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Horri-Bull

2025-07-23T23:00:06Z

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:''Horri-Bull is a [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:G1-HorriBull-boxart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"The fish rots from the head, as they say. So my thinking is, why not cut off the head?"]]
'''Horri-Bull''' (aka '''Terri-Bull''' or '''Rot-Gut''') is indeed horrible, as well as Aw-Ful, Dis-Gusting, and Gnaw-C-8-Ing, but at least he's not a slob like [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] or [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] or [[Landfill (G1)|Landfill]]. Oh, he's a slob, all right, but he's a different sort; neither an ignorant, involuntary slob like Blot, nor an oblivious slob like Landfill, not even a lazy slob like Snapdragon. Never! He's a proud, oil-spitting, grease-oozing, smoke-belching filthmaster. Horri-Bull boasts, with real pride, that he can't remember his last bath. He believes this makes him unique among the Decepticons. If one were to object that it was not a specialty to take pride in, it would only bring pain and perhaps death by [[flamethrower]], because Horri-Bull is also a horrible bully (ha ha), with a nasty temper and a mean streak wider than the oily trails he leaves.

It is only fitting that this uniquely repulsive Decepticon is paired with such a vile specimen of [[Nebulan]] ooze with legs—the vulgar talking shock-jock known as [[Kreb]]. Together, they make a team to be avoided.

{{quote|His contempt for personal hygiene—his revelry in the malodorous—makes him by far one of the most foul foes I have yet encountered. Be always vigilant in cleanliness, for it is truly next to Primusness.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime]]}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:Cash Carnage Headmasters.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"I'm talking about an overhaul of the system. Putting the power in... different hands."]]
Horri-Bull's partner [[Kreb]] served as frontman for the [[Z Foundation]], organizing a team of human bounty hunters called the [[Roadjammers]] to hunt Autobots for his leader, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. Unfortunately, the Roadjammers discovered Horri-Bull and his fellow [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] "behind the curtain" and tried to take them out as well. Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] was forced to sacrifice his "[[jammer]]"ed control over captured Autobots in order to revive his soldiers. {{storylink|Ca$h and Car-nage!}}

''Horri-Bull and the other Decepticon Headmasters and [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s took Scorponok's headless body with them to ambush the Autobot [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]], who had taken Zarak from his shoulders in a [[All in the Minds!|previous battle]]. Though they succeeded in reuniting their leader with his head, Horri-Bull's part in the proceeding battle was cut short when he was [[Mass substitution|shunted]] into [[Limbo]] along with [[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]], [[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]], [[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]], [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]], and [[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]] to make room for the [[time travel]]ing [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] from [[2009]].'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}

[[File:EndoftheRoad-Horribull.jpg|thumb|"It's a brand new day and the sun is high! All the birds are singin' that you're gonna die!"]]

When Scorponok and his greeting party were attacked while meeting with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s crew, Horri-Bull led the remaining army into battle against their fellow Decepticons. However, he was quickly sliced in two by [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]'s [[electron scimitar]] {{storylink|Cold War!}} and carried back in pieces to the [[Club Con|Decepticon base]]. {{Storylink|Dark Star}} He was up and about by the time [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] surrendered to Scorponok in order to join their forces against the encroaching threat of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. Horri-Bull made sure that [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] did nothing funny as the Autobot was escorted to a holding cell. {{Storylink|Surrender!}} He was later caught in the collapse of the [[New Jersey base]] caused by [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]]'s Decepticon faction. He was helped up on his feet by Soundwave. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} During the battle that followed, the [[Transformer]]s on [[Earth]], including Horri-Bull, were suddenly teleported to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] by [[Primus]]. There, they were forced to listen to Primus's warning about Unicron. {{Storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}}

Following Unicron's attack and Scorponok's death, Horri-Bull fell under [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s leadership and was part of his invasion force on [[Klo]]. {{Storylink|The Last Autobot?}} When the [[Neo-Knights]] came to Klo, Horri-Bull was about to crush them when the reborn Optimus Prime landed in front of the Decepticons, shocking Horri-Bull. Horri-Bull and a few others fought the Autobot leader, but the battle turned against the Decepticons and Bludgeon forced the Decepticons into exile. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
[[File:Primes Rib Arcee Headmasters.jpg|thumb|left|Listen close to everybody's heart and hear that breaking sound.]]
In [[1995]], Horri-Bull joined [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]], [[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]], and [[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]] in attacking the Autobots at a football stadium in [[California]]. While his partners disabled [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]], Horri-Bull roasted [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] with his flamethrower breath. They then turned their attention on [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], but were interrupted by the newly created Autobot, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]. She kept the Decepticons occupied long enough for the other Autobots to recover, and so they fled. {{storylink|Prime's Rib!}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
Horri-Bull wanted to be disguised as a bull but his jet engine was a bit of a giveaway. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 2|Attack At Dawn}} He was part of a Decepticon raid on the nuclear arms cache [[Nevada Alpha]], melting all human opposition with his weapons and smashing his way into the missile storage room. Well, at least the Autobots could stop him! Unless those Autobots were the Small Targetmasters because Horri-Bull singlehandedly hospitalised them with one charge! Optimus had to personally wrestle him and even that took a long time. ''Don't mess with Horri-Bull.'' {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 8|Save Nevada Alpha}}

The characteristics of Horri-Bull and the other Headmaster Decepticons were reviewed by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] in a simulation watched by [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 15|Memories of Bumblebee}}
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====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
[[File:InvasionPrologue-Decepticonspushforward.jpg|thumb|You've got more than enough evil hours to get into the Henchmen's Union.]]
Twenty years after the battle of Klo, Horri-Bull had joined [[Overlord (G1)|Gigatron]]'s Decepticons on Earth, and was present when Gigatron's team attacked the Autobots' [[Ironworks (facility)|Ironworks]] headquarters for their hidden [[Rarified Energon]] reserves. {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}

They were plotting a second assault when invaders from another dimension complicated the plans. The Decepticons found themselves allied with the forces of good, defending their hunting ground on Earth from [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Evil Autobots]] who wanted to destroy the entire world. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

====''Regeneration One''====
{{NoteRG1}}
[[File:Bludgeons decepticons 2 destiny.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|left|"The League is watching. I gotta do this alone."]]
Twenty-one years after the battle of [[Klo]], Horri-Bull was still at Bludgeon's side aboard the ''[[Warworld]]'' as the Decepticon leader unleashed his [[Blitz Engine]]s on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s Autobots and fired the ''Warworld''{{'}}s weapons at [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Four}} At [[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]]'s suggestion, [[Krok (G1)|Krok]], [[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]], [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]], [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]], [[Stranglehold]], and Horri-Bull went down to the planet's surface to join the battle, but as the Blitz Engines, [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]]'s Neo-Decepticons and finally Bludgeon himself were all defeated in turn, Ultra Magnus's Autobots rallied and claimed victory. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
[[File:Decepticons Underground Headmasters.jpg|thumb|"Oh, goodness, look at my wrist. I gotta go."]]
Horri-Bull, Fangry, and Squeezeplay operated a secret underground base on Nebulos within the "[[Nebulos Triangle]]". They maintained this secrecy by shorting out electronics and causing whoever wandered into the area to disappear... at least until Optimus Prime decided that these phenomena were probably caused by a secret Decepticon base. The Autobots stormed in, and [[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]] poured [[Nebulite]]-enriched concrete all over the fleeing Decepticons, leaving Horri-Bull and the others trapped in a living tomb. {{Storylink|Decepticons Underground}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Fragmentation Horri-Bull Krok.jpg|thumb|left|A heinous crime, a show of force, a murder would be nice of course!]]
Horri-Bull was a member of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s [[Predacon (War Within)|Predacons]] during the [[Dark Ages]], and was present when the [[Lightning Strike Coalition]] stole one of their [[energon]] shipments. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Drift issue 1|''Drift'' #1]]}}
[[File:Transgressors done with this.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Hey, sexy, fancy some backstory?"]]
Horri-Bull was one of the early Decepticons and passed on its class warfare rhetoric to his close compatriot, [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]. [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], Needlenose's brother, was disparaging of Horri-Bull and his Decepticonism. {{storylink|The Transgressors}} As the Decepticon movement spread across Cybertron, Needlenose formally joined the Decepticons alongside Horri-Bull. The two became gun-runners for the cause, supplying disenfranchised workers with "self-defense" weapons in preparation for a larger uprising. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|To Walk Among the Chosen}} {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 4: Dance Among the Shadows|Dance Among the Shadows}}

[[File:FutureGloriesLost-NeedlenoseAndHorri-Bull.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4]]
When an idealistic scientist named [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] had an altercation with the law, Horri provided their Decepticon comrade with a gun, unaware that Jetfire, adhering to the belief that the Decepticon movement should be pacifistic, was secretly working with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]] to crack down on the arms trade. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 4: Dance Among the Shadows|Dance Among the Shadows}} Jetfire's troubled allegiances only grew worse when Needlenose revealed that [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]], ostensibly preaching the path of peace, had authorized the arms-dealing in the first place. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 5: Future Glories Lost|Future Glories Lost}} Orion and [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] arrived to crack down on the arms dealers, and Needlenose and Horri-Bull fled while Pax gunned down the third member of their group. Frustrated by the loss of their weapons, Needlenose berated Soundwave for letting their hard work go to waste, but Soundwave lied to them by telling them that their supply of weapons had been detonated by the Autobots rather than a pragmatic Starscream. {{storylink|New Cybertron End: Feel Safe Without Regrets|Feel Safe Without Regrets}}

Needlenose and Horri-Bull would later catch Jetfire on the way home from his new job in the police science division. They administered a beating before getting scared off by [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]]. {{storylink|The Next Day, and the Next}}

Millions of years later, Horri-Bull was a member of [[Turmoil]]'s detachment of Decepticon soldiers. He fought against [[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Sunstreaker]]'s Autobot forces under the leadership of Turmoil's lieutenant, [[Drift (G1)|Deadlock]]. {{storylink|Drift issue 1|Drift #1}}

[[File:Autonomy Lesson Horri-Bull Zetca.jpg|thumb|"Look at him! Not a word! Hammer, meet NAIL!"]]
Following the end of the war, Horri-Bull was among the Decepticons captured and affixed with [[inhibitor/deterrence chip]]s in the wake of [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]'s defeat on Cybertron. When they were released to take down the [[NAIL]]s protesting against the Autobots' presence on the planet, Horri-Bull strangled one unlucky rioter. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

Horri-Bull enjoyed his new position as "enforcer" and joined Needlenose in harassing NAILs, including [[Tappet]]. When they were caught in the act by the Autobots, they were turned over to [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], then the appointed leader of the Decepticons and who chewed them out for blindly serving the Autobot government. Nevertheless, the two were at it again, this time beating up [[Zetca]]. When Horri-Bull refused to back off, [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] detonated the I/D chip in Horri-Bull, blowing his head off. (Unknown to the horrified Needlenose, the I/D chips had been disabled: the Decepticon leadership had ''allowed'' Horri-Bull to die to keep this quiet, Soundwave having remotely detonated the chip.) {{Storylink|The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson}} {{storylink|The World & Everything in It}}

When lamenting how their leaders just kept bringing them more fighting, Needlenose said that he missed Horri-Bull. {{storylink|Shockpoint}} Later, as a disgruntled Needlenose began to become a Decepticon leader himself, he was driven to rage when Tracks said Bumblebee could have given the Decepticons a better peace, saying he would never have worked with the Transformer who'd killed his lover. {{storylink|The Transgressors}} Having learned the truth of Horri-Bull's death from [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]], Optimus Prime later used it as leverage to extort Soundwave into allying with the Autobots by threatening to pass the information on to Needlenose. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 3: The Medium and the Message|The Medium and the Message}} When [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]] revealed the truth that Soundwave killed Horri-Bull, the rest of the Decepticons turned on him. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 3: The Ground|The Ground}} During the battle of [[Unicron]] Soundwave then glimpsed Horri-Bull's spirit among the other deceased Cybertronians welcoming him to the Afterspark. {{storylink|Ceremony}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Vector Prime]] regarded Horri-Bull, and his contempt for modern hygiene, as one of the vilest evils he had ever faced. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/12}}

===''Titans Return'' marketing material===
[[File:TPotTM Rot-GutSkullsmasher.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|"It's not a death ray or an ice beam—that's so Johnny Snow."]]
Though Terri-Bull was a filthy slob, his comrades didn't call him that to his face because he could give them the ability to fire a toxic rust cloud. {{storylink|#Generations|''Titans Return'' Terri-Bull online bio}} Rot-Gut accompanied [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullsmasher]] and [[Grax]] to [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], where they stole some secret Autobot codes. Pursued by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], [[Stripes]], and [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]], the Decepticons eluded their pursuers by having Rot-Gut combine with Skullsmasher's body. Rot-Gut imparted his power onto Skullsmasher, allowing Skullsmasher to fire a cloud of toxic rust from his blaster. {{storylink|Titans Return: The Power of the Titan Masters}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:Squeezeplayhorribullfangrycommercial.jpg|thumb|Torro!]]
*[[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]], Horri-Bull, and [[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]] burst through a wall, and the three engaged the new Headmaster Autobots. [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] noted that their new Headmasters would give the Decepticons "more brainpower than ever." {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Small Headmasters|Small Headmasters Commercial}} Given that it's Galvatron who said it, the utterly ludicrous nature of this comment can just be explained as him being particularly crazy that day.
*During a battle on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], Horri-Bull attempted to tackle down [[Quickswitch]]. The Autobot dodged out of the way, and used his puma mode to take down his attacker. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Quickswitch|Quickswitch commercial}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Horri-Bull was a guard at the [[Styx]] penal colony. {{storylink|Decepticon Directive}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1toy-Horri-Bull.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|There is no Dana, only Zuul.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-d1|'''Horri-Bull''' (Headmaster, [[1988]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Kreb" Headmaster pilot, "[[concussion weapon|Concussion blaster]]", double-barreled "flamethrower"-tail
{{toydesigner|[[Richard Marcej]] (packaging)}}

: Released in the fifth year of the [[The Transformers (toyline)|original ''Transformers'' toyline]] (fourth in Europe), Horri-Bull transforms into a robotic buffalo<ref>Toy box & instruction sheet</ref> or bull<ref>''[[The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|Transformers: Universe]]'' profile</ref> (though he more closely resembles the "terror dogs" [[Zuul]] and [[Vinz Clortho]] from ''[[Ghostbusters]]''). His [[beast mode]] back opens up to contain his pack-in Nebulan partner [[Kreb#Toys|Kreb]], who forms the [[robot mode]]'s head. Plugging Kreb (or any other Headmaster) into the neck socket activates the [[Tech Spec]] meter in Horri-Bull's chest; as a smaller Headmaster, the stats are part of a single plate rather than individual rollers. His twin-barreled tail-blaster becomes a hand-held weapon in robot mode.

: His beast mode forelegs feature articulated claws, but what purpose this serves is unknown, since they only fold down, useless in beast mode and actually covering up his fist-holes in robot. Making matters worse, he can't hold his double-barreled tail gun without partially un-transforming his fist away from the claws to clear room for the weapon. Like most larger toys of the era, he features 5mm [[peg]]holes for holding weapons.

: Horri-Bull suffers from another [[design flaw]]: the beast mode head has square sections that catch onto the joint and stop it from moving, and the joint must be forced down for transformation, risking breakage.

: This toy was released in Japan without changes as the ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)#Transformers: Super-God Masterforce|Super-God Masterforce]]'' human villain [[Bullhorn (G1)|Bullhorn]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Horri-Bull/horri-bull.htm More information on Horri-Bull at TFU.info]''
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===''Titans Return''===
{{anchor|Generations}}
[[File:TitanMasterToy Terri-Bull.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Needlenose is desperately trying to import this.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-d1|'''Terri-Bull''' (Titan Master, [[2016]])}}</ul>
:* ''Accessories'': Tank vehicle
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)|[[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept artist)}}

: Released in the first wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Titan Master class toys, Terri-Bull transforms from robot to a head compatible with any Deluxe-or-larger ''Titans Return'' figure. The companion vehicle changes from a tank to a plane which Terri-Bull (or any other Titan Master/''Legends'' Headmaster figures) can ride on/combine with, and has a 5mm post that folds out to become a weapon for larger figures. The gun barrels connect to the tank turret via 3mm [[C joint]]s, which allows them to pivot up and down, as well as clip onto other compatible figures.

: Unlike most of the Titan Master vehicle accessories, Terri-Bull's tank vehicle's gun mode handle does not seem to be pop off when wielded by many [[5 mm post]]-compatible closed hands. However, like his wavemate [[Siren (G1)#Titans Return|Loudmouth]], the upper portion of Terri-Bull's legs has been installed backwards in all samples. This can be fixed by lightly knocking out the pin, flipping the leg pieces, and reassembling the toy.

: Terri-Bull was originally designed by [[Emiliano Santalucia]] as a new character, and sported an original head-mode design. The [[Trypticon's Titan Master Crunch]] cereal box refers him as "Rot-Gut". His promo shots show a purple face and light grey arms, while the final toy has yellow-colored face and blue arms. His guns are also shown in blue rather than light grey.

: This toy has become rather hard to find in Australia while his wavemates are still relatively common.

: Terri-Bull was [[retool]]ed into ''Titans Return'' [[Flywheels#Generations|Skytread]], whilst for the ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' line the head was redecoed as [[Bullhorn (G1)#Legends|Bullhorn]] and the vehicle into [[Tankette#Legends|Tankette]], and he would've been redecoed as a "Scout Tank" for the BotCon 2017 "Action on Hydrus Four" set that never came to be.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2016/Decepticon/TRTerri-Bull/terri-bull.htm More information on ''Titans Return'' Terri-Bull at TFU.info]''
{{TRTerri-BullMold}}
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===''Age of the Primes''===
[[File:AOTPHorribull.jpg|thumb|350px|There is no Skullcruncher. Only Zuul.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-multi|'''Ultra Magnus, Autobot Bumper VS Horri-Bull, Nemesis Prime ''' (Multi-pack, [[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "[[Kreb#Age of the Primes|Kreb]]" Headmaster, rifle, tail/gun
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Tomoki Tatsumi]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/DKs27XGM0s8/ Design notes] on ''Age of the Primes'' Horri-Bull from [[Hasbro]] designer [[Mark Maher]] on Instagram</ref>

: Released as part of a [[Target]]-exclusive ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' four-pack, Horri-Bull is an extensive [[retool]] of ''Titans Return'' [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullsmasher]], transforming into a terror-dog-like bull monster. He also comes with Headmaster [[Kreb]].

: Included in the set alongside Horri-Bull and Kreb is [[Nemesis Prime (Animated)#Age of the Primes|''Animated'' Nemesis Prime]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Age of the Primes|Ultra Magnus]], and [[Bumper (G1)#Age of the Primes|Bumper]].

::''[https://www.instagram.com/p/DKs27XGM0s8/ Designer commentary on ''Age of the Primes'' Horri-Bull from Mark Maher on Instagram]''
{{comingsoontoy}}
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==Merchandise==
===Transformers Trading Card Game===
[[File:W5Horri-Bull.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Horri-Bull, Ground Trooper''' (2020)
**'''Wave 5: Titan Masters Attack'''
**''Rarity: '''''UT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T25/T46'''
**''Stars: ''6

:Horri-Bull is one of forty-six double sided character cards released as part of Wave 5 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], Titans Masters Attack. As a character with a body mode, Horri-Bull begins the game with a Titan Master attached in head mode. Once Horri-Bull is KO'd, said Titan Master is deployed.

:The card features original artwork for both modes, with lines by [[Sara Pitre-Durocher]]

:This card's set was originally set for an April 2020 release, however due to the global COVID-19 pandemic the release was pushed back to May 29, 2020.
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==Notes==
[[File:Horribull bullhorn toy.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Our wiki is so... horrible.]]
*Horri-Bull's yellow color in "[[The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson]]" stems from the image TFWiki used to have for Horri-Bull's toy and [http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Horri-Bull/horri-bull.htm TFU.info's screencap of Horri-Bull]. [[Josh Perez]] chose to use the yellow to "help him stick out a lot more".<ref>[https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/84653-idw-rid-teaser-images/page-5 Post from Josh Perez on The Allspark]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Horri-Bull''' (ホリブル ''Horiburu'')
*''French:'' '''Taureu''' (Canada)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Szörnybika''' ("Monster-bull")
*''Italian:'' '''Thorror'''

==References==
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[[Category:Age of the Primes Decepticons]]
[[Category:Age of the Primes Predacons]]
[[Category:Classics Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Decepticons]]
[[Category:Headmasters]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Decepticons]]
[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Regeneration One Decepticons]]
[[Category:Slobs]]
[[Category:Titans Return Decepticons]]
[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game Decepticons]]
[[Category:War Within Predacons]]

Sky-Byte (RID)

2025-07-18T21:51:52Z

Cadet Songbird:

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{{disambig3|Sky-Byte}}

:''Sky-Byte is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] originally from the [[Robots in Disguise continuity family]].''

