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Heading to New Heist

2025-12-16T21:55:35Z

Driftman217:

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 15
|prev=Shoot 'N' Loot
|next=That's Gotta Sting (Part 1)
|title=Heading to New Heist
|season=1
|season ep=15
|image=Elita_Optimus_Fire.jpg
|caption="Come out to Cyberworld, we'll get together, have a few laughs."
|production company=[[Hasbro Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[November 15]], 2025
|writers=[[Ryan Denham]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC71cH3-ZME
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''The Autobots sneak inside Megatron's lair to steal back data on Scorponok.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] explains to [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]], that she and the rest of Team Prime will have to break into [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]]'s base if they want to retrieve the data on Scorponok, thankfully, Mirage tells Elita, he has all the know-how needed to bypass most of the base's security, he just needs Team Prime to open a few doors for him inside. Meanwhile, [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] desperately tries to dodge cannon fire, and when Elita snarks at him for calling for help, he goes to shoot at the cannons himself, only to find they're shielded. When Bee asks whether they're prepared for this occasion, Mirage answers by becoming visible right between the remaining cannons and then flying away, letting them take themselves out. He explains to a questioning Bumblebee that someone has to be cannon fodder when grilled on why he didn't make Bumblebee invisible, too. Just then, a new set of cannons appears on top of the building, but [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] jumps up and cuts them down before they can do any damage. He then gives the go-ahead for phase two of the heist.

[[File:Bumbletron.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.33|The Megatron is a lie.]]
Bumblebee, Elita, and Mirage enter the base from the front entrance, with Elita almost falling into an acid pit a short way into the trip. They all eventually make it out of the acid pit and into a room where Elita holds down a lever so that the building's defenses don't cook Optimus to death while the others move on. Optimus opted to make his way in through the vents, a fact Elita chides him for, but Prime insists was the best course of action. Elita tells Bumblebee and Mirage to hurry up as she is getting tired, so Mirage instructs Bumblebee to stop goofing around in Megatron's body and pass through the gate already. Bumblebee passes the optical scan easily but finds the voice authentication a lot more difficult. The fact that Elita is under fire by a cannon that just appeared and that Optimus is being pursued by molten lava does nothing but put pressure on the poor bot's shoulders, but after Mirage diverts some missiles from him, he finally passes and Team Prime goes to claim the data while Mirage leaves to avoid facing Megatron's wrath. While reviewing the data, they find logs of experiments that were done on [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]]. Optimus then discovers a [[Power Siphon]] that Megatron used to store [[energon]] and boost himself when needed. Elita claims that the device's current lack of energon suggests that Megatron powered up to go fight Scorponok. Prime is motivated by this to pursue Megatron and save Scorponok's life. At Bumblebee's suggestion, both Bee and Optimus upgrade themselves to better function in a desert environment, and all of Team Prime use the leftover energon to level themselves up.

At the desert, [[Chop Shop (Cyberworld)|Chop Shop]] and [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] assure Scorponok that the Decepticons mean no harm to him, and Megatron adds that they are friends and want to help him.

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (4)
* [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (3)
* [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] (2)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (9)
* [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (6)
* [[Chop Shop (Cyberworld)|Chop Shop]] (7)
* [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] (8)

|c4=
* [[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] (1)
* Mysterious Voice (5)
}}

==Quotes==
"This is tighter than I expected." 
"I did say someone smaller could do it." 
"It's too ''—ow—'' dangerous. ''—ow—'' It had to be ''—ow—'' me."
:— '''Optimus''' proves how self-sacrificial he is to '''Elita'''.

"Optimus! Optimus, come in!" 
"Well done, team. Let's get what we came for and roll out."
:— '''Elita-1''', moments before '''Optimus''' returns.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* When Megatron tells Scorponok that he wants to help, he shows him a small energon siphon very similar to the one our protagonists used in episodes prior.

===Character levels===
* No individual level stats appear in this episode, but the graphic that appears when Team Prime loots Megatron's energon reserves starts from level three and ends at level eight.

===Transformers references===
* The mask that Bumblebee gains when he upgrades to off-road mode is very reminiscent of his face in [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)| Prime]].

===Trivia===
* This episode was originally uploaded with three other ones, [[Shoot 'N' Loot]], [[Carousel Chaos]], and [[Oh Scrap!]].

[[Category: Cyberworld episodes]]

Greg Weisman

2025-12-07T22:24:52Z

Driftman217: /* Writing credits */

{{disambig3|Greg}}

'''Greg Weisman''' (born [[September 28]], [[1963]]) is a writer and producer who's best known for his involvement with all your favorite doomed shows: ''[[Old Soldier|Gargoyles]]'', ''The Spectacular [[Spider-Man]]'', ''[[DC Comics|Young Justice]]'', ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'', you name it. He was story editor on the first season of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] [[Rebel Alliance|Rebels]]'' and wrote the prequel ''Star Wars: Kanan'' for [[Marvel Comics]].

==Writing credits==
===''Transformers Prime''===
*"[[Plus One (Prime)|Plus One]]"

===''Rescue Bots''===
*"[[Feed the Beast]]"
*"[[The Island of Misfit Tech]]"
*"[[Pirates Ahoy]]"

===''EarthSpark''===
*"[[Hometown Heroes]]"
*"[[Legacy of Hope]]"

==Notes==
* Along with Cary Bates, he pitched five separate springboards for individual episodes of ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers]]'' third season in 1986. One of them, titled ''[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=15087 The Eye of the Beholder]'' was posted on Ask Greg on July 17th, 2012.

==External links==
* {{w|Greg Weisman|Greg Weisman at Wikipedia}}
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918852/ Greg Weisman @ IMDb]
* [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/ Ask Greg @ Station 8]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weisman, Greg}}
[[Category:Hasbro Studios]]
[[Category: Writers]]

Greg Weisman

2025-12-06T00:56:01Z

Driftman217: /* ‘’EarthSpark’’ */

{{disambig3|Greg}}

'''Greg Weisman''' (born [[September 28]], [[1963]]) is a writer and producer who's best known for his involvement with all your favorite doomed shows: ''[[Old Soldier|Gargoyles]]'', ''The Spectacular [[Spider-Man]]'', ''[[DC Comics|Young Justice]]'', ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'', you name it. He was story editor on the first season of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] [[Rebel Alliance|Rebels]]'' and wrote the prequel ''Star Wars: Kanan'' for [[Marvel Comics]].

==Writing credits==
===''Transformers Prime''===
*"[[Plus One (Prime)|Plus One]]"

===''Rescue Bots''===
*"[[Feed the Beast]]"
*"[[The Island of Misfit Tech]]"
*"[[Pirates Ahoy]]"

===EarthSpark===
*”[[Hometown Heroes]]”
*”[[Legacy of Hope]]”

==Notes==
* Along with Cary Bates, he pitched five separate springboards for individual episodes of ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers]]'' third season in 1986. One of them, titled ''[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=15087 The Eye of the Beholder]'' was posted on Ask Greg on July 17th, 2012.

==External links==
* {{w|Greg Weisman|Greg Weisman at Wikipedia}}
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918852/ Greg Weisman @ IMDb]
* [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/ Ask Greg @ Station 8]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weisman, Greg}}
[[Category:Hasbro Studios]]
[[Category: Writers]]

Greg Weisman

2025-12-06T00:54:48Z

Driftman217: /* Writing credits */

{{disambig3|Greg}}

'''Greg Weisman''' (born [[September 28]], [[1963]]) is a writer and producer who's best known for his involvement with all your favorite doomed shows: ''[[Old Soldier|Gargoyles]]'', ''The Spectacular [[Spider-Man]]'', ''[[DC Comics|Young Justice]]'', ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'', you name it. He was story editor on the first season of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] [[Rebel Alliance|Rebels]]'' and wrote the prequel ''Star Wars: Kanan'' for [[Marvel Comics]].

==Writing credits==
===''Transformers Prime''===
*"[[Plus One (Prime)|Plus One]]"

===''Rescue Bots''===
*"[[Feed the Beast]]"
*"[[The Island of Misfit Tech]]"
*"[[Pirates Ahoy]]"

===‘’EarthSpark’’===
*”[[Hometown Heroes]]”
*”[[Legacy of Hope]]”

==Notes==
* Along with Cary Bates, he pitched five separate springboards for individual episodes of ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers]]'' third season in 1986. One of them, titled ''[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=15087 The Eye of the Beholder]'' was posted on Ask Greg on July 17th, 2012.

==External links==
* {{w|Greg Weisman|Greg Weisman at Wikipedia}}
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918852/ Greg Weisman @ IMDb]
* [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/ Ask Greg @ Station 8]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weisman, Greg}}
[[Category:Hasbro Studios]]
[[Category: Writers]]

Storm the Desert

2025-09-25T13:14:21Z

Driftman217: They uploaded the episode separately from the previous episode.

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 9
|prev=What Goes Up
|next=
|title=Storm The Desert
|season=1
|season ep=9
|image=Cyberworld Episode9 ScorponokRobot.jpg
|caption=Look upon my giant scorpion robot, ye mighty, and despair!
|airdate=[[September 17]], 2025
|writers=[[Ali Lightfoot]]|
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCWlXEwnKM
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''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, which transforms 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]] when reviewing [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Titan Changers|Titan Changer Bumblebee]].
* 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===
[[File:Cyberworld Ep9 GrimlockMouth.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Come quietly, or there will be...trouble!]]
* 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''.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Les combattants du désert'''" ("Desert fighters")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 17]], 2025

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

James Alexander

2025-09-06T13:14:09Z

Driftman217:

{{disambig3|James}}
'''James Alexander''' is an English actor. His voice has featured in plenty of video games, including ''Baldur's Gate 3'', ''Genshin Impact'', and ''[[Fortnite]]''.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Cyberworld]]''===
*[[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]]
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]]
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]]
*[[Chop Shop (Cyberworld)|Chop Shop]]

==External links==
[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9298458 IMDB Profile]

[[Category:English voice actors]]

Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

2025-09-06T13:09:02Z

Driftman217: /* Characters */

{{Nav-cyberworld}}

[[File:TFCyberworld.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Worlds will collide. Everything will change.]]

'''''Transformers: Cyberworld''''' is an animated web series that debuted on [[July 12]], [[2025]], animated by [[Omens Studios]]. The series follows the adventures of [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]], and many other [[Transformer]]s as they are transported to a mysterious "[[Cyberworld (location)|Cyberworld]]" and forced to compete in a gauntlet of extreme games and challenges.

{{bigquote|''Transformers, 'till all are one Fight it out for the energon Figure out whose side you're on In Cyberworld, 'till all! Are! One!'' |The [[theme song]].}}

==Storyline==
The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s find themselves pulled by an unknown mastermind into the virtual realm of [[Cyberworld]]. Forced to compete in challenges to earn [[energon]] and gain strength, the trapped Transformers must battle the elements and each other to try and survive long enough to figure out who's behind it all.

==Characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Kyle Kaczmarczyk]])
* [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (Kyle Kaczmarczyk)
* [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] ([[Jessica Carroll]])
* [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] ([[James Alexander]])
* [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (James Alexander)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (James Alexander)
* [[Starscream (Cyberworld)|Starscream]] ([[Shogo Miyakita]])
* [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] ([[Jack Ayres]])
* [[Chop Shop (Cyberworld)|Chop Shop]] (James Alexander)

|c4=
* [[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] (Jack Ayres)
* [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (Jack Ayres)

|c5=
* [[NPC Narrator]] (Jessica Carroll)
}}

==Episodes==
#[[Commence Program]]
#[[Prime Target (Cyberworld)|Prime Target]]
#[[Crate Point, Well Fought]]
#[[River Race Ruckus]]
#[[Smoke & Mirrors]]
#[[Screamer City Arena]]
#[[Hunter vs Hunted]]
#[[What Goes Up]]

==Trivia==
*To increase SEO and appease the soulless YouTube algorithm, ''Cyberworld'' episodes are typically given overly descriptive plot synopses as video titles, with no title card in the video itself and the video title frequently changing after release (sometimes up to three times in a single day). Various episodes also tend to be combined into single videos and played out of order to increase runtime, even for their first runs, with these videos often having their own completely different titles. As such, {{SITENAME SHORT}} has opted to name episodes after the titles that showrunner [[Ali Lightfoot]] uses on his social media.

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7VEq3tXc6htxiCMULWtNNf1UXtWreLvs Official ''Transformers: Cyberworld'' playlist on YouTube]

[[Category:Web series]]

Hunter vs Hunted

2025-09-04T13:34:03Z

Driftman217:

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 7
|prev=Screamer City Arena
|next=
|title=Hunter vs Hunted
|season=1
|season ep=7
|image=Cyberworld Ep7 GrimlockCaught.jpg
|caption=Prime finds a real-world use for his ''Monster Hunter'' skills.
|airdate=[[August 30]], 2025
|writers=[[Ryan Denham]]|
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZQejLCPDA
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''It's [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus]] vs [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] in a high-stakes game of tag!'''

==Synopsis==

[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] walks through the forest, stalked by Optimus Prime, [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]]. While they try to be stealthy, communicating in hand signals, they are still ambushed by Snarl and captured by a net. They say they are looking for Grimlock, and the [[Dinobot (Cyberworld)|Dinobot]] approaches, chiding them for not staying away. Grimlock reveals Snarl has been following them and recording their recent trip to [[Cyber City (Cyberworld)|Cyber City]] — he knows they want to defeat [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]], and has come to him for help, which he laughs off. He will not do as Prime demands. Module 1.01.88 activates behind him, and Prime strikes a bargain to earn his loyalty. He will challenge Grimlock, and if he wins, Grimlock will work with him and his group... but if Grimlock wins, the trio will serve him instead. Grimlock agrees, and the challenge begins.

The challenge is Hunter vs Hunted, with Optimus challenged to strike Grimlock as his weapons and onboard navigation are disabled. Grimlock disappears into the bushes, before jumping out to attack. Prime manages to turn the tables with a decoy, but as he moves in to win, Snarl comments that he has only sealed his own fate. Indeed, a timer sounds, and the roles are switched! Now Optimus is the hunted, in plain view of his hunter, Grimlock! Optimus is able to escape as Grimlock stalks him through the forest, until the roles switch again. Prime follows a large set of muddy tracks, suspicious that Grimlock is being so obvious, only to wind up stuck in a mud pool, unable to move. Grimlock approaches, praising Prime for lasting longer than most, but as the roles switch back, making Grimlock the hunter, Prime pulls his own trap. Yanking on a vine, Grimlock is whacked by a tree-trunk which Prime grabs on the rebound to escape. Pursuing Prime, it becomes Grimlock's turn to be caught by a net. The roles change one final time, and Grimlock is unable to escape as Prime casually walks up and lays a single finger on his snout, winning the bout. True to his word, Grimlock agrees to help Prime, even as Snarl warns him it will harm "the truce".

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
*[[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (4)
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] (5)
|h5=Others||c5=
*''[[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]]'' (6)

}}

==Quotes==

'''Elita-1:''' We're looking for the other guy. He around? 
'''Bumblebee:''' You know — tall, terrible breath, anger management issues?
:—Grimlock gets no respect, he tells ya.

'''Bumblebee:''' You didn't see ''everything'', did you? 
''[Snarl turns ominously]'' 
'''Bumblebee:''' ''Oh Primus.''

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* Snarl was shown to be following the group in the last two episodes from a distance. Turns out he's been conducting surveillance for Grimlock, even showing the group's attempted heist of Scorponok's [[tech specs]] from the previous episode

===Character levels===
* Before winning the challenge, Optimus Prime is a low level 2, down from the last time we saw his level in [[River Race Ruckus|episode 4]].

===Transformers references===
* Grimlock says there is [[More Than Meets The Eye|"More to you than meet eye, little Prime"]].

===Real world references===
[[File:Cyberworld Ep7 SnarlAllAccordingToKeikaku.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Hmph! These fools don't stand a chance of beating my stand, 『WALK THE DINOSAUR』!!!"]]
* Bumblebee, Elita-1, and Snarl stand around commenting on the fight, explaining Optimus and Grimlock's tactics to the audience, in a very stereotypical ''shōnen '' anime fashion, complete with mono-colour backdrops. Snarl even pretends to push up his non-existant glasses as he says it's all part of the plan!
* The on-screen radar indicating Optimus and Grimlock's positions, complete with a "field of vision" for each player, is evocative of the Soliton Radar from the ''{{w|Metal Gear}}'' series. Complimenting the shout-out is Optimus diving from cover to cover to evade Grimlock's detection and creating sound distractions. Grimlock even responds "Huh, what was that noise?", much in the manner of enemy sentries when [[Solid Snake]] alerts them in the game.

===Animation and technical errors===

===Trivia===
* As usual, this was initially uploaded in a combined video with [[Screamer City Arena|the previous episode]] with an SEO-baiting title ("Hide and Seek with Optimus Prime!"). The individual title comes from series writer [[Ali Lightfoot]]'s Twitter feed.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Shh, don't tell anyone but this is an exclusive frame from Transformers: CYBERWORLD episode 7! "Hunter vs Hunted" should be going live this Saturday 30th of August @ 2PM BST {{!}} 1PM UTC {{!}} 9AM EST {{!}} 6AM EST|link=https://twitter.com/HedlesChkn/status/1961026639930007603|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=08|day=28}}</ref>

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La loi du plus fort'''" ("Survival of the fittest")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 30]], 2025

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cacciatore e preda'''" ("Hunter and prey")
:*''Original airdate:'' August 30, 2025

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Endgame, Part II

2025-08-31T10:49:21Z

Driftman217:

{{disambig2|the ''Animated'' episode|the ''Beast Machines'' episode|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall}}

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA-Endgame-MissionActuallyAccomplished.jpg
|caption=Mission: ACCOMPLISHED!
|ep=42
|ep2=39
|next=Moving Violations
|prev2=Endgame, Part I
|title="Endgame, Part II"
|airdate=[[May 23]], [[2009]]
|season=3
|season ep=13
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_71Qu24CpZE
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'''The Autobots fight to defend Detroit from Megatron and his clones of Omega Supreme.'''

==Synopsis==
Outside the plant, the [[Autobot]]s observe the [[Lugnut Supreme]]s hovering above Detroit. [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] wonders what they are, and [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] assumes that [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] repurposed [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]'s [[cloning]] technology to make clones of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]. Aboard the main Lugnut Supreme, Megatron decides to start the field test with [[Sumdac Tower]]. [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] pontificates on the greatness of Megatron rather than getting it done, leading the annoyed Decepticon leader to ask [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] if he can control the clones directly yet. However, Shockwave is still working on finding the necessary security patches from [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]'s memory banks, and tells Megatron in an amused tone that he'll have to filter all orders for the clones through Lugnut.

In Detroit, the Lugnuts turn and open fire on Sumdac Tower. Fortunately, the force field goes up and protects the building. Unfortunately, it will only last for so long. Ratchet says that they need to launch an aerial assault with the [[Magnus Hammer]], but [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] is a little unsure. [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] then reinforces his leader's faltering confidence by promising to accompany him. Sari then offers to join them, and cuts off Optimus's "No, Sari—" with a rant about how she's always being told it's "too dangerous" for her to help, leaving her embarrassed when Prime says he was going to tell her to help protect the humans. He orders the others to help Sari in this, while he and Prowl take to the skies. Megatron initially assumes that the figure bearing the Magnus Hammer is [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] himself, and is quite relieved when he sees it's only Optimus. The two airborne Autobots manage to avoid the missiles sent in their direction, but Prime's opening shot with the Magnus Hammer misses the Lugnuts. Ratchet says that he's receiving Omega's signal from the moon, and suggests they transwarp to the moon and sever Megatron's connection. Optimus approves, and orders him to take Bumblebee and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] with him. Prowl says that they need to bring the Lugnuts down all at once, and Optimus uses the Magnus Hammer to cause a tornado which sends the Lugnuts crashing toward [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]]. Megatron, livid, tells Lugnut to abort the field test, but Lugnut is forced to inform him that Prime's attack managed to damage the one Megatron was in and disable the flight mechanisms of the other two. Furious, Megatron tells him to have the clones destroy everything except Megatron himself, then leaves his clone and assumes his [[alternate mode|flight mode]], intending to take a more direct role.

[[File:EndgamePartII-Arceeisback.jpg||left|thumb|upright=1.2|'''Arcee''': "I'm still getting a toy, right?" '''Ratchet''': "We're making it a TRU exclusive!" '''Arcee''': "Beats what happened to [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]]!"]]

At Sumdac Tower, Ratchet fires up the space bridge, ready to take Bumblebee and Bulkhead to retrieve Arcee and Omega Supreme. [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari]] decides to go with them, telling [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] that she needs to go. Transforming to her full [[robot mode]], she jumps through the portal with the Autobots. On the moon, Starscream reassembles himself and immediately takes off for Earth, saying he has a surprise for Megatron. The Autobots transwarp in mere moments after he leaves, as Sari is momentarily stunned just by being on the Moon, while the Autobots are more surprised by the lack of [[Decepticon]]s around. Over by Omega Supreme, Ratchet sees Arcee and runs to her. Unfortunately, she's reverted to her fugue Teacher Bot state. Worse, she's bait: Shockwave fires at them, barely missing them. Bumblebee and Bulkhead take on Shockwave, while Ratchet and Sari take Arcee inside Omega Supreme. Both bots are taken down, but Bulkhead manages to recover and charge Shockwave, knocking off his cannon. Shockwave briefly assumes his Longarm form and pleads for mercy, but Bulkhead destroys his cannon with his wrecking ball. Inside Omega Supreme, Ratchet discovers the damage to Arcee's processor is quite extensive, and any attempts to repair her could take her offline. Sari scans the malfunctioning intelbot and gives Ratchet instructions on how to use his EMP generator to restore her memory from her internal backups.

[[File:Endgame2-OptimusPrimeInArmor.jpg||right|thumb|upright=1.66|You know you stood up and cheered when Megatron finally used his name.]]
Over Detroit, Prime orders Prowl to break off from their fight with Megatron, find Jazz and try to slow the clones down. As he grapples with the Decepticon leader, he snaps and loudly declares his name after being patronisingly called "Autobot" by Megatron yet again.

In Omega Supreme, Ratchet manages to bring Arcee fully online, her memory back at the time it was when [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] captured them. Ratchet promises that they'll catch up in time, but right now they need her [[activation code]]s to retake control of Omega Supreme. Bumblebee and Bulkhead enter and say they've found something Sari needs to see.

Back on Earth, on the ground, Prowl and Jazz try to get inside the Lugnut Supremes, but their armor is too strong to cut through, and Jazz radios Prime with news of their failure. Optimus tells them that the only thing powerful enough to shield the city is the AllSpark, but it's scattered everywhere. In return, flushed by his recent success in reconstituting a fragment, Prowl theorizes that they can use [[processor-over-matter]] to make the AllSpark whole again. Prime is doubtful, but Prowl is adamant, and flies his fellow ninjabot to Sumdac Tower.

As Ratchet and Arcee make their way to Omega Supreme's head, Sari is brought before the protoforms, and—believing this to be where she came from—gets a moment of closure from the experience. Outside, Ratchet uses his magnets to keep Arcee above Omega's face and the fembot uploads the codes, severing Lugnut's control over him. Omega Supreme ejects the massive Decepticon and heads for Earth once Sari and all the Autobots are aboard, with the three remaining protoforms.

On Earth, with Lugnut no longer guiding them, the clones briefly shut down... then reactivate with Starscream's face. The treacherous Decepticon tells Megatron that he planted bombs in the clones, aiming to destroy him and everything within a hundred-mile radius. Unable to remove the bombs inside, Megatron decides to instead destroy Optimus Prime, using the Autobot captain's name for the very first time. At Sumdac Tower, the force field fails much to Isaac Sumdac's distress, and Prowl and Jazz direct him to the building's bomb shelter, before they begin using processor-over-matter to collecting AllSpark fragments. Starscream arrives to observe the death of Megatron, but his AllSpark fragment suddenly begins pulling him toward the AllSpark being formed by Jazz and Prowl. Starscream panics and tries to destroy the two ninja-bots, but his AllSpark fragment is pulled from his head, and Starscream falls to the street, dead.

[[File:EndgamePart2-Prowlsmiles.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|[[Code of Hero|The rest...is silence.]]]]
Omega Supreme arrives and begins fighting the two clones. He is able to defeat one and disarm its bomb, but the other knocks him aside and forces him back to ship mode. At Sumdac Tower, Jazz says that they don't have enough Spark to shield the city, but neither he nor Prowl can pull in any more AllSpark fragments. Prowl recognizes that there is one other way to make the AllSpark chunk powerful enough, and levitates towards it. Jazz recognizes what he intends to do, and screams that they can find another way, but Prowl merely turns to give him a reassuring smile. Suddenly, the AllSpark releases a surge of energy, and Prowl falls back to the ground. Jazz catches his body, but it is too late: Prowl is dead. A field soon forms around the remaining clone, but Megatron and Optimus Prime are trapped within it. Megatron gloats that he will take Optimus with him, but a figure of light in Prowl's image removes Optimus from the force field. Megatron roars in anger as the clone detonates, and everything goes white...

Waking up, Optimus sees his fellow bots around him. They declare that they won, and begin to celebrate... until Jazz comes carrying Prowl's shell, revealing that the ninja-bot merged his spark with the AllSpark to give it the necessary energy. Optimus moves toward his fallen comrade, but is instead knocked backwards by a purple blast. Megatron still functions! Ratchet uses his magnets to throw the Magnus Hammer to Optimus. In a rage, Optimus beats Megatron down. Lying helpless, Megatron urges Optimus to finish him, and Optimus brings the Magnus Hammer down...on Megatron's fusion cannon. Optimus says that killing Megatron is the easy way out, and the Decepticon leader doesn't deserve that. Instead, he places [[stasis cuffs]] on him.

[[File:TFA-Endgame-PanAcrossEveryone.jpg|thumb|upright=1.34|[[John Noble|We shall not forget them. Nor fail to reward that which is given. Courage with love, valour with honour, evil... with vengeance]].]]
On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Autobots return is hailed by a cheering crowd (except for [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], who glowers), with Optimus carrying the Magnus Hammer, [[AllSpark Matrix|the large piece of the AllSpark around his neck]], and Ratchet, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Jazz bearing Prowl's body. In addition, they bring with them the three rescued protoforms, and Megatron, Lugnut, and Shockwave as prisoners. Finally, to top it off, Omega Supreme transforms from ship mode, and this sends the crowd into another round of cheering, hailing Optimus Prime and his crew as the heroes they have proven themselves to be.

[['Til all are one]].
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==Featured characters==
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*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (4)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (6)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (7)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (8)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (9)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (11)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (13)
*[[Carrera (Animated)|Carrera]] (18)
*[[Searchlight (Animated)|Searchlight]] (19)
*[[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]] (20)
*[[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]] (21)
*[[Powerglide (Animated)|Powerglide]] (22)
*[[Furão]] (23)
*[[Sedan (Animated)|Sedan]] (24)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (25)
*[[Hubcap (Animated)|Hubcap]] (26)
*[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] (27)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (28)
*[[Sky Garry (Animated)|Sky Garry]] (29)
*[[Dai Atlas (Animated)|Dai Atlas]] (30)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (31)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (32)
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*Three [[Lugnut Supreme]]s (1–3)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (10)
*[[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] (12)
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave/Longarm Prime]] (14)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (17)

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*[[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] (16)
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*[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] (15)
}}

==Quotes==
"Shockwave! Is there anyway to bypass this endless pontificating and command these clones directly?" 
"Still working on the data patch, my liege. Until then, you'll just have to relay all. Orders. Through. Lugnut."
:—'''Megatron''' desperately seeks to cut out the middleman, while '''Shockwave''' demonstrates how to smirk without a face.

'''Sari''': I'm going too! I have a jetpack. 
'''Optimus''': No, Sari, it's— 
'''Sari''': Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's "too dangerous", I know. It's '''always''' "too dangerous"! 
'''Optimus''': I was ''going'' to say, "It's more important for you to protect your father and your fellow organics." 
'''Sari''': Oh. Right. Sorry.
:—Sari isn't used to being treated as an equal.

"''Get away'' from my weapons of mass destruction."
:—'''Megatron'''.

"You're a persistent little Autobot." 
"My name is OPTIMUS PRIME!"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"If I cannot save my clones, at least I'll have the satisfaction of destroying you, '''Optimus Prime'''." 
"So, you ''can'' remember my name!"
:—Took you long enough, '''Megatron'''.

"You have interfered with me for the '''last''' time, Optimus Prime!"
:-- '''Megatron''' remembering '''Optimus'''' name one more time.

"What are you waiting for, Autobot? Finish me." ''(Optimus raises the Magnus Hammer and smashes Megatron's cannon)'' 
"That would be the easy way out, Megatron. ''You'' don't ''deserve'' it."
:—'''Optimus''' finally gives '''Megatron''' exactly what he deserves.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Even at this late stage, a new face still appears in the crowd scene on Cybertron: [[Hubcap (Animated)|Hubcap]]. [[Dai Atlas (Animated)|Dai Atlas]] and [[Sky Garry (Animated)|Sky Garry]] make their first in-person appearances (though Dai Atlas only appears from behind), and [[Lickety-Split]], whose arm could ''juuuuuust'' be seen poking in from offscreen back in "[[Decepticon Air]]"'s fullscreen crop, also gets to appear in full. The crowd also includes a ''crazy'' amount of miscolored-slash-[[generic]] robots, including such gems as a [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]]-colored robot wearing the [[65356-9292-346]] body type, a blue-and-green Sky Garry and a yellow [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]].
* Yoketron's dying words in "[[Five Servos of Doom]]" (where he tells Prowl that he will understand when his time comes) finally come to pass.
*This is the first episode since "[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]" to feature Prime's faceplate.

===Transformers references===
[[File:TFA Prime with Matrix.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|This is awesome and you love it.]]
*At the very end, Optimus Prime is shown with the large piece of AllSpark which Jazz and Prowl pulled together, in a container strongly resembling the [[Matrix of Leadership]]—and he's [[The Transformers: The Movie|wearing it on a chain around his neck]].
*This is not the first time [[Marty Isenberg]] worked on a series finale of a Transformers series called [[Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|Endgame Part II]].

===Real-world references===
*Ratchet refers to the Lugnut Supremes as "[[knockoff]]s".

===Animation or technical errors===
* When Omega Supreme runs towards one of the Lugnut Supremes, the clone has a [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|purple Autobot symbol]] on its midsection as it gets up.
* Megatron's helicopter cockpit kibble (usually seen behind his head on his back) briefly vanishes for a second as he kicks Optimus Prime towards the AllSpark-powered force field.
* Just as Bulkhead punches Shockwave, for a split second, Shockwave's colors are those of his Autobot counterpart, Longarm (with the noticeable teal coloring on his chassis).
* Prowl's ghost appears with his armour on, but when it reaches out to save Optimus, the armour has vanished.
* When [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] makes one last attempt to destroy [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], his right shoulder guard is drawn rather small. As he's knocked down to Earth and insists Optimus finishes him, it reverts to its proper size.
[[File:AutobotGroupShotEndgamePartII.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Blink and you'll miss it.]]
* Quite a number of animation errors can be seen immediately after Optimus Prime stasis cuffs Megatron (right before a kneeling Omega Supreme gets up.) The Magnus Hammer has disappeared, [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl's]] body is drawn like a boxy black mannequin in [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]]'s arms with very little detail, Jazz himself (as well as Bulkhead) are missing their Autobot insignias, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] appears rather tiny compared to the other Autobots, and Sari appears to be either hovering off of the ground or standing on [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s foot. Oh, and [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] is missing from the shot as well. Dandy.
*When Optimus Prime first disembarks from Omega Supreme at the end of the episode, he is shown to be almost as tall as Megatron and Lugnut, who, by all rights, should be towering over him in height. They are drawn at their proper scale once they stand before the cheering crowd, though.
*When the Autobots hold up [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]'s coffin before the cheering crowd (as seen in the picture on this page), Prowl's body is drawn rather short. If one compared the height of his body to [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] at his left, Bumblebee would actually be a head taller.
*After Bulkhead knocks over Shockwave and he converts into Longarm, Shockwave's cannon is on the ground behind Longarm, yet when we see Longarm from the back he has the crane piece attached to his back. Whoops.
* The [[Magnus Hammer]]'s handle again changes length from shot to shot.
*When Sari activates her "robot face" before entering the space bridge, part of her hair is still visible beneath it and doesn't even move, but as soon as she starts moving, the hair immediately disappears.

===Continuity errors===
*Due to the incomplete activation code, the Lugnut Supremes only worked when Lugnut consciously directed them from Omega Supreme. Yet after Omega tossed him out, not only did Starscream take them over, they continued to function autonomously after he was dead.

===Unresolved plots===
*As of this episode, there's a lot of remaining uncaptured Decepticons!
**Thundercracker and Skywarp are still floating out somewhere in space.
**[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] and a bleeding, shattered [[Wasp]]inator are still in that mysterious jungle, precise whereabouts (and even ''when''abouts) unknown.
**[[Laserbeak (Animated)|Laserbeak]] fled the scene with the sentient part of [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]] in "[[Human Error, Part II]]".
**[[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]]'s whereabouts are presumably still known to the Autobots; he may have returned to [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]] with [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]] after "Human Error". [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] and [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]], however, remain unaccounted for.
**[[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] leaves for parts unknown in "[[Decepticon Air]]". Although he did mention something about retiring to an island on [[Nebulos]] (where the [[energon]] is as smooth as a [[protoform]]'s bottom).
**[[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]], [[Team Chaar]], and any unseen Decepticons all remain at large.
*Several other plot points have yet to have been resolved by the end of this episode:
**Sari's origin has yet to be completely explained. It still hasn't been revealed how or why a protoform showed up on Earth years ago, or why it looked so different compared to other protoforms seen during the course of the series. Since it has been shown that all the protoforms Lockdown stole were blanks, it's unlikely she came from that batch.
**[[Meltdown (Animated)|Meltdown]] was last shown apparently reconstituting himself at the end of "[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]", and has not been seen since.
**Wreck-Gar and all three Dinobots are not present at the end of the episode, and presumably are still on Earth. Although it could be speculated that they stayed there by choice, one must wonder what kind of measures that Optimus and company took to prevent said bots from any more disastrous encounters with the populace of Earth.
**[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] was last seen being repaired, but his fate isn't revealed in-show. ''The AllSpark Almanac'' would later confirm that he would die of his injuries in the unproduced fourth season.
** [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] was last seen crushed into a cube and tossed into an incinerator. We don't see him get incinerated, though we also don't see any evidence he survived being cubified. "[[The Return of Blurr]]" would later depict his survival and restoration.

===Trivia===
*Jazz states that they can't find all the AllSpark fragments; at the very least, this makes sense because [[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp]], [[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker]], [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]], and [[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] aren't on Earth anymore. There is no indication that any other Earthbound characters animated by AllSpark fragments were defragmented and killed like Starscream, and they don't seem to be kept alive the same way he is. At [[BotCon 2009]], the writers revealed that they had intended to show [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] and at least one of the [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicons]] to confirm their survival, but that this scene was cut for time.
*Shockwave claimed in "[[This Is Why I Hate Machines]]" that using Omega Supreme's original activation codes on him once more would wipe his memories, morals and personality, allowing a new mentor-con to turn him into a model Decepticon—a fact which Ratchet and [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] apparently both agreed was true. Since Arcee uses the codes on Omega in this episode, did this cause a reset to factory settings? If not, why not? Could it perhaps have something to do with that patch they were talking about?
*There seems to be a scene missing involving Lugnut - when Omega Supreme discards him onto the lunar surface and flies to Earth, he is neither captured nor incapacitated, and it's been shown repeatedly that Decepticons (including Starscream in this episode and Lugnut himself in "[[Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found]]") are capable of making ''at least'' the Moon-Earth trip under their own power, where [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] has apparently evaded detection for the whole of S3. His off-screen capture is therefore noteworthy.
*Arcee didn't join the other Autobots on their victory/funeral parade at the end.
*It is revealed during the events of this episode that, while in her [[robot mode]], Sari doesn't need an external oxygen supply.
*[[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] was originally intended to have a small role in this episode, in which she would resurrect Starscream after the Autobots left Earth. This scene was ultimately cut for time.
*This is the final episode to feature Optimus, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, Prowl, and every other character in the series. We remind you so we may see you weep...we hate to cry alone. But... there is hope. IDW might continue the series in comic form. Join us as we get down on our hands and knees and beg IDW to do this for us.
** After being [[The Stunti-Con Job|cruelly teased]] [[The Return of Blurr|twice]], [[Trial of Megatron, Part 1|we finally]] [[Trial of Megatron, Part 2|get an]] [[Trial of Megatron, Part 3|answer]]!

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fin de partie, 2ème partie'''" ("Endgame, 2nd Part")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Brazilian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fim de Jogo Parte 2'''" ("Game Over Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fin del Juego, parte 2'''" ("Game over, part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 29|29 December]] [[2009]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Saishū Kessen! Megatron o Seiatsu-seyo'''" (最終決戦! メガトロンを制圧せよ, "The Final Decisive Battle! Suppress Megatron")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 25|25 December]] [[2010]]
::* Megatron delivers the warning
::* To celebrate this being the last episode to air in Japan, the Japanese dubbing cast sang the [[Japanese themes|opening]] "[[Transformers Evo.|TRANSFORMERS EVO.]]" over [[JAM Project]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueQA3QUO-eY original track].
::*Throughout the Japanese dub of the series, the running gag about Megatron being unable to remember Optimus Prime's name was consistently omitted. This was done so as to maintain the franchise status quo of Optimus and Megatron being rivals, completely losing the ''point'' of the running gag (Optimus being out of his depth against a superior foe who has no regard for him). As such, the big scene where Optimus declares his name to Megatron loses pretty much all of its narrative impact and is reduced to vacuous [[burning spirit]] at best.
::* For the [[Otoboto family]] segment, "[[Santa Claus]]" delivers several toys: Optimus Light & Sound to [[Tatsuya Otoboto|Tatsuya]], Megatron Light & Sound to [[Yūka Otoboto|Yūka]], and [[Transformers United|United]] [[Optimus Prime (WFC)#Generations|Optimus]] to [[Hiroyuki Otoboto|Hiroyuki]]. After some bantering, "Santa" reveals himself to be actually [[Udo]]! He later gets conned into drinking a suspicious-looking green health drink and reacts badly to it comically. The segment closes with a photo of the family and Udo holding flower bouquets—in Japan, it's tradition to give flower bouquets to major staff and cast members after a production is wrapped up, be it a movie, TV series, or a music video.
::* Optimus thanks the audience for watching and promises that they'll meet again one day.

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2011 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 10 ([[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]]

Elita-1 (Cyberworld)

2025-08-23T13:09:57Z

Driftman217:

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{{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 Carroll]] (English)|[[Amandine Longeac]] (French)}}
[[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}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberworld''===
[[File:TF-Cyberworld-Cyber-Changers-Elita-1.jpg|thumb|"Riptide? I barely know 'er!"]]
<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]].
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[[Category:Cyberworld Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]

Smoke & Mirrors

2025-08-19T13:15:47Z

Driftman217:

{{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." 
"Punny! 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]]

Crate Point, Well Fought

2025-08-16T13:11:03Z

Driftman217: /* Real world references */

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 3
|prev=Prime Target (Cyberworld)
|next=River Race Ruckus
|title="Crate Point, Well Fought"
|season=1
|season ep=3
|airdate=[[July 26]], 2025
|writers=[[Gretchen Mallorie]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfWlx10QjqM
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Optimus Prime and Bumblebee clash with Grimlock and Snarl for a crate drop.'''

==Synopsis==

In the jungle region, [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus]] and [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] discuss their next move. Bumblebee notes that the menacing [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] is still blocking the path to the [[Autobot]] shuttle, and doubts whether they should risk facing the giant. Optimus concludes that the shuttle is the only clue to where they are and how they got there. The two are distracted by an orange glow in the distance, which their HUDs identify as a "crate drop". They decide to check it out, but have to dive into the bushes as [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] and [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] thunder onto the path. Not seeing the pair, the [[Dinobot (Cyberworld)|Dinobots]] openly discuss that they could use the crate's upgrades. Grimlock is especially eager after only getting battle damage the last time they tried. After the Dinobots stomp away, Bumblebee is ready to speed off and get to the crate first. He proclaims the upgrades are just the thing they need to help them defeat Scorponok. Optimus is reluctant to pick a fight with Grimlock, saying Bee is not ready for a fight after his encounter with [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]], but Bumblebee persists, and the pair transform and roll out.

