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Talk:Flowspade

2026-03-21T15:38:04Z

Arceespinkgun: /* Was she really inspired by Nightbird? */

==Was she really inspired by Nightbird?==
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It's easy to mistake Flowspade for Nightbird, but I don't feel convinced Flowspade and her relationship with Megaempress are based upon Nightbird and interpretations of her relationship with Megatron. I can't find a source on this, and given the men characters who are inspirations of Lunaclub and Moonheart and how they're each mentioned in those characters' bios, wouldn't it make more sense if Flowspade had been based on Shockwave, who's mentioned in her bio? Starting with Shockfleet/Mirage in the Unicron Trilogy, in various Japanese media Shockwave's been portrayed as being in love with Megatron. See the Q-Transformers show that aired before the 4 Guards appeared in media, for example. Thoughts? --[[User:Arceespinkgun|Arceespinkgun]] ([[User talk:Arceespinkgun|talk]]) 11:33, 21 March 2026 (EDT)

Talk:Flowspade

2026-03-21T15:37:32Z

Arceespinkgun: /* Was she really inspired by Nightbird? */

==Was she really inspired by Nightbird?==
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It's easy to mistake Flowspade for Nightbird, but I don't feel convinced Flowspade and her relationship with Megaempress are based upon Nightbird and interpretations of her relationship with Megatron. I can't find a source on this, and given the inspirations of Lunaclub and Moonheart and how they're each mentioned in their bios, wouldn't it make more sense if Flowspade had been based on Shockwave, who's mentioned in her bio? Starting with Shockfleet/Mirage in the Unicron Trilogy, in various Japanese media Shockwave's been portrayed as being in love with Megatron. See the Q-Transformers show that aired before the 4 Guards appeared in media, for example. Thoughts? --[[User:Arceespinkgun|Arceespinkgun]] ([[User talk:Arceespinkgun|talk]]) 11:33, 21 March 2026 (EDT)

Megaempress

2026-03-21T15:37:01Z

Arceespinkgun: Removing piece of trivia in Notes for now: see Flowspade's talk page for more info

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:''Megaempress is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:UW-Megaempress.jpg|thumb|300px|If this is wrong, I don't wanna be right.]]
Created out of spare parts from [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s construction, '''Megaempress''' (メガエンプレス ''Megaenpuresu'') is the self-proclaimed "Empress of Destruction" (破壊女帝 ''Hakai Jotei''). She has a special team of vassals, the [[4 Guards]], to serve as her ever-present bodyguards. Make no mistake, she herself is a force to be reckoned with, as her power is comparable to Megatron's own and she wields her fusion rail cannon and [[Judge Pickel]] weapons to wreak destruction across the land. She has a [[special power]] which manifests as an ability to enslave any Transformer to her will and to absorb their energy too if they aren't useful as slaves.

Megaempress combines with her 4 Guards to form the mighty [[Megatronia]].

==Fiction==
===''Unite Warriors''===
[[File:Megaempress Seduction.jpg|thumb|left|Hehe, your tummy's growling.]]
Megaempress was mostly built from the spare parts for Megatron's creation in [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s underground. {{storylink|#Unite Warriors|''Unite Warriors'' Megaempress bio}} Twin female soldiers, [[Moonheart]] and [[Lunaclub]], were created to be her guards. {{storylink|Moonheart#Unite Warriors|''Unite Warriors'' Moonheart bio}} {{storylink|Lunaclub#Unite Warriors|''Unite Warriors'' Lunaclub bio}} Mistrusting Megaempress, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had [[Flowspade]] infiltrate the [[4 Guards]], but the spy ended up being swayed by Megaempress's charisma and became truly loyal to her. {{storylink|Flowspade#Unite Warriors|Flowspade bio}} After Megaempress made her play to control Megatron and the Decepticons, Shockwave put her and Flowspade in stasis. She would be freed millennia later in [[2021]] when her remaining followers realized the [[Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2|devastation of Cybertron]] broke the seal and rushed Shockwave's facility to wake their empress. {{Storylink|Megatronia Chapter}}

During the battle between [[Grand Galvatron]] and [[Sky Reign]], {{Storylink|Sky Reign Chapter}} Megaempress leapt into the fight with her retinue, breaking apart Sky Reign with her rail fusion cannon. Quickly spotting [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] as her husband reborn, Megaempress attempted to use her seductive [[special power]] on him again, but was stopped by the resurrected [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Declaring that the Autobot could be her "second husband", the female Decepticon tried to use her charm on him, but he was able to resist by shouting the name of his true love, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]. When Optimus combined with his troops to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]], Megaempress did likewise with her 4 Guards, creating [[Megatronia]], who proved more than a match for the Autobot combiner. {{storylink|Megatronia Chapter}}

The two combiners' duel was interrupted by the arrival of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]], and Megatronia separated. Megaempress approached a defeated Galvatron, {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part One}} who told her that he was in fact the ghost of a Galvatron from another dimension and that Unicron's actions were threatening to destroy all of space-time. He then tried to possess Megaempress, but was stopped in his tracks by [[Grand Scourge]], giving Megaempress the opportunity to neutralize both of them by knocking them into a dimensional portal. Forming Megatronia again, she helped the other combiners defeat Unicron, then took a bubble bath while thinking of a new plan to conquer Cybertron. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}}

During another bath session, Megaempress had her back washed by Flowspade. {{storylink|Customary Car Wash Meeting in the Bath!}}

===Legends World===
A [[Valentine's Day]]-themed billboard of Megaempress wrapped up like a sexy present appeared on a building in the [[Legends World]]. {{storylink|LGEX Headmaster Set Chapter}}

===''Legends'' comic===
Megaempress was among the evil [[Kreon]]s summoned by [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] to conquer the [[Legends World]]. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Special Chapter|Special Chapter}}

==Toys==
===''Unite Warriors''===
[[File:TF-Unite-Warriors-UWEX-Megaempress.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Every fan's gender swapped fan-fiction finally realized.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatronia''' (Multi-pack, [[2017]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[January 31]], 2017
:*''ID number'': '''UW-EX'''
:*''Accessories'': "Judge Pickel" axe

: ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' Megaempress is a Megatron-themed redeco of ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Pyra Magna (G1)#Toys|Pyra Magna]], herself a retool of ''Combiner Wars'' [[Hot Spot (G1)#Combiner Wars|Hot Spot]]. She transforms into a fire truck resembling a modified Rosenbauer Panther 6x6, with a working ladder-boom. Unlike many iterations of this mold, she has correctly-assembled knee struts.

: As a ''Combiner Wars'' Voyager mold, she can also form the torso to a super-robot, compatible with any Deluxe-Class ''Combiner Wars''-style limb-bots, though her nominal placement is with her teammates as [[Megatronia#Toys|Megatronia]]. Her "Judge Pickel" weapon combines with those of her teammates to form Megatronia's "[[Destopia]]" sword.

: She was only available as part of the [[TakaraTomy Mall]] [[exclusive]] Megatronia box set, the fifth of six sets sold through the outlet, packed in with [[Flowspade#Toys|Flowspade]], [[Lunaclub#Toys|Lunaclub]], [[Moonheart#Toys|Moonheart]], and [[Trickdiamond#Toys|Trickdiamond]].
:*[[Source:Transformers Unite Warriors#Megaempress|''Unite Warriors'' Megaempress bio translation]]
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==Notes==
*Megaempress is something of a counterpart to [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] in the way the both of them were (re)created alongside their partner and in that they both have a [[special power]].
*Megaempress's special power is not well-defined. When she first talks about it in "Megatronia Chapter", she says that Transformers can't resist her ability to turn them into her slaves, giving no other qualifiers, but later more specifically says that men can't resist her, which could just as well be a true limitation as just aggressive flirting. At least according to Galvatron in "Ruination Chapter, Part Two", Megaempress's power doesn't work on ghosts.

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Flowspade

2026-03-21T15:36:14Z

Arceespinkgun: Removing trivia in Notes for now: see talk page for more info

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:''Flowspade is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:UW-Flowspade.jpg|thumb|300px|"Y'all in for a visit from Aunt Flowspade!"]]

Originally an agent of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], '''Flowspade''' (フロウスペード ''Furōsupēdo'') abandoned her spying role to serve [[Megaempress]], the very bot whose ranks she was assigned to infiltrate. She now serves as one of the charismatic fembot's [[4 Guards]]. Her weapon of choice is the [[Tornado Cutter]], a shuriken that can cause cyclones as an extension of her power over wind.

Flowspade combines with her 4 teammates to form the mighty [[Megatronia]].

==Fiction==
===''Unite Warriors''===
Mistrusting Megaempress, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had Flowspade infiltrate her 4 Guards, but the spy ended up being swayed by Megaempress's charisma and became truly loyal to her. {{storylink|#Unite Warriors|''Unite Warriors'' Flowspade bio}} Shockwave had her and Megaempress sealed away in his base until [[2021]], when the other Guards freed them. {{storylink|Megatronia Chapter}} She and the rest of Megaempress's retinue then observed a battle between [[Grand Galvatron]] and [[Sky Reign]]. {{Storylink|Sky Reign Chapter}}

When Megaempress and 4 Guards joined the battle, Flowspade took on [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] and [[Roller (G1)|Roller]], using her "Transplay" ninja technique to forcibly transform them into giant fist weapons that she wielded into battle with the [[Autobot]]s present. Granted the ability to combine by Sky Reign's [[joint energon]], the team then merged into Megatronia to fight [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. {{storylink|Megatronia Chapter}} Flowspade stood ready to protect Megaempress when [[Unicron]] interrupted the battle, {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part One}} and came to her defense when [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]]'s ghostly form attacked her. After helping defeat Unicron as part of Megatronia, she enjoyed a bath together with her empress. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}}

During another bathing occasion, Flowspade was responsible for washing Megatronia's back. {{storylink|Customary Car Wash Meeting in the Bath!}}

==Toys==
===''Unite Warriors''===
[[File:TF-Unite-Warriors-UWEX-Flowspade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb| Surprisingly, not [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]]. ]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatronia''' (Multi-pack, [[2017]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[January 31]], 2017
:*''ID number'': '''UW-EX'''
:*''Accessories'': "Tornado Cutter" shuriken

: ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' Flowspade is a redeco of ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Dust Up#Toys|Dust Up]], herself a [[retool]] of Deluxe Class [[Dead End (G1)#Combiner Wars|Dead End]]. She transforms into a sports car that resembles a Ferrari 458 Italia.

: As a ''Combiner Wars'' Deluxe mold, she can also form an arm or leg to any compatible super-robot, though her nominal placement is as the right leg to [[Megatronia#Toys|Megatronia]]. Her "Tornado Cutter" weapon combines with those of her teammates to form Megatronia's "[[Destopia]]" sword.

:Flowspade's lower forearms are pretty close in size with the ''Combiner Wars''/''Unite Warriors'' combiner connections, and as such—much like the image at the top of this article—one can slot her arms inside the chest-cavities that the combiner pegs store in; with a fair amount of friction to hold them without falling out too easily. However, one must also be aware that this was not its intended purpose and so there is a small tab on either forearm that prevents them from going in all the way—so don't force anything! Also be mindful that being a Deluxe Class figure, attaching another Deluxe to either of her arms will result in her becoming ''very'' top-heavy. This can also be achieved with any other use of the mold with these forearms.

: She was only available as part of the [[TakaraTomy Mall]] [[exclusive]] Megatronia box set, the fifth of six sets sold through the outlet, packed in with [[Megaempress#Toys|Megaempress]], [[Lunaclub#Toys|Lunaclub]], [[Moonheart#Toys|Moonheart]], and [[Trickdiamond#Toys|Trickdiamond]].
:*[[Source:Transformers Unite Warriors#Flowspade|''Unite Warriors'' Flowspade bio translation]]
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Talk:Flowspade

2026-03-21T15:33:00Z

Arceespinkgun: Created page with "==Was she really inspired by Nightbird?== ---- It's easy to mistake Flowspade for Nightbird, but I don't feel convinced Flowspade and her relationship are based upon Nightbir..."

==Was she really inspired by Nightbird?==
----

It's easy to mistake Flowspade for Nightbird, but I don't feel convinced Flowspade and her relationship are based upon Nightbird and interpretations of her relationship with Megatron. I can't find a source on this, and given the inspirations of Lunaclub and Moonheart and how they're each mentioned in their bios, wouldn't it make more sense if Flowspade had been based on Shockwave, who's mentioned in her bio? Starting with Shockfleet/Mirage in the Unicron Trilogy, in various Japanese media Shockwave's been portrayed as being in love with Megatron. See the Q-Transformers show that aired before the 4 Guards appeared in media, for example. Thoughts? --[[User:Arceespinkgun|Arceespinkgun]] ([[User talk:Arceespinkgun|talk]]) 11:33, 21 March 2026 (EDT)

Talk:Transformer romance

2026-02-19T11:21:27Z

Arceespinkgun: Question about SG Crasher, Darkwing, and Cyclonus

==Romances==
Should the romance section possibly be moved from [[Female Transformer|here]] to its own article? It seems to be quite a bit large for a subsection of this one, and could reasonably be expanded upon. Some material from [[Reproduction]] might be relevant to such a new article as well. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:03, 26 December 2009 (EST)
:That might not be a bad idea... considering we have articles for stuff like relatives, reproduction, "sexuality" in the Humanization article, and robot/squishie romances, it seems like an odd omission to not really have a dedicated robot/robot romance article. Or rather, currently all of our robot/robot romance stuff is kind of scattered around in various places of said other articles. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 14:47, 26 December 2009 (EST)

:Actually, I have been wanting to write a "Romance" (because "Sexuality" is only a bit less correct term) article for quite some time, merging this article's Romance section, Robot-Fleshling romance and a bit from the Humanization article's Sexuality section into one (and adding a much-needed list of those cases in which a Transformer's interest didn't go to something alive). However, thus far I have not found the time to get to it. Would greatly appreciate to see someone else make a start. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 14:48, 26 December 2009 (EST)
:P.S., you know, if no one else does it within twelve hours, I will kick myself to finally do it. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 15:04, 26 December 2009 (EST)
::[[User:Ninjabot33/Romance|Done]]. Feel free to give advice in it's talk page 'cos it's not that great. --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 17:55, 13 January 2010 (EST)
:::You may want to join forces with Geewunling: "User:Geewunling/Romance-Sandbox" --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:03, 13 January 2010 (EST)

==Organization==
I've always thought that the Examples lists need some serious sorting; probably by Continuity, then alphabetically. The usage of storylinks seems kind of random too, in terms of whether they're used or not. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:35, 27 December 2009 (EST)

:I agree the lists ain't pretty looking as is. Sorting them by continuity is a good idea, as is alphabetically. However, the Transformer/Transformer list can't be done alphabetically because of the involvement of two Transformers who both can influence the placement. I could arrange it real-life chronically, but that puts forth the question if for consistency I shouldn't all arrange them like that.

:The storylinks had me in doubt too. On one hand, they might be redundant because the information should be on the character pages linked to anyway. On the other, they are useful in that they help anyone searching for the source finding it. My policy to adding storylinks was if there were one or more continuitioes/continuity parts in which a specific relation happened, and if (arguably) more than one, not to add a storylink. I.E., Arcee's been involved with Hot Rod in about three continuities - no need to source that. On the other hand, Clipper was with Holi only in the Victory cartoon, so she gets a link (even despite her page showing she, in fact, only appeared in the Victory cartoon continuity). However, I am no expert on all parts of Transformers, and some therefore miss a link simply because I don't know what to source it with.

