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Transformers (2023) issue 32

2026-05-14T14:33:00Z

Cydra: /* Transformers references */

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|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[May 13]], [[2026]]
|coverdate=May 2026
|written by=[[Robert Kirkman]]
|art by=[[Jason Howard]]
|colors by=[[Mike Spicer]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editor=[[Ben Abernathy]]
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'''Elita Prime returns with her Autobots to Cybertron, but the journey home won't be an easy one.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:LotsOfCons.jpeg|thumb|left|250px|Transformers created during the late 2000s and early 2010s are now considered old enough for nostalgic callbacks, let that sink in…]]

[[Elita One (G1)|Elita Prime]] and her [[Autobot]]s emerge from the [[space bridge]] back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] notices that they are in the middle of [[Decepticon]] territory. Elita and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] managed to sneak in to use the bridge to go to [[Earth]], but their increased numbers will make returning to the Autobot base much harder. [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] proposes he fly them out a few at a time while [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] would prefer to drive, however, Elita nixes either idea for fear that they might give away their position. However, as they begin their journey on foot, it quickly proves a moot point when they are ambushed by a squad of Decepticons led by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], alive without a head, much to the shock of Elita.

The Decepticons attack, blasting the remains of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] that Jetfire was carrying. Ultra Magnus [[transformation|transforms]] and tells the Autobots to load into his car carrier form, using his [[alternate mode]] to ram Shockwave and allow his fellow Autobots to attack the Decepticons. However, the Decepticon forces quickly regain their composure and fight back, overwhelming the Autobots. Seeing her comrades taking such a beating, Elita fears that this may be their [[darkest hour]] and tries using the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]].

Unfortunately, it does nothing. She hits the ancient artifact, demanding it open until a flash of white light emerges and glowing energy emerges from the talisman and forms into the Ghost of the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]]. Using her new weapon, she mows down the Decepticons, allowing the Autobots the chance to regroup and retreat. As the Autobots escape, Shockwave realizes that Elita Prime will be a force to be reckoned with. He decides he needs to pay a visit to [[Alpha Trion]]...

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (1)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (2)
* [[Elita One (G1)|Elita Prime]] (3)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (4)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (5)
* [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (6)
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (7)
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (8)
* [[Bulkhead (G1)|Bulkhead]] (9)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (10)
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (11)

|c2=
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (12)
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (13)
* [[Skyquake (EU)|Skyquake]] (14)
* [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] (15)
* [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] (16)
* [[Makeshift (G1)|Makeshift]] (17)
* [[Knock Out (G1)|Knock Out]] (18)
* [[Lugnut (TF 2010)|Lugnut]] (19)
* [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] (20)
* [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acidstorm]] (21)
* [[Octane]] (22)
* [[Breakdown (IDW)|Breakdown]] (23)
* [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (24)
}}

==Quotes==
"I'm held together with '''hatred''' and '''spite'''! You can’t crush that!"
:— '''Shockwave'''

"This blade '''hungers''' for the foul sparks of Decepticons! I hear its song! It '''fuels''' me!"
:— '''Elita Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Last seen briefly in [[Transformers (2023) issue 27|issue #27]], Shockwave is still missing his head and gun-arm. His arm was removed and his head was crushed by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] during their climactic battle in [[Transformers (2023) issue 12|issue #12]]. His signature solitary optic still floats above his neck, connected just barely by a wire or two.
* While most of the Decepticons who make up Shockwave's forces are new introductions to the Energon Universe, Ratbat and Thrust previously appeared in [[Transformers (2023) issue 17|issue #17]].
* Ultra Magnus has come a long way toward overcoming the trauma that Shockwave inflicted on him while captured (which Elita rescued him from in [[Transformers (2023) issue 7|issue #7]]). During his last encounter with the Decepticon commander in [[Transformers (2023) issue 11|issue #11]], Magnus fled in a panic. Now he is able to confront his torturer head-on.
* Acidstorm asks where Jetfire has been hiding all this time. Readers saw Jetfire depart Cybertron in search of potential energy sources before the war fully broke out in [[Transformers (2023) issue 13|issue #13]]. Ultimately, Jetfire would miss the entirety of the war, crashing on a planetoid and not being reactivated for millions of years until [[Darak]] and [[Solila]] found him in ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 1|#1]], the very beginning of the Energon Universe.
* Elita Prime unveils her [[alternate mode|alt-mode]] which, as might be expected from her new winged backpack, is a sort of flying Cybertronian car.
* Alpha Trion was previously mentioned and seen in flashback in [[Void Rivals issue 17|''Void Rivals'' #17]], when [[Beta (G1)|Zerta Trion]] revealed the backstory of the [[Sacred Ring]] to Solila.

===''Transformers'' references===
* Bulkhead remarks on the shoddy construction of the space bridge, echoing his ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' [[Bulkhead (Animated)|counterpart's]] space bridge expertise.
* Much like the [[2005 IDW continuity]] before, the Energon Universe iteration of Blackarachnia is visually based on her [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]].
* Knock Out refers to Breakdown as "my dear". Their relationship was something fans read into about their ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Transformers: Prime]]'' incarnations, but was later codified in the [[2005 IDW continuity]]. The pair are also seen attacking Bulkhead, who was positioned as Breakdown's rival in the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|''Transformers: Prime'' cartoon]].
* Knock Out's forehead spike is yellow. While not it's traditional color, it does have precedent with both his ''[[Knock Out (Prime)#Beast Hunters|Beast Hunters]]'' and ''[[Knock Out (Prime)#Adventure|Adventure]]'' toys.
* Lugnut expounds on the glory of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], just as his [[Lugnut (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]] was so fond of doing.
* Lockdown remarks on Jazz's head making a nice trophy. Taking trophies from his captured enemies was a favorite hobby of [[Lockdown (Animated)|''Animated'' Lockdown]]. Going after Jazz in particular may be because his [[Jazz (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]] was part of the [[Cyber-Ninja Corps]] that Lockdown was once a member of.
* Elita Prime asks the Matrix to "light [their] [[darkest hour]]", the phrase most associated with the Matrix from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. When it initially refuses to do anything, her frustration and demand that it "open!" resembles that of Ultra Magnus when the Matrix failed to open for him in the film, although Elita refrains from swearing and the Matrix does eventually do something for her.
* The Star Saber is the ancient weapon of [[Prima]], leader of the [[Thirteen|Thirteen Primes]].
* Elita slices off Skyquake's right arm, echoing a similar injury sustained by the [[Skyquake (Prime)|zombified Skyquake]] in ''Transformers: Prime''.
* [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] was a one-episode villain from the ''Prime'' episode "[[Con Job]]", where he was a [[Shifter]] who infiltrated the Autobots by disguising himself as [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]. He tries the same trick here by taking the form of Jazz, but Elita sees through it.
* Elita seems to have a personal enmity with Blackarachnia, which may be a reference to how her Animated counterpart was originally that continuity's version of Elita-One before she was mutated into a [[technorganic]] being.
* In a surprising bit of consistency [[The Transformers: Windblade|most]] [[Transformers: Legacy|new]] [[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|series]] which feature the characters tend to ignore, ''every'' new Decepticon that originated in ''Prime'' and ''Animated'' lack noses.

===Errors===
* Ultra Magnuses' antenna are still being colored blue.
* In the last panel of the second page, Elita says "We'll better avoid detection if we say low." "Say" is clearly supposed to be "stay", just missing the "t".
* The first panel of page 3, Bulkhead says he needs to "take a knee for second", forgetting the second "a".

===Other notes===
* In the letters pages, Kirkman alludes to that bot seen in [[Megatron (G1)#Energon Universe|Megatron's]] vision of the [[Matrix of Oppression]] last issue, who was absolutely ''not'' the recently-deceased Autobot [[Trailbreaker (G1)#Energon Universe| Trailbreaker]], because that guy's like, '''super''' dead, m'kay. Nope, no siree, not a chance, keep dreamin'…
* The specific “non-80s character” Kirkman alluded to back in the letters pages of [[Transformers (2023) issue 29|issue 29]] turned out to be Lugnut, though he’s joined by ''many'' other Decepticons not mentioned by the reader.
* Energon Experience: Presented by Skybound Executive Editor Ben Abernathy.
** '''Character Spotlight:''' Shockwave
** '''Name That Decepticon!:''' Spotlights Shockwave's forces from this issue.
** '''Creator Spotlight:''' Ben asks Jason Howard what his alt-mode would be. Jason answers coffee. Or, if he were a triple changer, coffee and a basketball.
* [[Acid Storm (disambiguation)|Acidstorm]]'s name is typically spelled with a space, but in this issue it's all one word. Deliberate change or typo? We will have to see!

===Covers===
* '''Cover A:''' Shockwave, by [[David Nakayama]]
* '''Cover B:''' Ultra Magnus, [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]], and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], by [[Daniel Warren Johnson]] and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C:''' Octane, Thrust, and Lugnut, by Jason Howard and [[Annalisa Leoni]].
* '''Cover D:''' Elita One, [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], Bluestreak, and Cliffjumper by [[Lesley Li]].
* '''Cover E:''' Design schematics for Shockwave, by [[E. J. Su]].

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===Reprints===
* '''''Transformers Volume 6: Decepticons Attack!''''' ([[December 9]], [[2026]]) ISBN 1534332634 / ISBN 978-1534332638 
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #31–36.
** Trade paperback format.

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==External links==

==References==
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Menasor (G1)

2026-05-13T22:48:17Z

Cydra: /* 2005 IDW continuity */

{{disambig3|Menasor}}
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{{featured}}
:''Menasor is a [[Decepticon]] [[combiner]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Menasor studioox.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Dennis the Menasor]]
'''Menasor''' was meant to be the ultimate Decepticon weapon, and perhaps he would have been if not for the fatal flaw in his design. His mind was designed to merge the psyches of the five [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] who compose his form. Unfortunately the great depth of resentment the four limb components feel towards [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], plus the extreme differences in attitude that makes them less a team and more a destruction derby, and of course the tiny detail that they're all psychotic, has created a primal psychological rift and left Menasor an unpredictable mass of conflicting, chaotic impulses.

Extremely powerful, highly mentally unstable, and prone to violent tantrums where he lashes out at anything in range, Menasor is not a weapon to point and fire, but a raging monster to turn loose on the battlefield and then get as far out of range as possible.

Menasor is the combined form of all five Stunticons:

*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (torso)
*[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (left arm)
*[[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] (left leg)
*[[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]] (right arm)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (right leg)

In some universes, [[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]] or [[Brake-Neck (G1)|Brake-Neck]] replaces Wildrider on the team, and sometimes the "[[roller car]]" or [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]] act as a sixth component forming a chestplate for the combiner.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Roger C. Carmel]] (English, "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2" only), [[Regis Cordic]] (English), [[Kōji Totani]] (Japanese)|[[Zhan Che]] (Chinese), [[Toni Orlandi]] (Italian, second dub), [[Edgar Wald]] (Latin American), [[Willi Röbke]] (German, ''Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1''), [[Thomas Rau]] (German, ''The Ultimate Weapon''), [[Christoph Jablonka]] (German, Generation 2 Dub of ''The Ultimate Weapon''), [[Georges Atlas]] (European French, "Cosmic Rust"), [[Jean Roche]] (European French, "Masquerade"), [[Francis Lax]] (European French, "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1"), Unknown actors (European French, "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2", "Trans-Europe Express"), [[Júlio Chaves]] (Portuguese), [[Paulo Flores]] (Portuguese, "Masquerade")}}

[[File:KtVS2 Introducing Menasor.jpg|thumb|left|Don't offend the little ones, Prime!]]
Created by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] to counteract the [[Autobot]]s' rule of the road, the Stunticons were powerful in their own right, but were also equipped with a secret ability by the Decepticon leader: they were the second Decepticon combiner team, able to merge into the towering Menasor. Megatron had the Stunticons unveil their combined form to battle the Autobots' new team, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], but [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] had predicted Menasor's existence, and had given the Aerialbots the power to combine into [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]. Menasor quickly took the upper hand in the fight that ensued between the two giants, his sheer aggression driving the Autobot combiner back, trapping him in a landslide. Just as Menasor was charging his opponent with intent to impale him on a factory smokestack, however, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] appeared to intercept the Stunticon gestalt's attack. Omega freed Superion, and the two Autobots overpowered Menasor, forcing him to disengage and retreat. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

[[File:CosmicRust Menasor holds aloft bug.jpg|thumb|By the power of bumblebees!]]
When the Autobots obtained the weather-manipulating [[Pearl of Bahoudin]], Megatron had the Stunticons merged into Menasor to reclaim the device. His heavy-handed efforts did more harm than good, however, as the Pearl was knocked free from [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]]'s grasp and was swept up into a cyclone of its own making. Megatron abandoned the field of battle, leaving Menasor to menace the Autobots until the Pearl's storms wiped out all life on Earth. Bumblebee, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] tried burying Menasor in a crevasse, but the giant's prodigious strength allowed him to tear free easily, forcing the Autobots back into a corner as he pressed his attack. Moments before the Autobots met their end, the <s>raging jackass</s> champion driver [[Auggie Cahnay (G1)|Auggie Cahnay]] hopped a cliff in his specially-designed car, launching it full speed ''straight into Menasor's face.'' Even Menasor couldn't shrug off an impact like that, and went down like a sack of tironium bricks. {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}}

Menasor's size and strength were brought into play when the Decepticons targeted the [[Statue of Liberty]] for destruction, as he could wield the [[Antilla]]n [[Lightning Bug]] heat ray as a hand-held weapon. The Autobots defend the statue, and before Menasor could open fire with the Lightning Bug, a strafing run from the Aerialbots caused him to drop the weapon. His flying foes combined into Superion and the two titans grappling over the weapon until Superion triumphed, throwing Menasor so hard that he splintered into his component Stunticons, giving the Aerialbot combiner the chance to destroy the Lightning Bug. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}}

[[File:Masquerade Menasors.JPG|left|thumb|"If you are me, then who am I? This is all way too confusing for me."]]
While gathering up the components required for a new Decepticon laser weapon, the Stunticons wound up being captured by the Autobots. Looking to find out what Megatron was up to, a squad of Autobots used [[camouflage paint]] to disguise themselves as Stunticons to infiltrate the Decepticons camp, but while they were away on the mission, Breakdown managed to shake the true Stunticons free from their cells. The team united into Menasor, who felled their Autobot captors, then smashed his way out of the Autobots' volcano and took off for the Decepticons' temporary base. His arrival confused everyone, as he insisted that the "Stunticons" already present were impostors, but the Autobots were able to maintain their deception a while longer by "merging" into a Menasor form of their own through a combination of [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]'s magnetic powers and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]'s illusions. The two Menasors battled, but the Autobots' makeshift combination couldn't stand up to a slash from the true Menasor's sword, and their true identities were exposed. Menasor stood strong in the hail of firepower the Autobots proceeded to unleash against him, but when a cavalry of other Autobots then arrived, the combiner decided he had had enough, and fled. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

[[File:FiveFaces1 Menasor wields sword.jpg|thumb|I'll kill you if you point out that I'm just Motormaster with some cars attached to my arms!]]
When the treacherous [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] rampaged with his new [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] army, Megatron requested the assistance of the Stunticons, only to be rebuffed by Drag Strip. The Stunticons finally decided to take notice when the Combaticons' combined form of [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] defeated [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]; at first, the rowdy bunch of cars did not care if Megatron was destroyed, but they realized Starscream would not simply stop at eliminating his former leader. The team quickly formed Menasor, who dispatched Bruticus with one mighty punch. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

In 2005, following their expulsion from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Stunticons retreated with the rest of the Decepticons to the planet of [[Chaar]]. When [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] returned with a pittance of [[energon]] to go around, the Decepticons began fighting over the small handful of cubes, but Menasor held back until a victor had emerged in the form of Devastator, whom he then attacked. Menasor chopped the energy-deprived [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]] combiner into his constituent 'bots, but before he could claim his prize, the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] swooped in to snatch up the cube. At that point, [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] arrived to chastise the squabbling Decepticons; Menasor and Astrotrain shared a wearied look as Cyclonus and the [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]]s mindlessly chanted their loyalty to the absent [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}}

In 2006, the Stunticons attempted to attack a weakened [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]], who was missing [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]], as he rescued a falling train. Unfortunately for them, no sooner had they combined into Menasor than [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] blasted their combined form in the back, disabling him before he even laid a hand on Defensor. {{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====
{{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above, except the events of 2006 take place in 2010, and many additional stories are inserted into the timeline.}}
=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' story pages=====
[[File:FSRLFstorypage combaticon menasor.jpg|thumb|left|Brutisor, or Menacus. You decide!]]
When Menasor clashed with Superion in the heart of a major metropolitan area, the Stunticon combiner took the upper hand in the fight, but was bested when the Aerialbots separated and bound their opponent with energy ropes, making him an easy target for [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]'s firepower. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 8|Story page #8}} Later, Menasor teamed up with Devastator to wreak some havoc on the Autobots, but the Autobots had some new backup in the form of Defensor. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 12|Story page #12}}

During a later battle with the Autobots, Motormaster combined with the Combaticons to form a variant version of Menasor with [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] and [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] as arms, and [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] as legs. The Autobots were aghast at the sight of this new menace, {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 13|Story page #13}} but likely not ''quite'' as aghast as they were at the sight of Menasor, Devastator, and Bruticus's [[:File:GestaltTrioTVMagazine.jpg|deformed bodies]] when they later gathered for another major battle. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 16|Story page #16}}

=====Scramble City=====
{{voiceactor|[[Kōji Totani]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:Scramblecity breakdown forms an arm.jpg|thumb]]

After the Aerialbots prevented an attempt by the Decepticons to attack the subterranean construction site of their Scramble City project, the Stunticons were called into action and soon combined into Menasor to battle their airborne rivals. When Superion unveiled the full extent of the Aerialbots' [[Scramble Power]], reconfiguring his limbs to increase his power, Menasor shocked the Autobots by revealing that he too had the same ability. The Stunticons had a slightly better handle on the power, too; when [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] forgot his position on the combiner, leaving Superion legless, Menasor disconnected Wildrider and had him take the place of Superion's missing limb, crippling the Aerialbot gestalt. A barrage from the other Autobots severed Wildrider, and the restored Superion toppled Menasor, but the Combaticons then arrived to aid the Stunticons. Menasor and Bruticus tag-teamed Superion, but were both stopped when [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City itself]] was brought into battle to end the conflict. {{storylink|Scramble City: Mobilization}}

=====''Transformers 2010'' story pages=====
[[File:2010storypage mixed up menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|left]]
Following the return of Galvatron and their alliance with the [[Quintesson]]s, the Decepticons renewed their offensive against the Autobots. Menasor, Bruticus and Devastator joined the Decepticons' newest combiner [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] in battling Superion and Defensor, though Predaking did most of the work as Menasor held back and smirked at the sight of his old rivals taking a beating. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)#Part 2|Story page #2}} To fight back, the Autobots had to take the threat posed by Menasor and the other combiners into consideration and develop appropriate countermeasures. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)#Part 4|Story page #4}}

In an "imaginary tale" that proposed an alliance between the Stunticons, Aerialbots, Combaticons and Protectobots, a version of Menasor was formed who had Vortex for a right arm, [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] as his left arm, [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] as his right leg, and Fireflight as his left leg. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)#Part 5|Story page #5}}

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
{{voiceactor|[[Hōchū Ōtsuka]], [[Tomomichi Nishimura]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:HM2 menasor uses hotrod as shield.jpg|thumb|''"Made... In... China...?"'']]
The Stunticons participated in Galvatron's siege on Cybertron in the year 2011. They formed Menasor to fight their Autobot counterparts, but were steamrolled by the might and firepower of the [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Battleship Maximus]]. Returning to Earth, they were deployed to stop what appeared to be an attempt by the Aerialbots to steal a cache of Decepticon energon in the desert, but this was a feint to keep them busy and prevent them from interfering in Hot Rod's quest for the missing [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Realizing they had been had, the team formed Menasor and sped to Hot Rod's location in the Arctic, but Superion followed and took Menasor down despite his attempt to use Hot Rod as a shield. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}}

In [[San Francisco]], Menasor assisted Bruticus in using [[buridanka|a carnivorous plant]] to distract the Autobots from [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s plans on [[Zarak (planet)|Zarak]]. He fought against the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]]' combined form, [[Computron (G1)|Computron]]. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}} Much later, the Stunticons assembled in the desert as their Ninja Commander [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] began issuing orders. They formed Menasor and took part in the escalating Decepticon war effort as five separate Autobot outposts were attacked simultaneously at Sixshot's command. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}}

[[File:HMep35 sixshot strikes menasor.jpg|thumb|left|he got hit with a getsuga tensho'']]
Following the Decepticons' apparent expulsion from Earth, Menasor was among the group who secretly did not leave the planet, but who instead withdrew to the sub-oceanic city of [[Lemuria (myth)|Lemuria]], where he oversaw the processing of [[crysmagnetal]] for Scorponok's fiendish [[Death Tower]]s. Following the towers' deployment, he joined the entire Decepticon army in battling the Autobots at the North Pole, where he would have killed [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] if Sixshot hadn't intervened on the boy's behalf, charging the combiner head-on and toppling him. When Scorponok's plan was foiled, Menasor escaped into space along with the rest of the Decepticons as the battle climaxed. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

=====''Zone''=====
{{voiceactor|[[Masato Hirano]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:MenasorZone1.jpg|thumb|Those racecars are, like, 50 stories tall.]]

Menasor was among the [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] recruited by the Decepticons' newest [[Emperor of Destruction]], [[Violengiguar]]. Outfited with new armor and weaponry—including a giant shield that he could sling at his enemies, and some kind of funky transparent-green Phantom-of-the-Opera-lookin' half-face mask—Menasor was somewhat dubiously christened the "Intelligence General" of the group, and sent forth to conquer planets in pursuit of Violengiguar's goal of creating a [[Decepticon Zone]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}} At some point, the Generals schooled [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them more than formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}

Together with Overlord and Abominus, Menasor laid waste to the world of Feminia, destroying the entire planet and nearly killing Autobot leader Star Saber. With the Autobots left in disarray, Violengiguar gathered all nine of his generals together and instructed them to gather the energy sources necessary for him to create a Decepticon Zone: the Energon Z of planet Zone, and the mysterious [[Zodiac]], concealed on Earth. Menasor joined Overlord, Abominus and Bruticus in attacking Zone; the armament of the Autobots' Zone Base was no match for the giants, and Menasor smashed the [[Gasoline Base]] component to pieces with his huge shield. Overlord tore the Energon Z power core out of Zone Base, and the team immediately departed to redenzvous with the other generals and hand over the Energon Z so they could take it with them to Earth. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}

=====e-HOBBY comics=====
Menasor was charging into battle against the Autobots when the dimensional intruder [[Grand Scourge]] suddenly dropped in through a tear in space-time. Menasor cared little about the new arrival's identity, moving in to crush him immediately. But with a single swift blow of Grand Scourge's [[Matrix Breaker]] sword, Menasor was split into his individual components. The Stunticons were then forced to combine with Grand Scourge, save Motormaster, who fled in terror. {{storylink|Decepticon Dark Commander Grand Scourge}}

=====''Generations Selects Special Comic''=====
In [[2050]], Menasor and the Decepticons joined the revolution of the [[Selector]]s against their human masters. The [[Quintesson]]s and the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcon]]s sided with the humans, and [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] attacked all while craving Angolmois Energy. In battle with a scrambled version of [[Computron (G1)|Computron]], Abominus crashed into Bruticus and Menasor and stole some of their limb components to make an even stronger version of himself. {{storylink|Abominus comic 2}}

=====''End of G1 Universe''=====
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====''TV Magazine'' comic continuity====
=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====
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In the late 1980s, under orders from [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], Menasor joined the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Though challenged by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobots, Menasor made short work of them by punching all he could in the face with his giant fist. His evil was bested, however, when Prime drove up a ramp and punched ''him'' in the face. The blow was powerful enough to force him to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}}

Menasor later attacked a baseball stadium where [[Kenji]] was on a date, intending to turn it into a new Decepticon base. Kenji quickly summoned [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] and [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] to battle the Decepticon, but Menasor was immediately aided by [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. After a short skirmish, Decepticon victory seemed in the bag until Menasor got his legs knocked off. [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] and [[Blades (G1)|Blades]] then latched onto the stumps and blasted Menasor away, dumping him in the Pacific Ocean, far away from Japan. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 5|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #5}}

=====''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers''=====
The Stunticons joined the entire Decepticon army in a raid on [[Feminia]] to capture the [[Prime Energy Tower]]. Menasor was formed along with [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] to oppose the Autobot battalion guarding the tower; they were met by the Autobots' own big soldiers Superion, Defensor and Omega Supreme, but with the addition of Predaking to the fray, the Autobots were soon outnumbered. The [[Omnibot (G1)|Omnibots]] were there to save the day, tying Predaking's legs together and causing him to topple over and crush Menasor and the other combiners under his weight. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 5|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #5}}

=====''The Great Transformer War''=====
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After tearing Superion into his component Aerialbots, the Stunticons merged into Menasor and joined Bruticus in defending [[Trypticon (G1)|Dinobase]] against incursion by the Protectobots. While his men kept the pair busy, [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] used his repair bay mode to fix up the injured Aerialbots, who then blinded the giants with their dazzling "Scramble Shot" fly-by attack. {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 1|The Great Transformer War #1}}

=====''Super-God Masterforce'' comic=====
The image of Menasor was among a group of holograms of older Decepticons projected by [[King Poseidon]] to deceive and confuse the Autobots under [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]]'s command. {{storylink|Burn, Chokon! New Commander Super Ginrai!}}

=====''Zone'' comic=====
Menasor was among the [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] recruited by the Decepticons' newest [[Emperor of Destruction]], [[Violengiguar]]. Outfited with new armor and weaponry—including a giant shield that he could sling at his enemies, and some kind of funky transparent-green Phantom-of-the-Opera-lookin' half-face mask—Menasor was somewhat dubiously christened the "Intelligence General" of the group, and sent forth to conquer planets in pursuit of Violengiguar's goal of creating a [[Decepticon Zone]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}} At some point, the Generals schooled [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them more than formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}

Following the generals' successful destruction of the planet Feminia, which badly wounded current Autobot leader [[Star Saber (G1)|Victory Saber]], a team consisting of Menasor, Bruticus, [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] attacked the leaderless Autobot [[Micromaster]]s on the planet [[Micro|Zone]] and stole their [[Energon Z]] power source, a key component in Violengiguar's plan. As they came under an intimidating amount of firepower from [[Zone Base]], they feld with their prize; the Autobots tried to pursue them into space, but were stopped by [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] and his energy web. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Zone}}

====Full Throttle Scramble Power!====
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On a mission to steal energy from a power plant, the Stunticons formed Menasor to fight off the interfering Superion. With Superion weakened by a blast from the Decepticons' new electromagnetic [[Omega Wave Cannon]], Menasor reconfigured his limbs, positioning Drag Strip and Wildrider as his arms for a [[gravito-gun|Double Graviton Gun]] attack that pinned the Aerialbot down. Unfortunately for Menasor, Metroplex and the other Autobots soon arrived, and the sight of the giant city-bot left the Stunticon combiner momentarily stunned, allowing Superion to right himself. Superion disengaged Slingshot, who knocked Wildrider loose from Menasor and took his place, immobilizing the Decepticon so that Superion could stomp him into defeat. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}

====''The Animated Movie''====
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During the [[Battle of Autobot City]] in 2005, Menasor and Bruticus staged an attack on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], occupying the attentions of Omega Supreme, Superion and Defensor and preventing them from coming to the aid of their comrades in the besieged city. {{storylink|Transformers: The Animated Movie|The Animated Movie trade paperback}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
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{{Wingsnote}}
After Cybertron entered its new Golden Age, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons still raged in space and on Earth. Menasor was permanently destroyed in battle with his nemesis, [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]. Only Breakdown, acting as one of the giant's legs at the time, managed to survive the colossal damage Menasor suffered. He swore revenge against the last surviving [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]], [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]], dedicating himself to finishing the destruction his team had started. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}
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===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
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''Menasor first appeared in a series of dreams experienced by [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]], in which the young boy saw the Decepticon combiner ambush Superion while the Autobot was distracted after defeating [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] in combat, only to be beaten back and buried in a landslide. Realizing in short order that these dreams were, in fact, visions of the future granted to Buster by the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] his brain had briefly housed, the Autobots and Decepticons devised a way to peer into his mind. In this dream-vision, they watched as the Stunticons formed Menasor to combat the Protectobots as they attempted to save humans at the [[Pullen Power Plant]]. Menasor found himself physically outmatched by the Protectobot gestalt Defensor, but back-up soon arrived in the form of Bruticus. While Defensor and Bruticus grappled, Superion arrived to engage Menasor; unfortunately for the Stunticon combiner, his personality problems handicapped him, with Dead End taking objection to being ordered about, leading to him firing his weapons too late to hit Superion and accidentally blasting Bruticus instead. Menasor attempted to flee, but Superion stopped his flight by opening a crevasse under his feet with his [[stress fracture cannon]].'' {{storylink|Second Generation!}} {{storylink|The Special Teams Have Arrived}}

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''Using these dreams as a blueprint'', the Decepticons constructed the Stunticons and imbued them with life via one of [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s, which siphoned off the energies of the Creation Matrix as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] used it to bring the similarly created Aerialbots to life. When the two teams subsequently met in battle over the Autobot named [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and his human passenger, [[Donny Finkleberg]], they merged into Menasor and Superion for the first time. The two gargantuan gladiators shattered a freeway overpass (or was it an entrance ramp...?) before engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Unfortunately for the Autobots, the ever-unhelpful robot hunter named [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]] entered the fray for [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|RAAT]] and zapped Superion, temporarily overloading his circuitry and allowing Menasor to administer the coup-de-grace, courtesy of his [[cyclone gun]]. Skids and Finkleberg disappeared in the melee, though, forcing the Stunticons to disconnect and begin searching for them anew. {{storylink|Heavy Traffic!}}

''Later, Menasor attacked a [[G.B. Blackrock|Blackrock]] fuel plant, once again drawing the attention of the Aerialbots. [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] and his team were forced to combine into Superion in order to battle the united Stunticons. Unfortunately for Silverbolt, this meant his teammates learned about his fear of heights due to the mental bleedover. Ashamed, he caused Superion to fight back extremely savagely against Menasor, almost injuring innocent civilians in the process.'' {{storylink|...Perchance to Dream}}
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====Marvel UK future timelines====
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In [[2008]], the renegade Decepticons [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] teamed up with the freelance peacekeeping agent named [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]] to assassinate Commander [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]]. Cut off from the battle by a set of blast doors, [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] summoned Menasor to help him break through and deal with the traitors. The super-robot eventually succeeded, but it was too late. Shockwave was dead, and the Decepticons were forced to accept Scourge and Cyclonus as their new leaders. {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

===The Special Teams===
A malfunction in the systems of the Autobots' new combiner team, the Aerialbots, caused them to briefly defect to the Decepticons, but when they returned to the Autobot ranks, Megatron was inspired to compensate for their loss by creating the Stunticons. After Starscream collected the freshly-created Stunticons from Cybertron, Megatron ordered them all to rendezvous with the rest of the Decepticon force at the recently evacuated [[Pullen Power Plant]]. The Stunticons merged into Menasor to smash through the Protectobots guarding the plant, but Menasor was unprepared for the Protectobots' own ability to combine into Defensor. Bruticus soon arrived to back him up, but Superion then join the fray; Menasor and Superion squared off, with the Aerialbot combiner successfully damaging Menasor's armor with his stress fracture cannon. Having taken enough lumps for one day, Menasor disengaged into the individual Stunticons and fled. {{storylink|The Special Teams}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Menasor was one of several combiner robots based on the original prototype, [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. He existed as the combined form of Motormaster's Stunticons, but was effectively forced into retirement by the [[Crisis Intervention Accord]], which outlawed the use of super-robots among the factions. {{storylink|Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages|War Within: The Dark Ages}}

At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a [[Detention Banks|prison facility]], much to the relief of security officer [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye #6}} However, in the year 2003, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] surreptitiously release the Stunticons, unleashing Menasor on an unsuspecting world once again. The deranged combiner ran amok for a while, crushing Defensor and the Wreckers when they tried to stand in his way, until [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived and took up the fight. Insulting the individual Stunticons as he battled, Magnus was able to fracture Menasor's mind, causing the five Stunticons' consciousnesses to began to bickering inside his head over whose fault it was that they were losing. Temporarily paralyzed by this mental turmoil, Menasor was left wide open, and Ultra Magnus rammed the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his disabled component parts. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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When a group of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[Cobra]] members ran into the Stunticons in 1930's [[Chicago]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] warned them about the existence of Menasor. Thankfully, Motormaster wasn't around to form the giant. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}}

After the Stunticons were recruited into [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]]'s army, Menasor attacked an Autobot peace ceremony, teaming up with [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] and [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]] to defeat [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} He then tracked down Optimus Prime, stomped on a [[Optimus Prime's rescuees|civilian]] Optimus had just saved, and delivered [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] to pass a message on to the Autobot leader. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}
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===''The Beast Within''===
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Just as the Decepticons were on the brink of a great victory over the Autobots, the tables turned when the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] revealed their long-hidden combined form, [[Beast (G1)|The Beast]]. This misshapen monstrosity's raw power struck fear in all the Decepticons, but the Constructicons, Combaticons and Stunticons found the courage to combine and counter-attack. When the Beast effortlessly felled Bruticus and Devastator, however, Menasor thought twice about going through with an attack, and instead cowered before the monster, begging for mercy. But the Beast had none: it seized Menasor, lifted him above its head, and tore him to pieces. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===''Mystery of Convoy''===
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====''Alternity''====
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One of a higher-dimensional [[Megatron (G1)#Alternity|Megatron]]'s many pawns in a "[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|game full of death and suffering]]", Menasor was empowered to be pitted against an [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|avatar]] of a higher-dimensional [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Alternity|Optimus Prime]], alongside endless hordes of other Decepticons. {{storylink|To Die Game!}}

====''Mystery of Convoy'' strategy guide manga====
The five Stunticons confronted Ultra Magnus as he reached the end of the [[Floating City]], combining into Menasor and opening fire on the Autobot. Magnus leapt over their blasts and returned fire, striking the combiner's weak point: the flashing spot in the middle of his forehead. {{storylink|Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)#Menasor's Weak Point is His Forehead!|Menasor's Weak Point is His Forehead!}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
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Gestalt technology was the product of [[Nexus Prime]]'s [[Enigma of Combination]] in the ancient past of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and when it was lost, many dedicated themselves to rediscovering it. {{storylink|The Crucible}} Perhaps the most unexpected success was that accomplished by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], who stole what little of the technology had been re-engineered, reunited the scattered Stunticons after they were left behind on Earth following the Decepticon evacuation of the planet, and gave them the ability to combine into Menasor. Keeping his accomplishment a secret, Swindle forged a phoney alliance with a splinter group of Autobots led by Hot Rod, but once they had completed construction of the spacecraft to take them off Earth, he revealed his intent to steal the ship and kill the Autobots, and had the Stunticons merge into Menasor before their horrified eyes. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|Enemies of the System}} Fortunately for the Autobots, the combination wasn't seamless, and the Stunticons were left with individualized consciousnesses instead of a gestalt Menasor mind. ''Un''fortunately for Swindle's chosen first target, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]], they didn't disagree about killing him...only ''how'' to kill him. The arrival of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] gave Menasor momentary pause, long enough for [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] to recognize how uncoordinated Menasor's mind(s) was, and instruct the Autobots on exploiting that weakness. By selectively targeting the individual Stunticon components, the Autobots forced them to think of their own safety instead of Menasor's, making the giant easy prey. He was overwhelmed by their firepower, and broken down into separate Decepticons before capture. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|Earthworks}}

The Stunticons' makeshift combination would never function again, but represented a further step in the continuing rediscovery of the technology; Shockwave studied the records of his creation, {{storylink|Shockpoint}} which fed into the Decepticons' subsequent perfection of the process. {{storylink|Before the Dawn}} When [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] later took rulership of Cybertron, he encouraged [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] to help him create a functioning combiner of his own, citing Menasor as a particularly worrisome example of a combiner created by an unlikely source. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}}

[[File:CW-returnofmenasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Basically the only time that Menasor posed a threat to anyone... for about five minutes or so.]]
After [[The Question|a particularly humiliating defeat]] resulted in [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] leaving the Stunticons, [[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]] was brought in to replace him. As the Stunticons were explaining to him how they operated, they were approached by Swindle, who piqued their interest by showing them that he had with him the Enigma of Combination. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} Beforehand, Starscream had also arranged for [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]] to join the Stunticons, fully aware that the cop's anger issues would affect the personality of a combiner... {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}}

After using the Enigma to upgrade Menasor—allowing the Stunticons to properly merge their minds—the Stunticons combined, and accompanied Swindle to the colony world of [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], ready to steal anything of value from its people. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} He appeared in front of the [[Alpha Squadron]] to menace his enemies and when [[Afterburner (G2)|one of them]] tried to arrest him, he stomped the poor bot flat. By this point Swindle realized Starscream had arranged for the Stunticons to play villains so that he could take them down and become the "savior" of Caminus, but his attempts to convince Menasor to stand down were in vain due to Blackjack's influence, which turned the combiner into an unhinged, raging monster. Menasor made short work of both Camien defenders and Starscream's reinforcements from Cybertron, but was finally brought down when Starscream and Optimus Prime deployed the Autobot combiner [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], whose mental stability prevailed over Menasor's blind rage. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}}

The Stunticons and Swindle were incarcerated in Starscream's secret prison while Starscream built relations with the Camiens. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} However, in the interim, [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] and the Constructicons returned to Cybertron and tried to use [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] to forcibly sever contact between Cybertron and Caminus, only to bet thwarted when Starscream created the Autobot combiner [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]. {{storylink|The Possible Light}} {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}} Meanwhile, Starscream's advisor [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], also not wanting Starscream to form a Cybertronian empire, was colluding with Prowl. While Starscream gained Devastator's loyalty, Rattrap freed Swindle to cause a distraction while Rattrap freed Prowl. Swindle graciously complied, breaking out the Stunticons and proceeding to lie to them and several Decepticons that a better life awaited them on Caminus. The Stunticons combined into Menasor, leading the charge to Metroplex's space bridge chamber. Menasor tried to enter the portal only for Devastator to oppose him; Defensor and Superion soon joined the four-way fray. During the ensuing clash, a stray shot from Swindle hit the space bridge's control panel and destabilized the portal. Menasor and Superion fell through to an unknown, alien planet and were soon joined by Defensor and then Devastator, who demands that the other three calm down or else he would make them calm down. But then they were joined by the result of Prowl's machinations: the new combiner [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]! {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} The combiners fought as they travelled from planet to planet, and Menasor was subsequently knocked out by Defensor and dragged back to Cybertron, where Windblade and Chromia helped subdue him. {{storylink|All That Remains}}

Later, when the [[Mistress of Flame]] wanted [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] released to Camien custody, she suggested Swindle or Menasor could be handed over instead to face justice for their crimes. Wanting to keep Menasor and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] on his side, Starscream opted to release Chromia. {{storylink|Heavy}}

===''Titanium Series'' Menasor toy bio===
With the help of experimental technology, the gestalt frame of Menasor was unified into a singular body. While the dominant personality of this new body was Motormaster, the constant mental assault on him by the supressed personalities of his Stunticon teammates made Menasor little more than a destructive monster of rage and agony, making him unable to reach his potential to be the ultimate weapon.

Motormaster's control slipped only once in an occasion when Stunticons found themselves united in Menasor. {{storylink|#Titanium Series|Titanium Series Menasor}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
With [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], Menasor attempted to place a giant bust of [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]]'s head atop the Decepticon's solar tower. However, the three were unable to work as a team and sent the tower collapsing on themselves. {{storylink|Megatron's Ambition!? The Solar Tower Is Built!}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
During the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]] in [[Primax 096.0 Beta]], Menasor attacked [[Defensor (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Defensor]] while the Autobot was attempting to evacuate the workers. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
Menasor was among the gathered Decepticons standing safely behind [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s force field when the combined forces of the Autobots and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] came calling. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}}

===''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons===
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The creation of Menasor and his ilk led to Optimus Prime's realization that the Transformers' civil war had become a never-ending arms race, one that could only end in Cybertron's destruction. {{storylink|Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Optimus Prime}}

Menasor and [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] fought one another, a fight that spilled over to [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]. Menasor was able to put down his Autobot enemy for good, but was soon set upon by [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and [[Maxima]]. Declaring that combiners were here to stay, he killed Maxima after she blasted him in the eye - but Maxima's sacrifice allowed Windblade to kill the combiner. {{storylink|The Fall}} For this incident, Windblade swore vengeance against the combiners and all who followed them. {{storylink|Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Windblade}} Menasor's remains were brought back to Cybertron, where Starscream absorbed them into his giant super-combiner form. {{storylink|A War of Giants}}

For some reason or the other, Menasor and [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] were later brought back to life. Probably due to the [[Enigma of Combination]]. {{storylink|Destruction's Dawn}}

Menasor assisted in the reconstruction efforts following the end of the Combiner Wars. {{storylink|Aftermath and Rebirth}} When [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] attacked, he and the other Combiners were recruited by the [[Mistress of Flame]] to search for [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|Our Heroes Respond}} They eventually reached the [[Titan (group)|Titan]], where Menasor got distracted by a flashing button and pressed it, inadvertently launching a [[Emissary (TR)|missile]]. {{storylink|The Fight Begins}} When [[Victorion]] took control of Fortress Maximus's weapons and prepared to fire them at Trypticon, Menasor spoke up in protest, noting that the barrage would hit [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as well, but was overruled. {{storylink|Overlord and Emissary}}

[[File:POTP-Ep2-Volcanicus-Menasor-dies.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
When [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] arrived at Fortress Maximus and revealed the Mistress of Flame had perished, Menasor and the other Combiners assumed him responsible and attacked. Menasor managed to grab Megatron, but was forced to release him after taking a shot to the face from his [[fusion cannon]]. Once Windblade arrived and the fight stopped long enough for Megatron to explain, Menasor fused with the other Combiners using the Enigma of Combination, turning Victorion into a super-Combiner. {{storylink|Desperate Actions}} Unfortunately, they proved no match for Trypticon and were ultimately forced to separate again, though Menasor was quick to jump back into the fray. He and Computron attempted to attack Trypticon's foot to knock him off balance, later joining the others in attacking Trypticon's fortress mode from all sides. {{storylink|In Good Hands}} When Trypticon swallowed Victorion and the Enigma, he used its power to take control of Menasor and the other Combiners, forcing them to attack Maximus and Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Consumed}} Menasor was freed form Trypticon's control after the Titan expelled the Enigma, and he bore witness to the return of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] and the death of Optimus. Believing he intended to restart the Decepticons, Menasor was all but ready to kill Megatron, but cooler heads eventually prevailed and he agreed to follow Megatron's lead in hopes of stopping Megatronus. {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}}

Unfortunately, while the others went searching for the [[Requiem Blaster (Thirteen)|Requiem Blaster]] in [[Primal Swamp]], Menasor and his team were cornered by [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Cron]]. Though he refused to admit Megatron's whereabouts and tried to fight back, he was eventually restrained by Overlord, who forced him to watch as Rodimus destroyed each of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]'s limbs. Finally cracking, Menasor confessed where the others had gone, only for Rodimus to finish Devastator off and Overlord to crush Menasor's neck, killing him again, causing his spark to float away. {{storylink|Volcanicus (episode)|Volcanicus}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Ep1-Menasor-easter-egg.jpg|left|thumb|Teletraan I accurately predicts the Stunticons' release in the [[Transformers: Legacy|next toyline]].]]
Upon exiting the [[Dead Universe]], [[Teletraan I]] was immobilized while processing a massive data upload, {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}} as he was seeing multiple visions of the future, {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}} one of which included Menasor. An ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' monitor would display the future data again after crash landing on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:G1commercial menasor vs superion.jpg|thumb]]
*After some dramatic transforming and posing, the Stunticons and Aerialbots combined to do battle as Menasor and Superion. Superion evaded Menasor's firepower and closed in for a hand-to-hand fight, but Menasor was ready for the Aerialbot combiner and hurled him over his shoulder. Charging in to finish the job, however, Menasor was met by Superion's powerful fist and send reeling backwards to collide with a cliff-face, which collapsed and buried him. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Aerialbots and Stunticons|Aerialbots and Stunticons commercial}}
*When Menasor was wreaking havoc in a human city, either [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] or [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] stepped forth to oppose him. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#2015|Transformers Generations: Combiner Wars commercials}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''===
*''Stage'': 5
*''Point value'': 5000
*''Hit points'': 4
[[File:MysteryofConvoy Menasor.png|right|thumb|Menasor, famous for... flying in place.]]

Menasor guards the end of the [[Floating City]], in a great dark room with three hovering platforms, firing periodic laser blasts across the room. His armor makes him invulnerable to damage, except for one spot: a conveniently glowing multicolored spot on his forehead crest. Shot enough times there, and Menasor will fall. {{storylink|Transformers: Mystery of Convoy}}
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===''Transformers: The Headmasters''===
[[File:HeadmastersNES chromedome vs menasor.jpg|thumb]]
When the Decepticons captured some of the Autobots' greatest warriors, Menasor and [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] stood guard over [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] on the Jail planet. They were defeated and their prisoners were rescued by [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and the other freed Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|Transformers: The Headmasters}}
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===''Transformers Legends''===
The Stunticons were created in response to the failure of a Decepticon campaign to acquire Autobot superfuel. Realizing they needed a strong ground force, the Stunticons were created by modifying Earth vehicles with Cybertronian technology, and then bringing them before Vector Sigma to be imbued with the spark of life. The Autobots brought the Aerialbots to life at the same time, and the Decepticons found themselves on the losing side until the Stunticons merged into Menasor. The Decepticons lost nonetheless, though they acquired the key to Vector Sigma as a consolation prize. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1 (Legends)|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}} Upon discovering that the key could transform Earth's organic matter into metal, the Stunticons merged once more into Menasor to fight against the Aerialbots, who attempted to stop them from transforming Earth into a new Cybertron. Menasor was defeated by Superion. {{storylink|Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Corporal Pig#As Menasor}}
Menasor appears as the third Combiner, unlockable in Challenge Events or with a gem purchase. His head is Corporal Pig's. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers Battle Circuit''===
Menasor, one of the "greatest Transformers of all time," was part of a Decepticon team that participated in a tournament on Cybertron. He faced off against a team of Autobots in a series of one-on-one matches. If he managed to defeat Bumblebee, Rodimus, Grimlock, Jetfire, and Optimus Prime, Menasor was declared to be the tournament's champion! {{storylink|Transformers Battle Circuit}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Menasor.jpg|thumb|My optic sweep specials make me more ineffective at max level!]]
Menasor participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! Menasor could be recruited to a team if all of his components were at max level. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Devastation''===
{{voiceactor|[[James Arnold Taylor]]}}

[[File:Devastation-Menasor.jpg|thumb]]
After being defeated by the Autobots while they tried to retrieve the [[Plasma Core]], Motormaster brought out the rest of the Stunticons to form Menasor. The Autobots were able to get the better of the combiner, but he still tossed the Plasma Core to a waiting Insecticon that delivered it to Megatron (while rather petulantly complaining that no one defeated Menasor). Menasor appeared again on the ''[[Proudstar]]'' to help Devastator stop the Autobots from reaching the [[Ferrotaxis]], but both of the combiners were sent plummeting over the ledge to their apparent doom. {{storylink|Transformers: Devastation}}
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===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
{{charstubgame|{{storylink|Transformers: Frontiers}}}}

===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Menasor_Earth_Wars.jpg|thumb| Offroad not used, because Menasor doesn't want to seem [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|too familiar]]]]

Menasor was formed after a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Rust Renegades, and Lugnut's betrayal so that he could revive Megatron. Motormaster vowed revenge, but the personalities of the Stunticons clashed, and Menasor couldn't exactly be controlled.
{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

Menasor can be formed once all 3 to 4 star Stunticons have been collected.

*'''Class''' - Combiner
* '''Weapons''' - Menasor swings around a large sword to heavily damage any building. His sword is capable of deflecting projectiles and damage. When up close, Menasor can also stomp on enemy defenses.
*'''Abilities''':
**'''Blade Dash''' - Dash straight to a target and slash it for heavy damage
**'''Kinetic Barrier''' - Spin your blade, reflecting 75% of all damage dealt to you and dealing damage to nearby enemies
**'''Internal Conflict''' - Deal heavy damage and disable enemies over a large area while losing 20% of your max Health. If this ability kills you, disable the entire enemy base for 10–15 seconds
*'''Cooldown''': 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:menasor Menasor at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Menasor was the combined form of the Stunticons, and a monstrous force of nature to be reckoned with. {{storylink|Decepticon Directive}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1menasor toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Not [[Masquerade|Optimus Prime and the Autobots in cosplay]].]]
*'''Menasor''' ([[1986]], [[1990]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-55'''
**''Accessories:'' Head, left & right fists, left & right feet, [[roller car]]/chest plate, "blast deflector" waist plate, Motormaster's [[cyclone gun]] and [[ionizer sword]], small Stunticons' individual guns, sticker sheets (both individual packs and giftset)
{{toydesigner|[[Kaoru Matsumoto]] (TakaraTomy)<ref>[https://patents.google.com/patent/USD297039 Menasor's patent] at Google Patents.</ref>|[[Mark Watts]] (packaging artist)}}

:Menasor is formed out of all five Stunticon toys, with Motormaster serving as the central body component, and the four smaller team members as limbs, using additional attachments for Menasor's hands and feet, a mask for his head, waist armor, and a chestplate formed from the "roller car" figure included with Motormaster. He is armed with Motormaster's sword and cyclone rifle. As a "[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1986 (Scramble City and Transformers 2010)|Scramble City]]"-style combiner, Menasor's limbs are fully interchangeable; any of his limb-components, or any members of the other compatible combiner teams, are able to form either an arm or leg for the giant. Menasor is the smallest, but sturdiest, of the Scramble City combiners.

:Along with Metroplex, Superion, Bruticus, and Defensor, Menasor was designed for an aborted ''[[Diaclone]]'' line that would have been called ''[[Diaclone#Jizai Gattai|Jizai Gattai]]'' (自在合体 "Limitless Combination"), which was shelved to make way for the ''Transformers'' line. Menasor's five Stunticon components could be purchased either individually, or in a giftset. A Japanese "VS-A" set that would have packaged Menasor with Superion was planned, but went unreleased.

:In his original release year of 1986, Menasor's five Stunticon components could be purchased either individually, or in a [[giftset]]. The individual Stunticons were later reissued in [[Europe]] as part of the ''[[Classics (Europe)|Classics]]'' series in 1990.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Menasor/menasor.htm More information on Menasor at TFU.info]''
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===''Generation 2''===
[[File:G2 Stunticons 1995 Tomart.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|[[Generation 2 Defensor and Menasor|Yowza]].]]
*'''Menasor''' (unreleased)
**''Accessories:'' Head, left & right fists, left & right feet, [[roller car]]/chest plate, "blast deflector" waist plate, Motormaster's cyclone gun and sword, small Stunticons' individual guns
:[[Redeco]]s of all five Stunticons were planned for release in [[1994]], but were canceled, with only a handful of test shots and production samples made, including a small run of [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdowns]] produced as a [[BotCon 1994|1994 BotCon]] exclusive. Given the ''Generation 2'' toyline's handling of other combiners, it is unlikely Menasor would have been released as a giftset even if the individual figures had made it to retail.

:While the number of collectors who own ''Generation 2'' Menasor is vanishingly small in ''this'' universe, at least one collector in [[Unicron Trilogy|''another'' universe]] has managed to snag himself [[Generation 2 Defensor and Menasor|a set]]—Decepticon toy aficionado [[Shortround (Cybertron)|Shortround]]!

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===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:Universe2003MenasorTestshot.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Man. He looks like a rolling bruise.]]
*'''Menasor''' (Ultra Class, <s>[[2004]]</s>?)
:A redeco of ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' Ultra Class [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Optimus Prime]] (himself a [[retool]]ing of Generation 1 [[Thunder Clash#Toys|Thunder Clash]]) as Menasor was planned as a store exclusive for the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe toyline]]'', but was ultimately canceled. It was initially supposed to be Motormaster, but trademark issues forced a name change.

::*''[http://www.iaconone.com/datatrax/datatrax_002.php Unproduced Universe Menasor package art at Iacon One Datatrax]''

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===''Classics''===
[[File:ClassicsLOCMenasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Not [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]].]]
*'''Menasor''' (Classic Legends, [[2007]])
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (deco artist)}}
:This black and purple [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]] [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends of Cybertron]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#LOC1|Optimus Prime]] transforms into a futuristic truck cab. It was intended to be Motormaster, but the name [[trademark]] could not be obtained. The toy was given the name "Menasor", and the super robot's function of "Super Warrior," effectively making him Menasor, not Motormaster.

:This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Zone]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/ClassicsMenasor/menasor.htm More information on ''Classics'' Menasor at TFU.info.]''
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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium-toy Menasor.JPG|upright=1.67|thumb|Not [[Dark Hot Rod]].]]
*'''Menasor''' (6" Cybertron Heroes, [[2007]])
**''Accessories:'' Rifle, display stand
:A [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] [[exclusive]] first sold at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2007, Menasor is a redeco of the ''[[Titanium Series]]'' [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Rodimus Prime]], transforming into a Cybertronic Winnebago-ish thing.

:According to this Menasor's bio, he is a single entity built from the bodies of the individual Stunticons and controlled by their psychotic, permanently unified minds.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/SDCCMenasor/menasor.htm More information on ''Titanium'' Menasor on TFU.info.]''
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy Menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Now, where's my Trucker hat?]]
*'''Menasor''' (Micro-Changer Combiner, 2013)
**''Set number'': '''A7308'''
**''Pieces'': '''90'''
{{toydesigner|[[Ed Masiello]] (Hasbro)}}

:Part of the third wave of [[Kreon]] [[Micro-Changer]] combiner sets, Menasor comes as a set of four component Kreons: Breakdown, Dead End, Drag Strip, and Motorbreath. The Kreons can be built into their robot modes or their vehicle modes, or they can be built into Menasor by taking them apart and combining their pieces.

:Like the entire Micro Changer combiner sets, Menasor comes with only one Kre-O display brick, and a sticker sheet composed of his leg detailing and a ''Kre-O'' logo. Due to the leg stickers being slightly transparent, applying them into the black-colored leg parts can render the details being semi-transparent. The instructions also did not mention on where you should put the ''Kre-O'' logo sticker. Also, Menasor's combined mode's waist part is somehow prone to falling off from the assembly while posing, and he has a problem standing straight due to how the legs are constructed.

:As Kreon combiners only involve four components, ''Kre-O'' [[Wildrider (G1)#Kre-O|Brake-Neck]] instead ended up as a Series 4 blind-bagged figure. However he can built along with the gestalt if you have any creativity.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/Kre-OMenasor/menasor.htm More information on Menasor at TFU.info]''

{{anchor|Combiner3pack}}
*'''Combiner Robot Mega Pack''' (3-pack, 2016)
**''Set number'': '''B6425'''
**''Pieces'': '''245'''
:3 years later, the 3 Micro-Changer combiners, Superion, Bruticus, and Menasor was reissued and released as a 3-pack. The toys were unchanged from their individual releases.

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===''Combiner Wars''===
{{anchor|Generations}}
[[File:Generations CW Menasor.JPG|thumb|upright=1.67|Still not Optimus Prime and the Autobots in cosplay...[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|or is he?]] ]]
*'''Decepticon Dragstrip''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Dead End''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Motormaster''' (Voyager Class, 2015)
*'''Breakdown''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Decepticon Offroad''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
:*'''Brake-Neck''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Decepticon Blackjack''' (Legends Class, 2015)
**''Accessories:'' Sword (formed from Motormaster's sword and gun), 4 hands/feet, 4 small weapons
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)|[[Marcelo Matere]] (packaging artist)}}

:Part of the ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' subline, ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' Menasor is an entirely new mold Scramble City-style combiner made up of four Deluxe figures ([[Drag Strip (G1)#Combiner Wars|Dragstrip]], [[Breakdown (G1)#Combiner Wars|Breakdown]], [[Dead End (G1)#Combiner Wars|Dead End]], and new member [[Offroad (CW)#Toys|Offroad]]) as limbs, a Voyager figure ([[Motormaster (G1)#Combiner Wars|Motormaster]]) as the torso, and [[Blackjack (G1)#Generations|Blackjack]] for the chestplate. He can wield a large, [[5 mm post]] sword formed by connecting Motormaster's smaller sword to his gun and can also hold any of the Deluxe components' smaller weapons. He was announced at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] [[2014]] along with fellow combiner Superion. His stock photo cleverly concealed an online listing image of ''Generations'' Huffer and Blackjack. A few months after the other Stunticons' release, [[Wildrider (G1)#Generations|Brake-Neck]] (actually Wildrider, renamed due to trademark reasons) was announced and released shortly thereafter, intended to replace Offroad and complete the original Stunticon roster.

:Menasor is considered the least-stable Combiner of the entire ''Combiner Wars'' line, due to the various design failures that plague Motormaster's design which will more likely than not cause him to fall apart. Such issues include but are not limited to: bad hip articulation due to poorly-designed ratchet joints which complicates his ability to stand any way other than straight and stiff (further complicated by the lack of ankle articulation necessary to compensate), shoulder mechanisms that come untabbed due to weak lock tolerances if the arms are moved, a problematic waist swivel caused by the skirt flap being attached to the stomach instead of the pelvis, and the inability to keep Blackjack securely attached to the chest due to incorrectly-molded sizing in the tabs. Although the hip ratchet problem was (slightly) resolved with an updated re-release of Motormaster that included remolded ratchets, the other problems were not addressed by the rerelease or subsequent redecos.

:Although heavily based on the G1 design for Menasor, the Generations iteration of Menasor instructs the legs to be attached with the car body facing forward, as opposed to facing backwards like the G1 toy. Although the undersides of the Stunticons resemble the G1 toys enough to resemble the G1 design if attached backwards, doing so will rob Menasor of his functional knees, ironic due to the fact the reverse was done to give the G1 Menasor toy functioning knees.

:As a part of the first and second wave promotion in Hasbro's Asian markets, a free sticker sheet for the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s and [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]]s was given out when purchasing any four Deluxe Class toys from those waves. As such, Menasor was given Generation 1 toy-esque stickers for the owner to apply if they wanted.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-generations-combiner-wars-free-g1-sticker-sheet-with-tru-singapore/32469/ Aerialbot and Stunticon sticker promotion on Seibertron.com]</ref> These sticker sheets did not include stickers for Brake-Neck or Blackjack, however.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Decepticon/CWMenasor/menasor.htm More information on ''Generations'' Menasor at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Transformers-Generations-Combiner-Wars-G2-Menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[Shortround (Cybertron)|Shortround]] would have a field day at this.]]
*'''Menasor''' (Collection Pack, 2015)
**''Accessories:'' Sword, Stunticon weapons/extremities
:A [[redeco]] of the ''Combiner Wars'' Stunticons, based on their cancelled [[#Generation 2|''Generation 2'' toys]]. Well, okay, [[Circular reporting|technically]], this set is based on [http://air-hammer.deviantart.com/art/G2-Stunticons-Digibash-471989649 somebody's digibash] based on [http://cybertron.ca/boards/showthread.php?p=76573 somebody's hand-painted recreation] of the cancelled ''Generation 2'' toys, including an erroneous purple and silver [[Breakdown (G1)#CWG2|Breakdown]] and some other errors. This set replaces Offroad with [[Wildrider (G1)#CWG2|Brake-Neck]], and includes [[Blackjack (G1)#CWG2|Blackjack]]. G2 Menasor is available as a box set, and comes with a collector card and a poster of ''Combiner Wars'' G1 Menasor printed on cardstock paper, both presented inside an envelope.

:This set's Motormaster has the improved hip ratchet joints.

:The second set of stock photos shows Menasor as ''hideously'' mistransformed in combined mode, and some shots also depicted the head with only one horn, the other being broken off.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2016/Decepticon/CWMenasor/menasor.htm More information on ''Combiner Wars'' G2 Menasor at TFU.info]''
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===''Unite Warriors''===
{{anchor|UniteWarriors}}
[[File:TakaraTomy-UW02-Menasor.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Oh, no room for Offroad, huh? Well fine, I'll go build my own combiner! With Blackjack! And hookers!]]
*'''Menasor''' (giftset, [[August 22]], [[2015]])
**''ID number:'' '''UW-02'''
**''Accessories:'' Sword (formed from Motormaster's sword and gun), 4 hands/feet, 4 small weapons
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] and [[Hisao Nishimoto]] (TakaraTomy)}}
:Takara's ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' iteration of Menasor was sold in a gift set including all five "Stuntrons" (minus [[Runabout (RID)|the Blackjack mold]]) with Wildrider (a retooled Dead End) included instead of Offroad. He has numerous changes in deco to better match his look in the Generation 1 cartoon. Most notably, Motormaster has more black on his vehicle mode, "Drag Stripe" has red details instead of purple, and Dead End lacks his usual gold stripe. The set also features some minor improvements to the original sculpts, such as improved hip-ratchets for Motormaster for increased stability. In addition, Breakdown's hand/foot/gun accessory (which was designed with the intended Sunstreaker redeco/retool in mind, doubling as his "supercharger" engine) was replaced with another version of Dragstrip's hand/foot/gun accessory, which also increases the symmetry for the hands and feet.

:As the entirety of Motormaster is molded in [[Gold Plastic Syndrome#Other notable instances|swirly plastic]], Menasor/Motormaster's waist can eventually crack and split the torso in half.

:Printed on his instructions is the second chapter of ''[[Unite Warriors Offshot]]''. Undocumented in the instructions, ''Unite Warriors'' Menasor's chest can attach ''Adventure'' [[Runabout (RID)|Runabout]] (or his mold mates Blackjack and Rodimus) on his combined mode chest.

:The giftset also included a collector commemorative coin when purchased in select retailers outside Japan.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-Combiner-Menasor.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|ゴゴゴゴ (''Menacing'')]]
*'''Menasor''' ([[2022]], [[2023]])
**'''1 of 5: [[Drag Strip (G1)#Legacy|Decepticon Dragstrip]]'''
**'''2 of 5: [[Wildrider (G1)#Legacy|Decepticon Wild Rider]]'''
**'''3 of 5: [[Dead End (G1)#Legacy|Dead End]]'''
**'''4 of 5: [[Breakdown (G1)#Legacy|Breakdown]]'''
**'''5 of 5: [[Motormaster (G1)#Legacy|Decepticon Motormaster]]'''
**''Origin universe'': '''G1 Universe'''
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] and [[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)|[[John Warden]] (concept), [[Dan Khanna]] (concept artist)}}

:The first combiner figure released in the main ''Generations'' line since ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'', ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy]]'' Menasor is based heavily on the character's appearance in the original Generation 1 cartoon. To match this design—which depicted the Stunticons as if they were simply hanging off Menasor's limbs, rather than actually forming the limbs themselves—the toy features a very unconventional combination method that involves Motormaster's trailer splitting into five combiner-body pieces—two arms, two legs, and a torso—to which the individual Stunticons attach. When attached to the arm pieces, hidden buttons on the arm Stunticons are pressed that allow them to split in two, giving Menasor a full range of elbow articulation; the leg Stunticons, meanwhile, activate an auto-transform feature in the leg pieces themselves, closing up the front of the leg to "complete" its appearance. Motormaster himself forms the upper block of the chest and the head. Nearly every one of Menasor's joints is constructed using strong ratchets, adding a great deal of stability to him overall.
[[File:Hasbro China Tmall Exclusive Legacy Menasor Boxset.jpg|thumb|left]]

:As the other Stunticons themselves do not actually play a role in the combination process, it is possible—and indeed, advertised on the back of Motormaster's packaging—to combine most of the trailer pieces into a skeletal, incomplete Menasor even if you don't have any of the limb-bots. Unlike past toys of Menasor, the ''Legacy'' Stunticons are not interchangeable, each designed to form a specific limb; at most, you can swap the legs, Breakdown and Wild Rider, for one another. Although the ''Legacy'' Stunticons are not designed to be reverse-compatible with the older ''Combiner Wars'' figures, Motormaster's combination system features ''Combiner Wars'' joint-sized recesses, which technically allow any ''Combiner Wars''-compatible figure to be used as a leg for Menasor, although the connected ''Combiner Wars'' leg will not secure inside the recess and not scale properly if used with a native Menasor leg. The middle portion of Motormaster's trailer is also not involved in the combination. ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' [[Superion (G1)#Age of the Primes|Superion]] makes use of the same frame system as Menasor, and can swap his parts with him, although the bots that connect to the frames cannot be attached to the other combiner’s ones, in addition to the fact Superion's legs are somewhat shorter than Menasor's. Both of his shins share identical detailing due to the scrapped original plan for Breakdown to be a straight redeco of Wildrider with zero retooling.

:One peculiar thing about Menasor's combination is that the instructions display Wildrider on the ''right'' leg, where Breakdown would normally be, but the back of Motormaster's box art displays Wildrider in the ''left'' leg, which is more accurate to Menasor's animation model.

:His forearms have molded details based on his arm blasters from "[[Masquerade]]".

:According to designer [[John Warden]], he devised the basics of this unique combination scheme with Shogo Hasui, passing a napkin back and forth as they split a hamburger.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I remember famously splitting a hamburger Hasui, I tell this story all the time, where we went to a bar and grill and the hamburger was too big, and so we split it down the middle, and we were drawing on napkins having a back-and-forth to each other, and during that meeting we devised the idea of how to make Menasor. He would have to be this Commander class character flanked by a bunch of Deluxes.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/03/sdcc-2024-hasbro-interview-john-wardens-return-generations-studio-series-combiners-more-513802|name=John Warden|site=TFW2005|title=SDCC 2024 Hasbro Interview – John Warden’s Return, Generations, Studio Series, Combiners, More!|year=2024|month=08|day=03}}</ref>

: Due to the spotty distribution of the original ''Legacy'' Breakdown figure for three years after its release, collectors often had incomplete Menasors unless they were forced to acquire the "G2 Universe" version of Breakdown as a replacement.

:In January 2023, the entirety of Menasor was sold as a box set exclusive to Hasbro China's Tmall store. It contained all 5 components, unchanged and in their original packaging, inside a larger box decorated with an illustration of Menasor. The set came with an enamel pin based on the combiner's original G1 box illustration. The set was limited to 100 copies.

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[[File:TF-Legacy-ToyDeco-Menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Maybe that would explain your car crash of a personality."]]
*'''Stunticon Menasor''' (Giftset, [[2023]])
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Stunticon Menastor''' (スタンティコンメナソー)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''TL-90'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2025]] [[March 29]]
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] and [[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as a giftset, "Stunticon Menasor" is formed from five redecos of the above ''Legacy'' figures, this time based on their original 1986 toy decos. Out of the five figures, only [[Breakdown (G1)#LegacyGiftset|Breakdown]] received an optional alternate head to match his toy design.

:Menasor's five components were revealed at San Diego Comic Con 2023, and sold in a [[Hasbro Pulse]] exclusive giftset. Said giftset features a similar layout to the original Generation 1 Menasor boxset, and even includes a bio and tech specs on the back. Neat!

:The set itself went up for pre-order on [[August 1]]st.
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===''New Legends''===
[[File:TF-New-Legends-G2-Menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[Goradora|OPEN THE FLOODGATES!]]]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d2|'''Menasor G2 Color Ver.''' (Giftset, [[2026]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''NL-02'''


:''[[Transformers New Legends|New Legends]]'' Menasor is a boxset composed of G2-themed redecos of the five previous ''Legacy'' figures—now including [[Wildrider (G1)#New Legends|Wildrider]] and [[Motormaster (G1)#New Legends|Motormaster]]!! As the release is based on cancelled toys as opposed to a nonexistent cartoon design, portions of the Menasor frame are painted in the colors of the Stunticon limbs to give the impression of them actually forming the arms and lower legs as opposed to merely hanging off of them.

:TakaraTomy initiated pre-orders on [[April 3]], [[2026]].
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==Merchandise==
===Transformers Ramune===
[[File:Ramune menasor keshi.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Menasor''' (1986)
**''ID number:'' '''3'''
:An unpainted figurine of Menasor was available as part of the second range of [[Kabaya]]'s line of ''[[Transformers Ramune]]'' [[candy toy]]s, tying in with the ''Scramble City'' toyline. Like all figures in the series, Menasor was sold in a [[Blindpacking|blindpacked]] box with fizzy "ramune" candy, and featured a main body was made of hard red plastic, with soft grey PVC limbs articulated at the hips and shoulders.

*'''Menasor''' (1986)
:Later in 1986, in the third ''Ramune'' wave, Menasor was among the characters immortalized as a soft rubber figurine, known as a ''keshigomu'' in Japan. He was available in either red, blue, or yellow colors, and as before, came blindpacked with ramune candy. While similar to the separate range of ''keshigomu'' figures released by Takara that would later be imported by Hasbro as part of their [[Decoy]] promotion, Menasor and his wave-mates saw no American release.
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===Forms Robo===
*'''Menasor''' (1986)
:Menasor was also part of the small ''[[Forms Robo]]'' collection of larger ''keshigomu'', with this chunkier version of the character standing at around twice the height of his ''Ramune'' figure. Like the other figures in this series, Menasor was packaged in an individual baggie and was available in red, blue, green, and yellow.

===Gaia Scramble/Transformers Gum===
[[File:Kabaya menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Menasor''' (2013)
:This incarnation of Menasor is formed by combining the separate Stunticons available in two of [[Kabaya]]'s lines of [[candy toy]]s: Dead End, Breakdown, Drag Strip and Wildrider were available as part of the ''[[Gaia Scramble]]'' line, while Motormaster was released through the ''[[Transformers Gum]]'' line. All five figures are snap-together model kits that use stickers for details and come with a stick of gum; Dead End and Breakdown share a mold, as do Drag Strip and Wildrider, each kit affecting minor differences in how they are assembled to differentiate the figures beyond color, which, aside from Motormaster, bear no resemblance to any previous established color schemes for the Stunticons.
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===Transformers Trading Card Game===
[[File:W2Menasor.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Menasor, Menacing Colossus''' (2019)
**[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], Paranoid Scout
**[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]], Doomed Loner
**[[Drag Strip (G1)|Decepticon Drag Strip]], Cutthroat Warrior
**[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], Stunticon Leader
**[[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]], All-Terrain Soldier
**'''Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners'''
**''Stars: ''25

:One of the titular [[combiner]]s from the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]] Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners, Menasor, Menacing Colossus can be formed by playing the Action card [[Enigma of Combination|Stunticon Enigma]] while the Character cards for all five [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] are in Bot Mode while on the battlefield and/or the KO area.

:Menasor, Menacing Colossus' art is based on the [[Combiner Wars (franchise)|Combiner Wars]] version of Menasor, with [[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]] replacing [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. Like the Combiner Wars version of Menasor, [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]] is depicted as a chestplate despite not being included in the card set.
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===''Transformers Character Card''===
[[File:Transformers Character Card Superion and Menasor.jpg|upright=1|thumb]]
*'''Superion & Menasor Set''' ([[February 6]], [[2023]])
**''ID number:'' '''37 & 38'''

:Released as part of the sixth wave of the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''[[Transformers Character Card]]'' series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (with his components [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]], [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]], [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] and [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]) and Menasor (with ''his'' components [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]], [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] and [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]) along with [[bio|character profiles]] and [[Tech Spec|tech specs]].
::*''[[Source:Transformers Character Card#38|Translation of Menasor's Transformers Character Card]]''

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==Notes==
[[File:MenasorEarly.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Menasor got dressed in a rush this morning.]]
[[File:MenasorDevastationConcept.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]

* Menasor's [[instructions]] and [[package art]] depict Drag Strip and Breakdown as his arms, and Wildrider and Dead End as his legs, while the [[character model]] used for the cartoon and comic—which has gone on to become the "default" arrangement for Menasor in most subsequent media—makes Drag Strip and Dead End the arms, and Breakdown and Wildrider the legs. An alternate model, designed by [[Studio OX]] for the ''[[TV Magazine]]'' manga and story pages, seen at the top of this article, makes Drag Strip and Wildrider the arms, and Breakdown and Dead End the legs. Drag Strip's the only one in the same place in every configuration!
* An alternate animation character sheet from the original cartoon exists for Menasor. It features all of the limbs in different orientations (the arms upside-down, the legs upside down and reversed with the car sides facing front) from the final model ''and'' the chest sports an Autobot symbol, suggesting, perhaps, that the Stunticon and Aerialbot toy factions may have originally been the other way around. This model was used for the toy [[commercial]] which appeared to introduce the Stunticons and Aerialbots, though with the faction symbol corrected.
* The animators frequently misinterpreted Menasor's character model in the original cartoon. Instead of having the four small Stunticons as his actual limbs (with, for example, his fist directly attached to Drag Strip's form), he was drawn as though the four cars attached on top of generic blocky limbs that extended from Motormaster.
** Menasor's original design featured in IDW's [[The Transformers (IDW)|ongoing series]] features a modified version of this idea; Motormaster's separating parts form the torso, forearms, hands, and feet of Menasor's body, with the Stunticons filling the missing gaps in the body. When Menasor returned after being rebuilt by the Enigma of Combination, his design was altered to resemble the toy featured in the concurrently running ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' toyline, and returns to the traditional combiner limb setup.
** Conversely, Menasor's appearance in ''[[Transformers: Devastation]]'' combines his classic Generation 1 and ''Combiner Wars'' designs. While combining, the Stunticons instead attach directly on top of Motormaster's limbs before merging with them to form Menasor's limbs. The resulting Menasor design uses the torso and arms from his G1 design, and uses the CW design for the legs, chest and head. Offroad is featured in this design instead of Wildrider, and although he does not appear with the Stunticon grouping prior to combining or when Menasor briefly separates, Blackjack takes the place of the Roller Car on Menasor's chest, materializing directly from Motormaster himself.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Menasor''' (メナゾール ''Menazōru'', メナソー ''Menasō'')
*''French:'' '''Menasor''' (European French cartoon dub, and Canada, carded Stunticon limbs only), '''Confusio''' (Canada, Motormaster's box and Menasor giftset)
*''Italian:'' '''Pentacar''' (toyline and season 3), '''Ultrax''' (cartoon)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēitiān Hǔ''' (飞天虎, "Flying Tiger")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Ameaçador''' (Brazil comic)
*''Russian:'' '''Megasaur''' (Мегазавр ''Megazavr'')
*''Polish:'' '''Minozaury''' or '''Minozaur''' ("Minosaurs" or "Minosaur", "Masquerade"), '''Minotaur''' ("Cosmic Rust"), '''Megazaur''' ("Megasaur", one line of dialogue in "Masquerade")

==Gallery==
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File:Universe-unreleased-Menasor-art.jpg|Unused ''Universe'' packaging art
Machinima-CW-Menasor.jpg|Machinima ''Combiner Wars'' model.
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Transformers (2023) issue 32

2026-05-13T21:19:40Z

Cydra: /* Transformers references */

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|date=[[May 13]], [[2026]]
|coverdate=May 2026
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|art by=[[Jason Howard]]
|colors by=[[Mike Spicer]]
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'''Elita Prime returns with her Autobots to Cybertron, but the journey home won't be an easy one.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Elita One (G1)|Elita Prime]] and her [[Autobot]]s emerge from the [[space bridge]] back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] notices that they are in the middle of [[Decepticon]] territory. Elita and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] managed to sneak in to use the bridge to go to [[Earth]], but their increased numbers will make returning to the Autobot base much harder. [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] proposes he fly them out a few at a time while [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] would prefer to drive, however, Elita nixes either idea for fear that they might give away their position. However, as they begin their journey on foot, it quickly proves a moot point when they are ambushed by a squad of Decepticons led by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], alive without a head, much to the shock of Elita.

The Decepticons attack, blasting the remains of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] that Jetfire was carrying. Ultra Magnus [[transformation|transforms]] and tells the Autobots to load into his car carrier form, using his [[alternate mode]] to ram Shockwave and allow his fellow Autobots to attack the Decepticons. However, the Decepticon forces quickly regain their composure and fight back, overwhelming the Autobots. Seeing her comrades taking such a beating, Elita fears that this may be their [[darkest hour]] and tries using the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]].

Unfortunately, it does nothing. She hits the ancient artifact, demanding it open until a flash of white light emerges and glowing energy emerges from the talisman and forms into the Ghost of the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]]. Using her new weapon, she mows down the Decepticons, allowing the Autobots the chance to regroup and retreat. As the Autobots escape, Shockwave realizes that Elita Prime will be a force to be reckoned with. He decides he needs to pay a visit to [[Alpha Trion]]...

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (1)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (2)
* [[Elita One (G1)|Elita Prime]] (3)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (4)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (5)
* [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (6)
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (7)
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (8)
* [[Bulkhead (G1)|Bulkhead]] (9)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (10)
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (11)

|c2=
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (12)
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (13)
* [[Skyquake (EU)|Skyquake]] (14)
* [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] (15)
* [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] (16)
* [[Makeshift (G1)|Makeshift]] (17)
* [[Knock Out (G1)|Knock Out]] (18)
* [[Lugnut (TF 2010)|Lugnut]] (19)
* [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] (20)
* [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acidstorm]] (21)
* [[Octane]] (22)
* [[Breakdown (IDW)|Breakdown]] (23)
* [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (24)
}}

==Quotes==
"I'm held together with '''hatred''' and '''spite'''! You can’t crush that!"
:— '''Shockwave'''

"This blade '''hungers''' for the foul sparks of Decepticons! I hear its song! It '''fuels''' me!"
:— '''Elita Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Shockwave is missing his head, which was crushed by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] during their climactic battle in [[Transformers (2023) issue 12|issue #12]].
* While most of the Decepticons who make up Shockwave's forces are new introductions to the Energon Universe, Ratbat and Thrust previously appeared in [[Transformers (2023) issue 17|issue #17]].
* Ultra Magnus has come a long way toward overcoming the trauma that Shockwave inflicted on him while captured (which Elita rescued him from in [[Transformers (2023) issue 7|issue #7]]). During his last encounter with the Decepticon commander in [[Transformers (2023) issue 11|issue #11]], Magnus fled in a panic. Now he is able to confront his torturer head-on.
* Acidstorm asks where Jetfire has been hiding all this time. Readers saw Jetfire depart Cybertron in search of potential energy sources before the war fully broke out in [[Transformers (2023) issue 13|issue #13]]. Ultimately, Jetfire would miss the entirety of the war, crashing on a planetoid and not being reactivated for millions of years until [[Darak]] and [[Solila]] found him in ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 1|#1]], the very beginning of the Energon Universe.
* Alpha Trion was previously mentioned and seen in flashback in [[Void Rivals issue 17|''Void Rivals'' #17]], when [[Beta (G1)|Zerta Trion]] revealed the backstory of the [[Sacred Ring]] to Solila.

===''Transformers'' references===
* Bulkhead remarks on the shoddy construction of the space bridge, echoing his ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' [[Bulkhead (Animated)|counterpart's]] space bridge expertise.
* Much like the [[2005 IDW continuity]] before, the Energon Universe iteration of Blackarachnia is visually based on her [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]].
* Knock Out refers to Breakdown as "my dear". Their relationship was something fans read into about their ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Transformers: Prime]]'' incarnations, but was later codified in the [[2005 IDW continuity]]. The pair are also seen attacking Bulkhead, who was positioned as Breakdown's rival in the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|''Transformers: Prime'' cartoon]].
* Lugnut expounds on the glory of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], just as his [[Lugnut (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]] was so fond of doing.
* Lockdown remarks on Jazz's head making a nice trophy. Taking trophies from his captured enemies was a favorite hobby of [[Lockdown (Animated)|''Animated'' Lockdown]].
* Elita Prime asks the Matrix to "light [their] [[darkest hour]]", the phrase most associated with the Matrix from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. When it initially refuses to do anything, her frustration and demand that it "open!" resembles that of Ultra Magnus when the Matrix failed to open for him in the film, although Elita refrains from swearing and the Matrix does eventually do something for her.
* The Star Saber is the ancient weapon of [[Prima]], leader of the [[Thirteen|Thirteen Primes]].
* Elita slices off Skyquake's right arm, echoing a similar injury sustained by the [[Skyquake (Prime)|zombified Skyquake]] in ''Transformers: Prime''.
* [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] was a one-episode villain from the ''Prime'' episode "[[Con Job]]", where he was a [[Shifter]] who infiltrated the Autobots by disguising himself as [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]. He tries the same trick here by taking the form of Jazz, but Elita sees through it.
* Elita seems to have a personal enmity with Blackarachnia, which may be a reference to how her Animated counterpart was originally that continuity's version of Elita-One before she was mutated into a [[technorganic]] being.

===Errors===
* In the last panel of the second page, Elita says "We'll better avoid detection if we say low." "Say" is clearly supposed to be "stay", just missing the "t".

===Other notes===
* Energon Experience: Presented by Skybound Executive Editor Ben Abernathy.
** '''Character Spotlight:''' Shockwave
** '''’Name That Decepticon!:''' Spotlights Shockwave's forces from this issue.
** '''Creator Spotlight:''' Ben asks Jason Howard what his alt-mode would be. Jason answers coffee. Or, if he were a triple changer, coffee and a basketball.

===Covers===
* '''Cover A:''' Shcokwave, by [[David Nakayama]]
* '''Cover B:''' Ultra Magnus, [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]], and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], by [[Daniel Warren Johnson]] and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C:''' Octane, Thrust, and Lugnut, by Jason Howard and [[Annalisa Leoni]].
* '''Cover D:''' Elita One, [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], Bluestreak, and Cliffjumper by [[Lesley Li]].
* '''Cover E:''' Design schematics for Shockwave, by [[E. J. Su]].

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===Advertisement===
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* 3-page preview of the [[M.A.S.K. Energon Universe 2026 Special story|''M.A.S.K.'' story]] from the ''[[Energon Universe 2026 Special]]''.

===Reprints===
* '''''Transformers Volume 6: Decepticons Attack!''''' ([[December 9]], [[2026]]) ISBN 1534332634 / ISBN 978-1534332638 
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #31–36.
** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:Transformers 2023 V6.jpg|'''''Volume 6: Decepticons Attack!''''' – cover art by [[David Nakayama]]
</gallery>

==External links==

==References==
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Mark Twain

2026-05-09T22:58:18Z

Cydra:

[[File:Marktwain.jpg|thumb|Reports of his death are greatly exaggerated.]]
'''Mark Twain''' was the pen name of '''Samuel Clemens''', a 19th-century satirist known for his wit and his travelings. He wrote ''{{w|Adventures of Huckleberry Finn}}'', which many consider to be ''the'' Great [[United States of America|American]] Novel, and ''{{w|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer}}''.

He once fought (and bested) [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]!

==Fiction==
===''Hearts of Steel''===
[[File:Marktwainvsravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Mark Twain is friggin' badass, man.]]

While living in [[San Francisco]], Mark Twain befriended other writers of his day, such as [[Jules Verne]]. At great expense, Mark Twain hired a [[Enterprise|ferry]] to take him and Verne out into the middle of [[San Francisco Bay]] to witness [[Tobias Muldoon]]'s new invention, a "sub-marine" called the [[S.S. Vicuna|S.S. ''Vicuna'']]. However, a technical mishap plunged the sub-marine to the bottom of the bay, a misfortune that brought laughter from Twain, Verne, and the [[Enterprise captain|ferry's skipper]]. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}}

While at the estate of Muldoon's investor, [[Stanford Merriweather]], Muldoon suddenly returned, pursued by the [[Decepticon]] [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. Due to Muldoon's bravery, he was able to shepherd everyone out of the house. Twain, in the meantime, had intentionally left a gas leak. Tossing his [[cigar]] into the house, he caused it to explode, sending a singed Ravage off into the distance. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2 |Hearts of Steel #2 }} {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}}

Ultimately, Mark Twain teamed up with Muldoon, Merriweather and his daughter [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty]], steel-drivin' man [[John Henry]], and the [[Autobot]]s to defeat the Decepticons and their impressive locomotive engineering feat, the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 4|Hearts of Steel #4}}

{{IDW HOS}}

==Notes==
*In the real world, Mark Twain did not know Jules Verne personally. However, he also never had the distinction of fighting a giant mechanical cat from space,{{fact}} so make what you will of the story.
** He was, however, a close friend of [[Nikola Tesla]].
*Twain was later further homaged via mention of a Decepticon author named [[Twainwreck]].

==External links==
*{{w|Mark Twain}} at Wikipedia

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Rooster Teeth

2026-05-04T19:50:18Z

Cydra:

[[Image:Rooster Teeth.jpg|thumb|500px|"Hey." "Yeah?" "You ever wonder why we're here?"]]

'''Rooster Teeth Productions''' was an American media and entertainment company based in Austin, [[Texas]]. The company was founded by Burnie Burns on [[April 1]], [[2003]] when it began production of the machinima series ''{{w|Red vs. Blue}}'', which would continue for 21 years and become one of the longest-running web series of all time. The company later produced several other projects, including live-action productions, independent films, music videos, and animated series such as ''{{w|RWBY}}'', ''{{w|Camp Camp}}'', and ''{{w|Gen:Lock|gen:LOCK}}''. Rooster Teeth also produced extensive gaming content as part of their "Let's Play" network, and was the parent of several other channels such as The Slow Mo Guys, Funhaus, and Death Battle. Following the shutdown of [[Machinima]], Rooster Teeth became the home for several of the site's former series, including the ''[[Prime Wars Trilogy]]'' cartoons. In February [[2019]], it was announced that Rooster Teeth would be producing the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' animated series, which premiered on [[Netflix]] in July of the following year.

On [[March 6]], [[2024]], it was announced that Rooster Teeth would be shut down by its parent company [[Warner Bros.|Warner Bros. Discovery]], with the site officially shutting down on [[May 15]].<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/rooster-teeth-shutting-down-warner-bros-discovery-1235931953/|title=Rooster Teeth Is Shutting Down After 21 Years|site=Variety|name=Spangler, Todd|year=2024|month=03|day=06}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2024/03/06/rooster-teeth-shutdown-warner-bros-discovery|site=Axios|title=Rooster Teeth calls it quits|name=Price, Asher|year=2024|month=03|day=06}}</ref> In the time since, some of their former channels have gone independent, including The Slow Mo Guys and Death Battle, while a few shows were picked up by other distributors, such as [[Viz Media]] acquiring ''RWBY''. In early 2025, Burns reacquired the Rooster Teeth name and some of its properties through his company Box Canyon Productions, leading to a relaunch of the brand and website the following August.

==Notes==
* Outside of ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'', ''Transformers'' characters have made unofficial appearances in various Rooster Teeth productions. Most prominently, during ''Death Battle''{{'}}s tenure under RT, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] fought [[Rainbow Dash]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] fought the {{w|Gundam (fictional robot)|RX-78-2 Gundam}}, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] fought {{w|Frieza}}, and [[Unicron]] fought {{w|Galactus}}; Optimus was also featured in an episode of its ''Death Race'' spinoff series.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://roosterteeth.com Official Website]
* {{w|Rooster Teeth}} at Wikipedia

[[Category:Animation companies]]
[[Category:Warner Bros. properties]]

Hideous giant brain guy

2026-05-04T03:45:46Z

Cydra:

{{Noname-nickname}}
:''The hideous giant brain guy is an [[alien]] from the [[Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Hideousgiantbrainguy.jpg|upright=6666666666666|thumb|I won't pay a lot for this muffler!]]
The '''hideous giant brain guy''' is one of many beings, native and otherwise, who enjoyed the brief rebirth of gladiatorial combat on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] under the aegis of the alien criminal [[Zabra]]. He is mainly noteworthy because, seriously, what the hell.

==Fiction==
===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
{{noteukexclusive|The hideous giant brain guy}}
The hideous giant brain guy attended the "games" at the [[Jekka Amphitheatre]] in [[Tyrest]] on the day of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s bout against the alien [[Hooligan (G1)|Hooligan]]. He was last seen asking a souvenir salesman about the price of a foot belonging to a defeated combatant. Presumably, when Magnus defeated Zabra and shut down the games, he found something else to do. {{storylink|Deadly Games!}}

He wears a Decepticon [[tattoo]] on his frontal lobes. Now ''that's'' a fanboy.

===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:NGHGBG.jpg|thumb|left|150px]]
The hideous giant brain guy was a playable character named '''HGBG''' in ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]''. He could use his "Ego Whip" to attack. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

[[Category:Animated characters]]
[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:European-original characters]]
[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 aliens]]

Crisscross (episode)

2026-05-04T02:29:32Z

Cydra: I might be mistaken about this.

{{disambig2|the cartoon episode|the character|Crisscross (G1)}}

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 17
|prev=Operation: Breakdown
|next=Metal Attraction
|image=Airachnid and Silas.jpeg
|caption=They'll make you jump, jump.
|title="Crisscross"
|airdate=[[June 25]], [[2011]]
|season=1
|season ep=17
|written by=[[Joseph Kuhr]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdAbUSFKQo
|videosite=YouTube
}}
'''Airachnid teams up with MECH to get revenge on Arcee and Jack.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Silas]] and three MECH soldiers are searching through a wooded area for a Decepticon. They jump into a web-shrouded ravine, but the three soldiers are snatched from the ground and stuck on one of the webs by [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]. Silas takes a shot at her, but is promptly thrown against a rock wall and webbed there. The Decepticon threatens to eviscerate him for what MECH did to [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]], but wants his help in finding [[Jack Darby]] and will give them [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]].

Jack arrives home with Arcee, to find [[June Darby|his mother]] mad that he's been breaking curfew and neglecting his job and schoolwork. She believes he may have been racing his motorcycle and grounds him for the next few weeks—with no motorcycle use. Arcee says she'll miss Jack during that time, but he points out that if she doesn't stay in the garage, his mom will think he's breaking her rules. Arcee promises she'll try to be back in the garage before his mom gets home each night.

[[Image:Motorcycle abuse.jpeg|thumb|left|300px|This must be some form of abuse, surely.]]
The next day, as Jack's leaving [[KO Burger]], he gets a call from his mother, who is on her way home early to make dinner for him. He frantically contacts Arcee, who's with [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] in the middle of a fight with some [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s. Arcee leaves Bumblebee to it and [[GroundBridge|bridges]] out. June arrives home to find the garage empty, and she blows up at Jack as he arrives on his bicycle. Arcee bridges into the garage behind her, but this merely results in June thinking one of Jack's friends snuck the motorcycle in. Jack spills all about the Autobots, but when Arcee refuses to transform, Jack's mom asks if he's been hanging out with a science fiction club. She leaves to return to work, the conversation unfinished.

[[Image:MECH ambush.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|"Jehovah's Witnesses, ma'am. Take a leaflet!"]]
Silas uses images from the black box from Airachnid's ship to track down information on Jack, including the identity of his mother. A MECH vehicle soon arrives to abduct June as she leaves the [[Jasper Hospital|hospital]].

Jack arrives home on his cycle to find Arcee, but no mom. There's a package waiting for him, which turns out to be a MECH communicator. Silas tells the pair that MECH has June, and there are GPS coordinates that will lead them to the temporary MECH facility. Arcee attempts to contact base and gets an instant headache. Silas explains the communicator will scramble her brain as well as Autobot communications. Jack and Arcee follow the communicator's map to a disused factory, where they're met by Silas and a bunch of MECH goons. They race past the MECH guys to look for Jack's mom and instead find Airachnid. Airachnid webs Arcee, who is then zapped by a MECH soldier. The 'Con tells Jack he has until midnight to rescue his mother. Jack tries to plead with Silas for help, but the MECH leader pushes him back. Jack then races off to find his mom, followed by Airachnid. Silas tells his men to start working on Arcee, as he suspects Airachnid will double-cross them.

