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:''Galvatron is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''<br />
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[[Image:BW2Galvatron01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"He's Galvatron," said [[Megastorm|the Duke]], "and that's why."]]<br />
An [[Emperor of Destruction]] (either "New" or self-proclaimed), '''Galvatron''' (ガルバトロン ''Garubatoron'') journeys to [[Gaea]] in search of a powerful energy source. He is a strong and cunning warrior, though a little on the crazy and suicidal side. His younger brother, [[Megastorm]], secretly desires to overthrow his brother and take his place as Emperor. Galvatron is well aware of this, however, and lets it slide out of love for his li'l bro.<br />
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He is incapable of not grimacing like a ''[[wikipedia:Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' toy, even during one of his narcolepsy attacks, unless it is...the Final Battle.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===Cartoon continuity===<br />
====''Beast Wars II'' catalog====<br />
[[Image:MegatronGalvatronBW1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"I will enjoy taking your [[Rubber Ducky]] to bath with me."<br>"You... monster!"]]<br />
On planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] once disagreed with 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 by Galvatron, who declared "Your era is over, Megatron!"<br />
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Later, Megatron noted that while Galvatron was ambitious, he cared for his underlings—and although he was loath to admit it, he acknowledged that Galvatron probably had all the regal bearing of a new [[Emperor of Destruction]].<br />
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In the seventh month of the Space Year 1999, Galvatron's plans would bloom... {{storylink|Catalog#Beast Wars II|The next stage of battle advances to the Second War... ...Beast Wars, Transform!}}<br />
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{{note|The catalog's events are ignored in the [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|official Japanese timeline]], which has ''Beast Wars II'' take place thousands of years after ''[[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Wars Returns]]''.}}<br />
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====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====<br />
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tetsuo Komura]] (Japanese)<br />
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[[Image:Whitelionrun galvatronscan.jpg|right|thumb|210px]]<br />
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Seeking to control the mysterious and powerful [[Angolmois]] energy of the planet [[Gaea]], Galvatron set course for the planet in his ship, the ''[[Galvaburg II]]'', along his younger brother Megastorm, the [[Combatron (BWII)|Combatrons]] and the [[Autoroller]]s. Knowing that the [[Maximal]] commander [[Lio Convoy|Convoy]] was sure to stand in his way, Galvatron staged a trap for his enemy, luring him into the depths of space and apparently destroying him with the explosion of an artificial planetoid. Despite the loss of their leader, Convoy's troops pursued Galvatron's forces to Gaea, but were soon captured by the Predacons. Little could Galvatron have realized, however, that the explosion did not kill Convoy, but had instead hurled him to Gaea, where the planet's Angolmois energy restored him as "Lio Convoy". In this new form, he rescued his troops, and they escaped Galvatron's clutches together. {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!}}<br />
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[[Image:Bw2 ep5 galvatronawakens.jpg|left|thumb|210px]]<br />
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Seeking alternate modes for his Predacons scan, Galvatron investigated some ruins on Gaea and discovered an [[Mother Computer|ancient, but still-functional, computer]]. The machine provided vehicular forms for his men, but when Galvatron demanded that the computer provide him with information on the strongest vehicle and creature from Gaean history, the resultant surge of data was so powerful that it knocked him offline. {{storylink|White Lion, Run!}}<br />
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[[Image:Bw2_ep5_dragonfire.jpg|right|thumb|210px]]<br />
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Galvatron's unconscious form was brought aboard the ''Galvaburg II'', and he remained there, soundly sleeping, while Megastorm led the Predacons in his stead for some time. Unfortunately for Galvatron, this gave Megastorm a taste for leadership, and he eventually decided to try and dispose of his brother so that he could take his throne for good. Hauling the unconscious Galvatron off the ship, Megastorm dropped his slumbering sibling into a well of Angolmois energy, thinking it would destroy him... only for Galvatron to re-energized, and rudely awakened! Exploiting his brother's slightly disoriented state, Megastorm claimed that it was the Maximals who had thrown him in the well, and Galvatron promptly set off to eliminate Lio Convoy and his team. Unable to deal any damage to Galvatron's new drill-tank alternate mode, the Maximals tried luring the Predacon Emperor to the rim of a volcano, where he unveiled the second form he had scanned: a colossal, fire-breathing dragon! The Maximals attempted to shoot out the ledge beneath Galvatron's feet and send him falling into the mouth of the volcano, but were unsuccessful. Megastorm, however, had been observing the battle from afar, and emulated their strategy with great aplomb, sending his brother sinking into the molten lava below. {{storylink|Galvatron Revived}}<br />
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[[Image:Bw2 ep6 wallhanging.jpg|left|thumb|210px]]<br />
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What Megastorm had not realized, however, was that [[Starscream (BWII)|Starscream]] had also been watching the fight, and quickly recovered Galvatron from the volcano, bringing him back to the ''Galvaburg II'', unconscious once more and sealed in a coffin of solidified lava. {{storylink|Mystery of the Ancient Ruins}} <br />
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[[Image:BWIIep9DrunkGalv01.jpg|right|thumb|210px]]<br />
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This situation was not to last, as Galvatron eventually awoke under his own power a little later and broke free. Seeking to slake his thirst, Galvatron came upon a stockpile of tainted oil that Starscream had brewed in order to inebriate the [[Insectron]]s as part of a plan to have them destroy the Maximals and then each other. Naturally, Galvatron was unaware of any of this and began chugging the oil down, until he was completely sozzled and proved himself to be a ''really'' mean drunk by turning on the other Predacons and chased them out of their ship. Galvatron's rampage carried him to the site of the Insectrons' drunken battle with the Maximals, where the two sides sobered up enough in order to team-up and take Galvatron down. With the Insectrons' help, Lio Convoy was able to fire a round of missiles into Galvatron's mouth, causing an explosion that hurled him into a nearby river, from which he did not emerge. {{storylink|The Strongest Tag Team?}}<br />
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[[Image:BWIIep9DrunkGalv02.jpg|left|thumb|210px]]<br />
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Galvatron was subsequently "missing in action" for a while, spending his time tunneling around underground in vehicle mode, still not quite back in his right mind. Happening upon a pipeline set up by the Autorollers to as part of an Angolmois-energy drilling scheme, Galvatron tore the pipe in half and happily began guzzling the energy that was flowing through it. This infusion of the ever-unpredictable Angolmois caused the Predacon leader to grow to huge size, and his temper did not improve when Starscream and [[BB]], remembering the last time he had gotten drunk, shut off the flow of energy. To stop the rampaging Galvatron, the Maximals teamed up with the Autorollers, and employed [[Scuba]]'s plan to do just the opposite of what Starscream and BB had tired: ''force-feeding'' Galvatron's Angolmois energy until he was overloaded. The plan was a success, causing a huge explosion that reverted Galvatron to normal, and sent him crashing into the sea, his mind restored, and his memories of his drunken rampage lost. {{storylink|Galvatron Rampages}}<br />
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At some point, an alien device called a "teleport gate" crashlanded in the frozen wastes of planet Gaea. Sensing it might bring the Predacons great fortune, Galvatron immediately dispatched his warriors to secure it before the Maximals could. The Predacons were quickly defeated and driven away, however, the events of the battle resulted in the young [[Lio Junior]] receiving a military reprimand. Galvatron observed the hurt Lio Junior, who possessed the control unit needed to operate the teleport gate, flee into the forest on his own and hatched a scheme. Approaching the young and naive Maximal, Galvatron convinced him that the teleport gate was actually a weapon of mass destruction that would destroy all of Gaea if not shut down with the control unit. Lio Junior fell for the ruse and, after handing over the control unit, was immediately beaten and imprisoned on the ''Galvaburg II''.<br />
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[[Image:GalvatronBW1.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for meeeee!]]<br />
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At the teleport gate, Galvatron ordered [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]] to summon [[Megatron]], the most fearsome and vicious Transformer in history. Gigastorm screwed up and summoned the mighty [[Majin Zarak]], instead. Galvatron was not displeased, though, as he considered Majin Zarak an even ''greater'' weapon than Megatron. Taking command of the behemoth in aircraft carrier mode, Galvatron steered the monster on a path of destruction toward the Maximals, defeating them all with ease. However, Lio Junior managed to escape Predacon custody and used the teleport gate to summon [[Optimus Primal]] to aid the Maximals. Primal then sent Galvatron a challenge via text message: "You think you've won, but we won't be defeated. Let us settle this. Come to point B-2." Galvatron angrily accepted the challenge and steered Majin Zarak toward point B-2.<br />
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A bad move on his part, as the location was actually a part of Optimus Primal's strategy. Point B-2 being a narrow canyon, Majin Zarak's great bulk made him ineffective in the tight arena. Majin Zarak eventually decided he'd had ''enough'' of this noise and, revealing his sentience, ejected Galvatron from his command deck and transformed into a giant kaiju. Galvatron was then picked up by Gigastorm in hovercraft mode and carried off to safety, swearing vengeance. The Maximals eventually succeeded in destroying Majin Zarak and, after sending Optimus Primal back home, destroyed the teleport gate as well {{storylink|Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!}}<br />
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Galvatron eventually set his final plan into motion, summoning his "artificial planet", [[Nemesis (BWII)|Nemesis]], into Gaea's orbit. The ship then proceeded to suck all the Angolmois energy out of the planet and store it within itself. The Maximals followed Galvatron and his Predacons to Nemesis to stop him. Lio Convoy and [[Lio Junior]] merged into the Great Green Lion and narrowly defeated Galvatron in battle, thwarting his plans by ejecting the Angolmois energy from Nemesis in capsules.<br />
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Defeated but not willing to surrender, Galvatron activated his [[Galva-Matrix]], which set off a self-destruction sequence in Nemesis. The explosion killed Galvatron, sent the Predacons drifting helplessly through outer space, and trapped all the Maximals within a wormhole.<br />
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====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====<br />
[[Image:BWNeo Unicron.JPG|left|180px|thumb|Not even the mighty Unicron is capable of getting his host body to stop grimacing.]]<br />
After stealing all the Angolmois capsules from [[Magmatron]] and [[Big Convoy]], the [[Blendtron|Blendtrons]] released the energy into the corpse of Galvatron. Galvatron's body then served as the vessel of the reborn [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}}<br />
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===''Beast Wars II'' comic===<br />
{{charstubfiction}}<br />
{{-}}<br />
===Universe Featuring the Wreckers===<br />
After the reformatting of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Galvatron, with Megastorm, led the Predacon forces in the former region of [[Polyhex]]. His army was attacked by forces under Overseer [[Vashik]], who took them through a suspiciously unguarded canyon. That canyon was unguarded for a reason, and Vashik soon found his army wiped out by a river of magma. Chucking Vashik into the lava, Galvatron announced his plans—using the [[Quintesson]]'s makeup as base materials, he would rebuild the great fortress of [[Darkmount]] to serve as the new Predacon capital. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br />
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==Games==<br />
===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle'' video game===<br />
The discovery of a super-powerful [[Energon crystal]] on [[Earth]] leads Galvatron, along with several other Predacons and Maximals, into a series of battles with the crystal being the victor's prize.<br />
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Galvatron could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.<br />
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After defeating his final opponent, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], in the cave wherein the crystal is located, Galvatron absorbs its power. Unfortunately, this causes him to go mad with power, and he ends up destroying his own base. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle}}<br />
{{note|Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Galvatron's fate in those outcomes.}}<br />
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==Toys==<br />
===Beast Wars===<br />
[[Image:BWII toy - Galvatron.jpg|right|250px|thumb|no, not [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron toy of]] nemesis prime]]<br />
*'''Galvatron''' (Ultra, 1998)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-16'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Two axe/missiles, "Galva-Claw" <br />
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:Galvatron is a [[Triple Changer]], transforming from robot to [[dragon]] and "drill-tank" [[alternate mode]]s. As the only totally unique Predacon mold created for the ''Beast Wars II'' toyline, Galvatron is also the only figure from the series with both vehicle and animal forms, making him quite similar to a [[Transmetal]], albeit one with a substantially more convincing vehicular mode. He lacks the [[vacuum metallizing]] traditional to Transmetals, but features a yellow marble in his chest to represent his [[Galva-Matrix]]. His purple and golden coloration is a presumably deliberate homage to his [[Galvatron (G1)|Generation 1 namesake]]; the color layout of his tank form in particular calls to mind Generation 1 Galvatron's cannon mode.<br />
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:Galvatron is armed with a pair of bladed missiles that are fired by two spring-loaded launchers located in the bifurcated tail of his dragon mode. These launchers wind up on his wrists in robot mode, and can be flipped forward over his fists to act as weapons in this mode. He can also wield the missiles in his fists as scythe- or axe-like melee weapons. In robot mode, Galvatron's dragon-wings unfold into a pair of serrated claws that can either be angled over his shoulders, or disconnect to become a hand-held weapon called the "Galva-Claw" that features a lever-activated pinching gimmick. His drill-tank mode features a gear-activated spinning drill, activated by pushing a large black button on his back.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Destron/Galvatron/galvatron.htm More information on Galvatron at TFU.info]''<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/898/Beast+Wars+II/Silver+Galvatron.html Lucky Draw Silver Galvatron at Transformers At The Moon]<br />
* [http://www.luckydrawtransformers.com/content.php?/transformers-lucky-draw/toy-gallery/1792/Gold+Galvatron.html Gold Galvatron At Lucky Draw Transformers.com]<br />
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{{disambig3|Galvatron}}<br />
:''Galvatron is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''<br />
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[[Image:BW2Galvatron01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"He's Galvatron," said [[Megastorm|the Duke]], "and that's why."]]<br />
An [[Emperor of Destruction]] (either "New" or self-proclaimed), '''Galvatron''' (ガルバトロン ''Garubatoron'') journeys to [[Gaea]] in search of a powerful energy source. He is a strong and cunning warrior, though a little on the crazy and suicidal side. His younger brother, [[Megastorm]], secretly desires to overthrow his brother and take his place as Emperor. Galvatron is well aware of this, however, and lets it slide out of love for his li'l bro.<br />
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He is incapable of not grimacing like a ''[[wikipedia:Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' toy, even during one of his narcolepsy attacks, unless it is...the Final Battle.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===Cartoon continuity===<br />
====''Beast Wars II'' catalog====<br />
[[Image:MegatronGalvatronBW1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"I will enjoy taking your [[Rubber Ducky]] to bath with me."<br>"You... monster!"]]<br />
On planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] once disagreed with 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 by Galvatron, who declared "Your era is over, Megatron!"<br />
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Later, Megatron noted that while Galvatron was ambitious, he cared for his underlings—and although he was loath to admit it, he acknowledged that Galvatron probably had all the regal bearing of a new [[Emperor of Destruction]].<br />
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In the seventh month of the Space Year 1999, Galvatron's plans would bloom... {{storylink|Catalog#Beast Wars II|The next stage of battle advances to the Second War... ...Beast Wars, Transform!}}<br />
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{{note|The catalog's events are ignored in the [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|official Japanese timeline]], which has ''Beast Wars II'' take place thousands of years after ''[[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Wars Returns]]''.}}<br />
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====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====<br />
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tetsuo Komura]] (Japanese)<br />
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[[Image:Whitelionrun galvatronscan.jpg|right|thumb|210px]]<br />
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Seeking to control the mysterious and powerful [[Angolmois]] energy of the planet [[Gaea]], Galvatron set course for the planet in his ship, the ''[[Galvaburg II]]'', along his younger brother Megastorm, the [[Combatron (BWII)|Combatrons]] and the [[Autoroller]]s. Knowing that the [[Maximal]] commander [[Lio Convoy|Convoy]] was sure to stand in his way, Galvatron staged a trap for his enemy, luring him into the depths of space and apparently destroying him with the explosion of an artificial planetoid. Despite the loss of their leader, Convoy's troops pursued Galvatron's forces to Gaea, but were soon captured by the Predacons. Little could Galvatron have realized, however, that the explosion did not kill Convoy, but had instead hurled him to Gaea, where the planet's Angolmois energy restored him as "Lio Convoy". In this new form, he rescued his troops, and they escaped Galvatron's clutches together. {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!}}<br />
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[[Image:Bw2 ep5 galvatronawakens.jpg|left|thumb|210px]]<br />
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Seeking alternate modes for his Predacons scan, Galvatron investigated some ruins on Gaea and discovered an [[Mother Computer|ancient, but still-functional, computer]]. The machine provided vehicular forms for his men, but when Galvatron demanded that the computer provide him with information on the strongest vehicle and creature from Gaean history, the resultant surge of data was so powerful that it knocked him offline. {{storylink|White Lion, Run!}}<br />
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[[Image:Bw2_ep5_dragonfire.jpg|right|thumb|210px]]<br />
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Galvatron's unconscious form was brought aboard the ''Galvaburg II'', and he remained there, soundly sleeping, while Megastorm led the Predacons in his stead for some time. Unfortunately for Galvatron, this gave Megastorm a taste for leadership, and he eventually decided to try and dispose of his brother so that he could take his throne for good. Hauling the unconscious Galvatron off the ship, Megastorm dropped his slumbering sibling into a well of Angolmois energy, thinking it would destroy him... only for Galvatron to re-energized, and rudely awakened! Exploiting his brother's slightly disoriented state, Megastorm claimed that it was the Maximals who had thrown him in the well, and Galvatron promptly set off to eliminate Lio Convoy and his team. Unable to deal any damage to Galvatron's new drill-tank alternate mode, the Maximals tried luring the Predacon Emperor to the rim of a volcano, where he unveiled the second form he had scanned: a colossal, fire-breathing dragon! The Maximals attempted to shoot out the ledge beneath Galvatron's feet and send him falling into the mouth of the volcano, but were unsuccessful. Megastorm, however, had been observing the battle from afar, and emulated their strategy with great aplomb, sending his brother sinking into the molten lava below. {{storylink|Galvatron Revived}}<br />
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[[Image:Bw2 ep6 wallhanging.jpg|left|thumb|210px]]<br />
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What Megastorm had not realized, however, was that [[Starscream (BWII)|Starscream]] had also been watching the fight, and quickly recovered Galvatron from the volcano, bringing him back to the ''Galvaburg II'', unconscious once more and sealed in a coffin of solidified lava. {{storylink|Mystery of the Ancient Ruins}} <br />
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[[Image:BWIIep9DrunkGalv01.jpg|right|thumb|210px]]<br />
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This situation was not to last, as Galvatron eventually awoke under his own power a little later and broke free. Seeking to slake his thirst, Galvatron came upon a stockpile of tainted oil that Starscream had brewed in order to inebriate the [[Insectron]]s as part of a plan to have them destroy the Maximals and then each other. Naturally, Galvatron was unaware of any of this and began chugging the oil down, until he was completely sozzled and proved himself to be a ''really'' mean drunk by turning on the other Predacons and chased them out of their ship. Galvatron's rampage carried him to the site of the Insectrons' drunken battle with the Maximals, where the two sides sobered up enough in order to team-up and take Galvatron down. With the Insectrons' help, Lio Convoy was able to fire a round of missiles into Galvatron's mouth, causing an explosion that hurled him into a nearby river, from which he did not emerge. {{storylink|The Strongest Tag Team?}}<br />
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[[Image:BWIIep9DrunkGalv02.jpg|left|thumb|210px]]<br />
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Galvatron was subsequently "missing in action" for a while, spending his time tunneling around underground in vehicle mode, still not quite back in his right mind. Happening upon a pipeline set up by the Autorollers to as part of an Angolmois-energy drilling scheme, Galvatron tore the pipe in half and happily began guzzling the energy that was flowing through it. This infusion of the ever-unpredictable Angolmois caused the Predacon leader to grow to huge size, and his temper did not improve when Starscream and [[BB]], remembering the last time he had gotten drunk, shut off the flow of energy. To stop the rampaging Galvatron, the Maximals teamed up with the Autorollers, and employed [[Scuba]]'s plan to do just the opposite of what Starscream and BB had tired: ''force-feeding'' Galvatron's Angolmois energy until he was overloaded. The plan was a success, causing a huge explosion that reverted Galvatron to normal, and sent him crashing into the sea, his mind restored, and his memories of his drunken rampage lost. {{storylink|Galvatron Rampages}}<br />
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At some point, an alien device called a "teleport gate" crashlanded in the frozen wastes of planet Gaea. Sensing it might bring the Predacons great fortune, Galvatron immediately dispatched his warriors to secure it before the Maximals could. The Predacons were quickly defeated and driven away, however, the events of the battle resulted in the young [[Lio Junior]] receiving a military reprimand. Galvatron observed the hurt Lio Junior, who possessed the control unit needed to operate the teleport gate, flee into the forest on his own and hatched a scheme. Approaching the young and naive Maximal, Galvatron convinced him that the teleport gate was actually a weapon of mass destruction that would destroy all of Gaea if not shut down with the control unit. Lio Junior fell for the ruse and, after handing over the control unit, was immediately beaten and imprisoned on the ''Galvaburg II''.<br />
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[[Image:GalvatronBW1.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for meeeee!]]<br />
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At the teleport gate, Galvatron ordered [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]] to summon [[Megatron]], the most fearsome and vicious Transformer in history. Gigastorm screwed up and summoned the mighty [[Majin Zarak]], instead. Galvatron was not displeased, though, as he considered Majin Zarak an even ''greater'' weapon than Megatron. Taking command of the behemoth in aircraft carrier mode, Galvatron steered the monster on a path of destruction toward the Maximals, defeating them all with ease. However, Lio Junior managed to escape Predacon custody and used the teleport gate to summon [[Optimus Primal]] to aid the Maximals. Primal then sent Galvatron a challenge via text message: "You think you've won, but we won't be defeated. Let us settle this. Come to point B-2." Galvatron angrily accepted the challenge and steered Majin Zarak toward point B-2.<br />
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A bad move on his part, as the location was actually a part of Optimus Primal's strategy. Point B-2 being a narrow canyon, Majin Zarak's great bulk made him ineffective in the tight arena. Majin Zarak eventually decided he'd had ''enough'' of this noise and, revealing his sentience, ejected Galvatron from his command deck and transformed into a giant kaiju. Galvatron was then picked up by Gigastorm in hovercraft mode and carried off to safety, swearing vengeance. The Maximals eventually succeeded in destroying Majin Zarak and, after sending Optimus Primal back home, destroyed the teleport gate as well {{storylink|Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!}}<br />
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Galvatron eventually set his final plan into motion, summoning his "artificial planet", [[Nemesis (BWII)|Nemesis]], into Gaea's orbit. The ship then proceeded to suck all the Angolmois energy out of the planet and store it within itself. The Maximals followed Galvatron and his Predacons to Nemesis to stop him. Lio Convoy and [[Lio Junior]] merged into the Great Green Lion and narrowly defeated Galvatron in battle, thwarting his plans by ejecting the Angolmois energy from Nemesis in capsules.<br />
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Defeated but not willing to surrender, Galvatron activated his [[Galva-Matrix]], which set off a self-destruction sequence in Nemesis. The explosion killed Galvatron, sent the Predacons drifting helplessly through outer space, and trapped all the Maximals within a wormhole.<br />
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====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====<br />
[[Image:BWNeo Unicron.JPG|left|180px|thumb|Not even the mighty Unicron is capable of getting his host body to stop grimacing.]]<br />
After stealing all the Angolmois capsules from [[Magmatron]] and [[Big Convoy]], the [[Blendtron|Blendtrons]] released the energy into the corpse of Galvatron. Galvatron's body then served as the vessel of the reborn [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}}<br />
{{-}}<br />
<br />
===''Beast Wars II'' comic===<br />
{{charstubfiction}}<br />
{{-}}<br />
===Universe Featuring the Wreckers===<br />
After the reformatting of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Galvatron, with Megastorm, led the Predacon forces in the former region of [[Polyhex]]. His army was attacked by forces under Overseer [[Vashik]], who took them through a suspiciously unguarded canyon. That canyon was unguarded for a reason, and Vashik soon found his army wiped out by a river of magma. Chucking Vashik into the lava, Galvatron announced his plans—using the [[Quintesson]]'s makeup as base materials, he would rebuild the great fortress of [[Darkmount]] to serve as the new Predacon capital. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br />
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==Games==<br />
===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle'' video game===<br />
The discovery of a super-powerful [[Energon crystal]] on [[Earth]] leads Galvatron, along with several other Predacons and Maximals, into a series of battles with the crystal being the victor's prize.<br />
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Galvatron could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.<br />
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After defeating his final opponent, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], in the cave wherein the crystal is located, Galvatron absorbs its power. Unfortunately, this causes him to go mad with power, and he ends up destroying his own base. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle}}<br />
{{note|Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Galvatron's fate in those outcomes.}}<br />
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==Toys==<br />
===Beast Wars===<br />
[[Image:BWII toy - Galvatron.jpg|right|250px|thumb|no, not [[Cybertron (Franchise)|Cybertron toy of]] nemesis prime]]<br />
*'''Galvatron''' (Ultra, 1998)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-16'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Two axe/missiles, "Galva-Claw" <br />
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:Galvatron is a [[Triple Changer]], transforming from robot to [[dragon]] and "drill-tank" [[alternate mode]]s. As the only totally unique Predacon mold created for the ''Beast Wars II'' toyline, Galvatron is also the only figure from the series with both vehicle and animal forms, making him quite similar to a [[Transmetal]], albeit one with a substantially more convincing vehicular mode. He lacks the [[vacuum metallizing]] traditional to Transmetals, but features a yellow marble in his chest to represent his [[Galva-Matrix]]. His purple and golden coloration is a presumably deliberate homage to his [[Galvatron (G1)|Generation 1 namesake]]; the color layout of his tank form in particular calls to mind Generation 1 Galvatron's cannon mode.<br />
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:Galvatron is armed with a pair of bladed missiles that are fired by two spring-loaded launchers located in the bifurcated tail of his dragon mode. These launchers wind up on his wrists in robot mode, and can be flipped forward over his fists to act as weapons in this mode. He can also wield the missiles in his fists as scythe- or axe-like melee weapons. In robot mode, Galvatron's dragon-wings unfold into a pair of serrated claws that can either be angled over his shoulders, or disconnect to become a hand-held weapon called the "Galva-Claw" that features a lever-activated pinching gimmick. His drill-tank mode features a gear-activated spinning drill, activated by pushing a large black button on his back.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Destron/Galvatron/galvatron.htm More information on Galvatron at TFU.info]''<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/898/Beast+Wars+II/Silver+Galvatron.html Lucky Draw Silver Galvatron at Transformers At The Moon]<br />
* [http://www.luckydrawtransformers.com/content.php?/transformers-lucky-draw/toy-gallery/1792/Gold+Galvatron.html Gold Galvatron At Lucky Draw Transformers.com]<br />
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[[Category:Universe Predacons]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Attack_of_the_Autobots_(episode)&diff=640532Attack of the Autobots (episode)2011-09-24T13:29:13Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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<div>{{episode<br />
|series=G1toon<br />
|ep=20<br />
|series2=SRLFtoon<br />
|ep2=73<br />
|prev2=Mutiny of the Combaticons<br />
|next2=Day of the Machines<br />
|series3=''[[Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''<br />
|ep3=28<br />
|prev3=Changing Gears<br />
|next3=Day of the Machines<br />
|image=AttackOTAutobot Evil Optimus Hound and Ratchet.jpg<br />
|caption="This photo of us is terrible, Hound! You forgot the red-eye function again!"<br />
|title="Attack of the Autobots"<br />
|production code=#700-19<br />
|airdate=[[October 4]], 1985<br />
|written by=[[David Wise]]<br />
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]<br />
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''After a surprise attack (read: diversion) by the Decepticons, the Autobots repair themselves in their regeneration chambers, only to emerge...EVIL!'''<br />
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:''Japanese title:'' サイバトロンの逆襲 (''Cybertron no Gyakushū'', "Cybertrons' Counterattack")<br />
:''Brazilian title:'' '''O Ataque dos Autobots'''<br />
:''Italian title, dub 1:'' '''La pazzia degli Autorobot''' ("Madness of The Autobots")<br />
:''Italian title, dub 2:'' '''La pazzia degli Autobots''' ("Madness of the Autobots")<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
[[Image:AttackOTAutobot Megatron destabilizer.jpg|left|200px|thumb|We're replacing the Autobots' personalities with Folger's Crystals! Let's see if they notice.]]<br />
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The Autobots rush out to meet a [[Decepticon]] sneak attack on [[Ark (G1)|their headquarters]], unaware that it's actually a diversion. While they're occupied, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] coat themselves in a temporary "[[invisibility spray]]" and sneak inside. Megatron sabotages the [[Autobot]]s' [[recharging chamber]] with a [[personality destabilizer device]], before calling off the attack, leaving the Autobots bemused. After the Autobots recharge the next day, [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] alerts them to the imminent launch of a rocket, and rather than protect it, they want to destroy it. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] obeys Megatron's first order and smashes [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]].<br />
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[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] find a spot in the middle of nowhere for Jazz to try out his new sound system. Bumblebee leaves them to it, heading back to Headquarters. Bumblebee makes it back first, and finds Teletraan disabled and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] behaving oddly. Bluestreak forces him into the recharging chamber, but Jazz arrives in time to discover something's wrong. Jazz manages to disable Bluestreak. Sparkplug repairs Teletraan I, who tells them that the rest of the Autobots are now evil!<br />
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[[Image:Attackoftheautobots2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HASSAN CHOP!]]<br />
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Meanwhile, Optimus leads the Autobots on an attack at the local [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] base, where they begin trashing military jets. Spike and Bumblebee rush off to the base to stop them, and Sparkplug and Jazz stay behind to work on a cure. [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], on Megatron's orders, have gone after the plans for the human solar energy satellite being launched on the rocket. They start chasing the satellite's inventor, [[Harding|Doctor Harding]]. Bumblebee reaches the Air Force base, but is unable to persuade Optimus to stop his rampage.<br />
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Meanwhile the Decepticons take over the rocket base and plan to take the rocket and satellite back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. At headquarters, Sparkplug cooks up an [[attitude exchanger]] that will "First, drain evil. Second, recharge good." After he and Jazz test it successfully on Bluestreak, he starts building more. As Hound and Ratchet close in on Dr. Harding, Jazz turns up with the first batch and resets them back to good. At the Air Force base, Bumblebee continues to try to stop Optimus, who seems bent on destroying the smaller Autobot along with the planes.<br />
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The other Autobots find [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], and change him back to good using an exchanger, then use him as transport to get to the Air Force Base. There, they manage to change the rest of the Autobots, except for Optimus Prime. The devices pacify Prime’s [[Combat Deck]] and [[Roller (G1)|Roller]], but Prime is still on a rampage. Bumblebee takes it upon himself to change the Autobot leader back and succeeds. Optimus gives him a nice, big hug for his trouble.<br />
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[[Image:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Bumblebee, from now on, you will be a Hugmaster!]]<br />
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Back at the rocket base, Megatron and the Decepticons have boarded the reprogrammed rocket and take off. The Autobots intercept them aboard Skyfire. Prime and Ratchet detach the satellite while Jazz uses a "musical sonic boom" to disable the rocket. The Decepticons abandon it without any further resistance and retreat. Skyfire takes everyone into space, and Prime throws the solar satellite into orbit.<br />
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Finally back at headquarters, Prime thanks everyone for helping out, especially Bumblebee. But then Ratchet gets jealous and claims credit for firing the attitude exchangers (which was actually Hound’s idea. Hmmm…). Jazz reminds everybody that they have to fix all of the jets that Optimus Prime smashed at the Air Force base, and Spike breaks the tension with a lame joke that his dad finds hilarious.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|c1=<br />
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)<br />
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (2)<br />
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (3)<br />
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (4)<br />
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (12)<br />
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] (13)<br />
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (14)<br />
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (15)<br />
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (16)<br />
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (19)<br />
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (20)<br />
* [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] (23)<br />
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|c2=<br />
* [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (5)<br />
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (6)<br />
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (7)<br />
* [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (8)<br />
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (9)<br />
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (10)<br />
* [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (11)<br />
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]<br />
|c3=<br />
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (17)<br />
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (18)<br />
* [[Harding]] (21)<br />
* Missile Launch Technician (22)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Teletran-1, report"<br><br />
"Decepticons attacking on the south-east bound"<br><br />
"Autobots, Transform and roll out"<br />
:-'''Teletran-1''' is warning '''Optimus Prime'''<br />
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"My warning diode is pulsating!"<br><br />
:—'''Optimus Prime''' does his best to emulate [[Spider-Man]].<br />
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"Hey, come back! You didn't finish your nickel-plated knuckle sandwich!"<br><br />
:—'''Brawn''' worries about the Decepticons' dietary needs.<br />
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"Warning! Evil presence now infiltrating Autobot Headquarters!"<br><br />
"Very good, Teletraan I! The personality destabilizer I placed inside ''your'' recharging chamber has converted your Autobot friends from sentimental fools to my kind of mechanisms!"<br><br />
"Autobots are noble. Your plan can never succeed."<br><br />
"Oh, it can't, eh? Autobots! Obey my first command: Silence that annoying computer!"<br><br />
"Optimus Prime, NO—!"<br />
:—'''Teletraan I''' displays some pretty incredible capabilities as it debates with '''Megatron''', right before Optimus shows the computer where to stick it<br />
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"Like, wow! Rock and roll with real rocks!"<br><br />
"It's ''called'' an ''avalanche!''"<br />
:—'''Jazz''' and his sound system are a bit much for '''Sparkplug'''...not to mention a nearby cliff.<br />
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"Destroy, destroy, destroy! Let none stand against us!"<br />
:—Evil '''Optimus Prime''' (No, it's not [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] or [[Optimus Prime (SG)|any other evil Primes]] you know.)<br />
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"First, drain evil. Second, recharge good."<br><br />
"Let's hope it don't finish up with 'Third, bury Jazz'!"<br />
:—'''Sparkplug''' and '''Jazz'''<br />
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'''Optimus''': Well, there won't be any more trouble, thanks to you. And especially to you, Bumblebee.<br><br />
'''Ratchet''': Especially to ''him''? ''I'' was the one who saved the satellite, ''and'' came up with the idea of firing those attitude exchangers!<br><br />
'''Sparkplug''': Oh, yeah? Well who helped you make 'em in the first place?<br><br />
'''Ratchet''': Why, you wouldn't know a microchip from a potato chip!<br />
:—Optimus Prime's thanks to Bumblebee start a little round of glory-hogging.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*This is one of two episodes (the other being "[[Day of the Machines]]") not initially aired in Japan during the run of ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''. The episode was eventually dubbed in 1990 and released on [[Pioneer]]'s laserdisk set of the series. As such, it was retroactively added to the series' official episode list as episode 73, a numbering reflected in ''[[Transformers Generations]]''.<br />
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*Since the episode was dubbed several years after ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' had ended, not all the original cast members were able to return. [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (originally voiced by [[Ken Shiroyama]]), [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (originally voiced by [[Kōki Kataoka]]) and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (originally voiced by [[Osamu Saka]]) were replaced by [[Katsumi Suzuki]].<br />