Later, the pair find themselves in a valley of thick mud with the crate on a cliff-face on the far side. As the two Autobots approach the cliff, the Dinobots appear. Grimlock mocks Bumblebee before opening fire, knocking Bee backward. The Dinobots charge, but Bumblebee grabs a vine and throws it around Grimlock's legs, sending him sliding. Snarl attacks Bee with his sword, only to be rammed by Optimus in truck mode. Optimus orders Bee to get to the crate, while he fights the Dinobots. Bee is half way up the cliff when he sees Optimus getting cornered. He tries to help, but that only reveals his position. Grimlock launches Snarl up to the cliff, and the nimble Dinobot smugly forces Bumblebee back down. After an argument, Optimus and Bee use the mud to trap the Dinobots and disable Grimlock's cannon. Optimus and Bee are about to grab the crate, but the Dinobots arrive atop the cliff via a geyser. The Dinobots transform and charge, but Bee unlocks the crate and finds an Energon ax and a wrist-mounted blaster. He tosses the ax to Optimus, who whacks Grimlock upside the head with it. Working together, the two Autobots use their new armaments to drive the Dinobots to the edge of the cliff. After a brief stare-down, Grimlock concedes, and warns Optimus to stay out of his way in the future. The battle won, Optimus spies a new green beacon, and declares it their next objective.

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] (4)
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (5)

|c2=
*[[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (1)
}}

==Quotes==
"Okay, ''don't'' throw weapons!" 
[throws axe at Grimlock] 
"...do as I say, not as I do."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' teaches valuable morals.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Scorponok is shown guarding the ship that Optimus tried to reach in "[[Commence Program]]".
*Grimlock remarks that there has not been a crate drop in a long time and is shown to have some battle damage after the previous upgrades.

===Character levels===
*Bumblebee remains at level 2, nearly at level 3.
*Optimus remains at level 1, nearly at level 2.

===Transformers references===

===Real world references===
*When Bumblebee scans Scorponok, translating one of the readouts reveals the text 'THREAT LEVEL MIDNIGHT', a reference to {{w|Threat Level Midnight|Michael Scott's crappy movie}} from ''{{w|The Office|The Office}}.''
*Snarl is shown running with his arms hanging back and his body hunched over, which is how ninjas are shown to run in popular media such as the ''Naruto'' franchise and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)''.
*Optimus' axe is shown to come back to him after he throws it, similar to how the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] character [[Thor]] is shown throwing Mjolnir and Stormbreaker in the MCU. Both Thor and [[Optimus Prime (One)|Optimus Prime]] from ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'' have been played by [[Chris Hemsworth]].

===Trivia===
* The viscosity of the mud is... highly ''variable'' throughout the episode. Sometimes characters quickly sink up to the waist in it. Sometimes they run across is like it's solid ground with not even a hint of splash.
* This episode was uploaded with the [[Prime Target (Cyberworld)|previous episode]] in a combined video titled "Optimus Prime Fights Grimlock in Extraction Mission", similar to the second episode being uploaded in a second combined video with the first episode, but being shown before the predecessor episode. Series writer [[Ali Lightfoot]] later revealed the official names for the first three episodes. <ref>{{citesocial|quote=Incidentally:
Episode 01 is "Commence Program" 
Episode 02 is "Prime Target" 
Episode 03 is "Crate Point, Well Fought" 

The YT titles change to maximise SEO & game the algo. I know it has confused some of y'all.|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1949098695070240914?t=D78-KcaaMeZeEaplj6rrDA|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=07|day=26}}</ref>

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Abwurf, Gut Gekämpft'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[July 26]], 2025

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Sfida avvincente, cassa vincente!'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' July 26, 2025

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

2025-08-16T13:10:16Z

Driftman217: /* Characters */ Episode 5 credits

{{Nav-cyberworld}}

[[File:TFCyberworld.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Worlds will collide. Everything will change.]]

'''''Transformers: Cyberworld''''' is an animated web series that debuted on [[July 12]], [[2025]], animated by [[Omens Studios]]. The series follows the adventures of [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]], and many other [[Transformer]]s as they are transported to a mysterious "[[Cyberworld (location)|Cyberworld]]" and forced to compete in a gauntlet of extreme games and challenges.

{{bigquote|''Transformers, 'till all are one Fight it out for the energon Figure out whose side you're on In Cyberworld, 'till all! Are! One!'' |The [[theme song]].}}

==Storyline==
The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s find themselves pulled by an unknown mastermind into the virtual realm of [[Cyberworld]]. Forced to compete in challenges to earn [[energon]] and gain strength, the trapped Transformers must battle the elements and each other to try and survive long enough to figure out who's behind it all.

==Characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Kyle Kaczmarczyk]])
* [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (Kyle Kaczmarczyk)
* [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] ([[Jessica Carroll]])
* [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] ([[James Alexander]])
* [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (James Alexander)
* [[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] (Jack Ayres)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (James Alexander)
* [[Starscream (Cyberworld)|Starscream]]
* [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] ([[Jack Ayres]])
* [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (Jack Ayres)

|c4=
* [[NPC Narrator]] (Jessica Carroll)
}}

==Episodes==
#[[Commence Program]]
#[[Prime Target (Cyberworld)|Prime Target]]
#[[Crate Point, Well Fought]]
#[[River Race Ruckus]]
#[[Smoke & Mirrors]]

==Trivia==
*To increase SEO and appease the soulless YouTube algorithm, ''Cyberworld'' episodes are typically given overly descriptive plot synopses as video titles, with no title card in the video itself and the video title frequently changing after release (sometimes up to three times in a single day). Various episodes also tend to be combined into single videos and played out of order to increase runtime, even for their first runs, with these videos often having their own completely different titles. As such, {{SITENAME SHORT}} has opted to name episodes as just their numbers, save for instances where members of the show's staff are able to clarify what the proper title should be.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Web series]]

River Race Ruckus

2025-08-07T13:16:35Z

Driftman217: They uploaded the episode separately from the third episode.

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 4
|prev=Crate Point, Well Fought
|next=Episode 5
|title="River Race Ruckus"
|season=1
|season ep=4
|airdate=[[August 2]], 2025
|writers=[[Ali Lightfoot]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP0kwTfYLfw
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Meeting with a friend''' 
'''Chased by a menacing shark''' 
'''Can they win the fight?'''

==Synopsis==

[[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] races along a river through the jungle region, sealed inside an energy tube, with [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] in hot pursuit. Switching rapidly between speedboat and robot mode, she dodges mines, blasts her opponent, and is handily in the lead. Meanwhile, [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] tries to show [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] a cool jump as they walk a little way downstream, only to be thwacked by the energy tube as it generates ahead of the [[energon]] challenge. They turn to examine it as Elita rushes past. Her and Optimus catch each other's gaze, both surprised to see the other, and this is enough to throw her off her game, hitting a mine on the way down. Optimus and Bee set off in pursuit, taking turns riding the other to break into the barrier separating them from their comrade, even as Elita yells for them to stop. Bee's attempts are thwarted by incoming branches, but Optimus manages to use his new axe to shatter the barrier, then throws it at Sky-Byte, knocking him away. However, due to their outside interference, Elita is declared forfeit, and is drained of energon while Sky-Byte is refuelled.

Elita-1 and Sky-Byte exchange barbs, with Sky-Byte bringing up the loss of her entire team at his hand before attacking. As they dive for cover, Elita fills Optimus in on the backstory - while he was indisposed, Elita-1 had been leading a team of Autobots, including [[Wheeljack (Cyberworld|Wheeljack]], only for Sky-Byte to take them all out. With her experience facing him, she knows they can take out Sky-Byte even with his energon boost by working together. Optimus decides on a different route, leaving cover to try and negotiate a peaceful solution. Sky-Byte rebuffs him, focused on finally eliminating Elita after all this time, but when she tries to call him back by name, he realises he is facing down a Prime, and decides he now has a much more satisfying target. He harpoons Optimus to a rock with his energy blaster and jumps him, which gives Bumblebee and Elita the opening they need to catch him off guard. Elita tackles him, but he uses her as a Cybertronian shield to ward off Bee's blasts. Optimus leaps into the fray, and seeing that he is injured and outnumbered three-to-one, Sky-Byte takes his chance to run off. Elita goes to give chase, but Optimus refuses, letting him retreat. She calls him out, angrily wanting Sky-Byte to pay for what he did to her entire team, and rebuffs accusations of this being unlike her. Optimus and Bee fill her in on their side of the story - they still want to get to the Autobot shuttle in the desert, but have no way past [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]]. Elita recognises the name, having heard that beating him is the key to victory on Cyberworld, and apologises to the pair. Her anger was partly born out of worry, with the Autobots on Cyberworld having thought Optimus and Bee hadn't made it. She knows a way that they could potentially defeat Scorponok, but the way to it is guarded, and she will only help them acquire it if they help her defeat Sky-Byte. Optimus acquiesces, agreeing to bring him to justice.

In a stone temple, Sky-Byte reports to [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]], informing him Optimus Prime has arrived.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] (1)
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (4)

|c2=
*[[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] (2)
*[[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (5)
}}

==Quotes==
"Sky-Byte, there's no need for us to fight! You seem a reasonable bot." 
"'He does??'"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' attempts to negotiate. '''Bumblebee''' doesn't fancy his chances.

"Lord Megatron! Optimus Prime is on Cyberworld!" 
"How upsetting."
:—'''Sky-Byte''' gives '''Megatron''' the bad news about the better gamer arriving.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* Elita-1 has been on Cyberworld for many [[Units of time|cycles]] prior to Optimus and Bee's arrival. She did have a team of Autobots, including [[Wheeljack (Cyberworld)|Wheeljack]], but they are all "gone".
* Despite Megatron's comments [[Prime Target (Cyberworld)|a couple of episodes ago]] about there not being "Autobots or Decepticons, only survivors" on Cyberworld, he seems to have set himself up as a Decepticon leader anyway.

===Character levels===
*Elita-1 is at level 4, close to level 5.
*Optimus seems to have done a bit of leveling between episodes as he's now halfway thorough level 2.

===Transformers references===
* Elita-1 asks, "What in [[Primus]]'s name were you thinking?"
* Elita-1 leading an ill-fated team of Autobots while Optimus Prime is elsewhere, leading to conflict between her angry war-driven outlook and his cooler head, calls to mind the set-up of the recent [[Skybound Entertainment]] ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' comic.
* Elita-1's gun resembles the gun she used in [[Transformers: Tactical Arena]].
* Sky-Byte's voice evokes a bit of his [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Cyberverse incarnation]].

===Real world references===

===Trivia===
* Following the pattern of previous Cyberworld episodes, this episode was initially uploaded in a combined video with [[Crate Point, Well Fought|the previous one]] with the SEO-baiting title "Elita-1's High Speed Jungle Race". The title comes from series writer [[Ali Lightfoot]]'s twitter feed. <ref>{{citesocial|quote=If my musings are correct, Transformers: CYBERWORLD episode 4 "River Race Ruckus" will drop this Saturday 2nd August - @ 2PM BST | 1PM UTC | 9AM EST | 6AM PST

What are y'all excited to see?|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1950613706477371490|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=07|day=30}}</ref>

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Regatta Randale'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 2]], 2025

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gara lungo il fiume'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' August 2, 2025

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

2025-08-02T13:08:46Z

Driftman217: /* Characters */

{{Nav-cyberworld}}

[[File:TFCyberworld.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Worlds will collide. Everything will change.]]

'''''Transformers: Cyberworld''''' is an animated web series that debuted on [[July 12]], [[2025]], animated by [[Omens Studios]]. The series follows the adventures of [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]], and many other [[Transformer]]s as they are transported to a mysterious "[[Cyberworld (location)|Cyberworld]]" and forced to compete in a gauntlet of extreme games and challenges.

{{bigquote|''Transformers, 'till all are one Fight it out for the energon Figure out whose side you're on In Cyberworld, 'till all! Are! One!'' |The [[theme song]].}}

==Storyline==
The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s find themselves pulled by an unknown mastermind into the virtual realm of [[Cyberworld]]. Forced to compete in challenges to earn [[energon]] and gain strength, the trapped Transformers must battle the elements and each other to try and survive long enough to figure out who's behind it all.

==Characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Kyle Kaczmarczyk]])
* [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (Kyle Kaczmarczyk)
* [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] (Jessica Carroll)
* [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] ([[James Alexander]])
* [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (James Alexander)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (James Alexander)
* [[Starscream (Cyberworld)|Starscream]]
* [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] (Jack Ayres)
* [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] ([[Jack Ayres]])

|c4=
* [[NPC Narrator]] ([[Jessica Carroll]])
}}

==Episodes==
#[[Commence Program]]
#[[Prime Target (Cyberworld)|Prime Target]]
#[[Crate Point, Well Fought]]

==Trivia==
*To increase SEO and appease the soulless YouTube algorithm, ''Cyberworld'' episodes are typically given overly descriptive plot synopses as video titles, with no title card in the video itself and the video title frequently changing after release (sometimes up to three times in a single day). Various episodes also tend to be combined into single videos and played out of order to increase runtime, even for their first runs, with these videos often having their own completely different titles. As such {{SITENAME SHORT}} has opted to name episodes as just their numbers, save for instances where members of the show's staff are able to clarify what the proper title should be.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Web series]]

Crate Point, Well Fought

2025-07-31T15:06:37Z

Driftman217:

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 3
|prev=Prime Target (Cyberworld)
|next=Cyberworld episode 4
|title="Crate Point, Well Fought"
|season=1
|season ep=3
|airdate=[[July 26]], 2025
|writers=[[Gretchen Mallorie]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfWlx10QjqM
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Optimus Prime and Bumblebee clash with Grimlock and Snarl for a crate drop.'''

==Synopsis==

In the jungle region, [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus]] and [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] discuss their next move. Bumblebee notes that the menacing [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] is still blocking the path to the [[Autobot]] shuttle, and doubts whether they should risk facing the giant. Optimus concludes that the shuttle is the only clue to where they are and how they got there. The two are distracted by an orange glow in the distance, which their HUDs identify as a "crate drop". They decide to check it out, but have to dive into the bushes as [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] and [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] thunder onto the path. Not seeing the pair, the [[Dinobot (Cyberworld)|Dinobots]] openly discuss that they could use the crate's upgrades. Grimlock is especially eager after only getting battle damage the last time they tried. After the Dinobots stomp away, Bumblebee is ready to speed off and get to the crate first. He proclaims the upgrades are just the thing they need to help them defeat Scorponok. Optimus is reluctant to pick a fight with Grimlock, saying Bee is not ready for a fight after his encounter with [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]], but Bumblebee persists, and the pair transform and roll out.

Later, the pair find themselves in a valley of thick mud with the crate on a cliff-face on the far side. As the two Autobots approach the cliff, the Dinobots appear. Grimlock mocks Bumblebee before opening fire, knocking Bee backward. The Dinobots charge, but Bumblebee grabs a vine and throws it around Grimlock's legs, sending him sliding. Snarl attacks Bee with his sword, only to be rammed by Optimus in truck mode. Optimus orders Bee to get to the crate, while he fights the Dinobots. Bee is half way up the cliff when he sees Optimus getting cornered. He tries to help, but that only reveals his position. Grimlock launches Snarl up to the cliff, and the nimble Dinobot smugly forces Bumblebee back down. After an argument, Optimus and Bee use the mud to trap the Dinobots and disable Grimlock's cannon. Optimus and Bee are about to grab the crate, but the Dinobots arrive atop the cliff via a geyser. The Dinobots transform and charge, but Bee unlocks the crate and finds an Energon ax and a wrist-mounted blaster. He tosses the ax to Optimus, who whacks Grimlock upside the head with it. Working together, the two Autobots use their new armaments to drive the Dinobots to the edge of the cliff. After a brief stare-down, Grimlock concedes, and warns Optimus to stay out of his way in the future. The battle won, Optimus spies a new green beacon, and declares it their next objective.

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] (4)
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (5)

|c2=
*[[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (1)
}}

==Quotes==
"Okay, ''don't'' throw weapons!" 
[throws axe at Grimlock] 
"...do as I say, not as I do."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' teaches valuable morals.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Scorponok is shown guarding the ship that Optimus tried to reach in "[[Commence Program]]".
*Grimlock remarks that there has not been a crate drop in a long time and is shown to have some battle damage after the previous upgrades.

===Character levels===
*Bumblebee remains at level 2, nearly at level 3.
*Optimus remains at level 1, nearly at level 2.

===Transformers references===

===Real world references===
*When Bumblebee scans Scorponok, translating one of the readouts reveals the text 'THREAT LEVEL MIDNIGHT', a reference to {{w|Threat Level Midnight|Michael Scott's crappy movie}} from ''{{w|The Office|The Office}}.''
*Snarl is shown running with his arms hanging back and his body hunched over, which is how ninjas are shown to run in popular media such as the ''Naruto'' franchise and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)''.
*Optimus' axe is shown to come back to him after he throws it, similar to how the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] character [[Thor]] is shown throwing Mjolnir and Stormbreaker in the MCU. Both Thor and [[Optimus Prime (One)|Optimus Prime]] from ''[[Transformers One]]'' have been played by [[Chris Hemsworth]].

===Trivia===
*This episode was uploaded with the [[Prime Target (Cyberworld)|previous episode]] in a combined video titled "Optimus Prime Fights Grimlock in Extraction Mission", similar to the second episode being uploaded in a second combined video with the first episode, but being shown before the predecessor episode. Series writer [[Ali Lightfoot]] later revealed the official names for the first three episodes. <ref>{{citesocial|quote=Incidentally:
Episode 01 is "Commence Program" 
Episode 02 is "Prime Target" 
Episode 03 is "Crate Point, Well Fought" 

The YT titles change to maximise SEO & game the algo. I know it has confused some of y'all.|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1949098695070240914?t=D78-KcaaMeZeEaplj6rrDA|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=07|day=26}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cyberworld episode 03}}
[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

2025-07-26T14:27:08Z

Driftman217: /* Episodes */

Crate Point, Well Fought

2025-07-26T14:24:18Z

Driftman217: /* Real world references */

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 3
|prev=Cyberworld episode 2
|next=Cyberworld episode 4
|season=1
|season ep=3
|airdate=[[July 26]], 2025
|writers=[[Gretchen Mallorie]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
}}

'''Optimus Prime and Bumblebee clashes with Grimlock and Snarl for a crate drop.'''

==Synopsis==

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] (4)
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (5)

|c2=
*[[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (1)
}}

==Quotes==

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Scorponok is shown guarding the ship that Optimus tried to reach in [[Cyberworld episode 1|episode 1]].
*Grimlock remarks that there has not been a crate drop in a long time and is shown to have some battle damage after the previous upgrades.

===Character levels===
*Bumblebee remains at level 2, nearly at level 3.
*Optimus remains at level 1, nearly at level 2.

===Transformers references===

===Real world references===
*Snarl is shown running with his arms hanging back and his body hunched over, which is how ninjas are shown to run in popular media such as the ''Naruto'' franchise and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)''.
*Optimus' axe is shown to come back to him after he throws it, similar to how the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] character [[Thor]] is shown throwing Mjolnir and Stormbreaker in the MCU, and both Thor and [[Optimus Prime (One)|Optimus Prime]] from ''[[Transformers One]]'' have been played by [[Chris Hemsworth]].

===Trivia===
*This episode was uploaded with its [[Cyberworld episode 2|predecessor]] in a combined video titled "Optimus Prime Fights Grimlock in Extraction Mission", similar to the second episode being uploaded in a second combined video with the first episode, but being shown before the predecessor episode.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cyberworld episode 03}}
[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Crate Point, Well Fought

2025-07-26T14:20:36Z

Driftman217: Created page with "{{episode |otherseries=''Transformers: Cyberworld'' episode 3 |prev=Cyberworld episode 2 |next=Cyberworld episode 4 |season=1 |season ep..."

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 3
|prev=Cyberworld episode 2
|next=Cyberworld episode 4
|season=1
|season ep=3
|airdate=[[July 26]], 2025
|writers=[[Gretchen Mallorie]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
}}

'''Optimus Prime and Bumblebee clashes with Grimlock and Snarl for a crate drop.'''

==Synopsis==

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] (4)
*[[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (5)

|c2=
*[[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (1)
}}

==Quotes==

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Scorponok is shown guarding the ship that Optimus tried to reach in [[Cyberworld episode 1|episode 1]].
*Grimlock remarks that there has not been a crate drop in a long time and is shown to have some battle damage after the previous upgrades.

===Character levels===
*Bumblebee remains at level 2, nearly at level 3.
*Optimus remains at level 1, nearly at level 2.

===Transformers references===

===Real world references===
*Snarl is shown running with his arms hanging back and his body hunched over, which is how ninjas are shown to run in popular media such as the ''Naruto'' franchise and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)''.
*Optimus' axe is shown to come back to him after he throws it, similar to how the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] character [[Thor]] is shown throwing Mjolnir and Stormbreaker in the MCU, and both Thor and [[Optimus Prime (One)|Optimus Prime]] have been played by [[Chris Hemsworth]].

===Trivia===
*This episode was uploaded with its [[Cyberworld episode 2|predecessor]] in a combined video titled "Optimus Prime Fights Grimlock in Extraction Mission", similar to the second episode being uploaded in a second combined video with the first episode, but being shown before the predecessor episode.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cyberworld episode 03}}
[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

2025-07-26T13:16:19Z

Driftman217: /* Characters */ Credits from the third episode.

Prime Target (Cyberworld)

2025-07-24T13:41:00Z

Driftman217: They uploaded the second episode separately from the first episode.

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 2
|prev=Cyberworld episode 1
|next=Cyberworld episode 3
|image=CyberworldEp2-ChallengeArena.jpg
|caption=With the death of [[Transformers: Reactivate|''Reactivate'']], this is the closest glimpse we have to what a Transformers game in 2025 might look like.
|season=1
|season ep=2
|airdate=[[July 12]], 2025
|writers=[[Ryan Denham]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xseROpF4R8
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Megatron shows a newly-arrived Bumblebee the ropes of surviving on Cyberworld.'''

==Synopsis==

Newly arrived on [[Cyberworld]], [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] is confronted by [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]], holding him at axe point. Confused at where he is, he accuses Megatron and his 'Decepticreeps' of having caused their predicament, flashing back to an explosion that engulfed [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]], but Megatron shrugs off the factionalism, offering him a hand. Here, there are no Autobots and Decepticons, only survivors. Speaking of, Optimus is still on the run from [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]], but a jungle vine is able to tie up his Dinobot foe, and he drives off to find Bumblebee.

Bumblebee and Megatron are bonding on a walk through the jungle, Bumblebee mocking Megatron's proclamations of doom and gloom, but basking in the praise Megatron offers him for being a courageous bot. They stumble upon a clearing, and while it looks like another patch of random jungle at first, the ground starts emitting a bright green column of light, announcing the beginning of a Target Blaster challenge, Megatron declares this is where they can find [[Energon]], pushing Bee in before striding in himself.

On the inside, an array of metallic platforms generate, with an automated announcer telling the duo to destroy all 50 targets enclosed in the green area. Megatron immediately transforms to bull mode and charges in, switching back and forth to charge through, punch, throw his axe, and even headbutt target after target. Bumblebee, meanwhile, grabs a blaster generated by him, and tries to tell his partner that, with the name being "Target Blaster", the blasters might be more key to the task than expected. Megatron doesn't listen, though, eventually destroying 49 of the targets all by himself, while Bee is only able to shoot one. In the end, though, Bumblebee is proved right - he wins for actually hitting the target, not smashing it, and is rewarded with a gift of Energon. Megatron, meanwhile, is hit with a red glow of doom for losing. Bee goes to celebrate with a little dance, only to be caught off guard when Megatron deploys his fusion cannon, and blasts him across the map. He hears an approaching engine, and is too wounded to move, but it's Optimus Prime. He cradles Bee in his arms, who comments on the good news of his arrival before passing out.

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] (4)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (2)
|h3=Others
|c3=
*[[NPC Narrator]] (5)
}}

==Quotes==

"I am no Decepticon. And you are no Autobot. We're all just survivors here."
:—'''Megatron''' explains to '''Bumblebee''' the concept of a Battle Royale mode

"It's like taking Energon from a [[Mini-Con]]."
:—'''Megatron''' is on a winning streak

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* Bumblebee doesn't have the clearest memories of how he ended up on Cyberworld, but does remember Optimus Prime being engulfed in a large explosion from below - perhaps this is how he ended up in freefall last episode? The shadows of other Transformers can just about be seen in the background.
* Megatron has been on Cyberworld long enough to know the ropes with challenges, although has yet to get the hang of actually listening to what you are supposed to do.

===Character levels===
*Bumblebee went from level 1 to 2.
*Megatron was level 8.

===Transformers references===

* Bumblebee and Megatron face off against Module 17.09.84, numbered after the official airdate of the [[More_than_Meets_the_Eye,_Part_1|first Generation 1 episode]].
* Megatron references Mini-Cons, the small diminuitive race of robots first introduced in the [[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada franchise]].

===Real world references===
[[File:CyberWorld_Bumblebee_FamilyGuyPose.jpg|thumb|''Bumblebee: Scouts Die Twice'']]
* After being shot by Megatron, Bumblebee once again lands in a widely memed "[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-death-pose-peter-falls-down-the-stairs death pose]", this time from ''{{w|Family Guy}}'', it's also not the [[Home, Part 1|first time in the franchise we've seen that happen]].
* The target challenge with its floating platforms bears more than a passing resemblance to the target-smashing mini-games from Nintendo's ''Super Smash Bros'' series.

===Trivia===
*This episode was initially released in a single video combined with episode 1. Episode 2 was uploaded separately on July 24 with it titled "Bumblebee VS Megatron Target Showdown", which may not be the official title for the episode similar to how episode 1 went through multiple titles after it was uploaded.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cyberworld episode 02}}
[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Commence Program

2025-07-20T21:15:35Z

Driftman217:

{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberworld]]'' episode 1
|next=Cyberworld episode 2
|image=CyberworldEp1-ScorponokOptimus.jpg
|caption=[[William Lennox|I don't have a credit card!]]
|season=1
|season ep=1
|airdate=[[July 12]], 2025
|writers=[[Ali Lightfoot]]
|animation studio=[[Omens Studio LTD]]
|continuity=Cyberworld
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOvM2IeSNH4
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Optimus Prime crash-lands on a strange planet and tries to find an Autobot ally... or at the very least, someone who's not looking to destroy him.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] plummets through the air, seemingly unconscious, as he hears [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] shouting desperately. He comes to and ungracefully flails in his free-fall, slamming right into some thick tree branches before landing in a jungle. He gets an unexpected firmware update which disorients him and makes his field of vision acquire what looks like a gaming HUD. Unimpressed with the bio-organic fauna of the planet, he discovers a desert right outside of the jungle. After a short trek over one of the dunes, he discovers an [[Autobot]] ship. Hoping to find an ally, he approaches and calls out to whoever may be inside, only to receive a nasty shock when [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] bursts out of the sand. After an attempt to take out his [[energon-axe]] fails, and it becomes clear Scorponok isn't interested in talking, Optimus flees back into the jungle. Scorponok, unable to follow him, leaves.

[[File:Cyberworld optimus firmware.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]

Optimus discovers the [[energon]] readings in the area are spiking, and a blue cube appears out of the ground. As Optimus takes it, he absorbs it, and his level meter at the top of his screen goes up. No sooner has this happened that a shout accusing him of being a thief erupts from the jungle, along with an angry [[Dinobot]]. Uninterested in Optimus' attempt to make peace, [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] attacks him, then gives chase. Some clever maneuvering on Optimus' part causes Grimlock to get his head stuck between two branches, allowing him to escape.

Looking up, Optimus sees a falling Autobot escape pod in the sky, and follows its trail in the hope that Bumblebee is inside. A jump cut reveals that Bumblebee has also crash-landed, and is having trouble getting used to a firmware update of his own. However, he's soon distracted by heavy footsteps behind him. Hopeful it's an ally, he turns around, only to meet [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]]...
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (4)

|c2=
*[[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (2)
*[[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (5)
}}

==Quotes==
"Not registering any anomalies, but this is... ''quite'' abnormal."
:—'''Optimus Prime''', discovering the vast difference in the neighboring biomes

"Not just any Dinobot! You speak with me, Grimlock- KING of Dinobots!"
:—'''Grimlock''', humble as ever

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Optimus Prime and Bumblebee arrive on Cyberworld, unaware of where they are and what it is. Scorponok, Grimlock, and Megatron all appear to have been there longer. Grimlock is the only one to give an estimate of his time there, having waited for the energon cube to spawn for "weeks".
*Optimus and Bumblebee have their firmware updated for compatibility with the planet's "system".

===Character levels===
*As a fresh spawn in Cyberworld, we see Optimus started at level 1 and gained enough Energon almost level up to 2. While don't see Bumblebee's level, we can assume he started at level 1 as well.
*Grimlock, Megatron and Scorponok's levels are unknown.

===Transformers references===
*Optimus comments that the planet is certainly not [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].
*Bumblebee, a bit prematurely, thanks [[Primus]] that he's not alone in his new surroundings.

===Real-world references===
[[File:Cyberworld bumblebee crashlanding.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|"Ah... where did you bury me anyway?" "Bury?"]]
*The shot of Grimlock's reflection in dinosaur mode in Optimus Prime's rearview mirror refers to the famous similar shot from ''[[Jurassic Park]]''.
*Bumblebee crash-lands in a position that looks an awful lot like [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yamchas-death-pose/ Yamcha's death pose] from ''Dragon Ball Z''.

===Trivia===
*This episode was initially released in a single video combined with episode 2. The episode would later receive a standalone release on July 17.
*The standalone video went through three different titles on its first day of release, presumably to drive engagement and chase the YouTube algorithm: "Rumble in the Jungle", then "Jungle Face-Off", and finally, "Jungle Escape". As such, {{SITENAME_SHORT}} has opted to simply use numbers for the episode titles until we're sure they're not going to be changed again.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cyberworld episode 01}}
[[Category:Cyberworld episodes]]

Endgame, Part I

2025-07-18T13:04:36Z

Driftman217:

{{disambig3.5|the ''Animated'' episode|the ''Beast Machines'' episode|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|Endgame}}

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFAni EndgamePart1 Autobots Ready.jpg
|caption=You're telling us this entire series was just to get Prime a jetpack? ''Again''?
|ep=41
|ep2=38
|prev2=This Is Why I Hate Machines
|next2=Endgame, Part II
|title="Endgame, Part I"
|airdate=[[May 16]], [[2009]]
|season=3
|season ep=12
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Rich Fogel]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvghwvHXEGk
|videosite=YouTube}}

'''The Autobots race to find an advantage over Megatron's control of Omega Supreme.'''

==Synopsis==
At the [[Autobot Earth Base|plant]], [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] and [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] are working on Prowl's [[processor-over-matter]] by having Prowl lift some [[oil]] cans. Jazz is impressed with Prowl's skills, and wonders why he never completed his training. Suddenly, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] come tearing in, causing Prowl to lose his concentration and drop the oil can. Bumblebee and Bulkhead skid on the spilled oil across the floor, crashing into the wall. As the two bots collect themselves, Prowl says that they're two reasons he never completed his training. Bulkhead and Bumblebee then explain why they came in so quickly: They've found [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]'s energy signature, and it's on Earth's [[moon (moon)|moon]].

[[File:TFAni EndgamePart1 Lugnut vs Shockwave.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|And to think, this dance scene almost got cut.]]
On the Moon, [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] continues his efforts to probe [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]'s memory banks for the [[activation code]]s to Omega Supreme. However, all he's found so far are some prewar datatrax of her school-teaching days. [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] is convinced that his "most loyal servant" can find it in time. [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] takes a moment to goad [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] that Megatron has another favorite, and Lugnut bashes Shockwave aside in protest, citing his great loyalty and never-ending search for Megatron. Shockwave counters that while Lugnut was fawning at Megatron's stabilizing servos, he risked his [[spark]] by going spying on the Autobots for stellar cycles. The two get into a fight, much to Megatron's annoyance, while Starscream gloats and rolls his head out of the room...

At the plant, the Autobots debate their options. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] says that they need to act now, and that they need to use the [[Magnus Hammer]]. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] is hesitant, and thinks back to his past...

:''At the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] chambers, [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] reviews Cadet Optimus and [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Cadet Sentinel]]'s recent unauthorized visit to an organic world, which resulted in the loss of Cadet [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]]. Sentinel makes a final statement that he wanted to go back for Elita, but Optimus prevented him. Ultra Magnus again asks whose idea it was to go to the planet, and Optimus takes full responsibility as the senior Cadet. Ultra Magnus had high hopes for Optimus, even believing he could one day be [[Magnus (rank)|Magnus]], but now that will never be. Ultra Magnus pronounces his judgment: Optimus is to be expelled from the [[Autobot Academy]] and be ineligible for service in the [[Elite Guard|Cybertron Elite Guard]].''

Snapped back to the present, Optimus reaffirms that they don't need to use the Magnus Hammer. Instead, he was considering a flight mechanism to keep up with Megatron. Ratchet is resistant, but the other Autobots point out various examples of Autobot flight, and Ratchet finally relents. Optimus says that they need more information, so Prowl volunteers to go and spy on the Decepticons. Jazz vetoes this, saying that Prowl is on the verge of a major training breakthrough, so someone else must go. Bumblebee gets volunteered, much to his own annoyance.

[[File:TFA-Endgame-ShockwavePointsAndLaughs.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Statement: LOL]]
In the ruins of the [[Nemesis (Animated)|Decepticon warship]], Starscream creates a new body for himself from the shell of a [[Starscream clone (Animated)|clone]] and a [[protoform]]. However, as soon as the process is complete and Starscream's head is attached, Megatron reveals his presence and destroys the already complete clones. Starscream begs for mercy, saying he planned to make an army for the Decepticon cause, but Megatron has bigger plans in mind for the protoforms: Not to clone himself, nor even Lugnut. No, even bigger—about the size of Omega Supreme...

In the woods, Jazz guides Prowl in meditation, directing him to commune with the [[AllSpark#Animated continuity family|AllSpark]]. His efforts succeed, collecting the ambient dispersed AllSpark energy in the area and forming it into a solid AllSpark fragment. Meanwhile, Bumblebee is transwarped to the Moon. He manages to avoid being seen, but the transmitter he brought is destroyed when he avoids some construction work that Shockwave and Lugnut are doing. Making his way into Omega Supreme, he finds Arcee and realizes that she isn't quite functioning right. Since he doesn't know how to disconnect her without deactivating her, Bumblebee decides to activate her communicator to allow them to listen in on the Decepticons, and he quickly transwarps out. On Earth, the Autobots are unable to get the specifics of what's going on, but it quickly becomes obvious that Megatron is building something.

[[File:EndGamePart1-Autobotscantfly.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Wingblade Prime]]
At the plant, Ratchet, [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari]], and [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Professor Sumdac]] work on the [[jet pack]] they're building for Prime. Ratchet is having trouble, so Sari scans the device and discovers the problem. Once it's ready, they have Optimus take it for a test run. After he loses control, flies around the city, and crashes in front of the plant, all on five percent power, Ratchet and Sari decide to add some stabilizers. Once those are ready, Optimus conducts another test run. This one is much more successful, and Optimus actually enjoys his flying, thinking back to a conversation with Ultra Magnus...

:''Despite being expelled from the Academy, Optimus still impressed Ultra Magnus with the considerable skills he'd already shown in his stellar cycles of service. Managing to pull some strings, Ultra Magnus has been able to get Optimus promoted to [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] and get him a ship to command. Although Optimus is grateful, he soon sees his ship, [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|a rusted out piece of junk]]. Ratchet is performing maintenance and tells Optimus to ignore the appearance of the ship. Indicating Bumblebee and Bulkhead, he notes it's the young bots Optimus should be worried about...''

[[File:TFAni EndgamePart1 Optimus FemScream.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|"What the hell is that noise?" "Oh, that? I'm just driving with the top down."]]

While Optimus flies around the city, he attracts the attention of [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]], who thinks that he's Starscream returned to Earth. Her overriding (and still unexplained) hatred of Starscream compels her fly and attack him. Optimus takes a hit and crashes into the river, while she flies off as she realizes he's not her progenitor.

On the Moon, Shockwave is finally able to bring Arcee's memory to the point where she and Ratchet were attacked by [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]. Posing as Longarm Prime, he asks if she still has the activation codes for Project: Omega, which she does. Pleased, Shockwave pulls her wires and takes her to Megatron. Bulkhead and Bumblebee alert Optimus, who is in quite a funk after being beaten by a "Starscream wannabe".

Finally, the time has come to implant the protoforms into their base shells. They scan Omega Supreme, assuming his form. Longarm reawakens Arcee and instructs her to transfer the access code to Megatron, but she recognizes him and refuses. Shockwave thus deactivates her and prepares to upload the information to his leader. However, Starscream knocks Megatron aside to take the codes, but Lugnut knocks ''him'' aside and receives the codes instead—just as Megatron wanted. He knew that imprinting his personality onto the clones risked making them too ambitious, but there is no such threat from Lugnut, Megatron's "most loyal lieutenant"—a description which pleases Lugnut greatly. Furthermore, with the AllSpark fragments from Omega Supreme, they no longer have need of Starscream, whom Megatron immediately shoots, breaking his new body into several pieces.

[[File:TFAni EndgamePart1 Screamer NotAgain.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|De agony of de feet.]]
At the plant, Optimus is being repaired, and Ratchet insists that he must use the Magnus Hammer. Optimus still believes that using it isn't in his programming. Prowl, however, believes that fate makes its own programming, prompting Optimus to think back...

:''Working on repairing the space bridge where it all started, Bumblebee and Bulkhead stumble upon Prowl meditating in a cavern, having failed to commune with the AllSpark so far despite trying for a thousand stellar cycles. Unfortunately, one of the [[energon cube]]s Ratchet was setting up falls into Prowl's cavern. They barely make it out, but Prowl's ship is destroyed. Optimus offers to take him back to Cybertron in about fifty stellar cycles, after the crew finishes there, but notes that with Prowl's help, it could be sooner. Prowl bemoans how he has strayed so far from his path, and Optimus says that he can sympathize.''

[[File:TFA-Endgame-LugnutsSupreme.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Great, so now we know what the children would look like.]]

Optimus is snapped back to reality when Bulkhead says that he's getting several signals from the Moon. Meanwhile, Lugnut has finished uploading the codes, but a glitch forces him to remain on Omega Supreme with Shockwave to coordinate. Megatron, meanwhile, says that he will take the clones on a test run by destroying [[Detroit]]. As they launch, the Autobots head out to get a visual, while Optimus reluctantly grabs the Magnus Hammer. He asks Ratchet if they can still reason with Omega Supreme, but Ratchet doubts it, as the [[Lugnut Supreme|Lugnuts Supreme]] transform and prepare to touch down.

[[Endgame, Part II|To be concluded...]]
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (1)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (2)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (4)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (5)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (6)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (11)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (12)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (14, flashback)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Cadet Sentinel]] (15, flashback)

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*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave / Longarm Prime]] (7)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (8)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (9)
*[[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] (10)
*[[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] (17)
*Three [[Lugnut Supreme]]s (18–20)

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*[[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] (16)

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*[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] (13)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Megatron''': "We need those codes to control Omega Supreme. If any bot can access them, it is you, my ever-loyal Shockwave." 
'''Starscream''': "Uh-oh. Looks like Megatron has a new favorite, and I'll give you a hint – it ain't you!"
:—Megatron flatters Shockwave while Starscream eggs on Lugnut.