[[File:SkyByteAnime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Who's the greatest shark around?]]
Deep within '''Sky-Byte''' beats the [[spark]] of a poet, a scholar, a brilliant and cultured military general who can command armies capable of conquering worlds. But without aptitude and patience, that means jack squat, and Sky-Byte lacks both. Still, he soldiers on, for he is driven...by a desperate need for approval. He ''needs'' the blessings of his commander, [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]], quite possibly more than he needs [[energon]]. And Megatron, being Megatron, doesn't dole out praise much, so Sky-Byte tries harder and harder, getting more and more desperate.

This drive is the root of all his problems. He's actually quite intelligent and physically powerful, but he pushes himself to extremes to impress his leader. When he's in control of a situation, he's a deadly, effective foe. But as soon as the situation begins to slip even the smallest bit, he starts to panic and usually ends up doing something to mess things up and lose the upper hand, which makes him panic ''more'', so he overreacts, and gets in ''more'' trouble, etc., etc., etc. It doesn't help that while he's ruthless towards [[Autobot]]s, [[human]]s seem quite safe from his ire. Maybe he sees a little something of himself in these underdogs. After all, they developed his new favorite form of expression, the haiku. And they ''do'' seem rather impressed by him...

Sky-Byte is in charge of the Predacon lackeys [[Dark Scream]], [[Gas Skunk]], and [[Slapper (RID)|Slapper]], not that they give him any modicum of respect. In fact, they're more likely to try and shuffle the blame for their failures onto the shark, a gambit that's actually moderately successful, since Sky-Byte is so very ''good'' at making things worse for himself. He has a hate-hate relationship with the new [[Decepticon]]s, especially [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]], whom he sees (rightly) as being a huge threat to his position as Megatron's second-in-command.

:''Poor frustrated shark.''
:''Megatron is a dumbass.''
:''Why do you bother?''

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{{quote|Who's the baddest shark around? Who's the smartest shark in town? Sky-Byte, that's me! Who'll drive Scourge into the ground? And never let old Megatron down? Sky-Byte, that's me!|Sky-Byte, that's him!}}</center>

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Spellos]] (English), [[Konta]] (Japanese)|[[Alexander Novikov]] (Russian), [[Vladimir Gerasimov]] (Russian, "[[Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!]]" onwards), [[Vittorio Guerrieri]] (Italian), [[Hwan-jin Kim]] (Korean), [[Ricardo Mendoza]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Alejandro Villeli]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Clécio Souto]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}

{{bigquote|Come back, please, little dot! Please don't go away now.... That little red dot meant so, so much to my promising career. I'm just chum. Optimus! Optimus Prime! I'll find you! I'll find you! I swear! You're mine! I'll get you! You're mine! I'm...much better now.|Sky-Byte|"[[Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!]]"}}

[[File:Explosive Situation Skybyte book.jpg|left|thumb|Finding the O-Parts was no challenge compared to finding Waldo.]]
As Megatron was dressing down the Predacon trio for their latest failure, Sky-Byte suddenly appeared—demonstrating a skill for either invisibility or teleportation that he would never display again. Scoffing at the other Predacons' energy-gathering abilities, Sky-Byte revealed his own plan—to recover a bomb hidden in a red sports car somewhere in [[Metro City]]. He quickly tracked down the sports car in question, startling [[Kelly (RID)|its driver]] as he retrieved the bomb from its trunk. Before he could return to the ''[[Megastar]]'' though, the bomb was taken from him by [[X-Brawn]]. He tried his best to get the bomb back, but just as he was about to get hold of it, [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] blasted it and him into space with a Blizzard Storm. He survived the subsequent explosion, and returned to the ''Megastar'' to recuperate and research human culture. {{storylink|An Explosive Situation}}

[[File:Spychangers Rescue Skybytegenerator.jpg|thumb|Senpaiiiiii~]]
After the other Predacons destroyed some goods trains, Sky-Byte came up with a loftier plan to destroy the [[Linear RFG]] bullet train. Though his mission succeeded in blowing up a bridge ahead of the train, [[Team Bullet Train]] saved the Linear RFG, and Sky-Byte was left trying to justify himself to Megatron. {{storylink|Bullet Train to the Rescue}} When the [[Spychanger]]s intercepted the Predacon trio in the process of stealing the [[Plutonium Energy Generator]], Sky-Byte came to their aid. When the situation seemed unsalvageable, Sky-Byte unleashed a [[Tsunami Blaster]] attack on the generator to destroy it, but hit the Spychangers instead. The Predacons took the generator back to the ''Megastar''... only to find it had been switched for a fake. {{storylink|Spychangers to the Rescue}}

{{quote|The cobalt ocean roils 
zephyrs blow cold, 
and another hapless foe is crushed beneath my heel.|Sky-Byte|"[[The Hunt for Black Pyramid]]"}}

[[File:SecretoftheRuins Sky-Byte with casket.jpg|thumb|left]]
While the Megastar was parked on the [[Black Pyramid]] in an attempt to extract power, Sky-Byte and Dark Scream were sent out to protect it against a civilian ship. The Autobots soon came to help the ship, and while fighting underwater, Sky-Byte was able to hold his own against Optimus Prime. Once the ship was righted, Sky-Byte found Prime a much more formidable opponent, and what's worse, the Autobot leader critiqued his poetry. The Predacons beat a hasty retreat. {{storylink|The Hunt for Black Pyramid}} Megatron and the Predacon trio distracted the Autobots while Sky-Byte went to the [[Payuma ruins]] to find information hidden by [[Kenneth Onishi|Doctor Onishi]]. Unfortunately he was spotted by [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]] and [[Koji Onishi]], who alerted Optimus to the shark's presence. Prime was unable to prevent Sky-Byte making off with a casket containing [[Doctor Onishi's microchip|a microchip]], however once out of the ruins, the Predacon was confronted by [[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]] and X-Brawn, who blasted him. {{storylink|The Secret of the Ruins}}

[[File:Skid Z's Choice Skybytecar.jpg|thumb|[[Mattel]] called: They want the [https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Sharkruiser Sharkruiser] back.]]

Sky-Byte concocted another plan, to capture Side Burn and use him as bait to draw Prime into a trap. Though it was successful in ensnaring Prime, the rest of the Autobots turned up to rescue their comrades. Sky-Byte later successfully deflected the blame onto Gas Skunk and Dark Scream. {{storylink|Sideburn's Obsession}} The Predacons extracted information from a stolen disk belonging to Dr. Onishi, leading them to believe that the steam engine "[[Grandpa]]" was a weapon of extraordinary power. Megatron sent Sky-Byte and the other Predacons to capture it. Sky-Byte made an unsuccessful attempt to infiltrate the engine via the smoke stack, and the other Predacons didn't have any better luck, though they temporarily gained possession of the steam engine after it had offloaded its passengers. The mission was ultimately a failure. {{storylink|Secret Weapon: D-5}}

After Dark Scream planted a bug in [[Mirage (RID)|Mirage]], the Predacons overheard him breaking up with [[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]]. Mirage's words moved Sky-Byte to tears. He later suggested that they try and persuade Mirage to defect to their side. Although it seemed for a time that they'd succeeded, even to the point where Sky-Byte showed off the new [[Mega-Laser Cannon]], it was a ruse. Mirage and the Spychangers destroyed the cannon. {{storylink|Mirage's Betrayal}} Sky-Byte tried a similar trick on the rogue Autobot [[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]] with no success. When the Predacons discovered that the Autobots had entered the [[International Grand Prix]], Sky-Byte cunningly disguised himself as a red racing car and entered as well. After being chatted up by a suspicious Side Burn, Sky-Byte was inadvertently fragged by Megatron in the early moments of the race. Then when he was able to catch up with the Autobots, he was mistakenly blasted by Megatron ''again''. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}}

[[File:Sky-byte eye.gif|thumb|left|I spy, with my telescopically enhanced robot eye... a [[The Ultimate Robot Warrior|giant Buddha]]?]]
Still believing he could convert an Autobot into a Predacon, Sky-Byte captured new recruit [[Tow-Line (RID)|Tow-Line]]. After suffering through the other Predacon's attempts to hypnotise the Autobot, he used a special CD to brainwash Tow-Line. Unfortunately it was only partially successful—Tow-Line started towing away the other Autobots, but he took them to the wrong place. By the time Sky-Byte worked out what was happening, the rest of the Autobots were alerted, and promptly battled him into retreat. {{storylink|Tow-Line Goes Haywire}} Investigations into reports of a transforming statue took Sky-Byte to the [[Cave of the Dragon]] in China. Luckily the Autobots were able to save the cave via an elaborate deception involving Prime and Team Bullet Train disguising themselves as a statue and dragon. {{storylink|The Ultimate Robot Warrior}} Despite these indignities, he was still viewed as "sneaky, clever and dangerous" by the Autobots. {{storylink|Hope for the Future}}

[[File:Commandos Sky-Byte as Optimus.jpg|thumb|Freedom is the right of... LINE!]]
Sky-Byte led a mission to dig up some Autobot [[protoform]]s, and took them to [[McKinley Army Base]] with the other Predacons while Megatron kept the Autobots busy. There, they reformatted the protoforms into the [[Commando (RID)|Commandos]]. Sky-Byte created [[Movor]] when he fell, aiming the [[stasis pod]]'s scanner at a space shuttle in orbit. {{storylink|The Decepticons}} [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] and the [[Decepticon]]s proved much more competent than the Predacons, and Sky-Byte was driven to desperate measures to try and regain his lost status in Megatron's eyes. He and the Predacon trio disguised themselves as Optimus Prime in an attempt to ruin the Decepticons' mission to destroy [[Sherman Dam]]. Though Sky-Byte attempted to gain Megatron's favor by blowing up the dam himself, he was unsuccessful. {{storylink|Commandos}}

Disappointed at the failure, Megatron assigned Sky-Byte and Scourge to guard a location on [[Montrose Island]] while the Predacon trio dug in search of geothermal energy. After Prime showed up with the Spychangers, Sky-Byte took advantage of the chaos in battle to try to slag Scourge. {{storylink|Volcano (episode)|Volcano}} While the Decepticons put another plan into action, they distracted Sky-Byte by getting him and the Predacon trio to mark out a rendezvous location. When the four Predacons finally tried to get in on the action, Sky-Byte barely had time to transform before Movor blasted him from orbit. {{storylink|Attack from Outer Space}}

Sky-Byte trashed an oil rig on Megatron's orders, only for Scourge to show up and attack him. After reporting to Megatron, the shark eavesdropped on [[Mega-Octane]] meeting with Prime as a prelude to defection. He continued to spy as the Decepticons attempted to prove themselves sincere to the Autobots, and eventually could stand it no more. Although his attack on the traitors was futile, he inadvertently caused Scourge to expose the entire ruse. {{storylink|The Test (episode)|The Test}} Sky-Byte's self-esteem was soon nonexistent (especially after an on-line Fish Personality Test told him he was a jellyfish), and he became desperate to gain Megatron's approval. He and the Predacon trio disguised themselves as Autobots and interfered in a Decepticon mission to raid a storage plant. Unfortunately this went disastrously wrong, resulting in him being chewed out by Megatron. His next attempt to set the real Autobots on the Decepticons went awry when he sent them to the wrong power plant. As he moped on a seaside cliff, the other Predacons talked him into attacking a power plant in an attempt to outdo the Decepticons. When this went badly as well, Sky-Byte took his frustrations out on the computer, only to get electrocuted for his troubles. {{storylink|The Fish Test}}

[[File:The Fish Test Skybytepose.jpg|thumb|left|Another happy Charles Atlas customer]]

Determined to discredit the Decepticons, Sky-Byte came up with a new plan, having his henchmen attack a diamond mine in the Antarctic to lure the [[Autobot Brothers]] into a trap. When the [[Build Team (RID)|Build Team]] turned up instead, Sky-Byte took [[Wedge (RID)|Wedge]] hostage, and [[Heavy Load (RID)|Heavy Load]] bargained for the young 'bot's return with a disk containing a map of the Autobot [[Global Space Bridge]]. Despite interference from the Decepticons, Sky-Byte and his cohorts used the map to enter the tunnel indicated on the map, only to discover that the disk only contained a map of the sewers. They were subsequently drenched by Optimus Prime's Blizzard Storm. {{storylink|Wedge's Short Fuse}}

[[File:Skybyte Saves the Day last support breaks.jpg|thumb|[[John DiMaggio|I call it... Aquaman's Rousing Song of Heroism!.]]]]
Eventually, to get attention, Sky-Byte led the Predacons in the attempted destruction of the new [[CGA Tower]] This plan would've worked, except the Autobots, thinking the humans in the tower were the Predacon's hostages, asked what demands he wanted met for their safety. Wanting to seem like he knew what he was doing, Sky-Byte made up a random demand on the spot that by sheer chance was interpreted as a demand for [[O-Part]]s. He'd achieved accidental success, only to take out the tower's last support by mistake and be forced to ''stop'' it collapsing so he'd still have his hostages. This single-minded desire to keep the tower up was interpreted by the hostages and TV news crews as the Predacon trying to save them for altruistic reasons, and when the hostages started to cheer him on, Sky-Byte gave his all to keep them safe out of an increasingly genuine desire to save them. ("My hostages need me!") It was only hours after the tower was saved and the Predacons were nursing their damaged backs that they remembered about getting the O-Parts... {{storylink|Sky-Byte Saves the Day}}

Some time later, while spying on the Decepticons, this accidental heroism came back to haunt him, as he was pestered by a group of kids led by Koji Onishi, who wanted his autograph. A proud Predacon, Sky-Byte was bewildered by this attention, although he briefly thought of using it as a way to get his haikus published.

[[File:Forced Fusion Skybytedelusion.jpg|thumb|left|]]
Despite all his failures, Sky-Byte was still regarded as extremely loyal. As a result, Megatron sent him to get the remaining O-Parts...with Sky-Byte unaware he'd been fed false info and was being used by the Decepticons to draw the Autobots into an ambush. Poor Sky-Byte spent ages digging, finding only the detritus of Humanity and [[Rubber Ducky|war surplus]] {{storylink|Ultra Magnus (episode)|Ultra Magnus}}, and was still digging long after Megatron thought he'd have stopped. In a stroke of luck, though, this allowed him to notice Optimus Prime was wounded and track him to where he was being repaired. He could now kill Optimus when he was weak and Megatron would reward him! Unfortunately, the Decepticons, Megatron ''and'' [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] had all tracked him, and poor Sky-Byte was left [[Furmanism|surplus to requirements]] once again. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!}}

[[File:FortressMaximus a delicious cake.jpg|thumb|Referencing ''Portal'' before it even ''existed!'']]

Sky-Byte made an attempt to persuade Ultra Magnus to join the Predacon cause. When the Autobot Brothers interceded, they were promptly captured by the Decepticons, and Ultra Magnus continued to feign interest in Sky-Byte's offer. After extracting the location at which the Autobot Brothers were being held, Ultra Magnus turned on him along with Team Bullet Train. {{storylink|The Two Faces of Ultra Magnus}} Sky-Byte joined Scourge, Megatron, and the Commandos in watching archival footage of Ultra Magnus in order to get a better understanding of their newly arrived enemy. {{storylink|Mystery of the Ultra Magnus}} He and Megatron joined the Decepticons during another battle with the Autobots, though after Magnus and Prime formed [[Omega Prime]], he quickly ran and hid. {{storylink|Power to Burn!}}

More information extracted from Doctor Onishi led the Decepticons to venture into the subway system under Metro City. Sky-Byte followed them, but soon lost track of his quarry, and instead came upon a giant cake. Though it turned out to be stale (and actually a subway car), he caught up with the Decepticons and continued spying, only to be washed away by a torrent of water. {{storylink|Fortress Maximus (episode)|Fortress Maximus}}

Sky-Byte took Dr. Onishi out of the Predacon base to help search for [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Fortress Maximus]], in an attempt to find it before Scourge. In the process, he ran into Koji, who appealed to him to help rescue his father or at least to pass on a birthday present. The Predacon actually felt bad for Koji and was reduced to a blubbering wreck by the boy's appeal, but was mortified to find Koji didn't believe he was a threatening villain any more. Sky-Byte later became so preoccupied with battle that he tossed Dr. Onishi to Koji, leading the youth to believe Sky-Byte had deliberately rescued his father out of the goodness of his heart. The Autobots believed this too and apologized to Sky-Byte for fighting him (after they'd already blown the tar out of him). {{storylink|Koji Gets His Wish}}

[[File:Koji Gets His Wish Skybyteonishi.jpg|thumb|left|Sky-Byte does his best impression of a football team logo.]]

When the Autobots and Decepticons set about finding the rest of the O-Parts, Sky-Byte came up with a series of cunning plans, including fake O-Parts, to ensure that he and Slapper would get to them first. Unfortunately the plans all backfired, and a last-ditch attempt to swap the fake O-Parts for the real ones left them all in Autobot hands. {{storylink|A Friendly Contest}} Despite this failure, Megatron allowed Sky-Byte to take part in a mission to the [[Sahara|Sahara Desert]] to find the artifact that the Autobots were after—the [[Orb of Sigma]]. His attempts to prevent Side Burn escaping with the Orb only resulted in him being run over by both the Autobot Brothers and the Decepticons. {{storylink|Peril from the Past}} With Megatron gone, Sky-Byte and the Predacons found that Scourge was even more unpleasant to work for than their former leader. They attempted to get into Scourge's good graces by snatching [[Cerebros (RID)|Cerebros]] from the Autobots and greasing up to the Decepticon. In the following battle for Fortress Maximus, Sky-Byte was delighted by the arrival of his former leader, resurrected as Galvatron. {{storylink|Maximus Emerges}}

[[File:PerilfromthePast Sky-Byte run over.jpg|thumb|Sky-byte's little known "Roadkill" mode.]]

During another attempt on Scourge's part to control Fortress Maximus, Sky-Byte watched nervously, as he knew every one of the Decepticon's victories would mean Galvatron ignoring him even more. During the fight after the arrival of the Autobots, Sky-Byte accidentally saved Koji's life and was horrified at the idea Galvatron would find out. {{storylink|The Human Element}} Later on, while talking to himself, he would admit to having a friendship with Koji, though it was nothing to getting into Galvatron's good books, and he still attempted to kidnap the boy to help control Fortress Maximus (being Sky-Byte, he grabbed the wrong person). He accompanied Megatron and Scourge as they attempted to get the boy [[Carl (RID)|Carl]] to control Maximus. When Scourge finally showed his true colors, turning on Galvatron, Sky-Byte unexpectedly found himself back in Galvatron's good books. His leader tasked him with carrying Scourge's stasis-locked body back with them. {{storylink|Mistaken Identity}}

Galvatron remarked the Predacons had always been trustworthy and gave Sky-Byte command of the Decepticons. Proud to finally be where he belonged again, Sky-Byte even managed to locate the Autobot base by following Koji and led an assault on it. He and the Predacons pursued Optimus Prime into an Autobot trap. The array of Autobot firepower caused him to cower behind rocks, crying for his "blankie". {{storylink|Surprise Attack!}}

[[File:Skybyte happy at last.jpg|thumb|left|No, not the final scene from ''Free Willy''.]]
During the final battle, Sky-Byte was almost killed when he led the Predacons into the [[Global Space Bridge]] after the Decepticons—not realising Galvatron intended to kill them. Sky-Byte was left on his own {{storylink|Galvatron's Revenge}} and escaped certain death just in time to be ordered to hold off the entire Autobot army. This did not go well for him, oh no.

Following Autobot victory, every Decepticon and Predacon was rounded up to be incarcerated, but the Autobots hadn't captured Sky-Byte. (Whether they'd forgotten about him or he was hiding well is unknown.) He was left to spend the rest of his life on Earth, a fate the other Predacons seemed to view as worse than death, though his own attitude as he swam off into the sunset singing suggests he felt quite differently... {{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}}

====Dreamwave ''Robots in Disguise'' comic====
[[File:UltraMagnustotheRescue SkyByte haiku.JPG|thumb|Where the heck is the ''rest of him?'']]
Sky-Byte and Scourge were sent on a joint mission, although they did nothing but bicker until Optimus and Ultra Magnus showed up. While Scourge battled them, Sky-Byte took advantage and made off with the goods, leaving Scourge with a haiku to keep him thinking. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus...to the Rescue?}}

====Hall of Fame bio====
Left behind on Earth after the final battle, Sky-Byte devoted his time to attacking illegal fishing vessels. Go, Sky-Byte! {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
Sky-Byte was grateful to Optimus Prime for allowing him to remain on Earth. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/04}}
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====''TransTech''====
[[File:Ask Shark Sonnets.jpg|thumb]]

Sky-Byte somehow ended up at [[Axiom Nexus]] and was "processed". {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 1}}

This Sky-Byte or another one was given [[Vector Prime]]'s old column {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Shark Sonnets|Shark Sonnets, 2015/10/21}} in the hopes a charismatic ex-baddie would recapture the popularity of [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]]'s run but without using it to recruit a terrorist army. {{storylink|Axiom Nexus News Editor|Axiom Nexus News Editor, 2015/10/21}}

Sky-Byte was really eager to please and tended to waffle until he was encouraged to do more haikus. Among other answers, Sky-Byte told us:

*In peacetime, he lived a life of "unfilled yearning". Megatron gave him a chance to change that!
*Predacons have "too delicate a temperament" to become a [[combiner]] and have their minds hardwired together.
*He doesn't recognize the name Vector Prime (perhaps there's some relation to Optimus?).
*Arriving at [[Axiom Nexus]] left him disoriented, and it got worse when he went to a Predacon bar to recover and learned [[Predacon (BW)|it wasn't the right Predacons]], and he'd have to crouch to fit. "They served me energon, but I felt distinctly unwelcome." There aren't many [[Viron|true]] Predacons around and he feels lonely.
*Every Marxsol, Sky-Byte's down at [[Destron Pizza]]'s open mic night. His dream is to perform at [[the Blue Deployer]] ([[Cobratron]] can get him an in!).
*He thinks calling Slapper, Gas Skunk and Dark Scream "stooges" is hardly a fair characterization. They have skills and Dark Scream is a great tenor!
*He's seen both ''Finding Nemo'' and ''Jaws'' (and swears he didn't cry during the former).
*He thinks of himself as a strong warrior behind his more gentle poet facade.
*He's encountered a [[Klud]] before, and thinks of them as "magestic".
*He loves a nice glass of [[Old Corroder]].
*Even he doesn't know who's in the [[Predacon Council]] or their main agenda.
*The bad things he's done do weigh on him but "Second chances are most rare / I shall do my best"

He likes a ''massive'' list of poets, including (deep breath): [[Keats]], [[Tennyson]], [[Bashō]], [[Shiki]], the Brontes, [[Homer]], [[Ovid]], [[Emily Dickinson|Dickenson]], [[Hughes]], [[Bai]], [[Lord Byron]], [[Abī Sūlmā]], [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelly]], [[Verlaine]], [[Rimbaud]], [[Victor Hugo|Hugo]], [[Hölderlin]], [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]], [[Mayakovsky]], [[Poe]], and the immortal bard, [[William Shakespeare]].