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===Animation or technical glitches===<br />
* Optimus is missing his fog lights in many shots.<br />
* As Starscream and Megatron prepare to use the invisibility spray, Starscream's shoulder vents are ''behind'' his shoulders instead of on top of them.<br />
* Bluestreak is missing his Autobot symbol as he opens fire on Jazz.<br />
* As Teletraan I reports Optimus's attack on the Air Force base, its voice is modulated differently than in the scene immediately beforehand.<br />
* When Spike jumps into Bumblebee, there's no interior opening shown behind Bumblebee's door.<br />
* Spike continues saying "Hold on, I'm coming!" even after he's already inside Bumblebee.<br />
* Megatron orders Soundwave to "reprogram the main computer." Thanks to some recycled animation, Soundwave does this by strolling up to the same bank of computers that Megatron just blew up.<br />
* Skywarp's missing his wing insignia as Megatron exits the computer bunker.<br />
* Thundercracker's wing is sitting above his shoulder instead of behind it as he and Starscream listen to Megatron.<br />
* Prime's trailer is missing its wheels as he pulls away from it.<br />
* Skyfire seems to gain more landing gear every time he touches the ground. As he departs from the Air Force base, his nose gear is ridiculously long.<br />
* Skywarp is missing his wing insignia as the Decepticons fly up to the rocket.<br />
* After Bumblebee saves Optimus Prime, a group shot shows Jazz missing his grille.<br />
* Soundwave is missing his insignia as Megatron rants about the fuel tanks.<br />
* Skywarp's missing his wing stripes as the Decepticons fly off. In the same shot, a Reflector robot in Frenzy's colors flies off with them.<br />
* Ratchet's "potato chip" line doesn't quite flow into his next line, which starts with an abrupt "Hey, look!" as if he was replying to a line of Sparkplug's that got cut.<br />
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===Continuity errors===<br />
* How does Rumble keep from falling into the crevasse that he makes with his pile drivers?<br />
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* Flying Autobots:<br />
** Prowl sails skyward a ''long'' time after he's blasted by a missile.<br />
** Optimus and Ratchet just float up out of Rumble's crevasse. Both these incidents are in defiance of the cartoon's normal status quo, which mostly holds that Autobots can't fly.<br />
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* Was this convoluted scheme ''really'' the best use Megatron could think of for invisibility spray?<br />
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* Why did the Decepticons have to do what they did to the Autobots, instead of just knocking them out and having [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] use his [[Cerebro-shell]]s?<br />
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* Superhuman Spike:<br />
** Sparkplug and Spike's eardrums are somehow not shattered by Jazz's speakers, which are loud enough to start an avalanche.<br />
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* Superhuman Dr. Harding:<br />
** Judging by the exterior shot of the lab, as well as the size of the parasols visible from Dr. Harding's window, she is, at absolute minimum, four stories up (probably much higher), yet she manages to survive the fall onto the parasols without so much as whiplash.<br />
** She also survives being thrown by Hound while trapped in a dumpster; a throw with enough force to not only destroy the dumpster but also seriously damage the wall behind it. Maybe it was filled with pillows?<br />
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* "Good" and "Evil" are apparently scientific states now, detectable by computer!<br />
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* Speaking of which, why didn't Teletraan I report Megatron's "evil presence" when he and Starscream were sabotaging the recharging chambers?<br />
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* After all the fuss with the invisibility spray, it turns out that the shimmering outlines aren't just for the viewer's benefit; the "invisible" Decepticons are caught on film by Teletraan I. Whoops! And why didn't Teletraan I think to report this BEFORE the Autobots recharged?<br />
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* How does Dr. Harding's building security system discern that these are ''enemy'' Autobots?<br />
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* It's not absolutely a contradiction within the cartoon's continuity, but Hound's bio definitely doesn't identify his weapon as a particle beam gun. (That's actually [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s weapon.)<br />
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* Ratchet's assertion that "Prime's a lost cause" seems like a bit of an exaggeration. Couldn't they just go back to HQ and make some more attitude exchangers?<br />
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* If the Decepticons could use a rocket to get back to Cybertron, why waste all the time building a spaceship in the pilot? Can an Earth rocket really make it all the way to Cybertron? (This seeming contradiction, and many other instances of easy travel between Earth and Cybertron, might be explained by "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3]]", whose events would seem to leave Cybertron in relatively close proximity to our [[Solar System]], even after leaving Earth's orbit. Whether the writers actually had this in mind, however, is open for debate.)<br />
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* With two hours of idle time before the rocket launches, why do the Decepticons wait until T minus 30 seconds before boarding?<br />
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* Tearing a door off the rocket ''can't'' be good for it. Why not have Soundwave just open the door?<br />
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* Optimus throws the satellite into orbit and its presumed to be in working order. Even assuming that Dr. Harding was able to convey the precise details of the necessary orbit, Optimus either has an extremely powerful physics calculator or that had to be one heck of a lucky shot.<br />
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* [[A Prime Problem|As usual]], the good guy jet "catches" the falling protagonists by just flying under them, rather than matching speeds and actually breaking their fall. ''Splat''.<br />
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* Ratchet claims credit for firing the attitude exchangers, but it was Hound's idea. Sparkplug then points out that he helped Ratchet build the things to begin with, but there's been no on-screen evidence that Ratchet was involved in building any of them.<br />
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* It's implied that the Autobots are going to ''repair'' all 47 of the busted jets...but jets and air frames and avionics don't really work that way. Once they're smashed and exploded, they're pretty much "beyond repair".<br />
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* Teletraan I states that all of the Autobots apart from Jazz and Bumblebee were turned evil—that's seventeen Autobots and maybe five Dinobots. By episode's end, after Ratchet frets that they're out of attitude exchangers, only seven have been accounted for. (To be fair, there is an unaccounted-for period of time between the satellite's launch and the episode's conclusion, but if that's when they took care of the problem, why was Ratchet worried about Prime being "a lost cause"?)<br />
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===Continuity notes===<br />
[[Image:OptimusCDeckAttackoftheAutobots.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"]]<br />
* Gadgets and powers:<br />
** The Autobots' optics switch from blue to red when they're evilified, and back to blue when they're recharged with good.<br />
** We get to see all three of Optimus Prime's components in action, which is rare. This is the third appearance of the [[Combat Deck]]'s interior cannon in the series, but the ''only'' time it was drawn to be toy-accurate.<br />
** Prowl fires a Laserbeak-ensnaring net from his retracted hand. He fired a similar net at Ravage in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3]]".<br />
** Jazz deploys his (newly-upgraded) speakers. They're loud enough to bring down a mountainside.<br />
* Prime's tech spec bio states that damage to his other two components can be felt by him. Conversely, this could be interpreted that the energy exchanger's effect on the other two components actually weakened Prime's evil state, which is why he started fighting it right after. That is, if you want to apply his bio to the G1 cartoon.<br />
* This episode may hold the record for the largest number of "evil invention/alien device"s in a single episode: invisibility spray, the personality destabilizer, the recharging chambers, the solar satellite, AND the attitude adjusters are all contenders.<br />
* [[Autobot Spike|<<]] '''Brawn vs. Soundwave:''' Round 3 goes to Brawn. Tally: Brawn 3, Soundwave 0 [[Enter the Nightbird|>>]]<br />
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===Real world references===<br />
* ''Star Wars'' sound effects: <br />
** The [[TIE Fighter]] engine sound effect shows up when Prime says, "My warning diode is pulsating. Decepticon Jets!" as Thundercracker and Skywarp swoop down.<br />
** As Skywarp fires, the sound effect borrowing continues; it's Darth Vader firing his ship's lasers combined with the TIE's engine sounds. And it's complete with [[Darth Vader]]'s breathing! (A similar audio gaffe happens in "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]", as well as ''G.I. Joe: The Movie''. Guess you can't be too choosy when you crib sounds from ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''.)<br />
** When Jazz uses his [[sound and light show]], the sound effects are two lightsabers clashing.<br />
* "Hold on, I'm coming!" A Sam and Dave shout-out, perhaps?<br />
* The first batch of jets the Autobots wreck during their attack on the Air Force base seem to be based (somewhat loosely) on the [[wikipedia:F-104 Starfighter|F-104 Starfighter]], while the second group look like Russian [[wikipedia:Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-23|MiG-23s]].<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
*David Wise reused elements of this story for the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story'' "Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X", especially the climax of the story and its rocket chase sequence. This was not an entirely unique incident, as Wise was known for [[Kremzeek!|recycling]] [[Auto-Bop|his]] [[Microbots|storylines.]]<br />
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==Home video releases==<br />
{{homevidnote}}<br />
;Laserdisc<br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — English and Japanese audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.<br />
;DVD<br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[Metrodome]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Bumper Collection Special (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 2: Series 2.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 03: Stagione Due Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/synopses/attack_of_the_autobots.html Dossier at the Cybertron Chronicle]<br />
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<div>{{episode<br />
|series=G1toon<br />
|ep=20<br />
|series2=SRLFtoon<br />
|ep2=73<br />
|prev2=Mutiny of the Combaticons<br />
|next2=Day of the Machines<br />
|series3=''[[Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''<br />
|ep3=28<br />
|prev3=Changing Gears<br />
|next3=Day of the Machines<br />
|image=AttackOTAutobot Evil Optimus Hound and Ratchet.jpg<br />
|caption="This photo of us is terrible, Hound! You forgot the red-eye function again!"<br />
|title="Attack of the Autobots"<br />
|production code=#700-19<br />
|airdate=[[October 4]], 1985<br />
|written by=[[David Wise]]<br />
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]<br />
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''After a surprise attack (read: diversion) by the Decepticons, the Autobots repair themselves in their regeneration chambers, only to emerge...EVIL!'''<br />
<br />
:''Japanese title:'' サイバトロンの逆襲 (''Cybertron no Gyakushū'', "Cybertrons' Counterattack")<br />
:''Brazilian title:'' '''O Ataque dos Autobots'''<br />
:''Italian title, dub 1:'' '''La pazzia degli Autorobot''' ("Madness of The Autobots")<br />
:''Italian title, dub 2:'' '''La pazzia degli Autobots''' ("Madness of the Autobots")<br />
<br />
==Synopsis==<br />
[[Image:AttackOTAutobot Megatron destabilizer.jpg|left|200px|thumb|We're replacing the Autobots' personalities with Folger's Crystals! Let's see if they notice.]]<br />
<br />
The Autobots rush out to meet a [[Decepticon]] sneak attack on [[Ark (G1)|their headquarters]], unaware that it's actually a diversion. While they're occupied, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] coat themselves in a temporary "[[invisibility spray]]" and sneak inside. Megatron sabotages the [[Autobot]]s' [[recharging chamber]] with a [[personality destabilizer device]], before calling off the attack, leaving the Autobots bemused. After the Autobots recharge the next day, [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] alerts them to the imminent launch of a rocket, and rather than protect it, they want to destroy it. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] obeys Megatron's first order and smashes [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]].<br />
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[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] find a spot in the middle of nowhere for Jazz to try out his new sound system. Bumblebee leaves them to it, heading back to Headquarters. Bumblebee makes it back first, and finds Teletraan disabled and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] behaving oddly. Bluestreak forces him into the recharging chamber, but Jazz arrives in time to discover something's wrong. Jazz manages to disable Bluestreak. Sparkplug repairs Teletraan I, who tells them that the rest of the Autobots are now evil!<br />
<br />
[[Image:Attackoftheautobots2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HASSAN CHOP!]]<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, Optimus leads the Autobots on an attack at the local [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] base, where they begin trashing military jets. Spike and Bumblebee rush off to the base to stop them, and Sparkplug and Jazz stay behind to work on a cure. [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], on Megatron's orders, have gone after the plans for the human solar energy satellite being launched on the rocket. They start chasing the satellite's inventor, [[Harding|Doctor Harding]]. Bumblebee reaches the Air Force base, but is unable to persuade Optimus to stop his rampage.<br />
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Meanwhile the Decepticons take over the rocket base and plan to take the rocket and satellite back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. At headquarters, Sparkplug cooks up an [[attitude exchanger]] that will "First, drain evil. Second, recharge good." After he and Jazz test it successfully on Bluestreak, he starts building more. As Hound and Ratchet close in on Dr. Harding, Jazz turns up with the first batch and resets them back to good. At the Air Force base, Bumblebee continues to try to stop Optimus, who seems bent on destroying the smaller Autobot along with the planes.<br />
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The other Autobots find [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], and change him back to good using an exchanger, then use him as transport to get to the Air Force Base. There, they manage to change the rest of the Autobots, except for Optimus Prime. The devices pacify Prime’s [[Combat Deck]] and [[Roller (G1)|Roller]], but Prime is still on a rampage. Bumblebee takes it upon himself to change the Autobot leader back and succeeds. Optimus gives him a nice, big hug for his trouble.<br />
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[[Image:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Bumblebee, from now on, you will be a Hugmaster!]]<br />
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Back at the rocket base, Megatron and the Decepticons have boarded the reprogrammed rocket and take off. The Autobots intercept them aboard Skyfire. Prime and Ratchet detach the satellite while Jazz uses a "musical sonic boom" to disable the rocket. The Decepticons abandon it without any further resistance and retreat. Skyfire takes everyone into space, and Prime throws the solar satellite into orbit.<br />
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Finally back at headquarters, Prime thanks everyone for helping out, especially Bumblebee. But then Ratchet gets jealous and claims credit for firing the attitude exchangers (which was actually Hound’s idea. Hmmm…). Jazz reminds everybody that they have to fix all of the jets that Optimus Prime smashed at the Air Force base, and Spike breaks the tension with a lame joke that his dad finds hilarious.<br />
{{-}}<br />
<br />
==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|c1=<br />
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)<br />
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (2)<br />
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (3)<br />
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (4)<br />
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (12)<br />
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] (13)<br />
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (14)<br />
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (15)<br />
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (16)<br />
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (19)<br />
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (20)<br />
* [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] (23)<br />
<br />
|c2=<br />
* [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (5)<br />
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (6)<br />
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (7)<br />
* [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (8)<br />
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (9)<br />
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (10)<br />
* [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (11)<br />
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]<br />
|c3=<br />
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (17)<br />
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (18)<br />
* [[Harding]] (21)<br />
* Missile Launch Technician (22)<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"Teletran-1, report"<br><br />
"Decepticons attacking on the south-east bound"<br><br />
"Autobots, Transform and roll out"<br />
:-'''Teletran-1''' is warning '''Optimus Prime'''<br />
<br />
"My warning diode is pulsating!"<br><br />
:—'''Optimus Prime''' does his best to emulate [[Spider-Man]].<br />
<br />
<br />
"Hey, come back! You didn't finish your nickel-plated knuckle sandwich!"<br><br />
:—'''Brawn''' worries about the Decepticons' dietary needs.<br />
<br />
<br />
"Warning! Evil presence now infiltrating Autobot Headquarters!"<br><br />
"Very good, Teletraan I! The personality destabilizer I placed inside ''your'' recharging chamber has converted your Autobot friends from sentimental fools to my kind of mechanisms!"<br><br />
"Autobots are noble. Your plan can never succeed."<br><br />
"Oh, it can't, eh? Autobots! Obey my first command: Silence that annoying computer!"<br><br />
"Optimus Prime, NO—!"<br />
:—'''Teletraan I''' displays some pretty incredible capabilities as it debates with '''Megatron''', right before Optimus shows the computer where to stick it<br />
<br />
<br />
"Like, wow! Rock and roll with real rocks!"<br><br />
"It's ''called'' an ''avalanche!''"<br />
:—'''Jazz''' and his sound system are a bit much for '''Sparkplug'''...not to mention a nearby cliff.<br />
<br />
<br />
"Destroy, destroy, destroy! Let none stand against us!"<br />
:—Evil '''Optimus Prime''' (No, it's not [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] or [[Optimus Prime (SG)|any other evil Primes]] you know.)<br />
<br />
<br />
"First, drain evil. Second, recharge good."<br><br />
"Let's hope it don't finish up with 'Third, bury Jazz'!"<br />
:—'''Sparkplug''' and '''Jazz'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Optimus''': Well, there won't be any more trouble, thanks to you. And especially to you, Bumblebee.<br><br />
'''Ratchet''': Especially to ''him''? ''I'' was the one who saved the satellite, ''and'' came up with the idea of firing those attitude exchangers!<br><br />
'''Sparkplug''': Oh, yeah? Well who helped you make 'em in the first place?<br><br />
'''Ratchet''': Why, you wouldn't know a microchip from a potato chip!<br />
:—Optimus Prime's thanks to Bumblebee start a little round of glory-hogging.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*This is one of two episodes (the other being "[[Day of the Machines]]") not initially aired in Japan during the run of ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''. The episode was eventually dubbed in 1990 and released on [[Pioneer]]'s laserdisk set of the series. As such, it was retroactively added to the series' official episode list as episode 73, a numbering reflected in ''[[Transformers Generations]]''.<br />
<br />
*Since the episode was dubbed several years after ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' had ended, not all the original cast members were able to return. [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (originally voiced by [[Ken Shiroyama]]), [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (originally voiced by [[Kōki Kataoka]]) and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (originally voiced by [[Osamu Saka]]) were replaced by [[Katsumi Suzuki]].<br />
<br />
===Animation or technical glitches===<br />
* Optimus is missing his fog lights in many shots.<br />
* As Starscream and Megatron prepare to use the invisibility spray, Starscream's shoulder vents are ''behind'' his shoulders instead of on top of them.<br />
* Bluestreak is missing his Autobot symbol as he opens fire on Jazz.<br />
* As Teletraan I reports Optimus's attack on the Air Force base, its voice is modulated differently than in the scene immediately beforehand.<br />
* When Spike jumps into Bumblebee, there's no interior opening shown behind Bumblebee's door.<br />
* Spike continues saying "Hold on, I'm coming!" even after he's already inside Bumblebee.<br />
* Megatron orders Soundwave to "reprogram the main computer." Thanks to some recycled animation, Soundwave does this by strolling up to the same bank of computers that Megatron just blew up.<br />
* Skywarp's missing his wing insignia as Megatron exits the computer bunker.<br />
* Thundercracker's wing is sitting above his shoulder instead of behind it as he and Starscream listen to Megatron.<br />
* Prime's trailer is missing its wheels as he pulls away from it.<br />
* Skyfire seems to gain more landing gear every time he touches the ground. As he departs from the Air Force base, his nose gear is ridiculously long.<br />
* Skywarp is missing his wing insignia as the Decepticons fly up to the rocket.<br />
* After Bumblebee saves Optimus Prime, a group shot shows Jazz missing his grille.<br />
* Soundwave is missing his insignia as Megatron rants about the fuel tanks.<br />
* Skywarp's missing his wing stripes as the Decepticons fly off. In the same shot, a Reflector robot in Frenzy's colors flies off with them.<br />
* Ratchet's "potato chip" line doesn't quite flow into his next line, which starts with an abrupt "Hey, look!" as if he was replying to a line of Sparkplug's that got cut.<br />
<br />
===Continuity errors===<br />
* How does Rumble keep from falling into the crevasse that he makes with his pile drivers?<br />
<br />
* Flying Autobots:<br />
** Prowl sails skyward a ''long'' time after he's blasted by a missile.<br />
** Optimus and Ratchet just float up out of Rumble's crevasse. Both these incidents are in defiance of the cartoon's normal status quo, which mostly holds that Autobots can't fly.<br />
<br />
* Was this convoluted scheme ''really'' the best use Megatron could think of for invisibility spray?<br />
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* Why did the Decepticons have to do what they did to the Autobots, instead of just knocking them out and having [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] use his [[Cerebro-shell]]s?<br />
<br />
* Superhuman Spike:<br />
** Sparkplug and Spike's eardrums are somehow not shattered by Jazz's speakers, which are loud enough to start an avalanche.<br />
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* Superhuman Dr. Harding:<br />
** Judging by the exterior shot of the lab, as well as the size of the parasols visible from Dr. Harding's window, she is, at absolute minimum, four stories up (probably much higher), yet she manages to survive the fall onto the parasols without so much as whiplash.<br />
** She also survives being thrown by Hound while trapped in a dumpster; a throw with enough force to not only destroy the dumpster but also seriously damage the wall behind it. Maybe it was filled with pillows?<br />
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* "Good" and "Evil" are apparently scientific states now, detectable by computer!<br />
<br />
* Speaking of which, why didn't Teletraan I report Megatron's "evil presence" when he and Starscream were sabotaging the recharging chambers?<br />
<br />
* After all the fuss with the invisibility spray, it turns out that the shimmering outlines aren't just for the viewer's benefit; the "invisible" Decepticons are caught on film by Teletraan I. Whoops! And why didn't Teletraan I think to report this BEFORE the Autobots recharged?<br />
<br />
* How does Dr. Harding's building security system discern that these are ''enemy'' Autobots?<br />
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* It's not absolutely a contradiction within the cartoon's continuity, but Hound's bio definitely doesn't identify his weapon as a particle beam gun. (That's actually [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s weapon.)<br />
<br />
* Ratchet's assertion that "Prime's a lost cause" seems like a bit of an exaggeration. Couldn't they just go back to HQ and make some more attitude exchangers?<br />
<br />
* If the Decepticons could use a rocket to get back to Cybertron, why waste all the time building a spaceship in the pilot? Can an Earth rocket really make it all the way to Cybertron? (This seeming contradiction, and many other instances of easy travel between Earth and Cybertron, might be explained by "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3]]", whose events would seem to leave Cybertron in relatively close proximity to our [[Solar System]], even after leaving Earth's orbit. Whether the writers actually had this in mind, however, is open for debate.)<br />
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* With two hours of idle time before the rocket launches, why do the Decepticons wait until T minus 30 seconds before boarding?<br />
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* Tearing a door off the rocket ''can't'' be good for it. Why not have Soundwave just open the door?<br />
<br />
* Optimus throws the satellite into orbit and its presumed to be in working order. Even assuming that Dr. Harding was able to convey the precise details of the necessary orbit, Optimus either has an extremely powerful physics calculator or that had to be one heck of a lucky shot.<br />
<br />
* [[A Prime Problem|As usual]], the good guy jet "catches" the falling protagonists by just flying under them, rather than matching speeds and actually breaking their fall. ''Splat''.<br />
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* Ratchet claims credit for firing the attitude exchangers, but it was Hound's idea. Sparkplug then points out that he helped Ratchet build the things to begin with, but there's been no on-screen evidence that Ratchet was involved in building any of them.<br />
<br />
* It's implied that the Autobots are going to ''repair'' all 47 of the busted jets...but jets and air frames and avionics don't really work that way. Once they're smashed and exploded, they're pretty much "beyond repair".<br />
<br />
* Teletraan I states that all of the Autobots apart from Jazz and Bumblebee were turned evil—that's seventeen Autobots and maybe five Dinobots. By episode's end, after Ratchet frets that they're out of attitude exchangers, only seven have been accounted for. (To be fair, there is an unaccounted-for period of time between the satellite's launch and the episode's conclusion, but if that's when they took care of the problem, why was Ratchet worried about Prime being "a lost cause"?)<br />
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===Continuity notes===<br />
[[Image:OptimusCDeckAttackoftheAutobots.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"]]<br />
* Gadgets and powers:<br />
** The Autobots' optics switch from blue to red when they're evilified, and back to blue when they're recharged with good.<br />
** We get to see all three of Optimus Prime's components in action, which is rare. This is the third appearance of the [[Combat Deck]]'s interior cannon in the series, but the ''only'' time it was drawn to be toy-accurate.<br />
** Prowl fires a Laserbeak-ensnaring net from his retracted hand. He fired a similar net at Ravage in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3]]".<br />
** Jazz deploys his (newly-upgraded) speakers. They're loud enough to bring down a mountainside.<br />
* Prime's tech spec bio states that damage to his other two components can be felt by him. Conversely, this could be interpreted that the energy exchanger's effect on the other two components actually weakened Prime's evil state, which is why he started fighting it right after. That is, if you want to apply his bio to the G1 cartoon.<br />
* This episode may hold the record for the largest number of "evil invention/alien device"s in a single episode: invisibility spray, the personality destabilizer, the recharging chambers, the solar satellite, AND the attitude adjusters are all contenders.<br />
* [[Autobot Spike|<<]] '''Brawn vs. Soundwave:''' Round 3 goes to Brawn. Tally: Brawn 3, Soundwave 0 [[Enter the Nightbird|>>]]<br />
<br />
===Real world references===<br />
* ''Star Wars'' sound effects: <br />
** The [[TIE Fighter]] engine sound effect shows up when Prime says, "My warning diode is pulsating. Decepticon Jets!" as Thundercracker and Skywarp swoop down.<br />
** As Skywarp fires, the sound effect borrowing continues; it's Darth Vader firing his ship's lasers combined with the TIE's engine sounds. And it's complete with [[Darth Vader]]'s breathing! (A similar audio gaffe happens in "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]", as well as ''G.I. Joe: The Movie''. Guess you can't be too choosy when you crib sounds from ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''.)<br />
** When Jazz uses his [[sound and light show]], the sound effects are two lightsabers clashing.<br />
* "Hold on, I'm coming!" A Sam and Dave shout-out, perhaps?<br />
* The first batch of jets the Autobots wreck during their attack on the Air Force base seem to be based (somewhat loosely) on the [[wikipedia:F-104 Starfighter|F-104 Starfighter]], while the second group look like Russian [[wikipedia:Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-23|MiG-23s]].<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
*David Wise reused elements of this story for the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story'' "Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X", especially the climax of the story and its rocket chase sequence. This was not an entirely unique incident, as Wise was known for [[Kremzeek!|recycling]] [[Auto-Bop|his]] [[Microbots|storylines.]]<br />
<br />
==Home video releases==<br />
{{homevidnote}}<br />
;Laserdisc<br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — English and Japanese audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.<br />
;DVD<br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[Metrodome]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Bumper Collection Special (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 2: Series 2.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 03: Stagione Due Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/synopses/attack_of_the_autobots.html Dossier at the Cybertron Chronicle]<br />
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|image=AttackOTAutobot Evil Optimus Hound and Ratchet.jpg<br />
|caption="This photo of us is terrible, Hound! You forgot the red-eye function again!"<br />
|title="Attack of the Autobots"<br />
|production code=#700-19<br />
|airdate=[[October 4]], 1985<br />
|written by=[[David Wise]]<br />
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]<br />
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]<br />
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<br />
'''After a surprise attack (read: diversion) by the Decepticons, the Autobots repair themselves in their regeneration chambers, only to emerge...EVIL!'''<br />
<br />
:''Japanese title:'' サイバトロンの逆襲 (''Cybertron no Gyakushū'', "Cybertrons' Counterattack")<br />
:''Brazilian title:'' '''O Ataque dos Autobots'''<br />
:''Italian title, dub 1:'' '''La pazzia degli Autorobot''' ("Madness of The Autobots")<br />
:''Italian title, dub 2:'' '''La pazzia degli Autobots''' ("Madness of the Autobots")<br />
<br />
==Synopsis==<br />
[[Image:AttackOTAutobot Megatron destabilizer.jpg|left|200px|thumb|We're replacing the Autobots' personalities with Folger's Crystals! Let's see if they notice.]]<br />
<br />
The Autobots rush out to meet a [[Decepticon]] sneak attack on [[Ark (G1)|their headquarters]], unaware that it's actually a diversion. While they're occupied, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] coat themselves in a temporary "[[invisibility spray]]" and sneak inside. Megatron sabotages the [[Autobot]]s' [[recharging chamber]] with a [[personality destabilizer device]], before calling off the attack, leaving the Autobots bemused. After the Autobots recharge the next day, [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] alerts them to the imminent launch of a rocket, and rather than protect it, they want to destroy it. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] obeys Megatron's first order and smashes [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]].<br />
<br />
[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] find a spot in the middle of nowhere for Jazz to try out his new sound system. Bumblebee leaves them to it, heading back to Headquarters. Bumblebee makes it back first, and finds Teletraan disabled and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] behaving oddly. Bluestreak forces him into the recharging chamber, but Jazz arrives in time to discover something's wrong. Jazz manages to disable Bluestreak. Sparkplug repairs Teletraan I, who tells them that the rest of the Autobots are now evil!<br />
<br />
[[Image:Attackoftheautobots2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HASSAN CHOP!]]<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, Optimus leads the Autobots on an attack at the local [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] base, where they begin trashing military jets. Spike and Bumblebee rush off to the base to stop them, and Sparkplug and Jazz stay behind to work on a cure. [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], on Megatron's orders, have gone after the plans for the human solar energy satellite being launched on the rocket. They start chasing the satellite's inventor, [[Harding|Doctor Harding]]. Bumblebee reaches the Air Force base, but is unable to persuade Optimus to stop his rampage.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile the Decepticons take over the rocket base and plan to take the rocket and satellite back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. At headquarters, Sparkplug cooks up an [[attitude exchanger]] that will "First, drain evil. Second, recharge good." After he and Jazz test it successfully on Bluestreak, he starts building more. As Hound and Ratchet close in on Dr. Harding, Jazz turns up with the first batch and resets them back to good. At the Air Force base, Bumblebee continues to try to stop Optimus, who seems bent on destroying the smaller Autobot along with the planes.<br />
<br />
The other Autobots find [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], and change him back to good using an exchanger, then use him as transport to get to the Air Force Base. There, they manage to change the rest of the Autobots, except for Optimus Prime. The devices pacify Prime’s [[Combat Deck]] and [[Roller (G1)|Roller]], but Prime is still on a rampage. Bumblebee takes it upon himself to change the Autobot leader back and succeeds. Optimus gives him a nice, big hug for his trouble.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Bumblebee, from now on, you will be a Hugmaster!]]<br />
<br />
Back at the rocket base, Megatron and the Decepticons have boarded the reprogrammed rocket and take off. The Autobots intercept them aboard Skyfire. Prime and Ratchet detach the satellite while Jazz uses a "musical sonic boom" to disable the rocket. The Decepticons abandon it without any further resistance and retreat. Skyfire takes everyone into space, and Prime throws the solar satellite into orbit.<br />
<br />
Finally back at headquarters, Prime thanks everyone for helping out, especially Bumblebee. But then Ratchet gets jealous and claims credit for firing the attitude exchangers (which was actually Hound’s idea. Hmmm…). Jazz reminds everybody that they have to fix all of the jets that Optimus Prime smashed at the Air Force base, and Spike breaks the tension with a lame joke that his dad finds hilarious.<br />
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<br />
==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|c1=<br />
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)<br />
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (2)<br />
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (3)<br />
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (4)<br />
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (12)<br />
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] (13)<br />
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (14)<br />
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (15)<br />
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (16)<br />
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (19)<br />
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (20)<br />
* [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] (23)<br />
<br />
|c2=<br />
* [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (5)<br />
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (6)<br />
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (7)<br />
* [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (8)<br />
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (9)<br />
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (10)<br />
* [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (11)<br />
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]<br />
|c3=<br />
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (17)<br />
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (18)<br />
* [[Harding]] (21)<br />
* Missile Launch Technician (22)<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"Teletran-1, report"<br><br />
"Decepticons attacking on the south-east bound"<br />
"Autobots, Transform and roll out"<br />
'''Teletran-1''' is warning '''Optimus Prime'''<br />
<br />
"My warning diode is pulsating!"<br><br />
:—'''Optimus Prime''' does his best to emulate [[Spider-Man]].<br />
<br />
<br />
"Hey, come back! You didn't finish your nickel-plated knuckle sandwich!"<br><br />
:—'''Brawn''' worries about the Decepticons' dietary needs.<br />
<br />
<br />
"Warning! Evil presence now infiltrating Autobot Headquarters!"<br><br />
"Very good, Teletraan I! The personality destabilizer I placed inside ''your'' recharging chamber has converted your Autobot friends from sentimental fools to my kind of mechanisms!"<br><br />
"Autobots are noble. Your plan can never succeed."<br><br />
"Oh, it can't, eh? Autobots! Obey my first command: Silence that annoying computer!"<br><br />
"Optimus Prime, NO—!"<br />
:—'''Teletraan I''' displays some pretty incredible capabilities as it debates with '''Megatron''', right before Optimus shows the computer where to stick it<br />
<br />
<br />
"Like, wow! Rock and roll with real rocks!"<br><br />
"It's ''called'' an ''avalanche!''"<br />
:—'''Jazz''' and his sound system are a bit much for '''Sparkplug'''...not to mention a nearby cliff.<br />
<br />
<br />
"Destroy, destroy, destroy! Let none stand against us!"<br />
:—Evil '''Optimus Prime''' (No, it's not [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] or [[Optimus Prime (SG)|any other evil Primes]] you know.)<br />
<br />
<br />
"First, drain evil. Second, recharge good."<br><br />
"Let's hope it don't finish up with 'Third, bury Jazz'!"<br />
:—'''Sparkplug''' and '''Jazz'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Optimus''': Well, there won't be any more trouble, thanks to you. And especially to you, Bumblebee.<br><br />
'''Ratchet''': Especially to ''him''? ''I'' was the one who saved the satellite, ''and'' came up with the idea of firing those attitude exchangers!<br><br />
'''Sparkplug''': Oh, yeah? Well who helped you make 'em in the first place?<br><br />
'''Ratchet''': Why, you wouldn't know a microchip from a potato chip!<br />
:—Optimus Prime's thanks to Bumblebee start a little round of glory-hogging.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*This is one of two episodes (the other being "[[Day of the Machines]]") not initially aired in Japan during the run of ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''. The episode was eventually dubbed in 1990 and released on [[Pioneer]]'s laserdisk set of the series. As such, it was retroactively added to the series' official episode list as episode 73, a numbering reflected in ''[[Transformers Generations]]''.<br />
<br />
*Since the episode was dubbed several years after ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' had ended, not all the original cast members were able to return. [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (originally voiced by [[Ken Shiroyama]]), [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (originally voiced by [[Kōki Kataoka]]) and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (originally voiced by [[Osamu Saka]]) were replaced by [[Katsumi Suzuki]].<br />
<br />
===Animation or technical glitches===<br />
* Optimus is missing his fog lights in many shots.<br />
* As Starscream and Megatron prepare to use the invisibility spray, Starscream's shoulder vents are ''behind'' his shoulders instead of on top of them.<br />
* Bluestreak is missing his Autobot symbol as he opens fire on Jazz.<br />
* As Teletraan I reports Optimus's attack on the Air Force base, its voice is modulated differently than in the scene immediately beforehand.<br />
* When Spike jumps into Bumblebee, there's no interior opening shown behind Bumblebee's door.<br />
* Spike continues saying "Hold on, I'm coming!" even after he's already inside Bumblebee.<br />
* Megatron orders Soundwave to "reprogram the main computer." Thanks to some recycled animation, Soundwave does this by strolling up to the same bank of computers that Megatron just blew up.<br />
* Skywarp's missing his wing insignia as Megatron exits the computer bunker.<br />
* Thundercracker's wing is sitting above his shoulder instead of behind it as he and Starscream listen to Megatron.<br />
* Prime's trailer is missing its wheels as he pulls away from it.<br />
* Skyfire seems to gain more landing gear every time he touches the ground. As he departs from the Air Force base, his nose gear is ridiculously long.<br />
* Skywarp is missing his wing insignia as the Decepticons fly up to the rocket.<br />
* After Bumblebee saves Optimus Prime, a group shot shows Jazz missing his grille.<br />
* Soundwave is missing his insignia as Megatron rants about the fuel tanks.<br />
* Skywarp's missing his wing stripes as the Decepticons fly off. In the same shot, a Reflector robot in Frenzy's colors flies off with them.<br />