[[File:TFAni EndgamePart1 Megatron Facepalm.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|*faceplateservo*]]
'''Megatron''': Can't you shut [[Arcee (Animated)|her]] up? She makes [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] sound like he's got his head screwed on straight. 
'''Starscream''': You see? Now he even likes Blitzwing better than you. 
''[Lugnut bashes Shockwave aside while making his way to Starscream]'' 
'''Lugnut''': No! ''I'' am the most faithful! 
'''Shockwave''': Have you blown a diode?! I'm trying to work here! 
''[A scuffle ensues]'' 
'''Megatron''': Oh, for spark's sake...
:—You get what you pay for, Megatron. And these guys are free.

'''Prowl''': I'll transwarp to the Moon and spy on him. 
'''Jazz''': And take five on your Cyber-Ninja training? No dice. You're close to a real breakthrough. And I got a vibe that says we're gonna need every advantage we can get our servos on. 
'''Optimus''': Agreed. We'll send someone else. 
'''Bumblebee''': Who'd be crazy enough to volunteer for ''that'' mission? ''[Everyone looks at Bumblebee]'' Why's everyone looking at me? Why's everyone ''always'' looking at me?!
:—Bumblebee gets tired of all his suicide missions.

'''Starscream''': Have mercy, Megatron! I was merely building you an army to serve our great Decepticon cause. 
'''Megatron''': Ah, but you think too small, Starscream. I have plans for these protoforms. Much bigger plans. 
'''Starscream''': Naturally, you'd want to clone yourself, oh great one. 
'''Megatron''': Bigger. 
'''Starscream''': ''[Looks out the window]'' Oh not that idiot Lugnut 
''[Lugnut falls on his back, causing Shockwave to point and laugh]'' 
'''Megatron''': ''Bigger''... 
''[Starscream sees the base shells near Omega Supreme]'' 
'''Starscream''': Oh. I see... 
:—Megatron [[army-building|army-builds]] in the [[Size class|Supreme-class range]]. That's hardcore.

"Get with it, Prowl. The AllSpark ain't just in your circuits, dig. It's grooving all around us. Reach out and hook yourself into it. 
:—'''Jazz''', being all mystical ''and'' hip at the same time.

'''Sari''': ''[Scans the boosters]'' You're right. We need to add a microaerator to the fuel line. 
'''Ratchet''': And I suppose the rocket boosters just told you that? 
'''Sari''': Kinda. 
'''Ratchet''': That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever— 
''[Ratchet checks the rocket boosters]'' 
'''Ratchet''': Wait! I've got it! We'll add a microaerator to the fuel line! 
'''Sari''': Hmm, now why didn't I think of that? 
:—Ratchet is either a glory hog or going senile. Possibly both.

'''Slipstream''': [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]! You got some nerve showing your wing struts back here! ''[transforms and flies after 'Starscream'. She reaches 'him' and fires upon 'him', knocking Optimus Prime out of the sky]'' Wait. You're not Starscream. You're ... a flying Autobot? 
'''Optimus Prime''': Whoa! 
''[Optimus falls into the river. Then Slipstream stops to admire her handiwork, before transforming and flying away.]'' 
:-Slipstream, making an honest mistake.

"Instilled with my own powerful personality, the clones might try to overthrow me. But not so my ''most loyal'' lieutenant..." 
''[to Megatron]'' "Ah. I am honoured, my Lord." ''[to Shockwave]'' "Hah. Megatron trusts '''me''' the most!"
:—'''Megatron''' makes all '''Lugnut'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s dreams come true. Lugnut responds by showing what a child he is.

"First I fail to protect the protoforms and now this! Do you have any idea what it's like to embark on a path, only to find it so completely twisted and turned that you have no idea where you are?!" 
"Oddly enough, I do."
:—'''Prowl''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Prowl's failure to complete his [[Cyber-Ninja Corps|Cyber-Ninja]] training, as previously mentioned in "[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]", is again brought up. We learn in this episode that his failure is partially due to the fact that while trying to commune with the AllSpark, he was interrupted by Optimus Prime's crew and wound up joining up with them out of necessity, bridging the storytelling gap between "[[Five Servos of Doom]]" and "[[Transform and Roll Out]]".
*The events of the "[[Along Came a Spider]]" flashbacks are at last confirmed to be the reason that Optimus was kicked out of the [[Autobot Academy]].
*[[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] returns for the first time since "A Bridge Too Close, Part II".
*The [[protoform]]s that [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] stole in "Five Servos of Doom" return in this episode, when it is revealed that the bounty hunter appropriated them for Megatron, and that they have been in the remains of his crashed warship all this time. As many fans had suspected, the protoforms are confirmed to have been used by Starscream to create his [[Starscream clone (Animated)|clones]] in "[[A Fistful of Energon]]" and "[[A Bridge Too Close, Part I]]". As the events of "Five Servos" suggested, the protoforms are shown to be [[blank]], without [[spark]]s.
*Ratchet once again repeats the oft-heard mantra that "Autobots don't fly", a common (if frequently broken) rule throughout most of the Transformers fiction, and one that has received quite a bit of attention in ''Animated''. Like quite a lot of fans before them, Bulkhead and Bumblebee promptly confront Ratchet with the harsh reality: [[Jetfire (Animated)|quite]] [[Jetstorm (Animated)|a]] [[Swoop (Animated)|few]] ''[[Prowl (Animated)|Animated]]'' [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Autobots]] have taken to the skies at this point.
*In [[TransWarped]] Optimus mentions one day he'd learn how to fly. Looks like he held on to that thought.

===Transformers references===
[[File:GodGinrai toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Now, that's some upgrade...]]
*While more viewers will likely be reminded of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]'s super mode, ''Animated'' Optimus's new flight attachments (specifically, the colors and details of his wings and gauntlets) are based on [[Ginrai (human)|God Ginrai]]'s flight-endowing [[Godbomber]] components. The flight pack itself, to which the wings attach, doesn't seem to owe as much to Ginrai's, however; even its resemblance to the [[Jetfire (G1)|original Jetfire]]'s booster pack is unintentional, according to [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] (any connection between it and [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3|the time Prime wore Sideswipe's]] [[jet pack|rocket pack]] is unconfirmed). His shoulder cannons, however, do appear to be based on his Voyager-class toy's water blaster.
*As he jets into the sky, Optimus shouts out [[Megatron (BW)|"Yessssss!" and "Excellent"]].
*The creation of the Lugnut Supremes, evil clones of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]], hearkens back to previous evil Omegas such as the [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]] and the [[Dark Guardian]]s.
*Starscream's line "It's so nice to have a real body again!" after rebuilding himself (for the first time) is almost word-for-word the same line he uses in [[Starscream's Ghost|a certain G1 episode]] after inhabiting [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus's]] body.
*This is not the first time [[Marty Isenberg]] worked on a series finale of a Transformers series called [[Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|Endgame Part 1]].

===Real-world references===
*The scene in which Optimus tests his jet pack for the first time appears to be a reference to a similar scene in the 2008 ''[[Iron Man]]'' {{w|Iron Man (2008 film)|motion picture}}, as he starts out using only a tiny percentage of the pack's power and still winds up shooting off out of control. When he achieves successful flight on his next test, he's also just as elated as Stark was. Amusingly, this isn't even the first time [[David Kaye]]'s played the part of Iron Man, having voiced the character in the ''{{w|Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes}}'' animated series.

===Trivia===
*Prowl had been on his optics quest for at least "a million stellar cycles" before he joined up with Optimus...and had accomplished jack squat in all that time. Of course, he could have been exaggerating out of frustration.
*Megatron purposely started the Shockwave/Lugnut feud, knowing Starscream would try to seize Omega Supreme's access codes, just to be sure Lugnut would be in his most loyal state at the moment of the transfer? Now, that's some sleeky fore-thinkings...
*Shockwave has enough of a sense of humor that he can laugh. Who knew?
*Interestingly, Megatron destroys all of the remaining (albeit inert) Starscream clone shells, instead of reprogramming them to serve him and boost the number of troops under his command. [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] even suggests this, but apparently Megatron prefers [[Lugnut Supreme|sheer brute force]] over [[Air Warrior|numbers]]. Considering who they're clones of, this isn't really that surprising.
*After spending all of Season 3 as a disembodied head, Starscream finally regains his body....only to have Megatron blow it to smithereens at the end of the episode. ''Tough break'', Screamer.
*Prowl punches a boulder out of frustration and the boulder ''splits neatly in half!'' Holy crap man.
*This is not the [[Matrix Blade|first time]] that an Optimus has taken up a huge, Matrix-related melee weapon for the final battle against a Megatron.
*In this episode, Longarm's rank is "Security Chief". This is most likely because his cover has been blown or the fact that he was speaking to Arcee, who is unaware [[Great War (Animated)|the war]] has ended.
*This episode is not only the last to feature Slipstream, but the only one in the entire season.
*During Shockwave and Lugnut's fight you can actually hear Shockwave say "Liar, Lying Liar". No seriously.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fin de partie, 1ère partie'''" ("Endgame, 1st Part")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Brazilian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fim de Jogo Parte 1'''" ("Game Over Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fin del juego, pare 1'''" ("Game over, part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 22|22 December]] [[2009]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tobitate! Optimus Prime'''" (翔びたて! オプティマスプライム, "Take Off! Optimus Prime")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 18|18 December]] [[2010]]

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2011 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 10 ([[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]]

Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

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Driftman217: /* Episodes */ They reuploaded the first episode separately from the second episode and it seems the first episode is called Jungle Face-Off as it says in the title. Rumble in the Jungle is said to be the third episode.

{{Nav-cyberworld}}

[[File:TFCyberworld.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]

'''''Transformers: Cyberworld''''' is an animated web series that debuted on [[July 12]], [[2025]], animated by [[Omens Studios]]. The series follows the adventures of [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]], and many other [[Transformer]]s as they are transported to a mysterious "[[Cyberworld (location)|Cyberworld]]" and forced to compete in a gauntlet of extreme games and challenges.

{{bigquote|''Transformers, 'till all are one Fight it out for the energon Figure out whose side you're on In Cyberworld, 'till all! Are! One!'' |The [[theme song]].}}

==Storyline==
The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s find themselves pulled by an unknown mastermind into the virtual realm of [[Cyberworld]]. Forced to compete in challenges to earn [[energon]] and gain strength, the trapped Transformers must battle the elements and each other to try and survive long enough to figure out who's behind it all.

==Characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
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* [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Kyle Kaczmarczyk]])
* [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (Kyle Kaczmarczyk)
* [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]]
* [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] ([[James Alexander]])
* [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]]

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* [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (James Alexander)
* [[Starscream (Cyberworld)|Starscream]]
* [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)#Toys|Sky-Byte]]
* [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] ([[Jack Ayres]])

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* [[NPC Narrator]] ([[Jessica Carroll]])
}}

==Episodes==
#[[Jungle Face-Off]]
#
#[[Rumble in the Jungle (Cyberworld)|Rumble in the Jungle]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Web series]]

Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

2025-07-12T16:51:52Z

Driftman217: /* Characters */

Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

2025-07-12T16:49:27Z

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This Is Why I Hate Machines

2025-07-04T14:03:15Z

Driftman217:

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|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFAni ThisisWhyIHateMachines Fanzone Crowd.jpg
|caption=
|ep=40
|ep2=37
|prev2=Decepticon Air
|next2=Endgame, Part I
|title="This Is Why I Hate Machines"
|caption=This is what hell looks like to Captain Fanzone.
|airdate=[[May 9]], [[2009]]
|season=3
|season ep=11
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Rob Hoegee]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Yutaka Hirata]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO58Q5ppIB4
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''A space bridge accident sends Ratchet and Captain Fanzone to Cybertron, right as the Decepticon controlled Omega Supreme arrives.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:TFA ThisIsWhyIHateMachines Fanzone SpaceBridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|That's it! I'm firing my travel agent.]]
[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] is trying to calibrate the newly constructed [[space bridge]] properly to begin the hunt for [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]. Unfortunately, [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s advanced notation system of adhesive note papers leaves something to be desired. [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] chooses that moment to step off [[Sumdac Tower]]'s elevator, engaged in a spirited discussion with [[Sumdac Systems]] technical support over some malfunctioning police drones. Fanzone has come to take up the matter with [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] himself, but before he can start looking for the scientist, a pair of police drones catch up to him and open fire with lethal force. Now dodging gunfire while the oblivious Ratchet continues to sort through Bulkhead's notes, Fanzone grows progressively more irate until the space bridge suddenly activates, having located Omega Supreme's transwarp signature. Ratchet looks up just in time to see the hapless Fanzone being sucked into the space bridge portal, and, deciding that this probably isn't a good thing, opts to follow.

[[File:ThisIsWhyIHateMachines-Glyphandothers.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Just robot asses as far as the eye can see.]]

Fanzone finds himself unceremoniously dumped in the middle of a large city on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], a situation he's less than thrilled about. A crowd of Autobots freaks out at the presence of the horrifying organic lifeform. Nearly stepped on by the immense [[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]] at the urging of a [[Flareup (Animated)|friend]], Fanzone is rescued by the timely arrival of Ratchet. Fanzone wants to return home immediately, but Ratchet insists that while they're on Cybertron, they may as well hit up [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. To his dismay, his favorite watering hole has been shut down, along with other "subversive" gathering places, by order of [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]]. After watching one of Sentinel Prime's propaganda videos, the pair are soon approached by the Elite Guard, and Sentinel Prime demands to know how they have been able to get to Cybertron with space bridge travel locked down. Ratchet angrily explains that they didn't use the space bridge network, but rather piggybacked on Omega Supreme's transwarp signature. Sentinel, well-informed as always, laughs off Ratchet, thinking that Omega Supreme had been decommissioned centuries ago. He is immediately proven wrong as the looming shape of Omega Supreme's robot form appears in the Cybertronian skies.

Above the city, aboard Omega's inert body, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] muses on this (glorious!) moment for the [[Decepticon]]s: those who were once driven away from Cybertron in exile are now poised over it in one of its greatest weapons. As [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] points out that they have no means actually to ''use'' said weapon, [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] comes to Megatron's defense, saying that with the [[plasma dynamic thruster]] removed, the Decepticons have control over Omega's navigational systems, transformation, and free access to the ship. Starscream points out that they have no control over the weapons systems, but Megatron rebuffs him with the revelation that he still has a spy on Cybertron who can fetch him the access codes to Omega Supreme. On cue, [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] contacts the Decepticons, saying that he knows of another means to the get the codes, only needing time to get to it. Starscream comments that this will only work if the Cybertronian defense cannons don't shoot them out of the sky, but Megatron doubts that they would fire on one of the greatest symbols of Autobot military strength.

Meanwhile, Sentinel advocates that they fire the Cybertronian defense cannons on one of the greatest symbols of Autobot military strength. This understandably does not go over well with several prominent members of the [[Autobot High Council]], to say nothing of Omega Supreme's former mentor, Ratchet, who warns that destroying Omega with the amount of transwarp energy currently stored within him could cause a blast that would wipe out Cybertron itself. [[Alpha Trion]] and [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] rebuff Sentinel and inform him to wait for the council's decision. Ratchet warns Sentinel that there will be consequences if Omega is harmed, and Sentinel prepares to lock up Ratchet and Fanzone, but they make a break for it when Fanzone fakes a sneeze. The Elite Guard pursue the two, but lose them outside the [[Metroplex (Animated)|Metroplex]]. Sentinel orders Jazz to continue searching, while he and the twins head to [[Fortress Maximus (Animated)|Fortress Maximus]] to prepare the defense cannons, as Sentinel intends to attack regardless of the Council's decision.

Meanwhile, Ratchet and Fanzone take refuge in the forgotten network of maintenance tunnels beneath the city, which have been sealed for quite some time, but soon realize that someone ''else'' has been hiding in the tunnels quite recently. The occupant of that hideout is revealed to be none other than the double-agent [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]], who nearly gets the jump on the duo, still armed with the stolen [[Magnus Hammer]]. Ratchet fights back, surmising that Shockwave wishes to hack his processor to get the access codes to Omega Supreme, but Shockwave scoffs at this, revealing that he plans to go right to the original source: [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]! Horrified, Ratchet loses his concentration, allowing Shockwave to hurl him aside and escape.

At Fortress Maximus, Sentinel's diverting of all but essential [[Energon]] has not gone unnoticed, and Perceptor contacts him for an explanation. Sentinel says that the Elite Guard is simply preparing to attack if the Council gives the okay, and Alpha Trion informs him that they will have a decision shortly. As the council continues to deliberate a course of action, Sentinel Prime orders [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] to arm the weapons of the Elite Guard's base and aim at Omega Supreme. Lugnut advocates that they leave Omega's body and retaliate, something Starscream agrees to for different reasons, but Megatron silences them, claiming he has a reason for exposing their position. Shockwave then contacts Megatron to inform him that he has acquired clearance codes to enter the facility holding Arcee.

[[File:TFA-ThisIsWhyIHateMachines-UltraMagnusSparkSupport.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|"Is it water on the knee?" "A whole bucket, see?" "A Charley Horse, it's true!" "I'm the doctor for YOU!"]]
Fanzone puts his cop instincts to work and quickly tracks down the local stoolie, [[Rattletrap]], the bot who gave Shockwave the clearance codes. With a little organic coercion, the pair are able to force an access card from Rattletrap, but when they attempt to use it, they discover that the codes are bogus. Just as they make this discovery, [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] steps from the shadows to offer them his aid. He has finally had it with Sentinel Prime's attitude, and he gives Fanzone and Ratchet a functioning access card. The duo quickly locate Arcee, only to find that they have inadvertently led Shockwave right to her. A running firefight ensues as Ratchet tries to get Arcee to safety while Shockwave pursues them, and the battle carries them to the medical bay in which [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] is convalescing. Thinking that Ratchet is out of commission after a blow from the Magnus Hammer, Shockwave decides to finish the job on Ultra Magnus and turns his back on his fallen foe. Ratchet is still very much alive and kicking, however, and he downs Shockwave with a blast from his [[electromagnetic pulse]] generator, allowing him to reclaim the Magnus Hammer from the Decepticon's clutches. Of course, Sentinel Prime chooses that moment to enter the room, and he promptly leaps to the conclusion that Ratchet is trying to do away with Ultra Magnus. This distraction offers Shockwave the time he needs to escape with Arcee, which prompts Sentinel to issue the command to fire on Omega Supreme. Fortress Maximus opens fire, but Omega transwarps out of the path of the blast, which shoots off harmlessly through the sky.

A short while later, the council and Elite Guard see Ratchet and Fanzone to the [[space bridge nexus]] so that they can return to [[Earth]]. Alpha Trion chastises Sentinel for his actions, making it clear that if it was up to him alone, Sentinel wouldn't be Magnus for a second longer. Trion extends his thanks to Ratchet and Fanzone, but Ratchet sees little reason to celebrate, as the Decepticons now have Arcee. Perceptor tries to assure Ratchet that the damage done to Arcee's processor is irreversible, but Ratchet is not cheered up at the prospect. Just before they enter the space bridge, Sentinel orders Ratchet to hand over the Magnus Hammer, but Ratchet refuses, telling him they will give it back to its rightful owner, Ultra Magnus, when he is repaired. Before Sentinel can object, Ratchet and Fanzone dart off through the space bridge. Sentinel is about to pursue them, but Jazz blocks his path and offers to go in his stead. Ratchet and Fanzone are not happy to see Jazz when he appears in front of them, but Jazz explains that he is unable to condone Sentinel's actions any more and is deserting to join the Autobots on Earth.

[[File:TFAni ThisisWhyIHateMachines Arcee Earth.jpg‎|thumb|upright=1.1|Insert ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' instrumental here.]]
Out in space, Omega Supreme rematerializes close to Earth's [[moon (moon)|moon]]. Aboard the dormant Autobot, Shockwave bows before Megatron and abandons his [[electronic paint job]] so that he can finally serve his leader under his true colors. Megatron bids his "most loyal servant" to rise, sending Lugnut into fits of silent, quivering rage—much to Starscream's amusement. On the other side of the bridge, the ''conscious'' Arcee lies upon a table and looks out at the Earth below, quietly whispering Ratchet's name...
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (1)
*[[Freeway (Animated)|Freeway]] (4)
*[[Carrera (Animated)|Carrera]] (5)
*[[Huffer (Animated)|Huffer]] (6)
*[[Sedan (Animated)|Sedan]] (7)
*[[Glyph (Animated)|Glyph]] (8)
*[[Bumper (Animated)|Bumper]] (9)
*[[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]] (10)
*[[Powerglide (Animated)|Powerglide]] (11)
*[[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]] (12)
*[[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]] (13)
*[[Steeljaw (Animated)|Steeljaw]] (14)
*[[Zaur (Animated)|Zaur]] (15)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (16)
*[[Autotrooper (Animated)|Autotrooper]] (21)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (22)
*[[Tracks (Animated)|Tracks]] (23)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (24)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (25)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (26)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (27)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (28)
*[[Alpha Trion]] (29)
*[[Rattletrap]] (30)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (31)

|c2=
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] (17)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (18)
*[[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] (19)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (20)
*[[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] (32, flashback)

|c3=
*[[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] (2)

|c4=
*[[Copterdrone]]s (3)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Security Bot''': ''Halt. You are in violation of Criminal Code 30114. Lethal force has been authorized.'' 
''[Security bots open fire]'' 
'''Fanzone''': Hey! Ow! Hey! 
'''Ratchet''': Think you have it bad? I got to decipher ''Bulkhead''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> handwriting! And those claws of his aren't exactly designed for penbotship.
:—As the Security Bots try to kill Captain Fanzone, Ratchet shows the depth to which he does not care.

"I'd be a happy man if I never see another—"''[Fanzone takes in his surroundings]''"...''robot''?"
:—'''Captain Fanzone''' enters his own personal hell, and its name is Cybertron.

"I can't believe we're on Cybertron! Of all the places we transwarped, this is great!"
:—'''Ratchet''', happy for the first time since...well, since we've seen him.

"Citizens of Cybertron, Decepticons are in our midst! Neighbours, friends, even ''your own model'' can be a spy! Do your duty and report any suspicious activity to the Elite Guard immediately." 
"...what is this scrap?!" 
"For your protection, all potentially subversive gathering places remain closed. Curfew remains in effect. Remember, Decepticons will stop at nothing to destroy our way of life! Don't let THIS ''[picture of Ultra Magnus on [[spark support]]]'' happen to you. As your Magnus, I will continue to defeat the Decepticon scourge and bring peace and security to Cybertron! I'm Sentinel Prime, and I approve of this message." 
"No-good glory-hog's got a lot of steel. It was [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] who caught those 'Cons!"
:—'''Sentinel Prime'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s propaganda film, with commentary by '''Ratchet'''

"Cybertron. At last, our ultimate goal is at our feet. And here we stand, aboard its ultimate weapon." 
"Now, wouldn't it be nice if we could actually figure out how to use it!" 
:—'''Megatron''' has a moment, which '''Starscream''' ruins.

'''Megatron''': No Autobot would be foolish enough to fire upon their greatest weapon. 
'''Sentinel Prime''': I say we fire on Omega Supreme! 
:—Even '''Megatron''' can't predict what goes on in '''Sentinel Prime's''' head.

'''Perceptor''': Sentinel Prime, please explain why all but essential Energon has been diverted to Fortress Maximus. 
'''Alpha Trion''': Need we remind you that the Council is still deliberating? 
'''Sentinel Prime''': As acting Magnus, I must be ready to strike should Omega... should Megatron make a move against us. 
'''Alpha Trion''': Very well. We will inform you of our decision shortly.
:—Sentinel Prime reveals his secret dream of blowing up Omega Supreme and covers it up neatly.

"How'd you know about this bot?" ''[indicating Rattletrap]'' 
"Ehh. There's one in every town." 
:—'''Ratchet''' learns a little more about how '''Captain Fanzone''' works.

"This is why I hate machines." ''[looks at Sentinel Prime]'' "Certain machines more than others."
:—We all wish '''Captain Fanzone''' was tall enough to bust particular jerks.

'''Captain Fanzone''': I get mixed up in a war, nearly stepped on, blasted, buried, and possibly zapped into space, and now, you've just made me an accomplice to INTERGALACTIC GRAND THEFT!! 
'''Police Drone:''' Halt. You are under arrest. 
''(Ratchet blows it up with his magnetic powers)'' 
'''Captain Fanzone''': Let's say we call it even.
:—Captain Fanzone complains about the worst day of his life and then blows it off.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* Parade footage from "[[Decepticon Air]]" is used in Sentinel's little propaganda video. (See said episode for the list of cameos within.)
* Ratchet remarks that [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] was the one to capture the Decepticon prisoners, as seen in "[[Five Servos of Doom]]".
* Sentinel's snapping that Fanzone has no rights on Cybertron probably stems from when [[Porter C. Powell]] said that alien robots have no rights on Earth in "[[The Return of the Headmaster]]".
* Ratchet's flashback uses footage from "[[The Thrill of the Hunt]]", giving Lockdown a brief "appearance" in this episode.

===Transformers references===
* Captain Fanzone's arrival on Cybertron treats us to another crowd scene full of cameos, some of which we haven't seen before. Notable newbies in this crowd include [[Glyph (Animated)|Glyph]], [[Bumper (Animated)|Bumper]] and his white recolor [[Sedan (Animated)|Sedan]], [[Steeljaw (Animated)|Steeljaw]], [[Zaur (Animated)|Zaur]] and robot-mode [[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]]. We also get a closer look at [[Carrera (Animated)|Carrera]], but only from behind, as he talks to [[Lightbright]].
* Ratchet's favorite hangout is [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]].
* The Autobot Council's headquarters is known as "the [[Metroplex (Animated)|Metroplex]]", and the Elite Guard's battle station is "[[Fortress Maximus (Animated)|Fortress Maximus]]".
* At the end of the episode, Shockwave utilizes an [[electronic paint job]] to reveal his "true colors", represented by a [[Target]] [[exclusive]] [[redeco]] reminiscent of his [[Shockwave (G1)|Generation 1 namesake]]'s color scheme.
* Rattletrap's design and speech patterns are modelled after [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]].

===Real-world references===
*Sentinel Prime's broadcast was based on {{w|The Red Scare}} during the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]]. The broadcast concludes with him saying "I'm Sentinel Prime, and I approve of this message."—in the style of contemporary [[President of the United States|political campaign ads]].
*Sentinel's insistence that he is the one who "makes the tough decisions" and insistence that any questioning of his orders is tantamount to treason is inspired by former president [[George W. Bush]].
*Shockwave's slow, deadpan delivery of "I'm afraid I can't let you do that" is a reference to the menacing supercomputer HAL from Stanley Kubrick's ''{{w|2001 (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey}}'', who also featured an unblinking single red eye.
* When Ratchet and Fanzone are headed to Maccadam's, they stop in front of a building which appears to have [[Target]]'s trademark "bull's-eye" logo.
* Ratchet retorts to Shockwave about taking the activation codes from his "cold, offline processor", similar to one of {{w|Charlton Heston}}'s most famous quotes in support of the NRA. He'd previously used a similar line in "[[Megatron Rising - Part 1]]".

===Animation or technical errors===
[[File:Bulkhead's postit notes.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"No TV and no beer make Homer something something"?]]
* All of Bulkhead's post-its say exactly the same thing.
* A few of the laser blasts that the drone fires at Captain Fanzone (before he gets sucked up by the Space Bridge) are out of sync with the animation of the strafing drone.
* Shockwave's head model changes randomly throughout the episode in shape, size and in the positioning of his optic.
* When Shockwave holds up the Magnus Hammer and starts generating lightning, its handle is only half as long as usual.
* When Sentinel Prime first sees Omega Supreme, his shoulder pads end up behind the circle around his neck.

===Trivia===
*This is the first, and only, episode in which [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] does not appear at all.
*There is oxygen on Cybertron.
*This episode marks the last appearances of Jetfire, Jetstorm, Ultra Magnus and Captain Fanzone in the series.
*Arcee wasn't actually offline at the end of the flashbacks in "The Thrill of the Hunt"—although she was amnesiac, she could stand, talk and take in her surroundings. This implies that it was the vivisection of her head in the "[[TransWarped]]" flashbacks in an attempt to retrieve the activation codes for Omega Supreme which caused the "damage to her circuitry" that Perceptor called "completely irreversible", and meant she was left, comatose, in a hospital bed for millions of stellar cycles.

===Foreign localization===
'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Por esto odio las maquinas'''" ("This is why I hate machines")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 15|15 December]] [[2009]]

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Pourquoi je déteste les machines'''" ("Why I Hate Machines")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fanzone, Cybertron-Sei e Iku'''" (ファンゾーン、サイバトロン星へ行く, "Fanzone Goes to the Planet Cybertron")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 11|11 December]] [[2010]]
::*New [[stock footage]] for Megatron in his Earth form as he doles out the warning.

'''Brazilian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''É Por isso Que Eu Odeio Máquinas'''" ("This Is Why I Hate Machines")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2011 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 10 ([[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]]

Decepticon Air

2025-06-27T16:20:05Z

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{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFAni Decepticon Air Decepticons Freed.jpg
|caption=So which one of them is [[John Malkovich]]?
|ep=39
|ep2=36
|prev2=Human Error, Part II
|next2=This Is Why I Hate Machines
|title="Decepticon Air"
|airdate=[[May 2]], 2009
|season=3
|season ep=10
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Michael Ryan]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Shigeharu Takahashi]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|videosite=YouTube
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SydnZYi40U}}

'''The Decepticons aboard the Elite Guard ship decide to take down the Autobots that turned them in.'''

==Synopsis==
On [[Earth]], [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Professor Sumdac]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] have completed a [[space bridge]] terminal in record time, for which [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] congratulates them. However, the [[unspace|transwarp]] field sequencers still have to be recalibrated, and Sumdac and Bulkhead argue over whose fault that is. [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari]] insists she could have helped get it right, but both builders politely rebuff her as insufficiently knowledgeable. As they continue arguing about getting the resequencing done, she takes matters into her own hands—almost literally. Using her new abilities, she fixes the terminal's calibrations and gets it to activate, to the surprise of the others.

[[File:TFAni Decepticon Air Sentinel Typing.jpg|thumb||left|"[[Ravage (SG)|Ravage]] has poked me on Facebook ''how many'' times?"]]
Meanwhile, out in space, [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] fruitlessly attempts to interrogate his [[Decepticon]] prisoners for info on the military cells that have been attacking space bridge outposts. He returns to the bridge after [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] tells him there's an incoming message from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]], [[Alpha Trion]] and [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] indicate that the [[Autobot High Council]] has decided to make public the news of the assault on [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]]. Sentinel tries to pull rank on them, since he's now technically the ''pro tempore'' [[Magnus (rank)|Magnus]], and advises them to keep it quiet, but Alpha Trion makes it clear that they don't quite recognize his authority. Frustrated, Sentinel tries to pull rank on Jazz instead, commanding him to take the ship at full thrust through an energy cloud, despite any risks, as that heading will be the shortest route to Cybertron. Jazz complies despite objections, and of course, his worries prove justified: The energy strikes and flows through the ship, re-energizing [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] and bringing him out of time-stasis. Swindle soon frees and re-arms the other Decepticons, even if they don't have payment up front for it, as they work for [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], his best customer. With the alarms muted by Swindle's [[Sonic Jammer 3000]], the Decepticons strike at the ship's bridge just after the ship emerges from the energy cloud. Swindle quickly takes out [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] with a demo of the SJ3K's other function, a [[stasis suspension ray]]. Sentinel and Jazz put up a fight, but to little avail, and finally, Sentinel sends a brief, encrypted call for help to his old buddy, Optimus Prime (as he's too embarrassed to call Cybertron). Shortly afterward, [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] strikes him down, but Swindle convinces the massive Decepticon to spare their prisoners' lives: Not only could selling off their [[Elite Guard]] parts earn a fortune, but they could be a bargaining chip in finding Megatron.

[[File:TFAni Decepticon Air Swindle Optimus Hand.jpg|thumb|HUNGER GETS WHAT HUNGER WANTS.]]
On Earth, Optimus receives Sentinel's message, which decrypts to "[[Broken Lance]]", a coded call for help that Sentinel used with him back in their [[Autobot Academy|academy]] days. Bulkhead notes the space bridge terminal detects an unusual transwarp field aboard the Elite Guard's ship. With Sari's help, the terminal locks onto the field, providing stable coordinates for an arrival point. The space bridge is activated, and Optimus steps through... only to emerge from Swindle's chest, having arrived via the private storage dimension he uses for holding all his stock.

Rather than attack against overwhelming odds and attempt to free Sentinel and the others, Optimus takes off down the ship's corridors to better his situation. Most of the Decepticons give pursuit, with Lugnut ordering Swindle to watch the prisoners in the meantime. Taking an elevator to the ship's energon storage chamber, Optimus perforates a group of energon cubes with his axe, destabilizing them just enough. He then puts them in the elevator car and slices its cables, so it explodes near the bottom just as the Decepticons pry open the doors. Slightly charred from the backblast, Optimus enters one of the service ducts and works his way back to the brig area, grumbling as he does.

Meanwhile, Swindle's greed is still holding sway, and the arms dealer leaves his prisoners unguarded so he can raid the ship's stores. Prime arrives almost immediately afterward and frees his fellow Autobots, earning no gratitude from the power-tripping Sentinel. The Decepticons then return, so Optimus tells Jazz to rewire the decontamination unit on the bridge into a freezing chamber to trap them, his Autobot emblem blinking all the while. Optimus severs a steam duct, giving Jazz cover to escape, but then Lugnut punches a hole in the hull, sending everyone else in the brig out into space.

The Jet Twins prove far more capable in space combat than anticipated, giving the Decepticons a fair amount of trouble. Noting their predicament through a porthole in the storage depot, Swindle metaphorically shrugs and goes back to looting. Meanwhile, despite Sentinel's continued objections and struggling, Optimus uses him as a living spiked slingshot against Lugnut. Sentinel insists he be obeyed as leader, but this only prompts [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] to freeze him and hold him hostage. Sentinel demands they don't surrender, but Optimus convinces the Jet Twins to follow his lead instead, and they capitulate.

[[File:TFAni Decepticon Air Optimus Jazz HighFive.jpg|thumb|left|Slip me some metal, O.P.!]]
On the bridge, Blitzwing, [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]], and [[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] put Sentinel, Optimus and the Jet Twins in the decontamination unit with Jazz. Blitzwing sneers that Optimus shouldn't have blabbed his plan where all could hear it, as now the Autobots will suffer freezing instead. However, when he activates the chamber, the freezing tubes reverse direction, icing all the Decepticons on the bridge and leaving the Autobots safe. Optimus explains to a surprised Sentinel that back in the brig, he'd used his blinking emblem to send a different message to Jazz in Cybertronian [[cybertronian optical code|optical code]]. They all pause as they hear a roar of engines, courtesy of a loot-filled Swindle taking off in one of the ship's shuttles. As the Decepticons are imprisoned again, Sentinel offers Optimus the Elite Guard spot that will be opening when Sentinel becomes Magnus, but Prime demurs, as he's still got plenty to do on Earth.

At [[Sumdac Tower]], Bulkhead frets as Swindle's transwarp signal moves too far away to warp Optimus back. Sari offers to help fix it, but her father points out it won't be necessary, as the Elite Guard ship has come to them. Optimus steps off the ship, and he and Sentinel trade salutes before it departs.

On Cybertron, Sentinel has a victory parade, displaying his prisoners to a cheering crowd. He vows to hunt down and offline [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] and any other Decepticon if the citizens of the planet accept him as the new Magnus. Perceptor and Alpha Trion exchange dubious glances but say nothing.

[[File:TFAni Decepticon Air Lugnut Megatron.jpg|thumb|Ugh...I'll get the squeegee...]]
Out in space, [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] warps into place near a drifting Lugnut, who abruptly finds himself plastered on the front window—right in front of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
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*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (2)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (8)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (9)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (12)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (13)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (14)
*[[Alpha Trion]] (15)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (16)
*[[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]] (17)
*[[Dug Base]] (18)
*[[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]] (19)
*[[Carrera (Animated)|Carrera]] (20)
*[[Searchlight (Animated)|Searchlight]] (21)
*[[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]] (22)
*[[Furão]] (23)
*[[Freeway (Animated)|Freeway]] (24)
*[[Beachcomber (Animated)|Beachcomber]] (25)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (26)
*[[Huffer (Animated)|Huffer]] (27)
*[[Powerglide (Animated)|Powerglide]] (28)
*[[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]] (29)
*[[Rattletrap]] (30)
*[[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]] (31)
*[[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]] (32)
*[[Autotrooper (Animated)|Autotrooper]] (33)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (34)
*[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] (35)
*[[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]] (36)
*[[Tracks (Animated)|Tracks]] (37)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (38)
|c2=
*[[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] (5)
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (6)
*[[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] (7)
*[[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] (10)
*[[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]] (11)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (39)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (40)
|c3=
*[[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] (3)
|c4=
*[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] (4)
|}}

==Quotes==
'''Sentinel Prime''': All due respect, Alpha Trion, the Council should concern itself with more important matters, like beefing up security for the Decepticon prisoners that...ahem...''I'' captured. 
'''Cliffjumper''': I thought that was [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]].
:—Actually, they're [[Lockdown (Animated)|both wrong]].

"Those bureaucratobots couldn't find their own [[Anatomic euphemism#Diode|diode]]s with a bitmap and a homing beacon."
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' talks behind the council's back.

'''Sunstorm''': May I just say what an admirer I am of the noble arms dealing profession? 
'''Hothead Blitzwing''': Enough talk. Let's kick some Autobot skidplate! 
'''Ramjet''': Oh but I would never do that.
:— The re-armed Decepticons prepare to seize control of the ship.

"You Autobots will pay! Pay with your sparks!" 
"I also take all major credit downloads."
:—'''Lugnut''' and '''Swindle''' are on two different pages.

"The Sonic Jammer 3000! Don't leave Cybertron without it! But wait—there's more! It also has a stasis suspension ray, handy for those tight spots. Picked this baby up on [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]]. Nice folks, the [[Quintesson]]s; give you a good deal and all the [[oil]] you can drink."
:—'''Swindle''', ready as ever with a sales pitch.

"Guard the prisoners, or... loot the ship? It's a no-processor...er."

"Maybe I should help them.... or maybe I should just help myself!"

"Nothing beats a shopping spree... especially when it's all ''free!''"
:—The Tao of '''Swindle'''.

"Maybe that energon was a little ''too'' unstable!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' realizes he may not have thought his plan through very well.

==Notes==

===Transformers references===
[[File:TFAni Decepticon Air BoxScream ConeScream.jpg|thumb|"Your conehead makes my ears look silly in comparison!" "No it doesn't!"]]
[[File:DecepticonAirCrowdFullPan01.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*Swindle claims to have had business dealings on [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]], suggests they could make enough from Elite Guard parts to "retire to a beach island on [[Nebulos]]", and swears by "the fifth moon of [[Pz-Zazz]]".
*His reference to a "personal storage dimension" from which accessories can be pulled at a moments' notice hearkens back to the concept of [[subspace storage pocket|subspace]].
*To help tell the Starscream clones apart, Swindle gives Ramjet a [[conehead]] accessory and Sunstorm a boxy helmet resembling those of the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. The new cone-head is topped with a drill.
*Sentinel's adoring public consists of a seriously crazy amount of cameos, a great many of which have not been seen before this episode. While many of them could be identified right away, it would take a further few episodes, and some more crowd scenes in "[[This Is Why I Hate Machines]]" and "[[Endgame, Part II]]", before some of the more obscure characters could all be named and shamed. The crowd includes [[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]], [[Carrera (Animated)|Carrera]], [[Searchlight (Animated)|Searchlight]], [[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]], [[Furão]], [[Freeway (Animated)|Freeway]], [[Beachcomber (Animated)|Beachcomber]], [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]], [[Huffer (Animated)|Huffer]], [[Powerglide (Animated)|Powerglide]], [[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]], [[Rattletrap]], [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], [[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]], [[Autotrooper (Animated)|Autotrooper]] (based on [[Autorooper]]), [[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]], [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]], [[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]] and [[Tracks (Animated)|Tracks]]. The widescreen-to-fullscreen crop also manages to cut off [[Lickety-Split]] (her forearm can be seen for a split-second poking into shot over Rosanna's head) who would reappear in "Endgame, Part II", and a mysterious skinny red-and-orange robot (behind Hot Shot). Recolored [[generic]] robots in the crowd include ''two'' Tracks-colored Mainframes, a [[Sky Garry (Animated)|Sky Garry]]-colored Warpath, and a [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]]-colored Cosmos, sans nacelles.
**The widescreen-to-fullscreen conversion also excised larger appearances by [[Rattletrap]] and [[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]], got rid of most of [[Wheeljack (Animated)|Wheeljack]], and entirely removed [[Bumper (Animated)|Bumper]], [[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Prime]], and the then-unnamed [[Lightbright (Animated)|Lightbright]].
*Sentinel and the Autobot Council are carried upon [[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]]. Behind them, the Decepticon prisoners are carried by a [[Dug Base|Grandus lookalike]] with yellow detailing; Derrick Wyatt stated that this was supposed to represent [[Grandus (G1)|''Return of Convoy'' Grandus]]'s ''[[Brave (franchise)|Brave]]'' [[redeco]], Dag Base.
*The "[[Lance]]" in "[[Broken Lance]]" refers to Sentinel's weapon of choice.

