Ultra Magnus (episode)

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{{disambig3|Ultra Magnus}}
{{episode
|series=RiD
|ep=24
|title="Ultra Magnus"
|japanese=登場! ゴッドマグナス
|romaji=Tōjō! God Magnus
|translation=Enter! God Magnus
|image=Ultra Magnus Magnusunderfire.jpg
|caption=Quick, shoot at everything except him!
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]], [[Studio Gallop]]
|written by=[[Junki Takegami]] (Japanese) [[Tom Wyner]] (English)
|director=[[Akira Katō]]
|animation studio=Studio Gallop
|airdate=[[September 13|13 September]] [[2000]] (Japanese) [[October 6]], [[2001]] (English)
|continuity=
}}

'''There's a new Autobot on Earth, and he's hardly in a good mood.''' 
'''The Autobots wonder if he's a friend or a foe, while Sky-Byte is busy digging up junk.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Ultra Magnus Magnusbacklit.jpg|left|175px|thumb|The twenty-first century—that's when everything changes, and you gotta be ready.]]
In [[Metro City]], a new Autobot stands atop a building and muses that he'll find [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and take back what's rightfully his.

Meanwhile, [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] and the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] are raiding the city's oil stores, but are interrupted by the [[Autobot Brothers]]. The Autobots soon realise that they can't fire for fear of igniting the oil, so [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]] tries to bluff the Decepticons into standing down—until a car-carrier bearing the Autobot insignia arrives, unleashing his firepower. The newcomer clashes with the Autobots, and the Decepticons escape in the resulting confusion. The new Autobot pours scorn on the three brothers.

[[Image:Ultra Magnus Skybyteduck.jpg|right|175px|thumb|I better get this back to Megatron.]]
[[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] watches this unfold and mocks the Decepticons before being approached by [[Koji Onishi]] and his friends, all of whom appear to be his admirers. The shark flees in panic back to Predacon headquarters, where [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] gives him a new mission: Find the remaining [[O-Part|O-Parts]].

The Decepticons make sure that Sky-Byte's orders to the other Predacons are relayed to Autobot headquarters, and [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus]] dispatches the Autobot Brothers to his location. They're intercepted en-route by the mysterious car-carrier, who, after warning them of a Decepticon ambush, shocks them, incapacitates them, and deposits them in a junkyard.

[[Image:Ultra Magnus Magnusbrothers.jpg|left|175px|thumb|My rigid grill structure is bearing down on your unprotected cargo door.]]
[[Mega-Octane]] and Scourge stand at the top of a canyon overlooking the road, musing on their plan to relay Sky-Byte's message to the Autobots in order to lead them to their prepared ambush. Suddenly, they find themselves facing the car-carrier instead of the intended Autobot Brothers. Upon being questioned, the vehicle transforms and introduces himself as [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]].

Magnus is unimpressed by the Decepticons' attempts to attack him, even mocking their combination into [[Ruination (RID)|Ruination]] and promptly blasting him back into his component parts. With the addition of Optimus to the fight, the Decepticons are forced to retreat.

[[Image:Ultra Magnus Magnusprime.jpg|right|175px|thumb|Red vs. Blue?]]
Optimus offers Magnus a place on his team, which Magnus rebukes. A startled Optimus asks why Magnus is acting so aggressively, to which Magnus recounts how it was Optimus, not Magnus, who was chosen to carry the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Bitter and vengeful, Magnus challenges Optimus to a duel over its keeping.

Meanwhile, the only things Sky-Byte have dug up are a rubber duck and an old bomb, the latter of which proves to be still explosive, much to his dismay.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] (1)
*[[X-Brawn]] (8)
*[[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]] (9)
*[[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]] (10)
*[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] (11)
*[[T-AI]] (12)

|h2=[[Predacon (RID)|Predacons]]
|c2=
*[[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] (2)
*[[Rollbar (RID)|Rollbar]] (3)
*[[Armorhide (RID)|Armorhide]] (4)
*[[Ro-Tor (RID)|Ro-Tor]] (5)
*[[Movor]] (6)
*[[Mega-Octane]] (7)
*[[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] (13)
*[[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] (16)
*[[Ruination (RID)|Ruination]] (17)

|c3=
*[[Koji Onishi]] (14)
*Koji's friends (15)
}}

==Quotes==
"You let them escape. Are you cowards or traitors?"
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' makes friends with the Autobot brothers.

'''Children''': Give us your autograph, Sky-Byte! 
'''Sky-Byte''': This is embarrassing. I'd love to stay and chat, but we celebrities are very busy, you know! Beast mode! 
[''Sky-Byte takes flight''] 
'''Children''': Bye! See ya, Sky-Byte! 
'''Sky-Byte''': This is amazing! I'm very popular. I should get an agent, or a manager. Maybe I could get my haikus published!
:—Even Sky-Byte knows a good business opportunity when he sees one.

"I would've brought you more energy from the refinery, but I was ambushed by an army of rabid humans and barely managed to escape."
:—'''Sky-Byte''''s ever-so-slightly slanted description of Koji's friends.

"Could it be? That finally after hours of unglorious and back breaking labour ''I've actually found a'', uh... rubber duck. Oh well."
:—'''Sky-Byte'''

"We've got company!" 
"What do you mean? My sensors show this road's clear for the next ten miles!" 
"There's this real high-tech gadget called a rear-view mirror. You might try using it sometime."
:—'''Prowl''' demonstrates to '''Side Burn''' that the old methods are sometimes the best.

"You may be lousy fighters, but at least you're good for a laugh. You ever thought about taking your act on the road?"
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' has only been on Earth for a day, but already has the Decepticons pegged.

"That's gonna leave a mark."
:—'''Sky-Byte''' has a Wile E. Coyote moment.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Car Robots''===

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* The lines on Magnus's Autobot symbol are backwards in a couple of shots.

===Transformers references===
[[Image:RID Cybertron.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ah, the sickly green glow of home]]
* This episode gives us our first glimpse of the ''Robots in Disguise'' incarnation of Cybertron, as well as the series's first allusion to the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]].

===Real-world references===
* While driving along, the Autobot Brothers pass "Dongwoo Animation Co. Ltd.", a Korean animation studio to which Studio Gallop outsourced work.

===Trivia===
* The rubber duck discovered underground by Sky-Byte is preposterously huge—bigger, in fact, than the unexploded shell that he subsequently unearths. At that size, you'd almost suspect it [[Rubber Ducky|once belonged]] to [[Megatron (BW)|a giant robot]] or something.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2000 — ''Transformers: Car Robots'' — Vol. 6 ([[Pony Canyon]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' — Three-Disc Box Set: Part 2 of 2 ([[Maximum Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' — Season Two (Maximum Entertainment) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' — Ultimate Collection (Maximum Entertainment)

==External links==
*[http://www.ridforever.info/transformers-transcripts/rid-episode-24-ultra-magnus.php "Ultra Magnus" transcript on RiDForever.info]

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