* Ratchet's "potato chip" line doesn't quite flow into his next line, which starts with an abrupt "Hey, look!" as if he was replying to a line of Sparkplug's that got cut.<br />
<br />
===Continuity errors===<br />
* How does Rumble keep from falling into the crevasse that he makes with his pile drivers?<br />
<br />
* Flying Autobots:<br />
** Prowl sails skyward a ''long'' time after he's blasted by a missile.<br />
** Optimus and Ratchet just float up out of Rumble's crevasse. Both these incidents are in defiance of the cartoon's normal status quo, which mostly holds that Autobots can't fly.<br />
<br />
* Was this convoluted scheme ''really'' the best use Megatron could think of for invisibility spray?<br />
<br />
* Why did the Decepticons have to do what they did to the Autobots, instead of just knocking them out and having [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] use his [[Cerebro-shell]]s?<br />
<br />
* Superhuman Spike:<br />
** Sparkplug and Spike's eardrums are somehow not shattered by Jazz's speakers, which are loud enough to start an avalanche.<br />
<br />
* Superhuman Dr. Harding:<br />
** Judging by the exterior shot of the lab, as well as the size of the parasols visible from Dr. Harding's window, she is, at absolute minimum, four stories up (probably much higher), yet she manages to survive the fall onto the parasols without so much as whiplash.<br />
** She also survives being thrown by Hound while trapped in a dumpster; a throw with enough force to not only destroy the dumpster but also seriously damage the wall behind it. Maybe it was filled with pillows?<br />
<br />
* "Good" and "Evil" are apparently scientific states now, detectable by computer!<br />
<br />
* Speaking of which, why didn't Teletraan I report Megatron's "evil presence" when he and Starscream were sabotaging the recharging chambers?<br />
<br />
* After all the fuss with the invisibility spray, it turns out that the shimmering outlines aren't just for the viewer's benefit; the "invisible" Decepticons are caught on film by Teletraan I. Whoops! And why didn't Teletraan I think to report this BEFORE the Autobots recharged?<br />
<br />
* How does Dr. Harding's building security system discern that these are ''enemy'' Autobots?<br />
<br />
* It's not absolutely a contradiction within the cartoon's continuity, but Hound's bio definitely doesn't identify his weapon as a particle beam gun. (That's actually [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s weapon.)<br />
<br />
* Ratchet's assertion that "Prime's a lost cause" seems like a bit of an exaggeration. Couldn't they just go back to HQ and make some more attitude exchangers?<br />
<br />
* If the Decepticons could use a rocket to get back to Cybertron, why waste all the time building a spaceship in the pilot? Can an Earth rocket really make it all the way to Cybertron? (This seeming contradiction, and many other instances of easy travel between Earth and Cybertron, might be explained by "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3]]", whose events would seem to leave Cybertron in relatively close proximity to our [[Solar System]], even after leaving Earth's orbit. Whether the writers actually had this in mind, however, is open for debate.)<br />
<br />
* With two hours of idle time before the rocket launches, why do the Decepticons wait until T minus 30 seconds before boarding?<br />
<br />
* Tearing a door off the rocket ''can't'' be good for it. Why not have Soundwave just open the door?<br />
<br />
* Optimus throws the satellite into orbit and its presumed to be in working order. Even assuming that Dr. Harding was able to convey the precise details of the necessary orbit, Optimus either has an extremely powerful physics calculator or that had to be one heck of a lucky shot.<br />
<br />
* [[A Prime Problem|As usual]], the good guy jet "catches" the falling protagonists by just flying under them, rather than matching speeds and actually breaking their fall. ''Splat''.<br />
<br />
* Ratchet claims credit for firing the attitude exchangers, but it was Hound's idea. Sparkplug then points out that he helped Ratchet build the things to begin with, but there's been no on-screen evidence that Ratchet was involved in building any of them.<br />
<br />
* It's implied that the Autobots are going to ''repair'' all 47 of the busted jets...but jets and air frames and avionics don't really work that way. Once they're smashed and exploded, they're pretty much "beyond repair".<br />
<br />
* Teletraan I states that all of the Autobots apart from Jazz and Bumblebee were turned evil—that's seventeen Autobots and maybe five Dinobots. By episode's end, after Ratchet frets that they're out of attitude exchangers, only seven have been accounted for. (To be fair, there is an unaccounted-for period of time between the satellite's launch and the episode's conclusion, but if that's when they took care of the problem, why was Ratchet worried about Prime being "a lost cause"?)<br />
<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
[[Image:OptimusCDeckAttackoftheAutobots.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"]]<br />
* Gadgets and powers:<br />
** The Autobots' optics switch from blue to red when they're evilified, and back to blue when they're recharged with good.<br />
** We get to see all three of Optimus Prime's components in action, which is rare. This is the third appearance of the [[Combat Deck]]'s interior cannon in the series, but the ''only'' time it was drawn to be toy-accurate.<br />
** Prowl fires a Laserbeak-ensnaring net from his retracted hand. He fired a similar net at Ravage in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3]]".<br />
** Jazz deploys his (newly-upgraded) speakers. They're loud enough to bring down a mountainside.<br />
* Prime's tech spec bio states that damage to his other two components can be felt by him. Conversely, this could be interpreted that the energy exchanger's effect on the other two components actually weakened Prime's evil state, which is why he started fighting it right after. That is, if you want to apply his bio to the G1 cartoon.<br />
* This episode may hold the record for the largest number of "evil invention/alien device"s in a single episode: invisibility spray, the personality destabilizer, the recharging chambers, the solar satellite, AND the attitude adjusters are all contenders.<br />
* [[Autobot Spike|<<]] '''Brawn vs. Soundwave:''' Round 3 goes to Brawn. Tally: Brawn 3, Soundwave 0 [[Enter the Nightbird|>>]]<br />
<br />
===Real world references===<br />
* ''Star Wars'' sound effects: <br />
** The [[TIE Fighter]] engine sound effect shows up when Prime says, "My warning diode is pulsating. Decepticon Jets!" as Thundercracker and Skywarp swoop down.<br />
** As Skywarp fires, the sound effect borrowing continues; it's Darth Vader firing his ship's lasers combined with the TIE's engine sounds. And it's complete with [[Darth Vader]]'s breathing! (A similar audio gaffe happens in "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]", as well as ''G.I. Joe: The Movie''. Guess you can't be too choosy when you crib sounds from ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''.)<br />
** When Jazz uses his [[sound and light show]], the sound effects are two lightsabers clashing.<br />
* "Hold on, I'm coming!" A Sam and Dave shout-out, perhaps?<br />
* The first batch of jets the Autobots wreck during their attack on the Air Force base seem to be based (somewhat loosely) on the [[wikipedia:F-104 Starfighter|F-104 Starfighter]], while the second group look like Russian [[wikipedia:Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-23|MiG-23s]].<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
*David Wise reused elements of this story for the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story'' "Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X", especially the climax of the story and its rocket chase sequence. This was not an entirely unique incident, as Wise was known for [[Kremzeek!|recycling]] [[Auto-Bop|his]] [[Microbots|storylines.]]<br />
<br />
==Home video releases==<br />
{{homevidnote}}<br />
;Laserdisc<br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — English and Japanese audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.<br />
;DVD<br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[Metrodome]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Bumper Collection Special (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 2: Series 2.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 03: Stagione Due Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/synopses/attack_of_the_autobots.html Dossier at the Cybertron Chronicle]<br />
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[[Category:Generation 2 episodes]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Attack_of_the_Autobots_(episode)&diff=640528Attack of the Autobots (episode)2011-09-24T13:24:52Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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<div>{{episode<br />
|series=G1toon<br />
|ep=20<br />
|series2=SRLFtoon<br />
|ep2=73<br />
|prev2=Mutiny of the Combaticons<br />
|next2=Day of the Machines<br />
|series3=''[[Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''<br />
|ep3=28<br />
|prev3=Changing Gears<br />
|next3=Day of the Machines<br />
|image=AttackOTAutobot Evil Optimus Hound and Ratchet.jpg<br />
|caption="This photo of us is terrible, Hound! You forgot the red-eye function again!"<br />
|title="Attack of the Autobots"<br />
|production code=#700-19<br />
|airdate=[[October 4]], 1985<br />
|written by=[[David Wise]]<br />
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]<br />
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''After a surprise attack (read: diversion) by the Decepticons, the Autobots repair themselves in their regeneration chambers, only to emerge...EVIL!'''<br />
<br />
:''Japanese title:'' サイバトロンの逆襲 (''Cybertron no Gyakushū'', "Cybertrons' Counterattack")<br />
:''Brazilian title:'' '''O Ataque dos Autobots'''<br />
:''Italian title, dub 1:'' '''La pazzia degli Autorobot''' ("Madness of The Autobots")<br />
:''Italian title, dub 2:'' '''La pazzia degli Autobots''' ("Madness of the Autobots")<br />
<br />
==Synopsis==<br />
[[Image:AttackOTAutobot Megatron destabilizer.jpg|left|200px|thumb|We're replacing the Autobots' personalities with Folger's Crystals! Let's see if they notice.]]<br />
<br />
The Autobots rush out to meet a [[Decepticon]] sneak attack on [[Ark (G1)|their headquarters]], unaware that it's actually a diversion. While they're occupied, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] coat themselves in a temporary "[[invisibility spray]]" and sneak inside. Megatron sabotages the [[Autobot]]s' [[recharging chamber]] with a [[personality destabilizer device]], before calling off the attack, leaving the Autobots bemused. After the Autobots recharge the next day, [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] alerts them to the imminent launch of a rocket, and rather than protect it, they want to destroy it. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] obeys Megatron's first order and smashes [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]].<br />
<br />
[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] find a spot in the middle of nowhere for Jazz to try out his new sound system. Bumblebee leaves them to it, heading back to Headquarters. Bumblebee makes it back first, and finds Teletraan disabled and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] behaving oddly. Bluestreak forces him into the recharging chamber, but Jazz arrives in time to discover something's wrong. Jazz manages to disable Bluestreak. Sparkplug repairs Teletraan I, who tells them that the rest of the Autobots are now evil!<br />
<br />
[[Image:Attackoftheautobots2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HASSAN CHOP!]]<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, Optimus leads the Autobots on an attack at the local [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] base, where they begin trashing military jets. Spike and Bumblebee rush off to the base to stop them, and Sparkplug and Jazz stay behind to work on a cure. [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], on Megatron's orders, have gone after the plans for the human solar energy satellite being launched on the rocket. They start chasing the satellite's inventor, [[Harding|Doctor Harding]]. Bumblebee reaches the Air Force base, but is unable to persuade Optimus to stop his rampage.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile the Decepticons take over the rocket base and plan to take the rocket and satellite back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. At headquarters, Sparkplug cooks up an [[attitude exchanger]] that will "First, drain evil. Second, recharge good." After he and Jazz test it successfully on Bluestreak, he starts building more. As Hound and Ratchet close in on Dr. Harding, Jazz turns up with the first batch and resets them back to good. At the Air Force base, Bumblebee continues to try to stop Optimus, who seems bent on destroying the smaller Autobot along with the planes.<br />
<br />
The other Autobots find [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], and change him back to good using an exchanger, then use him as transport to get to the Air Force Base. There, they manage to change the rest of the Autobots, except for Optimus Prime. The devices pacify Prime’s [[Combat Deck]] and [[Roller (G1)|Roller]], but Prime is still on a rampage. Bumblebee takes it upon himself to change the Autobot leader back and succeeds. Optimus gives him a nice, big hug for his trouble.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Bumblebee, from now on, you will be a Hugmaster!]]<br />
<br />
Back at the rocket base, Megatron and the Decepticons have boarded the reprogrammed rocket and take off. The Autobots intercept them aboard Skyfire. Prime and Ratchet detach the satellite while Jazz uses a "musical sonic boom" to disable the rocket. The Decepticons abandon it without any further resistance and retreat. Skyfire takes everyone into space, and Prime throws the solar satellite into orbit.<br />
<br />
Finally back at headquarters, Prime thanks everyone for helping out, especially Bumblebee. But then Ratchet gets jealous and claims credit for firing the attitude exchangers (which was actually Hound’s idea. Hmmm…). Jazz reminds everybody that they have to fix all of the jets that Optimus Prime smashed at the Air Force base, and Spike breaks the tension with a lame joke that his dad finds hilarious.<br />
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<br />
==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|c1=<br />
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)<br />
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (2)<br />
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (3)<br />
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (4)<br />
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (12)<br />
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] (13)<br />
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (14)<br />
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (15)<br />
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (16)<br />
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (19)<br />
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (20)<br />
* [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] (23)<br />
<br />
|c2=<br />
* [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (5)<br />
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (6)<br />
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (7)<br />
* [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (8)<br />
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (9)<br />
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (10)<br />
* [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (11)<br />
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]<br />
|c3=<br />
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (17)<br />
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (18)<br />
* [[Harding]] (21)<br />
* Missile Launch Technician (22)<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"Teletran-1, report"<br />
"Decepticons attacking on the south-east bound"<br />
"Autobots, Transform and roll out"<br />
'''Teletran-1''' is warning '''Optimus Prime'''<br />
<br />
"My warning diode is pulsating!"<br><br />
:—'''Optimus Prime''' does his best to emulate [[Spider-Man]].<br />
<br />
<br />
"Hey, come back! You didn't finish your nickel-plated knuckle sandwich!"<br><br />
:—'''Brawn''' worries about the Decepticons' dietary needs.<br />
<br />
<br />
"Warning! Evil presence now infiltrating Autobot Headquarters!"<br><br />
"Very good, Teletraan I! The personality destabilizer I placed inside ''your'' recharging chamber has converted your Autobot friends from sentimental fools to my kind of mechanisms!"<br><br />
"Autobots are noble. Your plan can never succeed."<br><br />
"Oh, it can't, eh? Autobots! Obey my first command: Silence that annoying computer!"<br><br />
"Optimus Prime, NO—!"<br />
:—'''Teletraan I''' displays some pretty incredible capabilities as it debates with '''Megatron''', right before Optimus shows the computer where to stick it<br />
<br />
<br />
"Like, wow! Rock and roll with real rocks!"<br><br />
"It's ''called'' an ''avalanche!''"<br />
:—'''Jazz''' and his sound system are a bit much for '''Sparkplug'''...not to mention a nearby cliff.<br />
<br />
<br />
"Destroy, destroy, destroy! Let none stand against us!"<br />
:—Evil '''Optimus Prime''' (No, it's not [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] or [[Optimus Prime (SG)|any other evil Primes]] you know.)<br />
<br />
<br />
"First, drain evil. Second, recharge good."<br><br />
"Let's hope it don't finish up with 'Third, bury Jazz'!"<br />
:—'''Sparkplug''' and '''Jazz'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Optimus''': Well, there won't be any more trouble, thanks to you. And especially to you, Bumblebee.<br><br />
'''Ratchet''': Especially to ''him''? ''I'' was the one who saved the satellite, ''and'' came up with the idea of firing those attitude exchangers!<br><br />
'''Sparkplug''': Oh, yeah? Well who helped you make 'em in the first place?<br><br />
'''Ratchet''': Why, you wouldn't know a microchip from a potato chip!<br />
:—Optimus Prime's thanks to Bumblebee start a little round of glory-hogging.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*This is one of two episodes (the other being "[[Day of the Machines]]") not initially aired in Japan during the run of ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''. The episode was eventually dubbed in 1990 and released on [[Pioneer]]'s laserdisk set of the series. As such, it was retroactively added to the series' official episode list as episode 73, a numbering reflected in ''[[Transformers Generations]]''.<br />
<br />
*Since the episode was dubbed several years after ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' had ended, not all the original cast members were able to return. [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (originally voiced by [[Ken Shiroyama]]), [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (originally voiced by [[Kōki Kataoka]]) and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (originally voiced by [[Osamu Saka]]) were replaced by [[Katsumi Suzuki]].<br />
<br />
===Animation or technical glitches===<br />
* Optimus is missing his fog lights in many shots.<br />
* As Starscream and Megatron prepare to use the invisibility spray, Starscream's shoulder vents are ''behind'' his shoulders instead of on top of them.<br />
* Bluestreak is missing his Autobot symbol as he opens fire on Jazz.<br />
* As Teletraan I reports Optimus's attack on the Air Force base, its voice is modulated differently than in the scene immediately beforehand.<br />
* When Spike jumps into Bumblebee, there's no interior opening shown behind Bumblebee's door.<br />
* Spike continues saying "Hold on, I'm coming!" even after he's already inside Bumblebee.<br />
* Megatron orders Soundwave to "reprogram the main computer." Thanks to some recycled animation, Soundwave does this by strolling up to the same bank of computers that Megatron just blew up.<br />
* Skywarp's missing his wing insignia as Megatron exits the computer bunker.<br />
* Thundercracker's wing is sitting above his shoulder instead of behind it as he and Starscream listen to Megatron.<br />
* Prime's trailer is missing its wheels as he pulls away from it.<br />
* Skyfire seems to gain more landing gear every time he touches the ground. As he departs from the Air Force base, his nose gear is ridiculously long.<br />
* Skywarp is missing his wing insignia as the Decepticons fly up to the rocket.<br />
* After Bumblebee saves Optimus Prime, a group shot shows Jazz missing his grille.<br />
* Soundwave is missing his insignia as Megatron rants about the fuel tanks.<br />
* Skywarp's missing his wing stripes as the Decepticons fly off. In the same shot, a Reflector robot in Frenzy's colors flies off with them.<br />
* Ratchet's "potato chip" line doesn't quite flow into his next line, which starts with an abrupt "Hey, look!" as if he was replying to a line of Sparkplug's that got cut.<br />
<br />
===Continuity errors===<br />
* How does Rumble keep from falling into the crevasse that he makes with his pile drivers?<br />
<br />
* Flying Autobots:<br />
** Prowl sails skyward a ''long'' time after he's blasted by a missile.<br />
** Optimus and Ratchet just float up out of Rumble's crevasse. Both these incidents are in defiance of the cartoon's normal status quo, which mostly holds that Autobots can't fly.<br />
<br />
* Was this convoluted scheme ''really'' the best use Megatron could think of for invisibility spray?<br />
<br />
* Why did the Decepticons have to do what they did to the Autobots, instead of just knocking them out and having [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] use his [[Cerebro-shell]]s?<br />
<br />
* Superhuman Spike:<br />
** Sparkplug and Spike's eardrums are somehow not shattered by Jazz's speakers, which are loud enough to start an avalanche.<br />
<br />
* Superhuman Dr. Harding:<br />
** Judging by the exterior shot of the lab, as well as the size of the parasols visible from Dr. Harding's window, she is, at absolute minimum, four stories up (probably much higher), yet she manages to survive the fall onto the parasols without so much as whiplash.<br />
** She also survives being thrown by Hound while trapped in a dumpster; a throw with enough force to not only destroy the dumpster but also seriously damage the wall behind it. Maybe it was filled with pillows?<br />
<br />
* "Good" and "Evil" are apparently scientific states now, detectable by computer!<br />
<br />
* Speaking of which, why didn't Teletraan I report Megatron's "evil presence" when he and Starscream were sabotaging the recharging chambers?<br />
<br />
* After all the fuss with the invisibility spray, it turns out that the shimmering outlines aren't just for the viewer's benefit; the "invisible" Decepticons are caught on film by Teletraan I. Whoops! And why didn't Teletraan I think to report this BEFORE the Autobots recharged?<br />
<br />
* How does Dr. Harding's building security system discern that these are ''enemy'' Autobots?<br />
<br />
* It's not absolutely a contradiction within the cartoon's continuity, but Hound's bio definitely doesn't identify his weapon as a particle beam gun. (That's actually [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s weapon.)<br />
<br />
* Ratchet's assertion that "Prime's a lost cause" seems like a bit of an exaggeration. Couldn't they just go back to HQ and make some more attitude exchangers?<br />
<br />
* If the Decepticons could use a rocket to get back to Cybertron, why waste all the time building a spaceship in the pilot? Can an Earth rocket really make it all the way to Cybertron? (This seeming contradiction, and many other instances of easy travel between Earth and Cybertron, might be explained by "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3]]", whose events would seem to leave Cybertron in relatively close proximity to our [[Solar System]], even after leaving Earth's orbit. Whether the writers actually had this in mind, however, is open for debate.)<br />
<br />
* With two hours of idle time before the rocket launches, why do the Decepticons wait until T minus 30 seconds before boarding?<br />
<br />
* Tearing a door off the rocket ''can't'' be good for it. Why not have Soundwave just open the door?<br />
<br />
* Optimus throws the satellite into orbit and its presumed to be in working order. Even assuming that Dr. Harding was able to convey the precise details of the necessary orbit, Optimus either has an extremely powerful physics calculator or that had to be one heck of a lucky shot.<br />
<br />
* [[A Prime Problem|As usual]], the good guy jet "catches" the falling protagonists by just flying under them, rather than matching speeds and actually breaking their fall. ''Splat''.<br />
<br />
* Ratchet claims credit for firing the attitude exchangers, but it was Hound's idea. Sparkplug then points out that he helped Ratchet build the things to begin with, but there's been no on-screen evidence that Ratchet was involved in building any of them.<br />
<br />
* It's implied that the Autobots are going to ''repair'' all 47 of the busted jets...but jets and air frames and avionics don't really work that way. Once they're smashed and exploded, they're pretty much "beyond repair".<br />
<br />
* Teletraan I states that all of the Autobots apart from Jazz and Bumblebee were turned evil—that's seventeen Autobots and maybe five Dinobots. By episode's end, after Ratchet frets that they're out of attitude exchangers, only seven have been accounted for. (To be fair, there is an unaccounted-for period of time between the satellite's launch and the episode's conclusion, but if that's when they took care of the problem, why was Ratchet worried about Prime being "a lost cause"?)<br />
<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
[[Image:OptimusCDeckAttackoftheAutobots.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"]]<br />
* Gadgets and powers:<br />
** The Autobots' optics switch from blue to red when they're evilified, and back to blue when they're recharged with good.<br />
** We get to see all three of Optimus Prime's components in action, which is rare. This is the third appearance of the [[Combat Deck]]'s interior cannon in the series, but the ''only'' time it was drawn to be toy-accurate.<br />
** Prowl fires a Laserbeak-ensnaring net from his retracted hand. He fired a similar net at Ravage in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3]]".<br />
** Jazz deploys his (newly-upgraded) speakers. They're loud enough to bring down a mountainside.<br />
* Prime's tech spec bio states that damage to his other two components can be felt by him. Conversely, this could be interpreted that the energy exchanger's effect on the other two components actually weakened Prime's evil state, which is why he started fighting it right after. That is, if you want to apply his bio to the G1 cartoon.<br />
* This episode may hold the record for the largest number of "evil invention/alien device"s in a single episode: invisibility spray, the personality destabilizer, the recharging chambers, the solar satellite, AND the attitude adjusters are all contenders.<br />
* [[Autobot Spike|<<]] '''Brawn vs. Soundwave:''' Round 3 goes to Brawn. Tally: Brawn 3, Soundwave 0 [[Enter the Nightbird|>>]]<br />
<br />
===Real world references===<br />
* ''Star Wars'' sound effects: <br />
** The [[TIE Fighter]] engine sound effect shows up when Prime says, "My warning diode is pulsating. Decepticon Jets!" as Thundercracker and Skywarp swoop down.<br />
** As Skywarp fires, the sound effect borrowing continues; it's Darth Vader firing his ship's lasers combined with the TIE's engine sounds. And it's complete with [[Darth Vader]]'s breathing! (A similar audio gaffe happens in "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]", as well as ''G.I. Joe: The Movie''. Guess you can't be too choosy when you crib sounds from ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''.)<br />
** When Jazz uses his [[sound and light show]], the sound effects are two lightsabers clashing.<br />
* "Hold on, I'm coming!" A Sam and Dave shout-out, perhaps?<br />
* The first batch of jets the Autobots wreck during their attack on the Air Force base seem to be based (somewhat loosely) on the [[wikipedia:F-104 Starfighter|F-104 Starfighter]], while the second group look like Russian [[wikipedia:Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-23|MiG-23s]].<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
*David Wise reused elements of this story for the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story'' "Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X", especially the climax of the story and its rocket chase sequence. This was not an entirely unique incident, as Wise was known for [[Kremzeek!|recycling]] [[Auto-Bop|his]] [[Microbots|storylines.]]<br />
<br />
==Home video releases==<br />
{{homevidnote}}<br />
;Laserdisc<br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — English and Japanese audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.<br />
;DVD<br />
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[Metrodome]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Bumper Collection Special (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 2: Series 2.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 03: Stagione Due Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio.<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]])<br><br />
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/synopses/attack_of_the_autobots.html Dossier at the Cybertron Chronicle]<br />
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<div>{{disambig3|Scramble City}}<br />
<br><br />
[[Image:Scramble_city_logo.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
When [[Hasbro]] introduced the 1986 [[combiner]] "[[Special Teams]]" into the [[The Transformers (toyline)|Tranformers toyline]], it was with comparatively little fanfare. Not so for [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]: when the time came for the Japanese toy company to debut these new characters, they went all out, shining the spotlight on them in [[subline imprint]] of sorts named '''''Scramble City'''''.<br />
<br />
The ''Scramble City'' storyline, set in the late 1980s, between the second season of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] and ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', centred on the Autobots' construction of a new mobile battle fortress, and the Decepticons' attempt to counter it with one of their own. It became the focus of ''[[TV Magazine]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Transformers coverage; the accompanying [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|manga]] published in its pages centred nearly exclusively on the new characters and their powers. The manga in turn led into the direct-to-video exclusive episode, "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]", the first piece of Japanese-exclusive Transformers animation, which put the combiners and their abilities to the fore to an extent not seen in any Hasbro media. Furthermore, the entire ''Scramble City'' scenario involved not only the Special Teams, who had already appeared in the late stages of the cartoon, but also featured the introduction and heavy promotion of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (whose city mode was the titular "Scramble City"), [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and to a lesser extent, [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and the [[Autobot Mini-Cassette]]s. As a consequence, all these characters took their first bow in front of Japanese audiences well in advance of their Western fictional debut in the future era of the movie and the subsequent third season of the cartoon. A short-lived attempt was made to also incorporate [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (whose toy was also sold under the ''Scramble City'' banner as an opposite number to Ultra Magnus) into this fiction, with the character making brief appearances in ''TV Magazine'' [[story page]]s and an extended [[Scramble City (diorama)|stop-motion advert]] for the line, but this was quickly dropped, presumably because Takara soon learned who the character actually was.<br />
<br />
The reason for this increased attention? Well, all four combiner teams and Metroplex were originally designed for an aborted 1985 ''[[Diaclone]]'' line named ''Jizai Gattai'' ("Free Combination"), which was shelved when Transformers proved successful in America and Takara elected to import it instead. Given this history, when the figures were pulled out of mothballs for inclusion in the Transformers line, it's not unlikely that Takara really wanted to make a big deal out of them due to their design history, while Hasbro was content to just introduce them into the series fairly normally.<br />
<br />
==Toys==<br />
===Autobots===<br />
'''[[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]<br />
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]<br />
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]<br />
* [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]<br />
* [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]<br />
* [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]<br />
* [[Groove (G1)|Groove]]<br />
* [[Blades (G1)|Blades]]<br />
* [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]<br />
* [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]<br />
* [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]]<br />
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]]<br />
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]]<br />
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]]<br />
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]]<br />
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
<br />
*'''Autobot [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]<br />
<br />
'''[[Autobot City]]'''<br />
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (with [[Scamper]], [[Slammer]] and [[Six-Gun]])<br />
<br />
===Decepticons===<br />
'''[[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]<br />
* [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]<br />
* [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]<br />
* [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]<br />
* [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]<br />
* [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]<br />
* [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]<br />
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]<br />
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]<br />
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]<br />
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon City'''<br />
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (with [[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]] and [[Full-Tilt]])<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*Despite debuting in, and being consistently promoted by, the ''Scramble City'' fiction, neither Ratbat nor any of the Autobot Mini-Cassettes were sold with the ''Scramble City'' logo on their packaging.<br />
*"Scramble City combiner" has become a catch-all piece of terminology in Transformers [[fandom]] to refer to the five-man style of combination affected by the teams sold under the title, in which one large 'bot forms the torso, and four interchangeable smaller ones become limbs, and is used to refer to every team that utilizes it, even those who did not appear in the ''Scramble City'' storyline.<br />
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<hr />
<div>{{disambig3|Scramble City}}<br />
<br><br />
[[Image:Scramble_city_logo.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
When [[Hasbro]] introduced the 1986 [[combiner]] "[[Special Teams]]" into the [[The Transformers (toyline)|Tranformers toyline]], it was with comparatively little fanfare. Not so for [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]: when the time came for the Japanese toy company to debut these new characters, they went all out, shining the spotlight on them in [[subline imprint]] of sorts named '''''Scramble City'''''.<br />
<br />
The ''Scramble City'' storyline, set in the late 1980s, between the second season of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] and ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', centred on the Autobots' construction of a new mobile battle fortress, and the Decepticons' attempt to counter it with one of their own. It became the focus of ''[[TV Magazine]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Transformers coverage; the accompanying [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|manga]] published in its pages centred nearly exclusively on the new characters and their powers. The manga in turn led into the direct-to-video exclusive episode, "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]", the first piece of Japanese-exclusive Transformers animation, which put the combiners and their abilities to the fore to an extent not seen in any Hasbro media. Furthermore, the entire ''Scramble City'' scenario involved not only the Special Teams, who had already appeared in the late stages of the cartoon, but also featured the introduction and heavy promotion of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (whose city mode was the titular "Scramble City"), [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and to a lesser extent, [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and the [[Autobot Mini-Cassette]]s. As a consequence, all these characters took their first bow in front of Japanese audiences well in advance of their Western fictional debut in the future era of the movie and the subsequent third season of the cartoon. A short-lived attempt was made to also incorporate [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (whose toy was also sold under the ''Scramble City'' banner as an opposite number to Ultra Magnus) into this fiction, with the character making brief appearances in ''TV Magazine'' [[story page]]s and an extended [[Scramble City (diorama)|stop-motion advert]] for the line, but this was quickly dropped, presumably because Takara soon learned who the character actually was.<br />
<br />
The reason for this increased attention? Well, all four combiner teams and Metroplex were originally designed for an aborted 1985 ''[[Diaclone]]'' line named ''Jizai Gattai'' ("Free Combination"), which was shelved when Transformers proved successful in America and Takara elected to import it instead. Given this history, when the figures were pulled out of mothballs for inclusion in the Transformers line, it's not unlikely that Takara really wanted to make a big deal out of them due to their design history, while Hasbro was content to just introduce them into the series fairly normally.<br />
<br />
==Toys==<br />
===Autobots===<br />
'''[[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]<br />
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]<br />
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]<br />
* [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]<br />
* [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]<br />
* [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]<br />
* [[Groove (G1)|Groove]]<br />
* [[Blades (G1)|Blades]]<br />
* [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]<br />
* [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]<br />
* [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]]<br />
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]]<br />
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]]<br />
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]]<br />
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]]<br />
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
<br />
*'''[[Autobot [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]<br />
<br />
'''[[Autobot City]]'''<br />
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (with [[Scamper]], [[Slammer]] and [[Six-Gun]])<br />
<br />
===Decepticons===<br />
'''[[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]<br />
* [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]<br />
* [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]<br />
* [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]<br />
* [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]<br />
* [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]<br />
* [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]<br />
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]<br />
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]<br />
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]<br />
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon City'''<br />
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (with [[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]] and [[Full-Tilt]])<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*Despite debuting in, and being consistently promoted by, the ''Scramble City'' fiction, neither Ratbat nor any of the Autobot Mini-Cassettes were sold with the ''Scramble City'' logo on their packaging.<br />
*"Scramble City combiner" has become a catch-all piece of terminology in Transformers [[fandom]] to refer to the five-man style of combination affected by the teams sold under the title, in which one large 'bot forms the torso, and four interchangeable smaller ones become limbs, and is used to refer to every team that utilizes it, even those who did not appear in the ''Scramble City'' storyline.<br />
<br />
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<hr />
<div>{{disambig3|Scramble City}}<br />
<br><br />
[[Image:Scramble_city_logo.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
When [[Hasbro]] introduced the 1986 [[combiner]] "[[Special Teams]]" into the [[The Transformers (toyline)|Tranformers toyline]], it was with comparatively little fanfare. Not so for [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]: when the time came for the Japanese toy company to debut these new characters, they went all out, shining the spotlight on them in [[subline imprint]] of sorts named '''''Scramble City'''''.<br />
<br />
The ''Scramble City'' storyline, set in the late 1980s, between the second season of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] and ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', centred on the Autobots' construction of a new mobile battle fortress, and the Decepticons' attempt to counter it with one of their own. It became the focus of ''[[TV Magazine]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Transformers coverage; the accompanying [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|manga]] published in its pages centred nearly exclusively on the new characters and their powers. The manga in turn led into the direct-to-video exclusive episode, "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]", the first piece of Japanese-exclusive Transformers animation, which put the combiners and their abilities to the fore to an extent not seen in any Hasbro media. Furthermore, the entire ''Scramble City'' scenario involved not only the Special Teams, who had already appeared in the late stages of the cartoon, but also featured the introduction and heavy promotion of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (whose city mode was the titular "Scramble City"), [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and to a lesser extent, [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and the [[Autobot Mini-Cassette]]s. As a consequence, all these characters took their first bow in front of Japanese audiences well in advance of their Western fictional debut in the future era of the movie and the subsequent third season of the cartoon. A short-lived attempt was made to also incorporate [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (whose toy was also sold under the ''Scramble City'' banner as an opposite number to Ultra Magnus) into this fiction, with the character making brief appearances in ''TV Magazine'' [[story page]]s and an extended [[Scramble City (diorama)|stop-motion advert]] for the line, but this was quickly dropped, presumably because Takara soon learned who the character actually was.<br />
<br />
The reason for this increased attention? Well, all four combiner teams and Metroplex were originally designed for an aborted 1985 ''[[Diaclone]]'' line named ''Jizai Gattai'' ("Free Combination"), which was shelved when Transformers proved successful in America and Takara elected to import it instead. Given this history, when the figures were pulled out of mothballs for inclusion in the Transformers line, it's not unlikely that Takara really wanted to make a big deal out of them due to their design history, while Hasbro was content to just introduce them into the series fairly normally.<br />