===Real-world references===
*The title is a play on ''{{w|Con Air}}'', a Nicolas Cage movie where prisoners being transported by plane get free and do bad things.
*Sentinel's phrase "[[Broken Lance]]" is similar to the [[United States of America|U.S.]] military term "{{w|United States military nuclear incident terminology#Broken Arrow|Broken Arrow}}", which is used to describe a cock-up involving [[nuclear weapon]]s. In this context, it is more likely to be a reference to the 1996 action film {{w|Broken Arrow (1996 film)|of the same name}}, in which John Travolta hijacks a stealth bomber (in order to sell the nuclear missiles on board).
*Speaking of action movies, Optimus taking on all the Decepticons by himself using hit & run tactics and then crawling through an air shaft while sarcastically complaining about how much fun he's having, is very similar to a famous sequence from ''{{w|Die Hard}}''. The exploding elevator trick also appears in the film.
*When Optimus drops out of the air shaft suspended by a wire harness, it's similar to a famous sequence from the Tom Cruise version of ''{{w|Mission Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible}}''.
*Optimus claiming to have a small chamber that can trap his foes, only for them to double-cross him and force him inside it, only for him to ''triplecross'' them when the chamber is the only place safe from the real trap, is similar to a famous sequence from ''{{w|Superman II}}''.
*Sari's fingers extending and separating when she types are a reference to ''{{w|Ghost in the Shell}}''.
*When Sentinel uses his remote to unlock and re-lock Lugnut's mouth clamps, it makes the same noise as a car alarm remote.
* When Swindle first hears Megatron's name, his facial expression changes with the sound of a cash register.
* Swindle's personal storage dimension features old Hanna-Barbera stock sound effects, typically used to denote magic spells.
* Swindle's "Don't leave Cybertron without it!" is a variation of the American Express credit card slogan "Don't leave home without it." He immediately follows that up with "But wait, there's more!", one of TV huckster {{w|Ron Popeil}}'s most famous catchphrases.
* When Swindle uses the stasis suspension ray, the sound effect is identical to that of the Zat Guns used in ''Stargate SG-1''.

===Animation or technical errors===
*When Sentinel calls for Jetfire and Jetstorm, the prisoners do not have their facemasks.
*Character heights vary wildly throughout the episode, mostly with the non-Swindle Decepticons being various levels of undersized. The kneeling Decepticons still tower over Swindle as he first talks to them (which seems correct, as Swindle is small), but do not appear to gain any height on him once they're upright. The final scene in particular, Blitzwing and the two clones are downright tiny, looking to be about as big as the average Autobot.
*When Swindle is handing out weapons to the Decepticons, he gives Ramjet his guns, but when he goes to hand Sunstorm's weapons to him, he's still holding Ramjet's guns.
*While convincing Lugnut to let the elite guard live, Swindle's bolo tie suddenly disappears.
*When Swindle crosses over to Blitzwing, talking Lugnut into letting Sentinel, Jazz, and the Jet-twins live, the Triple-Changer's wings ''and'' cannons are gone.
*Right before Swindle gives helmets to Ramjet and Sunstorm, both clones are missing their null rays. They are back in the next shot.
*When Sunstorm and Ramjet trap the Autobots in the chamber, Sunstorm's chin seems like it's been cut down, and looks similar to the G1 Seekers' chin size.
*In the crowd scenes towards the end of this episode, characters change positions relative to each other every time the camera angle switches. Beachcomber, in particular, appears in literally four different places at once.
*When Lugnut crashes against Omega Supreme at the end of the episode, his Decepticon insignia is missing.
*How exactly did Jetfire/Jetstorm create a whirlwind in space?

===Continuity errors===
*Up until the part where [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] orders [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] to guard the prisoners, all of the captive Autobots were confined within the prison cells. Later, when Swindle contemplates whether to stay to guard the prisoners or loot the ship, all of the captured Autobots are now ''outside'' of their cells. Jetfire and Jetstorm have also been removed from the spherical forcefield and placed in stasis cuffs, despite still being inside the forcefield while in the cell. Unless this was an oversight by the animators, why would Swindle let them out in the first place?
*Optimus transforms into his full firetruck [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] to escape the Decepticons when he first arrives, yet is able to detach his trailer several seconds before he actually transforms into [[robot mode]]. The trailer slides down an adjacent hall as he reaches the elevator.
*A possible error occurs during Sentinel's interrogation of the prisoners. When Lugnut declares "Megatron is everywhere!", Sentinel offhandedly comments "You don't know how true that is." While it is conceivable that the Earth-bound Autobots informed Sentinel of Megatron's fate, in the next episode he expresses shock at the fact that [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] is still online, which would suggest that he was either never told or they, for some reason, left that part out.
*What were the chances of Lugnut just randomly bumping into Omega Supreme like that? Space is ''huge''.

===Trivia===
*Sentinel Prime went through the space disturbance to gain some time, but in the end, agreed to go all the way back to Earth to drop off Optimus Prime. So the whole thing ended up being a rather pointless act. Lesson learned, Sentinel?
*Sentinel seems to have decided to keep his Earth alt mode [[Autoboot Camp|this time]].
*At the end of "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]", Captain Fanzone claimed that Swindle would be stripped down for parts. But other than his weapons (which would have been confiscated by the Elite Guard if the Detroit Police hadn't already taken them), nothing obvious seems to be missing from his person. Maybe Fanzone was just trying to freak him out?
*When he's giving the helmets to Sunstorm and Ramjet, Swindle mentions in a very casual manner that he "never could get the hang of cloning." Thinking back, no one was really shocked to see the army of clones that Starscream created. So maybe, cloning is something fairly common among Decepticons, or at least was at some point.
**Later, [[Dirge (Animated)|he does get]] [[Thrust (Animated)|the hang of cloning]].
*Ramjet and Sunstorm are pretty quiet throughout this episode, probably because their strange speech patterns make it nigh-impossible for them to have a normal conversation.
*Lugnut gets to tell his fellow Decepticons "Transform and rise up!" as glorious Megatron isn't there to say it.
*This episode marks the last appearance of Blitzwing, Sunstorm, Ramjet, and Swindle.

===Foreign localization===
'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Aire Decepticon'''" ("Decepticon Air")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 8|8 December]] [[2009]]

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Decepticon dans l'espace'''" ("Decepticon in Space")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Brazilian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Decepticons Aéreos'''" ("Decepticon Air")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Uchūsen o Tsuisekiseyo'''" (宇宙船を追跡せよ, "Chase the Spaceship")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 4|4 December]] [[2010]]
::*Blitzwing's turn at new [[stock footage]] and the viewing warning, starting with from tank to jet to robot mode. Hothead, Random, and Icy each take a turn in robot mode while delivering the line, respectively. Blitzwing also does the intro.

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] [[2011]] — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 10 ([[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]]

Classified

2025-04-12T22:50:03Z

Driftman217:

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' ep 5
|image=EarthSpark-Classified-Hiding.jpg
|caption=Honey, I shrunk the Cube
|prev=House Rules
|next=Traditions
|title="Classified"
|season=1
|season ep=5
|airdate=[[November 11]], [[2022]] (Paramount+) [[February 17]], [[2023]] (Nickelodeon)
|production company=[[Entertainment One]] [[Nickelodeon]]
|writer=[[Nathan Ramos-Park]]
|animation studio=[[Icon Creative Studio]]
|director=[[Alex Kwan]]
|video=https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/2Ihvjq0stmkgzh6x82PLHlEpyJrCXP3f/
|videosite=Paramount+
|video2=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTZuv7JKz4I
|videosite2=YouTube
}}

'''A G.H.O.S.T. agent mistakenly begins pursuing the Terrans, forcing them to keep a low profile.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:EarthSpark-Classified-RobbyDreamOptimus.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Energon_ep1_Autobot_jerks.jpg|Whoa, déjà vu.]]]]
''[[Robby Malto]] creeps through a smoky black void, looking for his [[Terran]] siblings. [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] call out to him, only to be pulled into a truck by a [[G.H.O.S.T.]] agent and carried away before he can catch up to them. Robby attempts to follow, but he is blocked by the enormous form of [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]], warning him that nothing lasts forever as Robby watches his [[cyber-sleeve]] disappear from his hand...''

Robby wakes with a start from his nightmare as Twitch looks in from his window, offering to look at baby foxes with him to help him calm down. The two head for the woods, but find the foxes' den abandoned, the mother having presumably moved her kits due to their repeated visits. Robby suggests they split up to keep looking, but during his search, he runs into a group of [[G.H.O.S.T.]] agents. Sensing his fear, Twitch doubles back and picks him up, quickly retreating when the agents assume her to be a [[Decepticon]] and start firing on her. The leader chastises his cadets for nearly blasting a human civilian, and decides to leave the capture of the supposed Con in the most capable hands he knows—his own.

[[File:EarthSpark-Classified-DotMeetsSchloder.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
The next morning, the four Malto children are visiting Dot's [[Witwicky Ranger Station|ranger station]] for the first time, and while Twitch, Thrash, and [[Mo Malto|Mo]] are fascinated, Robby is still exhausted and enters a storage room for a nap. His sleep is quickly interrupted, however, when one of the stack of boxes pops out and the G.H.O.S.T. agent from the previous night attempts to squeeze his way through the gap. Panicked, Robby runs back to his mother to warn her, and she orders the kids outside. Dot opens the door, careful to block the intruder from seeing the children, and comes face-to-face with Special Agent [[Jon Schloder]], who entered via a G.H.O.S.T. elevator in the storage room. Schloder informs Dot that she'll be working with him on his mission to find a Decepticon kidnapper terrorizing [[Witwicky (town)|Witwicky]]. Realizing the risk his presence poses to the Terrans, Dot texts the kids orders to go home immediately. As she drives away with Schloder, Robby directs the others on an alternate route to avoid being seen.

As they drive, Scholoder tells Dot that she'll need to undergo G.H.O.S.T. training and that he'll need to go to her house to question her children, despite her protests. She texts the kids once more, this time telling them ''not'' to go home. Mo doesn't understand why Robby seems so nervous, but before they can debate further, the ground opens beneath them and they suddenly fall into a deep hole lined with metal. As a barrier closes above them, Robby realizes they're trapped in an old Decepticon [[hologram pit trap]]. Twitch and Thrash attempt to breach the barrier, but are electrified on contact. As they attempt to find a way out, Twitch lets slip about her and Robby being attacked the previous night, angering Mo that Robby didn't tell her. Robby retorts that he doesn't have to tell her everything, and their negative emotions begin to bleed over to the Terrans via their emotional link. Thankfully, they are interrupted by the arrival of Optimus Prime, who deactivates the barrier and retrieves the children. Optimus explains that he and G.H.O.S.T. have been sweeping the area looking for a "dangerous Decepticon". Knowing the Terrans will be taken away if G.H.O.S.T. finds them, he directs the four to hide in his trailer while he transports them somewhere safe.

As Dot and Schloder arrive at the Malto house, she sends a coded message to [[Alex Malto|Alex]] via the doorbell, warning him to hide the bots. Alex orders Bumblebee to hide and quietly assures Dot that the kids are with Optimus as the two do their best to distract Schloder. Unfortunately, Schloder hears the sound of Bumblebee transforming and goes to investigate the barn, only to find a very stylish looking sports car that ''totally'' isn't an [[Autobot]] in disguise. Impressed with the car, Schloder requisitions its use in the search, though Alex insists that he must be the one to drive it. With Alex now escorting him, much to Bumblebee's chagrin, Schloder sends Dot back to the ranger station, ordering her to take the elevator to G.H.O.S.T. HQ to undergo her training.

When Dot arrives for her orientation, Optimus is waiting for her. Dot is unimpressed by the cheesy brochures, though Optimus claims they are meant as an effort to stem decades of humans fearing [[Transformer]]s, and begins sending her through the incredibly dry orientation sequence, corny promotional video and all. In downtown Witwicky, Bumblebee is none too pleased at running errands for Schloder, but Alex reminds him it's for the sake of keeping Dot and the kids safe. However, Bumblebee refuses to allow Schloder inside with a powdered sugar donut, locking his door then knocking him over when he attempts to force it open.

[[File:EarthSpark-Classified-MegatronTrainingRoom.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
The Malto kids continue to sit in the trailer, under orders from Optimus not to come out until he says so, but Mo and Robby are still arguing over him keeping his and Twitch's night walks a secret. Their rage causes Thrash to aggressively throw the ball he's playing with, which hits himself and knocks the trailer doors open. Emerging, they realize they are in G.H.O.S.T. headquarters. Though Mo reminds him they were told to stay put, Robby decides to look around. Unfortunately, they are spotted by the cadets from the previous night, who recognize Twitch and begin chasing the Maltos through the facility. Seeing an open room, the kids duck inside and seal the door, relieved to be safe...until they realize they've entered the Autobots' training room, which activates a high-level training simulation.

Schloder gets a call from the cadets warning him that the Decepticon is loose in their base. Convinced the car is faulty after all the times Bumblebee has messed with him, Schloder flags down a passing old woman for a ride instead, while Bumblebee places a covert call to Optimus. In the simulator, a holographic human calls for help as lasers begin firing on the Maltos. With the door sealed and no phone reception, Mo and Robby's argument comes to a head, with Robby expressing his doubts that things will always work out. Twitch and Thrash realize that they can channel the anger they're feeling into strength like with Thrash's ball, and they begin taking out the various laser armaments. Seeing Twitch and Thrash work together and save them from an oncoming blast, Robby and Mo make amends and call a truce.

[[File:EarthSpark-Classified-ReuintedFamily.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
As the video finishes, Dot remains unconvinced of G.H.O.S.T.'s intentions given all the secrecy, asking Optimus if he really believes he's on the right side. Optimus admits that G.H.O.S.T. were the only ones who could provide the resources needed to protect the planet after the war, and that he is making the best of a bad situation for the sake of the greater good, which Dot sympathizes with, and the two leave to fetch the kids. In the training room, Twitch keeps the lasers focused on her while Thrash launches himself off a pillar and tosses Robby and Mo up to the holographic human, completing the simulation and restoring the room to normal. The door unlocks, revealing the cadets with their weapons drawn, but Optimus and Dot arrive and he dismisses them, saying he will take care of "arresting the Decepticons". As Dot hugs her children, Optimus receives a call from Bumblebee, warning him that Schloder will be at HQ in moments. By the time Schloder arrives, however, he finds the place empty, as Optimus is already taking the others to a secret exit. On their way, they pass through a secret holding facility containing all of the apprehended Decepticons. A regretful Optimus explains he is trusting Dot with this secret, hoping to one day find a better way to keep the planet safe.

Later that night, Robby knocks on Mo's window and the two move to the barn roof to talk. Robby finally admits to Mo about his nightmares and his fear of losing the Terrans, and that he didn't tell her because he feels it's his job as the oldest to be brave. Mo reassures him that he doesn't have to be brave alone, and that fear of loss shouldn't scare him away from caring about people. Their bond reforged, the two go to invite the Terrans to a late-night "monster hunt".

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] (12)
*[[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] (13)

|c2=
*[[Shrapnel (ES)|Shrapnel]] (15)
*[[Bombshell (ES)|Bombshell]] (16)
*[[Skullcruncher (ES)|Skullcruncher]]'' (17)

|c3=
*[[Robby Malto]] (1)
*Nightmare [[G.H.O.S.T.]] agent (4)
*[[Jon Schloder]] (6)
*[[G.H.O.S.T.]] cadets (7)
*[[Mo Malto]] (8)
*[[Dot Malto]] (9)
*[[Alex Malto]] (11)
*Old lady (14)

|h4=[[Terran]]s||c4=
*[[Twitch]] (2)
*[[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] (3)

|h5=Others||c5=
*[[Mr. Slithers]] (10)
}}

==Quotes==
"With a Decepticon targeting youngsters, they may have heard something from their peers. Playground chatter saved my squad in the Knee-Slapper Valley incident..."
:—'''Schloder''' clearly has some...unique backstory elements.

"Better study hard. There's a test. A tough test. It's called...''life''."
:—'''Schloder''' gives Dot her training orders.

"Don't worry. We'll use your cupholders for drinks, and we won't eat anything with crumbs." 
(Bumblebee revs angrily) 
"''We won't eat anything! Got it!''"
:—'''Alex''' tries to placate Bumblebee.

[[File:ES-Ep01-05 OptimusCoolPose.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
"'Welcome, new recruit. G.H.O.S.T.'s main focus is human-Autobot relations, creating a safer planet for all, and finding ways that Cybertronians can help Earth's communities. Laugh, then cool pose.' ...oh. ''Ha ha ha!''" (finger guns)
:—'''Optimus''' does his best to follow the script.

"Feel the steel of my third wheel!"
:—'''Thrash''' fights back.

"We make compromises to protect those we care about. I am not proud of this, but I know no better option to keep your planet safe. I promise you, I will never stop seeking one."
:—'''Optimus''' reveals G.H.O.S.T.'s dark secret.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The G.H.O.S.T. agent in Robby's nightmare uses the same character model as the one seen after Mandroid abducts the Terrans in "[[Secret Legacy, Part 2]]".
* Among the objects Thrash finds in G.H.O.S.T. HQ is a barely-functioning [[Arachnamech]], presumably the one that Optimus retrieved in "[[Secret Legacy, Part 1]]".
* Megatron was last seen using the training room, later identified as the "Wreck Room" in "[[Disarmed]]", in "[[Moo-ving In]]".
* All of the imprisoned Decepticons seen in this episode were apprehended in "Secret Legacy, Part 2".

===Transformers references===
* [[Teletraan-1 (ES)|Teletraan-1]] can be seen when the kids first emerge inside G.H.O.S.T. headquarters.
* Megatron's training simulator difficulty level is set to [[Unicron]] 14.

===Real-world references===
*

===Animation and technical errors===
*The sign on the front of the ranger station is missing the "Witwicky Ranger Station" text seen in later episodes.

===Trivia===
*

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Confidencial'''" ("Confidential", dubbed-in title), "'''Classificado'''" ("Classified", Paramount+ catalogue title)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 3]], 2022

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Secret Défense'''" ("Classified")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 2]], 2022

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Streng geheim'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 2]], 2022

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Szigorúan titkos'''" ("Top Secret")
:*''Original airdate:'' December 2, 2022

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Rahasia'''" ("Classified")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 2]], 2022

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Informazioni riservate'''" ("Classified informations")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 11]], 2022

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2023 — ''Transformers: EarthSpark'' - Season 1: Episodes 1-10 ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 

[[Category:EarthSpark episodes]]

House Rules

2025-04-06T19:49:20Z

Driftman217:

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' ep 4
|image=House-Rules Swindle Thrash Mo.jpg
|caption=Why shouldn't you trust a guy who's literally named Swindle?
|prev=Moo-ving In
|next=Classified
|title="House Rules"
|season=1
|season ep=4
|airdate=[[November 11]], [[2022]] (Paramount+) [[February 10]], [[2023]] (Nickelodeon)
|production company=[[Entertainment One]] [[Nickelodeon]]
|writer=[[Ian Busch]]
|animation studio=[[Icon Creative Studio]]
|director=[[Jordan Rosato]]
|video=https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/f2xBalVVzirVFPbvZz34sz0A5WechSMq/
|videosite=Paramount+
|video2=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08kQlhPZeQ8
|videosite2=YouTube
}}

'''Thrash and Mo's rebellion against the house rules leads them to fall in with a Decepticon.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:EarthSpark-HouseRules-ThrashTwitchKitchen.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
[[Mo Malto|Mo]] and [[Robby Malto|Robby]] play capture the flag with [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]]. Twitch manages to trap Mo by dropping hay bales around her, while Thrash hijacks Robby using his sidecar. The two Terrans then begin fighting over the nearest flag, which is when [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] arrives and attempts to break the pair up. [[Alex Malto|Alex]] and [[Dot Malto|Dot]] are startled when the two warring Terrans crash through the wall of the house into the kitchen where Alex is making breakfast, prompting Dot to call a family meeting.

The parents go over the house rules, including a new one: no bots in the house. The Terrans are less than enthusiastic, but Twitch at least perks up when Alex reveals that they'll get stickers for doing chores, and whoever gets the most by the end of the week gets a prize. Mo attempts to cheer Thrash up by setting up a tent, but he's unhappy at not being allowed in the house. He hits on the idea of transforming, since they didn't say anything about bikes not being allowed in. Alex and Dot head off to the lumber yard, and Thrash reasons that while they're gone, the rules are suspended and he can go inside. He and Mo head inside to Mo's room, where they settle down to quietly watch wrestling; however when Dot and Alex arrive back, it's just in time to see the pair crash through the side of the house while replicating a wrestling move, resulting in both being grounded.

[[File:EarthSpark-HouseRules-MoPinsThrash.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
A [[G.H.O.S.T.]] truck driving through [[Witwicky (town)|Witwicky]] is rammed by [[Swindle (ES)|Swindle]], who gives pursuit and succeeds in overturning the vehicle. The Decepticon spots an [[energon scanner]] in the back of the truck, but is unable to reach it due to the energon force fields, so he drives off as the [[Bala|truck's driver]] calls for backup.

Alex and Bumblebee finish repairing the damage to the house. Robby, tired of pulling weeds, decides to slack off on social media on his phone. Twitch is scandalized and decides to finish the weeding so she can get the star instead. Dot observes Thrash and Mo being bored while she unloads wood, but before she can talk to them, the call for reinforcements comes in and she has to head off to respond. Thrash quickly talks Mo into violating their grounding, and the pair also head off after Dot. Reaching town, they go into hiding and watch Dot meet up with [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] and a number of G.H.O.S.T. agents. Also watching affairs is Swindle, who spots Thrash and Mo and sees an opportunity. Blasting a trash dumpster, he leads Trash and Mo away while Dot and the agents are distracted dealing with the fire. The pair follow Swindle to a nearby clifftop where he invites them to join his crew.

[[File:EarthSpark-HouseRules-ThrashMoReturnWithSwindle.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Soon Swindle is cutting the bolt on a gate with very obvious "No trespassing" signs on it. When Mo points out the signs, Swindle pulls them off the fences for "skate sledding" down the concrete slope beyond the fence. Next they race through a corn field before arriving back at the clifftop, where Swindle confides he's searching for his brother, [[Hardtop (ES)|Hardtop]]. Mo invites Swindle home in the belief the rest of the family can help him find Hardtop.

At home, Robby is surprised to see the amount of stars Twitch has accumulated. She asks if he can add another one for egg collection, though as Robby points out, they don't have any chickens. When Twitch mentions the prize is picking dinner for a week, Robby decides he needs to win and resumes doing chores. Bumblebee emerges from the barn just as Thrash and Mo arrive back with Swindle, immediately tackling the Con. A fight ensues which Bumblebee wins, only for Thrash and Mo to come to Swindle's defense. After Swindle drives off, Bee and the two parents turn on Thrash and Mo, who are unrepentant at helping the Decepticon. Thrash goes to sulk in the tent. Mo joins him and finds Thrash is still determined to help Swindle.

[[File:EarthSpark-HouseRules-SwindleFightsThrash.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Waiting on the clifftop, Swindle hears Thrash and Mo coming and feigns crying until they reveal they're there to help him find Hardtop. They head to a salvage yard and break in. The G.H.O.S.T. truck inside still has active energon force fields, but being [[human]], Mo can pass through them. When she refuses to help, Swindle forces her at gunpoint. She successfully shuts down the force field, but Thrash has had enough and attacks Swindle when the Con tell him to help. Mo's able to use Thrash's shield to protect the Terran when Swindle shoots at him, but the fight doesn't last long, with Swindle stomping on Thrash before trying to chase down Mo. Just as he catches up to her, Dot and Bumblebee arrive, having been called by Mo, and chase the Decepticon off. Thrash apologizes for disobeying the rules and helping Swindle, but Dot says he's still grounded.

Back at home, Twitch and Robby attempt to get the last star by mowing the lawn, but finish in a tie and also wreck the lawn. Alex reveals that the walls of the kitchen can now swing up, allowing the Bots to access it.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] (10)

|c2=
*[[Swindle (ES)|Swindle]] (9)

|c3=
*[[Mo Malto]] (1)
*[[Robby Malto]] (2)
*[[Alex Malto]] (6)
*[[Dot Malto]] (7)
*[[Bala|Agent Bala]] (8)
*[[G.H.O.S.T.]] agents (11)
*Farmer (12)

|h4=[[Terran]]s||c4=
*[[Twitch]] (3)
*[[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] (4)
}}

==Quotes==
"That repair was so fast! You know what would make it even faster? Pew pew." 
"Alex. For the last time, I'm not using my stinger for DIY projects." 
"Think of how fast we could strip paint! Cut wood? Toast tortillas?"
:—'''Alex''' and '''Bumblebee''' finish fixing the kitchen.

"No phones, no friends, no fun. We're dying of boredom!" 
"Ugh, I'm lucky I lived through that sentence."
:—'''Mo''' and '''Thrash''' enjoy being grounded.

"You know Mister Optimus too? Isn't he great?" 
"Yeah, that's one word for him."
:—'''Mo''' and '''Swindle'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Swindle is still looking for Hardtop after he was taken prisoner by G.H.O.S.T. back in "[[Secret Legacy, Part 2]]".
*The "Live. Laugh. Love." picture Dorothy had with Megatron is the same one used for Megatron's profile picture when they are messaging each other in "[[Secret Legacy, Part 2]]".

===Transformers references===
* Following in the footsteps of previous incarnations, Bumblebee calls his electric weapon his "[[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]".

===Real-world references===
* When the farmer discovers that Thrash and Swindle messed up his corn field, he yells "Sufferin' succotash!", the catchphrase of the Looney Tunes character, Sylvester the Cat.

===Animation and technical errors===
*

===Trivia===
* On Paramount+, this episode is listed under the name "H.O.U.S.E. Rules". This is seemingly a leftover from an alternate version of the scene where Dot, Alex, and Bumblebee introduce the rules, posted as a storyboard by [[Moss Lawton]]<ref>https://www.slideshare.net/dinolich/transformers-earthspark-01</ref>, where they would have explained the rules via an elaborate acronym: "'''H'''elp the Family", "'''O'''utside Is Where Bots Belong", "'''U'''se Your Words", "'''S'''ecret Identities Keep Bots Safe", and "'''E'''njoy a Healthy Diet".
* The path that Swindle and Thrash make in the cornfield resembles a Decepticon insignia. It can be clearly seen at the 11 minute 30 second mark.

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Regras da Casa'''" ("House Rules")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 26]], 2022

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Le respect des règles'''" ("Respect for the rules")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 1]], 2022

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hausregeln'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 1]], 2022

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Házirendszegők'''" ("House Rule Breakers")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 1]], 2022

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Peraturan Rumah'''" ("House Rules")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 1]], 2022

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Le regole della casa'''" ("The house's rules")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 11]], 2022

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2023 — ''Transformers: EarthSpark'' - Season 1: Episodes 1-10 ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{epstub}}

[[Category:EarthSpark episodes]]

User:Driftman217

2025-04-05T19:23:30Z

Driftman217: /* Transformers: Prime Thoughts */

I've been a fan of the franchise since [[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Transformers: Armada]]. My first Transformers figure was [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe with Nightbeat]]. I consider [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]], [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]], and [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]] as the Big Three of Transformers series! [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] is my favorite Transformer of the franchise!

Moo-ving In

2025-03-30T18:20:14Z

Driftman217:

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' ep 3
|image=EarthSpark-MoovingIn-DotandAlexhelpBee.jpg
|caption="Value this time in your life, kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices."
|prev=Secret Legacy, Part 2
|next=House Rules
|title="Moo-ving In"
|season=1
|season ep=3
|airdate=[[November 11]], [[2022]] (Paramount+) [[February 10]], [[2023]] (Nickelodeon)
|production company=[[Entertainment One]] [[Nickelodeon]]
|writer=[[Isabel Galupo]]
|animation studio=[[Icon Creative Studio]]
|director=[[J.J. Conway]]
|video=https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/D8BBQL_k8LFgGDPVMXeO7qnYmpTNllMd/
|videosite=Paramount+
|video2=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcOQg-zGbNM&t=17s
|videosite2=YouTube
}}

'''Bumblebee struggles in his mission to train Twitch and Thrash, because they won't listen to him.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:EarthSpark-MoovingIn-TwitchMeetsFluffyEars.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"These cows trusted us." "Trusted us? They followed us because we yelled 'yah'."]]
[[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] speeds through the streets of [[Witwicky (town)|Witwicky]] as the clock ticks. Roaring out into the countryside, he uses a trailer being towed by another vehicle in order to vault a moving train, all so he can arrive at the Malto house by 9AM. His triumph at a new speed record is interrupted by items being thrown from the barn, and he heads inside to where [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], [[Twitch]], [[Robby Malto|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto|Mo]] are tidying up so the Terrans and Bumblebee will have somewhere to rest. As [[Dot Malto|Dot]] arrives, [[Alex Malto|Alex]] takes a photo of the family at work.

[[File:EarthSpark-MoovingIn-BumblebeeWalkies.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Do you know what the secret of life is? This." "Your finger?"]]
Alex later finds Bumblebee reviewing his to-do list, particularly the last "rejoin the Autobots" item. Alex and Dot offer their help with Bee's main mission of training the Terrans, but Bee believes it will be a simple, routine matter he'll have completed in no time. The Terrans and their kid partners are meanwhile picking apples when their work is interrupted by one of the nearby cows munching down on dropped fruit. Twitch is instantly charmed by the calf and her emotion leaks over to Thrash and the kids. They're all admiring the calf when Bumblebee arrives, intending to begin their training. Thrash confidently goes to demonstrate his ability to transform to Bumblebee, only to discover he can't, and has to cover for it by speaking the sound effect and contorting his body. Bumblebee tells the amused Twitch that it's her turn to try, but she finds herself unable to transform as well. The kids and Terrans are more interested in doing what they're doing than training, so Bee suggests they can train after hours. Robby points out that tonight is Malto Family Game Night. Mo suggests Bee can take part, but his speech about how he's on a serious mission is lost on deaf ears, as the others are back to playing with the calf, now dubbed "[[Fluffy Ears]]".

Bumblebee trudges back to the barn, grumbling that the others are ignoring him, and is intercepted by Alex, who is conveniently moving his collection of Bumblebee merchandise. Bee signs the piece of merchandise Alex is holding up, only for Alex to hint that he'd like the rest of his collection signed too. Bee's also less than impressed with the faces on the Bumblebee walkie talkies, and tells Alex to leave the merchandise with him. Heading inside, he tries to contact [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]], only to instead get [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]], who has some helpful advice on getting the others to listen to him by using force. Bee returns to the field, only to find everyone's gone, except Twitch who is hiding behind a bale of hay and fruitlessly attempting to transform. After overhearing her opinion of him, Bumblebee heads back to the barn and again attempts to reach Optimus, only to get [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]], who suggests he should get to know the Terrans better to be a more effective leader.

[[File:EarthSpark-MoovingIn-FamilyGameNight.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"......''RUM RAISIN!''"]]
Bumblebee finds the Terrans and kids lying in a field, working on their emotional connection, and presents them with walkie talkies as presents. He gets upset after they laugh at the Bumblebee faces on them, but attempts to persevere, asking about the upcoming family game night. That night, the family convenes in the barn and splits into teams — Bumblebee finds himself with Alex and Dot while the kids pair with their respective Terran partners. They proceed to play a series of games. Bumblebee's advice to Twitch while playing Tic-Tac-Toe actually results in her losing, and his further attempts to give helpful advice to the Terrans leads to an argument breaking out, culminating in Twitch yelling at Bumblebee before transforming and smashing through the roof. Thrash and the kids similarly storm out, leaving Bumblebee with their parents.

As Twitch flies along angry at Bumblebee, she suddenly realized she's transformed. She swoops down to show Fluffy Ears, but when the calf is terrified at her appearance, she attempts to change back, only to find she can't. Meanwhile Bumblebee again attempts to contact Optimus and finally gets through, but it turns out to be Optimus's voice mail. Dot and Alex find him slumped in dejection at the side of the barn and offer some words of encouragement. Elsewhere Robby, Mo and Thrash find Twitch crashed into a fence, and she laments that the cows have all escaped. Thrash contacts Bee over the walkie talkies to ask for help, as the cows are currently stampeding towards the railway tracks.

[[File:EarthSpark-MoovingIn-StuckOnTracks.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"I hope I can help."]]
Soon Bee arrives in the field and has Twitch fly up to survey what's happening. Thrash is still unable to transform, and from discussion, it turns out the Terrans need to feel safe and calm. The group holds hands, and Thrash finally succeeds in transforming. He, Mo and Twitch triumphantly head over and begin herding the cows away from the tracks, but Twitch realizes Fluffy Ears is still missing. While Thrash and Mo continue to guide the cows back to the pasture, Twitch goes in search of the missing calf and rescues it from the tracks at a road crossing. In doing so, Twitch finds she's gotten her own foot stuck on the track, and in her panic, is unable to transform. Bumblebee heads off to respond to her call for help, leaving the others to send her calm feelings. Bee continues to talk to Twitch as he fruitlessly attempts to stop the oncoming train, eventually giving up and joining Twitch on the tracks ahead. With Bee present, she is able to focus enough to succeed in transforming, yanking Bee and Fluffy Ears out of the way moments before the train roars through the crossing. The trio returns to the others, who hug Twitch and thank Bumblebee, who finally feels like he's part of a team again.

The family sits down for take two of family game night, with the barn now repaired. Optimus finally contacts Bee, but Bumblebee's now busy and says he'll call the Prime back.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] (11)
*[[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] (12)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]] (10)

|c3=
*Pedestrian (2)
*[[Alex Malto]] (3)
*[[Robby Malto]] (6)
*[[Mo Malto]] (7)
*[[Dot Malto]] (8)

|h4=[[Terran]]s||c4=
*[[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] (4)
*[[Twitch]] (5)

|h5=Others||c5=
*[[Fluffy Ears]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"Wait, is this supposed to be me?" 
"Yeah! Aren't they fun?" 
"My eyebrows do ''not'' look like that."
:—'''Bumblebee''' discovers '''Alex's''' Bumblebee walkie talkies.

"Aww, they're made of you!" 
"Yeah, but the brows are all wrong."
:—'''Mo''' and '''Robby''' are also amused at the walkie talkies.

"I just wish I knew how to get these Terrans to listen to me." 
"If you figure that out, could you let me know? Kids can be a mystery."
:—'''Bumblebee''' and '''Dot'''

"Yes! Maltobots, let's go wrangle us some cows!"
:—'''Bumblebee'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*This episode is the first to reveal Dot has a prosthetic right leg, though it goes unremarked upon here.

===Transformers references===
*Bumblebee swears by [[Primus]], and later cries out "Mother of [[Solus Prime|Solus]]!".

===Real-world references===
*The various boxes around the barn feature logos for the Malinowski shipping company, a reference to series producer [[Dale Malinowski]].
*When attempting to Transform, Twitch strikes a ''Naruto'' jutsu pose.
*The collection of board games at family night includes the [[Hasbro]] games "Twister" and "Sorry! Not Sorry!".

===Animation and technical errors===
*

===Trivia===
*

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Seguindo em Frente'''" ("Moving on", dubbed-in title), "'''Mudança da Mo'''" ("Mo's Change", Paramount+ catalogue title)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 19]], 2022

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Aller de l'avant'''" ("Moving forward")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 30]], 2022

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Nur Muh-t, das klappt schon'''" ("Just Moo, It'll Work Out")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 30]], 2022
:** The title is a pun on the phrase "nur Mut, das klappt schon" ("just have courage, it'll work out").

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mú és öröm a háznál'''" ("Moo and Joy at the House")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 30]], 2022
:** The title is a blend of the expressions "mú" (moo), "bú és öröm" (sadness and joy) and "vendég a háznál, öröm a háznál" (guest at the house, joy at the house).

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' TBA
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 30]], 2022

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Muuu-tamento'''" ("Moo-tation")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 11]], 2022

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2023 — ''Transformers: EarthSpark'' - Season 1: Episodes 1-10 ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 

{{epstub}}

[[Category:EarthSpark episodes]]

Moo-ving In

2025-03-30T18:19:31Z

Driftman217:

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' ep 3
|image=EarthSpark-MoovingIn-DotandAlexhelpBee.jpg
|caption="Value this time in your life, kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices."
|prev=Secret Legacy, Part 2
|next=House Rules
|title="Moo-ving In"
|season=1
|season ep=3
|airdate=[[November 11]], [[2022]] (Paramount+) [[February 10]], [[2023]] (Nickelodeon)
|production company=[[Entertainment One]] [[Nickelodeon]]
|writer=[[Isabel Galupo]]
|animation studio=[[Icon Creative Studio]]
|director=[[J.J. Conway]]
|video=https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/D8BBQL_k8LFgGDPVMXeO7qnYmpTNllMd/
|videosite=Paramount+
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcOQg-zGbNM&t=17s
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Bumblebee struggles in his mission to train Twitch and Thrash, because they won't listen to him.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:EarthSpark-MoovingIn-TwitchMeetsFluffyEars.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"These cows trusted us." "Trusted us? They followed us because we yelled 'yah'."]]
[[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] speeds through the streets of [[Witwicky (town)|Witwicky]] as the clock ticks. Roaring out into the countryside, he uses a trailer being towed by another vehicle in order to vault a moving train, all so he can arrive at the Malto house by 9AM. His triumph at a new speed record is interrupted by items being thrown from the barn, and he heads inside to where [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], [[Twitch]], [[Robby Malto|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto|Mo]] are tidying up so the Terrans and Bumblebee will have somewhere to rest. As [[Dot Malto|Dot]] arrives, [[Alex Malto|Alex]] takes a photo of the family at work.

[[File:EarthSpark-MoovingIn-BumblebeeWalkies.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Do you know what the secret of life is? This." "Your finger?"]]
Alex later finds Bumblebee reviewing his to-do list, particularly the last "rejoin the Autobots" item. Alex and Dot offer their help with Bee's main mission of training the Terrans, but Bee believes it will be a simple, routine matter he'll have completed in no time. The Terrans and their kid partners are meanwhile picking apples when their work is interrupted by one of the nearby cows munching down on dropped fruit. Twitch is instantly charmed by the calf and her emotion leaks over to Thrash and the kids. They're all admiring the calf when Bumblebee arrives, intending to begin their training. Thrash confidently goes to demonstrate his ability to transform to Bumblebee, only to discover he can't, and has to cover for it by speaking the sound effect and contorting his body. Bumblebee tells the amused Twitch that it's her turn to try, but she finds herself unable to transform as well. The kids and Terrans are more interested in doing what they're doing than training, so Bee suggests they can train after hours. Robby points out that tonight is Malto Family Game Night. Mo suggests Bee can take part, but his speech about how he's on a serious mission is lost on deaf ears, as the others are back to playing with the calf, now dubbed "[[Fluffy Ears]]".