:Which also brings me to the point I wish to take a few relations off the list. I remember TFA OP/Ba was at first not on the list because their relation was not necessarily of romantic nature. I am not familiar with the Animated universe enough to judge, so I'd appreciate someone who is giving their opinion. Two other uncertain cases are Armada Starscream/Alexis and BW Tigatron/Snowstalker. Plus, I already removed First One/Cloudburst because the Transformer in there never felt anything for the organic, and I think the perspective of this article should be Transformer attitude towards relations. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 02:46, 28 December 2009 (EST)
::I'd say just pick the TF in each pairing whose name comes first alphabetically and go by that, except in cases like Arcee where the character has more than one significant other. I agree that continuity is likely the main useful sorting criterion, though.
::I'd agree on removing TFA OP/BA... they never seemed to have much of a relationship outside of BA kind of flirting with ''every'' mech who seemed the least bit interested. Or it could go under a heading of "One-sided attractions", which is where things like Cloudburst and the First One could go. (I'm not sure discounting the squishies entirely makes sense... the one-sided infatuations like Alexis and the First One ''are'' sometimes plot points, after all...) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 03:03, 28 December 2009 (EST)

:::Not only cases like Arcee, but also one-sided cases can't always be done to alphabetical standards. Jackpot is the only counting component in his attempts to relations, so Airazor can't logically be made the first name.
:::Heh, I'm not overly sure about adding that kind of heading as well. Things are already looking pretty busy from my current (not yet saved) continutiy header additions. I'm not sure if it will be for the better to give specific attention to one-sided interest. But upon reevaluation, I think Cloudburst/First One should and can be mentioned in the yet-to-be-written Transformer/organic text.
:::So to be certain this is correct: There is no romantical note between TFA OP and Ba and Alexis had clear romantic feelings for Starscream rather than friendship?
:::And then I have two questions I need help/advice on. Firstly, from what I understand from SG Elita-One's page, she snuggles up to anyone with power. While I assume she and Rodimus go specific in Blitzwing Bop, c/should there be added a Thunderblast-ish note about power (perhaps linking to Optimus)? And secondly, I do feel there ought to be some mention about the straight-gay balance in TF, but I don't want it as aggressive as the Robot-Fleshling romance page currently has, yet more explained/prominent than the current Female Transformer page has. I don't know how to incorporate it. Thoughts? [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 03:42, 28 December 2009 (EST)
::::You know, I honestly have no clue on Elita. On the one hand, her being a Thunderblast type certainly is a valid interpretation that would fit in with her personality and the Autobot culture.
::::On the other hand, there's really nothing to indicate that she ever liked Optimus, and if she's infatuated with Rodimus then of course she'd fawn over his leadership abilities. (Plus there's something appropriately lateral about Elita having been Roddy's girl instead of Optimus's.)
::::So... yeah. Dunno on that one. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:27, 31 January 2010 (EST)

==Getting near==
And that's about most I can come up with for this article. Aside from the three missing pieces of citation, I'd appreciate some second opinions on what I've been trying to accomplish. Anything I've missed, anything to be better organized or anything that could be removed - whatever before it can properly replace the loose covering the tfwiki currently features. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 16:11, 31 January 2010 (EST)

==Robot-fleshling talk==
What about Tigatron and Snowstalker? Snowstalker is a "fleshling," I would say, but the text of the article explicitly targets humans. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
:Hrmm...well, the article actually only refers to 'sapient' creatures, which was done on purpose to include sapient non-human aliens like the First One of Femax and Alana, but Snowstalker isn't sapient...I could see her being, um, 'interested' in his tiger mode...but romance requires equal parts from both parties. Anything between Tiggy and Snowy would be a masquerade on his part and confusion on her part. Leave it to you to bring mecha-alien-bestiality into the discussion. *shudder*I should have left the Pandora's box closed... --[[User:Autobus Prime|Autobus Prime]] 19:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
:: It's more like homosexual-mecha-alien-bestiality-clonecest ;) as Snowstalker was most likely Tigertron's genetic templete, white Tigers are quite rare in captivity, let alone the wild [[User:X-BoB58|X-BoB58]] 21:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
:::First One is human. Cloudburst calls her one in that very issue. Yes, I know. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
:::Or maybe it's Landmine who does. But anyway. Humans are apparently anybody who looks human, of any size, regardless of whether they're from Earth or not. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:08, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

::::The female from Pzaz is also human. Or as Dreadwing put it- "Big fir a human." I think the term is beign thrown around like it's root- humanoid. So if it looks Human-y, call it a human. -[[User:Derik|derik]]

:::::Well, shit. They're all "robots" to '''us''', far be it from them to distinguish all bilaterally symmetrical, upright walking, speaking-by-means-of-meat-flaps-in-the-neck organic life forms from each other. If a pile of cardboard boxes covered in tin foil and duck-tape, an arm that welds cars together, K-9, and Optimus Prime are all "robots", then I'm pretty sure that anything that remotely resembles us is gonna be "humans" to a robot. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 04:09, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

:::There's also "The Greater Ape", that unproduced Beast Wars s1 story about Primal losing his memory and falling in love (or whatever) with a female gorilla. But I don't know if that'd go anywhere here. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 16:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Arcee and Daniel is a ''romance''? Bwuh?? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 02:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
:DANIEL WITWICKY
:Huhh... it's good to be together again. Arcee, I just wanna say... Arcee, I... I...
:ARCEE
:You don't have to, Daniel. I feel the same way, too.
::Gross. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:21, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
:::I don't buy the idea that their relationship is romantic in nature at all. It's more of mother/son thing, it's about Arcee being stereotypically characterized as having "maternal instincts." They are not a couple. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 02:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
::::I thought so too, until that scene. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:27, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

:::::I always figured people were making a joke when they pointed to that scene as being icky. Like Kil, I think it's just awkwardly written, and to me, has no romantic subtext at all. Daniel's too young to be interested in "romance" anyway. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 04:44, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

::::::TFTM takes place in 2005, Danial is about 10 years old, 2010 takes place in 2010, there for Danial is 15, so in at least one continuity he is old enough.
:::::::I thought you were leaving, X-Bob. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
::::::::I was and mabie still am...
:::::::::I can help enforce it, if you want. It'd be pretty easy. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:32, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
:::::::Daniel is clearly much younger than 15 during the course of ''Headmasters''. The years the shows are set it may say otherwise, but he is not portrayed in a way consistant with those years. He seems in that series to have not aged at all, or at most a year or two, since the events of the movie. He can't possibly be old enough. Further, the events of the Japanese series are irrelevant ANYWAY because the supposed romance occurs in The Rebirth. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 22:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

:::::::: Daniel seems to REGRESS about five years for Headmasters anyway. Good lord. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 22:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

We should probably put the source of the pairings in there, maybe in parentheses or something. e.g. Jazz and Marissa Faireborn (Dreamwave G1) - [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 23:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

So what about [[Kelly (RID)|Kelly]] and [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]]? I know Side Burn was hitting on Kelly's red sports cars, but she always seemed to ''think'' he was stalking her. In the last episode they show a little heart around the two of them before the credits and all. That qualify as some kind of human-fleshling romance, even if it's a misunderstanding on part of one of the characters? --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 20:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)\\

:Dunno. I suppose that stalking is considered romantic in Romantic Comedy Land. (DULL AMUSEMENT) Was there any indication earlier that he was, um, interested in her? If not, I'd say the 'equal interest from both parties' bit mentioned waaaay up there would cut 'em out, waaay out.--[[User:Autobus Prime|Autobus Prime]] 20:59, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

*Yeah, they made it clear in one of the first episodes that Side Burn had no interest in Kelly whatsoever, just her cars. I think the scene went that her car was falling apart, Side Burn was all "NOOOO!" and tried to catch the car, leaving Kelly to fall to her death (she was saved at the last second by Prowl, though).--[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 21:25, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
:In one episode, Sideburn actually says "Hey lady, it's not you I want--it's your car!" --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 17:57, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
::Okay, so what about the time Side Burn was all hot for Disguised Red Megatron? -[[User:LV|LV]] 20:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

===Ariel?===

Wasn't Ariel a robot, just like Orion Pax?
[[User:JW|JW]] 18:20, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
:Yup.--[[User:Autobotx1010|Autobotx1010]] 17:47, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

===Masterforce-esque Pretenders===
Hi.

One thing which seems to be missing from the article shown is the issue of what kind of changes the [[Pretender]] process as featured in ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]'' might have on the biomechs who undergo it - not least, when it comes to forming bonds with humans or other sentient organics.

If a biomech is reconstituted into an organic body - such as a human, in the case of [[Metalhawk (G1)|Metalhawk]] and his Pretender team - would the issue not be somewhat different than if they solely remained as biomechs?

Indeed, in the first ep of Masterfore, one of the team ([[Lander|Lander]]) is in the middle of a date, when he gets a call from Metalhawk, then unceremoniously ditches his partner and rushes off to save the day.

Which would have been better had he not left her in a flash like an idiot, nor rushed into activating his Pretender armour while she could still see him!

Sigh.

But if the Pretender 'shell' in ''Super-God Masterforce'' is essentially a cybertronic life form disguised at a sub-atomic level within an organic human body, all of a sudden said life form would have to deal with all sorts of weird and unusual sensations, like having to eat, use a razor, brush one's teeth - or wonder why he suddenly finds one or more of the female (or male?) humans nearby somewhat more interesting than would have been the case prior to becoming a Pretender... --[[User:Nerroth|Nerroth]] 00:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

==Alice==
Would Alice and Sam in ROTF qualify? He didn't know she was a robot or that she was just trying to get his brain, but she did have her tongue down his throat (almost literally). [[User:Riddlerj|Riddlerj]] 12:18, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
:He thought she was human and she only seduced him to get something from him, not because she liked him. So, no. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 02:08, 1 February 2010 (EST)

==Strika & Obsidian==
There seems to be some vehemence about Strika's status (or not) as a female.

While I agree that there is no 'definitive' evidence that Strika is female, neither is there 'definitive' evidence that most TFs are male, yet we have no difficulty accepting that fact. To dismiss the (in my view) quite reasonable assumption that Strika is female as 'fan-conjecture' ignores a number of common-sense factors:

*The fact that in the cartoon she was voiced by female voice actor - there is no instance I can recall of a female TF character being voiced by a male actor or vice versa.

*That she is referred to as Obsidian's consort (rather than associate) is not insignificant. There is a nuance of meaning in the term that implies that they are not merely associates, but their relationship would be more similar to that of husband and wife, or domestic companions. The primary meaning of consort is the spouse of a monarch, which would sit well with Obsidian's perceived status.

On this basis, I think that it is reasonable to assert that Strika is intended to be a female character until there is conclusive evidence to the contrary. Perhaps she should be included in this listing, with a disclaimer about lack of formal evidence. To do otherwise would smack of legalistic hair-splitting.

:...I wasn't aware this was even in doubt. It'd require a fairly baroque misreading of Beast Machines to make Strika a dude. (BWR might change that.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 04:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
: I was also unaware. How can she not be a girl? ''Her tech spec calls her a girl.'' --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 04:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
: I'd like to third this "what the hell?". --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 04:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

::...what do you mean fan-conjecture? He identifies her as his consort. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 06:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:::http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consort 
:::Of the SIX DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS, several of which are military in nature, only ONE is romantic. And again, there is absolutely fuck-all outside of one word with multiple accurate non-romatic applications to suggest any form of romance between the two. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 06:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

::::Really? Huh, I didn't think any of the other definitions actually fit...
::::''1. a husband or wife; spouse, esp. of a reigning monarch. Compare PRINCE CONSORT , QUEEN CONSORT.
::::''2. one ship accompanying another.
::::''3. a. a group of instrumentalists and singers who perform music, esp. old music. b. a group of instruments of the same family, as viols, played in concert.
::::''4. a companion, associate, or partner.
::::''5. accord or agreement.
::::That leaves us #1 or #4... on reflection, the way Obsidian says it really '''does''' fit #4 better. *checks TF ultimate guide*Huh, there it calls her his cohort, which again seems to support Obsidian meant she was his partner, not sexytime toy.
::::Perhaps there should be a note on the Strika page? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 07:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::Er... perhaps there should be a Strika page? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 07:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

::::::Ah, I think I follow something of the "WTF?" I have created - the conjecture is not about Strika's status as a female, but about the nature of the relationship with Obsidian implied from this. Apologies for this misreading.

::::::Having said this, some fundamental points remain - yes, there are 6 definitions of consort, but these are not equal or interchangeable - the most common or accepted usage of the term is almost always the one defined first.

::::::If the creators of Beast Machines had intended a more neutral relationship like associate, partner or companion, they could easily have used those words, and thus have prevented this current debate. However, the fact that they chose to use the word consort does make certain implications far more reasonable. There have been few (if any) female TFs introduced who did not have some manner of romantic or intimate entanglement. Since there is little doubt of Strika's gender, it is reasonable on this basis to assert that Obsidian and Strika were in an interdependent relationship similar to a marriage. Whether this included physical intimacy is neither here nor there, since many marriages can be founded on mutual attachment without intimacy. We can debate the nature of romance until the cows come home, though this wiki is probably not the best forum for this.

::::::So, relationship or not? --[[User:Sofaman|Sofaman]] 12:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

::::::::It's been awhile since I watched BM... (I hope to get the DVD set for Christmas) but did Obsidian ever show any affection for Strika? Any sign or romantic involvement aside from calling her his consort? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 13:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::::::::: Not really. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 15:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

==Edit revoke==
Why? [[User:Keeyong|CKY]] 06:37, 27 April 2009 (EDT)

Can't answer that question quite as I don't watch TFA, but I've removed that pairing from the list some time ago when behind it came "but it's unclear if their relation is of a romantic level", or something like that. I would guess by that and the reversion that it's currently unclear if they are ''romantically'' involved or just friends. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 07:27, 27 April 2009 (EDT)

==Suggestion for addition to the romances list==
I propose [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] - [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]]. [[User:ZeldaTheSwordsman|ZeldaTheSwordsman]] 12:47, 31 August 2009 (EDT)
: Despite my jokes to the contrary, I really don't think so. There wasn't any romance between them at all, just notions of competition. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 12:53, 31 August 2009 (EDT)
:: There's a lot of fan art out there that would show this but since Override was originally male I don't think there would be an intentional relationship between the two. Still I do like this idea.--[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 16:58, 25 November 2009 (EST)
Key word. Fan [[User:Eire]] 22.15 Nov 25 09 (UTC)
:That was my point. My ideas ar often influenced by watching too many tribute or couples videos on youtube. My one suggestion is [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] - [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] but I'm not sure that really had enough in the fiction other than him worrying about her safety. Also if [[Mega]] counts as a female transformer then her and [[Giga]]. --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 17:18, 25 November 2009 (EST)
::We're kind of going for romances that have actually been stated as such or at least strongly hinted at in the fiction. Because trust me, many of the popular "fan ships" have pretty much zero fictional support. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:26, 25 November 2009 (EST)
:::Go read the [[Transformer romance#Transformer - organic|Transformer - organic romance section]] not too many aren't just slightly hinted at or are just fan ships. --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 17:43, 25 November 2009 (EST)
::::Er... those are all pretty obvious and/or the subject of in-fiction innuendo, actually. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:57, 25 November 2009 (EST)
:::::Sorry to say this but I don't understand what you just said. I'm not sure anything was really hinted at between [[Snowstalker]] and [[Tigatron]] at least and still not all of them could be considered as official ones. But lets get back on the matter at hand now OK? I don't feel like arguing too much about what relationships are really hinted at or not. --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 18:07, 25 November 2009 (EST)
::::::Um. That ''is'' the matter at hand. We only include romances with strong in-fiction support/hints on both lists. Ratchet, for instance, doesn't show any potentially romantic feelings towards Arcee other than caring about and being protective of her, and by that criterion you have even more evidence for him and Omega Supreme than you do he and her. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:19, 25 November 2009 (EST)
:::::::Didn't I just say I didn't want to argue about it anymore? Just leave it! When I said about Ratchet and Arcee I just thought they seemed a lot like a likely pair but if you don't want that on the list fine. Can we just stop this now? I'm getting tired. --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 18:28, 25 November 2009 (EST)
::::::::I was discussing the matter at hand that you brought up. If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up. Just sayin'. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:57, 25 November 2009 (EST)
:::::::::When I said "matter at hand" I was reffering to Fembots instead of Robot-fleshling romance. OK? Also you were bugging me about how it didn't have actual evidence in the fiction which is what I already said. --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 10:21, 26 November 2009 (EST)
::::::::::Like I said, the same criteria applies to both lists, fembot-mech romances as well as human-TF ones. You made some suggestions, I pointed out why they didn't quite fit. That's the point of Talk pages (one of them anyway): you make a suggestion for the article and see if other folks agree. Don't get so upset if people don't. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 10:35, 26 November 2009 (EST)
:::::::::::Fine but you could have just said there isn't enough fictional evidence and had it over with but instead you made it sound kind of insulting. Can we talk about something else now? I don't think there's enough room left to discuss this any further.--[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 10:41, 26 November 2009 (EST)