<br />
==Toys==<br />
===Autobots===<br />
'''[[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]<br />
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]<br />
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]<br />
* [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]<br />
* [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]<br />
* [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]<br />
* [[Groove (G1)|Groove]]<br />
* [[Blades (G1)|Blades]]<br />
* [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]<br />
* [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]<br />
* [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]]<br />
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]]<br />
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]]<br />
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]]<br />
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]]<br />
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
<br />
*[['''Autobot [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]<br />
<br />
'''[[Autobot City]]'''<br />
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (with [[Scamper]], [[Slammer]] and [[Six-Gun]])<br />
<br />
===Decepticons===<br />
'''[[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]<br />
* [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]<br />
* [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]<br />
* [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]<br />
* [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]<br />
* [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]<br />
* [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]<br />
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]<br />
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]<br />
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]<br />
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon City'''<br />
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (with [[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]] and [[Full-Tilt]])<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*Despite debuting in, and being consistently promoted by, the ''Scramble City'' fiction, neither Ratbat nor any of the Autobot Mini-Cassettes were sold with the ''Scramble City'' logo on their packaging.<br />
*"Scramble City combiner" has become a catch-all piece of terminology in Transformers [[fandom]] to refer to the five-man style of combination affected by the teams sold under the title, in which one large 'bot forms the torso, and four interchangeable smaller ones become limbs, and is used to refer to every team that utilizes it, even those who did not appear in the ''Scramble City'' storyline.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Generation 1]]<br />
[[Category: Toys]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Scramble_City_(toyline)&diff=638071Scramble City (toyline)2011-09-14T07:21:54Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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<div>{{disambig3|Scramble City}}<br />
<br><br />
[[Image:Scramble_city_logo.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
When [[Hasbro]] introduced the 1986 [[combiner]] "[[Special Teams]]" into the [[The Transformers (toyline)|Tranformers toyline]], it was with comparatively little fanfare. Not so for [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]: when the time came for the Japanese toy company to debut these new characters, they went all out, shining the spotlight on them in [[subline imprint]] of sorts named '''''Scramble City'''''.<br />
<br />
The ''Scramble City'' storyline, set in the late 1980s, between the second season of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] and ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', centred on the Autobots' construction of a new mobile battle fortress, and the Decepticons' attempt to counter it with one of their own. It became the focus of ''[[TV Magazine]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Transformers coverage; the accompanying [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|manga]] published in its pages centred nearly exclusively on the new characters and their powers. The manga in turn led into the direct-to-video exclusive episode, "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]", the first piece of Japanese-exclusive Transformers animation, which put the combiners and their abilities to the fore to an extent not seen in any Hasbro media. Furthermore, the entire ''Scramble City'' scenario involved not only the Special Teams, who had already appeared in the late stages of the cartoon, but also featured the introduction and heavy promotion of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (whose city mode was the titular "Scramble City"), [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and to a lesser extent, [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and the [[Autobot Mini-Cassette]]s. As a consequence, all these characters took their first bow in front of Japanese audiences well in advance of their Western fictional debut in the future era of the movie and the subsequent third season of the cartoon. A short-lived attempt was made to also incorporate [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (whose toy was also sold under the ''Scramble City'' banner as an opposite number to Ultra Magnus) into this fiction, with the character making brief appearances in ''TV Magazine'' [[story page]]s and an extended [[Scramble City (diorama)|stop-motion advert]] for the line, but this was quickly dropped, presumably because Takara soon learned who the character actually was.<br />
<br />
The reason for this increased attention? Well, all four combiner teams and Metroplex were originally designed for an aborted 1985 ''[[Diaclone]]'' line named ''Jizai Gattai'' ("Free Combination"), which was shelved when Transformers proved successful in America and Takara elected to import it instead. Given this history, when the figures were pulled out of mothballs for inclusion in the Transformers line, it's not unlikely that Takara really wanted to make a big deal out of them due to their design history, while Hasbro was content to just introduce them into the series fairly normally.<br />
<br />
==Toys==<br />
===Autobots===<br />
'''[[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]<br />
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]<br />
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]<br />
* [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]<br />
* [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]<br />
* [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]<br />
* [[Groove (G1)|Groove]]<br />
* [[Blades (G1)|Blades]]<br />
* [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]<br />
* [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]<br />
* [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]]<br />
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]]<br />
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]]<br />
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]]<br />
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]]<br />
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[['''Autobot [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]<br />
<br />
'''[[Autobot City]]'''<br />
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (with [[Scamper]], [[Slammer]] and [[Six-Gun]])<br />
<br />
===Decepticons===<br />
'''[[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]<br />
* [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]<br />
* [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]<br />
* [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]<br />
* [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]<br />
* [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]<br />
* [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]<br />
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]<br />
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]<br />
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]<br />
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon City'''<br />
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (with [[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]] and [[Full-Tilt]])<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*Despite debuting in, and being consistently promoted by, the ''Scramble City'' fiction, neither Ratbat nor any of the Autobot Mini-Cassettes were sold with the ''Scramble City'' logo on their packaging.<br />
*"Scramble City combiner" has become a catch-all piece of terminology in Transformers [[fandom]] to refer to the five-man style of combination affected by the teams sold under the title, in which one large 'bot forms the torso, and four interchangeable smaller ones become limbs, and is used to refer to every team that utilizes it, even those who did not appear in the ''Scramble City'' storyline.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Generation 1]]<br />
[[Category: Toys]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Scramble_City_(toyline)&diff=638070Scramble City (toyline)2011-09-14T07:19:50Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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<div>{{disambig3|Scramble City}}<br />
<br><br />
[[Image:Scramble_city_logo.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
When [[Hasbro]] introduced the 1986 [[combiner]] "[[Special Teams]]" into the [[The Transformers (toyline)|Tranformers toyline]], it was with comparatively little fanfare. Not so for [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]: when the time came for the Japanese toy company to debut these new characters, they went all out, shining the spotlight on them in [[subline imprint]] of sorts named '''''Scramble City'''''.<br />
<br />
The ''Scramble City'' storyline, set in the late 1980s, between the second season of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] and ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', centred on the Autobots' construction of a new mobile battle fortress, and the Decepticons' attempt to counter it with one of their own. It became the focus of ''[[TV Magazine]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Transformers coverage; the accompanying [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (manga)|manga]] published in its pages centred nearly exclusively on the new characters and their powers. The manga in turn led into the direct-to-video exclusive episode, "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]", the first piece of Japanese-exclusive Transformers animation, which put the combiners and their abilities to the fore to an extent not seen in any Hasbro media. Furthermore, the entire ''Scramble City'' scenario involved not only the Special Teams, who had already appeared in the late stages of the cartoon, but also featured the introduction and heavy promotion of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (whose city mode was the titular "Scramble City"), [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and to a lesser extent, [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and the [[Autobot Mini-Cassette]]s. As a consequence, all these characters took their first bow in front of Japanese audiences well in advance of their Western fictional debut in the future era of the movie and the subsequent third season of the cartoon. A short-lived attempt was made to also incorporate [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (whose toy was also sold under the ''Scramble City'' banner as an opposite number to Ultra Magnus) into this fiction, with the character making brief appearances in ''TV Magazine'' [[story page]]s and an extended [[Scramble City (diorama)|stop-motion advert]] for the line, but this was quickly dropped, presumably because Takara soon learned who the character actually was.<br />
<br />
The reason for this increased attention? Well, all four combiner teams and Metroplex were originally designed for an aborted 1985 ''[[Diaclone]]'' line named ''Jizai Gattai'' ("Free Combination"), which was shelved when Transformers proved successful in America and Takara elected to import it instead. Given this history, when the figures were pulled out of mothballs for inclusion in the Transformers line, it's not unlikely that Takara really wanted to make a big deal out of them due to their design history, while Hasbro was content to just introduce them into the series fairly normally.<br />
<br />
==Toys==<br />
===Autobots===<br />
'''[[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]<br />
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]<br />
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]<br />
* [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]<br />
* [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]<br />
* [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]<br />
* [[Groove (G1)|Groove]]<br />
* [[Blades (G1)|Blades]]<br />
* [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]<br />
* [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]<br />
* [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Technobot (G1)|Technobots'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]]<br />
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]]<br />
*[[Lightspeed (G1)|Lightspeed]]<br />
*[[Afterburn (G1)|Afterburn]]<br />
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]]<br />
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[['''Autobot [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]<br />
<br />
'''[[Autobot City]]'''<br />
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (with [[Scamper]], [[Slammer]] and [[Six-Gun]])<br />
<br />
===Decepticons===<br />
'''[[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]<br />
* [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]<br />
* [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]<br />
* [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]<br />
* [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]<br />
* [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''[[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]'''<br />
{{columnlist|2|<br />
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]<br />
* [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]<br />
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]<br />
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]<br />
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]<br />
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (giftset)}}<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon [[City Commander]]'''<br />
*[[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]<br />
<br />
'''Decepticon City'''<br />
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (with [[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]] and [[Full-Tilt]])<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*Despite debuting in, and being consistently promoted by, the ''Scramble City'' fiction, neither Ratbat nor any of the Autobot Mini-Cassettes were sold with the ''Scramble City'' logo on their packaging.<br />
*"Scramble City combiner" has become a catch-all piece of terminology in Transformers [[fandom]] to refer to the five-man style of combination affected by the teams sold under the title, in which one large 'bot forms the torso, and four interchangeable smaller ones become limbs, and is used to refer to every team that utilizes it, even those who did not appear in the ''Scramble City'' storyline.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Generation 1]]<br />
[[Category: Toys]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Dirt_Boss_(ROTF)&diff=634493Dirt Boss (ROTF)2011-09-07T14:05:48Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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{{disambig3|Dirt Boss}}<br />
:''Dirt Boss is a Decepticon from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]] portion of the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br />
[[Image:Nefarious2_Dirt_Boss_surrenders.jpg|thumb|right|300px|I don't know where [[Sam Witwicky|His]] potato chips went!]]<br />
<br />
'''Dirt Boss''' has ''plans''. His small size has condemned him to the role of a lowly underling, but he's a master manipulator, and takes every opportunity to out-maneuver and undermine his rivals and superiors. He's a skilled and agile warrior, as well, making it likely that he'll fulfill his ambitions—eventually.<br />
<br />
{{quote|Y'know what? In a fair fight, I figure you've got the edge, but me...I fight '''dirty'''!|Dirt Boss, [[Nefarious issue 2|Nefarious #2]]}}<br />
<br />
==Fiction==<br />
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===<br />
As part of [[Strike Team Ursa]], Dirt Boss (alongside [[Brakedown (ROTF)|Brakedown]] and [[Reverb (ROTF)|Reverb]]) was dispatched to [[Wendover]], [[Utah]] by [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] to investigate the [[Initiative|mysterious organization]] that had resurrected [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]]. They discovered a hidden base beneath a garbage dump, but fled after they accidentally activated its self-destruct mechanism. While fleeing, they were intercepted by the [[Autobot]]s [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]], who promptly destroyed both of Dirt Boss' teammates. Dirt Boss pretended to surrender, buying him a few moments until Soundwave and Ravage swooped in and attacked the Autobots. Although Soundwave was soon captured, Dirt Boss made a clean getaway. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 2|Nefarious #2}}<br />
<br />
He later joined [[Rumble (ROTF)|Rumble]], [[Ratbat (ROTF)|Ratbat]], [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)|Buzzsaw]], and [[Beastbox (ROTF)|Beastbox]] in attempting to rescue the captured Soundwave from an [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]-led Autobot convoy in [[New Mexico]]. Dirt Boss battled [[Dune Runner (ROTF)|Dune Runner]] until Bumblebee, seeing his team being overwhelmed, fled, allowing the Decepticons to recover Soundwave. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 3|Nefarious #3}} Soundwave tracked Ravage to the [[Initiative]] base in eastern [[California]]. Dirt Boss was dismissive of their human opponents and, announcing he was going to show them who was boss, charged straight in. He was taken out by the base's outer perimeter defenses. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 4|Nefarious #4}}<br />
<br />
==Toys==<br />
===Revenge of the Fallen===<br />
[[Image:ROTF-toy_DirtBoss.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"[[wikia:c:marvel-movies:X-Men Origins: Wolverine|Wade, is that you?]]"]]<br />
*'''Dirt Boss''' (Scout, 2009)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RD-08'''<br />
<br />
:Dirt Boss transforms into a bright green and grey forklift. The loading mast cannot raise or lower, but it can tilt at a hinge near the carriage. Inside the cab there is a seat and a (non-functional) distinctive forklift steering wheel. In robot mode, Dirt Boss' vehicle forks are mounted on his arms as blades.<br />
<br />
:This mold was also used for [[Deadlift]].<br />
<br />
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/DirtBoss/dirtboss.htm More information on Dirt Boss at TFU.info]''<br />
{{-}}<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
[[Image:ROTF_DirtBoss_stockphotos.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]<br />
* Dirt Boss is quite possibly the most contradictory character in recent years. He appears alongside [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]s and shares a name, color and [[alternate mode]] with [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|a Constructicon]] appearing in ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'', but is ''not'' a Constructicon. His body design is nearly identical to [[Scrapper (Movie)|Scrapper]] from [[Transformers The Game (console)|the first movie's video game]], but, well, he's not that Scrapper. He also has absolutely nothing to do with dirt, bossing, or even ''em''bossing. Huh.<br />
* Dirt Boss's Hasbro [[stock photography]] shows him sporting grey forearms and hands with green forks, but on the toy itself, these colors are reversed. The stock photos also sport more red on the chest.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen Decepticons]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=The_Motor_Master&diff=622158The Motor Master2011-08-14T09:31:50Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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{{disambig3|Motormaster}}<br />
:''The Motor Master is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''<br />
[[Image:MotormasterAnimated-model.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Snap into a Slim Jim!]]<br />
<br />
Now YOOOOU listen up, [[Autobot|AUTOBOTS]]. '''The Motor Master''' is the LLEEAADERRRR of [[Team Stunticon|TEAM STUNTICOOOOOOOOOOON]]. And they're gonna smash ya. Theeeeey're gonna crash ya, gonna rip, and tear, and destroy ya, and grind ya INTO THE DUST! OOHHHHHH YEEEEEEAHHHHH!<br />
<br />
==Fiction==<br />
===''Bots of Science''===<br />
[[Image:BotsofScience-Motormaster.jpg|left|thumb|100px|The chemical warfare agent did it!]]<br />
A younger Motor Master was part of a Decepticon force during the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]]. He ended up seemingly killed by [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]]'s [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]].<br />
<br />
Strangely enough, he was seen reading an issue of ''[[CSI]]''. {{storylink|Bots of Science}}<br />
<br />
===''Timelines''===<br />
:''Voice actor:'' [[Gregg Berger]]<br />
<br />
[[Image:StuntiConJob-nowheretorun.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Powergliding is our speciality!]]<br />
"The Motor Master" was sent, along with the other Stunticons and [[Toxitron]], on a mission to break [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] and other Decepticons out of [[Trypticon Prison]]. In the guise of entertainers, they planned to rig the former [[Decepticon Gladiatorial Arena]] in [[Kaon]] with explosives, blasting the prison walls open and killing the audience in the process.<br />
<br />
All was going well until the Stunticons were abruptly assaulted in mid-rehearsal by [[Cheetor (Animated)|Cheetor]], who opened fire on the disguised Decepticons. Once the Autobot cop settled down, the rehearsal continued. The Motor Master helped to corner the "helpless" [[Drag Strip (Animated)|Drag Strip]], before being chased off by the bumbling [[Toxitron]].<br />
<br />
On the night of the plan's execution, Sideswipe and Cheetor returned in the middle of the show, having worked out the Stunticons' plan. The Stunticons fought back with their stolen modifications, with [[Wildrider (Animated)|Wildrider]] and The Motor Master roughing up [[Sideswipe (Animated)|Sideswipe]]. The two cop-bots were cornered, but Toxitron leapt into the fray, knocking out the structural supports for a giant ramp and sending it crashing down on the Stunticons. Toxitron turned out to actually be a disguised [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], who revealed their plan to everyone watching. before being apprehended, The Motor Master made one final attempt, taking Sideswipe hostage, threatening to scrap him (On his last day before retirement! What are the odds?) and blow up the arena unless Megatron and the other prisoners were released. The Motor Master was caught off guard when Sideswipe activated Optimus Prime's axe and careened backwards. The Motor Master was incarcerated in Trypticon Prison, alongside the very Decepticons he and his teammates had sought to free. {{storylink|The Stunti-Con Job}}<br />
{{-}}<br />
<br />
==Toys==<br />
===Timelines===<br />
[[Image:BotCon2011toy-Motormaster.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Bonesaw is ready!]]<br />
*'''The Stunti-Con-Job''' (BotCon 2011 box set)<br />
**''Accessories'': axe/backpack, water cannon<br />
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: The Motor Master is a [[retool]] of Voyager Class [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], who transforms into a futuristic Earth-mode fire truck (well, the front half of one, at least). His rear portion includes a giant extinguisher cannon, which can become a hand weapon and [[Water-squirting gimmick|really squirts water]]. His chunk of trailer-facade also transforms into a giant double-bladed axe. These weapons can store on his back, giving the appearance of wings and a jet pack. The Motor Master also has an [[Automorph Technology|Automorph]] feature: Pressing a button on his butt flips down and rotates his lower body into the proper position for robot mode.<br />
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:The Motor Master joins the other four [[Team Stunticon|Stunticon]]s, [[Dead End (Animated)|Dead End]], [[Breakdown (Animated)|Breakdown]], [[Drag Strip (Animated)|Drag Strip]], and [[Wildrider (Animated)|Wildrider]] in [[BotCon 2011]]'s box set.<br />
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: This mold (using the original head) was also used to make [[Toxitron]] and [[Nemesis Prime (Animated)|Nemesis Prime]].<br />
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==Notes==<br />
[[Image:AllSparkAlmanacI-MotormasterUltraMagnus.jpg|right|thumb|200px|SPOILERS]]<br />
* The Motor Master was the final toy to be revealed for the BotCon 2011 box set, on Thursday, [[February 24]], 2011.<br />
* In the early stages of ''Transformers Animated'', [[redeco]] possibilities were brainstormed using the existing character models. Concepts for Motormaster and [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]], using an early [[character model]] for [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], were published in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac]]''. These colors seem to have served as inspiration for the later BotCon toy.<br />
* When Fun Publications got their samples in from the factory, it had a damaging mark to discourage aftermarket sale due to theft. Fun Publications had to use Photoshop to recreate the face for everyone else to see.<ref>[http://twitter.com/BotCon/status/40864270795284480]</ref><br />
* According to Derrick Wyatt, the Motor Master sounds like "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and his appearance is based on a "wrestler bad guy" archetype.<br />
* The Motor Master appears with [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], [[Sari Sumdac]], and [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)|Shattered Glass Sari]] in a special illustration in [[Transformers Generations 2011]] vol. 1.<br />
* "The Motor Master" is parsed with a space in all his fictional appearances, but without the space on the box set art itself and on the Motor Master's [[Tech Spec]] card.<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Stunticons]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Backwind&diff=622157Backwind2011-08-14T09:07:38Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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:''Backwind is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Power Core Combiners]] series.''<br />
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[[Image:PCC-toy Backwind.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Ken Buddha and his illuminatable knees.]]<br />
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'''Backwind''' works alongside the [[Autobot]] Power Core [[Commander (PCC)|Commander]] [[Searchlight (PCC)|Searchlight]]. Backwind, like many Power Core Mini-Cons, is very versatile and useful. He can transform from a tiny robot into armor or a cannon for Searchlight's robot mode, or a winch for Searchlight's vehicle mode. As an ape like robot, he has great opportunites upon him.<br />
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==Toys==<br />
===Power Core Combiners===<br />
*'''Searchlight with Backwind''' (Commander Class, 2010)<br />
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: Part of the first wave of ''Power Core Combiners'' Commander Class figures, Backwind transforms form a small robot into a searchlight/winch, a hand-held cannon, or chest armor for any compatible Power Core Combiner super-mode torso. He was only available with his larger partner Searchlight. Due to the fact that he has a screwhole in his chest instead of the standard [[Powerlinx|Powerlinx port]], Backwind is capable of pegging onto any [[5mm post]]. However, he is incapable of activating any Powerlinx gimmicks on [[Armada (toyline)|previous Powerlinx compatible toys]].<br />
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: This mold was also used to make [[Beacon]] and ''[[United (toyline)|United]]'' [[Caliburst (G1)|Caliburst]].<br />
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: During the period between 26 December 2010 and 31 January 2011, Hasbro ran their "Supercharge Your Holidays" promotion: for every $20 spent on Hasbro-branded product, customers could receive a free, random product from a list provided by Hasbro. Among the items on the list was "Transformers Combiners & Speed Stars Mini Vehicle". According to [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=75487 this discussion thread on Allspark.com], Searchlight with Backwind was one of the figures distributed. <br />
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::*''[http://tfu.info/2010/Mini-Con/Backwind/backwind.htm More information on Backwind at TFU.info]''<br />
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*'''Skyburst with Aerialbots''' (value pack, 2010)<br />
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: This [[Toys"R"Us]]-[[exclusive]] value pack includes [[Skyburst]], Searchlight, the [[Aerialbot (PCC)|Aerialbot]] drones, and Backwind, all for the normal cost of the Skyburst 5-pack alone. All of the toys in this set are identical to their individual releases.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* [[Eric Siebenaler]] helpfully pointed out in a panel at [[BotCon 2010]] that Backwind's name is pronounced like the "wind" in winding a rope, not "wind" as in a breeze.<br />
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[[Category: Toy-only characters]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Bluestreak_(G1)&diff=621773Bluestreak (G1)2011-08-13T15:28:33Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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{{disambig3|Bluestreak}}<br />
:''Bluestreak is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]]. He is also known as '''Silverstreak'''.''<br />
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[[Image:G1 Bluestreak boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I'm f***ing PONDEROUS, man. PONDEROUS, f***in' PONDEROUS.]]<br />
'''Bluestreak''' is a talker. He talks a lot. Any subject, any time of the day, his lips are flapping while his Autobot comrades are rolling their eyes. Could be about things on Earth, could be about things on Cybertron, could be about just about anything, but the point is, y'know, he's talking. Words are coming out of his mouth in a near constant prattling stream. Some think he's vapid, that his mouth just moves a billion times faster than his brain, if his brain is moving at all. Or they imagine that he's a fool who doesn't know when to shut up, that he drones on and on and on and on because maybe he just likes to hear himself speak or something. <br />
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His friends realize, however, that his jabbering hides a deeper pain. At the beginning of the [[Great War (G1)|war]], Bluestreak's [[Praxus|home city]] was totally destroyed by [[Decepticon]]s. He was the only survivor. It's as if by talking he tries to drown out his own fears and memories somehow. "There's some demons runnin' loose inside that boy," says [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], "and sometimes I think they grab hold of him and won't let him go." He hated war, he still does, but ever since, he's hated Decepticons even more. It is odd to see a bot of peace so willingly take up arms, but Bluestreak's got a score to settle. <br />
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Talk may be cheap, but it keeps him sane.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===Marvel Comics continuity===<br />
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[[Image:Bluestreakandthereshallcome.jpg|left|150px|thumb|"The War Within" forgot about this design... thankfully!]]<br />
''Millions of years ago on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Bluestreak was escorted by [[Fusion]] on a mission to deliver shatter bombs to the Autobot military commander [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Fusion was focused on picking off the Decepticon jets which were hounding his partner when a blast from one of these Decepticons killed Fusion. Bluestreak was able to complete the mission thanks to his friend's efforts, but he swore revenge. {{storylink|And There Shall Come...a Leader!}}''<br />
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[[Image:Miragebluestreakfirst.jpg|right|250px|thumb|You can taste his sarcasm. To be fair, nobody likes Mirage.]]<br />
Bluestreak arrived on [[Earth]] with his fellow Autobots four million years ago and remained inactive until 1984. Along with [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] and [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], Bluestreak was one of the less sympathetic of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s crew when it came to humans. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} In an early mission in the [[United Kingdom]], he provided covering fire for an Autobot convoy, using his sharpshooting skills to knock [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] out of the sky with '''one shot'''. Don't mess. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br />
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He suggested repairing the Ark and simply abandoning Earth's people to the Decepticons after learning that [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] had allegedly provided their foes with a fuel conversion process while he was their prisoner. Despite their conflicting views, Optimus Prime still recognized Bluestreak's skill as a sharpshooter and chose him to be one of the five Autobots recharged in the [[Chambers of Transference]], in the hopes that at least some Autobots would be at full capacity when the inevitable Decepticon attack came. When it did, Bluestreak was brazen enough to attack [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] himself, head-on. Despite their temporary victory, the battle-weary Autobots were blindsided by the returning Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], who knocked them all down with a single blast. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}<br />
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Bluestreak was next seen being hung from the ceiling of the Ark, prepared by Shockwave to be used as spare parts for the next generation of Decepticons. {{storylink|The New Order}} [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], the only surviving Autobot, managed to re-secure the Ark, and Bluestreak was subsequently rebuilt. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}}<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeebluestreakbrainstorm.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Will talk without end for forever about nothing at all, yet doesn't mention that Prowl is speaking from Ratchet's body.]] Ratchet was able to rebuild Bluestreak and the others after he retook the Ark, with help from the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}} During a mission to stop [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] from broadcasting a transmission to their Decepticon brethren back on Cybertron, Bluestreak was one of the first Autobots to confront the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. This effort almost ended badly when the Constructicons revealed they could merge into the mighty [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but Bluestreak and the others were saved by Huffer and the human trucker [[Bomber Bill]]. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}} It soon became apparent to the Autobots that [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]'s life was in danger so long as he carried the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] while the Decepticons kept hostage the head of Optimus Prime, so Bluestreak and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] were assigned to guard him. Bluestreak's embarrassing line of questioning about what [[Kiss|kissing]] entailed was interrupted when he and Bumblebee were assaulted by the Decepticon prototype warrior [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. After he suffered heavy wounds, his life was saved once again by a human; Buster Witwicky used the power of the Creation Matrix to disassemble Jetfire before their eyes. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}}<br />
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[[Image:Newyorkunderbase.jpg|right|150px|thumb|And the rest... is silence.]]<br />
While Bluestreak and Bumblebee were helping Buster, Optimus Prime had been restored, but not without cost to the Autobot ranks. To help offset this, Bluestreak and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] assisted with the [[Rite of the Autobrand]] on Jetfire, whom Optimus Prime had recently given life. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}<br />
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''During the Dinobot Hunt, Bluestreak was sent with [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] to [[Doonstown]] to capture the berserk [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], but they were surprised to find Grimlock locked in battle with [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]. Bluestreak was the first member of the team down, deactivated by the crazed Dinobots before he had a chance to react.'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}<br />
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During Grimlock's command, Bluestreak watched Grimlock fight [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]] for Autobot leadership. Bluestreak left the Ark to cheer beside the other Autobots. {{storylink|Totaled!}} He battled the [[Underbase]]-empowered [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in [[New York City]], but not before some choice words. Starscream noted that Bluestreak spoke "freely, but foolishly," and ended his life, and others', with little effort. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br />
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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br />
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br />
:''Voice actor:'' [[Casey Kasem]] (English), [[Kōki Kataoka]] (Japanese) [[Katsumi Suzuki]] ("Attack of the Autobots" and "Day of the Machines" only), [[Juan Cuadra]] (Latin American)<br />
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[[Image:MTMTE3 Bluestreak rescues Ironhide.jpg|thumb|right|240px]]<br />
Bluestreak was one of the original crew members of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] when it set off from Cybertron in search of new sources of fuel and energy. Attacked en route by the Decepticon flagship ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', the Ark crashed into a volcano, and the Autobots lay dormant for millions of years. When the volcano erupted and activated [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] in 1984, Bluestreak was reformatted into a Datsun 280Z. Shortly after Hound and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] discovered [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s plans, Bluestreak was part of the Autobot battle group dispatched to follow Megatron's raid on an off-shore oil rig, despite not having been ordered to do so. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br />
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After rescuing the humans, he was also among the Autobots who responded to the Decepticon attack on [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}. Then, when the Decepticons managed to extricate themselves from the mine explosion, Bluestreak and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] took to the air and engaged in a dogfight with [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. He avoided injury, but abandoned the chase when Ironhide was shot down and managed to drag his friend to safety after a water landing. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}} <br />
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[[Image:G1 Prowl Bluestreak Rollforit.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Prowl always dreads the family reunions.]]<br />
After Megatron was seemingly lost forever inside the [[space bridge]], the Autobots thwarted an ill-planned Decepticon attack on yet another hydroelectric power plant under the command of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. Chasing after the escaping Decepticons, Bluestreak managed to damage both Starscream and Thundercracker significantly with a single blast from his shoulder cannons. He and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] followed the fleeing villains to a human aircraft hangar, from which the Decepticons were scavenging parts. Bluestreak accused Starscream of having a [[manifold]] for a mouth. It was hilarious, but both Autobots were outnumbered when Soundwave unleashed Ravage. Fortunately, their human friend [[Chip Chase]] took control of Prowl's systems and sent the Decepticons packing. {{storylink|Roll for It}}<br />
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Bluestreak accompanied Ironhide, [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] to Cybertron to get a [[cosmitron]] for the dying [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. He was attacked by the [[Rainmaker]]s' [[acid rain]] just outside of [[Wheeljack's workshop]] and was nearly deactivated. Once given a pep talk by [[Chip Chase]], he shot down the Rainmakers, enabling the Autobots to get the cosmitron. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} Bluestreak was present during the unveiling of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] and responded in awe. Later on, he was with the Autobots during the Decepticon ambush at the [[Great Falls]]. He shot at [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], but was unable to hit him. Defeated, the Autobots were all tied up by the Decepticons. [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] used Bluestreak's bolt gun to give the Autobots an instant recharge {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Bluestreak was in the Autobot group who flew with [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] to [[Peru]]. He fried Laserbeak during one of the skirmishes, and used his lights so Skyfire could see Wheeljack. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} When the New Dinobots were created, Bluestreak was one of the Autobots selected for a mock battle against [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]. He was defeated along with the rest of the group and jokingly commented on the battle saying they would have won if it was real... Maybe. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br />
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[[Image:UltimateDoom2 Bluestreak and Windcharger.jpg|thumb|right|260px]]<br />
Bluestreak's skill as a gunner was frequently employed in combat. On one occasion, [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] was trying to fly off with [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], and Bluestreak was able to target and shoot one of the tin turkey's legs without hitting Spike to free him. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} When the Autobots surfed towards the Decepticons, he was the first to notice the tidal wave about to engulf the group. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} He was present with the rest of Autobots during the staged battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} <br />
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Some of Bluestreak's spare parts were used on Sparkplug's [[Autobot X]], including one of the door-wings. Later Bluestreak was one of the Autobots that went to go help Autobot Spike during his confusion. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Bluestreak was one of the Autobots that reacted to a Decepticon attack at a mining colony and also present at the Ark when Megatron's solar needle caused an avalanche. He had to run away from a boulder to avoid being crushed by it. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} Bluestreak accompanied Optimus Prime to [[New York City]] to stop Megatron from converting the city into his base. He was the first to notice Prime's missing arm on top of the [[Empire State Building]] and later blasted a subway car piloted by Frenzy. {{storylink|City of Steel}} <br />
