and a sound box. His colours are essentially a combination of G1 Ramjet, his own original colours, and a replacement of his dark blue plastic with light grey.

:The new accessories were also used, in different colours, for Generation 2 Ramjet.

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===Machine Wars===
* '''Starscream''' (Ultra, 1997)
[[Image:MWStarscream_Toy.jpg|right|thumb|160px|Ohh! Slice!]]

: Starscream's [[Machine Wars]] release was a recolour of the Predator [[Skyquake]] with fewer missiles, no hand-held projectile launcher, and most of the gimmicks removed. He transforms into a large bomber based vaguely upon an SR-71 Blackbird. He still retains his "carpet bombing" gimmick, a rolling drum that drops his missiles from each wing.

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===Smallest Transforming Transformers===
* '''Starscream''' (2003)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF-03'''
[[Image:STFStarscream_toy.jpg|left|thumb|150px|I will rule all the redecos, Megatron!]]

: This version of Starscream was a very small-scale simplification of the original Starscream toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays.

:This mold was of-course redecoed and retooled into Thundercracker, Skywarp and Thrust.

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===Robot Masters===
*'''Starscream''' (Deluxe, 2004)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RM-12'''
[[Image:RobotMastersStarscream_toy.jpg|right|thumb|150px|I feel correct. That can't be good.]]

: Starscream's ''[[Robot Masters]]'' toy is a re-imagining of the original toy, designed to be closer to the animation model, with greater poseability and integrated parts that did not require detachment during transformation (with the exception of his null-ray blasters). After re-engineering the design to stay roughly in one piece during transformation, Takara then gave him chromed missile pods that attach to his chestplate. Although not his usual choice of weapon, these are show-accurate: Starscream used them once in the episode "Fire On The Mountain" to attack [[Trailbreaker]] and [[Brawn]].

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*'''Starscream Limited Black Version''' (Deluxe, 2004)
[[Image:RMBlackStarscream.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Okay now I feel used. That's much better.]]

: Available only via mail-order from ''Figure King Magazine'', Black Starscream is a repaint of ''Robot Masters'' Starscream, swapping out his reds and blues for black, and some of his grey for black.

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===Masterpiece===
* '''Starscream''' (2006)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-3'''
[[Image:MasterpieceStarscream_toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|And the fandom complained (and rejoiced)]]

: ''Masterpiece'' Starscream is a high-quality, superbly detailed collectable Transformer toy. He transforms into a mostly accurate F-15E Eagle, with weapons options ranging from a rack of Sidewinder missiles to his trademark null ray cannons. In robot mode he is a highly detailed, well-articulated (especially the hands), yet stylized version of his original robot mode. His chest turbines flip up to reveal a bank of missiles each, and his face can be rotated so as to display either a stern or a smirking face. His wings can also be angled to 90° to make him take the look of his original G1 toy. Amusingly, the transformation allow the pilot's seat to stay straight in robot's mode.

:He comes with a small figurine of [[Doctor Arkeville]], his partner-in-crime for several early episodes of Generation 1; a display stand that can be used in both fighter and jet modes; and an extensive sheet of sticker decals, including variously sized Decepticon symbols, squadron numbers and squadron markings, including one of [[Waspinator]]!

: ''Masterpiece'' Starscream was the second all-new sculpt in the ''Masterpiece'' series of toys, and was envisioned as the finest toy representation of the original Starscream ever created. To this end, famed Japanese mecha designer (and former Diaclone toy designer) [[Shoji Kawamori]] was recruited to oversee the design and engineering of this toy. The first prototype design was essentially a much more complex version of the original toy, based upon his cartoon and then-recent comic appearances, with a much more accurate F-15 Eagle fighter mode. However, Kawamori felt the design could be improved, particularly the details and underside of the fighter mode, as he did not want what would have basically been a new version of the old toy.

: Based on Kawamori's suggestions, a new prototype design was made, with major structures located in his legs now moved up to his hips (though they can be detached and put on his legs), with his transformation and design streamlined to create an even more realistic F-15 design. Even so, Kawamori was still unhappy with the amount of robotic parts visible underneath the plane, but conceded that too many changes would essentially not make the toy look like Starscream in robot mode.

: On his control art, there are pictures of Starscream that have him wearing his Decepticon Crown of Leadership, as seen in the coronation scene of the original animated movie. On the toy itself, his head and shoulders have notches for parts to attach to, suggesting that TakaraTomy have reserved Starscream's coronation parts for a later release of this toy.

: Oddly, Starscream's fighter colour scheme is inaccurate to real F-15E hull colours (Gunship Gray, colour code FS 36118) , in that it has more of a green-blue tinge, which has made collectors wonder why TakaraTomy bothered changing Starscream's colours in the first place, especially as Starscream's original pale grey is ''very'' close match to FS 36375, the main grey used on real F-15s of the 1980s. Additionally, his missiles are painted in the wrong colours (they should be the same grey) and are mounted sideways on their pylons, which is why they only have three fins on the back instead of four - they couldn't fit the fourth fin as they mounted the missiles themselves incorrectly.

===Classics===
* '''Starscream''' (Deluxe, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles

[[Image:ClassicsStarscream_toy.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Fear my extra-long null rays!!!]]

: ''Classics'' Starscream is a faithful reproduction of his original toy, but with modern standards of toy engineering, transformation, sculpting detail and articulation. He still transforms into an F-15 Eagle, but has the nose of an F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. His color scheme is inspired by photolab-edited photographs of the prototype F-15 Eagle, as the original photos and the actual colors of the prototype fighter were actually sky blue with bright orange markings.

: In robot mode, Starscream is essentially a very detailed version of his cartoon robot mode, with many design elements that would also find their way into Masterpiece Starscream. He is armed with two (overly large) null-ray missile launchers, which are so large that they restrict his arm movement due to them bumping into his wings.

: Later versions of Starscream saw a [[retool]] in the jet intake area first seen on Classics [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. The slope of his shoulders was decreased, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This version of Starscream is the harder to find of the two. This retooled version was used for Classics Skywarp, [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]].

: One should note that certain plastic sections such as Starscream's back panel and tailfin assemblies are made of unusually rigid gray plastic that is slightly prone to cracking or breaking. Said parts should be handled with care.

* '''Masterpiece Starscream''' (2007)
**''Accessories:'' 2 null ray cannons, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville figure, Megatron gun clip, display stand

[[Image:Hasbro_Masterpiece_Starscream_toy.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Wait, you say the ''Hasbro'' version is the slavishly 'toon-accurate one? Your credibility is on shaky ground, Wiki.]]

: A Wal-Mart exclusive, Hasbro's release of ''Masterpiece'' Starscream has been redecoed ''extensively'' to resemble the animation model of Starscream, down to the orange canopy and the silver nosecone (as opposed to the original toy's blue). In an effort to bring out detail in the sculpt, he has also been given an extensive paint wash to bring out his panel lines. Starscream includes the same accessories included in the Takara release of this toy, including a display stand, sidewinder missiles, a small figurine of Doctor Arkeville (which now has the correct skin color), and the clip to hold Masterpiece Convoy's Megatron gun while in jet mode. Starscream was finally given the correct tech spec stats he was originally supposed to have back in 1984 for this release, Skywarp's stats.

:The tips on the Starscream's vertical stabilizers were shortened and rounded for the U.S. release, and the plastics used overall have greater resilience to impact and damage than the fragile Japanese release.

:This version of Starscream was also released in Japan as an exclusive item in the same packaging but with different paint applications. It uses the unmodified version of the mold used for MP-3 Starscream and MP-6 Skywarp.
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===Titanium Series===
* '''Starscream''' (Robot Masters, 2006)
[[Image:TitaniumRM_Starscream.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Stop, in the name of love...]]

: Released in wave 2, the first ''[[Titanium]]'' Starscream is a small, non-transforming die-cast metal figurine, based upon his Generation 1 cartoon appearances. He is sculpted holding Megatron in gun mode in his left hand, and holding up is palm outward with his right, while using his jets to fly up. EXCITEMENT.

: This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.

* '''War Within Starscream''' (Cybertron Heroes, 2007)
[[Image:TitaniumHeroesWWStarscream_toy.jpg|left|thumb|150px|"How ''dare'' you make ''me'' a redeco?! Do you know who I am?!"]]

: War Within Starscream is a redeco of "War Within" Thundercracker (talk about irony). He transforms into a Cybertronian 'tetrajet', as re-imagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal.

: This mold was used to make "War Within" Sunstorm.

===Attacktix===
*'''Starscream''' (200?)

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===Revoltech===
* Series No. 046 '''Starscream''' (2008)

:A non-transforming but ''highly'' articulated Starscream action figure, [[Revoltech]] Starscream uses the ''Revoltech'' "revolver joints" for maximum articulation. It comes with his twin null-ray cannons, a gun-mode Megatron, a posing stand, and three extra hands (a Megatron-holding right hand, an open-palmed right hand, and a left hand for pointing or disco-dancing).<ref>[http://bakaneko.way-nifty.com/revoltech/2008/01/post_909a.html Photos of the set contents at Revoltech's official blog site.]</ref><ref>[http://www.amiami.com/shop/?vgForm=ProductInfo&sku=TOY-RBT-0148&template=review.html Large images of the figure and its accessories at the online store Amiami.]</ref>
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===Henkei! Henkei! Transformers===
*'''Starscream''' {Deluxe, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-03'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles
[[Image:Henkei_Starscream_toy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|He feels much better in the boring ol' stripes.]]

: ''[[Classics (2006)#Henkei! Henkei! Transformers|Henkei! Henkei! Transformers]]'' Starscream is a redeco of ''Classics'' Starscream. He features considerably different paint applications that more closely mimic the original ''Generation 1'' cartoon model, as well as a more opaque grey plastic base. Like all ''Henkei'' toys, he lacks the heat-sensitive [[rubsign]] that the ''Classics'' counterpart featured, but has two [[Vacuum metalizing|vacuum-metallized]] barrels on his missile launchers.
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===Universe (2008)===
*'''Starscream''' (Legends Class, 2008)
: This toy is a [[redeco]] of the [[Legends of Cybertron]] [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], transforming into an SU-37 fighter jet.

: This mold was also used to make the ''Classics'' Legends-class [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and will also be used for a Universe Legends [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] as part of a group of Legends classed Combiner leaders.

===Unreleased===
* '''Starscream''' ([[Transtech]], 2001)
[[Image:Starscream-transtech.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Obscure both by design and by accident]]
Starscream would have been made available in the aborted Transtech series. Control art and early prototype images have surfaced, showing that the toy would have been at the Deluxe scale and featured internal lighting mechanisms that changed color depending on its mode. The toy is clearly a homage to his Machine Wars body, which at the time of Transtech's intended release would have been the last form Starscream had inhabited in American markets.
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==Merchandise==
===Heroes of Cybertron===
:The ''Heroes of Cybertron'' PVC figurine line is an adaptation by Hasbro of Takara's own ''Super Collection Figure'' line. The main differences between the two lines is that Hasbro cast Autobot and Decepticon figures in clear blue or clear red PVC respectively, then completely painted the figurines. This allowed the eyes to 'glow' when placed in front of the light source.

* '''Starscream''' (2002)
: Repaint of the Japanese SCF Starscream figure. Non-transforming, true to the animation model. Distinctive from the Japanese release with its glossy paint and "light-up" eyes.

* '''Starscream''' (2002)

: Originally a chase figure in Japan, this remold of the regular figure includes a cape, newly molded limbs, and a head with the crown as seen in the movie.

* '''Starscream''' (2003)

: Above, but part of a six-pack of figures which also included Thundercracker, Skywarp, and three Clones from the [[OTFCC 2003]] convention set.

===Mega SCF===
* '''Starscream''' (2002)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''MegaSCF TF 07'''

[[Image:Mega_SCF_Starscream.jpg|left|120px|thumb|Just keep it away from any [[Galvatron (G1)|reformatted megalomaniacs]].]]

Starscream is an highly articulated non transforming action figure. He comes with removable shoulder pads and cloak. He has a choice of normal head or a head with a crown. He also includes extra hands one of which holds Megatron in gun mode.

===Robot Heroes===
* '''Starscream''' (Mirage Vs Starscream, 2007)
[[Image:Robot_Hero_Starscream.jpg|right|thumb|150px|He's cute when he betrays you.]]

: Starscream is two inch high figure sculpted in a super deformed style and articulated at the shoulders. This figure was later redecoed as (guess what) Thundercracker for the Jazz vs. Thundercracker set. It also was redecoed as Skywarp in the "Decepticon Sneak Attack" set.

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===3D Battle-Card Game===
*'''Classic Starscream''' (2007)

: A 42-point "rare" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, "Classic" Starscream "transforms" into a grey and red fighter jet with a color scheme based on his ''Classics'' toy. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].
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===Transformers - Mini Bust===
[[Image:Starscream_statue.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Only half here and I still look this good.]]
* '''Starscream''' (Diamond Select, 2008)
Released by Diamond Select Toys in 2008, Starscream was sculpted by Mark Wong of Art Asylum and limited to 1,000 pieces.
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Spotlight: Mirage

2008-05-10T20:32:49Z

69.254.94.220:

[[Image:Spotlight_Mirage_a.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mirage ponders becoming a Decepticon... What a fresh idea for this series!]]
{{comicnav | Spotlight (comics)| 13 | seriesname=''The Transformers: Spotlight''| prev=Spotlight: Arcee | next=Spotlight: Grimlock }}
'''In an alternate universe, Mirage betrays the Autobots'''

==Synopsis==
Mirage dreams of an explosion, Hound asking if he is alright, Starscream spearing Optimus Prime, of himself injured, himself in a mirror and is disturbed that in the dream, he is an [[Autobot]].

[[Decepticon]] Mirage awakens and speaks via a comm channel to Megatron, who is waiting for Mirage to deliver his promise of Prime and the Autobots. Mirage bargains for a share in Megatron's [[energon]] mining operations to ensure the end of the war.

In the [[Pegasus Star Cluster]], the battered Autobots are out of energon, but Hound is working with [[Zodiac]] energy, a source with cross-dimensional properties. Ratchet tends to an injured Jetfire. Bumblebee bypasses the security perimeter and they open the blast door to let him in. Once in, he blasts the security system, revealing he is actually Mirage in disguise. With security down, the other Decepticons rush in and the two sides do battle. Soundwave is beheaded by Hound but Mirage takes Jetfire hostage, saying that he would spare his life if the Autobots surrender. Under initial protest by Hound, Prime surrenders after Mirage guarantees the safety of the others.

Mirage contacts Megatron and informs him of the news. Though Mirage states they should be treated as prisoners of war, Megatron insists that Mirage kill them or he won't get his payment. As Mirage prepares to spear Hound, Optimus Prime reminds Mirage of his conflict when he joined the Decepticons and that they were friends before the war. Mirage grows angry and kills Hound, enraging Prime, who runs into Mirage and sends him crashing into the Zodiac energy chamber.

Mirage once again has a similar dream as the beginning of the tale, but is disturbed that in the dream, he is a Decepticon. But of course, it is just a dream...

==Credits==
'''Script:''' [[George Strayton]] 
'''Art:''' [[Guido Guidi]] 
'''Colors:''' [[Josh Burcham]] 
'''Lettering:''' [[Chris Mowry]] 
'''Editors:''' [[Andrew Steven Harris]] 
* ''Originally published:'' March 5, 2008
* ''Continuity:'' [[IDW continuity]]

===Major characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s

|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (2)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (4)
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (5)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (6)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (7)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (12)

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (1)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (3)
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (8)
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (9)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (10)
* [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (11)

|}

== Errors ==
* None yet identified.

== Items of note ==
* Thus far, Mirage has not traveled to Earth in the main IDW storyline; therefore, how and when this issue fits into the [[IDW continuity]] is up for debate. Future stories could rectify the discrepancy by having him transferred to Earth; if not, it could be chalked up to the story's what-if nature, which already deals with at least one alternate reality.
* After the story is an [[IDWords]] section about ''[[The Reign of Starscream]]''.

===Covers (2)===
* '''Cover A:''' 3 images of Mirage by Guido Guidi
* '''Cover RI:''' B&W sketch of cover A

===Advertisements===
* ''[[Spotlight: Grimlock]]''
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* ''[[The Ascending]]'' TPB
* ''[[Target 2006]]'' TPB
* ''[[Transformers: Animated]]'' books
* ''Journey'', ''Crossfire'' and ''Licensable BearTM'' comics
* ''Obscure: The Aftermath'' game
* ''[[The Reign of Starscream]]'' (back cover)

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Escalation issue 1

2008-05-10T19:44:52Z

69.254.94.220: /* Items of note */

[[Image:Escalation_1_a.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Wheeljack's latest invention: gaydar]]
{{comicnav | Escalation | 1 | seriesname=''The Transformers: Escalation''| prev=Stormbringer issue 4 | next=Escalation issue 2}}
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== Synopsis ==
Drake and his team use a sophisticated VR simulation to train on how to destroy a Transformer. This setup turns out to be in the back of a large camper van parked near [[Lake Michigan]].

At the bottom of said lake, aboard ''[[Ark-19]]'', Ratchet is informing the humans that Prowl has decided to send them back to their normal lives. Ratchet and Jazz have both grown fond of their human charges, but it is Sunstreaker and Ironhide who are tasked with ferrying the humans back home{{m-}}and although Ratchet and the humans blame Prowl, it seems the [[Autobot]] lieutenant was acting on Optimus Prime's orders.

In the meantime, after having been briefed on [[Ore-13]] by Astrotrain, Megatron brings his wayward unit to heel, and then issues an order to begin [[Siege mode|Phase Two]] by activating "the [[facsimile]]s."

As the two Autobots surface from the bottom of Lake Michigan, they are immediately picked up by Drake and his team, who make their move near the city of Lebanon in the US state of Michigan. While the Autobots are separated in traffic, Drake's team causes a jam, deploys a smoke screen, then temporarily immobilizes Ironhide while moving in on Sunstreaker with a disabling electrical charge. Ironhide, with Verity and Jimmy aboard, frantically weaves through the other cars caught in the jam, but the humans deploy a bazooka{{m-}}and by the time Ironhide catches up with Sunstreaker, the yellow Autobot, with Hunter inside, is already a burning wreck...

==Credits==
'''Script:''' [[Simon Furman]] 
'''Art:''' [[E. J. Su]] 
'''Colors:''' [[John Rauch]] with [[Zac Atkinson]] and [[Aaron Myers]] 
'''Lettering:''' [[Chris Mowry]] 
'''Editors:''' [[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor]] 
* ''Originally published:'' November 29, 2006
* ''Continuity:'' [[IDW continuity]]

===Featured characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
! style="background:#FFEEB8" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (5)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (6)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (11)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (2)
* [[Sunstreaker]] (10)

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (9)
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (8)

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" | '''Regulars'''
* [[Verity Carlo]] (7)
* [[Hunter O'Nion]] (3)
* [[Jimmy Pink]] (4)

'''Guests'''
* [[Drake]] (1)

| style="background:#FFEEB8" valign="top" |
|}
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== Errors ==
* None yet identified.

== Items of note ==
* Among the reports that Prime monitors in the issue's opening pages are:
:* [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Spotlight: Ultra Magnus|bringing in Swindle]].
:* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (with his battle helmet), reporting on a finding, presumably at the site of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s lab
:* [[Springer]], reporting on an unknown battle
:* [[Blades]], reporting that a Decepticon infiltration unit is laying low.
:* [[Wheelie]], complaining that noone listens to him
* The same cross-story technique is later used in ''[[Spotlight: Optimus Prime]]''.
* The "Decepticomments" page has readers' mail answered by [[Chris Ryall]] and ads for ''[[Transformers: The Animated Movie]]'' #2 and ''[[Spotlight: Hot Rod]]''.

===Covers (4)===
[[Image:Escalation01B.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Have a little Captain in you?]]
* '''Cover A''': Sunstreaker; art by [[E. J. Su]]
* '''Cover B''': Ironhide; art by [[Klaus Scherwinski]]
* '''Cover RI-A''': cover A uncolored
* '''Cover RI-B''': cover B uncolored

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* Manga editions of ''Stormbringer'' and ''The Gathering''
* ''Generations'' series
* ''[[Spotlight (comics)|Spotlight]]'' (first 5 issues)
* [[Escalation issue 2|''Escalation'' #2]]
* [[G.I. Joe]] with Kung Fu Grip (back cover)

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Terrorsaur (BW)

2008-05-05T02:16:17Z

69.254.94.220: /* Beast Wars */

{{picsneeded}}{{disambig3|Terrorsaur}}

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

[[Image:Terrorsaur-jp.jpg|thumb|300px|Smugly [[Starscream (disambiguation)|Starscream]]ish]]

Power-hungry and opportunistic, but lacking in the courage department, '''Terrorsaur''' never misses a chance to improve his standing within the Predacons. From cutting deals with [[Maximal]]s to finding and keeping new power sources for himself, Terrorsaur is always thinking two steps ahead. Unfortunately, the big guns of the Beast Wars are usually thinking at least ''four'' steps ahead, and Terrorsaur always ends up on the short end.

:''French name:'' '''Dinomenace'''
:''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Yi-lung''' ("Pterosaur")
:''Japanese name:'' '''Terrorsaurer'''
:''Spanish name:'' '''Terrorsaurio'''

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====Theft of the Golden Disk====

While the Predacon [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] stole the [[Maximal]] relic, the [[Golden Disk]], the Predacon who would later call himself Terrorsaur, along with [[Waspinator|the future Waspinator]] and [[Buzzbomb]], secured a getaway ship. They were meant to be working for [[Cryotek]]—however, Megatron had his own agenda that "Terrorsaur" was in on and Buzzbomb wasn't. True to form, "Terrorsaur" shot Buzzbomb in the back. {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}}

====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[Image:Terrorsaurbwdawn.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Don't let him name your stolen ship.]]
"Terrorsaur" and "Waspinator" stole the Predacon gang's ship. The two had a contest to decide who would get to name the ship, and "Terrorsaur" won. He settled on ''[[Darksyde]]'', though Megatron agreed that the loser's suggested name, ''Buzzerbot'', would have been more desirable.

Picking up the rest of their group, with the Golden Disk in tow, they left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] orbit. After a space battle with the [[Axalon (BW)|''Axalon'']], the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', and an unidentified Predacon ship, both the ''Axalon'' and the ''Darksyde'' entered a [[transwarp]] portal to an undisclosed time and place. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Beast Wars''====
'''Voice Actor:''' [[Doug Parker]] (English), [[Nobuo Tobita]] (Japanese), [[Marcos Henrique Melo Hailer]] (Portuguese)

One of the original members of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron's]] crew that stole the [[Golden Disk]], Terrorsaur usually teamed up with [[Waspinator]] to act as the Predacons' air power. Due to their partnership and Terrorsaur once retrieving Waspinator from rock burial despite being within range of an angry [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], they would appear to be friendly with each other (not too surprising when everyone else is a [[Scorponok (BW)|dim-witted kiss-up]] or [[Tarantulas (BW)|a creepy bastard]].

Throughout the Beast Wars Terrorsaur turned on Megatron at the drop of a hat, and was willing to team up with anyone who suggested doing so. Dinobot, [[Rattrap]], and an evil [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] each took a turn "teaming up" with Terrorsaur in his efforts.{{storylink|Equal Measures}} {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} {{storylink|Dark Designs}} In "[[Double Jeopardy]]" Megatron exposed Terrorsaur's incompetence to the rest of the Predacons, which made any remote possibility of them ever wanting to work for him even more remote.

His shining moment came when Terrorsaur discovered a floating mountain with an unstable cache of [[energon]] that super charged his frame and allowed him to easily depose Megatron. However, the power boost was brief in duration, and the Maximals were able to destroy the floating mountain before Terrorsaur could implement any of his grand designs. Even worse, none of the Predacons followed his lead and they brought Megatron back online while he was fighting the Maximals.{{storylink|Power Surge}}

Eventually, after being beaten back into line after each attempted takeover, Terrorsaur seemed to resign himself to his station... or, at least, decided to bide his time.

Terrorsaur's Beast Wars adventures came to an end when he was knocked into a lava pool by the [[quantum surge]] that resulted from the [[Planet Buster]]'s destruction. Noone really cared that much

===Beast Wars Metals Manga===

===Beast Wars Playstation Game===
Terrorsaur flew rescue missions, using his flight capabilities to rescue captured Predacons from the Maximals' prison ships.

===Beast Wars: Transmetals===

In one timeline, a [[Transmetal]] Terrorsaur took control from Megatron and won the Beast Wars. Unfortunately for the other Predacons, he loved being leader too much to bother leaving Earth - and the Ice Age froze them all. Whoops. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transmetals}}

===3H Universe Comics===
Terrorsaur (or an alternate-universe incarnation of him) was one of the many Cybertronians kidnapped from his timestream by agents of [[Unicron]] and held in the [[Cauldron]]. Terrorsaur escaped and (presumably) returned to his timestream thanks to the efforts of [[Trailbreaker]] and [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]].

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==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
*'''Terrorsaur''' (Basic)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-5'''

: Part of the first wave of ''Beast Wars'' toys, Terrorsaur transforms from an organic pteranadon to robot mode with a spring-loaded one-step transformation. In Japan, there are two different versions of this toy: one nearly identical to the [[Hasbro]] version, another with a more show-like coloration, lacking the green spots and purple paint, adding yellow to its beak and lightening the black plastic to gray.

: This mold was later used for [[Fractyl]], [[Hydra (BWN)|Hydra]], [[Lazorbeak]] and [[Dinobots (toyline)|Dinobots]] [[Terranotron (Dinobots)|Terranotron]].

*'''Terrorsaur''' (Deluxe Transmetal)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-43'''

: Transmetal Terrorsaur transforms into a robotic pteranodon. It has a third "vehicle" mode; reconfiguring its wings and revealing VTOL fans, plus its tail section splits open to reveal twin thruster engines. In robot mode, its wing-tips detach to form blade weapons.

