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File:RiseOfTheDarkSpark Grimlock front.jpg

2026-01-04T20:45:58Z

AzureNight: AzureNight uploaded a new version of "File:RiseOfTheDarkSpark Grimlock front.jpg": Full view of the in game model

{{ROTDScap|The front of [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock's]] body in [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark]].}}

Wall Crawler

2026-01-04T20:43:07Z

AzureNight:

{{faction|autobot|decepticon}}

:''The Wall Crawlers are body-types from the [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].
[[Image:Wall crawler foc.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Threat or menace?]]
'''Wall Crawlers''', also known as '''Snipers''' crawl around on walls. Duh. Be careful, though, you wouldn't want them to knock your head off with one shot, now would you?

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Aligned'' comics===
Prior to the launch of the [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]], waves of Wall Crawlers attacked [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] only to be driven back by the [[Lightning Strike Coalition]]. {{storylink|Good Intentions}} While investigating where the Decepticons found the energy required for these relentless attacks, [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] made his way into [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s base, evading the Wall Crawler guards. {{storylink|Secrets (FOC)|Secrets}} These guards were not so lucky when the other Lightning Strike Coalition members arrived to rescue Swoop and blew up any Decepticons in their way. {{storylink|Siege Mentality}} [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] had a vision of himself fighting Wall Crawlers as he endured Shockwave's painful modification of his body. {{storylink|Fall}}

== Games ==
=== ''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron'' ===
The spider-like Wall Crawlers are functionally a blend of the Decepticon [[Sniper (WFC)|Sniper]] and [[Flier (WFC)|Seeker]] units seen [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|earlier in the war]], combining the former's weaponry with the latter's mobility. They generally cling to a surface, scanning the area with their laser sights until an enemy walks into range, at which point they open fire with powerful and accurate laser blasts. After firing a shot or being fired upon, they detach from the wall and fly to another vantage point, in an attempt to prevent enemies from exploiting their weak armor.

However, Wall Crawlers have glaring weaknesses in both phases of their battle strategy. In sniper mode, they take a while to line up a shot, during which time an [[Autobot]] or [[Decepticon]] with quick reflexes and good aim can follow the laser sight and blast the source of the gunfire. In flight mode, Wall Crawlers are unable to attack and fairly visible targets; furthermore, it takes them a moment to reconfigure into their combat form, during which time they are immobile and vulnerable. To compensate for their flaws, Wall Crawlers are often found in groups or as support for other units, forcing enemies to choose between taking down the immediate threats or picking off the sniper support.
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
====Console====
[[File:RotDS MercSniper.jpg|thumb|left|100px]]
Wall Crawlers were among the Decepticon forces trying to kill Optimus and Jazz during their attempts to infiltrate [[Kolkular]], but were destroyed by the Autobot leader.
Later, grey Wall Crawlers were among the mercenary forces trying to capture [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] during their jungle mission, but Bumblebee blasted them to pieces.

====3DS====
Wall Crawlers acted as recon soldiers for [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown's]] forces. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Russian:'' '''Sniper''' (Снайпер ''Snayper'')

[[Category:Drones]]
[[Category:Fall of Cybertron characters]]
[[Category:Fiction-only characters]]

Shadow Raider

2026-01-04T20:38:46Z

AzureNight: /* Gallery */

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig2|the movieverse mercenaries|the Aligned Decepticon|Shadow Raker}}
:''Shadow Raiders are sometimes-[[Decepticon]] mercenaries from the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (franchise)|Age of Extinction]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].
[[File:StudioSeries-Shadow-Raider-art.jpg|thumb|200px|"We're the Guardians of the Galaxy."]]

When [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] needs ''someone'' to run things around his [[Knight Ship|big ship]], he is lucky to have an army of ''literally'' faceless '''Shadow Raiders'''. They would regularly be dispatched to eliminate any intruders aboard his ship.<ref>''Studio Series'' Deluxe Class Shadow Raider packaging bio</ref> However, they generally get shot at.

==Fiction==
===''Age of Extinction'' film===
[[File:AOE-Shadow-Raiders.jpg|thumb|left|Don't even think about it]]
Multiple Shadow Raiders and [[Steeljaw (AOE)|Steeljaw]]s were present when [[Harold Attinger]] requested an audience with Lockdown regarding [[Cemetery Wind]]'s failure in capturing [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] in the Arctic.

When the Autobots, along with [[Cade Yeager]] and [[Shane Dyson]], infiltrated the ship in search of Optimus, many Shadow Raiders were seen patrolling the ship and deploying orb-like drones to search for intruders in narrow spaces. Several of them were killed in a skirmish with the two humans. When they and [[Tessa Yeager]] manages to escape the ship, Shadow Raiders chased after them, [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] aboard [[Orbital Assault Carrier|their fighters]]. However, everyone who was airborne either crashed or got shot down.

When Lockdown discovered that a portion of the ship containing Optimus and the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]]s was missing, the Shadow Raiders were present on the bridge of the ship when he ordered the ship to turn around and return to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

===Titan movie comics===
When [[Sojex]] managed to escape captivity, the Shadow Raiders attempted to assist Lockdown in recapturing her. However, they were told to stand down by their captain. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.4|Locked In!}}
{{--}}

==Games==
===''Age of Extinction'' mobile game===
Shadow Raiders were enemy units who served under Lockdown and [[Megatron (Movie)|Galvatron]]. There were four types of those bots: '''Scout''', '''Gunner''', '''Beamer''', & '''Miner'''. Together, they would charge at the Autobots in an effort to destroy them. Destroying Shadow Raiders would cause them to drop [[Energon|Energon Packs]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (mobile game)}}

===''Rise of the Dark Spark'' (console)===
Shadow Raiders are shown helping their boss Lockdown protect the [[Dark Spark]]. They even got some [[Combaticon Warrior|brutes]] on their side that are swiftly destroyed by [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]. The surviving Shadow Raiders are said to have been chased off by the Dinobot. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===''Studio Series''===
[[File:Studio-Series-MV4-Deluxe-Shadow-Raider.jpg|thumb|300px|Or as he's known in the United States, "[[Mainframe Entertainment|War Planets]]."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Shadow Raider''' (Deluxe Class, [[2018]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': '''''Age of Extinction'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''17'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS-13'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[September 15]], 2018
:*''Accessories'': Gun, "[[Knight Ship|Enemy Ship]] Infiltration" backdrop
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:''[[Studio Series]]'' Shadow Raider is an orange and black redeco and new head retool of [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Studio Series|Lockdown]], transforming from robot to licensed Lamborghini Aventador and back. The figure features a headsculpt based on Lockdown's masked appearance (rather than the on-screen Shadow Raiders), which can be swapped onto ''Studio Series'' Lockdown to recreate the character's masked appearance if one wishes due to the two toys sharing the same size of [[ball joint]] on their necks. Shadow Raider also comes with a new weapon accessory based on the device Lockdown used to remove [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]'s spark in ''Age of Extinction'', which can also be wielded by Lockdown. The packaging also includes a cardboard backdrop of a hangar within the Knight Ship.

:As with the original mold, exercise caution while swiveling the upper elbow joint as it was molded in translucent plastic: It can snap off if not done carefully.
{{--}}

==Notes==
*The Shadow Raiders went unnamed in the film itself and all contemporary media, with this wiki using the ad hoc placeholder "Mercenary" until the release of the ''Studio Series'' toy designated a proper name.
*The orange vehicle deco of the ''Studio Series'' Shadow Raider is based on a stock paintjob for the Lamborghini Aventador, featured prominently in marketing material for the car.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Shadow Raider''' (シャドウレイダー ''Shadō Reidā'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:TF-AOE-Mobage-Shadow-Raiders.jpg|''Age of Extinction'' mobile game
File:LockdownsMercenaryRoTDS.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Soldier (unit)|Soldier]]
File:RotDS MercShotgunSoldier.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Shotgunner]]
File:RotDS MercRocketSoldier.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Rocket Soldier]]
File:ROTDS_Mercenary_Titan.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Titan (FOC)|Titan]]
File:ROTDS Mercenary Leaper.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Leaper]]
File:RotDS MercSniper.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Wall Crawler]]
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Age of Extinction Decepticons]]
[[Category:Bounty hunters]]
[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]
[[Category:Studio Series Decepticons]]

File:RotDS MercSniper.jpg

2026-01-04T20:37:58Z

AzureNight: {{ROTDScap|A Wall Crawler Mercenary}}

Titan (FOC)

2026-01-04T20:33:19Z

AzureNight:

{{factions|autobot|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Titan}}

:''Titan is a body-type and Class from [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]] and [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:Tffoc titan.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Destroyer's little brother]]
Need to defend a vital facility from, say, a dashing and enterprising [[Swindle (FOC)|businessmech]]? Perhaps you want to prevent someone from going somewhere they aren't supposed to? Or maybe, just maybe, you're throwing everything you have at the enemy and want to make sure nothing gets in your way? Then the Titan is just the mech you're looking for!

Towering over their comrades, Titans will lay down unrelenting firepower as they march towards the unlucky glitchhead who got in their sights. Want more bang for your energon buck? Why, they come with an assortment of aerial mines, guaranteed to flush out those pesky guys who try to use things like "cover" to "stay alive". And best of all, these gents are self-sustaining, with accompanying repair drones that will help your Titan keep going, and going, and going...

Now, how many can I get you down for?

(Disclaimer: Titans are bigger than anything on most battlefields and will stomp anything in their way, unless the other guys have an [[Bruticus (WFC)|ever bigger, badder, more battlin' guy]] on their side.)

Not only that, do you prefer your foes drained of [[energon]], pumped full of lead, and crushed under your enormous treads? Then choose the '''Titan''', the biggest and brawliest FOC class. They transform into tanks. [[Grimlock (WFC)|Usually.]]

==Characteristics (Unit)==

With a design that somewhat resembles [[Jetfire (G1)|G1 Jetfire]]'s animation model (notably the backpack and a mostly white colour scheme) as well as a huge mass, Titans are easy to identify on the battlefield and normally appear guarding vital resources. Few and far between, if a Titan is present, safe to say there's something valuable nearby too.

Replacing the [[Heavy Soldier]]s as the supressive fire type of enemy unit, the Titan is the single toughest foe players will face. Llike their predecessors, the Titans don't transform. Instead, these hulking brutes march inexorably towards their target, unleashing a hail of fire from their handheld Scrapmaker cannons. They occasionally pause to deploy air mines that fly towards their chosen victim before detonating. What's that? Go for the head? Great idea!

Except for the fact they can also deploy a couple of repair drones that can heal the Titans faster than damage can be inflicted. Luckily, said drones can be shot down, and sustained fire can and will bring them low. Just don't stand too close, as they will self-detonate in an attempt to take the victorious but careless player with them.

===Weapons and Abilities===
The Titans' main weapon is a handheld gatling cannon similar to the [[X18 Scrapmaker]]. They have a seemingly endless amount of ammunition, so using cover or superior maneuverability is a must. Their secondary weapons are aerial mines that pursue a target. While the mines can be shot down fairly easily, they are also persistent and can cause fatal distractions. By far the most dangerous ability of the Titans is the deployment of repair drones that can keep them healed (immediately noticeable thanks to a shimmering blue effect that coats the affected Titan). The Titan also has an incredibly powerful melee attack, taking away almost all your health and knocks you far back.

Even in death a Titan is still a threat: they will detonate and do a large amount of damage to anyone standing nearby. Luckily, this includes other enemies.

==Characteristics (FOC Multiplayer)==
The Titan was tweaked from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]] [[Soldier (WFC)|Soldier]] class. It still has the highest overall health, but greater emphasis was placed on heavy machine guns, with most of the explosive munitions transferred to the [[Destroyer (FOC)|Destroyer]] class.

===Body Types===
Six body types were available with the game initially, with two unlocked from the get-go and the rest available by spending [[Energon shard]]s. The heads, chest/vehicle, shoulders, arms, legs, and cannon were interchangeable. The initial bodies were:
*'''Gunner''' ([[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]])
*'''Obliterator''' ([[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]])
*'''Tanker''' ([[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]])
*'''Wrecker''' ([[Scattershot (WFC)|Scattershot]])
*'''Bruiser''' ([[Demolishor (WFC)|Demolishor]])
*'''Steel Crusher''' ([[Quake (FOC)|Quake]])
Several bonus heads could be added on by attaining certain levels. They were:
*'''Beast''' ([[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] beast head, unlocked at level 25)
*'''Warlord''' (Head of the Autobot Titan and Shotgunner enemies in campaign, Unlocked at Prime)
*'''Crawler''' ([[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] head, unlocked at Prime level 25)
*'''Elite''' (Megatron with a crown, unlocked by reaching Prime 25 with every class)
Later, downloadable content could be purchased that added more body types. So far, they've been:
*'''Annihilator''' ([[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]])
*'''Beetle''' ([[Hardshell]])
*'''Berserker''' ([[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]], cannon can't be altered with this type)
Finally, each class could apply a variety of [[Insignia|faction symbols]] (called "[[Sticker|decals]]"). Each set cost 400 Energon shards, and many contained references to past Transformers subgroups. They were: [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]]; [[Lightning Strike Coalition|Lightning Strikeforce]]; [[Battlecharger|Warchargers]]; [[Astro Squad]]; [[Protectobot (WFC)|Protectobots]]; Energo Squad; [[Battle Squad]]; [[Laser Rod|Lazer Rods]].

===Weapons===
Each class in FOC was able to equip a primary and secondary firearm, and each had four to choose from. Two would be unlocked to begin with, and the rest became available as levels were gained. Each weapon upgrades that could be added by gaining levels. The Titan had access to:
*'''[[Energon Harvester]]'''
*'''[[X18 Scrapmaker]]'''
*'''[[E.D.K. TechVolt]]'''
*'''[[Corrosive slime-shooter|Corrosive Slime Cannon]]'''

===Abilities===
Each class had access to two different abilities and could equip one at a time. The second ability, as well as various upgrades, could be unlocked by gaining experience. The Titan could:
*'''Whirlwind''' - A spinning melee attack. Could be canceled by jumping or pressing the ability button.
*'''Flak Shield''' - A ''huge'', handheld shield that blocked incoming attacks.

==Notes==
[[File:ROTDS Mercenary Titan.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
*The [[Shadow Raider|Mercenary]] Titans working with [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] in [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]] use a recolored version of the [[Combaticon Warrior]] model.

[[Category:Video game-only characters]]
[[Category:Fall of Cybertron subgroups]]

Shotgunner

2026-01-04T20:24:10Z

AzureNight:

{{factions|autobot|decepticon}}
:''Shotgunners are a body-type in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Tfwfc Shotgunner.jpg|upright=2.67|thumb|right|]]
'''Shotgunners''' are made for close combat, utilizing the [[EMP shotgun]], frag grenades and overshields, their damage output and armor are both substantially higher than that of the standard soldier units. The [[Autobot]], [[Neutral]], and [[Decepticon]] armies often deploy them in tandem with [[Soldier (unit)|Soldiers]] to increase their effectiveness.

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (360/PS3/PC)===
{{gamestub}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
By the end stages of the war shotgunners began using [[Scatter blaster|scatter blasters]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}
[[File:Tffoc shotgunner.jpg|300px|thumb|right]]

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
[[File:RotDS MercShotgunSoldier.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mercenary Shotgunner]]

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]
[[Category:Video game-only characters]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron subgroups]]

Rocket Soldier

2026-01-04T20:22:17Z

AzureNight:

{{factions|autobot|decepticon}}
:''Rocket Soldiers are a body-type in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Tfwfc Rocket Soldier.jpg|upright=2.67|thumb|right|]]
'''Rocket Soldiers''', also known as Rocket Troopers and Rocketeers, are a common sight in the [[Autobot]], [[Neutral]], and [[Decepticon]] armies. Armed with [[Thermo rocket launcher]]s rocket soldiers are heavier artillery support for, and often work in tandem with, [[shotgunner]]s and standard [[Soldier (unit)|soldiers]] units.

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (360/PS3/PC)===
{{gamestub}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}
[[File:Tffoc rocket soldier.jpg|250px|thumb|right]]

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
[[File:RotDS MercRocketSoldier.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Mercenary Rocket Soldier]]

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]
[[Category:Video game-only characters]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron subgroups]]

Soldier (unit)

2026-01-04T20:20:02Z

AzureNight:

{{factions|autobot|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Soldier}}
:''Soldiers are a body-type in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Decepticon Soldier WFC.jpg|upright=3|thumb|right|]]

'''Soldiers''' are some of the most common soldiers in the [[Autobot]], [[Neutral]], and [[Decepticon]] armies. Armed with [[Neutron assault rifle]]s, [[Photon burst rifle]]s & [[Energon battle pistol|Battle pistol]]s, Soldiers hide on rooftops and high-up crevices. Soldiers are not dangerous, but can cause a lot of problems to their enemies if they come in large numbers. While soldiers have no patterns to base an attack on, a smart warrior can exploit their low health, and their weak armor, to kill them easily with a powerful weapon.

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (360/PS3/PC)===
Soldiers were a common sight among Autobot, Neutral, and Decepticon during the war for Cybertron. Autobot Soldiers came in red, green, or blue; Neutral Soldiers came in green, brown, or dark blue; and Decepticon Soldiers came in dark green or dark purple. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures''===
{{charstubgame}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures|Cybertron Adventures}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
[[File:Tffoc soldiers.jpg|300px|thumb|right]]
During the last days on Cybertron, there were more Decepticon Soldiers than Autobot Soldiers. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
[[File:LockdownsMercenaryRoTDS.jpg|155px|thumb|left|Mercenary Soldier]]
Optimus ordered a lot of Autobot Soldiers to make a stand, and to keep the Decepticons away from the Dark Spark. After that, most of the Autobot army tried to stop Shockwave from taking the Dark Spark to [[Kolkular]].
Things went wrong, as Shockwave, along with the Combaticons, not only murdered a lot of Autobots but also took Cliffjumper as a prisoner. After that, Optimus, along with Jazz, infiltrated Kolkular to retrieve the Dark Spark and rescue Cliffjumper. During this, they faced a lot of Decepticon soldiers. When Cliffjumper was rescued, Optimus ordered Jazz to take Cliffjumper out of Kolkular, before going to face Megatron himself. Once Optimus reached the Dark Spark's room, he noticed that were a lot of dead Autobot soldiers. To his horror, Megatron revived them with the Dark Spark's power, turning them into zombies loyal to him. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

==Toys==
===''Studio Series''===
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Deluxe-GE-Decepticon-Trooper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Hey! I’m ba-You killed ''HOW'' many of me during Escalation?!?"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Gamer Edition Decepticon Soldier''' (Deluxe Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''Game'': '''''War for Cybertron'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''+08'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS GE-08'''
:*''Accessories'': [[neutron assault rifle]], "Save Zeta Prime" backdrop
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref name = "Pulse stream">[[May 14]], 2024's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOXZGDHebTk Hasbro Pulse | Transformers Fanstream | May 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Kelly Rose]].</ref>

:''[[Studio Series]]'' "Gamer Edition Decepticon Soldier" is a ''heavy'' retool of the earlier [[Barricade (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Barricade]].<ref name = "Pulse stream"/> Nearly every part of the previous figure has been replaced. This figure converts into a "Cybertronian sports car" in 12 steps and retains Barricade's [[neutron assault rifle]] accessory which can be stowed atop their canopy in vehicle mode or on the back of both modes. Like other ''Gamer Edition'' figures, the right forearm can be detached to equip the rifle or other ''Gamer Edition'' weapons to emulate the way characters' arms transformed into their weapons in-game.

:The heavy retooling on this figure also fixes many of the articulation issues that Barricade suffered from: the elbows and knees can bend a full 90 degrees, the wrists are no longer obstructed, and calf kibble now acts as heels. The shoulder and hip articulation is still a bit restrictive going outwards. Unlike Barricade, the Decepticon Soldier can also store the detached forearm on their back when not in use.

:There is a discrepancy with how the kibble on the sides of the lower legs should be transformed: Renders and one page in the instructions have the kibble rotated to cover the wheels, however, stock photos and most of the instructions leave them untransformed. Which orientation to use can be left to the owner's preference as the kibble doesn't exist on the game model either way. Of note, if using the "transformed" look, the leg kibble does not tab in securely, resulting in them being left behind if the knees are bent without holding them down.
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Decepticon Soldier''' (ディセプティコンソルジャー ''Diseputikon Sorujā'')

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{groupstub}}

[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]
[[Category:Studio Series Decepticons]]
[[Category:Video game-only characters]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron subgroups]]

Soldier (unit)

2026-01-04T20:18:50Z

AzureNight: /* Games */

{{factions|autobot|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Soldier}}
:''Soldiers are a body-type in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Decepticon Soldier WFC.jpg|upright=3|thumb|right|]]

'''Soldiers''' are some of the most common soldiers in the [[Autobot]], [[Neutral]], and [[Decepticon]] armies. Armed with [[Neutron assault rifle]]s, [[Photon burst rifle]]s & [[Energon battle pistol|Battle pistol]]s, Soldiers hide on rooftops and high-up crevices. Soldiers are not dangerous, but can cause a lot of problems to their enemies if they come in large numbers. While soldiers have no patterns to base an attack on, a smart warrior can exploit their low health, and their weak armor, to kill them easily with a powerful weapon.

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (360/PS3/PC)===
Soldiers were a common sight among Autobot, Neutral, and Decepticon during the war for Cybertron. Autobot Soldiers came in red, green, or blue; Neutral Soldiers came in green, brown, or dark blue; and Decepticon Soldiers came in dark green or dark purple. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures''===
{{charstubgame}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures|Cybertron Adventures}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
[[File:Tffoc soldiers.jpg|300px|thumb|right]]
During the last days on Cybertron, there were more Decepticon Soldiers than Autobot Soldiers. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
[[File:LockdownsMercenaryRoTDS.jpg|175px|thumb|left|Mercenary Soldier]]
Optimus ordered a lot of Autobot Soldiers to make a stand, and to keep the Decepticons away from the Dark Spark. After that, most of the Autobot army tried to stop Shockwave from taking the Dark Spark to [[Kolkular]].
Things went wrong, as Shockwave, along with the Combaticons, not only murdered a lot of Autobots but also took Cliffjumper as a prisoner. After that, Optimus, along with Jazz, infiltrated Kolkular to retrieve the Dark Spark and rescue Cliffjumper. During this, they faced a lot of Decepticon soldiers. When Cliffjumper was rescued, Optimus ordered Jazz to take Cliffjumper out of Kolkular, before going to face Megatron himself. Once Optimus reached the Dark Spark's room, he noticed that were a lot of dead Autobot soldiers. To his horror, Megatron revived them with the Dark Spark's power, turning them into zombies loyal to him. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

==Toys==
===''Studio Series''===
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Deluxe-GE-Decepticon-Trooper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Hey! I’m ba-You killed ''HOW'' many of me during Escalation?!?"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Gamer Edition Decepticon Soldier''' (Deluxe Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''Game'': '''''War for Cybertron'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''+08'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS GE-08'''
:*''Accessories'': [[neutron assault rifle]], "Save Zeta Prime" backdrop
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref name = "Pulse stream">[[May 14]], 2024's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOXZGDHebTk Hasbro Pulse | Transformers Fanstream | May 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Kelly Rose]].</ref>

:''[[Studio Series]]'' "Gamer Edition Decepticon Soldier" is a ''heavy'' retool of the earlier [[Barricade (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Barricade]].<ref name = "Pulse stream"/> Nearly every part of the previous figure has been replaced. This figure converts into a "Cybertronian sports car" in 12 steps and retains Barricade's [[neutron assault rifle]] accessory which can be stowed atop their canopy in vehicle mode or on the back of both modes. Like other ''Gamer Edition'' figures, the right forearm can be detached to equip the rifle or other ''Gamer Edition'' weapons to emulate the way characters' arms transformed into their weapons in-game.

:The heavy retooling on this figure also fixes many of the articulation issues that Barricade suffered from: the elbows and knees can bend a full 90 degrees, the wrists are no longer obstructed, and calf kibble now acts as heels. The shoulder and hip articulation is still a bit restrictive going outwards. Unlike Barricade, the Decepticon Soldier can also store the detached forearm on their back when not in use.

:There is a discrepancy with how the kibble on the sides of the lower legs should be transformed: Renders and one page in the instructions have the kibble rotated to cover the wheels, however, stock photos and most of the instructions leave them untransformed. Which orientation to use can be left to the owner's preference as the kibble doesn't exist on the game model either way. Of note, if using the "transformed" look, the leg kibble does not tab in securely, resulting in them being left behind if the knees are bent without holding them down.
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==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Decepticon Soldier''' (ディセプティコンソルジャー ''Diseputikon Sorujā'')

==References==
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[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]
[[Category:Studio Series Decepticons]]
[[Category:Video game-only characters]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron subgroups]]

Optimus Prime (Movie)/games

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AzureNight: /* Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark */

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Lots of games involve Movie Optimus Prime!

==Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots==

Using the callsign 10-22, Optimus Prime stepped up to replace the missing Bumblebee as field director for the [[Chevy Autobot]]s in their struggles against [[Mainframe (Movie)|Mainframe]]. Under 10-22's leadership, the Chevy Autobots learned that Bumblebee and their other comrades survived inside their foe. Mainframe was capable of devouring the sparks of his opponents to increase his power, but the new sparks remained distinct within him for a time. Locating Mainframe in the Arctic, 10-22 dispatched the entire crew of Chevy Autobots to confront the Decepticon villain, and soon joined them himself. They fought their way through Mainframe and [[Maelstrom]], defeated their foes, saved their friends, and made the universe safe for femmebots and protoforms everywhere. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots}}

==''Transformers'' (Glu)==

Upon his arrival on Earth, Optimus Prime was damaged and trapped inside Hoover Dam. [[You]] assisted him by monitoring his progress and directing his efforts with your cell phone. Well done, flesh creature. {{storylink|Transformers (Glu)}}

==''Transformers'' - The Game==
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English)|[[Patrick Borg]] (French), [[Alfredo Martínez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Marco Balzarotti]] (Italian), [[Achim Barrenstein]] (German)}}

===Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC/Wii/PS2===
===Autobot campaign===
Optimus Prime provided intelligence and missions to Bumblebee in his search for the AllSpark. Eventually, the clues led the Autobot to Sam Witwicky. After saving Sam from Barricade, Bumblebee finally completed preparations for the Autobots to arrive on Earth. Once on Earth and disguised as a truck, and having informed the two teenagers of their mission, Prime and the Autobots were discovered by Sector Seven. Optimus sent Jazz on a high-speed <s>destruction</s> distraction mission, then sent Ironhide to rescue Jazz from a double-threat posed by the government agents and various Decepticon scouts. When Bumblebee was captured, Optimus Prime chased the helicopter which from which the small Autobot was dangling. After a lengthy pursuit, Optimus managed to catch the net, only to be thrown off by another Cybertronian [[transition form|meteor]] passing nearby. As Bumblebee was carried away, Optimus promised he would not fail him again. Jazz informed him that the meteor was not an Autobot and Optimus confronted the new threat, who turned out to be the Decepticon triplechanger [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]. The two battled it out across [[Tranquility]] before Optimus finally destroyed him, and in doing so, overheard [[Starscream (Movie)/games|Starscream]]'s transmission revealing the location of the AllSpark.

Optimus then returned to an intel role as he guided Bumblebee in his mission to retrieve the AllSpark from Hoover Dam. Unfortunately, the Decepticons managed to free Megatron, leading to the final battle in Mission City. As the Autobots engaged in an all-out urban war with the Decepticons to protect Sam and the AllSpark, things seemed to take a turn for the worse as Megatron finally arrived. But before the Decepticon leader could claim the Cube, Optimus Prime attacked. The two leaders duked it out until Megatron was finally on the ground, seemingly devoid of life. Optimus knelt to take the AllSpark as Sam handed it to him, but Megatron suddenly awoke, leaping at the Autobot with his chain-flail out, and making one last attempt at defeating his adversary. Optimus grabbed the chain, pulling Megatron in closer, and with the AllSpark clutched in his fist, delivered a punch through Megatron's spark. As Megatron died Optimus reflected on the losses and rewards of this battle, as the Autobots have a new home. Optimus planned to guard the humans in secret, "For freedom is the right of all sentient beings." {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}

===Decepticon campaign===
After Bumblebee, Jazz and Ironhide were all killed in Mission City, Sam and Mikaela informed their deaths to Optimus. Optimus noted their sacrifice and decided to defeat Megatron, he transformed and took them both to a safer location. In the final battle, Optimus Prime had summoned all of his autobot forces to stop Megatron, but was confronted by Megatron himself at the top of a building, he fought back against Megatron and had a banter before they fought again, all the while protecting Sam. Prime faced the decepticon tyrant and his underlings with great might. Eventually Prime was beaten to the ground, and as he desperately crawled for the AllSpark, Megatron smashed his head with his flail, Sam came to his aid too late, as Megatron used the Cube to destroy humanity. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}

===''Transformers: Autobots''===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Achim Barrenstein]] (German)}}

Optimus helped to advise his warriors in some of their mission to try locate the Allspark. Arriving on Earth, Optimus met up with the other Autobots to give further commands to his troops. [[Create-A-Bot (Autobot)|Create-A-Bot]], the new rookie, was eager to help in the cause, but Optimus tells him to sit back while the grown-ups take care of business. After Jazz learned that Sector 7 possessed both Megatron and the Allspark, Optimus solemnly decided to kill his brother, a notion Jazz questioned. Optimus deemed it a necessary killing, and ordered Bumblebee to create a diversion so that they could get out of the city, but Create-A-Bot, fed up with the bureaucracy defied Optimus's orders and interfered in Bumblebee's mission, resulting in the scout's capture. Optimus decided not to rescue Bumblebee, deeming their mission for the AllSpark more important. Ironhide was enraged by this, voicing his opinion that Optimus cared for none of his troops, only for besting his brother. Optimus voiced no argument against this attack, and restated their mission to retrieve the AllSpark. With that, the Autobots began making their way to the Hoover Dam.

Jazz was able to locate Bumblebee in the dam, and Ironhide apologized for his outburst, though Optimus said no apology was needed between the two old friends. Optimus took pity on Create-A-Bot and allowed him the chance to redeem himself by freeing Bumblebee. After guiding Bumblebee to his weapon chip and the Allspark, Optimus and Bumblebee made their way down the highway when they were confronted by Barricade and a drone, and after defeating them Optimus realised they were a diversion so that they could unfreeze Megatron. Searching for his nemesis, he instead encountered Brawl, who he eventually killed before returning to the city, where he rendezvoused with Create-A-Bot and Bumblebee with the Allspark, Megatron arrived and grabbed the Allspark from him. To stop Megatron Optimus followed him, ordering Create-A-Bot to stay behind with Bumblebee. During the confrontation Megatron set Allspark drones on Prime, but Create-A-Bot, who tailed Prime to the fight sacrificed himself to weaken Megatron. Galvanized by the rookie's sacrifice, Optimus fought Megatron in a final duel. After besting Megatron, Optimus decided the Allspark was worth sacrificing to stop Megatron. Megatron defeated, Optimus commended the dying young Autobot and swore he would always be remembered as a war hero, and sent out an interstellar message to any Autobots living among the stars to join them. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots}}

===''Transformers: Decepticons''===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Achim Barrenstein]] (German)}}

Optimus Prime was the leader of the Autobots and Megatron’s old brother-in-arms with countless Decepticon casualties to his name, many of whom thought they could take him on solo. Despite acknowledging how powerful he was, the most loyal Decepticons regarded Prime as a zealot who promoted weakness and fear, and regarded his Autobots as ignorant fools.

During a visit to Tranquility, Blackout reported that Optimus would be arriving soon with a wave of Autobot reinforcements to Barricade’s dismay. Landing on Earth, Optimus Prime quickly joined the other Autobots to attempt to stop the Decepticons. The rookie made short work of his soldiers, but when he prepared to go after Optimus, Barricade ordered him to stand down, knowing the kid would inevitably end up on the Scrapheap.

Optimus didn't appear on the battlefield until Megatron himself was released and Starscream escaped with the AllSpark. He stepped in to thwart the maniacal leader of the Decepticons, vowing to never let him build an empire again, but alas, was struck down, left in the streets while Megatron gave chase to his traitorous second-in-command. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Decepticons}}

===''Transformers: The Game'' (PSP)===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English)}}
After the AllSpark had been lost and Megatron followed it, the Autobots tracked both down to Earth, Optimus sending Bumblebee to scout the planet. After confirming the Decepticon presence, Bumblebee summoned the rest of the Autobots. Upon being informed that Megatron had not been seen, Optimus sent [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]] and [[Trailbreaker (Movie)|Trailbreaker]] to investigate what had become of him following the humans finding the Decepticon while Optimus led the rest to search for the AllSpark. After Bumblebee had been abducted by [[Sector Seven]] and brought to the Hoover Dam, where the AllSpark was, he broadcast another signal. As Optimus led the Autobots to the signal, he was forced to leave Ratchet and Ironhide behind to hold off the increasing amount of Decepticon [[drone]]s. When the two learnt of the origin of the drones from [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]], Optimus sent Hound and Trailbreaker to deactivate them. Though successful, the mission cost Hound's life.

After freeing Bumblebee, Optimus served as his bodyguard against the remaining Decepticon army, briefly abandoning his charge to defeat [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]. As Optimus caught up to Bumblebee, so did Megatron, landing atop and killing the scout while absorbing the AllSpark into himself. With the cube's power still not fully integrated into his archenemy, Optimus managed to separate it from the warlord, whereupon Sam Witwicky inserted it directly into Megatron's spark chamber, killing the Decepticon leader. In the aftermath, Optimus sent out a beacon to any other Autobots in the galaxy to meet with him on Earth, though he was convinced that the Decepticons would one day return. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (PSP)}}

==Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Autobots/Decepticons==
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==Datafile Decoder==
[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] contacted the Lunchables Brigade and asked them to bypass Decepticon jamming and download essential datafiles for him via [[Cybertron Galactic Systems]]. {{storylink|Datafile Decoder|Datafile Decoder}}

==AllSpark Wars==
After the first battle with the Decepticons on Earth, Optimus Prime and the other Autobots went into stasis lock, held in storage around the world. He was revived in America during the course of the AllSpark Wars, which eventually led to the Decepticons' defeat, who were forced to flee soon thereafter. {{storylink|AllSpark Wars}}

==Allspark Highway==
The Autobots obtained the AllSpark, and needed to bring it to a secure location. Relaying it to one another, Optimus being the last link in the chain, the Autobots kept the AllSpark out of Decepticon hands until the evil robots simply gave up the chase. {{storylink|Allspark Highway}}
==''Transformers Video Mash-Up''==
{{note|Various short clips featuring Optimus Prime were available for users to custom-create their own short film about the Transformers.}} {{storylink|Transformers Video Mash-Up}}

==Autobot Stronghold==
The Decepticons were invading an Autobot stronghold in the city, and Optimus Prime and the Autobots placed themselves at key positions to defend it from attack. {{storylink|Autobot Stronghold}}

==Transformers: Battle for the Matrix==
[[File:BattlefortheMatrix Optimus on Sun Harvester.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
{{Note|Battle for the Matrix is a simplified retelling of the events of [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]. It can be played from the perspective of either Bumblebee or Optimus Prime.}}
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==''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game''==
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English)|[[Dariusz Odija]] (Polish), [[Patrick Borg]] (French), [[Alfredo Martínez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Marco Balzarotti]] (Italian), [[Achim Barrenstein]] (German)}}
===Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC===
====Autobot campaign====
[[File:ROTF game Optimus Prime.jpg|thumb|300px|One shall stand, one sha— oh, you know the drill.]]
Optimus Prime served as the Autobots all around fighter. Weapons wise, he possessed dual laser rifles and dual shell cannons. In melee combat, he possessed [[Dual Energon Swords|Dual Energy Swords]] in each hand. Finally, with his valiant leader ability, he could generate a shield around himself which would prevent his energy from dropping past 1%.

After overseeing Ironhide's defeat of [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] and Ratchet's rescue of Ironhide, Optimus Prime took to the field when a previously unknown Decepticon named [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] began attacking the [[Shanghai]] waterfront. Optimus was finally able to defeat him, but Demolishor gave a single warning before he was killed: "The Fallen shall rise again". Optimus and the Autobots were at a loss as to what he meant. Back in the United States, Sam Witwicky gave Mikaela Banes a fragment of the AllSpark that he had discovered, which the Decepticons soon sought. Prime dispatched Bumblebee to rescue her. Following this, the Decepticons launched a raid on the city's oil refinery, where Ratchet rescued several engineers. Finally, Ironhide escorted a NEST team to safety in the city's canals. Their victories were short lived. The Decepticons soon learned about the AllSpark shard on Diego Garcia, stealing it to revive Megatron. Although [[Breakaway (ROTF)|Breakaway]] managed to save the fleet, Megatron was reborn. He soon made an attack on Sam, trying to access information in his mind downloaded from the AllSpark. Bumblebee managed to rescue him. In light of these attacks, Optimus decided to give NEST the [[Axiom Gun]] to better defend themselves against the Decepticons. The escort came under Decepticon assault, but Prime was able to beat back the attackers and deliver the Axiom Gun to NEST. Soon afterwards, Bumblebee escorted Sam to meet with [[Seymour Simmons]], who told him of Jetfire, who then took the boy to Egypt.

While there, Jetfire explained what was going on: Eons ago, Optimus's ancestors, the [[Thirteen|13 founders]] of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], built a star harvester to convert the energy of the sun into [[Energon]]. When they discovered the humans, they upheld their rule of the sanctity of life, but one of the Primes defied the rule and murdered his twelve brothers. This Prime was known as The Fallen, but the star harvester was hidden from him. While Sam made inquires to the [[Tomb of the Primes|Tomb of the Twelve]], Megatron and Starscream arrived in an attempt to learn the harvester's location and kill Sam. Optimus Prime was able to defeat both Decepticons with Jetfire's help, but Jetfire was stabbed in the back by Megatron. Dying, Jetfire offered his parts to Optimus, as only a Prime could defeat The Fallen. Finding the harvester at the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], Optimus challenged The Fallen. Despite The Fallen's powerful command of telekinesis and pyrokinesis, Optimus Prime was able to get past his defenses and kill The Fallen by stabbing him through the face. On the return trip home, Sam expressed gratitude at seeing the sunrise, and told Optimus he would have to trust him on it. Optimus Prime replied that he had always trusted Sam, and always would. {{Storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

====Decepticon campaign====
[[File:ROTF game Prime dying.JPG‎|thumb|300px|Aw, shucks.....[[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|not again]]!]]
When the revenant Megatron and the Decepticons rampaged across the United States of America, Optimus Prime faced him in a major city on the East Coast. The two leaders engaged in a titanic struggle that shook the city, but despite being aided by many Autobot drone units, Optimus was seemingly destroyed. However, much later, Optimus Prime reappeared when Megatron's master, The Fallen, activated the Star Harvester to drain Earth's Sun. The Autobot leader revealed that The Fallen's promise to make Megatron a Prime was a lie, as Primes were born, not made. When Megatron demanded his reward, The Fallen reneged on his promise. As the master and disciple of evil began to fight, Optimus left to find a way to disable the Harvester. {{Storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}
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===Wii/PS2===
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===PSP===
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==Transformers Battle Universe==
At the edge of time, when the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] needed a new host, Optimus Prime was among several warriors (and [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Prime]]s) summoned from the multiverse to battle for control of the prize. {{storylink|Transformers Battle Universe}}

==Starscream Showdown==
After [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] faced off against the bulk of [[NEST]]'s forces, Optimus Prime intervened and attempted to destroy the rampaging Decepticon. If Starscream managed to defeat Optimus, the Decepticon successfully completed his mission. {{storylink|Starscream Showdown}}

==Transformers RPMs: Devastator's Demise==
[[File:Devastatorsdemise optimus.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]
Optimus Prime was both fast and sturdy. His firepower blew obstacles to smithereens.

In order to defeat [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]], Bumblebee, Optimus and Ironhide drove through Cairo and avoided obstacles. {{storylink|Transformers RPMs: Devastator's Demise}}
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==Hunt for the Decepticons==
Optimus coordinated the Autobots' efforts to hunt down the Decepticons still active around the globe. He assigned Bumblebee to take care of [[Axor]] in Shanghai before allowing you in the field alone to tackled the Decepticon threat. Once you proved your mettle against [[Terradive (TF 2010)|Terradive]] and [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], Optimus granted you access to the Autobots' secret training facility, so that you could ready yourself against the greatest opponent of them all: Megatron. When Optimus was satisfied that your speed, firepower, strength and skill were up to the task, he sent you out to tackled the Decepticon leader. If you were victorious in stopping Megatron from destroying New York City, Optimus would congratulate you, and give his sincere thanks on behalf of the Autobots for your contribution to their cause. {{storylink|Hunt for the Decepticons}}
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==''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' mobile game==
[[File:ROTFMobile Optimus Prime.jpg|thumb|60px]]
After [[Megatron (Movie)/games|Megatron]]'s destruction, Optimus hoped that they'd seen the last of the Decepticons and the Autobots began working with [[NEST]]. A signal in [[Shanghai]] led Optimus to discover a Decepticon invasion force there. He fought the foe solo, and followed an [[AllSpark]] signal to [[Starscream (Movie)/games|Starscream]]. Starscream managed to escape, and NEST reported that HQ was under attack. As he had to hang around to help clean up the mess in Shanghai, Optimus sent [[Bumblebee (Movie)/games|Bumblebee]] and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] to help. Bumblebee was defeated by Starscream, but told Optimus that Starscream had said something about the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Believing he knew where the Decepticons were headed, Optimus went to find an old friend, [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]].

In Egypt, Optimus lost contact with NEST while investigating an area. He told Bumblebee to rendezvous with Jetfire at the [[Great Pyramid of Giza|Great Pyramid]], warning Bumblebee that he believed an energy signature he was detecting was [[The Fallen]]. Bumblebee later reported that [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] had defeated Jetfire and taken the Matrix. By the time Optimus reached the site, [[Megatron (Movie)/games|Megatron]] had taken Bumblebee hostage and had possession of the Matrix. Optimus combined Jetfire's parts with his own, gaining enough strength to defeat Megatron. Exhausted by the fight, Prime was then confronted by The Fallen, but used the power of the Matrix to defeat the ancient Decepticon. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)|Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)}}

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==Victory Is Sweet==
When [[Bumblebee (Movie)/games|Bumblebee]] was in the process of stopping [[Starscream (Movie)/games|Starscream]]'s plan to destroy a city, Optimus turned up at the last moment to defeat the Decepticon and hog the glory. {{storylink|Victory Is Sweet}}

==''Transformers: Dark of the Moon - The Game''==
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English)|[[Alfredo Martínez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Patrice Melennec]] (French), [[Achim Barrenstein]] (German), [[Marco Balzarotti]] (Italian)}}

===(Xbox 360/PS3)===
Three years after the defeat of the Fallen, Optimus attempted to hack into Decepticon transmissions in order to turn the tide in the war. He ordered Bumblebee to implant a virus into the transmissions. Just when Bumblebee was on his way out, a few Decepticons discovered him and decided to report back to Megatron. Optimus ordered Bumblebee to destroy their communications and after Bumblebee accomplished that task, he and Sideswipe saved him from a Decepticon ambush. However, the information in the transmissions allowed Optimus to get Ironhide and Ratchet to take care of an attack in [[Detroit]]. Later, Megatron learned of the virus and got Soundwave to remove all of the Decepticon information, getting rid of the Autobot's advantage. Starscream did, however, take a [[MechTech]] weapon with a tracking device on it. This allowed the Autobots to find the Decepticon hideout and attack it. Optimus got inside and fought Megatron. However, Megatron defeated Optimus and sent him down to a cryo chamber. Optimus would later discover that the chamber contained Shockwave and his pet Driller, who had been frozen by the Soviets and that Megatron's plan was to free them out of captivity. After a brief battle, Optimus had failed to prevent Shockwave from emerging out of his frozen state and was about to kill him when the Driller arrived and escaped with Shockwave. Optimus then vowed to not rest until every Decepticon was found and brought to justice. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)| Dark of the Moon}}

===Autobots/Decepticons===
[[File:DotM Autobots DS Optimus Prime.png|thumb|left|200px]]
Concerned that the Decepticons were behind recent attacks downtown, Optimus sent [[Bumblebee (Movie)/games|Bumblebee]] to investigate and, it turned out, he was right. With more information, Optimus contacted [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] to alert him that the Decepticons were up to something involving the possible resurrection of the [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]s. He encountered [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] in the field, and took over Ratchet's mission as the medic was more valuable at base. During the course of the mission, Optimus encountered [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] and chased him to a stadium where the Autobot leader was triumphant. Sometime later, the Decepticons attacked the Autobots' Pacific island base, and Ratchet and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] warned Optimus that [[Crowbar]] was around somewhere. Optimus bashed many Decepticons but didn't find Crowbar. When the Decepticons invaded a NEST base, Optimus was surprisingly keen for the Autobots to let [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] get away. They eventually tracked the Decepticons to a base in [[Siberia]], and Optimus insisted on going in alone, only to be overcome by [[Megatron (Movie)/games|Megatron]] and [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]], who got away despite the best efforts of the other Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons|Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons}}
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==''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' mobile game==
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==''Cyberverse Battle Builder''==
Optimus Prime joined his Autobot troops in combating the Decepticons on battlefields on Earth, the Earth's Moon and on Cybertron. Sometimes he was armed with the [[Armored Weapons Platform]]. Sometimes there were many of him! {{storylink|Cyberverse Battle Builder}}
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==''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''==
[[File:OptimusRide.JPG|thumb|300px|"Great job doing nothing, recruits"]]

Detecting the distress signal of [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]], who had just arrived on Earth, Optimus welcomed the newcomer to the Autobot ranks. When Evac explained that he was the last of the [[Knights of Cybertron]], Optimus showed him the last remaining shard of the [[AllSpark]], the energy of which unexpectedly reconfigured Evac with a super-speedy new alternate mode. Optimus appointed him "Guardian of the AllSpark", assigning him to use his new form to transport the shard and [[you|NEST personnel]] from base to base. Prime instructed Evac to keep his origins secret to everyone, so that the Decepticons wouldn't find him. {{storylink|Prepare for Battle (website)|Prepare for Battle}}

It was while Evac was carrying out his duties that the Decepticons struck. Optimus attempted to guide Evac to safety, but wound up embroiled in battle with Megatron, trying to restrain the Decepticon leader as he pursued Evac and the AllSpark fragment. The pair's battle took them to the top of a building, where Evac, fed up with doing nothing but running, decided to fight back. He charged into the middle of Optimus and Megatron's fight, and while Optimus held the Decepticon in place, Evac thrust the AllSpark shard into Megatron's chest, overcharging him and killing him. In the aftermath, Optimus congratulated Evac and the NEST recruits on their bravery. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ride – 3D}}

Outside the ride, meet and greets can be held with Optimus Prime.

==''MechTech Weapons Challenge''==
[[File:Mechtech Weapons Challenge Optimus Prime.jpg|thumb|100px|left]]
After the Decepticons stole MechTech weapons technology from the Autobots, Optimus Prime sent Bumblebee out on missions on Cybertron, Earth and the Earth's Moon to retrieve it. {{storylink|MechTech Weapons Challenge}}
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==''Web Wars''==
[[File:Optimus Web Wars.jpg|thumb|100px]]
Optimus battled the Decepticons across the digital frontier, defending numerous websites across the internet from their encroachment! {{storylink|Web Wars}}
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==''The Fabulous Ponymaker''==
[[File:PonyMakerOptimus01.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb]]

Available as an online game on Hub Network's website beginning in summer of 2012, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140911135853/http://www.hubnetwork.com/shows/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic/games/the-fabulous-ponymaker-trick-or-treat The Fabulous Ponymaker]'' invited players to "build your own custom pony" based on the series ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]''. One of the options allowed the creation of an Optimus Prime pony using parts like a film styled helmet, chestplate and boots. (Despite the presence of {{w|The Aquabats}}' logo among the cutie marks, there is no [[Autobot]] symbol. Sad.)

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==''Transformers: Human Alliance''==
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==''Transformers: Age of Extinction'' mobile game==
Optimus Prime was one of the Autobots who helped destroy the Decepticons on the streets of Texas, Detroit, and Chicago. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (mobile game)|Age of Extinction}}
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==''Dinobot Hunt'' online game==
Optimus Prime teamed up with Grimlock to destroy some Decepticon encampments, and collect some Energon along the way. {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt (online game)|Dinobot Hunt}}

==''Bumblebee Blast'' online game==
Optimus Prime sent Bumblebee to the Autobot training simulator so that the young Autobot could hone his marksmanship skills, in anticipation to future Decepticon attacks. {{storylink|Bumblebee Blast (online game)|Bumblebee Blast}}

==''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''==
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English)}}
===Console===
[[File:RotDS OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]

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===3DS===
{{charstubgames|{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}}}

==''Transformers Ultimate Allstars''==
{{charstubgames|{{storylink|Transformers Ultimate Allstars|Ultimate Allstars}}}}

==''Transformers (Hasbro Arcade)''==
[[File:HasbroArcade Transformers.jpg|thumb|right|100px]]
Optimus Prime chased a Decepticon ship while trying to avoid getting hit by obstacles.
{{storylink|Transformers (Hasbro Arcade)}}
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==''Transformers: Battle Masters''==
[[File:Battle Masters game Silver Knight Optimus.jpg|thumb|150px|left]]
Silver Knight Optimus Prime was a participant of the Battle Masters contest, trying to become a champion and win the [[Earth Belt]], the [[Cybertron Belt]], the [[Galactic Belt]], the [[Unicron Belt]] and the [[Primus Belt]]. The winner of each championship is [[You|player]] dependant. {{Storylink|Transformers: Battle Masters (mobile game)|Battle Masters}}
{{Note|See [[Optimus Prime (Battle Masters)#Transformers: Battle Masters|here]] for Optimus Prime's other depictions in the game.}}
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==''Transformers Online'' (2017 video game)==
[[File:Optimus-Prime TFO.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
[[File:Nemesis-Prime TFO.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
{{bigquote|If it is not your sacrifice, then it is mine.}}

At the Battle of Chicago, the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, repelled the Decepticons. However, planet Earth lost faith in the Transformers, which led to mankind establishing the "[[Cemetery Wind]]" task force to hunt them down. From the wreckage of Chicago, a mad scientist unearthed the secret of Cybertronian transformations, ultimately resulting in the creation of Galvatron from Megatron's remains. With Earth in danger once more, Optimus left hibernation to rise up and fight once more for the planet!

In battle, Optimus Prime wielded the "[[Sword of Judgment]]" and the rapid-firing "[[Cosmic Crazy Shark]]". His active skill was the "Verdict of Justice":
*'''Verdict of Justice''' — For 7 seconds, Optimus is suspended in midair with his shield raised against enemy attacks. Holding down the left mouse button will initiate a 360-degree onslaught to any surrounding enemies. {{storylink|Transformers Online (2017 video game)|Transformers Online}} <ref>[http://tfol.qq.com/act/a20160726data/hero1.shtml Optimus Prime (Age of Extinction) profile on the ''Transformers Online'' website]</ref>
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==''Transformers: Forged to Fight''==
[[File:Optimus-Prime-MV1-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|300px|All Warrior bots shall heed to me, and GIVE ME THEIR FACES.]]
Optimus was one of the Autobots pulled from [[Tyran|his universe]] by the [[Quintessons]] and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! He was one of the bots subjected to delusion and the effects of Dark Energon.

As a Brawler, He has strong Armor and Melee buffs, when Bleeding his Willpower lets his attacks recover some health and Power, and Bleeds enemies with his blades. At low health, He'll Take Them All On with a burst of damage and armor buffs. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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==''Transformers: Shadows Rising''==
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==''Adventures of Bumblebee''==
[[File:Adventures of Bumblebee game Optimus.jpeg|thumb|100px]]
After Bumblebee collected some Energon and successfully evaded Sector 7, [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]], Optimus Prime congratulated him through a hologram and told him to fight on. {{storylink|Adventures of Bumblebee}}
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==''Fortnite''==
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English)|[[Patrick Messe]] (French), [[Víctor Hugo Aguilar]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German)}}

A group of explorers activated a hologram of Prime in Rumble Ruins, who proceeded to create a human-sized avatar of himself to act on the Island. {{storylink|Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3 WILDS Cinematic Trailer|Fortnite}} At some point, Optimus made contact with [[Doctor Slone]], and they began to work together to set a plan in motion that would save the Island and reality from complete destruction.

Later, observant loopers discovered a mysterious transmission playing on loop through one of the channels of the ''Fortnite'' island's vehicles' radios, which turned out to be messages from Optimus Prime. Four of these transmissions were broadcast over the course of the following ten weeks, and an additional fifth message from Prime was found by interacting with a crystal located in front of a mural in Rumble Ruins depicting the Autobot [[insignia]]. Altogether, these messages painted a somewhat-dire picture: the island's power had faded, evil forces had taken notice, and the loopers had to somehow escape. The answers to doing so were apparently located up in the stars, and the loopers would have to cooperate with the previously-treacherous Doctor Slone in order to utilize the artifacts left behind by the island's ancient civilization to figure them out. In his final transmission, Optimus emphasized that the key to the island's future lay in the past, before giving a hearty "Fight on, and roll out!" {{storylink|Fortnite}}

==Notes==
*Optimus Prime's ''Rise of the Chevy Autobots'' codename, "10-22", is [http://www.truckercountry.com/cb-terminology.html#10c CB radio slang] for "report in person to." As in "Bumblebee, 10-22 to 10-22." Cute, huh?

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Age of Extinction Autobots]]
[[Category:Autobot leaders]]
[[Category:Dark of the Moon Autobots]]
[[Category:Human Alliance Autobots]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
[[Category:Movie Autobots]]
[[Category:Primes]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen Autobots]]
[[Category:Battle Masters Autobots]]

Shadow Raider

2026-01-04T20:05:46Z

AzureNight: /* Gallery */

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{{disambig2|the movieverse mercenaries|the Aligned Decepticon|Shadow Raker}}
:''Shadow Raiders are sometimes-[[Decepticon]] mercenaries from the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (franchise)|Age of Extinction]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].
[[File:StudioSeries-Shadow-Raider-art.jpg|thumb|200px|"We're the Guardians of the Galaxy."]]

When [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] needs ''someone'' to run things around his [[Knight Ship|big ship]], he is lucky to have an army of ''literally'' faceless '''Shadow Raiders'''. They would regularly be dispatched to eliminate any intruders aboard his ship.<ref>''Studio Series'' Deluxe Class Shadow Raider packaging bio</ref> However, they generally get shot at.

==Fiction==
===''Age of Extinction'' film===
[[File:AOE-Shadow-Raiders.jpg|thumb|left|Don't even think about it]]
Multiple Shadow Raiders and [[Steeljaw (AOE)|Steeljaw]]s were present when [[Harold Attinger]] requested an audience with Lockdown regarding [[Cemetery Wind]]'s failure in capturing [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] in the Arctic.

When the Autobots, along with [[Cade Yeager]] and [[Shane Dyson]], infiltrated the ship in search of Optimus, many Shadow Raiders were seen patrolling the ship and deploying orb-like drones to search for intruders in narrow spaces. Several of them were killed in a skirmish with the two humans. When they and [[Tessa Yeager]] manages to escape the ship, Shadow Raiders chased after them, [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] aboard [[Orbital Assault Carrier|their fighters]]. However, everyone who was airborne either crashed or got shot down.

When Lockdown discovered that a portion of the ship containing Optimus and the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]]s was missing, the Shadow Raiders were present on the bridge of the ship when he ordered the ship to turn around and return to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

===Titan movie comics===
When [[Sojex]] managed to escape captivity, the Shadow Raiders attempted to assist Lockdown in recapturing her. However, they were told to stand down by their captain. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.4|Locked In!}}
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==Games==
===''Age of Extinction'' mobile game===
Shadow Raiders were enemy units who served under Lockdown and [[Megatron (Movie)|Galvatron]]. There were four types of those bots: '''Scout''', '''Gunner''', '''Beamer''', & '''Miner'''. Together, they would charge at the Autobots in an effort to destroy them. Destroying Shadow Raiders would cause them to drop [[Energon|Energon Packs]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (mobile game)}}

===''Rise of the Dark Spark'' (console)===
Shadow Raiders are shown helping their boss Lockdown protect the [[Dark Spark]]. They even got some [[Combaticon Warrior|brutes]] on their side that are swiftly destroyed by [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]. The surviving Shadow Raiders are said to have been chased off by the Dinobot. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark}}
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==Toys==
===''Studio Series''===
[[File:Studio-Series-MV4-Deluxe-Shadow-Raider.jpg|thumb|300px|Or as he's known in the United States, "[[Mainframe Entertainment|War Planets]]."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Shadow Raider''' (Deluxe Class, [[2018]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': '''''Age of Extinction'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''17'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS-13'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[September 15]], 2018
:*''Accessories'': Gun, "[[Knight Ship|Enemy Ship]] Infiltration" backdrop
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:''[[Studio Series]]'' Shadow Raider is an orange and black redeco and new head retool of [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Studio Series|Lockdown]], transforming from robot to licensed Lamborghini Aventador and back. The figure features a headsculpt based on Lockdown's masked appearance (rather than the on-screen Shadow Raiders), which can be swapped onto ''Studio Series'' Lockdown to recreate the character's masked appearance if one wishes due to the two toys sharing the same size of [[ball joint]] on their necks. Shadow Raider also comes with a new weapon accessory based on the device Lockdown used to remove [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]'s spark in ''Age of Extinction'', which can also be wielded by Lockdown. The packaging also includes a cardboard backdrop of a hangar within the Knight Ship.