Jack runs through the factory, but is unable to find June until Airachnid points her out, dangling in a web cocoon from a building. At this point, June awakens both to discover her predicament and to spy Airachnid. Jack tells Airachnid he's found his mom, but she points out the task was to ''rescue'' June. Webbing Jack's hand to the ground, she prepares to destroy his family.

The MECH surgeons finish cutting through the web holding Arcee, and Silas instructs them go for the heart, as they only have time to take one part. Arcee has recovered consciousness by this point, and she tosses the MECH personnel aside before leaving to help Jack.

[[Image:Airachnidconcrete.jpg|left|thumb|300px|"Thanks a lot, Mixmaster."]]

As Jack continues to try to free his hand, Airachnid moves in on June. Before she can lay a hand on mom, however, Arcee comes barreling up a nearby roof and tackles her. Jack gets free and goes to help June, while Arcee and Airachnid battle on the factory superstructure. They eventually reach the ground, but Airachnid's laser fire damages the platform June is dangling from, and Jack has to scramble to avoid falling. Jack accidentally knocks against a lever, pouring concrete into a concrete truck on the ground. Arcee manages to kick Airachnid into a container nearby, and with Jack's help, pours concrete in on top of her. Airachnid starts climbing out, but is frozen by the quick-drying substance. Arcee goes to help June, but the concrete isn't enough, and Airachnid webs her back to the ground. Luckily, the cavalry arrives in the form of [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] with three helicopters armed with chain guns.

Silas wonders how Fowler was alerted, and then realizes Jack stole his radio earlier.

The helicopters stop firing, but this just allows Airachnid to [[scanning|scan]] Fowler's chopper and make her escape in her new [[alternate mode|altmode]]. Her scanning process is also observed by Silas.

Fowler introduces himself to June and attempts to weave a cover story, but June doesn't buy it. Jack introduces her to Arcee, and the next day, they go to the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot base]] so she can meet the rest of the Autobots.

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (5)
* [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (7)
* [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (12)
* [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (16)

|c2=
* [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] (3)
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (8)

|c3=
* [[Silas]] (1)
* [[MECH]] soldiers (2)
* [[Jack Darby]] (4)
* [[June Darby]] (6)
* [[MECH Surgeon]] (9)
* [[William Fowler]] (10)
* Soldier (11)
* [[Miko Nakadai]] (14)
* [[Raf Esquivel]] (15)
}}

==Quotes==

"Tell me you haven't fallen in with a bad crowd." 
"W-what? N-no no no no, my friends are the good crowd, seriously good."
:—'''Jack''''s not wrong.

"Ah, the mother lode." 
"Government database?" 
"Social networking page."
:—'''Silas''' teaches '''Airachnid''' the fastest way to track down a teenager.

"Now, I know we promised the spider-bot that she would have first crack at you, but something tells me she's going to turn our mutual crisscross... into a double-cross."
:—'''Silas''' shows he is alarmingly genre-savvy.

"Jack, your motorcycle?" 
"I can explain, Mom. Wait, I already did."
:—Even with '''June Darby''' in mortal peril, '''Jack''' can still crack wise.

"Oh, not again!"
:—'''Agent Fowler''' is exasperated at Decepticons copying his vehicles.

"So that's how it's done. Genius."
:—'''Silas''' on seeing how Airachnid scans a vehicle mode.

"It's time you knew the truth. For the past several months, Jack has been... interning for me at the agency." 
"Agent Fowler, Mom's not gonna buy that." 
"He's got that right."
:—'''Agent Fowler''''s first meeting with '''June''' hits a rocky start.

"Motorcycle, Guardian, Autobot, friend."
:—'''Jack''' lists '''Arcee''''s status to his mom.

"Mom, meet my science fiction club!"
:—'''Jack''' introducing June to the Autobots

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Airachnid wants revenge on Arcee and Jack for the events in "[[Predatory]]".
* The rumors June heard about Jack racing his motorcycle may have been referencing the events of "[[Speed Metal]]".
* Airachnid has heard of Breakdown's treatment by MECH, which happened in [[Operation: Breakdown|the previous episode]].
* Messages on Jack's social networking page refer back to "Speed Metal" (Sierra refers to a race) and "[[Con Job]]" (Miko's message about a monster truck rally references a line of dialog from that episode).
* Agent Fowler previously had a vehicle of his scanned for an alternate mode by Skyquake back in "[[Masters & Students]]".
* The soldier who reports to Fowler at the end is the same one who was on the train in "[[Convoy (episode)|Convoy]]".

===Transformers references===
* The final sequence of Arcee and Jack taking June to the Autobot base is an almost shot-for-shot replica of the first time Jack, Miko and Raf were taken there back in the pilot. Even the same musical piece, "We Have Returned", is used.

===Real-world references===
* The title of this episode is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's ''{{w|Strangers on a Train (film)|Strangers on a Train}}'', which famously originated the use of the word "crisscross" for a team-up murder plot in which each participant takes out the enemy of the other. Silas even uses the term to describe MECH's alliance with Airachnid. Until he suspects it will instead become a double-cross, where one side betrays the other.
* [[Super Guitar Band]], which Miko posts on Jack's social networking page, is an amalgam of ''{{w|Guitar Hero}}'', ''{{w|Rock Band}}'' and the plethora of video games with "Super" as a prefix.

===Animation and technical errors===
* June takes an early break from work to cook Jack a dinner, but then as soon as she gets home, she returns to work. (Maybe she needed a coffee.)
* The amount of cement shown pouring onto Airachnid isn't actually enough to cover her ''entire'' body.
* When Airachnid addresses that Jack is facing a time limit, the first time the clock is seen, it is just after 11:53 PM. Within the span of about thirty seconds real-time in the episode, it is seen again, but has jumped to 11:54. It could just be that we are not being shown what happened in the full span of that minute in-universe onscreen, or we're playing by dramatic tension and it's a Hollywood-style "magic" countdown, or Airachnid and/or MECH is playing unfair and speeding the countdown up. Whatever in the case, [[:Mystery Science Theater 3000|it's just a show and we really should just relax]].
* Airachnid scans Agent Fowler's helicopter, which resembles a {{w|Bell UH-1 Iroquois|UH-1 "Huey"}}, but the alt-mode she adopts is of a completely different design, resembling a futuristic {{w|Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche|RAH-66 Comanche}}. However, this isn't the first time in a ''Transformers'' continuity that robots have [[Starscream's Brigade|reconfigured their alt modes into something more advanced once they've obtained one]], suggesting they can sometimes update/upgrade machines.

===Trivia===
* The name of this episode was rendered "Criss-Cross" on the Hub's website.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111029045609/http://www.hubworld.com/watch/1118858775001/transformers-prime-clip-criss-cross Archive copy of HubWorld's "Criss-Cross" sneak peek clip page]</ref>
* MECH has a really funny concept of "suppression fire".
* The name of the social networking page is partially obscured, but begins with "Some Social".
* Fowler got someone else to pilot his helicopter for him this time.
* Silas calls June Darby "Miss Darby", but Fowler calls her "Mrs. Darby". The following episode would reveal the former to be accurate.
* Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Bulkhead, Raf, and Miko all cameo at the end, but have no lines.
* The way Airachnid says "'Transformer', was it", implies that Cybertronians don't use that term themselves and that it's an invention of humans. This is different from most (if not all) other continuities, where "[[Transformer]]s" is a term that they themselves seem to have come up with.
** This is also the only time the term is used not only within this show, but in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Aligned]] [[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|cartoon]] [[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|continuity]].
* This is the first time anyone from the Autobots' team meets Silas face to face.
* The photo in the Darby household is the opening shot from "[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]", only flipped.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La Vengeance d'Airachnid'''" ("Airachnid's Revenge")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 19|19 December]] [[2011]]

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Der Hinterhalt'''" ("The Ambush")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[January 13|13 January]] [[2012]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Túszjátszma'''" ("Hostage Game")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[January 31|31 January]] [[2012]]

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Airachnid: Pencarian Jack'''" ("Airachnid: Search of Jack")
:*''Original airdate:'' 24 September [[2012]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Rivelazioni'''" ("Revelations"), "'''A Linee Incrociate'''" ("Crossed Lines", 2017 airing)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 20|20 November]] [[2011]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Bōryaku Henkei! Jaaku na Ito o Dante! '''" (謀略変形!邪悪な糸を断て!, "Strategy Transformation! Unravel the Sinister Thread!")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[July 28|28 July]] [[2012]]
:* Airachnid's romantic infatuation with Jack is much less exaggerated in this episode than in the dub of "Predatory". While she still refers to him by amorous pet names, her cruel quest for vengeance remains unaltered.
::* ''Despite that'', her crush on Jack is not forgotten. When Silas identifies him via the footage from "Predatory", Airachnid swoons with joy as she shouts, "''Aha!'' Yes, yes! That's the one! My Jack!"
::* Then, when Silas reads Jack's online profile to Airachnid and mentions that he's 16 years old, Airachnid excitedly shouts, "''16!?'' At last!" Specifically, she says "''kitaaaaaa--!''", which literally means "It has come!" but has become Japanese internet slang for just being really, really, ''really'' excited about something.
::* After Arcee arrives and the final fight of the episode begins, Airachnid angrily cries that she's sick and tired of Arcee constantly interrupting her "flirting".
:* Airachnid's delusional and vain personality, exclusive to the Japanese dub, is on prominent display in this episode. When the quick-drying cement descends upon her, Airachnid cries that she's the ''heroine'' and these sorts of things aren't supposed to happen to her. She then screams that she absolutely ''hates'' to get dirty (strange, considering her habit of burrowing in the dirt).
:* When Fowler and his reinforcements open fire on her, Airachnid screams, "Hey, wait! Aren't you overdoing it? Isn't this cruel? The heroine... can't die! ''Scanning!''"

'''Korean'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Geomi ui Boksu'''" (거미의 복수, "Spider's Revenge")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 24|24 October]] [[2011]]

'''Polish'''
:*''Title:'' ?
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 27|27 December]] [[2011]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Dupla Atração'''" ("Double Atraction")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 27|27 February]] [[2012]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Entrecruzado'''" ("Crisscross")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 9|9 June]] [[2012]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season One ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season One Collection ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Folge 4: Die vierte Dimension ([[EDEL:kids]]) — English and German audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Volume 4: Strength in Numbers (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Staffel 1 - Das Bündnis (EDEL:kids) — English and German audio. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Vol. 9 ([[Avex Trax]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Saison 1 Vol. 4: Une alliance inattendue ([[Universal|Universal Pictures France]]) — English, French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Vol. 4: Improbabili alleanze ([[Universal|Universal Pictures IT]]) — English, Italian, Dutch, French and Spanish audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season One: Unlikely Alliances ([[Universal|Universal Pictures UK]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Saison 1: L'intégrale (Universal Pictures France) — English, French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season One (Universal Pictures UK)
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season One (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season One Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Staffel 1 - Das Bündnis (EDEL:kids) — English and German audio. 

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Scraplet

2026-04-09T03:42:47Z

Cydra: /* Prime cartoon */

{{factions|decepticon}}
[[File:Scraplets.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|CRAAAAAWLING OOOOOOOON MY SKIIIIIIIIIN]]
'''Scraplets''' are alleged to be the deadliest disease known to mechanical lifeforms in the entire galaxy. For they are a complicated form of mechanical alien parasite which lives solely to eat, reproduce, and eat some more. And what they eat is metal.

Preferably, [[living metal]], the stuff [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] are made of.

Their senses seem to combine heat-seeking and metal-detection, which is primarily geared towards identifying edible silicon-based life-forms. Carbon-based life-forms are all but invisible to the Scraplet, and usually of no interest.

Their physiology varies from universe to universe. In some realities they are exceptionally tiny, and have the ability to transform from innocuous-looking nuts and bolts into more mobile "robot" modes, with some modicum of elementary speech and reasoning ability. In others they are far larger, and more akin to barely-sapient animals running on instinct, moving in swarms to devour unlucky bots exceptionally quickly.

Scraplets are fairly resilient to physical damage, and a decently-fed swarm can reproduce fast enough to counter heavy losses. But they can also be slowed and killed through more unconventional means. The tiny variety tends to corrode away quickly upon exposure to [[water]], while the larger types can be slowed and eventually rendered comatose when exposed to extreme cold.

{{bigquote|They pick you apart from the inside out, going for the small, juicy bits first, fuse by fuse, circuit by circuit, until there's nothing left. And I mean nothing... ''not even your optics''.|[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]|"[[Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel Comics continuity====
=====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics=====
[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] called [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] a scraplet as an insult. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}
[[File:Scraplet swarm Marvel US issue 29.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|So... just how long have these things been hanging out in the infinite void of deep space, waiting for a living robot to pass by that exact spot?]]
When [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] needed to transport the first prototype [[Wash and Roll]] to [[Earth]], he hired a [[freighter pilot]] to fly the cargo there. Emerging from warp space in Earth's [[Solar System]], the pilot exited the craft to perform some necessary repairs. As he did, the ship passed through what seemed to be a cloud of space dust. The "dust" rapidly infected the pilot, who lost control of the ship as it crashed on Earth.

Not hearing back from the pilot, Ratbat sent the Decepticon [[Triple Changer]]s to investigate. They found the stricken pilot near the crashed ship, but didn't get very far in interrogating him about his failure before they too were infected. When Blaster and Goldbug arrived, Blaster landed in the crater and was soon infected as well. The freighter pilot survived long enough to warn [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Goldbug]] about the infection, just before his head fell off. The Scraplets charged toward the tasty-looking Goldbug, who was defended by his human friend [[Charlie Fong]]. But as the two headed off to try and find a cure, Goldbug hesitated, reluctant to abandon Blaster, and he too was infected. Hours later, the infection was so widespread that Goldbug couldn't continue driving. {{storylink|Crater Critters}}

[[File:Scraplets duplicate Marvel US issue 29.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Scraplet reproduction. Woo!]]
Made aware of the infection by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], Ratbat decided to take decisive action to contain it. Rather than risk more Decepticon lives, he captured [[Throttlebot|five Autobots]] and sent them to Earth. His mission for them: use vats of acid spray to destroy all infected Transformers on the planet, Autobot and Decepticon alike!

Charlie Fong pushed Goldbug through the desert to a service station, where the appalled attendants offered him a glass of water. Charlie was shocked when he spilled some on Goldbug to see the Scraplets die and fall off. Holy crap, pinball wizard and a miracle cure: ''water!!''

[[File:Scraplets robot mode Marvel US issue 30.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|And you thought girls had cooties...]]
Before Charlie could grab a hose to "wash his car", the attendants restrained him, thinking he was delusional. Two of the Throttlebots arrived just then, regretfully attempting to destroy Goldbug; only Charlie's interference saved him, as he demonstrated the miracle cure. Satisfied, [[Rollbar (G1)|Rollbar]] and [[Wideload (G1)|Wide Load]] stood by while Charlie hosed down Goldbug, curing him.

[[File:Scraplets combined mode Marvel US issue 30.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"NOBODY steps on a church in my town!"]]
Goldbug and company returned to the crash site with two tankers of water to save Blaster, but couldn't do so without also curing the three Decepticons. Before they could take action, thousands of the Scraplets combined into a muscular mauve giant, bashing the weaponless Throttlebots around. Goldbug cured the Decepticons, who used their firepower to bring down the giant, which Blaster then destroyed with one of the acid vats. The remaining water was used to remove the Scraplets which infected the Throttlebots during the battle, and the outbreak on Earth was at an end. {{storylink|The Cure!}}

When he returned four missing children to their parents on Earth, [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] likened the humans' outraged reactions to what he'd expect if he had been infected with Scraplets. {{storylink|Monstercon from Mars!}}

=====''Generation 2''=====
Starscream compared saving Optimus from [[Swarm (G2)|the Swarm]] to "stirring up the scraplets nest." {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}

=====''Classics''=====
[[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] worried that he had scraplets in his brain. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}

====''Regeneration One''====
{{NoteRG1}}

To draw out the [[Wreckers]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] injected [[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] with a scraplet virus. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} When reinforcements arrived, [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] managed to inject Kup with an anti-toxin, saving Kup's life. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}

=====''Transformers '84''=====
When faced with the possibility of the [[Conehead]]s discovering his schemes, [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] incapacitated them with a scraplet virus. {{storylink|Secrets & Lies issue 2|Secrets & Lies #2}} The environmental protocols aboard the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' later cured the trio. {{storylink|Secrets & Lies issue 3|Secrets & Lies #3}}
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====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] called [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] an "oversized scraplet" during the fight at the [[Praetorus Wharf]]. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
Scraplets are microscopic, but are capable of combining and merging their [[spark]]s into larger forms to drive off potential threats. {{storylink|Silent Light}} Among [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]]'s suggestions for ways to execute a captive [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] was "a single Scraplet taken orally". {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1}} It was rumored that [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] was skilled enough to rewire a Scraplet with his fingers alone. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} A scraplet in a Petri dish appeared in a clip from [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rewind]]'s database used as part of a farewell message to [[Chromedome (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Chromedome]]. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} On a duplicate ''[[Lost Light]]'' created by a quantum accident, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] wasn't rid of his [[Nanocon]] infection by shrinking [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]], [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] and [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] down using [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]]'s [[mass-displacement gun]] so they could go inside Magnus and eliminate all of the invaders, but by using domesticated scraplets. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

Ratchet would later claim that several ''Lost Light'' crew members were at risk of being infected by "super-scraplets", a breed of scraplet with the ability to [[Teleportation|teleport]]. First Aid recognized these supposed scraplets as a complete fabrication and an excuse for Ratchet to talk to the crew members in private. {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

[[File:SilentLight WhirlandScraplets.jpg|upright=1.7|thumb|left]]
While Brainstorm's [[Contrivance Engine]] was highly active, an infestation of Scraplets were accidentally transported onto the ''Lost Light'' in a crate of sub-space filtered [[engex]]. Disoriented and looking for safety, they merged into a form that any Cybertronian would deem harmless—that of a newly-formed [[protoform]]. They were discovered by Whirl, [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] and [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]], who were taken in by the camouflage. However, circumstances forced Whirl to go and flush the pseudo-protoform out an airlock, at which point the Scraplets altered their form to appeal to him specifically, forming a face of a singular (red) optic and claws for hands. Once again taken in, Whirl hid them inside himself, starving his own spark of energy to make room for them. Later, Nautica discovered their true nature and had them quarantined by [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] in the medibay, though they retained an affinity with Whirl. {{storylink|Silent Light}}

Another Scraplet breed was the Red Scraplets, a sub-species the size of a Cybertronian optic. In sufficient numbers, these ravenous creatures could reduce an average-sized mech down to their [[life cord]] in under thirty seconds. Like their smaller counterparts, they were capable of combining with one another into larger forms. {{storylink|The Plotters' Club (Part 2): Filling in the Blanks|Filling in the Blanks}} {{storylink|Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|A Dance Before Dying}} To cover up his [[Time case|experiment]], [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]] smuggled a group aboard, hoping to train them to feed on the temporal energy. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|A Dance Before Dying}}

[[File:Lustrare WhirlRedScraplets.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb]]
After assuming command of the ''Lost Light'', [[Getaway]]'s attitudes and manipulations soon undid any support he once had. To keep his hold on the ship, he enlisted the employ of [[Sunder (G1)|Sunder]] who demanded life cords in exchange for use of his remote [[mnemosurgery]] skills. To that end, Getaway bartered with the Scraplets in the medibay and placed them in the ship's oil reservoir, dumping twenty-five "undecideds" to be eaten alive by the creatures. After [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]] had tried to help the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] escape, Getaway threw him in the reservoir after using his [[nudge gun]] to make the [[Hydrobot (G1)|Hydrobot]] forget how to [[Transformation|transform]]. {{storylink|The Plotters' Club (Part 2): Filling in the Blanks|Filling in the Blanks}} Owing to his low intelligence, the Hydrobot proved immune to the gun's effects and he managed to transform to boat mode, evading the predators long enough to launch himself out of the reservoir. {{storylink|The Plotters' Club (Part 3): Journey's End|Journey's End}}

After the ''Lost Light'' had found [[Cyberutopia]], they discovered it was in fact [[Mederi]]. Upon aligning himself with the [[Adaptus|Grand Architect]], Getaway baited a trap for [[Team Rodimus (G1)|Team Rodimus]] by flooding Shuttle Bay 4 with the contents of the oil reservoir. The Scraplets then combined into a monstrous form to devour their prey, {{storylink|Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|A Dance Before Dying}} before [[Grimlock (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Grimlock]] promptly cleaved them in twain. Undeterred, the predators recombined into a serpentine form only for the Luna 1 Scraplets to recognize Whirl and force the swarm to stand down. Whirl later directed the Scraplets to attack Getaway with the group using Mederi's telepathic field to present themselves as [[Primus]] to the escapologist. Once they'd fed on him, the Scraplets combined into a Transformer-sized version of themselves. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 2): Lūstrāre|Lūstrāre}} Whirl then quarantined the swarm back in the medbay forcing the injured crewmembers to instead be taken to the observation deck. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 3): Farsickness|Farsickness}}

====''Wings Universe''====
[[Tornado]] disdained organics as being barely more evolved than scraplets. {{storylink|Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur}}

Apelinq and the other [[Cybertronian Knight]]s considered a mandatory meditation session and lecture from [[Cheetor (BW)|Alpha Trizer]] to be a worse thing to deal with than, among other things, Scraplets swarming Cybertron. {{storylink|Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur|Apelinq's personal logs}}

===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
[[Airazor (BW)|Wing Saber]] mentally referred to [[Steelgrave]] as "you pompous, arrogant spawn of a scraplet" during his attempted torture on her.

Later, during the raid on the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] factory on [[Nibari]], [[Crossblades (BW)|Crossblades]] mockingly called [[Thrasher (BW)|Thrasher]] a "Scraplet". {{storylink|The Razor's Edge}}

===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
When [[scanning]] a Jeep for [[Rollbar (RID)|Rollbar]]'s [[alternate mode]], [[Gas Skunk]] boasted that the Jeep's cannon would "make scraplets out of the Autobots!" {{storylink|The Decepticons}}

===Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity===
[[Swindle (Cybertron)|Swindle]] derisively referred to the [[Mini-Con]]s as "scraplets" for fighting back against Decepticon control. {{storylink|Force of Habit}}

===''Shattered Glass''===
Scraplets were a potion designed to heal damaged Transformers. They feasted on ''dead'' metal, leaving healthy metal untouched. The metal was either recycled into living metal or more scraplets. They were fatal to [[zombie]]s. They were usually contained in vials, as the air on Cybertron was loaded with water vapor, which killed them. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

===Live-action film series===
====Titan Comics ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comic====
[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] accused [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] of behaving like "un-housetrained scraplets". Why anyone would housetrain a scraplet is anyone's guess. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}}

====Titan Comics ''Age of Extinction'' comic====
Scraplets were tiny creatures that would latch onto a Cybertronian and feed on the host's electrical energy to multiply. [[Sojex]] unleashed a group on [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] in an attempt to kill him only for bounty hunter to defeat the creatures using [[water]]. With some holographic trickery, Lockdown made it to look like the predators had devoured him allowing him to catch Sojex by surprise. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.4|Locked In!}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[Ratbat (Animated)|Ratbat]]'s advanced sensors allowed him to spot an object as small as a Scraplet from a dozen [[Units of length|hic]]s away. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''The Covenant of Primus''====
During the [[Thirteen]]'s first battle against [[Unicron#Aligned continuity family|Unicron]], a horde of scraplets served as the Chaos Bringer's [[Unicron's antibodies|immune system]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[File:PrimeScrapletsEp7.gif|left|upright=1.95|thumb|So now we know what [[Mecannibal]] babies look like.]] The Scraplets were frozen in a large container in the [[Arctic]]. The Autobots, wishing to research the container, brought it into their base to thaw, only to have the Scraplets chew through their prison and escape. [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]], while investigating the base, discovered a Scraplet scuttling around, and thought it was some kind of Autobot pet. He decided to play catch with the creature and threw a bolt, which the Scraplet promptly devoured and promptly identified with Raf rather adorably, with behaviour not unlike a cat. Raf carried the Scraplet to the inner area of the base where [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], and [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] were working. As soon as they saw the Scraplet, all three panicked, and tried to explain how dangerous it could be to them.

Raf thought it to be harmless, and that Ratchet was mistaken, until the Scraplet spotted the Autobots, leapt out of his arms and chewed large scratches into Bumblebee's leg. Raf smashed it, but Ratchet guessed that there would surely be more Scraplets around. His fear was confirmed when they found the empty container, and he sent Bulkhead, [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]], Raf, and Bumblebee to hunt them down while he tried to repair the Scraplets' damage with [[Jack Darby|Jack]] watching his back. The Scraplets ambushed Bulkhead and Bumblebee and a swarm of them flew down from the ceiling and began chewing on Ratchet. Jack discovered that by using a fire extinguisher, one could freeze the Scraplets to death.

[[File:Transformers-Prime-Scrapheap-Scraplet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Where's [[Pinkie Pie]]'s Parasprite Polka when you really need it?!]]
The creatures were initially fended off by the three children, who were not considered food by the Scraplets. The Scraplets had done considerable damage to many systems, and it was up to the children to fix them. They fixed the Energon supply cable that fed the [[GroundBridge]], bringing it back online. The Autobots formulated a plan to both get rid of the Scraplets, and bring back [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], who were stranded in the Arctic. Activating the now operational GroundBridge, Bulkhead decided to act as bait to draw the scraplets through. Once through, the scraplets darted at Optimus and Arcee, and became frozen before they could reach them. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}} The massive damage they'd done to the base continued to plague the ground bridge's systems for some time. {{storylink|Con Job}}

There were still plenty of Scraplets on the dead Cybertron. A sizable cluster of them managed to find their way into the passageway beneath [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] that led to [[Vector Sigma]]. When Jack passed through to Vector Sigma, the Scraplets followed him. While they had no interest in him, once the mega computer started charging [[Key to Vector Sigma|the Key]], the Scraplets started feasting on the empowered access board. Despite Jack's attempts to remove them, the Scraplets proved too many. Fortunately, an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] had also followed Jack down the passageway, but stopped short when it saw the infestation of Scraplets, showing that it too was afraid of them. Jack quickly used this to his advantage by dislodging a live Scraplet and throwing it at the giant insect. Sensing a living Cybertronian, the Scraplets quickly went to town on the Insecticon. In a matter of seconds, the Scraplets chewed through the Decepticon's limbs, causing it to fall over into the deep pit below. The Scraplets followed the doomed Insecticon as it plummeted. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

When transporting [[Tox-En]] to a volcano to destroy it, Bulkhead stated that carrying the vile Energon was worse than facing Scraplets. {{storylink|Toxicity}}
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====''Decepticon's Storytime Theater''====
[[File:StoryOfStumbleBee Scraplets.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
There once existed an extremely popular Decepticon named [[Stumble Bee]], who accidentally fell into a hole and was eaten by Scraplets. {{storylink|Decepticon's Storytime Theater - The Story of Stumble Bee|The Story of Stumble Bee}}
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====''Arms Micron Theater''====
[[B.H.]] was chased around the [[Arms Micron]] studio by a swarm of Scraplets and asked [[C.L. (Prime)|C.L.]] and [[Arc]] for help. Arc suggested he lead the creatures somewhere cold, but C.L. pointed out there was no place cold enough in [[Tateishi]]. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Freezing Transformation!? Terror of the Minicons}}

====Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comics====
A GroundBridge mishap sent Bulkhead to the site of a Vehicon crashed ship, which was being eaten by Scraplets. After being chased by the little critters for a while, Bulkhead used the Vehicon's corpse to lure them in. As the Scraplets finished their first meal, Bulkhead buried the lot of them in a landslide. {{storylink|Mount Problem!}}

====''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon====
[[File:HowToTrainYourScraplet poorly.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
A while ago, a meteor landed on Earth with chunks of iron ore all around. Unfortunately, this meteor also housed Scraplets, which began eating at the natural metals in the impact crater. They would only be discovered several years later, when [[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] led a class of Rescue Bot recruits on a field trip to the crater. Attacking the class upon their intrusion of their burrows, the recruits were sealed in a cave to keep them safe, though a juvenile Scraplet was sealed with them. The rest were trapped by Boulder, Heatwave and Cody Burns in an ice cream truck lined with fiberglass. The recruits eventually made it out with the young Scraplet, and the entire species was rocketed to a moon with enough iron ore to last them a lifetime. {{storylink|Metal Munchers}}

Boulder obtained five Scraplets and, believing they could be trained to work with bots, assigned the recruits the task of doing so. The recruits were skeptical but began attempting to train the critters, even assigning them names, however the volatile nature of the Scraplets made them hard to control. [[Medix (RB)|Medix]] eventually stumbled on the fact that they responded to the sound of a [[Rubber Ducky]] and was able to rig up a "[[Ducktaphone]]" which he successfully used to instruct the Scraplets to prevent a power reactor explosion on Cybertron. {{storylink|How To Train Your Scraplet}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
[[File:Starscream and Scraplets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."]]
While attempting to sabotage a game of [[Cube (sport)|Cube]], Starscream mocked the sport's AI for being designed by Scraplets. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

After seizing the [[AllSpark]] and Vector Sigma, [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] had [[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]] use the latter to reprogram the former and birth forth an army of Scraplets. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

Well and truly off his rocker, Starscream claimed the Scraplets were the reborn [[spark]]s of ancient Cybertronian legends such as [[Zeta Prime (Cyberverse)|Zeta Prime]], [[Solus Prime]], and the noble [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]. When [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] attempted to flee, the Scraplets lunged at her, one of them managing to cripple her arm, but she still managed to turn to jet mode and escape. {{storylink|Parley}}

Starscream later led a group of his children to invade the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|''Nemesis'']], the Scraplets sucking dry the [[energon]] of Starscream's former comrades, though [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] was able to send a distress signal that brought the Autobots to his warship, only to find the sheer number of Scraplets overwhelming. When [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] confronted Starscream on the flagship's bridge, the Seeker claimed that one of the Scraplets was [[Alpha Trion]] who wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Though the Scraplets managed to open the Prime's chest and expose the talisman, they were defeated when [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], who denounced the Scarplets as sparkless beasts, made physical contact with the AllSpark, the energy wave deactivating them and restoring their victims. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Following this, Starscream captured Cheetor to try and absorb his mystical powers. Needing to test this process, Starscream began transferring [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]]'s spark into a Scraplet. Cheetor saved his friend by dousing the [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] in liquid energon, the Scraplets' ravenous appetite leading them to attack their allies. One Scraplet managed to follow the Autobots back to the [[Ark (Cyberverse)|''Ark'']], being turned over to [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] for study. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Using his specimen, Wheeljack attempted to use its homing instincts to track down the other Scraplets only for it to run into [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]]'s specimen. The similar idea led to Shockwave kidnapping Wheeljack in a failed attempt to combine their intellect and resources to track down Starscream, but it did provide Shockwave with Wheeljack's [[drone controller]], giving the Decepticons a way to gain control of the Scraplet horde. [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] made his own studies into Scraplet biology and weaknesses, hacking a gaggle of them to pieces outside the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

The Scraplets were later brought to the AllSpark cavern by Starscream to help him fight off the Autobots and Decepticons that had come to procure the relic. However, during the battle, the Seeker was overpowered and, thus, lost control over the Scraplets. The now-feral beings, despite getting briefly controlled by Shockwave's devices, were presumably destroyed in a cave-in resulting from the aforementioned skirmish. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

Megatron evidently still kept a number onboard the ''Nemesis'', and the beasts were used to prevent anyone from taking the only route to the Vector Sigma chamber. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}} As the tide of the climatic battle between the Autobots and Decepticons managed to turn, Optimus punched the Decepticon Leader into the path of the Scraplets, who began feeding off of him. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

==Games==
===Bot Shots Battle Game!===
[[File:BotShots gameplay Scraplets!.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|AUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!]]
During battle, Bot Shots were able to summon a swarm of Scraplets to attack their opponent. {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
Towards the end of the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], a neutral scientist observed the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] integrate into the ecosystem of the ruins above the [[Crystal City]], noting that they often mucked about in the acid pools (much to the [[alloygator]]s' pleasure), and consumed most of the energon (to the Scraplets' misfortune).

When [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] infiltrated [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron's]] home base of [[Kolkular]] Jazz noted that the base's security (which came in the form of gun turrets), was surprisingly lax and was probably only around to deal with any Scraplets that wandered into the base. Optimus agreed, jovially stating that "even Megatron" had to deal with pests every now and then. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark (console)}}

===''Transformers Universe''===
[[Drive-By]]'s Metal Fatigue ability infected his enemies with [[nanite]]s reverse-engineered from Scraplets. {{storylink|Transformers Universe (Jagex)|Transformers Universe}}

===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
The Decepticons used Scraplets to discombobulate the Autobot Headquarter's systems. Bulkhead removed the Scraplets, restoring the base back to normal. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}

==Toys==
===''Prime''===
[[File:TF-HasCon-2017-Scraplets.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Bumblebee Evolution 2-pack''' (201?)
:Battle-damaged redecoes of ''[[Transformers: Generations#T30|Generations: Thrilling 30]]'' [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Deluxe|Bumblebee]] and ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#FE|Prime: First Edition]]'' [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#FirstEdition|Bumblebee]] were planned to have been released in an "Bumblebee Evolution 2-pack", and included at least two differently-colored Scraplets. This set was canceled, but painted samples were displayed at [[HasCon 2017]].
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===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Scraplet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The '''''only''''' Scout Class you'll buy.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Scraplet''' (Scout Class, 2019)}}
:*''Action Attack'': "Saw Tooth Spin"

:''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' Scraplet is based on the character's appearance in the ''Cyberverse'' cartoon. While the figure does not convert into a vehicle or beast, Scraplet can switch between a quadrupedal and a bipedal stance. Pressing a button behind its head opens the mouth to reveal its inner ring of teeth and activates a spinning gimmick for more jaw-dropping action. The bottom jaw is also hinged to open up further. The back legs are ball-jointed at the hip, but a tab on each limits its range of motion.

==Notes==
*While using round dialogue bubbles for humans and square dialogue bubbles for robots, letterer [[Janice Chiang]] used various polygons for Scraplet-speak.
*The Scraplet stories were two of Budiansky's favourite stories to write, though he'd got them confused with [[Mecannibal]]s.<ref>[http://traffic.libsyn.com/moonbase2/BobBinterview.mp3 Bob Budiansky interview at Moonbase 2]</ref>
*The Scraplets in ''Prime'' are somewhat different from their earlier portrayals; they lack any [[alternate mode]] or combining abilities, they all look the same, and their weakness has changed from water to extreme cold temperatures. Additionally, they can fly as a swarm, and make dentist drill sounds when hungry. They also lack the spontaneous reproduction of the earlier version of Scraplets, although Ratchet's claim that "there's never just ''one''" implies that they are fast breeders.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Scraplet''' (スクラップレット ''Sukrappuretto''), '''Minicon''' (''Prime'', ミニコン ''Minikon'')
*''French:'' '''Dévoreur''' (''Prime'' season 1, "Devourer")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Csavar''' (Marvel Comics, "Screw"), '''Fémzabáló''' (''Rescue Bots Academy'', "Metal-Devourer")
*''Italian:'' '''Scheggia''' ("Sliver")

==References==
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Transformers (2023) issue 31

2026-04-09T01:25:07Z

Cydra: /* Transformers references */

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|caption=Insert “I belong to nobody” here
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[April 8]], [[2026]]
|coverdate=April 2026
|written by=[[Robert Kirkman]]
|art by=[[Dan Mora]]
|colors by=[[Ludo Lullabi]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editor=[[Ben Abernathy]]
|publication design=[[Andres Juarez]]
|production=[[Abigail Lee]]
|continuity=[[Energon Universe]]
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'''Megatron returns to the thrall of Dezimir, and discovers the identity of the one pulling ''his'' strings… '''

==Synopsis==
Within the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', the Decepticons try to restrain [[Megatron (G1)#Energon Universe|Megatron]], in the throes of another mysterious seizure. [[Soundwave (G1)#Energon Universe|Soundwave]] is greatly concerned to hear that this is not the first time…

''Megatron pleads with [[Dezimir]] to release him from the endless trials, but the [[Quintesson]] [[Quintesson Prosecutor|Prosecutor]] refuses, and insists Megatron assume his pistol mode. Megatron refuses; as Dezimir tears Megatron to pieces, the mysterious voice of Dezimir’s master inquires: “You '''forsake''' my gift?” Megatron explains that his gun mode failed to control [[Starscream (G1)#Energon Universe|Starscream]] at a crucial moment, so he will never rely on it again. Dezimir’s unseen master reiterates; Megatron is to ''serve''. He carries within him the [[Matrix of Oppression]]; a wellspring of power and rage sourced from the life force of prior Decepticon leaders, who in turn feed off of Megatron’s strength. Megatron fights his way through over three thousand more trials, until the ten thousandth; he’s had enough and finally accepts the terms.''

''Suddenly finding himself in a wasteland, Megatron approaches a building shaped like the Decepticon [[insignia]]. Within the base, he finds the master of Dezimir and the Matrix of Oppression: [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]. Megatronus offers the Decepticon leader a choice, between the only two options there are at this point: oblivion, or servitude. Reluctantly, Megatron chooses servitude.''

Within the ''Nemesis'', Megatron collapses, and mysterious crystals begin breaking through from within his body…

==Featured Characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks or dream form. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c2=
* [[Soundwave (G1)#Energon Universe|Soundwave]] (1)
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (2)
* [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (3)
* [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (4)
* [[Megatron (G1)#Energon Universe|Megatron]] (5)
* [[Skywarp (G1)#Energon Universe|Skywarp]] (6)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (7)
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (8)
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (9)
* ''[[Trannis]]'' (11)
* ''[[The Fallen|Megatronus]]'' (12)
* ''[[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]'' (13)

|h3=[[Quintesson]]s|c3=
* ''[[Dezimir]]'' (10)
* ''[[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]]'' (15)
* ''[[Quintesson Bailiff|Bailiffs]]'' (16)
* ''[[Mechanokoar]]'' (17)

|h4=Others|c4=
* ''[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]?'' (14)
}}

==Quotes==
“It is '''you''' who is flawed. You have not fully submitted to me.” 
“I was born to '''command'''. Not serve.” 
:— '''Dezimir’s master''' and '''Megatron'''

“'''THEN BOW BEFORE MEGATRONUS.''' Bend your will to '''mine''' and receive the '''true''' power of the '''Matrix of Oppression.'''”

==Notes==
* Holy—

===Continuity notes===
* We first learned about Megatron’s trials with Dezimir back in [[Transformers (2023) issue 19|#19]], which is also where we were introduced to the Matrix of Oppression, though not by name. Additionally, it was unclear at the time whether Megatron was merely bathed in its power or actually received the physical object; it seems he carries it within him.
** Of note: Megatron ended that issue with 500 trials under his belt before Dezimir’s master declared he was done. This issue starts with Megatron at number 6,353, and ends at 10,000. Yikes.
* Megatron had a seizure at the end of [[Transformers (2023) issue 26|#26]] and into the beginning of [[Transformers (2023) issue 28|#28]] (taking place immediately after #26). At the time, Soundwave was being held prisoner by the Autobots and was not around to see it.
* Megatron was first shown to be able to control those who wielded him back in [[Transformers (2023) issue 14|#14]].
* Starscream broke free of said control and shot himself in the head in [[Transformers (2023) issue 24|#24]].
* Among the Decepticon leaders seen within the Matrix, we also see…Trailbreaker? He’s hidden somewhat behind Straxus, but the head and the forcefield gadget are a dead match. Might this have something to do with Megatron devouring the [[Autobot]]’s [[Spark]] in [[Transformers (2023) issue 28|#28]]? We’ll see!
* The [[Thirteen]] have been alluded to throughout the Energon Universe, in particular Skywarp swore by the Fallen in [[Transformers (2023) issue 3|#3]], while [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Energon Universe|Optimus Prime]] saw a bunch of statues of them within the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in issues [[Transformers (2023) issue 22|#22]] and [[Transformers (2023) issue 23|#23]].

===Transformers references===
* The big one is The Fallen, AKA Megatronus, appearing in a design based on his original appearance in [[Dreamwave Productions]]’ ''[[Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages|War Within: The Dark Ages]]'' miniseries. Having said that, it’s more likely meant to tie in with the character’s recent ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' [[The Fallen/toys#Age of the Primes|toy]], considering the Megatronus name and the portrayal as an ambiguous prominent Decepticon leader of ages past.
* The other non-generic Decepticon leaders shown are Straxus and Trannis, both originally from the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|comic]] (US and UK respectively); Trannis in particular is using the design from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]] episode "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]" that was retroactively identified as him, since he was not visually depicted in his original Marvel appearance.
* When Megatron finally had enough of the trials, he yells "I accept your terms!" Which is what he said in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' to [[Unicron]] before he was reformatted into [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. Foreshadowing?
* The big honkin’ Decepticon insignia base comes from the episode "[[Enter the Nightbird]]", though there it was an actual physical building.

===Errors===
* Long Haul and Bonecrusher’s chests, as well as the latter’s legs, are colored purple instead of the correct green on the first page.

===Other Notes===
* Energon Experience: Presented by Skybound Executive Editor Ben Abernathy.
** '''Character Spotlight:''' Megatron
** '''Decepti-Can’t!:''' The other Decepticons were unable to physically restrain Megatron.
** '''Creator Spotlight:''' Ben asks Ludo Lullabi what his alt-mode would be. Lullabi answers a cargo spaceship, bringing stories from world to world while listening to ‘Prophecy Theme’ by Toto.

===Covers===
* '''Cover A:''' Megatron, by [[David Nakayama]].
* '''Cover B:''' Megatron with his Energon mace, by [[Daniel Warren Johnson]] & Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C:''' Megatron profile shot, by [[Simon Parr|Pye Parr]].
* '''Cover D:''' The Decepticons flanking Megatron, by [[Manabu Yashiro]]. 1:25 copy incentive
* '''Cover E:''' Megatron close-up, by Ludo Lullabi. 1:50 copy incentive.
* '''Cover F:''' Megatron (noticing a pattern?) and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] in a minimalist style, by [[Patricia Martín Samaniego]]. Foil variant cover, 1:100 copy incentive
* '''Cover G:''' Blank sketch cover
* '''Gotham City Limit Cover A:''' Megatron on his throne by [[Tyler Kirkham]]. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Gotham City Limit Cover B:''' Textless variant of above by Tyler Kirkham. Limited to 500 copies.

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Insignia

2026-03-31T14:13:11Z

Cydra: /* Animated cartoon */

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* [[Insignia/Gallery|Gallery]]
* ''[[Cybertronian military insignia/gallery|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''}}
[[File:Insignia mainpic.jpg|thumb|upright=1.50|Some of the more prominent [[Transformer]] faction insignias.]]
Throughout the [[Transformer]]s [[multiverse]], one constant across the myriad iterations of the [[Great War (disambiguation)|Great War]] is the use of '''insignia''' to differentiate members of the respective armies — most prominently, the heroic [[Autobot]]s and evil [[Decepticon]]s.

{{quote|And ''these ones'' have different tribal markings! Perhaps they’re rivals?|[[Pakak]] on Maximals and Predacons|"[[Savage Landing Part 2]]"}}

==Conceptual history==
[[File:G1_toy_insignia.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.55|The toy packaging's faction insignia were stylized and metallic. Note the beveled detailing on the Decepticon symbol's crest, which was misinterpreted as a third spike for the cartoon.]]
Faction insignia were used to differentiate heroes and villains in several 1980s Hasbro toylines, including [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] and [[Visionaries]], but the ''Transformers'' toys were the first to make heavy use of the idea on the toys themselves. The original Autobot and Decepticon insignias, supposedly designed by [[Wayne Molinare]], were seemingly based on toys from the first year of the [[The Transformers (toyline)|original ''Transformers'' toyline]]; the Autobot symbol is a heavily stylized and simplified version of the face of [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], while the Decepticon insignia is drawn from that of [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]].

For the toy packaging and the cartoon's [[scene transition]]s, the insignia were rendered in metallic colors with beveled edges. This resulted in an odd curiosity of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]]'s designs; as the designers were evidently working off these renderings rather than a flat image, the beveled detail at the top of the Decepticon symbol's crest was misinterpreted as a third spike on said crest, resulting in a disparity between the cartoon insignia and other appearances of the Decepticon badge. This version of the insignia remained otherwise unused for decades, but eventually saw a return as part of the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' toyline's move towards ever-more-painstaking animation accuracy, starting with [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|MP-29 Destron Laserwave]].

[[File:Live action movie insignia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.55|In 2007, the Autobot and Decepticon insignia were redesigned to fit the tone of the new movie. In practice, this means Angry Eyes.]]
Though replacements for the Autobot and Decepticon insignia were introduced for ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Transformers: Generation 2]]'', with the G2 Autobot symbol being based on the face of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], they failed to catch on. When the [[Transformers brand]] was reimagined in the mid-1990s as ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'', entirely new insignia were created for the new heroic and villainous factions, the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], though these were not based on any specific toy or design; rather, they reflected the mammalian and insectoid memberships of these factions. Over the next decade or so, new symbols were designed for [[Blentron|various]] [[Vehicon (BM)|new]] [[Mini-Con|factions]] [[Wreckers|and subgroups]], with a wide variety of stylistic influences.

For the 2007 [[Transformers (film)|live action ''Transformers'' movie]], the famous Autobot and Decepticon insignia were given a redesign, with the most obvious changes being the eyes — the tops of the Autobot symbol's eyes were slanted slightly down, and the Decepticon symbol's eyes were shrunk and changed from triangles to diamonds. The implementation of these redesigns is inconsistent, as while the redesigned insignia are typically used by movie tie-ins with everything else using the classic designs, "mix-ups" of the symbols frequently happen; infamously, [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], the breakout character of the movie franchise, wears the classic version of the Autobot insignia on his forehead crest.
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==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[File:FireintheSky Skyfires magicAutobotsymbol.jpg|thumb|upright=1|"Welcome to the Autobots! Now you have to wear [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl's]] face on your body."]]
[[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] switched sides, tearing the Decepticon insignia off of his chest and installing an Autobot insignia. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}}

[[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] reawakened the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s and told them to go help their friends. They reluctantly agreed and flew off after them. When they arrived, they initially could not distinguish friend from foe, until [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] suggested that their friends might be the ones with the same robotic face on them as they had. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] once stole [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]]'s insignia as part of a successful plan to turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] against the other Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor (episode)|Traitor}}

[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] identified [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] as a fellow Autobot upon seeing his insignia, which led to the two teaming up.
{{storylink|The Gambler}}

====''Wings Universe''====
[[File:Pyro streetwise insignia g2 redux.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6]]
After defeating [[Clench (G1)|Clench]]'s Decepticons at the [[Large Hadron Collider]] in [[Switzerland]], [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] decided that he would have the rest of the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]]s transferred to serve on [[Earth]]. To make it official, [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] handed him a set of ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' Autobot badges. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}
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====Masterpiece toy bios====
When the Decepticons acquired several "G2 bodies" and upgraded their own troops with them, they etched a modified symbol on them to signify they were "G2" Decepticons. During his own certification ceremony, Riggorus noticed an unfamiliar soldier with the same insignia, but [[Garboil (G1)|Garboil]] assured him there was nothing to worry about. {{storylink|Riggorus#Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'' Riggorus profile}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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When [[Slag (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Slag]] was revived by [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] after being trapped in a tar pit for four million years, he went into a frenzy and attacked, until he saw Ratchet's Autobrand and calmed down. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

[[File:MarvelUS14-Jetfire-RiteOfTheAutobrand.jpg|thumb|left|Die cast construction...]]
''[[Ironhide (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ironhide]] was uncomfortable taking orders from [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], who was still wearing a Decepticon insignia.'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}} Jetfire officially became an Autobot after going through the [[Rite of the Autobrand]]. To better disguise themselves on Earth, [[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] installed [[Circuit (circuit)|shielding circuitry]] into the Autobots which enabled a metal sheet to cover their Autobot symbols in [[alternate mode]]. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

The [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] fooled [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] into thinking they were Autobots by wearing fake Autobot symbols. {{storylink|Gone but Not Forgotten!}} The [[Sports Car Patrol]] tricked Ratchet into thinking they were Autobots by wearing counterfeit Autobot symbols—Decepticon and Autobot symbols on a rotating plate so they could switch back and forth. {{storylink|Back from the Dead}}

Megatron spent some time in [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Dead End (place)|Dead End]] district as an [[Empty]]. His mind was damaged and he just wandered about the place until the sight of an Autobot symbol snapped him out of it. {{storylink|The Resurrection Gambit!}}

[[File:Springer carnivac catilla insignia survivors.jpg|thumb|right|...it's a lost art.]]
''United into a [[Survivors|single team]] following the events of the [[Time Wars]] and by battling the nightmare creatures generated by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]'s time in [[Limbo]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] offered to make [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]] and [[Catilla (G1)|Catilla]] [[Honorary Autobot]]s, passing them a pair of Autobot badges as he did so.'' {{storylink|Survivors!}}

When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] surrendered to the Decepticons, he laid an Autobot insignia at [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s feet. Scorponok promptly crushed it. {{storylink|Surrender!}} After the Autobots and Decepticons came together to fight [[Unicron]], they continued their uneasy alliance and adorned their headquarters with an insignia that included a slightly modified Decepticon sign atop a slightly modified Autobot sign. {{storylink|Still Life!}} [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] and [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] were outside in Cybertron's increasingly bad weather discussing the planet's upcoming self-destruction when the wind blew the gigantic Autobot insignia off the wall and onto Dreadwind's head. {{storylink|Exodus!}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comics====
The Autobots had at some point begun using a new insignia that resembled Optimus Prime rather than the [[Last Autobot]]. [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s Decepticons were also using a new symbol, similar to their old one, that coincidentally closely resembled the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]] insignia.

===''Beast Wars''===
[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s Maximal insignia once morphed into a Predacon one (and later back again). No other Transformer showed they could do this, and he only used it for a con. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy (episode)|Double Jeopardy}}

When the [[Transmuter (BW)|Transmuter]] turned [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] into a Predacon, it automatically changed his insignia as well as giving him a [[redeco]]. {{storylink|Dark Designs}} Likewise, [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] gained a Decepticon insignia while he was possessed by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Possession}} [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] sported both Decepticon and Predacon insignia while working as a Predacon secret agent. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}}

Waspinator ''pulled his insignia off'' like it was a fabric patch when renouncing his Predacon membership. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] has such an ego, he created [[:File:OptimalSituation Tarantulas insignia.jpg|his ''own'' special insignia]] for his [[Arachnoid]]s.

===Unicron Trilogy===
[[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] could change his insignia from Autobot to Decepticon—an ability he utilised for deceptive purposes. {{storylink|Credulous}} {{storylink|Ship}}

Using the power of [[Unicron]], [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] had the ability to brainwash Transformers to the Decepticon cause. In [[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]]'s case, it changed his insignia from Autobot to Decepticon. {{storylink|Imprisoned Inferno}} When Inferno fought against Megatron's influence through his willpower, his insignia would toggle back and forth until he succeeded in purging the Decepticon in him. His Autobot insignia looked brand new after that. {{storylink|Jungle Planet (episode)|Jungle Planet}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
The [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicons]] gained Decepticon insignia through the [[Rite of the Deceptibrand]], which involved electrically [[branding]] the symbol onto their chests. The process also [[Homage|changed their colors]] to [[Constructicon (G1)|green and purple]]. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

When the recently-sparked [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] enthusiastically decided he was an Autobot, he somehow pulled an Autobot insignia from his [[subspace storage pocket|backpack]] and slapped it crookedly onto his chest. He also pulled out a Decepticon insignia when [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] 'convinced' him he must be one. {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:YouAreHere-KnightsOfCybertron.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|left|"Let us ride... to Camelot!"]]
The first five Transformers, the [[Guiding Hand]], each had their own personal insignia. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}} When the [[Knights of Cybertron]] left the planet, they marched beneath the banner of [[Adaptus]]. As a result of the [[information creep]] unleashed following the [[God War]], the symbols of the other four members would later be conflated as having belonged to other clans of the Knights. {{storylink|An Axe to Break the Ice}} {{storylink|The Ties That Bind (issue)|The Ties That Bind}} {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}}

In the primitive age that followed the departure of Knights, the [[Thirteen]] came to power. One of their number, the bestial [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]], marked the occasion by commissioning the "First Face" — supposedly based on [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]'s description of [[Primus]]'s likeness, but in reality, one of the many ontological paradoxes he had dedicated himself to invoking. {{storylink|Origin Myths}} {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}}

[[File:OmegasConundrum-AlphaTrion.jpg|thumb|right|...It's so good we'll put it right here on the fridge.]]

The First Face was, up until the outbreak of the war, considered the closest thing Cybertron had to a universal symbol, held in high regard by the [[High Priests of K'th Kinsere]], the Ignition Cults and the Circuit Sects. Whenever the Cybertronian race was moved by significant unrest, the face would appear, often redesigned in subtle ways that historians would use to mark the transition from one epoch to the next. During [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]]'s rule as Prime, the symbol was co-opted for the nascent Autobot faction. {{storylink|Omega's Conundrum}}

The Decepticon insignia came about after [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] hurled his datapad at a random screen and decided he liked the shatter pattern. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1}} The [[Rite of the Deceptibrand]] involved molding part of the Decepticon's spark casing into their new badge; those who had not yet undergone the Rite, referred to as "[[Genericon]]s", wore "learner plates" that could be distinguished by their color. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}}

[[File:DCFinale megatron the autobot.jpg|thumb|left]]
Other insignia were recognized by Cybertronian society, such as the distinctive [[Facial hair|facial insignia]] worn by members of the [[House (group)|House]] of Ambus. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}}

When he renounced the Decepticons and declared himself an Autobot during his confrontation with [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], Megatron punctuated the gesture by donning an Autobot symbol taken from the body of [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]]. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Even as he took on the moniker of the "Grand Architect", Adaptus continued to utilize his insignia, having his troops branded with it. {{storylink|Animals}} {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}} In their quest for the Knights of Cybertron, the ''[[Lost Light]]'' crew repeatedly encountered the emblem but failed to connect it to Adaptus until they confronted him. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
In the aftermath of [[Maxima]]'s death, numerous proto-formers began using a stylized image of her [[Luponoid]] steed as the insignia of the burgeoning Maximal faction. {{storylink|The Predacon Manifesto}} Meanwhile, the nascent Predacon faction took the face of an [[Insecatron]] as their insignia. {{storylink|Book of Logos}}

When [[Galva Convoy]] made it clear he was no longer obeying the Builder Assembly, Knock Out noted he bore a different insignia from the Maximal one he'd had previously, one representing the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. {{storylink|Derailment}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
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The ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (franchise)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' franchise innovated an idea that no ''Transformers'' series has attempted to such an extent – a ranked hierarchy of the Autobot and Decepticon armies, matched with Cybertronian military insignias. Each insignia consists of three parts: the division (ground, air, sea, or space); the unit (infantry, recon/intelligence/espionage, medical, engineering/applied sciences, special ops/black ops, artillery/weapons, or transport); and the rank (private/raider, sergeant, specialist, captain, major, or general).

===Live-action film continuity===
[[File:Scourge's_Collection.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Your insignia will make a fine addition to my collection!]]
[[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] liked to take insignias from his kills as trophies, adorning his upper arms with them. He did so when he killed [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]], and again when he seemingly killed [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]. During the final fight with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], the enraged Autobot leader made a point of removing Bumblebee's insignia from Scourge and returning it to its now-revived original owner. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}

===''Transformers One''===
[[Megatron (One)|D-16]] idolized [[The Fallen|Megatronus Prime]] for being the biggest and strongest of the [[Thirteen|Primes]] and collected decals based on him. His best friend [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] found a rare first-edition decal of Megatronus's face and applied it to D-16's left shoulder. D-16 continued to wear it, though it became as worn and frayed as his friendship with Orion and his faith in the Primes. When [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]] noticed the decal, he mocked D-16 for his hero worship before revealing he took Megatronus's [[Transformation cog (biology)|transformation cog]] for himself after he killed him. Reapplying the decal to D-16's chest, Sentinel made sure it never came off by welding a crude drawing of Megatronus's face over it, destroying the decal in the process. After D-16 killed Sentinel, took Megatronus's cog, and renamed himself Megatron, he and the [[High Guard]] were banished from [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon City]]. Megatron would then use Megatronus's face as the insignia of his new army, literally rebranding them as [[Decepticon]]s. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|Transformers One}}

==Toys==
===''BotBots''===
* '''Retro Recon''' (2022)
[[File:Retro Recon stock photo.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Gee, I wonder what faction is their favorite?]]

: Part of the sixth Series of ''[[Transformers: BotBots (toyline)| BotBots]]'', Retro Recon is a tiny robot who turns into pixelated [[Autobot]] insignia, likely intended to be one of those novelty "retro" sprite wall-lights.

: They are available in one of the Series 6 "Gamer Geeks"-themed 5-packs, packed in with [[Gamerguy1027]], [[Jetaway]], [[Scratchmouth]], and a [[blindpacking|blind-packed]] [[Joystick]].

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===Transformers (2025)===
[[File:Icons Optimus Prime Stock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[Freedom Fighter]] finally got a robot mode!]]
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:*''Accessories'': Ion Blaster, stand

:"Icons Optimus Prime" is a Voyager-scale figure that transforms into the Autobot [[insignia]] in 25 steps. He comes with a stand to display him in alt-mode, as well as an [[ion blaster]] to wield in robot mode.

: In an interesting pull, the product description for this figure refers to the Autobot insignia as having originated as an ancient symbol called the "First Face", as it was in the [[2005 IDW continuity]]... though we're ''pretty sure'' Hasbro's idea of events doesn't involve a time-traveling [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] disguising himself as [[Onyx Prime]] and screwing around with the past.
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==Merchandise==
===Universal Studios===
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* '''Foam Autobot Shield''' (2012)
[[File:Universal Studios Foam Autobot Shield.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Ever want to LARP as Optimus Prime?]]
: A Universal Studios exclusive item, this [[roleplay toy|roleplay]] foam shield is shaped like an Autobot insignia. To date only one example of this shield has been found via an [[eBay]] auction. <ref>https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/transformers-autobots-red-black-foam-2015360996</ref>
* '''Foam Decepticon Shield''' (2012)
[[File:Foamdecepticonshield.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Also comes in purple!]]
: A Universal Studios exclusive item, this [[roleplay toy|roleplay]] foam shield is shaped like a Decepticon insignia.
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==Gallery==
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==References==
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Five Servos of Doom

2026-03-08T03:06:21Z

Cydra: /* Continuity errors */

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|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA Five Servos Yoketron vs Prowl.JPG
|caption=Wax on, wax off.
|ep=35
|ep2=32
|prev2=Where Is Thy Sting?
|next2=Predacons Rising (Animated)
|title="Five Servos of Doom"
|airdate=[[April 4]], 2009
|season=3
|season ep=6
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaJ6ML6UqFI
|videosite=YouTube}}

'''Sentinel Prime has incredible success capturing fugitive Decepticons, leading Prowl to suspect he's getting help. '''

==Synopsis==
[[File:FiveServosOfDoom-CapturedDecepticons.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"We're gonna need a bigger shelf..."]]

In the dead of night, the [[Autobot]]s steal through the streets of [[Detroit]], on the trail of a [[Decepticon]] energy signature. With the source of the signal cornered, [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] makes his move and dives through a window, only to find that the signal is coming from a [[signal beacon]] and that the Autobots have been tricked. To make matters worse, [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] has disappeared, and the Autobots spread out to search for him. During the search, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] spots an unfamiliar shadow and follows it around a corner...to find the [[Sunstorm (Animated)|sycophantic Starscream clone]], captured and [[stasis cuffs|stasis-cuffed]] by Sentinel Prime. They take the prisoner back to the [[Elite Guard]]'s [[Sigma Supreme|ship]], where Optimus is stunned to discover that Sentinel has also recently captured [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] and [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] as well.

[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] and [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] are eager to know how Sentinel managed to apprehend the Starscream clone, as is Optimus, but Sentinel gets defensive and tells Optimus it does not concern him. Prime confides in Prowl his suspicion that Sentinel is hiding something, and tells about the strange shadow he saw. Back at the Autobot plant, the pair consult computer records to see if Optimus can identify the distinctive helmet the robot was wearing, and when they find one that fits the bill, the stunned Prowl flashes back to his past on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]...

[[File:TFA Five Servos Prowl meets Yoketron.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.1|"Blam! Pow! You want I should leave this here?"]]

:''The helmet belongs to [[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]], the ninja master who trained Prowl centuries ago. Attempting to dodge the draft during the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]], Prowl was apprehended by Elite Guardsman [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] and placed into the care of Yoketron, who saw potential in him and offered to train him in exchange for the charges against him being dropped.''

Optimus pulls Prowl out of his ruminations, and the ninja-bot silently speeds back to the Elite Guard ship to converse with [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]], another of Yoketron's old students. The pair suspect that their old sensei may somehow be on Earth, capturing Decepticons, and that Sentinel is taking the credit. Sentinel walks in on the middle of the discussion and laughs off the notion that Yoketron is even still online, before departing on another patrol. Knowing that something is not right, Jazz and Prowl shadow Sentinel, but when Sentinel rounds a corner and disappears, Prowl lapses into his memories once again, recalling when Yoketron taught him that it was the robot himself, not his tools, that made the ninja. With nothing left to do, the pair return to the Elite Guard's ship, where Jetfire and Jetstorm are working to repair their communications system.

[[File:Jetstormpose.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Say cheeeeeese!]]

The two brothers, who are struggling to get the ship's [[gyro-stabilizer]] working, tell the ninjas that Sentinel is waiting for them in the brig, and Jazz and Prowl are amazed to see that Sentinel has brought in [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]]! As Sentinel gloats, Prowl calls him on the unlikelihood of the whole scenario and accuses him of having "help". The ninja-bot points out the missing weapons on all the Decepticons, and notes that [[Lockdown (Animated)|only one bot]] that he knows of takes trophies from his victims, but Sentinel silences him by revealing that he has removed Lugnut's "[[Punch of Kill Everything]]" and placed it in a storage compartment in that very hallway. Embarrassed, Prowl leaves, and Sentinel turns on Optimus, telling him to keep Prowl in line, lest he "bust him back to protoform". The word echoes down the hallway, and Prowl pauses...

:''As Prowl's skills increase under Yoketron's tutelage, he is deemed worthy of a weapon by his master and is given his [[shuriken]]. Yoketron leads Prowl into a chamber containing holographic busts of his greatest students, but one plinth is empty—a spot, Yoketron reveals, previously held by a former student who disgraced the cyber-ninja corps. Prowl is amazed when Yoketron uses a technique known as "[[processor-over-matter]]" to open the far wall of the chamber with the power of his mind, revealing a greater chamber beyond, its walls lined with [[protoform]]s that the [[Cyber-Ninja Corps]] has been charged with protecting. Yoketron challenges Prowl to close the chamber using processor-over-matter, but Prowl is unable to accomplish the task, and Yoketron sends him on an "optics quest" to find his center and become a true cyber-ninja.''

Prowl's trip down memory lane is cut off as Sentinel comes down the hallway. He uses his hologram projector to disguise himself as a cabinet and listen in as Sentinel talks with parties unknown over his communicator. Prowl alerts Jazz before trailing Sentinel to [[Tigatron Stadium]], where he learns that his suspicions were correct: Sentinel is working with [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], who is wearing Yoketron's helmet! Prowl busts up the prisoner exchange, but it is soon revealed that Lockdown has double-crossed Sentinel, having been made a better offer by [[Ramjet (Animated)|the liar Starscream clone]]. Lockdown and Prowl engage in battle, and Lockdown reveals that he was also a student of Yoketron...

[[File:FiveServosOfDoom-Yoketron'sDeath.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|"You must not sacrifice a piece of the future to bring back the past." "But the seeds of the future lie buried in the past!" "... shut up, boy."]]
:''Returning from his unsuccessful optics quest, Prowl discovers that Yoketron's dojo has been attacked, the protoforms almost all stolen, and Yoketron himself fatally wounded. As Yoketron's spark begins to fade, Prowl recovers one of the remaining protoforms and places his master's spark in it, saving Yoketron's life. Yoketron, however, is appalled by his student's actions; one must never sacrifice a piece of the future in order to save a piece of the past. When Prowl's time comes, Yoketron tells him, he too will understand. As Prowl looks on, Yoketron allows his spark to fade out.''

At last, all is clear to Prowl: Lockdown led the attack on the dojo and took the protoforms! Prowl pins Lockdown and demands the return of Yoketron's helmet; Lockdown appears to comply, but the helmet has been booby-trapped and binds Prowl in a tangle of cables. The captured Prowl is taken to [[Death's Head (Animated)|Lockdown's ship]], where the bounty hunter intends to remove his jump jets and holo-projector in order to complete a duplicate set of the armor that he loaned Prowl during their [[A Fistful of Energon|last encounter]]. Lying on Lockdown's "operating table", Prowl concentrates, and at last masters processor-over-matter, freeing his body from the cables with the power of his mind.

[[File:Sentinel-derp.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Sentinel displays his ''Unfortunate Accident'' mode.]]
Meanwhile, Optimus Prime, Jazz, Jetfire and Jetstorm have arrived to rescue Sentinel Prime from the clutches of the Starscream clone, but the fight is not going well, as the clone uses Sentinel for a shield most of the time. The clone takes to the air, but Prime blinds him with a faceful of foam, and he crashes into the middle of the stadium field, dropping Sentinel head-first into the ground.

Back aboard Lockdown's ship, the bounty hunter turns to discover that Prowl has freed himself and donned both Yoketron's helmet and the armor, knowing that he will be able to handle its power this time because of the lesson he has finally learned: It is the ninja-bot, not the weapon. The two engage in battle once more, and their fight soon carries them out of the ship and into the middle of the other fight going on in the field outside. Optimus Prime and Jazz are in the process of dropping the stadium's scoreboard onto the Starscream clone, but Prowl and Lockdown get in the way at the last second, before they can stop the giant screen's tumble. As the dust clears, Optimus and Jazz discover that Prowl has used processor-over-matter to protect the combatants from the debris. Optimus quickly stasis-cuffs the Starscream clone, but Lockdown gets away.

[[File:TFA Five Servos processor over matter.JPG|right|thumb|upright=1.1|...Show-off.]]
A little later, everyone has returned to the Elite Guard ship, where Jetstorm and Jetfire open a communications channel with [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] on Cybertron. Cliffjumper tells the Autobots about [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]]'s attack on [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]], and rather than add to the trouble, Prime refrains from reporting Sentinel's misconduct, instead simply informing Cliffjumper of the capture of the Decepticons on [[Earth]], crediting Prowl. Sentinel thanks Optimus for covering for him, but Optimus promises that once everything is done, he and Sentinel will have it out.

Back at the Autobot base, Jazz compliments Prowl on his armor, and tells him that Yoketron would be proud to have him wear his helmet. Prowl vows to do everything he can to be worthy of it.
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==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashback.) 
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (1)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (4)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (8)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (9)
*''[[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]]'' (10)
*''[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]]'' (11)
*[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]] (15)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (16)

|c2=
*[[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]] (5)
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (6)
*[[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] (7)
*[[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] (12)
*[[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] (13)
*[[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] (14)

}}

==Quotes==
'''Jetfire''': Sentinel Prime, sir, tell please. 
'''Jetstorm''': How did you making to capture this badness bot? 
'''Optimus''': Yes, Sentinel. How did you capture this badness bot?
:—Optimus Prime and the twins question Sentinel and butcher the English language.

'''Warpath''': Ask me, he should rust in the stockade. Any Autobot who won't fight the Decepticons is no better than a Con himself. We're at war. 
'''Prowl''': It's not my war! 
'''Warpath''': Then maybe I should take you out back and ''make it'' your war! 
'''Yoketron''': I believe I can take it from here. 
'''Warpath''': Bam pow! Lousy draft-dodgin' peacenik.
:—Warpath has no time for draft-dodgers.

"Give. Me. Yoketron's. Helmet."
:—'''Prowl''' is ''not'' messing around.

"Couldn't resist that old armor, though, could ya? What makes you think you can handle it this time?" 
"I've learned something since then. It's the ninja-bot, not the weapon."
:—'''Lockdown''' and '''Prowl'''

"Whoa, bro. P-over-M."
:—'''Jazz''', impressed with Prowl's processor-over-matter mastery.

"Diggin' the new armor, specially Yoketron's helmet. He'd be proud to have you wear it." 
"Thank you. I plan to do everything in my power to be worthy of it."
:—'''Jazz''' and '''Prowl'''

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Prowl performed the titular "Five Servos of Doom" technique back in "[[The Elite Guard]]".
*Swindle is still stuck in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] after the events of "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]".
*Prowl's samurai armor was previously seen in "[[A Fistful of Energon]]", in which Lockdown last appeared. Additionally, it was in that episode that Starscream escaped from the Elite Guard flagship, which is the "last time" that Sentinel refers to while arguing with Optimus.
*As of this episode, we've seen all the Cybertronian modes for the five main Autobots.
*And, as of this episode, all the main 'bots have had flashback episodes (counting "[[Autoboot Camp]]" for both Bulkhead and Bumblebee).
*Prowl's keeping of his new armor continues the trend started in "[[TransWarped]]" with Bumblebee and Ratchet that upgrades are okay now because damnit, this is war. This is a notable turnaround from the position of the first two seasons.

===Transformers references===
*Yoketron is named for [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s lead designer, [[Hideaki Yoke]].
[[File:FiveServosOfDoom-TempleCameos.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|For those who thought getting [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] just wasn't good enough...]]
[[File:FiveServosOfDoom-TempleCameos2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
[[File:FiveServosOfDoom-TempleCameos3.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*In addition to Yoketron and Jazz, the busts in Yoketron's little "hall of fame" depict ''Animated'' incarnations of various Transformers that have otherwise not appeared in the series (yet?). Those clearly visible onscreen include [[Springer (Animated)|Springer]], [[Sky Garry (Animated)|Sky Garry]], [[Devcon (Animated)|Devcon]], [[Dai Atlas (Animated)|Dai Atlas]], [[Heavy Load (Animated)|Heavy Load]], [[Star Upper (Animated)|Star Upper]] and [[Roadhandler (Animated)|Roadhandler]], but there are many more busts in the room that are only seen from a distance, and are essentially unidentifiable. [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] has identified the other Transformers as [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Star Saber (Animated)|Star Saber]], [[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]], [[Kick-Off (Animated)|Kick-Off]], [[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]], [[Motorarm (Animated)|Motorarm]], [[Powerhug (Animated)|Powerhug]] and [[Road Rocket (Animated)|Road Rocket]].
*[[Tigatron]] Stadium!
*Lockdown identifies Prowl's techniques as [[Metallikato|Metallikato Sigma]] and [[Circuit-Su]].
*Yoketron's Spark container is similar to design to [[Big Convoy]]'s Matrix, with two L-shaped handles instead of U-shaped ones. Fitting, when one considers Yoketron's Japanese-based aesthetic.
*One of the upgrades seen on Lockdown's shelves is [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave's]] G1 shoulder-mounted missile launcher.
*The protoform Prowl takes from the room has a design similar to the ones in ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.
*Also, the protoform-pods-or-whatever-they-are-called on the walls look like the [[stasis pod]]s from [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|the same franchise]]...where the protoforms were guarded as well! Coincidence? Perhaps...
*Master Yoketron's dying words to Prowl are [[Endgame, Part II|rather foreshadowing....]]

===Real-world references===
*The title of the episode is apparently derived from the 1972 Hong Kong martial arts movie ''{{w|Five Fingers Of Death}}''. The movie's name is a regular source of recycling, including wrestler Bret Hart's "Five Moves Of Doom" and the mockumentary ''18 Fingers Of Death'' to name a few.
**A reference to "[[Five Faces of Darkness]]" may not have been intended, but the Brazilian title sure seems to be going in that direction.
*Tigatron Stadium is named after and largely based on {{w|Tiger Stadium}}, the former home field of the {{w|Detroit Tigers}}. The stadium ceased use by the team in 1999, and was later fully demolished in 2009.

===Animation or technical errors===
*Lockdown seems to have...lost a...tooth?
*When Prowl readies himself to kick Lockdown, his animation model doesn't have Yoketron's helmet, but rather, the helmet from the episode "[[A Fistful of Energon]]". This error reappears when Prowl charges at Lockdown a few seconds later.
*When the scoreboard crashes onto Prowl, Lockdown, and Ramjet, Prowl is missing his samurai armor.
*In the pan shot from the assembled Autobots and defeated Liar Starscream to Sentinel Prime with his head stuck in the ground, Sentinel's arms are spread out onto the turf as if he were no longer in stasis cuffs. His arms are positioned correctly when the shot switches to a close-up.
*Jetstorm has no mouth when Jetfire hails Cliffjumper on the Elite Guard ship's viewscreen.

===Continuity errors===
*It's not ''technically'' an error, since Prowl has always remained quiet on his history and could just have been holding back from correcting anyone, but this episode reveals that he was online during the Great War, prior to the creation of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]], where previous episodes have suggested that none of the main ''Animated'' Autobot cast, except for [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]], were around back then. Notably, this makes Prowl older than Optimus Prime, which... sits ill, at best.
*Based on the various conversations about him, it seems the public believes Master [[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]] mysteriously disappeared. This is rather at odds with Prowl's flashback, in which Master Yoketron leaves two distinct corpses behind thanks to Prowl trying to revive him. This makes one wonder what exactly happened after that.
*On a related note, this also means that Jazz was active in the Cyber-Ninja Corps during the war, apparently long before Sentinel even came online (much less joined the Elite Guard). Even ignoring Sentinel's various flaws, this raises legitimate questions about just how promotions are handed out in the Elite Guard.
*Swindle is still in one piece, despite [[Carmine Fanzone|a certain cop]] telling the Autobots he would be stripped down and sold at an auction.
*Sentinel notes he had to pay a fine to remove the vehicle-locked Swindle from an impound lot. HOW he could have paid a fine with money he'd never have reason to carry goes unexplained.
*How would have Ramjet gotten Lockdown more upgrades and energon? The obvious answer was that he was lying, but how could Lockdown not know that after listening to him for more than three sentences?
[[File:FiveServosOfDoom-LockdownInYoketronHelmet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*Lockdown has never mentioned Prowl's fighting before, referred to any cyber-ninja training, or, perhaps most noticeably, worn Yoketron's helmet prior to this episode. The latter may have been meant to be explained by Lockdown's stated interest in Prowl's use of the samurai armor during their last encounter, but it's still a little clunky.
*By much the same token, given what a big point Prowl makes of Yoketron's helmet being distinctive enough in shape to be recognizable even in shadow, it seems a little odd in retrospect that he made no comment regarding the strong similarity to his former master's helmet when he first saw the previous "samurai" helmet he got from Lockdown.
*The [[protoform]] in this episode is a whole lot different than the one featured in "[[TransWarped]]". This new look will remain constant for the rest of the series.

===Trivia===
[[File:FiveServosOfDoom-CapturedBlitzwingFaces.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Watch out, it bites!]]
*Like [[Where Is Thy Sting?|the previous episode]], this episode received an early online debut when a copy loaded onto the Cartoon Network website server, intended to go live after the episode premiered, was leaked out on [[March 27]], over a week before the episode premiered on television.
*Having three faces warrants three mouth clamps, it seems, as the animation depicts the mouth clamps on Blitzwing's faces rotating when he switches personality. Interestingly, you can still see some of the smile on Random Blitzwing's face.
*While trying to identify the helmet Optimus Prime saw, Prowl brings up the images of the helmets worn by Ultra Magnus and Blitzwing on the computer.
*Similar to the misspelling of [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]]'s name in "[[Autoboot Camp#Trivia|Autoboot Camp]]", the Closed Captions for this episode misspell Lockdown's reference to "Metallikato Sigma" and both his and Prowl's references to "Circuit-Su" as '''Metallic Arrow Sigma''' and '''Circuit Sioux''', respectively.
*The voice cast for this episode does not credit [[David Kaye]] with the role of Cliffjumper.

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cinco Faces Do Mal'''" ("Five Faces Of Evil")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cinq servomoteurs du destin'''" ("Five Servomotors of Doom")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???
::*In English, Jetstorm wants a "picture" for "fembots back home". In French, he wants a "holoscan" for "his friend Machine". In French, "Machine" (feminine version of "Machin") is also an idiomatic expression used when you don't remember someone's name. Got the joke?
::*While he used a rather high-pitched voice for Lockdown in early seasons, [[Frédéric Cerdal]] uses a more deep voice in this episode. Actually, he uses the same voice he did for [[Meltdown (Animated)|Meltdown]].
::*Speaking of Frédéric Cerdal, this is the last time we can hear him in the series, he leaves for unknown reasons after this episode.

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Los cinco servos de la perdición'''" ("The five servos of doom")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 10|10 November]] [[2009]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Shishō no Katami'''" (師匠の形見, "Memento of the Master")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 6|6 November]] [[2010]]

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2011 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 9 ([[Paramount]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Transformers Animated'' — The Complete Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Season Three ([[Madman Entertainment]])

[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B

2026-02-23T04:12:34Z

Cydra: caption

: ''Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B are characters originally from the [[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family]].''

[[File:Nekomimi-1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Robot catgirl maid idols. [https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/chex-mix That's like four things at once.]]]

'''Nekomimi A''' (ネコミミA, the "brunette") and '''Nekomimi B''' (ネコミミB, the "blonde") are robotic {{w|catgirl}} celebrities whose exploits are apparently enjoyed by both humans and Transformers. Between appearing in cafeterias to meet-and-greet with scientific minds, guest-hosting virtual reality battle tournaments, and starring in comic books detailing their (presumably) fictional adventures, they get around quite a bit.

Meow.

==Fiction==
===''Energon'' cartoon===
{{Voiceactor|[[Jocelyne Loewen]] (A, English), [[Chiara Zanni]] (B, English), [[Masumi Asano]] (A, Japanese), [[Yukiko Tagami]] (B, Japanese)|[[Carmen Podio]] (A, Castilian Spanish), [[Marta Sáinz]] (B, Castilian Spanish)}}

[[File:Nekomimi-2.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.75|Nekomimi A is the one with the large pair of...shoulder frills.]]

The Nekomimis attended a real-world cafeteria at the same time as the [[Kicker Jones|Jones]] family, who were present there for a meal. The pair could be seen chatting with several human scientists, though one can only imagine what the two of them would have in common with scientists. {{storylink|Optimus Supreme}}

Nekomimis A and B reappeared within a video game-cum-virtual battle training simulator used by the Autobots. The duo acted as announcers and referees for a series of tournament fights held between the Autobots at a low point during their war for [[energon]], which included digital clones of the deceased and the previous bodies of characters who had been upgraded, as well as several Decepticons, who hacked into the system in order to join the fun.

Nekomimi B seemed to be infatuated with [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], calling him "dreamy" twice. Unlike Nekomimi B, Nekomimi A thought Hot Shot was "scrawny" and had her sights set on [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]]. However, perhaps changing her mind after witnessing Galvatron's brutal takedown of [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] and [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]], she joined Nekomimi B in calling Hot Shot "dreamy" near the end of the tournament.

Following Hot Shot and [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]]'s victory by ring-out against [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Supreme]] in the final round, Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B presented the winning team with trophies—shortly before they announced that Hot Shot and Rodimus would now take on the "special guest fighter", a pint-sized virtual incarnation of [[Unicron]]. As this last battle commenced, the two announcers wished the audience goodbye. {{storylink|Distribution}}

Some time after the tournament, [[Six Shot (Energon)|Six Shot]] was seen reading a humorous, Transformer-sized comic book featuring the two of them. {{storylink|Galvatron Terror}}

===''Animated'' cartoon continuity===
[[File:Legends Nekomimi.jpg|thumb|100px|Look, she's pointing at a nerd!]]

"Hello Nekomimi Pop-Star" was a merchandising brand of which [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] appeared to be a fan. She wrote up the events of [[The Return of the Headmaster|the Autobots' second clash]] with the [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] on notebook paper decorated with Nekomimi A, and later used Nekomimi B paper to recount [[Sari, No One's Home|her own battle]] with the [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicons]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac}}

===''Legends'' comic===
Nekomimi A was among the heroic female Transformers (and assorted robots) who appeared in one of [[Tigatron]]'s dreams to protect him from the evil female Transformers. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}} In the waking world, Nekomimi A appeared on a billboard advertisement. {{storylink|LG40 Astrotrain}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
[[File:SoLongInumimiRockstar-CAA.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.65|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MpLQ8TQcQ "Eekum-bokum!"]]]
*Though they were not named in either the ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' cartoon or the original Japanese dialogue, the Japanese ending credits to the episode identified them with the designations used in this article. "''Nekomimi''" (猫耳) is roughly Japanese for "kitty ears", and is a term generally applied in Japan to "{{w|catgirl}}s".
*The chibi "Hello Nekomimi Pop-Star" girls are likely a play on "[[Hello Kitty]]".
*In the ''[[Shattered Glass Animated]]'' mirror universe, the role of the Nekomimis are filled by "[[So Long Inumimi Rock-Star]]", dog-themed girls.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:NekoMimiOpSup01.jpg|"Omega Supreme" cameos
File:GalvatronTerror-NekomimiComic.jpg|"Galvatron Terror" comic
File:Nekomimisab.jpg|''Animated'' cameos
</gallery>

[[Category:Animated characters]]
[[Category:Energon characters]]
[[Category:Entertainers]]
[[Category:Cats]]
[[Category:Fiction-only characters]]
[[Category:Legends characters]]

Aggressive depigmentation

2026-02-10T06:00:51Z

Cydra: /* One film */

[[File:TFTM optimus color fades.gif|thumb|300px]]

'''Aggressive depigmentation''' refers to the loss of colour that occurs in the [[living metal]] of a [[Transformer|Cybertronian]] after suffering traumatic damage or [[death|losing]] one's [[spark]]. When this happens, the natural colour of a Transformer will fade, leaving the body various shades of grey.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[File:SSBQ.jpg|thumb|250px]]
When taking a shot directly through his chest from [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]], [[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]]'s mouth erupted in a fiery plume of smoke, and his body turned grey before hitting the floor of the shuttle. After he succumbed to his wounds sustained during the [[Battle of Autobot City]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s body turned black and grey. When [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] killed [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] for his treachery, the Air Commander's entire body turned black, then crumbled to ashes. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

=====Japanese cartoon continuity=====
======''The Headmasters'' cartoon======
After perishing from a mutual kill, [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]]'s bodies both decolourized. What was left of Soundwave's exploded remains turned white, while Blaster turned the bog-standard grey. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}}

When he died again, this time sacrificing himself to reset [[Vector Sigma]], Optimus' body turned grey in Rodimus's arms. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

======''Victory'' cartoon======
In the final fight between [[Ginrai (robot)|Victory Leo]] and [[Liokaiser]] in front of Deathsaurus' [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]], the Decepticon combiner was blasted into the fortress's main cannon, which drained him of all his energy, turning it grey and sending it flying off into the depths of space. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] took several shots for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], his corpse began to desaturate within seconds of his death. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}}

After being shot in the back by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], Ultra Magnus died in Optimus's arms, the colour immediately fading from his body, only for it to return when Magnus sprang back to life a few minutes later. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====
An Optimus Prime from [[Primax 703.09 Gamma|a doomed Cybertron]] was sent to another universe by [[Unicron]] as a perverse calling card. When found and brought to Autobase Earth, his colours had faded almost entirely before he died. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:SensuousFrame-ThunderClash.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''50 Shades of Thunderclash'']]
Aggressive depigmentation set in almost instantly after a spark expired. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} {{storylink|Sardines}} While not all Cybertronians displayed the condition upon death, {{storylink|The Gloaming}} those that experienced [[magic]]'s necrotic symptoms fell victim to aggressive depigmentation in moments. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}} {{storylink|Schismatic}} In certain cases of fatal damage, Cybertronians could display aggressive depigmentation before their spark expired. {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} In some cases, the recently deceased only experienced a desaturation of their colours, rather than turning grey. {{storylink|Heavy}} {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}}

During [[World War II]], [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] slew "[[Maximal Shockwave|Shockwave]]", the latter's corpse turning grey upon his demise. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}}

After the initial [[Expansion]], [[Nova Prime|Nemesis Prime]]'s body turned grey upon his essence returning to the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]]'s body underwent aggressive depigmentation after he voluntarily sacrificed his spark to unlock [[Aequitas]]. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}}

A [[NAIL]] protester who transformed himself to death demonstrated both aggressive depigmentation and ''[[rigor morphis]]''. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} When fatally wounded by an infestation of [[personality tick]]s, a dying [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] was drained of colour and also succumbed to ''rigor morphis'' until the ticks were defeated, restoring his health and palette. {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}}

After an accident had resulted in the ''[[Lost Light]]'' quantum duplicating itself, the [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]] of one of the ships lost his life when he defeated the [[Sparkeater (creature)|sparkeater]], his body turning dark grey upon his demise. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

When Ravage was killed in a fight between [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] and [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]], the colour immediately began to fade from his corpse, only to restore itself when the properties of [[Ore-14]] they were surrounded by brought him back to life. {{storylink|Soundwaves (issue)|Soundwaves}}

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[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]'s body lost its colours upon his demise. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}}

While travelling back to the ''[[Lost Light]]'' aboard [[Skip (IDW)|Skip]], [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] inexplicably succumbed to aggressive depigmentation despite being alive. {{storylink|Sardines}} It was later revealed however that, as part of their master plan, the [[Omega Guardian]]s were slowly teleporting Ratchet to make it seem as though he was dying. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 5): The Unremembering|The Unremembering}}

Upon being exposed to the corrosive effects of [[Prysmosian]] magic, [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}} and [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] depigmented after death, while [[Breakdown (IDW)|Breakdown]]'s arm experienced similar effects immediately after coming into contact with magical energy. {{storylink|Schismatic}} [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]]'s analysis of magic however allowed him to devise a counter-frequency that returned Breakdown's arm to normal. Temporarily at least. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Transformers vs. Visionaries)|Desperate Measures}}

After being at ground zero in an explosion, [[Alpha Trion]] perished, his corpse succumbing to aggressive depigmentation. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|Another Mine}}

When [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] had been slain by the [[Adaptus|Grand Architect]], {{storylink|Crucible (Part 3): Farsickness|Farsickness}} his corpse experienced a notable, though not total, desaturation of its colours. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}}

In a confrontation between the [[Colonist Soldiers]] and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], [[Gimlet]] thoughtlessly crushed [[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]]'s [[VAMP]], killing the operator. In an equally thoughtless response, [[Slag (G1)|Slug]] cleaved the [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukarian]] in half, his corpse instantly turning grey. {{storylink|Time Will Rust}}

====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
When he was shot dead by the otherdimensional cyborg [[Vamp]], [[Overshoot]]'s body quickly turned grey. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

On the final day of the Buzzclaw Memorial Games, [[Preditron]] noted fellow unwilling combatant [[Torque (BWU)|Torque]], who was suffering from an unknown ailment, was already beginning to show signs of colour-fade before he was even dead. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}}

==== 2019 IDW continuity ====
The [[Titan (group)|Titans]] who had gone [[immersant]] to makeup the [[Cybertronian Mountains]] were all various shades of grey. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}} {{storylink|War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness}}

[[File:Tread&Circuits4 CircuitDies.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2.0|He was such a colourful fellow...]]
When [[Rubble]] discovered [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s corpse, the scientist's body had visibly desaturated. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} When Rubble passed not long afterwards, his own body lost its colours. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}}

[[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]'s body began to quickly desaturate when he died, {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}} later losing all of its colours when he was laid to rest. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}}

Several desaturated Cybertronian body parts were visible when [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] discovered a splice-thief den on [[Kworia]]. When Magnus later found a still living Cybertronian in the process of being vivisected, the unfortunate mechanoid's body had already turned grey. {{storylink|Storm Horizon Part 1}}

When [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] died, his body instantly lost all of its colours. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 4}}

====''Transformers vs. The Terminator''====
Following the Decepticons reactivating in [[1984]], they turned their weapons against the stasis-locked Autobots in the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', executing them. When the [[T-800]] and [[Sarah Connor]] arrived, the bodies of several Autobots had turned grey. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Two}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
[[File:WFC-Earthrise-Ep5-Optimus-dies-vision.jpg|thumb|left|300px|''Deja vu'']]

When in the [[Dead Universe]], Optimus Prime was shown a potential future by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] where he had died, Prime's corpse being a solid grey. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}}

====2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic====
When [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] killed [[Razorbeast]], a furious [[Skold]] avenged her friend by ripping out the flyer's spark, his corpse quickly turning monochrome. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 2}}

When [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] later slew [[Polar Claw]], the polar bear's body notably desaturated. {{storylink|Children of the Vok}}

===''Transformers: Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:TFAnimated transformandrollout DEATH.jpg|thumb|250px]]
[[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]]'s body turned grey when he was slain by his treacherous pupil [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]. [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] attempted to revive him by placing Yoketron's spark in a blank [[protoform]], but the ancient Autobot refused to sacrifice an unborn life to save himself, and died permanently, his new body turning grey instantly. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}

[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]]'s body turned grey when he temporarily died (for a grand total of seventy-five seconds). {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]'s body did not turn grey when he was first killed by [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}} or in any of his subsequent deaths, {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}} until his absolutely final death, when the [[AllSpark]] fragment keeping him alive was removed from his head. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

When he sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark, Prowl's body went grey. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
When [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] merged with the [[AllSpark]], his first act was to drain the [[spark]]s of his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] loyalists, their bodies quickly turning grey. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

By the time of [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]]'s power play, [[Iaconus]]' corpse had turned grey. {{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

===IDW ''Shattered Glass'' continuity===
The bodies of several Senators turned grey during [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]]' attack on the [[Senate]]. {{storylink|Shattered Glass II issue 1|Shattered Glass II #1}}

===''One'' film===
When [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] fell down a chasm after being shot by [[Megatron (One)|D-16]], his dying body turned grey. His fall went all the way down to the [[Core]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The spirits of the [[Thirteen]] met Orion as [[Alpha Trion]] told him that his noble sacrifice has made [[Primus]] deem him worthy of the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Orion was rebuilt, revived, and returned to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon City]] as Optimus Prime.

It would appear that the bodies of true Primes don't turn grey after death. The [[Thirteen|original Primes]] still retained their colors even after lying dead in a [[Mouth of Unicron|cave]] for 50 cycles. When Megatron tore [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]] in half, his body turned grey as he died. He was '''not''' revived. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|Transformers One}}

==Toys==
===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:MP4Sconvoysleepmode.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2]]
*'''Convoy Sleep Mode''' (2010)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-4S'''
**''Accessories:'' Trailer/Combat Deck, ion Blaster, Autobot Matrix of Leadership, gun mode Megatron, Megatron's scope, stock and silencer, energon-axe

:Released by TakaraTomy as part of their ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)#TakaraTomy Welcome to Transformers 2010 campaign|Welcome to Transformers 2010]]'' anniversary line honoring the "future era" of the original cartoon (which was set in 2010 in Japanese continuity, you see!), this exceptionally morbid re-release of the ''Masterpiece'' Convoy figure recolours the Autobot leader in <s>blacks and greys</s> ''very'' low-saturated reds and blues, representing ''his dead body'' from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''—but don't worry, kids, it's actually a "sleep mode", according to the figure's name! Limited to 2010 pieces in Japan (see what they did there?), it comes with all its customary accessories, including the Perfect Edition trailer, redecoed where appropriate: the trailer itself has become translucent, its energon-axe is now transparent grey, and Megatron, in another movie homage, is rendered in translucent purple, evoking the scene depicting his transformation into [[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]. The figure was also released in other parts of Asia as a limited edition of 2010 as well, combined with the Japanese edition for 4020 total. The Japanese version denotes "Serial Number in Japan: ####/2010" on its bio card with the number out of 2010, while the Asian version denotes "C1 - ####/2010" with the number out of 2010 on its bio card.