He quit the position when his haikus were insulted by the very audience that had asked for them, commenting that he had been hired by [[The Blue Deployer]]. He left with one last sonnet after thanking the audience for their (mostly) praise. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Shark Sonnets|Shark Sonnets}}
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====''Legends''/''Unite Warriors''====
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[[File:SkyByte AOE Prime Cosplay.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.08|Who's the ''prime-est'' shark around?]]

[[2004|Four years]] after being left on Earth, Sky-Byte reemerged in a new body and attacked the Autobot base where [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and [[R-Blade]] were working with [[solitarium]] ore. When he blasted them with his Maser Storm, however, the explosion of the solitarium sent him to [[Legends World|another dimension]] inhabited by cartoony talking animals and where Transformers were but fictional characters. Initially assuming himself to be the #1 popular character, Sky-Byte was angered when the native [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] told him his popularity couldn't compete with that of another [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and set out to ruin the Prime's reputation by doing evil dressed as him. This scheme didn't last long: the local children were just so gosh-darn ''happy'' to see "Optimus Prime" that Sky-Byte quickly realized he couldn't bring himself to stomp all over their dreams. Instead he settled down in this world and began working odd jobs, including a stint as a scary shark attraction. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 6|Bonus Edition Vol. 6}}

Hired to act in a ''Transformers'' show at [[Tokyo Toy Show]] 2015, Sky-Byte ran into his not-so-good old friend, Scourge, who had ended up in the Legends world after escaping from prison. Though Scourge suggested they team up again, Sky-Byte was outraged to find that the Decepticon was holding [[Optimus Minor|one of the children]] in the audience hostage and challenged him to a fight to save the kid. He lost, but Scourge was impressed by his bravado and let the hostage go, then told Sky-Byte he was planning to return to the prison and save Gigatron and the others. Mention of his beloved leader was enough to convince Sky-Byte, and he tearfully left the children he'd befriended and returned to his home dimension with Scourge. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Scourge)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

[[File:BaldigusChapter2 BlackConvoyGelshark.jpg|thumb|right|250px| Not shown: Sky-Byte cheering to himself over Scourge falling off.]]
While in the process of reformatting the [[Commando (RID)|Combatrons]] back to their original programming, the Autobots of the post-[[Cybertron Alliance]] era recounted how they were corrupted by Gigatron and his Predacons. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part One}}

Following their departure from the Legends World, Sky-Byte and Scourge traveled to Cybertron in [[2021]] where Sky-Byte blasted [[Grand Scourge]], who was impersonating Scourge, just as he was about to kill [[Ruination (RID)|Ruination]]. After he was done helping defeat [[Unicron]], Ruination joined the duo on their quest, and together they departed for the future era in which Gigatron was imprisoned. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}} Their journey to rescue their leader was put on hold while the Combatrons enjoyed their baths, to Scourge's annoyance. {{Storylink|Strategy Meeting in an Earth Bath?!}}

Sky-Byte and the rest attacked [[Neo Brave Maximus]] where Gigatron was being held, only learn from the 'bot himself that he had given up on his evil ways and joined the [[Dimensional Patrol]]. When Scourge refused to join the side of good and attacked his former leader, the ever-loyal Sky-Byte intervened and held him back, allowing Gigatron to extract his evil essence. {{storylink|LGEX Scourge Prologue}} Sky-Byte subsequently joined the Dimensional Patrol himself, convincing them the Legends World wasn't the threat they thought it was and to release Dark Scream, Slapper and Gas Skunk, who also joined up. When the Legends World was attacked by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and the [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]], Sky-Byte and the rest of the Patrol traveled there to defend it from the Zamojin army. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One}}

Sky-Byte continued serving with the Dimensional Patrol, and marveled at Devil Gigatron and God Fire Convoy's new combination technique during a battle in space. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

===''Wings Universe''===
[[File:G2Redux-SkyByte.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|left|Here to you Dantes! This is for Pushkin!]]
Created as an agent of the [[Quintesson]]s, Sky-Byte was the commander of the new generation of [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]s. Unlike his dim-witted troops, Sky-Byte exhibited a scientific and creative nature, whether it be by making new advances in technology or writing haiku to express himself during tense and exciting moments.

In [[2010]], Sky-Byte was sent to Earth by the Quintessons as part of an alliance with the Decepticon outlaw [[Clench (G1)|Clench]]. His army of next-generation Sharkticons successfully empowered Clench's Decepticon Syndicate, and they were able to take control of the Large Hadron Collider in [[Switzerland]].

There, Sky-Byte worked with Clench to realize the potential of the low-grade fuel [[forestonite]]. He determined that bombarding the forestonite with high-energy particles allowed it to alter Transformers, granting them extraordinary power. Pyro teased Clench for hanging around with Quintesson flunkies, and Sky-Byte responded with pride about how his new forestonite fuel would tip the balance of power. Sky-Byte may have oversold the stuff, however, as Clench impulsively fed some to [[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]]—''and it wasn't meant to be taken orally!''—and then insisted that Sky-Byte himself be one of the next round of test subjects.

[[File:G2Redux-SkyBytealtmode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2]]
When the Autobots burst into the facility in an attempt to rescue [[Pyro (G1)|Spark]], Sky-Byte taunted them with a haiku and, when that was poorly received, then tried to zap them all with his "[[Tsunami Blaster]]", a new and deadly ability bestowed upon him by the forestonite. The battle was ultimately decided when a nervous Breakdown shot the canisters of forestonite, thinking they would explode. Instead, the chemical spread out in gaseous form all over the remaining Transformers, equaling the balance of power for the Autobots. [[Rapido]] gained the power to outrun Sky-Byte's shark missile attack, and soon the Decepticons were thoroughly routed. At this point, Sky-Byte fled the scene with his Sharkticons and a sample of forestonite. Without his additional muscle, Clench was forced to retreat as well.

And, yes, even while running for his life, Sky-Byte had the frame of mind to write a pretty haiku. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}

[[File:Sky-ByteRampageandTantrum-ACommonFoe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
Two years later, Sky-Byte teamed up with [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], providing the Decepticon with large quantities of forestonite. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 2}} His duties included preparing the ship for takeoff to [[Nebulos]]. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 3}} He was almost run down by [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]] as the latter drove through the base, prompting him to shoot a furious haiku at the Autobot. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 5}} Following the destruction of Jhiaxus's base on [[Qre]], Sky-Byte and his associate watched the Autobots leave with several of the clones, and Jhiaxus confided in him that the whole experience had been a test. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 6}}

At some point, Sky-Byte secretly joined forces with the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]]. {{storylink|A Common Foe}} After the construction of a massive clone army and its prolonged siege on Cybertron, Sky-Byte accompanied Jhiaxus when he arrived on the planet to offer the native Autobot-Decepticon resistance and [[Megaplex|his wayward clone commander]] a final choice. {{storylink|Termination}} Despite Sky-Byte's assistance, the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]] invasion lost the following battle. The Predacon fled and raided Jhiaxus's secondary laboratory of its stasis pods before the laboratory could be discovered by the Autobots and the Decepticons. The stasis pods were brought to the other Predacons so they could create [[Predacon (BW)|their own army]] in the aftermath of the [[Pax Cybertronia|peace treaty]] between the Autobots, Decepticons, and Jhiaxus's clones. Included in the batch were four mysterious capsules, one of which included [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]. {{Storylink|A Common Foe}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[A Better Tomorrow|''Robots in Disguise'' #5]]}}

[[File:ABetterTomorrow-reputation.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Who's the most moderate shark in town?]]

More than four million years ago, Sky-Byte was a Decepticon, but atrocities committed by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] on [[Varas Centralus]] convinced him to flee the war and his homeworld. Before Sky-Byte's retreat, he had a rivalry with [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]]. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}} At some point during the war, a statue of Sky-Byte was made by the [[Mortilus|Necrobot]]. {{storylink| The Not Knowing}}

In the current era, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] was rebooted into a primordial state and [[Vector Sigma]] sent out a signal to its planet's scattered people to return. Sky-Byte heeded this call, but had reservations about the uneasy politics between the Autobots, the Decepticons, and the [[NAIL|nonaffiliated]]. The ex-Decepticon poet pursued some solitude, musing over a decapitated [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]], when he was interrupted by Ironhide. Sky-Byte expected a fight from his old rival, but Ironhide surprised him with his ease and candor. Still, Sky-Byte expressed his suspicions towards the Autobots, and so Ironhide suggested he check out the Decepticons as well to see if they were any better. Sky-Byte followed Ironhide's suggestion and met with the Decepticons, but he was followed by [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]]'s Autobots so that they could make arrests. Things quickly got out of hand and a battle erupted until Ironhide settled everyone down.

[[File:InterferencePatterns Jazz and Sky-Byte.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Kids these days and their music!]]
Later, Sky-Byte joined Prowl for a drink at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], which Ironhide and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] had re-opened as a place where Transformers could meet in peace regardless of affiliation. Ironhide explained to them why he had changed—he had seen a vision of the distant future where he was alive but the war was dead... because so were Sky-Byte, Prowl, and the rest of the Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}} Sky-Byte was later performing a musical/poetic duet with [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]] at Maccadam's Old Oil House. {{storylink|Interference Patterns}} Some time after sharing some poetry with [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]], Sky-Byte joined a crowd of neutrals and Decepticons recruited by him in an attempt to pressure [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] into revealing one of his secret discoveries below ground on Cybertron. When they followed Starscream and Prowl into the cave, they witnessed a [[Titan (group)|Titan]] declare that Starscream was the Cybertronian destined to unite their whole race. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things}}

When the Decepticon population began rioting in the wake of [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s return, Sky-Byte holed up inside Maccadam's alongside Jazz and some other neutrals. {{storylink|City on Fire}} They were eventually forced to abandon their hideout after the rioters burned it down, {{storylink|The Verge}} and relocated to [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]]'s med-center. {{storylink|Before the Dawn}} During Megatron's subsequent conquest of the city, the med-center was the attacked by [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], and Sky-Byte offered to help his partner Jazz fight the giant. Jazz turned him down, telling him to get the injured to safety instead. {{storylink|Plan for Everything}} Together with some of his neutral friends, he later prevented [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] from killing [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for helping injured Autobots. {{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}}

After the battle ended with Starscream claiming leadership of the neutrals and banishing both Autobots and Decepticons, Sky-Byte returned to Maccadam's to help rebuild it. {{storylink|Three Monologues}} When the [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]] unleashed a destructive energy wave upon Iacon, Starscream used his body to shield several of his citizens, including Sky-Byte. {{storylink|Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Winners & Losers}} In the wake of the destruction, the poet listened to [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] accuse Starscream of embodying a dark prophecy that would destroy them all. {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} He was then injured during the Necrotitan's assault on the city and had to be carried to safety by Scoop and [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} He recovered in time to celebrate the Titan's defeat alongside other survivors. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}}

[[File:WorldOfTomorrow-WaspySkyByte.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|TURN AROUND BRIIIIGHT EYES]]
Six months later, Sky-Byte was still hanging out at Blurr's bar. [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] didn't know what to make of him. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} When Windblade and several neutrals were imprisoned by Starscream, he and Swindle aided [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] in breaking them out. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}} Around that time, having returned to a life of war, Jazz would fondly remember his duets with Sky-Byte. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 4: Full Fathom Five|Full Fathom Five}}

Sky-Byte continued frequenting Maccadam's and helped celebrate [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s return there. He and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] shared a song. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}} A statue of Sky-Byte was present on the [[Mortilus|Necrobot]]'s world when the ''[[Lost Light]]'' stopped there. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} After the establishment of a Decepticon commune, [[Sanctuary Station]], near [[Jupiter]], Sky-Byte traveled there on the ''[[Peace Without Tyranny]]''. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} When [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] came aboard the commune and voiced his anger at [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]'s plans, Sky-Byte did not join his fellow Decepticons in aiming their weapons at the Autobot and merely looked on. After Soundwave ordered the Decepticons to stand down, Sky-Byte voiced his approval, stating that they would win because of their ideals and not because of their firepower. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} When Sky-Byte learned the ''other'' Decepticons had raided the ''[[Ark-7]]'', possibly killed everyone on board, and pointed it at Earth to begin a new Decepticon invasion, he was...not as approving. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}}

[[File:ItsBeginningToAndBackAgain Sky-Byte.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Sky-Byte watched as Soundwave rejected Galvatron once and for all, reminding the former that they had all been duped as he was. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}} When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Thundercracker]] came to Sanctuary Station to meet with Soundwave, Sky-Byte was one of the Decepticons to greet them. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 3: The Medium and the Message|The Medium and the Message}} Sky-Byte then went with the combined Autobot and Decepticon battalion to lay siege to the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', delivering a poem at the start of the battle. [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] didn't appreciate it very much. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 4: It's Beginning To And Back Again|It's Beginning To And Back Again}} When [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] violently took down [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] at the end of the battle, Sky-Byte asked him not to mistreat the Decepticon too much since he'd merely been deceived by Galvatron. {{storylink|White Light}}

During a visit by Thundercracker to Sanctuary Station, Sky-Byte greeted the Seeker, and later composed a haiku about the conflict he believed was coming. {{storylink|Primeless, Part 2}} Sky-Byte found the time to appear in two films, playing the role of [[Metalhawk (G1)|Metalhawk]] in ''[[Starscream: The Movie (film)|Starscream: The Movie]]'', and the role of a boat-eating metal shark in ''[[Dark Invasion]]''. {{storylink|Starscream: The Movie (comic)|Starscream: The Movie}}

When the [[Maximal]] Army heralding [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]'s arrival in Earth's solar system attacked Sanctuary Station, Sky-Byte joined [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]], [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] in a heroic delaying action to buy time for the commune to be evacuated. Sky-Byte was eventually surrounded and stabbed to death by numerous Maximals, his last words being a haiku about his own mortality. {{storylink|Road's End}} Sky-Byte's ethereal spirit was among the many deceased that Soundwave channeled through the [[Enigma of Combination]] as he sacrificed his own life to help defeat Unicron. {{storylink|Ceremony}}
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===''Kre-O'' online comic===
[[File:Kreo fallen skybyte.JPG|thumb|300px]]

Sky-Byte was witness to the Predacons combining into [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]]. {{storylink|Behemoth Combination! But They're Cute? The Predacon Unit}}

When [[Metroplex (G1)|Autobot City]] was repainted as Decepticon City, Sky-Byte repurposed [[T-AI]]'s swimming pool for his own use, playing with a beach ball. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}

===Legends World===
In the [[Legends World]], a tiny Sky-Byte appeared in the hands of a bathing T-AI in a risqué TV show. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 3|Bonus Edition Vol. 3}}

===Shell Game continuity===
In [[Viron 704.31 Epsilon]], Sky-Byte refused to serve the megalomaniacal [[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]], risking his life to ensure that Dark Scream, Gas Skunk, and Slapper could escape Megazarak's clutches. They later came to the aid of [[Defensor (OTFCC)|Defensor]] during the last Autobot's final confrontation with Megazarak! What a ''legend!'' {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/30 and 2015/09/07}}

===Spychanger continuity===
In [[Viron 1103.12 Gamma]], Sky-Byte accidentally poisoned all of Earth's energon in a scheme and the Autobots all had to go [[Spychanger]]. He shamelessly pretended he'd meant to do it, only for [[Daytonus]] and [[X-Brawn]] to blow up the Predacons' only remaining energon stash; with them unable to go Spychanger, the war ended with a whimper. What a... ''something else'' that begins with L. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/18}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
When [[Preditron]] led the [[Legion of the Inferno]] in song as they rallied for battle, it reminded Dark Scream of his friend Sky-Byte. {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends SkyByte.jpg|thumb]]
Sky-Byte was part of a group of Decepticons who were sent to investigate a mysterious enemy. They teamed up with [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and Windblade to fight the [[Ammonite]]s, but soon fell out with their Autobot allies. Defeated by the pair, the Decepticons returned to their own starship. {{storylink|Into the Abyss}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Sky-Byte was a sensitive soul who sought to please his superiors and earn the respect of his subordinates. While powerful and intelligent, his need for validation undercut his effectiveness on the battlefield. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}
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==Toys==
===''Robots in Disguise'' (2001)===
[[File:RID-toy SkyByte.jpg|right|upright=1.66|thumb|Love child of Peter Benchley and H.R. Giger. (''Hasbro version pictured'')]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Gelshark''' (ゲルシャーク, [[2000]]) / '''Sky-Byte''' (Mega Class, [[2001]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''D-005'''
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Yuichiro Hira]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: First available as part of the ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|Car Robots]]'' line in Japan, Gelshark is an ''extensive'' [[redeco]] of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Transmetal 2]] [[Maximal]] [[Cybershark#TM2|Cybershark]], transforming into a large, monstrous, bio-mechanical great white shark. His tail has a gear system that spins the fins like a propeller when a wheel in his side is turned; this mechanism can be locked in place by pushing a switch just behind the tail (which can be locked in place thanks to a slot in the robot-mode right arm nearby). This system becomes his left arm, forming a [[Shark Spike|spinning claw weapon]]. He also has a double spring-loaded missile launcher concealed in his shark mouth, which can be fired by pulling back the shark's nose and serves as a hand-held weapon in robot mode. His front fins can be removed and used as hand-held blade weapons.

: He was released in Hasbro markets as "Sky-Byte" in the first wave of Mega-sized toys, replacing the translucent blue plastic found in the upper arms, thighs, shoulder kibble, and shark head of his ''Car Robots'' release with an opaque blue of a slightly brighter shade. His instructions show an awkward "attack mode" variant to his beast mode that pulls out his side-panels along with exposing the missile launchers and opening up the claw on his tail. This can be safely ignored.

:Compared to Cybershark, Gelshark/Sky-Byte is much more stable, as his parts are less likely to pop off.

: [[Sonokong]] also released ''Gelshark'' in [[South Korea|Korean]] markets in a deco similar to that of the Hasbro toy.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Predacon/SkyByte/skybyte.htm More information on Sky-Byte at TFU.info]''
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:Timelinestoy-SkyByteG2Redux.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|This mold's not for [[Wings of Honor|Scourge]]? At the time we were confused. Now we understand.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Generation 2: Redux''' (Multi-pack, 2010)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Moore]] (concept artist)}}<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Skybyte was actually one of the first two things I ever proposed to the Club, I believe in 2005 right around the con time before I was asked to help out. It took 5 years, but he eventually got made. There were some changes between concept and release.|link=https://twitter.com/Joe_Toyark/status/1370248257180471302|site=Twitter|name=Joe Moore|year=2021|month=03|day=11}}</ref>

:''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Sky-Byte is a [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' Combat Class [[Sharkticon (Energon)#Toys|Sharkticon]] with a new head, transforming into a Cybertronic submarine/battleship with dimly animalistic styling. His small gun turrets can rotate and elevate their cannon-barrels, plus his side panels can extend outward to reveal spring-loaded missile launchers in both modes. The area where Sharkticon's spark crystal once resided is now considered Sky-Byte's "Tsunami Blaster".

: Sky-Byte is part of the [[BotCon 2010]] boxed set, alongside [[Breakdown (G1)#Timelines|Breakdown]], [[Pyro (G1)#Timelines|Autobot Spark]], [[Streetwise (G1)#Timelines|Streetstar]], and [[Clench (G1)#Timelines|Clench]]. A limited number of unboxed versions of this set, packed in a large plastic bag, were also made available to people who had purchased the boxed version.

: The original version of this mold was also used to make Sky-Byte's fellow BotCon 2010 exclusives, the [[Sharkticon (species)#Timelines|Sharkticons]], as well as ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' [[Axalon (BW)#United 2|Axalon]].