:As with the original mold, exercise caution while swiveling the upper elbow joint as it was molded in translucent plastic: It can snap off if not done carefully.
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==Notes==
*The Shadow Raiders went unnamed in the film itself and all contemporary media, with this wiki using the ad hoc placeholder "Mercenary" until the release of the ''Studio Series'' toy designated a proper name.
*The orange vehicle deco of the ''Studio Series'' Shadow Raider is based on a stock paintjob for the Lamborghini Aventador, featured prominently in marketing material for the car.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Shadow Raider''' (シャドウレイダー ''Shadō Reidā'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:TF-AOE-Mobage-Shadow-Raiders.jpg|''Age of Extinction'' mobile game
File:LockdownsMercenaryRoTDS.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Soldier (unit)|Soldier]]
File:RotDS MercShotgunSoldier.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Shotgunner]]
File:RotDS MercRocketSoldier.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Rocket Soldier]]
File:ROTDS_Mercenary_Titan.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Titan (FOC)|Titan]]
File:ROTDS Mercenary Leaper.jpg|''Rise of the Dark Spark'' [[Leaper]]
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Age of Extinction Decepticons]]
[[Category:Bounty hunters]]
[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]
[[Category:Studio Series Decepticons]]

File:RotDS MercRocketSoldier.jpg

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{{ROTDScap|Mercenary [[Rocket Soldier]] from Rise of the Dark Spark}}

File:RotDS MercShotgunSoldier.jpg

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{{ROTDScap|Mercenary [[Shotgunner]] from Rise of the Dark Spark}}

File:RotDS OptimusPrime.jpg

2026-01-04T19:57:08Z

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{{ROTDScap|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)]] from Rise of the Dark Spark}}

Drift (AOE)

2026-01-04T19:56:11Z

AzureNight: /* Console */

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{{disambig3|Drift}}
:''Drift is an [[Autobot]] and former [[Decepticon]] from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:AoEDrift CG.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|250px|The samurai to Crosshairs' [[John DiMaggio|Scotsman]].]]
'''Drift''' is a commando of few words and many ancient blades. While he is not trying to hide his past as a [[Decepticon]], he would much rather just let his swords do the talking. His strength lies in both his mastery over his collection of swords and his composure in battle. Despite the dark times upon the Autobots, Drift remains calm, dignified, and thoughtful,<ref>''Age of Extinction: Generations'' Deluxe Class Autobot Drift packaging bio</ref> often taking time to practice his swordsmanship and spout haikus about whatever's going on.

Leaving the Decepticons didn't automatically fix everything for Drift, as he is still prone to manic bouts of aggression if he's startled or otherwise spooked. This makes him quick to try to stab whatever's the problem to death. Luckily, he’s taken up meditation to complement his swordsmanship and hopefully curb this lingering rage. After all, he considers his Decepticon self to be as dead as [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]].

Teaming up with the rowdiest Autobots around may not be the best start, but luckily Drift gets to serve directly under [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], who he refers to as his ''sensei''. Knowing there is hope whenever the Autobot leader is around, Drift will follow Optimus to the bitter end. He doesn't think much of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s attempts to be Autobot leader, though, due to his youth and lack of warrior discipline. He is sometimes partnered with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]] [[Slug (AOE)|Slug]].

{{quote
|"No fear... no hate... no anger... ''GET OFF'', you maggot!"
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==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The five movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}
====''Age of Extinction'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Ken Watanabe]] (English), [[Kiyomitsu Mizūchi]] (Japanese)|[[Zhang Yaohan]] (Chinese), [[Jorge Badillo]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Luis Grau]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Andrea Lavagnino]] (Italian), [[Hercules Fernando]] (Portuguese), [[Guillaume Orsat]] (European French), [[Éric Gaudry]] (Canadian French), [[Yu Fang]] (German), [[Sefa Zengin]] (Turkish), [[Jacek Król]] (Polish)}}
[[File:AOE-DriftHelicopterMode.jpg|thumb|left|280px|Good luck figuring out what kind of helicopter he is.]]
Drift was among the Autobots who had gone into hiding on Earth after humanity turned against the Autobots. To his disgruntlement, Bumblebee took de facto command of the Autobots in the absence of Optimus Prime. Drift was overjoyed at the return of his ''sensei'', declaring there was hope after all. Though [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]] cursed the humans as a "bunch of backstabbing weasels", Drift took pity on the humans, sadly reciting a haiku regarding the humans' betrayal. The haiku didn't sit right with Hound, and the two nearly came to blows before their attention was turned to the arrival of [[Cade Yeager]] and his family. Later that night, Drift sadly reported that they were the last five Autobots, and informed Optimus of Bumblebee's stint as leader during his absence. He couldn't resist expressing his distaste of Bumblebee's leadership and immaturity aloud, claiming that the younger Autobot brought shame upon the group. The two bots quickly came to blows with Drift gaining the upper hand over the "smartass". Holding Bumblebee at sword-point, Drift claimed to see right through Bumblebee's "puppy dog eyes" act, mocking him when such an act was beneath him. The mood soon was dampened further when Cade had Drift (in his Bugatti vehicle mode) project footage of [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] and [[Leadfoot (DOTM)|Leadfoot]]'s demises.

[[File:AOE-HoundFightingDrift.jpg|350px|right|thumb|"Drift, you keep up those damn fortune cookie sayings, you'll be ''drifting'' into unconsciousness pretty quick after I get my paws on ya!"]]
Drift took part in Cade's mission to infiltrate [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]], providing some valuable intel to the human prior to the operation. Drift joined in the subsequent assault on the facility when the news came of Ratchet's brutal demise and dismemberment. Drift used his helicopter mode to lift Bumblebee through the upper levels of the building to rescue Cade from [[Harold Attinger]]. The Autobots soon fled once again, and Drift was unable to intervene in the battle between Optimus and [[Megatron (Movie)|Galvatron]] when the drone's missile fire separated the Autobots from their leader. When [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] captured Optimus and [[Tessa Yeager]], Drift infiltrated the bounty hunter's ship in Chicago with the rest of the group. Now behind enemy lines, Drift advocated stealth and a lack of violence, but immediately hacked an alien captive of Lockdown's to death when it startled him. Drift reported that Lockdown's dark matter drives were firing up, signaling they had about ten minutes before the ship departed Earth (nine minutes, worse case scenario). Drift went to free his ''sensei'' with Hound and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]], and remained aboard the commandeered ship of Lockdown's with him and Hound.

[[File:AOE-CrosshairsAndDriftLetThemFight.jpg|310px|left|thumb|You've been waiting for months for the DVD to be released just to write a "Let them fight" caption for this scene. Admit it.]]
When the Autobots regrouped following the escape from Lockdown's ship, Optimus announced they would be leaving Earth and abandoning humanity to their fate. Drift voiced no opposition to his leader's orders, but intercepted a transmission from [[Joshua Joyce]], informing the team that Joyce was moving KSI's drones to their facilities in China. After Cade warned Joyce of the danger Galvatron presented, Drift assured Cade that their vessel could quickly race them across the globe. It was a spaceship, after all. Optimus edited his orders: while the Autobots would stay to retrieve the [[Seed]] and stop Galvatron, they would leave Earth forever immediately afterwards.

[[File:AOEDriftVsSentries.jpg|250px|right|thumb|"Why don't you just throw the swor-*dies*"]]
Drift later remained with Optimus and Crosshairs when their ship was shot down by the rogue Galvatron's Decepticons over Hong Kong. Crashing in a nearby valley, Optimus revealed his trump card: the ancient [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobots]]. While Optimus beat some authority into [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]], Drift followed Crosshairs' lead and evacuated to the sidelines to stay out of the crossfire. Though he was baffled by Grimlock's saurian alternate mode, having expected "a giant car", Drift was impressed to see his ''sensei'' take dominance over the Dinobots. Though Crosshairs grumbled about Optimus' dynamic leadership, Drift simply smiled and knew it was innate in their leader. Following Optimus's lead, Drift quickly mounted [[Slug (AOE)|Slug]] and together they fought off many of Galvatron's army in Hong Kong, losing one of his swords in the process while fighting two [[KSI Sentry|KSI Sentries]]. Drift later helped escort the Yeager family and Joyce away from the city, but Lockdown intervened and nearly captured them all. Optimus, Bumblebee, and the Yeagers soon defeated Lockdown, and Drift was assigned by his ''sensei'' to watch over the Yeager family while he left Earth. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====''The Last Knight'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Ken Watanabe]] (English), [[Kiyomitsu Mizūchi]] (Japanese)|[[Zhang Yaohan]] (Chinese), [[Jorge Badillo]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Luis Grau]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Guillaume Orsat]] (European French), [[Éric Gaudry]] (Canadian French), [[Yu Fang]] (German), [[Andrea Lavagnino]] (Italian), [[Hercules Fernando]] (Portuguese), [[Jacek Król]] (Polish)}}

[[File:TLK-history-Drift.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.33]]
Drift was active on Earth as early as the 1860s,<ref>The left {{w|File:Verbeck picture.jpg|black and white group photo}} that was used and heavily modified was taken in 1867. The right one was taken around this time too by English-Italian photographer {{w|Felice Beato}}. Since no official in-universe date was given with the photographs in the film itself, the real-world dates are all we have to go on.</ref> working alongside [[Samurai Knight|another Samurai 'bot]] and a group of samurai in [[Japan]].

[[File:TLKDriftNoFear.jpg|upright=1.33|thumb|Three years have passed... and yet, I do not age.]]
In the years since Optimus left Earth, Drift took refuge at Cade's [[Junkyard (TLK)|scrap yard]] with the other Autobots. He had also taken on a new vehicle mode and updated his color scheme. Despite the stagnant situation, his spare time was spent practicing with his sword and doing meditative balancing feats, which were occasionally upset by the [[Mini Dinobot|Mini-Dinobots]], especially [[Pterry]]. He showed an equal amount of disdain as his comrades when the unscrupulous [[Daytrader]] showed up, even agreeing with Hound's suggestion to frag him. He was then left quite uncomfortable by Daytrader's description of what he intended to do with some hot oil.

Soon, the Decepticons and [[Transformers Reaction Force|TRF]] discovered their refuge and he fled with Bumblebee, Crosshairs, Cade, [[Jimmy (TLK)|Jimmy]], [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]], [[Izabella]], and [[Sqweeks]] to a nearby town where a trap had been set up. Upon their arrival, he discovered the TRF tracking device placed on Bumblebee and masterfully disabled it with his sword. During the battle, he and Crosshairs tag teamed the much larger [[Onslaught (ROTF)|Onslaught]], with him cutting off their enemy's leg before swiftly decapitating his "fat head". Drift then took on the remainder of the Decepticons with the others, throwing his sword at his former boss [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and helping force him, [[Nitro Zeus]], and [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] into a retreat. Afterwards, he and the other Autobots returned to the scrap yard after Cade and Bumblebee left for [[United Kingdom|England]].

[[File:TLKDriftLastScene.jpg|left|upright=1.33|thumb|Yeah, guys, I'm gonna just sit out this movie I guess.]]
Later, when Cybertron had approached Earth and loomed in the sky, the Autobots saw that Daytrader had finally delivered on his promise of a ship, arriving with the same Knight ship Lockdown had used. Drift was quite happy and declared that he would pilot it. He flew the Autobots to Stonehenge where they joined the humans and [[Guardian Knight]]s as the returned Optimus rallied them to defend Earth. En route to Cybertron, he and the other Autobots were unimpressed with the knights, though Drift commented that they were "mean looking". He then cleared his allies for take off and wished them luck as he remained on board to pilot the knight ship. After the final battle was won, he and the other Autobots took the ship and returned home to Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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===''How to Ride your Dinobot'' cartoon===
[[File:Htryd-chapter-3-drift-random-buttons.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|"Now my cornered friend, let me practice my Dinobot attacks on you"...]]
Drift and [[Slug (AOE)|Slug]] had cornered [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] inside a barn, but alas, Drift had to learn how to attack with his Dinobot steed. Due to a lack of accurate instructions, Drift activated pretty much every button on Slug, activating everything but the weaponry. Some time later, Drift finally struck gold and activated the heavy weaponry... only to be immediately fried, much to his and Slug's disappointment. {{storylink|How to Ride Your Dinobot Chapter 3: How to Fight|How to Fight}}
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===Titan movie comics===
[[File:Knucklehead is knuckledead.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"This guy has been brutally killed but I don't ''think'' it was us this time."]]
Five years before the battle of [[Chicago]],<ref>''Dark of the Moon'' has no explicit date but as Sam has graduated, it's set in 2012 at the earliest</ref> Drift led a three-Con team on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with his friend [[Knucklehead]] and so-not-a-friend [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] as his subordinates. His task was to capture an Autobot stronghold, which—to Knucklehead's glee—he planned to do by storming it, in attempt to minimise bloodshed. Lockdown sneered at him for being soft and advocated bombing the place flat, which Drift pointed out was ''why'' [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] put them in charge: so they'd have something left to rule. The three sneaked up the wall, surprised the Autobot guards, and with martial arts skill they disabled every one without a shot being fired. However, Lockdown tried to execute prisoners and when Drift stopped him, Lockdown gleefully took the opportunity to label Drift a traitor and try to whack him. Knucklehead backed up his friend and the two of them sent Lockdown falling into the fort's molten moat, swearing revenge on them both; Drift knew that he could never take revenge as long as Megatron was in charge. He then let the prisoners retreat with their wounded and was told that he'd make a fine Autobot.

By the time of Chicago, Drift had indeed switched sides and he was annoyed to be cleaning up ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]'' debris on the Moon instead of tracking down remaining Decepticons. Optimus was bemused that Drift was so eager to fight his former allies. While grousing that the ''Ark'' was their last memories of Cybertron laid waste, the samurai was horrified to find Knucklehead's corpse: recently killed by Lockdown without Megatron to stop him. Drift made a grave for his friend and Prime told him that they'd stand against Lockdown together. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.1|Adrift in Space and Time}}

===''How to Ride a Dinobot!'' comic===
When Optimus Prime insisted the Autobots learn how to ride Dinobots, Drift and Crosshairs quickly managed to get atop of their steeds. Warning them not to get cocky, Optimus suggested a combat drill between the two of them. Drift charged [[Slug (AOE)|Slug]] towards Crosshairs and [[Scorn]] with full force...only for the Dinobots to halt at the last moment and launch their riders into each other. But when Grimlock detected Decepticons nearby, Slug allowed Drift to ride him once again as they headed out into battle. {{Storylink|How to Ride a Dinobot!}}

===Toy bios===
Drift’s mastery of combat tactics lets him adapt his alternate form to land or air-based battles. They also enable him maintain total control over his circuits even while under heavy enemy fire. Whereas other Autobots are pushed toward overload, Drift soldiers on with steely tactical precision.<ref>''Age of Extinction: Generations'' Voyager Class Autobot Drift packaging bio</ref>

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
Drift participated in a giant battle against the Decepticons... until Optimus began recapping the [[live-action film series]] to the audience. Drift had to interject a couple of times during Optimus's monologue to correct a few errors on Optimus's part, and punctuated the overview of the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|''Revenge of the Fallen'' film]] by blowing up a pyramid prop. {{Storylink|Take Us to the Movies}} {{Storylink|Take Us Through the Movies}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Sky Lynx (Energon Wars)|Sky Lynx]] menaced [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]] and Drift in [[Tyran 614.19 Kappa]]. He could be difficult to best if [[you]] hadn't yet unlocked their Epic-level ranged weapons. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/12}}

A Kreon Drift was one of several members of the [[Silver Knight (Kre-O)|Silver Knights]], a collection of renaissance festival enthusiasts. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/27}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Age of Extinction'' mobile game===
{{charstubgame|{{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (mobile game)|Age of Extinction}}}}

===''Energon Rally''===
Drift ran across an Autobot construction site on Cybertron, collecting as much Energon as he could before his shields gave out from bumping into obstacles. {{storylink|Energon Rally}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
====Console====
{{voiceactor|[[Chris Jai Alex]] (English)}}
[[File:RotDS Drift.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
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====3DS====
{{charstubgames|{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}}}

===''Transformers Ultimate Allstars''===
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===''Transformers'' (Hasbro Arcade)===
[[File:HasbroArcade Transformers.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|BEEF BEEF BEEF BEEF BEEF]]
Drift chased a Decepticon ship while trying to avoid getting hit by obstacles. {{storylink|Transformers (Hasbro Arcade)|Transformers}}
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Drift-Forged to Fight.jpg|thumb|300px|That's not a Bugatti...]]
Drift was one of the Autobots pulled from [[Tyran|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around!
As a Warrior, He Focuses when building a combo meter, enhancing his Precision, Critical Damage, and Bleeds from his sword attacks.
{{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}

{{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight|A Question of Loyalty - Once a Decepticon...}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight|A Question of Loyalty - AWOL}}
When Drift heard that Hot Rod had arrived on New Quintessa, he sought out vengeance for forsaking him in a time of need. He considered him a traitor. ''G1'' Optimus Prime and the Commander defeated him and brought him back to base.
{{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight|A Question of Loyalty - Autobot Traitors}}
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==Toys==
===''Age of Extinction''===
====''Robots in Disguise''====
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[[File:AOERIDtoy-OneStepDrift.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|(''Hasbro version pictured'')]]
[[File:Takara-lost-age-series-one-step-drift.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|(''TakaraTomy version pictured'')]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (One Step Changers, 2014)
**''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''LA06'''
**''TakaraTomy Release Date'': [[2014]]-[[July 19|07-19]]
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]] Robots in Disguise'' One Step Changers toys, "Autobot Drift" is a simplified toy that transforms into a blue 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse. He transforms by being folded inside-out/outside-in, very much like a switchblade. His sword blades are molded onto his arms, and his hands are compatible with [[5 mm post]]s.

:He's quite addictive to transform.

:Initial prototype photos shown in the ''Age of Extinction'' Guide Book shows that Drift features an alternate dark grey plastic colors instead of blue as shown in the final product.

:The Japanese release of Drift, released as part of the ''Lost Age Series'' subline, features additional paint details in robot mode, including blue paint on his fake hood, lower arms and shoulder armour, silver on his crotch, and gold on his face and crest.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/OSCDrift/drift.htm More information on One Step Changers Drift at TFU.info]''

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[[File:AOE-One-Step-Collection.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Transformers: Age of Extinction Collection''' (One-Step Changer six-pack, 2014)

:The "Transformers: Age of Extinction Collection" set includes an unchanged One-Step Changer Drift, packed with an equally unchanged Grimlock, Lockdown, Bumblebee, Slug, and the included One-Step Silver Knight Optimus Prime toy.

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[[File:AoE flip and change Drift.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Remember, remember, the 30th of September, And the ''AoE'' Blu-ray release...]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Flip & Change, 2014)

:Part of the second wave of Flip & Change assortment, this Drift toy is a simplified version of his (spoiler-less screen-accurate) 2013 Bugatti Veyron that can auto-transform from vehicle to robot by pulling out the arms first, and then flip the figure over itself. He features articulation on his arms, and features 5mm compatible hands.

:Drift shares a transformation scheme similar to his fellow Flip & Changers, Bumblebee and Lockdown.

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[[File:AOE PowerBattlers Drift.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Now I see. You deny your weapon its purpose! It yearns to bathe in the blood of your enemies... but you hold it back!]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Power Battlers, 2014)

:Part of the second wave of Power Battlers, Strafe features a simple transformation from a blue 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse into a robot. In robot mode, squeezing Drift's legs together causes him to rotate at the waist for a "Sword Slash!" attack.

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[[File:AoE 1-step Helicopter Drift.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (One Step Changers, 2014)
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:Part of the third wave of ''Age of Extinction: Robots in Disguise'' One Step Changers toys, Helicopter Drift is a simplified toy that transforms into an (again, screen-inaccurate) attack helicopter in one step.

*'''Final Battle 4-Figure Set''' (Multi-pack, 2014-[[October 18|10-18]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''LA-SP'''
:The Japanese release of the toy, with no notable changes, is bundled with 1-Step Sliver Knight Optimus, Galvatron, and Slug.

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[[File:AoE dino sparker Drift and Slug.jpg|thumb|right||300px|"How do you start a ''Triceratops''?"]]
*'''Autobot Drift & Dinobot Slug''' (Dino Sparkers, 2014)
{{toydesigner|[[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept artist)}}

:Dino Sparkers Drift is a static, non-transforming, non-articulated minifigure wielding a sword and riding a gradient painted [[Slug (AOE)#Dino Sparkers|Slu]]g that you can pull back and go. This toy features a [[sparking gimmick]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/DSDrift/drift.htm More information on Dino Sparker Drift at TFU.info]''

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====''Generations''====
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[[File:AOEGenerationstoy-DeluxeDrift.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"You remind me of someone... a man I met in a half-remembered dream. He was possessed of some radical notions." ''(Hasbro version pictured)'']]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Deluxe, 2014)
**''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''AD23'''
**''TakaraTomy release date:'' 2014-[[July 19|07-19]]
**''Accessories:'' Two daggers, two swords
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro), [[Yūya Ōnishi]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Hironori Kobayashi]] (deco, TakaraTomy)}}

:Part of the second wave of ''Age of Extinction: [[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' Deluxe Class toys, this figure of Drift features a more complex transformation and a much more [[Articulation|articulated]] and proportionate robot mode. He comes with two daggers and two swords, all of which he can wield via 5mm post. All four of his weapons can store on his roof/back in various ways in robot mode, while in vehicle mode his daggers store beneath the roof and his swords store on the underside of the car.

:A variant of Drift that apparently ships with [[wave]] 2.5 (which also includes [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Generations|Lockdown]]) adds black [[paint operation]]s to the front vents. The two versions can be distinguished by the manufacturing date codes stamped into their packaging cardbacks.<ref name="delvariant">[http://www.allspark.com/content/2014/09/age-of-extinction-drift-variant/ Age of Extinction Drift Variant] at The Allspark.</ref>

[[File:Takara-movie-advanced-drift.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)'']]
:The Takara ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)#Movie_Advanced_Series|Movie Advanced Series]]'' gives a more accurate appearance, with the same painted vents as the later Hasbro variant, a darker chest and extra paint details.

:The Hasbro version of this toy has also been [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as [[Drift (G1)|Generation 1 Drift]] in the [[Angry Birds Transformers (comic)|IDW ''Angry Birds Transformers'' comic series]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/Drift/drift.htm More information on Deluxe Drift at TFU.info]''

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[[File:AutobotsUnitedPlatinumDrift.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Not so screen-accurate as you'd expect.]]
*'''Autobots United 5 Pack''' (Platinum Edition, 2014)
**''Accessories:'' Two daggers, two swords

: ''Platinum Edition'' Drift is an extensively repainted version of the Deluxe class figure above, featuring screen-accurate details...although they did not replace the vehicle shell's blue parts. The swords and daggers are now molded in grey plastic.

:Drift was released as a BBTS shared exclusive "Autobots United" set along with screen-accurate redecos of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#AutobotsUnited|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#AutobotsUnited|Bumblebee]], [[Crosshairs (AOE)#AutobotsUnited|Crosshairs]], and [[Hound (Movie)#AutobotsUnited|Hound]].

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[[File:AoE_voyager_Drift.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|To impress a chick, ''helicopter Drift'' (''Hasbro version pictured'')]]
[[File:TakaraMovieAdvancedHelicopterDrift.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Friendship ain't about trust. Friendship is about nunchuks. (''TakaraTomy version pictured'')]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Voyager, 2014)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Sky Drift'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''AD30'''
**''TakaraTomy Release Date'': [[2017]]-[[September 10|09-10]]
**''Accessories:'' Two missile pods, two swords
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)|[[Hironori Kobayashi]] (deco, TakaraTomy)}}

:Part of the second wave of ''Age of Extinction: Generations'' Voyager Class toys, this Drift is a retool of Voyager [[Skyhammer (DOTM)|Skyhammer]], transforming into a made-up (but screen-inaccurate) assault helicopter that resembles a cross between a {{w|Eurocopter Tiger}} and a {{w|Mil Mi-24}}. He features a new head and includes Skyhammer's original missile pods as well as two new swords that can combine with each other to form a larger sword. The pods can attach to [[5 mm post|5mm peg-holes]] on his hands, one on each of his forearms, a pair under each of his wings, a port on the backs/insides of each of his shoulder cockpit halves, and a port underneath his cockpit. He features a very minor retool in which the "cones" on his engine intakes in vehicle mode have been enlarged.

:The original version of this mold was also used to make [[BotCon 2013]] [[Sandstorm (MW)|Sandstorm]].

:The TakaraTomy release of the toy, called "Sky Drift", is part of the ''Movie Advanced Series'' lineup and features slightly changed paint applications: his gold feet are painted black.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/VoyagerDrift/drift.htm More information on Voyager Drift at TFU.info]''
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===''Kre-O''===
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[[File:KreO-Toy AoE Kreon Drift.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Let them build!]]
*'''Dinobot Charge''' (2014)
**''Set number'': '''A6949'''
**''Pieces'': '''66'''
**''Kreons'': Drift, [[Vehicon (Kre-O)|Vehicon]].
**''Accessories'': 2 katana

: [[Kreon]] Drift comes with a buildable [[Slug (AOE)#Kre-O|Slug]], who he can ride to run down poor Vehicons. He features a new samurai helmet that also smartly doubles as a robo-triceratops head.

:Although stock photos of Drift showed him having a gold waist, hands and leg tampographs, the actual product has much more film-accurate blue instead.

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[[File:Kre-O-Custom-Kreon-AOE-Drift.jpg|upright=1.6|thumb|If I can't turn into a helicopter, I can at least have a helicopter back pack!]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Custom Kreon, 2014)
**''Set Number'': '''A7839'''
**''Accessories'': Rack, 2 katana, 2 shuriken, 2 sai, torso-armor/rotor-blade

: Part of the first assortment of ''Age of Extinction'' [[Custom Kreon]]s, this version of Drift is cast in metal-flake plastics, and replaces the blues with gold. He comes with a buildable parts rack on which to hang/store his many many extra pieces. His "normal" helmet and shuriken are [[chrome]]d, plus he comes with an extra clear-plastic helmet, torso and legs. He also has a pair of extra arms (originally from the ''Kre-O Battleship'' aliens), a single pare hand, and a helicopter-rotor backpack. The helicopter blades cannot spin freely while Drift wears his helmet, as they ''just'' brush up against the back of the helmet.

:Please note that in some samples, the chromed shuriken cannot be pegged onto the hard plastic posts due to small nub marks left in the center of the hole.

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[[File:Kre-o-silver-knight-autobots-drift.jpg|100px|thumb|More like silver Samurai, am I right?]]
*'''Silver Knight Autobots''' (2014)
**''Set number'': '''A8602'''
**''Kreons'': Drift, Optimus Prime, Hound, Crosshairs, Bumblebee.
**''Accessories'': 2 katana

: Silver Knight Drift is cast in metallic silver and pewter, with a slightly-brighter blue. Where all the other Kreons in the set got new melee weapons, Drift sticks with his trusty katana.

: This five-pack of Kreons was not released in the US or Canada, only seeing release in various Asian markets.

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[[File:KreO-Toy-Battle-Changer-Drift.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Kreon Triple Changer, <s>2015</s>)
**''Accessories'': 2 swords, Slipstream & Jetstorm Kreons

:Kreon Triple Changer Autobot Drift mooshes all the incarnations of Drift into one form! This built-up Kreon transforms from robot to sportscar to helicopter, ''without'' needing to be disassmebled. His general appearance is based on [[Drift (G1)|Generation 1 Drift]], his altmodes come from ''Age of Extinction'' Drift, and of course his micro-Kreon Mini-Con partners [[Slipstream (RID)#Kre-O|Slipstream]] and [[Jetstorm (RID)#Kre-O|Jetstorm]] hail from [[Drift (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Drift]].

:Drift (along with [[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Blitzwing]]) was shown at [[Toy Fair 2015]], but no accounts of it seeing release in any market have ever surfaced.
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[[File:KreO-toy Drift Beach.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Weird Al Yankodrift]]
*'''"Beach Drift"''' (<s>2015</s>)
**''Set number'': '''B4024'''
**''Accessories'': Beach towel

:This unnamed polybag kit features Drift in a gloriously gaudy Hawaiian shirt and shorts, shark-tooth necklace, and killer shades. He also comes with a beach towel to chill out on. He uses the 2015 style revamped Kreon body, which is pretty much incompatible with older-style Kreons below the neck.

:How and where this kit was to be released is unknown. A few bagged samples have appeared on eBay.

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*'''Knight Drift''' (Kreon Warrior, <s>2015</s>)
**''Collection'': '''4'''
**''Accessories'': 2 swords, display stand

: Part of the canceled fourth assortment of Kreon Warriors, Knight Drift is a Kreon in medieval knight armor, with a deco of ornate scale-mail. He's still armed with two swords, but this time they're broadswords.

: The Collection 4 Kreon Warriors were never released anywhere, but a complete (presumably unbagged) set eventually was found in China in 2023.

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*'''Samurai Drift''' (Kreon Warrior, <s>2015</s>)
**''Collection'': '''4'''
**''Accessories'': Bladed nunchaku, display stand

: Part of the canceled fourth assortment of Kreon Warriors, Samurai Drift is... well, kinda redundant, really. Now in much more elaborate armor deco, he carries a nuncahku that ends in scythe-blades rather than his normal swords.

: The Collection 4 Kreon Warriors were never released anywhere, but a complete (presumably unbagged) set eventually was found in China in 2023.

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===''Construct-Bots''===
[[File:ConstructBots AoE dino-rider Drift.jpg|thumb|300px|How the tiny have fallen.]]
* '''Drift''' (Dinobot Rider, 2014)
{{toydesigner|[[Andrew Scribner]] (deco artist)}}

: Drift is part of the first wave of the Dinobot Riders and as such is designed to ride any of the Dinobot figures of the same line. He transforms into a small car that could resemble a Bugatti Veyron if you've got macular degeneration. He includes a small sword. His nominal Dinobot partner is [[Slug (AOE)#Construct-Bots|Slug]].

: Most of his parts were used to make [[Stinger (AOE)#Construct-Bots|Stinger]]. Like most Construct Bots figures, Drift's rubber ball joints can harden over time, which prevents smooth posing.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/CBDRDrift/drift.htm More information on Dinobot Rider Drift at TFU.ibnfo]''

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[[File:TF-AOE-Construct-Bots-Drift.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
* '''Drift with Roughneck''' (Dinobot Warrior, 2014)
{{toydesigner|[[Andrew Scribner]] (deco artist)}}

: Part of the first wave of Dinobot Warriors, Drift is inspired by the ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'' character, and transforms from robot to car-like thing. Drift includes a large sword as well as his ankylosaurian buddy, [[Roughneck]] who transforms into body armor and a crossbow and arrow pack. The stock photos show his legs missing the armor.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/CBDWDrift/drift.htm More information on Dinobot Warrior Drift at TFU.info]''
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===''Hero Mashers''===
[[File:HM-toy Drift.jpg|thumb|300px|right|True Samurai need no proportions.]]
* '''Drift''' (Action Figure, 2014)
**''Pieces:'' '''10'''
**''Accessories'': Longsword, shortsword

: Part of the first wave of ''Transformers [[Hero Mashers]]'' basic Action Figures, Drift is a non-transforming action figure with ratchet-joints, about six inches tall. He has multiple peg-holes all over that can be used to mount any ''Hero Mashers'' accessory. Curiously, his hands are in a sorta-[[Spider-Man]] pose. As a first-wave figure, he has extra ankle articulation that is not present in later waves (a cut that was made to all ''Hero Mashers'' lines, not just the ''Transformers''-branded ones).

: He is designed with a removable head, forearms, thighs, and lower legs, all of which use the same clip-peg/hole joint. This means his pieces can be swapped around in any order, as well as swapped with any other ''Hero Mashers'' figure... which includes figures from [[Marvel Comics]], ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'', and ''[[Jurassic Park|Jurassic World]]'', meaning you can make some pretty freaky combinations.

: Interestingly, some of Drift's torso detailing appears to be based directly on the [[Bludgeon (G1)|Generation 1 Bludgeon]] design first seen in ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]''. A [[:File:Hero Mashers Drift Bludgeon.jpg|preliminary image of the toy]] (with some different molding) was shown with Bludgeon's colors.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/HMDrift/drift.htm More information on ''Hero Mashers'' Drift at TFU.info]''
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===''The Last Knight''===
====''Tiny Turbo Changers''====
[[File:TLK-toy TTC Drift.jpg|thumb|300px|right|]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Tiny Turbo Changer, 2017)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Bag Code'': '''N'''

:Released in the second series of ''The Last Knight'' Tiny Turbo Changers, Drift is made of soft plastic and changes from a tiny robot mode to a small unlicensed approximation of his Mercedes-AMG GT R mode from the 5th live-action film, though he's cast in all red plastic so his car mode is red and not black like in the movie. His wheels are molded in place and cannot roll and hands can accommodate 3mm post weapons.
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====''Turbo Changers''====
[[File:TF-TLK-Turbo-Changer-Drift.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (One-Step Turbo Changer, 2017)
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TLK-27'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': 2017-[[September 16|09-16]]

:Released as part of the third wave of Turbo Changers, this Drift is an all-new mold, whose transformation scheme consists of flipping the center of the rear of the vehicle to convert into robot mode. He is also a shellformer due to his transformation scheme.
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====''Allspark Tech''====
[[File:TF-TLK-Allspark-Tech-Drift.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Allspark Tech, 2017)

:''Allspark Tech'' Drift transforms from a ''Rescue Bots''-styled robot into a car that somewhat resembles a Mercedes-AMG GT R and back. His chest also features a cavity for the electronic Allspark Cube, which gives him different sound effects for his robot and vehicle modes.
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====Legion Class====
[[File:TF-TLK-Legion-Class-Drift.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Chicken Legs.]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Legion Class, 2017)

:Originally a solicited-but-cancelled toy leaked in 2014, Drift ''finally'' gets his own Legion Class figure. He transforms from a pocket-sized robot into a small unlicensed approximation of a 2017 Mercedes-AMG GT R. He also features 3mm compatible holes on his pair of hands and his vehicle roof (although loose).

:Due to loose connections on the tab, his front vehicle bumper tab is easily undone with a press of a finger. Otherwise, his pair of legs is fairly well articulated, although it was used for transformation. However, he has some slight issues on standing up if his legs are not properly adjusted or straightened.
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====''Premier Edition''====
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[[File:TF-TLK-Deluxe-Drift.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Char Aznable's Drift Commander Type: Three Times Faster than the original Drift.]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Deluxe, 2017)
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TLK-10'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': 2017-[[July 15|07-15]]
**''Accessories:'' Two daggers, two swords
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (toyline)|The Last Knight]] Premier Edition'' Drift is a redeco and ''heavy'' retool of the first Deluxe Class toy with new external car panels and the torso/head with some parts reused from the original Deluxe Class toy, and he transforms from robot into a 2017 Mercedes-AMG GT R. The figure itself is turned upside down within the vehicle shell, as the front of the car now forms the feet/legs, while the back end now forms his robot chest. This also comes at the cost of him having a ''faux'' chest.

:In Asia, Drift and the rest of the Wave 2 Deluxes (though limited in numbers) were later sold at Popular Book stores in Malaysia, at a discounted price of RM89.90 ($21), though the price was later cut down to RM69.90 ($16) as part of the "Must Buy!" offers. TakaraTomy's stock photo of the robot mode figure was later used as a cutout "battle figure" included with ''[[TV Magazine]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#TVMagazineEZ|Burning Megatron]].
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====''Turbo Change Series''====
*'''Autobot Drift'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TC-11'''
**''TakaraTomy Release Date'': [[2018]]-[[July 21|7-21]]

:The first ''Turbo Change Series'' Drift is a rerelease of the [[Drift (AOE)#Robots in Disguise|first ''Age of Extinction'' One-Step Changer toy]].
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[[File:TF-TLK-Turbo-Change-Series-TC-13-Drift.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Battle Command Optimus Prime - Strongest Directive Set''' (2018)
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TC-13'''
**''TakaraTomy Release Date'': [[2018]]-[[October 27|10-27]]

:Released as part of the re-issued Optimus Prime set, this ''Turbo Change Series'' Drift is a redeco of the [[Drift (AOE)#One Step Changer Heli|second ''Age of Extinction'' One-Step Changer toy]] inspired by his appearance in ''The Last Knight''.
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===''Movie Edition''===
[[File:TTC-toy Movie-Edition-Drift.jpg|thumb|300px|right|]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Tiny Turbo Changers, 2018)
**''Series:'' '''3'''
**''Bag code:'' '''N'''
:[[Tiny Turbo Changers]] Series 3 Drift is a redeco of the series 2 Drift figure in blue, to represent the colors he had in ''Age of Extinction''.
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===''Studio Series''===
[[File:Studio-Series-MV5-Deluxe-Drift.jpg|thumb|300px|"I don't appreciate being called a Grandma. Even though I am wearing something that looks like a dress."]]
*'''Autobot Drift & Dinobot 'Tops, Dinobot Pterry, Dinobot Sharp T''' (Multi-pack, [[2019]])
**''Movie'': '''''The Last Knight'''''
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''36'''
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Autobot Drift with Mini Dinobots'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS-EX'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': March 2019
**''Accessories'': 2 daggers, 2 swords, large sword, "[[Junkyard (TLK)|Junkyard]] Meditation" backdrop

:''[[Studio Series]]'' Drift is an extensive redeco and a new head retool of his previous ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (toyline)|The Last Knight Premier Edition]] '' Deluxe class figure in more [[show-accuracy|screen-accurate]] colors to his portrayal in ''The Last Knight''. In addition to his swords and daggers from previous releases of the mold, he comes with a new, larger sword and small figures of the [[Mini Dinobot|Baby Dinobot]]s. Unfortunately, there is no place to store the new sword in either mode. As with all ''Studio Series'' figures, he includes a cardboard backdrop, this one depicting the [[Junkyard (TLK)|junkyard]] from ''The Last Knight'', particularly the spot where Drift performs his meditative feats. Unlike the digital render, the final toy omits the silver paint applications on his arms.

:The set was originally available through [[Entertainment Earth]], but was subsequently also offered by other online retailers. In Japan, the set was released as a [[Toys"R"Us]] exclusive. When ordered at Entertainment Earth, Drift came with 2 enamel pins: one of his robot mode and the other of the ''Studio Series'' logo.

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[[File:Studio Series Helicopter Drift.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]
* '''Autobot Drift''' (Deluxe Class, 2019)
**''Movie'': '''''Age of Extinction'''''
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''45'''
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Sky Drift'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS-38'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': [[August 31]], 2019
**''Accessories'': 2 swords, tail rotor, 2 missile pods, "Autobot Reunion" backdrop

:The general retail ''Studio Series'' Deluxe Class Drift figure is an ''extensive'' [[retool]] of the [[Dropkick (Movie)#Studio Series|helicopter Dropkick figure]], sharing half of the lower legs, feet, and wing pylons, with everything else being completely new components. Drift transforms into his briefly-seen helicopter mode from ''Age of Extinction''. The helicopter's detachable tail rotor can mount onto his forearms or back in robot mode. He comes with 2 missile pods that can attach via 5 mm posts under the helicopter's wings or to the sides of the robot legs.

:He also comes with two swords, which attach to his main propeller rotor assembly to form helicopter blades in vehicle mode, and can store on either hip in robot mode. The main rotor assembly folds up to resemble his (unremovable) back-mounted daggers in robot mode. Lastly, he also comes with a cardboard backdrop display depicting the Autobot meetup in ''Age of Extinction''.
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==Merchandise==
===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
====RPMs - ''Robot Powered Machines''====
[[File:RPMDoubleSidersDrift.jpg|thumb|200px]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (2010)
**''Series'': '''Double Siders'''
**''Number'': ?

:''[[Robot Powered Machines]]'' Mini-Vehicle Autobot Drift is a small, non-transforming, [[die-cast]] car based on [[Drift (G1)|his mainstream counterpart]]'s vehicle mode. His robot mode is sculpted underneath the vehicle, and his wheels use through-axle construction that lets the toy zip around at high speeds on smooth surfaces. Thanks to his oversized tires, he can slide along rightside-up or upside-down.

:The intended ''RPM'' release of "Double Siders" Drift never came out. Though it was going to be recycled into ''Speed Stars'', the ''RPM'' version had more paint operations, including having his name printed on his hood and bumper. The only image of the toy comes from a downloadable poster that was on the official ''Transformers'' website of Turkey.

: This mold was also used to make ''Speed Stars'' [[Brakedown (ROTF)|Breakdown]].

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[[File:RPMSpeedStarDriftUnknown.jpg|thumb|200px]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (2010)
**''Series'': '''Allspark'''
**''Number'': '''04'''

:"Allspark" Drift was presumably a redeco of "Double Siders" Drift. Though listed on the back of the Asian market release of ''RPM'' "Allspark" [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], it has never officially been depicted. However, an otherwise unknown redeco of the Drift mold with blue detailing was displayed at [[Toy Fair 2010]], amongst a mix of cancelled ''RPM'' and planned ''Speed Stars'' vehicles. It is possible that this mystery redeco was the aborted "Allspark" Drift.

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===''Speed Stars''===
[[File:SpeedStars_DoubleSiders_Drift.jpg|thumb|200px|...And then Michael Bay was like "Screw it, let's make him a main character"]]
*'''Drift''' (Mini-Vehicle, 2011?)
**''Series:'' '''Double Siders'''
**''Number:'' ?

: A redeco of the unreleased ''RPM'' "Double Siders" Drift, ''[[Speed Stars]]'' Drift is a small non-transforming [[die-cast]] car. He features notably fewer paint operations than the ''RPM'' version.

:Like its ''RPM'' predecessor, ''Speed Stars'' Drift was never released.

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===''Age of Extinction''===
[[File:AoE merch - Optimus Prime and Drift swords.jpg|upright=1|thumb]]
* '''Autobot Functional Weapon Drift Sword''' (2014)
:A replica of one of Drift's katana, this item was released alongside a [[roleplay toys|roleplay]] version of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Age of Extinction|Optimus Prime's]] [[Sword of Judgment]]. Both swords feature lights and sounds. These appear to only have been released in the [[China|Chinese]] market.
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====Funrise Toys====
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[[File:Drift plush sword.jpg|upright=1|thumb]]
* '''Transformers Plush - Drift Katana Sword''' (2014)
: Released by [[Funrise Toys]], this plush version of Drift's katana features electonic sound effect noises.
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====''Titan Heroes''====
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[[File:TitanHeroesDrift.jpg|thumb|200px|Yes, we all want to ignore its existence.]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Titan Heroes, 2014)
:Autobot Drift is a non-transforming, screen-accurate (robot-mode wise) yet terribly molded and painted Titan Heroes figure. Like all Titan Heroes figures, It features very little articulation. Due to him having painted human eyes instead of the usual blue robot optics, he is ''creepy as hell''.

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===''Pop!''===
[[File:AOE Funko Pop Drift.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Practices balance with the tip of his head.]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (2014)
**''ID number:'' '''103'''

:Released as part of the ''Pop! Movies'' segment, [[Funko Pop!|Funko]]'s ''Pop!'' Drift is a super deformed vinyl figure based on his appearance in ''Age of Extinction''.

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===Prime 1 Studio===
[[File:Prime 1 Studio Museum Masterline AOE Drift.jpg|upright=1.11|thumb]]
*'''Drift''' (2015)
**''Movie:'' '''''Age of Extinction'''''
**''ID number:'' '''MMTFM-06'''
**''Accessories'': Base, 2 sword-holding hands

:Limited to 750 pieces, [[Prime 1 Studio]]'s ''Museum Masterline'' Drift is a huge non-transforming sculpture based on his ''Age of Extinction'' appearance. The statue is made of polystone along with other materials and features light-up LED eyes.

:He comes with a pair of alternate hands holding his swords.

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[[File:Prime 1 Studio Museum Masterline TLK Drift.jpg|upright=1.11|thumb]]
*'''Drift''' (2019)
**''Movie:'' '''''The Last Knight'''''
**''ID number:'' '''MMTFM-22'''
**''Accessories'': Base, 2 sword-holding hands

:Limited to 300 pieces, this version of ''Museum Masterline'' Drift is based on his ''The Last Knight'' appearance and also features light-up LED eyes.

:He also comes with a pair of alternate hands holding his swords.

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===''The Last Knight''===
====Simba Smoby====
[[File:TF-TLK-1-64-Simba-Smoby-Drift-Robot.jpg|upright=1.11|thumb|Now with lack of creepy-looking eyes.]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Die-cast Figurine, 2017)

:This Drift is a 1/64 non-transforming robot mode figurine, and like the [[MetaColle]] figures, he was made partially out of Die-cast metal.

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[[File:TF-TLK-1-64-Simba-Smoby-Drift-car.jpg|upright=1.44|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Drift''' (Die-cast cars, 2017)

:This Drift is a 1/64 non-transforming but screen-accurate vehicle mode based on his alternate mode seen in the film. He features through-axle construction, allowing for super-speedy racing on smooth surfaces, and his car mode is compatible with many tracks and playsets from ''[[Hot Wheels (franchise)|Hot Wheels]]'' and ''Matchbox''.

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===''Hot Wheels''===
[[File:Hot Wheels Transformers Bugatti Veyron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Bugatti Veyron''' (Transformers, 2024)}}</ul>
:*''Transformers ID number:'' '''4/5'''
:*''Known designers'': Mike McClone (Mattel)
:Made in collaboration with [[Mattel]], this redeco of the ''[[Hot Wheels (franchise)|Hot Wheels]]'' [[wikia:hotwheels:Bugatti Veyron|Bugatti Veyron]] casting is made to resemble the color scheme of Drift in ''Age of Extinction''. The packaging makes use of stock images of evergreen Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.

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==Notes==
* Not counting [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]]'s battle mode, Drift is the first [[Triple Changer]] seen on-screen in the live action films, transforming from a helicopter to a sports car at will. Sadly, the complexity the movie aesthetic gives him means that none of his toys have three modes. Drift is only seen transforming into his new Mercedes alternate mode in ''The Last Knight'', leaving it unknown if he still possesses a third mode.
* While the original [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] and other incarnations of the character have had Japanese motifs, this Drift's appearance is heavily based upon that of a samurai.
*In ''Rise of the Dark Spark'', Drift's alternate mode appears to be comically large – the sports car is of comparable size to ''tanks'' found in the environment!
* Drift also holds the distinction of being the only new character in ''Age of Extinction'' besides the Dinobots to not be called by name, though briefly during the scene where Galvatron chases the Autobots, he is identified on KSI's satellite feed. ''The Last Knight'' later properly identified him on-screen.
[[File:TFGenerations2014 Rejected Black Drift.jpg|thumb|I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING!]]
*A mock-up of a black redeco of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Original line (2010–2011)|Generations]]'' [[Drift (G1)#Generations|"G1" Drift]] in colours based on ''Age of Extinction'' Drift appeared in ''[[Transformers Generations 2014 Volume 1]]'' as one of ten potential exclusives for Vol. 2. This "Autobot Drift Black Ver." (placeholder name) didn't win the [[Fan polls#Generations Magazine Exclusive Character Popularity Vote|poll]] to determine which of the ten would be produced, however, ending up in fourth place with 12.7% of the votes.<ref>[http://millionhero.sblo.jp/article/101898683.html Poll results at Hero-X]</ref>
* Drift, along with Hound, sports one of the most drastic changes to an ''Age of Extinction'' Autobot, switching the Bugatti Veyron for a Mercedes AMG GT R in ''The Last Knight''.
* His Mercedes alt-mode reflects his original planned color for ''Age of Extinction''.
** Before ''The Last Knight'' was released, people noticed that Drift's mostly black vehicle mode somehow turned into a predominantly red robot mode, to the point where black vehicle parts became red kibble. This seems to have been addressed in the film proper, but the toys kept this oddity.
* Drift was the only new ''Age of Extinction'' Autobot to have an on-screen transformation in his debut film, though he only appeared in helicopter mode whenever he does.
*In a surprising attention to detail and continuity, after throwing one of his swords at a drone in the fourth film, Drift is still missing the blade at the conclusion of ''Age of Extinction'' and ''The Last Knight''.
* [[Eric Bauza]], voice actor of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Drift (RID)|Drift]], recorded the scratch track for Drift in ''Age of Extinction'', with some of his screams and efforts remaining in the final film.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://twitter.com/bauzilla/status/1588944377266999298|name=Eric Bauza|site=Twitter|month=11|day=5|year=2022|quote=Did you knowwww that I recorded all of Drift’s scratch dialog for the film!?!?! 🎞 Im fact… some of my screams & efforts are still in the film!!}}</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Drift''' (ドリフト ''Dorifuto'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Shuǎiwěi''' (Taiwan, 甩尾, "Drift"), '''Piāoyí''' (China, 漂移, "Drift")

==References==
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[[Category:Age of Extinction Autobots]]
[[Category:Age of Extinction Decepticons]]
[[Category:Construct-Bots Autobots]]
[[Category:Hero Mashers Autobots]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Platinum Edition]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen Autobots]]
[[Category:RPMs]]
[[Category:Studio Series Autobots]]
[[Category:Speed Stars]]
[[Category:The Last Knight Autobots]]
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Bumblebee (Movie)/games

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Lots of games involve Movie Bumblebee!

=="Flight of the Bumblebee" online game==
At some point in time Bumblebee was trapped in a canyon with several Decepticons, among them Brawl, Barricade, Wreckage, and Scorponok. He valiantly fought through them all to make it to the other side. He did it without even bending a fender. If he succeeded, his victory earned him a place in Autobot history! If he failed however, the Decepticons would gather to celebrate his defeat! {{storylink|Flight of the Bumblebee|Flight of the Bumblebee}}

==Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots==
Bumblebee and his partner [[Sphinx]] were sent to [[Earth]] to recover the AllSpark. They were meant to meet up with fellow Autobots [[Flash (Movie)|Flash]] and [[Ridge]], but only found the Decepticons waiting for them at the rendezvous point. Though Bumblebee escaped the ambush, he had to watch on as Sphinx's spark was drained out of his body by the enemy. In order to turn the tides against the Decepticons, Bumblebee sought out other agents to help him out; [[Chevy Autobot]]s. He acted as field director for the Chevy Autobots in their subsequent struggles against [[Mainframe (Movie)|Mainframe]], sending them frequent updates on the situation at hand, and thanking the recruits who contributed most to the cause. At some point, Bumblebee let his guard down and the Decepticons took advantage by taking out an Autobot communications hub. He apologized for his lapse. Bumblebee later discovered that Sphinx was still alive; Autobot communications picked up a signal containing a message from Bumblebee's friend. Enraged, Bumblebee swore to make the Decepticon keeping him captive pay. Bumblebee then stumbled upon a report from the human [[Dina Morgan]] mentioning "Energon." Intrigued that a human would have knowledge of the substance, Bumblebee investigated Sector 42-83, her last known location. Upon his arrival, he only found a blazing ruin. Frustrated once more, Bumblebee returned to Sector 32-113 to help more newly arrived Autobots train for the mission at hand.

The Decepticons soon began to fight in the open, and Bumblebee dispatched his trainees to the field to face off against the numerous types of enemy drones. The identity of the Decepticon leader then reached Bumblebee; [[Mainframe (Movie)|Mainframe]]. Taking an offensive strategy against the Decepticon, Bumblebee posted false information on the web about possible locations of the AllSpark, hoping to lure Mainframe and his drones out of hiding. His recruits would then ambush the Decepticons at the strategically chosen locations. "Dina Morgan" then came into contact with Bumblebee, who traced her signal to her location. Though Bumblebee highly suspected the message was a Decepticon trap, he felt it was his duty to try and protect the human anyways. Sure enough, Decepticon Drones were waiting for him at the traced location. Bumblebee was nonetheless unphazed by the turn of events, and goaded Mainframe into a confrontation.

Bumblebee lost his battle against mainframe, and his Spark was absorbed the the Decepticon. However, he and the other captured Autobots' essence remained intact within Mainframe for a time, and made attempts to contact the rest of the Autobot forces. Thanks in part to the information the Autobots were able to leak from within Mainframe, the Autobots managed to defeat him and his forces. Bumblebee was freed from within the evil robot, along with Flash, Ridge and Sphinx. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots}}

==''Sector Seven'' game==
[[File:Beagle rover destroyer.jpg|left|thumb|Not a Decepticon....[[Movie Prequel issue 3|really......]]]]
In 2003, Bumblebee arrived on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] where he destroyed the [[Beagle 2 Rover]]. To control leaks of the footage beamed back to Earth from the Rover, Sector Seven enacted "Hungry Dragon 2", this time choosing the especially visible medium of a live-action feature film and ancillary media.

Events reached a flashpoint on April 23, when Bumblebee touched down on Earth, arriving in response to [[Rebecca Howard|Howard]]'s signal. {{storylink|Sector Seven (game)}}
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==''Transformers'' (Glu)==

When Optimus Prime was separated from the rest of the Autobots, Bumblebee contacted a human ally through their cell phone. By remotely altering the device with Cybertronian technology, Bumblebee enabled his ally to assist the damaged Prime in battling the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers (Glu)}}

==''Transformers: The Game'' (console)==
===Autobot campaign===
[[File:TransformersTheGame wallpaper BumblebeeVsBarricade.jpg|left|300px|thumb|"All this artillery on your body and you go for a ''punch''?!?"]]

Bumblebee landed in Tranquility while being briefed by Optimus Prime on his mission to find clues on the AllSpark. While on Earth, he took the form of a beat-up 1976 Chevrolet Camaro in possibly a dump or a demolitions bay. Some Decepticon drones were also in Tranquility at a nearby construction site, so Bumblebee confronted and destroyed the drones before any civilian casualties could ensue.<ref>Even though in the game, you actually can't step on or run over civilians.</ref> Prime detected a Cybertronian code matching that on an artifact owned by a boy named Sam Witwicky, who was reported to be buying a car at Bobby Bolivia's. Unfortunately, some more drones heard of Prime's report, so Bumblebee had to get involved in a high-speed car chase and defeat the drones.

With Sam buying the Camaro-ed Bumblebee, the first phase of finding the AllSpark was complete. The next day, Prime warned Bumblebee that the Decepticon named Barricade was also on Earth and threatening to take Sam and his new female friend, Mikaela. So the Autobot had to incapacitate the arm-spinning, spike-punching, tantrum-throwing Decepticon while the humans escaped. Now that Bumblebee knew of the Decepticons' growing involvement in finding the AllSpark's location, he obviously needed help. The only problem now with the Autobots' landing was their radar systems. The Decepticons had hacked radio towers throughout Tranquility to mess up any aircraft radar. Naturally, Bumblebee went to the scene and destroyed the towers. With the Autobots having landed, it was time to find the AllSpark.

Optimus Prime explained to Sam and Mikaela about the AllSpark, the importance of the glasses, and Humanity's fate. Before moving on the matter at hand, Mikaela questioned Bumblebee's alt-mode being such a beater. The mildly insulted Autobot then copied a more current version of the Camaro (2009 Concept). Later, a government group called Sector Seven went after the Autobots with their helicopters and cars. After Jazz's successful distraction, Sector Seven then switched their sights to Bumblebee, who got captured, but then got away with the efforts of Prime.

Sector Seven sent Bumblebee to Hoover Dam. The Autobot immediately saw the AllSpark and a frozen Megatron. After a mysterious blackout, Bumblebee got free and started to shut down the power faster by ripping out the mainframe, blowing up the cooling fans, and removing nuclear canisters from their generators. The AllSpark was his, but he had to wait for it to shrink while fending off Sector Seven troops, a lot of Energon drones, and a defrosting Megatron. (Oy!) Eventually, Sam and Mikaela got to the dam and fled with Bumblebee to Mission City before Megatron could get his huge, pointy clutches near the cube.

The Autobots' first priority was then keeping the cube from Megatron. Unfortunately for Bumblebee, he crashed into a building due to interference from energon drones generated by the cube's radiation. Ironhide came in and helped. While the rest of the Autobots fought the Decepticons, Bumblebee had one final showdown with Barricade. After a lot of punches, blasts, and car chases, Barricade finally went down for good. Megatron then went to the scene and incapacitated the wounded Autobot with one shot from his fusion cannon. Bumblebee urged the two humans to take the cube to Optimus for he could not go on any longer.

After the battle was won by the Autobots, Bumblebee struck a pose with the other remaining four as they listened in on Prime's final speech. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game (console)}}
===Decepticon campaign===
After Barricade finally came across Sam in Tranquility, the loyal Bumblebee arrived on the scene to protect the human, ensuing a fight. The battle, later resorted to a chase, ended up a [[Bay Demolition|Bay's Demolition]], which just so happened to be swarming with Autobot drones. However, Barricade conquered the situation and killed Bumblebee before swiping the glasses from Sam and continuing his mission. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game (console)}}

==''Transformers: The Game'' (PSP)==
The Autobot scout, Bumblebee was the first of his kind to arrive on Earth, discovering the link between the Witwicky family and the AllSpark. After saving Sam and Mikaela from Barricade, Bumblebee summoned the other Autobots to Earth. Subsequent events are unclear but Bumblebee was captured by Sector Seven and taken to the [[Hoover Dam]], near the AllSpark. Though Bumblebee broadcasted a distress beacon to the other Autobots, he managed to free himself from the humans and claimed the AllSpark as the Decepticons were distracted healing Megatron. Driving away from the Dam and in the direction of [[Center City]], Bumblebee was guarded by the other Autobots against the horde of Decepticon [[drone]]s. When Bumblebee reached the city limits however, Megatron made a forceful landing atop the scout, killing him and claiming the AllSpark. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (PSP)}}
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==''Transformers: Autobots''==
Bumblebee arrived in Tranquility to meet up with [[Create-A-Bot (Autobot)|Create-A-Bot]], and after a short discussion created from radio sound clips, instructed Create-a-Bot to scan a number of vehicles, the last of which was a Decepticon. After a short battle, Bumblebee then used Create-a-Bot's mad h4x0r skills to break into the internet and find the location of [[Archibald Witwicky]]'s glasses, which turned out to be conveniently in Tranquility. Going to retrieve them, Bumblebee arrived at the Witwicky house to find [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], who then blew up a car and ran, blaming the explosion on the yellow car now chasing him down the highway. Meeting on a bridge, they fought. Once Bumblebee won, Barricade once again ran.

Later, Bumblebee received a mission to destroy several [[Sector Seven]] turrets designed to shoot down the reported [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.s]] seen around the city. Afterward, he served as a distraction, driving to various markers to fight off the police while the other Autobots did their thing. Once that task was completed, he found that Create-A-Bot had disobeyed orders, and secretly helped him, but ended up luring Sector Seven to them. Deciding that it would be better to protect Create-A-Bot, Bumblebee took on Sector Seven, and got himself captured, being taken to Hoover Dam, where his weapon chip would be removed. After being rescued by Create-A-Bot, Bumblebee was given the coordinates of his weapon chip, and, after fighting off some freed Decepticon prisoners and avoiding Sector Seven he found his weapon chip, and searched the base for the AllSpark, finding it in the deepest part of the dam. Upon being discovered, the AllSpark turned the site's computers into mechanical scorpions...to defend itself. From the good guys. After retrieving the AllSpark, Bumblebee had to escape in under 30 seconds to avoid getting locked in. After a quick getaway, he met with Optimus. The two then drove up the highway, with Optimus helping Bumblebee with Sector Seven road blocks, the encountered a drone and Barricade were waiting for them. After Barrricade demanded the Allspark, a two-on-two battle broke out, in which Prime helped Bumblebee against Barricade and the drone. After this Prime ordered Bumblebee to take the Allspark and rendevous with [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]].