:This version of Convoy depicts [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys|Hot Rod]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]] on its communicators.
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===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
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*'''Alternate Universe Optimus Prime''' (Leader Class, 2020)
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''ER EX-17'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': [[February 20]], [[2021]]
**''Accessories:'' [[Ion blaster#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Ion Blaster]], shield/ramp, trailer/[[Combat Deck (G1)#AltUniverseOP|Combat Deck]], artillery robot, [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Matrix of Leadership]]

:"Alternate Universe Optimus Prime" is a greyscaled redeco of ''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise]]'' Optimus Prime with a new head that evokes the battle damage and his death in ''The Transformers: The Movie''. The Matrix of Leadership is the same as the mass retail Leader, though the Ion Blaster is painted completely silver and his rear calves are painted. Another change is the number of lugnuts on the wheels of the trailer. The normal retail version has 10 lug nuts per wheel, whilst this release has none. He is packaged in a ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]''-styled box that depicts Ultra Magnus, Hot Rod, and [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] grieving during his death scene reflected on a window of his damaged truck mode.
:There are reported issues where the left chest piece is unable to tab in fully due to a deformed pin, leaving a small uneven gap visible in robot mode.

:This is the only ''Earthrise'' toy to lack an ID number and map piece and isn't part of the Galactic Odyssey Collection. Coincidentally, Hasbro ID number WFC-E28 is never used in the toyline within its range of E1 to E41, lending to the possibility that WFC-E28 was intended to be his.

:Alternate Universe Optimus Prime was supposed to release as an exclusive for Amazon Prime Day 2020, though the day was pushed back several months, making the toy release much earlier. The figure first saw release in some Malaysian hobby shops ''before'' it was fully revealed on Hasbro's June 26 [[Hasbro Pulse#Fan First Friday|Fan First Friday]] stream. The figure was later released in Japan as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive as part of the 7th wave of TakaraTomy ''Selects'' toys.

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==Merchandise==
===''The Loyal Subjects''===
*'''8" Dead Optimus Prime''' (2013)
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===''Super Cyborg''===
*'''Optimus Prime (Dead)''' (2018)
**''Accessories'': Ion blaster, torso plate

:This dark grey version was exclusive to [[New York Comic Con]] 2018.
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===''ReAction''===
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*'''Fallen Leader Optimus Prime''' (2021)
**''Accessories'': Ion Blaster

: Released in the fourth wave of ''ReAction'', this all-grey version of Optimus features a new torso tooling with open chest panels revealing a (non-removable) Matrix of Leadership.

: This is the first of ''three'' different figures of the same concept to be sold under the name "Fallen Leader Optimus Prime"; the other two (below) are [[Target]] exclusives.

: This figure was initially solicited to retailers as "Dead Optimus Prime" before the slightly gentler name change... but "Dead Optimus Prime" is still what the figure is labeled on the cardback checklist as of wave 6.

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*'''Fallen Leader Optimus Prime''' (2022)
**''Accessories'': Ion Blaster

: This Target-exclusive version of the "Fallen Leader" concept is just the normal Optimus figure with the closed-up chest done in the greys of the initial "Fallen Leader" figure. Exciting! And clearance fodder!

: This figure was released alongside the "[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#ReActionChromeCommander|Chrome Commander Megatron]]" figure.

===''ULTIMATES!''===
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*'''Optimus Prime (Fallen Leader)''' (2023)
**''Accessories'': 2 fists, 2 open hands, 2 Matrix-grip hands, trigger-grip right hand, Matrix of Leadership, ion blaster

: This retool and redeco of ''ULTIMATES!'' Optimus Prime is the latest of several representations of his dead body from "[[The Transformers: The Movie]]," now with a greyscale paint scheme, a heavily damaged left torso section, and cracks all over him (and on his rifle too for good measure).

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*'''King Starscream (Fallen)''' (2023)
**''Accessories'': 2 arm cannons, smirking alternate head, disintegrating alternate head, closed fists (L & R), gripping hands (L & R), "expressive" hands (L & R), crown

:In a change from the sizable squadron of "Coronation" Starscreams offered over the years, "King Starscream (Fallen)" represents the character as he looks when killed by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. His body is grey and cracked, his cape torn, one set of hands meant to powerlessly grasp at the air, and one of his alternate heads is screaming and partially crumbled.
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==Trivia==
*Aggressive depigmentation is, of course, a fancy name for the long tradition of Transformers turning grey upon death, with the term first being given in the [[2018]] comic issue ''[[The Transformers: Lost Light|Transformers: Lost Light]]'' [[Sardines|#13]].

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Prime (rank)

2026-02-02T05:09:25Z

Cydra: /* One film */

{{disambig3|Prime}}
{{quote|We are Primus. We are Prima. We are Prime Nova. We are Sentinel Prime. We are Optimus Prime.}}
[[File:Primes IDW.JPG|300px|upright=1.1|thumb|[[To sell toys|Get on it, Hasbro!]]]]

'''Prime''' is a rank of highest distinction in many ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' continuities. Typically, it is used as the identification for the leader of the [[Autobot]]s, something that is bestowed only on those that carry the [[Matrix of Leadership]] within them. It is [[Retcon|retroactively]] derived from [[Primus]], the creator of the Transformers.

With the retcon that Primus is one singular entity that exists (and '''must''' exist) threaded through ([[Transformers Animated (franchise)|almost]]) all ''Transformer'' continuities, the term Prime is likewise given one singular origin. It was, first of all, the designation granted by Primus to many of the [[Thirteen|Thirteen original Transformers]] created, by his own hand, at the dawn of the physical universe to crew his planetary form.

In universes where the Transformers speak Japanese, the equivalent rank is sometimes '''[[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]''', though they are also sometimes distinct ranks.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
"Prime" did not initially seem to hold any significance as a title or rank.
*Optimus Prime's Marvel Comics ''[[The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|Transformers Universe]]'' profile describes his "Optimus" module as his humanoid robot component and his "Prime" module as his small cart-shaped component that is also known as [[Roller (G1)|Roller]].
*The Decepticons did not know who held the Creation Matrix until [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] calculated with 99.7% certainty that it was Optimus Prime.{{storylink|The New Order}}
*In a flashback to events early in the war, "Optimus Prime" was simply a [[Lieutenant Commander]]. {{storylink|The Flames of Boltax!}}

Nevertheless, "Prime" eventually developed into a title of sorts. A direct lineage of Creation Matrix bearers was established, each of whom took on a derivation of the name of their god Primus. They were [[Prima]], [[Prime Nova]], [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], and [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]]. However, following the lead of the animated movie, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] briefly bore the Matrix without taking the title of "Prime" in the UK's future continuity.<ref>In [[Target: 2006]] part 7, the time-traveling [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] called the 1986 version of Ultra Magnus "Ultra Magnus" even though he mistook him for the future Ultra Magnus who was the current bearer of the Matrix.</ref>

====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
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The evidence for "Prime" being a rank here is weaker than elsewhere, but the case can still be made. Though many Matrix-Bearers are seen, and all are by definition Autobot Leaders, only four are ever named; 2 Primes, 2 not: [[Alpha Trion]], Optimus Prime, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]], and Rodimus Prime. Without knowing any other names it is hard to make a concrete case here for "Prime" being a title given only to Matrix-Bearers.

It is of note though that if it were, then "Prime" in this continuity would be a military/political title (since it is the "Matrix of Leadership"), rather than the religious title of the Marvel Comics.

''"Prime" is a title/rank similar in use to Marvel Comics. There is a nearly complete lineage of Matrix of Leadership bearers taking the rank. They are: [[Primon]], [[Prima]], [[Prime Nova]], [[Guardian Prime]], [[Zeta Prime (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Zeta Prime]], [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon|Sentinel Prime]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]], and [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]].'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

{{note|Not all Convoys are Primes (and vice-versa). If you can lead [[Antroid]]s to a picnic, you're a Convoy in Japan.}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
Though there was no evidence of a Prime ruling [[Maximal]] society, they frequently used the term in their society with phrases such as "Who died and made you Prime?" and the sarcastic utterance of "That's just ''Prime''". {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
This continuity also establishes Prime as designating the leader of the Autobots, but there is some muddled information. The Prime carried within him the Matrix of Leadership, but it appears that the Matrix doesn't contain the wisdom of past leaders, as that was held on a [[Golden Disk (council)|separate datatrak]]. Also, the Prime did not appoint his successor. A new Prime was chosen by the [[Council of Ancients]], supposedly through divine authority.

It's unknown what powers the Prime shared with the Council of Ancients, but the Primes themselves had several powers. In addition to being commander-in-chief of the Autobot Army, the Prime also had the authority to order a planet wide evacuation. Autobots gave oaths of loyalty to the Prime, and were expected to risk their lives for the Prime's safety (whether the Prime wanted them to or not). {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}}

There are five known Primes in [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]], listed in ''More than Meets the Eye'' #8. These are [[Primon|Alpha Prime]], Guardian Prime, Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime and Rodimus Prime. The list does not specify chronology, and Rodimus Prime never appeared in any actual Dreamwave issues.

====2005 IDW continuity====
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Following the [[God War]] and the subsequent departure of the mythological [[Knights of Cybertron]], the next generation of Cybertronians reverted to a state of barbarism, carving up the planet into a series of smaller kingdoms and villages. From these scattered regions arose the lineage of the Primes—powerful, charismatic Cybertronians that climbed the ranks to become respected leaders. {{storylink|Origin Myths}} {{storylink|The Crucible}} It was into this state of affairs that the Decepticon scientist [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] arrived, hurled backwards in time from the distant future. Recognizing the political state of Cybertron from his studies into the planet's ancient history, Shockwave sought to guide history along the preordained course that he ''knew'' it must take, all as part of a much grander scheme to ensure the perpetual dominion of the Cybertronian race by building up, and subsequently burning down, every Cybertronian creed and faction. To this end, Shockwave first slew and then impersonated [[Onyx Prime]], adopting his identity and recruiting [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] to unify the planet through conquest, {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} slaying those Primes, such as [[Septimus Prime]], who history did not record and thus could not survive into the present day. {{storylink|Origin Myths}}

When Megatronus marched on the [[Crystal City]], "Onyx Prime," pretending to be one of Megatronus's victims, rallied the defenders of Crystal City to fight back, and eventually was able to ratify a truce between Megatronus's [[Darklands|Darklander]]s and the forces of the Crystal City—laying the foundations for the second unification of the planet under the benevolent guidance of the [[Thirteen]]. {{storylink|Origin Myths}} {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} Before long, however, the Primes became spoiled and debauched, believing themselves to be innately superior to other Cybertronians. {{storylink|Origin Myths}} Soon, they came to believe that only a Prime could kill another Prime, a sentiment that spread to their followers. {{storylink|The Crucible}}

Encouraged by "Onyx Prime," the Thirteen began their first attempts at interplanetary colonization by invading the world of [[Antilla]]; the conflict ended in a stalemate after an [[Antillan]] scientist created a [[Talisman (G1)|doomsday weapon]] that destroyed all life on the planet, warping it into a [[Unicron/Generation 1|harbringer of death]]. In the wake of this disaster, Onyx manipulated events so that Megatronus and [[Liege Maximo]] would spark the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]], which saw the death of [[Solus Prime]] and the imprisonment of Liege Maximo. {{storylink|Heavy}} The war raged between the tribes for a period and ultimately saw the reign of the Thirteen collapse after [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]] disproved the myth of a Prime's immortality by slaughtering [[Nexus Prime]]. The truth revealed, all the remaining Primes save [[Alpha Trion]] fled Cybertron afterwards. {{storylink|The Crucible}} With Alpha's blessing, [[Nova Prime|Nova Major]] and Galvatron ended the war, and Nova then took on the title, intending to unite Cybertron under a single Prime. {{storylink|The Crucible}}

Supposedly, at least some members of the Thirteen left Cybertron aboard the [[Titan (group)|Titans]], gigantic living ships that carried [[Spark]]-producing [[hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]]s. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} According to legend, thirteen Titans left Cybertron and colonized distant worlds with Transformer life in an attempt to produce a utopic [[Pax Cybertronia]]. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Left to their own devices and cut off from the string of injustices committed by Nova and his successors, the isolated colonies developed religions that deified the Thirteen and their lineage as living gods. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} {{storylink|Primeless, Part 2}}

[[File:AllGoodThings-NovaPrimeAndFriends.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

Nova Prime presided over an era in which the populace believed the Cybertronian race's destiny was in the stars, and commissioned the first [[Ark (G1)|''Ark'' spacecraft]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}} The people of Cybertron believed the ''Ark'' was for exploration, but Nova's true goal was aggressive expansionism at the cost of other civilizations. Despite being a Matrix bearer (the exact circumstances of how he acquired the Matrix are unknown) {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}, he was referred to by [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] as a "false Prime" most likely due to his behaviour betraying the ideals of Primus. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things}} Nova was thought lost after he disappeared into the [[Benzuli Expanse]] while aboard the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Spotlight: Galvatron}}

Nova was succeeded by [[Nominus Prime]], who rose to become the leader of a corrupt Cybertron where the ruling elite oppressed the lower citizens whose roles in life were determined by the bodies they were built in. His rule ended when a group within the [[Senate]] conspired against him in order to take the power of the Matrix for themselves, {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 2}} only to find that his Matrix was a fake. They quickly had Nominus killed, covered it up and publicly announced that their head of security [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel]], part of the conspiracy, was showing signs of Matrix affinity. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} Unbeknownst to the Senate, "Sentinel" was a false identity constructed by the tiny [[Titan Master]] [[Infinitus]], who had served [[Nexus Prime]] in ages past and sought to rebuild his master's brutal hegemony where the strong ruled the weak. {{storylink|White Heat}}

Thus Sentinel became Sentinel Prime, who during the [[Clampdown (event)|Clampdown]] served as the head of the Security Services, the chief law enforcement and military body on Cybertron. However, he stressed that he was ultimately subservient to the will of the Senate who enacted the laws he enforced. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} His tenure was a short one, as he was defeated by [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] during the first [[Decepticon]] uprising, {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4|Megatron Origin #4}} reduced to Infinitus once more, he secretly abandoned his old body and worked to rebuild a new form for himself. {{storylink|Last Light (issue)|Last Light}}

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[[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]] rose to power shortly after the deaths of Sentinel and the old Senate, and on the surface looked to be a change in pace from their corrupt regime. Together with his officer [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]] he created the Autobots to stand against the Decepticon threat. {{storylink|Omega's Conundrum}} In truth he wasn't much better than his predecessors, reinstating the [[Institute]] {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} and growing increasingly ruthless in his methods of fighting the Decepticons, no matter what the New Senate had to say or what the common Cybertronian had to go through. {{storylink|Parasites}} He was destroyed by Megatron after Orion Pax turned against him. {{storylink|Overthrown}}

Shortly after Zeta's death, Orion Pax happened upon the real Matrix, which called out to him and transformed him into Optimus Prime, the first Prime in ages to be chosen by the Matrix. {{storylink|Transformation (issue)|Transformation}} After Cybertron was rendered uninhabitable, Optimus Prime was the apparent highest ranking Autobot, directing the galaxy-spanning conflict to deny the Decepticons conquest of additional planets. In this task, he occasionally sought the guidance of the ancient Autobot and weapon of last resort Omega Supreme. {{storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}} While he was a fair and wise leader, the lineage of corrupt and militant Primes that preceded him had already tarnished the title of Prime in the eyes of [[NAIL|neutral Cybertronians]]. {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt (IDW)|Dinobot Hunt}} With the loss of the Matrix in battle with a creature called the [[D-Void]] and the realization that the neutrals saw him as a warmonger and not a leader, Optimus Prime abandoned his title and went back to being Orion Pax once the war was over. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} A battle with Nova Prime and encouragement from [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]] eventually made him realize the actions of his lineage didn't define him, causing him to regain his confidence and begin calling himself Optimus Prime again. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

Hot Rod called himself "Rodimus Prime" for a while, a name coined by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] in an attempt to appeal to the Autobot's ego. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight}} He used it until Swindle revealed he had been playing Rodimus while he finished [[Menasor (G1)|a pet project.]] {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|Earthworks}} Later, Rodimus actually found and bonded with the Matrix {{storylink|Space Opera Part 1: The Stars My Destination|The Stars My Destination}}, but humbled by his previous humiliation, he swore off the Prime name, simply calling himself "Rodimus", and returned the Matrix to Optimus. {{storylink|Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix|Orphans of the Helix}}

He still called himself "Rodimus Prime" occasionally when he wanted to sound important, though. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

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When Cybertron finally recontacted its former colonies, Optimus Prime travelled to [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], where his status as a Matrix bearer prompted bowing when he met the [[Forgefire Parliament]]. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} The [[Council of Worlds]] soon took shape and Prime discovered, much to his displeasure, that almost all of the various colonies saw him in much the same way. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Unsure of his place in this rapidly changing postwar world, Prime began leaning on the faith of the colonists' belief in his infallibility as he used his newfound clout to make several controversial decisions, including the annexation of [[Earth]] into Cybertron's new government. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}}

During this time, Optimus and his forces briefly contended with the reborn Sentinel Prime. Claiming to be the herald of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]]'s return, he eventually travelled to [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]] to raise an undead army of Titans to wipe Cybertron clean. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}

Optimus' terrestrial peacekeeping force was soon joined by a team of [[Colonist Soldiers|young recruits]] from different colony worlds, who were fanatically devoted to the Prime and began wearing [[mouthplate]]s in order to better emulate Optimus Prime. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|To Walk Among the Chosen}}

However, it soon became clear that the ugly legacy of the Primes was not so easily buried; when "Onyx Prime" returned to Cybertron and was subsequently unmasked as a time-travelling Shockwave, the full scope of his machinations and [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]'s assault on the galaxy prompted Optimus to wonder if the title of Prime had ever truly meant ''anything''. {{storylink|A Sunrise Dark}} When the Autobots and their allies battled Unicron in Earth's orbit, Optimus finally relinquished the title of Prime for good. Therefore, the last Prime died with the spirit of [[Unicron's creator]] in a final act of atonement. {{storylink|Ceremony}} {{storylink|Post}}
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====''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''====
After stealing the [[Matrix of Leadership]], Megatron found himself assaulted by psychic visions of the deceased Primes. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}}

====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
The earliest known Prime was [[Guardian Prime]], the founder of the Autobots. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}}

In the era of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] was the ruling Prime and leader of the Autobots. When the ''Ark'' crashed on prehistoric [[Earth]], Optimus was slain by [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|time travelling Predacon]]. {{storylink|A Change to the Agenda}} Though the Autobots eventually managed to revive their leader, {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}} he later sacrificed his life and the Matrix of Leadership to purify the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] and save Earth. {{storylink|Book of Logos}}

Upon her return to Cybertron, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] mockingly referred to [[Lio Convoy]] as "Patsy Prime", rankling her fellow [[Maximal]]. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

====Precursor World====
In [[Precursor World|the universe]] preceding the [[G1 World]], "Prime" ({{ruby|元帥|プライム}}) was the equivalent word for "Marshal". Two leaders in the [[Primus Vanguard]], [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Red]] and [[Go Prime|Black]], held this title, which ranked them above the [[Convoy (rank)|Convoys]] (meaning "Commander") that made up the rest of the leaders. In particular, their respective orders were composed entirely of Convoys or Convoy-adjacent beings. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

====2019 IDW continuity====
The [[Thirteen]] Primes walked on Cybertron before their age came to a close. When they faded into legend, the [[Artifacts of the Primes]] followed, save the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Continuing to seek out the prophesied [[Thirteenth Prime]], the Matrix bestowed the rank of Prime onto anyone who carried it, though these people were but stewards until it found the Thirteenth. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}}

====''Last Bot Standing''====
During the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] ascended to become "Rodimus Prime" but later shed the title to become simply "Rodimus". When he later introduced himself to [[Steeljaw (IDW)|Steeljaw]]'s pack, he attempted to use his status as a former Prime to help them remember him only to learn that the group, despite somewhat remembering Optimus Prime, had forgotten the title's significance. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 2|Last Bot Standing #2}}

====Energon Universe====
Optimus inherited the mantle of Prime from his predecessor, just in time to have to deal with the [[Great War (G1)|civil war]] against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 2|Transformers #2}} The knowledge of the former Primes was contained within the [[Hall of the Primes]] in the Matrix. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 22|Transformers #22}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
Prime is indeed a title given to leaders and Matrix-bearers here, as evidenced by both [[Vector Prime]] and [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], but no other Primes are ever named. In ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Galaxy Force]]'', [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (Nitro Convoy), [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (Flame Convoy), [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] (Live Convoy), and [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] (Megalo Convoy) all hold the title of Convoy as leaders of their respective planets, but this scheme does not carry over into the western translation, and so the Prime appellation does not apply. Likewise, in ''Super Link'', the Japanese version of ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'', [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]] is known as "Rodimus Convoy", hearkening back to the name of [[Hot Rod (G1)|his G1 predecessor]]. But again, this does not follow through in Hasbro's materials.

Interestingly, Vector Prime is not known as Vector Convoy in Japan, but Vector Prime, while Optimus maintains the traditional Convoy title as Galaxy Convoy.

===Live-action film series===
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====Movies====
[[The Fallen]], his siblings who fought him in 17,000 B.C., [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] were considered Primes. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}} {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

The Fallen claimed that he could only be defeated by a fellow Prime. During the battle in [[Egypt]], Optimus Prime, after being resurrected by [[Sam Witwicky]] with the Matrix of Leadership, would use the weapons and engines of a deceased [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] to defeat The Fallen. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}} A few years later, Optimus would execute the treacherous Sentinel Prime in [[Chicago]], after Sentinel betrayed the Autobots in an attempt to enslave humanity and rebuild Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

[[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] claimed to be "the Prime of life" when introducing herself to Optimus. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

====''Ghosts of Yesterday''====
The title of Prime was bestowed upon the civilian and spiritual leader of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], who would act as steward of the [[AllSpark]] and co-ruler of Cybertron with the [[High Protector]].
Optimus Prime held this title before, during, and after the war for the AllSpark as leader of the [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====''The Quest for the AllSpark''====
Optimus and Megatron were twin brothers of the Prime dynasty. {{storylink|The Quest for the AllSpark}}

====''Transformers Autobots/Decepticons''====
Megatron "took the spark" of his and Optimus's [[Relatives|father]], implying that “Prime” was a surname. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Autobots/Decepticons}}

===''Animated'' continuity family===
The title of Prime referred to commanding officers in Autobot society. Though of a higher rank than "[[Minor]]" {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}} or "[[Major]]" {{storylink|Ask_Vector_Prime#Facebook|Ask_Vector_Prime}} Primes were ultimately subordinate to the "[[Magnus (rank)|Magnus]]", the [[Supreme Commander]] of the Autobots. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} Across all of Autobot society, all Primes were considered equal, one being able to disregard the order of another who was of higher societal status. {{storylink|The Elite Guard}}

When [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] was drummed out of the [[Autobot Academy]], [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] was able to have Optimus promoted to Prime. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}} [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel]] eventually ascended to the Prime rank following graduation. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} [[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm]] was likewise promoted to Prime, presumably when he became the head of [[Cybertron Intelligence]]. {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}}

===Fun Publications comics===
[[File:Clubcombinercarving.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|A component of the Prime of Rarified Energon looks at a portrait of his complete self...]]
It is revealed that the first [[Thirteen|Thirteen original Transformers]] created by Primus to crew his planetary form were all designated Primes. In addition to this designation, each was given a specific task or role in sustaining the multiverse.

[[Vector Prime]] was granted guardianship of space-time. The Prime who would become [[The Fallen]] was charged to oversee the force of entropy. [[Nexus Prime|Another of these Primes]] was made the guardian of [[Rarified Energon]]. Logos Prime and Prima's specific functions are still unknown.

These Primes are [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularities]] with only one version of each existing across all realities before [[Nexus Prime]] enacted the [[Shroud]] and ended multiversal singularities. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}}
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===''Shattered Glass''===
The title of Prime is not an honourable rank but the title of the diabolical leader of the Autobots. [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]] stands as the current Prime. For now. [[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus]], [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]] or [[Thunderclash (SG)|Thunderclash]] may very well usurp the title and position in the future.

===Aligned continuity family===
====Aligned novels====
Following the War of the [[Thirteen|Original Thirteen Primes]], the [[Covenant of Primus]] decreed there would only be one Prime ruling Cybertron at a time. It was technically [[Primus]]'s right to appoint the Prime and bestow them the Matrix, but gradually his children became ignorant of his presence. It almost seems [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]] was the only Prime between the Age of the Primes and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]], as he fought off the [[Quintesson]]s, established the [[Golden Age]] and tried to combat its decline by establishing the [[Functionism|caste system]], to [[Alpha Trion]]'s displeasure. Sentinel was unworthy of the Matrix, and the [[Core]] said it was only after his death that Optimus could receive it for being a Prime was not a status Trion or the High Council could grant. The civil war began and continues as [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] both sought to be a Prime and bear the Matrix. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

====''War for Cybertron'' video game====
The [[Autobot High Council]] existed to choose the Primes, having seen many fall to their greed and pride. When [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]] died, the High Council declared Optimus as "Optimus Prime". {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
The [[Artifacts of the Primes]] would only activate to a the touch of a Prime as [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] discovered when he failed to activate the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

When the [[Decepticon]]s later discovered the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]], they found that only a Prime could remove it from the mountain it was embedded in. Despite attempting to airlift the mountain away, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] managed to claim the Star Saber. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}} To match the sword's power, Megatron traveled to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] to visit a tomb known to hold the remains of a [[Liege Maximo|Prime]]. He severed the arm of the Prime and attached it to his own body to gain control of the Forge of Solus Prime. With the Forge, he crafted the [[Dark Star Saber]]. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

As he prepared to sacrifice himself to restore the [[AllSpark]] to the [[core]] of Cybertron, Optimus Prime told his team members that, although they may not technically be Primes, he believed that they had each demonstrated the worth of a Prime in the recent conflict against [[Unicron#Aligned continuity family|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
The Thirteen Primes had a personal mystic plane of existence known as the [[Realm of the Primes]]. After becoming one with the AllSpark, Optimus Prime trained here in preparation for a coming threat to both Earth and Cybertron. {{storylink|Out of Focus}}

When the threat, the return of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], came, [[Micronus Prime|Micronus]] took Optimus to consult the other Primes on their next course of action. Though the other Primes thought that Optimus's training was not complete, Optimus convinced them to give him their power and send him to Earth to deal with Megatronus immediately. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
The first Primes were the Thirteen. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} Following the Thirteen, the rank of Prime was denoted by carrying the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. When a Prime passed, their spirit persisted within the Matrix for their successors to consult. {{storylink|The Other One}}

During the [[Expansion|Age of Expansion]], [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]] served [[Onyx Prime]] {{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}} who commanded his warrior to destroy [[Crystal City]]. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

In the opening stages of the [[Great War (Cyberverse)|Great War]], [[Alpha Trion]] bequeathed the Matrix to his protege Optimus, turning him into [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

===''One'' film===
The original Primes were the [[Thirteen]] before they were betrayed by their chief advisor [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel]] in the war against the [[Quintesson]]s. Despite the Matrix of Leadership rejecting him, Sentinel crowned himself as "Sentinel Prime" and ruled Cybertron as a puppet king for the Quintessons. After discovering this deception, the miner Orion Pax was deemed worthy of the Matrix and reformatted into [[Optimus Prime (One)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}

==Notes==
*In the UK Marvel Comics continuity story "[[Space Pirates!]]", Rodimus Prime lost control of the Creation Matrix and immediately reverted to "Hot Rod", apparently losing the rank of Prime along with the Matrix. Optimus Prime, on the other hand, continued to be known as "Prime" during the long stretch of time when the Creation Matrix was lost.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Prime''' (プライム ''Puraimu'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Fővezér''' ("Supreme Commander"), '''Prime'''

==References==
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==See also==
*[[Autobot commander (disambiguation)|Autobot Commander]]
*[[Supreme Commander]]
*[[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]
*[[Magnus (rank)|Magnus]]

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Snarl (Cyberverse)

2026-02-01T00:56:06Z

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:''Snarl is an [[Autobot]] [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-2018-Snarl.jpg|thumb|300px|Where did my dino mode come from?]]
Despite the Dinobots being all about "courage and good cheer," '''Snarl''' is something of a pessimist, finding the fault in almost every plan his team comes up with. Fortunately for the other Dinobots, he can be convinced to join in on a plan fairly easily, even if he still thinks it's a bad idea.

He can combine with the other Dinobots to form [[Volcanicus (Cyberverse)|Volcanicus]].
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==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Rich Orlow]] (English)}}

Eons ago, Snarl’s home planet received [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock's]] transmission from earth with his dinosaur comrades. His whole world decided to imitate Grimlock and his friends, and took on dino modes, with Snarl taking the form of a ''Stegosaurus''. At some point, Snarl and the other Dinobots fell under the leadership of [[Tiny Arms]], but when their planet was attacked by the [[Immobilizer Gang]], Tiny Arms did not survive. Snarl and the other Dinobots swore revenge on The Immobilizer Gang and followed them to Cybertron.

Upon arriving on the time locked planet, the Dinobots tried to figure out a plan to stop the Immobilizer Gang, with little success. They were interrupted by a very unhappy Grimlock, who mistook them for the perpetrators. The Dinobots attacked Grimlock, who made short work of them, before they recognized Grimlock as the one who had inspired their alternate modes. The Dinobots explained their situation, and teamed up with Grimlock to defeat the Immobilizers.

When they found the Mercenaries, Grimlock ordered the Dinobots to stay behind, but when Grimlock appeared to need help, they disobeyed orders and moved in, getting blown up and knocking Grimlock down. They all retreated to Grimlock’s shuttle, and a curious Snarl picked up the [[Enigma of Combination]], causing an accidental combination into [[Volcanicus (Cyberverse)|Volcanicus]], which tore the shuttle apart. They fell to the ground and separated back into individual Dinobots.

Bewildered by their momentary collective consciousness, the Dinobots realized that it was the Enigma that caused them to merge, and intentionally repeated the process, forming Volcanicus once more. The Dinobots continued to train in their combined form, and even when met with failure and discouragement, they reminded each other that through “courage and good cheer” they could succeed.

They convinced Grimlock to try combining one last time, and they succeeded in mastering their combined form’s mobility, and discovered that it contained a sword. Though elated, the team quickly realized that even the might of Volcanicus would not protect against the Time Blaster, but [[Swoop (Cyberverse)|Swoop]] quickly formed a plan, and directed the Dinobots to construct a shield that would protect them from the Time Blaster.

The Dinobots engaged the Mercenaries as Volcanicus, and managed to defeat and capture the crew. Their celebration was short-lived, as [[Soundblaster (Cyberverse)|Soundblaster]] called in “the boss”, [[Trypticon (Cyberverse)|Trypticon]]. Trypticon fired Soundblaster and the others, before offering the Dinobots a chance to become his new crew. This offer was refused, and the Dinobots reformed Volcanicus to challenge the criminal. Volcanicus felled Trypticon, but their celebration was short lived, as he rose again and scattered the Dinobots, who fled from his attacks. Swoop found the discarded Time Blaster, and the Dinobots reformed, and used the Time Blaster to freeze Trypticon in place, separating to celebrate their victory. Snarl and the others were very excited to be invited to Grimlock's after peace treaty signing soiree. Following the restoration of Cybertron, Grimlock introduced [[Arcee (Cyberverse)|Arcee]] to the Dinobots, and they formed into Volcanicus once more to celebrate the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]]. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

When Cybertron was threatened with imminent invasion from an unknown enemy, Snarl and the other Dinobots burst into a meeting of the higher-ranked Autobot/Decepticon forces to offer enthusiastic support, but they were a little too annoying and shooed away. Swoop and the other Dinobots continued across the streets of Iaconus to interrupt other Cybertronians with offers of seeing them combine into Volcanicus.

After the unknown enemy revealed itself to be [[Decepticon supersoldier]]s, Wheeljack armed Snarl and the other Cybertronians with various gadgets to incapacitate the invaders, but the supersoldiers were able to teleport themselves out of capture. Once the mastermind behind it all was revealed to be [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], a Decepticon supersoldier who deceived his way into nabbing the [[Cortex Helm]], Snarl and the Dinobots helped battle the combined army of regular Decepticons and supersoldiers. As Volcanicus, they provided cover to allow their fellow Autobots to escape.

Snarl retreated with the other Autobots to the [[Monsterbot (Cyberverse)|Monsterbot]] underworld to regroup. Ultimately, both Autobots and Decepticons turned on Tarn and his supersoldiers, with Snarl combining with his compatriots to form Volcanicus once more, and peace was restored to Cybertron. Snarl was later present at Soundwave's wake following his heroic sacrifice. {{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
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:*''Accessories'': Sword, tail
:*''Action Attack'': Power Slash

: Released in the tenth wave of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' Deluxe class toys under the ''Dinobots Unite'' banner, Snarl transforms into a robotic ''Stegosaurus''. His tail is a partsforming piece, with it being remounted on his gimmick's activation lever on his back, moving said lever up and down will cause his right arm to do a sword-swinging motion. His tail can be pegged onto his left hip to act as an enormous and unwieldy scabbard for his sword.

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Thrust (BW)

2026-01-25T22:25:39Z

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{{disambig3|Thrust}}
:''Thrust is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Combatron (BW)|Combatron]] from the [[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers#Beast Wars II|Beast Wars II]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:BWIIThrustGuidebook.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Thrust poses dramatically in a rare moment of not being comedically shot down by his own side or caught in [[Hard energy net|giant mosquito netting]].]]
'''Thrust''' (スラスト ''Surasuto'') is the comedian of the [[Combatron (BW)|Combatron]]s; he and his best pal [[Dirge (BW)|Dirge]] form a {{w|Manzai}} comedy duo, with Thrust serving as the "funny man" to Dirge's straight man, who never acts seriously if he can help it. Underneath the goofery, he's actually quite a shrewd 'bot, but unfortunately, he and Dirge don't have a great success rate, often bungling their missions. Thrust hates sea breezes since they tend to cause him to [[rust]] and for that reason alone he has a great hatred of the [[Maximal]] [[Scuba]].

Later, after pledging unconditional loyalty to [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]], Thrust was reborn as the [[Cyborg Beast]] '''Thrustor''' (スラストール ''Surasutōru''). While he retains the same character faults as his previous incarnation, Thrustor is an all-around superior warrior who can no longer be easily laughed off the battlefield by the Maximals.

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Junji Sanechika]] (Japanese)}}
Thrust was under the command of [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] when he landed on [[Gaia]], planning to drain the planet of its mysterious but powerful [[Angolmois Energy]]. They initially trapped their Maximal opposition in a paralyzing field, but Lio Convoy intervened and destroyed the field's antenna, allowing his troopers to escape. {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!}} Eventually, the Predacon force discovered [[Mother Computer|an abandoned Gaian computer]], containing data on weapons from the planet's past. The Predacons scanned this data for new [[alternate mode]]s, and Thrust adopted the form of an F-22 Raptor. He and Dirge were subsequently sent out to capture a [[Lio Convoy|white lion]] that had interferred with Galvatron's plans, but stopped to make fun of [[Starscream (BW)|Starscream]] and [[BB (BW)|BB]] on the way. They had a good laugh about it until BB fired smokescreen missiles at them, causing them to crash into a cliffside. {{storylink|White Lion, Run!}}

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After Lio Convoy humiliated him, Megastorm ordered Dirge and Thrust to hunt down the Maximal commander and report his location so Megastorm could get his revenge. The pair didn't take kindly to Megastorm's commanding attitude, and stopped to have a grumble about it, whereupon the rage-aholic Maximal [[Bighorn]] showed up, desperately looking for a fight, and charged the duo. He misjudged the angle, though, and crashed into the wall next to the Predacons instead. As the bemused Dirge and Thrust tried to figure out what this guy's problem was, they were buried in a rockslide started by the ambitious Starscream's missile barrage, since he wanted the accolades of finding Lio Convoy first. {{storylink|Bighorn's Rage}}

Dirge and Thrust hated the idea of reporting to Starscream, and only begrudgingly went along with his latest scheme to set up an underwater lake trap for the Maximals. Basically Starscream's stooges until his plan played out, Dirge and Thrust were quietly thrilled when the Maximals escaped their death-traps and foiled Starscream and BB's plot. {{storylink|The Lake Trap}}

Dirge and Thrust congratulated Megastorm on his latest plot to flood Gaia with automated fortress drones, far too many for the mere six Maximals to destroy. When they told him how grateful Galvatron would be for his work after the emperor awoke, however, Megastorm grew angry and stomped off. It was left to Starscream to explain to the duo how Megastorm had ambitions of his own beyond serving Galvatron dutifully. {{storylink|Galvatron Revived}}

Dirge and Thrust were overseeing the Autorollers in the construction of another energy fortress in the Southern Continent when they were attacked by the [[Insectron]]s, [[Bigmos]] and [[Tonbot]]. The duo were ridiculously outmatched, and fled back to Megastorm with their tails between their legs. Starscream laughed at their ineptitude, and promised Megastorm to work smarter and not harder by turning the Insectrons against the Maximals, letting their enemies eliminate each other. Miffed by Starscream's attitude, Dirge and Thrust followed him and BB, only to get caught in one of the [[Hard energy net|bug-zapper nets]] Starscream set up for the Insectrons. Unable to even fathom how stupid these two were, Starscream just left them hanging in the net.

[[File:Bw2 ep7 dirge and thrust.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|It takes two to tango.]]
The comedy duo eventually extracted themselves, and spotted Starscream and BB conversing with the Insectrons, whom they had trapped in a net and then freed in order to trick the Insectrons into believing the Maximals were responsible. When Dirge and Thrust were spotted zeroing in, Starscream and BB took the opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the Insectrons even further. Poor, poor Dirge and Thrust were shot down by BB, suffering further humiliations to help Starscream's scheme. {{storylink|The Insect Corps Arrive}} Still, Starscream successfully managed to turn several Insectrons against the Maximals. When he reported his success, Megastorm sent Dirge and Thrust to back him up. Once the Predacons arrived, the Maximals were nearly depleted of energy after their battle, and offered little resistance. Only when Lio Convoy and the other Maximals arrived, fresh and fully-energized, were the Predacons driven off. {{storylink|Friend or Foe? The Insect Robos}}

Dirge and Thrust were on the bridge of the ''Galvaburg II'', watching Starscream's plan to get the Insectrons wasted on super-strong oil unfold. No one noticed Galvatron awaken from his coma and dig into the spiked oil, until all the Combatrons had to flee from their drunken emperor. {{storylink|The Strongest Tag Team?}} After the Combatrons' several failures to eliminate the Insectrons, the Autorollers stepped forward to take the assignment. Starscream was worried the Autorollers would succeed and outshine his accomplishments. Dirge and Thrust, who had no accomplishments to speak of, said to let the Autorollers have their shot. {{storylink|Autorollers Roll Out!}}

Dirge and Thrust were out on patrol when the Autorollers brought their captives [[Tasmania Kid]] and [[Scissor Boy]] back to the ''Galvaburg II''. Megastorm tried to call the Combatrons back to help him when the Maximals and Insectrons arrived to protect their friends, but they arrived too late and Megastorm had to move the ship to escape their enemies' onslaught. {{storylink|Danger! Scissor Boy}} When Galvatron returned, gorging himself on Angolmois Energy and running amok in dragon mode, Dirge and Thrust needed Megastorm to very slowly explain to them why this was a bad thing. {{storylink|Galvatron Rampages}} As Megastorm ordered a massive attack on the [[South America|South Continent]], Dirge, Thrust and the Combatrons fought against the Maximals and Insectrons once more. {{storylink|Predacon General Offensive!}}

Dirge and Thrust were ordered to find and defeat the new giant warrior, [[Tripledacus]]. Unfortunately for their search, they had no idea the warrior was a combiner, and passed over confronting his component parts, the [[Jointron]] brothers, because they weren't the mission. {{storylink|The Combined Giant, Tripledacus}}

[[File:BWII e15 Thrust and Dirge Enter.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb]]
While supervising one of the Autorollers' construction projects, Dirge and Thrust spotted a beam of energy that revealed the location of the Maximal base. Seeing an opportunity to one-up Starscream, they conscripted Autostinger and Autocrasher to track the source of the signal. Finding a Maximal recon ship, Dirge and Thrust boarded it and found the Jointrons squabbling with the Maximals. Taking them hostage at gunpoint, the comedy duo warned their foes the Autorollers were outside pointing missiles at the fuel tanks in case they acted up. Unfortunately for Dirge and Thrust, once they had their captives, they didn't know what to do with them, especially after [[Gimlet]] smashed the radio so they couldn't call in to the ''Galvaburg II''. They ordered [[Diver (BW)|Diver]] to fix the radio, but then were swept up in salsa fever as the cheerful Jointrons threw an oil party while being held captive. By the time Lio Convoy and the other Maximals arrived and disabled the Autorollers outside, Dirge and Thrust were too wasted to fight back. They were now the Jointrons' prisoners. Luckily, the bizarre trio were soon distracted by their own antics, letting Dirge and Thrust inch out of the ship and fly away home. {{storylink|The Festive Jointrons}}

Starscream soon had another brilliant plan, so naturally Dirge and Thrust ended up doing grunt work. The comedy duo worked a smoke machine to trick the Maximals into thinking another Angolmois Energy-powered fortress was in production on the [[Eurasia|East Continent]]. The bait allowed Starscream and BB to test out a new bacteria bomb that sapped its victims' energy and rendered them unable to transform. It seemed remarkably effective against the Jointrons until Lio Convoy taught them the secret of friendship and sharing their energies to counter the bacteria. Tripledacus was then formed to demonstrate the Jointrons' displeasure towards Starscream. Dirge and Thrust somewhat sensibly chose not to get involved by that point. {{storylink|A Fearsome Combination Plan?}}

The Predacons' next plan involved capturing the Jointrons alive to study their combination abilities. Dirge and Thrust managed to net up DJ and Gimlet during the fray, and flew off to deliver them to the ''Galvaburg II''. Bighorn and Diver followed behind them, though, and Bighorn's [[Buffalo Missile]] blasted them out of the air, freeing the captives and leaving Dirge and Thrust out of luck. {{storylink|Who Is the Leader!?}}

When the Autorollers discovered a [[Copy Machine]] in the ruins of Gaia, the Predacons learned it could create exact clones of anyone, except mono-chromatic in color. And ''super''-evil. After observing a battle between BB and his clone, whom Thrust dubbed "[[Copy BB]]", Galvatron ordered the clone destroyed. Dirge and Thrust needed two guesses, but eventually pointed their guns at the correct BB and destroyed the clone. {{storylink|The Black Lio Convoy}}

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[[Artemis]] and [[Moon (BW)|Moon]] once had a debate over who was the strongest of the Transformers, and convinced Lio Convoy and Galvatron to compare their troops. Dirge and Thrust were considered among the weakest, but Galvatron still though them superior to Lio Convoy's weakest troops, Tasmania Kid and Diver. {{storylink|Who Is the Strongest Warrior!?}}

As Megastorm became more distrusting of the ambitious Starscream, he attempted to raise the standing of Dirge and Thrust in their stead. Despite Starscream's complaints, the comedy duo were given a surveillance assignment by Megastorm to evaluate the [[Seacon (BW)|Space Pirate Seacons]] when they arrived on Gaia. {{storylink|The Tentacular Scuba}}

Megastorm hired the Seacons to take out the Maximals for them, but did a poor job of negotiating and accidentally gave away ALL the Predacons' Angolmois Energy if the Seacons were successful. Dirge and Thrust helped Megastorm construct a series of [[Decoy energy transmitter|transmitters]] to lure the Maximals into separate battles with the Seacons, while secretly making the transmitters into bombs as well, hoping to steal the victories from the pirates. The comedy duo panicked when Lio Convoy snuck up on them at the last transmitter site, however, and dropped the trigger mechanism. This caused the bombs to go off in a premature and karmic fashion, somehow blowing up just in time to damage Megastorm at each site before blasting him to the next one. {{storylink|Megastorm's Reckoning}}

Thrust was seen on board the bridge of the ''Galvaburg II'' when Galvatron manipulated [[Halfshell]] and the Seacons into attacking the Maximals without payment by wounding his ego. {{storylink|Showdown in the Sea}} He was also present when Galvatron sent Starscream to conduct further negotiations with the Seacons. {{storylink|Face the Setting Sun}} When Lio Convoy and God Neptune were in a fight to the death, Dirge and Thrust intervened to prevent the other Maximals from racing to Convoy's side. {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWII)|The Final Battle}}

Dirge and Thrust watched on as Starscream conducted an operation to save Galvatron from the injuries he suffered fighting against [[Magnaboss (BWII)|Magnaboss]]. {{storylink|Megastorm Reborn}} As Megastorm evolved into [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]], Dirge and Thrust quickly declared their loyalty to him when Galvatron was once again bedridden with injuries. They arrived long before Starscream and BB to help Gigastorm escape a Maximal trap. {{storylink|The New Weapon, Tako Tank}}

In a discussion on the nature of light versus darkness, Galvatron and the Maximals recalled Dirge and Thrust's involvement in the Seacons' escapades. {{storylink|The Artificial Planet Nemesis}}

Dirge and Thrust battled the [[Tako Tank]] at an Angolmois Energy trap Galvatron set for the Maximals. {{storylink|Gigastorm's Treachery}} They finally outdid Starscream by capturing him and BB on film talking about how they tried to kill Megastorm when he was transformed into Gigastorm. They showed this footage to Gigastorm, who devised a plan to rid himself of Starscream. {{storylink|The End of Starscream}}

Unfortunately, Gigastorm's plan only ended up making Starscream and BB more powerful than ever as Cyborg Beasts. Dirge and Thrust started feeling inadequate, and needed to redeem their image and standing in the Predacons. They settled on the idea of eliminating Lio Convoy to show their prowess, but proved woefully incapable. Their plan to kidnap Lio Junior as a hostage to draw out Lio Convoy led to a painful encounter with Magnaboss, and attacking Lio Convoy directly went just as well.

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Gigastorm finally took pity on his loyal minions, and brought them into his alternate mode where he fed his own Angolmois Energy through tubes into Dirge and Thrust, triggering their reformatting. They emerged as Dirgegun and Thrustor full of confidence and new power. Thrustor demonstrated the power of his Trasher Horn by surprising the Maximal Scuba and instantly freezing him in a block of ice. They made several more successful attacks on the Maximals before fighting Lio Convoy to a stand still. Lio Convoy survived only thanks to the intervention of Lio Junior. {{storylink|The Lio Convoy Assassination Plot}}

[[File:ThrustorMovie1.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|But it's the pelvic Thrustor that really drives you insaaaaane.]]
When a mysterious teleport gate crashed on Gaia, Galvatron sent the Cyborg Beasts out to secure the site. Thrustor and his comrades attacked Tasmania Kid and the Magnaboss team to gain control of the gate and its command key. Although they secured the gate itself and seriously injured Kid, Lio Junior escaped with the key. Galvatron later tricked Lio Junior into turning over the key to him, taking the cub prisoner as well. When he escaped, Dirgegun and Thrustor chased their prisoner down before he reunited with Santon and Skywarp to form Magnaboss. They managed to injured Magnaboss, but were ultimately driven off. {{storylink|Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!}}

As the artificial planet Nemesis zeroed in on Gaia, the Maximals stepped up their counter-attacks, and the Predacon response increased as well. Dirgegun and Thrustor were sent out to stop the Maximals from freezing the volatile corrupted Angolmois Energy drawn out by Nemesis's presence. When the Maximals turned their freeze cannons on Gigastorm, Thrustor hilariously tried to help by breaking the ice with his Trasher Horn, forgetting that his horn ALSO caused ice spread and ended up freezing Gigastorm even further. {{storylink|The Great Angolmois Freezing Tactic}} Later, they targeted a giant artillery cannon the Maximals intended to use to obliterate Nemesis before it reached Gaia (although the Cyborg Beasts' cannon turned out to be a decoy). {{storylink|Knock Out Nemesis}}

Whatever additional power and ego the Cyborg Beasts got from their exposure to the Angolmois Energy seemed to fade, for Dirgegun and Thrustor were soon being overwhelmed defending Autoroller fortresses from raids by Lio Junior. {{storylink|Lio Junior's Revolt!?}} When the Maximals fought to stop an ancient Gaian defense mechanism from destroying the planet, Gigastorm was heedless of the danger and ordered the Cyborg Beasts to attack the Maximals anyway. Galvatron arrived and called his little brother a fool, pulling back their troops so the Maximals could save them all. {{storylink|The Crisis of Planet Gaia}}

When the Maximals prepared to depart Gaia on a spaceship, they leaked the location of their base to Dirgegun and Thrustor to divert Predacon attention away from their true launch site. Dirgegun and Thrustor were thrilled with their awesome detective skills, and thought Hellscream's suspicion over their sudden competence was just sour grapes. {{storylink|Fly Out! Planet Gaia}}

On Nemesis, the Predacons shot down the Maximal ship and boarded the wreckage, only to find the Maximals weren't present. They barely escaped the pre-rigged self-destruct mechanism. Thrustor and the Cyborg Beasts confronted the Maximals as Lio Convoy tried to shut down Nemesis at its Angolmois Energy core. {{storylink|Breaking into Nemesis}} When Galvatron emerged from the core, he told the assembled Maximals and Predacons that Lio Convoy and Lio Junior had been consumed by the Angolmois Energy he unleashed. Thrustor and the Predacons cheered the death of Lio Convoy, but Galvatron bid them to be silent, mourning the loss of a valiant foe. {{storylink|Legend! The Green Warrior}} To everyone's surprise, Lio Convoy and Lio Junior emerged as the legendary Green Lion, powerful enough to drain all of Gigastorm's Angolmois Energy from him. When Galvatron left to reignite the sabotaged core, Thrustor and the Beasts continued the fight against the remaining Maximals, despite the threat of Nemesis exploding at any moment. They eventually wised up, and the Cyborg Beasts got together and lugged the lumbering Gigastorm off of Nemesis before it exploded. {{storylink|Farewell! Lio Convoy}}

====The Maximal Brainwashing Operation====
While out on patrol, Thrust and Dirge wandered near the Maximals' base and were shot down by a barrage of missiles. When Lio Convoy approached the two downed Predacons, Thrust and Dirge expressed confusion as to why the Maximals were attacking them... The shock to their systems had somehow turned the pair into Maximals!

Later, Thrust and Dirge helped the Maximals fight back against their former teammates when the Predacons launched an assault on the ''[[Yukikaze (BW)|Yukikaze]]''. Among the enemy ranks were Diver and Tasmania Kid, brainwashed into joining the Predacons by Starscream. When Starscream saw Thrust and Dirge fighting against alongside the Maximals, he became infuriated that Lio Convoy had "stolen his idea," and had BB shoot the pair out of the sky. The battlefield was then rocked by a powerful blast courtesy of Megastorm, badly injuring the Predacon forces. The Predacons retreated, with BB hauling the unconscious Thrust and Dirge along. {{storylink|The Maximal Brainwashing Operation}}

====''Cloud''====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Concealment}} {{storylink|Struggle}}}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====
After the defeat of [[Unicron]], Thrustor returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. There, he watched a tussle between [[Big Convoy]] and [[Magmatron]]. {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}

===''Beast Wars II'' comic===
Thrust was part of [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]]'s forces that searched [[Gaia]] for [[Angolmois Energy]]. When Galvatron fell into a deep sleep, Thrust joined [[Megastorm]] in operating [[Galvatron Dekazura Tank|a massive tank]] that drew power from Galvatron. While attacking the [[Maximal]]s, Thrust attempted to warn the driver, [[Dirge (BW)|Dirge]] that Maximal reinforcements were coming, only for his partner to pay attention too late. The tank was eventually destroyed with the Predacons inside. {{Storylink|Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!}}

When [[Scylla]] got chummy enough with the Maximals to put on a play, Thrust and Dirge reported the unfolding events to the other Predacons. Thrust joined the subsequent Predacon attack, but the villains were forced to retreat after [[Bighorn]] showed off his mighty firepower. {{storylink|Realize the Forbidden Love!}} Thrust later joined the other Predacons in manning a base—actually [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]] in alternate mode. When the Maximals attacked, they were cornered in a trap by the Predacons, but the might of [[Star Upper (BW)|Star Upper]] and the arrival of [[Lio Convoy]] sent the Predacons panicking. {{storylink|Make a Surprise Attack on the Super Weapon Base!}} Thrust, Dirge, [[Starscream (BW)|Starscream]], and [[BB (BW)|BB]] were later pressed into serving Gigastorm. Gigastorm showed displeasure at their efforts and knocked the four into what was seemingly a hot spring. The Predacons found this relaxing, seeing too late the sign that warned of Angolmois Energy. The four found themselves transformed into [[Cyborg Beast]]s, with Thrust becoming Thrustor. They soon noticed the nearby [[Tasmania Kid]] and took him hostage. [[Apache]] arrived to save him, beating back the Cyborg Beasts in a fierce battle. {{storylink|Recover the Bonds Lost!}}

When the [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]] arrived into Gaian orbit, Thrustor joined the others in manning Nemesis and observing the artificial planet suck up the Angolmois Energy of Gaia. When the Maximals began an all-out assault on Nemesis, Thrustor was part of the counterattack. {{storylink|All Hands, Make a Special Attack on the Evil Planet!}} Due to the personal battle between Lio Convoy and Galvatron, Nemesis blew up with the Maximals and Predacons on it. {{Storylink|Win the Battle of Light and Darkness!}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:BWAscending4 heralds.jpg|thumb|''But now I'm not aloooone... AVENGERS! ASSEMBLE!'']]
To improve his troops' abilities, [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]] exposed them to [[Angolmois Energy]]. Its effect on Thrust was to mutate him into Thrustor. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #4}}

At some point, Thrustor became a [[Herald of Unicron|herald for Unicron]]. He too became a [[Herald of Shokaract|Herald]] to safeguard [[Shokaract]], the vessel for [[Unicron]]'s return. When Shokaract engaged the Maximal commander [[Big Convoy]] in battle, Thrustor and the other Heralds returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with Angolmois from the furthest reaches of the galaxy. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}

Thrustor and the rest of the Heralds proceeded to distribute the Angolmois Capsules throughout Cybertron's populace spreading chaos and dissent, perfect conditions for Unicron's return. When Shokaract seemed to be overwhelmed by a concentrated Maximal/Predacon attack, the Heralds rushed to his aid. They were distracted when [[Magmatron]] pulled Shokaract into limbo, giving [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] an opening to throw a grenade into Thrustor's face. The Heralds seemingly fled with the disappearance of Shokaract and the failure of Unicron's plan. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

===''TransTech''===
In an interview with [[Rook (TransTech)|Rook]], [[Stungun (TransTech)|Stungun]] noted that he had been in rooms full of [[Megatron (disambiguation)|Megatron]] lookalikes, including Thrusts. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/07/29}}
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==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWII-toy Thrust.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Thrust''' (Basic, [[1998]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''D-15'''
:*''Release date'': March ??, 1998
:*''Accessories'': "Thrust Barrel Gun" body and barrel
{{toydesigner|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

:Part of the first wave of ''Beast Wars II'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWII|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Thrust is a [[redeco]] of the ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' Basic Class [[Megaplex#Toys|Megaplex]]/[[Megatron (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Megatron]] mold, transforming from a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#F-22 Raptor|Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jet]] to [[robot mode]] with a spring-loaded one-step transformation.

:The two halves of his "Thrust Barrel Gun" store in the back of his robot mode legs. Thrust also has a Predacon [[rubsign]] underneath his port wing.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Destron/Thrust/thrust.htm More information on Thrust at TFU.info]''
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[[File:BWII-toy VS15-ScubaThrust.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Fighter jets and squids - nature's greatest enemies.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Sea Horizon Showdown: Scuba VS Thrust''' (VS pack, 1998)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''VS-15'''
:*''Release date'': March ??, 1998
:*''Accessories'': "Thrust Barrel Gun" body and barrel

:Thrust was also available in the "Sea Horizon Showdown" (水平線の対決, suihei-sen no taiketsu) two-pack with [[Scuba#Toys|Scuba]], also released in the first wave of ''Beast Wars II'' toys.

: Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

{{-}}{{anchor|Thrustor}}
[[File:BWII-toy Thrustor.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|More like veloci-''scrap''-tor.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Thrustor''' (Deluxe, 1998)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''D-26'''
:*''Release date'': November ??, 1998
:*''Accessories'': "[[Cyber-slash tail weapon|Raptor Shield]]", missile launcher, "Dino Missile", "Gash Sword"
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

:Sold in the tenth wave of ''Beast Wars II'' products, Thrustor is an extensively-[[retool]]ed version of the first ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' Deluxe Class [[Dinobot (BW)/toys#Toys|Dinobot]] toy, with roughly half its parts turned into disorganized machinery. In [[beast mode]], his chest houses his "Gash Sword" blade which can be flipped out as a weapon. His dinosaur head also has his "Trash Horn" weapon molded on top.

:In [[robot mode]], his tail can be removed and split open to form his spinning "Raptor Shield", which is activated by pushing a larger protruding peg at the base. In the center of his tail/Raptor Shield, a spring-loaded missile launcher can be removed and also held in his hand. Pushing the trigger fires his claw-tipped "Dino Missile".

:Thrustor's Gash Sword (now stored on his left robot leg) can also be used as a hand-held weapon. Instead of holding the sword, he can also have it rotated forward as a leg-mounted weapon, much like he does in the cartoon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Destron/Thrustor/thrustor.htm More information on Thrustor at TFU.info]''
{{BWDinobotMold}}

==Merchandise==
===''Seal Retsuden''===
*'''Thrust''' #049 (sticker, 1998)
*'''Thrust''' #050 (sticker, 1998)
*'''Thrust''' #076 (sticker, 1998)
:As part of their larger ''Seal Retsuden'' offering, [[Amada]] produced the ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers Seal Retsuden]]'' set of 102 stickers. Of these, two normal ones (#049 and #050) and one metal one (#076) concern Thrust.
:*[[Source:Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers Seal Retsuden#Thrust|''Seal Retsuden'' Thrust bio translation]]

==Notes==
*Thrustor's name does not have a discernible etymology, as the katakana used for his name does not correspond to the typical examples of transliterating the -or/-er/-ar suffixes. Various alternate Romanizations have popped up, such as "Thrustall", "Thrustol", and "Thrusthor", but "Thrustor" is the still best-known Romanization, making the most semblance of sense on English, and is the one used in the ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]''.
* Much like the rest of the new cast introduced from "[[Enter Lio Junior]]" onwards, Thrustor received a completely original [[character model]] by [[Takashi Yamamoto]] for "[[Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!]]", whereas his cartoon character model was designed by one of three other model artists. In Thrustor's case, he notably features his "Raptor Shield"/"Dino Missile" apparatus attached to his back in [[robot mode]], much like his toy is capable of doing.

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[[File:9AmalgamousPrime.jpg|thumb|upright=2|Go ahead, try and make a toy of me. I ''dare'' you.]]
'''Amalgamous Prime''' is one of the [[Thirteen]], the original Primes, who were created by [[Primus]] to battle and defeat his nemesis, [[Unicron]]. A gentle, good-natured prankster, Amalgamous Prime was the trickster of the Thirteen and the master of [[Transformation|change]]; he could instantaneously assume just about any shape he could imagine. Amalgamous's curious nature and independent mind meant that he rarely stayed in one place for very long. His equally mutable [[Scythe (Thirteen)|Scythe]] mimicked his own whimsical form, constantly changing from one shape or state of matter to another. Supposedly, he would go on to found the [[Shifter]]s, who took after his fluid and malleable nature.

==Fiction==
===Aligned continuity family===
====''The Covenant of Primus''====
Amalgamous Prime was the ninth Prime created by Primus to defeat Unicron. He possessed two [[Artifacts of the Primes|artifacts]] of power - his shapeshifting Scythe and the original [[Transformation Cog (Thirteen)|Transformation Cog]], which caused him to shift and flow constantly. In the [[Expulsion of Unicron|ensuing battle]] against Primus's archenemy, Amalgamous fought on the front lines as a warrior, and together the Thirteen saw off Unicron. In the [[Age of Primes|age of peace and rebuilding]] that followed, Amalgamous, [[Liege Maximo]], and [[Micronus Prime]] busied themselves with mining and refining [[Energon]], although personality conflicts simmered between the trio and [[Alpha Trion]], [[Prima]], and [[Vector Prime]], who Amalgamous viewed as bossy and controlling.

After the [[War of the Primes|schism]] that resulted in the deaths of [[Solus Prime]] and Liege Maximo and the self-imposed exile of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], the Primes decided to create a new generation of [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] that might follow them. Amalgamous Prime provided the imprint of his Transformation Cog to their alchemical "brew" in the [[Well of All Sparks]], so that all Cybertronians that emerged would have his gift of transformation, albeit to a lesser degree.

Amalgamous eventually left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] for parts unknown, although 'bots of his archetype would occasionally demonstrate greater shape-changing abilities, arising as the [[Shifter]]s.

After Cybertron's [[Golden Age]], [[Mercury (COP)|Mercury]] and her displaced fleet of [[Neutronia]]n refugees discovered Amalgamous Prime's Transformation Cog near a [[Black hole (phenomenon)|black hole]], and took it on board. Prolonged exposure to the Cog altered their physiologies, giving them the power of unlimited shapeshifting and the ability to combine with one another into many different forms. Thus altered, these Transformers renamed themselves [[Mutacon]]s, and began searching for Amalgamous in the hopes that he could undo the change before they permanently merged into a single amorphous being. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[Image:OneShallRise1-WellofAllSparks.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The crackly box-thing in the top left.]]

According to legend, at the beginning of time, [[Unicron#Aligned continuity family|Unicron]] and [[Primus]] battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Till, that is, Primus created the [[Thirteen]]. These Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

====Aligned novels====
Among the Thirteen, Amalgamous Prime's talent for change was rivaled only by [[Nexus Prime]]. While Nexus excelled in combination, separation, and alt-forms, though, Amalgamous Prime could alter his shape itself, assuming any appearance he desired. Impatient and perhaps selfish, Amalgamous expressed his distaste to [[Solus Prime]] when she dedicated so much of her time to the creation of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]'s [[Requiem Blaster (Thirteen)|Requiem Blaster]]. Amalgamous Prime's fate after the betrayal of Megatronus and the plotting of [[Liege Maximo]] remained unknown. Only [[Alpha Trion]] and [[Maccadam|Alchemist Prime]] remained on Cybertron as the planet's civilization developed, but legend has it that Amalgamous may have returned at a later date, and the rarely seen modern Transformers known as "[[Shifter]]s" are somehow descended from him. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}
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===Ask Vector Prime===
During the time that the Thirteen of the [[multiverse]] existed as [[multiversal singularity|singularities]], Vector Prime recounted in his [[Ask Vector Prime|ANN column]] how Amalgamous and four of his siblings ended up in the [[Realm of the Primes]] following the dissolution of the Thirteen. When Vector Prime (who had self-induced amnesia in order to protect the location of [[Nexus Prime]]'s components) ended up in the Realm of the Primes during his campaign against [[Mogahn the Mass]], Vector's siblings unlocked his memories as [[Primus]]'s appointed guardian of space and time. Vector Prime then returned to normal space and wrested away Mogahn's [[Cyber Caliber]]. Using Amalgamous's gift, Vector reformatted the blade into [[Rhisling]] and vanquished Mogahn, sending the Mass back in time and thus causing the Big Bang.

Vector's audience was confused by this account, however, as Amalgamous was not known to be a member of the Thirteen outside of the [[Uniend|Uniend Cluster]], and moreover, Vector had claimed that he used to go by the name "[[Adaptus]]", who readers understood to be a separate entity from another universe. The distressed Vector realized that he was somehow conflating memories from different universes into one (in actuality, a portent of the coming [[Shroud]] that would eradicate the Thirteen's singularity nature), making it hard to know whether Amalgamous was truly part of the events he had described or not. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|''Transformers vol. 2'' #47]] (mentioned); [[Heavy|''Till All Are One'' #9]] (obscured image); [[The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|''Optimus Prime'' #18]] (depicted)}}

[[File:OP18 Thirteen in Crystal City.jpg|thumb|375px|I'm the guy on the right. I'll bet you thought that was my thigh.]]

Amalgamous was one of the Thirteen Primes who led the [[Thirteen Tribes]] that arose on Cybertron following the departure of the [[Knights of Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} {{storylink|Origin Myths}} Along with four others, he later joined the [[Crystal City]] alliance creating the Thirteen [[Prime (rank)|Primes]]. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} The death of [[Nexus Prime]] at the hands of [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]] prompted all the remaining Primes except [[Alpha Trion]] to flee Cybertron. Eons later, [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] would send one of his [[Regenesis]] ores, [[Ore-9]], to [[Velocitron]], {{storylink|The Crucible}} {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing}} which had been settled in eons past by Amalagamous's affiliated Titan [[Navitas]]. {{storylink|Ceremony|The Lost Colonies of Cybertron}}

In the modern day, Amalgamous Prime's name was remembered in the [[Way of Flame]], the religion of [[Solus Prime]]'s colony [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}}

===''Power of the Primes'' marketing material===
Amalgamous Prime's [[Spark]] passed into the possession of one of the twelve [[Prime Master]]s; hidden within a suit of decoy armor, they safeguarded the abilities of the Primes until the present day. By uniting with a larger Transformer, the Prime Master could channel the powers of Amalgamous's Spark and grant them unique abilities that varied with each new partner. {{storylink|Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes}}

{{note|For a list of every permutation of Amalgamous Prime's abilities, see [[Prime Master/Combinations|this link]].}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
Amalgamous Prime was one of the [[Thirteen]]. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} {{storylink|Silent Strike}} {{storylink|The Other One}}

When brought before a [[Quintesson]] [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]], [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]] swore by Amalgamous Prime. {{storylink|The Trial}}

===''One'' film===
[[File:TransformersOne-AmalgamousLiegeMaximoholograms.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I'm on the left! So they say.]]
Amalgamous Prime and the other twelve Primes were created by [[Primus]] at the dawn of Cybertron, and they ruled Cybertron benevolently through its Golden Age. When a war with the Quintessons threw the planet into a protracted, violent conflict, the Primes' secretary, [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]], herded the [[Thirteen]] into a Quintesson ambush within [[Mouth of Unicron|a remote cave]]. Amalgamous would be killed during the battle, with his brothers' and sisters' bodies resting in the cave for fifty cycles before being rediscovered by miners [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)|Elita]], and [[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]].

A vision of Amalgamous Prime and the other Primes later appeared as Alpha Trion declared a damaged Orion Pax to be the next wielder of the Matrix of Leadership, Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|Transformers One}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
;'''Amalgamous Prime Core'''
[[File:Earth Wars Amalgamous Prime Core.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6]]

Amalgamous Prime's [[Prime Master#Transformers: Earth Wars|Prime Core]] (his "heart" as one of the primordial [[Thirteen|Thirteen Primes]]) fell to Earth under mysterious circumstances along with those of his siblings to become a hotly contested resource in the [[Earth Wars (conflict)|Earth Wars]]. {{storylink|Power of the Primes (Earth Wars)|Power of the Primes}}

*'''Effect:''' Boosts attack and regenerates HP while in [[Alternate mode|alt mode]].

[https://tfew.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4733780017183-Prime-Cores-Bot Amalgamous Prime Core at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]

{{chargamestub|{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Amalgamous Prime was sometimes known as the “Grand Architect” of the Thirteen. A curious, ever-shifting being, Amalgamous adopted thousands of alternate modes over the course of his life; some knew him as '''[[Adaptus]]''', and some sources suggest that Amalgamous engineered the [[God War]] that precipitated the fall of the Primes. Ancient humans knew him as {{w|Poseidon}}. {{storylink|Transformers One Sourcebook}} In modern times, Amalgamous was closely associated with [[Triple Changer]]s. {{storylink|Transformers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook|Core Rulebook}}

==Toys==
===''Power of the Primes''===
[[File:TF-PotP-SDCC-2018-Throne-of-the-Primes-Amalgamous-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Wow, we weren't expecting a real toy of this guy.]]
<ul class = "iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Throne of the Primes''' (Leader Class, [[2018]])}}</ul>
:*''Japanese ID number'': '''PP-43'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[January 26]], [[2019]]
{{toydesigner|[[Marcelo Matere]] (throne designer, packaging artist)}}

:''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' Amalgamous Prime is a retool of the [[Micronus Prime#Power of the Primes|Micronus]]/[[Cloudburst#Power of the Primes|Cloudburst]] inner robot with a new sigil/backpack, packaged in the [[Throne of the Primes#Toys|Throne of the Primes]] set.

:This toy has identical features to the other Prime Masters in the line. The [[Titan Master]]-like robot can store inside decoy armor or ride [[Size class|Legends Class]] figures in vehicle mode, and is fully compatible with toys from the previous ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' line. The "Power Swap" gimmick means its [[spark]] form can plug onto any decoy armor's weapon form (which has a [[5 mm post]] to be held by larger figures), Deluxe Class figures' chest armor, Voyager Class figures' bucklers, Leader Class figures' [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#Power of the Primes|Matrix]] (in place of their Matrix core), [[combiner]]s' torsos (in place of their [[Enigma of Combination]]), or the included [[Scepter of Sparks]] or [[Halo of Primus]] accessories. With the power of [[You|your]] imagination, this bestows the Prime Master's [[Prime Master/Combinations|unique power]] on the larger figure.

:Though Amalgamous is not packaged with a decoy armor, one assumes given gang-molding principles that Amalgamous's tooling is paired with the [[Waverider#Notes|Waverider]]-themed armor [[:File:Legends-LGEX-Gran-bonus-Pretender-Suit.jpg|that was almost used]] for [[Grand Maximus#Legends|''Legends'' Grand Maximus]].

:This set debuted at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2018, and was later sold via [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online. It was also available at general retail in Taiwan.

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===''Age of the Primes''===
[[File:AOTP-toy Amalgamous.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I'm only hanging 'round amorphous mounds In the town where nothing familiar can be found]]
<ul class = "iconlist">{{Bp-pr9|'''The Thirteen Amalgamous Prime''' (Voyager Class, [[2026]])}} </ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''AOTP-29'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[April 25]], 2026
:*''Accessories'': [[Scythe (Thirteen)#Age of the Primes|Scythe]], blaster, [[Transformation Cog (Thirteen)#Age of the Primes|2 T-Cogs]]
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[[July 25]], [[2025]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18IQaMuGVk Transformers Brand Panel Recap | SDCC 2025 | Hasbro Pulse] on YouTube, with [[Mark Maher]], [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref>

: Released as part of the first 2026 wave of ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' Voyager Class toys (fourth wave overall), Amalgamous Prime is modeled after a blend of his designs from the ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|Covenant of Primus]]'' and ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'', nominally forming a hunchbacked, four-armed robot. His unusual posture means he's packaged a bit strangely to fit in the box, and needs a little reconfiguration once removed from the cardboard backing.

: While his primary alternate mode is a somewhat frog-like spider-tank, the figure's main event is a version of the ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (franchise)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' "[[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]]"-style gimmick befitting his "multi-mode shapeshifter" nature: his limbs and head are detachable, featuring not only numerous [[5 mm post]]s and sockets (as well as some smaller post/tab/socket combos), but also micro-vehicle [[kibble]] and sculped [[cockpit]]s. These pieces can be re-arranged to form alternate configurations and separate mini-vehicles, or weapons and armor for other figures. The instructions show five different part combinations: a mini-train made from the forward pair of forearms, a mini-jet formed from the rear set of winged forearms, two different mini-fighters made from the forearms attached to the two finned... thrusters?... above his robot-mode shoulders, and a mini-tank centered around his Scythe as a cannon.

: As you probably assumed, Amalgamous lends himself well to [[fan mode]]s, such as a more humanoid robot mode and a pretty convincing recreation of his ''Transformers: One'' design.

: He comes with three [[Artifacts of the Primes|Artifact]]s: two variants of his signature [[Transformation Cog (Thirteen)#Age of the Primes|T-Cog]], and his [[Scythe (Thirteen)#Age of the Primes|Scythe]]. One T-cog, modeled after the one seen in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]] episode "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1]]", stores away inside his head, with the post forming the pupil of his mono-eye. It is also the only artifact of the three marked with Amalgamous’s sigil. The other cog, based on the T-cogs seen in ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'', has a 5 mm socket and can be stored on the end of his scythe-handle; yes, you can combo the two cogs if you're feeling frisky. The Scythe forms a gun turret in both of his suggested tank modes, plus the blaster back-end is able to detach and be used elsewhere.

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/DOzRWSjACdX/ Designer commentary on Amalgamous Prime from Mark Maher on Instagram'']''
::*''[[Source:Transformers Age of the Primes bios#AOTP29|Machine translation of Amalgamous Prime's TakaraTomy bio]]''
{{-}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Amalgamous Prime''' (アマルガモスプライム ''Amarugamosu Puraimu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huàn Tiān Líng''' (幻天灵)

==Gallery==
<gallery>
One-Amalgamous-Prime.jpg|''One'' film trading card art.
Amalgamous Prime OneFilm ILMConceptArt.jpg|''One'' film concept art.
AOTP Amalgamous concept art.jpg|''Age of the Primes'' concept art.
AOTP Amalgamous Prime Hasbro China promo art.jpg|''Age of the Primes'' promotional art.
</gallery>

==References==
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Transformers (2023) issue 28

2026-01-15T13:24:16Z

Cydra: /* Transformers references */

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|date=[[January 14]], [[2026]]
|coverdate= January 2026
|written by=[[Robert Kirkman]]
|art by=[[Dan Mora]]
|colors by=[[Mike Spicer]]
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'''Arcee ascends to the role of Magnus, just in time for Megatron to employ a deadly new tactic against the Autobots.'''

==Synopsis==
Inside the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', the [[Decepticon]]s attempt - to no avail - to restrain [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who flails about in a possessed madness, screaming for [[Dezimir]], though the other Decepticons have no idea what he is talking about. Luckily for them, he comes out of his trance just as the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] return from [[Hoover Dam]] with their collected [[Energon]] cubes. Megatron is pleased to see Skywarp return to the fold, and Skywarp informs his leader that [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] is being held captive by the [[Autobot]]s. Megatron decides it's time to mount an attack on the Autobots and rescue their brother.

Aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] watches over [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and an unconscious [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], connected to Ultra Magnus and undergoing a "vision quest" as part of her ascension to the role of [[Magnus (rank)|Magnus]]. Ultra Magnus believes that Arcee will be better Magnus than he, but Optimus admits to feeling unsure about this, as Magnus is typically a title carried for life, but alas, Ultra Magnus remains firm on his decision. Elsewhere, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] visits Soundwave in his cell. Soundwave is disgusted by the former [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]'s decision to join the Autobots, but Thundercracker merely tells him that one day he will see the cruelty of the Decepticons for what it is before walking away.

At [[Shadow Watch]] Underground Base, [[General Flagg]] escorts [[Miles Mayhem]] out of the facility, flanked by a squad of soldiers. Before he can be taken away, however, Mayhem activates a [[Mask|hi-tech battle helmet]], which fires a corrosive acid that burns several of the guards alive. He then releases [[Switchblade (M.A.S.K.)|a high tech helicopter]] from within the facility. Telling Flagg to consider this his resignation, he frees himself from his handcuffs with the acid and boards the helicopter. After it lifts off, the vehicle begins to change, converting into a hi-speed jet and blasting off into the horizon. As Flagg realizes he backed the wrong horse, he tells his men to find [[Matt Trakker]].

Back in [[Farmingham]], [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] return to the [[Witwicky (surname)|Witwicky]] home. Carly thanks Spike for letting her stay there, and Spike tells her he’s glad to be home, though his mood immediately shifts when he spots [[Sparkplug Witwicky|his dad]]'s old recliner. Carly tries to cheer him up by reminding him that he’s going to be starting at [[University of California, Berkeley]] soon, but he tells her he isn't going; their experience with the [[Transformer]]s has gotten him to consider a new path...

Back on the ''Ark'', Arcee has finished her transformation into Arcee Magnus, complete with a new, stronger form, though she finds the new body somewhat strange. Ultra Magnus says he will hold off on relinquishing the Magnus title completely until she is fully ready; however, Optimus asks that Ultra Magnus remain as Magnus alongside Arcee, citing historical precedence of the Autobots having more than one Magnus in times of war, and believing that Ultra Magnus' experience makes him too great an asset to lose. Ultra Magnus is reluctant, but agrees to at least consider it. Arcee presents herself to the rest of the Autobots, all of whom are wowed by her upgrade. Optimus informs the Autobots of their first mission: they are going to canvass the area in search of Decepticon activity. He then offers Arcee Magnus the chance to rally the troops. She orders the Autobots to [[transformation|transform]], but before they can [[roll out]], Optimus notices that [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] is missing.

Trailbreaker is deep in the forest, admiring the beauty of [[Earth]]. Unfortunately, his moment of serenity ends with an attack from Megatron, who sneaks up and crushes his head in one hand. The Decepticon leader then tears the Autobot's body in half and rips out his [[spark]] to consume it. This, he tells the Decepticons (watching with a mix of glee and horror), is how they will deal with the Autobots: permanent death!

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee/Arcee Magnus]] (17)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (18)
* [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (19)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (21)
* [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] (27)
* [[Bulkhead (G1)|Bulkhead]] (28)
* [[Shredhead]] (29)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (30)
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (31)
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (32)
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (33)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (34)
* [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (35)
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (36)
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (37)
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (38)
* [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (39)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (40)
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (41)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (1)
* [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (2)
* [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (3)
* [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (4)
* [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (5)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (6)
* [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (7)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (8)
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (9)
* [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (10)
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (11)
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (12)
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (13)
* [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (14)
* [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (15)
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (16)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (20)

|c3=
* [[General Flagg]] (22)
* [[Miles Mayhem]] (23)
* [[Shadow Watch]] soldiers (24)
* [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] (25)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"As Magnus, she will be our first line of defense. Arcee will lead the charge, sustain the most damage, protect our troops, and always ensure they are battle ready and well trained. It is a burden she will carry well." 
"I hope you are making the right decision, old friend." 
"I've rarely been this sure about anything. Arcee will be a far better Magnus than I ever was."
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"There will be a time, Soundwave, when you are told to do something you think is '''cruel''', or '''unnecessary'''. Or something bad will happen to someone you care about, and you will see how callous and hateful the Decepticons are. Maybe then you'll understand my actions. Or maybe you won't... but then you'll know who you truly are."
:—'''Thundercracker''' to Soundwave

"I'd trade sad memories for intact walls... most days." 
"No sad memories. Not when '''you’re''' here."
:—'''Carly''' and '''Spike'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Megatron references [[Dezimir]], the [[Quintesson Prosecutor]] who tortured him and gave him the ability to control the will of others back in [[Transformers (2023) issue 19|issue #19]]. Clearly those events have had more damaging long-term effects than we first realized.
* When Thundercracker tells Soundwave that he will see how callous and hateful the Decepticons are, Soundwave thinks about Ravage, who was damaged for most of the series because Starscream refused to help Soundwave heal him.
* This is the first time we've seen Spike's house since [[Transformers (2023) issue 2|issue #2]]. In a stunning attention to detail, the layout of the living room in the second panel of page 11 is identical to the sole shot of it from that issue.
* Carly is staying with Spike since her own home was destroyed by the fight between Laserbeak and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] in [[Transformers (2023) issue 3|issue #3]].
* Spike's acceptance into Berkeley was mentioned back at [[Transformers (2023) issue 1|the very start of the series]].
* For the entirety of the Energon Universe, Transformers have been shown to be exceptionally durable, surviving all manner of physical damage to their bodies, with character "deaths" more being a matter of the narrative treating them as such (as with [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]). The end of this issue confirms that the only way for a Transformer to permanently die is to destroy their spark (whether the drinking part is necessary remains to be seen).

===Transformers references===
* Arcee delivers an Autobot [[introdump|roll call]] akin to the one from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] episode [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]. However, due to [[Hasbro]]'s... let’s say "[[Transformation#Notes|particularities]]", she doesn’t say "transform and roll out", opting instead for the new catchphrase "[[transformation cog (biology)|transformation cog]]s-- activate!" (Prime starts to deliver the "let’s roll" before he is interrupted by noticing Trailbreaker's absence.)
* Megatron's grisly bisection of Trailbreaker echoes [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] from the live-action films, who famously ripped [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] in half. Him eating Trailbreaker's spark afterwards may be a nod to the original script for the movie, where ''Movie'' Megatron was shown to similarly consume Jazz's spark – though that scene was cut from the movie itself, it survived in [[Transformers (novel)|the film novelization]] and [[Movie Adaptation issue 4|the comic adaptation]].
** It also echoes his rather [[Births, Deaths, and Interventions|gruesome demise]] at the hands of [[Kaon (G1)|Kaon]] in the [[2005 IDW continuity|first]] [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] comic line.

===''M.A.S.K.'' references===
* This issue debuts Miles Mayhem's Viper mask and Switchblade vehicle from the original ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)|M.A.S.K.]]'' toyline. Viper has been newly redesigned, yet still features its classic corrosive acid power. Switchblade, meanwhile, hews fairly close to its classic design (with some minor flourishes), but has received a new name – "Bladejet". This is likely due to [[trademark]] reasons, as the recent ''M.A.S.K.'' reproduction line from [[The Loyal Subjects]] called the vehicle simply "High Tech Helicopter".

===Errors===
* On page 14, Sideswipe is miscolored as Jazz.

===Other notes===
* Energon Experience: Presented by Skybound Executive Editor Ben Abernathy.
** '''Character Spotlight:''' Arcee
** '''A Massive Headache:''' Ben teases the return of Shockwave from last issue.
** '''Creator Spotlight:''' Ben asks... himself... what kind of alt-mode he would have. Ben likes the idea of cruising along the beach as a dune buggy like Beachcomber.

===Covers===
* '''Cover A:''' Bulkhead and Mirage, by [[David Nakayama]]
* '''Cover B:''' Ultra Magnus and Arcee as she prepares to become Magnus, by [[Daniel Warren Johnson]] and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C:''' Connecting cover, by [[Jorge Corona]] and Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover D:''' Megatron, by [[Ejikure]].
* '''Cover E:''' Design for Thundercracker, complete with [[Insignia|Autobrand]]s, by Dan Mora and [[Andres Juarez]].

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File:Transformers 2023 28 Unknown Comics Cover.jpg|
File:Transformers 2023 28 John Giang Cover.jpg|
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File:Transformers 2023 28 TopShelfComic Cover.jpg|
</gallery>

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==External links==

==References==
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2026-01-11T05:49:08Z

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Deep Trouble (RB)

2026-01-03T14:10:55Z

Cydra:

{{disambig2|the ''Rescue Bots'' episode|the ''Robots in Disguise'' episode|Deep Trouble (RID)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 10
|prev=Christmas in July
|next=Return of the Dino Bot
|image=DeepTrouble Rescue Bots vs shark.jpg
|caption=We're ''definitely'' going to need a bigger boat.
|title="Deep Trouble"
|season=1
|season ep=10
|airdate=[[May 5]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Christopher J. Gentile]]
|director=[[Nathan Chew]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weze2_AoXgM
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''A shark targeting high-tech ocean equipment is spotted off the Griffin Rock shore.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:DeepTrouble time for fishing.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go."]]
[[H.B. Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] and [[Mrs. Luskey|his wife]] are enjoying a trip in the Mayor's boat, the ''[[Floating Xanadu]]'', when Luskey realizes they're near the coast but he can't see the lighthouse. Elsewhere, the Burnses and the Greenes are having a barbecue and [[basketball]] game. Luskey contacts [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] to tell him to turn on the light. While [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] rescue the mayor, Doc Greene puzzles over why the automatic sensors didn't pick up the mayor's ship and turn the lighthouse on. Safely back on land, Luskey has it out with Greene, and explains that as tomorrow is the [[Miss Griffin Rock]] competition, he wants the lighthouse back in working order.

The next morning, Chief Burns arrives at the breakfast table with a fishing rod—it's time for their annual [[fishing]] trip. Dani, [[Kade Burns|Kade]] and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] all give excuses, but [[Cody Burns|Cody]] is keen and suggests they bring the [[Rescue Bot]]s along as well. The ''[[Darby Ava]]'' vessel proves capable of carrying the four bots without sinking, and Burns makes Blades first mate. Cody instructs the Bots on the finer points of fishing, as they approach Doc Greene's [[floating lab|floating research lab]], where Greene has discovered that the lighthouse's underwater electro-magnetic sensors have been destroyed. He gives Cody a hi-tech fishing line that uses electro-magnetic bait.

Back at the [[Griffin Rock Firehouse Headquarters|fire station]], the others do dishes and briefly wonder if they did the right thing in dipping out on the fishing trip.

[[Image:DeepTrouble Heatwave jumps shark.jpg|thumb|250px|"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women."]]
Cody, Charlie and the Bots start fishing, but after [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] loses his fishing rod, he tries using Greene's hi-tech version. He quickly gets a bite, which to their surprise turns out to be a [[Shark Sub|gigantic shark]]. It rams the ship, knocking Heatwave overboard, and as he floats in the water, the mechanical shark attacks him. As he wrestles with it, it uses lasers to destroy the fishing rod. The other Rescue Bots jump into the water, but can't do much more than watch as the shark knocks Heatwave loose by bashing him against rocks. Burns heads back to Doc Greene's lab.

[[Image:DeepTrouble Greene's busted sensor.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"A tiger shark's like a garbage can, it'll eat anything. Someone probably threw that in a river."]]
On the beach, the Miss Griffin Rock pageant is in full swing, but as the mayor's wife is about to announce the finalists, the robot shark appears offshore, sparking a panic. Surprised, Greene reports his sensors aren't picking up anything shark-sized, but soon gets a visit from the shark himself. The shark destroys the doc's underwater sensor, and he shows the Burnses the footage of the shark he's gathered. Cody and Greene realize the shark's attacking electro-magnetics.

The other three Burnses at the fire station reminisce about previous fishing trips, and decide to join the one currently in progress.

[[Image:DeepTrouble caught shark.jpg|thumb|250px|"That's a twenty footer."
"Twenty-five. Three tons of him."]]
While Cody monitors things from the pier with the [[ComTab]], Chief Burns and the bots go out with one of the doc's boosted sensors. Once the shark turns up, Burns starts leading it towards a secluded cove, but it suddenly changes course and goes after the [[Griffin Rock ferry]] instead. Burns warns the ferry captain [[Arthur Shaw]] and the ferry avoids the first strike, so Burns and Blades head over to help the people on board. Heatwave, [[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] and [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] jump into the sea and use their vehicle modes to reach the shark submarine. After damaging the sub to the point where it's non-operational, they float to the surface where Cody gets them to swim to shore with it. The rest of the Burns family reaches the pier in time to see the shark, but as Chief Burns and Blades crack it open, they hear a computer voice announcing self-destruct. Blades flies the sub out to sea where it explodes. As they leave the pier, Cody wonders who could have built such a thing and among the wreckage which landed on the pier, spots a fragment with a [[Cody on Patrol|familiar logo on it]].

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (10)
*[[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] (11)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (12)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (13)

|c3=
*[[H.B. Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] (1)
*[[Mrs. Luskey]] (2)
*[[Cody Burns]] (3)
*[[Graham Burns]] (4)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (5)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (6)
*[[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] (7)
*[[Kade Burns]] (8)
*[[Dani Burns]] (9)
*[[Arthur Shaw]] (14)
|c4=
*[[Dither]] (11)
}}

==Quotes==
"How do you like your burger?" 
"On a plate, please!"
:—'''Charlie Burns''' and '''Doc Greene'''

[[File:DeepTrouble Pirate Blades.jpg|thumb|250px|"Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again."]]
"Arrr, I do request permission to come aboard, me hearty!"
:—'''Blades''' has been watching too many pirate movies.

"This shouldn't be called fishing, it should be called ''waiting''."
:—'''Heatwave''' has a low opinion of fishing.

"''Now'' I understand why you humans love fishing!"
:—'''Heatwave''' after wrestling a mechanical shark.

"Next movie night, can we rent a romantic comedy?"
:—'''Heatwave''' has had enough with Blades's pirate movies.

{{-}}
==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Dither is introduced here as "Helper Bot", but will get properly named in the later episode "[[Countdown (RB)|Countdown]]".
* The mysterious symbol Cody finds on the submarine wreckage was previously seen on the canister of [[nanite]]s in "[[Cody on Patrol]]".
*Gadgets and powers:
**The Rescue Bots can operate underwater. Heatwave can even use the water jets on his hands as propulsion.

===Real-world references===
* Mayor Luskey quotes ''Jaws'' when he declares that his wife's luggage requirements mean they're "going to need a bigger boat".
* Luskey's boat is presumably named after Charles Foster Kane's mansion from ''Citizen Kane''.
* Blades quotes from ''Moby Dick''.
* Captain Shaw's name is a reference to actor Robert Shaw who played Quint in ''Jaws''. He even bears a passing resemblance to the character.
*The mechanical Shark acts like the sharks Jaws.

===Animation and technical errors===
* The "speed calculus" section of the Miss Griffin Rock pageant is actually algebra.
* Chase reacts to the shark sub turning away before it does so.
* The bots leap onto the pier while treading water.

===Trivia===
[[File:DeepTrouble Miss Griffin Rock calculus.jpg|thumb|250px|"You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."]]
* Yes, the <s>calculus</s> algebra equation on the blackboard checks out!

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Les dents de fer'''" ("Iron Teeth")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ärger auf hoher See'''" ("Trouble on the Open Sea")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 1|1 March]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mély gond'''" ("Deep Trouble")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 16|16 February]] [[2013]]

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Serangan Robot Hiu'''" ("Shark Robot Attack")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 24|24 October]] [[2018]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Un Guaio Sommerso'''" ("A Submerged Trouble")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 11|11 June]] [[2017]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Apuros à Vista'''" ("Trouble in Sight")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 26|26 March]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Energize" ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Die Rückkehr des Dino Bots" ([[EDEL:kids]]) — German and English audio 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Cody on Patrol" ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Complete Season 1" ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]])

[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

Zachary Burns

2026-01-03T01:44:01Z

Cydra: caption

{{disambig3|Burns}}
:''Zachary Burns is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:TipOfTheIceberg Zachary Burns.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Blistering barnacles!]]
'''Zachary Burns''' is the sea-faring grandfather of [[Charlie Burns]]. He captained the ship [[S.S. Isolde|S.S. ''Isolde'']], which carried experimental technology to [[Griffin Rock]].