:The identity of Sky-Byte was the subject of the "Who is the Wildcard?" contest held by [[Fun Publications]] on their [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] forums, with ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 2|Megatron]] and [[Breakaway (ROTF)#Revenge of the Fallen|Breakaway]] as prizes to who guessed the character first. Other than the "wildcard" hint, the only other hint given was that the character was "never seen in Generation 2". TCC board member EmeraldBeacon guessed Sky-Byte soon thereafter, ending the contest, but whose among all the guesses that day was the correct guess was not known until the [[BotCon 2010]] brochure went online.

::*''[https://twitter.com/Joe_Toyark/status/1370248257180471302 Designer commentary on ''Timelines'' Sky-Byte from Joe Moore on Twitter]''
::*''[http://tfu.info/2010/Predacon/Sky-Byte/sky-byte.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Sky-Byte at TFU.info]''
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Gen-toy SkyByte.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I'm a shark, I'm a shaaaark...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Sky-Byte''' (Voyager Class, [[2014]])}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number:'' '''02 / 007'''
:*''Accessories'': Missile
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro), [[Tomoya Miyake]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept artist)}}

: Released in the fifth wave of the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]] [[Thrilling 30]]'' Voyager Class toys, Sky-Byte once again transforms into a bio-mechanical shark. He lacks the mouth-based missile launcher of his previous toy, instead having a single spring-loaded missile firing from the center of his (still gear-activated) spinning claw weapon. His [[beast mode]] articulation consists of an opening mouth and a tail that moves up and down. As with many ''Generations'' toys, he has a hexagonal peg-hole on his underside which is compatible with some collector display stands.

: In [[robot mode]] the missile launcher in his claw weapon still functions. Sky-Byte is much less of a [[shellformer]] than his original form, with many parts of his robot mode actually becoming parts of the shark mode, though much of it still piles up on his back. These parts can be arranged in a variety of ways to form a more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] or cleaner robot mode. He also features several design elements from his IDW design, most notably the small wrist-gun detail on his right arm.

:During the Hasbro designers' panel at [[BotCon 2009]], it was stated that if Sky-Byte were to get a toy in the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' line, its bio would be written as a haiku in homage to his love of poetry. The bio on the back of this toy's box has a haiku at the very end.

: This mold was also used to make [[Transformers Cloud|''Cloud'']] [[Hellwarp#Cloud 2|Hellwarp]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Predacon/Sky-Byte/sky-byte.htm More information on ''Generations'' Sky-Byte at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends''===
[[File:takara transformers legends skybyte bothmodes.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|The baddest shark in town deserves the most badass paint-job!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Gelshark (Sky-Byte)''' (ゲルシャーク, [[2014]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''LG06'''
:*''Release date'': [[2014]] [[December 27]]
:*''Accessories'': Missile

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' "Gelshark" is TakaraTomy's version of the ''Generations'' Voyager Class Sky-Byte mold. This version has considerably more paint applications than its Hasbro counterpart to create an overall more show accurate color scheme. It notably includes the two-colored chest, a much darker shade of blue, and less use of white. Some of the yellow plastic on the Hasbro version has also been replaced with dark blue.

: He comes with the [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 6|''Legends'' "Bonus Edition Volume 6"]] mini-comic.

::*''[http://www.transformers-universe.com/i.php?ID=5608 More information on Gelshark at Transformers-Universe.com]''
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===''Age of the Primes''===
[[File:TF-Age of the Primes-Sky-Byte.jpg|right|thumb|300px|I am going in- -to the big wetness, smooth li- -ons are eating me]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Sky-Byte''' (Voyager Class, [[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Sky-Byte (RID 2001 Universe)''' (スカイバイト (RID 2001ユニバース))
:*''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''AOTP-15'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2025]] [[October 25]]
:*''Accessories'': Twin missile launcher, left & right fin-blades
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viJopRdWtZA ''Transformers'' panel] at [[Megacon Orlando#2025|Megacon Orlando 2025]] with [[Emily Bader]] and [[Evan Brooks]], recorded at the "V-man" YouTube channel.</ref>

: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' Voyagers, Sky-Byte is an updated version of his original toy, designed to give the shark mode about as much posability as you could reasonably expect a shark mode to have. No longer sculpted with a permanent sideways curve in his back end, he now has a posable tail, moving jaw, and even an articulated "neck" so he can look down. With the shark body no longer sculpted in a curve, the robot mode's shoulder pads are now more symmetrical and flat than prior releases, getting in the way of his arms far less.

: He comes with a non-firing version of the original toy's twin missile launcher, which can store in the shark-mode mouth as before. His pectoral fins can also detach to be blade-weapons in robot mode. Sky-Byte's shoulderpads and pectoral fins are detached in package and require user assembly; notably, the latter are attached to sprues.

: Oddly, the opaque dome in Sky-Byte's chest has a Predacon symbol carved in the rear, which is only visible if disassembled; perhaps at one point the intent was to give him a clear [[spark crystal]] like the original toy.

:*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/DF38_aSsm0S/ Designer commentary on ''Age of the Primes'' Sky-Byte from Mark Maher on Instagram]''
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==Merchandise==
===KT Figure Collection===
[[File:AI PVC.jpg|thumb|If you bought this... we have some bad news.]]

*'''Ai-chan''' (アイちゃん, [[2004]])
{{toydesigner|[[Yuki Ohshima]]}}

: This figurine was produced by [[KT Figure Collection]], and included in a set of four others. It is notable in that not only is this the only non-[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] PVC in the entire set, but [[T-AI|Ai-chan]] is portrayed bathing in a hot spring, and is thus completely nude, aside from her hat. A [[super deformed]] [[Optimus Prime (RID)#Merchandise|Super Fire Convoy]] is seen peeking over the side, and a miniature Sky-Byte bath toy is in Ai-chan's hands.
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===''Tiny Titans''===
[[File:TinyTitans-Series6-Sky-Byte.jpg|right|thumb|I am small and blue. I cannot transform at all. Curse you, Autobots!]]
*'''Sky-Byte''' (Tiny Titans, 2016)
**''Series'': '''6'''
**''Number'': '''2/12'''

: Part of the sixth [[Blindpacking|blind-bagged]] assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'', this small, soft-plastic figurine of Sky-Byte is based on his original ''Robots in Disguise'' toy.

: He comes with a trading card, which renders him in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' series]] style. This card also has a scan-badge for the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], which unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item.
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==Notes==
[[File:BotCon-2010-Sky-Byte-profile art.jpg|thumb|right|200px|(BotCon 2010 ''Wings Universe'' profile art)]]
*Sky-Byte's Japanese name, "Gelshark" (ゲルシャーク), is pronounced with a hard G (as in "[[Megatron (RID)|Gigatron]]") rather than a soft one (as in "gelatin"). The name is ultimately derived from [[Wikia:kamenrider:Gel Shocker|Gel-Shocker]] (ゲルショッカー) from ''{{w|Kamen Rider (1971 TV series)|Kamen Rider}}''.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://tieba.baidu.com/p/9323408427?pn=5###|quote=Cr角色Gelshark的名字来源于假面骑士的盖尔修卡（gelshocker）|name=默默的钢丝|year=2024|site=Baidu|month=12|day=11}}</ref> Gelshark loosely shares the famous blue-and-yellow colors of the [[Wikia:kamenrider:Gel Shocker Combatmen|Gel-Shocker henchmen]]. ("Gel(dam)" has no meaning beyond "it sounds cool".)<ref>{{citesocial|name=阿部征司|site=『仮面ライダー1971-1984』|title=新組織の出現|year=2014|month=11|day=24}}</ref>
*Kreon Sky-Byte uses [[Sharkticon (species)#Kre-O|Sharkticon]] parts, alongside what looks to be some kind of backpack assembly and whatever it is that's plugged into his left wrist socket. It looks like one of the claw pieces like Scorponok uses, but smaller. Who knows for sure?

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Gelshark''' (ゲルシャーク ''Gerushāku''), '''Sky-Byte''' (スカイバイト ''Sukaibaito'')
*''Korean:'' '''Gelshark''' (게르샥 ''Gereusyak'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Tiān Shā''' (China, 天鲨, "Sky Shark")
*''Russian:'' '''Zubastik''' (Зубастик, "Toothy")

==See also==
{{OtherVersions
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|disambig=Sky-Byte (disambiguation)
|body=
*[[Sky-Byte (Animated)|Sky-Byte]], the fearsome Decepticon poet from [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|''Animated'']].
*[[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]], the Decepticon shark from ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]''.}}

==References==
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[[Category:Age of the Primes Decepticons]]
[[Category:Age of the Primes Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:BotCon exclusives]]
[[Category:Car Robots Predacons]]
[[Category:Entertainers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 2 characters]]
[[Category:Generations]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Decepticons]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legends Predacons]]
[[Category:Poets]]
[[Category:Quintessons]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2001) Predacons]]
[[Category:Sharkticons]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game Predacons]]
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Catgut

2025-05-19T00:52:26Z

Cadet Songbird:

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:''Catgut is a [[Decepticon]] [[Action Master partner]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Catgut.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|And inside the sound chamber we place a live baby kitten.]]
The [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]] partner to the Decepticon sharpshooter [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]], '''Catgut''' happily follows along, enjoying the chance to kill as many Autobots as possible, be it with fusion-powered [[Particle blaster|particle blasts]] or his razor-sharp claws and fangs.
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==Fiction==
===INSIRT continuity===
[[File:Timeless-Treadshot.jpg|thumb|upright=.66|Yay, I'm appearing in something!]]
Catgut and [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] were hired as backup, guard and general muscle by the Autobots [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]], who were seeking the secrets of the Decepticons' [[Vestigial Cortical Complex]]. {{storylink|Timeless}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|''Transformers'' #19]]}}

Catgut survived the wreck of the ''[[Iron Hope (G1)|Iron Hope]]'', being forced to survive on [[Nucleon (substance)|nucleon]] in the aftermath and ending up locked in his quadruped mode as a result. He and his partner [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] were assigned to kill [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] in the aftermath of the [[Tether]] falling. They almost succeeded but Bumblebee was rescued by [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] before they could finish the job. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}}

[[File:RiseOfTheDecepticonsAllFallDown TreadshotCatgut.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|]]

With one of his optics having been shattered by Bumblebee, Catgut installed a tiny gun in its place and was among the group of Decepticons that seized the [[Titan Net]] central hub by force. He exchanged some threatening words with [[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] during the takeover. {{storylink|War World: Hunt|Hunt}} Catgut remained on guard in the Titan Net hub while [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]], [[Bitstream (G1)|Bitstream]], and [[Sparkstalker]] tried to reestablish control. {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}}

Catgut and Treadshot were seen relaxing at the reopened [[Swindle's]] after the Decepticons claimed full control of Iacon. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}}When a group of Autobots infiltrated Iacon to rescue the captured [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], Catgut was among the Decepticons who cornered them inside Swindle's. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} In the ensuing battle, Catgut singled out Bumblebee for a rematch, but got his new blaster-eye torn out by the spy. Being carried out of the place by Treadshot in the aftermath, Catgut mused he'd need a bigger blaster next time. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}{{gamestub}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1Treadshot toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Can't... fight! Gun... too HEAVY! Also incorrect!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Treadshot with Catgut''' (Action Master, [[1990]])}}</ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Part of the first assortment of individually-carded [[Action Master]]s, released in the seventh and final year of ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'' in the US, Catgut transforms from a black and orange mechanical panther into a "[[particle blaster]]" cannon that any Action Master figure can hold. He also has two post-holes on his flanks that allow him to carry two normal Action Master rifles.

: He was only available packed in with his larger partner [[Treadshot (G1)#Toys|Treadshot]]. In an enormously strange twist, Treadshot's [[instructions]] depict a different [[weapon]] than the one the toy actually comes with—specifically, a weapon that wasn't available with ''any'' Action Master, the handgun from the never-released-as-a-Transformer ''[[Diaclone]]'' Jet-Heli triplechanger (much later known as [[Fumes]], [[Skyklik]], and [[Rotorbolt (Timelines)|Rotorbolt]]). The weapon that ''was'' included with Treadshot, meanwhile, is depicted in ''[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Soundwave's]]'' instructions, which resulted in quite a few mix-ups on toy information websites and in identification guides (including the [[Transformers Generations (guidebook)|''Transformers Generations'' guidebook]] and, unfortunately, the photo to the right).

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1990/Decepticon/Catgut/catgut.htm More information on Catgut at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/instructions/decepticon/action_masters/instr_treadshot.jpg Instructions for Catgut (with Treadshot) at Botchthecrab.com]''
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:Timelinestoy-Catgut.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|He transforms into maybe this, why not.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Treadshot''' (Deluxe, [[2014]])}}</ul>
:*''TFSS2 number'': '''4'''

: A [[redeco]] of the ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Arms Micron]] [[Jida#Toys|Jida]], ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Catgut is a robotic feline that transforms into whatever you can manage, as there are no instructions for him. As he is an Arms Micron mold, he has multiple [[5 mm post]]s and holes, allowing him to be combined with other Arms Microns and accessories to make bigger and more ridiculous weapons.

: He was only available with his larger Deluxe-sized partner [[Treadshot (G1)#Timelines|Treadshot]] as part of the [[exclusive]] 2014 Club [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service#Series 2.0|Figure Subscription Service]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/TFSSCatgut/catgut.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Catgut at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
* The [[Action Master]] partner robots were given the "[[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]" classification [[Retcon|retroactively]] by [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' profile series.
* According to TFSS Treadshot's profile card, Catgut's two modes are a [[Prysmos]]ian cheetah and a particle blaster.
* The ''Earth Wars'' incarnation of Catgut shares a model with [[Lionizer (G1)|Lionizer]], based on the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' toy.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Catgut''' (キャットガット ''Kyattogatto'')
*''French:'' '''Entrailles''' (Canada, "Entrails")
*''Italian:'' '''Pantera''' ("Panther")

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Energon

2025-03-19T15:04:25Z

Cadet Songbird: /* Aligned */

{{disambig3|Energon}}
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[[File:EnergonCubesCartoon1.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Taste the not-so-rainbow-but-shiny-pink]]
'''Energon''' (sometimes spelled with a capital letter, sometimes not<ref>Original Sunbow documentation from the production of the Generation 1 cartoon series (as seen on the [[Metrodome]] DVD collections, among other places) alternates between spelling the fuel's name with an upper- and a lower-case "e", with the lower-case option appearing more frequently—a standard reflected in other contemporary media such as the [[Action Cards]], and even publications as recent as the [[Transformers Timelines (fiction)|''Timelines'' stories]] written by [[Greg Sepelak]] and [[Trent Troop]]. Only in recent years, beginning in force around the time of the ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' franchise, has the upper-case "Energon" become more pervasive, with perhaps the earliest example being its intermittent use in ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' [[instructions]] sheets (in reference to the line's [[rubsign]]s, which would alternately be called "Energon Chips", "Energon chips" and "energon chips"). Most recently, the novel ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' and the ''Timelines'' stories by [[Jesse Wittenrich]] have used the capital-E spelling. This article opts to use the original lower-case as the default, using the upper-case for continuities where it has been explicitly spelled that way.</ref>) is the preferred fuel of the [[Transformer]] race. It takes many forms, including ore, crystal, gas, and raw energy, but it is most commonly used by Transformers in its liquid state, which is stored in many different mediums, most famously the [[energon cube]]. It is ubiquitous in [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] culture; in addition to being the Transformers' primary "foodstuff", it also serves as the default power source for their machines and weapons, and is even used as a currency, a catch-all fuel of life, technology, war and commerce on Cybertron and beyond. This widespread use also comes in defiance of its extreme volatility: energon is prone to detonating explosively if mishandled, and is even used as ammunition in order to exploit this attribute.

True energon is an emanation of [[Primus]], the creator-god of the Transformers, and is, in its most [[Rarified Energon|rarefied state]], the basic building block of Transformers' [[living metal|bodies]] and [[spark]]s. A highly coveted substance, it is sometimes capable of inducing remarkable transformations in Cybertronians, [[spontaneous recoloration|reshaping and otherwise altering]] their bodies while imbuing great strength and other powers, either temporary or permanent depending on the duration or strength of exposure. True energon is, however, extremely rare: in most [[universal stream]]s, the Transformers' long [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|war]] has left Cybertron drained of all but the smallest fraction of the substance, and although it ''has'' been known to exist on a small sampling of other planets throughout the [[multiverse]] (usually [[Earth]]), its paucity leaves the Transformers usually subsisting on artificially-generated substitutes created from other local energy sources.

{{bigquote|They're all after this stuff called Energon, which is kinda like food and gas and blood and electricity all mixed into one.|[[Raf Esquivel]]|[[Raf's Notes]]}}

==Conceptual history==
[[File:Energon cube design evolution.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Layered, iridescent cubes alternated their screentime with non-layered ones before being supplanted entirely by purple ones.]]
[[File:Raw energon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The raw form of natural energon has taken several different forms in different continuities, including crystals and ore.]]

[[Energon cube]]s were introduced in the [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1|first episode]] of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon series]] as a kind of fuel storage medium used by the [[Decepticon]]s, which converted any energy source placed within them into a concentrated liquid form. As of "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3]]," the show then began using the term "energon" to refer to the liquid energy itself. The cubes were initially depicted as being stacked high and filled with the energy in question, then compressed, taking on a layered appearance and an iridescent rainbow coloration, but even within the original mini-series, they also appeared as solid cubes without the layered effect. Immediately following the mini-series, in "[[Transport to Oblivion (episode)|Transport to Oblivion]]", the stacking-and-compressing idea was omitted, and the cubes were instead colored a solid glowing purple-pink. This was the only time the cubes were depicted this way in season one; otherwise, they remained rainbow-hued and alternated between layered and non-layered for the remainder of the season and the early portion of season two, until the purple-pink cubes reappeared in "[[Atlantis, Arise!]]", and became the standard depiction of energon for the remainder of the cartoon, and the default coloration for energon in much future media.

Energon was, at first, treated as an invention of the Decepticons, which only they used; [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] had never heard of it in the pilot episode, while "[[Attack of the Autobots (episode)|Attack of the Autobots]]" presented the Autobots as using [[recharging chamber]]s to re-energize, and "[[Traitor (episode)|Traitor]]" included a scene of [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] puzzling over where [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] would have acquired energon cubes from. Towards the end of the second season, however, this idea was abandoned; energon was shown to be in use by the Autobots (with flashbacks even showing it in use on Cybertron millions of years ago), and also by alien species elsewhere in the galaxy, and the idea that it was, or had ''ever'' been, a Decepticon invention was retconned away and forgotten.

The [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Generation 1 comic]] treated energon much like the cartoon did, depicting it as cubes produced by the processing of other energy sources, used by both Autobots and Decepticons. The first piece of fiction to re-examine energon was, surprisingly, the 1987 comic ''[[Transformers in 3-D]]'' by [[Blackthorne Publishing]]. The first issue of the series, "[[The Test (issue)|The Test]]", was the first story to explicitly present energon as something other than an artificially-generated fuel, establishing that it also existed as a unique natural element. Through pleasant coincidence, the idea of natural energon returned and gained widespread acknowledgement in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon in 1996, where it was depicted as a highly unstable, naturally-occurring [[energon crystal|crystalline mineral]] that emitted dangerous radiation.

Japanese ''Beast Wars'' spin-off shows ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'', ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'', and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Car Robots]]'' depicted energon as possessing more strange and fantastical powers, able to power up Transformers into new forms. These abilities were also seen in ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Transformers: Energon]]'', which was the first series to depict energon as the creation of [[Primus]], and presented it as not just as a fuel, but as the mystical source of life itself, its energy able to bring life to stars and planets. This idea would in turn be reflected in the 2007 [[Transformers (film)|live-action movie]], in which the planet Cybertron and the Transformer race had both been created through the power of the [[AllSpark]]. Though the energy of the AllSpark was not explicitly called energon in the film itself, the film's [[Transformers The Game|video game adaptation]] identified it as such; after all, the relic had been called "The Energon Cube" during the development of the film! The same year, the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|Hasbro Transformers Collectors Club]] magazine story "[[Crossing Over]]" introduced [[Rarified Energon]], revealing that it is actually the base substance from which Transformers were ''created'' at the molecular level.