After arriving back in Tranquility, Bumblebee was hounded by [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] with Bumblebee reaching several markers to give himself nine seconds headstart against Blackout. After reaching Ratchet, Ratchet held off Blackout for him. Afterwards Create-A-Bot helped Bumblebee deliver the Allspark to Optimus, be preventing him from from being [[Blastification|blasted]] into [[Slag (slang)|slag]]. After Megatron grabbed the Allspark Optimus ordered Create-A-bot to stay behind with Bumblebee, but given Create-A-Bot's involvement in the final battle, it's evident Bumblebee let him go to help Prime. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots}}

==''Transformers: Decepticons''==
After sending troops to slow down Barricade and the Decepticon [[Create-A-Bot (Decepticon)|Create-A-Bot]], Bumblebee showed up in person to take care of business himself, serving as little more than a distraction. After running away, Bumblebee later acquired the AllSpark, transporting it across Tranquility while [[Starscream (Movie)/games|Starscream]] gave chase. Stopping in the suburbs, Starscream pounded Bumblebee's face to custard and pried the AllSpark from his cold, non-functioning fingers. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Decepticons}}
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==AllSpark Wars==
After the first battle with the Decepticons on Earth, Bumblebee and the other Autobots went into stasis lock, held in storage around the world. He was revived over the course of the AllSpark Wars, which eventually led to the Decepticons' defeat. {{storylink|AllSpark Wars}}

==Allspark Highway==
The Autobots obtained the AllSpark, and needed to bring it to a secure location. Relaying it to one another, Bumblebee being the second link in the chain, the Autobots kept the AllSpark out of Decepticon hands until the evil robots simply gave up the chase. {{storylink|Allspark Highway}}
==''Transformers Video Mash-Up''==
{{note|Various short clips featuring Bumblebee were available for users to custom-create their own short film about the Transformers.}} {{storylink|Transformers Video Mash-Up}}

==''Second Life''==
[[File:2007movie Bumblebee SLavatar.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2]|Bumblebee cosplay (Wrists not included)]] {{note|In the online virtual world simulation/game ''Second Life'', there was a full replica of the Sector Seven base which contained a giant discussion room where Michael Bay held a question board. This room contained a giant frozen Megatron replica and free avatars of both Bumblebee and Barricade. Both freebies were non-transforming. The Bumblebee avatar had his battle mask permanently down with no normal face under it.}}

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==Autobot Stronghold==

The Decepticons were invading an Autobot stronghold in the city, and Bumblebee and the Autobots placed themselves at key positions to defend it from attack. {{storylink|Autobot Stronghold}}

==Transformers: Battle for the Matrix==
{{Note|Battle for the Matrix is a simplified retelling of the events of [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]. It can be played from the perspective of either Bumblebee or Optimus Prime.}}
[[File:Bumblebee battleforthematrix.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
{{storylink|Transformers: Battle for the Matrix}}
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==''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game==
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Ryan]] (English)|[[Jesús Barreda]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Thierry Kazazian]] (French), [[Francesco Mei]] (Italian), [[Michael Krüger]] (German)}}
===Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC===
====Autobot campaign====
[[File:ROTF 360PS3PC BumblebeeVsCombaticonWarrior.jpg|thumb|250px|Bumblebee decided to learn from a [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|different Prime]].]]

Bumblebee was the Autobots' high speed recon soldier. In combat mode, he possessed a [[plasma cannon|solar plasma cannon]] firing rapid energy bursts, which could shift into a missile launcher that fired six missiles at a time. In melee combat, he could deploy an [[axe (weapon)|axe]] from his left hand. Finally, he possessed the ability to emit a localized [[electromagnetic pulse]]wave, which would temporarily stun enemy Decepticons.

Since he hadn't seen combat in some time, Bumblebee was sent through some retraining under Ironhide. Despite being fully combat certified, Bumblebee was not deployed during the [[Shanghai]] mission. When the Decepticons learned of the AllSpark shard Sam had left with Mikaela, Bumblebee was sent to rescue the girl and protect her from the drones dispatched to capture the shard. After a vicious fight, Mikaela was air lifted to safety.

After Megatron was reborn and kidnapped Sam, Bumblebee was sent to an industrial sector near his college to rescue the boy. He fought through twenty eight Decepticons while [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] hacked their processors to learn Sam's location. Once he found Sam at [[Broadwater Metal Works|an abandoned foundry]], Bumblebee raced Sam to the extraction point. However, the Decepticons sent reinforcements under [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]]. Bumblebee was able to fight off the Decepticons and defeat Grindor, saving Sam. However, it was learned that some knowledge from the AllSpark had been absorbed into the boy when he killed Megatron. Sam was forced to go seek out [[Seymour Simmons]] to learn what was going on. Bumblebee protected the boy while talked at the deli Simmons' mother owned. Sam than told Bumblebee that he needed to get to the museum nearby to speak with [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], an ancient Decepticon defector. Bumblebee fought off the Decepticons sent to destroy the museum long enough for Jetfire to open a [[space bridge]] and take him and Sam to [[Egypt]].

Once there, Jetfire explained what was going on: thousands of years ago, the [[Dynasty of Primes]] came to Earth to build a [[Star Harvester]] to convert Earth's sun into Energon. When they discovered the humans, twelve of the [[Thirteen|original Primes]] upheld the sanctity of life, but one Prime, forever known as [[The Fallen]], betrayed and slaughtered his brothers. The machine was hidden from the Fallen, who went on to become the master of the Decepticons. The machine was hidden within the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], and [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] was sent to destroy it and expose the harvester. On the way, he decided to terrorize the city of [[Cairo]]. Faced with the largest Decepticon ever seen, the Autobots decided that Bumblebee, the smallest of the Autobots, would be a good choice to help [[NEST]] counter Devastator's rampage. Surprisingly enough, it worked: Bumblebee was able to whittle down Devastator's cannons and missile launchers before finally defeating the beast. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

====Decepticon campaign====
[[File:ROTF 360PS3PC BumblebeeVsCombaticonScout.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Little bot in little China]]

When [[Megatron (Movie)/games|Megatron]] arrived on the outskirts of Cairo in search of the [[Tomb of the Primes|Tomb of the Twelve]], he engaged numerous Autobots in combat. Eventually he fought and defeated Bumblebee and the turncoat Jetfire. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

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===Wii/PS2===
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===PSP===
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==Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Autobots/Decepticons==
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==Transformers Battle Universe==

At the edge of time, the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] was seeking a new host and summoned warriors from throughout the multiverse to battle for possession of it. Bumblebee, Optimus and Megatron arrived from the Tyran cluster. {{storylink|Transformers Battle Universe}}

==Transformers RPMs: Devastator's Demise==
[[File:Devastator's Demise Vortex Grinder.jpg|200px|left|thumb]]
Bumblebee's light weight made him fast but easy to shake. He was amazing for stunts though!

In order to defeat [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]], Bumblebee, Optimus and Ironhide drove through Cairo and avoided obstacles. {{storylink|Transformers RPMs: Devastator's Demise}}
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==Hunt for the Decepticons==
Optimus Prime coordinated [[you]]r first mission with Bumblebee, part of a hunt for Decepticons still at large on Earth. This mission led to the capture of [[Axor]]. Once you were welcomed into the Autobots, Bumblebee trained you in the use of firearms, in preparation for your fight with Megatron. Once the Decepticon tyrant was defeated, Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots thanked you for your contribution to the Autobot cause. {{storylink|Hunt for the Decepticons}}
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==StrikeZone Showdown==
Bumblebee, Ratchet and Ironhide faced off against Megatron, Lockdown and Bludgeon in the middle of a forest in a battle to the death. Bumblebee would leap into the air and perform melee attacks to defeat his opponents. {{storylink|Transformers StrikeZone Showdown|StrikeZone Showdown}}

==''Revenge of the Fallen'' mobile game==
[[File:ROTFMobile Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|110px]]
With the Decepticons attacking [[NEST]] HQ and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/games|Optimus Prime]] tied up in [[Shanghai]], Bumblebee was sent to deal with the threat. He managed to make it to the central core before [[Starscream (Movie)/games|Starscream]] and seal it off to prevent the Decepticon getting in. He also almost managed to defeat Starscream, but at the last moment Starscream used his [[Null-ray|null ray]], disabling Bumblebee. 'Bee overheard Starscream talking about the [[Matrix of Leadership]], and warned Optimus. When Optimus went missing in Egypt, Bumblebee went there himself and was told to rendezvous with [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] near the [[Great Pyramid of Giza|Great Pyramid]]. By the time Bumblebee reached the pyramid, Jetfire had been knocked out by [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]], who had taken possession of the Matrix. Bumblebee fought long and hard against the [[Combiner]], finally defeating him and retrieving the Matrix, only for [[Megatron (Movie)/games|Megatron]] to turn up and take Bumblebee prisoner. When Optimus came to the rescue, Bumblebee passed on the message that Jetfire had given him, that Optimus should use Jetfire's part to gain the power to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)|Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)}}

==Victory Is Sweet==
Learning that [[Starscream (Movie)/games|Starscream]] intended to destroy an entire city, Bumblebee began tracking down the beacons the Decepticon had put in place. He destroyed the first two in a rail yard and shipyard, before moving into the city where he found the third beacon in a mid-city park. While he was in the process of destroying it, Starscream arrived but luckily so did [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/games|Optimus Prime]], and Bumblebee let his leader fight the Decepticon off. {{storylink|Victory Is Sweet}}

==''Web Wars''==
[[File:Bumblebee Web Wars.jpg|thumb|150px]]
Bumblebee battled the Decepticons across the digital frontier, defending numerous websites across the internet from their encroachment! {{storylink|Web Wars}}
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==''Transformers: Dark of the Moon - The Game''==
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Renato Novara]] (Italian)}}

===(Xbox 360/PS3)===
Three years after the defeat of [[The Fallen]], humanity believed the Decepticons had fled Earth. However, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/games|Optimus Prime]] knew better and was constantly searching for [[Megatron (Movie)/games|Megatron]] and his forces. Bumblebee was sent to [[South America]] to upload a virus into [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave's]] network system so that the Autobots could track down all remaining Decepticons on Earth. Later on, he joined [[Dino|Mirage]] on his mission to locate [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] in the Mayan ruins. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)}}

===Autobots/Decepticons===
[[File:DOTMDS Bumblebee.jpg|left|200px|thumb]]
When a number of unexplained attacks occurred downtown, Optimus sent Bumblebee to investigate in case it was the Decepticons and, indeed, it was. Bumblebee bashed most of them. At another point, Bumblebee was patrolling near a volcano when [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] warned him that [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] and [[Crowbar]] were in the area. Bumblebee found Crowbar, but when he was chasing the [[Dread (DOTM)|Dread]], he ran into [[Starscream (Movie)/games|Starscream]] who had stolen some Mechtech equipment. Bumblebee pursued him, but Starscream eventually got away. After the Autobots infiltrated Ratchet sent Bumblebee to scout the area, warning him that [[Megatron (Movie)/games|Megatron]] might be around. Luckily he didn't run into Megatron, with the Decepticon leader being defeated by Ironhide. He, Ironhide, Ratchet and Optimus gathered in the aftermath of the mission to reflect on their victory, unaware that Megatron had succeeded in reviving [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]... {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons|Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons}}
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==''Dark of the Moon'' mobile game==
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==''Cyberverse Battle Builder''==
Bumblebee joined the rest of the Autobots in combating the Decepticons on battlefields on Earth, the Earth's Moon and on Cybertron. Sometimes he was armed with the [[Mobile Battle Bunker]]. Sometimes there were many of him! {{storylink|Cyberverse Battle Builder}}
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==''MechTech Weapons Challenge''==
[[File:Mechtech Weapons Challenge Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left]]
Bumblebee was sent on multiple missions on Earth, the Earth's Moon and Cybertron in order to retrieve MechTech weapons technology stolen by the Decepticons. He could arm himself with many different kinds of MechTech weaponry for his missions. Among these was his own plasma cannon, Shockwave's particle wave blaster, Megatron's fusion hand cannon, Roadbuster's assault saw, Ratchet's power saw, Sideswipe's Cybertronian sword, Crankcase's blade claw, Topspin's combat claw, and Barricade's robot wrecking claw. He managed to retrieve all of the stolen technology in the end. {{storylink|MechTech Weapons Challenge}}
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==''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''==
[[File:BumblebeevsRavageTheRide.jpg|thumb|300px]]
Bumblebee began explaining the NEST facility to the new recruits when his voice gave out again, frustrating him and Ratchet, who thought he had fixed it. When Evac was attacked by Ravage and Sideways, Bumblebee came and defeated both Decepticons so Evac could get hold of the Allspark and escape. Later, Bumblebee saved Evac from falling off a building after he defeated Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ride – 3D}}

Outside the ride, meet and greets can be held with Bumblebee. At [[Beijing]], he presides over the [[Bumblebee Boogie]] attraction, where he uses Ratchet's Medi-Bay as a dance floor for some [[Mini-Cons]].

==''Transformers: Human Alliance''==
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==''Age of Extinction'' mobile game==
Bumblebee was one of the Autobots, who helped destroy the Decepticons, on streets of Texas, Detroit, Chicago, and Hong Kong. Other than his new two forms, he also comes with a Stealth paintjob. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (mobile game)}}
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==''Energon Rally'' online game==
Bumblebee ran across an Autobot construction site on Cybertron, collecting as much Energon as he could before his shields gave out from bumping into obstacles. {{storylink|Energon Rally}}

==''Bumblebee Blast'' online game==
Bumblebee honed his skills in the Autobot training simulator in anticipation to future Decepticon attacks. {{storylink|Bumblebee Blast (online game)|Bumblebee Blast}}

==''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''==
===Console===
[[File:RotDS Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Bumblebee accompanied Optimus Prime and [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] in tracking down the [[Dark Spark]]. They reached the crash site, after fighting off [[Lockdown (AOE)|Lockdown]]'s Mercenaries, but were unable to stop Lockdown capturing the Dark Spark. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark}} {{charstubgames}}

===3DS===
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==''Transformers Ultimate Allstars''==
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==''Transformers Online'' (2017 video game)==
[[File:Bumblebee-AOE TFO.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
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==''Transformers: Forged to Fight''==
[[File:Bumblebee-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|300px|There better not be any [[Stinger (AOE)|cheap knock-offs]]. Otherwise, I'll flip out like Hell.]]
Bumblebee was one of the Autobots pulled from [[Live-action film series|his universe]] by the [[Quintessons]] and forced to fight. A version of Bumblebee was brainwashed to attack [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
*'''Strong Match-ups:'''
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*'''Weak Match-ups:'''
**Mixmaster - Mixmaster looks to deliver much of his damage during Special Attacks allowing him to bypass much of Bumblebee’s evasiveness. Mixmasters use of Ability Block will also greatly reduce Bumblebee’s chance to avoid incoming attacks.
**Drift - Drift’s Precision Buff will ensure Bumblebee has nowhere to Evade to.
**Hot Rod - Evasive Bots will have a very hard time against Hot Rod, his Decceleration Debuff will completely negate the opponent’s chance to activate their Evade abilities.
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==''Transformers: Shadows Rising''==
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==References==
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[[Category:Human Alliance Autobots]]
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{{ROTDScap|A giant [[Combaticon (ROTF)|Combaticon]] [[Titan (FOC)|titan]] [[Shadow Raider|mercenary]].}}

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[[Omnibot Warrior]] from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Game]]'' for 360/PS3/PC.
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Aerialbot Warrior as seen in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Game]]'' for 360/PS3/PC.
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[[Aerialbot Scout 1|Aerial Scout 1]] from [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen the Game]].

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[[Aerialbot Scout 1|Aerial Scout 1]] from [[Battle for the Allspark v2]].

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Protectobot Sniper

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:''Protectobot Sniper is a mass-produced [[Autobot]] bodyform from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|video game]] portion of the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
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'''Protectobot Snipers''' transform into police helicopters. Together with the other [[Protectobot (ROTF)|Protectobots]], they defend human cities from the [[Decepticon]]s.

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===
{{voiceactor|[[Neil Kaplan]] {{fact}}}}

====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====
=====Decepticon campaign=====
The Protectobot Snipers defended American territories from invading Decepticons. Their efforts proved to be vain and the Decepticons would always find a way to destroy them. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' - The Game===

====Xbox 360/Sony PS3====
Protectobot Snipers fought bravely against [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] when the Decepticon broke into a NEST base. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)| Dark of the Moon}}

==Notes==
*Protectobot snipers are faster and hit slightly harder than their [[Combaticon Sniper|Combaticon counterparts]]. {{fact|where did this come from?}}

:*'''Health:''' 250
:*'''Run Speed:''' Fast
:*'''Vehicle Speed:''' Fast
:*'''Primary Weapon Damage:''' 35
:*'''Secondary Weapon Damage:''' 20

*Concept designer [[Ken Christiansen]] was requested by [[Hasbro]] to change the rear stabilizer of the Sniper's vehicle mode. [http://badflipblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/tf2-protectobot-sniper-03.html His speculation] is that Hasbro requested this to make the character model more similar to the [[Blazemaster]] toy, for a potential Protectobot Sniper retooling.
*The Protectobot Sniper and Scout use the same voicelines.
*According to unlockable concept art in the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' game, Protectobot Sniper was based on [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Blades (G1)|Blades]].
*The Protectobot Sniper would've had a sniper rifle, but was scrapped from the final game. This shows up in concept art and promo artwork. In the final game, he shoots from his arms.
*In concept art, a "0121-B" decal is on the helicopter tail, but doesn't show up in the final game. According to Ken, this is a "special" for his girl.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/kenchristiansenart/posts/protectobot-sniper-transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-game-2009all-right-lets-co/2786620961363200/</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://badflipblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/tf2-protectobot-sniper-01.html Protectobot Sniper concepts], [http://badflipblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/tf2-protectobot-sniper-02.html vehicle rendering], [http://badflipblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/tf2-protectobot-sniper-03.html final vehicle rendering] and [http://badflipblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/tf2-protectobot-sniper-04.html final robot mode rendering] by concept artist Ken Christiansen.

[[Category:Dark of the Moon Autobots]]
[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]
[[Category:Protectobots]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen Autobots]]
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[[Protectobot Sniper]] from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game]]''.

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AzureNight:

[[Protectobot Scout]] from [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen the Game]].

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[[Protectobot Scout]] from [[Battle for the Allspark v2]].

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[[Omnibot Scout 2]] from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen]].''

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Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)

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'''''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''''' is a video game developed by [[Edge of Reality]] and published by [[Activision]] for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, and PC.<ref>[http://www.examiner.com/article/transformers-rise-of-the-dark-spark-announced-3ds-version-to-be-strategy-rpg "Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark" announced; 3DS version to be Strategy RPG]</ref> It incorporates elements of both the ''Transformers'' [[Live-action film series|film franchise]] and the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]]'' / ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' games. The story takes place before the ''Ark'' is launched in the Aligned continuity, and it also deals with a storyline revolving around one of [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]'s schemes in the ''Age of Extinction'' portion. It features over forty playable characters, slightly fewer than [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|the Nintendo 3DS version]].<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/video-games-17/new-rise-of-the-dark-spark-preview-from-game-informer-179722/</ref>

On [[December 21]], [[2017]], ''Rise of the Dark Spark'' and its downloadable content were delisted from multiple digital storefronts due to the expiration of [[Activision]]'s licensing deal with [[Hasbro]].<ref>https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/22/16810202/platinum-games-transformers-devastation-legend-of-korra-steam-xbox-live-playstation-store</ref> In [[2020]], Activision discontinued support for the title and disabled its online functionality,<ref>https://support.activision.com/articles/legacy-activision-games</ref> namely the cooperative Escalation multiplayer mode. However, DLC for the Xbox One version of ''Rise of the Dark Spark'', including content only usable in Escalation, remains available for purchase on the Microsoft Store. This version of the game is playable on the Xbox Series S and X via backwards compatibility.

==Synopsis==
===Chapter I: The Dark Spark===
:'' Character: [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] ''
[[File:ROTDS1.jpg|thumb|right|Are you an Angel?]]
Above [[Earth]], a strange object flies through space, destroying a satellite in orbit. The mysterious item flies past a ship, piloted by none other than the legendary mercenary [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]. One of [[Shadow Raider|his henchmen]] arrives in the cockpit and asks Lockdown what it was. He replies that it is "the past come calling." [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]], the Decepticon-turned-Autobot, arrives in a burning city to investigate. He notices that something crash-landed nearby. He contacts [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots, and tells him about the strange object.
Prime instructs Drift to investigate the crash site, but while Drift is en route, Lockdown's goons attack the city. Recognizing that they are not [[Decepticon]]s, Drift reports to Optimus, who correctly guesses that they are mercenaries (much to Drift's disdain). Drift takes out all three mercenaries and, at Optimus's instruction, equips himself with blasters to better fight with, he continues to the site of the crash, taking out mercenaries as he goes. Drift meets up with Optimus and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], and the three arrive at the crash site. The Autobots discover an object that Drift does not recognize, but its appearance horrifies Optimus. To make things worse, Lockdown's henchman have arrived first. After another fight, the Autobots walk to the edge of the crater, and Optimus reveals to Drift that it is the Dark Spark. Before it can be retrieved, Lockdown arrives and steals the artifact for himself. The Dark Spark's power prevents him from intervening, and all he can do is furiously watch as Lockdown departs in his ship for parts unknown.

===Chapter II: The Lost Vault===
:'' Characters: [[Soundwave (WFC)]]/ [[Shockwave (WFC)]]''
As Shockwave and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] fly through an ancient, abandoned Cybertronian city, Starscream complains of Megatron sending him on a fool's errand to find a mystical relic that may or may not exist. As this sparks a discussion between Shockwave and Starscream, Soundwave chimes in over the com link, demanding "less talk". As the three 'cons make their way through the city and into an ancient vault, they are met with heavy resistance from feral cybernetic life forms Shockwave has dubbed "[[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]]".
Upon destroying the Insecticons attacking them, Shockwave splits off from the group, hoping to find out more about the vault they are in and what is hidden in it. He never gets the chance, however, as he is attacked by, to his surprise, [[Sharpshot|three]] [[Kickback (FOC)|sentient]] [[Hardshell|insecticons]]. Inadvertently insulting them, (kind of) and incurring their wrath they all attack him, and are all soundly defeated.
As Soundwave and Starscream come upon more Insecticons, they go about opening up the vault further so that they can keep moving. Upon defeating the attacking Insecticons, Starscream is alarmed at the appearance of Hardshell, and begins shooting at him, only to be stopped by Shockwave, who reveals Hardshell, along with Kickback and Sharpshot, to be "new recruits" to the Decepticon cause. Sharpshot points the Decepticons in the direction of the Dark Spark before departing with the other Insecticons.
The Decepticons continue their trek further into the vault, they are met with resistance in the form of auto turrets and [[Crystal Guardian]]s as they deactivate the chamber to the Dark Spark. While doing so, Soundwave begins to notice Autobot energy signatures on his scanners, but Shockwave passes them off as glitches. Soon, the Decepticons arrive, triumphant, at the entrance to the chamber holding the Dark Spark.

===Chapter III: Getaway===
:'' Character: [[Sideswipe (WFC)]]''
Sideswipe and [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] have been tailing the aforementioned Decepticon trio through their whole trip to find the Dark Spark, and have arrived at the Dark Spark before the Decepticons. Ironhide, wishing to be long gone before they are found, takes the Dark Spark. As the Autobots are leaving, marveling at their luck, the Decepticons enter the chamber, and, enraged that the Autobots beat them to the Dark Spark, open fire. Ironhide and Sideswipe barely escape from the chamber as security measures cause it to close itself up, trapping the Decepticons inside. Starscream is enraged, but Shockwave bids him to calm down, as Soundwave had released [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] before they entered the chamber, and the small bird-bot would ensure they are not trapped for long.
Meanwhile, Sideswipe and Ironhide are running into resistance from the Insecticons, and Sideswipe must juggle keeping the Insecticons away from Ironhide and the Dark Spark, along with using his grappling hook to ''pull Ironhide'' up through the tunnel to the exit. As Sideswipe and Ironhide keep moving, they get separated when Sideswipe accidentally closes a blast door between himself and Ironhide. As Sideswipe fights off swarming Insecticons, Ironhide opens up another path for him to travel through, allowing them to meet up again.
As they reach the scheduled rendezvous point (some abandoned subway tunnels), Ironhide reports to [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Prime]] that they have the Dark Spark. They are greeted at the rendezvous point by Optimus himself and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]. As Optimus and the others fight off the swarming Insecticons, Sideswipe is ordered to get to the control panel for the subway and call a train. Sideswipe is successful, but the train, being revealed to be on a timer, leaves as quickly as it came, with only Bumblebee on board. Optimus declares that they will have to hold the line against the Insecticons until the next train arrives.
As the Autobots fend off the Decepticons, Starscream, having been freed by Laserbeak, arrives, triumphantly demanding that the Autobots surrender or face his wrath. The Insecticons proceed to swarm him. As Starscream is distracted by the Insecticons, the next train arrives, and the Autobots board, departing for Iacon. As the train leaves, Shockwave and Soundwave arrive, just in time for Starscream to finish off the Insecticons and berate them for not coming sooner and letting the Autobots get away. Shockwave simply looks at Starscream, then presses a switch on his arm, causing the train, which had been wired, to explode.

===Chapter IV: Possession===
:'' Character: [[Sharpshot]]''
Shockwave, believing Optimus Prime has the Dark Spark, hides in the rubble of the smoldering train. Sharpshot appears and informs Shockwave of the Dark Spark's real location, with Ironhide, and the two set off to get it. After a short firefight, Shockwave seizes the Dark Spark from a heavily damaged Ironhide and begins to head for [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]. The bridge is destroyed while he is on it, but he manages to escape before he falls. Sharpshot transforms into insect mode and covers him as he advances along the walkway, eventually barred by an energy barrier. Sharpshot destroys the energy barrier, allowing Shockwave to progress, only to be met by another one. After destroying the second barrier, Shockwave is met by a duo of [[Titan (FOC)|Titans]], which cause him to jump off the walkway. He lands in an ancient research laboratory, and, after inserting some [[moleculon fuse]]s, some history of the Dark Spark is revealed. When Sharpshot journeys down into the catacombs to activate the final switch, he is attacked by Crystal Guardians. Sharpshot returns to Shockwave, and the two exit the facility. Outside, they are found by [[Vortex (FOC)|Vortex]], who alerts the other [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticons]]. [[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]] and [[Swindle (FOC)|Swindle]] arrive soon after. Onslaught orders a reluctant Swindle to escort Shockwave and Sharpshot to Kaon.

===Chapter V: Hustle===
:'' Character: [[Swindle (FOC)]]''
While making their way towards Kaon, Swindle, Shockwave, and Sharpshot find themselves in a spacecraft boneyard. As Swindle activates some beacons in order to find a way through, the Decepticons are ambushed by a fleet of Autobot Flyers. Swindle manages to open up a hallway while an Autobot [[Dropship (WFC)|Dropship]] sends in reinforcements. The Decepticons destroy the Dropship in order to make some makeshift stairs and enter the hallway. While making their way through, Sharpshot senses something and abandons the group (much to Swindle's relief). Shortly afterwards, Swindle & Shockwave are ambushed by a squadron of Autobots led by [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. After defeating Cliffjumper and his forces, Swindle & Shockwave surround the Autobot before he activates his invisibility cloak and escapes. Swindle alerts Shockwave that they are nearly at the gates of Kaon and that the other Combaticons should meet up with them at the rendezvous point. Meanwhile, Cliffjumper reports to Optimus that he failed to stop the Decepticons, but Optimus reassures him that he bought them enough time to set their plan into motion.

===Chapter VI: Gates of Kaon===
:'' Characters: [[Swindle (FOC)]]/ [[Bruticus (WFC)]]''
As the Combaticons meet up at the gates of Kaon, they find themselves under attack by the Autobots. [[Blast Off (FOC)|Blast Off]] offers to deliver the Dark Spark via air, but Shockwave warns that should the Dark Spark fall from a great height, it would cause massive damage to the city. Onslaught orders Shockwave to stay behind while the Combaticons take care of the Autobots. Swindle is tasked with taking down the Enforcers so Blast Off can provide air support. After the Enforcers are destroyed, Shockwave requests some back-up from Swindle. After arguing with Swindle, Blast Off finally provides some air support after Shockwave angrily orders him to. Swindle & Shockwave soon find themselves blocked off by a barrier, and Swindle is forced to protect Shockwave while he hacks the force-field. Swindle meets up with Onslaught and helps him take down a Titan. Soon the rest of the Combaticons arrive and they combine into [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]]. Bruticus begins defeating wave after wave of Autobot soldiers. While Bruticus has his back turned, Cliffjumper tries to plant a bomb on his back. However, Bruticus finds out and smashes Cliffjumper against a wall. Holding Cliffjumper hostage, Shockwave orders the Autobots to ceasefire. [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] and his troops comply, but the Decepticons take Cliffjumper with them into Kaon anyway. Jazz alerts Optimus to their situation, with Optimus assuring that they'll rescue Cliffjumper and secure the Dark Spark.

===Chapter VII: Infiltration===
:'' Character: [[Optimus Prime (WFC)]]''
Optimus & Jazz begin their rescue mission by driving down a road towards [[Kolkular]], Megatron's fortress. Jazz asks Prime why they just can't leave the Dark Spark with Megatron, considering the Autobots are leaving Cybertron anyway. Optimus is worried however that Megatron may use the Dark Spark's power to destroy the [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]], which is still under construction. Optimus and Jazz manage to make their way into Kolkular by blowing out the vents. Jazz heads off to find a way through, leaving Optimus to fight off some Decepticon soldiers. Jazz finds himself trapped by some turrets, which Optimus manages to shut off. The two Autobots meet up and continue to fight their way through the Recycling Pits. After making their way through some defense grids, Jazz hacks into a terminal and finds out where Shockwave is keeping Cliffjumper. Jazz notices how easy their journey has been, and both he and Optimus agree that they're walking into a trap. On cue, Megatron treats the two with a warm Decepticon welcome, which naturally includes gunfire. Optimus and Jazz fight off Megatron's troops and find the prison cell that Cliffjumper is being held captive. Optimus provides cover for Jazz using a turret while he breaks Cliffjumper out. As Optimus and Jazz check up on Cliffjumper, walls begin to surround the cell, trapping all three Autobots. Optimus contacts [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] and orders him to commence Operation Longshot.

===Chapter VIII: A Desperate Plan===
:'' Character: [[Jetfire (WFC)]]''
Perceptor relays the details of Operation Longshot to Jetfire, namely how Jetfire's mission is to infiltrate the smoldering remains of [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]. Perceptor has reprogrammed a Decepticon maintenance probe to map out Trypticon's interior, which would have changed since Jetfire's last visit. Once inside, Jetfire finds that some of Trypticon's systems are still online, but these are automatic functions and not a sign of Trypticon's consciousness. However, Jetfire notices some new gear inside Trypticon and he is attacked by some Decepticon soldiers. Jetfire discovers that Starscream is salvaging some Energon from Trypticon without Megatron's permission. Jetfire continues on his way towards the cargo bay, but he catches the attention of some turrets, alerting Starscream to his presence. Jetfire soon arrives at the weapon chamber, and he is tasked with reactivating Trypticon's weapon system. Perceptor activates Trypticon's orbital strike, giving Jetfire barely enough time to escape. Starscream is enraged that all his Energon has gone to waste and vows revenge against Jetfire. The energy beam fired from Trypticon soon reaches its target: Kolkular. Things go according to plan, as Optimus, Jazz, and Cliffjumper are freed due to the damage to the fortress and the three begin their escape.

===Chapter IX: Ascension===
:'' Character: [[Optimus Prime (WFC)]]''
During the Autobot's prison break, Cliffjumper recalls Shockwave bringing up his experiments with the Dark Spark and how Cliffjumper "wouldn't have to be an Autobot much longer". Optimus orders Jazz to get Cliffjumper to safety, while he'll go after Megatron and the Dark Spark alone. Jazz & Cliffjumper are reluctant, but comply. Optimus is soon suppressed by turret fire, but he manages to destroy the turrets power source. Optimus accesses a computer terminal to discover where Megatron's location is, and also locks the doors behind him to prevent any counter-strike against him. After fighting through more Decepticon troops, Optimus enters a room that contains some fallen Autobot soldiers. Megatron and Shockwave observe from a distance and decide to use Optimus for an experiment. Using [[Dark Energon]], Shockwave [[Terrorcon (Prime)|resurrects]] the Autobots, now pledging their allegiance to Megatron. Megatron, now using the Dark Spark to increase his power, joins his new troops in their fight against Optimus. Whenever Megatron begins to recharge the Dark Spark, Optimus starts destroying the charging towers. In a last ditch effort, Optimus and Megatron begin to unleash the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and the Dark Spark, respectively. Eventually, the power of the Matrix overpowers the Dark Spark, causing it to eject itself out of Megatron and launch itself into space. Shockwave begins to drag Megatron away, having sustained serious injuries. Jazz contacts Optimus to ask him about his condition. Optimus informs him that the Dark Spark has been neutralized and the Autobots should now focus their attention on finishing the Ark. Optimus does express his concerns however, that the Dark Spark may eventually cause havoc [[Live-action film series|elsewhere]]...

===Chapter X: Hunted ===
:'' Character: [[Bumblebee (Movie)]] ''
Across time and space, Lockdown is contemplating how fortunate it was for him to find the Dark Spark. Bumblebee and Drift have been busy tracking [[Knight Ship|Lockdown's ship]] and report to Optimus that he may be heading towards an abandoned military base. Bumblebee asks (well, more like beeps) Optimus if their back-up is ready, but Optimus tells him to be patient. After ending their transmission, the two Autobots are attacked by snipers. The duo manage to flank the snipers, and Bumblebee provides cover for Drift as he makes his way down the cliffs. The two eventually make it to base, which is swarming with mercenaries. Drift attempts a stealth attack against Lockdown, but he is quickly spotted and taken down. Lockdown then orders his men to find Bumblebee, knowing that Autobots rarely travel alone.

===Chapter XI: Investigation ===
:'' Characters: [[Bumblebee (Movie)]]/ [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] ''
Bumblebee continues to fight his way through Lockdown's men while looking for Drift. The mercenaries have jammed the Autobot's radio signals, leaving them unable to communicate with Optimus. Bumblebee eventually finds Drift being interrogated by Lockdown. Lockdown mocks Drift for his shift in allegiance and leaves him to get roughed up by the mercenaries. Bumblebee takes this opportunity to snipe one of the henchmen, allowing Drift to escape. While fighting wave after wave of Lockdown's henchmen, Drift overhears Lockdown assuring he'll keep the Autobots distracted. Lockdown unveils [[Combaticon Warrior|his new Titan mercenary]], which is impervious to the Autobot's weapons. This forces Drift and Bumblebee to flee.

===Chapter XII: Ambushed===
:''Characters: [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]]/ [[Grimlock (AOE)]]''
Drift and Bumblebee make their way outside while more mercenaries try to take them out. Just when it seems like there's no hope left for the two, Grimlock, one of the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobots]], comes to their rescue. After Grimlock easily dispatches the mercenaries, the Titan mercenary finally arrives. Grimlock smacktalks the Titan before rendering it "extinct". Lockdown takes this opportunity to escape, much to Grimlock's anger.

===Chapter XIII: Extinction===
:'' Character: [[Grimlock (AOE)]]''
Lockdown and his men enter their base located in the middle of a city. Upon hearing that the Autobots have entered the city, Lockdown orders the mercenaries to keep them occupied. Grimlock and Optimus make their way through a blockade on a bridge. Afterwards, Optimus heads off to meet up with Drift and Bumblebee, and Grimlock has to continue alone. As Grimlock rampages his way through, Optimus detects Energon surges coming from within the city. The Autobots reach the entrance to Lockdown's hide out and Grimlock is tasked with destroying the transmitters that allow Lockdown to communicate with his troops. Grimlock then meets up with the rest of the Autobots and provides cover for Optimus as he tries to get the entrance to open. Optimus succeeds, and he and Bumblebee enter Lockdown's lair.

===Chapter XIII: Locked Down===
:'' Character: [[Optimus Prime (Movie)]]''
Optimus and Bumblebee make their way underground, while Drift and Grimlock guard the entrance. Optimus and Bumblebee fight Lockdown's mercenaries as they make their way through the base. Drift meets up with the two and assures them that Grimlock has everything under control. The three Autobots soon confront Lockdown and discover that he has built himself a time bridge. Since the Autobots failed to prevent him from recovering an amplifier that was located in the jungle, Lockdown is free to go back in time and save the Decepticons that were in the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Battle for Chicago]]. After destroying the energy stabilizers for the time bridge, Lockdown begins to monologue about how well-paid he was during the war and that after [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron's]] death, things haven't been the same. Lockdown intends to bring the Decepticons into the present and continue the war anew. Lockdown intends his first job to deliver Optimus to Megatron. Optimus is disgusted by Lockdown's plan and tries to fight the bounty hunter. Lockdown is impervious to Optimus' weapons thanks to the Dark Spark and Optimus has to resort to melee attacks in order to damage him. Eventually, the two begin to grapple with each other and Optimus tosses Lockdown towards Drift, who cuts the Dark Spark out of Lockdown's chest. Optimus then uses the Matrix to toss the Dark Spark into the time bridge. The time bridge becomes too unstable, and the Autobots make their escape. His plans ruined, Lockdown flees from the Autobots in his ship.

Meanwhile, the Dark Spark finally lands in the middle of a desert. Watching over this, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|a familiar face]] expresses horror that the day has finally come...

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=Movie Autobots
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] ([[Chris Jai Alex]])
*[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]] ([[Gregg Berger]])

|h2=Mercenaries
|c2=
*[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] (Gregg Berger)
*[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]] (via [[Walmart]] pre-order/DLC)

|h3=Aligned Autobots
|c3=
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (Peter Cullen)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]]
*[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] ([[Troy Baker]])
*[[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] (Troy Baker)
*[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] ([[Travis Willingham]])
*[[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] ([[Nolan North]])
*[[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] ([[Keith Szarabajka]])
*[[Hound (Prime)|Hound]]
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]
*[[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]]
*[[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]]
*[[Scattershot (WFC)|Scattershot]]
*[[Snarl (FOC)|Snarl]]
*[[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] ([[Jim Ward]])
*[[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]]
*[[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]
*[[Slug (FOC)|Slug]]
*[[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]]
|h4=Decepticons
|c4=
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] ([[Fred Tatasciore]])
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] ([[Sam Riegel]])
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] ([[Steve Blum]])
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] ([[Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.]])
*[[Swindle (FOC)|Swindle]] (Steve Blum)
*[[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]]
*[[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]] (Travis Willingham)
*[[Blast Off (FOC)|Blast Off]] ([[Keith Silverstein]])
*[[Vortex (FOC)|Vortex]] ([[Dave Boat]])
*[[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]] (Nolan North)
*[[Kickback (FOC)|Kickback]] (Troy Baker)
*[[Sharpshot]] (Steve Blum)
*[[Hardshell]] ([[Scott Whyte]])
*[[Quake (FOC)|Quake]]
*[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]
*[[Dead End (WFC)|Dead End]]
*[[Dragstrip (WFC)|Dragstrip]]
*[[Demolishor (WFC)|Demolishor]]
*[[Thundercracker (WFC)|Thundercracker]] (via Gamestop pre-order/DLC)
*[[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]] (via Gamestop pre-order/DLC)
|h5=Other
|c5=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]] (Peter Cullen)
'''Non-Player'''
'''Mercenaries'''
*[[Shadow Raider|Mercenaries]]
*[[Combaticon Warrior|Behemoth]]
'''Autobots'''
*[[Heavy Soldier]]
*[[Crystal Guardian]]
'''Decepticons'''
*[[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]]
*[[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]]
*[[Leaper]]
*[[Insecticon Swarmer]]
*[[Insecticon Bruiser]]
*[[Insecticon Spitter]]
'''Other'''
*[[Soldier (unit)|Soldiers]]*
*[[Rocket Soldier]]s*
*[[Shotgunner]]s*
*[[Flier (WFC)|Fliers]]*
*[[Sharpshooter]]s
*[[Marauder (FOC)|Marauder]]
*[[Wall Crawler]]
*[[Titan (FOC)|Titan]]
|nonumbering=true
}}

==Quotes==
'''Starscream:''' "Soundwave, did Shockwave make a ''joke'' back there? 
'''Soundwave:''' "AFFIRMATIVE." 
'''Starscream:''' "Was it intentional? 
'''Soundwave:''' "AFFIRMATIVE." 
'''Starscream:''' "You know, Soundwave, you've become quite the conversationalist." 
'''Soundwave:''' "AFFIRMATIVE."
:-'''Starscream''' and '''Soundwave''' discuss Shockwave's brief moment of humor.

'''Starscream:''' "A pity, then, that ''we'' are only ''three''." 
'''Soundwave:''' "LASERBEAK: EJECT." 
'''Starscream:''' "My mistake. ''Three and a half''."
:-'''Starscream''' does not think much of '''Soundwave's''' minions.

''[A failed headshot prompts the [[Combaticon Warrior|Mercenary Titan]] to turn towards Bee and Drift]'' 
'''Bumblebee:''' ''[Surprised beeps]'' 
'''Drift''': Bee, I have formed a plan: '''Run!'''
:-'''Drift''', coming up with brilliant impromptu plans.

'''Swindle:''' "No sign of the bug ''[Sharpshot]''. Oh well, can't say I'm sad to see him go." 
'''Shockwave:''' "Are you implying that you two were not forming a ''long and lasting bond of friendship''?" 
''' Swindle:''' "You can't be serious?"
:-'''Shockwave''' discusses with Swindle about his <s> slash fic </s> observations of the two.

''' Jetfire:''' "I used to be ''stationed'' on [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]], remember? I can find my way." 
''' Perceptor:''' "Your knowledge is based on the ''erroneous'' notion that Trypticon's layout was not altered during his conversion from space station to ''smoldering wreck''." 
'''Jetfire:''' "Point taken... Well, lead the way, little buddy."
:-'''Jetfire''' and '''Perceptor'''

"The only future to master is one's own. The [[fandom|humans]] understand this. Yet they also understand that [[The Transformers (franchise)|the past]] is the genesis of all things, and must be [[GEEWUN|afforded proper deference]]."
:-'''Movie Optimus Prime''' is willing to segue into a Generation One epilogue...but he's going to be meta about it.

==Trophy/Achievement list==
When completing various goals and tasks during the game, the player will be rewarded as part of their console of choice's meta-goal system. Players can earn up to 51 Trophies on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, and 50 Achievements on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The PlayStation versions' trophies come in four types: Bronze, which represent easier tasks and are worth the least experience; Silver, which are awarded for challenges of mid-level difficulty; Gold, which are given for harder tasks and worth more experience; and Platinum, the highest-level trophy unlocked only after earning all of a game's other trophies. On the Xbox versions, each achievement has a Gamerscore value that adds to the player's total Gamerscore across all games played; up to 1000 Gamerscore can be earned in ''Rise of the Dark Spark''. These achievements can also be earned in the PC version as part of the Steam interface, but lack the individual values and weights from the console versions.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
! Achievement/Trophy name
! Achievement/Trophy description
! Gamerscore
! PS Trophy
|-
| Til All Are One!
| Earned All Trophies.
|
| {{PS Platinum}}
|-
| Aligned
| Chose your allegiance.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
| Peace through tyranny
| Defeated 250 Autobots.
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
| It Was An Honor
| Defeated 250 Decepticons and mercenaries.
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Short Circuit
|Reached Level 5.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Perfect
|Reached Level 10.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|You Got The Touch
|Reached Level 25.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Covenant of Primus
|Activated Prime Mode.
| 50 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Gold}}
|-
|It’s The Thought That Counts
|Opened 3 Gear Boxes.
| 5 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Tough
|Made it through Wave 5 in Escalation.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Double Tough
|Made it through Wave 10 in Escalation.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Double Tough Hard
|Made it through Wave 15 in Escalation.
| 50 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Gold}}
|-
|Hmm, Upgrades
|Upgraded an installation to max level in Escalation.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|You Get Nothing, Good Day Sir
|Slowed down the reverse engineering project.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Make Peace, Not War
|Destroyed Lockdown's Weapon Caches.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Somebody's Watching Me
|Found all the Stalker's Observations.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|Make It Rain
|Discovered the fate of the Entrepreneur.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|Spoils of War
|Listened to all the Veteran's laments.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|Snitches Get Stitches
|As Drift, destroyed all the Anti-Alien Propaganda Billboards.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|My Blade Has Tasted Better
|As Drift, defeated 25 enemies with the Blade Dash ability.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Spectacularly Amazing!
|As Sideswipe, got through the whole chasm using less than 6 grapples.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Softly Softly Catchee Monkey
|As Swindle, defeated Cliffjumper without causing any collateral damage.
| 20 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|No One Gets Outta Here Alive!
|Destroyed everything outside the Gates of Kaon.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|What Could Go Wrong?
|As Optimus, completed the rescue of Cliffjumper without using the turret.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|I'd Like To Leave Here Please
|As Jetfire, escaped the ruins of Trypticon without taking any damage from the laser gates.
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Sting like a . . .
|As Bumblebee, defeated a sniper with a melee attack.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Tread Lightly
|As Grimlock, prevented Optimus from falling below 50% health while defending him.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Give Me The News Doc
|Healed 50000 health points amongst you and your allies.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Need ... Oil ... Can
|Defeated 75 enemies that are slowed.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Bleeding Edge
|Completed the game with a HACK active.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Of Merit and Distinction
|Earned 250 Combat Distinctions.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Challenge Accepted
|Completed 50 Challenges.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|Blasters! Blasters! Blasters!
|Unlocked every weapon.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|This Weapon of Iron & Wood
|Fully upgraded a primary weapon.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|VROOM-pire!
|Defeated 50 enemies by siphoning their health away with the Energon Harvester.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Y U Heff 2 B Mad?
|Used the V32.Cybr Corrupt@r on a Power Foe and have them defeat an enemy.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|Shadow Company
|Defeated 25 enemies after using the Cloak ability.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Thumbs Up Soldier!
|Defeated 35 enemies using throwback damage from the Kinetic Capacitor Shield ability.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Marked For Destruction
|Defeated 50 enemies marked with E.D.U.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Turret Buddy
|Defeated 25 enemies with your Battle Sentry.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|healing.exe
|Repaired 5000 points of damage with your Repair Sentry.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Quartermaster
|Resupplied 250 times with the Ammo Supply Core.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Totally OP
|Defeated 100 enemies with the Riot Cannon.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|I Hope You Have Insurance
|Healed 15000 health points with your Heal Beam.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Scrapped
|Used Explosive Path to defeat 35 enemies.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Tormenta
|Used Thunder Blast to earn 35 multi kills.
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Loadsa Money
|Earned 25000 Energon Shards.
| 20 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|What Does This Do?
|Used 50 T.E.C.H.
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|It's Not A Sprint
|Drove or Flew 26 miles (42km) in vehicle mode.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Full Metal Jacket
|Reloaded 1000 times.
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|Welcome to Earth!
|Defeated Lockdown.
| 50 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Gold}}
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==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*The Cybertron portion of the game occurs between ''War for Cybertron'' and ''Fall of Cybertron'' – the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' is under construction, [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] still lies where he crashed, and we see Shockwave discover the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] for the first time. However, there are two notable inconsistencies – see 'Errors' below.
*The ''Age of Extinction'' story, meanwhile, is utterly irreconcilable with the events of the film – the Autobots have an existing alliance with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobots]], and Optimus Prime and Bumblebee sport the new bodies they acquire during the film, yet Lockdown is perfectly alive and Prime is active on Earth. Stinger's brief cameo as a mercenary is similarly impossible to reconcile (although KSI could have plagiarized Stinger's model.)
*[[Source:Rise of the Dark Spark audio logs|Audio logs]] speak of the [[Patterner]]s and [[Galvatron (COP)|Galvatron]] indicating that studies of the [[Dark Spark]] took place during the Age of Origins in ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus]]''.
*Starscream sarcastically makes note of how Soundwave is becoming a "conversationalist", likely alluding to the vow of silence he takes and employs during the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|''Prime'']] cartoon.
*For the first time in the "Aligned" games, Shockwave and Megatron use [[Dark Energon]] to revive dead Autobots and turn them into [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]] (though not named as such within the game), as we would later see in ''Prime''. It is also first alluded that Dark Energon has a connection to Unicron.
*Like his [[Drift (G1)|namesake]], [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] was once a Decepticon before switching allegiance to join the Autobots, as noted by [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] when the former was held captive. Whether this background also applies to the film is unknown, given the above differences in the continuity.
*In chapter one, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] refers to a line: "The humans never asked for our war", which was previously heard in the previous game, [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]], during an attack on [[Detroit|Detroit]].

===Transformers references===
*In the first level of the game, there's a billboard that reads "Vote Berger for Mayor", an obvious reference to the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]] character [[Shawn Berger]], who expressed such mayoral desires in the two-part episode "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1|Megatron's Master Plan]]".
*Shockwave quotes his motto from his toy's [[bio]], "Clarity of thought before rashness of action".
*Ironhide and Sideswipe both paraphrase Ironhide's motto from his original bio, "High-tech circuitry is no replacement for guts".
*Blast Off quotes his motto from his original bio, "I destroy Autobots by choice, not command".
*Swindle mentions Starscream freeing the Combaticons from the Decepticon brig, a reference to the origin of the Combaticons in the G1 cartoon episode "[[Starscream's Brigade]]".

===Errors===
*Despite the game's script clearly positioning it before the events of ''Fall of Cybertron'', and the main menu background depicting him in his ''War for Cybertron'' body, Megatron is depicted in the new body he acquired only part-way through that game.
*Ironhide and Sideswipe encounter an Insecticon Bruiser, despite ''Fall of Cybertron'' having established them as a creation of Shockwave.
*The live-action film universe Matrix of Leadership uses the model from the Aligned games, rather than the very different Matrix design first seen in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''.
*Lockdown's model has a Decepticon insignia and is undersized.
*During the fourth chapter, Shockwave plummets off a ledge and crashes through a ceiling while carrying the Dark Spark, to no ill effect. Two chapters later, Shockwave conversely claims that that Dark Spark falling from height could cause ''citywide'' damage.
*If the player hits an allied character, they react physically, but the accompanying sound effects present in previous games in the series are missing.
*As Stinger and Bumblebee are both redecoes of each others, while Bumblebee's head uses the unmasked head, Stinger on the other hand uses the masked & unmasked head at the same time: if you zoom closely you'll notice it & by clipping in game, you'll see Bumblebee's unmasked head (with purple eyes).
*The entirety of Chapter 8 contradicts a '''LOT''' of things.
**The remains of Trypticon are apparently in Decepticon hands, unlike in ''Fall of Cybertron'', where his remains are in Autobot hands.
**Trypticon looks really different than from his ''War for Cybertron'' appearance. His head looks more dinosaur-like and his color scheme is completely different.
**Apparently, Jetfire and Perceptor take ALL of the Energon remaining in Trypticon, along with the other amount Starscream needed for something, despite the '''BIG''' fact that the AUTOBOTS were USING Trypticon for the ARK, which would get them OFF of Cybertron in ''Fall of Cybertron.'' Does that make Jetfire AND Perceptor war criminals? <s> This game is a poorly written and buggy mess. </s>

===Trivia===
*''Rise of the Dark Spark'' is one of only two Activision-published ''Transformers'' games, alongside ''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game]]'', to be released in Japan, albeit only on PS4 and PS3.
*''Rise of the Dark Spark'' marks a [[PlayStation]] 4 milestone by being the first game to support the PlayStation Store pre-loading feature introduced in the console's 1.70 update.<ref>[http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/06/18/pre-order-pre-load-upcoming-ps4-games/ PlayStation Blog: Pre-Order, Pre-Load Upcoming PS4 Games]</ref>
*The game reuses a large portion of existing game assets from ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]]'', such as character models, environmental textures, animation cycles, control sequences and weapons. In contrast, the majority of assets freshly created to represent the AOE scenarios do not match the quality of the re-used assets, and even go as far as to reskin a number of them.
**The Crystal Guardians the Decepticons face in chapter 2 are all [[generic]]s with the [[body-type]] of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]].
**Grimlock's AOE iteration in the game is a complete reskin of his depiction from ''Fall of Cybertron'', meaning he retains all his animations and attacks from that game, despite using a mace rather than a sword. This does not stop him from somehow stabbing enemies with the aforementioned mace, and also results in an unusual transformation, with Grimlock's parts flipping around randomly before suddenly swapping models from T-Rex to Robot mode. Because of him reusing animations, his body parts clip in his body when they move.
*Just to give you a quick rundown on ''how'' much this game does and doesn't reuse from the last 3 games:
**All of the audio of this game is reused from other games, save for the dialogue and some voice clips. The main menu music is new, but it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfOLp5NpcI doesn't even come from the actual game!]
**The Mercenaries you fight in the Earth levels consist of [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)| ''Revenge of the Fallen'' game]] & [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|''Dark of the Moon'' game]] character models. The common [[Shadow Raider|Mercenary]] Solders reuse Autobot solder models from the DotM game (which were modeled after the [[:File:DOTM Ark crew.jpg|Ark's crew]]). Rocket-troopers, Shotgunners and Titans reuse the [[Combaticon Scout]]s, any [[Seeker (Movie)|generic Seeker]]s and [[Combaticon Warrior]]s models from RotF respectively. Leapers are tweaked Combaticons Warriors too with [[Dino|Mirage]]'s blades and at last but not least, the Wall Crawlers are reskins with added bits of their Decepticons counterparts from ''Fall of Cybertron''.
**The level models for Campaign and the Earth levels for Escalation are all new, though some designs are reused from ''War for Cybertron'' and ''Fall of Cybertron''. The returning ''War for Cybertron'' Escalation maps have been completely remade, almost looking better than their original counterparts. The ''Fall of Cybertron'' Escalation maps are completely reused.
**Earth Bumblebee uses his DotM vehicle mode, retextured to look like the 2014 Camaro vehicle he scans in ''Age of Extinction''. Stinger's vehicle mode uses Mirage's vehicle mode from the ''Dark of the Moon'' game, once again, retextured to look like his vehicle mode in ''Age of Extinction''.
[[File:RiseOfTheDarkSpark Barricade render.jpg|thumb|Guess who's still not back?]]
*During Escalation, Earth characters are noticeably bigger than Cybertron characters with Earth Optimus hilariously towering over Warpath.
*This game marks the first time Shockwave and Sharpshot are playable in a Story mode, as well as the first instance of Hardshell speaking.
*The relationship between Bumblebee and Drift is much more friendly than in the movie. Lockdown also is very different. In the game, greed and personal power seems to be his primary motivation, while in the movie Lockdown simply wanted fair payment for his services as he talks about how inferior humans are and how he thinks extremely highly of his creators.
*[[Steve Blum]] really gets his work cut out for him, since he gets more than an entire level dedicated to his three characters, Swindle, Sharpshot, and Shockwave. [[Scott McNeil]] would be proud!
*In the game's files, there are unused models, textures, and a character portrait of Barricade, possibly meaning that he was at one point going to be in the game, but scrapped <s> again </s> for whatever reason. You can mod the game to play as him, but modding this game is stupid difficult.

===Foreign names===
*''Europe:'' '''''Transformers: The Dark Spark'''''
*''Russia:'' '''Трансформеры: Битва за Тёмную Искру''' (''Transformers: Battle for the Dark Spark'')

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-lD5gthQ8 Announcement trailer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMfLEbUqGyQ G1 Optimus Prime trailer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azQrLC07OI Bumblebee trailer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT6KeuEGi0 Gameplay trailer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bae87EGy-1E Bruticus trailer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMZn4uBsOAY Grimlock trailer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=288YItFXPfI Gampelay trailer - Escalation]

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Brute (WFC)

2025-03-17T17:55:35Z

AzureNight:

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{{disambig2|the fighters from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]] video game|the power-up mode for some Autobots in ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]''|brute mode}}
[[Image:WFC Brute vs Autobots.jpg|thumb|right|350px|THE PACK WILL FEAST ON YOU!]]
:''Brutes are a body-type from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

Large and in charge, '''Brutes''' are the heavy melee hitters in the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]].

==Games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{voiceactor|[[Patrick Seitz]] (English, Autobot versions), [[Richard Epcar]] (English, Decepticon versions)|[[Thierry Mercier]] (French, Autobot versions), [[Bernard Métraux]] (French, Decepticon versions)}}

Found in both the [[Autobot]] and [[Decepticon]] armies, Brutes walk around wielding large [[Hammer (weapon)|hammers]] and shields, making frontal assault not only difficult, but near suicidal. They are capable of generating disruptive shockwaves as well, meaning opponents aren't safe even at a distance. Against flyers like [[Starscream (WFC) |Starscream]] or [[Silverbolt (WFC) |Silverbolt]], Brutes can fire missiles to swat them from the sky. The Brutes' only weak point is on their back, a power pack which is vulnerable to impact or firepower and will explode if hit enough. It's just a matter of surviving long enough to hit their backs. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

==Notes==
[[File:Tfwfc Holo Brute.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
* During the [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]] boss battle, he summons holographic versions of himself. These holograms appear in Decepticon Escalation, titled [[Holo-Brute]]s, and share the same model as Autobot Brutes.

===Foreign names===
*''Polish:'' '''Brutal'''
*''Russian:'' '''Gromila''' (Громила, "Thug")

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Aligned timeline

2025-01-04T23:07:49Z

AzureNight:

[[File:AlignedTimeline-Montage.jpg|thumb|right|upright=3.5|If you squint hard enough, they're all the same [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]].]]

The '''timeline of the [[Aligned continuity family]]''' has its roots in the so-called "[[Binder of Revelation]]", a brand bible assembled by [[Hasbro]] with the aim of drawing from the very best of previous ''Transformers'' fiction. This document lays out much of the backstory and important concepts for this new "Aligned" universe, and as such, the fiction derived from the Binder can in theory be assembled to paint a broader picture of the history of this world.

In actuality, the leeway with the source material afforded to licensees by Hasbro, in the name of good storytelling, means that certain details fail to match up between separate pieces of fiction. Indeed, Hasbro has stated that they merely expect fiction to match up under a "squint test"<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2011-hasbro-story-building-panel-172316/ BotCon 2011 Hasbro story building panel]</ref> – so long as the main bullet-points pass inspection, some contradiction in specific details is not a concern. Consequently, this timeline follows the same approach: when a discrepancy arises, the relevant events are related in terms general enough that the inconsistencies can be ignored.