: This mold was later [[redeco]]ed and slightly [[retool]]ed to make [[Beast Machines]] [[Terranotron (BM)|Terranotron]], and then redecoed and retooled ''differently'' to make [[Armada]] Terrorsaur. The mold was also the base model for the non-toy characters of ''Wreckers'' [[Fractyl]] and ''Armada'' [[Ravenus]].

===Merchandise===
* A [[Kabaya]] "[[candy toy]]" version of Terrorsaur was made available in Japan. Since he was [[gang molding|gang molded]] with the other three toys in the assortment, this unpainted plastic kit was mainly peach and yellow.

* An adorable "super-deformed" magnet of Terrorsaur was made as part of a set of show-cast ''Beast Wars'' magnets in Japan.

==Trivia==
* Terrorsaur apparently knows how to disarm a bomb (if he has enough time), since in "[[Equal Measures]]" Megatron orders him to disarm the Maximal bomb that was sent into the Predacon base.
* As Terrorsaur was dying in lava, his hand was briefly seen glowing, indicating that Terrorsaur was going through [[transmetal|transmetalization]]. This was probably included as a "Trap Door" so the writers could resurrect Terrorsaur or Scorponok if they needed them later.

* Terrorsaur's CGI model in "Theft of the Golden Disc" is based on [[Skyblast]] with a new head design. However, his CGI model is slightly different from his appearance in "Dawn of Future's Past".

*Terrorsaur is the first known contributor to the plight of the Bald Eagle, by eating one.
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Terrorsaur/terrorsaur.htm Terrorsaur at TFU.info]

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Garbage In, Garbage Out

2008-05-04T01:51:17Z

69.254.94.220: /* Continuity errors */

[[Image:Wreck-Gar-Ani.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[Wikipedia:Raging Bender|Gender Bender]]!]]

{{episodenav|animated|20|season=2|prev=Mission Accomplished|next=Velocity}}

'''AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a sentient robot who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.'''

==Summary==
Garbage is piling up all over [[Detroit]], as the trash-bots are malfunctioning and [[Sumdac Systems]] CEO Porter C. Powell refuses to repair them until the city and he can come to an agreement on payment. In Powell's office, a technician demonstrates a new form of the nanobots that [[Transform and Roll Out|caused big problems a while back]], designed this time to break garbage down to its component molecules, quickly and cheaply solving the garbage problem (while allowing Powell to charge the city a hefty fee).

Elsewhere, the [[Autobot]]s are trying to patch up their still-damaged reputation by helping pile garbage into scows. Ratchet ends up getting into a shouting match with an old man whose car ended up under a garbage mound, resulting in the car being dumped in the river and the two old grouches almost coming to blows. Captain Fanzone arrives to break up the scene and remarks that Ratchet needs to work on his "people skills". Prime agrees and assigns Bumblebee and Sari to try and help out Ratchet while they work more on the garbage problem. Ratchet is not happy with this.

Just before the Autobots depart, though, [[Sari Sumdac's key|Sari's key]] glows, but she quickly disregards this...and misses the emergence of a junk-robot from the scow, brought to life by an [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] shard. The confused machine tries to figure out his identity using the scraps around him, but is unsatisfied with the results. Spying a passing blimp with a sign for the Detroit police department with the slogan "We're Here to Help", the robot happily goes about trying to find some police for some help with his identity.

At the Decepticon base, Lugnut detects a surge in AllSpark energy, and Megatron concludes that another fragment must have turned up. Megatron orders Lugnut to retrieve it, while Lugnut continues his glory spouting as he leaves. Megatron's optical sensor begins to noticeably twitch.

Stuck in a traffic jam, Ratchet is about to display some serious road rage when Bumblebee puts on his siren and clears a path for them. Heading through, they a find [[Witwicky|a familiar couple]] who are expecting, but their car crashed on the way to the hospital. Ratchet agrees to take them to the hospital, then jets off at high speed, despite the warning to keep the mother calm.

Meanwhile, the robot is walking through down town Detroit, nearly causing a few accidents. The police, pursuing the Angry Archer, crash into the robot, who subsequently asks them for help. Archer tells the robot to throw them aside so that they can escape, and the robot agrees. When Archer inquires as to his identity, the robot responds that he is 'worthless wreck', 'walking pile of garbage', so the Archer dubs him Wreck-Gar. He tries to explain the that they steal from the rich and give to the poor (themselves), but Wreck-Gar gets the Archer's words confused. Seeing a passing armored car, Archer tells Wreck-Gar that they must go for, and Wreck-Gar picks up the Archer and chases after a car.

[[Image:New Spike and Carly.JPG|thumb|right|200px|"Oh Shit! What are we gonna do now!?"]]

Meanwhile, expecting mother Carly asks her husband, Spike, to ask the driver to slow down, only for Spike to learn that there is only a little girl in the car{{m-}}and no driver! Ratchet tells them to keep quiet as he tries to find a hospital, only for the armored car pursued by Wreck-Gar to be thrown through the air, landing in Ratchet's way. Jettisoning the Humans, Ratchet and Bumblebee try to stop Wreck-Gar, only for Angry Archer to flee with a canister that was in the armored car. As Sari points that Autobots are supposed to catch the bad guys, Wreck-Gar assumes that he is an Autobot, slaps on an [[Insignia|Autobrand]], and goes after the Archer. Bumblebee and Sari go after him, while Ratchet offers to drive the Spike and Carly to the hospital. They say they'll take a cab, and Ratchet mutters that people say he's rude.

Out running the swinging Archer, Wreck-Gar hurls him into the air, allowing the Angry Archer to escape, but the Canister falls into Wreck-Gar's backpack. As the Autobots and Sari show up, her key starts to glow, and they realize that Wreck-Gar was created by an AllSpark fragment. Ratchet rudely tells Wreck-Gar that he is not an Autobot and is only good for one thing: GARBAGE! Wreck-Gar [[Transformation|transforms]] into his garbage truck vehicle mode, and leaves to give garbage to the people of Detroit. As he leaves, he covers Sari and the Autobots in a pile of garbage.

Meanwhile, Lugnut has reached the city, and confronts Wreck-Gar in the military base he and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] previously visited. Demanding the AllSpark fragment, Wreck-Gar transforms. Wreck-Gar's repeating of Lugnut's statements leads him to conclude that Wreck-Gar is a loyal Decepticon, and Wreck-Gar slaps on a Decepticon symbol.

Back at the crime scene, Ratchet is removing the driver of the armored car when Powell and Fanzone show up. Powell reveals that the car was carrying the garbage devouring microbots to a demonstration for Mayor Edsel. However, the canister carrying them is gone. Sari is more than willing to let Powell suffer, but Ratchet is concerned about what the microbots might do if infused with AllSpark energy. Tracking Wreck-Gar to the base, Ratchet demands the Microbots, only for Lugnut to transform and activate his bomb punch. Wreck-Gar interprets this as the [[universal greeting]], and gives Lugnut a high five. Sari and the Autobots barely manage to avoid ground zero. As Lugnut transforms to attack, Wreck-Gar takes out the canister, which has cracked, allowing some of the microbots to touch Lugnut. Crying out in pain, Lugnut commands Wreck-Gar to get them off, so Wreck-Gar dissects Lugnut, causing the tail end to crash onto a garbage scowl. Bumblebee declares their problems over, but Ratchet is worried. If those microbots ate through Decepticon [[armor-plating]], there is no telling what they'll do to down town Detroit.

On the river bank, Powell arrives to cancel the presentation with the mayor, only for the group see the microbots eat the garbage in on the scowl, which cause Powell to start wheeling and dealing. As the scowl gets closer, Ratchet jumps from the bridge to stop it. He tries to reason with Wreck-Gar, but everything fails, leaving Ratchet to unleash the ultimate weapon...he apologizes. Telling Wreck-Gar he can be whatever he wants, Wreck-Gar decides to save the city, vacuuming up the microbots. However, Wreck-Gar's backpack explodes, causing him to fall into the river. Ratchet tries to pull him out with his magnets, but only finds junk. As Bumblebee and Sari declare Ratchet a hero, Powell cries foul, saying that he destroyed his product. Thus, no deal, and the garbage dispute will continue. Ratchet picks Powell, the Mayor, and his aide, telling them to make peace or be thrown into the river. Powell and Edsel agree to a small increase to re-service the garbage bots, ending the dispute. As the bystanders cheer, Ratchet takes it as cheer for him, leading him to conclude that he does have people skills. Sari and Bumblebee know differently, however.

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the river, Wreck-Gar, neck-deep in sediment, assures the sealife that he is a hero, and is there to help. First, however, he needs a hand. Or a fin. [[Lost and Found (Animated episode)#Quotes|Maybe a pelvis?]]

==Stats==

*'''Written by:''' [[Marty Isenberg]]
*'''Directed by:''' [[Ben Jones]] & [[Shunji Oga]]
*'''Original airdate:''' May 3, 2008

===Featured characters===


(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (4)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (5)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (7)
*[[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] (9)
| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Lugnut]] (10)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (11)
| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (1)
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (6)
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (8)
*[[Spike (Animated)|Spike]] (12)
*[[Carly (Animated)|Carly]] (13)
*[[Angry Archer]] (14)
*[[Mayor Edsel]] (15)
|}

==Quotes==

"Arh, I'm picking up a new AllSpark energy signal, my liege..." 
"No doubt another fragment has surfaced. Retrieve it Lugnut, before the Autobots get their filthy servos on it..." 
"Stasis lock itself can not deter me from your grand and glorious plan, Oh Wise and Noble Megatron!" 
''[left eye twitches]'' "Just... go..." 
"Yes, my liege!" 
:{{m-}}'''Lugnut's''' blind worship of his <s>queen</s> liege can get too much for '''Megatron''' sometimes...

'''Wreck-Gar''': I don't suppose you can tell me what I am, funny green man? 
'''Angry Archer''': You are erm...my partner-in-crime. They call me Angry Archer! 
'''Wreck-Gar''': They call me 'worthless wreck', 'walking pile of garbage!' 
'''Angry Archer''': Oh really? Bit of a mouthful. Perhaps we should just call you Wreck-Gar for short. 
:{{m-}} Angry Archer, Renaissance Man

"I am Wreck-Gar!"
:{{m-}}The opening to pretty much everything '''Wreck-Gar''' says from the moment he gets his name.

''[Sari, Spike, and a very pregnant Carly are almost crushed by an axle carelessly discarded by Ratchet]'' 
"Uh, I don't know much about these things, lady, but I think you're supposed to breathe or something."
:{{m-}}'''Sari''' the midwife.

'''Bumblebee''': ''[at Wreck-Gar]'' "What are you?" ''[To Sari]'' "What is he?" 
'''Sari''': "I don't know, but he's giving off a ton of AllSpark energy." 
'''Wreck-Gar:''' "I am Wreck-Gar! I give off a ton of AllSpark energy!" 
'''Bumblebee''': "So, what, an AllSpark fragment just brought a junk pile to life and, made some new kind of Autobot?!" 
'''Wreck-Gar''': "I am Wreck-Gar! I am some new kind of Autobot!" 
'''Ratchet''': "Listen up scrapheap. You are not an Autobot, and you never will be an Autobot. You're only good for one thing. GARBAGE!!" 
'''Wreck-Gar''': "I am Wreck-Gar! I am only good for one thing. GARBAGE!! I must deliver garbage to all!" ''[transforms and rolls out]''
:{{m-}} Ratchet's lack of people skills backfire again.

'''Lugnut''': Human! Surrender the AllSpark fragment. Now! 
'''Wreck-Gar''': No human here. I am Wreck-Gar! I am only good for one thing: ''GARBAGE''! 
'''Lugnut''': Are you an Autobot? 
'''Wreck-Gar''': I am Wreck-Gar! I am not an Autobot and will never be an Autobot! 
'''Lugnut''': Then you must be a Decepticon! 
'''Wreck-Gar''': I am Wreck-Gar! I must be a Decepticon! 
''[Wreck-Gar places a Decepticon badge on his chest]'' 
'''Lugnut''': ALL HAIL MEGATRON! 
'''Wreck-Gar''': All Hail Megatron!...Uh...what's a Megatron? 
:{{m-}}Wreck-Gar makes a new friend in Lugnut.

"You glitch-head!! You're gonna destroy the whole city! You wouldn't dare do something THAT stupid!" 
"I am Wreck-Gar! I ''dare'' to be stupid!"
:{{m-}} '''Ratchet''' and '''Wreck-Gar'''. Yes, but does he count his chickens before they hatch?

"I will destroy the whole city!"
:{{m-}} '''Wreck-Gar''', getting the hang of the Decepticon lifestyle.

"Fear not fellow creatures of the deep, I am Wreck-Gar, I am a hero...er...excuse me, could someone give me a hand...or a fin...anyone?""
:{{m-}}'''Wreck-Gar''' begins a new life under the sea, ''down where it's wetter, down where it's better, take it from meeeeeeee...''

==Other notes==
* This episode was first shown on Friday, April 25th, at [[BotCon 2008]]. The version aired still had the time-code running in the top-left corner.

* This episode is the first to feature Ratchet's official transformation animation-sequence

===Continuity errors===
*When removing trash into a boat, Optimus transforms and suddenly his trailer evaporated, together with all the trash on it.

*Why don't Sari or Ratchet react to the Allspark Key when it starts to glow, indicating the presence of AllSpark energy?

*Ratchet's EMP generator is missing from his arm throughout the entire episode. It seems to do that alot

===Transformers references===
[[Image:Beemeatcycle.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Most fanwanky episode ever?]]
* Wreck-Gar interprets Lugnut's incoming rocket punch as an invitation to a high-five, and he happily delivers the [[universal greeting]].

* Wreck-Gar's shifting allegiance and red optics as he faces down Ratchet on the garbage scow appear to be callbacks to the [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|original Wreck-Gar]], who at first appeared to be an enemy to the Autobots in his movie appearance, complete with red optics, and was even marketed as such in television [[commercial]]s.

* The ''Animated'' incarnations of Spike and Carly, who made a cameo in [[Transform and Roll Out!|the pilot episode]], re-appear with speaking lines and even get their names called out. Corey Burton even reprises his post-[[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]] voice for the adult [[Spike Witwicky]].

* The motorcycle altmode of G1 Wreck-Gar can be spotted amongst the garbage that Wreck-Gar throws at Bumblebee.

===Real-world references===
* Wreck-Gar's "I ''dare'' to be stupid!" is, of course, a reference to one of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s most well-known songs, "Dare to be Stupid", a Devo "style parody" that appeared on the soundtrack to [[The Transformers: The Movie|the original animated movie]] in the scene with the original Wreck-Gar.

* While driving Spike and Carly to the hospital, Ratchet drives past a toy store whose sign reads "Wyatt Toys." This is most likely a reference to [[Derrick Wyatt]], art director on the show.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Even Megatron gets annoyed from Lugnut's constant worshiping. [[Inferno (BW)|Sound familiar]]?

* The mayor never talks in the episode but his aid speaks for him. Maybe he's mute.

* Aside from Wreck-Gar, Weird Al also voiced the Sumdac Systems technician who explains the new version of the nanobots to Porter C. Powell.

* This is the first time we see Lugnut use his mace/axe weapon. It is awesome. It gets eaten by microbots.

* Given that Carly is about to give birth and in the pilot seemed to have a wafer-thin profile, the Autobots seem to have spent at least nine months in Detroit.

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Garbage In, Garbage Out

2008-05-04T01:32:27Z

69.254.94.220: /* Continuity errors */

[[Image:Wreck-Gar-Ani.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[Wikipedia:Raging Bender|Gender Bender]]!]]

{{episodenav|animated|20|season=2|prev=Mission Accomplished|next=Velocity}}

'''AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a sentient robot who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.'''

==Summary==
Garbage is piling up all over [[Detroit]], as the trash-bots are malfunctioning and [[Sumdac Systems]] CEO Porter C. Powell refuses to repair them until the city and he can come to an agreement on payment. In Powell's office, a technician demonstrates a new form of the nanobots that [[Transform and Roll Out|caused big problems a while back]], designed this time to break garbage down to its component molecules, quickly and cheaply solving the garbage problem (while allowing Powell to charge the city a hefty fee).

Elsewhere, the [[Autobot]]s are trying to patch up their still-damaged reputation by helping pile garbage into scows. Ratchet ends up getting into a shouting match with an old man whose car ended up under a garbage mound, resulting in the car being dumped in the river and the two old grouches almost coming to blows. Captain Fanzone arrives to break up the scene and remarks that Ratchet needs to work on his "people skills". Prime agrees and assigns Bumblebee and Sari to try and help out Ratchet while they work more on the garbage problem. Ratchet is not happy with this.

Just before the Autobots depart, though, [[Sari Sumdac's key|Sari's key]] glows, but she quickly disregards this...and misses the emergence of a junk-robot from the scow, brought to life by an [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] shard. The confused machine tries to figure out his identity using the scraps around him, but is unsatisfied with the results. Spying a passing blimp with a sign for the Detroit police department with the slogan "We're Here to Help", the robot happily goes about trying to find some police for some help with his identity.

At the Decepticon base, Lugnut detects a surge in AllSpark energy, and Megatron concludes that another fragment must have turned up. Megatron orders Lugnut to retrieve it, while Lugnut continues his glory spouting as he leaves. Megatron's optical sensor begins to noticeably twitch.

Stuck in a traffic jam, Ratchet is about to display some serious road rage when Bumblebee puts on his siren and clears a path for them. Heading through, they a find [[Witwicky|a familiar couple]] who are expecting, but their car crashed on the way to the hospital. Ratchet agrees to take them to the hospital, then jets off at high speed, despite the warning to keep the mother calm.

Meanwhile, the robot is walking through down town Detroit, nearly causing a few accidents. The police, pursuing the Angry Archer, crash into the robot, who subsequently asks them for help. Archer tells the robot to throw them aside so that they can escape, and the robot agrees. When Archer inquires as to his identity, the robot responds that he is 'worthless wreck', 'walking pile of garbage', so the Archer dubs him Wreck-Gar. He tries to explain the that they steal from the rich and give to the poor (themselves), but Wreck-Gar gets the Archer's words confused. Seeing a passing armored car, Archer tells Wreck-Gar that they must go for, and Wreck-Gar picks up the Archer and chases after a car.

[[Image:New Spike and Carly.JPG|thumb|right|200px|"Oh Shit! What are we gonna do now!?"]]

Meanwhile, expecting mother Carly asks her husband, Spike, to ask the driver to slow down, only for Spike to learn that there is only a little girl in the car{{m-}}and no driver! Ratchet tells them to keep quiet as he tries to find a hospital, only for the armored car pursued by Wreck-Gar to be thrown through the air, landing in Ratchet's way. Jettisoning the Humans, Ratchet and Bumblebee try to stop Wreck-Gar, only for Angry Archer to flee with a canister that was in the armored car. As Sari points that Autobots are supposed to catch the bad guys, Wreck-Gar assumes that he is an Autobot, slaps on an [[Insignia|Autobrand]], and goes after the Archer. Bumblebee and Sari go after him, while Ratchet offers to drive the Spike and Carly to the hospital. They say they'll take a cab, and Ratchet mutters that people say he's rude.

Out running the swinging Archer, Wreck-Gar hurls him into the air, allowing the Angry Archer to escape, but the Canister falls into Wreck-Gar's backpack. As the Autobots and Sari show up, her key starts to glow, and they realize that Wreck-Gar was created by an AllSpark fragment. Ratchet rudely tells Wreck-Gar that he is not an Autobot and is only good for one thing: GARBAGE! Wreck-Gar [[Transformation|transforms]] into his garbage truck vehicle mode, and leaves to give garbage to the people of Detroit. As he leaves, he covers Sari and the Autobots in a pile of garbage.

Meanwhile, Lugnut has reached the city, and confronts Wreck-Gar in the military base he and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] previously visited. Demanding the AllSpark fragment, Wreck-Gar transforms. Wreck-Gar's repeating of Lugnut's statements leads him to conclude that Wreck-Gar is a loyal Decepticon, and Wreck-Gar slaps on a Decepticon symbol.

Back at the crime scene, Ratchet is removing the driver of the armored car when Powell and Fanzone show up. Powell reveals that the car was carrying the garbage devouring microbots to a demonstration for Mayor Edsel. However, the canister carrying them is gone. Sari is more than willing to let Powell suffer, but Ratchet is concerned about what the microbots might do if infused with AllSpark energy. Tracking Wreck-Gar to the base, Ratchet demands the Microbots, only for Lugnut to transform and activate his bomb punch. Wreck-Gar interprets this as the [[universal greeting]], and gives Lugnut a high five. Sari and the Autobots barely manage to avoid ground zero. As Lugnut transforms to attack, Wreck-Gar takes out the canister, which has cracked, allowing some of the microbots to touch Lugnut. Crying out in pain, Lugnut commands Wreck-Gar to get them off, so Wreck-Gar dissects Lugnut, causing the tail end to crash onto a garbage scowl. Bumblebee declares their problems over, but Ratchet is worried. If those microbots ate through Decepticon [[armor-plating]], there is no telling what they'll do to down town Detroit.

On the river bank, Powell arrives to cancel the presentation with the mayor, only for the group see the microbots eat the garbage in on the scowl, which cause Powell to start wheeling and dealing. As the scowl gets closer, Ratchet jumps from the bridge to stop it. He tries to reason with Wreck-Gar, but everything fails, leaving Ratchet to unleash the ultimate weapon...he apologizes. Telling Wreck-Gar he can be whatever he wants, Wreck-Gar decides to save the city, vacuuming up the microbots. However, Wreck-Gar's backpack explodes, causing him to fall into the river. Ratchet tries to pull him out with his magnets, but only finds junk. As Bumblebee and Sari declare Ratchet a hero, Powell cries foul, saying that he destroyed his product. Thus, no deal, and the garbage dispute will continue. Ratchet picks Powell, the Mayor, and his aide, telling them to make peace or be thrown into the river. Powell and Edsel agree to a small increase to re-service the garbage bots, ending the dispute. As the bystanders cheer, Ratchet takes it as cheer for him, leading him to conclude that he does have people skills. Sari and Bumblebee know differently, however.

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the river, Wreck-Gar, neck-deep in sediment, assures the sealife that he is a hero, and is there to help. First, however, he needs a hand. Or a fin. [[Lost and Found (Animated episode)#Quotes|Maybe a pelvis?]]

==Stats==

*'''Written by:''' [[Marty Isenberg]]
*'''Directed by:''' [[Ben Jones]] & [[Shunji Oga]]
*'''Original airdate:''' May 3, 2008

===Featured characters===


(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (4)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (5)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (7)
*[[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] (9)
| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Lugnut]] (10)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (11)
| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (1)
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (6)
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (8)
*[[Spike (Animated)|Spike]] (12)
*[[Carly (Animated)|Carly]] (13)
*[[Angry Archer]] (14)
*[[Mayor Edsel]] (15)
|}

==Quotes==

"Arh, I'm picking up a new AllSpark energy signal, my liege..." 
"No doubt another fragment has surfaced. Retrieve it Lugnut, before the Autobots get their filthy servos on it..." 
"Stasis lock itself can not deter me from your grand and glorious plan, Oh Wise and Noble Megatron!" 
''[left eye twitches]'' "Just... go..." 
"Yes, my liege!" 
:{{m-}}'''Lugnut's''' blind worship of his <s>queen</s> liege can get too much for '''Megatron''' sometimes...

'''Wreck-Gar''': I don't suppose you can tell me what I am, funny green man? 
'''Angry Archer''': You are erm...my partner-in-crime. They call me Angry Archer! 
'''Wreck-Gar''': They call me 'worthless wreck', 'walking pile of garbage!' 
'''Angry Archer''': Oh really? Bit of a mouthful. Perhaps we should just call you Wreck-Gar for short. 
:{{m-}} Angry Archer, Renaissance Man

"I am Wreck-Gar!"
:{{m-}}The opening to pretty much everything '''Wreck-Gar''' says from the moment he gets his name.

''[Sari, Spike, and a very pregnant Carly are almost crushed by an axle carelessly discarded by Ratchet]'' 
"Uh, I don't know much about these things, lady, but I think you're supposed to breathe or something."
:{{m-}}'''Sari''' the midwife.

'''Bumblebee''': ''[at Wreck-Gar]'' "What are you?" ''[To Sari]'' "What is he?" 
'''Sari''': "I don't know, but he's giving off a ton of AllSpark energy." 
'''Wreck-Gar:''' "I am Wreck-Gar! I give off a ton of AllSpark energy!" 
'''Bumblebee''': "So, what, an AllSpark fragment just brought a junk pile to life and, made some new kind of Autobot?!" 
'''Wreck-Gar''': "I am Wreck-Gar! I am some new kind of Autobot!" 
'''Ratchet''': "Listen up scrapheap. You are not an Autobot, and you never will be an Autobot. You're only good for one thing. GARBAGE!!" 
'''Wreck-Gar''': "I am Wreck-Gar! I am only good for one thing. GARBAGE!! I must deliver garbage to all!" ''[transforms and rolls out]''
:{{m-}} Ratchet's lack of people skills backfire again.

'''Lugnut''': Human! Surrender the AllSpark fragment. Now! 
'''Wreck-Gar''': No human here. I am Wreck-Gar! I am only good for one thing: ''GARBAGE''! 
'''Lugnut''': Are you an Autobot? 
'''Wreck-Gar''': I am Wreck-Gar! I am not an Autobot and will never be an Autobot! 
'''Lugnut''': Then you must be a Decepticon! 
'''Wreck-Gar''': I am Wreck-Gar! I must be a Decepticon! 
''[Wreck-Gar places a Decepticon badge on his chest]'' 
'''Lugnut''': ALL HAIL MEGATRON! 
'''Wreck-Gar''': All Hail Megatron!...Uh...what's a Megatron? 
:{{m-}}Wreck-Gar makes a new friend in Lugnut.

"You glitch-head!! You're gonna destroy the whole city! You wouldn't dare do something THAT stupid!" 
"I am Wreck-Gar! I ''dare'' to be stupid!"
:{{m-}} '''Ratchet''' and '''Wreck-Gar'''. Yes, but does he count his chickens before they hatch?

