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Soviet Union

2022-01-19T14:25:41Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Shattered Glass */

{{faction|☭}}
{{picsneeded}}
:''In Soviet Union, continuity notes you.''
[[File:WoW Rumble and Soviet flag.jpg|thumb|300px|Rumble is Gloriously [[FIRRIB|Red]]!]]
The '''Soviet Union''' is a nation-state on the planet [[Earth]]. It is considered to be one of the world's two "superpowers", along with its rival, the [[United States of America]]. Its capital city is [[Moscow]], home of the [[Kremlin]].

{{See also|Russia}}

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
The Soviet Union joined all the other governments of Earth in agreeing to provide the [[Autobot]]s the energy needed to return to their [[Cybertron (planet)|home planet]] and restore it. However, for reasons unknown, this did not come to pass. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

When an [[Daina|experimental Soviet jet]] was captured by the world's greatest trophy hunter, [[Chumley|Lord Chumley]], blame was erroneously placed on the United States. This brought [[Cold War (history)|tensions between the two countries]] to their highest level since the {{w|Cuban Missile Crisis}}. Later, the truth was exposed by the Autobots, the jet returned, and Chumley handed over to the Soviets. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

In [[2006]], during a diplomatic event in which the Autobots were guests, the [[Decepticon]] [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] tried to steal the Kremlin, one of many famous structures from around the world he was collecting and bringing to [[Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya|Carbombya]], as part of a scheme orchestrated by [[Octane]]. [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] arrived in time to thwart the attempt, but wound up caught seemingly red-handed, holding the building and appearing to be the thief himself. This led to the Soviet government authorizing the expulsion of all Autobots from Soviet territory. The truth was later exposed, and the Autobots were welcomed back into the Soviet Union with open arms. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] threatened the Soviet Union and other countries for their energy. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga====
The Soviet Union was attacked along with other countries by [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] with his [[A.O. Laser]] cannon from the top of [[Chomolungma]]. Thinking the world would be under the Decepticons' control, [[Wilder (G1)|Wilder]] suggested taking the land of the Soviet Union as the yard. {{storylink|The Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
During a period of peace between the Autobots and Decepticons, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron's]] close confidant [[Kiloton]] was tricked into journeying to Earth by [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. When he showed up, unannounced, at Moscow, it provoked an armed response that ended with him dead. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 29/7/2015}}

===Live-action film series===
====''Transformers'' film====
The USSR was aware of [[Sector Seven]] and the [[Megatron (Movie)|alien machine]] in their possession: when the entity was transported from [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base]] to [[Hoover Dam]] via Canada in the late 1960s, KGB special forces launched a raid to capture it. They were routed. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
After detecting a [[Ark (DOTM)|crash]] on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], the Soviet Union began the {{w|Space Race}} with the [[United States of America|United States]]. They also took several pictures from the surface of the Moon, which showed the Decepticon activity around the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

===''Shattered Glass''===
In the 1980s, there was a [[World War III|Third World War]] that presumably involved the Soviet Union. In [[2009]], it still remained in existence and was an international rival to the despotic [[United States of America]]. {{storylink|Eye in the Sky}}. And considering that it's SG, it stand to reason that USSR here might actually live to ideals of freedom and prosperity, comrades!

==Notes==
*In the real world, the {{w|Soviet Union}} collapsed in [[1991]], breaking up into {{w|Commonwealth of Independent States|its constituent republics}}. This event was foreseeable to economists when the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|animated series]] was being produced in the mid-1980s, [[tvtropes:Main/TheGreatPoliticsMessUp|but not to cartoon writers]]. Thus the third season of the cartoon, set in the then-future year of 2006, depicted the Soviet Union as still extant. Oh well.
** On the other hand, it actually stand to reason, that with humanity attention rather rudely diverted from the Cold War to the resisting interstellar threats, the pressure on ol'USSR may lessen, and it may be able to pull through the reforms without collapsing.
*[[Escalation issue 3|''Escalation'' #3]] refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway Soviet state", which is corroborated by [[Escalation issue 4|issue #4]]. In addition, the opposing army is repeatedly identified as "Soviets". While on first sight this may seem to imply that the Soviet Union still exists in the present-day setting of ''Escalation'', [[Escalation issue 5|issues #5]] and [[Escalation issue 6|#6]] replace "Soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "Soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.
*When asked what terrible things happened to Earth in the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' continuity, [[Jim Sorenson]] stated that when the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] spread to Earth in the 1980s, the USSR used [[nuclear weapon]]s to drive the Transformers out of Borovia.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3362363 Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2016/10/18]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{w|Soviet Union}} at Wikipedia
*{{i|Soviet Union}} at the IDW Hasbro Wiki
{{GBwiki|Soviet Union}}

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[[Category:European countries]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon locations]]
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Soviet Union

2022-01-19T14:23:29Z

Fonzeppelin:

{{faction|☭}}
{{picsneeded}}
:''In Soviet Union, continuity notes you.''
[[File:WoW Rumble and Soviet flag.jpg|thumb|300px|Rumble is Gloriously [[FIRRIB|Red]]!]]
The '''Soviet Union''' is a nation-state on the planet [[Earth]]. It is considered to be one of the world's two "superpowers", along with its rival, the [[United States of America]]. Its capital city is [[Moscow]], home of the [[Kremlin]].

{{See also|Russia}}

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
The Soviet Union joined all the other governments of Earth in agreeing to provide the [[Autobot]]s the energy needed to return to their [[Cybertron (planet)|home planet]] and restore it. However, for reasons unknown, this did not come to pass. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

When an [[Daina|experimental Soviet jet]] was captured by the world's greatest trophy hunter, [[Chumley|Lord Chumley]], blame was erroneously placed on the United States. This brought [[Cold War (history)|tensions between the two countries]] to their highest level since the {{w|Cuban Missile Crisis}}. Later, the truth was exposed by the Autobots, the jet returned, and Chumley handed over to the Soviets. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

In [[2006]], during a diplomatic event in which the Autobots were guests, the [[Decepticon]] [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] tried to steal the Kremlin, one of many famous structures from around the world he was collecting and bringing to [[Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya|Carbombya]], as part of a scheme orchestrated by [[Octane]]. [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] arrived in time to thwart the attempt, but wound up caught seemingly red-handed, holding the building and appearing to be the thief himself. This led to the Soviet government authorizing the expulsion of all Autobots from Soviet territory. The truth was later exposed, and the Autobots were welcomed back into the Soviet Union with open arms. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] threatened the Soviet Union and other countries for their energy. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga====
The Soviet Union was attacked along with other countries by [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] with his [[A.O. Laser]] cannon from the top of [[Chomolungma]]. Thinking the world would be under the Decepticons' control, [[Wilder (G1)|Wilder]] suggested taking the land of the Soviet Union as the yard. {{storylink|The Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
During a period of peace between the Autobots and Decepticons, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron's]] close confidant [[Kiloton]] was tricked into journeying to Earth by [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. When he showed up, unannounced, at Moscow, it provoked an armed response that ended with him dead. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 29/7/2015}}

===Live-action film series===
====''Transformers'' film====
The USSR was aware of [[Sector Seven]] and the [[Megatron (Movie)|alien machine]] in their possession: when the entity was transported from [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base]] to [[Hoover Dam]] via Canada in the late 1960s, KGB special forces launched a raid to capture it. They were routed. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
After detecting a [[Ark (DOTM)|crash]] on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], the Soviet Union began the {{w|Space Race}} with the [[United States of America|United States]]. They also took several pictures from the surface of the Moon, which showed the Decepticon activity around the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

===''Shattered Glass''===
In the 1980s, there was a [[World War III|Third World War]] that presumably involved the Soviet Union. In [[2009]], it still remained in existence and was an international rival to the despotic [[United States of America]]. {{storylink|Eye in the Sky}}

==Notes==
*In the real world, the {{w|Soviet Union}} collapsed in [[1991]], breaking up into {{w|Commonwealth of Independent States|its constituent republics}}. This event was foreseeable to economists when the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|animated series]] was being produced in the mid-1980s, [[tvtropes:Main/TheGreatPoliticsMessUp|but not to cartoon writers]]. Thus the third season of the cartoon, set in the then-future year of 2006, depicted the Soviet Union as still extant. Oh well.
** On the other hand, it actually stand to reason, that with humanity attention rather rudely diverted from the Cold War to the resisting interstellar threats, the pressure on ol'USSR may lessen, and it may be able to pull through the reforms without collapsing.
*[[Escalation issue 3|''Escalation'' #3]] refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway Soviet state", which is corroborated by [[Escalation issue 4|issue #4]]. In addition, the opposing army is repeatedly identified as "Soviets". While on first sight this may seem to imply that the Soviet Union still exists in the present-day setting of ''Escalation'', [[Escalation issue 5|issues #5]] and [[Escalation issue 6|#6]] replace "Soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "Soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.
*When asked what terrible things happened to Earth in the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' continuity, [[Jim Sorenson]] stated that when the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] spread to Earth in the 1980s, the USSR used [[nuclear weapon]]s to drive the Transformers out of Borovia.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3362363 Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2016/10/18]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{w|Soviet Union}} at Wikipedia
*{{i|Soviet Union}} at the IDW Hasbro Wiki
{{GBwiki|Soviet Union}}

[[Category:Dark of the Moon locations]]
[[Category:European countries]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon locations]]
[[Category:Generation 1 countries]]
[[Category:Generation 2 locations]]
[[Category:Movie locations]]
[[Category:Real-world locations]]
[[Category:Shattered Glass locations]]
[[Category:Super-God Masterforce locations]]
[[Category:The Headmasters locations]]

USS Cyclops

2019-06-15T15:10:44Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Titan Revenge of the Fallen comics */

[[File:Titan15 Soundwaveghostship.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8|]]

'''USS ''Cyclops''''' is a collier in the [[United States Navy]] which was lost at sea in [[1918]].

==Fiction==
===Titan ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===
When [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] was sent to [[Earth]] after [[Operation: Firestorm]], he flew through the [[Bermuda Triangle]] and was attacked by USS ''Cyclops'', who mistakenly thought Soundwave as a [[Germany|German]] aircraft. He was later attacked by [[USS Nereus|USS ''Nereus'']] and [[Flight 19]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|Making Waves}}

==== Notes ====
* The ship in comics doesn't looks even remotely like the real USS "Cyclops", and more like "Wickes"/"Clemson" class destroyer.