{{bigquote|Cybertron, our home. For generations, it has been a peaceful world. Until pride and a lust for power divided us. Now we fight - enemies who were once our brothers.|Optimus Prime|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}
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==[[Expulsion of Unicron]]==
[[File:OneShallRise1-Unicronsilhouette.jpg|thumb|left|I'm covered in purple lighting, so you know I'm the bad guy.]]

A single omnipotent being of unknown origin travels the galaxy, discovering life along the way. With no other creatures equaling its power, the being begins to converse with itself, and in time two unique personas form. The first is [[Primus]], a reassuring presence that accepts the universe at is; the second is [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]], who discovers and seeks to correct perceived flaws in the order of the universe. The two personas grow increasingly divergent from one another and begin to argue. In time, the being splits physically, creating two separate bodies for each half of its warring psyche. Unicron grows increasingly rapacious and destructive, while Primus grows increasingly withdrawn. Eventually, Primus takes up arms to stop Unicron from devouring the galaxy. This struggle lasts for eons, with neither side able to gain an advantage over the other. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

[[File:OneShallRise1-TheThirteen.jpg|thumb|upright=2.8|Solus, Unicron has escaped! Recruit a team of Cybertronians with attitude!]]
To try and turn the tide, Primus creates the [[Thirteen]], each given a unique role, nature, and artifact of power to aid the struggle. In order of their creation, they are [[Prima]], [[Vector Prime]], [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]], [[Solus Prime]], [[Micronus Prime]], [[Alchemist Prime]], [[Nexus Prime]], [[Onyx Prime]], [[Amalgamous Prime]], [[Quintus Prime]], [[Liege Maximo]], [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|the Thirteenth Prime]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

The newly created Primes begin training and strategizing for the upcoming conflict. Solus Prime, the artificer of the Thirteen, creates many [[Artifacts of the Primes|weapons and icons of power]] for them to use. At the urging of Megatronus, she creates a [[Requiem Blaster (Megatronus)|great weapon]] to fight Unicron, although Solus herself worries that this power could corrupt them. The Thirteen vote seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} Ultimately, the Primes defeat Unicron, and the Chaos Bringer's inert form drifts off into space, where it later forms the core of [[Earth]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} His fossilized blood, spilled in this conflict, becomes known as [[Dark Energon]]. Following the defeat of Unicron, Primus becomes one with the [[Core]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], where he gives life to future [[Transformer]]s through the [[AllSpark]], within the [[Well of All Sparks]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} Although the Primes stand triumphant, Unicron's influences has tainted all of them with a touch of darkness. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

==The [[Age of Primes]]==
[[File:CoP war of the primes.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder'']]
After a period of peaceful building and construction, tensions between the Primes slowly grow. Secretly manipulated by Liege Maximo, Megatronus kills Solus Prime, causing the first schism in the Primes. After Megatronus is defeated, the Liege Maximo makes his own play for power, but is defeated in the process. After this great battle, Nexus Prime fragments himself into five robots, each one carrying and guarding a fragment of the [[Cyber Caliber]]. His components are dubbed [[Clocker (Prime)|Clocker]], [[Mainspring]], [[Chaindrive]], [[Cannonspring]], and [[Pinion]]. The fight has lasting repercussions for the Thirteen—Megatronus, now "The Fallen", and the Liege have left the Primes for good, the once idealistic Vector Prime despairs and seals himself away in a pocket dimension, and Solus Prime is dead. Onyx Prime, Micronus Prime, and the Thirteenth Prime willingly enter the Well of All Sparks and sacrifice their lives in order to jump-start its creative processes, with the intent of creating a new race to inhabit the world.

[[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] and [[Alchemist Prime]] vow to remain on Cybertron and nurture this new civilization. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} [[Quintus Prime]] travels into deep space with his [[Emberstone]], with the intention of creating new races that will ally with future Cybertronian civilizations. Meanwhile, far out in space, the forgotten Requiem Blaster gradually accrues a collection of space junk around it. As its gravitational pull increases, more and more drifting shipwrecks and space junk gather around it, eventually forming an artificial planetoid. This artificial planet will later become known as [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Sealed away in a parallel dimension, the Fallen swears revenge for his humiliation and exile. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}}

==The [[Age of Evolution]]==
[[File:COP-Predaking.jpg|thumb|right|200px|If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously... life, uh... finds a way.]]
The three Primes that entered the Well activate the AllSpark, which in turns emits a great burst of energy. From this beam of energy comes a wide variety of mechanical life, including precursors to modern Cybertronians. Among them is a robot named Orion Pax; in reality, he is the Thirteenth Prime reborn in a humbler shape, unaware of his origins or true heritage.
On the last stellar cycle, the Allspark's largest and most powerful creations of all, the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]]s emerge. [[Predaking (COP)|Predaking]], their leader, is the first of their kind, followed by [[Lazerback (COP)|Lazerback]] and [[Twinstrike (COP)|Twinstrike]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}} Many more follow, and some of them come into conflict with humanoid Cybertronians.

Cybertron's fledgling ecosystems continue to grow and prosper for many thousands of years. Eventually, however, a passing {{w|red giant}} star interferes with Cybertron's own sun, causing meteor strikes and solar flares. While many humanoid Transformers take shelter underground in [[stasis lock]], the Predacons remain unshielded on the surface. They do not survive, though they leave behind a multitude of fossils containing extractable [[CNA]]. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

==The [[Age of Origins]]==
The surviving Cybertronians are quick to rebuild their wounded world. In the era that follows, many small settlements and villages form as protection from marauding warlords and barbarian armies. One such settlement, known as [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], becomes home to an influential group known as the [[Patterner]]s. Composed of survivors from the Great Cataclysm, this group of rationalists and philosophers rallies under the leadership of [[Azimuth (COP)|Azimuth]]. Their quest for knowledge leads them to study the movements and patterns of the stars, and eventually carve great geometric symbols into the face of Cybertron. Their movement eventually spawns many splinter groups and counter-cults, such as the cult of [[Random]] led by [[Galvatron (COP)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

At some point during this time, the [[Dark Spark]] is discovered and studied by the Patterners and [[Disciples of the Thirteen]], with some debate as to its origins. After witnessing its dark power, the [[Crystal Guardian]]s decided that it was too powerful for study to be allowed to continue, and locked it away in vaults deep beneath [[Crystal City|their city]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

Eventually, the [[Quintesson]]s - creations of Quintus Prime - discover the world of Cybertron. Remotely observing the world by a system of probes secretly inserted into Cybertronians, the aliens begin preparing to invade the world, secretly intending to turn Cybertronians into mindless workers and selling them into slavery.

==The [[Age of Wrath]]==
[[File:COP-coldwelderandratchet.jpg|thumb|left|200px|It's true! [[Quintesson|They]] had eyes... They're glowing and then tentacles! And maps with planets with X's through them!]]
A young [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] discovers a Quintesson probe inside the worker [[Coldwelder]]. Not long afterwards, the first Quintesson ships descend from the sky in a grand arrival, setting themselves up as benevolent emissaries sent to "uplift" Cybertron into the galactic community. They win the public support of Cybertronians by "teaching" them how to transform - in reality, they are simply activating the dormant [[transformation cog]]s in the bodies of all Transformers.

Buoyed by popular opinion, the Quintessons soon establish a globalized puppet government ruled by [[Sentinel Zeta Prime]] and a [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] of thirteen Transformers. Under Quintesson guidance, Cybertronians rapidly develop both public and private infrastructure, and eventually master spaceflight and dimensional travel. Before long, however, cracks begin to show in their benign façade. The Quintessons establish a new [[Supreme Court]] in line with their twisted ideals of justice, while other Quintessons siphon off the fruit of Cybertron's labour for their own ends. Some Transformers are even modified to serve as transportation for their rulers, such as installing cockpits on the bodies of the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. The Quintesson occupation has a negative effect on the Well itself; Cybertronians begin emerging from the Allspark without names or personalities. One such Transformer is the newly born [[Megatron (WFC)|D-16]], who is assigned a position in Cybertron's mines.

When a resistance movement finally exposes the many lies of the Quintessons, they are overthrown and routed from the system in a war effort headed by Sentinel Prime himself, the [[Elite Guard]], and the aforementioned resistance. D-16 is one of the many working-class Cybertronians called to arms. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}} With new [[space bridge]]s engineered from the Quintesson's half-completed projects, Cybertron enters its [[Golden Age]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

==The [[Golden Age]]==
[[File:SentinelLightsNewWellinArchon-COP.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Let the Olympic Games commence!]]
The Golden Age brings sweeping changes to Cybertronian social structure and hierarchy. Sentinel Prime takes full control over the ex-Quintesson bureauccracy with the support of the High Council. The Well of All Sparks brings forth many new sparks, many of which are eventually harnessed as part of Cybertron's colonization efforts. Under Sentinel's rule, the new [[space bridge]] network allows trailblazing Cybertronians to colonize more than two hundred faraway planets, including [[Archon]], [[Neutronia]], [[Gigantion]], [[Velocitron]], [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], [[Aquatron]], and the [[Hub (G2)|Hub]]. Concerted construction and cyberforming efforts turn many of these worlds into miniature Cybertrons. While these new colony worlds are initially supported by Cybertronian energon, many of them harness "torches" to create miniature Wells, rendering them completely independent from Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}} {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

The construction of the spaceport on the [[Hydrax Plateau]] begins, and [[Moonbase One|Moonbases One]] and [[Moonbase Two|Two]] are constructed on the [[Mini-Con]] inhabited moons of Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

[[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] Station is put into orbit as well, and a crew of Seekers are tasked with defending the Dark Energon stored within, remnants of Unicron's attack on the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} The High Council encouraged the gathering and storage of Dark Energon aboard the vessel. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} The first [[Cybertronian data cylinder]]s are created, which store and preserve the accumulated knowledge of Cybertronian civilization. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

At some point during the Golden Age, a civilization known only as the [[Ancient]]s arises. A civilization of explorers and astronomers, they travel the galaxy using Space Bridge technology, gather treasures from many worlds, and chart the known universe in their [[Ancient map room|stellar cartography chamber]]. Among the planets visited by the Ancients is Earth.<ref>In its brief appearance in ''Fall of Cybertron'', an intact {{w|Pangaea}} is present on Earth's surface, indicating that the Ancients arrived on Earth between the {{w|Late Permian}} and {{w|Early Jurassic}} periods, approximately 250-175 million years ago. The ''Fall of Cybertron'' comic, and its assertion that Space Bridges can warp time as well as space, make it impossible to tell whether or not Cybertron's Golden Age occurred concurrently during this time period.</ref> The Ancients are undone by a mysterious cataclysm that also devastates the nearby region, creating the lifeless, inhospitable region known as the [[Rust Sea]]. Many of their structures survive intact- albeit forgotten- including the large tomb that also houses their maps. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

After 8,000 years of prosperity and exploration, the Golden Age draws to a close. The Well of All Sparks begins slowing down its production of new life, and other cracks begin to show in Cybertronian civilization. Meanwhile, among the colonies, the dreaded [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Rust Plague]] sweeps from star system to star system via the space bridge network, devastating some worlds and completely sterilizing others. In desperation, Sentinel orders the destruction of the space bridge network entirely to prevent the spread of the contagion. Cybertron is spared from destruction, at the cost of its many colony worlds. Millions of Transformers stranded across the galaxy continue adapting to their homeworlds, and many forget their origins entirely. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

As time goes by, various crises on the ex-colony worlds lead to drastic changes among their inhabitants. Velocitron's inhabitants, plagued by resource shortages, slip deeper and deeper into their racing obsession as a form of cultural diversion. The Junkions begin building cities and structures entirely out of their planetoid's bountiful supplies of garbage and trash, forming a stable and productive society. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} The Neutronians discover Amalgamous Prime's mythical transformation cog, changing the entire population into omnicombinational [[shifter]]s known as [[Mutacon]]s. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}} Aquatron is re-colonized by Quintessons, who forcefully incorporate the planet into their Imperium while simultaneously tampering with the planet's inhabitants to create the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]s. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

==The [[Age of Rust]]==
[[File:WFCcomicD16.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|[[Gold Plastic Syndrome]] strikes again.]]

In the waning years of the Golden Age, the [[Functionism|caste system]] is implemented, where civilian guilds oversee and assign newly created Transformers to jobs, and it eventually becomes a major social institution under the urging of Sentinel. Alpha Trion grows troubled with the increasingly oppressive social system, and consults the supercomputer [[Vector Sigma]] for guidance, hoping to use the Matrix to revitalize Cybertron's culture. Vector Sigma declines his request, but reassures him that the time will soon be right for the Matrix's reactivation. Instead, Vector Sigma gives him the [[Badge of Vector Prime]], a gift for Sentinel Prime. While Alpha Trion waits for the Matrix, he retreats further and further into the [[Hall of Records]], eventually becoming a recluse.

Cybertron abandons many ancient traditions, such as travelling through the Underworld. These controversial reorganizations do not go unnoticed, though, and many newly born Transformers become dissatisfied with their lot in life, some seeking change. Cybertron's culture and society stagnates greatly as a result; the dynamic architecture and artwork that characterize older eras of society are replaced by dull, drab buildings. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

The city-states of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] and [[Slaughter City]], populated mostly by low-caste miners and workers, soon turn to gladiatorial combat as a way to escape from the drudgery of their lives. The High Council, aware of why the games began, does nothing to stop them. D-16 begins a prosperous career of pit fighting, and eventually takes on the name Megatronus in honor of the Prime of the same name. He later shortens it to [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. Megatron uses his newfound publicity to denounce the stifling caste system. His rhetoric inspires a group of followers that includes fellow gladiator and spymaster [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] and the sadistic scientist [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}} Realizing the threat that this upstart poses, Sentinel Prime sends his agents [[Bumper (WFC)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (WFC)|Fastback]] to infiltrate his organization. Megatron soon discovers the duo and has them executed.

At the same time, a young data clerk named [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]], monitoring transmissions from across Cybertron, befriends Megatron, and the two of them begin a secret correspondence. Alpha Trion encourages his protégé, in the hopes that Orion's ideals will temper Megatronus's extremism. They have intense but friendly debates over the nature of free will and the dangerousness of their ideals, and soon Orion begins training with [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]], learning to fire an ion-cannon and to fashion his arms into an axe and a sword. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

An energon thief named [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] comes to Megatron's attention who rebrands him "Deadlock". {{storylink|Drift's Samurai Showdown}} Deadlock trains under [[Shadow Raker]]. {{storylink|Out of the Shadows}}

[[File:OneShallRise3-corresponding.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|And so the fangirls leapt to their computers, and produced horrible things.]]

Before long, Orion visits Megatron in person in Kaon. Terrorists, calling themselves "[[Decepticon]]s", begin bombings in Megatron's name, attacking such popular spots as [[Six Lasers Over Cybertron]]. Megatron himself makes his first public announcement on the Grid, stating he is not responsible for the attacks and will bring the perpetrators to justice. In reality, however, Megatron had heard rumors about the bombings and terrorist attacks but did nothing to prevent them. Megatron and Orion are eventually granted a meeting with the High Council. In his speech, Megatron demands that he be named the next Prime, and threatens to violently overthrow the Council if they do not comply. Orion, does not believe in violence, and follows him up with a speech of his own. He argues that the members of Cybertron should be autonomous robots, or "[[Autobot]]s", and that everyone should be able to make their own choices in life. Orion's speech moves the Council and inspires them to appoint Orion a Prime. They give him the new name of "Optimus". Megatron is incensed by the fact that his speech went unnoticed. In a fit of anger, he kills the Council member [[Halogen (WFC)|Halogen]] and spitefully severs all ties with his former friend. At Optimus's urging, the two sides retreat for now to avoid further bloodshed in the Council halls. However, the Council itself has fragmented; [[Contrail (WFC)|Contrail]], [[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]], and [[Drivetrain (WFC)|Drivetrain]] now support the Decepticon cause. Megatron officially declares war on Optimus Prime and his followers, sparking the Great War. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

==[[Great War (Prime)|Great War]] (prior to ''Prime'')==
===War for Cybertron===
[[File:WarforCybertron-OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Yeah, why don't ya come over and say that to my face, tough guy? Bonk!]]

The war quickly spreads beyond the High Council, and before long battle lines are drawn as various city-states declare their allegiances. Autobots and their allies control the most important locations on Cybertron, including [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and [[Kalis]]. Shortly after the declaration of war, the Allspark stops producing new Cybertronians; some interpret this as an act of divine rebellion. Undeterred, the Decepticons launch their first strike by seizing [[Fort Scyk]]. [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] and his Council Guardians manage to hold the line long enough for the Autobots to send reinforcements. The Decepticons then attack and occupy the [[Hydrax Plateau]]. With this crucial region under Decepticon control, Megatron quickly takes over the majority of Cybertron's eastern hemisphere, which remains in Decepticon hands for the majority of the war. Decepticons then capture the [[Satellite Command Center]] at [[Polyhex]]. The battle of [[Crystal City]] sees the [[Constructicon (WFC)|Constructicons]] deploy their combined [[Devastator (WFC)|Devastator]] against the Autobots, razing the city. Many of its scientific treasures survive the destruction. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} Many dangerous weapons, such as the [[Cybonic plague]], are developed by the [[Decepticon Biological Warfare Program]]. {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

The Autobots win their first major victory at [[Kalis]], where Optimus Prime, Sideswipe, and Jazz topple the Decepticon [[combiner]] [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]]. Kalis remains in Autobot hands and the Autobots begin using long-range combat against Decepticons. Shockwave's armies occupy the cities of [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]] and [[Vos (polity)|Vos]]. Shockwave manipulates the two cities and turns them against one another, destroying them both. The Decepticon campaign reaches [[Praxus]], where they encounter stiff Autobot resistance. The city-state is ultimately leveled by the fighting, and to this day the outcome is unclear. [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]] and [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], citizens of Praxus, join the Autobot cause and become part of Optimus Prime's inner circle of confidants. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

Megatron, still stinging from the loss of Praxus, orders Bruticus Maximus to spearhead a massacre at [[Nova Cronum]]. In the meantime, Minicon saboteurs manage to steal and reverse-engineer Shockwave's secrets, and before long the Autobots create their own combiners. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} Optimus Prime assigns Ultra Magnus to lead the unruly squadron known as the [[Wreckers]] in the hopes of instilling discipline into their ranks {{storylink|Project Predacon}}, and with the aid of the newly created [[Defensor (WFC)|Defensor]] the team defends the Tagan Heights against the Constructicons, although the fighting between Defensor and Devastator demolishes the area. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

At some point during the war, Optimus Prime survives an assassination attempt by [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] at the [[Battle of Technahar]]. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

After centuries of stasis, the [[AllSpark]] creates a final generation of Transformers, most of whom side with the Autobots. Among them is the Autobot [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], who distinguishes himself on the battlefield and becomes one of Optimus Prime's closest compatriots. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} Another young Autobot named [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] enters the boot camp of the Elite Guard with hopes of becoming a full-fledged soldier. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and her combat partner [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]] serve in [[Delta Team]] for most of the war. After a raid on a Decepticon munitions depot, both of them are captured and interrogated by the Decepticon [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]. Although Arcee is rescued by Bumblebee and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], they are too late to save Tailgate. {{storylink|Predatory}} At least some battles take place off Cybertron with the [[Wreckers]] having an adventure on [[Sandokan]]. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}}

As the war continues, the Autobots are gradually outnumbered and outgunned. Optimus Prime makes the painful decision to eject the AllSpark from Cybertron, so that Megatron cannot create more Transformers. In the ensuing battle, the Allspark is fired into deep space from [[Tyger Pax]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} The Autobots also decide to eject the data cylinders from Cybertron to prevent Decepticons from using the vital knowledge within. {{storylink|T.M.I.}} With the Allspark gone, the Decepticons focus their attention on Iacon, one of the last regions still under Autobot control.

At some unspecified time, Primus warned [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] of a rising evil, and sent her to Earth after modifying her body and enhancing her sensors. {{storylink|The Buzz on Windblade}}

Seeking a new edge in the war, Megatron storms Trypticon Station and wrests control of it from [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], empowering himself and other Decepticons with the Dark Energon stored there. As part of their next strike, the Decepticon-allied Seekers travel deep underneath Cybertron in search of the long-abandoned [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] beneath the ruins of Crystal City, which will allow the manufacture of new Dark Energon for the Decepticons' use.

Megatron leads a group of Decepticons into Iacon, to find a means of travelling to the very core of Cybertron to spread the Dark Energon. Though Sentinel Prime attempts to stand in his way, he is soon defeated by the vengeful Decepticon—but unbeknownst to Megatron, [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] is reactivated due to these events, and is intent on stopping the Decepticons. The Decepticon forces manage to cripple the Guardian's alternate mode, and Megatron and his troops soon defeat him on ground level. Because of this, the Decepticon leader manages to reach Cybertron's core and corrupt it with Dark Energon—a critical blow against the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War For Cybertron}}

The Autobots, however, are not yet defeated, and muster a counter-attack to rout the remaining Decepticons from Iacon. Sentinel, now imprisoned in Kaon, is able to send a transmission, and a small group of Autobots, lead by Optimus, soon launch an incursion into the prison to recover him. However, the former Prime perishes just as he has been rescued. The Autobots return the body to Iacon, and Optimus officially comes to accept that he is a Prime and must take up his role as leader. From then on, he fully becomes known as Optimus Prime, the last of the Primes. Optimus's first task as true Prime is to cleanse the infected core. Heading down through Cybertron's inner layers, Optimus finds much of the planet is thoroughly infected by Dark Energon. The core tells Prime that Cybertron is so greatly corrupted that it will take millions of years of shutdown in order to undo the grievous damage done by Megatron's Dark Energon. Optimus is given the [[Matrix of Leadership]] by the Core, a fragment of [[Prima]]'s powerful sword that contains a portion of Cybertron's spark. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War For Cybertron}}

With the core's shutdown, Windblade is left in stasis on Earth. {{storylink|The Buzz on Windblade}}

===[[Great Exodus]] ("A few thousand years ago"<ref name="greatexodustime"/>)===
[[File:WFCgalactic transports.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Just a little while back<ref name="greatexodustime">Assorted promotional material for the ''Fall of Cybertron'' video game dates this period to 70 million years ago. This seems ''particularly'' excessive, even for a race that normally measures its history in millions of years, and is clearly only employed to justify the presence of dinosaurs on Earth, so Shockwave can create the Dinobots by studying them. IDW's ''Fall of Cybertron'' comic addressed this by making it clear that Shockwave was looking through ''time'' as well as space, as he makes mention of the dinosaurs' extinction by meteorite, establishing that this era is ''after'' the dinosaurs died out. This is also reinforced (perhaps unintentionally) by the fact that Snarl and Sludge transform into a ''Stegosaurus'' and an ''Apatosaurus''- dinosaur species that lived almost a hundred million years before ''T. rex'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Triceratops''. Later, solicitations for IDW's first ''Beast Hunters'' comic issue would establish that series's setting as "a few thousand years" after this era, and that comic's exact point in time would be spelled out in the final two ''Beast Hunters'' issues, placing it towards the end of the ''Prime'' cartoon in the present day era.</ref>]]

As soon as Prime reaches the surface, he orders that an exodus from Cybertron will take place immediately. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War For Cybertron}} Preparations are made to flee the planet, but many of the escaping [[galactic transport]]s are shot down by Trypticon Station before they can leave Cybertron's orbit. Trypticon itself comes to life, thanks to multiple sparks implanted by Shockwave, and Optimus Prime leads his forces in a battle to knock it out of orbit. The ensuing battle results in Trypticon hurtling towards Cybertron's surface. However, Trypticon is not killed, and it transforms into its robot form. After another battle with it, Optimus and his forces defeat the monster for good. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War For Cybertron}} {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures|Cybertron Adventures}} The Autobots then regroup at the site of the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', a deep-space interceptor and the flagship of the makeshift Autobot fleet. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War For Cybertron}}

With the Decepticons in control of most of Cybertron, the remaining Autobots begin fuelling the ship with scavenged Energon. Both factions develop an interest in the ancient, powerful artifact known as the [[Dark Spark]], and the Decepticons manage to locate and open the vault below Crystal City that contains it. Shockwave makes contact with the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]s, subterranean creatures that have been driven to the surface after Cybertron's core shut down. The Decepticon scientist manages to form an alliance with these creatures, and their sentient representatives—[[Kickback (FOC)|Kickback]], [[Hardshell]], and [[Sharpshot]]—join the Decepticons, pledging the support of their numerous feral brethren.

However, the Decepticons and Insecticons are tailed by the Autobots, and a running battle ensues, with both groups trying to return the artifact to their respective strongholds. Eventually, the Decepticons succeed in bringing the Dark Spark to Megatron at [[Kolkular]], where he places the artifact in his chest in imitation of the Matrix of Leadership. Optimus Prime arrives to confront the Decepticon leader, but is set upon by a horde of undead Autobots reanimated by the Dark Spark's power. The Autobot leader overcomes these corrupted foes and engages Megatron, and the two combatants unleash the powers of the artifacts in their chests. The power of the Matrix of Leadership wins out, violently ejecting the Dark Spark from the Decepticon leader and into space. With the artifact no longer a threat, Optimus orders the Autobots to fall back to Iacon and the Ark. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

While most of the Autobots ready the ''Ark'' for liftoff, the [[Lightning Strike Coalition]] warrior [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] discovers a massive reserve of untainted Energon in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]]. He tries to contact [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and the other Autobots, but is captured by Shockwave before he can reveal the nature of his discovery. Grimlock and the rest of his squadron disobey Prime's orders and hijack an Autobot dropship to rescue him. Grimlock, [[Snarl (FOC)|Snarl]], [[Slug (FOC)|Slug]], and [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] reach the outskirts of Shockwave's tower, but are overwhelmed by Shockwave's [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]s and taken captive by Shockwave, who has plans for the quintet of warriors. Inspired by [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|alien lifeforms]] he has viewed with ancient Space Bridge technology, he begins experimenting on them. {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame}} {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}} {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (comic)|Fall of Cybertron}}

Shockwave uses the critically injured Sludge as a test run, successfully rebuilding his alternate mode into a sauropod dinosaur, before ordering [[Kickback (FOC)|Kickback]] to dump his body in the tunnels underneath the Rust Sea. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 2|Beast Hunters #2}} Shockwave rebuilds the rest into powerful berserkers with saurian alternate modes and imprisons them in his tower, intending to use them as his own personal warriors. {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame}} {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}} {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (comic)|Fall of Cybertron}}

With Grimlock missing in action, Optimus leads his warriors to buy time for the Autobots to shut down Iacon and launch the Ark. Optimus discovers the existence of [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]], an enormous Autobot incorporated into Iacon's structure who has lain dormant for millions of years. Optimus and Metroplex team up to help fight the Decepticons, and despite suffering numerous injuries Metroplex manages to deal a lethal blow to Megatron, grievously injuring him. However, the attack depletes all of the Autobot's remaining supplies of energon. With Megatron out of commission, Starscream takes advantage of the situation and declares himself the new leader of the Decepticons.

Jazz and Cliffjumper go searching for Grimlock and his forces in the Sea of Rust, where they find Shockwave's tower, Sludge's body in [[stasis lock]] and the uncorrupted Energon Swoop had discovered earlier. However, on Starscream's orders, the [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticons]] attack the Autobot convoy, then combine into Bruticus and crash the transport, recovering half of the Energon. Starscream is unimpressed with their performance and orders their imprisonment.

Meanwhile, Soundwave has recovered Megatron's remains and rebuilds his body, using an infusion of [[Dark Energon]] to revive him. Megatron confronts Starscream and resumes control of the Decepticons. Seeking use of Trypticon, Megatron heads for his location in Iacon and successfully scavenges many of his components.

In Shockwave's lab, a disgraced Starscream discovers Grimlock, who he attempts to recruit to his cause. Grimlock throws Starscream into the wall and escapes. As he fights his way through Shockwave's cadre of Decepticons and Insecticons, Grimlock reunites with the surviving members of the Lightning Strike Coalition, although he believes Sludge is dead. Now operating as the "[[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobot]]s", Grimlock confronts Shockwave and destroys his space bridge. Both are caught in the ensuing explosion.

Metroplex sacrifices his life to ensure that the ''Ark'' can launch. Optimus and many of the Autobots escape aboard the Ark. They are pursued, however, by Megatron aboard Trypticon, now a [[Trypticon (WFC)|spacecraft]] dubbed the ''Nemesis''. The two vehicles and their respective crews battle as they race for the space bridge above the planet, which explodes, scattering the two vessels across the galaxy. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===After the Great Exodus===
Grimlock, having fallen to the ground from the collapsing space bridge tower, is found by his Dinobot comrades. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 4|Rage of the Dinobots #4}} Four cycles after the launch of the Ark, an Autobot cleanup crew discovers Sludge's abandoned body and manage to bring him back online. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 2|Beast Hunters #2}}

Sludge, Grimlock, and the other Dinobots all join up with Ultra Magnus's Wreckers, and together they continue to fight against Shockwave's forces for control of Cybertron, even as the planet commences its shutdown sequence.

The Space Bridge detonation takes the ''Ark'' and ''Nemesis'' to the outskirts of the [[Milky Way]] galaxy, where Optimus detects a faint signal left behind by the Allspark's passage. Prime and his crew are guided by the Matrix to nearby Velocitron, teetering on the brink of civil war. However, [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]], having infiltrated the crew, manages to provoke enough civil unrest among the Velocitronians that [[Ransack (Prime)|Ransack]] and his group of political malcontents attack Override, sparking a civil war. The Autobots manage to escape through a space bridge, Optimus having recovered two pieces of the Blades of Time on Velocitron's surface, though he mistakenly believes they are pieces of the Star Saber. The Autobots next travel to Junkion, where they befriend the native Junkions and begin repairs on the ''Ark''. However, Makeshift once again sabotages the repair effort, but is caught. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Meanwhile, Alpha Trion is put under house arrest by Shockwave, but manages to send the Autobot Chaindrive to Optimus with another piece of the Blades of Time. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} Armed with a hazy knowledge of the future from the [[Covenant of Primus]] that [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] would eventually end up on Earth, [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] launches Cybertronian relics located within the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] [[Hall of Records]] to Earth, not to keep them from the Decepticons, but to ensure that Optimus would eventually find them. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} Smokescreen, having ended up on security detail for Alpha Trion, is taken by Decepticon forces during their attacking the Hall of Records, {{storylink|New Recruit}} but not before Alpha Trion secretly manages to hide [[Omega Key|one of the relics]] within the young Autobot. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

The ''Nemesis'', following the trail of the ''Ark'', lands on Velocitron and later Junkion. Axer, an ex-Decepticon, recovers the Requiem Blaster from the core of Junkion, causing the demi-planet to tear apart. Prime, meanwhile, manages to contact Vector Prime in his pocket dimension, who also helps to reunite five bots the Autobots have met (Chaindrive among them) into Nexus Prime. A climatic battle takes place on Junkion, with the Autobots triumphant and the Blaster destroyed. However, the Junkions themselves are enslaved by space-pirate expatriate Transformers called the [[Star Seeker]]s and taken to places unknown. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

With Autobot control over the planet steadily weakening, Shockwave and the remaining Decepticons take control of Iacon, forcing the Wreckers to retreat to Cybertron's comparatively barren polar regions to launch hit-and-run attacks on Decepticon convoys. Shockwave builds his newest tower in the center of Iacon and continues his experiments, studying the effects of Dark Energon on the city's beleaguered inhabitants. He eventually kidnaps Alpha Trion and tries to use him to access [[Vector Sigma]] to forge a [[Decepticon Matrix]] that will further enhance his control over Cybertron. The Wreckers team up with Omega Supreme to launch a rescue mission.

Simultaneously, out in space, Optimus Prime and company discover the seemingly utopic world of [[Aquatron]], inhabited by friendly amphibious robots. In reality, the Aquatronians are subjugated servants of the Quintessons, and their leader [[Inquirata (Prime)|Inquirata]] manipulates both Optimus Prime and Shockwave to further his own ends. The ''Nemesis'' arrives not long afterwards, following a skirmish with Thundertron, but the two sides are forced into a temporary truce by the Quintessons. When the Quintessons reveal their true colours, Optimus Prime and Megatron are forced to work together to escape from the Quintesson's twisted courtrooms Thanks to Shockwave's experiments with Dark Energon on Vector Sigma, the Quintessons are able to launch a second invasion of Cybertron using their [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] shock troops. Although the Wreckers manage to save Alpha Trion, they are too late to stop the invasion. General [[Tyrannicon]] storms Iacon, takes down both Omega Supreme and Devastator, and allies with Senator Ratbat to gain access to the Hall of Records. The invasion is only stopped when Megatron, still on Aquatron, discovers the [[Sharkticon Matrix of Leadership]] and uses it to override Tyrannicon's command over his troops. The Wreckers manage to keep the Hall of Records in Cybertronian hands while [[Rack n' Ruin]] splits off from the group and rigs Shockwave's tower to explode. In the ensuing fight underneath Aquatron, Tyrannicon and Inquirata are killed, while Optimus and Megatron barely manage to escape the detonation of the Space Bridge. The two factions depart the now-freed Aquatron while Optimus continues his search for the Allspark. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

Cybertron's conditions continue to deteriorate, and eventually Ultra Magnus puts out the call for the final Autobot evacuation of the planet. A convoy of ships escapes, but Magnus's personal craft is shot down, and the Wrecker leader is captured by the [[Forged]], a faction of ex-Decepticons serving under Shockwave. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 1|Rage of the Dinobots #1}} The Dinobots mount a rescue mission to a Forged prison in the Sea of Rust, where they find not only Magnus, but scores of other Autobot prisoners. They stage a prison break, but are confronted by the leader of the group, [[Ser-Ket (Prime)|Ser-Ket]], who has been altered with [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] [[CNA]] in much the same way that they were altered with [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|dinosaur]] DNA. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 2|Rage of the Dinobots #2}} Grimlock is able to defeat her in battle, but Shockwave arrives soon afterwards, {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 3|Rage of the Dinobots #3}} and Magnus and the Dinobots are recaptured.

The Decepticon scientist attempts to complete his work on Grimlock and erase the Dinobot's free will, but his teammates and Ultra Magnus are able to escape their cell in time to intervene, violently decapitating Shockwave. However, a hologram message reveals that Shockwave is in fact alive and well, and what the Dinobots just killed was merely a remote avatar. With the immediate threat passed, Magnus sets off to join the leaving fleet, whilst the Dinobots resolve to remain on Cybertron, seeking to hunt down their nemesis Shockwave and help the few Autobots that remain. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 4|Rage of the Dinobots #4}}

Eventually, energon shortages force Cybertron's remaining population into the tunnels under the surface, where they scavenge fuel from underground deposits and by hunting the planet's subterranean fauna. Survivors group together to establish underground cities, one of which is led by "king" Grimlock, and the surface is left desolate and ruined. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 1|Beast Hunters #1}}

Across the galaxy, the Great War continues on other planets. A battle sees the Decepticon Deadlock nearly destroyed before he is taken in by the [[Circle of Light]] and taught the ways of the warrior and blade. Retaking his original name, Drift abandons the Decepticon cause and defects. {{storylink|Drift's Samurai Showdown}}

Another alien world to see combat is the planet [[Earth]], which is seeded with energon by Cybertronians. During Earth's Stone Age, a group of Autobots rescues a tribe of primitive humans from a meteor shower. {{storylink|Did You See What I Thaw?}}. Among the Decepticon combatants are a group of genetically engineered Predacons created by Shockwave. Their presence inspires the human legends of [[dragon]]s, although they eventually die, leaving behind remains. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} Other Decepticons include Skyquake, dispatched to Earth to guard its energon resources. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} At some point, a group of Autobots visits ancient [[Greece]], where they leave behind an [[Energon Harvester]]. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} The Cybertronians on Earth eventually leave, die, or enter stasis lock, leaving Earth abandoned... for the time being.

===Between the [[Great Exodus]] and ''Prime''===
====1649====
[[File:ReignOfMorocco Horace Burns statue.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85]]
A North American island off the coast of Maine is founded by a group of settlers, led by [[Horace Burns]], from the mainland. The island becomes the town of [[Griffin Rock]], and a lighthouse with a [[Settlers' Bell|bell]] is erected in the town's port. {{storylink|The Reign of Morocco}} {{storylink|The Lost Bell}} Though [[King Charles]] offers to make Burns the king of the island, he declines via placing the proclamation into a bottle and throwing it into the sea. {{storylink|King Burns}}

====1800s====
In 1812, Griffin Rock is raided and looted by the pirates of the ''[[Oaken Crow]]''. The pirates set the town ablaze and make off with their booty, including the Settlers' Bell. Their ship gets caught in a storm and becomes trapped within a cave on an unknown island.{{storylink|The Lost Bell}}

At some point, [[Doctor Morocco|Thaddeus Morocco]] is born, who would go on to make a career in science by stealing the works of others, including a [[Chamber of Youth|rejuvenation chamber]] that would extend his life artificially with each use. {{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}

====1939====
The [[World's Fair]] takes place, which features the artificial volcano [[Mount Magma]]. Afterward, the volcano is relocated to Griffin Rock.{{storylink|Under Pressure}}

The [[Griffin Rock Technology Expo]] also occurs, during which Griffin Rock scientists attempt to create a [[Temporal Station|time machine]], but are incapable of powering it up.{{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}

On [[August 17]], the day after the Temporal Station's decommissioning, a group of time-displaced individuals consisting of four Rescue Bot Autobots, the human children [[Cody Burns]] and [[Frankie Greene]], and the Helper Bot [[Dither]], accidentally travels through the time machine from the future. They are discovered by Dr. Thaddeus Morocco, who takes interest in the robots and begins to study them. The two kids are sent away, but escape and, along with Dither, recover the Autobots in Morocco's captivity. A surprise intervention by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, who subsequently followed the Rescue Bots through the time machine to help them, along with some assistance from [[Elma Hendrickson]], gives all of the time-travelers the chance to escape back to the future. However, a damaged Dither is accidentally left behind, and comes into Morocco's possession. {{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}

{{Note|It is from here that the timeline is split in two, as the time travel incident creates an alternate timeline (see below), but then erases it and has history put back on its corrected course.}}

Morocco starts to open up Dither to begin studying him, but the previous group of time travelers returns once again to retrieve their forgotten robot before returning to their own time, leaving Morocco unable to study the future technology. {{storylink|Bot to the Future}}

====1940s====
Around the late 1940s, the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]] likely begins, in which a [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|missile silo]] is constructed inside a mountain in [[Jasper]], [[Nevada]], and a bunker is built under Griffin Rock. Both locations would eventually become occupied by the Autobots in the present day. {{storylink|Darkness Rising}} {{storylink|Family of Heroes}}

In 1949, Griffin Rock celebrates its tricentennial, which features holograms of some of its most prominent citizens, including its first female scientist Elma Hendrickson, on display in historical exhibits. {{storylink|The Haunting of Griffin Rock}}

====1950s====
Griffin Rock scientists experiment with [[unspace|subspace]] technology as part of the [[Sanctuary Plan]], in which the insect-like [[Tracer (RB)|tracers]] would transport the island's entire populace to a safe haven during the condition of a crisis. The plan is abandoned due to instability of the shelter, with the tracers being locked away in storage.{{storylink|Countdown (RB)|Countdown}}

====1960s====
The scientists of Griffin Rock install a magnetic pulse generator to disable all circuitry at [[Griffin Crest]], setting it as a safe zone in case an experimental machine ever went haywire on the island.{{storylink|Rules and Regulations}}

In [[1966]], the ''[[S.S. Isolde]]'' transports experimental technology to Griffin Rock from the mainland. During one of its voyages to the island, however, a piece of its cargo, the [[Sub-Zero Expander]], is accidentally damaged and activated. After contacting the island for advice, the ship's captain, [[Zachary Burns]], and crew are ordered to abandon the vessel and all of its cargo, leaving it to be encased completely within an iceberg. {{storylink|Tip of the Iceberg}}

====1980s====
A small group of Cybertronians return to Earth, unaware of its true nature. Bumblebee is the first Autobot to land on Earth, sent ahead of the others to scout out the planet.<ref>Bumblebee's [http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/specials/transformers-prime-downloadables/printables/tprime-bumblebee-coloring-page.pdf online coloring page] at hubworld.com</ref> He is later joined by Optimus Prime, Bulkhead, and Ratchet, who set up a base inside the dormant volcano [[Mount St. Hilary]]. {{storylink|Strongarm's Big Score}}

====28 years ago====
Professor [[Anna Baranova]] begins an investigation of the [[Griffin Rock Triangle]] with [[Midgard|Project Midgard]]. Her mobile undersea laboratory, the ''Midgard'', fails in its mission and is rendered permanently submerged. {{storylink|The Griffin Rock Triangle}}

===Great War (Present Day)===
At some earlier point, Dr. Morocco, who had become Griffin Rock's lead scientist, is dismissed from his position due to his technology proving dangerous and inferior. He is replaced by [[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]]. {{storylink|The Other Doctor}} {{storylink|The Reign of Morocco}}

[[File:CliffArcee ognpreview.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|At long last destinies gather to awaken a new tale.]]
The Decepticons begin mining the energon deposits left on earth with the intention of using it to restore Cybertron. Starscream is tasked by Megatron with recreating space bridge technology, so that the energon can be quickly transferred between planets. After scouring the galaxy on this mission, the Air Commander returns to their home planet with a number of troops to construct a space bridge. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|''Prime'' comic}}

The earthbound Autobots obtain terrestrial alternate modes and secretly ally themselves with the United States government. They are assigned [[William Fowler]] as a government liaison, and provided with an abandoned missile silo to use as a [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|base]] in exchange for keeping the Decepticon threat contained. A great deal of Cybertronian technology is installed there, including a [[GroundBridge]] of Ratchet's design. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}}

Optimus Prime sends a message into space, calling all Autobots to the new battleground. Arcee and Cliffjumper are both investigating the Decepticon activity on the desolate Cybertron when they receive the message. They hijack a Decepticon space bridge to travel to Earth. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|''Prime'' comic}} The Air Commander follows them through, but, after a brief confrontation, the two Autobots are able to join up with [[Team Prime]] and [[scanning|scan]] new terrestrial alternate modes. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|''Prime'' comic}} Subsequently, Megatron leaves Earth with the intention of gathering a new army. The Decepticons under Starscream avoid conflict with the Autobots, and continue to secretly mine the planet's energon, along with constructing a new space bridge in orbit. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} During his three-year journey, meanwhile, Megatron finds a far greater prize than new troops: solidified crystals of Dark Energon. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

At some unspecified time, Optimus Prime sets up a [[Rescue Force Sigma-17|team]] of [[Rescue Bot]]s on Griffin Rock, in which they live with a local family to better understand humanity and serve as their protectors. {{storylink|Family of Heroes}}

On Earth, hostilities between the Autobots and Decepticons resurface when Cliffjumper is executed by Starscream; later, he is reanimated by Megatron with the power of Dark Energon. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} A series of accidents draws three [[human]]s—[[Jack Darby]], [[Raf Esquivel]], and [[Miko Nakadai]]—into the mayhem. Megatron's plan is to reanimate the thousands of dead Transformers on Cybertron and transport them to Earth via the orbital space bridge, but this is ultimately foiled by the Autobots. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}} Megatron himself is caught in the explosion of the bridge as it is destroyed, but survives thanks to the Dark Energon in his body. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} Megatron's wounded form is discovered by Starscream after a failed attempt to bring Skyquake under his control. Starscream attempts to kill him, but Soundwave's presence compels him to put the Decepticon leader in stasis in the ''Nemesis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s sick bay instead. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} Wheeljack, now an interstellar nomad, briefly arrives on Earth, but after a run-in with [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]], he leaves. {{storylink|Con Job}}

An encounter with the mysterious human terrorist organization [[MECH]] introduces a second antagonistic party for the Autobots. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}} [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and his partner [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] arrive on Earth to aid with Megatron's repairs. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} Airachnid, too, lands on Earth to rekindle her standing grudge against Arcee and collect some "specimens", but she is stranded on Earth when her ship is destroyed by Jack and Arcee. {{storylink|Predatory}}

Events come to a head when Optimus Prime and Ratchet detect an ancient Autobot distress signal, and come across an abandoned Autobot ship infected with cybonic plague. Optimus is contaminated, and so to find a cure for the sickness Bumblebee and Arcee are forced to infiltrate the ''Nemesis'' and enter Megatron's mind. {{storylink|Sick Mind}} However, Megatron manages to download himself into Bumblebee's consciousness, and by taking control of the Autobot's body he restores his original body with Dark Energon and uploads his mind into it, restoring himself to life. {{storylink|Out of His Head}} Megatron grievously wounds Starscream sometime after this as punishment, but Starscream makes another play for power by reanimating Skyquake's corpse, which ends in failure. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

MECH enters the picture again, first capturing and mutilating Breakdown {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} and later teaming up with Airachnid to lure Arcee into a trap. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}} Both of these ostensibly end in failure for MECH, but they are unperturbed as they gather valuable information for their forthcoming agenda.

After Megatron and Starscream are trapped in the energon mine due to the actions of the Autobots {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}, Starscream renounces Megatron's command and tries to join the Autobots, but this ends in failure when Starscream lets slip that he killed Cliffjumper. {{storylink|Partners (Prime)|Partners}}. Starscream becomes an independent faction in the war. Ratchet manages to devise a formula for synthetic energon from a retrieved data cylinder, but it proves to be incomplete and unsafe. {{storylink|T.M.I.}} {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}.

[[File:OneShallRise2-bigdude.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Hades Cup - 1st seed '''Rock Titan''' Rock Titan]]

Megatron seeks more power from the Dark Energon, and refers to an ancient prophecy in the [[Covenant of Primus]] that a "rising darkness" will come when the planets in the Solar System align. In reality, the "rising darkness" is Unicron's slumbering form, and the alignment of the planets will create the correct gravitational pull sufficient to awaken him. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}. As Unicron gradually awakens, the Dark Energon rising from his body causes several natural disasters to occur across the world. Optimus Prime confronts an avatar of Unicron head on, but diplomacy ends in failure when the chaos bringer decides to wipe out the many [[Human|"parasites"]] on his surface. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} After another battle with Unicron, Megatron and the Autobots make a truce, as the Dark Energon in Megatron's system allows him to locate Unicron's spark core and provide the Autobots with a way to destroy him. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} After the five Transformers bridge their way into Unicron, Megatron and Prime attempt to destroy Unicron's spark core with the Matrix of Leadership. The plan works- but Optimus loses many of his memories, believing that he is Orion Pax once again and that Megatron is his friend. Megatron takes him on board the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Megatron decides to use the fact that Orion Pax lost his memory to the Decepticon's advantage, and lies to Orion Pax about certain facts. He tells Orion that he was taken captive by the Autobots and kept in stasis long enough for the war to have moved to [[Earth|another planet]]. He then shows Orion a picture of a lifeless Cybertron, and informs him that [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] is responsible for the damage. Orion Pax vows to do his part to help the Decepticons, by completing [[Project Iacon]]. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Soon however, Orion Pax starts to see through Megatron's lies. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}}

Eventually, with the help of [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], Orion Pax rebels against Megatron before completing Project Iacon. Using [[Vector Sigma]], [[Jack Darby]] is able to restore Prime's memory. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}
[[File:OperationBumblebee1 Bumblebee's operation.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Remember to go deep with this operation, soldier... wait, oh God not THAT deep!]]

Soon, [[Team Prime]] is back to business. When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] is investigating an ancient Autobot signal, [[MECH]] stuns him into temporary stasis, and removes his [[Transformation cog|T-cog]]. They use it to try to craft their own transformer, and seem to be making progress with [[Starscream (WFC)|help]]. Bumblebee starts to question his usefulness, as he has lost his speed, which is his primary attribute. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}}

Megatron, still working with the information from Project Iacon, manages to find the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. He sends Knock Out to recover it, and with a fight, manages to accomplish his mission. However, Ratchet is able to restore Bumblebee's T-cog. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] returns to Earth, in pursuit of [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake's]] twin, [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. After an intense fight between [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], Wheeljack, and Dreadwing, Wheeljack finally gets an [[Earth]] mode, and Dreadwing pledges his allegiance to [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}}

Airachnid's [[One Shall Rise, Part 3|earlier]] remarks about leaving Megatron finally catch up to her, and Megatron decides to have Dreadwing execute her, something that Megatron would normally do himself, but will be his interview for replacing her as second-in-command. Dreadwing meets up with Airachnid and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] to investigate a suspected energon deposit. Airachnid succeeds in making Breakdown very angry, and the two go at it. Airachnid cuts up Breakdown, and leaves his remains for [[MECH]].

Airachnid finally goes for Megatron, and issues him a challenge. He accepts, and forbids Dreadwing to follow him. However, Dreadwing disobeys, and gets caught in the middle of the fight, and suddenly the Autobots appear. Prime, as always, does the honorable thing and lets Dreadwing go in return for his word that he would not kill any of the Autobots. Megatron, however, disagrees, and fires at the Autobots. Later, Megatron remarks that Dreadwing will make a fine first lieutenant. {{storylink|Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire}}
[[File:NemesisPrime-NemesisPrime.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.85|Punk ass Decepticon! Oh, wait...]]

After [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] seemingly tries to run [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] off the road and attacks a military base, the U.S. military gives orders to fire at any bot on sight. However, [[Team Prime]] finds out that [[MECH]] has succeeded with [[Project Chimera]], and that the bot that attacked the base was actually designed and built by MECH. [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] dubs this drone "Nemesis Prime". Optimus Prime and Nemesis Prime have a climatic battle on top of MECH's base of operations, and Nemesis falls on top of Silas, seemingly killing him. However, in an undisclosed location, Silas lays on an operating table, with Breakdown's corpse seemingly ready to transplant. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}}

Agent Fowler is called into [[Bryce|General Bryce's]] office to explain [[Nemesis Prime (episode)|recent events]]. Bryce tells Fowler that people higher up on the chain of command are questioning [[Team Prime|Team Prime's]] loyalty. Some are suggesting Team Prime's termination and a military tribunal for Fowler, who assures General Bryce that Prime, and the rest of the Autobots, are completely and totally loyal to the [[United States of America|United States]], and to humanity. {{storylink|Grill (episode)|Grill}}

Dual plots against Megatron's life, one orchestrated by Airachnid and her Insecticons and the other by Starscream and an army of clones, are hatched while Bulkhead found himself aboard the ''Nemesis''. The clones are destroyed, Arachnid is apprehended by the Autobots, the surviving Insecticons are integrated into Megatron's forces, and Bulkhead busts the ship's power core on his way out. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}} After [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] infuses the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' with Dark Energon in an attempt to repair it, the ship becomes sentient and puts all the Decepticons on board into stasis. The ship starts to head toward the first set of new Iacon coordinates that it has decoded. Jack, Miko, Raf, and Fowler bridge aboard the ship and download the coordinates. In the process, Jack undoes the dark energon infusion, returning the ship to its normal state. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

[[Team Prime]] splits up, and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], [[Jack Darby|Jack]], and [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] travel to [[New York City]] to search for the first of the new Iacon relics. The new relic turns out to be a [[phase shifter]]. The Autobots are successful in recovering the device. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} Meanwhile, in the Antarctic, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] goes hunting for the second relic. It turns out to be the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]] built by [[Solus Prime]]. After [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] takes the relic for his own, Optimus and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] form a brief alliance, and force Starscream below the ice. {{storylink|Triangulation}}
[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] and [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] travel to search for the third relic, which turns out to be a [[Resonance Blaster|resonance blaster]]. [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] manages to recover the relic, Ratchet returns to base, and Wheeljack sets about repairing the ''[[Jackhammer (Prime)|Jackhammer]]''. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}}
[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] sets out to locate and retrieve the final relic. It turns out to be [[Tox-En]], a toxic form of energon. Bulkhead fights with the Insecticon named [[Hardshell]]. Though Bulkhead is initially victorious, Hardshell shoots him in the back just as he heads through the [[GroundBridge]]. {{storylink|Toxicity}}

As [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] tries to stabilize [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] arrives to base, having been alerted by [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] to what had transpired. In the ''[[Jackhammer (Prime)|Jackhammer]]'', he goes looking for whoever injured Bulkhead. As normal, [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] secretly tags along. After reaching an understanding, Miko and Wheeljack go looking for Hardshell, destroying an energon mine in the process. After an intense fight with Hardshell, Wheeljack emerges victorious. However, the rest of the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] hive pursues him and Miko as they take off in the ''Jackhammer''. Wheeljack uses a portion of his stash of grenades to dispatch them. However, the happiness doesn't last, as Ratchet reports that Bulkhead will survive, but will not likely be fully functional again. Wheeljack leaves again, stating that he is unable to see Bulkhead like this. {{storylink|Hurt}} Arcee comforts Miko by telling her the story of how she and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] became partners and joined [[Team Prime]]. {{storylink|Out of the Past}}

A [[Decepticon]] escape pod is discovered on [[Earth]] at the same time as [[Red Energon]], a rare and volatile type of energon that gives the user hyperspeed. The escape pod turns out to belong to [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]], a former member of the [[Elite Guard]]. Although he appears to be [[Wheeljack (Prime)|another hotshot]], he proves himself by retrieving the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]] from [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], who manages to make off with the Red Energon. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

[[MECH]] reawakens their leader, [[Silas]], by integrating his body into Breakdown's corpse. Renaming himself "Cylas", he dispatches the MECH technical team and goes to [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] with a new weapon: the [[Project Damocles]] satellite. Megatron tries to utilize the Damocles satellite, but is foiled by the hacking efforts of [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]]. Angered with the satellite's failure, Megatron allows [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] to dissect Cylas. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

[[File:Legacy-PrimeStarSaber.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Voldemort is ''evil'', [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Prime]]. Stop trying to be him. [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Unless...]]]]