==Fiction==
===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
In May [[1966]], during the ship's voyage to Griffin Rock, a piece of cargo known as the [[Sub-Zero Expander]] activated. Captain Burns contacted Griffin Rock for advice, and ended up abandoning ship before the Isolde was completely frozen by the device. A portrait of Zachary Burns was later salvaged from the ship by [[Doctor Morocco]] and sent to Chief Burns. {{storylink|Tip of the Iceberg}}

Chief Burns later sent the portrait to the framing shop for restoration, whereupon they discovered the bugging device Morocco had hidden in it. {{storylink|Changes}}

==Notes==
*Zachary is named for ''Rescue Bots'' writer [[Zac Atkinson (writer)|Zac Atkinson]].

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Zachary}}
[[Category:Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category:Rescue Bots humans]]

Deep Trouble (RB)

2026-01-02T18:18:12Z

Cydra:

{{disambig2|the ''Rescue Bots'' episode|the ''Robots in Disguise'' episode|Deep Trouble (RID)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 10
|prev=Christmas in July
|next=Return of the Dino Bot
|image=DeepTrouble Rescue Bots vs shark.jpg
|caption=We're ''definitely'' going to need a bigger boat.
|title="Deep Trouble"
|season=1
|season ep=10
|airdate=[[May 5]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Christopher J. Gentile]]
|director=[[Nathan Chew]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weze2_AoXgM
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''A shark targeting high-tech ocean equipment is spotted off the Griffin Rock shore.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:DeepTrouble time for fishing.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go."]]
[[H.B. Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] and [[Mrs. Luskey|his wife]] are enjoying a trip in the Mayor's boat, the ''[[Floating Xanadu]]'', when Luskey realizes they're near the coast but he can't see the lighthouse. Elsewhere, the Burnses and the Greenes are having a barbecue and [[basketball]] game. Luskey contacts [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] to tell him to turn on the light. While [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] rescue the mayor, Doc Greene puzzles over why the automatic sensors didn't pick up the mayor's ship and turn the lighthouse on. Safely back on land, Luskey has it out with Greene, and explains that as tomorrow is the [[Miss Griffin Rock]] competition, he wants the lighthouse back in working order.

The next morning, Chief Burns arrives at the breakfast table with a fishing rod—it's time for their annual [[fishing]] trip. Dani, [[Kade Burns|Kade]] and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] all give excuses, but [[Cody Burns|Cody]] is keen and suggests they bring the [[Rescue Bot]]s along as well. The ''[[Darby Ava]]'' vessel proves capable of carrying the four bots without sinking, and Burns makes Blades first mate. Cody instructs the Bots on the finer points of fishing, as they approach Doc Greene's [[floating lab|floating research lab]], where Greene has discovered that the lighthouse's underwater electro-magnetic sensors have been destroyed. He gives Cody a hi-tech fishing line that uses electro-magnetic bait.

Back at the [[Griffin Rock Firehouse Headquarters|fire station]], the others do dishes and briefly wonder if they did the right thing in dipping out on the fishing trip.

[[Image:DeepTrouble Heatwave jumps shark.jpg|thumb|250px|"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women."]]
Cody, Charlie and the Bots start fishing, but after [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] loses his fishing rod, he tries using Greene's hi-tech version. He quickly gets a bite, which to their surprise turns out to be a [[Shark Sub|gigantic shark]]. It rams the ship, knocking Heatwave overboard, and as he floats in the water, the mechanical shark attacks him. As he wrestles with it, it uses lasers to destroy the fishing rod. The other Rescue Bots jump into the water, but can't do much more than watch as the shark knocks Heatwave loose by bashing him against rocks. Burns heads back to Doc Greene's lab.

[[Image:DeepTrouble Greene's busted sensor.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"A tiger shark's like a garbage can, it'll eat anything. Someone probably threw that in a river."]]
On the beach, the Miss Griffin Rock pageant is in full swing, but as the mayor's wife is about to announce the finalists, the robot shark appears offshore, sparking a panic. Surprised, Greene reports his sensors aren't picking up anything shark-sized, but soon gets a visit from the shark himself. The shark destroys the doc's underwater sensor, and he shows the Burnses the footage of the shark he's gathered. Cody and Greene realize the shark's attacking electro-magnetics.

The other three Burnses at the fire station reminisce about previous fishing trips, and decide to join the one currently in progress.

[[Image:DeepTrouble caught shark.jpg|thumb|250px|"That's a twenty footer."
"Twenty-five. Three tons of him."]]
While Cody monitors things from the pier with the [[ComTab]], Chief Burns and the bots go out with one of the doc's boosted sensors. Once the shark turns up, Burns starts leading it towards a secluded cove, but it suddenly changes course and goes after the [[Griffin Rock ferry]] instead. Burns warns the ferry captain [[Arthur Shaw]] and the ferry avoids the first strike, so Burns and Blades head over to help the people on board. Heatwave, [[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] and [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] jump into the sea and use their vehicle modes to reach the shark submarine. After damaging the sub to the point where it's non-operational, they float to the surface where Cody gets them to swim to shore with it. The rest of the Burns family reaches the pier in time to see the shark, but as Chief Burns and Blades crack it open, they hear a computer voice announcing self-destruct. Blades flies the sub out to sea where it explodes. As they leave the pier, Cody wonders who could have built such a thing and among the wreckage which landed on the pier, spots a fragment with a [[Cody on Patrol|familiar logo on it]].

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (10)
*[[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] (11)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (12)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (13)

|c3=
*[[H.B. Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] (1)
*[[Mrs. Luskey]] (2)
*[[Cody Burns]] (3)
*[[Graham Burns]] (4)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (5)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (6)
*[[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] (7)
*[[Kade Burns]] (8)
*[[Dani Burns]] (9)
*[[Arthur Shaw]] (14)
|c4=
*[[Dither]] (11)
}}

==Quotes==
"How do you like your burger?" 
"On a plate, please!"
:—'''Charlie Burns''' and '''Doc Greene'''

[[File:DeepTrouble Pirate Blades.jpg|thumb|250px|"Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again."]]
"Arrr, I do request permission to come aboard, me hearty!"
:—'''Blades''' has been watching too many pirate movies.

"This shouldin't be called fishing, it should be called ''waiting''."
:—'''Heatwave''' has a low opinion of fishing.

"''Now'' I understand why you humans love fishing!"
:—'''Heatwave''' after wrestling a mechanical shark.

"Next movie night, can we rent a romatic comedy?"
:—'''Heatwave''' has had enough with Blades's pirate movies.

{{-}}
==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Dither is introduced here as "Helper Bot", but will get properly named in the later episode "[[Countdown (RB)|Countdown]]".
* The mysterious symbol Cody finds on the submarine wreckage was previously seen on the canister of [[nanite]]s in "[[Cody on Patrol]]".
*Gadgets and powers:
**The Rescue Bots can operate underwater. Heatwave can even use the water jets on his hands as propulsion.

===Real-world references===
* Mayor Luskey quotes ''Jaws'' when he declares that his wife's luggage requirements mean they're "going to need a bigger boat".
* Luskey's boat is presumably named after Charles Foster Kane's mansion from ''Citizen Kane''.
* Blades quotes from ''Moby Dick''.
* Captain Shaw's name is a reference to actor Robert Shaw who played Quint in ''Jaws''. He even bears a passing resemblance to the character.
*The mechanical Shark acts like the sharks Jaws.

===Animation and technical errors===
* The "speed calculus" section of the Miss Griffin Rock pageant is actually algebra.
* Chase reacts to the shark sub turning away before it does so.
* The bots leap onto the pier while treading water.

===Trivia===
[[File:DeepTrouble Miss Griffin Rock calculus.jpg|thumb|250px|"You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."]]
* Yes, the <s>calculus</s> algebra equation on the blackboard checks out!

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Les dents de fer'''" ("Iron Teeth")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ärger auf hoher See'''" ("Trouble on the Open Sea")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 1|1 March]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mély gond'''" ("Deep Trouble")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 16|16 February]] [[2013]]

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Serangan Robot Hiu'''" ("Shark Robot Attack")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 24|24 October]] [[2018]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Un Guaio Sommerso'''" ("A Submerged Trouble")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 11|11 June]] [[2017]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Apuros à Vista'''" ("Trouble in Sight")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 26|26 March]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Energize" ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Die Rückkehr des Dino Bots" ([[EDEL:kids]]) — German and English audio 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Cody on Patrol" ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Complete Season 1" ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]])

[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

Fishing

2026-01-02T18:15:56Z

Cydra: Rescue Bots cartoon

[[File:HotRodFishing1.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Bet you only remember me.]]
'''Fishing''' is a recreational activity, a sport, and a way to put food on the table, and it can done with one's bare hands, fishing rods, nets, baskets, harpoons, trained animals, and several other means. Fishing is done and enjoyed by [[human]] and [[Transformer]] alike, and probably many more species out there in the universe, though almost certainly none of the fish and equivalent species. If the aquatic animal being hunted is something special, a more specific verb like whaling or sharking may be appropriate.

Funnily enough, while fishing is a form of hunting, hunting is often the prerogative of villainous types and fishing is that social or introspective activity heroic figures drift to. Fish get no respect.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[File:Grimlock's New Brain Dinobots fishing.JPG|right|upright=1|thumb|Bet you only remember Hot Rod.]]
Outside the walls of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] were fishing. It wasn't going so well with the fish not biting and Daniel missing [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|his dad]] until Hot Rod did catch a fish and a message came through that an [[Autobot shuttle]] was coming in for landing. Daniel wanted to go welcome the newcomers, so Hot Rod threw his catch in the lake and followed after the boy. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

At some point in their lives, the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] had made a habit of going fishing together. Their method was to stand in a body of water in dinosaur mode and open their mouths in the direction of fishes and chewing down as soon as they got one, although [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] could use his hands for catching. [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]], [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], and [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] were fishing together when Grimlock refused the invitation to join them because he had more important things to do. They were dismayed, but after Grimlock's important business was over he joined them in another round and everyone was happy again. {{storylink|Grimlock's New Brain}}

The two-man crew of a fishing boat in [[Japan]] got into trouble when they ended up in the middle of a fight between [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] and [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]]. Broadside chased the two Decepticons away and saved the fishing boat from capsizing amidst the waves. {{storylink|The Burden Hardest to Bear}}

=====Ask Vector Prime=====
In a universe where [[Primax]] and [[Gargent]] realities were merged on the eve of [[The Transformers: The Movie|events of cosmic significance]], Hot Rod was enjoying a relaxing day of fishing with [[Nick Burns]] when they discovered that [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] was about to unleash an ambush on [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].

=====Japanese cartoon continuity=====
======''Kiss Players''======
[[Shaoshao Li]] originally found [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]]'s love for fishing, which always ended in him releasing the fishes back into the water, interesting in the sense that it was novelty not only to see a robot fishing but also to see him being good at it. However, the smell clung to him and made kissing him a disagreeable experience. {{storylink|Kiss Players episode 17|Kiss Players #17}} Hot Rod further broadened Shaoshao's horizons by acquiring a gigantic fishing rod that in times of danger could be transformed into a weapon. Shaoshao was genuinely impressed and insisted he'd always bring her along on his fishing trips. {{storylink|Kiss Players episode 20|Kiss Players #20}} One particular day, Hot Rod had a feeling that he would catch a lot of fish, which would be good because Shaoshao needed to eat and their options were limited what with being off the grid and all. Shaoshao wasn't too fond of the situation, but went with her partner to Tokyo Bay. As a fish tugged on Hot Rod's line, Hot Rod tried to reassure her about the future but the arrival of a pack of [[Legion (KP)|Legions]] diminished the effectiveness of his words. At first, Shaoshao refused to kiss Hot Rod because he smelled of fish again, but pushed through when it became clear they would not survive the battle otherwise. {{storylink|Tonight's Big Catch!?}}

======''Legends'' comic======
[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] didn't care for the work that went into affording a [[transtector]] or searching for the lost [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]] and instead spent his time fishing, believing that the universe would sort itself out. His philosophy paid off when he caught a [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] that immediately gobbled him up, which allowed Hot Rod to discover that the creature was hollow inside and outfitted with controls. Given that Sharkticons were not native to the [[Legends World]], he realized that it had to be a [[cloning|clone]] and a lead towards the Targetmasters, whom were believed to have mutated and developed new abilities. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 44|Bonus Edition Vol. 44}}

======''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon======
[[Image:Cab fishing.jpg|right|upright=1|thumb|Bet you only remember Hot Rod.]]
When the [[Headmaster Junior]]s were invited to come along on a work camping trip to the [[Rocky Mountains]], [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]]'s and [[Cab (human)|Cab]]'s thoughts immediately went to fishing and catching a king salmon. [[Minerva (human)|Minerva]] was convinced that the best they'd catch would be sardines and so when they left to go fishing, there was both a meal and dignity to lose out on if they failed to bring in a salmon. Things looks bad when after a long time of no bites, the one they got was nothing more than a dead tree that had been lying on the lakebed. Just then, the park ranger [[Ranger]] dropped by to arrange his own dinner and with the bait he made himself he immediately caught a king salmon. The congenial sort, he gave Cab some of his bait and Cab caught a salmon even bigger than Ranger's. The Autobots are it that evening along with the mushrooms Minerva had picked. {{storylink|An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger}}

======''Victory'' cartoon======
After [[Decepticon]] activity turned his field into a large lake, [[Tom]] went with the flow and set up a fish farm. {{storylink|Mach and Tackle}}

======''Beast Wars II'' cartoon======
[[File:BW_II_ep19_Tasmania_Kid_Fishing.jpg‎|left|upright=1|thumb|Bet you only remember Hot Rod.]]
While waiting for [[Diver (BW)|Diver]] and [[Scuba]] to return from their underwater recoinnassance mission, [[Tasmania Kid]] killed some time by tying a line to his tail and going fishing. [[Bighorn]] kept him company. He wasn't getting any biters until the two scouts returned and what he caught, to everyone's horror, was [[Halfshell]]. {{storylink|The Space Pirate Seacons!}}

In a fake love letter intended to lure [[Bighorn]] into a trap, the mechasquid [[Scylla]] wrote that she'd be waiting for "his tackle". {{storylink|Showdown in the Sea}}
{{--}}

====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{Noteukonly}}
''There are no fish in [[Lake Dena]]. Despite this, [[Peter Anthony Morris|Professor Morris]] apparently went fishing there on more than one occasion. The day after a failed attempt to convince his [[Roxxon Oil|Roxxon]] superiors to allow him to use his [[neural relay link]] to control the Transformers, Morris finally caught something in Lake Dena—the deactivated body of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]].'' {{storylink|The Icarus Theory}}

[[File:Longtoothdeadlyobsession.jpg|right|upright=1|thumb|Bet you only remember Hot Rod.]]
Out on the [[Matrix Quest]], the [[Pretender]]s [[Longtooth]], [[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]], and [[Doubleheader]] made it to the harbor town of [[Gottlieb]] on [[Pequod]]. In the mercury sea on the other side of the harbor, a whale-like creature known as the [[Klud]], which was believed to be extinct, had recently shown up. Believing it to be a possible clue, the Pretenders decided to check it out but in doing so Longtooth was attacked by the Klud and lost his leg to it. From that point on, Longtooth's priorities shifted to vengeance as all he wanted was for the Klud to perish by his hands. Both his fellow Autobots and the Decepticons led by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] tried to stop him, the former to prevent their friend from doing something he would regret and the former because a living Klud was a better clue than a dead one. As the four parties struggled, the Decepticons got the information they needed and left the scene while Pincher successfully talked Longtooth into lowering his [[harpoon]] gun and letting the Klud live. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}}

It's not out of the question that even [[Unicorn]] likes to fish, because when he had the chance, he reformatted three low-life criminals from the planet [[Ghennix]] into [[Hook, Line, and Sinker]].
{{--}}

====Forest Rescue Mission====
The first thing [[Butch Witwicky (G1)|Butch]] did while on a trip to the forest with [[Sparkplug Witwicky|his dad]] and the [[Autobot]]s was fishing, certain he'd land a big one. {{storylink|Forest Rescue Mission}}

====Island of Fear====
[[File:Beachcomber sawyer.png|right|upright=1|thumb|Bet you only remember Hot Rod.]]
Swimming past some of [[Nali]]'s fishermen tending their nets to go fishing later that day, [[you]] went beyond [[Rangda's Point]] to a secluded cove where you hope to be alone for a bit. Instead, you met [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] as he came out of a nearby cave, a fishing rod slung over one of its shoulders. He was just as surprised to see you as you to see him and he ditched fishing to have a chat with you. {{storylink|Island of Fear}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
General Allenby enjoyed fly fishing yet was pulled away from a fishing trip for a video conference with Major [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Witwicky]]. {{storylink|Scrapper (issue)|Scrapper}}

====''Transformers Go! Go!''====
[[File:GoGo11 hungry shark.jpg|left|upright=1|thumb|Bet you only remember... oh.]]
In the fall, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] encountered [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] on their day off. Optimus and Megatron decided to hold a fishing contest, with Bumblebee acting as the referee, but when the competition came to an end Bumblebee admitted that they hadn't laid down any actual rules before they started. {{storylink|Warriors' Day Off}}

A [[giant mechanical shark]] was discovered making the coast unsafe, so on [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]'s advice, he and Bumblebee went fishing for it. Hot Rod caught it, but it swallowed him as it was hauled to shore. Not easily deterred, Hot Rod activated his flames and baked the fish from the inside in preparation of readying it for mealtime. {{storylink|Marvelous! Fire Shark Fishing!!}}
{{--}}
===Robots in Disguise===
====''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
[[Kelly (RID)|Kelly]] was out at sea on a UF-28 S/C fishing boat after months of planning for her fishing trip. She was enjoying the clear sky and the calm water when a [[Prowl (RID)|police car]] suddenly came raining down next to her boat. She chose to ignore it and keep fishing and then had to fight really hard to also ignore the [[Optimus Prime (RID)|fire truck]] that flew overhead. She succeeded, but a [[X-Brawn|talking SUV]] passing was too much and she broke off her fishing time to go take a nap. {{storylink|The Hunt for Black Pyramid}}

On the evening before [[Kenneth Onishi|his father]]'s [[birthday]], [[Koji Onishi|Koji]] reminisced about how they always went birthday fishing, especially for bass. To keep his emotions in check, Koji set out the next day to buy a fishing lure as a birthday gift for if he and his father would ever reunite. By coincide, he encountered [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] just as he was transporting the professor in a pod that hid him from view. Koji tried to get the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] to bring the lure to his father, but Sky-Byte, being a shark, noted that he wasn't comfortable doing that. However, when Koji explained the significance of the gift, Sky-Byte got all choked up and agreed to help out, but the arrival of the [[Autobot Brothers]] prevented him from taking the lure. In the subsequent battle, Sky-Byte lost the pod and Koji discovered his father inside. One can assume he gave him the lure himself after their reunion. {{storylink|Koji Gets His Wish}}

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

===Unicron Trilogy===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
On a camping trip, [[Rad White|Rad]] took some time for himself to fish in the river with the intention of turning his catch into dinner later. [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] joined him and was curious about the proceedings. After Rad showed him how his fishing rod worked and lamented that due to a dam the river contained less fish than it used to in the past, Smokescreen offered to help by dumping his hook in the water. Rad was initially put off that Smokescreen was chasing away all the fishes, but he changed his tune when the splash threw one right in his hands. The two kept fishing until the rain forced Rad to stop. {{storylink|Vacation}}

====''Cybertron'' cartoon====
[[Robert Hansen]] was called by his neighbor [[George (Cybertron)|George]] to inform him he'd bought a new fishing pole and would catch more fish than Robert now. Robert countered he could "outfish him with a string and a safety pin." {{storylink|Collapse}}

Years ago, young [[Mike Franklin|"Mikey" Franklin]] went on a fishing trip to the [[Green River Rapids]] with his father. The fishing trip became a bust when he nearly drowned, but he did get to meet [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]]. {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}}

===Movie continuity===
====''The Veiled Threat''====
[[Erasto Khalfani]] didn't make enough money as a fisherman to stay afloat, so he turned to piracy. Following an encounter with [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], who mercifully let the pirate leave, Khalfani returned to fishing, having already made enough money to live comfortably. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
[[File:DeepTrouble Rescue Bots vs shark.jpg|right|upright=1|thumb|]]
The Burns have an annual family fishing trip. While [[Dani Burns|the]] [[Kade Burns|older]] [[Graham Burns|siblings]] made excuses not to go, [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] and [[Cody Burns|Cody]] were willing to go and took the [[Rescue Bot]]s with them. [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] had a low appreciation for fishing at first, but he soon gained a new admiration for the sport when he wrestled with a [[Shark Sub|mechanical shark]]. {{storylink|Deep Trouble (RB)|Deep Trouble}}

===BotBots===
[[Unreelz Dealz]] is a member of the [[Wilderness Troop]] who transforms into a fishing pole.

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Deep Trouble (RB)

2025-12-31T03:36:17Z

Cydra:

{{disambig2|the ''Rescue Bots'' episode|the ''Robots in Disguise'' episode|Deep Trouble (RID)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 10
|prev=Christmas in July
|next=Return of the Dino Bot
|image=DeepTrouble Rescue Bots vs shark.jpg
|caption=We're ''definitely'' going to need a bigger boat.
|title="Deep Trouble"
|season=1
|season ep=10
|airdate=[[May 5]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Christopher J. Gentile]]
|director=[[Nathan Chew]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weze2_AoXgM
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''A shark targeting high-tech ocean equipment is spotted off the Griffin Rock shore.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:DeepTrouble time for fishing.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go."]]
[[H.B. Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] and [[Mrs. Luskey|his wife]] are enjoying a trip in the Mayor's boat, the ''[[Floating Xanadu]]'', when Luskey realizes they're near the coast but he can't see the lighthouse. Elsewhere, the Burnses and the Greenes are having a barbecue and [[basketball]] game. Luskey contacts [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] to tell him to turn on the light. While [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] rescue the mayor, Doc Greene puzzles over why the automatic sensors didn't pick up the mayor's ship and turn the lighthouse on. Safely back on land, Luskey has it out with Greene, and explains that as tomorrow is the [[Miss Griffin Rock]] competition, he wants the lighthouse back in working order.

The next morning, Chief Burns arrives at the breakfast table with a fishing rod—it's time for their annual [[fishing]] trip. Dani, [[Kade Burns|Kade]] and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] all give excuses, but [[Cody Burns|Cody]] is keen and suggests they bring the [[Rescue Bot]]s along as well. The ''[[Darby Ava]]'' vessel proves capable of carrying the four bots without sinking, and Burns makes Blades first mate. Cody instructs the Bots on the finer points of fishing, as they approach Doc Greene's [[floating lab|floating research lab]], where Greene has discovered that the lighthouse's underwater electro-magnetic sensors have been destroyed. He gives Cody a hi-tech fishing line that uses electro-magnetic bait.

Back at the [[Griffin Rock Firehouse Headquarters|fire station]], the others do dishes and briefly wonder if they did the right thing in dipping out on the fishing trip.

[[Image:DeepTrouble Heatwave jumps shark.jpg|thumb|250px|"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women."]]
Cody, Charlie and the Bots start fishing, but after [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] loses his fishing rod, he tries using Greene's hi-tech version. He quickly gets a bite, which to their surprise turns out to be a [[Shark submarine|gigantic shark]]. It rams the ship, knocking Heatwave overboard, and as he floats in the water, the mechanical shark attacks him. As he wrestles with it, it uses lasers to destroy the fishing rod. The other Rescue Bots jump into the water, but can't do much more than watch as the shark knocks Heatwave loose by bashing him against rocks. Burns heads back to Doc Greene's lab.

[[Image:DeepTrouble Greene's busted sensor.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"A tiger shark's like a garbage can, it'll eat anything. Someone probably threw that in a river."]]
On the beach, the Miss Griffin Rock pageant is in full swing, but as the mayor's wife is about to announce the finalists, the robot shark appears offshore, sparking a panic. Surprised, Greene reports his sensors aren't picking up anything shark-sized, but soon gets a visit from the shark himself. The shark destroys the doc's underwater sensor, and he shows the Burnses the footage of the shark he's gathered. Cody and Greene realize the shark's attacking electro-magnetics.

The other three Burnses at the fire station reminisce about previous fishing trips, and decide to join the one currently in progress.

[[Image:DeepTrouble caught shark.jpg|thumb|250px|"That's a twenty footer."
"Twenty-five. Three tons of him."]]
While Cody monitors things from the pier with the [[ComTab]], Chief Burns and the bots go out with one of the doc's boosted sensors. Once the shark turns up, Burns starts leading it towards a secluded cove, but it suddenly changes course and goes after the [[Griffin Rock ferry]] instead. Burns warns the ferry captain [[Arthur Shaw]] and the ferry avoids the first strike, so Burns and Blades head over to help the people on board. Heatwave, [[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] and [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] jump into the sea and use their vehicle modes to reach the shark submarine. After damaging the sub to the point where it's non-operational, they float to the surface where Cody gets them to swim to shore with it. The rest of the Burns family reaches the pier in time to see the shark, but as Chief Burns and Blades crack it open, they hear a computer voice announcing self-destruct. Blades flies the sub out to sea where it explodes. As they leave the pier, Cody wonders who could have built such a thing and among the wreckage which landed on the pier, spots a fragment with a [[Cody on Patrol|familiar logo on it]].

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (10)
*[[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] (11)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (12)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (13)

|c3=
*[[H.B. Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] (1)
*[[Mrs. Luskey]] (2)
*[[Cody Burns]] (3)
*[[Graham Burns]] (4)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (5)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (6)
*[[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] (7)
*[[Kade Burns]] (8)
*[[Dani Burns]] (9)
*[[Arthur Shaw]] (14)
|c4=
*[[Dither]] (11)
}}

==Quotes==
"How do you like your burger?" 
"On a plate, please!"
:—'''Charlie Burns''' and '''Doc Greene'''

[[File:DeepTrouble Pirate Blades.jpg|thumb|250px|"Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again."]]
"Arrr, I do request permission to come aboard, me hearty!"
:—'''Blades''' has been watching too many pirate movies.

"This shouldin't be called fishing, it should be called ''waiting''."
:—'''Heatwave''' has a low opinion of fishing.

"''Now'' I understand why you humans love fishing!"
:—'''Heatwave''' after wrestling a mechanical shark.

"Next movie night, can we rent a romatic comedy?"
:—'''Heatwave''' has had enough with Blades's pirate movies.

{{-}}
==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Dither is introduced here as "Helper Bot", but will get properly named in the later episode "[[Countdown (RB)|Countdown]]".
* The mysterious symbol Cody finds on the submarine wreckage was previously seen on the canister of [[nanite]]s in "[[Cody on Patrol]]".
*Gadgets and powers:
**The Rescue Bots can operate underwater. Heatwave can even use the water jets on his hands as propulsion.

===Real-world references===
* Mayor Luskey quotes ''Jaws'' when he declares that his wife's luggage requirements mean they're "going to need a bigger boat".
* Luskey's boat is presumably named after Charles Foster Kane's mansion from ''Citizen Kane''.
* Blades quotes from ''Moby Dick''.
* Captain Shaw's name is a reference to actor Robert Shaw who played Quint in ''Jaws''. He even bears a passing resemblance to the character.
*The mechanical Shark acts like the sharks Jaws.

===Animation and technical errors===
* The "speed calculus" section of the Miss Griffin Rock pageant is actually algebra.
* Chase reacts to the shark sub turning away before it does so.
* The bots leap onto the pier while treading water.

===Trivia===
[[File:DeepTrouble Miss Griffin Rock calculus.jpg|thumb|250px|"You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."]]
* Yes, the <s>calculus</s> algebra equation on the blackboard checks out!

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Les dents de fer'''" ("Iron Teeth")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ärger auf hoher See'''" ("Trouble on the Open Sea")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 1|1 March]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mély gond'''" ("Deep Trouble")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 16|16 February]] [[2013]]

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Serangan Robot Hiu'''" ("Shark Robot Attack")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 24|24 October]] [[2018]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Un Guaio Sommerso'''" ("A Submerged Trouble")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 11|11 June]] [[2017]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Apuros à Vista'''" ("Trouble in Sight")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 26|26 March]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Energize" ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Die Rückkehr des Dino Bots" ([[EDEL:kids]]) — German and English audio 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2013 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Cody on Patrol" ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Complete Season 1" ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]])

[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

Flight

2025-12-24T01:30:39Z

Cydra: /* One movie */

'''Flight''' is a capability many mechanoids and no few [[Transformer]]s have, whether through rocket boosters, propellers, or even flapping wings. [[Human]]s do not generally have the ability to fly, but there are exceptions. It has proven quite useful strategically in many continuities.

==Examples==
===Jet-powered flight===
The most common means by which Transformers fly is some variation on jet-propulsion engines, rocket engines, or similar. Transformers such as the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] have such thrusters built into their legs, while other individuals such as [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] possess removable [[jet pack|jet-pack]]s which strap to their backs.

====Transformers with jet-powered flight====
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Dinomode Grimlock]]<ref>[[Call of the Primitives]]</ref>
*[[Inferno (BW)]]
*[[Megatron (BW)|Transmetal Megatron]]
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]
*[[Starscream (Movie)]]
*[[Autobot X (G1)|Autobot X]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)]]
*[[Topspin (G1)]]<ref>[[Animals]]</ref>
*[[Megatron (Movie)]]<ref>[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]</ref>
*[[Blitzwing (BB)]]

===Propeller-powered flight===
Sometimes, by virtue of a Transformer's [[alternate mode]], they can fly by means more primitive than they might be accustomed to on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Using airplane propellers, helicopter rotors, or other similar technologies they can fly at speeds comparable to native aircraft on the worlds they are residing upon.

====Transformers with propeller-powered flight====
*[[Divebomb (Classics)|''Classics'' Divebomb]]
*[[Obsidian (BM)]]
*[[Blackout (Movie)]]
*[[Cyclonus (Armada)]]
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]]
*[[Sandstorm (G1)]]
*[[Powerdive]]
*[[Ransack (G2)]]
*[[Octane|Tankor (Universe ''Classic series'')]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)]]
*[[Evac (Cybertron)]]
*[[Megatron (SG)|Galvatron (SG)]]
*[[Dropkick (Movie)]]<ref>[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]</ref>
*[[Windblade (G1)]]

===Biological flight===
Many transformers have a physical pair of [[beast mode]] wings, whether natural-looking or mechanical. In these cases, the transformer's flight derives from flapping these wings or gliding much like an animal would.

====Transformers with biological flight====
*[[Airazor (BW)]] / [[Airazor (Armada)]]
*[[Divebomb (G1)]]
*[[Megatron (BW)|Transmetal 2 Megatron]]
*[[Nightscream (BM)]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)]]
*[[Swoop (G1)]]
*[[Terrormander]]
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)]]
*[[Waspinator (BW)]]
*[[Wasp|Waspinator (Animated)]]
*[[Predaking (Prime)]]

===Levitation===
Some Transformers just float, often by no apparent means. It isn't always that well explained in the fiction, though certainly there exist Transformers with anti-gravity generators and other technologies which allow them to maneuver effortlessly even within a gravitational field.

====Transformers with levitation====
[[File:Soundwave fly.jpg|thumb|I'm flyin' without wings!]]
*[[Shockwave (G1)]]
*[[Sky-Byte (RID)]]
*[[Soundwave (G1)]]
*[[Soundwave (Animated)]]
*[[Strika (BM)]]
*[[Transmutate (BW)]]

===Robot mode flight===
[[File:G1 cartoon Autobots fly.JPG|upright=1.1|thumb|A rare instance of flying.]]
[[Robot mode]] flight powers are an innovative power that allows [[Transformer]]s without a flight-based alternate mode to fly while in robot mode. The [[Decepticon]]s make good use of this power.

Sometimes the [[Autobot]]s have them... sometimes they don't. Most often they display them early in Season 1 of the US cartoon, particularly the pilot. It is uncertain if they require external equipment to fly; several times the Autobots use strap-on jet packs or rocket packs, but sometimes they don't.

Robot mode flight was prevalent in the post-movie episodes, in which the focus was shifted to space. Although some characters could not fly under the influence of a planet's gravity, ''everyone'' seemed to possess the power of flight in deep space.

===Human flight===
*[[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]]'s electronic suit allows her to fly by manipulating electricity. Same goes for [[Sephie Beller]].
*[[Dynamo]] has the innate ability to tap into the power of the [[Earth]] which gives him flight capability.
*[[Rapture]] uses a jet pack provided by [[G.B. Blackrock]] to allow her to fly.
*[[Falcon (Marvel)|Falcon]] flies with the aid of high tech wings.
*[[Iron Man]] wore a special suit of armor that allowed him to fly, among other things.
*[[Ms. Marvel]] can fly, courtesy of her half-[[Kree]] genetics.
*[[Professor Princess]] flies around on her electro-mechanical unicorn, [[Powdered Sugar]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity===
====Marvel Comics continuity====
=====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics=====
Transformers did not demonstrate a cartoon-style robot mode levitation-type flight ability.
Any type of robot mode flight was rare. [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] could fly in either mode using jet thrusters in his "boots." {{storylink|The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|The Transformers Universe}} The [[Battlecharger]]s flight was explained by the use of [[short-range rocket jumper]]s attached to their legs. {{storylink|Decepticon Graffiti!}} Some or all of the Decepticon [[Pretender]]s could fly in their shells. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}} {{storylink|King Con!}}

{{note|It may be that only the Decepticon Pretenders with wings on their Pretender shells could fly with their shells on. In "Pretender to the Throne" it appears they all are flying, but the art gives the impression Bomb-Burst and Bugly were supposed to be carrying the others. Later, in "King Con", Scorponok specifically ordered Bomb-Burst and Bugly to fly Iguanus around.}}

=====Marvel ''G.I. Joe'' comic=====
[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] could fly in gun mode. {{storylink|Realignments}}

=====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic=====
Megatron flew using rockets in the bottom of his tank form's feet. {{storylink|Total War!}}

====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
Robot mode flight powers were a technological innovation that allowed the Decepticons, who had just mastered the art of [[Transformation]], to start a [[Great War (G1)|new war]] and battle the Autobots for supremacy of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Their initial attacks were not a matter of public knowledge, and some Autobots, such as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Orion Pax]] and [[Dion (G1)|Dion]], admired them for their innovations. This admiration was ended when [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] blasted Orion, Dion, and [[Elita One (G1)|Ariel]]. It was to Megatron's detriment, however, for [[Alpha Trion]] rebuilt Orion and Ariel into [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn}}

Eventually, the Autobots also mastered [[robot mode]] flight powers, and they used them to reach an [[oil rig]] which the Decepticons were plundering. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] and Bluestreak pursued the fleeing Decepticons into the air, though Skywarp had little difficulty shooting down Ironhide. Optimus required the use of [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s [[jet pack|rocket pack]] to catch up to the space-bound [[Victory (G1)|Decepticon ship]] shortly afterwards, implying a limit on the speed or range of his flight capabilities. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}} Sideswipe and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] also used robot mode flight powers in their use of [[jet judo]] against [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] attacking the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot base]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}

The Decepticons' own flight capabilities have known to fail them at times too. In one instance, under a barrage of firepower, Optimus and the Autobots drove the Decepticons back until they fell down a canyon into lava, instead of simply flying out. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

The Autobots' ability to fly in robot mode effectively vanished after that. To reach Dinobot Island, Optimus Prime and a crew of Autobots used strap-on jetpacks. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} Even Autobots with flying alternate modes did not seem able to fly in robot mode, though [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] seemed able to maneuver in space while in robot mode.

The newly created Dinobots could fly in robot mode, an ability they consistently demonstrated throughout their history. Their creator, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], was also shown flying in robot mode apparently unassisted, an ability his on-package [[bio]] claims for him. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

In the years following the defeat of Unicron, a number of Autobots were seen to fly through space without any visible aid or means of propulsion. Notable among them was Perceptor, who had never before demonstrated such an ability. Before one such instance, Sky Lynx advised the Autobots in question to "don your rocket packs, gentlemen!" The Technobots all flew in robot mode from Earth to Saturn's moon Titan.

Despite the Autobots' rare display of this ability, some claim they do not have it at all. [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] once said outright that "Autobots cannot fly," himself flying easily over a booby trap, while his apparently earthbound Autobot companions remained helpless. Then again, Galvatron is beyond psychotic. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}}

It also seemed as though [[Prima]], one of the earliest Transformers, was capable of flight in the era even before transformation. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
The Dinobots possessed jets on their backs in robot mode, allowing them to fly. {{storylink|Paddles (story)|Paddles}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
Back before the war, information on scientific breakthroughs in levitation/"repulsors" that could lead to robot mode flight abilities caught the greedy optics of Senator [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], who manipulated the stock to take control. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} This technology would finds its way to the Seekers who used it freely in the early stages of the Great War, {{storylink|The Hunt for Soundwave}} before it was spread to the Decepticon elite, allowing for robot mode flight. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|No Fair Fights}}

This technology was evidently known and available to the Autobots but [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] expressed a distaste for it, preferring to keep his feet close to the ground. By contrast, [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] adored the ability, keeping it constant across his many bodies. {{storylink|Fight or Flee (issue)|Fight or Flee}} {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] could also fly in her robot mode. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}

When bonded to living beings, [[Ore-12]] formed a powerful suit of armor that allowed for many abilities, flight among them. The [[Space Knight]]s, as this group came to be known, could even traverse interstellar distances unaided. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}} {{storylink|First Strike issue 2|First Strike #2}} {{storylink|Our Darkest}} {{storylink|Road's End}}

=====Functionist Universe=====
The [[Functionist Council]] possessed levitation abilities, seemingly provided by their snazzy capes. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|Anomie}} {{storylink|Dissolution Part 5: Modes of Production|Modes of Production}}

====''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''====
All Decepticons possessed the ability to fly in their robot modes, while most of the Autobots lacked this power. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}} Optimus Prime was able to achieve flight via a jet pack. {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}} When the Prime healed Bumblebee, he granted the scout flight capabilities, something that disgusted [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. {{storylink|Pax Megatronus}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material===
Subsonic flight was one of [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]' powers and weapons. In general, flight was counted as a power and weapon for other Transformers, such as [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

===Energon Universe===
When reactivated on Earth, the Seekers {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 1|Transformers #1}} and Soundwave displayed the ability to fly in robot mode. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 6|Transformers #6}} Megatron was likewise capable of robot mode flight. {{storylink|Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story}}

By contrast, the Autobots were incapable of flight in their robot modes, being forced to rely on Jetfire's alternate mode for transit. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 8|Transformers #8}}

===Beast Era===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
Early in the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] had a tactical advantage due to the presence of fliers [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], contrasting only [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] being able to air support for the [[Maximal]]s, and then only in robot mode, which was risky in the [[energon]]-rich environment. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}} The introduction of [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] later granted the Maximals another flyer. {{storylink|The Spark}}

Sufficient volumes of energon itself, of a certain level of instability, are said to have the ability to cause large objects to float. {{storylink|Power Surge (episode)|Power Surge}}

Following the [[quantum surge]], both [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] gained the ability to fly via jets in their beast modes. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} The [[Fuzor]] [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] quickly defected to the Maximals, granting them another aerial warrior. Upon being resurrected, Optimus Primal gained the ability to fly in his beast mode via a jet-powered hover board, addition to his original robot mode flight. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

[[Transmutate (BW)|Transmutate]] had an apparently unique flight mechanism: it extended a crystalline object from within its body, and when the crystal was exposed to air, it gave off an intense energy field and then caused its user to levitate. Since Transmutate was a malformed, incomplete design, this might have been a display of widespread Transformer flight technology that otherwise would always be internal and unseen. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

After upgrading to his "Optimal Optimus" form, Optimus Primal acquired a true jet mode that only enhanced his flight capabilities. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} The arrivals of [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] {{storylink|Deep Metal}} and [[Tigerhawk]], who were likewise equipped with flight-based altmodes, further added to the ranks of airborne Maximals. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

====''Beast Wars II''====
With the exception of Lio Convoy, who has build-in thrusters, {{storylink|Showdown in the Sea}} everyone who could fly could only do so because of their alternate mode, be that because it was a plane, a winged insect, or a bird. Surprisingly, this also went for [[Terrormander]], whose alternate mode was a mecharay. Apparently, a ray's pectoral fins are as good as wings. {{storylink|The Tentacular Scuba}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
After being reformatted into a [[technorganic]], Optimus Primal retained his ability to fly in robot mode. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

[[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] only ever hovered by means of his rotors, whether he was in robot mode or helicopter mode. [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] touched the ground in vehicle mode, but in robot mode, she hovered, seemingly having some sort of anti-gravity mechanism in her feet. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|The Strike}}

Needing a new body for himself than the [[Diagnostic Drone]] he found himself trapped in, {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} Megatron chose to rebuild Optimus' "Optimal" body {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}} minus its beast mode, granting him the form's jet mode and robot mode flight. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
During the Great War, the Decepticons displayed the ability to fly in their robot modes. By the time of the [[Grand Uprising]], however, energon had attained such a high premium that this ability was lost to the Maximals and Predacons. By contrast, the [[Monster GoBot]]s, invaders from [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha|another reality]] possessed the ability to fly in their robot modes, allowing them a temporary edge over the [[Ex-Bot (BWU)|Ex-Bots]]. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
Robot mode flight powers were tied to the ability to fly in vehicle mode, indicating that all Transformers with flight-capable alternate modes possessed internal repulsors or vertical thrusters. Faction did not come into it. A Transformer who went from [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] to [[robot mode]] while in flight would lose considerable momentum doing so, a factor often used to land in confined areas. Most flight was typically carried out in vehicle mode, as it was faster and typically more agile. Interestingly, all Transformers were capable of robot mode flight in zero gravity ([[Six-Speed (Cybertron)|and]] [[Reverb (Cybertron)|some]] were capable of it in ''car'' modes). Given the way things work in zero gravity, the robot mode flight in such conditions is actually quite natural, albeit slow.

===''Animated'' cartoon===
Autobots did not possess flight, save for limited jumps using booster jets. However, the capture of the Decepticon [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] allowed the Autobot [[Ministry of Science]] to reverse-engineer flight protocols and implant them in a pair of energon refinery maintenance bots. The result was [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], whose origins as a split protoform granted them other new abilities as a result of the process, including becoming a [[combiner]] named [[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]]. {{storylink|First (and Second) in Flight}}

===''TransTech''===
[[GoBots]] all have robot mode flight systems. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}

===Live-action film series===
Some Transformers have robot mode flight with the aid of "jetpacks" and other flight systems.

====''Bumblebee'' film====
When [[Bumblebee (Movie)|B-127]] landed on Earth, he was attacked by [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]] who slammed the scout against the rocks using his flight capabilities. B-127 managed to use his more nimble frame to climb onto Blitzwing's back and his blade to disable the [[Seeker (Movie)|Seeker]]'s engines, grounding him. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

====''Ghosts of Yesterday''====
Autobots and Decepticons alike can fly under gravity in robot mode by using "propulsion." {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
[[File:OptimusPrimeleavesAOE.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
After vowing to leave Earth and confront the "[[Creator]]s", [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] deployed a set of built-in rockets which he used to break free of Earth's atmosphere. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

====''The Last Knight'' film====
Optimus's [[energon]] supply ran out near [[Jupiter]] and he entered [[stasis lock]], being revived when he was pulled into the gravity well of the approaching [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. After he'd been brainwashed by [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] into "Nemesis Prime", he flew back to Earth so he could retrieve the [[Staff of Merlin]] where Bumblebee coaxed him free of the mind control. After rallying the troops, Optimus flew ahead of them all and to Cybertron on his own power, using his flight capabilities to gain the height advantage on [[Infernocus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''War For Cybertron'' video game====
All Transformers are equipped with thrusters in their feet, allowing them to boost themselves while jumping (a double-jump, if you will). Jet mode Transformers, such as [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] and [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]], are flight capable in jet mode but are ground-bound in robot mode. However, several Transformers have the ability to hover in the air in robot mode (including [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]).

====''Prime'' cartoon====
Most Decepticons that had an aerial vehicle form could fly, but only in vehicle mode. When [[MECH]] stole [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]'s T-cog, he was unable to transform into his jet mode and thus was incapable of flight. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}} Several [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]], such as [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], were flight capable thanks to their wings. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} Following his resurrection with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] got a new body with a jet-pack, allowing him to fly in robot mode. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
Several [[Decepticon]]s, such as [[Filch]], [[Nightstrike]] and [[Zizza]], were capable of biological flight due to the wings they possessed in their beast/beast-like modes. A confused [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] once thought he could fly and was surprised to find out that he couldn't. {{storylink|As the Kospego Commands!}} [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] was a female [[Autobot]] who could turn into jet and thus provided air-support for the other grounded Autobots. Other Autobots like [[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|Sideswipe]] and [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] would hitch a ride on her if the mission ever required it. {{storylink|The Buzz on Windblade}} {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}} After returning from the dead again, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] used his built-in jet pack to reach the battle site that [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] was at. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}} After absorbing all seven [[Weaponizer (RID)|Weaponizer]] Mini-Cons, Starscream gained both fancy armor and the ability to fly in robot mode. That got taken away once the Mini-Cons were extracted from him. {{storylink|Worthy}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
The [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] were capable of flight in their [[robot mode]]s. {{storylink|What Dwells Within}}

===''One'' movie===
Several Cybertronians with aerial alt-modes are capable of flight. Some like the [[Tracker]]s and the [[High Guard]] are capable of robot mode flight due to thrusters in their legs. [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]] is unique in that he exclusively flies in his robot mode and never transforms. His ability to fly was disabled when [[Megatron (One)|D-16]] pummeled him to the point of partial paralysis. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}

==Notes==
*Despite all these advanced flight abilities, Cybertronians seem incapable of actually ''landing'' successfully after [[The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson|achieving]] [[Cosmos (G1)|flight]]. [[Ark (G1)|There]] [[Nemesis (G1)|are]] [[Axalon (BW)|many]], [[Darksyde (BW)|many]] [[Jetfire (G1)|instances]] [[Megatron (Movie)|of]] [[Exodus (Armada)|infamous]] [[Miranda II|crashes]] [[Ark II|within]] [[Orion|the]] [[Transition form|fictions]]. In fact, [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] makes somewhat of a reference to this in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', when he botches his own landing, commenting on it sarcastically as he does.

==References==
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Flight

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Cydra: One movie

'''Flight''' is a capability many mechanoids and no few [[Transformer]]s have, whether through rocket boosters, propellers, or even flapping wings. [[Human]]s do not generally have the ability to fly, but there are exceptions. It has proven quite useful strategically in many continuities.

==Examples==
===Jet-powered flight===
The most common means by which Transformers fly is some variation on jet-propulsion engines, rocket engines, or similar. Transformers such as the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] have such thrusters built into their legs, while other individuals such as [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] possess removable [[jet pack|jet-pack]]s which strap to their backs.

====Transformers with jet-powered flight====
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Dinomode Grimlock]]<ref>[[Call of the Primitives]]</ref>
*[[Inferno (BW)]]
*[[Megatron (BW)|Transmetal Megatron]]
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]
*[[Starscream (Movie)]]
*[[Autobot X (G1)|Autobot X]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)]]
*[[Topspin (G1)]]<ref>[[Animals]]</ref>
*[[Megatron (Movie)]]<ref>[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]</ref>
*[[Blitzwing (BB)]]

===Propeller-powered flight===
Sometimes, by virtue of a Transformer's [[alternate mode]], they can fly by means more primitive than they might be accustomed to on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Using airplane propellers, helicopter rotors, or other similar technologies they can fly at speeds comparable to native aircraft on the worlds they are residing upon.

====Transformers with propeller-powered flight====
*[[Divebomb (Classics)|''Classics'' Divebomb]]
*[[Obsidian (BM)]]
*[[Blackout (Movie)]]
*[[Cyclonus (Armada)]]
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]]
*[[Sandstorm (G1)]]
*[[Powerdive]]
*[[Ransack (G2)]]
*[[Octane|Tankor (Universe ''Classic series'')]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)]]
*[[Evac (Cybertron)]]
*[[Megatron (SG)|Galvatron (SG)]]
*[[Dropkick (Movie)]]<ref>[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]</ref>
*[[Windblade (G1)]]

===Biological flight===
Many transformers have a physical pair of [[beast mode]] wings, whether natural-looking or mechanical. In these cases, the transformer's flight derives from flapping these wings or gliding much like an animal would.

====Transformers with biological flight====
*[[Airazor (BW)]] / [[Airazor (Armada)]]
*[[Divebomb (G1)]]
*[[Megatron (BW)|Transmetal 2 Megatron]]
*[[Nightscream (BM)]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)]]
*[[Swoop (G1)]]
*[[Terrormander]]
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)]]
*[[Waspinator (BW)]]
*[[Wasp|Waspinator (Animated)]]
*[[Predaking (Prime)]]

===Levitation===
Some Transformers just float, often by no apparent means. It isn't always that well explained in the fiction, though certainly there exist Transformers with anti-gravity generators and other technologies which allow them to maneuver effortlessly even within a gravitational field.

====Transformers with levitation====
[[File:Soundwave fly.jpg|thumb|I'm flyin' without wings!]]
*[[Shockwave (G1)]]
*[[Sky-Byte (RID)]]
*[[Soundwave (G1)]]
*[[Soundwave (Animated)]]
*[[Strika (BM)]]
*[[Transmutate (BW)]]

===Robot mode flight===
[[File:G1 cartoon Autobots fly.JPG|upright=1.1|thumb|A rare instance of flying.]]
[[Robot mode]] flight powers are an innovative power that allows [[Transformer]]s without a flight-based alternate mode to fly while in robot mode. The [[Decepticon]]s make good use of this power.

Sometimes the [[Autobot]]s have them... sometimes they don't. Most often they display them early in Season 1 of the US cartoon, particularly the pilot. It is uncertain if they require external equipment to fly; several times the Autobots use strap-on jet packs or rocket packs, but sometimes they don't.

Robot mode flight was prevalent in the post-movie episodes, in which the focus was shifted to space. Although some characters could not fly under the influence of a planet's gravity, ''everyone'' seemed to possess the power of flight in deep space.

===Human flight===
*[[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]]'s electronic suit allows her to fly by manipulating electricity. Same goes for [[Sephie Beller]].
*[[Dynamo]] has the innate ability to tap into the power of the [[Earth]] which gives him flight capability.
*[[Rapture]] uses a jet pack provided by [[G.B. Blackrock]] to allow her to fly.
*[[Falcon (Marvel)|Falcon]] flies with the aid of high tech wings.
*[[Iron Man]] wore a special suit of armor that allowed him to fly, among other things.
*[[Ms. Marvel]] can fly, courtesy of her half-[[Kree]] genetics.
*[[Professor Princess]] flies around on her electro-mechanical unicorn, [[Powdered Sugar]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity===
====Marvel Comics continuity====
=====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics=====
Transformers did not demonstrate a cartoon-style robot mode levitation-type flight ability.
Any type of robot mode flight was rare. [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] could fly in either mode using jet thrusters in his "boots." {{storylink|The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|The Transformers Universe}} The [[Battlecharger]]s flight was explained by the use of [[short-range rocket jumper]]s attached to their legs. {{storylink|Decepticon Graffiti!}} Some or all of the Decepticon [[Pretender]]s could fly in their shells. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}} {{storylink|King Con!}}

{{note|It may be that only the Decepticon Pretenders with wings on their Pretender shells could fly with their shells on. In "Pretender to the Throne" it appears they all are flying, but the art gives the impression Bomb-Burst and Bugly were supposed to be carrying the others. Later, in "King Con", Scorponok specifically ordered Bomb-Burst and Bugly to fly Iguanus around.}}

=====Marvel ''G.I. Joe'' comic=====
[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] could fly in gun mode. {{storylink|Realignments}}

=====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic=====
Megatron flew using rockets in the bottom of his tank form's feet. {{storylink|Total War!}}

====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
Robot mode flight powers were a technological innovation that allowed the Decepticons, who had just mastered the art of [[Transformation]], to start a [[Great War (G1)|new war]] and battle the Autobots for supremacy of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Their initial attacks were not a matter of public knowledge, and some Autobots, such as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Orion Pax]] and [[Dion (G1)|Dion]], admired them for their innovations. This admiration was ended when [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] blasted Orion, Dion, and [[Elita One (G1)|Ariel]]. It was to Megatron's detriment, however, for [[Alpha Trion]] rebuilt Orion and Ariel into [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn}}

Eventually, the Autobots also mastered [[robot mode]] flight powers, and they used them to reach an [[oil rig]] which the Decepticons were plundering. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] and Bluestreak pursued the fleeing Decepticons into the air, though Skywarp had little difficulty shooting down Ironhide. Optimus required the use of [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s [[jet pack|rocket pack]] to catch up to the space-bound [[Victory (G1)|Decepticon ship]] shortly afterwards, implying a limit on the speed or range of his flight capabilities. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}} Sideswipe and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] also used robot mode flight powers in their use of [[jet judo]] against [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] attacking the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot base]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}

The Decepticons' own flight capabilities have known to fail them at times too. In one instance, under a barrage of firepower, Optimus and the Autobots drove the Decepticons back until they fell down a canyon into lava, instead of simply flying out. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

The Autobots' ability to fly in robot mode effectively vanished after that. To reach Dinobot Island, Optimus Prime and a crew of Autobots used strap-on jetpacks. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} Even Autobots with flying alternate modes did not seem able to fly in robot mode, though [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] seemed able to maneuver in space while in robot mode.

The newly created Dinobots could fly in robot mode, an ability they consistently demonstrated throughout their history. Their creator, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], was also shown flying in robot mode apparently unassisted, an ability his on-package [[bio]] claims for him. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

In the years following the defeat of Unicron, a number of Autobots were seen to fly through space without any visible aid or means of propulsion. Notable among them was Perceptor, who had never before demonstrated such an ability. Before one such instance, Sky Lynx advised the Autobots in question to "don your rocket packs, gentlemen!" The Technobots all flew in robot mode from Earth to Saturn's moon Titan.

Despite the Autobots' rare display of this ability, some claim they do not have it at all. [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] once said outright that "Autobots cannot fly," himself flying easily over a booby trap, while his apparently earthbound Autobot companions remained helpless. Then again, Galvatron is beyond psychotic. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}}

It also seemed as though [[Prima]], one of the earliest Transformers, was capable of flight in the era even before transformation. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
The Dinobots possessed jets on their backs in robot mode, allowing them to fly. {{storylink|Paddles (story)|Paddles}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
Back before the war, information on scientific breakthroughs in levitation/"repulsors" that could lead to robot mode flight abilities caught the greedy optics of Senator [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], who manipulated the stock to take control. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} This technology would finds its way to the Seekers who used it freely in the early stages of the Great War, {{storylink|The Hunt for Soundwave}} before it was spread to the Decepticon elite, allowing for robot mode flight. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|No Fair Fights}}

This technology was evidently known and available to the Autobots but [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] expressed a distaste for it, preferring to keep his feet close to the ground. By contrast, [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] adored the ability, keeping it constant across his many bodies. {{storylink|Fight or Flee (issue)|Fight or Flee}} {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] could also fly in her robot mode. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}

When bonded to living beings, [[Ore-12]] formed a powerful suit of armor that allowed for many abilities, flight among them. The [[Space Knight]]s, as this group came to be known, could even traverse interstellar distances unaided. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}} {{storylink|First Strike issue 2|First Strike #2}} {{storylink|Our Darkest}} {{storylink|Road's End}}

=====Functionist Universe=====
The [[Functionist Council]] possessed levitation abilities, seemingly provided by their snazzy capes. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|Anomie}} {{storylink|Dissolution Part 5: Modes of Production|Modes of Production}}

====''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''====
All Decepticons possessed the ability to fly in their robot modes, while most of the Autobots lacked this power. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}} Optimus Prime was able to achieve flight via a jet pack. {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}} When the Prime healed Bumblebee, he granted the scout flight capabilities, something that disgusted [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. {{storylink|Pax Megatronus}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material===
Subsonic flight was one of [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]' powers and weapons. In general, flight was counted as a power and weapon for other Transformers, such as [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

===Energon Universe===
When reactivated on Earth, the Seekers {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 1|Transformers #1}} and Soundwave displayed the ability to fly in robot mode. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 6|Transformers #6}} Megatron was likewise capable of robot mode flight. {{storylink|Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story}}

By contrast, the Autobots were incapable of flight in their robot modes, being forced to rely on Jetfire's alternate mode for transit. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 8|Transformers #8}}

===Beast Era===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
Early in the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] had a tactical advantage due to the presence of fliers [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], contrasting only [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] being able to air support for the [[Maximal]]s, and then only in robot mode, which was risky in the [[energon]]-rich environment. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}} The introduction of [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] later granted the Maximals another flyer. {{storylink|The Spark}}

Sufficient volumes of energon itself, of a certain level of instability, are said to have the ability to cause large objects to float. {{storylink|Power Surge (episode)|Power Surge}}

Following the [[quantum surge]], both [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] gained the ability to fly via jets in their beast modes. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} The [[Fuzor]] [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] quickly defected to the Maximals, granting them another aerial warrior. Upon being resurrected, Optimus Primal gained the ability to fly in his beast mode via a jet-powered hover board, addition to his original robot mode flight. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

[[Transmutate (BW)|Transmutate]] had an apparently unique flight mechanism: it extended a crystalline object from within its body, and when the crystal was exposed to air, it gave off an intense energy field and then caused its user to levitate. Since Transmutate was a malformed, incomplete design, this might have been a display of widespread Transformer flight technology that otherwise would always be internal and unseen. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

After upgrading to his "Optimal Optimus" form, Optimus Primal acquired a true jet mode that only enhanced his flight capabilities. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} The arrivals of [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] {{storylink|Deep Metal}} and [[Tigerhawk]], who were likewise equipped with flight-based altmodes, further added to the ranks of airborne Maximals. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

====''Beast Wars II''====
With the exception of Lio Convoy, who has build-in thrusters, {{storylink|Showdown in the Sea}} everyone who could fly could only do so because of their alternate mode, be that because it was a plane, a winged insect, or a bird. Surprisingly, this also went for [[Terrormander]], whose alternate mode was a mecharay. Apparently, a ray's pectoral fins are as good as wings. {{storylink|The Tentacular Scuba}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
After being reformatted into a [[technorganic]], Optimus Primal retained his ability to fly in robot mode. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

[[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] only ever hovered by means of his rotors, whether he was in robot mode or helicopter mode. [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] touched the ground in vehicle mode, but in robot mode, she hovered, seemingly having some sort of anti-gravity mechanism in her feet. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|The Strike}}

Needing a new body for himself than the [[Diagnostic Drone]] he found himself trapped in, {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} Megatron chose to rebuild Optimus' "Optimal" body {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}} minus its beast mode, granting him the form's jet mode and robot mode flight. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
During the Great War, the Decepticons displayed the ability to fly in their robot modes. By the time of the [[Grand Uprising]], however, energon had attained such a high premium that this ability was lost to the Maximals and Predacons. By contrast, the [[Monster GoBot]]s, invaders from [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha|another reality]] possessed the ability to fly in their robot modes, allowing them a temporary edge over the [[Ex-Bot (BWU)|Ex-Bots]]. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
Robot mode flight powers were tied to the ability to fly in vehicle mode, indicating that all Transformers with flight-capable alternate modes possessed internal repulsors or vertical thrusters. Faction did not come into it. A Transformer who went from [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] to [[robot mode]] while in flight would lose considerable momentum doing so, a factor often used to land in confined areas. Most flight was typically carried out in vehicle mode, as it was faster and typically more agile. Interestingly, all Transformers were capable of robot mode flight in zero gravity ([[Six-Speed (Cybertron)|and]] [[Reverb (Cybertron)|some]] were capable of it in ''car'' modes). Given the way things work in zero gravity, the robot mode flight in such conditions is actually quite natural, albeit slow.

===''Animated'' cartoon===
Autobots did not possess flight, save for limited jumps using booster jets. However, the capture of the Decepticon [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] allowed the Autobot [[Ministry of Science]] to reverse-engineer flight protocols and implant them in a pair of energon refinery maintenance bots. The result was [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], whose origins as a split protoform granted them other new abilities as a result of the process, including becoming a [[combiner]] named [[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]]. {{storylink|First (and Second) in Flight}}

===''TransTech''===
[[GoBots]] all have robot mode flight systems. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}

===Live-action film series===
Some Transformers have robot mode flight with the aid of "jetpacks" and other flight systems.

====''Bumblebee'' film====
When [[Bumblebee (Movie)|B-127]] landed on Earth, he was attacked by [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]] who slammed the scout against the rocks using his flight capabilities. B-127 managed to use his more nimble frame to climb onto Blitzwing's back and his blade to disable the [[Seeker (Movie)|Seeker]]'s engines, grounding him. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

====''Ghosts of Yesterday''====
Autobots and Decepticons alike can fly under gravity in robot mode by using "propulsion." {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
[[File:OptimusPrimeleavesAOE.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
After vowing to leave Earth and confront the "[[Creator]]s", [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] deployed a set of built-in rockets which he used to break free of Earth's atmosphere. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

====''The Last Knight'' film====
Optimus's [[energon]] supply ran out near [[Jupiter]] and he entered [[stasis lock]], being revived when he was pulled into the gravity well of the approaching [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. After he'd been brainwashed by [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] into "Nemesis Prime", he flew back to Earth so he could retrieve the [[Staff of Merlin]] where Bumblebee coaxed him free of the mind control. After rallying the troops, Optimus flew ahead of them all and to Cybertron on his own power, using his flight capabilities to gain the height advantage on [[Infernocus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''War For Cybertron'' video game====
All Transformers are equipped with thrusters in their feet, allowing them to boost themselves while jumping (a double-jump, if you will). Jet mode Transformers, such as [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] and [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]], are flight capable in jet mode but are ground-bound in robot mode. However, several Transformers have the ability to hover in the air in robot mode (including [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]).

====''Prime'' cartoon====
Most Decepticons that had an aerial vehicle form could fly, but only in vehicle mode. When [[MECH]] stole [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]'s T-cog, he was unable to transform into his jet mode and thus was incapable of flight. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}} Several [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]], such as [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], were flight capable thanks to their wings. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} Following his resurrection with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] got a new body with a jet-pack, allowing him to fly in robot mode. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
Several [[Decepticon]]s, such as [[Filch]], [[Nightstrike]] and [[Zizza]], were capable of biological flight due to the wings they possessed in their beast/beast-like modes. A confused [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] once thought he could fly and was surprised to find out that he couldn't. {{storylink|As the Kospego Commands!}} [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] was a female [[Autobot]] who could turn into jet and thus provided air-support for the other grounded Autobots. Other Autobots like [[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|Sideswipe]] and [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] would hitch a ride on her if the mission ever required it. {{storylink|The Buzz on Windblade}} {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}} After returning from the dead again, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] used his built-in jet pack to reach the battle site that [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] was at. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}} After absorbing all seven [[Weaponizer (RID)|Weaponizer]] Mini-Cons, Starscream gained both fancy armor and the ability to fly in robot mode. That got taken away once the Mini-Cons were extracted from him. {{storylink|Worthy}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
The [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] were capable of flight in their [[robot mode]]s. {{storylink|What Dwells Within}}

===''One'' movie===
Several Cybertronians with aerial alt-modes are capable of flight. Some like the [[Tracker]]s and the [[High Guard]] are capable of robot mode flight due to thrusters in their legs. [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]] is unique that he exclusively flies in his robot mode and never transforms. His ability to fly was disabled when [[Megatron (One)|D-16]] pummeled him to the point of partial paralysis. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}

==Notes==
*Despite all these advanced flight abilities, Cybertronians seem incapable of actually ''landing'' successfully after [[The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson|achieving]] [[Cosmos (G1)|flight]]. [[Ark (G1)|There]] [[Nemesis (G1)|are]] [[Axalon (BW)|many]], [[Darksyde (BW)|many]] [[Jetfire (G1)|instances]] [[Megatron (Movie)|of]] [[Exodus (Armada)|infamous]] [[Miranda II|crashes]] [[Ark II|within]] [[Orion|the]] [[Transition form|fictions]]. In fact, [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] makes somewhat of a reference to this in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', when he botches his own landing, commenting on it sarcastically as he does.

==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Abilities]]
[[Category:Transformer anatomy]]

Infraspace

2025-12-16T02:57:51Z

Cydra:

{{disambig2|the realm between life and death|the temporal-displacement dimension|limbo}}

[[File:Escalation6 infraspace.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I had a whole universe to myself after the ''Defiant'' was thrown out. There was absolutely no one else in it. I must say I prefer a crowded universe much better."]]

Little is known about the region of existence known as '''infraspace'''. It has been described as a "virtual nothingness" and denoted as the region between life and the [[Transformer afterlife|Afterspark]] by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]] himself, as well as a realm of "pure information". Under certain circumstances, the consciousness of [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] can exist there without a body.

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
Infraspace was known to Onyx Prime who possessed the ability to materialize his consciousness within the realm. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}

Some ten million years ago, the [[Thirteen]] began their interstellar expansion and selected the resource rich world of [[Antilla]] as their first colony. The native [[Antillan]]s fought back, but were unable to match the power of the [[Guardian robot|Omega Sentinels]]. [[Unicron's creator|An Antillan scientist]] recognized that the conflict would end in his race's extinction and fashioned a [[Talisman (G1)|doomsday weapon]] that sterilized all life on the blighted world and transformed the planet into [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. The scientist's consciousness would live on in infraspace, spurred on by his hatred of the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Our Finest}} {{storylink|Ceremony}}

[[File:Escalation6 OptimusNemesisInfraspace.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4]]
In 2007, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] had received a severe beat-down from an [[Ore-13]]-powered [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]], and was on the verge of terminal shutdown. In a desperate ploy, he transferred his higher functions into his [[Combat Deck (G1)|trailer section]], giving the appearance of lifelessness.

During the transfer, Prime's consciousness drifted through infraspace. While there, he felt a sinister presence that seemed to recognize and watch him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}} That presence was later revealed to be [[Nova Prime]], {{storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}} who was, at the time, an undead inhabitant of the [[Dead Universe]] and had changed his name to Nemesis Prime. {{storylink|Devastation issue 3|Devastation #3}}

Following the destruction of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]'s [[chronal drive]], [[Crystal City]] was swallowed up by the resultant [[black hole]], being compressed into "pure information" and persisting in infraspace, along with [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] though he was left a mind without a body. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale}} {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|Endless Forever}} Bumblebee found himself able to appear as a specter in the physical world, but only [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] could perceive him, and he wrote Bumblebee off as a persistent hallucination. Bumblebee allowed Starscream to think that and began to serve as the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]'s "conscience" and a sympathetic ear. {{storylink|The Transgressors}}

Over the course of his lifetime, [[Atomic Man|Mike Power]] had been exposed to such a high amount of Talisman energy that upon his death, {{storylink|Power and Glory}} his mind persisted within infraspace.

After being stabbed by [[Tempest (G.I. Joe)|Storm Shadow]], [[G.B. Blackrock|Blackrock]]'s consciousness was transferred into infraspace via the Talisman, whereupon he encountered Onyx Prime. After explaining the Talisman's purpose to his former servant, he attempted to expedite his servant's passing to the afterlife before the spectre of Mike Power came to Blackrock's rescue. Power convinced Blackrock not to flee from his second chance at life. His words reached the [[Titan Master]], who then realized what he had to do and sent out a call to [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]], whom he had transmit an energy wave that acted a cure to the [[Dire Wraith]] mutations of the Talisman. The curative pulse had the unexpected side-effect of releasing Mike Power's mind from infraspace, where it found a home in [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]]. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}

[[File:TheHallowing BumblebeePrimeReunite.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
In 2018, Shockwave returned to Cybertron and threw Optimus into the Crystal City singularity, the Prime emerging in infraspace where he reunited with Bumblebee. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing}} As the two discussed, Bumblebee noted that everything in infraspace was information and ideas, inspiring Optimus to use the metaphysical weight of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to punch open a hole in the singularity and back into the real world, the two escaping to [[antespace]]. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|Endless Forever}} {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 6: Unforgivable|Unforgivable}}

Shortly afterwards, Unicron awoke and was guided by its creator's will to destroy all the [[Cybertronian colonies]]. Above [[Earth]], what remained of the Cybertronian race launched a do or die attack on Unicron with Optimus and [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] following the Talisman to the black hole at the superweapon's core. When the weapon disappeared into the singularity, Optimus leapt in after it, both emerging in infraspace, which presented itself as Antilla. There, Optimus engaged the scientist until both the Talisman rebooted and his allies connected him to the [[Transformer afterlife|Afterspark]]. As Optimus began to overpower the creator, the Talisman's energies ravaged infraspace, nearly causing the creator to plummet into oblivion before Optimus pulled him back. As the two made peace, the Talisman finally destroyed infraspace and Unicron itself. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Having been the one to activate the Talisman, Starscream found himself trapped in infraspace, and fittingly... only Bumblebee could perceive him in the physical world. {{storylink|Post}}

==Notes==
*The term "infraspace" was also used in [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s [[The Age of Wrath Pt.3|''The Age of Wrath'' #3]] to describe the far-less-metaphysical realm of interdimensional space. For that, see: [[Unspace]].

==See Also==
*[[Tree of Life]]

[[Category:Dimensions]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) locations]]

Oil

2025-11-26T22:03:00Z

Cydra: /* 2005 IDW continuity */

[[File:Headstrong bad guys ball.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Oil is a social lubricant.]]
'''Oil''' is a generic term for a slippery liquid that won't mix readily with [[water]]. Oils vary widely in composition but generally consist of mixed organic compounds.

Oils find frequent use as [[lubricant]]s, [[Transformer fuel|fuels]], and solvents. [[Transformer]]s are among the users of oils in these capacities; however, they sometimes consume certain oily substances in larger quantities than strictly required, resulting in impairment of certain functions, disorientation, and temporary mental dysfunction. Though at first it may seem odd, some actively seek these seemingly-deleterious effects. What is odder yet is that [[human]]s seek out and consume varying solutions of a certain hydrocarbon with a single hydroxyl group and experience effects quite similar to those mentioned above. Further study is needed to explain this strange coincidence.

Oil is often extracted by [[oil rig]]s, and transported in [[oil tanker]]s and pipelines. All of these are popular targets for Decepticon attacks.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[File:MTMtE Part1 OilRig battle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|See? Oil = BIG PARTY, BRAH!]]
The [[Decepticon]]s raided an offshore rig drilling for oil, converting the oil into [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} The [[Autobot]]s arrived to stop them, resulting in the destruction of the rig. While the Decepticons got the energon cubes, the Autobots managed to save the crew, and started their long friendship with the [[Witwicky (surname)|Witwicky family]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}

Teaming up with the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] in [[Bali]], the Decepticons attacked an oil refinery. The Insecticons fed on oil from a tanker, resulting in an oil spill which [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] later ignited in an attempt to off the Autobots who'd fallen into the sea. Luckily [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] was able to put the fire out. {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}} Another of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s plans involved using [[TORQ III]] to control the world's oil tankers and force them to take their cargo to a huge oil platform. {{storylink|Day of the Machines}} The Decepticons faked an Autobot attack on an oil field in order to frame the Autobots and trick the humans into making them leave [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}}

Megatron came up with a plan to create an army of [[drone jet]]s and a [[Giant Purple Griffin]] in order to conquer the [[Middle East]]'s oil fields. {{storylink|Aerial Assault}} When [[Octane]] and [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] took up residence in [[Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya|Carbombya]] and began converting its high-quality oil into [[energon]], the nation's dictator [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|Abdul Fakkadi]] was outraged when he calculated that the conversion rate was 1,000 barrels of oil into a single energon cube. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====
{{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Autobots Are in Trouble}}
{{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}}

=====''Victory'' cartoon=====
{{storylink|Attack the Shuttle Base!!}}
{{storylink|Attack! Leozack}}
{{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}}
{{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}}
{{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}
{{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}}
{{storylink|The Tide Is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}

=====''Victory'' manga=====
{{storylink|Leozack's Rampage!}}

=====''The Battlestars'' manga=====
{{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (manga)}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[G.B. Blackrock]]'s [[Blackrock Enterprises]] created a highly advanced [[oil-drilling platform]], capable of refining the oil on site. {{storylink|The New Order}} When [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] attacked it, the humans fought back though he prevailed and adopted the structure as a base. {{storylink|The Worse of Two Evils!}} ''[[Roxxon Oil]] was one of Blackrock's oil industry competitors.'' {{storylink|The Icarus Theory}} ''On one occasion, after setting the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] against each other, the Decepticons raided a nearby oil rig.'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}} At some point Shockwave built a [[power siphon]], capable of converting oil directly into Energon cubes. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

''Oil was one of the beverages on offer at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]].'' {{storylink|Target: 2006}} ''When [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]] attempted to leave a bar on [[Elpasos]] without paying for the three quarts of oil he'd consumed, the [[Elpasos barkeep|bartender]] objected. It didn't end well for the bartender.'' {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}} Shockwave had an oil tanker captured in an attempt to impress [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], only to discover that the oil tanker was empty. {{storylink|Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom}} ''Upon encountering [[Nebulan]]s for the first time, [[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] drooled oil down his chin as he imagined slaughtering them with his [[photon-pulse gun]]s.'' {{storylink|Doomsday for Nebulos}} When he established a film career, [[Skullgrin]] was paid using Blackrock fuel. {{storylink|Monstercon from Mars!}} ''[[Quickswitch]] visited Maccadam's Old Oil House to buy some information from an informant and enjoy some oil, but ended up fighting some [[Mecannibal]]s instead.'' {{storylink|Out to Lunch!}}

=====Earthforce=====
{{Earthforcefiction}}
Oil was one of the beverages served at a Decepticon [[Enclave]]. {{storylink|The Bad Guy's Ball!}} A Decepticon attack on the Autobot [[Earthbase]] was actually a diversion while [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] attempted to hijack an oil tanker off the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. The tanker captain wanted to scuttle the vessel rather than let the Decepticon have it, but his subordinate pointed out that that would create a huge oil spill. Fortunately it turned out to be unnecessary as some Autobots were available to respond to the distress call. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer!}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
In [[1973]], the Autobots prevented a Decepticon attack on an oil tanker in [[Venezuela]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 17|Powermaster Optimus Prime - a Robot, a Hero}} After having little success hijacking gas stations and tankers, Megatron and Shockwave struck on a new plan to head to [[Alaska]] and tap the source of the fuel in the form of Alaska's oil pipelines. Drilling into a pipeline soon sounded an alarm that had human and Autobot forces come down on them and the Decepticons were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 2|Attack at Dawn}} The Decepticons set their sights in raiding oil tankers, only to be foiled at every turn by the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 6|A Big Day for Powermaster Optimus Prime}}

During a Decepticon attack on [[New York City|New York]], Optimus simply rented a pair of helicopters which towed a huge banner claiming oil deposits had been found in the [[Rocky Mountains]], and the Decepticon left to investigate. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 7|New York — A City Sinking in Terror}} Having obtained three nuclear missiles, Megatron threatened to use them on human cities unless they supplied him with a million tons of oil. Fortunately the Autobots stole the missiles back. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 8|Megatron's Ultimatum}} After an oil spill occurred from a tanker near Alaska, Megatron aimed to obtain the spilled oil himself, only to again be foiled when [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] sucked Decepticons and Autobots alike into the dimensional bridge. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|Headmaster of the Dimensions}}

The Autobots had their work cut out for them globally, protecting Earth's oil supplies against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 11|He Who Laughs Last ...}} While on monitor duty, Goldbug accidentally triggered recordings of past Decepticon attacks on oil repositories and mistook them for current events, until he saw himself as Bumblebee taking part in the counterattacks. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 15|Memories of Bumblebee}}

===Ladybird Books continuity===
[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] clumsily knocked over some empty oil drums while spying on the Decepticons, and was forced to flee. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}} The Autobots stationed on [[Nebulos]] discovered they were running low on artificial lubricant, but fortunately [[Recoil (G1)|Recoil]] recalled a legend of a great lake of oil which was lost in an earthquake years ago. After a search, [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] discovered the oil lake, now located in a cavern beneath the ground, and the Autobots were able to build an underground oil pipeline between it and their base. {{storylink|Autobots Strike Oil}}

===''The Transformers'' Adventure Game Books===
The robotic [[Nebulan]] miners relax by getting drunk on high-grade oil at the ''[[Wolf at the Door]]'' nightclub. {{storylink|Desert of Danger}}

{{storylink|Swamp of the Scorpion}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
Autobots like to celebrate by drinking "fine-grade oil". {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

===Other Generation 1 storybooks===
{{storylink|Battle Beneath the Ice}}
{{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}
{{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}

First prize in the [[Big Car Rally]] was a year's supply of oil and [[gasoline]]. [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] won, besting his [[human]] and [[Decepticon]] competitors. He unselfishly offered to share. [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] declined, opting instead for [[soft drink|soda]] and a [[hot dog (food)|hot dog]]. {{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

{{storylink|Attack of the Decepticons}}
{{storylink|Jaws of Terror}}
{{storylink|Satellite of Doom}}
{{storylink|Slaves of the Insecticons}}
{{storylink|Storms of Destruction}}
{{storylink|When Continents Collide}}
{{storylink|Battle at Oil Valley}}
{{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

===Beast Era===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
While pondering over how to gain entry to the [[Metal Hunter]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]'s suggestion that they could knock elicited a sarcastic response from [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] to the effect that [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] might invite them in for oil and cookies. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 2)}}

====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====
After [[Lio Convoy|Convoy]]'s disappearance on a mission with [[Apache]], Apache returned to the [[Maximal Space Station]] and drank his sorrows away with enough cans of oil to be hidden in a pile of them. Despite being inebriated, he insisted that he was in charge in Convoy's absence when his unit was sent to [[Gaia]]. He fainted right after his big words and [[Bighorn]] took the lead instead. {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!}} When [[Tasmania Kid]] told the other [[Maximal]]s that he was working on a gift for them, [[Diver (BW)|Diver]] asked if his gift could be some traditionally brewed oil. {{storylink|The Lake Trap}} After Apache disappeared inside the pyramid, Lio Convoy tracked him down by the scent of his oil and that of [[Mantis|his abductor]]. {{storylink|Mystery of the Ancient Ruins}}

To definitively deal with the [[Insectron]]s, [[Starscream (BW)|Starscream]] brewed a large batch of highly potent oil that not only caused intoxication after just one cup, but also induced violence. To get the Insectrons to drink it, he invited them to an oil party at [[Mikazuki Island]] under the guise of friendliness. As he knew and as [[Artemis]] explained to [[Moon (BW)|Moon]], no Transformer can resist an invitation to come drink oil. [[Powerhug (BW)|Powerhug]], [[Drill Nuts]], [[Bigmos]], and [[Tonbot]] arrived first and on Starscream's urging started drinking. It didn't take long for them to turn on each other. Coincidentally, that same day [[Tasmania Kid]] came looking for the Insectrons to genuinely befriend them with a complimentary case of traditionally brewed oil. He met the remaining Insectrons, [[Scissor Boy]] and [[Mantis]], and together the trio figured out the others were in trouble and rushed to Mikazuki Island, leaving Tasmania Kid's oil behind in the Insectrons' lair. Although up to this point everything had gone well for the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], their luck ran out when [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] awoke. Weary and thirsty, he staggered through the ''[[Galvaburg II]]'' until he came across cans of oil Starscream had left aboard and started chugging away. Normally already a bad drunk, the Predacons ran for safety from their rampaging leader, who followed them outside and caught wind of the battle on Mikazuki Island. He made his way over just as the other Maximals, having been briefed by Tasmania Kid, captured the inebriated Insectrons and sprayed them with cold water. That snapped them back to clarity and they helped defeat Galvatron. {{storylink|The Strongest Tag Team?}}

====''Beast Wars II'' comic====
[[Tasmania Kid]] sometimes puts spicy sauce in [[Apache]]'s oil. {{storylink|Recover the Bonds Lost!}}

[[Lio Convoy]] got drunk from drinking a bottle of oil called "Convoy Killer". {{storylink|Recover the Bonds Lost!}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====
{{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
{{Note|Events relating only to ''Car Robots'' are shown in ''italics''}}
[[File:Test of Metal Oilbath.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Six bots, chilling in an oil bath, five feet apart 'cause they're not(?) gay.]]
''The Predacons parked near an undersea ruin in order to tap an undersea oil pipeline. {{storylink|The Hunt for Black Pyramid}}''

During a fight between [[Landfill (RID)|Landfill]] and [[Ruination (RID)|Ruination]] in an underground cavern, the cave became flooded with oil. Determined to end the Decepticons, Landfill opened fire, triggering an explosion. Though both teams survived, Landfill was left on fire and had to be put out by [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]. In the aftermath, the Autobots enjoyed an oil bath together. {{storylink|A Test of Metal}} [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] and the Decepticons raided a [[Metro City]]'s oil refinery. The Autobots arrived to stop them, but realized they couldn't open fire without risking an explosion.
{{storylink|Ultra Magnus (episode)|Ultra Magnus}} As Optimus hid out on an island so he could recuperate from a fight with [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]], Side Burn enjoyed an oil bath in one of the island's oil deposits. Unfortunately when the Decepticons tracked Optimus down, they ignited the island's oil deposits, turning it into an inferno. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!}}
{{--}}

===Go-Bots cartoon continuity===
[[Mototron]]'s speeding carelessly around in the [[Arctic]] resulted in him accidentally breaking an oil pipeline. [[Aero-Bot]] was forced to drag an oil tanker to the top of the hill so his team could redirect the oil flow into it and allow the pipeline to be fixed. {{storylink|Arctic Oil Spill}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:RiseOfTheConstructicons-chugchugchug.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Kids, don't drink oil, it will kill you.]]
[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] offered the phrase "Eat crankcase oil!" as an epithet, implying oil from a crankcase is considered less desirable or even unpalatable by Transformers. {{storylink|Home Is Where the Spark Is}}

[[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] and [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] enjoy oil from "pint glasses" (barrels) at the "bar" (some random tanker) after a hard day's work. [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], however, seems to have specially-made "goblets" for his own stash. The quality of oil could also be analogous to said human alcoholic drinks as Mixmaster says that the Autobots' oil "tastes like water" compared to Megatron's, who calls it his own "private blend". {{storylink|Rise of the Constructicons}}

Oil also appears to be the equivalent of blood, as a [[Clone number 2716057|Starscream clone]] once said to [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]:"Are you sure that you don't have some Decepticon oil in your tubes?" {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon}} Another such implication was made, when Bumblebee dressed up as 'Count Dracu-bot' for [[Halloween]], said "I vant to drink your motor oil!" {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}} Bumblebee has been shown bleeding oil from his arm (as an oil leak), looking very similar to blood dripping from a human's hand. Mixmaster and Scrapper found it delicious. {{storylink|Sari, No One's Home}} The cannibalistic implications of it functioning as both blood and alcohol are slightly disturbing.

As if that wasn't gross enough, [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and Bumblebee were once put in charge of oil-cleanup at the Autobot Boot Camp, with the latter's incompetence being punished by constantly referring to himself as a "worthless oil-stain." This frames used oil as the Cybertronian equivalent of bodily waste, as cleaning up after it or being compared to it is very demeaning. {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}} [[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp]] leans further into this implication after stating that he "sprung an oil leak". {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

''Don't'' bother heading on down to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] for a pint. [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Someone]] had it closed for "security reasons". {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

{{stub|{{storylink|The Return of the Headmaster}} {{storylink|Velocity (episode)|Velocity}} {{storylink|Three's a Crowd (episode)|Three's a Crowd}} {{storylink|Human Error, Part I}} {{storylink|Human Error, Part II}} {{storylink|Decepticon Air}} {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}}}

====Titan ''Animated'' comic====
Oil can be served on a thermos, [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] had one until it got wedged between [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]]'s teeth. [[Afterburn]] stated that he always comes off smelling like rose-oil, suggesting that it smells nicer than regular oil. {{storylink|Animated Comic issue 2|Ratchet & Grimlock Are DEAD?}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
Before the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], you could head on down to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's ''New'' Oil House]] for a pint {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1|Chaos Theory #1}} or, for the classier Cybertronian, there was [[The Circle]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}

During the battles on Earth, Megatron had a [[facsimile construct]] attack the [[Russia]]n oil pipeline in order to stir up human conflicts. {{storylink|Escalation issue 3}}

After the Great War ended, you could head on down to the reopened [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] for a pint {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}} {{storylink|Interference Patterns}} or aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]'s [[Swerve's|bar]]. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}}

The ''Lost Light'' also had a chamber with a huge reservoir of oil, {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} in which the crew would often hang out. {{storylink|Little Victories}} After discovering [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] was on board, [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] removed his own head and disposed of his body in the reservoir, {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} though he was later fished out by the other Autobots. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] was hanging out in the reservoir when he was attacked by [[Legislator]]s. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}} [[Getaway]] and [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] later went fishing for Legislator body parts in the reservoir. {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}} After assuming command, Getaway would use the reservoir to house [[scraplet]]s which he would use to dispose of the "undecided" members of his mutiny and any other potential troublemakers, including [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]. {{storylink|The Plotters' Club (Part 2): Filling in the Blanks|Filling in the Blanks}} Thanks to the [[Hydrobot (G1)|Hydrobot]]'s boat mode (and his low intelligence making Getaway's [[nudge gun]] ineffective at making him forget how to transform), Riptide was able to escape the reservoir before the scraplets could devour him. {{storylink|The Plotters' Club (Part 3): Journey's End|Journey's End}}

===Live-action film series===
====''The Veiled Threat''====
The Decepticons attacked [[Peru]], intending to obtain its energy-rich oil and coal, but were driven off by a [[NEST]] force. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat}}

====Titan movie comics====
In a [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma|divergent timeline]], the Decepticons succeeded at Mission City and conquered the United States. The Decepticons destroyed oil pipelines in [[Alaska]], hampering the efforts of the humans to rebuild. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

====''The Last Knight'' film====
[[Daytrader]] liked to relax by slathering himself in hot oil, something that disgusted [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

===''Shattered Glass''===
The Decepticons foiled an Autobot attack on a Blackrock Oil facility. [[Swoop (SG)|Swoop]] and [[Star Saber (SG)|Star Saber]] attempted to use a revolving tower to drill for oil, but were seen off by the Autobots. After foiling another Autobot operation, the Decepticons considered enjoyed a relaxing drink of oil. {{storylink|Blitzwing Bop}} [[R.J. Blackrock]]'s company came up with a way to convert oil into hydrogen fuel cells and built a [[Mega-Rig]] with which to extract oil from the ground. The fact that the Autobots were so fond of raiding his oil drilling operations led Blackrock to plot to get rid of all the Transformers. {{storylink|Transhuman}}

===''TransTech''===
[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] and [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]] enjoyed some chilled oil on [[Axiom Nexus]] with [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]]. Jackpot later coughed up oil while losing a fight with [[Black Shadow (G1)|Black Shadow]]. {{storylink|Gone Too Far}}

===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] attempted to extract oil from a derelict [[Rock-It Fuel]] station, only to be chased off by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]. {{storylink|Fight for Energon}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] was able to dump oil to try to throw off the pursuing [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] during a street race. {{storylink|Speed Metal}}

====''Rescue Bots'' cartoon====
[[Evan (RB)|Evan]] and [[Myles]] dumped oil while fleeing the law, resulting in [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] and [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] almost taking a brief flight into the sea. {{storylink|One for the Ages}} [[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] and [[Graham Burns]] investigated whether it would be possible to reactivate [[Drilling Platform number 6]], however the well cap was so corroded that a tremor resulted in it leaking oil. The oil was set alight by some exposed wires, resulting in a fire which destroyed the rig. {{storylink|Turning the Tide}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
[[Hammerstrike (RID)|Hammerstrike]] intended to flood the sea with oil in order to give Earth an environment he would feel more at home in. After an attack on the oil tanker ''[[Windward]]'' was thwarted by [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], Hammerstrike instead went to an automated oil refinery near [[Crown City]]. Bumblebee and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] were able to stop him creating an environmental disaster by capturing him in an oil drum. {{storylink|Trust Exercises}}

===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] would sweat oil when he became nervous, {{storylink|Mystery of the 30th Anniversary Merchandise}} so much so he had to make it an aim not to sweat oil at all. {{storylink|Mystery of the Gap of Unpopular Men}} Despite his efforts, he developed a reputation for leaking oil as [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] pointed out. {{storylink|The Road to Newer Transformers}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===

{{stub|{{storylink|Derailment}}}}

==Games==
===Transformers Legends===
As a huge storm lashed the coast, [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] and [[Waverider]] swung into action helping the [[human]]s evacuate a number of oil rigs during a huge storm, but were attacked by the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacon]]s, out to steal oil under cover of the storm. The two Autobots managed to hold out long enough for the weather to clear and reinforcements to send the Seacons away. {{storylink|Deadly Depths}}

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Talk:Kremzeek

2025-11-12T02:14:22Z

Cydra:

Derik, you do know we have to rewrite this entire thing, right? Why do you do this to us? --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 04:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
:I just assumed this would end up a sub-section on the Kremzeek page. (Probably losing the jingle.) And I do this for the same reason I would tug the curls of that girl with the adorable overbite in second grade. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 04:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be branded as Kremzeek (drink), or something? Wouldn't it be better to go the eventual episode entry (as horrible as the damn thing is) if someone were to search Kremzeek, rather than drink? --[[User:Gouki|Gouki]] 02:38, 11 September 2006
:The episode is Kremzeek!, not Kremzeek. Thei entry interferes w/ that not-at-all. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 04:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
::Ah, I see. I always forget he exclamation point. Carry on. --[[User:Gouki|Gouki]], 10:31 12 September 2006

To be pedantic, we don't even KNOW that the drink is even CALLED "Kremzeek", just that it uses the bastard as a mascot. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 04:47, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

== About the main picture ==

What. The. Heck. Is. Going. On. Japanese or not, but, wtf?
--[[Special:Contributions/94.237.66.223|94.237.66.223]] 08:02, 16 February 2010 (EST)

It took me a while to figure it out, but I finally did. It is completely possible for Kremzeek to be casting a shadow. I stumbled across it while researching whether lightsabers cast shadows or not. It turns out that as long as there is a light source shining on an opaque object, even if that object is a light source itself, it will cast a shadow. You can test it out yourself with a desk lamp and some sort of opaque light tube (I'd suggest a Force FX lightsaber). So as long as there is another light source and Kremzeek is opaque and not translucent, there is nothing wrong with that picture. Unless you were referring to the other things wrong with that picture, but I fear that cannot be explained with opaque light tubes. --[[User:Darth J46|Darth J46]] ([[User talk:Darth J46|talk]]) 00:23, 21 January 2014 (EST)

== Botcon script reading? ==

My question is- is the Return of Kremzeek script reading considered cannon? (Other script readings seem to be...) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 05:20, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Is there an actual entry for Kremzeek, or is there only this one for the drink? Not that I would be disappointed to learn that there's no entry on the "real" Krem, but it would alleviate some confusion for... the confused.--[[User:OctopusPrime|Octopus Prime- King of the Road!]] 21:03, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

There is no article for the "real" Krem, and for some reason there are links to this page (about a tasty refreshing beverage) on the Kiss Players pages, because Autroopers use Kremzeek bullets. I think all this is doing is confusing people based on a cheap joke that DW did to be funny. I'd write it myself, but to be honest I cannot recall a blessed thing about Kremzeek, other than it was a really bad episode. -- [[User:Dataraven|Dataraven]] 22:35, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

==The horror==
Well, here's Kremzeek's new profile art!