I have a suggestion: Ransack and the cute scooter he dumped. {{storylink|Landmine (episode)}} I don't know where to put that since they didn't say if she was a transformer or not. --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 12:27, 2 February 2010 (EST)
:I think the best guess from the context is "Transformer", so I'll put it there. Oh, and while I finished up this article alone, I took several items you added to your sandbox-list, so credit where credit's due. But... you may want to have your sandbox outright deleted now that you don't need it anymore. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 12:58, 2 February 2010 (EST)

Heh, the note about Saber and Clipper made me wonder... while not strictly romantic, is it worth noting that Cliffjumper seemed rather flustered talking about fembot curviness in "Eye in the Sky"? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 12:52, 2 February 2010 (EST)
:I am not sure on that one. I wish to do an update on the Female Transformer page soon now that this is out of the way, and I'd guess that sort of information is slightly more suited for an appearance/definition/intro section of that article. Not that this information can't be on both, but I wouldn't know where to place it in this article. Or do you have a suggestion? [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 12:58, 2 February 2010 (EST)
::Actually, now that you make me think of it, perhaps Female Transformer would be a better spot (as CJ perhaps seems more flustered by Crasher's shape than by Crasher herself). --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 13:42, 2 February 2010 (EST)
:::Yeah, in that case, making a connection to get it suitable for inclusion here is going to be tough. I definitely see value for it in the aforementioned article (section). I kinda like the idea of morphing the "Appearance" section into a "Definition" section to include male vs. female attitude. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 13:58, 2 February 2010 (EST)

May I ask where a [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] - [[Afterburn]] would go (specified of course) since Sari is part robot and part human but also because Afterburn wasn't really y'know alive. --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 13:48, 28 February 2010 (EST)

:My suggestion is TF - TF with a footnote we don't know whether her crush comes from her Cybertronian half or is unrelated to it. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 17:00, 28 February 2010 (EST)

Is the lack of a [[Ratchet (Animated)]] - [[Arcee (Animated)]] an oversight or am I the only one who sees a relationship here? [[User:Gearbox|Gearbox]]
:I think the problem is that they only knew each other for a little while before she went into a coma for a few million years. They didn't really know each other long enough to have a romance, per se. Mutual attraction, certainly, but not romance. -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 18:37, 6 June 2010 (EDT)

Should someone mention [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]]'s creepy obsession with [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] being "pleased" with him? Like in [[:Image:Forced Fusion Skybytedelusion.jpg|this image]]. Or isn't that romantic looking enough? --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 13:52, 28 June 2010 (EDT)

[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] - [[Kita (G1)|Kita]] {{storylink|Spotlight: Cliffjumper}}? --[[User:Ninjabot33|Ninjabot33]] 16:41, 20 October 2010 (EDT)

...Mrs. Darby seems to have a thing for Optimus, if [[Metal Attraction]] is any indication. That title takes on a whole new meaning if she wasn't kidding. --[[Special:Contributions/72.215.154.250|72.215.154.250]] 10:27, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

What about EarthSpark Megatron and Dorothy Malto? I feel it's heavily implied that Megatron has a thing for Dorothy. [[User:Kiké Prime|Kiké Prime]] ([[User talk:Kiké Prime|talk]]) 03:59, 2 October 2023 (EDT)

==The Twins==

Are you sure that their dialogue reflects some kind of sexual attraction towards their respective vehicle modes? [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 10:22, 28 September 2011 (EDT)

:Frankly, I don't believe so. I hear gear heads talk about their rides like that sometimes. Besides, the Twins are jackasses. --[[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] 16:53, 16 December 2011 (EST)
:: Rewatching the scene; to me, it sounds like they're going to use their vehicle modes to ''pick up'' members of the opposite sex (or whatever their equivalent.) [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 17:28, 16 December 2011 (EST)

==Cliff/Arcee?==

Is the potential relationship hinted at between Cliffjumper and Arcee in ''Prime'' worth noting, or too conjectural at this point? It seemed like a pretty heavy hint to me, but at the same time since there's no proof... --[[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] 16:55, 16 December 2011 (EST)

== Arcee/Optimus? ==
I was wondering if maybe [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] counted for a romance because in {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}they hold hands when they think they are gonna die and in {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}} Arcee remarks Optimus has "steady hands" {{unsigned|Waitwhatareyouasking}}
:The holding hands in [[Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap]] was a comforting gesture, since they both thought they were about to die. As for the "steady hands" remark, I am ''completely'' lost as to how that hints at a romance. And always remember to.....'''''sign your posts!''''' -- [[User:Spydersix|spyder]] 13:52, 13 June 2012 (EDT)
:Because any sign of affection or kindness under any circumstances from a female MUST mean she's romantically attracted to you. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 16:34, 13 June 2012 (EDT)
Sorry been reading to many [[fanfic]]

== Addition to the list from Of Masters and Mayhem? ==

[[Foundation and Wreckage Part 1: Deadly Aim|Deadly Aim]] seems to pretty heavily pair up [[Alpha Bravo]] and [[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]]. It's never explicitly stated that they're romantically involved, but it's one of those cases where it basically pushes it as hard as it can ''without'' directly stating it. The wiki's page on it states as much. Is this grounds for adding them to The List? [[User:DuplexBeGreat|DuplexBeGreat]] ([[User talk:DuplexBeGreat|talk]]) 05:05, 16 September 2017 (EDT)

== Okay for this wiki? ==
I'm not quite sure this is staying in the ''appropriate'' guidelines of the wiki. [[User:Skywarp Prime|Skywarp Prime]] ([[User talk:Skywarp Prime|talk]]) 15:35, 11 June 2019 (EDT)Skywarp Prime
: It is. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 16:19, 11 June 2019 (EDT)
Yeah okay. [[User:Skywarp Prime|Skywarp Prime]] ([[User talk:Skywarp Prime|talk]]) 18:01, 12 June 2019 (EDT)Skywarp Prime

== Addition from Coalescence? ==

This is similar to a question above about Alpha Bravo and Offroad. [[Coalescence]] depicts SG Windblade and SG Strongarm as a couple and they're on the List, which makes sense, but what about the SG versions of [[Darkwing (SG)|Darkwing]], [[Crasher (SG)|Crasher]], and [[Cyclonus (SG)|Cyclonus]]? Didn't Jesse Wittenrich even say they had romantic interest in each other? [[User:Arceespinkgun|Arceespinkgun]] ([[User talk:Arceespinkgun|talk]]) 06:21, 19 February 2026 (EST)

Talk:Legacy of Hope

2026-02-13T01:31:22Z

Arceespinkgun:

I hate to say it, but is the pronunciation of Prima's name as "Pree-ma" (noted as an error on this page) in this episode actually an error? I know I've always read it as "Pry-ma," but Rik Alvarez and Aaron Archer both consistently seem to pronounce it as "Pree-ma," (source: various TFCon panels, most recently the Biner of Revelation panel at TFCon Chicago 2025) and it is my understanding that they are essentially the creators of the character, at least in terms of how we know him today as a member of the Thirteen. - [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] [[User talk:Queso|Complain here]] 13:53, 10 January 2026 (EST)
: I agree that it's not an error, I think it's simply been inconsistent for a long time. Prima's page under Notes does say that in recent media it has been "Pry-ma" (which I also personally like more) but I think calling the other way incorrect is a stretch. [[User:Arceespinkgun|Arceespinkgun]] ([[User talk:Arceespinkgun|talk]]) 20:31, 12 February 2026 (EST)

Liegian Darts

2026-02-13T01:27:57Z

Arceespinkgun:

{{factions|liegemaximo}}

[[File:LegacyofHope-LiegianDartAllSpark.jpeg|thumb|300px|It changed the AllSpark's setting from "blow" to "suck."]]

The '''Liegian Darts''' are the [[Artifacts of the Primes|artifact]] of the [[Liege Maximo]]. The darts contained powerful toxins designed to incapacitate Maximo's foes in various ways once they entered the body.

==Fiction==
===''The Covenant of Primus''===
Liege Maximo used his darts to poison [[Unicron]] during the [[Thirteen]]'s war with the Chaos-Bringer, although they didn't hurt Unicron nearly as much as Maximo's acid tongue. {{Storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
[[Airachnid (G1)|Airachnid]] cited the Darts as one of the artifacts of the Primes that had gone missing after the Age of the Primes. {{storylink|Light/Star}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
Upon escaping the "lightless void" that he'd been imprisoned in, Liege Maximo returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] found the [[AllSpark]] and embedded one of his Darts in it, causing the AllSpark to begin leeching [[energon]] into itself rather than healing the planet. This allowed Liege Maximo to strictly control the Transformers' supply of energon and take control of the planet. {{storylink|Legacy of Hope}}

When the [[space bridge]] to Earth was reopened, Maximo sent [[Hot Rod (ES)|Hot Rod]] through to retrieve the [[Emberstone]], the Autobot using a Dart to reconstitute it from the [[cyber-sleeve]]s. {{storylink|Hometown Heroes}}

When the other Autobots followed to Cybertron, Liege Maximo used the Liegian Darts to battle [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] when he made an escape from Liege's base. [[Robby Malto]]'s group meanwhile found the poisoned AllSpark and removed the Dart, allowing it to start healing the planet and collapsing Maximo's plan. {{storylink|Legacy of Hope}}
{{--}}

==Games==
[[File:Liegian Darts Transformers Galactic Trials.jpg|thumb|80px]]
===''Transformers: Galactic Trials''===
The Liegian Darts were an artifact that could be acquired. {{storylink|Transformers: Galactic Trials}}
{{--}}
==Toys==
===''Age of the Primes''===
[[File:AgeofthePrimestoy-LiegeMaximo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-pr11|'''The Thirteen Liege Maximo''' (Leader Class, [[2026]])}}</ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[[February 3]], [[2026]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzWSj4wlnqM Transformers Age of the Primes Deep Dive | In-Hand Look at the New Wave | February 2026] on YouTube, with [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]] and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref>

:The ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' [[Liege Maximo#Age of the Primes| incarnation of Liege Maximo]] comes with three of his signature Liegian Darts cast in translucent red plastic, designed to resemble the spaceships in the art seen in the Notes below, as well as a new launcher accessory which the darts can plug into.

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/DUl9pzSlO6o/ Designer commentary on ''Age of the Primes'' Liege Maximo from Mark Maher on Instagram]''

{{comingsoontoy}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
[[File:Alignment Liege Maximo.jpg|thumb]]
* The Liegian Darts originated as part of the so-called "[[Binder of Revelation]]"—an internal [[Hasbro]] document designed to align brand storytelling—and at the time they didn't seem to be taken from any of the Liege Maximo's previous (scant) appearances in fiction. Rather, it seems they were derived from a [[Geoff Senior]] illustration of the Liege Maximo produced for the unofficial "[[Alignment]]" story, as seen at right, which depicts the titanic Maximo sending forth three pointed spacecraft from his palm. Notably, this piece was reprinted in an official capacity in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'', a book which became the ''de facto'' reference text for the franchise for years afterwards. Out of context, the image could be interpreted as a less enormous Liege Maximo firing dart weapons from his hand. We were left to speculate until, shortly after the ''Age of the Primes'' toy reveal, the fandom uncovered a wealth of artwork that went into the production of the ''Autobot Alliance'' Immersive Experience in China that included a Liegian Dart represented by the design of one of the spaceships,<ref>[https://www.richardsearsdirector.com/immersive-transformers ''Autobot Alliance'' artwork on Richard Sears' online portfolio]</ref> meaning that Hasbro had considered them one and the same since 2017 at the latest. The exhibition featured a touchscreen game which required pairing each Prime with their signature artifact and included the spaceship/dart artwork (dartwork), meaning the fandom at large could have discovered this nine years before the ''Age of the Primes'' toy, if any of us had made the trip to Chongqing.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Artifacts of the Primes]]

Talk:Hometown Heroes

2026-02-12T23:49:45Z

Arceespinkgun: Created page with "I'm not fully convinced that Hot Rod being able to create a new Emberstone from the Cyber-sleeves is an error as it's currently listed. They were separate items, but Quintus P..."

I'm not fully convinced that Hot Rod being able to create a new Emberstone from the Cyber-sleeves is an error as it's currently listed. They were separate items, but Quintus Prime's essence or whatever was in both, and in the next episode we see a Liegian Dart reverse the Allspark's usual function, so I think that lines up pretty well with one reversing the creation of the Cyber-sleeves. [[User:Arceespinkgun|Arceespinkgun]] ([[User talk:Arceespinkgun|talk]]) 18:49, 12 February 2026 (EST)

Twitch

2025-12-27T19:28:05Z

Arceespinkgun: /* References */ Added her to the Matrix bearers category since she used the Matrix's powers in the finale

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:''Twitch is a [[Terran]] from the [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Twitch-earthspark-stock.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|I think I'm a drone now, the whirring of my blades is the only sound.]]

'''Twitch Malto''' arose from the [[water]]s of [[Earth]] with an inquisitive mind, a keen memory, and a fierce competitive streak. Twitch is enthusiastic, exuberant, and eager to learn... but she's also determined to be the best, and unafraid to use her knowledge to get the upper hand in whatever she deems a competition. This take-charge attitude can sometimes land her in unpredictable situations; fortunately, she's fast on her feet, clever enough to formulate a plan on the fly, and armed with an array of high-tech Cybertronian gadgets while in her drone [[alternate mode]].

As a member of the Malto family, Twitch is close to her adoptive brother [[Robby Malto|Robby]]; unlike her Terran brother [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], however, she also possesses a close connection with [[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]], the inventor of her alternate mode, whom she views as a "second father" of sorts. With the arrival of more Terrans, Twitch has gradually taken on a leadership position amongst her siblings.