The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s both find the location of the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] is forced to try and retrieve it for the Autobots, while Megatron has an entire army of workers trying to get at it. However it takes the power of a [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Prime]] for the sword to finally come free from the rock that encases it. After almost crashing the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' with the sword, Optimus and the Autobots emerge victorious. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] receives a prerecorded message from [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] telling him to locate the four [[Omega Key]]s. [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] uses a [[space bridge]] to travel to Cybertron to retrieve the arm of a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]. He attaches it to his body and uses his new limb to craft the [[Dark Star Saber]] from the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. The Dark Star Saber breaks the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]] in half, but the Autobots come away with the first Omega Key. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

Optimus dispatches [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] to go after the second relic, and [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] to go after the third. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] wins over the second relic for the [[Decepticon]]s, while [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] beats out Bulkhead, Smokescreen, and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] to get the third. Smokescreen is captured by the Decepticons when he is revealed to be the fourth and final key. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

Knock Out uses Smokescreen's phase shifter to remove the final Omega Key from within his body. However, Smokescreen manages to escape with the two Omega Keys that were in Megatron's possession, leaving the fourth one with Starscream. Starscream manages to invade the Autobot base and steal all three of theirs, acquiring all four. He then goes to Megatron on the ''Nemesis'' with the Omega Keys as bargaining chips. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] uses a [[cortical psychic patch]] on [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] in order to find out his ''true'' motives for coming back to Megatron. However, he decides that Starscream is of more value fighting ''with'' Megatron, not against him, and welcomes him back to the [[Decepticon]]s. While viewing the results of the patch, [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] learns of his [[Skyquake (Prime)|twin's]] fate in the [[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]. {{storylink|Patch (episode)|Patch}}

Knock Out operates on Starscream and repairs him, giving him a new T-cog. Infuriated by Starscream's treatment of Skyquake and Megatron's nonchalance, Dreadwing presents the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] to the [[Autobot]]s so that they can avenge his twin's death. After traveling back to the ''Nemesis'', he attempts to kill Starscream, but Megatron strikes him down before he gets the chance. Megatron and Starscream travel to Cybertron with a detachment of Vehicons to reactivate the planet. Using the Forge, Optimus modifies the Ground Bridge into a Space Bridge, and the Autobots launch an attack on the Vehicons using the gathered Iacon relics. They manage to retrieve the Omega Keys and reach the [[Omega Lock]]. However, Megatron reveals that the three kids have been captured by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}}

[[File:DarkestHour-Basedestroyed.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.4|We didn't even pay off the rent for this place!]]
The Autobots are forced to turn over the Omega Keys in exchange for the kids, and Megatron reveals his master plan includes [[cyberforming]] Earth as well. Optimus uses the Star Saber to destroy the Omega Lock, and the Autobots return to Earth, only for the Decepticons to attack their base. The Autobots abandon base, scattering across country, except for Optimus who is still in the base when the Decepticons destroy it. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] spirits the badly damaged Optimus Prime away from the wreckage of [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]] using the [[phase shifter]]. Megatron sends [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for the rest of the relics. He returns with the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]], and something even better...[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] and his latest creation, a Predacon cloned from recovered CNA. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} {{storylink|Scattered}}

[[File:Rebellion-Autobotgroupshot.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb]]

Concurrently, [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] lands on Earth and begins to reunite the disparate Autobot forces, who have gone into hiding. Among them are Raf and Bumblebee, who have turned the ''Harbinger'' into a new temporary base of operations with Ratchet's aid {{storylink|Scattered}}. Smokescreen, still in hiding, breaks into the ''Nemesis'' and recovers the Forge of Solus Prime. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} The Autobots launch a final assault on the Decepticon fortress. With the help of Optimus Prime, given a new lease on life thanks to the Forge, their combined efforts bring down Darkmount for good, forcing the Decepticons into a retreat. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

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Agent Fowler brings Optimus a new, beefed up truck to scan for his alternate mode, couresty of [[M.A.S.K.]] He also brings news of Decepticon activity in Texas and Scotland. He sends the Wreckers to Scotland, and brings Bumblebee and Smokescreen to Texas with him. Both parties discover the Decepticons transporting ancient Predacon fossils. Although the Autobots try to recover the fossils, both missions fail. Wheeljack drives off alone alone, fed up with Ultra Magnus and worried Bulkhead has gone soft. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}}

Wheeljack bridges back to base without Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead. He and Arcee track down Decepticon activity in New Mexico, but end up having to rescue Fowler and [[June Darby|June]] after the latter two get themselves kidnapped by Knock Out. After returning to base, Wheeljack and Bulkhead make up. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

Wanting Megatron's favor back, Starscream orders Knock Out to inject the imprisoned Cylas with a mix of Dark and Synthetic Energon, turning him into a vampiric Terrorcon who brings his plague upon the ''Nemesis''. Cylas ends up freeing Airachnid before being killed by her, and she retakes control of the Insecticons, but their attempt at a coup is halted when Soundwave bridges them to a desolate moon of Cybertron. Starscream ends up facing Megatron's wrath for losing them the Insecticons and more than half of the Vehicons while Shockwave speeds up progress on Project Predacon to make up for the extensive loss of manpower. {{storylink|Thirst}}

[[File:Evolution Predaking Stand.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Anyone wanna make a ''Dragon Ball Z'' joke?]]
On the verge of the project's completion, the Predacon reveals his newfound ability to transform as well as his sentience, and though he pledges loyalty to Megatron, his ambition does not go unnoticed, and the Decepticons decide to let the Autobots wipe out the Predacons for them. Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack end up facing off against Predaking, putting aside their past grievances with each other and forging a mutual respect, but are ultimately bested by the Predacon, who also destroys the Forge of Solus Prime and Magnus's hand. Optimus is able to save his men in the nick of time, while Shockwave finds the destruction of his lab and the presence of Synthetic Energon has produced [[Living metal|cyber-matter]]. {{storylink|Evolution}} Megatron decides to use this newfound discovery to rebuild the Omega Lock to cyberform Earth and restore Cybertron, believing the two planets to be two halves of one. While Starscream procures Earth technology for the project, the recently captured Soundwave brings Ratchet to Megatron to perfect the synthetic Energon formula. {{storylink|Minus One}} Raf and Wheeljack build a probe using Laserbeak's transponder that was broken off while capturing Ratchet, which will lead them to the ''Nemesis''. Megatron is able to persuade Ratchet to help produce the formula, having played to Ratchet's love for his home planet to override his justified reservations. {{storylink|Persuasion}} While the probe is destroyed by Starscream, it does not take long for Ratchet, Knock Out, and Shockwave to produce the formula, but Ratchet tries to make a run for it, only to be stopped by Megatron and tossed to Predaking for execution. Having caught Knock Out's slip of the tongue, Ratchet reveals Megatron's plot to exterminate the Predacons to Predaking, who goes on a rampage. Ratchet disables the ''Nemesis''<nowiki>'</nowiki> cloaking field, allowing the Autobots to storm the ship, just as Megatron is able to scrape a victory against Predaking by knocking him out of an airlock. {{storylink|Synthesis}}

[[File:Deadlock-Megatron-Decepticons-extinguished.jpg|upright=1.4|left|thumb|Soundwave, what's happening to my glow in the dark tattoo?!?]]
The Autobots wage their final battle to defeat the forces of the Decepticons, with Megatron facing Optimus with his Dark Star Saber, Ratchet fighting Shockwave, the Wreckers aiming to secure the bridge, and Arcee's Stealth Team bringing the Star Saber to Optimus. When the Wreckers are bridged away by Soundwave, Jack and an Apex Armor-clad Miko banish him to the Shadowzone. As the Omega Lock is activated, Bumblebee tries to get the Saber to Optimus, but is blasted to death by Megatron and falls into the pool of Cybermatter created by the Omega Lock. Though enraged by his scout's death, Optimus is beaten and is soon hanging off the edge of the Lock by Megatron... who is then run through with the Star Saber by the revived Bumblebee, whose voices has been restored as well. Megatron dies and his corpse falls to Earth, while Starscream, Shockwave, and the surviving Vehicons abandon ship. After a failed attempt at abandoning ship as well, Knock Out receives little welcome from the Autobots when he tries to switch sides as well. Now in command of the ''Nemesis'', Optimus has it journey to Cybertron, where the Omega Lock is fired into the core, reviving the planet at last. The Autobots bid farewell to their human family, with Ratchet staying on Earth to support Unit:E, and depart to rebuild their home. Meanwhile, Predaking, having clung to the warship's hull, flies off into the distance of this new world with intentions unknown... {{storylink|Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock}}

Sensing Primus's reawakening, Unicron returns and possesses Megatron's corpse as a new vessel to destroy his eternal nemesis. Optimus and Wheeljack set off to retrieve the [[AllSpark]], whilst Starscream and Shockwave brought online two new Predacons, [[Darksteel (Prime)|Darksteel]] and [[Skylynx (Prime)|Skylynx]] in an effort to defeat the Autobots with a new army of beasts. The two are successful in heavily damaging Ultra Magnus, prompting Ratchet to return to Cybertron to treat him and leadership falling upon Bumblebee's shoulders. Unicron makes his presence known, and following a battle with Predaking, learns of an ancient burial ground of Predacons. Predaking takes command over Darksteel and Skylynx, while Knock Out defects to the Autobots after tiring of Starscream's abuse. At the burial ground, the Chaos Bringer raises a new army of the undead to destroy Primus, prompting a desperate last stand from the united Autobots, Decepticons, and Predacons. Their efforts buy enough time for Optimus to return and take on Unicron, but after being defeated, takes the drastic measure of taking the AllSpark into the Matrix of Leadership. Unicron is tricked into having his ethereal form sealed into the AllSpark's container, finally ridding Megatron of his torturous possession. Now knowing what oppression truly is, Megatron officially disbands the Decepticons and departs, leaving Starscream as the last active Decepticon. His reign is short-lived, as the Predacons trap him to enact revenge for all the trouble he's caused them. The Autobots gather at the Well of All Sparks, where Optimus announces that merging the AllSpark with the Matrix means he must sacrifice his life to restore Cybertron's ability to create new life, assuring his saddened comrades that this is not an end, but only a new beginning - another transformation. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

Before Optimus can properly pass into the afterlife, his Spark is separated from the AllSpark by the [[Thirteen]] and brought to the [[Realm of the Primes]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}}

==After Cybertron's revival==
===Immediate fallout===
With Cybertron rejuvenated, the remainder of Team Prime meet up with the Dinobots and work together to subdue a rogue Predacon. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

Though his ''natural cunning and guile'', Starscream is able to kill both Skylynx and Darksteel via [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]'s intruder defence system. Exploring the fortress, he discovers the [[Weaponizer (RID)|Weaponizer]] Mini-Cons and makes plans to harvest their power before he reformats himself to his old body-style. After freeing the Mini-Cons, they manage to escape. {{storylink|Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness}} Starscream is subsequently presumed deceased by the Autobots but records of him survive. {{storylink|Mighty Big Trouble}}

As Cybertron rebuilds itself, a new High Council comes to govern the planet before [[Cyclonus (WFC)|Cyclonus]] and his troops overthrow them and take their place. Intending to restart the war and bring about the rebirth of the [[Decepticon Empire]], the five isolate Cybertron from the larger galaxy and blacklist any Autobot supporting Optimus Prime. Misinterpreting these actions as the will of the people, the Autobots do not protest and are subsequently given low positions in society. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}} Ratchet's vocal protests of these actions results in him being <s>exiled</s> given a job hunting war criminals that causes him to spend a substantial amount of time off Cybertron. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}}

The prison ship ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' is launched, housing dangerous Decepticon criminals, such as [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] and [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]]. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} As a result of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] pulling the strings from his prison dimension, {{storylink|Lockout}} the ship eventually crashes on Earth, deactivating its [[Stasis pod|stasis cells]] and unleashing hundreds of rogue Decepticons on the unsuspecting planet. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} Though the bow of the ship breaks off, the drive section remains largely intact and crashes in the bay outside [[Crown City]]. In the chaos, the freed Decepticons are able to overthrow the Mini-Con guards and seize control of the ship. Three Decepticons – [[Scorponok (WFC)|Scorponok]], [[Saberhorn]] and [[Glowstrike]] – manage to emerge as leaders and begin restoring the ''Alchemor'', intending to use the craft to plunder planets across the galaxy. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}}

===Post-''Alchemor'' crash===
Three years after Cybertron's rebirth, {{storylink|Uninvited Guest}} Bumblebee, now a lieutenant, was working as a beat cop while mentoring the Elite Guard cadet [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]. While chasing down the hoodlum [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]], Bumblebee receives a vision from Optimus Prime urging him to travel back to Earth. Bumblebee hijacks a space bridge, but finds himself burdened by the two young Autobots. The trio encounters the wreckage of the ''Alchemor'' and the Minicon [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]], who informs them about the dire circumstances. They eventually befriend the humans Denny and Russell Clay and, with the aid of [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]], successfully recapture the Decepticon [[Underbite]]. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} {{storylink|Pilot (Part 2)}}

The ambitious Steeljaw sees in Earth a chance to forge his own [[Decepticon Empire]]. His initial attempts at recruitment are thwarted by Strongarm and Sideswipe, {{storylink|Trust Exercises}} before he later recruits crime boss, [[Thunderhoof (RID)|Thunderhoof]]. {{storylink|As the Kospego Commands!}} Through the skills of [[Minitron]], Steeljaw recruits Underbite soon after. {{storylink|True Colors}}

The Autobot warrior [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] is eventually dispatched to Earth to investigate the ''Alchemor'' crash who discovers Bumblebee's team. After aiding them in subduing the Decepticon [[Ped (RID)|Ped]], Jazz returns to Cybertron, promising to smooth over Bumblebee's actions with the High Council. {{storylink|Can You Dig It?}} The High Council responds to Jazz's report by placing a bounty on Bumblebee's head with bounty hunters [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] and [[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]] travelling to Earth in an attempt to claim the Autobot. After becoming indebted to Bumblebee, Drift leaves Earth in peace. Fracture meanwhile is recruited into Steeljaw's Decepticon cell. {{storylink|Hunting Season}}

In the Realm of the Primes, Optimus Prime begins training, under [[Micronus Prime]], to combat the return of the Fallen. {{storylink|W.W.O.D.?}} {{storylink|Out of Focus}} {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}}

Steeljaw recruits the Decepticon blackmailer [[Clampdown (RID)|Clampdown]] who is instantly targeted by Thunderhoof in pursuit of revenge. The feud ends in all of [[Steeljaw's Pack]] being taken captive by the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] only for Steeljaw to endanger human lives, allowing the Decepticons to escape. {{storylink|Sideways (episode)|Sideways}}

After improperly polishing Drift's sword, [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] begins to fear for his life and hops in an escape pod back to Earth. Drift follows, eventually deciding to stay and help the Bee Team. {{storylink|One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing}} Approximately one month after the ''Alchemor'' crash, the team meets Windblade, who has been probably reactivated by [[Primus]] following Cybertron's rebirth. {{storylink|The Buzz on Windblade}} After a failed attempt at freeing the Decepticons captured by the Bee Team, Steeljaw is contacted by Megatronus and forced into servitude. {{storylink|Lockout}}

The ancient Prime forces Steeljaw to construct a modified GroundBridge into the [[Crown City Colossus]] via which he can escape his prison. The Thirteen return Optimus Prime to the physical world to the deal with the threat but he arrives too late to prevent Megatronus from escaping. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}} After dispatching Optimus, Megatronus attempts to merge the [[AllSpark]] with the remnants of the Anti-Spark in an attempt to destroy both Primus and Unicron before Optimus Prime destroys his [[spark fuser]]. After his destruction, Steeljaw's Pack is arrested while their leader, having been hurled away by the corrupt Prime, remains at large. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}}

The threat passed, Micronus Prime strips Optimus of the power the other Primes bestowed upon him. This act leaves Optimus severely weakened with the exotic energies in his frame taking the GroundBridge offline separating the Earth-bound Autobots for a time. {{storylink|Overloaded, Part 1}} {{storylink|Overloaded, Part 2}} Running across [[Kickback (RID)|Kickback]], Steeljaw attempts to recruit him once again only to be rebuked. Tailing the race car, Steeljaw discovers the Decepticon group operating out of the ''Alchemor''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s drive section and smooth talks his way into the upper echelons of command, {{storylink|Metal Meltdown}} eventually setting up Scorponok for a fall so he can accumulate more influence. {{storylink|Misdirection}}

Fixit's attempts to repair the GroundBridge accidentally result in Soundwave managing to free himself from the Shadowzone. Instantly subduing the Bee Team, and sending Bumblebee to the Shadowzone as revenge, Soundwave begins construction of a galactic transmitter to contact Megatron. Once again exploiting Soundwave's penchant for combat via GroundBridge portals, the Autobots are able to free Bumblebee from the Shadowzone and send Soundwave back into his prison. {{storylink|Portals}}

After the two Autobot teams reunite, they cross paths with Ratchet, inviting him to stay and aid them in figuring out the mystery of "Decepticon Island". Though the Autobots initially attempt to interrogate Clampdown, intelligence comes from the escaped [[Toolbox]] who reveals the Decepticons' plan and location. Concurrently, Steeljaw overthrows Glowstrike and Saberhorn, intending to make the capital in his reborn Decepticon Empire. The Autobots makes plans to detonate a [[stasis bomb]] and render all convicts into stasis lock. Though confronted by Steeljaw, now empowered by the power of three [[Decepticon Hunter]]s, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are able to detonate the bomb. With the ''Alchemor'' flight worthy once again, Ratchet and Windblade elect to join the Mini-Con crew in returning to Cybertron. Optimus Prime accompanies them, feeling a need to investigate the new regime on Cybertron. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 2)}}

During the flight back, Optimus makes contacts with several of his friends. {{storylink|Worthy}}

The Weaponizers, still fleeing Starscream, fall in line with a group of [[Scavengers (RID)|Scavengers]] eventually winding up on Earth. With Earth now largely Decepticon-free, Bumblebee takes time to show his team around his adopted homeworld. While on an educational field trip to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]], the Bee Team runs across [[Paralon (RID)|Paralon]] and [[Buzzstrike]]. {{storylink|History Lessons}} To track the Scavengers and Mini-Cons, the Autobots begin investigating sites of previous Cybertronian activity on Earth eventually coming to blows with [[Scatterspike (RID)|Scatterspike]] and [[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] at [[Mount St. Hilary]]. {{storylink|Strongarm's Big Score}}

The Scavengers eventually strike gold when they retrieve the [[Dark Star Saber]] but while they argue over their latest prize, the Weaponizers steal their shuttle. Concurrently, Starscream returns to Earth hunting down the Mini-Cons and claims the Dark Star Saber right out from under the Scavengers. Still seeking to possess the Mini-Cons, he has minions track down their signals and bring them to him. His minions bring him the wrong Mini-Cons but Fixit accidentally reveals Bumblebee is back on Earth. Using the Autobot Mini-Cons as hostages, Starscream is able to take Bumblebee hostage. Optimus Prime returns to Earth to provide aid. {{storylink|Mighty Big Trouble}} While tracking Starscream, the Autobots come across the Weaponizers and form a tentative alliance before the Scavengers return. The power unleashed during their battle alerts Starscream to their position and he manages to abduct six out of the seven Weaponizers. {{storylink|Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness}} The last of them, [[Tricerashot]] helps the Autobots defeat the Scavengers before he leads them to [[Starscream's ship]]. No sooner do they arrive does Starscream abduct him and merge himself with all seven Weaponizer Mini-Cons. An analysis of the machinery utilized reveals a way to undo this allowing the Autobots to free [[Aerobolt]] who [[powerlinx]]es with Optimus. With his power augmented, Optimus is able to hold Starscream off long enough for the other Mini-Cons to be freed though doing so leaves Starscream in vegetative state. Optimus departs back to Cybertron but not before revealing he is working with "old friends" to change the political situation on their home planet. {{storylink|Worthy}}

On Cybertron, the High Council's plans near completion. To keep the Bee Team occupied, they free Steeljaw and his pack, sending back to Earth with orders to kill, in exchange for a full pardon. {{storylink|Exiles}} Desiring to summon [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] back home, the Council genetically engineers a quartet of Activator Mini-Cons and sends them to Earth to free Soundwave from the shadowzone for his skills in communications. {{storylink|Collateral Damage}}

Concurrently, the Bee Team runs afoul of the unambitious [[Stunticon (Prime)|Stunticons]] who seek to "control [Earth's] roads" via automotive mayhem. {{storylink|King of the Hill (Part 1)}} {{storylink|King of the Hill (Part 2)}}

The team briefly cross paths with [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] {{storylink|Blurred}} who aids them for a while {{storylink|Sphere of Influence}} before returning to Griffin Rock. {{storylink|Bee Cool}} Drift's former mentor, [[Shadow Raker]], arrives on Earth seeking to reclaim Slipstream and Jetstorm. The two Mini-Cons feign loyalty to their old master who lowers his guard enough to be defeated and imprisoned. Afterwards, Drift promises his students more autonomy. {{storylink|Out of the Shadows}} Strongarm's old classmate, [[Nightra]] briefly stops by only to be imprisoned by [[Blastwave]] for her many crimes. {{storylink|Guilty As Charged}}

In their next confrontation, the Bee Team is met by the Stuncticon's combined form of [[Menasor (RID)|Menasor]] whom they manage to defeat with their own combined form, [[Ultra Bee]]. {{storylink|Combine and Conquer}} Optimus Prime then returns to Earth to seek Drift's aid in his quest, taking the defeated Stunticons back to Cybertron with them. {{storylink|Moon Breaker}}

Steeljaw's pack then strikes, decimating the scrapyard and forcing the Bee Team into hiding. {{storylink|Exiles}} The pack goes to work stealing the needed components for Soundwave but all but Steeljaw wind up captured following battles with the Autobots. In his anger, Steeljaw demands that Soundwave come collect the final components personally. {{storylink|Prisoner Principles}}

Acquiescing, Soundwave meets Steeljaw and reveals he is building a [[trans-galactic beacon generator]] to summon Megatron, which will irradiate Earth to the point of uninhabitability when activated. Though Steeljaw attempts to fight for his desired world, he is soundly defeated and sent running. With the aid of Optimus Prime, the Bee Team manages to defeat Soundwave before he can send his signal. Optimus returns to Cybertron, taking Soundwave as his prisoner. {{storylink|Collateral Damage}} Optimus then makes contact with [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] and orders him to Earth. {{storylink|Sick as a Bot}}

On Cybertron, the High Council develops mind control technology so as to use the Autobots as their new military force in rebuilding the [[Decepticon Empire]]. Using this technology, they send [[Dropforge]] and three of his officers to Earth to arrest the Bee Team only for Strongarm to free her mentor free of the signal. {{storylink|Five Fugitives}} Now far too recognizable to confront the Council directly, Optimus, and his team of All Stars, travel to Earth and inform the Bee Team that the High Council is preparing an invasion of Earth. The Bee Team travels to Cybertron, with Steeljaw as a stowaway, while Optimus's team hunts for the [[Space bridge|Space Bridge]] receiver. Though the Bee Team touches down on their homeworld, they are soon surrounded by the Council's forces. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

Dropforge then arrives to free them and directs them to the [[High Council Tower]]. Breaking into the Council chambers, the Bee Team discovers the Council's true Decepticon bodies and engages their combined form of [[Galvatronus (RID)|Galvatronus]] with Ultra Bee. On Earth, Optimus's team manages to destroy the Space Bridge much to Galvatronus's rage who rants off the Council's plans of conquest as Steeljaw and Fix-It disable the mind control. As a result of the hesitations of [[Cyberwarp]], the Bee Team is able to triumph and return Cybertron to Autobot control. Optimus declines rulership of Cybertron, instead placing the All Stars, as temporary rulers while the Bee Team returns to Earth as Cybertron's first ambassadors to the planet. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}

{{stub|All of Rescue Bots Academy}}

==Future==
At some point, all of humanity learns of the existence of Cybertronians.

[[Jules Verne]] returns to the future and brings an apparently amnesic [[Doctor Morocco|Thaddeus Morocco]] with him to [[Paris]] to show him the sights. {{storylink|The Last of Morocco}}

==Alternate timeline==
{{Note|The events of this timeline diverge from the main timeline at 1939 of the Modern Era, in which a great time travel incident both created and subsequently erased this new timeline. As the exact extent of all that was changed beyond the borders of Griffin Rock is not known, this section will only cover the known divergences.}}

===1939===
The [[Griffin Rock Technology Expo]] occurs, during which Griffin Rock scientists attempt to create a [[Temporal Station|time machine]], but are incapable of powering it up.{{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}

On [[August 17]], the day after the Temporal Station's decommissioning, a group of time-displaced individuals consisting of four Rescue Bot Autobots, the human children [[Cody Burns]] and [[Frankie Greene]], and the Helper Bot [[Dither]], accidentally travels through the time machine from the future. They are discovered by Dr. Morocco, who takes interest in the robots and begins to study them. The two kids are sent away, but escape and, along with Dither, recover the Autobots in Morocco's captivity. A surprise intervention by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, who subsequently followed the Rescue Bots through the time machine to help them, along with some assistance from [[Elma Hendrickson]], gives all of the time-travelers the chance to escape back to the future. However, a damaged Dither is accidentally left behind, and comes into Morocco's possession. {{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}

Studying Dither's future technology, Morocco falsely takes credit as the robot's inventor, redubbing it the MorBot 1.1. From this robot, Morocco gains great fame and power with the promise of technological prosperity for Griffin Rock. {{storylink|Bot to the Future}}

===Present day===
Morocco, having come to gain power over Griffin Rock, rules the now-dystopian island of "Moropolis" with an army of transformable MorBot mechanoids. {{storylink|It's a Bot Time}} {{storylink|Bot to the Future}} The Burns family are a family of mechanics, with Charlie Burns being a janitor at the [[Hall of Inspiration]], while all secretly heading a resistance movement against Morocco. Huxley Prescott is a taxi driver, Mr. Luskey owns a restaurant, no Cody Burns exists in this timeline, and no "Doc Greene" lives on the island. {{storylink|Bot to the Future}}

When the group of time-traveling Autobots and humans return from 1939 to the present, they find themselves in this timeline. The team splits up as Optimus and Bumblebee fend off the MorBots while the others seek answers. Learning of the altered history from the Hall of Inspiration, the group meets this timeline's Charlie Burns, who is suspicious of them at first, but eventually comes to aid them. The team accompanies Charlie back to his home, but Morocco has caught wind of their arrival. The Burns siblings are also initially skeptical of the newcomers, but agree to help once their home is attacked. As Morocco is about to destroy the fire house, the Burns family unveil its new secret weapon: The [[Mobile Headquarters]]. After a great battle, all six Autobots and the Burns family arrive at the Temporal Station. The departing time travelers are given the MHQ as a parting gift and vanish through the portal back to 1939, just as Morocco arrives and crashes his MorBot. {{storylink|Bot to the Future}}

{{Note|From here, the team retrieves Dither from 1939 and returns to the present in their corrected timeline, thus erasing this timeline from existence.}}

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Montage of notable events and eras in the [[Aligned timeline]].

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[[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]], [[Alchemist Prime|Alchemist Prime]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|"Thirteen"]], and [[Onyx Prime|Onyx Prime]] at the [[Well of All Sparks]], as seen in ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus]]''
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[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] attack from [[Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters (comic)|Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters]]
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{{RID2015cap|The [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]].|Overloaded, Part 1|6}}
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Montage of notable events and eras in the [[Aligned timeline]].

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[[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]], [[Alchemist Prime|Alchemist Prime]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|"Thirteen"]], and [[Onyx Prime|Onyx Prime]] at the [[Well of All Sparks]], as seen in ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus]]''
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{{Primecap|[[Team Prime]] investigate the remains of the [[Energon]] deposit, where [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] disappeared.|Darkness Rising, Part 1|0}}
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Transformers (2023) issue 1

2024-12-17T14:19:50Z

AzureNight:

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|coverdate=October 2023
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'''After centuries of slumber, the Autobots and Decepticons awaken on a strange new world.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] finds his father, [[Sparkplug Witwicky|"Sparky" Witwicky]], asleep in a bar. Spike asks his father how long he’s been there, to which [[Danny]] the bartender answers since noon. Sparky notices that Spike has his brother [[Jimmy Witwicky|Jimmy]]'s telescope with him. Spike tells him that he and [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] were planning to go up to [[Hanger's Rock]] to look at the full moon. He says it helps him remember Jimmy, to which Sparky grouses that it's better to just forget. Spike fires back at his father, telling him he won't end up like Jimmy. Meanwhile, [[Jerry (G1)|another patron]] is drunkenly ranting about how he saw a giant boxy jet fly down from space. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Sparky's co-worker, [[Davey]], here to pick him up for their shifts. Sparky tells Spike that he has to grow up eventually, to which Spike angrily asks if he means being like him. As the adults drive off, Carly arrives to pick Spike up in her van. Carly consoles a dejected Spike by suggesting they go "pretend they're on another planet."

At Hanger's Rock, the pair climb the mountain in search of a better view and discuss their future ambitions. Spike has recently been accepted to the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he wishes to follow in Jimmy's footsteps and become an astronaut, though he's reluctant to actually tell his father about it since Jimmy's death. Carly, meanwhile, has been looking at art schools, but she and her father are struggling to make it work financially. Carly takes Spike's hand in hers, telling him how sorry she is about what’s going on with his family. As the two teenagers lean in closer, an earthquake shakes the ground, causing the mountain to split open and sending the two plummeting into the depths below. Recovering, they find themselves inside a giant circular structure — the booster of [[Ark (G1)|a giant spacecraft]]. Spike ventures further inside the spacecraft and finds the main control room, littered with the mangled bodies of what appears to be some sort of giant robots.

[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] flies into the ''Ark'' and transforms, grateful to have found his fallen friends. He activates [[Teletraan I|Teletraan One]] to repair and reconstruct his fellow Cybertronians, granting them new forms he found on [[Earth]]. The first to be reactivated is [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Jetfire warmly greets his old friend, having not seen him in centuries. Starscream thanks Jetfire for waking him and says that he's glad he "picked the right side" before immediately turning to the nearby [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and blasting his head off. The stunned Jetfire, unaware that their people have been at war for the past hundred years, tries to stop him, but Starscream turns his weapons on his old friend for showing weakness. Starscream aims his weapon at [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] next, but he is stopped by a reconstructed [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]!

As the [[Autobot]] leader and [[Decepticon]] warrior fight, Prime notices the humans and instinctively dives to protect them from Starscream’s fire. Starscream's attack is halted by the intervention of [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], right as Teletraan One reconstructs [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. Realizing the computer is reconstructing them randomly, Starscream tells Skywarp to bring their fellow Decepticons closer. Optimus realizes that the Decepticons will outnumber them and orders a retreat, telling Ratchet to load their fellow Autobots into his new form's trailer while he fends off their opponents. He reaches for his [[ion blaster]] but is intercepted by cannon fire from a revived [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. As he recovers, he sees Bumblebee's remains, cradling him in despair before being beset by Starscream and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. Seeing this, Spike and Carly run out and push Prime's blaster to him, allowing him to fight back.

[[File:TF2023 – Prime & Ratchet vehicle modes.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Left with no choice, Optimus fires at Teletraan One, destroying the computer and preventing the remaining Decepticons from being reconstructed. As Teletraan explodes, Optimus grabs Carly and Spike. He and Ratchet transform and drive out of the ''Ark'' into the mountains below, Starscream and Skywarp in hot pursuit despite their low [[energon]] levels. Jetfire regains consciousness and follows after them, firing on Starscream much to his regret. Starscream volleys back, critically wounding Jetfire. Fortunately for the Autobots, Skywarp begins to run out of energy and the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] are forced to retreat.

Needing to recuperate, Spike leads the Autobots to an abandoned quarry. As he succumbs to his injuries, Jetfire apologizes to Optimus; so much has changed since he left Cybertron in hopes of saving it. Optimus tries to use the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to heal Jetfire, but Ratchet tells him that his injuries are too great. Optimus grips his old friend's hand as he passes, still lamenting his failure.

Back in the ''Ark'', Soundwave reports to Starscream that he is unable to fix Teletraan One, as they lack both the energon and the raw materials necessary. Until it is repaired, they are the only Decepticons left. Soundwave has already sent [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] to scout for possible energon sources, but the job of harvesting it falls to Starscream since he has the most energon reserved. Begrudgingly, Starscream accepts. After all, he is leader of the Decepticons now.

As Davey and Sparky end their shift at the nearby power plant, Davey tries to talk to Sparky about his recent troubles, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Starscream, irritated he has to be the one doing all the work. The pair try to escape, but Starscream notices them. Sparky hides inside the plant, while Davey is snatched up by the giant alien. Starscream smiles to himself as he crushes Davey in his hand, amused at how fragile, squishy, and pathetic the humans are.

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==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
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* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (11)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (12)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (13)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (14)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (15)
* [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (16)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (18)
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]’s arm (19)

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* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (8)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (9)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (10)
* [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (20)
* [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (21)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (22)

|c3=
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky|"Sparky" Witwicky]] (1)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (3)
* [[Danny]] (4)
* [[Jerry (G1)|Jerry]] (5)
* [[Davey]] (6)
* [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] (7)

|c4=
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (17)
}}

==Quotes==
"Where are you going? Isn't that... Jimmy's?" 
"Yeah. Carly and I were going to check out the full moon tonight, remember? On top of Hanger's Rock?" 
"Looking at '''stars''' again, huh?" 
"Doing this kind of thing... it reminds me of him." 
"Why would you want to remember? It's best to '''forget''' all that." 
"Is that how you're gonna '''live''' now? Just pretending he didn't '''exist?'''" 
:—'''Sparky''' and '''Spike''' touch on their trauma

"You must forgive me. I have been away for centuries. I did not know about the war. I did not know you were the new Prime..." 
"I remember the day you left our home to find a way to save it." 
"And you... were so young then." 
"Much has changed since you left our planet. All for the worse." 
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Optimus Prime''' rekindle their friendship

"Why are you all looking at '''me?'''" 
"You have the most energon reserved. Thus the harvesting is up to '''you.''' It's what Meg---" 
"'''Do not''' say his name. '''I''' am the leader of the Decepticons now."
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Soundwave'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Jetfire's arrival on Earth follows from his awakening in [[Void Rivals issue 1|the first issue]] of ''[[Void Rivals]]''. How long he was asleep exactly is a little unclear. In ''Void Rivals'', he mentions being stranded for millions of years, but here he says he was away for merely centuries. Due to the syntax used, it could be that Jetfire was ''searching'' for centuries but ''asleep'' for millions of years. The following issue confirms the centuries time frame, making ''Void Rivals'' use of millions of years the outlier.
* Cybertron's energon shortage was hinted at by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] in ''Void Rivals'' [[Void Rivals issue 4|#4]].
* After being attacked by Starscream, Jetfire is seen leaking yellow fluid. This would appear to confirm that the yellow fuel used by [[Darak]] and [[Solila]] to reactivate him was indeed energon.
* Soundwave and Starscream allude to the absence of the usual Decepticon leader, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Hmm... [[Cobra Commander (comic)|where could he be]]?
* Yes, Bumblebee's really dead, having been destroyed by Starscream. The other Transformers, including those like Thundercracker whose reassembly is interrupted, are just offline.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Thundercracker's not killed, he just was not fully built. [...] S'not like I shot him in the heart or something. Just FYI.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3774s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>

===Transformers references===
* Like with ''Void Rivals'', this new series draws heavy influence from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]]:
** The character designs all pull directly from Generation 1.
** The ''Ark'' crashing into a mountain and the Autobots and Decepticons being repaired by Teletraan One is lifted from the premiere episode, "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]", right down to one of the Decepticons being reactivated first. The "error" of the Transformers having their Earth-inspired designs before they receive their Earth alternate modes is also carried over.
** Spike, Sparkplug, and Carly were all major characters in the Generation 1 cartoon, though they have been heavily reimagined, especially Carly. Sparkplug's name is shortened to just "Sparky".
** Starscream and Jetfire/Skyfire being old friends, Jetfire helping Starscream out of ignorance to the war, as well as Jetfire dying after dogfighting Starscream, brings to mind "[[Fire in the Sky]]."
* Optimus Prime gains the upper hand over Starscream with a fist and a resounding "never", similar to ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Real-world references===
* Sparky's flashbacks on the first page of the issue features imagery of Sparky in a conflict much like the [[Vietnam War]] and the explosion of a space shuttle reminiscent of the {{w|Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster}}; based on the context, it seems likely that Jimmy was one of the victims in the latter. Whether these are meant to literally be those events (which would suggest the comic is actually supposed to be set in the 1980s) or merely stylistic renderings of purely fictional events remains to be seen.
* Appropriately, Sparky is drinking at a {{w|Veterans of Foreign Wars|VFW}} bar.
* Carly's van art features several staples of van murals, such as a wizard inspired by {{w|Gandalf}} from ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'', a barbarian resembling {{w|Conan the Barbarian|Conan}}, and a fantasy castle and dragon.
* Optimus Prime enters the scene by ''clotheslining'' Starscream—this being the signature move of "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada, one of DWJ's favorite wrestlers.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=And of course, next we have a rainmaker clothesline, as one does. This is a wrestling move, this is one of my favorite wrestlers, Kazuchika Okada from New Japan Pro Wrestling. Of course, you know, the rainmaker, the lariat, is not new in professional wrestling, and by the end of this series it will not be new to Transformers.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2508s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref><ref>[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34jfv6 Kazuchika Okada's Finisher- Rainmaker on Dailymotion]</ref>

===Storytelling notes===
As both writer and artist on this ''Transformers'' series, Daniel Warren Johnson has a rare level of creative freedom while composing the issue and using the art to tell the story. Some of these creative choices were covered in a "director's commentary" livestream on his YouTube channel; key insights are reproduced here alongside our own analysis of the issue.
* DWJ keeps a copy of [[IP infringement|Magic Square]]'s "Light of Peace" figure close at hand, which influences his take on Optimus Prime.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This is the Optimus Prime figure that Magic Square put out this past year in 2023. It's an update, so it has a new head sculpt, it looks just like the movie, the '86 movie which of course has been my bible. He looks so good that you can actually like, kind of pose him, and he looks pretty dynamic. And I knew that, man, if the toy looks this cool in real life, then I can make him look really cool... like look at this, it looks great, he looks kind of alive.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=798s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> He notes that he specifically avoids having Prime's "boots" flare out at all; he tries to draw them perfectly straight.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Another thing that I'll notice, that I'll give you a little preview of things to come artwise: you'll see Optimus's legs, you know, traditionally, you know, he's got kind of the 1970s design aesthetic here, which I think the Marvel Comics did, where, you know, the leg kind of comes out... like so it makes kind of like a boot cut kind of style for his like lower half of his leg. And I hate drawing that. I hate drawing that. Look how straight these legs are. As this series goes on you're going to see these legs get straighter and straighter. It's a stylistic thing something that I've been kind of like- it's been bugging me about drawing Optimus Prime, and it's just, I cannot stand drawing those legs widening out at the bottom. It's like, something about it, it just like, makes my eyes hurt. I've never liked it in the comics, it always read weird to me that they got wider. Some characters- like I remember when practicing, I was drawing Jazz. Jazz gets really wide, and if it's like, if it's really confident, like big and chunky, or Cliffjumper, big, chunky, no big deal. This? Like, Optimus's legs going wider? It just like, is it going wider is it not going w- anyway these are the ramblings of a crazy lunatic comic book artist.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2699s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* His primary ''Transformers'' comics influence comes from [[Marvel Comics]] and [[Dreamwave Productions]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I wanted to just highlight this poster that I had in my bedroom when I was like 16, when Pat Lee made this imagery. You know, I was a huge ''Transformers'' fan of course when I was growing up, and I read mostly the Marvel Comics, 'cause that was the only thing that was available at the time, and here we have the Pat Lee comics of course that Dreamwave put out. I was so excited, I thought it looked awesome. I still do appreciate its blockiness now. So this is another reason why I wanted to do the project, 'cause like I just remember these feelings, and these like super bright colors that like were so awesome... and just being excited with like every cover, and I just felt like a kid. [...] And of course this image, like this is very satisfying, I knew I didn't want to get this bulbous with the designs, but you know I can't say I wasn't influenced by the absolutely outlandishness of these kind of like larger-than-life characters, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=997s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> In the case of the latter, we'll note that [[Prime Directive|their opening miniseries]] prominently featured the ''[[Ark II]]'' disaster which drew heavily from the real-world Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster.
* The first page of the story consists of five vertically-stacked cinematic landscape panels, with Sparky's flashbacks interspersed by a panel of the Ark crashing and of Prime's deactivated body. This gives us an idea of what's been going through Sparky's mind at the bar. In particular, the panel of Optimus Prime is bookended by Spike's offscreen dialogue getting his dad's attention; Prime is often positioned as something of a father figure in wider pop culture.
** At Hasbro's request, DWJ avoided being too specific as to the conflict being shown.<ref name=HasbroMandates>{{citesocial|quote=So here we've got the first page, and you can kind of see here, Hasbro wanted me to be be very like... don't show what kind of war it is... which is fine, and I did have to change these engines from three engines, which I just thought was a little cleaner, to five engines, like the Ark is, so I didn't think they'd care that much about being on model when it came to the Ark but they did!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0?t=1316s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
** DWJ wanted to streamline the Ark's design to have just three rear thrusters, but Hasbro insisted on it having five,<ref name=HasbroMandates /> necessitating the digital addition of two more to the later splash page of the ship's engines.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So again, I had to make a bit of an edit. The original art has just three engines, so I had to add these digitally—which I did not want to do, but Hasbro wanted it, so, okay, you know? It's okay, it's okay, it's all right, it is what it is...|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1845s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* The second page aims to bring the story into reality,<ref name=Page2>{{citesocial|quote=I really wanted to go all in on the first half of this page, and like really sell to you how lived in this world is. Even though it's a ''Transformers'' book it was very important to me that we got a vibe and a sense of where the human characters come from. And there's nothing more fun, than drawing the heck out of, than like a crappy VW hall. [...] It was a hard thing to draw, but it was also fun. I had to kind of photobash a bunch of different VFW bars—obviously didn't want to take from any one specifically, or any one bar specifically, just kind of taking the best of everything and kind of combining it into one. And this bartender, Danny the bartender, I'm a big fan of, he just kind of stands there. And of course the old guy that maybe has seen something crazy... total shout out to—even his like haircut is the same as, and the hat, as—''{{w|The Iron Giant}}'', so a little shout out there. [...] It doesn't really [take place in a specific time period like the '80s or '90s] in my opinion, there might be other people in the Energon Universe that have a different time, we don't really have a time period in place. I find time periods in comics like ''Transformers'' to be completely unnecessary. If I'm trying to make historical fiction then of course it is important, but when it comes to making things like the Transformers I have just never cared. JFK is not getting assassinated in the background on television here, so it's just not part of the story. But you will notice there's no cell phones, so. But that's cuz I hate writing stories with cell phones in them.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1406s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> with much more detailed panels of varying shapes and sizes, and a muted earthen color palette.
** DWJ took reference from several different {{w|Veterans of Foreign Wars|VFW}} bars to arrive at the location seen in the comic.<ref name=Page2 />
** As Spike and Sparky exit, the cluttered interior gives way to the orange evening sky, with the generous negative space often physically separating Spike from his distant father.
** DWJ notes that the final panel of this spread is technically wrong; based on the perspective of the scene, Spike should be sinking into the ground. This was necessary so as not to obscure Carly's van,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I have a bit of a goof, a bit of a mistake [...] if you actually like do the perspective here, the way it should be done, it makes no sense. He would be sinking into the ground, he's like in quicksand right now, but I could not figure out a better dynamic shot choice that would show Carly and her artistic ability with this van. Like I tried to do it like this way, and it didn't really work, because it covered up too much of the van, and I realized just how big he would have to be, like his whole face would have to be like over here and it just didn't work. I wanted him to be in the middle, but then it also didn't make sense. So I was just like beating my head against the wall like, I hope this is okay, I hope people don't notice.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0?si=QxISYwvu5QpUEbhw&t=1516s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> which is the same model of vehicle that appears in DWJ's previous original comic series ''[https://www.skybound.com/murder-falcon Murder Falcon]''.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Of course the dragon wagon, the van used in ''Murder Falcon''.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1578s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> Mike Spicer has coloured the van using blue-pink tones, strongly contrasting with the orange otherwise dominating the spread. As we turn the page, these nighttime hues take over the story, marking the beginning of a transition towards the unreal.
* The mountain landscape was drawn to resemble that of an alien planet, to highlight the feeling of "otherworldliness".<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This also is one of my favorite panels in the book. I wanted to start getting a little crazy, a little more intense with the shot choices, to kind of start getting us into the vibe of otherworldliness. This looks a little bit like they're exploring Mars, that was the goal, completely clear sky, really pushing the envelope when it comes to dynamic composition.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1635s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* As the earthquake begins, we get the first instance of hand-lettered sound effects, drawn into the lineart by DWJ. These appear more prominently and frequently as we transition towards comic-book action.
[[File:TF2023 1 Splash pages composition.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2|Diagram illustrating DWJ's intended flow for the back-to-back splash pages.]]
* The reveal of the Ark is paired across the two-page spread with another splash page of the deactivated Autobots. DWJ hoped to create a seamless transition, with the reader's gaze travelling down towards the inset panels at the bottom left, then following Spike and Carly across to the right, before travelling up into the scene.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This was a goal, this was the goal: to have these pages be bleeding into each other. [...] You know I don't like to do this very often, you have like two splash pages back-to-back, because they kind of like... it gets a little messy here. But you know I usually like- if I have a big splash here [on the left], I'll usually have something a little more reserved over here [on the right], and I won't have it bleed over to the left side of the page. But with here, you'll actually notice that I was trying to get people to read from... obviously you're reading here, then you go down, left to right, into this bottom part of the page, and have your eye trail up instead of going over here [diagonally across the center fold] to the top. So I was using these kind of inset panels to kind of get you to read that way.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1985s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> Mike Spicer's coloring (exaggerated in the diagram on the right) again reinforces this intent, with the blue shade of the rocks at the bottom of the right-hand page carrying over from the left-hand page.
** Meanwhile, all of the lines of perspective inside the room point outside, where a tiny Jetfire can be seen approaching.
* Jetfire is one of Robert Kirkman's favorite Transformers, and his role in this series came entirely from Robert Kirkman's broad-strokes outline.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So, full disclosure: Robert Kirkman came up with the Jetfire idea. Jetfire is one of Robert's favorite Transformers, and that's why he was chosen. He's also like part of the lore and it was kind of like in this big outline that Jetfire was the one that comes in and finds the Autobots on Earth in the Ark- Autobots and Decepticons. But he doesn't have knowledge about the war. So you know I can't give away too much, but that was a Robert Kirkman call, and I was happy to do it. I was a little afraid about drawing Jetfire at first, but I'm actually- of course I write the script first where he dies, because it's just what the story needed, but then as I got to drawing him I was like, "I really like drawing this guy, I'm so sad I have to kill him!"|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3301s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* The shock death of Bumblebee was a deliberate choice, as DWJ felt like audiences would be getting a little tired of seeing Bumblebee everywhere. Surprisingly, Hasbro felt the same way, and themselves asked if there was a way to write Bumblebee out of the series! DWJ also apparently doesn't enjoy drawing Bumblebee, which informed the decision,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Let me be totally honest about the Bumblebee page, let me address this. I do really- I do like Bumblebee. I don't like drawing Bumblebee, I don't like those rivets in his arms. That's not the only reason why he had to go, I just honestly wanted to change things up. I just wanted to change things up, and I had seen a lot of Bumblebee, I think we all have, in a lot of ''Transformers'' media, and I just thought it would be a fun little swerve. And this is actually funny, our contact over at Hasbro was also a little tired of seeing Bumblebee everywhere, and he actually asked, before he saw my script, he's like, "is there any way we can not use Bumblebee in the main line?" And I told him, I was like, "I got good news for you!" He had to go, he had to go. Sorry Bumblebee fans, sorry to let you down like that, I am so sorry. They are Transformers, maybe they'll come back... but not for a long time. It's Cliff's time baby! You said it!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2545s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> which perhaps doesn't bode too well for Cliffjumper!
* When Starscream turns on Jetfire, DWJ struggled to get the composition exactly right, as he was limited by the need to make it explicitly clear that Jetfire was gravely wounded.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I wanted to make sure that everybody knew that Jetfire was gravely injured by this blast, which means I couldn't really white it out, had to be clear.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2498s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* Prime uses several wrestling moves on Starscream; DWJ had previously created the original comic series ''[https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/do-a-powerbomb Do A Powerbomb!]'', which had a central theme of loss—a motif which recurs throughout this first ''Transformers'' issue.
* As Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker look identical in black-and-white, DWJ labels them in his lineart so colorist Mike Spicer can easily distinguish.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Also notice the color notes I had to leave for Mike, because Skywarp and Starcream look exactly alike in black and white.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2839s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* Prime instinctively knowing about his trailer, and its sudden appearance in the story, is a riff on classic media where Prime's trailer would often appear and disappear out of nowhere per the needs of the story.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This is a little shoutout to like, the not-making-any-sense of ''Transformers'', where you know, very conveniently, this trailer just shows up out of nowhere. So you know, Prime's like, "What are we going to do?" and he's like, "We could use my trailer!" Look sometimes you just have to have fun and not think too much about the story.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3131s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* As Prime's face is uniquely inexpressive, DWJ had to get creative to show his emotions to the reader, relying a lot on the character's eyes. Additionally, he tries to channel Prime's feelings through Spike.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Optimus is a character that does not emote—less so than even the rest of the cast, because of the face shield, because so much of his face is taken up, and he's really only got those eyes to work with. And I found that I was needing a way to channel Optimus through something, and I'm kind of trying to channel that through Spike, if you can't tell. I have a tendency to not be subtle, so... in life and in comics.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3516s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> When Spike sees Prime kneeling over Bumblebee's body, it seems that he recognises the grief this alien robot is experiencing.
* Amongst the many creative sound effects in this sequence, we have highlights like "GRAPPLE" and "ROLL" accompanying the action. Clicks and buzzes fill the air together with the floating components as the Transformers are reassembled.
* DWJ contrived the situation where Spike and Carly need to push Prime's gun into his reach as a way of giving the human characters agency during the action sequence.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sliding the gun! Super fun! I rewrote this scene a few times because the humans were just sitting, screaming, you know? Spike and Carly like, "Oh my god, what's happening!?" behind some rocks, and I was like, "They need to have some agency, they need to get involved somehow." And so that is why I had them push the gun, and it forces action, it just forces movement in a story, it gives Spike personality and like bravery, and I'm very happy with this moment. It's very hard to not just write fight scenes where it's just like fight fight fight fight fight, and finding new ways to tie everybody together, and I wish I had more time to do this but of course we work in genre fiction where there are deadlines, and sometimes that can't happen, but I was glad that I was able to figure this one out.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3543s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> The "SKRKK" sound effect of the gun scraping along the floor is drawn to follow the lines of action.
* When Prime gives the order to "Transform and roll out!", the ''entire comic'' shifts to a landscape orientation, requiring you to physically turn the comic in your hands. This is awesome.
* Ratchet's updated alternate mode came simply from a dissatisfaction with his classic Nissan look.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Any reason you went with a more modern style van, a Ford Transit rather than the traditional Nissan Vanette for Ratchet? You know what, I just didn't like the way the Nissan looked, so I just, I really wanted something different. I just wanted something different, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2966s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* DWJ was keen to develop the Decepticons beyond their classic cartoonishly-evil characterisation, with a key example in this issue being Soundwave's clear concern for the injured Ravage.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's all about this, baby. It's all about trying to give some... you know... something other than... "The Decepticons are all evil, raah!" Like, Soundwave is a bad dude—but man, he loves his tapes, and one of these tapes is hurting bad and he's feeling real bad about it.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=4410s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* For Davey's gruesome death at the hand of Starscream, Hasbro requested it occur off-panel. The beat was intended to clearly set the stakes of the comic without being egregiously gory,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Hasbro asked for Davey to be killed offscreen, which I was totally fine with. Did want to get kind of messy with it, though, because I did want to kind of make a little bit of a statement. You know, it's a book that your kids can read, but you know, not everybody's going to make it, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=4593s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> and seems to mark a major turning point for Sparky.

===Errors===
* Bumblebee's body is seen near Optimus Prime’s trailer, despite him being across the ship near Teletraan One when Starscream blew his head open.
* When Starscream is forced to break off his pursuit of the Autobots, his speech balloon is pointing to Skywarp.

===Other trivia===
* Prior to its official release, an ashcan copy of this issue was available exclusively at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2023. The ashcan had certain pages taken out to prevent spoilers, as well as featuring concept art and designs for various characters.
* In early solicitations for this issue, the cover had an original logo with blue text broken over two lines;<ref>[https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG230407 ''Transformers'' #1 CVR A JOHNSON on PREVIEWSworld]</ref> the final cover uses the standard modern logo, leaving some unsightly negative space above Prime's head. This was changed at the request of Hasbro.
* This issue sold out at the distributor level before it was even officially released, prompting Skybound to announce a second printing the day before it hit retailer shelves.
* ''Transformers'' #1 was the best-selling comic issue of 2023, according to ICv2 industry sales estimates.<ref>[https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/56290/top-50-comics-full-year-2023 ICv2: Top 50 Comics - Full Year 2023]</ref>

===Covers===
With well over 50 to choose from, ''Transformers'' #1 features more variant covers than any other single ''Transformers'' comic issue ''by a long shot''.
{{comicstub|50/100 covers documented}}
* '''Cover A:''' Optimus Prime emerges from an explosion, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover B:''' The Autobots, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C:''' The Decepticons, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover D:''' Optimus Prime destroys Starscream, by [[Ryan Ottley]] and [[Annalisa Leoni]].
* '''Cover E (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover, by [[Orlando Arocena]].
* '''Cover F (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Optimus leaps on Starscream to save Carly's van as Laserbeak and Ravage attack, by [[Cliff Chiang]].
* '''Cover G (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Optimus Prime, by [[Francis Manapul]].
* '''Cover H (1:100 Copy Incentive Foil):''' Starscream holds Bumblebee’s head, by [[Ian Bertram]] and [[Gus Storms]].
* '''Cover I:''' Blank sketch cover.
* '''San Diego Comic-Con Ashcan cover A:''' Spike atop Optimus Prime, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
* '''San Diego Comic-Con Ashcan cover B:''' Black-and-white version, only available at Skybound's Energon Universe convention panel.
* '''Big Clutch/[[eBay]] exclusive:''' Foil variant of main cover A. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Felix Comic Art exclusive A:''' Wraparound variant of Optimus Prime playing basketball against the Decepticons, by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Felix Comic Art exclusive B:''' Black-and-white virgin variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Stadium Comics exclusive:''' by [[Santa Fung]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Comic Grail Vault exclusive A:''' by [[Von Randal]] and [[Alex Guimarães]]. Limited to 800 copies.
* '''Comic Grail Vault exclusive B:''' Foil variant.
* '''Alan Quah exclusive:''' by [[Alan Quah]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Hector Trunnec New York Comic Con exclusive:''' by [[Hector Trunnec]]. Limited to 400 copies.
* '''East Side Comics exclusive:''' by [[DarlsDraws]]. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''Whatnot exclusive A:''' by [[Siya Oum]].
* '''Whatnot exclusive B:''' Foil variant.
* '''TransMissions Podcast exclusive:''' by [[E. J. Su]].
* '''MFKiG exclusive:''' by [[Ainsworth Lin]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Forbidden Planet exclusive A:''' by [[Flaviano]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Forbidden Planet exclusive B:''' Virgin variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Memory Lane Comics exclusive:''' by [[Hayden Sherman]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Rod Reis New York Comic Con exclusive:''' by [[Rod Reis]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics exclusive A:''' by [[Rafael Grassetti]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics exclusive B:''' Virgin variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics exclusive C:''' Foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies, exclusively at New York Comic Con 2023.
* '''Matthew Roberts exclusive:''' by [[Matthew Roberts]].
* '''Mike Bowden New York Comic Con exclusive:''' by [[Mike Bowden]] and [[Pez Fred]]. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles exclusive A:''' by [[John Giang]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles exclusive B:''' Foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Wanted Comix / Rupps Comics / JJ's Comics & Art / Big Clutch exclusive A:''' by [[Maria Wolf]] & Mike Spicer. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Wanted Comix / Rupps Comics / JJ's Comics & Art / Big Clutch exclusive B:''' Virgin variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Wanted Comix / Rupps Comics / JJ's Comics & Art / Big Clutch exclusive C:''' Foil variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Juni Ba exclusive A:''' by [[Juni Ba]]. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Juni Ba exclusive B:''' Foil variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Seibertron.com exclusive:''' by [[Marco Ferrari]].
* '''The 616 Comics exclusive:''' by [[Vincenzo Federici]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Francesco Tomaselli New York Comic Con exclusive:''' by [[Francesco Tomaselli]]. Limited to 900 copies.
* '''Condemned Comics exclusive:''' by [[Christopher Mitten]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Skottie Young exclusive:''' by [[Skottie Young]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Skottie Young exclusive second printing:''' Virgin foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Ryan Barry exclusive A:''' by [[Ryan Barry]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Ryan Barry exclusive B:''' Foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Things From Another World exclusive:''' by [[Frédéric Pham Chuong]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Second Printing Variant Cover A:''' Optimus Prime, by [[Jason Howard]].
* '''Second Printing Variant Cover B:''' Starscream, by Jason Howard.
* '''Second Printing Variant Cover C:''' The 'Bots, by [[Lewis LaRosa]] and [[Rico Renzi]].
* '''Second Printing Variant Cover D:''' The 'Cons, by Lewis LaRosa and Rico Renzi.
* '''Second Printing Variant Cover E:''' Bumblebee's fate, by [[Greg Tocchini]].
* '''Third Printing Variant Cover:''' by [[Gerald Parel]].
* '''Fourth Printing Variant Cover:''' by [[Clayton Henry]].

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==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0 Director's commentary by Daniel Warren Johnson]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Transformers (2023) issues]]

Transformers (2023) issue 1

2024-11-12T14:42:01Z

AzureNight: /* Covers */

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'''After centuries of slumber, the Autobots and Decepticons awaken on a strange new world.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] finds his father, [[Sparkplug Witwicky|"Sparky" Witwicky]], asleep in a bar. Spike asks his father how long he’s been there, to which [[Danny]] the bartender answers since noon. Sparky notices that Spike has his brother [[Jimmy Witwicky|Jimmy]]'s telescope with him. Spike tells him that he and [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] were planning to go up to [[Hanger's Rock]] to look at the full moon. He says it helps him remember Jimmy, to which Sparky grouses that it's better to just forget. Spike fires back at his father, telling him he won't end up like Jimmy. Meanwhile, [[Jerry (G1)|another patron]] is drunkenly ranting about how he saw a giant boxy jet fly down from space. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Sparky's co-worker, [[Davey]], here to pick him up for their shifts. Sparky tells Spike that he has to grow up eventually, to which Spike angrily asks if he means being like him. As the adults drive off, Carly arrives to pick Spike up in her van. Carly consoles a dejected Spike by suggesting they go "pretend they're on another planet."

At Hanger's Rock, the pair climb the mountain in search of a better view and discuss their future ambitions. Spike has recently been accepted to the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he wishes to follow in Jimmy's footsteps and become an astronaut, though he's reluctant to actually tell his father about it since Jimmy's death. Carly, meanwhile, has been looking at art schools, but she and her father are struggling to make it work financially. Carly takes Spike's hand in hers, telling him how sorry she is about what’s going on with his family. As the two teenagers lean in closer, an earthquake shakes the ground, causing the mountain to split open and sending the two plummeting into the depths below. Recovering, they find themselves inside a giant circular structure — the booster of [[Ark (G1)|a giant spacecraft]]. Spike ventures further inside the spacecraft and finds the main control room, littered with the mangled bodies of what appears to be some sort of giant robots.

[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] flies into the ''Ark'' and transforms, grateful to have found his fallen friends. He activates [[Teletraan I|Teletraan One]] to repair and reconstruct his fellow Cybertronians, granting them new forms he found on [[Earth]]. The first to be reactivated is [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Jetfire warmly greets his old friend, having not seen him in centuries. Starscream thanks Jetfire for waking him and says that he's glad he "picked the right side" before immediately turning to the nearby [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and blasting his head off. The stunned Jetfire, unaware that their people have been at war for the past hundred years, tries to stop him, but Starscream turns his weapons on his old friend for showing weakness. Starscream aims his weapon at [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] next, but he is stopped by a reconstructed [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]!

As the [[Autobot]] leader and [[Decepticon]] warrior fight, Prime notices the humans and instinctively dives to protect them from Starscream’s fire. Starscream's attack is halted by the intervention of [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], right as Teletraan One reconstructs [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. Realizing the computer is reconstructing them randomly, Starscream tells Skywarp to bring their fellow Decepticons closer. Optimus realizes that the Decepticons will outnumber them and orders a retreat, telling Ratchet to load their fellow Autobots into his new form's trailer while he fends off their opponents. He reaches for his [[ion blaster]] but is intercepted by cannon fire from a revived [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. As he recovers, he sees Bumblebee's remains, cradling him in despair before being beset by Starscream and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. Seeing this, Spike and Carly run out and push Prime's blaster to him, allowing him to fight back.

[[File:TF2023 – Prime & Ratchet vehicle modes.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Left with no choice, Optimus fires at Teletraan One, destroying the computer and preventing the remaining Decepticons from being reconstructed. As Teletraan explodes, Optimus grabs Carly and Spike. He and Ratchet transform and drive out of the ''Ark'' into the mountains below, Starscream and Skywarp in hot pursuit despite their low [[energon]] levels. Jetfire regains consciousness and follows after them, firing on Starscream much to his regret. Starscream volleys back, critically wounding Jetfire. Fortunately for the Autobots, Skywarp begins to run out of energy and the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] are forced to retreat.

Needing to recuperate, Spike leads the Autobots to an abandoned quarry. As he succumbs to his injuries, Jetfire apologizes to Optimus; so much has changed since he left Cybertron in hopes of saving it. Optimus tries to use the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to heal Jetfire, but Ratchet tells him that his injuries are too great. Optimus grips his old friend's hand as he passes, still lamenting his failure.

Back in the ''Ark'', Soundwave reports to Starscream that he is unable to fix Teletraan One, as they lack both the energon and the raw materials necessary. Until it is repaired, they are the only Decepticons left. Soundwave has already sent [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] to scout for possible energon sources, but the job of harvesting it falls to Starscream since he has the most energon reserved. Begrudgingly, Starscream accepts. After all, he is leader of the Decepticons now.

As Davey and Sparky end their shift at the nearby power plant, Davey tries to talk to Sparky about his recent troubles, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Starscream, irritated he has to be the one doing all the work. The pair try to escape, but Starscream notices them. Sparky hides inside the plant, while Davey is snatched up by the giant alien. Starscream smiles to himself as he crushes Davey in his hand, amused at how fragile, squishy, and pathetic the humans are.