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4329/1164127259091ka2.jpg

--[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 17:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

DO NOT WANT

:It's just a different culture! It's socially acceptable for electric beings to come out of a vagina! Happens all the time, too! (That's gonna burn.) [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 20:00, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
::It couldn't happen to a [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Better fleshling]].--[[User:Dynamus Prime|Dynamus Prime]] 16:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

==Plot==

Didn't the writer of Kremzeek blatantly recycle this script/plot on other cartoons? I want to say it was at least reused on TMNT and TRGB. Might be interesting to put a trivia section.
:I totally only know this because of Zobovor, but yeah. Wise wrote basically the same story for TMNT with "The Big Zipp Attack," and RGB featured a story, the name of which escapes me, where the same thing happened to Slimer. The RGB episode, though, ''wasn't'' credited to David Wise, but it ''was'' David... something. Cue pseudonym speculation. Indeed, a note abou this would be a good thing, though perhaps more fitting on the page for the episode itself. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 20:00, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

==Voice Actor==
I've always believed Kremzeek's voice actor was [[Don Messick]]. (The original small Kremzeek, that is. Don't know about the giant one.) Is there any hard info that says one way or the other? [[User:Evan1975|Evan1975]] 19:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

:The little bugger was voiced by director [[Wally Burr]] - I can't find anything that simply contains the sentence "Wally Burr played Kremzeek," but Rik Bakke states it as fact and he's interacted with Burr to a sizeable degree, and Burr played Kremzeek in the BotCon 2004 "Return of Kremzee" play. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 21:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

==He lives again==
I recently bought the compilation of the [[Prime Directive]] comics, which contained a preview for the Movie comic. In the movie comic, Sam has a little Kremzeek figure by his computer when he's checking out the status of the eBay items. Beyond being an easter egg, should that be included in the trivia section, or (dare I say) we make a Kremzeek (Movie) article? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 23:03, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

== Images ==

I'm dubious that this page needs ''seven'' images. I recommend deleting the fourth and fifth (which are redundant with each other, anyway). Thoughts? [[User:JW|JW]] 20:37, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

== Impossible Toys ==

I'm a bit confused- does Impossible Toys (who's making a light-up western Kremzeek figure) hold an official license? Is it a 'real' piece of merchandise we list here? -06:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

== Split? ==

Shouldn't this article be split into "Kremzeek (G1)", "Kremzeek (Movie)", and "Kremzeek (Animated)". the character doesn't hop dimensions. He's not a multiuniversal singularity as far as I know. Should we split it?[[Special:Contributions/71.162.108.63|71.162.108.63]] 17:38, 5 December 2011 (EST)
:No, I don't think that's necessary. It's not like he's even appeared as a character in those other continuities. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:23, 5 December 2011 (EST)
:I've got an idea. Just add content somewhere. There is more to this wiki than attempts to reorganize it for us against our will. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 18:25, 5 December 2011 (EST)

== Kremzeek (G1)? ==

We have more than one continuity family on this page, so why is this called Kremzeek (G1)? I know it is to differentiate it with [[Kremzeek (AB)]], but this page is more than just the G1 continuity family. [[User:Notirishman|-west james/notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 11:54, 3 February 2018 (EST)
:Franchise of origin.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 13:14, 3 February 2018 (EST)
:My question is "if the AB version has a separate page, why is that game listed here?"--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 13:19, 3 February 2018 (EST)
::I think because it isn't "Kremzeek", it's a pig that's called and looks like Kremzeek. [[User:Notirishman|-west james/notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 15:59, 3 February 2018 (EST)
:::I get that, but why is the game listed here on this page which is about the actual Kremzeek?--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 16:14, 3 February 2018 (EST)
::::Fixed. [[User:Notirishman|-west james/notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 18:40, 3 February 2018 (EST)

== Ghostbusters trivia ==

The page about [[wikia:ghostbusters:Kremzeek|Kremzeek]] on the Ghostbusters wiki has some interesting trivia that has citations to Erik Burnham's Twitter account. But I'm not sure where to put said trivia or how to set up those citations. --[[User:Cydra|Cydra]] ([[User talk:Cydra|talk]]) 21:14, 11 November 2025 (EST)

Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4

2025-11-12T01:59:18Z

Cydra: /* Ghostbusters references */

{{Comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers/Ghostbusters]]'' #4
|prev=Ghosts of Cybertron Part 3
|next=Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5
|image=TFGB04-cvrB.jpg
|title="Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4"
|caption=We have the tools, and we have the talent!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[September 4]], [[2019]]
|coverdate=September 2019
|written by=[[Erik Burnham]]
|art by=[[Dan Schoening]]
|colors by=[[Luis Antonio Delgado]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[David Mariotte]] and [[Tom Waltz]]
|continuity=''[[Transformers/Ghostbusters]]''
}}

'''It's a showdown in Queens as the Ghostbusters and their Autobot allies search for the missing Starscream... and find more than they bargained for!'''

==Synopsis==
Having relocated to their spacious [[Red Hook]] warehouse to accommodate their extraterrestrial guests, the [[Ghostbusters]], [[Ectotron]], and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]—the latter having used his built-in [[nanochromatic camouflage]] to cover up his graffiti underneath a Ghostbusters-inspired livery—take stock of their current situation and gear up for their next ghostly encounter. [[Ray Stantz|Ray]] and [[Egon Spengler|Egon]]'s analysis of the burnt-out [[ghost trap]] confirms that Starscream didn't just ''escape'', however... the duplicitous [[Decepticon]] was ''released'', as evidenced by the presence of a second PKE signature.

Ectotron wonders just who would free Starscream; Optimus, still humoring the group, suggests that it might be part of a larger gambit, in keeping with Starscream's naturally treacherous nature. Even though he's still skeptical about the existence of "[[ghost]]s," he admits, he trusts the word of his fellow [[Autobot]]. Optimus trades a few wisecracks with [[Peter Venkman]], much to the [[human]]'s surprise; the Autobot suggests that his new colour scheme may be having an influence on his personality. The conversation is cut short when [[Winston Zeddemore|Winston]] and Ray reveal the end result of their work: a pair of power-amplifying adapters designed to accommodate conventional Ghostbusters [[proton pack]]s, allowing the Autobots to wield Cybertronian-sized versions of their traditional gear, though Ectotron's impulsive early test fire annihilates some of the warehouse's gear. Peter naturally grumbles at the prospects of ''more'' repairs, but Egon cuts in, revealing that he's gotten a fix on Starscream's PKE signature.

Their mission clear, the team rolls out, pursuing Starscream's signal to the [[Grosbeak Generating Station]] in [[Queens]]. The plant is only evacuated after some copious wheel-greasing from Peter, but as a result, the Cybertronians can safely transform without attracting attention. As Egon confirms the presence of the second PKE signature, the one responsible for freeing Starscream, the sky darkens, thunder rumbles, and Starscream appears! Optimus, skeptical to the last, is momentarily shocked by the sight of the ghostly Starscream. The four Ghostbusters, on the other hand, are unfazed, and promptly restrain the Air Commander with their four proton beams. Everything seems to be going according to plan... until Starscream shrieks for his "master" to save him. On cue, a bolt of supernatural lightning disgorges the red-robed figure of [[Kremzeek]] the Scavenger, but despite Starscream's assurance that he's fulfilled Kremzeek's wishes in luring Optimus Prime to Earth, Kremzeek makes his displeasure known. Starscream has consistently failed in every task he's been given; the Decepticon ghost was supposed to bring the ''[[AllSpark]]'' to Kremzeek from its hiding place aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', and has further angered his master by allowing the Ghostbusters and Autobots to kill one of his "children", and so, ignoring Starscream's pathetic pleas for mercy, the ghost announces that he must be punished for his many failures... and so Starscream's ghostly form is absorbed back into Kremzeek's electrically-charged body.

Confused, Winston asks what the AllSpark ''is''; Ectotron explains that the device gives life to Transformers, and Kremzeek agrees. The ghost tells his side of the story: when [[Gozer]] invaded [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] a thousand years ago, Kremzeek "saved" [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and his inner retinue of Decepticons by changing them into ghosts, but only Starscream willingly pledged his services to their impromptu savior. Starscream was supposed to bring the AllSpark to Kremzeek, so that he could absorb its power, the way he did with the other Decepticons, become as strong as Gozer, and decide the fate of worlds... but the Ghostbusters aren't having it, and after taking the opportunity to diss on the would-be conqueror, the four men and their Autobot allies open fire, quickly ensnaring the monster with their combined proton beams. Kremzeek's electrical powers, however, allow him to burst free of his bonds, the shockwave almost knocking the heroes off their feet. Kremzeek has been weakened by overexertion, but he's still very much in the game... and when he kills Optimus Prime, he'll absorb ''him'' too, then learn the location of the AllSpark! Prime swears that that won't happen, and sends his foe flying with another mighty punch. Though Prime puts up a good fight, time is running out: Kremzeek quickly rebuilds his strength by leeching off the power plant generators. The other five members of the team quickly analyze their options, and Ray muses that it's a shame that they don't have the [[Killerwatt|electricity-eating ghost]] they encountered last night on their side. That's when Ectotron-after rummaging through his inner compartments—produces the same trap! While Peter cuts the power, Ray opens the trap, and, just as he hoped, the energy-eater goes straight for the biggest, juiciest meal on the menu: Kremzeek. In a blinding explosion, the two electroplasmic beings cancel one another out, dispelling them both.

The day is seemingly saved... until a familiar voice cuts through the smoke: [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]! The destruction of Kremzeek has freed him and his fellow Decepticon ghosts from the creature's control, and now the Decepticon leader is eager to reignite their long war on [[Earth]]. Prime tries to get his ancient foe to see reason... but Megatron insists that the only way that the war will end is if he destroys his ancient foe. As he hooks his new proton pack directly into his body, and produces an [[energon-axe]] that crackles with protonic power, Prime warns Megatron to back down, because he ain't afraid of no ghost!

==Featured characters==
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* [[Ectotron]] (1)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (4)

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* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (7)
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (9)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (10)
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (11)

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* [[Winston Zeddemore]] (2)
* [[Peter Venkman]] (3)
* [[Ray Stantz]] (5)
* [[Egon Spengler]] (6)

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* [[Kremzeek]] (8)
* "[[Killerwatt]]" (12)

}}

==Quotes==
"Shame you can't, y'know, '''shrink'''." 
"Actually, some of us '''can''' modify our size. There was a powerful Decepticon who could transform into a '''handheld weapon'''. I accidentally stepped on him once and set off a '''thousand years of war'''." 
"Is that—'''really?'''" 
"No, not really. But it certainly wouldn't have '''helped''' matters." 
"...you're a '''funny guy''', Prime."
:— '''Peter''' is just as stunned as we are at '''Optimus Prime''' cracking jokes

"You can't do this to me! Not '''again!'''" 
"Sure we can! I swear, you ghosts always seem so surprised that our gear works like it's '''supposed''' to..."
:—'''Starscream''' vs. '''Ray'''

"Wow. When did they start making so many speeches?" 
"I thought it was normal. Decepticons did it '''all''' the time."
:—'''Ray''' and '''Optimus'''

"You left it in my vehicle form, Ray. Along with these empty traps, a canister of slime, and enough '''food crumbs''' to compose another meal. You four are '''disgusting'''." 
"I'm not disgusting—I'm just focused."
:—'''Ectotron''' and '''Egon'''

"I'm just tired of '''war''', Megatron. But what I am '''not''', as an old friend once said—is '''afraid''' of a ghost."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' says it's on

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The issue opens in the Ghostbuster's auxiliary [[wikia:ghostbusters:Warehouse|warehouse]], located in the real-world neighborhood of {{w|Red Hook, Brooklyn}}. Another comics-original invention, this offsite holding facility is generally used to store the various "Ecto" vehicles used by the [[Ghostbusters]] in between their various adventures, and served as a training center during 2017's ''[[wikia:ghostbusters:IDW Publishing Comics- Ghostbusters 101: Everyone Answers The Call TPB|Ghostbusters 101]]'' miniseries.
* While testing his proton pack, Ectotron accidently blasts the [[wikia:ghostbusters:Ecto-Gyro|unnamed miniature helicopter]] (though it's based on the [[wikia:Ghostbusters:Ecto-2|Ecto-2]] from the ''Real Ghostbusters'' cartoon) that's seen infrequent use throughout the comic continuity.
* The Ghostbusters describe Kremzeek as a "jumped-up [[wikia:ghostbusters:Class 5|Class 5]]", this term has been used to describe inhuman, and sometimes mindless, manifestations—"[[Slimer]]" is one such ghost.
* While weighing up their options, Ray rues the fact that they don't have a [[wikia:ghostbusters:boson caster|boson caster]], a proton pack attachment invented by their one-time business rival, and current Chicago-based Ghostbuster, [[wikia:ghostbusters:Ron Alexander|Ron Alexander]].
* Optimus quotes Grimlock from the prior issue, who noted that, as per the Ghostbusters theme song, he wasn't afraid of no ghosts.

===Transformers references===
* Optimus Prime's new ''Ghostbusters''-themed colour scheme is, of course, a reference to his concurrently-released [[Optimus_Prime (G1)/toys#Collaborative|''Collaborative'' toy]]. The protonically-charged [[energon-axe]] that he wields here, however, while an iconic and well-remembered part of the cartoon iteration of the character despite only appearing once in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]", did not appear with this version of the toy; it's a comic-original concept.
* Several computer monitors in the warehouse display stills from the various G1 [[commercial bumper]]s that aired alongside the cartoon. Another computer readout in the Ghostbusters warehouse reads "[[Hypno-chip|HYPNO-CHIP]] CONTROL," alongside a copy of the hypno-chip infographic that appeared in "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 2]]."
* Kremzeek is surrounded by his "children"; these smaller Kremzeeks are coloured to resemble the various multi-hued Kremzeek copies that appeared in the episode "[[Kremzeek!]]", including orange and purple.
* The real Kremzeek, known as "the Scavenger" in what's presumably a riff off [[Gozer]]'s own appellation as "the Traveller", is revealed to be the architect behind the ghostly rebirth of Megatron and the other Decepticons. Unlike any of his other depictions, Kremzeek is portrayed with a far more humanoid frame, though the idea of recasting the wacky electrical pest as a more serious, supernatural menace is not a new one: [[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|issue #12]] of ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'' did something similar, re-imagining the character as a gluttonous, obese "eater of souls" who dwelt in the realm that led to the [[Transformer afterlife]].
* Killerwatt's consumption of Kremzeek, and his subsequent explosion, is all rendered with a single, all-consuming "CHOOM" sound effect—a consistently popular onomatopoeia among ''Transformers'' authors to describe weaponsfire, usually Shockwave's, and other explosions.

===Ghostbusters references===
* Parked just behind Ectotron in the warehouse is the "[[fandom:ghostbusters:Playmobil: Spengler with Cage Car|cage car]]," a toyline-original vehicle that originated in {{w|Playmobil}}'s 2018 ''Real Ghostbusters'' line of playsets.
* Stickers on Ray's toolbox include a sticker that reads "WUGH," the radio station from the ''Real Ghostbusters'' episode "[[wikia:ghostbusters:Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream|Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream]]." Right next to that toolbox is a box of Japanese candy, based on the real-world [[wikia:ghostbusters:Ghostbusters_Biscuits (Mitsubishi Foods)|Mitsubishi Foods snack biscuits]], which was released to promote the then-upcoming 2016 reboot.
* Winston refers to the team's prior defeat of Gozer, as seen in the original ''Ghostbusters'' movie.
* Among the many odds and ends Ectotron finds in his vehicle mode compartment includes a canister of [[mood slime]], a plot device from ''{{w|Ghostbusters II}}''.
* Kremzeek's absorbing Starscream into his body, as well as the way he parts his cloak to suck Starscream in, is similar to [[wikia:ghostbusters:Ghash|Ghash]] the ghost-consuming poltergeist that appeared in the ''Real Ghostbusters'' episode "[[wikia:ghostbusters:Slimer, Come Home|Slimer, Come Home]]".

===Real-world references===
* Regarding Prime's new paint job, Peter pokes fun at the concept of an "Ecto-semi" and notes that all they need now are "cowboy hats and a Firebird", as per the protagonists of 1977's trucker comedy ''{{w|Smokey and the Bandit}}''.
* There is indeed a {{w|Ravenswood Generating Station|real power plant}} located in {{w|Long Island City}}, which matches up pretty closely to the fictional "[[Grosbeak Generating Station]]" that appears in this issue. Just like the real-world power plant, Grosbeak is owned and operated by the real-world {{w|Con Edison}} company, a company that appeared in both ''Ghostbusters'' films... and whose logo appearing in this issue might, in itself, be a sneaky Transformers reference (''Con'' Edison, see?)
* After defeating Kremzeek, Ray thanks {{w|Coulomb's Law|Coulomb's Law}} for the mutual destruction of both Kremzeek and "Killerwatt." Egon points out that the law doesn't work that way, however, though Ray argues that it might be different for electrical ghosts... and, well, we can't argue with that, can we?

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A''': [[Slimer]] vs. the Decepticons, by [[Dan Schoening]] and [[Luis Antonio Delgado]], part 4 of a 5-part composite cover
* '''Cover B''': Optimus, Ectotron, and the Ghostbusters fight various ghosts, by [[Alex Milne]] and [[Josh Perez]]
* '''Retailer incentive cover''': Blueprints for Ectotron, done in the style of several other "schematics" covers across the IDW ''Ghostbusters'' continuity, by [[Chris Panda]]

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==External links==
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Fire-breath

2025-10-05T18:52:18Z

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[[File:G1 Slag fire breath.JPG|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Him Grimlock like to munch metal. Me Slag like to melt it.]]
'''Fire-breath''' is an ability that several [[Transformer]]s with reptilian or monstrous [[beast mode]]s have installed in themselves for combat in their alt modes.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[File:G1 cartoon Grimlock fire breath.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Oh, Me Grimlock got to stop adding spice to metal me eat.]]
The [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] had fire-breath included in their [[alternate mode]]s. Although they all possessed the ability, [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] and [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] were the only ones that really employed it. Slag used his fire-breath to help repair the Washington Monument, {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] had Grimlock demonstrate his mastery of his fire-breath by adjusting [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]]'s volume levels. Later, while practicing on [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], Grimlock had Slag practice his "fire stuff" (Grimlock's words) by evaporating a pond. Slag displayed good moves. The local wildlife was not amused. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} Later, Slag's fire-breath saved the Dinobots by evaporating the tar pit they had sunken into, but it made him rather tired. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}

Though he preferred [[Optic weaponry|optical lasers]], [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] also unleashed torrents of flame from his mouth upon the [[Decepticon fleet]] during his attack on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He later unleashed the attack on the ''[[Minnow]]'' and the [[Autobot]]s' commandeered [[Quintesson Cruiser]], though the latter craft managed to smash into his optic with the last vestiges of its power. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

During the brawl among the [[Primitive]]s, Grimlock showed the uppity Decepticons not to insult him by unleashing his fire-breath upon them. The Decepticons hit started to [[Humanization|cough]]... cause that's what happens when you get hit with fire that can melt body armor. {{storylink|Call of the Primitives}}

=====''Wings Universe''=====
{{Wingsnote}}
[[Dion (G1)|Dion]]'s favorite story of the [[Covenant (group)|Covenant]] depicted [[Sandstorm (BW)|Scorpius]] using flame-breath to defeat an [[ice demon]]. {{storylink|Flames of Yesterday}}

=====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity=====
======''The Headmasters'' cartoon======
The [[Monsterbot (G1)|Monsterbot]]s also had fire-breath, based on their toys' [[gimmick]] to fire "cold" sparks. {{storylink|Head Formation of Friendship}}

======''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon======
The [[Sparkdash]] all displayed the ability to breath fire, based on their toys' [[gimmick]] to fire "cold" sparks.

======''Victory'' cartoon======
The Decepticon Emperor of Destruction [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] made use of fire-breath in at least one battle with his hated rival [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink|The Tide Is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}

====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
In creature mode Blot could exhale small clouds of searing flame {{storylink|The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|Blot's ''Universe'' profile}} while [[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] could shoot a stream of 800 degrees Fahrenheit flame from his mouth. {{storylink|The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|Cutthroat's ''Universe'' profile}} In dinobird mode [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] could shoot a stream of fire from his mouth and hit a target up to 3 miles away. {{storylink|The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|Sky Lynx's ''Universe'' profile}} In Dinobot mode [[Slag (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Slag]] could fire from his mouth a bolt of 3,000 degrees Centigrade flame up to 80 feet. {{storylink|The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|Slag's ''Universe'' profile}}

Battling [[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]] in an old abandoned mining town, Skids used his supercooled [[liquid nitrogen rifle]] to counter Ravage's fire-breath. {{storylink|Showdown!}}

[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] breathed fire when he attacked a city on Nebulos. {{storylink|Broken Glass!}}

====Toy bios====
As a point of fact, [[Slag (G1)|Slag]]'s very [[function]] is "flamethrower".

====Beast Era====
=====''Beast Wars'' cartoon=====
After becoming a [[Transmetal 2]] dragon, [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] possessed a new ability called '''Blast of Flame''',<ref name=Blast>[[Beast Wars Universe]]</ref> in one word, fire-breathing. He was also capable of shooting sub-zero blasts which were called "[[Ice-breath|Blast of Cold]]".<ref name=Blast/> Megatron likes to keep his enemies on their toes. Yessss... {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

=====''Beast Wars Neo'' comic=====
[[Colada]] used fire-breath as a sneak attack on [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]], but the Predacon dodged the attack. {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}}

=====''Beast Wars: Uprising''=====
[[Twinstrike (BWU)|Twinstrike]] could breathe fire thanks to internal reserves of [[phlogiston]]. {{storylink|Derailment}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
The [[Firecon]]s possessed natural, fire-generating abilities that brought them together as a group. During the war, they battled both the [[Wreckers]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] on [[Varas Extrinsecus]] and [[Varas Centralus]]. Decepticon military science also reverse-engineered their abilities to create reproducible [[infernus bullet]]s. {{storylink|The Transformers: Punishment|Punishment}}

[[Sparkstalker]] later used this "fire hot enough to burn an atmosphere" to fuse together some rubble on [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]] following the duel between [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}}

The Dinobots' pyrokinesis was derived from their internal supplies of phlogiston. When Slug's combustion chamber was damaged by [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]], his phlogiston supply began to oxidize. When the Dinobot leader later tried to use his fire breath, this caused him to self-destruct in a ball of fire.

When [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] was enthralled by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Void Scepter]], the deranged scientist unleashed the [[Titan (group)|Titan]]'s fire breath on [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], taking the [[combiner]] out of the fight. After the Void Scepter was destroyed, Trypticon expressed his opinion of being enthralled by unleashing his fire breath on Bludgeon. {{storylink|The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation}}

====''Star Trek vs. Transformers''====
After being forced back to robot mode by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], Trypticon unleashed his flames on the [[human]] colonists of [[Cygnus Seven]]. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Three}} When duelling his fellow Titan, he unleashed a brief burst of flame on the Autobot's chest. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Four}}

====2019 IDW continuity====
[[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]' [[beast mode]] possessed the ability to breath fire. Upon discovering that burning the droppings of the [[Probat (species)|Probats]]' caused them to catalyze into [[energon crystal]]s, {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 1}} he turned his fire on [[Probat (planet)|Probat]]'s spires before [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] stopped him. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 2}}

When Deathsaurus was later usurped by [[Exarchon]], {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}} the warlord used the fire breath to try and destroy [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]'s group when his new body proved too large to follow the Autobots through the [[Sonic Canyons]]. {{storylink|War's End Part Two}}

====''Transformers Go! Go!''====
Grimlock used his fire-breath to fly around while delivering Christmas gifts to children. {{storylink|The Big Operation to Help Santa!}}

===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]]'s dual-headed dragon mode possessed an attack named [[Twin Dragon Breath]], which consisted of fire-breath. He first used it on [[Rail Racer (RID)|Rail Racer]] after [[Team Bullet Train]] saved the [[Linear RFG]]. {{Storylink|Bullet Train to the Rescue}} [[Gas Skunk]]'s acid breath was once ignited by [[Railspike (RID)|Railspike]], giving him fire-breath for a few minutes, much to his alarm. He chased [[Slapper (RID)|Slapper]] and [[Dark Scream]] around until he ran out of fuel. {{storylink|The Secret of the Ruins}}

===''Cybertron'' cartoon===
[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]]'s [[Cyber Key]] weapon was a pair of smaller dragon heads capable of breathing fire. This attack caused severe damage to [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] in their first battle. {{storylink|Detour (episode)|Detour}} When on Earth, Scourge used his flames to harass Leobreaker and [[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]]. {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] had fire-breath installed in the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]], intending to unleash it against the humans and [[Autobot]]s. When [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] confronted him about its presence, Megatron claimed that his desire to have a body once more compelled him to experiment by installing the fire-breath as one of several "features". Sumdac bought it hook, line, and sinker. {{storylink|Blast from the Past}}

===Aligned continuity family===
[[File:TRID E 30 Crazybolt Firebreath.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|Well, yours may have laser eyes, but mine breathes fi-AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!]]
After [[Dark Energon]] had forced the [[core]] to reboot, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] had the [[Autobot fleet]] enact the [[Great Exodus]] only for the ships to come under assault from the orbiting [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]. To counter this threat, Optimus sent the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]] to disable the station only for Trypticon to reveal his robot mode. Using his [[jet pack]], Trypticon kept up the bombing using fire breath until the Aerialbots destroyed his pack. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}

The [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] sub-species possessed the ability to breath fire. When [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] reformatted the [[alternate mode]]s [[Dinobot (FOC)|Lightning Strike Coalition Force]] into [[alien]] [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|beasts]], he incorporated the Predacons' flames into their reformatting. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}} {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)|Fall of Cybertron}}

A [[mechanical bull]] developed for humans to ride could shoot fire from its nostrils. {{storylink|The Island of Misfit Tech}}

When Shockwave brought his [[Predaking (Prime)|Predacon clone]] to Earth to act as a hunter, the beast frequently employed its flames against the Autobots. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} Upon developing full sentience, Predaking displayed the ability to charge up the attack or indeed cancel it. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

Upon being informed that [[Darksteel (Prime)|two]] [[Skylynx (Prime)|other]] Predacons existed, Predaking unleashed a towering beacon of fire to try and signal his kin. The beacon instead wound up attracting [[Unicron#Aligned continuity family|Unicron]]. In battle against the Chaos Bringer's [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcon]] horde, the three's fire breath proved exceptionally effective on the undead Predacon's brittle forms before the sheer numbers forced the Predacon trio down the [[Well of All Sparks]]. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

[[Crazybolt (RID)|Crazybolt]] could breathe fire in his robot mode, or spray a trail of flaming exhaust in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Suspended}} The aptly named [[Flamesnort]] also possessed this power. {{storylink|The Golden Knight}}

===''Age of Extinction'' film===
[[File:Aoe-grimlock-breathing-fire.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|This is how I go fishing guys, with a flash light and a flamethrower.]]
[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]] used fire-breath right after he transformed into a T-rex, and later he used it to attack [[Megatron (Movie)|Galvatron]]'s minions. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
[[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] displayed the ability to breath fire after surviving an impromptu dip in lava in his dinosaur mode. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}} During the final battle of the [[Great War (Cyberverse)|Great War]], Grimlock unleashed this power on [[Alpha Strike]] when she tried to rip open his mouth. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

Following the war's end, when Grimlock was tracking a psychic shard of [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]], he wound up in the valley of the [[Monsterbot (Cyberverse)|Monsterbots]]. While being chased by a swarm of [[Injector (Cyberverse)|Injectors]], Grimlock used his fire breath to scare them off. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] once attacked the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]]s with a blast of fire-breath. {{storylink|Commercial|Trypticon commercial}}

==Notes==
*In the mirrorverse realm of ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'', [[Dinobot (SG)|Dinobots]] possess [[ice-breath]].

==References==
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[[Category:Animated weapons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars weapons]]
[[Category:Cybertron weapons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 weapons]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2001) weapons]]

Lickety-Split (G1)

2025-10-02T13:00:29Z

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{{disambig2|the IDW character|the Animated character|Lickety-Split (Animated)}}
:''Lickety-Split is a Transformer from the [[2019 IDW continuity|2019 IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:Tread&CircuitsPart2-LicketySplit.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"[[Lightbright (G1)|Lightbright]] got her big break, and here I am still waiting tables... grumble grumble..."]]

'''Lickety-Split''' is good at waiting tables.

==Fiction==
===2019 IDW continuity===
[[File:Tread&CircuitsPart3-Licketysplitaltmode.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]

Lickety-Split worked in a bar on [[Velocitron]], where she helped wait tables and take bets. On the eve of the [[Speedia|Speedia 500]], she told [[Aileron]] about the current betting odds on who'd ruin the race first—[[Mayhem Attack Squad|Mayhem]], or the [[Wreckers]]. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}}

She also entered the Speedia herself, driving through the melee when those at the back of the pack were assaulted by Mayhem. [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] of the [[Wreckers]] pursued the Mayhem terrorists towards the front of the race by bouncing off of several other racers, ending up on Lickety-Split. She carried him close enough to tackle [[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]], just before Security Operations finally showed. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 3}} Days later, she was present at the Senate when Mayhem staged another attack and tried to kill the audience. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 4}}

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==Notes==
* Lickety-Split, is of course, based on the background ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' character of the same name, although she sports a visor instead of two eyes.

[[Category:Comic-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:IDW (2019) Transformers]]
[[Category:Velocitron]]

Ghost

2025-10-01T02:26:11Z

Cydra: /* Transformers/Ghostbusters */

{{disambig2|the supernatural entities|the real-world comic story|Ghosts}}
[[File:Henkei starscreams ghost.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Spooky!]]
When [[human]]s or [[Transformer]]s die, sometimes their spirits remain in the form of '''ghosts'''. This new state may render the deceased incorporeal, but they can be seen and heard, usually instilling the living with feelings of dread and/or terror. Often they can influence their environment: manipulating physical objects, possessing the living, riding motorcycles, or shooting lasers at people. On rare occasions, a ghost can be resurrected into a new physical form, allowing the deceased to return to the land of the living.

[[Rad White|Some]] [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|human]]s like to tell ghost stories to frighten their friends. Humans are weird.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[File:G1toon starscreams ghost.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
Following the destruction of his body by [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]], [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] somehow continued to exist as a wraithlike figure. He was able to take possession of the still living, and used this ability to work with [[Octane]] to try and overthrow Galvatron. {{storylink|Starscream's Ghost}} He later struck a bargain with [[Unicron]], who desired to possess [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] as his new form. During the affair, Unicron provided Starscream with a new body of his own, and the Air Commander was once again rendered corporeal. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (G1)|Ghost in the Machine}}

When Galvatron tried to use the [[Matrix of Leadership]], ghostly images of former Autobot leaders appeared to haunt him, though it's possible these were projected by the Matrix itself. {{storylink|The Burden Hardest to Bear}}

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=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
[[File:AlphaTrionGhost.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[Alpha Trion]] manifested as a ghost to guide [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]] Prime through the inner bowels of Cybertron {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} leading him to the chamber holding [[Vector Sigma]]. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

=====''Kiss Players''=====
[[Shizuku Amaō]] died when Galvatron crashed down on [[Tokyo]]. {{storylink|I, You, and the Spinning Earth}} She later manifested as a spectral image riding on a [[Legion (KP)|Legion]]. {{storylink|Kiss Players episode 32|Kiss Players #32}} She was seen accompanying them several more times, until they finally broke into the [[Genital System]] under EDC headquarters, where Shizuku's mother [[Hitoshizuku Amaō]] was attempting to resurrect her in the body of [[Atari Hitotonari]]. {{storylink|Kiss Players episode 37|Kiss Players #37}} The plan failed, and Shizuku's ghost was last seen standing by her mother as the laboratory collapsed on top of them. {{storylink|I, You, and the Spinning Earth}}

=====e-HOBBY comics=====
After being killed by Galvatron, Starscream ended up in limbo with dead versions of himself from other realities. They pooled their resources to create a [[flip-soul]], which Starscream was able to use to return to the physical plane as a ghost. {{storylink|MP-3G Destron Air Commander / Starscream Ghost Ver.}}

=====''Unite Warriors''=====
When [[Galvatron II]]'s body was destroyed, his spirit remained in the world as a ghost thanks to the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] he held. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}}

====Marvel comics continuity====
{{noteukonly}}
After [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] was resurrected as a [[Pretender]], [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] was shocked by his appearance. Starscream slyly suggested perhaps he was a ghost. Later events disproved the theory. {{storylink|Skin Deep}}

''On [[Christmas]] Eve, [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] was visited by the [[ghost of the past]] which resembled [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], the [[ghost of the present]] which resembled [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], and the [[ghost of the future]] which represented a future version of Dreadwind himself. As a result, he abandoned his post as [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|letters page]] answerer. {{storylink|Dreadwind's Xmas!}}''

A version of [[Galvatron II]] was able to persist as a ghost after being blown up by [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] due to his possession of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. {{storylink|LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter}} {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}} As a ghost, he was able to possess other Transformers as hosts, doing this to [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] {{storylink|Grand Galvatron Chapter}} and attempting this on [[Megaempress]], but unfortunately, [[Grand Scourge]] was able to bothandle him due to Galvatron's Matrix energy. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:SpotlightKup Springersholograph.jpg|thumb|left|150px]]
[[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] mistook a [[hologram]] of [[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] to be a ghost, when it was simply part of an attempt to rescue him. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}} An apparition of the deceased [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rewind]] appeared on the ''[[Lost Light]]'', and as a result [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] theorized that it was a "[[data ghost]]". {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} When a quantum duplicate of Rewind was later discovered on another ''Lost Light'', [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] put the earlier appearance down to the collision of quantum realities. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}
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====''Hearts of Steel''====
The [[Lone Gunmen]] encountered a [[Ghostbusters|team of ghost hunters]] in [[New York City|New York]]. {{storylink|The X-Files: Conspiracy: The Transformers}}

====''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''====
After [[Destro]] made a killing in arms manufacturing, a rumour arose that his home was haunted by the ghosts of his victims. As a result, he had [[Castle Destro]] ghost-proofed when he moved it to [[California]]. {{storylink|Stick To Your Guns}}

====''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons====
[[File:TR-Ep10-All-Things-Must-Pass-Ghost-Starscream.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|What's the matter? You look like you've seen a me.]]
Following his destruction during the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]], Starscream's ghost emerged from his body and was left adrift, unable to control itself. However, a [[The Fallen|higher power]] forced his spirit into the body of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], causing the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] to be revived. {{storylink|Aftermath and Rebirth}}. Later, thanks to the power of the Matrix of Leadership, Starscream's ghost was freed from Trypticon, and he claimed to feel reborn as he vanished. {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}} Despite seemingly fading away, Starscream's ghost still lingered, observing Optimus Prime and [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimal Optimus]] from afar. {{storylink|Saga's End}}
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====''Transformers/Ghostbusters''====
[[File:GhostsOfCybertronPart1-QuintessonGhost.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|A full torso apparition, and it's real!]]

When [[Gozer]] attacked Cybertron, [[Kremzeek]] the Scavenger approached [[Decepticon High Command]] and turned them into ghosts so they could live (so to speak) through Cybertron's destruction. In return for this, Kremzeek demanded their aid in finding the [[AllSpark]] so he could absorb it. When [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] refused, the electrical entity absorbed their spirits into his being, sending [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] to hunt for the artifact, taken away from Cybertron aboard the [[Ark (G1)|''Ark'']]. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 2}} {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4}}

A thousand years later, on the planet [[Earth]], ghosts were such a common occurrence that a special team, the aptly named [[Ghostbusters]], was formed to combat and contain these supernatural horrors. One night, after the Ghostbusters had contained a massive tentacled ghost, Starscream's specter appeared before them and asked them to leave so he could speak to [[Ectotron|Ectronymous Diamatron]] in private, only to be sucked up by one of their [[ghost trap]]s. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 1}} Ectronymous, mistaking the ghost for a [[hologram]], deactivated the ghost trap and released the Seeker who told an edited version of his tale to the Autobot and the Ghostbusters, asking for their help in obtaining a new body. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 2}}

[[File:GhostsofCybertron1-Starscream.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Haven't we seen this before?]]
Though Starscream was brought back to the [[Ghostbusters firehouse]], the cynical [[Peter Venkman]] doubted the Seeker's motivations and locked him in another ghost trap. As the Ghostbusters waited for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to arrive, they responded to a disturbance caused by [[Killerwatt|an electrically charged ghost]], with Ectronymous – now dubbed "Ectotron" – modifying a ghost trap to contain the specter. When the humans met Optimus, it was found that Starscream had escaped. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 3}} Tracking the Seeker to the [[Grosbeak Generating Station]], they were met by Kremzeek, who proceeded to absorb Starscream's ghost as a form of punishment, before engaging Optimus Prime in a duel for the AllSpark. Unable to match Kremzeek's power, the Ghostbusters released the electrical ghost, its ravenous hunger drawing it to Kremzeek and dispelling both entities. Though this ended the threat posed by Kremzeek, it also released the ghosts of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4}}

Though Optimus offered to use the AllSpark to resurrect [[Decepticon High Command]], Megatron's rage drove him to attack his arch-foe. Starscream, seeking revenge on Peter Venkman, attacked the Ghostbusters with Soundwave and Shockwave, deciding that they had nothing better to do, joining him. When the latter two were absorbed by ghost traps, Starscream decided to return another day. As Optimus and Megatron dueled, the latter was sent stumbling back and possessed Ectotron's body, using the Autobot scientist to attack Optimus before a canister of [[mood slime]] forced him out. Rematerializing in a more monstrous form, Megatron leapt at Optimus Prime, hoping to possess him and use the Autobots to rebuild the [[Decepticon Empire]]. A second before he could, Ectotron managed to restrain and capture him. In the aftermath, Ectotron decided to become the first interstellar Ghostbuster, intent on locating any more Cybertronian ghosts that might be scattered throughout the galaxy, unaware that he was being trailed by Starscream's ghost. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5}}

====''Transformers Go! Go!''====
{{stub|{{storylink|Go! Go! issue 41}}}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
====''Energon'' cartoon====
[[File:E50 anonymousamximus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
[[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] was about to terminate [[Superion Maximus]] when the ghost of the latter's [[Dauntless Maximus|dead brother]] appeared, blowing off one of Bruticus Maximus's limbs. Though the ghost vanished as swiftly as it had appeared, its actions turned the tide of the battle in Superion Maximus's favor. {{storylink|Spark (episode)|Spark}}

====''Cybertron'' cartoon====
[[File:Cyb ep33 am i a ghost.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Despite being destroyed, thanks to the [[Armor of Unicron]], [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] manifested as a shadowy form which [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] decided was a ghost. Unfortunately [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] was afraid of ghosts. {{storylink|Balance}} Megatron was eventually able to regenerate a corporeal form, and used the remnants of his ghost form to create [[Nemesis Breaker]]. {{storylink|Darkness (episode)|Darkness}}

====''Transformers Legends''====
According to [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]], [[Halloween]] originated from Irish folk who believed in ghosts. {{storylink|Something Robotic This Way Comes}}
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===''Animated'' cartoon===
During a slumber party, [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] told ghost stories and used her [[AllSpark Key]] to provide special effects. It worked pretty well to scare [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]. {{storylink|Home Is Where the Spark Is}} [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] dressed as a ghost for Halloween. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}} After [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] merged his [[spark]] with the AllSpark, his ghostly form manifested long enough to rescue [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] from an exploding [[Lugnut Supreme]]. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

===''Shattered Glass''===
[[Whisper (SG)|Whisper]] attempted to scare [[Scoop (SG)|Scoop]] by posing as the ghost of [[Boltax (SG)|Boltax]]. {{storylink|Do Over}}

===''Crossovers''===
[[Ghost Rider]] is presumably a ghost of some sort.

===Titan Magazines post-''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===
[[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] made the mistake of venturing into the [[Bermuda Triangle]], and was attacked by ships and airplanes that had been missing for decades. The origin of these ghostly vessels is unclear, but they resulted in Soundwave fleeing from [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|Making Waves}}

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
[[File:HauntingGriffinRock ghost appears on road.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Ah, not another hitchhiker."]]
[[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] created the [[Spectral Vapor Filter]], a device intended to trap ghosts. [[Griffin Rock]] legends told of [[Charlotte Wayne]], also known as the Lady of Griffin Rock, whose ghost was said to haunt the island. An appearance by the ghost resulted in [[Jerry (RB)|Jerry]] running his truck off the road, and subsequently the town was overrun with the ghosts of famous island residents. Ultimately it was discovered that [[Evan (RB)|Evan]] and [[Myles]] had used the town's holographic systems to create the fake ghost epidemic; however, it later transpired that no hologram of Charlotte Wayne was in the computer system. {{storylink|The Haunting of Griffin Rock}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
After his death, Starscream continued to exist as a ghost, though to manifest on the physical plane, he had to pass through a [[spirit portal]] from the ethereal plane. The [[Autobot]]s were able to track his appearances with electromagnetic radiation detectors. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (Legends)|Ghost in the Machine}} He was able to control both [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] to do his bidding. He was later provided with a new body by Unicron. {{storylink|Unicron Returns}}

==Toys==
[[File:Masterpiece ghost starscream.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Spooky ''and'' brittle!]]
*'''Starscream Ghost Version''' (e-HOBBY Exclusive, 2001)
:The [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1|original Starscream mold]] was released in transparent plastic by [[e-HOBBY]] to represent his ghost form as seen in the cartoon.
*'''Starscream Ghost Version''' (Deluxe, 2009)
:His ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Classics|mold]] was likewise released in transparent plastic and offered through ''[[Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 2]]''.
*'''Starscream Ghost Version''' (2010)
:E-HOBBY also released his [[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]] [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|mold]] in transparent plastic.
*'''Ectotron''' ([[2019]])
:A clear plastic figurine of ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' character [[Slimer]] is included with ''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' figure [[Ectotron]].
*'''Optimus Prime Ecto-35 Edition''' (2019)
:An opaque, painted redeco of the above Slimer figurine is included with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#CollabGB|Optimus Prime Ecto-35 Edition]].
*'''Ectotron''' (2021)
:In addition to the previously released Slimer figure, this release of Ectotron also includes a transparent plastic figurine of the character [[Muncher]].

===Merchandise===
*'''Ghost Starscream''' (2001)
:Starscream's [[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection]] [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Super Collection Figure|Figure]] was [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#GhostSCF|released in transparent plastic]] as a [[chase figure]].
*'''Ghost of Starscream''' (Palisades, 2005)
:[[Palisades Toys|Palisades]] released a [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#PalisadesGhost|ghost version]] of their [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Palisades|Starscream polystone statue]], limited to 300 pieces.
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==Notes==
*[[Skullgrotes]] has a Ghost Horror Laser, however it does not involve actual ghosts.
*The human-built spaceship ''[[Ghost 1]]'' was not a ghost either.
*Nor does the secret military organization [[G.H.O.S.T.]] have any ghosts in their employ.

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Sea Clamp

2025-09-29T23:02:33Z

Cydra: /* Beast Wars: Uprising */

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:''Sea Clamp is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:SeaClampBWSourcebook.jpg|300px|thumb|"Wait, I've got a better plan to catch this big red lobster man! We'll toss him in a boiling pot, and when he's done we'll butter him up!"]]
General '''Sea Clamp''' (also '''Seaclamp''') is a member of the [[Tripredacus Council]] best known for his crushing grip, both literal and metaphorical. Nothing pleases him more than watching a hapless victim struggle for relief as he squeezes the life from them with his viselike pincers, but there is equally little escape from his far-ranging schemes and plans. Stoic and silent, Sea Clamp rarely spends a word when a gesture or a "message" will serve.<ref>Sea Clamp profile in ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' #3</ref>

He combines with his fellow council members to form [[Tripredacus]], or with them plus [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] to form [[Predacus]].

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
[[File:GeneralSeaclamp.jpg|150px|thumb|"Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons."]]
{{voiceactor|[[Ian James Corlett|Ian Corlett]] (English), [[Jōji Yanami]] (Japanese), [[Víctor Delgado]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

After the [[transwarp wavefront]] was detected entering Cybertronian space, General Sea Clamp sent agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to track the wave back to its source, giving him the secretly-developed [[Transwarp cruiser]]. A meeting of the Tripredacus Council was then called to discuss the fact that the Transwarp wave had been matched with the energy signature of the ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]''. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
{{BW Shell Game}}
After sending Ravage out on his errand on prehistoric Earth, the Tripredacus Council tasked Magmatron with monitoring all Maximal channels, instructing him to report any communications that might show that the enemy faction had caught on to their secret plans. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

====2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity====
[[File:BWGatherSea ClampCybertronMode.jpg|left|150px|thumb]]
After recovering his sense of identity, [[Cicadacon]] looked around for others like him, deriving Sea Clamp from experiments on [[Soundwave (G1)|one of his "fellow" Decepticons]]. His previous sense of loyalty carried over, this time aimed at the "Cybertronian" cause, and he encouraged those like [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to follow the [[Tripredacus Council]] instead of the Decepticon cause. {{storylink|#Combiner Wars|BotCon 2016 General Sea Clamp profile card}}

Seaclamp {{sic}} went on to become the more serious-minded member of the Tripredacus Council. As the Great War drew to a close, Seaclamp, Ramhorn, and Cicadacon were overseeing their latest batch of test subjects being treated with transwarp energy. They found that, when applied correctly onto Cybertronian anatomy, it could reduce Cybertronians to a "quantum state", and remake them into a "purer" form. Through this process, they hoped to unite all of Cybertron into a single "race." While they discussed their insidious plans, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] reported to the Council with startling news: both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] had perished in combat! Though this noted a turning point in the Decepticons' conflict against the Autobots, the three generals found themselves giving the development little thought. When a [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|member of their army]] contacted them with plans to attack the demoralized Autobots, Seaclamp, Cicadacon, and Ramhorn simply ordered him to stand down; they had more important concerns to focus on.

Sending Tarantulas to deal with the upstart (as they correctly guessed he would not follow their orders) the Tripredacus Council readied to unleash a transmatter bomb onto Cybertron to reformat the entire planet all at once. But a [[Axalon (BW)|ship]] happened upon the Council's secret base within Unicron's head, and accidentally deflected the bomb with its shield. Their lair discovered and their plan forcefully postponed, the Council headed down to Cybertron, and joined together with their agents into the gestalt [[Predacus]], to put an end to the dissension in their ranks. After slaying Predaking, who had followed the upstart into battle, the Council surrendered to the Autobots on behalf of all Decepticons. The Pax Cybertronia was signed thereafter, and Seaclamp helped form a new faction, the Predacons, in this newfound peacetime. Now free of distractions, Sea Clamp and his allies could once more focus on uniting all Cybertronians, and began their trans-matter experiments anew. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

The Tripredacus Council ordered [[Magmatron]] to assure that no knowledge of the [[transwarp wavefront]] reached the Maximals. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}} When their [[Ravage (G1)|agent]] failed at his task of rounding up the rogue Megatron, the council sent Magmatron to complete the mission. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}}
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====''Timelines''====
[[File:DescentIntoEvil-SeaClamp.jpg|thumb|300px|Every table should have three "blow up Flamewar" buttons.]]

Sea Clamp, alongside Cicadacon and Ram Horn, was involved in an assassination plot, part of a ploy to take control of the Predacon army, and dispose of its then-current leader, [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]. The plot was thought to have succeeded, but in truth they did not manage to extinguish Razorclaw's spark. Nonetheless, the Predacons' previous leader was forced into hiding, and while the world believed him dead, the Tripredacus Council took control of the Predacons. {{storylink|Razorclaw (G1)#Timelines|BotCon 2009 Razorclaw profile card}}

The Tripredacus Council employed [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] to check on [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]'s operation on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]]. As Flamewar reported on the apparent success of Deathsaurus's [[Virulent Clone]]s, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] hacked in the feed and informed everyone of the impeding failure built into the Clones. To rid themselves of an exposed agent, the Tripredacus Council remotely exploded [[Flamewar's ship]] with her in it. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

After a Predacon insurrection led by Flamewar in the guise of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] arose in the [[J'kozian sector]], the Tripredacus Council discussed it and decided to leak the insurrection's presence on [[Nibari]] to the [[Maximal]]s so they would take care of the Council's renegade problem. {{storylink|The Razor's Edge}}

====''Wings Universe''====
[[File:ACommonFoe-stasispods.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Man, blindpacking is so obnoxious.]]

Sea Clamp was one of four mysterious protoforms found by [[Sky-Byte (RID)#Wings Universe|Sky-Byte]] in the laboratory of [[Jhiaxus (G2)#Wings Universe|Jhiaxus]] while trying to save his associate's clones from the Autobots. {{storylink|A Common Foe}} Sea Clamp and his comrades pledged allegiance to the Predacons in suspiciously quick time.<ref>''Timelines'' Predacon Tarantulas bio</ref>

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Following Cicadacon's deposition of [[Preditron]], founder of the Tripredacus Alliance, Sea Clamp and Ram Horn became senior statesmen of the government. {{storylink|Head Games}} In his absence, the new Alliance saw fit to "reinterpret" Preditron's writings, using his philosophical musings to sow division between Maximals and Predacons. {{storylink|The Predacon Manifesto}}

When the Maximals and Predacons rose up against the ruling [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]] during the [[Grand Uprising]], the Tripredacus Alliance would follow the example of the newly-founded [[Maximal Nation]] and, from their new command post in [[Kalis]], formed their own breakaway nation in the shape of the [[Independent Predacus States]]. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} Predacon spies would liberate [[combiner]] technology from the Maximal Nation, giving the three the ability to combine into Tripredacus. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Initially choosing to stay neutral in the war, the Alliance would eventually be approached by [[Lio Convoy]] for direct intervention against the Builders. The Tripredacus accepted—but made it a condition that Preditron, who had escaped prison and become a propaganda piece for Lio Convoy's [[Resistance (BWU)|Resistance]], would have to be eliminated first. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}}

Lio Convoy accepted the terms of the deal, but the public assassination attempt was cut short by the advent of the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s: a self-replicating menace that threatened to entirely overrun Resistance territory. Lio Convoy attempted to get the Alliance to join forces and make a combined push on [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]; though Ram Horn was skeptical after the Resistance had failed to eliminate Preditron as they had promised, Sea Clamp used some reverse psychology to convince Ram Horn to authorize the deployment of the [[Legion of the Inferno]] to Iacon.

The war against the Vehicons quickly took on a new dimension when the Vehicons turned on their creators and sparked the cataclysmic [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], forcing Builders, Maximals, and Predacons alike to regroup towards [[Nova Cronum]] in the hopes of destroying the [[Grand Mal]]. The three Predacons saw fit to direct their war effort from a fortified bunker, which gave Preditron the opportunity to commandeer the army as he led by example. Furious at Preditron's gall and Lio Convoy's inability to silence the threat, the three leaders opted to regain the loyalty of their forces by taking matters into their own hands and eliminating the founder of the Predacons once and for all.

As Tripredacus, the Council reached the frontlines and swiftly beat Preditron to death in an utterly one-sided defeat. The murder of Preditron enraged his friend [[Ser-Ket (BWU)|Ser-Ket]], who used her [[Fire-breath|flame breath]] to bite into the combiner's legs and detonate it, blowing the monster into its components once more. Having taken the brunt of the damage, Sea Clamp was mortally wounded and soon expired from his injuries. {{Storylink|Derailment}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:Unicron1-SeaClamp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2]]
Sea Clamp was one of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]]'s Maximals. During Onyx's invasion of Cybertron, he was one of the many Maximals who battled [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] and lost; [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] and [[Aileron]] came across his claw shortly afterwards. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|Endless Forever}}

Sea Clamp evidently got back to working order and fell under the command of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] led a force against Unicron to prevent him from eating [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Sea Clamp was sent out to attack. {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}}

===2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic===
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
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===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Seaclamp was a Predacon with a crustacean alternate mode. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWSeaClampToyBeastMode.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|ROCK LOBSTER!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Tripredacus''' (Ultra, [[1997]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' "Linkage system" weapon component/spring-loaded missile launcher
{{toydesigner|[[Yuichiro Hira]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Available only in a an Ultra sized 3-Pack with [[Cicadacon#Toys|Cicadacon]] and [[Ram Horn#Toys|Ram Horn]], Sea Clamp transforms into a grayish-purple lobster. He has two blades that flip out of his claws, and a white spring-loaded missile launcher that is stored under his abdomen, though Sea Clamp himself doesn't have much use for it. While he can grasp it in his claw, it doesn't hold in solidly and it requires Cicadacon's "chopping rotor blades"/missiles in order to do anything.

: He can also form the legs of the trio's combined mode [[Tripredacus#Toys|Tripredacus]].

:This mold was recolored and released in Japan as [[Gimlet#Toys|Gimlet]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1997/Predacon/SeaClamp/seaclamp.htm More information on Sea Clamp at TFU.info]''
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===''Combiner Wars''===
{{anchor|DawnOfThePredacus}}
[[File:BotCon2016toy-SeaClamp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|He's been working on his posture.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Dawn of the Predacus''' (Box set, 2016)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' 2-Part Cannon

:''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' "General Sea Clamp" is a [[retool]] of Voyager Class [[Scattershot (G1)#Combiner Wars|Scattershot]] (itself a heavy retool of [[Silverbolt (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Silverbolt]]) with a new head based on his appearance in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon. While very cartoon accurate, his head doesn't lend itself to easily tucking away—it actually has to be turned sideways to fit inside his torso properly. He is able to combine with any Deluxe-sized ''Combiner Wars''-style figure, though he was intended to combine with Ravage, Tarantulas, Cicadacon, and Ramhorn to form Predacus.

:He was available along with [[Ravage (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Ravage]], [[Tarantulas (BW)/toys#Combiner Wars|Predacon Tarantulas]], [[Ram Horn#Combiner Wars|General Ramhorn]], and [[Cicadacon#Combiner Wars|General Cicadacon]] in the [[BotCon 2016]] boxset.

:The original version of this mold was used for [[Silverbolt (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Silverbolt]] and [[Silverbolt (G1)/toys#CWG2|G2 Silverbolt]], and was [[retool]]ed differently into [[Cyclonus (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Cyclonus]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2016/Predacon/BCSeaClamp/seaclamp.htm More information on BotCon Sea Clamp at TFU.info]''
{{CWSilverboltMold}}

==Notes==
*Sea Clamp's name is a {{W|C-clamp|horrible, horrible pun}}.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Sea Clamp''' (シークランプ ''Shī Kuranpu'')
*''French:'' '''Crampon''' (Canada, "Clamp")
*''Italian:'' '''Chela'''
*''Spanish:'' '''Almeja de Mar''' (Latin America, "Sea Clam")

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars combiners]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Council members]]
[[Category:Earth Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Maximals]]
[[Category:Predacon leaders]]
[[Category:Sea specialists]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game Predacons]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Predacons]]

Blackarachnia (BW)

2025-09-21T14:29:22Z

Cydra: /* Beast Machines cartoon */

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:''Blackarachnia is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] or [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:TFLegends-Blackarachnia.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Hot, poisonous, and deadly. Rawr!]]

A sultry femme fatale, '''Blackarachnia''' is smart, sly, and dangerous. She's got eight legs, and she knows how to use them. Of the several rebellious Predacons under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s command, she's one of the very few who can, on occasion, outguile him. Always looking out for Number One, Blackarachnia values her independence and freedom above all else. She would rather be deactivated than be a slave.

Blackarachnia's greatest weakness, other than her overconfidence, is her feelings for the Maximal [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]. Something about his heroic demeanor and the kindness he shows her makes her uneasy. She hasn't experienced unconditional love before, and it scares her, though she'll never admit it.

{{quote|Even if I'm good, I'm still bad.|Blackarachnia|"[[Crossing the Rubicon]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Toy bios===
Working by moonlight, Blackarachnia posed as a double agent. In reality, this was merely a ruse she utilized in order to lure unwitting Maximals into her darkened den, where she first paralyzed her victim with a poisonous missile. She then proceeded to restrain her victim with her powerful legs, and subsequently sucked their life force dry... kinky. She was capable of converting thermal energy into [[cyber venom]]. {{storylink|Blackarachnia (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|Blackarachnia bio}}

The new [[Transmetal 2]] body Blackarachnia acquired from Megatron's mysterious new technology had the power to cast illusions, altering her physical appearance and position for up to five minutes thanks to the electro disruptor housed in her... rear segment. {{storylink|Blackarachnia (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia toy bio}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Venus Terzo]] (English), [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] (Japanese)|[[Xu Lin]] (Chinese), [[Fátima Noya]] (Portuguese), [[Françoise Vallon]] (French), [[Loredana Alfieri]] (Italian), [[Uta Dahlbridge]] (German), [[Olga Hnidey]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Marisa Marco]] (Castilian Spanish)}}

[[File:DoubleJeopardy-Blackarachniaintro.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"I want one." "NO."]]

The Cybertronian who would become "Blackarachnia" was originally one of the many [[Maximal]] [[protoform]]s carried aboard the starship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', carried within a [[stasis pod]] and jettisoned into a stable orbit when the ship itself crash-landed on prehistoric [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}} When the stasis pod crash-landed in an icy region, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s got to it first and brought it back to the ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'', where the mad scientist [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] installed a [[shell program]] that would turn the unborn Transformer into a loyal Predacon. As the pod's [[DNA scanner]] searched for a compatible life-form, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]—intrigued by the sight of a black widow devouring another spider—selected it as the template for their new Predacon. [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], observing the slim and attractive Blackarachnia transform and strike a few poses, suggested that Tarantulas had "ulterior motives behind her beast form selection" but she was a Predacon, and that was what was important. In the battle with the Maximals that followed, she easily defeated [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] with a well-placed kick, but conspicuously went missing while the other Predacons suffered an ignominious defeat thanks to [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]]'s inept leadership. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy (episode)|Double Jeopardy}}

Blackarachnia was assigned to a mission with [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] to dig under the ''Axalon'' and use a [[sonic emitter]] she had invented to blow a hole into the bottom. She didn't get on well with either of them, but they managed to eventually get to the point where they were ready to trigger the emitter... only for [[Tigatron]] to steal it. By the time they caught up with the Maximal, the emitter was ready to explode, and they could only flee the blast area. {{storylink|A Better Mousetrap}} When [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]'s virus turned [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] into a berserker, Primal launched a one-man war against the ''Darksyde'' while Blackarachnia and Terrorsaur kept the other Maximals at bay. Unfortunately, Cheetor slipped past them and was able to eventually return Primal to normal. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}}

[[File:TheSpark Blackarachnia spidermode.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Prime used to leave his trailer behind when he transformed, so why can't she do the same with her abdomen?]]

Blackarachnia was present during the interrogation of Cheetor when the Predacons discovered that a [[temporal probe|Maximal probe]] was flying past the planet, and took part in the battle to destroy the signal array which the Maximals were building. Once [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] was locked into his dino-mode by Tarantualas's [[Transformation Lock Lens|transformation lock lens]], Blackarachnia delivered the coup de grâce to his pride with several kicks to the face until [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] blasted her off a cliff. {{storylink|The Probe}} Blackarachnia invented some signal dampeners which the Predacons used in their latest ruse: faking their own destruction and hiding while the Maximals used parts from their abandoned ship to repair the ''Axalon'' with the intent of seizing their spaceworthy ship. The Predacons pursued Dinobot once he'd discovered their deception, and during an attempt to rush the ''Axalon'', Blackarachnia was blasted by the ship's defenses. {{storylink|Victory (episode)|Victory}}

After Megatron turned [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] into a Predacon using a [[Transmuter (BW)|Transmuter]], Blackarachnia and Megatron were startled by Waspinator's impression of [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]. The brainwashed Maximal proceeded to string Blackarachnia and Tarantulas up with their own webs. {{storylink|Dark Designs}} Blackarachnia and Scorponok were dispatched to retrieve the latest crashed stasis pod. They encountered Tigatron, who disabled Scorponok, but was himself paralyzed by Blackarachnia's venom. At the pod, she fought Cheetor at length, but he caught her venom dart and used it to knock her out. {{storylink|The Spark}}

[[File:The Trigger Blackarachnia chair.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep about that.]]

The discovery of a mysterious [[Brigadoon|flying island]] led to Megatron dispatching Blackarachnia and Scorponok to investigate. The pair discovered that the island possessed a vast arsenal of exotic alien weaponry, and Blackarachnia resolved that she would take the island's power for herself. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 1}} As the pair reached the obelisk in the center of the island, Waspinator and Terrorsaur arrived, and Blackarachnia tricked them into using their weapons and tripping one of the island's automated defense systems. She then got rid of Scorponok using another trap, then took control of the entire island. However, as she began piloting the island toward the ''Axalon'', Tigatron was able to destroy its energy supply and the whole thing crashed to the ground. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 2}}

Blackarachnia attempted to forge an alliance with Tarantulas through flattery, and accompanied him on a mission to secure the latest downed stasis pod. Unfortunately, they were too late to ensure the new Predacon obtained an arachnid beast mode. While Blackarachnia tried to get the violently insane [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] under control, Tarantulas made off with the real prize—the stasis pod itself. After the pod was destroyed, Tarantulas revealed that the planet was doomed, and Blackarachnia realised he intended to construct an escape ship to get off-world. However, Tarantulas rebuffed her offer of further help and threw her out of his lair. {{storylink|Spider's Game}}

[[File:Possession Blackarachnia slags Starscream.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Her eyes are up there! And down there! Take your pick.]]

A Predacon plan to steal the [[rectifier coil]] from the ''Axalon'' resulted in the Maximals going feral, and Blackarachnia was part of the hunting party which pursued them into the jungle. She was defeated by Dinobot after the Maximals overcame their little problem. {{storylink|Call of the Wild}} When [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] took control of Waspinator's body and the Predacons were able to conquer the ''Axalon'', the Decepticon took Blackarachnia under his wing as a student and revealed his true intent to overthrow Megatron. After he abandoned her in the Maximal base, leaving her to escape Primal and Dinobot on her own, she took that as a hint to return the favour, and later shot a cluster of energon crystals, blasting Starscream free from Waspinator. She then engaged in some quick talking to get herself out of trouble with Megatron. {{storylink|Possession}}

Tarantulas infected Rhinox with an [[energon discharge virus]], and was later himself incapacitated, leading the Predacons to investigate his lair to see if they could dig up any more of the virus. Blackarachnia was able to find a counter-virus, but while Megatron was attempting a brilliant gambit against the attacking Maximals, Rhinox countered with an almighty fart which left the Predacon forces hanging from a tree. {{storylink|The Low Road}} Some time later, Megatron called a truce when signs pointed to the [[Vok|aliens]] returning. Tarantulas stole a transwarp cell from the ''Darksyde'', leading Megatron to assign Blackarachnia to keep an eye on him. The two spiders attempted to stop Tigatron escaping the Predacon base, but were tricked into being flattened by a boulder by Dinobot. They were the least damaged, however, and dragged the rest of the Predacons back to base. {{storylink|Before the Storm}}

[[File:OtherVoices2 possessed Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|I'm sorry; did I step on your moment?]]

Blackarachnia offered to help Tarantulas break into the Maximal base to steal a stasis pod. They were able to use one of Blackarachnia's inventions to penetrate the ''Axalon'' shields and overcome Rhinox and Dinobot. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 1}} As Tarantulas worked to turn the stasis pod into an escape ship, Blackarachnia intending to use the pod herself, turned on him. They were interrupted by Inferno, who slagged Tarantulas, but Blackarachnia was easily able to defeat him in return. She linked to Tarantulas's mind to obtain the necessary information and successfully completed modifying the pod... only to be captured by the Maximals. Optimus forced her to change the control codes to respond to him, so he could pilot the pod himself and destroy the alien's [[Planet Buster]] weapon. As she badmouthed the Maximals' good-byes, she was subsequently knocked temporarily offline by [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]. As it happened, Megatron had sabotaged the transwarp cell, and Optimus was unable to eject before impact. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}}

While attempting to escape from the Maximal base, Blackarachnia was shocked to discover that her earlier interfacing with Tarantulas had resulted in a permanent mind-link between the two of them. As the [[quantum surge]] created by the Planet Buster's destruction hit the Earth, Tarantulas forced Blackarachnia to take his unconscious body with her as she left the base. Though she was intercepted by Tigatron and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], Megatron happened to turn up at that point. He threatened to terminate Blackarachnia, but she talked her way out of it by pointing out the simple fact that Megatron's stock of troops was sorely depleted. Of course, during the inevitable battle, Tarantulas forced Blackarachnia to retreat with his newly-[[Transmetal]]lized body. {{storylink|Aftermath (BW episode)|Aftermath}}

[[File:ComingoftheFuzors Blackarachnia downloading.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|She blinded me with computer science!]]

Returning to the Predacon base, Blackarachnia interrupted Dinobot stealing the [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disk]]s, but refused Tarantulas's order that she should try to get them back. Although she successfully returned Tarantulas's mind to his own body, she discovered that the mental link between them persisted. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} While Tarantulas went to help Megatron's latest battle, Blackarachnia dug through the base's computer for information on the Golden Disks and discovered important data regarding Megatron's ''true'' intentions—a plan that involved the access codes to the original Autobot [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. She downloaded the information while Tarantulas was unconscious, destroyed the computer, and lied to Megatron that Dinobot had done it. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

The two spiders were later sent with new recruit [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] to build a refueling station in a cave full of energon. Tarantulas schemed to take over the cave himself and attempted to persuade Blackarachnia to join him, but soon realised she was hiding something from him. When he tried to rip the information from her mind, she cracked an energon cube, and the [[energon radiation]] forced him to sever the mental link. Tarantulas threatened to tear her apart, but was interrupted when Rattrap and [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] arrived to fight. Silverbolt, much to Rattrap's annoyance, refused to strike Blackarachnia because she was female. In the end, Tarantulas used the battle as cover to fake the cave's destruction, and the trio had to report their failure to Megatron. {{storylink|Tangled Web}}

When Dinobot attempted to defect back to the Predacons, Blackarachnia suggested he prove himself by fighting with Quickstrike. {{storylink|Maximal, No More}} During another alien incursion, Megatron took Blackarachnia and Inferno to the Maximal base, where they were able to overcome Rhinox, the sole Maximal there. Blackarachnia grabbed the alien [[Golden Disk (Vok)|Golden Disk]]. Megatron and Tarantulas colluded to work against the aliens, and when Megatron questioned why, Blackarachnia revealed that she had learned from the mind link that Tarantulas hated the aliens and wanted to destroy them. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 1)}} Though Blackarachnia was rendered unconscious by a blast from the [[Metal Hunter|alien construct]] that appeared, she was reactivated when Megatron took control of the construct and brought the other Predacons aboard. She was one of the Predacons sent out to defend the construct against the Maximals, but Tarantulas managed to infiltrate and destroy it anyway. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 2)}}

[[File:Bad Spark Blackarachnia Silverbolt.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|DEBATE ME]]

When an energon blast sent her and Silverbolt into the middle of the dense jungles, they were forced to work together. Though attracted to the [[Fuzor]], Blackarachnia was endlessly frustrated by his seemingly idiotic chivalry and need to treat her specially. Megatron, listening in via a [[synch-pulse transmitter]] he'd planted on her, was disgusted by the obvious romance going on. Still Silverbolt and Blackarachnia worked together surprisingly well, saving each other's life in turns and eventually defeating [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] with the help of Optimus and Cheetor. {{storylink|Bad Spark}}

Megatron's first attempt to change history and retroactively win the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] saw the Predacons attack a [[Valley of the Neanderthals|lush valley]] where the [[Anthropoid|ancestors of humanity]] dwelt. As Dinobot laid everything on the line to stop them, Blackarachnia and Inferno did considerable damage to the vengeful Maximal before he could defeat them. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

[[File:Agenda3-remindsmeofyou.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|And that star over there's named Scott.]]

Blackarachnia took advantage of Silverbolt's obvious interest in her, and met the Maximal at a secluded location to obtain a [[graviton generator]]. She used the generator to convert a stasis pod into a makeship hoversled, and later overheard Megatron giving a mission to Waspinator. As the Maximals fought their way into the Predacon base, Blackarachnia emerged on her sled to encounter Silverbolt. Silverbolt refused a direct order from Optimus to shoot her, allowing her to leave and tail Waspinator instead. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} Silverbolt eventually caught up with Blackarachnia, who resorted to shooting him in order to try to get the point across that he should leave her alone. It didn't really work, and when the hoversled she was on hit Waspinator, Silverbolt saved her from plummeting to the ground. He subsequently joined her in digging into the side of the mountain they had been heading towards. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

Finally they broke through into a huge cavern containing the Ark, where Blackarachnia explained the ship's significance to her companion. While she was keen to take its power for herself, Megatron arrived and knocked Silverbolt offline before caving in the tunnel they'd dug. Megatron had always known that she'd taken the ship's access codes, and had deliberately allowed her to reach the Ark—his plot complete, he threatened to execute Silverbolt unless she did what he said. Blackarachania bitterly acquiesced to his demands, reluctantly opened the ship's access hatch, and used the Ark's security system to hold off the Maximals while Megatron went on to enact his ultimate gambit—killing the dormant [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and triggering a history-changing [[timestorm]] that would retroactively win the Great War for the Decepticons and wipe the Maximals from existence. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

[[File:Cutting Edge Blackarachnia kids.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Hey, fellas. Either one of you know where the Smithsonian is? I'm here to pick up a fossil.]]

Unfortunately for Megatron, Blackarachnia had ''been'' a Maximal protoform and certainly wasn't willing to die for his cause. After first activating [[Teletraan I]]'s security nets to force Megatron of the ship, she and Silverbolt helped stabilize the dying Autobot and began a repair process. With no other options available, the Maximals accepted her help; while the Maximals were occupied with Megatron, Blackarachnia slipped out... only to be trapped by falling rocks and damaged by Megatron during his escape. Silverbolt cradled her to his chest as she shut down and swore vengeance until the other Maximals reminded her that she could simply be repaired. With no other choice, Blackarachnia joined forces with the Maximals as they established a new base inside [[Mount St. Hilary]], {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} and spent time on guard duty outside the base with Silverbolt. {{storylink|Deep Metal}} Blackarachnia quickly proved her usefulness to the Maximals by building a [[subaquatic stealth vessel]] that could retrieve [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] from the ''Axalon''{{'}}s underwater resting place, although Rattrap was less than thrilled about having to use the "Predacon beach ball". {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

Blackarachnia was annoyed when she wound up having to escort [[Chak]] and [[Una]] back to their tribe with Cheetor, who'd developed a boyish crush on her. Rattrap was also rather distrustful of her, as earlier he'd spied Blackarachnia sneaking some parts from a classified area. But when Megatron's new [[cyber raptor]]s attacked, Blackarachnia showed her good side by defending the children, and even took a hit from Tarantulas for them—which she immediately denied to an impressed Silverbolt by saying she slipped. With the cyber raptors defeated, she informed Cheetor that he was a nice kid, which were two strikes against him, and warned him not to look for strike three. {{storylink|Cutting Edge}}

[[File:ProvingGrounds Blackarachnia wink.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Look at that trustworthy face! Blackarachnia's not going to backstab us!]]

[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] returned from a mission reporting that Cheetor had seemingly been while destroyed trying to interfere with Megatron's cloning experiments. However, Cheetor eventually turned up alive with the mysterious [[Transmetal driver]] in his possession. Although he tossed it into a pool of lava, Blackarachnia grabbed it before it was destroyed. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}} When Cheetor went missing again, Blackarachnia took part in the search mission, leading Silverbolt to develop jealousy at her apparent concern for their comrade. As it turned out, Cheetor had mutated into a [[Transmetal 2]] form. Blackarachnia took a particular interest in acquiring this new technology for herself, but Cheetor remained oblivious to the ''real'' reason behind her sudden interest in his new body. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}

After Rhinox scanned her and found the shell program that made her a Predacon, Blackarachnia finally got fed up with Rattrap's attitude and Cheetor's crush and nearly snapped before Optimus intervened. Believing that Optimus and Rhinox were planning to remove the shell program without her consent, Blackarachnia left the base and was drawn into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with [[Dinobot II]]. Blackarachnia got the upper hand, but was caught off-guard by Dinobot's power and durability before Silverbolt rescued her. Before Dinobot could blast Silverbolt, however, Blackarachnia shot him out of the way and tried to stall their attacker by pretending to bargain with him and form an alliance. Dinobot stunned her, but he was distracted by Silverbolt long enough for the two Maximals to finally defeat him. Blackarachnia was enraged when she realized that Silverbolt thought she'd ''actually'' tried to strike a deal with Dinobot, but before she could leave the Maximals for good, Optimus arrived to point out that the decision to remove the program had always been up to her. {{storylink|Proving Grounds (BW)|Proving Grounds}}

When Megatron attempted to fire his new [[disruptor cannon]] on the Maximal base, the Maximals prepared for the worst, but the cannon blew up instead. {{storylink|Go with the Flow}}

[[File:CrossingtheRubicron-newbody.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Boy, it must be hard to shake the whole double agent thing, huh? Sticks in the DNA.]]

Seeking more power, Blackarachnia attempted to use the Transmetal driver on herself. Silverbolt, not realizing what she was planning, bailed her out of the contraption. However, her attempts to modify her own systems had tripped Tarantulas's security system, which directly threatened the integrity of her [[core consciousness]]—the only way to fix it would be to cut the Predacon shell program loose. With time running out, she passed the Ark's access codes on to Primal in case she didn't make it and shut herself down, leaving herself in Rhinox's care. Rhinox began the operation, but his tinkering tripped an alert in [[Tarantulas's lair]]. The Predacons got wind of what he was doing and mounted an attack on the Maximal base; the Maximals countered their attack, but the power was disrupted by a shot fired by Tarantulas at a critical stage, which seemingly killed Blackarachnia.

Blinded by rage, Silverbolt took off to avenge her death just as the Transmetal driver activated and resurrected her in a Transmetal 2 body without her Predacon shell program. Now fully a Maximal, she arrived just in time to save Silverbolt from Rampage by using her webs to disarm and stun the titanic Predacon. Silverbolt was, of course, overjoyed to see his beloved alive, but Blackarachnia told him to knock off the vengeful hero stuff so she wouldn't have to keep endangering herself with inevitable rescue attempts. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}}

[[File:MasterBlaster Blackarachnia beast mode.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Actually a real spider in [[Australia]].]]

Some time later, Blackarachnia returned to base to find the doors open. It was the result of Megatron's latest plan, which involved Quickstrike taking control of Optimus Primal's body and imprisoning the other unconscious Maximals. Left in Rampage's "care", Blackarachnia used telekinetic powers to knock him out with a girder. After dealing with Inferno, she went to release the other Maximals, only to run into Quickstrike and Primal. She freed Primal by disabling Quickstrike's control suit, and subsequently managed to stop the Ark's destruct sequence, which Tarantulas had set in motion, before rescuing the other Maximals and helping fight Megatron off. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}
When an object from space destroyed the Predacon base, Blackarachnia realised that the aliens had returned—in this case in the form of the Vok emissary [[Tigerhawk]]. She cut short Rattrap's celebrations by pointing out that when Tigerhawk had finished with the Predacons, he'd probably come for them. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

Tigerhawk, in fact, joined the Maximals. When Silverbolt was injured looking for the Predacons, Blackarachnia rode to his aid on Cheetor's back, and the pair took him back to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}} After Megatron raised the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' from the depths of the ocean, the Maximals struggled to prepare the Ark for moving. In search of something to make a power link, Blackarachnia grabbed Rattrap's tail-whip, snipping off the end and repurposing it as a power cable. Though the attempt to shift the Ark failed, Rhinox used a [[Autobot Shuttle Omega Delta|shuttle]] to defeat Megatron and rescue Optimus from the Nemesis. With Megatron in Maximal custody, the Maximals set off for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], with the defeated Predacon leader lashed to the hull of their commandeered vessel. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}
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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Venus Terzo]] (English), [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] (Japanese)|[[Xu Lin]] (Chinese), [[Márcia Moreli]] (Portuguese), [[Rossella Acerbo]] (Italian), [[Heike Schroetter]] (German), [[Olga Hnidey]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Maxo Barjas]] (Castilain Spanish), [[Nathalie Stas]] (French)}}

[[File:TheReformatting-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|When they say she's all legs, they ain't kidding!]]

While travelling through [[unspace|transwarp]], Megatron broke free from his restraints and somehow made it to Cybertron before his captors. By the time that Blackarachnia and the other Maximals arrived over Cybertron, Megatron had already engineered a debilitating [[transformation virus]] and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] drones that extract the [[spark]]s of everyone on Cybertron. When the Maximals dropped out of transwarp, an automated defense grid shot down their shuttle, and the six Maximals were pursued by [[Tank Drone]]s and exposed to the virus as they tried to escape. Rhinox and Silverbolt were instantly incapacitated, but Blackarachnia's transmetal physiology allowed her to resist its worst effects—however, she was forcibly "devolved" back into her original body, locked out of her [[robot mode]], and lost her short-term memories. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}}

Damaged and disoriented, Blackarachnia headed underground to await her imminent deactivation, until the other three surviving Maximals—Optimus, Rattrap, and Cheetor—fell into her web as they tried to escape the Vehicons. Guided by mysterious flashes of intuition, Optimus decided to head further underground, and Blackarachnia's webbing gave the quartet a way to head deeper and deeper into the Cybertronian sublevels. Eventually, Blackarachnia's webbing finally gave out, and the team wound up plummeting into the chamber of the mysterious [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] supercomputer, who [[reformatting|reformatted]] all four of the Maximals into [[technorganic]] bodies immune to Megatron's virus. However, when [[Cycle Drone]]s attacked, the Maximals discovered that their new bodies lacked [[onboard computer]]s and couldn't automatically transform. Despite this setback, Blackarachnia was able to make the most of what she had by trapping some of the Vehicons in a tangle of webbing. {{storylink|The Reformatting}}

[[File:Blackarachniamasterofthehouse.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|That's not a forehead. That's a five or sixhead.]]

The Maximals set up a temporary training base in the underground catacombs, and Cheetor and Blackarachnia slowly remastered the lost art of transformation by finding their "emotional still point". However, when their activities attracted the attention of a [[Mole Drone]], Optimus ordered Cheetor and Blackarachnia to scout out a new base. Instead, Blackarachnia goaded Cheetor into accompanying her above ground to find out what happened to everyone on Cybertron; when Blackarachnia attempted to access the [[Cybertron InfoCore]] in [[Cybertropolis]], they found that someone had completely wiped the database before Primal had to rescue the pair from a flight of [[Aero Drone]]s. While Primal entered the [[Council Citadel]] in search of answers, Blackarachnia used her new technorganic powers—including the ability to fire bursts of energy through the ground—to keep the drones at bay alongside Cheetor, but were eventually forced to drag a furious Primal to safety when they learned that Megatron was the mastermind behind the Vehicon army. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

Blackarachnia was injured during an attempt to access the [[Cybertron Archives]], and while unconscious, she experienced a vision of herself and Silverbolt on prehistoric Earth. Against orders, Blackarachnia—tailed by a nervous Rattrap—sneaked off to the [[Central Spaceport]] in an attempt to access the impounded shuttle's flight logs. The pair encountered Megatron's new [[Vehicon General]]s and discovered that there had been ''six'' occupants in the shuttle; when she attempted to access the ship's computer, however, Megatron was able to use the two-way connection against her, and would've found the current Maximal base had Rattrap not severed the link. The pair were subsequently rescued by Primal and Cheetor, but Blackarachnia's information reawakened their memories of Rhinox and Silverbolt. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}}

[[File:MercenaryPursuits-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|[[Fly|"Help! Help me!"]]]]

Blackarachnia and the other Maximals accompanied Primal as he tracked the presence of a spark. However, Rattrap's ill-advised decision to use a transformation enhancer got the Maximals captured by Megatron for a short while, until Primal was able to coax the brutish Vehicon General [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] to their side, and even convince him to abet their escape. Although Megatron was able to reverse their influence and return Tankor to his side, Optimus reported that Tankor's spark seemed familiar. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}}

Blackarachnia and Cheetor continued to hone their new forms, but during one sparring session the group encountered the young Cybertronian [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]], who had somehow survived Megatron's attack on the planet and taken refuge in a strange, organic fruit tree. Eating the organic fruit caused Blackarachnia, Rattrap, and Primal to devolve into an animalistic state, and it wasn't until Cheetor destroyed the tree that the group returned to normal. The stress of reformatting the wounded Nightscream weakened Primal, and while he recovered Cheetor took command of the team. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} While Cheetor was in charge, Rattrap's antics wound up fouling up a raid on a Tank Drone factory, and the remaining Maximals discussed what they needed to do about Rattrap. Blackarachnia was irritated by Rattrap's uselessness, but Cheetor asserted that they had to cover for their friend. They were shocked to find a while later that Rattrap had overheard them and taken up with Megatron in exchange for weapons. However, the recently-recovered Primal talked Rattrap around and scolded the other Maximals for undervaluing their teammate. {{storylink|The Weak Component}}

[[File:Revelations3 Blackarachnia closeup.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|She looks a bit more normal when she closes the extra eyes.]]

Later, the group stumbled across one of Megatron's many Transformer junkyards, where the lifeless, sparkless bodies of the city's inhabitants were disposed of. When [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] and Blackarachnia were split up from the battle, the two made an unofficial truce, but when Thrust saved her life and her spark, having strange recollections of doing so before, Blackarachnia's mind was set: "Thrust" was really Silverbolt. Although she told the others that Thrust's spark belonged to a Maximal, she kept quiet on ''who'' she thought it really belonged to. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery|Discovery}} When Cheetor enacted a subsequent plan to try to hack into Tankor, Blackarachnia volunteered to keep Thrust busy. She made numerous appeals to Thrust to try to bring out his Maximal nature, but Thrust was hesitant and was soon bullied into extracting her spark by [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} As her spark rocketed into the darkness, Nightscream fought Jetstorm for it. At the same time, on another plane of existence, Blackarachnia encountered Primal as he communed with the Oracle, and his calming presence allowed Nightscream to capture the spark and return it to her body. She and Nightscream came to Cheetor and Rattrap's aid, but they had found that Tankor was really Rhinox, and their old friend now sided with Megatron's view of a technological Cybertron. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse|Apocalypse}}

After Nightscream was snatched away by the Vehicons, the other Maximals gave pursuit. Blackarachnia's hesitation in attacking Thrust allowed the Vehicon to pursue Primal and Nightscream, who had discovered a [[fossil chamber|cave full of fossils]] that proved Cybertron was once organic. {{storylink|Survivor}} When Tankor gained control of the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and used it to transform both Nightscream and the organic plants into [[Living metal|technomatter]], Blackarachnia found that the [[organic goop]] they'd just discovered would cure the infection. While the other Maximals went to get a mole drone, Blackarachnia stayed behind to look after Nightscream, only to be infected by him and temporarily lose her own sanity. Fortunately, the other Maximals eventually returned with a drone and were able to cure everyone in time. {{storylink|The Key}}

[[File:Silverboltjetstorm.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Sorry, your boyfriend was behind door number 2!]]

Taking a vial of goo, kidnapped Thrust, trapped him in a web and used the goo to force out his inner personality in the hopes that it would bring out his inner Maximal. Much to her horror, she discovered that Thrust was really ''[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]'', who'd flown to Cybertron from prehistoric Earth. When Jetstorm attacked, another mishap with the organic goop occurred, and Blackarachnia realized that Jetstorm had been Silverbolt all along as he swept her up in his arms. However, as he and Waspinator fought over Blackarachnia, the goo vanished from the both of them, and the Vehicons' minds both returned. Blackarachnia was swiftly rescued by the other Maximals, who rode a giant vine created by a growth catalyst which Rattrap had found. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

Optimus Primal—now completely convinced that their mission was to restore Cybertron to its original, organic state—led his Maximals to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], whose [[Plasma energy|destructive energy]] could theoretically destroy all technology on Cybertron, before Cheetor talked their leader out of using this doomsday weapon in favor of weaponizing Rattrap's fast-growing plants. While Optimus himself confronted Megatron inside the Citadel, Blackarachnia and the other four Maximals held off the Vehicons outside until they were overwhelmed by the Key's energies and turned into technomatter. With Megatron poised to fire a planetary Key pulse at Cybertron's [[organic core]], a desperate Optimus made the decision to open the Plasma Energy Chamber. {{storylink|End of the Line}}

[[File:Fallout-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Be honest, do my hips look thick?]]

Optimus was able to use the last of his strength to redirect the duelling energies into the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]] and restore the other Maximals to full functionality. When they entered the Council Citadel, they found that the battle had claimed Primal, Megatron and Tankor; although Cheetor attempted to negotiate a truce with the two remaining Vehicon Generals, Jetstorm turned down Blackarachnia's offer to join their side before another fight broke out. Eventually, the Maximals returned to the Oracle for guidance, where they found that Optimus's spirit inside the computer, mourning that his fanaticism had nearly destroyed Cybertron entirely. Eventually, however, the Maximals convinced him to return to the material world and continue leading them. Optimus and the other Maximals realized that their mission was not to ''replace'' the technological with the organic, but to bring them together into a unified technorganic whole. The triumphant Maximals returned to the surface... only to find a [[Grand Mal|giant floating head]] in the likeness of Megatron. {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}}

Blackarachnia and Nightscream unsuccessfully tried to infiltrate the head. Leaving Optimus to try and contact Megatron's spark, the other Maximals went to find the two remaining Vehicon Generals and encountered a strange, organic Transformer named [[Noble (BM)|Noble]], who changed from a wolf into the dragon-like Savage. {{storylink|Savage Noble}} The Maximals later infiltrated the Council Citadel in search of information, only to discover that Noble was actually Megatron, trapped in his own organic half. Megatron used [[spark extractor]]s to remove his spark and transfer it into the huge, flying head and reactivate the Vehicon drone army, forcing the Maximals back underground. {{storylink|Prometheus Unbound}}

[[File:Blackarachniasilverboltdarkestknight.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Vamp meets goth.]]

When Rattrap invented a device he hoped could be used to restore the stolen sparks into new bodies, Blackarachnia "borrowed" it as part of a plan to bring Silverbolt back: by ambushing Jetstorm, trapping him in a pool of organic goop, and activating the device's DNA scanner, the full-body reformat transformed him into a technorganic condor and permanently obliterated the "Jetstorm" shell program. However, Silverbolt was not the lovable, chivalrous knight in shining armor she'd fallen in love with. Instead, he was a brittle, haunted 'bot, tormented by the evil deeds he'd committed as Jetstorm. The vengeful Silverbolt headed to the Grand Mal to confront his old master and rescue Primal and Cheetor. In the ensuing conflict, a furious Silverbolt nearly brought down the entire battleship on top of them before Blackarachnia could haul him away. Some time later, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt had a heart-to-heart, where Silverbolt confessed that he'd secretly enjoyed his time as a Vehicon General, with no need to follow his restrictive code of honor. Though Silverbolt had given up on himself, Blackarachania urged Silverbolt to forgive his past. {{storylink|In Darkest Knight}}

Blackarachnia continued to assure Silverbolt that things would get better. After Silverbolt inadvertently spread a new, Megatron-enhanced version of the old [[Hate Plague]], he blamed himself, but she and the other Maximals were supportive. {{storylink|A Wolf in the Fold}} Later, when a Maximal spaceship crashed, the Maximals split up to reach it in time. As they did, Blackarachnia confided to Rattrap that she'd found Silverbolt increasingly cold towards her. At the ship, they encountered a strange, alien plant monster, who nearly infected their technorganic orchard until Primal's reformatting revealed the "alien" as the Maximal [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]]. {{storylink|Home Soil}}

[[File:Silverboltblackarachniaseedsofthefuture.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Eeek! That smile! Go back to glowering!]]

The Maximals would soon encounter two new Vehicon Generals, [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika (BM)|Strika]], whose gambit almost defeated them until Botanica stepped in. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|The Strike}} Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were teamed up with Cheetor during a search for the missing sparks. Though Silverbolt was uncomfortable about following someone he still regarded as a kid, Blackarachnia defended Cheetor. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search|The Search}} The Maximals attempted to infiltrate the Grand Mal to find the missing sparks, only to discover that Megatron was using them to fuel his great ascension, and Nightscream's intercession appeared to dispel the Vehicon leader's spark. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege|The Siege}}

Once the Maximals had celebrated, Blackarachnia tried to talk to Silverbolt, believing now was the time for them to renew their romance. Silverbolt was not convinced of Megatron's demise, and in fact, he was right: Megatron still lived as a disembodied and depolarized spark. The pair found themselves being attacked by a [[zombie]] of pieced-together Vehicon parts, animated by the power of Megatron's spark. Megatron was later trapped in a [[Diagnostic Drone]] by Rattrap. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Silverbolt, Blackarachnia and Nightscream attacked the Vehicons while the others attempted to secure the sparks in the Grand Mal. They were subsequently able to put Megatron's Vehicon factory out of commission, but the Grand Mal itself was brought down. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were able to share a quiet moment before the final battle, and they received a spark power-up from the collective population of Cybertron. However, they were both felled during battle by Obsidian and Thrust, respectively. Their sparks were then torn from them by cycle drones. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}}

Though unable to assist physically, Blackarachnia and the other Maximals were able to give moral support to Primal during his final battle against Megatron, which resulted in the sacrifice of both leaders and the reformatting of Cybertron into a technorganic paradise. With harmony restored, Silverbolt and Blackarachnia were finally able to be together. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}
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====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''Beast Wars Diorama Story''=====
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Soon after [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s intrusion into the Beast Wars, Blackarachnia joined a battle between Maximals and Predacons. {{storylink|Optimus Primal Chapter}} Blackarachnia faced off against Dinobot, who attacked with his Dino Sabel. {{storylink|Dinobot Chapter}} Blackarachnia counterattacked with her Anchor Shot. {{storylink|Blackarachnia Chapter}} The battle was joined by [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s from another universe, {{storylink|Tigatron Chapter}} and the collective Maximal/Autobot forces faced off against their opposite factions. {{storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
Following the [[Great Transformation]], Blackarachnia and the other surviving Maximals listened to Cheetor explain that Rhinox's spark was not gone for good, but lost in [[Legends World|another universe]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rattrap)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} After [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] were sent to retrieve their comrade, Blackarachnia was elated to see the two return with Rhinox accompanying. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rhinox)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}
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====3H comics====
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Blackarachnia brought [[Fractyl]] back to reality after the Predacon scientist had been daydreaming about the worst case scenarios that would follow up his presentation to Megatron about his "[[energon armor]]". When Fractyl expressed a desire to inform Megatron about the current progress of his experiements with [[furmanite]], Blackarachnia dissuaded him from doing so, secretly hoping to use Fractyl's invention for her own gain. She and Inferno continued to keep watch over Fractyl, until [[Packrat]] stumbled upon the scene, causing Inferno to lash out violently. In the confusion that followed, Packrat ran off, prompting Blackarachnia to order Inferno to pursue him. She then turned to Fractyl for an explanation to his armor's volatilie nature, only to learn that furmanite was, in truth, "anti-energon". Realizing that if enough energon came into contact with the furmanite, it could spell doom for the entire planet, Blackarachnia went to fetch Megatron while Fractyl pursued the Maximal. When she and Megatron came upon Fractyl, he had retrieved the armor, and was sending a small group of Maximals fleeing. {{storylink|Ground Zero}}

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After Blackarachnia had acquired her Transmetal 2 form, she and the other Maximals set out to investigate a temporal anomaly detected by Rhinox. They encountered the Predacons en-route. The two factions were locked in a firefight, though the advantage lay with the Predacons. After Megatron took off to reach the time-traveler that both teams had previously detected, Optimus was forced to pursue him, leaving his troops against insurmountable odds. Blackarachnia was sure to voice her displeasure over the situation. The Predacons eventually began to push the Maximals back towards a cliffside. Then, suddenly, Predacon fire ceased entirely. The situation had not become any safer however, the Maximals now had to contend with [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]], the aforementioned time-traveler, possessed by Unicron's dark essence. Though Windrazor was able to expunge Unicron from his systems, the much more powerful Shokaract appeared immediately aftwerwards... {{storylink|Paradox}}

This led to Blackarachnia participating in [[Point Omega]], a battle that would determine the fate of all Cybertronians. She was eviscerated by [[Shokaract]]'s firepower. She got better as space-time rebooted itself with the disappearance of the [[Dark Essence]] from the past, and these events were erased from her timeline. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}}

Shortly after Cybertron underwent the [[Great Transformation]], the [[Quintesson]]s seized the opportunity to attack, believing that the revolutionary change would have rendered the planets' inhabitants confused and docile. Suffice to say, the Transformers were greatly underestimated. Silverbolt and Blackarachnia were successfully able to fend [[Cybertropolis]] from Quintesson invaders. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

[[File:Blackarachniaabduction.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|She stabbed my basketball, and the speakers to my stereo!]]
One year later, Silverbolt and Blackarachnia were chosen to greet a ship of returning Autobot heroes from the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. Their welcomes were ignored by the crew, which included [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]], and [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]], when they realized that their home had been transformed into a strange technorganic paradise. Only [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] was unfazed, choosing to talk up Blackarachnia and Silverbolt so that he could mug for [[Rook (Universe)|Rook]]'s cameras.