==External links==
*{{w|USS Cyclops (AC-4)|USS ''Cyclops''}} at Wikipedia

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[[Category:United States military]]
[[Category:Watercraft|Cyclops]]

USS Miskatonic

2019-06-15T15:07:23Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Notes */

:''The USS ''Miskatonic'' is a ship from the [[Hearts of Steel]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Infestation2 USSMiskatonic.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.95]]

The '''USS ''Miskatonic''''' is a ''Kansas''-class battleship serving in the [[United States Navy]] in the year [[1888]].

==Fiction==
===''Hearts of Steel''===
The ''Miskatonic'' was traveling to [[Ireland]] when it was suddenly attacked by an [[Elder God]] rising from beneath the waves. The [[Autobot]] [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], who was disguised as one of the ship's gun turrets, managed to escape before it was ripped to shreds and sunk by the monster's tentacles. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1|Infestation 2: The Transformers #1}} Some of the crew got on a lifeboat, but had died of fear by the time they were found by the [[HMS Indomitable|HMS ''Indomitable'']]. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 2|Infestation 2: The Transformers #2}}
{{IDW HOS}}

==Notes==
*The ''Miskatonic'' is named after {{w|Miskatonic University}}, a recurring setting from the {{w|Cthulhu Mythos}}.
*The ship itself looks actually like "Olympia"-class protected cruiser. Her name also doesn't suit USN battleship's naming conventions.

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To Infinity... And Back

2016-12-04T20:42:14Z

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 101
|prev=A Brush with Danger
|next=Family Business
|image=InfinityAndBack sunlight.jpg
|title="To Infinity... And Back"
|airdate=[[October 8]], [[2016]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[DHX Media]] [[Top Draw Animation]]
|writer=[[Zac Atkinson (writer)|Zac Atkinson]]
|director=[[Kevin Altieri]]
}}

'''When Dani's out-of-this-world test flight doesn't go according to plan, the Rescue Team strives to ensure she makes it back home.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:InfinityAndBack upsidedown copter.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
[[Cody Burns|Cody]] finds [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] reading loudly while a [[Maven Danger]] movie blares on [[television|TV]]. As it turns out, [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] has requested the noise to distract him from worrying about the test flight [[Dani Burns|Dani]] is going on, because she's flying another helicopter. Dani's test flight meanwhile runs into trouble, and she's forced to broadcast a distress as the helicopter starts belching smoke. [[Charlie Burns|Chief]] picks up the mayday, and the rescue team is scrambled. As the helicopter is over water, only Heatwave and Blades can reach it, however as they do the copter abruptly nose-dives as the gears jam. Blades recalls a similar thing happening to him, which gives Dani the idea of putting the helicopter into reverse, and she flies it upside down towards [[Griffin Rock]]. Just short of the docks, she cuts the engine to stop the rotors, and [[Boulder]] and Chase catch the errant copter.

Safely back at the firehouse, Blades asks why Dani keeps going on test missions when they seem to be unsafe. Dani announces that tomorrow is her hundredth mission, and she'll be piloting a solar-sail spaceship, ''[[Echinoderm One]]'', in low-Earth orbit. Blades and Cody ask what happens when the ship's behind the planet from the sun, and Dani explains it has an experimental laser on board which will provide thrust by shooting light energy into the sail.

[[File:InfinityAndBack echindoderm 1 sails.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Orgalorg?]]
The next day on the mainland, Dani reveals that if she does a good job on this mission, she's going to be eligible to become a full-time pilot. Blades is upset she won't be around as much, but his lament is cut short when Dani's ride turns up. They return to Griffin Rock where Blades starts work on a giant sign Dani will be able to see from space. Heatwave is puzzled by the fact the paint is the same color as the paper he's using. Meanwhile Dani's spaceship launches, rocketing into orbit before discarding its boosters.

[[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] arrives at the firehouse with her telescope, and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] taps into Dani's radio transmissions back to base in time to overhear her deploying the solar sails. As the ship passes into the Earth's shadow, Dani deploys the laser which gives the ship a burst of speed, though as she notes, the ship's going faster than expected. As Heatwave notes that the glow paint Blades used on his sign is showing up perfectly, Dani's ship passes overhead. Unfortunately at that point the ship encounters a storm of debris from an old wrecked satellite that shreds the ship's sails as well as knocking out her maneuvering jets. Ground control reports that she's heading away from Earth, and the rescue team takes that as their cue to get involved. Leaving Graham and Frankie on Earth, the rest of the team blasts off in the ''[[Sigma]]'' having contacted [[Quickshadow]] to organize keeping Ground Control in the dark.

[[File:InfinityAndBack sail damage.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
They contact Dani, but she discovers she's unable to turn the laser off manually, and has to pull a power line to stop it. The ''Sigma'' will take some time to catch up, giving Blades time to complain about Dani taking another job, though she doesn't believe she'll be able to become a full-time test pilot after the disaster the current mission has turned into. Graham and Frankie notice Dani's about to leave Earth's shadow, which will boost her speed and though she tries to retract the solar sail, it's jammed. She's forced to go for a brief space walk and manually detach the sail, however a new problem becomes apparent — the ship is heading directly towards the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]].

[[File:InfinityAndBack multi-stage rescue.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
The team on the ''Sigma'' go to full power, but don't have enough speed to catch up in time. Frankie and Graham come up with the idea of slingshotting around the Moon. Cody recalls they have jet-packs on board the ship, and though one alone isn't enough to reach Dani in time, Heatwave, Chase and Blades use three of them, with Heatwave and Chase acting as "stages" to boost Blades far enough that he's able to reach Dani's ship. On Frankie's direction, he fires off a burst on his left thruster, sending the ship into a slingshot trajectory. The pair pass behind the Moon and while they're in radio silence, Blades says he's OK with her taking the test pilot job. They eventually pass back into the sunlight, and Heatwave and Chase use grappling hooks to secure the ship to the ''Sigma''. Back on the ground, Dani contacts Ground Control and lets them know everything is fine.

Sometime later, Dani reveals she's not taking the full-time job, as she realized she prefers being part of the rescue team, and sits down to watch ''[[Cupcake Hoarders]]'' with Blades and Cody.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (1)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (3)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (6)
*[[Boulder]] (7)

|c3=
*[[Cody Burns]] (2)
*[[Dani Burns]] (4)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (5)
*[[Kade Burns]] (8)
*[[Graham Burns]] (9)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (10)

}}

==Quotes==
"Ugh, do we have to park that thing at the firehouse?"
:—'''Blades''' is not a fan of Dani's new helicopter.

"I hate waiting! Waiting for people to come back, waiting to see if they're gonna take a new job." 
"New job? Blades, was your application as a mobile karaoke unit finally approved?"
:—'''Blades''' and '''Chase'''

'''Heatwave:''' Guess that means you'll need to find a new partner. 
'''Kade:''' I got you covered, Bladesey. I can handle Heatwave and you. 
'''Blades:''' I'd rather partner with Mister Pettypaws.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* The idea of laser sail is presented completely wrong. There is no possible way that laser, placed ONBOARD spaceship could move it forward by reflecting the beam from the mirror - the thrusts from beam emitted and from beam reflected would cancel each other. The idea of laser sail is that large stationary laser - placed on planetary surface or space platform - could be used to propel separate spacecraft by emitting the beam toward its sails[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion#Laser_Pushed_Sails].

===Continuity errors===
===Continuity notes===
===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
*The episode's title is a play on the ''Toy Story'' character [[Buzz Lightyear]]'s catchphrase "To Infinity and Beyond".

===Trivia===
*This episode went up on iTunes on [[September 24]], [[2016]], two weeks ahead of its scheduled TV broadcast.
*At one point Dani states that she had made 100 missions as a test pilot. The episode may have been written under the assumption that it was going to be the 100th episode of ''Rescue Bots'', as it was uploaded to iTunes ahead of "[[A Brush with Danger]]", which ended up being the 100th episode broadcast in the United States.

===Foreign localization===

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Darkness Rising, Part 5

2016-04-09T16:09:52Z

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 5
|prev=Darkness Rising, Part 4
|next=Masters & Students
|image=DarknessRising5-OptimusStand.jpg
|caption=Spoilers: the good guys win.
|title="Darkness Rising, Part 5"
|airdate=[[December 3]], [[2010]]
|written by=[[Joseph Kuhr]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
}}
'''The Autobots race to stop Megatron from raising an undead army on Cybertron.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:DarknessRising5-ohgeez.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"I can haz all the cheezeburgers i want and there's nothing you can do about it!!"]]
[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] imagines in dread what will happen if [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] uses the [[Dark Energon]] to raise an army of [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and brings them to conquer [[Earth]].

[[Jack Darby|Jack]] arrives at [[KO Burger]] and encounters [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], who muses that her recent loss of a [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|friend]] makes it hard for her to say goodbye to him. The Autobots have pinpointed Megatron's [[space bridge]] in Earth orbit and must use the [[GroundBridge]] to reach it, despite the risks this poses. Arcee and Jack arrive back in time for Arcee to join the mission, and Optimus leads the team (minus [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]) through the bridge. They land on the space bridge terminal and look up to see the [[Trypticon (WFC)|Decepticon ship]] moving into position. Megatron observes their presence, but [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] says that [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] is locking on to Cybertron's coordinates.

As the Autobots assume attack positions, Arcee notes that the Decepticons haven't done anything. Optimus scans the ship, and learns that Bulkhead damaged its interstellar navigation dish during [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]]'s rescue. Since a target as far as Cybertron needs pinpoint accuracy, the Decepticons will be unable to use it to aim the space bridge without an alternate targeting system. Raf reasons that the Decepticons may be using the [[Giant Sized Array]] radio telescope in [[Texas]], but Fowler is still too out of it to alert the array staff to the danger. [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] attempts to hack in, but the array's firewalls are too good. Jack thinks they should go on site, and they talk Optimus into letting them do it.