"I will destroy the whole city!"
:{{m-}} '''Wreck-Gar''', getting the hang of the Decepticon lifestyle.

"Fear not fellow creatures of the deep, I am Wreck-Gar, I am a hero...er...excuse me, could someone give me a hand...or a fin...anyone?""
:{{m-}}'''Wreck-Gar''' begins a new life under the sea, ''down where it's wetter, down where it's better, take it from meeeeeeee...''

==Other notes==
* This episode was first shown on Friday, April 25th, at [[BotCon 2008]]. The version aired still had the time-code running in the top-left corner.

* This episode is the first to feature Ratchet's official transformation animation-sequence

===Continuity errors===
*When removing trash into a boat, Optimus transforms and suddenly his trailer evaporated, together with all the trash on it.

*Why don't Sari or Ratchet react to the Allspark Key when it starts to glow, indicating the presence of AllSpark energy?

*When Ratchet is arguing with the old guy his EMP generator spot is missing. It tends to do that alot since he got it back.

===Transformers references===
[[Image:Beemeatcycle.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Most fanwanky episode ever?]]
* Wreck-Gar interprets Lugnut's incoming rocket punch as an invitation to a high-five, and he happily delivers the [[universal greeting]].

* Wreck-Gar's shifting allegiance and red optics as he faces down Ratchet on the garbage scow appear to be callbacks to the [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|original Wreck-Gar]], who at first appeared to be an enemy to the Autobots in his movie appearance, complete with red optics, and was even marketed as such in television [[commercial]]s.

* The ''Animated'' incarnations of Spike and Carly, who made a cameo in [[Transform and Roll Out!|the pilot episode]], re-appear with speaking lines and even get their names called out. Corey Burton even reprises his post-[[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]] voice for the adult [[Spike Witwicky]].

* The motorcycle altmode of G1 Wreck-Gar can be spotted amongst the garbage that Wreck-Gar throws at Bumblebee.

===Real-world references===
* Wreck-Gar's "I ''dare'' to be stupid!" is, of course, a reference to one of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s most well-known songs, "Dare to be Stupid", a Devo "style parody" that appeared on the soundtrack to [[The Transformers: The Movie|the original animated movie]] in the scene with the original Wreck-Gar.

* While driving Spike and Carly to the hospital, Ratchet drives past a toy store whose sign reads "Wyatt Toys." This is most likely a reference to [[Derrick Wyatt]], art director on the show.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Even Megatron gets annoyed from Lugnut's constant worshiping. [[Inferno (BW)|Sound familiar]]?

* The mayor never talks in the episode but his aid speaks for him. Maybe he's mute.

* Aside from Wreck-Gar, Weird Al also voiced the Sumdac Systems technician who explains the new version of the nanobots to Porter C. Powell.

* This is the first time we see Lugnut use his mace/axe weapon. It is awesome. It gets eaten by microbots.

* Given that Carly is about to give birth and in the pilot seemed to have a wafer-thin profile, the Autobots seem to have spent at least nine months in Detroit.

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Child's Play (episode)

2008-02-27T00:21:29Z

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

{{episodenav|g1|season=2|28|prev=Make Tracks|next=Quest for Survival}}
{{episodenav|SRLFtoon|40|prev=Triple Takeover|next=The Search for Alpha Trion}}

'''The Transformers find themselves on an alien planet where they're no bigger than toys to the inhabitants!'''

*'''Japanese title:''' "Children Play"

==Detailed synopsis==
At a baseball stadium on [[Earth]], the [[Decepticon]]s are setting up a [[space bridge]], over the objections of the [[human]]s. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] decides to let his troops have some fun: [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] fires baseballs at people from his cannons, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] play catch (using a human), [[Ravage]] chases a player around the field, and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] starts grabbing people in [[alternate mode|jet mode]]. The unwholesome family fun is ended when the [[Autobot]]s arrive. As [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the Autobots attack, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] tries to run a scan on the space bridge, but Megatron shoots the controls. However, Optimus Prime, Perceptor, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]], Soundwave, Ravage, Thrust, and Starscream are within the space bridge's confines at the time, and they are sucked into a portal along with the [[energon cube]]s. As Megatron laments the loss of the energon (and fails to notice the bright side of Optimus and Starscream probably being dead), the space bridge self-destructs. [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] leads the remaining Autobots back to the [[Ark (G1)|base]], hoping that [[Teletraan I]] can figure out where the others were sent.

Meanwhile, the lost Transformers awaken to find themselves somewhere else. All of a sudden, a large sphere lands atop Starscream. Then a monster attacks, chasing Soundwave. Thrust tries to fly away, but lands in a body of water. Also, Ravage is caught by some plant life. Convinced the Decepticons are no longer a threat, Optimus has the Autobots load the energon into his trailer, and they roll out. They find a building made of relatively poor materials, only to discover something quite shocking: They're in the bedroom of gargantuan alien child.

The boy, [[Aron]], places Starscream, Soundwave, Ravage, and Thrust in a small bowl, while [[Nitro]] (his pet and the creature that was chasing Soundwave) smells the Autobots. As Aron tells him to stop, the Decepticons escape. Thrust is tied down with a piece of string, Ravage is chased down like a mouse and locked in small cage with a rodent-like pet to run on a wheel (how embarrassing), and Soundwave is locked in a toy box. Starscream manages to hide in the small toy building and sees the Autobots. Naturally, Screamer fires his [[null-ray]] at the [[energon]], causing a fire. Starscream is quickly recaptured, and Inferno douses the fire. Optimus introduces the Autobots to Aron, when the boy's parents arrive. Hiding the Autobots in a desk drawer, Aron shows the Decepticons to his parents. However, Aron is also compelled to show the Autobots.

The Transformers are taken to a lab, where scientists intend to dissect them (starting with the Decepticons). However, Aron steals the Autobots away, with the authorities in pursuit. Aron hides behind a trash can, dodging his pursuers, but a local bully named [[Marty]] comes along. The Autobots hide within a trashcan, and Marty wanders off. Meanwhile, Ravage has picked his locks and frees the other Decepticons. Aron is still being chased by the authorities, so he intends to hide the Autobots at his house. However, Optimus tells Aron that they have to return to Earth, a planet far from this one. Aron wonders if he could see it through his telescope, and Perceptor happens upon an idea. However, Soundwave has overheard them. The authorities spot Aron, so the Autobots decide to escape by traveling to Aron's house through the sewers. The Decepticons see the Autobots and follow them below. As the two groups fight it out within the sewer, a wave comes along. (Let's not ponder what the wave is made of.) The Decepticons hightail it out, while the Autobots ride the wave in a teacup. Escaping out through a drainage pipe, the Autobots head to Aron's house.

Using Nitro as a way into Aron's room, Perceptor explains that they can use the energon, along with modifications to his [[light cannon]], to propel them to Earth through the telescope. Once he's ready, however, the Decepticons arrive and grab Bumblebee. Starscream orders Optimus to let them pass, and just as the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] is prepared to let them go, Nitro pounces, freeing Bumblebee but allowing the Decepticons to escape back to Earth...and land right in a lake filled with alligators.

Back on...whatever Aron's planet is called, Aron suggests using his toy rocket ship to go home. Perceptor is able to modify it for interstellar transport, and the Autobots depart, with Optimus telling Aron that whenever he looks into the sky, he'll be seeing them.

==Stats==
'''Original airdate:''' ???

'''Written by:''' Beth Bornstein

===Featured Characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobots]]
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticons]]
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human|Humans]]
! style="background:#FFEEB8" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
*[[Smokescreen]]

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
*[[Ravage]]
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]]

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" | '''Regulars'''
*

'''Guests'''
*

| style="background:#FFEEB8" valign="top" |
*[[Aron]]
*[[Nitro]]
*Aron's parents
*[[Marty]]
|}

==Notable quotes==
"Skywarp, think fast!" 
:—'''Soundwave''' playing catch with Skywarp...using a human.

"Strike three, Megatron. You're out." 
:—'''Optimus Prime''', umpire.

'''Smokescreen''': "A rocket ship!" 
'''Inferno''': "A ''toy'' rocket ship." 
'''Perceptor''' "Well, anything's worth a try. With some modifications to the propulsion core—" 
'''Optimus''': "Perceptor, just do it." 
:-- '''Smokescreen''' and '''Inferno''' debate the rocket's effectiveness as '''Perceptor''' exhausts '''Optimus Prime''''s patience.

{{-}}

==Other notes==

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* When Skywarp flies up to catch the human Soundwave just threw, he is colored like Starscream.
* Starscream also demonstrates his magical color-switching abilities several times during scenes taking place on that alien planet.
* In the sewer scene, there is at least one shot where the water has not been animated around the characters, thus making them look like half-robots floating in midair.
* When Aron removes the energon cubes from his drawer, his full body is shown, but then his body except for the arm holding the energon disappears.
* In the shot that follows, the animation cells are ''totally'' messed up. The Autobots in Aron's hand also seem to be appearing from nowhere, as they were not to be seen at the beginning of the shot.
* When the Autobots are about to get into Aron's toy rocket the animation cells appear to be moved upward, as Bumblebee and the cat thingy appear to be attached to the ship at the waist

===Continuity errors===
* References

===Transformers references===
* References

===Real-world references===
* References

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Optimus forgets to name Smokescreen when he introduces the Autobots to Aron. Smokescreen doesn't seem to mind.
* When the Decepticons are flying through the air, Ravage is shown to be "running" next to them. So cute.
* If Transformers as large as Optimus Prime and the Seekers can fit in the palm of Aron's hand, lets not speculate on how tiny a human would be.

===Keywords===
(''separate by commas and link each one so a page can be created for it if it does not already exist'')

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Nemesis Part 2

2008-02-20T01:34:14Z

69.254.94.220: /* Trivia */

'''Megatron has possession of the ''Nemesis'', and the Maximals need a last-minute miracle to stop him.'''

[[Image:Nemesis 2 introscreen.JPG|thumb|350px|It had a good run, but ''Beast Wars'' [[Furmanism|never did want to live forever]].]]

{{episodenav |BW |season=3 |13 |prev=Nemesis Part 1 |next=The Reformatting}}

==Summary==
[[Image:Primal and Tigerhawk.JPG|thumb|left|150px|Optimus and Tigerhawk conclude that it is better to fight and die than run.]]
[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] has raised the ''Nemesis'' from its watery grave and has begun a random attack on everything in sight, all the while quoting the ''[[Covenant of Primus]]''. [[Optimus Primal]] and [[Tigerhawk]] attempt to fight it off, but their weapons don't even scratch the hull. Tigerhawk tells Primal to rally the Maximals and that he will remain to fight. On the ''Nemesis'', [[Dinobot II]] is commenting that his [[spark]] has changed and feels complete. Aspects of [[Dinobot (BW)|the original Dinobot]] begin to emerge. He admires Tigerhawk's defense. Tigerhawk is able to damage power on several decks, limiting Megatron's offensive options to using the fusion cannon, which he uses to destroy Tigerhawk. Going to the [[Protohuman]] settlement, Megatron prepares to destroy it. Dinobot objects, asking where the honor is in such an act, but Megatron fires anyway, killing [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] in the process.

[[Image:Nemesis Mount St. Hilary.JPG|right|thumb|150px|The ''Nemesis'' hovering like some vast, predatory bird over Mount St. Hilary.]]
At [[Mount St. Hilary]], the Maximals are preparing a last-ditch strategy—bring the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' online and fight the ''Nemesis''. However, the ship has been offline too long, and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] and [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] are having trouble restoring power. The ''Nemesis'' arrives, but Tigerhawk's attack has depleted its [[energon]] reserves, and the fusion cannon requires time to recharge. Megatron activates its tractor beam, and Primal enters the ''Nemesis''. He and Megatron duke it out, but the Predacon clearly has the advantage. On the ''Ark'', the Maximals manage to get the engines on line, but they burn out almost instantly. [[Rattrap]] proclaims that they are all going to die, and for once, no one tells him to shut up.

[[Image:Megatron Primal Nemesis 2.JPG|150px|thumb|left|If Optimus can't beat Megatron, what chance do '''we''' have?]]
However, Dinobot II, disapproving of Megatron's actions, sends a message to the Maximals of an [[Autobot Shuttle Omega Delta|Autobot shuttle]] stored in the ''Ark''. Megatron orders Dinobot II to fire, but he refuses, stating that he has his honor. In a last bid to save them all, Rhinox pilots the shuttle on a collision course with the ''Nemesis''' bridge, crashing through the viewport and going out the other side. Optimus urges Dinobot to save himself, but he remains with the ship, biding farewell to Primal. As the ''Nemesis'' crashes, Primal rejoins the Maximals.

[[Image:Autobot shuttle Earth.JPG|thumb|150px|right|The Beast Wars are over—finished. But [[The Reformatting|It never ends!]]]]
Some time later, the Maximals, having repaired the shuttle and rigged a [[transwarp]] cell to it, leave [[Earth]] for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Optimus, piloting the ship, declares that the Beast Wars are over, and memorializes the Maximals who fell during the war. Rattrap, however, is more happy to be going home and points out that they won't have to see Megatron 'til they get there, as the Predacon is tied to the hull of their shuttle. As the shuttle enters transwarp, the scene shifts to the Protohumans, who have built a village and are using parts of Inferno and Quickstrike in a ritual to celebrate their new leader...[[Waspinator]].

In the ultimate act of karma, Waspinator declares that he is "happy at last."

==Quotes==
"Well, come on, let's have it—the usual 'destiny and honor' speech." 
"Speech ''this''!"
:—'''Megatron''' gets decked by '''Optimus Primal'''

"'And there came a hero who said, 'Hurt not the earth, nor the trees, nor the seas, nor the very fabric of time.' But the hero would not prevail'". 
"Finish the quote, Megatron. 'Nor would he surrender!'"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Primal'''

'''Rhinox''': "Blackarachnia, how is that capacitor coming?" 
'''Blackarachnia''': "I need a conduit cable to finish the connection...ah!" 
''Blackarachnia takes Rattrap's tail/sword.'' 
'''Rattrap''': "Hey!" [''Blackarachnia severs the point on the sword; Silverbolt shudders.''] "Ya emasculatin' fembot!" 
'''Blackarachnia''': "Yes! Main thrusters connected to Teletron I!" 
'''Rattrap''': "It's Teletr''aa''n!" 
'''Blackarachnia''': "Oh, what''ever''".
:—'''The Maximals''' prepare for levitation (okay, liftoff), witness a castration, and debate pronunciation.

"No power, no weapons... huh. We're all gonna die." 
"Yup".
:—'''Rattrap''' and '''Rhinox'''

"Whoa, an Autobot shuttle!" 
"The history tracks never mentioned this." 
"History is still being made. Let's move!"
:—'''Cheetor''', '''Blackarachnia''', and '''Rhinox'''

"Destroy them!" 
"...Negative." 
"''What?!'' What possible reason could you have to disobey me?! I am your master! I am your creator!" 
"And I...have my HONOR!"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Dinobot II'''

==Stats==
'''Writers:''' [[Simon Furman]] 
'''Original air date:''' May 7, 1999

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

==Notes==
===Technical/Animation glitches===
*As Tigerhawk is about to be overwhelmed by the fusion cannon, it cuts to a reaction shot by Dinobot, whose "monocle" is on the wrong eye.
*At one point, Optimus tears his wing off and tosses it to jam the giant grinder mechanisms on the bottom of the ''Nemesis''. However, in the next scene in which he appears, his wing has been replaced with no explanation.
*As the Maximals await their doom inside the ''Ark'' and Rattrap comments on how they're "all gonna die", he's missing his robot-mode "backpack".
*Megatron apparently transforms to dragon mode off-screen, transforms back to robot mode on-screen before the scene cuts away, then when next we see him, he is in dragon mode again!
*For most of the episode, Optimus is missing the "blast shields" that he usually wears on either his forearms or shoulders.
* In the final battle scene, Dinobot is flipped horizontally. (See first glitch.)

===Continuity errors===
*Although it was cut from the final episode for time, the script called for G1 Megatron's spark to be removed from BW Megatron and placed back in its proper body before the Maximals leave Earth. This very brief scene was animated, and a clip of it can be seen on [http://bwtf.com/bw/tvshow/episodes/seasonthree/nem2/ BWTF.com's page for the episode]. The clip was also included on [[Kid Rhino]]'s Beast Wars Season 3 box set.

===Transformers references===
*There is the ''Nemesis'' itself.
*"In the darkest hour, there will be a light," a line from the ''Covenant of Primus'' most likely derived from "Light our [[darkest hour]]" in [[The Transformers: The Movie]].

===Real-world references===
*The lines Megatron reads from the ''Covenant of Primus'' bear some similarities to lines from English translations of another supposedly prophetic book, ''The Bible'' of [[Earth]]'s humans. However, it is unknown whether the prophecies of ''The Bible'' are similarly related to time travel.

===Trivia===
*In the early plot of the episode, the Maximals successfully launched the ''Ark'' instead of an Autobot shuttle. Also, [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] would be reactivated. However, the ideas were canceled due to the show's limited budget and duration. This would have possibly explained where the three [[coneheads]] came from when they suddenly appeared in season two of the original cartoon.

==External links==
*[http://bwtf.com/bw/tvshow/episodes/seasonthree/nem2/ BWTF.com page for "Nemesis, Part 2"], which includes a cut clip from that episode showing the restoration of G1 Megatron's spark.
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EBay

2008-02-04T23:25:47Z

69.254.94.220: /* Trivia */

: ''eBay is an online auction platform in the [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[continuity family]] and (incidentally) in the real world.''

If you're a [[Samuel James Witwicky|young teenager]] looking to score some cash to pay for your first car by hawking your [[Archibald Amundsen Witwicky|great-great-grandfather]]'s junk, '''eBay''' is a good place to do it.

Unfortunately, [[Barricade (Movie)|killer alien monster robots]] can also use it to track you down.

In the ''real world'', eBay can be a good place to buy both new and used Transformers toys and other merchandise for decent prices. Less experienced buyers should beware, though, since [[toy scalping|scalpers]] also use eBay as a platform to make a profit, and their offerings are ''never'' good deals. In addition, <strike>stolen</strike> <strike>leaked</strike> [[prototype|prototypes]] "acquired through unauthorized means" also often end up being offered on eBay, often going for even higher prices than toys sold by scalpers.

==Trivia==
*In the [[Transformers (2007)|movie]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] states the eBay item number for [[Samuel James Witwicky|Ladiesman217's]] [[glasses]] as "21153", a five digit number. In the ''real world'', eBay item numbers had already reached the eight digit region by 1998; and in 2007, when the movie came out, they were already in the 12 digit region. He has obviously had the item up for a VERY long time
*In [[Movie Adaptation issue 1|issue 1]] of the movie's [[Movie Adaptation|comic book adaption]], the eBay logo on Sam's computer has been changed into "[[Jipe|ePay]]", possibly to avoid accusations of product placement.

==External links==
*[[wikipedia:EBay|eBay]] on Wikipedia
*[http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=so&sbrftog=1&dfsp=1&catref=C6&from=R10&satitle=&sacat=2479%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=95125&sabfmts=1&sacqyop=ge&sacqy=&dfs=20071114&dfts=-1&dfe=20071114&dfte=-1&sabdlo=&sabdhi=&price=1&saprclo=5&saprchi=&sass=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&fgtp= eBay section of Transformers merchandise]
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Blaster Blues

2008-02-01T00:43:12Z

69.254.94.220: /* Continuity errors */

{{picsneeded}}

[[Image:Blasterbluestitlecard.jpg|right|thumb|200px|And to think that Blaster is usually so happy.]]
{{episodenav|g1|season=2|23|prev=Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2|next=A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}}
{{episodenav|SRLFtoon|50|prev=The Core|next=Prime Target}}

'''The Decepticons hijack Earth's airwaves. Yet somehow, you are still able to watch this episode.'''

==Detailed synopsis==
[[Spike Witwicky|Spike]] and [[Carly]] are at a rock concert, having taken [[Blaster]] along for the music. Enjoying the concert, Spike wishes that the rest of the [[Autobot]]s could hear the music, so Blaster begins transmitting to all of them. Off in space, [[Cosmos]] is drifting lonely, but gets a real kick out of the music. At the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot base]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] are observing [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]'s target practice, when the music from the concert begins playing. Sparkplug and most of the Autobots are nearly overcome in pain, while [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] begins showing his dancing skills.

At the Helix Observatory, a human scientist is showing off his new creation, the [[voltronic galaxer]], to his fellow scientists. The device is intended to translate Earth's recordings into other languages and broadcast them into space. The scientist is quite surprised when he gets a response...which turns to horror when he sees it's the Decepticons. [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], as he is oft wont to do, begins firing randomly, but [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] orders him to stop, saying that they need the voltronic galaxer. At the Autobot base, Optimus Prime is so annoyed by the music that he outright tells Blaster to "shut up," but to no avail. Only a distress call from the scientist finally gets Blaster to stop. As the Autobots head for the observatory, they find that the Decepticons have already fled with their prize.

Splitting up into groups, the Autobots begin a search for where the Decepticons took the voltronic galaxer. [[Powerglide]], Spike and Carly have already searched half the hemisphere, while Cosmos and Blaster are searching outer space. They locate the Decepticons on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], where Megatron is intending to take control of Earth's airwaves. Blaster and Cosmos are caught, however, before they can contact the Autobots. Blaster is forced into use as a transcrambler, while Cosmos powers the device. Megatron orders the [[Seeker]]s to return to Earth as the blackout commences. On Earth, the communications blackout is scrambling even the Autobots' radio channels. [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] barely manage to stop a train from running over a downed tree, while [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], and [[Trailbreaker]] head to free motorists trapped on a frozen highway, where [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] attack. At an airport, Powerglide is attempting to land, when Starscream and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] attack, damaging both Powerglide and Optimus Prime. Spike manages to strap a jet pack onto Powerglide, giving him some extra boost. As Megatron begins broadcasting his demands to Earth, Blaster begins playing the music from the concert. Carly manages to track it back to the Moon, and they head for the Autobot base. However, only Omega Supreme is there, and he can't repair Prime. Carly does some quick repairs while the two teens and Powerglide load Prime onto Omega, who takes them to space.

Once Omega lands on the Moon, Megatron and Astrotrain attack him. Omega manages to get his hand on Megatron, but Astrotrain rams Omega in train mode, causing him to release Megatron. Astrotrain then flees, while Omega transforms into rocket mode and follows. Seeing Optimus Prime defenseless, Megatron attacks, only for the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] to reactivate and attack him. With no one to guard them, Blaster and Cosmos cause the voltronic galaxer to receive feedback and explode. Seeing his latest [[EI/AD]] ruined, Megatron retreats. After freeing them, Blaster mentions that he could rebuild the Decepticon moon base into a new Autobot base. Cosmos likes the idea, as it would give him some company. Optimus agrees, but orders him to keep an eye on his volume.

Soon, however, Blaster is back to transmitting loud rock music over the air waves again. Some stereos never learn.

==Stats==
'''Original airdate:''' October 23, 1985

'''Written by:''' Larry Strauss

==Notable quotes==
[[Image:Jazzdance.gif|right|thumb|100px|Dance Jazz, dance.]]

''"My audio receptors! What is that blasted noise?!"'' 
''"Humans call this music."'' 
''"Not ''this'' human!"'' 
''"Sounds all right to me."'' 
:--'''Optimus Prime''', '''Hoist''', '''Sparkplug Witwicky''', and '''Jazz''' on Blaster's choice in music.

''"The Earth is but a speck on the arm of the universe."'' 
:--'''Human scientist''' bolstering his race's importance in the cosmos.

''"Blaster! Decrease volume! ... Blaster! '''SHUT UP!'''"''
:--'''Optimus Prime''' in another fine example of subordinate management.

''"Release Autobots, Megatron!"'' ''"Never!"'' ''"Reeeelease them!"'' 
:-- '''Omega Supreme''' adds some "hands on" pressure to dealing with '''Megatron'''

''"Looks like the big boy could use a little training!"''
:--'''Astrotrain''', proving the pun is indeed mightier than the sword. Unfortunately, it's not as mighty as Omega Supreme.

''"Parting is such sweet sorrow."'' 
:--'''Megatron''', preparing to kill a defenseless Optimus Prime with a Shakespeare quote.

==Other notes==

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* When Spike cheers on Omega Supreme, both his lips ''and'' Carly's are moving.
* When Astrotrain rams Omega Supreme's leg, Omega holds still for two seconds, then drops Megatron.

===Continuity errors===
There were definately NOT emergency jetpacks in the 80's

===Transformers references===
* References

===Real-world references===
* References

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Jazz has righteous moves, but they are limited by his bulky body.
* Omega Supreme actually uses whole sentences in this episode. That's just crazy.
* The depicted activities of any Transformer on the Moon do not bear any resemblance to the movements of creatures under gravity one-sixth that of Earth's own.

===Keywords===
(''separate by commas and link each one so a page can be created for it if it does not already exist'')

==External links==
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Feral Scream Part 1

2008-01-28T00:24:10Z

69.254.94.220:

'''Megatron uses alien technology to create a new Transmetal 2 version of Dinobot, and Cheetor is caught in the blast as the device malfunctions.'''

{{episodenav |BW |season=3 |5 |prev=Cutting Edge |next=Feral Scream Part 2}}

==Summary==

In a dark and stormy night, Optimus Primal and Cheetor battle with Megatron and Waspinator for a stasis pod. Cheetor pulls out a massive rifle, but instead of hitting Waspinator, his shot explodes closer to Optimus, collapsing the ledge he's standing on and burying him in an avalanche. The two Predacons retreat with their prized pod, and Cheetor is left to see to the fallen Maximal Leader. Depth Charge arrives and helps uncover Optimus by blasting some rubble away with a "power pizza". After it's clear Primal is still alive, Depth Charge flies off to hunt Rampage. Primal drives back to the base, while Cheetor in instructed to wait for back up, and assist Depth Charge.

In a dramatic ceremony, Megatron loads the stasis pod into a machine, with cells from [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] for an identity, and half the spark of [[Rampage]]. Given life in blank protoform by lightning, and all tied together with the [[Transmetal driver]], Dinobot II is born. Depth Charge crashes the birthday party, but the new Dinobot displays an intense ferocity against the manta. Cheetor "spices things up with Cheetor pepper" (shoots stuff).