[[File:TFU Blackarachnia vs Rattrap.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Hey, guys, I turned evil again!]]
Their greeting was interrupted by a series of what appeared to be fireworks. Instead, they were beams of energy sent by [[Unicron]] to capture the returning crew, Blackarachnia, and Silverbolt, and bring them to him. When they arrived, a booming voice welcomed them to the [[Pit (Universe)|Pit]], a dimension inside Unicron. Blackarachnia and her fellow captives were painfully smelted down and reformed; only Trailbreaker emerged unchanged. Since she arrived, Blackarachnia had begun to feel [[Unicron virus|a growing anger]] that she couldn't control. And in this new Unicron-tainted form, she more than welcomed the swarm of creatures that began swarming her group. Overwhelmed, Blackarachnia and the others were herded into the [[Cauldron]] and filed into prison cells. As Blackarachnia protested, she was silenced by [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], one of their hosts.

It was revealed to them by the master of ceremonies, [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]], that they would be forced to fight fellow abducted Transformers. The loser's [[spark]] would fuel and empower Unicron, whose form had fallen into disrepair. Blackarachnia's uncontrollable rage welcomed this bloodsport; Silverbolt watched helplessly as she fell under Unicron's evil spell. {{storylink|Abduction}}

Optimus Primal, resurrected by [[Primus]], arrived to rescue the prisoners of the Cauldron, and with help from Silverbolt and Trailbreaker, its captives were set free. But Unicron's grip on Blackarachnia was too strong. She began lashing out madly, even at Silverbolt, and the Fuzor took tight hold of her so that he might swiftly remove her from Unicron's grip. But as the others began jumping through a portal that would lead them to their respective homes across the [[multiverse]], Blackarachnia had a moment of clarity. Sadly, she told Silverbolt that Unicron had awakened her ''true'' nature, then bid him farewell and threw him through the portal.

[[File:Optimusprimaluniverseend.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Closure? Maybe?]]
Soon, she was escorted by Tankor and [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] to the center of Unicron, where she was repulsed to meet a familiar face: Tarantulas! {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}}

Blackarachnia was dispatched to her home Cybertron's [[Undercity]], where she observed Rattrap for a while. Finally, she made her presence known, stinging him with her cybervenom. She never had liked the vermin, after all. Suddenly, Rattrap was saved by [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], back from the dead. Blackarachnia was knocked out, and Depth Charge left the weakened Rattrap to fend for himself. As Depth Charge departed, he found himself surrounded by Blackarachnia's [[Piranacon (Universe)|Piranacons]]. {{storylink|Homecoming (Universe)|Homecoming}}

Much later, Optimus Primal waged one last desperate assault against Unicron, and his [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]] were able to defeat the [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|Minions of Unicron]]. As Unicron himself seemed to dissolve below them, Silverbolt carried Blackarachnia with him, saving her from sharing the gruesome fate of her evil peers. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}
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====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
On the way back to Cybertron after the end of the Beast Wars, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt dozed off to sleep while cuddling each other. {{storylink|Ain't No Rat}}

{{BW Shell Game}}
They awoke, affected by a Transwarp agitator planted on the shuttle by a new team of Predacons hiding on Earth. This device caused Blackarachnia and the other Maximals aboard to act aggressively towards one-another, and they tried to force Rattrap into the ship's C.R. Chamber due to its influence. Rattrap resisted, managed to get away, and deactivated the ship's Transwarp drive. Though this restored the Maximals to their senses, it also returned them to prehistoric Earth. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
Not long after Megatron took the original Megatron's spark into himself, he had Quickstrike deliver a device to the Maximal base which amplified the Maximals' aggression. Blackarachnia was attacked by Rhinox before escaping while Silverbolt distracted him. Once Optimus Primal was able to overcome the device's effects and free the other Maximals, they attempted unsuccessfully to capture Megatron in one of Blackarachnia's webs. {{storylink|A Meeting of Minds}}

After the Maximals returned to Cybertron, Blackarachnia was trying to persuade Silverbolt that it was all right for them to resume their romance after Megatron's apparent death, when they were attacked by a strange zombie-like creature. After it zapped Silverbolt, she unsuccessfully tried to attack it in retaliation. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}

====2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity====
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"White Propionica"<ref>The [[BotCon 2016]] script reading, "[[The Hot Rod]]" established this name as Blackarachnia's pre-Earth name in this continuity.</ref> was walking down a street shortly after the signing of the [[Pax Cybertronia]]. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

As [[Magmatron]] was surveying the timestream, he witnessed several key moments taking place during the Beast Wars. Among these was Blackarachnia fiddling around with some technology. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

While the Maximals attempted to remove her Predacon shell program, an alternate Transmetal "Vok" body was somehow automatically created (by someone, somehow) in [[unspace|subspace]] just in case it was needed. It wasn't, and so it was "sidelined". {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #1}}

====Waspscream continuity====
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], the machinations of the [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from [[Primax 206.15 Gamma]] resulted in the local Predacons defeating the Maximals, prompting the [[Vok]] to attempt to sterilize their experiment. Blackarachnia was killed when Megatron tricked her into destroying [[Planet Buster|the Vok weapon]] while she was trying to escape Earth. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}}

====''Story of Binaltech''====
As the victorious Maximals travelled forward in time from prehistoric Earth to far-future Cybertron in [[Primax 496.22 Alpha]], their shuttle was suddenly struck by a powerful force of darkness. This was the result of the temporal machinations of [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] in [[G1 World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] and the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]]'s response effort to repair the timeline. However, these events resulted in two copies of the Maximals' shuttle being created: one copy went on home to Cybertron where its crew would participate in the [[Spark War]] while the other was hurled into the early 21st century of [[BT World|Primax 903.0 Beta]]. [[Unicron]] observed the shuttle and destroyed it, scattering most of the crew into [[unspace|transwarp space]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/30}} {{storylink|Outlier (comic)|Outlier}} Blackarachnia, however, was forced by Unicron to aid him in his efforts to destroy the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Her spark was placed inside the silver Beta Unit Honda S-2000 Aero Style body intended for the Autobot warrior [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], and her mind was overwhelmed by an evil essence that forced her to do Unicron's bidding.

Still possessing her extrasensory Transmetal 2 powers including telekinesis, Blackarachnia gained several additional weapons courtesy of her new form: a long-range Venom Sniper Gun that fired system-disrupting energy bullets, a defensive riot shield that projected an electromagnetic field from its edge, and the ability to fire strong artificial webs from her grill, exhaust pipe and hands in robot mode.

Blackarachnia was partnered with the newly-created [[Decepticharge]] and dispatched to confront [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s forces on Earth. Finding them in the middle of a [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]-led uprising, the pair put down the rebellion and ordered the Decepticons to defeat [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and destroy the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. {{Storylink|Widow's Edge}}

While forced to act as a Decepticon, Blackarachnia's true self remained intact but submerged, struggling to overcome Unicron's control and desperate to correct the warped Binaltech timeline. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/08}}

After [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]'s defeat, Blackarachnia joined Decepticharge in attacking the [[Earth Defense Command]] Space Center so that they could get to the Matrix within [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s chest. Secretly, Blackarachnia knew of the [[Psychedevice]] located there and hoped to use it to remove Unicron's influence from herself. However, she found that she was too large to use the human-sized device and was soon attacked by [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]. Their bestial natures ensued in conflict till [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] was able to evolve via the Psychedevice and use her new abilities to cure both Transformers' mental issues. Still stranded in this timeline, she was comforted by her old friend [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]'s promise to reunite her with her friends. {{storylink|Outlier (comic)|Outlier}}

====''Regeneration One''====
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As the Dark [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] creature tortured [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]] with visions of his [[Sparkplug Witwicky|dead father]] in [[Zero Space]], cracks began to appear in the membrane of infinite worlds. Through one, Blackarachnia could be seen alongside [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]], [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], [[Gas Skunk]] and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
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Following the Great Transformation of Cybertron, Blackarachnia and her friends stood guard over Cheetor as their leader attempted to commune with the Oracle. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag|Alpha Trizer's profile}}

An image of Blackarachnia carrying a Maximal flag and being led by [[Primal Prime]] into battle (presumably taken during the [[Quintesson]] invasion) hung in the [[Cybertronian Knight]]s' headquarters. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}

====A Change to the Agenda====
After his attack on [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] was thrown out of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] when Blackarachnia activated the ship's defense systems. However, he was not thrown far enough and the Predacon managed to reenter the Ark and blasted the Autobot leader, decisively erasing the Maximals from the timeline. But before he could gloat further, Blackarachnia attacked the [[Megatron (G1)|original Megatron]] with her [[Cyber venom|cyber-venom]] before she disappearred, ensuring the Predacon Megatron's nonexistence. {{storylink|A Change to the Agenda}} In [[Primax 209.0 Gamma|the wildly different timeline]] that followed, Blackarachnia's life would take [[#Beast Wars: Uprising|a very different track]].

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[File:BlackarachniaMetalsMangaDrop.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Are those high heels or platform shoes?]]
Following the [[Quantum surge]], Blackarachnia was one of the few Transformers ''not'' to be upgraded into a [[Transmetal]]. As [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] and his armies laid siege to the weakened Maximal base, Blackarachnia waited in secret for an opening. When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] was forced to shut [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] down to let an injured [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] in, Blackarachnia saw her chance and entered the base. Knocking out Airazor and ripping [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s arm off, Blackarachnia confronted Rhinox. Rhinox proceeded to pull out a "gun", but instead of shooting her with it, he blasted himself in the head (the "gun" actually being a machine allowing him to enter [[unspace|Transwarp space]]). Confused, but seeing no further use for the Maximals, Blackarachnia left the base. As the base collapsed behind her, she was approached by Quickstrike, who didn't like her "interfering" with his business. Not in the mood, she immediately kicked his head off. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 1|Beast Wars Metals #1}}

She later teamed with Tarantulas in confronting Tigatron. Tarantulas was promptly cut in two by the Maximal, though Blackarachnia blocked his sword with her legs and was able to escape with her comrade's body. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 2|Beast Wars Metals #2}}

Tarantulas recovered and took control of Tigatron's mind. Blackarachnia disapproved of such an invasive attack, but Tarantulas ignored her. While Airazor fought to save Tigatron's mind and body, Blackarachnia had a change of heart and decapitated Tarantulas with her thighs. She then entered the battle to help Airazor, but was shot in the back by Tarantulas' headless body. Ultimately, Tigatron's mind was saved, but Airazor died in the process. With nobody noticing, Blackarachnia slunk away to the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 4|Beast Wars Metals #4}}

There, she met the severed head of Megatron and disapproved of his plan to kill the sleeping Optimus Prime and disrupt the timestream. She kicked his head into a lava pit, but this only allowed Megatron to merge with the spark of [[Megatron (G1)|his ancestor]] and become even more powerful. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 5|Beast Wars Metals #5}}

After Megatron was killed and the Maximals reunited, Blackarachnia encountered Silverbolt and the two immediately hit it off. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 6|Beast Wars Metals #6}}

===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
When [[human]] archaeologists uncovered a cave filled with primitive language, [[Mini-Con]] [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] translated it for them. The markings told of a time when the Maximals and Predacons crash-landed on prehistoric Earth, though the stranded Transformers were seen by the protohumans as gods. When one of the archeologists, [[Jessica Theist]], later touched one of the markings, she was bestowed a vision of the Maximals' and Predacons' battles. Among them, she saw Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Fire in the Dark}}

===''Universe'' CD-ROM===
Blackarachnia followed [[Reptilion|Reptillion]]{{sic}} in battle against [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and his Autobot forces. She teamed up with [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]] to fight [[Striker]] before being abducted by [[Acheron|a mysterious ship]], which was bringing the Decepticons to [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Universe CD-ROM|Universe CD-ROM}}

===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:Scavengerblackarachniaalphatriontranscendent.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Silverbolt would not approve.]]
Blackarachnia was brought online in a [[Primax 209.0 Gamma|universe]] where the Autobots and Decepticons had grown too decrepit to carry on the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], and had made the [[Maximal]]s and Predacons continue the war in a series of ritualized [[Games (competition)|Games]]. As a result from her first moments Blackarachnia knew only strife and combat. Increasingly questioning the orders of her Autobot masters, the breaking point came with the death of her colleagues [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Silverbolt]] and [[Rhinox (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Rhinox]], and the apparent death of [[Rattrap (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Rattrap]]. She conspired with [[Nightscream (BM)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Nightscream]] and together they killed their commander, Optimus Primal.

Joined by the malcontent Predacons [[Immorticon (BW)|Immorticon]] and [[Scavenger (BM)|Scavenger]], they fled and activated an experimental transwarp device, hoping to escape Cybertron. Instead, they found themselves in ''another'' Cybertron, in [[Axiom Nexus]]. After processing, they were placed in the care of [[Alpha Trion#Shattered Glass|Alpha Trion]]. He convinced her that the [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s who ruled the city were little different from the Autobots under whose yoke she had chafed. Under his tender ministrations, her spark was transferred from her Lowtech body into that of her Transcendent Technomorph [[Blackarachnia (TransTech)|counterpart]], with the authorities of Axiom Nexus none the wiser. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25}}

Thus upgraded, she joined Alpha Trion's insurrectionist organization, and was part of the raid on [[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]]'s laboratory in the hopes of rescuing [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]]. Blackarachnia and her comrades successfully stormed into Shockwave's inner sanctum, where they came face-to-face with the formidable [[Megatron (TransTech)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 5}} Despite that rather severe obstacle, Blackarachnia and the Alpha Trion's minions managed to secure the transit room and transwarp to the Old One's [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|original universal stream]]. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 6}}

On the other side of the transwarp portal, Alpha Trion ordered Blackarachnia to prepare the cloaking device in order to keep his return a secret. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 1}}

Through some form of trans-dimensional navigation, Blackarachnia arranged to return to her home universe at [[Primax 215.19 Epsilon|a later point]]. She intended to arrive on Earth, but instead found herself drawn back to Cybertron due to a unique but powerful energy matrix of Terran design she detected. She was discovered after impact by [[Lio Convoy#Beast Wars: Uprising|Lio Convoy]], Guardian of Order in the [[Games (competition)|Games]] and unknowingly the possessor of this [[Energon Matrix|energon matrix]] at the core of his spark. Blackarachnia's words stirred the fires of revolution in Lio Convoy, and he recognized the need to throw off their Builder oppressors. Blackarachnia got back in touch with the resistance, getting a new body along the way.

At the start of the next Games, Blackarachnia and her team of rebels ([[B'Boom]], [[Scylla]], [[Break]], [[Longhorn]], and [[Retrax]]) stormed the stadium and overcame the Builder [[Override (BWU)|Override]]. Taking control of the cameras and broadcast equipment, they ensured Lio Convoy had the world's undivided attention when he executed the Games' [[Supersonic|announcer]] and declared it was time for [[Grand Uprising|revolution]]. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

Blackarachnia was tasked with recruiting [[Twirl (G1)|Twirl]] into the resistance, until Twirl was murdered. She started her own investigation into the murder, and infected [[Wolfang (Predacon)|Wolfang]] with a virus, to probe his core conscious for information. Wolfang's secret Predacon identity was revealed, giving Blackarchania leverage over him. Wolfang discovered she purchased the virus from [[Overrun]] under the psuedonym "Elita." Both Wolfang and Blackarachnia traced Twirl's murder to the Mayhemist movement. Despite knowing Twirl for a short period of time, Blackarachnia sought to avenge her death, setting up a sniper's nest outside the Mayhemist base. Wolfang found her and threatened to arrest her, but Blackarachnia countered, stating that she could end his life with a single anonymous transmission. The two reluctantly teamed up, deeming the Mayhemists a mutual threat. The pair shared cy-gar-ettes while waiting for the Mayhemists to arrive. Wolfang was shocked to see that Tarantulas, senior scientist of the Predacon Secret Police, was directly involved with the Mayhemists. Blackarachnia suggested killing him outright, but Wolfang insisted on trying to arrest him. Blackarachnia temporarily fled to avoid the PSP, later intending to meet Wolfang back at [[Sparks of Genius]]. However, she was apprehended by Overrun on the way, who confessed to the murder after Wolfang confronted him. Blackarachnia managed to free herself, but not before the PSP arrived. Overrun escaped, pursued by Wolfang and Blackarachnia, as well as the MCSF and PSP. Overrun attempted to escape near the border of [[Vos (polity)|Vos]]. While Wolfang decided what to do with him, Blackarachnia bought them time by prompting a mortar strike on the area. Blackarachnia offered an escape for Overrun and Wolfang, but Wolfang declined, knowing that their time was near. Wolfang and Blackarachnia shared a brief romantic moment, before she fled the scene. {{storylink|Trigger Warnings}}

Pragmatic to a fault, Blackarachnia was quick to accept "dirty" business as a necessity of war. When the Predacons declared their secetion from the Builders as the [[Independent Predacus States]], they initially opted for neutrality. The Tripredacus Council was willing to entertain an open alliance with the Resistance under certain conditions, one which was non-negotiable: the elimination of [[Preditron]], founder of the Predacons and the council's only real threat to power. Blackarachnia and Lio Convoy agreed to arrange the death of Preditron, who had been in their care since the breakout at Fortress Maximus.

Blackarachnia was also encouraging Games of a new sort in [[Protihex]]—captive Micromasters fighting against each other to the death, just as the proto-races did for centuries. She called it a needed release for their tired troops, but Cheetor wondered how much Lio Convoy knew about such an idea. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}}

As High Command attempted to deal with independent warlords and the rise of the [[Maximal Nation]] and Independent Predacus States as potential allies, the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] began. Blackarachnia supported Operation Amputation, an excessive counter-strike to wipe out the infected regions of [[Damaxus]], [[Carpessa]], and Protihex with [[K-Class]] Commandos. The failure to cauterize the infected areas mean the Vehicons spread beyond their initial borders, and the Resistance was now caught between the Builders to the north and a growing menace to the south. Faced with little choice, High Command ordered an all-out assault on Iacon, hoping that winning the war and bringing down the [[Builder Assembly]] would also provide the means to contain or deactivate the Vehicon horde.

In order to press onwards to Iacon, the [[Yuss Naval Batteries]] could not be firing on the Resistance Navy when they traversed the [[Rust Sea|Great Rust Sea]]. And so, the Resistance fought to seize the seven fortresses guarding the batteries, and the batteries themselves. Blackarachnia led the successful siege on [[Fort Xern]]. The Maxilla was conquered and the batteries seized, but at great cost. No longer having the necessary naval ships to transport the army up the Sea, the Resistance had to proceed largely on foot to Iacon. They began to double-time it once they realized [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], commander of the Micromaster 001st in Iacon, was refusing to engage in open warfare in the streets and risk civilians. The enemy's general had, effectively, left the front door open to them.

At the [[High Council Pavilions|High Pavilion]] of Iacon, Blackarachnia and Lio Convoy secured the outer perimeter while Psycho-orb and B'Boom led squads inside to reach the Builder Assembly. Instead, the Builders seemingly chose to come to them. The Assembly bunker raised into the sky, exposing the Builders in a naked display of arrogance. Lio Convoy and Blackarachnia ascended to greet them with [[Grimwing (BWU)|Grimwing]] and the Flying Meteors. As they tried to "negotiate" the Assembly into surrendering, the Vehicon hordes finally reached Iacon. They were completely unprepared when the Vehicons turned on the Builder Assembly, assimilating them and going on to augment their numbers with the three million Builders also in Iacon. All hope of shutting the Vehicons down was lost. The Vehicons would not, could not be stopped. The [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] had begun.

Two megacycles later, the army of the Resistance was still fighting to survive in the ruins of the High Pavilion. Lio Convoy was prepared to activate their last K-Class, [[Ro-Tor (RID)|Ro-Tor]], and destroy the entire planet to stop the Vehicons when Administrator [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] arrived with intelligence on the Vehicons' home base, the [[Grand Mal]] of [[Nova Cronum]]. Working quickly, Blackarachnia and Lio Convoy assembled a small squad of special forces troopers to assault the Grand Mal and hopefully defeat [[Galva Convoy]], the dark mirror of Lio Convoy who created the Vehicons.

Entering the Grand Mal and making their way to the command center cost lives, and the final door was heavily guarded. Ro-Tor, [[Apexus]], and [[Razorbeast]] were sent off to cause a diversion while Blackarachnia and Lio Convoy used the concealing power of his [[Solipsistic Staff|Solipsistic Sword]] to move past the Vehicon guards. They confronted Galva Convoy, but were overwhelmed by his defenses. Trying a different tactic, Lio Convoy claimed to have seen the light, and expressed a desire to join his "brother". To prove it, he agreed to have Blackarachnia turned into a Vehicon. Instead, he interposed himself between Blackarachnia and the nano-injection, taking the plague for himself. Their shared CNA allowed him to pass the infection into Galva Convoy with a touch. With a heavy heart, Blackarachnia used her mandible-blaster to shoot Lio Convoy with cyber-venom before he too succumbed to the plague.

Destroying Galva Convoy didn't stop the Vehicons, unfortunately. It only revealed the true malefactor behind the Apocalypse: [[Lord Imperious Delirious]], a second-born intellect who slipped into Cybertron during the Uprising to destroy the Transformers from within. Uncertain of Lio Convoy's chances of survival, Blackarachnia pulled the supreme commander to safety and hooked up with the commandos. She ordered the last surviving special forces trooper, Razorbeast, to get Lio Convoy to safety by any means necessary. After that, she and Ro-Tor pressed on to the engineering section, hoping to detonate the K-Class warrior and stop the flying fortress. Instead, the crazed Rampage intervened and stole Ro-Tor's core bomb for himself. Attaching the explosive to his own spark by ripping open his chest, Rampage bade Ro-Tor and Blackarachnia to run while they still could. The Resistance fighters made it out of the Mal before Rampage detonated his bomb, destroying Delirious and severing the Vehicons from their hive mind.

In the days that followed, Blackarachnia rested at Lio Convoy's bedside in Stanix until he recovered from her cyber-venom, which proved remarkably effective in cleansing the nano-plague. Once he awakened, Lio Convoy insisted on a Grand Summit of the surviving factions to ensure peace was forged and the world didn't slide back into war again. A Cybertronian Parliament was hammered out, with the Resistance gaining three voices out of sixteen, joined by Maximals, Predacons, Neutrals, and a few concessions to the surviving Builders. In the meantime, Resistance territory would be reforged into the League of Autonomous Proto-States, each having a voice while governing themselves. Unfortunately, Lio Convoy wouldn't be around to see it. Blackarachnia's oldest friend and collaborator rightly decided he was too polarizing a figure to remain, and planned to leave Cybertron good-bye. As he departed, Blackarachnia and "Aslan" shared a final moment together, as she thanked him for all his efforts since they first met, stellar cycles earlier. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Millennia later, Blackarachnia would be unfairly remembered as trying to capture "Oversurge" and trying to turn him into a weapon of mass destruction. She was also mistakenly attributed with Lio Convoy's murder of Supersonic. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

===''Mini Mayhem!''===
Using the [[Autoscout]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] delivered a love-letter to Blackarachnia. She didn’t seem too happy about it. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:EverybodyHatesMetroplex BlackarachniaLives.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|She lays eggs in your brain that make you think ''Madame Web'' was the greatest movie ever.]]
A Decepticon believed to have been killed by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], Blackarachnia had in fact survived and made her way into [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]'s [[Cerebros (G1)|head]], corrupting the giant's brain and turning him into a mindless, violent zombie. She was eventually discovered and defeated by [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] and [[Tunnel Rat]], restoring Maximus to normal. {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
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Blackarachnia was part of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s forces that uncovered the [[Red Bucket]]. She panicked and fled when they were attacked by a giant [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] robot. {{storylink|Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!}}

===Legends World===
The Blackarachnia of the [[Legends World]] visited the [[Transformers Celebration 2014]] event, where she browsed the toys for sale. {{storylink|Legends Bonus Vol.}} At day, she was an office worker at [[Tera-Kura Co.]], while, at night, she worked at a [[w:Host and hostess clubs|host club]] where she'd often entertain her employer, President [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 10#Head of Partying, Cheetor|Head of Partying, Cheetor}} She was also a huge ''Transformers'' fan, something that prompted Megatron to learn more about the franchise to impress her. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 14#President Mega's Requests|President Mega's Requests}} Before long, he was able to recite all kinds of Transformer names, to Blackarachnia's enjoyment. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 14#President Mega's Studies|President Mega's Studies}} She also spent that [[Christmas]] lovingly exchanging gifts with him. {{storylink|Merry X'mas!!}}

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When Blackarachnia stayed at work longer than other employees, Megatron told her to finish up, wanting to leave and go the bar. He was unaware that she also wanted to get done quick as she had to go ''work'' at said bar. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 16#Widow-chan at Work|Widow-chan at Work}} Megatron later went to a ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' event, hoping to buy merchandise Blackarachnia would like, and found to his surprise that she was also there. {{storylink|Deckss × Q-Transformers Collaboration Event Report|Deckss × Q-Transformers}} When [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|the original Megatron]] appeared in the [[Legends World|Legends Universe]], seeking to conquer it, Blackarachnia was happy to see him and gave him some [[oil]] as an offering. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 23#Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World|Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World}} She did, however, fail to recognize him while she was on a date with President Megatron and asked her boyfriend who the new guy was at the club. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 13|Bonus Edition Vol. 13}} Blackarachnia was overjoyed when the original Megatron became the chairman of Tera-Kura Co., but worked hard to act natural around him as she didn't want people at the office knowing she was a big nerd. {{storylink|LG13 Megatron Sequel#Widow-chan's Usual Day|Widow-chan's Usual Day}}

[[File:TFLegendVol17DecepticonHalloweenCostumes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Kitty cat/spider Fuzor!]]

President Megatron later invited all his employees for a night on the town, but none of them showed up including Blackarachnia. {{storylink|LG14 Ultra Magnus Prologue#The Autumn Megatron Festival|The Autumn Megatron Festival}} Among his visions of things to come, [[Alpha Trion]] foresaw that something would happen to Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 14|Bonus Edition Vol. 14}} She would attend the unveiling of Tera-Kura's latest product, the [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird Shadow]] ninja maid robot. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 15|Bonus Edition Vol. 15}} Trion's prediction came to pass when Blackarachnia contracted [[Transformers sickness]], granting her a full-scale Transformer body. Happy to have another Transformer on his team in time for [[Halloween]], Chairman Megatron had her to go trick-or-treating for energy alongside Nightbird and [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]], which she did dressed as a cat. When Autobots [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] showed up to spoil their fun, Blackarachnia defeated all three by tying them up in webbing. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 17|Bonus Edition Vol. 17}}

[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Armada Starscream]], another employee at the club, called Blackarachnia for help when he got in trouble with Slipstream, but she assumed ''he'' had started it and took Slipstream's side. {{storylink|LG-16 Slipstream Sequel}} When [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] arrived in the Legends world, Blackarachnia found him ''very'' easy on the eyes {{storylink|LG19 Sprung Prologue}} and was quite literally all over him alongside Nightbird and Slipstream. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 19|Bonus Edition Vol. 19}} The three later went with Chairman Megatron on a hot springs trip, and were thus absent when Tera-Kura Co. was briefly taken over by [[Waspinator (BW)#Cartoon continuity|Waspinator]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Waspinator)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} Blackarachnia grieved over G1 Megatron's body after he was seemingly killed by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], only to find a tiny new Megatron located inside the remains of the old one. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}}

After their company merged with the Decepticon [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] to become Decepticon Tera-Kura Co., Blackarachnia appeared on a chart of the current employees. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 22|Bonus Edition Vol. 22}} When Megatron turned into the violent [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]], Blackarachnia, Nightbird and Slipstream tried to dissuade him from destroying the city only to be blasted for their trouble. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 23|Bonus Edition Vol. 23}} Blackarachnia was later present for [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]'s failed attempt at usurping Megatron, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 26|Bonus Edition Vol. 26}} and was temporarily hypnotized by [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] into clinging all over him. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 34|Bonus Edition Vol. 34}} She sat on Tigatron during the filming of ''[[Transformers: Convobat Amazon Showdown]]'', which he didn't mind but the [[Nightscream (BM)|director]] did. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Convobat)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} Blackarachnia later had her dresses ripped off by [[Apeface]]'s telekinetic powers, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 38|Bonus Edition Vol. 38}} and started taking [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]'s commuter service to work. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 40|Bonus Edition Vol. 40}}

Blackarachnia helped defend Tera-Kura when the treacherous Headmaster faction came to steal [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s [[Transformation cog (biology)|transformation cog]], but was defeated by [[Trickdiamond]] {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} and sat back at base during the ensuing battle with [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 43|Bonus Edition Vol. 43}} She remained loyal to G1 Megatron even after he departed the company, and later helped him clear out invading [[Viper (CW)|Vipers]] from Tera-Kura's office. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 63|Bonus Edition Vol. 63}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|''Windblade'' vol. 2 #6]]}}

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A native of [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]], Blackarachnia was a member of the [[Fateweaver]] tribe, a small group of Transformers who specialized in the art of prophecy and fortune-telling. {{storylink|The Price of You}} Blackarachnia was one of the very few Fateweavers to be born with the gift of true precognition and the ability to access what she called the "Web of Time". Her unusual precognitive powers set her apart from the other citizens of Eukaris, and over time she took up the life of a hermit. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

When fellow Fateweaver [[Airachnid (G1)|Airachnid]] went rogue and began experimenting on unwilling Eukarian victims, Blackarachnia oversaw her banishment from the tribe and subsequent exile. {{storylink|The Price of You}}

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One evening, Blackarachnia was visited by Airazor and Tigatron, who had witnessed a [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|pair of]] [[Devastator (G1)|combiners]] from Cybertron fighting in nearby [[Talon Valley]]. Consulting the "Web of Time", Blackarachnia foresaw the coming of Cybertronians and [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]]s to their isolated world. Not long afterwards, Blackarachnia assembled representatives from all four of Eukaris's tribes at the planet's [[Space bridge|spacebridge]], where they encountered Cybertronian representative [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]. Not long afterwards, the tribes reconvened to greet a second delegation, consisting of Starscream and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]. Windblade used her Camien heritage to try and parley favor of the Eukariens, but the arrival of "standard-formers" reawakened Chela - another part of a prophecy that Blackarachnia had forseen. The two Cybertronians were able to put down the mad Titan; although Windblade was saddened by the loss Blackarachnia consoled her by telling her that the death of Chela was but the first step towards changing Eukaris for the better. Eukaris agreed to join the [[Council of Worlds]]; Blackarachnia decided that Tigatron and Airazor's status as outcasts would make them ideal delegates. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}
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===Precursor World===
A [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] resembling Blackarachnia was a member of the [[Yellow Order]]. She was enjoying one of the local oases on the [[Yellow Planet]] with her comrades when her commander [[Yellow Splendid Convoy]] received word of the fall of the [[Blue Order]] and the threat of the [[G1 World|extradimensional]] warlord [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (1)|Ultra Megatron Omega]] from the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s [[Primus#The old universe|eponymous supreme leader]]. {{Storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
[[File:Kingdom-Golden-Disk-Leader-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.0|stronk]]

The Predacons traveled across time to find the [[AllSpark]] and change the fate of Cybertron. While battling the [[Maximal]]s on pre-[[Ice Age]] Earth, both sides were joined by the Autobots and Decepticons, their epic battle changing their combined destinies forever.

Blackarachnia's function was a double agent, and she [[Scanning|trans-scanned]] into a black widow spider. Her venomous weapons and stealth were her powers and weapons, and her core traits were her slyness, snarkiness, and independence. Blackarachnia's message from the future was that she will forge new alliances that will lead her down her true path. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

Blackarachnia was one of a few 'bots with three possible destinies recorded on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|''Voyager'' Golden Disk]].
* In one destiny, she became a [[Maximal]], sporting a new color scheme, standing far from [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]].
* In another destiny, she ascended to the leader of the Predacons, standing in front of [[Retrax]], [[Predaking (Kingdom)|Predaking]], [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzzsaw]], [[Manterror]], and [[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]].
* In her last destiny, Blackarachnia was reformatted into '''Darkarachnia''' as a [[Herald of Unicron]].
In other possible destinies recorded on the ''Voyager'' Golden Disk, Blackarachnia was part of the united Maximal-Predacon faction lead by Dinobot. {{storylink|Source:Golden Disk destinies|''Kingdom'' Golden Disk cards}}

After obtaining the Allspark, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] escaped through a [[space bridge]] to protect it from the Decepticons. Arriving in an alternate universe, he faced new beast threats including Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Source:Buzzworthy Bumblebee Worlds Collide|Worlds Collide}}
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====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor| [[Jeanne Carr]] (English), [[Yuki Kazu]] (Japanese) |[[Cathlen Gawlich]] (German), [[Juliette Degenne]] (French), [[Regina Maria Maia]] (Portuguese), [[Chusa Nieto]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Ileana Escalante]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Neha Gargava]] (Hindi)}}

[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Ep1-Blackarachnia-meets-Starscream.jpg|thumb|300px|left]]
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Ep4-Blackarachnia-spider-talking-up-Starscream.jpg|thumb|300px]]

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 2}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 3}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}}}}
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===2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic===
[[File:PodPart1-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
After breaking into the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] hacked the ship's computers and attempted to upload a personality-altering [[shell program]] into the [[stasis pod]]s that orbited the planet in the hopes that he could initiate their landing protocols and raise an army of loyal slaves. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 6}} However, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] interrupted the process and as a result only a single stasis pod received a garbled version of the transmission. Upon making planetfall, Blackarachnia emerged. After first dispatching a native creature, Blackarachnia's [[onboard computer]] guided her towards the nearest Cybertronian signal, which happened to be the nearby ''Axalon''. As the ship's shields had not been keyed to recognize the newly-born Blackarachnia's [[spark]] signature, the new Transformer slipped through the Maximal defenses and right into their base... at which point Tarantulas's shell program took over and converted her into a Predacon. When [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] overheard the sounds of an intruder, he went to investigate; although he initially mistook Blackarachnia for a confused Maximal, she easily bested him in single combat, paralyzed him with her venom, and trapped him in a web cocoon while she went off to sabotage the ship. {{storylink|Pod Part 1}}

While the other Maximals freed Cheetor and searched for the intruder, Blackarachnia broke into the ship's mainframe and used it to upload a new copy of her own shell program into the orbiting stasis pods, but only managed to infect fifty-one percent of the pods before [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] found her. To keep the larger Maximal distracted, Blackarachnia triggered the deorbiting protocol ahead of schedule and escaped amidst the confusion, stopping only to use some stolen [[talvox grenade]]s to rig an explosive booby-trap that would've taken out the entire Maximal squad had Dinobot not prevented Cheetor from stumbling into the tripwire. Cheetor pursued Blackarachnia as she blew a hole in the ship's hull and fled, but when Blackarachnia lied about having set a second trap, Cheetor turned back and allowed Blackarachnia to escape into the jungle. Blackarachnia found the crashed ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' and encountered Tarantulas. Although the mad scientist found that the independent Blackarachnia was quite unlike the loyal slave he had envisioned, he was pleased to learn that more Predacon reinforcements were on the way. {{storylink|Pod Part 2}}

[[File:MaximalsStrikeBackPart3-BlackarachniavsCheetor.jpg|thumb]]
To commemorate their new recruit, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] held a celebration to welcome their new recruit to the Predacons. During the festivities, [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] got on her bad side when he criticized her decision to have the stasis pods land near Maximal territory, and she later insulted [[Skold]] when the little Predacon suggested teaming up to find the stasis pods. {{storylink|Thicker Skin}} After Terrorsaur played a cruel prank on Skold, Blackarachnia and the other Predacons watched in shock as Skold befriended, and subsequently decapitated, [[Powerhug (BW)|Powerhug]]. {{storylink|Skold's No Good, Very Bad Day}}

Blackarachnia and most of her comrades were training when the Maximals used an improvised escape shuttle to launch a bombing run on the Predacon base. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1}} In the ensuing battle, Blackarachnia tried to chase down [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] and [[Nyx]] as the two escaped into the Predacon ship, but Cheetor, eager for a rematch, kept her distracted long enough for the two Maximals to carry out their sabotage mission. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 2}} In the ensuing fight, Cheetor successfully closed the distance on his foe and redirected her own [[stun beam]] against [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]; when [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] defeated Megatron in single combat a few moments later, Blackarachnia mused that she'd have to reconsider her allegiances and scuttled away. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 3}}

At one point, she and Tarantulas built a maze to trap the Maximals, and used Waspinator as a guinea pig before abandoning him in the labyrinth. {{storylink|Rhinox's Amaze-ing Adventure}} At another point, Blackarachnia took part in a skirmish over energon that ended with Cheetor getting injured. {{storylink|The Speedway of Central Consciousness}}

When Waspinator and Scorponok stumbled across an unusual sample of aggression-enhancing red energon, Blackarachnia and Tarantulas ambushed Optimus and Dinobot and attached a weaponized version of the substance on Dinobot before they escaped. {{storylink|Primal Rage}}

Soon afterwards, Optimus and Megatron ordered an alliance against the [[Vok]], Blackarachnia being part of an officer exchange assigned to the ''Axalon''. Working with Cheetor, she salvaged what she could from the armoury while noting that the Vok had been present on the planet first before a distress call came in from the ''Darksyde''. {{storylink|The Beginning of the End}}

Finding the ''Darksyde'' besieged by the totality of the [[Children of the Vok (group)|Children of the Vok]], Blackarachnia initially fought [[Polar Claw]] before webbing up [[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]]. Managing to track down Tarantulas, Blackarachnia mocked his lack of reinforcements before the Vok arrived, intending to fire their [[reversion device]] and scour the planet of life. Only for the ''Axalon'', now flight-worthy again, to open fire on the Vok with unspace beams, dissipating the energy beings. After Megatron had been hit by the same beam - and shunted a few cycles into the future - Optimus Primal offered to extend the truce with the Predacons so they could work together to capture both Megatron and Tarantulas. Assuming command, Blackarachnia denied the offer, but allowed the Maximals to leave peacefully. After inducting [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] into the Predacons, Blackarachnia eyed the inert reversion device as a useful supply of spare parts with which to repair the ''Darksyde''. {{storylink|The End (BW)|The End}}
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==Games==
===''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game continuity===
====''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game advertising comic====
Upon arriving on "[[Earth|Planet Energon]]," the dangers of Energon radiation forced the six surviving Predacons and their Maximal adversaries to take on beast alternate forms. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transformers video game advertising comic}}

====''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game====
{{voiceactor|??? (English), ??? (Japanese)}}

Blackarachnia joined her fellow Predacons in battling not only the persistent Maximal resistance, but the interdimensional monsters known as the [[Skriix]].

=====Maximal campaign=====
{{note|In the Maximal campaign, the stasis pod that would contain Blackarachnia is instead rescued by the Maximals, producing [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]].}}

=====Predacon campaign=====
When Blackarachnia's stasis pod landed in the "Polluted Area," it was secured by the Predacons whom she subsequently joined. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|Beast Wars: Transformers}}

{{BW VG|Blackarachnia|P}}

===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (N64)===
{{voiceactor|[[Janet-Laine Green]] (English)}}
[[File:N64Blackarachnia.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I'm... sure she has a nice personality... wait, no. No, she doesn't.]]

As a result of Megatron sending a message to his past self and altering history, Blackarachnia gained a Transmetal form much sooner and joined her fellow Predacons in distributing various one-on-one beat downs to the Maximals. Eventually, Silverbolt convinced her to defect to the Maximals but she never truly reformed. It was her betrayal at a key moment that eventually assured the Maximals' victory in the Beast Wars. Once back on Cybertron, she worked as a double-agent between the Maximal and [[Tripredacus Council]] with no loyalty to either side. She often pondered what would have happened if she had remained on the Predacon team throughout the war. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Beast Wars Transmetals}}

{{BW fighter ending|Blackarachnia|N64}}
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===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (PS)===
{{voiceactor|[[Janet-Laine Green]] (English), [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] (Japanese)}}
{{note|Blackarachnia appears as a secret playable character in the North American version of the game, but is not playable in the game's story mode, only appearing in cutscenes.}}
====Maximal story====
While the Maximals chased the Predacons back to their base, Blackarachnia joined Waspinator and Inferno in infiltrating and taking control of the ''Axalon''. {{Storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}
====Predacon story====
As part of Megatron's plan, a group of Maximals was baited to the ''Darkside'' while Blackarachnia and Waspinator lured the rest away from the ''Axalon''. {{Storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Alongside Waspinator and Terrorsaur, Blackarachnia came upon the crash-site of a large stasis pod marked with a red "X". Finding the Maximal Silverbolt already there, a battle ensued. When the content of the pod was accidentally let loose, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were blown away from the fight by the newly emerged Rampage, and sent flying into a hostile swamp. Finding that they need to rely on one another to survive, Blackarachnia is slowly won over by Silverbolt's chivalrous attitude, despite them being on opposing sides of a war. Eventually returning to where Waspinator, Terrorsaur, and a recently arrived Depth Charge continue to do battle with Rampage, all present manage to defeat Rampage just as Megatron arrives on-site. {{storylink|When Sparks Fly}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:BattleTacticsBlackarachnia.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Blackarachnia-TM-II.jpg|thumb|If she's defeated, she drops her swords, but not her chestplate.]]
Blackarachnia participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She appeared in multiple different bodies:
*''Blackarachnia'' — This Epic character first appeared in the "Beast Wars - Episode 2" event, and could be recruited by collecting 500 units of Cybermetal, 250 units of Transmetal, and 50 cores of this character.
*''Blackarachnia TM II'' — This Epic character first appeared in the third "Transmetals 2: Episode 1" mini events, and could be recruited by collecting 650 units of Cybermetal, 350 units of Transmetal, 150 exclusive cores, and 50 cores of this character.
{{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[file:Blackarachnia-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb||upright=2| I'm bored, so talk to the hand.]]
Blackarachnia and [[Cheetor (BW)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Cheetor]] were investigating a massive anomaly where Megatron and Optimus Primal had seemingly disappeared. Seeing as both Blackarachnia and Cheetor were reverted to their pre-transmetal states, Cheetor had a hard time believing Blackarachnia could be trusted.
{{storylink|Primal Call}}
{{storylink|Arachnophobia}}
{{storylink|Not So Fast}}
{{storylink|String Theory}}

*'''Class''': Special
*'''Weapons''': Blackarachnia can use her built-in gun to shoot a peculiar beam at defenses. In beast mode, she chops and dices at enemy targets with her razor-sharp spider legs.
*'''Ability''': Bestial Fury - For 15 seconds, use melee attacks dealing 37.8 damage. Destroy buildings to increase your attack and movement speed by 25% - the buff lasts 90 seconds and can stack 5 times.
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points +2 cost increase.
[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:blackarachnia Blackarachnia at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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{{chargamestub|{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}} Everything after [[Web of Lies]]}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Blackarachnia was created when Tarantulas used a Predacon shell program to alter a newborn Maximal protoform. As a Predacon, she was a skilled and self-reliant saboteur; when she realized that Megatron’s plans to change history would jeopardize her own existence, she decided to work with the Maximals to ensure her continued existence. After leaving the Predacons, Blackarachnia used the [[Transmetal driver|Transmetal Driver]] to evolve into a Transmetal II configuration, granting her unique telekinetic powers. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Toys==
{{main|Blackarachnia (BW)/toys}}

==Notes==
*Blackarachnia's show model was created after some Mainframe folks had taken the design modeler to a strip club only a few days prior for, um... "inspiration".<ref>{{citesocial|link=http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/593687e427efddad|site=alt.toys.transformers|name=Bob Forward|quote=I'm up in Vancouver at the moment, so I took the opportunity to actually ask the Mainframe crew why Blackarachnia looks Asian. Apparently, it is a simple and somewhat amusing answer. The model designer himself was Asian. And the rest of the crew, desiring that BA be as sexy as possible (they are a young and horny bunch) hauled him off to a local strip joint, got him insane with lust, then plunked him down in front of his workstation and turned him loose. Blackarachnia was the result.|year=1997|month=09|day=26}}</ref>
*Like her fellow spider [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], her original [[beast mode]] is depicted with ''nine'' eyes rather than eight.
*An [[Bitch Wars|unproduced ''Beast Wars'' episode concept]] would have seen Airazor and Blackarachnia join forces as a "third faction" for a bit. It went unproduced as the writers couldn't see where to go with the idea.
*In the Japanese dub of ''Beast Wars'', Blackarachnia's character underwent a few noteworthy changes. Firstly, she would switch between her usual sultry, flirtatious voice to a screaming blood-thirsty maniac at the drop of a hat. Another notable change is that she was made more vain and bratty, occasionally being prone to whining, crying and begging for mercy from her enemies (things she never did in the English version). Her unique verbal tic was a habit of making a hissing ''tssshaaaa'' noise, a trait actress [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] would pass on to ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] and ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'' [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]].
*Blackarachnia's Transmetal 2 [[character model|animation model]] is noticeably tweaked from the toy design, with her extremely large shoulder-pads and back rockets all being significantly reduced to a very discreet size. Although arguably more [[Show-accuracy|toy-accurate]] than the CG model of her original body, this level of alteration was uncommon in [[To sell toys|new characters/upgraded bodies]] introduced from Season 2 onwards, as their animation models were more closely based on their respective toys (at least in appearance, if not always in capabilities.) Additionally, the CG render omitted her toy's chest armor.<ref>"Animators' Interview" from [[Madman Entertainment]]'s ''Beast Wars'' Season 3 DVDs.</ref>
[[File:BW Sourcebook Blackarachina single vs trade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Woke up in Vegas next to [[BB#Notes|BB]].]]{{anchor|TriviaBinaltech}}
*Character and fiction information for the cancelled BT-16 "Blackwidow" toy finally emerged in late 2007 with the release of ''The Transformers Binaltech Stories: Profiles and Technical Specifications'', an unofficial publication by ''Binaltech'' story writer [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] that compiled all then-current ''Binaltech'' information as well as that of the unreleased Blackarachnia and [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] toys. [[Ask Vector Prime]] would canonize her bio almost a decade later.
*Blackarachnia is (strangely) depicted solely using a golden orange version of her Transmetal II body in her IDW ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' profile entry. She received properly colored coverage of all her modes in the trade paperback version.
*In the [[Nintendo 64]] version of ''Beast Wars Transmetals'', Blackarachnia was a stretched [[palette swap]] of [[Tarantulas (BW)|Transmetal Tarantulas]]. The [[PlayStation]] version does not stretch out Tarantulas, instead remeshing the model to resemble her Transmetal 2 form.
*As Blackarachnia appeared in the ''Kre-O'' webcomic months before her ''Kre-O'' toy was revealed, her comic appearance doesn't completely match up with the toy, lacking the spider legs and featuring additional paint details that make her more accurate to the original Blackarachnia.
*''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' Blackarachnia was depicted in a [[BotCon 2016]] lithograph as a "virtual redeco" of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#T30|Thrilling 30]]'' Deluxe Class [[Chromia (G1)#Generations|Chromia]].
*Blackarachnia's pre-Beast Wars name (in "Dawn of the Predacus" continuity) "White Proprionica" stems from ''Arachnia propionica'', an archaic name for the bacterium species ''Propionibacterium propionicus''.
*Blackarachnia's ''Kingdom'' incarnation was written with the intention of her being queer.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I definitely subscribe to a death of the author mentality when it comes to most art. As Mark Hamill has famously said, if Luke Skywalker is gay to you, then of course he's gay. But for whatever it's worth, my intent with that scene was pretty darn queer.|link=https://twitter.com/MaeCatt/status/1422247919382536192|name=Mae Catt|site=twitter|year=2021|month=08|day=02}}</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Blackwidow''' (ブラックウィドー ''Burakkuwidō''), '''Blackarachnia''' (ブラックアラクニア ''Burakkuarakunia'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Alaina''' (雅麗娜 ''Aa Lai Naa'')
*''French:'' '''La Veuve Noire''' (French cartoon dub, Canadian Transmetal 2 and ''Beast Machines'' toys; "The Black Widow"), '''Mygale''' (original Canadian toy only, "Mygalomorph")
*''German:'' '''Schwarze Arachnia''' (''Beast Wars'' cartoon and ''War For Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon)
*''Italian:'' '''Arachnia'''
*''Korean:'' '''Black''' (브랙 ''Beulaeg'')
*''Latvian:'' '''Zirneklene''' (derived from ''zirneklis'', meaning "spider")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Zhīzhū''' (''Beast Wars'', 蜘蛛, "Spider"), '''Dú Zhīzhū''' (''Beast Machines'', 毒蜘蛛, "Venomous Spider")
*''Polish:'' '''Arachna'''
*''Portuguese:'' '''Aracniana''' (Portugal), '''Viúva Negra''' (Brazil ''Beast Wars'', "Black Widow")
*''Russian:'' '''Chornaya Vdova''' (Чёрная Вдова, "Black Widow")
*''Spanish:'' '''Araña Negra''' (America, "Black Spider")

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Blackarachniatranstechconcept.jpg|Proposed ''Transtech'' concept
</gallery>

==References==
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Storm the Desert

2025-09-18T00:47:02Z

Cydra:

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|caption=Look upon my giant scorpion robot, ye mighty, and despair!
|airdate=[[September 17]], 2025
|writers=[[Ali Lightfoot]]|
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|continuity=Cyberworld
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'''Our heroes try to rush the boss ahead of schedule.'''

==Synopsis==

In the desert region, [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] still guards the crashed Autobot Shuttle, as [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]], [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]], [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] and [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] discuss tactics over radio. Neither Elita or Bee are happy to be in the desert, but Optimus tries to keep them on task. He and Grimlock will distract the humongous bot head on, while Elita and Bee aim for his weak spots. Scorponok proves impervious to their blaster fire, deploying his own shoulder mounted cannons to force the group together, whereupon he uses the same "dig underground and erupt" move he tried on Optimus Prime in their first encounter. Grimlock is caught up, but Prime rescues him with his axe. Bumblebee manages to jump onto his back, out of reach of his claws and sword-tail, where he finds a weak spot under a grille. He takes potshots at it, paining the giant robot, but his success is short lived, as Scorponok simply transforms to an equally humongous robot mode, plucks Bee of his back, and dives fist first, Bee included, into the ground, leaving the smaller bot unable to move. Elita is thrown onto his head and finds another weak spot, bashing at it with the butt of her gun, but is also thrown off into the desert sands. With Bee weakened, Scorponok goes to use his buzzsaw claw, forcing Elita and Grimlock to pry it off his chest while Optimus aims for the weak spots. It's no use, though - Optimus cannot do enough damage while Bumblebee is losing a lot of energon to the attack. In the end, Prime goes to Bee's aid, helping lift the claw before it can do fatal damage to Bee. Dangerously low on health, one of their group unable to fight any longer, Prime calls to retreat.

Grimlock throws his ''T.rex'' head, transforming into a hoverbike for Elita-1 to get Bumblebee out of there, and while they make it to safety, Optimus Prime and Grimlock struggle to outrun Scorponok. It looks like they're goners, until [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] runs in, forcing Scorponok to pause with an energy wave from his sword, and the group make it riding atop Grimlock. Grimlock chews Prime out for wasting their chance to take out Scorponok and escape just to save Bumblebee. Now, in his eyes, the truce with [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] was sacrificed for nothing, and he and Snarl have been pointlessly forced back into the cruel cycle of fighting to survive. The two debate over Prime's leadership style, and in the end, Grimlock says he gave Optimus a chance, and he blew it, before leaving with Snarl.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] (2)
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (4)
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] (5)
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (6)

|c2=
*[[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (1)
}}

==Quotes==
"None of us have the tyres to keep this up for long." 
"I don't even ''have'' tyres."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Elita-1'''

"I hope saving little one was worth, when Megatron turn you all to scrap."
:—'''Grimlock'''

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* The Autobots discovered the existence of Scorponok's weak spots back in "[[Screamer City Arena]]".

===Character levels===
* Optimus begins the fight at Level 2, half way to Level 3. By the end of the fight, he's at Level 1, dangerously close to no XP.

===Transformers references===

===Real world references===
[[File:Cyberworld Episode9 AkiraSlide.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Elita-1's ready to take on Rainbow Road.]]
* Bumblebee complains that the desert sand is "coarse, and rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere", quoting [[Darth Vader|Anakin Skywalker]]'s infamous flirting dialogue from ''[[wikia:starwars:Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones|Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones]]''.
*Grimlock refers to Bumblebee as [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RWZGDKf1eTQ Bumblebeans], referencing a joke once made by [[Thew Adams]].
* Elita-1 announces her dodge rolls (repeatedly), likely in order to bring the audience's attention to her performance of a common move in action video games; dodge rolls typically offer a moment's invulnerability, allowing the player character to avoid damage. Which clearly work in the Cyberworld.
* Elita-1 does the {{w|Akira_(1988_film)#Akira_slide|Akira Slide}} on the dino-head hoverbike.
* Snarl is, once again, a ninja from a ''shonen'' anime, with his run and his sword attacks.

===Trivia===
* Unlike other Cyberworld episodes, which debut on a Saturday, this one debuted on a Wednesday to line up with "Transformers Day" (no episode aired the Saturday prior). Like other Cyberworld episodes, it was initially uploaded alongside the [[What Goes Up|previous episode]] with an SEO baiting title ("Boss Battle! Optimus Prime VS Scorponok"). The title comes from writer Ali Lightfoot's twitter feed. <ref>{{citesocial|quote=A sneak peek of Transformers: CYBERWORLD episode 9 "Storm the Desert" has gone live on the official channel.|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1967946373904654440|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=09|day=16}}</ref>
* Grimlock and Optimus Prime are both animated without mouthplates in the final scene. It's not an error, but it does come out of nowhere. Also, mouthed Grimlock is ''freaking weird''.

==References==
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[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Transformers One (film)

2025-09-10T00:40:14Z

Cydra: /* Transformers references */

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|runtime=104 minutes
|budget= $75 million
|box office=$129 million<ref>https://the-numbers.com/movie/Transformers-One-(2024)#tab=summary</ref>
|credits=Transformers One (film)/credits
}}
'''''Transformers One''''' is an animated film released on [[September 20]], [[2024]]. It is written by [[Eric Pearson]], [[Andrew Barrer]], and [[Gabriel Ferrari]] from a story by Barrer and Ferrari,<ref name="deadlinereveal">[https://deadline.com/2015/09/transformers-writers-room-akiva-goldsman-transformers-5-1201531918/ 'Transformers' Writers Room Wraps] on Deadline</ref> and directed by [[Josh Cooley]].<ref name="cooleyreveal">[https://deadline.com/2020/04/transformers-animated-movie-paramount-hasbro-toy-story-4-director-josh-cooley-1202921100/ Animated 'Transformers' Prequel Activated; 'Toy Story 4's Josh Cooley To Direct For Hasbro/eOne & Paramount]</ref> The movie is an origin story set on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] three billion years ago<ref name="collidercinemacon">[https://collider.com/transformers-one-animated-movie-title/ New ‘Transformers’ Animated Movie Rolls Out a New Title at CinemaCon] on Collider</ref><ref name="screenrantsandiegocomiccon">[https://screenrant.com/transformers-one-timeline-setting-takes-place// When Transformers One Takes Place In The Franchise Timeline] on Screen Rant</ref> in the days before the Autobot-Decepticon war, and focuses on [[Optimus Prime (One)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (One)|Megatron]] as they go from brothers-in-arms to enemies.<ref name="cooleyreveal" />

{{bigquote|The line between friend and enemy is not as clear as I once believed. Once it's crossed, there is no going back. Because some transformations... are permanent.|[[Optimus Prime (One)|Optimus Prime]]}}

==Synopsis==
Long ago, the benevolent [[Primus]] sacrificed his life essence to become the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and created the [[Thirteen|first generation of Transformers]], the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]s. Through the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]], [[energon]] flowed freely from the planet's core, and the Primes ruled justly for a time. However, when the alien [[Quintesson]]s began a long war of invasion, the Primes were eventually slain, and the Matrix of Leadership was lost, leaving only [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]] to rule the planet in their absence after the Cybertronians relocated to massive underground cities, abandoning the dangerous surface.

[[File:TFOne Orion caught.jpg|left|thumb|300px|She's exhausted from the day's work. Uh, not that it was too much! We-we quite enjoyed it!]]
Fifty cycles after the war, Cybertronian society now relies on an [[Cogless|underclass]] of manual laborers born without [[transformation cog]]s, including a caste of miners who physically extract what few veins of usable energon remain from the tunnels beneath the subterranean [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] City, while Sentinel Prime makes periodic journeys to the surface in search of the missing Matrix. One impulsive miner named [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] has been searching for information regarding the Matrix, in the hopes that finding the artifact will restore Cybertron to prosperity and allow him and his fellow miners to choose their own path in life. Unfortunately, this search for information has led him to repeatedly break into the city's data archives without authorization. His latest attempt draws the unwanted attention of two [[Guard (One)|guards]] who have caught him several times in the past already, leading to a wild (and nearly lethal) chase through the skyways, through buildings, and eventually into the ground-level public transport station. Though the guards eventually catch up to Orion, the miner's friend [[Megatron (One)|D-16]] provides a distraction and sends the guards off on a wild goose chase. On the train to work, the pair discuss Orion's latest life-endangering adventure, and Orion, knowing that his friend idolizes the strongest Prime, gifts D-16 a rare first-edition decal of [[The Fallen|Megatronus Prime]]'s helmet he'd found.

[[File:TFOne Mine Explosion.jpg|right|thumb|300px|We're trying to get the funny man out of the well!]]
In the mines, D-16 and Orion work under the supervision of their go-getting captain [[Elita-1 (One)|Elita-1]], using [[jet pack]]s and deployable support poles to keep Cybertron's shifting geology stable long enough for them to extract raw energon. However, [[Wheeljack (One)|Wheeljack]] accidentally hits a vein of unstable energon, and the ensuing explosions trap [[Jazz (One)|Jazz]] under a rockfall. Orion and D-16 defy protocol and use a jet pack to save their coworker, but the chaos ends up damaging and destroying a lot of mine equipment. One of the mine's guards, [[Darkwing (One)|Darkwing]], blames Elita for the disaster, and informs her she's been demoted to waste management duty, despite Orion sticking up for her and taking the blame.

That evening, Sentinel Prime returns to Iacon to announce that he still has not found the Matrix; to take the blow off this bad news, Sentinel declares that the prestigious [[Iacon 5000]] race will be held the next day. Orion tries to persuade D-16 to join him in the race, hoping that they can prove to the rest of Cybertron that mining bots deserve respect, but D-16 has no interest in the idea. On the day of the race, Orion discreetly leads D-16 to the maintenance area inside the giant starting signal above the race's starting line; while D-16 is initially excited to watch from a perfect vantage point, Orion reveals his true intention as he straps jet packs to the two just as the race begins and they're dropped into the thick of a throng of racing robots. Using their jet packs and some quick thinking to compensate for their inability to transform, the two dodge the numerous traps and obstacles and briefly manage to take the lead, sending bots across the city into a frenzy, especially their fellow cogless miners. The pair are just about to limp across the finish line and take first place, but end up being run down by [[Chromia (One)|Chromia]], who snags victory for herself. The pair figure they can still be proud of second place... until several dozen other racers whip by them in vehicle mode.

[[File:TFOne Sentinel visits.jpg|left|thumb|300px|I seek to build an empire, and your only goal is to amuse yourselves by tearing it down. Have I taught you nothing?]]
In Iacon's medical center, where many, many racers have ultimately ended up, Sentinel Prime meets with Orion and D-16; the pair are immediately certain they are in ''massive'' trouble, especially when they're scanned by Sentinel's creepy aide [[Airachnid (One)|Airachnid]] before his arrival, but it turns out it's quite the opposite. Sentinel ''loved'' their little stunt, and tells them that the miners' productivity after that showing was already at 150%. Sentinel offers them a chance to tour the mines and help inspire their comrades to work harder, with promises of some pampering along the way, and the pair quickly agree. However, Darkwing arrives before Airachnid can escort them to Sentinel's private quarters; infuriated that he nearly lost the race to the pair after they humiliated him, he drags them to the planet's fiftieth sub-level (ten levels below what they ''thought'' was the lowest level of the planet) and locks them in a trash incineration station.

The two bots soon meet the eccentric and exceptionally talkative [[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]], who has been trapped at the job of "look at garbage and take anything of value out before it's burned" for years, with only garbage statues for "company". When one of B's pals "[[Steve (One)|Steve]]" utters some electronic gibberish, Orion accidentally beheads the "bot", but discovers within the wreckage an old beacon from the Quintesson war, still broadcasting a set of coordinates located somewhere on the planet's surface. Orion, B-127, and D-16 decide to investigate, escaping the only way they can: by climbing up the dump chute. Ew. The trio stow away aboard an automated surface-bound garbage train but coincidentally encounter Elita-1, who now works the refuse line. She handily clobbers the three but ends up locked in the train with them as it departs. She heads for the front, intending to report them to security, a mad dash that gets all the harder as the train starts moving vertically towards its destination. She manages to pop a hatch and make it out of the train, and the trio gives chase, but all four are stopped cold as they're enveloped in light and they find themselves traveling along Cybertron's surface.

The four are stunned by the planet's natural beauty, only to become horrified as said natural beauty starts violently heaving upwards behind them, tearing up the self-building rail and scattering train cars. They run for it but are thrown off, waking in just enough time to completely miss another train, the rail un-building behind it. Elita is furious, but agrees to join Orion's search for the Matrix, on the conditions that 1) she's in command, 2) she holds the map, and 3) if the quest turns out to be a wild goose chase, then the other three will turn themselves in for their idiotic plan and paint her in a very positive light to the authorities. Orion very quickly agrees, and the four head off, confused by the weird not-metal life growing on the surface. They spy a group of [[Robo-deer|robotic quadrupedal lifeforms]], which suddenly snap to attention and run for it as the ground begins to tremble. It's soon apparent the cause of their panic: a massive Quintesson spaceship! As the ship scans for any lifeforms (obliterating one of the Cybertronian fauna with a massive cannon blast when it ends up in the tracking beams), the four barely evade detection and the ship moves on.

[[File:TransformersOne-AlphaTrionTransformationCogs.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Take the staff in your hand, Moses. With it, you shall do My wonders.]]
Soon they find themselves at the end of the map's trail, a [[Mouth of Unicron|hidden and extremely creepy cave]]. Inside they find a scene of absolute horror: the spot where the ancient Primes made their final stand against the Quintessons, their bodies lying broken and covered in overgrowth. Although the Matrix is nowhere to be found, Orion discovers that [[Alpha Trion]]'s spark still pulses and uses an [[energon cube]] provided by B to revive him. The four attempt to bring Trion up to speed on recent events, but their mention of "Sentinel Prime" causes Trion to reveal the terrible truth: Sentinel is an imposter, a traitorous aide who led the Primes into a Quintesson ambush in exchange for "ruling" Cybertron under the invaders' command. However, when Sentinel tried to claim the Matrix after prying it from [[Zeta Prime (One)|Zeta Prime]]'s corpse, the artifact judged him unworthy and disappeared. To appease his new masters, Sentinel has deliberately stolen transformation cogs from newborn Transformers to keep them producing energon in the mines; at Trion's urging, the four emerge from the cave to witness Sentinel pledging servitude to the [[Quintesson High Commander]] and learn the city's garbage trains are actually transporting Cybertron's dwindling energon supplies to Quintesson ships, leaving barely enough for the people of Cybertron. These revelations leave the bots horrified, but D-16 takes it the worst of all, having also looked up to Sentinel for years. Alpha Trion decides to give the team hope by gifting them the transformation cogs from four of the fallen Primes, as well as a recording of Sentinel's treachery. However, Airachnid spotted the four when they were watching Sentinel's meeting with the Quintessons, and a squad of Sentinel's [[Tracker]]s arrive. Despite his disrepair, Alpha Trion uses his leonine alternate mode to wipe out the squad, allowing Orion and the others to escape, but is quickly incapacitated by Airachnid.

The four bots have a very rocky time learning to transform in the middle of fleeing a squad of Trackers, tumbling downhill with only ''parts'' of them shifting into their new vehicle modes, but desperation forces them to adapt ''very'' quickly. Each one finds new abilities and an aptitude for combat, and soon they're able to destroy their pursuers. Overjoyed at their victory, they make the plan to use the incriminating information Trion gave them by returning to Iacon and exposing Sentinel as a traitor. In their excitement, they fail to notice a Tracker about to shoot them from behind until D-16 uses his new tank mode to kill him first... and then starts laughing at what he just did. D-16 snatches the evidence and takes the lead, his ever-growing intensity and openly stated desire to kill Sentinel leaving Orion more and more unnerved.

Back in Iacon, Alpha Trion is brought before Sentinel, who mocks the "old-timer" and gloats about his station, complaining to Airachnid about the Primes' stuffiness and boring speeches. Trion's word of warning that Sentinel's time will soon be over only annoys the false Prime further, and in a fit of rage he kills the ancient Prime before sending Airachnid back to the surface to hunt down the wayward miners.

[[File:TFoneStarscreamSoundwaveShockwaveInterrogation.jpg|left|thumb|300px|You're playing with the big boys now!]]
Along the path to Iacon, a series of shots ring out, and each bot slips into stasis... Orion and the others are brought back online, bound (and gagged in B's case) as prisoners of the former members of Cybertron's [[High Guard]], who have been fighting a guerrilla war against Sentinel ever since the fall of the Primes, led by [[Starscream (One)|Starscream]]. Orion tries to form an alliance with them, but the fifty cycles of conflict have radicalized the High Guard to value strength above all else. Unimpressed and giving into his growing rage, D-16 challenges Starscream's authority, and the two quickly end up in a brawl. While Starscream plays it tough even as D-16 crushes his neck and damages his speech module, his attitude soon changes as D-16 manifests a massive cannon on his arm, aimed directly at Starscream's head. The Guard quickly rallies behind their new leader, ready to take the fight to Sentinel... but Airachnid's forces arrive and ambush them.

[[File:TFOne Airachnid attacks.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Not much of a snake-charmer, are you?]]
Orion, having been buried in the battle, awakens when Elita drags him from the rubble to find that D-16, B-127, and much of the Guard have been taken prisoner, and the data crystal containing the evidence of Sentinel's betrayal has been shattered. Orion despairs, believing their quest to be hopeless now, but Elita won't have it. Though she's still not above taking some digs at Orion, she points out that it is the bot's endless ''optimism'' that makes him a true leader, one that can make bots do amazing (and occasionally amazingly ''stupid'') things. Orion takes the praise (and insults) and decides it's time to rally, and the two quickly formulate a plan; the Guard may be strong, but the last battle proved they aren't enough on their own, they need a true army... and Orion knows exactly where to get one. After Elita quickly shuts down any dissent from the remaining Guard (thanks to a very swift punch to [[Shockwave (One)|Shockwave's]] eye), Orion primes the warriors for the coming battle, with a cry of "''[[Roll out|Transform and ROLL OUT]]!''"

The captives have been brought to [[Hall of Primes|Sentinel's tower]], where the puppet leader gloats over them, mocking Starscream's scrambled voice and sneering at D-16. But the miner does not cower or balk at all, declaring that he is not afraid of Sentinel, as he has nothing left to lose. Noticing the worn Megatronus decal, Sentinel reveals that he took Megatronus's transformation cog when he killed him, ripping the decal from the miner's arm before slapping it back onto his chest... and then, knocking the miner on his back, using a mining tool to crudely ''carve'' the Prime's face into D-16's chest.

Orion uses his new form to rocket-glide into the depths of Iacon City, entering the miners' quarters (and bodily hurling Darkwing aside in the process). Orion reveals the truth to the miners and rallies them to join forces with the High Guard and rebel against Sentinel's regime. Meanwhile, Elita, Shockwave, and [[Soundwave (One)|Soundwave]] have commandeered a returning "garbage" train, transporting the Guard into the city in a sneak attack. But the sudden appearance of hundreds of Trackers makes things look very bad for the plan... until Orion and the miners leap into the fray and cut a swath through the incoming horde, armed with their jet packs and mining tools. Airachnid attempts to kill Orion, slamming him into the train engine, and revealing the ''incredibly horrifying'' array of optics hidden in the back of her head. But her multi-scanning abilities give Orion a sudden idea as the train plows towards Sentinel's tower.

[[File:TFOneSentinelvsD16.jpg|left|thumb|300px|I will not be dictated to. I will not be threatened. I am the morning and the evening star. I am Pharaoh!]]
Sentinel, angered as D-16 once again attempts to rise up, is just about to blow the miner's head off when the train slams into his tower. Soundwave frees the prisoners and the fight spills across the city. Sentinel transforms into combat mode, but D-16 will not be deterred, the two launch into battle. Elita leaps into action, tackling Airachnid and attempting to take her prisoner (with only ''some'' gratuitously satisfying pummeling along the way). She drags the semi-conscious bot to one of Iacon's broadcast stations, and B makes a ''very'' over-enthusiastic entrance. Airachnid's memory banks are quickly scanned, and her memories of Sentinel's most recent meeting with the Quintessons are broadcast throughout the city, leading the populace to also join the fight.

Sentinel is ready to kill D-16, but drops his guard upon seeing his cowering before the Quintessons on dozens of screens. Seizing the opportunity, D-16 tackles Sentinel off the balcony and they fly through the cityscape before crashing into the empty energon fountain, crippling Sentinel in the process. The false Prime begs D-16 to spare him, claiming they can co-rule Cybertron. D-16 insists that Sentinel must die for his crimes, but Orion tries to convince his friend that they can't start a new age on Cybertron with the public execution of the former leader (though he also doesn't say that they ''shouldn't'' kill him either). D-16 violently disagrees, knocking his friend aside and readying the kill shot... only for Orion to leap in the path, the cannon blast tearing through his torso and sending him tumbling over the edge. D-16 grabs Orion's one good arm, horrified... ''that Orion would stop him from killing Sentinel''. With this betrayal, he vows he is ''done'' saving Orion from his mistakes and lets his dying friend plummet into Cybertron's depths. As Orion falls, D-16, insistent that there will be no more Primes, kills Sentinel by ripping him in half with his bare hands. He then seizes Megatronus' cog from Sentinel's chest, replacing the one gifted to him by Trion, which transforms him into an even ''more'' battle-ready form. Declaring himself "Megatron", he commands the High Guard to destroy everything Sentinel built... in other words, what's left of the city.

[[File:One-Megs-Prime-face-to-face.jpg|thumb|300px|Goodbye... brother.]]
Meanwhile, the mortally wounded Orion falls through the planetary strata, which slides and shifts out of his way, until he finally reaches Cybertron's core. There, he encounters the spirits of the Primes as Trion announces that Primus has deemed him worthy of guiding the future of Cybertron as well as the Matrix of Leadership itself, reformatting Orion and restoring his spark to declare him the newest of the Primes: "Optimus Prime", before being sent rocketing back to the surface in a blaze of blue light.

Elita and B try and fail to stop Megatron's rampage, their former friend ready to kill them too, but Optimus smashes onto the scene. Megatron is incensed at this new betrayal both by his former friend ''and'' the Matrix itself, and launches himself at Optimus. During their fight, Optimus manifests an energy battle axe to fight against Megatron along with Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave before using it to destroy Megatron's new cannon, ultimately winning their fight. Unwilling to kill his oldest friend, Optimus reluctantly banishes Megatron and his new allies to the surface. Megatron seethes but decides that now is not the time, and takes his new army to the surface.

With the return of the Matrix of Leadership, Cybertron is restored to life: energon flows once again from the planet's core to the surface, and ''all'' of the cogless bots receive transformation cogs, becoming fully autonomous "[[Autobot]]s" who vow to defend Cybertron from any future Quintesson incursions. However, the Quintessons are not the only looming threat—though banished from Iacon, Megatron and his followers rechristen themselves the "[[Decepticon]]s" and swear revenge.
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==Cast==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=Miners
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax / Optimus Prime]] ([[Chris Hemsworth]])
*[[Megatron (One)|D-16 / Megatron]] ([[Brian Tyree Henry]])
*[[Elita-1 (One)|Elita-1]] ([[Scarlett Johansson]])
*[[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]] ([[Keegan-Michael Key]])
*[[Jazz (One)|Jazz]] ([[Evan Michael Lee]])
*[[Arcee (One)|Arcee]] ([[Jinny Chung]])
*[[Bluestreak (One)|Bluestreak]]
*[[Brawn (One)|Brawn]]
*''[[Not Chromia|Chromia]]''<ref group=note>A blue female cogless miner was designed to resemble [[Chromia (G1)|Generation 1 Chromia]] and named as such in production material. However she can't actually ''be'' Chromia, because a [[Chromia (One)|suspiciously-Mirage-like racer]] is named as such in dialogue.</ref>
*[[Firestar (One)|Firestar]]<ref group=note name="uncredited">Denotes a character, or unidentified members of a group, who speaks, but has no credited voice actor. The performance was likely done by an ADR voice cast member.</ref>
*[[Hound (One)|Hound]]
*[[Huffer (One)|Huffer]]
*[[Ironhide (One)|Ironhide]]<ref group=note name="uncredited"/>
*[[Moonracer (One)|Moonracer]]<ref group=note name="uncredited"/>
*[[Prowl (One)|Prowl]]<ref group=note name="uncredited"/>
*[[Ratchet (One)|Ratchet]]
*[[Red Alert (One)|Red Alert]]
*[[Sideswipe (One)|Sideswipe]]<ref group=note name="uncredited"/>
*[[Smokescreen (One)|Smokescreen]]
*[[Sunstreaker (One)|Sunstreaker]]
*[[Wheeljack (One)|Wheeljack]]<ref group=note name="uncredited"/>
*[[Windcharger (One)|Windcharger]]

|h2=[[High Guard]]
|c2=
*[[Starscream (One)|Starscream]] ([[Steve Buscemi]])
*[[Soundwave (One)|Soundwave]] ([[Jon Bailey]])
*[[Shockwave (One)|Shockwave]] ([[Jason Konopisos-Alvarez]])
*[[Skywarp (One)|Skywarp]] (Josh Cooley)
*[[Thundercracker (One)|Thundercracker]]
*[[Dirge (One)|Dirge]]
*[[Ramjet (One)|Ramjet]]
*[[Thrust (One)|Thrust]]
*[[Slipstream (One)|Slipstream]]
*[[Redwing (One)|Redwing]]

|h3=[[Thirteen#One film|Primes]]
|c3=
*[[Alpha Trion]] ([[Laurence Fishburne]])
*[[Zeta Prime (One)|Zeta Prime]] ([[James Remar]])
*[[The Fallen#One film|Megatronus Prime]]
*[[Maccadam#One film|Alchemist Prime]]
*[[Amalgamous Prime#One film|Amalgamous Prime]]
*[[Liege Maximo#One film|Liege Maximo]]
*[[Micronus Prime#One film|Micronus Prime]]
*[[Nexus Prime#One film|Nexus Prime]]<ref group=note name="uncredited"/>
*[[Onyx Prime#One film|Onyx Prime]]
*[[Prima#One film|Prima Prime]]
*[[Quintus Prime#One film|Quintus Prime]]
*[[Solus Prime#One film|Solus Prime]]<ref group=note name="uncredited"/>
*[[Vector Prime#One film|Vector Prime]]

|c4=
*[[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]] ([[Jon Hamm]])
*[[Airachnid (One)|Airachnid]] ([[Vanessa Liguori]])
*[[Quintesson High Commander]]
*[[Quintesson Soldier]]s
*[[Primus]]
*[[Tracker]]s<ref group=note name="uncredited"/>
*[[Guard (One)|Guards]] ([[Steve Blum]], Jason Konopisos-Alvarez)
*[[Announcer Bot]] (Steve Blum)
*[[Control Room Guys]] (Josh Cooley)

'''Racers'''
*[[Darkwing (One)|Darkwing]] ([[Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.]])
*[[Chromia (One)|Chromia]] (Jinny Chung)
*[[Injured Racer]] ([[Dillon Bryan]])

|nonumbering=true
}}
<references group=note/>

==Quotes==
"Hey, look, I know it's all a big joke to you. But not me. I was paying my dues. I was going places. And now they're gonna bust me down I-- I don't even know how many tiers!" 
'"I'm sorry, D. But come on, didn't you feel it? Even for just a second, didn't you feel liberated? Didn't you feel like you were something else? Like you could be more than what they say you are?" 
"Yeah, I felt it. I did. But it doesn't matter. We're going to get punished ''and'' demoted. Ugh, Sentinel Prime saw the whole thing, this is so ''embarrassing''."
:—'''D-16''' knows his place, despite what '''Orion Pax''' tries.

"Don't you want to stop him?" 
"NO, '''I WANT TO KILL HIM!''' I wanna put Sentinel in chains and march him through the mines so everyone can see him for the '''FALSE PRIME''' that he is! I want him to '''suffer''', and then to ''die'' in ''darkness.'' But we all know it doesn't matter what I want, ''right'', Pax? The fact is, we're just cogless bots. Right? We had limited options, and now... now we have ''none''."
:—'''Orion Pax''' and '''D-16'''

"What defines a Transformer is not the cog in his chest, but the spark in that resides in their core. A spark that gives you the will to make your world better. My fellow Primes had that spark. And I see their strength in you. Take their cogs and access your full potential. Prima. Onyx. Alchemist. Micronus. Warriors of noble spirit, loyalty, strength. Their uniqueness enhanced by these. They were one. ''You'' are one. '''ALL''' are one!" 
"Wait. We have... You-- You gave us..." 
"The ability to change your world. How you choose to use that power is up to you."
:—'''Alpha Trion''' inaugurates '''Orion Pax''' and our heroes with the tried and true phrase.

'''Starscream''': Now, are you spies, or incompetent lackeys? 
'''Orion Pax''': We're not spies. 
'''Elita-1''': But he ''is'' incompetent.

"Uh... why is he gagged?" 
"He wouldn't stop talking." 
"Even when he was unconscious?" 
"''ESPECIALLY'' WHEN HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS!"
:—'''Elita-1''' asks '''Shockwave''' about B-127's restraints.

"If we want to be in control of our own destiny, we will have to fight for it. Now is the time for us to stand up. For ourselves. Stand up for this injustice! I promise you, this fight will be worth it. Follow me. Nothing can stop us when we stand together! Together as one!"
:—With the miners chanting his name, '''Orion Pax''' delivers his first heroic speech.

"You pathetic little twits! Did you really think that you could knock down everything I've built?!" 
"It's over, Sentinel! You can't escape the truth!" 
"What truth? That I plucked the cogs from your newborn chests? Forced you to mine so that I could pay off the Quintessons and live like a king? None of that matters! Because the truth... Is. ''WHAT. I. '''MAKE IT!'''''"
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' teaches '''Orion Pax''' that he won't go down without a fight.

"The Age of Primes has ended! '''NO MORE FALSE PROPHETS'''! Follow me, and you will ''never again'' be ''deceived!'' '''RISE UP!''' ''I'' will lead us all into the future! ''I...'' '''AM...''' '''''MEGATRON!'''''"
:—With the death of Sentinel Prime, '''D-16''' renames himself as '''Megatron'''

"We were given the power to change our world, and you chose to destroy it. Just like Sentinel. You have betrayed Cybertron and its citizens, and you betrayed... ''me.'' Go. Take the High Guard, and leave. You are banished from Iacon. It didn't have to end this way." 
"This isn't over... ''Prime.''"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Megatron''' share one final exchange.

"This is the greatest day of my life... I get to work for the ''government''!"
:—'''B-127''' knows a good benefits package when he sees one.

"And now we stand here together as one, proving we all have the power to transform; to become who we were destined to be; to right wrongs; to make our world better. Because here, freedom and autonomy are the right of all sentient beings. Here, all are truly ''Autobots''. This message is a warning to all Quintessons: If you dare return to Cybertron, the Autobots will be waiting. ''I'' will be waiting. I... am ''Optimus Prime''."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' gives his first dramatic ending monologue...

"Sentinel, the betrayer, is dead. But his death has given life to a new enemy...a stronger enemy... a ''personal'' enemy. We will ''not'' be blinded by his deception! We are the ones who are... '''DECEPTICONS! ''RISE UP!'''''"
:—...and '''Megatron''' gives the coming darkness its new name.

==Continuity notes==
The movie that would ultimately become ''Transformers One'' entered preliminary development in early 2015, when the project was first pitched as part of a writer's room that would lay out a number of sequels, prequels, and spinoff films that would turn the ongoing [[live-action film series|slate of live-action movies]] into a proper "cinematic universe", an attempt to cash in on the then-meteoric hype of the {{w|Marvel Cinematic Universe}}. Like pretty much all the other "cinematic universes" pitched at around this time, this ambitious vision was not to be: following the box-office bomb that was ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'', most of these projects were shelved, while others were heavily reworked—perhaps most infamously, ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' was recut into a film that contradicted ''The Last Knight'' and its depictions of Bumblebee fighting in [[World War II]], shifting the film and [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|its sequel]] into a more ambiguous "soft reboot" that only loosely connect to the five Bay films.

It appears that a similar conceptual drift occurred over the course of ''Transformers One'''s production. When the film entered full production in mid-2020, ''One'' was said to be "separate and apart" from the ongoing live-action films, though at the time just ''how'' distinct the film would be from its predecessors remained a mystery.<ref name="cooleyreveal" /> When later asked if the film was a prequel to the live-action films, a reboot, or its own universe, director Josh Cooley answered "yes" to all of the above.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/transformers-one-director-confirms-new-movies-canon-status/ Transformers ONE Director Confirms New Movie's Canon Status - ComicBook.com]</ref> While a few details and visual nods—such as Bumblebee's original name of "B-127", the function of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in which it dissolves into dust if it deems someone unworthy to wield it and the incorporation of a closing monologue delivered by Optimus—referenced the live-action films, the film otherwise draws heavily upon the mythology first laid down in the [[Aligned continuity family|"Aligned" continuity family]] and has gone on to inform just about every major ''Transformers'' universe afterwards, particularly in its depiction of Orion Pax and D-16 as former allies fighting against a corrupt Cybertronian government.

As the film's release date drew closer, multiple comments from the film's creatives indicated that the filmmakers viewed the movie as something entirely separate from the ongoing live-action films. In July, Josh Cooley stated that the film was set in a "new Transformers continuity"<ref>{{citesocial|quote= "Hey little nerd in my profile picture, what if I told you someday you'll create a new Transformers continuity, that begins earlier than anything you've seen on the Transformers lore timeline, with the greatest crew and cast ever assembled?"|link= https://twitter.com/CooleyUrFaceOff/status/1817235351095894510 |name=Josh Cooley|site=Twitter|year=2024|month=7|day=27}}</ref>; in another interview from a week before release, di Bonaventura ultimately admitted that ''One'' didn't fit into the chronology of the live-action films, and described ''One'' and the live-action films as "two universes" that would be "[kept] separate".<ref>[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/is-transformers-one-a-prequel-optimus-prime-origin-story-exclusive/ Is Transformers One a Prequel or Reboot? The Animated Movie's Origin Story Is Both, Director Says]</ref> These statements were ultimately borne out by the movie itself, which featured multiple plot points that are pretty much irreconcilable with the live-action films—early on, the film establishes that [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] is long dead, negating his appearance in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''; additionally, the movie ends with the newly christened Megatron killing Sentinel Prime, leaving no wiggle room for the events of ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' to occur. As a result, the wiki has opted to treat ''One'' and any potential sequels as a new [[continuity family]] entirely separate from the ongoing live-action films.