Meanwhile, Megatron sends out the Decepticon forces to attack the Autobots. Battle commences.

[[Image:DarknessRising5-RafSoundwave.jpg|thumb|200px|"Um... s-sir you have the wrong guy. I'm not Spider-Man".]]

The kids GroundBridge to the array and sneak in. In a small, unused room, Raf finds a computer and determines that the Decepticons have also hacked in, but takes the opportunity to download their space bridge plans onto his flash drive. Little do the kids know that [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] is in the very next room, plugged into the computer system as well. He aligns the array, which sets the space bridge ready to use, but Raf promptly realigns it. Responding to Starscream's requests to know what's going on, Soundwave taps into the installation's security systems and locates the three kids. While the kids are discussing what the Decepticons could do, Soundwave's tentacle slithers into the room behind them and attacks. As it goes after Raf, [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] grabs an axe and strikes at it. She hits the tentacle with a clang, but the tentacle then strikes her backward before picking up the axe itself. Though the kids believe it's about to attack them with the weapon, the tentacle withdraws. The kids run to the next room, where they found Soundwave has realigned the dishes and used the axe to cut the hard line, making it impossible to undo his work. Miko then takes a [[Miko's phone|cell phone]] photo of Soundwave. Before Soundwave leaves, he takes a photo of them.

Starscream activates the space bridge, and Megatron physically throws a huge chunk of Dark Energon through. The Dark Energon strikes Cybertron, swiftly covering the planet and turning millions of dead Transformers into millions of Terrorcons. Optimus realizes that the only course of action left to them is to destroy the space bridge. Raf supplies the specs he downloaded earlier, and Ratchet sets about working out a way to do so with Raf's help. As Optimus faces Megatron, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee go to implement some sabotage.

[[Image:DarknessRising5-Megatronsword.jpg|left|thumb|200px|He can do the ''ultimate'' bird flip.]]

Megatron manages to defeat Prime, but as he raises his sword, Starscream alerts him to the actions of the other Autobots. Optimus takes advantage of the momentary distraction to block Megatron's killing blow, and blast him away, but the Decepticon leader transforms and flies off to find Prime's team. Arcee's team has succeeded in rigging the space bridge to blow when Megatron attacks and blasts her off into space. The Autobots jump into the GroundBridge, Bumblebee collecting Arcee on the way. Seeing the potential damage the exploding space bridge would cause Starscream decides to pull the ship back, imploring Megatron to do the same. Overcome with regret over the loss of his army of Terrorcons as they begin to come through, the space bridge explodes in Megatron's face.

A short distance away in the ship, Starscream notes that Megatron's spark is now extinguished and all will hail him.
The Autobots make it back to their base. Though Arcee's in bad shape, she makes it out alright. Optimus announces that there's totally no way Megatron could have survived the space bridge explosion. Fowler thanks the Autobots for saving him, then leaves. Optimus gives a big speech and sends a signal into space to let the galaxy know that Earth is defended by the Autobots.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
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* [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (2)
* [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (3)
* [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (4)
* [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
* [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (6)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (9)
* [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (10)
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (11)
* [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (13)

|c3=
* [[Jack Darby]] (1)
* [[Miko Nakadai]] (7)
* [[Raf Esquivel]] (8)
* [[William Fowler]] (12)

|c4=
* [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]] (14)

}}

==Quotes==
"Optimus, if you leave me stranded on a planet teeming with humans, I will never forgive you."
:—'''Ratchet'''

"Optimus Prime never disappoints. Unlike YOU, Starscream!"
:—'''Megatron''', burning a disappointing '''Starscream'''

"Surely, Lord Megatron, the Autobots are up to something." 
"Really, Starscream?"
:—'''Starscream''' observes the Autobots and '''Megatron''' lays on the sarcasm.

"I hold no illusions about engaging your army, Megatron. But I might derail its objective... [[Decapitation|by removing its head.]]"
:—'''Optimus Prime's''' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|solution to most problems]].

"One shall stand, one shall fall." 
:—'''Optimus Prime''' brings an old line back into style.

"Ah... misdirection, Optimus. You would have made a fine Decepticon!" 
''(Megatron brings his sword down, but Optimus blocks it)'' 
"I ''chose'' my side."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' carry on an old disagreement.

"Starscream! Where is my ship?!" 
"We would never make it, Lord Megatron! Don't be a fool! Take flight and ''retreat''!"
:—Showing remarkable amounts of common sense, '''Starscream''' urgently yet fruitlessly tries to get '''Megatron''' to flee the detonating space bridge.

"Decepticons, it is with deep sorrow that I note for the log... Megatron's spark... has been extinguished. All. Hail. Starscream."
:—'''Starscream''' praises himself as leader.

"Without a means of leaving this world, we Autobots take strength in the bonds we have forged with our three young friends - true warriors. If not in body, then in spirit. My name is Optimus Prime, and I send this message. Though we did not choose to be of Earth, it would seem that we are here to stay. If you approach this planet with hostile intent, know this: We will defend ourselves. We will defend humanity. We will defend... our home."
:—'''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Animation or technical errors===
*Bulkhead appears to be greener than usual whilst he and Bumblebee are on the look out as Arcee follows Ratchet's instructions.

===Continuity errors===
* The Terrorcons are able to leave Cybertron and pass through the space bridge despite the fact that it's in space. Even accounting for the fact that Decepticon corpses might have flight capabilities, it seems unlikely that every Terrorcon would.
* Despite Megatron being able to ''cut off half of Prime's blade'' earlier in their battle, when Optimus resisted, the other blade was nearly as resistant as Megatron's own blade.
* The idea of using the GroundBridge to reach space-based object is unworkable: the difference of relative velocites between the Autobots (who are transported from Earth, i.e. they have the same velocity and direction as the Earth surface) and orbital object (SpaceBridge) would be too great.

===Transformers references===
* There are two references which are directly related to [[The Transformers: The Movie|the 1986 animated movie]]. First Ratchet says, "Then by all means, let us light our [[darkest hour]]." Later, Optimus exchanges with Megatron: "One shall stand, one shall fall."
* Optimus's Energon blade and Megatron's hidden fusion cannon blade are references to [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|their movie]] [[Megatron (Movie)|counterparts]].
* Optimus's speech at the end is similar to the ones Movie Optimus gives at the end of the three movies.

===Real-world references===
[[Image:DarknessRising5-Michelangelo.jpg|thumb|250px|Or it could be another [[Steven Spielberg|Spielberg]] reference.]]
* Miko tries to use an axe on [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]'s tentacle, which is the same tactic Tom Cruise's character tries on the Tripod tentacle in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''War of the Worlds''. Of course, both attempts fail.
* Miko refers to space as "the final frontier". "Space. The final frontier" is the first line of the opening credits of several ''[[Star Trek]]'' TV shows. ''Prime'' show developers [[Alex Kurtzman]] and [[Roberto Orci]] are also the screenwriters of the current ''Star Trek'' movies.
* Megatron, when he rises out of the Decepticon ship with the boulder of Dark Energon on his back, is clearly meant to evoke the classic [[Wikipedia:Atlas|Atlas]] pose.
* The shot of Megatron reaching out to a Terrorcon before the space bridge implosion is reminiscent of [[Wikipedia:Michelangelo|Michelangelo]]'s ''[[Wikipedia:The Creation of Adam|The Creation of Adam]]''.

===Trivia===
* Winged versions of the Vehicons make their appearance here.
* The Decepticons are unable to simply warp to Cybertron thanks to Bulkhead ripping off a vital piece of equipment in the previous episode.
* When the kids arrive at the radio array, they note that the place seems deserted. A brief shadowy glimpse of a human slumped against the wall suggests that, like [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], Soundwave isn't keen on leaving survivors or witnesses.
* When Starscream tries to convince Megatron to retreat, there is a surprising tone of concern in his voice. Either that, or he's a much better actor than certain other [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscreams]]. More probably the latter, as he is clearly seen grinning moments before while telling Megatron that the ''Nemesis'' would never make it to the space bridge.
* A short video showing a rehearsal or an earlier take of the confrontation between Optimus Prime and Megatron was screened at both [[BotCon 2010]] and [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2010.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvW4nsr3ZDo#t=2m53s "Transformers: Prime" panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2010]</ref> The dialogue was somewhat different, with Optimus referring to a battle on [[Mila Nellus]] when ordering the Autobots away, and lacking the "One shall stand, one shall fall" exchange. Instead, it had Megatron shouting Optimus's name in a rather exaggerated manner.
*The space battle was an idea [[Roberto Orci]] and [[Alex Kurtzman]] had for the [[live-action film series]] but couldn't incorporate.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Pb3MeUDdY Roundtable interview with ''Prime'' staff at BotCon 2011]</ref>
*Adaptations of this episode include a prose version as part of ''[[Megatron Returns]]'' and a screen-capture-style comic as part of ''[[Transformers Prime: Darkness Falls|Darkness Falls]]''.

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die dunkle Macht erhebt sicht, Teil 5'''" (The Dark Force Rises, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 21|21 October]] [[2011]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Közeleg a sötétség, 5. rész'''" ("The Darkness Is Nearing, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[January 13|13 January]] [[2012]]

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Kegelapan Bangkit, Bagian 5'''" ("Darkness Rising, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' 7 September [[2012]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La rimonta delle tenebre, quinta parte'''" ("Darkness Rising, Fifth Part")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 1|1 October]] [[2011]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' '''Bakuretsu Henkei! Spacebridge Kōbōsen''' (爆裂変形!スペースブリッジ攻防戦, ''Explosive Transformation! Spacebridge Battle'')
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 5]], [[2012]]

'''Korean'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ak ui Buhwal 5'''" (악의 부활 5, "Return of the Evil, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 12|12 September]] [[2011]]

'''Polish'''
:*''Title:'' ?
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 9|9 December]] [[2011]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' ?
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 7|7 November]] [[2011]]

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''El regreso del mal, Parte 5'''" ("The Return of Evil, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 7|7 November]] [[2011]]

==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Darkness Rising, Part 5

2016-04-09T16:09:16Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 5
|prev=Darkness Rising, Part 4
|next=Masters & Students
|image=DarknessRising5-OptimusStand.jpg
|caption=Spoilers: the good guys win.
|title="Darkness Rising, Part 5"
|airdate=[[December 3]], [[2010]]
|written by=[[Joseph Kuhr]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
}}
'''The Autobots race to stop Megatron from raising an undead army on Cybertron.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:DarknessRising5-ohgeez.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"I can haz all the cheezeburgers i want and there's nothing you can do about it!!"]]
[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] imagines in dread what will happen if [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] uses the [[Dark Energon]] to raise an army of [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and brings them to conquer [[Earth]].