Dinobot II transforms and inspects his new body, accidentally blowing off his own finger. Cheetor grabs a Predacon hover-thing and uses it to snatch the Transmetal driver from the apparatus Megatron assembled to create the new Dinobot. Cheetor tosses the driver to Depth Charge. Megatron, still on the scene, blasts Cheetor into the electrical current, frying the cat bot. Cheetor spends a minute, tortured by the machine, and the assembled transformers cover themselves as a large flash of white light explodes the mountainside. Apparently, Cheetor is dead.

Back in the Maximal's base, Primal is repairing himself. Depth Charge arrives and reports Cheetor's death. Depth Charge heads into a cave to scan the driver, and finds that it's a device of alien nature that has been altered by Megatron. He decides to destroy the device by tossing it into some lava, but once Depth Charge's back is turned, Blackarachnia catches the device before it is immolated.

Outside, Primal blames himself for Cheetor's death - but as it turns out, Cheetor is still alive, and in bad shape.

In the Predacon base, Rampage expresses displeasure over having his Spark's core given to the Dinobot clone. The king crab tries to reclaim the fragment of himself, but Dinobot uses his ability to tease his fragment of Rampage's spark, causing Rampage great pain. Dinobot is sent to recover the Transmetal driver. [[Rubber Ducky]] watches contently from the tub

Depth Charge emerges from a CR Chamber, and sets out to Sub-Grid Zarak to hunt Rampage. When there, he's ambushed and captured by Dinobot. Dinobot and the Predacons interrogate Depth Charge, but a feral monster jumps out of the darkness and strikes down Megatron. Quickstrike follows the blur behind a rock, but is quickly dismembered. When the strange feline blur jumps out again, Rampage and his "brother" try to shoot it, but only end up blasting each other away.

Megatron is left on his own, and overprotective of himself, he blasts away the wandering Waspinator. The beast hits Megatron in the back, and Megatron stumbles and plants his own tail-claw-weapon thing into the ground, causing himself to spin out of control and over a cliff. Depth Charge is left alone to wonder who or what saved him, but his mysterious hero sneaks away when Primal returns.

Back at the Maximal base, Cheetor stumbles onto the scene and passes out. Primal and Rhinox rush to help him.

==Quotes==
"From the tempest's fury, the spark ignites...to sire new life! Transmetal 2 life! Ahaha-haha!" 
: -- '''Megatron'''

"Waspinator not like new lizard bot!" 
"I agree with the bug. But then, I'm not crazy about any of you."
: -- '''Waspinator''' and '''Depth Charge'''

==Stats==
'''Writers:''' [[Greg Johnson]] 
'''Original Air Date:''' January 31, 1999

'''Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Waspinator]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], '''[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]''', [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]], [[Depth Charge]], [[Dinobot II]] [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]], [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]]

==Notes==
* This episode has one of few scenes with Primal in his Optimal body's beast mode.

===Transformers References===
*There is a [[Subgrid Zarak|subgrid]] near the Maximal base called [[Zarak]].

===World References===
*Megatron's creation of the Dinobot clone is clearly based on the creation of the monster from Frankenstein, complete with Waspinator as Igor.

*After grabbing the Transmetal driver, Cheetor yells for Depth Charge to "Go deep", a reference to American football.

*Megatron spins around and over a cliff in a manner similar to the Tasmanian Devil "Taz" cartoon character.

==External Links==
*Link

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The One

2008-01-19T21:09:54Z

69.254.94.220:

The '''One''' is [[Unicron]] and [[Primus]]'s daddy.

The One is the central nexus of all forces in the Universe and the source of Chaos and Order. The One is not necessarily a Transformer, or even necessarily a robot, but he created the multiverse, and that's pretty awesome by itself.

He also is a bitch on Guitar Hero

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Maverick (Armada)

2008-01-13T22:28:03Z

69.254.94.220:

{{picsneeded}}
:''Maverick is a [[Unicron]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

'''Maverick''' is a member of the [[Aerial Extermination Mini-Con Team]], and a personal attendant to [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis Prime]]. Staunchly loyal to [[Unicron]]'s goals, this assassin strikes silently and unseen, like a ninja in the night. Unfortunately, while he absolutely ''despises'' his teammates, he can't ''do'' anything to them, so he suffers in solitary silence. <ref>[http://www.transformersclub.com/ Official Transformers Collectors' Club site] members' section, Micro-Sized Online! Mini-Con Profiles, 5/25/07</ref>

Presumably, he also hates Mega Man X, and could own you if he were to fly his own alt mode.

:''Japanese name'': '''Shade'''

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
Maverick is never seen as an individual, only as part of the combined [[Vorpal Saber]] sword. {{storylink|Puppet}} {{storylink|Linkage Part 11}}

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==Toys==
===Armada===
*'''Air Assault Micron''' (Mini-Con pack, 2003)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''MM-17'''

: Maverick/Shade is a [[redeco]] of the [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Air Defense Mini-Con Team]] member [[Sonar (Armada)|Sonar]], transforming into a VentureStar concept shuttle. He also forms the hilt to the [[Dark Saber]] sword, which can be held by any other Transformer that has 5mm fist-holes. This toy is largely identical to the [[Hasbro]] "Air Assault" version of Sonar, but uses transparent plastic with a hint of purple instead of the Hasbro version's opaque off-white. He came with his partners [[Jackknife]] and [[Skull Buster]].

: This mold was also [[retool]]ed to make ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Skyboom (Energon)|Skyboom]], [[Lens]], and ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' Mini-Con [[Ramjet (Cybertron)|Ramjet]].

*'''Rampage & Hawk w/ Air Assault Micron''' (Multi-pack, 2003)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''MS-08'''

: The Air Assult Mini-Cons were also made available in a multi-pack with the [[Takara]] release of [[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]] and [[Wind Sheer (Armada)|Wind Sheer]].

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==References==
<references/>

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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Micron/Shade/shade.htm Shade at TFU.info]

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[[Category: Mini-Cons]]
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Megatron (BW)

2008-01-10T23:45:09Z

69.254.94.220:

{{Template:Disambig3|Megatron}}

:''Megatron is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]], a [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]], and a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. He's also briefly known as Savage and Noble. He's a busy villain. Yesss.''

[[Image:Megatronbw.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Best.Megatron.EVER. Yeesssss...]]

'''Megatron''' has one goal -- restoring glory and power to the Predacon race, with himself at the helm. What distinguishes Megatron from the countless others who share this goal is his chutzpah. He is willing to risk everything — time, space, himself — if need be. And there were times he would have made it happen were it not for [[Optimus Primal]]

Megatron is skillful at orchestrating vast schemes by manipulating others into doing them for him -- an idle suggestion here, a conspicuously-planted object of interest there. He knows his enemies inside and out and exactly how to provoke them. He has no friends, only pawns, or occasionally, [[Inferno (BW)|pawns that are too reliable to risk losing]]. Because of this attitude, this superiority complex, he despises working with the very troops he needs to carry out his plans. His hubris does not make him very popular, and so he must rely on power and fear to rule them. In fact, he prefers [[Vehicon|mindless drones]].

Megatron is a gambler and can sometimes be a ham. (His manner of saying "Yesss..." is practically vaudevillian.) He has a twisted sense of humor and an over-developed sense of drama which rule everything he conceives, both long and short term. When he destroys you, he wants you to know that it was he who did this, and just how badly you were had. This is his greatest weakness. Like a Bond villain, he'll gladly boast to the hero at length about how smart and clever he was, giving his victim time to formulate a counterattack (he admits the Predacons sometimes gloat too much). He often sabotages himself by neglecting the quick and easy solutions for the bigger, meaner, and more complex.

Prior to the signing of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Megatron was a field commander in the Predacon army, where he learned much about strategy and tactics. Upon ratification of peace with the [[Maximal Imperium]] most Predacons laid down their arms. Megatron refused and went rogue.

{{quote|The universe cowered once at the name of Megatron and it shall do so again!|Megatron|"[[Optimal Situation]]"}}
''Japanese name:'' '''Megalligator''' (alligator) 
''European-market name:'' '''Dragone''' (Transmetal 2), '''Metal T-Rex''' (Transmetal)

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====Beast Wars II catalog====
[[Image:MegatronGalvatronBW1.jpg|left|150px|thumb|pwnd.]]

On planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Megatron once disagreed with [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] over opinions on galactic conquest, and engaged him in battle over it. At the time, Megatron momentarily let his guard down, and was defeated. Galvatron declared "Your era is over, Megatron!"

Later, Megatron noted that while Galvatron was ambitious, he cared for his underlings - and although he was loathe to admit it, he acknowledged that Galvatron probably had all the regal bearing of a new [[Emperor of Destruction]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars II catalog}}

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====Dreamwave comics continuity====
After stealing the [[Golden Disk]] ''(wrongly drawn as the [[Alien Disk]])'', Megatron broke into [[Vector Sigma]] along with [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] and reviewed historical files on many of the Autobots and Decepticons from the [[Generation 1]] era. He told Dinobot to refer to him henceforth as Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #8}}

====[[Theft of the Golden Disk]]====

====''Timelines: Dawn of Futures Past''====
[[Image:Megatronbwsuit.jpg|thumb|150px|Megatron's technicolor dreamcoat.]]
On Cybertron, Megatron wore removable transformable armor, which transformed into a missile-launching armored platform, over his basic bodyframe (which transforms into a hovertank). This quickly-discarded outer shell was possibly used to comply with the ratification of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], which required Predacons to lay down their arms. A Predacon field commander before the peace, Megatron refused to comply with these new regulations and struck out on his own to destroy the [[Maximal Imperium]].

With some [[Cryotek|help]] from [[Divebomb (G1)|various sources]], he assembled a crew of ragtag criminals and miscreants for the purpose of stealing the Golden Disk and using it to find [[Earth]]. Succeeding in stealing the disk, he, [[Dinobot (BW)|his lieutenant]], and [[Scorponok (BW)|another accomplice]] fought their way out of the [[Archives]], eliminating [[Unit 1|one guard]] and dodging [[Tigatron|another]]. They were swiftly picked up by the ''[[Darksyde]]'', a ship stolen by the rest of their crew.

Megatron instructed [[Tarantulas]] to study the disk for the coordinates of Earth while the ''Darkside'' battled its several pursuers. Although they were followed by the Maximal ships [[Axalon (BW)|''Axalon'']] and the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', the ''Darksyde''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s mission was also aided by a third ship crewed by the Predacon agents [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. Though the ''Chromia 10'' and the Predacon ship were destroyed, the ''Darksyde'' was still followed by the ''Axalon''. Megatron removed his transformable armor and patched a video feed through to the ''Axalon'''s captain, [[Optimus Primal]]. Declaring himself the leader of the Predacons, Megatron opened a [[transwarp]] portal through which both ships travelled. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Beast Wars''====
:''Voice actor:'' [[David Kaye]] (English), [[Shigeru Chiba]] (Japanese), [[Antonio Moreno]] (Brazil)

[[Image:Megatronbwspidersgame.jpg|left|thumb|200px|I thought I told you NO MORE BARNEY JOKES.]]
After stealing the Maximal relic, the [[Golden Disk]], and [[Darksyde|a ship]], he and his crew were followed through a [[transwarp]] portal by the [[Axalon (BW)|''Axalon'']]. After crashing on a planet that was supposed to be [[Earth]], yet seemingly wasn't, both the [[Maximal]]s and the Predacons took organic beast forms to protect themselves against the massive amount of Energon radiation. Megatron now transformed into a purple ''Tyrannosaurus rex''.

Dinobot chastised Megatron, accusing him of leading the Predacons to the wrong planet and challenged Megatron for leadership of the Predacons. Megatron simply ignored the challenge and had Scorponok dispose of him. {{storylink|Beast Wars, Part 1}}

Despite the loss of a formidable crony, Megatron positioned himself on the new world and the "Beast Wars" began. Being on a world filled with Energon allowed [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] to find a superhorde, and power himself to great levels. With this power, Terrorsaur was able to demolish Megatron in battle and take over the Predacons. However, through the Maximals' actions, the superhorde was destroyed. Terrorsaur was eventually ridden of his newfound power and returned to an angered Megatron, who was rebuilt by [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]. {{storylink|Power Surge}}

[[Image:Megatronbwtrex.jpg|150px|thumb|Today is a beautiful day to be stomping on things!]]

Again, Terrorsaur tried to usurp Megatron, this time using an apparently-turned [[Rattrap]], who used a device to paralyze Megatron. The Predacons argued over who would be leader, but agreed to put Rattrap and Megatron away for the time being. Megatron was able to easily escape using his secret voice commands, leaving Rattrap to his fate. Revealing himself to have escaped, Megatron allowed Terrorsaur to lead the Predacons in battle with the Maximals. Terrorsaur failed miserably, showing his ineptitude to the Predacons, which was Megatron's plan all along. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}}

Megatron later formulated a plan to get off Earth. First, he had the other Predacons act dissatisfied with his leadership, causing a battle that apparently destroyed the Predacons, using a Maximal spy camera that he was aware of to play out the trick. Then, the Maximals scavenged the ''Darksyde'' for parts to repair the ''Axalon''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s stardrive. Dinobot discovered the deception and rushed to warn the leaving Maximals. In the scuffle, Megatron snuck aboard. In the ''Axalon'', he managed to knock out every Maximal on the ship but Rattrap, who he started crushing to death. An angered [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] woke up and threw Megatron off the ''Axalon''. However, Megatron's tail weapon was stuck in the console, causing the ''Axalon'' to crash. Again. {{storylink|Victory (Beast Wars episode)|Victory}}

Later, Megatron caught wind of the return of the [[Vok]] and called a ceasefire between the two factions, realizing he had more important things to worry about. The Vok did indeed return, and planned to destroy the planet the Transformers were on with their massive [[Planet Buster]] (cleverly disguised as the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]). Optimus Primal managed to stop the planet buster after flying close to it within a modified stasis pod. Megatron added a little surprise for Primal within the pod, though; locking the door so that Primal could not escape and was destroyed when the planet buster exploded. {{storylink|Other Voices}}

The [[quantum surge]] from the exploding planet buster bathed Megatron in quantum energies, upgrading him into a [[transmetal]]. Megatron quickly rallied his forces and attempted an all-out attack on the leader-less Maximals. Megatron and the Predacons took the upperhand in battle until a transmetal Optimus Primal (brought back online by [[Rhinox]]) saved the day. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors, Part 1}}

With both factions now aware that the planet they were stranded on was really prehistoric [[Earth]], Megatron was free to put his full plan into motion. Locating the crashed [[Ark]], Megatron attempted to alter history by assassinating the unconscious [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. By doing so, he intended to ensure the defeat of the [[Autobot]]s and thus the victory of the [[Decepticon]]s and Predacons. (For unknown reasons, he showed no concern that such a drastic change to the timestream might erase his own existence.) {{storylink|The Agenda, Part 3}}

The Maximals managed to save Prime's life by having [[Teletraan I]] repair his body while Optimus Primal kept his spark within his own structure, transforming his body into a more powerful form. The Maximals defeated Megatron and returned Prime's spark to its proper place. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

[[Image:Megatrontm2render.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Two Megatrons for the price of one.]]

Megatron was not to be outdone. He managed to sneak inside the Ark (which was now the new Maximal base) and take the spark of the original Megatron, seeking to replicate the effect Optimus Prime's spark had on Primal's body. He placed his namesake's spark within his body, transforming himself into a powerful dragon. With this newfound body, Megatron was able to give Optimus Primal a sound beating, until chased away by the entire Maximal group. {{Storylink|Master Blaster}}

Megatron's next evil scheme involved the legendary Decepticon battleship, the [[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]. After finding the ship deep beneath the ocean, Megatron intended to pilot it back to the future and lay waste to the Maximals on Cybertron. {{storylink|Nemesis, Part 1}} First, however, he planned to annihilate the Ark on prehistoric Earth. Primal infiltrated the Nemesis and kept Megatron busy until Rhinox could fly a shuttlecraft through the bridge and take the Predacon out. The Nemesis crashed a second time and thus preserved history.

After returning the original Megatron's spark to its proper body, the Maximals headed back to Cybertron with the incarcerated Megatron shackled to the outside of their ship. {{Storylink|Nemesis, Part 2}}

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====''Tales of the Beast Wars''====
[[Image:Antagony megatron.jpg|left|thumb|Kinky.]]
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====''Robot Masters'' (Japan-only)====
Voice actor: [[Toshitsugu Takashina]] (Japan)

Taking advantage of the [[Blasty Zone]] as a means of time travel (and apparently size-enhancer), Megatron journeyed to a point in history where the original Megatron had gone missing, leaving the [[Decepticon]]s without a leader. "Beast Megatron" took command of the Decepticons, leading them on a quest to collect a powerful element, [[solitarium]], from within the Earth. Beast Megatron's plans were quickly thwarted by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a troop of time-displaced Autobots and Maximals, including [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]], [[Victory Leo]], [[Lio Convoy]] and Beast Megatron's arch nemesis, [[Optimus Primal]].

Beast Megatron later discovered a large deposit of solitarium beneath [[New York City]], and along with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Smokesniper]], [[Gigant Bomb]] and [[Wingstun]], laid waste to the Big Apple. The Autobots, accompanied by [[Reverse Convoy]], arrived and dealt with Beast Megatron's forces quickly. However, Reverse Convoy revealed himself to be the original Megatron in disguise and betrayed them. Now going by the name [[Megatron (G1)#Robot Masters (Japan-only)|Rebirth Megatron]], he teamed up with Beast Megatron and the pair made trouble for the Autobot commanders. However, the Autobots were able to defeat the two Megatrons, sending the villains into retreat.

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

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

Megatron is a bumbling oaf constantly leading the [[Predacon|Predacons]] against the forces of the [[Maximal|Maximals]]. {{storylink| Beast Wars Metals (manga)|Beast Wars Metals}}

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
[[Image:IDW Megatron Magmatron.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Go back to anime, Magmatron!]]

In Lio Convoy's opinion, Megatron is a simple wild card, no real threat when compared with Magmatron. This drives home the fact that Cybertron has no idea of the damage Megatron had and would inflict, or the lengths he would go to becoming arguably the most powerful Transformer since the Great War.

After dispatching [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] to oversee the installation of [[Sentinel]] into the [[Darkside]], Megatron was attacked by [[Magmatron (BW)|Magmatron]], who had been assigned to arrest him by the [[Tripredacus Council]]. Although Megatron proved more than a match for the experienced Predacon general individually, he was ambushed and paralyzed by [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] and [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]]. Magmatron intended to use a [[transwarp shunt]] to transport his prisoner back to [[Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}} Thanks to the intervention of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Optimus Minor]], and [[Razorbeast]], Magmatron was sent home empty-handed. Razorbeast was tempted to dispatch the prone Megatron, but released him instead, due to his desire to avoid interfering with the timeline. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 4|The Gathering #4}}

Ravage attempted to free Megatron after his capture, but didn't progress very far in his plans.{{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|the Ascending #1}} Despite this, Megatron arrived to a battle-dagmaged Cybertron, having finally completed his transwarp journey, and having arrived long before the Maximals responsible for his defeat, with little else to stand in his way... Yes...{{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

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====''Beast Machines''====
Voice actor: [[David Kaye]] (US), [[Shigeru Chiba]] (Japan), [[Francisco José]] (Brazil)

[[Image:Megatron for life.jpg|right|thumb|Whaddya mean, 'Triumph of the Will'?]]Breaking free from his constraints on the Autobot shuttle while it traveled through transwarp space, Megatron arrived back home on Cybertron well before the Maximals did. Using technology of his own devising, he took over the entire planet, and stored the [[spark]] of every last inhabitant under his citadel.

Additionally, Megatron seemed to have undergone a change. Gone was the ham who sought conquest for the sake of glory and power. He now spoke as if a god, almost reminiscent of his quotes from the Covenant of Primus. His actions were based not on the thirst for revenge on Maximals but in hopes of becoming a grand liberator for their kind. In addition, while as recently as the final battle of the Beast Wars, he would flatten a subordinate for even mentioning "the H word" ("honor"), he now would keep his word to his enemies, even at the risk of future losses. Further, at some point in this period, Megatron became convinced that beast modes and other vestiges of the organic were an abomination that should be scoured from Cybertron, leaving only technological purity. (Before he had seemed perfectly pleased with his dinosaur and dragon beast modes and, in fact, seemed to revel in them.) This was a new and even madder Megatron.

''As described above, the time period from when Megatron broke free from the shuttle, to when Optimus Primal and the Maximals arrived on Cybertron, was vastly transformative for both Megatron and the planet, and probably constituted an epic story in its own right. Nevertheless, the period was only vaguely described in the animated series, and only slightly elaborated upon in secondary media. Many questions remain unanswered.''

When the Maximals arrived in their shuttle, they found the planet empty aside from countless [[Vehicon|mindless drones]] controlled by Megatron. Megatron's drones immediately bombarded the Maximals with [[devolving gas]] to revert their powerful [[Transmetal]] bodies to normal beast mode bodies, and they were also affected by a [[transformation lock]] virus which Megatron had used to help him conquer the planet in the first place.

Despite his best efforts, the Maximals escaped, and learned to transform again after Primal used the [[Oracle]]'s power to [[reformatting|reformat]] them. They began making short work of his Vehicons, so he removed three sparks from his collection to create [[Vehicon general]]s which could think on their feet in battle. For the generals he chose sparks of Transformers that the Maximals already knew, such that if they ever discovered the sparks' identities, they would be reluctant to destroy them: [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] became [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]], [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] became [[Tankor]], and [[Waspinator]] became [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]. After Jetstorm was reformatted into Silverbolt and Rhinox reawakened and destroyed, Megatron used the sparks of [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika]] to replace them.

[[Image:Optimalmegatronoptimusprimal.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Do I creep you out?]]
However, Megatron still retained his own beast mode, unwilling to take the momentary risk of transferring his spark to a new body. After releasing the energies of the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], Megatron attempted to transfer his spark to another body, but wound of stuck in [[Savage/Noble]], a purely organic creature. Eventually, Megatron would transfer his spark to the [[Grand Mal]], a vessel shaped in his own head. He attempted to consume the captured sparks, but [[Nightscream]] managed to depolarize his spark, causing it to jump between discarded shells and attack everyone in a zombie like fashion. Rattrap would use a [[spark extractor]] to repolarize his spark, allowing Megatron to regain his senses, but trapping him in a [[Diagnostic Drone]].

Ultimately, Megatron succeeded in capturing the sparks of all the Maximals, leaving just Optimus Primal and himself as the only two Transformers on the entire planet. At the end of a fierce one-on-one fight, in which Megatron wore a copy of the powerful Optimal Optimus body, Megatron began consuming his amassed sparks, growing ever more powerful. However, when he attempted to use the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] to transform the planet's [[organic core]] into [[technomatter]], Primal managed to dislodge them both. They plummeted into the planet's goopy core and, somehow, Primal was able to reformat the entire planet, destroying himself and Megatron completely, but freeing all the lost sparks to repopulate their newly redecorated planet.

====''Beast Wars Reborn'' text story====

[[Image:BeastWarsRebornMegatronArtwork1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Reborn on the wagon of a travelin' show, Primal used ta dance fer the money they'd throw! Megatron would do whatever he coooouuuld!]]

Both Megatron and Optimus Primal awoke inside a bizarre temple-like spaceship which was hurtling through space. Neither had any memory of who they were or how they got there, only their own names and a feeling of discomfort between one another. The pair went about investigating the ship in search of answers. While Megatron's memory was lost, his personality remained mostly intact: he was more concerned with seizing control of the ship before Primal did in order to gain the upper hand.

They eventually found a data log and discovered that their sparks had been taken and they were reborn into new bodies (unbeknownst to them, bodies identical to their original Earth forms). However, their memories were intentionally not uploaded into their new bodies. While searching the log they discovered that the ship's main power source was a [[Golden Disk]] lodged within a giant pillar. Megatron immediately raced to obtain the Disk and Primal followed him. The closer they got to the disk the more the ship attempted to thwart their advance by manipulating its atmosphere conditions.

Once they reached the chamber the ship's environment suddenly morphed to that of a decaying planet littered with the corpses of robots. The corpses came to life and began shambling toward them, intent on eating their sparks. They made short work of the zombies, leaving Megatron to obtain the Golden Disk and Primal with a feeling that he shouldn't entirely trust Megatron.

From another dimension beyond time and space, [[Primus]] recognized that something was amiss and sent one of his messengers to meet Primal and Megatron within the spaceship.

====''Universe''====
When [[Optimus Primal]]'s spark is revived from the within the Matrix to protect the multiverse, this action freed Megatron's spark as well. The reborn Megatron returned to the ranks of the Predacons, but this time, Optimus Primal found himself in an uneasy alliance with him against Unicron. Megatron traveled with his old nemesis from universe to universe, wherever the growing multiversal conflict had spread. But now with Unicron disappeared into the [[Unicron Singularity]], it remains to be seen whether Megatron's insane ambition will resurface.

Prior to the Universe Conflict an alternate dimension's Megatron was killed by a [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Tigerhawk]] who was corrupted by the Vok. Yet another dimension's Megatron was killed by it's realities [[Obsidian (Universe)|Obsidian]] and [[Tankor (Universe Decepticon)|Tankor]]. All three Megatron-murderers were eventualy promoted to the rank of [[Unicron's General]]. It seems that killing Megatron may be part of Unicron's criteria for choosing a General.

===Transformers Legends Anthology===

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
* '''Optimus Primal vs. Megatron''' (Basic 2-pack, 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-6'''

: The initial version of ''Beast Wars'' Megatron transformed into a green alligator. He was only availble in this two pack with the bat version of Optimus Primal.

* '''Megatron''' (Ultra, 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-1'''

[[Image:Bwmegatron_toy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Don't call him Barney.]]