Bumblebee trudges back to the barn, grumbling that the others are ignoring him, and is intercepted by Alex, who is conveniently moving his collection of Bumblebee merchandise. Bee signs the piece of merchandise Alex is holding up, only for Alex to hint that he'd like the rest of his collection signed too. Bee's also less than impressed with the faces on the Bumblebee walkie talkies, and tells Alex to leave the merchandise with him. Heading inside, he tries to contact [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]], only to instead get [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]], who has some helpful advice on getting the others to listen to him by using force. Bee returns to the field, only to find everyone's gone, except Twitch who is hiding behind a bale of hay and fruitlessly attempting to transform. After overhearing her opinion of him, Bumblebee heads back to the barn and again attempts to reach Optimus, only to get [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]], who suggests he should get to know the Terrans better to be a more effective leader.

[[File:EarthSpark-MoovingIn-FamilyGameNight.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"......''RUM RAISIN!''"]]
Bumblebee finds the Terrans and kids lying in a field, working on their emotional connection, and presents them with walkie talkies as presents. He gets upset after they laugh at the Bumblebee faces on them, but attempts to persevere, asking about the upcoming family game night. That night, the family convenes in the barn and splits into teams — Bumblebee finds himself with Alex and Dot while the kids pair with their respective Terran partners. They proceed to play a series of games. Bumblebee's advice to Twitch while playing Tic-Tac-Toe actually results in her losing, and his further attempts to give helpful advice to the Terrans leads to an argument breaking out, culminating in Twitch yelling at Bumblebee before transforming and smashing through the roof. Thrash and the kids similarly storm out, leaving Bumblebee with their parents.

As Twitch flies along angry at Bumblebee, she suddenly realized she's transformed. She swoops down to show Fluffy Ears, but when the calf is terrified at her appearance, she attempts to change back, only to find she can't. Meanwhile Bumblebee again attempts to contact Optimus and finally gets through, but it turns out to be Optimus's voice mail. Dot and Alex find him slumped in dejection at the side of the barn and offer some words of encouragement. Elsewhere Robby, Mo and Thrash find Twitch crashed into a fence, and she laments that the cows have all escaped. Thrash contacts Bee over the walkie talkies to ask for help, as the cows are currently stampeding towards the railway tracks.

[[File:EarthSpark-MoovingIn-StuckOnTracks.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"I hope I can help."]]
Soon Bee arrives in the field and has Twitch fly up to survey what's happening. Thrash is still unable to transform, and from discussion, it turns out the Terrans need to feel safe and calm. The group holds hands, and Thrash finally succeeds in transforming. He, Mo and Twitch triumphantly head over and begin herding the cows away from the tracks, but Twitch realizes Fluffy Ears is still missing. While Thrash and Mo continue to guide the cows back to the pasture, Twitch goes in search of the missing calf and rescues it from the tracks at a road crossing. In doing so, Twitch finds she's gotten her own foot stuck on the track, and in her panic, is unable to transform. Bumblebee heads off to respond to her call for help, leaving the others to send her calm feelings. Bee continues to talk to Twitch as he fruitlessly attempts to stop the oncoming train, eventually giving up and joining Twitch on the tracks ahead. With Bee present, she is able to focus enough to succeed in transforming, yanking Bee and Fluffy Ears out of the way moments before the train roars through the crossing. The trio returns to the others, who hug Twitch and thank Bumblebee, who finally feels like he's part of a team again.

The family sits down for take two of family game night, with the barn now repaired. Optimus finally contacts Bee, but Bumblebee's now busy and says he'll call the Prime back.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] (11)
*[[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] (12)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]] (10)

|c3=
*Pedestrian (2)
*[[Alex Malto]] (3)
*[[Robby Malto]] (6)
*[[Mo Malto]] (7)
*[[Dot Malto]] (8)

|h4=[[Terran]]s||c4=
*[[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] (4)
*[[Twitch]] (5)

|h5=Others||c5=
*[[Fluffy Ears]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"Wait, is this supposed to be me?" 
"Yeah! Aren't they fun?" 
"My eyebrows do ''not'' look like that."
:—'''Bumblebee''' discovers '''Alex's''' Bumblebee walkie talkies.

"Aww, they're made of you!" 
"Yeah, but the brows are all wrong."
:—'''Mo''' and '''Robby''' are also amused at the walkie talkies.

"I just wish I knew how to get these Terrans to listen to me." 
"If you figure that out, could you let me know? Kids can be a mystery."
:—'''Bumblebee''' and '''Dot'''

"Yes! Maltobots, let's go wrangle us some cows!"
:—'''Bumblebee'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*This episode is the first to reveal Dot has a prosthetic right leg, though it goes unremarked upon here.

===Transformers references===
*Bumblebee swears by [[Primus]], and later cries out "Mother of [[Solus Prime|Solus]]!".

===Real-world references===
*The various boxes around the barn feature logos for the Malinowski shipping company, a reference to series producer [[Dale Malinowski]].
*When attempting to Transform, Twitch strikes a ''Naruto'' jutsu pose.
*The collection of board games at family night includes the [[Hasbro]] games "Twister" and "Sorry! Not Sorry!".

===Animation and technical errors===
*

===Trivia===
*

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Seguindo em Frente'''" ("Moving on", dubbed-in title), "'''Mudança da Mo'''" ("Mo's Change", Paramount+ catalogue title)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 19]], 2022

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Aller de l'avant'''" ("Moving forward")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 30]], 2022

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Nur Muh-t, das klappt schon'''" ("Just Moo, It'll Work Out")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 30]], 2022
:** The title is a pun on the phrase "nur Mut, das klappt schon" ("just have courage, it'll work out").

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mú és öröm a háznál'''" ("Moo and Joy at the House")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 30]], 2022
:** The title is a blend of the expressions "mú" (moo), "bú és öröm" (sadness and joy) and "vendég a háznál, öröm a háznál" (guest at the house, joy at the house).

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' TBA
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 30]], 2022

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Muuu-tamento'''" ("Moo-tation")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 11]], 2022

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2023 — ''Transformers: EarthSpark'' - Season 1: Episodes 1-10 ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]) 

{{epstub}}

[[Category:EarthSpark episodes]]

Five Servos of Doom

2025-02-04T14:14:11Z

Driftman217:

{{episode|
|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.
{{-}}

==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.
[[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:'' ???

'''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]]

Where Is Thy Sting?

2025-01-29T12:27:09Z

Driftman217:

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|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=WhereIsThySting-reflectingface.jpg
|caption=Get out of my head!
|ep=34
|ep2=31
|prev2=Three's a Crowd
|next2=Five Servos of Doom
|title="Where Is Thy Sting?"
|airdate=[[March 28]], 2009
|season=3
|season ep=5
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Todd Casey]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Shigeharu Takahashi]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQgA6a1g3Y
|videosite=YouTube}}

'''A crazed Wasp finds his way to Earth to exact his revenge on Bumblebee... but he doesn't count on the Elite Guard following him.'''

==Synopsis==
Drawing closer to [[Earth]] in their pursuit of the presumed traitor [[Wasp]], [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] are at their stations on the bridge of the [[Elite Guard]]'s ship when [[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime]] contacts them and demands to know what they are doing in Earth Sector. [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] joins the conference call to apologize for not letting Longarm know of the situation, pointing out that they couldn't risk tipping off Wasp when he stands poised to lead them to his Decepticon contact on the planet. Except, as Jazz points out, Wasp isn't headed for the [[Decepticon]]s... he's making a <s>bee</s>waspline for the [[Autobot Earth Base|Autobots' base]]!

In the Autobots' headquarters, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] is immersed in a game of ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]'' when [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] shuts the television off and reprimands Bumblebee for neglecting his monitor duty. In mid-argument, the base computers detect a [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] signal nearby, but no other information can be obtained due to interference caused by recent torrential rain. Prime and the other [[Autobot]]s thus have to depart to investigate firsthand. Bumblebee, of course, returns to playing his video game.

The Elite Guard ship touches down in Detroit, and Sentinel and Jazz disembark. Sentinel is immediately disgusted by the notion of liquid falling from the sky, and he finds himself all but incapable of driving on the slick roads, but Jazz just rolls with it.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeecreepilydefeated.jpg|left|thumb|200px|We enjoyed that together.]]
Back at the base, Bumblebee continues playing games until the base is suddenly plunged into darkness. As the red emergency lights come on, Bumblebee finds himself staring into the all-too-familiar face of Wasp, now sporting an Earth-mode body styled after Bumblebee's own. Bumblebee tries to explain that they had both been set up by Longarm, but the insane Wasp doesn't care. He downs Bumblebee with a blast of his stingers and takes off his own helmet, revealing a wound on the top of his head. Just before passing out, Bumblebee sees Wasp standing over him, holding a strange gun fitted with a glowing green canister and vowing to make Bumblebee lose everything, just like he did...

A little later, Bumblebee awakens to find the other Autobots all staring down at him, including...himself? Looking down at himself, Bumblebee is horrified to discover that Wasp has repainted his armor, swapped their helmets, and exchanged their vocal synthesizers, making each a dead ringer for the other. As Wasp stands there, with Bumblebee's [[battle mask]] "stuck" up, Bumblebee attempts to convince the other Autobots that he is himself, but they aren't sold. When [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] attempts to [[stasis cuffs|stasis cuff]] him, Bumblebee is forced to shoot out the lights and make a break for it. He zooms out of the plant, right past Sentinel Prime and Jazz, who intercept Prime and the other Autobots when they try to pursue him. Sentinel demands to know why Optimus's Autobots haven't checked in in so long, but when Optimus tries to explain, Sentinel refuses to listen, informing them he is here to bring in Wasp...who, Optimus points out, just drove right past him. Sentinel ignores Optimus when he tries to tell him that Longarm is the real traitor, and departs immediately to hunt down "Wasp". Optimus instructs his Autobots to locate Wasp first, and they head out to search, while the true Wasp tells them he will stay behind in case Bumblebee comes back.

On Cybertron, Shockwave desperately makes another attempt to contact the missing [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. He transmits a message to him alerting him to the direness of the situation, adding that Shockwave is about to take matters into his own hands...

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-obligatorymisunderstanding.jpg|right|thumb|200px|I has logos-Autobot on my shoulders, da?]]
Back on Earth, Optimus and Ratchet are discussing how odd "Bumblebee" has been behaving when two jets suddenly come roaring by overhead. Knowing that no organic could pilot a plane the way these two crafts fly, the two Autobots assume they are dealing with Decepticons and zoom after them in hot pursuit. The two jets soon track down "Wasp", who is desperately attempting to rub his green paint off with a discarded couch cushion, and transform to robot mode to attack him with blasts of flame and roaring hurricane winds. Ratchet and Optimus arrive to hold off these apparent Decepticons, who reveal a remarkable power to combine into [[Safeguard (Animated)|one mighty robot]], but before the fighting can get too intense, Sentinel and Jazz arrive to reveal that these two are, in fact, Autobots! Sentinel introduces [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], Elite Guard warriors created using specs from [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], and orders the duo to resume their mission.

In the Autobots' base, Wasp is playing (and losing) ''Ninja Gladiator'', and he decides that he could get used to being Bumblebee. In order to complete the illusion, Wasp scans the Autobots' computer files, so that he can learn everything about Bumblebee and better pass himself off as his old rival.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-hotdogbot.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Bumblebee needs a lesson in [[customizing]].]]
Racing through the city streets, Bumblebee discovers a hot dog cart and desperate tries slathering his armor in mustard to make him look more like himself. He is caught in the act by [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], but he is finally able to convince Bulkhead of his true identity when he tells him something only he could know: namely, that he took the blame for Bulkhead knocking a tower over on Sentinel Prime at [[Autobot boot camp|boot camp]]. Jetfire and Jetstorm arrive just in time to witness this happy scene, but get the wrong end of the stick and assume that Bulkhead and Prowl are traitors as well! The twins report this to Sentinel, and he, Optimus, Jazz and Ratchet head for their position, with Sentinel obstinately refusing to listen to Optimus's attempts to explain the numerous misunderstandings that have happened. When everyone reunites, Bulkhead explains that Bumblebee is definitely Bumblebee, and Optimus orders everyone back to the plant to straighten everything out.

A little later, back at the plant, Wasp cheerily denies Bumblebee's accusations, using the information he has gleaned from the Autobots' files to "prove" he is who he claims. When interrogation yields no results, Bulkhead comes up with the best way to figure out who's who: a versus match on ''Ninja Gladiator''! Before the game even starts, Wasp chokes and grabs Bumblebee, holding his stinger to 'Bee's neck. Wasp insists that he was always a good bot, but Bulkhead says that isn't true; he might not be a traitor, but he was always mean to Bulkhead and Bumblebee and was hardly good. Wasp blasts out the lights to cover his escape, and when the emergency lights kick in, both Wasp and Bumblebee are gone.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-UltraMagnusOffline.jpg|thumb|right|200px|If anyone inserts a "He's been dealt with" caption here, so help us...]]

The Autobots head outside, where they spot what looks like Bumblebee lying on the ground. Bulkhead assumes it is Wasp and leaps upon the prone figure, pummeling him and ripping off his helmet... only to find out that it really is Bumblebee underneath. Prowl examines Bumblebee's helmet and discovers that their colors were switched so quickly because Wasp had hit him with an [[electronic paint job]] that he could turn off with the press of a button. As things begin to calm down, the truth of the whole matter hits Jazz—if Wasp really was innocent, that means that Longarm Prime really is a Decepticon spy!

Sometime later, on Cybertron, [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] is searching for Longarm in order to apprehend him. Entering the council chamber, Ironhide is horrified to discover the mangled, barely-alive body of Ultra Magnus. He asks the Supreme Commander where [[Magnus Hammer|his hammer]] is and who was responsible. Before collapsing, Ultra Magnus manages to choke out, "Shock...wave..."

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

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*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (1)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (2)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (4)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*[[Wasp]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (8)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (9)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (10)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (11)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (12)
*[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]] (13)
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] (15)

|c2=
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave/Longarm Prime]] (3)

|c4=
*[[Hot Dog Bot]] (14)
|}}

==Quotes==
"Besides, if I'm playing ''Ninja Gladiator'', I'm at least getting valuable combat training." 
:—'''Bumblebee''' gives justification for slacking off.

"Liquid falling from the sky? What is ''wrong'' with this planet?!" 
"Crazy! It's like a planet ''and'' a car wash! You diggin' this or what?"
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' and '''Jazz''' share their thoughts on the rain.

"Wasp—I mean, Bumblebot—I mean, ''I'' will stay here in case Bumblebot—I mean, Wasp comes back." 
:—'''Wasp''' blows his cover several times, but the Autobots still don't pick it up.

'''Ratchet''': Come on! You're doing it wrong! Turn ''into'' the skid! 
'''Sentinel''': Into the skid? That's stupid! 
'''Jazz''': Just gotta go with the flow, S.P.! 
'''Optimus''': How do you put up with him? 
'''Jazz''': I just tune out half of everything he spits out. 
'''Optimus''': Only half?
:—The Autobots attempt to put up with the jerk, with no such luck.

"You're not arresting ''anyone'', Sentinel." 
"So you ''are'' in on it, Optimus." 
"No, Sentinel. I just have something you never will: respect for my teammates." 
:—'''Optimus Prime''' defines exactly ''how'' '''Sentinel Prime''' is a jerk.

"So hit me with that one more time. A robot in disguise swaps metal with a double agent, who is really on the level?" 
"Makes even less sense when you say it."
:—'''Jazz''' and '''Bulkhead''' try their best to fathom what's been going on.

"You were always mean to me and Bumblebee. You may not be a traitor... but you were ''never'' a good bot."
:—'''Bulkhead''' has a go at the traumatised victim of a frame-job—who's holding his best friend hostage.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*We last saw Wasp in "[[Autoboot Camp]]", to which this episode is essentially a sequel. A brief flashback from the episode is shown after Bumblebee says he "took the rap" for Bulkhead for what happened to Sentinel Prime. In an attempt to maintain his ruse, Wasp also mentions all the things that Bumblebee had done then which accidentally embarrassed Sentinel Prime. He also mentions the events in "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]".
* Optimus' Autobots discovered that Wasp wasn't guilty in "[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]".
* Sentinel Prime discusses the modifications made to Jetfire and Jetstorm, which took place in the "[[First (and Second) in Flight]]" comic book.
* Sentinel Prime still doesn't remember his time with Bumblebee and Bulkhead, as he did (didn't?) in "[[The Elite Guard]]".

===Transformers references===
[[Image:WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeesvideogame.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Referenciality!]]
* The background of the ''Ninja Gladiator'' video game prominently features [[TORQ III]].
* In the scene before he switches places with "Bumble-Bot", Wasp is wearing a [[rubsign]] in place of a conventional Autobot insignia. This is identical to [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]—at this time he does not belong to either faction.
* [[Tigatron Stadium]], which will be seen in the next episode, can be seen in the background.

===Real-world references===
* The episode's title is a reference to a Bible verse: namely, [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015:55&version=31 1 Corinthians 15:55]: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
* Sentinel Prime's cry of "Arrest 'em all and let Ultra Magnus sort 'em out!" is a reference to a popular English translation of a saying by Abbot {{w|Arnaud Amalric|Arnold Amaury}}, before the massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade: "Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out." It's not the first time the phrase [[United (episode)|has been used]] in ''Transformers'' fiction.
** According to [[David Kaye]], [[Jeff Bennett]] once used this line in a recording session during the first season, causing the cast to burst into laughter and forcing them to take five.{{fact}}
* The four-armed insect from ''Ninja Gladiator'' is [[Antron]] from ''[[Micronauts (franchise)|Micronauts]]'', while the black figure the insect fights is [[Snake-Eyes]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=@DerrickJWyatt The TFWiki ways 'Snake-Eyes' . . . is that right?|link=https://twitter.com/SentinelPrime/status/1418651506|name=Jim Sorenson|site=Twitter|year=2009|month=03|day=30|(defunct=)}} {{citesocial|quote=@SentinelPrime That's the guy.|link=https://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1418656175|name=Derrick J. Wyatt|site=Twitter|year=2009|month=03|day=30|(defunct=)}}</ref>
* The Jet bros. combination sequence, like much else about them, is based on the stock footage sequences of the various Symmetrical Docking robots from ''[[Brave (franchise)|King Of Braves GaoGaiGar]]''.
* Bumblebee's line, 'Decepticons, why'd it have to be Decepticons?' hearkens back to the [[Indiana Jones]] film, ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''.

===Animation or technical errors===
* Optimus Prime's right arm, after he turns off the TV, is at a weird angle.
*When Bulkhead knocks Jetfire back, Jazz (who isn't even ''there'' yet), instead of Jetstorm, is standing next to Bumblebee.
*When Wasp is playing Bumblebee's video game (and liking it), the characters on screen switch sides as he loses. It's possible the characters got repositioned during a move or combo, as is a common occurrence in fighting games.
*Oddly, for a cartoon that tries to stay close to the transformation of the actual toys, Safeguard's transformation is nothing like the toy.
*When Wasp is on his own playing ''Ninja Gladiator'' and later, when he breaks character near the end, he has his original voice. How come Bumblebee couldn't do that?
*For that matter, after Wasp leaves Bumblebee behind, he has his original voice back too. Bumblebee is also still sporting a yellow version of Wasp's helmet.
*At certain points in the episode, Wasp (as Bumblebee) and Bumblebee (as Wasp) wear the design of their false identity's thighs.
*During the close up of Bumblebee (as Wasp), Jetfire and Jetstorm switch places. They're in the correct order in the next scene.

===Continuity errors===
*This isn't an ''error'' as such, but just when did Wasp get an identical Earth form to Bumblebee's? And perhaps more to the point, ''how'' did he change form - both Optimus' crew and the Elite Guard reformatted on their well-equipped ships. Wasp was last seen beside a space bridge with no ship of any kind. Though it's possible that Wasp has the ability to scan and adapt [[alternate mode]]s on his own, in the series only [[Starscream (Animated)|De]][[Blitzwing (Animated)|cepti]][[Lugnut (Animated)|cons]] have shown this capability.
*Given how close Ratchet is to [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] you'd think he'd know better than to say "no Autobot flies."
*After Jetfire is punched by Bulkhead, Jetfire lands next to what appears to be Jazz and Bumblebee. Jazz is seen in the next scene driving with Optimus and Sentinel.

===Trivia===
*This episode received an impromptu online debut on [[March 25]], [[2009]], when a copy loaded onto the [[Cartoon Network]] website's server, intended to go live after the episode aired a few days later, was pilfered and leaked by some ne'er-do-wells. The next episode, "[[Five Servos of Doom]]", was leaked a few days later.
*Wasp has purple eyes, which were visible even with Bumblebee's battle mask up, and retained the striped design on his thighs. Bumblebee still had his blue eyes and other retained properties. The Autobots didn't notice this because...?
*You could ask the same question regarding the Jet twins. Although their Elite Guard insignias are on their hips, Optimus and Ratchet should have seen the insignia on their shoulders when they merged into Safeguard.
*Not to mention that Optimus and Ratchet have very obvious Autobot symbols. Why didn't the twins try to introduce themselves before diving into battle with them? Of course, if Sentinel trained them, they might be bigger jerks than we realize and just assumed them traitors.
*When Bulkhead runs into the green Bumblebee in the street, Bumblebee puts his hands in the air to surrender and starts wailing that he's Bumblebee. Bulkhead ''knows'' Wasp was framed, locked up in the stockade for years, may well be traumatised, and has not as yet EVER actually hurt anybody, but he still starts swinging his wrecking ball with intent to pummel. Later on when Wasp is revealed and uses Bumblebee as a shield, Bulkhead starts telling the ''frightened and angry'' mech that he was "never a good bot." And when Wasp runs off ''without hurting anybody,'' and Bulkhead sees a yellow mech lying outside face down and motionless, he instantly attacks what he thinks is Wasp. This episode doesn't do anything for Bulkhead's rep as an Autobot ''at all.''
**None of the other Autobots seem to have a problem with his actions either.
*Bulkhead squeaks like a rubber ducky when he's hopping back and forth telling Optimus, Jazz and Ratchet that the green bot is Bumblebee.
*Apparently it doesn't rain on Cybertron, because Sentinel Prime was irritated that liquid falls from the sky on Earth.
*Strangely, the Autobots don't try and work out who's Wasp and who's Bumblebee by [[A Prime Problem|having a race]].
*This is the last episode to feature [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]].

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Où est ton venin ?'''" ("Where is your Venom?")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''¿Dónde está tu aguijón?'''" ("Where is your sting?")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 3|3 November]] [[2009]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Wasp no Fukushū'''" (ワスプの復讐, "Wasp's Revenge")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 30|30 October]] [[2010]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Quem é Quem?'''" ("Who is Who?")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

==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]]

Three's a Crowd (episode)

2025-01-23T18:02:53Z

Driftman217:

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFAni Threes a Crowd Constructicons.jpg
|caption=
|ep=33
|ep2=30
|prev2=TransWarped
|next2=Where Is Thy Sting?
|title="Three's a Crowd"
|airdate=[[March 21]], [[2009]]
|season=3
|season ep=4
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Rich Fogel]]
|directed by= [[Kalvin Lee]] [[Tetsurō Moronuki]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cepXOnUw9yY
|videosite=YouTube}}

'''Bulkhead seeks the help of the Constructicons for a vital construction project, but, thanks to their new leader, the Constructicons have bigger and deadlier plans.'''

==Synopsis==
At [[Sumdac Tower]], [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] are spending the night working to construct a new [[space bridge]], although Isaac is a bit distracted by the damaged [[Headmaster unit]] sitting in the lab. Bulkhead is eager to get the job done, but Sumdac is tired, having spent the previous night overriding the signal dampeners he created for the [[Decepticon]]s.

Elsewhere in [[Detroit]], the other Autobots are taking advantage of the overridden dampeners, and are on the trail of a Decepticon energy signature at that very moment. Unfortunately, the Decepticon in question turns out to be [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]], who doesn't shy away from a fight, and drops out of the sky on the pursuing Autobots, unleashing his "[[Punch of Kill Everything]]".

Back at Sumdac Tower, Sumdac loads the power core for the space bridge onto a forklift, as Bulkhead fits a few [[AllSpark]] fragments into it in order to give it a boost. When Bulkhead reclines against the core, however, the floor beneath them gives out, and the core, the forklift and the Headmaster unit go tumbling down, taking out a few more floors on their way. Luckily, Sumdac is saved from the fall by Bulkhead's wrecking ball, and retires to bed to recover from the shock. Bulkhead examines the damage, and decides that he knows just the experts to help him fix it... but as he departs, at the bottom of the pit, the Headmaster, the forklift, and the power core begin creeping towards each other, as the familiar glow of an AllSpark fragment lights up the darkness...

[[File:TFAni Threes a Crowd Stop Hitting Yourself.jpg|thumb|left|Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself!]]
Across town, [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] and [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] are enjoying the "show" at an automotive disassembly plant when Bulkhead, having tracked them down through their energy signatures, arrives to ask them for help. The two [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicons]] refuse to work for the Autobots, until Bulkhead promises to keep the job "off the books". The trio return to Sumdac Tower, and Scrapper begins clearing the debris when suddenly, something grabs the other end of his shovel. The Constructicons reel in the offending item, which turns out to be a forklift... which promptly transforms into a diminutive robot that introduces itself as [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]]. Bulkhead realizes that the forklift has fused with the Headmaster unit and the AllSpark fragment, and the perpetually cranky Dirt Boss quickly announces his intention to take charge of the Constructicons. Scrapper is amused by this prospect, but Dirt Boss brings him around to his way of thinking by launching a shell from his forehead which burrows into Scrapper's head and gives the tiny terror control of Scrapper's motor functions. Bulkhead contacts the other Autobots to inform them of the new problem, but they are too busy battling Lugnut to offer any help. Bulkhead is struggling to figure out what to do when Sumdac appears to find out what the commotion is all about. In order to keep his human friend safe from Dirt Boss, Bulkhead introduces Sumdac as his servant, and barks an order at the scientist to get back to work finishing the [[plasma dynamic thruster]] they require. Sumdac, of course, completely fails to understand Bulkhead's ruse, and becomes genuinely afraid of the big Autobot, scampering off in terror to complete his task. With that taken care of, Dirt Boss announces his plan to take back the city that machines like he helped build, by stealing the its [[oil]]. That, as it turns out, is a plan Mixmaster and Scrapper can definitely get behind! The Constructicons commence Dirt Boss's plan by hijacking a tanker truck, but when Bulkhead tries to talk them out of it, Mixmaster turns on him and glues him to the road with a pair of cement galoshes. The evil trio proceed to go on a crime spree, stealing oil from all over the city.
The other Autobots, meanwhile, have managed to get a pair of [[stasis cuffs]] on Lugnut, but find themselves lacking in the physical strength necessary to haul his paralyzed body out of the crater his punch had created earlier. The cable they are using to haul the huge Decepticon soon snap, putting them right back where they started.

[[File:TFAni Threes a Crowd Lugnut Ratchet.jpg|thumb|"Oh, glorious Megatron!! I fear that your humble servant has fallen and can't [[Roll out#Transformers Animated|rise up]]!!"]]
Back at the Constructicons' plant, Mixmaster and Scrapper celebrate their successful run of heists by enjoying a tipple, but Dirt Boss promptly smacks the barrels from their hands, telling them they didn't steal the oil to drink it. Bulkhead, meanwhile, is snooping on the Constructicons through a nearby window when Professor Sumdac comes running up to him, with the plasma dynamic thruster completed as requested. Bulkhead struggles to make the human understand that he was merely acting before, but when the Constructicons hear the noise outside and come to investigate, Bulkhead has to start acting again and sends Sumdac away. This time, however, Sumdac has grasped Bulkhead's deception, and eavesdrops as Dirt Boss reveals his plan to blow up fossil fuel refinery, thereby giving him control of the largest supply of oil in the city. Bulkhead decides that he cannot let things go any further and attacks the Constructicons, but when his wrecking ball becomes jammed in Mixmaster's arm-cannon, the three Decepticons simply walk off, dragging the helpless Bulkhead behind them. They soon arrive at the refinery, where Bulkhead is able to give Scrapper and Mixmaster pause by asking them where they'll get any oil to drink if they blow up the refinery. With Mixmaster wavering, Dirt Boss takes control of his body, and orders him to finish Bulkhead off. The resulting fight is a bit on the awkward side, given that the two combatants are stuck together, and Bulkhead is able to open a comm channel to the other Autobots, transmitting the noise of the fight to them. Realizing their friend is in trouble, the other Autobots leave Lugnut lying in his crater, and race off to aid Bulkhead in battle.

The fight between Mixmaster and Bulkhead winds up damaging the refinery's main fuel tank, which begins leaking oil everywhere. Dirt Boss proceeds to remove his control shell from Mixmaster, and plants it in Bulkhead instead, intending to use the Autobot to ignite the oil and send the [[oil refinery|refinery]] up in flames. Mixmaster is distressed at this prospect, given that he is still stuck to Bulkhead, but neither Dirt Boss nor Scrapper are particularly bothered.

[[File:Three'saCrowdConstructiconsOilrefinery.jpg|thumb|left|"Ahhh... brotherly love, don't you see."]]
The other Autobots soon arrive at the refinery and nearly run over Professor Sumdac, who quickly brings them up to speed. Suddenly, Bulkhead comes storming towards the Autobots, whirling his wrecking ball (and Mixmaster) as he and Scrapper follow Dirt Boss's command to attack. Luckily, Ratchet is able to magnetically extract Dirt Boss's control shell, and Bulkhead uses some of the spilled oil to loosen his wrecking ball and disconnect himself from Mixmaster. He then hurls the Constructicon at Scrapper, but when the two collide, their metal bodies create a spark that sets the refinery ablaze. Worse yet, Scrapper's fist has become lodged in Mixmaster's chest drum, but as the pair struggle to free themselves from each other so they can make themselves scarce, Dirt Boss leaps on Scrapper's head and takes manual control of his body, refusing to let either of them chicken out. The Constructicons wind up on top of the main fuel tank as the Autobots try to fight the fire below, but it soon becomes apparent that the heroes can't stop the tank from blowing. Sumdac suggests using the plasma dynamic thruster to [[unspace|transwarp]] the tank away, and Bulkhead reprograms the device to do the job. Bulkhead hurls the thruster onto the top of the tank, causing it and the Constructicons to be warped away. They materialize just off the shores of [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]] seconds before the tank explodes.

With the Constructicon threat dealt with, the Autobots return to the crater to take Lugnut back into custody. Unfortunately, someone has beaten them to it: Lugnut has been liberated by [[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]], who ''promises'' he will ''never'' speak a word of the whole embarrassing affair.

==Featured characters==
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* [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (2)
* [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
* [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (4)
* [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (5)
* [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (6)
* [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] (13)
* [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]] (14)
* [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] (15)
|c2=
* [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] (7)
* [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] (8)
* [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] (9)
* [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]] (10)
* [[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] (16)
|c3=
* [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] (1)
* [[Sparkplug (Animated human)|Sparkplug]] (11)
* [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] (12)
|c4=

}}

==Quotes==
'''Bulkhead''': These AllSpark fragments should give the power core a boost. 
'''Sumdac''': Be careful, Bulkhead! We don't want to overload it. 
'''Bulkhead''': Relax. When it comes to space bridges, I know what I'm doing. 
''[The floor starts to give way beneath them]'' 
'''Bulkhead''': But I'm not so hot at structural integrity!
:—Bulkhead and Sumdac learn that there are flaws with building a giant space bridge in a tower.

'''Scrapper''': ''[viewing the forklift he's just hauled up]'' What the slag is that? 
''[Forklift transforms into Dirt Boss]'' 
'''Bulkhead''': If I had to guess, a forklift, a Headmaster unit, an Allspark fragment, and a whole lot of trouble.
:—Dirt Boss's first transformation speaks volumes to Bulkhead.

'''Dirt Boss''': What are you cogs looking at? You want a piece of me? Try it and you'll be going to the scrapyard in a crankin' box. 
'''Bulkhead''': Whoa! Someone's got a big chip on their engine block. 
'''Dirt Boss''': You ever tried working for a livin', tiny? Takin' orders from the man? "Move this! Move that!" Well, fuhgeddaboudit! I'm in charge now! 
'''Scrapper''': ''[whispering to Mixmaster]'' Who stalled and made him boss? 
'''Dirt Boss''': That's ''Dirt Boss'' to you! Ya got a problem with that? ''[fires cerebro-shell into Scrapper's forehead]'' 
'''Scrapper''': What? No! Ow! Stop! 
'''Dirt Boss''': Ya got a problem? ''[Scrapper hits himself]'' Ya got a problem? ''[Scrapper hits himself]'' Ya got a problem? ''[Scrapper hits himself]'' 
:—Dirt Boss establishes his position in the pecking order.

"Tell 'em there's a new boss in town: Dirt Boss!"
:—'''Dirt Boss''', every chance he gets.

"Will you slag that annoying little pipsqueak already?!" 
"Who're you calling "pipsqueak", short stuff?
:—'''Dirt Boss''' and '''Bumblebee''' engage in height cracks.

"Oh, I so don't have time for this."
:—'''Optimus Prime''', in desperate need of some leave.

"Uh, you promise me you will, ahem, never speak of this to Megatron..." 
"Oh, I promise."
:—'''Lugnut''' and '''Ramjet''' engage in epic foreshadowing of something that, sadly, <s>probably won't be</s> is never brought up again.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* At least one Detroit paper is titled the ''Detroit Powell Press''. [[Porter C. Powell]] has corporate investments everywhere, it seems.
* The Headmaster unit was recovered [[TransWarped|last episode]].

===Transformers references===
[[File:TFAni Threes a Crowd Sludge Sign.jpg|thumb|So cars & trucks ''do'' eat dinosaurs!]]

* The [[Fossil Fuel]] Oil Company's logo is [[Sludge (G1)|''Generation 1'' Sludge]] doing an impression of the {{w|Sinclair Oil Corporation|Sinclair Oil}} logo.
* This isn't the first series to have [[Space bridge#Generation 1 cartoon|a space bridge in a tower.]]
* Several dockworkers are dressed in the standard Generation 1 cartoon [[Hard hat|costume]].
* Dirt Boss would not be [[Bombshell (G1)|the first Transformer]] to use [[Cerebro-shell|shells fired from his head]] to control others.

===Real-world references===
*The ''Detroit Powell Press'' is a reference to a real-life Detroit paper, the ''{{w|Detroit Free Press}}''. Minus the freedom.
*Scrapper and Mixmaster are found drinking heavily in a manufacturing plant that is deconstructing luxury cars piece by piece. Striptease, anyone?
*The climactic scene with Dirt Boss on top of the oil tank is closely based on the ending of the gangster movie ''{{w|White Heat}}''.

===Animation or technical errors===
*Bulkhead is shown with the other Autobots as Lugnut crashes to the ground.
*When Scrapper says “A job?”, Bulkhead mouths the line.
*One of the ''[[Detroit Powell Press]]'' editions has a headline typo: "RACKETEERS STRIKES OIL" should read "RACKETEERS STRIKE OIL".
*During Dirt Boss's debut scene and when he's telling his plan to blow up the fossil-fuel refinery, the position of his mouth switches several times from the middle of his face (at the "W" shape) to the bottom, and presumably correct, position.
*Blink and you'll miss it, when the Constructicons interrupt Bulkhead explaining the situation to Sumdac, Dirt Boss's forklift prongs are missing.

===Continuity errors===
*When Bulkhead confronts Mixmaster and Scrapper, they speak to Bulkhead as if they remember the events that transpired in "[[Rise of the Constructicons]]", saying that they "don't work for no crankin' Autobots anymore" and referring to Bulkhead as "Bulky". While nothing says they can't have regained those memories by some point, if that's the case, it wasn't shown when this happened.
*More AllSpark fragments are shown in the beginning of the episode, yet all the previously collected pieces the Autobots found were placed into Omega Supreme last season. It's possible the Autobots have found some more since then, off-screen, but it seems an odd thing to omit, plus they would have only had between the end of "[[TransWarped]]" and the start of this episode to do so, which doesn't seem like a long time.
*The Constructicons' rampage goes on for long enough that newspapers pick up the story, and oil profits are seriously hurt. How long are the other Autobots hauling Lugnut out of that crater?
*Beginning in season 3 all [[Slag (slang)|slag]] lines were edited out in the [[United Kingdom|UK]]. In this episode this results in Bumblebee inexplicably yelling "Who you calling pipsqueak? Short stuff!" even though no one calls him pipsqueak.
* Where the hell did the fire at the oil rig go after the oilsplosion?
* If an explosion that big took place in Lake Erie, there would be such a big wave in the aftermath that Detroit would have been underwater.

===Trivia===
* The Detroit newspaper business is incredible; within what is apparently a single night of Constructicon rampage, the ''Detroit Powell Press'' puts out three separate editions announcing the new threat. Either that, or the Autobots spend a ''long'' time focusing on hauling Lugnut out of his crater and nothing else. (Though really, it's impressive that newspapers even still ''exist'' in the future...)
*It appears that Lugnut has accepted [[Starscream clone (Animated)|Starscream's clones]] (or at least Ramjet) as part of the main Decepticon force. Apparently, being Starscream's duplicate is fine as long as you serve the GLORIOUS Megatron.
*What ''exactly'' did Dirt Boss hope to accomplish by climbing up to the top of the oil tank, again?
*An exploding oil tank in the middle of Lake Erie is probably going to be a real mess, isn't it?
*[[David Kaye]]'s voice credit for this episode lists Grimlock, in spite of the Dinobot not having any lines.
*On the other hand, Ratchet appears prominently, particularly in the Lugnut arc, but aside from a few grunts has no lines of dialogue, and [[Corey Burton]] is not credited.
*It's never fully explained how Dirt Boss got his Decepticon insignia, much like the Dinobots having their Autobrands. But considering he was made from the same Headmaster unit that Megatron briefly controlled and was used to jack Starscream's body, it could have rubbed off on him.
*There is also a Decepticon forklift named [[Dirt Boss (ROTF)|Dirt Boss]] in the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|''Revenge of the Fallen'' toyline]]. This is supposedly completely coincidental.
*This episode marks the final appearance of Mixmaster, Dirt Boss and the [[Headmaster unit]].

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Trois ça craint'''" ("But Three, That Sucks")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Três É Demais'''" ("Three's Too Much")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tres son multitud'''" ("Thee's a Crowd")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 27|27 October]] [[2009]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tsuyoki na Dirt Boss'''" (強気なダートボス, "The Tough Dirt Boss")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 23|23 October]] [[2010]]

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2011 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 8 ([[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]]

Erica Lindbeck

2025-01-20T01:29:01Z

Driftman217:

[[File:Erica_Lindbeck.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Quiet as a [[Cheetor (BW)|cat]], sneaky as a [[Blackarachnia (BW)|spider]].]]

'''Erica Lindbeck''' (born [[May 29]], [[1992]]) is an American voice actress. Some of her most prominent voice roles include [[Mattel]]'s Barbie in multiple films in the late 2010s, [[Ms. Marvel|Captain Marvel]] in various [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] productions, Loona in ''Helluva Boss'', Felicia Hardy/Black Cat in Insomniac Games' ''[[Spider-Man]]'' video games, Menat in ''Street Fighter V'', Kaori Miyazono in ''Your Lie in April'', and Futaba Sakura in ''Persona 5''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] (Season 3)

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6949652/ Erica Lindbeck at the IMDB]
* [http://www.ericalindbeck.com Erica Lindbeck's Website]
* [https://twitter.com/ericalindbeck/ Erica Lindbeck on Twitter]

{{DEFAULTSORT: Lindbeck, Erica}}
[[Category: English voice actors]]
[[Category: Hasbro Studios]]

TransWarped

2025-01-10T12:49:37Z

Driftman217:

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA TransWarped Sari hands.jpg
|caption="I am... Iron <s>Man</s> Girl?"
|prev=A Bridge Too Close, Part II
|next=Three's a Crowd
|ep=30, 31 and 32
|ep2=27, 28 and 29
|prev2=A Bridge Too Close, Part II
|next2=Three's a Crowd
|title="TransWarped"
|airdate=[[March 14]], 2009
|season=3
|season ep=1–3
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]] [[Michael Ryan]] [[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Matt Youngberg]] [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]] [[Tetsurō Moronuki]] [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGcz-xiytn0
|videosite=YouTube (part 1)
|video2=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_zAmkt4O0k&t=624s
|videosite2=YouTube (part 2)
}}

'''In the aftermath of the battle at the mine, Sari and her father's relationship takes a strange turn; the Autobots have their work cut out for them trying to contact Cybertron; and Megatron and Starscream find a new opportunity.'''