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==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
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* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (11)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (12)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (13)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (14)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (15)
* [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (16)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (18)
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]’s arm (19)

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* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (8)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (9)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (10)
* [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (20)
* [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (21)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (22)

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* [[Sparkplug Witwicky|"Sparky" Witwicky]] (1)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (3)
* [[Danny]] (4)
* [[Jerry (G1)|Jerry]] (5)
* [[Davey]] (6)
* [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] (7)

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* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (17)
}}

==Quotes==
"Where are you going? Isn't that... Jimmy's?" 
"Yeah. Carly and I were going to check out the full moon tonight, remember? On top of Hanger's Rock?" 
"Looking at '''stars''' again, huh?" 
"Doing this kind of thing... it reminds me of him." 
"Why would you want to remember? It's best to '''forget''' all that." 
"Is that how you're gonna '''live''' now? Just pretending he didn't '''exist?'''" 
:—'''Sparky''' and '''Spike''' touch on their trauma

"You must forgive me. I have been away for centuries. I did not know about the war. I did not know you were the new Prime..." 
"I remember the day you left our home to find a way to save it." 
"And you... were so young then." 
"Much has changed since you left our planet. All for the worse." 
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Optimus Prime''' rekindle their friendship

"Why are you all looking at '''me?'''" 
"You have the most energon reserved. Thus the harvesting is up to '''you.''' It's what Meg---" 
"'''Do not''' say his name. '''I''' am the leader of the Decepticons now."
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Soundwave'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Jetfire's arrival on Earth follows from his awakening in [[Void Rivals issue 1|the first issue]] of ''[[Void Rivals]]''. How long he was asleep exactly is a little unclear. In ''Void Rivals'', he mentions being stranded for millions of years, but here he says he was away for merely centuries. Due to the syntax used, it could be that Jetfire was ''searching'' for centuries but ''asleep'' for millions of years. The following issue confirms the centuries time frame, making ''Void Rivals'' use of millions of years the outlier.
* Cybertron's energon shortage was hinted at by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] in ''Void Rivals'' [[Void Rivals issue 4|#4]].
* After being attacked by Starscream, Jetfire is seen leaking yellow fluid. This would appear to confirm that the yellow fuel used by [[Darak]] and [[Solila]] to reactivate him was indeed energon.
* Soundwave and Starscream allude to the absence of the usual Decepticon leader, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Hmm... [[Cobra Commander (comic)|where could he be]]?
* Yes, Bumblebee's really dead, having been destroyed by Starscream. The other Transformers, including those like Thundercracker whose reassembly is interrupted, are just offline.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Thundercracker's not killed, he just was not fully built. [...] S'not like I shot him in the heart or something. Just FYI.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3774s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>

===Transformers references===
* Like with ''Void Rivals'', this new series draws heavy influence from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]]:
** The character designs all pull directly from Generation 1.
** The ''Ark'' crashing into a mountain and the Autobots and Decepticons being repaired by Teletraan One is lifted from the premiere episode, "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]", right down to one of the Decepticons being reactivated first. The "error" of the Transformers having their Earth-inspired designs before they receive their Earth alternate modes is also carried over.
** Spike, Sparkplug, and Carly were all major characters in the Generation 1 cartoon, though they have been heavily reimagined, especially Carly. Sparkplug's name is shortened to just "Sparky".
** Starscream and Jetfire/Skyfire being old friends, Jetfire helping Starscream out of ignorance to the war, as well as Jetfire dying after dogfighting Starscream, brings to mind "[[Fire in the Sky]]."
* Optimus Prime gains the upper hand over Starscream with a fist and a resounding "never", similar to ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Real-world references===
* Sparky's flashbacks on the first page of the issue features imagery of Sparky in a conflict much like the [[Vietnam War]] and the explosion of a space shuttle reminiscent of the {{w|Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster}}; based on the context, it seems likely that Jimmy was one of the victims in the latter. Whether these are meant to literally be those events (which would suggest the comic is actually supposed to be set in the 1980s) or merely stylistic renderings of purely fictional events remains to be seen.
* Appropriately, Sparky is drinking at a {{w|Veterans of Foreign Wars|VFW}} bar.
* Carly's van art features several staples of van murals, such as a wizard inspired by {{w|Gandalf}} from ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'', a barbarian resembling {{w|Conan the Barbarian|Conan}}, and a fantasy castle and dragon.
* Optimus Prime enters the scene by ''clotheslining'' Starscream—this being the signature move of "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada, one of DWJ's favorite wrestlers.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=And of course, next we have a rainmaker clothesline, as one does. This is a wrestling move, this is one of my favorite wrestlers, Kazuchika Okada from New Japan Pro Wrestling. Of course, you know, the rainmaker, the lariat, is not new in professional wrestling, and by the end of this series it will not be new to Transformers.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2508s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref><ref>[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34jfv6 Kazuchika Okada's Finisher- Rainmaker on Dailymotion]</ref>

===Storytelling notes===
As both writer and artist on this ''Transformers'' series, Daniel Warren Johnson has a rare level of creative freedom while composing the issue and using the art to tell the story. Some of these creative choices were covered in a "director's commentary" livestream on his YouTube channel; key insights are reproduced here alongside our own analysis of the issue.
* DWJ keeps a copy of [[IP infringement|Magic Square]]'s "Light of Peace" figure close at hand, which influences his take on Optimus Prime.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This is the Optimus Prime figure that Magic Square put out this past year in 2023. It's an update, so it has a new head sculpt, it looks just like the movie, the '86 movie which of course has been my bible. He looks so good that you can actually like, kind of pose him, and he looks pretty dynamic. And I knew that, man, if the toy looks this cool in real life, then I can make him look really cool... like look at this, it looks great, he looks kind of alive.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=798s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> He notes that he specifically avoids having Prime's "boots" flare out at all; he tries to draw them perfectly straight.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Another thing that I'll notice, that I'll give you a little preview of things to come artwise: you'll see Optimus's legs, you know, traditionally, you know, he's got kind of the 1970s design aesthetic here, which I think the Marvel Comics did, where, you know, the leg kind of comes out... like so it makes kind of like a boot cut kind of style for his like lower half of his leg. And I hate drawing that. I hate drawing that. Look how straight these legs are. As this series goes on you're going to see these legs get straighter and straighter. It's a stylistic thing something that I've been kind of like- it's been bugging me about drawing Optimus Prime, and it's just, I cannot stand drawing those legs widening out at the bottom. It's like, something about it, it just like, makes my eyes hurt. I've never liked it in the comics, it always read weird to me that they got wider. Some characters- like I remember when practicing, I was drawing Jazz. Jazz gets really wide, and if it's like, if it's really confident, like big and chunky, or Cliffjumper, big, chunky, no big deal. This? Like, Optimus's legs going wider? It just like, is it going wider is it not going w- anyway these are the ramblings of a crazy lunatic comic book artist.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2699s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* His primary ''Transformers'' comics influence comes from [[Marvel Comics]] and [[Dreamwave Productions]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I wanted to just highlight this poster that I had in my bedroom when I was like 16, when Pat Lee made this imagery. You know, I was a huge ''Transformers'' fan of course when I was growing up, and I read mostly the Marvel Comics, 'cause that was the only thing that was available at the time, and here we have the Pat Lee comics of course that Dreamwave put out. I was so excited, I thought it looked awesome. I still do appreciate its blockiness now. So this is another reason why I wanted to do the project, 'cause like I just remember these feelings, and these like super bright colors that like were so awesome... and just being excited with like every cover, and I just felt like a kid. [...] And of course this image, like this is very satisfying, I knew I didn't want to get this bulbous with the designs, but you know I can't say I wasn't influenced by the absolutely outlandishness of these kind of like larger-than-life characters, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=997s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> In the case of the latter, we'll note that [[Prime Directive|their opening miniseries]] prominently featured the ''[[Ark II]]'' disaster which drew heavily from the real-world Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster.
* The first page of the story consists of five vertically-stacked cinematic landscape panels, with Sparky's flashbacks interspersed by a panel of the Ark crashing and of Prime's deactivated body. This gives us an idea of what's been going through Sparky's mind at the bar. In particular, the panel of Optimus Prime is bookended by Spike's offscreen dialogue getting his dad's attention; Prime is often positioned as something of a father figure in wider pop culture.
** At Hasbro's request, DWJ avoided being too specific as to the conflict being shown.<ref name=HasbroMandates>{{citesocial|quote=So here we've got the first page, and you can kind of see here, Hasbro wanted me to be be very like... don't show what kind of war it is... which is fine, and I did have to change these engines from three engines, which I just thought was a little cleaner, to five engines, like the Ark is, so I didn't think they'd care that much about being on model when it came to the Ark but they did!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0?t=1316s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
** DWJ wanted to streamline the Ark's design to have just three rear thrusters, but Hasbro insisted on it having five,<ref name=HasbroMandates /> necessitating the digital addition of two more to the later splash page of the ship's engines.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So again, I had to make a bit of an edit. The original art has just three engines, so I had to add these digitally—which I did not want to do, but Hasbro wanted it, so, okay, you know? It's okay, it's okay, it's all right, it is what it is...|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1845s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* The second page aims to bring the story into reality,<ref name=Page2>{{citesocial|quote=I really wanted to go all in on the first half of this page, and like really sell to you how lived in this world is. Even though it's a ''Transformers'' book it was very important to me that we got a vibe and a sense of where the human characters come from. And there's nothing more fun, than drawing the heck out of, than like a crappy VW hall. [...] It was a hard thing to draw, but it was also fun. I had to kind of photobash a bunch of different VFW bars—obviously didn't want to take from any one specifically, or any one bar specifically, just kind of taking the best of everything and kind of combining it into one. And this bartender, Danny the bartender, I'm a big fan of, he just kind of stands there. And of course the old guy that maybe has seen something crazy... total shout out to—even his like haircut is the same as, and the hat, as—''{{w|The Iron Giant}}'', so a little shout out there. [...] It doesn't really [take place in a specific time period like the '80s or '90s] in my opinion, there might be other people in the Energon Universe that have a different time, we don't really have a time period in place. I find time periods in comics like ''Transformers'' to be completely unnecessary. If I'm trying to make historical fiction then of course it is important, but when it comes to making things like the Transformers I have just never cared. JFK is not getting assassinated in the background on television here, so it's just not part of the story. But you will notice there's no cell phones, so. But that's cuz I hate writing stories with cell phones in them.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1406s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> with much more detailed panels of varying shapes and sizes, and a muted earthen color palette.
** DWJ took reference from several different {{w|Veterans of Foreign Wars|VFW}} bars to arrive at the location seen in the comic.<ref name=Page2 />
** As Spike and Sparky exit, the cluttered interior gives way to the orange evening sky, with the generous negative space often physically separating Spike from his distant father.
** DWJ notes that the final panel of this spread is technically wrong; based on the perspective of the scene, Spike should be sinking into the ground. This was necessary so as not to obscure Carly's van,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I have a bit of a goof, a bit of a mistake [...] if you actually like do the perspective here, the way it should be done, it makes no sense. He would be sinking into the ground, he's like in quicksand right now, but I could not figure out a better dynamic shot choice that would show Carly and her artistic ability with this van. Like I tried to do it like this way, and it didn't really work, because it covered up too much of the van, and I realized just how big he would have to be, like his whole face would have to be like over here and it just didn't work. I wanted him to be in the middle, but then it also didn't make sense. So I was just like beating my head against the wall like, I hope this is okay, I hope people don't notice.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0?si=QxISYwvu5QpUEbhw&t=1516s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> which is the same model of vehicle that appears in DWJ's previous original comic series ''[https://www.skybound.com/murder-falcon Murder Falcon]''.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Of course the dragon wagon, the van used in ''Murder Falcon''.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1578s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> Mike Spicer has coloured the van using blue-pink tones, strongly contrasting with the orange otherwise dominating the spread. As we turn the page, these nighttime hues take over the story, marking the beginning of a transition towards the unreal.
* The mountain landscape was drawn to resemble that of an alien planet, to highlight the feeling of "otherworldliness".<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This also is one of my favorite panels in the book. I wanted to start getting a little crazy, a little more intense with the shot choices, to kind of start getting us into the vibe of otherworldliness. This looks a little bit like they're exploring Mars, that was the goal, completely clear sky, really pushing the envelope when it comes to dynamic composition.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1635s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* As the earthquake begins, we get the first instance of hand-lettered sound effects, drawn into the lineart by DWJ. These appear more prominently and frequently as we transition towards comic-book action.
[[File:TF2023 1 Splash pages composition.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2|Diagram illustrating DWJ's intended flow for the back-to-back splash pages.]]
* The reveal of the Ark is paired across the two-page spread with another splash page of the deactivated Autobots. DWJ hoped to create a seamless transition, with the reader's gaze travelling down towards the inset panels at the bottom left, then following Spike and Carly across to the right, before travelling up into the scene.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This was a goal, this was the goal: to have these pages be bleeding into each other. [...] You know I don't like to do this very often, you have like two splash pages back-to-back, because they kind of like... it gets a little messy here. But you know I usually like- if I have a big splash here [on the left], I'll usually have something a little more reserved over here [on the right], and I won't have it bleed over to the left side of the page. But with here, you'll actually notice that I was trying to get people to read from... obviously you're reading here, then you go down, left to right, into this bottom part of the page, and have your eye trail up instead of going over here [diagonally across the center fold] to the top. So I was using these kind of inset panels to kind of get you to read that way.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1985s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> Mike Spicer's coloring (exaggerated in the diagram on the right) again reinforces this intent, with the blue shade of the rocks at the bottom of the right-hand page carrying over from the left-hand page.
** Meanwhile, all of the lines of perspective inside the room point outside, where a tiny Jetfire can be seen approaching.
* Jetfire is one of Robert Kirkman's favorite Transformers, and his role in this series came entirely from Robert Kirkman's broad-strokes outline.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So, full disclosure: Robert Kirkman came up with the Jetfire idea. Jetfire is one of Robert's favorite Transformers, and that's why he was chosen. He's also like part of the lore and it was kind of like in this big outline that Jetfire was the one that comes in and finds the Autobots on Earth in the Ark- Autobots and Decepticons. But he doesn't have knowledge about the war. So you know I can't give away too much, but that was a Robert Kirkman call, and I was happy to do it. I was a little afraid about drawing Jetfire at first, but I'm actually- of course I write the script first where he dies, because it's just what the story needed, but then as I got to drawing him I was like, "I really like drawing this guy, I'm so sad I have to kill him!"|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3301s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* The shock death of Bumblebee was a deliberate choice, as DWJ felt like audiences would be getting a little tired of seeing Bumblebee everywhere. Surprisingly, Hasbro felt the same way, and themselves asked if there was a way to write Bumblebee out of the series! DWJ also apparently doesn't enjoy drawing Bumblebee, which informed the decision,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Let me be totally honest about the Bumblebee page, let me address this. I do really- I do like Bumblebee. I don't like drawing Bumblebee, I don't like those rivets in his arms. That's not the only reason why he had to go, I just honestly wanted to change things up. I just wanted to change things up, and I had seen a lot of Bumblebee, I think we all have, in a lot of ''Transformers'' media, and I just thought it would be a fun little swerve. And this is actually funny, our contact over at Hasbro was also a little tired of seeing Bumblebee everywhere, and he actually asked, before he saw my script, he's like, "is there any way we can not use Bumblebee in the main line?" And I told him, I was like, "I got good news for you!" He had to go, he had to go. Sorry Bumblebee fans, sorry to let you down like that, I am so sorry. They are Transformers, maybe they'll come back... but not for a long time. It's Cliff's time baby! You said it!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2545s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> which perhaps doesn't bode too well for Cliffjumper!
* When Starscream turns on Jetfire, DWJ struggled to get the composition exactly right, as he was limited by the need to make it explicitly clear that Jetfire was gravely wounded.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I wanted to make sure that everybody knew that Jetfire was gravely injured by this blast, which means I couldn't really white it out, had to be clear.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2498s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* Prime uses several wrestling moves on Starscream; DWJ had previously created the original comic series ''[https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/do-a-powerbomb Do A Powerbomb!]'', which had a central theme of loss—a motif which recurs throughout this first ''Transformers'' issue.
* As Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker look identical in black-and-white, DWJ labels them in his lineart so colorist Mike Spicer can easily distinguish.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Also notice the color notes I had to leave for Mike, because Skywarp and Starcream look exactly alike in black and white.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2839s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* Prime instinctively knowing about his trailer, and its sudden appearance in the story, is a riff on classic media where Prime's trailer would often appear and disappear out of nowhere per the needs of the story.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This is a little shoutout to like, the not-making-any-sense of ''Transformers'', where you know, very conveniently, this trailer just shows up out of nowhere. So you know, Prime's like, "What are we going to do?" and he's like, "We could use my trailer!" Look sometimes you just have to have fun and not think too much about the story.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3131s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* As Prime's face is uniquely inexpressive, DWJ had to get creative to show his emotions to the reader, relying a lot on the character's eyes. Additionally, he tries to channel Prime's feelings through Spike.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Optimus is a character that does not emote—less so than even the rest of the cast, because of the face shield, because so much of his face is taken up, and he's really only got those eyes to work with. And I found that I was needing a way to channel Optimus through something, and I'm kind of trying to channel that through Spike, if you can't tell. I have a tendency to not be subtle, so... in life and in comics.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3516s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> When Spike sees Prime kneeling over Bumblebee's body, it seems that he recognises the grief this alien robot is experiencing.
* Amongst the many creative sound effects in this sequence, we have highlights like "GRAPPLE" and "ROLL" accompanying the action. Clicks and buzzes fill the air together with the floating components as the Transformers are reassembled.
* DWJ contrived the situation where Spike and Carly need to push Prime's gun into his reach as a way of giving the human characters agency during the action sequence.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sliding the gun! Super fun! I rewrote this scene a few times because the humans were just sitting, screaming, you know? Spike and Carly like, "Oh my god, what's happening!?" behind some rocks, and I was like, "They need to have some agency, they need to get involved somehow." And so that is why I had them push the gun, and it forces action, it just forces movement in a story, it gives Spike personality and like bravery, and I'm very happy with this moment. It's very hard to not just write fight scenes where it's just like fight fight fight fight fight, and finding new ways to tie everybody together, and I wish I had more time to do this but of course we work in genre fiction where there are deadlines, and sometimes that can't happen, but I was glad that I was able to figure this one out.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3543s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> The "SKRKK" sound effect of the gun scraping along the floor is drawn to follow the lines of action.
* When Prime gives the order to "Transform and roll out!", the ''entire comic'' shifts to a landscape orientation, requiring you to physically turn the comic in your hands. This is awesome.
* Ratchet's updated alternate mode came simply from a dissatisfaction with his classic Nissan look.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Any reason you went with a more modern style van, a Ford Transit rather than the traditional Nissan Vanette for Ratchet? You know what, I just didn't like the way the Nissan looked, so I just, I really wanted something different. I just wanted something different, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2966s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* DWJ was keen to develop the Decepticons beyond their classic cartoonishly-evil characterisation, with a key example in this issue being Soundwave's clear concern for the injured Ravage.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's all about this, baby. It's all about trying to give some... you know... something other than... "The Decepticons are all evil, raah!" Like, Soundwave is a bad dude—but man, he loves his tapes, and one of these tapes is hurting bad and he's feeling real bad about it.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=4410s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* For Davey's gruesome death at the hand of Starscream, Hasbro requested it occur off-panel. The beat was intended to clearly set the stakes of the comic without being egregiously gory,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Hasbro asked for Davey to be killed offscreen, which I was totally fine with. Did want to get kind of messy with it, though, because I did want to kind of make a little bit of a statement. You know, it's a book that your kids can read, but you know, not everybody's going to make it, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=4593s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=06}}</ref> and seems to mark a major turning point for Sparky.

===Errors===
* Bumblebee's body is seen near Optimus Prime’s trailer, despite him being across the ship near Teletraan One when Starscream blew his head open.
* When Starscream is forced to break off his pursuit of the Autobots, his speech balloon is pointing to Skywarp.

===Other trivia===
* Prior to its official release, an ashcan copy of this issue was available exclusively at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2023. The ashcan had certain pages taken out to prevent spoilers, as well as featuring concept art and designs for various characters.
* In early solicitations for this issue, the cover had an original logo with blue text broken over two lines;<ref>[https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG230407 ''Transformers'' #1 CVR A JOHNSON on PREVIEWSworld]</ref> the final cover uses the standard modern logo, leaving some unsightly negative space above Prime's head. This was changed at the request of Hasbro.
* This issue sold out at the distributor level before it was even officially released, prompting Skybound to announce a second printing the day before it hit retailer shelves.
* ''Transformers'' #1 was the best-selling comic issue of 2023, according to ICv2 industry sales estimates.<ref>[https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/56290/top-50-comics-full-year-2023 ICv2: Top 50 Comics - Full Year 2023]</ref>

===Covers===
With over 50 to choose from, ''Transformers'' #1 features more variant covers than any other single ''Transformers'' comic issue ''by a long shot''.
{{comicstub|50/91 covers documented}}
* '''Cover A:''' Optimus Prime emerges from an explosion, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover B:''' The Autobots, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C:''' The Decepticons, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover D:''' Optimus Prime destroys Starscream, by [[Ryan Ottley]] and [[Annalisa Leoni]].
* '''Cover E (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover, by [[Orlando Arocena]].
* '''Cover F (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Optimus leaps on Starscream to save Carly's van as Laserbeak and Ravage attack, by [[Cliff Chiang]].
* '''Cover G (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Optimus Prime, by [[Francis Manapul]].
* '''Cover H (1:100 Copy Incentive Foil):''' Starscream holds Bumblebee’s head, by [[Ian Bertram]] and [[Gus Storms]].
* '''Cover I:''' Blank sketch cover.
* '''San Diego Comic-Con Ashcan cover A:''' Spike atop Optimus Prime, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
* '''San Diego Comic-Con Ashcan cover B:''' Black-and-white version, only available at Skybound's Energon Universe convention panel.
* '''Big Clutch/[[eBay]] exclusive:''' Foil variant of main cover A. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Felix Comic Art exclusive A:''' Wraparound variant of Optimus Prime playing basketball against the Decepticons, by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Felix Comic Art exclusive B:''' Black-and-white virgin variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Stadium Comics exclusive:''' by [[Santa Fung]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Comic Grail Vault exclusive A:''' by [[Von Randal]] and [[Alex Guimarães]]. Limited to 800 copies.
* '''Comic Grail Vault exclusive B:''' Foil variant.
* '''Alan Quah exclusive:''' by [[Alan Quah]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Hector Trunnec New York Comic Con exclusive:''' by [[Hector Trunnec]]. Limited to 400 copies.
* '''East Side Comics exclusive:''' by [[DarlsDraws]]. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''Whatnot exclusive A:''' by [[Siya Oum]].
* '''Whatnot exclusive B:''' Foil variant.
* '''TransMissions Podcast exclusive:''' by [[E. J. Su]].
* '''MFKiG exclusive:''' by [[Ainsworth Lin]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Forbidden Planet exclusive A:''' by [[Flaviano]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Forbidden Planet exclusive B:''' Virgin variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Memory Lane Comics exclusive:''' by [[Hayden Sherman]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Rod Reis New York Comic Con exclusive:''' by [[Rod Reis]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics exclusive A:''' by [[Rafael Grassetti]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics exclusive B:''' Virgin variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics exclusive C:''' Foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies, exclusively at New York Comic Con 2023.
* '''Matthew Roberts exclusive:''' by [[Matthew Roberts]].
* '''Mike Bowden New York Comic Con exclusive:''' by [[Mike Bowden]] and [[Pez Fred]]. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles exclusive A:''' by [[John Giang]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles exclusive B:''' Foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Wanted Comix / Rupps Comics / JJ's Comics & Art / Big Clutch exclusive A:''' by [[Maria Wolf]] & Mike Spicer. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Wanted Comix / Rupps Comics / JJ's Comics & Art / Big Clutch exclusive B:''' Virgin variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Wanted Comix / Rupps Comics / JJ's Comics & Art / Big Clutch exclusive C:''' Foil variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Juni Ba exclusive A:''' by [[Juni Ba]]. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Juni Ba exclusive B:''' Foil variant. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Seibertron.com exclusive:''' by [[Marco Ferrari]].
* '''The 616 Comics exclusive:''' by [[Vincenzo Federici]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Francesco Tomaselli New York Comic Con exclusive:''' by [[Francesco Tomaselli]]. Limited to 900 copies.
* '''Condemned Comics exclusive:''' by [[Christopher Mitten]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Skottie Young exclusive:''' by [[Skottie Young]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Skottie Young exclusive second printing:''' Virgin foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Ryan Barry exclusive A:''' by [[Ryan Barry]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Ryan Barry exclusive B:''' Foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Things From Another World exclusive:''' by [[Frédéric Pham Chuong]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Second Printing Variant Cover A:''' Optimus Prime, by [[Jason Howard]].
* '''Second Printing Variant Cover B:''' Starscream, by Jason Howard.
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)

2024-10-07T04:09:33Z

AzureNight:

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|prev=Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)
|next=Transformers: Exiles
|title=''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''
|image=Fall of Cybertron PC cover.jpg‎
|caption=[[Ron Perlman|War. War never changes]].
|developer=[[High Moon Studios]] (console), [[Mercenary Technology]] (PC) Funlabs (Next Gen port)
|publisher=[[Activision]]
|writtenby=[[Dan Jolley]]
|date=[[August 21]], [[2012]] [[August 8]], [[2016]] (XB1, PS4)
|platform=PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4
|ratings=ESRB: T PEGI: 12
}}
'''''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''''' is a direct sequel to the 2010 game ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]]'' that was released on [[August 21]], [[2012]]. Published by [[Activision]] and developed by [[High Moon Studios]] (with the PC version being handled by [[Mercenary Technology]]), the game is a continuation of the events of ''War for Cybertron''. It explores the [[Autobot]]s' attempts to escape from a rapidly deteriorating [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] aboard the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', as well as the gradual downfall and collapse of the remnants of Cybertronian society. A side story also focuses on the creation of the [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobots]].

Considerably darker in tone than its predecessor, the game begins with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] outright conceding defeat to the [[Decepticon]]s, who are in no better straits than their enemies. The story does not shy away from the grim realities of a dying planet and its inhabitants who cope with it. Characters grieve their losses, be it their home or their comrades. Both sides are depicted resorting to extremes just to keep fighting another day, and all hope seems lost. Yet a critical discovery by [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] may light the way for the [[Transformer]] species to a new era and hope; provided they can survive the fall of Cybertron.

{{quote|This terrible war will reach its end. Not because [['Til all are one|all have finally become one]]. But simply, I fear, because all have become ''none''.|[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]}}

==Synopsis==
===Chapter I: The Exodus===
:''Character: [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]''

The [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]] heads off to the portal which will take them to [[Earth]]. [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] invades the ship using the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', sending [[Decepticon]]s over directly to the bridge of the Ark, forcing Bumblebee, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] to fight off the aggressors. With more Decepticons swarming the engine room, Optimus heads off to help, leaving Bumblebee to protect the bridge. The artillery cannons are taken offline and the ship blows a [[moleculon fuse|fuse]]. Ratchet sends Bumblebee off to fix it, and after braving nearly being sucked into space, the scout soon replaces the fuse and ascends up a lift to the defense tower. He witnesses Autobots being overrun by a [[Titan (FOC)|Titan]] and then on another level, [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] and [[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]] attacking. He reaches the defense mainframe and rushes the Decepticon manning it, reactivating the Ark's guns. The tower is hit by a claw that knocks him down a shaft. With his alternator jarred back into gear, Bumblebee transforms and races through an outer area, avoiding explosions, Decepticon tow cables and large chunks of rubble. He passes [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]] having a [[Brawl (WFC)|brawl]] and bringing an [[Onslaught (WFC)|onslaught]] of destruction. He makes it to a stronghold, restocking on ammo, [[energon]] and weapons. He fights his way through a few waves of Decepticons, making his way to the engine room, where Prime and Megatron are doing battle. He pushes through enemy lines, with the help of two Titans, and makes his way to the engine room. There he finds Optimus and Megatron engaging in a fierce melee battle on the hull of the ship, and just as Megatron fires a huge cannon at Optimus, Bumblebee throws himself forwards, taking the shot meant for Prime. As Bumblebee falls, Optimus lifts his body...

[[File:FOC-Metroplexheedsthecall.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Embrace democracy, or you will be eradicated."]]

===Chapter II: Defend the Ark===
:''Character: Optimus Prime''
Six days earlier, the Autobots are preparing the last transport for launch. [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] reports the energon reserves are aboard, and Perceptor is overseeing city shutdown, only for the news to come that the Decepticons have invaded the city. Optimus tries to contact [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]], as it's his sector the Decepticons have invaded, but gets no answer. As Prime moves to head out, a [[Warp Cannon]] crashes to the ground nearby and targets the Ark. Optimus heads through the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] ruins and enters Autobot City through a side door to find the Autobots trying to get the city stable without the absent Grimlock. After helping Ratchet stabilize a badly-injured [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], Prime sends [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] to find where Grimlock's disappeared to. At the armory, [[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]] reports that [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] and others are trapped in a nerve center, so he and Optimus fight their way there. After fighting off a horde of Decepticons, they unseal the [[detpak]] from the nerve center door. Sending Warpath back to the Ark, Optimus goes in to meet with Perceptor, who's struggling to get the city working again so they can fight off the Decepticons. He sends Prime to activate an old artillery gun using energon from the Ark, and Prime soon puts the weapon to good use taking out Decepticons. With news that the Warp Cannons are firing on the Ark, Optimus heads to the engine room, but as he moves towards the flight deck, the corridors restructure around him. Decepticons, including [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], have invaded the area, and Optimus finds many bodies, but heads for the [[neutron cannon]]. After fighting his way through more Decepticons, he brings the neutron gun online, but again the targeting is out. Optimus takes manual control and helps defend the Ark refueling station from a number of Decepticon tanks. When the cannon runs out of energon, Optimus heads back inside the city and is guided by a mysterious intelligence to the city's core where he pulls a lever... and the entire city transforms into [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]].

===Chapter III: Metroplex Heeds the Call===

:''Character: Optimus Prime''
Optimus and Metroplex head for the Iacon ruins where the Warp Cannons are located. Once they find the first Warp Cannon, Metroplex laboriously synchronizes his targeting systems with Optimus and together they take out the first cannon. Moving on, Prime helps the survivors of a crashed Autobot ship and finds Warpath in a huge plaza. With the second Warp Cannon shelling them, they head into a building and manage to get close enough to the cannon for Optimus to mark it for destruction by Metroplex. That done, Optimus heads down more corridors and is confronted by three Leapers, which Metroplex handily takes out by putting a fist through the wall. After fighting his way across a huge bridge, Prime gets close enough to the last Warp Cannon to mark it, only for it to take out Metroplex first. With no other choice, Optimus makes his way to the base of the cannon and forces open a door, only to be blasted by Starscream, bashed by Brawl and Onslaught, and dragged in front of Megatron. While Starscream gloats at his victory over Prime, Megatron simply blasts his Air Commander before killing an Autobot in front of the bound Prime. Luckily it turns out Metroplex is back online, and he rips the roof off Megatron's throne room before smashing Megatron into the ground repeatedly with his fist. Starscream pronounces Megatron dead, himself leader and orders the Decepticons back to base. The day is won, but unfortunately all the Autobots' energon is exhausted and they need to find more. Prime believes Grimlock may hold the key, and says Jazz and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] are tracking down their missing comrade.

[[File:FOC-Cliffjumperobservatory.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|"Historical algorithms engaged. Processing Capital Post articles. Extrapolating American cultural references."]]

===Chapter IV: Eye of the Storm===
:''Character: Cliffjumper''
[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] drops Jazz and Cliffjumper off over the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] in the middle of a rust storm to look for Grimlock. In a ruined base, they find a crashed ship which they recognize as one that was stolen by Grimlock from the base. They soon spot Decepticons moving around and sneak inside the base. As they stealthily make their way through, they overhear some Decepticons discussing [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] and his "pets". Using a garbage conveyor, Cliffjumper finds himself in an ancient tomb where guardians are roaming around, scanning for Autobots. Jazz reports the rust storm is increasing in intensity outside. Cliffjumper finds a [[ancient map room|huge domed room]] and activates a starmap that shows him an image of [[Earth]]. Continuing through the tomb, Cliffjumper finds more Decepticons, plus sword marks and a trail of destruction he recognizes as Grimlock's work. Eventually he reaches outside again and spots Jazz, but a collapse cuts them off from each other. Cliff hunts through the storm and finds Jazz, freeing his companion from some fallen debris. They soon find more devastation and Jazz detects a faint Autobot distress signal which Cliffjumper tracks to a huge pit, just as the Decepticons seal it. Luckily the two Autobots find a huge bomb they use to blow the pit open and, leaving Cliffjumper behind, Jazz leaps in.

[[File:FOC-Jazzvsinsecticons.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Gary?" "Gary!" "Gary?" "Gary!" "Gary!"]]

===Chapter V: Cut and Run===
:''Character: Jazz''
Jazz reaches the bottom of the pit, where he discovers [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]], who has been so badly damaged he's been forced into [[stasis lock]]. The audio he plays back from Sludge's memory is not promising. The meaning of the green pods Jazz spots is clear when he finds himself under attack by the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] horde. He blasts a tank which releases a toxic green gas, and he has to race to escape in time. Escaping the pit, he seals it and pair continue to look for the source of the distress signal. They stumble on a huge lake filled with energon which the Decepticons are mining. They fight their way across the moat to the Decepticon facility where Cliffjumper promptly manages to trip an alarm. Jazz utilizes a network of service tunnels, but creeping down one of them, he falls through a grating and is ambushed. Naturally he fights the Decepticons off and even helps out Cliffjumper who's pinned down by Wall Crawlers and other Decepticons. The pair rendezvous at the other side of the moat and head inside the tower. Within, they find Insecticons in tubes and a map pointing to Earth's solar system. Intriguing! Further in, they find Shockwave arguing with Starscream via hologram. Cliffjumper fails to creep up on Shockwave, who sets a bunch of Insecticons on them before leaving. While Jazz keeps the Insecticons busy, Cliffjumper diverts toxic waste into the refinery to make it overload. The refinery starts to melt down and the pair book out, getting picked up by Sideswipe just in time. Jazz contacts Optimus with the news there's a lake of energon ripe for the taking. The Autobots begin preparing a massive energon transport to take the energon to the Ark.

===Chapter VI: Death from Above===
:''Character: Vortex''
The Decepticons get wind of the Autobot plan, and as the transport heads back with a load of energon, Starscream tasks the [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticon]]s with intercepting it and leading it to an ambush. [[Vortex (FOC)|Vortex]] and [[Blast Off (FOC)|Blast Off]] are sent to clear a short-cut so Brawl can take a dropship and destroy a bridge. They fly through an ancient Autobot city. The pair run into Autobots though, and Blast Off ends up racing ahead, leaving Vortex to fight them. They eventually reach the bridge, but when Brawl shells it, they find it's shielded. Vortex deactivates the shielding, allowing Brawl to take out the side supports. The central support is a little trickier, and Brawl has to blow a hole in it so Vortex can get in to find the shield controls. After fighting more Autobots, including a Titan, Vortex uses a detpak on the central support and races out as the bridge collapses.

===Chapter VII: Belly of the Beast===
:''Character: Swindle''
Starscream springs his ambush on the transport, but the transport's defenses blast them. Onslaught exasperatedly sends [[Swindle (FOC)|Swindle]] under the transport to try to stop it. Swindle takes out the rear wheels and heads to the front, using his grapple to avoid the deadly acid pools, and takes out the front wheels. This unleashes a pair of titans which he has to destroy. However just as victory looks certain, the transport's wheels convert into jets. As the transport takes to the air, Swindle grapples on board.

[[File:FOC-Bruticus-Game.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|"Get the Fat Man! I'll try to keep him busy!"]]

===Chapter VIII: Combaticons Combine!===
:''Character: Swindle/Bruticus''
Within the transport, Swindle begins heading through the transport, aiming to take out the anti-aircraft defenses so the other Combaticons can come over in their drop ship. He blows a hole in an exterior wall and starts making his way along the side of the transport. Starscream announces he's calling off the assault, but is corrected by Onslaught, who still believes they can pull it off. Swindle finds the anti-aircraft cannons can be destroyed by simply shooting the shells being fed into them, so he does that, then moves around to the other side of the ship. Unfortunately the Autobots are wise to what the Decepticons are doing and destroy the controls for the shell feed shields so Swindle can't deactivate them. Onslaught brings the drop ship around, and Swindle hops on. Once he uses the top turret to destroy the last gun emplacement, the Combaticons merge into [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]] and start breaking things. He smashes through the transports turbine and break into the control room where the Combaticons split and make swift work of the Autobots. Unfortunately though they have the transport in their control, it's badly damaged and going down, and they can do little more than try to control its course as it crashes. Starscream's unimpressed that they managed to destroy half the energon supply in the crash, and when Onslaught talks back, pointing that the Autobots would have gotten all of it if they did nothing and everything going wrong was a result of Starscream's incompetence, Starscream orders the Combaticons arrested.

===Chapter IX: Megatron Returns===
:''Character: [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]/Megatron''
In his [[Soundwave's workshop|old workshop]] under the gladiator pits, Soundwave powers up the assembly systems so he can put Megatron's salvaged body back together. With the help of his minions, he manages to get Megatron back in one piece and uses an infusion of [[Dark Energon]] to bring his master back to life. Megatron's enraged by the news Starscream is in charge and, grabbing his cannon, heads out to confront his former lieutenant. He arrives, naturally, in the middle of Starscream's coronation. Starscream sets the assembled Decepticons onto their former leader, but as Megatron points out, he was practically forged in these arenas. Once he finishes with the many, many Decepticons, he blasts Starscream who flees. Onslaught offers to chase them down, but Megatron doesn't consider him a threat and has other plans. As the Decepticons move a huge statue of him into pride of place, Megatron meets with Shockwave who has deciphered the ancient technology to open wormholes and located a suitably energy rich planet for them to plunder. Megatron boards a drop ship and heads for the crater where [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] crashed with the intention of recovering the giant Decepticon's power core. Unfortunately his drop ship is shot down on the way.

===Chapter X: The Final Countdown===
:''Character: Megatron''
Jumping clear of the ship, Megatron notes that the Autobots have installed anti-aircraft defenses. Once the Decepticons assault the facility and take it over, Soundwave detects a power source nearby—the Autobots are using Trypticon's power core as an energy source, which left Megatron impressed by their rather bold choice. Megatron goes on to investigate and takes out the defenses surrounding the main compound before calling in Bruticus to clear a path. The Combiner makes short work of the remaining Autobots and holds the massive doors open so Megatron can enter. After emptying the main compound of Autobots, he enters the main building where some Autobots are reporting to Optimus. Megatron slags them and makes it clear he blames Optimus for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s depleted state. The Autobots redouble their attempts to keep Megatron away, but as he gets closer to Trypticon, he realizes that the Autobots haven't removed the power core—Trypticon is still functional. Fighting through more Autobot defenses, including a titan, Megatron gets to Trypticon's legs and finds they've been bound. A few shots of Megatron's cannon free them. Trypticon's torso is similarly easy to find, with a little help from Laserbeak. Once Megatron breaks Trypticon's bonds, Soundwave arrives and hacks the computer while Megatron smashes the Autobots attacking them. Trypticon, however, is still badly damaged. Megatron informs Trypticon that he failed to destroy the Autobots and will be rebuilt into a new form—the ''Nemesis''.

[[File:FOC-theonecalledGrimlock.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"You and I have a chance to make our country a better place for all of us. I'd like you to make sure that chance isn't wasted."]]

===Chapter XI: Starscream's Betrayal===
:''Characters: Decepticon trooper/Starscream/Grimlock''
As the Nemesis nears launch, the Decepticons are roused by an alarm as someone tries to hack Shockwave's data logs. A trooper and his friend are sent to check the main server. As the two troopers enter the server, they discuss Starscream's humiliating defeat, only for Starscream himself to decloak and flatten them. Hoping to build an army of his own, Starscream analyzes the data logs and discovers that Shockwave's latest experiments are imprisoned within the tower. He uses EMP detpaks to take out the security towers providing the defenses, which knocks out the [[force field]]s protecting the maintenance shafts. Flying inside, he finds Shockwave experimenting on Grimlock with [[Hardshell]], [[Kickback (FOC)|Kickback]], and [[Sharpshot]]. Once they leave, Starscream drops into the lab and informs Grimlock he'll be set free if he pledges allegiance to the Air Commander. Grimlock responds that he can free himself, then throws Starscream into a wall. Grimlock's surgically altered body leaves him confused and unable to transform, and before long he searches for [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] by smashing everything in his path. He finds Swoop, only to be confronted by a hologram of Shockwave, who has predicted this move. After destroying all the Decepticons in the lab, he solves the problem of freeing Swoop by smashing more things. Swoop reveals that he has gained a new [[alternate mode]], although Grimlock still cannot transform. The pair search for the rest of their team, and discover more of Shockwave's experiments—Insecticons in tubes—and Swoop remembers where [[Slug (FOC)|Slug]] is. Unfortunately Hardshell is waiting for them with some artillery, and Grimlock has to throw fuel pods at him until the ship's destroyed. Grimlock holds the Insecticon up to the optical scanner so they can progress. When they reach the surgical lab, it's totally trashed and there's a big hole in the floor. Grimlock and Swoop jump in.

[[File:FOC-Grimlockspacetrex.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|"There are times that I feel the primal part of me... pulling me away."]]

===Chapter XII: Grimlock Smash===
:''Character: Grimlock/Swoop''
Beneath the lab, the ground gives way under Grimlock, dropping him into a tunnel, and he decides they'll split up to find Slug. He soon finds the area is infested with Insecticons. Shockwave's voice rings out, telling Grimlock that he has yet to fulfill his full potential and transform, and Kickback has volunteered to help. The Insecticon taunts Grimlock and unleashes a huge "bruiser" Insecticon to fight him, causing Grimlock to get angry enough to finally change into his new ''T. rex'' alternate mode. Kickback decides discretion is the better part of not being slagged, but before he can escape, the door crashes down on him as Slug enters. Slug relates the news that Sludge didn't make it out of the caves, and [[Snarl (FOC)|Snarl]]'s been taken by Shockwave for "extensive testing". As they step outside where Swoop is waiting, they see Shockwave's [[space bridge]] tower firing up. They soon track down Snarl being guarded by Sharpshot and squash his captor. Searching for a place to take shelter and patch up Snarl, they find an observatory and Slug discovers Shockwave's plans to open a space bridge portal. They contact Optimus, who orders Grimlock to return to base, but Grimlock insists on taking the space bridge himself. With Swoop's help, he flies to the tower and fights his way through more Decepticons until he finds Shockwave working. As he goes to attack Shockwave, he's seized by energy chains, while Shockwave reports to Megatron that all is ready. Grimlock switches to dino mode to break free and rips Shockwave's arm off before bashing the space bridge which explodes. Back in Autobot City, the Autobots note that Megatron's portal is becoming unstable and decide they must urgently launch. Metroplex offers whatever spark energy he has left, which allows the Autobots to launch the Ark, at the cost of Metroplex's life.

===Chapter XIII: Till All Are One===
:''Characters: Soundwave/Jetfire/Bruticus/Jazz/Optimus/Megatron''
The ''Nemesis'' draws close to the ''Ark'' as it nears the portal. Megatron orders Soundwave to lead the first wave of the assault. Soundwave rides a tow cable over and, with the help of Rumble and Laserbeak, neutralizes the Ark's cannons. The Decepticons begin their assault en masse. [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] flies outside and severs the tow cables, but even though he's successful, Bruticus flies right past him and lands on the hull of the ''Ark''. After smashing his way through the Autobot defenses, he busts the ship's main energon tank. Jetfire raises the alarm, and Jazz responds. He tries grappling onto Bruticus and shooting the giant in the face, but with the help of Jetfire and an EMP mine, the Autobots hit Bruticus with a series of air strikes, sending him flying off into space. Elsewhere, Bumblebee jumps in the path of Megatron's shot, saving Optimus. Enraged, Optimus punches Megatron across the hull and they face off once again. Their fight is eventually interrupted by the unstable space bridge portal sucking them and both starships in before closing.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] ([[Fred Tatasciore]])
*[[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] ([[Keith Szarabajka]])
*[[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] ([[Nolan North]])
*[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] ([[Troy Baker]])
*[[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] (Troy Baker)
*[[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]] ([[Jamieson Price]])
*[[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] ([[Jim Ward]])
*[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] ([[Travis Willingham]])
*[[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]]
*[[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]]
*[[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]
*[[Scattershot (WFC)|Scattershot]]
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]
*[[Hound (Prime)|Hound]] <ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/26/play-transformers-fall-of-cybertron-multiplayer-on-july-31 Transformers: Fall of Cybertron - G1 Optimus Vignette]</ref>
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] <ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/transformers-video-game-discussion/27314578d1345329191-full-game-being-played-live-right-now-um.jpg Screencap of a locked Ultra Magnus]</ref>
'''Dinobots'''
*[[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] ([[Gregg Berger]])
*[[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] ([[Mark Allan Stewart]])
*[[Slug (FOC)|Slug]] (Travis Willingham)
*[[Snarl (FOC)|Snarl]] ([[Sam Riegel]])
|c2=
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (Fred Tatasciore)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (Sam Riegel)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] ([[Steve Blum]])
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] ([[Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.]])
*[[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]] (Nolan North)
**[[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]] (Nolan North)
**[[Swindle (FOC)|Swindle]] (Steve Blum)
**[[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]] (Travis Willingham)
**[[Vortex (FOC)|Vortex]] ([[Dave Boat]])
**[[Blast Off (FOC)|Blast Off]] ([[Keith Silverstein]])
*[[Dragstrip (WFC)|Dragstrip]]
*[[Quake (FOC)|Quake]]
*[[Thundercracker (WFC)|Thundercracker]]
*[[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]]
*[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]
*[[Dead End (WFC)|Dead End]]
*[[Demolishor (WFC)|Demolishor]]
'''Insecticons'''
*[[Sharpshot]] (Steve Blum)
*[[Kickback (FOC)|Kickback]] (Troy Baker)
*[[Hardshell]]
|h3=Non-Player|c3=
'''Autobots'''
*[[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]] (Fred Tatasciore)
*[[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]]*
*[[Skirmisher]]*
*[[Titan (FOC)|Titan]]*
*[[Heavy Soldier]]*
'''Decepticons'''
*[[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]] (Keith Silverstein)
*[[Frenzy (WFC)|Frenzy]]
*[[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]]*
*[[Leaper]]*
*[[Guardian (FOC)|Guardian]]*
*[[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]
'''Insecticons'''
*[[Insecticon Swarmer]]s
*[[Insecticon Bruiser]]
*[[Insecticon Spitter]]
'''Other'''
*[[Soldier (unit)|Soldiers]]*
*[[Rocket Soldier]]s*
*[[Shotgunner]]s*
*[[Flier (WFC)|Fliers]]*
*[[Marauder (FOC)|Marauder]]
*[[Wall Crawler]]*
*[[Scrapper (FOC)|Scrappers]]*
*[[Sharpshooter]]s*
*[[Lever Transformer]]
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Denotes a character who speaks (or squawks), but is credited as "Additional Voices". 

==Quotes==
"Metroplex heeds the call of the last Prime"
:—'''Metroplex''' assures Optimus that he's not there to render him into his component molecules.

"This is needless. All we want is to leave!" 
"No one leaves without ''my'' permission!" 
"''I wasn't asking''."
:—What '''Optimus Prime''' thought would be the last time he would have to tell '''Megatron''' how it was.

"Cliffjumper, you catch any of that?" 
"You mean the screaming, the horror, followed by more screaming?" 
"Uh, yeah, that'd be it."
:—'''Jazz''' and '''Cliffjumper''' discuss what they heard from Sludge's memory core.

"Ungh! This lever is heavy! Couldn't they just make it a button?"
:—'''Vortex''' makes a valid point.

"Ugh, great, it's spooky dark down here!" 
"You're afraid of the dark?!" 
"Well, it does make it hard to see!" 
:—'''Vortex''' and '''Brawl''' bicker like a bunch of kids.

"Seriously?! We're still trying to stop this thing with drop ships? I haven't stopped the AA guns yet!" 
"Think of this as an encouragement to HURRY THE SCRAP UP!"
:—'''Swindle''' and '''Onslaught'''

"Always tinkering, aren't you, Shockwave? Must be quite the test!"
:—'''Starscream''', after hearing Shockwave and the Insecticons discuss experiments on Grimlock.

"Nothing feels right... Hard to think."
:—'''Grimlock''', shortly after breaking free.

"I remember you, Grimlock. Do you remember me? Me? Me?" 
"''Kickback''..."
:—'''Kickback''' taunts '''Grimlock''' to provoke him into transforming.

'''Kickback''': Time for me to take my leave! 
''[Slug knocks the door down on Kickback]'' 
'''Slug''': Excuse me.
:—[[The Transformers: The Movie|Never gets old]], '''Slug'''.

'''Slug''': You cut through those guys like they were [[Beryllium baloney|Beryllium Bologna]]! 
'''Grimlock''': You mean [[Cesium salami|Cesium Salami]]! 
'''Slug''': No...Beryllium Bologna! 
'''Grimlock''': Cesium Salami!
:—[[The Transformers: The Movie|Again with this argument, guys?]]

"You're weak, Optimus. You run when you should fight!"
:—'''Grimlock''' gives Optimus a piece of his mind.

"Pathetic! This is the so called Ark? The Autobots have placed all of their hopes on a glorified cargo hauler!"
:—'''Megatron''' gives his two cents about the Ark.

"No problem! It slices, it dices!"
:—'''Bruticus''', your Swindle's showing.

"After eons of conflict, I finally see the truth of your words, Megatron." 
"And what might that be, Optimus?" 
''[Megatron swings his sword, only for Optimus to stop his strike]'' 
"This universe, no matter how vast, will never be big enough for you and I to coexist!" 
''[Optimus punches Megatron across the Ark]''
:—'''Optimus Prime''' tells '''Megatron''' that he's done holding back.

==Gameplay==
Like ''War for Cybertron'', this game is an over-the-shoulder third-person shooter. The player has access to a range of weapons split between light and heavy and can carry one of each class at a time. As one would expect from a ''Transformers'' game, the player character can also transform to [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] which provides more maneuverability and in some cases the power of flight. Whereas in the previous game, characters had two abilities that were charged up by shooting opponents, each character now has "dash" and a unique ability that works on a time recharge. Abilities include Vortex's shockwave, Cliffjumper's cloaking, and Optimus Prime's ability to order a missile strike.

While ''War for Cybertron'' had three-bot teams in each campaign level, with the user playing as their choice of the three, ''Fall of Cybertron'' instead follows a single character at a time, though the character often teams up with other NPCs. This allows levels to be tailored to the player character's special abilities, such as Jazz's level having plenty of places to use his grapple, and Megatron's levels having places which are only reachable by hovering. The player will sometimes also automatically switch between characters as the narrative demands.

''Fall of Cybertron'' introduces an upgrade mechanic. The player collects energon from defeated opponents which they can use at [[Teletraan-1 (WFC)|Teletraan-1]] machines scattered throughout the levels to buy character upgrades, T.E.C.H. items such as [[C.L.U.T.C.H.]] drones, and weapon upgrades. Upgrades carry over between characters, so Megatron gets the benefit of upgrades purchased by Optimus Prime. Collecting the blueprints hidden in each level unlocks more upgrades or weapons. Also hidden throughout the levels are [[Source:Fall of Cybertron audio logs|audio logs]], recordings left by various characters which give extra information or insight into an aspect of the game world. Energon can be used to open [[Armory Recreator]]s, which contain weapons and equipment.

Grimlock's sections alter the game mechanics substantially. He has no ranged attack, relying on melee with his sword. Rather than gaining currency from defeating Decepticons, their deaths fill his "rage meter", eventually allowing him to transform to his dino mode that lets him use his [[fire-breath]] and jaws to wreak more havoc. Similarly, Bruticus behaves like a melee brawler, fighting with a mix of weaponry like Vortex's propellers, a flamethrower, and the [[Sonic Pain Wave]].

===Multiplayer===
Fall of Cybertron follows War for Cybertron's tradition in having a fleshed-out, online multiplayer mode. The general idea is the same, but quite a number of gameplay elements have been added, removed, or altered. For example, vehicle mode abilities have been removed, but every character has the ability to dash. Weapons are also exclusive to each class and can't be wielded by other players.

Players can create custom characters to participate in the regular multiplayer mode. Customization options are greatly expanded from the previous game: Individual heads, bodies/[[Alternate mode|alt-modes]], shoulders, arms, legs, and wheels can be selected, all based on existing character models. The color palette is also expanded, and players can alter the shininess of characters and choose from three different voices per faction.

Characters level up by performing well in battle. Completing challenges will also yield experience points. Class weapons and abilities become unlocked by reaching certain levels. Reaching level 25 in every class unlocks "Prime Mode," which resets all experience points and challenges and gives the player a cool spinny icon next to their name. Reaching level 25 for all classes in Prime Mode grants the player access to "Elite" heads, which are 4 heads per class, and are the most iconic character of the class (Bumblebee, Optimus, Starscream and Megatron) with a crown.

Finally, [[Energon shard]]s can be gained along with experience points and can be spent on custom body parts and decals.

;Classes
The four classes return, with some alterations:
*[[Infiltrator (FOC)|Infiltrators]] - Cars. Fast, with an emphasis on stealth. Replaces the [[Scout (WFC)|Scout]] class.
*[[Destroyer (FOC)|Destroyers]] - Trucks. Mixture of defensive and offensive abilities, with emphasis on explosions. Replaces the [[Leader (WFC)|Leader]] class.
*[[Titan (FOC)|Titans]] - Tanks. Huge health and defense, heavy weapons. Replaces the [[Soldier (WFC)|Soldier]] class.
*[[Scientist (WFC)|Scientists]] - Jets. Great speed, no armor, emphasis on healing and buffer abilities.

;Playlists
*Team Death Match - [[Fred Tatasciore|''ELIMINATE THE ENEMY TEAM!'']] Kills count as points for the player's team, and 40 points are required to win on default settings.
*Conquest - There are 3 nodes, A, B and C. Team members wait at nodes to fill a bar and capture the node, and all teams are competing constantly for the nodes. The possession of a node adds points, and the rate at which points are added is increased based on how many nodes the team has. The match ends once a team reaches 400 points.
*Headhunter - This match is very similar to Team Deathmatch, except killed enemies drop their [[Spark]]. Players must pick up these sparks and return them to teamless nodes to gain a point per spark. These nodes occasionally move, the approaching change signaled by beacons that mark their location, which flash when nodes are about to move.
*Capture the Flag - Both teams have flags in their base. Players must protect their own flag and capture the enemy flag. Each capture grants a point, and the amount of points required for a team to win is 3.
* Deathmatch: Kill opponents to win. It's a free-for-all. (Check the notes)

;Teletraan-1
The signature Autobot computer here lets the player sift through global player rankings and see the challenges they have completed. Prime Mode is also activated through this menu.

;Escalation
Up to 4 players face off against increasingly difficult waves. Once the players finish wave 15, the game ends and the players are scored on how many kills, deaths, and energon chips they collected throughout the match.