[[Jack Darby|Jack]] arrives at [[KO Burger]] and encounters [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], who muses that her recent loss of a [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|friend]] makes it hard for her to say goodbye to him. The Autobots have pinpointed Megatron's [[space bridge]] in Earth orbit and must use the [[GroundBridge]] to reach it, despite the risks this poses. Arcee and Jack arrive back in time for Arcee to join the mission, and Optimus leads the team (minus [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]) through the bridge. They land on the space bridge terminal and look up to see the [[Trypticon (WFC)|Decepticon ship]] moving into position. Megatron observes their presence, but [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] says that [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] is locking on to Cybertron's coordinates.

As the Autobots assume attack positions, Arcee notes that the Decepticons haven't done anything. Optimus scans the ship, and learns that Bulkhead damaged its interstellar navigation dish during [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]]'s rescue. Since a target as far as Cybertron needs pinpoint accuracy, the Decepticons will be unable to use it to aim the space bridge without an alternate targeting system. Raf reasons that the Decepticons may be using the [[Giant Sized Array]] radio telescope in [[Texas]], but Fowler is still too out of it to alert the array staff to the danger. [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] attempts to hack in, but the array's firewalls are too good. Jack thinks they should go on site, and they talk Optimus into letting them do it.

Meanwhile, Megatron sends out the Decepticon forces to attack the Autobots. Battle commences.

[[Image:DarknessRising5-RafSoundwave.jpg|thumb|200px|"Um... s-sir you have the wrong guy. I'm not Spider-Man".]]

The kids GroundBridge to the array and sneak in. In a small, unused room, Raf finds a computer and determines that the Decepticons have also hacked in, but takes the opportunity to download their space bridge plans onto his flash drive. Little do the kids know that [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] is in the very next room, plugged into the computer system as well. He aligns the array, which sets the space bridge ready to use, but Raf promptly realigns it. Responding to Starscream's requests to know what's going on, Soundwave taps into the installation's security systems and locates the three kids. While the kids are discussing what the Decepticons could do, Soundwave's tentacle slithers into the room behind them and attacks. As it goes after Raf, [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] grabs an axe and strikes at it. She hits the tentacle with a clang, but the tentacle then strikes her backward before picking up the axe itself. Though the kids believe it's about to attack them with the weapon, the tentacle withdraws. The kids run to the next room, where they found Soundwave has realigned the dishes and used the axe to cut the hard line, making it impossible to undo his work. Miko then takes a [[Miko's phone|cell phone]] photo of Soundwave. Before Soundwave leaves, he takes a photo of them.

Starscream activates the space bridge, and Megatron physically throws a huge chunk of Dark Energon through. The Dark Energon strikes Cybertron, swiftly covering the planet and turning millions of dead Transformers into millions of Terrorcons. Optimus realizes that the only course of action left to them is to destroy the space bridge. Raf supplies the specs he downloaded earlier, and Ratchet sets about working out a way to do so with Raf's help. As Optimus faces Megatron, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee go to implement some sabotage.

[[Image:DarknessRising5-Megatronsword.jpg|left|thumb|200px|He can do the ''ultimate'' bird flip.]]

Megatron manages to defeat Prime, but as he raises his sword, Starscream alerts him to the actions of the other Autobots. Optimus takes advantage of the momentary distraction to block Megatron's killing blow, and blast him away, but the Decepticon leader transforms and flies off to find Prime's team. Arcee's team has succeeded in rigging the space bridge to blow when Megatron attacks and blasts her off into space. The Autobots jump into the GroundBridge, Bumblebee collecting Arcee on the way. Seeing the potential damage the exploding space bridge would cause Starscream decides to pull the ship back, imploring Megatron to do the same. Overcome with regret over the loss of his army of Terrorcons as they begin to come through, the space bridge explodes in Megatron's face.

A short distance away in the ship, Starscream notes that Megatron's spark is now extinguished and all will hail him.
The Autobots make it back to their base. Though Arcee's in bad shape, she makes it out alright. Optimus announces that there's totally no way Megatron could have survived the space bridge explosion. Fowler thanks the Autobots for saving him, then leaves. Optimus gives a big speech and sends a signal into space to let the galaxy know that Earth is defended by the Autobots.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (2)
* [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (3)
* [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (4)
* [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
* [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (6)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (9)
* [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (10)
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (11)
* [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (13)

|c3=
* [[Jack Darby]] (1)
* [[Miko Nakadai]] (7)
* [[Raf Esquivel]] (8)
* [[William Fowler]] (12)

|c4=
* [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]] (14)

}}

==Quotes==
"Optimus, if you leave me stranded on a planet teeming with humans, I will never forgive you."
:—'''Ratchet'''

"Optimus Prime never disappoints. Unlike YOU, Starscream!"
:—'''Megatron''', burning a disappointing '''Starscream'''

"Surely, Lord Megatron, the Autobots are up to something." 
"Really, Starscream?"
:—'''Starscream''' observes the Autobots and '''Megatron''' lays on the sarcasm.

"I hold no illusions about engaging your army, Megatron. But I might derail its objective... [[Decapitation|by removing its head.]]"
:—'''Optimus Prime's''' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|solution to most problems]].

"One shall stand, one shall fall." 
:—'''Optimus Prime''' brings an old line back into style.

"Ah... misdirection, Optimus. You would have made a fine Decepticon!" 
''(Megatron brings his sword down, but Optimus blocks it)'' 
"I ''chose'' my side."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' carry on an old disagreement.

"Starscream! Where is my ship?!" 
"We would never make it, Lord Megatron! Don't be a fool! Take flight and ''retreat''!"
:—Showing remarkable amounts of common sense, '''Starscream''' urgently yet fruitlessly tries to get '''Megatron''' to flee the detonating space bridge.

"Decepticons, it is with deep sorrow that I note for the log... Megatron's spark... has been extinguished. All. Hail. Starscream."
:—'''Starscream''' praises himself as leader.

"Without a means of leaving this world, we Autobots take strength in the bonds we have forged with our three young friends - true warriors. If not in body, then in spirit. My name is Optimus Prime, and I send this message. Though we did not choose to be of Earth, it would seem that we are here to stay. If you approach this planet with hostile intent, know this: We will defend ourselves. We will defend humanity. We will defend... our home."
:—'''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Animation or technical errors===
*Bulkhead appears to be greener than usual whilst he and Bumblebee are on the look out as Arcee follows Ratchet's instructions.

===Continuity errors===
* The Terrorcons are able to leave Cybertron and pass through the space bridge despite the fact that it's in space. Even accounting for the fact that Decepticon corpses might have flight capabilities, it seems unlikely that every Terrorcon would.
* Despite Megatron being able to ''cut off half of Prime's blade'' earlier in their battle, when Optimus resisted, the other blade was nearly as resistant as Megatron's own blade.
* The idea of using the ground brige to reach space-based object is unworkable: the difference of relative velocites between the Autobots (who are transported from Earth, i.e. they have the same velocity and direction as the Earth surface) and orbital object (Spacebrige) would be too great.

===Transformers references===
* There are two references which are directly related to [[The Transformers: The Movie|the 1986 animated movie]]. First Ratchet says, "Then by all means, let us light our [[darkest hour]]." Later, Optimus exchanges with Megatron: "One shall stand, one shall fall."
* Optimus's Energon blade and Megatron's hidden fusion cannon blade are references to [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|their movie]] [[Megatron (Movie)|counterparts]].
* Optimus's speech at the end is similar to the ones Movie Optimus gives at the end of the three movies.

===Real-world references===
[[Image:DarknessRising5-Michelangelo.jpg|thumb|250px|Or it could be another [[Steven Spielberg|Spielberg]] reference.]]
* Miko tries to use an axe on [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]'s tentacle, which is the same tactic Tom Cruise's character tries on the Tripod tentacle in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''War of the Worlds''. Of course, both attempts fail.
* Miko refers to space as "the final frontier". "Space. The final frontier" is the first line of the opening credits of several ''[[Star Trek]]'' TV shows. ''Prime'' show developers [[Alex Kurtzman]] and [[Roberto Orci]] are also the screenwriters of the current ''Star Trek'' movies.
* Megatron, when he rises out of the Decepticon ship with the boulder of Dark Energon on his back, is clearly meant to evoke the classic [[Wikipedia:Atlas|Atlas]] pose.
* The shot of Megatron reaching out to a Terrorcon before the space bridge implosion is reminiscent of [[Wikipedia:Michelangelo|Michelangelo]]'s ''[[Wikipedia:The Creation of Adam|The Creation of Adam]]''.

===Trivia===
* Winged versions of the Vehicons make their appearance here.
* The Decepticons are unable to simply warp to Cybertron thanks to Bulkhead ripping off a vital piece of equipment in the previous episode.
* When the kids arrive at the radio array, they note that the place seems deserted. A brief shadowy glimpse of a human slumped against the wall suggests that, like [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], Soundwave isn't keen on leaving survivors or witnesses.
* When Starscream tries to convince Megatron to retreat, there is a surprising tone of concern in his voice. Either that, or he's a much better actor than certain other [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscreams]]. More probably the latter, as he is clearly seen grinning moments before while telling Megatron that the ''Nemesis'' would never make it to the space bridge.
* A short video showing a rehearsal or an earlier take of the confrontation between Optimus Prime and Megatron was screened at both [[BotCon 2010]] and [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2010.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvW4nsr3ZDo#t=2m53s "Transformers: Prime" panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2010]</ref> The dialogue was somewhat different, with Optimus referring to a battle on [[Mila Nellus]] when ordering the Autobots away, and lacking the "One shall stand, one shall fall" exchange. Instead, it had Megatron shouting Optimus's name in a rather exaggerated manner.
*The space battle was an idea [[Roberto Orci]] and [[Alex Kurtzman]] had for the [[live-action film series]] but couldn't incorporate.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Pb3MeUDdY Roundtable interview with ''Prime'' staff at BotCon 2011]</ref>
*Adaptations of this episode include a prose version as part of ''[[Megatron Returns]]'' and a screen-capture-style comic as part of ''[[Transformers Prime: Darkness Falls|Darkness Falls]]''.