: This Megatron transformed into a purple organic Tyrannosaurus dinosaur. He has limited articulation in beast mode, but his dinosaur head can shoot water. In robot mode, he has no hands, as his right arm ends with his dino head, and his tail, folded into a pincer, forms his left arm. The outer shells of his dinosaur thighs conceal spring-loaded missile launchers that fire anchor-shaped projectiles.

: His robot head feature two bat-like wing adornments that fold to become a battlemask.

: This mold was also used to make [[Beast_Machines|Beast Machines]] [[Dinobot_(BM)|Dinobots]] [[T-Wrecks]].

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*'''Convobat vs Megaligator''' (Basic 2-pack, 1997)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''S-1'''

:This figure is a purple [[redeco]] of Megatron's Gator form, and was sold with a red and blue redeco of Bat Primal. This may or may not be intended to be the same character as Megatron or G1 Megatron.

* '''Megatron''' (Transmetal Mega, 1998)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-40'''

[[Image:BW_Megatron_Transmetal.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Rubber Ducky|Ducky]] not included. Bummer.]]

: The third ''Beast Wars'' Megatron toy transformed into a mechanical Tyrannosaurus. In beast mode he has some useful articulation, located in his legs, jaw and tail. As with all ''Transmetal'' toys, he has a 'third' vehicle mode, in this case a tyrannosaurus with roller skates (which flip out from his legs) and jet engines on the sides on upper thighs.

: Really.

:In robot mode, he finally has two hands, with his tail becoming a flexible, segmented cutlass weapon, though it was depicted in most media as a new version of his main cannon. This cutlass/cannon weapon can be stored at his side on the connector piece it was attached to when in beast mode.

:He is one of the many victims of the crippling disease known as [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]]

: There are some color differences between this the American and Japanese versions: the American had a light purple-ish glittery plastic for the beast-mode hands, tail, and skates while the Japanese had simple light gray instead. This mold was retooled used to make [[Armada]] [[Predacon_(Armada)|Predacon]].

* '''Megatron''' (Transmetal 2 Ultra, 1999)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-47'''

[[Image:BWdragonmegs_toy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Don't call him Puff, either.]]

: The final version of ''Beast Wars'' Megatron transformed into a mostly mechanical dragon, with articulation in his legs, little dragon arms and his flexible, rubber neck with vacuum metalised overlapping plates attached on top. The neck was flexible able to be controlled and locked into position by a small lever located at its base. Two projectiles stored in his wings can be fired from a spring-loaded launcher inside his dragon's mouth.

:In robot mode, Megatron resembles a winged demon, appropriate given his characterisation. His chest is dominated by a small cockpit with a control chair inside (see Trivia). Megatron's dragon neck and head replaces his left arm, with an additional missile launcher above his helmet.

: ''Transmetal 2'' Megatron has a third 'vehicle' mode, which appears to be an afterthought, as it basically involves the dragon sitting very low to the ground so the wheels mounted on the legs and body can make contact and roll.

:This mold was also used to make [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|''Robots in Disguise'']] [[Cryotek]].

* '''Megatron''' (Ultra-class, 2006)
:Representing Megatron before his crash on [[Earth]], ''[[Timelines]]'' Megatron is a [[redeco]] of the ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''-series [[Cybertron Defense Team|Cybertron Defense]] [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]], Megatron transforms into a large, purple, eight-wheeled armored vehicle equipped with a cannon and a a new head sculpt.

: Megatron was an at-show souvenir for [[BotCon 2006]], coming in a two-pack with [[Waspinator]].
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===Beast Machines===
* '''Megatron''' (Mega, 2000)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BR-05'''

[[Image:BMMegs_toy.jpg|left|thumb|165px|He's a flasher! Mangle!]]

: The first ''Beast Machines'' incarnation of Megatron is based on his ''Transmetal 2'' dragon form, but with ''Beast Machines'' design style at a lower price point. The result was a weak copy of the larger, much more detailed predecessor.

: Like his television counterpart, his wings can fold around himself to create the control armour/cloak.

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* '''Megatron''' (McDonald's Happy Meal, 2000)
: Transforms from cloaked robot mode to a very weak dragon mode.

* '''Megatron''' (Kids' meal, 2000)

: The McDonald's Happy Meal Megatron was also released in Australia through the Red Rooster restaurant chain. Like the other three toys, it came in four color schemes. Strangely enough, the toy was labeled as "Nightscream" on the plastic baggy it came in.

* '''Beast Changer''' (Deluxe, 2001)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BR-11'''

: A toy version of [[Savage/Noble_(BM)|Savage/Noble]], he transforms from a wolf-creature to a dragon creature, with no robot mode.

: It was later redecoed in show-accurate colours for the Japanese ''Beast Wars Returns'' toyline.

* '''Megahead Megatron''' (Beast Wars Returns, 2005)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BR-12'''

: This is a Japanese-[[exclusive]] redeco of Robots in Disguise [[Megatron_(RID)|Megabolt Megatron]]. Megahead Megatron transforms into a head (its design based on the [[Grand Mal]] with scuttling spider-leg action, opening jaw for chip-eating action, and a hidden spring-loaded missile launcher in its mouth. In robot mode, the launcher swings over his head, placing a battle mask down over his face.

: '''Note:''' ''If one removes the toy's spider-legs in head mode, it fits into the head socket to the [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] main body. Though this is likely unintented, it is pointed out here as an extra play feature.''

===Robot Masters===
* '''Beast Megatron''' (2004)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''RM-02'''

[[Image:24013-m.jpg|left|thumb|150px|"[[Dinobot (BW)|Utahraptor]], maybe in an alternate timeline I'm being less of a jerk right now, but that's just rampant speculation, okay?"]]

: Beast Megatron is a simplified version of the 1996 Ultra ''Beast Wars'' Megatron. Much smaller, it had a very similar transformation and had a sculpt resembling the television series CGI model, but a paint scheme similar to the original toy. He also came with a small laser rifle.

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===Titanium Series===
* '''Beast Wars Megatron''' (3" Robot Master, 2006)

[[Image:Titanium_RM_BWMegatron.jpg|right|thumb|100px|"... my [[Rampage_(BW)|crazed crustacean]], do you realise what this [[Golden_Disk|means]]?"]]

: For the ''Titanium'' series, the initial 3" Megatron toy was based off his 1996 Ultra version. He's kind of squat.

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===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===

* '''Megatron''' (Beast Wars 10th Anniversary, 2006)

[[Image:BW_10th_Megatron.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"Grape-faces don't give up, they conquer!"]]

: For the 10th Anniversary of ''Beast Wars'', [[Hasbro]] created an all-new Deluxe-size tooling based mostly upon his original 1996 Tyrannosaurus form, but with technorganic detailing. When a [[Cyber Planet Key]] is inserted into his tail, it opens up to reveal a missile launcher.

: He is also packaged with a mini-comic-sized reprinting of [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[The Gathering]]'' #1, a small [[Darksyde|''Darksyde'']] ship figurine, and a [[Jungle Planet]] style Cyber Planet Key ''without'' a [[Cyber Key Code]] stamped on it. On its packaging, "Predacon" is misspelled as "Preadacon," but a sticker was placed over it with the proper spelling.

:This mold was [[redeco]]ed and released as [[Cybertron (toyline)|''Cybertron'']] [[Megatron_(Armada)|Megatron]]. It's worth noting that the scuplt for both BW10 leader toys were intentionally designed to blend in with the Jungle Planet aesthetic, "in case" they didn't get a Beast Wars Anniversary release (according to [[Aaron Archer]]'s statements at [[BotCon 2005]]).

* '''Optimus Primal vs. Megatron''' (Ultra 2-pack, 2006)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BWR-01'''

[[Image:BW_Megatron_BWReborn.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Is it me, or does his tail-weapon-thing have teeth?]]

: For the 10th Anniversary of ''Beast Wars'', [[Takara]] retooled the original 1996 Ultra-sized Megatron toy, giving him a new head sculpt and a new paint scheme based upon the appearance of the CGI model used in the ''Beast Wars'' television series.

: The 1996 Ultra-sized Optimus Primal was also retooled and redecoed in the same manner.

: Both figures were released in the US later as a 2-pack Toys-R-Us exclusive.

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===Tele Beast Wars===
*'''Megatron''' (Deluxe, 2007)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''TM-02'''

: A redeco of ''Robot Masters'' Megatron, with extensive paint details based upon the larger Ultra class ''Beast Wars Reborn'' reissue. He came packed with a DVD of an episode of the japanese ''Beast Wars'' dub.

*'''TM-SP DX Megatron''' (2007)
:An extensive show-accurate redeco of the original Ultra-class Megatron mold ''without'' the recently remolded show-accurate head... the hell?

===Merchandise===
====Metal Monument====
* '''Metal Monument Megatron''' (TAKARA, 1999)
: As the name suggests, the product is a [[die-cast]] statue of Megatron. The head is convertible/removable in order to change the normal one with the battle mask/mutant head. The [[box art]] and the design of the product are both done by [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]].

==Trivia==

[[Image:BWRConcept35.jpg|right|170px|thumb|TM2 Megatron's control art. Look! Spark figure! Painful amounts of detail!]]

*Originally, ''Transmetal 2'' Megatron, along with [[Optimus_Primal|Optimal Optimus]] and [[Tigerhawk_(BW)|Tigerhawk]] were to have small driver-like figures sitting on control chairs located in cockpits on their bodies. These drivers were meant to represent their sparks. But [[Hasbro]] then later realized that kids might confuse these spark representations as drivers controlling the robots, so they were abandoned, but the cockpits remain.
: However, the spark pilot was eventually used in the Japanese release of [[Cryotek]].

* In a bit of little known trivia, Hasbro originally intended Inferno to be the new body for Megatron. According to [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_thread/thread/b334d45514e26ab4/bc8e54e9165e0823?hl=en&lnk=st&q=bob+forward+interview+inferno+megatron&rnum=1#bc8e54e9165e0823 a 1997 interview conducted by fan HooksX], Bob Forward stated: "For a while there Hasbro was planning to make the Inferno toy the new Megatron. We were going to kill Megatron and bring him back as Inferno."

*Throughout the series, Megatron seems to have a mild obsession with creating clones of Dinobot, as seen with the purely biological clone, the cyber raptors and Dinobot 2. Some people never know when to let a relationship go.

*The Japanese dub of Beast Wars chose to interject humor at every available opportunity. Due to this, Megatron's personality and character were taken on a complete U-turn. Instead of being a smooth and charismatic leader, he was a screaming maniac and a bumbling oaf. His most notable character-trait in Japan was that whenever he was fired-upon or startled he would let-out a high-pitched shriek like a '''[[Scorponok (BW)|little girl]]'''.''

*Megatron's initial basic Beast Wars toy is a [[retool]] of [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] with new alligator and robot heads, and no frill. The screw hole for the frill bracket remains. Both toys were released at roughly the same time.

*The concept art for the original Ultra class figure was largely the same, except in one minor difference: The left arm would have housed an open three clawed hand. The idea of that wouldn't be revisited until the 10th anniversary Deluxe Megatron.
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* Aside from [[Silverbolt]], Megatron was the only character in the series to change the phylum of his animal form, first having a T-rex beast mode and then later acquiring a dragon beast mode.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/MegatronGator/megatron.htm Megatron at TFU.info]
*[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Maximal/BeastChanger/beastchanger.htm Beast Changer at TFU.info]

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Modus Prime

2008-01-05T23:59:30Z

69.254.94.220:

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[[Image:Modus prime.jpg|thumb|250px|Modus Prime has a certain way of doing things.]]
:''Modus Prime is a [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].'' WTF?

==Fiction==
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Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2

2007-12-20T17:27:30Z

69.254.94.220: /* Notable quotes */

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'''Having had the [[Autobot]]s exiled from Earth, Megatron reveals the [[Decepticon]]s true intentions.'''

==Detailed synopsis==

The episode recaps with [[Victor Caroli]] going over a recap of the events of [[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1|Part 1]]. Onto the start.

[[Image:Berger DecepticonDay.jpg|thumb|Unfortunately, "The Berger King" musical flopped on opening night.]]

The episode begins with a marching band parading through the streets of [[Central City]]. Berger announces that today is [[Decepticon Day]]. Sparkplug and Chip immensely dislike the event. Chip says that its too late for Spike to be searching for evidence to clear the Autobots names right now.

Back in a tape room, Spike finishes watching another tape showing the Decepticons as the real culprits behind it. He's about to leave when he meets Ravage. During a brief fight, in which Ravage slams into a TV screen, gets fried, smacked with an office chair, and then finally gets buried under a shelf of video tapes (poor kitty), Spike makes his escape.

At a nearby high school disco, Soundwave and his cassettes makes an appearance. We see Rumble dancing as well, as Ravage gets petted by some school girls, and Laserbeak giving a real evil glare to a kid who's offering him a cracker (probably wants to eat the kid).

In deep space, Cosmos is leading the rocket ship through space. Inside, Ironhide and Cliffjumper persuade Prime to turn round and head back to Earth. After the ship doesn't respond to Cliffjumper's computing, Hound uses his shoulder scanner to pinpoint their destination...The [[Sun|SUN]]!. Cosmos is unable to link up with Teletraan I as the rocket starts to overheat...along with the Autobots inside. Cosmos comes aboard and starts working at the computer, but to no avail.

[[Image:BergerInc SpaceshipLabel.jpg|thumb|left|Building brand identity, one dead Autobot at a time.]]

Inside the [[Decepticon space cruiser|Decepticon base]], Megatron looks with glee as he watches the Autobots and their ship collide with the sun and explode. They then leave for a press conference.

Spike is with the mayor in his office and he shows the Mayor the tapes he's found. The mayor can't bring back the Autobots, but now armed with the right evidence, Spike and the mayor start a campaign to clear the Autobots names.

At the press conference, Megatron reveals that he plans to conquer the planet and suck it dry of energy. He is now the marshal of Central City, newly christened as Megatronia 1, and everyone will be made slaves to obtain energy for the Decepticons. On a nearby screen, we see the [[Conehead]]s running amok through Central City. Spike learns of the Autobot's destruction and escapes, but the tape of evidence is destroyed. Berger saves Spike from getting killed by Laserbeak, but their escape is short lived as they're all captured by Megatron.

Back in space, the Autobots have been saved by Trailbreaker's [[force field]]. They're still attached to Cosmos, who's still heading towards the sun, since his actions are still controlled by Teltraan I.

[[Image:Berger Sad Enslaved.jpg|thumb|It's hard being an opportunistic jerk!]]

Back on earth, things are grim. All the humans have been enslaved by the Decepticons and they're being forced to mine energy from every available source. Berger got his reward...he too is cuffed and made to work in a power plant. One night, Chip breaks out of the power plant and sneaks onboard a nearby truck. He heads for the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot base]] and works at Teletraan I. He finds out that the Autobot rocket was destroyed. He's about to find out more when Thrust breaks into the base. Thrust destroys Teletraan I and takes Chip back to the plant.

Cosmos then realises he's got control back and heads back to Earth. Back on Earth, an air force rescue attempt is easily destroyed by the [[Seeker]]s and Blitzwing. Megatron has the humans cornered, when the Autobots arrive. Optimus Prime assembles the entire 84 and 85 line to combat the Decepticons and they win, heavily damaging many, including the Insecticons and Constructicons. The Decepticons retreat because they've lost the advantage

The Mayor pardons the Autobots, while Berger is taken by the authorities to face justice himself. With the Decepticons defeated, the Autobots transform and roll for home.

==Stats==

'''Original airdate:''' October 15, 1985

'''Written by:''' [[Donald F. Glut]]

===Featured characters===

(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.'')
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobots]]
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticons]]
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human|Humans]]
! style="background:#FFEEB8" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
* [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]
* [[Bluestreak]]
* [[Brawn]]
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]
* [[Cosmos]]
* [[Gears]]
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]
* [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
* [[Huffer]]
* [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
* [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
* [[Powerglide]]
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
* [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]
* [[Seaspray]]
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
* [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
* [[Sunstreaker]]
* [[Teletraan I]]
* [[Tracks]]
* [[Trailbreaker]]
* [[Warpath]]
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]
* [[Windcharger]]

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]
* [[Blitzwing]]
* [[Bombshell]]
* [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]]
* [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]
* [[Hook]]
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]
* [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
* [[Mixmaster]]
* [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]]
* [[Ravage]]
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]
* [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]
* [[Scrapper]]
* [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
* [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]]
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" | '''Regulars'''

* [[Chip Chase]]
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]
* [[Spike Witwicky]]

'''Guests'''
* [[Mayor of Central City]]
* [[Shawn Berger]]
* Berger's army
* Trucker
* [[Justin]]
* Justin's parents

| style="background:#FFEEB8" valign="top" |

|}

==Notable quotes==
"Hey, get down with it, Soundwave."
:-- '''Rumble''' apparently likes dancing with human girls.

"Uh, Laserbeak wanna cracker?" 
:-- '''Male human teen''' who suspects Laserbeak wants to eat him.

"Are we going anywhere, Cosmos, or is this a tour of the stars?" 
"Layoff him, Ironhide. He didn't cause our problems." 
"You're right! Maybe we outta take it out on the one who got us into this mess!" 
"I did what was neccesary." 
:-- '''Ironhide''', '''Hound''', and '''Optimus Prime'''. Only Ironhide could get away with taking a shot at Prime that.

"This evidence is conclusive, Spike. How could we be so stupid?"
:-- '''The Mayor''' stating what every fan was thinking

"Berger, you filthy swine!"
:-- '''Human Reporter''' after learning that Shawn Berger betrayed Humanity to the Decepticons.

"This city is under martial law...and ''I'' am the marshall!" 
:-- '''Megatron''' spells doom for the people of Central City...and makes a funny.

"It is over. I saw the Autobot ship, like a silver bullet, streaking toward the Sun, and it collided--collided with destiny! I saw the end. They died in a cosmic funeral pyre!" 
:-- '''Shawn Berger''', destroying all hope.

"Let us teach them a lesson in ''sorrow''!"
:-- '''Dirge''' as he and the Coneheads terrorize Central City during the Decepticon imposed martial law.

"Megatron! Immobilized human escapes!"
:-- '''Soundwave''' as '''Chip Chase''' flees the Decepticon slave labor camp.

"You -- pile of reject parts, I'll -- " 
"Reject parts? BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!"
:-- '''Chip Chase''' as '''Thrust''' destroys Teletraan I and, perhaps, mocks the handicapped.

"Starscream, go and—" 
"I anticipated your order, Megatron."
:-- '''Megatron''' and '''Starscream''', getting along...for once.

"You are going to face justice, and may it be kinder to you than it was to us." 
:--'''Optimus Prime''', deciding not to have Berger taken on a collision course with the sun.

==Other Notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===

* At the end of the episode, we see two Ironhides. (One is actually Ratchet miscoloured as Ironhide. You can tell this because of the lights on his roof.)

===Transformer references===
* First onscreen appearances of Cosmos and Astrotrain.

===Miscellaneous trivia===

* Though he single-handedly saves the Autobots on his own initiative, Trailbreaker gets no lines in the episode, and barely even appears except as a Jesus-like silhouette at the center of his force field.
* Starscream fires the [[null-ray]] from his finger.
* As is made evident by the shooting script for this episode, a large portion of this episode was actually added in at a later stage to bring the episode up to the required length - namely, Cosmos's inability to alter his flight path, Chip's escape and Thrust's blasting of Teletraan I.
* When released as a video in the UK, both episodes were compiled as a 45-minute "movie" instead being treated as a two-part episode.

===Keywords===

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/synopses/megatron's_master_plan_part_2.html Dossier at the Cybertron Chronicle]

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Optimal Situation

2007-12-19T16:46:17Z

69.254.94.220: /* Quotes */

{{episodenav |BW |season=3 |1 |prev=The Agenda, Part 3 |next=Deep Metal}}
'''Writers:''' [[Bob Forward]]
[[Image:OpSit opening.JPG|thumb|300px|Twas a dark and stormy night...]]
With [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in critical condition after [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron's]] attack, [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus]] takes on his [[spark]] to save the timestream.

'''Characters (in order of appearance):''' [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]], [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Rattrap]], [[Waspinator]], [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]], [[Rampage]]

'''Original air date:''' October 24, 1998

==Summary==
[[Image:Smelt Prime.JPG|thumb|left|150px|Smelts in your mouth, not in your hand.]]
As a time storm ravages reality, Megatron gloats to the fading [[Maximal]]s, since his attack on Optimus Prime ensures that the [[Autobot]]s lose to the [[Decepticon]]s, resulting in the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s having control of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. However, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], having been a Maximal protoform, is also affected by the time storm. She uses the information from the [[Golden Disk]] to activate [[Teletraan I]]'s security system, forcing Megatron out of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''.

[[Image:Optimal Optimus.JPG|150px|right|thumb|[[Trukk not munky|Trukk ''and'' munky]].]]
Blackarachnia and Silverbolt activate the Ark's repair systems to help stabilize Optimus Prime's conditione, but "reality is still in flux" The other Maximals arrive, and upon seeing Prime, realize that they must save him. However, his spark is fading. Believing there is no other choice, Optimus Primal merges his spark with Prime's to save it. He succeeds, and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] begins repairs, but holding Prime's spark causes Primal to expand into a new, larger body.

Megatron and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] arrive and attack, though Primal manages to save the Maximals and convince the Predacons to leave, while Blackarachnia uses the commotion to escape. Outside, [[Waspinator]] provides cover fire by shooting the rocks above the ''Ark''. The Predacons destroy the cave entrance and flee, but Megatron notices a trapped Blackarachnia. Enraged by her betrayal, Megatron shoots her as the Maximals break free. Knowing that they are heading for the unprotected ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', Primal and [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] race off.

[[Image:BWSilverbolt_Blackarachnia_OptimalSituation.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Ug, gag unto me with a spoon.]]
As Silverbolt cradles the damaged Blackarachnia, he begs her to fight on and praises her defiance of Megatron. She maintains that what she did was self-preservation, but Silverbolt points out that she also saved him and the universe. He openly admits to Blackarachnia that he loves her, shocking her. While there's still time, Silverbolt askes her one last time to join the Maximals. Although she maintains that she's still a Predacon, Blackarachnia joins the Maximals for him, then goes off-line. However, Rhinox reveals that she's merely in [[stasis lock]].

Primal and Cheetor manage to down Megatron, Inferno, and Waspinator, but Primal discovers that [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] and the [[Arachnoid]]s are literally trying to drag the base away. Optimus manages to sever the lines and dispatch Rampage, but not before Rampage fires a missile which deflects off Primal and hits the ''Axalon''. The ''Axalon'' plummets off the cliff and crashes into the river. Knowing that he must return Prime's spark, Optimus withdraws with Cheetor to rejoin the Maximals.

[[Image:Optimusx2.JPG|thumb|150px|right|And in four million years, he'll tell [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] he had the strangest [[Humanizing#Sleep|dream]].]]
Back in the ''Ark'', the repairs are finished. Returning the spark causes Optimus Prime to reactivate briefly, but he almost immediately returns to stasis lock. [[Rattrap]] is less than happy, as they now have the difficult task of protecting the ''Ark'' from the Predacons. With the time stream safe—for the moment—Optimus orders the Maximals, including Blackarachnia (who still maintains she's a Predacon), to begin rounding up every piece of salvage and make fortifications.

They're moving into [[Mount St. Hilary]].
{{-}}

==Quotes==
*''Blackarachnia'' "The Big Mac..."
*''[The Maximals discover Optimus Prime's damaged body]'' '''Optimus''': Well, that's just prime. '''Rattrap''': Or what's left of him. ''[Rhinox gives Rattrap a well deserved smack]''

*'''Megatron''': This is not the end of it, Optimal Optimus. Nooo. The universe cowered once in fear at the name of Megatron, and it shall do so again! '''Optimus''': Freedom is the right of all sentient beings, Megatron. '''Megatron''': Then they'd better stay out of my way! '''Rattrap:''' Oh fer bootin up cold! Will you just shoot him? '''Optimus:''' I'm trying not to resort to that.

*'''Optimus''': We'd have four million years to scrape you off the walls, Megatron. I might just risk it.

*'''Silverbolt''': Blackarachnia, dark poison of my heart, abide with me yet still. '''Blackarachnia''': You got a way with words there, Rover. You almost make me wish I was a better girl. ''[Offscreen, Rattrap resists the urge to shoot both of them.]''

*'''Cheetor''': Jumping gyros, Optimus sure learns a new body fast! '''Rattrap''': Well wha'd ya expect? He ''changes'' 'em often enough! ''[rim shot]''

==Notes==

===Continuity errors===
[[Image:OptimusPrimal_OpSit_Matrixspark.jpg|right|thumb|150px|It's not the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. We swear.]]

*The "spark container" which held Optimus Prime's spark was hauntingly similar to the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. According to [[Ben Yee]]'s [http://www.bwtf.com/bw/tvshow/episodes/seasonthree/os/ site], the Mainframe animators used Optimus Prime's death sequence from [[The Transformers: The Movie (1986)|the Transformers movie]] to base a visual reference on, and used the Matrix's design as a spark container because they didn't know its significance. This, of course, leads us to ask the question: how do you get involved with Transformers, and not know the most important McGuffin in the entire continuity?
** [[Primeval Dawn]] later explained the Matrix-shaped Spark Chamber as being a [[decoy]] Matrix constructed to sit in front of the real Matrix.
** Or Rhinox's "his Spark has The Matrix with it" line could suggest that while he held The Matrix, The Matrix seen in Beast Wars was The Matrix and not a decoy. Consider that in [[The Transformers: The Movie]], Prime didn't give the Matrix to Ultra Magnus until after he had died. Look, just watch the episode okay.

===Transformers references===
*After Optimus Prime's spark is returned to him, he reactivates, but almost immediately returns to [[stasis lock]].
*When confronting Megatron on the Ark's bridge, Optimus Primal tells Megatron, "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings," the motto of Optimus Prime. Later, he tells the Maximals to "transform and roll out."
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage's]] falling head represents that he is, in fact, totally dead. [[The Gathering|Until he isn't]].