==Synopsis==
===Part I===
[[File:TransWarpedRodimusCosmicRust.jpg|thumb|left|No fair, I just got here!]]

Somewhere along the outer rim of the galaxy, the [[Autobot]] group, [[Team Athenia]], led by [[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Prime]], defends [[space bridge 687-030]] against the [[Decepticon]]s' "[[Team Chaar]]," led by [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]]. She, [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]], and [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] strafe [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]], [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]], and [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], badly injuring Hot Shot's leg and forcing team medic [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] to perform an amputation. Before she can do so, however, she is swallowed up by [[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]], who explosively vomits her back at her team. Rodimus contacts the [[Elite Guard]] for backup, but the Autobot forces are spread much too thin, defending space bridges from Decepticon attacks all across the galaxy. Oil Slick and Cyclonus proceed to take down Brawn and Ironhide, leaving Rodimus on his own, at which point Blackout arrives and all but finishes the fight with a huge electromagnetic pulse. Rodimus still has some fight left in him, but it drains away when Oil Slick offlines him with a vial of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]]. Strika contacts [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], who informs her that nobody is to TransWarp to the planet until [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] himself arrives. But Megatron was supposed to be there megacycles ago...

[[File:TransWarpedStarscreamsScream.jpg|thumb|right|I'mma firin' mah lazhar!]]

Off in the depths of space, the disembodied head of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] attempts to remove Megatron's stasis cuffs with his teeth as the Decepticon leader berates him all the while. As Starscream begins bellowing back at Megatron, the [[AllSpark#Animated continuity family|AllSpark]] fragment in his forehead begins to glow, and he undergoes a surprising transformation: His mouth converts into a sonic blaster that shoots the cuffs clean off Megatron's wrists. There is no time for the two villains to celebrate, however, as the giant form of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] materializes above them. But after a moment, Megatron realizes that the colossus is offline...

[[File:TransWarpedProtoform.jpg|thumb|left|Hush little baby, don't say a word. Sumdac's gonna build you a mockingbird.]]

On [[Earth]], as the Autobots return to [[Detroit]], [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Professor Sumdac]] explains [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari's]] origins to her as best he can, revealing that he discovered her in his laboratory years ago, in the form of a small, liquid metal robot. Sari finds the story hard to believe, and her strained patience reaches its end when the group returns to [[Sumdac Tower]] and confronts [[Porter C. Powell]] and [[Headmaster (Animated)|Henry Masterson]]. Powell tries to smooth things over with Isaac, but Masterson's belligerent attitude dispels any attempts at peace, which is further ruined when he demands the Autobots return his Headmaster, or "heads will roll." Having entered the lab from the elevator behind them, Optimus picks up Masterson and asks for clarification on his threat. Isaac immediately fires both Powell and Masterson, but Masterson refuses to vacate the premises, and Powell takes another shot at Sari's disputed parentage.

[[File:TransWarped Pt1 Sari Freakout.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Emperor Palpatine|POWER!!! UNLIMITED POWER!!!]]]]

In a moment of anger, Sari's hands transform into energy projectors that hurl the two men into the building's elevator. This newest revelation pushes Sari over the edge, and she walks out on the man she can no longer even think of as her father, returning to the [[Autobot Earth Base|Autobots' base]] with her "fellow machines." While [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] examines Sari—deducing that she's basically human, but partially Cybertronian—Prowl departs to carry out some research of his own. With Ratchet lost in his memories of [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] head back to the Decepticons' destroyed mine base to salvage some equipment that will let them contact Cybertron and inform the Autobots there of the traitor in their midst.

On a small planetoid somewhere in space, [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] is still trapped in a cement blob with Starscream's [[Thundercracker (Animated)|egomaniacal]] and [[Skywarp (Animated)|cowardly]] clones. Blurr proposes using sonic pulses to dissolve the glue, and the egomaniac takes the idea for his own and successfully frees them. Blurr immediately speeds off, launching into space and literally running across the galaxy, ricocheting off everything in his path (including the egomaniac) to get back to Cybertron and inform the Elite Guard of Megatron's invasion plan.

Megatron and Starscream force their way into Omega Supreme's body, but this action brings the giant Autobot back online, and his internal systems immediately seize the Decepticons. Megatron exploits Omega's simple processor and convinces the titan to take him back to Cybertron "to face justice." Omega transforms back into ship mode and TransWarps off toward Cybertron.

Back on Earth, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are searching through the ruins of the mine when Bumblebee discovers a [[plasma dynamic thruster]] space bridge component that abruptly TransWarps him away. While Bulkhead is wondering where his buddy went, he is suddenly attacked by Henry Masterson, who recovered his Headmaster unit and Starscream's headless body from the mine the night before.

At Sumdac Tower, Prowl shadows Sumdac into his laboratory, quickly accesses his computers, and scans the scientist in an attempt to learn more about Sari's origins. Ratchet is having distinctly less luck back at the Autobot base, where Sari refuses to let him perform an exploratory surgery. The whole unpleasant affair reminds Ratchet of his past on Cybertron, when he performed open-processor surgery on Arcee and discovered she was carrying the codes that were key to the creation of Omega Supreme. Prime snaps Ratchet out of his flashback with the news that he cannot contact Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and Ratchet heads out to the mine to investigate.

[[File:TFA TransWarped Headmaster Starscream power up.jpg|thumb|right|[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II|Here we go again...]]]]
With the other Autobots busy, Optimus Prime tries to patch up the Sumdac family feud by surreptitiously opening a comm channel to Professor Sumdac's laboratory and explaining loudly and at length to Sari that he is going to take her to [[Burger Bot]]. Sumdac catches on and heads out to meet them there, but Sari is furious at being set up and refuses to talk to him. Unfortunately, the Headmaster soon arrives, having picked up Prime's phone call through bugs left in Sumdac Tower, and threatens to unleash t0t47 0wN4ge!

===Part II===
[[File:TFAni TransWarped Headmaster PWN3D.jpg|left|thumb|Heads out.]]
Optimus Prime engages the Headmaster, binding him with his grapplers and dragging him around the Burger Bot parking lot before taking a moment to usher the Sumdacs to safety behind a dumpster. The fight carries the two combatants to an overhead roadway and back, with the Headmaster eventually downing Prime with a slab of concrete. Sumdac is forced to take action, and he hides Sari within the dumpster so that he can draw the Headmaster's attention and keep her safe. Touched by this, Sari unleashes her energy projectors on the Headmaster in defence of her father, though they do little to the villain other than draw his attention. Prime rejoins the battle just in time, ramming the villain in truck mode and goading the Headmaster into trying to transform Starscream's body as well. Infuriated by Prime's claim that a n00b such as he would find it difficult, the Headmaster tries to meet the challenge... only to find his Headmaster unit squeezed clean off Starscream's body by the transformation process. As Starscream's lifeless carcass spirals off into the river, the Headmaster is apprehended by Prime and handed over to [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]].

Back at Sumdac tower, Prowl reveals his findings to Prime, Sari and Sumdac: He believes that the body Sumdac found in his lab was, in fact, a Cybertronian [[protoform]] that scanned Professor Sumdac's genetic data. Sari takes the revelation in stride, although everyone else remains mystified as to how a protoform wound up on Earth in the first place. There is no time to dwell on the subject, however, as Ratchet radios Prime to inform him of Bulkhead's injuries and Bumblebee's disappearance.

Out in space, Omega Supreme re-emerges from TransWarp, and his systems all power down, having been sapped of energy by the effort of the teleport. Megatron attempts to escape from the confines of the giant Autobot's body, but without his weapons, he is unable. Starscream's new sonic blaster is similarly ineffective, and Megatron instead schemes to take control of Omega's very body.

[[File:TFAni TransWarped Blurr Crushed.jpg|right|thumb|"We... are going... to die!"]]
On Cybertron, Shockwave (in the form of Longarm Prime) is informed by [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] that the space bridge network has been shut down to prevent a Decepticon invasion of the planet. Suppressing his frustration, Shockwave is promptly presented with an outlet for his anger when Blurr comes streaking out of the sky and crashes at his feet. Blurr informs him of the double-agent on Cybertron, whom he plans to identify by cross-referencing his voice-print with the Cybertron intelligence database, and Shockwave immediately attacks the speedster, intent on silencing him before his cover can be blown. Blurr streaks off into a series of nearby corridors, but his speed fails to carry him beyond Shockwave's reach: Using a control console, Shockwave seals off the tunnels, and Blurr is crushed between two walls.

Back on Earth, Ratchet's treatment of Bulkhead is interrupted by Sari, who volunteers use of her Key to fix the larger Autobot's wounds. Ratchet is indignant, insisting that just because something is new, it doesn't make it better, but Bulkhead requests the Key. While Sari goes to work on Bulkhead's injuries, the sullen medic is overtaken by his memories; he recalls the creation of Omega Supreme and how he was partnered with the newborn titan to serve as his mentor, teacher and friend. Ratchet is roused from his unpleasant trip down memory lane when discussion turns to the whereabouts of Bumblebee, and before long, Bulkhead figures out that the plasma dynamic thruster has TransWarped Bumblebee off across the galaxy. Bulkhead suggests using a [[retrieval beacon generator]] recovered from the mine ruins to pinpoint Bumblebee's location, and Sari uses her Key to fix it before Ratchet can even begin examining it.

Aboard Omega Supreme, Megatron uses his stasis cuffs to "hotwire" Omega's body and bring it back online. However, when the light from Omega's "headlights" falls upon a nearby asteroid, Megatron and Starscream are shocked to see the rock react to the light, transforming into a humanoid monster that immediately attacks the ship! As more asteroids transform around him, Omega transwarps away to safety...only for Bumblebee, cruising on the tail end of Omega's TransWarp field, to materialize in his place, right in the midst of the [[Rock Lord]]s! The largest creature swallows the tiny Autobot with a single gulp.

Simultaneously, on Earth, Bulkhead locks in on Bumblebee's position and teleports him back, but the Rock Lord he is inside comes with him and is immediately driven to a rampage by the blinding light of the [[Sun]]. Optimus Prime detects Bumblebee's signature within the creature, and the Autobots prepare to give chase as the alien stomps off through the city. Prowl is rather taken aback to see Ratchet wearing his EMP generator on his arm once more, while Prime has to deal with Sari's demands that she be allowed to join them in the fight now that she has powers. Prime refuses, and the Autobots zoom off after the rock monster, but Sari won't take no for an answer and is struck with inspiration: Give herself an upgrade! Sari concentrates, and a port opens in her chest, into which she inserts her Key...and in an explosion of energy, Sari's whole body transforms into a taller, older form, suited in combat armor!

[[File:TFAni TransWarped Screamer Hotwire OmegaSupreme.jpg|left|thumb|Name: Starscream Function: Jumper Cable]]
Meanwhile, Megatron has discovered that Omega Supreme has again expended all his power, and his stasis cuffs do not have the energy left to rectify the situation. He grabs Starscream's head and jams it into the circuits, where the traitor's AllSpark fragment energizes Omega's systems once more.

[[File:TransWarpedBumblebeeSari.jpg|thumb|right|So, kids, don't play with too many knives!]]
Back in Detroit, the Autobots are attempting to figure out how to stop the Rock Lord without hurting Bumblebee, when the upgraded Sari comes streaking onto the scene on jet skates. As the Autobots look on in shock, Sari begins attacking the alien with arm-blades and an energy-hammer that morph out of her arms. A single strike of the hammer reduces the alien to boulders, freeing Bumblebee, who is immediately struck by Sari's new look, but then shouts a warning: The smaller boulders surrounding the pair have transformed into small creatures. But the creatures pose no threat to Sari, and she pounds them into pebbles. As Sari basks in her triumph, Ratchet realizes with horror that she has used the Key on herself. The elderly Autobot's concern is soon proven valid, as the Key overloads Sari's systems, and she loses control of her body. With Sari attacking everything and everyone around her, the Autobots attempt to stop her with a variety of non-lethal strategies, but Sari counters everything they throw at her, including Prowl's processor-over-matter technique. Even as Prime and Sari tell Bumblebee to keep back, the young Autobot races to his friend's side...only for the out-of-control Sari to stab him through the chest! Frozen for a horrific moment, Bumblebee is then hurled back by an energy discharge, and the light dims from his optics...

===Part III===
Ratchet leaps to Bumblebee's aid, but without Sari's Key, Bulkhead fears his little buddy is done for. Ratchet denies that he requires the key to do his job, but his memories of when he was forced to place the dying Omega Supreme in stasis haunt him as he begins to operate on Bumblebee.

[[File:TFAni TransWarped Ratchet Repairs Bumblebee.jpg|left|thumb|'''D:''']]
Sari, meanwhile, is storming through the city streets, causing objects to explode when she comes into contact with them, and the Autobots head after her, seeking to remove the Key in hopes of bringing her back under control. They corral her with a wall of steel girders, affording Prowl the chance to get the drop on her and rip the Key from her chest, but Sari continues to rampage. With Bumblebee fading, Ratchet goes back on his previous claim and requests the Key be brought to him, but when Prowl complies, he discovers that the energy of the Key has been completely drained. Prowl assures Ratchet that he can accomplish the task without the Key, and the old medic gravely takes up the challenge and manages to bring Bumblebee back online.

Back with Sari, Prime and Bulkhead, Sari's energies are growing increasingly more out of control, as the street beneath her explodes with every step she takes. Bulkhead suggests just trying to "hold it in," but when Sari tries, things get even worse, as she begins to glow with so much energy that she is on the verge of exploding. Optimus summons Ratchet so that he can use his EMP generator to take Sari down, and while Ratchet is hesitant to do so, Sari begs him to stop her. Ratchet fires, and Sari collapses, her energy fading.

[[File:TFAni TransWarped LongArm Cliffjumper Cube.jpg|right|thumb|Kid's meal premiums aren't what they used to be.]]
On Cybertron, Longarm Prime has Cliffjumper dispose of the crushed remains of Blurr and is then contacted by Megatron. Learning that the space bridge network is down and that the Earth-based Autobots are poised to blow Shockwave's cover, Megatron orders the Decepticons to cease their attacks on the space bridges so that he can solve both problems his own way. Team Chaar receive the transmission and fall back, much to the Elite Guard's surprise.

In the Autobots' base, Ratchet completes a rewiring of Sari's systems, bypassing the circuits that caused her to run out of control. Professor Sumdac soon arrives, having been informed of the location of the base by Optimus Prime. The Autobots are a little upset by this, but Prime makes it clear that there are to be no more secrets in this "family". The Autobots step outside the plant to give the Sumdacs some time together, and are in the middle of catching Bumblebee up on recent events when the small Autobot suddenly begins to glow with TransWarp energies once more. Bulkhead quickly deactivates the plasma dynamic thruster, but the source of the TransWarp wave the thruster was picking up soon becomes apparent, as Omega Supreme materializes in the sky overhead. Much to the Autobots' surprise, the titan fires upon them before transforming to robot mode, revealing a projected image of Megatron's face upon his visor! The Decepticon leader is in complete control of Omega's body and begins attacking the Autobots, forcing Optimus Prime to consider unleashing an uncontrollable Sari on the giant. Before resorting to this desperate last resort, the Autobots attempt to lure Megatron away from the city. Ratchet even upgrades Bumblebee's stingers to a more powerful battle grade for the mission.

[[File:TFAni TransWarped Prowl Megs OSFight.jpg|left|thumb|I'm going to have to put you on the game grid.]]
Taking refuge in the nearby river, the Autobots attack Omega's legs, forcing open an access hatch through which Prime and Prowl enter Omega's body. Battling Omega's internal defences, Prowl taps into Omega's processor in order to help him fight off Megatron's control, and they succeed in forcing Megatron out of the system. Prime engages Megatron in order to keep Prowl safe, but as their battle rages, Starscream seizes control of Omega's mind and forcibly disconnects Prowl from Omega's processor. Prime and Prowl are unceremoniously ejected from Omega Supreme's body, but Starscream is not finished there; he uses Omega's internal defences to seize Megatron, and resumes attacking the Autobots all around him. Megatron manages to talk Starscream into an alliance, suggesting they forget Earth and conquer Cybertron together. Starscream struggles to activate Omega's TransWarp system, and while his attention is occupied with this task, Omega's consciousness fights its way to the surface and begs Ratchet to shut him down again. Ratchet regretfully unleashes his EMP generator upon Omega, but it has no effect, and Starscream transforms Omega into starship mode in order to begin the TransWarp. Bulkhead and Bumblebee hit upon the idea to plant the plasma dynamic thruster on Omega Supreme, and they hand it off to Prime to complete the task. Prime plants the thruster at the last second before Omega disappears into TransWarp, and Ratchet catches Prime with his magnets as he falls out of the sky.

Back at the Autobot base a little later, Sari comes to and admits to Ratchet that he was right about taking it slow. Sumdac apologizes for holding back the truth from Sari for so long, and Bumblebee thanks Ratchet for saving his tailpipe. Unfortunately, Bulkhead brings the mood down by reminding everyone that they still have to find a way to contact Cybertron.

[[File:TFA TransWarped lost in space.JPG|thumb|right|[[Ripped Up Space]]]]
On Cybertron, [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] holds an Autobot council and announces that all the evidence points to a double agent on Cybertron. Longarm Prime implicates escaped convict [[Wasp]], and Ultra Magnus instructs [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] to put together a unit to hunt the fugitive down. Magnus also notes that he has to make contact with Optimus's crew on Earth, and Longarm hastily demands that all contact with them be filtered through him, responding to the council's wary looks by adding that it will be purely for security reasons.

In the sky above Cybertron, Omega Supreme materializes, and Starscream howls with glee...only for the Autobot spaceship to TransWarp away immediately to another random point in space...and another...and another...
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==Featured characters==
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*[[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]] (2)
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] (3)
*[[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]] (4)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (7)
*[[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Prime]] (9)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (10)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (11)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (12)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (17)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (18)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (19)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (20)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (21)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (22)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (27)
*[[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] (28)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (29)
*[[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] (31)
*[[Wheeljack (Animated)|Wheeljack]] (33)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (34)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (36)
*[[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]] (37)
*[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] (38)
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*[[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] (1)
*[[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] (5)
*[[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] (6)
*[[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]] (8)
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime / Shockwave]] (13)
*[[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] (14)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (15)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp]] (30)
*[[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker]] (32)
*[[Reflector (Animated)|Reflector]] (39)
|c3=
*[[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] (24)
*[[Headmaster (Animated)|The Headmaster]] (25)
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (26)
*[[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] (35)
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*[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] (23)
*[[Rock Lord]]s (38)
}}

==Quotes==
"'Bulkhead' and 'genius' in the same sentence? I'll never get used to that."
:—'''Bumblebee''' shows his high opinion of his best friend.

"I'll warn them even if I have to run halfway across the galaxy to Cybertron to do it!" 
:—'''Blurr''', who apparently does just that.

"Sari, I don't pretend to fully understand humans, but from what I've seen, being a father is far more than a simple organic bond. It has much more to do with the spark. With the heart."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' muses on the nature of family. Sadly, the [[fandom]] desires more [[Relatives|concrete answers]].

"Prepare for T-O-T! Total Ownage Time!"
:—'''Headmaster''' to Optimus Prime and the Sumdacs.

"You taught me to protect like an Autobot, but all I did was destroy like a Decepticon." 
"We do what we must, even if it sometimes doesn't make sense." 
:—'''Omega Supreme''' and '''Ratchet''', before the former is put into modified stasis

'''Ratchet''': Omega, what are you doing?! Don't you recognize your old friend?! 
'''Megatron''': The question should be, "Don't you recognize your old enemy?" 
'''Optimus Prime''': Megatron?! 
'''Megatron''': Ah, then you ''do'' remember my name. Pity I can't remember yours.
:—The Autobots learn that Megatron has taken control of Omega Supreme

"It appears you and I are destined to battle aboard this ship once more, Autobot." 
"Bring it on, Decepticon."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"Starscream too powerful. Please, shut me down! I want to sleep again." 
"I already had to use this thing once today when I didn't want to. Don't make me use it again." 
"We do what we must, even if it sometimes doesn't make sense."
:—'''Omega Supreme''' tries to convince '''Ratchet''' to use his EMP Generator

"Someday I really have to learn how to fly."
:—Someday will come [[Endgame, Part I|soon]], '''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*As Sari dismisses Isaac Sumdac's story of her origin, she suggests that he should have told her how he found her "in a cabbage patch", or how "the stork" brought her. Similar ideas were suggested by Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead in "[[The Return of the Headmaster]]". In that episode, the professors also suggested that Sari was really a robot, that she came to Earth in an egg, or that she could have fallen through a portal, ''all'' of which seem to have some nugget of truth to them: She ''is'' part-robot, she was contained in a strange pod, and she appeared in Sumdac's lab out of thin air. ''Foreshadowing!''
*After Sari mentions those theories, Optimus Prime recalls how Sari told him of human manufacturing, which occurred in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]".
*Starscream says Omega Supreme is "more powerful than I imagined...well, not AllSpark-powerful...", in reference to his use of the same phrase to describe the AllSpark way back in "Transform and Roll Out!"

===Transformers references===
[[File:TransWarped Pt1 Blurr Runs Rings.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*Bar Oil Slick, every member of the new squads harkens back to a previous series. Rodimus, Ironhide, Brawn and Cyclonus are heavily based off their Generation One counterparts. Red Alert and Hot Shot take after their Unicron Trilogy incarnations. Spittor and Strika are both modeled after Beast Era characters, and Blackout's design is heavily influenced by the live-action movie version.
*While lecturing Sari on taking it slow with her powers, Ratchet says that there's "more than meets the vis-scanners" on having powers, a clear reference to the time-honored Transformers tagline "[[More than Meets the Eye (disambiguation)|more than meets the eye]]".
*Arcee's open head [[:File:Spotlight Arcee cvrB.jpg|looks ''waaay'' too much]] like [[Alex Milne]]'s cover for [[IDW Publishing]]'s "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]" to be a coincidence.
*Blurr races along a Saturn-style planetary ring, as [[Blurr (G1)|his namesake]] had done in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 3|Generation 1 season 3]] [[title sequence]].
*The building in which the [[Autobot High Council]] have their meeting looks [[Metroplex (G1)|somewhat familiar]].
*Blackout seems to have retained his seismic stomp that was used by his [[Blackout (Movie)|movie counterpart]].
*Team Chaar gets its name from [[Chaar|the planet of the same name]].
*After being told by Optimus to stay behind, Sari tells Optimus that she is a Robot Hero now too.
*Ratchet says that he has been the team's medic for 4 Million Stellar-cycles.

===Real-world references===
* Megatron tells Optimus, "You have persistence, Autobot. I hate persistence." This is based on Lou Grant's well-known dialogue from the first episode of ''{{w|The Mary Tyler Moore Show}}''—"You know what, you've got spunk! … I hate spunk!"
* Sari's transformation sequence upon absorbing the power of the key is a nod to the transformation sequence of the title robot in ''{{w|Gurren Lagann}}''.
* Sari's use of a large hammer, sending it down with her buttocks in the air, references back to... about ninety billion different anime shows. Although they usually involve an upskirt of sorts that's very thankfully absent here.

===Technical or animation errors===
* When Megatron is first seen in space, parts of his helmet are miscolored red.
* Just before Omega Supreme is activated, Ultra Magnus accompanies Highbrow and Ratchet on a lift. In this shot, part of the Magnus Hammer's handle is missing.
* When Sari removes her key in order to place it in the homing beacon generator, the string doesn't actually go over her head... it just phases through her neck. Somehow.
* The damage to Starscream's body disappears during the commercial break.
* When Bumblebee tells Sari to watch out, her back kibble disappears for a moment. It reappears in the next shot.
* Once the key has been removed from Sari, the vaporized string attached to it mysteriously reappears.
* When Ratchet is talking to Bumblebee about Sari's condition, the side of his head is miscolored white.
* When Blackout attacks Rodimus, his chest is miscolored gray.
* After Bumblebee is slashed, there's a red spot on Bulkhead with an Autobot symbol inside it.

===Continuity errors===
* Megatron finds both of his rotors/swords after being freed from the stasis cuffs, despite leaving ''at least'' one behind when he was sucked into the space bridge in "A Bridge Too Close".
* If Sumdac was wearing gloves at the time he touched the protoform, how did it get his DNA? For that matter, how did Sari end up female?
** Given that protoforms in ''Beast Wars'' scanned animals that were nowhere near their pods, Sari may have not actually required physical contact to scan Sumdac. Also, the protoform may have already been female before being activated.
* It is revealed that the streak of white in Isaac's hair came from the shock he received when he approached the protoform that would become Sari. Pay no attention to the streak in the hair of his younger self appearing in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", please...
* Sari's protruding robotic elbow disappears without explanation while she's sitting on Ratchet's repair table.
* When Bumblebee gets blown away in "Part II" after being stabbed by Sari, he lands on his back. When we cut back to him in "Part III", he appears on his side.
* Bumblebee's rocket boosters seemingly appear out of nowhere.
** The [[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|AllSpark Almanac II]] reveals that Ratchet installed the turbo boosters while he was repairing Bumblebee just in case he needed them.
** With Ratchet's upgrading of his stingers and now this, it seems that <s>Hasbro</s> the Autobots have gotten over their "upgrades are bad, m'kay" phase. Spending two seasons out-gunned will probably do that to you.

===Trivia===
*[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] confirmed via Twitter after the show aired that like the [[Transform and Roll Out|series pilot]], "TransWarped" was made "as one 70-minute movie", although it was also cut into 22-minute episodes for syndication.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=@FortMax We made it as one 70 minute movie, but it has also been cut into three 22s.|link=https://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450|name=Derrick J. Wyatt|site=Twitter|year=2009|month=03|day=15|(defunct=)}}</ref> Unlike the pilot, however, "TransWarped" counts as three episodes out of the thirteen allotted for the show's third season. While Cartoon Network aired all three episodes in movie form for their premiere, Canadian network YTV opted to debut them in episodic form, airing only the first two in a double-bill, and then screening the final part the following week.
*Originally the first two episodes of ''Animated''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s third season were "Homecoming" and "Upgrade". When the decision came to open the season with a three-part movie, the season's original third episode, "[[Three's a Crowd]]", was pushed back, as it didn't fit with the previous episodes. The solution was to create a new episode, which became "Transwarped Part III".<ref>The AllSpark Almanac II page 177</ref>
*Two subplots were dropped when "Homecoming" became part of "Transwarped": One would have featured Bulkhead annoyed when Bumblebee was unable to accept him as a space bridge expert; the other would have had Powell unofficially promise Masterson that he would get his job back if "something" happened to the Sumdacs. After Masterson was arrested, Powell would distance himself from Masterson, rather than bail him out again.<ref>The AllSpark Almanac II page 177</ref>
* Several scenes are known to have been storyboarded for this three-parter, only to wind up being cut for time. One of these scene would have included an appearance by [[Beachcomber (Animated)|Beachcomber]], who would have died at the hands of Shockwave. At the time, Isenberg asked Wyatt for an established character he would be able to kill without anyone getting mad, and Wyatt—apparently without hesitation—put forward Beachcomber.
**As originally planned, Beachcomber would have caught Shockwave converting from his Longarm disguise and disposing of Blurr, and would have said "Dude, not cool." Shockwave, raising his weapon, would have replied "I have a very simple explanation," to which Beachcomber would have responded, "I don't get it...", before being blown to bits by the double-agent to maintain his cover.
**Though Beachcomber turned up in crowd scenes later in the season, Isenberg would make another attempt on the Autobot's life in the unproduced season four episode "[[Trial of Megatron, Part 1]]".
*Another planned scene that was cut for time was an extended flashback to the [[Battle for Iacon|final battle of the Great War]], which would have featured [[Reflector (Animated)|Reflector]], [[Straxus (Animated)|Straxus]] and the myriad [[Omega Sentinel (Animated)|Omega Sentinels]].
**While Reflector had a bio in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 26|issue #26]] of the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|Transformers Collectors' Club magazine]], it would take until the publication of ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II]]'' over a year later before Straxus and the Sentinels would be revealed.
* The creatures that turn into rocks may be a reference to the [[Rock Lord]]s from the [[GoBots]] movie ''{{w|GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords}}''; the creatures were later canonized as such via [[Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime]] in 2015.
*Starscream gains a "sonic scream" as a head-mounted weapon in this episode. Coincidentally (or not?), in the initial [[Cartoon Network]] press release for ''Transformers Animated'', Starscream's profile claimed that he had a sonic scream he could use to send foes spinning through the air. This ability is never seen again.
*The Headmaster's appearance in this episode marks the only time a human villain is used in Season 3. And even then, he's relatively minor compared to a Decepticon-controlled Omega Supreme.
*In his last line, Shockwave seems to forget to use his American accent. Probably because he's getting worried about getting caught.
*This episode marks the first live appearance of Cybertron.

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transdobra'''" ("Transwarp")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transmutation'''" ("Transmutation")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Teletransportados'''" ("Teleported")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 6|6 October]] [[2009]] ''(Part 1)''
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 13|13 October]] [[2009]] ''(Part 2)'
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 20|20 October]] [[2009]] ''(Part 3)'''

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Sari no Himitsu'''" (Part 1, サリの秘密, "The Secret of Sari")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 2|2 October]] [[2010]]
::*For the opening pre-[[title sequence]] chatter, [[Tesshō Genda]] reprises his role as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]] in order to carry on a conversation with ''Animated'' Optimus Prime.

:*''Title:'' "'''Sari, Transform!?'''" (Part 2, サリ、トランスフォーム!?)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 9|9 October]] [[2010]]

:*''Title:'' "'''Megatron no Shōrai'''" (Part 3, メガトロンの襲来, "Megatron's Raid")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 16|16 October]] [[2010]]

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2011 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 8 ([[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]])

==References==
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TransWarped

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{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA TransWarped Sari hands.jpg
|caption="I am... Iron <s>Man</s> Girl?"
|prev=A Bridge Too Close, Part II
|next=Three's a Crowd
|ep=30, 31 and 32
|ep2=27, 28 and 29
|prev2=A Bridge Too Close, Part II
|next2=Three's a Crowd
|title="TransWarped"
|airdate=[[March 14]], 2009
|season=3
|season ep=1–3
|production company=[[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Studios]]
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]] [[Michael Ryan]] [[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Matt Youngberg]] [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]] [[Tetsurō Moronuki]] [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
|continuity=[[Animated cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGcz-xiytn0
|videosite=YouTube (part 1)
}}

'''In the aftermath of the battle at the mine, Sari and her father's relationship takes a strange turn; the Autobots have their work cut out for them trying to contact Cybertron; and Megatron and Starscream find a new opportunity.'''

==Synopsis==
===Part I===
[[File:TransWarpedRodimusCosmicRust.jpg|thumb|left|No fair, I just got here!]]

Somewhere along the outer rim of the galaxy, the [[Autobot]] group, [[Team Athenia]], led by [[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Prime]], defends [[space bridge 687-030]] against the [[Decepticon]]s' "[[Team Chaar]]," led by [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]]. She, [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]], and [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] strafe [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]], [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]], and [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], badly injuring Hot Shot's leg and forcing team medic [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] to perform an amputation. Before she can do so, however, she is swallowed up by [[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]], who explosively vomits her back at her team. Rodimus contacts the [[Elite Guard]] for backup, but the Autobot forces are spread much too thin, defending space bridges from Decepticon attacks all across the galaxy. Oil Slick and Cyclonus proceed to take down Brawn and Ironhide, leaving Rodimus on his own, at which point Blackout arrives and all but finishes the fight with a huge electromagnetic pulse. Rodimus still has some fight left in him, but it drains away when Oil Slick offlines him with a vial of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]]. Strika contacts [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], who informs her that nobody is to TransWarp to the planet until [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] himself arrives. But Megatron was supposed to be there megacycles ago...

[[File:TransWarpedStarscreamsScream.jpg|thumb|right|I'mma firin' mah lazhar!]]

Off in the depths of space, the disembodied head of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] attempts to remove Megatron's stasis cuffs with his teeth as the Decepticon leader berates him all the while. As Starscream begins bellowing back at Megatron, the [[AllSpark#Animated continuity family|AllSpark]] fragment in his forehead begins to glow, and he undergoes a surprising transformation: His mouth converts into a sonic blaster that shoots the cuffs clean off Megatron's wrists. There is no time for the two villains to celebrate, however, as the giant form of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] materializes above them. But after a moment, Megatron realizes that the colossus is offline...

[[File:TransWarpedProtoform.jpg|thumb|left|Hush little baby, don't say a word. Sumdac's gonna build you a mockingbird.]]

On [[Earth]], as the Autobots return to [[Detroit]], [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Professor Sumdac]] explains [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari's]] origins to her as best he can, revealing that he discovered her in his laboratory years ago, in the form of a small, liquid metal robot. Sari finds the story hard to believe, and her strained patience reaches its end when the group returns to [[Sumdac Tower]] and confronts [[Porter C. Powell]] and [[Headmaster (Animated)|Henry Masterson]]. Powell tries to smooth things over with Isaac, but Masterson's belligerent attitude dispels any attempts at peace, which is further ruined when he demands the Autobots return his Headmaster, or "heads will roll." Having entered the lab from the elevator behind them, Optimus picks up Masterson and asks for clarification on his threat. Isaac immediately fires both Powell and Masterson, but Masterson refuses to vacate the premises, and Powell takes another shot at Sari's disputed parentage.

[[File:TransWarped Pt1 Sari Freakout.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Emperor Palpatine|POWER!!! UNLIMITED POWER!!!]]]]

In a moment of anger, Sari's hands transform into energy projectors that hurl the two men into the building's elevator. This newest revelation pushes Sari over the edge, and she walks out on the man she can no longer even think of as her father, returning to the [[Autobot Earth Base|Autobots' base]] with her "fellow machines." While [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] examines Sari—deducing that she's basically human, but partially Cybertronian—Prowl departs to carry out some research of his own. With Ratchet lost in his memories of [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] head back to the Decepticons' destroyed mine base to salvage some equipment that will let them contact Cybertron and inform the Autobots there of the traitor in their midst.

On a small planetoid somewhere in space, [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] is still trapped in a cement blob with Starscream's [[Thundercracker (Animated)|egomaniacal]] and [[Skywarp (Animated)|cowardly]] clones. Blurr proposes using sonic pulses to dissolve the glue, and the egomaniac takes the idea for his own and successfully frees them. Blurr immediately speeds off, launching into space and literally running across the galaxy, ricocheting off everything in his path (including the egomaniac) to get back to Cybertron and inform the Elite Guard of Megatron's invasion plan.

Megatron and Starscream force their way into Omega Supreme's body, but this action brings the giant Autobot back online, and his internal systems immediately seize the Decepticons. Megatron exploits Omega's simple processor and convinces the titan to take him back to Cybertron "to face justice." Omega transforms back into ship mode and TransWarps off toward Cybertron.

Back on Earth, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are searching through the ruins of the mine when Bumblebee discovers a [[plasma dynamic thruster]] space bridge component that abruptly TransWarps him away. While Bulkhead is wondering where his buddy went, he is suddenly attacked by Henry Masterson, who recovered his Headmaster unit and Starscream's headless body from the mine the night before.

At Sumdac Tower, Prowl shadows Sumdac into his laboratory, quickly accesses his computers, and scans the scientist in an attempt to learn more about Sari's origins. Ratchet is having distinctly less luck back at the Autobot base, where Sari refuses to let him perform an exploratory surgery. The whole unpleasant affair reminds Ratchet of his past on Cybertron, when he performed open-processor surgery on Arcee and discovered she was carrying the codes that were key to the creation of Omega Supreme. Prime snaps Ratchet out of his flashback with the news that he cannot contact Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and Ratchet heads out to the mine to investigate.

[[File:TFA TransWarped Headmaster Starscream power up.jpg|thumb|right|[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II|Here we go again...]]]]
With the other Autobots busy, Optimus Prime tries to patch up the Sumdac family feud by surreptitiously opening a comm channel to Professor Sumdac's laboratory and explaining loudly and at length to Sari that he is going to take her to [[Burger Bot]]. Sumdac catches on and heads out to meet them there, but Sari is furious at being set up and refuses to talk to him. Unfortunately, the Headmaster soon arrives, having picked up Prime's phone call through bugs left in Sumdac Tower, and threatens to unleash t0t47 0wN4ge!

===Part II===
[[File:TFAni TransWarped Headmaster PWN3D.jpg|left|thumb|Heads out.]]
Optimus Prime engages the Headmaster, binding him with his grapplers and dragging him around the Burger Bot parking lot before taking a moment to usher the Sumdacs to safety behind a dumpster. The fight carries the two combatants to an overhead roadway and back, with the Headmaster eventually downing Prime with a slab of concrete. Sumdac is forced to take action, and he hides Sari within the dumpster so that he can draw the Headmaster's attention and keep her safe. Touched by this, Sari unleashes her energy projectors on the Headmaster in defence of her father, though they do little to the villain other than draw his attention. Prime rejoins the battle just in time, ramming the villain in truck mode and goading the Headmaster into trying to transform Starscream's body as well. Infuriated by Prime's claim that a n00b such as he would find it difficult, the Headmaster tries to meet the challenge... only to find his Headmaster unit squeezed clean off Starscream's body by the transformation process. As Starscream's lifeless carcass spirals off into the river, the Headmaster is apprehended by Prime and handed over to [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]].

Back at Sumdac tower, Prowl reveals his findings to Prime, Sari and Sumdac: He believes that the body Sumdac found in his lab was, in fact, a Cybertronian [[protoform]] that scanned Professor Sumdac's genetic data. Sari takes the revelation in stride, although everyone else remains mystified as to how a protoform wound up on Earth in the first place. There is no time to dwell on the subject, however, as Ratchet radios Prime to inform him of Bulkhead's injuries and Bumblebee's disappearance.

Out in space, Omega Supreme re-emerges from TransWarp, and his systems all power down, having been sapped of energy by the effort of the teleport. Megatron attempts to escape from the confines of the giant Autobot's body, but without his weapons, he is unable. Starscream's new sonic blaster is similarly ineffective, and Megatron instead schemes to take control of Omega's very body.

[[File:TFAni TransWarped Blurr Crushed.jpg|right|thumb|"We... are going... to die!"]]
On Cybertron, Shockwave (in the form of Longarm Prime) is informed by [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] that the space bridge network has been shut down to prevent a Decepticon invasion of the planet. Suppressing his frustration, Shockwave is promptly presented with an outlet for his anger when Blurr comes streaking out of the sky and crashes at his feet. Blurr informs him of the double-agent on Cybertron, whom he plans to identify by cross-referencing his voice-print with the Cybertron intelligence database, and Shockwave immediately attacks the speedster, intent on silencing him before his cover can be blown. Blurr streaks off into a series of nearby corridors, but his speed fails to carry him beyond Shockwave's reach: Using a control console, Shockwave seals off the tunnels, and Blurr is crushed between two walls.

Back on Earth, Ratchet's treatment of Bulkhead is interrupted by Sari, who volunteers use of her Key to fix the larger Autobot's wounds. Ratchet is indignant, insisting that just because something is new, it doesn't make it better, but Bulkhead requests the Key. While Sari goes to work on Bulkhead's injuries, the sullen medic is overtaken by his memories; he recalls the creation of Omega Supreme and how he was partnered with the newborn titan to serve as his mentor, teacher and friend. Ratchet is roused from his unpleasant trip down memory lane when discussion turns to the whereabouts of Bumblebee, and before long, Bulkhead figures out that the plasma dynamic thruster has TransWarped Bumblebee off across the galaxy. Bulkhead suggests using a [[retrieval beacon generator]] recovered from the mine ruins to pinpoint Bumblebee's location, and Sari uses her Key to fix it before Ratchet can even begin examining it.