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[[Image:Bluestreakg1.jpg|left|240px|thumb|You get the feeling Blurr trained under this guy at some point.]]<br />
Bluestreak was a victim of Megatron's [[personality destabilizer device]] that was placed in the Autobots' recharging chambers. Once under Decepticon control, Bluestreak attacked Bumblebee and tried to make him recharge, but was disabled by [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]. After regaining consciousness, he was the first to be brought back using Sparkplug's new invention, the [[attitude exchanger]]. Afterward, he accompanied Jazz and Sparkplug to return the other Autobots to normal. When they needed to get Skyfire's attention, Bluestreak fired at him with the results they wanted. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br />
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Bluestreak was present in the Ark when Cliffjumper first accused Mirage of being a traitor and also present later when Mirage was being repaired and Cliffjumper was accusing him again. {{storylink|Traitor}} Bluestreak was the second Autobot to be hit by the Immobilizer when the Autobots went to retrieve it. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}} <br />
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[[Image:Immobilizer Bluestreak immobilized.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]<br />
Bluestreak participated in the Autobot race for charity. He was hit by the [[Transfixatron]], rendering him unable to transform. Then [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] disabled him. He was later one of the first to be restored by the [[anti-transfixation grenade]]. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Bluestreak assisted with the Autobot attempt to recapture the irreplaceable robot ninja [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] for the famous scientist [[Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist|Doctor Fujiyama]] after the Decepticons turned her against humanity. Optimus Prime was insistent the Autobots not shoot or harm Nightbird, but Bluestreak saved Prime anyway from the attacking ninja by cleanly shooting Nightbird's laser sword out of her hands. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}} <br />
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Bluestreak was around when the Autobots were confused about who was the real Optimus Prime when Megatron's clone infiltrated the Autobot base. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} He was part of the attack against the Decepticons to try to get [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] on the Autobot side. He succeeded in knocking all three seeker jets out of the sky with a missile barrage, but was later kicked down by Devastator. {{storylink|The Core}} Bluestreak suddenly appeared in the group of Autobots that attacked the Decepticons in South America. {{storylink|Microbots}} Bluestreak was present when Optimus Prime thanked Spike, Carly, and the Dinobots for what they did for the Autobots. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}<br />
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Bluestreak was in the group of Autobots that responded to the distress call from the [[Haley Observatory]]. They were late and Megatron got away with the [[Voltronic Galaxer]]. {{storylink|Blaster Blues}} Bluestreak was part of the second Autobot group that tried to attack the electrum-covered Decepticons, but was defeated. He was later present in the battle at the golden lagoon, which ended in victory for the Autobots {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} When [[Kremzeek]] attacked Bluestreak was one of the many Autobots deactivated before [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] was able to coat a few with insulating foam. {{storylink|Kremzeek!}} <br />
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Bluestreak entered [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]'s zone defense around the football stadium, but was severely damaged and built into a throne by [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]. {{storylink|Triple Takeover}} When the Decepticons took control of the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], Bluestreak left the base when the Autobots left to attack them. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}} <br />
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[[Image:TransEuropeExpress riding Wildrider.jpg|thumb|left|240px]]<br />
Along with several fellow Autobots, Bluestreak participated in the [[Europa 2000]], an international charity race stretching from Paris to Istanbul. When the arrogant racing driver [[Auggie Cahnay (G1)|Auggie Cahnay]] cut across Bumblebee, an indignant Bluestreak helped his understandably angry friend catch up to the American and attempt to teach him some manners. Later, after running afoul of the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], Bluestreak learned of Megatron's plan for the [[Pearl of Bahoudin]] from [[Teranova|Professor Teranova]] and deduced that the missing Autobots must have been disabled by the Stunticons. After Cahnay's car was stolen by the Decepticons to use as raw materials for a weather control machine, Bluestreak allowed the hotshot driver to race him to victory at the finish line. Together, Bluestreak, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and Bumblebee headed out to confront the Decepticons, but when the Pearl was lost in a tornado, Megatron unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] onto the Autobots. Ironically, it was Cahnay who defeated Menasor by sacrificing his car, much to the Bluestreak's surprise. {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}} Bluestreak was at the Autobot base after the Stunticons were captured by the other Autobots. {{storylink|Masquerade}} <br />
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In the year 2005, Bluestreak helped [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] move a roadblock on [[Lookout Mountain]], just before [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] crashed through it. His subsequent fate is unknown, as he and Huffer were never seen making it back to [[Autobot City]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}} Seeing as Huffer was confirmed dead later on, it is possible Bluestreak died too. {{storylink|Dark Awakening}}<br />
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{{note|The noticeable lack of shoulder cannons means the [[Character model|animation model]] used for Bluestreak's brief appearance in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' was actually Prowl's.}}<br />
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====''Story of Binaltech''====<br />
[[Image:BinaltechStreakBoxArt.jpg|thumb|250px|Doors of silver, nerves of steel.]]<br />
Suffering from the [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] virus, Bluestreak was one of the first Autobots reconstructed using [[Binaltech]] technology. Alongside [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], he helped [[Earth Defense Command]] drive the Decepticons off of Earth. Bluestreak continued serving on Earth at Autobot City, under [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s overall command. {{storylink|Binaltech Is...}}<br />
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As the conflict raged on, thanks to the time- and space-warping actions of both [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and a mysterious entity known as [[Optimus Primal|The Protector]], the events of the Binaltech conflict were branched off to become their own, distinct parallel universe (the "BT World") separate from the "mainstream" timeline. {{storylink|Binal Time}}<br />
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{{Note|At this point, the original timeline was retroactively restored and the events of the ''Story of Binaltech'' diverged into a parallel universe. Exactly how many (if any) of the events related in this section, even prior to the divergence, occurred in the original unaltered timeline are unknown.}}<br />
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When the spark of Prowl from the "BT World" was lost in interdimensional [[subspace]], it re-emerged in the mainstream timeline, and was discovered by Bluestreak and the other Autobots. Soon after, a strange energy surge came across the dimensions from the "BT World" and made contact with Prowl's spark, driving into a dangerously unstable state. To save the life of this Prowl he had never even known, Bluestreak tracked the energy back across the dimensions and traveled to the "BT World", meeting up with the local versions of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and "[[Prowl II]]" (a duplicate Prowl housing the consciousness of [[Chip Chase]]). The pair brought him back to the Autobots' headquarters, where he explained the situation to Ultra Magnus. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 1}}<br />
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Jazz used the data Bluestreak had brought with him to pinpoint the source of the energy surge. During the subsequent raid, Bluestreak and the Autobots discovered that the surge was the work of [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] and the [[Concurrence]], who were using a subspace node to drain energy from Prowl's spark, which they then used to power a giant robot made of synthetic [[electrum]]. Once Jazz had taken out the node, Bluestreak took down the robot with some well-placed shots. They were then contacted by [[Overdrive]] from Bluestreak's dimension, who reported that Prowl's spark had stabilized, but that it would be too dangerous to send it back through subspace unshielded. Instead, Chip's consciousness was removed from the "Prowl II" body and returned to his human frame, and the Binaltech shell was then taken back across the dimensions by Bluestreak so Prowl's spark could be implanted in it. {{storylink|Binaltech|Unfinished Business, Part 2}}<br />
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===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br />
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When the Autobot/Decepticon war first erupted over 8.7 million years ago, Bluestreak's home city-state of [[Praxus]] was utterly destroyed. ''The entire population of Praxus was killed, with Bluestreak, who had been protected by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]]'s troops, being the sole exception. This was a deliberate action on Megatron's part, as he wanted a sole survivor to bear witness to his power, and spread his message of terror.'' {{storylink|Hardwired}} Originally a merchant, Bluestreak then joined the Autobot army. 500,000 years later, he visited his friend [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optronix]] at the [[Vaults]] and related [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]'s death, {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} and later served in the last-ditch attempt to defend [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] from [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s forces. {{storylink|The War Within}}<br />
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7.4 million years ago, Bluestreak remained with the Autobot faction after the apparent death of Optimus Prime. He and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] remained at [[Autobase]] while [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] led a task force against [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. While there, they met [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and apprised him of the current situation on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|War Within: The Dark Ages}} 1.4 million years later, Bluestreak and an Autobot/Decepticon/[[Ultracon]] force helped defend a peace ceremony at [[Tyger Pax]] from the [[Predacon (War Within)|Predacons]]. They were successful against the Predacons, but soon fell before the return of Megatron, and his [[Air Warrior|Aerospace Extermination Squadron]], ushering in the Age of Internment. {{storylink|War Within: The Age of Wrath}}<br />
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Bluestreak was among the crew of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed on [[Earth]] 4 million years ago, and awoke in 1984 to battle the Decepticons. After years of fighting, Bluestreak and the other Autobots took part in [[Operation Liberation]] in 1998, a joint human/Autobot operation that defeated and captured the Earth-bound Decepticons. However, the ''[[Ark II]]'', which was meant to convey the Autobots, the captured Decepticons, and a number of humans back to Cybertron, was sabotaged by General [[Robert Hallo]], sending Bluestreak and his comrades to the bottom of the [[Arctic Ocean]]. <br />
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Bluestreak was later recovered by the sinister [[Lazarus]], and his deactivated form was used to power [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] deadly metal virus weapon, after the Decepticons broke free of Lazarus's control. By the time he was rescued by Optimus Prime, Bluestreak's energy had been almost fatally depleted. {{storylink|Prime Directive}}<br />
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''Bluestreak recovered, however, and rejoined his newly active comrades. He was with Optimus Prime and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] in Tokyo, Japan, trying to rebuild their rep with the humans when Megatron attacked. During the battle, a lattice of red and blue energy struck down from the heavens, scooping up the four Transformers and over 200 humans in the immediate area, blasting them back out into space. Their hosts were a group of enigmatic beings known as the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]], who were transporting them through deep space to their base of operations, the [[Labyrinth]]. During their travels, Bluestreak was forced to experience a full-sensory recreation of Praxus, and its last hours before Megatron destroyed it. The Keepers also showed Bluestreak, for the first time, how Megatron used him as a messenger of doom. Horrified at the part he unwittingly played in the Decepticon war engine, Bluestreak swore to destroy Megatron.''<br />
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''In the Labyrinth, the Keepers forced the Transformers to participate in battledome combat, fighting alien opponents and each other, with their lives and the lives of the humans taken with them hanging in the balance. Bluestreak and Jazz were forced to fight each other to the death amidst a random assortment of humans, held in place around the battledome by the Keepers' power. Failure to continue the battle resulted in a "penalty", where the Keepers would callously murder the humans to keep the Autobots fighting, but the fighting itself was just as potentially dangerous for the civilians in the arena. The battle only ended when Bluestreak deliberately took a critical blast from Jazz's [[photon rifle]] in order to save one of the humans from certain death. The Keepers forced Jazz to finish the job, executing his friend at point blank range to avoid any additional deaths. Bluestreak died consoling Jazz that he had done the right thing.'''<br />
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''But he did not die for long. After the Keepers were revealed as vast techno-organic lifeforms, Optimus Prime was able to manipulate the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to help bring him, Megatron, Jazz and the surviving humans back home. Unfortunately, the Keepers came too, having assembled a menagerie of host bodies for themselves in order to more directly interact with other beings. One of those host bodies was Bluestreak's animated corpse. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br />
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When Shockwave came to Earth and announced that the Autobot/Decepticon wars were over and that the two factions had been united, Bluestreak was more than skeptical, suggesting it was a trick. The memory of his destroyed home-city still haunted him, and he would not believe the same beings who killed innocents could change their ways. His views clashed those of with [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], who did not see the point in fighting wars that had been ended. {{storylink|New World Order}} Despite his objections, Bluestreak was among the Autobots who joined Optimus Prime in surrendering to Shockwave's lieutenant, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Ferried back to Cybertron by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], Bluestreak and the others were imprisoned and scheduled for execution, but were freed by [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and taken to an underground hideout. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} He fought in the battle to retake Iacon and witnessed Shockwave activating the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Victorious, Bluestreak and his comrades began to rebuild their planet. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} <br />
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Shortly after Ultra Magnus recovered from injuries he suffered when the Autobots overthrew Shockwave, Bluestreak and the rest of the <i>Ark</i>'s crew were approached by Prowl about returning to Earth. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl wanted to establish a more permanent Autobot presence on Earth, due in part to some curious data he had come across while researching the clone entity known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]. Bluestreak was by far the most talkative of the Autobots at the meeting, weighing in on both sides of the discussion as the debate over returning raged back and forth. Unfortunately for Bluestreak, no one was listening to a word he said. {{storylink|Atonement}} Prowl eventually convinced all of the <i>Ark</i>'s crew to return with him and begin construction of [[Autobot City]] on Earth, and they departed from Cybertron shortly thereafter. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}<br />
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===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br />
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Bluestreak was among the deactivated Transformers found, rebuilt and reprogrammed by [[Cobra]], who proceeded to use the alien robots for their plan to conquer the world. Along with Prowl, Bluestreak now transformed into a Cobra [[Firebat]] jet, but was eventually freed from the humans' control by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack's]] tampering. Joining Prowl, [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] and [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], he confronted [[Cobra Commander]] and fought against his [[S.N.A.K.E.]] guards. Bluestreak was horrified when [[Storm Shadow]] killed Trailbreaker during the fight, but the shock quickly turned to anger, and he and his comrades attacked the human and ripped his mech apart. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} Bluestreak was later seen fighting Decepticon [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] in the sky when the [[SPS Satellite]] went out of control and started firing at [[Cobra Island]] randomly. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}<br />
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===IDW ''Hearts of Steel'' comics===<br />
Bluestreak was among the Autobot forces who fought the Decepticons on Earth in the distant past until an incoming ice age threatened to deactivate all the Transformers. Both sides went into hiding underground until the danger had passed, remaining in stasis until the mid-19th century. When they woke up, the war against the Decepticons started anew, though Bluestreak was not seen partaking in any of the action. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}}<br />
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=== IDW comics continuity ===<br />
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Early in the Cybertronian civil war, Bluestreak was part of an extraction team led by [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] that retrieved a damaged Jazz and Tracks from their skirmishing with the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s. Bluestreak's sharpshooting skills took out [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] just in time to keep Jazz on-line. {{storylink|Spotlight: Jazz}}<br />
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Silverstreak would become the longest-standing patient of Autobot psycho-analyst [[Rung]], presumably due to his survivor's guilt over the destruction of [[Praxus]]. {{storylink|Bullets}}<br />
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Four million years ago, <strike>Bluestreak</strike> <strike>Silverstreak</strike> good ol' Streak was present at a victory celebration after the Autobots successfully prevented a supply of energon from reaching the enemy camp. He was too busy getting drunk on energon to really heed [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]'s security concerns about a [[Axer|suspicious-looking Autobot]] at the party. {{storylink|The Iron Age}}<br />
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Roughly 500 years ago, Bluestreak was on Blaster's orbital array during the Decepticons' post-[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] advance, shortly before the planet was abandoned, and fought against their final big push. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}<br />
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Much later, Bluestreak was in command of the Autobot tactical response unit, seen briefly on the Autobots' orbital command hub. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1}} On [[Varas Centralus]], in the Kol system, Bluestreak's unit was joined by the [[Wrecker]]s during Phase Six. The Wreckers assaulted the Decepticon [[Infiltration protocol|siege mode armature]], but Bluestreak kept his own squad out of the fighting, citing the planet as a lost cause. [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] attempted to talk Bluestreak into attacking the Decepticons with the Wreckers, before Springer's crew were pulled from Varas Centralus to deal with the crisis created by the revival of [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]. The final fate of Varas Centralus is unknown, but probably could be categorized as "not good". {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2}}<br />
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Bluestreak later returned to [[Autobot Orbital Command Hub]] in order to greet [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] personally upon his revival. Because he had been present on the orbital array when Blaster was first attacked and went missing centuries ago, however, Bluestreak was one of the Autobots (along with [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] and Mirage) suspected of trying to assassinate Blaster. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}<br />
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[[Image:IdwBluestreakSilverstreak.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Oh, come on!]]<br />
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At some point, Bluestreak changed his name to "Silverstreak" and ended up on Earth. He was among the Autobots who grew sick of hiding on the planet and joined [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] when he defected. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} Despite this, he was seen with the Autobots who stayed behind, cheering for [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] when he was chosen to lead them. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} Silverstreak helped with the construction of the space cruiser alongside Hot Rod and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]'s united faction. {{storylink|Seasons in Flight}}<br />
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{{note|Bluestreak's appearance in [[The Transformers: Bumblebee]] may simply be an error. Another possibility, though less likely, is that Bluestreak and Silverstreak are two different characters in IDW, much like Bumblebee and [[Goldbug (IDW)|Goldbug]] or [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]].}}<br />
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Like many Autobots, Silverstreak had some difficulties working with the Decepticons. He got suspicious when Swindle and the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] spent so much time working to repair [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], the latest Decepticon they had rescued from [[Skywatch]]. Hot Rod (now calling himself "Rodimus") told him to let the old mistrust between the factions go, but Silverstreak proved to have good instincts—Swindle had installed combiner technology in the Stunticons, creating the menace of [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] which he turned against their new Autobot "comrades". {{storylink|Enemies of the System}} After Menasor was defeated, Silverstreak chastized Rodimus for failing to predict someone named "Swindle" might be less than trustworthy. As Rodimus fled Earth in Ultra Magnus's shuttle, Silverstreak, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and the rest of the splinter faction apparently rejoined Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots. {{storylink|Earthworks}}<br />
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After the Autobot factions reunited, they formed an alliance with Skywatch. When the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] were causing trouble in [[South Korea]], several Autobots were sent to fight them while Silverstreak was left behind in a Skywatch hangar, where he was forced to listen to [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] complain about not being picked. He decided to give his "unpleasant" comrade some constructive criticism, telling him that nobody likes angry and moping whiners. On the other hand, everybody loves optimists, like for example Silverstreak! Somehow, this didn't improve Brawn's mood any, so Silverstreak went back to drinking with [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]. {{storylink|International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"}} When the Autobots in Korea were faced with the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], Silverstreak was horrified that he couldn't help them, and asked [[Pennington]] what a "nightmare" was so that he could properly compare the situation to one. The battle was eventually won, though it led to the secret Autobot-Skywatch alliance getting revealed to the world. Silverstreak and Brawn stood by Bumblebee as he tried to calm the human crowds, but failed to protect him from a human assassin with an energy gun. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"}}<br />
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Things only went downhill from there. The human riots continued, the energy gun appeared to be none other than Megatron himself, the plane carrying the Korea team home was shot down, and finally the Decepticons returned to Earth and attacked the Skywatch base where Silverstreak and the others were based. The Autobots were incapacitated by [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]'s sonic attacks and failed to stop the Decepticons from freeing their captured brethren. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 1: The Demolished Man}} Ultra Magnus took command and had the base evacuated, though Silverstreak worried about moving an injured Pennington around. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon}} As they fled towards [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], the Autobots were attacked by more angry humans with energy guns (now known to only be replicas of Megatron's alternate mode) and Silverstreak sustained damage to a tire. Then things went downhill again, with Megatron himself showing up in a new, more powerful form and defeating the entire Autobot convoy single-handedly. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies}}<br />
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The injured Autobots were dumped in [[Albuquerque]] to be held hostage by additional armed, paranoid humans. They were saved, but at the cost of Jazz killing one of the humans, which only served to further ruin their reputation amongst humanity. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome}}<br />
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Some six weeks later, Silverstreak was shocked to learn that Rodimus had returned to Earth with the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and several Autobots who were thought dead or long lost, and brought these news to a repaired Bumblebee. After relaxing with [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], he joined the rest of the Autobots in volunteering to return to Cybertron and fight [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix}}<br />
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in comic===<br />
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Silverstreak and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] were unwittingly both chasing the same Decepticon, the [[Triple Changer]] [[Octane]]. Once he revealed himself, the two Autobots teamed up against Octane. Silverstreak got buried face-first in the fight, but Sideswipe drove off their attacker. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 6|Henkei! Henkei! #6}}<br />
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==Games==<br />
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===<br />
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Bluestreak could come to Optimus Prime's aid, helping him navigate more quickly through the Decepticons' maze-like base. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}<br />
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==Toys==<br />
===Generation 1===<br />
[[Image:G1 bluestreak toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I know I don't wear much blue, but if you know your history, it really does make perfect sense.]]<br />
*'''Bluestreak''' (Autobot Car, 1984/1985)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''08'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Beam Rifle, left & right missile launchers, 3 missiles<br />
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: The original Bluestreak toy was based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' "Fairlady Z" toy and transforms into an accurate replica of a [[wikipedia:Nissan_280ZX|Datsun Fairlady Z]]. The all-silver deco for the mold was unique to its ''Transformers'' release, not a carry-over from ''Diaclone'' <ref>[http://diaclone.net/orid/dia042/index.html Fairlady Z at diaclone.net] (Japanese)</ref> though it was heavily based on the second version of his ''Diaclone toy''. Reused photography and artwork of Bluestreak's Diaclone incarnation led to considerable confusion in that it retained a blue and gray paint scheme not seen in the American toyline. The doors can open in car mode, but the vehicle mode lacks any kind of automotive interior. As with most Generation 1 toys of the time, he was constructed partially of die-cast metal and had rubber tires.<br />
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: In robot mode, Bluestreak has the classic "car hood-chest" design also featured on fellow Autobots like [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], and is armed with a vacuum-metalized laser rifle and two shoulder-mounted rocket launchers that can each fire one of the three included projectiles.<br />
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: This mold was retooled to make [[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]], and again for [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]].<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Autobot/Bluestreak/bluestreak.htm More information on Bluestreak at TFU.info]''<br />
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* '''Streak (anime version)''' (December 2002)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Beam Rifle, left & right missile launchers, 3 missiles<br />
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: An [[exclusive]] to [[Takara]]'s [[e-Hobby]] shop, this version of Bluestreak was sold bundled in a set, though not packaged together, with a gold-plated version of [[Jazz (G1)|Meister]]. Often called "Anime Streak" by fans and collectors, this toy used the color scheme from the second version of his ''Diaclone'' toy (which was used as the basis for his cartoon and comic character model), with a black roof and hood instead of the original Transformer toy's silver.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/Bluestreak/bluestreak.htm More information on Anime Streak at TFU.info]''<br />
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[[Image:G1Chromestreak toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I come in every color except blue.]]<br />
* '''Streak Silver Chrome''' (2003)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Beam Rifle, left & right missile launchers, 3 x missiles<br />
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: Also an e-Hobby-exclusive, this version of Bluestreak was almost entirely vacuum-metalized, much like the gold-plated Jazz, but in silver. Like the gold Jazz, the Chrome Streak emulated a "campaign car" prize item from the original ''Diaclone'' line. <ref>[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/reissue_frame.php?art=Chromestreak Article Chromestreak at TF-1.com]</ref><br />
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: Pre-orders for this toy closed on [[September 26]], and orders were shipped out in December.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Cybertron/ChromeBluestreak/bluestreak.htm More information on Chrome Streak at TFU.info]''<br />
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* '''Silverstreak''' (2004)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Beam Rifle, left & right missile launchers, 3 missiles<br />
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: Released as part of [[Hasbro]]'s Toys "R" Us-[[exclusive]] [[Commemorative Series]] III reissues in the same colours as his original 1980s release, although his packaging pictures depict Takara's "Anime Streak" version. For this release, he was redubbed "Silverstreak" due to Hasbro's apparent inability to secure the [[trademark]] for the name "Bluestreak". Due to [[For safety reasons|safety reasons]], the springs in his rocket launchers were removed, and because of changes in the plastics used, his laser rifle and projectiles were not vacuum-metalized, instead being cast in more durable matte-black plastic.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Autobot/Silverstreak/silverstreak.htm More information on Commemorative Series Silverstreak at TFU.info]''<br />
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===Alternators===<br />
[[Image:AlternatorsSilverstreak toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Why did the [[Smokescreen (G1)|other guy]] get to be blue?]]<br />
*'''Silverstreak''' (Alternator, 2004)<br />
**''Alternator ID number:'' '''4'''<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-03'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Intercooler/beam rifle<br />
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: The second Subaru Impreza toy released in the ''[[Alternators]]'' line was actually the first to be developed, but due to marketing suggestions, the more eye-catching Smokescreen was released first. Silverstreak transforms into a very accurate and fully-licensed silver 2003 [[wikipedia:Subaru_Impreza_WRX|Subaru Impreza WRX]], with opening hood, trunk, and all four doors as well as a detailed interior. He also features working steering (not connected to the steering wheel, though) and rubber tires.<br />
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: His robot mode is based upon his original toy as well as his cartoon model, but with changes made to reflect modern standards of Transformers toys, as well as his new vehicle mode. He is armed with a laser rifle formed from his turbo intercooler and has the capacity to mount two spring-loaded rocket launchers on either side of his shoulders, though these were only included with the [[retool]] of ''Binaltech'' Smokescreen.<br />
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: Unusual for an ''Alternators'' release, Silverstreak was fully painted silver, similar to his ''Binaltech'' release. The silver paint on Silverstreak is more flat compared to the sparkled paint of the Binaltech version. <br />
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: The first shipment of the Alternator version used the right-side steering like the Japanese release. Soon afterwards, a modified version was released with the steering wheel on the left side of the vehicle.<br />
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: This mold was also used to make [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Ricochet]] and ''[[Binaltech Asterisk]]'' [[Red Alert (G1)|Alert]].<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Autobot/AltSilverstreak/silverstreak.htm More information on ''Alternators'' Silverstreak at TFU.info]''<br />
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[[Image:Bluestreak BT19.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Finally! I became blue at last. [[:Image:Titanium RM Smokescreen.jpg|Wait a minute]].]]<br />
*'''Bluestreak''' (Binaltech, 2008)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-19'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Intercooler/beam rifle<br />
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: One of the initial releases of the reborn ''Binaltech'' line, Bluestreak is a redeco of ''Binaltech'' Silverstreak, using the "civilian" model of Subaru. As his name suggests, Bluestreak's body is almost completely blue... making him look suspiciously like a de-sponsored Smokescreen.<br />
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===Universe===<br />
[[Image:UniverseSilverstreakSpy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|New name, old colors]]<br />
*'''Silverstreak''' (Spy Changer, 2004)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Beam Rifle<br />
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: A redeco and slight retool of ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Side Swipe (RID)|Side Swipe]], ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Silverstreak is based upon his pre-G1 release "blue" color scheme, with a silver hood. He is armed with a small gun that is disguised as a tailpipe in vehicle mode.<br />
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: The original release of this toy (and the others in the assortment), [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores, came on cards that lacked a sub-line designation. Later releases that were also available through chains like Dollar General were put on ''Universe'' cards.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Autobot/SpySilverstreak/silverstreak.htm More information on ''Universe'' Silverstreak at TFU.info]''<br />
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===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br />
[[Image:STFStreak toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Not even the tiniest bit of blue]]<br />
*'''Streak''' (2004)<br />
**''Japanese ID Number:'' '''GTF X-3'''<br />
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: A retool of ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Prowl, STF Streak is a much simplified, much smaller replica of his original toy. Although resembling his original Generation 1 form, he has less articulation and his wheels do not roll. Streak was one of two [[chase figure]]s in the second wave of the line.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Cybertron/SmallestBluestreak/bluestreak.htm More information on "Smallest" Streak at TFU.info]''<br />
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===Universe (2008)===<br />
====Classic Series====<br />
[[Image:Universe2008 Silverstreak toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Are you sure you're not [[Camshaft (G1)|Camshaft]]?]]<br />
*'''Silverstreak''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br />
**''Accessories:'' "Volt Beam Blaster"<br />
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:Part of the third wave of [[Universe (2008 franchise)|2008 ''Universe'']] Deluxes, Silverstreak is a retool and redeco of the [[Prowl (G1)|2008 ''Universe'' Prowl]], transforming into a modified [[wikipedia:Nissan_350Z|Nissan 350Z]]. He features twin non-removable and non-firing "rocket launchers" that can swing over his robot-mode shoulders. His fold-out "Volt Beam Blaster" stores in the car mode's undersides.<br />
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:As with several recent ''Transformers'' vehicles with a metallic silver body colour, ''Universe'' Silverstreak's silver car body panels are painted metallic silver rather than being left as bare silver plastic.<br />
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: This mold was also used to make ''Universe'' [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] and ''[[Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Rapido#Timelines|Rapido]], while the original Prowl mold was used for ''[[Timelines (franchise)|Timelines]]'' [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]].<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/TFUSilverstreak/silverstreak.htm More information on ''Universe'' Silverstreak at TFU.info]''<br />
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===Henkei! Henkei!===<br />
[[Image:Henkei Streak toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Silver paint ''and'' silver chrome? Damn.]]<br />
*'''Streak''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-10'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' "Volt Beam Blaster"<br />
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:The Japanese ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' release of ''Universe'' Silverstreak is a redeco of the original, swapping the black plastic on his hood and paint applications on his roof with dark gray, the maroon plastic to bright red, changing the red on the wheels to dark gray, as well as adding [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metallized]] silver on his Volt Beam Blaster, his shoulder rocket launchers and his spoiler. His face was also changed from white to silver, the blue on his waist to silver, and the Autobot symbol on his chest is smaller on the Henkei release. In some versions of this toy, the windows have a more transparent clarity and consistency than the somewhat foggy application used for the Universe version, although some have both foggy and transparent variants.<br />
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===Speed Stars===<br />
[[Image:StealthForce_Silverstreak_toy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|oh god, someone's mutilated him!]]<br />
*'''Silverstreak''' (Basic, 2010)<br />
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:''[[Speed Stars]]'' Silverstreak is part of the "Stealth Force" subline, consisting of vehicles without robot modes, but with plenty of flip-out panels with hidden weapons. The toy is a silver sports car similar to ''Universe'' Silverstreak's modified Nissan 350Z altmode, and features non-firing weapons in its hood, trunk and doors.<br />
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==Merchandise==<br />
===Decoy===<br />
*'''Cybertron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)<br />
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*'''Bluestreak''' (1987)<br />
**''Decoy number:'' '''23'''<br />
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: The figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number. Like all Autobot Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]].<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Decoys/Bluestreak/bluestreak.htm More information on Decoy Bluestreak at TFU.info]''<br />
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===Transformers - Mini Bust===<br />
[[Image:Bluestreak statue.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Stop! or my mouth will shoot...off.]]<br />
* '''Bluestreak''' (Diamond Select, 2009)<br />