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Kathreen Khavari]] (English), [[Zelda Williams]] (English, "[[The Imposters]]"), [[Chiwa Saitō]] (Japanese)|[[Lupita Leal]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Thaís Dutra]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Karine Foviau]] (French), [[Nadine Wöbs]] (German), [[Andhiya Putrikadita Saridiningrat]] (Indonesian), [[Irene Trotta]] (Italian), [[Julia Kołakowska]] (Polish), [[Lee Myeong-ho]] (Korean)}}

[[File:TwitchCreation SecretLegacyPart1.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Twitch and Thrash were brought online when Robby Malto and his sister [[Mo Malto|Mo]] made contact with the [[Emberstone]], and became emotionally bonded to them through their [[cyber-sleeve]]s. While the Terrans were initially afraid of the kids, they quickly warmed up to them. Unexpectedly manifesting a blaster when the group was attacked by an [[Arachnamech]], Twitch followed the Malto kids home to learn more about being a [[Transformer]]. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} While in the forest playing, Twitch encountered a Cybertronian drone sent by [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] which she inadvertently scanned as her alternate mode. She shot the drone down and she and Robby set about modifying it. They were able to use it to come to Thrash and Mo's rescue when the pair were menaced by an Arachnamech, only for the whole group to be surrounded by the critters until Optimus and [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] came to their aid. Optimus's attempt to have the two Terrans protected by [[G.H.O.S.T.]] resulted in them being captured by [[Mandroid]], and resulting in Optimus, [[Dot Malto]] and [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]] having to attack Mandroid's base and rescue them. Following the battle, Dot opted to take them under her protection, with Optimus assigning [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] as their tutor. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 2}}

The Terrans were uninterested in Bumblebee's tutelage, especially when Twitch found herself unable to transform. His attempts to participate in Malto Family Game Night resulted in Twitch raging at him, transforming and flying off, however she accidentally released the herd of cows, and while attempting to rescue [[Fluffy Ears]] from train tracks, became trapped in front of an oncoming train. With Bumblebee's help, she was able to transform and escape. {{storylink|Moo-ving In}} After Twitch and Thrash accidentally damaged the kitchen while fighting over a flag, Dot and Alex went over the house rules. Her interest piqued by the promise of rewards, Twitch threw herself into doing chores around the house so she could win the competition. This eventually resulted in Robby attempting to beat her in the number of stars earned, and they both managed to make a mess of the lawn. {{storylink|House Rules}}

[[File:TwitchHugsWheeljack Traditions.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
After Robby had a nightmare, Twitch sneaked out with him to look for foxes and ran into searching G.H.O.S.T. agents who assumed she was a Decepticon. The Terrans and their kid partners paid a visit to Dot's ranger station work, but G.H.O.S.T. activity resulted in them having to try to keep a low profile, which ended up with them falling into a trap intended for Decepticons. Optimus extracted them from the trap and hid them in his trailer in the G.H.O.S.T. base, only for them to venture out and become stuck in one of Megatron's training sims. They were able to complete the sim by working together, and Optimus later smuggled them out of the base. {{storylink|Classified}} Thrash and Twitch listened to Alex's story about the dreaded [[Wakwak]]. Interested in the idea of a family tradition, Twitch tried unsuccessfully to get Robby to help her establish one, and ended up running into [[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]] while looking for Alex. After learning that the drone she took her alternate mode from was one of his creations, Twitch considered him "Dad2" and helped him track down some Arachnamechs for study. She later introduced him to the rest of her family. {{storylink|Traditions}}

The two Terrans found themselves increasingly experiencing malfunctions while training with Bumblebee, which they put down to emotional overflow from Robby and Mo, who were about to start their first day of school. After Bumblebee took the Terrans to school as a scouting mission, their emotional link caused the kids to experience motor control malfunctions as well, resulting in Robby telling them to go home. Twitch, however, slipped into a zombie-like state and went to a spot in the forest where she began blasting the ground. The ground eventually gave way, plunging her, Thrash, Bumblebee and the kids into a cave where the two Terrans became so low on energy, they went into a form of [[stasis lock]]. Fortunately, as it turned out, the water in the cave was able to restore their energy completely. {{storylink|Friends and Family}} During another training session, Bumblebee turned teaching duties over to [[Arcee (ES)|Arcee]], who forced the Terrans and kids to do tasks until they rebelled. Arcee took the group into battle against [[Soundwave (ES)|Soundwave]] and they were successful in helping Bumblebee take down the three cassette-bots. {{storylink|Decoy (episode)|Decoy}}

[[File:TwitchDestroysMech AOEP2.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
During a G.H.O.S.T. ceremony, Twitch and Thrash were forced to stay home with Bumblebee to maintain the secrecy of their existence. As a result, the pair were unable to help the Maltos when [[Skywarp (ES)|Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)|Nova Storm]] attacked G.H.O.S.T. Learning of the origins of the Terrans, Optimus decided it was time to investigate further and had the Terrans and kids lead him to the cave where Twitch and Thrash were originally born. Alex, Robby, Mo and the Terrans ventured inside and retrieved the Emberstone, however Skywarp and Nova Storm returned with Arachnamechs aiming to capture Optimus. Those small enough retreated underground, only to be followed by Mandroid's mechanical drones, and witnessed the birth of three new Terrans. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} After successfully escaping the cave, the family regrouped with Optimus and Bumblebee to come up with a plan to rescue Dot and Megatron, who had been captured by Mandroid. The new Terrans posed as bounty hunters, bringing in Optimus, Twitch and Thrash as prisoners. Unfortunately Mandroid immediately saw through the scheme and unleashed his giant mech. Twitch joined Megatron in the air, providing covering fire so the others could take out the mech's external cameras. That done, the group set their sights on taking out the mech's cannon, and with Megatron too damaged to do so, Twitch threw herself into the task, successfully taking out the cannon's targeting ability while the others took their turn providing covering fire. In the aftermath of the battle, the family was reunited with three new members. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 2}}

[[File:TwitchAndHashtag HashtagOops.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Little big sister and big little sister.]]
With the arrival of the three new Terrans at the Malto farm, Twitch was eager and ready to be a mentor to her younger siblings. Though she found she had to fight with Hashtag's burgeoning interest in the internet for attention. When Twitch brought her sister into town to find her an alt-mode, Hashtag ended up scanning a G.H.O.S.T. surveillance van as an alt-mode and inadvertently abducted by three agents believing Hashtag was their car. Contacting Bumblebee for help, she and Bee were able to infiltrate G.H.O.S.T.'s mountainside base to rescue the trapped Hashtag. Discovering Hashtag's new alt-mode gave her vast Wi-fi powers, Twitch provided encouragement to Hashtag to use them to help them escape G.H.O.S.T.'s base while their forces were busy dealing with a Decepticon prisoner riot (inadvertently caused by Hashtag). Upon returning home, Hashtag covered for Twitch to prevent them from getting into any more trouble than they already were. {{storylink|Hashtag: Oops}}

Twitch found herself recruited by Hashtag in her attempts to make a movie out of Jawbreaker's attempts to find an alt-mode. She was later present at the family movie night, which was cobbled together footage of what Hashtag filmed. {{storylink|Outtakes}} When the reclusive Decepticon scientist, [[Tarantulas (ES)|Tarantulas]], abducted Dot and Alex, Twitch and the others raced to rescue them and arrived on scene shortly after Nightshade had saved them. {{storylink|Missed Connection}}

[[File:TwitchCries SecurityProtocols.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Twitch came to blows with Thrash when she found herself frustrated with his, and the rest of her siblings, showing more interest in helping Bumblebee beat his racing record than in their training practice. Things only escalated when they all found themselves inadvertently locked in the [[dugout]], thanks to measures installed by Nightshade and Hashtag, that made them unable to help Dot and Alex in their attempts to keep Bumblebee from getting arrested by G.H.O.S.T. Stuck in the base for ten hours, Twitch finally snapped and vented about the fears she had if one of her siblings were to die after all the close calls they've had, Thrash comforting her and apologizing for not realizing how much pressure he unknowingly put on her. When Dot and Alex finally returned they regretfully informed the kids that Bee had to go on the run to in order keep the rest of the Terrans safe from G.H.O.S.T.. Twitch finally broke down in tears. {{storylink|Security Protocols}}

On Mother's Day, Twitch misinterpreted advice form Robby on getting Dot a teddy bear as a gift and instead took a live bear cub from the woods to gift to Dot. Twitch, along with Robby, was taken by Dot to return the cub to its mother. They trio eventually, along with the rest of the family, found themselves battling the mother bear, who had been mutated by a strange substance left in the woods by G.H.O.S.T. {{storylink|Bear Necessities}}. When Twitch, along with the rest of her siblings, were taken to [[Spacebridge Memorial Park]], by Megatron they found their nighttime history lesson interrupted by the return of the long-dormant [[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]]. She, along with Hashtag and Jawbreaker, was forced into stasis lock by a shot from the Immobilizer from Shockwave intended for Megatron. Once Shockwave had been bested, Megatron was able to free her. {{storylink|Warzone}}

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When taken on a midnight trip to [[Philadelphia]] by Robby and Mo to experience city-life, Twitch found her initial exuberance dissipate when she, along with Hashtag, encountered anti-Cybertronian sentiment in the city. She was comforted by Robby telling his sisters not to feel bad or to blame themselves for his own disappointment in his old home town. Upon being re-united with their other siblings, they were surprised to see Bumblebee returning in tow with them. Needing to rescue the lost Dinobot, [[Grimlock (ES)|Grimlock]], Bee recruited the Maltos for their first real mission. {{storylink|Home, Part 1}}

The mission quickly turned to a battle with the returning Mandroid, with Twitch finding her attempts at saying they'd forgive what he did to them rejected. The situation turned from bad to worse when Hashtag was placed under the control of one of Mandroid's new control badges, which made her his obedient drone. Unwilling to fight their sister and finding themselves outclassed by Hashtag's growing Wi-Fi powers, Twitch took command when the others suggested going to get help. Refusing to leave Hashtag behind, Twitch stood alone initially before being joined by her siblings. Finding themselves empowered by a strange energy from the same cave they were born in, Twitch and the others were able free Hashtag from Mandroid's control. Comforting her sister upon being freed, Twitch and the others raced back to Witwicky before their parents could wake up. {{storylink|Home, Part 2}}

The kids encountered Grimlock while collecting flowers in the woods and had to flee back to the farm. During the fight that ensued, Twitch successfully used her EMP to revert the Dinobot to robot mode. She was later reading comics with Robby, Mo and Jawbreaker when Grimlock volunteered to give Jawbreaker some training. {{storylink|A Stygi Situation}} When Robby's cyber-sleeve manifested a new shield ability, Optimus smuggled the entire Malto family into G.H.O.S.T. HQ to have [[Teletraan I (ES)|Teletraan I]] scan the devices. The kids were later training in the base's rec room when Mandroid took control of it, unleashing a holographic Megatron on them, and though Hashtag was able to shut it down, the fight resulted in Robby's cyber-sleeve becoming inactive and the emotional link between the kids was lost. {{storylink|Disarmed}}

While trying to reactivate the cyber-sleeves with the cave water that the Maltobots were using to energize, the kids stumbled on a cave system through which [[Starscream (ES)|Starscream]], Nova Storm and Skywarp were trying to escape. Things were complicated more when they encountered the energon-feeding [[Dweller (ES)|Dweller]], forcing them to try to enact a desperate plan to imprison it so it couldn't escape the caves. {{storylink|What Dwells Within}} Robby's cyber-sleeve began affecting his health, and Dot assured the other kids that they'd do all they could to help the boy get better. When the other human members of the Malto family lapsed into unconsciousness, the Maltobots took care of them until they recovered, having had an encounter with Quintus Prime that restored both Robby's health and the cyber-sleeves. {{storylink|Prime Time (episode)|Prime Time}}

When Bumblebee was tasked with infiltrating G.H.O.S.T. HQ, the kids resolved to help their mentor and so Twitch tailed Bee in drone form. She successfully tracked him to the entrance to the HQ and, with Robby, Nightshade and Thrash, entered the base. They bumped into Schloder and managed to persuade him to help them, leading them to find G.H.O.S.T. had taken possession of the space bridge. During the ensuing fight with [[Karen Croft|Agent Croft]]'s [[Ghoid]]s, the group used the space bridge to escape to the outside. {{storylink|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Pursued by a Mandroid-controlled Shockwave, the group headed into Witwicky where they were joined by the rest of the Malto kids and managed to take down the Decepticon, shortly before being surrounded by G.H.O.S.T. agents. With a timely intervention by their parents, they were able to escape back to the farm and revive Shockwave, only for Croft to arrive with an army of Ghoids. A battle ensued, during which the Maltos, with the help of the Autobots, overcame the Ghoids, only to have to face Croft to disabling the Autobots and the arrival of Mandroid, grotesquely enhanced into a new robotic form. {{storylink|The Battle of Witwicky}}

The Malto family attempted to escape from Mandroid and his two [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] henchmen, however eventually the other family members were picked off and only Twitch and Nightshade were left. The pair again sneaked into G.H.O.S.T. HQ to free Bumblebee, Schloder and the captive Decepticons, though the latter were unenthusiastic about helping and simply left. The remaining quartet found Mandroid preparing to use the space bridge to wipe out all Cybertronian life on the planet and during the ensuing fight, the group escaped through the space bridge portal which, as Twitch realized, had the human members of the Malto family wired into it. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 1}} On their way to the huge Spire Mandroid had erected, the group encountered mind-controlled Autobots but were also reunited with Hashtag, Jawbreaker and Thrash. While the others fought their comrades and the Sharkticons, Twitch and Thrash confronted Mandroid himself. Twitch found herself facing Megatron until the Decepticons turned up to lend a hand, allowing her to join Thrash in battling Mandroid. The pair triumphed, only for him to activate his superweapon, wiping out all Transformer life bar Twitch, who had been partially shielded by Thrash's body. Fortunately Mo and Robby were able to use their cyber-sleeves to reverse the damage, reactivating the Transformers and reuniting the Malto family. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 2}}

In the year following, the Autobots and Malto family set about trying to collect the shards of the shattered Emberstone, leading to an incident in which a shard fell in water and created the Chaos Terran [[Aftermath (ES)|Aftermath]]. Twitch later joined Robby and Nightshade in sneaking into the Decepticon base to steal their collection of shards, though they were unsuccessful due to Aftermath and Breakdown intervening. {{storylink|Aftermath (ES episode)|Aftermath}} Twitch took part in a hunt for shards around Witwicky, and later enjoyed cave water frozen into the shape of a boot. {{Storylink|In Ruins}} Twitch and the rest of the Maltos helped clear the old G.H.O.S.T. stuff out of the Autobot base, and at one point had to fight a number of reactivated Ghoids. {{storylink|Control Alt Delete}}

While attending a fair, Twitch, Thrash and Mo discovered that the Tent of Curiosities included an Embershard, but their attempts to secure it resulted in them coming into conflict with the [[Fairmaestro]]. During the chase, the four kids inadvertently cyber-synced for the first time, with the two Terrans forming a combined vehicle mode, allowing them to free [[Cosmos (ES)|Cosmos]] and stop the Fairmaestro. {{storylink|The Butterfly Effect}} They continued to experiment with cyber-syncing so that Wheeljack and Nightshade could study the phenomena. {{storylink|Togetherness}}

Twitch helped Wheeljack try out some new drones, however an encounter with Soundwave resulted in the creation of the Chaos Terran [[Spitfire (ES)|Spitfire]], who scanned a drone and thus turned out as a twin of Twitch, though in green. Twitch introduced Spitfire to the family, but when Twitch was offered a place on an upcoming Autobot mission, Spitfire tried to usurp her. This resulted in a [[Polyhex Protocol]] assault course challenge being established, during which Twitch was forced to save Alex after Spitfire endangered his life in order to win. In light of this, Optimus awarded the win to Twitch, angering Spitfire who drew Twitch into a fight high in the air. While paired with advanced drone tech, the duo were struck by lightning and switched bodies. {{storylink|Spitfire (episode)|Spitfire}} Twitch was found by Aftermath, who took her back to the Decepticon base under the assumption she was Spitfire. Learning that Starscream was planning to ambush the Autobots, Twitch attempted to sneak out and contact Robby, only for Spitfire to intervene and chase her off. She instead tried to talk her way into being part of the ambush, and when that failed, she went to the Autobot base to warn them. This time she was able to convince Robby she was Twitch, and in the ensuing fight, she successfully swapped back with Spitfire, though the Chaos Terran escaped with the Cyber Slayer. {{storylink|The Imposters}}

Twitch and the others were able to mount some swift emergency repairs on Optimus's trailer when the Decepticons damaged it under Robby and Hashtag's watch. {{storylink|Dude, Where's My Trailer?}} The Malto family held a celebration after they successfully collected the last Embershard. {{storylink|Witwicky, Part 1}} Learning that Starscream intended to take control of the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Terratronus]], the Autobots launched an attack on the Decepticon base. During the battle, Twitch and Robby reached the chamber holding the Decepticon Embershard collection and nabbed it, only to find that Starscream had taken Alex hostage and they were forced to turn the shards over. After reassembling the Emberstone, Starscream used it to offline the Autobot forces including Twitch, until Robby and Mo were later able to reclaim it and bring everyone back to life. {{storylink|Witwicky, Part 2}}

The kids were reading ''Transformers'' comics when Robby complained about missing an issue and headed off with Twitch to find something else to do. {{Storylink|The Need for Read}} Twitch helped out organizing a movie night for Robbie and [[Izzy (ES)|Izzy]]. She and Jawbreaker provided extra special effects by blowing leaves at the pair, but then ended up having to try to round up the [[Mole Bot]]s which escaped the film thanks to Nightshade's [[hyper-reality film projector]]. {{storylink|Attack of the Drive-In Movie}} The Malto kids were challenged to complete an escape room, but only learned after arriving that it had been set up by Fairmaestro. Twitch keenly helped everyone complete their challenges, only to later learn that her assistance had been against the rules, resulting in the rest of the family being penalized. Despite this, she and the others were able to use Fairmaestro's own rules to free themselves, and Twitch challenged him to complete his own tests. {{storylink|The Great Escape}}