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The Agenda (Part 2)

2007-12-19T15:43:15Z

69.254.94.220: /* Quotes */

{{episodenav |BW |season=2 |12 |prev=The Agenda, Part 1 |next=The Agenda, Part 3}}
'''Writers:''' [[Bob Forward]]

Captured by [[Ravage]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] lets the former Decepticon warrior in on the secret of the Golden Disk, and gets him to switch sides.

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

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

'''Original air date:''' March 12, 1998 (Cartoon Network Preview); May 16 (Regular Syndication)

==Summary==
With Megatron a prisoner and the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] scattered, the [[Maximal]]s prepare to wrap things up. [[Optimus Primal]] summons [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] to his office, and comes down on him about [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. Silverbolt points out that she was originally a Maximal protoform, and that Silverbolt was a Predacon once, but Primal counters that Blackarchnia is evil to the core, and Silverbolt didn't know any better. He confines Silverbolt to quarters and dispatches [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] to deal with Blackarchnia, despite Silverbolt's request to be sent, if only to protect Cheetor.

In his cell, Megatron berates Ravage for siding with the Maximals, and points out that his [[Transwarp Cruiser|ship]] is depleted of [[Energon]]. He offers a stash of [[Energon cube|cube]]s for his freedom, but Ravage reveals he already knows the location, as [[Tarantulas]] is a Lieutenant in the [[Predacon Secret Police]]. Cheetor prepares to go out for Blackarachnia, but first apologizes to Silverbolt, who also apologizes—for the punch he gives him. Escapaing, Silverbolt locates Blackarachnia, following [[Waspinator]] to [[Mount St. Hilary|a mountain]]. Silverbolt begs her to come in, but Blackarachnia claims to have no feelings for him at all. To prove her point, she shoots him. But as Silverbolt points out, it was non-fatal, saying she does care for him, and wont simply kill him. [[Kiss|Distracted]], the hoverpod they're in rams into Waspinator, but Silverbolt saves Blackarachnia (Waspinator is out of luck, as usual).

Heading for the Energon cubes, Optimus and Cheetor discover that they are actually [[Energon crystal|unstable crystal]]s, and part of a trap by Megatron. [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] attacks, but soon suffers from Energon buildup. Inferno ignites the crystals in an attempt to destroy them all, but Primal and Cheetor escape. At his ship, Ravage confronts Megatron over his treachery. Megatron points out that Ravage intends to kill them all, Maximal and Predacon, which Ravage admits to, and arms the vessels internal autoguns. Desparate, Megatron reveals he had ulterior motives for stealing the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], something which could affect the [[Great War]]. Ravage doubts him, pointing out the Disk's destruction, but allows Megatron to convince him. Released from the [[power bond]]s, the Predacon commander reveals that he still has a fragment of the Disk, and it holds proof that Ravage will believe—a message from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the [[Emperor of Destruction|leader]] of the [[Decepticon]]s. Noting his potential defeat, Megatron left instructions for the descendants of the Decepticons to use [[transwarp]] technology to travel back in time to Ancient [[Earth]]. Although the message cuts out, the Predacon's gambit succeeded: Ravage, moved by the sight of his former leader, releases Megatron.

At the mountain, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt discover that Megatron was already here, having dug a tunnel and then sealed it. Blackarachnia attempts to make Silverbolt leave, but finally accepts his help. As Optimus and Cheetor return to the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', [[Rattrap]] radios Optimus, telling him they no longer need to depend on Ravage—he switched sides! As Ravage [[transformation|transforms]] to interface with his ship, the Predacons launch an attack.

[[The Agenda, Part 3|To be continued...]]

==Quotes==
"Ahhh... I useta be young like that." "...What?!" 
"D'yah -- I mean -- we got trouble. Ohhhh yeah."
:-- '''Rattrap''' and '''Optimus Primal''' on Silverbolt's escape to find Blackarachnia.

"I know how you're feeling. You don't know whether to kiss me or... kill me." "I'm a black widow ''spider'', you idiot!...I can do both"
:-- '''Silberbolt''' and '''Blackarachnia'''.

"This is Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. And if you're hearing this, it means I've failed...''this'' time. 
:-- '''Megatron''', causing the fandom to rejoice at his appearance, yet complain that Frank Welker didn't provide the voice.

"Decepticons forever!"
:-- '''Ravage''', before transforming with the traditional noise into a mini-cassette, causing the fandom to rejoice without any complaints.

==Notes==

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

===Continuity errors===
*Error

===Transformers references===
*When Megatron shows the recording from the remains of the Golden Disk, the face and voice of the original Megatron are shown.
*When Ravage transforms, the sound effect is the one of the Autobots and the Decepticons.
*Originally, when Ravage transformed and inserted his cassette mode into the control console, 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===
*Efforts were made to get [[Frank Welker]] to provide the voice for Megatron's message, but financial and scheduling conflicts precluded Welker from providing his voice.
*When Waspinator is smashed to pieces by the status pod ship, a toilet is seen falling down among the wreckage.

==External links==
*[http://www.bwtf.com/bw/tvshow/episodes/seasontwo/agenda2/ Synopsis of the Agenda, Part 2 at Ben Yee's website]
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Ravage (G1)

2007-12-19T15:42:14Z

69.254.94.220: /* ''Beast Wars'' */

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

:''Ravage was a [[Decepticon]], then a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]], and then a [[Decepticon]] again in the [[Generation 1]] and [[Beast Era]] and then [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family|continuity families]]. It's all very confusing.''

[[Image:Ravageboxart.jpg|right|thumb|350px|This is [[Ravage#Trivia|every comic book panel]] Ravage has ever been in. Well, okay, sometimes they rotate him a bit.]]

No Decepticon has a stronger loyalty to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] than '''Ravage'''. One of [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s most reliable [[Mini-Cassette|spies]], Ravage believes unwaveringly in the Decepticon cause, and Megatron embodies that cause. To better serve Megatron and the Decepticons, 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.

Sometimes he's a talker, other times he just growls or hisses at anything that isn't Megatron or Soundwave.
{{quote|Decepticons forever!|Ravage|"[[The Agenda, Part 2]]"}}

:''Japanese name:'' '''Jaguar''' 
:''Italian name:'' '''Iena''' (meaning Hyena) 
:''Swedish name:'' '''Hunden''' 
:''Hungarian name:'' '''Romboló''' (meaning Ravager) 
:''Spanish name:'' '''Destructor'''

==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:Contentedfools.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Ravage, here in his first appearance, is the first Transformer to have dialogue in the [[The Transformers (comic issue)|first Transformers story]].]]
''Ravage was loyal bodyguard for the [[Overlord (Autobot)|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. Like ancient Rome, the last Overlord barely managed to hold together the autocracy through the gladiatorial games, which allowed the city-states to vent their frustrations over low fuel supplies on each other in scripted, controlled conflicts. A war broke out between [[Vos]] and [[Tarn]], however, and Ravage and his partner [[Nightstalker]] attempted to escort the Overlord to safety. Joined by the gladiators [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], their journey was perilous. The Overlord was now an enfeebled mechanoid who required constant re-energization to survive, and constantly slowed them down. After Prime raced ahead to get help, Nightstalker self-destructed himself in a final loyal act to defend the Overlord, leaving the ruler alone with Megatron and Ravage. 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. {{Storylink|State Games!}}''

As a member of Megatron's Decepticons, Ravage attempted to hijack the [[Ark]] four million years ago, only to fail and fall into deactivation sleep until 1984. The detonation of the volcano in [[Mount St. Hilary]] reactivated the Autobots and Decepticons, unleashing their war on Earth. Ravage acted as the top spy for his leader.

''Shortly into their stay on Earth, the ever-treacherous [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] attempted to build up support against Megatron by demanding action when Megatron cautioned patience, knowing his fellow Decepticons were getting restless for battle. Fearing that an outright execution of Starscream would turn popular opinion against him, Megatron asked Ravage to spy on the [[Seeker]] and find him an excuse to get rid of Starscream. Ravage was discovered, though, and critically injured by Starscream during their fight. Ravage managed to crawl home across the desert, however, and reported the betrayal to Megatron.''

''Having dishonored himself by attacking his fellow Decepticon, Starscream was forced to engage in a trial by combat with the Autobot [[Brawn]], who had fallen into a similar situation by unrelated circumstances. After defeating Brawn in combat and flying back to Decepticon headquarters to declare his victory, Starscream was shot down by the vengeful Ravage on Megatron's orders. Ravage reported the Autobots were responsible for the attack, and thus Megatron was able to galvanize the Decepticons for battle himself, effectively stealing Starscream's thunder and punishing the mutineer in the process.{{Storylink|The Enemy Within!}}''

''As the Decepticons assaulted the Ark, Ravage fought against the magnetic Autobot [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], employing his own electromagnetic shield to protect himself from his opponent's powers. When Optimus Prime attempted to awaken the ship's computer [[Auntie]] during the battle, however, she awoke in a scrambled state and turned against all the Transformers, using magnetic force to hold all the combatants against her hull...except for Ravage and Windcharger. Forced to work together for the benefit of both their armies, they managed to deactivate Auntie. {{Storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}}''

Time passed, as did leadership of the Decepticons...''several'' times. Still, Ravage remained the dutiful soldier, and was at one point assigned to watch over [[Donny Finkleberg|"Robot-Master"]], really a human named Donny Finkleberg who was unwillingly helping the Decepticons sow mistrust of the Autobots among the human population. When the human escaped their coal shaft base during an Autobot offensive, Ravage took off after his prey. But after getting into a confrontation with the Autobot named [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], Ravage was sent tumbling down a mine shaft and rendered inoperative on impact. {{Storylink|Showdown!}}

''He was eventually awakened by a series of earth tremors, set off by the time storm raging throughout the universe. Finding much had changed since his deactivation, Ravage stumbled into the underground bunker of none other than [[Straxus|"Megatron"]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. Initially siding with his old leader(s?), Ravage was soon surprised to learn the fate of the entire timestream was at stake. He abandoned the battle and sought out the reclusive Shockwave, and managed to use logic to convince the mentally shaky Decepticon to give up the body of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and toss it into the timestorm, ending the threat to the present and future. {{Storylink|Time Wars}}''

[[Image:Ravage_uk258.png|right|thumb|100px|The smirking Ravage was a chatty catty in the Marvel comics.]]
''In the aftermath, he hooked up with Megatron and they returned to Cybertron to seek new fortunes. In the Decepticon capital city of [[Helex]], though, they found Autobots wandering around unmolested, and the area free of Decepticon supervision. After deposing the inadequate [[Triumverate]], Megatron established a new beachhead for his conquests, with Ravage by his side. {{Storylink|The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire}} Before long, though, Ravage's Megatron was destroyed by the original Megatron, who revealed that the Megatron from Time Wars was a reconstruction of Lord Straxus. {{Storylink|Two Megatrons!}}''

Ravage eventually resurfaced on Earth, working with Starscream and Shockwave in an auxillary Decepticon army, planning to overthrow then-leader [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. {{Storylink|Eye of the Storm!}} Their plans were placed on hold when [[Primus]] summoned all the Transformers of Earth to Cybertron to do battle for [[Unicron]]. Ravage was not seen again after the war against the Chaos-Bringer. {{Storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

===Animated continuity===
Voice Actor: [[Frank Welker]] (US) [[Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese speech)
[[Image:Ravageg1.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Ravage reveals his slef (sic) to humans. [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers.fanfic/msg/a5cd7fda89f12c7c?dmode=source&hl=en]]]

One of the original team of Decepticons that accompanied [[Megatron]] on the attack of the ''[[Ark]]'' spacecraft, Ravage was reformatted by [[Teletraan I]] 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. {{storylink|More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1|MTMTE1}}

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. {{storylink|More Than Meets the Eye, Part 2|MTMTE2}} 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 (G1)|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. {{storylink|More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3|MTMTE3}}

During Megatron's gladiatorial match with Optimus Prime, Ravage was let out to watch his master battle their nemesis. Soundwave also petted him. This would be cute if it wasn't creepy. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

During Megatron's attempt to convince the humans that the Decepticons were good and the Autobots were evil, Ravage was dispatched to track down [[Spike Witwicky]] when the human searched for evidence that would exonerate the Autobots. Cornering the flesh creature in a studio control room, Ravage had a door closed on him, was electrocuted by a control panel, and had a shelf filled with video cassettes pushed onto him. To make Ravage feel better, Soundwave took Ravage along with the other cassettes to a teen dance party, where Ravage was a big hit with the ladies. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

Some time later, Ravage, along with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and Soundwave, were transported to a planet with massive inhabitants, along with a group of Autobots, in a [[space bridge]] accident. The first creature they encountered, [[Aron]], thought the Decepticons were toys. Ravage attempted to escape, but Aron's cat [[Nitro]] chased after Ravage like a mouse (how embarrassing). Aron put him with his pet hamster, Blooper, in his cage. Instead of immediately asserting his dominance by killing the beast, Ravage went and ran on the creature's exercise wheel. When captured by scientists, they attempted to disect the Transformers, but Ravage was able to pick his locks and free the Decepticons, who hijacked the Autobots light beam to head back to Earth...and landed in a lake filled with alligators. That was a very bad day for Ravage. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}

====''Binaltech''====
At some point in time after [[1985]], but before [[2005]], Ravage was captured by the [[EDC]] and kept as a prisoner. He was then kept Status Locked in Cassete-mode inserted his future/past self's Tapedeck, in order to provide his body with a [[Spark|"Life Essence Nucleus"]], as part of the [[I.I.I|I.I.I's]] "X-9 Revival Plan". The present's Ravage remains unaware of his time-tossed doppleganger.

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:Ravagewarandpeace.jpg|right|thumb|150px|RARRRRR yourself.]]
Ravage, with a much more arboreal alt mode, was part of the second assassination team Megatron sent after the new Autobot Supreme Commander Optimus Prime. Ravage got savaged.
Millions of years later, Ravage was a member of a team of Transformers controlled by [[Lazarus]] and sent to destroy an oil refinery. Ravage, always loyal to Soundwave, seemed to switch to [[Shockwave]]'s side when they traveled to Cybertron. Unfortunately for him, he tried to tackle [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and got a mouthful of energy blast.

===IDW comics continuity===
Ravage can talk. Seriously. He was last seen chained in a [[Skywatch]] facility alongside Laserbeak. And he hasn't seen Megatron or Soundwave in twenty years. He's not in a good mood, but this was rendered moot when Skywatch reprogrammed him to track down the other Transformers. Time will tell if Skywatch's programming is stronger than Ravage's loyalty to the Decepticons. {{storylink|Devastation, Part 1}}

===IDW ''[[Hearts of Steel]]'' continuity===
[[Image:Marktwainvsravage.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Back vile beast, back *Ravage smashes chair*...um, anyone got some catnip?]]
[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] sent Ravage to kill [[Tobias Muldoon]], who had deserted the Decepticons when he learned they were evil. Ravage tracked him to [[Stanford Merriweather]]'s house in [[San Francisco]], and crashed into the household, startling Muldoon, Merriweather, Merriweather's daughter [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty]], and [[Mark Twain]].

He then pretty much got his ass kicked by Mark Twain, who took advantage of Ravage being momentarily trapped in rubble to flick a cigar at him, thus igniting a gas leak. The explosion flung Ravage into the bay, never to be seen again.

Ravage is a "clockwork puma", and does not transform in the course of the story. {{Storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3}}
{{-}}

===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 Shadow Panther 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 assassin 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.

====''Timelines: Dawn of Future's Past''====
Although he only shows up on a computer screen in the comic(thus not making an actual appearance), he is mentioned as being recruited along with fellow [[Mini-Cassette]]s [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] by the Predacon [[Divebomb]], but for some reason left them soon afterwards to become an operative for the Tripredacus Council.

====''Beast Wars''====
'''Voice Actor:''' [[Lee Tockar]] (US), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (Japan), [[Daois Cabezudo]] (Brazil)
[[Image:BWRavage_introduction.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"I vill ask you only vuhnce more... vhere are moose and skvirrel?"]]

Ravage is one of the few Decepticon warriors who was granted amnesty at the end of the Great War and reformatted into a Predacon, complete with classy Russian accent. He was 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. (Whether this translated to "kill them all" in the minds of the Tripedacus Council is unclear, but that was apparently Ravage's intent.) Ravage made the trip to prehistoric Earth in a specially modified stealth [[Transwarp Cruiser]]. 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. {{Storylink|The Agenda, Part 1}}

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 showed Ravage something which shocked him—a message from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the [[Emperor of Destruction|leader of the Decepticons]]. As a safeguard against potential defeat, Megatron left instructions for the descendants of the Decepticons to use transwarp technology to return to prehistoric Earth. Although the message cuts out before it is finished, Megatron's plan worked: Ravage, moved by the sight of his former master, released Megatron. After Megatron explained the rest of the message, Ravage joined the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and turned on the Maximals. Megatron and Ravage attack Cheetor and Optimus, at which point he transformed into his old mini-casette alt-mode, jumped into the tape player on his ship, and started playing wicked guitar solos{{Storylink|The Agenda, Part 2}}

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. As the inferno headed toward the bridge, Ravage raised a fist and shouted, "Decepticons forever!" to whomever heard or cared. {{Storylink|The Agenda, Part 3}}

His head, seemingly all that remained of him, was knocked into the water below the ''Axalon'' by one of Tarantulas' [[Arachnoid|spider-drone]]s. {{Storylink|Optimal Situation}}{{-}}

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

''(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.

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
[[Image:Ravage Teansmetal2.jpg|left|thumb|300px|On the left, Ravage's "robot mode" as seen in The Gathering. On the right, his actual robot mode as seen in Primeval Dawn. On the far right where we can't see him, Ravage beating the crap out of the designers, telling them to make up their [[frag]]ging minds]]

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 forces arrived, however, and Ravage's forces were defeated. Ravage retreated into the wilderness. {{storylink|The Gathering}}

Subsequently, Ravage would utilize all the Predacons under his command in a desperate attack as a diversion while he crept into the Maximal base to steal the [[chronal phase facilitators]] left behind by Magmatron. He was confronted by Razorbeast, who guessed incorrectly that Ravage intended to use them to board the Autobot shuttle and return to Cybertron. Ravage corrected him by stating that he intended to free Megatron and eradicate the Maximal forces. His ambitions however were thwarted by [[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] who caught him off guard and gave Razorbeast the opportunity to knock Ravage offline. {{storylink|The Ascending, Part 1}}

It is not certain if Ravage's intentions for Megatron were another ruse or if he was ''actually'' out of his kitty mind regarding the tactical feasibility of this endeavor.

However, what WAS a ruse was Ravage being offline - as soon as he had been tied up by Razorbeast, the Maximal commander had to leave to help on the battlefield - upon which Ravage stopped playing dead and broke loose rather easily, managing to obtain the chronal displacement bands that Razorbeast had put him right next to after pointing them out. (A tactical genius, that Razorbeast.) However, upon activating the bands, Ravage was pulled into Chronospace by the trapped Magmatron, who warned him of the apocalypse that was to come, and ordered him to form a truce with the Maximals to fight this menace. And after hearing the warning, Ravage heeded the sage advice, sneaking out of the base while chronically displaced and re-emerging to the sight of several gun barrels from [[Lio Convoy]], Razorbeast, and the Pack. However, just as he explained the situation, [[Rartorata]] emerged from nowhere and turned Razorbeast into a Princess Mononoke homage. {{storylink|The Ascending, Part 2}}

(''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. This could simply be Magmatron's opinion, however, and is not necessarily indicative of Ravage's true loyalties.''

''Possibly in an effort to distinguish him from Cheetor, Ravage usually walks around on his hind legs in beast mode, not bothering with his Transmetal 2 robot mode.'')

====''Primeval Dawn'' comics====
An undead [[Vok]]-infested [[Tarantulas]] revived Ravage into another body to help boost his forces. The remnants of Ravage's previous body were recycled by the Vok to re-create [[Tigatron]]. {{storylink|Universe (comic)|Primeval Dawn}}

===''Binaltech''===
The Government-run [[Intelligence and Information Institute]] (or Triple-I) unearthed a mysterious 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 the Predacon Ravage's stealth ship, containing a copy of the feline's personality and memory engrams, deposited into his vessel before his final blaze of glory {{storylink|The Agenda, Part 2}}. 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 (filled under the pretense of "technological synthesis tests"), 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 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 mental health (relatively speaking), 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 [[Transmuter|Transmuted]] [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] into a new Binaltech body of his own, so he could lead the remaining Decepticons in Megatron's absence, and secretly derailed 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)|Wheeljack]] - 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 fruition. 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. The Autobots just barely manage to hold off the fleet, ensuring that "Operation: Distant Thunder" proves to be a success (though a [[Nemesis Prime|black Optimus Prime]] ends up separating the Binaltech timeline from the original, as supposedly the Binaltech-bodied Transformers have a higher purpose in the grand scheme of things). Whatever happened to Ravage is not known.

===Teletraan Go! Go! comics===
[[Image:TGGRavage.jpg|thumb|275px|right|It's a mystery!]]After a mystery assailant badly damaged [[Teletraan I]], destroying vital data, the thinly-disguised (actually not-at-all-disguised) "Black Panther Man" stationed on the artificial Earth satellite [[Nana]] ordered the mobile computers [[Teletraan 10]] and [[Teletraan 15]] to travel through time collecting data on Transformers of the past and future.

Although his plan was indeed to repair Teletraan I's databanks, Ravage had his own intentions for the information. He had traveled back from the future to the year 2005 in an attempt to use the "bio and tech specs" data stored inside the computer to manipulate the future and create a timeline free of "unnecessary conflict." When he was foiled by the unknown saboteur, he infiltrated the Autobots as Black Panther Man and created the Information Control Center on Nana in order to control the recovery effort.

The bumbling Teletraan 15 (and eventually Teletraan 10 as well) resisted, escaping back in time using Ravage's Transwarp cruiser and becoming the very saboteur that caused her mission to begin. Though annoyed that his scheme had been thwarted, Ravage expressed pride in the independence of his underlings and graciously ejected them into space - a survivable situation for the pair and their [[Kiss Player]] cassette friends.

===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 suggests that Ravage is among the oldest of the Decepticons (even Megatron only feigned familiarity with this form of technology), or that he's a serious student of ancient energy generation techniques.

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
* '''Ravage / Rumble''' (Cassette, 1984/1998/1986/1987)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''19''', '''D-59''', '''D-104'''
[[Image:G1Ravage_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Behold... the world's skinniest jaguar.]]

: The first Ravage toy transforms from a robotic jaguar (or whatever) into a microcassette. In cassette mode, he can fit into the tape compartments fo the [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Blaster]] toys. For his [[Hasbro]] release, he was sold on a card along with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] in 1984-1986, and as an individual with an extra clear-plastic tape-case by [[Takara]] from 1985-1987.

: This mold was later used to make [[Glit]] and [[Howlback]].

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*'''Soundblaster''' (Transformers Collection, 2005)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''18'''

[[Image:G1Jaguar(reissue).jpg|left|thumb|A light breeze is enough to defeat him.]]

: The [[Transformers Collection]] [[reissue]] of Soundblaster (the rebuilt form of Soundwave from the Japanese [[Headmasters (franchise)|Headmasters series]]) came with bonus "Cassettrons" Jaguar (Ravage) and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. Both came with their own extra tape-cases, and small stickers depicting the 'weak points' of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortess Maximus]].

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*'''Soundwave''' (Decepticon, 2007)

: Hasbro's reissue of Soundwave is a [[redeco]] of the Transformers Collection Soundblaster, coming with the double-tape door and both Ravage and Laserbeak as pack-ins.

===Beast Wars===
* '''Shadow Panther''' (Deluxe, 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-7'''

[[Image:ShadowPanther_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Fuzzy kitty!]]

: This toy is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] toy in black, silver, and yellow, transforming into a generic big feline. His tail/flanks separate to form a non-firing blaster, while his underbelly forms a water-shooting "gut gun" that can be used in either mode.

: Much later, this toy was offered through Hasbro's online collector service under the name "'''Tripredacus Agent'''", with an online bio indicating he was the same character as Ravage (then called "Tripredacus Agent" due to [[trademark]] isuues).

: This mold was also used to make [[Tigatron]], and was planned to be used for the cancelled ''[[Universe]]'' toy [[Nightprowler]].

* '''Jaguar''' (Deluxe 1999)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''X-9'''
[[Image:JaguarX9_toy.jpg|left|thumb|Metal kitty!]]

: ''Beast Wars Metals'' Jaguar is a heavy [[retool]]ing of [[Transmetal]] Cheetor, just as Ravage's robot mode CG model in the show is an altered Transmetal Cheetor. He transforms into a robotic big cat, with flip-out thrusters for a third "flight" mode (not, as in the episode, into a cassette tape that plays wicked 1980's style electric guitar, for obvious reasons). His forearms each have a spring-loaded flip out pistol stub, which can be extended with add-on barrels that clip to his rear legs in beast mode. his tail also can detach to forma whip-weapon, but he doesn't hold it very well.

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* '''Tripredacus Agent''' (Deluxe, 2001)
[[Image:TripredacusAgent_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Mutant kitty!]]

: This Wal-Mart [[exclusive]] is a redeco of --wait, can you guess?-- Transmetal 2 Cheetor, in black, silver, and gold, transforming into a monstrous techno-organic (but not [[technorganic]]) big cat. He has a spring-loaded missile launcher on his cat-mode back that can be removed and used as a hand-held weapon, plus his tail detaches to forma hand-held flail. His left forearm has a flip-up blaster-shield (of dubious usefulness), while flipping up a panel on his right-rear leg reveals his [[spark crystal]].

===Smallest Transforming Transformers===
* '''Soundwave''' (2003)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF 05'''
[[Image:STFRavage.jpg|left|thumb|So tiny... So CUTE!]]

: The ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' version of Soundwave comes with a ''teeeeeny'' version of Ravage, which does actually transform into a microcassette that fits in the tape-case door. Smallest Ravage may very well be the actual smallest functioning ''Transformers'' toy made.

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===Alternators===
* '''Battle Ravage''' (2004)
:''Alternator ID number:'' '''11'''
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-11'''
[[Image:AlternatorsRavage(Corvette).jpg|right|thumb|He brakes for Meow Mix and nothing else...well, sometimes nip.]]