Aboard Omega Supreme, Megatron uses his stasis cuffs to "hotwire" Omega's body and bring it back online. However, when the light from Omega's "headlights" falls upon a nearby asteroid, Megatron and Starscream are shocked to see the rock react to the light, transforming into a humanoid monster that immediately attacks the ship! As more asteroids transform around him, Omega transwarps away to safety...only for Bumblebee, cruising on the tail end of Omega's TransWarp field, to materialize in his place, right in the midst of the [[Rock Lord]]s! The largest creature swallows the tiny Autobot with a single gulp.

Simultaneously, on Earth, Bulkhead locks in on Bumblebee's position and teleports him back, but the Rock Lord he is inside comes with him and is immediately driven to a rampage by the blinding light of the [[Sun]]. Optimus Prime detects Bumblebee's signature within the creature, and the Autobots prepare to give chase as the alien stomps off through the city. Prowl is rather taken aback to see Ratchet wearing his EMP generator on his arm once more, while Prime has to deal with Sari's demands that she be allowed to join them in the fight now that she has powers. Prime refuses, and the Autobots zoom off after the rock monster, but Sari won't take no for an answer and is struck with inspiration: Give herself an upgrade! Sari concentrates, and a port opens in her chest, into which she inserts her Key...and in an explosion of energy, Sari's whole body transforms into a taller, older form, suited in combat armor!

[[File:TFAni TransWarped Screamer Hotwire OmegaSupreme.jpg|left|thumb|Name: Starscream Function: Jumper Cable]]
Meanwhile, Megatron has discovered that Omega Supreme has again expended all his power, and his stasis cuffs do not have the energy left to rectify the situation. He grabs Starscream's head and jams it into the circuits, where the traitor's AllSpark fragment energizes Omega's systems once more.

[[File:TransWarpedBumblebeeSari.jpg|thumb|right|So, kids, don't play with too many knives!]]
Back in Detroit, the Autobots are attempting to figure out how to stop the Rock Lord without hurting Bumblebee, when the upgraded Sari comes streaking onto the scene on jet skates. As the Autobots look on in shock, Sari begins attacking the alien with arm-blades and an energy-hammer that morph out of her arms. A single strike of the hammer reduces the alien to boulders, freeing Bumblebee, who is immediately struck by Sari's new look, but then shouts a warning: The smaller boulders surrounding the pair have transformed into small creatures. But the creatures pose no threat to Sari, and she pounds them into pebbles. As Sari basks in her triumph, Ratchet realizes with horror that she has used the Key on herself. The elderly Autobot's concern is soon proven valid, as the Key overloads Sari's systems, and she loses control of her body. With Sari attacking everything and everyone around her, the Autobots attempt to stop her with a variety of non-lethal strategies, but Sari counters everything they throw at her, including Prowl's processor-over-matter technique. Even as Prime and Sari tell Bumblebee to keep back, the young Autobot races to his friend's side...only for the out-of-control Sari to stab him through the chest! Frozen for a horrific moment, Bumblebee is then hurled back by an energy discharge, and the light dims from his optics...

===Part III===
Ratchet leaps to Bumblebee's aid, but without Sari's Key, Bulkhead fears his little buddy is done for. Ratchet denies that he requires the key to do his job, but his memories of when he was forced to place the dying Omega Supreme in stasis haunt him as he begins to operate on Bumblebee.

[[File:TFAni TransWarped Ratchet Repairs Bumblebee.jpg|left|thumb|'''D:''']]
Sari, meanwhile, is storming through the city streets, causing objects to explode when she comes into contact with them, and the Autobots head after her, seeking to remove the Key in hopes of bringing her back under control. They corral her with a wall of steel girders, affording Prowl the chance to get the drop on her and rip the Key from her chest, but Sari continues to rampage. With Bumblebee fading, Ratchet goes back on his previous claim and requests the Key be brought to him, but when Prowl complies, he discovers that the energy of the Key has been completely drained. Prowl assures Ratchet that he can accomplish the task without the Key, and the old medic gravely takes up the challenge and manages to bring Bumblebee back online.

Back with Sari, Prime and Bulkhead, Sari's energies are growing increasingly more out of control, as the street beneath her explodes with every step she takes. Bulkhead suggests just trying to "hold it in," but when Sari tries, things get even worse, as she begins to glow with so much energy that she is on the verge of exploding. Optimus summons Ratchet so that he can use his EMP generator to take Sari down, and while Ratchet is hesitant to do so, Sari begs him to stop her. Ratchet fires, and Sari collapses, her energy fading.

[[File:TFAni TransWarped LongArm Cliffjumper Cube.jpg|right|thumb|Kid's meal premiums aren't what they used to be.]]
On Cybertron, Longarm Prime has Cliffjumper dispose of the crushed remains of Blurr and is then contacted by Megatron. Learning that the space bridge network is down and that the Earth-based Autobots are poised to blow Shockwave's cover, Megatron orders the Decepticons to cease their attacks on the space bridges so that he can solve both problems his own way. Team Chaar receive the transmission and fall back, much to the Elite Guard's surprise.

In the Autobots' base, Ratchet completes a rewiring of Sari's systems, bypassing the circuits that caused her to run out of control. Professor Sumdac soon arrives, having been informed of the location of the base by Optimus Prime. The Autobots are a little upset by this, but Prime makes it clear that there are to be no more secrets in this "family". The Autobots step outside the plant to give the Sumdacs some time together, and are in the middle of catching Bumblebee up on recent events when the small Autobot suddenly begins to glow with TransWarp energies once more. Bulkhead quickly deactivates the plasma dynamic thruster, but the source of the TransWarp wave the thruster was picking up soon becomes apparent, as Omega Supreme materializes in the sky overhead. Much to the Autobots' surprise, the titan fires upon them before transforming to robot mode, revealing a projected image of Megatron's face upon his visor! The Decepticon leader is in complete control of Omega's body and begins attacking the Autobots, forcing Optimus Prime to consider unleashing an uncontrollable Sari on the giant. Before resorting to this desperate last resort, the Autobots attempt to lure Megatron away from the city. Ratchet even upgrades Bumblebee's stingers to a more powerful battle grade for the mission.

[[File:TFAni TransWarped Prowl Megs OSFight.jpg|left|thumb|I'm going to have to put you on the game grid.]]
Taking refuge in the nearby river, the Autobots attack Omega's legs, forcing open an access hatch through which Prime and Prowl enter Omega's body. Battling Omega's internal defences, Prowl taps into Omega's processor in order to help him fight off Megatron's control, and they succeed in forcing Megatron out of the system. Prime engages Megatron in order to keep Prowl safe, but as their battle rages, Starscream seizes control of Omega's mind and forcibly disconnects Prowl from Omega's processor. Prime and Prowl are unceremoniously ejected from Omega Supreme's body, but Starscream is not finished there; he uses Omega's internal defences to seize Megatron, and resumes attacking the Autobots all around him. Megatron manages to talk Starscream into an alliance, suggesting they forget Earth and conquer Cybertron together. Starscream struggles to activate Omega's TransWarp system, and while his attention is occupied with this task, Omega's consciousness fights its way to the surface and begs Ratchet to shut him down again. Ratchet regretfully unleashes his EMP generator upon Omega, but it has no effect, and Starscream transforms Omega into starship mode in order to begin the TransWarp. Bulkhead and Bumblebee hit upon the idea to plant the plasma dynamic thruster on Omega Supreme, and they hand it off to Prime to complete the task. Prime plants the thruster at the last second before Omega disappears into TransWarp, and Ratchet catches Prime with his magnets as he falls out of the sky.

Back at the Autobot base a little later, Sari comes to and admits to Ratchet that he was right about taking it slow. Sumdac apologizes for holding back the truth from Sari for so long, and Bumblebee thanks Ratchet for saving his tailpipe. Unfortunately, Bulkhead brings the mood down by reminding everyone that they still have to find a way to contact Cybertron.

[[File:TFA TransWarped lost in space.JPG|thumb|right|[[Ripped Up Space]]]]
On Cybertron, [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] holds an Autobot council and announces that all the evidence points to a double agent on Cybertron. Longarm Prime implicates escaped convict [[Wasp]], and Ultra Magnus instructs [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] to put together a unit to hunt the fugitive down. Magnus also notes that he has to make contact with Optimus's crew on Earth, and Longarm hastily demands that all contact with them be filtered through him, responding to the council's wary looks by adding that it will be purely for security reasons.

In the sky above Cybertron, Omega Supreme materializes, and Starscream howls with glee...only for the Autobot spaceship to TransWarp away immediately to another random point in space...and another...and another...
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]] (2)
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] (3)
*[[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]] (4)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (7)
*[[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Prime]] (9)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (10)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (11)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (12)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (17)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (18)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (19)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (20)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (21)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (22)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (27)
*[[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] (28)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (29)
*[[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] (31)
*[[Wheeljack (Animated)|Wheeljack]] (33)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (34)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (36)
*[[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]] (37)
*[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] (38)
|c2=
*[[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] (1)
*[[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] (5)
*[[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] (6)
*[[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]] (8)
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime / Shockwave]] (13)
*[[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] (14)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (15)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp]] (30)
*[[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker]] (32)
*[[Reflector (Animated)|Reflector]] (39)
|c3=
*[[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] (24)
*[[Headmaster (Animated)|The Headmaster]] (25)
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (26)
*[[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] (35)
|c4=
*[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] (23)
*[[Rock Lord]]s (38)
}}

==Quotes==
"'Bulkhead' and 'genius' in the same sentence? I'll never get used to that."
:—'''Bumblebee''' shows his high opinion of his best friend.

"I'll warn them even if I have to run halfway across the galaxy to Cybertron to do it!" 
:—'''Blurr''', who apparently does just that.

"Sari, I don't pretend to fully understand humans, but from what I've seen, being a father is far more than a simple organic bond. It has much more to do with the spark. With the heart."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' muses on the nature of family. Sadly, the [[fandom]] desires more [[Relatives|concrete answers]].

"Prepare for T-O-T! Total Ownage Time!"
:—'''Headmaster''' to Optimus Prime and the Sumdacs.

"You taught me to protect like an Autobot, but all I did was destroy like a Decepticon." 
"We do what we must, even if it sometimes doesn't make sense." 
:—'''Omega Supreme''' and '''Ratchet''', before the former is put into modified stasis

'''Ratchet''': Omega, what are you doing?! Don't you recognize your old friend?! 
'''Megatron''': The question should be, "Don't you recognize your old enemy?" 
'''Optimus Prime''': Megatron?! 
'''Megatron''': Ah, then you ''do'' remember my name. Pity I can't remember yours.
:—The Autobots learn that Megatron has taken control of Omega Supreme

"It appears you and I are destined to battle aboard this ship once more, Autobot." 
"Bring it on, Decepticon."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"Starscream too powerful. Please, shut me down! I want to sleep again." 
"I already had to use this thing once today when I didn't want to. Don't make me use it again." 
"We do what we must, even if it sometimes doesn't make sense."
:—'''Omega Supreme''' tries to convince '''Ratchet''' to use his EMP Generator

"Someday I really have to learn how to fly."
:—Someday will come [[Endgame, Part I|soon]], '''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*As Sari dismisses Isaac Sumdac's story of her origin, she suggests that he should have told her how he found her "in a cabbage patch", or how "the stork" brought her. Similar ideas were suggested by Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead in "[[The Return of the Headmaster]]". In that episode, the professors also suggested that Sari was really a robot, that she came to Earth in an egg, or that she could have fallen through a portal, ''all'' of which seem to have some nugget of truth to them: She ''is'' part-robot, she was contained in a strange pod, and she appeared in Sumdac's lab out of thin air. ''Foreshadowing!''
*After Sari mentions those theories, Optimus Prime recalls how Sari told him of human manufacturing, which occurred in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]".
*Starscream says Omega Supreme is "more powerful than I imagined...well, not AllSpark-powerful...", in reference to his use of the same phrase to describe the AllSpark way back in "Transform and Roll Out!"

===Transformers references===
[[File:TransWarped Pt1 Blurr Runs Rings.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*Bar Oil Slick, every member of the new squads harkens back to a previous series. Rodimus, Ironhide, Brawn and Cyclonus are heavily based off their Generation One counterparts. Red Alert and Hot Shot take after their Unicron Trilogy incarnations. Spittor and Strika are both modeled after Beast Era characters, and Blackout's design is heavily influenced by the live-action movie version.
*While lecturing Sari on taking it slow with her powers, Ratchet says that there's "more than meets the vis-scanners" on having powers, a clear reference to the time-honored Transformers tagline "[[More than Meets the Eye (disambiguation)|more than meets the eye]]".
*Arcee's open head [[:File:Spotlight Arcee cvrB.jpg|looks ''waaay'' too much]] like [[Alex Milne]]'s cover for [[IDW Publishing]]'s "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]" to be a coincidence.
*Blurr races along a Saturn-style planetary ring, as [[Blurr (G1)|his namesake]] had done in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 3|Generation 1 season 3]] [[title sequence]].
*The building in which the [[Autobot High Council]] have their meeting looks [[Metroplex (G1)|somewhat familiar]].
*Blackout seems to have retained his seismic stomp that was used by his [[Blackout (Movie)|movie counterpart]].
*Team Chaar gets its name from [[Chaar|the planet of the same name]].
*After being told by Optimus to stay behind, Sari tells Optimus that she is a Robot Hero now too.
*Ratchet says that he has been the team's medic for 4 Million Stellar-cycles.

===Real-world references===
* Megatron tells Optimus, "You have persistence, Autobot. I hate persistence." This is based on Lou Grant's well-known dialogue from the first episode of ''{{w|The Mary Tyler Moore Show}}''—"You know what, you've got spunk! … I hate spunk!"
* Sari's transformation sequence upon absorbing the power of the key is a nod to the transformation sequence of the title robot in ''{{w|Gurren Lagann}}''.
* Sari's use of a large hammer, sending it down with her buttocks in the air, references back to... about ninety billion different anime shows. Although they usually involve an upskirt of sorts that's very thankfully absent here.

===Technical or animation errors===
* When Megatron is first seen in space, parts of his helmet are miscolored red.
* Just before Omega Supreme is activated, Ultra Magnus accompanies Highbrow and Ratchet on a lift. In this shot, part of the Magnus Hammer's handle is missing.
* When Sari removes her key in order to place it in the homing beacon generator, the string doesn't actually go over her head... it just phases through her neck. Somehow.
* The damage to Starscream's body disappears during the commercial break.
* When Bumblebee tells Sari to watch out, her back kibble disappears for a moment. It reappears in the next shot.
* Once the key has been removed from Sari, the vaporized string attached to it mysteriously reappears.
* When Ratchet is talking to Bumblebee about Sari's condition, the side of his head is miscolored white.
* When Blackout attacks Rodimus, his chest is miscolored gray.
* After Bumblebee is slashed, there's a red spot on Bulkhead with an Autobot symbol inside it.

===Continuity errors===
* Megatron finds both of his rotors/swords after being freed from the stasis cuffs, despite leaving ''at least'' one behind when he was sucked into the space bridge in "A Bridge Too Close".
* If Sumdac was wearing gloves at the time he touched the protoform, how did it get his DNA? For that matter, how did Sari end up female?
** Given that protoforms in ''Beast Wars'' scanned animals that were nowhere near their pods, Sari may have not actually required physical contact to scan Sumdac. Also, the protoform may have already been female before being activated.
* It is revealed that the streak of white in Isaac's hair came from the shock he received when he approached the protoform that would become Sari. Pay no attention to the streak in the hair of his younger self appearing in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", please...
* Sari's protruding robotic elbow disappears without explanation while she's sitting on Ratchet's repair table.
* When Bumblebee gets blown away in "Part II" after being stabbed by Sari, he lands on his back. When we cut back to him in "Part III", he appears on his side.
* Bumblebee's rocket boosters seemingly appear out of nowhere.
** The [[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|AllSpark Almanac II]] reveals that Ratchet installed the turbo boosters while he was repairing Bumblebee just in case he needed them.
** With Ratchet's upgrading of his stingers and now this, it seems that <s>Hasbro</s> the Autobots have gotten over their "upgrades are bad, m'kay" phase. Spending two seasons out-gunned will probably do that to you.

===Trivia===
*[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] confirmed via Twitter after the show aired that like the [[Transform and Roll Out|series pilot]], "TransWarped" was made "as one 70-minute movie", although it was also cut into 22-minute episodes for syndication.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=@FortMax We made it as one 70 minute movie, but it has also been cut into three 22s.|link=https://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450|name=Derrick J. Wyatt|site=Twitter|year=2009|month=03|day=15|(defunct=)}}</ref> Unlike the pilot, however, "TransWarped" counts as three episodes out of the thirteen allotted for the show's third season. While Cartoon Network aired all three episodes in movie form for their premiere, Canadian network YTV opted to debut them in episodic form, airing only the first two in a double-bill, and then screening the final part the following week.
*Originally the first two episodes of ''Animated''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s third season were "Homecoming" and "Upgrade". When the decision came to open the season with a three-part movie, the season's original third episode, "[[Three's a Crowd]]", was pushed back, as it didn't fit with the previous episodes. The solution was to create a new episode, which became "Transwarped Part III".<ref>The AllSpark Almanac II page 177</ref>
*Two subplots were dropped when "Homecoming" became part of "Transwarped": One would have featured Bulkhead annoyed when Bumblebee was unable to accept him as a space bridge expert; the other would have had Powell unofficially promise Masterson that he would get his job back if "something" happened to the Sumdacs. After Masterson was arrested, Powell would distance himself from Masterson, rather than bail him out again.<ref>The AllSpark Almanac II page 177</ref>
* Several scenes are known to have been storyboarded for this three-parter, only to wind up being cut for time. One of these scene would have included an appearance by [[Beachcomber (Animated)|Beachcomber]], who would have died at the hands of Shockwave. At the time, Isenberg asked Wyatt for an established character he would be able to kill without anyone getting mad, and Wyatt—apparently without hesitation—put forward Beachcomber.
**As originally planned, Beachcomber would have caught Shockwave converting from his Longarm disguise and disposing of Blurr, and would have said "Dude, not cool." Shockwave, raising his weapon, would have replied "I have a very simple explanation," to which Beachcomber would have responded, "I don't get it...", before being blown to bits by the double-agent to maintain his cover.
**Though Beachcomber turned up in crowd scenes later in the season, Isenberg would make another attempt on the Autobot's life in the unproduced season four episode "[[Trial of Megatron, Part 1]]".
*Another planned scene that was cut for time was an extended flashback to the [[Battle for Iacon|final battle of the Great War]], which would have featured [[Reflector (Animated)|Reflector]], [[Straxus (Animated)|Straxus]] and the myriad [[Omega Sentinel (Animated)|Omega Sentinels]].
**While Reflector had a bio in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 26|issue #26]] of the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|Transformers Collectors' Club magazine]], it would take until the publication of ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II]]'' over a year later before Straxus and the Sentinels would be revealed.
* The creatures that turn into rocks may be a reference to the [[Rock Lord]]s from the [[GoBots]] movie ''{{w|GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords}}''; the creatures were later canonized as such via [[Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime]] in 2015.
*Starscream gains a "sonic scream" as a head-mounted weapon in this episode. Coincidentally (or not?), in the initial [[Cartoon Network]] press release for ''Transformers Animated'', Starscream's profile claimed that he had a sonic scream he could use to send foes spinning through the air. This ability is never seen again.
*The Headmaster's appearance in this episode marks the only time a human villain is used in Season 3. And even then, he's relatively minor compared to a Decepticon-controlled Omega Supreme.
*In his last line, Shockwave seems to forget to use his American accent. Probably because he's getting worried about getting caught.
*This episode marks the first live appearance of Cybertron.

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transdobra'''" ("Transwarp")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transmutation'''" ("Transmutation")
:*''Original airdate:'' ???

'''Spanish (Latin America)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Teletransportados'''" ("Teleported")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 6|6 October]] [[2009]] ''(Part 1)''
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 13|13 October]] [[2009]] ''(Part 2)'
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 20|20 October]] [[2009]] ''(Part 3)'''

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Sari no Himitsu'''" (Part 1, サリの秘密, "The Secret of Sari")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 2|2 October]] [[2010]]
::*For the opening pre-[[title sequence]] chatter, [[Tesshō Genda]] reprises his role as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]] in order to carry on a conversation with ''Animated'' Optimus Prime.

:*''Title:'' "'''Sari, Transform!?'''" (Part 2, サリ、トランスフォーム!?)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 9|9 October]] [[2010]]

:*''Title:'' "'''Megatron no Shōrai'''" (Part 3, メガトロンの襲来, "Megatron's Raid")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 16|16 October]] [[2010]]

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2011 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 8 ([[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]])

==References==
<references/>

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Martha Marion

2025-01-07T03:13:05Z

Driftman217: A nod to both Martha and Kari voicing Arcee and Emma Frost around the same time in their careers, but in different orders with them voicing the characters.

[[File:Martha_Marion.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The voice of an American telepath with a British accent and an upbeat soldier around the same time? Sounds [[Kari Wahlgren|familiar]], but different.]]

'''Martha Marion''' is an actress, best known on screen as Sarah from ''The Wave''. In the world of voice acting, she has lent her voice to ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] Battlefront'' and its sequel, ''Far Cry 5'', and ''God of War (2018)''. More recently she has voiced Emma Frost and Moira McTaggert in ''[[X-Men|X-Men 97]]''.
==Roles==
===''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]''===
*[[Arcee (ES)|Arcee]]
[[Category: English voice actors]]

File:Martha Marion.jpg

2025-01-07T03:02:41Z

Driftman217: Martha Marion, the voice of Arcee in Transformers: EarthSpark.

Martha Marion, the voice of [[Arcee (ES)|Arcee]] in [[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]].

Erica Lindbeck

2025-01-07T02:36:02Z

Driftman217:

[[File:Erica_Lindbeck.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Quiet as a [[Cheetor (BW)|cat]], sneaky as a [[Blackarachnia (BW)|spider]].]]

'''Erica Lindbeck''' (born [[May 29]], [[1992]]) is an American voice actress. Some of her most prominent voice roles include [[Mattel]]'s Barbie in multiple films in the late 2010s, [[Ms. Marvel|Captain Marvel]] in various [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] productions, Loona in ''Helluva Boss'', Black Cat in the 2018 ''[[Spider-Man]]'' video game, Menat in ''Street Fighter V'', Kaori Miyazono in ''Your Lie in April'', and Futaba Sakura in ''Persona 5''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] (Season 3)

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6949652/ Erica Lindbeck at the IMDB]
* [http://www.ericalindbeck.com Erica Lindbeck's Website]
* [https://twitter.com/ericalindbeck/ Erica Lindbeck on Twitter]

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[[Category: English voice actors]]
[[Category: Hasbro Studios]]

File:Erica Lindbeck.jpg

2025-01-07T02:27:08Z

Driftman217: Erica Lindbeck, the voice of Windblade in the third season of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015).

Erica Lindbeck, the voice of Windblade in the third season of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015).

Lauren Tom

2025-01-07T01:57:02Z

Driftman217:

[[File:Lauren_Tom.jpg|right|thumb|200px|There is no war on [[Paradron]].]]

'''Lauren Tom''' (born [[August 4]], [[1961]]) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Minh and Connie Souphanousinphone on ''King of the Hill'' and Amy Wong on ''Futurama''. She has also appeared extensively in live-action film and television, including recurring roles on ''Friends'' and ''Supernatural'' and a leading role in the 1993 film ''The Joy Luck Club''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Meili Szeto]]
*Citizen #2

==Notes==
* According to [[Jim Sorenson]], the personality of [[Boom Tube]] was loosely based on Tom's ''Futurama'' character Amy Wong.<ref>[https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/143651-transformers-collectors-club-sale-everyone-can-purchase-from-them-now/?p=3587179 Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2017/08/28]</ref>

==Reference==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://laurentom.com/ Lauren Tom's official website]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866300/ Lauren Tom on the IMDB]

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[[Category:English voice actors]]
[[Category:Hasbro Studios]]

Lauren Tom

2025-01-07T01:47:46Z

Driftman217:

[[File:Lauren_Tom.jpg|right|thumb|200px|There's no war on [[Paradron]].]]

'''Lauren Tom''' (born [[August 4]], [[1961]]) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Minh and Connie Souphanousinphone on ''King of the Hill'' and Amy Wong on ''Futurama''. She has also appeared extensively in live-action film and television, including recurring roles on ''Friends'' and ''Supernatural'' and a leading role in the 1993 film ''The Joy Luck Club''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Meili Szeto]]
*Citizen #2

==Notes==
* According to [[Jim Sorenson]], the personality of [[Boom Tube]] was loosely based on Tom's ''Futurama'' character Amy Wong.<ref>[https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/143651-transformers-collectors-club-sale-everyone-can-purchase-from-them-now/?p=3587179 Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2017/08/28]</ref>

==Reference==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://laurentom.com/ Lauren Tom's official website]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866300/ Lauren Tom on the IMDB]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tom, Lauren}}
[[Category:English voice actors]]
[[Category:Hasbro Studios]]

File:Lauren Tom.jpg

2025-01-07T01:39:29Z

Driftman217: Lauren Tom, the voice of Meili Szeto in Transformers: Rescue Bots.

Lauren Tom, the voice of [[Meili Szeto]] in [[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]].

Hynden Walch

2025-01-07T01:24:52Z

Driftman217:

[[File:Hynden_Walch.jpg|right|thumb|200px|I voiced a character with the words '''fire''' and '''star''' in her name, but probably not in that order.]]

'''Heidi Hynden Walch''' (born [[February 1]], [[1971]]) is an American voice actor, best known for playing Starfire (as well as her sister Blackfire) on ''Teen Titans'' and Princess Bubblegum on ''Adventure Time''. She also alternates with [[Tara Strong]] as the current voice of Harley Quinn in all [[Batman]] and DC Comics media. She is also known for voicing young Nia on ''Gurren Lagann'', Breach on ''Generator Rex'' and Viridi in ''Kid Icarus: Uprising''.

Oh, and she's in ''Groundhog Day''!

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
* [[Amy (RB)|Amy]]

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906945/ Hynden Walch at the Internet Movie Database]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Walch, Hynden}}
[[Category: English voice actors]]
[[Category: Hasbro Studios]]

File:Hynden Walch.jpg

2025-01-07T01:09:28Z

Driftman217: Hynden Walch, the voice of Amy in Transformers: Rescue Bots.

Hynden Walch, the voice of [[Amy (RB)|Amy]] in [[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]].

Baroness

2024-12-31T19:11:52Z

Driftman217: /* Energon Universe */

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{{disambig2|the evil human|her heroic mirrorverse counterpart|Cisarovna}}
:''The Baroness is a member of [[Cobra]] from the [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]]''.
[[File:BaronessRavageDevilsDue1.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Two European accents in one picture!]]

The '''Baroness Anastasia de Cobray''' is Cobra's chief intelligence officer. She is a master of disguise, has a romantic relationship with [[Destro]], and usually tries to off the [[Cobra Commander]], although sometimes she gets to ''be'' Cobra Commander.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====''G.I. Joe and the Transformers''====
[[File:Baroness-All Fall Down.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|left]]
On [[Cobra Island]], the Baroness watched while [[Cobra Commander]] berated [[Zartan]] for allowing his [[Dreadnok]]s to reveal Cobra's interest in [[Power Station Alpha]]. {{storylink|Blood on the Tracks}} Later, she flirted with new Cobra leader [[Serpentor]] over some quail (much to the disgust of [[Destro]]), and watched as [[Doctor Mindbender]] seized control of Power Station Alpha. {{storylink|Power Struggle}} After Serpentor and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] struck a Cobra-[[Decepticon]] alliance, the Baroness departed the island in a [[Rattler]] and met with secret Cobra conspirator Senator [[Barbara Larkin]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] [[The Cavalier|for a nice cup of tea]]. Larkin was unhappy about her involvement in the Power Station Alpha affair, but the Baroness curtly dismissed her concerns. {{storylink|Ashes, Ashes...}} Back at Cobra Island, she saved Mindbender from their treacherous "ally" [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] and went to [[Seattle]] where Cobra and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had entered into an alliance to stop Power Station Alpha, which was now under Decepticon control. The Baroness grudgingly teamed with [[Scarlett]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Goldbug]] to plant explosives on the power station, to be detonated if and only if the Decepticon control of the station could not be overrode... but the Baroness blew it up anyway. Later, she had Senator Larkin shot. ''Man.'' {{storylink|...All Fall Down!}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
[[File:Hawk Cobradefectors Realignments.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
Much, much later, [[Destro]] and the Baroness decided to defect against [[Cobra Commander]]'s rule and hid out in the [[Silent Castle]]. They managed to get a [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team to retrieve them from [[Cobra]]'s clutches while using the castle's transformation to distract their enemies. {{storylink|Unfoldings!}} Shortly thereafter, they were reunited with [[Zartan]] at [[Cobra Island]] and, with [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]], deduced that Cobra Commander was planning to resurrect [[Doctor Mindbender]]. {{storylink|Realignments|Realignments}} With the help of Zartan, they retook control of Destro's castle while Cobra Commander was busy attending to his deal with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] in [[Canada]] and [[Milleville]]. {{storylink|Goin' South}}
{{--}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:Baroness in SNAKE GIJoevsTFs4.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3|"You went to college? Penn State?" "No, state pen."]]
After learning from [[Destro]] about a [[Ark (G1)|crashed spaceship]], the Baroness and [[Cobra Commander]] dug up the vessel and found it filled with [[Transformer|deactivated robots]]. Cobra reprogrammed the giants to serve them, and the Baroness participated in Cobra's attack on [[Washington, D.C.]] by manning [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Hiss-14]]'s turrets. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #1}} She later greeted Destro when he arrived at [[Cobra Island]], and warned [[Doctor Mindbender]] and [[Major Bludd]] against making fun of his mask. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} When Cobra lost control of the Transformers, the Baroness grabbed a [[S.N.A.K.E.]] suit and used it to save Destro from [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} The S.N.A.K.E. squad was later beaten up by a group of [[Autobot]]s, but the Baroness apparently got away. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

[[File:Percy viper.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|One of the rare occasions where she doesn't end a sentence in "darlink".]]
Two years later, the Baroness was transported to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] while overseeing a Cobra project in [[Boston]]. As the malfunctioning supercomputer [[Teletran 3]] had accidentally placed Earth in great danger, Cobra called a temporary truce with the G.I. Joe troops that had also ended up on planet. In order to save Earth, the Baroness teamed up with [[Beachhead]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] and a single [[Cobra Viper]] named [[Percy]], and traveled back in time to look for missing Transformers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} The team ended up in 1930's [[Chicago]], where the Baroness refused to use commando tactics like crawling around on filthy rooftops, instead suggesting that they blend in and do things stealthily. The others ignored her advice until they found themselves having to infiltrate a nightclub, at which point the Baroness seduced and drugged the [[Tommy Fingers|local mafia boss]]. Eventually, they managed to locate all the time-lost Cybertronians and returned to the present. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}} After some additional trouble with [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], the crisis was averted and the Baroness returned to Earth. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}

The Baroness later found [[Zartan]] spying on Cobra Commander while he remote-operated his plot to control the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. She said she could have Zartan killed for it, but since she was ''also'' curious as to what the commander was up to, she didn't really mind. Cobra Commander was aware of his underlings' eavesdropping, but didn't seem to care. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

According to G.I. Joe's list of criminals, the Baroness hadn't been captured. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon Part 1}}
{{--}}

===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
[[File:Baroness-The Iron Fist.jpg|left|thumb]]
The Baroness was among Cobra's higher-ups as they used the [[Decepticon]]s to conquer [[Europe]] in [[1939]]. {{storylink|The Line}} When [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] attempted to rebel against them, she speculated out loud that Transformers' eyes might be a flashing, red weakness. This amused Megatron, who declared that she would have made a fine [[Decepticon]], were she not tragically [[human]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire}} The Baroness and [[Doctor Mindbender]] later tortured [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] using decades-old tools. {{storylink|Trenches}}

As [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and the [[Autobot|Autobots']] combined army approached the [[Cobra]] [[Terrordrome]], the Baroness and her secret lover, [[Destro]], came together to overthrow [[Cobra Commander]]. As Destro betrayed his other ally, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], the Baroness helped out by shooting the Decepticon in a weak spot, defeating him. She and Destro then unleashed [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], which led to Cobra Commander being trapped in a rockslide. The Baroness was nice enough to end his suffering using Megatron's gun mode, and then planned to end things by betraying the only person left: Destro. Unfortunately for her, she was soon arrested by [[Scarlett]], who promised her and her "lover" that they would be tried for crimes against humanity. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

{{--}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{mainIDW|Baroness}}
[[File:GIJoeVol.5issue2-BaronessPrisoner.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Somehow managing to avoid capture after the fall of Cobra, Baroness managed to stay out of trouble for several years until she was finally caught in [[Monaco]], arrested on reckless driving charges. After this, she was taken in by the newly reformed and international G.I. Joe and secretly held prisoner without trial aboard their new underwater base ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Lemuria]]''. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} After discovering an [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] organizing under the banner of Cobra, [[Scarlett]] attempted to interrogate Baroness about whether or not Cobra had begun reforming but she refused to give up any information, only complaining about the quality of the food and the fact that she was being illegally held prisoner. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 2|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #2}} Though she was the only one who knew that Baroness was aboard the ''Lemuria'', Scarlett saw fit to share this information with her second-in-command [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]], who was slightly disturbed by them holding someone prisoner without trial. Because of this, Roadblock would leak Baroness' location to the now ex-Joe [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]], {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} who would soon arrive to free her and her fellow prisoner [[Crystal Ball]] so that they could be tried for their crimes. As she was escorted out, Baroness taunted Scarlett by promising that they'd see each other again soon. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}}

While en route to their trial in [[The Hague]], Baroness seemed completely unconcerned about her situation, teasing Duke about his fall from grace before a mob of Cobranarchists suddenly descended upon the armored car, aiming to free Baroness and Crystal Ball from captivity! {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 8|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #8}} Once they were let out by the [[Dreadnok]]s, Baroness ordered Crystal Ball to make himself useful before strongly chastising the Dreadnoks for their sloppy tactics, causing the bikers to shape up long enough for them to capture Duke. Before she got a chance to kill him though, a G.I. Joe team led by Scarlett arrived and shot the gun out of her hand. Ordering the Dreadnoks to kill them, Baroness and Crystal Ball slipped away in the chaos of the ensuing firefight and made their way to a [[Cobra temple|serpentine temple]] where the Cobranarchists had been congregating. Addressing them and promising a new world order, Baroness took the stage alongside Crystal Ball, Destro, [[Doctor Mindbender]], and a [[Dire Wraith]] [[Wraith Sorcerer|sorcerer]] before donning a hood and declaring herself the new Cobra Commander! {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}

[[File:GIJoeFirstStrike-Baroness&VENOM.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
With [[Miles Mayhem]] away on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with the rest of the [[Iron Ring]], Cobra Commander took the remaining members of [[V.E.N.O.M.]] under her organization's wing, earning their loyalty by having [[Scrap-Iron]] rebuild their destroyed vehicles. She then sent the three of them to back up [[Firefly]] as he broke into the {{w|Hermitage Museum}} in [[St. Petersburg]] to steal a certain antediluvian artifact that was on display there, his louder than expected methods earning him his Commander's ire. Ordering Firefly to make a much more subtle entrance this time, Cobra Commander next directed him and V.E.N.O.M. to the [[New York City|New York]] [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] for another heist. {{storylink|G.I. Joe: First Strike}} Though the V.E.N.O.M. agents were defeated and captured, Firefly was still able to accomplish his mission with help from [[Storm Shadow]] and his ninja. Now that Crystal Ball had the necessary artifacts, Cobra Commander demanded an update from [[Cesspool]] to see how their efforts to melt the polar ice caps was going before strongly correcting Destro when he referred to her by her old title. {{storylink|M.A.S.K.: First Strike}}

As Crystal Ball and the Dire Wraiths opened a portal to [[Cobra-La]], Cobra Commander ordered the Wraiths to force several unwilling Cobranarchists inside, making them reemerge as [[Viper (mutant)|Vipers]]. With the portal remaining stable, Cobra Commander turned on the Wraiths and allowed her new soldiers to feast upon them. Ignoring Destro's horrified reaction to both her betrayal and the anrchists' transformation, she ordered Crystal Ball to round up the rest of the Cobranarchists and force them into the portal as well. {{storylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}} After chastising Destro for almost interrupting a crucial ritual that Crystal Ball was performing, she heard his report that G.I. Joe had found them. She then ordered Destro to send [[Croc Master]] and [[Raptor (G.I. Joe)|Raptor]] to take care of them. {{storylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 2|Scarlett's Strike Force #2}} After Storm Shadow and [[Tempest (G.I. Joe)|Tempest]] returned from slowing down [[Quick Kick]] and, thus, the rest of the Joes, Cobra Commander heard their report and, after again criticizing Destro, asked Crystal Ball if the time was right for the "Ascension". After [[Spitfire (G.I. Joe)|Spitfire]] unknowingly kicked this Ascension off by gunning several Vipers down, causing their blood to consecrate the alter they were gathered around, Cobra Commander and her closest followers gathered atop a mysterious rock that then shot up into the sky as she dramatically declared this marked the beginning of her empire's rise and the birth of Cobra's [[Golobulus|god]]. {{storylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 3|Scarlett's Strike Force #3}}

Cobra Commander took part in a meeting of Earth's heroes and villains, who'd come together against the looming threat of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}}

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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:Tfvsjoe STRIKE MY THRALLS!.jpg|thumb|"We have tried everything. Dynamite, scorpions, dynamite tied to scorpions..."]]