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Released by Diamond Select Toys in 2009, Bluestreak was sculpted by [[Mark Wong|Mark Wong]] of [[Art Asylum]] and limited to 250 pieces. Bluestreak, along with his "brothers" [[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]], is exclusive to online retailer Toyrocket.com. The bust features Bluestreak's beam rifle and twin missile launchers. The missile launchers can be attached via magnets on either side of his head. The missile launchers given to Bluestreak closely match Smokescreen's animation model rather than his own. It is unknown if this change was intentional or a mistake.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
[[Image:Bluebluestreak.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Sadly, we can't just put this note in the "Does not exist" category.]]<br />
* One of the longest-running [[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers|myths about Transformers]] is the existence of the "blue-sided Bluestreak". This misconception has its origins in Bluestreak's [[Package art|box art]] and [[Instructions|instruction sheet]], as well as the original 1984 [[Catalog|toy catalogs]],<ref>[http://tfarchive.com/toys/catalogues/generationone_catalogue/84a_catalog.jpg Transformers catalog, circa 1984 (Autobots)]</ref> all of which used the blue-sided ''[[Diaclone|Diaclone]]'' variant of the Fairlady mold. No sealed samples of the blue-sided Bluestreak in a ''Transformers'' box have ''ever'' been found. Oddly enough, numerous other Transformers toys from that era were depicted in both catalogues and packaging art with colors they were never released in —[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], for example— yet Bluestreak is the only one to be (mis)remembered in this manner, perhaps because his name is <i>Blue</i>streak, so he had to have been blue, right?<br />
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* Compounding the confusion, a second Diaclone variant exists, with a black hood and silver sides. Oddly, it does not seem as sought after as the blue side variant, despiting being less common ''and'' the basis for Bluestreak's animation model (and thus more screen accurate).<br />
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* In recent years, toys based on the Bluestreak character were renamed "Silverstreak" for [[trademark]] reasons, because a company named Gendron held the trademark for "Toledo 'Blue Streak'" in the "toys" category until 2009. While Hasbro regained the trademark and released a ''[[Speed Stars]]'' [[Bluestreak (Speed Stars)|Bluestreak]] toy in 2010, the "Stealth Force" toy of Generation 1 Bluestreak released around the same time remained "Silverstreak".<br />
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* [[Aaron Archer]], as Orson, when asked about the ''[[Commemorative Series]]'' Silverstreak's deco, said the figure was based on the 1984 version of the figure rather than the 2002 [[e-Hobby]] "Streak" release due to his desire to give collectors a version closer to the one released in 1984. While this is most likely true, it may also have to do with [[Hasbro]]'s inability or desire not to release figures too similar to e-Hobby exclusives, thus a required change for Silverstreak from e-Hobby Streak.<br />
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* The deco for Hasbro's retool of the ''[[Alternators]]'' Acura RSX mold was originally designed with Bluestreak in mind, specifically the original Diaclone deco mentioned above. Early leaked packaging samples even sported an abbreviated form of the name "Bluestreak" on their license plates. Ultimately, however, Hasbro decided to rename the toy and release it as "[[Camshaft (G1)|Autobot Camshaft]]" instead, possibly because they already had a representation of the Bluestreak character in the ''Alternators'' line (Silverstreak).<br />
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===Foreign names===<br />
*''Japanese:'' '''Streak''' (ストリーク ''Sutorīku'')<br />
*''French:'' '''Jaseur''' (Canada, "Chatty")<br />
*''Hungarian:'' '''Kékvillám''' ("Blue Lightning")<br />
*''Italian:'' '''Ariete''' ("Ram")<br />
*''Portuguese:'' '''Raio Azul''' (Portugal comic, "Blue Ray"), '''Raio''' (Brazil comic, "Ray")<br />
*''Russian:'' '''Molnievik''' (Молниевик, "Lightning-Maker")<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.toybin.org/search.php?q=1984+Autobot+Bluestreak ToyBin Bluestreak Toy Gallery]<br />
* [http://www.tfu.info/1984/Autobot/Bluestreak/bluestreak.htm Bluestreak at TFU.info]<br />
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;char=Bluestreak Bluestreak's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br />
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:''Bumblebee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. He was known as '''Goldbug''' for a time in some continuities.''<br />
[[Image:BumblebeeRIC.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Ahoy oy!]]<br />
'''Bumblebee''' is one of the smallest and physically weakest Autobots. While his stature allows him to do his job better than most Autobots could manage, he is self-conscious about his size. Maybe this is why he makes fast friends among the humans. He looks up (so to speak) to the other Autobots, especially [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], but what he doesn't realize is that ''they'' look up to ''him''. He may be small, but he's brave, and he's one of the most well-liked Autobots around. Bumblebee already has the respect he craves.<br />
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As '''Goldbug'''—his [[Renaming|rebuilt]] and "matured" form—Bumblebee retains most of his earlier strengths and weaknesses, but without his crippling need for approval. (This is true of some "matured" versions of Bumblebee without new names or bodies, as well, but is quite markedly associated with the change to Goldbug).<br />
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His nicknames are '''Bee''' and '''Beeper'''.<ref>According to [[Jim Sorenson]], Bumblebee had Bee and Beeper listed as his nicknames in [[Bob Budiansky]]'s personal Transformers comic bible. Nicknames for other characters could be found in early ''[[Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)|Universe]]''-style profiles published in [[The Transformers Comic Magazine]]. In the Marvel Comics, Blackrock referred to him as Bum.</ref><br />
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{{quote|Some of my best friends are humans.|Bumblebee, on his kid-friendly nature|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===Marvel Comics continuity===<br />
====Generation 1====<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeemarvel1.jpg|left|100px|thumb|Bumblebee's first appearance... anywhere.]]<br />
Four million years ago, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] led a crew of [[Autobot|Autobots]] including Bumblebee aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] to clear a path through an asteroid belt for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to pass through. Once their objective was completed, they were attacked by [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] and both their ships crashed in a volcanic mountain on a primitive planet known as [[Earth]]. In 1984, [[Mount St. Hilary|the volcano]] erupted, awakening their ship, which rebuilt them. Bumblebee was reconfigured to transform into a yellow Volkswagen Beetle. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeeg1earlymodels.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Early on, Bumblebee suffered a few wardrobe malfunctions.]]<br />
[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] led a mission into a human city to investigate their new world. Bumblebee, anxious to be the first to meet the planet's inhabitants, rear-ended a car full of teenagers watching ''[[A Kiss for Us]]'' at the [[Community Drive-In]]. Before he could introduce himself, he was under attack by Decepticons and damaged badly. One of the teenagers, [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]], brought the car back to his father's auto repair shop. Bumblebee weakly pleaded to them to fix him, for he was dying. Buster's father, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]], fixed Bumblebee and offered to help the Autobots convert their native fuel resources into a form that Transformers could use. Bumblebee took Buster with him back towards the Ark to relay this message. {{storylink|Power Play!}}<br />
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After a seemingly final battle with the Decepticons, the long-lost Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] arrived and reversed the Autobots' victory with a single blast. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots were kept captive aboard the Ark until [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] managed to free the Ark from Decepticon control and repair them. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}} However, Buster had been entrusted with safeguarding the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]], which the Decepticons discovered, so Bumblebee and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] were sent to protect him. Buster was attacked by the Decepticons' newly-built but lifeless [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. Bumblebee and Bluestreak did their best to defend Buster, but it was Buster's use of the powers of the Creation Matrix which saved them all, disassembling Jetfire in mid-air. Bumblebee removed Jetfire's brain so Buster could reassemble and remote-control the body with his mind. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}}<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeebluestreakbrainstorm.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Kid-appeal guys may seem annoying at first, but wait until we put them next to Bluestreak!]]<br />
''After the Creation Matrix was returned to a restored Optimus Prime, he was still somewhat disconcerted by his ordeal. When the Decepticon spy [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] was briefly captured, only to escape again, Bumblebee saw how much this troubled his already upset leader and took it upon himself to chase down and capture the fleeing spy. Unfortunately, he got in over his head and was captured by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s Decepticons after being led into a box canyon. In order to show the Autobots they meant business, Soundwave had [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] deliver Bumblebee's severed arm to the Ark as a message. Soundwave had learned from Ravage how low Prime's self-confidence was at that juncture, and planned to lure the despondent Autobot leader to his death. Instead, kidnapping Bumblebee just pissed Prime off, and he single-handedly bashed and battered his way through the entire Decepticon front, rescuing Bumblebee and restoring his confidence in the process. {{storylink|Crisis of Command!}}''<br />
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''During the Dinobot Hunt, Bumblebee went to Alaska with Optimus and Ratchet to reinforce the unit trying to overcome the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] and [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]. While scouting the perimeter, Bumblebee was shocked to discover a cloaked Autobot shuttlecraft and three of his comrades who had gone missing earlier in the Hunt. He also discovered a Decepticon-issue sonic lance (that was being used to drive Sludge "berserker mad") installed in the ship. Rightly suspecting a booby trap, instead of just turning the device off, Bumblebee instead evacuated his comrades and got a good distance away from the ship before using his gun to blow up the sonic lance. Good call — the shuttlecraft exploded violently the moment he did so. {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}''<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeeplight.jpg|right|100px|thumb|RARR BUMBLEBEE SMASH]]<br />
When the Autobots took steps to fill out their ranks, Bumblebee was charged with giving four new recruits ([[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]], and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]) a tour of the planet. Bumblebee decided a [[Brick Springhorn]] concert would be a good destination, but the Decepticons had sabotaged the event to harvest [[Energon (fuel)|energon]]. Bumblebee disobeyed orders and led the four into battle, saving the concert. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}} When [[Donny Finkleberg|Robot-Master]] appeared on television and claimed to control the Transformers, it was Bumblebee's job to ask their human business partner, [[G.B. Blackrock]] what the deal was. Robot-Master broadcast next in a coal mine next to a de-energized [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], but before Bumblebee and several other Autobots could investigate, they were pushed away by overwhelming Earth military forces. {{storylink|I, Robot-Master!}}<br />
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This event caused Bumblebee to question his usefulness to the Autobots, and he abandoned them without a word. The Decepticons, however, saw much use for him and attempted to apprehend him. Hiding in a used car lot, he was stolen by [[Ernest|two]] [[Waldo Dobbs|humans]], whom he adopted for a while. The Decepticons did not relent, and Bumblebee was ultimately rescued by the rest of the Autobots, an act which reminded him how valuable he was to them. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br />
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Later, the Autobots decided to create combiner robots of their own, to match the power of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and their united form, [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. To accomplish this goal, Optimus Prime staged a frontal assault on the [[Wyoming base|Decepticon quarry base]] as a cover for Bumblebee to infiltrate the area unnoticed. When the Decepticons inevitably unleashed Devastator to counter the Autobot offensive, Bumblebee was on hand to take a sensor recording of Devastator's transformation sequence, giving [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] a blueprint to start from and improve upon. The [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] were soon created as a result of Bumblebee's heroic efforts. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br />
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On [[Christmas]] Eve, Bumblebee and the Autobots investigated the loss of electricity in [[Midville]]. Discovering the source of the problem was [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], and their [[power siphon|energy siphon]], Bumblebee helped confront the Decepticons and shoo them away. The human child [[Megan Perry]] asked if he'd help them get to town so they could deliver presents to the needy, and Bumblebee did them one better: he wired the town's Christmas tree to his car's engine to power its lights. {{storylink|The Night the Transformers Saved Christmas}}<br />
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[[Image:Goldbugmechanicaldifficulties.jpg|left|200px|thumb|In his earlier appearances, Goldbug kept Bumblebee's body and color scheme.]]<br />
Due to [[#Conflicting Goldbug origins|conflicting circumstances]], Bumblebee was damaged and rebuilt into a stronger but similar form—Goldbug. Goldbug and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] were ordered by the new Autobot leader, Grimlock, to track down the [[Mechanic (G1)|Mechanic]], who had stolen Autobot technology from the Ark. Grimlock was a terrible leader and had no regard for human life, so both Goldbug and Blaster exiled themselves from his command. {{storylink|Mechanical Difficulties!}} Goldbug and Blaster found themselves in the desert of the American Southwest and, thanks to a run-in with the Decepticon [[Triple Changer]]s, were infested with the disease known as [[Scraplet]]s. Goldbug and his human friend [[Charlie Fong]] left to get help and possibly a cure, but Blaster believed Goldbug had abandoned him to die. {{storylink|Crater Critters}} Near death himself, Goldbug arrived with Charlie at a gas station, where they met up with the [[Throttlebot]]s, sent from Cybertron by [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and armed with acid to contain the disease. Goldbug narrowly escaped extermination when it was discovered that the cure for Scraplets was none other than ordinary [[water]]. Goldbug called industrialist G.B. Blackrock (on a pay phone), and Blackrock trucked in tanks of water himself. Blaster was cured and his trust in Goldbug was restored. {{storylink|The Cure!}}<br />
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[[Image:Goldbugthecure.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Goldbug finished his evolution into his own character model by the time the Throttlebots showed up. He kept Bumblebee's colors, though.]]<br />
''With the Throttlebots joining Goldbug and Blaster on their travels, the group discovered that the bodies of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] had been found. While they initially intended to let the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] destroy Galvatron, they were forced to intervene to save human lives. {{storylink|Ladies' Night}} This unfortunately attracted the wrath of the Combaticons.'' The group found refuge in a used car lot owned by [[Big Steve Ludwig (G1)|Big Steve]]. However, they were all badly in need of fuel. They attempted a deal with Big Steve, but he double-crossed them, filling them up with soda pop instead of gasoline. It was then that the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] caught up with them, followed by the Combaticons. During the ensuing battle, the immobilized Throttlebots (including Goldbug) were carted away by the humans' anti-robot organization, [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|RAAT]]. {{storylink|Used Autobots}}<br />
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Goldbug and the captured Throttlebots were interrogated by [[Intelligence and Information Institute|Triple-I]], who eventually had their bodies crushed in a pointless threat to stop Decepticon raids. However, their brain modules were transplanted by [[Walter Barnett (G1)|Walter Barnett]] into remote-control cars owned by his son, who sought out Goldbug's old friend Buster at Goldbug's suggestion. After being attacked by the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] and separated from the others, Goldbug and Buster traveled to Mount St. Hilary and found the Ark gone. Using equipment left behind, Goldbug and Buster sent a distress call, just before Ratbat revealed he'd tagged along and crushed the Autobot's toy car body. {{storylink|Toy Soldiers!}}<br />
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Arriving in response to his distress call, the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] rescued Goldbug's shattered form, [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] patching into his circuits to ease the pain of retelling the attack and capture of Buster. {{storylink|Trial by Fire!}} Taken back to their ship, [[Brainstorm]] built him a new body identical to his Throttlebot form. Goldbug used it on a mission that led to the discovery that Optimus Prime's mind was recorded on [[floppy disk]] and served as his leader's eyes in commanding the Autobot [[Pretender]]s. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}} <br />
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Goldbug championed the reconstruction of his former leader's body, until his present allies suggested contacting the Ark to seek the resources to do it. Goldbug was quickly imprisoned by Grimlock, but this allowed him to convince Blaster to fight the Dinobot. After the Decepticons attacked during the pair's duel, Fortress Maximus ordered Goldbug to take the ''[[Steelhaven]]'' and its skeleton crew back to [[Nebulos]] to rebuild Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Totaled!}}<br />
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Arriving on Nebulos, Goldbug and the others were successful in rebuilding Optimus Prime despite the planet's now-toxic fuel. Goldbug avoided having to undergo the [[Powermaster]] process to survive like the other Autobots due to his high fuel efficiency. {{storylink|People Power!}} On the journey back, Optimus and Goldbug investigated word of [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] starring in the [[Cosmic Carnival]], eventually rescuing the Autobot and his [[Spacehikers|young human companions]]. {{storylink|The Cosmic Carnival}}<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeeskindeep.jpg|left|175px|thumb|Ratchet cares not for your maturation and wishes you were more like 1984...]]<br />
Goldbug was later destroyed by the [[Underbase]]-powered [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in [[New York City|New York]]. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}} Goldbug was repaired by Ratchet using Pretender technology... sort of. Instead of simply restoring Goldbug, Ratchet rebuilt him as a much larger Bumblebee, {{storylink|All the Familiar Faces!}} explaining that he'd always preferred Bumblebee's original form. Before they could discuss it further, Bumblebee had to help [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Grimlock against Megatron and his minions. While the new Pretenders defeated the other Decepticons, Ratchet seemingly sacrificed himself to destroy Megatron and [[Megatron's base|his base]]. {{storylink|Skin Deep}}<br />
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Afterward, the three Pretenders briefly joined the Autobot resistance movement on Cybertron. Thanks to his increased stature, Bumblebee experienced a big boost of confidence as he and the others rejuvenated the resistance. In response, [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] ordered the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] to assassinate them. As Bumblebee, Jazz, Grimlock and the [[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]] prepared to teleport to Earth, the three Decepticons attacked [[Autobase]], sabotaging the [[Trans-Time Dimensional Portal]]. All nine Transformers found themselves teleported into the heart of Cybertron, where the Autobots discovered the resting place of [[Primus]]. {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}}<br />
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There, they encountered the [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] and learned the secret origin of the Transformers, as well as of Primus's never-ending battle with [[Unicron]]. As the Keeper's tale ended, the Mayhem Attack Squad found the Autobots. Their initial attack destroyed the Keeper, but Bumblebee and the others handily defeated them. However, a stray blast woke Primus seconds before the repaired portal sent the Transformers back to Earth. {{storylink|Primal Scream (issue)|Primal Scream}}<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeedarkcreation.jpg|right|200px|thumb|...just like Thunderwing, who killed your gimmick.]]<br />
With Unicron undoubtedly on his way to devour Cybertron, Bumblebee and his fellow Pretenders embarked on a quest to find the lost [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. The three traveled to [[VsQs]], the last known location of Optimus Prime's funeral barge, to search for clues. Finding an abandoned science station, Bumblebee searched through its computer records. He confirmed that the scientists had found Prime's body and the Matrix, but also a [[Matrixspawn|strange creature]] that promptly attacked one of the scientists. Before they could investigate further, Thunderwing attacked, also seeking the Matrix. Bumblebee used his Pretender shell to combat the Decepticon, only for Thunderwing to destroy it. The feedback temporarily knocked Bumblebee unconscious, and it seemed Thunderwing would destroy all three Autobots, until the Matrixspawn attacked. While Thunderwing pursued the creature, Bumblebee and the other Autobots searched the science station for the Matrix. They recovered it, but were so low on Energon that they were becoming unable to compensate for the moon's heavy gravity. While they were attempting to reach their shuttle, Thunderwing overtook them, seizing the Matrix and leaving them for dead. {{storylink|Dark Creation}} Fortunately for Bumblebee, the Autobots sent a shuttle to rescue him and the others before they entered final shutdown. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}}<br />
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{{note|Although it was not expressly stated on panel, the Classic Pretenders apparently lost their shells on VsQs.}}<br />
Bumblebee survived the war with Unicron, and was one of many Autobots left on Cybertron afterwards. {{storylink|Exodus!}}<br />
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=====Marvel UK future timelines=====<br />
''In 2007, Bumblebee was stationed on Cybertron after [[Unicron]] destroyed [[Moonbase Two]]. Under the command of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], he helped ambush a [[Airborne hunter squad|group of Decepticon attackers]], catching them in a pre-planned crossfire. ''{{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}}<br />
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=====Earthforce=====<br />
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[[Image:Earthforce.jpg|left|thumb|150px|]]<br />
''When Optimus Prime left Grimlock in charge of protecting Earth, Bumblebee signed up for the new "Earthforce" along with many of his long-time comrades. {{storylink|Break-Away!}} After Prowl disappeared while riding an atmosphere-destroying missile through the stratosphere (long story), Bumblebee and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] went looking for him. They picked up a set of Transformer lifesigns on a small island in the Bahamas, and took some speeder bikes to investigate. Instead of Prowl, what they found was a massive reconstructed version of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], half-finished as the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] attempted to recreate their combined form as an independent super-warrior. Luckily, Bumblebee had Ironhide along to disable the automated defense ring protecting the Devastator project, and they were able to destroy "him" before the Constructicons could activate their creation. {{storylink|Desert Island Risks!}}''<br />
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''Later, Bumblebee joined Jazz, Ironhide and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] in infiltrating the Decepticon [[Enclave]]. Fearing an alliance between the two Decepticon factions would be bad news for the Autobots, Ironhide conceived a plan to throw a spanner into the proceedings. Using an unconscious [[Headstrong]] as a patsy, the Autobots staged a sniper shot at Megatron. When Megatron and his Decepticons unleashed their firepower at the rocks where the shot supposedly came from, Jazz and Bumblebee tossed down Headstrong's body, leading Megatron to conclude Shockwave had tried to have him killed. The peace talks quickly went downhill from there. {{storylink|The Bad Guy's Ball!}}''<br />
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''Bumblebee was present when Wheeljack showcased his brand-new defense grid to successfully protect Autobot Earthbase. Unfortunately, Wheels forgot that, once activated, the defense system could only be deactivated from inside the base... behind the various laser cannons and heat-seekers and Acidbats he had turned on. While Prowl ran the gauntlet to reach the control center, Bumblebee and Jazz watched his back, drawing fire and disabling what defenses they could. {{storylink|The House that Wheeljack Built!}} Later, Bumblebee and several other Autobots went in pursuit of [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] of the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], who had kidnapped their human ally, [[Irwin Spoon (G1)|Irwin Spoon]]. Weaving their way through the various Stunticons who got in the way, Bumblebee and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] finally managed to trick two of Motormaster's own thugs into running him off the road themselves, giving Bumblebee a chance to rip off his cab door and retrieve Spoon. {{storylink|End of the Road! (UK)|End of the Road!}}''<br />
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Bumblebee was present when Powermaster Optimus Prime led the Autobots against the joint Decepticon leaders Shockwave and Megatron, who had tried to hijack the oil reserves of [[Alaska]]. The Autobots drove off the Decepticons, but not before [[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]] accidentally shot a Minibot because he turned off his targetting computer. Bumblebee argued that the Autobots should turn their targetting computers off because while they would be less accurate, they would be faster and more agile. Optimus then sat his troops down and explained to them the differences between Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 2|Transformers in Action: Attack at Dawn}}<br />
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He attended a meeting in which Optimus Prime lectured the Autobots on the basics of their mission and existence, and applauded Slapdash's call for a one-world Autobot government. He notes that if the Autobots were like the Decepticons, they wouldn't have had to drift through space for an eternity and be entombed on Earth for four million years. Later, the Decepticons attack an oil tanker, and he helps the rescue effort as a Classic Pretender. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 6|Transformers in the Battle for Peace: A Big Day for Powermaster Optimus Prime}} He was present when the Decepticons unleashed a robotic hell-beast known as 'King Con' on New York; however Optimus Prime rented a helicopter to fly a banner announcing huge raw oil deposit finds in the Rocky Mountains. After a short hesitation, the Decepticons retreated to pursue these findings. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 7|Transformers — Transforming Robots in Action: New York — A City Sinking in Terror}}<br />
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When the Decepticons stole three nuclear missiles from the United State Federation to hold the world to ransom, Optimus Prime ordered that Bumblebee, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] be given the power and abilities of Pretenders and sent to defeat the Decepticons. They arrived outside the Decepticon base, but were attacked by Pretender Starscream! Beating Starscream, they then chased off the Firecons in their Pretender shells, leaving Bumblebee to defeat Megatron one-on-one and stop the missile countdown. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 8|Transformers in Action: Megatron's Ultimatum}}<br />
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====Conflicting Goldbug origins====<br />
[[Image:Goldbugorigins.jpg|left|200px|thumb|One of these things never happened. You choose which! (left: US; right: UK)]]<br />
In ''[[G.I. Joe and the Transformers]]'', Bumblebee was destroyed by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] due to a misunderstanding. They later rebuilt him as Goldbug with help from Ratchet. However, Marvel UK did not initially print the crossover, so an alternate origin for Goldbug was conceived. In the pages of the UK comic, Bumblebee was destroyed by a time-traveling [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]], yes? Then he was repaired by a time-traveling [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]. (The Marvel Joe/TF crossover was published in the UK towards the end of the series.) The conflicting origins for Goldbug is the single largest difference between the American and British Marvel Transformers comics; ''most'' everything else kinda sorta meshes together, if you squint.<br />
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====Generation 2====<br />
[[Image:Fangrybumblebeeghosts.jpg|left|150px|thumb|A friendly game of Bumblebowling, honest]]<br />
Years after the battle on [[Klo]], and the Autobots had returned to a renewed Cybertron, Bumblebee received a distress signal from G.I. Joe on Earth, notifying them of Megatron's return. He passed this information on to Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Goin' South}} He also accompanied Prime and a team of Autobots to an unnamed planet home to an ancient civilization which reportedly stored a cache of superweapons, and battled the Decepticons there until a monstrous native scared them away. {{storylink|Ghosts}}<br />
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Bumblebee was among the Autobot/Decepticon forces battling the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]] on [[Ethos]]. {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br />
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====''Generation 2'' (UK)====<br />
[[Image:G2BumblebeeFleetwayWarWithoutEnd.jpg|thumb|Hey, look, it's G2 Elite Guard Bumblebee.]]<br />
Millions of years ago, before the Transformers' war left Cybertron, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime participated in a furious battle against the forces of the Decepticons. {{storylink|War Without End (issue)|War Without End}}<br />
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====''Classics''====<br />
Bumblebee was among the Autobots who returned to Earth with Optimus Prime once word of Megatron's re-emergence reached them on Cybertron. They established a headquarters at [[Autobase Prima]] in the Pacific Northwest. Bumblebee remained behind at headquarters when Optimus and the Autobots helped [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]] on his quest. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} He was present when they returned from the battlefield with injured soldiers. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br />
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[[Image:PlagueOfInsecticons Bumblebee and Spike hide.jpg|right|thumb|250px|I wonder if he wanted a job as a mechanic?]]<br />
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Bumblebee was one of the several [[Autobots]] who were searching for energy when the [[Decepticon]]s attacked their [[Ark (G1)|spacecraft]], forcing them to crash-land on [[Earth]] 4 million years ago. When Bumblebee and the others were awoken in 1984, Bumblebee quickly befriended the [[human]] teenager [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]. <br />
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Bumblebee and Spike would remain friends up through Spike's adulthood, and were stationed on one of Cybertron's moons in 2005 after the Decepticons conquered Cybertron. Bumblebee survived [[Unicron]]'s attack on Cybertron, and remained in action during the leadership of [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]. <br />
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When Bumblebee was damaged badly during the [[Hate Plague]] outbreak in 2006, he had to be rebuilt into a new form, Goldbug. Goldbug would live to see the next Cybertronian Golden Age.<br />
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Bumblebee, Spike, and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] happened upon a badly damaged [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] while out racing. Bumblebee convinced the others to bring Starscream back to the Ark for repairs, under the rationale that while Starscream wouldn't have done the same for them, they weren't Decepticons. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br />
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Hey, remember that time in the comics when a couple of guys stole Bumblebee? What if they were kind of jerks? What if Bumblebee decided to make them pee themselves? {{storylink|Joyride (story)|Joyride}}<br />
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===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br />
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At the death of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], Bumblebee was part of an Autobot unit defending [[Altihex]] from the Decepticons, but it was ultimately declared a lost cause. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] had to pull him aboard the shuttle once they realized there was nothing left to do. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] ordered him, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], and others to the ruins of [[Praxus]], where Grimlock declared that if the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] was unable to lead successfully, they would take control of the war's leadership... and take out the Prime. Bumblebee was among the group that was present for the Matrix transfer ceremony, where Optronix became [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. When a Decepticon assassination squad arrived and Optimus kicked some exhaust port, Bumblebee declared that he was "awesome". However, Prime then ordered the Autobots to prepare an evacuation of Cybertron. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}} When Prime went underground looking for Megatron, Bumblebee was surprised he'd gone alone, but the Autobots suddenly had bigger problems, as [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] attacked [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] with a host of Decepticons. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} During the attack, Bumblebee manned a turret in the [[Decagon]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} Eventually, Prowl ordered the Autobots to take them on individually, and Bumblebee went out carrying a cannon that was as [[Scale|big]] as him. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} Bumblebee survived the destruction of Iacon, and Prime reversed his order of evacuation. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}} During the Dark Ages and the disappearance of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee remained with Prowl's faction of Autobots, huddled in the ruins of Iacon. {{storylink|War Within: The Dark Ages}}<br />
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[[Image:DWPrimeDirective2 Bumblebee destruction.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Someone has to pay for the little things.]]<br />
Bumblebee was one of the Ark crew that crashed on Earth and awoke in 1984. During that time, he met Spike Witwicky, becoming close friends with the human. In 1999, the Autobots and humans allied and managed to capture the Decepticons, taking them in the ''[[Ark II]]'' back to Cybertron, along with [[Magnificent Seven|seven humans]], including [[Sparkplug Witwicky]], Spike's father. However, the ''Ark II'' was sabotaged by rogue elements of the United States military (apparently as part of a plan by Shockwave). {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}} The humans were all killed, but a number of Transformers, including Bumblebee, survived, but in [[stasis lock]]. Bumblebee's body was recovered by [[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] and [[Lazarus|Adam Rook]], but Rook stole Bumblebee and a number of other Transformers, selling them to various terrorists. Megatron broke free, and the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]], being dicks, disassembled and played with Bumblebee's various components. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} <br />
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Optimus Prime's team later rescued him and the remaining Autobots, and they were all put to work in combating Megatron's techno-virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} Unfortunately, the [[Canada|Canadian]] military, skittish over the recent Transformer violence, attacked the Autobots. Despite this, Bumblebee tried to save as many of the soldiers as he could before the virus could kill them. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}<br />
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''In the following weeks, the Autobots tried their best to re-establish good relations with the people of Earth, but had little luck. After Optimus Prime, Megatron, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] vanished from the streets of Tokyo with roughly 200 human civilians, the public was understandably critical of the Transformers and their war. Bumblebee didn't help any when [[Chris Killah]], a reporter for MNT, interviewed him on the scene while he and Prowl were looking for clues to the disappearance. Bumblebee's knowledge of Earth idioms and slang normally worked to the Autobots' benefit, but he got "stage fright" in front of the TV cameras and referred to the massive property damage and loss of human life as a "bummer". Duuuuude...no. ''<br />
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''With both sides effectively leaderless at first, Bumblebee and Prowl did their best to contain the fallout of Megatron and Prime's disappearance. Acting on a tip, they tracked [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] to an airport in [[Mesa Verde]], [[Mexico]], where he was running guns with some human terrorists. The battle was memorable, but brief, thanks largely to the arrival of the renegade Autobot known as Grimlock. Having heard the Starscream had taken over the human city of [[Las Vegas]], Grimlock had commissioned a human black ops army and invited Bumblebee and Prowl to join him in assaulting the Decepticon position. Already frustrated at the [[United Nations]]' orders to stay out of Vegas, for fear of civilian casualties, Bumblebee and Prowl accepted the offer. After fighting their way through [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] and the other [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] on the outskirts of town, the Autobots managed to make it to the center of the Strip to confront Soundwave. Fortunately, the Autobots had long since developed internal jammers to prevent Soundwave from reading their thoughts during a battle, but that didn't make things easy. Fighting their way around the casinos, Bumblebee finally collapsed a massive neon sign on top of Soundwave, temporarily ending the fight. Bumblebee and Prowl's luck turned sour, though, with the arrival of Starscream and the mighty Devastator. The sudden appearance of a spatial gateway depositing Optimus and the other lost Transformers, along with their captors the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]], was just one set of complications on top of another. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br />
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Sometime later, the Autobots received visitors from Cybertron. Representing a united Cybertronian government of both Autobots and Decepticons, they claimed the Transformers on Earth were a throwback to darker days, and wanted to take them into custody to prevent their "anachronistic" feud from upsetting Cybertron's populace. The Autobots under Optimus Prime split into two groups, with Bumblebee and several others joining their leader in surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s forces, while Jazz led a small group away from the Ark to continue monitoring activities on Earth. Once they arrived on Cybertron, it became clear that there was a rotten core to the new government, namely [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. Bumblebee and the other Autobots from Earth joined up with a resistance movement and helped overthrow Shockwave's reign, reinstating Autobot rule over Cybertron. {{storylink|War and Peace}}<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeebattlemask.jpg|right|200px|thumb|25 years before someone realized his toy has no face.]]<br />
After Cybertron settled down, Bumblebee commanded the Autobot Shuttle ''[[Orion]]'' and a small crew, travelling back to Earth with supplies for Jazz's team at the Ark. Starscream and the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] were in the midst of an attack on the Ark when the ''Orion'' arrived. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} The little ship managed to damage [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] significantly before the super-powerful zealot [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] shorted out its engines and it crashed. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} After [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] sacrificed himself to stop Sunstorm, Bumblebee deserted the Autobot army (for no stated reason). {{storylink|Atonement}} He headed to Spike's house, but Spike, resentful of the death of Sparkplug, lashed out at him. Afterward, Spike finally realized he was being harsh on his old friend, and the two went for a night on the town, where they stopped a mugging. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}<br />
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===<br />
Bumblebee was aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed on Earth millions of years in the past, leaving its passengers deactivated. Along with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], he was sealed off from the rest of the crew in the crash, and therefore avoided capture when [[Cobra]] broke into the ship and stole the dormant Transformers therein. Bumblebee and Wheeljack were eventually revived by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletran-One]], only to find their friends missing. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}}<br />