: A retooling of ''[[Alternators]]'' [[Tracks]], "Battle" Ravage transforms into a 1:24-scale licensed replica of the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Convertible, with opening doors, hood, trunk, plus a "realistic" driver/passenger compartment. Each robot-mode forearm contains slide-out (non-firing) double blasters.

: This mold was also used to make ''Alternators'' [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]].

*'''Ravage''' (Alternator, 2007)
:''Alternator ID number:'' '''26'''
[[Image:Alternatorsravagejaguar.jpg|left|thumb|Soundwave had MTV pimp his kitty.]]

: The second version of ''Alternators'' Ravage transforms into a 1:24-scale licensed Jaguar XK (appropriately enough), with all the normal bells and whistles inherent in the line (opening doors, seats, etc). This is a toy of many "firsts". Not only is it the first ''Alternators'' character with two distinctly-different toys, it's one of the first two Decepticon Alternators with an original mold (alongside [[Rumble]]). ''And'', it's the first ''Alternators'' character to have a non-humanoid "robot" mode, as its non-car form is now a quadrupedal big cat.

: After shipments appeared in various European markets, Ravage and Rumble's releases in the US were questionable for a while. However, it appears they were shuffled to be Wal-Mart [[exclusive]]s, set in an endcap display alongside the ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]] exclusive gift-set in March/April of 2007... in some stores. In others, they were crammed in the normal aisle with everything else. Assuming it even showed up at all.

: On this note, Ravage has a Great Britain license plate, regardless of which country the toy was purchased in.

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===Titanium Series===
*'''Soundblaster''' (6" Titaniums, 2007)

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==Merchandise==
*'''Ravage Decoy'''
: ''Decoy ID number:'' '''49'''

: Coming packaged at random on carded ''Transformers'' toys during 1986, this is a soft-rubber version of Ravage in his jaguar mode. He --like all Decepticon [[Decoy]]s-- was available in both purple and red, with the red version being considerably rarer. These are not erasers!

[[Image:Ravage robotheroes.jpg|thumb|Wavage!]]
*'''Robot Heroes Ravage'''

: Released in 2007 as a [[Robot Heroes]] vs. pack with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Ravage is ''adowable''!
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==Trivia==
* Ravage's original packaging art is by far the most-copied depiction of any Transformer. It was, of course, adapted for his ''[[Transformers Universe (Marvel Comics)|Transformers Universe]]'' profile [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Ravage], but was also used (twice) in 1985's "back-of-the-box" battle scene [http://www.botchthecrab.com/galleryImage.asp?gallery=7&image=33], was copied in licensed coloring books and storybooks, and the pose also showed up repeatedly in the Marvel Comics. In "[[Time Wars]] Part 2" (Marvel UK #200), artist [[Robin Smith]] copied the art multiple times across several subsequent panels. And it was, of course, recolored for Howlback's card-art. Yikes.

==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]
*[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers.fanfic/msg/a5cd7fda89f12c7c?dmode=source&hl=en "Ravage 3 Bodies Evolution," a fanfic by TigerMegatron]

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Megatron (BW)

2007-12-19T14:16:25Z

69.254.94.220: /* Beast Wars */

{{Template:Disambig3|Megatron}}

:''Megatron is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]], a [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]], and a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. He's also briefly known as Savage and Noble. He's a busy villain. Yesss.''

[[Image:Megatronbw.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Best. Megatron. Ever. Yes....]]

'''Megatron''' has one goal -- restoring glory and power to the Predacon race, with himself at the helm. What distinguishes Megatron from the countless others who share this goal is his chutzpah. He is willing to risk everything — time, space, himself — if need be. And there were times he might have made it happen were it not for [[Optimus Primal]]

Megatron is skillful at orchestrating vast schemes by manipulating others into doing them for him -- an idle suggestion here, a conspicuously-planted object of interest there. He knows his enemies inside and out and exactly how to provoke them. He has no friends, only pawns, or occasionally, [[Inferno (BW)|pawns that are too reliable to risk losing]]. Because of this attitude, this superiority complex, he despises working with the very troops he needs to carry out his plans. His hubris does not make him very popular, and so he must rely on power and fear to rule them. In fact, he prefers [[Vehicon|mindless drones]].

Megatron is a gambler and can sometimes be a ham. (His manner of saying "Yesss..." is practically vaudevillian.) He has a twisted sense of humor and an over-developed sense of drama which rule everything he conceives, both long and short term. When he destroys you, he wants you to know that it was he who did this, and just how badly you were had. This is his greatest weakness. Like a Bond villain, he'll gladly boast to the hero at length about how smart and clever he was, giving his victim time to formulate a counterattack (he admits the Predacons sometimes gloat too much). He often sabotages himself by neglecting the quick and easy solutions for the bigger, meaner, and more complex.

Prior to the signing of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Megatron was a field commander in the Predacon army, where he learned much about strategy and tactics. Upon ratification of peace with the [[Maximal Imperium]] most Predacons laid down their arms. Megatron refused and went rogue.

{{quote|The universe cowered once at the name of Megatron and it shall do so again!|Megatron|"[[Optimal Situation]]"}}
''Japanese name:'' '''Megalligator''' (alligator) 
''European-market name:'' '''Dragone''' (Transmetal 2), '''Metal T-Rex''' (Transmetal)

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====Beast Wars II catalog====
[[Image:MegatronGalvatronBW1.jpg|left|150px|thumb|pwnd.]]

On planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Megatron once disagreed with [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] over opinions on galactic conquest, and engaged him in battle over it. At the time, Megatron momentarily let his guard down, and was defeated. Galvatron declared "Your era is over, Megatron!"

Later, Megatron noted that while Galvatron was ambitious, he cared for his underlings - and although he was loathe to admit it, he acknowledged that Galvatron probably had all the regal bearing of a new [[Emperor of Destruction]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars II catalog}}

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====Dreamwave comics continuity====
After stealing the [[Golden Disk]] ''(wrongly drawn as the [[Alien Disk]])'', Megatron broke into [[Vector Sigma]] along with [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] and reviewed historical files on many of the Autobots and Decepticons from the [[Generation 1]] era. He told Dinobot to refer to him henceforth as Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #8}}

====''Timelines: Dawn of Futures Past''====
[[Image:Megatronbwsuit.jpg|thumb|150px|Megatron's technicolor dreamcoat.]]
On Cybertron, Megatron wore removable transformable armor, which transformed into a missile-launching armored platform, over his basic bodyframe (which transforms into a hovertank). This quickly-discarded outer shell was possibly used to comply with the ratification of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], which required Predacons to lay down their arms. A Predacon field commander before the peace, Megatron refused to comply with these new regulations and struck out on his own to destroy the [[Maximal Imperium]].

With some [[Cryotek|help]] from [[Divebomb (G1)|various sources]], he assembled a crew of ragtag criminals and miscreants for the purpose of stealing the Golden Disk and using it to find [[Earth]]. Succeeding in stealing the disk, he, [[Dinobot (BW)|his lieutenant]], and [[Scorponok (BW)|another accomplice]] fought their way out of the [[Archives]], eliminating [[Unit 1|one guard]] and dodging [[Tigatron|another]]. They were swiftly picked up by the ''[[Darksyde]]'', a ship stolen by the rest of their crew.

Megatron instructed [[Tarantulas]] to study the disk for the coordinates of Earth while the ''Darkside'' battled its several pursuers. Although they were followed by the Maximal ships [[Axalon (BW)|''Axalon'']] and the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', the ''Darksyde''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s mission was also aided by a third ship crewed by the Predacon agents [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. Though the ''Chromia 10'' and the Predacon ship were destroyed, the ''Darksyde'' was still followed by the ''Axalon''. Megatron removed his transformable armor and patched a video feed through to the ''Axalon'''s captain, [[Optimus Primal]]. Declaring himself the leader of the Predacons, Megatron opened a [[transwarp]] portal through which both ships travelled. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Beast Wars''====
:''Voice actor:'' [[David Kaye]] (English), [[Shigeru Chiba]] (Japanese), [[Antonio Moreno]] (Brazil)

[[Image:Megatronbwspidersgame.jpg|left|thumb|200px|I thought I told you NO MORE BARNEY JOKES.]]
After stealing the Maximal relic, the [[Golden Disk]], and [[Darksyde|a ship]], he and his crew were followed through a [[transwarp]] portal by the [[Axalon (BW)|''Axalon'']]. After crashing on a planet that was supposed to be [[Earth]], yet seemingly wasn't, both the [[Maximal]]s and the Predacons took organic beast forms to protect themselves against the massive amount of Energon radiation. Megatron now transformed into a purple ''Tyrannosaurus rex''.

Dinobot chastised Megatron, accusing him of leading the Predacons to the wrong planet and challenged Megatron for leadership of the Predacons. Megatron simply ignored the challenge and had Scorponok dispose of him. {{storylink|Beast Wars, Part 1}}

Despite the loss of a formidable crony, Megatron positioned himself on the new world and the "Beast Wars" began. Being on a world filled with Energon allowed [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] to find a superhorde, and power himself to great levels. With this power, Terrorsaur was able to demolish Megatron in battle and take over the Predacons. However, through the Maximals' actions, the superhorde was destroyed. Terrorsaur was eventually ridden of his newfound power and returned to an angered Megatron, who was rebuilt by [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]. {{storylink|Power Surge}}

[[Image:Megatronbwtrex.jpg|150px|thumb|Today is a beautiful day to be stomping on things!]]

Again, Terrorsaur tried to usurp Megatron, this time using an apparently-turned [[Rattrap]], who used a device to paralyze Megatron. The Predacons argued over who would be leader, but agreed to put Rattrap and Megatron away for the time being. Megatron was able to easily escape using his secret voice commands, leaving Rattrap to his fate. Revealing himself to have escaped, Megatron allowed Terrorsaur to lead the Predacons in battle with the Maximals. Terrorsaur failed miserably, showing his ineptitude to the Predacons, which was Megatron's plan all along. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}}

Megatron later formulated a plan to get off Earth. First, he had the other Predacons act dissatisfied with his leadership, causing a battle that apparently destroyed the Predacons, using a Maximal spy camera that he was aware of to play out the trick. Then, the Maximals scavenged the ''Darksyde'' for parts to repair the ''Axalon''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s stardrive. Dinobot discovered the deception and rushed to warn the leaving Maximals. In the scuffle, Megatron snuck aboard. In the ''Axalon'', he managed to knock out every Maximal on the ship but Rattrap, who he started crushing to death. An angered [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] woke up and threw Megatron off the ''Axalon''. However, Megatron's tail weapon was stuck in the console, causing the ''Axalon'' to crash. Again. {{storylink|Victory (Beast Wars episode)|Victory}}

Later, Megatron caught wind of the return of the [[Vok]] and called a ceasefire between the two factions, realizing he had more important things to worry about. The Vok did indeed return, and planned to destroy the planet the Transformers were on with their massive [[Planet Buster]] (cleverly disguised as the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]). Optimus Primal managed to stop the planet buster after flying close to it within a modified stasis pod. Megatron added a little surprise for Primal within the pod, though; locking the door so that Primal could not escape and was destroyed when the planet buster exploded. {{storylink|Other Voices}}

The [[quantum surge]] from the exploding planet buster bathed Megatron in quantum energies, upgrading him into a [[transmetal]]. Megatron quickly rallied his forces and attempted an all-out attack on the leader-less Maximals. Megatron and the Predacons took the upperhand in battle until a transmetal Optimus Primal (brought back online by [[Rhinox]]) saved the day. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors, Part 1}}

With both factions now aware that the planet they were stranded on was really prehistoric [[Earth]], Megatron was free to put his full plan into motion. Locating the crashed [[Ark]], Megatron attempted to alter history by assassinating the unconscious [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. By doing so, he intended to ensure the defeat of the [[Autobot]]s and thus the victory of the [[Decepticon]]s and Predacons. (For unknown reasons, he showed no concern that such a drastic change to the timestream might erase his own existence.) {{storylink|The Agenda, Part 3}}

The Maximals managed to save Prime's life by having [[Teletraan I]] repair his body while Optimus Primal kept his spark within his own structure, transforming his body into a more powerful form. The Maximals defeated Megatron and returned Prime's spark to its proper place. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

[[Image:Megatrontm2render.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Two Megatrons for the price of one.]]

Megatron was not to be outdone. He managed to sneak inside the Ark (which was now the new Maximal base) and take the spark of the original Megatron, seeking to replicate the effect Optimus Prime's spark had on Primal's body. He placed his namesake's spark within his body, transforming himself into a powerful dragon. With this newfound body, Megatron was able to give Optimus Primal a sound beating, until chased away by the entire Maximal group. {{Storylink|Master Blaster}}

Megatron's next evil scheme involved the legendary Decepticon battleship, the [[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]. After finding the ship deep beneath the ocean, Megatron intended to pilot it back to the future and lay waste to the Maximals on Cybertron. {{storylink|Nemesis, Part 1}} First, however, he planned to annihilate the Ark on prehistoric Earth. Primal infiltrated the Nemesis and kept Megatron busy until Rhinox could fly a shuttlecraft through the bridge and take the Predacon out. The Nemesis crashed a second time and thus preserved history.

After returning the original Megatron's spark to its proper body, the Maximals headed back to Cybertron with the incarcerated Megatron shackled to the outside of their ship. {{Storylink|Nemesis, Part 2}}

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====''Tales of the Beast Wars''====
[[Image:Antagony megatron.jpg|left|thumb|Kinky.]]
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====''Robot Masters'' (Japan-only)====
Voice actor: [[Toshitsugu Takashina]] (Japan)

Taking advantage of the [[Blasty Zone]] as a means of time travel (and apparently size-enhancer), Megatron journeyed to a point in history where the original Megatron had gone missing, leaving the [[Decepticon]]s without a leader. "Beast Megatron" took command of the Decepticons, leading them on a quest to collect a powerful element, [[solitarium]], from within the Earth. Beast Megatron's plans were quickly thwarted by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a troop of time-displaced Autobots and Maximals, including [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]], [[Victory Leo]], [[Lio Convoy]] and Beast Megatron's arch nemesis, [[Optimus Primal]].

Beast Megatron later discovered a large deposit of solitarium beneath [[New York City]], and along with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Smokesniper]], [[Gigant Bomb]] and [[Wingstun]], laid waste to the Big Apple. The Autobots, accompanied by [[Reverse Convoy]], arrived and dealt with Beast Megatron's forces quickly. However, Reverse Convoy revealed himself to be the original Megatron in disguise and betrayed them. Now going by the name [[Megatron (G1)#Robot Masters (Japan-only)|Rebirth Megatron]], he teamed up with Beast Megatron and the pair made trouble for the Autobot commanders. However, the Autobots were able to defeat the two Megatrons, sending the villains into retreat.

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

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

Megatron is a bumbling oaf constantly leading the [[Predacon|Predacons]] against the forces of the [[Maximal|Maximals]]. {{storylink| Beast Wars Metals (manga)|Beast Wars Metals}}

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
[[Image:IDW Megatron Magmatron.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Go back to anime, Magmatron!]]

In Lio Convoy's opinion, Megatron is a simple wild card, no real threat when compared with Magmatron. This drives home the fact that Cybertron has no idea of the damage Megatron had and would inflict, or the lengths he would go to becoming arguably the most powerful transformer since the Great War.

After dispatching [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] to oversee the installation of [[Sentinel]] into the [[Darkside]], Megatron was attacked by [[Magmatron (BW)|Magmatron]], who had been assigned to arrest him by the [[Tripredacus Council]]. Although Megatron proved more than a match for the experienced Predacon general individually, he was ambushed and paralyzed by [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] and [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]]. Magmatron intended to use a [[transwarp shunt]] to transport his prisoner back to [[Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The Gathering, Part 3}} Thanks to the intervention of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Optimus Minor]], and [[Razorbeast]], Magmatron was sent home empty-handed. Razorbeast was tempted to dispatch the prone Megatron, but released him instead, due to his desire to avoid interfering with the timeline. {{storylink|The Gathering, Part 4}}

Ravage attempted to free Megatron after his capture, but didn't progress very far in his plans.{{storylink|The Ascending, Part 1}}

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====''Beast Machines''====
Voice actor: [[David Kaye]] (US), [[Shigeru Chiba]] (Japan), [[Francisco José]] (Brazil)

[[Image:Megatron for life.jpg|right|thumb|Whaddya mean, 'Triumph of the Will'?]]Breaking free from his constraints on the Autobot shuttle while it traveled through transwarp space, Megatron arrived back home on Cybertron well before the Maximals did. Using technology of his own devising, he took over the entire planet, and stored the [[spark]] of every last inhabitant under his citadel.

Additionally, Megatron seemed to have undergone a change. Gone was the ham who sought conquest for the sake of glory and power. He now spoke as if a god, almost reminiscent of his quotes from the Covenant of Primus. His actions were based not on the thirst for revenge on Maximals but in hopes of becoming a grand liberator for their kind. In addition, while as recently as the final battle of the Beast Wars, he would flatten a subordinate for even mentioning "the H word" ("honor"), he now would keep his word to his enemies, even at the risk of future losses. Further, at some point in this period, Megatron became convinced that beast modes and other vestiges of the organic were an abomination that should be scoured from Cybertron, leaving only technological purity. (Before he had seemed perfectly pleased with his dinosaur and dragon beast modes and, in fact, seemed to revel in them.) This was a new and even madder Megatron.

''As described above, the time period from when Megatron broke free from the shuttle, to when Optimus Primal and the Maximals arrived on Cybertron, was vastly transformative for both Megatron and the planet, and probably constituted an epic story in its own right. Nevertheless, the period was only vaguely described in the animated series, and only slightly elaborated upon in secondary media. Many questions remain unanswered.''

When the Maximals arrived in their shuttle, they found the planet empty aside from countless [[Vehicon|mindless drones]] controlled by Megatron. Megatron's drones immediately bombarded the Maximals with [[devolving gas]] to revert their powerful [[Transmetal]] bodies to normal beast mode bodies, and they were also affected by a [[transformation lock]] virus which Megatron had used to help him conquer the planet in the first place.

Despite his best efforts, the Maximals escaped, and learned to transform again after Primal used the [[Oracle]]'s power to [[reformatting|reformat]] them. They began making short work of his Vehicons, so he removed three sparks from his collection to create [[Vehicon general]]s which could think on their feet in battle. For the generals he chose sparks of Transformers that the Maximals already knew, such that if they ever discovered the sparks' identities, they would be reluctant to destroy them: [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] became [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]], [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] became [[Tankor]], and [[Waspinator]] became [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]. After Jetstorm was reformatted into Silverbolt and Rhinox reawakened and destroyed, Megatron used the sparks of [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika]] to replace them.

However, Megatron still retained his own beast mode, unwilling to take the momentary risk of transferring his spark to a new body. After releasing the energies of the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], Megatron attempted to transfer his spark to another body, but wound of stuck in [[Savage/Noble]], a purely organic creature. Eventually, Megatron would transfer his spark to the [[Grand Mal]], a vessel shaped in his own head. He attempted to consume the captured sparks, but [[Nightscream]] managed to depolarize his spark, causing it to jump between discarded shells and attack everyone in a zombie like fashion. Rattrap would use a [[spark extractor]] to repolarize his spark, allowing Megatron to regain his senses, but trapping him in a [[Diagnostic Drone]].

Ultimately, Megatron succeeded in capturing the sparks of all the Maximals, leaving just Optimus Primal and himself as the only two Transformers on the entire planet. At the end of a fierce one-on-one fight, in which Megatron wore a copy of the powerful Optimal Optimus body, Megatron began consuming his amassed sparks, growing ever more powerful. However, when he attempted to use the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] to transform the planet's [[organic core]] into [[technomatter]], Primal managed to dislodge them both. They plummeted into the planet's goopy core and, somehow, Primal was able to reformat the entire planet, destroying himself and Megatron completely, but freeing all the lost sparks to repopulate their newly redecorated planet.

====''Beast Wars Reborn'' text story====

[[Image:BeastWarsRebornMegatronArtwork1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Reborn on the wagon of a travelin' show, Primal used ta dance fer the money they'd throw! Megatron would do whatever he coooouuuld!]]

Both Megatron and Optimus Primal awoke inside a bizarre temple-like spaceship which was hurtling through space. Neither had any memory of who they were or how they got there, only their own names and a feeling of discomfort between one another. The pair went about investigating the ship in search of answers. While Megatron's memory was lost, his personality remained mostly intact: he was more concerned with seizing control of the ship before Primal did in order to gain the upper hand.

They eventually found a data log and discovered that their sparks had been taken and they were reborn into new bodies (unbeknownst to them, bodies identical to their original Earth forms). However, their memories were intentionally not uploaded into their new bodies. While searching the log they discovered that the ship's main power source was a [[Golden Disk]] lodged within a giant pillar. Megatron immediately raced to obtain the Disk and Primal followed him. The closer they got to the disk the more the ship attempted to thwart their advance by manipulating its atmosphere conditions.

Once they reached the chamber the ship's environment suddenly morphed to that of a decaying planet littered with the corpses of robots. The corpses came to life and began shambling toward them, intent on eating their sparks. They made short work of the zombies, leaving Megatron to obtain the Golden Disk and Primal with a feeling that he shouldn't entirely trust Megatron.

From another dimension beyond time and space, [[Primus]] recognized that something was amiss and sent one of his messengers to meet Primal and Megatron within the spaceship.

====''Universe''====
When [[Optimus Primal]]'s spark is revived from the within the Matrix to protect the multiverse, this action freed Megatron's spark as well. The reborn Megatron returned to the ranks of the Predacons, but this time, Optimus Primal found himself in an uneasy alliance with him against Unicron. Megatron traveled with his old nemesis from universe to universe, wherever the growing multiversal conflict had spread. But now with Unicron disappeared into the [[Unicron Singularity]], it remains to be seen whether Megatron's insane ambition will resurface.

Prior to the Universe Conflict an alternate dimension's Megatron was killed by a [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Tigerhawk]] who was corrupted by the Vok. Yet another dimension's Megatron was killed by it's realities [[Obsidian (Universe)|Obsidian]] and [[Tankor (Universe Decepticon)|Tankor]]. All three Megatron-murderers were eventualy promoted to the rank of [[Unicron's General]]. It seems that killing Megatron may be part of Unicron's criteria for choosing a General.

===Transformers Legends Anthology===

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
* '''Optimus Primal vs. Megatron''' (Basic 2-pack, 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-6'''

: The initial version of ''Beast Wars'' Megatron transformed into a green alligator. He was only availble in this two pack with the bat version of Optimus Primal.

* '''Megatron''' (Ultra, 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-1'''

[[Image:Bwmegatron_toy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Don't call him Barney.]]

: This Megatron transformed into a purple organic Tyrannosaurus dinosaur. He has limited articulation in beast mode, but his dinosaur head can shoot water. In robot mode, he has no hands, as his right arm ends with his dino head, and his tail, folded into a pincer, forms his left arm. The outer shells of his dinosaur thighs conceal spring-loaded missile launchers that fire anchor-shaped projectiles.

: His robot head feature two bat-like wing adornments that fold to become a battlemask.

: This mold was also used to make [[Beast_Machines|Beast Machines]] [[Dinobot_(BM)|Dinobots]] [[T-Wrecks]].

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*'''Convobat vs Megaligator''' (Basic 2-pack, 1997)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''S-1'''

:This figure is a purple [[redeco]] of Megatron's Gator form, and was sold with a red and blue redeco of Bat Primal. This may or may not be intended to be the same character as Megatron or G1 Megatron.

* '''Megatron''' (Transmetal Mega, 1998)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-40'''

[[Image:BW_Megatron_Transmetal.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Rubber Ducky|Ducky]] not included. Bummer.]]

: The third ''Beast Wars'' Megatron toy transformed into a mechanical Tyrannosaurus. In beast mode he has some useful articulation, located in his legs, jaw and tail. As with all ''Transmetal'' toys, he has a 'third' vehicle mode, in this case a tyrannosaurus with roller skates (which flip out from his legs) and jet engines on the sides on upper thighs.

: Really.

:In robot mode, he finally has two hands, with his tail becoming a flexible, segmented cutlass weapon, though it was depicted in most media as a new version of his main cannon. This cutlass/cannon weapon can be stored at his side on the connector piece it was attached to when in beast mode.

:He is one of the many victims of the crippling disease known as [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]]

: There are some color differences between this the American and Japanese versions: the American had a light purple-ish glittery plastic for the beast-mode hands, tail, and skates while the Japanese had simple light gray instead. This mold was retooled used to make [[Armada]] [[Predacon_(Armada)|Predacon]].

* '''Megatron''' (Transmetal 2 Ultra, 1999)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-47'''

[[Image:BWdragonmegs_toy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Don't call him Puff, either.]]

: The final version of ''Beast Wars'' Megatron transformed into a mostly mechanical dragon, with articulation in his legs, little dragon arms and his flexible, rubber neck with vacuum metalised overlapping plates attached on top. The neck was flexible able to be controlled and locked into position by a small lever located at its base. Two projectiles stored in his wings can be fired from a spring-loaded launcher inside his dragon's mouth.

:In robot mode, Megatron resembles a winged demon, appropriate given his characterisation. His chest is dominated by a small cockpit with a control chair inside (see Trivia). Megatron's dragon neck and head replaces his left arm, with an additional missile launcher above his helmet.

: ''Transmetal 2'' Megatron has a third 'vehicle' mode, which appears to be an afterthought, as it basically involves the dragon sitting very low to the ground so the wheels mounted on the legs and body can make contact and roll.

:This mold was also used to make [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|''Robots in Disguise'']] [[Cryotek]].

* '''Megatron''' (Ultra-class, 2006)
:Representing Megatron before his crash on Earth, ''Timelines'' Megatron is a redeco of Cybertron Defense Red Alert, Megatron transforms into a large, purple, eight-wheeled armored vehicle equipped with a cannon and a a new head sculpt. His cannon flips open to reveal a missile inside.