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die dunkle Macht erhebt sicht, Teil 5'''" (The Dark Force Rises, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 21|21 October]] [[2011]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Közeleg a sötétség, 5. rész'''" ("The Darkness Is Nearing, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[January 13|13 January]] [[2012]]

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Kegelapan Bangkit, Bagian 5'''" ("Darkness Rising, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' 7 September [[2012]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La rimonta delle tenebre, quinta parte'''" ("Darkness Rising, Fifth Part")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 1|1 October]] [[2011]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' '''Bakuretsu Henkei! Spacebridge Kōbōsen''' (爆裂変形!スペースブリッジ攻防戦, ''Explosive Transformation! Spacebridge Battle'')
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 5]], [[2012]]

'''Korean'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ak ui Buhwal 5'''" (악의 부활 5, "Return of the Evil, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 12|12 September]] [[2011]]

'''Polish'''
:*''Title:'' ?
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 9|9 December]] [[2011]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' ?
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 7|7 November]] [[2011]]

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''El regreso del mal, Parte 5'''" ("The Return of Evil, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 7|7 November]] [[2011]]

==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

I Have Heard the Robots Singing

2015-06-09T20:38:30Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Animation and technical errors */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 76
|prev=More than Meets the Eye (RB)
|next=Now and Then
|image=RB-TheCastSinging.jpg
|caption=''Do you hear the people and bots sing?'' ''Singing a song of angry men?'' ''It is the music of a people'' ''Who will not be slaves again''
|title="I Have Heard the Robots Singing"
|airdate=[[June 6]], [[2015]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[DHX Media]]
|writers=[[Brian Hohlfeld]] & [[Nicole Dubuc]]
|director=[[Frank Squillace]]
}}

'''Priscilla Pynch's theft of Doc's latest invention causes the entire populace of Griffin Rock to erupt into an endless musical.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:RobotsSinging Priscilla steals Tone-O-Tuner.jpg|thumb|left|250px|left|''The hills are alive with the sound of music...'']]
[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] is directing a large amount of traffic, thanks to [[Mayor Luskey]] hosting the singing contest ''[[Griffin Rock Idol]]''. [[Frankie Greene]] is also preparing to audition, though she plans on doing it later when the line dies down. She and [[Doc Greene|her father]] go around back to test out his latest invention in the auditorium. [[Huxley Prescott]]'s coverage of the auditions from his tower is ruined when his tower collapses under him, sending him plummeting. The bots spring into action, and [[Boulder]] creates a soft landing pad for Prescott. [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] convinces Luskey to postpone the auditions for two hours until the mess from Prescott's rescue can be cleaned up - and to give the mainland news team more time to get to the island. Cody enters the auditorium and learns that Doc's "[[Tone-O-Tuner]]" will correct any singer's pitch. Cody is concerned over the ethics of the device, and Frankie convinces her father to not use it, wishing to win ''Griffin Rock Idol'' on her own. [[Priscilla Pynch]], wanting to score a record deal, manages to steal the Tone-O-Tuner, but her tests of the device are unsuccessful. She hides it in Prescott's van, and Prescott's anger at being replaced by the mainland news accidentally activates the Tone-O-Tuner…

[[File:RB-ChaseSings.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''He's there, the phantom of the opera!'' ''Beware, the phantom of the opera!'']]
The Rescue Bots are anxious over an upcoming presentation on rescue basics they are to present to [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[High Tide]], [[Salvage (RB)|Salvage]], [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]], and a few others. They have to race to Prescott's rescue once again when he crashes his van thanks to a distracted driver. The damage to Prescott's van begins to broadcast the Tone-O-Tuner to the entire island, which causes everyone to sing everything they say. [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] is delighted to be singing, [[Kade Burns|Kade]] and [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] are not, and the team reflects that their job may have just gotten a lot harder thanks to their endless singing. Chief calls up Doc, who discovers the theft of the Tone-O-Tuner, and promises to cook up something to resolve their musical problem.

[[File:RB-DaniAndBladesFly.jpg|250px|thumb|left|''Just you and I defying gravity'' ''With you and I defying gravity'' ''They'll never bring us down…'']]
The presentation back at headquarters gets underway, and Blurr reports that Optimus is unable to attend, and that the entire presentation will be recorded and archived, to the team's dismay. Boulder explains their current musical mayhem, but begins to sing about how much he loves the wonders of Earth, be it the flora, fauna, or people. Heatwave and Kade refuse to take part in the presentation, hating their predicament. Chase sings of the various criminal codes and procedures with Blades and Boulder as his back-up singers, from the illegal nature of hunting [[Megatron (Armada)|moose]] at night to disturbing the peace. When asked to report on air rescue, Blades asks Dani to cover for him, and implores her to sing her heart out. Dani sings of how much she loves her job as air support, happily looking forward to flying in the sky. Blades finally cuts in, mentioning that he's the one doing the flying, and restates his fear of heights. But, he pushes on for the sake of his duty, how fun Dani makes flying, and out of loyalty to her as well.

[[File:RB-FrankieRocksIt.jpg|250px|thumb|right|''I touch the fire, and it freezes me…'']]
Meanwhile, Priscilla is overjoyed that her newfound ability to sing on key will guarantee her victory at ''Griffin Rock Idol'' - once she gets through the lengthy line of equally capable singers, that is. Prescott plots to broadcast his coverage all the way around the world, but the ensuing strengthened waves from the Tone-O-Tuner begin to destroy glass and windows all over Griffin Rock and also destabilize various buildings. The team cuts their presentation short, and ventures out to do their job. They find their abilities are not hindered at all by their singing a remixed version of the [[theme song]]. Just as Priscilla is about to audition. Doc finds the Tone-O-Tuner in Prescott's van, and deactivates it, restoring everyone's ability of normal speech, though Blades is disappointed as he enjoyed the singing. Through security footage from city hall, the team learns that Priscilla was the thief of the device. Without the effects of the Tone-O-Tuner, Priscilla fails miserably at her audition. Frankie proceeds to blow away the panel of judges and her family and friends, making amends with Priscilla during her performance. Luskey declares her the winner of ''Griffin Rock Idol'' on the spot.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (1)
*[[Boulder]] (2)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (3)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (9)
*[[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] (17)
*[[Salvage (RB)|Salvage]] (18)
*[[High Tide]] (19)
*Recruits (20)
*[[Servo (RB)|Servo]] (21)

|c3=
*[[Charlie Burns]] (4)
*[[Cody Burns]] (5)
*[[Graham Burns]] (6)
*[[Kade Burns]] (7)
*[[Dani Burns]] (8)
*[[Doc Greene]] (10)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (11)
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (12)
*[[Mayor Luskey]] (13)
*[[Priscilla Pynch]] (14)
*[[Don]] (15)
*[[Harrison (RB)|Harrison]] (16)

}}

==Quotes==
"Wait wait, lemme get this straight, you can't ''not'' sing? Whoa, I knew that town was weird, but..."
:—'''Blurr'''

''"And we fly, we fly!"'' 
''"Dani and me''/ ''Rainbow chasing"'' 
''"Racing through the sky"'' 
''"The rest of life's just waiting for"'' 
''"Couldn't disagree more, but I'm here if you need me"'' 
''"The next time we can fly…"''
:—'''Dani''' and '''Blades'''

"Well, we were hoping for something a little more specific, but thanks!"
:—'''Salvage''' on Blades and Dani's duet

"''The waves produced by Doc's device that make us sing this way,'' 
''cause vibrations sub-atomically putting molecules in play,'' 
''which makes surrounding neutrons all expand.''" 
"''Bro, even when you sing this stuff, I still don't understand.''"
:—'''Graham''' and '''Kade'''

"You ever sung your own theme song on a mission?" 
"No, but-" 
"Well all right then. Guess we know who's coolest."
:—'''Kade''' and '''Blurr'''

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* Graham explaining that the device worked on subatomic level and forcing neutrons "expand"; in that case, the flux of neutron radiation would be much more actual problem for all living things in town.
* Milo is shown once on the streets, greeting the rescue team, and then - inside the town hall, on the audition. Either he knew some really short shortcut, or Bots aren't trying very hard.

===Continuity errors===
*How did Prescott get his van back on the road? The rescue team drive off without rescuing it!
===Continuity notes===
*[[High Tide]] was previously introduced in "[[Turning the Tide]]", while [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] and [[Salvage (RB)|Salvage]] first appeared in "[[The New Recruits]]" and were transferred elsewhere in "[[A New Hero]]".
===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
*The episode's title is based on the line "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each", from T.S. Eliot's ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''.
*''Griffin Rock Idol'' is a reference to ''[[wikipedia:American Idol|American Idol]]''.
*Some of the Griffin Rock populace can be seen busting out some of [[Michael Jackson]]'s most iconic moves from ''[[wikipedia:Thriller (music video)|Thriller]]''.

===Trivia===
[[File:RB-SingAlong.jpg|250px|thumb|right|''It's time to play the music'' ''It's time to light the lights'']]
*This episode has the honor of being the first musical episode in ''Transformers'' fiction. EVER.
*Chase's song must literally be music to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]'s ears, mustn't it?
*The cast gets to break the fourth wall at the end of the episode when Kade boasts to Blurr about how they sang their own theme song.