All these scattered ideas were united and reiterated in the [[Aligned continuity family]], most notably in ''[[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]'', cementing the current modern understanding of energon as summarized in the lede of this article. Now, for specifics on energon in all of this various fiction, read on.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
:''For further information, see: [[Energon cube]], [[energon-axe]], [[energon mace]], [[energon chain]]s, [[Energon Transfer Machine]], [[energon convertor]], [[energon pump]], [[energon bar]], [[energon goodie]], [[energon infuser]]''
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[File:Mtmte1 prepare the energon cubes.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Soundwave tests out a 'tapedeck enhancement' pill. Ahem.]]
The history of energon in this universe is confusing at best. It appears to have been in use on Cybertron in the distant past: the inhabitants of the colony world of [[Paradron]] were aware of it in the year 2006, despite fleeing Cybertron during [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|civil wars]] millions of years beforehand, {{storylink|Fight or Flee (episode)|Fight or Flee}} and nine million years ago, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Orion Pax]] and his [[Autobot]] dockworker companions were seen loading and transporting what very much appeared to be energon cubes as part of their daily routine. {{storylink|War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn}} These accounts, then, seem to stand in complete contradiction to the Autobots subsequent apparent ignorance and disuse of the fuel during their early years on Earth and the Decepticons' monopolization of it—but this would not be only time that Transformers were shown to have poor memories of their personal histories.<ref>Optimus Prime and [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] completely forgot that Alpha Trion was their creator, for instance.</ref>

Over 1984 and 1985, energon cubes were solely seen being used by the Decepticons. The cubes were a self-sustaining forcefield framework with no internal mechanisms, which was capable of converting virtually any form of energy that entered it into liquid energon. The empty cubes initially had to be generated by [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]], {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} but other Decepticons eventually gained the ability to manifest them. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The Autobots' lack of knowledge about energon was displayed almost immediately after Transformers awoke on [[Earth]] in 1984; upon learning of Megatron's plan to convert Earthly resources into the fuel, Hound could only report back to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] that the villains were intending to create "some kind of cube". {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} Indeed, even [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] showed a lack of familiarity with the cubes, driven as he was to test them so he could make sure they worked. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}

[[File:TransporttoOblivion fillingcubes.jpg|225px|thumb|Filling up the tanks... err... I mean cubes...]]
The Decepticons created energon from a massive amount of varied resources during their time on earth, ranging from conventional electricity, oil and geothermal to more esoteric, extra-dimensional sources like [[antimatter]]. The exact nature of the conversion process was never detailed, but usually simply involved taking an empty energon cube and attaching it to, or placing it next to, the energy source to be drained. The cube itself then carried out the conversion, processing the energy into liquid energon that filled the cube. Sometimes, the process required an [[Energon Transfer Machine]]. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} Energon was occasionally influenced by the source materials used to create it, sometimes taking on its properties: Cubes created with anti-matter, for instance, reacted violently due to prolonged exposure to normal matter {{storylink|Roll for It}} while the especially pure oil of [[Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya|Carbombya]] yielded a particularly potent "super-energon" that "smelled" different (according to [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]) and created an instantly perceptible increase in vigor and strength in those who consumed it. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}} In addition to powering them personally, the Decepticons occasionally used energon for even more nefarious means; Megatron's arsenal included an [[energon mace]], {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} and the Decepticons once forged [[energon chain]]s to bind the Autobots with. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

[[File:Gamblersmokescreenbets.jpg|left|thumb|225px|"Wait a minute." "What?" "Well, we're supposed to haggle."]]

Energon was first seen being used as a currency in the form of chips—by non-Cybertronians, no less—in the den of iniquity known as [[Sheol]], on the asteroid of [[Monacus]], where the Decepticons were running a protection racket, forcing local crime boss [[Gyconi|Lord Gyconi]] to pay them a cut of his profits. This dank place was also home to the first documented instance of Autobots running on energon, when Gyconi powered up a group of Autobots he had captured with an unstable brew that quickly depleted and left them defenseless during pit fights. {{storylink|The Gambler}}

Other than this forced instance, the Autobots refrained from using energon during their first year on Earth: [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] was heard to balk at the notion of Mirage having energon cubes, {{storylink|Traitor (episode)|Traitor}} while the Autobots used [[recharging chamber]]s to re-energize themselves, rather than drinking energon. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots (episode)|Attack of the Autobots}} Evidently, however, they began experimenting and using energon some time in 1985; when describing his physiology to the [[Tlalakan (species)|Tlalakan]] [[Alana]], [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] noted that he had an [[energon pump]] inside him, {{storylink|Sea Change}} and when they captured the Stunticons, the Autobots used [[energon bar]]s to imprison them. {{storylink|Masquerade}} By the year 2005, they had fully embraced energon as their own fuel, and began creating and storing it at Autobot City on Earth, using it to power their attempt to retake Cybertron after the planet fell entirely into Decepticon hands. The Autobots followed the Decepticons' lead in their use of energon cubes, but also created the bite-sized "[[energon goodie]]". {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}} By 2006, use of energon had become widespread enough in the galaxy that it was on the menu at a neutral alien space station visited by [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] and [[Octane]], although their energon was served in the unique form of small orange wedges. {{storylink|Starscream's Ghost}}

[[File:Microbots overenergizing.jpg|thumb|275px|"''Red solo cup....I fill you up.....Let's have a partyyyyyyyyyy....''"]]

Liquid energon is measured in [[astroliter]]s. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} Transformers consume energon in the same manner as [[human]]s eat or drink: by simply putting it in their open mouths. The liquid can be drunk from a whole cube, leaving the empty framework behind, {{storylink|Microbots}} but the framework itself is obviously safe to "eat" as well, as Transformers have also been seen biting into cubes, breaking pieces off to chew on, and in the case of particularly large individuals, eating them whole. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}}. Notably, breaking a chunk off a cube does not damage the structural integrity of either the cube or the removed piece; evidently, the forcefield resolves itself around the broken area to prevent spillage of the precious contents. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3}} Once consumed, energon is passed through an [[energon convertor]] within the Transformer's systems. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} Excessive consumption of energon results in "over-energizing", a state of inebriation accompanied by all the singing, burbling and reminiscing that you might expect. {{storylink|Microbots}} In emergency cases, a shot of energon can be injected directly into a Transformer's system with an [[energon infuser]]. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}}

{{note|Later media has classified the energy axe Optimus Prime wields in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]" as an "[[energon-axe]]", but this is something of a misnomer as far as cartoon continuity goes, as the only time he was seen to use the axe in this continuity was when the Autobots were not supposedly ''using'' energon.}}
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=====Japanese cartoon continuity=====
:''For further information, see: [[energon wine]], [[Energon Z]], [[joint energon]]''
[[File:Sixshot energon.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|When Sixshot is on the road, he carries his liquid energon in a Transformers lunchbox.]]
By the year 2011, Earth had also embraced the potential that energon held to solve its own energy crisis. Earth's ambassador to Cybertron, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], worked closely with the Autobots and teams of human scientists to develop new sources of energon, which was closely stockpiled, guarded, and rationed between Cybertron, Earth and the Autobots' secondary headquarters on the planet [[Athenia]]. [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] had little tolerance for [[energon wine]], over-energizing after a single glass, {{storylink|The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok}} while Spike viewed the energon as so important that when the energy-starved planet [[Sandra (planet)|Sandra]] sent a request for aid, he had to crunch the numbers to see if it was viable to share any! {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}}

The Decepticons also continued energon production, spreading their reach to more and more planets, raiding the worlds of [[Hive (planet)|Hive]], {{storylink|Fight to the Death on Planet Hive!!}} [[Twin Star]], {{storylink|Battle for Defense of the False Planet}} [[Daros]], {{storylink|Find MegaZarak's Weak Spot!!}} [[Paradise]] {{storylink|Head Formation of Friendship}} and the [[Pirate Planet]] {{storylink|Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship}} as part of a master plan by [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] to accumulate a huge quantity of the fuel, which he would then use to help him integrate the very Earth into his body. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}}

[[File:EnergonZ.jpg|thumb|I love... lava lamp.]]
Galvatron's rival for leadership, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], did not place nearly as much significance on energon, instead experimenting with the deadly [[plasma energy]] to achieve his goals. He still drank it, though, and being an evil mastermind, he did enjoy swishing it around in a snifter, because he was classy like that. {{storylink|The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok}} [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] also enjoyed taking his energon in a glass, and was less prone to crushing them in fits of melodramatic rage than Scorponok was. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}} Some time before 2021, the Autobots developed a form of energon known as [[joint energon]], which could be used to turn Transformers into [[combiner]]s. {{storylink|Megatronia Chapter}}

Energon fell out of focus after Scorponok's Decepticons were forced off Earth; the forces of [[Devil Z]] who terrorized the planet a few years later were not interested in gathering energy, {{storylink|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce}} while [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]'s campaign against Earth in 2025 targeted a wide array of different energy types, not bothering with the energon conversion process. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (franchise)|Victory}} The Autobots did continue to experiment with the fuel on the planet [[Micro]], however, and developed an even more potent version known as "[[Energon Z]]", which became a target for [[Violengiguar]] and his [[Nine Great Demon Generals]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Zone (franchise)|Zone}}

=====''Wings Universe''=====
Aiming for a big score, [[Cannonball (G1)|Cannonball]] the 5th's [[Star Seeker]]s [[time travel]]led to [[2984]] and seized [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]'s severed head to try and drain the now peaceful Cybertron of its energon. Though they weren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed, their plan might have succeeded had the recent [[Great Transformation]] meant that the now [[technorganic]] planet no longer ran on pure energon. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}
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====Marvel Comics continuity====
:''For further information, see: [[Transformer fuel]], [[Energon Stick]]''
[[File:Energoncubesrockandrollout.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb]]
[[File:FinalBattle-energonsticks.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb|Stick, cube, whatever!]]
Although energon was not mentioned by name until the Transformers had been on Earth for a while, it ''was'' quickly established that Earthly fuels were incompatible with Cybertronian systems and needed to undergo ''some'' kind of conversion process before they were consumable. {{storylink|Power Play!}} This [[Transformer fuel]] was the subject of several struggles between the Autobots and Decepticons, and was also shown to be intrinsic to several important cultural ceremonies like the [[Rite of Oneness]] and the [[Rite of the Autobrand]]. {{storylink|Warrior School!}} {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

Energon made its first named appearance with the debut of a [[power siphon]] invented by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], which was capable of converting multiple energy sources into energon cubes. After testing it out on oil from a captured [[Blackrock Enterprises]] offshore [[oil-drilling platform]], the villains then took it to a [[Brick Springstern]] concert and used it to make cubes from the raucous sonic energy of the singer's performance. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

The Autobots also went on to make smart use of energon: [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] invented a [[Geothermal Generator]] to transform the [[Earth]]'s underground heat into energon cubes, successfully producing so many that the Autobots were able to power the entire [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and get the ship airborne again. {{storylink|Used Autobots}} They were also seen using a [[:File:Marvel52 concentratedenergoncubes.jpg|concentrated form of energon]], green in color and much smaller and less-explosive than normal cubes, which was employed as currency when dealing with alien races. {{storylink|Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner?}}

[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] complained to himself about an energon shortage on Earth and planned to use [[Dynamo|Hector Dialonzo]] as some kind of super-[[Powermaster]]. {{storylink|The Human Factor!}}

In an alternate future timeline, when the Autobots were stranded on the [[Junkion (planet)|Planet of Junk]], [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] tried making peace with the native [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] using the [[universal greeting]] and the offering of [[Energon Stick|energon sticks]]. Junkion leader [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] was most enthralled by the "tasty sticks". {{storylink|The Final Battle!}}

{{note|Energon sticks were called for by the script of ''The Transformers: The Movie'', but were replaced in the finished film by energon goodies. The sticks appear in the comic book adaptation of the film (albeit ''called'' "energon cubes", even though they are not drawn as such), as well as other works based on the script like the [[Sticker Adventures]] book, ''[[Battle on the Junk Planet]]''.}}

In a different alternate future, [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] conquered the western hemisphere of Earth and planned on allowing the [[European Crisis Coalition]] to [[Nuclear weapon|nuke]] [[North America|North]] and [[South America]] to smithereens. He would have hid behind the shield generated at the East Coast [[Decepticon Powerbase]] while various powerbases converted the resulting radiation into energon. It didn't work out that way. {{storylink|Rhythms of Darkness!}}

====''Transformers in 3D''====
[[File:Energon molecule.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Energon is alien poop? We guess Primus works in mysterious ways...]]
This universe is home to the first documented appearance of the true element of energon. The conversion process for transforming the element into a consumable form involves combining it with various other molecules, resulting in what is termed "pure energon". While not discussed explicitly, this would imply the existence of an "impure" energon that can be manufactured without use of the element.

True energon was evidently rare enough that its discovery was cause for immediate action, as evidenced when both the Autobots and Decepticons mobilized with haste to investigate a potential source of it on a barren asteroid far from Cybertron. Puzzlingly, their quest led to some [[little informant|small, organic alien creatures]], and each faction took one back to their base for study. It was [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], studying the creatures' biological processes, who realized that their ''excrement'' was true energon! Before anything could be done with this information, however, a battle broke out between the two factions, and the two aliens wandered off, revealed to actually be supremely intelligent lifeforms who had been employed to spy on the Transformers by the [[Quintesson]]s! {{storylink|The Test (issue)|The Test}}{{-}}

====European toy bio continuity====
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{{see|Energon figure}}

The many deadly functions of the dimension-traversing [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]'s body were controlled by "[[Energon figure]]s", small humanoid forms that could transform into engines and connect to his body. To stop this monolithic horror, the Autobots stole and duplicated the technology, providing the trio known as the [[Motorvator]]s with Energon Figures that gave them new powers: [[Flame (Motorvator)|Flame]]'s Energon Figure had an analytical compu-unit that gave him enhanced problem solving abilities, [[Gripper (G1)|Gripper]]'s provided the dual functions of wide-sweep radar and sonic scanner, while [[Lightspeed (Motorvator)|Lightspeed]]'s was equipped with micro lens photo-record equipment.<ref>Overlord, Gripper, Flame, and Lightspeed's [[bio]]s and packaging blurbs.</ref>

====Beast Era====
=====''Beast Wars'' cartoon=====
:''For further information, see: [[Energon crystal]], [[energon radiation]], [[energon discharge virus]], [[energon storm]], [[energon armor]], [[furmanite|anti-energon]]''
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Following the information on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] to prehistoric Earth, the teams of [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] under the command of [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] discovered the planet to be teeming with natural crystalline energon. In fact, the element was in such abundance that it had blanketed the planet with an all-encompassing field of [[energon radiation]], which threatened to overload the Transformers' unprotected bodies and send them into [[stasis lock]]. As the organic creatures of the planet were unaffected by the radiation, the Maximals and Predacons adopted [[beast mode]]s with organic skins in order to shield themselves from its harmful effects, able only to transform into [[robot mode]] outside of their shielded headquarters for comparatively short periods of time before the energon build-up in their systems became dangerous. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}} Manipulation of the crystals was a particularly challenging task, given their explosive instability; among the Predacons, only [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] had the skill to carve them up safely. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}} If a significant mass of crystals exploded, the radiation could interact with the local atmosphere and induce an [[energon storm]] that would see energon lance from the sky as lightning. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} While it was experimented with, used to power various machines and even weaponized on occasion, neither the Maximals nor the Predacons were ever seen actually ''consuming'' any energon during their [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] on Earth, but it certainly did run through their bodies, as demonstrated rather violently when [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] was infected with an [[energon discharge virus]] that left him sneezing and...''otherwise'' shooting energon out of his body. {{storylink|The Low Road}}
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By all accounts, the existence of natural energon on a planet other than Cybertron was not uncommon in this universe, but it was eventually revealed that the energon was not there naturally: Earth had been ''seeded'' with the crystals by the mysterious aliens known as the [[Vok]].<ref>''Beast Wars'' writer [[Larry DiTillio]] envisioned the Vok as placing the energon on Earth for future generations of humanity to find and use as a clean energy source.</ref> Viewing the intrusion of the Transformers onto the planet as a disruption to enigmatic experiments they were conducting on Earth, the Vok attempted to "sterilize" their work-surface by activating their orbital [[Planet Buster]] weapon, and blasting the planet with its energy beam. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}} This beam caused most of the planet's energon crystals to explode before it was destroyed by Optimus Primal, but a not-insubstantial portion of them remained, some of which were transformed into a more stable form referred to as "energon cubes". {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}} These rarely-seen "natural" cubes are different to the artificial energon cubes seen in other universes; they remain composed of crystal, but are much safer to handle and to generally be around, unless they are cracked, at which point the radiation locked within them will be violently released. {{storylink|Tangled Web}}
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=====Japanese cartoon continuity=====
{{see|Energon Matrix}}
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At some point over the three centuries that followed the end of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], a new energon-powered device was created: the [[Energon Matrix]]. Sculpted in the likeness of the legendary [[Matrix of Leadership]], these objects of power were given to [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]-ranked [[Maximal]]s, and were capable of supplying huge boosts of energon to their wielders in moments of desperate need, which could be further magnified if more than one Energon Matrix was used together. These power boosts could massively enhance the wielder's physical attributes, usually accompanied by [[spontaneous recoloration]], such as when Optimus Primal and Lio Convoy used theirs to become the super-strong "Burning Optimus Primal" and super-fast "Flash Lio Convoy", {{storylink|Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!}} or be released as mighty energy blasts, as when [[Big Convoy]] combined his with his [[Big Cannon]] to create a weapon powerful enough to obliterate [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} The Matrices may also have some connection to [[Vector Sigma]], the mega-computer at the heart of Cybertron, since it was able to communicate through Big Convoy's Matrix, making him say what it wanted. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

When Optimus Primal and Lio Convoy were caught up in the dimensional fissure known as the [[Blastizone]], they found themselves teleported from their respective time periods to Earth circa 2004. Here, they teamed up with Optimus Prime, and their Energon Matrices apparently unlocked the power of an Energon Matrix within Prime himself, as he was soon using his in tandem with theirs to create shatteringly powerful attacks like the "Double Convoy Tornado" {{storylink|Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!}} and the "Lio Typhoon Arrow". {{storylink|Lio Convoy Storms In (episode)|Lio Convoy Storms In}}

=====''Beast Wars: Uprising''=====
Eleven million years of civil war had drained virtually all of Cybertron's Energon supply. {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}} So high was the premium on Energon that the vast majority of the surviving Autobots and Decepticons were unable to transform or even move under their power. To save fuel, they reorganized themselves into the [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]] some wiring themselves directly into their planet to save fuel. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}} The Autobot [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] eventually created the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] to serve as the next generation of Cybertronians who were fuel efficient enough to move about freely in spite of the pitiful Energon supply on the planet. {{storylink|Head Games}} Both Maximals and Predacons were victims however to the Builders' spiteful Energon supply chains limiting their freedom. {{storylink|Alone Together}} {{storylink|Head Games}}

The [[Mechanimal]]s were capable of metabolizing their own Energon. Four cycles into the [[Grand Uprising]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] discovered this fact and created the "Beast Upgrade" to allow his people to replicate this ability and thus free them from the Energon supply lines, allowing them a great advantage in the war. {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}} Following the war, Cybertron began healing with its Energon supplies refreshing themselves. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

[[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]] on the other hand boasted a rich Energon supply. As a result, technology and [[Overcharge (G1)|products]] developed on Quintessa consumed high levels of the substance. {{storylink|Burning Bridges}}
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====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
{{see|Energon Pools}}
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{{note|The Dreamwave G1 continuity specifically incorporates the depiction of energon as seen in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.}}
Natural Energon exists in crystalline form both on Cybertron and select other planets throughout the galaxy, with Earth being home to a particularly high concentration of it. Transformers can power themselves off the crystals by using ambient absorption circuits in their body to soak up their energy, but this is always a dicey prospect, given the explosive nature of the mineral. For safety's sake, the crystals are usually processed into a liquid state before they consumed by Transformers, at which point the Energon can be taken orally in [[robot mode]] or loaded directly into the Transformer's fuel tank in [[alternate mode]]. This processed, liquid Energon can also be synthesised from other energy resources—an unfortunate necessity, given the rarity of the natural crystals on Cybertron after the Transformers' war took its toll on the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets The Eye #8}}

Approximately 3.5 million years ago, Cybertron's supply of Energon was completely depleted, and the entire planet and all the Transformers on it were deactivated for a long, pre-programmed period known as the [[Great Shutdown]]. During this time, Cybertron slowly regenerated, and by the time the Transformers came back online around 3000 years ago, Energon was back in supply. With Cybertron restored to peace, the fuel was no longer a scarcity; by 2003, the [[High Council Pavilions]]' [[Energon Pools]] were recharged {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} and the Transformers had even started canning the fuel in [[Kremzeek]]-branded cans, which were enjoyed by [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] in a moment of riverside relaxation {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}} and served at Autobot strategy meetings along with small Energon cubes. {{storylink|Original Sin}}

{{note|A large pool of purple-pink goop was uncovered beneath the surface of the Earth by [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] in "Original Sin", but it was never explained if this was actually energon or not, since Dreamwave went bankrupt and ceased publication before this plot thread could be revisited.}}

=====''The Transformers Trilogy''=====
{{note|Although they are notionally part of the Dreamwave continuity, the depiction of energon in ''[[The Transformers Trilogy]]'' of novels stands in complete contradiction to Dreamwave's writings.}}
Pure energon is a silvery-yellow liquid that exists naturally on certain planets, and is the power source of the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. During a battle with the alien [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] in [[Las Vegas]], a subterranean reservoir of the fuel was discovered beneath the city that was of such size that Optimus Prime claimed he had never seen so much of it in one place before. With an American [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear missile]] streaking towards Vegas in order to eliminate both the Keepers and the Transformers, Prime immersed himself in the energon pool, supercharging the Matrix and suffusing his entire body with the energon's power. With this added power, Prime used the Matrix to contain and redirect the nuclear blast, apparently destroying the Keepers while protecting the rest of the city. {{storylink|Transformers: Annihilation|Annihilation}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
:''For further information, see: [[Regenesis]], [[Ore-13]], [[Innermost energon]], [[Energon synthesizer]]
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In this universe, natural energon is known only to exist on Cybertron, {{storylink|Escalation issue 1|Escalation #1}} and in the pre-war days, [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] was among the workers that mined it. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 1|Megatron Origin #1}} Unfortunately for the Transformers, their war stripped Cybertron of its resources, energon included, precipitating a cataclysm that ultimately rendered the planet sterile and uninhabitable. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}} A similar fate befell many of the lost colony worlds that had splintered off from Cybertron in ancient times; in particular, the planet [[Caminus (planet)#2005 IDW continuity|Caminus]] was so deprived of energon that its people developed lower frequency [[spark]]s and bled blue energon as opposed to pink/purple energon of their ancestors and fellow colonists. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}} {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade #4}} [[Velocitron#2005 IDW continuity|Velocitron]] on the other hand, had such an abundance of solar power that their energon was only used to fuel its citizens as opposed to its widespread usage on other Transformer inhabited planets. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}}