When [[Prowl (ES)|Prowl]]'s ship crashed within the Chaos Dome, the kids joined Optimus's welcome party. Using their cyber-syncing ability, they were able to connect a line between the ship and Terratronus's helmet to allow the chaos lightning to recharge the ship for take off, though unfortunately it was hijacked by the Decepticons. {{storylink|No Soldier Left Behind}} The Malto kids took the [[Hypershuttle]] to a disused G.H.O.S.T. base in the [[Arctic]] for some snow fun. Twitch returned to the Autobot base to get the snacks, only to get caught in the lockdown when a strain of [[Hate Plague]] began infecting the Autobots. She found Megatron being menaced by Optimus and rescued the ex-Decepticon, taking him back to the Arctic where it turned out cold was an effective cure. {{storylink|Fire and Ice}} Twitch attended the post-Hate-Plague briefing during which the investigation into its cause was launched. {{storylink|The Truth Is Out There}}

When the Quintessons arrived in a huge ship, the Autobots and Maltos assembled at the edge of the Chaos Dome to greet it. The Quintessons demanded Robby and Mo, destroying the Chaos Dome as a demonstration of their power, and as a result, the kids cyber-synced and flew up to the ship. Twitch and Thrash were dragged off by guards and slapped in a cell. {{Storylink|Judgement Day, Part 1}} Robby and Mo later broke them out and they cyber-synced so they could escape. They were shot down, however, and Twitch was gravely wounded. Megatron flew her back to base so that Wheeljack could effect repairs, and the healed Twitch later rejoined the family following the destruction of the Quintesson ship. {{Storylink|Judgement Day, Part 2}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition''===
{{voiceactor|[[Farah Rishi]] (English)|[[Lotte Horlings]] (Dutch), [[Isabelle Volpe]] (French), [[Rieke Werner]] (German), [[Giulia Maniglio]] (Italian), [[Maja Gadzińska]] (Polish), [[Marta Moreno]] (Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition}}}}

==Toys==
===''EarthSpark''===
[[File:ES-toy Twitch Deluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I'm a Tier 3 sub! ''(Hasbro Version Pictured)'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Terran Twitch''' (Deluxe Class, [[2023]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''ESD-04'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[October 28]], 2023
:*Accessories: Blaster arm, Mandroid pieces (head, backpack)

: Released as part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)|EarthSpark]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Twitch transforms from a highly-articulated robot into a Cybertronian spy-drone. Her hoverfans and back-wings are on ball-joints, giving them quite a range of motion.

:[[File:TF-ES-JP-ESD-04-Deluxe-Twitch.jpg|thumb|upright=1|left|''(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)'']]

: She comes with a blaster that fits over either of her forearms to replicate the "arm turns into blaster" of her show model. This gun can be stored on the underside of her drone mode, plus there is undocumented storage for the piece on her robot-mode back, though it interferes with her hip articulation. The clear-plastic wings are safely removable from the socket joints, and while probably unintended, can fit in her hands as blade weapons like in the show, if one fits them in right above the ball joint.

: She also comes with two "[[Build a Figure]]" pieces for [[Mandroid#Toys|Mandroid]]: his head and backpack.

: Box images show Twitch partially transformed, with the robot eyes peeking out over the front of the drone. Twitch was repacked in Wave 7 with the line's updated packaging design and omitting the BAF parts.

: TakaraTomy later released Deluxe Twitch in the first wave of their ''EarthSpark'' line, but with several differences. She has a few extra screen-accurate paint applications, primarily extending the gunmetal color on her helmet crest, "ears", and kneecaps, but also adding a few extra "light lines" on her torso. Her wings have also been [[retool]]ed to be thicker, preventing them from fitting in Twitch's hands; attempting to do so may result in stress marks or breakage on both the wings and hands. She also lacks the Mandroid pieces. This time, her instructions show how to store the blaster on her back.

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[[File:TF-Earthspark-OneStep-Twitch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''(Hasbro Version Pictured)'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Terran Twitch''' (1-Step Flip Changer, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''ESS-04'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[October 28]], 2023

: Part of the third wave of Hasbro "1-Step Flip Changers", this version of Twitch is a simple toy that converts from robot to drone and vice-versa in, well, one step. While the drone-to-robot conversion must be done manually, robot-to-drone can be triggered by pressing the button in her midsection, unlocking the spring-loaded auto-transformation. This can be more amusingly triggered by tipping Twitch face-forward, as the button is designed to be the first part of the toy to hit the ground, thus popping her into drone mode in proper orientation. So less a "Flip Changer" than a "Fall Changer".

:[[File:TF-ES-JP-ESS-04-Supatto-(Flip-Changer)-Twitch.jpg|left|thumb|upright=.66|''(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)'']]

: One-Step Twitch was later released in the first wave of TakaraTomy's ''EarthSpark'' line, in the "Supatto Change" (スパっとチェンジ, "Quick Change") assortment. This release has slightly more paint than the Hasbro version, mainly on her lower boots and biceps, and the black paint of the Hasbro version has been replaced with gunmetal.

: This mold was also used to make [[Spitfire (ES)#Toys|1-Step Spitfire]].

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[[File:TF-Earthspark-Tacticon-Twitch.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-terran|'''Terran Twitch''' (Tacticon Assortment, 2023)}}</ul>

: Released in the fourth wave of the Tacticon assortment, and the only new toy in said assortment, this version of Twitch is a small figure that converts from a small drone into an [[Brick (term)|unposeable]] robot with just a single step controlled by your fingertip.

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[[File:TF-Earthspark-Cyber-Combiner-Twitch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-terran|'''Terran Twitch / Robby Malto''' (Cyber-Combiner, [[2024]])}}</ul>

:Released as part of the "Cyber-Combiners" assortment, Twitch can convert into either her drone mode or combine with the included [[Robby Malto#CyberCombiner|Robby Malto]] (or other concurrently released Cyber-Combiner figures) to form a [[Powerlinx]]-inspired "Super-Powered" combiner, as either the lower or the upper body.

:Her combination connectors are identical to those on ''EarthSpark'' Warrior Class figures with "Combine & Ride" gimmickry, allowing her to merge with them.

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[[File:TF-Earthspark-Warrior-Twitch.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-terran|'''Terran Twitch''' (Warrior Class, 2024)}}</ul>

: Part of the fifth wave of ''EarthSpark'' Warrior Class toys, Twitch transforms into a drone with her legs blatantly hanging off the bottom. She features a "Combine & Ride" gimmick similar to [[Powerlinx]] that allows her to form an upper body to attach to a compatible vehicle mode or to allow another half-robot to attach to the top of her vehicle mode. Nominally this is to allow her to combine with her wavemate, [[Bumblebee (ES)#Warrior|Bumblebee]], but also works with ''EarthSpark'' Cyber-Combiner figures.

: Twitch's stock photography depicts her with black feet, and with a strong blue tinge to her silver paint. Also, she's mistransformed in package, the ducts on her arms should be folded in for robot mode.

: This mold was also used to make [[Spitfire (ES)#Warrior|Warrior Spitfire]].

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[[File:TF-ES-SmashChanger-Twitch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-terran|'''Terran Twitch''' (1-Step Smash Changer, [[2025]])}}</ul>
: Part of the second wave of "1-Step Smash Changers", this version of Twitch is similar to her prior 1-Step toy, but in reverse! This time, it's the vehicle-to-robot transformation that's spring-activated: triggered by holding the fins at the rear of her drone mode and smashing her against a surface (or just press down on the fins if you're boring). The toy is reset by pulling her body back down.
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==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Twitch''' (ツウィッチ ''Tsuwitchi'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Fricska''' ("Flick")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Língyuè''' (凌跃, "Rise Jump")

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ES Twitch concept art - ArtCup.jpg|Concept art
</gallery>

==References==
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[[Category:Terrans]]
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Trachis

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:''Trachis is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Student rodimus marvel 223.jpg|thumb|Soon, my pretty, soon...]]
In [[2356]], as he lay in a medbay in [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] told '''Trachis''', a '''student''', all about the nature of evil...

==Fiction==
===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
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Rodimus told Trachis of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s evil in using the Autobots' own rules of conduct to make them fight his battle for him. The student was fascinated, prompting the ailing Prime to tell him about [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. When he heard how that [[Decepticon]] leader had sought to tarnish the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], almost unleashing [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] in the process, Trachis demanded to learn more about the dark god, but Rodimus kept him in suspense as he first described [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]]'s cold emotionlessness and [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s disregard for the lives of his own troops.

When Rodimus eventually recounted the third coming of Unicron, his student was contemptuous of his version of events, accusing Rodimus of making it up as he went along. Tearing off his Autobot [[insignia]], Trachis told Prime that he would seek out Unicron for himself before showing Rodimus once and for all the true nature of evil. Rodimus realized to his horror that his own words had been subconsciously shaped by Unicron's spirit, in a ploy to turn the listening student to the dark side. {{storylink|Aspects of Evil!}}

==Notes==
[[File:Student condorverlag.jpg|thumb|Finally, his true colors revealed!]]
*The one story featuring Trachis was originally printed in black and white. However, he appears in color in the German [[Transformers Extra Comic-Sonderheft issue 1|''Transformers Extra Comic Sonderheft'' #1]]. Here he is blue, but since the [[Air Strike Patrol]] look like they have been attacked by Skittles, this scheme must be taken with a pinch of salt.
*In the reprint published by [[Skybound Entertainment]] in which the previously black-and-white comics have been colored, the student is instead green with silver accents.
[[File:Student-compendium.jpg|thumb|Evil makes him squee.]]
*He was unnamed in his original appearance, referred to only as "student." "Trachis" came some two plus decades later in the pages of [[Ask Vector Prime]], with the specific stipulation that he bore that particular name in Fun Publications' ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' continuity. Trachis (Τραχίς ''Trakhís'') is a region in ancient Greece and may have been selected due to its connection to {{w|Ephialtes of Trachis}}, an infamous traitor.

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File:Student-compendium.jpg

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Rodimus's student as seen in the reprint in ''[[The Transformers UK Compendium Volume 2]]''.

© 2026 [[Hasbro]].

Hot Rod (ES)

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Arceespinkgun: /* EarthSpark cartoon */

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{{disambig3|Hot Rod}}
:''Hot Rod is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Earthspark-hotrod-stock.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2|Back in magenta.]]

'''Hot Rod''' was left on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after the Autobots on [[Earth]] destroyed the [[space bridge]]. Seeing no other way to survive, and despite his moral consciousness, he ended up working for the [[Liege Maximo]].

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Eric Bauza]] (English)}}
{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Hometown Heroes}}{{storylink|Legacy of Hope}}}}

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Should Izzy really be listed with the other human characters under "Featured characters," given that if anyone reads the episode summary directly above they'll know she isn't one? --[[User:Arceespinkgun|Arceespinkgun]] ([[User talk:Arceespinkgun|talk]]) 22:23, 11 January 2025 (EST)

Triple Takeover

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{{episode
|image=TripleTakeover Blitzwing Astrotrain stadium.jpg
|caption=In which we learn exactly why Megatron is in charge of the Decepticons.
|series=G1toon
|ep=50
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=39
|prev2=Kremzeek!
|next2=Child's Play (episode)
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=18
|prev3=Kremzeek!
|next3=Starscream's Brigade
|title="Triple Takeover"
|season=2
|season ep=34
|written by=[[Larry Strauss]]
|production code=700-49
|airdate=[[November 19]], [[1985]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Unknown Generation 1 animation studios|Unknown]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMPu4Adi7JQ
|videosite=YouTube
}}
'''Astrotrain and Blitzwing depose Megatron and Starscream, then proceed to wreak havoc.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:TripleTakeover Mount Deceptimore.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Admit it. That is pretty cool.]]
[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] are using their weapons to carve their faces along with [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s into a mountainside. They agree one of the faces doesn't belong, then decide to band together and overthrow Megatron. Flying back to base, Blitzwing and Astrotrain decide who should lead Megatron into the trap, one of them suggesting Starscream while the other counters how the [[Air Commander]] has constantly been attempting to become leader of the [[Decepticon]]s and failed. Starscream retorts as usual and says he will do it, and the other two gloat about manipulating him.

Starscream leads Megatron into the sewers, stating that a secret [[Autobot]] energy base is present there, but the doors close around them. Megatron recognizes it's a trap but gets frozen. Starscream gloats and tries to escape through a hatch but finds out that it's been locked by his "allies". This leaves Astrotrain and Blitzwing as joint Decepticon leaders.

[[File:Tripletakeoverblitzwingcoach.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|The Coach rivals Prowl, Jazz, and Ultra Magnus as "Best Sub-Commander ever".]]
Heading for a stadium, Blitzwing, in a display of great intelligence, drafts a [[football coach]] to be his [[second-in-command]] and demands tactical advice from him, keeping him stuffed in a locker when not needed. Blitzwing misinterprets the coach's suggestions of "zone defense" and "long bomb" and has the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] build a massive highway maze, then begins firing "long bombs" from the stadium into the surrounding city. [[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]] leads a group of Autobots to investigate, but they end up crashing into each other in the Constructicons' maze and getting mashed flat by Blitzwing in tank mode. Meanwhile, Astrotrain heads to a train station, where he "conscripts" the [[Astroforce]], human trains which are to be his army. He sends them into a tunnel to collect energy lines and convert them into [[energon]]. It actually goes quite well for Astrotrain. The Astroforce? Not so much.

[[File:TripleTakeover Astrotrain trashedroforce.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|"You're embarrassing me in front of the guys!"]]
Meanwhile, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] flies over the maze, where [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] has built himself a throne... made of Prowl, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]. Guided by Powerglide from the air, [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] manage to rescue the Autobots, causing Blitzwing and Scrapper to crash into each other. At the train station, the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] come to see how Astrotrain is doing. To his credit, he has gotten a lot of [[energon cube]]s, but his Astroforce has somehow gotten off their tracks and into a knot. Astrotrain urges one of the trains to gather some energy from a gas main, but it turns out to be a water main, which floods the tunnel. Worse, it heads into the tunnel in which Megatron and Starscream are trapped. Online again, Megatron accuses Starscream of another attempt at treason and begins the customary throttling. Starscream maintains that he was tricked. The pair go in search of the two traitorous [[Triple Changer]]s.

[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike]] see the two Decepticons, only to be distracted by the water main flooding the city. Optimus rescues Spike after the boy is washed away, handing him off to Powerglide to take to safety. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] uses his [[force field]] to push back the water, while Optimus and Ironhide seal the main. Heading for the station, Megatron and Starscream encounter Prime, who claims that he's looking for the real leaders of the Decepticons, implying it isn't the two of them. This really angers Megatron, who tries to kill the Autobot leader, but Prime escapes. Megatron leaves to put Astrotrain and Blitzwing in their place, while the Seekers watch and place bets on who will win. Optimus, however, is content to sit back and wait for the outcome.

At the stadium, the Constructicons demand a share of the power Blitzwing promised, but he refuses and tells them to go jump off a bridge. Bad idea, for the Constructicons form [[Devastator (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Devastator]]. The flood from the water main finally dies out at the stadium, depositing Astrotrain, who decides to scrap Blitzwing as well.

[[File:Tripletakeoverautobotthrone.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Unfortunately, the "Seatmaster" line never really took off...]]
Megatron and Starscream arrive, and Megatron beats his would-be usurpers senseless, but Devastator knocks out Megatron, then turns his sights on the Air Commander. Starscream manages to dodge Devastator, then Megatron slams the giant. Megatron, Blitzwing, Astrotrain, Starscream, and Devastator then engage in a battle royale which sees Megatron emerge victorious. He decides to spare the traitors, saying the Decepticon cause is too important, but warns them never to betray him again.