==Trophy/Achievement list==
When completing various goals and tasks during the game, the player will be rewarded as part of their console of choice's meta-goal system. Players can earn up to 51 Trophies on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, and 50 Achievements on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The PlayStation versions' trophies come in four types: Bronze, which represent easier tasks and are worth the least experience; Silver, which are awarded for challenges of mid-level difficulty; Gold, which are given for harder tasks and worth more experience; and Platinum, the highest-level trophy unlocked only after earning all of a game's other trophies. On the Xbox versions, each achievement has a Gamerscore value that adds to the player's total Gamerscore across all games played; up to 1000 Gamerscore can be earned in ''Fall of Cybertron''. These achievements can also be earned in the PC version as part of the Steam interface, but lack the individual values and weights from the console versions.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
| '''Icon'''
| '''Achievement/Trophy name'''
| '''Achievement/Trophy description'''
| '''Gamerscore'''
| '''PS Trophy'''
|-
|[[File:FoC_Exodus.png|60px]]
| The Exodus
| Complete Chapter I
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
| [[File:FoC_Defend_Ark.png‎|60px]]
| Defend the Ark
| Complete Chapter II
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Metroplex_Heeds_Call.png‎|60px]]
| Metroplex Heeds the Call
| Complete Chapter III
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Eye_of_Storm.png|60px]]
| Eye of the Storm
| Complete Chapter IV
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Cut_and_Run.png|60px]]
| Cut and Run
| Complete Chapter V
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Death_From_Above.png|60px]]
| Death from Above
| Complete Chapter VI
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Belly_of_Beast.png|60px]]
| Belly of the Beast
| Complete Chapter VII
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Combaticons_Combine.png|60px]]
| Combaticons Combine!
| Complete Chapter VIII
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Megatron_Returns.png|60px]]
| Megatron Returns
| Complete Chapter IX
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Final_Countdown.png|60px]]
| The Final Countdown
| Complete Chapter X
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Starscream's_Betrayal.png|60px]]
| Starscream's Betrayal
| Complete Chapter XI
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Grimlock_Smash.png|60px]]
| Grimlock Smash
| Complete Chapter XII
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Till_All_Are_One_Optimus.png|60px]]
| [['Til all are one|Till All Are One]] - (Optimus Ending)
| Complete Chapter XIII as Optimus (secret achievement)
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
| [[File:FoC_Till_All_Are_One_Megatron.png|60px]]
| Till All Are One - (Megatron Ending)
| Complete Chapter XIII as Megatron (secret achievement)
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Battle_is_Far_From_Over.png‎|60px]]
| [[The battle is far from over!|The Battle is Far From Over!]]
| Complete Campaign - Easy
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_More_Than_Meets_The_Eye.png|60px]]
| [[More than Meets the Eye (mini-series)|More Than Meets the Eye]]
| Complete Campaign - Normal
| 50 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_All_Hail_You.png|60px]]
| [[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail You!]]
| Complete Campaign - Hard
| 100 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Gold}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Last_Stand.png|60px]]
| [[The Last Stand]]
| Chapter II: Save two Autobots when Optimus is downed by the first Leaper
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Carnage_in_C_Major.png|60px]]
| [[Carnage in C-Minor|Carnage in C-Major]]
| Chapter III: Take out a cluster of five Decepticons using Metroplex's Air Strike
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Invisibility_Spray.png|60px]]
| [[Invisibility spray|Invisibility Spray]]
| Chapter IV: Sneak through the Trash Compactor Facility undetected
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Target_Master_2.0.png‎|60px]]
| [[Targetmaster (technology)|Target Master]] 2.0
| Chapter V: Shoot a Sniper out of the air with a scoped weapon
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Car_Wash_of_Doom.png|60px]]
| [[Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom|Car Wash of Doom]]
| Chapter VI: Destroy all of the homing mines chasing Blast Off before they self destruct
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Club_a_Con.png|60px]]
| [[Club Con!]]
| Chapter VII: Ram a jet (on the ground or in the air)
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Fusilateral_Quintrocombiner.png|60px]]
| [[Swarm (issue)|Fusilateral Quintrocombiner]]
| Chapter VIII: Melee an enemy through the goal post
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_I_Robot_Master.png|60px]]
| [[I, Robot-Master!|I, Robot Master]]
| Chapter IX: Destroy all images of Starscream and his Statues
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_The_Harder_They_Die.png|60px]]
| [[...The Harder They Die!|The Harder They Die]]
| Chapter X: Kill five Autobots with a single hover slam attack
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
| [[File:FoC_Internal_Affairs.png|60px]]
| [[Internal Affairs!]]
| Chapter XI: Hack all of the security terminals before the Decepticons can activate them
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Slap_Grimlock.png|60px]]
| Slap the Grimlock
| Chapter XII: Kill a Leaper in the air with an explosive barrel
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Monacus_Spender.png|60px]]
| [[Monacus]] Spender
| Spend 250,000 Energon in the Teletraan-1 store
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Reconstructor.png‎|60px]]
| Reconstructor
| Fully upgrade one weapon
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Master_Builder.png|60px]]
| [[The Master Builders (episode)|Master Builder]]
| Fully upgrade all weapons
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Teletraan_1_Regular.png|60px]]
| [[Teletraan-1 (WFC)|Teletraan-1]] Regular
| Rate all weapons, weapon upgrades, and equipment
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Chop_Shop.png|60px]]
| [[Chop Shop (G1)|Chop Shop]]
| Purchase all weapons and perks
| 50 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Beachcomber.png|60px]]
| [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]
| Collect all blueprints
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Cassetticon_Audiophile.png|60px]]
| [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Cassetticon]] Audiophile
| Collect all audio logs
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Octopunch_Scavenger.png|60px]]
| [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] Scavenger
| Open fifteen Armory Recreators in Campaign or Escalation
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Reconfiguration_Matrix.png|60px]]
| [[Reconfiguration Matrix]]
| Create a custom character in Multiplayer
| 10 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Headmaster.png|60px]]
| [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster!]]
| Reach max level in a single class
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_King_of_Scrap_Heap.png‎|60px]]
| King of the Scrap Heap
| Reach max level in all four classes
| 100 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Gold}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_What_Prime_Directive.png‎|60px]]
| What [[Prime Directive]]s?
| Unlock Prime Mode
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Full_Throttle_Scramble.png‎|60px]]
|[[Full Throttle Scramble Power!]]
| Earn MVP in any game mode during a public Multiplayer match
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Ultimate_Menasor.png|60px]]
| Ultimate [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]
| Capture three flags in a single CTF game during a public Multiplayer match
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Moonbase_One.png‎|60px]]
| [[Moonbase One]]
| Personally capture all 3 nodes in a conquest game during a public Multiplayer match
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Ballistic_Energon_Goodie.png|60px]]
| Ballistic Energon Goodie
| Return five heads at once in a headhunter game during a public Multiplayer match
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Heavy_Metal_War.png|60px]]
| [[Heavy Metal War]]
| Kill 6 different opposing players in a TDM game during a public Multiplayer match
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Robotopossum.png‎|60px]]
| [[Roboto-possum|Robotopossum]]
| Complete wave 15 in Escalation (Ignition)
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Maccadams_Old_Oil_House.png|60px]]
| [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]
| Complete wave 15 in Escalation (DownFall)
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Space_Pirates.png|60px]]
| [[Space Pirates!]]
| Complete wave 15 in Escalation (Oblivion)
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Rust_Marks.png|60px]]
| Rust Marks
| Complete wave 15 in Escalation (Ancients)
| 15 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Bronze}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Ultra_Power_Master.png|60px]]
| Ultra [[Powermaster|Power Master]]
| Spend 100,000 credits in Escalation
| 25 {{gamerscore}}
| {{PS Silver}}
|-
|[[File:FoC_Vector_Sigma_Victory.png|60px]]
| [[Vector Sigma]] Victory
| Unlock All Trophies
|
| {{PS Platinum}}
|-
|}

==Transformers references==
Aside from the obvious G1 inspired character designs, the game has some references to previous iterations of Transformers, a number of them from [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original cartoon]] and [[The Transformers: The Movie|the 1986 movie]].

* Most of the achievements and trophies are named in homage to Generation 1, such as characters, cartoon episodes, [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comic]] issues, and more. Due to the sheer number, we have opted to list them in the achievement list above instead.
* Soundwave does a short impression of a light fixture.
* Jazz and Cliffjumper are paired together, just as they were in the film and in the episode [[Starscream's Brigade]].
* Jazz finds an inscription on a tank in the Sea of Rust that says "IX-XVII-MCMLXXXIV," or the date that "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" first aired.
* During his coronation, Starscream is wearing the same crown his [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 counterpart]] wore in the movie, and the dialogue he has with Megatron during the scene is almost word-for-word as well. He even blasts him in tank mode, though this does not kill him like it did in the movie. The crown can be found in Starscream's level and worn for its duration.
* When Megatron is done killing off soldiers under Starscream's command, Starscream calls Megatron a [[Pretender to the Throne!|pretender to the throne]].
* When Kickback runs to the door, Slug pushes it from outside and the door falls, smashing Kickback to the ground and when Slug sees Kickback under the door, he says "Excuse me!". This is a straight homage to the scene where [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] pushes the door and it smashes the [[Quintesson]] prosecutor.
* A secret room can be found in Grimlock's level containing his waiter outfit from "[[Madman's Paradise]]"; upon finding it, Grimlock utters his famous movie quote, "Me Grimlock no bozo, me king." It also contains three swords that resemble the [[Master Sword]] mounted on fixtures around the room.
* After defeating a group of Insecticons, Slug says that Grimlock tore through them like they were "[[beryllium baloney]]", but Grimlock says "[[cesium salami]]", mirroring the scene where their Generation 1 counterparts argue on [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]].
* In an audio log left by [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]], the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' is described as [[Vanguard-class Deep Space Interceptor]], a term which originated in [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]].
* The five [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobot]]s are originally grouped together as the "[[Lightning Strike Coalition]]", the name of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s breakaway Autobot faction in "[[Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages]]". On that note, the Coalition's logo serves as the difficulty symbols.
* The [[Path Blaster]] is named for the [[Pathblaster]] from "[[Time Wars]]". One of its modifications is named for Generation 1 episode "[[The Gambler]]" and involves the use of [[Destronium]], a substance introduced in ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]''.
* The [[Riot Cannon]]'s "Planet Buster" modification is likewise named after the [[Planet Buster]] that appeared in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon.
* The [[neutron assault rifle]]'s special modification is the "P.O.K.E. Beta"—not the first [[Punch of Kill Everything]] reference in the game series.
* One of the corrosive slime cannon's modifications for multiplayer is the [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] Disperser.
* Other weapon modifications available include [[tachyon transmitter]], [[fireblast]], [[turbo booster]]s, [[unspace|transwarp]] ballistics, and [[R-infinity accelerator|R-Infinity]] finders.
* Bruticus's special attack is the [[Sonic Pain Wave]], one of the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' franchise]] [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]]'s weapons.
* When Cliffjumper is accessing the Teletraan-1 store one of the random phrases apologizes for not being able to provide [[glass gas]], the unique weapon of G1 [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]. The Glass Gas Cannon is awarded, however, after beating the main campaign.
* In Chapter IX, playing as Megatron after his awakening Soundwave says "Less talk, more work", quoting the G1 episode "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2]]".
As part of the expanding [[Aligned continuity family|Aligned continuity]], ''Fall of Cybertron'' also incorporates thematic and visual references to the ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' novel and the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' television series:
* Bumblebee's voice circuits/vocal processor having been damaged prior to the story's beginning, essentially rendering him mute.
* Optimus Prime's [[Path Blaster|rifle]] design, which was described by [[High Moon Studios]] as being an earlier version of the rifles Optimus uses in the ''Prime'' television series.
* Optimus being referred to as having been a librarian named Orion Pax and Megatron having been a gladiator from Kaon named Megatronus.
* Cliffjumper's head design and Megatron's reformatted/rebuilt body design.
* Dark Energon's power to revive the dead is an aspect from the ''Prime'' television series that was not seen in the previous game, ''War For Cybertron''.
* Trypticon being reformatted into the ''Nemesis''.
* The discovery that there were [[Ancient]]s who had traveled to other planets, particularly Earth.
* One of the weapons is called an [[Energon Harvester]].

==PC version notes==
Initially, developer High Moon Studios commented (as late as [[BotCon 2012]] on the end of April of that year) that there would not be a Windows PC version of ''Fall for Cybertron'' due to their own lack of experience with the PC platform and the criticism the PC version of ''War for Cybertron'' had received. However, shortly before the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2012 in early June, publisher Activision announced a PC version of the game, to be developed by [[Mercenary Technology]], a new studio formed by "veterans of the industry".

The PC version of ''Fall of Cybertron'' improves upon the console versions of ''Fall'' (and indeed the PC version of ''War for Cybertron'') by featuring higher quality graphics, higher resolution textures, runs at 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second (versus 30 frames for the console version). Unfortunately, as is standard in most console game ports, the graphical settings are lacking and the controls cannot be reset/rebound.

Even with these pros and cons, there is still a number of changes from the console and PC versions, such as:
* The main menu background in the PC version is a still image, rather than the long, beautiful cutscene file that is used in the console versions. The cutscene is unused in the PC files, but there currently is no way to put it back in the game.
* The VGA trailer isn't in the PC version of the game. It's not selectable in the Movies section of the Extras menu, not played when you idle on the main menu long enough, and isn't in any of the PC version files. This issue isn't present in the console versions, so that's a complete bummer!
* Jetfire's mouth doesn't move in the PC version when transitioning to Bruticus in the final level.
* Though the prompts appear, you cannot pet Laserbeak in the PC version.

==Notes==
* This game, like its predecessor, plays a Stan Bush song at the end, this time being a slightly modified version of "[[The Touch]]", using elements from both the 2007 and 2009 versions to create a unique hybrid of the two. Soundwave plays it, while Bumblebee dances "The Carlton Dance," made famous by {{w|Alfonso Ribeiro}} on ''{{w|The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air}}'', which is also performed in the game by the [[Lever Transformer]] hidden in Chapter V.
* One of the unlocks for beating the game is the Glass Gas Cannon, however, Teletraan still tells Cliffjumper during replays that it is not available.
* In Chapter VIII, a {{w|Wilhelm scream}} can be heard when Bruticus is attacking the Autobots.
* If Grimlock is recreated in any multiplayer mode, his T-rex alt mode will function differently than the campaign mode, behaving more like a typical vehicle mode.
* In an unfortunate oversight, the downloadable demo for the game is the first section of Chapter VI, in which one can find an audio log that blows the surprise of Megatron's death earlier in the game. Oops.
* Sludge's model is noted to have been set up for skeletal deformation; which would only be needed if the character had needed to transform in-game. The model also sports beast kibble, so Sludge may have initially had a bigger role in the story mode than what he had in the final game; either that, or he was intended to be a usable model in Multiplayer.
* Unlike its predecessor ''War for Cybertron'', ''Fall of Cybertron'' has not been dubbed in languages other than English.
* Some backstory elements are expanded upon in [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Logs]] for the iPhone.
* The [[2011]] cinematic trailer for the game features the song "The Humbling River" by {{w|Puscifer}}. The [[2012]] trailers feature a cover by The EverLove of the song "{{w|Cities in Dust}}" (originally written by {{w|Siouxsie and the Banshees}}).
*The game was "''remastered''" in August 8th, 2016 for the PS4 and Xbox One in Australia, and on August 9th in America. However, like with High Moon's other "''remastered''" game, {{w|Deadpool_(video_game)#Removal_and_eighth-generation_ports|Deadpool}}, it's just a simple port with updated button icons (not even a framerate boost!). All DLC is unlocked, however.
*On the [[Transformers One (Music from the Motion Picture)|Transformers One score]], the track titled "The Fall" uses he final part of "The Great Exodus" from this game's score, heard at 44 seconds in.

==Errors==
*When Soundwave looks at Megatron's arm after he has been crushed by Metroplex, it is in the design of his upgraded body from later in the game, rather than the original one he just had.
*When Shockwave speaks to Grimlock just when the latter comes in to rescue Swoop, the subtitles say, "your attempt to "'you'" rescue your friend was easily predicted."

==External links==
*[https://www.transformersgame.com/ Official Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111007025111/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/10/06/november-cover-revealed-transformers-fall-of-cybertron.aspx November cover revealed: Fall of Cybertron] @ Game Informer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111008100520/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/07/transformers-high-moon-studios-tour.aspx Transformers: High Moon Studio tour] @ Game Informer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111012164209/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/10/fall-of-cybertron-the-new-optimus-prime.aspx Fall of Cybertron: The New Optimus Prime] @ Game Informer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYZ8THjpl1E Grimlock Rises In Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Teaser Trailer] via Gematsu
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014032248/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/12/behind-the-crosshairs-the-weapons-of-transformers.aspx Behind the Crosshairs: The Weapons of Transformers] @ Game Informer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn4ECyCExeg Fall of Cybertron Teaser 01] @ YouTube
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111017180138/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/13/the-illustrated-tour-of-cybertron.aspx The Illustrated Tour of Cybertron] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111018225804/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/17/directing-transformers-fall-of-cybertron.aspx The Story And Direction Of Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron] @ GameInformer, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jX82pVRvXw Directing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]" on YouTube
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111021193833/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/19/animating-the-transformers.aspx Animating The Transformers] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDrOcu7-uMU Optimus], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n0WMLLPmRM Grimlock], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd4cfpJ9U08 Jazz]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111021202431/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/20/clever-devils-the-enemies-and-ai-of-fall-of-cybertron.aspx The Enemies & AI Of Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111022201903/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/21/transformers-resurrecting-the-dinobots.aspx Transformers: Resurrecting The Dinobots] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link): "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK1tpNt1GyI The Story Behind the Dinobots in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]", "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9qC7gSKpILc Designing the Dinobots for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]"
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111027171303/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/24/fall-of-cybertron-deep-character-dive-jazz.aspx Fall Of Cybertron Deep Character Dive: Jazz] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111027182400/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/26/the-transformers-timeline.aspx The Transformers Timeline] @ Game Informer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111030190235/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/26/true-to-character-transformer-fall-of-cybertron.aspx True To Form: Safeguarding The Transformers License] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111029135749/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/28/creating-the-sounds-of-the-transformers.aspx Creating The Soundscape Of Transformers] @ GameInformer; "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAiHRBpMcw Creating the Transformers Sound in Fall of Cybertron]", "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6o1p7v2Nws Peter Cullen and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]", "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZTiwe5FM2o Capturing Sounds for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]" on YouTube
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111103185318/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/31/larger-than-life-designing-transformer-s-set-piece-moments.aspx Larger Than Life: Designing Fall of Cybertron's Set Piece Moments] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111104221448/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/11/02/transformers-fall-of-cybertron-gameplay-roundtable.aspx Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Gameplay Roundtable] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link), "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YBRyIKdQS0 Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Gameplay Roundtable]" on YouTube
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111129193132/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/podcasts/archive/2011/11/03/tfse.aspx Special Edition Podcast: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron] @ GameInformer (Wayback Machine link)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsINYfFG5Q Fall of Cybertron Cinematic Teaser Trailer] @ YouTube
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3E358n7pcI Fall of Cybertron Cinematic Trailer] @ YouTube
*[https://www.gamespot.com/videos/transformers-fall-of-cybertron-official-trailer/2300-6368583/ Fall of Cybertron Official Gameplay Trailer] @ GameSpot

==References==

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Soldier (WFC)

2024-09-23T15:29:24Z

AzureNight:

{{factions|autobot|decepticon}}

{{disambig3|Soldier}}

:''Soldier is a class from [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron's]] multiplayer mode.''
[[File:Soldiersclass.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|right|Oh, was that ''your'' face I just mangled? Yeah. Sorry. +250 exp]]

Are you sick and tired of your [[Scout (WFC)|Scouts]] and [[Scientist (WFC)|Scientists]] getting chewed to pieces? Then pick a '''soldier''', who boasts the strongest offense of all four classes. Soldiers use big machine guns and ballistics, and can turn into tanks whenever they please.

==Characteristics==
''Life bar: 6''
===Chassis===
'''Autobot'''
*Defender ([[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]])
*Protector ([[Scattershot (WFC)|Scattershot]], DLC #1, available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, but not for the PC version.)
'''Decepticon'''
*Crusher ([[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]])
*Destroyer ([[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]])
*Eradicator ([[Demolishor (WFC)|Demolishor]], unlockable if preordered through Amazon.com (U.S.) or Play.com (U.K.), or via DLC #1, available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, but not for the PC version.)

===Weapons===
Soldiers can equip two of these four weapons:
*[[Neutron assault rifle]]
*[[X12 Scrapmaker]]
*[[EMP shotgun]]
*[[Thermo rocket launcher]]
They use energon hammers in melee and carry [[frag grenade]]s.

===Abilities===
Soldiers can eventually choose two from four different abilities:
*Hover: Float a few feet off the ground and increase weapon damage. Also, become a sitting duck.
*Whirlwind: Execute a spinning melee attack that beats down everybody near you.
*Ammo Beacon: Deploy a temporary beacon that refills ammo and increases weapon damage while nearby. (Level 2)
*Energon Sling: Disable enemy's abilities for a while. (Level 5)
Vehicle mode:
*180: Turn around really fast. Can be disorienting if you do it accidentally.

===Upgrades===
Soldiers can eventually choose up to three upgrades to augment their abilities: 
'''Offensive Upgrades'''
*P.o.K.E. Alpha: Increases damage of Whirlwind. (Level 1)
*Sharp Shooter: Reduces weapon spread. (Level 1)
*Death from Above: Increases hover damage bonus. (Level 7)
*Grenade Dispenser: Ammo beacon also generates one grenade per teammate. (Level 10)
*Heavy Weapons: Increases damage for EMP Shotgun, X12 Scrapmaker and Thermo Rocket Launcher. (Level 17)
*Path Blaster: Ammo beacon spawns an [[Ion Displacer]] turret (!). (Level 23)
'''Defensive Upgrades'''
*Flurry of Blows: Whirlwind speed increases. (Level 3)
*Flak Armor: Reduces explosion damage. (Level 3)
*Saboteur: Increases Energon Sling effect time. (Level 8)
*Flight Pack: Increases Hover duration. (Level 13)
*Energon Absorbers: Decreases damage taken while using Whirlwind. (Level 19)
*Improved HeatSink: Decreases weapon reload time. (Level 24)
'''General Upgrades'''
*Weapon Stabilizer: Reduces weapon kickback. (Level 6)
*Nemesis Maker: Increases flak grenade damage radius. (Level 6)
*Blaster Amplifier: Gain two extra ammo clips. (Level 9)
*First Aid: Decreases health regeneration delay. (Level 15)
*Explosive Capacitor: Carry one extra grenade. (Level 21)
*Rapid Recharge: Reduces ability recharge time. (Level 25)

===Killstreaks===
After killing enough guys without dying, every class can use special abilities. The soldiers' are:
*Ammo Matrix (3 kills): Locks your ammo clip and refills team's ammo/grenades.
*Electromagnetic pulse (5 kills): Jams enemy's abilities for a while.
*Omega Missile (7 kills): Fires a guided missile at everyone.

==External links==
*[http://www.transformersgame.com/#/game/classes Activision's official Multiplayer Class page]

[[Category:Video game-only characters]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron subgroups]]

Soldier (episode)

2024-09-23T15:29:13Z

AzureNight:

{{disambig3|Soldier}}
{{episode|
|series=Armada
|ep=5
|prev=Comrade
|next=Jungle
|title="Soldier"
|furigana=せんし
|japanese=武人
|romaji=Senshi
|translation=Military Man: Soldier
|image=soldierredalert.jpg
|caption=[[William Lennox|Listen to me, you're a soldier now]]!
|production code=TF: A-05
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]]
|writer=[[Shōji Tonoike]]
|director=[[Shigeki Awai]]
|animation studio=[[Actas Inc.]]
|airdate=[[September 27]], [[2002]] (English) [[February 7|7 February]] [[2003]] (Japanese)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpGn6TwJ8UU
|videosite=YouTube
}}
'''The Autobots and Decepticons battle over another Mini-Con and we learn about why nobody talks crap about Red Alert.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Soldier OptimusRedAlert.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Who wants some?]]
At the [[Autobot]] base, [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] does some important technical work while [[Hot Shot (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Hot Shot]] plays tag with the kids and their [[Mini-Con]]s. They manage to outrun him until Hot Shot requests some aid from his Mini-Con, [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]], who quickly apprehends [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]]. Carlos, upset at losing, calls Jolt an "overgrown eggbeater." The noise grabs Red Alert's attention, who chews out Hot Shot for playing around while he should be working. When [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus]] investigates the commotion, both Red Alert and Hot Shot dismiss their conflict. [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] feels the tension in the air and has a bad feeling.

Hot Shot apologizes to the kids for making them watch himself and Red Alert bicker. Optimus then explains to Hot Shot and the kids how Red Alert's dedication to preparation was integral to winning many battles on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Hot Shot understands Red Alert is great but doesn't see why he won't let himself have a personality. Suddenly, the alarms signify that another [[Mini-Con storage panel|Mini-Con panel]] has activated. The Autobots and their human friends quickly warp to the panel's location: [[Antarctica]].

[[File:Soldier penguins.jpg|150px|thumb|Say goodbye to this by 2010.]]
In the Mini-Con ship's ruins on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] also detects the Mini-Con panel. Noticing [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]]'s absence, [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] speculates that Starscream has already left for Earth to rectify his lack of a personal Mini-Con and [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] calls Starscream dumb. As Megatron tells his goons to be silent, Starscream holds a blade close beside Demolishor's head, revealing himself. Megatron sends the three [[Decepticon]] minions to [[Earth]].

At the Antarctic, [[Break|penguins]]! Lots of them! Also, Autobots and Decepticons. The Autobots stop due to a drive system failure, and Optimus Prime's trailer converts into its command center mode in front of the astonished humans. Red Alert fixes Optimus's systems while Hot Shot is impatient and jerky. After Prime's repairs are complete, Hot Shot and Carlos leave together (with a bit of assistance from Jolt).

[[File:Soldier OptimusBase.jpg|left|155px|thumb|Oh, that's right. Prime has a trailer, doesn't he?]]
Starscream searches for the Mini-Con by chopping icebergs to no avail, so he flies to search in a different area. Megatron, seeing Starscream from a distance, instructs his henchmen to follow. Eventually, Starscream is the first to find the Mini-Con, embedded in an ice shelf wall. But before retrieving the Mini-Con, he notices Hot Shot nearby and attacks, forcing the Autobot into a massive ice-crevice. Jolt saves Hot Shot from certain death, and they ascend the ice wall to return to the battle, noticing the Mini-Con on the way up. The other Decepticons see the Mini-Con panel glowing and transform to retrieve it. Further away, the rest of the Autobots also notice the Mini-Con, and Optimus heads on over.

[[File:Soldier dumpCarlos.jpg|155px|thumb|A good try, all things considered, but in the end, Carlos survived.]]
At the showdown between Starscream and Hot Shot, Hot Shot has the idea to jump his car mode directly into Starscream, air-bludgeoning the Decepticon. The other Decepticons attack Hot Shot and verbally attack Starscream. Hot Shot drives away with the Decepticons after him. From within Red Alert, [[Rad White|Rad]] sees Hot Shot under fire and is concerned, but Red Alert tells Rad to relax. Then Carlos is tossed out of Hot Shot into the abyss, but Jolt, like during the earlier tag game, grabs onto Carlos and lifts him to safety. Cyclonus fires his "laser pulse attack" at Hot Shot. Hot Shot and Jolt return fire at the Decepticons, and Megatron fires at Hot Shot.

[[File:Soldier Primeskiing.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Eat this!]]
Red Alert drops off the kids and tells them to find a safe area, but the two instead decide to find Carlos. When Cyclonus is about to finish Hot Shot at close range, Red Alert saves Hot Shot by using his cable to pull Cyclonus backward. Megatron takes Hot Shot hostage, but Red Alert works his way out of the situation with his disc launcher, bouncing the flying disc off Demolishor and into Megatron's back. Optimus finally arrives, making the sides even, and the three Decepticons retreat.

[[File:Soldier PrimeFonz.jpg|150px|thumb|Aaayyyyyyyyyyy!]]
Using his sword to climb the ice wall to the Mini-Con, Starscream begins punching the wall, making things hard for Carlos, who can barely hang on to stop himself from plunging to his death. A punch from Starscream disrupts the terrain enough to send all three kids falling to their demise, but Red Alert's colorful flying disc catches them. Starscream grabs the Mini-Con panel, but Red Alert swipes it away. Unwisely, Starscream opens fire but falls to the ice canyon's depth as a result.

Back at the Autobot base, the Mini-Con is shown to be Jetstorm, but he doesn't activate. Red Alert and Hot Shot make amends with each other, and Red Alert reveals that beneath his robocop-esque demeanor, he too appreciates Hot Shot's abilities.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
({{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (1)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Hot Shot]] (8)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (11)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (12)
*[[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (13)
*[[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (14)
*[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (15)

|c3=
*[[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] (2)
*[[Rad White|Rad]] (4)
*[[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] (6)

|h4=[[Mini-Con]]s|c4=
*[[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] (3)
*[[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] (5)
*[[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] (7)
*[[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] (9)
*[[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] (10)
*[[Jetstorm (Armada)|Jetstorm]] (16)
*[[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]] (17)
}}

==Quote==
"I think I've pinpointed the glitch, sir." 
"Good work, Red Alert. What was the problem with the CPU?" 
"It seems the cold on this continent has caused a glitch."
:—'''Red Alert''', who needs a thesaurus, and '''Optimus Prime''', who has lousy microprocessor thermal protection.

"Ahh nuts, I knew I should've brought along snow tires!"
:—Always on the ball '''Hot Shot''', struggling to drive in snow and ice in the ''Antarctic''.

"Oh, and hey, Hot Shot? Do you mind cranking up the heat in here a touch? It's cold."
:—The ever-observant '''Carlos'''.

"Hellooooo... buh-bye!"
:—'''Cyclonus''', as he prepares to execute Hot Shot.

"Red Alert! Thanks, pal!" 
"Doing my job, and ''nothing'' more."
:—'''Hot Shot''' in Generation 1 [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] butt-kisser mode, and '''Red Alert''' after the latter saves the former's life.

"I hope you like pain!"
:—'''Demolishor''', reacting to the rescue as everybody else stands around.

"Hahahaha... go ahead, boys, give me a reason..."
:—'''Demolishor''', as the two Autobots get cornered.

"Uhh... yes... soon I'll have my very own pet…."
:—'''Starscream''', who we assume is talking about a Mini-Con.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Legends of the Microns''===
*Rad's opening narration is ''Armada''-exclusive. Alexis gives it during a later scene in the Japanese dub.
*During the tag game, when Jolt intercepts and catches Carlos, Carlos shouts at Hot Shot for being unfair and cheating.
*The primary reason for Red's annoyance with Hot Shot messing around is the same in both dubs: He thinks Hot Shot should be working instead of wasting time, but he expresses it differently. In ''Legends of the Microns'', he worries the kids might get hurt playing tag with a giant robot; in ''Armada'', he's mad about Hot Shot actively evading work he's ''meant'' to be doing, which Red has had to pick up the slack on for the last two hours. The task isn't mandatory, but Red Alert thinks it's putting their downtime to better use in ''Legends of the Microns''.
*In ''Legends of the Microns'', after Optimus interrupts Red and Hot Shot's argument to ask what's going on, Hot Shot addresses the kids and suggests they all leave since they're "getting in the way." ''Armada'' has him respond to Prime's statement, saying he and Red were "just talking." ''Armada'' has Optimus follow up this exchange with an order to return to work; he is silent in the Japanese dub because the work isn't mandatory, as already noted.
*This scene's last moments, where Alexis looks at Rad and then Red Alert, differ between the versions: ''Armada'' adds an extra line with Alexis asking Rad, "What's up with Optimus?" in response to his somewhat curt, ''Armada''-exclusive order for the 'bots to get back to work. During her internal monologue, Alexis concludes that the Autobots are rushing to resume their Mini-Con hunt, and she worries the Decepticons will soon strike back. In ''Legends of the Microns'', this acts as Alexis giving the opening narration; it connects to the Red Alert subplot that ''Armada'' ignores, in which she observes how he becomes so immersed in his work.
*Immediately after this, Carlos and Rad wonder what's the "big secret" like Optimus is keeping something from them that made him act that way in ''Armada''. In ''Legends of the Microns'', they're just openly fretting that Red Alert doesn't like them.
*The following conversation is Prime telling Hot Shot and the kids to appreciate Red Alert more because he's a great warrior whose true capabilities they haven't seen yet. It's something Optimus knows well since he and Red Alert fought together long before Hot Shot was "born." ''Armada'' warps the entire conversation to become about how Hot Shot is overeager and should be more prepared like Red Alert, despite how unglamorous it makes him seem.
*In ''Legends of the Microns'', Carlos alerts everyone about the new Mini-Con signal, but ''Armada'' gives the line to Optimus and extends it to fill the silence in the scene since the Japanese dub has Carlos say the line as the shot pans out.
*The Japanese dub removes the transformation noise from the Autobots preparing to warp. ''Armada'' adds extra dialogue as the Japanese version is mostly silent.
*When Starscream places his blade by the laughing Demolishor's head, he threatens to make it so Demolishor can never laugh again. In ''Armada'', the first part of his dialogue where he says that Demolishor and Cyclonus seem to be having fun—delivered off-screen—is replaced with Megatron telling Demolishor and Cyclonus to be quiet. The second part is replaced with Starscream merely laughing, so he never speaks in the scene's English version. Consequently, Megatron's subsequent order for them to find the Mini-Con plays a little differently: In ''Armada'', he's giving a command to the whole group; but in ''Legends of the Microns'', in response to Starscream's anger at Demolishor and Cyclonus ridiculing him for not having a Mini-Con, he's essentially telling him, "Well, go and ''get one'', then."
*When the Autobots arrive in Antarctica, ''Armada'' adds Carlos's line as the kids look at the penguins to cover the Japanese dub's silence. When they later stop, Carlos wonders if it's because of the Decepticons before Optimus says his drive suspension stopped working and tells the kids to go outside in ''Legends of the Microns''. ''Armada'' adds lines for Alexis and Carlos to remove the silence before Rad asks why they've stopped. Then ''Armada'' gives the kids extra lines after Prime's trailer finishes transforming into a base.
*For Prime's drive system failure, ''Legends of the Microns'' blames a problem with the original Earth truck he scanned, while ''Armada'' shifts the blame to the Antarctic cold. In ''Armada'', as Red Alert does his repairs, Hot Shot is generically impatient. In ''Legends of the Microns'', he proposes that Optimus use his robot mode to get around, but Optimus refuses since doing so means he can't carry the kids in his cab and protect them.
*When Hot Shot and Carlos ditch the others, the scene's purpose differs between the dubs: In ''Legends of the Microns'', Hot Shot's going for a quick high-speed test drive to make sure he can handle the frozen environment, only to reveal to Carlos that was just an excuse to distance himself from Red Alert, whose attitude is wearing thin on him. In ''Armada'', the loud rev of his engine that aggravates the kids is the only "test" he performs, and his departure is then played as him genuinely splitting off from the others to look for the Mini-Con. ''Armada'' adds filler dialogue to remove the silent bits from the Japanese version.
*When Carlos and Hot Shot reach the ocean, ''Legends of the Microns'' has Hot Shot observe that it's as good a time as any to turn back since he'll get it in trouble if he's gone too long. In ''Armada'', he mentions detecting a signal before saying how there's no way he'll be taking a dip in the freezing water. ''Armada'' also adds Carlos's line about him asking Hot Shot to turn up the heat.
*''Armada'' adds some filler dialogue to the scene of Starscream finding the Mini-Con.
*In ''Legends of the Microns'', Starscream doesn't say anything to Hot Shot before shooting at him. ''Armada'' changes Starscream's line about not letting Hot Shot get the Mini-Con and gives him an extra line about locking onto the Autobot, replacing Hot Shot telling Carlos to hang on. ''Armada'' also moves Hot Shot's line to come just as he and Carlos go off the ice's edge.
*Carlos and Hot Shot don't thank Jolt for saving them, and they don't talk again until spotting the Mini-Con panel. There's no dialogue between them when they return to the top of the ice wall and find Starscream waiting.
*When Demolishor and Cyclonus spot the light from the Mini-Con, they still don't know where Starscream is in ''Armada'', while they spot both him and Hot Shot in ''Legends of the Microns''.
*The transformation noise is removed from Red Alert transforming to take Rad and Alexis to Carlos and Hot Shot. It's also gone from when Optimus joins the fight near the end.
*''Legends of the Microns'' has Megatron subtly announce his presence by calling Starscream a fool off-screen before firing at Hot Shot.
*''Armada'' changes Megatron's line of telling Starscream to "just watch from over there and don't get in the way" to him telling Demolishor and Cyclonus to focus on capturing the Mini-Con. After this, Hot Shot speaks to the Decepticons before driving off, but he addresses Carlos in ''Legends of the Microns''.
*When Red Alert, Alexis, and Rad see Carlos and Hot Shot under attack, Red doesn't say Hot Shot knows what he's doing and instead tells Alexis and Rad that they're moving in.
*When Hot Shot ejects Carlos, Carlos says, "Oh, shoot!" in ''Legends of the Microns'' but ''Armada'' removes it and has Carlos scream the whole time until Jolt saves him. After this, in ''Legends of the Microns'', Cyclonus doesn't refer to Carlos and instead tells Hot Shot that it's the end of the line for him.
*Hot Shot doesn't thank Red Alert for saving him, and Red asks Hot Shot if he's alright.
*Instead of swearing revenge on "bolts for brains" Red Alert for sneaking up on him, Cyclonus says, "You wouldn't dare get in the way! Surrender, or we'll pay you back ten times...no, A HUNDRED TIMES over!" ''Legends of the Microns'' also changes Megatron's line from asking Red Alert what Hot Shot is worth to asking where Red Alert's previous momentum went. In ''Armada'', Demolishor dares Red Alert to show him what he's got, an addition that the Japanese dub removes as Demolishor says his line about Red worrying about injuring Hot Shot during the overhead scene.
*After Red launches his flying disc, ''Armada'' has Cyclonus remark, "Sorry, you missed!" which, of course, Red ''didn't'', as the disc successfully slams into Demolishor a second later. In ''Legends of the Microns'', Cyclonus says, "Your opponent is over here!" merely exploiting the fact Red has chosen to strike at Demolishor to get in a blast of his own.
*The moment where Demolishor chuckles and tells Red Alert and Hot Shot to "give him a reason" is silent. The only sound heard is Optimus approaching from off-screen. ''Armada'' plays the Transformers theme when Optimus returns, while ''Legends of the Microns'' plays "[[The Transformers Legends of the Microns: Sound of Evolution Vol. 1|Cybertrons, Transform!]]".
*The scene of Jetstorm's hologram appearing is silent.
*Red Alert is virtually mute during the episode's final sequence, preferring to deflect Hot Shot's gratitude by merely asking him how he's doing after the fight. He's more vocal in ''Armada'', repeatedly telling Hot Shot the thanks are unnecessary.
*For the ending narration in ''Armada'', Rad reflects on Hot Shot learning a valuable lesson and how ''everyone''? learned better teamwork after that day. Then Alexis says it's nice to see the two Autobots finally getting along and how, even though future battles will test them, they should all enjoy the moment. ''Legends of the Microns'' only features Alexis, and it has a sincere tone, unlike the lighthearted English version. It connects to her opening narration and closes the Red Alert subplot ''Armada'' overlooks; she states that maybe Red Alert focuses on repairing things so much because it's his own "grieving requiem" for those who fall in battle.

===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:Soldier HotShotPollutor error.jpg|200px|thumb|Greenpeace won't be happy.]]
[[File:Soldier wrongHelo error.jpg|200px|thumb|The most boring Triple Changer ever?]]
*When Jolt intercepts Carlos during the tag game in the opening, Alexis and Rad in the background are drawn with shoddy jagged lines. Plus, Alexis's hair and shirt are miscolored to match Carlos's. Carlos's mouth doesn't move as he tells Jolt to put him down because his line in the Japanese version is shorter, and Carlos finishes it before entering the frame.
*Pretty much all the weapons fire effects in this episode are colored yellow instead of the standard red-for-Autobots and purple-for-Decepticons.
*During Optimus Prime's flashback lecture, he and Red Alert look very jagged and pixelated.
*When Starscream holds his sword at Demolishor, he has both wings; this is irregular as Starscream's left wing becomes his sword. This mistake continues for the rest of the episode.
*When Demolishor, with Starscream's blade at his neck, turns to look back at Megatron, the "uhhh" he lets out is delivered by Starscream's actor rather than Demolishor's. This mistake doesn't happen in the Japanese dub.
*When the Autobots stop, for some reason, Rad asks Hot Shot what's up, but it's Optimus who answers. ''Legends of the Microns'' corrects this with Rad asking Optimus since the kids are riding in his cab.
*After Prime's container transforms, Alexis asks what "he" just transformed into though Optimus technically didn't change. She asks what happened instead in ''Legends of the Microns''.
*When Carlos tells Hot Shot, "It's pedal to the metal time!" the snow kicked up by Hot Shot's tires is miscolored black and grey, making it appear that the jerkface Autobot is polluting the area.
*During the first face-off shot between Starscream and Hot Shot, a faint circle is seen around Jolt's rotors as though they're moving, although they aren't. It's gone in the next shot of them.
*Depending on the dub, when Demolishor and Cyclonus notice the Mini-Con panel's light, they either don't know where Starscream is, or they do see him and Hot Shot. However, neither Starscream nor Hot Shot is visible, although they should be, given their location in the previous shot and the explosion in the background.
*When Starscream tells Hot Shot and Carlos to look behind themselves, Carlos is miscolored like Rad (a light-brown-haired Caucasian!) and calls the Autobot 'Hot Rod', Hot Shot's Japanese name.
*After Hot Shot flies into Starscream and knocks him back while in car mode, the Decepticon symbols on the back of Starscream's wings disappear.
*As Starscream lies against the rock, the Decepticon symbol is seen on his miscolored arm. When he grabs the Mini-Con, the insignia returns.
*The stock footage of Hot Shot Powerlinxing with Jolt is silent. ''Legends of the Microns'' corrects it as he shouts, "Evolution!" before the stock footage.
*Numerous times throughout the episode, Decepticons appear with purple Autobot insignias.
*Starscream's forearm is miscolored red when Demolishor scolds him for "trying to be a one-man army."
*In the beginning, Jolt carries Carlos by the barrels of his gun, but while saving Carlos later, Jolt has an entirely different helicopter design with landing gear he doesn't have.
*For two shots after taking fire from Hot Shot, Megatron's cannon is miscolored dark gray and red as he fires back.
*Two of Cyclonus's chest windows are miscolored dark gray before the shot of him sneaking up on Hot Shot.
*When Red Alert's rainbow disc hits him, the part of Demolishor's chest with the symbol on it is miscolored purple with a pentagon outline around the insignia.
*When Optimus slides into the frame of Red Alert and Hot Shot, Hot Shot's neck is colored dark gray instead of yellow. The color changes back in their next scene.
*When Starscream is in the fissure going after the Mini-Con, his right arm's raised spot is miscolored purple in one shot.

===Continuity notes===
*When the Autobots transform before going into the warp gate, the animation sequences are the same ones from episode two's climax, played in reverse.
*As Hot Shot slides toward the ice canyon during the Decepticon attack, he ejects Carlos into the canyon to transform! Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on the viewer's perspective), Jolt rescues Carlos. So, the maneuver Hot Shot pulled with Jolt during the tag game at the start later pays off during the mission, as it thankfully saves Carlos's life.
*In ''Legends of the Microns'', Hot Shot calls Red Alert "old timer," as he did at the end of "[[Metamorphosis (Armada)|Metamorphosis]]."
*This episode features the second appearance of Optimus Prime's rarely seen stock transformation sequence after debuting in the last episode.
*The Autobots recover Jetstorm, the first of the [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Air Defense Mini-Con Team]], subtly beginning the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]] arc, season one's primary focus.
*Gadgets and powers:
**Red Alert is seen using an extended welding tip from his laser scalpel hand.
**Red Alert also uses his Point Blaster as a handheld weapon, which isn't ''usually'' typical for him to do without Powerlinxing with Longarm first.
***This is also visible in the flashback scene with Optimus Prime. Optimus also carries two of his rifles in the same scene.
**Red Alert uses a grapple-claw from somewhere on his back? Given the use of his Point Blaster (as mentioned above), he was probably supposed to be Powerlinxed with Longarm at the time, and the grapple line coming from his back is Longarm's crane line. However, since Longarm isn't ever shown Powerlinxed at all this episode, it's hard to know for sure. To make matters even more confusing, the moment he retracts the grapple line, the scene cuts back to him holding his gun. Maybe it's the grapple-claw from the gun? Who knows!
**Red Alert uses his chest Energy Blast, and it fires fancy rainbow discs!
**Red Alert uses a capture missile to snatch the Mini-Con panel out of Starscream's hand. Why not the grapple-claw line he just used earlier in the episode? And how come he never uses it again after this episode?
**This is the first time we see Optimus Prime's container trailer transform into its base mode.
**Optimus Prime uses his forearm smokestacks as guns; this will become more common in future episodes.
**Hot Shot deploys his chainsaws/robot feet in vehicle mode again after debuting them in the previous episode as emergency breaks. This time he uses them to knock Starscream over.
**This episode reveals that Starscream's jet engines are in his kneecaps.
**Starscream fires lasers from his shoulder intakes in robot mode. He also fires lasers from the yellow circles on his chest intakes later in the episode.
**Cyclonus calls out "Laser Pulse Attack!" before firing lasers from his left arm cannon.
*Powerlinx forms:
**Jolt Powerlinx with Hot Shot in vehicle mode for the first time. This episode is also the first time Hot Shot shows off the flight capabilities he gains in this form.

===Continuity errors===
*During the Cybertron flashback, Red Alert correctly appears in his Cybertronic body, but Optimus incorrectly appears in his Earth-based design without the wheels on his legs.
*After Starscream slices the iceberg in half and takes off in jet mode, Demolishor and Cyclonus speak as if Starscream had previously separated from the other Decepticons, and they tracked him to that spot. This nonsensical bit seems to be a corruption of the Japanese dialogue, where they observe Starscream ''now'' going off on his own without orders out of desperation to claim the Mini-Con.
*After he and Hot Shot escape the ravine, why would Carlos be bothered by Starscream still being there? It's not like a Decepticon would leave an Autobot alone after finding a Mini-Con. Carlos doesn't say anything upon seeing Starscream waiting for them in the Japanese dub.
*When Red Alert proposes investigating the light from the Mini-Con panel, Rad replies, "What about Carlos--?" but his inflections make it clear the sentence was cut short in editing, removing something from the end of it. He was most likely going to say "--and Hot Shot?" since Red answers, "I'm sure ''they'll'' be all right," using a plural after Rad refers to the singular Carlos. In ''Legends of the Microns'', Rad correctly refers to "Carlos and the ''others''," the others being Hot Shot and Jolt.
*After Optimus, Red Alert, Rad, and Alexis spot the light from the Mini-Con, Optimus says ''he'' will go in for a look though he does nothing of the sort. Red Alert, Rad, and Alexis are the ones who spring into action first, with Optimus joining the fight later. ''Legends of the Microns'' fixes this error by having Prime tell the others to investigate while he catches up with them later.
*When Starscream opens fire on Red Alert for snatching the Mini-Con out of his hand, why does he laugh after losing out on another Mini-Con? He rightly curses the Autobots instead in ''Legends of the Microns''.
*Rad's section of the ending monologue about everyone learning better teamwork makes no sense since the episode mainly focuses on Hot Shot and Red Alert being at each other's throats.
**Also, why does Rad narrate at all when he's barely a focal character in this episode?

===Real-world references===
*Arriving in Antarctica, Rad identifies the penguins as {{w|Emperor Penguins}} in the Japanese dub.

===Trivia===
[[File:Soldier sinkyiceberg.jpg|200px|thumb|"I thought Antarctica would be—you know—bigger."]]
*The kanji 武人 would usually be pronounced as "''bujin''," while "''senshi''" is used for the kanji 戦士.
*When Optimus tells the kids to put their seatbelts on, only Rad and Alexis comply. Tsk tsk, Carlos.
*There's a nice touch when the Decepticons warp to the south pole—when Megatron materializes, the iceberg they are all standing upon suddenly sinks in their direction due to the weight.
*This is one of the few episodes where the right music plays during each [[scene transition]].
*This episode marks the first appearance of the [[title sequence]] with the opening monologue by Rad.
**For the Japanese dub, this episode has the series' first variation of the title sequence mentioned above, intercut with scenes from the first three episodes and featuring narration from Optimus.
*According to ''[[Legends of the Microns Year Book 2003]]'':
**This episode features Red Alert as its protagonist; it's the first where he's the most active, and he takes advantage of his toy version's gimmicks like his Energy Blast.
***[[Shinya Ogura]] helped adapt the toy's gimmicks for the anime, but some didn't make it into the show. He also designed the monitor for "[[Swoop (episode)|Swoop]]" and the ending.
**The episode begins and ends with an Autobot base maintenance scene; the only difference between them is Hot Shot's attitude toward Red Alert.
**Sound director [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]] gave some keywords to describe each character's "basic line," .e.g. Hot Shot is the "youngest"; Starscream is the "narcissist," and Demolishor is the "coward." It may also be the first episode where Demolishor gets called a coward.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Un travail d'équipe'''" ("A Teamwork")
:** In the dub, when Hot Shot informs Carlos that he spotted a very weak signal further away, one of the voice actors can be heard briefly trying to hold back a laugh for some reason, just before Carlos speaks.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Red Alert'''" ("Red Alert")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 5|5 December]] [[2003]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hideg nyom'''" ("Cold Tracks")

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gioco di squadra'''" ("Teamwork")
::*Carlos's line: "And look! It even got a chopper pad and everything!" is changed to: "Look! There's even a chopper '''robot'''!", like if he had never seen Jolt before.

'''Korean'''
:*''Title:'' "'''진정한 전사'''" ("True Warrior")

'''Polish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Żołnierz'''" ("Soldier")

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Soldado'''" ("Soldier")

==Home video releases==
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;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Legends of the Microns'' — Volume 2 ([[Columbia Music Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Vol:02 ([[Universal]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Vol:02 ([[Warner Bros.|Warner Music Video]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Power of the Mini-Cons ([[Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Season One: Part One (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2004 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Volume 1 ([[TFou Vidéo]]) — French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Triple Collection (Universal) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Bumper Double DVD Collection (Universal) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Volume One ([[New KSM]]) — English and German audio. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — The Complete Series ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Volume One (Shout! Factory)

[[Category:Armada episodes]]

Soldier (disambiguation)

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Springer (WFC)

2024-09-09T05:08:44Z

AzureNight:

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{{disambig3|Springer}}
:''Springer is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family#Novels|novels portion]] of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:SpringerFOC.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Knowing [[High Moon Studios|High Moon]], he probably has [[The Transformers: The Movie|better things to do tonight than die]].]]

'''Springer''' is a [[Wreckers|Wrecker]] who can transform into both ground and air-based alternate modes.

==Fiction==
===''The Covenant of Primus''===
Springer was among the Wreckers who remained behind on Cybertron after the launch of the Ark. He fought against the likes of [[Devastator (WFC)|Devastator]] and the [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticon]]s, all organized under [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s rule. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

===Aligned novels===
Springer was Wrecker leader [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus's]] lieutenant, and was constantly at his commander's side. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} Along with the rest of the unit, Springer turned down a place on the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' to fend off [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]—who transformed and flew off into space. Bummer. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

With the rest of the Autobots gone, Springer and the Wreckers fought valiantly to defend what remained of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] from [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave's]] forces. On one occasion, he and Magnus accompanied the scientist [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] to see [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]], with the proposal that a message be sent to the lost [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] using a small scale [[space bridge]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Shockwave finally made his move against Alpha Trion, arresting the sage from the [[Hall of Records]]. With Alpha Trion's neutrality no longer permitted, Ultra Magnus planned a rescue op. Springer joined Magnus's team of Wreckers to infiltrate Iacon, access the [[Shockwave's Tower|Tower of Shockwave]], and retrieve Alpha Trion. They were provided support by the recently reactivated [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]], who would act as a suitable...distraction for their op.

Inside Iacon's walls, Springer and the Wreckers came to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], who was secretly working with the Autobot resistance. [[Maccadam]] still shared the occasional oil with his Decepticon overlords, gathering intelligence. One of his patrons was an engineer who provided information on the Tower's mag-lev elevator, allowing the Wreckers to access it underground. The Wreckers were nearly accosted by [[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]] and the Decepticon city garrison, but Magnus radioed Omega Supreme who began long-range bombardment of the city, drawing away the Decepticons.

The Wreckers infiltrated Shockwave's secret lair and recovered Alpha Trion, but the situation was more dire than they anticipated. Shockwave had been trying to access [[Vector Sigma]] using Alpha Trion's systems, but the [[Quintesson]]s had secretly tapped into that same circuitry to reactivate the long dormant Space bridge, beginning a [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] invasion of Cybertron. The Wreckers raced to the Archives, where Alpha Trion intended to detonate the remaining articles of Cybertronian history that the Quintessons could claim. They were interrupted by General [[Tyrannicon]] of the Sharkticons, who jammed Alpha Trion's detonator. Fortunately, light-years away, Megatron had claimed the Sharkticon Matrix and therefore ended the Quintesson control over their slaves. Tyrannicon's troopers turned on him and each other, causing the all-but successful invasion to collapse in a matter of minutes. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Springer was among to Autobots that participated in the Battle at [[Tyger Pax]]. After [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] was knocked down by Decepticon firepower, [[Rodimus (WFC)|Rodimus]] and Springer fought [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] directly to give Ultra Magnus time to recover. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[File:EnemyOfMyEnemy-Springer.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
Following the restoration of Cybertron from the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Springer was one of the many Autobots blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]. {{Storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
* Springer appears in the ''[[The Art of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]]'' where we see art of all three modes for him. His two vehicular modes seem to be a dune buggy, similar to the [[Skirmisher]]s and a jet mode similar to the [[Dropship (WFC)]] used by Jazz and Cliffjumper during their mission to the Sea of Rust. He also appears in concept sketches for the final level aboard the ''Ark'', dodging tow cables from the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. [[File:Springer_foc_altmodes.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]

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[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) Autobots]]
[[Category:Fiction-only Transformers]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Autobots]]
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File:Springer foc altmodes.jpg

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{{FOCcap|[[Autobot]] [[Springer (WFC)]]'s alt mode concept art.}}

Brawl (WFC)

2024-09-09T04:55:33Z

AzureNight:

{{faction|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Brawl}}
:''Brawl is a [[Decepticon]] [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticon]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:WFC Brawl.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I carry around these twin cannons on my back... and my default weapon is an assault rifle. Sigh.]]

'''Brawl''' is rage incarnate. It's not that he doesn't love his job—he does—it's just that he has so little control over the destruction he brings to the battlefield. His rage is so great, it's been suggested that when he combines with his fellow [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticon]]s to form [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]], it's his rage alone that fuels the titan. But fortunately for Brawl, he has no problem with this. Best to love what you aren't capable of controlling in the first place, eh?

{{bigquote|Real Decepticons roll on treads.|Brawl on car alt-modes|[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]] }}

==Fiction==
===''The Covenant of Primus''===

The Combaticons remained behind on Cybertron after the launch of the [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]] and the [[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]. Brawl and his comrades fought against the [[Wreckers]] to help [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] maintain control of Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Brawl was one of the many Decepticons that pursued the Allspark to Earth. He participated in an enormous battle against the Autobots in a human settlement. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
{{-}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)''===
{{voiceactor|[[Nolan North]] (English)|[[Michel Vigné]] (French), [[Iñaki Alonso]] (Spain-Spanish)}}

During the final days of the war, Brawl served aboard a Decepticon starship under [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], who was seeking the [[Dark Energon]] guarded by the neutral Sky Commander [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. He was part of the bridge crew, along with [[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] as Megatron laid siege to the orbiting station where Starscream hid the supply of Dark Energon. After Megatron gained entry to the station (by ramming his starship into it, no less), Brawl and Barricade then helped Megatron fight his way into the station, past Starscream's soldiers. Starscream's constant taunting irritated Brawl, to the point he requested permission to rip off Starscream's head. He even said please. The Decepticons eventually reached the supply of Dark Energon and prevented Starscream from destroying it, and as his reward, Brawl was infused with the corrupted Energon's power by Megatron.

[[File:WFC-Brawlhammer.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|BRAWL SMASH!]]

Later, during the Decepticon assault on the Autobot capital of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Brawl had the honour of commanding and spearheading the ground attack while Starscream (his head sadly still attached) commanded the aerial forces and Megatron personally led a small strikeforce into the heart of the city. Megatron's team eventually reunited with Brawl and his forces outside the Iacon Vaults, where Autobot leader [[Sentinel Zeta Prime]] had taken refuge. Despite being heavily out-numbered (and being dogpiled by numerous Autobots), Brawl held out until Megatron, [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] and [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] arrived to assist. Brawl complained about Starscream's refusal to give his ground troops air support, but Megatron wasn't interested in excuses.

When even Megatron's Dark Energon powers failed to open the massive doors to the Vaults, the enraged Decepticon ordered a bombing run. Brawl attempted to protest, since the Autobots' anti-aircraft defenses were still active, but Megatron would not be convinced. After the bombing attempt failed miserably, Brawl tactfully suggested they first take the anti-aircraft guns in order to guarantee success. Megatron noted this was 'an excellent suggestion' and commanded him to see to it.

[[File:WFC-Brawlvehicle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Bite my shiny metal cannons. If not, then I tread you first, then blast.]]

The Decepticons successfully disabled the anti-aircraft guns and Brawl once again called down a bombing run, only to be bluntly refused by Starscream. Taking issue with Starscream referring to the bombers as 'his ships', Megatron cut in and ensured the bombing run would take place. However, Brawl and his comrades now had to hold off a massive Autobot counterattack until the bombers arrived. Despite fighting and killing numerous Autobots (including several Heavy Soldiers and [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]]), it seemed as though the Decepticons would be overwhelmed by nothing less than the entire Autobot army. Brawl, keeping track of the bombers' progress, started counting down the last few seconds verbally, and the Decepticons watched as the Autobots realized their doom, too late to retreat to safety. Megatron ordered Brawl to hold his position while he led his team to 'discuss' matters with Zeta Prime.

Brawl followed his orders to hold his ground to the letter. In fact, while Megatron, Breakdown and Soundwave were being attacked by [[Destroyer (WFC)|a huge Autobot]], Brawl watched, no doubt confident that his master would be victorious.

He probably wasn't too happy when Starscream claimed leadership when Megatron was apparently killed by a [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|huge heavily armed ship]]. That was fixed soon enough, though.

Brawl then journeyed with Megatron and the rest of the Decepticons to Cybertron's [[core]], watching as Megatron corrupted the core and cowered from falling debris. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron - Decepticons'' (DS)===
Brawl, Megatron, and [[Dirge (WFC)|Dirge]] captured an Autobot training facility during the waning days of the Great War. He later accompanied Megatron during the capture of [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon Space Station]] - a station which could manufacture Dark Energon. After a field test, the Dark Energon enhanced the Decepticons' stamina and strength. However, the Decepticons had to journey to Cybertron's core to get the fuel to make more Dark Energon. Brawl helped in an all-out assault on Iacon City to find the [[Omega Key]], the key to Cybertron's core - but upon taking it from Zeta Prime, it activated the titanic Autobot Omega Supreme, who quickly decimated the Decepticons. Brawl followed his leader, and defeated Omega Supreme, gaining total supremacy over Cybertron.

Later, the Autobots, with their new leader [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], came to the Core to flush out the Dark Energon. Brawl had been lying in wait for such an attack, and unleashed his full power upon them. But the Autobots defeated Brawl, and the Decepticon retreated. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron - Decepticons}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)''===
{{voiceactor|[[Nolan North]] (English)}}

[[File:FOC Brawl legged tank.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Does this mean I'm a [[Triple Changer]]?]]
Brawl joined the Combaticons in the closing battles of the Great War. He and [[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]] helped Starscream ambush Optimus under one of the [[Warp Cannon]]s during the massive Decepticon Attack on Iacon and dragged him before Megatron. After the attack on the Ark and the apparent death of Megatron, Starscream took command and ordered the Decepticons forces to retreat. Brawl drove past the other retreating Decepticon troops in his tank mode as they left the battle field, with Metroplex looming over. Later they began a mission to assault an Autobot tanker, loaded with Energon the Autobots had managed to steal from the Decepticons. [[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]]'s plan called for the team to split up, as [[Swindle (FOC)|Swindle]] eliminated enemy scouts, [[Blast Off (FOC)|Blast Off]] and [[Vortex (FOC)|Vortex]] would clear a path for Brawl to arrive on a transport and destroy the supports to the bridge the tanker was headed for, diverting it into an ambush led by Starscream. Once the path was clear, Brawl headed in, but his artillery was unable to penetrate the shields around the bridge's supports. Vortex brought down the shields on the two side supports for him though the bridge remained standing, and Brawl had to blast a hole in the central support so Vortex could head in and take it out with a [[detpak]].

After Swindle disabled the tanker's anti-air guns, the Combaticons merged into [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]] so they could smash through the rest of the defenses surrounding the bridge. They disassembled to take the bridge itself, but the tanker was so badly damaged, they could do little more than attempt to guide its crash landing. Following the crash, Brawl was arrested alongside his teammates by Starscream's henchmen.