With their homeworld lost to them, the Autobots and Decepticons subsequently scattered across the galaxy, seeking new sources of fuel, subsisting on "artificial energon derivatives" and "foul local brews" {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}} that [[Cliffjumper (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|Cliffjumper]] described as "nowhere near as good as the real thing". {{storylink|Spotlight: Cliffjumper}} Several seemingly dead and empty planetoids contained underground reservoirs of liquid "pseudo-energon", which according to a [[Guardminder]] was about 20-25% as fuel efficient as proper energon. {{storylink|The Hunting Party (IDW)|The Hunting Party}} Scientists on [[Elonia]] discovered a way to synthesize energon in order to fuel [[Stardrive]], leading to their [[energon synthesizer]] becoming a target for the Decepticons. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}}

Millennia beforehand, the Decepticon logician [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] had correctly predicted that Cybertron's resources would eventually dry up, and so formulated the [[Regenesis]] program as a countermeasure to the inevitable energon drought. Distilling energon, he created a series of thirteen ores with which he seeded specially-selected planets—including Earth—where energon would then flourish and grow, so that he could harvest it in the centuries to come. [[File:Infiltration6 starscream on ultraenergon.jpg|thumb|Hepped up on goofballs.]] As Shockwave visited each of the planets, he observed that some ores had failed to take root, and others had mutated and gained bizarre properties over time, life, death and more. On Earth, however, the thirteenth ore had flourished to the point that the planet had begun to undergo geological collapse, generating an atmosphere that was hazardous to Transformer life. Intending to regulate the process with global dampers, Shockwave was stopped by the Dynobots and buried in a volcanic eruption and leaving the ore to mature into an exceptionally powerful energon variant. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

Investigating Shockwave's research, the scheming [[Bludgeon (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|Bludgeon]] learned of the Regenesis program, and travelled to Earth in the 1980s to harvest a sample of the super-powerful energon. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}} Using this "Ultra-Energon", as he termed it, Bludgeon reactivated the monstrous [[Thunderwing (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|Thunderwing]] to facilitate his agenda of conquest. {{storylink|The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer}} Meanwhile, a team of Decepticons led by Starscream independently discovered the existence of Ore-13, and initiated [[infiltration protocol]] to conquer the planet and harvest it. Seeing in Ore-13 the potential power to help him overthrow Megatron, Starscream powered himself up with the energon and staged his own coup. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}} It was the instability of the Ultra-Energon that was the downfall of both Starscream and Thunderwing: although the additional power it provided them was undeniable, it burnt out very quickly, at which point they were left extremely weakened and easily bested.

Natural energon is mined as ore, and undergoes processing into a liquid "resin" form, which can then be metabolized by Cybertronians. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}} There are multiple ways for a Cybertronian to intake energon. Most commonly, it is drunk (often from cube-shaped glasses), {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}} which is how other [[Nightmare Fuel|intoxicating]] [[engex|beverages]] are consumed. {{storylink|Shadowplay_(Conclusion):_An_Intimate_Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}. On pre-war Cybertron, bots also restored their energon levels by using wall-mounted ports they inserted their fingers into. {{storylink|Ironing Out the Details}} When [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] fueled up on [[Ore-13]], he did it via a [[delivery capsule]], a large full body capsule that provided a potent "hit" of concentrated energon. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}} Cybertronians also possess ports on their arms {{storylink|Spotlight: Cliffjumper}}, and chests that can be accessed to take in or donate energon. {{storylink|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}} Energon flows within Transformers' bodies in purple-pink liquid form, which is prone to splattering ''eeeeverywhere'' if the Transformer receives serious injury. {{storylink|The Transformers: Megatron Origin}} {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers}} Energon already circulating within a Cybertronian's body is "active", and for certain transfusions is more desirable than stored energon. {{storylink|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

Following the failed Decepticon invasion of Earth, humans learned to produce yellow-colored energon, but it was a difficult and costly process and the substance could only be stored for a few months before growing unstable, making it nonviable as an alternate energy source. {{storylink|International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"|The Land Ironclads}} [[Skywatch]] ran experiments on energon and used it to power their [[crash suit]]s, which were based on Cybertronian technology. {{storylink|...For All Mankind}} [[North Korea]] was able to produce 7,000 cubic feet of energon per month, which according to Skywatch was enough to power [[Combaticon (G1)|five Transformers]]. {{storylink|International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"|The Land Ironclads}}

After the [[Matrix of Leadership]] had somehow restarted [[Vector Sigma]], {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis|Genesis}} Cybertron was reset to a primordial state causing it to once again become rich with energon. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} After Cybertron had reconnected with Caminus, they brought much needed energon to the colony. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}} Human hero-turned-supervillain [[Joe Colton]] sought to poison Cybertron's energon reserves using the mysterious [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]], thereby killing the planet and all the Transformers, but the alien wizard [[Merklynn]] beat him to the punch, instead using it to convert the energon into a form he could manipulate with his magic. Merklynn used the energon to transform a portion of the planet's underground into the city of [[New Prysmos]]. {{storylink|First Strike issue 6|First Strike #6}} Unbeknownst to Merklynn, his plans had factored into Shockwave's long-term goals. By activating the Talisman, the [[Prysmosian]] had poisoned Cybertron's energon and turned the planet into a poisoned trap for [[Unicron/Generation 1#2005 IDW continuity|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Our Finest}}

The Transformers soon discovered that the mystically transformed energon was unpalatable to them, forcing them to instead rely on a substitute brewed on Earth by humans, which nobody was happy about. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}} Instead they found themselves relying on [[Ore-13]] supplied by Optimus. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 1: Surfeit of Primes|Surfeit of Primes}}

When Unicron finally arrived at Cybertron however, he physically tore the planet in two, never consuming the lethal energon. {{storylink|Road's End}}

=====The Functionist Universe=====
In a timeline where Megatron was never born, the [[Functionist Council]] grew ever more powerful. As the [[Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy]] grew more ubiquitous in society, the higher castes would continue to be given higher grade energon leading to some people, branded as the [[Pretender]]s, to bolt fake [[kibble]] onto themselves for better fuel. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}}

When Cybertron was left stranded in the main universe, [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] made the decision to remove the ''Lost Light''{{'}}s uniquely powerful quantum engines to double the universally displaced planet's energon reserves to both make up for the Council's liberal use of the resource and provide enough fuel to nurture the [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]] [[spark]]s. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}
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====''Henkei! Henkei! Comic BunBun'' manga====
{{see|Energon Cube}}
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This universe's Cybertron gained its supply of energon from the colossal "Energon Cube", a solid mass of energon bigger than a starship. When it was lost to the reaches of space, [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! BunBun manga|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! BunBun manga|Megatron]] each led two small teams in pursuit of it, but they were unable to intercept the Cube before it crash-landed on Earth and shattered into innumerable fragments that were scattered all across the planet. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}} Additionally, the release of energy caused by the cube's shattering endowed a special ability in some newborn babies within range of the impact wave: they became [[Booster]]s, legendary beings able to generate and control energon. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}}

The Autobots and Decepticons hid themselves amongst human society to search for the cube shards and the Boosters. Both sides were able to accumulate substantial portions of energon, but only the Autobots were able to locate any Boosters: first was [[Akira Kihara]], who sadly died using his powers to save Optimus Prime, {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}} and second was [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]]. When they first met Wataru, the Autobots were unaware that he was a Booster, but Optimus Prime soon realized the truth after showing Wataru the chunk of the Energon Cube that they had recovered. [[File:Henkei8 megatron energon bath.jpg|thumb|225px]] When Wataru touched the shard, a wave of energon swept over the Autobots, healing their wounds and offering them a mystic, cross-dimensional vision of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|another time and place]]. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

As a Booster, Wataru was able to aid his Autobot allies by temporarily increasing their strength, healing their injuries, generating protective forcefields and powering up their weapons, as he did when he transformed Optimus Prime's [[energon-axe]] into a sword that the Autobot leader used to grievously wound Megatron. {{storylink|Optimus Prime's Secret}} [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] sought to heal his leader by placing him in a bath of molten energon cubes, but Optimus Prime tracked him down while he was still recovering. Megatron flew into a rage at the sight of Prime, and the energon began reacting to his furious emotions, levitating and whirling around. The maddened Megatron seized one of the cubes and bit deeply into it, triggering an explosive release of power. Consumed by the explosion, Megatron emerged, transformed by the power of energon into [[Galvatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! BunBun manga|Galvatron]]! {{storylink|Creation! The New Emperor of Destruction!!}}

====''Star Trek vs. Transformers''====
When the Autobots and Decepticons awoke on Earth during the 1980s, they immediately engaged in a covert war over the organic world's supply of energon. When the planet descended into [[World War III]], the Autobots left aboard [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] to search for the resource on other worlds, eventually finding a bounty on [[Cygnus Seven]]. Before they could begin mining operations, they were shot down by the Decepticons aboard [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], subsequently crashing and winding up in stasis lock. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}} When the Transformers awoke in the 23rd century, Starscream decided to substitute energon with [[dilithium]] and use the mineral to fuel his conquest of [[Kronos]]. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Four}}

====2019 IDW continuity====
:''For further information, see: [[Winged Moon]], [[energon storage field]], [[energon transmission station]], [[Probat (species)|Probat]]
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Crucial to the day-to-day functioning of Cybertronian infrastructure, energon had been mined from the living fabric of Cybertron since ancient times, {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}} although the substance existed in raw crystalline form elsewhere in the galaxy. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}} During Cybertron's [[Golden Age]], Transformers colonized other worlds for the purposes of harvesting and refining energon, {{storylink|Orion Pax: Free Fall}} processing usable quantities into [[Energon cube|cube]] form. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 1}} {{storylink|Constructicons Rising, Part 2}} The [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s possessed the mutant power to metabolize any matter into energon, {{storylink|Constructicons Rising, Part 2}} and one unusual organic species, the [[Probat (species)|Probat]], could burn their own guano and turn it into a highly refined energon crystal. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 1}}

By the end of the [[War of the Threefold Spark]], the creation of the [[Winged Moon]]—a massive space station that extracted energon from the very fabric of spacetime—rendered the Cybertronian mining industry obsolete, {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}} although colonial refineries on planets like [[Mayalx]] and [[Probat (planet)|Probat]] remained operational. {{storylink|Constructicons Rising, Part 3}} {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 1}} At some point after the war, [[Autobot]] leader [[Nominus Prime]] passed the historic [[Nominus Edict]]. This legislature forbade the harvesting of energon in space sectors controlled by other sentient lifeforms, and mandated that Cybertron maintain a level of energon sufficient to supply all foreseeable needs for at least ten [[Units of time|kilocycles]]. As a result of these stringent demands, the frequency of new [[Reproduction|forgings]] rapidly decreased. This also placed a restriction on both the energon ratios of the average citizen and the number of forgings that were allowed. {{storylink|Orion Pax: Free Fall}} Some individuals like the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s were deliberately kept underfuelled—leaving them perpetually tired and incapable of combination—supposedly for the safety of those around them. {{storylink|Constructicons Rising, Part 1}}

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A network of [[energon transmission station]]s handled the remote transmission of energon beamed down from the Winged Moon, {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} sending it to individual polities where energon engineers safely handled and stored the substance in vast [[energon storage field]]s, in accordance with the terms of the Nominus Edict. By the time of [[Gauge]]'s forging, [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]'s energon yards had stockpiled enough energon to fuel the entirety of Cybertron's population for three to four kilocycles, with twice as much stored in the moon, [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]], and all the sub-stations. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}}

Among other things, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s [[Decepticon|Ascenticon]] faction campaigned for the dissolution of the Nominus Edict, and found support in a large number of citizens dissatisfied with the Autobot-controlled Senate and its strict energon rationing practices. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}} To fuel the terrorist activities of [[The Rise]], [[Enemy (G1)|Enemy]] was sent to install a discreet [[energon siphon]] onto the Winged Moon, which transmitted a portion of the moon's energon into the salvaged refueling chambers stored in their base beneath Iacon's [[Memorial Crater]] via a relay station on [[Vigilem]]'s hull. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}} {{storylink|Wheeljack: Orbital Decay}} In between, they bolstered this by stealing from local energon transmission stations, including the station [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] operated beyond the [[Cybertronian Mountains]]. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} As [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] cracked down on The Rise and their allies, these stations were universally reinforced and fitted with powerful theft-deterrent measures. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}}

The subsequent destruction of the [[Tether]] that connected the Winged Moon to Cybertron caused a severe energon crisis, made worse by the destruction of at least two energon storage yards in Iacon. {{storylink|Arcee/Greenlight: Run}} As a result, Cybertronians began hoarding whatever energon they had, while members of The Rise were forced to find alternate ways to salvage fuel to continue their operations. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}}

Leading a team of engineers, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] managed to save the Winged Moon with a high-pressure energon explosion. {{storylink|Wheeljack: Orbital Decay}} When [[Team Stream]] arrived to help themselves to what was left of the moon, the engineers detonated the majority of the moon's energon reserves. {{storylink|War World: Moon|Moon}}

=====Alternate future=====
In an alternate future where [[Exarchon]] had successfully conquered Cybertron, the majority of the planet's energon was being beamed out into space, a small amount being reserved for Exarchon and his lackies. Deprived of their usual fuel, the small resistance of active Cybertronians got by on [[Nucleon (substance)|nucleon]]. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II|Test Flight II}}

====''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''====
A mysterious group observed a recent crossover between two unrelated universes, and one wondered if it was due to the intersection of [[photon power]] and energon. {{storylink|Mazinger Z versus Transformers}}

====''Transformers vs. the Terminator''====
[[File:EnemyOfMyEnemyPart3-energoncubes.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Y'load sixteen tons, whaddya get...]]
The Decepticons attacked [[Cyberdyne Systems]] for its nuclear reactor, converted its output into energon, and used it to fill energon cubes. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}
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====''My Little Pony/Transformers''====
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Energon was an ingredient in Cybertronian cuisine, such as [[Gauge]]'s favorite [[iron filings|iron filing]] casserole. After arriving in [[Equestria]], [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] attempted to find a way to turn ponies into energon, though [[Pinkie Pie]] and [[Gauge]] defeated him before he could find a way to put this theory into practice. {{storylink|They Eat Ponies, Don't They?}}

[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] attempted to steal [[magic]]al artifacts from the [[Crystal Empire]] to create a more powerful fuel source for him and his troops, but the Decepticons were defeated and sent back to Cybertron without getting their hands on any Equestrian magic. {{storylink|Finale (Friendship in Disguise!)|Finale}}

====''Transformers/Back to the Future''====
In a timeline where the Decepticons ruled supreme, the people of [[Earth]] were enslaved and put to work creating energon cubes. {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 1|Transformers/Back to the Future #1}} {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 2|Transformers/Back to the Future #2}}

====''King Grimlock''====
In [[Menonia]] there existed a tainted form of energon, the blood of the malevolent deity [[Soltron]]. Alive to some degree, this energon sought to corrupt all who consumed it. Centuries of its consumption caused the [[Golden One]] to become enthralled to Soltron. To the people of Menonia, the energon was known as "'''sorcerous fuel'''", being the power source for their [[magic]] spells. {{storylink|Grimlock and the Sorcerer}}

Using the last of their sorcerous fuel, Elder [[Arnak]] of [[Valerift]] opened a portal to Cybertron to try and summon Optimus Prime to Menonia's aid once again, only to receive [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. {{storylink|Grimlock the Rebel}} Weeks afterwards, the Dinobot engaged [[Mara-Al-Utha|the Red Wizard]] in battle. Finding that his foe was a [[Quintesson]], Grimlock inflicted a fatal wound that caused the Red Wizard to leak out the tainted energon. {{storylink|Grimlock the Avenger}} As Grimlock examined the corpse, the energon tried to corrupt his systems only for the Dinobot to incinerate it. After aligning with the people of Valerift, the warriors of [[Angloria]] used their hoarded supplies of sorcerous fuel to create a solar eclipse, weakening the Golden One enough for Grimlock to slay the tyrant. {{storylink|Grimlock and the Sorcerer}}

Upon defeating Soltron, Grimlock gave the people of Menonia a sample of his own energon, the organics using it to open a portal back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Grimlock the Triumphant}}

====''Last Bot Standing''====
:''For further information, see: [[energon key]]
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As the Great War spread further out across the galaxy, all known sources of energon were exhausted. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 2|Last Bot Standing #2}} When they first arrived on the planet [[Donnokt]] however, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]], [[Gripper (G1)|Gripper]] and [[Strongarm (G1)|Strongarm]] found that the planet had energon-sympathetic materials and would yield a rich, if highly volatile, bounty in millions of years. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 4|Last Bot Standing #4}} After deciding to live off only their own energon supplies, the three Autobots discovered that an organic race was evolving on Donnokt. Fearing that the energon would one day attract more surviving Cybertronians to Donnokt, the three fashioned three [[energon key]]s with which to heal themselves in the event of other Cybertronians arriving on the primitive world. After choosing a family of natives to watch over the keys, {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 3|Last Bot Standing #3}} they recorded a video explaining the planet's energon. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 4|Last Bot Standing #4}}

Elsewhere in the universe, a group of misfit Cybertronian survivors under the command of [[Steel Jaw|Steeljaw]] re-engineered themselves to run on [[biofuel]], a fuel they synthesized by harvesting organic matter. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 2|Last Bot Standing #2}} Converting to run on biofuel left them unable to metabolize energon and thinking the substance extinct, Steeljaw's group no longer bothered to even scan for it. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 3|Last Bot Standing #3}} Though biofuel sustained the Cybertronians, its inferiority to energon left them constantly hungry and tired. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 4|Last Bot Standing #4}}

Over the centuries, the energon keys on Donnokt became the family heirlooms of the Wallkis family, eldest [[Shib Wallkis]] taking to wearing one around her neck. The planet's natives eventually discovered the now ripe energon in the mountains beyond [[Fembrance]], harvesting the "fizzbang" into fuel for their steam cars. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 1|Last Bot Standing #1}}

When Steeljaw's force arrived on Donnokt, they abducted Rodimus and intended to turn Shib into biofuel. Nostalgic at seeing an old friend, [[Wheelie (G1)|the Veteran]] granted Rodimus and Shib the chance to say goodbye, the girl taking the chance to use her energon key on Rodimus, regenerating him. After dispatching the Cybertronians left to guard him, Rodimus raced back to Fembrance to destroy the other two keys, only to discover Steeljaw had captured the whole of the town. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 3|Last Bot Standing #3}}

Furiously, Steeljaw revealed that to an unapologetic Rodimus that he'd discovered the energon that the Autobot was hiding. The promise of true energon caused Steeljaw's followers to charge him for the two energon keys, shattering one in the process. When Sharpclaw and Steeljaw began a scuffle for the last key, they too dropped it, allowing Rodimus to kick the key to Shib who ran off with it. Leaving [[Unstoppimus]] to deal with Rodimus, the siblings followed Shib to the mouth of the energon mine.

After Steeljaw had beaten the last key out of Sharpclaw and used it to heal himself, Steeljaw savagely beat Rodimus to near-death before the Autobot and Shib revealed that the energon was useless to them. Rodimus had already destroyed the biofuel refinery leaving them with no long term power source to fuel their conversion back to energon. Furious, Steeljaw impaled Rodimus and threw him down the mineshaft, intending to detonate the crystals and destroy them all only for the energon to heal Rodimus' wounds and supercharge him, allowing him to easily defeat Steeljaw. In the aftermath, Rodimus taught the natives of Fembrance on how to better use energon to fuel their society before he exiled himself to orbit with the surviving visitors, content to burn out his fuel. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 4|Last Bot Standing #4}}

====Energon Universe====
When the Decepticons awoke on Earth, they were mired by a lack of energon. After [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] located a suitable power plant, Starscream, who had the highest energon levels, was peer pressured into checking it out. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 1|Transformers #1}} After Starscream confirmed the plant's viability as a power source, the Decepticons brought an energy transfer module to synthesize energon. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 2|Transformers #2}} Though this alleviated their immediate energy concerns, Soundwave noted that they still lacked sufficient materials to fully repair Teletraan One. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 3|Transformers #3}}

Elsewhere on Earth, Megatron had been found by [[Cobra-La]]. Studying the [[Decepticon leader]], the man who would become [[Cobra Commander]], painfully, extracted energon from Megatron, using the sample to develop a means to track other energon signatures on Earth. {{storylink|Cobra Commander issue 1|Cobra Commander #1}}

Inspired by the Decepticons' attack on the power plant, [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparky]] suggested that the Autobots draw power directly from the dam. After [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] was partially brought back online, he built a turbine that harvested the power from the water flow into energon. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 5|Transformers #5}}

After taking over as [[Decepticon leader]], {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 7|Transformers #7}} [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] led the Decepticons to reclaim the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', using the craft's communications array to reconnect with [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] on Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 8|Transformers #8}} After coming to Earth via [[space bridge]], Shockwave ordered the construction of a [[feeder]], using the machine to synthesize a large bounty of energon from nearby oceanic flora and fauna. Using the fuel, Shockwave reactivated the space bridge and brought Cybertron to Earth's orbit, intending to harvest the organic planet for more energon. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 10|Transformers #10}}
With a fresh bounty of resources, Cybertron quickly began regenerating its energon reserves. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 11|Transformers #11}} Following Shockwave having his head crushed by Optimus Prime, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] sought to make use of the pilfered energon. Refusing to win at the cost of Earth, Optimus detonated the energon stores, the explosion severing the link between Earth and Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 12|Transformers #12}}
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===2001 ''Robots in Disguise''===
:''For further information, see: [[Energon chain]]s.''