As the Autobots look on, they're impressed that Prime knew that Megatron would handle the Decepticons for them. The previously injured Autobots form a throne for their commander to sit on, but Optimus Prime declares that he'd rather [[Roll out|roll]].
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (14)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (15)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]] (16)
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]] (17)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (18)
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (19)
*[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] (20)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (25)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (26)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (28)
|c2=
{{collist|2|
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (1)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (2)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (3)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (4)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (8)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (9)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (10)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (11)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (12)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (13)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (21)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] (22)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (23)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (24)
*[[Devastator (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Devastator]] (29)
}}
|c3=
*[[football coach|Coach]] (5)
*Football players (6)
*Train conductor (7)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (27)
}}

==Quotes==
"No planet ever lost its orbit underestimating the stupidity of Starscream."
:—'''Astrotrain'''

[[File:TripleTakeover Football coach.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"You're playing stupid football, and I'm not going to have it!"]]
"Coach, it's a tank! What do I do?" 
"GIVE HIM THE BALL!"
:—A hapless '''halfback''' and his '''coach''' meet Blitzwing.

"Tell me what's on your mind, or I'll splatter it on the wall and see for myself!"
:—'''Blitzwing''' to <s>the football coach</s> his second-in-command.

"Scrapper calling Blitzwing. What is the purpose of this highway maze you ordered us to build?" 
"It's a ''zone defense'', you ignorant fool!"
:—'''Blitzwing''' explains the perfectly obvious to '''Scrapper'''

"Scrapper, how big is our zone defense?" 
"Can't tell. All the others are lost in it! All I know is, it's ''big!''"
:—Decepticon "leader" '''Blitzwing''' and '''Scrapper'''

[[File:TripleTakeover-ThrustAndAstrotrain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A single double-crossing Triple Changer.]]
"Astrotrain couldn't lead rats to a garbage can."
''(Other Decepticons snicker)''
:—Astrotrain gets no respect from '''Thrust'''.

"''You'' led me into this trap!!" 
"I was tricked! The Triple Changers! They told me it was a power station!" 
"You are either lying, or you're ''stupid!''" 
"I'm stupid! I'm stupid!"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Starscream''' cut straight to the chase

''(Constructicons drive through scoreboard)'' 
'''Scrapper''': Victory is ours! 
'''Blitzwing''': What do you mean, ''ours''? You broke my scoreboard! 
'''Scrapper''': We built your maze. Now you keep your part of the bargain. 
'''Blitzwing''': What bargain? 
'''Scrapper''': You promised us a partnership in leading the Decepticons. 
'''Blitzwing''': Tell you what, guys. Why don't you go build a bridge...and ''jump off it''! 
'''Scrapper''': Constructicons... transform into Devastator! 
''(Constructicons form Devastator and advances menacingly on Blitzwing)'' 
'''Blitzwing''': Hey! No offense, big guy!
:—Blitzwing learns an important lesson: never shortchange the Decepticon team that can combine into a giant robot mode.

"Don't waste your time, Megatron. Incinerating you is of no interest to me. I'm looking for the leaders of the Decepticons." 
"''I'' am the Decepticon leader!" 
"You and Starscream are just a nuisance. A couple of metallic mosquitoes." 
"Mosquitoes?! Then feel my BITE!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' brilliantly manipulates '''Megatron'''.

'''Thundercracker''': I say Megatron will prevail! 
'''Thrust''': Three energon cubes says you're wrong! 
'''Thundercracker''': Make it four! 
'''Ramjet''': My money is on Devastator.
:—Who becomes new leader of the Decepticons? PLACE BETS NOW!

"Get this straight: ''I'' am Decepticon Leader. YOU are recyclable!"
:—'''Megatron''' disses Blitzwing and Astrotrain

"Megatron is a wimp!" 
"So is ''Starscream''!" 
:—'''Starscream''' finds that kissing up doesn't work so well on '''Devastator'''

==Notes==
===Production information===
* First draft script submitted: 23rd May 1985
* Dialogue recording: 10th June 1985

===Continuity notes===
[[File:TripleTakeover Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Blink and you'll miss him! Unless you're Prowl, in which case you'll smash right into him.]]
*By this point in the series, Starscream's voice had gotten rather high-pitched, and this is one of the most notable instances.
*The Triplechangers' trap uses "[[absolute zero degree molecules]]".
*Astrotrain refers to the fleeing humans as "spineless plasm-heads".
*Gadgets and powers:
**Hoist unfolds an incredibly long length of telescoping crane to save a driver whose car ran into the river. No wonder they call him "Hoist"!
**Ironhide fires "supercool nitrogen" from his hand gun to patch the broken water main. It's a blue laser beam that solidifies as a dark blue substance.
**Trailbreaker's forcefields are rainbow-coloured. Pretty! He fires them from his gun arm [[Dinobot Island, Part 1|again]].
**Powerglide can float in place in jet mode.
*This is the second and last time that Skids shows up in the Generation 1 cartoon. He has a completely different voice than he did in "[[Quest for Survival]]".
*Where did the trailer go?
**Prime's trailer rolls in from off-screen when he transforms during the flood, and rolls away again when he returns to [[robot mode]].
**The trailer follows him ''everywhere''! Even when he transforms inside a random human building, the trailer comes rolling in!
*Scrapper making a throne from the trashed Autobots is based on his bio, which says he incorporates defeated Autobots into his works.
*Devastator makes his first attempt at usurping control of the Decepticons from Megatron and actually attacks his former leader, something that goes against previous character portrayals, in which he was shown as a loyal follower (particularly notable in "[[The Core]]"). Also, how Megatron was able to defeat him is unknown, since the battle ended off-screen. Earlier on in the fight, Megatron's fusion cannon shots just bounced off him, so it's a big mystery.
*'''[[Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1|< <]]''' What makes Starscream the leader? Megatron's gotten himself frozen! Unfortunately, so has Starscream. '''[[Starscream's Brigade|> >]]'''

===Real-world references===
*The weirdly improbable face carving is, of course, an homage to [[Mount Rushmore]].
*Astrotrain's line about "No planet ever lost its orbit underestimating the stupidity of Starscream" is a paraphrase of a famous quotation by early 20th Century satirist and journalist {{w|H. L. Mencken}}.
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**Some ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' engine rumble as the Seekers fly into the subway tunnel.
**The sliding door sound effect from the [[Death Star]] is used for the trains venting steam.
**More ''Falcon'' noise as Megatron and Starscream take off to attack Blitzwing.
**[[X-wing Fighter|X-Wings]] diving, and faint [[TIE Fighter]] roar, as Megatron takes off from the stadium.

===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:AstrotrainTakeover.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.25|For this shot, Astrotrain's helmet and shoulder-wheels are colored purple, as on his finalized design, but his wings are mostly grey, in accordance with the outdated color model the rest of the episode uses.]]
*Astrotrain is a real mess this episode.
**He spends virtually the entirety of this episode with an outdated color model which makes his helmet and most of his wings and shoulder-wheels grey instead of the standard purple of his finished design usually seen in the series. This alternate model can also be spotted in "[[The Secret of Omega Supreme (episode)|The Secret of Omega Supreme]]", and will be consistently used by [[AKOM]] in season three.
**Further, in a small handful of scenes (most notably, the shot of him transforming as he arrives at the train station), he appears with a color scheme "in-between" his outdated and finished designs, with purple helmet and shoulder wheels, but still mostly-grey wings (right). It's not clear if this came from an actual, third model sheet that was created between colour revisions, or if it was just a goof by the colorist combining aspects of the two. This particular screenshot has been widely shared online as if it were Astrotrain's true cartoon coloration (it's one of the first things you get it you google "cartoon Astrotrain"), and consequently, it [[Miscolorings based on the Generation 1 cartoon|went on to influence]] the appearance of his [[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|2019 ''Siege'' toy]].
**Additionally, throughout the episode, he ''also'' intermittently appears with a different rear-view character model previously seen in the [[Commercial/Generation 1|commercial]] for his toy, which omits the shuttle tailfin that's normally on his back, and makes the backs of his wings much more detailed.
*The conspiracists' laser-sculpting is not very credible. Several shots in a row produce no effect, and then Megatron's face appears in the rock after one additional shot. The three Decepticons aren't even moving their arms as they shoot. They also keep firing after the four faces are already complete.
*Coloring errors:
**As they fly in the beginning, Starscreams' chest is red when it should be white.
**As Starscream says, "I will get Megatron," Decepticon HQ is miscolored as white instead of purple.
**Starscream's eyes are blue as Megatron yells at him for failing.
**Blitzwing's tank barrel is purple as he aims at the football player with the ball.
**Blitzwing's head is purple instead of yellow as the transforms after hitting the scoreboard.
**The side of Blitzwing's eyeband is white instead of red as Scrapper yells for help.
**Thundercracker is colored as Starscream when the jets transform and land in the tunnel; not only is Starscream not part of the group, he is still frozen underground at this point.
**Blitzwing's head is purple again (instead of yellow) as he chastises the Constructicons for breaking his scoreboard.
**Megatron's helmet is a shade lighter than the rest of him as he tells Starscream to shut up. It changes back to normal as they start walking off.
**During the "Three energon cubes says you're wrong" profile shot, Thrust and Ramjet's color schemes are switched.
**Megatron's helmet is ''darker'' than the rest of his body as he says "Why not?" It changes to normal as Devastator picks him up.
*Starscream has only one wing emblem as he and Megatron walk through the sewer, and it's on right side up instead of the usual upside down.
*"Straight ahead, Megatron." Starscream's mouth isn't moving.
*When Blitzwing plows through the goal at the football stadium, the debris left behind vanishes in the next frame.
*When Blitzwing grabs the football coach, the coach is yelling, "Okay! Okay....commander!", but ''Blitzwing'' is the one mouthing the words!
*The camera shot during whole conversation between Blitzwing and the Coach is strangely cropped, so that Blitzwing's head is cut off above the mouth.
*The train conductor makes the bizarre deduction that Astrotrain has no driver. Couldn't the driver just be on the other side of the cab, out of sight? Hard to tell, since Astrotrain's forward-facing windows are missing in the shot. As is the rear half of his wheel assembly.
*Astrotrain rather flagrantly changes from all-purple to all-gray as he transforms.
*In the station, strange shot cropping again, as Astrotrain's head gets cut off for part of the shot.
*As Astrotrain walks up to the trains, the trains have changed positions from where they were in the previous shot, when they were visible through the hole in the station wall.
*A line of Astrotrain's appears to have been cut between "Even soldiers need brains" and "Astrotrain can fix that". This was presumably an assessment that the trains have no brains.
*When Astrotrain wrests down a computer component to start work on his train army, the component vanishes as he rips out the engine. The vent he ripped off is still on the train a moment later. And for a brief moment afterward, it appears as if Astrotrain picks up thin air with his hands.
*The lockers that Blitzwing kicks open to stuff his "second in command" into are [[Scale|extremely huge]]. If one compares the size of the coach to one of those lockers, he would need to ''jump'' just to reach one of the handles.
**On that note, how ''exactly'' does Blitzwing kick the locker door open? By all rights, it should be a lump of scrap metal on the floor.
*The guy whose car falls off the bridge yells "Help!" in Spike's voice.
*Scrapper is seen scooping a load of dirt when he appears, but as he transforms, not only is the dirt gone, but he appears in an entirely different location.
*After the first commercial break, Blitzwing's cannon shots randomly change from having the Decepticon laser noise to Optimus Prime's rifle noise.
*As Blitzwing first runs over Prowl and Skids, the two Autobots have switched positions from where they were in the previous shot. Perhaps in an attempt by the colorists to fix this, their color schemes are switched.
*Blitzwing runs over Prowl and Skids twice from the same direction. The second time he runs over them with ''no'' sense of vertical motion, as if they were flat as paper. He couldn't possibly have crushed them ''that'' flat.
*For some reason, Astrotrain gets a red glowing effect as he transforms out of train mode in the tunnels.
*Despite Astrotrain's orders to do various things, the train just keeps doing exactly the same thing over and over, courtesy of recycled animation.
*As the train backs up to bump into the pipe again, the glow effects of its headlights are floating in front of the headlights themselves.
*The Autobot throne changes quite a bit between shots. When we first see it, it's a lumpy pile of beat-up Autobots. When Hoist lassos it, it's mostly just Prowl and Skids, sitting back to back, undamaged. Prowl is even holding his gun!
*Thrust is shown during Thundercracker's "Leader?! How do you figure that?" line.
*When the seekers land in the tunnel, Starscream is shown landing, despite being frozen solid elsewhere. A couple shots later, you can see it was a miscolored Thundercracker.
*Two successive musical cues overlap for a second or two as the water comes bursting out of the tunnel.
[[File:Tripletakeover megatron frozen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Hey fellas, what's cooler than bein' cool?"]]
*When the water bursts in and frees Megatron and Starscream, Starscream is standing upright. When he froze, he was crouching by the exit hatch. In the same shot, Megatron is missing his Decepticon insignia.
*After they unfreeze, Megatron floats past the camera three times in a row.
*When Spike is washed away, Optimus yells "Spike!," but Peter Cullen uses Ironhide's voice.
*Also, the animation used for those shots is strangely distorted, making Spike looking like a child for a few moments.
*When he finds Spike, Optimus sort of transforms around him. In the next shot, Spike is in the driver's seat but there's no steering wheel. And when Powerglide lowers his ladder, Prime's trailer has a red stripe on it rather than a white one.
*The depth of the water varies all over the place. In one shot, Trailbreaker drives it away from a building, revealing several floors that were completely inundated; in another shot, it's almost to the top of a streetlamp. In other shots, it's shallow enough for the Autobots to wade through. In one scene, Optimus is wading through water up to his shoulders, yet when he transforms, it only comes up to his fenders.
*A huge pipe is shown breaking when Optimus first tries to fix the broken water main. The pipe that he and Ironhide repair later, however, just has a tiny little crack in it, nowhere near enough to flood a tunnel, let alone a whole city.
*Trailbreaker's forcefields are rainbow-colored rather than golden in this episode.
*Blitzwing is doing a strange little boogie before the Constructicons smash his scoreboard, with electrical effects around his hand. It's not really clear what this is meant to be. Is it his endzone victory dance?
*Scrapper's cab roof is misdrawn during Blitzwing's "What bargain?" line.
*Megatron reaches off-screen during his confrontation with Optimus, and something electrical lights up; we never do see what it is, though.
*As Megatron and Starscream shoot at Optimus, Starscream suddenly shifts from behind Megatron to in front of him. This makes him look tiny for a moment.
*Megatron gets the standard Decepticon laser sound for his fusion cannon, layered on top of its normal sound effect.
*Someone mistook Prime's blinding headlights for a laser attack, and inserted his standard rifle sound effect a couple of times.
*Megatron is shown with foot thrusters as he and Starscream take off.
*Among the Decepticon jets following Prime to the stadium is an off-model Seeker (or maybe an off-model Blitzwing) colored like Astrotrain; this should be Thundercracker. The jets are flying extremely low; Thrust can't be more than 10 feet above the road.
*As they fly toward Blitzwing's position, Ramjet and Thrust are flying alongside.... Blitzwing.
*As the Autobots stand on the building roof, the water lapping at the building's edge is drawn as though it were surf coming in on a flat beach; parts of it just drift right over the building parapet.
*The same scene is supposed to show Trailbreaker using his forcefield to push Astrotrain toward the stadium, but it's so badly drawn and edited that it's very easy to miss.
*Devastator and Blitzwing are almost the same size as they grapple.
*As Starscream crashes after strafing Devastator, he passes in front of Blitzwing. The relative size makes it seem like he was meant to land behind him.
*While Astrotrain and Blitzwing are grappling, Devastator stomps Astrotrain's train mode underfoot, crushing it flat, shouting "You're next, Blitzwing!" As Astrotrain is still grappling with Blitzwing in the next shot, it's not clear what this was supposed to be. It's possible this shot was meant to come later, when Devastator is fighting the other four Decepticons.