Brawl was later released alongside everyone else who opposed Starscream after Megatron was resurrected by Soundwave. He oversaw the destruction of a Starscream statue, which he had wanted to destroy ever since the [[Constructicon (WFC)|Constructicon]]s were ordered to build it. Brawl was aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' before the Decepticons' assault on the fleeing [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]], and became part of Bruticus as the giant attacked the Ark's engines. Bruticus killed off dozens of Autobots before being taken down by the combined effort of [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] and the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbot]]s and was last seen flying off the Ark, fate unknown. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}

{{note|Brawl is also a playable character in the 'Downfall' Escalation map. He fights alongside [[Quake (FOC)|Quake]] and fellow Combaticons [[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]] and [[Swindle (FOC)|Swindle]]. He is able to deploy Battle Sentries, which fire at enemies.}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
====Console====
Brawl was presumably with the other Combaticons, fighting juuuuuust off-screen while Swindle escorted [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] and the [[Dark Spark]] to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]. When the Autobots launched a final desperate assault that included mobile artillery and numerous [[Titan (FOC)|Titan]]s, Brawl joined the other Combaticons to form Bruticus and lay waste to the attackers. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark (console)}}

====3DS====
{{Charstubgames}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

===''Transformers Universe''===
{{voiceactor|[[Stefan Ashton Frank]]}}

[[File:Tu-character-art brawl.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Admit it. You'd buy toy me.]]

Brawl is a Decepticon commander and adviser for PvE modes ([[Dispatch]] and [[Crisis (Prime)|Crisis]]). He will occasionally comment on the objective assigned to the player. {{storylink|Transformers Universe (Jagex)|Transformers Universe}}
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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Brawl-(FoC).jpg|thumb|400px]]
Brawl (FoC) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character who could be acquired as a reward to 55 leagues in the "Bruticus' Chaos" event. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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==Toys==
===''Generations''===
[[File:Generationstoy-Brawl.jpg|thumb|upright=3|I'm not [[neon]]...]]
*'''Decepticon Bruticus''' (multi-pack, [[2012]])
:*''Accessory:'' rifle
: The first version of "Decepticon Brawl" (named so for [[trademark]] reasons) was made available as part of a [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] [[exclusive]] "[[Bruticus (WFC)#Generations|Decepticon Bruticus]]" [[giftset|gift set]] that contains all five Combaticons in [[show-accuracy|game-accurate colors]]. Like most Hasbro Toy Shop exclusive toys, it was initially sold at the store's booth at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] and made available at the store's website a few days later.

: Brawl's [[alternate mode]] is a green "[[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]]" hover tank with a twin-barreled turret. Unlike most other Transformers toys with tank alternate modes, Brawl sports ''no'' wheels whatsoever. His [[robot mode]] rifle can be attached to the turret (between the two cannon barrels) and thus serve as an additional weapon. In [[robot mode]], Brawl can hold his rifle (which features a [[5 mm post|5mm post]] as its handle) in either hand.

: In addition to his robot and vehicle modes, Brawl can also combine with his fellow Combaticons into Bruticus and serve as any of the gestalt robot's four limbs, though his official configuration shown in the [[instructions]] is the left leg. (He features "fingers" attached to his feet via hinges which are not addressed by the instructions, but ''are'' required for his [[retool]] [[Twintwist]], who serves as [[Ruination (FOC)|Ruination]]'s left arm.) Brawl is noticeably the only limb-forming member of the team with no elbow articulation in his arm mode. His rifle can be combined with the other Combaticons' weapons to form Bruticus's Sonic Cannon.

: A [[redeco]] of Brawl in more "flashy" colors was available as an individually-released mass retail toy (see below), whereas a redeco in ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' colors (as the ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' [[Brawl (G1)#G22012|Brawl]] character) was released as part of a shared Amazon.com/[[BigBadToyStore]] exclusive [[Bruticus (G1)#WFC|Decepticon Bruticus]] gift set. The sculpt was also retooled into Twintwist, as mentioned above.
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{{anchor|Retail}}
[[File:Generationstoy-RetailBrawl.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|... but I am!]]
*'''Decepticon Brawl''' (Deluxe, 2012)
**''Series/number'': '''01/#007'''
**'''PART 5 OF 5!'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''[[2013]]-[[January 26|01-26]]'''
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TG05'''
**''Accessory:'' rifle
{{toydesigner|[[Lenny Panzica]] (Hasbro)}}

: A [[redeco]] of Decepticon Brawl from the Decepticon Bruticus gift set was available individually alongside his fellow Combaticons as part of the second [[wave]] of the ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]''-themed 2012-onwards Deluxe Class ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' assortment. These versions of the Combaticons replace the [[show-accuracy|game-accurate]], ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]''-inspired decos with more "flashy" colors apparently homaging the color scheme of [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]].

: Aside from the colors, mass retail Brawl is identical to the version from the Decepticon Bruticus gift set.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/Brawl/brawl.htm More information on ''Generations'' Brawl at TFU.info]''
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===''Platinum Edition''===
*'''Grimlock vs Decepticon Bruticus''' (Multi-pack, 2013)
**''Accessories'': Sonic Cannon

:''[[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]]'' "Decepticon Bruticus" is a seemingly-identical re-release of his San Diego Comic-Con 2012 toy. He comes with a redeco of ''Fall of Cybertron'' [[Grimlock (WFC)#Platinum Edition|Grimlock]].

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==Notes==
*Despite his [[Brawl (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]] being nothing more than a battle-hungry bundle of rage and his [[Brawl (Movie)|live-action movie counterpart]] being a heavily armed, battle-hungry bundle of rage (both being shock-troops to be unleashed on the enemy), this Brawl is intelligent enough to act as overall ground commander. He even makes a calm, well-thought out suggestion during the Iacon battle, advising Megatron to disable the anti-aircraft guns. However...
*While his tank mode, color, and lust for battle are pure Brawl, his intelligence, strategic outlook, and command ability are more in line with the Combaticon commander [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]. The twin barrels on his back even harken back to his old boss, as the original Brawl only had one barrel (though the original Brawl toy DID include a double barreled weapon for his vehicle mode).
*In ''War for Cybertron'', Brawl's colors appeared in a dark gunmetal-gray color scheme, and he was not classified as a Combaticon. It was not until the game's sequel he was labeled as a Combaticon, along with his colors changing to a muted shade of green. Besides his hover tank alt-mode, in ''Fall of Cybertron'' he also displayed the ability to change into a tripod-legged stationary cannon mode, although this is unusable by the player in any form of gameplay.
*Brawl gets a smaller role every time he shows up. He's a major character in ''War for Cybertron'', but is reduced to a supporting character in ''Fall of Cybertron'', before simply showing up without a word to form Bruticus's leg in ''Rise of the Dark Spark''.
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Brawl''' (ブロウル ''Burōru'')
*''Russian:'' '''Grom''' (Гром, "Thunder")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Chǎo nào''' (China, 吵闹, "Brawl")

[[Category:Combaticons]]
[[Category:Fall of Cybertron Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generations]]
[[Category:Platinum Edition]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Decepticons]]
[[Category:Transformers Universe game Decepticons]]

Demolishor (WFC)

2024-09-09T04:52:08Z

AzureNight:

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{{disambig3|Demolishor}}
:''Demolishor is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:DemolishorWar for Cyb.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb| "I jumped into the car when your mom stopped for gas. I'm just happy to''' be''' here!"]]
'''Demolishor''' is a Decepticon who fought on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] during the early days of the [[Autobot]]/Decepticon war.

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3)===
{{voiceactor|???}}
{{Note|Demolishor was initially a pre-order [[exclusive]] downloadable content character<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-War-Cybertron-Playstation-3/dp/B0030HM2WO Amazon.com preorder]</ref> in the United States and Play.com in UK, and is not playable in the ''War for Cybertron'' storyline campaign. Using a preorder code to unlock him allows the player to use Demolishor in Escalation mode, and makes his chassis available for customizing an online multiplayer character for the Decepticon soldier class. Demolishor was later made available alongside the other preorder-exclusive characters in the ''Transformers: War for Cybertron Map and Character Pack''. He was available for the XBox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, but not for the PC version.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3)===
{{Note|Once again, Demolishor only appears as a usable [[Titan (FOC)|Titan]]-class chassis in [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|''Fall of Cybertron'']]'s multiplayer mode, identified as "Bruiser." This time, he was available from the get-go. He is not playable in the ''Fall of Cybertron'' storyline campaign.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (Xbox 360/PS3/PS4/Xbox One)''===
{{Note|Demolishor appears as an Escalation-only character. His default ability is the Explosive Path and his default weapon is the [[Neutron assault rifle|Neutron Assault Rifle]].}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark (console)}}

==Notes==
*Demolishor is a clear [[homage]] to the [[Demolishor (Armada)|''Armada'' character of the same name]]—Play.com calls him "a regular character in the animated television show and one of Megatron's most faithful troops". [http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/13562650/Transformers-3-War-For-Cybertron/Product.html]
*In ''War for Cybertron'', his chassis is identified as "Gladiator." This could be an indicator that he was one of [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]'s loyal gladiators during his uprising in ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]''.

===Foreign names===
*''Russian:'' '''Krushitel''' (Крушитель, "Crasher")

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Fall of Cybertron Decepticons]]
[[Category:Video game-only characters]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Decepticons]]

Jetfire (WFC)

2024-07-13T20:13:04Z

AzureNight: /* Notes */

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{{disambig3|Jetfire}}
:''Jetfire is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:WFCJetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|{{w|Kamen Rider Ixa|Decepticon, please return that soul to God}}... wait, do I believe in God?]]

'''Jetfire''' is a dedicated scientist whose personal upgrades to his chassis have made him the fastest Autobot on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He has a strong moral compass, which led to his falling-out with his friend [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], and does not believe in gray areas when making major decisions.

{{quote|Megatron! Enough lives have been lost! You've got to stop this madness!|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Jetfire wasn't the first [[Autobot]] [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]], but he was the first to defect from the [[Decepticon]]s. He spent most of his time in a laboratory trying to further exploit the Autobots' flight capabilities – a scientific dead end, but one [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] placed great hope in. He was absent when [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] entered [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and stole the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]], but accompanied Optimus with [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] as back-up during the rescue of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]] from [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]. They then moved to rid the [[Dark Energon]] from the [[core]] of Cybertron. While descending, Jetfire was tempted to try some Dark Energon, but Optimus told him if he did, Prime would have to kill him.

Once at the core, Optimus removed the Chamber and was given the [[Matrix of Leadership]], as well as orders to evacuate the planet as it began repairing itself. Optimus launched Project Generation One, which [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] dubbed the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]''. Jetfire found the notion suicidal, but agreed to help and gave the Autobots time to complete the ''Ark'' by creating a diversion. [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbot]]s under his guidance gathered every space-worthy ship in the ruins of [[Six Lasers Over Cybertron]], while Jetfire picked the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]'' for himself to captain.

After drawing out [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]], Jetfire evaded the Station's detection system by flying in and out of the Asteroid Belt. He slowly but surely bolted the ''Eight Track'' with an ingress tube on to an unguarded part of the Station, allowing the Autobots to enter and blow up the Dark Energon Facility. Jetfire managed to detach the ship in time before Trypticon crashed in the [[Mithril Sea|Mithric Sea]]. However, Trypticon survived and transformed, and Jetfire refused a place on the ''Ark'' to distract the monster with the flight-capable [[Wreckers|Wrecker]] [[Springer (WFC)|Springer]]. Megatron's elite entered Trypticon, who transformed into the ''Nemesis'' and flew after the ''Ark'', leaving Jetfire on Cybertron with the Wreckers, [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] and [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] to deal with [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s forces. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

Jetfire remained a part of the Autobots, serving Ultra Magnus and the Wreckers as a long-range scout and recon expert during their guerilla tactics against Shockwave's rule. Shockwave finally made his move against Alpha Trion, arresting the sage from the [[Hall of Records]]. With Alpha Trion's neutrality no longer permitted, Ultra Magnus planned a rescue op. Jetfire joined Magnus's team of Wreckers to infiltrate Iacon, access the [[Shockwave's Tower|Tower of Shockwave]], and retrieve Alpha Trion. They were provided support by the recently reactivated [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]], who would act as a suitable...distraction for their op.

Inside Iacon's walls, Jetfire and the Wreckers came to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], who was secretly working with the Autobot resistance. [[Maccadam]] still shared the occasional oil with his Decepticon overlords, gathering intelligence. One of his patrons was an engineer who provided information on the Tower's mag-lev elevator, allowing the Wreckers to access it underground. The Wreckers were nearly accosted by [[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]] and the Decepticon city garrison, but Magnus radioed Omega Supreme who began long-range bombardment of the city, drawing away the Decepticons.

The Wreckers infiltrated Shockwave's secret lair and recovered Alpha Trion, but the situation was more dire than they anticipated. Shockwave had been trying to access [[Vector Sigma]] using Alpha Trion's systems, but the [[Quintesson]]s had secretly tapped into that same circuitry to reactivate the long dormant Space bridge, beginning a [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] invasion of Cybertron. The Wreckers raced to the Archives, where Alpha Trion intended to detonate the remaining articles of Cybertronian history that the Quintessons could claim. They were interrupted by General [[Tyrannicon]] of the Sharkticons, who jammed Alpha Trion's detonator. Fortunately, light-years away, Megatron had claimed the Sharkticon Matrix and therefore ended the Quintesson control over their slaves. Tyrannicon's troopers turned on him and each other, causing the all-but successful invasion to collapse in a matter of minutes. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} when Optimus Prime put into motion his plan to launch the AllSpark into space, Jetfire was tasked with providing his team aerial cover and reconnaissance. Upon nearing the Well of AllSparks, Jetfire warned the rest of his group that Decepticons were heading towards it through the [[Tyger Pax]] bypass, despite it supposedly being an Autobot-controlled territory. Optimus got him to create a diversion, so to make Megatron think that the rest of the group was approaching the Well from a different side than their actual route. Jetfire ran into a group of Seekers before he could get into proper position, spoiling the effectiveness of this tactic. He was forced to lure the other fliers towards the Wreckers, so they might be able to help him take them out.

As the battle got in full swing, Jetfire was unable to rid himself of several Seekers still tailing him as he flew over the Well, leading to him taking considerable damage. He still managed to fire down a missile salvo towards Megatron, driving the Decepticon leader back somewhat. When the AllSpark was finally launched, the resulting shockwave caused Jetfire to tumble out of the sky. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Jetfire acts as the Autobots' Air Guardian. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
Following the restoration of Cybertron from the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Jetfire was one of the many Autobots blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]. {{Storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Troy Baker]] (English)|[[Gabriele Calindri]] (Italian), [[Bernard Bollet]] (French), [[Héctor Garay]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Piotr Urbaniak]] (Polish)}}
When Megatron attacked Starscream's station, Jetfire confronted him during a lull in the fighting, noting he did not want to fight and that Dark Energon was too dangerous to use, Jetfire himself having seen what it can do. When Megatron declared his intent to take it anyway, Jetfire proclaimed that the Decepticon would destroy them all. Megatron mused, as Jetfire flew away, "You say that as if it were a bad thing."

Later, when Megatron had attained Dark Energon and demonstrated his control over it, Starscream offered to serve him and make more. Jetfire was aghast, and quickly escaped the station. Megatron decided to let him go, as he "...wanted the Autobots to know their doom approaches."

During Megatron's siege of Iacon, Jetfire and the other Aerialbots were outnumbered and lacked surface-to-air support, causing significant losses. When Optimus took command, Jetfire specifically requested that the planetary guns be reactivated, which Optimus and his team promptly achieved. With that taken care of, he proceeded to feed tactical data and warnings whenever the still-overmatched Aerialbots could not stop all the incoming Decepticon Seekers, as well as recommendations on key targets of opportunity, including at least one Decepticon warship.

After Optimus assumed the mantle of Prime and kickstarted the Core of Cybertron's self-purging, he declared that the Autobots would have to leave their homeworld, as it would be rendered uninhabitable. However, as the transports began to leave, a powerful orbital weapon, part of Trypticon station, blasted apart every ship it could target. Prime sent Silverbolt, Air Raid, and Jetfire to take it out. Jetfire provided key knowledge during the assault, including weak points of machinery and barriers, as well as their main target of the plasma cooling system that prevented the orbital weapon from overloading. He made sure the Aerialbots stayed until the mechanism was destroyed (when the system reached 110% capacity and Air Raid was surprised it "went that high", Jetfire pointed out it didn't, and that was the point).

Megatron noted with some amusement that the Aerialbots apparently hadn't considered the possibility of backup systems, and ordered "Trypticon" to resume firing. He also entered Optimus Prime's coordinates and told it to bear on him. When Trypticon responded, Jetfire realized that the station, or at least the primary weapon, was a Cybertronian...shortly after which the team realized that they should be able to destroy its transformation systems and force it back into its normal form, which, whatever it was, had to be better than a killsat.

They found to their shock that this placed them inside Trypticon's mouth, and just barely managed to escape through the gaps between its teeth before it closed its jaws on them; it then headed for the surface, a massive [[jet pack]] controlling its descent. The Aerialbots managed to blast the pack apart, causing it to fall to Cybertron's surface like a meteor.

As Optimus, Bumblebee, and Ironhide battled the brute, which had survived the assault, the Aerialbots managed to find them and set about providing air support. However, Trypticon was much faster than they expected, taking out all three—not quite killing them, but putting them out of the fight.

Some time after Trypticon's defeat, they were at least back on their feet, and appeared with Optimus Prime as he surveyed the Ark. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
{{voiceactor|Troy Baker (English)|Gabriele Calindri (Italian)}}
[[File:WFCDS Jetfire.jpg|thumb|121px]]
With an attack to obtain the Omega Key from Megatron imminent, Zeta Prime ordered Jetfire and Optimus to take the majority of their forces to protect a library while Zeta hid the Omega Key. However, the Decepticons only attacked faster and harder, and it was in this battle Zeta Prime eventually fell.

Jetfire was among the few Autobots who stood to assist Omega Supreme in the total annihilation of the Decepticons in Iacon. However, Megatron arrived with his strike team, and after defeating Cliffjumper, chased Jetfire through the ravaged city. Jetfire finally decided enough was enough, and faced the Decepticons down. However, the former scientist failed, and could only watch as Megatron advanced and defeated Omega Supreme.

Jetfire recovered and rejoined the Autobots. He was often their intel agent, and helped take back Iacon, and locate Zeta Prime. However, their leader died shortly after his rescue. Optimus was declared Optimus Prime, the new leader of the Autobots by the Autobot High Council. Jetfire helped his new leader reach Cybertron's core to save it from the Dark Energon. It was made clear that the recovering Core couldn't sustain the Autobot population, so a mass evacuation was ordered by Optimus. However, Trypticon Space Station began attacking the fleeing Autobot masses, and Jetfire followed Optimus to destroy it. On Cybertron's surface, the crashed station transformed into a monstrous city-sized Decepticon, Trypticon. Upon Trypticon's defeat, Jetfire stayed with Optimus on Cybertron to further battle Megatron.
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)}}

===Transformers: Cybertron Adventures===

As the Autobots prepared to evacuate Cybertron, the Decepticons attempted to destroy their supply lines and bring down their transport ships. During one launch, Thundercracker and Skywarp commenced strafing and bombing of the Autobot position, so Optimus Prime dispatched Air Raid and Jetfire to hold off the Seekers. Unfortunately, the Decepticons managed to get Trypticon back on-line, and the orbital station started taking potshots at the Autobots from the sky. Jetfire and the Aerialbots took to the air, shooting up the energon relay stations that fed power to Trypticon. Jetfire infiltrated the orbital base on his strafing runs, sequentially cutting off all power to the ATG weapon systems, until Trypticon fell right out of the sky.

Unfortunately, once Trypticon Station fell to the planet's surface, it revealed itself as a massive Transformer, laying waste to Cybertron. As Optimus Prime coordinated the attack from the ground, Jetfire fought from the air until Trypticon finally went down, and the war continued for another day. {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{voiceactor|[[Troy Baker]] (English)}}
Jetfire was stationed in Autobot City, launch site of the Ark, during the Autobots' final days on Cybertron. When Megatron launched a brutal assault on the Ark, Jetfire was dismayed to learn that the attack came from the direction of [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]]'s apparently abandoned post, and subsequently joined the main battle.

When the Ark finally launched a few days later, Jetfire led the Aerialbots in the battle against the Nemesis. Jetfire was able to destroy several tow cables that the Decepticons were boarding the Ark with, and subsequently helped treat some of the wounded. When [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] went up against the titan combiner [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]], Jetfire assisted him by leaving EMP grenades for him to lure Bruticus into, stunning the combiner. Jetfire and the Aerialbots then were able to defeat Bruticus with Jazz's help, before both the Ark and the Nemesis were flung into the space bridge portal to parts unknown. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
====Console====
:''Voice actors:'' [[Troy Baker]] (English)
When Optimus Prime and Jazz infiltrated the Decepticon base [[Kolkular]], Jetfire was stationed near Trypticon's crash site as backup in case anything went wrong. When Prime and Jazz were imprisoned while freeing Cliffjumper, Jetfire was contacted and informed by Perceptor that his mission, "Operation: Longshot" was a go. Jetfire's job was to infiltrate the wreckage of Trypticon and commandeer his weapons systems in order to fire upon Kolkular and free Prime and the others.

Upon entering Trypticon's wreckage, Jetfire happened upon his former friend Starscream, who was planning to steal energon from the wreckage. Despite the fact that Jetfire wanted to take revenge on Starscream for betraying him, Jetfire stuck to the shadows and kept searching for Trypticon's weapons systems. However, Starscream discovered Jetfire and deployed his soldiers to dispose of Jetfire. Despite the Decepticon opposition, Jetfire successfully reached Trypticon's weapons systems and rerouted the energon Starscream had been stealing to the systems, using them to fire upon Kolkular and free his allies. He then evacuated Trypticon as Starscream cursed him and swore to take revenge for Jetfire taking his energon. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}
====3DS====
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{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

==Notes==
[[File:Foc jetfire.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
* Despite being a [[Neutral]] before joining Optimus Prime's cause in War for Cybertron, Jetfire begins the game with his glowing details already in Autobot red as opposed to Neutral yellow.
* Interestingly, Optimus decided that ''Silverbolt'' should lead the attack on Trypticon Station, despite the fact that Jetfire had worked there for a prolonged period of time and would have known exactly how to cripple the station's power. It's possible that Optimus ''didn't know'' about Jetfire's tenure at the station, but this is unlikely seeing as how he had always been allied to the Autobots. It is more likely that Jetfire was the "Planetary" Air Commander (as seen in Defend Iacon), and that Silverbolt was already "Orbital" Air Commander. For what it's worth, in all his appearances in ''Fall of Cybertron'', he's leading the Aerialbots.
* Also interesting is the fact that, while Jetfire underwent no physical changes for ''Fall of Cybertron'', his face/helmet went from cartoon-accurate colors to primarily red with white for... seemingly no reason. Perhaps this represents minor upgrades in-universe?
* Jetfire's model is usable in ''War for Cybertron'' multiplayer as the Air Defender-type chassis for [[Scientist (WFC)|Scientist]]-class characters. His parts are also available to Scientists in ''Fall of Cybertron'', now classified as Guardian-type components.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Jetfire''' (ジェットファイアー ''Jettofaiā'')
*''Russian:'' '''Istrebitel''' (Истребитель, "Aircraft Fighter")

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AzureNight: {{FOCcap|Jetfire's altered model from Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}

{{FOCcap|[[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]]'s altered model from [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]]}}

Trypticon (WFC)

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AzureNight: /* Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark */

{{faction|decepticon}}
{{disambigm|Trypticon (disambiguation)|Nemesis (disambiguation)}}
:''Trypticon is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:WFC One Shall Stand Trailer.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|Yes, there was a grammatically incorrect caption regarding my discharge of energy weaponry. Why do you ask?]]
A titan of a Decepticon, '''Trypticon''' casts a vast shadow across the battlefield whenever he appears. Though he once turned into Trypticon Station, a neutral scientific outpost, Trypticon's intelligence is only just enough to make him an effective warrior, even if it hardly seems needed with his vast array of weapons. He is equally formidable in his alternate form of the Decepticons' fortress of a warship, the '''''Nemesis''''', even after a [[space bridge]] accident sent his personality into [[stasis lock|stasis]]. Carrying [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and the remnants of his Decepticon uprising, the ''Nemesis'' is still a force to be reckoned with.

{{quote|You cannot stop me, Autobots. I am... Trypticon. I am... your death.|Trypticon, before he goes [[Godzilla]] on everyone|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Prior to the war, Trypticon Station was used for research that could not be conducted planetside, including the first forays into sequestering the [[Dark Energon]] that had resulted from [[Unicron]]'s attack on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Its security was seen to by the [[Seeker (body-type)#Aligned continuity|Seeker]] caste. There were records that indicated that at the time Dark Energon was placed aboard by an ancient High Council, the station underwent a major overhaul: [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] confirmed that it was given a spark and made a living being at that point. [[Air Commander]] [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] was one of the few with knowledge of its secrets. As a result, he ordered his forces to occupy it after the capture of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]], as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Megatron and his growing Decepticon army. Megatron decided he tired of negotiations and took Trypticon Station by force. Upon Starscream's return to the station, Megatron pressed the Seeker and ultimately gained access to the facility's research on Dark Energon. Megatron noted to [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] that there was potential for a spark within Trypticon, though Shockwave pointed out the [[Well of All Sparks|Well]] no longer produced sparks. Megatron suggested he use the sparks of the scientists killed and maimed in the seize of Trypticon to give life to the station.

The supplies of Dark Energon from the initial harvest were slender, so Megatron required the means to transfer large quantities of [[energon]] to the station so that they could be converted into the rarer resource. As Trypticon Station was configured to receive fuel from the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] in [[Crystal City]], the Decepticons were able to transfer an initial supply, but not nearly enough for the ravenous rate at which they were consuming Dark Energon. This was eventually remedied by Megatron's capture of the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], which provided a nearly unlimited source of fuel directly from Cybertron's core.

After a team led by [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] ventured into the planet's core to cut off the transfer, Megatron decided to switch tactics. He allowed Shockwave to apply the experimental knowledge he had gleaned over the course of the war, and Trypticon was granted true life, including the ability to shape its corridors into a dizzying array of defense drones and [[Mini-Con|Minicon]]s. Ultimately, a team of Autobots aboard the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]'' found a gap in the station's external defenses and managed to venture within and knock the behemoth from orbit.

Victory was brief, however, as Trypticon revealed a robot form and crawled from the wreckage planetside. Though initially the [[Wreckers]] and [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] were tasked with keeping the gargantuan Decepticon away from the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' launch, this proved to be in vain, as Megatron boarded Trypticon along with a hand-picked crew of the Decepticon elite. Transforming into a ''Nemesis''-class battleship, Trypticon pursued the ''Ark'' to, and subsequently through, the last remaining functional [[space bridge]] in Cybertronian orbit. As the ''Ark'' emerged in unknown space, the ''Nemesis'' was nowhere within sensor range. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

The ''Nemesis'' was heavily damaged due to its traveling through the last remaining, yet faulty, space bridge, and thus Trypticon's sentient functionality and transformation abilities were lost, perhaps forever. Megatron didn't care too much. The ''Nemesis'' was still a functioning, fearsome battleship, and that's all he required. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

The ''Nemesis'' detected an Autobot distress call, which turned out to be a trick devised by the [[Star Seeker]]s, who wanted to destroy the Decepticons. The ''Nemesis'' and the Star Seeker flagship, the ''[[Tidal Wave (Prime)|Tidal Wave]],'' engaged in dogfight with the ''Nemesis'', on account of its greater mobility and the [[Requiem Blaster (Megatronus)|Requiem Blaster]]'s poor heat dissipation, emerging victorious.

Soon after, the ''Nemesis'' arrived in orbit around [[Aquatron]], engaging the ''Ark'' orbital firefight visible to the Autobots on the planet's surface before it used a [[tractor beam]] to try and cripple the Autobot ship. In response, the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]] launched and combined into [[Superion (Prime)|Superion]] who cut a swath of destruction through the ''Nemesis'' as he made his way to the engine room. In such a confined space however, the [[combiner]]'s bulk proved more of a detriment than an advantage and Megatron was able to expel him from the warship. Though [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] attempted to then ram the ''Ark'' into the ''Nemesis'', a much more powerful tractor beam, fired by the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] immobilized both ships.

The senior staff was invited down to the surface where the Curator revealed himself to be a [[Quintesson]] and that the species was now peaceful, being eager to act as a neutral third party in resolving the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. The next morning however, it was revealed that that was not the case and the rogue creations of [[Quintus Prime]] made another attempt to conquer Cybertron. When Megatron was taken prisoner, [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] fled back to the ''Nemesis'' and took over, continually delaying a rescue of Megatron, until [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] saw the ''Ark'' head towards the planet for a rescue mission, and followed suit. In his haste, Soundwave essentially crashed into the city of [[Hydratron]], taking out most of the city's defenses with it, but immobilizing the ''Nemesis''. When the Curator started to sink Hydratron, the ''Ark'' used its tow cables to lift the ''Nemesis'' upwards, bolstered by Superion, but once they'd cleared the planet's gravity well, the Autobots left the immobilized Decepticons to their repairs. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)|[[Engelbert von Nordhausen]] (German), [[Octavio Rojas]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jaime Roca]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Tero Koponen]] (Finnish), [[Carlos Campanile]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:Nemesis-Primepainting.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|This doesn't look like [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] at all!]]

Long after Cybertron had been rendered uninhabitable, the ''Nemesis'' was in orbit of the planet when Starscream's [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] forces captured the Autobots [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], the latter of whom had received a coded Autobot transmission. Starscream attempted to gain this information by torturing and then imprisoning Cliffjumper alongside Arcee on board the ''Nemesis'', but failed to get any satisfaction. {{storylink|Out of the Past}}

The ''Nemesis'' served as the Decepticons' primary base of operations during their time on [[Earth]]. Constantly moving through the skies of the planet and cloaked against detection by either Autobot or human systems, it provided the villains with a mobile headquarters that allowed them to often remain one step ahead of their adversaries.

Sometime after arriving on Earth, Cliffjumper got a taste of the power of the ''Nemesis'' first-hand when he found it hovering over an [[Energon]]-filled crater, and it opened fire on him. Captured by Vehicons and brought aboard, Cliffjumper was slain on the ship's bridge by his old adversary Starscream, his body unable to be reclaimed by his fellow Autobots due to the ship's perpetual cloaking field hiding its location. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Soon after, Starscream relinquished command of the ''Nemesis'' to Megatron when he returned from his three-year sojourn in deep space, {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} but when he left to explore the properties of [[Dark Energon]], control of the craft returned to Starscream, who had the Autobots' human ally [[William Fowler]] captured and brought to the ship's brig for interrogation. The Autobots subsequently invaded the ship on a rescue mission, during which [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] damaged the ship's interstellar navigation array, {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} leaving it unable to triangulate co-ordinates for the Decepticons' new orbital space bridge. [[File:Masters&Students-Nemesisbridgescreen.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|The ''Nemesis'' bridge must be great for watching the Super Bowl.]] Using a human installation as a substitute, the Decepticons moved the ''Nemesis'' into space so Megatron could send Dark Energon through the bridge to Cybertron, but when the Autobots sabotaged the bridge and caused it to explode, Starscream betrayed Megatron, moving the ''Nemesis'' out of range and leaving the Decepticon leader to be consumed in the blast. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}


Although Starscream was re-instated as commander of the ''Nemesis'' with Megatron's seeming death, the crew responded unenthusiastically to his dramatic first address. Soon after, when it was discovered that Megatron had actually survived the explosion thanks to Dark Energon, his stasis-locked body became a fixture of the ship's medical bay. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} The ship later gained another new resident in the Autobot [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], who was captured and locked up in the brig while the evil [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] took his place among the Autobots before escaping. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:OutHead-Arcticbeam.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Romulans!]]

When the ''Nemesis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s electromagnetic shielding broke while orbiting above [[China]], the Autobots were able to locate the ship and infiltrate it in hopes of locating a cure for the [[Cybonic plague]] Optimus Prime had recently become infected with. Although successful, their actions set in motion the reawakening of Megatron, {{storylink|Sick Mind}} who returned to life and retook command in the middle of Starscream's newest plan, which involved equipping the ''Nemesis'' with a powerful heat ray. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}} With Megatron back in charge, the ''Nemesis'' continued its stoic, continuous motion around the Earth, at one point moving out of Earth's atmosphere and into orbit. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

As the Decepticons began looking for components for their new space bridge, the ''Nemesis'' returned to Earth's atmosphere and headed for a human military installation so Megatron could personally steal the new power source it contained. Optimus Prime and Bulkhead made it aboard the ''Nemesis'' and stole the power source back, but Optimus proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship's corridors until Megatron had him [[GroundBridge]]d out. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} Megatron subsequently left the ''Nemesis'' under [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]'s command while he prostrated himself before [[Unicron]], {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} who took the ship back to orbit. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} When Airachnid attempted to incite rebellion among the crew, [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] smacked her down and took charge of the ''Nemesis'' until Megatron returned with an amnesiac Optimus Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Though the Decepticons tried their best to keep "Orion Pax" in the dark, they had a security lapse when Arcee managed to get on board to hunt for the lost Autobot leader. Soundwave was able to get her back off the ship through deft use of the GroundBridge. It happened again sometime later when Starscream sneaked on board to steal [[energon cube]]s and stumbled on Orion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Starscream fled the ship, but his visit raised Orion's suspicions and he accessed the Decepticon database to find out the truth. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} The Decepticons had a full log of his activities and he was left under Vehicon guard to continue his work, but soon broke free and left the ship to help the Autobots. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

In control of a vast swarm of [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]], Airachnid launched an attack on the ''Nemesis'' in an attempt to kill Megatron. Meanwhile, Starscream was ''also'' gunning for Megatron after creating several clones of himself, which he dispatched to the ''Nemesis''. In the middle of these attempted coups was a very confused Bulkhead who was inadvertently beamed up to the ''Nemesis'' whilst investigating an energon signal. Seeking an avenue of escape, he crippled the ship's power core, causing it to crash land and allowing Bulkhead to escape in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Megatron infused the ship's core with Dark Energon, bringing it back online, but also awakening the ship's mind. It immediately began its mission, decoding the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] database and heading towards the first of the coordinates in [[New York City]]. When the Decepticons resisted, the warship put them all into stasis. Fowler and the three kids GroundBridged aboard, and the ship at first failed to detect them as it wasn't scanning for organic life, which gave them the opportunity to try to reverse the ship's energon supply. Though the warship tried to stop them, they succeeded, and the warship returned to its mindless state. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

During the hunt for the relics, [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] was infected with a virus by Ratchet so when Soundwave returned to the ship, the Iacon database was transmitted to the Autobot mainframe. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}}

Tensions rose between [[Hardshell]], Knock Out, the Insecticons and the rank and file Vehicons on the ''Nemesis'', leading to an all-out brawl. {{storylink|Hurt}}

MECH leader [[Silas]] - integrated into the corpse of [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] - approached the Decepticons in an attempt to join their ranks, offering [[Project Damocles]], a space-based particle cannon, as a token of friendship. The Decepticons launched an operation to retrieve the satellite weapon's interface codes from human military servers while the ''Nemesis'' deployed Damocles into space. Though the weapon worked as intended, the Autobots and their human allies ultimately destroyed Damocles, and for his failure Silas was dragged away to Knock Out's dissection table on the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

The ''Nemesis'' was deployed to a set of coordinates from the Iacon database that indicated the resting place of an ancient relic. There, Megatron discovered that the relic was the legendary [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], a weapon of immense power, and one that must not fall into the hands of Optimus Prime. After failing to retrieve the weapon or otherwise blast it out himself, he ordered the Decepticons to carve out the massive boulder in which the sword was embedded so the ''Nemesis'' could carry it away. As it was in the process of doing so, the Autobots suddenly attacked, with Optimus Prime charging in after the Star Saber. Despite Megatron's best efforts, Optimus managed to pull the sword from the boulder and then cleaved the rock in twain when Megatron had the ''Nemesis'' drop it on the Autobot leader out of spite. As Megatron watched on helplessly, Optimus followed this up by unleashing a wave of energy at the ''Nemesis'' which destroyed part of its engine array, causing it to narrowly miss crashing into a mountainside and forcing the ship to limp away. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

[[File:DarkestHour-Basedestroyed.JPG‎|thumb|upright=1.67|The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has been answered.]]

The ''Nemesis'' flew Megatron and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] to the Decepticons' space bridge orbiting the dark side of the Earth's [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] when they returned to Cybertron to find a way to counter the Star Saber's power. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} When [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] was determined to be an [[Omega Key]], he was captured and brought aboard the ship. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}} After being interrogated via cortical psychic patch, the Autobot stole the Keys stored aboard the ''Nemesis'', and escaped by literally jumping ship. Starscream later returned to the ship with all four Keys in an effort to return to the Decepticons, {{storylink|Inside Job}} and is allowed to once he is deemed fit to return by Megatron after a cortical psychic patch. {{storylink|Patch (episode)|Patch}} An enraged and disillusioned Dreadwing steals the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] and gives it to the Autobots, and is killed in the ship's medical bay by Megatron when he tried to kill Starscream. The ship later flew Megatron and an army of flying Vehicons to the space bridge when the time came for a battle on Cybertron over the [[Omega Lock]]. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} When Megatron created a [[Darkmount (Earth)|new fortress]] on Earth with the Omega Lock's power, the ''Nemesis'' arrived in [[Jasper]], and was the launch point for the assault on the newly discovered [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot base]]. As the battle between the Autobots' [[Wheeljack (Prime)|other]] [[William Fowler|allies]] and the Decepticons' flyers raged, the ''Nemesis'' positioned itself over the base. When the battle had ended (with Wheeljack being shot down and Fowler forced to retreat), the ''Nemesis'' fired a colossal cannon on the base, destroying the mountain. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

The ''Nemesis'' was docked at Darkmount with the Decepticons now using the fortress as their main base of operations. However, the ship was still used for coordinating attacks {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} as well as storage of the Forge, the stasis-locked Airachnid, the Apex Armor, and the Star Saber. Smokescreen retrieved the Forge from the ship when prompted to save a dying Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} The ''Nemesis'' was finally deployed once again when an Autobot assault destroyed Darkmount, the Decepticons regrouping on board the ship. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

The ''Nemesis'' had a kennel set up for [[Predaking (Prime)|the Predacon]], where Starscream failed to train it. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} The ship's communication dish was damaged by the beast, blacking out Decepticon communications, and Starscream unsuccessfully tried to have it repaired before Megatron found out. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}} Soon afterwards, Starscream and Knock Out's experiment to create an army of super-soldiers backfired spectacularly when Cylas was turned into a Terrorcon that drained Energon from a victim. The ensuing battle spread all over the warship, and resulted in Cylas's death, and Airachnid being freed from her stasis pod, though she and her Insecticon army were bridged to a moon of Cybertron by Soundwave. The Decepticons' numbers were severely depleted with the loss of the Insecticons and more than half of their remaining troops. {{storylink|Thirst}}

[[File:Deadlock-NemesiswithLock.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|Megatron: "Shockwave, lock onto those coordinates and fire the Omega Lock!" Shockwave: "Your redundancy is most illogical, my liege."]]
When Megatron resolved to rebuild the Omega Lock, {{storylink|Minus One}} it was constructed on the underbelly of the ''Nemesis'' by the time Ratchet had been brought aboard to finish his work on synthetic Energon. {{storylink|Persuasion}} When the formula was completed, Ratchet made a run for it and tried to sabotage his work, but was caught in a hallway of the ship. He was given to Predaking for execution, but he turned the juggernaut on the Decepticons, triggering a rampage in which many Vehicons were slaughtered. Megatron was able to defeat Predaking and ejected him from the ship, {{storylink|Synthesis}} but he still clung onto the ship while Ratchet brought the Autobots on board to take the warship. As Optimus and Megatron dueled, and the latter's lieutenants fought Arcee, Ratchet and Smokescreen, Jack and the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]]-clad Miko took the bridge, banishing Soundwave to the shadowzone, while the Wreckers took on the rest of the Vehicons aboard the ship. When Megatron was killed by Bumblebee, Starscream and Shockwave fled along with what remained of the Vehicons, leaving the ship in Autobot control. The team took the ship to Cybertron, using the Omega Lock to revive the planet through the Well of All Sparks, and parking the ''Nemesis'' on the surface of the restored Cybertron, while Predaking flew off for parts unknown. {{storylink|Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock}}

The Autobots used the ship as a base during their work, keeping the remaining Decepticons in a cell. It was taken into battle for the last time when Unicron returned to the planet, raising an army of Terrorcons with which to destroy Primus. The warship didn't last long before it was shot down and crashed near the Well of All Sparks. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
While navigating a storm, the Vehicons had a particularly hard time piloting the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

Megatron later brought the ''Nemesis'' to the [[Erta Ale volcano]] so he could force Starscream to partake in gladiatorial combat there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.7|Megatron's Law}}

Some time later, Bulkhead was taken prisoner aboard the ''Nemesis'' and put in confinement within an [[Ultra Prison]]. When the Autobots turned up to rescue their comrades, they blew a massive hole in the hull on their way out of the warship. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Trypticon acted as Megatron's personal weapon of mass destruction. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Nightra]] claimed that bounty hunter [[Blastwave]] was actually an escapee from "Trypticon Prison", implying that the ''Nemesis'' was converted for penitentiary duties following the rebirth of Cybertron. {{storylink|Guilty As Charged}}

==Commercial appearances==
[[File:NemesisXmas.JPG|thumb|upright=1.4|Be very glad Trypticon isn't active to see this.]]
Two Vehicons, caught up in the holiday spirit of [[Christmas]]time, extensively decorated the ''Nemesis'' with lights, trees, and a moving reindeer that flatly droned "HO HO HO". Megatron, infuriated by the spectacle, demanded the capture of whoever was responsible so they could face punishment. The guilty Vehicons meekly kept their mouths shut. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Holiday Schmoliday|30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Holiday Schmoliday"}}
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==Games==
===''War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Sylvain Lemarié]] (French), [[Javier Gámir]] (Spain-Spanish)}}

{{quote|Ha! Ha! Ha! You haven't defeated me, Autobots. You have only untethered your own destroyer!|Trypticon decides to freak out the Aerialbots|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

[[File:WFC-Trypticontrackingdescent.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|'CUZ I'M FREE! FREE FALLIN'!]]

Before war broke out, Trypticon Station was connected to the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] so the scientists aboard could fulfill their many experiments. The crew experimented with [[Dark Energon]], its effects ravaging a portion of the outer hull, the section being eventually sealed off. High in orbit, the station missed out on most of Cybertron's technological leaps, its technology being considered "ancient" by the time of the Great War.

When war broke out, the station was assaulted by Megatron for the Dark Energon, the [[Decepticon leader]] proving able to tame its awesome power. Erroneously believing he could use Dark Energon to bring all of Cybertron under his command, Megatron had Starscream restart the Energon Bridge, bringing the station back to full operational capacity.

After Optimus Prime learnt how badly the [[Core]] had been corrupted, he ordered the [[Autobot fleet]] to abandon the planet only for Megatron to have the station target the evacuation ships. Optimus scrambled the Aerialbots into action, but only [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]], [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]], and [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]] managed to breach the station's defences. The three fliers aimed to sabotage the station's coolant but failed to account for back-up systems allowing the bombing to continue. As the trio ventured further into the station, the station revealed itself to be a monstrous [[Titan (group)|Titan]] known as Trypticon who turned his weapon first on various Cybertronian landmarks, such as [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]'s [[Vaults]], the [[Hall of Ancients]], the [[Stellar Galleries]] and the [[Code Archives]], before finally acquiring the coordinates for Optimus Prime. As the Titan charged his weapon, the fliers destroyed his [[Transformation cog|conversion cog]], reverting him to his [[robot mode]].

[[File:WFC-Trypticonyoulost.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Well hello it's me, the giant.]]

Despite the cog's destruction, Trypticon continued unabated, using his [[jet pack]] and mouth laser to continue his attack before the pack was destroyed and the Titan fell outside Iacon. Optimus, [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], and Bumblebee went to investigate the crash and battled the Titan, first overloading his shoulder-mounted weapons systems, then attacking his heat vents, before destroying Trypticon's auxiliary power cores. Defeated, Trypticon made a last-ditch effort to attack, but lost his balance and fell into an energon lake below when Optimus Prime unleashed an energy wave with his [[energon-axe]]. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}
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===''Cybertron Adventures''===
After his weapons were restored, Trypticon made a stand for the Decepticons and started destroying Autobots. Optimus, convincing the Autobots to keep the fight going, made a stand with Bumblebee and Ironhide. The bad news was that Trypticon's only weak spot was in his mouth, but the good news was the Autobots didn't give up.

After half of his health depleted, Trypticon made one more stand, and used his true power. Even though the blasts were powerful, Optimus and the Autobots fired one huge blast, making the monster fall to his demise. {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures|Cybertron Adventures}}

===''War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
[[File:WFC-TrypticonDS.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Megatron conquered Trypticon Space Station to manufacture Dark Energon to aid in his planet-wide conquest. However, Megatron found he needed to access the Core of Cybertron to continue to power their Dark Energon supply. Upon defeating Autobot leader Zeta Prime, and later Omega Supreme, Megatron succeeded in his quest.

However, not too long afterwards, newly ascended Autobot leader Optimus Prime freed the Core from the Dark Energon, and ordered a planet-wide evacuation of the population from Cybertron. Megatron began using Trypticon Space Station to fire upon the evacuating Autobot masses, prompting a strike from Optimus' team. The Autobots were able to make Trypticon Space Station crash to Cybertron... only for it to transform into a city-sized Decepticon dinosaur. Luckily, Optimus and his 'bots finally defeated the titan, and ended the threat of Dark Energon for good. {{Storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron}}
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===''Fall of Cybertron''===
{{bigquote|Trypticon. If you can hear me, understand that this is not a rescue mission. Despite your immense power, you failed to destroy the Autobots. You failed '''me'''. Henceforth, your chassis will be altered and redesigned to ''my'' specifications.|Megatron, upset that he didn't get to be the final boss of the first game}}

[[File:Nemesis FOC.jpg|thumb|left]]

After his defeat at the hands of Optimus Prime, Trypticon's body was salvaged from the Energon pool and dismantled, kept in (still very large) pieces. With the planet's Energon reserves dwindling or mostly hogged by the Decepticons, the Autobots were forced to start draining Trypticon's inert, but still living form for Energon. Though Optimus and Ratchet had severe reservations about this, the former justified it based on the many Autobot lives Trypticon had taken.

Sometime later, [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] informed Megatron of a [[Earth|planet]] rich with resources that they could reach by space bridge, and all they needed was a vessel to take them there. While the scientist worked on the space bridge, the leader led an assault on the labs where Trypticon's body parts were being held. Though having only come to scavenge pieces of the Titan to build a new space cruiser, the Decepticons soon found that Trypticon was still alive and thus, his own starship mode could be utilized for their purposes. Soundwave was able to reassemble Trypticon, though the Titan remained in deep stasis, but before he could commence repairs Megatron overruled him, stating that, since he'd failed in his task of destroying the Autobots, he would be transformed into warship form, even as Soundwave warned that the damage meant Trypticon would be trapped in [[alternate mode]], the Titan giving only a growl as the procedure commenced. Once Soundwave's work was complete, the ''Nemesis'', as it was now referred to, pursued the ''Ark'' as it departed Cybertron, and engaged it in a fierce ship-to-ship battle in front of the wormhole of a space bridge. As Optimus and Megatron duelled, the space bridge began tearing both ships apart, and ultimately sucked both ships through to parts unknown. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
[[File:Rotds Trypticon.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
During the war, Starscream led a small group of Decepticons on a secret mission to Trypticon's wreckage to siphon energon from his remains for their own purposes. However, at the same time, the Autobot Jetfire arrived at Trypticon's remains on a mission of his own. Jetfire redirected Starscream's stolen energon to Trypticon's weapons systems, firing upon the Decepticon base [[Kolkular]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark}}

===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
Bulkhead infiltrate the ''Nemesis'' to snatch away the Decepticons' Energon stores. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}

=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game trypticon.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|Looks like Tom Sawyer whitewashed the ''Nemesis''.]]

When a meteor of pure [[Dark Energon]] hurtled towards Earth, Megatron had the ''Nemesis'' intercept and tow it from an anchor point on the flight deck. When the Autobots boarded the warship, they severed the anchor, the Decepticons instantly switching to a backup towing system on the underbelly. When this too was destroyed, the meteor broke apart, Megatron ordering the ''Nemesis'' to where the largest chunk had landed while his forces hunted down the separated Autobots. When the ''Nemesis'' arrived, the immobilized [[Thunderwing (Prime)|Thunderwing]] was duelling Optimus Prime, Megatron using the warship's artillery to quickly down the [[Herald of Unicron]]. When Thunderwing was brought aboard, and restrained in one of the ship's laboratories, he and Megatron reached an agreement that the Decepticons would repair the giant. The repairs were overseen by the captive Ratchet, himself coerced into cooperating by the captured Miko and Raf.

When Starscream was defeated by Bulkhead, the Wrecker forced him to let him onto the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet using this distraction to escape from Megatron and free Miko and Raf. When the trio chased Soundwave out of the ship's communication suite, they called in Arcee and Bumblebee who managed to defeat their Decepticon counterparts. Starscream meanwhile had lured Bulkhead into a trap, leaving him to the Vehicons, only to be defeated. Limping, Starscream made his way to Thunderwing, trying to steal away the monster's power core, only to be caught in the act by Megatron. At this moment, Thunderwing reactivated and installed the power core himself, breaking free of his restraints, and blasting through the upper hull to freedom. Though the ''Nemesis'' was left listing, the Autobots using the chaos to escape, it remained airborne. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}
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==Notes==
* Trypticon's head is available as a Fire Breather-type component for [[Infiltrator (FOC)|Infiltrator]]-class characters in ''Fall of Cybertron'' multiplayer.
* Trypticon has two seemingly conflicting origins in ''Exodus''. [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]] researches the station and discovers that in "ancient times" it was secretly "recreated" from a simple space station and was raised to sentience, given a living [[spark]] (pg. 82) when [[Dark Energon]] was hidden aboard by an "ancient" iteration of the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] headed by Sentinel Prime. Alpha Trion confirms this to be true. Beforehand, however [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] refers to the station as being "semi-sentient" and afterwards as a sparkless drone before Shockwave makes it into a Transformer with ''many'' sparks.
*When asked whether Trypticon was alive after that first sparking or not until Shockwave, [[Alex Irvine]] passed on commenting on the grounds that to do so would give something important away...
* In the end credits for ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]]'', Trypticon is briefly seen grappling with [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]. Now if we had only seen ''that'' in gameplay.
** [https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/4/4d/Wfc-figures-dream-scale-trypticonsize.jpg Rendering stills] and commentary from [[High Moon Studios]] would later say that Trypticon was twice as tall as Omega Supreme. Make of this what you will.
[[File:Trypticon Station.jpg|thumb|right]]
[[File:TFP_Trypticon_crop.jpeg|thumb|left|Megatron [[Mode lock|terrorize]] Trypticon? Trypticon... [[Activation code|terrorize!]]]]
*Trypticon seems to suffer from mass-displacement. Considering the scale of his space station mode, he should be much bigger in robot form. In fact in ''Fall of Cybertron'', he appears to be smaller (likely half the size he was in the last game). In ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]'' despite being transformed he's still large enough to house an entire level for Jetfire.
* In "[[Flying Mind]]", neither Megatron nor the other Decepticons directly confirm that the Dark Energon is affecting Trypticon himself, despite every other piece of ''Aligned'' fiction identifying the ''Nemesis'' as Trypticon's reformatted body. A wire-frame of his robot mode can even be seen briefly during the episode, although no attention is called to it. ''The Art of Prime'' would later confirm it, along with a better look at the concept art of his robot mode; however for some reason, during the series the ship was always addressed as "the Decepticon warship", and only once as "the ''Nemesis''" (by the Autobots, no less). According to episode writer [[Bob Skir]], the awakening ''Nemesis'' wasn't meant to be Trypticon.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DaZTNszyGU Moonbase 2 interview with Bob Skir]</ref> [[Rik Alvarez|Sources]] have discussed that the ''Prime'' writers disagreed on how (or even if) to use backstory from other Aligned properties, making the uncertain case of the ''Nemesis''' identity a possible result of this conflict.

===Foreign names===
====''Nemesis''====
*''Japanese:'' '''''Nemesis''''' (ネメシス ''Nemeshisu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Bàoyìng Hào''''' (China, 报应号, "Retribution")
*''Russian:'' '''''Nemezida''''' (Немезида, "Nemesis")

==References==
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[[Category:Decepticon starships]]
[[Category:Fall of Cybertron locations]]
[[Category:Fiction-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Prime characters]]
[[Category:Prime starships]]
[[Category:Space stations]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Decepticons]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron locations]]

File:Rotds Trypticon.jpg

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AzureNight: {{ROTDScap|Trypticon's damaged head}}

Titan (FOC)

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AzureNight:

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{{disambig3|Titan}}

:''Titan is a body-type and Class from [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]] and [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:Tffoc titan.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Destroyer's little brother]]
Need to defend a vital facility from, say, a dashing and enterprising [[Swindle (FOC)|businessmech]]? Perhaps you want to prevent someone from going somewhere they aren't supposed to? Or maybe, just maybe, you're throwing everything you have at the enemy and want to make sure nothing gets in your way? Then the Titan is just the mech you're looking for!

Towering over their comrades, Titans will lay down unrelenting firepower as they march towards the unlucky glitchhead who got in their sights. Want more bang for your energon buck? Why, they come with an assortment of aerial mines, guaranteed to flush out those pesky guys who try to use things like "cover" to "stay alive". And best of all, these gents are self-sustaining, with accompanying repair drones that will help your Titan keep going, and going, and going...

Now, how many can I get you down for?

(Disclaimer: Titans are bigger than anything on most battlefields and will stomp anything in their way, unless the other guys have an [[Bruticus (WFC)|ever bigger, badder, more battlin' guy]] on their side.)

Not only that, do you prefer your foes drained of [[energon]], pumped full of lead, and crushed under your enormous treads? Then choose the '''Titan''', the biggest and brawliest FOC class. They transform into tanks. [[Grimlock (WFC)|Usually.]]

==Characteristics (Unit)==

With a design that somewhat resembles [[Jetfire (G1)|G1 Jetfire]]'s animation model (notably the backpack and a mostly white colour scheme) as well as a huge mass, Titans are easy to identify on the battlefield and normally appear guarding vital resources. Few and far between, if a Titan is present, safe to say there's something valuable nearby too.

Replacing the [[Heavy Soldier]]s as the supressive fire type of enemy unit, the Titan is the single toughest foe players will face. Llike their predecessors, the Titans don't transform. Instead, these hulking brutes march inexorably towards their target, unleashing a hail of fire from their handheld Scrapmaker cannons. They occasionally pause to deploy air mines that fly towards their chosen victim before detonating. What's that? Go for the head? Great idea!

Except for the fact they can also deploy a couple of repair drones that can heal the Titans faster than damage can be inflicted. Luckily, said drones can be shot down, and sustained fire can and will bring them low. Just don't stand too close, as they will self-detonate in an attempt to take the victorious but careless player with them.

===Weapons and Abilities===
The Titans' main weapon is a handheld gatling cannon similar to the [[X18 Scrapmaker]]. They have a seemingly endless amount of ammunition, so using cover or superior maneuverability is a must. Their secondary weapons are aerial mines that pursue a target. While the mines can be shot down fairly easily, they are also persistent and can cause fatal distractions. By far the most dangerous ability of the Titans is the deployment of repair drones that can keep them healed (immediately noticeable thanks to a shimmering blue effect that coats the affected Titan). The Titan also has an incredibly powerful melee attack, taking away almost all your health and knocks you far back.

Even in death a Titan is still a threat: they will detonate and do a large amount of damage to anyone standing nearby. Luckily, this includes other enemies.

==Characteristics (FOC Multiplayer)==
The Titan was tweaked from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]] [[Soldier (WFC)|Soldier]] class. It still has the highest overall health, but greater emphasis was placed on heavy machine guns, with most of the explosive munitions transferred to the [[Destroyer (FOC)|Destroyer]] class.

===Body Types===
Six body types were available with the game initially, with two unlocked from the get-go and the rest available by spending [[Energon shard]]s. The heads, chest/vehicle, shoulders, arms, legs, and cannon were interchangeable. The initial bodies were:
*'''Gunner''' ([[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]])
*'''Obliterator''' ([[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]])
*'''Tanker''' ([[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]])
*'''Wrecker''' ([[Scattershot (WFC)|Scattershot]])
*'''Bruiser''' ([[Demolishor (WFC)|Demolishor]])
*'''Steel Crusher''' ([[Quake (FOC)|Quake]])
Several bonus heads could be added on by attaining certain levels. They were:
*'''Beast''' ([[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] beast head, unlocked at level 25)
*'''Warlord''' (Head of the Autobot Titan and Shotgunner enemies in campaign, Unlocked at Prime)
*'''Crawler''' ([[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] head, unlocked at Prime level 25)
*'''Elite''' (Megatron with a crown, unlocked by reaching Prime 25 with every class)
Later, downloadable content could be purchased that added more body types. So far, they've been:
*'''Annihilator''' ([[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]])
*'''Beetle''' ([[Hardshell]])
*'''Berserker''' ([[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]], cannon can't be altered with this type)
Finally, each class could apply a variety of [[Insignia|faction symbols]] (called "[[Sticker|decals]]"). Each set cost 400 Energon shards, and many contained references to past Transformers subgroups. They were: [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]]; [[Lightning Strike Coalition|Lightning Strikeforce]]; [[Battlecharger|Warchargers]]; [[Astro Squad]]; [[Protectobot (WFC)|Protectobots]]; Energo Squad; [[Battle Squad]]; [[Laser Rod|Lazer Rods]].

===Weapons===
Each class in FOC was able to equip a primary and secondary firearm, and each had four to choose from. Two would be unlocked to begin with, and the rest became available as levels were gained. Each weapon upgrades that could be added by gaining levels. The Titan had access to:
*'''[[Energon Harvester]]'''
*'''[[X18 Scrapmaker]]'''
*'''[[E.D.K. TechVolt]]'''
*'''[[Corrosive slime-shooter|Corrosive Slime Cannon]]'''

===Abilities===
Each class had access to two different abilities and could equip one at a time. The second ability, as well as various upgrades, could be unlocked by gaining experience. The Titan could:
*'''Whirlwind''' - A spinning melee attack. Could be canceled by jumping or pressing the ability button.
*'''Flak Shield''' - A ''huge'', handheld shield that blocked incoming attacks.

[[Category:Video game-only characters]]
[[Category:Fall of Cybertron subgroups]]

File:Tffoc titan.jpg

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AzureNight: {{FOCcap|Autobot and Decepticon Titan.}}