[[File:Sideburnsobsession energon chains.jpg|left|thumb|Is this the equivalent of being tied up with spaghetti?]]
Energon played only a minimal role in this universe, as the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] came to Earth in search of [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Fortress Maximus]], rather than for more traditional energy theft. It did crop up from time to time, though: the Predacons' craft, the [[Megastar]], ran on energon cubes, and they carried out a few heists to gather up Earthly energy sources they could process to create them—though flashlight batteries were not an especially viable option for conversion. {{storylink|An Explosive Situation}} Either the conversion or the process by which the cubes powered the ship involved a smelter. {{storylink|The Fish Test}} At one point, the Predacons created chains from energon and staged a trap for the Autobots using them. {{storylink|Sideburn's Obsession}}

Energon is ingested through an "energon intake" {{storylink|The Two Faces of Ultra Magnus}} and comes in "leaded" and "unleaded" varieties—[[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] swore off the latter when he found he didn't have the energy to keep up with the speedy [[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]]. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}}
{{note|In the original Japanese version of ''Robots in Disguise'', Optimus Prime wields an Energon Matrix (see [[#Beast Era|Beast Era]], above) rather than the Matrix of Leadership.}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
:''For further information, see: [[energon star]], [[energon weapon]], [[Energon Sword]], [[Energon Saber]], [[energon tower (technology)|energon tower]], [[energon grid (technology)|energon grid]], [[Energon Blaster]], [[Energon band]], [[Energon Orb]], [[energon gas]], [[Super Energon]], [[Energon Volant Accumulator]], [[energon tomato]]

====''Energon'' cartoon====
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Energon exists naturally on multiple planets throughout the universe in the form of glowing golden ore. Following the end of the [[Unicron Battles]] in 2010, the allied forces of the Autobots and Decepticons united with humankind to mine Energon for the betterment of both their species. The Transformers' reawakened creator-god Primus—manifesting in this universe as a glowing white orb of Energon itself—bestowed upon the young human [[Kicker Jones]] the ability to sense the location of Energon, {{storylink|Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City}} and Kicker's father, [[Brian Jones]], used his son's new power to find Energon deposits on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], in the [[asteroid belt]] and on multiple locations on Earth. The Transformers and humans set up [[Cybertron City (city)|Cybertron Cities]] in all these various locations to mine the ore: [[Mars City]], [[Asteroid City]], [[Ocean City]], [[Plains City]] in [[United Kingdom|England]], [[Jungle City]] in [[Mexico]], [[Desert City]] in [[Egypt]], [[Blizzard City]] in the [[Arctic]], {{storylink|Transformers: Energon Official Guidebook|Official Guidebook}} and later [[Lunar City]] on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. {{storylink|Kicker Beware!}}

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In its unprocessed form, Energon ore is bursting with raw energy, and hence hazardous to normal Transformer life. The only Transformers capable of safely handling energon are the [[Omnicon]]s, whose bodies became immunized to the ore's hazardous effects after years of mining it in space, and the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]]. {{storylink|Survival Instincts}} These master Energon sculptors can absorb the energy from Energon ore into their bodies, and then generate sold-state [[Energon star]]s that can be given to other Autobots to temporarily boost their strength. The Stars are also capable of generating [[Energon weapon]]s like spears and axes, though these drastically shorten the Star's lifespan. {{storylink|Scorpinok (episode)|Scorpinok}} In one particularly puzzling instance, the interaction of multiple Energon Stars with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s [[Matrix of Leadership#Unicron Trilogy|Matrix of Leadership]] led to the creation of the [[Energon Blaster]]. {{storylink|Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary}} Energon can also be processed into a liquid form that can be used as a medicinal bath capable of incredible feats like limb regeneration. {{storylink|Megatron Raid}} This refined, positively-charged "Autobot" Energon is typically red in color.

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In 2020, trapped in the ruined, deactivated body of Unicron, the insane alien [[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] realized Energon's immense potential to create, and using what little Energon remained in the planet-eater's husk, created the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]] from the very substance of Unicron to raid the Autobots' Energon mines. It was Alpha Q's intention to use indefinable, mystic properties of the Energon they would gather to recreate all the worlds that Unicron had consumed over the millennia. {{storylink|A Tale of Two Heros}} To rally the disenfranchised Decepticons to his side, Alpha Q forged an [[Energon Sword]] from the Spark of [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]], who had been trapped in Unicron's body for a decade. {{storylink|Megatron's Sword}} Megatron, however, was able to siphon off some of the Energon the Terrorcons returned with and crafted a new body for himself, ousting Alpha Q (who escaped in Unicron's disembodied head) and taking control of the Terrorcons. Under Megatron's directions, the Terrorcons gathered Energon to rebuild Unicron himself, so that Megatron could use him as a weapon. {{storylink|Megatron Resurrected}} The Terrorcons were created to be immune to the harmful effects of raw Energon; they consume it orally, and convert it into green, negatively-charged "Decepticon" Energon Stars internally. Like the Autobots' Omnicon-made stars, these could be used by the Decepticons as power-enhancers, but they apparently remained unsafe to touch directly: When [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] tried to grab one, he received a debilitating jolt of energy that scarred his body with jagged lightning patterns. {{storylink|Scorpinok (episode)|Scorpinok}} The Terrorcons were also not the only thing Alpha Q used Energon to create: using the small supply he had left after escaping from Megatron, he restored the deceased [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] to life. Unfortunately, he ran out halfway through the process, leaving Starscream incomplete, a sort of Energon "ghost", whose body constantly shifted from physical to incorporeal. {{storylink|Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary}}

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Setting off into space to stop Megatron's plans, the Autobots left Earth protected by Doctor Jones' newest Energon innovation: the [[energon grid (technology)|energon grid]], a protective field of plasma-state Energon generated by [[energon tower (technology)|energon towers]] positioned at each of the Cybertron Cities. {{storylink|Battle of the Asteroid Belt}} The mechanism was later duplicated on Cybertron, where the towers were fuelled by [[Energon gas|gaseous green Energon]]. {{storylink|Battle Stations}} Earth's defense had to be sacrificed for the greater good, however, when Kicker convinced his father to beam all of Earth's Energon to Alpha Q, who used it to charge Unicron's head. Alpha Q rammed the positively-charged head into Unicron's body, causing the release of the "sparks" of all the planets Unicron had destroyed. {{storylink|Open Fire!}} Trying to destroy Alpha Q, Megatron triggered the release of all the negatively-charged Energon in Unicron's body, causing a violent reaction between the two kinds of Energon that tore open a fissure in space. {{storylink|Ripped Up Space}}

[[File:Energonep28 energon sun.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Red sun at night, sailor's delight. Red sun in morning, sailor's warning.]]

In the [[Alpha Q's universe|newly created dimension]] this fissure led to, Unicron's head became a glowing [[Energon Orb|sun]], nurturing all the reborn planets with its life-giving Energon light. Consequently, however, all of the planets were rich in Energon themselves, making them ripe targets for Decepticon pillaging. {{storylink|Protection}} Alas, the villains were able to gather enough Energon to restore and reactivate Unicron's body, and even reclaimed his head, extinguishing the Energon sun it had become and killing Alpha Q in the process. {{storylink|A Heroic Battle}} To stop Megatron's schemes, Primus transmitted Energon from Cybertron to the Autobots, [[burning spirit|recoloring and powering them up]], and transforming the combined Optimus Prime and [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] into a planetary-scale giant. {{storylink|Optimus Supreme}} Prime and Omega were able to destroy Unicron's body, but Alpha Q's planets were in danger of dying due to the destruction of Energon sun. {{storylink|Unicron Perishes}} Salvation came in the form of Primus' greatest creation: a reservoir of liquid blue [[Super Energon]], sealed away beneath Cybertron's surface, from a time when Autobots and Decepticons were allies, intended to usher in a new era of peace. {{storylink|Ambition}} This Energon had incredibly potent transformational abilities: it transformed Megatron into Galvatron, recolored and powered up [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]], {{storylink|Wishes}} and turned [[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticon]] Terrorcons into giants. {{storylink|Decepticon Army}} A second immersion transformed Galvatron into a giant as well, at which point he was possessed by Unicron's still-living [[Spark]], but Primus orchestrated his downfall by gathering up the entire reservoir of Super-Energon and transforming it into a new foundling sun. Struggling against Unicron's control, Megatron flung himself into the sun, and both he and the planet-eater were seemingly destroyed as it burst into life. This new Energon sun took up position in Alpha Q's universe, nurturing his planets once more. {{storylink|The Sun}}

====''Energon'' comic====
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In this universal stream, Energon's raw form is a green gas. It normally undergoes processing before use for optimal efficiency, but even in its crude gaseous form, it remains a very effective power source. [[Energon Volant Accumulator]] planes are used to collect Energon vapour before it is lost to the atmosphere. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 4}}

The existence of pockets of energon gas on Earth was discovered by the alternative energy research and development company [[Alterenergy]], who dubbed it "01 Source". Unknown the public, the discovery was the work of Alterenergy consultant Brian Jones, whose son Kicker had the unexplained ability to detect Energon. This made Alterenergy a target for the Terrorcons, a cell of Decepticons who had been recruited by the evil alien [[Alpha Quintesson]], who bade them gather Energon to reactivate his master Unicron. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath}} Attacking Alterenergy's [[Australia|Western Australia]] facility, the Terrorcons stole Energon using siphons that condensed the gas into green liquid form, which they then used to power themselves up with. [[File:Energon29 energon weapons.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95]] Thankfully, the Autobots arrived, able to take on their Energon-empowered foes thanks to their new [[Spark of Combination|combining abilities]]. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Three}} Following the Autobots' victory, {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Four}} they entered into an alliance with the humans, and began setting up drilling sites around the Earth to replenish their own dwindling supplies of Energon. {{storylink|Omni-Potent}}

Energon can be shaped and moulded by the small group of evolved [[Mini-Con]]s known as Omnicons, who can fire it as blasts, create energy-constructs from it and sculpt it into powerful weapons. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Four}} Kicker also discovered that his energon-manipulating powers had evolved when he was attacked by Decepticons over an Energon pocket in [[Turkey]] and was able to channel and redirect the energy into the Omnicons. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 4}}

===Live-action film series===
:''For further information see: [[AllSpark]], [[Energon drone]], [[Dual Energon Swords]], [[Energon detector]]

{{quote|Without it, we'd all perish, oxidize and rust, ''like my wretched self!'' Do you have any idea what it's like to slowly fall apart and die?!|[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] explains the importance of Energon|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

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Cybertron's source of Energon in this universe was the legendary, life-giving [[AllSpark]] cube, which sustained the planet and the Transformer race through its constant generation of the fuel, presumably in the form of crystals or ore. It was the Energon produced by the AllSpark that gave life to the first Cybertronians, the [[Dynasty of Primes]], creating them from Cybertron's metal surface itself. The Primes were soon to learn that the AllSpark's supply of Energon was not infinite: it required periodic recharging to continue Energon generation, and the only source of energy viable enough was that of suns. Using [[Star Harvester]]s, the Primes converted the suns of lifeless star systems into Energon, which fuelled the AllSpark, in turn allowing it to generate exponentially greater amounts of the energy, thereby allowing Cybertron to thrive, and more and more Transformers to be given life. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

Millions of years later, at the height of the civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] had the AllSpark blasted into space, to put its power beyond the reach of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. Without the AllSpark's constant supply of Energon, however, Cybertron began to atrophy, eventually becoming a ruin of a planet, uninhabitable by the Transformers. They too took to the stars, searching for the lost cube: the Autobots to reinvigorate Cybertron, Megatron planning to use its Energon to bring to life the machinery of other worlds, forging an even greater army. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}} Without true Energon from the Allspark, the Transformers were forced instead to subsist on a manufactured brew processed out of other natural resources on the other worlds they visited. Although much more stable that the Energon of most universes, if this artificial Energon ''were'' hypothetically detonated, the resultant explosion would be large enough to obliterate most of a good-sized continent. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

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The AllSpark landed on Earth in what would become Colorado, directly on top of an entrance into a mysterious network of subterranean caves that criss-crossed the entire planet. The cube's Energon radiation was funnelled into the tunnels for thousands of years, stimulating the growth of Energon ore, and mutating the animals that lived there into huge monstrosities. The Energon was discovered in caves in the Sierra Nevada mountains by gentleman adventurers [[Walter Simmons]] and [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] in the late 19th Century, {{storylink|Original}} but while these two men would go on to found the organization [[Sector Seven]], dedicated to protecting the Earth against the Transformers, they would not realize that this discovery was connected to their larger mission until they found the AllSpark and excavated it in 1913, uncovering more of the substance in the caves beneath it. They also discovered the abandoned [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]] [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], who was looking for the cube himself, and who accidentally triggered a surge of Energon from it that overloaded his systems and brought a nearby crane, car, gun and radio to life. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}} Energon was the subject of some study on Earth in later years; scientist [[Dina Morgan]] experimented with the energy potential of converting the crystals into liquid, and a memo about her research was later discovered by [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] during his advance recon on the planet in the early 21st century. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots}}

In 2007, Bumblebee was joined on the planet by more representatives of both factions, leading to a battle for possession of the AllSpark in [[Mission City]], during which a wave of Energon was released that brought [[Dispensor|several]] [[Xbox 360 robot|Earth]] [[steering wheel robot|machines]] to life. Ultimately, the cube was destroyed when [[Sam Witwicky]] plunged it into Megatron's Spark, overloading and apparently destroying him. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}} Following the destruction of the cube and the defeat of the Decepticons, the Autobots allied with humankind, and, lacking the time to confirm the presence of true Energon on Earth, instead began stockpiling manufactured Energon at [[NEST]] base on [[Diego Garcia]]. When questioned about the substance by [[Robert Epps]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] explained that it was basically useless to humanity; they could not use it to power weapons the way the Transformers did (like Optimus Prime's [[Dual Energon Swords]]) because its chemical composition was far beyond their ability to master. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

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In 2009, the small fragments that remained of the AllSpark cube were revealed to still possess Energon-generating powers when one was stolen by the Decepticons and used to restore Megatron to life. At the bidding of his master, a renegade member of the Dynasty of Primes known as [[The Fallen]], Megatron uncovered a hidden Star Harvester The Fallen had built in Egypt nineteen thousand years beforehand, planning to use it to convert Earth's sun into Energon that could be used to sire a new race of Decepticon [[hatchling]]s. Another shard brought a group of [[Appliancebot|kitchen appliances]] in Sam Witwicky's home to life; Sam later used it to rouse Jetfire from his years-long slumber. Jetfire was living proof of the fact that without regular consumption of Energon of any kind, a Transformer's body and mind begin to slowly break down, rusting away in a kind of robotic senility. By combining with Jetfire, Optimus Prime gained the power to stop Megatron and The Fallen and destroy the Star Harvester. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
[[File:ROTF fallen leaks energon.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|The [[Tony Todd|Candyman]] can, 'cause he mixes it with love, and makes the world taste good...]]
Not long after the Autobot victory in Egypt, [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] stumbled across a cave full of natural Energon, and was nearly brainwashed by the Decepticon [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]] into harvesting it for the Decepticons. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 5}} Later still, [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] and [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] were seen transporting a cargo of Energon ''cubes'', but whether they were created from the natural Energon Ironhide found or just more manufactured Energon is unknown. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 10}} Within a few years, NEST developed [[Energon detector]]s that could alert them to the approach of Cybertronian lifeforms, and had them stationed around major cities, forcing the Decepticons to withdraw to unmonitored regions of the planet like [[Namibia]], [[Africa]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

Energon flows inside Transformers' bodies in a liquid form through a structure akin to a human's circulatory system. It is prone to gushing out when a Transformer receives debilitating injuries—glowing blue Energon showered from the wounds sustained by several Transformers during the battle of [[Mission City]], {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}} while a golden form of liquid Energon oozed from The Fallen's dying frame<ref>Hasbro's online [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/TRANSFORMERS-Glossary.cfm Transformers glossary].</ref> when Optimus Prime killed him. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}} In fact, quite a ''lot'' of differently-colored fluids were seen slooshing and squirting from the Transformers during the quest for the Matrix of Leadership and the battles over [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]'s space bridge, including a disturbingly blood-like red liquid, but whether or not any of these were Energon is unclear. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}} {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}} Later still, [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]], [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], and [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]]'s robot prototypes could be seen spilling a ''green'' liquid when injured. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}} The same liquid bled from the wounded [[Talisman Knight]], and spilt out from [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] after he was shot in the shoulder by [[Edmund Burton]]. [[Izabella]] hurled jars full of the stuff to confuse [[Transformers Reaction Force|TRF]] robots into firing on each other. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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===Fun Publications comics===
{{see|Rarified Energon}}
[[File:CrossingOver5 rarified energon.jpg|left|thumb|165px|"The formula is water! Pure, ordinary water!"]]
On the second leg of their multiverse-hopping journey, amnesiac Transformers [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]] and [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]] discovered a pool of liquid energon beneath the jungles of South America, being watched over a similar Transformer named [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]]. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} They were informed by Breakway's assistant, the computer system known as the [[Caretaker]], that the pool was no ordinary energon: it was [[Rarified Energon]], the base substance that made up Transformers' bodies and sparks. Skyfall, Landquake, and Breakway were, in fact, components of [[Nexus Prime]], one of the [[Thirteen|thirteen original Transformers]], who had been tasked with guarding Rarified Energon by Primus eons in the past. When Nexus Prime had been divided into five separate robots in order to protect the secret of [[Prima]]'s [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], Rarified Energon was left without a guardian, and was consequently secreted away in the corners of the multiverse—for if it should be destroyed, then it would be impossible for more Transformer life to be created. The Caretaker opened a cross-dimensional portal to take the three Transformers to the universe where they would find the [[Topspin (Classics)|fourth of their number]], assuring them that the Rarified Energon would be teleported away to a new safe location once they had left. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}
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===Animated===
{{see|Energon farm}}
[[File:Ani07 sllsparkinfusedenergon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Mine mine mine! All mine!"]]
Crystalline formations of natural energon are cultivated on Cybertron at [[energon farm]]s, a menial task that earns workers a reputation as hayseeds despite its extreme importance, {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}} {{storylink|The Stunti-Con Job}} and stored in energon cubes. Despite the Autobots being in full control of Cybertron and no excess energon being expended in a war effort, the substance remains extremely precious, as evidenced by the risks cadet [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel]] took when he and fellow cadets [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] and [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] attempted to recover a huge stockpile of it from a starship that had crashed on the planet [[Archa Seven]] centuries beforehand. Sentinel called this "AllSpark-infused energon", but there was nothing to indicate that it was any different from normal energon, suggesting that the energies of the life-giving [[AllSpark]] are known to be shared by energon in this universe, as they are in [[#live-action film series|others]]. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}}

Contrary to the hardships faced by Transformers in other universes, when [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]'s teams were stranded on Earth with no energon, they proved quite able to survive on simple [[oil]]. Back on Cybertron, though, energon remained on the menu at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], where varieties served included Z and Ultra blends from various different planets, as well as energon-on-a-stick for the little 'bots. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}} Energon is used to power the machines and weapons of Cybertron, like those of the [[Elite Guard]]'s [[Fortress Maximus (Animated)|Fortress Maximus]], {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}} and small energon cubes are used as blasting charges in construction. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}

===Shattered Glass===
[[File:Cliffjumper&SGGoryu Dungeons&Dinobots.jpg|left|thumb|100px|[[Steven Spielberg]] takes the directorial reins.]]
{{see|Energon rod}}
The energon of this twisted mirror universe is superficially different to the more recognizable fuel of most worlds. Here, it is a sickly green-yellow in color, is stored primarily in [[energon rod|rod]]s, and is considered by the dimensionally-displaced [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] to have a strange aftertaste when compared to the energon of his home dimension. It remains used as a form of currency among Transformers.