===Foreign localization===

{{epstub}}
[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

I Have Heard the Robots Singing

2015-06-09T20:34:54Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Animation and technical errors */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 76
|prev=More than Meets the Eye (RB)
|next=Now and Then
|image=RB-TheCastSinging.jpg
|caption=''Do you hear the people and bots sing?'' ''Singing a song of angry men?'' ''It is the music of a people'' ''Who will not be slaves again''
|title="I Have Heard the Robots Singing"
|airdate=[[June 6]], [[2015]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[DHX Media]]
|writers=[[Brian Hohlfeld]] & [[Nicole Dubuc]]
|director=[[Frank Squillace]]
}}

'''Priscilla Pynch's theft of Doc's latest invention causes the entire populace of Griffin Rock to erupt into an endless musical.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:RobotsSinging Priscilla steals Tone-O-Tuner.jpg|thumb|left|250px|left|''The hills are alive with the sound of music...'']]
[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] is directing a large amount of traffic, thanks to [[Mayor Luskey]] hosting the singing contest ''[[Griffin Rock Idol]]''. [[Frankie Greene]] is also preparing to audition, though she plans on doing it later when the line dies down. She and [[Doc Greene|her father]] go around back to test out his latest invention in the auditorium. [[Huxley Prescott]]'s coverage of the auditions from his tower is ruined when his tower collapses under him, sending him plummeting. The bots spring into action, and [[Boulder]] creates a soft landing pad for Prescott. [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] convinces Luskey to postpone the auditions for two hours until the mess from Prescott's rescue can be cleaned up - and to give the mainland news team more time to get to the island. Cody enters the auditorium and learns that Doc's "[[Tone-O-Tuner]]" will correct any singer's pitch. Cody is concerned over the ethics of the device, and Frankie convinces her father to not use it, wishing to win ''Griffin Rock Idol'' on her own. [[Priscilla Pynch]], wanting to score a record deal, manages to steal the Tone-O-Tuner, but her tests of the device are unsuccessful. She hides it in Prescott's van, and Prescott's anger at being replaced by the mainland news accidentally activates the Tone-O-Tuner…

[[File:RB-ChaseSings.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''He's there, the phantom of the opera!'' ''Beware, the phantom of the opera!'']]
The Rescue Bots are anxious over an upcoming presentation on rescue basics they are to present to [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[High Tide]], [[Salvage (RB)|Salvage]], [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]], and a few others. They have to race to Prescott's rescue once again when he crashes his van thanks to a distracted driver. The damage to Prescott's van begins to broadcast the Tone-O-Tuner to the entire island, which causes everyone to sing everything they say. [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] is delighted to be singing, [[Kade Burns|Kade]] and [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] are not, and the team reflects that their job may have just gotten a lot harder thanks to their endless singing. Chief calls up Doc, who discovers the theft of the Tone-O-Tuner, and promises to cook up something to resolve their musical problem.

[[File:RB-DaniAndBladesFly.jpg|250px|thumb|left|''Just you and I defying gravity'' ''With you and I defying gravity'' ''They'll never bring us down…'']]
The presentation back at headquarters gets underway, and Blurr reports that Optimus is unable to attend, and that the entire presentation will be recorded and archived, to the team's dismay. Boulder explains their current musical mayhem, but begins to sing about how much he loves the wonders of Earth, be it the flora, fauna, or people. Heatwave and Kade refuse to take part in the presentation, hating their predicament. Chase sings of the various criminal codes and procedures with Blades and Boulder as his back-up singers, from the illegal nature of hunting [[Megatron (Armada)|moose]] at night to disturbing the peace. When asked to report on air rescue, Blades asks Dani to cover for him, and implores her to sing her heart out. Dani sings of how much she loves her job as air support, happily looking forward to flying in the sky. Blades finally cuts in, mentioning that he's the one doing the flying, and restates his fear of heights. But, he pushes on for the sake of his duty, how fun Dani makes flying, and out of loyalty to her as well.

[[File:RB-FrankieRocksIt.jpg|250px|thumb|right|''I touch the fire, and it freezes me…'']]
Meanwhile, Priscilla is overjoyed that her newfound ability to sing on key will guarantee her victory at ''Griffin Rock Idol'' - once she gets through the lengthy line of equally capable singers, that is. Prescott plots to broadcast his coverage all the way around the world, but the ensuing strengthened waves from the Tone-O-Tuner begin to destroy glass and windows all over Griffin Rock and also destabilize various buildings. The team cuts their presentation short, and ventures out to do their job. They find their abilities are not hindered at all by their singing a remixed version of the [[theme song]]. Just as Priscilla is about to audition. Doc finds the Tone-O-Tuner in Prescott's van, and deactivates it, restoring everyone's ability of normal speech, though Blades is disappointed as he enjoyed the singing. Through security footage from city hall, the team learns that Priscilla was the thief of the device. Without the effects of the Tone-O-Tuner, Priscilla fails miserably at her audition. Frankie proceeds to blow away the panel of judges and her family and friends, making amends with Priscilla during her performance. Luskey declares her the winner of ''Griffin Rock Idol'' on the spot.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (1)
*[[Boulder]] (2)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (3)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (9)
*[[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] (17)
*[[Salvage (RB)|Salvage]] (18)
*[[High Tide]] (19)
*Recruits (20)
*[[Servo (RB)|Servo]] (21)

|c3=
*[[Charlie Burns]] (4)
*[[Cody Burns]] (5)
*[[Graham Burns]] (6)
*[[Kade Burns]] (7)
*[[Dani Burns]] (8)
*[[Doc Greene]] (10)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (11)
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (12)
*[[Mayor Luskey]] (13)
*[[Priscilla Pynch]] (14)
*[[Don]] (15)
*[[Harrison (RB)|Harrison]] (16)

}}

==Quotes==
"Wait wait, lemme get this straight, you can't ''not'' sing? Whoa, I knew that town was weird, but..."
:—'''Blurr'''

''"And we fly, we fly!"'' 
''"Dani and me''/ ''Rainbow chasing"'' 
''"Racing through the sky"'' 
''"The rest of life's just waiting for"'' 
''"Couldn't disagree more, but I'm here if you need me"'' 
''"The next time we can fly…"''
:—'''Dani''' and '''Blades'''

"Well, we were hoping for something a little more specific, but thanks!"
:—'''Salvage''' on Blades and Dani's duet

"''The waves produced by Doc's device that make us sing this way,'' 
''cause vibrations sub-atomically putting molecules in play,'' 
''which makes surrounding neutrons all expand.''" 
"''Bro, even when you sing this stuff, I still don't understand.''"
:—'''Graham''' and '''Kade'''

"You ever sung your own theme song on a mission?" 
"No, but-" 
"Well all right then. Guess we know who's coolest."
:—'''Kade''' and '''Blurr'''

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* Graham explaining that the device worked on subatomic level and forcing neutrons "expand"; in that case, the flux of neutron radiation would be much more actual problem for all living things in town.

===Continuity errors===
*How did Prescott get his van back on the road? The rescue team drive off without rescuing it!
===Continuity notes===
*[[High Tide]] was previously introduced in "[[Turning the Tide]]", while [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] and [[Salvage (RB)|Salvage]] first appeared in "[[The New Recruits]]" and were transferred elsewhere in "[[A New Hero]]".
===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
*The episode's title is based on the line "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each", from T.S. Eliot's ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''.
*''Griffin Rock Idol'' is a reference to ''[[wikipedia:American Idol|American Idol]]''.
*Some of the Griffin Rock populace can be seen busting out some of [[Michael Jackson]]'s most iconic moves from ''[[wikipedia:Thriller (music video)|Thriller]]''.

===Trivia===
[[File:RB-SingAlong.jpg|250px|thumb|right|''It's time to play the music'' ''It's time to light the lights'']]
*This episode has the honor of being the first musical episode in ''Transformers'' fiction. EVER.
*Chase's song must literally be music to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]'s ears, mustn't it?
*The cast gets to break the fourth wall at the end of the episode when Kade boasts to Blurr about how they sang their own theme song.

===Foreign localization===

{{epstub}}
[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

Four-Legged Hero

2015-05-18T17:02:55Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 73
|prev=A New Hero
|next=Endangered Species
|image=
|title="Four-Legged Hero"
|airdate=[[May 16]], [[2015]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[DHX Media]]
|writer=[[Dean Stefan]]
|director=[[Frank Squillace]]
}}

'''Cyber-Dog Servo puts the Rescue Bots' undercover status in jeopardy.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Mrs Luskey]] and her dog [[Poopsie]] are playing in the park as [[Boulder]] and [[Cody Burns|Cody]] arrive to give [[Servo (RB)|Servo]] some training. Mrs Luskey is surprised they're taking a robot dog for a walk, but they soon have to deal with a broken down car, with Cody giving Boulder instructions in order to maintain the cover that he's a mere robot. They move the car to the side of the road, but as they're changing the flat tire, Poopsie runs out onto the road. Servo quickly runs out and retrieves the little dog and her rubber bone.

Back at the fire house, [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] is unimpressed by the story as Servo's autonomous actions could have blown their cover. [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] agrees, and Servo's instructed to only carry out tasks on command. Boulder promises to help Servo get used to doing so.

Over at the Lusky household, Mrs Luskey receives a new diamond-encrusted collar for Poopsie, but before she can put it on, she's interrupted by a phone call. Spying Servo on a news report, Poopsie grabs the new collar and makes off with it. [[Mayor Luskey]] is soon on the phone to Chief to report the missing collar. Chief alerts the rest of the team, and [[Kade Burns|Kade]] leaves Servo tightening some bolts on the fire house's plumbing. After they've gone, Poopsie arrives at the fire house and scratches at the door until she gets Servo's attention. When she buries the diamond dog collar, Servo promptly digs it up again, and the team returns to find Servo clutching the stolen goods in his mouth.

While Chief rings the mayor, the others discuss Servo's possible guilt, and Kade provides an alibi for Servo, as the robo-dog was helping him tighten bolts when the collar was stolen. Chief points out that whatever the reason, it was another example of Servo acting on his own, and they might need to send him back to [[High Tide]] lest he reveal the Rescue Bots' secret.