When the Joes stormed Cobra's newest hideout, the Baroness and Cobra Commander attempted to slip away as they had done so many times in the past. [[Scarlett]] and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] happened upon them as they boarded their [[Rattler]] though, and soon the terrorists were being pursued by a whole squad of Joes through the air. The situation became even more complicated when the Cybertronians [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] joined the fight. Then, Scarlett managed to hit the terrorists' plane with a [[G.I.Rocket|Creeper arrow]], shattering the plane's cockpit window, and temporarily blinding the Baroness. The Rattler was then blown out of the sky, seemingly killing her. {{storylink|The Golden Boys}}

Though scarred, the Baroness survived with her full faculties intact. Cobra Commander, apparently, wasn't as lucky; the once great leader had been left in a vegetative state. The Baroness renamed herself the '''Serpentress''', and took control of the splintered and rudderless Cobra Empire. After garnering enough manpower, she and her troops scooped up the Cybertronians [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] following a clash the pair had with the Joes. She offered the Decepticons sanctuary on Earth, and welcomed them into the ranks of her terrorist organization. {{storylink|I Saw Three Ships}}

Later, the Serpentress led her troops in an attack on the ''[[USS Flagg]]'', believing she was interrupting a funeral held for General [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]. In truth the whole scene was a set-up, meant to draw Cobra into the open. The Joes had not foreseen Cobra's alliance with the Decepticons however, and the Serpentress led a devastating offensive while riding atop of Laserbeak. Despite the added strength of its Cybertronian members, Decepticobra was forced to retreat, and regrouped at the island base of [[Decepticobropolis]]. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} It was there that the Serpentress and Destro decided to shoot Cobra Commander dead as he lay in his coma. This would assure he would never awaken to wrest away the Serpentress's control over his empire. As they unmasked him, they found that they didn't have under their care the true Cobra Commander, but one of his body doubles! {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}} Despite this setback, The Serpentress and Destro forged ahead with their plan of a hostile take-over of the Earth. Accompanied by Shockwave and Starscream, she burst into the [[United Nations]] building to intimidate the world's leaders. Her address was interrupted when a brawl between [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the Joes broke out nearby. Infuriated, the Serpentress joined the battle atop of Laserbeak, and berated Hawk for "stealing her thunder." The fight became even more chaotic as other players became involved, including hordes of cobra-men and [[GIJONIN]] ninjas. It ultimately dissipated once Optimus took off, with each faction going their own way. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}}

After [[Billy (G.I. Joe)|Billy]] joined up with Cobra, he approached the Serpentress in the hopes she could arrange a meeting between him and his father, Cobra Commander. The Serpentress instead sent him after his father's "assassin," Snake-Eyes. This ultimately led to Billy's dismemberment. {{storylink|FCBD Funnies}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}}}

===Energon Universe===
Having grown bored of coming from a wealthy family and being enrolled in expensive private schools, Anastasia Cisarovna started to work for the Eastern European Intelligence Agency, where she was trained in many skills such as piloting, stealth, and assassination. Over the time, Anastasia struck out on her own, leading to her to becoming a full-on terrorist, where she is wanted across multiple continents and earning herself the codename 'The Baroness' due to her background. {{storylink|Duke issue 3|Duke #3}} The Baroness was the only known prisoner being held in [[Pit (G.I. Joe)|the Pit]], until she met Duke and Clutch after getting captured by Rock 'n Roll and Stalker, waiting to be transported. After hearing Duke shouting about how the system didn't trust him, the Baroness believed that they could come to an arrangement. {{storylink|Duke issue 2|Duke #2}} Duke caught the Baroness off-guard in his cell as he revealed he knew about her due to some of his friends coming into contact with her in the past, believing her to be misguided. As the Pit came under siege from Major Bludd and multiple troops in an effort to get a device Duke had been given by Dr. Adele Burkhart, the Baroness convinced Duke to free her from her cell, so she could join in on the fight and look for an exit while Duke helped his friends. After hearing a bounty had been placed on Duke's head by Bludd, the Baroness shot Bludd from behind and held Duke at gunpoint, attempting to acquire the bounty herself. {{storylink|Duke issue 3|Duke #3}} Duke managed to convince the Baroness to lay down her gun as she would get caught in the middle of Bludd and his men going scorched Earth. The Baroness was later held at knifepoint by Stalker until Duke assured him she was an ally. The Baroness and the group made their way to a dumping ground full of decommissioned vehicles that Clutch modified to make a last stand against Bludd's men. An enraged Bludd ordered his men to leave the Baroness to him, wanting payback for her shooting out his left eye. The Baroness fled the scene after hijacking a copter from one of the troops, expressing a desire to never see them again. {{storylink|Duke issue 4|Duke #4}}

Believing her skills would make her a valuable asset to a team he was putting together, Duke made a request to Colonel Hawk to recruit the Baroness, but the Colonel believed it was not a good idea due to her past. Duke assured him that those reasons were why she should be recruited for his team, before she was recruited by someone else. The Baroness was later caught off-guard in the open while on the run by two masked people wearing armor. The Baroness fought back until Duke arrived on the scene and was offered a proposal by Duke before they fled. Duke told the Baroness about the team he was putting together, wanting someone like her to question his authority while keeping the team honest and ready for anything. She was given the choice of joining his team or remaining on the run and getting locked up. The Baroness made her answer clear as she suited up in a new uniform with a star on the chest and said, "Yo Joe." {{storylink|G.I. Joe Energon Universe Special story}}

After nearly dying during a training simulation, the Baroness believed that the team wouldn't fare any better in an actual battle, something Duke agreed with as the enemy had more advanced technology. The Baroness and the team were assigned to watch over a shard of Cybertronian technology that was being studied at a secure lab in Colorado. The Baroness expressed great displeasure as she felt it was a waste of her talents and saw it more as babysitting, which led to more conflict with Stalker as he told her she could leave, not liking the idea of being on the same team as a war criminal. The two made threats towards each other in Russian and Stalker's threat left her shook. The lab was later invaded by Cobra with Mercer leading a team to recover the shard. The Baroness and Rock 'n Roll were ordered by Duke to lay down cover fire for Clutch and Cover Girl as they got the asset out of the lab. Not knowing who was attacking them, the Baroness made her stand until she retreated behind a desk when the enemy started to use Energon-empowered rifles. {{storylink|G.I. Joe (2024) issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} Before he could be sent to Valhalla along with the other wounded soldiers by Cobra Commander's Valkyries, a wounded Stalker was saved by the Baroness, remarking that she knew she would end up getting killed after she joined the Joes. The Baroness, along with the rest of the team sans the departed Rock 'n Roll and Clutch being missing, got treated from their injuries in the Pit after Cobra Commander caused the Energon-empowered rifles to blow up and brought the lab down on top of them as Cobra got away with the shard. The Baroness tried to reason with a hotheaded Duke wanting to attack M.A.R.S. Industries, as she believed being revenge-driven would only cause him to fail and they should heal from their wounds. The Baroness became acquainted with Hawk's newest recruit, Risk, who had a similar upbringing as the Baroness. After Duke punched Risk for getting Rock 'n Roll's name wrong, the Baroness and Hawk tried to restrain him, but it didn't work as Duke broke free and jumped back at Risk. {{storylink|G.I. Joe (2024) issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
'''[[Viper (CW)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Viper]]'''
[[File:Cobra Baroness EarthWars.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6]]

Baroness is the [[Cobra]] partner of Viper.{{charstubgames|{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}}}

*'''Class:''' Aerial
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 1 star
*'''Ability: Bombing Run''' - Drops 12 bombs in a line across the target dealing damage.
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points, +1 for reuses.
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===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
The Baroness served as the go-between for the force of Cobra and their new Decepticon allies, and met with the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s to obtain a copy of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]’s schematics. Using her ill-gotten wealth and a network of shell companies, the Baroness coerced the citizens of [[Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges]] to abandon their land, and turned the town into a Cobra staging ground. However, by the time the Autobots arrived in southern France to investigate, the Baroness had sent her half-sister and body double [[Chameleon (G.I. Joe)|Chameleon]] to meet with the Combaticons, allowing her to escape unscathed while Chameleon and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] took the fall. {{storylink|Cobra/Con Fusion}}

==Toys==
{{Note|This character has many other toys that are not connected to ''Transformers''. See the external link to yojoe.com for more information.}}
===''G.I. Joe and the Transformers''===
[[File:SDCC2013RavageBaroness.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Does this thing really have an underwater fireplace?"]]
*'''''The Epic Conclusion!'' box set''' ([[2013]])
**''Accessories:'' three rifles, chain leash

:An [[exclusive]] release for [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2013, this 3.75" scale Baroness figure is a retool of the 2009 "Cobra Set" Baroness with a new head. She is armed with not one but three different rifles, and accompanied by a (non-transforming) [[Ravage (G1)/toys#Baroness|Ravage]] on a leash, in homage to the variant cover of [[Devil's Due Press|Devil's Due]]'s ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]'' [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|issue 3]] (despite the box set otherwise being themed around the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[G.I. Joe and the Transformers (comic)|miniseries]]). Baroness's stock photos depict her with a... waist cape thingy originally included with [https://www.yojoe.com/action/10/baroness16.shtml ''Resolute'' Baroness], but this was omitted from the final toy.

:Baroness and Ravage come as part of a massive box set, which includes a retooled [[Skystriker (vehicle)|Sky Striker]] as [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Jetfire]], a G.I. Joe [[VAMP]] redecoed into [[Hound (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Hound]], a new [[Snake-Eyes#G.I. Joe and the Transformers 2|Snake-Eyes]] figure bearing an Autobot symbol, a [[Bludgeon (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Bludgeon]] figure, and an [[Blaster (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Autobot Blaster]] boombox accessory with cassette pieces representing [[Steeljaw (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Steeljaw]], [[Ramhorn (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Ramhorn]], and [[Eject (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Eject]].

:The box set was announced via a ''USA Today'' [http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/life/2013/06/05/hasbro-2013-comic-con-exclusives/2392295/ article] on June 5, 2013, along with Hasbro's other Comic-Con exclusives.

::*''[https://www.yojoe.com/action/13/baroness17.shtml More information on Baroness (v13) at YoJoe.com]''
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===''Collaborative''===
[[File:Collaborative toy HISS tank Baroness.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Some people get fast cars for a midlife crisis, she gets a tank.]]
*'''Megatron H.I.S.S. Tank and Baroness''' ([[2022]])
**''Accessories:'' Rifle, backpack, battle stand
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Mario Carreiro]] (packaging)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfy3IcQd3g4 The Hasbro ''Transformers'' Panel] at [[San Diego Comic-Con#2024|San Diego Comic-Con 2024]] with [[Mario Carreiro]], [[John Warden]], [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Nate Purswell]], recorded at the "Memo's Collection" YouTube channel.</ref>}}

:Part of the tenth release in the ''[[Transformers Collaborative]]'' line, this 3.75" Baroness figure comes in a set with a properly scaled "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Collaborative|Megatron H.I.S.S. Tank]]" – yes, after many [[Unproduced G.I. Joe Transformer|false]] [[G.I. Joe and the Transformers (toyline)|starts]], those madlads at Hasbro have finally produced a ''G.I. Joe'' Transformer.

:Baroness herself is a newly recreated replica of her [https://www.yojoe.com/action/84/baroness.shtml original 1984 toy], part of the concurrent ''G.I. Joe Retro Collection'' and its "O-Ring" subline. She comes packaged on her own ''Retro Collection'' card inside the main ''Collaborative'' box to the glee of ''Joe'' collectors. She comes with faithful recreations of her original rifle and backpack along with a new battle stand, and can ride inside Megatron's H.I.S.S. cockpit in vehicle mode or man his turret in both modes.
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==Merchandise==
===First 4 Figures===
[[File:Gijoebaronessravagestatue.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Sure, people who walk cats are weird, but YOU try telling her that.]]
*'''Baroness and Ravage''' (<s>2006</s> <s>2007</s> <s>2008</s> unreleased)
:Initially announced at UK Toy Fair in 2006<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2006/01/25/first4figures-beast-wars-and-transformers-vs-g-i-joe-statuesbusts-4267 "First4Figures Beast Wars and Transformers VS. G.I. Joe Statues/Busts"] at TFW2005.com</ref> with a second showing at New York [[Toy Fair]] the following month,<ref>[https://tformers.com/transformers-/5568/news.html "Toy Fair 2006 - First4Figures TF & GI Joe Statues& Busts"] at tformers.com</ref> the "Baroness and Ravage" statue was intended to be one of the first releases in [[First 4 Figures]]' ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]'' comic tie-in subline. The statue, depicting the Baroness with [[Ravage (G1)/toys#F4F1|Ravage]] on a chain leash, was inspired by the [[:File:GI Joe vs Transformers 3c.jpg|Convention Edition cover]] of [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|issue 3]] of the comic, as originally drawn by [[Mike Norton]]. At one stage, the set was to be limited to 1,500 pieces.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060627114922/http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/PROD/3-/922981/GI_Joe_vs_Transformers_Baroness_And_Ravage/Product.html Baroness and Ravage listing on Play.com] (archived)</ref>

:The "Baroness and Ravage" set faced a three-year period of progressive delays; even as the other First 4 Figure ''Transformers'' statues were quietly cancelled due to a challenging marketplace and lack of retailer interest, the "Baroness and Ravage" set was still a possible release as late as mid 2008.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2008/08/28/first4figures-ravage-baroness-statue-still-possible-other-f4f-transformers-items-cancelled-165672 "First4Figures Ravage & Baroness Statue Still Possible, Other F4F Transformers Items Cancelled"] at TFW2005.com</ref> It was eventually confirmed cancelled in early 2009<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110228050028/http://www.theterrordrome.com/2009/03/first-4-figures-baroness-ravage-statue-canceled/ "First-4-Figures Baroness & Ravage Statue Canceled"] at theterrordrome.com (archived)</ref>—which is sad, since ''it's awesome''.

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===Kidrobot===
[[File:Kidrobot GIJoe Enamel Pin Series.jpg|thumb|250px]]
====Enamel Pin Series====
*'''Baroness''' ([[November 3]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 20
:Released by [[Kidrobot]] in their Enamel Pin Series, this is a flat, enamel pin badge of Baroness inspired by the art of [[Tom Scioli]]'s ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'', albeit with [[Super deformed|cutesy proportions]]... and despite the fact that the Baroness only appears in the comic's [[The Golden Boys|zeroth issue]]. The pin series was [[Blindpacking|blindboxed]], with some pins being rarer than others.
{{anchor|serpintress}}
*'''Serpentress''' ([[November 3]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 40
:And speaking of which, a twice-as-rare pin was available, depicting the Baroness in her new Serpentress identity first seen in "[[I Saw Three Ships]]".
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====Vinyl Mini Series====
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Baroness mini.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Baroness''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 24
:The Scioli design was also used for the Vinyl Mini Series, with her receiving a three-inch tall, blindboxed figurine retaining the vibrant colours and exaggerated proportions. Baroness featured articulation in each shoulder, and her visor was rendered with translucent plastic layered over her face's paint applications.
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{{anchor|minipentress}}
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Serpentress mini.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Serpentress''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 96
:*''Accessories'': Staff
:One of the [[chase figure]]s of the series, this is a similar mold depicting the Baroness as Serpentress, complete with a massive cape and a snake-headed staff accessory.
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====Vinyl Keychain Series====
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Baroness keychain.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Baroness''' ([[December 1]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 2 in 24
:Baroness was also released as part of the once again blindboxed Vinyl Keychain Series, now standing at about one to two inches. She included a keychain molded into her head and, due to her small scale, did not feature any articulation. Her visor is now a detail painted directly onto her face.
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==Notes==
*Baroness has been voiced by Transformers alumni [[Morgan Lofting]] and [[Grey Griffin]].

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

==External links==
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/84/baroness.shtml Baroness at yojoe.com]

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Baroness

2024-12-30T19:40:00Z

Driftman217: /* Energon Universe */

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{{disambig2|the evil human|her heroic mirrorverse counterpart|Cisarovna}}
:''The Baroness is a member of [[Cobra]] from the [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]]''.
[[File:BaronessRavageDevilsDue1.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Two European accents in one picture!]]

The '''Baroness Anastasia de Cobray''' is Cobra's chief intelligence officer. She is a master of disguise, has a romantic relationship with [[Destro]], and usually tries to off the [[Cobra Commander]], although sometimes she gets to ''be'' Cobra Commander.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====''G.I. Joe and the Transformers''====
[[File:Baroness-All Fall Down.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|left]]
On [[Cobra Island]], the Baroness watched while [[Cobra Commander]] berated [[Zartan]] for allowing his [[Dreadnok]]s to reveal Cobra's interest in [[Power Station Alpha]]. {{storylink|Blood on the Tracks}} Later, she flirted with new Cobra leader [[Serpentor]] over some quail (much to the disgust of [[Destro]]), and watched as [[Doctor Mindbender]] seized control of Power Station Alpha. {{storylink|Power Struggle}} After Serpentor and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] struck a Cobra-[[Decepticon]] alliance, the Baroness departed the island in a [[Rattler]] and met with secret Cobra conspirator Senator [[Barbara Larkin]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] [[The Cavalier|for a nice cup of tea]]. Larkin was unhappy about her involvement in the Power Station Alpha affair, but the Baroness curtly dismissed her concerns. {{storylink|Ashes, Ashes...}} Back at Cobra Island, she saved Mindbender from their treacherous "ally" [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] and went to [[Seattle]] where Cobra and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had entered into an alliance to stop Power Station Alpha, which was now under Decepticon control. The Baroness grudgingly teamed with [[Scarlett]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Goldbug]] to plant explosives on the power station, to be detonated if and only if the Decepticon control of the station could not be overrode... but the Baroness blew it up anyway. Later, she had Senator Larkin shot. ''Man.'' {{storylink|...All Fall Down!}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
[[File:Hawk Cobradefectors Realignments.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
Much, much later, [[Destro]] and the Baroness decided to defect against [[Cobra Commander]]'s rule and hid out in the [[Silent Castle]]. They managed to get a [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team to retrieve them from [[Cobra]]'s clutches while using the castle's transformation to distract their enemies. {{storylink|Unfoldings!}} Shortly thereafter, they were reunited with [[Zartan]] at [[Cobra Island]] and, with [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]], deduced that Cobra Commander was planning to resurrect [[Doctor Mindbender]]. {{storylink|Realignments|Realignments}} With the help of Zartan, they retook control of Destro's castle while Cobra Commander was busy attending to his deal with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] in [[Canada]] and [[Milleville]]. {{storylink|Goin' South}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:Baroness in SNAKE GIJoevsTFs4.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3|"You went to college? Penn State?" "No, state pen."]]
After learning from [[Destro]] about a [[Ark (G1)|crashed spaceship]], the Baroness and [[Cobra Commander]] dug up the vessel and found it filled with [[Transformer|deactivated robots]]. Cobra reprogrammed the giants to serve them, and the Baroness participated in Cobra's attack on [[Washington, D.C.]] by manning [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Hiss-14]]'s turrets. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #1}} She later greeted Destro when he arrived at [[Cobra Island]], and warned [[Doctor Mindbender]] and [[Major Bludd]] against making fun of his mask. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} When Cobra lost control of the Transformers, the Baroness grabbed a [[S.N.A.K.E.]] suit and used it to save Destro from [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} The S.N.A.K.E. squad was later beaten up by a group of [[Autobot]]s, but the Baroness apparently got away. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

[[File:Percy viper.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|One of the rare occasions where she doesn't end a sentence in "darlink".]]
Two years later, the Baroness was transported to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] while overseeing a Cobra project in [[Boston]]. As the malfunctioning supercomputer [[Teletran 3]] had accidentally placed Earth in great danger, Cobra called a temporary truce with the G.I. Joe troops that had also ended up on planet. In order to save Earth, the Baroness teamed up with [[Beachhead]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] and a single [[Cobra Viper]] named [[Percy]], and traveled back in time to look for missing Transformers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} The team ended up in 1930's [[Chicago]], where the Baroness refused to use commando tactics like crawling around on filthy rooftops, instead suggesting that they blend in and do things stealthily. The others ignored her advice until they found themselves having to infiltrate a nightclub, at which point the Baroness seduced and drugged the [[Tommy Fingers|local mafia boss]]. Eventually, they managed to locate all the time-lost Cybertronians and returned to the present. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}} After some additional trouble with [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], the crisis was averted and the Baroness returned to Earth. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}

The Baroness later found [[Zartan]] spying on Cobra Commander while he remote-operated his plot to control the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. She said she could have Zartan killed for it, but since she was ''also'' curious as to what the commander was up to, she didn't really mind. Cobra Commander was aware of his underlings' eavesdropping, but didn't seem to care. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

According to G.I. Joe's list of criminals, the Baroness hadn't been captured. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon Part 1}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
[[File:Baroness-The Iron Fist.jpg|left|thumb]]
The Baroness was among Cobra's higher-ups as they used the [[Decepticon]]s to conquer [[Europe]] in [[1939]]. {{storylink|The Line}} When [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] attempted to rebel against them, she speculated out loud that Transformers' eyes might be a flashing, red weakness. This amused Megatron, who declared that she would have made a fine [[Decepticon]], were she not tragically [[human]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire}} The Baroness and [[Doctor Mindbender]] later tortured [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] using decades-old tools. {{storylink|Trenches}}

As [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and the [[Autobot|Autobots']] combined army approached the [[Cobra]] [[Terrordrome]], the Baroness and her secret lover, [[Destro]], came together to overthrow [[Cobra Commander]]. As Destro betrayed his other ally, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], the Baroness helped out by shooting the Decepticon in a weak spot, defeating him. She and Destro then unleashed [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], which led to Cobra Commander being trapped in a rockslide. The Baroness was nice enough to end his suffering using Megatron's gun mode, and then planned to end things by betraying the only person left: Destro. Unfortunately for her, she was soon arrested by [[Scarlett]], who promised her and her "lover" that they would be tried for crimes against humanity. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{mainIDW|Baroness}}
[[File:GIJoeVol.5issue2-BaronessPrisoner.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Somehow managing to avoid capture after the fall of Cobra, Baroness managed to stay out of trouble for several years until she was finally caught in [[Monaco]], arrested on reckless driving charges. After this, she was taken in by the newly reformed and international G.I. Joe and secretly held prisoner without trial aboard their new underwater base ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Lemuria]]''. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} After discovering an [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] organizing under the banner of Cobra, [[Scarlett]] attempted to interrogate Baroness about whether or not Cobra had begun reforming but she refused to give up any information, only complaining about the quality of the food and the fact that she was being illegally held prisoner. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 2|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #2}} Though she was the only one who knew that Baroness was aboard the ''Lemuria'', Scarlett saw fit to share this information with her second-in-command [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]], who was slightly disturbed by them holding someone prisoner without trial. Because of this, Roadblock would leak Baroness' location to the now ex-Joe [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]], {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} who would soon arrive to free her and her fellow prisoner [[Crystal Ball]] so that they could be tried for their crimes. As she was escorted out, Baroness taunted Scarlett by promising that they'd see each other again soon. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}}

While en route to their trial in [[The Hague]], Baroness seemed completely unconcerned about her situation, teasing Duke about his fall from grace before a mob of Cobranarchists suddenly descended upon the armored car, aiming to free Baroness and Crystal Ball from captivity! {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 8|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #8}} Once they were let out by the [[Dreadnok]]s, Baroness ordered Crystal Ball to make himself useful before strongly chastising the Dreadnoks for their sloppy tactics, causing the bikers to shape up long enough for them to capture Duke. Before she got a chance to kill him though, a G.I. Joe team led by Scarlett arrived and shot the gun out of her hand. Ordering the Dreadnoks to kill them, Baroness and Crystal Ball slipped away in the chaos of the ensuing firefight and made their way to a [[Cobra temple|serpentine temple]] where the Cobranarchists had been congregating. Addressing them and promising a new world order, Baroness took the stage alongside Crystal Ball, Destro, [[Doctor Mindbender]], and a [[Dire Wraith]] [[Wraith Sorcerer|sorcerer]] before donning a hood and declaring herself the new Cobra Commander! {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}

[[File:GIJoeFirstStrike-Baroness&VENOM.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
With [[Miles Mayhem]] away on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with the rest of the [[Iron Ring]], Cobra Commander took the remaining members of [[V.E.N.O.M.]] under her organization's wing, earning their loyalty by having [[Scrap-Iron]] rebuild their destroyed vehicles. She then sent the three of them to back up [[Firefly]] as he broke into the {{w|Hermitage Museum}} in [[St. Petersburg]] to steal a certain antediluvian artifact that was on display there, his louder than expected methods earning him his Commander's ire. Ordering Firefly to make a much more subtle entrance this time, Cobra Commander next directed him and V.E.N.O.M. to the [[New York City|New York]] [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] for another heist. {{storylink|G.I. Joe: First Strike}} Though the V.E.N.O.M. agents were defeated and captured, Firefly was still able to accomplish his mission with help from [[Storm Shadow]] and his ninja. Now that Crystal Ball had the necessary artifacts, Cobra Commander demanded an update from [[Cesspool]] to see how their efforts to melt the polar ice caps was going before strongly correcting Destro when he referred to her by her old title. {{storylink|M.A.S.K.: First Strike}}

As Crystal Ball and the Dire Wraiths opened a portal to [[Cobra-La]], Cobra Commander ordered the Wraiths to force several unwilling Cobranarchists inside, making them reemerge as [[Viper (mutant)|Vipers]]. With the portal remaining stable, Cobra Commander turned on the Wraiths and allowed her new soldiers to feast upon them. Ignoring Destro's horrified reaction to both her betrayal and the anrchists' transformation, she ordered Crystal Ball to round up the rest of the Cobranarchists and force them into the portal as well. {{storylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}} After chastising Destro for almost interrupting a crucial ritual that Crystal Ball was performing, she heard his report that G.I. Joe had found them. She then ordered Destro to send [[Croc Master]] and [[Raptor (G.I. Joe)|Raptor]] to take care of them. {{storylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 2|Scarlett's Strike Force #2}} After Storm Shadow and [[Tempest (G.I. Joe)|Tempest]] returned from slowing down [[Quick Kick]] and, thus, the rest of the Joes, Cobra Commander heard their report and, after again criticizing Destro, asked Crystal Ball if the time was right for the "Ascension". After [[Spitfire (G.I. Joe)|Spitfire]] unknowingly kicked this Ascension off by gunning several Vipers down, causing their blood to consecrate the alter they were gathered around, Cobra Commander and her closest followers gathered atop a mysterious rock that then shot up into the sky as she dramatically declared this marked the beginning of her empire's rise and the birth of Cobra's [[Golobulus|god]]. {{storylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 3|Scarlett's Strike Force #3}}

Cobra Commander took part in a meeting of Earth's heroes and villains, who'd come together against the looming threat of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}}

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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:Tfvsjoe STRIKE MY THRALLS!.jpg|thumb|"We have tried everything. Dynamite, scorpions, dynamite tied to scorpions..."]]

When the Joes stormed Cobra's newest hideout, the Baroness and Cobra Commander attempted to slip away as they had done so many times in the past. [[Scarlett]] and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] happened upon them as they boarded their [[Rattler]] though, and soon the terrorists were being pursued by a whole squad of Joes through the air. The situation became even more complicated when the Cybertronians [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] joined the fight. Then, Scarlett managed to hit the terrorists' plane with a [[G.I.Rocket|Creeper arrow]], shattering the plane's cockpit window, and temporarily blinding the Baroness. The Rattler was then blown out of the sky, seemingly killing her. {{storylink|The Golden Boys}}

Though scarred, the Baroness survived with her full faculties intact. Cobra Commander, apparently, wasn't as lucky; the once great leader had been left in a vegetative state. The Baroness renamed herself the '''Serpentress''', and took control of the splintered and rudderless Cobra Empire. After garnering enough manpower, she and her troops scooped up the Cybertronians [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] following a clash the pair had with the Joes. She offered the Decepticons sanctuary on Earth, and welcomed them into the ranks of her terrorist organization. {{storylink|I Saw Three Ships}}

Later, the Serpentress led her troops in an attack on the ''[[USS Flagg]]'', believing she was interrupting a funeral held for General [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]. In truth the whole scene was a set-up, meant to draw Cobra into the open. The Joes had not foreseen Cobra's alliance with the Decepticons however, and the Serpentress led a devastating offensive while riding atop of Laserbeak. Despite the added strength of its Cybertronian members, Decepticobra was forced to retreat, and regrouped at the island base of [[Decepticobropolis]]. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} It was there that the Serpentress and Destro decided to shoot Cobra Commander dead as he lay in his coma. This would assure he would never awaken to wrest away the Serpentress's control over his empire. As they unmasked him, they found that they didn't have under their care the true Cobra Commander, but one of his body doubles! {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}} Despite this setback, The Serpentress and Destro forged ahead with their plan of a hostile take-over of the Earth. Accompanied by Shockwave and Starscream, she burst into the [[United Nations]] building to intimidate the world's leaders. Her address was interrupted when a brawl between [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the Joes broke out nearby. Infuriated, the Serpentress joined the battle atop of Laserbeak, and berated Hawk for "stealing her thunder." The fight became even more chaotic as other players became involved, including hordes of cobra-men and [[GIJONIN]] ninjas. It ultimately dissipated once Optimus took off, with each faction going their own way. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}}

After [[Billy (G.I. Joe)|Billy]] joined up with Cobra, he approached the Serpentress in the hopes she could arrange a meeting between him and his father, Cobra Commander. The Serpentress instead sent him after his father's "assassin," Snake-Eyes. This ultimately led to Billy's dismemberment. {{storylink|FCBD Funnies}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}}}

===Energon Universe===
Having grown bored of coming from a wealthy family and being enrolled in expensive private schools, Anastasia Cisarovna started to work for the Eastern European Intelligence Agency, where she was trained in many skills such as piloting, stealth, and assassination. Over the time, Anastasia struck out on her own, leading to her to becoming a full-on terrorist, where she is wanted across multiple continents and earning herself the codename 'The Baroness' due to her background. {{storylink|Duke issue 3|Duke #3}} The Baroness was the only known prisoner being held in [[Pit (G.I. Joe)|the Pit]], until she met Duke and Clutch after getting captured by Rock 'n Roll and Stalker, waiting to be transported. After hearing Duke shouting about how the system didn't trust him, the Baroness believed that they could come to an arrangement. {{storylink|Duke issue 2|Duke #2}} Duke caught the Baroness off-guard in his cell as he revealed he knew about her due to some of his friends coming into contact with her in the past, believing her to be misguided. As the Pit came under siege from Major Bludd and multiple troops in an effort to get a device Duke had been given by Dr. Adele Burkhart, the Baroness convinced Duke to free her from her cell, so she could join in on the fight and look for an exit while Duke helped his friends. After hearing a bounty had been placed on Duke's head by Bludd, the Baroness shot Bludd from behind and held Duke at gunpoint, attempting to acquire the bounty herself. {{storylink|Duke issue 3|Duke #3}} Duke managed to convince the Baroness to lay down her gun as she would get caught in the middle of Bludd and his men going scorched Earth. The Baroness was later held at knifepoint by Stalker until Duke assured him she was an ally. The Baroness and the group made their way to a dumping ground full of decommissioned vehicles that Clutch modified to make a last stand against Bludd's men. An enraged Bludd ordered his men to leave the Baroness to him, wanting payback for her shooting out his left eye. The Baroness fled the scene after hijacking a copter from one of the troops, expressing a desire to never see them again. {{storylink|Duke issue 4|Duke #4}}

Believing her skills would make her a valuable asset to a team he was putting together, Duke made a request to Colonel Hawk to recruit the Baroness, but the Colonel believed it was not a good idea due to her past. Duke assured him that those reasons were why she should be recruited for his team, before she was recruited by someone else. The Baroness was later caught off-guard in the open while on the run by two masked people wearing armor. The Baroness fought back until Duke arrived on the scene and was offered a proposal by Duke before they fled. Duke told the Baroness about the team he was putting together, wanting someone like her to question his authority while keeping the team honest and ready for anything. She was given the choice of joining his team or remaining on the run and getting locked up. The Baroness made her answer clear as she suited up in a new uniform with a star on the chest and said, "Yo Joe." {{storylink|G.I. Joe Energon Universe Special story}}

After nearly dying during a training simulation, the Baroness believed that the team wouldn't fare any better in an actual battle, something Duke agreed with as the enemy had more advanced technology. The Baroness and the team were assigned to watch over a shard of Cybertronian technology that was being studied at a secure lab in Colorado. The Baroness expressed great displeasure as she felt it was a waste of her talents and saw it more as babysitting, which led to more conflict with Stalker as he told her she could leave, not liking the idea of being on the same team as a war criminal. The two made threats towards each other in Russian and Stalker's threat left her shook. The lab was later invaded by Cobra with Mercer leading a team to recover the shard. The Baroness and Rock 'n Roll were ordered by Duke to lay down cover fire for Clutch and Cover Girl as they got the asset out of the lab. Not knowing who was attacking them, the Baroness made her stand until she retreated behind a desk when the enemy started to use Energon-empowered rifles. {{storylink|G.I. Joe (2024) issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} Before he could be sent to Valhalla along with the other injured soldiers by Cobra Commander's Valkyries, an injured Stalker was saved by the Baroness, remarking that she knew she would end up getting killed after she joined the Joes. The Baroness, along with the rest of the team sans the departed Rock 'n Roll and Clutch being missing, got treated from their injuries in the Pit after Cobra Commander caused the Energon-empowered rifles to blow up and brought the lab down on top of them as Cobra got away with the shard. The Baroness tried to reason with a hotheaded Duke wanting to attack M.A.R.S. Industries, as she believed being revenge-driven would only cause him to fail and they should heal. The Baroness became acquainted with Hawk's newest recruit, Risk, who had a similar upbringing as the Baroness. After Duke punched Risk for getting Rock 'n Roll's name wrong, the Baroness and Hawk tried to restrain him, only for Duke to break free and fight Risk some more. {{storylink|G.I. Joe (2024) issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
'''[[Viper (CW)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Viper]]'''
[[File:Cobra Baroness EarthWars.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6]]

Baroness is the [[Cobra]] partner of Viper.{{charstubgames|{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}}}

*'''Class:''' Aerial
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 1 star
*'''Ability: Bombing Run''' - Drops 12 bombs in a line across the target dealing damage.
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points, +1 for reuses.
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===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
The Baroness served as the go-between for the force of Cobra and their new Decepticon allies, and met with the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s to obtain a copy of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]’s schematics. Using her ill-gotten wealth and a network of shell companies, the Baroness coerced the citizens of [[Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges]] to abandon their land, and turned the town into a Cobra staging ground. However, by the time the Autobots arrived in southern France to investigate, the Baroness had sent her half-sister and body double [[Chameleon (G.I. Joe)|Chameleon]] to meet with the Combaticons, allowing her to escape unscathed while Chameleon and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] took the fall. {{storylink|Cobra/Con Fusion}}

==Toys==
{{Note|This character has many other toys that are not connected to ''Transformers''. See the external link to yojoe.com for more information.}}
===''G.I. Joe and the Transformers''===
[[File:SDCC2013RavageBaroness.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Does this thing really have an underwater fireplace?"]]
*'''''The Epic Conclusion!'' box set''' ([[2013]])
**''Accessories:'' three rifles, chain leash

:An [[exclusive]] release for [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2013, this 3.75" scale Baroness figure is a retool of the 2009 "Cobra Set" Baroness with a new head. She is armed with not one but three different rifles, and accompanied by a (non-transforming) [[Ravage (G1)/toys#Baroness|Ravage]] on a leash, in homage to the variant cover of [[Devil's Due Press|Devil's Due]]'s ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]'' [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|issue 3]] (despite the box set otherwise being themed around the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[G.I. Joe and the Transformers (comic)|miniseries]]). Baroness's stock photos depict her with a... waist cape thingy originally included with [https://www.yojoe.com/action/10/baroness16.shtml ''Resolute'' Baroness], but this was omitted from the final toy.

:Baroness and Ravage come as part of a massive box set, which includes a retooled [[Skystriker (vehicle)|Sky Striker]] as [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Jetfire]], a G.I. Joe [[VAMP]] redecoed into [[Hound (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Hound]], a new [[Snake-Eyes#G.I. Joe and the Transformers 2|Snake-Eyes]] figure bearing an Autobot symbol, a [[Bludgeon (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Bludgeon]] figure, and an [[Blaster (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Autobot Blaster]] boombox accessory with cassette pieces representing [[Steeljaw (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Steeljaw]], [[Ramhorn (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Ramhorn]], and [[Eject (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Eject]].

:The box set was announced via a ''USA Today'' [http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/life/2013/06/05/hasbro-2013-comic-con-exclusives/2392295/ article] on June 5, 2013, along with Hasbro's other Comic-Con exclusives.

::*''[https://www.yojoe.com/action/13/baroness17.shtml More information on Baroness (v13) at YoJoe.com]''
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===''Collaborative''===
[[File:Collaborative toy HISS tank Baroness.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Some people get fast cars for a midlife crisis, she gets a tank.]]
*'''Megatron H.I.S.S. Tank and Baroness''' ([[2022]])
**''Accessories:'' Rifle, backpack, battle stand
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Mario Carreiro]] (packaging)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfy3IcQd3g4 The Hasbro ''Transformers'' Panel] at [[San Diego Comic-Con#2024|San Diego Comic-Con 2024]] with [[Mario Carreiro]], [[John Warden]], [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Nate Purswell]], recorded at the "Memo's Collection" YouTube channel.</ref>}}

:Part of the tenth release in the ''[[Transformers Collaborative]]'' line, this 3.75" Baroness figure comes in a set with a properly scaled "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Collaborative|Megatron H.I.S.S. Tank]]" – yes, after many [[Unproduced G.I. Joe Transformer|false]] [[G.I. Joe and the Transformers (toyline)|starts]], those madlads at Hasbro have finally produced a ''G.I. Joe'' Transformer.

:Baroness herself is a newly recreated replica of her [https://www.yojoe.com/action/84/baroness.shtml original 1984 toy], part of the concurrent ''G.I. Joe Retro Collection'' and its "O-Ring" subline. She comes packaged on her own ''Retro Collection'' card inside the main ''Collaborative'' box to the glee of ''Joe'' collectors. She comes with faithful recreations of her original rifle and backpack along with a new battle stand, and can ride inside Megatron's H.I.S.S. cockpit in vehicle mode or man his turret in both modes.
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==Merchandise==
===First 4 Figures===
[[File:Gijoebaronessravagestatue.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Sure, people who walk cats are weird, but YOU try telling her that.]]
*'''Baroness and Ravage''' (<s>2006</s> <s>2007</s> <s>2008</s> unreleased)
:Initially announced at UK Toy Fair in 2006<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2006/01/25/first4figures-beast-wars-and-transformers-vs-g-i-joe-statuesbusts-4267 "First4Figures Beast Wars and Transformers VS. G.I. Joe Statues/Busts"] at TFW2005.com</ref> with a second showing at New York [[Toy Fair]] the following month,<ref>[https://tformers.com/transformers-/5568/news.html "Toy Fair 2006 - First4Figures TF & GI Joe Statues& Busts"] at tformers.com</ref> the "Baroness and Ravage" statue was intended to be one of the first releases in [[First 4 Figures]]' ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]'' comic tie-in subline. The statue, depicting the Baroness with [[Ravage (G1)/toys#F4F1|Ravage]] on a chain leash, was inspired by the [[:File:GI Joe vs Transformers 3c.jpg|Convention Edition cover]] of [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|issue 3]] of the comic, as originally drawn by [[Mike Norton]]. At one stage, the set was to be limited to 1,500 pieces.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060627114922/http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/PROD/3-/922981/GI_Joe_vs_Transformers_Baroness_And_Ravage/Product.html Baroness and Ravage listing on Play.com] (archived)</ref>

:The "Baroness and Ravage" set faced a three-year period of progressive delays; even as the other First 4 Figure ''Transformers'' statues were quietly cancelled due to a challenging marketplace and lack of retailer interest, the "Baroness and Ravage" set was still a possible release as late as mid 2008.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2008/08/28/first4figures-ravage-baroness-statue-still-possible-other-f4f-transformers-items-cancelled-165672 "First4Figures Ravage & Baroness Statue Still Possible, Other F4F Transformers Items Cancelled"] at TFW2005.com</ref> It was eventually confirmed cancelled in early 2009<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110228050028/http://www.theterrordrome.com/2009/03/first-4-figures-baroness-ravage-statue-canceled/ "First-4-Figures Baroness & Ravage Statue Canceled"] at theterrordrome.com (archived)</ref>—which is sad, since ''it's awesome''.

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===Kidrobot===
[[File:Kidrobot GIJoe Enamel Pin Series.jpg|thumb|250px]]
====Enamel Pin Series====
*'''Baroness''' ([[November 3]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 20
:Released by [[Kidrobot]] in their Enamel Pin Series, this is a flat, enamel pin badge of Baroness inspired by the art of [[Tom Scioli]]'s ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'', albeit with [[Super deformed|cutesy proportions]]... and despite the fact that the Baroness only appears in the comic's [[The Golden Boys|zeroth issue]]. The pin series was [[Blindpacking|blindboxed]], with some pins being rarer than others.
{{anchor|serpintress}}
*'''Serpentress''' ([[November 3]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 40
:And speaking of which, a twice-as-rare pin was available, depicting the Baroness in her new Serpentress identity first seen in "[[I Saw Three Ships]]".
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====Vinyl Mini Series====
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Baroness mini.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Baroness''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 24
:The Scioli design was also used for the Vinyl Mini Series, with her receiving a three-inch tall, blindboxed figurine retaining the vibrant colours and exaggerated proportions. Baroness featured articulation in each shoulder, and her visor was rendered with translucent plastic layered over her face's paint applications.
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{{anchor|minipentress}}
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Serpentress mini.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Serpentress''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 96
:*''Accessories'': Staff
:One of the [[chase figure]]s of the series, this is a similar mold depicting the Baroness as Serpentress, complete with a massive cape and a snake-headed staff accessory.
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====Vinyl Keychain Series====
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Baroness keychain.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Baroness''' ([[December 1]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 2 in 24
:Baroness was also released as part of the once again blindboxed Vinyl Keychain Series, now standing at about one to two inches. She included a keychain molded into her head and, due to her small scale, did not feature any articulation. Her visor is now a detail painted directly onto her face.
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==Notes==
*Baroness has been voiced by Transformers alumni [[Morgan Lofting]] and [[Grey Griffin]].

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

==External links==
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/84/baroness.shtml Baroness at yojoe.com]

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