===Beast Machines===
* '''Megatron''' (Mega, 2000)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BR-05'''

[[Image:BMMegs_toy.jpg|left|thumb|165px|He's a flasher! Mangle!]]

: The first ''Beast Machines'' incarnation of Megatron is based on his ''Transmetal 2'' dragon form, but with ''Beast Machines'' design style at a lower price point. The result was a weak copy of the larger, much more detailed predecessor.

: Like his television counterpart, his wings can fold around himself to create the control armour/cloak.

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* '''Megatron''' (McDonald's Happy Meal, 2000)
: Transforms from cloaked robot mode to a very weak dragon mode.

* '''Megatron''' (Kids' meal, 2000)

: The McDonald's Happy Meal Megatron was also released in Australia through the Red Rooster restaurant chain. Like the other three toys, it came in four color schemes. Strangely enough, the toy was labeled as "Nightscream" on the plastic baggy it came in.

* '''Beast Changer''' (Deluxe, 2001)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BR-11'''

: A toy version of [[Savage/Noble_(BM)|Savage/Noble]], he transforms from a wolf-creature to a dragon creature, with no robot mode.

: It was later redecoed in show-accurate colours for the Japanese ''Beast Wars Returns'' toyline.

* '''Megahead Megatron''' (Beast Wars Returns, 2005)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BR-12'''

: This is a Japanese-[[exclusive]] redeco of Robots in Disguise [[Megatron_(RID)|Megabolt Megatron]]. Megahead Megatron transforms into a head (its design based on the [[Grand Mal]] with scuttling spider-leg action, opening jaw for chip-eating action, and a hidden spring-loaded missile launcher in its mouth. In robot mode, the launcher swings over his head, placing a battle mask down over his face.

: '''Note:''' ''If one removes the toy's spider-legs in head mode, it fits into the head socket to the [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] main body. Though this is likely unintented, it is pointed out here as an extra play feature.''

===Robot Masters===
* '''Beast Megatron''' (2004)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''RM-02'''

[[Image:24013-m.jpg|left|thumb|150px|"[[Dinobot (BW)|Utahraptor]], maybe in an alternate timeline I'm being less of a jerk right now, but that's just rampant speculation, okay?"]]

: Beast Megatron is a simplified version of the 1996 Ultra ''Beast Wars'' Megatron. Much smaller, it had a very similar transformation and had a sculpt resembling the television series CGI model, but a paint scheme similar to the original toy. He also came with a small laser rifle.

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===Titanium Series===
* '''Beast Wars Megatron''' (3" Robot Master, 2006)

[[Image:Titanium_RM_BWMegatron.jpg|right|thumb|100px|"... my [[Rampage_(BW)|crazed crustacean]], do you realise what this [[Golden_Disk|means]]?"]]

: For the ''Titanium'' series, the initial 3" Megatron toy was based off his 1996 Ultra version. He's kind of squat.

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===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===

* '''Megatron''' (Beast Wars 10th Anniversary, 2006)

[[Image:BW_10th_Megatron.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"Grape-faces don't give up, they conquer!"]]

: For the 10th Anniversary of ''Beast Wars'', [[Hasbro]] created an all-new Deluxe-size tooling based mostly upon his original 1996 Tyrannosaurus form, but with technorganic detailing. When a [[Cyber Planet Key]] is inserted into his tail, it opens up to reveal a missile launcher.

: He is also packaged with a mini-comic-sized reprinting of [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[The Gathering]]'' #1, a small [[Darksyde|''Darksyde'']] ship figurine, and a [[Jungle Planet]] style Cyber Planet Key ''without'' a [[Cyber Key Code]] stamped on it. On its packaging, "Predacon" is misspelled as "Preadacon," but a sticker was placed over it with the proper spelling.

:This mold was [[redeco]]ed and released as [[Cybertron (toyline)|''Cybertron'']] [[Megatron_(Armada)|Megatron]]. It's worth noting that the scuplt for both BW10 leader toys were intentionally designed to blend in with the Jungle Planet aesthetic, "in case" they didn't get a Beast Wars Anniversary release (according to [[Aaron Archer]]'s statements at [[BotCon 2005]]).

* '''Optimus Primal vs. Megatron''' (Ultra 2-pack, 2006)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''BWR-01'''

[[Image:BW_Megatron_BWReborn.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Is it me, or does his tail-weapon-thing have teeth?]]

: For the 10th Anniversary of ''Beast Wars'', [[Takara]] retooled the original 1996 Ultra-sized Megatron toy, giving him a new head sculpt and a new paint scheme based upon the appearance of the CGI model used in the ''Beast Wars'' television series.

: The 1996 Ultra-sized Optimus Primal was also retooled and redecoed in the same manner.

: Both figures were released in the US later as a 2-pack Toys-R-Us exclusive.

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===Tele Beast Wars===
*'''Megatron''' (Deluxe, 2007)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''TM-02'''

: A redeco of ''Robot Masters'' Megatron, with extensive paint details based upon the larger Ultra class ''Beast Wars Reborn'' reissue. He came packed with a DVD of an episode of the japanese ''Beast Wars'' dub.

*'''TM-SP DX Megatron''' (2007)
:An extensive show-accurate redeco of the original Ultra-class Megatron mold ''without'' the recently remolded show-accurate head... the hell?

===Merchandise===
====Metal Monument====
* '''Metal Monument Megatron''' (TAKARA, 1999)
: As the name suggests, the product is a [[die-cast]] statue of Megatron. The head is convertible/removable in order to change the normal one with the battle mask/mutant head. The [[box art]] and the design of the product are both done by [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]].

==Trivia==

[[Image:BWRConcept35.jpg|right|170px|thumb|TM2 Megatron's control art. Look! Spark figure! Painful amounts of detail!]]

*Originally, ''Transmetal 2'' Megatron, along with [[Optimus_Primal|Optimal Optimus]] and [[Tigerhawk_(BW)|Tigerhawk]] were to have small driver-like figures sitting on control chairs located in cockpits on their bodies. These drivers were meant to represent their sparks. But [[Hasbro]] then later realized that kids might confuse these spark representations as drivers controlling the robots, so they were abandoned, but the cockpits remain.
: However, the spark pilot was eventually used in the Japanese release of [[Cryotek]].

* In a bit of little known trivia, Hasbro originally intended Inferno to be the new body for Megatron. According to [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_thread/thread/b334d45514e26ab4/bc8e54e9165e0823?hl=en&lnk=st&q=bob+forward+interview+inferno+megatron&rnum=1#bc8e54e9165e0823 a 1997 interview conducted by fan HooksX], Bob Forward stated: "For a while there Hasbro was planning to make the Inferno toy the new Megatron. We were going to kill Megatron and bring him back as Inferno."

*Throughout the series, Megatron seems to have a mild obsession with creating clones of Dinobot, as seen with the purely biological clone, the cyber raptors and Dinobot 2. Some people never know when to let a relationship go.

*The Japanese dub of Beast Wars chose to interject humor at every available opportunity. Due to this, Megatron's personality and character were taken on a complete U-turn. Instead of being a smooth and charismatic leader, he was a screaming maniac and a bumbling oaf. His most notable character-trait in Japan was that whenever he was fired-upon or startled he would let-out a high-pitched shriek like a '''[[Scorponok (BW)|little girl]]'''.''

*Megatron's initial basic Beast Wars toy is a [[retool]] of [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] with new alligator and robot heads, and no frill. The screw hole for the frill bracket remains. Both toys were released at roughly the same time.

*The concept art for the original Ultra class figure was largely the same, except in one minor difference: The left arm would have housed an open three clawed hand. The idea of that wouldn't be revisited until the 10th anniversary Deluxe Megatron.
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* Aside from [[Silverbolt]], Megatron was the only character in the series to change the phylum of his animal form, first having a T-rex beast mode and then later acquiring a dragon beast mode.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/MegatronGator/megatron.htm Megatron at TFU.info]
*[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Maximal/BeastChanger/beastchanger.htm Beast Changer at TFU.info]

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{{Template:Disambig2|the Universe Micromaster Decepticon|the Micromaster Collection Decepticon|Scrapper (Micromaster Collection)}}

:''Buckethead is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Universe]] conflict.''

'''Buckethead''' is one of six [[Decepticon]] [[Micromaster]]s who combine into the mighty [[Constructicon Devastator (Micromaster)|Constructicon Devastator]]. Buckethead forms the chest of the massive destruction machine. Buckethead's personality, like that of his comrades, is unknown. He probably owns at [http://guitarhero.wikia.com/wiki/Jordan| Guitar Hero]

==Toys==
===Universe===
* '''Buckethead''' (Micromaster, K-B exclusive, 2004)

[[Image:Uni_Micromaster_Buckethead_toy.jpg|thumb|left|150px|]]

: A [[redeco]] of the [[Generation 1]] [[Gran Arm]], Buckethead transforms into a front-end loader. He forms the chest of Constructicon Devastator.

: A Kay-Bee stores [[exclusive]], he was sold on an individual card with the hips and upper legs to Devastator. He and the other Micromaster Constructicons were also ultimately available from Sears during Christmastime, and K-Mart's online store.

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==External links==
[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/MMBuckethead/buckethead.htm Buckethead at TFU.info]

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Scrapmetal

2007-12-14T02:42:26Z

69.254.94.220:

:''Scrapmetal is a [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]].''

[[Image:Scrapmetal-card.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Now, was that civilized? No, clearly not. FUN, yes, but by no means CIVILIZED.]]

'''Scrapmetal''' is an abberation among his own kind, a mutant among mutants. Though he is physcially identical to his kin, of the thousands of near-mindless [[Scrapmetal drones]] that have chewed their way up from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s depths, ''this'' Scrapmetal is the only one to have developed intelligence. This only makes the swarm ''more'' dangerous.

Scrapmetal is just intelligent enough to be considered sentient, able to formulate simple plans and lead the swarm to specific targets. In theory he could be reasoned with, but good luck. All he wants is to feed and grow in power, and will stomp, blast, gouge and devour anything in his way to obtain it.

:''Japanese name:'' '''Rumble (Once again, [[FIBRIR|adding to the debate]]'''

==Toys==
===Cybertron===
*'''Scrapmetal''' (Scout class, 2005)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''GD-13'''

: Scrapmetal transforms into a four-legged "spider tank" with top-mounted cannon. Inserting a [[Cyber Planet Key]] into the back end of the turret swings a removable clear-plastic sawblade-sword from the main chamber of the cannon. He comes with a [[Decepticon]]-insignia Cyberton-style Cyber Planet Key.

: In Japan, three different colors of Scrapmetal were made available; red, blue and yellow, produced in equal numbers. For the [[Hasbro]] ''Cybertron'' line, first only the red version was available, with a few minor [[paint application]] changes, and the yellow version was later released, with all of the same paint as the [[Takara]] version. Thus, Hasbro's red version can represent either the mindless drone or Scrapmetal himself. The Hasbro release of the red Scrapmetal has the [[Cyber Key Codes|Key Code]] '''sf2x''' printed on the back of his Key, while the yellow Scrapmetal's key has '''s1j5'''.

: A slight [[retool]] and [[redeco]] of the toy is used for the [[Cobybot]].

==Trivia==
* According to the expanded bio unlocked with his Cyber Planet Key Code, Scrapmetal (or perhaps, just the drones) may have some variety of connection with the original [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]]. The exact nature of this relationship is unrevealed, however.

* According to [[Don Figueroa]], Scrapmetal was originally designed to be deluxe or voyager sized toy for the abandoned "Chaos Planet" concept. It had a much different transformation, but was still a walker tank.

* All Scrapmetal molds contain both the insect and Cobybot head. The head was retooled at the request of Hasbro as they felt the original Rumble-homage head was too heroic looking. Since Takara had the other head, they used it for the Coby exclusive. It was also available at Botcon 2006's custom class, which used freshly cast Scrapmetals. Somehwere in China there are a few hundred thousand Cobybot heads laying around in a factory, surely a goldmine.
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Auto Berserk

2007-12-13T23:59:57Z

69.254.94.220: /* Summary */

[[Image:Autoberserk.jpg|frame|right|My love for you is like a truck! BERSERKER!]]

{{episodenav|g1|season=2|17|prev=The Master Builders|next=Microbots}}

After having his logic circuits damaged in battle, [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] feels rejected by the [[Autobots]] and allies himself with [[Starscream]].

==Summary==

[[Image:AutoBerserk_controlroom_battle.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Sure is nice to have the G1 series on DVD, huh, Red?]]

After the [[Autobots]] successfully test a new super-weapon called the [[Negavator]], they are attacked by Soundwave and the [[cassettes]], who attempt to steal it for the Decepticons. While most of the Autobots exit the bunker to fight, Red Alert stays behind to guard the facility and operate the Negavator. At first, Inferno stays to protect Red Alert, but he is eventually lured away by the call of battle, despite Red's protestations. Defeated, the Decepticons retreat, but not before Rumble fires a rocket into the control room, which causes the console Red Alert was operating to explode. The Autobots return to assist him, but the odder-than-normal Red Alert brushes off their help, accusing Inferno of betraying him. However, Red Alert's injuries go deeper than the surface. His logic chips have been affected, and he begins to feel as though everyone is against him.

[[Image:AutoBerserk_RedAlert_consoleexplode.jpg|thumb|right|150px| IT'S OVER 9000!!!]]

As the Autobots escort the Negavator back to [[Ark|Autobot Headquarters]], the Decepticons launch a sneak attack in a ravine that Red Alert does not detect due to his insecurities and his damaged state of mind. Optimus Prime and Ironhide are buried under the rubble caused by Rumble's landslide while the Decepticon jets attempt to take on the remaining Autobots, only to be thwarted when Smokescreen sprays a dark cloud of exhaust over them, obscuring their sensors and causing them to crash. With the Decepticons defeated a second time, Megatron retreats, leaving Starscream behind. When Optimus Prime questions Red Alert about his lack of a warning on the attack, Red instead accuses the Autobots of wanting to do away with him and runs off at the suggestion that they repair his logic circuits. Starscream, observing this turn of events, follows Red into the city.

[[Image:AutoBerserk Ironhide Not RedAlert.jpg|thumb|left|150px|For me? Aw, you shouldn't have.]]

As the other Autobots try to find Red in the city, Starscream successfully gains the trust of the paranoid Autobot by sharing his similar situation, and together they form a partnership to steal the Negavator and bring both Optimus Prime and Megatron to account for their respective betrayals. Meanwhile, the Autobots have brought the Negavator back to the bunker and secured it in the lowest level while they recharge. Hoist and Inferno are concerned that Red Alert's logic circuits will explode if they do not find him soon. Red leads Starscream to a secret entrance into the bunker, but they are unaware they are being observed by Ravage and, in turn, Megatron, who seems to be content to let the pair of traitors do the dirty work for him.

[[Image:AutoBerserk_RedAlert_on_Starscream.jpg|thumb|right|150px|SURPRISE PIGGYBACK RIDE!]]

Inside the bunker, Red Alert and Starscream narrowly avoid death at the hands of the tunnel drone, but manage to set off the alarms in the process, alerting the Autobots. Commandeering the Negavator, they blast their way out of the holding chamber and use the elevator to arrive on the top level. Awaiting them are the other Autobots, who mistakenly believe Red Alert is some kind of hostage to Starscream until he tells them their intentions. At this point, Megatron and Decepticons enter, causing a sputtering Starscream to agree with Megatron that he was merely delivering the weapon to his leader. When Red Alert realizes Starscream's duplicity, he attempts to fire the Negavator, only to be pulled out of the cockpit and blasted with the Decepticon's null ray. Unbeknownst to the Decepticons, the null ray blast serves to stabilize Red's logic circuits, and they seemingly force him to use the Negavator on the Autobots. Unfortunately for Megatron, Red Alert instead sets the self-destruct mechanism on the superweapon, causing the Decepticons to flee.

[[Image:AutoBerserk_Infernosaves_RedAlert.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Inferno vs. the world's largest tire iron.]]

The Autobots run as the Negavator explodes. Discovering that Red Alert is still inside, Ironhide, then Optimus Prime attempt to enter the blaze to save their friend, but Inferno insists on doing it himself, perhaps as penance for his earlier desertion of Red. Inferno saves Red Alert from being crushed even as the remorseful Red tells the gun-slinging fire truck to leave him behind. Outside, the other Autobots cheer as Inferno carries the injured Red Alert out of the flames. Red attempts to apologize for all the trouble he has caused them, but Optimus Prime is the one who accepts the blame, for it was his insistence on testing the Negavator that started their problems. Prime declares they are glad to have Red Alert back, and commends both him and Inferno for their bravery. Red replies that with friends like the Autobots, it's easy to be brave.

{{-}}

==Stats==
'''Original Airdate:''' 16 October 1985

'''Written by:''' [[Antoni Zalewski]]

===Featured Characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobots]]
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticons]]
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human|Humans]]
! style="background:#FFEEB8" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (2)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (3)
*[[Tracks]] (4)
*[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] (8)
*[[Grapple]] (9)
*[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (10)
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (11)
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (12)

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |

*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (7)
*[[Cassettes]]
**[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (13)
**[[Ravage]] (14)
**[[Rumble]] (15)
**[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] / [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] † (16)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (17)
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (18)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (19)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (20)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (21)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (22)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (23)

†-''Soundwave'' calls for ''Buzzsaw'', but ''Laserbeak'' ejects

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" | '''Guests'''
*[[Army Officer #1]] (5)
*[[Army Officer #2]] (6)
*[[Fire Chief]] (24)

| style="background:#FFEEB8" valign="top" |

|}

==Notable Quotes==

"You need a complete overhaul!"
:-- '''Optimus Prime''', in response to a (hilariously) panicking Red Alert.

"Someday I want to build something that doesn't get trashed!" 
:-- '''Grapple''', digging out the ruins of his bunker.

"I'm fine! It's just an electroglitch that comes and goes. Comes and goes."
:-- '''Red Alert''' demonstrates that he's definitely ''not'' fine.

"Why can't anyone see it?! Inferno wants my job!"
:-- '''Red Alert''' spirals down into paranoia...

'''Inferno:''' "You need immediate repairs!"
 '''Red Alert:''' "Don't give me any of that. You just want to disassemble me for spare parts! Never! I won't let you!"
:-- ...and hits bottom.

'''Hoist:''' "Let me fix you!"
 '''Red Alert:''' "Stay back. I know ''just'' how you want to fix me!"

"I've got ''morons'' on my team!"
:-- '''Megatron''', knocked out of the Negevator's cockpit by Ramjet.

'''Dirge:''' "Hey! My circuits electric blew just out!"
 '''Thrust:''' "Too mine! I'm blind flying!
 '''Starsceam:''' "Away move, before collide we!"
 -- The Seekers, scrambled by Smokescreen.

'''Fire chief:''' "Hey! That's my car! Put it back where ya found it!!"
 '''Ironhide:''' "Oh, uh, sorry, chief; it looked like a friend of mine!"
 [''transforms and drives off'']
 '''Fire chief:''' "No two ways about it -- I gotta take that vacation!"
 -- Ironhide mistakes a real car for Red Alert

==Other Notes==

===Animation and/or Technical Glitches===
* When Soundwave is ejecting his tapes, Frenzy sort of comes out twice, but his colors are replaced with Ravage's half-way out.
* In one scene, on Red Alert's door it says "F D D", as opposed to "F ⌂ D" (where ⌂ is a Fire Dept. badge).
* Thrust's colors are off at one point; he is red and black instead of the normal red and white.
* Grapple's head colors change in this episode from completely white, as in all his previous appearances, to gray and white. This latter color scheme is the one used from this episode on.
* When Ironhide walks past Optimus Prime with the intention of rescuing Red Alert from the fire of the Negavator's destruction, his right arm clips right through Prime's left arm.

===Continutity Errors===
* When Soundwave is ejecting his tapes and calling their names, he calls for Buzzsaw, but Laserbeak is ejected instead and seen throughout the episode.
* It is unclear why the fire chief is merely angry at Ironhide for manhandling his car, but is surprised when he sees Ironhide transform, commenting that he needs to take a vacation. Are giant robots common in this city, but transforming giant robots aren't?

===Transformers References===
* References

===Real-World References===
*Megatron's line about "morons" is a verbatim quote from the 1970s classic ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''.
*Red Alert cops the tagline of Clint Eastwood's character Dirty Harry: "Go ahead, Soundwave... make my day."
[[Image:AutoBerserk_OptimusPrime_closedeyes.jpg|thumb|right|150px|My eyes! The goggles do nothing!]]

===Miscellaneous Trivia===

* As Optimus Prime and the other Autobots stagger out of the fire and smoke, Optimus Prime's eyes are closed (apparently to shield them against the smoke), much like a human's.

* Frenzy actually tackles Optimus Prime. Strong little guy....

===Keywords===
(''separate by commas and link each one so a page can be created for it if it does not already exist'')

[[Negavator]]

==External Links==
* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0808814/ IMDb's page for this episode]
* [http://teletran93.deepspace93.com/tf2/ep33/ Teletran93's page for this episode]

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The Insecticon Syndrome

2007-12-13T23:52:54Z

69.254.94.220: /* Detailed synopsis */

{{episodenav|g1|season=2|13|prev=The Core|next=Dinobot Island, Part 1}}

The Insecticons feed on a source of power which causes them to grow...and will cause them to explode if not cured.[[Image:Insect1.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Funny Caption Needed Here]]

==Detailed synopsis==
{{cleanup}}

The Autobots and the Insecticons engage in battle in a forest where the Insecticons are eating the trees. After beating the Autobots, the Insecticons along with the Decepticons go to a base containing a power source which the Insecticons feed on which turns them into big bugs, also [[Image:Insect2.jpg|left|thumb|350px|"For the swarm!"]]making them very unstable. In the process, they kidnap Soundwave and turn him into their slave (thanks to one of Bombshell's cerebro shells) and badly damage Wheeljack and Ironhide, which forces the Autobots to retreat. Soon Megatron and Starscream realize that Soundwave and all the other Decepticons are under Insecticon control. Bombshell launches two cerebro shells, one hits Starscream and he becomes controlled, but Megatron crushes the other one before it hits him. Prime warns Megatron that any blast that hits one of the Insecticons could destroy them all. The Autobots create three antidotes to prevent this from happening. Megatron is forced to work with the Autobots and transforms to fire the antidotes. Bombshell and Kickback are saved and return to normal size, but Shrapnel explodes before the antidote put in him by Spike can work. The Decepticons are freed from Insecticon control and Bombshell reassembles Shrapnel. The Insecticons retreat with the Decepticons chasing them.

==Stats==

* Written by: [[Douglas Booth]]

==Notable quotes==
"HAHHAHAHAHAHEHEHHEEHHE! Insecticons always truimph, truimph." 
:-- '''Shrapnel'''.

"The Insecticons have done well." 
"Yes... perhaps they should lead us." 
"You test my patience Starscream." 
:-- '''Megatron''' and '''Starscream''' after the Insecticons defeat some Autobots.

"Well. If it isn't Megatron, and his merry mechanical men!" 
:-- '''Bombshell'''

"Power has made the Insecticons obnoxious." 
"''And'' invincible." 
:-- '''Starscream''' and '''Megatron'''

"What's the matter Megatron? Weakling humans too tough for you, for you?" 
:-- '''Shrapnel''' to Megatron, after the latter was shot by a human weapon.

"Ohhhh.... that Nova Power Core is giving me heart burn... that is, if I had a heart." 
"If you had a ''brain'', you would realise that we have a battle to fight!" 
:-- '''Bombshell''' and '''Megatron'''

"Guys, you alright?" 
"Just great... if you don't mind two tonnes of Inferno sitting on your head plates." 
"Look, you get ten tonnes of boulders off my shoulder struts and I'll get off your noggin." 
:-- '''Spike''', '''Hound''' and '''Inferno'''

"Oh boy, a robotoid turkey shoot!" 
:-- '''Inferno'''

==Other Notes==
* Notes

===Animation and/or technical glitches===

* Glitches

===Continuity errors===

* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] is part of the Autobot group attacking the power plant where the Insecticons are feeding. However, he seems to be missing when the Autobots have to recover the damaged [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which is curious as he is the doctor.

* [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] is part of the Autobot group that attacks Iron Mountain to stop the Insecticons. However, he is not seen in the final scene, after the Autobots win. Maybe he's still trapped under the boulders?

===Transformers references===
* This episode features the first appearances of [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]. However, no explanation of their origins is given.

===Real-world references===
* References

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* During the battle at the [[Nova Power Plant]], Spike is using a gun! WTH, Prime?!
* After he climbed up the electrical tower and gets electrocuted, Ironhide's forearm panel pops open and the word "Ironhide" is written on the circuits inside.

===Keywords===
(''separate by commas and link each one so a page can be created for it if it does not already exist'')

{{epstub}}

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Headmaster (Animated)

2007-12-13T00:59:34Z

69.254.94.220: New page: A human in the Animated continuity. Probably won't combine with Transformers

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Shockwave (Animated)

2007-12-13T00:56:48Z

69.254.94.220: /* Toy */

{{disambig3|Shockwave}}
:''Shockwave is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

'''Shockwave''' is the gonna rock your world. Or possibly shock it. Perhaps
with waves even. Who's to say at this point really?

==Fiction==

===Transformers Animated cartoon===
:''Voice actor: [[Corey Burton]] (US), ? (Japan)''

Shockwave will probably not be Mr. Personality. Or Mr. Nice. He will most likely have only one eye, preferably yellow

==Toy==
Probably purple with one eye. If not then this series is going to be on crack
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Shockwave (Animated)

2007-12-13T00:56:11Z

69.254.94.220: /* Transformers Animated cartoon */

{{disambig3|Shockwave}}
:''Shockwave is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

'''Shockwave''' is the gonna rock your world. Or possibly shock it. Perhaps
with waves even. Who's to say at this point really?

==Fiction==

===Transformers Animated cartoon===
:''Voice actor: [[Corey Burton]] (US), ? (Japan)''

Shockwave will probably not be Mr. Personality. Or Mr. Nice. He will most likely have only one eye, preferably yellow

==Toy==

[[Category: Decepticons]]
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