Poopsie is admiring a newspaper photo of Servo when Kade and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] return the dog collar to Luskey. Poopsie takes another opportunity to make a break for freedom. In the park, Cody and Boulder are instructing Servo on following human commands by playing fetch, but after the cube they're using lands in bushes, Servo again encounters Poopsie. The small dog chases a truck and gets caught on the back of it, prompting Servo to again go to her rescue. The truck stops at the [[Griffin Rock natural history museum|museum]], where its cargo, a tyrannosaurus skeleton, is unloaded. Poopsie scurries into the museum and attacks a [[dinosaur (dinosaur)|dinosaur]] skeleton, hoping to claim one of its bones. As the unbalanced statue collapses, Servo manages to get Poopsie out of harm's way, but takes the rap for the damage. Cody and Boulder arrive to see the aftermath of the disaster. Servo continues to follow Poopsie down the street, however as he keeps her and other citizens out of danger, more and more damage is caused.

Chief's soon taking another angry call from the mayor. The rest of the team use the energon tracker to locate Servo heading towards the [[Griffin Rock Zoo]], however while Cody is still positive that Servo is acting in good faith, [[Dani Burns|Dani]]'s found security footage which paints Servo in a bad light.

At the zoo, Poopsie has somehow gotten into the lion enclosure. Unable to get in, Servo deactivates the zoo's power, unlocking the cages, and rescues Poopsie from becoming lion chow. Unfortunately this also sets a gorilla loose just as the rest of the team arrives. Through a display of dominance, Heatwave scares the gorilla back into its enclosure, and the team takes another call from the mayor, who wants Servo off the island.

Servo manages to return Poopsie to her home where Mrs Luskey uses a piece of newspaper to remove her old collar before fitting the new one. While the mayor chucks the old collar in the trash, Poopsie follows him, thanks to having spotted the photo of Servo on the piece of newspaper. Unfortunately a garbage truck picks that moment to scoop up the trash, Poopsie and the mayor with it, and drive off. Meanwhile the team finds Servo and takes him back to the fire house where they tally the destruction. Cody reviews the security footage, and spots Poopsie was responsible for it all. They soon get a call from Mrs Luskey to report Poopsie and the mayor missing, and Cody uses the garbage truck video feeds to find the missing pair at the city dump. They arrive in time to stop the [[Scrapmaster]] before it chows down on the mayor, and Servo fishes him out of the pile of trash. The mayor is soon changing his mind on Servo having to go, and attempts to chase down Poopsie as she flees the city dump.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Servo (RB)|Servo]] (4)
*[[Boulder]] (5)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (6)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (7)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (8)

|c3=
*[[Mrs Luskey]] (1)
*[[Cody Burns]] (3)
*[[Dani Burns]] (9)
*[[Kade Burns]] (10)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (11)
*[[Graham Burns]] (12)
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (13)
*[[Mayor Luskey]] (14)

|c4=
*[[Poopsie]] (2)
}}

==Quotes==
"Thank you, Jody, and your robo-dog too!"
:—'''Mrs Luskey''' thanks Cody.

"I don't see why anyone would steal a dog collar." 
"Because it's encrusted with twenty seven diamonds, that's why. It's worth more than- than your monthly salary!" 
"We'll get right on it. ''[hangs up]'' And I think I need a raise."
:—'''Chief Burns''' and '''Mayor Luskey'''

"Would you care to make a statement? Though I must warn you, anything you bark or beep can and will be held against you."
:—'''Chase''' reads Servo his rights.

"Poopsie's missing again, and the mayor too, though somehow that didn't seem as urgent."
:—'''Chief Burns''' on Mrs Luskey's priorities.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*As Boulder carries the car, its flat tire remains compressed as though in contact with a surface.

===Continuity errors===
* The requirement to look like a "robot, that act only on command" for Rescue Bots and Servo seems clearly outdated by the standards of modern robotic science...

===Continuity notes===
*Servo was given to the rescue team by High Tide in "[[Turning the Tide]]".
===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
===Trivia===
===Foreign localization===

{{epstub}}
[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

Four-Legged Hero

2015-05-18T17:02:08Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 73
|prev=A New Hero
|next=Endangered Species
|image=
|title="Four-Legged Hero"
|airdate=[[May 16]], [[2015]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[DHX Media]]
|writer=[[Dean Stefan]]
|director=[[Frank Squillace]]
}}

'''Cyber-Dog Servo puts the Rescue Bots' undercover status in jeopardy.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Mrs Luskey]] and her dog [[Poopsie]] are playing in the park as [[Boulder]] and [[Cody Burns|Cody]] arrive to give [[Servo (RB)|Servo]] some training. Mrs Luskey is surprised they're taking a robot dog for a walk, but they soon have to deal with a broken down car, with Cody giving Boulder instructions in order to maintain the cover that he's a mere robot. They move the car to the side of the road, but as they're changing the flat tire, Poopsie runs out onto the road. Servo quickly runs out and retrieves the little dog and her rubber bone.

Back at the fire house, [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] is unimpressed by the story as Servo's autonomous actions could have blown their cover. [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] agrees, and Servo's instructed to only carry out tasks on command. Boulder promises to help Servo get used to doing so.

Over at the Lusky household, Mrs Luskey receives a new diamond-encrusted collar for Poopsie, but before she can put it on, she's interrupted by a phone call. Spying Servo on a news report, Poopsie grabs the new collar and makes off with it. [[Mayor Luskey]] is soon on the phone to Chief to report the missing collar. Chief alerts the rest of the team, and [[Kade Burns|Kade]] leaves Servo tightening some bolts on the fire house's plumbing. After they've gone, Poopsie arrives at the fire house and scratches at the door until she gets Servo's attention. When she buries the diamond dog collar, Servo promptly digs it up again, and the team returns to find Servo clutching the stolen goods in his mouth.

While Chief rings the mayor, the others discuss Servo's possible guilt, and Kade provides an alibi for Servo, as the robo-dog was helping him tighten bolts when the collar was stolen. Chief points out that whatever the reason, it was another example of Servo acting on his own, and they might need to send him back to [[High Tide]] lest he reveal the Rescue Bots' secret.

Poopsie is admiring a newspaper photo of Servo when Kade and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] return the dog collar to Luskey. Poopsie takes another opportunity to make a break for freedom. In the park, Cody and Boulder are instructing Servo on following human commands by playing fetch, but after the cube they're using lands in bushes, Servo again encounters Poopsie. The small dog chases a truck and gets caught on the back of it, prompting Servo to again go to her rescue. The truck stops at the [[Griffin Rock natural history museum|museum]], where its cargo, a tyrannosaurus skeleton, is unloaded. Poopsie scurries into the museum and attacks a [[dinosaur (dinosaur)|dinosaur]] skeleton, hoping to claim one of its bones. As the unbalanced statue collapses, Servo manages to get Poopsie out of harm's way, but takes the rap for the damage. Cody and Boulder arrive to see the aftermath of the disaster. Servo continues to follow Poopsie down the street, however as he keeps her and other citizens out of danger, more and more damage is caused.

Chief's soon taking another angry call from the mayor. The rest of the team use the energon tracker to locate Servo heading towards the [[Griffin Rock Zoo]], however while Cody is still positive that Servo is acting in good faith, [[Dani Burns|Dani]]'s found security footage which paints Servo in a bad light.

At the zoo, Poopsie has somehow gotten into the lion enclosure. Unable to get in, Servo deactivates the zoo's power, unlocking the cages, and rescues Poopsie from becoming lion chow. Unfortunately this also sets a gorilla loose just as the rest of the team arrives. Through a display of dominance, Heatwave scares the gorilla back into its enclosure, and the team takes another call from the mayor, who wants Servo off the island.

Servo manages to return Poopsie to her home where Mrs Luskey uses a piece of newspaper to remove her old collar before fitting the new one. While the mayor chucks the old collar in the trash, Poopsie follows him, thanks to having spotted the photo of Servo on the piece of newspaper. Unfortunately a garbage truck picks that moment to scoop up the trash, Poopsie and the mayor with it, and drive off. Meanwhile the team finds Servo and takes him back to the fire house where they tally the destruction. Cody reviews the security footage, and spots Poopsie was responsible for it all. They soon get a call from Mrs Luskey to report Poopsie and the mayor missing, and Cody uses the garbage truck video feeds to find the missing pair at the city dump. They arrive in time to stop the [[Scrapmaster]] before it chows down on the mayor, and Servo fishes him out of the pile of trash. The mayor is soon changing his mind on Servo having to go, and attempts to chase down Poopsie as she flees the city dump.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Servo (RB)|Servo]] (4)
*[[Boulder]] (5)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (6)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (7)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (8)

|c3=
*[[Mrs Luskey]] (1)
*[[Cody Burns]] (3)
*[[Dani Burns]] (9)
*[[Kade Burns]] (10)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (11)
*[[Graham Burns]] (12)
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (13)
*[[Mayor Luskey]] (14)

|c4=
*[[Poopsie]] (2)
}}

==Quotes==
"Thank you, Jody, and your robo-dog too!"
:—'''Mrs Luskey''' thanks Cody.

"I don't see why anyone would steal a dog collar." 
"Because it's encrusted with twenty seven diamonds, that's why. It's worth more than- than your monthly salary!" 
"We'll get right on it. ''[hangs up]'' And I think I need a raise."
:—'''Chief Burns''' and '''Mayor Luskey'''

"Would you care to make a statement? Though I must warn you, anything you bark or beep can and will be held against you."
:—'''Chase''' reads Servo his rights.

"Poopsie's missing again, and the mayor too, though somehow that didn't seem as urgent."
:—'''Chief Burns''' on Mrs Luskey's priorities.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*As Boulder carries the car, its flat tire remains compressed as though in contact with a surface.

===Continuity errors===
* The requirement to be a "robot, that act only on command" for Rescue Bots and Servo seems clearly outdated by the standards of modern robotic science.