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Attempting to find the missing Transformers, Bumblebee disguised himself as a Volkswagen Beetle, an altmode that really got on his nerves after months of fruitless searching. Eventually, Wheeljack came up with some leads on Cobra's next target, while Bumblebee just grumbled that Wheeljack got all the good [[Hologram|holographic]] drivers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} When Cobra attacked the [[SPS Research Facility]], the Autobots were waiting for them, and Bumblebee punched out a brainwashed [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] before helping [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'s [[Laser Squad]] get out of some rubble. Unfortunately, the humans didn't quite trust the giant robots, and [[Cover Girl]] fired a missile at 'Bee, who ''grabbed the projectile in mid-air'' and threw it at Rumble instead. He and Wheeljack eventually convinced G.I. Joe they were good guys, and the humans provided them with the information needed to undo Cobra's reprogramming of the other Transformers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}}<br />
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As G.I. Joe prepared to attack [[Cobra Island]], Bumblebee and Wheeljack came with them. However, the United States government preferred nuke the island and dissect the two aliens at [[Area 51]], and Bumblebee was struck with a magnetic pulse and incapacitated. Luckily, Wheeljack convinced [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] that a nuclear strike on Cobra's [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] stockpile would lead to worldwide devastation, so G.I. Joe broke orders and took the Autobots with them to attack Cobra Island anyway. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} Upon arrival, Bumblebee watched as the [[SPS Satellite]]'s energy beam struck an energy-gathering dish on the island, then helped G.I. Joe take down [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] after the giant Decepticon killed [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}<br />
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It soon transpired that the United States government were sending the nukes regardless of G.I. Joe's presence on the island, so the Autobots and humans made their way to the SPS Satellite's controls, where Bumblebee found a cowering [[Doctor Mindbender]]. While Mindbender was forced to calibrate the satellite's beams to shoot down the approaching nuclear warheads, the facility came under attack by [[Storm Shadow]], [[Firefly]] and various Cobra troopers. During the battle, Bumblebee defeated Storm Shadow and his heavily damaged [[S.N.A.K.E.]] suit. He then cheered as [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] defeated Megatron and shot down the SPS Satellite, and he later returned to Cybertron aboard a new ''Ark''. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}<br />
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Two years later, Bumblebee was sent back through time to [[1970]]'s [[San Francisco]] by a malfunctioning [[Teletran 3]], and was left dormant in the form of a Ford Pinto. He was found and reactivated by several G.I. Joes and Cobra members sent to get him back to the future, but both Bumblebee and [[Zartan]] were disappointed with his altmode compared to the much fancier car his fellow time-lost Autobot [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] turned into. After hunting down [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] in the same era, the team returned to their own time. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} Back on present-day Cybertron, Bumblebee and the others had no choice but to wait inside [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s force field until the three other teams returned with more lost Transformers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}} When the whole affair was over, Bumblebee curiously inspected Teletran 3. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}<br />
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An agreement was made between the Autobots and G.I. Joe to decommission any Cybertronian technology left on Earth, and Bumblebee was sent back to Earth along with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], the last of whom he was very flirty with. When [[Area 52 (G1)|Area 52]] came under attack from Cobra, Bumblebee noticed that [[Cobra Commander]] was using the attack as a diversion to infiltrate the facility's lower levels. He pursued the Commander, but was rendered unconscious when Zartan planted an electromagnetic scrambler on him. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} Just when Cobra Commander was about to smash the robot's face in with a lead pipe, the other Autobots and G.I. Joes arrived and saved him. While Arcee was worried about his low energy levels, Bumblebee assured her that seeing her was all the recharge he needed. However, it was soon revealed what Cobra Commander had come for: [[Serpent O.R.]], a biotechnological weapon created from Megatron's remains. He was also just as power-hungry as Megatron, and took control of [[G.I. Joe battle mech|G.I. Joe's battle suits]] and pitted them against the four Autobots to distract them while he warped to Cybertron. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}<br />
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[[Image:GIJoevsTFArtofwar3_BumblebeeDeath.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Crossovers are not kind to Bumblebee.]]<br />
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[[Image:JoeTF_ArtofWar5_BumblebeeMemorial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Here Lies 'Bee / Only Time He Had A Girl In Any Continui-ty]]<br />
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Along with a group of Joes, the Autobots followed Serpent O.R. to their home planet, and ended up getting attacked by [[cannibalizer]]s in a junkyard. As they retreated to avoid human casualties, Bumblebee tried to extort a kiss from Arcee if he could outrace her, but she upped the bet by offering to rotate his tires if he could pull it off. Bumblebee accelerated in anticipation... and drove straight into [[Predaking]], who stomped him unconscious. Serpent O.R., who had recruited Predaking alongside various other Decepticons, complimented the little Autobot's courage and resilience, noting that he could probably survive with the proper medical attention. Then he crushed Bumblebee to death with his tentacles. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} Following the defeat of Serpent O.R., a funeral was held for Bumblebee and a statue was built in his honor. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}<br />
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Bumblebee's death had a large impact on Optimus Prime, who blamed himself for his friend's death. Unwilling to send anyone else to their death, he went on a dangerous mission on Earth all by himself. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 1}}<br />
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===<br />
After laying dormant among the [[Fera Islands]] for three million years, Bumblebee and his friends were reactivated in [[1939]] when [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] attacked [[Cobra]]'s headquarters in the archipelago. He was reformatted into a [[World War II]]-era motorcycle, complete with sidecar, and thought Optimus Prime was a bit pessimistic when he worried that [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] might no longer exist. {{storylink|Transformed}} The Autobots subsequently joined G.I. Joe on their mission to eliminate Cobra and their Decepticon allies. Bumblebee overheard [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] and [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] discussing that [[Snake-Eyes]] had vanished, and tried to reassure [[Scarlett]] that the missing Joe would show up eventually. Before long, the group came under attack from Cobra paratroopers, but the bullets merely bounced off Bumblebee, who happily suggested that the Autobots should try out their new bodies in action. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}}<br />
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Upon entering combat, the Autobots were faced with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], who was easily taking out the larger tank Autobots with his earthquakes. While Bumblebee was busy explaining who Rumble was, Scarlett commandeered him (noting how "sweet" it was that he had never been driven before) and drove into action, jumping above the Decepticon and destroying him with a grenade. Bumblebee felt that he and Scarlett made a nice team, and sheepishly told her that she could drive him anytime. How cheeky! {{storylink|Wolves}} When they reached Cobra's fortress, the [[Terrordrome]], the Autobots were attacked by a raging [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], whom Bumblebee noted that he had never seen before. In the end, the [[Matrix of Leadership]] had to be destroyed in order to stop Bruticus, which killed Bumblebee and all the other Transformers in the process. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebeeidw.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Bumblebee finally passed the gun exam.]]<br />
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Bumblebee was part of [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl's]] secret counter-infiltration unit on [[Earth]]. When [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] broke cover by rescuing a [[Hunter O'Nion|trio]] [[Verity Carlo|of]] [[Jimmy Pink|humans]], {{storylink|Infiltration issue 0}} Bumblebee was the one Autobot who supported his efforts. He was true to his role as an espionage agent and ferreted out their plans to continue joint operations against orders and joined in. Verity thought his alternate form and his [[holomatter]] avatar was "coool!" {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3|Infiltration #3}} He accompanied Ratchet and the humans to investigate an abandoned [[Decepticon]] bunker in [[Nebraska]]. When Ratchet mentioned how he hated putting their humans at risk, Bumblebee pragmatically commented that, given the need for evidence of unusual Decepticon activity and the consequences of Decepticon Siege Mode, the humans would be "acceptable losses". While the humans were exploring the bunker, two Decepticons attacked, and Bumblebee managed to take down [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], but not before Ratchet was shot and run over by [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 4|Infiltration #4}}<br />
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As the bombardment by the Decepticons caused the bunker to collapse, Verity had trouble climbing out of the shaft through which they entered. Bumblebee leapt into action when the tree the rope was attached to buckled under the crumbling terrain. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5|Infiltration #5}} He left the humans with Ratchet and traveled to [[Oregon]], the location of the second Decepticon command bunker, observing the situation until the rest of the Autobot unit could arrive. After witnessing Megatron "disciplining" Starscream and subsequently downgrading the infiltration unit's status to [[Infiltration protocol|Phase Two]], Bumblebee departed Oregon with the rest of the unit. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}<br />
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[[Image:Bumblebee blasts LukeCage.jpg|left|thumb|180px|Oldest trick in the book.]]<br />
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Bumblebee went with the Autobots to investigate Decepticon activity in the country of [[Latveria]]. There they discovered a heavily shielded "array" that the Decepticons were using as a base. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part One|Man and Machine #1}} There they skirmished with the humans that were assembled outside who were under the influence of the Decepticons' mind-altering [[Psycho-Prism]]. Bumblebee used his holomatter avatar in a "damsel in distress" ruse that distracted [[Luke Cage]] long enough for Bumblebee to get a clear shot. Ratchet was able to attach an inhibitor device to [[Captain America]] which nullified the effects of the Psycho-Prism. He gave Captain America enough devices for everyone on his team. Now calmed down, the two groups teamed up to destroy the Psycho-Prism. They began attacking the array's defenses which caused the Decepticons to attack. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Two|Man and Machine #2}}<br />
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As they fought, Ratchet, Prowl, and Luke Cage were able to slip into the array. Outside, Bumblebee, Jazz, and Prime gave a power-boost to [[Iron Man]] in his Transformer-sized armor. After the battle quieted down, Megatron communicated via hologram from inside the array with his new ally [[Doctor Doom]]. They showed their captives, Ratchet, Prowl, Luke Cage, and [[Spider-Man]]. Megatron ordered their surrender or the captives would die. Optimus Prime ordered the quick destruction of the array. [[Falcon (superhero)|The Falcon]] objected because their teammates were still inside. Bumblebee argued that those few humans were expendable. There was a brief discussion, but Optimus Prime's orders won out and they all attacked the array. Megatron turned on Doctor Doom for being incorrect about them surrendering. Megatron didn't go through with his threat to kill his captives, instead he went outside to face his opponents and carrying Luke Cage. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Three|Man and Machine #3}}<br />
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While Megatron was attacking, Bumblebee, Jazz, and [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]] [[orbital jump|orbital bounced]] into the array. They found that Doctor Doom switched sides and freed Spider-Man, so they went to find the Psycho-Prism. They found it guarded by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], who wasn't in the mood to fight for Megatron's cause and left. Wolverine destroyed the Prism. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Four|Man and Machine #4}}<br />
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Bumblebee was tasked by [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] to check the area surrounding their base for surveillance. He found a great deal of it, prompting the decision to relocate the ''[[Ark-19]]''. He was aboard when the ship was shot down by [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} He survived but was injured in the subsequent battle with the living Decepticon weapon of mass destruction. {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}} He was presumably on the ''[[Ark-32]]'' when it left Earth. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}<br />
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A year later, Bumblebee was hiding out with other Autobots on Cybertron. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}}<br />
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[[Image:AHM4BumblebeeWheeljack.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Slag it, Bumblebee, stop making our jokes for us!]]<br />
Bumblebee and Wheeljack were sent to search for energon by Jazz, but found the going rough in their Earth modes. Wheeljack suggested he whip up a polymer, but 'Bee very quickly pointed out the fact they hadn't the equipment. To make matters worse, the pair were being followed and their only hope of signaling for help was a million to one shot! Not willing to wait for back-up that wasn't coming, Bumblebee dragged Wheeljack along in an attempt to track the stranger down... when Hot Rod was knocked through a wall by Ironhide. Bumblebee was surprised to see Hot Rod, but more surprised to hear the other bot thought they were a rescue party! {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 4|All Hail Megatron #4}} <br />
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Later, while being chased by the [[Insecticon swarm]], Bumblebee made a disparaging comment about [[Drift (G1)|Drift]], but [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] quickly put him in his place. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} As tensions rose, he almost had a throw-down with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} Along with the other Autobots, Bumblebee was rescued and transported back to Earth by [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} Together with the rest of the Autobots, he fought the Decepticons and drove them off the planet. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}<br />
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After the departure of the Decepticons, the human military hunted down any remaining Transformer. Somehow Bumblebee got separated from his team in the ruins of New York. He managed to avoid detection until he was forced to reveal his location when a toppling building threatened the families inside. Bumblebee used his body to support the building, even as the nearby military fired into his body. Thankfully, Bumblebee was able to hold out until the humans inside had evacuated, and the timely arrival of Optimus Prime and the others kept the military from finishing him off. Once Bumblebee had been restored to working order, he asked Ratchet if they had heard his radio distress calls. No, Ratchet responded, Bumblebee's radio had been busted, but they heard about his plight on the humans' frequencies. Ratchet laughed, noting that was Optimus Prime's idea, who felt that it was only a matter of time before Bumblebee would have to save somebody and out himself. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 16|Hidden}}<br />
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Following the resignation of Optimus Prime and his surrender to the human organization [[Skywatch]], Bumblebee was elected to the position of Autobot commander despite not putting himself forward for the role. Ratchet posited his trustworthiness and dependability as factors in his being chosen. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} <br />
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[[Image:Bumblebee 1 Leader.jpg|thumb|200px|left|And there was much rejoicing.]]<br />
Though at first there was jubilation at Bumblebee's rise to leadership, his diplomatic nature and desire to be nice to everybody eventually led to problems. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} The first of many challenges in Bumblebee's new command was [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], who had arrived to investigate the death of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]. Magnus questioned Bumblebee's suitability for command in light of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] leading his own group of Autobots away, and was not interested in helping Bumblebee with their current woes. Unfortunately, it was then that [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] decided to lead yet another exodus of Autobots (consisting of [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]) away from the main group. {{Storylink|A Rude Awakening}}<br />
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Wheeljack had little time or respect for Bumblebee's moping or his perceived lack of leadership ability, leading to several cutting remarks, much to the annoyance of Ratchet. Through some interference from Wheeljack, Bumblebee met with Skywatch rogue Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] who gave them protection from Skywatch if the Autobots helped capture Decepticons. Unfortunately this "protection" could also lock them into vehicle mode if they misbehaved, which Horiuchi did when Cliffjumper refused to capture Blurr. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}}<br />
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Tracking down Blurr, Bumblebee attempted to talk the fugitive Autobot over, to convince him to come quietly. Blurr was shocked that Bumblebee would agree to work with the humans, the people who had imprisoned others of their kind. When Bumblebee revealed that Blurr didn't have much of a choice, the latter decided to take his chances and shot Bumblebee at point blank range, which shorted out his kill-switch badge. Back at base, when Bumblebee refused to turn over Blurr, Horiuchi decided the Autobot needed a reminder of who was holding the leash and attempted to activate his kill-switch. Naturally, it didn't work, but Ratchet convinced Bumblebee to play along and pretend he was locked into vehicle mode. Seeing an opportunity, the Bumblebee concocted a plan where the reluctant Blurr would find a Volkswagen to take his place, allowing him to find a way to free the rest of the Autobots. Before leaving, Bumblebee gave the Autobots an inspiring speech that actually caused [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] to break character, surprising the Skywatch operatives who were listening in on those Autobots with functional kill-switch badges. Later, communicating with Ratchet via a text-only comm channel, Bumblebee located a large shipment of darmstadtium, the rare metal used in the kill-switches at a shipping port. As he was skulking around, he discovered the Constructicon [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]], who had repainted himself to disguise his identity from the humans, as well as the hope that he sneak onto one of the container ships. Bumblebee tried to convince him that they had to earn the respect of the humans, but Scavenger angrily scoffed at this, stating he would rather hide than work with them. Bumblebee left him in peace. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br />
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When Skywatch arrived to repair "Bumblebee's" kill-switch badge, they inadvertently revealed the identity of [[Sanjay Bharwaney]], a Skywatch researcher who was responsible for the secondary master control board for all of the badges. Bumblebee followed Bharwaney home, following Wheeljack's advice that altering the control board would short out the badges. Obviously unable to retrieve the control board directly, Bumblebee befriended Bharwaney's daughter, [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]], in the hopes she could help him. Much to his distaste, Bumblebee had to lie to Serena, claiming that the control board would harm her father if he didn't "fix" it. He felt so bad about the whole thing that he believed doing this all but confirmed Humanity's opinion of the Transformers, a position that [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] did not tolerate. Unfortunately, it was discovered the control board contained tracking devices, meaning Bumblebee would be unable to get it back to their hideout before Colonel Horiuchi would notice and disable all the Autobots. This forced Bumblebee to make the modifications himself, a task he scarcely completed before Bharwaney returned home. As his friend Serena took the item back into her house, Bumblebee hoped that one day, he could repay her for his betrayal of her trust. {{Storylink|The Gift Horse}}<br />
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However, as he was making his way back to the Autobot hideout, Bumblebee detected [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] heading towards the Bharwaney house. Arriving just in time to save Bharwaney and his daughter, Bumblebee discovered the scientist to be an embittered man whose wife had died during the Decepticon invasion, and who now saw all Transformers, Autobot and Decepticon alike, as the same destructive aliens. During their flight, Bharwaney decided to use the control board to destroy both Bumblebee and Skywarp, seeing Bumblebee as a traitor to Horiuchi. When Serena appealed to her father, Bharwaney forced Bumblebee to admit that he did use Serena to get to the control board, and 'Bee apologised to the young girl. Letting them both out, Bumblebee asked Bharwaney for the control board so he could free his fellow Autobots. As they argued, Skywatch lieutenant [[Daniel Klonowski]] appeared and saved the trio from Skywarp, but despite his interference, Skywarp cut off Bumblebee's escape. Declaring that, unlike Skywarp, he had friends who would fix him, Bumblebee activated the control board, which simultaneously destroyed the kill-switch badges on the Autobots and seriously damaged himself and Skywarp. Sometime later, after Klonowski paid a visit to the Autobot hideout, Bumblebee emerged with a brand new, more powerful body and a new confidence befitting his command of the Autobots. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br />
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Bumblebee's new confidence was tested when Ultra Magnus barged back into the Autobot caves, requisitioning a strike force to arrest Hot Rod for colluding with the enemy. Magnus forced Bumblebee and the others to go along with him almost by sheer force of personality, and they soon arrived at the launch site where Hot Rod and his Autobot & Decepticon allies were planning to leave the planet. Bumblebee and Hot Rod tried to debate the situation, but Ultra Magnus soon grew tired of listening to their concerns and laid down the line: "Right, wrong, I'm the guy with the badge." Any dissention in the Autobots ranks came to a sudden stop when [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] turned on his "friend" Hot Rod, unleashing the new Stunticon combiner named [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. {{storylink|Enemies of the System}}<br />
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Most of the Decepticons joined Swindle and the Stunticons in turning against their Autobot comrades. [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] in particular took great joy in showing the Constructicons could still hack it in light of the new combiner robot, and tried to strangle Bumblebee one-handed. Bumblebee was saved by the timely but unexpected intervention of [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], who had grown just as tired of the war as many Autobots. <br />
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Watching the Stunticons at work as Menasor, Bumblebee noticed how poorly integrated their consciousnesses were, and devised a plan to break them apart. By directing the Autobots to focus their firepower first on [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]], then [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], he successfully led the group in dismantling Menasor. Even Optimus Prime and the latecomers from Skywatch looked to him for direction. Afterwards, Prime blessed Bumblebee's leadership, and 'Bee decreed it was time for the Autobots to stop running. He faced [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] head on and made arrangements for a true peace with Skywatch. Bumblebee still had to deal with Ultra Magnus, however, who was insisting on arresting Rodimus for treason. Bumblebee finally told Magnus where he could stuff his statutes. {{storylink|Earthworks}}<br />
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Bumblebee and the Autobots then entered into a formal arrangement with Skywatch, and took up residence inside the organization's bunkers. {{storylink|The Transformers issue 7}} Despite his decision, some like [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] continued to question the idea of living among those who had hunted them for the last three years. Bumblebee earnestly defended his choice, however, stating essentially that trust had to begin somewhere or else they'd never survive on Earth. Spike soon alerted Bumblebee that [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] and the Combaticons had made their presence known in North Korea along the demilitarized zone. Bumblebee quickly determined that, despite appearances, the Combaticons were not loyal mercenaries to the North Koreans, but were playing a larger game. With the President of the United States declaring all Transformers "illegal weapons of mass destruction", though, Spike and Bumblebee decided they would have to intervene...in disguise. {{storylink|International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"}}<br />
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Bumblebee was part of a unit heading towards the Pegasus Star Cluster to link up with the last remnants of the Autobots under Optimus Prime's command. He never made it, as the unit was ambushed as soon as it entered the cluster. The self-serving mercenary [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] took his form to fool the remaining Autobots to allow him to enter their base. {{storylink|Spotlight: Mirage}}<br />
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===''Hearts of Steel''===<br />
In an alternate universe, the Transformers landed on Earth before the Ice Age, taking on the forms of dinosaurs and giant insects. When the climate became too cold for the war to continue, Bumblebee and the other Autobots entered into [[stasis lock]] to prevent further damage. Thousands of years later, Bumblebee awoke to the age of humans from the noise of John Henry's hammering. Bumblebee was impressed by the humans' industriousness, and disguised himself as a small steam locomotive with no control cab, and a built in steam-hammer for driving spikes. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}} Initially, 'Bee directly competed with steel-driving legend [[John Henry]]. After Bumblebee revealed himself in robot form to Henry, Henry set aside his mistrust of automation after realizing that Bumblebee was a living being (not just a machine) who wanted to put in a fair day's work. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}<br />
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Bumblebee woke several of his fellow Autobots, who soon discovered that the Decepticons were also active in this era. After taking on locomotive alt modes themselves, {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}} Bumblebee, the Autobots, and their new human friends worked together to prevent the Decepticons' mighty [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] from reaching [[New York City]]. With the Decepticons defeated, Bumblebee and the Autobots returned to their slumber. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 4|Hearts of Steel #4}}<br />
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{{note|Bumblebee's pre-locomotive "Ice Age Wars" [[Alternate mode|altmode]] appears to be a spiky dinosaur, possibly a [[Wikipedia:Gastonia (dinosaur)|Gastonia]]. He also has a transitional body, while he is preparing to take on his locomotive form, which is similar to his dinosaur body, but with no spikes.}}<br />
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===Descent into Evil===<br />
[[Image:Timelines-Bumblebee.jpg|right|180px|thumb|You know you want me, baby.]]<br />
Having been on the trail of the Decepticon agent [[Flamewar]] for a long, long time, now-[[espionage director]] Bumblebee made his move, interrupting a supposedly-secure secret communication between Flamewar and the [[Tripredacus Council]]. He revealed that his agent, [[Ricochet (Timelines)|Ricochet]] had installed a degenerating virus into [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]'s [[Virulent Clone|clone army]]. Oh, and that since the Autobots now ''knew'' Flamewar's whereabouts and who she was working for, the Tripredacus Council would certainly consider her a liability. Which they did. So they blew [[Flamewar's ship|her ship]] up. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}<br />
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That's cold, Bee. Real cold.<br />
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in comics===<br />
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When [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Megatron]] and the Decepticons attacked Earth in the 21st century, Bumblebee and the Autobots were there to stop them. During a battle in Tokyo, Bumblebee got the drop on [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Starscream]], dousing him with a fire engine's hose and leaving him open for a thrashing from [[Grimlock (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Grimlock]]. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}}<br />
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Later, Bumblebee helped shield human bystanders from injury when [[Astrotrain (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Astrotrain]] went on a rampage, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and cheered when they were joined in their fight by [[Hot Rod (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Rodimus]]. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}<br />
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Bumblebee was last seen helping to once more project humans when the Decepticons attacked a power plant with their newest member, the reluctant [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Skyfire]]. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 4}}<br />
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===<br />
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[[Image:Henkei chpt 01 first meeting.jpg|right|thumb|During Autobot gymnastics tryouts for the 2012 Olympics: DISQUALIFIED.]]<br />
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Bumblebee was part of a small Autobot team led by Optimus Prime who left Cybertron to pursue the [[Energon Cube]] through space. When the giant energy source crashed on Earth, in the Japanese town of [[Hoshinochō]], it shattered into fragments that were scattered far and wide. Bumblebee and the other Autobots set up a subterranean base below the Cube's impact crater, and began their search for the shards, taking the forms of local vehicles to hide their activities. Despite their attempts at remaining unseen, glimpses of the Autobots only magnified the reputation the crash of the Cube (believed by humans to be a meteor) had given Hoshinochō: that of a hotbed of rumored alien and UFO activity, Japan's answer to [[United States of America|America]]'s Roswell.<br />
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[[Image:Henkei bumblebee and wataru.jpg|left|thumb|20 years later, Wataru still has this hanging on his wall.]]<br />
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Eleven years later, the driverless vehicle-mode Bumblebee was spotted by a schoolchild in the vicinity of the [[Star Dome]], a building since constructed over the Cube crater. Hearing the story from this witness, fame-seeking schoolboy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]] ditched school to investigate the Star Dome, only for coincidence to lead him to step right in front of the speeding Bumblebee! Bumblebee was forced to transform and vault over the boy to prevent injuring him, but was able to make his escape before Wataru got a good look at him. Bumblebee hastily continued on his way to the Star Dome, and arrived to find it under attack by [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Starscream]] and [[Ramjet (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Ramjet]]. Wataru, too, had made it to the Dome, and Bumblebee saved him from Starscream before realizing with surprise that he was the same boy from earlier. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The other Autobots soon arrived to join the fight, and Bumblebee tried to protect Wataru from injury by scooping him up and tossing him to the relative safety of the stands. For his trouble, the small Autobot was pinned by Starscream, but Wataru returned the favor by blinding the Decepticon with a fire extinguisher. The battle was then joined by the Decepticon leader [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Megatron]], who attempted to make an example of Bumblebee and Wataru by blasting them with his fusion cannon, but at the last second, Optimus Prime was apparently able to deflect Megatron's shot with one of his own. Megatron covered the Decepticons' subsequent retreat by collapsing a part of the Star Dome, but Bumblebee protected Wataru from the rubble by shielding him with his own body. The pair then properly introduced themselves to one another, and Wataru was invited into the Autobots' base for an explanation. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}}<br />
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[[Image:Henkei_bumblebee_medical_treatment.jpg|right|thumb|Who knew alien-robots can be [[Wikipedia:Trypanophobia|trypanophobic]].]]<br />
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Bumblebee and Prime showed Wataru through their base on their way to the medical bay, where Bumblebee was to be treated for repairs. Bumblebee did not relish Optimus's medical ministrations, and the two Autobots were so busy trying to get through the process that they did not notice Wataru touching the large shard of the Energon Cube that they had recovered in their time on Earth. A bizarre energy discharge resulted that not only showed the Autobots images of [[Generation 1 (franchise)|another time and place]], but also healed all of Bumblebee's wounds. Prime pulled Wataru away from the shard and things returned to normal, leaving Bumblebee and the boy to marvel over what had occurred, and Prime to ponder what it might mean. Bumblebee then took Wataru back to school, but when he nearly blabbed everything that had happened to him to the assembled teachers, students and police, Bumblebee was forced to bump into him from behind shut him up. Unfortunately for 'Bee, he then had to beat a hast retreat as the police came chasing after him for his "hit and run" offense! {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}<br />
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Bumblebee was next called into action when Starscream attacked a hydro-electric power plant with the help of his brainwashed comrade, [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Skyfire]]. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} Once again, Bumblebee tried to save Wataru from the Decepticons and was blasted as a result. This time, however, the pair were both saved by Skyfire, who was struggling against the mind-controlling influence of the helmet Starscream had placed on his head. All the combatants were shocked when a surge of familiar surge of energy erupted from Wataru's body; again, Bumblebee's wounds were healed, and Skyfire was empowered to overcome the helmet. Skyfire helped fend the Decepticons off and joined the Autobots, returning with them to their base where Prime explained to Bumblebee what he had come to understand about Wataru: he was a being known as a "[[Booster]]", born with the ability to control the energies of the Energon Cube. Both Bumblebee and Wataru were very excited at the idea that Wataru would now be able to help the Autobots in their fight. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}}<br />
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{{storylink|Optimus Prime's Secret}} {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}} {{storylink|Creation! The New Emperor of Destruction!!}} {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} {{storylink|Revenge (issue)|Revenge}} {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}<br />
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==="Universe" cartoon===<br />
[[Image:FfE Bumblebee.JPG|left|thumb|250px|Is he Schwarzebee… or Bumblenegger?]]<br />
Bumblebee and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] were out for a drive when they discovered [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] mining fuel near an abandoned [[Rock-It Fuel|gas station]]. Bumblebee wanted to rush in but Optimus Prime suggested they create a diversion. They caused an explosion which distracted Cyclonus. Bumblebee attacked and kept him busy while Optimus Prime snuck up and hit him over the head with his [[energon-axe]]. Megatron chose to blow up the mining operation and retreat with Cyclonus. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee drove off leaving the flaming wreckage of the mining operation behind. {{storylink|Fight for Energon}}<br />
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Goldbug arrived with reinforcements from Autobot City to help [[Pyro|Spark]]’s team fight [[Clench (G1)|Clench]]'s [[Decepticon Syndicate]] which had taken over the [[Large Hadron Collider]] in [[Switzerland]]. After being exposed to the [[forestonite]] gas, he became a gold version of his original Bumblebee body, though now with the added ability to float and generate electrical stings from his fists. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}<br />
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==Games==<br />
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===<br />
Bumblebee was amongst the Autobots abducted and held captive by the Decepticons, prompting Optimus Prime to enter the Decepticons' maze-like base in a rescue operation. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}<br />
===The Transformers (1985)===<br />
Bumblebee was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}<br />
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===The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth===<br />
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Along with his fellow Autobots, Bumblebee protected Earth from the menace of the Decepticons. He was ostensibly under the command of [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth}}<br />
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===3D Battle-Card Game===<br />
Bumblebee was one of [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in a fight against [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s Decepticon army. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br />
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===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===<br />
:''Voice actor'': [[Jack Merluzzi]]<br />
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==Toys==<br />
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==Merchandise==<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* The original Bumblebee toy was taken from the Japanese ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' line, where it was available in yellow, red, and blue versions.<br />
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* Bumblebee appeared in one of five [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[public service announcement]]s, informing children that they shouldn't run away from home because it's "mean". This from the guy who ditched the Autobots for no real reason.<br />
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[[Image:PretenderBumblebeeModel.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Bumblebee's rarely-seen Classic Pretenders character model. (Optimus Prime wants Goldbug back.)]]<br />
* When Bumblebee reappeared in the Marvel Comics as a [[Classic Pretender]], he returned to his original toy's [[character model]], rather than one based on his new form. A new character model did appear in various toy commercials, however. These included one which introduced him and the other Classic Pretenders, and one where he and Jazz stupidly drag [[Micromaster]] bases into Autobot headquarters, causing everyone to flee when they transform and attack. <br />
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* According to [[Battle for Cybertron]], Bumblebee is a code-name.<br />
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* Bumblebee/Goldbug was clearly a "top-tier" character in the first decade of ''Transformers'': he was the only 1984 Autobot still shipping in 1986; he received more toys during Generation 1 than any other character; he had a toy shipping during seven of Generation 1's eight-year run. However, [[Hasbro]] lost the right to use "Bumblebee" as a toy [[trademark]] during the ''[[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' years, when Generation 1 names were in disuse. That's right, the name "Bumblebee" was lost during the years everyone turned into animals.<br />
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* The ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Mini-Con]], [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] is pretty clearly an [[homage]] to Bumblebee, from the coloration, placement of car-parts in robot mode, segmented-pipe biceps and even the head design.<br />
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[[Image:Hotbumblebee.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Hey! Look at that hot brunette! No... not [[Mikaela Banes|that one]]!]]<br />