Among the natural sources of energon on this universe's Cybertron are bright blue crystalline deposits that form on the shores of the [[Rust Sea]], when the sea's innate trace energon content is solidified by evaporation. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}
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===Aligned===
:''For further information, see: [[Energon battle pistol]], [[Energon grenade]], [[Energon repair ray]], [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]], [[Dark Energon]], [[Energon prod]], [[Energon Harvester]], [[Synthetic Energon]], [[Energon shard]], [[Tox-En]], [[Red Energon]], [[Chronogon]]
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[[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] explained that energon is an emanation of Primus, and a different form of that which makes up a [[Transformer]] and everything else on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus}} Energon occurs naturally in the form of blue crystals, {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} though these sometimes resemble normal rocks. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} It is stored within Energon cubes, {{storylink|Masters & Students}} the framework for which can be produced by the Decepticon [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}} and is fashioned into smaller ingots for oral ingestion by Transformers. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus}} To distinguish it from other varieties, the blue version was also referred to as "live energon." {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

In Cybertron's [[Golden Age]], the [[ancient]]s moved energon by reconstituting and concentrating it into its most rarefied form, that of pure energy, which is transmitted between arrays such as the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus}} [[File:Starscreamharvestingcrystals.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Starscream harvesting raw Energon.]] Similarly, they used [[energon Harvester]]s to draw energy right out of energon crystals. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} A formula for a synthetic version of energon, known as [[Synthetic Energon]], was developed; but was apparently never put into production, the formula instead being stored within a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]], one that would eventually be launched off-world during the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

When war broke out on Cybertron, energon was weaponized in the form of the [[energon battle pistol]] and the [[energon prod]] (the latter an instrument of torture that would later prove to have a particularly deleterious, if temporary, effect on the human neural system {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}), but also found use on the battlefield as an implement of healing in medical tools like the [[Energon grenade]], which releases a localized aura of energon that restores the vigor of Transformers within the grenade's range. Medics were also known to carry [[energon repair ray]]s, more focused tools that fire a beam of energon to heal the injured. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)}} As the war depleted energon supplies on Cybertron, both sides tried hiding their stockpiles of this valuable commodity on many other planets, including [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}} To protect Decepticon assets, a squadron of [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]] were deployed to guard the deposits. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} The Decepticons even began experimenting with Energon's poisonous counterpart, [[Dark Energon]], a product of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]] in the same way that live energon is a product of Primus. Using it, the Decepticons corrupted the [[core]] of Cybertron, and although the Autobots restored it, the planet's energon supply had been crippled, necessitating that the Transformers depart Cybertron so that it would be able to recharge and regenerate enough energon to once again support life. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}

Though the [[Autobot fleet]] was quick to flee Cybertron for other worlds, the Decepticons took the initiative and sought out energy rich planets whose resources they could convert into energon that would heal Cybertron. Using an ancient [[space bridge]] he'd found in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] stole energy from several worlds and converted it into energon, this process creating a toxic energon-based byproduct. Shockwave eventually rediscovered the Earth, finding it to possess enough raw energon for their purposes and reported its location to [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

By coincidence or design, the Transformers' war eventually carried them back to Earth in the 21st century. After an undetailed initial clash, [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] retreated into space to gather up an army, and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], left in charge of the Decepticons on Earth, set about mining the energon that had flourished on the planet, claiming there was enough there to repower Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)}} The shifting geology of Earth occasionally stymied his attempts, as some deposits had become unmineable since originally being stored; the largest of these was labelled "ND-7 Class". {{storylink|Out of His Head}} After three years, however, Megatron returned, having recovered more Dark Energon from the depths of space {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}, but he was fortunately stopped by the Autobots from using it to reanimate Cybertron's dead. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

[[File:Crossfire Insecticon holding energon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s Autobots later discovered the data cylinder containing the synthetic Energon formula, but its contents were beamed directly into [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]'s brain. The formula threatened to wipe his mind, so he was only able to transcribe a portion of it before it was necessary to remove it shoot it off into space. {{storylink|T.M.I.}} [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] then attempted to complete the formula, but the result of experiments was a green liquid form of energon which supercharged his physical attributes at the loss of his mental stability. In the throes of this rage, Ratchet attacked a Decepticon mine and was wounded by Megatron, allowing [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] to obtain for the Decepticons a sample of the Synthetic Energon that drained from his wounds. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

Having gone rogue, Starscream was forced to either steal energon from the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} or scavenge for it in abandoned mines. {{storylink|Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire}} After [[MECH]] stole [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'s [[transformation cog|T-cog]] in an attempt to get their own creation working, Starscream pointed out that it required energon to properly function. He used a small amount of his own as a demonstration. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} With Starscream's help, they were able to track down a sizable deposit. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}} [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] later found an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] which searched for energon for her. {{storylink|Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire}}

A sample of [[Tox-En]] was stored in the Iacon Vaults, and eventually made its way to Earth, which was found by Bulkhead. After a fight with [[Hardshell]], Bulkhead began to drip liquefied energon, which Bulkhead figured was leaking from a loose gasket. Bulkhead used the leak to make a false trail of energon puddles to lead the Insecticons away while he carried the Tox-En to a nearby volcano for disposal. At one point, Hardshell took time out to taste an Energon puddle. {{storylink|Toxicity}}

A chunk of [[Red Energon]] was uncovered on Earth, and during the race to get hold of it, Starscream managed to secure a chunk. {{storylink|New Recruit}} The destruction of [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]] left the Autobots with a critically short energon supply prompting Ratchet to look into the Synthetic Energon formula once again. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} Starscream and Knock Out attempted to mix Dark and Synthetic Energon together to create a new army of super soldiers but the resulting interaction between the two substances turned [[Silas|the test subject]] into a Terrorcon with an insatiable lust for live Energon. {{storylink|Thirst}}

After [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] revealed his sapience, the Decepticons manipulated the Autobots into destroying the gestating Predacon clones luring them to Shockwave's laboratory with energon. {{storylink|Evolution}}

A bizarre interaction with the energon of Earth was responsible for bringing many weapons, including the Transformers' personal armaments, to life as the [[Arms Micron]]s.

One hazard encountered by the [[Rescue Bot]]s was the [[energon eater]], a space-going creature which fed off the energon from ships they attacked, and occasionally their occupants. {{storylink|Unfinished Business}} {{storylink|Uninvited Guest}}

Energon turned out to be the power source required to get the [[Temporal Station]] to work. {{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}

[[Madeline Pynch]]'s drilling operation uncovered a sizeable chunk of energon on the ocean floor. Once she learned of its energy potential, she dubbed it "Pynchonium" and used it to create [[Pynch-Cell]]s with which she intended to corner the world's energy market. The [[Griffin Rock]] rescue team launched a covert mission and managed to steal the energon from her compound on the mainland. {{storylink|Cody's 11}}

After the War ended, Earth's energon supplies had dropped even further. The Decepticon [[Ped (RID)|Ped]] attempted to steal the Autobot supply of [[Energon cube]]s to monopolize the precious resource and gain his long denied respect from the other Decepticons. {{storylink|Can You Dig It?}} A subset of Cybertronians were unable to normally consume Energon normally and had to suck it out of other Cybertronians. {{storylink|Even Robots Have Nightmares}} {{storylink|Sick as a Bot}}

During the gold rush, miners uncovered energon and subsequently abandoned the mine. It was later found by [[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]], [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]], [[Snarl (FOC)|Snarl]] and [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]], however the mine collapsed. Grimlock was able to take a small nugget of energon before they escaped the mine. {{storylink|The Great Energon Rush}}
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===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
[[File:Cave Monsters - Cyberverse - The Journey.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Swerve (G1)|"Impossible! Our laserfire is just making him stronger!"]]]]

When the [[Ark (Cyberverse)|''Ark'']] ran low on energon, the crew stopped off at a nearby moon to mine more of the substance only to find that [[Cave monster|a race of insects]] had evolved to draw nourishment from the crystals, the Autobots' energon blasts likewise proving harmless to the beasts. Unwilling to condemn an innocent alien race, [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] decided against mining operations. {{storylink|The Journey}}

Some 66 million years later, to try and get the ''Ark'' spaceworthy, [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] created a super-concentrated energon derivative that he dubbed "[[Hyper Fuel]]". The Hyper Fuel proved a bit ''too'' hyper however, so he instead began working on [[Mega Fuel]]. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

As the ''Ark'' carried the [[AllSpark]] back to Cybertron, Wheeljack devised a system to draw energon directly from it. While the badges proved an initial success, [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] tampered with the delivery system, overloading the Autobots' systems with energon and driving them mad until Optimus shut it down. {{storylink|Party Down}}

Without the AllSpark, Cybertron's energon had begun to curdle into a toxic black variant. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

When the AllSpark returned to Cybertron, live energon began flowing through the planet, restoring it. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}} With the caves of the [[Monsterbot (Cyberverse)|Monsterbots]] rich with the substance once more, [[Affluous]] seized on the opportunity to affect a paradigm shift in their society, dividing the Monsterbots into the "[[Energon Master]]s", led by him, and those he deemed unworthy. His rule went unchallenged until [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] and [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] arrived to find a psychic shard of [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]], toppling Affluous in the process. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

===''BotBots'' cartoon===
One night, a cloud of energon swept over a [[Mall (BotBots)|mall]], turning various objects inside into the BotBots. {{storylink|Mall Than Meets the Eye}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
Energon takes the form of pink-purple cubes or rectangles when stored for transport. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} Energon could be quickly infused into the system by the use of [[energon patch]]es, which are applied to the bot's body and immediately absorbed. Multiple types of energon were common knowledge on Earth, to the point that "Know Your Energon" posters could be found in classrooms. {{storylink|Friends and Family}} Outlaw Decepticons [[Swindle (ES)|Swindle]] and [[Hardtop (ES)|Hardtop]] were led to into a trap by [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] in the hopes of stealing several cubes. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} The Earth-born [[Terran]]s did not survive on energon (though they could absorb it), instead subsisting off the [[water]] that had birthed them. {{storylink|Friends and Family}}

When trying to pierce [[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]]'s [[force field]], the Terrans discovered that they had just enough energon in their system for the field to keep them out. {{storylink|Warzone}}

===''One'' film===
Thanks to the Matrix of Leadership possessed by [[Zeta Prime (One)|Zeta Prime]], energon once flowed freely throughout Cybertron. When the Matrix was lost, destroyed by Primus himself in response to [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel]]'s unworthy attempt to claim it by betrayal, energon consequently ceased to flow.

As Sentinel Prime had bartered his rulership of Cybertron in exchange for sending regular shipments of energon to the Quintessons, he resorted to harsh measures to extract the necessary quota, creating an underclass of [[cogless]] Cybertronians to mine what energon remained from the planet's strata. Shortly before Sentinel Prime was overthrown, these reserves had begun to run out. Not only did his final shipment fail to meet the Quintessons' demands, there was barely enough left over to meet Cybertron's.

Ultimately, Primus recognized the miner and revolutionary [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] as a worthy successor to the Primes, reformatting him into Optimus Prime and granting him the Matrix of Leadership. With the Matrix restored, energon began to flow once again.
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==Toys and merchandise==
===''Beast Wars''===

[[File:BWNtoy-BigConvoy-Matrix.jpg|left|thumb]]

The [[rubsign]]s introduced into the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' toyline in 1997 were called "Energon Chips". On the Japanese side of things, Energon Matrices were included with [[Lio Convoy]] and [[Big Convoy]]'s toys; while the former's was merely sculpted detail beneath a panel on his chest, the latter's was fully removable.
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===Generation 1===

[[File:G1 energon toys.jpg|thumb|275px|Foooood Fiiight!!!]]
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]]'s energon-axe and energon mace were the first toys that represented physical energon. [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] has enjoyed a long love affair with these weapons, which up until their release in plastic form, had only been ''very'' rarely seen. After several ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' PVC figurines depicted Prime and Megatron with the weapons deployed, the armaments made the jump to true toys with the ''[[The Transformers Collection|Transformers Collection]]'' line of reissues, which featured new axe and mace accessories for the 2003 re-releases of the original Generation 1 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Transformers Collection|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Transformers Collection|Megatron]] toys. These weapons were also included with the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' versions of the characters, and on Prime's ''[[Hybrid Style]]'' and ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' figures as well. Prime's axe in particular has gotten a lot of face-time, having been recolored with each new [[redeco]] of these various Prime toys—and that's been quite a few! See the [[energon-axe]] article for a full listing of this weapon's releases.

''The Transformers Collection'' also featured the first toys made of energon cubes, three of which came packaged with the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] giftset. The translucent pink cubes are made of soft rubbery plastic, and are quite small; fairly in-scale with the Insecticons themselves, but undeniably dinky next to any larger toys. The reason for their small size is so that they can fit into the Insecticons' opening cockpits, left over from their days as ''[[Diaclone]]'' toys. Three cubes were also included with the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive [[Insecticon clone]] [[redeco]] of this set.
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===''Energon''===

[[File:Energon weapons.jpg|left|thumb|275px]]

All the Omnicon and Terrorcon toys released in the ''Energon'' toyline came packaged with an Energon star (called an "Energon chip" in the toyline) which could attach to the Spark crystals that most of the toys in the series feature, and an Energon weapon, itself formed from several modular pieces that could be mixed and matched with other figures and other Energon weapon components through the miracle of [[5 mm post]]s. The Autobot stars and weapons were various shades of red, while the Decepticons' were green (purple was considered too close to red<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Purple is to close to red we needed more seperation between the two forms in the toys and for the cartoon and print partners.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2003/09/17/orsons-world-9-17-910|name=Aaron Archer|site=TFW2005|year=2003|month=09|day=17}}</ref>), with each faction sporting a different design for their Energon stars. These weapons included [[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]]'s '''Energy Axe''' (formed from a boom arm and a spare tire) [[Skyblast (Energon)|Skyblast]]'s '''Energy Spear''' (the merging of a cannon and two rocket boosters), [[Signal Flare (Energon)|Signal Flare]]'s '''Energy Cutter''' (made up of a projecting dish and two shield panels), [[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]]'s compound bow (built from fuel tanks and exhaust pipes), [[Battle Ravage]]'s twin cannons, [[Divebomb (Energon)|Divebomb]]'s '''Energy Raiden''' (the united form of two blades) [[Cruellock]]'s '''Energy Blade''' (a large sword made even larger with the addition of a small gun as a handle) and [[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticon]]'s '''Energy Drill''' (a dagger and gatling cannon combined). In addition to being recolored and sold in the ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' and live-action movie toylines along with the figures who wielded them, many of these weapons were released in new colors as exclusives in Japan, sometimes on their own, sometimes packaged with different toys. See the [[Energon weapon|Energon weapon article]] for a full list. One other set of modular Energon weapons was available as part of the line: the rifle and sword which came with Starscream, owing to the character's status as an "Energon ghost". This pair of weapons could combine to form a ''huge'' sword.

[[File:Energontoy sword and combiner.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]

The limb components of the three "Maximus" [[Combiner]]s released during ''Energon'' also each came with a translucent blue "Super Energon" star and an Energon weapon. Rather than follow the modular mix-and-match pattern of the earlier toys, however, these Energon weapons converted into either a hand or foot for their combined super [[robot mode]]. From [[Superion Maximus]], [[Treadshot (Energon)|Treadshot]] and [[Windrazor (Energon)|Windrazor]] came with twin double-ended cannons, while [[Sky Shadow (Energon)|Sky Shadow]] and [[Terradive (Energon)|Terradive]] were armed with double-barrelled blasters; from [[Constructicon Maximus]], [[Sledge (Energon)|Sledge]] and [[Bonecrusher (Energon)|Bonecrusher]] wielded odd clawed cudgels that were particularly strange next to [[Duststorm (Energon)|Duststorm]] and [[Wideload (Energon)|Wideload]]'s pincer-claws; and from [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]], [[Kickback (Energon)|Kickback]] and [[Blight (Energon)|Blight]] bore combined double-barrelled cannon radar arrays, while [[Blackout (combiner)|Blackout]] and [[Stormcloud (Energon)|Stormcloud]] brandished modular quintuple-barrelled arsenals. These figures were redecoed across the ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'', ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' toylines, and select limbs were chosen by the Transformers Collectors' Club to become components of their exclusive combiner figure, the energon-manipulating Nexus Prime.

[[Megatron (Armada)/toys|Megatron]]'s Energon Sword was his perennial accessory throughout the ''Energon'' toyline, available in various sizes and colors with his toys, and also with a ''Super Link'' exclusive Kicker figure and as a rather large role-play weapon. See the [[Energon Sword|Energon Sword article]] for a full list of releases. By contrast, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys|Optimus Prime]]'s Energon Blaster was ''only'' released as a role-play weapon, its role in the toyline about as memorable as its brief, puzzling appearance in the cartoon.

Energon took another form for a small line of European-exclusive [[List of Transformers restaurant promotions|McDonald's Happy Meal ''Energon'' toys]]. The four figures in the series each came with a large, translucent "Energon cube", which could be inserted inside their body and featured various effects: Optimus Prime and [[Ironhide (Energon)#Toys|Ironhide]]'s had electronic sounds, while Megatron and [[Unicron/toys|Unicron]]'s featured LED lights.

===Live-action movies===
[[File:ROTF energon swords.jpg|left|thumb|225px| Now... where's that face?]]

The first [[subline imprint]] of the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|live-action movie toyline]] was the "[[AllSpark Power]]" series, in which all the figures sported bright blue parts to represent the glowing blue Energon power of the AllSpark. The AllSpark itself was also rendered in plastic form: it came as a small accessory packaged with the Japanese releases of the "AllSpark Power" figures, or as more esoteric objects like a Rubik's Cube, a paperweight and a candy container. We guess that would make the candy itself the Energon! See the [[AllSpark|AllSpark article]] for a complete listing of merchandise.

[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]'s original live-action movie toy did not include the Energon Sword he was seen deploying in the feature film, but the blade was soon added when the figure was retooled for the "[[Premium Series]]" subline imprint. A second sword was added to Prime's arsenal in the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie, and given that the swords played a major part in one of the film's set-piece battles, they were quickly established as a fixture on almost all of the line's Optimus Prime toys, from his large-scale Leader-class figure, all the way down to his ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' figurine. See the [[Dual Energon Swords|Dual Energon Swords article]] for a full listing of toys wielding these face-taking blades.

===''G.I. Joe and the Transformers''===
An [[exclusive]] toy set released for [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2012, was a [[redeco]] of the 2012 new-[[mold]] ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe: Retaliation]]'' [[HISS tank]] meant to represent Shockwave, with an additional cannon piece meant to emulate Generation 1 Shockwave's gun barrel. It includes the [[Cobra]]s [[Destro|James McCullen Destro XXIV]] and a [[Battle Android Trooper]]<ref>[http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/12/shockwavehiss/ Shockwave H.I.S.S. page at yojoe.com]</ref> with a trolley for carrying a trio of [[Energon cube]]s. The three cubes, clearly inspired by the Generation 1 cartoon version, are clear pink plastic with inserts to make them appear to be partially filled with liquid.

===''War For Cybertron Trilogy''===
In the first two toy line installments, the [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Nemesis Prime]] War for Cybertron spoiler packs all included a small tub of a [[Play-Doh]] like substance that had 3 small rubbery plastic Energon cubes within them.

===''R.E.D. [Robot Enhanced Design]''===
The [[Walmart]] exclusive non-transforming ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' toyline features characters from different [[franchises]] that are each dependent on [[show-accuracy]] in each sculpts within their own respective series, this also plays even with their own accessories. Characters from the Generation 1-era are packaged with Glowy Pink Cubes, Raw Energon Crystals for ''Beast Wars'' characters and [[Dark Energon]] Cubes for ''[[Transformers: Prime]]'' characters .

===''Legacy''===
Bringing together characters from across the ''Transformers'' [[multiverse]] in celebration of the approaching 40th anniversary of [[Transformers brand|the brand]] (like ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' did for the 30th anniversary), ''Legacy'' toys are accompanied with clear weapons very reminiscent of those from ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Transformers: Energon]]'', which can be combined using [[5 mm post]]s. Like the ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Cyberverse|Cyberverse]]'' toys from the ''Prime'' Franchise, Autobots are marketed with Energon Weapons while Decepticons are associated with Dark Energon.<ref>[[Hasbro PulseCon 2021]]</ref> Even [[Drag Strip (G1)#Legacy|characters who]] [[Transformers: Legacy (toyline)#Core Class|don't receive]] clear weapons or accessories are marketed in social media posts as including "Energon-infused" weapons/accessories.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Harness the power of Energon with Energon-infused accessories that come with both figures.|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CY4XcbCL56p|name=@tranformersoffical|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=01|day=18}}</ref>

===''Transformers ULTIMATES!''===
[[Super7]]'s ''[[Transformers ULTIMATES!]]'' line included a non-transforming figure of G1 [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#ULTIMATES!|Megatron]] with a whole slew of accessories based on gear from specific episodes. Among these is a half-empty Energon cube, meant to represent the drinking scene from "[[Microbots]]".
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==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Energon''' (エネルゴン ''enerugon'', エナジョン ''enajon'')
*''Chinese:'' '''Energon''' (comics, 异能晶 ''yìnéngjīng''), '''néngliàng kuài''' (Generation 1, 能量块, "energy block"), '''néngliàng jīngtǐ''' (''Generation 2'', 能量晶体, "energy crystal")
*''Russian:'' '''Energon''' (Энергон)

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