===Continuity notes===
*Servo was given to the rescue team by High Tide in "[[Turning the Tide]]".
===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
===Trivia===
===Foreign localization===

{{epstub}}
[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

Pirates Ahoy

2015-04-29T16:54:12Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Continuity notes */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 67
|prev=Time After Time
|next=Turning the Tide
|image=PiratesAhoy big reveal.jpg
|caption="I hope you know you're sponsoring a celebration for a murderous pirate." "A pirate? Well, that's hardly the image we want for Long John Silver's."
|title="Pirates Ahoy"
|airdate=[[March 28]], [[2015]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[DHX Media]]
|writer=[[Greg Weisman]]
|director=[[Frank Squillace]]
}}

'''The Rescue Team is suspended when evidence arises that the Burnses are pirate descendants.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:PiratesAhoy extinguishing fire.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"So here's what we're gonna do: Grease ourselves up real good and trash that place with a baseball bat."]]
It's once again [[Founders' Day]], and time for [[Mayor Luskey]]'s speech. [[Dani Burns|Dani]] has been chosen to light the ceremonial flame, though [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] is uncomfortable about having fire used so flagrantly. As she's about to light the flame, [[Huxley Prescott]] dashes up to interrupt the ceremony and announce that he's found out that [[Bertha Burns|Bertha]], wife of town founder [[Horace Burns]], was a pirate who stole the guild hall charity fund. When Dani demands proof, Prescott shows off a portrait of Bertha, who looks like Dani. Outraged, Luskey goes to light the torch himself and accidentally sets fire to an overhead banner. The rescue team swings into action and puts out the fire, but the mayor is soaked, not helping his mood. He suspends the entire rescue team and grabs [[Harrison (RB)|Mr Harrison]], [[Alper|Mr Alper]] and [[Milo]] to form a "Citizen Safety Board". When Prescott tries to press Dani for an interview, the team uses footage of him at kareoke night to pressure him into giving up his source, which turns out to be [[Woodrow Burns]], currently in the library.

[[File:PiratesAhoy Woodrow's map.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"That's preposterous. Now get out! You're banned from this Historical Society. You, and your children, and your children's children! ... for 3 months."]]
The team heads there and finds Woodrow engrossed in old maps. After they haul him back to the fire station, he reveals that he's found a map to Bertha's lost treasure. Boulder scans it and tries to search his database, but [[Graham Burns|Graham]] points out the colors on the map have been inverted. They soon identify the location as some caves on Griffin Rock. [[Cody Burns|Cody]], Dani and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] volunteer to go with Woodrow to check out the caves. The Citizen Safety Board encounter some malfunctioning traffic lights, and Mr Harrison attempts to direct traffic, only to cause a disaster when he's attacked by a wasp. With the cave too small for Blades to enter, the three humans head in but some time later they're lost. After sliding down an underground stream, Dani attempts to contact Blades to no avail, though Cody thinks he'll have gone for help by now. Outside, Blades builds a sand castle of the fire house. As well as locating an exit from the caves, the underground trio find a hidden door, beyond which is a chest.

[[File:PiratesAhoy empty chest.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Jebediah Springfield has been replaced with a skeleton!"]]
Back at the fire station, the rest of the team are impressed by the chest, though Dani hopes it'll be empty to prove their ancestor isn't a pirate. It does indeed turn out to be empty, but Cody spots an inscription inside: "Only the last key will unlock the treasure." They soon reason it means keys as in island and while Chase stays behind to keep an eye on things, the rest of the team head to the last island in the Griffin Rock keys. As they head through the dense foliage, Kade accidentally knocks a wasp nest. At Woodrow's suggestion, [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] knocks Kade into a nearby stream with a jet of water, saving him from being stung. Back in Griffin Rock, the Citizen Safety Board is having to deal with a number of crises, including a lost python, and Mayor Luskey is regretting suspending the rescue team.

[[File:PiratesAhoy lost treasure.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?"]]
After wandering aimlessly, the rescue team spot a pair of crossed palm trees and assume that's a huge 'X'. Boulder starts digging, but excitement turns to disappointment when all he unearths is a rotted piece of wood. Depite general discouragement, Dani is determined to continue and tells Boulder to keep digging. He soon reveals the crow's nest of a sailing ship, and they eventually uncover the entire pirate ship. Within they find a chest of actual treasure and Bertha's log book. Reading from it, Dani discovers that Bertha gave up the pirate life to marry Horace Burns, and hid the treasure to prevent a scandal. Back in Griffin Rock, Mayor Luskey attempts to hold Founders' Day (Part 2), but the citizens are demanding the reinstatement of the town's rescue team. The team returns with the chest fill of treasure, and Dani announces that the treasure will go to charity as intended, while the pirate ship will be given to the museum. The mayor reinstates the team, and Woodrow heads back to the library to research some more on Bertha.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (2)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (3)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (4)
*[[Boulder]] (5)

|c3=
*[[Mayor Luskey]] (1)
*[[Cody Burns]] (6)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (7)
*[[Kade Burns]] (8)
*[[Dani Burns]] (9)
*[[Graham Burns]] (10)
*[[Harrison (RB)|Mr Harrison]] (11)
*[[Alper|Mr Alper]] (12)
*[[Milo]] (13)
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (14)
*[[Woodrow Burns]] (15)
}}

==Quotes==
"For the record, I have observed no piratical activity amongst your family, and would swear so in a court of law."
:—'''Chase'''

"I wanted to surprise you all with the good news!" 
"Good news? What? Our great uncle is Count [[Dracula]]?"
:—'''Woodrow''' and '''Kade'''

"Our first crisis of the day!" 
"Er, not counting the fire you started, sir?"
:—'''Mayor Luskey''' and '''Mr Alper''' on patrol.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
===Continuity errors===
===Continuity notes===
*Founders' Day was previously seen held in "[[The Lost Bell]]", during which we saw another part of the celebration was to ring the [[Settlers' Bell]]. Presumably this indicates that a year has passed since that episode. That Founders' Day also saw the rescue team bring a recovered pirate ship back to Griffin Rock.
* The guild hall charity fund of 1652 seems ridiculously rich for the town, settled only three years before (1649). Maybe Bertha added some of her own treasures to the chest?

===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
* The crossed palm trees forming an X over the buried pirate ship's location is an homage to the 1963 film ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'', in which palm trees form a "big W" over a buried suitcase full of cash.

===Trivia===
*Woodrow mentions Iba Bunto (rock mazes) and Wapzilla (giant hornets).

===Foreign localization===

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USS Miskatonic

2014-12-11T14:52:54Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Notes */

:''The USS ''Miskatonic'' is a ship from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[Image:Infestation2_USSMiskatonic.jpg|thumb|right|350px|]]

The '''USS ''Miskatonic''''' is a ''Kansas''-class battleship serving in the [[United States Navy]] in the year [[1888]].

==Fiction==
===''Hearts of Steel''===
The ''Miskatonic'' was traveling to [[Ireland]] when it was suddenly attacked by an [[Elder God]] rising from beneath the waves. The [[Autobot]] [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], who was disguised as one of the ship's gun turrets, managed to escape before it was ripped to shreds and sunk by the monster's tentacles. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1|Infestation 2: The Transformers #1}} Some of the crew got on a lifeboat, but had died of fear by the time they were found by the [[HMS Indomitable|HMS ''Indomitable'']]. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 2|Infestation 2: The Transformers #2}}

==Notes==
*The ''Miskatonic'' is named after [[wikipedia:Miskatonic University|Miskatonic University]], a recurring setting from the [[wikipedia:Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu Mythos]].
* Or, more likely in spite of US navy naming traditions in XIX century - after the Miskatonic river, which gave name also to the well-known University.
* There was no "Kansas"-class battleships, or any sea-capable battleships or even modern cruisers at all in US navy by 1880th. The ship looks more like [[wikipedia:USS Olympia (C-6)|"Olympia"-class]] protected cruiser, comissioned in 1895.
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USS Maine

2014-12-10T10:50:07Z

Fonzeppelin:

{{disambig2|the battleship|the region in the Northeast [[United States of America]]|Maine}}

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'''USS ''Maine''''' is an armored cruiser (more correctly - second class battleship) in the [[United States Navy]] in XIX century. The ship is named after the delicious [[Flobster|Maine Flobster]].

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
When [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] awoke in [[1898]], his transformation resulted in the ''Maine'' exploding and sinking in [[Havana]] harbor. {{storylink|Original}}

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:USS Maine (ACR-1)|USS ''Maine'']] at Wikipedia

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USS Miskatonic

2014-12-10T10:46:36Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Notes */

:''The USS ''Miskatonic'' is a ship from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[Image:Infestation2_USSMiskatonic.jpg|thumb|right|350px|]]

The '''USS ''Miskatonic''''' is a ''Kansas''-class battleship serving in the [[United States Navy]] in the year [[1888]].

==Fiction==
===''Hearts of Steel''===
The ''Miskatonic'' was traveling to [[Ireland]] when it was suddenly attacked by an [[Elder God]] rising from beneath the waves. The [[Autobot]] [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], who was disguised as one of the ship's gun turrets, managed to escape before it was ripped to shreds and sunk by the monster's tentacles. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1|Infestation 2: The Transformers #1}} Some of the crew got on a lifeboat, but had died of fear by the time they were found by the [[HMS Indomitable|HMS ''Indomitable'']]. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 2|Infestation 2: The Transformers #2}}

==Notes==
*The ''Miskatonic'' is named after [[wikipedia:Miskatonic University|Miskatonic University]], a recurring setting from the [[wikipedia:Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu Mythos]].
* There was no "Kansas"-class battleships or any sea-capable battleships or modern cruisers at all in US navy by 1880th. The ship looks more like "Olympia"-class protected cruiser.
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[[Category:Watercraft|Miskatonic]]

USS Hama

2014-12-10T10:41:23Z

Fonzeppelin: /* Notes */

:''USS ''Hama'' is a [[human]] warship from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

'''USS ''Hama''''' is a battleship in the [[United States of America|United States]] [[United States Navy|Navy]].

==Fiction==
===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
''Hama'' was presumably destroyed by the combined forces of [[Cobra]] and the [[Decepticon]]s in [[1939]]. After its destruction, a map of the [[Fera Islands]], as well as the emblems of the Decepticons and Cobra, were carved into a fragment of its hull by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Destro]]. The fragment ended up at [[Sumbergh RAF Base]] on the [[Shetland Islands]], where it directed the nascent [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team to the hiding place of the [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|The Line}}

==Notes==
*USS ''Hama'' is named after [[Larry Hama]], longtime writer of [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] comics.
*Since from 1898 all US navy battleships bear the names of US states, does that mean there is a Hama State in G1 USA?

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[[Category:Watercraft|Hama]]