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* A robot using Bumblebee's character model is shown in a still-shot flashback as a member of the Autobot group led by [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]]. Whether this robot is an alternate-universe incarnation of Bumblebee or simply a similar-looking robot is—like all [[Unicron Trilogy]] character-model cameos—left to conjecture.<br />
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* According to EJ Su, Bumblebee's [[Holomatter|Holomatter avatar]] is modeled after [[wikipedia:Lindsay_Lohan|Lindsay Lohan]], an actress who plays a girl that drives [[wikipedia:Herbie|Herbie]], a sentient Beetle. ''Um, well''.<ref>[http://www.protodepot.com/archive/2007_11_01_archive.html Idea: Holomatter Projection]</ref><br />
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*Goldbug was actually a preliminary name for Bumblebee during early treatments for the Marvel Comics!<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2010-bob-budiansky-panel-coverage-170041/ Bob Budiansky BotCon Panel Coverage]</ref><br />
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* In the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]], [[Goldbug (IDW)|Goldbug]] is a separate character who co-exists with Bumblebee. Yeah, it's slightly crazy.<br />
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*Bumblebee is the only member of the Transformers Hall of Fame who has not been killed in any of the Transformers cartoons.<br />
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===Foreign names===<br />
*''Japanese:'' '''Bumble''' (バンブル ''Banburu''), '''Goldback''' (Goldbug, ゴールドバック ''Gōrudobakku'')<br />
*''Cantonese:'' '''Daai Wong Fung''' (大黃蜂, "Bumblebee")<br />
*''Czech:'' '''Čmelák''' ("Bumblebee")<br />
*''French:'' '''Bourdon''' (Canada, "Bumblebee"), '''Coccinelle''' (Canada, "Ladybug" or "Beetle")<ref>The Volkswagen Beetle was called "Coccinelle" in French areas, which is the French word for ladybug.</ref><br />
*''Hungarian:'' '''Űrdongó''' ("Space-bumblebee"), '''Dongó''' (''The Movie'', "Bumblebee"), '''Aranybogár''' ("Goldbug")<br />
*''Italian:'' '''Maggiolino''' ("Beetle"), '''Wagenbot''' (Goldbug)<br />
*''Mandarin:'' '''Dà Huáng-fēng''' (大黃蜂, "Bumblebee")<br />
*''Polish:'' '''Trzmiel''' ("Bumblebee")<br />
*''Portuguese:'' '''Moscardo''' (Portugal comics, "Hornet"), '''Furão''' (Brazil comics, "Ferret")<br />
*''Russian:'' '''Shershen'''' (dub, Шершень, "Hornet")<br />
*''South American:'' '''Volks'''<br />
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Dzhmil"''' (ICTV, Джміль, "Bumblebee")<br />
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*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;char=Goldbug Goldbug's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br />
*[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/mini_frame.php?art=whitemexbee White Mexican Bumblebee gallery at TF-1.com]<br />
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'''[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]''' has appeared as many toys. All of them cool.<br />
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==Generation 1==<br />
[[Image:G1 Jazz toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|At least he doesn't like music as much as Blaster.]]<br />
* '''Jazz''' (Autobot Car, USA 1984, Japan and Europe 1985, Europe and Australia 1990)<br />
**''Japanese Name:'' '''Meister'''<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-06'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' "[[Photon rifle]]", missile launcher, 3 missiles<br />
:Originally a pre-''Transformers'' ''Diaclone'' Porsche 935 Turbo, Jazz was part of the original assortment of Autobots released in 1984. He transforms into a Martini Racing Porsche 935 Turbo. In robot mode, he is armed with a silver "[[photon rifle]]" and a shoulder-mounted, spring-loaded rocket launcher that can fire three silver missiles.<br />
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:A slight variation of this toy, with modified stickers on the car doors that omit the regular version's "Martinii" sponsor words on the decals (note the double "i") and entirely lacking the "Martinii Porsche" decals for the windshield and rear spoiler, was available as a mail-away [[exclusive]] offer from Cookie Crisp cereal. Hasbro later also reissued Jazz in Europe and Australia in 1990 as part of the ''[[Classics (Europe)|Classics]]'' line. This version was identical to the 1984 version with the exception of the missing "Martinii" logos on the door decals, like on the Cookie Crisp version. Unlike the Cookie Crisp version, however, the "Classic Hero" version did include the "Martinii Porsche" decals for the windshield and the rear spoiler.<br />
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:This toy was later reissued by [[TakaraTomy|Takara/TakaraTomy]] as part of the ''[[Transformers Collection]]'' (2002) and ''[[Encore]]'' (2008) lines, and by Hasbro as part of the ''[[Commemorative Series]]'' line (2003). See entries below for more details.<br />
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:This mold was also used to make (the originally Japanese-exclusive) [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Stepper]], later renamed Ricochet for Hasbro's reissue.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Autobot/Jazz/jazz.htm More information on Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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[[Image:Pretender Jazz toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|In a just world, Jazz's Pretender shell would look like Richard Roundtree.]]<br />
* '''Jazz''' ([[Classic Pretender]], 1989)<br />
**''Accessories:'' 2-piece [[Pretender]] shell, helmet, rifle, laser<br />
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: The first new toy since the original, Classic Pretender Jazz is a highly simplified version of his original toy, still transforming into a Porsche 935 Turbo. He is armed with a black gun (named only a "laser" in his instructions, but given the dramatic identifier of a "semi-automatic ion pulse gun" in his [[Tech Spec]]s), which can mount on his roof in vehicle mode.<br />
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:Jazz's two-piece Pretender shell resembles a human in a blue and white armored space suit with a removable helmet. The shell is armed with a large black rifle (a "photon rifle", to be precise, according to his Tech Specs), and when Jazz is stored inside, it can also hold the smaller robot's laser, thanks to the weapon's multi-width peg.<br />
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Autobot/Jazz/jazz.htm More information on Classic Pretender Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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* '''Jazz''' (Legend, 1989)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Laser<br />
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:Available [[exclusive]]ly at American [[Kmart]] stores, the [[Legends (G1)|Legends]] version of Jazz is simply the inner robot of the Classic Pretender toy without the shell or its accessories, leaving him only a small handgun.... however, it happens to be ''[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#G1Legend|Bumblebee's]]'' gun. (Legends Bumblebee has Pretender Jazz's gun.)<br />
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[[Image:G1toy japanese legends giftset.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]<br />
*'''Hero Set''' (Multi-pack, 1989)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Laser<br />
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: In Japan, Legends Jazz was only available in a boxed "Hero Set" with the Legends versions of Bumblebee, [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#G1Legend|Grimlock]] and [[Starscream (G1)/toys#G1Legend|Starscream]]. Jazz was identical to the Hasbro release.<br />
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: In Italy, [[GiG]] released their own version of the Hero Set, named "Set Commandos", instead of the Classic Pretender versions of the toys. Here, Jazz was named "Folgore", originally the Italian name of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]. The "Set Commandos" toys were identical to the Japanese "Hero Set" versions.<br />
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[[Image:Actionmaster Jazz.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now he can shred the streets on his board.]]<br />
* '''Jazz w/ Turbo Board''' (Action Master, 1990)<br />
**''Accessories:'' "Electromagnetizer Gun", Turbo Board<br />
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: [[Action Master]] Jazz's sculpt was based upon his cartoon model, but with some of the toy details added in. As with most Action Master figures, he cannot transform, but his [[Turbo Board]] partner can transform from a skateboard into a large blaster weapon. Jazz was part of the first wave of individual Action Master figures.<br />
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: There are reportedly several minor variations of this figure, all regarding the color of his headlights. Some have them unpainted, while others are light blue or greenish-blue.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1990/Autobot/Jazz/jazz.htm More information on Action Master Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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==Generation 2==<br />
[[Image:G2 Jazz.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]<br />
*'''Jazz''' (Autobot Car, 1993)<br />
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Rifle", missile launcher, 2 missiles<br />
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:''[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' Jazz is a slight [[retool]] and (literal) [[repaint]] of the original toy. The chrome feet have been narrowed, omitting two tabs. His face (apparently degraded from [[mold]] usage) now has a strange unintentional smirk. His roof has been retooled with a small hole to accommodate his new bright green, spring-loaded missile launcher. All of his "Martinii" stickers have been replaced with various new stickers depicting his name and the number "1" laid over a rainbow-colored musical note.<br />
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:This mold became the basis for future reissues of Jazz, complete with his smirk.<br />
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: The missile launcher was not created for the ''Generation 2'' line, but came from the [http://www.yojoe.com/action/91/snowserpent2.shtml Snow Serpent] from the ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'' toyline. The same launcher was used in the ''Generation 2'' re-releases of [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]].<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1993/Autobot/Jazz/jazz.htm More information on Generation 2 Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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[[Image:LaserCycleJazz.jpg|thumb|300px|He's ready to [http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/tech-specs/Generation-2-Tech-Specs/1995-Transformers-Tech-Specs/Jazz__1995_.jpg.html smash Decepticons like he jams on his guitar!] Uh, assuming he has an Autobot guitar somewhere. They [[Rock Bot|didn't actually make those]].]]<br />
*'''Jazz''' (Laser Cycle, 1995)<br />
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: A [[redeco]] of the [[Laser Cycle]] [[Road Rocket (G2)|Road Rocket]] was planned as Jazz, but like many other planned late-1995 ''Generation 2'' redecos, ultimately never saw release. Interestingly, many of these — including Jazz and fellow Laser Cycle redeco [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] — ''were'' solicited in various store catalogues, such as the Sears Wish Book. Some packaged samples of this toy do exist, but there are estimated to be less than a dozen in existence. Jazz would have transformed from a white, yellow and green Yamaha GTS1000 motorcycle, with an LED-lit arm-mounted buzzsaw that formed part of his rear wheel assembly in cycle mode. <br />
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: This mold was later [[Retool|retooled]] to make ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] and ''[[Robot Masters]]'' Road Rocket.<br />
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==Transformers Collection==<br />
[[Image:G1toy_tfc_jazz.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]<br />
* '''Meister''' (Transformers Collection, Japan 2002)<br />
**''ID number:'' '''1'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' "[[Photon rifle]]", missile launcher, 3 missiles<br />
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: Jazz was the first entry in Takara's ''[[Transformers Collection]]'' series of reissues, featuring collectable "book-box" packaging. The figure uses the retooled version of the Jazz mold used in ''Generation 2'', with narrower feet, though the peg-hole in his roof has been removed. Continued degradation of the mold in the intervening years lead to further problems with the toy: in addition to the overall looseness of its joints, the toy's face is further deteriorated from the ''Generation 2'' use of the mold, now displaying a gape-mouthed smirk (see inset in picture), and its roof and rear windows no longer align perfectly.<br />
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: In addition to these unfortunate, unintentional changes from the original, some intentional changes were made to the figure's stickers. The original toy's "Martinii" sponsor decals on his hood and door are modified to instead display his Japanese name, "Meister", while the "Martinii Porsche" decal across the top of his windshield now reads "Agent Meister".<br />
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: A second production run of this figure replaced the original toolings for the weapons with the modified versions that came with Hasbro's ''Commemorative Series'' reissue (see [[#Commemorative Series|below]]).<br />
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::*''[http://www.mykooltoyz.com/meister-06.html More information on Transformers Collection Meister at MyKoolToyz.com]''<br />
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[[Image:Ehobby Meister.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bling bling~!!!]]<br />
* '''Meister Gold Version''' (e-Hobby exclusive, 2002)<br />
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Rifle", missile launcher, 3 missiles<br />
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: An [[e-Hobby]] [[exclusive]], this version of Jazz is almost entirely constructed of vacuum-metalized gold plastic. Fingerprints and chipping, ahoy! It uses the degraded mold of the ''Transformers Collection'' figure, and was only available in a set with the "Anime Version" redeco of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]. Both figures came in the generic red Autobot packaging shared by nearly all eHobby figures.<br />
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: Though this redeco resembles Jazz's [[electrum]]-covered appearance in the episode "[[The Golden Lagoon]]", this appears to be an unintentional coincidence; it is actually a recreation of an old ''[[Diaclone]]'' campaign prize. <br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/Jazz/jazz.htm More information on Meister Gold Version at TFU.info]''<br />
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==Commemorative Series==<br />
* '''Autobot Jazz''' (Commemorative Series III, 2003)<br />
**''Accessories:'' "[[Photon rifle]]", missile launcher, 3 missiles<br />
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: Hasbro's own reissue of the 1984 Jazz as part of the ''[[Commemorative Series]]'', now named "Autobot Jazz" for [[trademark]] reasons, is based on Takara's ''Transformers Collection'' version, retaining the ugly smirk and the "Agent Meister" stickers. The alignment problem with the roof and the rear windows has been fixed.<br />
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: The weapons have been heavily [[retool|retooled]] [[for safety reasons]]: The chrome finish is missing, the missiles have been elongated and can only be inserted one way, the nub on the back of the launcher has also been elongated, the launcher barrel can come off the mount, and the trigger has been altered as well.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Autobot/AutobotJazz/jazz.htm More information on Commemorative Series Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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==Universe (2003)==<br />
*'''Autobot Jazz''' (Spy Changer, 2004-2005)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Gun<br />
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:[[Spy Changer]] Jazz is a redeco of ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' Spy Changer [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]]. He transforms into a 1:64-scale [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|Dodge Viper]] with Jazz's classic white Martini Racing colour scheme and livery. Like all [[Go-Bot (G2)|Go-Bots]] molds, he features high-speed axles and can roll very well across smooth surfaces, but lacks the weight to propel him quickly. His small gun is stored between his legs, acting as a tailpipe in vehicle mode.<br />
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:This toy was originally exclusively available at [[KB Toys]] stores in 2004, in generic ''Transformers'' packaging with no additional sub-line header. The same toy was later re-released in ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' packaging in 2005, now availabe from discount chains such as Dollar General and Family Dollar.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Autobot/SpyJazz/jazz.htm More information on Universe Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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==Smallest Transforming Transformers==<br />
[[Image:WSTF Meister.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Tiny Jazz]]<br />
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* '''Meister''' (2004)<br />
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:''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Jazz is a tiny replica of the original Jazz toy. His wheels do not roll, and he has a simplified transformation scheme with considerably more restricted articulation.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Cybertron/SmallestJazz/jazz.htm More information on Smallest Transforming Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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==Alternators/Binaltech==<br />
[[Image:Alternators Meister.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Zoom zoom zoom! <br />
Ya! zoomzoomzoom.]]<br />
*'''Meister''' Mazda RX-8 (Alternator, 2004/2006)<br />
**''Alternators ID number:'' '''7'''<br />
**''Binaltech ID number:'' '''BT-08'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Muffler-blaster<br />
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:''[[Alternators]]'' Meister transforms into a highly accurate 1:24 scale white Mazda RX-8. He features an opening hood with engine, opening "suicide" doors and trunk with a realistic interior. In robot mode, he is sculpted to resemble both the original G1 Jazz toy and the G1 cartoon model. He is armed with a rifle that transforms from his muffler.<br />
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: Other than being partially constructed of [[die-cast]] metal, the ''Binaltech'' version of this mold differs from the ''Alternators'' version by paint covering all the car body parts and having a magnet assembly for the shoulders joining the front wheel axle (instead of a plastic insertion point). Furthermore, the ''Binaltech'' version's steering wheel is placed on the right side of the dashboard, whereas it's located on the left side on the ''Alternators'' version.<br />
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: ''Binaltech'' Meister also had a color [[variant]], officially named ''Meister Velocity Red Mica Edition'', that replaced all the regular version's white parts, both plastic and metal, with red. The panels on the upper hips that are painted teal on the "white" version are painted silver on the "red" variant. Velocity Red Meister was repurposed as [[Zoom-Zoom]] by the official ''Binaltech'' fiction.<br />
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: This toy was also retooled into a Mazdaspeed RX-8 as [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockblast/Laserwave]], the [[Autorooper]] and later as Argent Meister.<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Autobot/AltMeister/meister.htm More information on Alternators Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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[[Image:BinaltechMayukoIwasaMeister.jpg|thumb|300px|More embarrassing: the color scheme, or the fact model Iwasa was 17 at the time she designed it?]]<br />
*'''MEISTER feat. MAZDA RX-8 ~'''<font color=blue>MAYUKO IWASA</font>''' Edition~''' (Binaltech, 2004)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-08'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Muffler-blaster<br />
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:A one-of-a-kind pastel blue, pink, yellow and indigo redeco of the Binaltech Meister toy, ~<font color=blue>MAYUKO IWASA</font> Edition~ Meister was designed and autographed by Japanese "[[wikipedia:gravure idol|gravure idol]]" [[Mayuko Iwasa]]. Yahoo!Japan Auctions listed the figure at auction starting [[September 19]]th 2004, with the auction ending [[September 26]][http://web.archive.org/web/20040926033130/http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k7991073]. However, they relisted the figure on [[October 8]]th 2004 (seemingly due to to an issue arising between the original buyer and the charity, going by its [http://rating5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/show/rating?userID=npo_actas_charity&u=npo_actas_charity&filter=&extra=&role=&apg=2 feedback rating]), and it finally finished at auction [[October 15]], 2004.[http://web.archive.org/web/20041012014838/http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k8718622] The winner of the auction also received a signed photograph of Iwasa.<br />
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:All proceeds of the sale went to the Asian Children Orphaned by Traffic Accidents Support Association (ACTAS). [http://web.archive.org/web/20060626205644/www.binalternators.de/meister_english.html] In contrast to the placard in its public appearance at the "Binaltech BT-08 Meister / Mazda RX-8 Launch Event", the auction gave the designation of the toy as the "Original Coloring Transformer Binaltech BT-08 Meister feat. Mazda RX-8" (オリジナルカラーリングトランスフォーマー バイナルテック ＢＴ－０８ マイスターｆｅａｔ．マツダ ＲＸ－８).<br />
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:To date, ~<font color=blue>MAYUKO IWASA</font> Edition~ Meister has never been seen in robot mode.<br />
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::*''[http://snakas.web.infoseek.co.jp/event/0409coredo.htm More images of ~MAYUKO IWASA~ Edition Meister at Autobase Aichi]''<br />
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[[Image:Binaltech_ArgentMeister.jpg|thumb|300px|]]<br />
*'''Argent Meister''' (Binaltech, 2008)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-20'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Muffler-blaster<br />
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: This version of Meister utilizes the "Mazdaspeed Version II" retooled RX-8 body introduced with [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockblast/Laserwave]], but using the original Meister head and a traditional left arm. It is touted as a "Movie Version", somewhat resembling the look of the [[Transformers (2007)|live-action movie]] [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], due to its silver paint job. The name is a pun on his Japanese function, "Agent Meister", and the Latin-derived word "argent" for "silver".<br />
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==Encore==<br />
* '''Meister''' (Encore, Japan 2008)<br />
**''ID number:'' '''08'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' "[[Photon rifle]]", missile launcher, 3 missiles<br />
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: Another Takara reissue of the original 1984/1985 Jazz/Meister toy, following the success of the [[Transformers (2007)|2007 Movie]]. <br />
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: For the most part, the tooling is identical to the second production run of the 2002 ''Transformers Collection'' release, with the modified weapon from Hasbro's ''Commemorative Series'' release. The face uses the fixed mouth originally made for the ''Transformers Collection''/''Commemorative Series'' [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Stepper/Ricochet]] reissue from 2004. The feet are still the narrowed ''Generation 2'' version.<br />
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: Other changes unique to this version include the replacement of many stickers (such as the Autobot [[insignia]] on the hood/chest and the "Meister" decals on the doors) with tampographed versions, retooled shoulder mounted flame thrower aligned 90 degree from the axis and a [[show-accuracy|cartoon-accurate]] painted blue visor.<br />
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==Universe (2008)==<br />
[[Image:Universe2008 LegendsG1Jazz.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Slightly less tiny Jazz.]]<br />
*'''Autobot Jazz''' (Legends Class, 2008)<br />
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:Legends class ''Universe'' Jazz, like the Legends class ''Universe'' [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], emulates Jazz's original toy rather than a modern vehicle re-imagination. Due to the budgetry limitation of Legends class toys, he features an altered transformation sequence and a limited number of [[paint operation]]s, which leave several car windows unpainted.<br />
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This was redecoed to make Legend Class [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/LegendsUniJazz/jazz.htm More information on Universe 2008 Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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==Transformers (2010)==<br />
[[Image:TF2010_deluxe_SpecialOpsJazz.jpg|thumb|300px|A Solstice with the 1984 robot mode and the 1989 rifle? Just gimme a skateboard and some nunchucks and I am the OMEGA JAZZ!]]<br />
*'''Special Ops Jazz''' (Deluxe, 2010/2011)<br />
**''Accessories:'' "Blaster," two speakers<br />
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: Part of the fifth wave of [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'']] Deluxe class toys, Special Ops Jazz transforms from robot into a "street rally" white sports car that looks like Jazz's original Porsche front-end wearing [[Jazz (Movie)|Pontiac Solstice]] headlights for a hat. Jazz has deployable speakers in both robot and vehicle mode, <ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2010-hasbro-designers-panel-170066/</ref> and his rifle is an update of his [[Classic Pretender]] weapon. The speakers can also combine with his rifle via clips to form a super rifle, or they can be used on any other clip-compatible ''Transformers'' toy. As part of the first wave of the "[[Reveal the Shield]]" promotion, he sports a [[Rub Sign]]. <br />
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: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' [[Ricochet (Headmasters)#United|Stepper]].<br />
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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Autobot/Jazz/jazz.htm More information on Reveal the Shield Jazz at TFU.info]''<br />
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==United==<br />
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*'''Autobot Jazz''' (Deluxe, 2010)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''UN-12'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' "Handgun", two speakers <br />
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:A redeco of Special Ops Jazz, ''[[United (toyline)|United]]'' Jazz has brighter white paint, darker blue paint, darker red paint, a painted grill, painted feet, painted shins, painted stomach, rear windows and taillights, and silver rims. It also has an Autobot logo on the hood and no rubsign. Unlike the earlier variants of Special Ops Jazz, ''United'' Jazz's forearms are molded in white plastic. The toy's packaging names his combined speaker-gun a "sonic cannon mode".<br />
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==Merchandise==<br />
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*'''Jazz''' (Stamp Bot, 1984) <br />
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:Made by HG Toys, Stamp Bot Jazz is a small, non-poseable figurine of Jazz based on his toy with a rubber stamp on the base, and a cap with a felt "floor" that was soaked in ink. The stamp made an image of Jazz's sports car mode.<br />
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*'''Jazz''' (Decoy, 1986)<br />
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: Coming packaged at random on carded ''Transformers'' toys during 1986, [[Decoy]] Jazz is a red soft-rubber figure depicting his robot mode.<br />
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===Super Collection Figure===<br />
[[Image:HOC_Jazz.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]<br />
*'''Meister''' (Super Collection Figure. 2002)<br />
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:''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Meister is a PVC figurine based on the cartoon rendition of Jazz. He was released as a regular coloured figure in Act 8 of the SCF line in August 2002,<br />
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===Heroes of Cybertron===<br />
*'''Autobot Jazz''' (Heroes of Cybertron, 2003)<br />
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:The Hasbro version of the SCF Meister figure in the ''[[Super Collection Figure|Heroes of Cybertron]]'' was cast in blue plastic which was then almost completely painted, leaving the eyes and the back of the head unpainted to take advantage of a [[light-piping]] gimmick. Jazz was released in Wave 4 of the line, and came with the left leg needed to build [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]].<br />
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===Generation 1 Figure-Collection===<br />
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[[Image:Bottlecap_jazz.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]<br />
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*'''Meister''' (2003)<br />
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-3'''<br />
**''Accessories:'' Display base<br />
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:At only one inch in height, this Jazz "bottlecap" figurine (so named because its display base is the size of a bottlecap) was one of fourteen blindpacked figures available in Kabaya's Transformers [[Generation 1 Figure-Collection]]. The figure was rendered in a "retro" black and white color scheme, and came with a leaflet, personalized with cartoon screen captures.<br />
::*''[http://snakas.web.infoseek.co.jp/misc_item/kabaya_bottle.htm More information on the Generation 1 collection at Autobase Aichi]''<br />
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===Hard Hero===<br />
[[Image:HardHero Jazz bust.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Shares the same fate as his movie counterpart.]]<br />
*'''Jazz''' (2004)<br />
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:Jazz is number 12 in [[Hard Hero]]'s series of cold-cast porcelain ''Transformers'' busts, measuring six inches in height and sculpted holding his photon rifle in his right hand. Jazz was limited to 2500 pieces worldwide, with an additional 100 being specially signed by sculptor [[Jason Ray]].<br />
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===Titanium Series===<br />
[[Image:Titanium RM Jazz.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Won't you take me to Funkytown?]]<br />
*'''Autobot Jazz''' (Robot Masters, 2006)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Muffler-blaster, Autobot display stand<br />
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:Titanium Jazz is a small, 3" non-transformable die-cast metal figurine based upon his ''Alternators'' design, but with a little bit of his "traditional" deco thrown into the mix. He has articulation in his waist, shoulders and head.<br />
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===Attacktix===<br />
[[Image:Jazz-atx.jpg|200px|thumb|#1 Super Guy!]]<br />
*'''Autobot Jazz''' (Booster, <strike>2007</strike>)<br />
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:Jazz was one of many Generation 1 characters slated to appear in ''[[Attacktix]]''. A presumed wave-3 Booster, this piece was ultimately never released, but was shown at the ''Star Wars Celebration IV'' convention.<br />
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===Robot Heroes===<br />
[[Image:Robotheroesjazzthundercracker.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Do the Hustle!]]<br />
*'''Autobot Jazz and Thundercracker''' (2007)<br />
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:''[[Robot Heroes]]'' Jazz is an adorable, [[super deformed]] figurine of Jazz, with limited articulation in his arms, but no head movement. He came packaged with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br />
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:This figurine was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Ricochet]].<br />
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===Transformers - Mini Bust===<br />
[[Image:Jazz statue.jpg|right|200px|thumb|One cold cast cat.]]<br />
* '''Jazz''' (Diamond Select, 2008)<br />
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: Jazz was released by [[Diamond Select Toys]] in 2008 and exclusive to online retailer Big Bad Toy Store. He was sculpted by [[Mark Wong]] of [[Art Asylum]] and limited to 1000 pieces. The bust features both his photon rifle and shoulder-mounted rocket launcher, which are attached magnetically and are optional for display.<br />
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===Mighty Muggs===<br />
[[Image:MightyMuggs_Jazz.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]<br />
*'''Jazz''' (2009)<br />
**''Accessories:'' Photon rifle, doors<br />
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: Part of the third wave of [[Mighty Muggs]], Jazz is a [[super deformed]], non-transformable PVC figure with articulated arms and head. He is made largely using the standard Mighty Muggs body mold, with the exception of the head, which uses the same "horn" mold as [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]. Jazz comes with a super-deformed photon rifle and a pair of car doors that attach to his back.<br />
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: Jazz and his wavemate [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] were initially reported to be canceled, but were eventually released as exclusives at Diamond Distributors and [[Toys"R"Us]] stores.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
[[Image:PorscheMiniSubaru.jpg|thumb|250px|]]<br />
* The first toy planned for the [[Alternators]] line was Jazz as a Porsche 986. A prototype was made, but Porsche refused to grant Hasbro and Takara the license, stating that "Transformers are not worthy [of] carrying the Porsche trademark. They are war machines, and the toyline in no way represents the lifestyle and ideas which Porsche represents."<ref>[http://www.tfarchive.com/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24622 Former Porsche employee Addl recounting an informal inquiry with Porsche's licensing department at TF Archive]</ref> As a consequence, the toy ultimately never went into production. Photos of the prototype were depicted in the Japanese book ''[[The Transformers: Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide]]'', and Hasbro later also displayed the prototype during the [[BotCon 2007]] Hasbro Tour.<br />
* The [[Alternators]] Mazda RX-8 (which ultimately ended up as Meister) was originally intended to be named "[[Camshaft (G1)|Camshaft]]", according to various early store listings and a premature reply from Hasbro's customer service. This would also fit with the early idea of making the Alternators toys "direct updates" of their characters' G1 predecessors. A prototype was leaked to the public in early 2004 sporting the same basic colors as the later Alternators "Autobot Camshaft" toy (the Acura RSX), although it's uncertain whether the prototype colors for the RX-8 were supposed to be indicative of the proposed colors for Camshaft (since the Acura redeco was originally intended as a G1 Bluestreak [[homage]] before being renamed into "Autobot Camshaft"). The reason why the RX-8 Alternator was ultimately not named "Camshaft" was apparently because the real-life Mazda RX-8 car doesn't ''have'' a camshaft. The irony is staggering, as Camshaft's original toy was an RX-7, which ALSO lacks a camshaft. <br />
* There have been at least two different reasons stated why the Hasbro toy was named "Meister" rather than "Autobot Jazz": For once, Hasbro was still hoping that Porsche would have a change of mind and grant them the license after all, as Chevrolet had done; also, Aaron Archer has been quoted stating that he thought a third toy named "Autobot someone" following "[[Hound (G1)|Autobot Hound]]" and "[[Tracks (G1)|Autobot Tracks]]" would have been somewhat "redundant".<br />
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[[Category:Universe Autobots]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Powerglide_(Animated)&diff=610108Powerglide (Animated)2011-07-16T14:37:38Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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:''Powerglide is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''<br />
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[[Image:Animated powerglide character model.jpg|right|thumb|220px|"I may not fly, but at least I'm the [[Powerglide (G1) #Universe (2008)|right color]]!"]]<br />
'''Powerglide''' may just transform into a truck himself, but he still lives up to his name when it comes to piloting aircraft. During the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]], he was one of the best fighter pilots among the Autobots and an expert on aerial acrobatics, though he had a bad habit of showing off rather than fighting properly. After the war ended, Powerglide continued his line of work as a civilian pilot.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===''Animated'' cartoon===<br />
Powerglide was among the crowd welcoming home [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel "Magnus"]] and cheering on the capture of several [[Decepticon]] prisoners. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}<br />
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He was later seen wandering around on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] was accidentally [[transwarp]]ed to the Transformer homeworld. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}<br />
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Later still, Powerglide was among the Autobots cheering for the triumphant return of [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his crew to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}<br />
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He also Appeared Cheering for [[The Motor Master]]'s Stunt Convoy show {{storylink|The Stunti-Con Job}}<br />
==Notes==<br />
* Powerglide transforms into a treaded ground vehicle<ref>[http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/12114969175 Twitter post from Derrick Wyatt]</ref>. A Cybertronian truck, to be more precise. This would be in keeping with the "Autobots don't fly" motif, just like how [[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] also converts to a ground vehicle despite his [[Highbrow (G1)|original series namesake]]'s aerial [[alternate mode]].<br />
* This model was used as the basis for ''Animated'' [[Air Raid (Animated)|Air Raid]].<br />
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:''Powerglide is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''<br />
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[[Image:Animated powerglide character model.jpg|right|thumb|220px|"I may not fly, but at least I'm the [[Powerglide (G1) #Universe (2008)|right color]]!"]]<br />
'''Powerglide''' may just transform into a truck himself, but he still lives up to his name when it comes to piloting aircraft. During the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]], he was one of the best fighter pilots among the Autobots and an expert on aerial acrobatics, though he had a bad habit of showing off rather than fighting properly. After the war ended, Powerglide continued his line of work as a civilian pilot.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===''Animated'' cartoon===<br />
Powerglide was among the crowd welcoming home [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel "Magnus"]] and cheering on the capture of several [[Decepticon]] prisoners. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}<br />
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He was later seen wandering around on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] was accidentally [[transwarp]]ed to the Transformer homeworld. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}<br />
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Later still, Powerglide was among the Autobots cheering for the triumphant return of [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his crew to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}<br />
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He also Appeared Cheering for [[The Motor Master]]'s Stunt Convoy show {{storylink|The Stunticon Job}}<br />
==Notes==<br />
* Powerglide transforms into a treaded ground vehicle<ref>[http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/12114969175 Twitter post from Derrick Wyatt]</ref>. A Cybertronian truck, to be more precise. This would be in keeping with the "Autobots don't fly" motif, just like how [[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] also converts to a ground vehicle despite his [[Highbrow (G1)|original series namesake]]'s aerial [[alternate mode]].<br />
* This model was used as the basis for ''Animated'' [[Air Raid (Animated)|Air Raid]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Animated Autobots]]<br />
[[Category:Cartoon-only Transformers]]</div>86.19.108.136https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Dylan_Gould&diff=606993Dylan Gould2011-07-09T18:27:24Z<p>86.19.108.136: </p>
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:''Dylan Gould is a [[human]] from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br />
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[[Image:Dylangould.jpg|right|thumb|300px|McCreepy]]<br />
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'''Dylan Gould''' is the CEO of [[Hotchkiss Gould Investments]]. <ref name="dotmset">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndecember/4788376088/ Dark of the Moon set photo], July 2010</ref> He managed to snag the young [[Carly Spencer]] to help run his collection of exotic cars, a hobby which helps "keep him sane." He's inordinately fond of his new recruit, calling her "my duchess," giving her cars, and hooking up her boyfriend with career opportunities using his amazing connections because he's so hot and rich. That's not threatening to [[Sam Witwicky|said boyfriend]] at all, no.<br />
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{{quote|Not the couch! It's Ralph Lauren!|Dylan knows his priorities|[[Dark of the Moon (novel)|''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' novelization]]}}<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===IDW ''Dark of the Moon'' prequel comics===<br />
{{storylink|Convergence chapter 4}} According to Carly, for Dylan fighting robots is nothing more than kids' stuff. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4}}<br />
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===''Dark of the Moon'' film===<br />
:''Actor:'' [[Patrick Dempsey]] (English), [[Sergio Gutiérrez Coto]] (Latin-American Spanish-language dub voice)<br />
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{{spoiler|Dark of the Moon (film)|when=July 29, 2011}}<br />
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Dylan was secretly an agent for the Decepticons, specifically [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], which he justifies as merely "business" with a "client" he has inherited from his late father. But was killed by [[Sam Witwicky]] when he slammed him into a pillar<br />
{{storylink|Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}<br />
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