===Continuity errors===
*Astrotrain reads the temperature in the trap room as "470 degrees below zero", but actual absolute zero is only 459 below zero.
*The coach is introduced commanding the team with the same colors as his own clothing, but by the time the game gets interrupted by Blitzwing, he's commanding the ''other'' team.
*The bridge that Hoist repairs is clearly blown in half, yet once Hoist leaps into the river to shore up its supports, traffic keeps rolling across it.
*The four Autobots are pretty much destroyed by Blitzwing. Bluestreak explodes, and chunks of him (and three of his tires) go flying in different directions. Prowl, Skids, and Tracks all crash explosively and are all crushed under Blitzwing's tank treads. Unsurprisingly, none of them are nearly so damaged when they show up again later.
*Despite what he says, Astrotrain doesn't ''have'' any score to settle with Blitzwing. (It's possible, though, that he just needed a good punching bag to beat up after the humiliation the Seekers gave him.)
**In the draft script this made significantly more sense, as for the bulk of the episode Astrotrain and Blitzwing were competing after they each blamed the other for a shared massive failure to attack Autobot headquarters in which they embarrassed themselves by leveling ''the wrong volcano''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180228132242/http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-50.html Full episode script]</ref>

===Trivia===
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.3|In an issue of Titan's Transformers comic]], the movie Decepticon [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] would reveal he's seen this episode.
*Signs in the city: STAR Daster, Hotel, Kend.
*Final score: Visitors 0; Blitzwing 1,569!

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title (Canadian French broadcast and European French DVD release):'' "'''La prise de pouvoir'''" ("The Takeover")
:*''Title (European French broadcast):'' "'''La dernière tentative'''" ("The Last Attempt")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*For the first time in the French version, the commercial bumpers were left in the episode, despite not sporting any voice.
::*The sportsmen don't say anything as they play, the exception being the player who faces Blitzwing with the ball.
::*Blitzwing's name is never pronounced throughout the episode. For example, Scrapper's line "Scrapper calling Blitzwing" is dubbed by "Hello, hello, do you read me?".
::*Blitzwing's lines "I must thank my advisor for such great strategy. With an assault of my long bombs, I'll totally level this city in no time!" is missing.
::*The dialogue between Prowl and Skids as they drive to the action is missing.
::*During the battle in the maze, Blitzwing's line "Ha ha! Wait for me!" is missing. Just after, his line "Autobots! Worth 10 points each!" is missing too.
::*Powerglide does not say anything as he guides Hoist and Smokescreen in the maze, which makes the scene incomprehensible.
::*Optimus Prime calls Ironhide "Iron", despite his usual nickname in the dub being "Irok".

'''German'''
:*''Title (Generation 2 dub):'' "'''Der Aufstand'''" ("The Revolution")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 27]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''I Triplex ribelli'''" ("The Rebel Triple Changers")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*This is one of the few episodes after ''[[Quest for Survival]]'' in which Optimus Prime is voiced by [[Piero Tiberi]] instead of [[Angelo Nicotra]].
::*Blitzwing's line: «But one head does not belong!» is oddly changed to: «Yes, but one head managed to resist!».
::*Football is called "rugby". The same thing already happened in ''[[Atlantis, Arise!]]''.
::*"Long bomb" is changed to "time bomb", totally ruining the joke. Still, this is understandable giving the difficulty of translating such a pun.
::*Powerglide's line: «Turn right» is heard '''after''' Smokescreen and Hoist already started turning right. Also, the line in Italian uses a singular verb, like if Powerglide was talking to just one character.
::*Astroforce's name is kept in English, but since Astrotrain is known in Italy as "Triplex Uno", an Italian viewer totally wouldn't understand that "Astroforce" comes from the character's name.
::*Energon cubes are once called ''cubi energetici'' ("energetic cubes") and later ''cubi energo-genetici'' (which can be roughly translated as "energo-genetic cubes").
::*Once, Starscream calls Astrotrain and Blitzwing "those three traitors"... despite them being two!
::*Constructicons are called "Constructor", which is sort of a mash-up of the English name and the Italian one ("Escavator").
::*In Ironhide's line: «I guess Prime was right: Megatron took care of the Decepticons for us», Prime's name is not pronounced in Italian, making not clear who Ironhide was referring to.
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Triplice congiura'''" ("Triple Conspiracy")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Triple Changer no Hanran'''" (トリプル・チェンジャーの反乱, "The Rebellion of the Triple Changers")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[April 11]], [[1986]]

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Zhēng Quán Duó lì '''" (争权夺利, "Scrambling for Leadership")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Domínio Tríplice'''" ("Triple Dominion")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Troynoy perevorot'''" (Тройной переворот, "The Triple Upheaval")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

===Toys inspired by this episode===
[[File:WFC-Siege-Leader-Astrotrain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
*'''''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Leader Class Astrotrain''' (Hasbro [[2019]])

:''Siege'' (and its ''Earthrise'' repack) Astrotrain features the errorous pre-final character model-inspired wing deco patterns.
{{-}}
*'''''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' Triple Takeover''' (TakaraTomy [[2025]])

:The ''Dramatic Capture Series'' 3-pack features Astrotrain (without the battle damage and the tender/launchpad), Starscream (and his Coronation kit), and Blitzwing (without his Energon Fists and Gauntlets). Astrotrain still retains the same old erroneous wing deco pattern from the original.

{{-}}

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] [[1995]] — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] [[1999]] — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] [[2001]] — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] [[2003]] — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 6 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] [[2004]] — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 16 ([[Déclic Images]]) — European French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] [[2006]] — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] [[2007]] — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] [[2009]] — ''Transformers'' — Volume 05: Stagione Due Parte Terza ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] [[2011]] — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] [[2014]] — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wYU85J-1QGjmvpaYsIUeSiXGMUmnVbZu/view?usp=sharing Full episode script]
*[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pZqvrqtckaaZ4Nn9WJh89fhB8djWG7-6m Episode dialogue script]
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1axaGBcBZmONCVzB7bWNa8e57SsZZUYi9/view?usp=drive_link Episode model sheets]

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]
[[Category:Generation 2 episodes]]

Triple Takeover

2025-01-12T03:13:50Z

Arceespinkgun: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode
|image=TripleTakeover Blitzwing Astrotrain stadium.jpg
|caption=In which we learn exactly why Megatron is in charge of the Decepticons.
|series=G1toon
|ep=50
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=39
|prev2=Kremzeek!
|next2=Child's Play (episode)
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=18
|prev3=Kremzeek!
|next3=Starscream's Brigade
|title="Triple Takeover"
|season=2
|season ep=34
|written by=[[Larry Strauss]]
|production code=700-49
|airdate=[[November 19]], [[1985]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Unknown Generation 1 animation studios|Unknown]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMPu4Adi7JQ
|videosite=YouTube
}}
'''Astrotrain and Blitzwing depose Megatron and Starscream, then proceed to wreak havoc.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:TripleTakeover Mount Deceptimore.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Admit it. That is pretty cool.]]
[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] are using their weapons to carve their faces along with [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s into a mountainside. They agree one of the faces doesn't belong, then decide to band together and overthrow Megatron. Flying back to base, Blitzwing and Astrotrain decide who should lead Megatron into the trap, one of them suggesting Starscream while the other counters how the [[Air Commander]] has constantly been attempting to become leader of the [[Decepticon]]s and failed. Starscream retorts as usual and says he will do it, and the other two gloat about manipulating him.

Starscream leads Megatron into the sewers, stating that a secret [[Autobot]] energy base is present there, but the doors close around them. Megatron recognizes it's a trap but gets frozen. Starscream gloats and tries to escape through a hatch but finds out that it's been locked by his "allies". This leaves Astrotrain and Blitzwing as joint Decepticon leaders.

[[File:Tripletakeoverblitzwingcoach.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|The Coach rivals Prowl, Jazz, and Ultra Magnus as "Best Sub-Commander ever".]]
Heading for a stadium, Blitzwing, in a display of great intelligence, drafts a [[football coach]] to be his [[second-in-command]] and demands tactical advice from him, keeping him stuffed in a locker when not needed. Blitzwing misinterprets the coach's suggestions of "zone defense" and "long bomb" and has the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] build a massive highway maze, then begins firing "long bombs" from the stadium into the surrounding city. [[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]] leads a group of Autobots to investigate, but they end up crashing into each other in the Constructicons' maze and getting mashed flat by Blitzwing in tank mode. Meanwhile, Astrotrain heads to a train station, where he "conscripts" the [[Astroforce]], human trains which are to be his army. He sends them into a tunnel to collect energy lines and convert them into [[energon]]. It actually goes quite well for Astrotrain. The Astroforce? Not so much.

[[File:TripleTakeover Astrotrain trashedroforce.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|"You're embarrassing me in front of the guys!"]]
Meanwhile, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] flies over the maze, where [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] has built himself a throne... made of Prowl, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]. Guided by Powerglide from the air, [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] manage to rescue the Autobots, causing Blitzwing and Scrapper to crash into each other. At the train station, the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] come to see how Astrotrain is doing. To his credit, he has gotten a lot of [[energon cube]]s, but his Astroforce has somehow gotten off their tracks and into a knot. Astrotrain urges one of the trains to gather some energy from a gas main, but it turns out to be a water main, which floods the tunnel. Worse, it heads into the tunnel in which Megatron and Starscream are trapped. Online again, Megatron accuses Starscream of another attempt at treason and begins the customary throttling. Starscream maintains that he was tricked. The pair go in search of the two traitorous [[Triple Changer]]s.

[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike]] see the two Decepticons, only to be distracted by the water main flooding the city. Optimus rescues Spike after the boy is washed away, handing him off to Powerglide to take to safety. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] uses his [[force field]] to push back the water, while Optimus and Ironhide seal the main. Heading for the station, Megatron and Starscream encounter Prime, who claims that he's looking for the real leaders of the Decepticons, implying it isn't the two of them. This really angers Megatron, who tries to kill the Autobot leader, but Prime escapes. Megatron leaves to put Astrotrain and Blitzwing in their place, while the Seekers watch and place bets on who will win. Optimus, however, is content to sit back and wait for the outcome.

At the stadium, the Constructicons demand a share of the power Blitzwing promised, but he refuses and tells them to go jump off a bridge. Bad idea, for the Constructicons form [[Devastator (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Devastator]]. The flood from the water main finally dies out at the stadium, depositing Astrotrain, who decides to scrap Blitzwing as well.

[[File:Tripletakeoverautobotthrone.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Unfortunately, the "Seatmaster" line never really took off...]]
Megatron and Starscream arrive, and Megatron beats his would-be usurpers senseless, but Devastator knocks out Megatron, then turns his sights on the Air Commander. Starscream manages to dodge Devastator, then Megatron slams the giant. Megatron, Blitzwing, Astrotrain, Starscream, and Devastator then engage in a battle royale which sees Megatron emerge victorious. He decides to spare the traitors, saying the Decepticon cause is too important, but warns them never to betray him again.

As the Autobots look on, they're impressed that Prime knew that Megatron would handle the Decepticons for them. The previously injured Autobots form a throne for their commander to sit on, but Optimus Prime declares that he'd rather [[Roll out|roll]].
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (14)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (15)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]] (16)
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]] (17)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (18)
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (19)
*[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] (20)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (25)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (26)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (28)
|c2=
{{collist|2|
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (1)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (2)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (3)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (4)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (8)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (9)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (10)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (11)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (12)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (13)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (21)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] (22)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (23)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (24)
*[[Devastator (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Devastator]] (29)
}}
|c3=
*[[football coach|Coach]] (5)
*Football players (6)
*Train conductor (7)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (27)
}}

==Quotes==
"No planet ever lost its orbit underestimating the stupidity of Starscream."
:—'''Astrotrain'''

[[File:TripleTakeover Football coach.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"You're playing stupid football, and I'm not going to have it!"]]
"Coach, it's a tank! What do I do?" 
"GIVE HIM THE BALL!"
:—A hapless '''halfback''' and his '''coach''' meet Blitzwing.

"Tell me what's on your mind, or I'll splatter it on the wall and see for myself!"
:—'''Blitzwing''' to <s>the football coach</s> his second-in-command.

"Scrapper calling Blitzwing. What is the purpose of this highway maze you ordered us to build?" 
"It's a ''zone defense'', you ignorant fool!"
:—'''Blitzwing''' explains the perfectly obvious to '''Scrapper'''

"Scrapper, how big is our zone defense?" 
"Can't tell. All the others are lost in it! All I know is, it's ''big!''"
:—Decepticon "leader" '''Blitzwing''' and '''Scrapper'''

[[File:TripleTakeover-ThrustAndAstrotrain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A single double-crossing Triple Changer.]]
"Astrotrain couldn't lead rats to a garbage can."
''(Other Decepticons snicker)''
:—Astrotrain gets no respect from '''Thrust'''.

"''You'' led me into this trap!!" 
"I was tricked! The Triple Changers! They told me it was a power station!" 
"You are either lying, or you're ''stupid!''" 
"I'm stupid! I'm stupid!"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Starscream''' cut straight to the chase

''(Constructicons drive through scoreboard)'' 
'''Scrapper''': Victory is ours! 
'''Blitzwing''': What do you mean, ''ours''? You broke my scoreboard! 
'''Scrapper''': We built your maze. Now you keep your part of the bargain. 
'''Blitzwing''': What bargain? 
'''Scrapper''': You promised us a partnership in leading the Decepticons. 
'''Blitzwing''': Tell you what, guys. Why don't you go build a bridge...and ''jump off it''! 
'''Scrapper''': Constructicons... transform into Devastator! 
''(Constructicons form Devastator and advances menacingly on Blitzwing)'' 
'''Blitzwing''': Hey! No offense, big guy!
:—Blitzwing learns an important lesson: never shortchange the Decepticon team that can combine into a giant robot mode.

"Don't waste your time, Megatron. Incinerating you is of no interest to me. I'm looking for the leaders of the Decepticons." 
"''I'' am the Decepticon leader!" 
"You and Starscream are just a nuisance. A couple of metallic mosquitoes." 
"Mosquitoes?! Then feel my BITE!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' brilliantly manipulates '''Megatron'''.

'''Thundercracker''': I say Megatron will prevail! 
'''Thrust''': Three energon cubes says you're wrong! 
'''Thundercracker''': Make it four! 
'''Ramjet''': My money is on Devastator.
:—Who becomes new leader of the Decepticons? PLACE BETS NOW!

"Get this straight: ''I'' am Decepticon Leader. YOU are recyclable!"
:—'''Megatron''' disses Blitzwing and Astrotrain

"Megatron is a wimp!" 
"So is ''Starscream''!" 
:—'''Starscream''' finds that kissing up doesn't work so well on '''Devastator'''

==Notes==
===Production information===
* First draft script submitted: 23rd May 1985
* Dialogue recording: 10th June 1985

===Continuity notes===
[[File:TripleTakeover Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Blink and you'll miss him! Unless you're Prowl, in which case you'll smash right into him.]]
*By this point in the series, Starscream's voice had gotten rather high-pitched, and this is one of the most notable instances.
*The Triplechangers' trap uses "[[absolute zero degree molecules]]".
*Astrotrain refers to the fleeing humans as "spineless plasm-heads".
*Gadgets and powers:
**Hoist unfolds an incredibly long length of telescoping crane to save a driver whose car ran into the river. No wonder they call him "Hoist"!
**Ironhide fires "supercool nitrogen" from his hand gun to patch the broken water main. It's a blue laser beam that solidifies as a dark blue substance.
**Trailbreaker's forcefields are rainbow-coloured. Pretty! He fires them from his gun arm [[Dinobot Island, Part 1|again]].
**Powerglide can float in place in jet mode.
*This is the second and last time that Skids shows up in the Generation 1 cartoon. He has a completely different voice than he did in "[[Quest for Survival]]".
*Where did the trailer go?
**Prime's trailer rolls in from off-screen when he transforms during the flood, and rolls away again when he returns to [[robot mode]].
**The trailer follows him ''everywhere''! Even when he transforms inside a random human building, the trailer comes rolling in!
*Scrapper making a throne from the trashed Autobots is based on his bio, which says he incorporates defeated Autobots into his works.
*Devastator makes his first attempt at usurping control of the Decepticons from Megatron and actually attacks his former leader, something that goes against previous character portrayals, in which he was shown as a loyal follower (particularly notable in "[[The Core]]"). Also, how Megatron was able to defeat him is unknown, since the battle ended off-screen. Earlier on in the fight, Megatron's fusion cannon shots just bounced off him, so it's a big mystery.
*'''[[Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1|< <]]''' What makes Starscream the leader? Megatron's gotten himself frozen! Unfortunately, so has Starscream. '''[[Starscream's Brigade|> >]]'''

===Real-world references===
*The weirdly improbable face carving is, of course, an homage to [[Mount Rushmore]].
*Astrotrain's line about "No planet ever lost its orbit underestimating the stupidity of Starscream" is a paraphrase of a famous quotation by early 20th Century satirist and journalist {{w|H. L. Mencken}}.
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**Some ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' engine rumble as the Seekers fly into the subway tunnel.
**The sliding door sound effect from the [[Death Star]] is used for the trains venting steam.
**More ''Falcon'' noise as Megatron and Starscream take off to attack Blitzwing.
**[[X-wing Fighter|X-Wings]] diving, and faint [[TIE Fighter]] roar, as Megatron takes off from the stadium.