==Transformers references==
* As with pretty much every major ''Transformers'' project since 2010, ''Transformers One'' is the latest interpretation of the modernized ''Transformers'' backstory that originated with [[Binder of Revelation|Hasbro's internal design documents]] and was first laid down in ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]''—the story of [[Primus]], the [[Thirteen|thirteen original Transformers]], and the origins of Optimus Prime and Megatron as former friends who fought against inequality on pre-war Cybertron until Megatron's extremism drove them apart. Notably, this version of the story portrays both Orion and Megatron as [[energon]] miners on the bottom of Cybertron's caste system—most other interpretations have instead depicted Orion as a somewhat higher-ranking data clerk. While other tellings of the story have Orion advocating for non-violent social change, this take on the origin ends with Orion Pax working alongside the future Decepticons to directly overthrow the reigning Prime, evoking [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s ''[[The Transformers: Autocracy|Autocracy]]'' miniseries.
* Many contemporary works of pre-war ''Transformers'' fiction have established that pre-war Cybertronians organized themselves under a job-based [[Functionism|caste system]], with miners and other manual laborers occupying the lowest ranks of Transformer society. ''One'' features a very simplified version of this hierarchy, where Cybertronians without transformation cogs are an oppressed underclass while other Transformers receive additional rights and job opportunities.
* With the exception of D-16—whose origins as a low-ranking miner date back to IDW's ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]''—all of the other miners shown in the film go on to join the Autobots, while the forerunners of the Decepticons are depicted as ex-members of the elite [[High Guard]]. This specific class divide dates back to the ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' episode "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]" and, to a lesser extent, "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]", which explained the war between the Autobots and Decepticons as an entrenched conflict between civilian laborers and military robots.
* All the character designs are far closer to their Generation 1 designs (both the cartoon and the original toys) than the previous films. Characters also earn their iconic design traits in pivotal scenes, such as Optimus Prime's [[Energon-axe]] and [[mouthplate]], or Megatron's [[fusion cannon]]. In the final scene, many miners gain details to match their Generation 1-selves even closer after they receive their cogs; in particular, Arcee gains her pink visor from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. Starscream, Soundwave, and Megatron's newly applied insignias in the post-credits scene are also in the same place as their original counterparts, with Starscream's even being upside-down!
* Optimus Prime's original identity of "Orion Pax" is a name taken from the ''The Transformers'' episode "War Dawn". Notably, the cartoon's version of Orion Pax was also a manual laborer, although the film does seemingly pay homage to Orion Pax's other famous job by having him sneak into the Cybertronian Archives at the very beginning of the film. D-16 takes [[Dion (G1)|Dion]]'s place as his best friend and co-worker.
* The 'bot who will one day be known as "Megatron" initially goes by the name "D-16", a moniker lifted from ''Exodus'' and itself based on the [[TakaraTomy]] ID number of the [[Megatron (G1)/toys#The Transformers|original Megatron toy]]. D-16's original body—with a black, dome-shaped helmet and yellow eyes—references Megatron's [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel Comics appearance]], which in turn was based on concept art for an unproduced prototype version of the original Takara Micro Change figure. Much like Orion Pax, his modern gladiator job is paid homage in his fight with Starscream.
* B-127 is heavily based on his [[Bumblebee (Movie)|live-action film series counterpart]]: his helmet design and blasters bear a resemblance to his appearance in those films; additionally, his overly-talkative nature is a meta-gag about his "future" self being best known for not being able to speak. The name "B-127" derives from the [[Bumblebee (film)|''Bumblebee'' movie]], where, much like this film, he did not receive the name "Bumblebee" on Cybertron. B-127's battle mask resembles his [[Bumblebee (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart's]] [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#The Transformers|original toy]]; towards the end of the film, he fights with a pair of "knife hands" seemingly based on ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]]'' Bumblebee's melee weapons.
* In general, Elita-1 doesn't draw upon as many specific references as her co-stars, although her purplish-pink color scheme and motorcycle [[alternate mode]] may be a reference to her [[Elita-One (Movie)|''Revenge of the Fallen'' design]]. Notably, of the four main protagonists, Elita's the only one who ''doesn't'' have an alternate alias—especially odd given that her [[Elita One (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]] originally went by "Ariel" in the ''The Transformers'' episode "War Dawn". (This exclusion is perhaps less odd when one considers that subsequent to 1985, [[Disney]] secured a near-stranglehold on toys named "{{w|Ariel (The Little Mermaid)|Ariel}}".)
* Sentinel Prime is based on [[Sentinel Zeta Prime]], the former leader of Cybertron in the [[Aligned continuity family|"Aligned" continuity]]. Like that version of the character, this take on Sentinel Prime is explicitly a "false" Prime who never carried the Matrix of Leadership, and a puppet ruler who was appointed to the position by the Quintessons. Design-wise, this take on Sentinel draws from his "Aligned" counterpart, his [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|''Dark of the Moon'' appearance]], and has details from his [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' toy]] and the thematically similar character, [[Nominus Prime]]. Sentinel's battle mode is inspired by his [[Apex Armor (G1)|Apex Armor]] from the ''Megatron Origin'' comic. He also has his [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]]'s glorious chin, as well as carrying on his 'arrogant jerkwad' personality rather than the more stoic attitude of other Sentinels. His Primax blade takes specific inspiration from DOTM Sentinel's [[Primax Blade|weapon of the same name]], now with the additional ability to retract one or both of its blades when required.
* Airachnid is derived from the ''Prime'' [[Airachnid (Prime)|character of the same name]]—a notable inclusion given the primarily G1-based main cast—sharing a similar design, alternate mode as a helicopter, and antagonistic personality. Role-wise, however, she draws from her [[Airachnid (G1)|IDW 2005 counterpart]] being a subordinate of the [[Starscream_(G1)/2005_IDW_continuity|shady sovereign ruler of Cybertron]].
* Like Sentinel Prime, the Quintessons are primarily based on their depiction in the "Aligned" lorebook [[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|''The Covenant of Primus'']], which depicted them as shadowy manipulators who ruled Cybertron and exploited its natural resources through a proxy government; notably, the Quintessons in the ''Covenant'' helped maintain their hold on Transformer civilization by withholding the power to transform from the general populace. In a notable deviation from traditional ''Transformers'' lore, the bodies and starships of the film's Quintessons appear to be organic in nature.
** It is ambiguous to what the origin of the Quintessons actually is. In most modern media, the Quintessons are the renegade creations of Quintus Prime (such as in ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: Earthspark]]''). While they do share some similarities, such as part of their names, multiple appendages, need for Energon, and their coloration, nothing is ever stated that Quintus Prime created them. They aren't the creators of the Cybertronian race like in media before Primus was created, either. It is possible that the Quintessons are simply an alien race unrelated to the Cybertronians.
* Primus' design seen in the hologram Orion plays is largely based on the [[IP infringement|"third party"]] 01 Studio Seed figure, itself inspired by the oft-referenced [[:File:UltimateGuidePrimus.jpg|original character model]] for his planet-body from [[DK Publishing|DK]]'s [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|''The Ultimate Guide'']]. His head and chest are closer to his ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' appearance, also pulling a simplified version of [[Primus#Cybertron|that toy]]'s transformation scheme. Primus' willing sacrifice of his locomotion and birthing of the Thirteen pulls from his appearance in the eponymous ''Covenant of Primus''.
* The Thirteen are similarly based on their "Aligned"' incarnations for their backstory and designs. Nexus, Megatronus, Solus, and Alchemist Prime also draw from their ''[[:File:NexusPrimeflankedbyotherPrimes.jpg|Timelines]]'', ''[[:File:Megatronus.jpeg|Titans Return]]'', ''[[:File:SolusPrime-PowerofthePrimes.jpg|Power of the Primes]]'', and ''[[:File:TheCitizen IaconusCitizens.jpg|Cyberverse]]'' designs, respectively, while Vector Prime is based squarely on his original ''Cybertron'' design.
* Megatronus is also inspired by his ''Revenge of the Fallen'' design, including his face being based on the Decepticon symbol (or vice versa in-universe), although it is far more obvious in this movie, coincidentally evoking [[Tarn (G1)|Tarn]]. Megatronus' face becoming the in-universe inspiration for the Decepticon symbol reflects the real life story of [[Soundwave (G1)|Generation 1 Soundwave]]'s face inspiring the iconic symbol.
* Alpha Trion's abilities to recreate and store memories as information calls back to the archival role of his [[Alpha Trion#Aligned continuity family|Aligned incarnation]]. His alternate mode being a leonine beast with a unicorn-esque horn is a direct homage to his [[Alpha Trion/toys#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' toy]], itself based on his [[Alpha Trion/toys#Expanded Universe|cancelled BotCon toy]].
* The mysterious [[Thirteenth Prime]] is replaced with Zeta Prime, who also takes [[Prima]]'s role as leader and Matrix-bearer, though Prima himself is still present. Zeta's design is also based on "Aligned" Sentinel Zeta Prime, as he appears in the ''War for Cybertron'' video game.
* The Thirteen are not actually referred to as the "Thirteen", but rather the Primes or the "Council of Elders", a term that originated in ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''. This is likely because it would contradict Sentinel's narrative painting himself as a fourteenth Prime. Notably, none of the archives or displays of the Thirteen include Sentinel.
* The cameo miners mostly draw from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)/cast#Season 1|1984 Autobot cast of the original cartoon]], along with the [[Female Autobots]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], and recolors such as [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]. The background High Guard characters, meanwhile, are based on the endless Starscream recolors that have appeared throughout ''Transformers'', commonly known as the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. Notably, one of their helmet variations is based on [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity#Cybertron cartoon|''Cybertron'' Starscream]]'s, while some Seekers including [[Thundercracker (One)|Thundercracker]] sport triple-barreled weapons on their arms that resemble the [[neutron assault rifle]] from ''Fall of Cybertron'' – specifically the split-in-half configuration seen in the [[Starscream (WFC)/toys#Generations|''Fall of Cybertron'' Starscream toy]] and its redecoes, even including a gear-shaped detail behind the barrels echoing the gears on the toy's accessories.
* Shockwave, Soundwave, Starscream/the Seekers, and the cogged versions of Ironhide, Ratchet, and Arcee have details based on their ''Bumblebee'' designs.
*The jet modes of Starscream/the Seekers are also based on ''Bumblebee'', while Soundwave's vehicle mode is based on his [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS83|''Studio Series Bumblebee'' toy]]. Shockwave's alternate mode resembles his [[Shockwave (WFC)|''War for Cybertron'' counterpart]], and both he and Starscream/the Seekers have details from their [[War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' toys]].
*When Orion "transforms" to run away from the guards, he moves his limbs in a way that evokes [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Toys|his original toy]]'s transformation.
* The Matrix causing Energon to flow and 'killing' the planet when lost calls back to the [[AllSpark]].
* When discussing their mining ability, Elita says Orion "[doesn't] have the touch or the power," a reference to the [[The Touch|beloved song]] from ''The Transformers: The Movie.''
* The Iacon 5000 derives from the Marvel UK ''The Transformers'' [[Source:Darn 'n' Blast#Issue 326|issue 326's "Darn 'n' Blast" letter page]]. Many of the racers in the Iacon 5000 are characters from Generation 1 and ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'', with their colors and vehicle modes next to their names on the leaderboard, though they do not correspond to specific models except for the miners, Darkwing, and Chromia.
** Racers based on their Generation 1 counterparts include [[Mirage (One)|Mirage]], [[Clampdown (One)|Clampdown]], [[Silverbolt (One)|Silverbolt]], "[[Deadend (One)|Deadend]]", [[Slingshot (One)|Slingshot]], [[Cliffjumper (One)|Cliffjumper]], [[Dragstrip (One)|Dragstrip]], [[Swerve (One)|Swerve]], [[Powerglide (One)|Powerglide]], [[Windblade (One)|Windblade]], [[Afterburner (One)|Afterburner]], [[Blurr (One)|Blurr]], [[Fireflight (One)|Fireflight]], [[Cordon (One)|Cordon]], [[Breakdown (One)|Breakdown]], [[Swindle (One)|Swindle]], [[Tailgate (One)|Tailgate]], [[Lightspeed (One)|Lightspeed]], "[[Spinout (One)|Spinout]]", [[Greasepit (One)|Greasepit]], [[Scattershot (One)|Scattershot]], [[Inferno (One)|Inferno]], [[Motormaster (One)|Motormaster]], and "[[Hotrod (One)|Hotrod]]".
** Racers based on their ''Generation 2'' counterparts include [[Blowout (One)|Blowout]], [[High Beam (One)|High Beam]], [[Double Clutch (One)|Double Clutch]], [[Meanstreak (One)|Meanstreak]], [[Motormouth (One)|Motormouth]], [[Speedstream (One)|Speedstream]], "[[Roadrocket (One)|Roadrocket]]", and [[Staxx (One)|Staxx]].
** [[Jolt (One)|Jolt]] and [[Leadfoot (One)|Leadfoot]] are the only racers based on their [[Jolt_(ROTF)|Bayverse ]] [[Leadfoot (DOTM)|counterparts]].
** [[Jetstorm (One)|Jetstorm]] and [[Tankor (One)|Tankor]] are based on their ''[[Jetstorm (BM)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Tankor (BM)|counterparts]].
** [[Override (One)|Override]] is based on her ''Cybertron'' [[Override (Cybertron)|counterpart]].
**Racers that are only named through dialogue are [[Tailwind (One)|Tailwind]], [[Strafe (One)|Strafe]] (spelled "Streak" in the Spanish subtitles), [[Skyfire (One)|Skyfire]], and original characters [[Thunderglide]] and [[Behemoth]]. Phew!
* After being knocked off the train and stranded on the surface, Elita-1 calls Orion, D-16, and B-127 a bunch of "idiot [[GoBots|go-bots]]" as if referring to their previous toy shelf rivals (although it's spelled the way that Hasbro does for their own figures).
* The cave where the Primes died is known in the storyboards as the [[Mouth of Unicron]]. It also similar to the [[Tomb of the Primes]] from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]].
* The film's themes, "Resting Place of the Primes" and "The Fall", include a leitmotif from the main theme of ''Transformers: Prime'', which was also composed by Brian Tyler. "The Fall" also plays a motif lifted from ''The Transformers: The Movie'''s "[[Death of Optimus Prime]]" in a different key. More specifically, the motif is from when [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] flatlines and dies. Fitting, as "The Fall" plays when Orion Pax is dropped into Cybertron's [[core]] and Optimus Prime is born. Incidentally, this scene and the music are also quite similar to when Megatron fatally shoots Bumblebee in the ''Transformers: Prime'' series finale "[[Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock]]" (though the cue originated from the second season finale "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]" when the Decepticons destroyed [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]]).
*D-16's eye color gradually shifting from yellow to red upon declaring himself "Megatron" is similar to how his [[Megatron (WFC)|Aligned counterpart]]'s eye color changed from blue to red after being denied the rank of Prime (and given to his friend Orion, which he viewed as a "betrayal") as seen in the flashbacks of "[[One Shall Rise, Part 3]]".
*The part of "The Fall" that plays when Megatron rips Sentinel in half also includes a leitmotif from [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)|Fall of Cybertron's]] "The Great Exodus".
* The notion of the Matrix actively rejecting an "unworthy" candidate and disintegrating was a plot point in ''Revenge of the Fallen''.
* Alpha Trion announces "All are one!" as he bequeaths the main quartet their new transformation cogs, a reference to the classic slogan "[['Til all are one]]!" originating from ''The Transformers: The Movie''.
* An empty Matrix chamber is visible behind Orion's chest window after receiving his cog, even before finding the actual Matrix.
* The throne Starscream sits on is loosely based on the crown his [[Starscream (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]] wore during his coronation in ''The Transformers: The Movie''.<ref>[https://youtu.be/fo7EwIlSNAs?si=8y1UWHCLv46WKzE7&t=190 Brian Tyree Henry & Josh Cooley Dissect The Evolution Of Megatron | Transformers One Behind The Shot]</ref>
*Soundwave scans Orion's electrical impulses to check if he is lying, a rarely referenced ability from his [[Soundwave (G1)|original toy's bio]].
*Shockwave's eye flickers when he speaks, just as it did in the original Generation 1 cartoon. Similarly, Optimus Prime's faceplate bobs up and down when he speaks.
* Starscream has a normal-sounding voice (for Steve Buscemi, anyway) when he first appears, but after D-16 crushes his [[voice box]] during their duel, his voice becomes shriller and scratchier in the style of [[Chris Latta]]'s portrayal of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]].
*Shockwave and Elita have a small rivalry, reflecting their Generation 1 versions in Elita's introduction episode, "[[The Search for Alpha Trion]]".
* Soundwave orders the High Guard to "[[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|eject]]" when descending on Sentinel's tower.
[[File:TFoneOrionJump.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Let my people go!]]
* During the battle in Sentinel Prime's tower, Orion leaps into the air and shoots one of the Trackers, with his midair pose homaging Optimus Prime's famous midair shooting pose from ''The Transformers: The Movie''.
* Megatron is the 'bot who shoots Orion and leaves him on the brink of death until he is resurrected as Optimus Prime in what is likely a reference to the ''The Transformers'' episode "War Dawn". However, the specific framing of the scene—in which Megatron shoots Orion and drops him into the depths of the planet, only for him to find the Matrix and return as Optimus—is, however coincidentally, nearly identical to the events of [[Transformation (issue)|issue #9]] of ''Autocracy''. Orion finding the Matrix in the planet's core also evokes the climax of the ''War for Cybertron'' games.
* The fatal wounds Orion Pax sustained from D-16 before his descent into Cybertron's core strongly resemble the wounds Optimus Prime sustained at the end of the ''The Transformers'' episode "[[Dark Awakening (episode)|Dark Awakening]]".
* Megatron disposes of Sentinel Prime in the same manner that his [[Megatron (Movie)|live-action counterpart]] killed [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]—by bisecting the bot with his bare hands. Similarly, this is also how the [[Rainmaker]]s disposed of Sentinel in the [[2019 IDW continuity]].
** Likewise, a damaged Sentinel pleaded mercy and tried to reason to his soon-to-be executioner, the one 'bot who trusted him the most. In ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'', it was Optimus; here, it was Megatron. Also, Sentinel offers Megatron to work together, which they did in ''Dark of the Moon'' until Sentinel briefly usurped Megatron's leadership.
* When both Orion Pax and Sentinel Prime die, [[aggressive depigmentation|their bodies turn grey]].
* Orion is caught by a beam and brought to Primus to be reformatted into Optimus Prime, much like how Megatron was caught by [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] and reformatted into [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]].
* "Arise, Optimus Prime", intones Alpha Trion as Orion receives the Matrix, evoking the climax of ''The Transformers: The Movie'', in which a ghostly Optimus Prime said the same to [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] as he transformed into Rodimus Prime.
* When the energy burst from Optimus' return to the surface blows Megatron off his feet, he crashes to the ground in a [https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/s/QRpmFJRCXz pose] identical to his G1 self after Optimus threw him off during their duel in ''The Transformers: The Movie.''
* Megatron using a long piece of sharp, orange shrapnel to attack Optimus also comes from the iconic fight in ''The Transformers: The Movie''.
* Optimus using a defeated Shockwave's cannon to attack another enemy is a fighting move Optimus made in ''Dark of the Moon''.
* After Optimus and Megatron's fight concludes, Megatron is shown with "tear stains" of mech fluid under his eyes, precisely matching the fluid-streaks the original Megatron had running down ''his'' face after his fight with Optimus in ''The Transformers: The Movie''. In ''One'', Megatron then declares "This isn't over, Prime," mirroring his line from ''The Movie'': "It's over, Prime."
* When restoring Cybertron's Energon supply, Optimus holds the Matrix in the same pose Hot Rod holds it when transforming into Rodimus at the end of ''The Transformers: The Movie''.
* The restoration of Cybertron's Energon supply is somewhat similar to the planet's revitalization at the end of "[[The Rebirth, Part 3]]".
* Optimus' concluding narration is presented as a "message" being sent into space, continuing the recurring concept of the ''Transformers'' films ending in such a way, introduced in the [[Transformers (film)|first live-action movie]]. This also happens at the end of "[[Darkness Rising, Part 5]]".
*Optimus' transformation during his ending monologue is accompanied by the original transformation noise.
* In the post-credits scene, Megatron brands the Decepticon insignia onto his troops much like his [[Megatron (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]] did in "[[A Bridge Too Close, Part I]]". Megatron also orders the Decepticons to "[[Roll out#Transformers_Animated|rise up]]", quoting his ''Animated'' counterpart who originated the phrase "transform and rise up" in "[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]".
* While the newly christened Decepticons fire into the sky, the glow of the laser beams shines on Megatron's insignia in a way that homages the metallic effect of the [[:File:TF-G1-HD-Logo-Evil-Decepticon.png|original Decepticon ''The Transformers'' logo]], and many a [[scene transition]].

==Real-life references==
* The design of the arcade cabinet in the miners' quarters is based on the {{w|Neo Geo (system)|Neo Geo MVS}}.
* One of B-127's "friends" is named [https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw?t=104 A-A-Tron].
* As Orion Pax and D-16 approach the finish line in the Iacon 5000, the announcer quotes verbatim Joe Starkey's call of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Play_(American_football) The Play] from the 1982 Cal-Stanford game. "The most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of—" It can be assumed he would say "The Iacon 5000" in place of "college football," had Chromia not sped past to win the race.

==Errors==
* The history record about Primus, the Primes, and the Matrix that Orion Pax watches in the archives is recorded by [[Laurence Fishburne|a voice]] that clearly belongs to Alpha Trion. Yet, the events described in the history record include the disappearance of the Matrix, which happened after the Primes were killed and Alpha Trion went offline. So how could Alpha Trion have made that recording when he was lying comatose in a cave during that time?
** That said, synthesizing voices isn't all that hard. Considering the record's content, it was likely created by Sentinel Prime as propaganda.
* Many of the miners based on recognizable characters appear multiple times in the background or between shots, with many, such as Ironhide, having numerous occupations and being in multiple places at the same time.
* The High Guard has the same issue. Slipstream is shown to have been captured by the Death Trackers, but is later shown to take part in the attack on Sentinel's tower. Thundercracker is sliced in half by Airachnid, but is present the rest of the film.
* Mirage, with the colors and land-based vehicle mode of his [[Mirage (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]], appears on the leaderboard of the Iacon 5000, but one of the cogless miners is clearly based on Generation 1 Mirage.
* Chromia is the racer that wins the Iacon 5000, but a bot that better resembles [[Chromia (G1)|Generation 1 Chromia]] appears as a miner too. Production designer Jason Scheier would confirm the miner bot is just a bot that resembles Chromia, while the one in the Iacon 5000 is the 'real' Chromia.
* One of the cogless miners is clearly meant to be [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], with a black crest, red pelvis, and red pips on his shoulders. However, the scene after the Iacon 5000 in Iacon's medical center has a voice on the intercom paging a "Dr. Ratchet".
* Airachnid's legs are floating behind her back in her conversation with Sentinel Prime after he murders Alpha Trion.
* When Starscream interrogates the main quartet in the High Guard lair, Slipstream's hands are [https://www.reddit.com/r/Transformemes/comments/1gw87v2/something_feels_missing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1 positioned] as if she is holding a blaster but the blaster itself is not present at all, resulting in a rather awkward pose.
* The incriminating clips of Sentinel replayed from Airachnid's mind reuse clips from previous scenes of the movie instead of being from Airachnid's point of view. She wasn't exaggerating when she said "I see ''everything''"!
* Additionally, one of Sentinel’s lines in Airachnid’s mind isn’t present in the scene it should come from; her memory of the meeting with the Quintessons includes Sentinel saying “I’m working my miners as hard as I can”, a line that’s never said in the original scene. Unless this was one of his lines spoken during his previous encounters with the Quintessons, that is.
* During the long take of Optimus Prime using his Energon axe to fight off Megatron, Starscream, Shockwave, and Soundwave at the end of the film, Soundwave's shoulder cannon is on his left shoulder. In every other shot of the film, he is depicted with the cannon over his right shoulder like his G1 counterpart usually does.

==Music==
A score album, ''[[Transformers One (Music from the Motion Picture)]]'', features the original music by composer [[Brian Tyler]] and was released concurrently with the film. It notably repurposes a leitmotif from his work on [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|''Transformers: Prime'']] into this film's main theme. The score also has other Transformers references, both in the melodies and titles of the tracks. The composer, under his electronic side project "Are We Dreaming", also produced the end credits song, "[[If I Fall]]", featuring rappers [[W:Quavo|Quavo]] (of Migos fame) and [[W:Ty Dolla Sign|Ty Dolla $ign]].

Canadian DJ {{w|Excision_(musician)|Excision}} released the dubstep song "Together As One", which samples numerous lines from the film's cast, as part of the film's marketing campaign. Many of the lines in this song would go unused in the film's final cut. Chinese artist {{w|Yuqi}} released the song "ONE" as part of the film's Chinese marketing campaign. Neither song is present in the film.

==Reception==
{{quote|Just when you’re about to give up on stories that endlessly repackage the same trademarked properties, along comes a movie like Josh Cooley’s “Transformers One.” As its subtly confident title suggests, it carries itself as if nobody had ever made a Transformers movie before.|Matt Zoller Seitz|[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/transformers-one-film-review Rogerebert.com]}}

While [[Michael Bay]]'s ''Transformers'' films were notable for their record-breaking profits despite mixed to overwhelmingly negative reviews, ''Transformers One'' faced the opposite problem. While [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|the previous theatrical ''Transformers'' film]] met with mixed reviews, ''Transformers One'' enjoyed an almost universally positive reception from both film critics and casual moviegoers. Critics praised the film's visual design, its nuanced approach to characterization and worldbuilding, and the performances of the film's voice actors, with many singling out Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry for their portrayals of Orion Pax and D-16. As of October 2024, its RottenTomatoes rating sits at 89% positive critical reviews and 98% positive audience reviews.

In the United States and Canada, ''Transformers One'' was originally projected to gross between $30-$40 million on its opening weekend. Ultimately, the film only made $24.6 million and finished second in the box office behind ''{{w|Beetlejuice Beetlejuice}}'' (which had been released ''two weeks'' prior) in a surprise upset. <ref> [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-can-transformers-one-borrow-a-page-from-spider-verse-and-recover-1236009559/ "Box Office: Can Transformers One Borrow a Page From Spider-Verse and Recover?"] </ref> In its second weekend, the film lost out to rival animated robot movie ''{{w|The Wild Robot}}'', and ultimately took in a mere $9.2 million after suffering a 62.8% drop.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2024/09/box-office-megalopolis-the-wild-robot-1236101618/ "'Wild Robot' Powers To Third Best September Animated Pic Debut With $35M; 'Megalopolis' Collapses With $4M & D+ CinemaScore; 'Saturday Night' Alive In Limited Release -- Box Office Update"]</ref>

The film's theatrical run was finished on November 22, 2024, grossing $128.7 million worldwide, making it the lowest-earning Paramount-released ''Transformers'' film.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2024/11/22/transformers-one-ends-its-theatrical-run-how-much-did-it-make/ "‘Transformers One’ Ends Its Theatrical Run. How Much Did It Make? - Forbes"]</ref>

==Development timeline==
[[File:Transformers-One-Teaser-Poster.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''There can be miracles when you believe Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill Who knows what miracles you can achieve When you believe, somehow you will You will when you believe'']]
*March 27, 2015 — As part of the development of ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]'', [[Paramount Pictures]] negotiates with [[Akiva Goldsman]], hiring him to create a "writer's room" to build a cinematic universe.<ref name="goldsman">[https://deadline.com/2015/03/transformers-akiva-goldsman-paramount-sequels-spinoffs-1201400027/ Paramount Enlisting Akiva Goldsman To Ramp Up 'Transformers' Output] on deadline.com</ref> Among the writers hired are ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' scribes [[Andrew Barrer]] and [[Gabriel Ferrari]], who pitch the concept of an animated ''Transformers'' prequel set in the [[Live-action film series|live-action series universe]].<ref name="barrerferrari">[https://deadline.com/2015/05/transformers-ant-man-andrew-barrer-gabriel-ferrari-cybertron-1201433402/ 'Ant-Man' Scribes Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari Join 'Transformers' Writers Room] on Deadline</ref>
*December 20, 2018 — Following the release of ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'', [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]] hints in an interview that the animated prequel is still in the works.<ref>[https://www.metro.us/will-there-be-a-bumblebee-2-whats-the-future-for-the-transformers-universe-heres-what-its-producer-told-us/ Lorenzo di Bonaventura interview for Metro USA]</ref>
*April 29, 2020 — Director [[Josh Cooley]] (''Toy Story 4'') is reported to have been brought into the project to oversee a final draft, which is said to be "separate and apart" from the live-action films.<ref name="cooleyreveal" />
*May 18, 2021 — [[Allspark Pictures]] President [[Greg Mooradian]] credits the animated ''Transformers'' film on his Linkedin page with a 2023 release.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-mooradian-4a5062200/ Greg Mooradian's Linkedin:] "TRANSFORMERS (Animated Feature), with Oscar-winner Josh Cooley directing (2023 release)"</ref>
*May 24, 2021 — Hasbro CEO [[Brian Goldner]] confirms the animated feature is in development, and will be released at some point after ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts]]''.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/05/24/tfw2005-coverage-of-49th-j-p-morgan-conference-434088 TFW2005 Coverage Of 49th J.P. Morgan Conference]</ref>
*January 21, 2022 — Paramount announces an untitled animated Transformers movie will be released on July 19, 2024.<ref>[https://collider.com/new-transformers-animated-movie-release-date/ Collider: New 'Transformers' Animated Movie Release Date Set For 2024]</ref>
*April 20, 2023 — di Bonaventura reveals that the entire film takes place on Cybertron, and the setting explores how they begin to question the hierarchy of how their society has gotten stratified, and how the common man doesn't have the voice that they want to have.<ref name=collider2023>[https://collider.com/transformers-animated-movie-characters-plot-cybertron-lorenzo-di-bonaventura-comments/ Here’s What the New Animated ‘Transformers’ Movie Is About (Exclusive)]</ref>
*April 21, 2023 — A day after the previous interview, di Bonaventura confirms [[Industrial Light & Magic]]'s involvement as the film's animation studio, bringing the company back to the franchise for the first time since ''Bumblebee''.<ref>[https://collider.com/new-transformers-animated-movie-ilm-lorenzo-di-bonaventura-comments/ The New 'Transformers' Animated Movie Is Partnering With an Industry Giant for the CGI (Exclusive)]/</ref>
*April 27, 2023 — The first members of the film's voice cast are revealed, consisting of [[Chris Hemsworth]] as Optimus Prime, [[Brian Tyree Henry]] as Megatron, [[Scarlett Johansson]] as Elita, [[Keegan-Michael Key]] as Bumblebee, [[Jon Hamm]] as Sentinel Prime, and [[Laurence Fishburne]] as Alpha Trion.<ref>[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/transformers-animated-prequel-chris-hemsworth-scarlett-johansson-1235596692/ ‘Transformers’ Animated Prequel Sets Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and More Voice Cast]</ref>
*May 24, 2023 — Paramount moves the film's release date to September 13, 2024.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/05/transformers-one-release-date-pushed-by-paramount-1235379167/ ‘Transformers One’: Paramount Pushes Date For Animated Feature]</ref>
*June 7, 2023 — di Bonaventura teases how the film stands out from previous entries in the franchise, praises Chris Hemsworth's casting as Optimus Prime, and mentions a vocal transition from Hemsworth's voice to [[Peter Cullen]]'s as the character for audiences to witness. [[Steve Desmond]] and [[Michael Sherman]] (''Knock at the Cabin'') were revealed to be additional writers for the film, but where uncredited when the final credit came in.<ref>[https://collider.com/transformers-one-chris-hemsworth-optimus-prime-lorenzo-di-bonaventura-comments/ 'Transformers One' Producer Is Already Hyped for Chris Hemsworth's Optimus Prime]</ref>
*June 15, 2023 — Scarlett Johansson discusses the film's animation and praises Cooley as director.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWqG5mlRxzs Scarlett Johansson Says Transformers One Looks So Cool]</ref> Chris Hemsworth later brings details on voicing Optimus Prime for the film and his reasoning he joined the project through his love of the script. He confirms that he will not use his regular voice for the character.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWrsvSzWHoE Chris Hemsworth's Optimus Prime Sadly Won't Be Australian in Transformers One]</ref>
*July 20, 2023 — di Bonaventura confirms Optimus Prime and Megatron in the film will be depicted under their Orion Pax and D-16 identities.<ref>[https://onetakenews.com/2023/07/20/lorenzo-di-bonaventura-transformers-one/ Lorenzo di Bonaventura Teases Upcoming Film ‘Transformers: One’: “It’s Something I’ve Wanted To Do For A Long Time” (Exclusive)]</ref>
*December 15, 2023 — Keegan-Michael Key mentions his voice for Bumblebee is closer to his regular speaking voice.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLM71B5xmFY Transformers One: Keegan-Michael Key Reveals What Bumblebee Sounds Like in New Animated Film]</ref>
*April 11, 2024 — The cast of the movie previews the trailer and reveals a new logo for the film at Cinemacon 2024, The Hollywood Reporter also confirms [[Steve Buscemi]] has joined the cast.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/transformers-one-animated-movie-chris-hemsworth-scarlett-johansson-1235871998/ Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and Brian Tyree Henry Debut Origin Story 'Transformers One' - The Hollywood Reporter]</ref> During the presentation, Hemsworth revealed that Cullen served as a consultant on the getting the voice down.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-one-news-film-is-testing-very-well-and-peter-cullen-consulted-chris-hemsworth-on-voice/48127/ Transformers One News: Film is Testing Very Well and Peter Cullen Consulted Chris Hemsworth on Voice]</ref>
*April 16, 2024 — Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry announce the date of the film's first trailer being on Thursday, April 18, 2024, as it will be launched into space.<ref>[https://collider.com/transformers-one-trailer-premiered-from-space/ The 'Transformers One' Trailer Will Be Premiered From Space - Collider]</ref>
[[File:TransformersOne-weatherballoon.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''So how do you judge what a man is worth? By what he [[Toy|builds or buys]]? You can never see with your eyes on Earth Look through Heaven's eyes Look at your life. Look at your life Look at your life through Heaven's eyes'']]
*April 18, 2024 — A livestream hosted by Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry follows a small craft launched towards space, with a screen that plays the trailer once it reaches 125,000 feet. The movie's release date has been pushed back by one week, to September 20, reportedly to avoid the release conflicting with that of ''{{w|Beetlejuice Beetlejuice}}''.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2024/04/transformers-one-trailer-release-date-1235889037/ ‘Transformers One’ Launches Trailer In Space, A First For A Movie Studio; Pic Going Later In September]</ref> When asked whether the film is a fresh start, a prequel to the live-action films, or its own thing, Cooley replies "yes to all of the above".<ref>[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/transformers-one-director-confirms-new-movies-canon-status/ Transformers ONE Director Confirms New Movie's Canon Status - ComicBook.com]</ref>
*May 20, 2024 — [[Brian Tyler]] is attached as the film's composer.<ref>[https://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/05/20/brian-tyler-scoring-josh-cooleys-transformers-one/ Brian Tyler Scoring Josh Cooley’s ‘Transformers One’ - Filmmusicreporter.com]</ref>
*June 7, 2024 — Production for the film is revealed to be finished in the following month.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/06/07/work-on-transformers-one-animated-movie-is-set-to-wrap-up-in-july-513038 Work On Transformers: One Animated Movie Is Set To Wrap Up In July - TFW2005]</ref>
*June 10, 2024 — A work-in-progress cut of the film was screened at the {{w|Annecy International Animation Film Festival}} to a standing ovation.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/transformers-one-chris-hemsworth-scarlett-johansson-1235918820/ Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Transformers One’ Draws Laughs, Cheers in Its Annecy Debut - Hollywood Reporter]</ref>
*June 12, 2024 — Several media outlets, including representatives from TFWiki, are invited to an [[Transformers One London advance screening|advance screening]] hosted by di Bonaventura and Cooley.
*June 18, 2024 — Production designer Jason Scheier confirms animation for the film is finished.<ref>[https://twitter.com/ScheierJason/status/1803227407404638226/ Production Designer Jason Scheier's post on Twitter]</ref>
*June 27, 2024 — Sound-mixing for the film is finished, with production finally now complete around three months in advance of release.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/C8vPCEUS3Bs/ @CooleyYourFaceOff - Instagram]</ref>
*July 9, 2024 — A panel for the film has been announced for [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2024 on Thursday, July 25 at 11:45 am PST at Hall H.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2024/07/transformers-one-comic-con-1236004636/ Paramount Animation & Hasbro Entertainment’s ‘Transformers One’ Will Be More Than Meets The Eye At San Diego Comic-Con]</ref>
*July 13, 2024 — Chris Hemsworth, Bryan Tyree Henry, and Keegan-Michael Key reveal a new clip of the main cast transforming for the first time at the Kids' Choice Awards 2024.<ref>[https://twitter.com/transformers/status/1812285185427431646/ Post from the official Transformers account on Twitter]</ref>
*July 23, 2024 — Cooley discusses how ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' influenced ''One''.<ref>[https://ew.com/transformers-one-comic-con-preview-optimus-prime-megatron-origin-story-8676886 Transformers One director reveals how infamous 1986 animated movie influenced new prequel film]</ref> A screening of the finished film was shown at a fan-event at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles and in New York City.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/anime/news/transformers-one-review-first-reactions/ Transformers One First Reactions are Raving Over "Best Transformers Film to Date"]</ref> Hemsworth talks about voicing Optimus Prime in the film and how his depiction stands out.<ref>[https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/transformers-one-chris-hemsworth-optimus-prime-orion-pax/ Chris Hemsworth on Becoming Optimus Prime for Transformers One (Exclusive)]</ref>
*July 24, 2024 — Several new posters are released, along with the announcement of a new trailer the following day at the SDCC panel.<ref>[https://twutter.com/transformers/status/1816111093917573615/ Second trailer announcement on Twitter]</ref>
*July 25, 2024 — Details at the SDCC panel were revealed, along with the debut of the second trailer and Bucsemi's role announced to be Starscream.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2024/07/transformers-one-chris-hemsworth-comic-con-1236022134/ ‘Transformers One’ Ignites Comic-Con With Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry & Keegan-Michael Key: How Two Best Friends Became Immortal Enemies]</ref> [[Eric Pearson]] was revealed to be an additional writer.<ref>[https://www.awn.com/news/paramount-drops-transformers-one-trailer-2 Paramount Drops ‘Transformers One’ Trailer #2]</ref>
*August 21, 2024 — A new clip of Orion Pax and D-16 competing in the Iacon 5000 race is released on Paramount's YouTube channel.<ref>[https://youtu.be/7o-bGIBZxdc?feature=shared/ TRANSFORMERS ONE Film Clip IACON Race Begins (2024)]</ref>
*August 23, 2024 — Evan Michael Lee is revealed to be voicing Jazz.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Evanmichaellee/status/1826960202920530306/ Evan Michael Lee on Twitter]</ref>
*August 24, 2024 — [[Jon Bailey]], [[Jason Konopisos-Alvarez]], [[Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.]] and [[Vanessa Liguori]] are revealed to be voicing Soundwave, Shockwave, Darkwing and Airachnid respectively, with Bailey reprising his role from ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''.<ref>[https://punto.com.ph/paramount-pictures-our-crew-rolls-deep-meet-the-voice-cast-behind-the-characters-in-transformers-one-in-cinemas-september-18/ PARAMOUNT PICTURES : OUR CREW ROLLS DEEP: MEET THE VOICE CAST BEHIND THE CHARACTERS IN “TRANSFORMERS ONE,” IN CINEMAS SEPTEMBER 18 on Punzo.com]</ref>
*September 6, 2024 — The film's credits song, '[[If I Fall]]' by [[Quavo]], is released.<ref>[https://youtu.be/M3FCIf0HFnk?si=NB1J3bT9XNPOpKCc/ If I Fall (Music from the Motion Picture Transformers One / Lyric Video)]</ref>
*September 12, 2024 — In an interview, Lorenzo di Bonaventura clarifies that ''One'' doesn't directly connect to the live-action films, and describes them as "two universes" that will be "[kept] separate". However, he notes that ''One'' will likely have an influence on future live-action projects.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/is-transformers-one-a-prequel-optimus-prime-origin-story-exclusive/ Is Transformers One a Prequel or Reboot? The Animated Movie's Origin Story Is Both, Director Says]</ref> The film's review embargo is also lifted, and the film debuts with an 89% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-one-critic-reviews-are-out-currently-89-on-rotten-tomatoes/48337/ Transformers One Critic Reviews are Out, Currently 89% on Rotten Tomatoes]</ref>
*September 13, 2024 — The film's main theme is released.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFnuXrOH0fs/ Brian Tyler - Transformers One Theme | Transformers One (Music from the Motion Picture)]</ref>
*September 17, 2024 — In an interview with Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Josh Cooley, when asked again about ''One''{{'}}s relation to any of the live-action movies, di Bonaventura stated, "It was like 300 million years before the [[Transformers (film)|first Michael Bay movie]], so if that's a prequel, that's a prequel."<ref>[https://screenrant.com/transformers-one-lorenzo-di-bonaventura-and-josh-cooley-interview/ Transformers One Producer Hopes For Sequel & Confirms G.I. Joe Crossover]</ref>
*September 18, 2024 — An early fan event screening is held, preceded by a seven-minute featurette consisting of interview segments with Hemsworth, Henry, and Key, footage of main cast recording their dialogue, and some [https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1836584462341054907 hilarious trivia]. Attendees receive one of four exclusive keychains and poster prints featuring Orion Pax, D-16, B-127, or Elita-1.<ref>https://bleedingcool.com/movies/transformers-one-4-new-posters-tickets-go-on-sale-fan-screenings/</ref>
*September 20, 2024 — The first 300 ticket holders at participating theaters receive a poster print of {{w|Shadow the Hedgehog}} to promote the upcoming release of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (character)|Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]''.<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-3-shadow-print-transformers-one-theater-showtimes-1851649010</ref>

===Changes before, during, and after production===
[[File:DecepticonReflectorEvanConcept.jpg|thumb|right|300px|I will not be the weak link!]]
*Although the broad story beats of ''One'' remained more or less consistent over the course of the film's development, the first draft—written before Josh Cooley's involvement—was a silly, joke-heavy script that was very different in tone from the final product. When first brought on to direct, Cooley pushed for a more serious treatment to bring the film closer in line to the usual tone of the ''Transformers'' franchise.<ref name="gizmodo">[https://gizmodo.com/transformers-one-director-interview-josh-cooley-easter-eggs-2000489187 ''Transformers One'' Director Josh Cooley Talks Lore, Easter Eggs, and Alternate Versions] </ref>
*At one point, a bird robot based on ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Aerobolt]] would've played a role in the story.<ref>{{citesocial|quote= "In an older version of the story we explored Aerobolt being part of the story. It never made it into the final."|link=https://twitter.com/ScheierJason/status/1840624306465755358|name=Jason Scheier|site=Twitter|year=2024|month=9|day=30}}</ref>
*An early draft had a scene where Orion and D-16 played an arcade game together, which would've featured an 8-bit version of "The Touch". The gag was eventually dropped, although the arcade machine and a different reference to the song made it into the final film.<ref name="gizmodo" />
*Another draft had D-16 as a gladiator, alluding to another part of the character's standard origin story, but ultimately this concept was cut for time.<ref>[https://www.indiewire.com/features/animation/transformers-one-star-wars-old-republic-interview-1235017651/ ‘Transformers One’ Director Talks Bringing the Franchise to Its ‘Old Republic’ Era - Indiewire]</ref>
*Originally, the film would've ended on a smash cut to the film's title, accompanied by a rendition of the classic ''Transformers'' [[theme song]]. However, Cooley decided that the scene would be overly self-referential, and instead [[Brian Tyler]] scored an original composition to close out the film.<ref name="gizmodo" />
*A shot of Orion, Elita, Soundwave, and Shockwave exiting the train after crashing into Sentinel's tower is not in the final film, and only appears in promotional material.
*Concept art for Airachnid reveals she was initially planned to transform into a spider rather than a drone, which is reflected in her Cog Changers toy.
*Alpha Trion's death at the hands of Sentinel Prime was originally planned to show the old sage getting decapitated by the false Prime.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=|link=https://twitter.com/TFHypeGuy/status/1886386574083944876|name=TFHypeGuy|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=2|day=3}}</ref>
*A bot resembling [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] was also present in concept art, but makes no appearance in the film proper. Unless he was the cameraman.
*Storyboards posted to artist Lim Zhi Kang's website reveal a scene from an earlier draft where the four main bots are forced into a fight with the train they ride to the surface, revealed to be an incarnation of [[Astrotrain (disambiguation)|Astrotrain]].<ref>[https://www.limzhikang.com/transformers-one TRANSFORMERS ONE {{!}} ZhiKang]</ref>

==Notes==
*As seen in the cast list above, Arcee and Chromia are voiced by Jinny Chung, the film's story / script coordinator. The Injured Racer is voiced by Dillon Bryan, Josh Cooley's assistant. Cooley himself cameos as Skywarp, the "Control Room Guys", and the PA system.
*Several international releases of the film are edited to cut away from Orion's "finger transformation" a few seconds earlier, as well as changing any mention of Bee's "knife hands" to refer to them as "sword hands" instead.
*The credits feature a dedication to former Hasbro CEO [[Brian Goldner]], who passed away in October 2021.
*Darkwing was named by Hasbro designer [[Mark Maher]], when his boss asked him "If this was a Decepticon flyer, who would it be?"<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/stories/markclonus/|name=Mark Maher|site=Instagram|year=2024|month=09|day=08}}</ref>
*The Autobot [[Insignia]] never appears within the story, only appearing at the beginning of the end credits.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''''Transformers/One''''' (トランスフォーマー/ONE ''Toransufōmā Wan'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''''Bin Ying Gam Gong: Choh Chi Pin''''' (變形金剛：初始篇, "Transformers: The Beginning")
*''French:'' '''''Transformers : Le Commencement''''' (France, "Transformers: The Beginning"), '''''Transformers : Un''''' (Canada, "Transformers: One")
*''Hungarian:'' '''''Transformers Egy''''' ("Transformers One")
*''Korean:'' '''''Transformer ONE''''' (트랜스포머 ONE ''Teuraenseupomeo ONE'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Qǐyuán''''' (变形金刚：起源, "Transformers: The Origin")
*''Portuguese:'' '''''Transformers: O Início''''' ("Transformers: The Beginning")
*''Russian:'' '''''Transformery: Nachalo''''' (Трансформеры: Начало, "Transformers: The Beginning")
*''Spanish:'' '''''Transformers One''''' (Spain), '''''Transformers : Uno''''' (Latin America, "Transformers: One")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''''Transformery: Pochatok''''' (Трансформери: Початок, "Transformers: The Beginning")
'''Polish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transformers: Początek'''" ("Transformers: Begginign")

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'''The Autobots face off against the Emperor of Cyber City, Starscream!'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Cyberworld_Ep6_StarscreamDescends.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|You know Screamer's imagining "One Winged Angel" playing as he does this.]]

As they sneak through [[Cyber City (Cyberworld)|Cyber City]] by holographically hiding among the many, many statues of [[Starscream (Cyberworld)|Starscream]], [[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] explains the predicament to [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]], and [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]]. They don't trust each other, but they all want off Cyberworld, and while the trio know what they want and where to find it, Mirage holds the know-how to actually getting it. Fighting through drones to reach a computer terminal, Mirage hacks the system and locates a map with all the drops and missions, which would allow them to reach any ahead of all the other competitors. Mirage also finds schematics of [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]]. When they try to download it onto their own drive, however, the system is locked down by a broadcast of Starscream, which fries the data. They run for it, escaping the building and hiding behind a holographic wall.

Unfortunately, just as Mirage tries to cockily celebrate saving them, Starscream approaches from above with a flotilla of drones. A mission portal opens up, and the four allies run into it, closely followed by Starscream (but not before he leaves his crown behind for safekeeping), transporting them to a high, levitating platform. The mission title is "Last Bot Standing" - the last bot in the area wins the energon. Mirage decides to cut his losses and go by himself, taking to the skies, but is followed closely by Starscream, who grabs him and tries to tear his wings off, before throwing him back down. Elita-1 and Bumblebee grab an upgrade, which gives Elita a pair of rocket boosters that she uses to knock out Starscream momentarily. Prime volunteers to concede, as only one of them can win, although both Bee and Elita declare "Not it!" Starscream takes this chance to remind them he is still in the game, and as Elita's upgrades wear off, he grabs her and throws her off the edge. She's saved by Mirage, but this is only momentary, as Starscream just throws them both off, this time eliminating them both.

Inspired by his taunting, Optimus and Bumblebee pretend to fight to lure Starscream into complacency. Jubilant at having seemingly turned the allies against each other, he flies in to claim victory, but Optimus grapples him and jumps them both off the arena, leaving Bee the winner. Back on the ground, Starscream swears revenge, grabbing his crown and flying away angrily, only to be hit with the energon drain at just the right time to have him fly into his own statue. As the winner, Bumblebee's laser weapon is upgraded as the others are drained. Elita-1 thanks Mirage for saving her, and he offers to stay in Cyber City and try hacking the system again when things cool off, although in the meantime, the allies need another plan to gain strength. Seeing [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|a silhouette]] in the distance, Optimus Prime says he has an idea of where to find some strength.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] (2)
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (6)

|c2=
*[[Starscream (Cyberworld)|Starscream]] (5)
|h5=Others||c5=
*[[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] (4)
}}

==Quotes==

"I often wondered what a Starscream rule would look like. This is way worse."
:—'''Bumblebee''' isn't fond of Starscream's municipal decor.

"You don't have to do this. We always have a choice." 
"Can you go five seconds without some patronizing speech?"
:—'''Bumblebee''' and '''Optimus Prime''' never took acting lessons back on Cybertron.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* Snarl is still following the group from a distance, as per [[Smoke & Mirrors|last time]].

===Character levels===
* None seen

===Transformers references===
* Optimus Prime refers to a schematic of Scorponok as his [[Tech Spec]]s.
* Emperor Starscream's crown is designed after [[Starscream (G1)|''Generation 1'' Starscream's]] crown from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
* The mission's name, "Last Bot Standing", is also the name of [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Transformers: Last Bot Standing|swansong for their Transformers output]].
* Optimus Prime's "One shall stand, but two shall fall" is riffing off the usual "One shall fall".
* Optimus Prime says "Holy Heterodyne", an exclamation coined back in "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]" and more recently used by [[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]] in "[[Togetherness]]".

===Real world references===
* The mission is referred to as both "Bot Royale" and "Last Bot Standing", Transformers-isations of "Battle Royale" and "Last Man Standing". These are both common multiplayer modes in video games where the objective is to be the last player surviving out a given number.

===Animation and technical errors===
*The credits list Starscream as being voiced by [[Jack Ayres]] instead of [[Shogo Miyakita]].

===Trivia===
* As you might expect by now, this was initially uploaded in a combined video with [[Smoke & Mirrors|the previous one]] with an SEO-baiting title ("Bot Battle Royale!"). The individual title comes from series writer [[Ali Lightfoot|Ali Lightfoot's]] twitter feed. <ref>{{citesocial|quote=2 hours until Transformers: CYBERWORLD episode 6 "Screamer City Arena" drops on the TransformersOfficial YT channel!|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1959211406470861249|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=08|day=23}}</ref>
*While Starscream still has his Decepticon insignia, it's been painted over with a new red insignia based ''(shockingly enough)'' his own face.

===Foreign localization===

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Betatron (Micronauts)

2025-08-22T03:52:07Z

Cydra:

{{disambig2|the Micronaut robot|the Autobot combiner|Betatron (CW)}}
:''Betatron is a robot from the [[Micronauts]] franchise.''
[[File:SDCC Revolutions Betatronfig.jpg|thumb|upright=1.10]]
'''Betatron''' is a multi-legged robot that aids the [[Micronauts]].

==Toys==
===''Revolution''===
*'''Revolution Set''' (SDCC Gift Set, 2017)
:Released as part of a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2017 exclusive set, Betatron is a small non-articulated insect-like robot figurine released as one of the nine tiny non-articulated Micronauts mini-figures, along with [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]], [[Quin-Tillus]], [[Phenolo-Phi]], [[Baron Karza]], [[Oberon]], [[Xant]], [[Biotron]], and [[Gammatron]]. It is the only figure to not have a stand molded to its bottom.

:They were packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Revolution|Jetfire]], [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)|M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], ''[[Visionaries]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[Leoric]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', and [[Rom]] and a [[Dire Wraith]].

==Notes==
*Betatron is named for one of the original ''Micronauts'' toys from the late 1970s, though it bears very little resemblance to that toy. Instead, Betatron's design is based on the character's appearance in the unreleased ''Micronauts'' {{i|Micronauts (franchise)#Attempted revivals|animated series}}.

==External links==
*[http://www.innerspaceonline.com/abgtrons.htm Betatron at Inner Space Online]

[[Category:Micronauts characters]]

Gammatron

2025-08-22T03:51:37Z

Cydra:

:''Gammatron is a mechanoid from the [[Micronauts]] franchise.''
[[File:SDCC Revolutions Gammatronfig.jpg|thumb|upright=1.10]]
'''Gammatron''' is an insectoid robot from [[Microspace]].

==Toys==
===''Revolution''===
*'''Revolution Set''' (SDCC Gift Set, 2017)
:Released as part of a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2017 exclusive set, Gammatron is a small non-articulated bipedal insectoid robot figurine released as one of the nine tiny non-articulated Micronauts mini-figures, along with [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]], [[Quin-Tillus]], [[Phenolo-Phi]], [[Baron Karza]], [[Oberon]], [[Xant]], [[Baron Karza]], [[Biotron]], and [[Betatron (Micronauts)|Betatron]].

:They were packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Revolution|Jetfire]], [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)|M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], ''[[Visionaries]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[Leoric]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', and [[Rom]] and a [[Dire Wraith]].

==Notes==
*Gammatron is named for one of the original ''Micronauts'' toys from the late 1970s, though it looks ''nothing'' like that toy. Instead, Gammatron's design is based on the character's appearance in the unreleased ''Micronauts'' {{i|Micronauts (franchise)#Attempted revivals| animated series}}.

==External links==
*[http://www.innerspaceonline.com/abgtrons.htm Gammatron at Inner Space Online]

[[Category:Micronauts characters]]

Smoke & Mirrors

2025-08-19T13:48:04Z

Cydra:

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 5
|prev=River Race Ruckus
|next=Episode 6
|title=Smoke & Mirrors
|season=1
|season ep=5
|image=CyberworldEp5_AutobotsSurrounded.jpg
|caption=We now return to the abandoned city of Beast Machines!
|airdate=[[August 16]], 2025
|writers=[[Gretchen Mallorie]] [[Ali Lightfoot]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbsTP6AwRo0
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Sneaking into Cyber City, our trio are ambushed by the master of mirages.'''

==Synopsis==

Hiding from hovering surveillance drones amongst some crates, [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] shows [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] and [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] a gap in a towering fence of solid metal through which they can sneak into [[Cyber City (Cyberworld)|Cyber City]]. As [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] watches from above, they head on through. Once inside, Bumblebee is immediately distracted by a crate drop, and runs to grab it, ignoring Elita's advice that they lay low in the back streets. It equips him with a jetpack, but Elita is confused, as the drop was never shown on their internal maps. Before they can question it further, [[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] and [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] show themselves. Elita and Sky-Byte engage in some mutual taunting, but Mirage interrupts, letting them know [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] hired them to remove them from Cyberworld. Optimus Prime, never learning, tries to talk peace, but Mirage cuts him off and surrounds them with illusory copies of himself. Bumblebee tries to demonstrate his new jetpack's power to fly out of the circle, only to fall flat on his face. The surprise crate drop had also been another of Mirage's illusions.

The Autobot trio brawl with the Mirage duplicates, who go down easily, but outnumber them five to one. Mirage at first disguises himself as Sky-Byte to use his throwing blades, but after a couple of hits, resorts to hiding in the shadows as himself. Bumblebee is tackled by the real Sky-Byte, but saved by Elita-1, and he goes to chase Mirage. Optimus follows Bee, but Elita is unable to resist trying to take her vengeance on the shark. As they run, Optimus and Bee are mocked by yet more Mirage holograms, picking on Bee especially for needing Optimus to protect him. Meanwhile, Elita has Sky-Byte backed into a corner, until he has Mirage drop another illusion, revealing he got an upgrade from Megatron since their last meeting - a set of wheels, letting him transform into a land-bound alt-mode and chase her down.

Still pursuing Mirage, Bumblebee is startled by the sudden appearance of Megatron, which is of course another illusion, as Mirage tackles him from the side. The two come to physical blows, but Mirage is able to use his illusions to turn invisible and steal Bumblebee's gun. Bumblebee mouthing off about they have a plan to beat [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] and return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in a ship catches him off guard, though, and while he tries to ask questions. Bumblebee kicks him off a building, and he cannot transform into jet mode fast enough to stop himself hitting the ground. Meanwhile, Sky-Byte nips at Elita's heels hungrily, but Optimus Prime saves her. He tries to call Mirage for back-up to even the numbers, but Bumblebee arrives instead. Outnumbered three-to-one, he flees in shark-car mode. The trio give chase, but when Elita tells them to take a route to hide from surveillance, they instead run into a limping Mirage, who asks to talk about their escape plan.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] (1)
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (4)

|c2=
*[[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] (5) 
*[[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] (6)
*[[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] ''(Illusion)'' (7)
}}

==Quotes==
"Give it up, Sky-Byte! You're a fish out of water here." 
"Funny, I was thinking something similar."
:—'''Elita-1''' and '''Sky-Byte''' engage in battlefield banter.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* Optimus and Bumblebee are still trying to get to the crashed Autobot shuttle from "[[Commence Program]]."

===Character levels===
*Bumblebee is still at level 2, though now a bit lower then what we saw in [[Prime Target (Cyberworld)|episode 2]].

===Transformers references===
[[File:CyberworldEp5-SkyByteVehicle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Hasbro realised they owned Power Rangers RPM and decided to use something from it.]]
* The idea of Mirage not being a loyal Autobot dates back all the way to the [[Mirage (G1)|original Mirage's character bio]], although that never blossomed into outright taking on jobs for Megatron, unless he's [[Transformers:_War_for_Cybertron_Trilogy_(cartoon)|undercover again]].
* Sky-Byte transforming into a shark-with-wheels resembles what happened to his [[Sky-Byte (RID)|''Robots In Disguise'' counterpart]] in "[[Skid Z's Choice]]."

===Real world references===

===Animation and technical errors===
* When Bumblebee says the line "And you thought I was fast ''before''!" after getting the jetpack, his neck is missing and his head is just floating above his torso.

===Trivia===
* As with all other Cyberworld episodes, this was initially uploaded in a combined video with [[River Race Ruckus|the previous one]] with an SEO-baiting title ("Surprise Crate Drop in Cyber City"). The individual title comes from series writer [[Ali Lightfoot|Ali Lightfoot's]] twitter feed. <ref>{{citesocial|quote=Who's excited!? Transformers: CYBERWORLD ep 5 "Smoke & Mirrors" is out Sat 16 Aug at 2PM BST 1PM UTC | 9AM EST | 6AM PST Mild spoilers in the images - but also so much intrigue, oooh, marketing, oooh!|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1956086611256730079|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=08|day=14}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)

2025-08-17T00:44:49Z

Cydra:

{{factions|decepticon|}}
{{Disambig3|Sky-Byte}}
:''Sky-Byte is a [[Decepticon]] from [[Transformers: Cyberworld (franchise)|Cyberworld]].''

[[File:CyberworldEp5-SkyByteRobotMode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Finally, Cyberworld gives us a fishing minigame!]]

'''Sky-Byte''' is a nasty, slimy bot, with a tendency to talk about his enemies as delicious, delectable prey. Someone that turns into a shark and tries to eat his enemies may seem laughable, but he's responsible for a lot of pain in Cyberworld, which has earned him the personal enmity of [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]].

==Fiction==
===''Cyberworld'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jack Ayres]] (English)|}}
[[File:CyberworldEp5-SkyByteVehicle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|The Sharknado franchise got ''weird'' in later instalments.]]

Having been on [[Cyberworld (location)|Cyberworld]] for many, many cycles, by the time [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] arrived, he had eliminated all the other members of [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1's]] Autobot group, including [[Wheeljack (Cyberworld)|Wheeljack]]. This led to the two developing a staunch rivalry. During one of their bouts, a race along a river in which Elita was winning, [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] intervened, leading to Sky-Byte winning the energon at stake by Elita's automatic forfeit. He engaged the three in a fight, but fled due to their greater numbers. At a temple, he reported to [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] that Optimus Prime had arrived.{{storylink|River Race Ruckus}}

When Prime, Bee, and Elita tried to sneak into [[Cyber City (Cyberworld|Cyber City]], he and [[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] were sent to stop them. Sky-Byte again battled Elita, revealing Megatron had gifted him wheels, enabling him to pursue her through the streets in shark-mode. When Optimus and Bee returned to back her up, and Mirage nowhere to be found, he fled. {{storylink|Smoke & Mirrors}}

{{ongoing}}

{{--}}

==Toys==
===''Cyberworld''===

{{-}}{{anchor|cyberchanger}}
[[File:TF-Cyberworld-Sky-Byte.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|''Cyber changer toy'' ''Converts in simply four steps'' ''Perfect for the kids!'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Sky-Byte''' (Cyber Changer, [[2025]])}}</ul>

:Released in the first wave of standard ''Cyberworld'' Cyber Changers, Sky-Byte is also a four-inch figure, converting into a shark with wheels in four simple steps. As with other Cyber Changers, Sky-Byte features minimal articulation, with ball-jointed arms, thighs, and knees.

[[Category:Cyberworld Decepticons]]
[[Category:Hall of Fame characters]]

Elita-1 (Cyberworld)

2025-08-16T17:31:13Z

Cydra:

{{factions|autobot|}}
{{Disambig3|Elita One|Elita-1}}
:''Elita-1 is the [[Autobot]] second in command from [[Transformers: Cyberworld (franchise)|Cyberworld]].''
[[File:Elita 1 tech specs.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
'''Elita-1''' is ferocious and sharp both on and off the battlefield, so it's no wonder that she's managed to survive [[Cyberworld (location)|Cyberworld]] as long as she has. Although she can occasionally come off as rude, she only acts that way because she genuinely cares about the people in her life, and doesn't want to lose them like others before.

==Fiction==
===''Cyberworld'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica Carol]] (English)}}
[[File:Elita posing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left]]

At some unknown point in time, Elita-1 was transported to Cyberworld. There, she gathered up a handful of bots and formed a team that helped each other survive, with [[Wheeljack (Cyberworld)|Wheeljack]] among them. All was going well until [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] eliminated them, leaving Elita emotionally scarred. Later, Elita was racing Sky-Byte inside an energy tube. She was in the lead, and about to win, when [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] broke the aforementioned energy tube in an attempt to assist her, unwittingly granting the victory to Sky-Byte due to Elita's "cheating". Sky-Byte then attempted to finish Elita off for good, but Prime and Bumblebee stepped in to protect her. After a brief tussle, Sky-Byte was forced to flee. Elita wanted to chase after him and avenge her old friends, but Optimus stopped her, explaining that there was an Autobot ship being guarded by [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] in the desert that might lead them home and that they should all focus on that. Elita apologized for her behaviour and explained that there was something that might help them deal with the angry scorpion, but she'd only lead Optimus and Bumblebee there if they helped her kill Sky-Byte. Optimus gave a non-committal answer, which Elita didn't like, but went along with anyway. {{storylink|River Race Ruckus}} She showed Bumblebee and Optimus a secret way into [[Cyber City (Cyberworld)|Cyber City]], but they were accosted by a Sky-Byte and his new ally, [[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]], hired by [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] to stop them. Elita-1 tried to get her revenge on Sky-Byte then-and-there during the ensuing melee, but his new upgrade of a land-based alt-mode let him turn the tables on her, and she had to be rescued by Optimus. The three of chased the fleeing shark, but were stopped by an injured Mirage, asking for information. {{storylink|Smoke & Mirrors}}
{{ongoing}}
{{-}}

==Toys==
===''Cyberworld''===
[[File:TF-Cyberworld-Cyber-Changers-Elita-1.jpg|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Elita-1''' (Cyber Changer, [[2025]])}}</ul>

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (toyline)|Cyberworld]]'' basic Cyber Changers, Elita-1 is a four-inch tall figure that can convert into a futuristic speedboat in three steps. Like all standard ''Cyberworld'' figures, she only has articulation at the shoulders, hips and knees. She also features [[5 mm post|5 mm connection points]] on her forearms, fists, and the top of her boat mode.

: Her overall design is based on [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]] from the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[2005 IDW continuity|comics]].
{{comingsoontoy}}

[[Category:Cyberworld Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]

Rom

2025-08-06T01:35:13Z

Cydra:

{{disambig3|Rom}}
:''Rom is an <strike>Galadorian</strike> [[Elonian]] [[Space Knight]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:ROM 6 subcvrB clean.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Buzz Lightyear|"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity"]].]]
'''Rom''' is a [[Space Knight]], Lord of the [[Solstar Order]]. One of their most powerful Knights, the evil [[Dire Wraith]]s fear him more than all others, earning him the nickname "Wraithslayer". He has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries. He alone could wipe them off the face of existence. He is Rom, Lord of the Solstar Order! Rom, the Wraithslayer! Rom, the Space Knight!

{{quote|He sounds like he's got a '''fusion cannon''' up his tailpipe... but you've convinced me that's part of his '''charm'''.|[[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] to [[Stardrive]]|[[Shining Armor issue 4|''Shining Armor'' #4]]}}

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Vector Prime]] got into a pick-up game of [[Basketrek]] with an [[Iocus]]-cluster space knight. As he had underwent the [[Silver Knight (AOE)|Silver Modification]] process, he had quite a jump shot. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/27}}

===Island Revolution!===
According to [[Mark Weber]], Rom rescued [[Sidney Biggles-Jones|Dr. Biggles-Jones]] from the Cobra Island lab explosion. Rom then restored [[Air Raid (G.I. Joe)|Air Raid]] to his proper age. {{storylink|Island Revolution!}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{MainIDW|Rom}}
[[File:ShiningArmor01-Rom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"And YOU, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command!"]]
Two hundred years ago, '''Rom K'atsema''' lived an idyllic life with his brother and mothers on the peaceful planet [[Elonia]], a world constantly protected by a powerful planet-wide shield that blocked debris and potential invaders. Rom studied geology at the Elonia University of Arts and Sciences, and befriended [[Livia]] and [[Fy-Laa]]. One day, the three of them investigated a mysterious meteor shower that had breached Elonia's shield and discovered that the explosive meteors were of [[Dire Wraith]] origin: weapons designed to penetrate the shield in advance of a potential Wraith invasion, and ultimately responsible for killing his family. When the [[Space Knight]]s of the [[Solstar Order]] intervened, Rom learned that [[Shah K'atsema|one of his mothers]] had been infected by a Wraith and transformed into one of their number. Vowing to avenge his family, Rom and his friends joined the Solstar Order as Space Knights.

On his first mission, Rom would be responsible for discovering Elonia's supply of [[Ore-12]], a miraculous liquid metal capable of "bonding" with its wielder and becoming a permanent suit of armor. Realizing that this mysterious metal was the reason ''why'' the Dire Wraiths had attacked their world, the Solstar Order would go on to mine the rest of the ore and equip the rest of their Space Knights with the substance. Soon afterwards, Rom—now a full-fledged Space Knight—left Elonia shortly afterwards, leaving behind a beacon in memory of his family. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 3|Rom profile}} {{storylink|Cold Fire}}

[[File:RomVsTF02-RomAndStardrive.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"I just want you to know that even though you tried to terminate me, revenge is not an idea we promote on my planet."]]
Over the next fifty years, Rom took part in a variety of battles against the Dire Wraiths, and participated in the massive battle that saw the Wraith's [[Dire Wraith homeworld|current homeworld]], within the [[Dark Nebula]], destroyed. The Space Knights spent the next few years pursuing remnant Dire Wraith forces across backwater planets within Solstar territory.

In the mid-1800s,<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.cbr.com/exclusive-transformers-rom-crossover-new-character-hasbro/|name=Christos Gage|quote=From a timeline perspective, where does [Shining Armor] fit in in the continuity?" "Fairly early in the existence of the Solstar Knights. Not quite 200 years ago, but around 175, 180 years in the past.|year=2017|month=03|day=31|site=CBR|title=EXCL: IDW Introduces Hasbro's First Transformers/Rom Hybrid Character}}</ref> shortly after the destruction of the Dire Wraith homeworld, Rom was patrolling the [[Gray Area]] when he witnessed a [[Galactic Council]] warship shoot down a fleeing vessel. Placing himself between the wreckage and the aggressor, Rom demanded that the Council explain themselves, only for them to warp away the instant he was distracted. Rom investigated the Transformer ship—unbeknownst to him, of [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] origin—and discovered that it had carried a cargo of [[protoform]]s, most of which had died in the crash. A single protoform had survived, however; compelled to help the orphaned Transformer, Rom brought it to nearby Elonia, where Solstar scientists built an [[energon synthesizer]] and helped nurture the protoform into a female Transformer who called herself [[Stardrive]]. During her early life, Rom and several other Space Knights would come to her rescue on the planet [[Mato Grosso (planet)|Mato Grosso]], driving off the Wraith leader [[Vekktral]] and saving Stardrive's life for a second time. The young 'bot would soon come to see Rom as her hero and joined the Space Knights to emulate him.

[[File:ShiningArmor01-RomAndLivia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"This isn't flying, this is falling with style!"]]
Five years later, Rom and Livia brought new recruits [[Auxin]] and [[Sata]] to [[Mining Colony 25-6-41]] as part of their training. Rooting out the Wraith infestation, Rom and Livia engaged several Wraiths in battle and encountered Stardrive, who had been staking out the colony for a week. Though Livia suggested that the colony would have to be destroyed, Rom agreed with Stardrive's assessment and spared the planetoid, noting that there was insufficient Dire Wraith activity to justify its sterilization.

With Stardrive in tow, Rom flew the group aboard the ''[[Solstar V]]'' to their next mission: a security function at a diplomatic meeting between the Order and Galactic Council, to discuss the threat of Dire Wraiths fleeing into territory beyond Solstar space. Livia and Rom repeatedly argued about Stardrive's compassion; on arriving at the ''[[Orchid Crossing]]'' over [[Xetaxxis]], Rom and Livia explained to Stardrive that they had brought her along to show Council representatives that the Solstar Order could keep Cybertronians "in their place." Rom tried to console a hurt Stardrive by telling her that she was capable of more than the rest of her species.

Negotiations got off to a poor start when the Council representative revealed himself as Vekktral, co-leader of a [[Decepticon]]/Dire Wraith alliance that had been formed to steal Stardrive's energon synthesizer. Rom moved to protect Stardrive as [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] tried to recruit her, only to receive a shot to the chest. By the time Rom had recovered, Starscream had found Stardrive's synthesizer... only for the Autobots [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] to burst through the wall, ignoring Rom's weak protests. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}}

[[File:RomVsTF02-RomShootsUltraMagnus.jpg|thumb|"But we're not '''''on''''' my planet. ''Are '''we'''?''"]]
Unwilling to let the fragile peace between the two galactic powers crumble under a Cybertronian assault, Rom fired on Ultra Magnus, but soon deduced that the [[Autobot]]s and Space Knights might yet be on the same side—only for Magnus to shoot him (and Stardrive and Starscream) through a wall for being annoying and talking too much. Back in the chaos of battle, a horrified Rom watched as a Dire Wraith merged with [[Sky Blast (G1)|Sky Blast]], engaging the resulting monster to buy time for the crew to evacuate. As the damaged station plummeted into Xetaxxis' atmosphere, Rom shouted for Stardrive to leave with them... only for the Cybertronian Space Knight to choose to help the Autobots escape instead.

As they descended towards Xetaxxis, Rom and Livia argued about whether Stardrive had fully defected or not; arriving over the Autobot impact site, Rom shot Magnus in the chest and offered Bumblebee the chance to surrender. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 2|Shining Armor #2}}

Magnus quickly recovered from what Rom had assumed would be a killing blow; gearing up for another fight, Rom and Livia engaged Magnus, only for the blue Autobot to withstand every attack. Confused by Magnus' attempts to protect Stardrive, the cadet stepped up to stop the fighting, accusing her superiors of lying to her about her heritage. Learning from Ultra Magnus that, unlike the worlds of the Solstar Order, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] had never permanently unified—and that different Cybertronian factions could stand for different principles —the Autobots and Space Knights agreed to a temporary alliance, with he, Livia, and Stardrive heading off to search for the Energon synthesizer in the ruins.

Arriving after another terse argument between himself and Livia, the group discovered the [[Xetaxxan|natives]] salvaging the wreckage of the ship. Despite Livia's disgust, Rom was content with letting the aliens scavenge for what they could and allowed Stardrive to evacuate them before Starscream landed ''on Rom''. Quickly recovering, Rom socked Starscream in the jaw and vowed that he would protect Xetaxxis from both Wraiths and Decepticons. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 3|Shining Armor #3}}

[[File:ShiningArmor04-RomNeutralizer.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Unhand me, Zurg scum! The Galactic Courts will show you no mercy."]]
Rom and Livia battled [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], managing to temporarily take them out and force Starscream into a retreat. Rom prepared to pursue the Decepticons when Livia suggested an alternate course of action: destroying the energon synthesizer to sterilize the planet, eliminating the Wraith infestation and putting the machine beyond Starscream's reach. Attempting to mediate between Livia and Stardrive, Rom's careless words caused Stardrive take the synthesizer and threaten to cut ties with the Space Knights, lashing out at Livia before Bumblebee and Sata arrived.

Rom and Bumblebee managed to convince Stardrive to stand down, and, together, the alliance agreed that their next course of action would not involve taking innocent lives. Before they could move, however, they were attacked by Vekktral, who had managed to possess Ultra Magnus's body and regrouped his hordes. In the ensuing battle, Rom and the others were quickly overpowered and surrounded... before Vekktral turned on his former allies and began infecting Starscream's forces. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}}

Another battle broke out as the Decepticons joined forces with the Autobots and Space Knights to defend themselves; though Stardrive attempted to stop Starscream from getting away, Starscream was able to cut his losses and run, blasting the energon synthesizer so that the volatile detonation would take out the ground-bound Autobots. In the meantime, Ultra Magnus was briefly able to reassert his own consciousness and wrest control of his body back from Vekktral, opening his outer armor so that Rom - despite his misgivings - could deliver a fatal blow. Confused by the presence of [[Convoy (G1)|a smaller robot]] inside Magnus's body, Bumblebee briefly explained the nature of the [[Magnus Armor]] as the Space Knights airlifted Bumblebee and the Magnus Armor away from the destruction of Xetaxxis as the energon synthesizer detonated. Disgusted by everything that had transpired, Stardrive shed her armor, renounced her ties to the Space Knights, and flew away, while Bumblebee used the Magnus Armor's recall switch to return to the Autobot fleet.

Some time later, Rom and [[Orphion]] participated in another meeting with the Galactic Council, where they were informed that the Council would not join their war against the Dire Wraiths. Rom turned his attention to Livia and Sata, and sadly watched as they imparted their ruthless ideals on a new group of Space Knight recruits. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}

[[File:Revolution 1 Wraith Colton dies.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Please be careful! You don't want to be in the way when my laser goes off."]]
Circa [[2016]], Rom came to [[Earth]] to eradicate the Dire Wraiths that had hidden themselves among its populace. Landing in northern [[California]], his elimination of several Wraiths—which, to outsiders, looked like indiscriminate murder—caught the attention of the [[Earth Defense Command]] and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. {{storylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} Learning that [[Ore-13|an alien ore]] on Earth had the power to amplify the [[magic]] of the Wraiths and render them invisible to his [[Energy Analyzer]]s, Rom also discovered that G.I. Joe had been recently compromised by Wraiths. {{storylink|Field Test}}

Seeking to eliminate the Wraith imposters, Rom intervened in a battle between the Joes and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s Cybertronian peacekeepers in [[Portland]], and slew the Wraiths who had been masquerading as [[Red Zone]], [[Hi-Tech]], [[Wreckage (G.I. Joe)|Wreckage]], and team leader General [[Joe Colton (Dire Wraith)|Joe Colton]]. Believing he had just killed their human teammates, the other Joes opened fire on him, but Rom refused to counterattack and simply flew off.

[[File:TheDivineSourceOfLiberty-romvsoptimus.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Don't talk to me about importance! Because of ''you'', the future of this entire universe is in jeopardy!"]]
Unfortunately, Rom's mechanical armor had led the Joes to believe he was a Cybertronian, which forced Optimus Prime and his team to give chase so that they could clear their names. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}} Prime and his teammates pursued Rom to the [[Umpqua National Forest]], where Prime attempted to interrogate the Space Knight. Rom was initially able to outmaneuver Prime, but—outnumbered by the Cybertronians—was soon defeated and "urged" to explain himself. {{storylink|The Divine Source of Liberty}}

Escorted by the Autobots, Rom was brought to [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], where he briefly witnessed the aftermath of [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s return from the realm of [[Microspace]]. {{storylink|Informed}} Rom gave the Autobots information on the Wraiths' pursuit of [[Ore-13]], before realizing that his armor—unbeknownst to him, Cybertronian in nature—"resonated" at a similar frequency to [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]'s own [[Space bridge|Space Bridge]].

Realizing that he could use this connection to put Ore-13 beyond the reach of the Dire Wraiths, Rom activated the bridge to teleport chunks of Ore-13 into Microspace, inadvertently causing destruction on the other side. When Windblade and Optimus made him realize that he was allowing his desire to defeat the Wraiths to blind his reason and logic, Rom stood down and was placed in [[stasis cuffs]] by Soundwave who sympathized with what he did. {{storylink|O Ship of State}}

When the ''[[Heliopolis]]'' and [[Snake-Eyes|Snake Eyes]] were discovered within the city, Rom and Windblade deduced the crew of the former were inhabitants of Microspace; despite being unable to understand one another's language, Rom offered a heartfelt apology for endangering their universe, which endeared the Micronauts to him; his Analyzers soon detected a massive army of Wraiths bearing down on Autobot City, backed up by [[M.A.S.K.]] forces.

[[File:ValleyForge-TheTeamup.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Don't worry, Soundwave. In just a few hours, you'll be sitting around a campfire with Matt making delicious hot Schmoes."]]
Rom joined Optimus's new alliance to mount a defense of Autobot City, defending the space bridge and Ore-13 while engaging the [[Caleb Awan|lead Wraith]] in combat. The Ultra-Energon-empowered Wraiths outnumbered the heroes, and things only got worse when the villainous [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the spacebridge, enerchanging with the Wraiths and M.A.S.K. tech to become a fusion of Cybertronian, Wraith, and Microspace power. {{storylink|The New Colossus}}

As their teamup broke down into confusion, Rom found himself mistakenly battling Snake Eyes until Optimus intervened, grabbing the pair and [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] so that the Autobot leader could explain that Karza had masterminded the entire crisis from the beginning. Karza was now too powerful to fight one-on-one, however; instead, Rom joined Soundwave, the Micronauts, [[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]] and [[Matt Trakker|Trakker]] to concoct an alternate strategy, using Rom's armor as a buffer between the energies of the nearby spacebridge and the Micronauts' [[enerchange]] abilities, while Trakker used his mask to beam a counter-frequency to the bridge, sending Karza back to Microspace and destroying the space bridge to ensure that he wouldn't return. Rom rescued Matt from the ensuing explosion, and once on solid ground, apologized to [[Scarlett]] for all the trouble he'd caused before flying off. {{storylink|Valley Forge}}

[[File:CrisisIntervention-RomMeetsGIJoe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Keep your accessories with you at all times. Spare parts, batteries, anything you need for an orderly transition."]]
Several months later, a surge of Wraith energy in Europe led Rom to [[Verenya]], where he discovered that the city had been overrun by hostile Wraith-like beings. Rom quickly deduced that they were not "true" Wraiths, but innocent civilians who had been mutated with Wraith genetics; when he encountered a G.I. Joe detachment led by [[Ayana Jones|Mayday]], he joined forces with them and requested that they refrain from using lethal force against the creatures, instead using low-level [[Neutralizer]] blasts to stun them into submission.

Venturing into an abandoned bunker, the group discovered that an alien [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] had been responsible for the mutation, which in turn had been caused by a battle between [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]] and [[Ian Noble|Action Man]]. Rom intervened in their fight, allowing Mayday to talk down the combatants; when the [[Oktober Guard]] attacked, Rom was took part in the struggle, and used his Neutralizer to create a forcefield to shield Action Man and Mayday from the Talisman's mutagenic blast. Rom tried to use his [[Energy Analyzer]] to glean the Talisman's origins, but was interrupted when their captive [[Major Bludd]] teleported away with Action Man. When the group was still without an answer hours later, Rom had to take his leave to fight off the true Wraiths. {{storylink|Crisis Intervention}}

[[File:UnstoppedAndUnstoppable-RomAndJazz.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"This is an intergalactic emergency. I need to commandeer your vessel to Sector 12. Who's in charge here?"]]
Rom returned to battling the Wraiths on Earth, and briefly embarked on a series of adventures with the Micronauts in [[Microspace]], {{storylink|Rom & the Micronauts}} and when Rom next found himself involved in Cybertronian affairs once more, it was while tracking a group of [[human]]s contaminated with Wraith biomatter. As it transpired, those same humans were also involved in trafficking black-market Cybertronian technology, which had attracted the attention of [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]]. Though the two were able to subdue the criminals, Rom suddenly felt a surge of pain, alerting him to danger on his homeworld: Elonia was under attack by [[Unicron/Generation 1|an object of immense power]]. Realizing that he needed to return to his home planet as soon as possible, Jazz ferried Rom to meet with the [[President of the United States]], and allowed himself to be arrested so that Rom could use [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s space bridge to reach the Transformer homeworld. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}}

From there, Rom joined forces with Optimus Prime and his Cybertronian alliance aboard the ''[[Ark-Zero]];'' having already lost multiple Transformer colonies to Unicron, the Cybertronians set course for Elonia as fast as they could, but found that they'd arrived too late: [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] had already begun his attack on the peaceful planet. Rom met up with [[Livia]] as they began a reconnaissance flight across the planet-eater's surface, discovering the remains of [[Velocitron]], but were unable to prevent Unicron from annihilating several of their Space Knight comrades, with the blast sending the pair hurtling into the planet's surface. The impact inadvertently unearthed the lost [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Emissary (IDW)|Emissary]]; as Rom realized that his homeworld was a Transformer colony, this discovery confirmed Optimus's suspicions that Unicron was deliberately targeting each of Cybertron's thirteen colonies. In order for [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] to safely evacuate the [[Elonian]]s, [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] was forced to destroy Emissary's comatose [[brain module]], and Rom rejoined the Transformers aboard the ''Ark-Zero'' as Unicron devoured the remains of Elonia. {{storylink|Our Darkest}}

[[File:UnstoppedAndUnstoppable-sadrom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and, suddenly, you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with Marie Antoinette... and her little sister."]]
In the aftermath, Rom was left dejected, despite Optimus's affirmation that the survivors of Elonia needed the Space Knights more than ever. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}} In their temporary lodgings on Cybertron, Rom was eventually able to come to grips with the loss of his homeworld, and successfully rallied his equally depressed comrades to redouble their efforts to stop Unicron, and all evil in the galaxy. {{storylink|Ad Infinitum}} Determined not to let Unicron win, Rom joined the Autobot fleet as Prime's armada headed to [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]; despite his and Soundwave's best efforts to repel the [[Maximal]] hordes that threatened to overrun the planet, they were forced to withdraw, allowing Unicron to devour Caminus. {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}} Back on Cybertron, Rom watched apprehensively as [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] announced his plan to rally Decepticons across the galaxy to strike back at Unicron. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}

WIth Unicron now on Cybertron's doorstep, Rom joined [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s brain chamber, arguing in favor of transforming Metroplex to take on the Titan. This was interrupted when Bumblebee arrived, bringing news of a vision—courtesy of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]—that explained Unicron's origins, and those of the Dire Wraiths, though Rom was skeptical of the veracity of Bumblebee's theory. {{storylink|Our Finest}} Though Cybertron was ultimately destroyed by Unicron, the intervention of the [[Spectral Knight]]s and the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] allowed the inhabitants of Cybertron to safely evacuate to Earth, rematerializing in [[Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park|Mosi-oa-Tunya]]. {{storylink|Road's End}} As the Cybertronian refugees regrouped, Rom and Livia hovered above the crowd. {{storylink|A Sunrise Dark}}

[[File:Ceremony-RomAndLivia.jpg|thumb|"He once risked his life to save me. I couldn't call myself his friend if I weren't willing to do the same."]]
Unfortunately, Unicron was not content to end his crusade with destroying Cybertron; intent on finishing his mission of extinction, the planet-eater set course for Earth as the heroes and villains of Earth prepared a counterattack aboard Trypticon—including Dire Wraiths, the presence of their ancient nemeses forcing Rom to remind Livia of the ''true'' threat at hand. To allow Arcee and Optimus the chance to slip through Unicron's defenses, the two Space Knights joined the other Transformers in Earth's orbit and met Unicron and the Maximal horde head-on. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}}

Rom and Livia both took part in the cataclysmic battle for Earth, and when Unicron was defeated—at the cost of Prime's life—the two Space Knights returned to Earth along with [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. Their jubilation was tempered somewhat when they learned that one of the Elonian children had lost her parents in the attack, prompting Livia to wonder aloud if the title of "Space Knight" should take on a new meaning as they started anew. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Some time later, Rom was one of the many mourners who attended Optimus Prime's funeral in [[Little Cybertron]], with the orphaned child eventually settling into a happy new life on Earth. {{storylink|Post}}

===''Aw Yeah Revolution!''===
While flying through space, Rom the Space Knight detected a group of Dire Wraiths hiding on an asteroid. As the Dire Wraiths emerged to attack Rom, he asked them to calm down and simply talk things out. However, the Dire Wraiths refused, forcing Rom to activate his personal force field. Baron Karza then teleported inside Rom's force field, capturing the Space Knight in green energy and teleporting him away. Rom awoke to discover himself trapped inside a green force bubble, alongside two other heroes captured by Karza: [[Snake-Eyes]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Karza revealed to his captors his plan to use the [[Orbsah Gem]] to steal their abilities, in Rom's case, his tracking abilities, and rule the universe! {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}}

After Karza had absorbed his prisoners' powers, the Micronauts broke into his base and freed his captives. Their sheer mass however destabilized [[Microspace]] prompting Karza to flee to the Hasbro Universe only for Optimus to seize him. Rom, Snake Eyes and [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] immediately followed the Prime through the portal only to learn that time in the Hasbro Universe moved at an accelerated rate compared to Microspace. For Optimus and Karza, hours had elapsed with Karza having seized control of [[Cobra]] and used their resources to capture Optimus. After the three had defeated [[Storm Shadow]], they prepared to search for Optimus...only for him to rise from a pit, now under Cobra's control. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}}

Though Rom was quick to attack, Optimus proved too powerful for the Knight who instead tried coaxing him out. When that failed, Rom wrapped Optimus in a forcefield and towed him into the upper atmosphere, out of range of Cobra's signal. The gambit payed off and while Optimus flew back to Autobot headquarters for reinforcements, Rom spotted the Dire Wraiths, having commandeered the earlier asteroid as a ship, on course for Earth. Rom failed to catch them in time however and the shapshifters assimilated several Cobra troopers. When [[Destro]] seized the Orbsah Gem however, Rom broke free of the Wraiths and appealed to Destro to surrender the Gem only for the arms dealer to use it to teleport Rom away. Rom materialized galaxies away from Earth but set out for the planet immediately vowing to protect any world from the Wraiths. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}

===When Worlds Collide===
Rom was one of the many heroes that joined [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the Autobots after [[Cobra Commander]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] stole the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|When Worlds Collide}}

==Toys==
===''Bot Shots''===
[[File:ToyFair2013-BSRomTheSpaceKnight.jpg|thumb|"Years of Academy training, wasted!"]]
*'''Rom the Space Knight''' (2013?)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''B007'''
***''Fist strength'': ''' '''
***''Blaster strength'': ''' '''
***''Sword strength'': ''' '''
:Presumably intended as part of a Series 2 single-pack assortment, ''[[Bot Shots (franchise)|Bot Shots]]'' Jump Shot Rom the Space Knight is a [[redeco]] of [[Cindersaur (G1)#Bot Shots|Cindersaur]] (which was itself originally based on ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' [[Skystalker (Prime)|Skystalker]]). He transforms into a beaky-looking reptile thing on wheels. An impact to the front of his [[beast mode]] causes him to spring up and [[Autotransformation|autotransform]] into a robot armed with a pistol. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels.

:This silver and red redeco of the ''Bot Shots'' mold based on ''Prime'' Skystalker was first shown at [[Toy Fair 2013]] amongst [[:File:ToyFair2013-BSGroup.jpg|a pile of other ''Bot Shots'' toys]], but due to a lack of name placards at the event, the identities of those toys were unknown at the time. Even after the names of other ''Bot Shots'' toys shown at Toy Fair were revealed, the silver Skystalker remained unidentified until a massive product listing leak from the Hasbro Customer Service website landed in the public's lap in late October/early November 2013. Among those Customer Service listings was "TRA BOT SHOTS ROM THE SPACE KNIGHT A2587", and Rom's classic silver color scheme clearly marked him as the Skystalker redeco. It's not known what faction ''Bot Shots'' Rom would have been released under, but it can at least be assumed that his ID number is "B007", as there was no Series 2 figure with that number.

:This mold was also used to make [[Skystalker (Prime)#Bot Shots|Skystalker]] and the similarly-canceled [[Buzzclaw (BS)#Bot Shots|Buzzclaw]].

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===''Revolution''===
[[File:SDCC 2017 Rom Stock.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|"I've set my Neutralizer from stun... to kill."]]
*'''Revolution Set''' (SDCC Gift Set, [[2017]])
**''Accessories'': Neutralizer, G.I. Joe display stand
:Released as part of a San Diego Comic-Con 2017 exclusive set, Rom the Space Knight is an action figure based on the character's original [[Marvel Comics]] appearance, made up of redecoed parts from various [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] action figures with a new head, torso and weapon. He was packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Revolution|Jetfire]], [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], ''[[Visionaries]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[Leoric]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', a [[Dire Wraith]], and 9 ''[[Micronauts (franchise)|Micronauts]]'' mini-figurines.
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==Notes==
[[File:Rom and his Camien chums.jpg|thumb|"Spare me your lies, temptress! Your emperor's defeated, and I'm immune to your bewitching good looks!"]]
*Rom was originally a toy released in 1979 by [[Parker Brothers]], who partnered with [[Marvel Comics]] to produce a comic book promoting the figure. The toy was a bit of a failure, and was quickly discontinued, but the comic was a big success; set within the "Marvel Universe" and featuring many crossovers with the company's superheroes (unlike the later ''Transformers''), it ran for six years and seventy-five regular monthly issues, significantly outliving the figure and ensuring that Rom was fondly-remembered by comic fans. Parker Brothers would go on to merge with [[Kenner]] in 1985, who were bought by [[Tonka]] in 1987, who were in turn bought by Hasbro in 1991, placing the character under Hasbro ownership—but aside from Rom himself and a few pieces of relevant terminology, that appears to be ''all'' Hasbro owns, as his villains, setting, and supporting cast were all created and owned by Marvel and have been periodically used by them ever since. In 2016, [[IDW Publishing]] launched a revived version of Rom, stripped of all Marvel elements, co-written by IDW Editor-In-Chief [[Chris Ryall]], as part of their ''[[Revolution]]'' event, crossing over several of IDW's Hasbro titles. To celebrate, all of IDW's Hasbro comics, including the ''Transformers'' titles, received variant covers featuring Rom.
*In [[Spain]], Rom's relation to ''Transformers'' went a bit further, as Comics Forum (the Spanish editorial that had the Marvel rights in the 80s) had Rom as the back-up feature of [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'']] comic book.
*In the U.K., Rom was released under the toyline of fellow ''[[Revolution]]'' star [[Action Man]].<ref>http://www.toysyouhad.com/Rom.htm</ref>
*As far as we know, he's not related to [[Quark]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://bugeyedmonster.com/rom-the-space-knight/ Rom at BugEyedMonster.com]
*{{i|Rom}} on the IDW Hasbro Wiki

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Cydra:

{{disambig3|Rom}}
:''Rom is an <strike>Galadorian</strike> [[Elonian]] [[Space Knight]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:ROM 6 subcvrB clean.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Buzz Lightyear|"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity"]].]]
'''Rom''' is a [[Space Knight]], Lord of the [[Solstar Order]]. One of their most powerful Knights, the evil [[Dire Wraith]]s fear him more than all others, earning him the nickname "Wraithslayer". He has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries. He alone could wipe them off the face of existence. He is Rom, Lord of the Solstar Order! Rom, the Wraithslayer! Rom, the Space Knight!

{{quote|He sounds like he's got a '''fusion cannon''' up his tailpipe... but you've convinced me that's part of his '''charm'''.|[[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] to [[Stardrive]]|[[Shining Armor issue 4|''Shining Armor'' #4]]}}

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Vector Prime]] got into a pick-up game of [[Basketrek]] with an [[Iocus]]-cluster space knight. As he had underwent the [[Silver Knight (AOE)|Silver Modification]] process, he had quite a jump shot. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/27}}

===Island Revolution!===
According to [[Mark Weber]], Rom rescued [[Sidney Biggles-Jones|Dr. Biggles-Jones]] from the Cobra Island lab explosion. Rom then restored [[Air Raid (G.I. Joe)|Air Raid]] to his proper age. {{storylink|Island Revolution!}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{MainIDW|Rom}}
[[File:ShiningArmor01-Rom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"And YOU, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command!"]]
Two hundred years ago, '''Rom K'atsema''' lived an idyllic life with his brother and mothers on the peaceful planet [[Elonia]], a world constantly protected by a powerful planet-wide shield that blocked debris and potential invaders. Rom studied geology at the Elonia University of Arts and Sciences, and befriended [[Livia]] and [[Fy-Laa]]. One day, the three of them investigated a mysterious meteor shower that had breached Elonia's shield and discovered that the explosive meteors were of [[Dire Wraith]] origin: weapons designed to penetrate the shield in advance of a potential Wraith invasion, and ultimately responsible for killing his family. When the [[Space Knight]]s of the [[Solstar Order]] intervened, Rom learned that [[Shah K'atsema|one of his mothers]] had been infected by a Wraith and transformed into one of their number. Vowing to avenge his family, Rom and his friends joined the Solstar Order as Space Knights.

On his first mission, Rom would be responsible for discovering Elonia's supply of [[Ore-12]], a miraculous liquid metal capable of "bonding" with its wielder and becoming a permanent suit of armor. Realizing that this mysterious metal was the reason ''why'' the Dire Wraiths had attacked their world, the Solstar Order would go on to mine the rest of the ore and equip the rest of their Space Knights with the substance. Soon afterwards, Rom—now a full-fledged Space Knight—left Elonia shortly afterwards, leaving behind a beacon in memory of his family. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 3|Rom profile}} {{storylink|Cold Fire}}

[[File:RomVsTF02-RomAndStardrive.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"I just want you to know that even though you tried to terminate me, revenge is not an idea we promote on my planet."]]
Over the next fifty years, Rom took part in a variety of battles against the Dire Wraiths, and participated in the massive battle that saw the Wraith's [[Dire Wraith homeworld|current homeworld]], within the [[Dark Nebula]], destroyed. The Space Knights spent the next few years pursuing remnant Dire Wraith forces across backwater planets within Solstar territory.

In the mid-1800s,<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.cbr.com/exclusive-transformers-rom-crossover-new-character-hasbro/|name=Christos Gage|quote=From a timeline perspective, where does [Shining Armor] fit in in the continuity?" "Fairly early in the existence of the Solstar Knights. Not quite 200 years ago, but around 175, 180 years in the past.|year=2017|month=03|day=31|site=CBR|title=EXCL: IDW Introduces Hasbro's First Transformers/Rom Hybrid Character}}</ref> shortly after the destruction of the Dire Wraith homeworld, Rom was patrolling the [[Gray Area]] when he witnessed a [[Galactic Council]] warship shoot down a fleeing vessel. Placing himself between the wreckage and the aggressor, Rom demanded that the Council explain themselves, only for them to warp away the instant he was distracted. Rom investigated the Transformer ship—unbeknownst to him, of [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] origin—and discovered that it had carried a cargo of [[protoform]]s, most of which had died in the crash. A single protoform had survived, however; compelled to help the orphaned Transformer, Rom brought it to nearby Elonia, where Solstar scientists built an [[energon synthesizer]] and helped nurture the protoform into a female Transformer who called herself [[Stardrive]]. During her early life, Rom and several other Space Knights would come to her rescue on the planet [[Mato Grosso (planet)|Mato Grosso]], driving off the Wraith leader [[Vekktral]] and saving Stardrive's life for a second time. The young 'bot would soon come to see Rom as her hero and joined the Space Knights to emulate him.

[[File:ShiningArmor01-RomAndLivia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"This isn't flying, this is falling with style!"]]
Five years later, Rom and Livia brought new recruits [[Auxin]] and [[Sata]] to [[Mining Colony 25-6-41]] as part of their training. Rooting out the Wraith infestation, Rom and Livia engaged several Wraiths in battle and encountered Stardrive, who had been staking out the colony for a week. Though Livia suggested that the colony would have to be destroyed, Rom agreed with Stardrive's assessment and spared the planetoid, noting that there was insufficient Dire Wraith activity to justify its sterilization.

With Stardrive in tow, Rom flew the group aboard the ''[[Solstar V]]'' to their next mission: a security function at a diplomatic meeting between the Order and Galactic Council, to discuss the threat of Dire Wraiths fleeing into territory beyond Solstar space. Livia and Rom repeatedly argued about Stardrive's compassion; on arriving at the ''[[Orchid Crossing]]'' over [[Xetaxxis]], Rom and Livia explained to Stardrive that they had brought her along to show Council representatives that the Solstar Order could keep Cybertronians "in their place." Rom tried to console a hurt Stardrive by telling her that she was capable of more than the rest of her species.

Negotiations got off to a poor start when the Council representative revealed himself as Vekktral, co-leader of a [[Decepticon]]/Dire Wraith alliance that had been formed to steal Stardrive's energon synthesizer. Rom moved to protect Stardrive as [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] tried to recruit her, only to receive a shot to the chest. By the time Rom had recovered, Starscream had found Stardrive's synthesizer... only for the Autobots [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] to burst through the wall, ignoring Rom's weak protests. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}}

[[File:RomVsTF02-RomShootsUltraMagnus.jpg|thumb|"But we're not '''''on''''' my planet. Are '''''we'''''?"]]
Unwilling to let the fragile peace between the two galactic powers crumble under a Cybertronian assault, Rom fired on Ultra Magnus, but soon deduced that the [[Autobot]]s and Space Knights might yet be on the same side—only for Magnus to shoot him (and Stardrive and Starscream) through a wall for being annoying and talking too much. Back in the chaos of battle, a horrified Rom watched as a Dire Wraith merged with [[Sky Blast (G1)|Sky Blast]], engaging the resulting monster to buy time for the crew to evacuate. As the damaged station plummeted into Xetaxxis' atmosphere, Rom shouted for Stardrive to leave with them... only for the Cybertronian Space Knight to choose to help the Autobots escape instead.

As they descended towards Xetaxxis, Rom and Livia argued about whether Stardrive had fully defected or not; arriving over the Autobot impact site, Rom shot Magnus in the chest and offered Bumblebee the chance to surrender. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 2|Shining Armor #2}}

Magnus quickly recovered from what Rom had assumed would be a killing blow; gearing up for another fight, Rom and Livia engaged Magnus, only for the blue Autobot to withstand every attack. Confused by Magnus' attempts to protect Stardrive, the cadet stepped up to stop the fighting, accusing her superiors of lying to her about her heritage. Learning from Ultra Magnus that, unlike the worlds of the Solstar Order, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] had never permanently unified—and that different Cybertronian factions could stand for different principles —the Autobots and Space Knights agreed to a temporary alliance, with he, Livia, and Stardrive heading off to search for the Energon synthesizer in the ruins.

Arriving after another terse argument between himself and Livia, the group discovered the [[Xetaxxan|natives]] salvaging the wreckage of the ship. Despite Livia's disgust, Rom was content with letting the aliens scavenge for what they could and allowed Stardrive to evacuate them before Starscream landed ''on Rom''. Quickly recovering, Rom socked Starscream in the jaw and vowed that he would protect Xetaxxis from both Wraiths and Decepticons. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 3|Shining Armor #3}}

[[File:ShiningArmor04-RomNeutralizer.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Unhand me, Zurg scum! The Galactic Courts will show you no mercy."]]
Rom and Livia battled [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], managing to temporarily take them out and force Starscream into a retreat. Rom prepared to pursue the Decepticons when Livia suggested an alternate course of action: destroying the energon synthesizer to sterilize the planet, eliminating the Wraith infestation and putting the machine beyond Starscream's reach. Attempting to mediate between Livia and Stardrive, Rom's careless words caused Stardrive take the synthesizer and threaten to cut ties with the Space Knights, lashing out at Livia before Bumblebee and Sata arrived.

Rom and Bumblebee managed to convince Stardrive to stand down, and, together, the alliance agreed that their next course of action would not involve taking innocent lives. Before they could move, however, they were attacked by Vekktral, who had managed to possess Ultra Magnus's body and regrouped his hordes. In the ensuing battle, Rom and the others were quickly overpowered and surrounded... before Vekktral turned on his former allies and began infecting Starscream's forces. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}}

Another battle broke out as the Decepticons joined forces with the Autobots and Space Knights to defend themselves; though Stardrive attempted to stop Starscream from getting away, Starscream was able to cut his losses and run, blasting the energon synthesizer so that the volatile detonation would take out the ground-bound Autobots. In the meantime, Ultra Magnus was briefly able to reassert his own consciousness and wrest control of his body back from Vekktral, opening his outer armor so that Rom - despite his misgivings - could deliver a fatal blow. Confused by the presence of [[Convoy (G1)|a smaller robot]] inside Magnus's body, Bumblebee briefly explained the nature of the [[Magnus Armor]] as the Space Knights airlifted Bumblebee and the Magnus Armor away from the destruction of Xetaxxis as the energon synthesizer detonated. Disgusted by everything that had transpired, Stardrive shed her armor, renounced her ties to the Space Knights, and flew away, while Bumblebee used the Magnus Armor's recall switch to return to the Autobot fleet.

Some time later, Rom and [[Orphion]] participated in another meeting with the Galactic Council, where they were informed that the Council would not join their war against the Dire Wraiths. Rom turned his attention to Livia and Sata, and sadly watched as they imparted their ruthless ideals on a new group of Space Knight recruits. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}

[[File:Revolution 1 Wraith Colton dies.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Please be careful! You don't want to be in the way when my laser goes off."]]
Circa [[2016]], Rom came to [[Earth]] to eradicate the Dire Wraiths that had hidden themselves among its populace. Landing in northern [[California]], his elimination of several Wraiths—which, to outsiders, looked like indiscriminate murder—caught the attention of the [[Earth Defense Command]] and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. {{storylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} Learning that [[Ore-13|an alien ore]] on Earth had the power to amplify the [[magic]] of the Wraiths and render them invisible to his [[Energy Analyzer]]s, Rom also discovered that G.I. Joe had been recently compromised by Wraiths. {{storylink|Field Test}}

Seeking to eliminate the Wraith imposters, Rom intervened in a battle between the Joes and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s Cybertronian peacekeepers in [[Portland]], and slew the Wraiths who had been masquerading as [[Red Zone]], [[Hi-Tech]], [[Wreckage (G.I. Joe)|Wreckage]], and team leader General [[Joe Colton (Dire Wraith)|Joe Colton]]. Believing he had just killed their human teammates, the other Joes opened fire on him, but Rom refused to counterattack and simply flew off.

[[File:TheDivineSourceOfLiberty-romvsoptimus.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Don't talk to me about importance! Because of ''you'', the future of this entire universe is in jeopardy!"]]
Unfortunately, Rom's mechanical armor had led the Joes to believe he was a Cybertronian, which forced Optimus Prime and his team to give chase so that they could clear their names. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}} Prime and his teammates pursued Rom to the [[Umpqua National Forest]], where Prime attempted to interrogate the Space Knight. Rom was initially able to outmaneuver Prime, but—outnumbered by the Cybertronians—was soon defeated and "urged" to explain himself. {{storylink|The Divine Source of Liberty}}

Escorted by the Autobots, Rom was brought to [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], where he briefly witnessed the aftermath of [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s return from the realm of [[Microspace]]. {{storylink|Informed}} Rom gave the Autobots information on the Wraiths' pursuit of [[Ore-13]], before realizing that his armor—unbeknownst to him, Cybertronian in nature—"resonated" at a similar frequency to [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]'s own [[Space bridge|Space Bridge]].

Realizing that he could use this connection to put Ore-13 beyond the reach of the Dire Wraiths, Rom activated the bridge to teleport chunks of Ore-13 into Microspace, inadvertently causing destruction on the other side. When Windblade and Optimus made him realize that he was allowing his desire to defeat the Wraiths to blind his reason and logic, Rom stood down and was placed in [[stasis cuffs]] by Soundwave who sympathized with what he did. {{storylink|O Ship of State}}

When the ''[[Heliopolis]]'' and [[Snake-Eyes|Snake Eyes]] were discovered within the city, Rom and Windblade deduced the crew of the former were inhabitants of Microspace; despite being unable to understand one another's language, Rom offered a heartfelt apology for endangering their universe, which endeared the Micronauts to him; his Analyzers soon detected a massive army of Wraiths bearing down on Autobot City, backed up by [[M.A.S.K.]] forces.

[[File:ValleyForge-TheTeamup.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Don't worry, Soundwave. In just a few hours, you'll be sitting around a campfire with Matt making delicious hot Schmoes."]]
Rom joined Optimus's new alliance to mount a defense of Autobot City, defending the space bridge and Ore-13 while engaging the [[Caleb Awan|lead Wraith]] in combat. The Ultra-Energon-empowered Wraiths outnumbered the heroes, and things only got worse when the villainous [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the spacebridge, enerchanging with the Wraiths and M.A.S.K. tech to become a fusion of Cybertronian, Wraith, and Microspace power. {{storylink|The New Colossus}}

As their teamup broke down into confusion, Rom found himself mistakenly battling Snake Eyes until Optimus intervened, grabbing the pair and [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] so that the Autobot leader could explain that Karza had masterminded the entire crisis from the beginning. Karza was now too powerful to fight one-on-one, however; instead, Rom joined Soundwave, the Micronauts, [[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]] and [[Matt Trakker|Trakker]] to concoct an alternate strategy, using Rom's armor as a buffer between the energies of the nearby spacebridge and the Micronauts' [[enerchange]] abilities, while Trakker used his mask to beam a counter-frequency to the bridge, sending Karza back to Microspace and destroying the space bridge to ensure that he wouldn't return. Rom rescued Matt from the ensuing explosion, and once on solid ground, apologized to [[Scarlett]] for all the trouble he'd caused before flying off. {{storylink|Valley Forge}}

[[File:CrisisIntervention-RomMeetsGIJoe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Keep your accessories with you at all times. Spare parts, batteries, anything you need for an orderly transition."]]
Several months later, a surge of Wraith energy in Europe led Rom to [[Verenya]], where he discovered that the city had been overrun by hostile Wraith-like beings. Rom quickly deduced that they were not "true" Wraiths, but innocent civilians who had been mutated with Wraith genetics; when he encountered a G.I. Joe detachment led by [[Ayana Jones|Mayday]], he joined forces with them and requested that they refrain from using lethal force against the creatures, instead using low-level [[Neutralizer]] blasts to stun them into submission.

Venturing into an abandoned bunker, the group discovered that an alien [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] had been responsible for the mutation, which in turn had been caused by a battle between [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]] and [[Ian Noble|Action Man]]. Rom intervened in their fight, allowing Mayday to talk down the combatants; when the [[Oktober Guard]] attacked, Rom was took part in the struggle, and used his Neutralizer to create a forcefield to shield Action Man and Mayday from the Talisman's mutagenic blast. Rom tried to use his [[Energy Analyzer]] to glean the Talisman's origins, but was interrupted when their captive [[Major Bludd]] teleported away with Action Man. When the group was still without an answer hours later, Rom had to take his leave to fight off the true Wraiths. {{storylink|Crisis Intervention}}

[[File:UnstoppedAndUnstoppable-RomAndJazz.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"This is an intergalactic emergency. I need to commandeer your vessel to Sector 12. Who's in charge here?"]]
Rom returned to battling the Wraiths on Earth, and briefly embarked on a series of adventures with the Micronauts in [[Microspace]], {{storylink|Rom & the Micronauts}} and when Rom next found himself involved in Cybertronian affairs once more, it was while tracking a group of [[human]]s contaminated with Wraith biomatter. As it transpired, those same humans were also involved in trafficking black-market Cybertronian technology, which had attracted the attention of [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]]. Though the two were able to subdue the criminals, Rom suddenly felt a surge of pain, alerting him to danger on his homeworld: Elonia was under attack by [[Unicron/Generation 1|an object of immense power]]. Realizing that he needed to return to his home planet as soon as possible, Jazz ferried Rom to meet with the [[President of the United States]], and allowed himself to be arrested so that Rom could use [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s space bridge to reach the Transformer homeworld. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}}

From there, Rom joined forces with Optimus Prime and his Cybertronian alliance aboard the ''[[Ark-Zero]];'' having already lost multiple Transformer colonies to Unicron, the Cybertronians set course for Elonia as fast as they could, but found that they'd arrived too late: [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] had already begun his attack on the peaceful planet. Rom met up with [[Livia]] as they began a reconnaissance flight across the planet-eater's surface, discovering the remains of [[Velocitron]], but were unable to prevent Unicron from annihilating several of their Space Knight comrades, with the blast sending the pair hurtling into the planet's surface. The impact inadvertently unearthed the lost [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Emissary (IDW)|Emissary]]; as Rom realized that his homeworld was a Transformer colony, this discovery confirmed Optimus's suspicions that Unicron was deliberately targeting each of Cybertron's thirteen colonies. In order for [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] to safely evacuate the [[Elonian]]s, [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] was forced to destroy Emissary's comatose [[brain module]], and Rom rejoined the Transformers aboard the ''Ark-Zero'' as Unicron devoured the remains of Elonia. {{storylink|Our Darkest}}

[[File:UnstoppedAndUnstoppable-sadrom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and, suddenly, you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with Marie Antoinette... and her little sister."]]
In the aftermath, Rom was left dejected, despite Optimus's affirmation that the survivors of Elonia needed the Space Knights more than ever. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}} In their temporary lodgings on Cybertron, Rom was eventually able to come to grips with the loss of his homeworld, and successfully rallied his equally depressed comrades to redouble their efforts to stop Unicron, and all evil in the galaxy. {{storylink|Ad Infinitum}} Determined not to let Unicron win, Rom joined the Autobot fleet as Prime's armada headed to [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]; despite his and Soundwave's best efforts to repel the [[Maximal]] hordes that threatened to overrun the planet, they were forced to withdraw, allowing Unicron to devour Caminus. {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}} Back on Cybertron, Rom watched apprehensively as [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] announced his plan to rally Decepticons across the galaxy to strike back at Unicron. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}

WIth Unicron now on Cybertron's doorstep, Rom joined [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s brain chamber, arguing in favor of transforming Metroplex to take on the Titan. This was interrupted when Bumblebee arrived, bringing news of a vision—courtesy of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]—that explained Unicron's origins, and those of the Dire Wraiths, though Rom was skeptical of the veracity of Bumblebee's theory. {{storylink|Our Finest}} Though Cybertron was ultimately destroyed by Unicron, the intervention of the [[Spectral Knight]]s and the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] allowed the inhabitants of Cybertron to safely evacuate to Earth, rematerializing in [[Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park|Mosi-oa-Tunya]]. {{storylink|Road's End}} As the Cybertronian refugees regrouped, Rom and Livia hovered above the crowd. {{storylink|A Sunrise Dark}}

[[File:Ceremony-RomAndLivia.jpg|thumb|"He once risked his life to save me. I couldn't call myself his friend if I weren't willing to do the same."]]
Unfortunately, Unicron was not content to end his crusade with destroying Cybertron; intent on finishing his mission of extinction, the planet-eater set course for Earth as the heroes and villains of Earth prepared a counterattack aboard Trypticon—including Dire Wraiths, the presence of their ancient nemeses forcing Rom to remind Livia of the ''true'' threat at hand. To allow Arcee and Optimus the chance to slip through Unicron's defenses, the two Space Knights joined the other Transformers in Earth's orbit and met Unicron and the Maximal horde head-on. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}}

Rom and Livia both took part in the cataclysmic battle for Earth, and when Unicron was defeated—at the cost of Prime's life—the two Space Knights returned to Earth along with [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. Their jubilation was tempered somewhat when they learned that one of the Elonian children had lost her parents in the attack, prompting Livia to wonder aloud if the title of "Space Knight" should take on a new meaning as they started anew. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Some time later, Rom was one of the many mourners who attended Optimus Prime's funeral in [[Little Cybertron]], with the orphaned child eventually settling into a happy new life on Earth. {{storylink|Post}}

===''Aw Yeah Revolution!''===
While flying through space, Rom the Space Knight detected a group of Dire Wraiths hiding on an asteroid. As the Dire Wraiths emerged to attack Rom, he asked them to calm down and simply talk things out. However, the Dire Wraiths refused, forcing Rom to activate his personal force field. Baron Karza then teleported inside Rom's force field, capturing the Space Knight in green energy and teleporting him away. Rom awoke to discover himself trapped inside a green force bubble, alongside two other heroes captured by Karza: [[Snake-Eyes]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Karza revealed to his captors his plan to use the [[Orbsah Gem]] to steal their abilities, in Rom's case, his tracking abilities, and rule the universe! {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}}

After Karza had absorbed his prisoners' powers, the Micronauts broke into his base and freed his captives. Their sheer mass however destabilized [[Microspace]] prompting Karza to flee to the Hasbro Universe only for Optimus to seize him. Rom, Snake Eyes and [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] immediately followed the Prime through the portal only to learn that time in the Hasbro Universe moved at an accelerated rate compared to Microspace. For Optimus and Karza, hours had elapsed with Karza having seized control of [[Cobra]] and used their resources to capture Optimus. After the three had defeated [[Storm Shadow]], they prepared to search for Optimus...only for him to rise from a pit, now under Cobra's control. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}}

Though Rom was quick to attack, Optimus proved too powerful for the Knight who instead tried coaxing him out. When that failed, Rom wrapped Optimus in a forcefield and towed him into the upper atmosphere, out of range of Cobra's signal. The gambit payed off and while Optimus flew back to Autobot headquarters for reinforcements, Rom spotted the Dire Wraiths, having commandeered the earlier asteroid as a ship, on course for Earth. Rom failed to catch them in time however and the shapshifters assimilated several Cobra troopers. When [[Destro]] seized the Orbsah Gem however, Rom broke free of the Wraiths and appealed to Destro to surrender the Gem only for the arms dealer to use it to teleport Rom away. Rom materialized galaxies away from Earth but set out for the planet immediately vowing to protect any world from the Wraiths. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}

===When Worlds Collide===
Rom was one of the many heroes that joined [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the Autobots after [[Cobra Commander]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] stole the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|When Worlds Collide}}

==Toys==
===''Bot Shots''===
[[File:ToyFair2013-BSRomTheSpaceKnight.jpg|thumb|"Years of Academy training, wasted!"]]
*'''Rom the Space Knight''' (2013?)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''B007'''
***''Fist strength'': ''' '''
***''Blaster strength'': ''' '''
***''Sword strength'': ''' '''
:Presumably intended as part of a Series 2 single-pack assortment, ''[[Bot Shots (franchise)|Bot Shots]]'' Jump Shot Rom the Space Knight is a [[redeco]] of [[Cindersaur (G1)#Bot Shots|Cindersaur]] (which was itself originally based on ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' [[Skystalker (Prime)|Skystalker]]). He transforms into a beaky-looking reptile thing on wheels. An impact to the front of his [[beast mode]] causes him to spring up and [[Autotransformation|autotransform]] into a robot armed with a pistol. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels.

:This silver and red redeco of the ''Bot Shots'' mold based on ''Prime'' Skystalker was first shown at [[Toy Fair 2013]] amongst [[:File:ToyFair2013-BSGroup.jpg|a pile of other ''Bot Shots'' toys]], but due to a lack of name placards at the event, the identities of those toys were unknown at the time. Even after the names of other ''Bot Shots'' toys shown at Toy Fair were revealed, the silver Skystalker remained unidentified until a massive product listing leak from the Hasbro Customer Service website landed in the public's lap in late October/early November 2013. Among those Customer Service listings was "TRA BOT SHOTS ROM THE SPACE KNIGHT A2587", and Rom's classic silver color scheme clearly marked him as the Skystalker redeco. It's not known what faction ''Bot Shots'' Rom would have been released under, but it can at least be assumed that his ID number is "B007", as there was no Series 2 figure with that number.

:This mold was also used to make [[Skystalker (Prime)#Bot Shots|Skystalker]] and the similarly-canceled [[Buzzclaw (BS)#Bot Shots|Buzzclaw]].

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===''Revolution''===
[[File:SDCC 2017 Rom Stock.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|"I've set my Neutralizer from stun... to kill."]]
*'''Revolution Set''' (SDCC Gift Set, [[2017]])
**''Accessories'': Neutralizer, G.I. Joe display stand
:Released as part of a San Diego Comic-Con 2017 exclusive set, Rom the Space Knight is an action figure based on the character's original [[Marvel Comics]] appearance, made up of redecoed parts from various [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] action figures with a new head, torso and weapon. He was packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Revolution|Jetfire]], [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], ''[[Visionaries]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[Leoric]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', a [[Dire Wraith]], and 9 ''[[Micronauts (franchise)|Micronauts]]'' mini-figurines.
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==Notes==
[[File:Rom and his Camien chums.jpg|thumb|"Spare me your lies, temptress! Your emperor's defeated, and I'm immune to your bewitching good looks!"]]
*Rom was originally a toy released in 1979 by [[Parker Brothers]], who partnered with [[Marvel Comics]] to produce a comic book promoting the figure. The toy was a bit of a failure, and was quickly discontinued, but the comic was a big success; set within the "Marvel Universe" and featuring many crossovers with the company's superheroes (unlike the later ''Transformers''), it ran for six years and seventy-five regular monthly issues, significantly outliving the figure and ensuring that Rom was fondly-remembered by comic fans. Parker Brothers would go on to merge with [[Kenner]] in 1985, who were bought by [[Tonka]] in 1987, who were in turn bought by Hasbro in 1991, placing the character under Hasbro ownership—but aside from Rom himself and a few pieces of relevant terminology, that appears to be ''all'' Hasbro owns, as his villains, setting, and supporting cast were all created and owned by Marvel and have been periodically used by them ever since. In 2016, [[IDW Publishing]] launched a revived version of Rom, stripped of all Marvel elements, co-written by IDW Editor-In-Chief [[Chris Ryall]], as part of their ''[[Revolution]]'' event, crossing over several of IDW's Hasbro titles. To celebrate, all of IDW's Hasbro comics, including the ''Transformers'' titles, received variant covers featuring Rom.
*In [[Spain]], Rom's relation to ''Transformers'' went a bit further, as Comics Forum (the Spanish editorial that had the Marvel rights in the 80s) had Rom as the back-up feature of [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'']] comic book.
*In the U.K., Rom was released under the toyline of fellow ''[[Revolution]]'' star [[Action Man]].<ref>http://www.toysyouhad.com/Rom.htm</ref>
*As far as we know, he's not related to [[Quark]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://bugeyedmonster.com/rom-the-space-knight/ Rom at BugEyedMonster.com]
*{{i|Rom}} on the IDW Hasbro Wiki

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:''Rom is an <strike>Galadorian</strike> [[Elonian]] [[Space Knight]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:ROM 6 subcvrB clean.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Buzz Lightyear|"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity"]].]]
'''Rom''' is a [[Space Knight]], Lord of the [[Solstar Order]]. One of their most powerful Knights, the evil [[Dire Wraith]]s fear him more than all others, earning him the nickname "Wraithslayer". He has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries. He alone could wipe them off the face of existence. He is Rom, Lord of the Solstar Order! Rom, the Wraithslayer! Rom, the Space Knight!

{{quote|He sounds like he's got a '''fusion cannon''' up his tailpipe... but you've convinced me that's part of his '''charm'''.|[[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] to [[Stardrive]]|[[Shining Armor issue 4|''Shining Armor'' #4]]}}

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Vector Prime]] got into a pick-up game of [[Basketrek]] with an [[Iocus]]-cluster space knight. As he had underwent the [[Silver Knight (AOE)|Silver Modification]] process, he had quite a jump shot. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/27}}

===Island Revolution!===
According to [[Mark Weber]], Rom rescued [[Sidney Biggles-Jones|Dr. Biggles-Jones]] from the Cobra Island lab explosion. Rom then restored [[Air Raid (G.I. Joe)|Air Raid]] to his proper age. {{storylink|Island Revolution!}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{MainIDW|Rom}}
[[File:ShiningArmor01-Rom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"And YOU, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command!"]]
Two hundred years ago, '''Rom K'atsema''' lived an idyllic life with his brother and mothers on the peaceful planet [[Elonia]], a world constantly protected by a powerful planet-wide shield that blocked debris and potential invaders. Rom studied geology at the Elonia University of Arts and Sciences, and befriended [[Livia]] and [[Fy-Laa]]. One day, the three of them investigated a mysterious meteor shower that had breached Elonia's shield and discovered that the explosive meteors were of [[Dire Wraith]] origin: weapons designed to penetrate the shield in advance of a potential Wraith invasion, and ultimately responsible for killing his family. When the [[Space Knight]]s of the [[Solstar Order]] intervened, Rom learned that [[Shah K'atsema|one of his mothers]] had been infected by a Wraith and transformed into one of their number. Vowing to avenge his family, Rom and his friends joined the Solstar Order as Space Knights.

On his first mission, Rom would be responsible for discovering Elonia's supply of [[Ore-12]], a miraculous liquid metal capable of "bonding" with its wielder and becoming a permanent suit of armor. Realizing that this mysterious metal was the reason ''why'' the Dire Wraiths had attacked their world, the Solstar Order would go on to mine the rest of the ore and equip the rest of their Space Knights with the substance. Soon afterwards, Rom—now a full-fledged Space Knight—left Elonia shortly afterwards, leaving behind a beacon in memory of his family. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 3|Rom profile}} {{storylink|Cold Fire}}

[[File:RomVsTF02-RomAndStardrive.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"I just want you to know that even though you tried to terminate me, revenge is not an idea we promote on my planet."]]
Over the next fifty years, Rom took part in a variety of battles against the Dire Wraiths, and participated in the massive battle that saw the Wraith's [[Dire Wraith homeworld|current homeworld]], within the [[Dark Nebula]], destroyed. The Space Knights spent the next few years pursuing remnant Dire Wraith forces across backwater planets within Solstar territory.

In the mid-1800s,<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.cbr.com/exclusive-transformers-rom-crossover-new-character-hasbro/|name=Christos Gage|quote=From a timeline perspective, where does [Shining Armor] fit in in the continuity?" "Fairly early in the existence of the Solstar Knights. Not quite 200 years ago, but around 175, 180 years in the past.|year=2017|month=03|day=31|site=CBR|title=EXCL: IDW Introduces Hasbro's First Transformers/Rom Hybrid Character}}</ref> shortly after the destruction of the Dire Wraith homeworld, Rom was patrolling the [[Gray Area]] when he witnessed a [[Galactic Council]] warship shoot down a fleeing vessel. Placing himself between the wreckage and the aggressor, Rom demanded that the Council explain themselves, only for them to warp away the instant he was distracted. Rom investigated the Transformer ship—unbeknownst to him, of [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] origin—and discovered that it had carried a cargo of [[protoform]]s, most of which had died in the crash. A single protoform had survived, however; compelled to help the orphaned Transformer, Rom brought it to nearby Elonia, where Solstar scientists built an [[energon synthesizer]] and helped nurture the protoform into a female Transformer who called herself [[Stardrive]]. During her early life, Rom and several other Space Knights would come to her rescue on the planet [[Mato Grosso (planet)|Mato Grosso]], driving off the Wraith leader [[Vekktral]] and saving Stardrive's life for a second time. The young 'bot would soon come to see Rom as her hero and joined the Space Knights to emulate him.

[[File:ShiningArmor01-RomAndLivia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"This isn't flying, this is falling with style!"]]
Five years later, Rom and Livia brought new recruits [[Auxin]] and [[Sata]] to [[Mining Colony 25-6-41]] as part of their training. Rooting out the Wraith infestation, Rom and Livia engaged several Wraiths in battle and encountered Stardrive, who had been staking out the colony for a week. Though Livia suggested that the colony would have to be destroyed, Rom agreed with Stardrive's assessment and spared the planetoid, noting that there was insufficient Dire Wraith activity to justify its sterilization.

With Stardrive in tow, Rom flew the group aboard the ''[[Solstar V]]'' to their next mission: a security function at a diplomatic meeting between the Order and Galactic Council, to discuss the threat of Dire Wraiths fleeing into territory beyond Solstar space. Livia and Rom repeatedly argued about Stardrive's compassion; on arriving at the ''[[Orchid Crossing]]'' over [[Xetaxxis]], Rom and Livia explained to Stardrive that they had brought her along to show Council representatives that the Solstar Order could keep Cybertronians "in their place." Rom tried to console a hurt Stardrive by telling her that she was capable of more than the rest of her species.

Negotiations got off to a poor start when the Council representative revealed himself as Vekktral, co-leader of a [[Decepticon]]/Dire Wraith alliance that had been formed to steal Stardrive's energon synthesizer. Rom moved to protect Stardrive as [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] tried to recruit her, only to receive a shot to the chest. By the time Rom had recovered, Starscream had found Stardrive's synthesizer... only for the Autobots [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] to burst through the wall, ignoring Rom's weak protests. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}}

[[File:RomVsTF02-RomShootsUltraMagnus.jpg|thumb|"But we're not '''on''' my planet. Are '''we'''?"]]
Unwilling to let the fragile peace between the two galactic powers crumble under a Cybertronian assault, Rom fired on Ultra Magnus, but soon deduced that the [[Autobot]]s and Space Knights might yet be on the same side—only for Magnus to shoot him (and Stardrive and Starscream) through a wall for being annoying and talking too much. Back in the chaos of battle, a horrified Rom watched as a Dire Wraith merged with [[Sky Blast (G1)|Sky Blast]], engaging the resulting monster to buy time for the crew to evacuate. As the damaged station plummeted into Xetaxxis' atmosphere, Rom shouted for Stardrive to leave with them... only for the Cybertronian Space Knight to choose to help the Autobots escape instead.

As they descended towards Xetaxxis, Rom and Livia argued about whether Stardrive had fully defected or not; arriving over the Autobot impact site, Rom shot Magnus in the chest and offered Bumblebee the chance to surrender. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 2|Shining Armor #2}}

Magnus quickly recovered from what Rom had assumed would be a killing blow; gearing up for another fight, Rom and Livia engaged Magnus, only for the blue Autobot to withstand every attack. Confused by Magnus' attempts to protect Stardrive, the cadet stepped up to stop the fighting, accusing her superiors of lying to her about her heritage. Learning from Ultra Magnus that, unlike the worlds of the Solstar Order, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] had never permanently unified—and that different Cybertronian factions could stand for different principles —the Autobots and Space Knights agreed to a temporary alliance, with he, Livia, and Stardrive heading off to search for the Energon synthesizer in the ruins.

Arriving after another terse argument between himself and Livia, the group discovered the [[Xetaxxan|natives]] salvaging the wreckage of the ship. Despite Livia's disgust, Rom was content with letting the aliens scavenge for what they could and allowed Stardrive to evacuate them before Starscream landed ''on Rom''. Quickly recovering, Rom socked Starscream in the jaw and vowed that he would protect Xetaxxis from both Wraiths and Decepticons. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 3|Shining Armor #3}}

[[File:ShiningArmor04-RomNeutralizer.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Unhand me, Zurg scum! The Galactic Courts will show you no mercy."]]
Rom and Livia battled [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], managing to temporarily take them out and force Starscream into a retreat. Rom prepared to pursue the Decepticons when Livia suggested an alternate course of action: destroying the energon synthesizer to sterilize the planet, eliminating the Wraith infestation and putting the machine beyond Starscream's reach. Attempting to mediate between Livia and Stardrive, Rom's careless words caused Stardrive take the synthesizer and threaten to cut ties with the Space Knights, lashing out at Livia before Bumblebee and Sata arrived.

Rom and Bumblebee managed to convince Stardrive to stand down, and, together, the alliance agreed that their next course of action would not involve taking innocent lives. Before they could move, however, they were attacked by Vekktral, who had managed to possess Ultra Magnus's body and regrouped his hordes. In the ensuing battle, Rom and the others were quickly overpowered and surrounded... before Vekktral turned on his former allies and began infecting Starscream's forces. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}}

Another battle broke out as the Decepticons joined forces with the Autobots and Space Knights to defend themselves; though Stardrive attempted to stop Starscream from getting away, Starscream was able to cut his losses and run, blasting the energon synthesizer so that the volatile detonation would take out the ground-bound Autobots. In the meantime, Ultra Magnus was briefly able to reassert his own consciousness and wrest control of his body back from Vekktral, opening his outer armor so that Rom - despite his misgivings - could deliver a fatal blow. Confused by the presence of [[Convoy (G1)|a smaller robot]] inside Magnus's body, Bumblebee briefly explained the nature of the [[Magnus Armor]] as the Space Knights airlifted Bumblebee and the Magnus Armor away from the destruction of Xetaxxis as the energon synthesizer detonated. Disgusted by everything that had transpired, Stardrive shed her armor, renounced her ties to the Space Knights, and flew away, while Bumblebee used the Magnus Armor's recall switch to return to the Autobot fleet.

Some time later, Rom and [[Orphion]] participated in another meeting with the Galactic Council, where they were informed that the Council would not join their war against the Dire Wraiths. Rom turned his attention to Livia and Sata, and sadly watched as they imparted their ruthless ideals on a new group of Space Knight recruits. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}

[[File:Revolution 1 Wraith Colton dies.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Please be careful! You don't want to be in the way when my laser goes off."]]
Circa [[2016]], Rom came to [[Earth]] to eradicate the Dire Wraiths that had hidden themselves among its populace. Landing in northern [[California]], his elimination of several Wraiths—which, to outsiders, looked like indiscriminate murder—caught the attention of the [[Earth Defense Command]] and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. {{storylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} Learning that [[Ore-13|an alien ore]] on Earth had the power to amplify the [[magic]] of the Wraiths and render them invisible to his [[Energy Analyzer]]s, Rom also discovered that G.I. Joe had been recently compromised by Wraiths. {{storylink|Field Test}}

Seeking to eliminate the Wraith imposters, Rom intervened in a battle between the Joes and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s Cybertronian peacekeepers in [[Portland]], and slew the Wraiths who had been masquerading as [[Red Zone]], [[Hi-Tech]], [[Wreckage (G.I. Joe)|Wreckage]], and team leader General [[Joe Colton (Dire Wraith)|Joe Colton]]. Believing he had just killed their human teammates, the other Joes opened fire on him, but Rom refused to counterattack and simply flew off.

[[File:TheDivineSourceOfLiberty-romvsoptimus.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Don't talk to me about importance! Because of ''you'', the future of this entire universe is in jeopardy!"]]
Unfortunately, Rom's mechanical armor had led the Joes to believe he was a Cybertronian, which forced Optimus Prime and his team to give chase so that they could clear their names. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}} Prime and his teammates pursued Rom to the [[Umpqua National Forest]], where Prime attempted to interrogate the Space Knight. Rom was initially able to outmaneuver Prime, but—outnumbered by the Cybertronians—was soon defeated and "urged" to explain himself. {{storylink|The Divine Source of Liberty}}

Escorted by the Autobots, Rom was brought to [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], where he briefly witnessed the aftermath of [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s return from the realm of [[Microspace]]. {{storylink|Informed}} Rom gave the Autobots information on the Wraiths' pursuit of [[Ore-13]], before realizing that his armor—unbeknownst to him, Cybertronian in nature—"resonated" at a similar frequency to [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]'s own [[Space bridge|Space Bridge]].

Realizing that he could use this connection to put Ore-13 beyond the reach of the Dire Wraiths, Rom activated the bridge to teleport chunks of Ore-13 into Microspace, inadvertently causing destruction on the other side. When Windblade and Optimus made him realize that he was allowing his desire to defeat the Wraiths to blind his reason and logic, Rom stood down and was placed in [[stasis cuffs]] by Soundwave who sympathized with what he did. {{storylink|O Ship of State}}

When the ''[[Heliopolis]]'' and [[Snake-Eyes|Snake Eyes]] were discovered within the city, Rom and Windblade deduced the crew of the former were inhabitants of Microspace; despite being unable to understand one another's language, Rom offered a heartfelt apology for endangering their universe, which endeared the Micronauts to him; his Analyzers soon detected a massive army of Wraiths bearing down on Autobot City, backed up by [[M.A.S.K.]] forces.

[[File:ValleyForge-TheTeamup.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Don't worry, Soundwave. In just a few hours, you'll be sitting around a campfire with Matt making delicious hot Schmoes."]]
Rom joined Optimus's new alliance to mount a defense of Autobot City, defending the space bridge and Ore-13 while engaging the [[Caleb Awan|lead Wraith]] in combat. The Ultra-Energon-empowered Wraiths outnumbered the heroes, and things only got worse when the villainous [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the spacebridge, enerchanging with the Wraiths and M.A.S.K. tech to become a fusion of Cybertronian, Wraith, and Microspace power. {{storylink|The New Colossus}}

As their teamup broke down into confusion, Rom found himself mistakenly battling Snake Eyes until Optimus intervened, grabbing the pair and [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] so that the Autobot leader could explain that Karza had masterminded the entire crisis from the beginning. Karza was now too powerful to fight one-on-one, however; instead, Rom joined Soundwave, the Micronauts, [[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]] and [[Matt Trakker|Trakker]] to concoct an alternate strategy, using Rom's armor as a buffer between the energies of the nearby spacebridge and the Micronauts' [[enerchange]] abilities, while Trakker used his mask to beam a counter-frequency to the bridge, sending Karza back to Microspace and destroying the space bridge to ensure that he wouldn't return. Rom rescued Matt from the ensuing explosion, and once on solid ground, apologized to [[Scarlett]] for all the trouble he'd caused before flying off. {{storylink|Valley Forge}}

[[File:CrisisIntervention-RomMeetsGIJoe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Keep your accessories with you at all times. Spare parts, batteries, anything you need for an orderly transition."]]
Several months later, a surge of Wraith energy in Europe led Rom to [[Verenya]], where he discovered that the city had been overrun by hostile Wraith-like beings. Rom quickly deduced that they were not "true" Wraiths, but innocent civilians who had been mutated with Wraith genetics; when he encountered a G.I. Joe detachment led by [[Ayana Jones|Mayday]], he joined forces with them and requested that they refrain from using lethal force against the creatures, instead using low-level [[Neutralizer]] blasts to stun them into submission.

Venturing into an abandoned bunker, the group discovered that an alien [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] had been responsible for the mutation, which in turn had been caused by a battle between [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]] and [[Ian Noble|Action Man]]. Rom intervened in their fight, allowing Mayday to talk down the combatants; when the [[Oktober Guard]] attacked, Rom was took part in the struggle, and used his Neutralizer to create a forcefield to shield Action Man and Mayday from the Talisman's mutagenic blast. Rom tried to use his [[Energy Analyzer]] to glean the Talisman's origins, but was interrupted when their captive [[Major Bludd]] teleported away with Action Man. When the group was still without an answer hours later, Rom had to take his leave to fight off the true Wraiths. {{storylink|Crisis Intervention}}

[[File:UnstoppedAndUnstoppable-RomAndJazz.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"This is an intergalactic emergency. I need to commandeer your vessel to Sector 12. Who's in charge here?"]]
Rom returned to battling the Wraiths on Earth, and briefly embarked on a series of adventures with the Micronauts in [[Microspace]], {{storylink|Rom & the Micronauts}} and when Rom next found himself involved in Cybertronian affairs once more, it was while tracking a group of [[human]]s contaminated with Wraith biomatter. As it transpired, those same humans were also involved in trafficking black-market Cybertronian technology, which had attracted the attention of [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]]. Though the two were able to subdue the criminals, Rom suddenly felt a surge of pain, alerting him to danger on his homeworld: Elonia was under attack by [[Unicron/Generation 1|an object of immense power]]. Realizing that he needed to return to his home planet as soon as possible, Jazz ferried Rom to meet with the [[President of the United States]], and allowed himself to be arrested so that Rom could use [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s space bridge to reach the Transformer homeworld. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}}

From there, Rom joined forces with Optimus Prime and his Cybertronian alliance aboard the ''[[Ark-Zero]];'' having already lost multiple Transformer colonies to Unicron, the Cybertronians set course for Elonia as fast as they could, but found that they'd arrived too late: [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] had already begun his attack on the peaceful planet. Rom met up with [[Livia]] as they began a reconnaissance flight across the planet-eater's surface, discovering the remains of [[Velocitron]], but were unable to prevent Unicron from annihilating several of their Space Knight comrades, with the blast sending the pair hurtling into the planet's surface. The impact inadvertently unearthed the lost [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Emissary (IDW)|Emissary]]; as Rom realized that his homeworld was a Transformer colony, this discovery confirmed Optimus's suspicions that Unicron was deliberately targeting each of Cybertron's thirteen colonies. In order for [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] to safely evacuate the [[Elonian]]s, [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] was forced to destroy Emissary's comatose [[brain module]], and Rom rejoined the Transformers aboard the ''Ark-Zero'' as Unicron devoured the remains of Elonia. {{storylink|Our Darkest}}

[[File:UnstoppedAndUnstoppable-sadrom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and, suddenly, you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with Marie Antoinette... and her little sister."]]
In the aftermath, Rom was left dejected, despite Optimus's affirmation that the survivors of Elonia needed the Space Knights more than ever. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}} In their temporary lodgings on Cybertron, Rom was eventually able to come to grips with the loss of his homeworld, and successfully rallied his equally depressed comrades to redouble their efforts to stop Unicron, and all evil in the galaxy. {{storylink|Ad Infinitum}} Determined not to let Unicron win, Rom joined the Autobot fleet as Prime's armada headed to [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]; despite his and Soundwave's best efforts to repel the [[Maximal]] hordes that threatened to overrun the planet, they were forced to withdraw, allowing Unicron to devour Caminus. {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}} Back on Cybertron, Rom watched apprehensively as [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] announced his plan to rally Decepticons across the galaxy to strike back at Unicron. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}

WIth Unicron now on Cybertron's doorstep, Rom joined [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s brain chamber, arguing in favor of transforming Metroplex to take on the Titan. This was interrupted when Bumblebee arrived, bringing news of a vision—courtesy of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]—that explained Unicron's origins, and those of the Dire Wraiths, though Rom was skeptical of the veracity of Bumblebee's theory. {{storylink|Our Finest}} Though Cybertron was ultimately destroyed by Unicron, the intervention of the [[Spectral Knight]]s and the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] allowed the inhabitants of Cybertron to safely evacuate to Earth, rematerializing in [[Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park|Mosi-oa-Tunya]]. {{storylink|Road's End}} As the Cybertronian refugees regrouped, Rom and Livia hovered above the crowd. {{storylink|A Sunrise Dark}}

[[File:Ceremony-RomAndLivia.jpg|thumb|"He once risked his life to save me. I couldn't call myself his friend if I weren't willing to do the same."]]
Unfortunately, Unicron was not content to end his crusade with destroying Cybertron; intent on finishing his mission of extinction, the planet-eater set course for Earth as the heroes and villains of Earth prepared a counterattack aboard Trypticon—including Dire Wraiths, the presence of their ancient nemeses forcing Rom to remind Livia of the ''true'' threat at hand. To allow Arcee and Optimus the chance to slip through Unicron's defenses, the two Space Knights joined the other Transformers in Earth's orbit and met Unicron and the Maximal horde head-on. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}}

Rom and Livia both took part in the cataclysmic battle for Earth, and when Unicron was defeated—at the cost of Prime's life—the two Space Knights returned to Earth along with [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. Their jubilation was tempered somewhat when they learned that one of the Elonian children had lost her parents in the attack, prompting Livia to wonder aloud if the title of "Space Knight" should take on a new meaning as they started anew. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Some time later, Rom was one of the many mourners who attended Optimus Prime's funeral in [[Little Cybertron]], with the orphaned child eventually settling into a happy new life on Earth. {{storylink|Post}}

===''Aw Yeah Revolution!''===
While flying through space, Rom the Space Knight detected a group of Dire Wraiths hiding on an asteroid. As the Dire Wraiths emerged to attack Rom, he asked them to calm down and simply talk things out. However, the Dire Wraiths refused, forcing Rom to activate his personal force field. Baron Karza then teleported inside Rom's force field, capturing the Space Knight in green energy and teleporting him away. Rom awoke to discover himself trapped inside a green force bubble, alongside two other heroes captured by Karza: [[Snake-Eyes]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Karza revealed to his captors his plan to use the [[Orbsah Gem]] to steal their abilities, in Rom's case, his tracking abilities, and rule the universe! {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}}

After Karza had absorbed his prisoners' powers, the Micronauts broke into his base and freed his captives. Their sheer mass however destabilized [[Microspace]] prompting Karza to flee to the Hasbro Universe only for Optimus to seize him. Rom, Snake Eyes and [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] immediately followed the Prime through the portal only to learn that time in the Hasbro Universe moved at an accelerated rate compared to Microspace. For Optimus and Karza, hours had elapsed with Karza having seized control of [[Cobra]] and used their resources to capture Optimus. After the three had defeated [[Storm Shadow]], they prepared to search for Optimus...only for him to rise from a pit, now under Cobra's control. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}}

Though Rom was quick to attack, Optimus proved too powerful for the Knight who instead tried coaxing him out. When that failed, Rom wrapped Optimus in a forcefield and towed him into the upper atmosphere, out of range of Cobra's signal. The gambit payed off and while Optimus flew back to Autobot headquarters for reinforcements, Rom spotted the Dire Wraiths, having commandeered the earlier asteroid as a ship, on course for Earth. Rom failed to catch them in time however and the shapshifters assimilated several Cobra troopers. When [[Destro]] seized the Orbsah Gem however, Rom broke free of the Wraiths and appealed to Destro to surrender the Gem only for the arms dealer to use it to teleport Rom away. Rom materialized galaxies away from Earth but set out for the planet immediately vowing to protect any world from the Wraiths. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}

===When Worlds Collide===
Rom was one of the many heroes that joined [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the Autobots after [[Cobra Commander]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] stole the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|When Worlds Collide}}

==Toys==
===''Bot Shots''===
[[File:ToyFair2013-BSRomTheSpaceKnight.jpg|thumb|"Years of Academy training, wasted!"]]
*'''Rom the Space Knight''' (2013?)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''B007'''
***''Fist strength'': ''' '''
***''Blaster strength'': ''' '''
***''Sword strength'': ''' '''
:Presumably intended as part of a Series 2 single-pack assortment, ''[[Bot Shots (franchise)|Bot Shots]]'' Jump Shot Rom the Space Knight is a [[redeco]] of [[Cindersaur (G1)#Bot Shots|Cindersaur]] (which was itself originally based on ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' [[Skystalker (Prime)|Skystalker]]). He transforms into a beaky-looking reptile thing on wheels. An impact to the front of his [[beast mode]] causes him to spring up and [[Autotransformation|autotransform]] into a robot armed with a pistol. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels.

:This silver and red redeco of the ''Bot Shots'' mold based on ''Prime'' Skystalker was first shown at [[Toy Fair 2013]] amongst [[:File:ToyFair2013-BSGroup.jpg|a pile of other ''Bot Shots'' toys]], but due to a lack of name placards at the event, the identities of those toys were unknown at the time. Even after the names of other ''Bot Shots'' toys shown at Toy Fair were revealed, the silver Skystalker remained unidentified until a massive product listing leak from the Hasbro Customer Service website landed in the public's lap in late October/early November 2013. Among those Customer Service listings was "TRA BOT SHOTS ROM THE SPACE KNIGHT A2587", and Rom's classic silver color scheme clearly marked him as the Skystalker redeco. It's not known what faction ''Bot Shots'' Rom would have been released under, but it can at least be assumed that his ID number is "B007", as there was no Series 2 figure with that number.

:This mold was also used to make [[Skystalker (Prime)#Bot Shots|Skystalker]] and the similarly-canceled [[Buzzclaw (BS)#Bot Shots|Buzzclaw]].

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===''Revolution''===
[[File:SDCC 2017 Rom Stock.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|"I've set my Neutralizer from stun... to kill."]]
*'''Revolution Set''' (SDCC Gift Set, [[2017]])
**''Accessories'': Neutralizer, G.I. Joe display stand
:Released as part of a San Diego Comic-Con 2017 exclusive set, Rom the Space Knight is an action figure based on the character's original [[Marvel Comics]] appearance, made up of redecoed parts from various [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] action figures with a new head, torso and weapon. He was packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Revolution|Jetfire]], [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], ''[[Visionaries]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[Leoric]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', a [[Dire Wraith]], and 9 ''[[Micronauts (franchise)|Micronauts]]'' mini-figurines.
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==Notes==
[[File:Rom and his Camien chums.jpg|thumb|"Spare me your lies, temptress! Your emperor's defeated, and I'm immune to your bewitching good looks!"]]
*Rom was originally a toy released in 1979 by [[Parker Brothers]], who partnered with [[Marvel Comics]] to produce a comic book promoting the figure. The toy was a bit of a failure, and was quickly discontinued, but the comic was a big success; set within the "Marvel Universe" and featuring many crossovers with the company's superheroes (unlike the later ''Transformers''), it ran for six years and seventy-five regular monthly issues, significantly outliving the figure and ensuring that Rom was fondly-remembered by comic fans. Parker Brothers would go on to merge with [[Kenner]] in 1985, who were bought by [[Tonka]] in 1987, who were in turn bought by Hasbro in 1991, placing the character under Hasbro ownership—but aside from Rom himself and a few pieces of relevant terminology, that appears to be ''all'' Hasbro owns, as his villains, setting, and supporting cast were all created and owned by Marvel and have been periodically used by them ever since. In 2016, [[IDW Publishing]] launched a revived version of Rom, stripped of all Marvel elements, co-written by IDW Editor-In-Chief [[Chris Ryall]], as part of their ''[[Revolution]]'' event, crossing over several of IDW's Hasbro titles. To celebrate, all of IDW's Hasbro comics, including the ''Transformers'' titles, received variant covers featuring Rom.
*In [[Spain]], Rom's relation to ''Transformers'' went a bit further, as Comics Forum (the Spanish editorial that had the Marvel rights in the 80s) had Rom as the back-up feature of [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'']] comic book.
*In the U.K., Rom was released under the toyline of fellow ''[[Revolution]]'' star [[Action Man]].<ref>http://www.toysyouhad.com/Rom.htm</ref>
*As far as we know, he's not related to [[Quark]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://bugeyedmonster.com/rom-the-space-knight/ Rom at BugEyedMonster.com]
*{{i|Rom}} on the IDW Hasbro Wiki

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[[File:TFA Lugnut scanning.JPG|upright=1.95|thumb|Sure, the new packaging looks great, but the number of twisty-ties they use to hold it in that position is insane.]]
'''Scanning''', or '''trans-scanning''' when it's a biological process, is how [[Transformer]]s change their [[alternate mode]]s into things native to other planets such as vehicles or animals on [[Earth]].

Although the "original" or "Cybertronian" altmodes of the characters prior to scanning and reformatting are not always shown, they generally tend to be something roughly similar in size, form and function to their new mode (i.e. flyers tend to become planes, Cybertronian tanks become Earth tanks and small fast-moving land vehicles become sports cars or [[Cheetor (BW)|cheetahs]]), etc. This suggests that in most continuities the scanning process involves attempting to find the most similar compatible altmode available. Whether this makes the following reconstruction process easier or is merely a concession to the individual Cybertronian's personal preference is unknown.

They also have a funny tendency to be the same colors each time...<ref>''Animated'' is one of the first continuities to show multiple cases of characters scanning Earth altmodes with explicitly different (i.e. more "realistic") coloration or paintwork and yet having their reformatted bodies stick with their original deco schemes instead of conforming to the scanned example. Lugnut, Blitzwing, Starscream and Bulkhead all do this which is particularly odd in the last case since the [[Mudflap (slang)|mudflap]] rather seems to be using [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s deco which is based on a vintage U.S. Army Jeep. Mind you, the idea goes all the way back to "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" in which an orange tractor trailer was scanned for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and yet he retained his red and blue coloration.</ref>

{{bigquote|A Transformer can turn into anything they can scan just by copying the object's data into their format files. Every time a Transformer rescans, they change form, and sometimes I have trouble recognizing even my own men!|[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]|"[[Optimus Prime vs Megatron: The Ultimate Battle]]"}}

==Conceptual history==
[[Image:TFMprequel4pg03.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Starscream's body converts itself to Earth mode... or something?]]
Scanning, like many elements in the ''Transformers'' brand, has evolved over the decades. In particular, scanning has developed alongside the portrayal of [[transformation]], going from a wartime invention to a natural aspect of Cybertronian biology.

The original ''Transformers'' [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] and [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)]] showed scanning only briefly, performed by the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark's]]'' [[Sky Spy]], while the ''Ark'' itself performed manual reconstruction to provide the Autobots and Decepticons new Earth alternate modes. After the initial awakening on [[Earth]], Transformers were either built with their alternate modes, or were reconfigured in an off-screen process.

''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' would mainly follow in the steps of ''Generation 1'', depicting the Maximals and Predacons requiring their ship's [[DNA scanner]] to provide them with [[beast mode]]s, the Maximals entering the [[CR chamber]] to be reconfigured. The series also depicted [[stasis pod]]s as having scanners, allowing individuals to gain new beast modes and identities.

While a British [[:File:Cheetor-beastmodescan.jpg|advertisement]] would depict [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] scanning a cheetah using beams from his eyes, the first ''major'' appearance of scanners built into a Cybertronian would be in 1998's ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]''. In contrast to the ship scanners of the original ''Beast Wars'', Maximals are seen scanning their alternate mode themselves, while the Predacons use an [[Mother Computer|alien computer]] to provide the schematics, the strain of scanning rendering [[Galvatron (BW)|one Predacon]] briefly unconscious. In what was likely coincidence, 1999's ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' would explain that a [[Quantum Cycle Upgrade]] that occurred while the ''Beast Wars'' characters were on prehistoric Earth provided every Cybertronian a built-in scanner.
Following this, built-in scanners quickly became the standard method of Transformers acquiring new alternate modes.

During the first half of the 2000s, media such as the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Unicron Trilogy]] would consistently depict characters scanning new alternate modes using without any additional equipment, even capable of storing multiple vehicle schematics to share with other bots. Beams from the eyes in particular would continue to appear and become the primary visual cue for the process.

This would continue into the [[live-action film series]], which dubbed the process '''trans-scanning''', and described it as a core aspect of Cybertronian biology, a natural and seamless process that they instinctively performed after arriving on new planets in their [[transition form]]. The process would take only a few seconds, the Cybertronian's body generating the new exostructure immediately after scanning.<ref name="TFGuide">''[[Transformers: The Movie Guide]]'', by [[Simon Furman]]</ref> Unlike in previous series, it was depicted as a far more organic process, with behind the scenes information by [[Industrial Light & Magic|ILM]] elaborating that no character transforms the same way twice. [[Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Tie-in media]] would give Cybertronians the ability to assume impromptu alternate modes ''without'' scanning based on their memories, and [[Frenzy (Movie)|some]] characters were described as having "hyper-reactive scanners" that allowed them to assume new alternate modes even faster than average Transformers. Almost every film in the series would depict a scanning sequence ([[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] has two across four films), making it a memorable and consistent part of the film's portrayal of Cybertronians.

One outlier during this time was ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', which would split the difference in depictions by showing the Autobots using their [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|ship]] and its scanner à la the ''G1'' cartoon and ''Beast Wars'', while the Decepticons used the built-in scanners that had become more commonplace in fiction.

The [[Aligned continuity family]] would follow with built-in scanners, continuing to treat it as a natural part of Cybertronian biology and something any bot could do at any time. With the general effort behind the Aligned continuity being to standardize ''Transformers'' lore, this depiction would be solidified as ''the'' method for scanning in all ''Transformers'' media since. The depiction of scanning as a natural aspect of Cybertronian biology has bled back into ''Generation 1'' media, such as the [[2005 IDW continuity|first IDW series]], and tie-ins with other properties.

Originally just a minor aspect of the Transformers arrival on Earth, scanning has evolved into an iconic core aspect of the ''Transformers'' mythos.

==Fiction==
===''Generation One''===
''None of the various 1980s versions of the ''Generation One'' continuity show the original G1-era Cybertronians as capable of either scanning for new altmodes or reformatting themselves without the use of external technology and a drawn-out nuts n' bolts process of physical reconstruction. This technology appears to be standard-issue in ships and various facilities.''
====Marvel Comics continuity====
[[File:Toaster ark.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Built to Rule!]]
Four million years ago shortly after the crash of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', the Ark's computer detected [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] landing on the planet in [[Savage Land|the Antarctic land-out-of-time]]. The Ark used the last of its capabilities to revive [[Dinobot (G1)|five warriors]] and rebuild them to transform into the Savage Land's dominant lifeforms: [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|dinosaurs]]. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Subsequently, in 1984 the eruption of the volcano reboots the Ark which sends a [[drone]] to scan the area for local life forms which it takes to be terrestrial vehicles. Damaged, the Ark does not distinguish between factions and repairs and rebuilds both [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s alike with new altmodes. The 'Cons leave soon after. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

Later stories would refer to new arrivals to Earth having to take on new "Terran" altmodes, but the process was generally glossed over.

====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[File:MTMtE Part1 Prime repair.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"Wake up, Prime! Don't make me use this to wake you up."]]
The Transformers aboard the ''Ark'' were damaged and went into [[stasis lock]] after the Ark crashed into [[Mount St. Hilary]]. Four million years passed, and then in 1984, volcanic activity stirred the half-buried Ark, awakening [[Teletraan I]], the computer system aboard. Teletraan I sent out a [[Sky Spy]] satellite to reconnoiter the new world and scanned terrestrial machinery in order to repair the Transformers and reformat them into new altmodes. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

====Dreamwave G1 continuity====
Being set quite some time after the initial awakening of the Transformers on modern-day Earth, the scanning and rebuilding process was never really detailed in this continuity, but can be assumed to have been along the lines of the fairly similar classic cartoon and Marvel comic scenarios.

Subsequent arrivals under [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s banner of a unified [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] have been reformatted into Earth modes prior to their arrival to the planet. Again, the process is not shown. {{storylink|War and Peace}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
Much like the Dreamwave counterpart, the IDWverse shows the Autobots and Decepticons already on Earth albeit with higher emphases on disguise. The process of reformatting is not shown. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration}}

[[File:TimeWillRust JazzArrivesOnEarth.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|left|]]
Again, subsequent arrivals to Earth such as Optimus Prime, Megatron and Hot Rod make mention of having been modified to have new Earth-based altmodes but the process is similarly not depicted directly. {{storylink|The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation}} [[Skar (IDW)|Skar]] is said to be a pioneer of the "dynamic alt-mode adaptation" theory, which allowed him to scan the [[cyber-morphic predator]]s that dwelt in caves beneath Cybertron and reformat his [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobot]] comrades into new forms based on these creatures in the field. Again, however, the actual process was not depicted on-panel. {{storylink|Underworld (IDW)|Underworld}}

The first on-panel scanning was for the Dynobots and required the use of a CR chamber. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}} When [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]] first arrived on Earth however, he scanned a nearby Porsche by projecting a beam from his optics. {{storylink|Time Will Rust}}

In the jump-forward storyline ''All Hail Megatron'', many of the Autobots and Decepticons have inexplicably been reformatted again, but merely into similar-but-different Earth altmodes. It is no surprise that in all cases these resemble their most recent real-world toy releases, particularly under the [[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|''Universe'' line]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron}} Following the rebirth of Cybertron and the end of the war, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] worked to reformat their respective comrades into new Cybertronian vehicle modes. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson}}

====''Hearts of Steel''====
It's not fully clear how exactly Cybertronians scan their alternate modes. Bumblebee can, for instance, instantly reformat from his prehistoric [[beast mode]] into a nonexistent steamhammer locomotive. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}} On the other hand, Starscream and the other Decepticons need plans drawn up by [[Tobias Muldoon]] to reformat into flying alternate modes. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}

Whether or not [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] is a living Transformer raises even more questions; he's one of several Decepticons to be made or refitted to function as a train. Some Decepticons are also manually refitted to make rail cars for Astrotrain. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}}

====''Universe'' (2008) promotional video====
Optimus Prime emits the scanning beam from his [[Sensor#Optical sensors|optic]] sensor to scan a truck. {{storylink|Action Blast 1|Action Blast 1 Part 1}}

====''Transformers vs. The Terminator''====
When the ''Ark'' rebooted, a [[Sky Spy]] probe scanned a commandeered truck that happened to be nearby before the [[T-800]] shot it down, {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part One}} later justifying this act to [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] as the probe having also scanned him. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}

====''Transformers/Back to the Future''====
After finding himself unable to tolerate Megatron's brutality any longer, Gigawatt trans-scanned the impounded [[DeLorean time machine]], hoping to use its replicated power to alter history and undo his master's reign of terror. {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 2|Transformers/Back to the Future #2}}

===Beast Era===
[[Protoform]] Transformers are able to get new alternate modes by using the [[DNA]] scanned from the lifeforms of the nearby environments.
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
When in operation, the "scan beam" emitted from the [[DNA scanner]]s built into Cybertronian ships can analyze DNA data scanned from lifeforms immediately. If the device scans a corpse or fossil, it is able to reconstruct the lifeform's appearance during its lifetime. Examples of this include the alternate modes of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]].

Once the scanned DNA data is retrieved, it is sent to CR chambers or CR tanks. The Transformers have to enter the CR chambers or tanks to get their new altmode.

There is also a DNA scanner mounted on each [[stasis pod]] in order to get the DNA data from the lifeforms of the planet on which the stasis pod lands. The stasis pod itself then reformats the occupant—or perhaps just "formats", since protoforms are generally considered to be newborns.

====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====
''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' featured the first instance of built-in DNA scanners and self-reformatting technology allowing the Transformers to adopt alternate modes on the spot without the need for external machinery. Only [[Tasmania Kid]] is seen using it, {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!}} while the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] obtained vehicle modes by accessing an ancient computer and scanning the recorded data within it. {{storylink|White Lion, Run!}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
After falling into a hole, Nightscream became unconscious. During that time, a DNA scanner inside his body was activated and scanned the fossils of a big bat once native to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], giving him a bat alternate mode. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} He explains to [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] that all Cybertronians now have built-in scanners by this slightly later point in history, having been equipped with them in the planet-wide [[Quantum Cycle Upgrade]] that evidently occurred after the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' crews departed Cybertron for the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}}

According to [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]], she and her crew scanned the DNA from the plant on the planet on which she landed. {{storylink|Home Soil}}

===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]] was able to scan [[Auggie Cahnay (RID)|Auggie Cahnay]]'s racing car and reformat after arriving on Earth using a built-in scanner. The scan also seemed to pick up parts of Auggie Cahnay's personality causing him to experience the urge to enter races. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}} Stasis pods with in-built scanners also appeared in the series enabling the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] to select alternate modes which the contained protoforms would take. In the case of [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] the scan beam took in a fuel tanker, [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Kelly (RID)|Kelly]] causing Scourge's [[robot mode]] to bear a resemblance to Optimus and adding a human tinge to his bio-signature. {{storylink|The Decepticons}}
===Unicron Trilogy===
Upon arriving on Earth, both Autobots and Decepticons display the ability to scan and [[Reformatting|reformat]] for new alt modes without requiring the aid of any external reconfiguration technology. {{storylink|Metamorphosis (Armada)|Metamorphosis}} When the [[Unicron Singularity]] was threatening the universe, Transformers even displayed the ability to scan multiple alternate modes in addition to the one they chose for themselves, storing the data on other vehicles and passing it on to other Transformers to scan. Scanning didn't even require the presence of the actual vehicle—a mere photograph or illustration of the vehicle would do. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}
===Live-action film series===
====2007 ''Transformers'' film====
[[Image:DOTMGarbageLonghaul.jpg|right|350px|thumb|I'd better find something to wear, pronto!]]
Autobots and Decepticons from the live-action films have the most fluid abilities to date regarding scanning and reformatting their bodies at will without any apparent need for external assistance whatsoever. Although there is some ambiguity, it even appears that the transformational abilities of Movie Cybertronians are so fluid that they can re-scan and reformat as often as they wish and not even use the same "[[Transformation|transformation scheme]]" twice, possibly suggesting that they can generate new parts such as additional weapons at will independent of a full reformatting cycle.
How permanent a trans-scanned alternate form becomes, as well as how easily a Transformer can scan and adopt a new one, are somewhat open to debate. There is much evidence to suggest they are quickly able to adopt new forms at will. Certainly [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] was able to alter the features of his Camaro mode from an older to newer model with ease, but this is not the same as taking an entirely new form.
According to one source, any Transformer can trans-scan a new, appropriately massed alternate form at will, and their inner [[protoform]] core will generate a new exostructure or alter an existing one to that new appearance almost instantaneously.<ref name="TFGuide" />
However, other sources seem to disagree. The main evidence against this ease in switching forms being universal is the fact that it is treated as a "special power" for several Transformers. The [[Create-A-Bot (Autobot)|Autobot]] and [[Create-A-Bot (Decepticon)|Decepticon]] Create-A-Bots, for instance, were able to switch between alt modes as diverse as trucks and helicopters on the fly, but this was apparently the result of some form of enhancement (installed by [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]], in the case of the Autobot), though this seemed more like being able to remember multiple alt-modes ''at once'', rather than the usual one. Moreover, the Decepticon spy [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] possesses a similar ability, being equipped with a special "hyper-reactive" trans-scanning and reformatting processor, which allows him to scan and transform into anything at any given moment. [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] possess a similar aptitude for changing disguises, though whether this is the result of some upgrade or just part of their hyperactive personality is debatable.

[[Image:Movie Trans-Scan.JPG|left|250px|thumb|We build excitement! Pontiac!]]

The fact that these few are singled out as having the ability to re-trans-scan at will would seem to suggest that once your average Transformer has selected an alternate mode, they can't take on an ''entirely'' new one under their own power. However, this is again contradicted in the prequel novel, ''Ghosts of Yesterday'': Bumblebee transforms to a previously scanned mode on an empty alien world to escape an attack by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and he does so "hastily", indicating that his change from protoform was extremely swift. [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Prime]] himself transforms to cometary form on board the transport ship before launching down to aid his subordinate; again, this is indicated to be swift and not requiring a lot effort. Neither of these Transformers are noted with the above-named "special ability". Also, [[Laserbeak (DOTM)|Laserbeak]] is shown taking several different altmodes, from a computer to a photocopier machine to a pink, door-kibble-less human-sized Bumblebee to a plasma television set (but never the vehicle his toy turns into), but since he is a case of reengineered Cybertronian wildlife rather than a true Transformer, it isn't clear if this applies to all Transformers.

It gets contradicted ''again'' in [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Titan's Transformers title]] ([[Transformers Comic issue 11|#11]] and [[Transformers Comic issue 12|#12]]). In one instance, [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] trans-scan ''[[Payload (Movie)|Payload]]'', using his alternate mode as a disguise. Here, however, they sacrifice their weaponry in the process and have to absorb nearby iron ore to rebuild them.

To further muddy the matter, ''Age of Extinction'' demonstrates that Cybertronians can at least partially control the nature of a scanned altmode; Optimus Prime scans a white truck but alters his corresponding paint scheme so that his new truck shape possesses the blue-and-red flames of his previous forms.

Ultimately, no precise conclusions can be made, but traditionally, the Transformers mythos has long been peppered with such contradictions as this.

Movieverse scanning can even replicate the appearance of rust and scratched and faded custom paintwork when imitating [[Bumblebee (Movie)|an]] [[Megatron (Movie)|old]] [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|beater]], apparently.

====''Bumblebee'' film====
Upon arriving on Earth, Autobot scout B-127 scanned an army jeep to escape the United States Armed Forces before a battle with [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]] left him damaged and he scanned a Volkswagen Beetle as he fell into [[stasis lock]]. After defeating [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]], he scanned a Camaro.

When Shatter and Dropkick arrived on Earth, they quickly scanned new muscle car modes. When they encountered a blockade set up by [[Sector Seven]], they scanned a {{w|Harrier Jump Jet|Harrier jet}} and a {{w|Bell AH-1 SuperCobra}} helicopter respectively, adding the new alt-modes to their [[Triple Changer]] repertoire. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

===''Animated''===
In the ''Animated'' universe, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his crew use a Sky Spy-type probe from their ship to scan new alt modes for them. They are then very quickly reformatted into their new forms by taking turns stepping inside a device similar to a CR chamber.

However, upon arriving on Earth, the Decepticons [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]], and, memorably, [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], are capable of scanning new altmodes directly from their own bodies and immediately reformatting themselves without any such chamber, although the actual reformatting is not shown onscreen. This may suggest that while ''Animated'' Decepticons appear to have the ability to scan and reformat themselves unaided, ''Animated'' Autobots apparently do not. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

When [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] rebuilds himself with the assistance of [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]'s [[AllSpark]]-[[AllSpark Key|powered key]], he is reconstituted with a newly reformatted helicopter-altmode body straight away rather than in his original body which had a Cybertronian jet-altmode. He had presumably scanned the design while his disembodied head still had access to [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Issac Sumdac]]'s computers.

In a similar vein, mere moments after upgrading himself, [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]] was capable of transforming into a brand-new vehicle mode without any scanning whatsoever. [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] could also transform into a vehicle mode without having done a single scan beforehand.

===''Shattered Glass''===
[[File:Desert Heat Scanning.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Hey, this isn't a light cycle!]]

After arriving Earth and finding [[Soundwave (SG)|Soundwave]] in [[stasis lock]], [[Heatwave (Timelines)|Heatwave]] reactivated the systems and the on-board scanner of Soundwave's stasis pod. It scanned a vehicle nearby for Soundwave and reactivated him. {{storylink|The Desert Heat!}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====Aligned novels====
Scanning new vehicle modes based on the current locale is not something that every Cybertronian enjoys; some pride themselves on retaining the same vehicle form that they have had since learning to assume it. During his stay on [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]] [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]] briefly contemplated scanning a new vehicle mode to better suit the treacherous terrain of the junk planet but ultimately decided against it. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}
===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[File:ProjectPredacon Optimus Prime scans truck.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|Perfect! No one will ever suspect such a big spiky truck of actually being an alien robot in disguise!]]
For some reason that has yet to be explained, many Cybertronians seem to lose the ability to assume a vehicle form after arriving on Earth. While they are perfectly functional in robot mode their inability to transform into an alternate mode puts them at a disadvantage regarding mobility, [[Megatron (WFC)|though there]] [[Airachnid (Prime)|are some]] [[Shockwave (WFC)|exceptions]]. However, Cybertronians are readily capable of scanning local vehicles for alternate modes. This appears as the Cybertronian in question shooting what appears to be green [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|or blue]] beams from their eyes. The beams scan the vehicle which even appears to cause some electrical interference as well providing the Cybertronian with a complete schematic of their chosen vehicle after which they can immediately transform into said vehicle.

Curiously, Cybertronians here seem to display kibble that hints to an Earth-based vehicle mode before they actually scan one.

[[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] has inadvertently provided [[Skyquake (Prime)|some]] [[Airachnid (Prime)|Decepticons]] [[Dreadwing (Prime)|their]] new vehicle modes with the vehicle he's currently riding in much to his irritation. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}} {{storylink|Loose Cannons}}

A Transformer's scanning ability is enabled by their [[transformation cog]] component. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}}

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] scanned a new alternate mode that would better integrate his new [[Jet pack|jetpack]]. The vehicle chosen by [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] was an experimental [[M.A.S.K.]]-division vehicle. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}
====''Rescue Bots'' cartoon====
[[File:Changes Heatwave meditates.jpg|thumb|right|"Om mani padme hum."]]
Upon arriving on Earth, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] provided the members of [[Rescue Force Sigma-17]] with a choice of vehicle modes based on the native machinery. After choosing their new alternate modes, the members of the force immediately assumed alternate form and began to integrate into human society. {{storylink|Family of Heroes}} After some time on Earth, Optimus Prime instructed [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] on how to gain [[Triple Changer|a third form]] which involved intense concentration and focusing a lot of energy, a process Optimus described as “an ordeal” in which few succeeded on their first try. It involved a form of prone meditation so deep that Heatwave was apparently unable to hear [[Kade Burns|an embarrassing conversation]] going on right next to him. When his energy focusing was complete his Rescue Bot insignia glowed blue similar to when using energize tools and he himself glowed briefly. It glowed blue again when he scanned a fireboat and he told [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] that he was still exhausted later that day or a day or two later. He also told him that Blades would not be allowed to attempt to scan a third form, since Heatwave did it only with Optimus' permission and help. {{storylink|Changes}} In accordance with [[tvtropes:Main/UniquenessDecay|uniqueness decay]] however, Optimus later scanned [[Trex]] to gain a Dinobot form without the same fanfare being given to the difficulty of scanning a third form, {{storylink|Land Before Prime (episode)|Land Before Prime}} and in order to test a cure for Optimus' rampaging dino mode on himself [[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] scanned a third form with only a few moments of focusing and no apparent fatigue. {{storylink|Big Game}} When [[Quint Quarry]] demanded more dinobots in addition to Boulder and Optimus, Heatwave gained a ''fourth'' form and [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] and Blades scanned third modes all with no apparent preparation or fatigue. The process did strain Blades' [[Transformation cog|T-cog]] to the point that it was several hours before he could use it again, though this strain was attributed partially to the bio-organic nature of the new forms they'd scanned. {{storylink|Quarry's Quarry}}
====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
After arriving on Earth, [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] scanned new vehicle modes at [[Denny Clay]]'s [[Vintage Salvage Depot for the Discriminating Nostalgist|scrapyard]]. Noticeably, [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] did not adopt compatible Earth forms possibly due to personal preferences or physical limitations. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 2)}}

Most, [[Underbite|but not all of]] the Decepticon fugitives aboard the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' also chose to scan new alternate modes while hiding out on Earth.

[[File:OverloadedPart2-optimusscanning.jpg|thumb|right|350px|The Decepticons really knew that they were in trouble after Optimus learned how to Warp Digivolve.]]
While training in the [[Realm of the Primes]] Optimus Prime learned how to control and fine-tune the scanning process so that he could merely adopt one characteristic of an appropriate vehicle. While searching for [[Polarclaw|a Decepticon]] in the [[Arctic]] members of the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] scanned suitable camouflage from a nearby truck {{storylink|Overloaded, Part 2}} and during the trip south they adopted desert camouflage by scanning an offroad jeep. {{storylink|Cover Me}}

The Bee Team repeated this when visiting the ruins of [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]], {{storylink|History Lessons}} while [[Steeljaw's Pack]] used the trick to pass off as hazardous waste disposal vehicles. {{storylink|Prisoner Principles}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
The [[Terran]]s created by the [[Emberstone]] lacked alternate modes, and each [[protoform]] must choose an alt-mode to scan. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 2}} Choosing their alternate modes became an important rite of passage among the group, with both [[Twitch]] and [[Nightshade (ES)|Nightshade]] attaching a lot of personal significance to their choices, with Twitch considering the [[Wheeljack (ES)|creator]] of her drone mode to be a second father. {{storylink|Traditions}} {{storylink|Missed Connection}} [[Jawbreaker (ES)|Jawbreaker]] in particular pushed back against pressure from [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] to choose an alternate mode until he found one that truly suited him, instead of scanning a random vehicle. {{storylink|Outtakes}} His later scanning of a ''Stygimoloch'' fossil took [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] and [[Grimlock (ES)|Grimlock]] by surprise as that wasn't how scanning typically worked. {{storylink|A Stygi Situation}} After [[G.H.O.S.T.]] was shut down, Hashtag considered changing her now-obsolete G.H.O.S.T. van mode. She eventually found an S.U.V. that met her criteria and scanned it. {{storylink|Control Alt Delete}}
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==Toys==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
[[Image:TransScanningOptimusPrime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The Optimus Prime of your nightmares.]]
*'''''Trans-Scanning''''' ([[2008]])
<ul class="iconlist">
:{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Trans-Scanning|Bumblebee]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Trans-Scanning|Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>

Japanese-only releases, these figures are spindly skeletons referred to as "[[Core body|core bodies]]". To these skeletons, two sets of armor pieces can be attached to create one of two forms for either character: their [[protoform]] mode or their Earth mode.
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===''Dark of the Moon''===
[[Image:DOTM_Deluxe_Scan_Ironhide_toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Toys"R"Us exclusive Scan Series Ironhide]]
*'''''The Scan Series''''' ([[2011]])
<ul class="iconlist">
:{{Bp-a1|[[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#Deluxe Class toys|Ironhide]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#ScanSeries|Sideswipe]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#ScanSeries|Bumblebee]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#ScanSeries|Autobot Ratchet]]}}
</ul>

[[Exclusive]] to [[Toys"R"Us]]' Mission Earth, these [[redeco]]es represent each character trans-scanning their vehicle mode. As such, nearly all of their vehicle mode parts (and thus, most of their robot modes) are cast in translucent clear plastic, with the rear of their vehicle modes being left unpainted, their middle portions having painted scan lines, and their fronts having a heavy amount of [[paint operation]]s in order to cover the clear plastic.
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==Notes==
[[File:Cheetor-beastmodescan.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The {{w|People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|PETA}} gonna SUE!!]]
*In an advertisement of PSX version of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]'' in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] grabs and scans a cheetah by the scan beam emitted from his optics.

===Behind the scenes===
One piece of metatextual evidence which could be argued to support the fluidity argument indirectly is the fact that in the actual film, no two transformations by the same character were ever remotely identical. Although the vehicle and robot mode models were obviously always consistent, ILM animators have admitted that the actual transformations from mode A to B (and vice-versa) were unique every time they were performed, with the thousands of transforming parts moving around in significantly different orders and via different internal and external routes around the body each time a transformation took place. This was largely due to the fact that the transformations were not automated, but had to be "manually" animated each time, with the main focus being what part of the Transformer in question was facing the virtual camera and what would look interesting and "believable", rather than maintaining the consistency of any transformation method.

Thus, unlike most past depictions of Transformers (or, for that matter, all Transformers toys) individual Movieverse Transformers actually have ''no'' fixed "[[transformation]] scheme". This could be argued to support the suggestion that Cybertronians from the Movieverse have such fluid transformational abilities that they do not require set patterns or methods by which to change form, but rather move their parts around in an almost instinctive manner, possibly as determined by factors such as their current speed, terrain, or intent of action at the moment of transformation. The ultimate extension of this logic is that some of their additional transformational abilities (such as Bumblebee's previously unseen shoulder-mounted missile launchers used against [[Brawl (Movie)|Devastator]]) may not even be "designed in" when they trans-scan and reformat, but might even be spontaneously generated as needed.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Scan''' (スキャン ''skyan'')

==See also==
*'''[[Electronic paint job]]'''
*'''[[Camouflage paint]]'''

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Beast Wars Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Detection technology]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Modification technology]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Transformer anatomy]]

Constructicon (Animated)

2025-07-29T20:26:53Z

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{{disambig3|Constructicon}}

:''The Constructicons are a [[Decepticon]] [[subgroup]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:TFAni Threes a Crowd Constructicons.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb| "We're the robot mafia. The ENTIRE robot mafia."]]
The '''Constructicons''' (briefly known as '''Constructobots''') are a trio of construction vehicles given life by [[AllSpark#Animated continuity family|AllSpark]] fragments. Though they wear the badge of the Decepticons, they are largely disinterested in the war with the [[Autobot]]s, and are out for their own selfish interests... mostly the acquisition of oil, though there's some argument between them as to just what they'll ''do'' with it.

The Constructicons are

* [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]] the forklift
* [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] the cement truck
* [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] the excavator
* [[Skipjack (Animated)|Skipjack]]

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{Idw-tfa}}
[[File:TFA Rise Constructicons online.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb]]
The first two "Constructobots", Mixmaster and Scrapper, came to life when two stray AllSpark shards were embedded in a cement mixer and an excavator at a human construction site. After some initial confusion about no longer being inanimate vehicles, the pair named themselves and quickly figured out how to [[Transformation|transform]]. After saving [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] from a construction accident, they befriended him and were invited to the [[Autobot]] headquarters. However, their behavior left much to be desired, and the two found themselves kicked out by [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] after nearly decapitating [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]].

Eventually, the pair stumbled upon [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] and [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] stealing construction supplies, and saved the former from being crushed by his own loot. Impressed by their strength, Blitzwing decided to let them do the heavy lifting, then take them offline once they reached the [[Decepticon]] base. However, once [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] found out about their existence, he had other plans: to let the Constructobots build his [[space bridge]] for him, something the two had no problem with.

While out stealing supplies for the bridge, Mixmaster and Scrapper met with Bulkhead again, and told him about their new job. Outraged, Bulkhead explained in detail the evil and deceitful nature of the Decepticons, and the Constructobots confronted Megatron about it. However, the Decepticon leader simply used that very deceitful nature, along with his "private blend" of oil, to convince the two that he was a good guy, fighting back against Autobot oppression. Not knowing who to believe, Mixmaster and Scrapper simply decided to join the ones with the better oil.

Taking on the title of "Constructicons", the pair went to steal the Autobots' AllSpark fragments for Megatron, but ended up being tricked by Bulkhead into drinking some contaminated oil. This scrambled their memory chips, and the Constructicons forgot all about Autobots, Decepticons and space bridges. {{storylink|Rise of the Constructicons}}

Going back to their usual pastime, the Constructicons started stealing and drinking oil around [[Detroit]] until the Autobots decided to put a stop to it. However, while they were out looking for the pair, Mixmaster and Scrapper found their way to Autobot headquarters. While the two were just looking for something to drink, the left-behind Sari took it as a Decepticon attack and managed to attack and repel them. Shortly afterwards, the Constructicons encountered Blitzwing, who had been ordered by Megatron to retrieve them. After being offered some oil, Mixmaster recognized it as the "really good stuff" he had vague memories of, and the pair followed Blitzwing back to the Decepticons. {{storylink|Sari, No One's Home}}

Mixmaster and Scrapper soon completed work on Megatron's space bridge, and were officially [[Branding|branded]] as Decepticons. Once Bulkhead was kidnapped by Megatron to put a finishing touch on the space bridge, he called out to the Constructicons for help, but they didn't recognize him. When the Autobots arrived to save Bulkhead and wreck Megatron's plans, Scrapper and Mixmaster managed to incapacitate all four of them. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

Within seconds [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] and [[Starscream clone (Animated)|his clones]] attacked, and Mixmaster joined in on the battle whilst Scrapper went off to fetch Lugnut and Blitzwing. The battle was eventually won, and the Constructicons cheered on Megatron's speech about conquering [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], despite having no idea what a "Cybertron" was supposed to be. When the Decepticon base came crumbling down due to the malfunctioning space bridge, the Constructicons desperately tried to save the oil inside it. They were last seen trying to cover it as the cavern collapsed. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

[[File:Three'saCrowdConstructiconsOilrefinery.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|The whole combiner thing is a little over their heads.]]
Somehow escaping from the cavern, Scrapper and Mixmaster retired to a junkyard, where they lounged around drinking oil and watching cars being dismantled while waiting for the other Decepticons to come and find them. [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] surprised them by showing up in the middle of the night, and they promptly attacked him. Fortunately, they were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and backed off to hear his proposition: Sumdac Towers had suffered some damage recently, and Bulkhead needed somebody to fix the holes. The promise of honest work, plus a little manipulation by Bulkhead, got the two Constructicons to agree, but on the strict provision that this favor was "off the books".

Once back at the Tower, the Constructicons set to work, Bulkhead taking this as an opportunity to try and persuade them to quit being Decepticons and join the Autobots. Their resolve was starting to weaken, until Scrapper accidentally fished up something from the bottom of the Tower. During the original accident, a bunch of AllSpark shards, a forklift and a damaged Headmaster Unit had fallen down the hole—and merged to create a new Constructicon, [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]]. The belligerent Transformer wasted no time in asserting his dominance over his "fellow" Constructicons, using his ability to control machines to hijack Scrapper's body and intimidate them into obeying his orders.

Under Dirt Boss's command, the Constructicons began to hijack oil, attacking fuel trucks, petrol stations and any other source of energy. Bulkhead tried to persuade Mixmaster and Scrapper to stop listening to Dirt Boss, but failed. This led to the Autobot trying to take on all three Constructicons singlehandedly at the Fossil Fuels plant, which Dirt Boss planned to destroy. This resulted in him first getting his wrecking ball stuck in Mixmaster's chemical thrower, then getting controlled by Dirt Boss, who planned to sacrifice both Bulkhead and Mixmaster to set the plant on fire and blow it sky high. Fortunately for Bulkhead, the other Autobots showed up to help, freeing him from both Dirt Boss and Mixmaster. Unfortunately for the Constructicons, the spilled oil was set alight during the battle, and all three were transwarped to just off the shore of Dinobot Island...atop a burning oil tank, which exploded seconds after they arrived. {{storylink|Three's a Crowd (episode)|Three's a Crowd}}

Scrapper managed to wash ashore on Dinobot Island, and lived there for forty-eight days, unsure of what had become of his two fellow Constructicons. He "adopted" and named the Dinobot [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]], and the pair became part of the [[Substitute Autobot]]s to help Sari fight [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]]. Exhausted from the fight, he and Snarl went back to Dinobot Island for a long vacation. {{storylink|Human Error, Part II}}

''Later, after the Autobots captured the Decepticons and returned to Cybertron, however, it was revealed that the other two Constructicons had also survived, though where they had been wasn't explained. Hooking back up with Scrapper, Dirt Boss put his two subordinates to work on his newest construction project: building something called "[[Devastator (Animated)|Devastator]]"...'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

''Getting in on the cloning racket, Dirt Boss had [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] acquire some Autobot CNA. The process was successful, and [[Skipjack (Animated)|Skipjack]] joined the roster.'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac}}

== Notes ==
[[file:Mixmasterbutt.JPG|right|95px|thumb|Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!]]
* In the preliminary stages of the cartoon's development, the term "Constructicon" would have been a blanket term for any [[Transformer|transforming robot]] built on [[Earth]] (like [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]] and the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]]).<ref>[[Transformers Animated Pitch Document]]</ref>
* The Constructicons follow the true blue-collar construction worker tradition of showing their buttcracks.
* [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] has stated that Scrapper and Mixmaster are both brothers and friends.<ref>http://www.formspring.me/DerrickJWyatt/q/645211771</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Animated subgroups]]
[[Category:Constructicons| (Animated)]]
[[Category:Decepticon subgroups]]

Airachnid (One)

2025-07-29T15:43:14Z

Cydra:

{{disambig3|Airachnid}}
:''Airachnid is a [[Transformer]] from [[Transformers One (franchise)|One]].''
[[File:TFOne-Airachnid.jpg|right|thumb|left|upright=1.66|[[Scarlett Johansson|She]] should have been '''MY''' voice actress!]]

'''Airachnid''' is [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]]'s assistant and primary enforcer. To call her "no nonsense" would be an understatement; the only time she smiles is when she's causing others suffering or going in for the kill. She is an unrelenting, and humorless, hunter and spy with a vast array of receptors and scanners at her disposal, which allow for her to keep tabs on anything that might jeopardize Sentinel's claim to power.

Aided by her squad of [[Tracker|Death Trackers]], there's nothing on Cybertron that she doesn't see, and no 'bot she won't dispatch if her boss only wills it.

{{bigquote|You can't win, miner! I see ''EVERYTHING''!|Airachnid to [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]]|''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''One'' film===
{{voiceactor|[[Vanessa Liguori]] (English), [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] (Japanese)|[[Dilara]] (German), [[Irene Jiménez]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Laura Monedero]] (Spain Spanish), [[Angela Brusa]] (Italian), [[Audrey Sourdive]] (European French), [[Olena Svitlytska]] (Ukrainian), [[Masza Wągrocka]] (Polish), [[Jeong-mi Bae]] (Korean), [[Regina Maria Maia]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
Airachnid was Sentinel Prime's first lieutenant, using her multitude of eyes to record and keeps tabs on nearly everything around her. As a member of Sentinel's administration, she was well aware of his betrayal of the Primes and subservience to the [[Quintesson]]s. After an [[Iacon 5000]], Airachnid paid a visit to [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] and [[Megatron (One)|D-16]] after their disastrous entry and near-victory in the race, sizing up the pair before Sentinel arrived to greet them. When Sentinel professed an amused appreciation for the two's efforts, Airachnid reluctantly joined along with the best laughter she could manage, though it hardly convinced Orion and D-16 given how stilted it was. Sentinel congratulated the pair for increasing morale and production among the miner class before he and Airachnid departed.

Later, Airachnid traveled with Sentinel and some of their troops to deliver the latest tribute to the [[Quintesson High Commander]], with Airachnid promising to keep a close eye on everything at her boss's request. Airachnid joined her cohorts in bowing before the Commander and observing as it threatened Sentinel upon noticing the tribute was light. As Sentinel bargained with the Commander, Airachnid narrowly missed the sight of Orion, D-16 (whose caused a brief shine due to his metal head), [[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]], and [[Elita-1 (One)|Elita-1]], who were watching from a nearby mountainside, before her attention was returned to the meeting. Once the Commander left, Airachnid was deployed to investigate what she had caught a glimpse of, and soon she and the troops went after the miners. However, [[Alpha Trion]] met them in battle, but while he decimated the rank-and-file troopers, he was caught off guard by a sneak attack from Airachnid. She quickly detained the old Prime and brought him before Sentinel, who quickly executed him.

Airachnid tracked down the miners to the camp of the exiled High Guard, leading an assault that saw her capture D-16, B-127, and [[Starscream (One)|Starscream]] and many of his troops. Airachnid brought them all before Sentinel and watched as Sentinel sadistically taunted and tortured his captives until the rest of the High Guard attacked. Airachnid went into battle, clashing with Elita before she was finally defeated. Realizing that Airachnid's nonstop recording of everything she saw was the key, Orion forcibly displayed her memories of Sentinel's true nature to all of Cybertron, resulting in a mass uprising and the fall of Sentinel's regime. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}
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===''One: New Adventures''===
{{voiceactor|[[Yuneidy Reyes]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
{{stub}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Airachnid was a sadistic [[Triple Changer]] who enjoyed indulging her cruel impulses. Although she was a close ally of Sentinel Prime, she only barely tolerated Sentinel's other allies like [[Darkwing (One)|Darkwing]]. {{storylink|Transformers One Sourcebook}}

==Toys==
===''One''===
[[File:TF-One-Cog-Changers-Airachnid.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|You may not like it, but this is what the ideal spider body looks like.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Airachnid''' (Cog Changers, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Cog Power Change Airachnid''' (コグパワーチェンジエアラクニッド)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''OCP-03'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[October 12]], [[2024]]

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers One (toyline)|Transformers One]]'' Cog Changers, Airachnid transforms in a single step from robot to mechanical spider, instead of the drone-like vehicle mode she sports in the film.

: Though undocumented in her instructions, her arm guns are [[Fire Blast effect|blast effect]] compatible. However, these are only "useable" in alternate mode, as her arms are fixed and pointed at the ground while in robot mode.
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===''Studio Series''===
[[File:SS-One-Airachnid.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Airachnid ''' (Deluxe Class, [[2026]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': ''''' Transformers One'''''
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[[June 24]], [[2025]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaPi02SMMSo Transformers Studio Series Fanstream | June 2025 | Hasbro Pulse] on YouTube, with [[Nate Purswell]] and [[Evan Brooks]].</ref>
:Released as part of the first wave of the [[2026]] ''[[Studio Series]]'' Deluxe lineup, Airachnid is based on the character's appearance in ''Transformers One'', and transforms into a film accurate drone, complete with rotating propellers.

:Due to the unique design of her legs, she has sculpted-in soles not present in her CG model to help the figure stand.

:She, alongside [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio Series|Alpha Trion]], were revealed in [[prototype]] form on the [[June 24]], [[2025]] fanstream, before being shown off in full color at that year's [[San Diego Comic-Con]].
{{comingsoontoy}}
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==Notes==
[[File:Oneairachnidspiderart.jpg|thumb|A giant spider requires a giant newspaper.]]
* Though Airachnid turns into a drone in the film, the ''One'' toyline and concept artwork feature a mechanical spider as her alt mode.
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Airachnid''' (エアラクニッド ''Earakuniddo'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:One Transformers]]
[[Category:Studio Series characters]]
[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game Transformers]]
[[Category:Triple Changers]]