===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:AstrotrainTakeover.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.25|For this shot, Astrotrain's helmet and shoulder-wheels are colored purple, as on his finalized design, but his wings are mostly grey, in accordance with the outdated color model the rest of the episode uses.]]
*Astrotrain is a real mess this episode.
**He spends virtually the entirety of this episode with an outdated color model which makes his helmet and most of his wings and shoulder-wheels grey instead of the standard purple of his finished design usually seen in the series. This alternate model can also be spotted in "[[The Secret of Omega Supreme (episode)|The Secret of Omega Supreme]]", and will be consistently used by [[AKOM]] in season three.
**Further, in a small handful of scenes (most notably, the shot of him transforming as he arrives at the train station), he appears with a color scheme "in-between" his outdated and finished designs, with purple helmet and shoulder wheels, but still mostly-grey wings (right). It's not clear if this came from an actual, third model sheet that was created between colour revisions, or if it was just a goof by the colorist combining aspects of the two. This particular screenshot has been widely shared online as if it were Astrotrain's true cartoon coloration (it's one of the first things you get it you google "cartoon Astrotrain"), and consequently, it [[Miscolorings based on the Generation 1 cartoon|went on to influence]] the appearance of his [[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|2019 ''Siege'' toy]].
**Additionally, throughout the episode, he ''also'' intermittently appears with a different rear-view character model previously seen in the [[Commercial/Generation 1|commercial]] for his toy, which omits the shuttle tailfin that's normally on his back, and makes the backs of his wings much more detailed.
*The conspiracists' laser-sculpting is not very credible. Several shots in a row produce no effect, and then Megatron's face appears in the rock after one additional shot. The three Decepticons aren't even moving their arms as they shoot. They also keep firing after the four faces are already complete.
*Coloring errors:
**As they fly in the beginning, Starscreams' chest is red when it should be white.
**As Starscream says, "I will get Megatron," Decepticon HQ is miscolored as white instead of purple.
**Starscream's eyes are blue as Megatron yells at him for failing.
**Blitzwing's tank barrel is purple as he aims at the football player with the ball.
**Blitzwing's head is purple instead of yellow as the transforms after hitting the scoreboard.
**The side of Blitzwing's eyeband is white instead of red as Scrapper yells for help.
**Thundercracker is colored as Starscream when the jets transform and land in the tunnel; not only is Starscream not part of the group, he is still frozen underground at this point.
**Blitzwing's head is purple again (instead of yellow) as he chastises the Constructicons for breaking his scoreboard.
**Megatron's helmet is a shade lighter than the rest of him as he tells Starscream to shut up. It changes back to normal as they start walking off.
**During the "Three energon cubes says you're wrong" profile shot, Thrust and Ramjet's color schemes are switched.
**Megatron's helmet is ''darker'' than the rest of his body as he says "Why not?" It changes to normal as Devastator picks him up.
*Starscream has only one wing emblem as he and Megatron walk through the sewer, and it's on right side up instead of the usual upside down.
*"Straight ahead, Megatron." Starscream's mouth isn't moving.
*When Blitzwing plows through the goal at the football stadium, the debris left behind vanishes in the next frame.
*When Blitzwing grabs the football coach, the coach is yelling, "Okay! Okay....commander!", but ''Blitzwing'' is the one mouthing the words!
*The camera shot during whole conversation between Blitzwing and the Coach is strangely cropped, so that Blitzwing's head is cut off above the mouth.
*The train conductor makes the bizarre deduction that Astrotrain has no driver. Couldn't the driver just be on the other side of the cab, out of sight? Hard to tell, since Astrotrain's forward-facing windows are missing in the shot. As is the rear half of his wheel assembly.
*Astrotrain rather flagrantly changes from all-purple to all-gray as he transforms.
*In the station, strange shot cropping again, as Astrotrain's head gets cut off for part of the shot.
*As Astrotrain walks up to the trains, the trains have changed positions from where they were in the previous shot, when they were visible through the hole in the station wall.
*A line of Astrotrain's appears to have been cut between "Even soldiers need brains" and "Astrotrain can fix that". This was presumably an assessment that the trains have no brains.
*When Astrotrain wrests down a computer component to start work on his train army, the component vanishes as he rips out the engine. The vent he ripped off is still on the train a moment later. And for a brief moment afterward, it appears as if Astrotrain picks up thin air with his hands.
*The lockers that Blitzwing kicks open to stuff his "second in command" into are [[Scale|extremely huge]]. If one compares the size of the coach to one of those lockers, he would need to ''jump'' just to reach one of the handles.
**On that note, how ''exactly'' does Blitzwing kick the locker door open? By all rights, it should be a lump of scrap metal on the floor.
*The guy whose car falls off the bridge yells "Help!" in Spike's voice.
*Scrapper is seen scooping a load of dirt when he appears, but as he transforms, not only is the dirt gone, but he appears in an entirely different location.
*After the first commercial break, Blitzwing's cannon shots randomly change from having the Decepticon laser noise to Optimus Prime's rifle noise.
*As Blitzwing first runs over Prowl and Skids, the two Autobots have switched positions from where they were in the previous shot. Perhaps in an attempt by the colorists to fix this, their color schemes are switched.
*Blitzwing runs over Prowl and Skids twice from the same direction. The second time he runs over them with ''no'' sense of vertical motion, as if they were flat as paper. He couldn't possibly have crushed them ''that'' flat.
*For some reason, Astrotrain gets a red glowing effect as he transforms out of train mode in the tunnels.
*Despite Astrotrain's orders to do various things, the train just keeps doing exactly the same thing over and over, courtesy of recycled animation.
*As the train backs up to bump into the pipe again, the glow effects of its headlights are floating in front of the headlights themselves.
*The Autobot throne changes quite a bit between shots. When we first see it, it's a lumpy pile of beat-up Autobots. When Hoist lassos it, it's mostly just Prowl and Skids, sitting back to back, undamaged. Prowl is even holding his gun!
*Thrust is shown during Thundercracker's "Leader?! How do you figure that?" line.
*When the seekers land in the tunnel, Starscream is shown landing, despite being frozen solid elsewhere. A couple shots later, you can see it was a miscolored Thundercracker.
*Two successive musical cues overlap for a second or two as the water comes bursting out of the tunnel.
[[File:Tripletakeover megatron frozen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Hey fellas, what's cooler than bein' cool?"]]
*When the water bursts in and frees Megatron and Starscream, Starscream is standing upright. When he froze, he was crouching by the exit hatch. In the same shot, Megatron is missing his Decepticon insignia.
*After they unfreeze, Megatron floats past the camera three times in a row.
*When Spike is washed away, Optimus yells "Spike!," but Peter Cullen uses Ironhide's voice.
*Also, the animation used for those shots is strangely distorted, making Spike looking like a child for a few moments.
*When he finds Spike, Optimus sort of transforms around him. In the next shot, Spike is in the driver's seat but there's no steering wheel. And when Powerglide lowers his ladder, Prime's trailer has a red stripe on it rather than a white one.
*The depth of the water varies all over the place. In one shot, Trailbreaker drives it away from a building, revealing several floors that were completely inundated; in another shot, it's almost to the top of a streetlamp. In other shots, it's shallow enough for the Autobots to wade through. In one scene, Optimus is wading through water up to his shoulders, yet when he transforms, it only comes up to his fenders.
*A huge pipe is shown breaking when Optimus first tries to fix the broken water main. The pipe that he and Ironhide repair later, however, just has a tiny little crack in it, nowhere near enough to flood a tunnel, let alone a whole city.
*Trailbreaker's forcefields are rainbow-colored rather than golden in this episode.
*Blitzwing is doing a strange little boogie before the Constructicons smash his scoreboard, with electrical effects around his hand. It's not really clear what this is meant to be. Is it his endzone victory dance?
*Scrapper's cab roof is misdrawn during Blitzwing's "What bargain?" line.
*Megatron reaches off-screen during his confrontation with Optimus, and something electrical lights up; we never do see what it is, though.
*As Megatron and Starscream shoot at Optimus, Starscream suddenly shifts from behind Megatron to in front of him. This makes him look tiny for a moment.
*Megatron gets the standard Decepticon laser sound for his fusion cannon, layered on top of its normal sound effect.
*Someone mistook Prime's blinding headlights for a laser attack, and inserted his standard rifle sound effect a couple of times.
*Megatron is shown with foot thrusters as he and Starscream take off.
*Among the Decepticon jets following Prime to the stadium is an off-model Seeker (or maybe an off-model Blitzwing) colored like Astrotrain; this should be Thundercracker. The jets are flying extremely low; Thrust can't be more than 10 feet above the road.
*As they fly toward Blitzwing's position, Ramjet and Thrust are flying alongside.... Blitzwing.
*As the Autobots stand on the building roof, the water lapping at the building's edge is drawn as though it were surf coming in on a flat beach; parts of it just drift right over the building parapet.
*The same scene is supposed to show Trailbreaker using his forcefield to push Astrotrain toward the stadium, but it's so badly drawn and edited that it's very easy to miss.
*Devastator and Blitzwing are almost the same size as they grapple.
*As Starscream crashes after strafing Devastator, he passes in front of Blitzwing. The relative size makes it seem like he was meant to land behind him.
*While Astrotrain and Blitzwing are grappling, Devastator stomps Astrotrain's train mode underfoot, crushing it flat, shouting "You're next, Blitzwing!" As Astrotrain is still grappling with Blitzwing in the next shot, it's not clear what this was supposed to be. It's possible this shot was meant to come later, when Devastator is fighting the other four Decepticons.

===Continuity errors===
*Astrotrain reads the temperature in the trap room as "470 degrees below zero", but actual absolute zero is only 459 below zero.
*The coach is introduced commanding the team with the same colors as his own clothing, but by the time the game gets interrupted by Blitzwing, he's commanding the ''other'' team.
*The bridge that Hoist repairs is clearly blown in half, yet once Hoist leaps into the river to shore up its supports, traffic keeps rolling across it.
*The four Autobots are pretty much destroyed by Blitzwing. Bluestreak explodes, and chunks of him (and three of his tires) go flying in different directions. Prowl, Skids, and Tracks all crash explosively and are all crushed under Blitzwing's tank treads. Unsurprisingly, none of them are nearly so damaged when they show up again later.
*Despite what he says, Astrotrain doesn't ''have'' any score to settle with Blitzwing. (It's possible, though, that he just needed a good punching bag to beat up after the humiliation the Seekers gave him.)
**In the draft script this made significantly more sense, as for the bulk of the episode Astrotrain and Blitzwing were competing after they each blamed the other for a shared massive failure to attack Autobot headquarters in which they embarrassed themselves by leveling ''the wrong volcano''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180228132242/http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-50.html Full episode script]</ref>

===Trivia===
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.3|In an issue of Titan's Transformers comic]], the movie Decepticon [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] would reveal he's seen this episode.
*Signs in the city: STAR Daster, Hotel, Kend.
*Final score: Visitors 0; Blitzwing 1,569!

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title (Canadian French broadcast and European French DVD release):'' "'''La prise de pouvoir'''" ("The Takeover")
:*''Title (European French broadcast):'' "'''La dernière tentative'''" ("The Last Attempt")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*For the first time in the French version, the commercial bumpers were left in the episode, despite not sporting any voice.
::*The sportsmen don't say anything as they play, the exception being the player who faces Blitzwing with the ball.
::*Blitzwing's name is never pronounced throughout the episode. For example, Scrapper's line "Scrapper calling Blitzwing" is dubbed by "Hello, hello, do you read me?".
::*Blitzwing's lines "I must thank my advisor for such great strategy. With an assault of my long bombs, I'll totally level this city in no time!" is missing.
::*The dialogue between Prowl and Skids as they drive to the action is missing.
::*During the battle in the maze, Blitzwing's line "Ha ha! Wait for me!" is missing. Just after, his line "Autobots! Worth 10 points each!" is missing too.
::*Powerglide does not say anything as he guides Hoist and Smokescreen in the maze, which makes the scene incomprehensible.
::*Optimus Prime calls Ironhide "Iron", despite his usual nickname in the dub being "Irok".

'''German'''
:*''Title (Generation 2 dub):'' "'''Der Aufstand'''" ("The Revolution")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 27]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''I Triplex ribelli'''" ("The Rebel Triple Changers")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*This is one of the few episodes after ''[[Quest for Survival]]'' in which Optimus Prime is voiced by [[Piero Tiberi]] instead of [[Angelo Nicotra]].
::*Blitzwing's line: «But one head does not belong!» is oddly changed to: «Yes, but one head managed to resist!».
::*Football is called "rugby". The same thing already happened in ''[[Atlantis, Arise!]]''.
::*"Long bomb" is changed to "time bomb", totally ruining the joke. Still, this is understandable giving the difficulty of translating such a pun.
::*Powerglide's line: «Turn right» is heard '''after''' Smokescreen and Hoist already started turning right. Also, the line in Italian uses a singular verb, like if Powerglide was talking to just one character.
::*Astroforce's name is kept in English, but since Astrotrain is known in Italy as "Triplex Uno", an Italian viewer totally wouldn't understand that "Astroforce" comes from the character's name.
::*Energon cubes are once called ''cubi energetici'' ("energetic cubes") and later ''cubi energo-genetici'' (which can be roughly translated as "energo-genetic cubes").
::*Once, Starscream calls Astrotrain and Blitzwing "those three traitors"... despite them being two!
::*Constructicons are called "Constructor", which is sort of a mash-up of the English name and the Italian one ("Escavator").
::*In Ironhide's line: «I guess Prime was right: Megatron took care of the Decepticons for us», Prime's name is not pronounced in Italian, making not clear who Ironhide was referring to.
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Triplice congiura'''" ("Triple Conspiracy")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Triple Changer no Hanran'''" (トリプル・チェンジャーの反乱, "The Rebellion of the Triple Changers")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[April 11]], [[1986]]

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Zhēng Quán Duó lì '''" (争权夺利, "Scrambling for Leadership")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Domínio Tríplice'''" ("Triple Dominion")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Troynoy perevorot'''" (Тройной переворот, "The Triple Upheaval")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

===Toys inspired by this episode===
[[File:WFC-Siege-Leader-Astrotrain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
*'''''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Leader Class Astrotrain''' (Hasbro [[2019]])

:''Siege'' (and its ''Earthrise'' repack) Astrotrain features the errorous pre-final character model-inspired wing deco patterns.
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*'''''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' Triple Takeover''' (TakaraTomy [[2025]])

:The ''Dramatic Capture Series'' 3-pack features Astrotrain (without the battle damage and the tender/launchpad), Starscream (and his Coronation kit), and Blitzwing (without his Energon Fists and Gauntlets). Astrotrain still retains the same old erroneous wing deco pattern from the original.

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==Home video releases==
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;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] [[1995]] — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] [[1999]] — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] [[2001]] — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] [[2003]] — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 6 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] [[2004]] — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 16 ([[Déclic Images]]) — European French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] [[2006]] — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] [[2007]] — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] [[2009]] — ''Transformers'' — Volume 05: Stagione Due Parte Terza ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] [[2011]] — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] [[2014]] — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wYU85J-1QGjmvpaYsIUeSiXGMUmnVbZu/view?usp=sharing Full episode script]
*[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pZqvrqtckaaZ4Nn9WJh89fhB8djWG7-6m Episode dialogue script]
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1axaGBcBZmONCVzB7bWNa8e57SsZZUYi9/view?usp=drive_link Episode model sheets]

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